skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a fair comparison. Frankly the Nazis are overrated.

Nazis: ~6 million

Soviet Union: ~20 million

China Cultural Revolution: ~30 million

Though the Soviet Union and China ones were more of a result of incredibly bad economic policies. The Soviets still killed ~1-2 million in Gulags directly.

Let’s also not forget the Japanese genocides against China. Nanjing, Unit 731…

There also is, of course, more recent ones that are little known. Cambodia took over a million and Rwanda close to that.
In the first edition of The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society (from Wiener), you read:

> the purpose of this book is both to explain the potentialities of the machine in fields which up to now have been taken to be purely human, and to warn against the dangers of a purely selfish exploitation of these possibilities in a world in which to human beings human things are all-important

which sounds more contentful than the submitted piece: it does not yet contain arguments, but at least it reveals a positive non-trivial direction.

The value of the submitted piece is mostly in linking to the article "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation" - https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/moral.pdf

(Plus the quoted idea that «Complete subservience and complete intelligence do not go together».)

Discussion should be upon this material (at least). That "technology is risky" (not that the article is at this level of generality, but it is close), joked Jürgen Schmidhuber, is as old as the discovery of fire.
You're missing what DevOps is - close personal collaboration between development and operational teams to further delivery goals.
I'd say it is perfectly functional. Far from perfect in terms of design.

There have been minor improvements over the years, but just like other products with a long history, change becomes ever more expensive.
Can't disagree with the physics god
> they make all our shit

Looking at it from their point of view, I bet they view their ocean ports as (at least in the short run?) the only reasonable way to export all that shit.

(US and Soviet vessels used to actually make contact during the cold war; afaik the USN calls it "shouldering")
Actors buying electric cars typically do so to appear fashionable or environmentally conscious. The exception would be the legitimate car enthusiasts/gear heads/petrol heads who buy electric cars because of their engineering possibilities.

(Or Londoners like the author of The Guardian piece who can avoid the congestion charge by driving an EV or hybrid.)
With a trillion dollars you can buy all sorts of scrappy origin stories.
No worse than the majority of dads then.

Joking aside, this is actually important. Boys have fewer and fewer role models in society, so having a dad around will make a difference.

I know it's not PC, but biology doesn't care about the current trend of pretending genetics and evolution aren't a thing.
Tuba: Replacing IP with CLNP [pdf]
And if they had instead chosen free market capitalism instead of communism they would have had all that and much more without the enormous human sacrifice. Do you know of anyone who would try to run from the west to the eastern block countries behind the iron curtain? What you are saying is basically the same argument used to argue Nazism was great because it brought the 'autobahn' and the 'Volkswagen' to the common people.
When done right, the dev team IS the ops team.
It doesn't. This scheme uses a membrane like the electrostatic speakers, but otherwise it is quite different. In the electrostatic speakers, you load the membrane with extra electrons and then use electro-magnets to apply a varying electric field across the membrane in accordance with your sound signal. Since the membrane has much more electrons than protons, the electric field causes the membrane to move. This method requires magnets.

The system in the article does not use magnets. What they do is they make a membrane that moves when a voltage is applied between its top and bottom surfaces. Thus, the membrane can probably be referred to as being piezoelectric, although the article does not use that term. In this case you can apply the sound signal directly to the membrane and make it move, and when it moves it creates sound. Thus, this system does not require any magnets.

The lack of magnets will make it much lighter. Also, the fact that you are applying the signal directly to the thing making the sound may result in better sound quality.
Matthew Broderick’s AI thriller is still so great, 40 years later
Related to your link is also the Bretton Woods II agreement which got us off the gold standard completely.
I agree that there's a lot of value in civics as you call it. I'm not saying it should be cut out.

But if it weren't for leaders, salespeople, and STEM, we'd still be throwing rocks at sabre-tooth tigers; naked, hungry, sick, and hoping for the best.

Nearly every good thing in our world exists because we invented it, or invented a way to use a natural thing. Everything in home ec and all of bookkeeping were created and spread by prime movers.

The past few centuries of economic growth were ushered in by the industrial revolution, a staggering increase in global wealth culminating with people so rich that they have time to question the value of STEM, and with so few problems that they think what we're living through right now qualifies as a political crisis.
What are the odds those 25 years will be healthy? Or will it be 10+ of those years with memory problems, walkers, dementia, or Alzheimer's?
Attention is all you need had no code or model and still led somewhere.
SSH auth is way more convenient than telnet’s username/password. That alone’s enough for me to prefer SSH to telnet.
I hope that you like it!
I'm building his SAP-1 8-bit computer, it's an amazing experience.
> The context it's usually used in (including here) suggests homelessness is because people were gainfully employed and renting in SF before being kicked because of greedy landlords

No, that isn’t the context here. When I wrote this here, and when I put this figure on a Muni bus ad for Street Sheet’s ad campaign in 2015, I was responding to the often-repeated false assertion that SF is “a dumping ground” for unhoused people, that people “come here to be homeless”, that “other cities send their homeless here”, etc etc etc.

Claiming that “housed in San Francisco before becoming unhoused” should only include “productive” people who were paying their own rent with their name on the lease is moving the goal posts by an entire football field.

Cities are full of poor people. They ought to be — cities are great places to find opportunities to get out of poverty. And lots of people, self included, show up in cities with no money or plan, and crash on couches, in hotel rooms, in their cars, etc, until they land on their feet.

San Francisco has always been a place where people have done this. We didn’t have large-scale homelessness here until the second half of the 80s, after federal public housing was gutted and especially after the Loma Prieta quake wiped out a lot of affordable housing.

If cities don’t make room for poor people, those people will end up on the street. People try to make this more complicated than it is, but every serious study on this lands in the same place, every time — just provide housing.
There may exist another non-obvious disturbance.
Imagine a world where every employee not only had the sort of sick-cover nice white collar jobs in software get, but got paid sufficiently well they could afford to put their kids through college and had enough left over that they coukd walk out of any job confident that they could take months to find the next one.

Imagine a world where business had to really actually compete for workers.

Wonder what that world would look like?
Git stores snapshots. If you want an alternate calculation of diffs git doesn't stand in your way.
https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora/issues/199
I would get mad over this stuff 10 years ago but it feels a bit strange to complain about libreoffice`s broken ux in 2023.

People who claim libreoffice can replace office remind me a bit of people who claim gimp can replace photoshop, or inkscape could replace illustrator. Laughable
Really, the pancakes are none the worse for Nvidia having started there...
Personally I think Cortana is a better name than Windows Copilot because it can be used more generally and isn't generic. The name was like Alexa or Siri. Plus the Halo connection was cool.
You can not have "Government by the people, for the people" when you allow some people to keep secrets from other people under the guise of "national security"

Self governance is incompatible with states secrets, and only leads to abuse, corruption, and tyranny.

History is full of known abuses, and for every known abuse there is the potential for LOTS of unknown abuse.

One can say "well congress will hold them accountable" but along time ago congress passed a law to declassify everything around JFK assassination, yet multiple presidents after bring pressured by the CIA for "national security reasons" have refused to release all kinds of document in direct violation of that law.

the CIA, any other agency with the power to "classify" things, is a direct and ever present threat to not only liberty but the underpinning of democracy everyone claims to support.
> Do chips just ship from the factory with this data, or is it not needed anymore.

While the general orbits of the satellites (each is uniquely identifiable) can be pre-shipped, orbits do fluctuate, so the data would still need to be updated / fine tuned.

> The receiver is missing or has inaccurate estimates of its position, velocity, the time, or the visibility of any of the GPS satellites. As such, the receiver must systematically search for all possible satellites. After acquiring a satellite signal, the receiver can begin to obtain approximate information on all the other satellites, called the almanac. This almanac is transmitted repeatedly over 12.5 minutes. Almanac data can be received from any of the GPS satellites and is considered valid for up to 180 days.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_first_fix

But a general fix can do done without any initial data, and is sped up by being near the previous last fix and caching some data.
Discarding assisted GPS where GPS data messages are obtained through about channel such as cellular or Wifi...

Almanac gives coarse satellite position information (and some other stuff), good enough to know which ones are probably visible and therefore prioritize signal acquisition attempts which used to be very very costly in terms of signal processing. That's the message that takes up 12.5 minutes to piece together. Nowadays you can just brute force all possible satellite signals and there's no need to wait around for the almanac information. Each satellite signal broadcasts precise satellite location information (ephemeris), which takes maybe 30 seconds to get a few frames I believe. So that's basically the bottleneck for a modern chipset which starts with zero information and relies solely on the GPS signals to navigate.
Thanks for sharing this. I've got their point about keeping the website as simple as possible using HTML, CSS and no JS, but hey, why not make an exception around UI theming? I'd love to see it in a sepia background color and serif types. That black BG with a blue sans type is doing evil to my retina.
Service industry purchases like burgers would be a lot more expensive and I'd gladly pay.
I've worked with someone who insisted on running every different project or third party tool in a separate Vagrant machine. At first I scoffed at it, because it seemed like such a waste of resources (this was before VT-d was mainstream let alone other optimizations), but over the years I've only gained more respect for their approach.

One problem that I always come back to when I try to set up such restrictions if the lack of GPU access from a VM. A relatively recent standard for virtual GPUs should work on all major players, but both on Intel and Nvidia I've never gotten it to work without crashes or glitches on my hardware.

These days, Linux's containerization API seems mature enough to set usable limits. It's possible to escape containers through kernel exploits and misconfigurations (i.e. the "docker-in-docker" setups) but honestly I'm mostly trying to protect one of the million files yarn downloads for me to read my ~/.ssh directory.

I believe systemd-run should allow me to run many dev tools with proper sandboxing if I call it right, but I haven't bothered to read up on it yet. I'm also slightly annoyed at the lack of good tooling for setting up quick and dirty network namespaces. The tools I've seen seem to assume that whatever namespace I want to set up will be part of my permanent machine setup, with changes to system daemon config all over the place.

Another path to consider is switching to more hardware backed storage. I've put my SSH key in my TPM and no malware is ever going to exfiltrate the private key from there. I've thought up some theoretical solutions to the API access problem and the best I've been able to come up with has been a TPM-backed dom0 VM with the rest of the system in dom1, all other hardware forwarded through VT-d and friends, with access to the dom0 VM only through some kind of interactive protocol, possibly with some kind of network-based permission prompt before key access (i.e. click allow on your phone for the secret VM to share the product key). It would probably work, but I have no illusions about someone making something like that that's going to be usable on a normal user desktop, let alone a mobile device (with all of its power management challenges).
If the alternative is growth up to the point of total societal and ecological collapse then I'd prefer gradual change, even if it includes some shocks
Advertising for what? The owner had not displayed them as part marketing marketing and advertising campaigns, he's a private own. They are recreations of fictional characters that have been around for decades and, yes, happen to have movies made about them. (Movies which themselves fall into some category of art as well).

Otherwise:

> In the 1500s there wasn't really advertising

This is simply wrong and requires only a LMGTFY and I will leave that to you. Advertisements extend back to ancient civilizations. Being wrong, and given the presence of public advertising through the centuries, the argument that these robots are, as advertisements (even if I agreed on that), verboten for public display, that argument is invalid.

As for aiming it at children, that is irrelevant because, again, what the person in this article did was not advertising.

Flush Toilets and bottled beer: You've chosen two things that, like the statue of David, would undoubtedly have garnered neighborly ire. So I am claiming that statues of David would not have been well regarded, and your counter claim is something like "Well here are other items that would have also been disapproved of". That sounds much more like agreement than a valid counterclaim.

Further, you've chosen two items that in modern times do actually have examples of their being used as art. Finding
examples is again a very simple matter of LMGTFY.

Next, actual advertisement including bear bottles (sometimes just their labels and advertisement, sometimes the objects themselves) and many other mundane objects and products-- including jumbo formats, are regarded by many and collected as art. In general they are frequently collected as a form of nostalgia art, sometimes regarded as kitsch, or for its illuminating of a small cross section of modern life.

In many cases these are also desirable for the true thoughtful care and artistry that went into their design. You'd find very few designers of logos etc. that do not in some way regard what they do as a form of art, even if it doesn't rise to the level (highly subjective) of "high art".
What an Insane Week in AI
If there's a tax for that, then all digital music should be free after that tax.
> "misogi involves immersing oneself in cold water"

also this is blogspam
IMO this is a fairly deep correspondence. Git and monads both side in the rare octant of "simple, hard, relevant to nearly every programmer's work even if they're not very aware of it". Most quotidian things are simple and easy, or complex and easy, or complex and hard. Most simple and hard things are at the foundations of fairly deep knowledge/skill stacks and obscured from most developers.
Keep in mind that these photos are from just a bit less than a decade after the WW2 ended. It took a lot out of the region in both the capital and human terms.

Just think how long it took to recover from the 2008 crisis and then multiply that by 10.
> if Humanloop had not gotten clearance to post what they posted, this would have been a grave overstep of journalistic ethics.

Where did you get this idea? You don't "go on record" with a journalist. Everything you do and say around them is on the record by default. There are ethical codes and frameworks on what, when, and how to report but "private conversations are private" is certainly not considered normal.

Re your mea culpa, it's a completely different situation and I don't see how journalistic ethics would be applicable there. If you want to have a more appropriate term, maybe "blogger ethics"?
The UI doesn't have anything to do with it. Hacker News is heavily moderated by smart people, that's why it's a nice place to visit. A poorly moderated HN would turn the site into influence-spamming hellscape like Quora.

Amazon.com is the ugliest e-commerce site going, but they aren't worried about losing visitors to Wayfair.com, because they're not competing on looks.

Same thing with HN, they are not in direct competition with any other site. The high quality of discussions (thanks to moderation) helps the site show up in search engines, which is how most people discover it.

There are lots of alternative front-ends to HN, those are personal projects and not done to try to boost HN traffic, just to improve the UX for regular visitors. For example I use a browser extension that adds additional menu items to the HN orange bar, like "shownew".
Dont worry, BlackRock is trying their best to ensure profitability plays no role at all in investment choices. Not sure their plan is better, but it a change
He probably didn't see it coming because they told him to his face they wouldn't "ruin the API" as recently as January. That was in a call he had with folks at Reddit.

Fast forward only a few months and they are now:

1. Charging exorbitant prices for the API.
2. Removing the ability for apps to display ads to free users.
3. Removing NSFW subreddits and content from the API.

Said in another way, they are:

1. Decreasing app revenue (no ads).
2. Increasing app expenses (paid API).
3. Making third party apps worse (removing NSFW from the API).

That's...about as close to "ruining the API" as you can get.
I think there's at least two pieces here

1. Concern about loss off creativity in creative exercises: this is a fair UX critique. Personally, I find that using ChatGPT as a rubber duck is extremely valuable, even for complex "softskill" challenges. I wish more tools were built towards this angle, instead of trying to just do the work with AI. I imagine an LLM auto-writing text like now, with subsequent UX highlighting points to converse and evolve the artifact.

2. Post-scarcity loss of meaning where quality used to be a proxy metric. eg if a professor of status took the time to write a good letter of recommendation, you were really worth it. This was always a flawed and biased system. Same for yearly reviews, and most promo processes. Hopefully society adapts by dropping the fluff in favor of hard data - a bulletpoint list from a professor with some mechanism to verify the number of recommendations made seems better than what we have today.
Mudlet (https://mudlet.org) is a scriptable, with Lua, telnet client that's pretty solid. Supports secure telnet over TLS as well.
Possibly. We don't know exactly what's going on during the inferencing process. It might be making up a random plausible sounding reason, or it might be at least partly re-deriving its original intuitions during the self-attention/encoder step, or it might be both i.e. the most plausible justification is most plausible because that's the same intuition it originally followed.

At any rate, the justification it gives is the one you'd expect so it may not make much difference.

One question this raises is how it decided what the scientific consensus is. People talk about the risk of LLMs being abused for misinformation all the time; I find it not particularly persuasive because webspam has always existed and in reality people don't spend much time reading webspam. They find information by following links that roughly follow trust networks. LLMS however, do not. They are trained on Common Crawl and similar dumps that may or may not be any good at de-spamming their corpus. That opens up the question of whether you can make future LLMs believe arbitrary things and withhold arbitrary information by just bulk generating web pages that claim to be written by scientists representing the global consensus. The prior probability for "Professor ? says ? is a consensus = true" must be very high inside the network, but it has no way to verify any such claims. Perhaps the primary victim of LLM misinformation will be LLMs.
Or anybody who went to school and saw how well they learn compared to the average student should have an idea. IQ was originally meant as the predictor of how fast you learn after all.
Changes to the workforce size don’t correlate well with the downward wage pressure. Similarly female participation in the workforce don’t line up well with wage stagnation.

https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wLFPrat...
The term DevOps has been bastardized so badly that nobody really knows anymore. At my current company, 'DevOps' are what we used to call sysadmins.

When I first heard the term, it was described to me as 'developers do their own operations.' Next it was 'developers work with operations.' Then it was 'operations, but working to support developers.' Now, it mostly means something between sysadmin and terraform wrangler, I think.
I've done that too. The real fun start when you expand it with bigger memory, add a stack pointer, make the ALU a bit more capable by swapping in different chips, etc. Very rewarding project. Like doing nand2tetris, it completely demystifies computers to many programmers.

It also gives you RSI issues from bending solid core wires if you're not careful. Take breaks! :-)

And you can stuff it in a frame and have some cool wall deco! I eventually added a boot loader and "punch card reader" to mine which works with some photo diodes. I print out a programming strip on an ink jet and can slide it through the reader to load a program. When I have geeky visitors I give them a program to load.

Ben Eater may just be one of the greatest educators of his generation. There's going to be so many good old engineers 20 years from now who trace it all back to his videos.
Except that in nations that require such labor protections still have plentiful and reasonably cheap fast food. The US really does just get the worst of both worlds.
Is this written by ChatGPT / similar ? It feels like it is.
The Linux distribution model is changing
Soon as they do, I'm out. I actually like a lot of Reddit but it's literally unusable for me without a clean UI, just like Twitter. Every time I get a Twitter link I brace for a million requests before even getting to the short Tweet. It's enough to not even bother most of the time, I can't even imagine being a user.
>To fully disable defender or AV, you have to exploit a vulnerable signed driver.

Is there an automated tool for this? The guys behind DefenderControl threw in the towel and discontinued it.
They were trying to build a technical moat that 2 guys and truck couldn't replicate. They didn't care what business was started as long as it had a moat and was scalable.