skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fewer people agree with your premise, and that’s fortunate.

Datacenter NVIDIA cards are already on the export control list for potential military use, and that was pre ChatGPT and GPT-4:

>On August 26, 2022, the U.S. government, or USG, informed NVIDIA Corporation, or the Company, that the USG has imposed a new license requirement, effective immediately, for any future export to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia of the Company’s A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits. DGX or any other systems which incorporate A100 or H100 integrated circuits and the A100X are also covered by the new license requirement. The license requirement also includes any future NVIDIA integrated circuit achieving both peak performance and chip-to-chip I/O performance equal to or greater than thresholds that are roughly equivalent to the A100, as well as any system that includes those circuits. A license is required to export technology to support or develop covered products. The USG indicated that the new license requirement will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in China and Russia. The Company does not sell products to customers in Russia.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581022...

> The “AI is dangerous” premise has no basis whatsoever. No one can prove it. No one can present a great thought experiment. Just doomsaying coupled with volume.

If you increase the number of persuasive Gobbels and hackers attacking infrastructure by 100,000x you do not come away with a better world.

> It’s starting to come off like a hidden agenda.

AI was used to fake the moon landing and hide bigfoot /s
> normal (debugging within the container is a problem)

That's a medium difficulty then. Kata isn't a great development environment.
Actually I would guess that it is pretty expensive to run. You need the staff fulltime there and then the space and often equipment.

Just doing the math of staff to patients, takin in account that you need full time support. It starts to add up.
Mozilla's Mark Surman on what worries him about AI
"Nobody is deploying large-scale services on top of what would be essentially the CGI model." Yes, they are. That's basically the Cloudflare workers model (which certainly qualifies as large-scale) and many other V8/Wasm based serverless solutions
Because it was a business, or wasn't it?
I have friends and acquaintances from pretty much every department across the movie business and it never ceases to amaze me how any project ever makes it into the sunlight.

The whole enterprise of filmmaking is so fraught with peril. Movies get canned at the last moment. Movies get made but never distributed because they ran out of funding. Brilliant scripts find many lovers but no takers. The weather will mess you up exactly when you only have one shot at a scene. Your multiple national awards guarantee nothing... you will still spend many years struggling to get your own film produced. And then the weather will screw you over, your producers will bail just before distribution because the political climate changed, and suddenly you will find yourself friendless and alone. Etc. etc.

But then there are these flashes of brilliance... Those epic stories. Those immortal dialogues. Moments that shape a generation. Songs that move you to greatness, or get you through the hard times.

And I suppose my friends and their ilk live and die for those moments. They are all mad, I tell you. Stark raving mad.
WeiJu2: The Xposed Module that lets you mod APKs on the fly
As far as i know, btc and ethereum actively fight the ASICs, because they will diminish the profits of amateur miners, and will bring great centralization to the network. Which is true, and it is no problem.
What I don't get here is the following. No matter how egalitarian you organize such a conference, doesn't it make sense that the organizers get the last say in what the keynote looks like? They have an rough overview over all contributions and they can decide if what you contribute is best suited to be a keynote.

Of course that gives them a certain level of power of the discourse, but what is the alternative? Community-voted conference structures that fail to take many variables into account that you need to take into account for an enjoyable conference?

If I were invited as a keynote speaker and the conference organizers tell me that the stuff I produced is good, but not suitable for the keynote I wouldn't blame them, but myself. The only instance I could imagine was if they invited me specifically for a spicy topic and my talk was too spicy for them. But a tech talk? Come on.
This is obviously incorrect: Let’s say they have to pay on each 500-play window, on true random, operator can end up with all 500 plays as non-paying and break the law.

This is why they are programmed to increase payout odds if there was no payout for long time, and this is why some players wait for such machines. (In modern casinos machines are pooled, so it’s actually more complicated)
Happy Birthday WP!
Been using it since 2007 at least, and it's still used daily in my job.
Here's to 20 more years!
This part, in the second paragraph:

Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Cloud Workstations with a list of new enhanced features, providing fully managed integrated development environments (IDEs) on Google Cloud.

Makes me I believe that GA here means "general availability". Holy cr*p that is some lousy writing with an undefined acronym in the title. I guess I'm completely outside the target audience who're supposed to know these things.
To be fair, manpages were intended for tools that followed the Unix philosophy ("small programs that do one thing well, and can be composed together easily"). git does not follow this philosophy. If it did, we'd have tools named checkout, clone, push, etc. rather than one git binary that does all of them (with highly irregular and non-orthogonal syntax!)
You’re trying to be nice. Try being kind instead.

You don’t have to give 5 star reviews to every book (being nice), but you could give it to the ones that deserve it and no ratings at all to the ones you didn’t like, or a 1-star with a constructive review (being kind).
Can you point to one single data point which has found any negative effect on human bones from excess consumption of fluoridated water at town water concentrations?

This should be easy since it's been done at enormous scale for decades so a huge quorum of people have spent their their lives drinking fluoridated water.
The pattern is the same on every card, but the cards are cut in a way that doesn't align with the pattern, so the two edges of a card don't look the same.

It's still a manufacturing defect, which could be sorted out by paying more for those decks that are to be used in higher stakes games.
Do you have exact examples or links of these 'conspiracy theorists' spouting misleading information about "digital ID" that is in relation to the WEF movement that is proven to be 'disinformation'?

Can you show any direct links to this?
> They’re afraid the AIs are going to be as mean to them as they’ve been to us.

This is gold!

But it's also curious coming from a journalist who played cheerleader for them for so many years: are journalists also afraid that AI will propagandize us better than journalists managed to?
The Fascinating Evolution of Micromouse
Dog – Google Search
Facebook users lose access due to Instagram accounts they don't own
I don't think 0-based was ever
as common a practice as it is today, especially in the 60s. In the beginning there were two camps fighting which system was to be preferred and there were many more 1-based or agnostic languages (like the whole Pascal family). "Numerical Recipes" a pretty popular book for some time even came in two editions, a 0-based and a 1-based version. I think the victory of C had a big influence on 0-based winning.

Personally I find it very sad that the agnostic approach of Pascal did not prevail. Let the programmer decide what they think fits the situation best and let the compiler deal with the technicalities. This, and I also miss range types... for like 40 years now...
> Does anyone here recall

Well, midnight commander is still actively updated even today in 2023.
The huge demand-supply gap of IT talent in Japan, combined with the fast aging and declining population of Japan offers great potential for foreign software engineers. A very detailed article with a lot of statistics.
Cat – Google Search
The parent stated clearly it doesn't work by ingestion.
> A semi-consensual tentacle experience in your mouth lasting half an hour, exclusive in Japan
I agree it seems farcicle but it will inevitably creep in regardless with any centralized system, simply as turnover of people's roles to younger overseers without the benefit of experience occurs. Self-limiting and enforcing limits is not unheard of though usually exceedingly rare.

There is such a thing as the rule of law, but as you mentioned when the powerful band together in collusive behavior anything is possible, and its usually for their benefit. The rule of law as we've come to know it generally speaking usually requires appropriate representation with regard to crafting/maintaining those laws but that is not always the case.

Also, without maintaining a market which limits currency sufficiently to allow rational price discovery, you run into the Economic Calculation problem which has no solution. A form of it is inflation/deflation curves based on lagging indicators where you whipsaw closer and closer to the margins until one or the other outcome spirals out. Very dynamical.

> What we are seeing.
>> I don't buy this at all as a key factor

We'll have to disagree. Its pretty obvious that previous generations starting at the point of taking the dollar off the gold standard have consistently spent more than revenue (negative cashflow). They've spread the loss in value globally, but its still a loss and worse its in lagging inflation adjusted payouts.

The bill always comes due, and the consequences of policies put in place over that time will be paid by generations who had no say in its creation. Debt can be just as coercive when backed by law (austerity measures).

Incidentally, a very similar issue came up during the French Revolution (Bastille) at least according to Thomas Paine who wrote about it in passing in his Rights of Man (1770s). That and Common Sense are both very interesting reads if you can make the time.

In my opinion, power should be entrusted to the people's representation in a republic with important limitations enforced independently to preserve their responsiveness to the people they represent.

For example representatives who spend more than X% of their time on activities other than representation, time for which they are paid by the taxpayer. Or representing/concentrating more than 80,000 people's voting rights in a single person aren't really representing their constituents in any equitable way. Exceeding either of those limits causes their responsibility and duty to fall in furtherance of maintaining their profession.
Production AI systems are hard
Sure. Just talk to your wealth manager or private banker, they'll be happy to help you ;)
Right, that is a distinction.

I do think it's important to think about the fact that school libraries are where kids tend to access a lot of books (there are of course city libraries, but those places are also being targeted). At least my experience was around that. And many libraries will have a request system, so if a kid is like "I want to read this", then libraries are able to often put in a purchase order, and then make that available for other students.

At least based on my own school experiences, I do think that teachers of a certain ... authoritarian bent would be more than happy to make up a stink of books brought in that would be "banned" from the library if a copy circulating were brought to their attention. Power structures in schools are like that. But that's just conjecture.

I think the general point of the "book ban" terminology is that librarians and schools generally had leeway to bring in more or less anything to the library, and that autonomy is being stripped away for very dark reasons. This is the age of the internet, but from my own childhood, if my school and city library suddenly decided to not provide certain kinds of book, I would just not have access to that at all.

All that to say that you're right on the word in some sense, but it feels fitting to me.
This is GPT summer, just accept it. It will be easier. A year ago it was crypto summer. Before that it was "microservices is a bad idea" summer. Before that it was "microservices is a good idea" summer. And before that it was "everything is JQuery" summer. And before that... and before that...

It will get better. Then a new buzzword comes forward.
Possibly biased?

It's two clicks away from an online shop for (fluoride) toothpaste.
I love easy effects! I have a crappy webcam/mic combo, and the noise reduction filter is very performant, the people I'm speaking to are really grateful about it
There's no need to mess with the breakpoints. They're chosen carefully. The article explains why this one works optimally:

> Why 0.98px specifically? 0.02px is the smallest division of a CSS pixel that an earlier version of Safari supported. See WebKit bug #178261.
Well it halved childhood cavities in the 50s. It did its job and I don’t think it’s hard to understand why it was done.

Same reason why they stared iodine to salt… because people were having mental development issues.

Now is it still necessary? That’s a different question but let’s not pretend that we don’t know why it was done.
But it also helps lowering ourselves from the pedestal.

We don't yet understand how our brains work but they do "work" somehow and a lot can be understood by looking at how it "fails".

Hallucinations are an interesting window in how our brains work and seeing similarities with what other processes do can be useful
Go search Twitter. There is probably some variation in terms of local languages.

There was also a consultation for the EU's digital wallet here and it gathered a lot of conspiracy stuff, which, indeed, was false information. Here, I use the term "disinformation" as a catch-all, although probably everyone agrees by now that the term is vague and somewhat misguided.

As for WEF, they've published some articles on digital ID, which from a quick look are mostly sensible but quite light-weight policy analysis.
Unfortunately, I don't gather statistics on the demonstration server. I believe that the in-memory caffeine cache (https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine) saved me.
Yes thanks I figured that out later; they define the "state" as what in CS we would call the lines of code or control flow blocks. What I'm curious about is with our usual "modern programmer's" understanding of a state, the state space is exponential in the size of the program. That's why we have model checking and software verification. Whereas this theorem is about programs B whose state space is linear in the length of the encoding of the program, because they're allowed to visit each Turing machine state at most once before halting. At first glance seems like a very specialized case of a class of programs to talk about.
Yeah, I was going to put in a plug for Kinesis. I used to love the Microsoft keyboards and now use a Kinesis split mechanical keyboard. It's $200 which is not the cheapest keyboard but if you type a lot it's worth spending money on something you find comfortable.
Wish more people did like you!
MapLibre (https://maplibre.org/) is used to render the map.
As a complete lua noob, can you run lua without C or C++? I've always thought of it as an embedded scripting language. I intend to learn it because of that but what can it do on its own?
I believe the China model was to pay abysmal returns for bank deposits and use that to fuel economy, but now we have discovered that in the USA a very similar scheme is implemented when you place your money into lion's mouth basically for free.
WASM is a bytecode format like Java bytecode... the difference is that it's sandboxed. It can't do anything that's not explicitly given to it, including using WASI (the POSIX-like API for WASM code to "talk" to the system).

Because it's sandboxed, you can use it without a container. I think that's what you don't seem to undestand. There are several companies offering WASM-based "containers" in the cloud - which don't need any actual container, the WASM runtime has the same type of capability of a container, to isolate processes running on the same hardware securely.

It's even possible to make an actual Docker container run purely on a WASM runtime, as Docker itself is doing now! https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/docker-without-containers/
The article is not describing the Cloudflare approach (v8 isolates) -- note the graph of startup times. Their "wasmedge" line takes 20 seconds to start 1500 instances, or about 13 milliseconds per instance.

Cloudflare's blog post at https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe... contains a graph in which requests are handled in 200 microseconds, orders of magnitude faster.
> thinking of having an "easy escape hatch" probably does not do wonders for the relationship

I actually totally disagree with this. The difference between “I’m in this relationship because I love this person but also I have to be for my visa/finances/friendships” and “I’m in this relationship because I love this person and I can leave tomorrow if I want to” for me has been night and day.

Neither my partner nor I is reliant on our relationship for good quality of life. There’s nothing stopping one of us from leaving, and I feel that this actually raises the stakes in a healthy way. It doesn’t mean that when challenges come up we bail on the other, if anything it makes them less stressful because we know the other clearly has a vested interest in sorting the problem since they could just bail. Of course children would change this dynamic.

Think of it this way: would you be more comfortable in a good job but one which you could be laid off and lose your visa sponsorship and have to upend your life suddenly or scramble for any job, or one in a country where you have the right to live and could find a similar job if you get laid off but take the time to find the right role? If compensation and conditions are similar, I imagine most would prefer the latter.
> Some people lack the self control to use toothpaste regularly. For those people it's beneficial adding flouride to water.

At some point, we can't just replace individual personal responsibility with the State as a solution. This attitude just reeks of infantilization of the total populace just because a certain percentage of them lack such self control.

If you still want to provide support to them, make it targeted towards those individuals in need of such help. Do not drag down the rest of the populace in order to make the lives of a few easier.
Yes.

Intermittently, since yesterday.
Meaningful benchmarks are hard. Having said that, in this particular context it is a good metric to measure the latency for the simplest possible function invocation as that is important for serverless at the edge (and why you put those workers/functions as close as possible to the clients in the first place)
Every chemical imbalance in infants is going to have much greater effects than on adults. They are literally a fraction of our body mass
Our brains are not built to process the distinction between AI and a real self
Don't feel bad. Windows Subsystem for Linux was just a horrible name.

They couldn't even be bothered to put an apostrophe on the end of Windows.
> Shared property from the marriage will get divided up, but that affects women the same as men.

That mainly seems to be an issue in the west and those who follow their way.
I have sensitive teeth, when I drink water or any liquid really, it doesn’t touch my teeth.

I’m more confused by how you would coat your teeth while drinking, do you swish it around in your mouth every sip?
Humans are capable of consuming information that is not from blogs or git so I have no idea what you're trying to convey here
you must be going to some different hn site.

overall i find it balanced. certain topics will draw certain vocal crowd more and then it will look unbalanced.

on the other hand it's really funny to see "modern development practices and patterns" mentioned in a topic about WP.

are you sir one of them expert technologists from tok tik?

i agree that WP is a cautionary tale but one thing they got really well: never do a rewrite from scratch while being the top dog. it must have been hard to resist that siren song and now we'll have WP till the heat death of the universe.
Ah interesting, thanks for the history reasons, I did not know that.
Was going to suggest the same.

You can both then be "CTO" for credit-taking purposes, have your own specialisations, and should anyone ask for references later, it checks out too.
Yeah, ask AOC or Bernie how good is working out to get the country to get some affordable housing/healthcare/etc. It's broken beyond repair, but you keep believing whatever helps you sleep at night.
It's not clear what you mean:

A: Morality is worthless, and we're better off without it, or
B: Morality survives with or without our efforts, so no need to save it, or
C: something else?

Either way, it doesn't seem a tenable position.
"South Korea's decision-making process will revolve around various factors such as the global demand for semiconductors, the need to maintain cordial trade relations with China, the pressure from the US to impose export controls, and the market dynamics of the Korean semiconductor industry"

The fact that Republic of Korea is continuously occupied by US since the 1950's is the most salient unmentionable here
Obviously a little fluoride will be ingested. However it is doubtful that this would increase much the total amount of fluoride that is ingested daily, mainly from the plants that you eat and from the natural water that you drink.

When you brush your teeth with fluoridated paste or you wash your mouth with a fluoride solution and you spit it, most of the fluoride acts against the tooth enamel to harden it and only a little is ingested.

On the other hand, when you drink fluoridated water, only very little of the fluoride acts against the tooth enamel to harden it and most of it is ingested, which will provide no further benefits, but which might have bad effects.

How there is even a discussion about which choice is better, beats me.
You might only eat things that consent to being consumed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism
You are right in most of your points. Today it doesn't exist an API for micro_proof_of_burn. Economic incentives however require a little patience because they need to work their way through the system. 0.0001 BTC is hugely expensive. A blockchain with millionth of a cent transaction, is certainly possible, and it will exist in 2-3 years approximately.

In my calculations, with millionth of a cent per transaction, even paying for torrent blocks (64 KB), not torrent pieces (16KB) will soon become profitable.
This is a very understandable disposition. Not going to criticize.

This trait also naturally removes itself from the gene pool.
> I think Apple started this idea of planned obsolescence and disposability (buy a new phone every year).

iPhones generally get at least 5 years of software updates.

The current iOS 16 will run on an iPhone 8 from 2017.

Batteries do age but it is usually possible to get them replaced.
Well why we don't have a review platform for YouTubers? Because it's free
Do you have a template of your configuration you could share somewhere?
And perhaps more importantly community.