skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built a code agent that generates apps in React & Node.js, explained simply
Disagree.

1. The dangerous forms of AI may require very specific and unusual development paths, that could be sufficiently discouraged by collective action that they don't get pursued.

2. Even if all development of dangerous forms of AI cannot be stopped, attempts to minimize it may still have a meaningful impact because an arms race may develop between AI that counters dangerous AI, and dangerous AI, and roadblocks put in the way of the development of the latter could ensure the former stays ahead.

3. Dangerous forms of AI may require a significant foothold in the socio-economic space to become an existential threat, and concerted collective efforts to suppress it may prevent that critical threshold from ever being close to reached.
Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud
That's probably 250% of the recommended daily intake of sodium in a single bowl. I'm not even sure it would be edible at that level of saltiness.
I’d imagine for most languages people are going to be using for scientific dialog already have pretty robust translation tools. You can probably put a Chinese math paper through google translate and get decent output. This sort of thing could be built into google scholar, maybe even finer tuned for the exact idioms and jargon used by each field in that language.
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Between YouTube Music and the Ad-Free YouTube videos, this is the one subscription I just can't let go. If they ever try to put advertisements back though I'm going to drop them like a buttered cucumber.
And Elon Musk wants to die on Mars. It doesn't matter what their "goal" is.
>wouldn't start taxing transactions until FedNow is the only game in town or all other payment systems also give them that kind of visibility.

....Or they can just demand banks immediately start taxing transactions per merchant codes _right now_ without FedNow. And the banks would comply. They don't need real time visibility. The bank could take money off the top and/or send the tax form required to you at the end of year and IRS just like anything else. It would just be similar to Form 8949.
>For me, the biggest problem with Cast iron is the weight

Seek out better cast iron cookware. For example, Lodge brand stuff is very heavy and poorly balanced. Compare to a Wagner cast iron pan of similar size made a century ago: it is significantly lighter, and well-balanced. I'm sure there must be modern cast iron cookware that can offer the same experience, but probably not new for $30.

I have problems with my hands and those heavy Lodge pans are annoying (good value though). My old Wagner stuff is no more cumbersome than my nice stainless steel pans, and, for meats at least, is a pleasure to cook with.
> ... the rocket you sent to the moon was built by a German

Even an oblique reference deserves the Tom Lehrer reference [0] :-)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
My experience is that they're not particularly useful. By trying to fit everything into two week windows, the team either overcommits and works harder than necessary for no true reason and risks looking bad, or they undercommit and things that could be done today get delayed until the next sprint.

That being said, my experience is that most teams start off being strict about sprint planning and boundaries, but over time back off more and more until sprints are a very abstract planning/check in every two weeks, which is fine.

Just personal experience, YMMV.
> This discussion ostensibly is focused on labeling that may be inaccurate, so I am not considering self identification.

You can't accurately talk about these topics without considering self identification.

> Racist behavior is a judgement call to determine state of mind (behavioral patterns).

That is one option, but it can also be a description of the results of someone's actions, without considering their state of mind.

> Gay is a term that describes attraction to a similar gender, despite the overlap with other classifications (eg bi), which again is a judgement call about state of mind (behavioral patterns).

Gay describes attraction only to the same gender, so the overlap with bi is only there if you ignore this. Since it's fundamentally self-identification I don't see how it's a judgement of state of mind.

> Black is a label that also occurs due to behavior. Black is also a label based on a visual cue, which is arbitrary based on a pattern from personal experience.

Black is a self-identification label which has overlap with visual cues, but isn't predicated upon them. It's a fundamentally different label from "racist".
US submarine’s visit to peninsula may warrant nuclear response North Korea warns
“Deploying advanced artificial intelligence tools to tackle society’s biggest challenges, like curing cancer and combating climate change.”

I remember back in the day when “big data” was being used for “curing” cancer and aids. Whatever happened to that will happen to ai.
> Interruptions and unforeseen tasks will occur.

In a highly interrupted team, sprints don't work. Try lean/Kanban.

You've not mentioned retrospectives, which are an important part of improving your processes, without that how can you make improvements?

There's nothing in agile that talks about deadlines, it's about commitment.
Strict regulations comes after lots of people die, not before.

Look at the regulations on nuclear bombs.
He did, indeed. At least until they replaced the "two virgins and a dragon" with the "more modern" V logo.
What original natives? You mean the Asians that migrated down to what's now Canada and the US?

In the end it's a definition of how far back you want to look to define "original natives". And the further back you go the more inexact are the "facts". Do we all come from this one place in Africa in the end? Are we 100% Homo sapiens Or How much Neanderthal is in us? Does it depend on which migration wave our ancestors were part of?

Meaning by extension of your logic if I choose the right cutoff Europe is African actually so the Atomic bomb was invented by an African!

Personally I think that the cutoff should be somewhere around second or third generation immigrants. Specifics can depend on how much integration with existing local culture happens or how much individual silo groups cling to their country of origin. And then there's of course the "eradication of previous inhabitants" that sometimes happened. The majority population of the US has roots in Europe, yes. But US culture" is definitely distinct enough now to stand on its own.
Read better please
Using GPS as a possible earthquake predictor
Galaxy has no dark matter
Compromised Microsoft Key by Chinese Threat Actor: More Impactful Than Reported
Wiz's investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that the incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed potentially impacting also Teams, SharePoint, custom apps and more. Organizations using Microsoft and Azure services should take steps to assess potential impact.
Exciting pieces of research coming out right now. I could see using a blood test to find these specific biomarkers, and then getting started earlier on a drug like donanemab that has better results the earlier you start it. Combining a blood test with a preventative/early stage drug like donanemab or lecanemab would have a lot better results than just starting those immuno drugs at the first sign of symptoms.
Also having this problem. I think it's some kind of A/B testing, but not directly associated with accounts. I had 2 friends in other cities try a search on mobile, and for one it worked correctly, and the other got bullshit results for other sites.

Sometimes, but not always, if you scroll to the end you'll then get all of the actual site: results. This may or may not indicate anything, such as it being a bug.

This is NOT because the site: being searched had a lack of results.

Other commentary: “They kill site: for some % of the users and then gauge the number of complaints. but unless they get some kind of overwhelming backlash just short of actual rioting, they’ll probably go ahead/have already decided to fully kill site: and even further degrade the utility of the search engine. It’s hopelessly frustrating because the barrier to entry for a new search engine is gonna be very high, millions of dollars.

And too many people just do nothing, their lives are worse for it, and everyone who does do something has to do it for 10 other people just for a chance that it might not get ruined, and it can be exhausting”
Ask HN: Electronic data interchange for structured financial products
With the advancements in financial technology, I've been pondering why a universally adopted electronic data exchange platform for complex financial products like ABS, CLOs, and CDOs doesn't exist yet. Despite the obvious benefits such as improved transparency and efficiency, it seems that several challenges – including the complexity of these products, heavy regulation, data security concerns, market fragmentation, and potential resistance from major market players – could be hindering progress in this area. What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe we'll see such a platform in the future, or are the barriers insurmountable?
Not GP, but yes -- Droplets are DigitalOcean's "servers" (virtual, but nonetheless).

You boot one up in less than 30 seconds, and get ssh access to it almost immediately. It's very BS-free.
Midjourney is a gateway drug to more advanced image generators.
Sprints need not be anything more than “what did you get done this week?” It’s useful to feel progress. It’s useful to notice when things turn out to be more complex than we thought (dragging the same task from sprint to sprint). It’s useful to notice when unplanned work crowds out planned work.

I don’t think it’s useful to have a very rigorous planning process, or be persnickety about things finishing within the sprint vs. 2-3 days carryover. I particularly hate the rituals designed to reduce autonomy, like PMs managing backlog priority or story points poker exercises. On my team engineers are responsible for their projects and the sprints are just periodic check-ins where you say what you have been doing and what’s next.
Ah, another tale that includes getting bit by static linking and alpine.

Maybe I've just had a bad sample size, but I just haven't experienced a big enough win by using alpine to justify the weird scenarios that come up on occasion.

The idea is nice. A small, stripped down container that will load quickly and have very few maintenance issues (due to basically zero dependencies). But my debian-slim images work well enough and when I do hit a problem there's more community around it and it's more straightforward to fix.
Healthy depends very much on the relationship, as a sibling post pointed out. I'm not a fan of the "if you have nothing to hide" argument in the general case, but in this case of my wife we have nothing private between us. In fact, its the things we share that make up the bulk of what I consider private from others. I figure that if Google, my cell provider, the government, and who knows how many other corporate entities have ready access to my location data, why not her? In practice she has more interesting and useful things to do with her time than watch me all day.
It is a good thing that I used a throwaway email, oh wait. Just kidding. /s
I bet more Freshmen already know basic SQL and JS than Snap. I know some primary/highschools teach Snap, but a lot more must be teaching JS. SQL as well, I know at least some highschools teach the basics and tbqh basic SQL queries are basically requests phrased in English. And it should be easier than ever now that LLMs are pretty good at taking requests actually phrased in English and turning them into valid queries. You don't need to learn relational algebra to learn 'select name from patients where age > 50;'

Did you know in the 70s and 80s, common undergrads (not CS students) used to program Fortran on punchcards? My mother was an undergrad biology student, when she learned I was interested in programming she pulled a dusty box of punchcards out of the attic to show me programs she had written. If colleges are using Snap instead of asking students to write some basic SQL queries, I think they're damning those students with faint expectations.
> I am questioning if you can be considered "expert" if you profoundly fail at the topic of your field.

You are confusing the person with the field of study.

This confusion is more obvious if you think about the superconductor/ expert on superconduction example.

A superconductor is a material which conducts direct current with near zero resistance. You can test if something is a superconductor by aligator clipping a voltage source on it and measuring the resistance.

An expert on superconductors is a person who is knowledgeable about the phenomenon of superconduction. You can test if someone is such an expert by asking them questions about what materials are superconducting, under what circumstances they are, what phenomena can be observed during super conducting and etc etc.

If you get confused and clip the aligator clips on the expert you will measure a larger than zero resistance. If you start asking quiz questions from a superconductive material about superconductivity you will observe that it does not answer any of them.

These two things are fundamentally different. You can be good at one while miserably failing the other, or vice versa.

Similarly someone who studies evolutionary biology is someone who studies the effect of evolution on different kind of living things. They are good at predicting things which they can prove later either experimentally, or with observations about creatures and their circumstances. It has nothing to do with the act of procreation. A disembodied AI can be an expert at evolutionary biology as long as it has good theories on the topic which it can support with relevant evidence.

Through two practical examples. Someone who is good at surviving at evolutionary timescales is for example a person with a handfull of healthy, and fit children. Each of them carrying a mutation which makes their female offspring (daughters, grand-daughters and so on) have a tiny bit wider hips thus increasing their chances of having uncomplicated births, thus increasing the chances of having lots of lots of offspring a tiny bit.

Someone who is good at studying evolutionary biology for example might be able to explain why animals trapped on an island all over the world seem to change in a way that their offspring becomes smaller in stature.

Mixing up these two is as silly as measuring the resistance of your superconductivity experts.
I've personally had this experience with Fly on a personal project. My project went down but their status pages said everything was up. It's fine since it's personal for fun project but for anything more serious I don't know if I'd be comfortable using them.
But a simple non-production quality implementation in C++ would also be amenable to experimentation and not have the bootstrapping issues as well as provide an easier starting point to incorporate more of the existing optimizations as desired.
This comment is unhelpful; the person you're replying to clearly is not claiming that "absolutely everything that's harmful in large doses is harmful in small doses."

> Unrealistically high doses imply absolutely nothing about lower doses.

The example they give of nuclear radiation is a clear illustration of how a useful hint can be drawn from the high-level example of harm, a pattern which microplastics might very well follow.
Ok seriously that was supposed to be a reply to the post, not a comment FFS

Edit: Apparently I can't reply to the post anymore, due to undefined reasons.
Time weeds out (pun intended) the wasteful players
Microsoft key stolen by Chinese hackers provided access far beyond Outlook
Scrum (and similar processes) are usually better than the absence of process. Sure, occasionally you have lightning in a bottle and have 5 proactive self-organizing engineers that are pro coordinators and communicators, or you have a team with a tech lead that just magically makes everything run smoothly without anyone really noticing. But even teams with the best engineers often struggle with scheduling and communicating large projects to executives.

Scrum is a fine default for any software engineering team working on app/website-style engineering projects. But if their process never veers away from default Scrum, they're probably not a very good team. I've discovered that good teams are fearless about retros. They take suggestions seriously If they're unwilling to try new things, they're always going to underperform teams that experiment with process, and keep the good and reject the bad.

Scrum (and similar processes) makes every engineering team move at roughly the same speed. This is good news if you have a poor-to-medium quality team and is frustrating if your team would be speedy without the process. Teams that don't adapt the process to themselves and their companies are always gonna feel like they're stuck in the mud.
Alright, I understand! The difference between providing credit card information to the merchant is as follows:

Credit Card: When a merchant has your credit card information, they essentially have carte blanche. They can initiate payments and so forth.

Pay by Bank: The merchant has no information about your bank. They can only send payment requests through LeetPay. We then initiate the payment when you authenticate with your bank and accept the merchant’s request. There’s no carte blanche here!
Raw broccoli is a method by which we can have an excuse for eating copious quantities of ranch dressing. We don't just eat the broccoli by itself, we dip it in something that has flavor. Same thing with french fries.
Are these sign up links solely for writers? Has anyone actually signed up yet? I can't find any links to read or listen to anything. How do consumers use this? Just read whatever you want? Does it require a login? Do you have to subscribe to read? Are all users treated the same with the assumption that anyone signing up wants to both publish and consume?

These are questions of curiosity, but my uncharitable honest feedback has nothing to do with your product, more that I've come to believe the entire concept of "content creation" has become epistemically bankrupt and harmful to the world, exacerbating hustle culture and feelings of personal inadequacy, while commoditizing that flow of data into consumer eyeballs further away from useful information and entertainment with any artistic value into quick bites of maximally simplistic outrage bait and cheap dopamine hits.

I don't think you can solve this problem. Avoiding VC funding is great, but the content creators themselves have bad incentives regardless of how the platform funds itself. I don't claim to know how to solve this problem, but encouraging people to become the loudest shouter in a crowded room full of people only vaguely paying attention most of the time isn't it.
The cult of "alignment researchers", who feel that nothing other than "funding alignment researchers" is necessary to solve any possible AI problems, strikes again.
Often people complain how shells in Unix/POSIX communicate via strings and praise PowerShell for communication with objects. Yet stringification still is the most simplistic means for communication between multiple domains as shown in this article.
The HN submission Could leak in blood-brain barrier cause poor memory? (2021) may provide a clue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520453

>People with ApoE4 have a hard time getting rid of amyloid beta peptide in their brains, which causes an accumulation of plaque. With healthy aging, the pumps in the blood-brain barrier work less efficiently in getting rid of the amyloid beta peptide. The pumps work even less well in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

>Recent work suggests that the leak in the blood-brain barrier that occurs with Alzheimer’s may be due to an age-related loss of pericytes. Astrocytes, by contrast, seem to be overactive. Recent work suggests that preserving pericyte function by giving the factors that they secrete or even transplanting them could lead to a healthier blood-brain barrier.

>Other findings raise the question of whether the brain’s source of nutrition and its grip on control of the immune and endocrine systems could deteriorate with aging. Another finding raises the possibility that the rate at which many drugs are taken up by the brain may explain why older folks sometimes have different sensitivities to drugs than their children or grandchildren.

Pair that with this part of OP:

>This regulation is important in preventing proteins from going rogue and clumping together, which is what happens to the amyloid and tau proteins in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia.

I'm just a layman, but it sounds like BBB health is a major factor for regulating this in the brain. In some individuals, including those with identified genetic biomarkers for increased Alzheimer's risk, the BBB ages faster, leading to decreased regulation of protein/peptides. So learning more about how to improve BBB health could eventually help people maintain a healthy brain longer.

Avoiding excessive alcohol seems to be an important factor for BBB health, according to this 2021 study performed on mice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33516661/ ; also this research published in 2022: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9204474/

OP refers to "amyloid and tau proteins" while the 2021 article I referenced refers to "amyloid beta peptide" - at this point, I'm really not sure how precisely these terms are being used. Are they interchangeable in this context, or is there an important nuance that I'm missing?
> Breaking up work in manageable chunks absolutely makes sense.

But this isn't unique to agile. it's basically how all objectives since the 50's have been organised.
What Is Secret Sprawl and How to Solve It?
The way to not be exposed to this is to run an HA configuration with more than one instance.

If you're running an app on Fly.io without local durable storage, then it's easy to fail over to another server. But durable storage on Fly.io is attached NVMe storage.

By far the most common way people use durable storage on Fly.io is with Postgres databases. If you're doing that on Fly.io, we automatically manage failover at the application layer: you run multiple instances, they configure themselves in a single-writer multi-reader cluster, and if the leader fails, a replica takes over.

We will let you run a single-instance Postgres "cluster", and people definitely do that. The downside to that configuration is, if the host you're on blows up, your availability can take a hit. That's just how the platform works.
Hah yeah I remember my dad getting an e-mail like that back in like 1996.

We were paying for an unlimited connection, and then they tried to tell us that if we wanted to be connected for more than 4 hours/day, we'd have to upgrade to a business account that was like 4x the price. My dad told them to pound sand and we switched ISPs.

Pretty sure between 1995 and 1997, we switched dialup ISPs like 4 times because each tried to tell us we were abusing the "unlimited" access. And then at some point, cable modems came out and the entire thing became moot.
India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises