skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliezer started his career focused on the benefits of AI. It was not till the non-profit he founded had been going for 5 years that he started talking about the dangers of AI.
Also you can almost certainly use a newer compiler to target old OSes.

The real problem is when you have a big pile of ancient, unmaintained code that uses long-deprecated stuff. At that point, no, you really can't expect to seamlessly interoperate with new code.
> The "bloat" is the result of being battle tested.

Not always. Lodash's _.find is 5k. Why is something as simple as find so huge? It has a lot of magic. A lot of that magic provides safety though.

I don't recommend dropping lodash unless you can start using typescript.
People don’t want to give up their info and create an account to try it out.
The Amazon price is high because you’re buying a discontinued product from a niche seller.
Sorry to repeat myself, but that tweet provides no evidence.
The author knows all that, he’s just trying to simplify to give the layman some intuition about what’s going on.
So does infinite population growth.
> In the original Act benefits were to be paid only to the primary worker when he/she retired at age 65. Benefits were to be based on payroll tax contributions that the worker made during his/her working life. Taxes would first be collected in 1937 and monthly benefits would begin in 1942. (Under amendments passed in 1939, payments were advanced to 1940.)

That's from https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html - so generally, the old were financed by the younger at inception, and that's basically continued ever since. Nobody funded their own SSN fully between 1937 and 1940.

That sort of insurance is still a good idea.

The "house" part of the person you're replying to's post is interesting: "Giving old people money for free when their 10x more valuable houses inflate the market"

By definition, anyone whose house is 10x more valuable than it was when they bought it is not inflating the market. The people buying at the new price are the ones driving the current valuation of that house.

But constrained supply does also come into play; and other forms of social assistance are conditional on income levels and such; it wouldn't be totally unreasonable or unprecedented to make some benefits conditional on assets in cases like that - if you're sitting on a 900k asset, maybe leverage that first if you don't otherwise have any savings? And in doing so, open up that spot for a younger generation that still has to commute, etc?
Not whataboutism at all, merely pointing out that the phrase "Big Tech" has an understood meaning that is basically "the set containing Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Amazon". Microsoft has been de facto excluded by ignoring it. Which makes me think the whole thing is political, or possibly an extortion attempt by politicians that the set of Big Tech doesn't contribute to their campaigns.
The thing is, I believe that everything (or very nearly everything) that pg said about Java in this essay is correct. So why was he so wrong in terms of saying that Java would not be successful? I'd posit that it's because of the one thing that Java got oh-so-right compared to most other languages that were around near its inception. And that one thing is object compatibility, and enabling library based development using binary libraries (as opposed to having to pull library code into your project and compile it alongside your own code).

The cross-platform compatibility stuff, while not quite the "write once, run anywhere" dream was also close enough to be a useful factor. I remember building Java code on a Windows machine and deploying it to AIX systems circa 2001-2003 or so and just being amazed at how seamless it was.

And for an "honourable mention" one might throw in the JDWP/JPDA stuff[1]. Java made it really easy to connect a symbolic debugger to a running (remote) server and step through code line by line. No, it wasn't the first environment that could do that, but I think that taken together these three things went a long way towards offsetting the various negatives of Java and helping to gain so much traction.
sad, me too.. hard to trace if there's no history feature :(
It must be non-linear. Surely the 20th billion isn’t as good as the 5th
If there is competition, which ISP would you select? One that works with most of the sites or one that works with all sites? And if enough people selects the latter, and assuming blocking small percentage of site doesn't give big monetary gain to the ISP, there is no reason for ISP to behave the way you said in the example.
By what measure does an oak tree "know" about any of these things?

If it does under definition X, do I also "know" about the microbiome in my own body under definition X? The nutrient mix of the food I eat, the oxygen content of the air I breathe?
The good example of the extreme skew is Japan, when government optimizes their policies in favor of old people at the expense of young people who can't even influence the policy enough.
YMMV. I tried to finish it based on a strong trusted recommendation, but could not get past the insufferable author-inserts, and the unpleasant and unbelievable hero character.
Reversing Judge Jackson.
I was working on a rx drug pricing system right out of college. I couldn’t always get my price calculations to match what a major insurance carrier came up with and the contract clearly stated the formula. Turned out the big carrier had a bug in their calculations that surfaced only under a specific set of circumstances. I felt very proud of myself for figuring out their big and did a detailed write up and submitted it to the carrier. Their response was “yeah we know, we’re not going to fix it though”. That floored me but I was right out of college and pretty naive hah.
I can’t wait until we have gain of function fungi that make by brain ignore boredom. Or be compelled to exercise just enough to keep be healthy.
I have the feeling this would make for an easy claim in small claims court, for anyone willing to spend the time on doing that.
A chunk replacement is only 6 lines according to:

https://youmightnotneed.com/lodash#chunk
Hi, thanks for sharing. Didn't know there is a python implementation. Your article is broader and I like the functional flavor.

For the 'compaction' you mention, yes it is useful. But the code will be more complicated and optimization wasn't the point of the sketch.
I'll look into google scholar, but do you happen to have a good source?
Not spitting on the floor also is less important than a lot of other things.

But it is so simple and considered baseline behavior so I would still support yelling at you if you spit at the floor even while the war is still ongoing an we haven't stopped the attackers.

Same goes for net neutrality: there is even less effort needed. I mean: complying with the rules is as simple as not introducing a number of rules or devices in your network setup.
I am actually incredibly widely versed in the Section 230 discourse. Literally all of the sources trace back to Google-funded "authorities", which can't back their argument with any meaningful legal concepts.

The entire pitch for 230 is a wild astroturf project. And as a recent non-American pointed out, it's paper thin when you realize no other country has an equivalent immunity law, and all of them allow user generated content.

A comedic example is the claim I've seen that Mastodon servers can't survive without Section 230, but the largest one is in Germany, where no such blanket immunity exists.
See this comment[1] which explains why an ISP expressing their preference for a company has anticompetitive effects on the market.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064398
But they are sucking people's lifes.
Zaslav isn’t really taking creative control. Casey Bloys—longtime HBO Exec—is in charge of HBOMax programming.

Zaslav is making big picture moves like deciding how much budget there is for new content. But he’s not picking which shows to make.

I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s killing HBO because he’s largely left it alone. It’s the MAX half that got butchered—but that part isn’t really HBO and the overall service isn’t profitable.

The brand dilution is a real problem but that was done under ATT when they started HBOMax in the first place.
Supply chain attacks are worsened if everyone lives at the head. Staying far enough behind that some brave (and hopefully small) project discovers the compromise of a repo for some dependency five layers deep before you re-pin to a new version is probably the best mitigation short of some permissions based model like Austral is working on.
I know kids can be brutally insensitive sometimes, but this is extreme behavior even for a child no?
I’m surprised none of the good states, like maybe NY or one of the New England states, hasn’t decided to help out in this sort of situation. Couldn’t the state say “we’ll step in to do the defense, for our municipalities.”
Who are these censored books for? Like why ruin books instead of just reading things you want to read instead?

Milquetoast books exist for the people who want them. Why do this.
Those aren’t the only tax brackets high earners are subject to. Aggregate tax load is roughly still progressive.

That aside, as a matter of policy, uncapping the taxes would destroy the popular notion that the amount of Social Security you receive reflects your contributions. If the public believed it was literally just income tax, and if there was no cap there would be no reason to not just adjust the income tax by that amount, it would be subject to the same politics as income taxes and could be cut on a whim. Treating it differently than income taxes, even when it is not, is essential for its survival. If they didn’t cap it, top income tax rates would be >60%, and there isn’t much appetite for that.
Extremely grateful for all the money given to me by everyone who hasn't mugged or robbed me.
Not a hardware bug, but in embedded I ran into a fun one early into my first job. I setup a CI pipeline that took a PR number and used it as the build number in a MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD scheme for our application code. CI pipeline done, everything worked hunky-dory for a while, project continued on. A few months later, our regression tests started failing seemingly randomly. A clue to the issue was closing the PR and opening a new one with the exact same changes would cause tests to pass. I don’t remember exactly what paths I went down in investigation, but the build number ended up being one of them. Taking the artifacts and testing them manually, build number 100 failed to boot and failed regression, build 101 passed. Every time.
Our application was stored at (example) flash address 0x8008000 or something. The linker script stored the version information in the first few bytes so the bootloader could read the stored app version, then came the reset vector and some more static information before getting to the executable code. Well, it turns out the bootloader wasn’t reading the reset vector, it was jumping to the first address of the application flash and started executing the data. The firmware version at the beginning of the app was being executed as instructions. For many values of the firmware version, the instructions the data represented were just garbage ADD r0 to r1 or something, and the rest of the static data before getting to the first executable code also didn’t happen to have any side effects, but SOMETIMES the build number would be read as an instruction that would send the micro off into lala land, hard fault or some other illegal operation.
Fixed the bootloader to dereference the reset vector as a pointer to a function and moved on!
Restoring American Manufacturing: A Practical Guide
I paid for this utility that fixes that problem: https://www.startallback.com/

It makes no sense to me that Windows does not have this option available. Some of us find it hard to work without this basic functionality.
False Sharing versus Perfect Placement
Are you saying that there weren't data caps being trialed? Because there very much were, and they were not generous.
Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week
> most interesting programming landscape in Europe.

What do you mean?
Trump opposed 230. Therefor Section 230 good.
No thank you. I live in a small mountain town in the Pacific North West and I have the choice of high speed cable and multiple fiber providers up to 1Gb. I do not want a non-responsive government entity/goverment observer over everything.
Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort v1.0 Library For High Performance AVX-512 Sorting
that's why I made my own chat with the api lol, infinite chats, fast load, past edition including prompt
Joystick: A full-stack JavaScript framework for building web apps and websites
Or, you know, you could shoot the wolves.
Moderna CEO says private investors funded Covid vaccine–not billions from gov’t
They're already acting as publishers though. Might as well strip the immunity based on them not being publishers.
The thing about free press is some of them at least are pro free press, but only for "respectable" press.
Speaking as an expat Brit living in the USA, England, Scotland Wales, and Northern Ireland should apply to join the USA as 4 new states. Now that would be an economic powerhouse. Drop the monarchy now that Queen Elizabeth is gone. There would be a huge fuss over GMO foods and chlorine on chicken etc but not a big deal. Brits know what an influx of Americans is like since it already happened in WW2. Boris could run for President (he can now I believe since he was born in NYC).
Unfortunately know a couple of guys who have an eerily similar bio, it's is such a big red flag imo.
Your theory genuinely brings a smile to my face. It's nice to think of things "in their truest" and build bridges of commonality rather than setting them ablaze. Of course life is complicated, though
“Great job! By the way, why don’t you rewrite this in Rust?”
I have so many chats; I always wondered why ChatGPT doesn't have export feature and whatif happens if it loses it all; here we are :(
The money isn’t sitting in a vault - but it also isn’t necessarily being consumed. In order to leave the vault it must be invested or more typically loaned. As the vault earns interest, a dynamic can emerge that consumers must borrow progressively larger sums in order to avoid bankruptcy.

This occurred in the Great Depression where inequality rose and in turn debt loads. The fed has papered over this problem by simply printing more money. However historically, the US faired better following the massive federal wealth redistribution that was ww2.

The US government can’t afford ww2 style spending programs, and increasing evidence shows that money printing isn’t helping the economy.
Its amazing how people can recognize that the fears were untrue yet still insist they were correct.
Supply chain attacks only matter for libraries that can make their own network call, or libraries that directly touch unsanitized web input however?
> That's not how it works.

Can you tell me how it works if there isn't a port or a dns name or an ip that can be blocked?
TIL that word/dword/qword comes from x86 assembly. I always thought these were invented by Microsoft as part of win16 and then carried into win32 for source-level backwards compatibility.
Free market principles do not apply when the switching costs are non-trivial and information asymmetry makes it difficult for the consumer to know what’s really going on.

Nobody is gonna complain about their ISP when the conversation is simply this: “Aw, shucks, [startup-product] doesn’t work, at least [established-product] works everywhere. The new thing is probably crap anyway.”
"byte" has become so synonymous with 8 bits that I like to use the term "addressable unit".

I found this LLVM forum thread discussing it interesting:
https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/s2yuELeQMA8

And related PR
https://reviews.llvm.org/D61725
IMO the BEV is a far more flexible platform for transporation than the ICE.

Batteries are still made as cells. Need one for a car? Put 10,000 together. Need one for an e-bike? Put 10-20 together. Need one for a scooter? Put 5-10 together.

Cell economics are generally the same.

Furthermore, you can make the battery in an ebike or scooter removable and recharge it at work or at a friend's house. No gasoline stink. Or you can make the scooter/blade foldable and haul it in. Again, no gasoline stink.

For urban transport, BEV scaling provides the opportunity to affordably enable these energy efficient modes better than stinky dirty two stroke crap.

I think what can also happen is that you buy a city car with a 100 mile range, but if you need to go far, you rent an "extension battery", maybe a very energy efficient trailer, or even an ICE range extender. Or maybe it just attaches to the back of the vehicle, or if the battery is swappable, you swap in a rentable long range one.

And remember, don't concentrate on current battery economics. Between higher density sodium ion + LFP, sulfur chemistries, solid state, and maybe lithium air batteries, densities will go up by 2-3x in the next ten years. That means less materials, lighter vehicles / battery "rocket equation" for more range from a lighter battery with the same power storage, etc.

Zero or negative emissions is perfect being the enemy of bad. BEVs are an enormous opportunity to mitigate massive amounts of emissions AND be a better product that is cheaper for people.

There does not exist a practical political path to zero emissions right now, as much as it pains me to say so.

What we do need (and there is some political opportunity to do so) is massive funding of BEV transporation at all levels / form factors. There should be a 300-500$ price credit (phasing out 10% per year) for scooters and ebikes to get them prevalent. Make them stupid cheap to adopt.

Fund the hell out of battery development. Double down on all the national lab work on batteries (that lithium air paper recently was nice, we should see stuff like that out of every single national lab).
If you have a social life there are people in your circles of varying degrees of trust and interests, and as people change, you want your inner life and history's exposure to them to change as well. I feel like you are treating a complex phenomenon that you can obtain regular feedback from like something that's complete-trust or zero-trust.

There has been a use for exploding messages, and there's a use for deletable messages too, despite the screenshottability by zero-trust parties.
The target is mothers and fathers who have a child that might be susceptible to using recreational drugs. So, that they are aware and take extra notice. And maybe even have some narcan on hand just in case.
we're focused on this very thing - https://bowtie.works
Removing legacies/athletes/staff is a reasonable step to take, since each of those fall into a separate pool of admits. Harvard also had higher thresholds for sending recruitment letters.

"This lawsuit is an attempt by anti-affirmative action people to end affirmative action"

That's an ad hominem attack that does not address the claims on merit.

I personally think fairly evident that Harvard et al are essentially attempting to address systemic inequalities in access, while also maintaining a large pool of legacy (ie donor) admits. Whether or not this is "fair" or "unfair" is actually not something I have a strong opinion about. What I do find abhorrent is the unwillingness to admit that's what they are doing, choosing instead to claim that asian kids have a harder time getting in because they have worse personalities.
You would too. You just don't speak it out loud.
Does this open up the space for a "framework laptop" like company to open up? For "open" printers?

If yes, what other product categories is this applicable?
I don't mind city life for the most part, except for the whole thing with most apartment complexes being built of cardboard, which means that every single thing your upstairs neighbor and many of the things your adjacent neighbors are doing can be heard loud and clear, and this problem plagues even newer construction. And then you have people on the street yelling, vehicles modified to be as loud as possible driving by, etc.

If these buildings were properly soundproofed, in many ways I'd prefer living in the city, but as things stand the only people who get to enjoy that in cities are those at the tops of skyscrapers renting penthouse suites, all of whom reside in a plane of existence entirely separate from my own.

The number one thing I've enjoyed about suburb life, particularly as a remote worker, is how much more dramatically quiet it is, primarily thanks to not sharing a wall with anybody.
It's not a question of regulations. You either need to use the old library with the new compiler or the new library with the old compiler.

But the old one is crufty and barely maintained and nobody wants to touch it, and the new one is only using one feature of the new version of Boost, so it's a easier to blacklist the newer version of Boost than to overhaul all the old code. But is that what we wanted to cause?

Moreover, with widely used core libraries like this, that sort of thing happens repeatedly, and now the downstream users have to do work they wouldn't have had to do if compatibility was maintained. At scale probably a lot more work than it would be for the widely used thing to maintain compatibility. That seems bad.
I think that's a bad metric because it does not measure the actually speed of the network i.e I could get 2000 down but I only pay for 50.
Why would hidingwhat it's already doing make it more sentient?
It has no way of judging the quality of it's own answer, I see this trait as it's biggest hurdle to most practical uses.
>This is a huge departure from almost all of human history except the last 100 years in the developed world, where the family formerly was the safety net so these kind of investments and arrangements stayed in the family leaving a much stronger economic incentive for children.

except the evidence seems to point towards kids being a net drain, even in preindustrial societies.

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/10/was_having_kids.htm...
> What you get from paying the utilities is a team of people who will fix equipment issues due to failure or the environment

Friends have lived off-grid in the Yukon in a very nice house for 20 years.

It's hard to get house insurance when you're not on the grid, and whenever they get asked about it, they ask the insurance person on the phone "When was the last time you had a power outage?" (inevitably the answer is sometime in the last month or three - the power grid in the Yukon is a fickle thing).

In 20 years, they've never had a single second of power outage in their very nice off grid house.
The thing is you'd expect companies should also compete to remove such anti-features in order to claim market share from competitors. It's strange how rare that is.
[ Willy Wonka puts his head on his fist and looks back and forth excitedly ]
I was kind of curious what all the controversy is about, but looking back at that users comments, it doesn't seem like he has even commented once in the last six months about QC, unless i missed it (?)