skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about the medical system, people hate to be put onto waiting lists (queues), but empty queues means that extremely expensive resources (operating theatres, staff, surgeons) are sitting idle which is very inefficient. Ideally queues mean that another patient is always there when the operating theatre becomes idle. Because medical need is not smooth and constant sometimes they fill up, sometimes they drain - they allow planners to match average need to resources.

So non-empty queues are a good thing, even for hospital waiting lists.

(To forestall arguments, of course the operating theatre example is not a pure queue example, some patients get put to the head of the queue according to triage - for the purpose of this example it doesn't matter)
$0/mo: you're the product.

$15/mo: you're the product + you have to turn in your government ID.
20% loss. Not a world ending figure. 20%.
Because the large companies have other incentives in promoting office work as the better solution.
It started out as “this is who you expect it is” for things like Obama or Trump, then it became “this is a person who speaks with authority of some sort, listen to them” and now it is just “someone pays eightbux”
You're almost there; documents like this work on a basis of continuing to provide information as they go along, right up until the end.

Unless you feel the content at the end of documents doesn't count, because no one would ever actually read it...? Bit of a trap there!

That was too low hanging to leave and I know I'm being a total asshole there, which I'll try to stop -- but come on, having to read to the end isn't at all like the article is straight up lying.

The status of "unofficial motto" was conferred by the preferential position the concept was given in the doc, a symbolic gesture of corporate culture, and that entire block was removed for a much lesser reference at the end. It is made motto no more, because that specific phrase which started the doc was removed, as was reported.

Now, I grant you: a lot of people have the wrong impression of what precisely happened here, and I agree, the article is just here for the clicks. It could start off by clarifying that the idea isn't totally erased, and that might have served the precise truth better.

But the world is complex and nuanced! The thing called Google changed into a thing called Alphabet, and at that time, Alphabet dropped the phrase completely, while Alphabet's new child company (now called Google) seriously demoted the phrase+idea. Some web journalists then editorially simplified their titles about it all to get more clicks, while providing the full facts inside.

In spirit, at that time, Google kicked the ethos into a hole, and that's what people broadly understand. It's not at all like Google and its entire code of conduct are just what they ever were, and it's similarly disingenuous to claim the whole idea here is some crazy urban legend as it would be to claim that Google and friends have e.g. purged any and all references to good moral conduct from official documents -- neither is true.

But in the long view, Google stopped caring about this idea, and that popular understanding is roughly correct. That's the story, and it is not an urban legend.
I you want something even lighter, have a look at https://github.com/piku
Sure, but the adjective form of democrat is more common, and at least in English speaking countries republican has broader use compared to democrat as a counter to monarchy.
Agreed! However, I assume many of the current deals twitter has predate Musk.
for every programmer working on cutting edge creative/systems/math heavy code there are 1000 gluing APIs and tapping out glorified CRUD apps.

let's not pretend it's otherwise.
Will AGI be one system, or the final boss that controls all the AI subsystems?

I think when AGI arrives, there will be so many AI tools out there we won't notice another one.

AGI seems like a moving goalpost target that always changes to whatever AI can't do today.
Exactly. Brexit long term net effect could be a few points off their GDP. That's not the end of the world, but it's certainly significant and it will make British people a poorer, which of course has an impact on public services. Whether this is worth it's up to British people to assess.

My personal suspiction is that UK citizens were mislead about the consequences of leaving but, hey, democracy is about taking decisions with incomplete information. People have spoken and their decision is sacred. I wish the UK the best luck and it's with sadness that I believe they will need a lot of it.
The more you redistribute the more you remove the incentive to produce value.
> Neither was it equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, a safety measure that the railway industry lobbied against vigorously when Congress proposed a law to have them installed on trains because of the costs involved.

Safety has a cost. Lack of safety has a cost. The former the cost is financial. The latter it's lives, peace of mind, health, etc.

One is replaceable. One is not. Sadly Congress protected the replaceable one.
I think Lisp has a sort of cachet to it, "lost secret of the ancients scorned by foolish mortals," that draws a lot of people to talk about it endlessly and speculate about how important it is instead of just... using it. I used to see the same thing in the Plan 9 community where people loved to post on the mailing list about all their grand plans for doing stuff with Plan 9, but they never even installed the goddamn thing! If they had, they'd have realized it has some neat ideas but it's also just a software system, and a rough-around-the-edges research system at that. Similarly, Lisp is just a programming language, and regardless of how many blog posts you read about it, you'll still have to actually make the program in the end.
Bit like a patent troll except unstable jumped up lawyer fan edition...
This is a huge part of it. Shitposting for $0 is a lot different than shitposting for $8. Some will bust out the card to do so, but not many.
I agree, I'm very hype-averse, and have moaned on here before about crypto-nonsense (and previous AI/AGI BS), but this is genuinely different.

It's a shame that people who are rightfully sceptical - precisely because of the hype-merchants and snake-oil salesman of the past decade or so on various tech "advances" have misjudged the quantum leap we are witnessing, and will duly fall behind or paint themselves into a luddite corner because of it.
Well, you're making some money off it via RUAG.
It gives me wrong answers for tech questions, but no more often than say stackoverflow.

Is much faster than googling or digging through blogs, gives me direct answers instead of having to dig through forums or documentation to find the piece of information I’m looking for, and there’s no ads or other garbage.

It’s become my sort of first line of defense looking for information. Imperfect but often pretty good.
This is fantastic to hear. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a wave of other OSes doing the same.

For anyone on other systems who wants this kind of protection right now, pip has had this available for a few years at least:

pip config set global.require-virtualenv True

I absolutely recommend doing it. Immediately.
> they should be acting like a small business e.g. florist

Small businesses and startups are delineated by scaling potential. Running a startup like a florist is ruinously-bad advice. Just as running a small business like a startup is stupid.
Quite the contradiction. Mastodon has more censorship, not less.
How else would it be transported? Rail seems like a safe/efficient way of doing so.
I noticed that as well, but the conclusion is "it's all about money (not safety)". I presume the answer to "why was..." is the same answer.
It clearly states “this will publish the mentioned port to the outside world”. How do you expect this to work? Magic?
This is my immediate thought when I saw “IBM.”

If they have a real product they should brand it separately. If they’re just trying to sell more snake oil to big corporate fools, then they’re probably on target.
There could be an energy classification system to make it visible to buyers, to have something that uses the same scale to measure all houses so it's possible to compare. For example estimated average heating bill.
It does though?, PVC is manufactured using this chemical and rail is an efficient means of transporting it, it is not much deeper than that.
That’s probably the reason. Most Mac users stick to Macs exclusively, whereas Linux and windows users are more likely to use both windows and *nix so having a single cross platform editor, besides vim/emacs, is useful.
I'm generally fine with this principle so long as I get to pick all the linting rules.
Yet not one of the biggest sites with user content was formed before the DMCA. Why didn't any of those fully functioning internet user sites dominate? Certainly other, non-user content sites from then were big.

Its almost as if providing safe harbor allowed such sites to grow......
I'm in favor of a corporate death penalty. In cases where a company is found guilty of gross negligence leading to terrible disasters and loss of life, give a jury the option to give the death penalty. All equity holders AND debt holders are washed out and the assets are sold off to pay victims and severance pay for low level employees.
Oh yes! I totally agree with that approach; I find it much clearer to typedef the function type rather than the function pointer type:

typedef int (*CallbackPtr)(int,int);
void foo(..., CallbackPtr callback);

always reads less clearly to me than

typedef int Callback(int,int);
void foo(..., Callback* callback);

I find this especially useful in C++ where the callback type could conceivably be some other type like std::function. Seeing that * helps me know at a glance it's probably just a plain old function pointer.

Though I think maybe clearest of all is to not use a typedef, provided it doesn't cause other readability problems:

void foo(..., int (*callback)(int,int));

(Not meaning to steal your thunder here... just wanted to write out an example in case anyone else was curious.)
> it is us operations people who have to wake up to fix it in the middle of the night

I have a tremendous amount of respect for operations & anyone else working at the "pointy end" of service delivery.

Please make sure you are negotiating and advocating hard for your own & your fellow operations colleagues interests and are getting compensated fairly for being willing to carry the pager. On call responsibilities if any, along with the corresponding conditions and compensation are things that should be negotiated and explicitly written up in contracts.

Some companies attempt to push employees into providing free labor and doing production support for free. "You build it, you run it" is a fun slogan, but what sometimes happens in practice is that management want people to work both jobs but are only willing to pay for one of them.
Then it's a good thing I wasn't addressing moderation in general but only algorithmic curation at scale.

What about my comments suggested otherwise?
Both the text and the headline of the article make an inaccurate claim that is trivially refuted. I'm honestly not sure what we're discussing.
Norfolk Southern has a 54 billion dollar market cap. Punitive damages are often capped as a percentage of actual damages, and proving enough actual damages for the total damages to materially harm Norfolk Southern is a big reach.
I thought AI had promise when it was "augmented intelligence," like genetic engineering--finding optimizations in things, like a novel circuit design or better aircraft wing.

I hope we use this new AI to model branching narratives based on assumptions to come to useful conclusions. Instead of having to code these data structures by hand, we have a kind of "malleable associative array" that we can query.

But it starts with putting an "AI in every home," with whatever the 21st century equivalent of 64K memory is, and let it store ideas in private.

Given this wonderful thing, we should be able to quickly onboard ourselves all the way to the frontiers of human knowledge, and begin to narrow our study to dedicate on the leverage points for (list|of|hard|problems), in a conversational way.
A Creative Look at the Apollo 11 Mission’s Alternate Endings Using Synthography
Keeps happening to my family members as well. For all of them their initial response is to tell all their contacts that they have been hacked, their anti-virus has failed and they have changed all their passwords on all sites... I keep telling them they have not been hacked, it is just Meta/Facebook being inexcusable poor at detecting obvious new cloned accounts.

Some just panicked and closed their accounts making the fake one the only one with their name left on FB...

I can't imagine any of them wanting to pay to be verified to avoid this though.
> One is replaceable.

cost is cost. You can put a financial figure on lives, health, peace of mind etc. Insurance companies do this every time they insure something.

So the question really is whether the cost of safety will outweigh the economic loss of implementing that safety.
Everything I know about the story is the kotaku article linked. If you are basing your comment off some alternative recounting of events, you will need to share it.
Because a lot of people get triggered by Elon Musk so anything introducing a competitor is incentivized to remind everyone of Musk’s involvement.
Length of suppport is necessary. It is not sufficient to just hand the source over. As an example, I paid for TiVo lifetime programme guides. This was quite explicitly a lifetime service. They cut it off when they introduced an HD service. Making the sw open source would in no way mitigate that termination.
Maybe. But ultimately, they're a symptom. Per the last paragraph, it's Congress that dropped the ball.
They mention that the port will be published to the internet. Usage of iptables is implementation detailed. They say to make sure to secure it. What else do you want? There is documentation on the behavior in the “docker for Linux” page
> There are not that many parties to vote for and people vote for the party they dislike least

This is democracy at its finest.
How else should it be transported? By truck?
At least for GCC/clang, you can mark your functions with special __attribute__ format.

For loading translated strings, I'm missing some library function to verify whether two format strings are argument-compatible.
Shouldn’t be too surprising; we’ve seen it in almost every economically successful dictatorship. Initially, the benefits of centralized control allow things to go great, until the overly-centralized authority starts caring only about perpetuating its own power.

The only way to get past that phase is to force out the dictator (see: South Korea).
> Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for?

I use it like a turbo-assistant.

Can you make this <long text> more succinct?

Convert the following list into a LaTeX enumerated list. Please put a period at the end of each item.

Please convert all of the metric numbers using the siunitx package.

Convert the following into a Table using booktabs syntax.

It's really helpful in doing a lot of grunt work.

Write me a few paragraphs describing <x> (Yes. I have to check it to make sure it hasn't gone insane, but it spews workable prose for shit I don't want to write).
yes, and every time an artist shares their exiting new drawing to the world at large, a computer program instantly mapps it and gives it away for free before the artist can even make a living off it. AI is driving out the ability to afford to make and share original art. Those 'menial tasks', by the way, are often the bread and butter that allow artist to make a living and continue to create.The end result will be a great loss of creativity and culture. The great misconception is that AI learns art just like humans by devouring preexisting art. Humans learn skills to manipulate MATERIALS, to then create imagery. AI copies those hard earned skills without permission like a library of stolen blueprints. Sad that so many people don't (or don't want to understand the difference). If I make a beautiful dress and you have the skill to copy it, so be it. If I make a beautiful dress and you take the pattern pieces I created to make the dress (since you do not have the understanding nor skill to make the pattern for yourself, but must rely on my patternmaking) well that is stealing in my book.
FWiW I'm deep in class one area with no human glows on the horizon at night .. and in a large radio quiet zone - save fromn the chatter of unsheilded LEO sats above.

Some are switched off on over pass, many aren't.

I look forward to when all constellations are set to shut up when over head and the their surface an attitude are altered to minise reflection.
fail safe. Don't fail stupid.
I am not convinced electronically controlled pneumatic brakes would have made a big difference here[1] during an emergency stop. Some difference, sure. But keep in mind that 50 cars out of 141(IIRC) derailed. This is not a defense of any specific policy. I just think people are treating the EPC brakes as if they would have completely prevented the accident.

[1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2017_casselton_BM...
What are you talking about, CEOs take no responsebility.

Look at any recent disasters caused by companies, such as recent train crash with a toxic spill, boeing Max scandal, BP oil spill, 2008, anything.

Where has the CEO been personally punished?

Or does your idea of 'blamed' mean people will write something mean on twitter?

the press announce ment where CEO of Boeing took full responsebility for Boeing Max failure, CEOs of major banks took reaponsebility for 2008,
Revoking their charter and seizing their assets seems just for a lot of this stuff.
There is evidence that chronic (long-term) stress is pretty unhealthy for body and mind. It could be that the fast-paced last 5 years is finally catching up to you.

I would read the rest of the thread for ideas, but also consider talking with a therapist: having a trained medical professional giving you their perspective can be invaluable and save you lots of bashing your head against the wall (believe me, I would know)
In theory. But would you (and fam) trade places with anyone living in that area? For 2x the price the insurance company would pay?
Punishing the company into bankruptcy is one thing, but the company is made up of individuals who will go work at other companies and likely escape lawsuits since they were operating within the umbrella of their job. So ultimately the shareholders who weren’t involved in the catastrophe will be punished and not the people that ultimately caused the issue.

No argument from me that the shareholders should take a major financial loss (they should demand better safety controls), but to prevent this from happening again (which I think is the key goal, rather than plain old retribution), I am arguing that there should be strict liability for the individuals as well - throw them in jail, bankrupt them, etc, so that a message is sent that employees of all companies owe, at a minimum, a duty of care to protect the safety of the general public. Essentially take away the employees’ ability to say “I was just following orders to try to maximize shareholder value”. Give the employees, in response, some protection from being fired for upholding this new obligation.
Worth mentioning that I’ve lived in Alberta my whole life and I don’t remember a utilities outage lasting as long as 1/2 a day, so not sure a payout after that length of time would make sense anyways.

Our neighbourhood had an outage last winter during the -40 cold snap, and we were definitely at risk of water pipes freezing (gas fireplace was on, but without circulation it didn’t matter). The potential structural damage repair costs from outages up here would be insane, which makes me wonder if that’s part of why our grid seems so reliable (compared to other countries, anecdotally).
WSJ: Bitcoin's future depends on a handful of mysterious coders
Yeah I don't want to pretend that it's not a footgun, because it is a footgun and it should have defaulted to binding to 127.0.0.1... but it does not "insert an allow rule" or "override the firewall" or anything like that. It just uses forwarding rather than listening on a port, because container and virtual machines are not regular processes, and the iptables "nat" table is used before the "filter" table that his firewall uses.

So I agree with you, the author is being very dishonest here.
I don't think there's a way to capture a balloon at 80 000 ft of elevation. Also, balloons would be just about the worst way to reliably deliver a payload without risk of it coming back to you. And there's also the fact that it's a scenario that has never happened, and there's nothing that would lead us to believe it has any chance of happening.
For the USA, an easy mechanism for a corporate death penalty (for large enough corporations) without running afoul of takings clause would be to bar the corporation from engaging in interstate commerce, and to bar the equity holders from selling to themselves or relatives.
I don't use Facebook. I would be tempted to if, instead of verification, the paid service removed all ads and tracking.
I just want all of these companies to just fuck off at this point frankly
https://archive.is/dOrAf
That's also true the less you redistribute at the extremes. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle. I frankly don't believe that created value is close to accurately rewarded in modern society.
I'm not so sure that C++ gives an advantage. It's a different paradigm.
You could look at

https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/wiki
By truck (or by plane!) sounds even more dangerous, to me
Their charters are often from other states (such as Delaware). This would complicate the issue by entwining state's rights and federal rights.
Docker does not "insert an allow rule", it uses the "nat" table to forward connections to the container, and not the "filter" table where the firewall rules live. So packets never go through those filters.

This is not a consequence of Docker's action but a fact of how Linux networking works. Docker could have bigger warnings, or default to only accepting connections from localhost (I think it should), but it could not easily change the way Linux networking works to extend the host's firewall to the containers.
Depends on the compiler, but you'd mark the printf function with something like: __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
Wow I never knew the houses were finite! That really changes things
Rail freight is almost always more cheap, efficient, and safe compared to trucking the same cargo. You also benefit from economies of scale, as adding extra rail cars doesn’t take as much manpower as sending out another truck.
it's one of the best means to transport lots of something, and many industrial chemical groups have buildings that have railroad tie-ins that facilitate direct unloading from the car.
It's becoming more clear that in the US health and safety are taking a back seat to corporate profits. It's shameful to read safety equipment that could have prevented this derailment was lobbied against by the railway industry.
The real problem with this math is that the cost of the braking system would be borne by the company, but the costs of the derailment are borne by the public. So even if the derailment cost >>> the brake system cost, it's an easy decision for the industry to make. That whole privatized profits / socialized losses issue that keeps showing up.
> Agnes Moorehead and Paul Lynde are gay icons from before anyone could be gay.

That may be true, though neither one ever claimed to be gay, and both are long dead. Yes, it was perhaps a bad time to be gay. But it is still just speculation, and seems really unfair. If they died in the closet, then they earned the right to stay there forever.