skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't take an empirical approach to existential risk as you don't get the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. You have to prospectively reason about it and plan for it.
>In which case, CrabLang wanted to use the Rust trademarks to deceive people into thinking it's endorsed by the project and foundation.

Instead, I see their statement as a visceral reaction to some legal threat they received that they don't think was valid. They probably weren't trying to deceive anyone, they just wanted to name their project "Rust Widget" or something and don't like that they are open to legal action from that because someone might think that's an official Rust project, when it's not... Even if most people would know it's not.

I'm not privy to any information in this debate, I just don't support your interpretation of their words. I think mine is a more charitable interpretation until further evidence of their actual meaning comes to light.
Learn the meaning of the two words:

Open Source = You can see the source. Usually MIT / BSD + GPL + MPL and various others are all "Open Source"

Free Software = GPL and other licenses that enforce the users freedom of access to source code. Free has nothing to do with cost.
Ask HN: My fundraising non-profit build a Shopify app and a company wants to buy
Hey HN,

My non-profit foundation has made a Shopify App that saves us 3 days a week of one human inputting data. We currently license the software to other non-profits for $1000 setup (we use staff time to walk them through it) and $50 a month licensing.

A private company in the non-profit space that we have a good relationship with wants to buy the software and integrate it into their offerings. We have no idea how to price it - thoughts?

Background:
- Cost us about $10,000 of a developer's time
- We currently have 6 customers just through word of mouth and are not actively selling in any way
-the company would deploy it for their offerings to hundreds of customers and it ties into software that is used in 80% of all major fundraising organizations in N. America
- they could likely duplicate it themselves - but the testing side was extensive

Looking for advice on how to price it. Selling it fits one of our key strategies to be a leader in the non-profit space.
Also, while I haven't read any further yet, based on the table on page 3, their big O performance is pretty bad.
I don't ever see Lyft being a profitable company. I've been betting against their stock since they hit the market, and it just keeps plummeting YoY.
Many people seem to believe that the world is dangerous, and there are things like car accidents, illnesses, or homicides, which might somehow kill them. And yet, all of these people with such worries today have never been killed, not even once! How could they believe that anything fatal could ever happen to them?

Perhaps because they have read stories of such things happening to other people, and with a little reasoning, maybe the similarities between our circumstances and their circumstances are enough to seem worrying, that maybe we could end up in their shoes if we aren't careful.

The human species has never gone extinct, not even once! How could anyone ever believe that it would? And yet, it has happened to many other species...
Depending on your workload, of course. If you have to run something proprietary that you only have an x86_64 binary for, the slowdown of having to run it inside qemu would more than make up the difference. And even if you do have the source, it's not uncommon for programs to have highly optimized assembly for x86_64 and only a slow C fallback when compiling on other architectures.
This

> JVM forces you to write in Java or a JVM targeted language

And this

> WASM lets you compile any language that creates a WASM backend

Are basically the same thing.

There’s no fundamental reason that all these languages couldn’t target JVM byte code instead of WASM. It never happened, not nearly as much as WASM backends are, but it could’ve.
Given how much trouble thermals already are for Earth-based datacenters, I can't see that being economically viable for a LONG time
The new LiveView streams are a good start - they are missing reordering though which is needed for lists but is not a normal property of a stream.

I've been working on a personal project which is very list heavy. I started it in pure LiveView using streams but ended up switching to a React SPA hosted in a non-updating LiveView div. Along with missing the reordering (which is needed a lot in the app) the amount of state I needed to hold on the server to wouldn't scale.
Waco was a difficult situation.

The authorities claimed a belief that doing nothing could lead to a mass suicide[1] (really a mass murder/suicide due to the children). This belief may have been reasonable based on the apocalyptic beliefs central to this Christian cult.

But, the authorities when discussing the decision to go on the offensive with an armored vehicle punching holes into the buildings and firing teargas canisters into those holes made claims that seem contradictory. The authorities said that they were aware that the Dividians possessed enough gas masks for all the adults, but that they hoped that "motherly instincts" would take over, and the parents would allow the children to flee[1]. I don't see why they would believe this, if they believed the Dividians were capable of murdering their children in a mass murder suicide.

Money is usually a factor in all things in the US. Perhaps cost was a factor in attempting to end the stand-off? Neighbors seemed to be becoming fatigued by the standoff too. An even more protracted siege may have ended better, or the Dividians might have chosen murder+suicide rather than surrendering no matter how long they were given.

Wikipedia article[2] states:

"Of the 85 Branch Davidians in the compound when the final siege began, 76 died on April 19 in various ways, from falling rubble to suffocating effects of the fire, or by gunshot from fellow Branch Davidians.[34] The siege had lasted 51 days."

But, skimming through that 34th citation[3], I didn't see anything that stated that Davidians were killed by gunfire from other Davidians (perhaps I missed it, but I don't think so). But, it and the LA Times article report on fire investigators who found various fire accelerants including kerosene and lighter fluid in multiple locations and on multiple members of the Christian cult. And, quite the armory of weapons including over a million spent round casings (many firearms illegally modified to be fully automatic) in the possession of the Davidians.

I heard an interview with an divinity scholar who said he and others had tried to reach David Koresh to try to convince him that his reading of the Apocalypses was incorrect (IIRC these attempts included messages delivered through advertisements taken out with local media). They believed that if they could convince Koresh he would end the standoff. Having interacted with religious zealots, this seems naive to me, but it certainly would have been worth trying. (I cannot remember the divinity scholar's name and my vague subject searches did not return anything useful)

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-20-mn-25027-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians

[3] (this is wikipedia article citation #34) https://web.archive.org/web/20170511015809/https://www.justi...
> but the Russians are too stupid to understand it

Who said they don't understand it? What can they do about it? Nothing.
>your retirement plan must involve children or some community inheriting it and taking care of you in your old age.

My farmland pays a rent dividend on the order of 2-4%/yr and I don't even have to be there or even show up to collect it.

I bought my farmland because I consider it doing my part to preserve the planet. I'm a big believer in the future of locally produced food and more local communities in reducing emissions and _corporate wastefulness_. As a side benefit it will preserve my standard of living. I thoroughly enjoy steak and so do a lot of other people. Livestock, land, and gold have preserved wealth since ancient times.
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It comes from above and gobbles you. Wait, that's SandFree.
Hey shkkmo, "isn't" isn't the right word here. In this context, the right word is subjective and everybody else understood what they're saying so the problem is with your perception of what their meaning was, not their comment!
If the managers and ICs agree that something is impossible but they will do or have done it anyways, then that makes a pretty good case for them getting promotions.
The demand is driven by scaling laws.

Now that we see the light at the end of the tunnel to AIs that are more powerful than ChatGPT, the race to develop computers powerful enough to run them is on.
I love how everyone assumes that man left $0 in retirement savings:

"Now working in the public sector and paying into a pension..."
Millions of families make this reasoning and spend $30k or more per year and per kid from age 2. Very few of these kids make it to Harvard or other top 4 colleges, maybe 1 will become president.

Sane Western countries have free and decent public education; and parents can't withdraw their future retirement early to fund dreams.
Lyft's pick up estimates are basically made up as far as I can tell.
Do JAX and functorch have the same level of builtin functionalities (operations) as the original Pytorch library?

Where to learn about it other than the documentation?
> But even cynicism doesn't seem to me to give much reason to worry about regulation of "next to no cost" open source models, though. There's only any chance of regulation being practical if models stay very expensive to make, requiring specialized hardware with a supply chain chokepoint. If personal devices do catch up to the state of the art, then for better or worse regulation is not going to prevent people from using them.

This is a really good point. I wonder if some of the antipathy to the joint statement is coming from people who are worried about open source models or small startups being interfered with by the regulations the statement calls for.

I agree with you that this cat is out of the bag and regulation of the tech we're seeing now is super unlikely.

We might see regulations for startups and individuals on explicitly exploring some class of self-improving approach that experts widely agree are dangerous, but there's no way we'll see broad bans on messing with open source AI/ML tools in the US at least. That fight is very winnable.
I struggle to find description of how that would look like in non fiction sources.

But your take and analogies are the best strain of ideas I heard so far…

How would that would look ?

An AGI hidding it’s state, and effect on the real world thought the internet. It’s not like we did not build thousand of venues for that thought various API. Or just task rabbits.
That's really only true for the Americans, the Russians still don't seem to care about limiting collateral damage and undoubtedly the Americans wouldn't either if their cities were getting carpet bombed by soviet aircraft.
Map creators include intentionally incorrect information (Map Traps) so people copying them are obviously copying them. I sometimes wonder if that’s the root cause of companies failing to correct some of their mistakes.

https://www.gislounge.com/map-traps-intentional-mapping-erro...
The Age of Agents: Can multiple LLM agents improve outputs?
This was a quick experiment on creating multiple LLM (GPT) agents with their own objective to see if outputs can be improved.
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Another similar article, "the pull request hack":

https://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack/
Not impossible, but it might as well be. Politically, I see it as virtually impossible for 'both sides' to compromise on higher taxes and lower spending. I wish we could do that, but it seems hopeless.
IOW orbital mechanics is the art of falling whilst constantly missing the ground
Show HN: Generate Student Report Card Comments Using AI and NoCode
Hello HN!

I'm a web-developer whom recently assisted a teacher and education scientist write a NoCode application for generating student comments.

The teacher switched classes in January and had to write report cards for 2 different classes. He looked around for a faster, more accurate way to take the data he had collected on his students and use that to generate report card comments for his students. So he started testing prompt engineering with chat GPT. It was quite impressive, but he still had to do a lot of manual work and he needed to understand some aspects of prompt engineering. Upon reflecting, there was a better way to collect input the data into the LLM, so that's when I came in to assist and using a NoCode solution, we built Reportcard.AI - writing assistant: https://reportcardcomments.online

We've designed a tool that helps streamline the report card writing process, creating a high quality benchmark for the first draft of your comments, so you can focus your precious time and energy on the important parts of the comment.
reportcardcomments.online

The purpose of Reportcard.AI is to take the data we have collected on our students, and use the writing assistant to generate well written text output, based on the data collected data, to accurately convey where a student is in their learning.

It writes what we tell it to write.

What it is NOT meant to do: replace the teacher in this process

What it IS meant to do: Get all the prep work out of the way fast to get a teacher to a high-quality comment benchmark, from which they can then focus their attention and effort without worrying about the appropriate qualifiers, gender, pronouns, spelling mistakes. The system is currently loaded with the Ontario curriculum (although it can be used by any province) and understands the qualifiers that are aligned to grade levels. It auto adds ‘Next Steps’.

You can…

• WRITE original comments for each student in a subject

• ADD your own subject level comments specific to what you taught

• ADD unique comments for each individual student before you generate the comment.

Time commitment

It takes about 10-15 minutes to write 26 high quality subject level comments (for a class of students.
Writing a class of Learning Skills comments takes about 30 minutes for an entire class of 26 students.

Let me know what you think? Thank you!
Here in Denmark we had negative electricity prices over the weekend. Its a surreal feeling: suddenly, turning on all the equipment is good, and not just financially -- the energy was coming mostly from wind and solar, so it wasn't even a bad thing from a carbon footprint perspective.
I feel the same as you, particularly because 駄 (da) and 菓子 (kashi) can each be associated with a different set of puns that don't come through quite as well in the transliteration.

I also just find Japanese easier to read compared to English, but maps are definitely easier for me when the labels use whatever language is local.
I agreed with you up until you casually insinuated ChillBill is racist.

Like WTF? Rude. This is exactly the kind of behaviour ChillBill is talking about. Racism is a big deal. You can't just casually be throwing it in anywhere without backing up what you're saying.

What exactly did ChillBill say that borders on racism? Why does that step on the border if racism? Why are you that sure that you'd warn him/her/them?
AFAIK this would be the first such firm focusing on zero knowledge cryptography. The blog doesn't say they are focusing solely on blockchain, but there is a noticeable gap there, as such financial contracts move increasingly to zero-knowledge implementations.
No no no, I played Soma. All you have to do is commit suicide as soon as your mind is scanned!
Probably not invented by him but it was when it became an almost religious precept of capitalism and he became one of the most vocal preachers of that idea.
> I bet anything even pure MSVC has a simple answer here

You lose your bet, because it doesn't, neither its inline assembler nor actual MASM shipped with Visual Studio support any "incbin"-like directives. I guess you can generate an .asm with a huge db/dd, I guess, if you don't like a large literal array in .c files, but that's it.
Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-thermal propulsion (2022)
I disagree, but HN is probably not the right place for this kind of debate. Also, it seems that you don't follow your own recommendation (on HN at least).
I am not hating anyone, being a white collar worker myself. My point is that a whole lot of people already live like that, without having much power from their labour, and the sky is not falling. More people might be joining them, and the illusion of meritocracy might be harder to maintain in the future, but extreme poverty, hunger etc. is something we will likely be able to avoid
Anyone able to find this store on a map?

I found this but on satellite view it doesn't look like it has the same solar panels as were shown in the photo in the article: https://goo.gl/maps/V1oAYvUpFcDbaken6
Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
Couldn't that become hard to maintain after a while though, once the OSM map changes and they start getting conflicts? I think that's often the biggest reason why corps contribute back to open source projects rather than maintaining internal forks for everything.

I guess it's possible though they could just deal with that if they feel like having better maps is a significant competitive advantage, but if the goal is just to not be dependent on Google upstreaming the edits sounds like a better idea.
> If you need to read in 1M integers, put them in a file and read them in.

..and if you're in a context where you need that data in the binary, because you don't have a reliable place to store a file?

> That's now extra code to maintain in the compiler just to support a behavior that should be discouraged.

If you don't want to maintain the code to properly support a language feature, don't include that feature in the language.
Might be true (didn't check the numbers) but German coal/lignite plants (which are the biggest contributors to the German CO2 footprint) will be phased off gradually over the next 7 years. So that will change drastically.

It would probably have been wiser to keep the nuclear shut-off at 2030, but Fukushima changed that and when the energy crisis hit it was already too late to change course.
He's not saying "please regulate me!" He's saying "Please regulate my competitors!"

I see no reason to assume benign motives on his part. In fact there is every reason to believe the opposite.
Finally all those job postings asking for 10 years of React experience can be filled!
US agency closes investigation into Tesla game feature
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I think the "new way" was always the intent. If the past norm is different, it was probably a communication issue (which the beta docs are trying to address)
Companies Push Prices Higher, Protecting Profits but Adding to Inflation
> { 0xFF, 0xD8, 0xFF, 0xE0, ... }

You're right of course but experienced developers know to write those as strings instead of arrays, especially for very large content. Otherwise both the compiler and IDE become painfully slow. ie your example would be written "\xFF\xD8\xFF\xE0..."
Believe it or not: more lasers
Sorry I thought the app was just named after the command. Thanks for fact checking me!
I honestly feel it’s good for creating plug-in systems, but it offers app-level portability, unlike docker which provides system-level portability
There's a good chance that it wouldn't, but since they're the ones (initially, at least) in control of the AI they stand the best chance of not being targeted by it.

These hypothetical AI extinction events don't have to be caused by the AI deciding to eliminate humanity for its own sake like in Terminator, they could also be driven by a human in control of a not-entirely-sentient AI.
That long list of topics, and yet nothing on the critical one: understanding laziness. It turns out cargo-culting around a lack of understanding doesn't lead to good performance.
I'm not OP but I'm interested in learning more about how to get into government contracting. I was once in the military but have been in the tech sector ever since. This is a long shot, but my email address is in my HN profile, would you be willing to drop me an email?
This is not an OpenAI statement.
Theres a terrible damn mess coming in a few years. It's easy to crap on millennials but what's going to happen when those kids retire WHILE their parents are still on life support? Those same millennials who spent their whole lives without saving? Those same millennials who never produced the children needed to keep this whole enterprise going?
My daily phone time is down by about 70% and the solution for me ended up being simply to start putting the phone out of sight and out of reach when I don't need it, with notifications turned off. In a drawer or in a bag or something.

Seems too simple to conquer this monstrous addiction, but it did. The desire to surf Reddit or HN or whatever else just dissipated over time because the thing was no longer around to distract me. If it rings I'll still generally hear it, dig it out and pick it up. I use it to browse if I'm eating alone or using the toilet 'cause I don't know what else to do with that time. (Maybe I should do nothing, or read a book, like we all did before the phonedemic.) That's about it.

The vast majority of stuff you do on the phone is better done on a PC anyway, like I write better quality messages to people now because I'm doing it on a real keyboard.

I still paw at my pocket sometimes out of habit like a trained rat. Gross. What a horrible era of history the phonedemic was, I'm glad it's coming to an end for me.
As someone who worked with jQuery (15 years ago), then Backbone.js, then Angular 1, then React (for the last 6 years or so), I honestly feel like React is here to stay. It solved all the pain points I had with the previous frameworks when working on complex and massive code base. I have a level of productivity I never achieved before. I never have to check the docs, I can't remember last time I thought to myself "why is this not working" or "how am I going to do that" or "what's the syntax/arguments of X". It is amazingly simple, intuitive and powerful. Most of the time I'm just reusing components I coded years ago, gluing them together to develop a new app that would have taken me days with the previous frameworks.
You're right: she absolutely believed that her technology already worked, or only needed some product development and marketing. She was enraptured in her own reality distortion field.
For sure, but the negative prices indicate quite clearly that the storage capacity is way too low (unfortunately). In case our storage capacity would be just right, prices would never be negative.
You're making a huge assumption with the "unpaid free time" part of this. A lot of Rust development is driven by corporations who are directly paying engineers to work on it, and the rust foundation has a lot of money coming in via donations (literally millions).