skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I lived through the Cold War. I don't need this exercise because, the bottom line is, no one knows what existential risk - if any - will happen. The worst of the Cold War never happened, yet many of us thought it would. Likewise, you might choose to focus on AI as your existential risk, go through all the sacrifices and immoral behaviors that longtermism leads you to do in order to mitigate AI, and then a giant meteor collides with Earth. Oops! You chose the wrong existential risk. And meanwhile, you compromised your morals and right behavior in order to mitigate the wrong existential risk. No thanks, not for me.

Your claim seems to boil down to two things: First, people sometimes make very incorrect predictions, so you've stopped worrying about them. Second, instead, you focus on "doing the right thing" based on your ethical criteria (which, as I say in sibling comment, seems to be aligned with deontological ethics -- i.e. the ends don't justify the means.)

I'm not going to argue with the second (your choice of ethics) here. But your first point is terribly flawed; it ignores probability and decision-making under uncertainty.

Sure, you have to make assessments about what to believe. Strictly speaking, as a society, it is irrational to stop paying attention and responding to the most important things, even if any one of them might be unlikely.

Personally, you might find it necessary or useful to tune out this stuff. I get that. I'd guess this happened: you have stopped _caring_ for various reasons (perhaps information overload, sensationalization of the news, more pressing matters right in front of you) and your brain has constructed a worldview that _rationalizes_ not caring. Totally human, I get it. But this isn't reasoning nor logic.

I may not have your years of experience, but I'm no spring chicken either. Age doesn't always bring wisdom, unfortunately. People learn the wrong lessons. We've learned many. I have a keen interest in the Cold War. If you study the history, you'll recognize that our path 'through' it was no means assured. We are still living with the downstream effects of it, including huge nuclear arsenals and proxy wars.

Your comment above is naive with regards to history. It paints a simplistic and convenient narrative with the benefit of hindsight. You've ignored one key aspect of history, which is to understand it _in context_. Using hindsight exclusively isn't the only nor best way to learn from history.

Even in deontological ethics, not _everything_ is intrinsically good of bad. There is still a responsibility to act rationally in order to achieve moral ends in a moral way. To completely ignore probability is immoral.

Please, remember this: using poor logic and FUD to sully a serious book (based on some vague implied connection to a crook) is not ok.
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Hi HN,

I have been exploring the Hacker News API [0] a bit and came up with this simple way of exploring a user's past submissions including the comments [1].

It's been fun to dig through some of the old submissions and reading the comments, so I thought I'd share.

https://simonpure.github.io/?user=pg

Caveat: For accounts with a lot of submissions, it may take a while to load.

[0] https://github.com/HackerNews/API
[1] https://github.com/simonpure/simonpure.github.io/blob/main/a...
At my past company we for sure found our bug bounty program to be beneficial, but it was pretty common for us to get poorly documented submissions on the daily. The key is to set clear guidelines so you don't get overwhelmed with low-quality reports.

If I could recommend anything to an org trying to build out a bounty program it would be to invest in a robust triage system rather than building your own. While building your own might seem cost-effective, the long-term maintenance and updates can become a hassle and a good triage system streamlines the process so you can focus on fixing vulnerabilities.
I love everydoor. Years ago I used to update Foursquare listings wherever I went, but now I just do it on everydoor
um, they both rhyme - read (i read a book yesterday) and lead (a metal). and then read (what i am doing about what i am typing now) and lead (what you do to take a pig to market).
You've drifted off-course. We were talking about whether or not double spends are possible in Bitcoin and now you're arguing about how banks deal with fraud refunds. peace!
I'm sorry, I'm not following. What does receiving money from SoftBank in particular imply?
> Toyota anticipates it'll generate 20 percent higher productivity than its competitors, and could halve body assembly time from 10 hours.

This is a nice efficiency gain, but they don’t seem to be constrained by how quickly they can produce cars…as far as I can tell, demand in the market for their product is more based on the cost of the supply, not how quickly they are producing units.

Or are they thinking that by producing units faster the supply will increase enough to reduce prices? Will they allow supply to increase such that individual units become cheaper?

In any case it is bothersome that they would back a group that is against repairing your car…cars aren’t like phones where you can just buy an entire replacement if the screen cracks and if you’re already eyeballing the new model……
exactly! pretty much anything beyond superficial damage to a body panel...new car please, that is why I pay insurance
Hate to see Big Homeopathy bully Amazon/Whole Foods. They're not under any obligation not too either. If people want to buy quack products either let them or just ban them.
Security cats and mice are in constant motion.

Static artifacts (exploits, patches, IOCs, C&C servers) still have value.

New cats/mice with old devices can learn from years of historical public artifacts.
Sarah de Lagarde fell on to the Tube tracks. Nobody helped. Why?
Good luck LOL
Is there any benchmark data to show the difference between no-sql DBs written in different languages when it comes to a real distributed system rather than just a handful of machines?
> I'm not sure how the search engine you suggest would filter out noise.

This seems orthogonal to the suggestion. Presumably the search engine would still filter out noise.

However, even if the other poster means they want the raw internet as well, there's no technical limitations preventing search engines from offering a 'filtered' or 'raw' option. They already offer filters based on what you're looking for (books, news) or to exclude explicit results.
Shit Posting and Angel Investing
The only logical explanation I can think of is that either these other comments managed to fly under the radar, or more people found them genuinely funny.

I don't know - I avoid attempts at humour because more often than not people don't find it funny and it doesn't add to the discussion.

I mean, this is my best result this year(7 points):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577360
you can grep the man page contents by using the following command

man <command> | col -b | grep "search_string"
Hand raised!

I was rear-ended in a new Jeep Wrangler. Damage included a bent frame, crushed rear bumper, bent rear hatch, bent roll cage, bent rear fender, shattered tail light, and a bent floor.

It was nearly $20k in damage. It was repaired. [and I very quickly sold it because I had zero faith in the longevity of the repairs]
99% of the market cares about cheaper cars...and eventually, cast bodies will reduce costs substantially
It seems worse than even Chrome for that matter.
Oh good, then the government and academia can stop spending $70b a year in basic R&D research. Since it's "simple and easy" then pharma can pay for it. Big brain move here.
My point is not to absolve Facebook really. If they're making the software, publishing it to the country, designing the algorithm for maximum profit, profiting when a fake news content farm posts hate speech, and making deals to zero-rate the service then yes they definitively share in the blame.

It's more that we are expecting an US company with a goal profit and controlled by a single person to be the world moderator. We got used to it but to me it feels weird if I try to stop being a fish in the water.

The US government is not really definitive on whether their large companies and media industry are an agent of state power or not. Sometimes they aren't, sometimes the government pushes a bit (like with the Hollywood military movies), sometimes Congress calls Zuckerberg to complain, sometimes it's American society that pushes American companies into pursuing goals in other countries. But then Facebook is expected to oppose state organizations from other countries. Sure they have the money but is that really in their purview and the best way to handle things?

And in this case, the local government, which in an ideal world would be the proper "moderator" for when the national debate has gone beyond acceptable bounds is actually an hostile agent. So the foreign private organization is supposed to deal with that.

In my opinion a situation where a profit-maximizing company is in this type of situation where profit and basic human rights are in conflict things already have gone wrong. I don't know how but avoiding a genocide shouldn't depend on some distant corporate officer paying attention to a country responsible for a tiny fraction of revenue and deciding to lower the company's profits!

And one of the root problems IMHO is that like a few things in the tech world, this series makes obvious the issues with Myanmar like a lot of other Third World countries using tech developed in and for the West. So Facebook then throws its platform over the wall for some extra profit above what it gets in the First World, grabs nearly the entire market since it has lots of already invested capital in software and infrastructure and negotiating power for zero-rating, all without having to expend barely any money doing things like hiring moderators or adapting to local conditions.

Sorry for rambling.
> Then how does one analyze The Orb and other similar acts that rely
on tons of obscure samples? They make no pretense of not using loads
of samples, but they can be quite obscured to those not in the
know. Then again, they are an entirely separate genre from hip-hop.

Good question, maybe it's not "appropriation" in the same way - by not
making a strong feature of the appropriated part. Perhaps we'd simply
say composition. Or as Orb would say "Layering different sounds on top
of each other". Come to think of that track, indeed , Steve Reich
(different trains was it?)was actually something I knew but didn't
recognise until someone pointed it out.

Edit: Sorry to come back to this in case its getting old, but I just
popped up the Wikipedia to check myself (it wasn't different trains),
but check this out:

Asked about the sample in an interview years later, Jones referred
to the Orb as "those fuckers."

Reich was "genuinely flattered"^[10] by the Orb's use of his work
and instructed his record company not to sue.^[11] Despite this,
the Orb did receive a letter from Reich's lawyers several years
later, but Paterson described Reich as "a proper gentleman: he
wanted 20% from then on and asked us to do a remix of one of his
tunes, which we did"

What a world of difference. And yet for me that's the only context I
have for Rickie Lee Jones and still think of it as one of the most
beautiful vocals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fluffy_Clouds
Not surprising for a product/library that far down on the "magic" scale.

I don't know what it is about the TypeScript/JavaScript/NodeJS world that keeps seeking ever more magical and oppressive and comprehensive solutions to accomplish tasks and goals that software has been capable of achieving for some time now.

Knex is a good ORM for a NodeJS back-end. It's simple and generic. It does the job while giving developers sufficient flexibility. I just can never see the appeal of things like Prisma.
Only have hands-on experience with a slimmed down cousin, the Acorn Electron.

Its Basic has a built-in assembler, which lets you mix Basic & assembly as desired.

Iirc you'd just inline the assembly, reference Basic variables for input & output values, and RUN the combined program like any other. No separate assembler or handcoding + POKEs required.

Very nifty feature that I hadn't seen before in other home computers of the day.
If I owned a Toyota and wanted to buy another Toyota in the future, except Toyota only now makes cars that serve me less than my old one, that's absolutely enshittification. Who said the term is restricted to software?
My guess is when FB does run into such flakiness they email ____.____@nvidia.com as part of some support contract they have and go "Yo, we see this issue, figure it out and fix it".

But I can promise you after reading things like the LKML for decades and a number of different Microsoft blogs, that everyone on this planet experiences flakiness issues at times and has to figure out how to adjust their workload to avoid it until the issue is discovered and fixed.
Yeah I agree. I actually had the same thought as the author, use the example of wave/particle duality in Physics. The problem is most people don't understand that (how to grasp the paradox and have the right intuition about it) and you will just come across as a pedantic smartass. The ones who do know some advanced Physics will see you as a dilettante. Teaching Physics with correct pedagogy is hard. Even harder than Git.
> So defrauding millions to accrue QALYs (for whom?) is morally acceptable?

Under most utilitarian theories of ethics, I think it's morally required, if you can show the fraud really does yield a significantly higher QALY count.

The best out I can see to argue the fraud is not required is to show that another course of action will yield even more QALYs. Then you'd be obligated you do that instead.

That, of course, comes to another fundamental flaws of utilitarianism, namely the belief that you can know what the results of your actions will be with any meaningful completeness or certitude.

You can't.

Without that it's all just excuses that justify whatever you want to do.
Aha, thx for the insight. Very helpful. A couple questions:

1) If I wanted to learn more about ECS/ECBS, would Unity be a decent place to learn? I know sometimes the terms get coopted (for example, MVC as a term gets fairly abused at times in web development) so I wasn’t sure if their implementation was a good one to learn from. And while I’m a fan of open source, Unity certainly does seem to be a leader in adoption and available assets, etc and not a bad place to start. I’m not really looking to develop a commercial game, but in addition to my poking around game engines to see if and what might be applicable ideas for a more classic business/personal type apps, I am interested in building something that broadly speaking sorta acts like an FPS or Arma type game but just for the sake of playing around and simulating different drones and drone swarms, etc in a 3D environment and playing with that. Pretty crude is fine, and AAA level graphics aren’t really a huge concern. I think I honestly could prob get pretty far with just a non-graphical, non-gamelike OO design with JS/Python/whatever as a crude simulation. But I’ve heard that standing up something like an FPS in Unity is not too difficult. And I don’t plan on pushing boundaries from a graphics or asset perspective.

2) > Systems coordinate entities
Could you elaborate a bit? Systems are the one aspect that for me are hardest to get my head around coming from more standard web/business development. So physics engines would be a system right? But I’m not sure what are other examples.

Thx for the info. And feel free to just refer to links if you know amy decent ones. I’ve been poking around ECS from a far for a couple years now but haven’t really found articles that fill in the gaps for things like systems in ECS. Though I’m sure the fact that I have little context in game development sure doesn’t help… lol.
I think that it only "costs" $0 in Italy because the actual cost is paid by some subsidy or insurance system.

Also, insulin is a prescription medicine, so even in the absence of such confounding factors its price is not entirely market-driven; we have a nebulous understanding what the equilibrium price would be on a free market.
it's not cost prohibitive if you pay for it. but it's more expensive by a lot
Carmack: "Sigh, if I want this to happen within my lifetime, I better do it myself."
> Sure sounds like you're valuing your house billions and billions of dollars more than the land on Pluto. But why? There's so much space to colonize

I am advocating for peace not communism. It’s a free market and thats what i want in return for my property.

No need to play hardball. Take it or leave it. I’m happy to leave for greener (well white-tan-brownish) pastures to make room for you. Find me transport and the house is yours.
I think homeopathy is bullshit. I also think Whole Foods is acting completely rationally here. The people who take quack products are probably in the intersection of people who value ethically produced meat.
The difference between Steph Curry and some nba basketball player in the 99.9% percentile actually does matter a lot. And keep in mind hat Curry’s salary is actually lower than his value to a team because of salary cap structures.
All highly developed societies have birth rates below replacement. Nothing special about western nations there.
Nature managed to bootstrap human intelligence even though nature is not even a conscious entity, let alone a conscious entity that can describe loss functions and datasets. That seems to me like pretty solid evidence that those things are not hard requirements for creating human-level intelligence.

It sounds like maybe you're arguing that humans will never be able to conclusively determine if an artificial intelligence is equivalent to a human intelligence, on the basis of a theory that a human can't describe precisely what it is to have human-equivalent intelligence from inside the system of a human brain. Humans build things that are too complex for any one person to hold the entirety of in their conscious mind all the time, by working together, or by organizing it into simpler pieces. But even setting that tangent aside, if your theory is accurate, would you accept that an AGI could prove it was more intelligent than a human by successfully describing human intelligence and how to create an equivalent AGI?
In the Ukrainian case, not at all. You have a piece of land that has been "in the family" for generations, and you want it to stay this way. You just want a piece of land where you want to live your life in peace. And then a screaming horde shows up on the horizon, trying to take that away from you. I would see nothing wrong with standing up to fight, especially as you weren't the one throwing the first punch. I can see Poland, a country living literally next door, doing the same thing.

Israel is a bit different, so I won't get into it on account of not being qualified enough to share my view.
Thank the factory worker for the paper and Bill Gates for the OS sounds like a lovely idea! Marie Kondo vibes.

I agree "success is not your own" can be weaponized, but also let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. The paper - and this humanity team we are on - did help!
Hands down. I haven't personally experienced major damage, but I have bought and know folks to buy many of these written off cars only to have them repaired, certified by the state and put back on the roads.
Cf the work of Michael Levin et. al.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Michael+Levin
> So why the write off nonsense

Write-off is about insurance policies, and whether it is cheaper to repair damage to the standard committed to by the insurer within the parameters (e. g., new original manufacturer parts) in the insurance contact or to pay the amount the insurer is committed to pay in the alternative.

It is only tangentially related to whether it is econonically viable to restore the vehicle to usable condition.
> RLHF computes loss differently from how it is done in pretraining and finetuning. That, alone, constitutes a modification of the logic behind the weighting process.

You are confusing yourself and still not quite understanding the basic concept.

Machine learning has three parts:

1. Training dataset

2. Learning algorithm.

3. The model.

The data is input to the learning algorithm which generates the model.

To make ChatGPT less "racist" they provided new training data and rewarded it for the correct answers.

The process or algorithm of RHLF was not modified specially to handle "racism". These are general learning algorithms. They simply added new training data. This is basic Machine Learning 101.
My point is that it's highly unusual for a news outlet to outright remove an article as opposed to editing it and giving a note explaining why. Or a note saying the article is not accurate but leaving it up for historical purposes.
Related:

Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083775 - Jan 2020 (156 comments)
The only answer to walled garden of apple. Custom ROMs gives freedom!
Manufacturing cars currently still involves humans. Halving body assembly time also means you only need to pay half the wages for the humans. That's going to significantly reduce their expenses.
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That doesn’t mean it’s not fixed by someone else after auction and salvage titling assuming it’s a car that’s somewhat desirable. So this is just a move that generates more waste?
Would like to read:

Ed Regis: Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088138.Who_Got_Einstein...
judge declare the victim non compos mentis

FWIW I've been trying to bring back nincompoop into the vernacular. It just doesn't catch on. I like your ideas though. There have been so many extortion scams they are making an action movie about them. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzINZZ6iqxY [video][3 mins]
Not only that, but insurance companies get to negotiate special rates, but as an individual you have zero opportunity to do so, zero leverage. That is, to your point, the price of the service is 100% flexible. The ambiguity and confusion benefits those who are best positioned to benefit from it, that's not the individual.

It's a system optimized to be self-serving. It's the Healthcare Industrial Complex, that doesn't actually care much about health. Profits over people.
If the universe is infinite then would there not also be infinite Earths with infinite people posting on infinite Hacker News?
I tinkered with this a few weeks ago. Pleasantly surprised with it's capabilities.
The article left me wondering about the cost of the new and old servers and the difference in their price/performance.
For me it helps a lot to get some one-on-one to get me rolling.

Consider findig a makerspace nearby and see if they have some courses or people willing to help. There's one in my town and they have an active slack and weekly "maker evenings" where it's easy to get help.

Alternatively find some online communities where you can get some help.

As an example, this[1] YouTube channel has some great videos on layout and more with KiCad, as well as a very nice Discord community with newbies and professionals. I'm sure there are others, but that's where I got some great help when I got my feet wet.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicroTypeEngineering
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