skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't the meat of my argument. I think it is much more likely that they'll come up with new legislation that is actually targeted at the problem, if they don't just forgive the debt. I think people are more likely to do the democracy stuff - voting for and influencing representatives who have plans to fix this - if they still see it as a problem to be solved, rather than something that doesn't affect them due to their debt having been forgiven already.
The app can write (or modify) the yaml template file on first run. That's how I discovered the configuration file in the first place, with the app prompting me to open the directory and copy config.yaml.template to config.yaml and customize.
The secondary element can be humans.

Even if it only gets as far as running a Ponzi or pyramid scheme — and there are plenty of those where the scheme itself is a small block of text that convinces those reading it to (1) share it, and (2) give money to the person who first showed them this message — still breaks economics bad enough to matter, even if you don't give any credence at all to Yudkowsky etc.

Or in a more literal sense of using humans, as each separate component of ordering the creation and delivery of a custom (non-computer) virus has been demonstrated, and the only good news is the bio-labs say no to printing the D/RNA for dangerous viruses and so do the LLMs that most noobs try to use.
Oh, for sure! And rotational disk semantics are different from SSD ones.

It isn't hard to start to realize that there are some things you can ask the controller to do, that they just can't do. They can pretend to for you, though.
So: D is bad because it needs more breakage! But at the same time D is bad because it needs less breakage. Right.
> Do you have any other references on this?

Not a reference per-se, but an interesting post on the Nirokey blog "NextBox: Why we Decided for and Against Ubuntu Core"

[1]https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-an...
I live in Sacramento, there is some context the author may not have been aware of.

First off, hydrology and specifically excess water management in the valley is often geared toward irrigation and replenishing ground water. We have areas that are suppose to become flooded to keep the pressure off of the earthen levees along the river and delta (created by the confluence of the Sacramento to and San Joaquin rivers) as the water drains into the San Francisco Bay. This gives us a way to slow the discharge of water give it time to soak in join the water table. There are improvements here like widening the river channels we’ve carved out to expose more surface area for it to soak into, but there are no plans for this afaik.

Second, we have a network of creeks, canals, and drainage ditches that move excess water to less harmful places, Dry
Creek (which is dry most of the year) was carrying water as it should in march. These provide essential, perennial habitats that were once naturally occurring, and are filled and let dry by design.

Like most new media coverage, with this article being no exception, there is a tendency to focus on the main dams, but in the case of the American River, there are 5 dams in all managing water flow, with a dozen or so more impounding various tributaries. Combined this is known as the Upper American River Project, which acts a extra power capacity that SMUD (Sacramento’s community-owned power company) can turn on quickly. This network holds back nearly 430,000 acre/ft of water. A cascading failure in these dams can cause a significant portion of this (with the total capacity being released as almost 1/2 of Folsom’s capacity) could cause a spillway event and a wall of water careening downstream and potentially rupturing levees that were not rated for this volume. Because of the nature of the river’s bend and the narrowing of distance between the banks, the most obvious spot a break would occur is near Sacramento State University and would fill up the River Park neighborhood instantly given that exists between two levees when a new one was built to restrict the flow of the river so they can build more homes. The floodwaters would make it to downtown, destroying the affluent area of East Sacramento, Midtown, and running south through land park, elmhurst, and oak park. This is just one disaster scenarios that could lead to post-Katrina New Orleans type of flooding, with only hours of warning to execute a poorly planned evacuation.

The upper American River project series of damns is fairly well maintained, but for every Sierra Nevada snowmelt River that drain into then Sacramento or San Joaquin, there is a similar network of dams at varying levels of repair, waiting for a large cascading failure event to give the poor unsuspecting towns in the valley an unfortunate surprise.
You don’t need a robot to build a deck.

You only need a human who is properly motivated to build a deck.

Language based AI’s are sufficient to motivate a person to do stuff.

In short, you and the person to whom you responded are missing the point… WE are the robots.
Inflection AI secures $1.3B in funding for empowering Personal AI for All
> The first sync might take extra long (say 30s) because there could be tons of stuff unsynced.

that would have to be an awful lot of data, or a very slow drive, perhaps a floppy?

your other assumptions are sensible, to an extent. but way back when, we typically had a script that sent a message to all ttys saying "system going down in 30 seconds, please log off" - in fact ALL the other systems i used back then (Dec10, VAX, IBM 4381) did this before the sync (or whatever they did).
Moto phones are excellent value and generally sturdy. I find myself going further and further down market buying cheaper phones like Moto G because I haven't seen a flagship feature that looks really compelling in years. Unless foldables really take off (doubt it) my main concern is really just battery and the Moto G Power is the current king.
Our RDS instance suddenly became unresponsive to queries at ~11:30 am ET. Not sure if related, but haven't been able to find a cause yet and DB is hanging when trying to reboot. Strange b/c we can login to the DB, but querying any table, including postgres internal tables, hangs indefinitely.
You don't have to watch YouTube videos, you choose to.
Two teaspoons is already one sixth of the WHO recommended daily sugar intake, and that was just the coffee. And WHO claims there are additional health benefits expected if you can do half of what they recommend.
Some countries will issue second passports legally exactly for the reasons you list, but you typically need to apply for permission. Replacing your passport early without needing to pretend it's lost because it has stamps from a "problematic" country tends to be easier most places, but of course a hassle if you travel to these countries more than once.
>A lot of the AI doomerism comes from folks who do not understand the real complexities in making systems which really can function in a fully autonomous way in an environment which is hostile and dynamic.

That's a rather interesting mix of appeal to ignorance and argumentum ad hominem. Two genetic fallacies, together; neither addressing what is said, but instead who says it.

>Evolutionary goals are not easy even with autonomous systems as goal definition is largely defined by societal needs, the environments we stay in and the resources we work with.

Great way to say "I didn't read the article".

The author is not talking about evolutionary _goals_.
What was really surprising was when we learned that the new pope also used Reader.
Same?

So ICE will arrest you for a VPN?

ICE runs concentration camps?

This comparison is silly.
Or a genetics lab hooked up to a computer...
Yes, but promise not to laugh: "application icon, a side view of a fat seagull". Fat seagull :D
RHEL 7 was introduced in 2014; RHEL8 came out in 2019.

That 5 years is the longest gap so far.
it happens to us all!
It's beautiful but from decades of experience in app development, I moved away about 10 years ago from using images as icons to insisting that all icons be vector files.

But hiring an Adobe Illustrator expert to professionally recreate the icon as a layered SVG wouldn't cost much. Well done!
100 Pokecoins for 0.99 yet also selling 550 Pokecoins for 6.99!

0.99 * 6 = 600 Pokecoins for $5.99

550 poke coins is $6.99

So more money for less tokens when you buy 'more'
I had the same thought regarding that article, and I think it's worth emphasizing that even the bowler in the GQ article risked being an "expert beginner" but managed to escape the trap:

"As such, Advanced Beginners can break one of two ways: they can move to Competent and start to grasp the big picture and their place in it, or they can ‘graduate’ to Expert Beginner by assuming that they’ve graduated to Expert."

...and then from the OP:

> When Belmonte first joined the PBA, he reveled in his power game: Let’s break some pins, he remembers thinking. But as he watched some of the game’s finest up close, he realized something: “These guys had the ability to make the ball dance. They could make the ball dance to any tune the lane was asking for. And I couldn’t do that.”

> He worked to decrease his rev rate, his velocity, the number of moving parts to his game. And he slowed his approach, eliminating a “kangaroo hop” designed to generate power, and delivering the ball from a position of greater stability and balance. “I noticed my ball was still striking with 20 percent less revolutions, and my ball was still sending messengers. But I was more consistently in the pocket. And I realized, I don’t need to break a pin every round.”

So despite the "expert beginner" article using the author's own bowling experience as an anecdote of what not to do, it's not trying to say you should always follow the crowd and blindly trust the prevailing wisdom; rather, it's saying that you should seek to understand your faults and grasp the bigger picture, and not automatically assume that minor expertise necessarily implies major expertise.
I've seen a lot of commenters on HN like Fastmail and have nothing but praise for it.

But I disagree with

> all come with a modest price tag

The price tag may be modest for some people, but is not for everyone. If someone needs one mailbox per person in a family, the costs go up a lot with Fastmail. There are cheaper alternatives that have been around for long (though probably not doing things like developing new protocols such as JMAP). Some of these alternatives may also be suitable for people who don't want email to be hosted in the US.
AutoBTC launches L402 paywall for premium AI access
Explore the world together with AI-assisted collaborative travel itineraries
Even if it's years, it does get into RHEL, so it is value by itself, since I do assume they don't plan to shut down RHEL in 1 year.
> because it could be "three strikes and you lose your Google account", which is kinda big fraking deal.

Google accounts are fragile like people; they can suddenly cease operation, for no known reason.

I keep everything Google isolated. It's all in it's own browser or container. As for youtube, it ~only gets watched on a dedicated device attached to a TV.
If the API changes were meant to actually drive revenue rather than to simply put 3rd party apps out of business, then the incompetence in reddit is stronger than I previously imagined.

Every single move they have made regarding this change has been the wrong one. Incompetence is reddit's lifeblood, from an outside perspective.
What are you using for the GUI toolkit? The GUI looks awesome.
Do you pay for ad-free experiences when available?
American individualism is being eroded by progressives with a very strong, swift authoritarian whip. The same progressives that lobbied for individualism pre-2010.

What the fuck happened?
There is, in fact, zero hassle. "It just works
"
Also, GrapheneOS updates never remove functionality or battery life.
But yes it only works on supported devices - in related news, iOS does not run on unsupported devices, so what's your point?
Even if they are out of reach of western intelligence agencies, they are stepping on the Russian government’s toes with unsanctioned attacks on critical infrastructure.
Quantum random number generation based on a perovskite light emitting diode
> I wish apple let you switch between "swipe to type" and "swipe to move cursor".

Unsure if you know: you can press and hold the space bar to enable text navigation by swiping.
Users are also part of the content-generation algorithm. Youtube uses my view history in their recommendation algorithm to others. YT uses my interactions the same way, whether it's engaging with the creator in the comments or providing feedback for other viewers or just simply giving it a like.

Yes, I'm consuming the service, but I'm also contributing to it. Less users = less engagement, and maybe that's good for YT's bottom line but it's harmful to the ecosystem.

Using words like 'theft' to describe visiting an openly-accessible webpage with a browser extension that modifies the presentation of that webpage is a bit extreme.
Really interesting reading both sides of this argument, but I do see something missing from the entire conversation (unless someone snuck it in and I missed it):

Independent from the side you take on this, this decision was made by the judicial branch in the context of (hopefully) the constitution. If you disagree with the decision, there's a process (albeit a long one (on purpose)) to change our system, but that process resides in the legislative body, not the judiciary.

I encourage folks from both sides of the argument to keep that in mind.
Telsa getting to full automatic driving and then putting that tech, plus advances, into the Tesla bot. That is the bridge. Maybe it's not going to happen soon but it could be only a decade or two out.
“Kids” who play video-games, I presume.

Macron’s paternalistic tone won’t help France one bit, it wasn’t “kids” who just beat two off-duty cops in Marseile (one of them was left unconscious on the street), it wasn’t a “kid” the guy screaming “les arabes vous enkulent!” while live-streaming the whole thing.
Pyramid schemes are a nuisance. Covid-19 should have been a wake up call that most bio labs ought to be closely re-examined or closed down, regardless of whether an AI happens to be abusing them. The bio-lab scenario is the only one I see as being an actually plausible concern, though.
All those twitterers whose reach has now just plummeted must be real excited about the service they're paying for.
A lot of "dumb" systems we develop require unimaginable resource inputs just to produce a little extra output. Strip mining for coal, or using chemical fertilizer to grow corn to produce ethanol, for instance. There is no guarantee these days that a system will fail just because it requires huge energy inputs to produce marginal profit.

Evolutionary goals are not something that has to be aligned. Evolution isn't specific to organic life, it's an intrinsic rule of self-organizing systems. Viruses aren't alive, but they evolve. A clever stitch of self-writing code on a Pi attached to someone's TV may evolve without knowing or intending to.

What makes this dangerous now is the vast amount of energy input toward specific systems. Saying "there's surely not enough energy available for it to..." is false comfort. It's underrating the process of evolution.

As a poker analogy, if you just called the guy across from you because you think he couldn't possibly have more than two pair, you're wrong. You've bet into a full house.

[edit: Upon review, I think I've unintentionally gone 100% Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park in this response LOL]
This was a really useful read for me.

Every now and then I want to try something similar, hoping that perhaps today coding on an iPad is a good experience. Now I won’t.
About micro-optimizations, I don’t know AVX512 but with AVX2 you could compute 4 nodes in parallel, an example in C++, untested https://gist.github.com/Const-me/90a52f291c1fcb06142307facdb...

Here’s another idea how to optimize. Instead of a single 2D array, I would rework the memory layout. Specifically, make 6 2D arrays.
Two with uint64_t values, for even/odd cells in the lookup tables.
Two with bits for even/odd cells in the old grid state.
Two with bits for even/odd cells in the new grid state.
This improves RAM access patterns because any half of the cycle loads / stores half as many cache lines. After the complete cycle, swap old state with new state.

Gathering inputs from neighbors, and scattering output to them could be a bit tricky this way, but you can simplify if you can limit grid size to even number in both X and Y direction. At least the even/odd halves will be of the equal size this way.
To me, it's not clear if the survey is using "medication" interchangeably with "controlled substances".

As you point out: the section heading reads "medications" but all the subpoints read "controlled substances". I'd wager it's intentionally ambiguous, for hype points.
Yeah for sure. I do believe AI has a lot of potential to break through various hard problems we currently face in science and medicine.

I just really dislike the idea of the "omniscient super-intelligent ruler of chaos" vision of AI that I keep encountering in the media.
You are using an AI to write this? Or do a vast majority of actual humans rely on crappy writing? You do make a good point. I'll shove my next few wikipedia edits down an AIs gullet...

*This was written with an AI, and I told it to be spicy, salty and smarmy.
> broad authority was already approved by Congress in statute

No, it wasn't, at least not clearly. The statute the Secretary of Education relied on is the HEROES Act of 2003, which lets them "waive or modify." It's a novel reading of that statute (and its intent) to say it permits large-scale forgiveness. (It's not textually inappropriate, hence the grey area.)
I'm sure there are some people out there who feel such entitlement. I haven't seen anyone claiming such entitlement here though.

Personally, I agree with the 'my device, my rules' comment. If YouTube want to (try to) block me, they can go ahead. They're under no obligation to serve me video content even if I didn't block ads, so it makes little difference.
Empowering Educators with MagicSchool and Replit Deployments
I need a Google Chrome plugin to block all HN comments that include the term "third world countries". That term is so grossly out of date. Read about it on Wiki. Yes, in wealthy countries, it is a proxy for very poor countries. Still, I do not like that term in 2023. It feels lazy.

And more HN vagueness in this post: "My country" Why not just say your country name? After all, most of the world is developing. You don't have much to lose.
Why do so many people feel entitled to tell me how to use my computer? If they choose not to serve their webpages to me, that's fine. To be realistic, I probably won't even notice their attempt because my adblocker will already have updated to bypass their silly attempt.

But yes, it is their right to try. Just as it is my right to install & use an adblocker.
Is Pokemon Go successful? I feel it was huge for a few months in 2016, and then died as everyone moved on to other things.
TL;DR- no, it's all in your head, and liberals complain the world is unfair more than conservatives.
Yeah, yeah and you literally died. This is HN and not reddit, you are better than that.
Most ads are a pile of garbage crafted in a way to brainwash people into thinking they need something that they actually don't. And the more sophisticated they are, the more costly they become and need to be pushed again and again down the users throats to remain profitable. My point is that unless there is some sort of pro-users regulation against advertising, ads use will be abused just like anything that is not regulated is abused by the strongest animals in the pack at the expense of the weakest. Those of us who remember how was surfing the web in its infancy recall the text ads, the small banners, then side frames, then animated ones, then popups, then interstitials, then videos with one ad at the beginning, then more ads scattered during play time, etc. Advertising has been growing since day one, and will continue to grow; no matter what the users accept today, it won't be enough tomorrow, and more and more annoyances will come. This must be stopped, either by regulation or by the use of ad blocking.
I think we'll see some development in AI regarding this field. If i had the skills, I'd explore the possibility of a headless browser that unbeknownst to Google uses local AI to fully play ad filled videos, then remove all crap and pass them to the user browser.
No astroturfing on my part, I love Fastmail.
12th Chief Directorate – Responsible of the nuclear arsenal of the state
>Its a shame seemingly our entire industry has adopted a "Make 10s of Billions or GTFO" mentality for its projects.

I don't know what industry "ours" is referring to in this context because this has happened to practically every industry.
Similar thoughts expressed at https://reallifemag.com/magic-numbers/ "Given algorithms’ power and obscurity, it seems almost inevitable that they would be regarded as capricious gods. They are something we can’t touch or see directly but affect our everyday lives, bringing rewarding attention to some and swarming punishments to others."

In a sense, the algorithmic deities use their knowledge about users to show them what they want to see. This knowledge is not god-like omniscience, but it can appear so. But the algorithms, in their social media form, convince users they are benefiting from the revelations, but the goals of the system are to lead uses to sacrifice their time, energy, and individuality on to feed the AI, much like we saw with the use of reddit and stackoverflow to train LLMs.

When a user styles themselves “content creator”, the urge to get likes, comments, and shares becomes tied to making money. These "creators" scratch at the bottom for a few pennies slipping through the hands of the businesses scooping up the rivers of money generated by the sharecroppers of social media.

Social media companies allow individual creators to use the service in exchange for a share of the attention. The social media companies sell this attention at a profit to advertisers. But the individual is never freed from service to the algorithm, and so is analogous to sharecropping.
> For the susceptible, instant communication with an entity representing a god, even God himself, could be transformative.

I wonder if the author is aware of AI Jesus on twitch?[1] AI representing a popular deity, open 24/7.

1: https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus
tl;dr: Hillary Clinton lost and Trump won
Looks like https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
I was hardcore Ingress from nearly day one.

Submitting portals and planning day trips around portal locations.

It was all about chasing levels, so once I reached level 8 the spell wore off and I haven't been back.
I’d argue Fantastic Beasts is almost the perfect property to try and clone Pokémon with.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if it actually worked, it always crashes when patching for me.

NewPipe is another option which works since it's a full client, though it doesn't handle logging in and youtube without an account and personalized recommended is like swimming in a river of garbage.
I'm really interested in the Fairphone as my next phone, but which OS to go with. I'm currently on an older iPhone, because given the choice of the two, I trust Apple slightly more than Google.

You can load at least a few different alternative operating system, but finding one that will give me at the very least Signal is proving difficult.
Judging from the Cargo.toml

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/blob/main/Cargo.toml

It seems to use iced gui toolkit

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
> Why would you need a list at all?
> If it's worth remembering, you'll remember you've read it, and if you want to refresh your memory what better than to reread?

If it’s not worth remembering, you won’t remember if you read it or not — so you could waste time rereading a forgettable book until you realize. ;)