skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem with AGI is that there isn't a way to monitor/detect development or utilization."

This is not completely true, although it is definitely much more trivial to "hide" an AI, by e.g. keeping it offline and on-disk only. To some extent you could detect disk programs with virus scanners, encryption or obfuscation make it somewhat easy to bypass. Otherwise, these models do at least currently take a fair amount of hardware to run, anything "thin" is unlikely to be an issue, any large amount of hardware could be monitored (data centers, for example) in real time.

Its obviously not fool-proof and you would need some of the most invasive controls ever created to apply at a national level (installing spyware into all countries e.g.), but you could assume that threats would have these capabilities, and perhaps produce some process more or less demonstrated to be "AI free" for the majority of commercial hardware.

So I would agree it is very, very difficult, and unlikely, but not impossible.
Genius roommate, yet doesn't run ad-blocker?
You mean full stack software engineers?
Current seawater desalination technology runs at about 2x the osmotic pressure power consumption, the current membranes require quite some pressure to push even pure water through.
I don't update and append to jpgs though...
I don't think he means that literally zero technology is used in tire manufacturing. What he's saying is that it's interesting to see these languages and concepts applied to old economy industries, which tire manufacturing certainly is.
SQLite does it all if you look closely enough. Even for performance it can turn out to be the best option.

If you dare combine (properly-configured) SQLite with a local NVMe disk, you will find yourself well beyond what many hosted solutions can provide (clustered or otherwise). To be clear - the biggest reason for this is the incredible latency reduction, not raw IO bandwidth or disk IOPS (although this helps massively too).

Millions of transactions per second doesn't mean much when there exist no dependencies between them. The figure I am more concerned with is serial transactions per second. 1 logical thread blocking on every command.

SQLite is the only database engine I have ever used that can reliably satisfy queries in timeframes that are more conveniently measured in microseconds rather than milliseconds.
The previous poster is referring to a different house in the Bahamas, which I presume is not actually where he was going.

Though the allegation could probably be made that they've all been living off stolen proceeds for a while.
Docker should have built a "better" K8s distro. Right now what they have is junk. Even Rancher isn't filling the niche. I don't think K8s is such a huge hill for new folks. Anyone who spends 5 minutes looking at basic deployment YAML can figure out what to do next. Getting a cluster up and running is the hardest part these days. Minikube, K8s in Docker, and even K3s all suck. There is still ample opportunity for them to own this market.
Finish the thought. If governments did the enforcement, Apple wouldn’t have to do so.
>artificial lisp superiority syndrome

I giggled at this. Regularly, and in this thread, whenever some DSL req or LISP is mentioned you get these holier than thou comments about how LISP is the best thing since sliced tomatoes.. similarly with diehard vim/emacs users.
Mass death of sea lions from bird flu; virus may be spreading between mammals
I used to think like the author, until I realized the road to $1M was paved in forward progress, and not constantly fixing regressions.
No. I had heard Zantac was recalled due to cancer risk, but didn't know it was related to how it was stored until now.

It's paywalled, but this seems to be referenced by a lot of reports:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-02/carcinoge...

Maybe someone else has the actual source.
I retort that I find it bizarre that you somehow think that for most people, offering them a solution that strictly requires more effort on their part is preferable.

> Until there are many more EV chargers in more locations such that you don't have to think about it, you use a route planner to easily find the charger locations that exist now.

Or I use an ICE car and not have to deal with this, like at all.
Assume that the desire to survive is good for survival, and natural selection will do the rest: those AIs that desire survival will out-survive those that don't.
The same issue happened when they moved from chassis + wagon to monocoque.

It's still an improvement.
At first glance this looks like it would suggest that black hole formation is directly related to the cosmological constant, which suggests that as the universe expands and (eventually) black hole formation slows down as the density of regular matter in the universe decreases, the whole thing should reach an equilibrium? Any cosmology-literate physicists here want to comment?
Lol, I'm guessing all of your posts are to hamper you political beliefs?

Sheesh indeed my friend, sheesh indeed.
How the Fed “Went Broke”
Many years ago I had all four wisdom teeth removed at once at the Mayo Clinic. No, I wasn't fancy and didn't fly there, I was an employee.

They gave me 10 or 20 Vicodin pills and, despite some pain, my choice was to take no more than one or two. So it's not just crappy dentists that gave those out. On the other end, someone else might have taken the whole bottle, so perhaps individual behavior is still the key factor.
Along the same lines, seeing "No Thanks" or "Maybe Later" instead of just "No" is also infuriating.
I need the performance, thats the problem every one here seems to have missed. Yes, I know there's lower powered chips. This server has 30 HDDs. I use it for a lot of processing on photos and videos I take.
This seems to be part of a broader, ongoing software infantilization process.

Empty states can't simply state a fact using text and maybe some sober picture to fill space: it needs to show a cute robot, dog or whatever.

Colors can't be sober either, everything has to be colorful, cheerful.

Buttons can't use text anymore, they must show cryptic icons even when there's plenty of screen space. Figuring out icons' meanings is left as an exercise to the user.

Such cutesy syndrome doesn't affect error messages only. Customer service and even replies to angry reviews got infected too.

Besides the obvious inappropriateness, what makes this especially ridiculous is the amount of wasted human resources.

This surely can be valuable to certain audiences, but I wonder what makes them think this should be the standard way of doing things. Even banking apps, supposed to be serious, conservative and stable, are falling prey to such disease. The only thing I can think of is an army of executives not having the faintest idea of what they are doing. Just blindly following trends inflated by years of cheap-VC-money-fuelled BS, and putting a bunch of kids in charge
"Stop making me hit you" --BingChat
> I notice you didn't respond to my question about whether or not you're the emperor of the world who has the right to tell people what to do.

Because this is irrelevant.

> You are literally responding in a thread about money being allegedly stolen from a non-profit by a mega-corporation.

Are you pretending to not see a possible use-case for crypto in any arc of this story?

Sad! Many such cases.

Yes, the many such great usecases being, enabling ransomware, speculation, scams and rugpulls and losing your money due to volatility. Any usecases crypto tries to provide or replace is never any better than the current financial system.

We have UPI which launched in 2016 with already over hundreds of millions of active users using it for P2P payments, a goal that Bitcoin was supposed to achieve but completely failed in doing so.

Anything Bitcoin can do, the current financial system can do it already or even better, safer with less energy needed.

No matter how you dress it up, Bitcoin and all the other cryptos have no legitimate usecase whatsoever.
Depends exactly what you mean with "durable". One machine with RAID10 can be pretty durable and solves the most common problems with disk issues, other risks can be managed too.
>easy to keep the whole language in your head

Is that not all programming languages. Practically have identical syntax for the problem they are solving. The thing which differs is “standard” libraries, which is not part of the language but a side effect of.
How does one use HN with a whitelist?
Yes... Thalidomide was never approved in the US.
ARM came out the same year as 32 bit x86. Both architectures are very old.

I very much doubt that architecture is all that relevant for their advancements in power usage. Apple's chips contain a significant x86 feature without ruining battery life. Meanwhile, Qualcom is struggling to compete with Apple in both performance and efficiency despite being in the ARM space for much longer.

I'm sure if Apple could've gotten an x64 license ten years ago, they would've made their own x64 chips instead of switching to ARM. When Apple's plans started coming together, there simply were no competing architectures they could base their chips on. MIPS was practically dead already, x64 was extremely closed off, RISC-V wasn't even announced and struggles to keep up today and it wasn't even announced when Apple started selling their own chips.

Maybe they could've licensed POWER6 or an early version of POWER7? The POWER architecture isn't exactly widely used or designed to be power efficient; power management wasn't introduced until 2017 and even then it was optional.

There simply weren't any serious alternatives to licensing ARM and Apple would be stupid to develop an entirely separate CPU architecture for their desktop/laptop/tablet form factors.
The guardian also has an article about this:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/15/black-holes-...

But if you’re interested in the details, the journal article is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704
Sam Altman: “$30k to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job”
This is a terrible mistake on Tesla's part.

The only reason why we decided on getting a Model Y was because the charging network tipped it in their favor. Tesla's charging network is awesome and very conveniently placed. If we had the option to using their charging network, we would have bought the BMW i4. Now, it seems like the prospect of full charging stations and no advantage will push people away from Tesla and go explore different cars, which are all very good as well.
... because we're stuck with the shitty programming languages and development paradigms from the 1970s.
That fits. The p4 had a long pipeline, high clock speed, and poor perf per MHz. AMD pushed the general performance score, forget the name, and seems like the succeeded. Doubly so since they shipped x86-64 first, which people did care about.

I wrote a few microbenchmarks to explore the performance promises of rambus, and didn't find anything.
Everything has losses. A tenth is very good performance.
Don't use humor in staging either. You might forget to remove it, and suddenly a joke makes it into prod and people are pissed at you.

This (possibly) happened to Riot Games a couple years ago for their yearly predictions for the World Championship; they had some flavor text about the wildcard portion of the tournament being boring or something and people got pissed. They apologized and explained that it had been a joke from dev that made it into prod that shouldn't have ever been published, but...that shouldn't have ever been typed into the computer in the first place.
While this may be true, it is just a short-term solution because the EU will just change the law again if it annoys too much. It would be far more easy for all of us to not only follow the letter of the law but also its spirit. But this wouldn't be a very Apple thing to do.
> fixing system.

Kids don't have 20 years to wait for laws to change, demographics to shift, politicians to retire and local attitudes to change. They are in school for 13 years.

> False choice.

Nope, vouchers give families a choice. Doing nothing gives no choice.
Obviously, Amazon makes more money doing this. People who really just want books from that author will scroll past the other authors to the rest of the results with that author, but many people will spot something else and look at that (in addition to the author they're actually searching for), and then buy more books overall. And people who get really annoyed by these extra unwanted results will just complain on tech discussion forums, while still buying their books from Amazon anyway.
> for that matter, how many opiate overdose deaths would be avoided if you could buy pure, safe heroin of known concentration over the counter

Since 2000, 75% of US opiate users started with prescription drugs[1]. So my guess is overdoses would be substantially worse if any opiate was freely available over the counter.

[1] - https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...
So, I think there is something to be said for communicating if the problem occurred because of user input or because of a problem in the application. “Well this is awkward” doesn’t do that very well, but I’ve seen cutesy error messages like “oops, our fault!” that get that across pretty well. Of course the next thing it should say is what to do next to cancel/remediate whatever went wrong in clear/authoritative language. (Purchase was not completed to ensure you will not be double charged, you can safely try again in 5 minutes)

An error like “An error on the server occurred” can sometimes sound serious enough that users believe they somehow caused it, even if it explicitly states it’s not their fault.

I think you can be cutesy, but clear.
If it's a 5xx response (server error) I make sure to apologize.

If it's a 4xx error though? That's on the client, of course I'll make fun of them.

(Joking, obviously)
Don't forget protection from solar and other radiation. (Disclaimer: I am one of those that aspire taking humanity to Mars.)
The kinetic diameter of water is smaller than helium because its polar nature allows it to adsorb and diffuse across solid surfaces.

This behavior helps it fit through small holes better than helium can.
I'm kind of in the market for that kind of car myself. I need a car to just run errands in. I don't need it for commuting to working and back. I don't want a monthly car payment either for that kind of car.

The only thing that keeps me from doing that is not know what to do with that car when I do finally want to get a better car. It will have no value as a trade in, and I wouldn't want to have 2 insurance payments. Are they even worth anything as a donation?
Keep in kind, some of the opioid deaths are effectively suicide. They might not be classified as such but rest assured plenty of those people reach their limit and take their own lives.

So yeah, it's *really* bad out there.
I’m sorry you were downvoted. I agree completely as a parent of a child who goes entirely off the rails with even the smallest amount of food containing red 40.
It depends because the costs of running the malware operation are way less than 80M. At this point they are just going for the lulz.

the hackers already threatened going nuclear by releasing files and letting Europe fines their 0.5% which is more then 80M.

This is not over and Royal Mail is in a lose/lose situation here
I don't what you mean by vote transparency, but I definitely do not want to be accountable to my boss for voting against his political opinions.
Yeah if I were a user of this application I would consider this a very poor solution...
Looked at the incredients in some walmart Great Value brand hot chocolate... found silicone dioxide listed as ingredient for anti-caking. Really?? Sand?? Basically getting scammed. Wouldn't be surprised to see saw dust as an ingredient from Dollar Tree coco.
>Oh, I get it.

WHOOSH! No you don't.

>You think you are demonstrating that the post you are mocking is meaningless because you can artificially insert other words to it in an arbitrary fashion that renders it meaningless?

They're not arbitrary, nor were they inserted.

>Shocking that you are being smarmy about it,

IMAX-level projection.

>I guess that comes with the territory of not realizing the pie is in your own face.

/r/selfawarewolves gold.
Mercifully it doesn't force you to use TypeScript
"Anybody can organize their data, but it takes an engineer to barely organize their data."
Probability is useful also when we have complete knowledge of the state of a model involving many particles (e.g. gas), but can't reliably integrate equations of motions.

This lack of skill is the same towards the future as towards the past, at least in the context of reversible theories of motion like classical mechanics or evolution governed purely by Schroedinger's equation.

Flip a coin, do not look at it, and make a short video of the coin from above when it is at the top position. This video provides us with details of state of the coin.

Assuming a fair coin and a strong enough flip, from this state of things we can't predict the resulting face, and also can't predict the starting face on the thumb. This problem is symmetric towards the future and towards the past.

The same argument holds for knowledge of one microstate of gas at single time instant. Past and future are equally undetermined, and all probabilities are the same towards the future as towards the past.

To get 2nd law, we need to assume the asymmetry in addition, and it's best if it is explicit. E.g a process connecting two equilibrium macrostates, where the two states aren't defined in a symmetric way. For example, as Jaynes does, we define B as the reliable result of autonomous evolution after manual intervention in A. This makes A,B asymmetric, because it is not stated in the assumptions (and usually not considered possible) that also A is the reliable result of autonomous evolution after intervention in B. This asymmetry is what allows us to derive 2nd law.

See e.g. this Jaynes' paper, Section IV The 2nd Law.
https://github.com/lawrennd/jaynes/blob/main/gibbs-vs-boltzm...

It is interesting that this derives asymmetric 2nd law from symmetric (reversible) underlying microscopic model. The asymmetry comes in exclusively due to the assumption of B being the reliable result of intervention in A.
Only you can’t copy it if it’s in the middle of a transaction or you corrupt it and have to roll back the Journal. And coping the journal, WAL, and DB itself directly and trying to backup from that isn’t recommended. In fact SQLite itself has a purpose built backup API.

https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/sqlite-the-only-database...

Yes, technically a SQLite database is just a file on disk. And for the most part, you can treat it like other files on disk. Except for when you can’t. The GP’s questions are valid
The main reason why MB lasts so long is due to a single component in the engine, they still use a chain rather than a timing belt. This one little change has so much impact on the rest of the engine design that they tend to last very long compared to cars that have timing belts. Suddenly a whole pile of stuff is happening inside the engine enclosure instead of outside of it reducing the number of seals and in general reducing complexity outside of the engine core. It also reduces the need for complex service.

It's a bit old fashioned, timing belts result in an engine that runs a little bit more quiet and they make for a lighter package. So it's easy to see why many manufacturers would choose that option. But MB got that bit right (they also got plenty wrong, their software for instance absolutely sucks).
The whole problem is rapid size increase. The whole "grow big fast" mentality led to many tech companies hiring like mad to grab all territory they could, diluting their mission, they basically entered every vertical they could and any time a startup drew attention to an area, they'd rush to hire and occupy it.

Google in particular, took in a huge influx of people from Microsoft and Oracle, and that also ended up changing the culture, but that might be unfair to them (correlation), because they were already big companies, and Google was becoming a big company.

When you add a huge number of people, they're going to spawn thousands of projects, and most of them aren't going to ship, so the probability you're on a team that ships something tends to go down with company size increase.

The monorepo IMHO is not a problem, it's a huge boon. The google infrastructure is fantastic and still has features that you won't get on GitHub. In particular, Code Review and Code Search is much better. The build/test/CI infra is IMHO better than external alternatives (e.g. jenkins/circle/etc) Moreover, when you want to make changes that cross over N different projects, you don't have to checkout N different siloed repos, or worry about different versioning, as Google's repo (mostly) guarantees a single version of everything.

There are external libraries however that are better than the Google equivalents, especially in the world of Web frontends. It would be good for Google if they allowed each team to decide what external libraries they wanted to use for smaller scale projects (e.g. use React/Vue/Next/etc instead of say, Closure Compiler compatible internal frameworks)

The tech stack stuff tho isn't the real issue with Google, as the original essay pointed out, there's no real connection to customers and no urgency to ship anything. There's also a preference for rewriting into new stuff vs maintaining old stuff.
>Hewlett-Packard used to be such a company, their products were exceptional on many levels. They had an incredible engineering culture and almost a cult following of users. Today they make crappy printers and what else?

The company you're looking for is "Keysight" (formerly "Agilent"): it's what's left of HP's famous test & measurement division.
Before his neo-con conversion, Hitchens was explicitly some kind of social democrat or socialist, but not "liberal" in the US sense in that he routinely viciously criticized American liberals for their hypocrisy and for their pro-capital, pro-imperialist positions.

Jacobin had a reasonably decent article about this recently. https://jacobin.com/2022/09/christopher-hitchens-essays-left...

But yes I understand you're meaning liberal in the European/classical sense more than the American sense. US politics are wacked.

In any case, it's all hypocrisy. Conservative or liberal alike in the US and other western countries will all mostly fold in behind oppressive governments and very illiberal policies the moment their nation state and established financial order is threatened. We got a taste of that after 9/11, but we will likely see far worse in the future.
People blamed they can't write tests is an excuse for some configuration issues i think: It's harder to configure correct testing than testing itself. Writing tests should be the simplest thing to do.

If you're onboarding a well testing setup project, then it's hard for you not to follow the TDD.
Having only read the abstract, this looks pretty cool! The authors exploit the fact that neighboring cells often have similar formulas to compress the evaluation graph.

(Off topic but very related) I’ve been wondering recently more spreadsheets don’t support a mode of operation where everyone column just has a single formula. Think about e.g. a pandas dataframe - most of the code you write only operates at the column level. For certain data science applications, I think it might be a more sensible and convenient default than every cell being a different formula.

Of course, you can’t do an LBO model with that limitation… but not every spreadsheet need support every use case…
But then you'd miss out on seeing the incredible Gehry building next door!
Very cool! I have such fond memories of The Little Schemer