skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah so like a Yudkowsky type then? I don't want to lump them all into the same category, but since "X-risk" is given as a category I would just say that they're likely all very well educated, and for some reason deeply deeply misguided by some sort of philosophical hunch that is not rooted in actual current research but in thought experiments. Yudkowsky tends not to respond well or at all to criticism either. For real just go see the criticisms written on that site about his views on runaway AGI and how we get "one critical chance" to stop it from killing us all. His response is effectively "this post is very long, could you summarize the best bits?" and then doesn't respond any further.

Less on topic, I'm becoming convinced that lesswrong is where researchers who couldn't get published go to feel like they got published and peer reviewed, when in reality they are getting peer reviewed by a massive echo chamber. Even less on topic and potentially downvote-inciting; it looks less like an echo chamber and more like a sort of social-media-first cult every day.
20% cashback forever would be ridiculous. Use your common sense.
I actually find python and C very similar in spirit.

Syntax is mostly an irrelevance, they have surprisingly similar patterns in my opinion.

In a modern language I want a type system that both reduces risk and reduces typing — safety and metaprogramming. C obviously doesn't, python doesn't really either.

Python's approach to dynamic-ness is very similar to how I'd expect C to be as a dynamic language (if it had proper arrays/lists).
> when people accept that a machine can be intelligent, the goalpost will stop moving

The goalposts will stop moving when the terms used are precise. What does intelligence mean? If people agree on a precise definition then we’ll know when we’ve reached that artificially.
humans using AI in competing teams will cause the destruction of ${CIV}
This is awesome. Video production just takes so many hours for each second and I don't think people know how much work it takes until you help out on a shoot.
For you and, indeed, for me too. But, sadly, not for many people.
It seems somewhat ironic to travel 1000s of miles by plane to NZ, with all the attendant climate impacts, and not be able to see the glacier due to those impacts...
I own one of these disks and quit using it when the news came out, expecting I should hang onto it to get money back for a recall. Didn't even occur to me I could just have brought it back to Costco all this time because of their extremely generous return policy.
They have made a number of changes to makebit easier to fix, not sure about the screen though.
Surprised no one has mentioned AK’s daily paper digest: https://huggingface.co/papers

He also posts summaries on Twitter, or at least he used to but my Twitter account is glitched and I can’t see Tweets anymore
ok. How about this

https://chat.openai.com/c/312cdb5f-8674-4302-ad8a-e91486c053...

Chatgpt gave me some useless answer.

I asked google and it gave me much much better answer on the search page

"It's difficult to define dream pop as a genre; it's more of a sound and aesthetic than a list of limitations. That's partially why Beach House mastered it so well; over the course of nine albums, the group hardly deviates from the gauzy sonics and vocals that characterize its music."

This probably has something to do with point 2 you mentioned.

Most of my iteractions with chatgpt are useless like these. I would rather use google and correctly sourced human written text.

Maybe I am just using chatgpt wrong?

I know it shines in things like 'write poem about crow and cat for a 3 yr old' but i am surprised by ppl on this thread saying they use it ask questions about economics/sql ect.
That's great when your data to render actually exists at the edge. Most the apps I have dealt with need to pull data from a centrally located database for almost every request. This edge setup would actually increase user latency whenever there are multiple DB queries per request (this is true of all requests if you have to query a DB to validate the user or their permission, although that can be avoided with a signed token approach).

There's some potential advantage in using the cloud provider network after the edge, but it's already a known pattern to stick just a network proxy at the edge to gain the advantage of sending the rest of the request over the cloud provider network rather than sending it over the internet.

Cloudflare has a query cache tool so that you can set a TTL on database read queries and keep them at the edge to avoid the DB latency [1]. I think though that you could develop a way to do that at an edge network proxy working at the request/response level rather than the DB level. But perhaps SSR is superior for apps that can show users stale data.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/learning/how-hy...
Yeah but react was designed to address a problem. I don't know if you recall but people were complaining a lot back then. There were tons of frameworks attempting to solve the issue. Only react came out in top.

By stepping back we are just going back to the same problem.

The next abstraction will attempt to solve the same problem again. Very likely in a similar way react failed, the next abstraction will introduce new issues and there will be another trend to go backwards again.
The fat and/or elderly are "most people".
But are trees the most efficient technology for the job?

Trees evolved to work with the inputs of their environment, we can engineer practically anything in terms of what materials/inputs are available to a synthetic tree having the sole purpose of spitting out solid carbon.

It's non-trivial to prevent other nations from destroying their forests. But nations that care might be able to make up for it with engineering, from anywhere else on the planet, at least in terms of atmospheric co2. Is the best way for such a nation to do so to just plant trees, or can we do better? It seems like a path worth at least exploring the possibilities of.
I hadn't heard about the Seagate acquisition, that sucks. So what are my options now if I want a reliable external hard drive for example?
I do a lot of YouTubing and the consensus is that every minute of video takes at least 1 hour of work - and this is just amateurs messing around.
> It sounds like what they're saying is that the solder pads are too small for some of the components

The converse is also possible. Instead of being a design flaw with the pads too small for the component, it could be that a larger component was substituted during manufacturing. Even terrible freeware EDA packages have design rules that will flag improper solder pad layouts, so it seems like what might have happened is the physical part does not resemble its model.
Andrej Karpathy

Simon Willison

Ethan Mollick

Riley Goodside

Matthew Berman (for succinct howto's on YT)
I think bringing up native Californians as a defense for modern feudalism is even crazier than the original article.

Native Californians were victims of genocide and are a completely different and special case than people who bought houses in California in the 70s and 80s.
Yep, but that's begging the question :)
I'm aware it says Premium but FWIW it does seem that exists since 12.8: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/#trigger-a-pipeline-...

I can also appreciate that the devil's in the details, so all its current constraints may not cover your use case
I think this is because HTML, CSS, vanilla JS, browser DOM implementations, and networks have all gotten better. Whereas the complexity/churn around JS tooling (and to a lesser extent React) has grown. Additionally, the overuse and abuse of React, to the point people are making largely static sites with React, which is largely a total waste of time. This has caused people to take a second look at their options, which should be viewed as totally natural.

I don't think of it as "going backwards", so much as reassessing and questioning the tools we are using and using the best one at hand. I don't know of anyone who suggests using hypermedia for all applications, just use it where appropriate and use React when simpler technology falls short.
I can see it happening, similar things have happened to me with jewelry. Much more likely to happen if the place you are traveling from is known for selling that good, they want to confirm you don’t owe duty (usually you can get a receipt before you travel from customs that says you already had that item, if you don’t have the sales receipt).

It only really matters for very expensive things, they don’t usually bother pursuing anything unless it’ll be a big payday.
Delinquencies rise on mortgages, auto loans and credit cards
The opposite of a wrong prediction is not necessarily true. It depends on the form of the statement.
If the scenarios were that uncommon, it wouldn't be worth fixing. And now that they're accepted, they will undoubtedly proliferate. This is the new common.
Most interpretations of the GDPR in Europe allow anyone to remove/anonymize anything they have written and published online.
There was also Netatalk (like Samba but for AFP) released in 1990.
Albedo enhancement certainly seems the most possible, such as with a quick flight to layer over rock dust, but the potential benefit is so limited.

Cloud seeding perhaps, but only if the moisture is there in the air.

Fog is a fun thought… ablate the outer millimeter to create an insulating layer.

You could bore tunnels in the ice and circulate coolant, but you would accelerate melting of the upper portion to fight melting on the lower.
Especially now that you can do it on your phone
I always thought there was something that could be done with the BitTorrent protocol... I don't know how well it would work, but an Internet that isn't so brittle mirrors are commonplace and accepted wisdom would be nice.

BT isn't anonymous but a TCP/IP replacement version could be.
There's no conflict of interest, it's simply denying the enemy from pillaging big G's harvest (you).
The main feature that introduces the need of a build step is having a template engine in order to reuse blocks of code, like footer, header, menu, etc..

I think Dreamweaver MX introduced something like template files, and it would make a "build" step that would copy the files from template to actual html files. Then it started to get complex, with data sources and generating pages in the backend. (php, asp, cold fusion?)
We have forgotten the old lessons. Backend first was a defense mechanism against people who believe their eyes and not the experts.

When you make a product that looks like it works but doesn’t, they don’t understand. They put you on a path to overpromise and underdeliver.

One of the lesser known features of unit tests are that they give the code that management can’t see more QA prior to being wired up. They narrow that awkward window from first paint to shipping.
This is neat, the comment summary metrics are a nice touch. I'd use it.
It's probably easier to say that your family already owns land in CA than to try to defend this moralistically.
Yup the software side has been built into the pricing of the hardware. They weren't the first to do this either since this business model has been around for quite awhile since we got away from buying software as a box.

It's also more convenient for the consumer to have a one and done payment.

The only thing I wish is if there was a monthly maintenance package when my devices get older so I can keep getting updates that keep my device running fast, secure, and can maintain some form compatibility with most apps.
i'm guessing https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001889231-A...
Mods on any decently popular subreddits will tell you that they feel limited in what rules they can enforce. Reddit users get used to the sitewide culture, so if they come onto a subreddit and run up against strange rules, they hassle the mods. I’ve seen whole mobs, drawing in even the sub’s regulars, harangue mods as “gatekeepers”, with few or none standing up for the traditional rules.

Also, I’m not sure if it was true or a conspiracy theory, but I recall once hearing that mods of the most popular subs cannot institute any rules that would reduce “engagement” (and thereby profit), as Reddit would then replace them.
Well. This was how we did web development before it turned into so many abstractions that most comments either is too young to know or simply not understanding that adding more abstraction is not ideal.

People here say "show me this on a big project" well how about they showed us how the thing they are doing on a big project has turned out.

The cleanliness of HTML and CSS is astonishing. That's a quality mark in my view. If you to move away from that you miss out on certain aspects imo.
(GP)> "same supplier as the Switch OLED"

> That's what I've heard too

Is any of this confirmed or just rumor from the LTT video?
The biggest problem with Star Trek was that it didn't run existing Mac software, and you couldn't emulate the 68k ISA reasonably on x86 at the time. The key piece of Mac OS X on Intel a decade later was translation software for PowerPC binaries, so that your existing software still worked.
I don't think I've touched on on theft as much as everyone else here seems to do, but in either case I'd still put that under the 'trustworthy to a degree' umbrella. I want to trust that a device in a known state behaves in a known way. Or as some other people might perceive it: the thing should work and adversaries should not be able to make it un-work with great ease.

This is something you could split up into multiple fractions:

- Making theft less lucrative to the thief (by reducing the use to non-owners)

- Making theft less impactful to the owner (by making non-owners not have access to the data)

- Making interdiction and malware an expensive endeavour (by making it very expensive to modify the device without the owner knowing about it)

Considering people may not want a $30 trackphone, but they just want their iPhone, the option of changing their behaviour is much less likely to be something Apple will invest in, and thus they invest in other things instead, like platform security. So if you assume that a consumer buys an iPhone because they want to, and assuming they want Apple to take care of making them not an easy target, we get into the current situation.

You can also tack on the 'haha apple expensive repairs they hate everyone' but there are much cheaper ways (for apple) to achieve that as a stand alone proposition. I'm sure they don't mind the fat profits they get, even if it were just a side-effect, but I'm personally and professionally more concerned with the three points I listed earlier than anything else.
How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world
Countries set the bar for human rights, morale and ethics. What if they don’t matter if some provides the money?
R/programming: how a post went from 1k upvotes to a ban in 10 years
In 2013 I made this funny website - http://starlogs.net/ [1] - posted it on r/programming, and it was an instant hit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwars_git_logs_starlogs/ [2] . Fast forward ten years, I decided to rewrite it completely to fix bugs, make it mobile-friendly, and make it easier for people to contribute, etc. Naturally, when I was done, I submitted a post to r/programming. To my bewilderment, it was banned after about half an hour. I couldn't really make sense of it, so I submitted it again a few days later. It fared better this time and got banned after four hours. I messaged the mods but received no reply. I skimmed through the r/programming rules, but nothing stood out.

Now, this isn't the work of my life by any stretch, but I am really really curious about what might be the cause. I am posting this in the hopes that some smart and/or better-informed folks can demystify this for me. And if it gains traction, maybe an actual mod might chime in too. Thanks!
RCS E2EE and Group E2EE are live which makes this a less dangerous attack surface / a less useful ad data reservoir.

Google Voice users like myself are SOL but I've never had pretenses that my messages there are private. They're probably stored in plaintext even, there's a lot of 15+ year old GrandCentral cruft underpinning Voice even to this day (speaking only as a user).
There are legal avenues to buy food though. My confusion is just that its illegal to sell but legal to own, it seems that still makes it functionally illegal to own since you shouldn't be able to buy it anywhere
Links:

[1]: https://starlogs.dev/ (the domain's changed since the original post)

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwar...
It's hard to appreciate the scale of these places unless you have visited them.

For glacier complexes in parts of Canada and Alaska, you are looking at big-city sized areas of ice that are completely gone.

The really alarming thing is when you notice a big change after just a few years.

Everything down slope is impacted. Water volumes, soil moisture, vegetation, etc in the entire watershed can rapidly change once the glacier dries up. Farmers and municipal water authorities are most acutely aware of these changes, but it touches everything.
Although I think they'll be replaced by ChatGPT a good article in that style is actually quite valuable.

I like attacking complexity head on, and have a good knowledge of both quantitative methods & qualitative details of (say) computer hardware so having an article that can tell me the nitty gritty details of a field is appreciated.

Take "What every programmer should know about memory" — should every programmer know? Perhaps not, but every good programmer should at least have an appreciation of how a computer actually works. This pays dividends everywhere — locality (the main idea that you should take away from that article) is fast, easy to follow, and usually a result of good code that fits a problem well.
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
The anti abuse points from their github do not sound convincing to me. There will be a high value in farming accounts to either spam or attack. What do you do when the google proxy is dosing your service?
I read it the same way, yes. Good point with the cleanup:
- it’s one thing to need to run build for it to work;
- it’s another thing to run build to make it smaller;
Well, if we’re not here to nitpick then what are we here for? Should the comment to upvote ratio decrease?
Canada doesn't have a $2 bill it has a coin. This isn't a good comparison.

We shouldn't have $1 or $2 bills because they fall out of circulation too fast, but everybody interested in this topic knows it already.

It's bizarre how antiquated our cash is and how there is no appetite for removing the penny from circulation either. I really thought we were going to pursue this like 20 years ago but nope... our government is too dysfunctional for even these types of changes
Yeah sorry to be oblique .. you are correct in regard to the intended meaning of DAW, NLE, and wabi-sabi. As for static artifacts, in my case I work with generative systems quite a lot, often durational systems that make image / sound / lighting / movement stochastically or non-deterministically over long periods, and are generally a living thing that has behavior. While a picture or other recording of those things represents a shadow image of what the real thing is, it beats nothing.

In this case, I mention wabi-sabi as the zen acceptance, even beauty, of the transience of all things, because it makes the creative act primary, rather than a very un-zen attempt to hold on to something fleeting, which some would say is the source of all unhappiness.
Wouldn't this be useful as a way to avoid getting blocked or having to do a thousand CAPTCHAs when using Tor? Access the relay via Tor, the relay doesn't know who you are because of Tor, the website sees you as someone using the relay which is too many ordinary people to block.
> Same way people acquire guns illegally in US states that prohibit gun ownership: involved parties choose to break the law.

There are legal avenues to buy guns in the US though, that's the confusion for me. Why bother saying I can own it if the law also says no one can legally sell it to me?
Horns on today's Škoda cars are tested up to half a million times
Only people who haven't used tailwind say this. A lot of tailwind classes aren't singular styles but a composite of style attributes and mostly define behaviours rather than just expose a single CSS attribute. And a lot of that behaviour is applying styles on hover, on media queries, on grouped elements and other extremely common user actions, none of which are possible with inline styles
We actually got an email from AWS recently at work that said “hey! Your lambda writes to a queue that invokes the same lambda, that seems wack”. We need it that way, but it’s enough of a problem that they built a way to detect it automatically.
> There should be more overlap between NetworkX and NumPy, than with Pandas, esp among Spectral Graph Theory practicioners

Sounds partly like sampling bias to me. I do not at all think it's safe to assume that GitHub users that star libraries actively is a representative random sample of all users of those libraries.

But it also sounds like a misunderstanding of just how many people think of "Numpy + Pandas" together as forming the foundations of the data analysis and data processing toolkit in Python. Almost every project where I use the latter, I end up importing the former for some reason or other, even if I'm not doing anything heavily numerical or computational.
The recent progress in “AI” is almost entirely due to advancements in large language models (LLMs).

In some aspects the hype is real; LLMs are extraordinarily performant for a wide range of previously hard tasks.

On the other hand, people seem to equate these advancements with “strong AI” (or AGI). We are one step closer, sure, but the calculator was also a step forward.

We’ve created a mirror of all (most) human knowledge, queryable via natural language. People look into this mirror and see themselves, sometimes things greater than themselves.

This mirror tricks us into thinking the machine will soon replace us. It’s so accurate, why would it not?

Fortunately, it’s just a mirror, and we’re the bear in the woods seeing it’s reflection for the first time. Scared and ready to fight.

If you focus on the technology (LLMs) and throw caution at anyone hyping “AI” generally, you can create a filter for what’s real and what should be questioned.
The magnet is very strong, no issue there.

I mean the 'bendable' part. The nearest consistency I can think of would be a bag of sand. They are weighty but not rigid. They are not designed to hold their shape. Unfortunately this means that it takes very little sideways force to make them "flop" over.

Still, I can't recommend them highly enough. I use them all the time. Seriously, a PCBite plate with probes on-hand is now a permanent fixture on my main desk. If you do half as much fiddly electronics stuff as I do, they will pay for themselves. But you will also occasionally find them infuriating.
Original article (translated via Google):

https://futurezone-at.translate.goog/produkte/sandisk-ssd-au...
Infinite loops and the halting problem are separate issues. You can detect infinite loops with basic static analysis.
Google Colab, Kaggle Notebooks and Paperspace Notebooks all offer free GPU usage (within limits), so you do not need to spent anything to learn GPU programming.

https://colab.google/

https://www.kaggle.com/docs/notebooks

https://www.paperspace.com/gradient/free-gpu
I'd be more than happy to see small or medium projects and how these tips improved them. Any real world examples would be great.

I would also add that a lot of us do work on the bigger projects, which makes sense as bigger projects require more people. So at least in my life, and I expect many others, it is quite relevant.

I also don't believe the article qualifies that these tips are only for small to medium projects, I'd read it very differently if it did, but I would still like to see some real world examples though.