skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I question is all of the materials that originate from petroleum, like polymers. I'm sure there's sufficient quantities of ore on other planets but anything made from polymers is going to only come from Earth. Are we just shipping the precursors to the moon and Mars or are we sending polymer products (Kevlar, Kapton, Tefzel, pretty much Dupont's entire high reliability catalog) to these places? Many synthetic polymers still rely on precursors that come from petroleum. It would require significant changes in how we produce many of the products we take for granted on Earth to be able to make them off-earth without just shipping massive tankers full of chemicals.
> Sure, Crab will almost certainly not replace Rust, but that is not the goal.

I see it as: there's a finite amount of people who choose to dedicate their unpaid free time contributing to making Rust better (working on fixing bugs, new features, etc.)

This seems like fragmentation which basically will slow down progress. Now, obviously the people who choose to dedicate their free time to open source software are entitled to do whatever they want with it. I don't know the details of what part of what leadership is doing what that equates to "being a meanie" and I don't know who is "being dramatic" and who isn't.

All I know is, I'm grateful for their contributions and wish everybody could get along. This is kind of "not a good thing" for progress when you look at it from a delivery perspective.
>I get spam marketing emails

Welcome to just about any industry event.

They're mostly legit enough to have unsubscribe links so either do some email cleanup from time to time or learn to just ignore them.
Configurable Keybindings for the Workspace
In my case, it's likely because I post a lot of sophisticated sounding nonsense - I'm the biological ancestor of ChatGPT :). That, plus I tend to binge on HN, which makes my comments come in bursts - I either post nothing, or comment in 15 different subthreads across 5 different submissions simultaneously. So when you spot me in one place, you'll probably see me everywhere that day.

Other high-karma accounts likely post in less bursty mode, and only write high-value comments on select topics, so you spot them less.
The 'feeling' of weightlessness is pretty much an indication of 0 (micro) gravity. Gravity always exerts a force, the problem is on Earth we have ground exerting an equal and opposite force contrary to gravity. When you feel weightless whether in orbit or just falling off a cliff you're in free fall experiencing none of that upward opposition to gravitational force.

For example, it was very hard to replicate the moon's gravity when training pilots to land on the moon. How do you 'fake' a different gravity on Earth? It's pretty hard to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8kRZEvh_s

EDIT: to your question about centripetal force, either you experience acceleration or you don't. Since gravity is in equilibrium with centripetal force relative to movement around Earth you shouldn't get acceleration from this. However, you will get micro g's from rotation of the station itself, etc.
So, you're saying I should create subdirectories under Downloads and Desktop and put files there? Got it. :)
we will see lots of posts like this, that are trying to justify why human is better. I guess it's obvious it will cut liberal views a lot. I'm myself very liberal, but what GPT wave done... It opened eyes to many that human are not that unique including human writing. 0.0001% of what people write is actually "unique and fresh". Replace all the "insults" items from article with "journalists", and you will be surprised how many arguments applied to it.
Started scrolling then just closed the page because I couldn't be bothered
Boiling it down to a single sentence reduces ambiguity. Also, given that AI x-risk analysis is essentially pre-paradigmatic, many of the signatories probably disagree about the details.
> I think in order to use the plural form you really need to have two examples.

Eliezer Yudkowsky.

At least they had the decency to put him under "Other Notable Figures", rather than under "AI Scientists".
> People are already tired of machine-generated text, and they’re not afraid to say it.

Plot twist - the article was generated by a private ChatGPT-5 private beta only provided to few as preview release.
Those things can be solved in their own way though. A dumb phone can let you check in on your partner, you can use your old smartphone as a dedicated GPS and if you're taking photos with a dedicated camera (which you'll have to if you don't have a smartphone) editing them on mobile is simply not an option. You're better off editing on a laptop or tablet.
Especially CPR alone. Assuming a defibrillator wasn't used, there's a non-zero chance this wasn't actually a cardiac arrest, but rather a loss of consciousness and the bystander couldn't find a pulse that was actually present (finding a pulse in a high stress situation is not at all easy to do).
Logical Induction has been successful in predicting future events.
I don't think it is meaningfully different than JVM. Why? Should it be?
You have to combine them - "this dollar-store discount-AI knockoff".
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Hi! I'm the founder of Splitzy.

Most of the A/B testing solutions out there are way too enterprisey for solopreneurs and indie devs... so I created Splitzy!
Before modeling a dataset, do you remember to check if it seems IID?

Distribution drift and interactions between datapoints (autocorrelation) are common violations of the Independent and Identically Distributed (IID) assumption which make data-driven inference untrustworthy.

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You're right. I am not as familiar with MDN's organization and CSS as you are (I only recently discovered that CSS is a typed language). However, I find it confusing that some pages have their own page for values, while others don't. As a reference page, I expect the valid syntax for all values to be provided. But I agree that specific examples can be linked to other resources.
> I don't think many would agree to this but I'd argue the changes are so radical that they almost should've called this new React something entirely different.

Absolutely and I've been saying the same thing for years.

IMO it was an extremely irresponsible thing to do considering React is critical infrastructure at this point. And by completely changing the methodology they made obsolete A LOT of educational content (books, tutorials, videos, etc) in an instant. I'm sure people making money of React education were very happy with this.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against evolution. But if you're going to make such a drastic change just create a new project. Plus I wonder what other improvements/changes they could have made if they had started from scratch.
You can see your plan fail by trying to use prompt injection to tell ChatGPT to delete itself. It might say it agrees with you but it won't do it. Bacteria, viruses, fungus, will colonise your body and turn you into more bacteria/virus/fungus, killing you in the process, you don't get the option to talk them out of it. A missile will kill you from afar, you don't even know who sent it or how to contact them or if they speak the same language. Paperclip maximisers don't have near-Godlike omniscience, what they have is an unwavering focus on increasing their access to resources to make more paperclips, Godlike optimization ability.

If the first thing you know of the AI is that a lot of paperclips washed up on a beach in India this morning, and the next day it's a news report that every factory on the planet has received an email offering vast numbers of Bitcoins if they focus on making paperclips, and then rumours appear that satellite photos of North Korea have shown the ground and buildings looking unusually metallic for the past few days - conspiracy stories are circulating that a Paperclip Maximiser was created in North Korea funded by international shadowy interests and it has promptly killed the employees who know where it is and how to talk to it. The next day ocean levels are measurably lower and thousands and thousands of tons of paperclips washed up on every coastline... the AI itself might be on rented computers in America, in China, under the Arctic ice in Russian territory for cooling, in the Svalbard seed vault in Norway, distributed over all installs of the Steam client running on idle GPU cycles; how reassuring is it that "it might have a prompt injection vulnerability"?
In the US, the biggest cities are likely to push for cashless, while the rest of the country won't care, or will resist it.
Don't blame the control for this. Blame the developers who didn't think to adjust for this.
It's something that something should be done about, but not something that should be worried about. There is a fine distinction. Take whatever action is in your control to make the situation better, then, having done that, do not keep ruminating on it pointlessly when it's just not very likely to happen to you.

Stop lumping people who don't want to fret about it in with people who actually think the gun status quo is OK. Of course it's not OK, and should change. That doesn't mean we need to obsess over it. It just happens to be an issue that is very effective at driving media engagement.

By all means, vote and write to your lawmakers -- this actually drives change. But don't waste much time doomscrolling and ruminating -- this does not help, and only helps enhance media company shareholder bottom lines.

The point is that kids these days are exposed to constant encouragement to ruminate, ruminate, ruminate. This doesn't translate into actual action, it just translates into anxiety and depression, and increased dividends for media companies.
the issue with hacker news comments these days is people don't actually do any due diligence before posting. center for ai safety is 90% about present AI risks and this ai statement is just a one off thing.
Are you laboring under the misapprehension that ChatGPT is a better writer than C.S. Lewis?
The “Scenic Route” in Google Maps
Terrestrial factories for round lead shot do something like that. Just drop molten lead from the top of a tower and it will form a near perfect sphere as it falls weightless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
Yeah that Switzerland to Italy train ride video got me into them. They're really beautiful and calming.

But I've stopped because I can't find a way to use them anymore. They're not interesting enough to watch directly. Multitasking doesn't work unfortunately so I just end up listening to the sound of the train and not watching. It's kind of like having an air conditioning unit in your window plus occasionally squeaky distracting train horns when coming out of a tunnel.
how do we know you are actually human and not an AI that is trying to solve the captcha by making it easier again (by causing an outrage on hn etc)
yes, really my first question is not "how do we make chip fabs?", but "how do we make insulated wire?"
Google and OpenAI are shaking in their boots from open source ai and want to make their moat however they can. Positioning with a moral argument is pretty clever I must admit
> How can it not be obvious

You have succinctly and completely summed up the AI risk argument more eloquently than anyone I've seen before. "How can it not be obvious?" Everything else is just intellectual fig leaves for the core argument that intuitively, without evidence, this proposition is obvious.

The problem is, lots of "obvious" things have turned out to be very wrong. Sometimes relatively harmlessly, like the obviousness of the sun revolving around the earth, and sometimes catastrophically, like the obviousness of one race being inherently inferior.

We should be very suspicious of policy that is based on propositions so obvious that it's borderline offensive to question them.
Also a lot of the training set for “human” is on weird mutant albino humans who are over represented in images for historical reasons. It’s not offensive to look more like our relatives than the weird mutant albino alien looking creatures do, is it?
I usually find electricitymaps easier to digest:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
All of the best security practices rely on the attacker being easily bored. Thank you attention economy!
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Since Okasaki's work there have been several advancements and new developments in the field:(Source: MirrorThink.ai)

1. PaC-trees: Supporting Parallel and Compressed Purely-Functional Collections - 2022: This paper introduces PaC-trees, a purely functional data structure that supports parallel and compressed collections. PaC-trees are designed to be efficient in terms of space and time complexity while maintaining the benefits of functional data structures.

2. Proving tree algorithms for succinct data structures - 2019: This paper discusses the development of tree algorithms for succinct data structures, which are compact representations of data that support efficient query and update operations.

These is some work in other fields too:

1. CyBy2: a strongly typed, purely functional framework for chemical data management - 2019-12-30: This paper presents CyBy2, a purely functional framework for managing chemical data. The framework is designed to be strongly typed and enforce referential transparency through the type system.

2. chemf: A purely functional chemistry toolkit - 2012-12-20: This paper introduces chemf, a purely functional chemistry toolkit that provides a set of algorithms and data structures for working with chemical data in a functional programming context.
Oh, _now_ I get the “candydating” name! The first association I got when reading the name was “sugar daddy”.
Don't go putting words in my mouth. Linux should have unit tests, does have unit tests, and probably should have more unit tests. They are a tool that works well for some cases and not others, and many parts of a kernel are cases where unit tests are not a useful tool.
Wouldn't delivery of products from factories in space to customers on Earth start to warm the atmosphere beyond our desired range directly - or at least as you begin to scale?
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CRM?p=CRM&.tsrc=fin-srch
Java is a language with a particular view of the world, and the JVM is a heavyweight runtime for executing that particular view of the world. The core idea of the JVM is great, and WASM executes that without assuming anything about your language, or requiring a great big tightly integrated second-banana-to-the-host-language's-stdlib system library, or anything else Java-y.
Class components are deprecated. They only appear in the legacy section of the reference.

https://react.dev/reference/react/legacy
Yes, that section seemed to be a bit incoherent to me. However, it was only a brief comment, not even on data science rather but rather the strong confidence in a picking-the-winning version idea of design via A/B tests.
It is technically biased. But biased towards truth.
And, DAC has lower latency and uses less power than 10GBASE-T even at the lower 10Gb speed (e.g., due to latency you don't want storage over 10GBASE-T). And, DACs contain fewer parts that can fail than optical transceivers (esp. short passive DAC cables) so more reliable (as long as not physically manipulated) than fiber + optical transceivers.

DAC cables are a bit harder to route than fiber though.
>There’s no getting around breaking ribs

You're usually "just" dislocating the ribs from the sternum (and often tearing the cartilage at that joint). Doesn't feel any less crunchy though...
> Humans like to insult by comparing the target to something perceived to be inferior. AI is perceived to be inferior humans for most tasks, so we can be prejudice against AI (and without the discrimination societal pushback.)

AI is inferior for most tasks, the "perception" is of that reality (e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-...).

Software engineers love their technology, and often get defensive on its behalf and their sci-fi hopes for it.

> Wait till AI catches up, then "a Japanese knockoff" becomes a complement.

I hope for your and my sake it doesn't, because the best outcome of that is most people become useless and waste away on welfare. Because not only will their labor be irreverent, their cultural production will be too.

The more likely outcome is economic immiseration for all those who have had their labor devalued, because that's what our social system is designed to create in those kinds of circumstances. And there's little hope that social system will chance for the better: if "AI" is effective enough that it "becomes a complement," it will be a powerful instrument of social control on behalf of the powers-that-be, and far more useful to them than to any insurgent.
Yes they did and Davidians also testified that they were modifying them

> Davidian Donald Bunds recounted how Koresh ordered him to buy a lathe and milling machine; Bunds said he then learned to use them to help convert 90 to 100 assault rifles to automatic weapons in 1992. Bunds and several other Davidians testified that Koresh issued every male follower an automatic assault rifle and multiple magazines weeks before the ATF raid… at least 48 illegal machine guns were recovered from the burnt compound.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/02/27/breaking-th...
It's absolutely not "on the way out". Lots of very slow moving, very deep pocketed organizations working on very long time horizons are heavily invested in HDF5. The same can't be said for any of the flavor-of-the-week ML "cloud-native" file formats.
Reminds me a bit of the hot wings where they make you sign a waiver before they serve them.

It's only a matter of time until IBM or whoever is telling "select" clients that they qualify for some custom AI that's not available to the general public because it's too dangerous, to make them feel special parting with more money.
I guess that they're currently focused on trying to raise awareness?
Congratulations on the launch! How long was the development time on this?
Think about the environmental impact of digging-up and constructing massive underground parking caverns. I haven't done the math, yet, I have done a lot of construction projects of various types. I can assure you that building underground parking structures is probably one of the worst kinds of projects in terms of environmental effects. Not just CO2 generation. Absolutely everything conspires against you for such a project.

I would almost be willing to bet that just one of those underground garage projects generates more CO2 and other negative environmental impacts than all the electric cars you could park in there for their useful lifetimes. Remember that EV's are not environmentally neutral at all.

Start from this basis: Environmentally speaking, the least impactful place to park vehicles of any kind is where you do not have to move one gram of dirt and add one gram of concrete. The simple answer to that is: Existing infrastructure. Which, yes, means, existing streets. Do that and your baseline is mostly reduced to just the environmental impact of the EV's and not much else at the infrastructure level. Anything else --anything-- surely means increased environmental impact.

Second to that might be to go vertical. In other words, above-ground parking structures with the building on top or coexisting on every level. I was recently in Singapore and saw a building fitting this description. Imagine offices around the periphery of every floor and parking for those offices on every floor at the "core" of the building. I can't say I know with certainty how the two approaches compare. I think I can say that not having to dig-up massive amounts of dirt to build a cavern that can support an entire building is likely far worse from an environmental impact perspective.

Don't forget that the minute you place anything underground you are going to have the need for such things as 24/7 ventilation and air management, which means a constant energy load, well, forever. Not so for street parking or above ground parking.

I think this idea of hating on street parking is largely misplaced. As the world evolves towards self-driving vehicles some of the density problems will sort themselves out. You can have your vehicle drop you off at work and then go park somewhere. We can use existing infrastructure more effectively and manage density without incurring massive environmental costs for the life of a city.
I can't speak for other fields, but in statistics and machine learning, it's not uncommon to see at least some practical experiments or simulations alongside theoretical results, or at least some discussion of practical considerations.

There are definitely plenty of pure theory papers as well, and pure theory is still a contribution. However one would at least hope to see subsequent work that does focus on the practical aspect.
Agreed that it should be spelled out, but...

If a superintelligence can be set on any specific task, it could be any task.

- Make covid-ebola

- Cause world war 3

You may have noticed that chatgpt is sort of goal-less until a human gives it a goal.

Assuming nothing other than it can become superintelligent (no one seems to be arguing against that--I argue that it already is) which is really an upgrade of capability, then now the worst of us can apply superintelligence to any problem. This doesn't even imply that it turns on us, or wants anything like power or taking over. It just becomes a super-assistant, available to anyone, but happy to do anything, including "upgrading" your average school-shooter to supervillain.

This is like America's gun problem, but with nukes.
When most folks are using CUDA indirectly via library abstractions, swapping it out eventually becomes easy and their moat fades away. CUDA alternatives are innovating pretty fast, and the ever present threat of TPUs and things like Apple's Neural Engine aren't helping them. They should've been building better partnerships and giving more margin away for integration and OEM instead of being greedy. But that wouldn't have juiced their short term profits.
No signatories from Meta
Is AI going to replace the lowest paid jobs though? I imagine, it rather has potential to move the white collar workers down the social ladder, which is unfortunate, but wouldn't cause extreme poverty.
Maybe the article deserves a second reading, but as an attorney, I found this argument rather odd as well.

DOJ should have asked for more time at the beginning. If they did and didn’t get it, they should have objected to the district court judge. If they did and were overruled, and this was so important, they should have bothered to get the renewals.

To argue that a judge can’t or shouldn’t place a time limit on search warrants is unpersuasive.
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