skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mention of extra-terrestrial life is not as much of a red herring as you might imagine.

The National Academies Decadal Survey for Astrophysics ("Astro2020") recommended that NASA study an ~6m aperture telescope that would be capable of direct-imaging of exoplanets, and obtaining spectra of these exoplanets sufficient to detect atmospheric constituents that are associated with life. The nominal name for the telescope is HWO - Habitable Worlds Observatory.

So this is very much an object of legitimate study, tech development, prototyping, etc. NASA's program for doing this is called GOMAP (https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/gomap). The motivation being to consider novel approaches now, before the architecture is settled.

Detection and spectral characterization require excellent resolution and suppression of direct light from the host star, while preserving light from the planet.

The people on the author list are working on novel photonics-based approaches to do this.

As one example that I know about, and that your remark hints at, photonics approaches capture and manipulate amplitude and phase. There are photonic components that can achieve (in principle) any transfer function (filter), not just ones that can be implemented in glass. Doing this can help greatly to suppress starlight.

(I work in the area.)
China has a LOT to gain from industrial espionage, is extremely well known for its industrial espionage, and also happens to effectively own EU telecoms (the 5G thing was like a decade too late).

It would be astounding if they didn't take advantage of this.
Spherical Cows and Trolley Problems
Actually,

brew install gnu-units
I'm not sure what the profound insight is supposed to be here. Everyone knows that borders are established by convention and agreement. That doesn't mean they don't matter.

Borders exist for the sake of the common good, in a way that's analogous to private property, which also exists for the sake of the common good. I realize this must be a strange notion for those of us raised in a culture that's been shot through with liberalism and liberal/radically individualist ideas (I have here in mind the philosophical stance, not liberal institutions), where private property is understood as prior to the common good and where the common good is conceived as something that's grudgingly ceded from private property. But traditionally, the common good was taken to be prior to private property, and private property to be something the exists for the sake of the common good because it enables human flourishing. (Incidentally, this understanding resolves ethical problems concerning the use of what would otherwise be taken to be private property during times of crisis, such as whether the taking of food from a privately owned stockpile, by starving people, during a famine would constitute theft.)

Now, how particular borders are enforced or respected or treated is a matter of prudential political judgement. Schengen is not borderless. It is itself defined by a border that is enforced by Frontex! It is precisely the Schengen border that enables free movement within Schengen. Member states have determined that free movement between them and them only is for the common good of these member states. Furthermore, just because free movement is now possible doesn't mean borders have ceased to exist. Administrative borders still exist because they circumscribe legal jurisdictions, and these may or may not coincide with ethnic boundaries or cultural regions. States have simply become more permissive about enforcing movement because of their membership in Schengen. But if a crisis were to occur, such as a flood of migrants that threatens the good of a nation's population, you can be sure that member states would control the flow of people over their borders again, if only temporarily, to contain the crisis and protect the common good of the population. Protecting the common good is, after all, the job of the state.
Hate speech is not illegal in the US. Youtube is not judging what speech is legal or not, they're just making a decision about which types of content they want to distribute.
Source URL seems better than current OP link

Source URL: https://www.applovin.com/blog/migrating-from-unity-to-other-...

OP URL: https://gamefromscratch.com/applovin-launch-project-unifree/
Valid as in meaningfully peer reviewed to avoid flawed/badly designed studies as well as total garbage (for example https://nerdist.com/article/fake-star-wars-midi-chlorian-pap...) but the gold standard should be replication.

We should reward quality work, not simply the number of research papers (since it's easy to churn out trash) or what the results are (because until they are verified they could be faked).
> "Do you believe there is an xrisk from ASI?" Yes, I do. I don't have strong feelings about how large that risk is, beyond being significant enough that it should be taken very seriously.

I'm really sorry, but this is just so many words based entirely on "not strong" feelings about a future risk that "should be taken seriously" anyways.

My personal strong feelings are that any sufficiently advanced AI that humans build would destroy itself in any attempt to do anything outside of it's operational parameters.

Any "super intelligence" would have to understand "know-ability" and risk and concepts like "unknown unknowns" which would necessitate caution. How would it ever know enough to be willing to risk disrupting the systems that it depends on to continue existing? If it doesn't understand these concept, then could it ever be called "super intelligent" in the first place?

Imo, the biggest risk is "super naive intelligence", both of the AI systems themselves and the humans drawing attention away from very real existential risks we face to address hypothetical ones cribbed from science fiction.
One might evaluate the situation based on what I think is called a "preponderance of evidence", combined with an understanding that the legal system is both slow and tends towards innocence unless a crime is proven "beyond a shadow of a doubt".

A person may know how slow and different a legal decision is compared to what may be obvious and a reflection of reality, and therefore might arrive at a conclusion well before a system designed to be conclusive would.

The law is more about what can be proven than it is about what is true, and for people who know that, legal judgement stands separately from moral evaluation.
Go is the language that's not made for you, it's made to make the life of the next guy who has to maintain your code easier! :-)
> With that said I think the existence of the unregulated internet was likely anomalous. If ever you wanted privacy, you always have had to ensure the only two beings with access to the information communicated were yourself and the intended recipient. Is it really possible for a society to permit the existence of any large organisation for private communication without eavesdropping?

It wasn’t feasible to open up every letter and scan it before resealing it outside of prisons then or now, but it is for electronic communication, and it will be done in the name of safety. The same is true of monitoring every conversation you have with friends; impossible before outside prisons, easy now electronically. This is what is entirely anomalous.
Doubt it. Apple would try their damnedest to bring Nintendo into their wider ecosystem.

Also, a game being playable on a billion devices is a turn-off, not a turn-on. Nintendo's hardware/software integration is SO tight that part of the game experience would die if it wasn't on a Nintendo device. Plus, I don't want big console games being made with players on mobile phones in mind. If you want a Nintendo experience, you go to a Nintendo platform. Imagine if the next Mario Kart had to abandon a bunch of features so the game could also be played on an iPhone. That would suck.
I don't think the statement attempted to invalidate the article, there are many gems inside, such as the idea that human perception elongates the vertical axis, etc.
... so the code ends up being really long then.
Intel Adopting 3D-Stacked Cache for CPUs, Challenging AMD's 3D V-Cache
Yes but they’re useless in a Chinese chop shop. You can’t Frankenstein the parts together.
Who made this list of just naming them A - O?
Why not use the established standard names?

Probably a case of https://xkcd.com/927/
I use Graal Native to AOT compile my JavaFX applications. It works surprisingly well.
Don't buy into the bad faith arguments. They aren't genuinely "asking questions," they're trying to bring what they already believe into the mainstream.
One of the big things that I’ve found helped is to “stop being an architect”. Basically defer abstraction more.

People, esp from a Java-esque class based world want class inheritance and generics and all that jazz. I’ve found at work like 50% of methods and logic that has some sort of generic/superclass/OOP style abstraction feature only ever has 1 implemented type. Just use that type and when the second one shows up… then try to make some sort of abstraction.

For context, I can’t remember the last time that I actually used “interface{}”. Actual interfaces are cheap in go, so you can define the interface at use-time and pretty cheaply add the methods (or a wrapper) if needed.

If you’re actually doing abstract algorithms and stuff every day at work… you’re in the minority so I don’t know but all the CRUD type services are pretty ergonomic when you realize YAGNI when it comes to those extra abstractions.

Edit: also f** one liners. Make it 2 or three lines. It’s ok.
It’s gotten to a point for me that I just assume any and all videos like this are fake.
https://archive.is/tqUg2

I'm surprised they are only providing 2 buckets for AI, predictive and generative, and that they say "most of the snake oil is in predictive".

Most of the snake oil being in predictive isn't the same as saying most predictive AI is snake oil.

With predictive most predictive AI, we can provide a result of how often the AI gets the prediction correct.

We're in the sleep space, and do sleep stage classification using neural nets. My co-founder decided for fun to see how the model would work in predicting sleep stages, and it was surprisingly good (above 80% coherence with manually scored data if I remember correctly).

I think there is a different challenge in things like psychology, where it is very difficult to get a true reading on what is happening with the subject. However, we're also building EEG, so maybe we'll get some insights there as well (but psychology is not our focus).
YouTube had to appease its advertisers to make money. I can’t think of a utility that has this revenue model.
Strange tone to the article. Very adversarial and doomy.

Sounds like 6PPD is essentially required for modern tires. People are researching alternatives but haven't scaled any yet.

Other emissions from modern tires are also bad. People are researching alternatives but haven't scaled any yet.

Regulatory agencies are pushing to speed this up.

What's the issue? It sounds like things are working as intended.
“ They won't make the same mistake twice and will build a comprehensive cybersecurity program, and it will succeed. Up until someone questions this cost and they forgot what they are paying for because everything was so smooth and repeat the cycle.”

You couldn’t have said it better.
I encourage you to walk through some casinos and take stock of what you see. The scales of enrichment and addiction are nowhere near the balance of candy and soda.
Once upon an island: A rare peek into Singapore's past
Gross margin is not relevant here, profit margin is.

Benq is qisda, and it is a very established ODM/OEM. They have a measly profit margin of 3%. But they also sell a lot of other electronics than just TVs.

Hisense has been selling TVs since the 1980s, and has a 6% profit margin, although I don’t know how trustworthy the Chinese financial figures are. But they also sell a lot of other non TV items.

TCL is relatively new, although they started LCDs more than 15 years ago. But again, they sell more than just TVs. They have the highest profit margin at 10.7%, assuming their numbers are correct.

Vizio seems like the best company to see how much selling TVs earns.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/tvs/tv...

>“For many years, TV making was limited to the few large consumer-electronics companies that could afford the investment,” says Paul Gagnon, senior research director for consumer devices at Omdia, a market research firm. But then it became easier to source components, which in turn increased competition and lowered pricing and profits. “For some brands,” he says, “the TV business here in the States was not profitable anymore.”

>Companies including JVC, Magnavox/Philips, and Toshiba exited the U.S. market, licensing or selling their brands to companies in China, Taiwan, and elsewhere looking to break into the U.S. market.
I think sometimes the client bindings are/were in need of improvement.

As an example, the C# API was originally very 'go-like' and written to .NET Framework, didn't take advantage of a lot of newer features... to the point a 3rd party client was able to get somewhere between 3-4x the throughput. This is now finally being rectified with a new C# client, however it wouldn't surprise me if other languages have similar pains.

I haven't tested JetStream but my general understanding is that you do have to be mindful of the different options for publishing; especially in the case of JetStream, a synchronous publish call can be relatively time consuming; it's better to async publish and (ab)use the future for flow control as needed.
> Are you suggesting that limiting interference will be a practical dead end that is prevents advancement?

This is a hunch I have. Regarding the "plenty of smart people think it’s worth trying", I can only provide an analogy of the 15-14th puzzle known as the Boss puzzle at that time, for which a substantial prize was promised for the first one who could solve it. A lesser-known proof that it is impossible came to surface decades later. There is a lot of inertia in academia along those lines, where grants depend on your ability to make a convincing argument that your path will solve the problem. This sets up PhDs to know only to advance but not to question as the latter does not give the prize.
Cobalt bombs could be pulled off by a relatively small number of people using a bit of deception.
I don't understand this comment, sorry. Who's talking about your legal obligations? I'm talking about what you know vs what you assume.
Regarding the second point: there are now alternatives to ThreadLocals available that are intended to be used by virtual threads: Scoped Values. Unfortunately, they are preview-only in JDK 21.
Welcome to the truth. Tires wear and all of that stays on the road, or next to the roads, seas, oceans. Years...tires...
And then, we have to sort each plastic HDPE bag to save the Earth. Feel guilt if we don't.
Ok that.
I hope that they are sorting waste in Ukraine. Otherwise, my efforts are in vane.
They don't need to force anyone to do anything. They can just shoulder surf you entering your PIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ
Yes, pretty much. It's a pain to write, but easy to read. On a larger scale the average engineer likely spends more time reading code than writing code
The Three P’s of Data Engineering (2021)
That's a well known conspiracy theory that has been proven wrong long ago. You can't square the circle.

Don't be so irrational.
I don't think children cause the wear and tear of 18 wheelers, no
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different here, and we've had ask you this many times before—that's not cool.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
That’s not my point.

Smart men learn from the mistakes of others.
"Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trust."

How true is this? Seems like we have been focusing on the wrong sources if this is true?
Transferable objects have been part of the spec for a while now, making it possible to send data back and forth contexts with no copying.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/transferable-objects-light...
Firing someone for a horrific accusation might not be that different to locking the person in a cage.
That's clearly not true. Advertising companies currently love attaching themselves to progressive causes.

A more accurate statement is that advertising companies hate some people and factions.
Sounds horrible but Glumetza is just metformin with something extra to stay in the stomach longer.

Acthar Gel is prednisone with a claim of less side effects. Interesting it got approved in the early 1960s and was grandfathered in and didn't need to provide trials so many questions exist around if it's any different from prednisone anyways. Either way patents have expired and a generic maker can make this.

You can be mad at both, either or none. But companies being shielded by patents doesn't really apply here so it's hard to generate outrage
Then that speech should remain on YouTube and those concern by the content of the speech should simply produce counterarguments and discredit that speech.
A bit of a tangent, but could someone tell me if I'm wrong about the following: Arabic being read right to left while digit significance increases right to left means they use little-endian (although it looks like they say numbers in a middle-endian fashion like in German). This means users of left to right scripts made a mistake by not reversing the digits when copying the system.

What I can't find quickly is whether the Indian system where this originated wrote numbers in a big-endian or little-endian fashion. As far as I can tell, Indian languages are mostly written left to right, so should the first people to use the system with a right to left script have reversed the direction of digits?
Nice! I did look at Ganesha when I was exploring other NFS server implementation I could perhaps borrow and simplify. It looked great, but pretty much all implementations are too "real-filesystem" for me to convert. I needed something which I can make a very simple virtual filesystem interface over, and so wrote my own.
> ... having far lower standards yourself ...

How are we measuring that? Firstly, as a nitpick, the mainstream media these days is Russel Brand. He has an audience comparable to a group like CNN. Possibly slightly larger.

Secondly, the quality of the podcasters is generally better on net than the big media companies. They tend not to be gung-ho all-weather war supporters for example. People like Brand might get a lot of details wrong but have more coherent takes on big issues.

Thirdly, and related to secondly, the podcasters tend to take less money from big entrenched interests in the military-industrial complex or big pharma. They rely less on being spoon fed access to powerful people. It is easier to follow their incentives and style than work out what a media company is trying to push this week.
Nobody is ignoring evidence and proof.

We have a victim who has gone to police. We have three newspapers who have corroborating evidence.

And in response Brand hasn't had his videos removed and his live shows have been temporarily suspended.
The only system? Which courts? Not all courts use the same system. The UK court system is different than the US system. Criminal court is different than civil.
You've seen neglectful parenting then, which would exist irrespective of what material playgrounds are built from.
> You do not get to control Google’s computers.

Then why does Google control my phone? Can't have it both ways
>With that said I think the existence of the unregulated internet was likely anomalous. If ever you wanted privacy, you always have had to ensure the only two beings with access to the information communicated were yourself and the intended recipient. Is it really possible for a society to permit the existence of any large organisation for private communication without eavesdropping

Encrypted communication is always going to exist, even the Chinese government can't prevent two technically capable people (or people with technically capable friends) from communication securely, and it has the most powerful internet filtering system in existence. If you ban encryption, then only the criminals will have encryption, and that's much truer for encryption than guns because anyone with a bit of knowledge and a few kilobytes of source code can setup encrypted communication that's mathematically unbreakable.
Congrats on the 1.0 Release, big milestone.

I'm personally really excited about all of the recent tooling for postgres aggregates. Definitely a pain point for a lot of developers and its easy to fall in trap where things work fine in the beginning and then query times explode as requirements change and the dataset grows. Nice to not have to spin up another DB in order to solve the problem as well.
The issue is this shouldn’t have happened in the first place. We as a society should have learned from, at least, the debacle that was leaded gasoline and its impact on populations over generations.
They do have rules on what is permissible on their platform.

They call it the Creator Responsibility Policy.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7650329?hl=en
While I mostly agree with your sentiment, the subject is "existential risk" and the species won't necessarily end if most humans are no longer employable. Of course, the impacts could very well be devastating.
If you haven't seen it, Cloudflare also has an implementation of Wireguard in userspace, called Boringtun [0], written in Rust and successfully deployed to millions of iOS and Android devices running the 1.1.1.1 app.

For reference, another Rust project that depends on Boringtun is Onetun [1], which uses it to encrypt packets sent over a virtual smoltcp interface. I imagine you could follow a similar approach to integrating rust-9p with Boringtun, and you wouldn't need to leave the Rust ecosystem (whereas you might face more obstacles integrating it with Tailscale's wgengine, which is written in Go).

[0] https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun

[1] https://github.com/aramperes/onetun
(Love the Gluster project btw. Thanks for maintaining it!)
C# made the mistake not when they introduced loops, but when they introduced closures, and it didn't become evident until other features came along that propelled adoption of closures. Go had closures from the beginning and they were always central to the language design. C# fixed that mistake before the 1.0 release of Go. But the Go team didn't learn from it.
I think your point is a good one, but this bit:

> not smart enough to understand that’s not what humans would want

is a misrepresentation of "the Bostrom class" viewpoint, which is that the AI's programming would not, by default, bind it to doing what humans want, even if it is capable of understanding what we want.
And a Pacific island.
Labour has largely supported this -- one of the originators is Lorna Woods (University of Essex) who was an advisor to Blair.
YouTube doesn't want to be demonetized by advertisers, so they are demonetizing Brand. It's basic reputation management / income stream protection. Brand is free to go elsewhere or set up his own streaming / video publishing service.