skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! I was just about to say they did the song in English as well, when your post sent me on a web crawl. I never realized that the English version is "censored"! The English version is relatively playful and only really references the worst in metaphor. Whereas the German version overtly describes the reality of war, and what motivates it.

This makes the Goldfinger cover (which is awesome) make all the more sense. At one point he starts singing in German and I always just assumed it was for style. In reality - he's singing the "real" song, and one of the most critical parts "censored" for the English version. This is what he's singing in German:

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"Ninety-nine ministers of war

Matches and petrol cans (gasoline cans)

They regarded themselves as clever people

Already on the scent of fat quarry

They shouted "War" and wanted power

Man, who would have thought

That someday it would come as far as this

Because of ninety-nine balloons"

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It's a shame he stops there since the German ending is also dramatically better, "Ninety-nine years of war. Left no place for victors. There are no longer any ministers of war. And also no jet fighters. Today I'm making my rounds. I see the world lying in ruins. I have found a balloon. I think of you and let it fly."

The English version ending speaks in metaphor and can even be interpreted to mean it might have just been a dream.

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Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc

Goldfinger Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQFplXS0DIM

English Lyrics ("censored") - https://genius.com/Nena-99-red-balloons-lyrics

English Lyrics (translated from German) - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/99-Luftballons-99-Luftballons...
> And for what reason to choose lua over using languages more matured on system programming like Rust..?

...you wanna talk about mature? Rust hit 1.0 in 2015 (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html). Lua hit 1.0 in either 1993 or 94 (https://www.lua.org/history.html is a little fuzzy). As for reasons why Lua is suitable, and Rust is not even remotely suitable for anything core to NetBSD, the obvious one is platform support; NetBSD supports basically every platform to ever be capable of running a unix-like - https://netbsd.org/ports/ has a list. Rust supports... some of these, yes, but only a tiny fraction. Thus, Rust is wholly unsuitable (at this time) for any core component of NetBSD.
I'd say it is kind of unusual when air-to-air missiles are fired in American airspace.
I happened to be up watching the Super Bowl in the UK, saw the ESA tweet across my timeline and was able to pop outside to see it at the time they predicted - was also able to grab a video [0].

So cool to see how far our detection of these objects is coming along, especially for something as small as this was.

[0] https://twitter.com/teh_c/status/1624967399131824130
Modern Mono
Dang I was hoping I could fill in the parameters myself so I could send it to a coworker with something like publicly bitching on Blind (we know who you are) as the reason. We all work in cybersecurity and just assume anyone signing up via corporate email as Blind insists you must is on the list for the next round of layoffs. Nobody signs up to Blind in order to sing the praises of where they work, after all.
Back in the early 00s, I recall sending a text message accidentally to a landline and some servicenl by Verizon actually read the message out to the recipient. Unfortunately this service no longer seems to be available.

It's BS I can't send a 2fa code over voice anymore. I recall Google voice used to support that but it never carried over to other services.
Why would the Russians laugh at that? They did this themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr_(rocket)
>I think the point of star trek is that we can achieve the prime universe if we try

I think a lot of earlier sci-fi was like that. But notice that most sci-fi is very dystopian now. This is because we've all realized that that optimistic stuff is fun to watch, but is complete fantasy. Sure, the laws of physics might allow us to achieve the prime universe, just like the laws of physics aren't keeping Afghanistan from turning into a world-leading nation in the areas of education, human rights, and women's rights, but just like the idea of Afghanistan suddenly turning into a nation that leads the world these ways is utter fantasy, so is the idea that humanity is going to become like the people portrayed in ST:TNG. At some point, sci-fi creators all realized this and started making sci-fi stories examining different possible ways our future could be horrible. Even Star Trek has gone down this road, especially with "Discovery", showing a whole crew full of utterly unlikeable characters that are constantly fighting and backstabbing each other.
Has someone already made a cryptocurrency that requires that miners train an AI to demonstrate proof of work?
The article completely ignores all the time taxes paid by semi-professionals and professionals:

1: more hours taxed e.g. minimum wage in NZ $37k total tax 15%, but if you earn $100k then total tax is now ~25% and you are working four hours per week more for the government (marginal rate is even worse for extra income).

2: university: say 3 to 6 years out of 45 years plus fees - easily 7% to 15% of lifetime earning costs. A very non-trivial amount.

3: car costs: the article mentions public transport costing time, but it ignores the time we work to pay for our car. “$430 is the typical monthly automobile payment in the United States for a used vehicle” which converted to hours (worked to earn that car) is a significant amount. Say 5% of hours worked.

4: insurance, security, money management, legal fees. When you are poor, bankruptcy is an effective liability mitigation. As soon as you have money, you need to avoid losses through a variety of costly means.

5: professional development: I have professional friends spending many hours every week on this. My working class friends seem to be able to clock-out and relax.

I can think of a bunch of other minor time sinks that apply to the middle class, but not the poor.

I agree the extremely wealthy can avoid time sinks, but most of us can’t.
I can tell you from personal experience working on missile defense systems that they don't use xbox controllers. When a track is established, the phalanx will be controlled automatically to probabilistically aim for targets as they come over the horizon. This is a matter of seconds.

Why would a drone swarm require humans to target? The computer would make the decision much faster. And as any gamer would know, you're much better with a mouse and keyboard than you are with an xbox controller.
Is it just me or does he kind of write in the same style as ChatGPT? It’s something about the length and structure of the sentences, but I can’t put my finger on it.
Correct. It's good for some stuff and amazing at language but getting stuck in these loops makes it very limited.
This would have to be addressed knowing the details of the country. It's hand-waving to say that a country has never attacked. For instance, Ireland lets attacking aircraft use their facilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_neutrality
Thank you for taking the time to respond back to me - I honestly appreciate it.

The release notes honestly weren't all that helpful - but looking over the Git repo, it looks like a lot of the major crashing/session restoration bugs were squashed in 2020-2021 and the backup functionality was improved enough to make backups more user friendly and somewhat more automated (aka: worth using and not 4 days out of date). There are still some flaws but those flaws come from the extension suffering the limitations of being a web extension - which is a tangentially related but another huge gripe of mine.

Now if only I could find a way to restore my context-menu tab switching - a feature lost when FireGestures was killed off. I didn't use any of the other gesture functionality at all - I only used the "[Popup] List All Tabs" feature which worked great with tab groups back in the day. (See: "Wheel Gestures" http://www.xuldev.org/firegestures/features.php)

E: (moments before I was about to post...)

Holy. Shit. Gesturefy recreated that functionality - and around the time I had given up on FF too. Back to Firefox I go! I had tried Foxy Gestures thinking it was the successor to FireGestures but I never gave Gesturefy a chance back then. In case I was bad at describing it, you can test it out yourself after setting it up in the settings: "[Popup] All Tabs" as a wheel gesture - it is an absolute game changer and I am SO GLAD I can go back to my circa-2013~2016 workflow after all these years. Only downside is continuing to scroll doesn't highlight tabs to change - so a small step back - wonder if it is even possible with how WE's are limited.

https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/99
That’s what the meme is saying, but the comment is pointing out that we spend more public money than, say, Canada on healthcare. If we could implement the Canadian system, maybe we could afford more lazers.
sigh Web4 hype train, here we come....
How heavy on resources is Whisper? How long does an average GPU need to transcribe, say 2 hours of video?
Yes, that's the way its intended to be read, the problem is it's really not true. $800 billion sounds like a lot, but the federal government already spends 2x that on Medicare and Medicaid, and there is a lot more healthcare spending beyond that at various levels of government and private parties.
>> we'll need to consume vastly more energy if we want to make people richer, healthier and happier

I have frequently heard this argument made - often as here axiomatically.

No argument that changing energy sources is crucial. But I would not dismiss a plan to also reduce overall energy consumption while maintaining or improving quality of life indicators.
Contracts can be written on napkins but they're not suicide pacts and judges can edit them after the fact.
>It appears that, during our transition to the digital age, the internet completely disappeared. We scoured the globe for it, but it seems to have been completely erased from existence. This has caused immense disruptions to our business, leading to the unfortunate layoffs that are necessary for continued success.
I may get downvoted for this, but the alternate universe where the federation is a war fighting machine was immensely interesting. The TNG alternate reality episodes were far more space navy like than the actual universe.

And the penultimate episode of enterprise where they hijack a TOS ship was just hilarious television cheese. Rick B was onto something.

But you're right. We'll never get that and it's a shame.
I'm getting superfluous search results because of recent news, but yes, this was a decent news story many years ago. The US basically said "fair enough."
Sounds pretty defeatist! At least try? So what if you aren't the best ever?

Why fight?

Answering that question may help you cope with not being the best at everything.. for example, I fight for my kids and employees and family. Not about me, it's about them. So what if I'm a mediocre programmer/person? To a few people I'm cool, and that's enough for me.
Ah, so "condos". Like I was asking you. Thank you for the source.
I'd rather use ChatGPT to help me find a reliable command, that I understand. Then create a shell script for it for future use.

This is a cool trick that is far from a best practice.
That’s all well and good to say, but we currently have no system to do that.

What we ought to have is a carbon tax. Then if some activity such as bitcoin or ai or driving or flying uses carbon, you pay extra. Whereas if you manage to fuel your activities with nuclear/wind/solar you don’t.

There are loads of complexities to this but simply saying “consumption is necessary for riches” while ignoring that we have not managed to lower our carbon usage is not quite hitting the mark.
Have you looked into cloudflare tunnels/ngrok? You can expose any service to internet without dealing with ip addresses, firewalls or opening ports, etc.

And tailscale can also give you a private access to any resources even if it's behind firewalls and all that (say you want to access the gpu cluster from your laptop at home).

And they can all run in user space without elevated privileges.
> Lots of APIs allow reporting of I/O errors without use of an errno-like construct.

libc included--the C11 threads API returns some errors directly using the constants thrd_busy, thrd_nomem, and thrd_timedout. Unfortunately, it also uses a catch-all constant, thrd_error, for other errors.

The pthreads API returns errno values directly as return values, but that's POSIX, not C.
Canada has a tenth of the population of the US.
Google was pretty open about their balloons. As far as I know, no one in China has taken responsibility for the balloon, or at least provided a plausible story behind it. They are leaving everything up to our imagination, which is a lot during an otherwise boring week.
They definitely are not ephemeral as I saw the exact quote tjpnz posted.
Sovereign airspace seems to me should be a bit like 12 mile limit for oceans or 200 mile economic zones for oceans.
So how far up? 12 miles? If it is a segment the shape of the continent + 12 mile ocean limit, does it reach out into space? Once the air becomes thin (and cold) enough to not support life is that the limit?
Apparently you can have balloons in the stratosphere, is that sovereign airspace?
These signals a balloon can pick up it they are important surely they will be encrypted.
I seem to remember in the sixties or seventies there was a picture of a Russian reading a newspaper in red square and you could read the newsprint.
If satellite technology hasn't improved in the 50 years since, I would suggest that neither has balloon spying.
How many mega pixels is your phone?
If you’re just scrolling the comments, I recommend checking this out. It’s a lot funnier than I expected :)

GPT does a great job of making it marginally believable while completely unpossible. Love it!
Do we really need GPT for this? They're happening for real every week.
Book Commentary Thread: Debt by David Graeber (2018)
This is an interesting use of AI I hadn’t thought about before, but now I can see a number of use cases for technology like this. Can you share more technical details about your approach? (It’s cool if you can’t.)
Layoffs at Netflix due to wizards:

> Greeting to my fellow Members,

> It is with deep regret that I must inform you that due to an unforeseen infestation of wizards in our headquarters, we are forced to layoff 10% of the Netflix workforce. I take full accountability for this decision, as I recognize the impact it will have on all of you and your families.

> It all started on a fateful Wednesday morning, when a large black thundercloud appeared over Netflix headquarters in San Francisco and a powerful gust of magical wind blew open the doors. Before we knew it, seven wizards wielding wands and broomsticks descended upon the lobby and began making mischief. They caused the sprinklers to spray the office with confetti, the elevators to rocket up and down the shafts, and the fire alarms to scream out musical numbers at the top of their lungs.

> Layoffs at Binance due to time travel:

> Greetings, Binancees!

> It is with great sorrow that I must inform you that due to an unforeseen event, we are forced to lay off 10% of our workforce. The cause? Time travel.

> It's true. Someone on our team discovered a blue-violet vortex in the break room and to our surprise, this portal allowed us to travel through time! Unfortunately, upon our travels, we ended up unleashing something known as the butterfly effect. In essence, we changed the future, and in that future, we need 10% less of our workforce than we do today.
> Nothing special happened in 2010. Beginning 2018 there was a temporary change (TJCA) that increased the standard deduction, but that ends in 3 years unless extended by Congress.

My understanding was that the personal exemption was temporarily removed, but the standard deduction was changed moving forward...but what do I know? I want the government to give me a default option that has a correct answer.

> No, there is a third, much larger group, of taxpayers who want to keep loopholes, grey areas, and little things you can cheat on and get away with. This is only possible with the current system.

Huh? All people are asking for is that the IRS fill out your 1040 for you as one option for paying taxes. No loopholes, grey areas, or enforcement changes. If you're talking about possible knock-on effects; people not paying attention to taxes, therefore paying more, or not paying enough attention that taxes get raised with out noticing--that's literally Grover Norquist's position.

You say a "much larger group." When California had a pilot program[1], the only opposition was from Intuit. "99 percent stated they were satisfied with ReadyReturn, 97 percent stated this is the type of service government should provide, 96 percent stated it was more convenient than how they filed in the past, 95 percent stated it saved them time, and 98 percent stated they would use it again."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalFile#ReadyReturn
The Slack one was mildly amusing ("Greetings Slackers"),

> Stewart sent the following email to Slack employees earlier today.

> Greetings Slackers,

> As you all know, the team at Slack has recently made the difficult decision to lay off 11% of its employees. I want to be clear that I take full responsibility for this decision, and while the cause of the layoffs is unfortunate, there is a silver lining.
I am referring to these types of market maps where you classify different companies into a better description of what they do

https://pitchbook.com/products/desktop/discovery/market-maps...

United Healthcare and Merck are both considered healthcare companies, but very different. I would think some kind of classification algorithm could learn from doing it and then getting feedback but not sure how I would do that.
I kinda hate these articles about the carbon cost of compute- it's utterly short sighted, gpt3 is infrastructure that creates huge efficiencies - the cost is a bargain. Not to mention this is like early days and we're driving down the costs everyday.
If this were a real threat, laser safety goggles would be standard issue.
re "calculator for text": gpt => wolfram alpha is scary good
Here is what I got for Tesla run by “Electron Musk”

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DaoUTja82QXTYPsb9
What’s that guy’s salary, I wonder?
Working at Google: Maps
> If one is already willing to embrace thirteen-dimensional objects or an endless number of alternative universes, or to casually suggest that 95 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter and energy about whose properties we know nothing, it’s perhaps not too much of a leap to also contemplate the possibility that subatomic particles have “free will” or even experiences.

I had to chuckle.
It tells us a lot about the current state of affairs if idealism is belittled and cynicism dominates the mainstream.
I really hope folks posting links to random Git hosted projects would start to provide context on what exactly said tool is meant to accomplish. I've lost count of the links I've seen like this, where most of the context is missing in favor of a couple of TODOs. It deprives us of the chance to appreciate hard work out there and potential utility to our own lives.

Is it a honeypot powered by GPT-3?
Was it a honeypot built by chatting with GPT-3?
Is it meant to prevent scraping for large language model training?
Is it something by which I can see if said scraping incorporated my work? Or, should it do so, perhaps send it into a fit of babble trying to integrate it for training?
I regret to inform you that due to the recent haunting of a certain haunted house, Microsoft has had to layoff a total of 15% of its workforce. This unfortunate situation has been caused by the evil ghost of a former Microsoft employee who, long ago, was not given the recognition he deserved. In the time since, he has exacted his revenge by haunting the house, causing an extreme disruption to the internal workings of the company.
What I wrote was "Synthesizing the new information (from observing) with prior information", not new ideas. Synthesize means "combine into a coherent whole" (among other things, but this is the definition I intended; it's the one programmers ought to become familiar with since we "synthesize" solutions to problems by combining existing and new programs and possible physical components into a whole, our field is fundamentally synthetic). Here it's the act of combining information into a more coherent and accurate model: Present observations, past observations (part of your prior knowledge), and previous training and whatever else (the rest of your prior knowledge).

All of that gives you your present orientation, your position, in either a literal or figurative sense.

And then there's your "opponent" (if there's not one, OODA may not be the right mental model to use). In your observations of your opponent and repeated orientation you are building up a model of them, synthesis again. You start with any prior knowledge (have you encountered this opponent before?) or an assumption (maybe a worst case, or estimate based on sizing them up). Then you engage, and in the engagement you observe and determine their real capabilities, which feeds into orientation for rendering a more accurate model of the opponent.

Orientation is taking the existing knowledge, adding new knowledge or information, rendering a better model (hopefully). Then you decide based on that model, act on that decision, and observe.

Of course it's not actually linear, all of this is happening at the same time, or can be. You don't stop observing while you orient, decide, or act. And you don't stop acting while you observe, orient, or decide.
Almost buried the lede:

>After attempting to remove the delicious burrito from the system, we discovered that the only way to save the server was to layoff 15% of our staff. Though heartbreaking, this was the only way to prevent a complete system failure.
Isn't it the case that training a ML model consumes vastly more power than using the trained model for inference?

If so, the problem may be somewhat overstated. Training is a dispatchable power load. It can be scheduled for periods of surplus power in regions where surplus power is periodically abundant. Training a ML model could literally follow the sun.
As there's (apparently) such an under-supply of people who earn those high ranges, restricting that demographic only makes everyone poorer because wealth creation is hence lower. Maybe it would reduce those wages somewhat but it's unlikely.
Unfortunately, we have no idea what series of prompts led to the screenshot. (For example, can Bing, like some other LLMs, be asked to write stuff on an arbitrary topic?)
Lol! that reminds me of this! https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?t=2247
I don't think you mean to be, but saying these disorders can be fixed with some fresh air and exercise doesn't match with reality.

I have ADHD, exercise and fresh air didn't fix it. I even got rid of my smartphone and home internet connection for 6 months to try to improve my focus. That didn't help either. After years of dead ends, getting a diagnosis and medication is more or less the only thing that has allowed me to hold down a job and live life.
The air force sure can't complain about the "excuse" for target practice and cycling inventory.
“just a wrapper on top of GPT3”
we do currently have a system to pivot to cleaner sources; it's the photovoltaic module industry, which has undercut the price of fossil-fuel energy by almost a factor of two in much of the world, though not in polar regions
> I have frequently heard this argument made - often as here axiomatically.

Okay, you're dismissing the argument without proposing any counter arguments.

J. Storrs Hall lays out the case for the relationship between energy usage & quality of life.

What are your specific rebuttals?
It is a pretty dead standard unfortunately, it mostly got rejected and got reverted elsewhere.