skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Two regions in eastern Ukraine where government and separatist forces have been fighting since 2014 were hit by more than 1,400 explosions on Friday

How convenient. Russia had been moving soldiers and military equipment for months into position, scheduled a joint exercise with Belarus placing their soldiers in spitting distance of Kyiv, and then suddenly there are explosions "forcing" Russia to invade. Wow, it sure worked out fortunately that half of their military was already there.
Firefox/iOS has the same I think.
Or on Linux in Virtualbox, which combined with GitLab runner's virtualbox executor leveraging snapshotting provides you with instant-on, clean state macOS for each job run.
Good point. Although in some ways it's a lower bar, since agents that can control organizations can delegate most of the difficult tasks.

Most rulers don't invent their own societies from scratch, they simply co-opt existing power structures or political movements. El Chapo can run a large, powerful organization from jail.
Who doesn't have over 99 tabs open at any given time?!? :)
I'm heavily invested into Rust and enjoy the language immensely. Bureaucracy and slow moving is something I'd prefer at this point. There are only a handful of things I actually want added to the language.
You said that "AI is an application of math. It is not clear how that can be used directly to harm a body." I was trying to illustrate the case that if humans can develop harmful things, like nuclear weapons, then an AI that is as smart as a human can presumably develop similarly harmful things.

If the point you are trying to make is that an AI which secretly creates and deploys nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons in order to destroy all of humanity, is not an "AI risk" because it's the weapons that do the actual harm, then... I really don't know what to say to that. Sure, I guess? Would you also say that drunk drivers are not dangerous, because the danger is the cars that they drive colliding into people's bodies, and the drunk driver is just an implementation detail?
> The lifetime earning potential of a Harvard grad and chance of being the President is so much higher

You've misunderstood the cause/effect here. The kinds of people who go to Harvard (i.e., rich and/or smart young people) are indeed more likely to make more money and be elected president. But Harvard itself isn't what made it happen. It was being rich and/or smart.
Isn't T-Mobile using Sprint's coverage? I know our area is now covered by T-Mobile, using the frequency that used to be Sprint's.
The discounts Russia offers to its partners are minimal, and as CNN reports, Russia's revenues are back to pre-war levels. So, not sure what you're going on about there. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea...
Lived near a bridge and both Lyft and Uber would endlessly try to have drivers end the drive on the bridge instead of routing off it.
Maleficent humans are constantly trying to use these elements for their own gain, often with little to no regards to other humans (especially out groups). This happens both individually, in small groups, in large organizations and even multiple organization colluding. Both criminal, terrorist, groups at war, along with legal organizations such as exploitative companies and regressive interest organizations, et.c.. And we have tools and mechanisms in place to keep the level of abuse at bay. Why and how are these mechanisms unsuitable for protecting against AI?
This may be a useful tool, but personally every one of the examples seems to illustrate what I would consider to be an anti-pattern in how the code is written.
This seemed like a reasonable overview of "futex-like" functionality on things other than Linux: https://shift.click/blog/futex-like-apis/

As you say, it's not straightforward.
$ 1 M ?
I think they're dredging up Brendan Eich's opposition to gay marriage. But no, the latest kerfuffle isn't trademarks, either. If you're interested, it's all over r/rust.
Yeah probably 3 people

In all seriousness, yes, unfortunately, I know at least one person who daily-drives the Samsung browser. Why, I can't imagine. I mean, even Chrome is better than Samsung Internet, and that's saying a lot, since Chrome is essentially Google spyware IMO.
Plain fork (as opposed to vfork) isn’t really error-prone, it’s arguably less error-prone than threads. (It forces bad resource accounting, like most CoW mechanisms, but that’s an orthogonal issue.) Signals and setjmp... have their problems, admittedly, but on a restricted VM like WASM are AFAICT unimplementable on top of other things. So if you want unwinding, you’ve got to have an equivalent to setjmp (or throw / catch) if you want asynchronous interrupts, you’ve got to have an equivalent to signals.
Audio Hijack 4.2 Adds Three Powerful New Blocks
I almost never close tabs. Maybe once or twice a year I close them all at once, but until then, the number just keeps growing and growing. Currently there are 2700 tabs open in my Firefox on Android. It still works relatively well. The only problem I notice is when I type in an address, it doesn't show the list of matching open tabs and history items. Inconvenient, but not critical. I should change my habits, yes.
glibc would be a better example in that case.
Totally agree, I just had this happen to me two days ago. The Uber app bugged out and left me with a fare that was double what I was quoted, and there was basically no way to get in touch with Uber about it. You know how often support chatbots offer a "talk to a human" option? Not Uber. Just links to articles about how I'm holding it wrong.
I don’t think direct DOM manipulation was ever a problem, if done thoughtfully.

If keeping track of state is so hard that requires a library to render it, perhaps you have too much state for a single view. It’s ultimately a UI/UX design problem, as it will be hard on your users as well.

I find the way they mix markup with code distasteful, and lots more.
This means something about Mozilla policies/politics is going wrong.
Always found T-Mobile to be an odd brand for the US market since Americans still refer to these devices as cell phones rather than mobiles like the rest of the world. Wonder if they considered keeping the Sprint brand instead?
I believe the various BSDs would be another example. There have always been folks who argue that fragmentation/lack of developers/etc would kill them. Not yet, fortunately.
I don't see anything wrong with someone enjoying running a store continuing to do so, even if for few people. We can't value optimize everything, and some things have negative economic value but positive societal value.

I agree we should all re-evaluate from time to time, but if it's all you know and you just want to run out the clock before retiring so be it.
Yes, this!

It is extremely rare for companies or their senior staff to beg for regulation this far in advance of any big push by legislators or the public.

The interpretation that this is some 3-D chess on the companies' part is a huge violation of Occam's Razor.
Looks like jQuery might get a comeback before vue and angular do anything based on that graph
Signal adds an extra layer of camouflage with alternate icons
It's been like that since forever. I guess that 3 digits don't fit nicely in that small space.

I take it as a reminder that I parked too many pages in my tabs but it doesn't seem to affect performances, so I don't care. I try to stay below 40, possibly 30 parked tabs now.
The infinity symbol doesn't bother me; what I don't like is that the information about the number of open tabs isn't available anywhere else. As a result, I have to run a script on the browser console on my desktop.

Also, I'm not sure if it's just my old iPhone X, but I've noticed that when I have 100+ tabs open, the app crashes more frequently.
Sure, there are all sorts of workarounds you can apply, but all those workarounds have costs. At the end of the day, economics rules, and if doing all those workarounds costs more than just putting in a bigger battery, they’ll just put in a bigger battery.

Also, you’re forgetting something important: most countries have laws limiting driver hours / mandating driver rest. As a practical matter, with appropriately spaced charging stations, a tractor like the one Tesla built effectively imposes no cost in terms of charging time. That’s because the mandatory driver rest periods are sufficient to charge the battery using today’s battery & charging technology. And on that topic, if you try swapping a battery with a forklift, you’ve already lost (in terms of time). You need a dedicated battery swap machine for the “time economics” of battery swap to make any sense.

So why bother with all kinds of expensive connectors, and the rest when you don’t need it anyway? That’s what you’re up against.
> there's absolutely zero evidence of that

OP linked a Reuters post citing OSCE numbers. This organisation includes most European countries, US and Russia among others.

If we can’t listen to est neither to west, who should we listen ? You, my Colonel ?
Two thoughts (and check with an attorney!)

1. You may be able to file an Anti-SLAPP motion.

2. You could consider filing a complaint with the SEC.
The EU has achieved "independence" by shutting down much of the German chemical industry. Now they're going to import those chemicals from other countries where they are still manufactured with cheap fossil fuels. Not exactly a net win from an independence standpoint.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inside-germanys-industrial...
IDK. With breakpoints there must not be a lot of checking going on then :)

Much like "mobile first", I guess I'm suggesting "component first". On the other hand, breakpoints are more "layout first". Perhaps this explains why we still see (e.g.) 4 col rows on desktop remain 4 col rows on even smaller screen, to the point the context within each cell gets messy.

I still see it as an education and experience issue* but with ultimately improved UX.

* And yes, perhaps a library / framework/
Not directly related to this thread, but I was recently unpleasantly surprised how under-defined and undocumented is WASI.

I was looking into some detail of a WASI call and there is… basically nothing.

Also the latest version of the docs is called something like “snapshot3” or whatever. I thought “wait this is it? that’s the whole definition”? apparently it is.

edit: here. The actual latest definition is in "legacy/preview1". Yes that is the latest WASI definition.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/legacy/preview...

What do the inputs mean? How should it behave in some extreme conditions? Eh YOLO who knows. All implementation dependent.
This document is literally all there is. That's it, that's the WASI definition.
your team contributed more OSM changes than .. who? everyone else in the whole world?
I simply set tabs to auto-close after one week.
The Birth and Death of the Yesterweb Forum Reveal Two Important Truths
Right, but that's a linear speedup (because the JSON parser is less complex than the JS parser), not a change from superlinear to linear parse time.
You can pry it from my cold dead hands.
>There are still some important GNU projects though, GCC, GNU libc, and Grub being the most notable.

Except he's pissed off most of those people too.
I see your point for how things are now, but the WASM roadmap and proposals do have several things on it that take it into territory that's closer to the JVM.
> suddenly, turning on all the equipment is good, and not just financially

I assume you have the same type of energy taxes in Denmark as we have in Sweden and that as such "negative electricity prices" only apply to the wholesale market (Nord Pool [1])? In that case you still pay:

1: market surcharge (påslag)
2: energy tax (energiskatt)
3: renewable energy surcharge (certifikatavgift)
4: transmission charge (överföringsavgift)
5: VAT on the previous (moms, 25% in Sweden)

Here in Sweden this means that "free" electricity costs around ((6 + 39 + 1 + 31) * 1.25 = ) ~ 0.85 kr (Swedish crowns or 'kronor') per kWh.

Negative electricity prices do affect those who have solar panels since - depending on the contract - it can actually cost money to push more energy into the network. In our case we'd pay when the price goes below ca. -0.35 kr/kWh which has not happened - yet.

[1] https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/#/nordic/table
I have a conspiracy theory about this. Probably it sounds crazy but hear me out.

My conspiracy theory is that in the bigger picture this is a symptom of corporate or AI or whatever other non-human agency taking over the economy, with specific anti-human consequences.

Imagine some uniquely human experiences. Unique in the sense that they are not literally experienced by corporations or AI or whatever. Maybe there are analogies, but not literally. These include human medical care, human marriages, and human end of life and burial rituals. All of these are artificially more expensive on the market. If you buy two identical cakes but you say that one is a wedding cake, then that cake will be like 10x price. If you buy two identical thermometers but you say that one is a medical thermometer then that thermometer will be like 10x price. If you buy two identical boxes but you say one is a coffin then it will be like 10x, and so on.

My conspiracy theory is that this phenomenon will keep spreading to other human-specific areas of life. So not just marriage, healthcare, death anymore. Now it will start including other things humans absolutely need like food or housing, and maybe even spread to water or clothing. The flip side of the conspiracy theory is that the things that aren't human-specific will become relatively cheaper in price. This distinction will cause a kind of distortion in the estimates of inflation. For example it could theoretically be possible for human-specific costs to double while costs that are like b2b expenses where corporations ruthlessly, competently, and unceasingly negotiate amongst themselves will not increase in cost at all. Basically my conspiracy theory is the medical-device-ification of all expenses specific to natural persons.
The whole trajectory of history would have been different if a butterfly didn't flap it's wings.

The bomb had effects, but it didn't change anything. We still go to war, eat, sleep and get afraid about things we can't control.

For a moment, stop thinking about whether bombs, AI or the printing press do or do not affect history. Ask yourself what the motivations are for thinking that they do?
A Story About Setris: https://pastebin.com/nerj8sTp
Maybe find a metric to try to maximise the chance that you reopen an old tab ? Taking into account frequency to open this url, distribution in time, bookmarked, bookmarked and tagged... and put those in tab opened, tabs listed but not opened, or put in "history" .
This is capitalism's only strategy.
JFK and Newark don't have a lot of overlapping routes that I use. They used to pre-9/11, but a lot changed since then. Big international airlines and routes that I take don't fly out of Newark.

Believe me, if I had the choice, I would.

Thankfully, domestic routes are still decent from Newark, though often more expensive than LGA or JFK.

This isn't just about the airport. I visit friends in Queens and spend money there. The toll is exactly the same as going to JFK.
You mean before, or after the bankruptcy? /s
I consider volumes local to the device as something that gets wiped on OS reset, although I definitely understand the confusion.

I'm not just wiping root and leaving home/mail/etc alone. I'm wiping and re-partitioning the local drive.

The partition layout on macOs is fairly complex - on those machines it would be comparable to "Erase all contents and settings" option, but also with a refresh of the immutable OS to the latest released revision (Not always the case on macOS, depending on your recovery drive configuration).

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That said, I don't buy Apple products for personal use - they're far too hostile to their users for me to give them money, and I was always a "function over form" kinda guy in the first place, which is not Apple's market. Apple is the chauffeured car of the computer world... Smooth, Expensive, Hands-Off. I don't always want to drive manual, but I'm not willing to give up the steering wheel... so windows, linux, and bsd for me. Although lately, less and less Windows.
In case you actually want to see what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/H2YT5QV.jpg
Wasn't the "super cheap fusion launch" predicated on discovering a non-Newtonian rocket engine? As long as you're suffering under the third law the idea of a super cheap launch is a pipe dream. This is also why concepts of reaching distant solar systems by maintaining 1G of thrust for the entire trip don't work. Plug the numbers for that into the rocket equation and even with absurd ISP values it requires more mass than is available in our solar system for a trip to even just Proxima Centauri.

The only maybe possible exception would be to pump so much energy into your reaction mass that it gains a significant amount of mass from relativity, but even that is engineering in the "it's probably easier to build a space elevator" realm.
Serious question... where can I read the best summaries of the arguments in favor of "AGI will destroy humanity"? and also arguments against? I'm not convinced we can predict how it will behave.
Or it’s like worrying about an arms race toward civilization-ending arsenals after seeing the Trinity test… which… was the correct response.

We don’t know it’s possible to build superintelligences but so far we don’t have a good reason to think we can’t and we have complete certainty that humans will spend immense, immense resources getting as close as they can as fast as they can.

Very different from the lasers.
Unless I am mistaken in my reading-between-the-lines, he is upset about the volume of discovery in the State of California lawsuit against Amazon where he has been named an expert witness.

The volume of discovery would be completely normal in such a case, but would be rejected by any sane judge if Amazon were suing him personally for ... libel? I'm not sure what Amazon even could sue him for, criticizing the company isn't a crime.
I've seen alpinejs mentioned alongside LiveView, what benefits do you see to Stimulus over alpine?
I definitely agree that names like Hinton, Schneier, and Norvig add a lot of weight here. The involvement of OpenAI muddies the water a lot though and it's not at all clear what is meant by "risk of extinction". It sounds scary, but what's the mechanism? The safe.ai website lists 8 risks, but these are quite vague as well, with many alluding to disruption of social order as the primary harm. If safe.ai knows something we don't, I wish they could communicate it more clearly.

I also find it somewhat telling that something like "massive wealth disparity" or "massive unemployment" are not on the list, when this is a surefire way to create a highly unstable society and a far more immediate risk than AI going rogue. Risk #5 (below) sort of alludes to it, but misses the mark by pointing towards a hypothetical "regime" instead of companies like OpenAI.

> Value Lock-In

> Highly competent systems could give small groups of people a tremendous amount of power, leading to a lock-in of oppressive systems.

> AI imbued with particular values may determine the values that are propagated into the future. Some argue that the exponentially increasing compute and data barriers to entry make AI a centralizing force. As time progresses, the most powerful AI systems may be designed by and available to fewer and fewer stakeholders. This may enable, for instance, regimes to enforce narrow values through pervasive surveillance and oppressive censorship. Overcoming such a regime could be unlikely, especially if we come to depend on it. Even if creators of these systems know their systems are self-serving or harmful to others, they may have incentives to reinforce their power and avoid distributing control.
Microorganisms are key to storing carbon in soils, shows new study
open access paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06042-3
some people really like spin art
There are many. I personally like to see all kinds of information on my wrist.

For personal use it can be weather, current sea state (for surfing, sailing, ...), current interval for your favorite bus - anything you check online and would like to get on your wrist which not necessarily already has an app/or there is one but you are not happy with how it presents data.

For business you can see how many helpdesk issues your team still has outstanding, how many errors your production environment logged for the last X hours, ...

Simply anything you would put on a dashboard. With that dashboard being on your wrist. And without the need to create your own Apple Watch app to achieve that.
It's not just a question of revisiting the same sites; some of us are using tabs as (poor) todo entries.
Sure, but understanding you need to have 5 vertices to make a pentagon isn't exactly high-brow.

Certainly not compared to making a Unix kernel from scratch.
I read the thread but can't tell what Amazon's lawsuit alleges. Are they suing him for slander or something?
“WASIX calls can be stubbed out in a browser” isn’t really living up to the promise of “running seamlessly in a browser.” That’s closer to “not working” than “working.”
If I see stuff that annoys me, I just mute the sender, or I block them, if I want to send a message to Twitter. I'm not seeing any issues, and I like the broader perspective.
A counter point here is you're ignoring all the boring we all die scenarios that are completely possible but too boring to make a movie about.

The AI hooked to a gene sequencer/printer test lab is something that is nearly if not completely possible now. It's something that can be relatively small in size compared with the facilities needed to make most weapons of mass destruction. It's something that is highly iterative, and parallelizable. And it's something powerful enough that if targeting at the correct things (kill all rice, kill all X people) that it easily spills over in to global conflict.
The better bet is to process raw materials in space and send refined products down to earth. Would you rather have strip-mining and smelting occurring in space or on earth? Daniel Suarez had a lot of fascinating ideas in Delta-V
All those requests for documents and Amazon lawyers saying it’s not good enough should be ignored. IANAL but they are the petitioner, the onus is on them. Anything you say, said, publicly, on a podcast, in Congress, is free-speech. Come at me bro.
I still marvel at people who accumulate lots of tabs. As someone who rarely has more than two tabs going at a time(1), I am fascinated by that workflow and what the benefit is.

(1)Although I often have multiple instances of the browser going if I'm doing research. I find it convenient to organize pages with multiple instances, so I can select which group I want to see by using the task bar.
It could also be a case of Tesla's full self-driving that's perpetually 2 years away. Progress in AI isn't linear so you can't extrapolate based on historic data. We really don't know if we're just a small step away from AGI or if we'll be stuck with the current crop of LLMs, with only incremental improvements over the next decade.
It’s worth taking to Twitter to complain in those situations. I’d love if we didn’t half to, but I’ve found most companies help when you make your issue public.

Maybe Uber isn’t a company who will care, but most are.
Speaking about GDC, if you're into game development or just curious, this talk is legendary and inspirational to aspiring game devs (and very intertaining to boot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs

"In this GDC 2018 talk, Spiderweb Software's Jeff Vogel presents a retrospective on his company's history and how they've managed to stay in the game-making business since 1994."