skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I misunderstanding the thread?

> the state of California filed a complaint against Amazon. They cited me and made me a witness.

> And in response, Amazon served me with a lawsuit.
That's not what the article says. In fact, in terms or revenue levels that's the opposite of what it says.
Pretty sure someonen in the hate 1800sv warned about it as well
I don't think that is what 'Peak Oil' concept was about. It acknowledged, or did not dispute, that with scarcity, prices rise, and supply/demand will cause something to happen. What 'Peak Oil' was speculating about, was that the change in supply would change rapidly enough, that the rate of change would be faster than the normal supply/demand humans are used to, and hence cause massive economic and societal disturbance. Not really too different than recent chip shortages, sure, with more demand, people will build new factories, but those factories take huge capital and time, so the rate of change of the demand is more than can be adapted to without 'discomfort'.
Hackerspaces!

Check this list [0], maybe there is one close to you – and if you by any chance live in Oslo – swing by Hackeriet [1].

[0] https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

[1] https://hackeriet.no/index.en.html
CAR is a gem. It's great for lite OSes in hostile envs.
I assume this is done with a microcontroller on the board.
Federal Rule #26 is always Interesting on disclosure.

"Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 was amended in 1993 to require the disclosure of related case materials without awaiting a discovery request. In the 2000 case Kleiner v. Burns the court interpreted Rule 26 to include backup media, and even deleted files." - "2028 - A Dystopian Story" By Jack Ganssle.

“Do I Really Have To Do That?” Rule 26(a)(1) Disclosures and Electronic Information:

https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer...

Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26
RRB trees in particular allow you to benefit from some of the cache efficiency of regular vectors, while supporting operations like immutable update. They are used in languages like Clojure and Scala.
Raves, particularly ones that are designed to be “transformative” like Lightning in a Bottle in California.

Music festivals with camping are magical ways to build community and inspire yourself around other like minded and curious people. I never attended these events until a near death experience prioritized my love of dancing in my early 30. Now nearly 10 years later I'm even more convinced this is the way.
Agreed about learning bookkeeping. I was a programmer on a minicomputer decades ago, and when the bookkeeper spoke debits and credits at me, I stared back like a deer in the headlights (I had an engineering education). When I asked the bookkeeper if that was like positive and negative integers, she stared back at me like a deer in the headlights. I went to night school and learned bookkeeping. Turned out to be a very useful skill, both in my professional career and personally.
It's cause I want to keep tabs (like a bookmark) but am too lazy to find the bookmark folder
TeMPOraL has extensive experience with trying to limit HN distractions, see in part:

<http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2020-05-25-blocking-distraction...>

But see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125138>

I also recall him specifically asking dang to disable his account, which ended up being accomplished through either the "noprocrast" or "limit" features, though I can't find the comment (it was likely either on HN or the Fediverse).

Somewhat amusingly, I happened to catch his re-appearance on HN within 45 minutes of his resuming commenting, for whatever that has to say about the both of us.
As someone also unfamiliar, this exchange seemed to summarise it, unless someone else can offer correction or additional context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128144
OpenAI wants regulations to rise the bar thus kill off small competitors. This may work in US where money rule.
This is underselling the timeline a bit.

Climate change due to industrial emissions of CO2 has been known and published in mainstream news articles since at least 110 years ago.[0][1] It's been known and discussed in public by professional scientists for over 140 years[2]. The great inaugural Nobel Prize winner, Arrhenius, wrote a paper on the topic in 1896[3] which cited Fourier's publication from 1827[4]. More generally, global greenhouse effect of CO2 has been known for at least 185 years[4], a decade earlier than the last founding father of the United States died.

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0: The Rodney and Otamatea Times (Aug 1912) https://www.livescience.com/63334-coal-affecting-climate-cen...

1: Popular Mechanics (Mar 1912): https://books.google.com/books?id=Tt4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA341&lpg=...

2: Nature (1882): https://www.nature.com/articles/027127c0

3: Journal of Science (Apr 1896) https://doi.org/10.1080/14786449608620846

4: M ́emoire sur les Temp ́eratures du Globe Terrestre et des Espaces Plan ́etaires, M ́emoires d l’Acad ́emie Royale des Sciences de l’Institute de France VII 570-604 (1827): https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/papers/Fourier1827Trans.pd... (English Translation)
Yann LeCun has lots of influence at Meta and of the trio, he is the one who is completely dismissive of AGI existential risks.
Not really. At the scale of Rust and Firefox, some level of disagreement within and without the relevant political structure(s) is unavoidable.
Ask HN: Why is web development such a daunting task?
Hey there,

This is kind of a random question, but I figured I might get some help here.

How are you all tackling web development? I am a fairly experienced programmer, though, with very little to no experience in the web realm; the closest I have gotten to the web is writing APIs for a few things, e.g. state machines to manage packages through a shipping network, etc. I have mostly worked with C, Java, Scala, and Haskell. I have toy projects with other languages like Lisp and Go.

Toy with a new language by writing a simple database? I can do that. Write a web app? I've run away many times... it all feels so daunting. Has anyone else experienced this? What is your advice?

I have considered Java and Go since I have experienced with both languages.
> I parsed more closely about what the ask here is, and its that Amazon is asking via separate motions for the same information given to the AG case which, due to how discovery works, they should already have, this to me reads as an attempt to press Molson legally and thus spend time and money on complying with these requests.

Can't his lawyer go to the judge and have this stopped?
My assumption was that most drivers are using 3+ different apps, so if they get an Uber request while they're driving a Lyft route they just don't accept it, hence the bouncing around "finding another driver" because all the drivers are already busy
Animistic Agency: An Exploration into the Phenomenology of Agency
Abstract

Here we introduce the General Theory of Animistic Agency to represent embedded cognitive agents. Animistic Agency constructs an identity between objective statements and evaluative statements, thereby strengthening inferences related to intentions, and refuting the is–ought problem (i.e. Hume's law). This formalism has plausible applications for cognitive science and philosophy, artificial general intelligence alignment, and for the analysis and design of incentive structures within multi-agent organizations, such as corporations, governments and markets.
He also could have meant served in a lawsuit, which is colloquially sometimes how people refer to being subpoenaed
Square dancing and running. Both have been wonderful for developing connections and lasting friendships — in fact, I met my wife square dancing, although that wasn’t my intention.

I wasn’t athletic before I started running and I wasn’t a dancer before I started square dancing, so I think an important aspect is stepping out of your comfort zone yo try something new.
JVM bytecode assumes the GC allocates and frees memory, so no, you don't have direct access to memory... though the Java standard library does let you allocate bytes and manage those yourself[1], not sure if you would consider that "more control over memory allocations".

JVM bytecode is quite approachable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_bytecode_instruct...

And does look superficially similar to WASM instructions. When WASM gets GC, I have trouble seeing what's fundamentally different between the two, to be honest... even something like (parts of) the Java stdlib will be available to WASM with the WASI API, making the difference too small to distinguish them into different categories IMO.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/creating-a-java-o...
The full statement so you don't have to click through:

> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Have you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you.

[0]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-snooze/

Edit: If you want your work emails to arrive only during work hours and otherwise delay them, you can use a Sieve condition in your email rule similar to this:

anyof (date :value "lt" "date" "hour" "09", date :value "ge" "date" "hour" "17")
Wishful thinking that is not backed up by any modeling or research.

Our industry would probably disagree that “base load is a concept of the past”.
I have a personal pet peeve about the misuse of terminology when dealing with such names, for which the only solution is to go read the original reference to figure out what they meant by it.

E.g., in this case, to describe a data structure as "purely functional" makes zero sense to me intuitively at first. You need to go read the thesis and realise they're referring to data structures implemented as algebraic data types, which in the context of a purely functional language can themselves be thought of as functions, and can therefore be described as 'functional' ...

But unless you do that, the first thought is going to be "huh? can arrays be further split into imperative vs functional?" "Does he mean immutable?" "Can I use functional arrays in c?" "Are they faster/safer than normal arrays?".

By contrast, I think "Purely Functional Data-Structure Types" would have been a far more intuitive term ... but I suppose the author may have felt that clarifying further wasn't punchy enough, and could have made the thesis more wordy...
Bad faith debaters will always debate bad faith

When it was called "Global Warming", Republican spin doctors were bringing in snowballs into Congress to illustrate how ridiculous the concept is.

You STILL hear this from modern conservatives every time there is any unexpected cold snap or "polar vortex": "So much for global warming, amirite?"
Not quite outside of work but separate from my clients and employers. I have found it at my Coworking space.

Sadly, in my experience, few Coworking spaces provide the things good communities provide.

I recommend trying all the Coworking spaces near you until you find the one that feels right.

Like good coffee shops, it’s usually the ones that aren’t part of a chain that are best. High-end interior design, flashy marketing and all the amenities you can imagine aren’t the things that matter.
And too right the critics like Molly are about crypto.

There is no need to kid ourselves here anymore to even entertain crypto.

Crypto is a complete scam, with no legitimate or legal use case and nothing else to offer anybody.

I only wish crypto died sooner and that nobody uses it.

We have other systems that are more robust than crypto that is used in the order of hundreds of millions such as UPI, PIX, Wise, Mpesa, Sendwave, etc that has time and time again proved to be better than crypto.

FedNow is coming in a months time so it should hasten crypto’s inevitable downfall faster.
Should also have added, that we are fracking at all, is an indicator that we are heading towards a shortage. Oil Sands/Fracking all take energy to produce energy, and have only recently become economical, because we are running out make these poor second rate inputs become valuable.
So the situation is even worse than I had predicted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19502801
That's some interesting editorializing. "I criticized Amazon's policies in a blog" and "I testified before congress about how Amazon was bad for American consumers" are not exactly the same thing. Not that I'm saying he's in the wrong, but this titling is a bit clickbaity.
This is very true, kind of reminds me of how in school they teach you how you to properly cite your sources and how fundamental citations are to our entire scientific advancements, but then you read or watch the news and realize no journalist ever cites their sources.

We were always just supposed to believe what the evening news or the new york times are saying, so the only answer the establishment has to fake news in social media is to say don't trust those specific social media accounts but our accounts you can trust. Instead of a more helpful education on media literacy in general.
If you are not seeing it already, give it ten more years and watch.. (not talking about Germany, though should have a look at them too again, but about a bigger manifesting failure).
I filed a bug bounty! If this is working as expected then so be it…

I didn’t even know this hit front page till you said something

I’m just gonna leave the other orgs alone and not doing anything in there until I can figure out a strategy to delete this google group (which I am actually using to manage my own accounts) my accounts are just hobby accounts more than anything, it’s crazy I logged in and found these full-blown business accounts lol

Just insane to me that I don’t have to confirm on my end that I should be the admin, or billing role lol, they can just one way add you…

I think they meant to add their service account and instead added my google group, the URLs are kind of similar
Other dog owners/trainers. Neighbors. Anything close by really.

I don't really have the time to venture far from the house for hobbies, so most of mine revolve around dogs/gardening and electronics tinkering that I do inside the house.

And obviously hanging out with long time friends.
I'm talking about living memory. Up until about 15 years ago in fact.
I've largely taken to the "multiple devices, only one with a sign-on" approach.

I'll read HN / linked articles from my e-ink tablet, which has Internet but for which I've severely restricted any authenticated services.

If I want to comment, I've got to 1) remember and 2) go to a Real Computer.

(Having a full keyboard available is another game-changer. Soft keyboards / touch input on a mobile device not only hugely increases my typo rate but my ability to think and compose, it's brain damage.)
I like the simple approach.
Is there a way I can see history of my experiments?
Hacker News. You all are my community!
Oh, there will probably be several booms and busts. Stocks will go to the moon, and then back to earth, and then to the moon, etc. So it goes.
> I personally am worried about AI partly because I am very cynical about how corporations will use it

This is the more realistic danger: I don't know if corporations are intentionally "controlling the narrative" by spewing unreasonable fears to distract from the actual dangers: AI + Capitalism + big tech/MNC + current tax regime = fewer white- & blue-collar jobs + increased concentration of wealth and a lower tax base for governments.

Having a few companies as AI gatekeepers will be terrible for society.
Not to mention that slot machines are notoriously addictive and most apps that aren't games have been incentivized both by advertisers or in lieu of additional advertiser revenue to include variations of slot machines in their feature lists because that attracts attention and keeps attention.
> he would be entitled to request Amazon pay for the costs to produce those documents

Actually he would request that payment from California - they are the ones that hired him as an expert witness, not Amazon.
In the multi billion year history of the earth the climate has changed yes.
For the whole of human history (the past 10-12 thousand years) it has not changed all that much. This stability has given rise to countless civilizations and human flourishing.

Now we have upset this stability and will have to spend a large part of our economic output just to defend our current standard of living. The less we do about climate change, the worse we'll have it.

The planet will be fine and humanity won't disappear, but we lose a lot of opportunities every year we sit on our asses.
>Why and how are these mechanisms unsuitable for protecting against AI?

The rule of law prevented WWI and WWII, right? Oh, no it did not, tens to hundreds of millions died due to human stupidity and violence depending on what exactly you count in that age.

> Both criminal, terrorist, groups at war

Human organizations, especially criminal organizations have deep trust issues between agents in the organization. You never know if anyone else in the system is a defector. This reduces the openness and quantity of communication between agents. In addition you have agents that want to personally gain rather than benefit the organization itself. This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company following the law... mostly. Smart people can work together and 'mostly' trust the other person isn't going to screw them over.

Now imagine a superintelligent AI with a mental processing bandwidth of hundreds of the best employees at a company. Assuming it knows and trusts itself, then the idea of illegal activities being an internal risk disappears. You have something that operates more on the level of a hivemind toward a goal (what the limitations of hivemind versus selfish agents are is another very long discussion). What we ask here is if all the worlds best hackers got together, worked together unselfishly, and instigated an attack against every critical point they could find on the internet/real world systems at once, how much damage could they cause?

Oh, lets say you find the server systems the super intelligence is on, but the controller shuts it off and all the data has some kind of homomorphic encryption so that's useless to you. It's dead right? Na, they just load up the backup copy they have a few months later and it's party time all over again. Humans tend to remain dead after dying, AI? Well that is yet to bee seen.
Every time I check my finances on Mint I cringe at the $15 charge for Quickbooks. I'll pay the $2/mo to drop ads on Mint. I absolutely hate paying $15/mo for an app that allows me to swipe left/right to sort my credit card charges into business vs. personal. It's disgusting.
Why do you find that interesting? The judge ultimately decides a ton of MASSIVELY important issues for you, and your job as a lawyer is to maintain credibility with them.
Same situation for antibiotics. Fleming, in the actual Nobel prize acceptance speech, warned:

"It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the
laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them,
and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body."
<https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming/lect...>

And so today we have infections resistant to practically every known antibiotic. And it's getting worse.
Sounds like the big claim here is that it is faster. That's definitely a good thing, but what I want is a protocol where:

1. Every time I give out my email address, behind the scenes a single-source permission/token is created.
2. Thus, that one source is able to send me email, from the email address they specified at the time.
3. But if they hand over the permission/token to anyone else, email from that new source will automatically bounce/be marked as suspect/flagged (my choice in configuration).
4. Even if the original authorized party tries to email me from a different address at the same domain, that email will be handled as in (3).
5. Even from the same email address, the configuration can specify limits, e.g. only 5 emails total, only 3 per week, expire after 10 days, etc. Again, configurable.

Oh, and 6. Of course this means unsubscription becomes a local configuration thing that doesn't require the sender's participation.

I know current email protocols allow none of that, but if we're proposing new protocols, that's what I want out of it. Faster is better too.
What’s New in IntelliJ Idea 2023.1 for Spring Developers
Sounds like you are looking for your local community chorus! Often no experience required.

The Choruses tab here[1] is a good place to start. This[2] may be a little outdated. Or just Google.

[1] https://chorusamerica.org/member_directory

[2] https://www.singers.com/lists/choral-groups/

a PSA from HN's lurking choral director
> not sure what the modern consensus is.

Too good a phrase to pass up!

Modern consensus is done by constructing a replicated log - an append only data-structure shared across multiple workers. It's what you use Paxos for, and it's what Raft streamlines.
General purpose computers are wonderful because they can run so many diverse applications. If you get rid of “untrusted code”, people will still make thousands of apps be “trusted” on their machines. There is no more-secure past we can return to.
>Not quite correct; the OpenSPARC T1 and T2 were publicly released and available by 2008.

Points for mentioning this! But things have come a long way since 2008. You can get Intel ME-less machines from the 2008 era. Not sure if OpenSPARC T2 has any management cores.

>The maintainers of the me_cleaner script likely have the clearest view of what is known.

Yep, absolutely. Much of what we know is thanks to the efforts of researchers like these. See also the talks on finding the 'Red Unlock' mode of modern Intel CPUs.
I don’t listen to the radio/album versions of his songs since I think they are a bit dull, but I thought his Tiny Desk concert was great.
I'm not a lawyer, but i've been an expert witness in a few cases. Usually if you're coming back it's because they felt something was left out or they found new information elsewhere and want to ask questions around it. Usually though a second run is all about breaking you down as a witness.

I've had one time where I was called back in, it was related to new discovery that had been provided related to a security breach. It was from a third party and I had not been privy to the documents up to that point. Ultimately they had little or no bearing on the case but I did have to state I have no knowledge for a bunch of questions asked.

I think for OPs case, they're trying to find more gotchas. I would request through a lawyer to limit scope and or mitigate being harassed.

Who knows though, the amount of screwy games that lawyers play blew my mind.. until i remembered they bill hourly.
You asked, so I'll tell you: My local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. https://jw.org.

I've never been happier in my life, and the sense of purpose, community, and security has never been higher. I won't espouse any religious teachings here, that's what the link above is for should you choose to visit it.

The most amazing part is that it's genuine and trustworthy. It's all made of imperfect humans to be sure, but you'll be hard pressed to find more trustworthy people who show a sincere genuine interest and truly care.
Much of the openness of Power7/8/9 was encouraged by Google who wanted to have control over all the firmware, even the secret firmware. I think Google is also auditing PSP/ME source code but the public only sees the audit results.