skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel sorry for your community

Around here community credit unions are still plentiful.

I am still a member of a credit union not in my current community as a moved away, but I use the services of the local credit union like it was own, the credit union here services about just this metro area, and the credit union that holds my account services just the former metro area I used to live in

I did have a auto loan shortly with one of the large nationwide credit unions but I did not have the loan long so i can say if they were good or bad.

I also have accounts with banks like including those on the "technical edge" of financial system, I find the technology stack of my local credit union to be on par with those more "technical" banks for banking services. Now some of banks also have non-banking services like Wealth management, investing, crypto, etc that my credit union does not have but I dont expect that from a credit union, nor would i want them to expand into that.
Also, if you loan money to a bank and the bank becomes insolvent, the FDIC will pay you back (up to at least $250k). OTOH, if you bought shares in the bank, in that scenario you’d probably lose everything you invested.
And the article itself is quite short and readable, and does a much better job of pointing out the weirdness. I recommend reading it.
> Maybe. I have a pretty dim view of democracy as a form of government, so probably not.

As a person living in a shaky democracy this is pretty triggering. Your democracy is very flawed and I'm very aware of its problems, but the alternative is so much worse.

> In my experience, it's a fad.

It's trending up. So it might be a fad but that's how changes start.

People don't need to go vegan, that's the point. Reduction and moderate change will be a tremendous impact.
You know, I'd really rather not be the perpetual Debby Downer of HN, but as a millennial, all I've ever heard about the large problems facing my generation is that they're going to get worse before they get better. I've pretty much concluded that things are going to get worse before they get worse. I think live every day like it's your last (because it might be) is about as much optimism as I've got.
Reporting like this shows why news organizations like the NY Times are still very much needed. Russia and China have had very effective online propaganda machines, and not surprising to see them infiltrating or trying to influence activism or spread conspiracy theories as very effective methods to sway public opinion (on both sides) in ways that favors their interests.
It's not fiction that the writers thought 60TFLOPS would be huge today.
> Ships going FTL could be collided into a planet.

Or it will pass through a planet like neutrino. How you know which FTL method will actually work?
Here's the ironic part: Where are all the actually smart people?

If the person is actually smart in a field, they probably have jobs in that field. A job that is often extremely mentally or physically involved, leaving little time for revisiting that job over recreational periods (no time to hang out arguing with strangers, life's tough enough). There might also be NDAs involved, or concerns from higher-ups that the user might post anything that might embarrass the company, etc. It is also completely common for the smartest people in a field to have not an inkling on how to set up a website or join social media (because they are generally... on the older side).

The result is that Reddit, and social media, are mostly people who have studied those fields and didn't get in. The results are self-evident. I like to think of the uncle from Napoleon Dynamite who is constantly bragging to everyone about how he could have been an excellent NFL player.

Edit: It is also for this reason that I suspect that StackOverflow and Reddit moderators do it for what some have called “productivity porn.” “Look at me - I’m such a great person in this field that I even get to moderate the forums!” Even though they often probably couldn’t hold a midlevel job.
When I have some time I'll play around with this: I'm certainly open to the idea that there's some stuff I don't know about slots. But I have a question: When you append the slot to the shadow root, doesn't that mean that you lose styling in the slot contents?
The video evidence clearly shows the officer detaining the pedestrian to prevent them from wandering out into traffic.

Cop 100% doing his job. With Qualified Immunity when that ped dies.
Reddit is a cesspool. There are people actively using it for radicalization. It takes them far too long to shut down subreddits dedicated to far-right eugenicist delusions, if they do so at all.
Honestly, I've been trying with the idea that most medicine is actually just straight up actively harming people in complex ways.

Note: I said most, there are obvious exceptions.
Reading through there is a heavy fault in logic. Statically reasonable limitations to llm output based on training material, ignores hallucinations. And hallucinations ignore the sheer chance of new emergent information by odds.
>First and foremost never consider a credit union a "smaller bank" the rules and regulations around credit unions are very very different than commercial banks the biggest being they are coop's i.e member owned, and non-profit.

My concern as a common man is whether I can trust a bank (or credit union) to keep my money more safe and accessible than I can myself. I don't care what their internals look like, they're all banks of varying sizes and reputations as far as I'm concerned.

>however they also are soo big that your individual account means nothing to them and they have no incentive to provide any customer service at all

I bank primarily with US Bank, and their customer support has been nothing short of exemplary both in-person at the local branch and over the phone. That exemplary service combined with their size means I will continue to bank with them for the forseeable future.

I will add, for context, that I live out in the countryside where all business matters become more personal as a matter of practical reality. Most of the bankers working at the branch all live locally, after all. This is irrelevant for the customer support folks on the phone, of course, which as I just said are exemplary nonetheless.
Orson Scott Card said the difference is that fantasy has trees and fiction has sheet metal.
I hate to break it to you, but a sever in Google’s data center is not a private place. And if you shower in a public shower? For instance at the gym or pool?

I believe you’re beginning to see that you have certain expectations of privacy in public too.
No the author didn't read the methodology of the Stack Overflow Survey nor did they notice they can get the historical CSV of the survey going back to 2011 [1] which literally tells the number of respondents per language (as-in how popular it is; no secondary population from TIBOE needed). Nor do they seem to understand (unlike you who does understand) that Loved and Dreaded have very specific meanings.

They did shoddy work and I'm calling them out on it. They very easily could've tried to use the past (then) 9 years of data to show that as a language gets more popular it became less loved; but they didn't.

The question of "If Java and Ruby appeared today, without piles of old rails apps and old enterprise Java applications to maintain, would they still be dreaded or would they be more likely to show up on the loved list?" is answered.

It's a no. For 2020, Ruby was 4.5% and Java was 8.8% of developer's "Wanted" languages while Go (17.9%), Rust (14.6%), TypeScript (17.0%), Python (30.0% !!). Sure a lot of people would like Ruby and Java (there already are actually a lot of them) but when you're not at the top of the Wanted it's going to be very hard to get to the top of Loved.

[1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/
And a nice grinder
Fritz Lang's classic sci-fi film Metropolis gets a new electronic soundtrack
As with other laws ther lobbying position is pretty weak in the EU. They (and other US based big tech) lost the last few rounds of the regulation / lobby game.

They don't employ (many) people here, don't pay a lot of taxes and generally don't do much cooperating on their own.

They can offer literal briefcases of money to politicians but, in General, that is not the way the EU works.
It shouldn't surprise you that online communities are a reflection of human nature. The behaviors we see are the effects of groupthink taken to its extreme. Even in "civilized" forums such as this one, you'll notice people conforming with the group mentality, and deleting their posts if they get downvoted. When there is little to no moderation, and viciousness is acceptable within the group, this behavior will spiral out of control, as individuals try to one-up each other, leading to vigilantism, manufactured outrage, cancel culture, racism, and all sort of abhorrent behavior an individual wouldn't do in isolation. We all seek validation in our ideas, after all.

All of this still exists offline, BTW. This is how riots happen. What the internet does is make it more possible by connecting more people than we traditionally could communicate with, and providing a safe space for any kind of discussion to happen. It's a tool our tribal monkey brains aren't ready for.
"Did anyone tell you that your shirt looks like a f**ing optical illusion? Go away, disappear." - Frank Slaughtery
Wow these are really great photos - I'm sure both due to most culture in Japan is dripping in beauty, but also because Bram just takes really good photos!

Thank you for sharing.
Why would AGI be bound to human made models? Why can it no develop its own?
On the flip side, I've literally never walked into a branch of any bank I've ever actually banked at. The only times I've ever walked into a bank was to make large cash withdrawals that most ATMs wouldn't honor, but those were never at a bank I actually had an account with. And those times it was just a large debit card transaction, zero fees.

Going to an actual, physical bank location just seems archaic to me. It's about as dated as going to a Blockbuster to rent a movie. Outside of maybe some big business loan negotiations I can't imagine needing an actual person to really talk to for basic banking needs. What banking task would be better handled taking time to travel to the bank, wait in line, talk to a person who may or may not remember you, and have them do it as opposed to just doing it yourself on your computer anytime anywhere anyplace?

Note, I'm not talking about investing, as there can often be a lot of questions about how specific investment products actually work. I'm only talking basic banking like checking, savings, CDs, credit cards, and auto/home/personal loans. I don't do any real complex investing at places where I do my banking.
> Q, anyone?

A robot with an advanced electromagnetic mind-control device... Or just a hacker hooked to Picard's Borg implants/bio-receivers. Or mental illness.

> DS9's first episode has a space alien organism living inside a permanent wormhole and it speaks to you through mind visions, exists at all points in time and can read your mind, put you in your own memories, etc.

They might be lying, or just think it's true. Or again, mental illness. Perhaps we're just seeing Sisko tripping balls.
«xAI, a venture whose ambitious aim is to “understand the true nature of the universe.”»

C'mon, we already have the answer it's 42
> Nvidia can't legally produce x86 CPUs, although they tried

What did they try? And when?
When I read it, I thought the overlap was the pattern, and based on my experience with Scala, I thought it supported his point well. I would dread inheriting a Scala codebase, but if I were writing a new codebase in scratch, by myself, in a vacuum, I would love to do it in Scala.

I'm not sure how Scala ended up in the green category, though. 2011-2015 I saw lots of brand-new Scala codebases. Not many since then.
Bram didn't exit vim; he's simply stopped typing. The spirit of Bram will always be with us.
I'm interested in seeing how brains change as AI usage increases, in the same way many of us don't attempt to memorize phone numbers, what skills will we offload to 'AI', will we be aware that it's happening? Perhaps more interesting, what new adaptations or adjustments may occur as a result of this augmentation. I hope that our brains ability to synthesize new thoughts both extrapolated and 'from thin air' will remain a useful skill regardless.
In the initial sponsorship for Neovim some people asked why none of us sponsored Vim. So I went to give an equal amount there and found that he wanted it to go charity.

That was the first time I'd encountered charityware. Mind blowing tool, vim, and I am very impressed by him.

A legend of the field.
>@dang

The email address I've used in the past has been responded to promptly, that's probably more effective than an @ mention:

hn@ycombinator.com
You've moved the goal posts from embarrassing behavior (smoking) to an illegal act.

Try again.
I think they used SRAM and not DRAM, which is how it was faster than a clock cycle.
It will be a sad day when high bitrate rips can't be made any longer. Are we doomed at looking at "optimized" 6 Mbps content advertised as "4k"?

Maybe Hollywood is over.
It is absolutely considered racist to advocate for focusing on class instead of race. Try saying that in any group of millennial liberals and you will get an earful. It's very disappointing and politically unsavvy.
I’m pretty sure there’s no chance that people in aggregate are going to voluntarily reduce consumption - on the contrary, the billions in developing countries are moving toward the western lifestyle, and they’re not going to accept westerners trying to tell them not to. We have to work to make this lifestyle sustainable by making clean power, cement, steel, synthetic fuel, etc cheaper than the polluting alternatives, because hoping that we’ll reduce our way out of this is wishful thinking. We need to get to negative new carbon, not just less carbon.
This is a plausible hypothesis. I’m curious whether OpenAI has considered this already and examined it I feel like an average senior eng could eval this in under two focused days, but maybe OpenAI has less unit-testing than I expect.
Rather than viewing generative AI as a form of artificial intelligence, I posit that it should be seen as an automated tool for tapping into human cultural, linguistic, and empirical knowledge.
Data and computation are two sides of the same coin. The 'intelligence' in AI is embedded within the data, with the computational model serving as a tool to access and express this inherent intelligence.

I would argue for a change in perspective towards AI, one that recognizes LLMs as powerful tools for accessing the vast wealth of human cultural knowledge rather than viewing them as a separate form of intelligence. We must carefully consider critical ethical considerations about control, access, and trust that will become increasingly relevant as these tools become more integrated into our everyday lives.

This paradigm shift carries some implications:

LLMs will not achieve superintelligence: Although these models can process information quickly and access a wide range of knowledge, they lack the superior reasoning or inference abilities that would classify them as superintelligence.

LLMs as an extension of human thought: These models can automate and amplify human capabilities but do not introduce new abilities beyond what is already present in human thought processes.

LLMs as mirrors of human culture and knowledge: These models reflect the recorded artifacts of human language, art, and culture. They can make the inherent intelligence within these artifacts accessible, providing a vast information resource.

Implications for the future: Access to this "memetic matrix" of human knowledge will become a fundamental part of being human as these tools become more integrated into our lives, bringing up issues of ownership, access, and the potential for misuse.

Thought consolidation and control of inference engines: There's a potential risk that control of inference engines by a small number of companies could lead to a consolidation of thought that threatens democratic governance. I propose a diversity of federated or self-hosted inference tools as solutions to mitigate this risk.

The necessity for trust and individuality: As these tools become more influential in our lives, maintaining trust in our individual thoughts and avoiding the uncritical acceptance of synthesized ideas from sources with opaque motives will become increasingly important.

Synthetic Inference relies on a vast cultural commons: We cannot allow these commons to be closed off and owned by a few big companies. This resource is to approximate totality of all human knowledge, language, and culture. It belongs to all of humanity. Training data must be open, free, and available for examination.
> If the compiler says - hey stick this in .rodata and the wasm interpreter says I don't know what that is then that memory safety feature/contract gets broken.

In WASM terms this is called "multiple memories" and it's up to compilers to generate code that works as you'd expect (eg have a "read only data" memory segment and compile the code that references it correctly).
Is your paycheck direct deposit? Have you considered splitting that into deposits at each of your banks instead of your partial automatic transfer?
> But that's not a satisfying answer for people who have made the climate crisis into a religious issue.

Complete with language about believers and non-believers
What is the security issue here? In any case memory references don't work like that in web assembly: they are objects the runtime manages. This isn't assembly, despite the name. Your pointer UB will be inside the sandbox and nowhere else.
Don’t have the tech expertise to install Firefox? How did they install Chrome in the first place then? People are not stupid they are just lazy, Chrome works fine so they use that. The moment Chrome stops being “fine” they will switch.
How open source is it ?

Does it have closed-source firmware blobs?
The week Facebook released a feature that allowed people to be tagged in photos by other people is when I deleted my account. 2008 or so? The writing was on the wall by that point: in these platforms, your identity is as much controlled by other people as by yourself. Not good, very bad, get me out of here.
>OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, recently announced a massive investment into research on “superalignment,”

The head of the “superalignment” project at OpenAI recently appeared on the AXRP podcast talking about the Automated Alignment Researcher they’re developing.

The host asked him how they were going to align the AAR itself, and if they can do that, what would be left for the AAR to do, but he didn’t seem to understand the question.

Not encouraging signs.
Yes, because they had a thing a few years where they made it useless, and everyone had to exchange for new notes (and even that was limited). It was well reported in the news at the time.
well i am making that argument and im not implying any thing.

>> observing and reporting what they do in public.<<
try this for real, you wont like what the observed response is.
few hours or days, whatever. The fine should be proportional to damage done to customers (more if days, less if hours)
Reddit has always been hostile/tribal, I would say it's slightly less so than in the past.
I had a ring for about one week before I ripped it out and sent it back.

I can’t understand how almost no one realized we went far worse than UK or Singapore’s surveillance state and did it on our own dollar voluntarily.
https://archive.is/2023.08.05-141015/https://www.nytimes.com...
Good luck finding it at less than 3mg actually. What you need to do is to find an edible version, like those strips, and cut them into 1/8ths (it’s easy to create 1/8ths, annoying to make accurate 1/10ths)
"more control in Google's hands."

I'm much more worried about more control in the government's hands.

In theory at least, there can always be browser or search alternatives. And even if not widespread there will be options for motivated individuals who want a more permissive browser and internet experience.

But I can't escape the government - certainly not without the risk of imprisonment or other legal trouble.

I don't want to be controlled by either corporations or the government, but more and more they seem one-in-the-same. The government uses corporations to administer the control, with the force of law to back it up. As in this case - this is censorship that the government wants, but they force browser companies to administer that censorship under penalty of law.
Hey, I also first installed Mandrake. I got it in on a magazine. I always a thought it was a common distro, kinda like ubuntu some years later when they started shipping disks
I like that framing. Personally, I've always thought of doctors as "professional educated guessers"
One talks about "espresso coffee" the other one just says "coffee", could that be significant?
> no longer

I'm not sure they ever did. While I remember a few 'smarter' people that used false 'real-sounding' names to be abusive, other stupider people have been doing abusive and illegal activity on facebook since day 1, there just wasn't ever any significant consequences.
Sample Calculation:
Total Base Water Volume (gal) (Total Bulk Volume): 16,489,452

Max Ingredient Concentration in HydroFracture Fluid for water (% by mass): 91.0

Max Ingredient Concentration in HF Fluid for silica (% by mass): 8.6

Gallon of water weight (lbs./gal): 8.34

Barrel (bbl) = 42 gallons

Total weight of water (lbs.) = TBV * Gallon of water weight = 137,522,030

Total weight of frac job (lbs.) = Total weight of Water/Water concentration in frac = 137,522,030 / (91.0/100) = 151,123,110

Proppant weight, Silica, (lbs.) = 151,123,110 * (8.6/100) = 12,996,588

Barrels of water = 16,489,452 / 42 = 392,606

So, 99.6% of the frac job is sand (or something like it) and water. The rest is "chemicals". Of course, this number varies wildly based on recipe - 92-99% is usually the range. You would figure out the other chemicals the same way. Problem is percentages could be in percentage or decimal format and/or those numbers could just be straight up wrong, or you aren't provided other info that is relevant in the calc.
If AMD got taken over, then they would automatically lose their x86 license, as I believe it is a condition in their cross-licensing agreement. This is why I don't expect AMD to get bought in the near future.
Having worked in the corporate world for a long time, and seen so many applications which run very slowly and get even more sluggish with use, there was a point when I realized that when you are building an app, it is important to consider that if it runs slowly, there is almost no point building it.
Aren't some cows brown?
Not exactly oil, but just general caution of aerosols.

I was trying to find information about lavender cancer causing properties and instead stumbled on this contaminated aerosol:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lavender-spray-wa...
We wouldn’t.
Isn't bandwidth/peering exceedingly expensive down under?
- you visit him after the rain is over

(That comment must be satire)
The Great Simplification – Film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future [video]
Apparently Disney likes the pay TV model. Why get paid once when you can get them to pay continuously for a subscription?
Yes. But I collected too much, this was when I was living in China and had a fear of not having enough hard convertible cash. I didn’t realize, as an American, that cash can expire.
> They'll also need a CUDA compatible API to stand a chance, but they have time.

Arc already has an extremely good value proposition: hardware AV1 encoding - so you can keep your existing GPU (let's face it: it's probably still more than fine) and augment it with a cheap Arc.