skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want be too human-centric, but to be completely honest we haven't seen the slightest proof that human intelligence is not something special. I know lots of animals are pretty clever, none approach us in any practical sense.

While it looks like an evolutionairy fluke that can be approached or even exceeded by other species - either on this or another planet - in the blink of an eye, I think that's actually more speculative than we would care to admit.

We don't know. Maybe human intelligence is a very close approximation of cognition's equivalent of physic's light speed. Increasing it may turn out to be prohibitively expensive. There's lots of precedence for animals having acquired features close at or actually at the physical maximum of whatever it is they are optimizing for.

To be clear, I'm not convinced of anything either way but I'd think it would as fantastic as it would be slightly depressing to find out human intelligence actually is some kind of global maximum with some exceptions like machines using energy harvested from black hole systems or something.
Everything in financial markets is highly nuanced. So first thing to say is don't look for simple answers. Also remember that when narratives become highly census that's typically when the risk of the majority being off-side is the highest.

For example, a claim like: "US trade with China is in decline" could be for various factors – is that because of lockdowns, China's slowing economy, geopolitical relations? Etc... You also have to ask geopolitical questions here. If China's trade is structurally declining with the US might they take actions to restore that trading relationship? If they don't what might the consequences be? And could these consequences be reasonably accepted by China's leadership or may their hand be forced to take action regardless of their current opinion?

CNBC can be useful, but is not a good place to form opinions because almost everyone on there has bias. CEOs have their stock price to pump. CIOs have their funds to pump. Economists often have some political or economic spin they're looking to push. Economics also isn't reported on great by the media. If you read an economics article on say CNN or the Guardian you'll typically get something that's very dumbed down and misses all the important nuance. It may also be biased. I find FT and Reuters are slightly better, but you still need to be careful.

My advice would be to simply disconnect from financial media either literally or mentally. Admittedly I often watch CNBC but I just consider it entertainment, I don't actually weight anything that is said there.

Instead I tend to look at official data. Sites like Fred (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/), BLS (https://www.bls.gov/), SEC (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/), etc.. You just need to Google around, you'll find reliable data for most things you're interested in.

Then when you have the data start asking questions... So as an example I know I'm thinking a lot about public debt at the moment. I'm trying to understand what level rates would need to get to before major economies begin to struggle with servicing their debt, what the consequences of this would be, and what could cause that to occur? Could rates in the UK hit say 8% if nat gas, oil prices and food commodities jump in price again over the next year? What would happen to the housing market if this happened? Could the government service their debt if rates remained high? Would taxes need to increase to service that debt compounding the economic pain? In such an event might inflation just be accepted as the only solution? Then importantly, how should I position my finances given risks I see?

I find I have lots of weird opinions on economics for this reason which I can back up fairly well. I'm often wrong, but I also often see things before others. It's fun too.

It takes a very long time to learn this stuff to any competency though... Most things in economics tend to be complicated, interconnected and counterintuitive. I still feel like I understand nothing.

Learn the basics first you don't know that though... If you don't understand and can't account for business cycles for example most questions you ask will be meaningless.
I'm definitely not jealous, it just looks like an annoying pain in the ass. I have a faster network than the OP and it's cheaper and wireless and I don't have any servers or cable everywhere nor maintenance to do...
If you think "I know, I'll use regular expressions" you now have two problems.

If you think "I know, I'll build it on top of SharePoint" the problem was inside you all along.
> Honest question, why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing?

I wanted to link an article written by a linguist, but I couldn't find it. One of the hurdles would be tones: in order to express them, one would have to use plenty of diacritics and westerners would not be able to pronounce them correctly anyway.
To be less indenciary with the title: Google marked the website as harmful for hosting harmful content, which it was, but which has now been removed, and the recognition has not been updated.

It could be caching, or it could be a policy thing. Websites that once hosted harmful content are probably much more likely than average to host it again. I do hope this can be reverted of course, I understand that the intention was not to be harmful (not that that would prevent a bad actor from pointing people to your download).

Have you made sure your robots.txt allows Google to scan and properly identify that the files have disappeared?

Also, how long have you waited? I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a few days for these sorts of things to make it through all the relevant systems. I do realise that's not very comforting when users are unable to use a website!

As an aside, to prevent this in the future perhaps, you mention that the files were encrypted. This should have prevented this because Google shouldn't be able to decrypt the file to understand that it is malware. Did you do the encryption from scratch or did you distribute the same encrypted file that might have been previously known about publicly, where Google might be able to pattern-match to known bad files? I would imagine you should be safe zipping and then encrypting the zip with your own encryption.

Disclosure: I do work at Google, but not on anything related to this, this is all just personal opinion based on work outside of Google.
> Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the simulator, and could play Atari too.

> AI looked scary. It looked like it was one FOOM away from self playing and becoming superhuman at the universe. And yet, here we are in 2023 and self driving cars still don’t work.

This is weird. I don't recall this at all. The mainstream press got a little kick out of chess and (to a lesser extent) Go AI turning over various humans at a few points over the years but it's only really burst into the mainstream recently. And where it did get any traction, in tech circles such as our own, response was enthusiastic but definitely more measured. Some were talking a bit about a kind of AI singularity way off into the future, but that was always a very distant and theoretical thing.
You're right, our own landing page is very simple and so are the landing pages we generate.

It's also a very competitive space with online website builders like Squarespace, Wix, Typeform and many, many others. With this early version of LampBuilder, our main differentiators are the startup focus, the speed with which you can get your site ready and the fact that we're free for use with custom domains.

Your suggestion of examples on the home page is a good one. We'll also need to work hard to ensure there is a compelling enough reason for startups to choose LampBuilder over all the other options for landing pages.
And now add the noise question to the equation.
I don't avoid the news, I just avoid news sites unless I am following a specific text link with interest. Every couple of days I run a perl script that loads 15 html pages from 11 sites (the first 5 pages of zerohedge) and they are all aggregation sites so there can be 1500 unique links per page. The script looks at <A HREF=...>text</A> links only and checks each URL against an already-seen database (currently 56,089 entries) to show me only unique new ones. It sorts the new links by rank as they appear across their respective sources, so if it is near the top of any page it will be near the top on my result page. The already-seen logic casts out recurring links and site navigation and I don't add sources often.

The result page is very simple html that I customize to a larger easy to read font with no visual clutter except the source abbreviations and a bold sequence number. It is presented in a single long scrolling paragraph without whitespace, and I will typically keep the tab open and skim and through it over one or two days. An example of a recent page is here ( https://ia902708.us.archive.org/2/items/news-aggregation-dem... )
Natural gas stoves are unhealthy[1]. Poor people already have worse health than rich people for a multitude of reasons [2].
So if more poor people get access to places with electrical stoves, their health improves.

I only looked at walmart.com: Cheapest gas stove was 122US$, cheapest induction 222US$. If the 100US$ difference is relevant, you're neither building a house nor looking to rent an apt without a kitchen anyway.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+gas+stove+health
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=health+of+poor+people e.g. https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-deter...
Quantum mechanics was quite handy to develop electronics.
To see how “AI” can be dangerous just look how social media bubble/recommendation algorithms would radicalize people, even with much cruder ML. People tend to miss that it’s not about some model starting to “think” and act all sci-fi evil, just us humans applying powerful tech in irresponsible ways that we either don’t bother to assess due to lack of awareness or assess positively due to a conflict of interest (money, career, etc.) is already enough to cause trouble.
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Sounds like they were more like modern lobbyists.
Related: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702676>
ESA confirms Ariane 6 debut to slip to 2024
The mass rollout of mRNA treatment was not mentioned in this article. I wonder if they tried to control for "sleep deprivation, increase in alcohol consumption" to find out if that's correlating. I'd be even more interested to see what happens if they control for mRNA treatment status.
They appear to be aware that the ecosystem is important and providers have remained under an OSS license (at least as of this change).

So without defending the change they -have- made, that doesn't seem like where you're going to run into problems as a result of said change.
Right: if you go back two generous human lifespans there is almost nothing.

I always have two specific lifespans in mind when I say this: my late father’s and that of a man he admired and studied under in his youth: Alexander Fleming. Go back before Fleming’s birth in 1881 and you are in the medical dark ages in some respects.

The NHS is really only a human lifespan old.
This makes good points.

And it articulates an idea I’ve been having trouble getting down.

What if increasing intelligence is an exponential problem and the reason humans all have somewhat similar intelligence isn’t that we peaked at some level but that even vast additional intelligence just doesn’t get much more traction against the universe of problems.

Eg doubling your compute doesn’t get you many more cities in the traveling salesman problem.
I prefer clean code that doesn’t have comments except as doc strings for various parsers on declarations and in areas that are particularly surprising.

If I want to know why something was done, I expect to be able to use git log or git blame on the file or line and get find a commit message, issue tracker link or pull request reference that I can pursue.
I admit that the question was ostensibly rhetorical in nature, they're doing no good being there that's for sure :(
There’s nothing hysterical about the OP’s argument that the setup is overkill and power hungry. It’s important to note here that OP is merely criticising the setup. It’s their right to speak freely about it just as you have the right to call them a climate hysterical. Stop shaming people for speaking their minds.

And my opinion is that the setup is indeed overkill. The author(s) literally admit so themselves.
Concepts that can exist but not yet for some reason surely can have a link to our reality. That link is the introduction. Think of asteroid mining. Nothing forbids that it can be done, but it's not practical yet to exist, but you can write a book on it regardless.
> It just needs to get a bit smarter and somewhat faster every few months. Within less than a decade we will have systems that output "thoughts" and actions at least dozens of times faster than humans.

I don't think this will work because cost of improvement with current method is exponential and we're already at capacity with HW.
I’m expecting quite a few AirBNB landlords to exit when they hit their first milestone maintenance expense. HVAC, roof, special assessments, septic, well, there are some big ones.
Think we had the first airplane before Prandtl came up with his stuff.
Dramatic rise in cancer diagnosis.
In the 80s and early 90s we would alienate book our holiday cottage in Cornwall though a catalog. I’m not entirely sure how it worked, I guess my parents phoned up the company and asked for a given cottage for a given week.

How is airbnb and different?
Talk about a misleading title
what's wrong with Dart?
This very much describes me to a T and I've come to realize I just have ADHD and (excuse the narcissism) above average mental capacity in some subjects. Haven't gotten diagnosed yet, but both my SO and my best friend have it, and the parallels are staggering and explain a lot about my behaviour. I've developed a shit ton of personal techniques to gain some focus even when it seems impossible and engage in humility to counteract my cynicism. It's only going half well, but a hell of a lot better than in university.

Other people in this position, what did you do?
Couldn't the reason be also that people survive or simply don't get affected by other illnesses anymore?
Along the same lines: when I want to locally review someone’s PR, I want to see their changes as “dirty” relative to main, so that the changes show up nicely highlighted in PyCharm in the “gutter” (left side). This has to be such a common need, but I am surprised that I have to do convoluted things like: create a new branch, switch to it, and then:

git merge --no-commit --no-ff pr-branch

Am I missing an easier workflow/command to achieve the above?
(Granted this is not so bad, and was suggested by GPT4, but I wondered if there might be a more straightforward way)
A photon emitted from a mobile phone antenna has about five orders of magnitude less energy than a photon of visible light. It just isn't plausible that such a relatively small number of relatively low-energy photons could have a meaningful impact on human heath, considering our overall exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
Just because it was encrypted doesn’t mean google can’t run some processing. For example encrypted zip files still can show the file names. These file names could be specific or malware or a collection of matching file names.
I am of the opinion that its just internet becoming more spammy and unhelpful rather than google searching becoming bad. Every Tom and his mom seems to have a blog/website which they don't even write themselves. Most of the content on the internet is now for entertainment rather than purpose or knowledge. So, I do wonder if its just the state of the internet these days. As a layman, these days I just go directly to Wikipedia/reddit/youtube rather than searching on google.
I've found that I need to support localization from the very start.

I never display a quoted string. I always use Apple's tokenization (or create my own, if doing server code).

Apple has terrific support for localization, which puts the onus on us, to honor it. I have some basic extensions that I use to support localization in my coding[0-2], but there's also just stuff I need to keep in mind, all the time.

There has been discussion of how to deal with things like word order in different languages. For example, in Germanic languages, the modifier usually precedes the subject, while in Romance languages, it tends to be the opposite.

Thankfully, Apple supports the "$" format for sprintf strings[3], so we can do stuff like this:

import Foundation

let localizationAssets = [
(format: "The %1$@ %2$@", modifier: "white", subject: "horse"),
(format: "Le %2$@ %1$@", modifier: "blanc", subject: "cheval")
]

func localizedHorse(_ inLocalization: Int) -> String {
String(
format: localizationAssets[inLocalization].format,
localizationAssets[inLocalization].modifier,
localizationAssets[inLocalization].subject
)
}

// English (Prints "The white horse")
print(localizedHorse(0))
// French (Prints "Le cheval blanc")
print(localizedHorse(1))

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

[2] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
When dealing with a difficult situation, people need a combination of faith, discretion, empathy, and consistency.

Therapy is ideal for those who need all 4. Note that confessions and visits to the local astrologer also provide all 4.

Communities are essential. They provide empathy and have faith in you. Discretion can be harder to find, and consistency can be even harder....especially with the ungrounded nature of modern society. To that degree, Therapists serve a distinct purpose for the community.

The long term therapist is replacing community, but even more often, it is replacing spiritual gurus as a consistent & general purpose life guide.
Yeah, maybe don't allow shit like aspartame or TiO2 (read banning of it in Northern Ireland after it has been happily used in food) to go into production before establishing more concrete evidence for its safety then.

Same goes for parabens in cosmetics (read banning of specific parabens in the EU), you can't act surprised that some turn out to have an agonistic effect like estrogen and be potentially carcinogenic in women and accumulate in vitro when you throw it at the market with little real safety data. The biggest joke I've read is a recent-ish review concluding that consumers can cross the maximum recommended daily exposure with just a few cosmetics containing specific parabens because it was underestimated how much consumers use.
Yes, every hedge fund bro already does that, but they usually target specific scenarios, they don't model the entire market.

The way to make money this way is to find out a unique scenario, and then create a prediction algorithm for that. I'm not close enough to hedge fund bros to know how feasible that is.
Super important https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csa...
FOOM = Fast Out Of the gate Model, for those not familiar (like myself)
This is why I said zipped then encrypted, yes any pattern matching like filenames could be used to identify malware.

Plus encrypting then zipping removes any compression opportunity so that's just a bad idea.
Is there a meaningful way to boil it down to a single number?

Like for instance, in wealthier countries, rates of esophageal cancer dropped. Maybe because of better drugs for treating reflux. How is that expected to relate to rates of kidney cancer in poorer countries?
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Thanks for the recommendation. Just listened to it this morning. Really beautiful album.
This does exist, there are a few translation-as-a-service companies that offer more or less what you want. It's not exactly as you are describing, but I have a pipeline setup for an app I built that will extract and machine translate strings at build time. It would be pretty trivial to just do the extraction part and send off the files to whatever endpoint you want (being a human or a machine translating in the end), if you wanted to "roll your own".
At least when I last read it a couple years ago, Intel's optimization manual recommends certain code layouts. For example in the absence of better information a conditional jump backwards would be predicted as true (because that's what loops look like) while a jump forward is seen as less likely to happen (error conditions and else branches look like that).

Not sure how consistent this is across architectures, and how useful it still is. But at least it used to be a thing
My cloud backup is rather simple, i use Arq backup with Family365. Fits nicely that each user has 1TB space in their personal OneDrive, and nobody here uses OneDrive.

My local backup is also done with Arq backup to a local USB drive, though i have a long time test running with Kopia backing up to Minio on a Raspberry Pi.
>original news of our move to the US was delivered to them via a posted letter, snail mail, not FidoNet email!

netmail, not email :-)

As the knower of the code, for the safe, in the escorted-only data center, that contains one of our Vault key shares, this story resonates.
It reminds me of the rocket fuel equation where you have 500kg to take to space, so you need X kg of fuel. Except now you have 500+X kg to take to space and so you need even more fuel. Repeat. This sort of pattern seems to exist in all sorts of diverse situations.
Thats a free chair right there. See you on Monday!
The DSM and its disciples are so focused on aberrant behavior that they neglect to explore the experiences and mental models of those they treat. What is it about having a mood disorder leaves one prone to eschew strong typing in favor of improv at the REPL? Is it the mood that makes the object more clearly visible, or what it does to a person when they delve into the abstract?
> really burst into the mainstream recently.

I think what made the LLMs so popular in the mainstream was anyone could go experience it themselves in a familiar, low barrier to entry way with a simple chat prompt.
Printed out the master key and stored it in a safe...

Wonder if that printer kept a copy...?
IQ is robustly correlated with income though.
The discussion I hear in the US side is that housing is a recent problem - like 5-10 years.

The U.K. has had a housing shortage for decades, and solving it becomes harder each year as the backlog increases.
AGI slightly exceeds humans, but they are actually kind of shitty in all sorts of annoying and hard to predict ways. They turn out to be fantastic slackers and liars. Your voters, to put it mildly, don't like them. It's hard to monetize them and we all agree we should focus our efforts on something else.
Sure. 3 Watts of gamma rays will do a different job. But a cell phone works in the microwave range - visible light, infrared, UV are all more dangerous - and the sun will blast you with 1 kW on a nice sunny day.

Cell phones are not the problem (well, not the microwaves at least).
Agreed, same with having only one choice at some points of the adventure. You decide to dig out the dark shape only to be asked to dig more and then dig more and dig more once again. I hope it at least measures how fast I click 'dig' again.

Edit: I'm not even gonna finish the first story. The classic trope where you talk to a npc and they have a set of questions that you have to ask them. I don't care about an npc and what they have to say.