skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to write MUMPS at a certain company, and there were lots of "wtf" moments but this is one I'm particularly fond of. In the system, all dates are represented as an integer starting from an arbitrarily defined earliest date represented as 0, December 31, 1840 (http://www.mumps.cz/gtm/books/pg/UNIX_manual/webhelp/content...). OK, fine, whatever. But another fact about MUMPS is that associative arrays (= Python dictionaries, or Java maps) are automatically sorted. Weird language feature, and probably a questionable one, but also on its own, not the worst thing in the world.

However, these two facts put together mean that date-keyed associative arrays are always ordered from earliest to latest, and for reasons that I've forgotten, it was at least at one point inefficient to use the MUMPS facilities for reverse traversal of the associative arrays.

The solution? Defining another date format, which is `121531 - $d` where `$d` is a value in the standard MUMPS date representation. This was then used instead of or alongside the standard representation for indexing associative arrays.

Practically, this was a huge hazard for code correctness as you needed to be absolutely sure of which format the date number was in. This additionally marks Monday, September 27, 2173 as the festive occasion of date sorting doomsday, as it is the date on which the secondary format would cross over into negative values and probably start causing all kinds of subtle bugs throughout the system. Let's hope we will have moved on to better systems by then!
The post isn't really about the ship of theseus case. Most comments are about the cases discussed in the post, but the SoT case is worth mention as that case seems pretty clear:*

1. If the code started with was *GPL'ed, each edit resulted in a GPL'ed piece of code, thus the final edit was a change to a GPL'd piece of code and the result is GPLed.

This is basically no different from doing the same with a proprietary library you'd licensed from a vendor.

Because you looked at the code to begin with you couldn't make the "clean room implementation" argument even if every line were different.

2. MIT or related licenses: just depends on whether what remains is "substantial".

* modulo the effect of interested lawyers, of course.
How does it work? You install a windows game via steam and then tell it to port?
It was locked when I tried to comment yesterday.
Seems like something that could be very easily missused for censorship, catching whistleblowers and similar.
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this is a great point, thank you for posting it.

i've been researching this problem for a year now, and came across some interesting technical and social povs on moderation and network attacks.

- moderation: my pov is that large companies with teams of moderators (such as twitter or facebook) wont and cant scale to varied moderation policies across the world. so the task of moderation has to be boiled down to the communities themselves. the question then is - a) how do you prevent a moderator from getting power hungry, b) how do you incentivize them to do the work and c) how do you make this auditable and provide recourse mechanisms? for all of this, open access to an API to build the right tools is super important as you said. and having this done on a protocol is the only real way to scale it imo.

- network attacks: we've done a lot of work in approximate solutions for sybil attacks. using verifiable delay functions (VDFs) as a way to order messages, and having them stored on multiple locations (eg arweave) in append only ways gives a lot more resilience / provides a way towards solutions here.
(2020)

I felt deja vu, because this was posted here before
I can never tell the difference between supposedly good audio and the equivalent of two cans connected with a string. Dunno, maybe I'm lacking the audiophile chromosome or something.
That's an apples to oranges comparison. With proper infrastructure both can scale to many users. For streaming to many people peer to peer will be inefficient, so I would recommend not doing that.
Maybe, but most of these comparisons are based on GPU performance (ie. games). For other workloads like machine learning, Tensor cores on NVIDIA GPUs will blow Apple Silicon GPUs out of the water. The M2 Ultra is 27 TFLOPS. The 4080't Tensor Cores are 48.7 TFLOPS in FP32, 194.9 TFLOPS in FP16, 389.9 TFLOPS in FP8 with FP16 accumulate. (IIRC on Apple Silicon GPUs FP16 performance is roughly the same as FP32.)

(There is the Neural Engine which supports lower precision, but it limited in various ways.)

Regardless, the strides that Apple has been making are impressive.
The plaintiffs, not the plaintiffs' lawyers.
Lol, criminal.

I do find that Karp sounds like a huckster, but criminal … sad that this got so many upvotes.
Like the French arresting people for using encryption and linux
Elm is pretty much dead at this point. The last substantial commits in the Elm repositories are about 2 years old.

I liked Elm before, and was a great fit for internal corporate applications. Something like an admin control panel or a monitoring tool.

Are there any similar projects that are in the "more alive" state?
You know, when nuclear bombs were made and Einstein and Oppenheimer knew about the dangers etc, there were common people like you that dismissed it all. This has been going on for centuries. Inventors and experts and scientists and geniuses say A and common people say nah, B. Well, Bengio, Hinton, Ilya and 350 others from the top AI labs disagree with you. Does it ever make you wonder if you should be so cock sure or this attitude can doom humanity? Curious
He sounds like an ecofascist to me, someone willing to use violence in pursuit of a "green" ideology.
NYC, and Manhattan specifically, is one of the rare places in the country where having a car is almost virtually unnecessary. In downtown, cars are already playthings of the rich: Just parking the car during peak hours can run you hundreds dollars of per month.

The core of NYC has walkable infrastructure and an amazing public transportation infrastructure (at least compared to much of the rest of the country). For those commuting in from suburbs, park-and-rides are already a far more cost-efficient option.
given how hard it is to replicate studies in Psychology, maybe the 'rational economic actor' theory, while obviously wrong, still makes better predictions that any theory that more accurately models the humans involved? After all, one of the main things that makes real humans different from rational actors is our unpredictability.
Have you read the manifesto?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409
London and unitary authorities don't have a county above them.
It might also be increased awareness of changes. There are many things in my personal history that I viewed as normal, constant things, but that were actually changing significantly all the while I was learning about their natures.
People love branding and tribes.

All of these tests and hoops are proxies for IQ. High IQ tends to lead to better outcomes, but doesn’t guarantee them.
This is still pretty deep in the uncanny valley. None of the rock examples for example even sound very much like guitar. One sounds more like trance, the others seem more like metal than rock(though interestingly trance is a lot more similar to metal than you might think. It's just hard to notice at the surface level due to very different instruments).

Then again, in this case I don't mind. I'm sure someone like Simon Posford could do some really wacky sampling based off of this.

Don't see myself using it to make music just for my own listening though(not much of a composer). That's still a long ways off.
And the bubble is in a gated community to keep out all the poors they unjob'd.
Oh, sorry, I’m not that familiar with the terminology (I still feel like my argument is valid despite me not being an expert though because I heard all this from people who know a lot more than me about it). One problem with that kind of feedback is that it incentives the AI to make us think it solved the problem when it didn’t, for example by hallucinating convincing information. That means it specifically learns how to lie to us so it doesn’t really help

Also I guess giving feedback is sort of like babysitting, but I did interpret it the wrong way
The burden of proof is on the person making the initial claim and i highly doubt that the reasoning behind AI ruin is as extensive and compelling as the germ theory of disease.

We assume human-level general AI is possible because we exist in nature but a super-human self-optimizing AI god is nowhere to be found.
"Most countries" would fail a driver for not crossing an intersection until there is space on the other side? I think you're being a little absurd here.

The driver in this case could see that the cars beyond the blue car were starting to move, and thus predict that he could cross a little bit early (betting on the space being available by the end of the maneuver, but risking being the ass who ends up blocking the crosswalk after miscalculating).
Yes. Middle click works perfectly, just like on HN and old reddit etc.
Grift as shamelessly as possible, and you'll have millions and a studio in 5 years.
I wish you luck with your game which constantly oscillates between https://youtu.be/dLkFh9Kn8AU?t=60 and https://youtu.be/gQktj-WkgEo?t=75 because you didn't put any thought into the music beyond telling the computer to make "chill DnB" and "intense DnB".
I don’t think that‘s modern, it was the same in the centuries and millenias before. Unless you were born into the 1% upper class, you were ruled by them with random degrees of benevolence. I would argue that although you could say that this hasn’t changed much, everyday life for most of us ruled subjects is equal or better in almost every respect, for example being able to write this comment to you, my fellow underling.
Isn't weird that Ted hasn't written about this? I mean, based on his writing style and ideas skipping talking about this experience as a lab rat seems like a missing piece of a specific puzzle.
If you mean that earth floats in space, yes.
Your phrasing is also super interesting.

> mental models of the world tend to solidify as we age

Mental models solidifying over time might be true. But "acceleration" is a shared experience for entire generations (of peers). It seems a broad enough experience that it is more than perceived. Like a grandma is content to read books instead of being on top of HN, etc.

Solidified mental models also gives perspective on life and its direction.
And people tend to converge on few similar timeless mental models on a meta level.

> long range compounding effects of technology

It's correct, most modern systems are enabled by better tech at its root. But the collective will of humanity (at least right now) is to leverage tech to push it further. Instead of a sinusoid where we take time to fix unintended side-effects we created (like pollution, resource depletion, re-assess education, etc).
> How exactly is Mercedes accepting liability?

You’re indemnified.
Pretty common for languages and frameworks to have this. Why is this being advertised as go only?
Now imagine it trying to manage
a Dutch Roundabout - https://youtu.be/41XBzAOmmIU
or driving in a city like
OPorto - https://youtu.be/VIWikUUl5YQ
You deffo have something there, we do ossify if we aren’t careful or we aren’t naturally childlike (Feynman type curiosity), but I think it’s also true that acceleration is happening.

I mean that’s pretty objective.

In my own lifetime (only in my 40’s!) social norms and expectations have rapidly changed as has the constant sense of urgency injected into the zeitgeist by profit making 24hr news and social media.

Propaganda was something you read about in history books (naively) not something you were bombarded with constantly by both anti and pro political positions.

When teens went home they had relief from social pressure now they are never, ever, alone with their thoughts.

Fall asleep clutching their iPhones wake up to 100 missed messages.

Ever seen a normally popular teens phone light up? I got a sense of panic and said ‘what’s wrong? What’s happened?’ And they just looked at me weird. What? This is normal?

My phone only blows up like that when there is a disaster!
I think that’s more of an emergent behavior, not a force of nature. But I agree that enough people might do stupid stuff to create this kind of emergent behavior, which seems to be happening now. Like maybe 90% or more of people think these art AIs are distasteful, but enough people can’t stop themselves from filling in the blank square where something is possible to create but hasn’t been created yet, so people keep trying to make it. Even though there doesn’t seem to be any upside or goal, since I’ve never gotten an explanation of one.

And I think if you’re going to create something that has a little bit of potential to harm at least a few people, you should at least have a decent goal or reason for creating it.
Where did you learn the word "Infact"? (which does not exist) Was it at Stanford?

Does typing that not result in a word highlighted with a red squiggly line for you?

You seem to have high expectations of others (i.e.: "not that smart"), but something as basic proofreading seems to be beneath you.

If you have impressive credentials but still communicate poorly and speak ill of your own family, you will fail to impress much.
You said it for me. Muzak lives on.
Except those names are wrong in some contexts. That's the point.
It’s a fair point. Especially for the new Mac Pro they could have implemented a more robust thermal solution and clock the whole thing higher. That’s one advantage of a bigger chasis, isn’t it?
> if everything was so great in this imagined past, why are we here and why if we did go back and revive this past would we not end up right back here “repeating the grade” so to speak?

"Progress" doesn't occur because things are "better" it occurs because things are incentivized. A system can incentivize bad things, and at many points in life we may choose bad things for one group and good things for another. Progress is merely another point further down on the timeline, as is the past. Qualitatively judging these points in isolation is difficult, but when viewed in collective over time I think people will often reflect that some things have gotten better, some have gotten worse, and we also have new problems. I view the past less as a former grade and more as just a different state of things, neither better nor worse in totality, but I'm also not cynical enough to say that restoring a previous state is the right choice either. Somewhat anecdotally I hardly ever believe in software rollbacks, I almost always bias towards rolling forward but I understand why some people think rollbacks are something they'd want.

> The second is that (as I hinted above) I am extremely skeptical of narratives that excessively glorify the past. I think it’s all a bunch of survivorship bias. Things often seem better in the past because we are experiencing only those cultural artifacts of the past that survived, which tend to be the most memorable or interesting.

Again, the present doesn't necessarily mean that things are better for people. We make choices every day to marginalize a group or way of life over another. A lot of times, this is just necessary but I can understand why people don't like it.

> Lastly, I have doubts about the very possibility of revisiting the past. The arrow of time is unidirectional.

You and I agree here, in that I understand the state of the past, even yesterday, can never be fully recreated. Again, I understand why that's difficult for people to wrestle with.

It sounds like for you and I, life is mostly good, so it makes dealing with the present and optimism for the future quite palatable. For others, I think that's challenging, so the past looks favorable even if unviable.

> The reactionary is a particularly lazy kind of critic. They don’t even bother to propose an unworkable solution.

Unfortunately this is most of our politicians. Pretty much anyone that media would call a "firebrand" from Matt Gaetz to AOC is a reactionary, and they're so absorbed in their own thoughts, world, and problems that they can't help but take it out on the rest of the world. It's a symptom of a broken, tired, and frustrated system that we put trust in people who are simply meant to agitate rather than build comprehensive, intersectional systems.
Echo this. While there are smart people. Entry into IITs is based on pure rote learning and discipline. Kids who memorize tomes of math and science and go through rote practice exams over and over again over their peers who are experiencing life normally usually are the ones who get in.

I have met much smarter and successful people who went into regular technical schools and are much more creative than IIT types.
Cons cells aren't a linked list.
From https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/climate-cha....

"Heavy-duty road vehicles Hydrogen fuel cells or hydrogen-derived fuels offer a low-carbon alternative for heavy-duty vehicles, for which batteries do not currently have the energy density to offer a long-range solution. "

"One niche market for hydrogen fuel cells is forklift trucks. These currently outnumber hydrogen cars, with around 30,000 in use. Fuel cell forklifts are suited to warehouse use because refuelling is simple, and the vehicles emit no air pollutants32"

"Synthetic fuels. A range of synthetic fuels for multiple uses can be made via the Fischer Tropsch process, reacting captured CO2 with hydrogen. These could potentially provide a lower carbon drop-in fuel alternative for the aviation fleet as well as an option for trucks or ships"

"Ammonia is denser and only requires compression to 10 times atmospheric pressure or chilling to -33°C6 . Ammonia storage is mature because of its widespread use as a feedstock for mineral fertilisers. "

"For transport, China is aiming to produce one million hydrogen fuelled vehicles and 1,000 refuelling stations by 2030, the same goals as California3, 55. South Korea’s roadmap is aiming to produce six million FCEVs and roll out 1,200 refilling stations by 2040."
"On 27th May, openSUSE MicroOS Desktop was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
openSUSE Aeon provides only a minimal base system with a GNOME Desktop Environment and Basic Configuration Tools ONLY. All Applications, Browsers, Codecs, etc are provided by FlatPaks from FlatHub."
Because that doesn't sound a bit like Aphex Twin and sounds like some generic filler music.
Anyone else find it strange that Ted and Robert Hanssen died at the same time? Locked in the same place....
Most of why I disliked working with CCL as a client developer was because it was a pretty poor developer experience. The tooling was cumbersome, the feedback loop was long, no easy way to do source control (I think they were working on improving that aspect), and of course the limited user base comes with its difficulties. Not that any of this is particularly surprising for a homegrown programming environment.
> Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”.

Where are you getting that on reddit? I don't think I've ever seen content that's not normal posts in my subreddits. [Maybe it's been there the whole time but ad blocked away or something so I'm just never seeing it?]

I don't use r/popular, r/news, r/all, etc much if they're doing something different there.
I find David Smith's former job interesting in relation to the story. I guess that as a print technician he dealt with 2D patterns a lot.

This is extremely cool and impressive.
This is a completely different device than a mechanical watch. Nobody cross shops GPS watches with a Rolex. Maybe a grand Seiko.
Ukraine stopped following the contents of that treaty after the US supported Maidan coup.

Sounds like the Ukrainian people should have harbored a lot of resentment against the US for interfering with their democratic process, if true. Was that the case?

In any event, what concern was this of Russia's? Russia has problems of its own, and for a nuclear-armed nation, external threats are a long way down the list. Maybe they should worry more about how to improve their own country and less about how to wreck everybody else's.
> What do they have now?

> > Mercedes sprinter

I don't know why but that is hysterical.
The M2 has been a bit underwhelming in general through all of its iterations: Apple jumped into such a lead with the M1 [1], so it was disappointing when they slowly iterated while Intel and AMD have made enormous strides catching up. Everyone keeps citing TDP, but given that we're talking about desktops that just isn't a huge factor.

Having said that, the 7950X was released late February, and the 13900KS was released in mid January. Both of this year. Both are their premiere available chips right now in the segment. Referring to them like they're last year's junk is rather silly.

[1] Though fun fact with the M1, I remember super disappointing Geekbench results leaking before its release. People do know how low trust the site is, right? The computer identifiers on the claimed "M2 Ultra" devices claim to be Macbook Pro 14" devices....which aren't getting M2 Ultras for obvious reasons. In all likelihood someone is making guesses and posting nonsense.
This. The CIA story is likely based on the fact that Henry A. Murray did work for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Kaczynski may have been taking part in the experiments that led to the creation of the Thematic Apperception Test. The CIA may have been interested in the results of these experiments as all intelligence agencies are.
PureScript[1][2] seems pretty alive these days. From my relatively small, self-contained experiments, it's a lot more flexible and expressive than Elm at the expense of (maybe?) being a bit harder to learn up-front.

[1]: https://www.purescript.org/

[2]:https://github.com/purescript/purescript
i wonder if some future civilization will find the clothing store mannequins we throw away today and wonder if that was the best we could do

now I'm wondering if David was actually made to stand outside a tunic store, but Michelangelo just got carried away with the simple commission, and the rest of the story about the cathedral was made up
This “poor people will be affected more” is a tired refrain. That is always obviously true, given the consequences of being poor.

Not every solution can or has to solve the wealth/income gap. Solve congestion with one solution, solve wealth redistribution with another.
Depends on the average of human driver. Especially if the average includes motorbikes.

Saying fsd on tela has the same statistic than the general driver population prints a grim picture, as it puts it in a strictly worse performance than peers vehicles (SUV or saloons depending on the model)
HN can’t resist crapping on Elm and Tailwind. I wonder what the other popular hate topics are?
Encouraging transit ridership does actually increase the supply. You get far far far more people moved via buses and trains.

Buses account for about 73% of people moved in the Lincoln tunnel, but only 10% of vehicles.

http://www.nymtc.org/data_services/HBT.html
> I don't know what the point of machine generated music is.

One point is that music fans can now make their own music. I think it's great that people can express themselves and it's not limited to those who put in 10k+ hours to master a single instrument. More people creating is a good thing.
To be fair, the US doesn't have everything, but it does have a lot, so I can see how you could get this idea if you weren't a particularly imaginative or curious person.
RIP to one of the few real prophets of our time.

We’re long past gone the point where anything could have been done to avert all this current dystopic madness (two years ago, when I entered a bookshop, I had to show some QR magic code that I had gotten as a result of having a needle inject me stuff in my body), but we can’t say we hadn’t been warned.