skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, there was well-grounded peer reviewed theory in the physics literature.

There were predictions that could be made by the theoretical frameworks, and experiments to confirm those predictions.

The literature well described the composition of atoms, the decay of radioactive elements, the concept of fission, and the conversion of mass to energy.

No such groundwork exists to substantiate the claim that runaway AI is possible.

LessWrong, the so-called Alignment Forum, and similar Internet groups propose thought experiments. They couch these thought experiments in the guise of inevitable outcomes.

The prophesies of the influencers originating there have no more relationship to the truth than the average enthusiast’s daydreams.

The content there fills a role similar to science fiction in the atomic age: fanciful speculation on the properties of imaginary systems.

Over time, the bad content is forgotten, and a handful of items survive and look prescient via selection bias.
I've seen these floating around on YouTube, so you might have some luck searching there (be aware of your volume settings when playing these!)

- https://youtu.be/L9KLnN0GczI

- https://youtu.be/GtQdIYUtAHg

And a longer write-up on the background from the second video:

- http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/some-deep-analysi...

- http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symph...

- https://youtu.be/pFgui9uGmr4
These seems to be related to intelligence gathering. The CIA like all other intelligence services in the world gather intelligence on any country of interest. Including on most european allies.
If you liquidate in market half the companies in SP500 will seem like they are broke even though by definition you need to be profitable to get into SP500.
But that is not how companies are valued at. They also are valued with potential.
“Twitter is broke” is a drama created by Musk basically is a reason he says for all the actions.
Share holder tap isn’t dried up. He just need to open the tap with lower share price probably less that quarter a price he actually bought it for.
Nothing is in dooms day situation.
The limit is five why's and often you can't even get that. Planes still crash. Perhaps we've pulled on this thread as much as we can. Especially with long ass articles like this that say nothing new.

Seriously, what are we expecting to learn. This is like a plane at the bottom of the ocean never to be found. We'll never know what happened to this plane, and we don't have to.

We know that situation was probably poor pilot mental health but pilots still have to lie about antidepressants. We don't need to find that plane to fix that.
Then you can just look at the annual ones. Anything over 75k is more than safe to say is annual. I only go that high because it seems like you need certainty that it is not quarterly or bi-annual.
The around the corner convenience has had a considerable impact on my QoL. Living in New Zealand previously I'd have to get into a car and drive somewhere to get anything done. It annoyed me but I didn't realise how much stress it was adding to my life until I moved to Tokyo. From where I live there are three convenience stores within 2-minutes walking distance. It comes with density which is 10x where I'm from.
> “Because Mkultra" is not a valid mitigation or explanation of TK's mental health or lack of it. After all, the other participants didn't turn into serial murders, now did they?

Cigarettes cause cancer, and someone’s cancer can be directly linked to smoking even if not everyone who smokes gets cancer. There is no point diagnosing a dead person we don’t know personally, but dismissing the effect of an organised and long period of psychological torture just because not every participant ended up a terrorist sounds a bit myopic. For example, we don’t know about the raving lunatics that don’t make headlines.
The problem with Tai time, in offline systems it’s impossible to implement calendars on top. To translate Tai time to human-readable one, you gonna need a database of adjustments. We only have that data for very small interval of dates between 1972, and now()+6 months.

For the past, it’s possible to workaround by saying “no leap seconds” but this means that 12PM 1000 years ago might be any time of the day.

But that workaround not gonna work for the future. For many use cases it’s important to be able to represent date-time for many years in the future. The currently used formats allow that easily, at the price of these unpredictable leap second adjustments.
Most are in the garden in the back of the house... so hidden from the street but not really physically hidden. And house owner didn't declare that they build one (so hidden to the French Tax Service)
Unless there is a time machine to have D come up before Smalltalk and Common Lisp/Interlisp-D, it definitely did not do 1, 2 and 3 as influence to other languages.
PostmarketOS v23.06: From the GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest
How did a tool simplyfying the process of figuring out what rebates and incentives are available to consumers get flagged?
A car can go faster from Amsterdam to Berlin than the train, yet I still see people on the train.
Python has at least a couple of functional type checking systems. Elixir only has Dialyxer, which has never actually worked for me any time I’ve attempted to use it. (It’s not just me. At work we have a medium-sized Phoenix codebase and about every fifth person who joins is determined to add Dialyxer to our CI pipeline - so far without success.)
Both, hopefully? Manufacturing cars comes with a lot of environmental impact, too.
I think they use another definition of "small" than most of tech-oriented folks here at HN. They don't seem to be interested in filesizes, number of requests, or even usability. They used a WYSIWG builder (see their advertisement somewhere else in this thread), which is responsible for all of the bloat. It looked good on their (fruity?) devices, and they went with it. It doesn't look like anyone with a technical sensibility was ever involved.
I seriously doubt there’s a majority of automatic in
Germans and French’s individual buyers. In fact most people that don’t rent cars don’t are very hesitant when required to drive one (if that ever happen)
Last time I played Spore a long time ago, it was very limited and linear.
We are saying the same thing. The poor don’t dissolve in thin air. They are still there. Only with less quality of life, and with a high concentration of wealth nearby, in what used to be “their” place. Put two and two together.
That's an extremely myopic and immature view of what management is. You have probably only worked with incompetent managers and your experiences reduce a role that can be both stressful and complex to nothingness.
Americans push back against 'tip creep'
Underwear is indeed sold but the reason being spending nights at the office is probably mostly joking, hours can get long but not Elon long.

The underwear is for all the "Spend the night at xxx" situations you can probably imagine anywhere in the world (pun intended).
Abusive corona fear mongering lockdowns and related mass media censorship.

My account on twitter was locked for six months for referring to academic papers mentioning the toxic effects mass injecting an experimental substance into the population.

You know this and yet ask for examples. Sad.
> there are also vending machines that sell used women's underwear.

While the plural is technically true, it is a little disingenuous. There are very few, probably not enough to overflow the fingers of both hands (or even, maybe one hand) in the entirety of Japan.
Not everything needs to be done for purely economic purposes - that includes the creation and maintenance of transportation networks. Societies are free to have broader sets of objectives.
analogy is rain on your wedding day.
I have one week left as a manager before I start a new job as an IC. I am so excited to change back to being responsible for only my own output.
I'm not sure you really do.

I live in the UK and public transport is actually very unreliable. Cancellations and delays are frequent, strikes happen a dozen times a year, many services have an hour between trains... public transport will take you much linger to get anywhere and you'll be able to transport much less. The car has been a blessing when shopping.
No sane person demands the latter, but failing to do the former is just being a shitty person.

As always, people take shit to extremes. We should not throw out the idea itself just because those extremists.
Tor Project: Empowering Human Rights Defenders in Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico
We might not like it, but being stingy when it comes to payments is normal professional business practice.
Yes and no. They can force the the subs to go public again, but then the mods might quit. Losing a lot of mods is a bigger deal than losing the same number of users.

Trying to find a bunch of new mods will probably be an issue. Right now there isn't _too much_ complaining about mods. It's a very fine balance and replacing a bunch of existing ones with new ones might cause mayhem.
Open Source Firmware
I think you’re just saying that you prefer dynamically typed languages. The point here is that Python now has much better options than Elixir if you want to check types statically.
Intel and AMD might be fast on the paper... but the RAM bandwidth matter much more now (thing of gen AI applications) than raw CPU power. So Apple Silicon is really the only CPU doing crazy 200 / 400 / 800 GB/s on the consumer market.
Being a wokist should be your own decision instead of terrorising it on others, very akin to a cult.

Wokism in past years demonstrated severe intolerance to those who are moving forward with science and tech.
Has anyone decompiled the .jar files used for covert communication? Would be quite interesting to see how they work.

On another note it is easy to shame the CIA for making such a basic mistake as using subsequent IP numbers/same file layouts on sites. Of course they should be, but funnily enough mistakes such as these happen in every intelligence service.
As example would be the Russian military intelligence (GRU/GU) who have for years sent agents abroad with fake/cleaned Russian passports. Only problem being of course that the passport numbers were sequential and as in the case of the CIA websites, if you identified one agent and his passport, you could look up the next ones in line on databases and identify all the other active agents as well.

Reference for GRU passports: https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-gru-operatives-unmasked/460...
On GDPR, broadly speaking it's more "you can't" than "you must".

Don't keep people's data and you're fine.

Granted, some businesses need to keep some data as a matter of doing business. But the problem that pre-gdpr businesses have with the rules is that they were set up with the mindset that keeping everything is free.

A startup need merely nuke stale accounts. So it's an advantage over the incumbents, who have to figure out deletion in databases that weren't designed for it.
It does have dynamic linking,
--crate-type=dylib.
Most likely every game that allows private servers has a bunch of exploitable vulnerabilities. Game developers are under too much pressure to deliver to worry about security. A while ago a popular game was running direct connections to the developers mysql server.
Everything doesn't suck until you have to make money with it.
It does hurt in a "mess up your spatial awareness" way by not having icons in the exact same spot as the dock resizes to cater for the number of running applications.

The windows 10 task bar is best, left aligned icons that once pinned sit in the exact same spot.
What’s next, they will be forced to enter their first name?!

Come on, just enter he or she and get on with your life. Will you get upset on being able to choose Mr or Dr as well?
To be really honest, no, not at all.
This seems more a problem in how this specific public transport is run, than with public transport in general.
flagged as obvious spam
I don't really see how so many of these ended up in the wayback machine. My understanding is that they were supposed to seem like fairly unremarkable websites, but were built for basically one person. So it seems surprising that so many were visited by unrelated people.

Is there a log of who instigated a wayback archive? Could they have been a different group doing what this person was?

>Given that we cannot rule out ongoing risks to CIA employees or assets, we are not publishing full technical details regarding our process of mapping out the network at this time

I guess it's a hard thing to rule out, but I certainly hope the CIA isn't still using a communication method broken more than a decade ago.
It doesn't cross my mind.
> This isn’t Debian’s niche though.

Point 1 of the Social Contract[0] is literally "Debian will remain 100% Free"

Please explain how championing Software Freedom would not be Debian's niche.

[0] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
> only makes sense if there are no alternatives

Ah? I don't think it makes sense, alternatives or not. Neither the "commitment to subjective values* nor taking down society to solve that.
Are you speaking on behalf of the user or the developer here? And, as a native English speaker or not?

I have definitely seen my fair share of quirky texts in Danish UI's. It's not the end of the world but something that can clearly be improved.
In another comment the author wrote that the page is built with a WYSIWYG editor. Those tend to come with a lot of bloat and home-made tracking...
Comicbook Style Hyprland Rice
Random@throwaway.com can’t be that valuable surely?
No, you (and PartiallyTyped) are right, αιτιολογώ is more or less "to explain" (but in a sense of trying to find the causes for), δικαιολογώ is basically exactly "to excuse".
Not to worry. All we need to do is create a leftist AI and challenge their AI to a debate. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, after all.
I agree this part is a bit ambigous, but it says somewhere before this that the next drives to be released will be a 22TB and 28TB SMR drive. So I read this comment as "after this last 24TB PMR drive there will be the 28TB SMR drive before we will see the 32TB+ HAMR drives going forward" - so to me he was more talking purely about upcoming sizes
rather than technology connections and SMR seems to be on its way out too!?
I use the built-in capabilities of AWS and Vercel.

https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/projects/domains
PC gaming over 20 percent
Indeed, that's the elephant in the room. Self driving cars by virtue of being self driving can be sent on trips by themselves without requiring the driver to be present. The presence of a driver is a limiting factor, once that one drops away there will be many more trips. Suddenly kids can use the car and all kinds of pick up and delivery jobs become cost effective in a way that they are not today.
Human culture can’t be put into boxes. You can in many places legally name your child AHH43Z, but the grand majority of people will not take it as a joke and choose a same name. It’s the exact same here, 99.9% of people will go with he/she - the important part is that you don’t misgender someone deliberately as that is just rude (the same way calling John who hates being called Johnny that).
Please notice that the large majority of metamask users are complete non-techies. The rules of this mechanism are explained since the beginning: keep your keys somewhere safe and this hasn't been an issue since years now.

I'm sure you can agree that having someone above users with access to their private keys is a serious failure point to user privacy. Exactly the reason why nostr remains strongly out of reach when compared to government controlled media.
I have been to a few talks and likely about the footprint of making and running modern video games (and companies).

It is on my mind, and I have become more aware about how game design and implementations can facilitate over consumption. Small example is to have vsync enabled by default for all users, just so you don’t have users GPUs spinning at max speed.

I am not actively persuading it at the moment. But I have been aware about and been sharing knowledge with people of those ideas.

One nice side effect of reducing carbon footprint of these things is that it usually becomes cheaper to run as well :) similar to how accessibility seems to benefit a lot more people than what you target.
Not entirely.
Besides the ones I build for work, I have a few systems running in a local server that I wrote, but I already optimized my home electricity network to use as little as possible.

For work, I don't have all that much choice. Obviously, I try to write as efficient code as reasonable, but I have no input on where it's hosted.
Silicon Valley Confronts the Singularity
Someone should track the cheapest options out there, or just generally discover what the poorest buy and how much inflation has hit them.
Ask HN: How do you work in Programming language research?
I've always been interested in the theoretical side of Programming Languages. I've learned a dozen of them and built my own demo one.

I've always done this as a side project, but I'm often wondering if it's possible to start doing it full time. That would be great.

(For context: I have studied Maths, and worked as a SW engineer for the past few years, especially ML and now Data engineering. But, I'd love to get back to a more theoretical project at this point..)

The problem is, as far as I understand, the only people who work on PL research are:
- At universities. But, the universities in my city/country don't offer many opportunities in this area...
- At the R&D section in some corporation (eg Microsoft)

My question is, what are my options? How are all the maintainers/developers of the many programming languages around getting paid? Do you really do all this work in your free time, after having another full time job?

It appears there are not many opportunities around to get paid to do PL research... Am I missing some of them?
Hello, creator of Elixir here (and co-creator of Nx).

I like your breakdown of the requirements in three abilities. I think Elixir provides all three of them (with a caveat) and I will refer to two videos for those who want to learn more:

* This video shows how you can use Livebook (open-source computational notebook environment) to explore pre-trained neural networks (from Hugging Face), learn how they work, and then deploy them as part of a Phoenix web application: https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-bumblebee-gpt2-stable-d...

* This video shows how to scale a neural network serving, first to run it concurrently, and then have it run distributed over multiple CPUs and GPUs: https://news.livebook.dev/distributed2-machine-learning-note...

The caveat is about your second ability. The production scale models are, at the end of the day running native/cuda code, using the same backends as Python (Google XLA and LibTorch). What we do is that we compile your Elixir code into a graph which is then compiled to the CPU/GPU just-in time (in an approach similar to JAX). You can find more information here: https://github.com/elixir-nx/#why-elixir
Probably a lot, this isn't the first time Source has been affected by an RCE. For better or worse there's much less of an attack surface in newer multiplayer games though, since they've trended towards more closed ecosystems where the community isn't allowed to host their own servers or create their own content that the client consumes directly.

Nowadays I'd be more concerned about malicious mods for singleplayer titles.
That's a cool name!

I think I do the same, e.g. when I have to pack up for a vacation and at the same time need to bring my apartment in good shape: I basically just look around, see what looks wrong, fix it. Continue with the next.

I regularly amaze myself when at some point I take a small break or walk into another room and stuff looks really much better.
I've done both and I can assure you that management is not less work.

In fact, you are more likely to work longer hours, and attend meetings at stupid times because that's the only slot you can get the more senior managers to meet at.

However, you sound disillusioned with your work, and maybe you do need to transition into something else. A new challenge can revitalise you, and it doesn't have to be forever.

I've met plenty of engineers who seem to believe that everyone else's non technical role is easy. Keep an open mind, and don't approach new opportunities with a negative attitude, or you will probably remain discontented.
I work on autonomous vehicles, what on earth do I know about LKAS or exploring new problem spaces?

It's not like a basic Corolla has had features like drowsiness detection for close to a decade.

And you seem to have forgotten that in 2016 Elon claimed _all_ Teslas had FSD capable hardware, never contingent on if you had paid for FSD. That means the upgrades to 3 and 4 were paid upgrades for people who thought they were paying for a car that could already do FSD.

Overall you're upset and barking up the wrong tree (hardly even in the right forest)
I’d be happy to include carbon footprint considerations in the projects I work on, but often clients are not willing to pay for it.
There is a massive difference in maturity crossing from individual contributor to manager between the military and corporate world. Never in the corporate world have I seen a junior manager tell their boss ”no” and pushback as I have in the military.

In the corporate world it’s all about hiring/firing versus the military where it’s all about developing people and liability at all levels. The key consequence of that is that in the corporate world people are eager to play it safe and follow trends versus the military where its generally considered a safe environment for learning more tolerant of controlled failure. Tolerance of controlled failure is how I learned to become a developer while working at Travelocity a billion years ago and I have not seen that since (in the corporate world).
SMTP : Gmail :: NNTP : Google Groups

Except whoever made Google Groups (and bought out and shut down DejaNews for it) got their promotion and lost interest and so Usenet For The Unwashed Masses got nixed like so many other Google products.
Before he was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was a mind-control test subject
It’s quite sad to hear that basic human decency is a political statement.

Next time one should also write informally business emails?
People do genuinely click on and buy things from ads. I've never done it, but I helped my personal trainer sell his workout programs online.

I thought he was absolutely crazy and was going to waste a bunch of money. I was completely and utterly wrong. People were clicking ads and buying his workout plans.

At that point I realized I'm completely out of touch with the majority of social media users.
What if I peg the likelihood of an AI extinction event at 0.01%?

What if the likelihood of AI "solving" climate change is 10% and the alternative is human extinction?

Can we agree that coming up with sci-fi scenarios and assigning arbitrary likelihood figures to them is pointless?
I don't think many people consider "email" to be a community in any meaningful way. The same way people don't consider physical mail, the telephone network or the internet as a whole a community.
> Friedrich Kittler

Whoever decided to not name him Adolf did the guy a huge favor.
Internet, just as cinema, television, books, people, travels, etc needs you to become aware of what you want from it. Honestly, if we consider the Internet[/the Web] as a kind of information utopia, it can definitely be!

I will cite a quote [that I think is] from William Gibson: "The absolute most important skill to master in those days is to find the correct words to type in Google". I will add: "don't let anyone choose them for you !!!"
Do we know of a GRU officer that brought this flaw up and was fired for it? As that seems to be what happened to John Reidy.