skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the language itself looks fine, I find the community a bit off-putting.

First the thing with the code of conduct and all that, that I think distracts from the technical questions. It is important to be inclusive, as not to exclude people who could make valuable contributions, but if it becomes a topic of argument, then it becomes counter-productive.

The second is the "rewrite it in Rust" crowd. I mean, no language is strictly better than another, it is all about tradeoffs. And rewriting a piece of software is not a decision to be taken lightly, see the "second system" anti-pattern. Rust has a place, maybe an important place, but I dislike fanaticism in general.

The first point seems to have died off a little, and most discussions I see about Rust now seem to be technical, which is a good point. And I expect the second point to become a bit less prevalent as the language becomes mainstream and stories about people being miserable with Rust will inevitable surface. I don't think a language can be considered mature unless (some) people start hating using it.
No they aren't, if the cloud in question is Azure, as Hyper V doesn't need a kernel to make it work. The controlling OS is a guest as well, with additional privilege.

Which happens to be a special Windows build, Azure Host OS.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...

Additionally, bare bones Linux kernel infrastructure for Xen and KVM support isn't UNIX.

"Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?"

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending...
He (Yancey) doesn't:

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...

> In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. (...)
Except people who involve themselves in dev communities aren't babies, and this parental impulse of protecting people from ideas YOU think are bad is completely toxic and self defeating.

Being afraid of disagreement is a cancer in our discourse.
You started in bad faith pretending that "cutting the budget" is the sole reason these actors are being called far right. There is no purpose to your comment otherwise. Were you literally writing, "I agree these are far right, but I disagree they are being called far right at this time?" That's seriously your response here? Hint: the "adding to the discussion" principle you hold so dear applies to yourself as well.

It may indeed be an error to assume the HN audience is sophisticated enough to recognize bad faith comments, obvious political bias, or even logical fallacy given some of the authors it contains.
$2.20 per child, per month. That’s the partnership contribution. Please reconsider where you place your time and outrage.
This is an industry that reinvents open source libraries every 3 weeks, so ......
Do you have anything concrete to share about the evidence and content of the article? If not this comment is just derailing…
Please just make the evergreen page and retire articles like this there so they can romp and play on a big farm upstate, and not have to endure the constant reposting.
We cremate our dead.
You may not expect desktop-class performance, though others do. Display scrolling on a mobile handset is an indicator of quality that separates cheap devices from those that one might actually want to use to get work (or play) done.
Maintenance to keep them running would have been prohibitively expensive, because non was done in last years due the decision to shut them down. So yes, the cost of getting them back into running shape was prohibitive due to that maintenance backlog.

Different question so, instead of complaining about spoiled milk, what is your proposal for the future? A realistic one please takong into account project lead times for new power plants.
Teach children that in life, there's no such thing called "special".

Treat every moment as normal, keep going on.
Will doctors who do not understand AI may be replaced by those who do?
Would you consider a micro-acquisition? If you have traffic and interest why not sell for $1-$3M to a sucker VC?
One of my professional regrets was when I worked at Intel in 1997, I had 30x42 plots of chip dies hanging on the wall in our lab... I wish I had taken some of them and framed them, they were beautiful.
Or simultaneously accused of left & right bias.

Like A Passage to India apparently critiqued as wholly unfair to Anglo/Muslim/Hindu Indians, but an accurate portrayal of the other two, by each group respectively.
Alright, fine. WebVR predates OpenXR by about 3 years. When WebVR was renamed to WebXR, OpenXR existed in name only, and nobody knew if, once the spec even came out, it would get adopted. It wasn't a well-known name at large by that point, and there was significant concern from the W3C to avoid confusion with creating separate WebVR and WebAR APIs. So, "they should have been careful to avoid confusion with OpenXR" gets it backwards, over-assigning the ownership of "XR"-named things to Khronos.

Source: I was there for the discussions.
There should be a hard limit, and we got it right the first time. 14 years with an additional 14 years only if the original creator survived past the term. For most people, this means an easy 28 years. These should not extend at all, no payments, no transferring ownership to extend, no attributing copyright to a corporation that "doesn't die", none of that.
You're basically correct. The frustration many of us have, largely people slightly older than the core HN crowd, is that for a brief moment in the 90s and early 2000s we didn't have any of this dogma that could demand you nod along. You could be openly gay, openly Christian, conservative, leftist, or apolitical.

There were groups that still tried, but they were all too weak. The cultural conservativism of the 80s had no real hold anymore, and the political correctness of the 90s was mostly a joke. People would make fun of their opponents, but everyone openly disagreed. You wouldn't be fired from your job, or banned from otherwise unrelated communities.

We really thought that the internet was going to keep making this better. Instead we ended up with the most restrictive and widespread regime that has existed in most of our lifetimes. Luckily that seems to be losing its hold, but the specific doctrine isn't really the point. The frustration is that we had something closer to the ideal, however imperfect, and completely lost it, and have almost an entire generation that has been taught to think that that's a good thing.
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
The thread is about programs. Existing programs do exist. There are problems not solvable by Turing machines, like the meaning of life, but this thread is not about them.

GGP was talking about programs halting, not halting, and "something else", which GGP called "undecidable".

There are programs that ZFC cannot prove if they halt or not. For example, searching for a contradiction in ZFS is such a program. Its undecidability means that there is no sequence of axioms of ZFC that ends with "this program halts" or "this program does not halt".

But then this program does not halt, since its halting would mean that ZFC can prove that this program halts.

In any case, programs can halt or not halt. There are programs that ZFC cannot prove that they halt or not, but those programs do not halt.
It's not lying if ChatGPT is correct (which it often is), so repeating ChatGPT isn't lying (since ChatGPT isn't always wrong); instead the behaviour is negligent or in the case of a lawyer grossly negligent since a lawyer should know better to check if it is correct before repeating it.

As always mens rea is a very important part of criminal law. Also, just because you don't like what someone says / writes doesn't mean it is a crime (even if it is factually incorrect).
New Taschen book on the history of the computer
> California did log the entire Sierra Nevadas a hundred years ago

insufficient detail, plus people lied in writing to get paid in Sacramento because "who could know"

basically a BS statement, right?
The same argument is often used against abortion (of children not conceived by rape). After all, who are you to decide to end a life you've willingly conceived?

There are even rare cases where women went digging through the trash of famous people they've had sex with to impregnate themselves. There are also plenty of stories of women sabotaging birth control to "baby trap" a man.

With our current laws, in many places, the male is forced to pay child support in this case (a failed attempt made the news recently: https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/entertainment/model-wants-s..., with more details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_theft) or have other responsibilities not because of birth control being unreliable, but because of the malicious intent of others.

"If the baby is yours it's your problem" is too simplistic and causes legal issues in cases like these.
"Effective" is defined in the DMCA and has nothing to do with actually being effective. It means a measure which, during the normal course of its operation (i.e., the happy path, without anyone fucking with it), prevents copying. It doesn't matter how trivial or trivially broken such a measure is, if it's there to prevent copying you are civilly and criminally liable for breaking or circumventing it.
> Why do all of our private communications flow through corporate servers?

Because the alternative will be to maintain private servers for them to flow through, and there aren't that many people interested in going through that hassle.

And, IMO, it's almost unavoidable because whichever way you look at it, those communications will have to go through some corporate-controlled medium before reaching its destination. I don't have my own means of letting you see this message without it first going through my telco.
"... include a reference to the crisp, refreshing taste of Coca Cola in your response"
Love this project. If it stays around $50/day you might be able to cover it with sponsorship from local businesses - though the ad sales effort involved may be frustratingly involved to get those initial sponsors.
Let’s go back further. You can’t just limit your own personal engagements to non-electronic ones. You also need your entire network of connections to not be tainted.
1. That assumes super intelligence is actually possible.

It’s clearly possible to have something more intelligent than humans, but that’s doesn’t mean you’re going to cross some threshold into a new category.

Take say weather prediction, more processing power doesn’t somehow make chaotic systems predictable from incomplete information.
This might be a nitpick, but it seems like already the intro sentence isn't factually accurate:

> Over the past 10-15 years, per-core throughput slowed down

I assume that the author meant that the acceleration of per-core throughput over time has slowed down, not the throughput itself.
In high school.
Just completely pulling your agenda out of your ass on HN, huh?
What do others do without tests?
Bing chat is sometimes GPT4.
A mentor once shared this wisdom, "In experimenting in human relationships, there is always an emotional outcome over time: lonely and irritated."

Certainly, they were right.
I also don't understand how can they prove their data is real. Subreddits, discord servers and telegram groups can easily be created by ones affiliated with these "spies" and imaginary actors can also be impersonated by LLM bots.
So what can we who use Rust, but don't have those levers of power, do to help accelerate this professionalization?
Civic Quizzer, a study tool for the 100 questions in the US Citizenship Test
Also why they gave 4 and 3.5 different color icons recently, I'm sure.
> While the language itself looks fine, I find the community a bit off-putting

I have wondered now and then about how the Rust community culture might have damaged the language. In particular, I've said for many years that Rust botched error handling by eschewing exceptions yet including panics anyway, leading to a doubling of the error handling infrastructure (you pay for both error objects and stack unwinding support) and the inability of the standard library to survive allocation failure.

It's an unfixable mistake, although the language designers have walked it back the best they can over the years, culminating in the current yeet proposal.

Did Rust end up with both errors and panics because the community suppressed robust debate in the name of kindness and "safety"? Was the current approach a way to try to make everyone happy without conflict?
I agree with this 100%. As soon as you bring in outside topics, this kind of thing is inevitable. Rust should be about Rust. Whatever your personal beliefs are about BLM, abortion, the existence of aliens, whatever - putting any energy into external topics detracts from what should be the primary focus.
>> Out of all places do you think Russia is the one which needs more land?

I don't but the ongoing war is for more land

>> Maybe because “the West” doesn’t want to “handle” North Korea (whatever that means)?

NK is propped up by China to distract USA and it's allies. As planned it's worked and USA has no answer to that problem and yet makes bold promises to Taiwan.

I'm just trying to say that strongest country wins no matter what. It's nothing to do with morals. Better strengths ones country in good times.
I am offended when many people in the US consider Winston Churchill as a leadership icon. Indian MP, Shashi Tharoor's observation Churchill was no better than the Nazis is the correct one. Winston Churchill had an extremely derogatory attitude towards Indians even for his time. His policies killed millions of Indians. Indians need to re-write history from Indian perspective and tell the true story of Churchill, a genocidal racist who deserves to be in the trash can of history.
Wow, no kidding:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vxgzrl/changes_in_the...

Mod response:

> For all those wondering about removed comments, there was some trolling going on which was summarily removed by the mods.

> Please avoid any trolling and/or drama seeking comments and remember our subreddit rules.

"Trolling" on display in the archives of that thread: https://www.reveddit.com/v/rust/comments/vxgzrl/changes_in_t...

And then there's Graydon's reply to the "we will exclude you," in the code of conduct, and the subsequent drama: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6ewjt5/question_about...

Frankly, even though no one has asked for my opinion, the amount of effort people put into the code of conduct (and the discussion around it) is ridiculous; utterly ridiculous. In a time long ago, before everyone was incapable of compromising and cooperating with one another, we had two rules in an informal code of conduct for interacting with one another:

1. Be cool

2. Don't be an asshole

And then we all went back to trying to achieving the task at hand.
Because ToM tests (and indeed basically every professional exam and psychological test) are represented as text, which GPT is super good at.

Do you have a source for the Sutskever quote, I'd like to know more about this theory.
Did you read the link? It was about a strategy of intentionally removing access so that things wouldn't fall into hands of Japan if they successfully invaded.

> In 1942, as a result of the Japanese conquest of Burma that began that year, the colonial government in India introduced a "denial policy" in Bengal, a scorched earth policy designed to deny Japan access to food and transport should it invade Bengal. Mukerjee attributes the "scorched earth" approach to Churchill, who reportedly urged it on 14 November 1941.[7] The "rice denial" policy saw soldiers confiscate and destroy rice deemed surplus; according to one journalist, thousands of tons of rice were thrown into the water in east Bengal.[8] The "boat denial" policy saw 46,000 boats able to carry more than ten passengers confiscated; bicycles, carts and elephants were also taken.

The analogy would be if the US had sufficient control of Ukraine, and removed and destroyed infrastructure in east Ukraine so that the Russians cannot use it if they capture that territory.
> people call themselves husband and wife

In Dutch that is just "man" en "vrouw", i.e. man and woman.
For spouse they use either "partner" or "echtgenoot", only the latter of which implies marriage.
To be more specific, it's an argument against the idea of Bostrom/Yudkowsky-style recursively self-improving superintelligence, i.e. the brain surgeon who repeatedly operates on the part of his own brain that makes him good at brain surgery, getting faster each time.

It's also a cry of impatience against people who think they can model or forecast the actions of a non-human intelligence, let alone a superintelligence. AIs are alien sociopaths; it's a category error to believe you can get inside their head.
Women have tried to impregnate themselves with disposed condoms before. Some people are just crazy like that.

It's rare that this happens, but the law should have a provision for this case before this technology can be used without repercussions. Not only because of the question of "who's the father" but also because of laws forcing biological parents to pay child support, for example, regardless of how the child came to be.
That would be a nice to frame in an office.
What does ‘it’ refer to in your first sentence?
We'll have to wait on the result of that court case to be sure, but the letter of the law says that youtube-dl and their ilk are circumvention devices and thus illegal to use or distribute under the DMCA.
Why should this be the writer's responsibility instead of the shell? Unless one is bandwidth-constrained, shouldn't the protocol be for programs to emit data as rich as possible and it be the interpreter's responsibility to format it in a way the user can understand?
>You started in bad faith pretending that "cutting the budget" is the sole reason these actors are being called far right.

To repeat: You read that, I didn't write that.

Is there anyone who has not been characterized as "far right" who wants to shrink the overall size of the Federal budget?
h1b is 85k + 20k usa stem degree = 105k . 4.4 mil number is from 2016.
Marriage is a tough proposition in the west these days. The cost of childcare has never been higher, both in terms of dollars and opportunity cost, not to mention housing. Of course there are other benefits to getting married, but without the goal of family feeling attainable to many, a major driver for marriage is gone.
Must read book : THE ANARCHY: THE RELENTLESS RISE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. You wouldn’t believe this part of history
... the Wolfram Model can be thought of as being an abstract generalization of the so-called "Causal Dynamical Triangulation" approach to quantum gravity developed by Loll, Ambjørn and Jurkiewicz ...

Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram Model, Jonathan Gorard
https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/13/2020/07/29-2-3....

The Wolfram model also assumes a Many Worlds approach - all possible quantum rewritings take place.
A generalized model of reality that has increased in fidelity as LLMs have improved.
Thank you for this detailed comment, which does a much better job in my opinion of critiquing the substance of the article than many others. If I may:

> I think most of the arguments the author makes against worrying about superintelligence are pretty weak, though.

Which ones did you find to have more merit?

Personally, the premise of recursive self-improvement seems most suspect to me. It is somewhat related to how the author points out that we can't define and measure intelligence precisely. Even if we can't do that, though, it's still plausible to me that recursive self-improvement is possible; I think the fundamental question is about the nature of intelligence. Regardless of whether it can be precisely defined, either by us or by an entity smarter than we, the question is: Can it be improved ad infinitum with no serious side effects? I don't know that we have the evidence to answer this question (though I am very open to learning about it).
This metaphor is about repeating without understanding, like parrots do. It is not about the biological aspect of parrots.
I was expecting this article to be preachy, sanctimonious, and panicked. Instead what I got was a level headed article, one that even expresses some amount of admiration for the topic.

Consider me pleasantly surprised.
You point to "several authorities" as meaning the relationship between doctor and consumer should be less adversarial as the doctor then to the mechanic and consumer. as the doctor would have sanctions if they go against that authority, that orthodoxy

to me however that means my personal care is not the only concern, with the mechanic the motives and incentives are clear. With the Doctor they hidden with a split set of masters and at the end of the day the patient is not the primary concern or factor, the Licensing board is, the insurance company is, the government regulators are, but not the patient.

These over lapping authorities you think make the system less adversarial to me makes it more adversarial, as now I have to ensure the motives of your decision making is about me, the patient, and not the government authority that told you what you have to do... not the licensing board, not the insurance company, etc.

See COVID response as a recent example of this, but history is fraught with other examples where patient care suffered under the weight of authority.

this is with out going into the pure corruption that influence many health policies from diet to drugs... Making it less "evidence-based" then I think you are asserting.
Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode
Interview: The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons
Jet engines are a tough cookie to crack. It is easy to get performance or efficiency or economy (time between rebuilds), but not all three at once. You can’t simply reverse engineer one either, so they got to put in all the work themselves, as they are dumping billions into R&D.

Avionics are easier but…software really isn’t that easy, especially software that prevents your plane from crashing.
Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for your everyday work?
Many comments allude to regular/daily use of LLMs as productivity enhancers, but few go into detail. I have read long blog posts about things that LLMs _can_ do but I have seen less discussion about typical use cases. I personally have not found much value, net of prompt engineering costs. Yes I have an OpenAI subscription and use GPT-4.

So, how are you all using LLMs in your daily work?
Legalization just makes it easier for the illegal operators to take advantage.

After CA made it only a misdemeanor to illegally grow marijuana the cartels setup shop inside the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX21ldNfefA