skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no need to delete the flesh, just make living backups. Monitor them for "dangerous" thought like we do with LLM. Can run them in various environments, have them interact with "aliens" etc Most interesting would be the amount of variety in isolation, you know, the large mostly empty galaxy with everything impossibly far away. They can check out 1 or 2 planets and some moons to prevent excessive boredom in the later stages, if they are some how late extincting themselves. You get that kind of outliers if you run a lot of trials.
> Is it legal to have private conversations discussing actual plans for acts of terrorism?

Not in most countries, no.
Did you understand the article you just linked or do you just wanna throw shit on a bonfire? They pull GPS data and nothing else.
"a little bit weird" is a pretty low bar to cross. Enough to maybe go "huh okay", but nowhere close to NSFW. Your average news site carries ads more NSFW than this and most people still browse the web without ad blockers.

Why would the gender of the mascot even matter? Would it be better if the mascot was male?
Considering all the big companies laying people off recently, even those with enough capital to retain them, they don’t seem very concerned about that possibility. For what it’s worth I hope you’re right.
In today's environment where people can't keep their computing devices safe from Facebook, let alone ransomware, what makes anyone believe your average Joe could keep a private key safe for even a day in an environment which would immediately assign a significant dollar value that PK?
Really depends on the use case. When you don't need the extra features of the AWS load balancer+API gateway over, say, a relatively straight forward nginx/caddy installation. The time to learn the AWS equivalents over off the shelf OSS is pretty similar. Why not just use the OSS all things considered?

There are significant downsides to a lot of the vendor offerings, they seem like a simpler solution but they are plenty complicated in their own right. Particularly since they are probably built to accommodate varied and complex cases that you don't really need. And rarely is this paired away under some special dialog for power users, often you are expected to just know everything up front.
Would it have been impossible to achieve the same goal with targeted surveillance instead?
> My peril? What does that mean?

It means it sounds like you aren't really interested in paying attention to this issue which means you may be blindsided by a recession or economic collapse.

> Markets work the way they work and will respond accordingly.

This doesn't really mean anything I don't think, I'm not really gleaning information here.
The main problem I see is that people are completely distracted by privacy from corporations - when what we really need to be worried about is privacy from our own governments.

So much ink is spilled talking about cookies, ads tracking, etc. But really what's the worst a corporation is going to do? Try to sell you something?

Meanwhile, we continue to allow our governments to regulate and legislate ever more intrusive invasions of our privacy. And they can put us in jail, or worse.

This also gets blurry as governments take increasing control of companies, to the point that some are just about arms of the government, surveilling us in ways that the government can't (yet) do on their own - and being forced to pass that data to the government under penalty of law themselves.
No, there won't be any battle. If there were going to it would have been during covid, with improved indoor ventilation being one of the major components of an in-depth mitigation strategy.

There was no meaningful attempt or debate about changing ventilation standards then when it would have tangibly saved lives, there certainly won't be now.
Would you be annoyed if you owned shares of a company and the company prints new shares to dilute the value of your holdings?
Pinta works just fine as a flatpak. Have you tried that?
This is entirely unrelated to Krita, but on the "free beer" mention: I had heard free as in beer, and also free as in puppies. But two that I heard recently and loved that make different points: Free as in mattress, and free as in piano.
Seems like quite the stretch to assume a monarch in Germany would have made any difference, or the presence of a monarch in Italy changed the outcome in any significant way.

Japan also had a monarch, and it took 2 nuclear bombs to get him to surrender.
> I loved WindowMaker too, two decades ago, but I enjoy 2023 computing in 2023

What do you use now? Most things I've seen after that generation of WMs kind of suck. Newer tiled WMs are good but that's kind of a different category.

> hardware video acceleration, resizing windows without artifacts, compositing

You can get that on X...
> This concerns such a basic aspect of bank risk management one wonders how this sector could even call it self banking

I feel like message boards like reddit/HackerNews are notorious for over-simplifying any topic. It's "reductionist".

"How could these paid professionals consider themselves qualified?! As somebody not in that field without any insider knowledge or specific details into why hard decisions with tradeoffs were made, I know better, it's taught in economics 101!"
Associate each product with three names targeting the market segment that is classy:tea, classless:water, crass:fizzypop-zerosugar. The regulator should assign a grid coordinate for the product to locate its absolute/relative performance. ARM seems to have a meaningful naming scheme a:application, r:i-forget, m:mobile.
About six months ago, Starbucks opened their THIRD store in our medium size town (~60k pop). It's a rare moment to not see a car in the drive thru line, and typically four or five cars. Crazy.
Pretty wacky syntax. I'm not a Julia fanboy, but I don't quite see the point of something like this over it.

From the "basis function regression" example:

struct SolverState(n|Ix) =
x : n=>Float
r : n=>Float
p : n=>Float

Why not just "Float[n]" or even "Float^n" if we're trying to get fancy? The syntax "n=>Float" suggests "n" is being mapped to "Float", which isn't what is happening.

Further on in the implementation of CG:

r0 = b - (mat **. x0)

Matrix multiplication is "**."? I thought Python's "@" was bad, but this is certainly worse... is the goal to confuse MATLAB programmers and Python programmers simultaneously? Also, are the parentheses necessary to get the associativity correct? If so, Dex has some quite interesting operator precedence rules!

Further down:

x' = s.x + alpha .* p

For scalar multiplication, we need ".*", with the "." on the left now? What's with the inconsistency?

This is leaving aside how much sense:

result = apply_n(n_iter, SolverState(x0, r0, r0)) \s.
...

makes... is this really an improvement over a for loop? What's with the backslash and period?

There just seems to be a lot of syntactic noise with this language. Sorry to be so disparaging, but I just wonder if there's some motivation for it.

The reason languages like MATLAB and Julia have hewed to a fairly conservative syntax for array programming is because there's significant precedent for it. Fortran was widely used for a long time and stuck to a syntax which is sensible for engineers and mathematicians. Fortran is in fact still widely used---and this is fine! It has its place! MATLAB directly inherited Fortran's syntax. Julia deliberately copied MATLAB's syntax. There is a whole culture of programmers who are oriented around this syntactical approach. What's the point in choosing such a syntax which the majority of these programmers will find obtuse and unfriendly?
Hackernews hug of death.
> the risk driver for these ongoing smaller bank failures is (reportedly) the rise in interest rates.

Ultimately it's poor risk management. If you take depositor funds and buy 10-30 year bonds with them then you're exposed to a run on the bank and rising interest rates will devalue your bonds. The bank instead could've rolled 30-90 day Fed funds instead but they didn't. Why? Lower yield.

Put another way: the bank took a risk with depositor funds and they get wiped out because of it while depositors are fine.

> the solution seems to be to create ever larger banking behemoths

Yes and no. At the heart of this is fractional reserve banking, which has been wildly successful. Like any kind of risk-spreading business (including insurance) bigger is generally better because variance is less and everything becomes more predictable.

I understand (and agree with) concerns about consolidation creating an oligopoly.

Ultimately though, what backstops the entire financial system is the government. This was true before and it's true now. The Federal Reserve is even called the lender of last resort.
This made me think of Clarke's first law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Tabbed does that: https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
Yeah… didn’t want to state the obvious since it might be controversial, let people come to the conclusion themselves.
That isn't what Elon stated in the interview (but you may still be correct).

[Edit: You are correct]

"The longest lead we dont have is probably requalification of the FTS. Um, Because we did initiate the FTS, but it was not enough to.. it took way too long to rupture the tanks. We need.. basically we need more detonation cord to unzip the tanks at altitude and ensure the rocket explodes immediately."
Interesting! Does the WebAuthn API provide enough of a cryptographic basis to fulfill the needs of cryptocurrency wallets?

I know it works through public/private key sharing but I wasn't aware that it provides such direct primitives.
The thing you’re imagining these AIs are… they’re not that. I think there’s plenty of danger but it’s the boring run of the mill new-tools-enabling-bad-things danger not the cool sci-fi super-intelligent super-beings danger that the “ai danger” people LOVE to talk about (and raise large amounts of money for). The people “warning” of the one (imaginary) type will be more than happy with to enable the other (real) type.
Also removing batteries is often impossible, e.g. smoke detectors that have them soldered in.

All you need to solve this issue is:

1. All batteries must be easily removable with no screws (except for toys).

2. All supermarkets must accept waste batteries of any form.
A little skeptical of your claims but I couldn't help but notice this concept spelled out beautifully in a sci-fi movie 10 years ago.

"It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now. It's a place that's not of the physical world. It's where everything else is that I didn't even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can't live in your book any more."

Samantha, Her
COME ON, GUESS THE LAST LETTER!

Great little project. Works as you'd expect. GJ
+1 for WezTerm.
They both have money.

Using what one could only qualify as an utility from a competitor, does not make Sony any less right. Apple uses Google Cloud, Netflix runs on AWS.

> ... the UK that agrees with Sony yet we all know they're just afraid that all the Activision players would leave their platform

Yes, because the platform is not Azure, is Windows and by extension, Xbox.
I feel like there's not enough easily accessible information in the wild about what you're supposed to do with old electronics, and especially batteries. You're not supposed to throw any type of battery in the trash, let alone ones that get really angry when abused. And places that used to take old batteries seem to be refusing them now. I have a small box of old batteries I've been looking to dispose of and I'm running out of places to try and give them to.

It especially doesn't help that electronics, including with non-replaceable batteries, including those that get angry when abused, are being designed to be disposable to begin with.

And yeah, I know there's a high level of apathy about the problem with the masses. Even though the information can be, for the most part, found, people just don't care enough.
Again, please read the report

"With an estimated 60-70% market share in global cloud gaming services, it is already much stronger than its rivals"

GLOBAL.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/644939aa529ed...
Do you also tip your bank, hospital, public services, or governmental agencies? They also provide you a service.
> they would fine a complex because it has insufficient surveillance

This is the status quo with trash and recycling in New York [1]. It looks like there is already a schedule for rechargeable battery disposal.

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/ecb/downloads/pdf/SanitationPenalty...
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I know they are small batteries but I have to wonder how much hazardous shit is being thrown away with disposable vapes. Especially ones that get recharged a few times before being tossed with a charge still held.

(In the Southern US) Its bad enough with alkaline/lead acid batteries being tossed in the waste system. We really need programs to deal with battery waste. When I worked at Radioshack in the 2000s we were one of the only local places people could drop battery waste off at for recycling and now those are all long gone.
Since there are valid use cases it doesn’t support as they found it too hard to implement due to its architecture, it is definitely not finished. For example mixed-DPI setups.
F150, f250, f350.

i"X" is the tier, and the number after that hints at generation and rank.

There may be better ways of doing it but it isn't hard to figure out for someone who needs to know.
No, that would likely constitute criminal conspiracy, even if you have no intent to commit it.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Color me impressed. I have been aware of indexeddb drivers, and I didn't investigate Vs code's driver (looked briefly through the PR but was short on time). I don't know why I don't credit that route enough.

File System Access API just feels way to limited. There's so much missing stuff. No symlinks, no hard links, no xattr. I worry about what the user experience is going to be when the web api has so many limitations.
If you need to build an airplane, would you rather consult Newton, the Wright brothers, or a modern aerospace engineer? Inventing a field and snatching up the low hanging fruits doesn't mean somebody would be able to consistently create leading edge output. Most of the advances in deep learning are due to hardware scaling, and the success of a few very specific architectures. Yes credit's due where credit's due, but academia name recognition is very much winner take all. For all the criticism Schumidhuber has received, he has a point. The authors of Attention is all you need, the transformers paper, yolo, have nowhere close to the name recognition of the Turing award trio despite generating similar if not more value through their ideas.
This further assures my thought that Parkinsons is caused by gut bacteria
The flaw was not in a dependency but Trust Wallet's first party code [1]. They decided that Mersenne Twister would be sufficient for generating cryptographically random data and specifically called it "secure" [2]. Very unfortunate.

[1] https://github.com/trustwallet/wallet-core/blob/3.1.0/wasm/s...
[2] https://github.com/trustwallet/wallet-core/pull/2240
How is this different from what we have now?

His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”

maybe it's just me, but seems like this isn't a problem with technology but rather with how we organize society

He is also worried that A.I. technologies will in time upend the job market. Today, chatbots like ChatGPT tend to complement human workers, but they could replace paralegals, personal assistants, translators and others who handle rote tasks. “It takes away the drudge work,” he said. “It might take away more than that.”

The reality of the situation is that you can't put toothpaste bake in the tube. This tech creates a huge competitive advantage, and any countries that try to suppress it will find themselves left behind technologically. AIs can analyze data on a massive scale and identify patterns that humans have no hope of finding. AI systems can massively improve planning and resource allocation. This will revolutionize industries like manufacturing. Nobody is going to willingly give up this sort of advantage.
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I agree it's dangerous but what are governments supposed to do?

In a world where individuals or very small groups of people are increasingly gaining the power to do potentially catastrophic damage using increasingly powerful technology, what are the actual alternatives? Trust?

How can society functionin going forwards without at least some oversight ?

Don't get me wrong, I don't want society to go this way, but I'm starting to see fewer and fewer options presented to Governments. I can see both sides of the story.

I wouldn't pretend I know the right answer, but I think we have to admit the world has changed quite a bit recently.
They get tax payer funding only because they voluntarily give most of the income to the government.

If you wanted to frame it as a tax rate it'd be high than a normal citizen's.

I'm not ideologically royalist, but I'd rather have the current system than an elected president.
If something is indistinguishable to something else it practically means the two things are substitable (?).

It does not mean they are (or work) the same way.
It's funny to see today's web being called a "thin" client.
+1 for UniFi everything home network
Bitcoin is a complete failure as a currency. Your argument, not mine.

For all the talk and posture of it being a return to "hard money", all it is used for is as another investment tool for the wealthy.

And that is me giving it the benefit of doubt.
Thanks for adding context
Not OSS but Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP.
Exactly! The distraction of “ai safety” that focuses on made up cool sounding sci-fi risks will absolutely take us away from thinking about and dealing with these very real (and present right now) dangers.
That’s a straw man. The Krita picture of “Kiki” is not a member of my family, or anyone else’s. Nobody in my family is ambiguously young with melon sized breasts, and even if they were I definitely wouldn’t have a picture of it on my desk.
The classifier considers the text to be unclear if it is AI-generated. Try it for yourself at: https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
Yes, it really is so bad. People are unbelievably ignorant of history.

What happens when the state intelligence apparatus has the ability to perfectly surveil the population? Look no further than what the Stasi accomplished - it becomes trivially easy to discredit political opposition, journalists, business leaders, or any other person or group standing in the way of the powerful.

People split hairs about this kind of oversight, or that kind of oversight, but when the powerful are overseeing their own surveillance apparatus - using secret courts, secret warrants, and all manner of other methods for hiding the true scope of the surveillance - I do not believe it can be contained.
You should probably adjust that list not for inflation, but perhaps for GDP?
In many cases yes, but definitely not in this. Geoffrey Hinton is as relevant as ever. Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist at OpenAI, is a student of Hinton. Hinton also recently won the Turing award.
Crypto MUST NOT become part of the Rust standard library, because Rust's compatibility guarantees would have to be broken when any underlying cryptographic primitive or protocol is broken (or worryingly weakened) and needs to be removed. While that could be done with the "unsoundness fix" escape hatch, it's better to minimize such changes.

I'd like to see an "extension" library managed like the standard library (and shipped with Rust, included in the prelude, etc) but with SemVer, so that breaking changes could be made more easily.
Wealthy people don't own money, they own assets. And they're usually in debt. Inflationary currency massively benefits wealthy people. Inflation is a transfer of buying power from poor people to rich people. That's the function of inflation. That's exactly the mechanism by which it makes poor people work harder, and makes the economy "grow".

Inflation makes people work harder, but it's not the right thing to do, and not good for the economy in the long term. Economy is not just the GDP; it's also happiness, freedom and mental health.

All productivity increases in the economy should belong to the people who are working and saving their money. They made the decision to limit their consumption and wait for cheaper products.

Inflationary currency is very unethical, and will result in total centralization of wealth when productivity keeps increasing.
countdown until he starts his own AI company and gets hundreds of millions in seed investment...

can't say I blame him, everyone in AI who can make a cash grab should do so
I used to semi-joke the real way to break these systems is to have multiple AIs on everyone’s phones constantly talking to each other. You do this over encrypted chat and tag if it’s real or not. Only display the real ones to the users.

Then when you send a message it can be hidden. And it becomes too expensive to review.
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An interesting example of early cancel culture in the Radar Magazine click farm, stoking nuclear paranoia for clicks. Unfortunately, many other click farms still have stories up about this today.

It's ironic and intellectually stifling that we accept risks to our kids from biking or sports, yet demonize learning nuclear science. Even when the former regularly harms more kids and in graver ways. Is this a result of unfounded nuclear fears, or is there more to this I'm missing?
I think most segments against online password companies is that they get hacked so often. The most practical problem is having to switch all your passwords around after such a leak occurs, which seems to be more and more permanent these days.
Contrary to popular belief, the best reason to store passwords offline is actually convenience, so that you don't have to change them so often (your single password dump is not a target, but all people's data is).
Andrew Tate was basically unheard of in the US and this article is primarily focused on the U.S.
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