skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just different. I hate hangovers but love a good buzz. Unfortunately, alcohol is quite addictive to me. While I never got to the level I would define myself and alcoholic (I have definitely tip-toed that line in my life) just going out for one pint or having one beer is almost impossible - once I start drinking, all common sense goes out of the window and I keep going. A normal night to the pub might end up easily at 5 or 8 pints. At least it doesn't really alter my character :)

It's interesting because I don't tend to get addicted to things. I've never tried hard drugs, but I can quit coffee cold-turkey (and have done, several times. Just because I was feeling like switching to tea or oat milk in the morning) and never really got into weed.

(anyway, stopped drinking a couple months ago. Alcohol free beer is great for that to be honest. I do miss a nice whiskey from time to time. Let's see if I keep it up)
Device manager is usually step 2 or 3 when something is going wrong. When you're fixing someone else's computer, you'll probably spend a lot of time there. Windows also tends to break in mysterious ways after applying OS updates which need to reboot. The observable symptoms are things like network timeouts, performance drops, and random application crashes, but the people you're providing tech support to usually don't have the knowledge to recognize when those are justified problems or windows itself being silly.
"When TikTok is forced to become economically viable"

Tik Tok is China's greatest soft power accomplishment. It's not going anywhere unless the CCP wills it so. Profitability is entirely irrelevant.
No, it's definitely within the point.
It's immediately noticeable when scrolling in a browser, dragging stuff around or just moving the mouse. If you haven't seen it in person, go to an Apple store and do a quick comparison between the Macbook Pro (120hz) and the Air (60hz), or iPad vs iPad Pro. They're always next to each other.
Does NPR want to get into the moderation business at scale of their instance becomes popular?

Or is this just their own instance where nobody else can participate?
Alas, lots of devops feel like they're cleverer than they are. I certainly did when I was younger.

The sign of seniority in a devops engineer is removing code, breaking down complexity, and being able to design simple, standalone services at a useful level of granularity. Sorry to hear you've not been around those people enough.

For what it is worth, even senior devops end up building convoluted crap too, but often this is because the organisation demands it. People don't recognise the hidden costs of complexity, in build or operation. Cleverness is often complexity, and promoting those kinds of solutions means creating the environment for "10x" engineers. People come to rely upon them because investing too deeply in learning about other people's complex legacies is almosy never worth it.
I should think you'd be pleased with a design in which correcting unsocial behavior requires so much less effort than perpetrating it.
You could though, it’s entirely fair. All information about the system is available for measurement down to the quantum level across all dimensions, because it’s a perfect fidelity to reality. Regardless of whatever specific tool you choose, in theory I could build tools that measure in near infinite detail the stick. I could not however build a computer that could calculate that detail of the stick with perfect fidelity to reality. It’s a gross approximation no matter what you do. I would however point out that my nbody example is entirely analogous and is perhaps more tractable as to why it’s impossible to compare measuring reality to calculating a simulation. Simulations have the advantage that you can reproduce and tweak it repeatedly without having to configure the universe in a specific way every time. You can hold variables constant, you can change the laws of nature, you can simplify complexities to narrow in on a specific behavior. But simulations are never a replacement for measurement of reality, and the reason is the opposite of what you’re holding out. Reality can be measured to an arbitrary level of complexity literally in real time, even systems that are so complex we can’t consider possibly simulating even approximations of the system.
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I'm a programmer so I waste 100% of my time on computer problems
Free start-up idea: dust covers that say "Please leave me the fuck alone"
I'd argue that the intoxicating part of asphyxiation is the rush from the reintroduction of oxygen, more so than the suffocation itself. Though there's also something to be said for the adrenaline rush of your body thinking its dying.
Were any others written in a portable language, that could also run on something as small as a PDP11? Were any of them as easy to port as Unix was? Were any of them written in a language as easy to implement as C was?

If not, then you didn't really answer what I said. You made an argument that used some of the same words, but didn't actually answer any of the substance.

The security complaints... yeah. A safer language would give you a smaller footprint of vulnerabilities, which would have made your life easier for last two decades. (Maybe you earned being bitter about C.) That's unrelated to the spread of C and Unix in the 1970s and 80s, though.
Because I can use it to sell it online more easily?
Last year I dabbled in making a DSL like solution for operator overloading: https://github.com/Laremere/alg

It ends up slightly more verbose in usage, but the statements themselves remain concise. Unfortunately I got a real job that isn't using Zig, so I've stopped working on this. Others can feel free to take up the torch, though.
Do you know of any good resources to read about testing? How did you learn what you know?
There are a lot of ML applications outside of LLMs. Why would a developer invest in it? Because there are hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there where computer vision, text recognition, etc would be useful features.
It’s not guaranteed to be async-safe. From the C++ proposal (P0881R7):

> Note about signal safety: this proposal does not attempt to provide a signal-safe solution for capturing and decoding stacktraces. Such functionality currently is not implementable on some of the popular platforms.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p08...

[edit] Replying here, because HN is doing its occasional obnoxious rate-limiting of replies:

Signal-safe and async-safe are effectively the same thing, and “async-safe” absolutely isn’t the same thing as “thread-safe”.

A code path that acquires a mutex can be thread-safe; that’s absolutely not async-safe.

If boost implemented a fully async-safe stack unwinder, complete with DWARF expression support, Apple compact unwind encoding support, and all the other features required across platforms, then good for them — but that’s not what <stacktrace> is guaranteed to provide, and such a thing is still not sufficient to implement anything but the most barebones portion of a real crash reporter.
Imagine trying to explain this article to a caveman, or even someone from 200 years ago.
Back when I helped out on the assembly instructions for the Shapeoko 2:

http://shapeoko.github.io/Docs/index.html

one of the things which was worked up was a way to make an SVG interactive:

http://shapeoko.github.io/Docs/content/tPictures/PS20028-100...

(click on part #11 in the list --- in retrospect the parts of the drawing itself should have highlighted the matching part entry in the list)
We don't even take particularly good care of the parts of the earth we live in and directly need to survive, why are we going to get it right in a remote and hostile environment like that?

Sure, I'm all for trying, but I don't hold out a ton of hope. I'd love to be wrong.
This is easily one of the best programming talks I have ever seen, I loved the "no compiler magic" compile-time-known string formatting, and generics literally becoming a thing without magic either.
I think of making something like Wikipedia where I write loads of useful stuff an throw in a handful of dick pics - not mine - but you get the general idea.

There are also more sophisticated attacks like even single pixel attacks that one can place in his content.

I expect if I put enough counter AI attacks in my websites media/text they will notice that and put me on their exclusion list.

Well they are first to pull asshole move so won’t feel guilty.
You are talking about mere milliseconds in the grand scheme of things. There's plenty of advancements 10-20 years off that are far from vaporware and will probably happen within 5 years of prediction.

The issue is that misestimation of a few key factors and overestimation of our current capabilities. If we already have the tech for self driving cars, maybe it will only take 10 years.

Assuming this something computers do quite well (wrong assumption, but it seemed reasonable at the time), we already have vehicles that can navigate themselves (we do), and we're only somewhat recently getting to the point that cars are sophisticated computers (mostly true, although computer control of car isn't something new.

There have been lots of ECUs for sometime, but the capabilities have really exploded. Maybe we just haven't gotten around to do self driving and the tools are in our hands right now!

When you understand how the auto industry works, 10 years is a relatively short timespan, that will result in ~2-5ish major design iterations. If you don't have the feature presently in the pipeline, the clock is really ticking, assuming it's new technology.

To deliver on the 10 year deadline, you will only have a couple years to be almost completely ready. 10 years is not "who knows", it's a bold prediction that implies the final product is imminent. People in tech didn't know what the fuck was going on, thinking we'd have taught the cars to drive and got the tech figured out in 5-7 years. It was loony toons.

Many very smart people I know, at least one of them inside the industry, seemed extremely confident of this. Things look different now.
You're right, but used dual port 10g ethernet cards do go for about $30/each... Of course, that doesn't get you hdmi encode/decode, and not new.
I was told your own body stops producing testosterone and this is permanent. So you are signing up to get injections in your ass once a week for the rest of your life. No idea if this is actually true though, I find it hard to believe personally as many bodybuilders will cycle on and off steroids constantly.
Isn't that what OOP is? Methods contain code, objects contain code and data, and invocations of code are primarily in reference to data.
Great but only tech Bros use generative AI. boomers don't use it
> real risk exists, to some degree or other

Risk of extinction? Or of bad outcomes?

I think everyone understands there are near-certain risks of bad outcomes. That's already happening all around us. Totally uncontroversial.

My post was about risk of extinction due to AI (x-risk), and risk of extinction due in particular to run-away AGI (as opposed to eg shit software accidentally launching a nuke, which isn't really an AI-specific concern). I think that view is still pretty eccentric. But please lmk if that's what you meant.

I've been at several ai labs and large corps. You at deepmind or openai by any chance? Just a guess ;)
Ah. I guess you can capture the stack trace at task creation point, then stitch together a new stack trace by replacing the generic common prefix of your worker thread trace with the task creation one.

But you can't use the basic_stacktrace container itself as it is immutable and not constructibe from a range, so you have to roll your own. You should be able to use the stacktrace_entries though.

Most importantly, I expect that capturing a stacktrace is quite expensive, so you might not be able to do it at task creation time, and it is too late to do it later. Maybe you want this only in debug mode.

Note I haven't actually tried any if this, it is just guesswork.
The slowness and small scale it is definitely a feature and not a bug.

You have time to actually interact with other people, you can engage with them at a more personal level.

I have slow email interactions that have moved from emails to actual mails where messages take weeks to arrive and it’s glorious.

It’s also an extremely kind environment, at least it is for me. It’s the entire opposite of most social media.
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Another missed chance to educate on the N+1 area. Join on unclustered index is still N+1, it’s just N+1 on disk instead of N+1 over the network and disk.
The US gov does a lot of unconstitutional things. I am just saying it's a lack of political will.
I'm fairly sure Italy would happily trade some pasta-based dish for unlimited hydroelectric energy.
The "rationalists" are more like a strange AI cult than a scientific or philosophical program. (I always put "rationalist" in quotes when referring to this group of people, because based on the things these people believe, it's a total misnomer.) At this point they're not even really trying to hide it anymore, with their prophet, Eliezer Yudkowsky, wailing in the wilderness about the imminent end of humanity. We've seen similar eschatological belief systems in recent history and they don't usually end well.
> "Cluetrain" though seems far more like mush to me.

Even after all these years, I have no real idea what Cluetrain is about, other than "consumers now have an internet full of information about products and services, companies will have to change how they market and sell stuff"
> What do you use instead [of std::iostream]?

This is what I want to know. Having come from C to C++, iostreams were a big improvement over the "strings" and print functions of C. I even extended a base iostream class to have a "teebuf" logger, that could output to multiple streams and had the standard logging levels.

It's been a while since I last had mastery of C++, but I'd like to hear what is as portable and better than iostreams.
Yes, it was available as an aftermarket option as well. But OnStar is a GM subsidiary and it has been a factory telematics feature in GM vehicles since the 90s. Most other automakers have their own equivalents these days. They vary on which commands can be sent remotely, but they pretty much all will remotely track stolen vehicles.
I think the key difference is language. I think human language is above a key threshold. Our syntaxes are infinitely generative and we have large vocabularies (100,000+ words) which are fully extensible. No other animals have that. My claim is AIs will be able to express any complex ideas in our language. But we cannot express our ideas in "cockroach language". So the analogy is not a good one.
There’s already a growing “sober” culture in the US and you can see that production of non alcoholic beer and other substitute goods for a “bad culture” are increasing. As a person in the medical field, the fall of alcohol culture in the US would be very welcome, many cirrhosis and pancreatitis patients I’m sure will have wished to never start drinking.
This is not "my system" just poking holes in the argument I was responding to. Let's say you don't get taxed in this manner until after $1B net worth.
Relatedly, if Harvard isn’t a good place for smart and not rich kids to socialize with rich kids, why would people want to go there? The point of Harvard is that you can become pals with a senator’s son. There are other schools if pure academic achievement is your primary interest. I don’t think some of the students discussing this topic realize why they want to go to Harvard, which is partly because of the legacies. Of course, this is a pretty cynical take, but I didn’t really understand the schools I was applying for at all when I was at that age.
Great news, but just to tone it down to reality a bit. The current drilled orebody is only down to 400m and are only resources now and not fully reserves (important distinction in mining).

The massive numbers they are talking about are extrapolating drill results down to 4500m, which is pretty crazy. But let’s say the orebody does extend to depth at regular grades, that would be the deepest mine in the world, and there are a lot cheaper options.

(I’m a hard rock mining engineer)
I don't know. Obviously school shootings are bad. Bad things will always happen as long as humans exist, and these bad things have some impact on children. We'll always want to reduce the amount of harm our children are exposed to.

But, isn't being a child in the United States significantly better than being a child _anywhere else_ 100 years ago? Even with the psychological harm caused by school shootings, hasn't there been a net improvement? I would much rather be a child worrying about a school shooter (with, in reality, a minuscule chance of it physically effecting me) versus being a child during the great depression, either of the world wars, or the cold war.

It's a very logical argument and coming from someone nowhere close to starting a family though; I am sure that most parents might agree but would continue to want their kids to be safer.

I'm not trying to say that none of this matters... I guess what I'm trying to say is that, those kids ended up alright in far worse circumstances, so kids today will be alright too.
do you still need one?
The issue with AI is that it may put too much power into a small groups hand. Imagine if you wanted to develop a weaponized prion or weaponized virus. In todays world this is possible but requires a state actor with systems of control, committees, over sight, testing facilities. Due to human limits it also takes time to complete.

Insert AI generation XIV .. a small group of cult fanatics with only slightly above average IQ’s band together and now get to skip all these limitations and are able to jump ahead to a killer aerosol prion delivery weapon system.

This group of people who follow their great leader (Jimbo)decide to release the weapon to save innocent souls before an evil daemon comet flies past the earth and turns all remaining humans into evil spirits.

My silly story is to just illustrate that there are many people with high IQ’s that also have emotional issues and can fall prey to cults, extremism, etc. Can humans be trusted using a AI with a human IQ of 9000 which is able to simulate reality in seconds.
Do you know if there are any arguments in the literature to the effect that actually useful quantum supremacy may never be possible in principle (not merely in practice)?

What I mean is: decoherence with environment must be held at bay long enough for the final answer to appear in the qubits with high probability. Based on examples from thermodynamics (such as impossibility of extracting useful work from a heat reservoir without a second, lower-temperature reservoir into which to dump heat), I could imagine a scenario where decoherence would always foil the computation at some point, perhaps at some intermediate time or in the final measurement. In particular examples, this would show up as irksome experimental limitations, but in fact these limitations would all stem from a deeper prohibition. And to the extent that decoherence could be managed (such as in the cited experiment), the resulting computation would not be "useful".
Not really the Matrix-to-IRC bridge demographic, are they?
A contract requires an agreement between two parties. I don't see how writing "the content on this blog is not for machine learning purposes" alone shows Google has agreed to your terms.
I've never been to the location/state but I got 56Mi on first try, best guess 23Mi. I can't tell you what about any of the pics made me think it was that state. It just felt like it.
Yeah, I'm a gamer and I definitely notice the difference between 60 hz and 120+ hz.

But for desktop productivity? I don't feel I gain anything from it. 60 hz is fine.
"Really, tesla needs decent dedicated controls with honda attention to detail and reliability."

This is a powerful statement, I really hope it becomes true. I want the car but not the liabilities and downtime.
I completely forgot about those trays. Yuck!
Nothing uses Vulkan Video.
Airpods are an existing product category (headphones) that everybody with a phone already uses. Couple that with Apple products being a status symbol, advertised everywhere, and it's not hard to see how Airpods could succeed even at a $200-ish price point.

As for AVP, it is a brand new category where the use cases are yet to be identified. It costs 2 months' rent, it has no killer apps that people are going to line up for, and you'll look weird wearing it. It's a completely different proposition.
If you'd read what I said, you'd understand why this doesn't apply.
He's just saying it's more like an "I" than his pharmacy-bot example. His concern is the future: what seemed "far off" now possibly might be in 5 years.
Apparently typical implementations of std::regex are inefficient like "'popen("perl..")' is faster" is inefficient!

I thing boost::regex is significantly faster although not particularly fast
Neither of those are end to end encrypted, so yes.
I guess you've not used VMWare, VirtualBox, DaVinci Resolve or most anything written in Java. There's more, but that's off the top of my head. There's plenty of software out there with unusably small text/displays even with just one display.
There's something to be said for not going full steam ahead when we don't have a strong idea of the outcome. This idea that progress is an intrinsic good therefore we must continue the march of technology is a fallacy. It is extreme hubris to think that we will be able to control a potential superintelligence. The cost of being wrong is hard to overstate.

>These systems stand zero chance of jumping from 0 to 100 because complicated systems don't do that.

This doesn't track with the lessons learned from LLMs. The obscene amounts of compute thrown at modern networks changes the calculus completely. ChatGPT essentially existed for years in the form of GPT-3, but no one knew what they had. The lesson to learn is that capabilities can far outpace expectations when obscene amounts of computation are in play.

>The people trying to regulate AI are concentrating economic upside into a handful of companies.

Yes, its clear this is the motivations for much of the anti-doom folks. They don't want to be left out of the fun and profit. Their argument is downstream from this. No, doing things public isn't the answer to safety, just like doing bioengineering research or nuclear research in public isn't the answer to safety.
The photo was too small so first thing I did was open it in a new tab only to have the game spoiled by the URL as the image had been hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons.