skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few places that have already done this, usually only for delivery vehicles. I think part of Paris is one example.
It doesn't make sense to announce nuclear threat now. For one, the US doesn't recognize Taiwan and doing so would provoke war. For another, China can wait for President that is less insane. It makes a lot more sense to wait until China threatens invasion and then recognize Taiwan and sign defense pact. US repeating its support for Taiwan would be sufficient now.

It makes a lot more sense to gradually escalate instead of go to nuclear threat. It should be reserved for nuclear use. The US and Taiwan could defeat China conventionally.
> Nevertheless, I've yet to see an explanation of what problem Verse aims to solve that isn't solved by other languages out there.

You might find the explanation in TFA helpful:

> "A battle royale lobby has just 100 players, which fit within a single compute shard.

> "But Fortnite is much more than just battle royale. A huge number of Fortnite players are on custom game modes made by people outside of Epic Games. It’s easy to imagine game modes having a few thousand players which can’t fit within a single shard. How do you scale to handle all that game state, correctly?

> "Software transactional memory is at the core of Verse. Computation is categorised by transactions and ability to rollback. The goal is to make it easy to write working software across multiple servers. A big goal; we don’t often see programmers do that successfully!"
From coaches to pushy parents, US Men’s Soccer is a married to Mediocrity
A well informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy. Fake news and undue outside influence absolutely must be protected against.
This is what needed to happen if the US plans to go to war with China. Can't give China the ability to monitor the US population.
Thanks for posting the photo. To my recollection there was only the palm scanner, no white box to the right of the palm scanner at this store. Maybe they were running an A/B test. I went back outside to read the instructions on the signs and they did not align with the reality inside.
Letters, proof of cohabitation (bills, rent payments), use of joint financial accounts, photographs, chat logs, wills, written testimonies from friends/in-laws, a child or three, a five-hundred word life-story essay.

Not everyone has all of these things as evidence to a sufficient extent, but most people will be able to provide enough of them to convince immigration. If they can't, if they are lucky, they may get a request for more evidence, instead of an outright rejection.

IANAL.
They are big companies that have lobbied for laws that benefit them and had them written in ways that benefit them the most?

I’m not even sure what you’re talking about.
>I feel like hunting down drivers hasn't been an issue on Linux for any relatively modern machine I've run in over 10 years.

Try installing any Debian flavor on an Intel Mac. Keyboard, mouse, bluetooth, wifi drivers all incredibly hard to get working. Need to perform some voodoo extracting the drivers from a MacOS image then making them available during boot.
The provider would have to be controlled by China or other designated foreign adversary, and they would indeed have to be doing something determined to be a serious threat to the US.
Engineers are scientists.
I don't subscribe so I only read the first two paragraphs fluffed out to say city kids in US are slightly shorter than country kids.

I dare say whomever will rediscover the role sodium phosphate plays in growing bodies when consumption is greatly exceeded -- it is used as a food additive, including some soft drinks. I'm sure many soft drink brands may still use the additive, but at a much reduced rate compared to 70s, 80s and 19990s.
C# 9.0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

I'm honestly surprised they haven't add the ability to drop the `new` keyword like Kotlin:

val a = A();
That sounds like a really good place to work, I'm not a jerk, but I want to be a team with "hyper-competent" devs and a good management, are you hiring? if so please ping me root#at#jpg.computer.
As sibling comment mentioned it includes an XML format definition (which itself is surprisingly restrictive, and sort of idiosyncratic for XML), I also found it odd that blesses only those two formats. But Appendix B does give guidance for use in arbitrary formats/media types.

Basically it’s format-agnostic, but it covers the two most common/likely scenarios. IMO that’s sensible enough, but it’s not ideal how much the format-agnostic aspect is deemphasized.
Accelerando by Charles Stross. There's no clear cut pre-AI/post-AI delineation. It's a gradual set of changes where one day you find yourself in a post-AI world and you've somehow made peace with that along the way, but you're not exactly sure when that happened or how.
> Also: imagine the year is 1900. You are saying that steam power and electricity is causing way too many changes way too fast so they put a moratorium on it until the year 2500.

Great analogy. About a decade later, the world was fighting World War I on the back of the technological advances of the turn of the century. It was war on a scale never seen before. Literally orders of magnitude deadlier, bigger, more transformational and explosive. The word would never be the same.

This time, should we expect another war?

I'm not saying we should pause—it makes no sense, to your point. Instead, I'm just saying: brace. I like to think we (and our organic matter relatives) are hard to kill. Or at least to completely eradicate... so we will be around, or some proxy for us.

Time to replay the Mass Effect trilogy
The Butlerian Jihad is officially no longer science fiction. Man may not be replaced.

“The Letter” was obviously self serving drivel from people who want time to get in the game. Google does care about AI existential risk, they care about beating Microsoft by any means possible, including declaring a moratorium, but continuing to make progress behind the scenes.

This guy is the real deal. I can imagine he would personally take a sledgehammer to every last PS5 and 4090. The scale of what he is advocating is so enormous and painful that it has approximately 0% chance of happening. And if he is right, we will have trained a super intelligence and unleashed it on the world before we even realize what we have done. It strongly reminds me of the black hole concerns from flipping on the Large Hadron Collider.

I doubt super intelligent AGI is possible anyway. If it were, it would be the solution to the Fermi paradox and all matter in our galaxy would be paperclips already. The Anthropic Principle saves the day.
I totally did this wrong. They asked for pictures, so I just gave them vacation pictures of me and my wife in Bali, Thailand, or some other places. I didn't realize we were supposed to send nudes!

But anyways, they didn't seem to even look at the packet we prepared and granted my wife's green card, which was a relief because she was already 3 months pregnant at the time.
Any theories about massively large numbers and Collatz conjecture? Would Collatz conjecture reduce Graham's number to 1? Would these proofs get presented before a generic one?
Distress in Office Market Spreads to High-End Buildings
Yep, but it just makes the point stronger.
Education has a low chance of success on adults. However, kids can be educated. But social media prevents this
> The stakes are high — real families can be separated and lives ruined by a denial. It is understandable, then, that some people throw everything they have at the wall during the green card process. The system tells them that marriage, and the sex that consummates it, “is compulsory if you want access to the circuits of movement across borders,” Schaeffer said.

What a stupid system. Why are we still doing this in 2023?

FWIW, I suspect that this tactic works far more often than the article implies. If your desk has piles of these applications, and they all claim to be based on the legal requirement of a consummated marriage, and half of them have photos as described in the article (of the happy couple making love under a waterfall), aren't you going to give those more credence (even if you aren't supposed to)? Of course you are.
So, You Want to Build a DBaaS
I'm hearing "Haskell mashed with Erlang"
hahaha! really? It's purely my subjective judgement, but it may also have been pure chance/coincidence that I encountered good driving in FR compared to other countries. I mean in terms of actual driving skill like not doing dangerous/stupid things, driving with precision in difficult/complicated/narrow roads, anticipating risky situations or avoiding collisions, behaving respectfully/responsibly, appearing to be actually aware of what's happening etc.. In some places it felt like most drivers are basically asleep or barely conscious...
like the way the airline market converged on how they can charge people extra to be treated like humans. And charge extra to resolve arbitrary and clearly contrived annoying policies? That’s caused happier users?
Using the word _capitalism_ here might be too much of an umbrella term. We cannot describe everything that is wrong with the world as capitalism.
New accounts on issues like this always make me wary of the 50cent party (kind of a case-in-point example of the kind of nation state influence operations and risk). [0]

It shouldn’t have gotten to this level, but it’s where we are. Users will move to reels or something else that takes its place without the national security risk.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Yes, 100 agree:

- Cannot get a family Dr [1]

- Mini crime wave due to catch and release [2]

- 53%+ combined income tax [3]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/angus-reid-i...

[2] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/vancouver-toronto-stabb...

[3] https://www.legalline.ca/legal-answers/tax-rates-much-pay/
One day I'm in a coal mine and 1 canary dies, the next day 100 canaries die. I probably think the coal or some mineral in the mine just kills canaries.

Eventually a dog dies. Now I start wondering "Well dogs are only 1% of the dead animals, may as well not focus on that..." I may miss out on an important observation.

If your presumption is true, that trans are more robust against these kind of acts, now I'm wondering. Maybe unhinged poorly socialized young males are the canaries and trans are yet something new. What's wrong in the coal mine and what can I learn by focusing on the newest subjects.
What do you think it means? Hotkeys/UI definitely have standards. Maybe not ISO. Conventions? HIG? CUA?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=human+interface+guide+HIG

Semantic discussion is not very interesting.
Part of 'competence' in a professional work setting has to do with getting along with other people, at least to the minimal extent necessary to get a job done. A 'competent jerk' is incompetent, in other words, at least when it comes to some aspects of the job.

If their job requires a lot of communication with other people, then they're definitely grossly incompetent. If their job can be done mostly in isolation, well, they're only minimally incompetent, and maybe that can be brought along, give them a thick-skinned assistant or manager and only have them talk to that person, etc.

However, it's probably easier to train people with poor social skills in the art of getting along with others in the workplace, then it is to train those with poor grasp of complex technologies to understand them, let alone in resolving difficult bugs or finding creative solutions to novel problems.
I've heard this a lot about generic effect systems. Do you have any good resources on OCaml5 effect handlers I can follow? I dabble in type theory but prefer more pragmatic aspects. I sorta get the OCaml 5 examples I've read but don't know how it works into a generic effect system.

For example, Nim has an effect system (of sorts) and I've been curious what the leap to "generalisation of exceptions" would look like for a systems language. It does feel to me like error's and async's both should remain orthogonal to most functions but we haven't had a good theory for it. What are the missing pieces and what have the OCaml5 folks been up to?!
That can actually be a great solution.

It's way better than management with no technical skills whatsoever.
STM isn't a new concept. How does it relate to "writing software across servers"?
Just the other day I introduced my daughter who is learning js to this video; so funny
As an aside, from a pure anthropological and sociological point of view, I find witnessing the reaction people have to ChatGPT extremely interesting.

Some commenters here seem to immediately focus on the potential negative effects, abuse by the military industry or the powers that be, manipulation and disinformation.

I’m personally still in awe that we are collectively witnessing the birth of a piece of technology which understands and creates and stand at the dawn of a potentially profoundly different era. I truly believe that this is the printing press once again and we are here, alive. We are living the revolution. Imagine all the positive possibilities: a word where kids have access to infinitely patient and benevolent teachers who can explain the sum of all knowledge, a world where readers can have books infinitely rewritten and modified in a subtle blurring of producing and consuming content, a world where machine can help you turn what you imagine into real shareable pictures. ChatGPT is not yet the best story teller ever but it’s already so fun I feel like a kid. I can’t stop wondering where things are going to be in a decade.

Frighteningly I guess both visions can be equally true.
What is "nice", anyway?

We're all characters. At the end of the day, some people do need to be treated a little bit differently. It's not "unfair"/"unjust", it's just called being human.

If you fire everyone who isn't some homogenous nice person we'll have pretty boring teams.

Who hasn't worked with someone a little brash, a little odd, a little immature, but if you actually took the time to get to know them is a pretty good person overall?

I worked with an engineer who clipped his nails at his desk and took his coffee into the bathroom. Socially, he could be rude. Professionally, he did not take criticism well, and liked to do things "his" way. But he was also generous with his time if you needed help. If you broached things very delicately, he could take some feedback. He was given projects to work on that allowed him to work pretty independently. And his rudeness was probably just social awkwardness, as he could be alright if you had a chat with him one-on-one.

It didn't destroy team morale. Everyone recognised he was different. He wasn't a jerk, he just had autism and/or anxiety.

Someone once said to me "meet people where they are at".
Human were already on the path to doing this without any help by AI. We already have the potentially world ending threats of both nuclear war and climate change, I am yet to be convinced that AI is actually more dangerous than either of those.
Oh my gosh, I feel for you. I'm Irish, still in Ireland, a lifelong pacifist, and have nothing but the deepest respect for your duty and honour to and for your country. And from a distance I must agree with you.

Yes, in the supposed Great Game this is simply a mole being whacked, a performative exercise that does nothing to solve any of the problems and shoddily disguises these in puerile emnity.

Yet and all, The US Senate is still and nonetheless one of the most powerful and wayward legislative bodies in our species' history.
You have a direct part in your Senate, albeit at the length of another's arm, and so you still have this power.

I'm at risk of rambling, but you are still a citizen of one of the greatest nations, and you should have more than hope. I take your two bucks and give it to a beggar, as their need is greater than either of ours.

Please, if you are willing and brave, and as you have served your country we know you are willing and brave, get into Politics. Good people working together is the best way of making things better
Genuine question: can violating the Great Firewall lead to a 20 year prison sentence? What about a $1M fine?
And even that has a timeout, just a much longer one.
I want to work on important tasks, with enough non-BS work that the jerks stifle their complaints and bend to the task, and the slow but kind people make sure to measure twice and cut once and ask for help and document. Operational tasked jobs are a lot more fun and have much better espirit de corps than bullshit jobs where people can afford to tear each other down and make dumb errors.

And the task of management is to build effective orgs out of whomever you have, not some pretend ideal. Even start ups hiring the first person for each position are bounded by the universe of people. My best work experiences have been ones where a group of people united by a common vision worked well together, using each person for their strengths, built things greater than any of the parts.

You don’t get there by pitting people against one another.
The demo video you have is really well put together. The language is great, it has good pacing & touches all the right points. I really liked the tone & attitude of the person recording it. It's MVP'd in a way that it's not over produced, but uses simple tools to achieve a high quality regardless. Well done!
This has been “country wisdom” for some time in my part of the U.S. Lots of jokes about “farm boys” who are a head taller than their parents, and wondering what they’ve been being fed.
Parts for it are available from the manufacturer for decent prices. I've looked at some of the repair guides and they seem decently detailed.
> The apparent goal is for this to be a “now everybody can contribute to Fortnite, democratize content” thing…

I don't think so. TFA notes that Verse was created to support a non-trivial use case, which is to make it possible to write software that works across multiple servers in order to support thousands of simultaneous players.
>> JSON.parse("{}")["__proto__"]["A"] = "T"
"T"
>> W = {}
Object { }
>> W.A
"T"
I think we are trying to solve impossible scenarios and it simply is not productive.

Alignment will be impossible. It is based on a premise that is a paradox itself. Furthermore, even if it were possible, there will be a hostile AI built on purpose because humanity is foolish enough to do it. Think military applications. I've written in detail about this topic FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap

Stopping AI is also impossible. Nobody is going to agree to give up when somebody else out there will take the risk for potential advantage.

It seems we probably should start thinking more about defensive AI, as the above conditions don't seem resolvable. Of course, defensive AI might be futile as well. It is quite the dilemma.
From a layman's reading of the bill, it would require ISPs to set up bans for arbitrary foreign websites, and it would impose harsh penalties on entities enabling any bypass. Whether it is used to its fullest extent cannot be known, but if the President wanted to, this bill would allow them to ban any major foreign website and would require companies to effectively set up a firewall. In theory, it could be applied to be even more severe than the Great Firewall, depending on how you interpret certain sections.
Even if your teammates don't need this, writing this way is a useful skill when dealing with vendors or other 3rd parties whose culture you don't know, and you don't want to give them an excuse to prioritise someone else's ticket
Lisztomania
> If it were, it would be the solution to the Fermi paradox and all matter in our galaxy would be paperclips already.

The proof is in the pudding. The jury is still out. Maybe not enough time has elapsed since the big bang, at least not on this galaxy or in our observable corner of the universe.
Flutter is awesome! One of my good friends is building his company with Flutter.

Does Flutter / Dart play nice with JSON? We export out to JSON from our web demo editor fwiw, but we'll definitely look into porting the full experience into a Dart package!
Or we may as well have no laws because people are completely rational actors no matter their age etc...

And you didn't address my point with respect to young people's lack of life experience. Or that trade relationships should be fair and equitable.
+1 to this. If anything, you have a language that looks like it was made by luminaries, for luminaries. If you want something that would get kids that wanted to get into programming to create custom Fortnite modes, you want something that looks closer to Scratch or Python. I want to say Roblox has made programming quite accessible to children iirc
Maybe use this to create a voice interface connected to a LangChain agent?
UK operates on the notion of parliamentary supremacy, which makes any constitution, formal or informal, largely meaningless, since the Parliament can always override anything in it with simple majority vote:

"It is often said that it would be unconstitutional for the United Kingdom Parliament to do certain things, meaning that the moral, political and other reasons against doing them are so strong that most people would regard it as highly improper if Parliament did these things. But that does not mean that it is beyond the power of Parliament to do such things. If Parliament chose to do any of them, the courts would not hold the Act of Parliament invalid."
Isn’t that a huge ingredient in fertilizer as well?
It uses hundreds of MB less RAM at least.
Top comment smells like it was paid for (or posted) by the CCP.
I have experienced this every time I go out if the country for two weeks and come back. Main thing I notice is the fear I sense in people whenever cops are nearby, and definitely the sense of this security state hovering over everyone. The feeling of personal freedom I have feels like it gets wrenched away whenever I enter the US. The talk of freedom in America is basically cope for having no personal freedom. Wherever you go there's some security fuck hovering around watching and waiting for you to fuck up.