skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2000-Year-Old Burned Papyrus Mentioning Alexander the Great Analyzed by AI
Strongmen come out of societal stress or collapse, over the desire for someone, anyone, to fix things.

Whilst the strongman and his cronies may only want power, a democracy can collapse because its citizens do not see the danger.

They may give special powers, or ignore weakening of key institutions, because he is "fixing things" with a strong arm and will.

And by weakening key parts of a democracy, it leaves it more open, susceptible to a strongman to succeed in subverting the current state.

Maybe even decades away.

Many areas of the world were democratic, and fell into this trap, and are now stuck there.

Some have tried to go back to democracy, or forge a democratic state for the first time, and fall due to this same fallacy.

Change is not fast enough, so "just do something, anything!".

So yes, my comparison is completely fair.
> The leading countries to rise in the last 30 years, China and Singapore, have active, competent and interventionist governments.

Can't wait for the China do collapse under its own mismanagement and the memes like the above can finally die off.
> It's always an option to move to a cheaper location!

If you’ve got no savings and are trapped in debt, how do you suggest people do this? How are these people managed to scrape together the deposit and moving costs? The people who would need to do this the most are locked out of it. If you don’t have family members to stay with, what you end up with is skyrocketing homeless numbers which seems to be what is happening in California.
I’m sure the Teams splash screen is O(1).
This thing is a fast little computer. No it's not Apple M1 quick but it's only about 20% slower and you can't run Windows natively on an M1. (And it has a nicer pair of pointing devices than any Apple laptop.)

RISC-V is dog slow. The absolutely top-end RISC-V kit is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 was a decade ago, and the Pi3 was £25 and it had 4 cores, and it can run about 6-7 OSes natively. Not Linux distros, different OSes: Linux, all the BSDs, Plan 9, Inferno, RISC OS.

If you were to buy one of these things -- and I wrote the review and I am not recommending it, not at this price -- you would probably wear it out and resell it off and buy the next gen device, and wear that one out in turn -- before any RISC-V laptop with this kind of performance comes on the market at any price.

Don't kid yourself.
also the higher brackets of salary in Sweden are not even high for European standards. They are in fact quite low
ISRO has plans for heavy lifter with reusability, latest iteration of design named ULV. That is waiting on completion of semi-cryo engine they are developing (SCE-200), which is supposed to by complete by early 2010s, but got delayed. With no further updates on the status of SCE-200 after the launch of HSP. With ISRO limited funding and personnel, RLV and ULV took back stage after HSP program went into high gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Launch_Vehicle
What I'm curious about is: what stops workers from stepping out and doing their own enterprise?

In the case of an industry that makes physical products this is not feasible. E.g.: for a shoe factory, the reason is clear: the factory owner owns the infrastructure and machines (e.g.: the means of production). So workers wanting to step out and do their own thing are lacking all the machines and infrastructure to do the job: it's not that simple.

But when it comes to software, that's not so much the case. The equipment is mostly computers which (I hope) employees of Blizzard can afford to buy. The means of production in this case are the employees themselves and their talent. Sure, they'd have to start from scratch on a new game, but if you have all the talent, there's not much more than you need.
Some of the recent AI model advances, such as "Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now" are a pretty clear indicator to me that we might already have sufficient hardware for the AGI takeoff sitting under everyones' desks right now.
In rocketry, the failure of any one part often results in total system collapse. This rocket has far more such parts than most. And it is a very big system. Any collapse will be spectacular. But if all goes well, that too will be a sight to see. Rocketry is about explosions: either you direct the explosion downwards as thrust or it overtakes you and goes omnidirectional. Either way, an explosion will happen.
I will install solar(not in US) but AFAIK batteries are not yet cost effective, Am I wrong and someone invented some cheap batteries? I expect that a company could be more efficient building giant batteries(chemical, gravity, etc) then a household buying something and maintaining it.
NLab: The Category Theory Wiki
Blood in veins still only experiences 1g in this case. At 9 it really wants to be… elsewhere.
Same. Do you have any recommended readings that explore this idea?
Is it time for a pause? By Kelsey Piper
And wind requires immense use of rare metals that are often acquired through slave labour and create massive radioactive pools of waste.

It is interesting to see the responses to Nuclear of 'too much up front/takes too long' while simultaneously patiently waiting out solar/wind 'it's getting there.'

Interesting they also included biomass here as it is certainly not a carbon friendly process nor renewable.

Too much 'we've picked our winners and won't hear a negative word' in this space now, and it's getting worse.
I don't think it requires more CPU ops compared to GPT, or bigger bandwidth.
Agave (YC W22) Hiring a Founding Eng – 1-4 Yrs Exp. – Full-Time – On-Site (SF)
tl;dr: back-end or full-stack dev. (second hire) at YC Seed-stage API startup in construction.

What we’re looking for:

- Back-end or full-stack dev. with experience building complex systems quickly.

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, multi-tenant systems, and building dev. tools (e.g. APIs).

- Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team.

- Excited to be our second Eng. hire; passion for building a world-class Eng. culture, on par with Stripe.

More about us:

- We’re a data-integration API and analytics platform for the $12T construction/real estate industry.

- We’re a team of 6 who worked together for 6 years, first at Graphiq (acq. by Amazon) then at Alexa.

- We just raised $3M from YC, Accel (Facebook, Slack, Cloudera, Segment, etc.), founders of Plaid and Mailbox, and founders/execs at Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, Fieldwire, and others.

Details:

- Founding Eng: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agave/jobs/jryB4nr-sof...

- Founding Eng (Snr): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agave/jobs/6QgUaxJ-fou...

- Us: https://www.agaveapi.com/
Perhaps you misunderstood me. I don't think this needs any further study because the drugs are already licensed and in use. Just needs publicity and for other places to adopt the treatment protocol.
Because they can. This industry cycles between both states fairly often. Fabs lower output, then ramp up all the time.
I don't believe adding simple checks against data already present in L1 caches and marked as "unlikely to fail" should be so onerous.
So I live in zone 3 in south west london and my rent is 1500pcm. I signed that rental contract in 2021, but since then average rents in my area have gone up 25% (my salary has gone up by ~10% in that time). My contract is coming up for renewal, and I'm bracing myself for 1800-1900 terms from my landlord. This has happened everywhere in London - 15% increases in the past year alone.

Seriously questioning whether to stay in London itself, but even outside of London rents have gone up crazy amounts given the average salaries of those areas. This country is starting to become unaffordable despite the fact that I'm technically >97th income percentile.
Nuclear is obviously an amazing source of energy, but the stigma is insane.

In high school, my Chem II class had an assignment where pairs of kids had to present on why nuclear was good or bad. Of 16 or so kids, only my friend and I presented on why nuclear energy was good. Even the chemistry teacher was against nuclear energy.

Edit: This was in rural USA.
> I wonder if his primary school teacher could get a lien on future earnings?

It’s not the primary school teacher that made the investment. It’s whomever was bankrolling salaries and expenses for teachers, cafeteria workers, buildings to house the activity …

The “lien” on future income would likely be “taxes” (assuming public school here.)
Am I the only person who doesn't actually want AGI? I'd prefer to not have to ever contemplate whether turning my computer off for the night is murder, if running the same tool over and over again in a loop is torture, etc. Is it really such a disappointment if all working on transformers ends up resulting in is a "fancy parlor trick" that happens to be really really useful?
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I agree it there were several missed opportunities.

Mozilla Prism was basically PWA before there were PWAs.

Mozilla gave up all of the head start if had with regards to embedability and extensibility.
There can be a free permit register along the trail need to sign. This is fairly common for hiking trails in some countries. It may also assist search and rescue efforts.

If the permit only covers a small area and it's not at the trail head, through hikers will rather buy a permit that covers the whole route.
I find it interesting that playfulness and joking is against the HN Code of Conduct
If it was only me and the SO, we'd be living in a huge house somewhere in the boondocks with a city-subsidised fiberoptic link.

But... we have kids and the schools in the small towns aren't that good and most are constantly at risk of being shut down.
Especially relevant when you consider the organic search traffic legitimate webmasters may rely upon, vs. the email campaigns or even paid traffic bad actors can quickly spin up.
So the problem with OPs argument according to you is that (a) the liquid waste is compacted/dehydrated before storage(?) (so the volume comparison does not hold), and (b) is less hazardous (spent fuel is harder to store) and (c) the handling of the waste is likely to result in some leaks.

Or is (a) that the extra volume required to safely store spent fuel is larger than for this liquid waste?

If it's true that the liquid waste need to be processed before storage, it seems to me to increase the risk of leaks during handling compared to spent fuel which is already concentrated(?)? IIRC spent fuel is already stored as very robust concrete slabs at the power stations.

Nitpick:

> The cost of the 2014 accident was expected to exceed $2 billion and disrupted other programs in various nuclear-industry sites.[44] On January 9, 2017, the plant was formally reopened after three years of cleanup costing $500 million, which is significantly less than forecasted

Interesting:

> The source of contamination was later found to be a barrel that exploded on February 14 because contractors at Los Alamos National Laboratory packed it with organic cat litter instead of clay cat litter.
And GP calling it "4 weeks" is, I think, a bit disingenuous given how those federal holidays are spread through the year and can't really be combined into consecutive weeks off.
In my parents generation in communist Poland, people had 2-3 children families in flats no bigger than 500-750 sqft. When there's a will, there's a way, and people just truy wanted to have children back then. While nowadays, it seems that there's always some excuse in the way.
Why not stcp like webrtc does (iirc)?
This is all well and good but are there jobs there that match the persons skillset or would they have to spend most likely 3-6 years retraining?
It seems OpenAI has achieved more with this tech than anyone else, and this level of capability didn't exist before OpenAI, so there's a limit to what can have come from outside. It seems that Ilya Sutskever is perhaps the driving force behind this, and he was certainly there from the start and presumably had a huge part in pushing this line of Transformer research before they had enough success with it to attract a lot of outside talent (OpenAI is now ~400 employees).
I work for a Japanese company and if you've ever worked with them you know they go crazy with testing (often automated). I get bugreports like this constantly. And while you might argue if that's a use case or not (mostly it's not), a crash is still a crash! We do go the extra mile to analyze and fix those. It makes the software overall more robust and on occasion you really find a much severe underlying issue that would have exploded in your face also in other, more realistic workflows. Don't dismiss bugs without at least understanding what's happening! As others have stated, a lot of these weird issues are race conditions which might suggest a bigger problem in the design.
It’s easy:

Anti-Russia is the current thing

Anti-Saudi Arabia is not the current thing

I do the current thing because I am a moral person, and none of that other stuff matters because I am good person because I support current thing.
Fair? No. Grounds for executing someone? Absolutely not.
It's not the ability comprehend what you wrote, but rather the content - the point you're making is the same cliche white-kid-from-the-suburbs-moves-to-a-city infallible argument ("you only need cars because the system makes you want cars").

There's decades of revealed preference for larger, more private housing, rather than density and mass transit, and that dynamic strongly correlates to income.

Median household income in the states is nearly double of said demographic's mecca, the Netherlands, and I would bet my lunch money that car ownership and utilisation there goes up with income as well. So relatively dense places with relatively poor-er population will optimize towards mass transit and biking and what not, because people can't afford cars and larger houses to begin with.
> This is also from there that you can download list of unhashed passwords with e-mails (you know this warning "This password has likely been compromised", they need to source it from somewhere).

You (or anyone else) can get such a list (no emails, weak hashing better thought of as obfuscation) from Pwned Passwords[1]. (There used to be direct download links usable without the tricky downloader tool for pre-2022 archives on that page, but not anymore, huh. Take this[2,3].)

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

[2] https://archive.org/details/pwned-passwords-version-8

[3] magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f9690a02f1accebbee2190b82cfee7b6968d384c&dn=pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.7z
This is interesting. What specific skills are required that made you feel you are not ready for a higher paying role?
Hi everyone, I'm excited to share my new tool, Auctionista, with the Hacker News community.

Every so often, somebody will post an item for sale on eBay with a buy it now price which is far less than the item is worth. These items normally get snapped up straight away, but if you're quick, then you can get some great bargains. Auctionista lets you set up saved searches which notify you immediately by email.

I built this tool originally for myself - I buy a lot of old film cameras on eBay and I've managed to get some great deals, such as a Nikon F80 for £20 and a Canon Sure Shot for £4.75.

I'm now releasing Auctionista commercially, in the hopes that it can help other eBay users get some great deals, too.
Not a course, but I would highly recommend Deep Learning with Python, by Francois Chollet, creator of Keras. Incredibly approachable book that covers everything from tensors and backprop, to mixed precision and multi gpu scaling, and includes time series, language, vision and audio in between
CZ, Binance, influencers face $1B lawsuit for unregistered securities promo
I have never seen a 'wrong' case of safebrowsing warning...

Always after sufficient investigation I find that the server has been broken into and there are some malicious PHP files sitting in some directory named '.system' or something similar.

Either that or the site allows user uploads and some user has uploaded some malicious JavaScript crypto miner or something.

On a mastodon server, it is hard to check all the content posted by all the users... But I'd bet somewhere there is something malicious that safebrowsing detected.
Have a separate small travel router with embedded VPN support to connect printer to Wi-fi hotspot with whatever region it wants to see.

It's not HP's or any other vendor's business to know where you are. This is an easy solution to this.

I have a few routers at home with a separate Wifi hotspot each configured for separate country to avoid exactly this nonsense for different services.

Advantage of this approach is you can travel with a small travel router all over the world while feeding each of the service with a consistent country location.

Added privacy is a benefit.
Here is an Australian site expressing a similar view about the Australian economy. One prominent poster is ex Australian treasury and has been featured on news programs on TV.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/
Does anyone have any tips on getting hired by Elon?
Might as well join the military and get your citizenship.
You would think someone forcing themselves up to the top of a feed designed to catch your attention would be a little bit more memorable than “I had to look up what he was even called”. You didn’t even know what his title was, ffs.

I’m sure your simping for Elon is highly appreciated. Maybe he’ll let you taste his boots next.
My anecdote about Switzerland is that I was once prescribed 20% sick leave, meaning that I had to take a fifth of every day off to tend to my health.

It made total sense given my medical circumstances, but the whole concept blew my mind (even our HR system didn't have a way to record it).
Almost anything I was going to mention is already here, but I want to add "Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace"
This industry has taken plenty of SA money via softbank.
Officials with authority are long overdue the accountability they warrant. (This isn’t a comment about oranges.)

Whatever it is that should happen to a person that caused a child emotional trauma by demanding the death of the child’s pet, though it may not have been meant to be a pet, and using law enforcement to ensure the animal can be killed, despite both buyer and seller not wanting it.

Whatever that kind of behavior deserves, may they receive it.
> *also to be clear I don’t mean to say achieving agi with gpt5 is a consensus belief within openai, but non zero people there believe it will get there.

Uh, that's burying the lede to say the least. "Non-zero" could mean one person.
How are they incompatible exactly? They don't break any EU laws afaik.

Italy's issue was with the chat service and GDPR - it would be a simple fix if OpenAI wanted to.
Super confused where you are seeing this hate? There's only like 20 comments. You've got to be able to handle critiques and there's always going to be haters. Doesn't mean people don't like it overall. Or was this all an April Fools joke?
No, OpenAI does not expect this, the CEO can be heard here

https://youtu.be/to78maCxFEs
Maybe closing the jobs sections removed some seasonal visits too.
> > Epic provides official support for Linux on the EGS and puts Heroic Games Launcher out of business > Finally, GOG annouces official Linux support for GOG Galaxy

Epic (or maybe just Sweeny) has seemed actively hostile towards Linux in the last year or so if only to throw mud at Valve.
There's more than two ways to organize human labor

This false and defeatist dichotomy between Government dictatorships or Private dictatorships lays bare how truly depraved most thinking is around what constitutes human flourishing and liberty.

Hence why I gave you that link
You left out the reason why Germany was so dependent on Russian gas for energy: their out of touch with reality, (the conspiratorial amongst us might say fossil fuel company funded) plans to completely rely on fossil fuels until a transition to renewables can be completed in multiple decades.

All of this while they already have a viable green solution: Nuclear, which they planned on completely shutting down by 2022.
French Canada has a pile of laws like this.
Looks like "generic beer" would have been a more Googleable name. "White label" is what we called it. https://winning-homebrew.com/generic-beer.html
Building more is clearly the main solution, but failing that, abolishing rent control would only make the existing problem even more dire.
So if I am understanding correctly this YIG-nanomagnet device expands on the work of spin-wave computation in a hybrid CMOS setting and allows for read and write which would allow in memory computation? How does a YIG-nanomagnet work? Does it hold its state after a charge is applied or does it need a constant amplitude to keep it in either a 0 or 1 state? I find this very interesting and would love to read more about the work.
Yeah, that's one of the main issues. And it's about to get worse with the newer generative models.

I don't think Google ever had a great algorithm and switched to something worse. It's just the SEO actors putting crap out there now, and clickbait. The thing it became worse at was recommending small sites/blogs over big publications/sites.

Back in the day, all they had to face was people trying to spread viruses but those results were super obvious. And they weren't even flagged back then, just users were smart enough to instantly spot it from the result.
keyboard support is already such a 3rd-class citizen everywhere, and then it gets further degraded by steps like this...
Yup. Large shift in lifestyle to become an energy-independent anarchist living off of the grid without electricity. Not much shift if you want off-grid electricity, but expensive. Seems people deciding electricity is nifty are on to something.

But with multi-kw solar+battery kits selling everywhere for just a few $k, and 1000-lumen LED lights pulling only single-digit watts, it's getting affordable to have both
Developer productivity also suffers from slow software.
> If the “normal way” of doing things worked then Twitter wouldn’t have been in such a bad state when he took over in the first place.

The normal ways of measuring the business, namely EBIDITA, DAU, MAU .., worked. They reliably reported the state of the business. Elon Musk was the only person in the financial market who looked at those measures and interpreted them as meaning “add US$1B annual debt service.”
Head of cyber security at a private company would be somebody with a career of hands-on security work, that has moved up into management. This person would absolutely know how to do the job of their reports.

Why should the government be any different?
I'm not sure if this is research quality or product tuning. I tried using Bing's chatbot and I found the experience to be vastly worse than OpenAI's version, yet Bing is ostensibly running on exactly the same platform (GPT-4). I think OpenAI turned the dial to "loquacious and friendly" and we humans are interpreting some pretty-similar underlying tech as having vastly different underlying quality, because we're impressed by that sort of thing.
I have to ask, have you ever been a manager at any level at any company? Are you just imagining all these things?
> some of them are advocating for total annihilation of the material world in the next six years

"Some" is quite the weasel word. You could be referring to 3 total people in the world, but that wouldn't be worth spending energy considering. You can find people out there who believe all sorts of weird and stupid shit.

Who's saying this and what is their reasoning?
Can't talk about this department specifically, but the UK government does have a tech department (GDS, Government Digital Service), and they're actually really good, especially in accessibility.
As the saying goes, you can teach a kid from the jungle to play Go, but you can't teach a an AI that plays Go to live in the jungle.
Planets without stars might have moons suitable for life