skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that we are forcing Putin to do anything is like saying that resisting to rape is forcing rapist to used more violence. The rapist already had a plan.

There is actually a joke going on about all these "peace initiatives". The police officer is arriving to the crime scene and sees a rape in progress and says: Stop it! Both of you, stop it!

It's nonsense.

Nobody is forcing Putin to do anything he has not already planned to do. The fact that he only has few logical steps available does not mean that we are forcing him to make those - it's still up to him.

He can actually stop this war right away. Nobody is forcing him to continue.

Yes, he made up his mind already in 2007 the latest and yes, he miscalculated Russian army's ability to conduct military operations successfully. Thinking that somehow the West will accept his attempt to occupy other nations again is a grand delusion. But make no mistake - the "rotten West" has been the enemy figure for long time, the narrative that NATO is somehow surrounding Russia has been going on for long time. He chose to oppose the West, not to be friend with it. He did it very visibly.

I saw the war coming already in 2009, when he started to rehabilitate Stalin in public. The war hysteria has been growing in Russia since then very rapidly.

How to make Ukraine win decisively and fast? Just stop this half-assed support and start giving serious aid the Western economies should be capable of. It is the lack of Western will power that helps Putin to continue this war - he perceives that the West is still weak and he can win eventually. This war is fundamentally different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - we don't have to occupy Russia.

This paradox is a street level wisdom from many people who have actual experience with Russians: if you are attacked, you have to attack back fiercely. If you don't, you are not respected (more precisely, you are disrespected and considered weak and exploitable), if you do, you are, if you win, they might very likely consider you as their friend.

You can understand a Russians better when you think them as common white supremacist. Jews are bad, the West is bad because it is weak (lets immigrants, blacks in), and of course Chinese are bad because they are Chinese. Geopolitically Russia will be no super power, so it has to align with the West or with China. China doesn't see Russia as a partner, but as an exploitable token that can be used against the West. It has been always in the interest of Russia to align with the West where it has chance to be taken as an equal partner (mind you equal to other countries, not superior).

Of course at the moment they must to a lot self reflection to get there but it's possible.
I read it a long time ago and loved it, though wasn't at all sure how true its account was. Wasn't there a lot about how Nietzsche had taken over the USA and was just the air we breathe? - e.g. our talk of "values" and "lifestyle", key Nietzschean terms. I learned elsewhere how much Nietzsche got from Emerson, and how much Emerson in turn had got from Germans. A convoluted story! Also, the philosopher of the Summer of Love was German—Marcuse, from the Frankfurt School.
My account was randomly locked once too, with no warning or explanation. I went out to eat, tried to pay, and my card was declined. Chase said that there was some system whereby the treasury can just flag/lock accounts, and that they didn’t know the reason. I still don’t understand what they mean, but that’s what they said and that’s all they would say.

I was never involved in any shady business, the only money went in from payroll at a reputable company, and I only ever made normal purchases.

I also learned that you have no right to any money in your bank account, the bank doesn’t owe you an explanation for denying access, nothing. They also don’t owe you any damages from denying access. I had a rent check bounce because this. It’s pretty crazy. After this experience, I learned it’s increasingly common.

Do not ever keep money in a single account, you may be denied access without reason at any time.

Luckily for me, after two weeks, they “unlocked” it. Again, with no notification or explanation.
To be honest, I think Graeber is a bad anthropologist, in that he doesn't understand the symbolic actions undertaken by the bullshit jobs. Can all the magic rituals of business be substituted by a machine? There is a meaning behind how business is conducted in a certain kind of fixed language, equal to magic spells. Not doing anything really, but meaning the world to the system. ChatGPT will prove useful, but the jobs will still be there. The movers and shakers, that hold the world together will be in other roles of society, and will not be able to use ChatGPT. Because to move and shake you have to break out of statistical models, you have to do what is unlikely.
Affordable tools for ~this purpose have existed for years. Yes, LLMs make these tools more powerful, but they don't feel like game changers for this purpose.

Source: I've been in a position in which companies tried to sell me similar tools (to detect e.g. bullying).
Add this to your search:

site:reddit.com

It works well for now, until Reddit gets SEO spammed too.
I think Venus gravity is actually fine enough and not in need of fixing. (Old people would probably love it)

But yes, I also see no way of "fixing" the g of mars(which is likely way too low for humans), unless we go into the buisness of planet building.
Had this discussion the other day, never got an answer from the thread.

What is true creativity? What is a novel thing?

If we establish that it isn't merely a mix of existing things, what is it?

I don't have an answer other than actually maybe these things it makes actually are novel.

If you have another take on it I'd be interested to hear why nothing it makes is novel, and nothing from the LLM family of algos can ever make something that qualifies?
Atom-ng: Community maintained fork of Atom with compiler optimizations
>>while the financial institution is legally prevented from public comment.

I am tired of banks and other companies hiding behind this excuse. The banks lobbied for that, they want that gag order. They want to be able to hide behind that regulation so they do not ever have to provide actual answers to why they banned someone or closed an account
> And what's even better than C# is F#, but that's too bad nobody likes functional programming or hire programmers to use functional languages.

In JVM land there is Scala and people do hire for it, more so than any other typed FP language, AFAIK.
>The whole reason AI tech is big is that there is supposed to no sentient being who understands, and therefore deserves any right to be treated well and get rewarded. If you take that away and grant AI human rights then there is no point in this tech. If you leave it in, then there can be no thinking in the sense we give the word.

I dunno... slavery was once a thing, and I wouldn't put it past humanity to do it again.
Or just get GPT to do it for you, probably better as well.
And Yet It Understands
> I think people "overblow" the color problem of the Async API too much. If most things are async it isn't really that painful.

There are two problems with async/await's cooperative multitasking:

1. The first is only relevant to languages that also have threads: it splits the APIs into two worlds with very similar semantics but disjoint syntactic "universes." You always need a separate API for either world and need to do everything twice.

2. Even when that is the only paradigm, it is less composable. When scheduling points are explicit, adding a scheduling point inside a subroutine requires changing all of its callers, transitively. In contrast, with non-cooperative multitasking, any subroutine in the hierarchy can individually choose to exclude interleaving (and in a finer-grained way) for atomic operations with various constructs (the simplest being locks). Since most operations need not be atomic and are independent, this is not only more composable and evolvable, but also a more reasonable default.
If my memory serves, in past industrial revolutions, employment eventually caught up with automation. It did take one generation, though (~40 years in the 19th century).

That being said, I won't attempt to predict anything. Just checking what I can do to build a ChatGPT-proof resume :)
Async annotations in the vast majority of languages (possibly outside of JS and maybe rust) don't protect any useful invariant. You can still block in async code by calling any already existing blocking function not marked async, and async code can run in parallel when you have multiple underlying executors and shared memory.

If you design a language form scratch, async could be useful, but even then there would no need to annotate functions as they could be inferred. Generally effect systems seem a superior solution anyway.
Have you looked at the source of some of the C# benchmarks? I don’t believe they’re representative of how one would actually write C#. They’re all extremely hand tuned using raw pointers and unsafe blocks. The regex benchmark actually just delegates to a C library over FFI.
How many software engineers really write software that is as essential as a working postal service or working food services? Maybe 0.01% of all software engineers? I know that I'm not one of them.
It’s just melted plastic from fishing nets and other debris
For the selectric typewriter, the horizontal spacing can be manipulated by swapping between different typewriter golf balls.

Pre-computer age summer high school project utilized different selectric golf ball fonts & spacing to make use of the golf font characteristics to create text pictures/art (font kerning & spacing). The high schoolers that participated in the project were not university admits yet.

The ultimate thesis hack, automated web page search & comparison to find selectric golf balls that match the thesis paper font/type/kerning.
And they are welcome to do so.

Same as I are welcome to decide if supporting something that makes up a tiny tiny fraction of all written text in my software is worth the extra time and effort to build and maintain it, or not.
Proposing a nuclear war, so internet commentators won't run out of meaningful things to do? That sounds indeed like a 4chan mission.
If you enjoy this, buy the book "The Japanese Have a Word For It"

https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Have-Word-Complete-Thought/d...
But that's the point - benefits of cooperation outweigh the risks and we have laws/ethics/drives to stabilize the system based on this.

If you have AGI then others are just a threat and can offer nothing you can't get from AGI.
This was discussed in another place, the "then shouldn't everyone have nukes?" argument https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35159757

I don't stand anywhere too concretely on the issue yet, all I know is that AI is dangerous in a different way than guns or nukes, and therefore should probably be treated different. There's just something different about software, maybe because no matter what at the end of the day, if it wants to actually kill someone, it has to interface with the real world, and so my idea of "just stop anybody that ever tries to build nukes" might be good enough? That, plus, hardening critical infrastructure against network attack (or just airgapping it... or making it analog!)

I'm wondering how much this has been written about already, if anybody has some more in depth musings on the subject I'd be interested. I have yet to read Kurzweil, maybe he's covered it.

I'm interested in your observation that this is mostly coming from the USA: though I was born and raised in America, typically I align strongly against American values, though I can't deny that they form the basis of my subconscious. My belief though is that this ideology comes from a combination of reading people like Doctorow, and reading Karl Marx, who argued in favor of an armed proletariat that should resist any efforts by anyone to disarm them. In conversations with anarchists in Greece as well as all sorts of folks at places like Defcon, I've come to understand that the distribution of the means for resistance is a generally good thing, and this is where my belief stems that this technology should be freely available.

I don't know how well that applies to the USA though which obviously has a horrifying gun violence epidemic. Something weird is going on there though, other countries with a proliferation of guns (though not to that level...) don't have the same issues.
setTimeout() with a timeout calculated to fire after midnight?
Shantell Sans, a new typeface from Shantell Martin
The commit, for reference: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/tpm...

Of course, "fix bound checks" screams VULNERABILITY to every security researcher mindlessly scrolling through the commit logs.
OpenSSH 9.3/9.3p1
> To point at a deer and call it a horse.

When indigenous Mexicans first met Spaniards, they described their horses (which are not native to the New World, so they had never seen before) as “a sort of giant deer”.

It’s totally off-topic here but I always thought that was interesting.
They definitely missed the opportunity of a lifetime, the numbers must have looked unusually poor to have not made the decision to IPO in 2021.
Only some monitoring is legal and it needs to be linked to relevant explanations.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/labor-officials-found-that... specifically talks about the claims being about employees being coerced into joining such programs and into not using a separate private device.

> If I want privacy, I need to be an independent contractor and use my own equipment.

We're not in a cyberpunk megacorp dystopia (yet). You still have rights and can expect privacy in specific situations, even if you're employed by a big-corp. Check your actual rights, don't just defend what companies are doing - they don't pay you - they have their own lawyers for that.
The world is full of self-replicating things - it would need special attributes such as an ability to consume everything or being impossible to shut down/destroy to be of novel quality. A clunky, self-replicating thing would certainly be an interesting trinket but maybe not much more.
I love the different computer characters, Elefata? haha! The different difficulty levels are really well made. Fun game.
Explaining a joke ruins it, but as this has been voted down it seems necessary. This is a seemingly non-sensical quote from the song "If I had a million dollars" -- in the context of TFA it suddenly makes perfect sense. Chapeau!
Same in Poland - "spadające gwiazdy" - "falling stars". Even National Geographic uses this term[1] but exaplains in the lead: "Falling stars are meteores..."

[1] https://www.national-geographic.pl/artykul/spadajace-gwiazdy...
Robert Miles has a useful video discussing some common arguments against being concerned about developments in AI:

10 reasons to ignore AI safety: https://youtu.be/9i1WlcCudpU

I've seen and heard many of these refutes the last few days in response to both Eliezer Yudkowsky's disturbing Bankless podcast: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Aq82XqYhgqdPdPrBA/full-trans... and the release of GPT-4.

What I like about Mile's video is that he explains so of the specific alignment problems in a detail that is easy for me, as a non specialist, to understand. Videos such as:

Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeecOKBus3Q

and Mesa-Optimizers and Inner Alignment: https://youtu.be/bJLcIBixGj8
Are you a doctor? Have you worked with any of these patients? If not, what is your basis for such confidential dismissal of a problem actual medical professionals are taking seriously?
It seems to address all the allegations in the 8k. The LinkedIn post adds more allegations.
there's not much room for improving the autonomy.

Considering how every person I've ever asked about it despises their car's phantom braking problems, I'd say there's plenty of room for improvement.
There’s something pleasant about software that feels light and simple and does one thing well. Most software tends to grow to become perhaps more useful, but also complex and inelegant.

Not sure if that explains your observation or not, but at least it’s what attracts me to engage with a submission like this.
China's Answer to ChatGPT?
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Giving it exclusively to the most evil and cretinous money addicts is much worse than giving it to everyone.
The docs are so disingenuous

https://fibjs.org/en/docs/guide/about.md.html

The comparison doesn't do half of what the original did. Bizarre
Doesn't matter if it was made of fishing nets, bits of molten dragon dildo, or other debris, our plastic shit doesn't belong there.
or some operators are wrongly named =)

In essence, a controller is like a general-purpose manager for built-in K8s resources, while an operator is a specialized manager tailored for specific applications and tasks. Operators are built on top of the controller pattern, so you can think of them as the next level up in the K8s automation!

but i will agree on that i have seen people develop controllers with the operator sdk where mostly the Kubernetes client libraries would have been more than enough.
> I also learned that you have no right to any money in your bank account, the bank doesn’t owe you an explanation for denying access, nothing. They also don’t owe you any damages from denying access.

I knew this of PayPal. Didn't think it'd be the case with regular banks as well.
Interesting, but I think the device is a bit too bulky and sticks too far out to work in my use case. The environment where we'd use this is essentially a giant machine shop where you have to wear a hard-hat, it is noisy and dirty and you often have to get into tight spaces with cabling and piping everywhere.

Besides it doesn't look like they are primarily focused on selling the device itself.

For a device to work for us it would either have to be so small it can be worn with a hard hat, and not stick out beyond the helmet and incorporate safety glasses, or it would have to be a lightweight helmet mounted system that can be folded out of the way when not in use so people don't have to change helmets.

With a helmet mounted device you could incorporate the camera(s) in the helmet and perhaps even include an IR camera as well. For the stuff we work on on that project, having an IR camera, would actually be of immense help. Both for on-site work (being able to see what temperature different parts of the machine are with some accuracy), for remote observation and for documenting.
It’s always great to have companies like FromSoft who still make great and complete games which empirically deny claims like “people don’t want to pay for games “. The statement feels like it came from a board room that was discussing the latest digital-cosmetic store dark pattern.
What happens to all these decade+ year old startups in the event of a recession and/or market collapse? You might be looking at 5 or more years before market conditions are conducive for loss-making startup IPOs.

Stripe is better than most of course, but plenty of 10-15 year old startups with negative cash flow and no exit path for another 5 years.
100% chinese would be 100% diverse
Can they ban the Signal app for obfuscating criminal communications?
And pattern matching was started in java first (goes hand-in-hand with records to some extent).
The UK gov doesn't have a clue what it's doing, so they invent a bunch of patriotic crap to try and keep the masses satisfied.

Last year it was a flagship yacht, this year BritGPT. Just stick a Union Jack and 'Brit' somewhere in it, and call it a day.

The country is going through an economic and existential crisis, with amongst the lowest productivity stats in Europe, the shitshow of Brexit impacting everyone, healthcare crisis and national strikes due to high inflation.

Truthfully the UK economy is held together by a handful of dodgy banks in London, and if these left, we'd be left as a borderline third world country. The country essentially makes nothing and is fuelled entirely by debt and consumption. We've become a nation of hairdressers and "luxury" cafes. Electorate is generally stupid, so none of this will change anytime soon.
- vim users who like configuring their vim. goes double for people who like scripting nvim with lua

- python coders who keep trying to add haskell features to python

- phil wang (@lucidrains on github)

- people who have a strong stated preference for toml over yaml

- rustaceans

- julia people

- people who are inexplicably really rude/mean in github issues

- automatic1111 (main creator of stable-diffusion-webui)

- frankly, quite talented, the multiple tf2 hacks devs for ruining all the official servers. was talking to one once and he said he wrote it all in c++, and that he only read from the game process and avoided all protected memory regions
How I developed the art style for my game [video]
Steam is not "very good" to their customers unless you mean in comparison to the abysmal competition. Remember they only started doing refunds after being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Even now their refuns are extremely restrictive compared to what a retail store would offer.
To me, one of the scarier things is that we don't know what is is going on around the world in banking.

Almost every country lowered interest rates to zero or near zero. Almost all of them have had to drastically increase interest rates over the last year. This certainly means many banks around the world made the same fatal mistakes as SVB, First Republic, Signature, and Silvergate.

How many banks around the world are secretly insolvent? How many of them are dangerously close to triggering a cascading effect in their own countries?

SVB started it. It's world news. If I'm a citizen in another country, I'd really think about pulling my money out.
But that's the point; we did invent vitamin D supplements, clothing, sun cream, and far more complex things. Our current inability to thrive on a Martian colony may be as temporary as ancient hominids' inability to thrive in Norway.
Even more to the point is how money is a sort of illusion : it's a signal that allows for better allocation of real (and imaginary) resources in the economy.

P.S.: Aaand, ninjaed.
I don't believe for a second that after the initial rollout the system won't be tuned for an "acceptable" false positive rate.

Once a penal colony always a penal colony...

(Not to say that a large majority of Western European and large minority of US jurisdictions won't try to do the same damn thing.)
The nice thing about AI being able to do it is that it gives you the freedom to simply enjoy things with far reduced performance pressure.

I'm not a professional chef, I don't cook as well as one, but it's still satisfying to prepare a meal.

I'm not as good at Korean as a native speaker and not as effective at acquiring it as many other students, but it's still nice to progress at my own pace.

Just write if you want to.
I write passion project software, and I decided a while ago that I would do at least one commit per day, even if it is just updating todo.txt or writing a one-line comment. It has served me well.

I can't say that I've had a perfect streak, but I've had streaks spanning weeks and months long when I was productive on this project.
Market is unlikely to improve. In fact, it might get a lot worse.

What happens then?
I come away with a strong feeling of crony capitalism.