skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure a lot of people are basing their belief on AI on sci-fi interpretation.

If you're one of the folks doing this at least acknowledge the story would have been quite boring if it was 800 pages of "everything went well, the AI turned out really great, very helpful. Would use again"

If you're not blindly afraid of zombies you shouldn't be blindly afraid of AI. Give it thought.

If you're still scared after dismissing sci-fi bias, cool, I'm all ears.
Btw: If this is your first intro to Banks I recommend starting with The Business, absolutely fantastic book! He's generally a great author. Wasp Factory is his most famous book I guess, but The Business is by far my favorite.
> most people's motivations are only loosely coupled with the goal (if there really is one) of making the world a more efficient place

That's my point! Your personal AI (in collaboration with other AIs) can take care of figuring that out as needed. You don't need capitalism anymore.
The system ISN'T sustained, not even the most optimistic scenario supports your argument.

And funneling even more money into it like you want to isn't an option, the GDP proportion dedicated to retirement increased a lot already.

You've seen the low salary but you didn't understand the cause of that, the cause of that is the money is being funneled to the retirement system.
Sumatra is the best PDF Reader. It's sad that the developer isn't making much money from that excellent product.
Musk's bigger concern for today is whether or not advertisers want to be associated with a platform on which the platform owner very publicly mocks a disabled person.
I hope Russia doesn't have the internet and manages to get this guide. #plansFoiled
I don’t experience that I can block these ads. And there are so many of them. (I watch YouTube on my iPhone, and I don’t block the ads at network level.)

So many “I earn this much working from home, you only need to buy this course to start earning.” multi-level marketing schemes.

There is a lot of schemes built on crypto, investment, beauty products, content creation.

Basically anything that you can do from home and the promoter can claim they’re succeeding with where it’s not entirely clear if it comes from the business idea being sound, or they’re just making money selling courses or products for resale.

E.g. if you make an average profit on investment, but your capital comes from suckers who clicked a YouTube ad, you could rightfully claim that you’re making a lot on investing in absolute numbers. But your cash cow is still luring in suckers.
Haha! Yes, I’m sure. Very clever, very smart. Good thought :D ;p xx
You are comparing apples to oranges. We don't have the global industrial capacity to deploy nuclear at scale either. And the intrinsic technology challenge is more difficult with nuclear.
You'll need some data to make those claims.
Don't need a source, it's simple math.

For a plant to absorb 1KG of CO2, it needs to increase in weight by at least ~1Kg.

An average human exhales ~1KG of CO2 a day.

Unless your house plants are gaining half a ton of mass a year, they aren't meaningfully offsetting your CO2 exhilation.
My position isn't that we should be using a new library per se. It's that we should be more selective about what 3rd party code we use and espescially what we ship to end users. React has tended towards a kitchen sink approach and this is exacerbated by initial design shortcomings/decisions i.e. no built in state management or method for encapsulating styles has lead to a deluge of libraries that promise to fill the gaps, none of which quite work with one another. This I guess is why we've seen the rise of meta-frameworks like Next which fill this gaps in a predictable way. But these just meta frameworks just shift developers another step further from the underlying HTML/CSS/JS making it harder to debug things and harder to fix issues when you stray from the framework's happy path.

(All that said, I don't blame people for choosing React for certain classes of projects, the economics of hiring new devs, the relative maturity and stability , the large community etc all make for powerful incentives to choose React)
This sounds illegal. They are changing the product you bought to make it do less.
I have yet to talk to someone who thinks differently. I am still convinced that the call for public opinion, which had a strong grassroots effort online to support net neutrality, was in some way tampered by the FCC. They used it as justification for killing Net Neutrality. It blows my mind that there still has not been an investigation after all of these years. It was the most blatant corruption I've seen in my lifetime.
The additional mass comes from oxygen from the air used to burn the fuel.

Burn 1g of coal, to make it easy:

C + O₂ → CO₂

Carbon has molecular mass 12g/mole (carbon has atomic weight ~12), carbon dioxide 44g/mole (12 + 2×16).

So burning 1g of carbon produces 3.67g of CO₂.
It is true, encrypted /boot on Linux (i.e. where the Linux kernel lives) is time-consuming and error-prone to setup, even if you have been using Linux for years. GRUB only understands LUKS version 1, and is poorly optimised, meaning LUKS' default "2 seconds of password hashing" during install/setup from a running Linux OS takes significantly (!) longer when booting via GRUB. It is the age-old cathedral/bazaar issue.
Apparently everything
didn't really have much of a dog in this fight, but looking at that breakdown I wonder which oil company is bankrolling them.

I know I'm jumping the gun just a little, but c'mon. An apocalypse list without climate?
No, but that's not the goal of jailbreaking GPT models.
It feels like a myth to me as well. We, tech nerds, value "optimized" solutions, "beautiful" code. We buy top-notch hardware, remove bloatware, because we really care about our tools and craft.

90% of the users use shitty hardware. Everything is sorta sluggish on their computers - they boot up slowly, the bunch of crapware in autorun take their sweet time to load & phone home, their wifi us overburdened with devices. Most of the software experience is sluggish for them. They don't care if their web app is sluggish too.
Heads up: you need Photoshop v24 or higher for it to work. Found out the hard way after troubleshooting for 20 minutes.
Typically the exam had pointless questions and its only purpose was to teach this particular lesson. I've never seen nor heard of a teacher using this on a test that actually mattered.
I wonder if population is ready for smarter flexible loads. At least if they start to actually affect them. Like grid telling your home to drop temperature or that hot water is not available at certain time. Or that AC is turned off, due to bad wind conditions...
A number of comments have put "cruelty" and "unrestrained sexual passions" next to each other as if they were linked, but without actually expressing the linkage?

I would put both the guy in the original article, in his context of colonial America, and Communist revolutionaries in Russia, in the context of people who were excluded from the possibility of power by heredity rather than sex per se. The Southern states did this by race and Imperial Russia was literally a feudal society. Both also spectacularly cruel in their own way.
Recently I was considering buying some erythritol. Never tried it, but I read it was a good and "healthy" sugar substitute.

Now I'm inclined to think that most substitutes won't do me any good. I suppose I'll stick to limiting my sugar and processed carbs intake as much as possible.
Love love love it, using it all the time.
Head Skunk
A cool designed carousel could be an infinity carousel, which has a continuous loop of motion that never stops. The carousel could be illuminated with LED lighting, while the cars themselves could be designed with modern, sleek designs that stand out. The music accompanying the ride could be a mix of upbeat tunes and classic carnival music.
It is designed for the very typical corporate situation of "I don't trust my users". If you don't have admin rights on that machine, you can't get or bypass them easily by e.g. taking the drive out, imaging it, and reading that on another computer. The keys stored in the TPM are also available to the domain controller, not (easily) to the (non-admin) Windows user.
It's been a while since I've used one of these! It's looking good!

The only way to make it better is to change the spelling to App][er. It's an extra l that way, but I think that's forgivable.
I've never been on this website before, but am I correct in understanding that the "biosecurity" categoery is about a month old?

It would be interesting to understand how much of the "existential risk" category is devoted to biosecurity or pandemics, and how recent those posts are.

Pending the above, my tentative takeaway from this is that COVID - arguably the greatest threat to human health and wellbeing in the past several decades - seems to have been a minor/non-existent blip on their radar until it actually happened. This raises serious questions in my mind about the community's predictive abilities and/or bias.
Where that argument falls apart is when you’re talking about something that’s still bad a mimicry. ChatGPT still completely fails the touring test it’s not even vaguely close to that threshold.

For now it’s slightly better than fake crowd noise you’re hearing in movies, but still frequently just gibberish.
A simple server side template render is more than enough than 99.99% of SPA apps need for a fraction of the complexity, bandwidth or brainpower spent minding performance.
Sumatra is one of the first things I install on new Windows setups. Something refreshing about having PDFs open instantly. Screw adobe. Microsoft Edge meets my needs when it comes to PDF signing
Is this just a different term for precondition, postcondition and invariants in "Design by Contract"?

It's not a new idea, this has been integrated into programming languages before, notably Eiffel (1985)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
From the summary:

> Evidently, Ukraine will prevail.

> The report is based on open-source intelligence information and a series of 20 extensive interviews with combat-experienced Ukrainian commanders and soldiers.

> This report pursues two simple questions throughout ten dimensions: What are the Ukrainians doing particularly well? And what can we in NATO, the EU, and beyond learn from them?

Interesting research although it seems a little subjective.
ICANN is an American institution (this'll matter in a bit) that basically manages the entirety of domain names. Broadly speaking, there's two kinds of domain names; gTLDs and ccTLDs[0].

gTLDs (general TLDs, so your .com domains) give you some fairly basic rights; when you buy a domain name you will always have the right to transfer it to a new registrar at no charge and IIRC the domain registrar can't suspend you with no reason given (although any reason is sufficient, including "we just don't like you").

ccTLDs (country code TLDs, so .uk for example) on the other hand have the same rights on paper, but not in practice. This mostly comes down to the fact that ICANN as an institution doesn't want to be at the center of a diplomatic incident, so they just allow countries to do whatever they want with their TLDs.

Some run them like any old registrar (or subcontract it out for profit), others restrict purchases to just government entities, others go midway and use the TLD only for government websites while letting regular entities buy a subdomain from a known domain name (.co.uk for example).

With a ccTLD (which are the domains freenom chiefly provides), as long as the government you're getting the rights from approves of your actions, you can basically run it however you want because of this. ICANN rarely if ever moves against ccTLDs (although freenom has already been punished in the past by ICANN over their ccTLD behavior, so it does happen sometimes.)

[0]: There's also a third category which mostly just comprises .gov, which is the TLD used by the US government (why the US government gets access to that TLD instead of say, .gov.usa like all other countries, is for reasons beyond me).
Permalink to the English version https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/simulations-of-stochasti... (at the middle of the OP.)

(You used the same title for the German version and the English version, that confuse the weird permalink with the § symbol.)

(The first sentence at the top that explains that there is a translation below, should have a link to it. Readers are lazy, and otherwise just hit the back button.)
Instead of a pull-up resistor between the uart vcc pin and vcc, there was an electrolytic cap. That is why I put “capacitor” in italics — I was trying to emphasize how nonsensical it was. To the DC power to the chip the cap was of course an open circuit and thus by shorting it out I powered the chip up.

I assume it was a fumblefinger on the CAD system.
... or perhaps, as the article suggests, that parsing was hard when we first started doing it decades ago and not everyone got it right.

If it wasn't abundantly clear, this is not an issue with any of the shells today.
Linux has a richer set of security features available than OpenBSD, in some areas.

One is the mandatory access control of SELinux, used extensively in Android (probably the most widely-used Linux distribution of them all). This has no OpenBSD equivalent, as far as I know.

Another is that the Linux kernel has some compiled-in exploit mitigations enabled that OpenBSD doesn't, such as automatic bounds checks on fixed-size array access (based on UBSan).
I subscribed to both Analog and Antic; I honestly couldn’t say which it was but remember my dream was to get good enough to get one of my programs published in a magazine. (I never did.) Little did I know where that would take me.

Edit to add: your question sparked my curiosity, so I looked it up. It was Typo II: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n9/TYPOII.html
I really love this one from the examples showed, before I tried 1-2 others but the quality is really low, at least need to do more processing works on photoshop to make it looks nature like hand-made conversion.

I haven't tried this one because it requires register, no time as of now lol, btw, is it a paid tool?
The ai safety arguments rely on something called the “orthoganality thesis” which is a huge, unintuitive assumption. In real life, intelligence is associated with picking better goals. Generally, an entity with higher intelligence will pick different goals than a being with lower intelligence.

The orthoganility thesis is an unproven assumption that intelligence and goals are not corellated, meaning an intelligent being can pursue stupid goals. States like that, it’s obviously wrong and laughable. But by using complex language, EA cultists hide the ridiculous assumptions their system has so that they can maintain their feelings of superiority while gaining real power that enables them to abuse others.
Yet another GPT application, for recruiters who want to know why I fit their job description.

PS: I am preparing the reverse on, you will soon receive a first very personal message from the recruiter.
You're still relying on money being worth something in future.

Imagine a future where there are half as many the workers as retirees. It doesn't matter how much money retirees have in their pensions if they cannot hire workers to look after them (do their healthcare, produce the food they eat etc). You'd just get rampant inflation as the richer retirees competed to get workers, and everyone else goes without. In other words, in that scenario the value of the saved money would be eroded by inflation.

Now I will admit that this is complicated by there being other countries, or if we invent humanoid healthcare robots or whatever. But there's a principle involved that someone (/ thing) has to do the work.
This works exactly as intended then, no?

Turning off assertions is effectively a "you are no longer bound by this contract" action.

If management feels toilet cleaners arent adding value, fires them, and then shit hits the fan, the system works as intended.
I hope Ukraine can beat Russia and liberate it's territory in 2014 borders, but it's far from a done deal. Currently Russia produces more ammo than all NATO countries combined. Ukraine allies need to open new assembly lines for ammo production, as a successful attack on the pretty well prepared Russian defences will take a ton of artillery shells.

Looks like Russia mobilized over half a million soldiers so far (while officially stating 300K). Their military factories are working on 3 shifts 24/7. When they produce enough equipment and weapons no doubt they'll do a new wave of mobilization. Long term Russia can mobilize more soldiers than Ukraine, so NATO has to compensate by supplying Ukraine with big amount of artillery, tanks, fuel, equipment and most importantly ammo.
Sounds like Capitalism is the dream, along with Democracy, Religion, Law, and Medicine.

The older I get the more I think Marxism is an accurate representation of life and he wasnt so blatant to state that criminals run the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
They probably have their own version of this research based on a series of 20 extensive interviews with combat-experienced Russian commanders and soldiers...
> And then when you ask why the X11 server is bundled by default, even on a headless install, that's not in the FAQ

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeeded

> New users are recommended to install all of them.

> Some libraries from xbase72.tgz, like freetype or fontconfig, can be used outside of X by programs that manipulate text or graphics. Such programs will usually need fonts, either from xfont72.tgz or font packages. For the sake of simplicity, the developers decided against maintaining a minimal xbase72.tgz set that would allow most non-X ports to run.

On a server, you need x11 clients and xauth, if you want to run x11 programs via ssh x11 forwarding.
Why ask something that's trivial to google yourself? There are numerous good ones, it's a well-known and noncontroversial topic.
Similar benefits exist for the TAs in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen / DIKU.
Mmmmh IDK about the 8088, but the 8086 is 16 bit so it could be doable to emulate an Apple II at good speeds, right?
Many EA people are into forms of longtermism but AI safety arguments don't rely on longtermism at all. Many people worried about AI safety think it will be relevant in well less than 200 years. (Though uh, would you really not care at all if the world ended in 200 years? This sounds much more alien to me than any form of longtermism, and I think most people would agree that society should make decisions to sustain itself.)
React doesn't map to the MVC paradigm at all, though.
Not a problem. There's one person making the important decisions in Russia and he doesn't know how to use the internet.
"Roll a D20 and if you get 1 humanity as you know it will be destroyed in your lifetime" seems bad. Why do you consider 7 or 8 percent low?
You’re vastly overestimating the risks but you’re also not crazy - humans naturally respect authority figures and follow their beliefs which is in fact good for a healthy life.
What fruits? German co2 emissions per capital are similar to coal heavy Poland. Energiewende is a massive failure and a great example of politics screwing people and environment over.
EDIT: I'm not sure the below answers the question as asked, but it does clarify why A and B probably want to use the same version of boost.

In practice A and B would each have their own namespaces in C++ codebases, but that wouldn't resolve the tension if each wanted a different version of boost. One approach to resolve that tension is to figure out how to have two versions of boost in the same dependency tree. The below is addressing that proposal.

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Practically, no. You could certainly create a new namespace C++ names: functions, classes, global variables, and so on.

But there are other "names" in C++ that don't respect C++ namespaces: C symbols, included headers, preprocessor names, and library names (as in `-lfoobar` on a link line). You'd need to make up new names for all of these and possibly a few more things to make a full duplicate of a library.

Now, if you managed to do all that, there are still problems to watch out for. For instance, it's common for projects to assume that global or static names in a C++ namespace can be treated as unique process-wide values in a running program. As in, `mynamespace::important_mutex` might guard access to specific hardware, so having a `mynamespace2::important_mutex` also thinking it has the same job would be bad.

And if that wasn't a problem, you still have to think about types that show up in APIs. How will downstream code be written when you have a `boost::string_ref` and a `boost2::string_ref` in the same codebase? Which `string_ref` do you use where? Can you efficiently convert from one to the other as needed? Will that require changing a lot of downstream code?
Wouldn't that require that the complete boot chain is totally locked down and cryptographically secure?

If you can insert a usb-plug and boot from that you could unlock the disk with the help of the tpm, or interrupt grub and set init=/bin/bash.

Or since the scenario is that the attacker have physical access, maybe desolder the tpm chip and move it to another computer where they have control over how the machine boots.

I guess modern gaming consoles are locked down in such a way so that this makes sense, but I have never seen a general purpose computer secured like this.

Thanks for explaining, I guess the above was mostly my stream of consciousness ranting.
Reminds me of this Choose Your Own Adventure book from 1984. It was about how PCs had organic AI components and each was unique, and you happened to get your hands on a super intelligent one.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/755062
My experience exactly. I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXN7TOg3kj4&list=PLWuyJLVUNt...
Or, indeed, years. I've been semi-seriously using it since 0.19 and one of the most frustrating things about it is how poor the affordances are. Going from idea to execution is often completely unpredictable in terms of what intermediate stages you need to go through, especially for things like the Curves workbench where you need to convert between different types of "line in space" representation for, as far as I can tell, no particularly user-relevant reason.

While I'm ranting, the "workbench" abstraction might be very convenient technically, but it's implemented very arbitrarily. What conceptual set contains "Architecture", "Image", "Part", and "Robot"? And what's the conceptual dividing line between "Part" and "Part Design"? I understand the technical difference (in that "Part Design" should really be called "Body" because that's what it's for) but from a user's point of view learning which operations live where, and why there are (for instance) two different ways to do fillets with completely different user interfaces, just exposes them to technical implementation details they shouldn't have to care about.

You often see the justification on the forums that "complex tools are always going to have complex interfaces" - no, that's a failure of UI design. Start by acknowledging that, and things can start to improve.
A Patchwork of Contradictions and Confusions: Inside the Software Industry [pdf]
Had an attempt at writing for “normies” - https://atomic14.com/2023/03/08/why-does-chatgpt-make-mistak...