skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at EmacsConf talks and count how many talks are not programming related. Start delving into the speaker's backgrounds as well.

Hang out at the Emacs subreddit and you'll see a similar trend.

Follow Sacha's weekly Emacs news and you'll see a similar trend.

Some of the authors of very well known Emacs packages don't do programming for a living - in fact quite a few learned programming just so they could improve Emacs for their own needs.

Protesilaos is practically a legend these days. He went from no programming or Linux knowledge to expert level in a very short time.[1] His background is in philosophy, law and economics.

The author of helm, one of the most popular and possibly the most powerful completion package in Emacs, is a ski instructor.

Although I learned Emacs primarily to code, I myself did not use it primarily for programming for the first 5 years. I was using it for email and org mode, and did my programming via Visual Studio. The number of people who primarily use it for org mode is huge. There are plenty of people who code in anything else (vim, VSCode), but use Emacs just for magit.

[1] https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-04-16-emacs-moral-lesso...
Since they weren't charging listeners, and they never had audio ads, it isn't a surprise they stopped paying for plays!

They did happily sell CDs though, which I bought a few of. Quite a few bands used MP3.com to promote their live shows as well.

Entire genres of music thrived on MP3.com, and when the site went away, so did some of those genres, similar to how Soundcloud created entire new genres of music through community and discoverability.
Don't do that. Don't diminish the work of someone simply because they are a woman. Even assuming that money was given as part of some diversity program, to imply that is the only reason she got an investment is to imply that there are simply no qualified women out there deserving of investment.

It's just like the criticism of Biden having appointed "so many" Black female judges. As if they are not perfectly qualified or even more qualified than a white male judge would have been. Not to mention the fact that "qualifications" has never really been the criteria for any of this.

In other words, merit is far too nebulous a concept for a true "meritocracy" to ever exist.
yes, but there are species not too dissimilar from us who live much longer lives - bowhead whales, for example, can live to 200. and extended lifespan goes along with extended healthspan - so we don't have to live the last 30-40 years of our life in pain, fear of cancer, etc.
Beautifully put. I've noticed a lot of the barometer (if you will) for gauging peoples "feelings" of safety is if you're personally scared and/or uncomfortable with just the existence of homeless people. I live DTLA - 4 blocks off skid row - and I've never felt unsafe. Uncomfortable? Sure sometimes. Disheartened by the state of one of the richest cities in the world? Absolutely. But unsafe? never.

But if you equate homeless people near me = unsafe, then that's a different discussion.
>without massive safeguards

How do you even set safeguards for this?
A lot of stuff works fine, but it's definitely true that C is "the" language on OpenBSD.
Simple. Inflation.

Some new competitor will eventually crush MS and Amazon. To stay extremely rich forever, Bezos and Gates will have to also be great investors.

Then some other person like Musk comes with new ideas that blow even their massive fortunes out of the water.

Long term dominance in an eternal-life society is certainly not possible.
By that argument, watching The Irishman costs 350 USD.
Let's be realistic here: we're not going to "reverse" ageing.

The article title is unfortunate. A better description of what may be possible, per language deeper down in the article -- and what would be arguably much more feasible -- is "drugs that slow the aging process".

I don't think we are smarter than evolution, in this regard.

Evolution "designed" us to drop off by age 45 or so due to some combination of poor nutrition, opportunistic infections, etc (and other factors, like violence from other humans). Yet we've managed to tweak that built-in expiration date, not just by qualitative factors (like better nutrition, basic healthcare) but to a significant extent by "structural" interventions like antibiotics, antivirals, and vaccines of various sorts.

I suspect that -- if indeed anti-aging treatments become available -- they'll eventually be seen as part of the latter category. As with these, there will be side effects (and just the same, the hope will be they can also be managed).

Eventually, it'll be just another pragmatic thing that people do (alas, the wealthier among us at first most likely).

With that in mind, there's no need to anthropomorphize evolution any more than necessary. It's just a mathematical framework to describe what's been happening over billions of years. There's no hidden "intelligent design" (sorry to use the phrase) behind it, on whose toes we need to be leery of stepping upon.

It may be more helpful to think of evolution as, if anything -- more of a giant hack, on top of an endless series of kludges. Some of which may turn out to be easily patched, or otherwise mitigated.
I've always assumed the "Don't show me this channel" are processed in batch. They seem to work for me, but they also seem to take up to 24 hours to actually take effect.

Likewise.. there are other users and creators on the platform. Creators often pick "deep dives" or "strange subreddits" as a topic. They show it to their audience, who then goes to search for some of this content on their own. Youtube sees the influx of interest in the topic and starts broadly recommending it.

To many "privacy focused" types immediately start with a conspiratorial bent.
Presuming that there's a nefarious purpose to these one off events, and then trying to tie them to Twitters recent release without any deeper investigation is some rather shoddy journalism.
When I was at the university and started programming on UNIX, the professor said we should try both emacs and vi and see which we like better, and provided links to some tutorials.

I tried them both and liked vi. Emacs seemed slower. In my undergraduate wisdom, I deemed emacs to be "stupid" and went on with my life using vi.

After I had been programming professionally for about ten years, I decided that my harsh judgement as an undergraduate was often incorrect. (I had also deemed Voltaire, Spanish, sociology, microeconomics and many other things as "stupid", and came to understand as an adult that they weren't.) So, I decided to give emacs another chance.

My conclusion was this: vi is better for touch typists. Your fingers are almost always on the home row. Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist. It's much harder than hitting shift. Vi makes you hit escape, but that only happens when you switch modes and it's not that hard to hit.

I noticed that lots of skilled and professional engineers never learned to touch type. That discovery itself was odd to me: why would a professional programmer not want to invest the time to learn to type properly: typing fast boosts your productivity significantly. But they do. And my conclusion was that emacs was for them, because hitting the control/alt key isn't as much of a penalty when you're a hunt-and-peck typist.
its definitely the darker timeline. i do think its unrealistic unless there are certain ways to protect themselves from uprisings/revolutions. unless they build a castle in the sky hovering in LEO or AGI builds sentries, that will be unlikely. i imagine the more likely scenario is systemic injustices that aren't as obvious but carefully controlled to keep the workers "happy enough." kind of similar to today's age, except there is some tiny percentage of chance to become rich, whereas in the future it will be literally zero with a thin veil of hope
check out hare-lang.org (still wip, but quite good already)
Have to agree. There are now large sections of the media which are really just a "mouthpiece for the regime".
hope i'm not the only one who sees the humor in this being a reaction to the invention of a shorter skirt
A classic.

Paleoseismology is a pretty fascinating area of study that involves Japanese tsunami records, tree ring studies, indigenous people's stories, and more to create a record of past events; sometimes with unexpected certainty. The last Cascadia event for example occurred around 9 PM or so on January 26, 1700.

This Wikipedia article goes into details of the last one and can help explain how it's known even about what time it occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

You can still see tree stumps on some Oregon beaches at very low tides, which I would presume were submerged suddenly on occurrence of one of the past earthquakes. Here's an article about the "Ghost Forests" in Oregon: https://beachconnection.net/news/ghostfor010912_650.php
Lotta people with clearances these days.

Plus the military gets who they get; they can't offshore to India or try to poach talent in Croatia. So that means you get a right-wing nutjob from Kansas.

That said, doesn't mean the military didn't screw up a bunch. Chelsea Manning had a long list of disciplinary issues to include fist-fights with superiors, and by all accounts should have had a clearance revoked and/or been booted out of MI.

Also can't discount the power of bribes and/or propaganda. Russia and China have been going hard at right-wing sources with the goal of, among other things, stirring dissent and gaining a foothold in the military.
That is no problem for tardigrades.

"Tiny animals survive exposure to space" -
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
I dont think we are talking about replacing "the internet", but replacing fb/twitter/insta with many many more micro communities that might be a bit more gated for entry due the cheapness of spam. These types of communities flourished in the 80s-2000.
> it'd be a catastrophe.

Phew, so lucky we got this alternative scenario where literally everyone dies.
>is trans genderism increasingly effecting human politics & economies? ... yes

While I think it's an interesting question, I am not sure what this means. I can list plenty of other things that are temporally-localized that are more likely to explain an increase in diversity of sexuality and gender in modern societies, but I am more curious how transgender folks are affecting* economies.
99% algorithms are public already, its the usage and special tweaks made to those that make them unique at some companies. Lets say the white smoke release for twitter algo, its useless because everyone knows how to build a 4 stage recommender (see nvidia merlin open source repo) but the real juice is their weights to know what user embeddings does it learn.

They cant release that since is personal user data.
Tell us more. What were you using before GNU?
He doesn't need to seek any redemption from people like you. You and others like you are thankfully nothing close to being a moral authority. You have more in common with the christian fundamentalists who thought saying "hell" in music was satanic than you think, and just like them it only represents how closed minded you are to all the ways people can safely express themselves.
It's interesting how "hikikomori" got into common English usage, and now this Japanese word is being used to describe South Korean youths. I would have expected Koreans to have their own word for this condition.
All fear is fear of some future, so this argument is empty calories.

What I fear about AI is mostly how efficiently and effectively it will be deployed to disable people and society. It is a dream tool for grifters, despots, and capitalists who want to spread oil and sharp tacks on the road behind them.

As a tester, I stand for responsible engineering. Now there are people who say no need for testing, because AI itself will be responsible for that. Baloney!

My fear is not some vague fear of change, anymore than not wanting to drive off a cliff is a fear of change.
As others have mentioned in the thread, this doesn't guard against a MITM proxy and it'd take a couple minutes to defeat this.

You're much better off proxying calls from your own server API, having proper rate limits and authentication, and a strict API surface that doesn't permit arbitrary calls to whatever APIs you depend on
Someone like you probably said that it was too late to launch a Ford’s competitor when they released the T in 1908.
> with no strings attached.

How much are they willing to bite the hand that feeds them. It might be a small percentage but it makes part of their budget.
Yikes. That David Attenborough narrating Warhammer 40K was pretty damn convincing. If I wasn't aware of the context - I would probably thought it was indeed him narrating.
There is some money (rightly and legitimately) to be made as well. We all are Craftsmen. We all deserve some.

There's headscale[1] that fills the gap somewhat.

[1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
LTT: Malware on Android TV Boxes
I'm personally not into incarcerating mass amounts of people, as it only centralizes a prison industrial complex. Rather, one glaring issue is dangerous drugs showing up on our streets & the conditions that lead to this usage. In the comment you linked to, I noted Kensington Ave in Philadelphia, where there are videos of many people on hard drugs stooped over. Many people, who would otherwise have happier lives are now dealing with addiction & living on the streets. Note that the reason why drugs are showing up on the streets are not random acts of mere petty criminals but involve people in domestic government & foreign governments. Rick Ross & the crack epidemic detail the history of how intelligence agencies create the conditions of mass addiction.

While some, including me, think this drug problem is an example of the hypocrisy of NeoLiberalism...I also think it's a centuries old playbook of wreaking havoc on whole populations of people by introducing vices such as drugs. The Opium Wars & what lead to the Opium Wars is an example.

Side note, I would like there to be a graph based form of communication that can better express the context of statements. It's too easy to take a couple of sentences on a forum out of context.
> 99% algorithms are public already,

What?

You need to back up that statement, because I do not understand how it's at all true.

Or do you somehow have access to Facebook's news feed algorithm, or the Youtube recommendation algorithm?
The Wikipedia page appears to have been edited 1 day ago to say that 91% of women age 30-39 have had plastic surgery, though the cited source says 31%.

The source itself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111220/south-korea-plas...
Most laptops I've used have an "Fn Lock" key or mechanism. That's one of the first "out of the box" items I enable. If it lacked one, that'd be a "back in the box" experience for me.
It's only because he's a white male. Person of color suspects rarely get doxxed by the media and the story usually disappears the next day.
Personally, I think no-code tools are much more of an existential threat than LLMs. Or rather, they should be. Instead, despite the prevalence of tools that seek to democratize software authorship, the demand for software engineers has yet to abate.

As for why, my best theory is that writing code isn’t the hard part, but in fact one of the easier parts of the job, much like how drafting isn’t really the hard part when it comes to engineering or architecture.
This might just be a way of aging ourselves. I do feel that Facebook blatantly flipped the norm that you used a pseudonym and kept personal information private when communicating (much less publishing) online - that's the norm I grew up with in the 90s and even the early 00s.
I don't think it's about being smarter than evolution or not. We're optimizing for different things. Evolution optimizes for reproductive success. Our society is optimizing for something more like overall well-being. Evolution doesn't care if your life sucks as long as you pass on your genes. We do.
I am very likely one of only a few people but it really irritates me when the term "fold" is used when they really mean "times".

Folding a piece of paper (just like binary numbering) 6 times will provide you with a stack of 64 sheets.

They did not have a performance increase of 64 times.

This is identical to the idea of stating "magnitude" as being the number of times based on 10.

How wrong am I?
Fascinating stuff, and pretty serendipitous to find it based on a weather hold and a "hmm, that's weird." kind of thing. One of the things a marine biologist said to me that struck me was "There are more unexplored areas on this planet than explored, they just happen to be below water."[1]

I often wonder if there is some way to harness these things (seeps) given they often spew methane (which could power gas turbines), and have the kinetic energy in the shooting water which a water turbine could harness. If you were seasteading that might make for a good destination point where you could set up your power station on the ocean floor.[2]

But another interesting point might be to create some sort of observatory here to take measurements and correlate those with seismic activity of the fault. The next time this fault lets go it is going to do a lot of shaking and tidal waving. Any warning could be really really helpful in saving lives.

[1] This in a conversation about "What do research wildlife biologists do given how much we already know about wildlife on this planet."

[2] Yes "crazy engineering challenges, yada yada yada" :-)
This is a nice bridge between embeddings common in AI and the symbolic reasoning that we have a lot of theoretical understanding of. However, I'm not sure what the discovery is. Multiplication, addition, and recovering the bases of vectors are high-school / college-freshman-level linear algebra concepts. Can anyone shed more light on the 'discovery'? It seems like an interesting idea, but I'm surprised that Quanta (who typically has very high quality articles) is making a big deal about vector operations that are well understood.

In particular, the use of addition to create a superposition of embeddings is many decades old (it's the basis of the bag of words approach). Multiplication as the 'description' operator is perhaps interesting. Using change of basis to tease out the coefficients for linear combinations of vectors is... basic linalg.

All in all, it seems the main 'discovery' here is a way to generate richer training vectors than the typical 'one-hot' approach that we use today. Although, given that one-hot vectors are also orthogonal, it's not obvious to me why a random orthogonal vector is better than this approach. Perhaps they're going for dimensionality reduction, but if you have ten classes, then you need ten vectors and you need a 10-D output vector. You can't get 10 orthogonal vectors in 9-dimensional space. Given that there is no perf difference in computing with orthogonal one-hot vectors and orthogonal random vectors, I'm again puzzled by the 'discovery'. In fact, one hot vectors are slightly cheaper to compute with since they have zeros.
$10/month is way too much.
That one's easy to remember, because of humor. When this came up 4 years ago I listed a few other examples. Citation links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008835

"he has creeped out some women by making passes at them (or so they tell me)."

"He flirts with anyone who is female, even if they are underage. He is creepy in person, in a way that I cannot adequately describe. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that he kept women out of open source and free software, and many of his ideas stayed even after he left."

"I remember being walked around campus by an upperclassman getting advice during my freshman year at MIT. "Look at all the plants in her office," referring to a professor. "All the women CSAIL professors keep massive amounts of foliage" s/he said. "Stallman really hates plants.""

"rms was in the whisper network as a creep when I was in undergrad late last millennium, and I wasn’t even at MIT"

Those don't have something to hang a joke on, so aren't passed on at much.
> ...charging him with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and alleging a history of conspiring with hackers.

Conspiring to acquire classified information is quite different than merely possessing or distributing it.
1. I love listening to audiobooks when I'm doing chores or in the car. I usually end up completing 4-6 books (25 hours at 2x speed) per month from this.

2. I don't bring my phone in my room, so I keep a stack of nonfiction books next to my bed. I usually go through 1-3 chapters per day.

Personally, I don't think you need to "prioritize" reading. I think trying to cut down on distractions is a better goal, and if you naturally read more, then great.

For me, the best ways to kill distractions: (1) extinguish all notifications and (2) ask a friend/family/coworker to put parental controls on your phone for tempting apps.
Every relevancy-based search I've used pretty much sucks, so Kendra sounds about par for the course.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor
Have you ever even jokingly mentioned "seizing the means for production"? I guess you're a communist of the same ilk that killed a hundred million right? Of course not, you're just a moral puritan.

For the record, I and many others have the levity and intellectual capacity to poke fun at a lot of edgy topics without being subscribed to them. Maybe you lack that capability and just project that on others?
The parts ThePrimeagen hopes the Rust Foundation considers fixing
We'd planned to open source our control server but it wasn't in a good shape to release at the time we released the other stuff. Then Headscale came along and removed all need for us to do so. Headscale is _much_ easier for people to run & understand. The Tailscale closed source one is kinda a monster, built for a very different scale. We're busy enough without also helping people struggling to run our control plane. We'd rather focus the community (or the subset of the community that wants to run their own server) to use Headscale instead.

And if you don't trust our server, use https://tailscale.com/blog/tailnet-lock/ and then you don't need to trust us. Or run Headscale. :)
It's worth noting that this is backed by TiDB: https://ossinsight.io/explore/
But kind of expected don't you think?

That's why we call them scapegoats right? That's what people who scapegoat others do.

Logic, Rational Thought, Dispassionate Analysis, these are all good. And one day, all humans will hopefully practice these disciplines as a matter of course. But right now, the vast majority of people are controlled by their emotions. What do they want to be true? What do they wish to be true?

Well, that's what becomes "true". At least, true to them.
What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?
> parent comment was edited, originally said "i thought they [Tailscale] hated that thing [Headscale]"

I don't know where you got this from. I did not say that anywhere.
I totally disagree.

For example, Twitter releasing the algorithm showed us that certain specific people were getting artificially boosted.

We also saw that the topic of the war in Ukraine was getting special treatment.

Yes, we all guessed that was happening, but without the code it was just supposition that Twitter could deny.