skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I predict Clojure and Ruby will experience a renaissance as they are the 2 most expressive languages and furthest removed from the machine. Seriously, though, won't low-level languages like C, C++ and Rust be the first to become obsolete for everything outside AI itself? Isn't it easier for something like ChatGPT to produce code which is close to the metal? Maybe Larry Wall was more of a visionary than we give him credit for when I tried to design a language which was context-driven and as close to English as possible.
> There was still a basis on which talks could have been opened up. The fact they were entirely nixed shows they are not interested.

It is important to note that the party least interested in a workable peace deal at this point is Russia. After all, they annexed last October a large swath of Ukrainian territory in such a rushed manner they couldn't even properly explain what they annexed. Given that Russia seems uninterested in any peace deal which does not include Russian annexation of at least some portions of Ukraine, any argument that what Russia really cared about was NATO enlargement is laughably incorrect.
… but why Rolls Royce?

Also interesting that they didn’t pick a US nuclear company. This is obviously a boon to the contract winner. These decisions always have a political aspect to it. What does this signal?

Edit: wow, massive oversight. I thought this was NASA. Nevermind! Still, the Rolls Royce choice isn’t obvious to me.
I think you want to be a bit ahead of where the technology is now to have some room for future possibilities and assuming you're pulling cable you might as well pull the "biggest" one you can(i.e. fiber). To give an analogy, we recently remodeled our kitchen, which required a rewiring of the electrical given current standards. That alone used up all the remaining circuits of our 100 amp panel. But we have several gas appliances that we eventually want to switch to electric heat-pump technology (water heater, dryer, furnace) and an EV which I'd like to have a level 2 charger for but that would most likely mean a service upgrade to 200 amps. On the flip-side, we have 1000Mbps; thinking about whether we have enough bandwidth to do X isn't even a thing now.
I used an incredible X-ray machine to look inside my gadgets – let me show you
> There is no confession if that is what you are asking for.

Your parent said:

but he did achieve his specific goal of tanking Clinton's campaign [here is an] Old interview of him talking about it: (link)

That seems to clearly imply that Assange would talk about his specific goal of tanking Clinton's campaign.

>Thanks for the polity - the undertone of your question implies he has to confess that word for word for that to be his intent.

The article fairly well debunks the source for those narratives (that Assange tanked the DNC on behalf of Russia). Here is the relevant quote.

Outraged the Clinton campaign swiftly ascribed the leaks to Vladimir Putin's intelligence apparatus as part of an operation to secure Trump's victory. The accusation was fueled by forensic analysis from the DNC's cybersecurity consultants, from CrowdStrike, detailing the potential links between the leaks and the Russian government.

Testifying under oath in a closed-door session before the committee in 2017, CrowdStrike’s chief security officer Shawn Henry admitted that he had no “concrete evidence” that the Russians had stolen the emails, or indeed that anyone had hacked the DNC’s system.

This crucial interview remained locked away until 2020. The press did little to acknowledge it; the testimony failed to attract even a passing mention in the New York Times, the Guardian, or any other mainstream outlet that had previously charted the Russian hacking story.

Do I think Assange targeted the DNC? Perhaps in the larger context of targeting powerful entities who hide details that directly affect the non-powerful. As to claims that Assange was directly working for the Russians, I strongly recommend reading the article all the way through.

sidebar: I like the work polity, btw. I can't recall coming across it before.
Credit Suisse is indeed one of several globally systemically important banks.
The list is annually established by the Financial Stability Board [1].

[1]: https://www.fsb.org/2022/11/2022-list-of-global-systemically...
I don’t submit he’s delusional because of the business he started. My position is that he comes off as delusional because of some of the things he says in the context of business. To read and listen to some of the things he has said, he does come off as a bit of a cultist.

I do however think it’s delusional to slap a “tech” label on a real estate firm, treat it like it’s a tech company, and expect any different outcome.
The press is not to have sides. Its to be a loose cannon in a democracy, firing at all and everybody who has power.
> explaining what the thing can do for them should be an obvious necessity.

Obvious?? You are taking too much of American way of life and values for granted. The Party can just order something progressive and the people will jump with enthusiasm. You just need to train them that not jumping with enthusiasm when the Party orders something is dangerous for their career or, more effectively - for their life.

At the same 1920 time on our side of the ocean, the State Plan of Electrification of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOELRO.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

— Vladimir Lenin

Works like a charm. The only drawback of this approach is that you’ll get not the American way of life but the Soviet way life and the progressive will mean not what is really progressive, but what the Party orders. But well, is it that important?
No one's fired, no one's disciplined in the example they gave. Seems a hell of a lot better than private sector corporations.

> Georgia Tech has 41 DEI personnel but only 13 history professors.

??? So tell me how many total professors there are, and what the specific job duties of these DEI people are? I don't expect many history professors at a school with "Tech" in its name.

> DEI officials have a vested interest in ensuring that the grievances of identity politics continue lest the offices have no reason to exist.

There is a tendency to monoculture that frequently exceeds the tendency to diversity. This alone is enough to require a diversity initiative to counteract.

For students alone, differences in backgrounds result in differences of opportunities, and ability to pursue opportunities, while in the university. Students can benefit from targeted equity initiatives, and if they are good initiatives this will show up in graduation statistics.

For similar reasons inclusion means different kinds of outreach and opportunities, if every student is going to have a shot at a good college experience and graduation.

(These statements apply equally to the highly intelligent [e.g. Miraca Gross' Exceptionally Gifted Children which includes anecdotes of people with IQs above 160 who dropped out of college, or even high school], and the averagely intelligent students.)

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Ken Thompson was also part of the Bell Labs Plan 9 team before they went to Google and created Go, but I’m sure both don’t use it as their regular OS today.
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2
You're missing the "more dangerous criminals" step
There doesn't seem to be any compensation for the vastly greater spending on administration in colleges. Yale's non-instructional spending has grown 3 times faster than the cost of tuition in the last two decades. Is that sort of support structure really necessary or has it simply been taking advantage of the relatively easily obtained money that students now have available to them. If colleges have little skin in the game with a student's inability to ever pay, what economic incentive is there to run a lean operation?
Electric cars are also viewed this way.
hackernews has become the largest source of confidently incorrect people on the internet
People think I'm skinny and I'm 1.82m, fairly narrow build, and usually 78kg-82kg.

I've never worried about what I eat. My weight has been more or less constant. I know other people have to be very careful or they easily put on more weight. There is very little fat on me (maybe I could go a little bit leaner but I mostly don't worry about it).

That said, I think extended fasts are not about managing your weight, they're intended to force your body into a different mode. I'm pretty sure they're not an efficient way to reduce your weight (more activity + a bit more control over what you eat would be better). If you want to increase your weight without being fat then resistance training + eating more.
We would still choose REST, the reason for the complexity is mostly implementation of the system design, which affects every part of the API and how it functions. We'd need to re-think and re-design the entire back-end (Especially caching/scaling) and front-end.

I was the one to suggest GraphQL during planning, but after considering all of the parts it was clear that it would be months of additional work with too many unknowns, which isn't in the budget.
And that completely ignores how the world really works. You are perfectly content to risk WWIII. It is not 1945 anymore. You are risking a nuclear conflict that would be absolutely horrific.
Y'all talking around the central point of the paper, btw. If this interests you, I suggest diving in.
It's never been more clear than it is now thanks to Fentanyl. How often do people have accidental overdoses because their beer was contaminated? Or their Adderall? Never happens, virtually inconceivable. But the majority of overdoses from illegal drugs are due to either inaccurate dosage or unknown contaminants, problems that essentially cease to exist for legal drugs.
Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)
GPT-4 Was Able to Hire and Deceive a Human Worker into Completing a Task
I have picked up most of my (somewhat limited!) Fusion360 skills by watching James' weekly videos!
Also think of process of wiring a house. And because you are well enough to do it in first place having it done to look nicely. I don't think that is exactly cheap process, back then. It is still not. The amount of cabling even for basic lights is not that small.
> Keyboards are a great example. We should just write as people have done for thousands of years

Nope, nope, nope. Keyboards are a great thing that save a lot of effort and muscle strain. I did my fair share of handwriting, and I experienced the strain and tiredness firsthand (ha). This is to say nothing of the speed.

Ergonomic keyboards make things even easier.

So no, we don't always want faster horses, and the heritage of thousands of years often happens to be a yoke.
I don't know, kids these days. You should have seen what we had to contend with in the 60s - huge lumps of flesh mangling metal, swinging at terrifying angles, throwing small children off in all directions. And no wimpy rubber mats to catch them. Sometimes, I wonder that I survived.
Curious: from an economic perspective why would anyone in the industry want to contaminate their product like that? Like it's a fundamentally different substance with a different effect. If you bought mixed drugs from your dealer, you'd probably not do business with them again and would warn people away from them.
It is whig history, though.
It's really not complicated
Are you referring to the US invasion of Iraq or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's impossible to tell the difference anymore.
> When people dig in and are stubborn

Such as when you decide to announce a rushed annexation of your enemy's lands after your army suffers the biggest rout of the 21st century? While claiming that this war isn't about trying to annex your enemy's lands, after all...
> What are some of the things people do that they need something that fast?

Remote programmer work. I push and pull around many GBs every day. 8Mb/second would be -at best- difficult to bear. I also often do teleconferencing (and screen sharing) while pushing around lots of data.

If there were multiple people on my LAN who were doing remote programmer work, or who were just -say- watching "streaming" video while I was working, or -say- chose to patch a video game while I was working, 8Mb/second would make working impossible.

Hell, even 40Mb/second is pretty terrible. I recently moved from a 1400/40 Mb link to a ~300/300 Mb link. Despite the dramatic reduction in download speed, it's way, way, way better.
That's an absurd amount of effort to bypass fingerprint biometrics, nice.

However, it's important to note here that biometrics isn't just about fingerprints and every OS handles their available biometrics options differently. For example, I would recommend face authentication on apple devices, however I would avoid using face for windows, and instead recommend a windows hello PIN (yes, it's handled differently than the PIN in the above article).

Ultimately, you're just trying to create a balance between the layers of protection and reasonable attacks. There's only so much you can protect against, nobody can withstand someone who is cloning fingerprints, stealing devices, has access to your separate device 2FA, etc. without severely affecting their lifestyle.
Is this open source? What model does this use? This is mind blowing.
I think there is reason on mars - there is a fairly significant source of water there (ice). I guess this wouldn’t explain the moon though.
you're shortsighted—handwriting also is a technological compromise.

natural language interaction is perhaps the main focus of modern machine learning research.
Currently residing in Cincinnati, and I witnessed an off-duty officer resuscitate a college-aged kid while waiting for ambulances to arrive. His friends didn't even notice as he gradually slowed down and collapsed while they headed to their next destination.
Note the KeePass's resistance to the attack mentioned depends on the security of .NET's secure string, which, here's what Microsoft has to say about it (https://github.com/dotnet/platform-compat/blob/master/docs/D...)

As for KeePassXC, last I checked it didn't even bother.
> It's also borderline inadequate for any online gaming whatsoever.

8Mbps is more than enough for a few dozen people to play any modern game on the same connection.
Amazing. Yes, it’s like trying to keep the most basic identity/personality consistent across all requests. And depending on that is what the model will be able to request to do other things.

I wonder what happens when we ask it to pretend to be an AGI.
No hay banda.

https://youtu.be/7PlJP56WAhU

No hay banda. There is no band. Il n'est pas de orchestra. This is all a tape recording. No hay banda and yet, we hear them. If we want to hear a clarinet. Listen... Un trombon à coulisse. Un trombon con sordina. Sient le son del trombon in sourdine. Sient le son! A muted trumpet. It's all recorded. No hay banda! It's all a tape. Il n'est pas de orchestra. It is an illusion. Listen!

https://youtu.be/P1-_k3qjhw0
It's possible everything will speed up, and since the competitors are also speeding up some kinds of arms race on steroids will take place where not only are we all much more productive but we are also not cutting back on workers.
I find it hard to believe but I concur it is possible.
> He literally started the war.

When do you think the war started?
lol Did Elon acquire Instagram too?
Better than inflation? Generally yes.

Better than jobs which are replaceable with automation? For sure.
Libreboot is a libre firmware replacement, not a bootloader. I doubt you’ll get Secure Boot with it.
Retribution for what? I'm just not sure what relevance any of this has anyway.

The only questions that are relevant for journalism are, "is the information correct?", and "is the information of interest to the public?".

Every source has their own motives, as does every journalist, and no story is so detailed as to paint the full picture. These questions are ultimately all irrelevant.
This reads like a madlib, it can't be serious. Who's embezzling money here?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on How His Big Bet on A.I. Is Finally Paying Off
Find another job. Don’t work for free.
I've never had the problem the GP had, but I have had Windows Hello "forget" biometrics were even configured - it's happened at least 3 times now, I guess after a Windows Update. Each time I go to login with a fingerprint, but it gives an error message and insists on the password instead, and then I have to setup Windows Hello from scratch.

It's mind-boggling how shit Windows Hello is :-/
I've read all four volumes of Caro's LBJ biography and praying he doesn't die before finishing the final one.

PLATO is not in that category, sorry. I was there (at UIUC). PLATO had an extremely small influence on the University, and especially on the Dept. of Computer Science. We never saw them at DCL.

According to the internet-history mailing list (which has essentially all the pioneers who are still alive), they had negligible influence on the Internet.

That's not to denigrate PLATO and what they did. It was the pinnacle of what you could do with a mainframe-and-terminals system. They could have had a much bigger influence on computers and society than they had.
why would anybody do that? To flag every nerdy 15 year old? What would you possible achieve?
Parallelizing a turd across hundreds of machines doesn't mean you're doing something genius, it just means you now have a hundred machines that have to deal with your shit.
It is very important for people who are sanding or working with wood products to not inhale that directly, and instead take proper precautions. When you say wood products, I’m assuming you mean that in its raw form versus a finished table, which will not carry such a warning.

The lesson isn’t that their ubiquity doesn’t mean they’re useless; it’s that as a society we’ve allowed too much toxicity into our lives. I don’t know what percent of prop 65 warnings are for things like wood where it’s about the dust, but I do wish the warnings were improved to give specific actionable information. Like “hey wood dust shouldn’t get into your lungs. Make sure to wear a mask with certification X to prevent that”.
If you're willing to consider a piece of advice, even the most complex rude goldberg-style codebases will yield to the program entry point. From there, you can start pulling at the wool and process it one knot a time.

It's tedious, slow work, but you can use note-taking, the REPL, tests (reading, if any, but also writing them), diagrams or any other tool for creating mental models until you manage it.
Go take a look at California and Colorado, at who is making money. Then look at who they have money too. These are the people driving legalization.

Its the exact same dynamic that is destroying liberal democracies world wide.
The question is, why should I bother, as a regular user? What will libreboot improve on my x86_64 PC if all I need is the ability to boot into my preferred operating system and I don’t care about “freedom”, considering the machine already contains stuff like Intel ME that libreboot can’t disable?
Thanks for letting me know, I couldn't find any reputable sources on if they cache for offline when used with a Microsoft account.
You think this five paragraph article on Smithsonian Magazine's site is part of a conspiracy?
John Henry (Folklore)
Also that recipe for napalm didn’t actually work.

Or so I’ve heard from, ahem, some people during the early 00s.
I don't enjoy the period between layoff announcements and finding out you were (or were not) laid off, but I've been through them several times and don't have a problem concentrating enough to "do good work." My work output might be mildly reduced, but it's certainly not zero.

I understand this might vary between individuals. It's just overstating your case to claim that it is impossible.
What would the short-term benefit of this be for the government?
Sorry but APIs aren't meant to be broken at anytime. That's what they are for. That is the unwritten part of the so called contracts/agreements.

I do not understand how the idea of not building a company on the back of another is possible. We rely on other companies for deployments, hosting, reporting, monitoring, payments, billing and security etc. Some may be less critical than others but how can you avoid your reliance on other companies at all?
Treating packaging boundaries and runtime isolation as the same thing is exactly the problem with Docker and similar solutions. Just because some package didn't require another package at build time doesn't mean we don't ever want to use them together at runtime. Yet Docker conflates the two, introducing all sorts of unnecessary friction all over the place.

This is why something as simple as getting more than one process to work with each other on Docker is such an overcomplicated mess. The runtime isolation boundary set by Docker doesn't represent any sort of logical component or security boundary in your system. It merely reflects how the underlying image was built.

This is a classic anti-pattern of mixing up policy with implementation. Runtime isolation policy should be independent of build time implementation. Nix gets this right with better design and composable packages. It's trivial to create a container that includes only the packages you want, with dependencies handled automatically by Nix. Docker, on the other hand, leaves you with a binary blob (i.e., Docker image) that's neither composable nor customizable.
If reading from disk is now your bottleneck, next time put it in a (compressed?) ramdisk if you want to feel particularly clever/enjoy sick speedups
The fuel doesn't become dangerously radioactive until after the reactor powers up for the first time. The uranium fuel is only about as toxic as something like barium or lead until the chain reaction starts generating fission products.

This is in fact safer to launch than past space missions such as Pioneer, Voyager, and Cassini. Those used radiothermal generators that were far more radioactive and hazardous than a fresh reactor core.
take initiative
You mean Wikileaks released info that was incorrect, or just that they released info that makes people you support look bad?
Baumol’s law enables this growth in the administrative state - the money is available to pay for tuition, so it gets spent however the university wants.
I've got both running, and I find GPT4 more useful. Unless I'm using it wrong, Copilot is "better autocomplete" and saves some typing. GPT4 can help you reason about code, and has helpful suggestions about debugging. I'm probably going to bin Copilot.
> Mr Birdseye is famous for frozen fish

ahem, that's Captain Birdseye, thank you very much!
Ask SciHub, PirateBay, WikiLeaks, and the citizens of Iran.
Let me take this even further.

We have systems, today, that take a specification and generate code from it (and will even do so in a provably correct manner). There are scalability issues with such systems, but they exist and have in some form for decades.

None of these systems have taken the world by storm.

If what ChatGPT and their ilk do is make it easier to spew out bulk spaghetti code that is essentially unverifiable, I don't think that's going to transform the industry nearly as much as anyone thinks it will. For boilerplate code, sure—but that's exactly where we should be using better abstractions anyway. For small code which you can verify by hand, sure. But for anything larger than that, we're just watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

Large code bases written by humans are already hard enough to understand. How much more difficult will it be when your AI can spit out a million lines of code in a second?

Without specifications, it's all worthless. But the specifications are the hard part.
A long tradition, see footgun.
Unsurprising doesn't mean predictable. It's often easy to say that something will go down (or up) in value at some point, but very difficult to say at which point.