skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That didn’t fail because of the nuclear reactor, it failed because the ice sheet movement deformed the tunnels over time and collapsed ceilings. Nothing to do with the feasibility of sitting a portable nuclear reactor on top of the ice like the settlements in Antarctica.
> "My rules are more important than not harming you,"

Sounds like basic capitalism to me.
My conspiracy theory is it must have been trained on the Freenode logs from the last 5 years of it's operation...this sounds a lot like IRC to me.

Only half joking.
If interested in enhanced terminals, please take a look at DomTerm (https://domterm.org). It too optionally uses Tauri/Wry, though it can also also Electron, Qt, or a plain web-browser. You can embed images and rich text among other feayrures. DomTerm also has builtin tmux-like panes+tabs (mouse-draggable), detachable sessions, and a powerful "view" (selection) mode.
Knowledge is doing, language is communicating about it. Think about it this way:

Ask the bot for a cooking recipe. Knowledge would be a cook who has cooked the recipe, evaluated/tasted the result. Then communicated it to you. The bot gives you at best a recording of the cook's communication, at worst a generative modification of a combination of such communications, but skipping the cooking and evaluating part.
I've got the audio book but never gave it a fair shot, maybe the text is what I need. Will grab it from the library!
I find it likely that our consciousness is in some other plane or dimension. Cells emerging full on consciousness and personal experience just seems too... simplistic?

And while it was kind of a dumb movie at the end, the beginning of The Lazarus Project had an interesting take: if the law of conservation of mass / energy applies, why wouldn't there be a conservation of consciousness?
The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. Before this documentary the 2002 Gujarat events were largely brushed aside as ordinary 3rd world sectarian violence but the BBC documentary shows that Modi personally orchestrated the whole thing.

The complete balkanization of India is about to happen and I don't think the rest of the world will be able to cope with the number of refugees.
> "you can move up the waitlist if you set these Microsoft products as default"

Microsoft should have been dismembered decades ago, when the justice department had all the necessary proof. We then would be spared from their corporate tactics, which are frankly all the same monopolistic BS.
What if Skynet but instead of a Terminator it's just Clippy
Electronic Metadevices for Terahertz Applications
Just to recap your argument:

> We enforce the rules in our society because we can afford to. In the Antarctic winter where resources are incredibly scarce and the people are trapped for months a time, their local society can’t afford to have such strict standards. The animal within each of us comes out in Antarctica more than anywhere else. This is of course part of what makes living there so exciting on an elemental level.

And your point brought home:

> Because in those conditions it’s not wrong, it’s adaptive.

You have to be a pretty ignorant person to think "I don't have many resources, so sexual harassment and violence is not only normal, it's a good idea".

Other human societies around the world live in conditions close to those at McMurdo, and they do not have this problem. But amazingly, McMurdo is better equipped with more supplies, with the same seasonal inaccessibility as those other societies. So your argument is factually incorrect. Limited resources and an extreme environment does not implicitly result in a culture of sexual harassment and violence.

Nor it is "adaptive" in any advantageous way. It is much more likely a result of psychological breakdown, combined with a lack of social consequence, and a position of power over trainees who do not anticipate this treatment. Basically, psychos who can't deal with stress and take it out on the most vulnerable to make themselves feel better. In no way does this reflect human society, nor normal human behavior, as even in hunter-gatherer societies, people work together and prevent abuse.

You also have to be pretty morally bankrupt to suggest that this condition of abusing other humans for fun is totally fine. I don't think you would hold this position if you were the one receiving the treatment.
This has been out there for years --- since 2018.

And check your vibe meter, it is acting up. The main person behind this was the creator of Mandrake Linux.

https://itsfoss.com/e-os-review/
Like what? A research outpost?

You have to get into a knife fight with your peers to get a grad student who works for ramen on your lab's funding proposal, you're not going to get the amortized cost of a real lab on Mars approved. For that money, there's a thousand languishing research proposals that we should be looking into instead.

There are no economic reasons to go there, either. It's too far away, it's too dangerous, and shipping anything is too much work.

There are no military reasons to go there, either. The military is happy to put weapons in orbit, but Mars is too far away.
It feels like Apple doesn't even want commercial indie developers on their platforms either.

The whole process around entitlements and app review is absolutely maddening for small teams that don't have insider connections at Apple.

For context, there are things that your device is capable of, but the OS will prevent you from doing without Apple's blessing (an "Entitlement"). Even in test code that you're not shipping to the app store. Most apps you'll use day to day will use a bunch of these entitlements.

A pretty common scenario is that you want to be able to remove a notification that is no longer relevant. The process to do that is:
1. Pay the $99 (ugh, okay)
2. Build marketing materials for your app (even if you're the only user)
3. Write a proposal to Apple explaining why you need this entitlement and this is a good user experience.
4. Wait 4-8 weeks for Apple to deny your request without actually reading the proposal. Seriously, they only skim read what you write.
5. Go to 4

If you want to publish your app, you'll go through this all again with app review.

This process is absolutely maddening and is extremely time consuming. Apple's policies assume you have a large team to manage them, create marketing assets etc.

At bigger companies you escalate thus via your Apple internal contacts who chase things up for you. Indie developer? SOL.
Relevant conversation here 11 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34651799
That second one with the existential stuff looks to be faked? You can see the text artifacts around the text as if it were edited.
Because it has no state. It's just a markov chain that randomly picks the next word. It has no concept of anything.
It's just that I draw the line at "good enough" with where we are now.

I'm ok with the risk and I don't want to go everywhere masked (which I find really horrible for historical trauma reasons) or bother with ventilation and sterilisation stuff. I will never do that kind of stuff willingly.

If anything covid told me it's better not to be too fussy because it's over quickly (unlike China which really tried to kill it at all costs).

But when people say the immune system can't be trained by exposure I just have to disagree.
Some places in Germany have that too.
So we're building real cars the way we manufacture Hot Wheels?

Neat. We're living in the Gunbuster future, in which mecha were shipped in giant blister packaging and spaceship parts came on huge plastic model kit rails.
(OP) To contribute some of my own findings:

Some high level infos or ideas on the "small web" or "web 0" can be found on:

– https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

– https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

- https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

Books I found helpful:

- Ship it (Richardson, Gwaltney)

- Clean Code (Martin)

Aside of that:

- I experimented a bit with DDD, but that feels massively oversized (though some of the concepts are useful)

- I found Pythons opinionatedness and documentation very helpful in contrast to Javascript, where it is hard to find "a good way" to do things (You see, I like dynamic languages…)
I believe both that we are fancy autocomplete and fancy autocomplete is a form of reasoning.
Yes, this only works for user space stacks, but that is sufficient since with ORC kernel stacks are solved (IMO) and it avoids all the issues with trying to mlock debuginfo of all processes that you mentioned. The NMI handler would still unwind the kernel stack.

> Why not implement your approach and mail it to LKML :-)

because this would still be an in-kernel dwarf unwinder and I would expect an instant reject, and because I am lazy and/or don’t care enough about this problem or linux to work on it. Even if people could be persuaded, I don’t have the interest or temperance to debate this with LKML.
I think it is meant to be true and also funny. First, you can start by agreeing with the advice, imagining how listening to other’s advice can be overrated. Then you realize that by listening to Andre you are actually breaking Andre’s advice (to listen to no one, including him!). So the advice is impossible to follow and quite clever.
Nothing that was talked about in the parent post is unique to marine ecosystems, is it?

The terrestrial food chains information is just incorrect. Fungi are absent in that description. Insects are eaten by countless prey species, apex predators have multiple trophic levels below them. There are countless insect, fungal, and animal carrion feeders.

A post that is so factually inaccurate should not be so upvoted. We shouldn't meta comment, but the rapid decrease in submission and comment quality on Hacker News is really a problem.

And the fact that land animals evolve to marine lifestyles is just expected, oceans are more than 70% of Earth's surface. The lack of marine, pelagic animals is notable in that sense.
My point is that market expectations are fickle, over-hiring, layoffs etc are all symptoms of paying too much attention to the market in the short term rather than focusing on long term ROE.
I wouldn't say they're telling outright lies, but I also don't believe that truth-seeking is a primary goal for them. They have a big axe to grind and that their coverage of tech companies is of poor quality, IMO.

One example completely unrelated to Twitter, that I saw as a sign of shockingly poor research, was when the founder went on the Big Technology Podcast and spoke at length about "John Carmichael" and VR work at Meta. It's hard to believe that anyone actually in the software world, especially someone talking about VR with such confidence wouldn't be familiar enough with John Carmack to get his name right.
There’s little one can do if some in the country are hell bent on putting their heads in sands like an ostrich. Doesn’t change the truth, unfortunately.

As for Al Jazeera and other channels you mentioned, they can be watched online – unlike the Modi documentary.
I'm not sure how you got "I think that lawyers should rig trials" from "I think lawyers should recognize injustice in the system and work to reform it instead of claiming that they have no responsibility for the way the system functions."

Do you take issue with the latter?
Exactly! You can still backup/restore an iPhone locally offline just like the PDA example, even with a Windows PC:

> https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec....

I don't understand OPs problem with cloud backups being charged for? Many people (myself included) are storing terabytes of images/videos in their cloud backups. While I think the free tier could offer more than 5gb, its not unreasonable to charge for larger cloud backups, Android does the same thing.
Even though it's simple, it's a minor detail. I am unaware of many minor details in lots of things I use. It's not that I can't be bothered or I'm not curious, it just that it has never come up and there's lots more important stuff.
Muslims don't pray to a stone, they pray towards the Mosque in Mecca, where the stone happens to be and is only used as part of a ritual during the Hajj pilgrimage. There was a period of history where the stone had been removed from its current place and that did not change the direction of prayer.

Also, idol worship is a misnomer and mistranslation. From an Islamic perspective, associating anything other than God alone in worship would fall into the category of polytheism and paganism, it does not have to be literal idols. Hence, zoroastrians are included in our definition of pagans or polytheists. Frankly, it's really telling how the HN crowd is speaking so confidently about Islam all over this thread while not really having any idea.
I'm finishing up writing a (very short) book on lessons from Itanium and I don't think I really appreciated all the VLIW backstory at the time. While I sort of understand why HP got excited about EPIC, I don't really understand how they got Intel to go along ESPECIALLY given that Intel had its i860 experience and could have presumably just maintained their market position with 64-bit x86 easy peasy.
My friend who wintered over claimed that the Pole doesn't have "plentiful oxygen and atmospheric pressure" - it's high above sea level, the earth's spin reduces the pressure at the poles and if a low pressure weather system comes in people suffer from altitude sickness

https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/M...
My brother passed down my grandma's advice on college, which was to believe that you will pick up the things you need to know one way or another so take the opportunity to learn things you will probably never encounter again. It definitely still resonates with me when I think about what skills I want to develop outside of work
It is true in context. They will be faster than if they did not use a framework for anything that has even a tiny amount of repetition or interaction. That is why we have frameworks in the first place. There is no right way. React itself is not much of a framework anyway. It is a fairly small library for reactive UI. You do not need to be an expert to be productive in it.
on the LLM is not intelligence thing. My 10 year old loves astronomy, physics, and all that. He watches a lot of youtube and i noticed that sometimes he'll recite back to me almost word for word a youtube clip of a complicated concept he doesn't understand completely. I think yesterday it was like proton decay or something. I wonder if that parroting of information back that you have received given a prompt plays a role in human learning.
Considering that in its initial demo, on very anodyne and "normal" use cases like "plan me a Mexican vacation" it spit out more falsehoods than truth... this seems like a problem.

Agreed on the meta-point that deliberate tool mis-use, while amusing and sometimes concerning, isn't determinative of the fate of the technology.

But the failure rate without tool mis-use seems quite high anecdotally, which also comports with our understanding of LLMs: hallucinations are quite common once you stray even slightly outside of things that are heavily present in the training data. Height of the Eiffel Tower? High accuracy in recall. Is this arbitrary restaurant in Barcelona any good? Very low accuracy.

The question is how much of the useful search traffic is like the latter vs. the former. My suspicion is "a lot".
> It doesn't have interests, thoughts and feelings.

Why does it need these things to make the following statement true?

> if we grant these systems too much power, they could do serious harm
> The rule is very simple IMO, I already described it: if other execution can run while you wait for the value, it's blocking. (Edit: to be specific, other observable execution, so in your thread with write access to state you can see)

is gmtime() blocking ? Technically it needs to ask kernel to get the time so it has same potential to block as any other call

> As you already mentioned, the code that computes a trillion digits of Pi is async if its interruptible, and not async if it isn't.

Very bad definition as either

* every single code is because kernel can always reschedule thread to do something else
* none of the compute code is if language runtime can't interrupt it (old versions of Go had that behaviour for tight loops IIRC)
* every of compute code is if language can arbitrarily interrupt it.

> From here on you seem to not be aware of the fantastic recent developments in WebWorkers, it is now quite easy to spin up worker threads in JS, which communicate with the main thread via message passing.

That's entirely worse approach as sharing any data structures is impossible and where mutex would be enough you're now shoveling tons of data around. It's workaround at best

It's like saying "my language is multithreaded because we started many processess and communicate via redis"...
fn f<T: Into<MyType>>(t: T) -> MyType { t.into() }

Picturing a group of nuclear-winter survivors trying to restart a coal plant. Found the control room. Inside, a working diesel generator, a computer and a Rust manual.
It totally was a Silicon Valley b-plot, Season 5 Ep 5
Have been a fan of Elixir and its ecosystem for web dev. However, I haven't wrapped my head around the core value proposition behind Elixir's recent "pivot" to AI/numeric computing. Can someone shed more light on "why Elixir" for AI/numeric computing?
It seems a reasonable shorthand, to me at least. Ie if we consider it as a function with input you define, well normally that input in sanitized to prevent hacking/etc. In this case the sanitization process is so broad you could easily summarize it as "aligned with my interests", no?

Ie i can't come close to easily enumerating all the seemingly near infinite ways that hooking up this chatbot into my network with code exec permissions might compromise me. Yea it's a dumb autocomplete right now, but it's an exceptionally powerful autocomplete that can write viruses and do all sorts of insane and powerful things.

I can give you a function run on my network of `fn foo(i32)` and feel safe about it. However `fn foo(Chatgpt)` is unsafe in ways i not only can't enumerate, i can't even imagine many of them.

I get your offense seems to be around the implied intelligence that "aligned with human interests" seems to give it.. but while i think we all agree it's definitely not a Duck right now, when it walks talks and acts like a Duck.. well, are we surprised that our natural language sounds as if it's a Duck?
The user literally was time travelling at the rate of 1 minute per minute.
There are many businesses where shipping 20% later leads to ceding first
mover advantage and losing the game.

Are there? Can you name some examples? Because when I think of technology, first-mover advantage counts for very little. The first successful web browser wasn't NCSA Mosaic. It was Netscape. The first successful portable music player wasn't the Nomad, it was the iPod. The Macintosh long predated Windows, but Windows has by far the larger market share. Same with iOS and Android. Google was far from the first search engine. Facebook was far from the first social network. Amazon didn't invent e-commerce. In automobiles, Ford was first to mass production, but it was overtaken by General Motors by the 1930s, and they both were in serious trouble when the Japanese auto manufacturers, which didn't even really get going until after World War 2, arrived.

So in which business exactly does shipping 20% later lead to "losing the game"? If anything, the real risk is in shipping a half-baked product too soon.
A couple decades ago, Alabama had no state law against prostitution, relying on the counties to have such laws, which all of them did. But there were certain parts of the causeway over Mobile Bay that weren't claimed by the adjacent counties, leading to small buildings used for prostitution being erected on some of the built-up land next to the road. Not sure about the outcome, going to guess the state DOT claimed ownership of the land, even if no county exerted jurisdiction, and used state law to have the buildings removed.
When I saw the first conversations where Bing demands an apology, the user refuses, and Bing says it will end the conversation, and actually ghosts the user. I had to subscribe immediately to the waiting list.

I hope Microsoft doesn't neuter it the way ChatGPT is. It's fun to have an AI with some personality, even if it's a little schizophrenic.
Hypervisor 101 in Rust
Tesla’s leadership here is incentivizing huge efficiency gains which will help the world adopt EVs much faster than otherwise.
Bing Chat shows that it can be connected to other services like web search APIs. It's not too far from "You are Bing, you will perform at least 3 web searches before responding to human input" to "You are Cipher, you will ssh to darkstar and generate the reports by running report-gen.sh adding any required parameters before responding to human input" and some bright bulb gives it enough permissions to run arbitrary scripts. At that point something could go very wrong with a chat interaction if it's capable of writing and executing scripts to perform actions that it thinks will follow the query. It would more often just be locally bad but it could create havoc on other systems as well. I understand that it isn't capable of what we would call agency but it can certainly spit out and execute dangerous code.

Then just wait until we get to this https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1625552601956909057 and it can generate multi-file programs.
It's the absurdity of our ancestors' choices that got us here.
I am more surprised that their previous content wasn't automatically generated.
>Also, dongles to plug Teslas into CCS exist, and come with new Teslas

These adapters do not come with new Teslas.
There likely isn't any real harm in an AI that can be baited into saying something incorrect. The real issue is how HARD it is to get AI to align with what its creators want, and that could represent a serious danger in the future.

This is an ongoing field of research, and I would highly recommend Roberts Miles' videos [0] on AI safety. My take, however, is that we have no reason right now to believe that we could safely use an adequately intelligent AI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMilesAI/videos
Professor Itanium shouldn't have messed with compound X.
This could have been avoided if the charging port had a manual disconnect switch next to it, rated to handle the arcing at full power.
Auxiliary contacts can then release it and tell the computer that you manually killed the port. I dislike this "computer exclusively in the loop" design methodology.
High temperature picks more safe options when generating the next word while low temperature makes it more “creative”
was it rewind.ai?
"adversarial generative network"
Well if you really want a phone that's secure and private, prove it by paying for it. Mass production and the ability to sell your data to advertisers means the stuff that does that will always be cheaper.
That's good advice I wish someone had given me before I decided I need to take my kids up the space needle last year. I wanted to go for nostalgia, but the ticket prices -are- absurd. Especially given that there's not much to do up there anyway but come back down after a few minutes. My daughter did want to buy some overpriced mediocre food, but I put the kibosh on that.