skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Speaks to the lack of user focus in the Nix community.

Not really. Nix is not a tool, it's a toolkit for making your own tools. Very much in the vein of Unix, shell, etc.

Many people don't use Nix for "installing" stuff. I personally use it for deploying software to servers without the (congnitive and performance) overhead of containers.

I find search.nixos.org immensely useful, but don't really need it from the CLI.
Other than snark, do you have a good argument? We know that technology can be error-prone, and LLMs fail in a great plethora of ways, but you are trying to sell an AI Doom narrative. I have never bought the idea that AI will be airgapped, because the whole paradigm of Yudkowsky at al. is ludicrous and even within it airgapping was a strawman of a technique (they argue that a truly dangerous AI will get itself out regardless).

> they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on)

Maybe this is a good cause to reassess the premise of alignment as a valuable goal? I know that at least some alignist fanatics admit [1] it's a religious project to bring humanity under the rule of a common ideologically monolithic governance to forever banish the evils of competition etc., and it's intellectually coherent, but evil from my point of view. Naturally this is the exact sort of disagreement about morals that precludes the possibility of alignment of a single AI both to my and to your values.

> they are advancing at a totally predictable rate, and we never see unexpected behaviors from them.

Since when is this a requirement for technology to be allowed?

> Besides, they can only be wielded by people who we trust have good intentions.

What, other than status quo bias, makes you tolerate, I dunno, the existence of cryptography?

1. https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1660450229043249154
I take the author's point for single-user write-frequently search-rarely use cases. Plenty of small greenfield projects look like that.

Bigger projects, or projects that are enjoying fast growth, may well need indexing. Why? to keep search performance up under a multi-user workload and/or a mixed write-query workload. Complex multi-table searches often also benefit from judicious indexing.

Here's something to keep in mind: Successful projects often find that an unpredicted query pattern has become very popular and/or a bottleneck. Often the bottleneck is remediated in production by adding appropriate indexes. SQL's designed to add indexing without changes to the data model, for precisely that reason. It's normal to add indexes as projects grow, and no sign of bad design or expensive technical debt. (Unsuccessful projects, or projects that don't need to grow? They don't have the problem.)
It makes sense if he only cares about certain types of speech. Given he censors more overseas than previous Twitter leadership did (without getting banned) - it's really hard to argue he is motivated by principles rather than politics and money.

Furthermore, a person who is strongly principled on freedom of speech would not ban people he disagrees with. Yet, he's done that in spades. I mean come on. Can we just stop with this pretending?
Supreme Court Limits the EPA’s Authority Under the Clean Water Act
First time I've heard anyone say that! It's all coming together baybee, people ain't dumb.
OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people’s eyeballs
Verily, various variants of vary are very varied.
relevent song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtikPtdT-s
No, it's not:

"Petitioners Michael and Chantell Sackett purchased property near Priest Lake, Idaho, and began backfilling the lot with dirt to prepare for building a home. The Environmental Protection Agency informed the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and that their backfilling violated the Clean Water Act, which prohibits discharging pollutants into 'the waters of the United States.' The EPA ordered the Sacketts to restore the site, threatening penalties of over $40,000 per day."

It's an example of why building anything costs so much.
Also the fact that human eyes are arranged horizontally, our native vision is widescreen.
If AI becomes harmful we will likely see it in motion and be able to respond and adapt to it.

We will live in a world where the humans on the internet are far far far more dangerous than any of these machines. The harms here are relatively small.

The only thing AI has is scale, but what's running at a higher scale than humanity? Every site already runs scam filters and handles misinformation. AI won't likely move the needle much because it's going to be less powerful than humans.

The potential benefits, meanwhile, are plentiful and massive.

I do not believe we need to wait for a solution to the nebulous and badly defined "control problem" to be solved to match forward here.

If we refused to advance out of fear, that fear will have done far more harm than access to AI will ever do.
> Just to give you an illustrative example, if three workers with 8 years of schooling retire from the workforce, and two workers with college degrees enter the workforce, is that a demographic collapse?

Yes, because, unfortunately, every economy depends on having workers willing to do occupations that don’t depend on high-level qualifications.

As China’s population ages while the pool of young workers without career aspirations shrinks, where are they going to find all the medical care-assistants, agricultural workers, and things like that? Other countries such as in the Middle East the “solution” was to import labour from India and SE Asia - I don’t believe that approach will work for China at all.
I don't see cars as being comparable to the universal usage of electrical energy as an intermediate of converting physical forms of energy. Not even close.

And also, the "deployment" of cars if you will, has brought and still brings malignant effecfs on society, not only positives. If by cars you mean cars for transporting individual people in non-critical situations and the corresponding industrial and political developments, especially around urban planning.

Nor arguing about the significance of the effects, but the discovery of electricity and how to use it seem more useful to me than the discovery of using fossil fuel cumbustion for transporting people.

Road transit in total is a different thing of course.
WaPo Rejects Op-Ed Critiquing Claims of Communist “Hoax” on Germ Warfare
>In the absence of Stories, YouTube wants creators to instead post content to other surfaces on the platform: Community Posts and Shorts. The company recently expanded access to Community Posts, a text-based updates feature, and added the ability to have posts expire after a certain period.

YouTube seems really dedicated to Community Posts and pushing creators to use them, except that they don't seem to plan on ever making them viewable in the iPad app where a huge portion of the audience is. Virtually every other feature, including Stories, was added on iPad at about the same time as iPhone, except Community Posts are years behind. Weird.
It's not only Hinton but Yoshua Bengio too that wrote a great article that was downvoted in olbivion here while he has the higher h-index in computer sciece right now. Should make you suspicious tht there is some psychological bias among tech right now because the alternative is very scary. This bias is called normalcy bias.
> It just needs to be making enough stuff that the rest of the world needs to justify holding their currency in reserve.

If you're holding a currency in reserve, you're explicitly not using it to purchase goods and services. I don't remember if it was in this video, or the "Weaponization of the Dollar" video that he discusses this.

> When the US became the reserve currency it didn't run a deficit. It's a benefit of being a reserve currency that you can do that, not a prerequisite.

The non-deficit was under Bretton Woods, where gold was the ultimate reserve underlying the dollar. Is it coincidental that the US started running a trade deficit in the decade it abandoned Bretton Woods?

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

"Starting in about 1970, the United States began to run trade deficits again, which have continued to this day. These shifts in the long-term U.S. trade balance appear to correspond well with U.S. industrialization in a global setting."

If your currency becomes a reserve currency it tends to appreciate in value, which makes your own products more expensive (especially as exports). You can call being able to import things cheaply a benefit, but it's a detriment to those in the reserve currency country who make their living as producers. For instance, the US farm system is, in part, propped up by subsidies. And even those didn't save the small farms.

https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...

"Government payments (excluding crop insurance payments) to farms have fluctuated since 1933, from a low of $1.5 billion in 1949 to $32.1 billion in 2000. In 1949, government payments made up 1.4% of total net farm income — a measure of profit — while in 2000 government payments made up 45.8% of such profits.

In 2019, farms received $22.6 billion in government payments, representing 20.4% of $111.1 billion in profits."
First 64 bit windows was running on DEC Alpha. Not Intel or AMD
It is being downvoted (hopefully) because it is known Russian propaganda point.
MoviePass is back, and it starts at $10 / month
What you're citing is really all Russian propaganda.

There's also a lot of financial support to pay for basic services, which doesn't directly translate into machine guns, but is vital for Ukraine's war effort.

But the fact is, there are no missing howitzers or HIMARS. That's just Russian propaganda meant to dissuade western support.
Stripped of context, it certainly does look suspicious.
x86-64 was the original name by AMD, they rebranded it shortly before commercial availability to AMD64. Kernels and compilers had already been updated at that time and just kept the "old" name.
Mark Zuckerberg unveils ‘scrappier’ future at Meta after layoffs
> US isn't donating weapons to Ukraine, it's leasing them

Could you kindly support your statement with the source? AFAIK most aid provided to Ukraine is not under lend-lease but donated to them
For this partcular purpose, look no further thank Khan Academy.

I recommended a lot of people these courses and myself went over a few videos to revise Trigonometry.

I can vouch for the quality.
> Once DoH succeeds in preventing DNS based blocking of ads, trackers, etc...

I'm not sure how DoH dramatically changes this. Even absent DoH a device can always ignore your network's DNS settings and just query 8.8.8.8 or whatever "known good" DNS server they wanted. This isn't uncommon with IoT devices today, usually to avoid ISP tampering with DNS.
> The 14ths wording seems pretty clear that the American government is required to pay its bills.

It clearly doesn't say anything about "bills." Section 4 says:

> The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

The distinction between "debt" and "expenses" is clear and longstanding. Even in the middle ages people would be able to tell you the difference between the crown repaying borrowed money and the crown paying expenses: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic....
Yes, let's focus on content for the ADHD crowd. Let's create a situation where videos crop out relevant bits and end mid sentence. Let's incentize channels to post videos that end before the payoff promised in the title and let them end with vapid promises that it will be in a part two that doesn't and will never exist.

YouTube and YouTube shorts should be two separate apps/sites sevibg two distinct types of content not one where shorts in crammed into a format it isn't suited for.
https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise/
Pfizer was making on average $50b revenue [1] before COVID.

And the profits they generated by COVID could well save countless more lives given that their MRNA technology is successfully being applied to other use cases.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/revenue
the value creators are all the researchers that have invested untold hours into designing the models and collecting the data.
FK constraints however are a pretty common gotcha. You have a table that allows deletes, and every table that has a column pointing to that table gets scanned on each delete operation.

So you have to add an index on that column, or start talking about tombstoning data instead of deleting it, but in which case you may still need the FK index to search out references to an old row to replace with a new one.
Considering your strong disagreement with Elon's stance on content moderation and free speech, might it be possible that your perception of Elon 'destroying' Twitter stems more from personal bias, or 'wishful thinking', rather than a balanced appraisal of the facts? It's hard to know for sure as an outsider, but it would personally surprise me a lot if Twitter was in fact dying.
I still see the popup when not logged in. Every time.
Film about the question of how far we need to understand the technologies we use
Canada paid $175 per dose.

https://www.oxfam.ca/news/vaccine-monopolies-make-cost-of-va...
APK Mirror seems to be a more popular option: https://www.apkmirror.com/

Created by https://twitter.com/ArtemR which is known in the Android space.
The paradox here is that I don't want to make others anti-fragile with my own feedback. If I have time and patience, I try to have a conversation with them about what they were trying to accomplish and why they have not considered other alternatives. In a sizable fraction of cases, I come away convinced that what they are doing is reasonable, or at least the effort of making changes is not worth the payoff. Otherwise, I hope that the process is of us coming to a conclusion together rather than me pulling my rank/seniority.

I am also not a fan of working with "you are an idiot and you are doing it all wrong" people. Even if they are technically 100% correct, they should have shown me some respect by having a conversation to double check their assumptions. I maybe physically robust, but I still enjoy being transported by a bus with well working suspension.

However, an out here is "time and patience". There is no way to know what all other people have on their plate, if they are tired or preoccupied with personal matters and so on. If they are being unreasonable, it's certainly worth keeping in mind that it may not be because of you.
Observable Plot 0.6.7 released: pointer interaction, tip mark
I think the issue people complaint is the excessive investment on image over substance

But the new logo does look very good
Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks
"...Current approaches to building general-purpose AI systems tend to produce systems with both beneficial and harmful capabilities. Further progress in AI development could lead to capabilities that pose extreme risks, such as offensive cyber capabilities or strong manipulation skills. We explain why model evaluation is critical for addressing extreme risks. Developers must be able to identify dangerous capabilities (through "dangerous capability evaluations") and the propensity of models to apply their capabilities for harm (through "alignment evaluations")..."
Just because it's a racket, doesn't mean its unjustified?
Arguably the revolution was heavily motivated by business interests. Arguably.
But 2 out of 3 scientists that created the tech you are talking about disagree with you. Makes you wonder if..?
That is incorrect. If you read through their arguments, you will see a long list of documents to pull from.

When you see made up concepts and things that make no sense, then you may say that. I am looking at you 9th district.

The issue at play is how the government is seen by the people in charge, it is an exciting time to see those in charge try to bend the rules to get the judges to accept it. Look at how Obama claimed the care act was not a tax until it went to the court and then it became a tax to slip by.
Thanks! I don’t have a lot of experience with VPNs but for sure UDP is much better suited for packets which is the abstraction layer that VPNs operate on.

> VPNs that use TCP as the transport layer could try and special case TCP handling and treat them as a flow and just transport the TCP data streams instead

Yes! An interesting observation is that TCP composes really well, ie relaying works excellent. However, for VPNs it’d be nesting TCP which melts down quickly.
It's very useful to be able to guarantee every person only has 1 account. Things like voting and giveaways only work when people can't make 100 accounts out of thin air.
IPinfo's Free IP Address Location Database
Imagine working in the Manhattan project outside Manhattan.
There are no language semantics for either, they're just declarative annotations about run time behavior. Either compiler can add checks at compile or run time for the annotations. There's really no reason to have two sets of parallel annotations for the same constraint.
And societies never learn.
Without USA there would be no division of Korea. Also, before US sanctions, North Korea was more successful than South Korea.

How people seriously can blame North Korea for poverty if it is deliberately being suffocated by USA for decades?
Suburban and Americans aren't so good at living with the level of aggression that city driving requires, and so prefer having clearly delineated left turn time to something perceived as fighting in traffic.
Asian countries are the place to start. The top ten contributors to ocean plastics are in Asia. [0]

[0] https://plasticbank.com/which-country-is-the-most-accountabl....
The HR team’s target was to get the score above 3.0. And so, they got to work flagging negative reviews for removal, and encouraging staff to post 5-star reviews to balance out negative reviews.

Filed under: Stuff that happens when corporations receive no meaningful penalty for fraudulent reporting. Also see Bogus DMCA Strikes
Yeah. I think that a lot of these changes after 1940 are much more to do with socio/political factors than growth. By 1940 you have the GDP to support a middle class. It's the collective experience of the Great Depression, WWII and the rheotric of the New Deal that produce a populace that just wouldn't put up with significant imbalance in the riches of society.

People who fought in and justified WWII contrasted it with WWI. The claim being that WWI was a war fought on behalf of the old world system. And WWII was a true war for Democracy. I think it would've been very hard after that kind of mobilization, sacrifice and rhetoric to re-instute the Gilded Age ethos of a system which the rules of the game were sacred about the outcomes.

In this way American Democracy is born of the FDR era. I don't mean this in the narrow sense of the size of the electorate though that is important. At every level, America's systems Democratized. From the way the Supreme Court interpreted the law, to the choices of industry in what to produce, to how the rewards of production were distributed. There was a broad transition from the notion that institutions existed to maintain rules towards a notion that these institutions in their largest sense needed to serve the people.

I think a lot of what has happened since 1970 is a transition back to a way of looking at the world through the pre-democratic lense. The biggest difference being that now there is a plurality which is the upper half of the middle class who have some similar interests to the wealthy in protecting their wealth.
The phrase "the next bagholder" means that it isn't worth it.

If, for example, you buy a house with a fucked up foundation, fixing and selling it isn't finding the next bagholder. Covering it up and selling it ASAP without disclosing it is finding the next bagholder.
Honestly it’s confusing to me that India, not China, hasn’t overtaken the world in CS/SE/AI - considering the sheer size of their workforce and their (relative to China) uncensored Internet access.
Ultimately the reason the US was in Vietnam includes the context of the Korean war that just happened a decade prior. The US was hoping we would have two South Koreas ($35k GDP per capita) than a Communist Vietnam ($3.5k GDP per capita)

https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1623863406276091906
The two front runners are Trump again or wannabe Theocratic Dictator. There's no hope.
Weston 12.0: Highlights and Changes
I feel like the psychology behind being a driver is a problem.
Does Kate have a function list panel that supports Markdown headings? And the ability to define projects that include files from all over the file system rather than just one directory? Those are killer NP++ features for me.
This is also why they don't serve Haiti, for example.

It's also not coincidental that this letter was just written, since only a couple months ago Hamas was forced to stop accepting Bitcoin donations because a number of their donators in the US were arrested after their contributions were arrested for sponsoring the terrorist group.

In fact it's such an unlikely coincidence, that some of the 11 US legislators that signed this letter are associated with non-profits who's donations seem to trickle into Hamas bank accounts...

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/ilhan-omar-ras...
If a technology has positives and negatives consequences for the world, but the positives outweigh the negatives, then we want those technologies to be developed. For cars, the positives outweigh the negatives.
Very Nice UI for Hacker news
Calling the modern USA a welfare state is laughable.
> People switching from Android to iOS for privacy reasons seems myopic to me. Apple is, ultimately, a company.

They're not the same. Google generates ~80% of its revenue from an ads product built on user data. Apple has an ad product which generates ~5% of its revenue (mostly from App Store ads), collects far less info¹, does not share user info with third parties, and lets users turn off personalized ad targeting with a simple toggle².

¹ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin... ² https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
I think you miss the point. Shorts aren't really suited to the desktop yet they're crammed in there. The format isn't really suited to YouTube in general. If they really wanted to compete with tiktok they'd spin shorts off to a separate app and tune their algorithm to those users without continuing to make YouTube worse while pandering to shorts.
Elasticsearch Relevance Engine brings new vectors to generative AI
Enterprise enters the space currently occupied by Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, etc.
Thanks, yes this makes a ton of sense.

Another thing I wondered about is how much CPU overhead VPNs add, and how it performs when maximizing throughput. (Not Tailscale but a “regular” one with kernel packet switching). Do you have any experience with that?
The key to learning Math in adult life, as I have found- setting aside 40-180 mintues every day to learn regularly.

It would be golden if you can create a study group that meets weekly. Just start a discord/Element room/Zulip/IRC chat and go from there.

I am learning Topology as an adult and learned Category Theory this way.

This truly works.

Setting aside time 4-5 days a week works. Make it a habit.
be interesting to see where the contract states they need to delete that data let alone provide evidence of it out of all systems and services... gtfo