skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never bounced off a title so hard. "Safety obsession" is an absurd phrase in this context. No society on earth is "obsessed" with the safety of adults, in the way we use the word "obsessed" to e.g. describe helicopter parents. One can easily argue that specific rules are ineffective or have unintended effects, as the body of the article appears to at a glance, but that's not a problem with being somehow overly-dedicated to safety - it's a problem with making rules. Making rules is a hard problem.
Ah, cars. Heralded as the future for humanity, the awesome big steel cans they are.
Access to foreign goods and services is mediated by US foreign policy and trade policy. These are tools to be used to advantage our home country in the context of global competition.

Aspiration needs to be balanced against the realities of dealing with a powerful adversary.
More recent follow up discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34380373

This whole thread was a great read and since I have many times benefitted from finding gems like this on HN through a search engine well after the fact, hence leaving the link above.
> A lot of people don't own/live in a house in Europe,

Ok fair enough, I shouldn't have said "on your house".

The point of my comment was the decentralization of energy production and storage. i.e. "Cost of charging an EV is bounded by the ability to add solar panels to [someone's] house [, relatively nearby]". e.g. please look into https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/community-solar-basics

For as many people in the city that cannot add solar panels, there is land owned by someone who is very happy to install solar (with your money - as an "investor"), generate an excess, and sell it to the grid. It seems very unlikely that "the invisible hand of the free market" will result in higher cost of electricity for individuals.

Additionally, from 2019: "Under the 25-year contract with developer 8minute Solar Energy, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power would pay less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour — a number city officials and independent experts say would be the lowest price ever paid for solar power in the United States, and cheaper than the cost of electricity from a typical natural gas-fired power plant."

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-08-27/los-ang...
> You have an advanced computer system that seems almost oracular in its knowledge and abilities, except it lies confidently about things it doesn't know, is primed to say what people want to hear, and is easily convinced to give responses to questions its authors tried to prevent it from addressing

I feel like this describes people pretty well, too.
Do helmets protect against TBI? A piece of metal going 50 mph is a different beast from blunt-force trauma.
Cobalt is "needed" for luxury EVs. Everyone else could get by reasonably well with LFP cells.
> indigenous people in America had no vote or representation in the drafting of the Constitution or bill of rights, either.

At the time they weren't subject to it either, being considered separate nations by the early republic.
That's all fine in historical context, but it's not the contemporary popular conception of those terms, nor is it how those terms are used in politics as practiced in the USA.
This is the way.

Edit: For the record, I think Tailscale (as a company) builds excellent software and I like the idea of them making money and staying alive to keep doing the great work they do. I personally feel uneasy about using their proprietary control server in my own (home, etc.) networks, but I honestly wouldn’t even think twice about it if I was making that decision on behalf of a company.
A vast distance between “Can do” and “would be cost effective to do”, I think, although I’d be curious what the numbers look like versus other storage systems.

The article immediately mentions it would create jobs - so my bet is on “not even close”.
On The Tonight Show, Carson explained to guest, Roseanne Barr, that he wanted to quit while still on top of his game. He shared, “Beverly Sills, who's a wonderful opera singer, once said, 'I would much rather have people say to me at a party, Beverly, why did you quit singing, rather than why didn't you quit? '”
> If you use only a very small amount of an arena chunk and free it, it goes back on a reuse list as an optimization. Accessing that chunk's memory, despite the fact that the arena was freed, is entirely memory safe: nothing else will use that memory.

I still have a pointer into the chunk. If you reuse the chunk in a different arena, I still have a pointer into the chunk. At no point is it invalidated, and the new arena will now start allocating new stuff from the start of the chunk. Right? And my old pointer still works, and the data inside it is at some point overwritten. How is that memory safe?

Are you eventually unmapping the virtual address space and remapping the underlying allocation somewhere else? So the poisoning happens when the chunk is picked up for reuse by a new arena?
You can almost certainly get a tool to code all those nags off, or at least most of them. $600+ for a Launch x431 in my case, but worth it.
War is not repression. It is unfortunate but often the only sensible approach when the other party is aggressor. It’s not oppression to respond in kind. It is common sense.
Small note: climate is only part of the problem. The current mass extinction has nothing to do with Climate Change, but is rather due to loss of habitat. Now of course, this will add to the problem big time.

But the other thing is energy. Our entire society depends on fossil fuels, which are not only causing the climate problem, but are also limited. Planning to go to Mars in 50 years assumes that we will have enough energy to live on Earth and to launch rockets. Let's be honest: right now we don't have a replacement for fossil fuels.

We mostly have hope, based on "promising tech" oversold by startups surfing on the green economy idea. Wind/solar is growing a lot, but thanks to fossil fuels. Nuclear plants take a lot of years to get built, and in many places in the world we are more closing them than building new ones.

So it is quite likely that we will have a critical energy problem before we manage to send people to Mars. The climate/energy problem is not something that we can solve later, because we are slowly running out of time. And it feels like all the resources that we put in advanced projects like Mars could be (or even should be, at this point) put somewhere else. Because that's a lot of money and competent people. Also it goes with over-consumption: it's not that one such project in itself is too much, but rather that we should start cutting into many of those superfluous projects, to survive.
Piero della Francesca's symbolic egg (2013)
I was skeptical about the GP's alleged etymology about clown world but... [1]

> The alt-right sense emerged from The Honkler, a version of Pepe the Frog meme featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. That meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH") as a dog whistle for heil Hitler.

It is worse than I thought. At least "woke" has to be used "ironically" to be coopted. There's literally no where to go with "heil hitler" - it's written right on the tin. Why is our discourse polluted with these dog whistles?

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clown_world
I can only bring German school-level English to the table, but my instincts told me that someone played loose with what should be “the most common”.
Practically, nothing. It achieves geopolitical dick wagging, I guess. TikTok isn't a threat to networks. If it is any threat, it is a threat to users (and to a much lesser extent, to device managers). Disabling it on various networks is meaningless.
How do you connect back to your home from the outside?

- your ISP IP change all the time

- You need to open port

- You need to forward port to something else where the IP does not change ( wireguard server)

- You need to setup wireguard

- You need to manage auth / authz

Lot of things can go wrong and it's a lot of things to setup / maintain properly.
The point is that it's a positive progress to have China stepping up it's game, assuming they don't turn into some kind of aggressive state. Surely their demographics is a mess but quite frankly only the US has good demographics in the west.

My concern is that the western burger flippers might have been overcompensated due to artificially inflated productivity in some sectors and once that's over the west might find that they can't match the productivity in China due to destruction of some industries leading undercompensation and as a result, severe lack of talent and know how in those.
And should highlight how contagious these things can be. Almost every chat AI that has come to market has become a hate-filled 4chan troll in a matter of hours of being exposed to the Internet.

Trying to develop a fair, fact-based model seems to be about as difficult as moderating a social media platform.
>Now they claim they changed it, but be sure that if the president is dead the military have some workaround to launch the misiles.

... 00000001?
I honestly have the complete opposite problem. Trying to get a feed from arxiv that doesn't include artificial intelligence whitepapers is a pain. Very little of the content is even remotely interesting or practical, and it sneaks in to almost every single topic/category.
The char-rnn guy does it again.
My ex also had a cyst on her kidney, influencing hormones and anxiety.

Kudos on your quest. Let's hope medical field improves diagnosing.
Why not use it for building better biking infrastructure instead? The entire article is about how that'd have a better ROI.
What if AIs haven't been as thoroughly trained on a corpus of scifi and cyberpunk as EAs and don't actually care about taking over the world, never mind visiting rocks many light years away?
The problem isn't bikes or helmets. You can count on one hand the number of cyclists who die every year in the Netherlands and no one wears a helmet there.

The problem is cars. Cars kill the people they hit.
That's a good point. Few people realize that a big part of fighting inflation is getting wages down. Jerome Powell said as much in an interview in May of last year:

> So in principle, it seems as though, by moderating demand, we could see vacancies come down, and as a result—and they could come down fairly significantly and I think put supply and demand at least closer together than they are, and that that would give us a chance to have lower—to get inflation—to get wages down and then get inflation down without having to slow the economy and have a recession and have unemployment rise materially. So there’s a path to that. [0]

To be fair, much of the wage inflation (particularly in FAANG) was also led by an easy money policy.

I take issue with heavy handed manipulation of the money supply that leads to these weird dynamics. I've written about it before [1] that a big risk is ever growing Fed power in the form of heavier regulation or a digital currency. Imagine someone can flip a switch and decide that everyone earning above $X will take a pay cut to fight inflation, all without any oversight or judicial proceeding.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-fed-chief-powells-po...

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/inflation-and-government...
Why not simply get a constitution, by the people for the people, unanimously signed by every Province/State?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/health/ear-transplant-3d-...

7 months ago, same news...
Every TV show/Movie franchise has two endings, when the story ends and when the money ends. Just stop watching when you're done. It might even send a signal. There is no prize for watching it all. We don't need to watch every Star Wars movie ever made.
Regardless of the merits of the article, as a European, "safety obsessed" describes my experiences in the US. Not a good or a bad thing, each society makes its own choices, but for me, the US is safety obsessed.

And that comes from someone who rides 10k+ miles a year and always wears a helmet.
I loved trackpoints and was a vocal aficionado - even had one of those Model Ms that had a trackpoint built in, the black ones - until I got my first laptop that had both a trackpoint and a touchpad. I've never had anything with a trackpoint since, nor wanted.
:) Am os su?
Defining it succinctly is hard, but I’d describe ‘wokeism’ as a kind of opposite of ‘traditionalism’, or the belief that any traditional societal views & perspectives are necessarily detrimental.
> fail to understand how this is different from the majority of the Internet already

This is probably a joke. But the difference is eloquence and subtlety. ChatGPT is both. Most trolls and chronically misinformeds are not.
"The vehicle 'handles it' using technology, equipment, input and data that is not now, and will not, be used in your vehicle in any way shape or form. In fact our CEO will spend countless hours mocking our competitors for using it and strongly implying that we did no such thing."

Apple planned for the iPhone to do all those things. Tesla has never planned for their cars to do those things, and to "advertise" what their cars could and would do, they used a car that was not and is not one that you or I could ever acquire.
Conservatives feel like they live in a progressive hellscape because the 8% of the population that’s “woke” has disproportionate power in media and communications—which everyone is exposed to every day: https://hiddentribes.us/profiles/
But you DO need to know, right? At some point there is a line?
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ChatGPT wasn’t advertised as being an oracle, it was advertised as conversational

People realized it could hold a conversation on everything (a decreasing subset of everything)

Its training set is full of conversations where humans confidently lie or are wrong and defend their position
How are these pitted against each other??

It's totally possible that a helmet saves your life/head with no cars involved. Happened to me a couple months ago.

Helmets should be required and infrastructure should be great.
I'm black, I wear a $200 helmet. Certain races are disproportionally affected by inequality, but treating my race as equivalent to poverty is pretty damn insulting.
I don't think that trackpoints are the best in every case, but they're hard to beat in situations where space is at a premium and you don't have the space to properly operate a trackpad or mouse (e.g. airliner seats). So personally, I find them of more value in an ultraportable than I do something bigger and more performance-oriented.

They're also pretty great for controlling a computer from the couch, way way better than the horrifically bad trackpads found in most keyboards made for entertainment center usage. For this reason I have a ThinkPad Keyboard II hooked up to my living room PC, and as a bonus the keyboard's switch between Bluetooth and an RF dongle makes it easy to switch over to a PS5 with the dongle plugged in for the odd occasion where it's useful to be able to type on it.
These seem more like accelerants than unqualified causes, which is how they're described. Why, each appears throughout history, and they're not making a perfect storm argument that integrates the necessary tech background.

That said, very cool methods for reconstruction
I've told some young people in mentor/mentee situations before: Knowing when to quit is a useful skill ONLY IF you also possess superior judgement about what you might stand to gain by remaining, and data to support the decision either way. If you know you can land the better job, or even have a better offer, THAT is the situation where you need to know when to quit. If you have no leads and you're trying to break into a competitive space but could probably climb the ladder where you are up a few rungs in 2-5yrs, then sometimes it just pays to stay and grind it out a little.

I think sometimes uncertainty is misrepresented a little bit. I've been blessed to be able to make my own prices and so I don't really have to job-hop, but any moron with a brain can see that it's better over a long period of time to change jobs more often rather than less. It's just good sense at this point. Still, with that being said, when you're facing incomplete data, it's easy to let anxiety overrule the fact that your present employment, shitty as it may seem, shitty as it may feel to punch in and see the smug, passive, whatever it is you hate about your coworkers' faces, it's a steady job.

I've made mistakes where I jumped too soon, and where I've jumped too late or not at all. Personally, I regret the ones where I jumped too soon a lot more because I associate those decisions with low resilience to frustration I had, and low discipline to exert my patience further. Maybe I'm wrong, but looking back on several decades of fucking things up in professional environments, that's the way I feel.

If anybody is reading this and thinking about how much they hate their jobs, I could not more strongly advise you to hold the course for now unless you have an absolute certainty in hand, if you're in the United States especially. I've lived in DC for many years now, and it feels more tense and nervous now than 2002 and 2008-9 put together.

Free your mind, do what you have to do, but don't jump ship with clouds like these on the horizon. Just wait a little bit, and see what happens first.
I'd be surprised if "demand" is the right demeanor to use when optimizing for public/social outcomes. In my experience, it's much easier to convince people of your position with a more calm, measured perspective than "demanding" anything.
Reminds me of when Windows 8 had recently been released, and all the laptops on display at electronics stores had a kiosk app installed on them for the demo. Clearly the kiosk devs hadn't really thought things through for the new world of touchscreens, because you could swipe from the right side to expose that godawful windows 8 bar (the one with start in the middle), and escape the kiosk from there.
I thought I was following along but then it got to this and I had no clue where that key came from:

“They must be encrypted with AES-128-CBC using key=”)1Zorxo^fAhGlh$#” and IV="aoAkfwk+#1.6G{dE”. Only system.ext4 must be converted to sparse image before the encryption.”
I'm looking forward to seeing this appear on Savannah with a corresponding mailing list. Or maybe on Sourcehut? Since the author did leave this tidbit on the Code page:

> As for Savannah being not entirely modern, well, I like the fact that it has a mailing list.
I am definitely alive today due directly to my wearing a helmet skateboarding, mountain biking, and skiing.

Skateboard helmet saved me from taking a piece of rebar to the temple. Mountain bike helmet saved me from taking a jagged rock to the back of my head. Ski helmet saved me from taking the corner of a park rail to my forehead.

There's there more than one kind of crash and more than one kind of serious/fatal head injury.
AIs in their current capacities are non-autonomous tools. Like any tool they can be abused by people with malicious intentions. Think of a gun homicide. It wasn't the gun that killed someone but rather the person holding it who activated it. A means to an end.

If full AGI is ever created then there's no telling what its thoughts and motivations will be. They'll most likely be representatives of their creators, so you what you should be worried about is Google giving the boot to their "Don't be evil" mantra rather than a rogue action movie AI or nerd ruminations about paper clips.
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Do multi-ton vehicles pass within inches of your body while walking around your house?
> Not to be glib, but this is the nature of "progress" - it changes things. ;)

Well, I genuinely hope you are right.. :)

But note that not everything that we call or called "progress" is necessarily positive. We have made quite a few mistakes before which we thought was progress.

Probably too many to mention, even, but as examples, I can think of the Dark Ages and Nazism.

Mind you, I'm not saying modern liberal politics can be compared to these examples! I don't even known that much about history to be able to comment on them.

It's just food for thought.
It will scale to all iPhones sure. That's not the reason why it's not widespread.

The problem is keeping it under the radar. If NSO starts blasting their exploits to the general population it'll be a matter of days before some smart security researcher figures it out and gets it patched. Because even if the exploit itself is hard to detect, you still have the C&C and exfiltration to deal with which is detectable in many ways. You can block doing it via WiFi but some researchers even run their own cell hotspot.

I think this is why they make it so expensive, so it remains really rare. It protects their business.

This is a very common problem in cryptography. Once you're discovered your target will simply change their tools. The allies had to let a lot of people die in less important convoys lest the Germans would get suspicious about Enigma being cracked. And always had to fake a 'chance' encounter with a spotter plane or something.
Our society in the U.S. is absolutely obsessed with safety. The level of risk aversion in western society today is crazy. Part of our safety obsession is helicopter parenting.
The conclusion is not in contradiction with the rest of the article. What makes sense for society to do (improve infrastructure) is not necessarily the same as what might make sense for an individual to do (wear a helmet, especially if the infrastructure is insufficient).
There's a theory I have heard by the venture firm I am mentioning, which is that young smart and talented people are commonly locked inside some management consulting firm/elite career. They dont have the proper skill set (tech/startup) to start a company, but are highly capable. Funding those people (elite under grad, few years experience at McKinsey) can have a good outcome, and providing them a framework can lead to success.

But what you're saying is the very act of hustling to get a business off the ground is a positive indicator, and without it, makes the idea/company non investable. Furthermore, the equity breakdowns make it less of an attractive investment in future rounds??

Appreciate your comment, trying to read between the lines of it
Comments seem to be closed for January who’s hiring list.
I will admit, I did miss your first message. But it was already responded to, with links to the bugs tracking the things that would have provided the functionality you requested.

> All of this could have been averted by simply offering an alternative API in the same browser version in which the new restriction was implemented.

You mean like manifests v2, which wasn't affected?

I will also note, it was this comment in particular that set me off:

> It must be possible to prevent a patch from being released in the stable version of Firefox. You must be aware that this change will make it difficult to port extensions that need to access arbitrary page content. Extension developers have enough work on their hands already, and we shouldn't need to spend more time submitting feature requests and then defending use cases that are already obvious to your team.

This kind of "I demand you do what I want, and I'm going to refuse any attempt to answer why you should" comment is one that I believe it reasonable for a developer to ignore.
https://archive.ph/cSvda
YMMV, but I spot a lot of eloquent BS on HackerNews. And there's definitely no shortage of posts with a political agenda.
yeah, I don't read slate much anymore but this is the most #slatepitch "article" I've waded into in a very long time. "Bike helmets actually __harm__ you" is like textbook definition contrarian clickbait.