skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While "it is not illegal to own a boot key," the Atlanta Police wrote, the use of a boot key to modify, tamper or disengage a booting device from a vehicle could result in a variety of charges, such as criminal trespass, theft of services, theft by taking or second-degree property damage.

Easy for them to say that (and make initial arrest), but hard to see how any of it sticks if you don't take the boot.
50% of AI researchers think there’s a greater than 10% chance that AI causes human extinction. It’s not only openAI and sam who think this is dangerous.
I would triple vote this comment. 100% , seems like a group of elite AI company who already stole the data from internet are gonna decide who does what! We need to regulate only the big players, and allow small players to do whatever they want.
> Yes, the barcade business model works.

Does Dave & Busters fit into this category, or would you say they have the wrong focus? I've never been to a Dave & Busters, but they're a fairly large chain that long-preceded the current wave. Is Dave & Busters too much like an adult Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheese, rather than a more casual bar you can pop into?
They could already refund with playtime less than 2hrs, so not sure what is your point. Also the idea here is that you don't have to create a demo, you literally just give the game to them.
It is negativity.

> Wherever the government gets involved corruption ensues. It is a rule, not an exception.

This is true. If your requirement is to never implement some system which can be abused (even a little bit), you are against government in any form. If you're not advocating for no government and you're OK with a little bit of abuse, then it's an argument over scale.

There will always be some abuse, but the key to any program or system is to minimize the potential for abuse. There's abuse in the US welfare system, but broadly the consensus among anyone but partisan pundits is that the good the system does far outweighs the abuse within the system.

> Strict constraints to deter abuse are always put in place in these programs, and they are always completely inefficient and/or supervised by people who are in on the scheme.

This is not true, and completely defeatist. If you think the US Government is hopelessly corrupted by vested interests - you have not spent time in a country with a hopelessly corrupt government.

The US Government is mildly corrupt, not wildly corrupt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

> I don't see it as negativity to be against the worst imaginable solution to a problem.

More negativity. I can think of far worse solutions than what I have suggested.

If you're simply advocating for the private sector to solve the problem instead of the government getting involved, I am wondering where you live where the private sector left to its own devices doesn't rampantly pillage to its heart's content. I'd like to move there!
Ranking over time.

https://redmonk.com/rstephens/files/2023/05/redmonk-language...
Someone should invent a decentralized version control system so we can avoid these kinds of widespread events.
Reminds me of this masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S75Rfva9O8

Maybe the car knew something, eh? :)
I was trying to understand more about AIA today after it was mentioned a few times in the oversight committee thing. Found this talk, it's is pretty good, I thought it was going to be lame content marketing but the guest is a real lawyer who seems to have a real understanding of AI and what is going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoIC5EPPfn4

(feel like all my HN posts are always revealing the embarrassing about of youtube I watch)
Better control over the power LED would be good -- its blinding in certain environments
Any efforts going into OLED/AMOLED/MiniLED displays? It's my biggest hesitation point.
Yeah but transition is not fully required until September 1, 2023 [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773860
Hypergraph geometry reflects higher-order dynamics in Interaction networks
It appears to be a leadership issue. Tim Cook wanted butts in seats at the corporate site, the Siri/AI Guys wanted to still work from home.

And the AI team seemed to NOT want to be hidden in terms of discussion of industry ideas with peers at other firms.

They went back to google.
Magic 8 ball time.

Who have they hired since then?

Who knows?

Who in leadership is allowing them to succeed?

Results unclear try again.

Who has a clear vision of why to build ALL ONBOARD the users device?

Results unclear try again.
Parsing this text was quite the workout. It certainly satisfies the langauge centers in my brain, being somewhat of a grammar-nazi myself, but also took about 15 minutes more of my time than I feel it should've. At times I admit I had no clue what the author was talking about (metatribe?)

Bottom line for me.. I worry society at large is too anti-intellectual for this essay to have any real significance or application in the real world whatosever. The true thinkers don't seem to have much pull, politically or socially. I wasn't even aware Twitter had such a community of intellectuals. My gut feeling tells me anyone who truly has it figured out probably isn't using Twitter at all.

I have a friend who is very into the "woo". Syncronicities, manifesting.. Thing X happens, and it's "Oh wow, I had a dream about thing X last night" I've always teased her about it, and one day she finally admitted that her spiritual "experiences" weren't exactly logical, or real at all, but that life was simply more fun and meaningful that way. And, honestly, perhaps I was quite the rationalist myself at the time, but I had a hard time challenging that notion. To each their own.
Not to mention that many kinds of sunscreen have chemicals in them that kill Coral reefs. It's becoming fairly common for ocean tourist communities to pay attention to, but that won't really stop whatever washes down the rivers.
Doing it without glibc is not practical
> our expectations are too low.

I hope not, because of this:

> wholesale destruction of certain job categories

If proponents are correct, then those "certain job categories" will be "most job categories". If that happens quickly (say, in a single generation), the result of it will be widespread economic and civic unrest as incomes are eliminated. It will make the world worse for most people.

I wish people would stop fearing a mythical "AGI" and start talking about what we're going to do to prevent widespread suffering due to economics.
I don't know, my impression is that this is written by someone who doesn't understand how law works and making hyperbolic assumptions through cherrypicking. I recall a similar panic and outrage when GDPR was introduced, claiming that it will bankrupt startups and small projects etc.

The EU stuff is usually against large corporations who pose systematic risks. Think about how TikTok makes the US freak out about China spying and manipulations, for EU it's the the same thing but include Facebook and all other large social media too(because American corporations are foreign in Europe like TikTok is foreign in USA). US considers banning TikTok, EU's approach is to regulate how data is processed and used in order to keep open market and mitigate risks.

So as a rule of thumb, Europol doesn't knock on your door when you train a model on data that doesn't meet the requirements. This is probably designed to make countries introduce laws which will hold Google/OpenAI etc. accountable for their services so they can't just shrug and say "ouppsy, it's not our fault the AI did it".

I'm sorry to pop the alarmist narrative, but this is not the legislation which is going to "get you".
Can use 16k pages. M1 also can use 4k pages.
Yes, this is the first-to-market leaders wanting to raise the barriers to entry to lock out competition.
I work for a smallish supermarket chain (I assume, by the US standards) - we have about a 1000 stores in 5 countries, about 40-45K tills. At peak trading my teams' services handle a combined 250K tps. We run a bunch of distributed systems in the cloud, across two DCs and some other weird legacy locations (there are even a few mainframes) - the business is really old and went digital before some of my colleagues were born :) (Anyone remember teletext? Yep, we were on that too).

So, Elixir/Erlang combo seems like a perfect fit. Instead, we are having all remaining Elixir and Erlang systems ripped out and re-written in Java.

The reason is simple - readability and hire-ability. The cherries on the cake - Java's "good enough" for what we do, the tooling, the quality and availability of reference resources and subject matter experts - are just that, cherries. But the ability to hire and onboard new engineers is THE thing - it took us 3 years to fully hire out the headcount we were allocated for just our little team and that is in Java. Hiring for Elixir and Erlang has been such a pain that we are having to pay contractors while we re-write the current Elixir and Erlang systems into Java. Our domain is somewhat complicated - most people who have not worked in food retail generally would not imagine it to be so - so onboarding people to the domain knowledge takes 3-6 months and that is without "This is what? Erlang?" barrier. That is where readability of Java and non-FP vs Elixir/Erlang and FP comes in as well.

I guess what I am trying to say is that, yes, the right tool for the job and all that but good enough tool with a significantly higher hiring pool is proving so much better.
> It's a bit surprising to hear it's still $0.25. It should be roughly $1 per play to keep pace with inflation.

Where are you playing?! Most places I go to are $0.75, except for one which is a bargain at $0.50. I probably wouldn't play a $1 game unless it's a game I know well.
Players can already just download the full game before purchase, for the majority of games people play

This is just more convenient, so it makes it more likely to convert into sales

If the game can't keep people wanting to play it more than a couple hours, and players decide they don't want to buy it anymore, they could already do that with a refund.

Making games more convenient to play always increases sales, if you think there's any chance at all that the product you're selling is worth buying.
So we'll spend our tax dollars in order for the government to tell us how many more tax dollars we owe?
> You make it sound like the only possible motivation a person might have to start such a business would be to exploit the incarcerated.

Initial motivations are irrelevant. At some point, the motivations of a business reduce to "make money", and anyone or anything that gets in the way of that doesn't matter, including your ethics and initial motivations.

There are lots of innocuous reasons why that happens. For example, you believe your business is doing good, right? So your business has to survive to keep doing good. And you need to make money to survive. So surely it's okay if you make it easy to pay for your service while you're in jail, perhaps by making deals with prisons to allow them to sign up in prison. Hm, that didn't work, prisons aren't doing it. Perhaps you can give prisons a cut of the sales for the service. And voila, now you're profiting from slave labor because the prisons just automatically deduct it from prisoner's pay, which is already below minimum wage, for work they can't opt out of. Of course you don't know that, so you hire 10 employees with your sudden influx of money and start expanding sales to more prison systems. And then you find out that your income stream is... not perfect, but now you've got a responsibility to your employees. McDonalds and JCrew do it, you're not doing anything worse than anyone else. And it's not exactly slavery--they're paid $1/hour (nevermind that a tampon in the commissary is $20). You're practically paying them, just with a service rather than money, right? And your business is doing good, so you have to do this, even if it's not perfect, so your business can survive and continue to do good!

The thing end-stage capitalist circles can't or won't understand is that if it's not this compromise, it's some other compromise or set of compromises. In any individual situation, doing good and making money might be compatible or incompatible, but there's only so many of those situations where you can choose good over money before your competitor knocks you out of the market.

"When you sit down in the studio to make money, God leaves the room." -Quincy Jones
For posterity: https://github.blog/2023-05-16-addressing-githubs-recent-ava...

It was the DB, and it was rogue usage on May 10, so I'm standing by my original comment
> And, what about people forwarding from accounts they never log into directly?

I'm basically in this situation, which is why I have been paying for the annual plan. Despite the fact I passionately hate Google. Not sure when if ever I will be comfortable deleting my account entirely.
Anecdotal, but as a kid with no money, demos were super important, and 100% of my purchases were from games whose demos I’d played. I hope your effort in making a demo has been rewarded!
Just like Skype... I felt like Skype was top tier before Microsoft bought it out. Voice calls were high quality, no issues.
Thank you so much for sharing this!

This is exactly the type of web server I'm looking for my project.
Surely one of the Wario Ware games does this at least for one minigame? I mean, they're chockfull of weird game mechanics.
My comment on this is simple, regulate the one who is saying he needs or ask for regulation, and free the rest of the market! Meaning 100% regulate big players like Openai, Microsoft, Google etc, and let free the smaller players. I heavily like the @happytiger's comment!
My kid can spend longer than that in the character designer.
I'm curious as to the query they're using in stackoverflow, since the results they've graphed vary considerably from https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends.
I don't believe there is such a digital generator but if there were it would make the massive difference of being unpredictable (because there would be irrational numbers impossible to fully simulate ahead of time) from the perspective of all of its creators, which would then beg the question of who made its decisions, which would spark debate about its autonomy, which would then qualify it as intelligent as per the definition you requested earlier.
While reading the original post, I kept thinking about Nanite
When you expand to a country do you partner with local companies to provide support?

I have been hoping New Zealand gets added to the list soon :)
I've been running KDE Neon on a NUC for years as a secondary desktop PC, and it's pretty great overall. It's customizable, performance is good and it looks nice.

The only things I really miss are deeper issues, like non-existing to terrible SMB support and lack of decent remote desktop solution (I've tried all the options, they're all functional at best).

With Proton having solved the gaming issue, I'm sure I would have loved switching my primary box over to Linux with KDE if it were not for those two remaining thorns.
The first year of AI college ends in ruin
This looks cool. Unfortunately, I can get 99% of the way there with a regular NFC tag that has my contact info and a link to my website. Doing that, I can link to my own website and keep everything up-to-date and I don't need to trust others for security.

With all that in mind, I think your actual product is kinda thin and easy to disrupt. I wish you luck (I'm surprised more people don't use NFC business cards) but I'm not sure about your staying power with the current iteration.
Or just one with a faster response time?

The current panel has quite long rise times.
I have about 150 games in the backlog that I buy in sales to play later, when I don't like them after 30 minutes I just refund them. Steam has been pretty good with this, doesn't matter if I bought it months before, they will still refund them.

I guess the demos would be better for Steam as they don't lose credit card fees.
https://i.imgur.com/E4Qcqu1.png (not my pic)

Refunds are for 'this product does not work', and they will block you from doing it if they think you are doing too many. Demos are zero consequence for the customer.
Seriously? are you not worried about malware?
All right church lady. I’m not sure how you choose which kinks are shameworthy. I’ll stick to what’s illegal, thanks- pedo, necro, beast, etc. And then a simple heuristic like if it’s consenting adults and legal then that’s enough for me.
Macbooks have great speakers, wondering if that's what he meant
Just a reminder: I may not have read every resource on the internet about this subject, and you can share information without attacking the person for not already having it. And it's not clear to me that I can fix these problems, and I stand by my question and look forward to getting an answer free of blame.
I've heard this expressed something like "you'll write 50 bad songs before you write a good one, so get started!"
Eventually it will be the same everywhere but for sake of economy (stakeholders), staff and customers pay the price, always. By time they find the bottleneck they will be hiring as crazy then.
> There's really no such thing as a canonical form of SQL. There's really no such thing as a canonical form of SQL. Keying the query cache and statistics on the raw query bytes is normal on every implementation I've ever had to get that deep into.

There doesn't have to be. Postgres internally converts the SQL query into a parse tree for further processing, and while the exact structure of that parse tree is an internal implementation detail, so is the generic plan cache itself. A more reliable cache design would be to use a serialized form of the parse tree as a cache key, as the parsing stage would discard unnecessary information, such as comments and redundant whitespace.

> Furthermore in many databases, comments aren't always "just comments." For instance MySQL can specify nonstandard or version-specific syntax inside of comments and it will be executed. The 'STRAIGHT JOIN' below is an example from their docs and here is not a comment, but a mysql-specific part of the statement:

> SELECT /! STRAIGHT_JOIN / col1 FROM table1,table2 WHERE ...

This is unfortunately true, and was a very boneheaded design decision, but it's not a showstopper. The query parser still has to distinguish between "harmless" comments and query hints at some point in the execution of the query. All that needs to be done to account for this is to move that distinction to the parsing phase so that the AST will have separate nodes for such hints that won't be ignored/discarded when serializing for use as a cache key.

> I dare say the worst offense here is enabling SQLAlchemy's Instrumentation in production without understanding how it might impact database performance. Even though some of these behaviors ended up causing unexpected problems, overall the instrumentation was clearly preventing some common queries from being potentially optimized by the query planner, and it may have been interfering with the buffer cache, query statistics, or other optimization mechanics as well.

I would say the worst offense is an RDBMS deciding that comments are an appropriate place to interpret query planning directives.
I wonder what "representative" means in relation to human behavior?

does it mean "must collect ALL data"?
Apple is rumored to be taking 90% of TSMCs 3nm production.
Well – I refill an aquifier very simply so because I don't refill them.
Sorry, are you saying that it'd be a problem that pedestrians could cross when they intend to? I'm not following
I'd rather see agencies certify AI to standards rather than regulatory on development of AI models.
Ok, so you don't get it. Read "Use of Weapons" and realise that AI is a weapon. That's a good use of your time.
The internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can
> why pay for more ?
I am guessing for the "lenth of the game - 90 minutes"

From my experience as a gamer, now days between the free games on mobile, epic game store and xbox game pass, the almost infinite amount of dirt cheap games on sale at any time on steam and the "sink all you life always online: experiences like destiny, overwatch etc... etc... The main resources for games is time not money. The idea that someone would find a game that they actually enjoy and decided not to pay for it (or wait for it for a sale) i don't think is realistic.
Sure some people will sample the game, but the people who won't buy the game after sampling it are the same people who wouldn;t buy the game either way.
This seems like an ad hominem. Why not engage with the content of the artcicle before hand waving it away?
Unironic usage of the word "bullish" is a dead giveaway that a person is working full time at a traveling kids entertainment facility. Very convenient for the readers :) .
git itself is not enough for teams to work together - you need to asynchronously communicate for the whole thing to come together. Thats what GitHub/Lab/ea bring in value.
If microcode can be considered as software too...
> absolutist interpretation

What's absolutist - the driver blew right through the crosswalk while someone was literally in it...
Default gnome 3 doesn't make any sense. It's obvious they're making it horrible on purpose. I wonder why I have to install extensions for the most basic stuff.
Ableton isn't open source. There are also several other DAWs and Ableton isn't some pinnacle of software engineering.
Take Larry and ESR and anyone else with some pinches of salt, because accepting some proprietary implementations of DAWs as a tombstone on the FOSS development of DAWs is rather reductionist to the point of being totally wrong.

Why would you bother posting such a comment?

Your notion that all questions regarding how to do the manifold tasks a DAW are resolved is specious, and you couldn't possibly prove it to be true because it's false.
Ableton has managed to make a product that solves the DAW questions in one particular way, and it's a black-box to boot, so that's not in the public domain, as Meadowlark is.

The technical questions entailed in Rust trying to mate with GUIs are EXTREMELY UNSOLVED AND RELEVANT RIGHT NOW! Let me tell you, state, state, state.

I can't even propose that you work for Ableton as they are classier than this!
Their product is a good and useful DAW for many people, you bet.
Your point is?
The whole issue with near term alignment is that people will anthropomorphize AI. That’s what it being unaligned means, it’s treated like a responsible person when it in fact is not. I don’t think it’s hard at all to think of a scenario where a dumb as rocks agentic ai gives itself the task of accumulating more power since its training data says having power helps solve problems. From there it again doesn’t have to be anything other than a stochastic parrot to order people to do horrible things.
good idea. let’s call it “git”
Who sold their commercial real estate pre-pandemic? Who is the big winner here that saw the thing everyone else missed?
My understanding is that every upgraded component which ships with the new framework can be purchased separately and installed in the 1st generation model. Indeed, this is the primary selling point of the framework. What source have you seen which says differently?
“Unacceptable risk”, “high risk”, “force for good”. Terms as vague and broad as an interstellar gas cloud. It makes me wonder if this is a strawman argument against regulation.
it does too much. it's like 3 bars in one/a restaurant/over the top huge style arcade games/meeting room venue/pool hall/darts/shuffleboard

probably missing something but yeah it's everything and nothing at the same time.