skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from another nonexpert expert on agi…

MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living -

NEO (politely): Excuse me, please.

MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo?

NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix
Spyware attack attempts on mobile devices of members of civil society discovered
That museum might be my absolute favorite in the world. Absolutely stunning collection of aviation + space history on display
> Except farnell.com which is shit everywhere because their entire platform is a turd.

Farnell the company is also a turd, another example of a once great company that has gone to the dogs.

You can't even trust the stock numbers on the Farnell wesbite anymore.
> There is never any reason to use test

test -d /nix && echo "$_ exists" || echo "$_ doesn’t exist"

You cannot do this with [ – Don’t Repeat Yourself, and your scripts become more maintainable.

(Not POSIX-compliant. Documented in Bash and Zsh.)
The author briefly talks about the HP-16C. I’ve been looking at buying one for a while, but never managed to convince myself I need it enough to spend a couple of hundreds of dollars on a used calculator. I do a lot of 6502 assembly, so it would certainly be nice to have. I did, ironically, spend about the same amount in total on various other calculators that I thought might do the same job. I am now using a Casio CM-100, which is actually quite nice. I see the author has a 16C clone. I got a different clone of the 16C, a PX-16C, which is an impressive project, but ended up not enjoying using it.
If you do that, can you also throw $1000 a year to the Archive so they can buy a few hard drives for the stuff you are asking them to store? Thanks!
Great observation on the meaning of Q*. Maybe they had a breakthrough based on similar technology? I thought of 'Everything of Thoughts' - XoT too but I presumed it's a bit more than XoT since that's public knowledge research by Microsoft Research? I saw a good thread on XoT here: https://twitter.com/IntuitMachine/status/1724455405806346374 There is still a big difference between human neurons and what Transformers do I believe. Humans can be more shallow and deep at the same time in such an emotional, goal directed way. The rich emotional feedback loops we have are quite different but maybe XoT could contribute to a major breakthrough in achieving AGI, with a more straightforward approach that sidesteps complex emotions. I'm sure there are quite a few ways to go about it. Just some intuitions.
> I thought farnell was an electronics store.

They are. The name only comes up here because the blog post used their website as a test target.
Right? Kindergarten level. I don't want these people be involved with potentially dangerous tech at all.
Copilot once wrote a comment saying the following code (written by me) should be deleted later. It freaked me out.
Wasn't there an open airspace agreement for recon flights so that each couls make sure disarmament agreements where adhered to? Hence all the wing clipping of bombers and whatnot in the Mojave?
https://web.archive.org/web/20231123121535/https://blog.abct...
You don't need to guess, it is known :)

I imagine having a man in it while going mach 5 would increase the turn radius dramatically..
Should we arrest you for murder today, or should we wait until after enough people die?
I don't disagree with you in the context of public scripts, but the vast majority of what I do with bash is local-only (where local is ${DayJob} and my own infrastructure/projects) so the fact that extensions to the standard make my work in those areas quicker to string together and easier to maintain afterwards means I'm happy to lock myself into bash.

From my PoV it is generally portable anyway: almost everywhere I use a shell of that nature bash is present. The exceptions to this are things that need to run in small environments, like anything which may end up in initrd (where busybox us generally providing shell/script support).

Though I do wish people would make sure they specify bash in the #!/bin/bash in scripts unless trying to stick to the standard, as using #!/bin/sh causes problems when extensions are used and something lighter than bash is the default script runner (i.e. dash in Debian, and again busybox commonly in small environments). Only use #!/bin/sh if you lnow you are making an effort to be compliant.
To me just like driving there should be a policy that mandates people respect & act in a way that both you & everyone can move freely and comfortably, lightly, this would be an actual order. We need something like alien philosophy/religion and let us be ruled by it, or, like, everybody just start acting japanese.
I'm not an expert, but presumably you need to bury wood in a sterile place so that it doesn't get eaten by bugs/microbes and turned back into greenhouse gases?
While it is kind of fun bashing C++, I also noted "Even something like C or Go, have so much room to debunk such experts. Between compilers, versions, language evolution, runtime, standard library, OS specific behaviours,....".

Anyone that thinks otherwise, we can arrange a pub Quizz in Germany, I get the questions, audience has to give up any kind of device with Internet connection.
Funny enough, re manned combat aircraft, both new initiatoves still forsee pilots. Local sets of eyes are just so damn useful.
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> and for whatever reason we cannot just fix the script so that the variable is set

I use this pattern all the time for variables that should be overridable by whoever is calling the script, ie. `FORCE="${FORCE-no}"`, overridable with `FORCE=yes foo.sh`. I'm not sure of any other way to do this.

(Yes, using getopt or other option parsing is better, but for my own scripts, env vars are just such a simpler way to pass options, and after 20 years of using bash/unix/linux I still can't write a getopt stanza from memory.)
Satellites have essentially fixed and predictable orbits, are hard limited in how close they can get to targets, and soft limited by realistic payload limitations of satellite constellations.

You can have an extremely high end satellite in LEO but it may only pass over the desired target once per day. You can put it in GEO and have it see the whole area but it's going to be so far away it's going to be limited in what it can see. You can build more satellites so that one of them passes over areas of interest more frequently but you can't make a Starlink sized reconnaissance satellite constellation if you're putting super high end hardware in each one. Those sensors cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars each.

Reconnaissance aircraft are a dramatically more economical way of finding mobile targets than massive LEO constellations of super high end sensors. Instead you just put the high end sensor in an aircraft and have it overfly the area you're trying to surveil. This is why many countries are dramatically increasing investment in them. Actually knowing where things are is critical to destroying them.
Not much, really. Reconnaissance airplanes don’t experience high g-forces. The loading you build the airframe for is well within what a human can handle. It’s more like an airliner than a fighter. You do have the benefit of not needing a cockpit, ejection seats, etc.
And this is one reason why Apple is "locking down" laptops and "hindering 3rd party repair shops".

If not for pairing the secure systems together on a hardware level, you can just swap the sensor for one that says "OK" to every fingerprint/face.
Direct Air Capture (DAC) will always be more expensive than reducing emissions, but it could be useful to set the baseline cost in a progressive carbon tax such that all emissions are taxed at a rate that will cover removing them via DAC, creating incentives to reduce emissions and reduce DAC costs.
The image Google has created in the market of their products is, stellar success or death. The article states and provides examples where the chips are completely missing the mark (that Apple is setting) and that the chips aren’t a stellar success, so life support is probably a group of people trying to keep the project alive.
Oh no, not another video on ... OMG it's from Andrej!
The multiple nozzle theory.
I kind of find it hilarious when I see the absolutely massive amount of security that surrounds the US president, and then look at our own prime minister, who takes the bike through the city to work every day.
Yes, but the idea of "removal" here I'm pretty sure isn't about disk space but about competition.
IIRC most of the public clouds changed their depreciation accounting recently. So all that cloud hardware is now good for 20 years instead of 10 years or something. Quite a boost to the old bottom line when you do that.
obviously it needs to be scaled up to 'inconceivable' levels, yes, but the only problem with that is that it would require abundant cheap energy

guess what, pv modules are down to €0.10 per peak watt this month: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

that's half the price they've been at during 02019-02022, which is ten times cheaper than the price a decade earlier; it seems like the price-fixing cartel announced at davos in 02019 has collapsed. but already at those prices they were putting coal plants out of business with energy prices so low they don't cover the cost of the coal, even if the power plant were free. and they've just dropped by half from that price

the available global solar resource is about 2000× world marketed energy consumption (excluding crops)

the iea is unparalleled in its history of failing to conceive the consequences of cheap pv; see modeless's link https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/12/has-the-international...

the future is already here, it just isn't widely distributed
Most of them were probably built on Google's core infrastructure in ways that make them difficult to externalize at sub scale. There's also compensation disparity - it's virtually impossible for a new startup / spinout to pay FAANG comp and remain profitable & nimble. This results in braindrain.
Automatic OCR works fine on my Android phone through a custom ROM with the Pixel software. No internet connection or ML hardware needed; OCR isn't all that demanding.

I'm not sure about the facial recognition features, I don't use that stuff but I imagine Android phones mostly do that in the cloud. If Apple's ML chip helps there then that's good for them, but I can't say I'd buy an iPhone for a gimmick like that.
Blogspam. Actual paper: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Decoding...
>But to be so invested in going after people who maybe paid some officials off or just straight up ignored that law and built their businesses anyway seems like a waste of time. I don't go around outing the people I know who have engaged in illegal activity; it's weird and doesn't help anyone unless there's a victim.

I don't think it's hard to see victims in either case.

If Stripe violated laws to become a payment processor, then the victims are every other founder who would like to start a competing company but can't because they don't have the same political connections as Stripe. And the victims are most downstream founders who are stuck with the pitifully small set of available payment companies like Stripe.

If a company violates its responsibilities as a nonprofit, then it's unfair to US citizens who have a right to audit the financials. And it's unfair to other nonprofits who devote effort to follow the law if other nonprofits are allowed to outperform them by skipping legal responsibilities and making up for it in political connections.
A lot of these things are covered in computer science lectures if you pick the right ones. But you can also pick them up yourself by being curious how things work and reading papers or looking at existing game/engine source code. There are also many online resources as the sibling posters point out. Having at least some basic linear algebra or programming education makes things easier to understand.
From one of the posts

> The Gta team had loads of outspoken characters on it. Most teams were quietly getting on with stuff but this wasn't the way at gta. There were arguments and tempers would flare at times. Maybe colourful people were what was needed to think it was a good idea to make the player a criminal.

and IIRC it was around 2018 when we started hearing about what it was like to work at Rockstar, it was basically a boys club, so the news of the OGs thinking 20-year-old development stories are "ruining the Rockstar mystique" doesn't surprise me at all.

https://kotaku.com/former-rockstar-designer-says-former-top-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/rockstar-games-controversy-e...
If this technique turns out as good as stated then most pharma will want to adopt it.

The questions are what happens to the patents and what is there to prevent one company buying up the patent and then dominating the market.

It seems to me a substantial reduction in drug prices is likely to disrupt Big Pharma's profits so some mechanism is likely to step in the way of much cheaper prices actually reaching those who would benefit from them.

Perhaps I'm cynical, but having watched the unethical behavior of Big Pharma over the years something tells me that much lower prices seem too good to be true. More likely lower manufacturing costs will end up as increased profits for the manufacturers.
How do you even manage that? If you fly first class every hour of every day that would still be impossible. So I guess the man charters entire airplanes?
It is not an opinion. People are better at some things than others are. Hard work is not the only factor in that.
I'd gladly switch from Chrome to Firefox, but tab groups are what's preventing me to do so. :( I can't work without them.
I remember some time ago watching an episode of the Joe Rogan show(it had some comedic value back then) He and his friends were talking about the MIT admittance exam, pointing out the square root in the maths problem as an indication that this math problem was really hard. And I thought to myself "that's what primary school children learn around here at age 12 in my literally 3rd world country".

Pythagoras was around the same time. I'd like to warn people that not understanding these basic math concepts makes you appear uneducated to many people internationally.
> I can't think of any other situation where the US has violated airspace regularly like that while not being in a state of war.

US flew its planes over pretty much all of Middle East, while not being in a state of war with any of the countries. And probably many, many other countries that did not have technology to even know they are being overflown.
Did Astro Teller have any successful project? A lot of money was spent, but what are the results? Looking at the wikipedia page it seems this whole Google X thing is a place where senior people have fun, while the rest of the company is undetstaffed. (E.g. no money for human customer service)
> A company that grows a bit more modestly during boom times, fires fast continuously and maintains adequate buffers shouldn’t have to lay people off.

Kind of like Apple.
Same things happened at a university i worked at. Year-end spend!
There is a huge movement in my country to entirely ban ikea from the country. It would be as usefull as shutting down all the nuclear powerplants.
> Do you think any rhetoric could ever persuade you to you adopt the opposite general worldview of what you currently have?

Yes, it's possible.

> The reason for this is not because I'm obstinate, but because my worldview is not formed on persuasion, but on lived experience.

Lived experience is interpreted through framing. Rhetoric can change the framing through which we interpret the world through practice. This is why CBT works. Superhuman CBT could arguably work even better.

Remember that if "superhuman X" is possible, then our intuitions formed from "human X" are not necessarily valid. For sure any X still has a limit, but our intuitions about where that limit is may not be correct.
LBJ was a shrewd political operator, and it's interesting that Nixon (no stranger himself to dirty tricks) said that LBJ was his most feared political opponent for all the kind of dirt he could throw.

There was a story about when LBJ was first running for political office, that he started rumors that his opponent had done some reprehensible act with a pig. LBJ's retort to some staffer who told him to stop repeating this rumor was that he knew it to be untrue, but wanted his opponent to have to deny it all the same.
> It's on my to-do list to automatically mirror all HN submissions as well

I recently emailed that suggestion to dang as well - both Web Archive and Archive Today (aka archive.is/ws/ph/wh/whatever), as the former is more likely to stick around and the latter is better than 12ft at bypassing paywalls. It's on their to-do list as well.
Would be better if security will be taken seriously. But people like entertaiment, so evething those days is security theater (drama).
Yes, piling up current loops in a column is a good idea - it’s been suggested before but I think that I’m “seeing” it now i.e. how to make the UI for it.

It will be more challenging on mobile but I can make the sticky looping squares smaller. Thanks!
The suggestion for improvement is pretty obvious. Don't use the security budget for personal capricious projects, don't bully people, etc.

This doesn't even count as reading between the lines, they're obvious implications from the language in the article.
Ask HN: Now that Backupsheep died, how do you do backup a Linux server?
I've been using Backupsheep for a long time before they closed shop a few weeks ago. It was incredibly reliable for database + files backups on all my servers and had a very good admin GUI.

I think my best bet now would be Urbackup + Percona XtraBackup for the database. What do you think? Any advice or better solution?

Thanks!
LG 24UD58-B - it's cheap, works well with MacOS, obviously not as good as a MacBook Pro display but doesn't look like shit next to it either.
Agree. Reads like a warning more than praise - do not cross Altman because he will rip your face off.
Humans have been very good at trolling humans, so I imagine AI will have an easy time of it. Perhaps it will make its announcement on 32chan.
I think this is just what you see with typical ISP "traffic shapers".

They try to limit bandwidth to video sites, but since most video traffic is transferred by HTTPS these days they end up just making a massive list of IP's which look like they might be sending video data and dropping some percentage of traffic to those IP's. Most CDN's are probably on the list.

End result is most video sites drop back to SD rather than HD.

If you do a speedtest, it will come out as fast. If you VPN, that will also be fast.

The IP range has nothing todo with it - it is the route the packets traverse and what the packets look like when they pass the shaper device that matters.

You could theoretically find out which device on the path is doing the dropping by manipulating the TTL of packets in a live TCP session and seeing when you get back TTL exceeded messages.
Can you talk about how these traits play out for you and also the whole of the triad? I feel like we all have our own spectrum of behavior/tendencies on these respective axes. I hope I'm making sense here
I read the summary and started the main paper. It rather disappoints. The phrase 'costly signals' is spread around to so many meanings. The dangers are vague and not backed up. Very military and geopolitical focus.

Its use of the Cuban Missile crisis to compare to this moment AI is bizarre and alarmist. All for a concusion of... we must control the narrative. Spook juice.
My second makes your first a tautology.
> And then I also believe that he ordered the JFK assassination.

I'll give you that about the NASA mess up he initiated, but I think you've said the quiet part out loud last.
I’m not saying Sam Altman ain’t quite moral enough to join the Army… but he’d definitely be on the group W bench, if ya know what I mean…
I'm with Zen and have a good experience over the last few years, one of the only companies where customer service has been decent - when I was on ADSL the fault finder on their router helped identify a nearby a problem, once BT openreach replaced the cable connectivity was really good, probably would have been given the runaround by another provider and had to live with a flakey connection.
good riddance. thank god for qemu & KVM
That’s coming! Thank you!
I doubt it's provably true or false, as psychology tends to be.

Largely I agree with the OP though - treat your customers bad enough and unless there's something stopping them, they'll go elsewhere. That's how the free market works.
My favourite approach is to make biochar. You heat the wood in an oxygen free environment and so can control the amount of hydrocarbons you extract. The carbon left over is fairly inert and so relatively easy to store long term. You can get enough hydrocarbon out of the process to pay for it.

If we redirected the bulk of our wood waste through a process like that - rather than it all being burnt (and so releasing all of the carbon in the wood) - we could probably sequester a few percent of global emissions.
Ask HN: Software You Are Thankful For
Amidst all the software enshittification that we are seeing every day, what software are you thankful for? That makes your life better? I’ll start

- Linux kernel (duh!)

- Void Linux (cured my distro hooping!)

- Kicad (the only software my wife has seen me use and say “that looks expensive!”)

- Inkscape

- Sublime Text

- gcc and clang

- fish (the shell)

- KDE

- Things 3

- Miniflux

- iTerm2

- brew.sh

- GoLand by Jetbrains

How about you guys?
Emacs means eight megabytes and constantly swapping for a reason.
I'm with AA, had problems very early on, traffic was really slow.

Hopped on IRC and nobody was talking slowness, so I was assuming it was my end still, but then somebody mentioned sluggishness, so I spoke up.

Quick traceroute later and within 5 minutes I had a new pppoe user to try, which moved my routing to a different router in docklands, and all was good. 10 minutes later they've shifted everyone to that and taken the router out for investigation.
Huh, I was with Zen + they got openreach to fix a crap cable + connectivity went up from 20mbit to 70 on my last ADSL connection.
Most likely. Well, it's open source, so it's "dormant".
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What's up with all these weird disclaimers?

> ATTENTION: DO NOT CLONE THIS REPO UNLESS YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING

The license is Creative Commons so this doesn't really make any sense.
The F-117 was a true black project, no oversight, no official budget and hence close to no bureaucracy other than needed to develop and certify a combat aircraft for the USAF. It borrowed components from the F-15 and F-16 programs for example.

The B-2 on the other hand, well, that was secret but official. And had a ton of bureacracy because of it.