skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not like that. There's a much simpler solution. Make it mandatory to have written on box just like any other tech spec, the minimum date until when security updates will be provided, the cadence of updates and their nature (e.g. for Android could be upstream updates).

There is already legislative warranty framework around compliance to promised specs. This means if the date is not honored, customers can turn against stores and return the products. Stores can then return against distributors/manufacturers, etc.

Also forbid sales of any network connected devices (phones, tablets, TVs, routers, etc) past that date because it's a wide security risk, particularly for people who are IT analphabets.

You'll then see how spectacularly quickly everyone lines up to security update schedules and standards. They will also find a way to prolong the date for devices that sell well.
Not sure what this is. Didn't work in Firefox even with uBlock disabled.
That would be too difficult
English having sticking power depends on how the future goes.

Why did Latin stick around so much? Basically because no 2 european countries spoke the same language so it was the only way long-term communication was possible, voth over time and distance. Additional causes were the church clinging to latin, and knowledge in books was in Latin. Both of these were self reenforcing.

So in a future with 100s of tiny languages, English might stick around for a long time. If however a new great empire rises ( China? Arab? Something on nobody's radar?), the days of all previous great languages are over, including English.
This. I wish websites had this as a fallback mode, when I do not allow their 5 third party script sources. I also wish this was done in products like Jira (basically anything out of Atlassian), which have very bad WYSIWYG kind of editors.
So I guess you'd have to temporarily turn on CoW, take a snapshot, make sure all the files are fully duplicated, turn off CoW to achieve that. Since you can't flip the setting at runtime right now, that feature seems quite far away.
Emacs [video]
We actually have this website in Australia it’s been around for a while:

https://www.forsalebyowner.com.au/
There is no model called "davinci-003". I was talking about "davinci", aka GPT-3 175B. You are probably talking about "text-davinci-003", which is an instruction tuned version of the base GPT-3.5 ("code-davinci-002").

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers
What banks offer low interest lines of credit now that Chase ended FRB’s incentive
Poop: it's the shit!
It wasn't cool then either.
Because Spez can't read it, he can only parse shapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq7DEUhr7o0
>One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way, with no physical theory in mind

Isn't this the fundamental mystery about all science, in a way? You have to start with some kind of hypothesis, and that hypothesis likely comes from looking over various kinds of data and doing mysterious mental convolutions on them.
> I've seen worse - for example, code that takes the equivalent of that, and splits it into 100 functions across 10+ files.

This so many times. Will never understand why people are so afraid of multi thousand lines of properly structured code but will happily giggle when the same structure is split across 10-20 files. And no, it’s not for reuse sake.
Isn't this the same discussion of infinite growth versus the ceiling of finite resources.

It is logically not possible might take 20 years or 700 years but eventually a ceiling is reached.
Makes sense to keep the taxes separate. Citizens should know how much money is not going to the provider of their product/service, but to the gang with a monopoly on violence. You will find that in more authoritarian nations it is mandated to show the final price including taxes.
Diet control is the most effective way to lose weight, though not necessarily easy for people and exercise is the best way to improve health and fitness. Strangely, I find my appetite is suppressed immediately after doing a bit of cycling, but I'm sure I make up for it the following day.
> Am I super atypical? Or is he?

There's an obvious answer here being that he's the John Carmack.
Nuclear power plants produce many many orders of magnitude more radioactivity than coal power plants for a given amount of energy produced. You are probably misinterpreting the famous 1978 study [1] where the radioactive emissions of nuclear and coal power plants were estimated to be roughly the same. This does not include the solid and liquid nuclear waste, only the radioactive gases that are inadvertently leaked from nuclear reactors. Coal ash is barely radioactive at all, and the radioactivity is completely negligible compared to the chemical toxicity.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.202.4372.1045
Perhaps <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_testing> as mentioned in the Kuhn presentation would be helpful?
it's really interesting where this comes from, and why this seems to some such an easy "gotcha".

first off, that these come up doesn't mean they're wrong, though it does likely mean they're shallow.

more deeply, this is an old, well-known dynamic often decried by the left. the left will dig deeper into often pretty obvious social dysfunctions and pioneer a social critique, analyzing the political and economic structures and systems that underpin it, and turn it into a challenge to existing authorities. This challenge is complicated, it hinges on teaching you political economy first, before it can even start to tell you what the systemic problem actually is. but it touches on real problems people feel every day.

The conservatives make a media thing out of it. Now, mass media, forever, has made their money by selling your prejudices back to you; from entertainment to news, they all basically work this way. Conservatives work this way as well (making for that sweet synergy between the two): it takes a run-down, stripped-down, dumbed-down version of the criticism, strips all political economy analysis from it (can't have them blame capitalism!), frinds some easy scarecrow figures - Gates, Soros, whoever (not that they're not horrible people, but that's not the point really), ascribes "debauchery and corruption" to them (because then the SYSTEM is fine).

In the end, when people then google the problems, they find these easy stories, which makes them associate the identification of the problem with these dumbed-down assaults. Then even mentioning the problem becomes that.
> Additionally, all of Europe is turning racist more and more and more.

Facts to back up that wide generic claim?
And that is why they made the stock exchange ;)
Sadly I checked that and it still doesn't work. I'm using guake on mint.
Book Review: Slouching Towards Utopia
Nuclear waste does not consist of Uranium, but of the much more radioactive fission products. The Okla natural reactor went critical for the last time around 2 billion years ago. Indeed, nuclear waste is not a problem if you can wait for 2 billion years.
You'd still make a ridiculous amount of money before that happened.
I'm a landlord and have been giving my tenants the option to tip. It's well deserved for all the extra work making sure they have a nice place to stay.
>1. So you start digging and find huge concrete cylinders with clearly marked "radioactive" warning signs. Hilarity ensues, people sue each other, and cylinders get moved somewhere else.

The radioactive symbol (trefoil) was invented in 1946. In 2007 a new supplementary symbol was created. Sure it still includes a trefoil, but it's smaller.

Now just imagine the symbols we used today, what we think is obvious might not be obvious in 100 years, 1000 years, 10000 years, much less in 100000 years.

These are time spans that aren't imaginable to us. Creating a symbol that's intelligible throughout that time is a task we dont know we can do.

Can you decipher the symbols in Göbleki Tepe reliably? There are some hypotheses around these. But if they're warning you about something that warning is hard to decipher, much less obvious. And this is only 10000 years ago.
Making batteries more sustainable, more durable and better-performing
The US created WIPO and bullied everyone else to join, there's a big difference in what you can do when you're the one with the world's biggest army by a long shot.
A group of ex-Twitter employees is launching a new social platform: Spill
> For many in Eastern Europe emigrating to Germany is no longer attractive.

Not entirely sure why your comment gets downvoted because this is accurate. Pay in germany is at the same level or lower than most east eu countries, in tech, after factoring in the cost of living. Workers in other industries face abuse on a regular basis, at least based on what i was told by many of them ranging from taxi drivers, to factory workers, to phd students. This supposedly allied country is so hostile that when an east european reaches a leading position it makes the news. Instead germany ends up attracting bad apples since no self respecting person wants to work there or in similarly hostile north European countries (ie Sweden). They treat people like cheap labour, get what they pay for, and then complain.
This system tries to put into your head that you either are exploited (worker) or are the exploiter (owner), while we could try to arrange our society in a more cooperative way, e.g. with worker cooperatives. Unfortunately the whole system is stuck against such cooperative structures, because elites don't want these type of arrangements to become legitimized on a big scale.
I'm good for about 3-4 hours of focused knowledge work a day before I need a break or change in context. In the evenings when things are much quieter in my environment, I can squeeze in another 1-2 hours if its necessary.

I do agree with the "go to the gym" part of his spiel.
Well, from my experience, here is the likely reason that NASA doesn’t like a fixed-price contract: ownership and/or control of the technology.

Cost-type contracts give the government more opportunity to “participate” in the development process. Fixed-price contracts typically don’t when written properly.

Agencies like NASA are run by contractors—-just like all of the tech agencies these days (about 70%).[0] These folks like to get their hands on the technology and “play” with it.

Sometimes, they like to go in their labs and “reinvent” it, or “peruse it” for their own company’s product developments.

And sometimes, they just like to massage the tech in a direction so that their own positions/support contracts at the agency are solidified.

“Ah, this is nonsense,” you say. And I say “I watched it happen in DoD—and was the victim of it on several occasions-for years and years and years.”

In the old days, it was just a battle trying to keep government employees out of your intellectual property.

Then, the government went to the current “support contractor” model. And it got to be an even bigger problem.

There are rules that try to prevent contractors from stealing from each other, but it happens nonetheless.

From the government’s point of view, contractors that self-level in technology is a “win.” For the individual contractor with unique technology, a cost-type contract can be a disaster.

So, if I worked at SpaceX, I would definitely want fixed-price contracts with firm deliverables and IP rights and nobody from the government getting involved with my technology or engineering.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/o530104...
This:

> If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great!
It's a bit older, but Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, by Diomidis Spinellis, is my go-to. <https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/>
The point is that you're generating diagrams from code that's already been written, you're not modelling, do you? ;-)

Those are a different kind of diagram than the one you create from scratch to decide what goes in the program.
Usually I search for something which is exposed to the user of the repo (particular CLI command, particular interface or function, particular GUI element, ..) because I want to understand how that part works and to me there's no better way to achieve that than starting where the user starts .

Repeat this enough and architectural patterns reveal themselves naturally.
Do you also tip them for being good tenants?
I think what you meant to say is:

"OpenAI desperately wants for nobody else to be able to come along and play in their sandbox so instead of facing competition head-on and playing fair, they are going to employ "regulatory capture" and try and enjoin government to grant themselves (and a few other incumbent players) an unfair advantage over newcomers."
Did you come across any good documentation around this? Last time I checked it all still felt very early, with Go itself not supporting WASI as compile target yet (this will change soon) and TinyGo not fully suporting `net/http`, and not many examples of how to pass structs between a Go wasm host and Go wasm module, with even strings requiring unsafe pointers IIRC.
False. Most modern day users of IRC are aware of software like IRCCloud which allow seamless participation in IRC channels on mobile.
Growth doesn't require more resources. If your barber finds a way to cut your hair 10% faster, that shows up in GDP growth. Increasing efficiency leads to increased GDP.
With Yjs, how do you persist data in a "normal" database?
And yeah, it may he easy for text editing (as pretty much all work is already done) but what if you have some other features where you want to get "live syncing"? It starts out easy but can become harder imo.
> where most programs use unsafe directly or in (non-stdlib) dependencies [0].

Interesting study I hadn't seen before. I think stdblib-vs-external crate is a bit arbitrary of a definition. Rust deliberately chooses to have a relatively small standard library, and there is a core set of special crates written by the similar people and with similar quality to the standard library. Hashbrown is a particularly obvious example: the standard library HashMap and HashSet are a thin wrapper around the external crate, so using the external crate is just as safe.

I'd be interested in a more recent paper that includes miri test coverage.

The authors also have a good caveat that it's 60% of popular libraries, not 60% of codebases. If you browse around crates.io comparing download stats to dependency stats you'll see download stats are far far larger, but that the difference varies wildly depending on the type of crate. Crates that tend to be used by applications but not libraries tend not to be depended on by crates published to crates.io. I'd expect these crates to be less likely to use unsafe. But it's still clearly a lot. (And I think my point above that there isn't a clear stdblib vs external crates distinction cuts the other way as well: there have been soundness bugs in the standard library)
While I'm sure there are startups using Lisp, Clojure might be the most widely used List dialect amongst startup.
Show HN: Visit material by local network on any device
Supported ipad and phone, but screen width less than 375px isn't firendly.
The Theory That Would Not Die, by McGrayne was fun, about the history of Bayesian statistics.

Also not exactly what was asked, but so good: James Gleick’s ”Information”. It is about the history of information theory or how to statistically argue about information. Really starts from the beginning, eg. how some tribes used drums to talk to each other over kilometers away.
Yes, but at least some US jurisdictions require an attorney (and fee) to go through probate. California even charges the fee as a percentage of the gross value of the estate, ignoring debt. So you can die with zero net worth, but your estate still has to cough up $40,000 or so to pay an attorney because you owned a single family residence with an underwater mortgage. That's doesn't happen with a trust.
The experts in this case are the analysts whose job is trying to figure out the sorts of things you mentioned from intel that’s almost always patchy, misleading, simply wrong, gathered from different, often conflicting sources. Sure, there’s also a lot of simple factual information, but the juiciest, most classified parts are likely intel reports that are by necessity a result of interpretation.
Okay, doc fixed, now you should be able to toggle the ToC on your phone.
Handling lack of motivation and communication in early-stage startup
I have an employee who I’ll call B. B joined us and got off to a good start but has recently faltered - having missed an all-hands and two weekly 1:1s with me - and is now producing no output at all.

I’ve asked B repeatedly - both as their boss and their friend (”never hire friends” feels true here!) - what’s wrong and if I can help, and I’ve had another employee who leads on admin, including HR, do the same.

We’ve received little in the way of responses. Examples include:

* “there’s not much to talk about”

* “i’m not sure i’m in the mood to talk about it right now” (which didn’t change days later)

* “it’s just so much i can’t even be arsed to explain tbh”

* “i just don’t even think there’s much to talk about”

* “I don’t really feel like going into it, it just feels quite foggy to me at the moment”

I’m erring on the side of just firing them, because I’ve made a concerted effort to get to the bottom of it and it’s an immense distraction from building our MVP, but I feel like I’m missing something. Any thoughts?
I can’t tell if this is an AI fake or not, and that scares me.
What exactly is the pain of unfreezing? I was able to do it all online in a couple of minutes on each of the three major credit bureau sites.
The previous US president took classified war plans with him, kept them in cardboard boxes in a bathroom at his residence which is also a public club, showed some of the papers to members of the public, and then lied about them when the Feds came calling.

Having an airtight recruiting funnel at the bottom is useless if the top is wide open.
Yeah the likelyhood it happens to me is tiny indeed. But it happens to some people and I have wondered how they get access to their money to pay for lawyers etc.
Ask HN: What online forums/communities do you like, admire or recommend?
As Reddit protests are getting big attention, maybe it's great moment to share some alternative forums in which we are engaged.
Apart from HN I can recommend acclaimed music for music lovers.
Has anyone has tried searching for new basic operations, below the level of neural networks? We've been using these methods for years, and I doubt the first major breakthrough in ML is the most optimal method possible.

Consider the extreme case of searching over all mathematical and logical operations to see if something really novel can be discovered.

How feasible would this be?
There's pleasure to be had in mastering a craft, especially so when it offers challenges, when it offers an avenue for personal expression -- the age old tension between journey and destination (the photograph).

A real photograph is a vista into the soul of a photographer and the photograph becomes a means for people to connect. A means for a photographer to feel seen, to show what he or she sees or feels.
It's just an interesting project. Not really struggling with motivation as a result. It's also huge in terms of scope and ambition, so I can always take a break and take a weekend and go build something else within the scope of the project and still move it forward.
> Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

For more than a year, a handful of powermods were banning users which discussed the _possibility_ that SARS-CoV-2 was less dangerous than the media and politicians were claiming (now we have the data and it was less dangerous) or discussed the _possibility_ that the COVID vaccines were less effective or had worse side effects than the media and politicians were claiming (we now have the data and they were less effective and had worse side effects). These mods, who run the default subreddits, were banning users for posting in other subs which permitted such discussions -- that's right, if you posted in a sub that critically discussed what was going on, you'd get banned from default subs like r/pics and r/tifu.

I could list at least a hundred personal examples that had nothing to do with SARS-CoV-2 (usually opposing the American leftwing hive mind), but it's too easy for someone to just dismiss those as unsupported personal anecdotes. OTOH, it was well documented how Reddit shut down discussion re: SARS-CoV-2, as many other sites and services did.
This is the most out of touch comments on this entire platform, or one of the funniest.

Do you not have a day job that can supplement your rent-seeking behaviour?
Make sense to keep separated to please every american libertarian tourist that travel around the world, as long as the actual total is showing.
The problem was caused by a forced deprecation of NodeJSFunction in cdk. Which basically made it impossible at the time to add any dependencies… there was nothing me or the more senior engineers could do to solve it.

I figured a work around that involved having a separate manifest for the deps and packing them manually. It worked… I also tried the lambda without any dependencies and they the lambda’s dependencies were available in the instance even though they were not listed anywhere.

The needlessly convoluted part is getting a NodeJS function into prod, the forced change caused something to break even though I was already on 18_x

But I will not lie, bats was super useful when debugging another engineer’s build, and avoiding the whole push to debug is so so so so helpful.

For the pipeline thing, idk why it was setup as such; but it certainly broke everything once a push to mainline was done, kinda like a runtime error when it should have been a compiler error. Though it was certainly on us.

CDK is fine too. Tbh I kinda love CDK and don’t want to go to anything else when it comes to cloud deployment.

In retrospect, perhaps that one sour experience had just too much of an impact.

I want a better way to manage external dependencies mostly. Afaict for scala I will need to pull the package into Brazil to get it to work. An analogue to NPMPM would be great but I can see why there isn’t one yet. A colleague had issues getting python dependencies to work so yeah.

Here’s to hoping Peru would fix those.
Yes, I agree, but I think you missed what I replied to, namely that the system would “be more democratic”.
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Ah, the quintessential punchcard-drop story. Every old programmer has one of those stories.

My dad was just a mechanical engineer, and just crunched numbers with punch cards, but even he has stories about worrying about dropping punch cards.
I have to say including Twitter — who wanted to kill of third party apps — to make Reddit seem more level headed is an interesting way of approaching it.

The gist is this: if I am the average user, not on Reddit Premium and using the native app with ads, the available numbers indicate Reddit earns $X on me. Their API pricing is at least $2X per user. So either they are seeing API users as cash cows, or they want to price them out.

And like I indicated, there’s a loting things Reddit could’ve done that would’ve led to less drama:

- Longer transition period
- Outright banning third party apps
- Include ads in the API
- Make API access part of Reddit Premium

To me it seems that every step of the way, Reddit made the most confusing and most rage inducing choice available to them. That’s either incompetence or malice.
Aha..just the matter of forcing obsolescence in order to raise profits in modern economy. Please excercise only on yourself, not on me.
Another thing, it may be useless from your point of view. But most of the people are using phone just for calling - strange isn't it :) ?