skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, thanks for the bazillions of words to point out a simple mistake. Do you work for Lenovo and I hurt your feelings or something? I still stand by my assertion it's a stupid resolution for a laptop in 2023

Good for them making it "bigger than an iPad Pro" but I'm not shopping for an iPad, I'm shopping for a laptop that I can take on work trips that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out trying to use it
Stop using following things:

- Phone

- Social media

- Online games

- Sugar

Start doing following things:

- Eat + Sleep + Exercise well

- Get involved in local community, devote time with family and friends

- Read books

- Enjoy life
> but it may well be worth billions of dollars to prevent the Fukushima disaster.

Let's see about "Fukushima disaster".

Built in 1982. In 2012 was hit by a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake (preceded by a 7.2 foreshock two days before, three 6 earthquakes on the same day, and hundreds of aftershocks in the next days) and immediately after by a 14-meter-hight tsunami.

The earthquake exceeded plant tolerances (ground g-forces of 0.56, 0.52, 0.56 vs the seismic reactor design tolerances of 0.45, 0.45, and 0.46) and the tsunami (built to withstand 10-meter tsunamis, tsunami was 14 meters high).

So, the disaster is literally a black swan by definition. The aftermath is: 1 person dead due to actual incident, 2000 dead due to evacuation.

Now imagine if some other power sources were approached this way: Th Banqiao and Shimantan Dams disaster of 1975 killed at least 240 thousand people. We should never build another dam again, it's too dangerous.
Export your data via avro files and try using Athena
I don‘t think so, instead there should be a very simple fixed-width formally proven protocol per use case over a very basic bus connected to an internet gateway.
Athena and Redshift Spectrum are the best alternatives on the AWS side.
> It's also a German thing to fingerpoint at Brussels

I wonder where Belgians point to. Schuman?
It is technically 12th order, but every other coefficient is zero, so it calculates a polynomial approximation in x^2 space
ProtonDB is definitely a treasure for Linux gaming and it's often more up to date than Valve's ratings. I don't bother with custom Proton packages though, I bought the thing to play games, I have a desktop and a laptop to tinker with Linux. I also refuse to disable the write lock to my system partition, because things should Just Work without root access already.

The Steam Deck proves what Canonical and others have been trying to prove for years: restrictions can be good for your experience sometimes. I still despise Snap, but its model is extremely close to what Valve managed to succeed with. Fedora's attempt is even closer.

I don't think I'll ever accept snap in a world where Flatpak exists, but I think sandboxes are the future for letting normal people use Linux. The simple fact of the matter is that if you need to touch the terminal or edit obscure text files to do any normal task, your system has failed and it sucks to use. Take away a dev's ability to rely on that and software seems to get a lot better. Hopefully this trend will also slowly turn people on support websites to stop telling people asking questions to open a bash shell for changing things that have buttons and settings screens, though I fear I may as well wait for the Year Of The Linux Desktop.
This bill is only about the external, and a general framework for the establishment of a national firewall. If the government wants to ban all social media, more power to them. It would never pass the 1st amendment, but if it could I'd even support it! But that's tangential, as this bill isn't that.

As for what's causing divides, the one thing I'd observe is that if it were the internet then we'd expect to see divides of a similar magnitude throughout the world, and that is not the case. Some Western democracies, such as Norway, are even becoming less divided. They have no censorship whatsoever besides a handful of file-sharing sites being blocked, and universal access to the internet. Beyond this there are so many possible, and completely viable, explanations for the divisions in America that I think it turns into a Rorschach test. It's like trying to explain the fall of Rome.
Or at minimum, regular audits of log times in the driving system compared to compensation payouts.

If drivers are only showing 200 hours in the logs but getting paid for 250 hours of driving, you know something has gone wrong.
And you'd of course be wrong.

Because these are ratios...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
if we "gotta start somewhere", why are we starting with someone who is an outsider to the bipartisan political in-group? assume this prosecution is successful—are we really to believe that then, thereafter, members of the bipartisan political in-group will somehow receive equal scrutiny? upon what basis should we assume this eventual justice will occur?

it should be clear to any sufficiently neutral observer that this is nothing more than making an example out of a problematic political outsider for daring to run for President again. this is not the start of some great wave of justice on behalf of the people, against the entrenched bipartisan political in-group class.
> As I get older I'm more and more convinced that actually doing anything at all can be a differentiator.

Indeed. This has always been true, and will always be true. Thus the old saw about how "80% of success is just showing up."
“Doing things that don't scale” with AI
I used JB software for years and was a big avocate (I am an amateur dev).

Then I started to mix Python, Go, TypeScript, Vue, ... and had to be juggle between editors. Some features were common, some other not.

I forced myself to fully switch to vscode for a week and after initial struggles this is, for me, by far a better ide.

It misses things but heads a mich better configuration. All languages are consistent and can live together.

I am not coming back.
> a better screen

I would have loved if valve offered a tier with better screen. That would been a worth while upgrade.
UTopia: From Unit Tests to Fuzzing – Fuzzing Weekly CW13
Whether it has inner state is highly relevant to my claim, which was that the only state a LLM has (aside from its parameters) is transparent and readable in English. Which the context is.
Buy the biggest server on Hetzner and install ClickHouse (/s?)
GitHub Copilot for the Command Line is amazing
Also, the EV charging infrastructure is already pretty dense. If you have the ability to plug a space heater in, you should be able to trickle charge fast enough for a daily commute.

The main issue is that the EV charging stations all have bullshit social networks attached to them, and therefore do not reliably accept credit card payments.
When it imagines stuff that isn't there, I ask it to implement the missing piece. Doesn't always work, but often does
It's not even that it always considers all edges, but that you can't exit the search early when a condition is met. In other words, you have to first find all the paths and then, outside the CTE, filter to the shortest. We push the node filter into the CTE by wrapping it in a function.

> The solution is to build and index denormalized n-th order relationship tables.

This sounds much more performant but also more difficult to maintain.
How is complicated, but has been discussed in text on the internet at great length starting around 2006.

Lex wasn't particularly curious about the how and spent more time changing the subject (e.g., "Are you afraid of death?") than on drawing Eliezer out on the how. The interview with Lex is a good way to get a sense of what kind of person Eliezer is or what it would be like to sit next to him on a long airplane ride, but is not a good introduction to AI killeveryoneism.

(AI killeveryoneism used to be called "AI safety", but people took that name as an invitation to talk about distractions like how to make sure the AI does not use bad words, so we changed the name.)
> And from what I perceive, there's now cookie banners everywhere while my personal data is still going into opaque silos.

Those cookie banners are either non-compliant with the regulations or meaningless. Why people add them is anyones guess.
Branch prediction?
I mean given the current state. The technology is already sufficiently advanced and in so many peoples hands that "stopping" it now is just an exercise in pushing it underground. Only the opposite can be a useful safeguard.

Rapid evolution is well underway. Lone individuals are able to push the envelope of what's possible even with just a new basic interop, maybe in an afternoon. It's much too late to be discussing things like moratoriums.

Maybe such things could prevent emergence when the basics don't exist yet, but not when we're all already walking around holding a capable factory in our hands and can create a new product line in a few lines of Python.
I predict Google will be going through major changes in the next twelve months...they've been caught off-guard by OpenAI/Bing...Google isn't used to playing defense and having to fight for search marketshare

by some measures, Google is number 4 in cloud...definitely no better than number 3...you have to wonder if it is worth it for Google to be an also-ran
They have on-demand pricing, which is metered by data read, and also reserved slots, which are metered by time. The reserved slots come with a considerable discount to on-demand, so it's worth it when you are consuming compute most of the time.
Why CI/CD won’t save your mobile team
Fixie.AI’s Developer Preview and $17M in seed funding
Or, what you can learn about Mobile DevOps from the world of aviation (seriously)
This kind of matches my experience using LLMs for coding. They work eerily well for some tasks, and they are hilariously wrong at others. In general I find it performs abysmally with more obscure or complicated tasks/bugs, which makes intuitive sense to me.

Productivity booster? Sure! End of programming jobs? eh, far from it. At the very least you need the knowledge to tell if what it is producing is good or garbage. I haven't managed to make ChatGPT tell me that it doesn't know how to do something, instead producing BS code over and over.
This is also available with chatgpt plugins in alpha, one of the plugins is websearch. It works pretty well in bing which also allows this and is reportedly based on gpt4. Short of that, another thing I've found to work pretty well is pasting in the api docs for the relevant api at the beginning of the prompt and explaining that is the more updated info.
I think the truckers often want to drive longer than they’re legally allowed.
NYC, SF, and other big cities behave this way, but most of the rest of the country doesn't.
I needed an Oracle test database lately to try and get "off" Oracle and they came in and did a licence review.

Ended up having to pay £1m due to some legacy non-compliance and couldn't even afford the test DB anymore.
I think that's a subtly different thing.

The OPs claim was more or less the paperclip maximizer problem. I contend that a super intelligence given a specific goal by humans would take the context of humans into account and avoid harm because that's the intelligent thing to do - by definition.

The orthogonal thesis is about the separation of intelligence from goals. My attitude to that is that a AI might not actually have goals except when requested to do something.
You started with “not really” but then clarified that it does indeed change the costs to the worse to an unquantified fraction of its customers, so what you should have said is “yes really” both literally and figuratively.
I'm glad Steam made hardware. I'm going to go ahead and buy one of these to support the initiativeveven though I barely play games anymore. Maybe 1 every year or two.
Pairing programming.

If pairing is a huge part of your culture at work, the higher resolution screen sharing makes all the difference as you don’t have to squint or strain your eyes while reading code.
Here's your reasoning:

Every few years we throw people at the disaster that is dams. And still: Banqiao and Shimantan Dams failure with 240 000 dead, Machchu-2 Dam failure with 5000 dead etc. clearly show us how dangerous this technology is, and how we should never, ever use it again.
plobably because the user was tricked by spellcheck...
I learned to code with founders and coders years ago. What I learned there got me my first job in tech.
I've been working towards addressing this by building a tool that bridges the gap between Scratch and Unity. Talking with Scratch Team members in the past, Unity has been cited as a good exit strategy. Unlike many other languages you aren't being dropped into a text-only environment. I think the main downside is the initial presentation of Unity can be a little daunting.

The tool I'm working on adds a new entry to the main Unity menu bar - "Scratch". Clicking on this allows you to enter the project ID of a Scratch project. Once done, the tool pulls the assets (graphics, sounds, etc) directly from the Scratch website as well as pulling the code and converting it to native C#. The idea behind this is that a student who is intermediate to high level at Scratch can import their favourite Scratch project over to Unity. They can look at the C# code to see the comparison, inspect and modify any of the assets, see the Unity components added to each Unity Game Object, etc. Basically it puts them in a position where they have a project that they have written in Scratch that they can no play in Unity. They can breakpoint the code and single step through it. Essentially it is designed to take away much of the initial impact of having to start from an empty canvas in Unity.

This is currently a WIP but I'm aiming to have a beta version ready within months. I made an early pre-beta video a while back to demonstrate it in action. You can view the video at https://youtu.be/nuUF9BcJT8g
> Forcing everyone to use fixed transport locks their job prospects and keeps them dependent on corporations and government entities.

This is a very, very American take where people think they have a God-given right to live in these horrible and extremely inefficient suburbs.

Pretty much everywhere else the choice is "build more transit", which is actually not that difficult when there's political will.
> The IRS already prepares your taxes for you. There is simply no way around this: they have to prepare them to check the numbers they get from personal filings

I'd be interested to hear that I'm wrong, but I believe this is not true. The IRS almost certainly does not calculate on their end what your taxes should be, but rather uses some much cheaper heuristic which they compare to your return and if it's "close enough" then the amount they stand to recover from auditing you is less than the cost to audit, and the IRS simply accepts the difference.
Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry; François-Philippe Champagne. Ex Vice-President and Senior Counsel of ABB Group, as well as Strategic Development Director, acting General Counsel, and Chief Ethics Officer and Member of the Group Management Committee of Amec Foster Wheeler.

Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs; Audrey Tang. Tang was a child prodigy, reading works of classical literature before the age of five, advanced mathematics before six, and programming before eight, and she began to learn Perl at age 12. On CPAN, Tang initiated over 100 Perl projects between June 2001 and July 2006, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5.

South Korea's Minister of Science and ICT; Lee Jong-ho. Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Seoul National University. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to development and characterization of bulk multiple-gate field effect transistors.

Australian Minister for Industry and Science; Edham Husic. Husic worked as a research officer for the member for Chifley, Roger Price. Husic was first elected as a branch organiser in 1997. In 1998, he was elected as vice-president of the Communications Division of the CEPU. From 1999 to 2003, he worked for Integral Energy as a communications manager.

That's just from a quick search of some countries other than Europe/US/China. I tried Israel and Singapore too, but neither of those ministers had a "technical" background per-se.
To catch the majority of truckers who are flouting the rules, you need to spot check each trucker perhaps 10x in a career.

There are 3.5 million truckers in the USA, with typical career lengths of perhaps 30 years. So you need to inspect 3200 trucks/day.

If an inspector takes 15 minutes to do an inspection (checking name, as well as visual roadworthiness checks), you need 100 inspectors. Or about 2 per state.

As soon as word gets out that flouting these rules is career-ending, then the industry will probably mostly regulate itself. Seems pretty easy to solve this problem...
Most cities that started to follow through on either scrapping their police force or cutting their funding saw a massive spike in crime, and even those mayors and city councillors who were adamantly defund-the-police types are now begging for more money for the police and for police officers to come back out of retirement or from the other cities they moved to.

The public turned on the movement when the movement turned on the public. Minneapolis neighborhoods were faced with turning into food deserts after looting caused enough damage to force the grocery stores to close for nearly a year (smoke and water damage).

Some stores partner with non-governmental community peace organizations (i.e. civilized gangs) to reduce the need for police presence, and it is slowly working.

Others haven't been so lucky. A Walmart recent closed in a suburb because it needed to call police nearly 6,500 times over the course of 5 years. That was after other local retail outlets had also closed.

Social fabric in some areas is just fundamentally torn, and there's nobody with a good solution.
So they have decided that the growth period for GCP is over and now it needs to squeeze all the profits it can. I thought with all that search money pouring down, they would bet a little longer on GCP growth.

I remember many large companies that migrated to GCP explicitly cited BigQuery cost effective performance. This should change that calculation significantly.

But if GCP loses all cost effectiveness, why would companies chose it, knowing that unlike AWS, GCP products might be priced like a loss leader for some time and can increase any day.

Also, if Google becomes content to be just a small cloud provider, do they just bet their entire future on search. What if search gets disrupted (by something like a next gen LLM).
I've actually seen interviews with truckers where they state that they dislike the drive time limits, so that the driver would know about the bypass may actually be what some of them want
Well of course it’s to American companies, it’s not like Italy or the rest of Europe is going to innovate. That’s what happens when you haven’t created anything in decades of a technology boom but people want to feel like they’re living in 2023 not 1923.
Ah, the release notes still say: „ and experimental support for Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP).“

They’ll get there eventually.
It's because it's so easy to screw up. With E2E instant messaging the encryption is there by default for everything (in most apps anyway, looking at you, telegram). With email the default is unencrypted and there's so many ways for a user (either the sender or the recipient) to accidentally leak the whole chain in plaintext. So if it's actually important to you to keep the contents secret, email is not a good solution and cannot be reasonably made a good solution.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....
> polyopoly

Oligopoly.
> The audit logs can never show who was actually behind the wheel.

You would compare the audit logs to the payroll logs.

If someone is getting paid for hours that aren’t in the logs, it’s a clear violation.

> The only fix is to have police on the highway randomly pulling over trucks, and checking that the driving license of the actual driver matches who the computer thinks is the driver.

That wouldn’t even address the problem. The historical logs are being altered, not the current driver. If you pulled them over then the computer would have them shown as the driver.

Definitely not that hard. Just audit payroll and driver logs to see if they match. The truck drivers aren’t driving extra hours for free.
I think digesting all of human writing is just as "hard coded" as anything genetic.
Hurry, fix that typo on word 5 before your edit window closes!
Sam Altman: OpenAI should make an alignment dataset and evals and release those
Will be interesting to see what snowflake does. Does this demonstrate why it’s important you trust a company whose main product is what powers your core offering? Or does it suggest the opposite?
And that's okay. The world is big enough for all kind of devices/gaming preferences. The idea that valve shouldn't try to capitalize on their dominant position on the PC market because the phone market is larger i don't is a good one. As long as valve makes money, and that valve customers are happy with the product, i saw live and let live
Criminal proceedings for ex heads of state or government aren’t at all uncommon in perfectly functioning democracies. It seems to me that the US is more of an outlier in this regard, so this seems to me a positive sign of the US moving in the right direction.
Loved it - was there for over 12 years. It can be very intense, and it's definitely not the kind of environment you can slack off.

It gets a lot of strange press, but many of the things that make it strange to the outside are what make it such a high performing place. In general - be honest, work hard, have integrity, and demand that of others.

I have a new startup now, and I credit BW with a large amount of the skills and problem solving I needed to go out and tackle big problems.
Concepts in Programming Languages (University of Cambridge lecture slides) [pdf]
Thanks for the feedback. We have a few Zoom-converts and here's what they've told us they like about CoScreen:
1. Every user has their own mouse pointer instead of sharing the same.
2. You can share bi-directionally, so not just one at a time.
3. More importantly, if I share two or three windows with you, they appear as three separate native windows for you and you can resize and position them as you like without interfering with me instead of being stuck in a black box.
Yeah.

And whereas they add more and more emojis, they don't want (yeah, they were asked for and they refused it in an arrogant way) to add a separate symbol for apostrophe (which is currently "the same" symbol as right single quotation mark) (and whereas there is separate symbol for, for example, ratio U+2236, which is different from colon U+003A).
Looks great. Congrats! I’m curious, what is your tech stack for implementing audio and video chat?
Completely agree. In fact, even massive graph data can make use of a relational database + caching [1]

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...
"Fiery but peaceful protests"

The image of a CNN anchor in a respirator standing in front of a burning building calling things peaceful was when the movement lost it.

It's hard to sympathize with an angry mob that's burning down cities and looting stores.
"Revanchist"? What territory did they ever posses and lose? What would be the revanche?
Yes, thinking of adding filters to be able to zoom in to cities of regions. Thanks for the feedback!
A simple "Hello World" is a realistic test scenario, representative of a large class of plain command line tools and approximately reduced to pure overhead.

If you can distribute and run a trivial hello world program, you can expect to be able to distribute and run something like tail or uniq, and that it will be larger (more standard library portions linked) and slower (more actual work executed).