skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the stories shared with me while working on OpenJ9 was of a customer that used stack overflows as a scheduling mechanism, and at some point they were compelled to update their JVM to a version that incorporated tail-call optimization, which caused their Rube Goldberg scheduler to stop working (by spinning indefinitely).

I would however argue that the existence of a user relying on behaviour that has explicitly been reserved as subject to change must not preclude development from rendering improvements to products. At some point the consumer needs to be on the hook for relying on a positive externality that they do not have a right to.
> Crypto has always been a subset of tech's goals, and is even framed that way 99% of the time in presentations/etc.

GP is simply saying that making a permissionless financial network a key element of the way value is exchanged across the world is a much more ambitious goal than selling books online.
Just when we think Adobe can't get any worse, they prove us wrong...
> a huge enabler for ransomware

This is a downside. But I don’t think it’s a crippling one. Tax and regulate the people proximate to it, and the system should net out.
It's worse than that in reality. The runtime is supported by the great wasmer employees. The rest of wasmer is in a constant state of bullshitting themselves and the public. Look what year they started, how many years it has been since then, how many products they have launched since, how many weird and sociopathic and narcissistic displays the company has on public record.

Also, of course you can ask other former employees and they'd tell you the same: work culture is toxic. In fact the list of ex-employees is huge because of this... I'm thankful I quit fast enough. If any throwaway account replies to me, you'd know who it is.
> Your databases will continue to work through June 29.

This is crazy. 30 days to migrate? Hope nobody is taking a holiday in the next couple of weeks.
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

From Jan 2019 to now we've had 17.4% inflation. Your purchasing power of the money in your bank account has been reduced. How have other assets faired in that time?

> Objection, Your Honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

Okay longer timeline, if you held dollars in your savings account from Jan 2009 to now (during ZIRP) you've lost 30.5% of your purchasing power. How has the SP500 or houses fared in that time (even ignoring crypto)?

If losing 30% of your purchasing power is no consequence to you, please let me have a not much of consequence portion of your salary, thanks.
@foota, WASM GC is a bad development because it's opinionated.

For example, the nice WASM <-> CPU bijective mapping of capabilities is going to be lost. WASM GC now turns the WASM into something completely different, something in the rank of Java, .NET, Flash, Node JS, or Elang.

For any GC to work, there must be a notion of a component model that defines the type system and the rules of type interactions. This is a complex topic by itself with myriads of decisions and compromises to make. This means that the end result won't suite everyone, if anyone at all.

This will lead to WASM GC stagnation - it will be there but nobody will be using it because no one wants to loose the ground and compatibility with real CPUs. There may be some users like Dart or Flutter with their niche opinionated situations, but it's a drop in the ocean.

As the time will pass, WASM GC will be gradually becoming a burden as it does not come for free - it requires maintenance, patches, security fixes. In the end, browser vendors may proclaim the WASM a new "Flash", "Java Applet", "ActiveX" that should be eliminated due to overdesigned complexity, too wide API surface, and associated security risks.

Rinse and repeat, there is nothing new under the sun.
State of the art AI models are definitely not something you can develop in a basement. You need a huge amount of GPUs running continuously for months, huge amounts of electrical power, and expensive-to-create proprietary datasets. Not to mention large team of highly-in-demand experts with very expensive salaries.

Many ways to regulate that. For instance, require tracking of GPUs and that they must connect to centralized servers for certain workloads. Or just go ahead and nationalize and shutdown NVDA.

(And no, fine-tuning LAMA based models is not state of the art, and is not where the real progress is going to come from)

And even if all the regulation does is slow down progress, every extra year we get before recursively self improving AGI increases the chances of some critical advance in alignment and improves our chances a little bit.
So, two things:

1) that bill was introduced in march and went nowhere... so not really anything at all, tons of lawmakers push pie-in-the-sky legistation bec they're nuts but aside from hitting the committee, it goes nowhere bec it's nuts.

2) This appears to limit it to under 26, and while yes, theoretically that is an adult, it's not all adults and is really meant to prevent people who don't have fully developed brains from making life altering decisions. Its the same reason most doctors will refuse to perform hysterectomies on women under the age of 30. kids and young adults make really dumb decisions that they often regret for the rest of their lives... why not protect them from that, especially at a time when there is a clear social contagion.
Sounds like Moneyland at work.
Tried to say it here[1] and here[2]. The government has advanced AI, e.g., 'An F-16 fighter jet controlled by AI has taken off, taken part in aerial fights against other aircraft and landed without human help'[3]. Like, advanced-advanced.

At any rate, I hope we (humans) live!

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966335

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35759317

[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/13vrpr9/an_f16...
Even if someone will, I don't think it's an "existential risk". So, yes, I'm willing to make the bet. I'm also willing to make the bet that Santa never delivers nuclear warheads instead of presents. It's why I don't cap my chimney every Christmas Eve.

Between Covid, bank failures, climate change, and AI, it's like everyone is looking for something to be in a panic about.
In this PBS frontline interview Senator Timothy Wirth discusses how he scheduled James Hansen's 1988 Senate hearing on climate change for the day that was historically the hottest day of the year and how they opened all the windows so the air conditioners couldn't keep up prior to the hearing so that it was unbearably hot during the session: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/intervi...

Neither side seems to be above "bad faith debating".
Dallas airport will demo this cute little mobile EV charging robot
I send money across borders without blockchain. Without fees. Without having to wait 2 weeks for the transaction to be confirmed.
Take matter into your own hands. "Be the change you want to see" basically. For example I organize software meetups at a nice coffeehouse. It started out with like four people a year ago, and now we average ~25-30 each month, and growing. Consistency is key.

P.S. If you live in Seattle, and you're a software engineer, shoot me an email: abner at handmadecities dot com
You do not want to invoke AI with criminal justice, to put it mildly.
Funded? by payments from customers. FastMail has been around longer than Gmail and before the endless startup hype cycles
I don't think this is even in dispute. I'm a seller on Amazon and they'll suppress my listings (hide from search results, hide the buy button on listings) if I offer a lower price on my own website.

They have some details about it here:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external...
Two possible ways:

1. (If they have the know how and resources to clone your app) estimate how much would it cost for them to just implement a similar app themselves, instead of purchasing from you. Price at a similar level (that should still be worth it for them as they avoid the risk). “Similar level” could even be let’s say 2x, but probably not 10x. In other words make sure “buy” sounds better than “make”.

2. Estimate the profit they will generate, price somewhere below that level. In other words, make sure they see they will get economic value out of the deal.
Isn't it the other way around? In Windows you'd usually download an installer and run it to install software, whereas Linux would have you download, unzip/untar an archive and then just launch it directly.
Just look at most of the comments in any climate thread. They are mostly people dooming “it’s too late” or similar (nothing has been done!)

Ignoring the scientific realities, the public is hopelessly lost and emotional on the subject.

It’s frustrating to say the least but this is the effect of mass programming. The question to me is why are these people being programmed to think that everything is hopeless?

It’s not a helpful strategy for actually making changes that can help the climate
> I think some sort of "metaverse" outside of Meta Horizon Worlds could have been real, but I don't think anyone would have taken it seriously because it would have just ended up another Second Life, Garry's Mod, or VRChat.

A lot of Meta's Horizon Worlds efforts wind up reading like "those who forget the past [Second Life] wind up repeating it (poorly)".
Enjoyed using bit.io. Excited to see what Adam, Jmo and crew do at databricks.

Was easy to export my dbs from bit.io -- did so this morning.
>At some point we have to take some level of personal responsibility for the tools and services we use.

This is a very American statement. In most places in the world it's just not going to go over at all. Since OAI is at least trying to play on the global field at this time, it matters.
This gets featured (they go inside it to film) in episode 3 of this show on Apple TV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_the_Sound_with_Mark_Rons...
... then today
https://www.bsdcan.org/events/bsdcan_2023/sessions/session/1...

Somewhat different plan, more like, ACL-in-hardware but similar idea having hardware that tracks extra metadata bits every step of the way and at the lowest levels.
The Falcon 9 may double the record for consecutive launch success tonight
I clicked the article expecting to see humorous little piles of steaming excrement inserted into images. Am I to assume turds in this context mean artifacts or out-of-place mistakes?
If you turn the temperature down all the way, it could be a very reproducible string, bound by the statistics of the training. :)
It's a testament to how quickly humans can set a new baseline at their circumstances. I try to remember to say "WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE" at least a few times a day when using GPT and MidJourney, but it's much easier to be irritated that ChatGPT lost the context of the code it was helping me write than to be blown away that I can just casually use one of the greatest technical achievements in the history of mankind while I'm sitting here in my underwear.
>It seems you are trying to go down the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" line of thinking.

"Guns don't kill people, AIs kill people" is where we are going, I think. This is the discussion: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

The discussion is not about a mathematical representation of AI. The discussion is about the actual implementation of AI on physical computing infrastructure which is accessible by at least one human on planet earth.

The credible danger, argued in various places, including superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, is that the "system under review" here is "every physical system on planet earth" because an AI could gain access to whatever systems exist on said planet, including human minds (see "Nazis").

So much as we might discuss the problems of letting a madman get control of the US, Russian, UK, French or Chinese nuclear arsenals, we might discuss the problem of building an AI if the act of building the AI could result in it taking over the nuclear arsenals of those countries and using it against humans. That takeover might involve convincing a human it should do it.
> Hearing "no legitimate use case" arguments is awfully annoying when you get objective use from the thing being criticized

Better phrasing would be niche legitimate use cases not worth supporting, at least not domestically, if you’re America, the EU, China, India or Japan.
"There should be a world government that decides what software you're allowed to run"
Yeah, the vast majority of 3D movies have always had that diorama effect to me, though I tend to discount my personal experience with anything stereoscopic because I had lazy eye as a kid, ultimately corrected by surgery, but late enough that my brain mostly ignores the information from that eye. Not totally but mostly.

In any case, I don't find the effect unpleasant or pulling me out of immersion, because frankly I don't feel that immersed in AAA cg heavy action movies anyhow. To me it's like watching a fun demoscene with a neat effect.

The only time I recall it being a bit tiresome is when friends dragged me to a few horror movies where the 3d was obviously low effort crank it to 11 for this jump scare stuff.
It's like when you hire a smooth talking guy who makes a great first impression but actually that's his main skill and he doesn't perform very well.

I'm a natural contrarian and always used the worst first. I feel like I've warmed up a lot to generative AI (text particularly) but understand the limitations. People who came in from the other end thinking it was more than it is are naturally going to be let down when they see its performance in the sober light of day. I think more people are in this category because a big strength I see is for generative AI to produce stuff that superficially looks really great, but doesn't hold up if you actually want to do your own thing with it.
The company they ran has been found guilty of criminal charges twice:

"Purdue has twice pleaded guilty to criminal charges, but no members of the Sackler family have been charged with crimes."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/after-years-of-pain-opio...
Yea it’s not fully automatic yet, but that’s what Photoshop Content Aware Fill (and now Generative Fill) and Healing Brush is for.
Worth remembering: Wasm on browsers is sandboxed by origin and can't do anything the JS cannot already do.

However, Wasm on computers with a full set of syscalls available is isomorphic to native code. Worse, because programs in C/C++ and other unsafe languages can compile to Wasm, any security bugs in those codebases will be present when compiled to Wasm. Wasm programs can still have buffer overflows, use-after-frees, and all the other fun memory safety issues; threads will add data races and memory ordering bugs to the mix.

The only benefit of Wasm in this space seems to be that you don't have to recompile your programs for a new architecture - kind of like a lower-level Java. But as soon as your program needs to interact with OS features or existing native libraries, this benefit is going to go out the window...
Sorry, I'm still a bit confused. I guess I phrased my question poorly.

> there were SOME scientists concerned about global cooling in the 1960's and 1970's

I get that the existence of the letter implies that people were thinking that way. My question was more, what do you see as the implication of the fact that some people were thinking this way. That is, how does this play into the discussion of the article.
I wasn't personally aware of this Law.

In recent years I have worked quite hard to rid myself of such thinking, in favor of a more positive outlook, even if it's slightly forced.

As a result, I've found myself much more at peace with the world, and generally in a better mood. I'd like to think I'm a better version of myself sans cynicism but maintain a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm not sure I bought in at first, but I've slowly come to realize the benefit of actively acknowledging goodness. +1 for "fake it til ya make it."

That said, there's certainly a significant part of my psyche with which the sentiment of the law resonates.
> What's wrong with just taking it as it is and entrusting the user with the role of determining what is re

Stupidity + power = danger
I can't imagine anything worse than going to the gym. What do you do there? Walk on a treadmill like a mouse in a laboratory?

Also, you come back starving because you've burned calories, probably eating way more than you should due to being famished.

And it's also extremely boring. I've tried it once or twice, but I just can't handle it.

Genuinely interested in how some people manage to consistently keep going to the gym.
The people I know on the list are academics and do not seem to be any wealthier than other academics I know. I'm quite certain the private industry signatories are going to entirely advocate for their interest just as they do in any other policy discussion.
The API looks promising but I find it quite expensive.
SNES games? You could comfortably run Windows 95 within the L3 cache on many recent Intel processors (the one in my 2019-era MBP has 16 MB of L3 onboard; current generation processors go even bigger and Windows 95 only needs 4 MB).

It's not really clear to me from the limited bits of info that I've read whether or not L3 is guaranteed to be accessible when doing CAR, but, if it is, you've got enough memory available to do a lot of stuff. (And even the L2 cache is starting to get pretty big on the higher-end current-gen chips.)
That's not an obvious path at all:

- Such exploits happen already and don't lead to extinction or really much more than annoyance for IT staff.

- Most of the computers attached to the internet can't run even basic LLMs, let alone hypothetical super-intelligent AIs.

- Very few cars (none?) let remote hackers kill people by controlling their acceleration. The available interfaces don't allow for that. Most people aren't driving at any given moment anyway.

These scenarios all seem absurd.
Tangent to this but Swift is slow in surprising ways: json decoding and decoding strings into date objects are insanely slow. Both are common operations for an iOS app (eg client/server app that decodes a json encoded payload) and I have no idea why not solved years ago.

Another surprise is that Apple’s protobuf generator is able to produce iodiomatic Swift, the same is not true for Kotlin :)
Most simple answer is you can cram N number of light streams via WDM (wave division multiplexing). You transmit N number of parallel streams on different wavelengths.
He literally co-founded an IP litigation related business.

https://www.molsonhart.com/

It seems fair to assume a founder would have (or would have developed by now) this foundational understanding.
Note: I am not a lawyer in California and the is definitely not legal advice

A lawyer for Molson could conceivably file a Motion to Quash the Subpoena, however, he has to argue from what are generally a small range of options to deny or limit the scope of the subpoena. The most common is that the request is unduly broad and thereby is burdensome. This would usually not result in granting the quash, but could secure tightening of the scope of the subpoena. I don't know enough to even guess at the likelihood of limiting the subpoena, but the general assumption in litigation is that at least some portion of a facially relevant subpoena will be granted.
Expanding on the gym comment. I've been going to small gyms for 20+ years and always loved the community there. When our gym shut down for lockdowns, I had enough space and equipment to invite folks to train in my driveway. I now host folks every evening to do workouts. Great for community! We haven't even thought of going back to a gym even though everything is open again. We like the community that we've grown into.
I use it for code search. I can search for the definition of a given function, or all places that a particular function is called by name.
Amazon's goals aren't "selling books online", and that's just Amazon.
> I believe that the CEOs are doing this at least in part because they believe this.

Yes

People believe things that are in their interest.

The big dangers to big AI is they spent billions building things that are being replicated for thousands

They are advocating for what will become a moat for their business
i recently flew to Austin a few times and the turnaround time from airport to destination using waiting taxis was far, far faster. not cheaper though! i have found these Uber/Lyft lots that airports are using now to be a bit of disaster; they have markedly reduced the convenience factor of uber/lyft from airport to destination.

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It wasn't Ernest, I'd remember that, but thanks for suggestion!
I just don't care much for gmail's UI; that's all there's to it. And having all email in one place is more convenient for me regardless – saves having to open/check another service.

You're still using gmail's spam checking; it just uses the API (or IMAP? I forgot) to sync the emails to FastMail.
Yeah this is what bugs me. If these people took a single stats class it would be drilled into them. Doesn't matter if ISLR, PAC-LSLT, SR, or ROS, it will be there. But it isn't. I push for as much of this as I can when I teach my ML course but my advisor pushes back for being "too mathy." I swear, ML people are adverse to math (though they like adding meaningless math equations to papers to make them look technical, but that is probably aligned with the former comment). As the current environment stands, I do not think many ML people understand concepts like data leakage, Bayes, or even likelihood. A problem is that popular way to teach ML is like how you teach software: coding. This doesn't work when you need statistical theory to understand your results.
I wonder if switching to this would bring back the nuked DDG search facets (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254)
https://archive.is/wpEfb
Community living! I've lived in various communes for 8 years now. I don't use the term coliving space as I feel a lot of places that go under that moniker are commercially driven and not particularly community based. The houses I've lived in are very rooted in where they're based, host a lot of events, and (crucially I think) are not for profit - they're designed to sustain themselves rather than maximize $ for the landlord. This post has a bunch of resources to see if there are any community houses near you: https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/directory-of-coliving-di...
That "Global Cooling" was based upon papers funded by the Oil Industry. No serious scientist thought cooling was even possible.

That information was showing up on TV paid by big oil to confuse the population, it worked.
I have a hard time believing that JMAP is good specifically because it's yet to grow much further than Fastmail. I love that it's open, and I'm a long term happy paying customer of Fastmail, but as an engineer I'd be skeptical of JMAP. I don't have the expertise to know if JMAP solves the necessary problems, and there are probably not that many engineers who do as deep IMAP/POP knowledge is somewhat rare at this point.
Got it, thank you for the clarification!
> if you held dollars in your savings account from Jan 2009 to now (during ZIRP) you've lost 30.5% of your purchasing power

One, obviously a policy failure. Two, don’t do this. Bank deposit dollars are optimised for transacting, not long-term value transport. For that, use Treasuries (including inflation-protected ones). It’s not the Falcon 9’s fault that it makes for a bad hammer.
Seems like a distributed stack unwind
I think we should be skeptical of such articles especially when they go against what probably most articles say about a topic/hypothesis.

I don’t know enough about chemistry or dentistry to really say beyond that which side is the correct side
It sounds like you're making an ad hominem about her ad hominems.