skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Existential risk" truly is a misnomer at this time. Please use the better fitting: "existential fear". AI "risk" could instead be applied to global information infrastructure, a collapse of the internet by rogue AI bots etc. There are too many technological challenges for any AI to overcome in robotics, mobile energy, material and bio printing/fabrication, and supply chain dominance for an imminent existential risk to humanity to be a credible near-term threat. LLM performance is a gift of data availability of the internet. There aren't equivalent datasets available for the challenges articulated above. How likely can they materialize, particularly by machines that do not yet have a tactile interface and understanding of the physical universe? Perhaps a malevolent machine sentience is possible at some time in the future-- but there are many undeveloped technologies required to pose a threat to human existence.
I have a Synology NAS and it has a Photos app that is essentially a Google photos clone. It has face recognition, tags, albums, auto backup from phone, etc.

Works pretty well, although I wasn't seeking it out or researching other options
Science as a rear-view mirror.
Actually if you look back to 8 and 16 bit home computers, with C, C++, Object Pascal, BASIC, Modula-2, full of inline Assembly, in many cases that being the biggest code surface, it is quite similar.

Nowadays C and C++ took the role of that inline Assembly, with higher level systems languages taking over the role of the former.
I'd say that is rose tinted glasses.

Society was not higher trust.

The very small, and reasonably tight nit communities that were online were higher trust.

And part of that was because there were far more potential real world consequences because the networks were small enough that even by the time I got online in '93 or so, if I you did something serious I'd be able to find a sysadmin etc. at your school or workplace or one of the few commercial ISPs and get someone to take it on themselves to get personally involved in rectifying the issue.

That doesn't scale very well.

By the time I co-founded my first company - an ISP - in '95, it was already rapidly starting to break down, as more and more people online with only a vague, impersonal commercial relationship to their network providers and who had options that meant consequences were rapidly diminishing.
Or, we try to set common rules before the thing goes out of hand. We already have UN rules about fire weapons, and your argument applies to those as well. But just as we have widely agreed upon rules for weapons, if there's the chance of AI being used used for war (which indeed seems to be the case, see e.g. UAVs) then we should regulate it as well. This leaves out civil uses of AI, but as we have safety regulations for every other technology, I don't see why AI should be an exception. Then we can discuss which regulations make sense and which not, but this is a different topic.

PS: I don't thik AI will pose an existential risk to our species anytime soon, if ever. But it can already cause damages if used improperly, like any other technology. So it has to be regulated, like any other technology.
Have you used Claude? I regularly use them instead of GPT4 because of the larger context window. 4 is still useful when I want to give instructions to the system (Claude will refuse to do a lot), but generally the responses seem on par with each other.
All true but it does seem the emotion of it has softened a lot since then. In general, people seem more open to choosing the best tool for the job and keeping a mix of devices if need be.

It helps that interoperability and common software (or at least competent alternatives) is dramatically better than it used to be, that you can comfortably and inexpensively run Windows or Linux in a VM almost anywhere, and the web got big. There was once a lot of friction to so much as moving a file.

Gaming beyond Windows and native big name productivity software for Linux remain pain points.

Macs (let's ignore the Mac Pro) are relatively far less expensive than they used to be. The price difference was eye-watering for a lot of years. Still premium but about on the level of premium PCs.
Long story short it’s still a mystery why it’s broken and what caused it.
You had better believe that companies with margins that thin are tracking absolutely everything, often regardless of what your answer to the GDPR popup is
50 years ago, scientists thought coffee might treat children hyperactivity
Drops of God is fun and educational, as is Bartender (https://mangakakalot.com/read-in2uo158504890455). I also enjoyed Oishinbo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oishinbo), though admittedly the non-food part of the plot gets a bit stale/one-uppey.
When enterprise-sized IT departments wanted to switch away from cumbersome, expensive commercial Unix systems, RHEL was there to step in. As a result, it became the default enterprise Linux distribution and vendor.

The reason why it is still special is because even in 2023, if any commercial enterprise applications and hardware support Linux at all, it is generally only RHEL.
I'd argue that toolbar gore is only really a problem if the user is stretching the intended use of toolbars, which is to elevate a handful of more important or frequently used functions to the top level of the UI. Of course they're going to break down if the user puts everything on them.

I think the best fix for this problem is to have different sets of toolbars for different tasks, a sort of modality. Ribbons achieve this, but but they also bring odd bits of seemingly arbitrary UI design that can't be changed, like the gigantic paste button in Word's Home ribbon which can't be removed without removing the whole control group. The more uniform/standardized nature of the old toolbars is preferable in my eyes.
I'm lacking lots of context obviously but:
What good is a sophisticated metric when the pages they index are mostly blogspam SO clones etc? I'm not interested in the "most responsive" SO clone. Seems out of touch with what Google search is struggling with these days.
One of the many paradoxes that I’ve found (but never figured a reason for) is why I’m able to quickly memorize and find my way to common functions via text-based toolbar menus, but to this day, I STILL have to click through each ribbon menu multiple times, study each icon and struggle to read each label, before finding what I want.

Logically one would think icons and visually distinctly colored ribbon tabs would be better, but (at least for me) they are decidedly worse.
And now wealthy aristocrats have been replaced by staggeringly wealthy megacorporations like Disney and WB.

Its disgustingly dishonest to appeal for "poor" authors where casual glance immediately proves that modern IP law exceedingly profits only a few massive corporations and their shareholders.
Thanks. For any others the ref is https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.6257
Agreed surfacing the problem to mgmt is critical, but many mgmt teams do not care about but count
It is easy to miss because there is hardly any money printing going on. Physical cash is nowadays pretty insignificant.
Serious question: why would I use this over VS Code + the Rust Analyzer extension?
"we automatically delete prompts and outputs on the backend within 30 days of receipt or generation unless you request otherwise"
Oh but they are. We three don't like it, but they have the data to back it up.
Some still do, even if it's fallen out of fashion.
Well except for some of the Apple Silicon machines. The M1 (and maybe M2?) only have two video output blocks, of which one is already used for the internal display. It’s honestly the biggest complaint I have about my M1 MBP. Yes DisplayLink or whatever it’s called exists but the performance is bad.
To me it sounds like this will help pattern of showing a skeleton screen when loading data. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/04/skeleton-screens-re...
Interesting. I just updated CLion and I got a notification that "Cargo Check on the fly analysis is turned OFF". So the setting is in Languages & Frameworks > Rust > External Linters.
It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful.

We have higher resolutions and bigger screens. I understand some people don't like the idea of adding more buttons to the UI because it can make it look cluttered and confusing, but rather than just adding padding around everything, why not make the icons higher resolution and maybe slightly bigger to take up the increased available screen real estate?

I'm sick of people associating "modern" with "good" and "dated" with "bad". Modern flat UIs are terrible for discovery, as it makes it impossible to tell what elements are interactable. And IMO, they're just plain ugly, but that's a matter of personal opinion.

Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX, and you'll never change my mind. It's been downhill ever since, getting worse and worse with each generation.
I also use nextcloud, but I've been planning on trying out immich. I used to use google photos and the migration to nextcloud left a lot to be desired. There doesn't seem to be a way to "free up space" the same way google photos could automatically delete already backed-up photos, so i have to do that manually periodically. But crucially the scrolling / thumbnail performance of the nextcloud photos timeline is terrible even with an SSD cache in my synology as well as running NC previously on an overpowered rack mount server, of course using redis with NC and all the usual optimization tips. Thumbnails take a few seconds to load making it near impossible to track down photos from more than 6 months ago.

The thing that stood out to me about immich was how when I first saw a show-off post on /r/selfhosted, it included a video showing how instant the thumbnails loaded as well as some background on how they were focusing on optimizing the scrolling performance and ensuring blurred thumbnails would be available asap when scrolling. I was impressed at how it stacked up to the experience of using google photos.
JetBrains RustBucket
Keras and PyTorch! I thought I'd never see the day! Glad to see the two communities bury the hatchet.
Latest VS has AI integration with the static analyser, I am yet to try it out.

If we get a C++ Copilot as "borrow checker" that is already quite an improvement, even if not perfect.
Unfortunately I don't, and it's a tricky thing to Google for, but I believe it was something industrial where space was at a premium (I work in robotics).
> HDMI CEC? Has anyone actually got that working correctly

I stay in lots of hotels and take my Roku stick. Most of the time the Roku remote can control the TV volume and power using CEC
It was definitely not this good during most of the FairPhone 3's life, I know a friend who has one. They also skipped some android versions entirely.
If the MWI doesn’t contain the Earth, the seas or the molecules of water it may not be providing a very useful map until we add a lot of things to it.
Sure, but if we could reuse the coal infrastructure as part of a transition away from fossil fuels, why wouldn't we consider that?

Unlike methane, coal is mostly just used for power generation, and there's relatively little infrastructure associated with transporting it. Natural gas is used for furnaces, stoves, dryers, hot water heaters, etc. and there are millions of miles of pipes and associated infrastructure used to transport it directly to peoples' homes.

The complexity and cost for retrofitting hundreds of millions of homes and electrifying all the associated appliances is immense, not to mention all the backlash you get from people who love their gas stoves and grills. If we could just switch to generating renewable methane it would be a huge win in terms of logistical simplicity and would minimize disruption to peoples' day to day lives, which would probably make folks a lot more willing to accept it without putting up a huge fight.
I thought it was obvious I was being sarcastic, sorry about that
Left out passwords.

Passwords: pick a password solution (KeePass-based, cloud provider, etc). From a Mac that you’re sure isn’t compromised: open Safari, go to the Passwords section, export passwords to CSV. THIS IS AN UNENCRYPTED FILE. It does include the TOTP configuration information. KeePassXC will load this file, though you’ll need to tell it which columns are what. Presumably, other password providers can as well. Once done the passwords have been loaded into the new solution, delete the CSV file and empty the trash.
> You start your WM of choice1, you launch Emacs, and as long as the Emacs window is focused, you live in Emacs.

what if there is no WM?

I do most of my work on a cloud machine where i run emacs in screen, for example
All PLL-based GPSDO designs that I've seen measure the difference between the rising edge of the 1PPS signal to the next rising edge of the 10MHz clock (or vice versa). You're basically using the kind of analog interpolation that's also used in frequency counters to get sub-10MHz clock cycle granularity. (See here: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2023/06/16/Frequency-Counting-...).

I understand that you can still implement a PLL with a pure digital 10ns counter (I've once designed one to create a 12.288MHz I2S clock out of a very jitters 48kHz audio sample tick), but I'm wondering what the benefits are of using the analog interpolator.

If the input 1PPS signal is so jittery, when do you get diminishing returns in increasing the precision of the pulse-to-pulse measurement?
Exchange rate loophole gives online shoppers 40% discounts
Is there some hyper critical mineral they have that no one else has?

Actually the main concern in Ukraine is stopping the mass murder, rape and torture of civilians.

Bet you didn't think of that.
Bird nests made from anti-bird spike [pdf]
A lot of the StarCraft guys have already left and formed their own company (frost giant). They are making a quasi spiritual successor to StarCraft called StormGate.
Java? I thought the whole raison d'etre for ScyllaDB was "Cassandra without Java"?
Are there any KVM switches that do Displayport well (i.e. where switching between inputs does not look like a display disconnect to the PC)?

I'm still using HDMI because I like to share my home multi-monitor setup between my personal machine and my work laptop, and the KVM switches are able to fool the PCs into thinking the monitor are always connected. Years ago I tried a Displayport switch, but it could not -- I assume because if the greater sophistication of the Displayport protocol.
I am currently (as of about a week ago) permanently banned on ALL my accounts on Reddit (despite many of them using different email addresses for anonymity purposes, etc.) because of a single admin making (quite arguably) a single error in permanently banning 1 of my logins from 1 subreddit (which was already overly punitive). Apologetic messages to mods went unheard and unheeded. Months later, I accidentally posted to that subreddit from a different account (and it was a supportive message!!) and somehow (without me intending to be a bad actor) this got escalated to identifying me across ALL my accounts (via machine learning on their end, possibly via Google cookies and similar source IP I'm guessing?) and this eventually cascaded into a total and permanent ban across EVERYTHING.

Meanwhile, I'm possibly one of the most Googleable people around (not due to fame, but due to nearly global name uniqueness) and it should be pretty plain to see that I'm a good actor (and kind of a big nerd) and that this might have all been a misunderstanding.

I'm kind of over it, but it is still hugely annoying. And it's terrifying to consider that no matter how anonymous you are on Reddit (and you might have very good reasons to be using an anonymous login), they in theory know exactly who you are.

What I'm saying is that AI could magnify a single human error in the past into an arguably massively unethical action; it could retroactively tie your anonymous actions in the past to your non-anonymous identity in the present. Where there is no escaping your past mistakes and you will always be punished for them, forever, by massive machines without any human intervention, or by systems in power that are arguably unethical and dystopian.
I bet that is has very little to do with safety, or even economics. Middle east megaprojects serve royal purposes. They give jobs to the sons of elite families. (Yes, in this context I do mean only the male children.) It keeps them engaged as "developers" doing things like soliciting bids on giant buildings or launching media campaigns, which is much less of a threat than them stewing at home or in the desert thinking up ways to overthrow kings. But once a project is built and the ribbons cut, the cool-factor ebbs away pretty fast. Every rich guy wants to be the first to build or do something big on day one. Few hang around to run the theme park come days two through four hundred. So the big thing is built. Time to tear it down and start building the next project. The process is the purpose and the goal.
prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3

bullshits an answer with confidence (all llms do this)

stupid monty hall

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three transparent doors...

stupid river crossing

A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a koala must cross a river by boat....

basically, these LLMs have ingested canned solutions and cant reason with newly defined concepts. Anything "out-of-the-box" and they BS canned answers - like the rote student. The BS is particularly distasteful because of the confidence projected in the answer...

So, they are great for looking-up commonly understood "in-the-box" narratives, but are poor at reasoning where there is some novelty. this is what we can expect from a probabilistic "deep" autocompleting machine. unlike a child which can learn ideas and metaphors from a few examples and anomalies.
> There's nothing wrong with slowing down to communicate discrete steps that may happen very quickly under the hood.

I disagree. If the discrete steps happen that quickly, why is it important not only to inform the user of each discrete step, but to slow things down to ensure they can see the notice of each discrete step?

Surely, in a case like that, it would be better just to tell the user the whole process has completed at the end, rather than detail every step that happened on the way there.
Imagine FL studio or Blender designed by modern ui principles. You can select reverb, pitch, wireframe and shading mode on a big spacy sidebar. Everything else is in a scrollable menu that pops up on hover and glitches if you move your cursor too fast. Also 95% of settings don’t exist because it might confuse a user.
What does ‘brain dead’ mean? The battle over how science defines death
The middlings are the problem. Users tech savvy enough to think "wow, that was so fast!", but not tech savvy enough to look and see if there was a 404 or whatever, in the web console.

Which, sadly, is the tech level of most UX people.

Unskilled users are just happy it was fast. Why would it take time, it's a computer!

It's a little like psychiatrists. A surprising number have loads of issues, and go into the business to help themselves.

But this skews perception.

UX people make all sorts of unfounded rules up, many created decades ago, when almost everyone was a "new user".
I totally agree. Xbox in the past 5-10 years really has been "Play our games where ever, just give us your money".

I just don't really get the argument of "We won't do this for 10 years". OK, what about after that?
To quote Bill G: : "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
> He, again like UBL, openly expressed his concerns along with warnings, and was ignored.

He didn't care about NATO, all he did was to use lies to manufacture the case for Ukraine invasion because Russia badly needs the resources in Donbas. Putin could withdraw from Crimea tomorrow (and he'll probably use that as leverage when the time comes) but will never leave the Donbas unless forced to by spectacular military defeats. Crimea is indeed strategically important, but the Donbas is also a very rich area that Russia wants to keep at any cost.
Why would you be dependent upon CentOS(RHEL compat) if you are in those industries? If you need certification and LTS then pay for it by purchasing RHEL licenses.

It seems very silly for people to be getting upset now that a free OS hasn't taken their business considerations to heart. Unless of course you were going for the model of charging everyone enterprise rates for your devices/software/work/etc and pocketing what you would have to normally pay in enterprise licensing because its a "community" OS, which everyone is free to do, but these are the risks that come with that.
"Historically, large power differentials have led to violence and subservience of whole societies." I agree, the calls for regulation by large corporate entities who quite transparently wish to control AI development for themselves, is a much greater near-term "existential threat" than AI itself.
I plug my computer into my AV receiver all the time, and my speakers are worth more than my TV.
This is the reason why I left academia for startups... Seems like a better way (not perfect by any means) to innovate, actually doing things.

PS: I would be happy to connect, you can find my socials in my bio.
I was in the same boat, I realized I had the wrong approach.
You are trying to solve a problem that it's not there if you eat well and train regularly.
Be active outside work so you can focus on work when you work.
The publish step of the scientific method always seemed out of place to me - it means you can't discover anything on your own, which doesn't seem correct to me.

However, to discover something new (not just new to you) does require contact with established knowledge. And if you don't publish, you can't be very sure that it really is "new"; and it does not become part of established knowledge - it has not been discovered.

i.e. the concept of discovering new knowledge means it cannot be done on a desert island.
Agreed. Selling exclusives would go against Nadella’s “Microsoft (makes money) everywhere” mantra

Case in point: Sony PlayStation is one of Azure’s largest customers

It’s strange for Nintendo not to see this
Probably because of frequency band and/or VoLTE whitelisting shenanigans. The pixel 6 that you talk about has a specific american version for that reason.
Isn’t it a bit naive to think that the US intelligence agencies are only able to harvest data from the United States?
Honestly, I think this is a contrived example. Picking another company’s app is a weird cherry-picked choice. Here’s (MacOS) Microsoft word, which is as close to apples-to-apples comparison as I can do.

https://f.toi.sh/wordscreenshot.png

That looks perfectly usable to me. Not exactly 800x600 but it’s scaled close enough.
Thanks for the link. However, after reading the whole section I am left believing that using the API of an AGPL project would indeed be considered "incorporating" it.

Note how the "arms length" usage, as described, mentions completely separated software such as a shell and a notepad application.

The separation between a shell and a notepad (i.e. different applications altogether), or a kernel and a compiler (i.e. the base system and an application) seems to me clearer than the separation between an application and a library that it uses (i.e. the library is being used as part of the application in order to fulfill a feature).
25 Gigabit Ethernet costs ~100x more than 32 Gigabit Displayport.