skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not both? If we, collectively, perceive most of things surrounding us as ugly, then we, collectively, can feel like we live in ugly times, even though there's no objective measure of ugly. While feelings are subjective, their prevalence can be objectively seen and argued about.

Imagine instead the headline were "we live in frightening times", and described how a lot of people fear what's going on around. Fear is not objective - it's an inherently a subjective feeling. But the number of people feeling afraid can be studied (e.g. by polls, or other sociological means) and if it's high, the argument can be made that it is the "frightening times". And definitely there's ample precedent of using "frightening times" in the headlines. So why not "ugly times"?
Stop copypasting answers from ChatGPT - it is not just your own waste of time - it is a waste of time for other people.
"Goldfinger", worse than the movie.

"Diamonds Are Forever" much better than the movie.
This shit isn’t flown anywhere. You ship it by boat / rail using the absolute cheapest mechanism you can because you’re building tens of millions of these. The first batch of assembled products might be drop shipped if you’ve fucked up your dev schedule and you need to meet some sales deadline but that’s a totally different thing.
Why do I have to tell you this when it should be instantly obvious: Tor is literally designed to obfuscate the identity of people. A coffee machine isn't.
I don't think that because a computer uses 1000W of power it would produce 1000W of heat though. I think if that were true then there could be no computation done since all the energy of the electrons would be converted to heat. I'm not sure what the efficiency rating of computers is, or how much is turned heat.

Not to rain on your back of the napkin math. Although I think your sentiment is right, the cooling systems for computers in space would need to be bigger since you can use convection to move the heat away.
FTX’s Future Fund donated $13.9M to the Center for Effective Altruism. This was apparently most (all?) of their 2022 donations and over 50% of their total donations ever received.

So, yeah, FTX paid for this mansion.

[1] https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Centre+for+E...
Can you give an example of which ones? AFAIK every single component comes from Asia.
>No mystery why the political beliefs of both places match the on-the-ground reality

San Francisco is a good example? Statement doesn't even really make sense in the first place.
Sort of. It could be evidence in favour of fraud, showing FTX / Alameda are literally and figuratively not at arm's length.
And now they're moving into Alaska to destroy that land is pollute it with chemicals too
We can fairly reasonably assume whoever is telling the truth is doing so about both things. Signal should know whether or not their payment details were actually having issues or not.

Now, if you want, you can believe that Signal is lying about whether or not the ads were rejected, wrote an extremely misleading blog post that strongly implies the suspension was permanent when it was temporary, but has correctly guessed that the real reason for the (temporary) suspension was their (unsubmitted) ads, and that they wrote this blog post rather than trying to submit their ads for the first time after being unsuspended.

But at that point, I would say that you are "presupposing because you're coming to a conclusion that is not justified by the evidence". You are so strongly biased that Facebook must 100% prove their innocence on every single point, but are just automatically assuming Signal is telling the truth with no evidence.
WMDs and MAD
Composefs for integrity protection and data sharing
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They either have to do way more ads, or way more targeted ads. Would you prefer an endless stream of low-relevance ads, or a few high-relevance ones that required massive amounts of data mining to produce?
Self sufficiency is what keeps you from starving when trade has a down turn.
The US is a net food exporter so even if the tech industry implodes, the US still has food for its home market, and can raise trade barriers to keep it at home.

On the other hand countries that must import food, suffer greatly when there’s any economic shock. Basic food stocks can double or tripe in price due to inflation affecting imports most strongly. And the country is trapped: it must export in order to get money to buy food, however demand is already down. Add to that that many counties run on credit, so failing an import/export balance leads to additional debt, increased inflation, and a vicious spiral to economic ruin.
A minute is still pretty long to just resolve version IMO.
Better that they throw away "their" money on stuff like this instead of trying to exert control over AI
But it only did so if the user had iCloud photos enabled.
> Fortran is a pretty simple looking language and would probably be the closest to Julia in terms of speed and expressiveness, but the writing is on the wall and Fortran's days are numbered. I am not aware of many new packages being developed using it.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Fortran, both the language itself and the packages in the ecosystem, is continually developed. There are a few peer-reviewed studies that quantitatively tracked Fortran usages and concluded that Fortran is not just for legacy code -- people actually continue to write new packages precisely for the reasons you mentioned (expressivity, performance)
Sadly, the reader probably figures out "Moonraker" within a few chapters.

In Fleming's "Goldfinger", Goldfinger is actually trying to steal the gold from Fort Knox. It was much more realistic to have him instead trying to destroy the gold to increase scarcity.

Say what you want about the film "Live and Let Die" but reading Fleming trying to write "jive" was just embarrassing.
You're describing the current state of Python. Julia is kind of a response to Python. Python's become the de facto for ML and dataviz. Two things it's kind of a terrible tool for

I'm sure people will become more critical of Julia if it successfully becomes the de facto for those things but there's a big difference in that Julia is very focused on those things whereas Python is trying to be as general purpose as possible
I wonder what proportion of “failures” in science are because of the human factor. By that I don’t mean our ability to make technical or logical mistakes, but our personality, greed, vanity, etc.
That is a closed issue from a Julia package. I'm sure I could go to popular packages from any language and find bug reports.
You can't, your business strategy has to reflect stonks go up. If your funders are all thinking like stonks go up and you try to build a sustainable YoY profit generating business, you aren't producing a risk reward curve attractive in that environment, and thus won't get funded.
Force login = time to find a new chat bot site
Those 30 are not NULL, they're "chose not to answer", usually classified as "don't know / won't answer"
I wonder how algorithms like Stable Diffusion will impact CSAM detection policies.
Doesn’t this break the App Store rules?
Section I of the Thirteenth Amendment reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
What are the workshops though? Admittedly if this was an org with a different mission it seems like something people would critique as inefficient overhead. But because its EA its assumed to be efficient?

I still prefer the EA mindset to most other mindsets on giving but dont have a lot of faith that this org has produced much value. I think a lot of wealthy people (like Bill Gates) have already been doing this type of giving for years so I'm not sure what they have really invented either.
When I was 10 or 11, my father had a TRS-80 model III he'd bring home from the office in the weekends around 81 or so. I have a vague memory he might've had an older TRS-80 model early on before the model III - one with a separate monitor. Did my first BASIC stuff on that from Osborne books.

I then saved paper run money for ages (18 months maybe) and bought myself a 48k Spectrum. The Spectrum wasn't even out when I started saving - just that a computer of some description was the goal. I don't think I would have had the patience to keep saving another year or so for something like a C64.
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Wow, I'm in my 30s and feel I'm too old to keep up already. Good for you.
That’s a bold claim and would be a first. There are 0 components in an iPhone that are manufactured outside of Asia. You think they’re going to start manufacturing tens of millions of CPUs per year in the US just so they can pay the transport costs of shipping them to India. And forget the transport cost. The lag time to ship it is insane and the likely prohibitive reason I would think. Shipping to India is slower and more expensive than shipping to China I would think.
You wrote:

>Presumably they failed to pay much more than that.

I read that as you believe these numbers are wrong, despite so many places stating this was what I first wrote: back taxes, interest, and penalties.

Is it not also rude for you to write this, effectively writing my earlier (and documented everywhere, including your links) what the number represented is wrong? Since you appeared to have a belief against the reasonable things I posted, I read that as you not wanting to believe the evidence. So I posted more evidence.

>I just don't really care about your criticism after that,

Yeah, that part is pure math. Calling it "half" against all reasonable calculation (which I explained how to do) is certainly not "little to be learned". I asked where you got the "half" claim - I cannot for the life of me get that as an estimate.

But now I see why you believe things despite evidence :)
Well, now they're storing hashes of every E2EE file on their own servers.

Did they specify what kind of hash? Could it be the perceptual hashing?
That means the monitor is still broken if you move it to a new system, or even just reinstall your system and forget to copy the file over. Better to update the monitor itself. Also good to keep a backup in case the issue happens again.
Here are the moderation replies to your account over the years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323859 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323840 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323721 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774080 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403195 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032506 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237561 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19228116 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371586 (June 2018)

If you're going to make claims about moderation, it's good to supply links to readers can make up their own minds.
After 15:35, he says something like "...2 years ago when I first started working for Amazon...".

So he probably didn't sign up just to make this video.

Clueless about the Amazon Flex part (never heard of it, and I'm not in North America).
they haven't moved shit and there's no incentive for them to.
I'm a software engineer working with AI for a living. Although I work in a branch of artificial intelligence not dealing with conversational language models, I have been following OpenAI's work very closely. GPT-3.5 isn't general enough to replace even a junior engineer.

We had CV object detection for a while. But I agree with your sentiment that it's difficult to predict technological changes. And yet multiple technology shocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_shock) rarely happen in any given industry with short intervals. We can be optimistic about the future, but if I'm speaking from experience - another leap in academic AI won't happen tomorrow.

> burying your head in the sand until its too late to do anything.

What would you suggest software engineers do?

> You already have AI designing machines and structures that exceed the engineering specifications of what we are capable of creating using 3d printers.

This sounds like a typical application for ML AI. This is not AI doing software engineering.
Ubuntu + Firefox
Maybe blind trust in science is the wrong way to phrase it. People tend to blindly believe and click on whatever validates their own beliefs without caring about the reality of scientific consensus. There's always an endless parade of news articles with "study finds" or "scientists say" with zero context.
Ask HN: Did GitHub reset your account password and revoked all of your PAT?
Seems that many users got an email informing them that: "We’re writing to let you know that we observed suspicious activity that suggests a threat actor used a Personal Access Token (PAT) associated with your account to access private repository metadata."
As someone who really likes Julia, I agree with almost all of this. The good news is that a lot of these areas are getting active improvements.
That's really terrible. Now I'm wondering what '70s director would have been a good fit to replace him, while preserving the all-star cast of Welles, Jagger, Dali, etc. The comedy option would be if George Lucas tried psychedelics and took the gig instead of making Star Wars.
That was just for scanning photos in general. Doing it on device is probably preferable to on cloud and at worst no different.
Those could definitely be non goals.

Eg. A company looking to divest certain products or divisions would not be looking to increase revenue. A company looking to improve margins by eliminating low margin or even money losing products may not seek to improve revenue for a certain year.

And the increasing profitability part should be pretty obvious. The vast majority of startups that make it to the HN pages don’t even attempt to make a profit, never mind increasing it.
>that leaked letter that said

What letter is this in reference to? Not sure I remember this from 2021. Would love to read it if anyone has a link.
Nah. They're both ludicrous. China is no longer a free-for-all labor bonanza for a number of reasons but global trade is all-time highs after the pandemic dip. His statements are purely calculated propaganda to influence US policy.
"Casino Royale" is amazing. Not the same James Bond we think we know.

"Diamonds Are Forever" is the other one I recommend to people who want to read his best.
Funny thing is that (small back then ?) farmers were the ones that fought for globalization (and against railway barons), with their Populist party, for easier export of their goods worldwide !

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/05/how-the-anti-populists-s...
Just to be clear, this is because most people within EA circles don't donate to EA infrastructure. SBF was a director of CEA for a few months prior to opening Alameda and likely was lobbied by someone to donate to infrastructure after it received so little.
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Everyone reacts differently to these things and has a different life situation which I don't mean to minimize. But speaking for myself I would't be so depressed about getting 4 months severance while not having do do any work or be oncall over the holidays. That severance and accelerated vesting is also going to be on the books for the next couple of quarters regardless.
Keep in mind that warrants and gag orders are very much behind the state of the art. Apple might receive a request for all the information they have on you, and are absolutely compelled by law to give that to them. But unfortunately, the information is all encrypted with a key that only you know. So the government has no choice but to come to your house and hit you with a rubber hose until you tell them the key, but bad news! it turns out it's illegal to do that. They can't hit you with a rubber hose until a pesky jury has heard the evidence against you and returned a guilty verdict, which if they had, they wouldn't be probing your iCloud account.

What is more of a grey area is whether or not a court can compel Apple to hit you with some malware. The government can ask "give jrockway a special firmware so that whenever he tries to shitpost on HN, the browser locks up until he types his iCloud encryption key into nsa.gov". What's not clear is whether or not Apple has to obey that request. It seems pretty likely that the government doesn't have that power, so Apple can tell them to go away. But who knows, it's perfectly possible to pass a constitutional amendment that literally says "Apple, Inc. has to dedicate 100% of their resources to spying on readers of the dark website Hacker News", and it's all moot. I've seen Congress (or rather, the states in this case) trying to agree on less controversial things before, though, and I'm not too worried about anything changing. (What's the opposite of pro? Con. What's the opposite of progress? Congress.)

Encryption is literal kryptonite for democratic governments. Apple is putting themselves at the forefront of the debate. It will be interesting to watch!
Your last paragraph is important. This explains why highly specialised goods continue to be produced in wealthy countries, such as US, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Korea, and Japan.
Tangent, but tbh I really don't see what the future of Python is. I don't understand why we don't just teach JS or TS as a starting language. It has about as much baggage and is about as easy to understand as Python and is the only language with a comparable ecosystem. Plus you also get to learn the language of the web for free. And now that you have stuff like deno that can run typescript without any messy dependencies. You can just make a quick ts file and write your webscraper or proof of concept and run it in the terminal. At least personally, that replaces my primary use-case for Python and I get to take advantage of TS's amazing type system which really comes in handy when dealing with external APIs.

I really don't see a place for Python

ml --> Julia, C++, R
dataviz --> R, JS/TS
beginner-friendly --> JS
web --> JS
want a backend framework but wanna choose a language that's easy to hire for --> TS, Ruby
huge, stable community --> JS/TS
quick scripts --> Deno
systems --> Rust, C++, Java, Go

I'd say it still dominates in scripting/webscraping and creating shareable work (e.g. Jupyter), but I'm just pointing out that at this point it's replaceable in those areas
The documentary talks a lot about economics of farming, including the perverse incentives created by government subsidies

Regenerative farming is cheaper in the long run because you're not buying fertilizer (they talk about how much that costs), and because soil with plant matter retains water

The yields are higher, and diverse crops mean more potential sources of income

However it probably doesn't produce results in the first year, and it takes more knowledge and skilled labor -- you can't just apply a formula to any piece of land. It takes some local knowledge, which farmers used to have, but can be lost when factory farms come in
Gender non-conforming children are being helped by this new Texas law, which prevents parents from transing them at the first hint of GNC behavior.
I wonder why I haven't heard about it, but damn, the stage manager implementation is awful. I don't mean the design, that's a matter of taste, but there are constant glitches, windows jumping away from the mouse (sometimes outside the screen) and, my absolute favorite, window management becoming more buggy after turning stage manager off: The window movement would lag behind the mouse and when attempting to resize the window would violently wobble and scale to wildly different sizes.

I'm on a dual monitor, dual resolution setup with the monitors not perfectly aligning, I guess one or more of these things could have something to do with my experience. But I'm pretty sure that's a setup they support and should've tested and more than 0 people should have run into these issues during the beta phase. So what's the excuse? If stage manager is a preview of the quality of new features the future looks bad.
You heard it here first: all regulations are slavery!
The End of Art: An Argument Against Image AIs
Please keep tedious tropes and canned arguments like "whataboutism" [1] out of HN comments. They're reflexive reactions [2] that aren't compatible with the curious conversation we want here.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism%20by:dang&dateRan...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Received call, is this scam or Amazon driver
When I looked up the number on Google after receiving a call from 2064532329, some websites claimed it was an Amazon driver, while others claimed it was a scam. Who to believe? They called me and asked about my insurance renewal.
Kotkin spoke to the Hoover Institute in Q1 this year about China and he had the insight that in any communist country you can't be half communist. It's a binary choice which means there's almost no opportunity for centrist constituencies to arise. The only constituencies are pro-central government, anti-central government and apathetic.

This makes government legitimacy the central political object that almost all political discourse revolves around, whether there happens to be a taboo in acknowledging it or not. Following this, policy mistakes become comparatively much harder to reverse in communist countries than in liberal/illiberal democracies, monarchies and pseudo-monarchies.

with Chinese characteristics.
I assume Introduction to EA Fellowships and their subsequent follow-up Fellowships will be the main ones. They do run AI Safety workshops in Cambridge so maybe they'll move those down there? There will be quite a few both directly related to EA and other topics that they're interested in.
Do you bump that up to 300 when the Ubuntu release date slips?
It's a recently published paper, barely a few months old. Conveniently when questioned he claimed the analysis had been done years ago by someone who's now dead and the raw data is lost. I don't know about yourself but I have copies of all the raw data for everything I ever published, simply because that's the sort of stuff a researcher would naturally keep. Of course, the story could theoretically have happened as he says but it's quite the coincidence that this specific data set is now found to be irrecoverably lost after he's accused of fraud.

Simply using Occam's razor in the absence of better evidence. Which is on those making the claim to produce, you can't just publish papers and then go "I've done the isotopic analyses, trust me bro". Researchers could make up anything then, there needs to be accountability. At the very least his team needs to retract the paper.