skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always a balance between performance and security.

Yes, it is better to have the server parse, validate and reserialize messages from other players to add another layer of defense in front of the client. But the client shouldn't be trusting the server anyways so going peer-to-peer shouldn't be an issue. The fact is that server pricing isn't going to catch everything anyways.

Probably the biggest problem with P2P these days is that it shares your IP which can be used for tracking or DoS attacks.
Twitter has made moves to remove child porn
> Simply by buying low and selling high.

Well put.

Now, the trick is, you need to buy low and sell high quite often. If you do that once a year, no way you recoup your capital investment in five years. Or 20.

That's what a lot of people don't understand. Batteries can store electricity from day to night, but not from summer to winter. Nothing is cheap enough to store electricity from summer to winter. And nothing will ever be. Including pumped hydro, or hydrogen storage. Nothing can be economical by just collecting one dollar per kWh once a year (and generally the difference between summer and winter is well below $1/kWh).

The trick is to buy low, sell high, on a daily basis, but do it in different places. Like make hydrogen in Australia and sell it to Japan and China.

This is a golden opportunity for Australia to become the Saudi Arabia of solar. Except, of course, Saudi Arabia can also become the new Saudi Arabia of solar, if they are smart.
His point of point to point 1 hour deliveries (edit: transport was his word, but deliveries would be a prerequisite, no?) anywhere on earth seems pretty dismissive. Also much of the space section is about mars. But there’s a lot more going on in space than mars.

JWST started its science mission around July 2022. Researchers get a year of study time before their data are released. So we can expect to see an increase in research releases from JWST until at least that point. I suspect this will continue to remind the world space has more than mars in it.

There’s the psyche asteroid mission that I really wonder about long term.

There’s also this seemingly unexpected opening to discuss and research UAP and interstellar objects from the last several years. I think the count is at two objects that the Avi Loeb and his group will look to recover soon.

Then there’s the research RocketLab appears poised to open up. They’re planning to launch a probe to Venus in March, for instance. Lowered launch costs could make this sort of thing do-able by universities. While those projects won’t have NASA kind of funding, they also won’t have NASA/congressional kind of bureaucracy.

I could probably go on, but it’s an ok list if a little missing something.

Edit-on cars, it appears the news nowadays is all things electrifying. But his points are almost exclusively self driving. Where’s the discussion of battery tech? Charging infrastructure? Charging infrastructure is probably low-lying fruit for someone trying to describe the future as it’s a pretty straightforward engineering problem-with a known scale, for instance.
Tried adding adjectives like "deep" to the request, but it then portrays Hacker News exclusively as a sort of beacon of hope. "Write an angsty poem about hacker news" was better, but too cynical. I'm unable so far to find the correct words to get some balance.
Is this similar to apache camel or spring integration?
What’s the timeframe of that analysis?

What if the analysis turns out completely wrong? Did you weighted the downside as good as you did your analysis?
So you assert that parent doesn’t have an internal model of chess?

Or that only proved expert systems built specifically to play chess have an internal model of it?
poorly understood systems like humans?
Does not look like a meaningful increase, and I wonder what the stats look like without the fertility rate of the Haredi group.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ISR/israel/fertility-r...

https://www.jns.org/israeli-birth-rate-on-decline-government...

>The Jewish fertility rate surpassed the Arab rate for the first time in 2020, with Jews having three children on average compared to 2.99 in the Arab sector.

>At 6.64 children per woman, haredi women had the highest fertility rate among Israel’s Jewish population, compared to 1.96 among secular Jewish women.

Looks close enough to women not belonging to super religious groups in other developed countries.
Apologies for being rude but this is a discussion forum and I'll determine for myself what it is pointless to talk about and if you feel that you don't care then don't bother entering the discussion.

FWIW I don't think that it is pointless to talk about the effect that billionaires are having on our lives precisely because their billions insulate them from the consequences which effectively makes them our new kings with their own dynasty. And the kings of old were at least somewhat accountable to their population in times of hardship and their influence was limited to the countries that they governed (or decided to go to war with).

I sincerely believe that if we don't find a way to reign this in that it will come back to haunt us.
> When you buy a book, you’re not paying a licensing fee. You’re exchanging for goods. You’re granted very few rights to own a copy of the work. But they’re almost all to do with distribution. None of those rights is the right to read it.

You are absolutely buying a license to read the material when you purchase a book. That's why books cost more than the paper they're printed on and why pirated books are illegal. The "distribution" rights you refer to stem from the "first sale" doctrine[0], which acknowledges that the first sale (e.g., you buying a new copy of a book) of a physical object embodying a copyrighted work grants limited distribution rights.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
All 1st world countries have a stagnant fertility rate, some just make up for it with immigration. In fact global population is projected to stagnate in 100 years.

Why would you want to pump birth rates up?
I don’t understand the motivation for yelp to express the policy that way. Just say “here’s the job, here’s the required skills, here’s the pay offered…”

If that pay attracts someone from the Bay Area, what’s the problem at all? If it doesn’t, what’s the problem vs the current policy?
The faith that string theorists have in the AdS/CFT holographic conjecture
Since it is important not to die, NFPA 70. No multivariable calculus required.

https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-stand...

If you want to know the why, get the handbook too.

https://catalog.nfpa.org/NFPA-70-National-Electrical-Code-NE...

Alternatively, Epigram 48.

Good luck.
As a thought experiment, this got me thinking what would a solution just using .NET core look like? Obviously I don't have all the details but I think you can do all of those things in .NET (with the exception of the embedded stuff probably).

* Bluetooth and maps libraries are available for Xamarin, [1] [2]

* Control server could be written in C# using the .NET core worker template [3] and deployed as a SystemD service and then the SDK deployed as a package to enable local development.

* Cloud bridge deployed as a service or website using raw sockets, SignalR or Azure IOT hub (depending on requirements).

You'd end up with 2 languages instead of 5 and I suspect you'd be able to factor some code out into libraries as well...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user...

[2]: https://github.com/dotnet-bluetooth-le/dotnet-bluetooth-le

[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-and-systemd/
That happens if you don’t understand real policing is not like a TV show, most cases go unsolved and the ones that are solved typically are not clear cut. Even if there is a guilty plea, it may very well be because the justice system forces people to avoid gambling away their life for the chance of proving their innocence.
There is https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/, but sadly it's not consumer facing yet.
Taking full responsibility should probably mean change in leadership. People are getting fired for their mistake, why should they also not step down?

I’m indifferent tbh, leadership and investors can do what they want, but “taking full responsibility” is not the same as “feeling bad about firing colleagues”
I wonder if the existence of a red/cyan/white CGA palette inspired the project? It's perfect for that game!
>- Even if you get the system to work, what about future artists and writers? Are we just creating an entrenched historical group of creatives getting royalties forever?

This is kind of what happened with music, no? In some countries hard drives, SSDs etc all carry an additional tax that is then given to some copyright organization. Of course it's not the artists that mainly benefit from this, but instead it's the people running said organization.

Eg https://www.telecompaper.com/news/spain-approves-new-digital...
Ads work because they're embedded in interesting or useful things. No one would use a search engine composed of 100% ads.

Chat-GPT can be used for this: returing interesting results. The ads don't have to be served through chat-GPT, but could be given as a side result.
You can be responsible for something even if you don't have to face any consequences.
You don't if you are creating an entirely new work of art based solely on the knowledge and patterns you've learned from looking at other code, ie. a human learning to code by looking at millions of pages of code on GitHub; whether or not AI can learn in this way is the point of contention for AI art/code/chat generators.
> The flip side of this is that if we undermine paid creators until there's no incentive for them to create

The incentive to create is almost never financial. How many artists finance their creative efforts by working day jobs? Making a living as an artist is more about buying yourself the time to focus on making art than it is about making money. People will continue to create art, however they can, because they must.
Only if you assume that ML models should be treated as though they have the same rights and privileges as humans.

Personally I reject that. ML needs to be restricted heavily.
It's not just ruby syntax, it's ruby. Maybe some people want the ruby ecosystem, or just don't want to leave what they are used to.

I haven't used Elixir, I couldn't say how similar it is to ruby, but my understanding is that it is a pretty different language despite some syntax similarities. Perl and C have some syntax similarities, but...
AI models need human creative decisions as part of the process of making art. This is consistent with current copyright law as well as contemporary art theories of authorship and practice…

Eg, Donald Judd’s works are these creative decisions and processes distilled to the most basic of sculptural form.
Thanks for that. I was just going off of what I've been reading lately, but now that I research it more, indeed it looks like the US talking points have been heavily exaggerating what the Abrams requires. Very disappointing, and thanks for correcting that.
I doubt anyone will dispute that. However, pointing out the beyond unusual CoC is quite interesting and worth discussing.
i strongly agree with your first paragraph

i think the second paragraph is a bit myopic, like hunter-gatherers observing agriculture and worrying whether the next generation will be able to track prey through plowed fields, or will allow their hunting skills to decay because it's easier to get meat by trading with the agriculturalists

but that understates the case; ai (if this is really ai this time) is certainly a more significant innovation than agriculture, probably more significant than fire, on par with tools and language

still, that says nothing about its moral valence
Much simpler code of conduct:

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

No belief in the supernatural required, just enlightened self interest in making the world a better place for yourself and others.
> Legalize polygyny for rich men who can financially support multiple wives.

Rich men already have offspring from multiple women if they want, without having to marry. I fail to see what the advantage would be.
Fun fact: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation briefly switched over to mandating the metric system for its engineering guides, then switched back in 2003. https://www.mass.gov/doc/use-of-the-english-system-of-measur...
While I agree with your post, it is somewhat funny that not one of Fuller’s ‘disruptive’ products ever made a commercial dent.
I explained the other day to a friend how Prisma looks great but it's very unresponsive on Github [1], specially surprising since they raised a lot of money so I thought they'd have more resources. So he introduced me to the concept of FOSS-washing (in relation to greenwashing). Launch a cool open source piece of software, get big clients and funding thanks to it and then basically ignore Github or just dedicate enough resources to it so that it doesn't seem "dead".

I had seen and complained about this before here in HN, how when Github said they were sunsetting Atom for lack of engagement I pointed out that the lack of engagement was... by them, not a single commit in few years so of course there was no activity [2]

Edit: looking at the Github tracker now, it seems that now they use Github as the main tracking software? So there's a bunch of new issues by internal contributors with "bad description" (meaning it's probably the tip of the iceberg of an internal issue just for tracking, not the typical issue someone finds and reports), but the old ones sit there unanswered.

[1] https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/4433

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31670443
> people in "low priority" teams will want to prep their resume.

That seems like sound advice in general.
> Copyright exists to encourage the creation of more art and to progress science. AI is clearly a helpful step in that direction. Humans learn from others' works. Should we make that illegal too?

I find it astonishing that people continue to make this argument. A machine is owned by someone, a human is not. Why should the law treat machines the same way as a human? Sounds like some corporate flim-flam to me.
I’m not certain yet; although I’ve been writing all my own stuff in this language for months now, my actual implementation is mostly unfinished. (The only piece that’s fully finished is list markers, which are based on CSS Counter Styles Level 3 plus parsing, so you can use e.g. cjk-decimal or bengali numbering in the source and it’ll retain that style in the output, correct values and all.)

For this particular aspect, I’m still undecided on how best to actually implement it. The most likely approach is to hard-code rules (possibly in a couple of groups, e.g. “CJK” and “other”), with the ability to opt into or out of them as part of dialect configuration (which is a bit like how you can define custom roles or change the default role in reStructuredText, but more general, able to change more aspects of the language’s syntax—things like change *…* to be something other than italic, make ~…~ strikethrough, define new counter styles). You could also generalise some form of declarative line-break-collapsing rule like “if preceded and succeeded (after whitespace trimming) by a character with Unicode property East_Asian_Width ∈ {Fullwidth, Halfwidth, Wide}” or “if the preceding line matches /(?!< )—$/” or “if preceded by U+200B (ZWSP)” (this last example borrowing from https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#line-breaking, basically applying the formatting rules in reverse for parsing, similar to what I’m proposing with the em dash and doing with Counter Styles; when laying out, ZWSP introduces a line break opportunity without adding a space, so when parsing ZWSP and a line break, you clearly shouldn’t add a space). But unless I can be convinced of actual value in generalising it, giving just one or two switches is likely to be the most sensible implementation, for complexity (this will probably be an optional feature, incidentally), manageability and performance.
> The rest of the country is starting to hate tech workers, and takes like this are why.

The rest of the country is myopic, then. Workers should strive towards better wages, instead of celebrating layoffs.

It doesn't make any sense to hate engineers who can afford what most families did in the 50s and 60s, on a single paycheck.
This isn't a fair analogy. There's a cost to adding new tools to a software environment, and an ongoing cost to maintaining that tool. Closer, IMO, is you're speccing out a new house with a builder and ask for a swimming pool, a hot tub, jacuzzi tubs, and body sprayers in the showers. Getting all of those installed and running to spec is going to be much more expensive than getting one or two of them. If your builder says "You really need the pool. I'll see if I can get that dug in my free time, don't worry about it." you are probably going to worry about what you're actually getting. If you do have the budget to do everything properly, you also need to have the ongoing budget for cleaning and maintenance. Pools and tubs have very different maintenance profiles. The same is true for software.

Which is to say, using the "right" tool is nice, but not always in the budget. R or Julia may be a better language for data science than Python, but if you're the only one using them, you're just making things harder for the rest of your team. A Python shop has probably invested in coding standards, linters, test infrastructure, common libraries, and has expectations for how code runs "in production". Expect that you'll need to clear at least some of that bar for a new tool you introduce. Expanding towards tools that better fit problems is good, but unless you're doing 100% green field development it needs to be intentional and measured.
>> They've been able to demonstrate that the trained Othello player has a model.

They haven't demonstrated that, it remains a conjecture. They show some
evidence that they claim supports their conjecture. This evidence comes from
"probing" (the classifier-based method you describe) which is a heuristic
method that lacks the power to demonstrate anything conclusively. This is as
the authors point out:

It’s believed that the higher accuracy these classifiers can get, the better
the activations have learned about these real-world properties, i.e., the
existence of these concepts in the model.

"It's believed" as in, we don't know, therefore we can't use to demonstrate.
How can you assume a person believes something other than what they say when there is no way for you to measure what they think except through their actions and their words?
Yes, at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, no less.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/davos2023/card/microsoft-ho...
Relying on undefined behaviour can't really be considered much of a solution. Any changes to one of those third-party libraries could possibly break your application without warning. I would suggest inserting a sanitization routine right there into the stack to parse and transform the data file accordingly. For the sake of posterity, emitting logs of every "questionable" entry along the way wouldn't be a bad idea either.
So he didn’t throw a subordinate under the bus. Big whoop.

He still has a job, bonus, and golden parachute. Despite fucking up and hiring way more than needed and upending those lives.

Real responsibility would be leaving in disgrace, or returning his bonus and stock, or something else along those lines.
I've seen agile working well at a fairly big company.
I've been so used to them being builtin android google apps I forgot there were options.
For typesafe queries at the edge I'm using kysely + planetscale over http (look for database.js).
The only drawback is collapsing rows into neat objects is slower than Prisma (client written in rust) but I'm mostly writing graphql stuff this days so less of a problem.
> The Christian God is triune, one God existing in the three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, which the Jews and Muslims both reject.

The Protestant* god. Catholic and Orthodox disagree on that specific phrasing.

https://christianityfaq.com/catholic-protestant-christianity...

As a non-religious person, the differences between the Catholic, Orthodox and various Protestant faiths aren't dissimilar to the differences between them all and Islam and Judaism.
I agree to some extent, especially with the newer generation. I still hold the probably old school view point, that believe the separation of China and Taiwan is mostly a political problem caused by ideological differences. (And personally hoping that PRC can get democracy and then China and Taiwan can reunite in some form).

But I'd like to point out PRC also have more than Han Chinese. Even myself doesn't fit in the narrow sense Han (汉). There are all sorts of dialects and indigenous local culture. The difference of language and culture within PRC can be even bigger than the difference across the strait (for example, I almost cannot understand 粤语 but have zero problem talking to Taiwanese colleagues in our most native language).

I routinely visit Taiwan based websites, reading 繁体/正体中文 and post in 简体中文, and apparently have almost no difficulty getting myself and Taiwanese understood.

By the way, you mentioned bubble tea... There are so many bubble tea shops in mainland China, some invested by Taiwanese, and I really miss them after moving to Europe.
We're discussing programming language design. Referencing a prominent computer scientist to explain something on that subject better than I can seems like a reasonable thing to do. If you want to point me to somewhere where it can be argued that indexing from one is useful (not just a matter of aesthetics), please do.
https://archive.is/9BKG6
Update your resume, find jobs you’d apply to immediately if you were laid off, and probably start practicing for the interviews.
Poland also bought a bunch of tanks from South Korea. They plan to use different tanks in different areas of the country. Possibly also a production license so they can build them (SK tanks) in country. The Abrams is known for requiring more maintenance and they are best suited to the south of Ukraine. Not an easy transfer to Poland for repairs. There are also open questions about the weight capacity for Ukraine bridges for various tanks (including the leopard).

The problem is way, way more complex than you think it is.
Amazon launches $35B data center expansion in Virginia
I moved off Spotify to escape AI. It was good at first, but I started to feel like I was being pushed into a rut with music, that I’d lost all autonomy when it came to finding new music for myself. I wonder if the novelty of a lot of consumer AI will wear off for others in the long run.
Taxation has become a modern sacrament - similar to tithe. I notice this is getting heavily downvoted. Good!
Merger and Acquisition Failures (2018)
I’d say many “grind” games today, such as Valorant, League of Legends, etc fit that U-shape as described. You get hooked with a fun game in the early weeks, then become addicted - while no longer enjoying the game nearly as much - as you futilely attempt to reach the upper echelons, where fame and glory (supposedly) await you.
These look awful! They are very displeasing aesthetically. They look like they were done by someone with absolutely no artistic ability. Clearly there is some technical interest here, but I just felt the need to point out the elephant in the room. They are very ugly.
I’ve read somewhere else that most are sales jobs that happen to be in the tech sector.