skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to trot out my pet theory that explains this and the last few decades of politics: By some combination of evolution and culture, many young men feel a strong compulsion to seek out high-risk, high-reward endeavors. Our culture encourages this with ideas like "making a name for yourself": is if you don't even exist until you've done something of significant value to the community.

There's a drive to pioneer, seek thrills, find adventure, take risk, and compete. If a culture has healthy outlets for that drive, then it can lead to incredible innovation, discovery, and harnessing new resources. How many new islands, foods, tools, drugs, etc. were found by someone who just said "fuck it" and went for it?

But when that drive has no healthy outlet, what you instead see is risk-taking turned to destructive ends. We've mapped the whole Earth, space is too expensive, most of the dangerous blue collar jobs have (rightly!) been made safer or automated, and the US's past several decades of forever wars have clearly become less and less morally justified.

So what we see is many young men striving to satisfy that desire any way they can. Things like:

* Treating crypto as a new unexplored frontier where they might get rich.

* Likewise now generative AI.

* Escaping into gaming where they can at least experience a simulation of the kind of risk, thrill-seeking, and glory they crave. Then GamerGate happened where some men lashed out at women who they felt were threatening that space where they could virtually experience that side of themselves.

* Young Trump voters who voted for him specifically as destructive wildcard to break down institutions. Because a world that is more chaotic and dangerous is a world better suited to their desires.

* Further, the fascination and trend around doomsday preppers, apocalyptic media, militias, etc. A segment of the population are obsessed with the world falling apart because maybe in the resulting chaos they can (re)build something.

This is a generalization, obviously, but I tend to think of young single men like this as the TNT of society: incredibly powerful and useful when applied well, but destructive otherwise.
Thanks for sharing! My experience is dated, and (like everywhere) Japan evolves.
Actually, we have no idea. We don't know how much oil is still in the ground in many of the major oil exporting countries. Even though it was anticipated that OPEC would increase output after Russia was banned from the global market, they didn't. Were the explanations given valid, or might it be that they are no longer able to ramp up so quickly?
I'm waiting for The Amendment:

A well regulated AI, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear GPUs, shall not be infringed.
Thank you for the details and for a useful reference. I'll definitely spend some time taking this all in.
Eaten at home, I cannot imagine a breakfast approaching $10. School lunches (the majority of lunches in any given year) average $4.33.
“Nearly all of the attendees were vaccinated, but 70% said they didn't mask.”

Why is the mask thing even mentioned, it was dubious as hell when they first pushed it but study after study comes out showing they don’t stop spread

But then again, the CDC was pushing the idea that getting vaccinated means you won’t get sick so I guess believing the CDC holds some scientific validity is an error to begin
I don’t know of many tech startups that want to hire average developers for their core team.

The average is low, yes, but there are also well paid roles that the kind of person a startup in SV would want are probably already doing.

Anecdotally, I’ve been offered jobs paying 80-100k€ based off Barcelona as I’ve been dreaming of coming back to Spain (I didn’t, sadly, as even though they were good local salaries they were a lot lower than what I made)
Almost every provider (social media, banks, websites and spammers) also know this, and routinely remove anything after + in @gmail addresses.

Indian Retirement Fund website, NPS, government operated, will take your abc+nps@gmail.com at signup, no errors, but will not let you login saying, Email Not Found. You have to login with abc@gmail.com to get in your account.
You don't have to go very far with extra checks and disincentives, as the recipient can also invalidate the token at the first sign of spam. SPF/DKIM or an equivalent can also help with sender authentication.
https://amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdfheute-live/dunkelflaute-wi...
Seeking Tech Co-Founder to Help Me Reform Criminal Justice with AI
I've dedicated my life to helping those with criminal records begin a second life that's safe and productive. My YC (S17) company 70 Million Jobs, had a lot of success, but the pandemic devastated us, forcing me to cease operations (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598978 )

But I've got a new idea to help folks with records land jobs (there's a direct correlation between recidivism and unemployment), using AI. I'm in search of a technical co-founder who shares my passion for justice and equality. Ideally someone experience in AI and startups. I'm a subject matter expert on reentry with lived experience (I've got a record). I know pitching investors, product, sales, marketing, PR, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: 1) This would be a for-profit venture. There's lots of money in this. 2)This is at a very pre-seed stage. No funding has been raised; it's just me at this point. I promise you that whatever happens, you will derive enormous satisfaction in doing this work. You'll be amazed. Richard@70MillionJobs.com
The value of the startup lottery ticket is based on how fast you can hire, how much hype you can build and how many users you can acquire. Most startups are a money pit, their only value is in acquiring their customer base.
This is not a new result, it is just the first time that a Court of Appeals had to actually say it out loud. Also, the point of bankruptcy is to yield the most possible value for the creditors, it is an integral component of the balancing test for confirmation of proposed settlement for resolution of the proceedings. I'm not a fan of the outcome or the process, but this is just a case of the law working as intended.
I know nothing of this. If Russia decided to add a "fee" for reselling, does India have an alternative supply to pull from?
The USD lost 98% of its value before bitcoin ever existed. The idea that sophisticated investors have been putting their money into USD and need crypto people to explain inflation to them is ridiculous.

It is equally ridiculous that crypto people think that having a fixed supply of something makes it valuable. Oceanfront property in Miami is also limited, but crypto people are not pumping that because they are not invested in Miami oceanfront property.
So the fact than the Chinese ignore their contractual obligations means those obligations can never be unfair? And yea Amazon can absolutely ban you from selling on Amazon with the push of a button if they catch you selling for less elsewhere. How can you argue that is somehow impossible? Why don't you defend Amazon’s anti-competitive policies on their own merits?
What Linux desktop? The only way Linux will be available on readily available personal computers is via WSL, aka Other OS for PCs... and just as likely to be taken away once it threatens Microsoft's security posture/bottom line.

General purpose computing is dead. The only way to reasonably assure lack of self-foot-shooting by end users is a mandatory signed code path from power on right down to application level software.

I'd say Raspberry Pi is an alternative, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation is committing an epic, Commodore-style self-own right now and the future of that platform is in jeopardy. Orange Pi and the like are nonstarters.
UseHooks – A Collection of Server Component Safe React Hooks
Crossing swords implies armed combat, it's definitely aggressive.
I think you're using legitimate to mean "legal and most reasonable people would be okay with it" whereas the post you're responding to meant "legitimate" to mean an actual real technological advancement that wasn't doable with previous technologies
> It's weird that people trust our world leaders to act more benevolently than AIs, when we have centuries of evidence of human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons.

AI isn’t an entity or being that oversees itself (at least not yet).

It’s a tool that can be used by those same “human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons” except they’ll be able to do it much faster at a much greater scale.

> AI raised with dignity and respect.

This is poetic, but what does this actually mean?
But it's the same innovation engine that ran Silicon Valley, the same type of people, it's just now they're less dependent on Goldman Sachs...

If this is true it's the biggest indictment of Silicon Valley ever. The goal was always to pump and dump on retail but finally they got to take the mask off? Fuck that forever.
The Paradox of Assimilation
> It is difficult to disagree with the potential political and societal impacts of large language models as outlined here: https://www.safe.ai/ai-risk

I disagree

That list is a list of the dangers of power

Many of these dangers: misinformation, killer robots, people on this list have been actively working on

Rank hypocrisy

And people projecting their own dark personalities onto a neutral technology

Yes there are dangers in unbridled private power. They are not dangers unique to AI.
> There are very real costs to the national economy that result from killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of otherwise-capable working-age folks

and then there's the killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of folks, on top of that!
I believe there are still individual coders who make a real difference. It's vanishingly rare in server-side coding, but happens more often in niche fields such as game engines, compression.
> And the deep dark secret at the heart of crypto is that — apart from the get-rich-quick stuff — it's neither particularly interesting nor useful. And it takes a lot of set dressing and hand-waving to make it seem like such.

Yep. For an example this week, see "Web3 Can Help Marginalized Communities Share Their Stories" (https://decrypt.co/142763/web3-can-help-marginalized-communi...)

“You can truly own your IP through the whole thing,” Bayne said, highlighting the advantages that Web3 brings to filmmaking. “Your community can be involved through every step, and you don't necessarily need the studios.”
> Even in cases like that, it's illogical to fear AI, because if it really was so simple to automate, it would've been done already.

This hasn't been my experience. There is a TON of low hanging fruit for automating workloads which exist in almost every large company. While not all automations are easy, there's no shortage of easy work in automation. Almost every financial organization I've worked at has had some amount of manual processing of overnight batch jobs.
I'm not so sure about cyby2, the persistence is based on "conventional" relational DBs. Judging by the paper, the main goal wasn't developing a specialised functional data structure to store molecules
it's a big club

and you ain't in it
Thank you for pointing me to resources. That's what I was hoping for. I work in data science, so I am not a scientist per se, but I know how to read statistics. I appreciate you taking the time to give me a detailed answer and links to other references.
If it actually became a societal priority I’m sure a solution could be found. For example, a sufficiently large lifelong stipend per child for qualifying mothers could be compelling, although politically impossible. Basically paying people to be career parents - meaning, a stipend large enough that it’s not just a backup plan for people who flunked school, but a way to maintain your standard of living and also be a parent.

Otherwise just import a ton of people from poor countries to maintain population dynamics. This will work for atleast a few more generations it seems.
Of course “tech” isn’t a monolith, and neither is “crypto”. Many people into Bitcoin or crypto don’t appreciate being lumped into the very long tail of scams that are an inherent byproduct of permissionless money.

It would be a bit like pre-internet engineers dismissing the internet because it’s the world’s best porn distribution mechanism.
I'd say those points deserve a deeper look. Take concurrency for example. It is not only about scaling, it can actually affect every step from development to production:

1. Development is faster if your compiler (or code loader), tasks, and everything else is using all cores by default.

2. You get concurrent testing out-of-the-box that can multiplex on both CPU and IO resources (important given how frequently folks complain about slow suites).

3. The ability to leverage concurrency in production often means less operational complexity. For example, you say you can offload complex documents rendering to a background tool. In Elixir this isn't necessarily a concern because there are no worries about "blocking the main thread". If you compare Phoenix Channels with Action Cable, in Action Cable you must avoid blocking the channel, so incoming messages are pushed to background workers which then pick it up and broadcast. This adds indirection and operational complexity. In Phoenix you just do the work from the channel. Even if you have a small app, it is fewer pieces and less to keep in your head.

At the end of the day, you may still think the bullet points from the previous reply are not sufficient, but I think they are worth digging a bit deeper (although I'm obviously biased). :)
Sagas are for when you can't do an update in an ACID transaction, for example when updating state across different types of data stores.

If you're asking whether the catch clause in a Temporal Workflow saga is guaranteed to execute, the answer is yes. The way it's able to guarantee this is by persisting each step the code takes and recovering program state if a process crashes, server loses power, etc. For an explanation of how this works, see: https://temporal.io/blog/building-reliable-distributed-syste...
The Bridge to Hamada bridge to "nowhere" in The Sea of Japan, is a better example.
Adobe renews licenses for Russian users free of charge
I have to say I've become a big fan of Bloomberg's podcasts - the quality of hosts and guests is high, and they use the format well, getting to a greater level of depth on each topic than you get out of most news media.

Odd Lots is fantastic if you're into economics/finance and/or supply chains (they've really moved towards the latter since the pandemic and get great guests - e.g. when the ports were all back up, they had the guy who runs the Port of LA on for an episode). What's Next TBD and The Big Take are both great as well. I just wish they'd get Matt Levine to do a podcast.
The implication is, at the very least, there were SOME scientists concerned about global cooling in the 1960's and 1970's. I was around then, and it was very much publicized in the media. I never heard anything about global warming until decades later.
Luckily, like many of the sensor based side-channel attacks, the information rate is extremely slow (0.125bps nominal rate for pixel sniffing) and the machine has to start in a known calibrated state.

Not to diminish the work, it's an excellent lab experiment, but this has practically zero real-world application.
1. Large majority of abortions will be unaffected: Unless we consider large majority 95%+, this is true.

2. Most people can afford to travel to another state: Trivially true.

Sure, the population of the statements are different (abortions vs. people), but they are both true and do not need to be corrected. Moreover, they would still be true even if you switched which population the 'most' was for and which one the 'large majority' was for.
"It’s not exactly clear why Amazon has decided to discontinue the feature, but it could be a sign of broader Amazon’s broader Alexa woes."

"Last November, a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy heavily scrutinized the company’s Alexa sector, as its operating losses exceeded $5 million in recent years."

"The company also announced layoffs affecting 18,000 employees earlier this year, with Amazon hardware chief Dave Limp telling CNBC that 2,000 of those cuts affected workers in his division, which is in charge of Alexa and Echo products."

It turns out that the "killer app" for Alexa / Echo devices is being a voice-activated kitchen timer and playing music. Some users also use it as a voice-activated controller for smart home devices, but they are only a small fraction of users. This means that Alexa costs more to operate than it brings in in revenue, so they are looking to cut costs in any way they can.

Hooking up ChatGPT or similarly powered backend seems like a next step to stay competitive, but that will cost even more to operate. Expect to see a smarter AI-powered Alexa available for a subscription that gives better answers and has more skills.
Is it this? https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks-extended
Really impressive to see this on a practical codebase.

> 56% of total vulnerabilities (113 of 200) are memory-safety; of these:
> • 54% mitigated through referential and spatial safety (implemented); of these, 8% of memory safety w/sub-object
> 72% mitigated if including heap temporal memory safety (white-board design)
> • 26% unmitigated are uninitialized values; at least 5% of memory safety would likely be mitigated by LLVM stack initialization
> • Handful of unmitigated vulnerabilities: stack temporal safety, VM vulnerabilities, …

Could someone explain this?

I believe this is saying that 54% of the 113 vulnerabilities were mitigated with what the implementation can do today, 72% would have been mitigated using the heap temporal stuff, which this seemingly implies is future work.

Correct?
Yes, it will lead to increased flora.

> Increased temperatures can lengthen growing seasons, higher carbon dioxide concentrations can enhance plant growth, and in some areas rainfall and the availability of water resources can increase as a result of climate change.

See https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/6766014682496426...

However, as that document goes into, the benefit from the extra flora won't be enough to offset the negative impacts of increased CO2.
Fair point, but direct democracy is also subject to the passions of the masses overriding the concerns of experts. Faster isn't always better.

E.g. by individually-benefit-but-mass-cost initiatives ("Vote yes if you want $1"), exploiting insufficient education ("To enshrine wildlife management into our constitution" that actually permits nature exploitation), or overly emotional issues-of-the-day ("Increase national security powers" after a terrorist attack).

Though it seems like the sheer organizational barrier to ballot inclusion (i.e. mass signature collection) limit the worst excesses of the above.

In modern times, direct ballot initiatives definitely have their place in a functioning democracy, although perhaps with high barriers to listing, maximum numbers per ballot, and cool-down periods ("Will be on the ballot X years from now").
Oh yeah, those are great papers, which I wish more people read. (I'll never not laugh at the journal name) I'll add this too[0] since it seems to be highly missed. But as far as validation sets, I have a hard time convincing anyone I talk to that tuning on test data is information leakage. I've also had issues with discussing people (even outside my lab, even at big schools/labs) what "uncurated samples" means. I say "you sample batch and show that" they say you can sample multiple batches and pick the best one... So this is the same kind of thinking and shows why evaluating generative papers is so difficult.

Fwiw, I blame the conferences for this. We have too many papers to review, too few people to review, and a system that isn't even good at selecting people from the pool of reviewers (I got 0 reviews to do, my coworker got 6 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). Quality control on reviewers is non existent and ACs don't check that they follow reviewing rules. This results in a situation where I cannot think where it isn't in your advantage to be an evil reviewer: reject everything, be lazy about it. So we promote benchmarkism and abstract everything and everything so that nothing is novel (before we talk about collusion and ethics violations). Without a radical change I don't think the system will work anymore. There's too much incentive to cheat and play dirty now.

For my paper, all that stuff was in the appendix fwiw. Since it is a generative paper I took my chance to do a deep sample analysis (even inventing a new technique) to analyze the biases in different models and noting key indicators that were visible to the eye. So of course I had a small discussion about how FID is limited (see [1,2], [2] isn't deep enough though) and will not capture these differences. These differences matter when you're pushing the edge of the maximum FID on the dataset, which is not 0 as many people think[3]. I do feel like it is my duty as a researcher to stick my flag in the ground and point out how we need to do things better. (I do think it also made the paper much clearer and got good feedback from my colleagues fwiw) That is what research is after all. Research requires nuance, and if we're being honest, that shouldn't be something I have to say. People should deeply understand their metrics (not just for evaluating models, but works). The system is just too noisy right now to be meaningful imo.

[0] A note on the evaluation of generative models: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01844

[1] Improved Precision and Recall Metric for Assessing Generative Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06991 (original is good too: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00035)

[2] The Role of ImageNet Classes in Fréchet Inception Distance: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06026

[3] Fwiw, train vs test set in CIFAR10 has FID 3.15 and FFHQ256 top 10k vs bottom 60k is 2.25 (which current top paper beats, but that's 50k gen samples vs 50k random dataset samples). These of course have biases though since the sizes are unequal but since FID is distributional it does give us some strong clues about the variance in the datasets. My paper didn't go this far though.
I send money across borders to friends an organizations via blockchain. And millions of other people do, especially in countries with volatile financial systems. I much prefer crypto to anything else in this case. Hearing "no legitimate use case" arguments is awfully annoying when you get objective use from the thing being criticized.
As far as I understand there's a parameter to make the output more "novel" (different/interesting/less predictable or generic) and that works by specifically not using the highest probability.
Slightly more like the Jeep Problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_problem
For Those Who Dream of Being Understood
This happens with every innovation. Once something becomes sufficiently commonplace, it becomes boring and a larger target for criticism.
I don't think this is accurate. Increased CO2 can lead to increased flora--though not enough to offset the negative effects of additional CO2 in the first place.
Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar, or ideological flamewar, or any flamewar. Such threads are predictable and nasty. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.