skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? How do you justify declaring a person as a whole "super toxic" with only a link to an interview citing a link to a blog post including "Things like… hyper-competition… an over focus on aggressive competition… things like zero sum thinking" when:

* the post is about interviewing which mostly is, for better or worse, a competitive zero-sum process.

* the post is more than a decade old (then, more like two now.)

* the post is written by someone else.

I have no opinion on the guy one way or the other, and he may in fact be toxic, but that's hardly compelling evidence.
The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (1993)
Around a dozen deaths. Basically what would qualify as a mass shooting instead of a mere gun murder.
Does the same logic apply to wars? Should we give over warfare to AIs to conduct between themselves, as long as fewer humans and dogs die on average compared to current human-led imperfect wars.

(This by the way is the plot of a 1960s Star Trek episode. A lot of the old sci-fi suddenly seems prescient again. HAL-9000 behaves like an LLM.)
> Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision. If it was 4k monitors and TVs would have never become a thing.

Can you expand this idea? I thought 4K became popular because it was easy to see pixels at lower resolutions.
To post to a moderated group, you would add an "Approved" header to your post before submitting. The content of the header was not important, just the presence.

Equally fun, your "From" address (just another header) was also under your control.

So it was fairly trivial to post articles From: anyone, Approved: yes.

In this way, it was pretty similar to SMTP email in the same era. Before EHLO and reverse lookups and server identification and SPF and DKIM and DMARC and spam filters and universal skepticism, email was simple to spoof.

Now, the readers of USENET at the time were also pretty savvy, and there were other noneditable headers attached to your message that might betray your malfeasance. If you were posting to a newsgroup that didn't permit such activity (there were some that encouraged/required it!), you might earn an angry email sent to your news administrator, who was generally connected to the authority structure (university or employer) and had little patience for your juvenile behaviour.

It worked really well.

...until it didn't! But I don't think this "problem" was a meaningful contributor to the decline of USENET.
Isn't it their job that they get compensated for? If I am not completely off, if this is a paid job (most likely with overtime and extra for weekend), then they have absolutely no reason to do that early.
I've looked at it more, it looks like this RCE could harvest the private key.
This is probably the most surreal article I’ve read on HN, only because I grew up in Mira Mesa and have eaten at that very IHOP, probably even while she was a waitress there. It’s astounding how small the world can seem sometimes.
Yeah, the idea it was rats in the link I gave too. The counter-argument is that it was an ecological problem in the strict sense, but not a ecological problem for humans. The people adapted and ate rats (yuck) among a few other things. It's not pleasant, but it's argued it was stable for a long time.
Reproducible is key here. I remember trying to manage servers with Ansible, Chef and Puppet in the past but was always disappointed that trying to spin up a new server, or move a service between two usually failed. This is because service S1 forget to declare dependency D, but it happened to work because S2 needed the same dependency and declared it. Or simply that in the past S1 declared D but the config was "cleaned up" and it wasn't realized that D was still needed. (Or it wasn't needed at the time but then needed again, but you didn't declare it).

These types of problems are very rare in NixOS (although I do occasionally see it with the module system, but at least this is config dependent, not system-state dependent). If I apply the same config I have a very high confidence that I will get the same system. I lost my desktop's drive the other day and I was back fully functional within an hour. Most of the time was spent logging into Firefox, Email and various websites rather than installing the system. Managing servers is similarly easy, I would have a hard time moving to something else.

Intrinsic state (like user data or application databases) is still hard, but at least that is the only real concern. Better than dealing with state and config.
It gets better. With Elixir's Nx will take a subset of Elixir and compile it to GPU code so the expensive math ops can be farmed out to other machines and run on their GPUs in parallel.
The US is a strange place. On one hand, teachers do not treat academic performance as prominently as those in hyper competitive countries, say, China. Classes in high school are easy. Exams are generally easy. Teachers normally do not spend lots of time coming up with enlightening or challenging problem sets. SAT and ACT are embarrassingly not challenging or differentiating. They have only multiple choices, for fuck's sake -- the simplest form in an exam in other countries! The message from the US education system appears to be that it's okay if you don't want to excel in school but we will give you lots of resources if you're an elite student.

On the other hand, the competition is not going away. It just gets hidden or gets distributed to families. So, kids take 10+ AP courses, if not 15+ as in many of Bay Area schools. Kids participated in hyper competitive ECs to show that they are made to change the world to appease the admission officers. In the meantime, they still need to maintain high, if not perfect, GPAs. As a result, they sacrifice their sleep and therefore their health.

It's as if there are two worlds in the US. When I read the novel Folding Beijing, I felt that I was reading about the US's education system, which is sad.
That'll teach me to read beyond the first paragraph
For The Netherlands only a couple of organizations are listed there, lots are missing.
Bad drivers give little space to cyclists regardless.

Buses, cars, trucks have often traveled behind me at a following distance of barely a meter behind my bicycle. Stopping suddenly would have high risk of death.

Cars and trucks have clipped my handlebars.

Cars turn in front, oblivious to cyclists existence. That or they have a complete lack of awareness: a cyclist needs braking distance like any moving object.

Not to mention opening doors or the drivers who think it's funny to harass those not in a car.

I don't ride much anymore
This was a good idea. Thanks for your suggestion! I thought I'd have to do fine tuning, but apparently not! I tried this -- today's headlines from the New York Times:

Here are 5 headlines to be cataloged. For each, provide the best tag words to catalog them. 1) 'Energy Drinks Are Surging. So Are Their Caffeine Levels.' 2) 'Binance Moved Billions Through Two U.S. Banks, Regulators Say' 3) 'What Trumps Latest Indictment Means for the 2024 Race' 4) 'Scientists Discover a Virgin Birth in a Crocodile' 5) 'Noise Could Take Years Off Your Life.'

Assistant: 1. Energy Drinks - Caffeine, Health Risks, Marketing, Sales, Consumption
2. Binance - Cryptocurrency, Regulation, Compliance, Banking, Investigation
3. Trump Indictment - Crime, Corruption, Campaign Finance, Elections, 2024 Race
4. Crocodile Virgin Birth - Reproduction, Biology, Evolution, Species, Conservation
5. Noise and Health - Environmental Hazards, Hearing Damage, Public Policy, Research
Aside: "bated" breath. It's one of those anachronistic words that's only survived by hiding in an idiom.
This is the longest quine I've ever seen. I imagine it took a lot of writing and rewriting to finally get to the end. Every bit counts.
> "explain that postgraduate education in the UK is largely a way of extracting money from foreign students."

"I've been everywhere - all over the USA, raising funds - trying to sell them the idea of an Oxford education"

"Africa is crawling with British Professors frantically trying to flog Sociology courses to the natives"

- BBC sitcom Yes Minister, circa 1982 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7mhtp5a5E
It could be used for some games, particularly simple ones without much need for precision, but I don't see how you could generalize that to all VR games which exist. Take the common case of aiming a gun, if you mime the action of a trigger pull with just hand tracking there's zero tactile feedback as to where the actuation point is, and if your gun hand twists the wrong way or your other hand occludes it then it's just going to fail because the headset literally can't see what you're doing. It's not magic.
God in the gnostic Logos sense: the all encompassing universe, the forces that act within it, so on.

In more current vernacular: do humans trade with the big bang? do humans trade with the expansion of the universe, and it's inevitable collapse back into the initial singularity?
I like the idea of cataloging all my possessions. It seems like a nice way to put that particular necessity of life (owning things) in a box that can be neatly put away when you don't want to think about it and quantify/measure it in a way that lets you manage it (I don't want to own 200 things, etc). It also seems like it would be helpful for legal situations like a manifest for a house fire or a will.
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> The GP specifically talked about an inadvertent dylib hijacking

You're wrong.

> because sometimes package managers update dynamic library dependencies without actually checking if binary compatibility was preserved in the new version,

That is a very clear description of an ABI break.
You still haven't made any clear case against them. Why even stick with v2 onions in the first place?
you could also say you're a hacker
Thanks for NNTP mention.

As an analogy a lot happened to HTTP and other protocols to increase user experience, better content deliverability, and control.

Can this be done to a modern NNTP protocol?
What alternative reality have you been living in?
Taurine – 2-Aminoethanesulfonic Acid
I mean, that’s why HN is still great right?
Well, they sold themselves as such. Mr Musk would have you believe that twitter IS the hypothetical town square. I'm not sure what is scarier- that he truly believes he can buy free speech itself or that he might be right.
I didn't find it as bad as all that... the definitely felt egotistical, with the author repeatedly going back to a central "but would she talk to me?!?" question but the actual text is a wonderful trip down memory lane for one of the truly legendary bands of my youth.

I'm going to Wichita, far from this opera forever more...
> spam was unheard of

Spam started on Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

There's always these bright eyed and bushy tailed asses who can spot a clean pond to shit in.

Make a buck making everyone else's life worse, tough shit. What are you going to do about it?
What outrage if I can ask? Your LMI emulator (if you're who I think you are) is great!
AIXI / Solomonoff prediction uses lossless compression, which may lead to massive overfitting. If anything, some degree of lossy compression would be "equivalent" to intelligence. Ockham's razor also says that the simplicity of a hypothesis can outweigh another hypothesis which better describes the available evidence. It's a trade-off, and AIXI doesn't make that trade-off, but insists on perfect compression/prediction of the available data.

It's basically the curve-fitting problem: You don't want the simplest curve that fits all the available data points perfectly, you want an even simpler curve that still fits the evidence reasonably well. If you hit the right balance between simplicity and fit, you can expect your model to generalize to unseen data, to make successful predictions. That would be intelligence, or some major part of it.
Well the question of whether there was harm and whether it was or ought to have been known is precisely what a court would decide.
Journalists can get away with harassment and doxing that us mere mortals can’t even dream of.
see the thing about the Quest is that I actually do really want one, but I will never buy one because it's being developed by Meta
>As long as fewer humans and dogs die from autonomous vehicles than by human-driven vehicles, they are a net good

There is a logical chasm between pointing to an accident prevented by superhuman reflexes/abilities, and the claim that there is a net improvement in driving ability.

It seems beyond a reasonable doubt that autonomous vehicles can avoid some accidents that a human could not.

But you can understand why that isn't proof of a net benefit, can't you?

Think about how men complain about women supposedly being terrible drivers, and how studies show that women are more at risk in a crash, yet insurance rates for women are lower.
Wildfire Smoke Disproportionately Affects Marginalized Communities
I deleted my 8 year old account yesterday. I modded a few subs.

I don’t know if I’ll quit Reddit entirely, but I’m certainly done engaging at the level that I use to. I no longer trust how Reddit will decide to use my data or how they’ll pull the rug from me. They’re pre-IPO and already getting desperate. Shits going to hit the fan when they IPO and investors expect constant growth.
Networking for me.

Knowing the ins and outs of TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS you can work with caddy, haproxy, envoy, nginx, and other future networking things.
We're all exploited in different ways.

People who are self-employed and wealthy are just exploited much less
Was looking for this comment. On the bright side, it's easy to get lulled into a sense of complacency when you're running everything in the cloud, and OVH's massive data center fire had me double check all of our backup and disaster recovery processes (on a different provider) to ensure they were geographically distributed.
Unless the rats have toxoplasmosis
It's only unpopular with the people who aren't paying, and Netflix dgaf about them.
Exactly. Commute time is interesting and useful but easy to find in a million ways.

I want to know all the places I don’t know about that are X minutes away.
This is a whole genre now… “I tried to do a nearly impossible thing—but in a stunning twist, I was not able to do it, because it’s nearly impossible.”
I distinctly recall that many of those lessons were learned from the Fleet Problems, especially several of the carrier tactics as well as the logistical lessons (US invested heavier in at-sea refueling than any other navy at the time). So I suspect your source is integrating the Fleet Problems as part of the war games going on, and your denigration of them as "LARPing with ships" is unwarranted.

(Of course, perhaps the most famous unlearned lesson from the Fleet Problems was the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor... the Navy simulated a surprise carrier attack on Pearl Harbor two or three times, each time it was wildly successful, and still the defenses weren't beefed up before December 7).
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Yes? Why wouldn't it apply to wars as well if it's a net positive for human suffering?
That sounds pretty terrible.. My dad installed a little mini school bell next to my bed with a button he could push from downstairs. I used to hate it and do all sorts of things to disable it. Recently, I was visiting and I pushed the button and it still worked. As a dad, I had a little moment of realizing how hilarious it is in hindsight. Not sure if I'd feel the same way about the water.
Some science fiction posits a level of genetic engineering that is so advanced it's more like regular engineering. I assume they mean something like that; AI using biology in general as a tool.
You can definitely blocks ads on your iPhone browser. Use a content blocker like wipr or firefox focus.
https://archive.ph/jlw9g
might be fun for them like a tamagotchi or pet is fun for us. If humans think 1000 times slower than AI, then the AI only needs to devote 1/1000 of its attention to us to keep us happy.
No matter where I get linked from, Reddit, Facebook, an email, if nbc.com reposted an AP/Reuters story either verbatim or poorly summarized with no additional information, I just want to be sent to the AP/Reuters story.

Techmeme.com hand selects either the first or best source for each headline. Something community maintained like that, where any duplicate story redirects to the primary, unless it’s a follow up or editorialized comment that has actual substance.
Linux Foundation and RISC-V International launch RISC-V fundamentals course
The API pricing looked really reasonable to me, Apollo's own dev's math had it at ~$3/a user/a month.

I'm really disturbed by the backlash. He's doing math tricks and acting shady. He expresses the total cost, hiding the ball on his user #, and the fairly reasonable $3/month. He's no altruist either, and the whole "why don't you buy me out" thing was weird, nonsensical, and in his own words only "mostly" a joke. Not the kind of person I really want to hear from anymore.
In a data center, for every watt the drive consumes, you also have to pay to pump a watt of heat out of the building. I don't know what the numbers are like for a modern DC but cooling can be pretty expensive in terms of energy and equipment.
Fun fact: Kissinger has lived for so long that Commodore BASIC, SQL, Apple DOS, and the TCP/IP protocol were all created after he retired from government service. Not after he was born, but after he retired.
We're pretty decent self healing machines that can reproduce and have millions of years of robustness to various environmental surprises built in.

Until we get all the way to nanobots I suspect the AI overlords will keep us around as workers.
Live chat is a different medium entirely. Valuable in its own way but not the same thing.
I think people are rightfully concerned with the last AI disaster humanity has, not the first one.
https://archive.is/GnJlF
You left out the Evil multiplier.

These are also two of the most vile things to live in the last 500 years. Their great minds are what allowed them to get away with the murder hundreds of millions.
I think it's like a less spicy version of Stephanie Land's article on cleaning houses (led to the excellent Netflix series Maid), which had a lot of tantalizing hooks because of the nature of the work I guess. But overall this trend of written accounts of unprivileged work by increasingly college educated people, is a good one. If it was in n+1 it would have been tied to the rise of unionization, income inequality, probably Tolstoy's concept of working class virtues. But giving more voice to pink collar, blue collar workers is a good thing.
International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory
It was never entirely clear to me how I actually get this money except by making friends and rubbing backs with the people in Brussels.

It certainly doesn’t seem to be based on likelyhood of success.
It’s starting to look like benevolent dictator is the way to go as that has at least a small chance of survival
I don't think it's as simple as "cognitive capacity". I think the author's angle of communication being the critical issue is more accurate. It could be the case that we won't be able to communicate with AGI, but I don't see reason to assume that is the most likely outcome.
So why did they replace Ember with React?
What an awful article by a supposedly feminist publication. Meg White doesn't want to do an interview, has never wanted to do interviews, has anxiety and quit the band because it was too much anxiety for her.

Maybe you should take no for an answer instead of hounding her for an interview she doesn't want to do.
I wonder if these LLMs have been trained on the DejaNews/Google usenet archive.
According to the link, the laws say “class must start after 8:30am”, and there’s often an earlier scheduled bus pickup to make, so you have to account for that in waking times, unlike WFH business hours where you can roll out of bed and open slack/zoom in 10 minutes if pressed. I think the concerns are different at that time range.
Now you have a new problem: how to accurately identify critical thinking?
How to Do Good Work When You Don't Know What to Do
Is this done with a off the shelf tool that I could run? Or did you build this in house?
I'm not sure what you're saying exactly, why is that not proof of a net benefit? If fewer humans die, that's a net benefit, by the definition of the word net.

In your man/woman analogy, I'm not sure what studies you're referring to, but how men feel about women driving is not really a motivator for actuaries at insurance companies who have statistics on male versus female accidents.
The big problem is IT in Europe just doesn’t pay very well. It beats a blue collar job, but anyone truly good has the option to emigrate for 2-3x more money.
It's an attention economy. Twitter's competition is YouTube, TikTok, making poetry, spending time with your kids!
On a related note, I got an email today saying that Cloudflare will automatically turn on Brotli compression later this month. Does anyone know if Brotli really makes a difference beyond gzip?
do you think people will actually show up to a meeting run by an AI?
Saying the "self is an illusion" is a strange statement to me. An illusion implies something is being deluded. What is that something if not the self?
Less than 1 fatality per at least 100 million miles driven would cover enough scenarios to be an acceptable metric as well as an improvement over human drivers.
Before 1994 usenet had trolls but what we recognize as spam today was all but unheard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam

In my .edu world the most annoying part of email was “chain mail” in which each recipient was threatened with bad luck or similar if they didn’t forward it on to three others. Email loops caused by .forward files were fun too.
I think some human mothers probably go through that.
> Chairman Mao: You have about 600, 000 Chinese in the United States. We probably don't even have 60 Americans here. I would like to study the problem. I don't know the reason.

I wonder if he studied it and what he found.
9 hours sleep, getting up at 6am for bus/commute plus early school start and yeah that means going to bed at 9pm. Good luck with enforcing that on any teen.
They'll use us as biological ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ batteries!
This subthread starting off with a claim that high-wage workers were the most exploited. I don’t think there’s a vision of “solidarity” where everyone humors that delusion.
It only smells like that now...
AFAIK, the 418 status is more a reference to coffee making than to the Utah Teapot.
Not even typeclasses are safe from Wolfram!
> It is easier to use human labour than develop robot replacements. Corporations and aristocrats would already use robots if it makes more economic sense. Maybe that'll change, but usually these things take a long time.

A very intelligent AI may not feel the same way. And they may also find it less efficient to explain to us what they want done and how to do it, than it would be to just do it themselves (kind of like how bending an ant colony to service our needs might be possible in some situations, but very unlikely to be efficient)
>High school started earliest, then middle school, then primary school was latest. That's backwards from how it should have been, if anyone in my city had understood how the circadian rhythm changes during adolescence.

The explanation I always heard for this structure, very common in the US, is to allow for after school jobs for high schoolers.