skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no law in the UK making it illegal to possess random data. And I strongly encourage other people to use the "dd" command and create some large random files on their own computer, themselves. It's a perfectly legal form of protest. The more people that do so, the less these key disclosure laws can be enforced?

In fact it would be really nice if Android smartphones, when encryption is enabled, fill up all the unused space with random data. I wonder if they do that already or not?

Even better would be have the operating systems fill up the unused space with random data upon partitioning the disk, by default. SSDs are very fast nowadays so it doesn't really take too much time to do so.

This random data filling could even be implemented by SSD controller firmware. Any SSD firmware developers here, please consider doing this by default, as it would severely impact the ability of the government to violate our rights. If AES crypto hardware is available, just use a random key, and let the hardware generate a stream of encrypted zeros.

Also if you run a Web site, you can generate chunks of random data dynamically each time and serve it up to the users. That way it will end up being stored in peoples' browser caches worldwide. Even a couple of kilobytes at a time would be fine. This can be embedded in HTML files, added as dummy data in video files, music files, JPEG, PNG, etc. Again, this is all perfectly legal to do. Transmission and possession of random data is not illegal.

So anywhere you can, if it's cheap to do, don't pad it with zeros, pad it with random numbers instead! You can even do it with RAM, because it will likely end up in the swap space at some point.

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/06/07/vectorizing-random-number-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/jj4j47/arx_based_fa...

When nearly every computer or embedded device out there contains large quantities of random data on it's disk, these "key disclosure laws" will be rendered completely useless.
Some posts are missing the point. It's not to deter criminals with rational mind and time to plan. it's to deter common scenario of crime of opportunities and/or passion.

It's not difference than lock on your door, a drug addict see your front door unlock, they'll try to steal something, but they aren't gonna figure out how to pick a lock or break a window to cause a ruckus.
Imitation cheese is not cheese, whether it's plant-based or not.
The US refused to ratify the Convention on Rights of The Child, so the rights of Americans are not a superset of internationally agreed rights.
> I can reject that hypothesis without woo

How?
One thought that occurred to me as I was reading this — and I appreciated the logical rigor — is it seems there's generally an implicit assumption that you are comparing the cognitive abilities of a single typical human with a single typical AI. In the very least it's unclear what's being assumed. That is, we talk about the "abilities" of an AI system surpassing human intelligence, but it's a little unclear what's meant by the latter.

Are we comparing an AI system against a single person, or against humans collectively? Usually there's a statement like Hypothesis 2 — "A computer with human-level learning abilities would generally surpass human intelligence because of additional technological advantages" — but then also "although the capacity of a human brain is huge, its input/output channels are bandwidth-limited". But is the relevant comparison a single human brain, or a sort of collective system of humans?

It seems a little misleading in a logical-comparative sense to talk about an AI system built on a collective human system like wikipedia, or the internet, in compared to a single person.

I don't actually mean to question whether a superintelligent system surpassing all human abilities, individually or collectively, could be built. But it seems to be that the concerns about bandwidth and whatnot are a function of the problem definition, and not necessarily a single human system, when a task-solving exercise involves a collective output in both cases.

I think going forward we're going to need much more clarity about what "superintelligence" really means. Currently it seems like AI is essentially mimicking collective human intelligence, which means it is probably constrained at that level, as that level is the source.

If/when AI starts focusing more on reasoning per se, it will probably also be necessary to better define whether there are some limits to discovery and reasoning, in the sense of bounds due to information about a problem domain versus reasoning ability limits. That is, sometimes we know the possible options but just don't have enough empirical information to decide between them; other times we lack explanatory options. Maybe that endeavor also is constrained by human abilities but it seems worthwhile to explore.

Lots of times I suspect the fears of superintelligence have more to do with the experimental nature of how AI was developed than anything else. That is, AI sort of proceeded in a more experimental way without mathematical theory driving it, so we have some catching up to do.
Type suffixes on literals are fairly typical in languages using C-style syntax, so for JS I'd expect it to make more sense that way than doing it like Python does. Apart from the usual problems you'd get when your numbers suddenly behave very different than before. That has to be an opt-in syntax change.
I'd also hazard that global peer to peer information networks and the visibility they provide has increased the domestic repercussions of the worst external state-sponsored exploitation of Africa.

Colonialism seemed to work in large part on "You see diamonds appearing in your western country -- you don't see people being beaten, in poverty, and leaders assassinated in the places those diamonds come from."

Western media's eye is fickle, but the optimist in me likes to thing that western governments wouldn't get away with the overt shit they pulled in the 60s and 70s these days.
If you want to use Elm for your hobby project, go for it. Everyone else, choose something that has a well established development team - the operative word being team. One-man development efforts (no matter their genius/brilliance) are too risky to depend on for serious work that needs to work/be-supported in 5+ years.
Our friends use us to spy on their friends, too. And their own citizens.
The two primary parties any country generally votes for:

1. Corrupt over there and incompetent everywhere else

2. Incompetent over there and corrupt everywhere else
> In assessing Microsoft’s reaction to DR DOS, I must think what would be own reaction if I had designed and implemented something, and someone copied my design into a distinct implementation of their own.

"MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS – owned by Seattle Computer Products, written by Tim Paterson." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS?useskin=vector
> GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.

It will either find something to sell us, or we will be giving it ourselves to sell.

"If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer"
I've for sure found myself thinking along those lines in the past. It's definitely possible it's a common enough thought to affect culture as you suggest.
I think there are a couple answers:

- Quality is still pretty big. And if I have to spend hours prompt engineering, is it really a win?

- That said, there is some copyright murkiness and I probably wouldn't use generative AI in a marketing campaign as a large company. A lot of more incidental use like conference presentations, I wouldn't worry too much.
I'm afraid if the solution is to "redesign the global political system" and "redesign society" we're in trouble.
RF test chambers and ranges
Downvoted! For a fact!

The internet is filled with crooked bots, captured bots, bots that want capitalism and governmental collusion to seem "silly".
This is fascinating, obviously it makes a tonne of sense for uber as a platform to offer waymo's autonomous vehicles. The first question I had though was "who extracts value here". Does Waymo get to demand human-driver level prices and therefore capture loads of value or does Uber actually capture the value because they're where the customers are. But then I realised... it doesn't matter. Waymo is part of Alphabet, and Uber is sitting at around a $70Bn market cap, surely if this is starting to show signs of success Alphabet just swoops in and buys up Uber, vertically integrates, gets a great platform, great customer base, has all the customer service infra that google sucks at and they just slowly phase out the human drivers by rolling out autonomous vehicles as they're legalized in each jurisdiction.
TIL about caimans

BR Portuguese uses the same word for caimans and alligators: Jacaré

"Crocodilo", in contrast, generally refers to true crocodiles.
Alphabet investment synergy potential is high.
The Aerofoil project (https://galeforcegames.itch.io/aerofoil) was forked in 2019 and provides binaries for Android, Mac, & Windows. I just tried to build on Linux but there are errors (https://github.com/elasota/Aerofoil/issues/2).
This seems to leave Lyft in a bad spot?
> What would you predict are the amount of people total who bought almond milk instead of semi-skimmed?

Likely a large amount of people about to or becoming obsessed with fitness, or vegan recipes. The problem here is that all those "milk alternatives" have absolutely nothing to do with milk whatsoever, they have different handling and nutritional value (or lack of it; to the detriment of innocent kids suffering their parents' obsession). For most people, using the word "milk" will pull all kinds of wrong associations from their minds' latent spaces, which they won't be able to evaluate and ignore.
To Microsoft, by my reckoning, DR DOS was an imitator of MS-DOS. In assessing Microsoft’s reaction to DR DOS, I must think what would be own reaction if I had designed and implemented something, and someone copied my design into a distinct implementation of their own. I would have to accept that copyright law gives me no protection and I might console myself with the proverb about imitation being flattery, but I would think it outrageously unjust if some law would somehow have me owe anything to the imitator.

I'm sorry I have to strongly disagree with this view. MS-DOS was developed in 6 weeks and was a clone of another popular OS of the era called CP/M created in 1974 by Digital Research. The same company that created DR-DOS. If there were laws regulating common and fundamental designs and implementations as we do copyrighted works Microsoft wouldn't exist. Digital Research would have sued Microsoft in '81 and that would have been the end of Microsoft.
For my high school we only had scanners on external exits that kids came in from the outside world. There were no scanners on doors to the outdoor fields that were inside the perimeter fence. So kids went out for football and PE and band and whatnot without passing through scanners.

And even if there were scanners it’s pretty easy to hide a knife in football equipment or a tuba or something.
You’ll be surprised how soon AI generated images are indescernible from high quality stock photos
"If there are 7.8 billion people alive today, but 80 trillion lives that could be born in the future, we should technically prioritize those future lives."

that seems like a binary statement that should probably be some find of formula or weighted function.
It would be interesting to know where the transcription with 5/8 originally came from. If you listen to the record, it's not clear what it is and if it was ever supposed to have a nice written form, but it certainly doesn't fit in with the sequence of even length 8th notes.
If alligators can hang out in trees then so can chickens.

images of chickens in a tree - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=chickens+in+a+tree&iax=imag...

images of alligators in a tree - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alligator+in+a+tree&t=ffab&iar=ima...
Yep. "confused" is also how most of his regular papers read to me anyway.

I didn't know what "computational functionalism" was, but after reading about it I don't see how it is remotely the "basic hypothesis behind computer science".
Implemented a history button after completing the game that should make it easier for you to share!
As a drummer who also programs drums, shifting individual hits around by 1 ms is easily perceptible and has a big impact on the feel of a groove. I will always go through each drum element separately and figure out, by ear, what the specific offset should be. This goes especially for percussive parts lacking a transient.

Without this, the groove will feel wooden and stifled.
old enemies coming together, they must be out of options

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/anthony-levandowski-former...
Indeed! But that's where Constitutional protections come in, and why the Bill of Rights was added.
Jester or rebel? Mercenary Prigozhin lays bare the strains of Putin's war
https://archive.is/tJde5
Would you consider the suburbs “outside of cities”?
Isn't this what they also accused FTX of doing?
Wow, DR DOS. That's a memory I forgot I had.
TBH this looks like the MPC Live (except done with by people with a bit of taste.)

Sketch out things when you're out and about, some simple recordings etc., then bring it back to the studio and just plug it in and have everything there. It's a good plan, and it looks like a great execution, too.
Being resource rich is a well known path to poverty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

It's no coincidence that the resource free Singapore and Hong Kong grew from desperate poverty to the richest cities on Earth, while the countries around them did not.
"Reader View" is your friend.
Sounds like the SoftBank VC motto
Yeah, but it's more than just adding some "random" timings. Because I think that for a real drummer, the timings are biased. For instance, after hitting a drum far away, the timing/speed/power at which you hit the next drum is different than if you hit a different drum right before.
Indeed, AI is useful whereas Crypto mining is wasteful.

Furthermore, carbon tax is a bad idea, as it is regressive, (further) inflation generating, and ends up benefiting polluters from markets with poor regulation - just to list a few disadvantages.

Direct government investment and projects like a Green New Deal would be much more helpful for the Environment.

But I think the OP is mostly concerned about their deflated crypto portfolio...
I think you're just reading it as "Elm/Go good, $yourFavLang bad".

Maybe this makes more sense:

Coming from more expressive languages, one of the good things I could say about Go's developer UX is that you are so helpless to circlejerk over abstractions that there is simply nothing else to do than to write concrete code to solve the problem.

Elm is similar versus the huge type expressive power of Haskell. Elm's type system is so minimal compared to similar languages that you can't spend hours perfecting your higher kinded advanced type abstraction that perfectly annotates and cordons off the problem domain because there isn't enough typing power to do that. You have to go "welp, good enough" and move on.
> without also the human level capacity to choose wrong?

What does “choosing wrong” mean (to you) ?
TikTok to give Oracle full access to code and recommendation algorithm soon
Because ...? We're in trouble in any case
Most Powerful Supercomputers
You're right, it started with Soviet troops remaining all over Eastern Europe after WW2.
Yes, most do! If you want a fortress of well-tested recipes I highly recommend Smitten Kitchen. Everything tested to great depths...

https://smittenkitchen.com/
Doesn't make it right. We should all stop doing this.
> I think this disagreement comes from people using vague terms like "leftist". E.g. one person might think it means...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

It is bizarre that for so many of the modern day cultural issues we have, there is extensive relevant academic work that we could leverage, but if you look around you at various discussions and goings on, it's as if these resources do not exist. I always wonder the degree to which this is organic.
Alphabet has a large stake in Uber. They don’t need to own it outright to realize huge returns.
Author here :)

I definitely don't think ergonomics and features from other languages are useless! I just feel a bit overwhelmed and distracted by variety sometimes, especially when working on teams.

For example, about 50% of the JS teams I've worked with collectively agreed not to create new classes. I think I'd prefer working with JS if there were only one way to do things, but it doesn't mean that classes are bad or useless.
> The announcement comes… after the U.K.’s [Competition and Markets Authority] issued a final order for Meta to sell Giphy, on the grounds that the merger reduced dynamic competition.

> … Shutterstock said it expects the deal to close next month, with Meta also signing a commercial agreement to continue accessing Giphy’s content across its product suite.

So, Meta still sees value in a Giphy they don’t own.
Foresight: The mental talent that shaped the world
But is this is not missing the point? Just as with any country, if the US didn't agree them, then they aren't agreed. Thus they aren't an example of the US differentiating between its citizens and its non-citizens on its agreed human rights.
This is some galaxy brain shit.
Ashamed? The opposite, usually they’re proud.

“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”

Also see current AI doom debates. See Yann LeCun tweets. He has some the silliest metaphors, like comparing AI development to aviation development. As if the two are similar in order of magnitude of downside risk.
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People mostly complain that it’s not SimCity but the gameplay is fine. It’s in no way shallow. Just different.
dbt Cloud or dbt Core for enterprise data platform
"Why learn to play an instrument when you can just buy a CD?"
B&O sounds great (tried Emerge), but they are ridiculously overpriced.

Bought Marshall Middleton - no assistants, no mandatory app, jack input, bass/treble buttons.
Studying Plotinus completely changed my life.

I’m probably one of the last people who will ever say that.
> Moreover, in line with this, Quijada has stated he does not believe a speaker would think necessarily any faster because even though Ithkuil is terse, a single word requires a lot more thought before it can be spoken than it would in a natural language.

I can't imagine what this is like to think before I have words to describe them. My current thought process is an inner monologue and I can't imagine how I'd think if I couldn't put words to my ideas immediately.
Ironically your reply is in light gray text
A shambling zombie of the franchise?
It seems like and endless Whac-A-Mole of free unprofitable services.

Can this go in infinitely?
I was also using it for these reasons up to about 10 months ago. I've switched to rescript now because it still addresses most of these, while being a lot closer to the mainstream of frontend programming.

Rescript does piggyback on normal JS ecosystem and build systems so comes out worse there. But it's easier to integrate with existing js codebases and npm packages for the same reason, and its output can be used from js in any framework if you plan for it.

I was really missing the elm command/update model for a while but at some point I realized adding that semantics to a react reducer with a custom hook was completely reasonable, and there are a couple existing projects doing exactly that. I wrote my own in an afternoon and have been copying it around to new projects since.

I'm like 90% happy with this transition now. It doesn't always feel quite as safe & magical as elm did, but it's also a lot easier to integrate with other systems.
For me it was the other way round (Gnome 2 made me switch to KDE3) so... who is right?
He didn't touch on the fact that the tech is predetermined by the hype. Most of us just have to work with whatever the CTO likes right now or whatever the team thinks is the "most modern."
It's more like deploying code to production without at the very least running it once. That would be really fucking dumb. Most people don't do that. The above comment is saying that most cookbooks are hot garbage and dont have recipes that have been used once.
>humanizing the web

How do they square this mission statement with AI summaries and content-vectorized chat bots? are the summaries going to be so long and bad on purpose you are still forced to click though occasionally? just so the possibly human web site runner feels glee.
I love this to help in the constant fight of making an old email server keep delivering mail.
Apart from the other answers, I want to add that there is a significant difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is when you're alone but don't want to be. Solitude is when you're alone but perfectly content with it - you may even seek it.

As humans are social creatures, loneliness tends to arise when meaningful social interactions are consistently insufficient and you feel excluded from any relevant peer groups (family & friends mostly). This, of course, is a subjective matter.
He is a colonel of the US military with much combat experience and a PHD in foreign relations. You are telling me not to listen to anyone questioning or disagreeing with neocon NATO propaganda. OK will do..
Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica, is widely considered to a mediocre drummer, in terms of technique. His style is distinctive but cannot be called precise. The timing on Master of Puppets is likely due to a fluke during the songwriting/rehearsal process. “Hey guys, this 5/8 thing sounds really cool, I think we’re really nailing it now!”

plays it out of time

Rest of the band likely just got used to his idiosyncratic playing and adapted.
I used to work on Wine and don't recall encountering any APIs that made things magically faster. That was a popular rumour on Slashdot in the early 2000s because at the time, most devs were unaware of how IE could start so much faster than Mozilla, and how MS Office could start so much faster than OpenOffice. Cheating via pre-loading was assumed. It was eventually proven that this couldn't be the case when these apps started faster than their competitors even on Wine on Linux. The actual cause was that MS cared about and heavily optimized startup time. No magic.

The OS/2 history isn't quite how I remember it. The fact there'd be a new version of Windows surprised nobody. Chicago development wasn't exactly a secret that caught anyone unawares. Also OS/2 Warp came out before Windows 95 did.
Maybe your Berkeley grad metal practitioners like Dream Theater and probably a lot of metal in the last decade or two (since the internet and YouTube) but I imagine a lot of garage metal bands from the 70’s and 80’s were probably just playing/writing by feel and a loose understanding of music theory. I’m sure producers helped bring it all together on the album.
This won't be in widespread use for quite a while. Places with weather still aren't great candidates for Waymo.
The rule of thumb is that the road wear is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight.
I have no idea what your comment means. Any question like this, while it might appear good in a tweet or a Marvel script, isn't actually very helpful in furthering discussion.