skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing has intrinsic value as value is subjective.

Yeah, yeah, and reality has no meaning because everything is subjective. That's great as a dorm-room topic at 4am but it's not a useful distinction here because there's a huge practical difference. Bitcoin uses random hashes which nobody cares about except to the extent that someone else will give them some tangible value in exchange for them. That's different from almost any other fiat currency because most of them are linked to a functioning economy and have some built-in demand where a government requires use for taxes, procurements, salaries, etc. Quality varies, of course, which is why some currencies are stronger than others but Bitcoin is an extreme outlier in the sense that almost nobody has any need to use it except when they think it's financially advantageous.

This is why it's so volatile: someone who has purchased a lot of Bitcoin has an incentive to get other people to buy into the system so they can make money off of it but nobody else shares that reason. Using Bitcoin could make sense if it was cheaper but there are many alternatives and unless you have an ideological commitment you're most likely to pick whatever fits your preferred balance of easiness, cost, and safety. That could some day be Bitcoin but it hasn't been for the last decade and a half except in a few cases involving unusual circumstances.
That would absolutely be out of control. Assuming 24 core machines (which I would think is an underestimate), that'd be 10M cores, or ~1 core per 15-30 DAU. That seems like it's 3-4 orders of magnitude more than necessary.
What? No, Basilisk Chess is where two players compete to make the chess move that optimizes some future AI's utility function. If you lose you get tortured forever.
What is he doing to win unfairly? Are the tactics different than in all other European countries, the US, Australia, Canada, etc?
tbh with you I am super surprised to this type of content from Computer Weekly, which I know as a consumer orientated magazine. No one else carrying the story atm - media blackout or weak evidence or both?
NixOS is great for a basic home router (I use it for my home router) but it’s networking config is still pretty rudimentary, and some things I would expect to work just don’t - i.e. port forwarding only works from outside your network, not inside.

I haven’t done much with vlans yet so I can’t comment on that.
Yeah, in any migration—if you can—it's good practice to run both simultaneously for a while until you're convinced you've checked everything and you're ready to drop the old for the new without much downtime.
My sibling repaired my mother's allergy when they were a fetus. Otherwise she had to gulp half of cetirizine every day to prevent the effects of allergy.
> .. if you know haskell ..

And if you don't have any FP background you're just.. out of luck. /s
That's the tip of the iceberg really. Pretending the iceberg doesn't exist and doesn't hit ships is also part of the problem.
Good or bad depends on too many other variables to easily forecast.

We could, in principle, if we really were all willing, rapidly transition to a beautiful solar-hippie future where all the food was either vegan or GM bacterial derived milk [0] or vat-grown cultured flesh. The Earth can support hundreds of billions this way using only land that is currently desert.

We almost certainly won't do that, but we could.

Conversely, rapid depopulation can mess up our economy. How rapid is too rapid? I don't know.

This outcome is IMO more plausible than the solar-hippie outcome. Still not certain, as 75 years of technological change is a lot and could very plausibility give us medicine that seems like magic today — the last 75 includes the eradication of smallpox; the first of each of kidney, heart, heart-and-lung, liver, face, uterus, womb, penis, hand, arm, and leg transplants; first each of pacemaker, cochlear implants, artificial heart; first CT, PET, medical ultrasound, and MRI; first stem cell therapy; robot assisted surgery; organ culture for lab-grown (some of the are still experimental) noses, ears, skin, kidneys, liver, and bladders; the defibrillator; oral contraceptives; genetic engineering; and too many vaccines to bother listing.

The next 75 years could, not implausibly, give us anti-aging drugs that keep us in peak health until whatever kills us; or give us external artificial wombs; or at the very least, turn skin cells into healthy sperm in-vitro.

[0] why isn't this already a thing? Vegan cheese substitutes are 45% mediocre, 45% just bad, and 10% single use case things like smoked tofu
What worries me is that you purchased a premium computer from Apple when everyone recommended not to buy it because its obsolete low-end hard drive crippled it.

And you didn’t consider making it a magnitude faster for a fraction of its price.

I’m sure you can find a fridge with better IO performance.
>It was purely evasive. Half of what she wrote was statements that she can't answer that, can't speculate, doesn't know, or her lawyers advised her not to answer.

To be clear: if you don't know the answer, it's not evasive to say "I cannot answer that" or "I don't know the answer" or "giving an answer would be speculation on my part".
That would be cool but I wonder how much difference it will make. Most managed languages share at least two attributes:

1. Large runtimes and std libs. Python's "batteries included" is the epitome of this but even just java.base is large. This doesn't play well at all with browser cache segmentation.

2. You need a JIT for performance.

A good test of whether WASM is really heading towards generality is whether you could implement V8 as https://www.google.com/v8-js.wasm and just auto-include it into HTML pages for backwards compatibility. I know you have unusual experience and expertise in meta-circular VMs - is WASM really heading in this direction? The two obvious sticking points today are: V8 would get downloaded fresh on each origin, and JITd fresh on each page load, and what does such a runtime emit as compiled code?. Is your JITC being JITCd by a JITC and if so is the JITCd output then being JITCd a second time? If so, how on earth does this make sense?

An alternative would be to explore whether the process level sandboxes are now good enough to just allow native code to run inside them and let people use their existing managed language VMs. Google thought that was close to plausible many years ago with NaCL, and kernel sandboxes got a lot stronger since then. It seems we ended up with WASM more due to Mozilla politics than what makes sense technically.
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I think that's kinda the default. It sounds really bad until you realise it's also the default in Darwinian evolution, which, hi.
I believed this for a minute and it made me so happy
Epigenetic effects are possible in formation of gonads, it’s one of the mechanisms involved in sex differentiation.
You are right in a way, but you can't ignore the influence of powerful individuals on the society in general. Yes, there are many conservatives in Hungary, but it's a whole different level if the person representing them repeatedly breaks the law and pushes things much further.

An analogous situation is in Poland. The unofficial ruler of the country declared that Germany is the biggest enemy of Poland, playing on the feelings of the older generation, and is trying to build a narrative around that (the EU servers only Germany, hence EU = evil). That wasn't a narration among Polish conservatives a few years ago, it was constructed by a single person and spread by his minions and the media he is controlling. The biggest absurdity of the last days was when Germany proposed giving Poland Patriots, the Polish defense minister happily agreed as any normal person would, then the day after after the unofficial ruler got berserk he completely changed his opinion and refused to accept them (how can Germans protect Polish sky if we say Germany = Evil?). What a shitshow!
it does. values are immutable in the BEAM, not at language level.

The impact of bugs is minimized by compartmentalization. This is done from the lowest level where each data structure is separate and immutable [1]

But you can simulate mutability with stateful processes.

Directly from Joe Armstrong: https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e...

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>Students loan debt forgiveness was the canary in the coal mine.

Not really a canary when taxpayer funded bailouts have occurred numerous times over the existence of the US. It is just the way societies work, you just need to make sure your assets keep appreciating at at least the rate that the currency’s purchasing power is reduced.
Explain this regex:
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As everyone starts to adopt AI, are we going to get to a point where the AI is eating itself. I could imagine AI failing similarly to incestuous genetic lines creating mutations.
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You can hold schools to any standard you want, but that does not mean it is actually achievable. My point was that being able to meet high standards with functioning adults is not evidence that it can be met with non-functioning children
Why not just start with the questions you consider the minimum level to clear?
The stuff about TypeScript generics is just wrong though.
The answer about Typescript generics is totally wrong. I'm sure there's other errors but I didn't read further.
Yeah I listened to a podcast about it and they were seriously clueless. (Wall Street journal.) They basically said people got cold feet and de invested. They didn’t even get to the part where it was a Ponzi scheme
This sounds like the “politicians picking the electorate” that is complained about in the US when amnesties happen, and about debate about mail in voting and so on. I think there’s a valid discussion to be had about this but it doesn’t seem completely unprecedented.
<record scratch>

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Sure, the truth doesn't exist and reality is an illusion.

But Andy NGO has an especially concerning history of misrepresenting facts, using misleading cuts, and closely associating with far right insurrectionary groups such as the Proud Boys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ngo#Credibility
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There are, Go can also be compiled to WASM, but it has to carry the whole Go runtime with it (including but not limited to the GC), so the WASM files are a bit fat. You can however use TinyGo, a "Go compiler for small places" (https://tinygo.org/).
you can still find some dumb displays if you search for "monitors" rather than "tvs".
CoinDesk not pulling any punches on this topic

https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/30/ftxs-collapse-was...
Hyundai app bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock, start cars
Out of curiosity, do you wish you weren't born, and if so why not end it?
I maintain that the jump from spinning rust to solid state may well be the biggest single QoL jump we'll see in consumer computing for another couple decades, barring, like, direct neural interface or something wild.
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It seems on the other end that many companies are realizing the only thing cheaper than an empty room with some Ikea desks shoved side-to-side is to have people work remotely and pay for their own office space.
The reusable cup is also plastic.
Yeah ...maybe... we're missing something, or maybe they just wanted to hire the 3 guys in the company and called it an acquisition?

<edit>
the other comments here are also calling this out as a hiring effort.

Not worth a mention on HN, IMO.
</edit>
Nope. It's altitude. I live in Colorado.

The science on this altitude effect has been pretty thoroughly conducted, with potential correlating factors accounted for in multivariate regression models.

Denver and its suburbs are FILLED with people who are as unhealthy and inactive as the rest of the country. Even in these places, in the poorest neighborhoods, they are less obese.

I have an identical twin brother who lives in Portland, and since I've moved here I've stayed about 10-15 lbs lighter than him. It's a single, anecdotal data point, and completely unscientific, but he swears he eats healthier than me lol.
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Maybe he was dangerous for rational reasons i.e. the fear he felt about the horrid inexcusable incarceration conditions that we in the US call "rehabilitation" with a straight face.

Of course that's debatable, and there will regardless be people who are dangerous for reasons that are irrational. It also doesn't excuse his behavior, the world has all kinds of problems and we can't accept solving them by whipping out a gun. But the topic deserves contemporaneous consideration.

One wonders how many law enforcement have been hurt, citizens hurt, or performing desperate crimes, to avoid incarceration which in the US is so horrible that many people prefer death.
These are addressing two very different concerns but framed as a singular one. Google is first and foremost a search engine - it searches the web for answers, the key point being the answers need to exist on the web. The other is a machine learning model tasked with deriving answers, and sometimes - if not very often answers will be provided in an authoritative tone whilst being completely and utterly incorrect.

Google is working on the latter called LaMDA[1] which is arguably more impressive and extensive than GPT-3, but for the reasons discussed above can't just be rolled out to the public. (edit: as others have noted, the code snippets themselves are wrong, but the Twitter poster didn't verify this because they're not interested in the answer, just the lack of one from Google).

It's certainly an interesting discussion for sure. Mathematics help (homework) is being built into search presently and one day for sure code-snippets will be embedded on search. However at Google's scale and the amount of scrutiny it receives spitting out machine-learning based results without any curation or substantiation is dangerous. Legally it is much safer to delegate to websites, thus alleviating any blame to the host.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
> But that's why I think the role of the CA should change so that the signatures actually gives some form of tangible trust that people can relate to.

But this is a tough thing to do. The best way to do this would be to introduce a new type of certificate, that can be stapled onto web requests maybe (eg. a signature at the end of the http body), that isn't controlled or authenticated by any existing system. This would allow clients to implement this system based on merit and based on whether or not it solves problems and concerns these clients have. For example, if it's literally just EV certificate boogaloo[0], then Chrome can choose to not implement it.

But when you try to force it onto people in the form of QWACs or what have you, and have it government-mandated, this goes against the theory of 'open source' standards being adopted because they're a good standard, and instead degrades user experience by forcing client vendors to implement them regardless of their flaws.

0: https://scotthelme.co.uk/the-power-to-revoke-lies-with-the-c...
This is the node used to make the iPhone 14 Pro Max chip.
For the use cases of question and answering, especially regarding technology, ChaGPT is indeed more flexible and convenient compared to Google and will surely replace a large part of this use case. However, Google is still irreplaceable as an index for the entire internet, and it will remain how we find content created by other _people_.
I'm not familiar with those laws, do you mean the protection screw or the loss of warranty? I think many devices implement the latter in their EULAs, in case of tampering, use of non original parts etc, and the former as a protection is commonly used for example in some Chromebox PCs models to prevent flashing other operating systems. I think many tinkerers, including myself, would be more than happy to surrender any warranty, support, etc, if that was the only price to pay to be able to install what we want on our devices.
My understanding is that they each bring their own GC and run it as WASM code in the VM.
This is a pretty fascinating interview about a theory of why it’s happening: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pLW2tMx4Kw5qaeAcxj0Lj
No mention of the fucky /nix/store paths for everything? I haven't used a lot of other distros, especially recent ones (my list: Slackware, Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian), but Nix is a drastic departure from the standard FHS and Linux conventions.

Don't get me wrong - I love NixOS! I'm gradually switching my infrastructure to NixOS. There are very necessary reasons for Nix's departures. But it is jarring, and if we want converts we have to manage expectations properly!
I'd love to see this revisited since Bluetooth has taken over the keyboard and mouse world.