skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughout history there have been hundreds, if not thousands of examples of people and groups who thought the end of the world was imminent. So far, 100% of those people have been wrong. The prior should be that the people who believe in AI doomsday scenarios are wrong also, unless and until there is very strong evidence to the contrary. Vague theoretical arguments are not sufficient, as there are many organizations throughout history who have made similar vague theoretical arguments that the world would end and they were all wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apocalyptic_groups
What numbers are you working off of? The indications I'm seeing are that some rebagged oil maybe getting through to the EU - but not at scale.

It's definitely not simply a matter of moral high ground. Independent of the sympathies they may have for the Ukrainian side -- it is objectively in the cold, pragmatic self-interest of European countries to not let themselves be beholden to as capricious and unstable a supplier as Russia.
> median salary for a developer in Spain is $30,000 a year[1], so 50-80k would easily place them in the upper 10% of the scale.

That's right and wrong and the same time. If we are talking about non-junior positions: Developers in Spain who earn <= $30K/year are not going to apply for positions in American (and non Spanish) companies because they probably don't know they can do so. They are not in the "global" market, they do not read HN, they work either for consultancy companies or agencies (hence the low salaries). They usually don't work for product companies. They may not even speak enough English.

On the other hand, non-junior Spanish Developers who earn more than $30K/year do so because they know their value. They speak good enough English. They work for product companies (either unknown or globally well-known ones) and hence their salaries are higher than the median salary advertised in the link you provided. These developers can earn $80K/year in Spain (either for an Spanish company or remotely for an EU company), so if they decide to work for an American company (and this means usually a) weird working hours because of timezone differences, b) perhaps working as a contractor instead of as an employee), they definitely know that $50K-$80K/year is very low.

So, yeah, for the Spanish developers that American companies can hire, that salary is low.
What is a long term debt cycle?
No need; like I said, I'm all in favour of fighting climate change. I view it as an existential risk to humanity on the ~200 year timescale, and it should be a high priority. I'm particularly concerned about the impacts on ocean chemistry.

But if you're going to suggest that a Statement on AI risk should mention climate change but not AI risk, because it's a "fantasy", then... well, I'd expect some kind of supporting argument? You can't just declare it and make it true, or point to some other important problem to stir up passions and create a false dichotomy.
I think both sentiments can be valid. If OSM really needs those contributions they need to take responsibility for updating the license. But we as a community should encourage companies to give back to the OSS projects they benefit from.
Ask HN: How to handle persistent mis-delivered emails?
I am fortunate enough to have the gmail address that is {given_name_initial}{surname}@gmail.com. However, I am not the only person in the world with this {given_name_initial} {surname}, which has resulted in me getting mis-delivered mail from people all over the world.

If the message is from a real person, I'll reply "hey, you got the wrong guy" (I've been on work email chains, gotten party invites, etc). But sometimes the comes from an automated source that I don't know how to reply but seems pretty important (e.g., purchase receipts, bank summary statements, insurance benefits info).

Obviously, this wouldn't be a problem if organizations did email proper email verification before sending important messages, but they are not. I'd like to stop this annoying pseudo-spam for me, and I'm sure other people would like to get their important missing messages.

A few things that I've tried:

A few times, these mis-delivered messages have provided me a postal address, so I've been able to send an actual letter saying "FYI, you or your bank is using the wrong email. You should probably try to fix that".

Other times, I've tried sending a reply to support addresses, but that usually ends up in a kafka-esque nightmare of explaining that the account for userid "name@gmail.com" should not use the email "name@gmail.com".

So... what's the neighborly good-citizen approach to fixing this?
Your application must feel I/O bound. But in reality it must be syscall bound in order for io_uring to make any noticeable improvement.

In other words: if your application is already writing/reading at the max speed the hardware its on allows, you will see no improvement from this. That application is truly I/O bound.

An application that feels I/O bound will be doing lots and lots of little reads and writes and achieving low hardware utilization. That application is syscall bound rather than I/O bound, and io_uring will help tremendously.
Show HN: If you have over 99 tabs in Firefox mobile, you will get an infinity
I just wanted to show you all it. Thoughts?
My bet is that they’ll lock down more and more registers for reading those values in the first place this is what they’ve done with previous power and frequency related side channel attacks.
Sure it is, especially with long-term (30+years debt) paid at under the rate of inflation. Plus, a lot of that "government debt" is also "government savings" (social security excess must buy t-bonds). The Treasury provides the extremely useful service of being a bank for entities with massive deposits.

It turns out that having a balanced budget is kind of dumb when you're the US government. If people are willing to essentially pay you to give you money (when rates - inflation is negative), you should take that deal.

The persistent debt-ceiling debates are really the only serious risk to the country.
If we did it we would be the first country in history to do so [1]

1. https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/sa_presentations/470...
New images from the Inouye solar telescope
> if Friedrich Nietzsche had been born a narwhal instead of a German philosopher, he would have been much better off, and given his intellectual influence on fascism, so would the world. By extension, the same is true of our whole species. “The planet does not love us as much as we love our intellect,” Gregg writes. “We have generated more death and destruction for life on this planet than any other animal, past and present. Our many intellectual accomplishments are currently on track to produce our own extinction.”

The general point is true, but to assume that Facism wouldn't have been all that it was without Nietzsche is wishful thinking.
Every specific example seems to have some sort of highly technical refutation that has been considered and rehearsed and will get debated in the comments endlessly.

But one thing that seems almost universally true is that there is an incredible amount of uncompensated and undercompensated labor behind every success in this domain.

Which I see as simply a refinement of the overall model of capitalist advancement of technology. But it's very stark in this case, to the point where normal people are able to clearly intuit a wrong, even if they can't articulate it to the satisfaction of the advocates & beneficiaries.
I have a monster of a Linux cluster at home, which is busy running Cassandra and Spark for my other side projects. I'm piggybacking on that while this particular project is still in development.

At the rate LLMs are evolving, a reasonably priced cloud offering will probably exist for me to leverage for production, by the time I need it.
Microsoft has an "Awake" module in their PowerToys app which is inspired by Caffeine
Both really.

And frankly, you can’t run a business meeting the judicial bar required to really he sure, not that the courts are usefully right here either. Did OJ Simpson murder Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman? That depends on which court you ask, and how many asterisks you’re willing to allow on the answers. And that took 10’s to 100’s of millions to get there.

The banks get the ‘privilege’ of being fined for transactions that occurred and were later judged ‘bad’ based on the results of a in-depth, very expensive investigation after the fact that determined they didn’t try to ‘know’ well enough who they were dealing with.

Pretty cozy for regulators. Pretty impossible position for banks.
Correction: you perceive it to be a fallacy when others assign high probabilities to things you believe are low probability. Unfortunately, this cuts both ways. Many people believe your 1% estimate is unreasonably high. Are you therefore promoting a fallacy?

Too many ridiculous arguments can be justified on the backs of probability estimates pulled from nether regions.
> If the risk were real, these folks would be asking the US government to nationalize their companies or bring them under the same kind of control as nukes and related technologies

Isn’t this to some degree exactly what all of these warnings about risk are leading to?

And unlike nuclear weapons, there are massive monetary incentives that are directly at odds with behaving safely, and use cases that involve more than ending life on earth.

It seems problematic to conclude there is no real risk purely on the basis of how software companies act.
The idea is that if you build a system that poses an existential risk you want to be reasonably sure it's safe before you turn it on, not afterwards. It would have been irresponsible for the scientists at Los Alamost to do the math on whether an atomic explosion would create a sustained fusion reaction in the atmosphere until after their first test, for example.

I don't think it's possible for a large language model, operating in a conventional feed forward way, to really pose a significant danger. But I do think it's hard to say exactly what advances could lead to a dangerous intelligence and with the current state of the art it looks to me at least like we might very well be only one breakthrough away from that. Hence the calls for prudence.

The scientists creating the atomic bomb knew a lot more about what they were doing than we do. Their computations sometimes gave the wrong result, see Castle Bravo, but had a good framework for understanding everything that was happening. We're more like cavemen who've learned to reliably make fire but still don't understand it. Why can current versions of GPT reliably add large numbers together when previous versions couldn't? We're still a very long way away from being able to answer questions like that.
Frivolous would suggest the decision is not weighty. Religious schooling is considered very important to many people. It may not be the choice you or I would make, but I have a hard time imagining it as a casual choice.
For an example of C using this in real life open a .xpm file in a text editor. There are many implementations of a C tool that converts a binary file into a .h.

And yes, it is dumb that we have to do tricks like this in 2023.
If OSM doesn't want this to happen then OSM can use different license terms.
> I really believe this social aspect of reachability of people (friends, haters or some people on internet you follow) is crucial. It's not about apps or a screen time, it's about social connection (even ephemeral) that gives this gratification and makes our brains summoning the apps.

I think this is a bug, not a feature. The mobile phone is to sociality as cocaine is to dopamine. It's super-charged, it's way out of our ancestral environment, and we don't see it as harmful only because we don't have the research yet. But we will.
We already saw that kind of headline for coal in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64879044

And Costa Rica gets about 300 days a year without fossil fuel electricity, about 98% total for the year:

https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/costa-rica-exceeds-98-ren...
The most common point is that they're safe to share between threads making parallel algorithms easier to invent, understand, and implement correctly.

You can also safely re-use sub-structures without performing a deep copy. For example, if you want to keep a sub-tree around for later you can do that in O(1) time because it's safe to keep a reference to it. If it is a mutable tree you don't know what's going to happen to it so you need to do a deep copy of the entire sub-tree you're holding on to. This can save a lot on memory allocation and copying depending on your use case.
I don't disagree that the person feels that this makes sense for them, but I am not confusing how this person feels with what they ought to be doing.

At the limit case (and withdrawing from your 401k to support your 6 children going to private school is definitely a limit case), you can absolutely reason about what 'makes sense' and this simply is not it.
Human rights are not political unless you're trying to reduce them. Mozilla justifiably did not want to work with someone who opposes certain human rights (including those of other employees), and that shouldn't be controversial or political.
> Ninety-eight percent of drivers who try Lyft’s maps stick with them — rather than switching to Google, Apple, Waze, or any other app.

I find this surprising because my personal experience is the exact opposite. At least in NYC, drivers use the Lyft (or Uber) app for managing riders but use a dedicated mapping application for navigating to the destination once you're picked up.
UPDATE: I have just submitted a bug bounty request

That would really help my career and life if I get that!

I won’t do anything with the accounts I accidentally have access to
>I raided the retirement accounts to buy a home.

Buying home at the current prices does not sound wise to me. Even if you expect for printing press to go brrr again, it's likely that before that we will see substantial decline in asset prices.
It will be interesting to see how the Warhol ruling plays out in this space.
It's generally a prudent idea to do just that, and buy a Toyota.
Very Dunning-Kruger post right here.
> If the risks were real they would just outright stop working on their AI products. This is nothing more than a PR statement

This statement contains a bunch of hidden assumptions:

1. That they believe their stopping will address the problem.
2. That they believe the only choice is whether or not to stop.
3. That they don't think it's possible to make AI safe through sufficient regulation.
4. That they don't see benefits to pursuing AI that could outweigh risks.

If they believe any of these things, then they could believe the risks were real and also not believe that stopping was the right answer.

And it doesn't depend on whether any of these beliefs are true: it's sufficient for them to simply believe one of them and the assumptions your statement depends on break down.
How is Brex doing in the private markets?
Brex, after the collapse of SVB is looking to be the next most important financial institution for startups, but the competition is heating up- looking at you Ramp & Mercury.
Big corps that use OSM are actually contributing a lot back into OSM by actually fixing data issues. I have seen that first-hand; at a Corp that was using OSM, they had a big team doing just that the whole working day. Just fixing issues in OSM that the customer have reported.

I think they in the end decided to fork OSM and make it proprietary to keep the data in-house; but I might be wrong. I was not there anymore.

edit: maybe I am wrong. It was Grab, "uber for Asia". They still edit OSM it seems...

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Grab#Grab_Data_Team

edit2: the users seem to be inactive now, so maybe I was right. I don't know.

edit3: when I look at the corporate members, lots of them seem to be taxi companies. I guess it makes sense. I see Gojek, Grab and Bolt.

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members
If it leads to your kids into an upper echelon college like Harvard, which then sets up their trajectory for a very lucrative career, it seems entirely sane to me. The lifetime earning potential of a Harvard grad and chance of being the President is so much higher than someone who dropped out and maybe managed to get a GED later on in lift that it's not even funny.
That at least has some economic justification; Tokyo-Sapporo is one of the busiest air routes in the world, and more trains means free slots at chronically congested Haneda.

Wasteful Big Infrastructure would more be doubling down on the seawalls that did not work in 2011 in Tohoku; in some cases those seawalls actively made things worse.
I've seen $15k up to ~$50k /yr (non-boarding—I've seen boarding as high as $70k)

The ~$15k ones tend to be Catholic or otherwise religious, and quality varies from "worse than the local public schools, actually" up to "notably better than the local public schools, though not as good as a really good private school".

Some cheap secular schools are only a little more expensive than the bottom end of the religious ones, but they don't tend to be much better than average public-school quality (nb. that may still be a lot better than some particular public school district)
Tumblr. It's much more "empty" and full of niche communities. It'll also add support for ActivityPub so it'll be a decent way to hook into Mastodon servers as well. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-prot...
Assume the earth is a perfectly smooth sphere with a constant force of gravity and there is no air resistance:

Throw a ball parallel to the ground. Now throw it faster. It will land farther away than last time, right? Keep throwing it faster and faster and the ball will keep landing further and further away from you. Eventually, you throw it so fast that the ball flys through the air, all the way around the earth and lands back at your feet from behind you. You've just completed a single orbit around the earth. Keep throwing it faster and faster until the ball flies past you forever without touching the ground. This is a little hard to imagine because this speed is tremendous and something no one can really experience on earth.

The ball is constantly falling away from that direction you threw it originally due to gravity. Gravity is always acting on the ball and is always acting on any satellite in space as well. Gravity doesn't change that much for how high satellites fly. However the speed of the ball is just so such that it will never change from the height you originally threw it from.

Catch the ball out of the air and throw it just a little faster this time. The ball will still orbit but will pass over your head this time. The speed of the ball dictates the orbit altitude. Mass also factors in as well but not much for something so small. Grab it out of the air and keep throwing it faster and faster and eventually, the speed is able to overcome gravity and the ball leaves Earth's gravity entirely.

In Low Earth Orbit, there is just enough atmosphere to provide some minor air resistance that will actually slow down that ball you threw. As the ball slows, the orbit altitude decreases. As the altitude decreases, the atmosphere gets thicker and air resistance increases which makes the ball slow even more. It gets so slow that it can't maintain an orbit any more so it lands on the surface. If you attach a small rocket engine to the back of the ball, you can occasionally turn it on to maintain the exact speed you need for that orbit. If you use the rocket engine to make the ball go faster, you can raise the orbit. Rotate the ball 180deg and now you can use the rocket engine to slow the ball to lower the orbit.

Astronauts in space constantly have gravity on them but they are moving at such high speeds that gravity is not able to change their altitude. They are always "falling" just like the ball but never land. They float around inside their spacecraft because those too are falling constantly.
> I will take your farm by force because no one will be around to stop me.

Ah, you hit on it. That is the attitude! Problem is everyone has that entitlement. Trillions and trillions of claims.
We all have different things we worry about. My family and old friends have heard me talking about AI for 40 years. When asked about dangers of AI, I only talk about humans using AI to fake interactions with people at scale without divulging the identity as an AI, fake political videos, and individualized ‘programming’ of the public by feeding them personal propaganda and sales pitches.

I never talk about, or worry about, the ‘killer robot’ or AIs taking over infrastructure scenarios. I hope I am not wrong about these types of dangers.
In the secondary markets, the stocks are also in demand, but due to the mix of dilution and increase in supply for the stock, the price has constantly fallen from ~$44 to ~$19 from September 2021 to April 2023.
I think making a git branch which has auto-merging (but only if not conflicting with the upstream) is more time consuming than just making a branch at the current state.

More likely this involves some kind of release engineering; anyone who has worked on large projects will tell you that it's not an effort to take lightly.

Personally I feel like this fork is not really serious, but the issue might be that it either becomes serious or Rust's leadership will not change course.

So, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and quietly hope that I will never need to use crablang.
Is Your Jeanneret a Fake? (2019)
What is "systemic racism"? How is it a risk?

Don't bother explaining, we already know it's unfalfisiable.
Not taking steps to decrease Europe’s reliance on Russia fossil fuels in the years after Putin took power was immensely idiotic. Both politically and economically.

At this point there was no non-painful way to do this.
https://archive.ph/5eAqb
Agreed. I have no respect for the concern trolling about whatever hypothetical damage this supposedly does. If the Rust 'community' is so fragile that this toy fork is an actual problem then there is something fundamentally broken about Rust and its community.
State Farm stops new home insurance sales in California as wildfire risks grow
I'm not here to judge em, but it doesn't sound very close-knit family. I'm out of touch with most of all my families, and I'm not particularly sad about most of em either. I'm sad about who some of them used to be, but I'm not at all concerned about not being in touch with who they are.
Surprisingly, I know a great song about this!

Unexpected, I know. But https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFufOGZBwFM try that for size. Isn't it beautiful?

The well paced blips of the factory ships
Slide past our orbit's brink
Like a swarm of bees in the girder trees
Come to our flowers to drink

And the earth is clean as a springtime dream
No factory smokes appear
For they've left the land to the gardener's hand
And they all are circling here
I think GP is saying they expect Lyft respond to complaints or things to change by fixing them in their internal OSM database, but maybe not propagate those changes back to canonical OSM for everyone else to enjoy.
Who wants to build a black market AI?

Evidence points that this technology is going to become cheap, fast. There is an existential risk to the very notion of search as a business model, within the next ~5 years we are almost certain to have an app which is under 20 GB in size and has an effective index of the useful/knowledgable portion of the internet and is able to run on most laptops/phones.

At best, regulating this will be like trying to regulate torrents in the 2000s, building a bespoke/crappy AI will be the new "learn HTML" for high school kids.
Planck is a stand-alone ClojureScript REPL for macOS and Linux
Shielding your files with Reed-Solomon codes