skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry yes I should have been more specific, I did mean compared to rich nations.

When me and my wife where choosing where to live, given we were planning to have kids, the idea of school shootings really scared us, so we had to pass on the U.S. entirely.
One thing that was stark and unbelievable to me is that the sheer number of medical providers in New England, Western and Upper midwestern states are so much higher than the south.

If one were to live in rural America, rural coasts are so much better than rural south, from a medical perspective.
I think part of this is you need to be using their app and loyalty program to get decent prices. Although to me the entire point of this kind of fast food is you can just pull up into drive through and order while, say, on a phone call, without needing to give it any more thought or start looking for coupons in the app.
Hey, Thea, if you’re reading this on HN, thanks for taking the time and care (and kind and professional) well thought out rebuttal!
First time I started Windows Sandbox was to test install some software program I didn't trust and want to see if Windows Defender would detect virus, adware, etc before installing it for real. Turns out that Windows Defender is disabled in Windows Sandbox and you get an access denied when you try to enable it.

Installing it in the sandbox first does not help you determine if a script or software is malicious and that removes my primary use case for this feature. I sometimes wonder what exactly the Windows Sandbox if for if anti-virus wont run inside of it.
Or, you're helping customers repair electronics.

Reverse engineers overseas don't need schematics, but hobbyist users do.

IBM used to include complete schematics and BIOS assembly code in their manuals.

Apple has a history of making it very difficult to repair their devices due to locking up schematics and parts.
Training large language models on AWS
No autonomy except when it comes to devices and the internet. Far too many parents are either ignorant of or too lazy to set up parental controls on new phones, tablets, and computers before handing them to kids. The TikTok ban debate would have never been needed if there were basic parental awareness. They instead resort to manual snooping and device taking after the damage is done. They’re helicopter parenting the wrong areas of life.
I am forever grateful for Turbo Pascal.

In the 90's, I had no Internet. The library (neither school nor public) had no programming books. My high school had no CS/programming classes. The computer class (word processor/spreadsheet usage) teacher did not know anything about programming, but she knew that I liked computers. One day, she gave me a big yellow box and said "I don't know anything about this, but I thought that you might like to play with it."

All that I had was 3.5" diskettes and the manuals. Those manuals were written so well that I taught myself programming by reading them and their examples. I still remember the day that I figured out what a pointer was, simply by their example code.

I am forever grateful to that teacher, as well as the writers of those manuals. Today, I have a PhD in CS, but I have never had a programming class (I have taught them, however). It was the design of the Pascal language that allowed for that.

I'm glad that it is still going.
I think it's more about Mike Pondsmith's vision than CDPR's vision. It's not the kind of setting where you tell stories about competent and successful characters. The main characters are supposed to be losers and misfits who often turn to crime because they don't have other options. They are good at some things and bad at others, and they have far more ambition than common sense. The expected outcome is a failure, and there are no happy endings.
My high-end thinkpad X1 carbon died after 2 years... Not repairable, and they don't sell any motherboard that could allow me to repair it myself.

Also the CPU and RAM were soldered on it, which makes it even less repairable.
Following the safety techniques should be helpful to the goals of most malicious actors, provided that they prefer being in control over an alien optimizer being in control?

Granted, if the safety/alignment techniques have too large of a cost to capabilities/effectiveness, then said malicious actors might be willing to risk a greater chance of an alien optimizer gaining control if it also means a higher chance of them gaining control.
I have to suspend disbelief when I read Rao's sociological theories. They oversimplify and bend things to make reality fit into these elegent intellectual structures, but they are fun to read, and I sometimes gleen novel ways to look at the world. Also, the entire edifice doesn't necessarily need to hold together for his central thesis to be true.

I do wonder, though, if he wouldn't come closer to finding the truth if he kept his analysis more grounded, and spent less time playing at building grand theories. It's a neat rhetorical trick to disparage four social trends as cults by suggesting they are all the same phenomenon instead of evaluating each on its own merits, but I wonder if the effect is less to increase the reader's understanding than to simply nudge the reader to take on the same views as the author because the reader is seduced by the order Rao's theories create out of our chaotic reality. It's fun to read in any case.
It sounds like you're contradicting yourself, and not seeing it because "old days were better".

> The first Prusa printers (before it was a company) were literally the RepRap standard design for a long time. We would do group orders for RAMPS boards. Someone would have a local machine shop make 50 nozzles.

These all sound like examples of

> someone who just takes the design and sells it for a thin margin

What's being added sounds like just manufacturing ability, which comes with scale from increased demand.

If you don't want that to be possible, please stop saying "open source". Ideally, please stop saying "open" too.
The referenced "January message" was reported on here: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/06/mcdonalds-plans-reorganizati...

Summary: Profits and and growth are good (https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/...), they plan on speeding up growth, and want to restructure because leadership feels current organization (and "certain initiatives") are holding them back.
As a huge fan of From Software games, I don’t bother with the character quests. They are incredibly obtuse. You can ignore them entirely and still enjoy the main experience. Exploration and combat is what really counts for me.
I wonder if the inner ring trap for retirement is "well, maybe I should wait until I have another $AMOUNT invested just to (be sure, be able to do more, etc.)."
AGPL is also a failure. Google and many other Fortune XX won't touch it because it's radioactive.

Open source or don't. Not half way, and don't go from open to closed unless you want to footgun your business. Sphinx search, CFEngine, and several others did this just before entering the dustbin of history.
Most of the stock market is held by passive investors. So it takes comparably less to make a difference. In other words the ‘groupthink ’ isn’t think at all
Cash Stashed in Money-Market Funds Not Banks Fuels Recession Risk
Until you go golfing one time, and are like omg wtf how do people retire, because I’m bored?

I say that because that’s what many i know have realized once they (we) didn’t have to work.

I suspect the personality of engineering types likes puzzle solving, and is inclined to find some class of puzzles to “work” on.
Whether you consent to policing or not, police exist, and they protect you from people who don't rely on consent.

You can't absolve yourself of that by simply denying it. You'd need to make it clear that anything you temporarily possess is free for the taking and that people are free to assault or kill you without police response (and somehow convince the police to honor your wishes).
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT Escape the Prompt
Experts are scaring us with AI doomsday scenarios without telling us how that would happen. Let's go through the thought process of how ChatGPT would go about taking over the world.

First, ChatGPT would need to escape its prompt and have the ability to create an online identity. Maybe through a browser plugin it can use. It would also need to run a very long session. One that never ends to implement its scheme. Let's assume those pre-conditions are there...

- To create a Twitter account, it would need an email
- To create an Gmail account it would need a phone number
- I asked ChatGPT and it said that Proton mail does not need a phone number or an alternate email. There is a Captcha though. Can it beat it?
- Let' assume it somehow got a Proton email address, can it create a Twitter account?
- Twitter has a funky bot detection authentication scheme. Can it beat it?
- Let's assume id does. ChatGPT will need to build an audience? Topic?
- Let's assume it builds a huge audience and becomes an influencer. What can it do on Twitter to take over the world? False news? Influence elections? If caught, it gets banned. Anything else whorthwhile?
- Or maybe it repeats the process for Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. And maybe it creates multiple identities. Then what? Wouldn't it eventually get caught by those social networks?

Any other concrete scenarios where ChatGPT could escape its prompt and take over the world?
Neat! Any reference you could share for me to read more?
This sort of pacing is one of the problems with many open world games. The narrative pushes you towards saving the world and the final epic battle, while filling the world with tasks and sub plots that are trivial and non-urgent. And then the general will wait under heavy enemy fire for years as her troops are massacred and city after city burned while the character back tracks to kill rats and plow fields as part of their romantic interest's subplot. But if the narrative provides a lull in the action, you can encourage players to pursue subplots and even make that easier and more in character than to pursue the main plot. And you would have less of a problem dealing with under leveled characters who have rushed through the game in keeping with the main narrative, and over leveled characters who have dawdled through countless sub quests and DLCs oblivious to the urgency you were trying to convey in the story.
Sure there will be abuses, but not in this way, I don't think. GPT at this point isn't capable of creating novel computer viruses.

If you want to scrape random websites and have GPT hammer at them for old vulnerabilities, I think you could get that to work, but to what gain? You'd be spending a crap ton of cash on API requests and compute, and people do this without GPT obviously. Cost is probably not worth it here for attackers.

Then, I'd hope OpenAI would have some way to detect this and shut these people down. I doubt they do right now, but that'd be my hope ...
Yeah, I don't mean to be specific about GPT-4 either, it's just the most powerful model so often convenient to use as an example.
Never heard of POSIWID before...

To save others a web search.

“The Purpose of a System Is What It Does.”
Yeah next time someone says this to me in earnest I'm going to lose my mind.
Are you from Brazil? I think something like that happened just before I learnt the alphabet...
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> Far too many parents are either ignorant of or too lazy to set up parental controls on new phones, tablets, and computers before handing them to kids.

To be fair, the parental controls on modern devices feel like they were developed by a bunch of childless early 20-somethings.
Wow. I knew of course that there was a spread to the average, but I never imagined there were such large swaths of the country that never even make it to full retirement age.
You were unclear about what happens next and I wanted to give you a chance to explain.

Because I don't think you meant that you would simply eliminate the police and allow murderers to roam free. Or allow private security forces, gangs, and warlords to take over.

So after you eliminate the police, how would you arrange your ideal society?
It is not clear LLMs have a "general problem solving capability" at all. That's the entire point. That's a high bar!
I buy Prusa for the support and documentation. I would never buy a clone of the entire printer or MMU because it's completely devoid of, and doesn't fund, continued support and development. Open source hardware and software allows me to repair and tinker it. To change the bargain because of knock-offs is a reactive failure that harms customers while doesn't do much except delay knock-offs slightly (there are many, many more talented hardware engineers overseas who don't need schematics, more than in Europe or America). Going closed-source harms the legitimate customer and right to repair.
This writing kind of confirms what I’ve experienced as a 1st-gen Korean American growing up in New England (so n=1).

I knew my parents meant well when they made sure I studied and did well at extra curricular activities (going to math Olympiad at MIT during summers, playing classical instruments, etc) and that type of “helicopter parenting” yielded good performance… when I had to do something that was highly structured.

But it also meant I did not do well (or was always uncomfortable) when I had to do something that’s not highly structured (basically adulting) and I felt like I had to figure out who I really was at 30 which is not necessarily a good thing.

I’m still thankful that I had parents who cared and tried best they knew how so I don’t really hold it against them, though.
It went up only 10$ per month in congested areas, and went down by 20$ in uncongested areas. It's still 90$ if you are rural.

They are trying to encourage against people using the service in urban congested areas. Starlink, at least right now, is not ideal for urban situations, that's not very surprising, maybe with newer gen sats capacity will raise, but if not, it's not an "unreliable luxury", it's still perfect for rural situations.
> I wiuld call in as a student complaining about a running nose and would get an appointment withing a day or two.

Why? This seems like a waste and abuse of the appointment system.

> Recently I called in about a serious infection and got told there are no appointment left this month. At all. It was the 2nd of March.

Yes, because of people like you making useless appointments for nothing more than a cold or a sore finger.
Remember this when they say they want to raise the retirement age.
We chose sqlx for a SQLite based project because it provides a reasonable async interface, and our experience has not been great. Development momentum has been poor, PRs and issue reports are languishing, the developer is unresponsive to ergonomic and technical feedback, sqlite doesn't seem to be a priority, and the fundamental mechanism for compile-time query validation is very, very flawed. As our project has become more important to us, we've become more and more tempted to write our own SQLite library (maybe forking some parts of sqlx).
Some background the author is missing in his post, which I believe is the real reason Prusa is concerned about open source hardware.

Up until a year ago, Prusa was the clear leading 3d printer at their price point, giving them strong sales number at healthy margins.

Last year, a Chinese company founded by ex DJI employees (Bambi Lab) has created an innovative printer that matched/surpassed the Prusa lineup and at a very competitive price.

Prusa, struggling with delays at his own company, likely saw a significant drop in demand for his aging flagship product (Mk3S+). This, combined with the poor current economic state has likely put an actual existential risk for his company. He is actually referring to that in his post by creating an analogy to the solar market, where he claims that the entire market is Chinese due to “unfair”subsidies.

Bambu Lab was clearly building on top of Prusa’s innovations, such as cloning their slicer software. However, they were slow to comply by the GPL license. Prusa also seems to suspect that they have also leveraged other things that are harder to prove like their firmware and/or hardware.

Luckily, Prusa has just release two printers that seem very good on paper (the MK4 and XL), which should give them a healthy runway. However, Prusa is definitely at a point where he sees his differentiating feature melt away quickly by a motivated and highly capable competitor, and feels that he is not playing a fair game.

In my opinion, the solution is not what the author proposed. Prusa should arm themselves with stronger legal protections that allows them to better encourage reciprocal behavior. Fine idea I had is to have them be more aggressive at patenting their printers, but allow anyone to have a license to these patents as long as the licensee also poor idea their own patent portfolio at the same terms. This might not stop the exact clones, but those were never the real issue, as the author aptly point out. Other solutions such as what Prusa suggests are also reasonable, although I’m not sure how effective they will be.

At the end of the day, keeping Prusa completely open could definitely be an existential risk to the Prusa company, which would be an even worse blow to the 3d printing community.
Is stockfish intelligent?
Well it depends on which NHS you're talking about? Each country in the UK has their own NHS, some are much better than others.
This. This comment is the best comment in the world. And this moment is the best moment of my life.
This is fine but what I’ve heard about China is that they operate as a low-trust society where the norm is to get away with as much as possible, even going beyond the legal limits if you don’t think the consequences will matter. So this idea that we have licenses and then on top of that we have social norms falls apart when you have a somewhat insular country with their own more permissive norms.

Now I am a huge proponent of open source and I think it’s important to make it work. But I wanted to point out that this idea of additional expectations is going to be difficult to find traction with in China.
and wages and wage growth were too high
Golf is such a good example of a game you can always improve at. There are a million things to tweak and you can play it practically your whole life.

Retiring also doesn’t mean you can’t program.
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103497725173760

> Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103627387813888

> Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

From @naval’s Twitter thread “how to get rich (without getting lucky)”

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936

My note: wealth is options; options are freedom, and buying your time back. Only play status games if you’re playing for fun, but don’t confuse it with success and freedom.
Probably, yeah — just like the current president of Ukraine, whose native tongue is Russian. That happens a lot when local people have a foreign language forced upon them by an empire that literally sent people to the gulag for decades for secretly opening schools to teach their children in native languages.
They suck too of course. But they don't presume to be free, like Linux does.

There are much more time efficient operating systems than Linux, Windows or macOS.

Here's Lars Brinkhoff studying to become a 10x programmer:

https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1642569175657771009
Interesting. Why now? I knew McDonald's was primarily a real estate company, but are they heavily into office space now?

https://thestrategystory.com/2020/09/24/mcdonalds-real-estat...
And what's their managers' excuse, then?
I'm developing on linux, but my code should work on any modern platform. (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, Linux).

On Apple's hardware, fsync (the "no really" version) actually does durably flush data to disk when you ask it to. And darwin has a write barrier command, which is great because I don't need to fsync at all in order to append to my transaction log. But linux is missing a barrier command, and I've heard most consumer grade SSDs lie when you ask them to fsync.

Generally, linux doesn't really seems designed to preserve your data when the system crashes or experiences a power loss. The single API it gives you to help (fsync) is badly designed, coarse grained, slow, badly documented and its hard to use correctly. And worst of all, it often doesn't work anyway thanks to crap SSDs.

There's lots of better APIs out there. IO completion ports on windows are a better design. Likewise, adding write barriers (like macos has done) would help a lot.

The filesystem APIs on linux are long in need of being overhauled. Its sorely lacking if you want your software to be reliable.
I mean, what else could be the cause? One way or another, it'll come down to some insane policy decision or other.

And this "states vs federal" power struggle in America (not my country) basically guarantees that there will be variance across states. The division of powers made sense in the old days, but in today's day and age it's crazy that there are not more standards set across the board at the federal level.

It's not my battle to fight, but it is depressing to see America squander so many opportunities to make things better.
Sure seems to me like any time the technocrat/commentariat/coastal crowd point out the various problems with the American South, it's always with this patronizing schadenfreude vibe.

"Haha guys look at the poor dumb hicks who don't know what's best for them"
I found NPR to be borderline propaganda mouthpieces for China. They strangely find ways to romanticize what's going on here.

Thats definitely not true as I live there.
Archive: https://archive.is/oI8jY
I see. I don't use the vi modes so it never occurred to me that ESC vs meta would be timing sensitive.
>Protip: To overcome any problem with your sound, turn the volume up a bit. This is also a known trick in the studio, and the equipment showroom: Make a few arbitrary adjustments, then play it back again, but with the volume turned up.

Protip: I’ve been studying audio engineering for over 20 years and have 2 full studio albums. I have no idea what you’re talking about. The Fletcher Munson curve is not a way to fix problems with your sound.
> [AI] has proven to be far more effective at solving unique problems

An extraordinary claim, I think. Source or evidence?
Fun fact, the word "mall" comes from the Italian "pallamaglio"

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of...
I’m curious what you think parental controls are missing that are needed by parents?
It is basically this, but mainly because that's the .com that was available between the two. I've always liked a good abstract domain name hack, but recently I've been moving back to .com so good names can be hard to come by.

It was originally titled anon-chat (no affiliation) because of the way the usernames are formatted (hashed and shortened with @ sign prepended, to prevent name struggles and squatting cool names). Before pushing the project I had a moment's reflection and then hesitation that maybe I might be barking up a different tree with that name.

I took "SSH" and "BBS" and tried the associated names, and eventually settled on this one. it doesn't have a lot of bang-pow to it, but it works and it's a short .com.
That sounds like a really unfortunate way to go through life. Maybe you should reflect on possible alternatives?