skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not surprising at all. The first bombs were made when nuclear physics was not well understood, and the Las Almos computer, was a group of humans working in an assembly line to perform complex calculations by hand. These calculations were required to understand the interaction of the various pieces.

A few decades later, the theories of nuclear physics had advanced considerably, IC computers were available for rapid calculations, the algorithms required for these calculations were present in textbooks, as were the results of many computations that did not have to be redone.

Today, designing every aspect of a nuclear weapon, from the actual weapon itself to the machines and factories required to manufacture them, is even easier. The only real deterrent to countries building nuclear weapons are political in nature. Probably over a hundred countries could do it very rapidly if they wanted to, but thankfully we are limited to about a dozen of them.

This is something to reflect on, when arguing that the spread of bad technology, especially one that does require many millions to manufacture, cannot be stopped.
Nice! My initial take: love Python-inspired languages but I think manual memory management is distinctly anti-Python so not sure how well that works together.
Sorry, should have been more specific. I work with pathologists. They never ever talk to anyone much less a patient :-)
Aaaand, where is the privacy policy? Why is it hidden?
Has been posted before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fopentaxsolver.source...
Any text could be used a writing prompt. What makes this prompt special?

Maybe it's a text in combination with a writer. But you can also swap out writers, so there's a ship of Theseus issue.

This ends up being much like the argument about whether a virus is alive.
> It also means less programmers are needed

Making programmers more efficient may expand the areas you can apply programming, increasing instead of decreasing demand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
In the words of the immortal wiseman Flava Flav "don't believe the hype"
Market forces would have correctly restricted the number of people living in inefficient places to live. Rural communities are massively more expensive to create infrastructure for. Instead we have locked ourselves into supporting an abnormally large number of people away from where infrastructure can efficiently be provided.
Terminal emulators typically only enable it in response to a request from an application. I’m not aware of one that enables paste bracketing by default.

If some shell or other line editor turns it on and doesn’t actually support the bracketing sequences, or fails to turn it off when leaving an interactive editing context, it might be worth filing that as a bug on that shell or line editor.
I think we can all agree that a man who is unaware of the troubles you have experienced obtaining Raspberry Pis at list price is nobody's hero.
just get a wd sn850x
Can I say that my goal was not to compare the two in an absolutist way.

There is a narrative that developed about the 2020 protests that they were categorically different from the America's past because some of them spilled over into violent episodes. The talk was borderline existential regarding them as something new in American society. They were frequently unfavorably compared to the "peaceful" civil rights protests of the 60s.

But those protests were only peaceful in the small cherry-picked set that progressive historians and non-violence aligned activists have succeeded in turning into the canonical story of America. The civil rights movement in fact did have episodes of ambiguous violence. Critics at the time cited these incidents as reasons the protests should stop or wait. King references these critics directly in the Letter from the Birmingham Jail. It's barely buried history.

What's more, the protests occured amongst a back drop of constant deadly violence and struggle over all kinds of grievance and issues. Forget the risk of an antifa punching you in the jaw. There were people with deadly weapons, ready to do deadly violence or at least advocating it. From The Weather Underground to The Black Panthers to MOVE to biker gangs and on.

But the popular narrative wishes to ignor all this. How many times during 202 did I hear some boomer say, "look what we got done with civil rights without violence." But they have imbibed the Forest Gumpification of history. This myth is used to create an impossible standard, according to which, any incidental violence immediately discredits change.

I point to The Straw Hats because the are the most blatant tell to the law that America has a 'peaceful' past. That people are now somehow more unreasonable, easily triggered to violence and with thinner justification for their demands.
Again, that sounds like “better than China” and not a direct endorsement of the Vietnamese communist party. We are talking about global trade here - the proponents aren’t rooting for communism.
A platform for the trillion trees community
While there's perhaps some excessive idolatry of SpaceX and shade on ULA and NASA initiatives, I'm not sure that subsidies--somewhat overt or otherwise--are necessarily a bad thing. Certainly DARPA has a long history.
>Granted it's a Wikipedia article and not the original research, but I have two quibbles. The first is that it still takes the same number of people to perform a Beethoven symphony, but 4 kids with electric guitars and barely any training can now perform music to a packed concert hall or dance floor. And those kids are under price pressure from someone who can now deliver the same productivity with a laptop. (I was one of those kids once).

I'd argue this is still a version of the Baumol effect. For example, some people look back at 1950s nightclubs and wonder why they can't have that now.

It's because, as you say, the productivity of automatic music increased but live orchestras didn't.

So if you want "music" you can get it cheap, if you want "live orchestra", you can't.
The language proposed by Friedrich is actually a different one than Active Oberon, even if the latter is mentioned as a basis.

I didn't find a compiler yet which implements the proposed templates; if you know one please post a link.
Not in the hands of Scully or Amelio.
There is no reason this couldn't be watermarked with the individual user, though the if it detects them probabilisticly then it could be difficult to make the case to take action on inferences made.
Designing a Modern Short Take-Off and Landing Aircraft
He was pretty open here that he uses this as plausible deniability. On some other uncovered stuff that came out after the NYT article I believe he was paying homeless in exchange for getting sterilized, or making plans to. I'll have to dig it up.

edit: I think it was for homeless with partially heritable mental illness, not all homeless
Well, many arent rich for starters
Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT
integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json/yaml extraction.

I've added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.
One currently incorrect answer doesn't render the technology useless for all domains.

You'll still need experts to check the output. But this will be their job--checking, refining, regenerating--rather than creating.

And jobs underneath that level will disappear.
I'm not a huge fan of Jobs, but recognizing a good idea even belatedly and green lighting it, not to mention selling it, is worth a lot.

And hiring people who can bring them to you is worth even more, especially if you're able to hear them when they keep insisting.
It's astonishing that the barrier to entry for the Nagasaki weapon is so low.

I understood that hundreds of explosives experts were involved in designing the shaped charge that created the compressed plutonium critical mass.

Restraining proliferation was simply impossible, if the bar was this low.
A town in Germany (D for "Deutschland"), Austria (A) or Switzerland (CH).

Seems that term isn't common in English.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-A-CH

https://www.statista.com/topics/4623/dach-countries/#dossier...
Remember, most developed countries have functioning central banks, we can do real time transactions bank-to-bank just using the banks own app =P

In Australia the underlying system is called osko.
bash also has had this feature for something like six or seven years and it has been the default for almost two, so this isn't a reason to use or be specifically excited about zsh. (Of course, the ridiculously ancient copy of bash macOS ships as part of their protest against Free Software does not have this feature; we thereby need to be careful not to attribute anything to "now uses zsh/clang/etc." that was actually due to Apple holding us all back.)
EDPS launches pilot phase of two social media platforms (2022)
Just to be sure everyone gets it I'll come out and say, I'm referencing a minor plot point towards the end of the movie based on him. There's a sequence where the main investigator keeps trying to get him to tell how he cheated the bar and he keeps refusing to say. Later on, as in years later, he finally reveals the trick. "I didn't cheat, I studied it."

It seemed fitting given what we now know about how little he actually cheated.
Surely you see how that might be concerning from the perspective of the parties that would normally be involved in the bankruptcy. It seems like some liquidity lenders to the bank are being pulled through on the deal and some are not
appreciate it!

yaaa this error is actually from vercel lol. timeout after 10s unfortunately. upgrading to pro rn to fix!
Are you saying that in 20-50 years we all gonna be peaceful to each other or nuke the planet? Is that the reason why we're not getting a signal from distant civilizations?
Yeah, he'll be arrested just like Bush was when he was convicted of war crimes.

Love that the source is Pravda though, puts a nice touch on it.
I should have qualified it as American leftist perhaps...
It should be 4 months in 4 days, but the broader point still stands: https://fallacyalarm.substack.com/p/the-fed-just-reversed-4-...
Prices may stay the same if supply goes down in concert with demand.
> Those of us old enough to remember their original releases (like “Collateral Murder”)

That was very very far from being "their original releases". wikileaks used to be a real "wiki of leaks". it was quite glorious, a real goldmine for journalists to work through
Oh wow... It is a bit pricier but I just checked on https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ and it looks like a fine SSD, thanks for the tip.
How Now Cow of Brown?
I am dumb. How does Treasuries maturing help with QT (not questioning this, just not clear on this)?
> lenders to the bank are being pulled through on the deal and some are not

No lenders or shareholders are in the room at all - shareholders dont get a say on if they want to sell their shares that were worth 7 billion on friday for 2 billion either.
This is fairly meaningless. It’s just some random people at GHCQ saying that they think it looks like a fit up, on the basis of the same publicly available information that everyone else had at the time.
Well we still don't have flying cars or fancy spaceships not to mention immortality other SF predictions so I wouldn't hold my breath for a AGI-like discovery. Should I mention we don't have full self driving either...?
Some terminal emulators[1] strip control characters (C0, C1 or both) out of clipboard or paste buffer contents when paste bracketing is enabled to avoid exactly this.

I believe[2] that xterm is not among them, which presents an argument that those other terminal emulators are not xterm-compatible :)

[1] Windows Terminal does for sure

[2] citation needed; I tested it a couple years ago and this is practically an anecdote!
Levine covered this last week. It’s factually accurate in that the US issues are unrelated, though also somewhat damning in that the issues at CS were largely of its own doing due to poor governance and investment decisions spanning multiple years.
Not “anyone”, but “a group of nuclear physicists that could validate their designs against knowledgeable people at LANL”.

But yes, nuclear weapons design peculiarities and simulations are a sort of my hobby, and a very interesting one.
I think the point of the Ukraine aid is to limit the amount of war being waged on the Ukrainians...
You need to cut us a bit of slack. We’ve only just barely developed the very beginnings of a technological society. By definition, we have the absolute lowest level of sentience necessary to achieve that, otherwise we’d have done it earlier.

On a scale of general Intelligence necessary for civilisation from the minimum of 1 to hundreds, or thousands, or even more we score a 1. And that’s at best, arguably the general population are riding on the coat tails of the few geniuses that actually develop our technology. So most of us are actualy below that.
You've posted dozens of flamewar comments to this thread and broke the site guidelines egregiously. That's abusive, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are or how right you are or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this. I'm not going to ban you because everyone goes on tilt sometimes, but if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
Honestly the whole Ruling is a joke and if there was any hope of fooling anybody that these international bodies are actually independent, its gone now.

Why is there no similar ruling for Bush for Iraq and for Afghanistan? Oh wait, this the US, never mind they are the good guys.
With good reason? Tesla doesnt seem to give a shit about the safety concerns of other people on the road, and a half-assed "full self driving" system that requires careful monitoring is never going to work. People tune things out if they don't need to actively do something.
I saw some of this German company’s equipment in Memphis, Tennessee—very cool, and quite different from most U.S. playgrounds: https://www.richter-spielgeraete.de/en/playground-equipment/...
Counter-proliferation is an active process. You have to actively block pathways to building nuclear weapons, and constantly run intelligence operations tracking these.
I think there’s a lot of value in having a tailored model trained on data specific to your domain, so self training will be needed for a lot of scenarios. Millions of dollars to train is definitely a higher barrier of entry than say someone writing an app on nights and weekends who just got a bit of seed funding
This is still specialist/amateur grade stuff (requiring you to build/maintain/debug the system yourself). I'm optimistic about the technology continuing to develop and eventually becoming mainstream. Having a robust alternative to keyboard-and-mouse interactions will (hopefully) improve accessibility of software. (Though I have difficulty imagining that BCI input devices will be easier to support than today's complicated accessibility approaches, like screen-reader compatibility.)
You missed the point there. When the information isn't in the training corpus, then GPT still generates... something. It's not in the text, but GPT's weights show something as the best correlation. Sometimes it's mining connections that the authors didn't even realize were there. And sometimes, it's following random correlations that don't mean anything, and as a result it's generating nonsense.
Maybe, maybe not. Crushing Russian forces helps sell weapons and also helps take down an adversary while having Ukraine fight the war. The incentives behind blowing up the pipeline also appear to align with the US cause. I would take the media's reporting on this with a large grain of salt.
> Confidential—Do Not Share

> We are a company that promotes openness and transparency, both in the world at large and here internally at Facebook.

The irony of these two statements being separated by three paragraphs made me lol
Hard to put out useful info on Trump when the Democrats already had the Steele Dossier, Russian pee tapes and other fake things out in the news cycle, to go along with the Access Hollywood tapes which were real and quite sensational as well. If you read about the info Wikileaks had on Trump it just wasn't sensational enough for anybody to care.

All the good stuff on Trump (along with some good dirt on down ballot Republicans and Democrats) was leaked through DC Leaks.
that's what migrants who are not poor like to call themselves
The problem is they aren't wiped out enough. Bankers who instigated the GFC got jobs elsewhere. One of them was even the CEO of SVB!

Breach of fiduciary duty in any other context is essentially a death sentence for a career in finance. Clearly being wiped out isn't enough. The complexity in the matter is that depositors reasonably expect to be able to get all of their money out at any time. As they should. It's their money. At the command of the fed their reserve rates were dropped to zero essentially making the cash value of an account a meaningless number in a computer.

Given this risk, the bank should be the sole party responsible for paying such insurance for it's depositors. It's a cost of doing business, and importantly taking a risk and fiduciary responsibility over a client. We demand doctors insure themselves because they can destroy a patients life. A bank should be the same. To have the depositor (or patient) front the cash in any form should be made illegal. Hence my demand to insure the funds are secured only through the bank owners themselves. Ideally, the executive board carries enough insurance to make all depositors whole in the event of a bank collapse. This should be uncontroversial.
> The Bulwark don't believe "this coup nonsense" because they are pushing for war there.

It could be that. Or maybe, they don't believe it because the facts don't support it, and they believe in truth as a thing that is worthwhile regardless of if it personally benefits them or not.

You have a very transactional view of truth. And frankly that says more about you than anything else.
Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy
As I understand from the article, the author argues that designation of national parks and reserves distracts people from the main problem, which is unsustainable everyday life.
I disagree, because preservation of the most valuable landscapes is an immediate action that is relatively easy to do. It is way easier to ban building factories in certain area than to ban factories altogether. Without national parks being established in twentieth century, these places would be destroyed.

The only way for people to live in perfect harmony with nature would be to abandon all economical growth and that's unlikely to happen. The easiest thing to do is to preserve and reduce our influence.
No. What? Ukrainian nazis invaded Belgorod or something?
It was said above that he was “playing the role” of being an inventor, and this observation was directly juxtaposed against a con man.
I didn't say they would be able to live in the same space, they'd have to share with family, and/or cram into one room and/or live in a poorly built house, like people in poorer countries do, and we did 150 years ago.
No, I haven’t, though I will eventually. In the meantime, some other pieces that always come to mind as being definitely on that list are Weaponised Sacredness by Sarah Perry, specifically the section on egregores (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/ ctrl-f “The Egregore”), Rene Girard’s Scapegoat, and as antagonistic reading (threatening ideas you must engage with) Spandrell’s IQ Shredder, and Nick Land’s Hell-Baked. In general the list is about coming to understand little-recognized forces that control the world.
Ignoring his wishes and patching around them is also being a jerk. The dude didn't have to open source or maintain anything.
1) it's going to be what 3-5v at some low power capability; 2) this is just a processing unit I think, no electrodes or whatever the sensors are called that actually connect to you.

Seems about as dangerous to me as (some kind of readout device that connects to) a finger-clip pulse oximeter.
Does Switzerland not have receivership? The American model of freezing the bank and then dealing with non-depositors later seems such a better model.
> How does one find out if a particular 980 Pro needs firmware update or not?

I'm wondering the same and I'm also wondering if upgrading the firmware can be done from Linux or not. I could search online but certainly people here do know?
Yandex Browser's GPU crashes dropped significantly after pretending to be Chrome
If the term you are using deviates significantly from the common understanding, you might want to refrain from using it. Also that last bit amounts to ‘you can’t criticize me until you educate yourself on my idiosyncratic definitions,’ which seems both silly and unreasonable.

You might just want to use a different word than fascism, anti-Oedipal or otherwise.
Why hasn't the CCP clamp down on these manufacturers of counterfeit SSDs? Won't this give a bad image on products made in the PRC?
I used to work with someone that I think qualifies as either a pathological liar, con man, or deeply flawed. The most distinctive sign is that they tell blatant lies which serve to distract from and cover up the longer running and more subtle lies.

Point being, if someone has been telling you something and then tells you something unrelated that you can prove to be false, then you need to exert considerable mental effort to revisit the initial thing they were telling you in order to determine whether it is true.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230319140022/https://harpers.or...
Much of Amazon infra is on AWS. The capacity you request from capacity manager is just ec2 instances underneath including cloud desktops.
1) I think it's approximately true in the real world. If you can hire an employee who adds substantially more revenue than what their wage is, you keep hiring employees until value created by an employee is close to their wage.

When discussing economy, it's good to start with understanding the situation through the lens of economic models and than look to what extent are the conclusions applicable to the real world.

Using your argumentation - above you said that xyz is true in a free market, but real-world markets are not free...

2) And I specifically said that I'm assuming no dramatic improvement beyond GPT-4. The 2 misconception I supposedly have... I didn't even make that claim.
Data point for readers: I was affected by the 980 Pro firmware issue. I had no idea there was an update available--Samsung did not post it to Windows Update--until my drive was read-only with only a few TBs written. Warranty covers 5 years/N TBWs [1], and the replacement process--albeit slow--does work. Just be aware you can't erase a read-only SSD...

[1] https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/w...
At that point we're basically back to the `AI is just nested if-else expressions` story. The only difference is that now there is a language reader on top that understands the semantic of your language. But actors (or agents in LangChain lingo) are just if-else. The tools you connect them to must be developed separately.
They tried launching satellites two months ago in their first ever rocket mission and it failed.

Something pretty routine for Russia, US and China and even heavily sanctioned Iran.
Isn't Putin nowadays for Assange and definitely for Snowden? This is a stupid test.