skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mastodon's culture of anti-everything is naive. All posts (except "DMs") are public and can be scraped and made searchable at will for anyone mildly motivated to do so.

It's the opposite of naive: it's extremely well thought out and heavily deliberated. Making so many things "public" by default is an invite to people. It's an intentional welcome mat in old school "Internet 1.0" sort of way. But just because you want to welcome people doesn't mean you have to welcome robots (crawlers, etc). Many instances do that deliberately in a very old school "Internet 1.0" way by saying so in their ROBOTS.TXT file (in addition to other places).

In the old web, crawlers were expected to read ROBOTS.TXT and no matter how "public" they thought the website was they found, ROBOTS.TXT was supposed to be the final word.

Anyone scraping or making searchable "at will" random chunks of the Fediverse is easily violating some number of ROBOTS.TXT files. That is an ancient technical convention that isn't new or naive. The internet knew even then that bad actors would ignore ROBOTS.TXT files. The old internet learned to name and shame the bad actors, and in some cases would back that up by force with firewall blocks and in some cases lawsuits. Mastodon does that too. That's why a lot of Mastodon instances are preemptively blocking Threads, because they don't trust Meta to follow good behaviors such as checking ROBOTS.TXT, because Meta hasn't shown a history of being a good actor there and because Thread's privacy policies seem to imply that they don't care to be a good actor for their own users (to the point of not supporting EU users at all because GDPR is "too hard"), so it makes it much harder to assume they will be good actors with respect to all of the conventions around Mastodon data including the classic ROBOTS.TXT.

The Mastodon culture of "public for people, but not for ROBOTS, or only select ROBOTS" is an ancient internet tradition. It's hard to call that naive, when it has decades of history and internet social norms (including good outcomes) behind it. What's naive is thinking that because some major corporations stopped respecting good social norms in the name of increased ad revenue that those norms no longer apply and "anything technically possible is allowable". Read the ROBOTS.TXT in the room and stop being motivated by technology for technology's sake without respecting ethics. Be a good actor in any ecosystem.
> Kind of like taxes

A tax to fund a newspaper subsidy would make sense. This isn't a tax. It's mandated commerce. We usually restrict that for protecting protected classes.
https://archive.today/6o6nh
As Germany went into renewables, France doubled down on nuclear, creating the EPR program and starting to build Flamanville 3 as a prototype that would lead to development of replacements for their current plants.

20 years later Flamanville 3 is still not finished and the EPR has been a disaster overall. Their current plants are starting to fail, they are producing less and less every year and had to rely on neighbors to supply electricity for them last year.

So there is quite a real and possible alternate timeline where Germany invests in nuclear instead of renewables and now it's still producing more than half of its electricity from coal because the nuclear plants are not finished and at huge cost.

I'm taking the current reality in a heartbeat.
I disagree with a lot of C-18 as-is, but I can't pretend like I'm not happy to see the fed gov't not spending ad dollars on Meta.
That’s absurd. Hydrogen cars will drop to costs comparable to ICE cars. It is a massive reduction in raw material needs. Not to mention the millions of people who need fast public refueling since they do not have access to home chargers.

People are stuck in an innovation trap with BEVs. It is pretty much what Clay Christensen wrote about in his book Innovator’s Dilemma. You cannot just linearly improve a single idea until it surpasses all other ideas, now and forever. Especially one that has many limits as BEVs. It is inevitable that there will be step functions in change, i.e. disruptive changes, coming to the market. Forward thinking companies will plan for that inevitability, not pretend BEVs are the final destination of personal transportation.

The world has already squandered billions of dollars on every kind of green technology. That could easily imply BEVs themselves. It is the biggest of double standards to not insist on hydrogen subsidies. If you truly oppose the idea, then oppose all subsidies for all green energy. If not, then accept hydrogen subsidies as a good idea.
Yeah, but that just proves my point further: having more exclusives only matters to the point that the exclusives drum up interest; which for my household won't happen with Microsoft for another 5+ years unless they get a surprise in there.
> that's... not a valid argument for this discussion?

I believe the intention was to argue against the notion that 95% of users don't read release notes. The contention seems to be that, because Firefox users are more technical (or enthusiast, perhaps), more than 5% of Firefox users would read be aware of this change.
Well let me know when another county is in a position to stop America from doing anything.
It's ceding not cedeing.
You have to give them credit for putting their money where their mouth is here.

But it's also easy to parody this. I am just imagining Ilya and Jan coming out on stage wearing red capes.

I think George Hotz made sense when he pointed out that the best defense will be having the technology available to everyone rather than a small group. We can at least try to create a collective "digital immune system" against unaligned agents with our own majority of aligned agents.

But I also believe that there isn't any really effective mitigation against superintelligence superseding human decision making aside from just not deploying it. And it doesn't need to be alive or anything to be dangerous. All you need is for a large amount of decision-making for critical systems to be given over to hyperspeed AI and that creates a brittle situation where things like computer viruses can be existential risks. It's something similar to the danger of nuclear weapons.

Even if you just make GPT-4 say 33% smarter and 50 or 100 times faster and more efficient, that can lead to control of industrial and military assets being handed over to these AI agents. Because the agents are so much faster, humans cannot possibly compete, and if you interrupt them to try to give them new instructions then your competitor's AIs race ahead the equivalent of days or weeks of work. This, again, is a precarious situation to be in.

There is huge promise and benefit from making the systems faster, smarter, and more efficient, but in the next few years we may be walking a fine line. We should agree to place some limitation on the performance level of AI hardware that we will design and manufacture.
I don't know man, maybe a massive antitrust case is enough.
Wouldn’t any two party system converge to the same useless equilibrium?
The Final Fantasy series has long appealed to fujoshis, not least by sexualizing not just women but also men characters, it's just that the M rating allows them to be more explicit about it.
Hydrogen is also very expensive and can’t really be produced sustainably at scale yet..
I think spatially, which I 1) did not recognize that I was doing for a long time, and 2) thought was much more common than it is.

For years I tried to figure out why my short term memory seemed so good even though I'm neuroatypical in a way that's usually associated with reduced working memory. Turns out I've been building mind palaces basically for longer than I can remember, but not with images, which is why none of the descriptions ever resonated for me. Mind palaces with a blindfold on, if you will.

Being able to rotate items in my brain sure came in handy as a bike mechanic. I'm also handy in a move when you have one box that won't fit in your car/truck. But it also led to arguments with my father about whether I was turning a bolt the wrong way, when wrenching a bolt that is on the back side of something.
The turtle stacking arms race has begun. Or, is transitioning into the AI enhanced era.
>In 2022, 85% of the country's drinkable water was produced through desalination of saltwater and brackish water.

Israel does this by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Israel#/media/File:E...

It's not even remotely economical without huge government subsidies. Completely untenable with current technology for poorer countries, or anyone that cares at all about carbon emissions.
> They literally can be used in closed source software without a word of credit.

This is not true of any of the "acceptable licenses" listed by FreeBSD.

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/

See: the clauses saying "must reproduce/retain the above copyright".
Just curious, why might we not be able to align super intelligence? I’m extremely ignorant in this space so forgive me if it’s a dumb question but I am definitely curious to learn more
This is an interesting comment because lately it feels like its very cool to be an alarmist! Lots of positive press for people warning about the dangers of AI, Altman and others being taken very seriously, VC and other funders obviously leaning into the space in part because of the related hype

And in other fields, being alarmist has paid off too with little recourse for bad predictions -- how many times have we heard that there will be huge climate disasters ending humanity, the extinction of bees, mass starvation, etc. (not to diminish the dangers of climate change which is obviously very real)? I think alarmism is generally rewarded, at least in media.
It might not necessarily have a bad effect. It would create new capabilities and those will be followed by new products. AI is amazing at demand induction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
The funniest part:

> But the Liberal government’s decision does not extend to the party. Liberal Party of Canada spokesperson Parker Lund said in a statement that the party would continue to advertise on Meta-owned platforms. According to the company’s ad library, the party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month.

So: we would not deal with FB because it's evil, unless of course it could help us personally to win the elections, in which case of course we'll deal with them. Taxpayer money is another business, this is what you use for posturing.
I don't understand how people can still pretend to ignore this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/

There's also a whole map-territory problem where we're still pretending the distinction hasn't collapsed, Baudrillard-style. As if we weren't all obsessed with "prompt engineering" (whereby the machine trains us).
Really lavish sets and impressive costuming, though.
> What sort of argument is this. We need multiple political parties. Therefore, our existence is important even if we secure insignificant votes?

Yes, it keeps userland code honest if you follow the published API and not a specific behaviour. See for example the fsync() saga on Linux:

* https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238121

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119991

It's the same reason why porting to obscure CPUs can be useful: DEC Alpha was never popular, but supporting it kind of forced Linux to be 64-bit clean in some ways, so when amd64 came along there was already a bunch of infrastructure in place.

And having 'external parties' that are not part of the same 'tribal structures' and same zeitgeist / group think can allow for experimenting of ideas.
> The right one is a tax that funds a subsidy for news.

The thing here though is that the Canadian government already does this. I really don't understand their logic with introducing this fee vs just raising the existing subsidy directly.
I only have a BS in Physics but you're basically correct. But to make it even more simple and divorced from method:

1) There's a large difference in energy and entropy between seawater and drinkable "fresh" water. This represents a bare minimum expenditure, below which you can never go, lest you attempt to create a perpetual motion machine.

2) No matter how you do it: Well, now you have a bunch of previously dissolved solids covering everything. How do you get them off of your surfaces and out of your tubes and "away" from everything else?

Once you stare at the first factor, then look at the second factor, then go back and forth, you come to your senses and realize that the dream of a jeroboam of colorless, tasteless water next to a little pile of fine powder is just not going to happen, and that the more sensible thing is to release some extra briny water back to your source and hope it doesn't kill too many fish.
My main take away from this is that OpenAI is anticipating super intelligence within the span of ten years. It's one thing to talk about it in a theoretical sense or read about it in science fiction. But to read about it in the real world coming from an operating company in earnest, it feels surreal.
That's an imagined and unrealistic scenario.

Most countries with proportional systems have a threshold that requires something like 5% of the vote to earn seats. So nobody with 2% of the vote is going to be part of the coalition. Furthermore, pulling out of coalition, without a very good reason, is an excellent way to ensure that nobody wants you as a coalition partner in the future.

Yes, some countries with PR have government stability issues. So does the US, see government shutdowns, accusation of obstructionism, etc. That's just an inevitable consequence of humans disagreeing about policy.
All that work to avoid purchasing a $5 keyboard? People are cheap about the weirdest things.
Just a one man show for now but this is my current side project:

https://www.tesotaoverland.com/product/apds

The idea is that this replaces a many of the components you'd normally use to build out a 12V electrical system for a van or 4wd truck. Just plug everything in to the WAGO connectors, no bus bars, fuse blocks or difficult crimp connections required.
>lxappearance

My understanding is that lxappearance is for GTK stuff only; is there a similar tool for Qt-based stuff?
it is ai generated
>85% of the country's drinkable water

"the country" in this context is Israel, since HN truncates the wiki link right before that.
There is no "two party system". There is a "first post the post" system. There are only two viable parties because of it.
That's because 30 years ago, BSD was getting sued by Ma Bell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc..... ), which is probably the only reason Linux exists.

...though I guess you could also argue that people felt like they had more stake in GPL than BSD-licensed code.
Which efforts are those? The last congress passed historic amounts of funding for infrastructure and technology investment. One of the primary powers of congress is that of the purse. What's the significant policy thing congress should clearly have done, because the polity so obviously supports it and is being thwarted by structural and elite factors? I bet it's not as clear as it seems.
>And I found it quite fun to prepare.

What resources did you use?
I agree.

Interestingly, so did the founders -- even the ones that started the first political parties. So it seems that even though political parties are a disease, it's one that's very hard to avoid.
"Even if you just make GPT-4 say 33% smarter and 50 or 100 times faster and more efficient, that can lead to control of industrial and military assets being handed over to these AI agents."

I call BS on this...it's an LLM...
What protocol? Control systems type stuff?
Given that's exactly what ended up happening in Australia I wouldn't be surprised.
I love the simplicity of this game, very nicely done.

And I poked around your source, and it's nice to see how you've created the levels ( https://www.thomasfriday.com/cuboid/levels.js ).
This isn't a tax though. This is mandating that company A sell company B's product, and also pay a set price, which may or may not be a fair price. Should a company be willing to happily go out of business because they are not allowed to sell at a fair market price?

This is actually a step further into absurdity since Facebook is not selling news articles, they are merely linking them. Its the equivalent of the Government telling me I need to pay Nike $5 every time I say the word Nike to someone.
That particular book has a long reservation line in my library network, because it is so popular.
For those of us not from Canada[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act
That's awesome, any automatic HTTPS (ideally by default)?
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The grandparent comment was regarding that the average user doesn’t read release notes and I was remarking that Firefox users are not average.

Now I agree that this change is not being communicated properly but to claim that the Firefox user is similar to the average computer user is not something I would agree with.
> header:field1,field2,field3"data"hash (with a fixed number of fields).

In a language where regex is just right there, like Perl, I agree that the natural way to parse this is always a regex, although on the other hand in Perl the natural way to do almost everything is a regex so maybe Perl was a bad example.

In a language with split_once (and a proper string reference type) I actually rather like split_once here, splitting away header, and then field1, and then field2, and then field3, and then data, leaving just hash.

I guess this gets to your concern, by writing it with split_once we're clear about a lot of your answers, each delimiter is specified with what it's splitting, none of the fields are optional (unless we write that) and (if we write code to check) what is valid in each field.
I read TPP first, then the Goal, and about 1/3 of the way through realized they were the same story. I finished up the Goal without much interest so maybe there were things I missed.
Author here. I love single-instance deployments. I think they make a lot of sense when you don't need high-availability. We have quite a number of people that run Litestream on a single instance with a volume attached. We run Litestream internally in several places as well.

LiteFS tries to improve upon Litestream by making it simple to integrate backups and make it easy to scale out your application in different regions without changing your app. I don't think every application needs to be on the edge but we're hoping to make it easy enough that it's more a question of "why not?"
Perhaps if the gold rush is a scam? But if it is real, then it is honest work.
We're building an AI tool and die maker. Never officially launched on HN but was YC W21 (https://atomic.industries). I would argue this is one of the most challenging intersections of software and hardware in the world. We are building a vertically integrated system that can design and fabricate tooling (injection molds, etc).
Easier, for those in charge, compared to accepting blame for bad policies.
They'd still happily write them for kids who can get their parents to co-sign their loan though so you'd mainly just screw over poor kids.
https://archive.is/bKcOE
Having worked on and plumbed boats, the bigger issue is actually growth and especially mineral deposits. Corrosion is less of an issue since most plumbing is actually plastic at this point. Although any water that goes into an appliance needs to be fresh water, so it would really ONLY be for showering.

Sewage in particular will create hard deposits in plumbing that needs to be dealt with every few years at a minimum.

Frankly, unless you are in a rather extreme environment, like a desert, or a boat where you have to carry or make all your own fresh water, saving a few gallons on showering and washing is pretty inefficient. You could have a far larger impact by changing habits, and ensuring low flow appliances.
that's the point. Nobody even has a good enough definition of consciousness and intelligence.
> But if you want to talk about the fluctuations themselves, you want the chart to be full of those fluctuations, not anchored at zero and all the fluctuations just little wiggles relegated to the top.

Wouldn't you then plot the _fluctuations_ anchored at 0?

Same with voltage, using some 'absolute' voltage value doesn't make sense. If you put ground and zero at 100V and the positive node to 105V, your 5V device will work just fine.
Are you sure there isnt some button visible on screen to create local account?

I've always been installing Pro versions and I've never been forced to use MS account
While I'm not a big fan of all of them, Germany saw the rise of three different new parties in the last 40 years (Green, Linke, AFD). They are all relevant political players and came out of the existing parties not representing sentiment felt by substantial portions of the electorate. I hate the AFD and Linke, but gotta say this is awesome and how the system should work.

I'm not sure what would happen without parties entirely. I expect you'd see some natural alliances between politicians arise and you are back to parties. There is a somewhat related learning from German history. During the Weimar republic Germany had many very small parties represented in there parliament. This led to it becoming very hard to make progress which led to high churn of who was in power and allowed weird candidates to rise and take a shot at it. The criticism was that three parliament is just debating and debating and nothing ever happens. Weimar cycled through an unreasonable amount of politicians and eventually ended up with Hitler. This is why Germany now requires a minimum of 5% of votes for a party before they get any seats. If you'd somehow manage to keep parties from emerging, I'd expect a worse form of this problem to happen.
They will sell no-addblock days. For security reasons. The last big gulp to take from the little audience they have left.
This is also missing the part where your friend in your same class drops out for a startup, and you can choose to join him or stick with PhD.

Then give you the option a year later to congratulate him on the startup’s multi-billion exit.
Not sure if this helps, but according to Wikipedia:

> Despite being a component of GNOME, Web has no dependency on GNOME components, so it can be potentially installed on any system supporting GTK and WebKitGTK.
Huh... I saw him a decade ago at a Fringe festival in Dublin. I went in purely at random -- I walked into literally the first show I saw a sign for. I thought it was very odd that I'd come all the way from the US to Ireland to see an actor from New York.

But it was certainly a heck of a show. It was long and rambling and all over the map. It was the last show of the day and he just kept going until they literally shut the lights off on him. (Fringe shows are usually rigorously timed because they're trying to cram in as many as they can.) It was incredibly high energy -- resulting in him gradually stripping off the drag costume he started with, until he was practically naked.

He said it was an abbreviation of a project he was working on, doing 24 decades in 24 hours. According to his Wikipedia article, he actually did that once, a few years later.

So, it's kinda nifty to catch up on this almost exactly a decade later. Thanks for posting that.
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