skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now denied by United States Air Force (USAF):

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone "killed" its operator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36168035 - 1 hour ago
excellent -- thanks a lot!
I wouldn't say software quality has gone downhill. Software has gotten better in some metrics and worse in others, and there has always been crap software. Has software gotten less efficient? Yes, obviously. But it's also gotten much more stable and far less buggy, and the way we write software has made even the worst code much more pleasant to handle.

Most public code from 50 years ago is the good stuff, like Unix. Well the stuff you don't know about is the bad stuff. There was a lot of it and even in your nightmares you couldn't imagine the kind of horrors in the average software than ran on big irons. You scoff at the idea of self-modifying code, who does that? Obviously a bad idea. You better get used to it quick, because self-modifying code is the de-facto standard and the absolute least of your worries. 4k line long undocumented subroutines written in undocumented languages which abuse hardware errors that were only known to the programmer. Said hardware errors were forgotten 1 week later, because some other code written afterwards doesn't even work because of the same hardware issue. Side channel attacks as a feature. Static data reutilized as swizzled instructions which modify that static data. Spaghetti code generating spaghetti code. Just genuinely terrible COBOL code that's probably still running today.

Efficient? Only sometimes. Possible to work with? Absolutely not. If we wrote code like we did back then, it would be common practice to generate and dump new microcode to your CPU thousands of times a minute. And no, in this scenario microcode is not any more portable, nor is it documented. You'd see shit like programming that uses MMU faults and stack semantics to implement garbage collection with minimal code. Breaking into the IME to use it as a thread supervisor instead of wasting actual CPU resources on one. Superscalar timing quirks intentionally utilized to eventually feed information downstream to a hand-rolled userspace scheduler that cannot be described even in the fringes of academic theory. It just came to the programmer in a dream. God knows what other "Not For End User Usage" obscure hardware features would get appropriated and abused to hell and back. I don't even want to think about what people would do to GPUs.
try `chat G P T`
I actually like that.

But I may have been a bit unclear about my mapping of computer and biology terminology to this question.

I tend to think of a computer programs as being mathematical machines, and proteins as being molecular/chemical machines. Motor proteins "walking" along microtubules is the most vivid example of this.

I'm sort of torn between both worlds here, honestly. I like both perspectives. Viruses especially have a very quinish quality to them in that they're stripped down to just enough stuff to get a host cell to make more viruses.
> You can sell an iOS exploit for more

If you could sell it for more, but it seems you can't sell it for more.

This implies a large supply of zero-days competing with each other on price.
We will disclose more details very soon.
Fond memories of watching that at <redacted prominent comic book author>'s house before going on the piss in Glasgow one night.

It's some quite arresting imagery. You're definitely going to watch it if it's on.
> what would you consider to be sufficient proof that AGI is impossible?

This is trivially easy? People used to believe FTL was possible. Then our understanding of physics changed and we now understand it is an impossible limit to pass.

Would you say people who believed FTL was possible before physics research showed it to be impossible were believing something "religious" and "unfalsifiable" ? Please, they believed something totally within respectable epistemic parameters given what they knew at the time. In fact, the speed of light as an upper limit to speed seems very counterintuitive and "silly" at first glance. Why should a limit exist?

Sure, it might well be some fact about intelligence that we wont be able to get to AGI ever just by throwing more compute and layers at it for the next few decades or any time soon given current technology.

But nobody has come up with a slam-dunk, with empirical backing, that indeed there is some limit and we won't ever get AGI despite current trends. In fact, the opposite has happened and people like Geoffrey Hinton who used to believe AI risk is fanciful and AGI is a long time away has changed his mind, given current trends. We don't have research giving us that FTL limit, so why believe the limit exists? Why do you believe the limit exists? Or do you believe the probability is so low that we shouldn't worry? Ok, what probability do you place on AGI being created in the next 100 years and what would you have to see such that your probability crosses some threshold that it makes sense to worry about it?

(PS: If aliens suddenly arrive and they have completely alien psychologies such that when we discuss our relative intelligences it makes sense to talk about it in kind and not degree, I really don't think anyone is going to care about this distinction. What's important is how well can these aliens achieve their goals relative to us. And if they can achieve any goal of theirs that comes in conflict with our goals then we can reasonably say that are more intelligent than us)
> If I put low range I might loose opportunity to talk to people above the range.

> I can pay whatever I want inside budget assigned and build a smaller team of seniors or larger swarm of juniors depending on many factors.

You could also announce two positions (one senior, one junior), with two different ranges.
Because, like guns, it's obvious that the despite the fact that the actor _should_ be responsible, the consequences for failure to do so fall on everyone else.

If my car has been destroyed by the driver behind me because they were looking at their phone, it's little consolation that they shouldn't have.
If I understand what you want correctly, you'd like to be able to hit a chord that opens rofi, type (say) "python typing", hit ENTER and have your system unite you and the browser tab whose title was the best fuzzy match for what you typed.

I agree that'd be great. I don't have that solution for you, but I can describe the workaround I've been using in my environment.

I use dmenu to switch between i3 workspaces by name [0]. Probably 80% of my workspaces contain a single browser window with multiple tabs (i.e. I'm currently on workspace "hn" which contains one Firefox window with 17 hackernews-or-hn-adjacent tabs).

My flow:

- With the browser window in my current workspace active

- I hit CTL+L (to focus the address bar)

- I type "%python typing" (in Firefox, the % prefix makes the query fuzzy match open tab titles across all browser windows)

- Select the tab title I want from the results and hit ENTER (surfaces the tab in its window and causes that tab's window to assign itself the X11 "urgent" flag)

- Read the 2-letter workspace name that is now highlighted in red at the bottom of my screen (i3 highlighted it because it contains a window with the "urgent" flag)

- Hit SUPER+C (to open dmenu with my workspace names)

- Type the 2-letter workspace name and hit ENTER (to switch to that workspace, where the tab is surfaced and waiting for me)

I do use rofi as my application launcher, though, and you're making me curious if it's possible to exfiltrate tab titles from Firefox. It'd be pretty slick to cut back from two chords+queries to one.

0: Reddit post I made a while back describing my setup, includes a video https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/udd0zg/i3gaps_flu...
This recent submission seems tailor-made for you:

"My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35955336
The irony here is surreal.

Here is a tech company that literally renamed and restructured themself to pursue (among other things) remote work... who are now saying work from home is too inefficient for them.
Whats the minimum volume of units do you think is necessary to get them interested?
>But in 17 years time, we will need to increase copper production to 150% to 200% of its current value, ie go from 28M tons/year to ~50M tons/year.

Demand elasticity is a funny thing. Some applications, like turbines, really need copper. Others, like the wiring of a house, can in principle get away with aluminum just fine. Currently, houses are built with copper wiring because the thermal expansion of aluminum requires some additional engineering complexity to achieve fire safety. But it's hard to project copper 'needs' when we use so much of it out of 'convenience'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_building_wiring
But hdfs is now the backend storage for all Apache Spark systems.
Almost as if they were flailing.
> You definitely don't speak for us all, whatever the case.

Yeah OP doesn't speak for me either. While this might not be implemented in the best way, Canadian culture is a real thing, but only because we are active in trying to protect it.

And it goes double for French Canadian culture! I don't want my province to become another Louisiana, i.e.: a once French speaking region that is now nearly 100% anglophone, but hey there's this great French influence!

Also FB puts news orgs in a bind because in order to compete, they need to give their content away for free on Facebook.

This has put the squeeze on an industry that was already bleeding money from all the ads moving online.

Because we are a small news market, this has been especially damaging to our journalism industry. If we lose it then it will be foreigners telling us what the 'facts' are in our own country, no thanks.
The homeless industrial grift marches on.
High level, statistically speaking, there's a lot of evidence that homelessness correlates with housing prices. What's remarkable is how mad people get about the pretty self-explanatory notion that as a thing increases in costs, fewer people can afford it. They want to blame drugs or mental health or something. And while those do play a part for many people, the price of housing is what looms over it all:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...

Spending money to try and do something about homelessness at the same time the housing market is like a big factory that produces more homelessness via rising prices... I won't say it's useless, because it does help some people, but it's a losing fight. The housing market is bigger than the amount of assistance that can be brought to bear.
English is the PHP of natural languages — random bits of every other language duct-taped together with no sense of consistency or style
>but that's rarely about lack of money

Yes, it is the lack of action. People are selfish. End of story. We have the tech and knowledge to fix it all, but burning a ton of kerosene to travel to the other side of the world for 2 a weeks vacation is more desirable.
This is a good move considering we don’t have universal basic income to sustain all the displaced drivers from full automation. Better to use this technology to supplement drivers as opposed to replacing them
You are arguing with a point I'm not making, I think. Have a nice day.
I think, the OS is supposed to do something to improve the accuracy of small movements, while letting you whip across the desktop without using a lot of room on the physical desk.

I often do screenshot edits where I'm doing a rectangular select with pixel precision. It's not easy to click without it moving off by a pixel, but I manage.

The mouse itself is a factor! There is a difference!

I didn't pay attention to this this before, but I'm doing a direct A/B comparison. I plugged an old Dell wired mouse into the laptop, using it side-by-side with the tiny Logi M187.

The M187 covers the entire width of the desktop in about 1/3rd of the physical movement compared to the old Dell wired mouse. I don't even have to rotate the palm of the hand; if I just move it left and right with movements of the thumb and ring finger, it covers the desktop.

However, I can still cover the desktop on the Dell without lifting my wrist. The movement is larger; I hate it. :)

The mouse settings in effect must be the same for both; there are no independent mouse settings per device.
Doctors used to smoke cigarettes.
The general fund could pay per click just as easily. The situation as it stands is that the customers aren't willing to pay to click and read. The social media sites aren't willing to pay per click either.
There is nothing about CRT activists in the link you posted, and if anything the "tag" criteria seem to favour children of alumni and people from well-connected, wealthy backgrounds.
Ok, that makes more sense.

I'm saying that with what we know now, it's clear we could have made different choices that would have worked out better for us earlier in industry.

You're saying that the information at the time made it impossible to correctly make the optimal choice. (By that I mean, making the optimal choice would have appeared to be the wrong choice, based on information available.)

I don't agree with your point; I think we knew that burning carbon was going to change the atmosphere for the worse and we could have been more careful by simply burning less carbon. However, I concede that it's unknowable what science and technology would look like if we had done that.

In analogy to AI, that is very much a point of conversation in alignment/safety discussions. Should we wait until we have better tools to figure out alignment, since it's so insanely difficult to figure out now? Frankly, nobody knows for sure the answer to that question either. My contention is that you (and others) are assuming the answer to that question is yes, but that's not necessarily correct, even based on all the information and analogies we have now.
Interesting, I wonder what the mechanism of action could be. Over-exposure to blue light is potentially related to macular degeneration, if blue light causes axial elongation (getting more nearsighted, eye getting more football shaped) that could potentially be related, since more nearsighted eyes are at higher risk for macula issues. There have also been links to red light use on the macula improving macular health, but not axial changes.

I also wonder, but it seems less likely, if the effect is related to defocusing of the eye, from intentionally not being in front of a screen for 3 minutes. Holding things close to the face, including computer, phone, and book use, causes nearsightnedness from emmetropization (NOT from muscle use, muscle strain has nothing to do with vision issues).
One of the first things I do at every job is setup outlook rules to auto forward all those Atlassian, slack, etc auto generated emails to respective folders. I never look at them, it's never a problem. It's amazing the huge effect that reducing the information overload has on one's day to day sanity.
There's a new Ubuntu Linux desktop on its way
wrong topic / hn thread?
I did once and I liked where I ended up.
There wasn’t much that worked well especially back then. CGRP blockers are a new thing. Some of that time was college and they don’t really do good healthcare for students. Much of the rest was unemployed and no healthcare. Then there’s the doctors/neuros who told me men don’t get migraines.

Have you tried ginger? Maybe triphala (amla, ginger, and turmeric powder altogether). Ginger supposedly acts as a cgrp blocker for migraines, and just generally lowering inflammation might make stuff less apt to being triggered. Tinnitus does sound like quite the curse though.

I’ve also wondered whether the active noise cancelling headphones help? Just being used to block noise and not play anything back. The real question there is whether quiet actively helps or hurts the condition. Though it feels a little like a pressure turning on when my ANCs activate and I’ve wondered how that’d interact with tinnitus.

Otherwise I’d probably default to making a painfully tedious diary of my days and log any/all tinnitus events. I’d include noises, foods, time of day, weather, anything/everything. That’d be looking for environmental or similar factors/triggers. Though it’s a hair in your ear drum or something like that and honestly tough to imagine what would help.
I've had a similarly strange interview. Didn't take but one day, and I got a free flight and saw some friends. But yea, sometimes communication breaks down within and between departments.

No biggie. You probably dodged a bullet.
That's why the need to hype AI. Since, it' sounds like the game market is kind of drying up.
VC's put "early investor in Google and Uber" on their bio, not "passed on Series A Facebook because MySpace has already won the social media war, then begged to be in the last funding round before the float".
> If answers are good, keep them. If they're bad, downvote them. If they're redundant or off-topic or gibberish, delete them.

In practice this isn't possible. Lots of accepted answers are bad. Often for subtle reasons! An answer with a SQL injection vulnerability might get plenty of upvotes and be accepted, but it's objectively bad (even if it answers the question).

The problem is that there is no AI that's accurately fixing answers. AI only generates mediocre answers, it doesn't have the capacity to moderate mediocre answers. Humans simply can't keep up, or don't have the acumen to pick up on the subtle inaccuracies in accepted-but-bad answers (after all, that's often why they're looking for the answer).

Even with protections like rate limiting, I'm not sure you could prevent the majority of the damage that crappy AI can accomplish. Simply paying (pennies) for proxy servers with residential IPs gets around much of that, anyway.
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I can see that you're not in California, so I feel like I should reiterate that drugs are a massive problem among our homeless population here. It is something that needs consideration when trying to help them. The main problem with just giving people $1,000/mo is that it is nowhere near enough to get off the street, but more than enough to continue fueling a drug problem.
And what does "economic impact" means? A bunch of people burning jet fuel to get there and spend some hours looking at it? Why not working towards helping other people?
The point of the comment you're responding to is that the US isn't leading in acceleration (second derivative), but instead in change of rate of acceleration (third derivative) of approving new plants.

So, while it is better than nothing, the situation is still much worse than other classes of terrible news would be.

For example, if our expansion of lithium production was being outpaced by China at a constant 2:1 ratio, that would mean we had solved the second derivative, and (if you count growth rate by percentage of current footprint) also the first derivative problem.
Laravel's Eloquent does upserts no problem. Please actually do some research.
I'm hoping some RISC-V system developer will take the opportunity not to embed a mess like the Intel ME.
You can absolutely find a bedroom for 1000/m, but you're going to have to interact with people.

Check how long those apartments have been listed for, some of them have been listed for a year. If it's an actual competitive price it will get rented immediately.

There are shared housing groups on facebook that will reflect the situation more accurately.
I disagree with this advice, too. Most people have no formal training in this. That doesn't mean they shouldn't invest. Gatekeeping investments is also an issue contributing to the systemic class immobility in the US, but I supposed that's another issue.

In the same way, my dad isn't an expert in buying or using computers. This doesn't mean he shouldn't buy one, or wouldn't get use out of one. He knows he can ask me for advice or give me a budget and I'll just take care of it for him.
Any idea how hippo, AI Template and TVM compare in performance?
Who's teaching them?
So it was worth your time to reply twice, but not to explain anything?
They mean the office in the Metaverse, right?
I recently found out (and was quite surprised) that certain HP models also have an option in the UEFI to disable Intel ME.

I posted some pictures of it and pictures of the Intel tool confirming it can't connect with ME when disabled:

https://mastodon.social/@JasperSiepkes/110221669827027710
There is a deep liability tradeoff structure all up and down the joint stock corporate structure that has co-evolved with the legal apparatus that regulates it. Shareholders are in a symbiotic liability laundering relationship with executives, who are in a symbiotic liability laundering relationship with middle management who etc with actual workers who etc with customers.
Beautiful... but no undo?

There's "Reset all changes" but Cmd-Z and Ctrl-Z do nothing. Is there a way to undo the last action?

Undo is essential functionality, IMO.
Nvidia took a big gamble with CUDA and it took years and ton of investment to get there. Jensen Huang talks about it on commencement speech he did in Taiwan recently here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi89u6q0_AY It's a big moat to cross.
Ah, the Georgism fans. Thinking that every single problem in the world can be solved via a land value tax.

It is actually one of the few groups I've found that are worse than the socialist class reductionists, who think that every problem exists "because capitalism".

Yes, a land value tax can be a useful policy. But it simply has little relevance to the topic of people who are homeless because of mental issues.

And you bringing up georgism demonstrates a lack of engagement on the issue, and instead an attempt to shoe horn in your favorite ideology into any possible issue.
Yeah you can just go talk to them to find out where your local homeless are coming from.
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I know very well what FUD stands for.. and there’s nothing factual in whatever links up there, it’s all allegations with no proof that resulted in a government ban

>There's no evidence that they have any back-doors in their software or any ties to the Russian mafia or state...

It’s just to happen that an NSA spy contractor was detected by an anti virus software that’s basically doing its job.

All AV software are technically malware to prevent other malwares, and old AV -including kaspresky, used to operate in an offline manner unless you update the local db, then things evolved to the need to have a cloud service to upload and analyze new suspicious files, in fact, the new ones -EDR- do more intensive tasks than AV by real time monitoring what the user does, analyzing the traffic, programs opened, forensics, and data collection for further analysis and immediately uploaded to the cloud (or the MDR), that’s part of its design, banning something because it did its job detecting a spy software IS a complete FUD only to happen that the business is in X country or an allegation that its CEO or founder worked in X.

If you are serious about security, using windows to start with shouldn’t be your first choice, but if you have no options in here and you have to use an AV, would you choose an AV made in the same country you are in (or in the same intelligence alliance like the 5 eyes/14 eyes), or would you choose an external one how you usually do with a VPN for example? At the end of the day, AV or even EDR it’s just another software that can be bypassed, exploited, and even targeted with zero day attacks, so base your personal policy about these facts and not outsourcing yours to NSA or some spy agency.
Quick read link: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23733592/frore-airjet-zot...
It also doesn't use Apple GPUs at all. Its 100% CPU inference, with some CUDA/OpenCL (but no metal and no zero-copy) offload at the moment.
Really good. Came in handy for reading my liver biopsy novella!
I learned today the hippos sweat is pink
Is this another stealthy way to do layoffs?