skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Polio is coming back, a little

This was a valid question in 2022. I don't think it's the case anymore in 2023. We seem to have eliminated it from the African continent. At this point, it's contained to Pakistan and Afghanistan. One of those is cooperating with vaccination efforts; the other is effectively quarantining itself.
Evil isn't required, all that's required is a misalignment of objectives. Sort of like how objectives are misaligned between us and our less intelligent animal cousins. And look how things are turning out for them as we bulldoze their forests.

My main gripe with AI existential risk types is they have their own conflict of interest which comes from their position in society. They're all from the top 1% strata of society (status & socioeconomic), and this gives them a psychological bias that makes them preoccupied with what can go wrong for their comfortable lives instead of thinking about what can go right for the bottom 20% and how AI can be steered to achieve that possible betterment.
Shameless self-plug:

I very much live by the "fix all warnings before you commit" (or at least before you merge), so I have Shellcheck and a bunch of other linters set up in my pre-commit configurations.
But the majority of the shell in most of my projects ends up embedded in .gitlab-ci.yml files, where it's hard to check. So I made a wrapper that does that automatically: https://pypi.org/project/glscpc/.

It uses the Shellcheck project and some magic to give you the Shellcheck remarks with (mostly) accurate line-numbers.
Exactly.

Indeed, if your design goal is strictly "don't get dented when hit by a hammer", the "strongest" material could easily be a good synthetic rubber!
I don’t think regulation is the problem (though I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some many used that as an excuse). For example the EU makes it mandatory that patents on standards are licensable to other parties. Granted that’s not exactly the same thing but it does illustrate how governments want competition. Or at least in the EU they do.

The problem with binary blobs is entirely a corporate one. And frankly I don’t blame them for wanting to keep their products closed. I makes complete sense for them to do so. Really this is no different to nvidia keeping their GPU drivers closed. Except you can still have a functional laptop without Cuda, whereas you cannot have a functional phone without the ability to connect to cell networks and make phone calls.
It's not even a factory; he's making all this fuss over some service centres etc.
I don't get how this sort of short-term thinking to the extremth degree is ever worth it or sustainable...
more likely: what a great question! sure, it is possible to prevent the heat death of the universe. here are the steps:

1. ...
I've been rooting for Ridgeblade to succeed for a while now. Their system mounts squirrel cage fans along the ridge line, where they harvest the wind forced up and over roofs. This allows them to use relatively small fans and leverage the roof's larger cross sectional area.
It pairs well with solar as they are unaffected by rooftop installations, but they can share the same electrical infrastructure.
The fans are reportedly very quiet and have a minimal visual impact, so they are probably the most NIMBY friendly wind option I have seen.
The most obvious application I can think of would be large pole barns on ag land. Farmers don't care which way their hog barn's roof is oriented, so they could optimize for solar and average wind direction.
Rise in people discovered dead and decomposed in UK raises concerns
I agree completely with you that 'Western corporates don't go outsourcing in India for the talent'; they go to India primarily for cheaper resources. But there are secondary consequences to this outsourcing: cheaper resources in India working on the same product for a year get enough training to understand the code base. In the Western corporate world, every company wants to hire a rockstar with all those leetcode hard questions, etc. In Indian outsourcing environment, if someone is willing to learn, willing to work for less, knows how to solve fizz buzz and other problems, he/she gets hired. With the lower pay, the management doesn't expect them to be rockstars, these devs with lower-pay even according to Indian standards are getting free training by doing maintenance. After a while, they can contribute to the code base. That's why you see so many developers who worked at WITCH companies on behalf of clients like Cisco, have become good network development engineers, moved to USA, and working for tech giants.

In India, because of different levels of pay, one can get trained for first few years by working for cheap companies. Once they hone skills, they go for companies that pay them top: companies even below WITCH -> WITCH -> American companies in India -> American companies in America; that's how the pipeline works there. In the states, this pipeline is completely gutted: every company wants rockstars or hires fresh grads from select schools.
It can't quite get there on its own, but interestingly it can take a hint: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=38396490
Brave isn't affected by this anyway, brave shields don't depend on the extension API.

Also Gecko is just a factually worse engine, that's why they didn't use it.
nothing is a solution, it takes everything to move the needle.
Right back atcha pal. Crypto trades full transparency for full autonomy. It's hell for authoritarian regimes and corrupt middlemen both. 99% of people against crypto benefit from one of those two.
No thanks to Ballmer.
> More and more C programmers I speak to say they realise with Rust they will likely never work with C again full time.

Speaking as someone going the other way, just started working with C full time.

Yes. Oh Dog, Yes!

Data structures that rely on the memory layout semantics of the C compiler and casting void * is very cool, very 1990s, and does my head in!
No. Foom is not needed. You could make a weak argument that AI training will be compute-limited but AI inference is of course much cheaper.
It is also already possible through MDM to force install of apps separate from the app store.

Employer installed apps is a use case Apple officially support.
What's the name?
I tend to agree with your view.

I attempted to port a low latency trading system from C to Rust last year, but ended up abandoning after 6 month of development.

The overall feeling that I got is that Rust made my life a dream for 80% of the codebase, the _non critical, non high performance part_.

There are tons of well written libraries, cargo is awesome, the performance is on par with what C++ would do, etc.

But the last 20% of the code base, the high performance part, was a nightmare to implement. The Rust static safety basically get in your way constantly for any kind of non obvious memory layout (self reference, etc). Dynamic safety (cells, Rcs, etc) just add too many overhead for the the critical path, and the "escape hatch" of "unsafe {}" ended up being 1000x more error prone that C.

I keep some resentment against the Rust community from this experience to be honest. I felt like instead of understanding the constraints & limitations of a fixed, microsecond time budget that I had, and trying to find solutions and be open about possible improvements, the overall trend was more in trying to defend Rust with whatever it takes.
How would you get the money you possess and want to launder on the stolen credit card? That more sounds like a method to extract money from stolen credit cards, but not a valid way to launder money.
People who have plenty of options for switching jobs are generally not the first target for oppressive technology
> how does one confirm any of it? Must one take pharmaceutical companies or their related organisations (WHO, Nature) at their word?

No. But it takes some effort.
Something I see lacking in many discussions about AI Safety and Alignment is:

What does the role of China mean for AI Safety? Is there any reason to believe that they will a) adopt any standards SV, the US or some international government body will create, or b) care enough to slow down development of AI?

If AI Safety is really a concern, you can expect in the long run (not that much further behind than the US) China will catch up to the point of where they have some AI technology that is dangerous enough, and it will be up to them (their government and their tech companies) to decide what to do.
Possibility That an SEC Investigation of Altman and Nadella May Soon Be Filed
I'm using "evil" as a vague catch all. It doesn't have to be evil, it can just not align with our goals - whatever. My points all remain.
No, it's part of the shell. Do "man bash" or "man sh", then search with "/\!". From man bash: "If the reserved word ! precedes a pipeline, the exit status of that pipeline is the logical negation of the exit status".
Yeah, part of it might be because as Linux users we flagellate each other over not RTFMing or missing the obvious. And with everything always broken you get a lot of experience debugging. Certainly that has its upsides too.
Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)
Will try being born in another place in the next life, thx for the advice (:
Yes. The AI safety that companies care about is their brand safety. They don’t want their products going Microsoft Tay on their customers.
Time Traveler's Map of Denver
AI safety allows AI companies to tell governments and worried people to not worry too much while they plow ahead doing what they want. That’s not to say there is nobody at these companies actually being responsible but having to open up your company to the equivalent of nuclear watchdogs is not something companies would be excited about. Just like nuclear weapons and nuclear energy we benefit from the tech as well as get greatly exposed to a huge disaster.. so let’s just call it as it is.. somebody is going to open Pandora’s box, we should be thinking super hard about how to control it and if it’s possible.. otherwise trying to ban it—is that even a possibility?
car and cdr are no more confusing then the historical C functions that turn entire sentences into initialisms. And surely nobody would call C an academic language in this context.
https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/unsupported.html

here is a great calculator^^
Full headline: Redditors from r/wallstreetbets Call Attention to Possibility that an SEC Investigation of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella May Soon be Filed

WSB is one of the few things that has been missing from this species defining drama, so I am happy that this oversight has been rectified.
Wearables.
I believe those are US units not revenues. So depending on how you count relevant consumers that’s actually close to 10 CDs per year per person.

Which puts music purchases in the rough ballpark of streaming which is probably not coincidental.
But when you use any messaging app they show your nick (and signal lets you set your name), the natural assumption which I too had was that phone numbers are used for sms only to invite others but on singal my name/nick is used like whatsapp, viber,etc..

> Contact sharing is a substantially less problematic subset of that.

HN rate limits me so please look at other comments i made on this thread about why this is decidedly more dangerous than just about any insecurity you know about. Nothing is more dangerous than false security especially when most people don't think in detail about security, they just assume signal will take care of it. I have an example about sources being revealed when a journalist's phone is compromised (many more examples).

For the general population, are you saying man in the middle attacks are of a greater risk than the other person's phone being compromised? Because if so I would strongly disagree with that and can provide sources to back that up (but save me time and look into all the pegasus pwnages and mobile stealers). In which case, in the threat model that matters most to the general polulation, signal compromised by sharing the one piece of information that is so good at identifying people it is the most popular anti-fraud identifier: phone numbers!

My trust in it is even lesser by how everyone rallies in defense of signal and downvotes any critique of it like with this thread. Be wary of crap you're not allowed to question!
Despite being made by that homophobe I will never financially support, you seem to be right. Unfortunately.

Brave funnily enough is also the only Chromium-based browser that lets you set policies to turn off their optional features, none of which I want.

Vivaldi has some downsides (no gesture navigation is a dealbreaker) and installs its bookmarks every time you sync a new browser. It also feels crowded no matter what settings you use.

Edge just does absolute asinine stuff. Yesterday it disabled my new tab page without asking (and it also asks every day) and today it asked if it could submit my Kagi search results to Microsoft to help them make Bing better, which I refused. Weirdly enough the refuse button was blue... and sure enough, Edge set my default search engine to Bing in that moment. Apparently you can switch to a non-consumer Windows SKU to turn down these shenanigans. An Antitrust needs to read that source code, badly.

Unfortunately I can't use Firefox because an app I'm forced to use wouldn't support it.

The world is ripe for a Chromium fork that just works. Maybe Ungoogled-Chromium can bring back some creature comforts eventually...
The question is, why did Apple approved the app in the first place?

This was an update and the app was making money (according to the article).
The title is actually:

"Rise in people discovered dead and decomposed in England and Wales raises concerns"

But it does not fit HN's requirement for the number of characters of titles
That's the thing - we don't know. Why play it fast and loose? Nobody is recommending stoppering research and making it squeeze through obcene bureaucratic pinholes. I for one think the near-term question is rather what kinds of conglomerated effects will there be from people being proto-transhuman through a connection to pre-AGI assistants in their pockets at all times? That's even before assuming bad actors and how to deal with that whole issue.
I collect nice pocket knives. Many nice pocket knives are made from titanium and other fancy materials like carbon fiber. I love titanium above all other metals for its unique properties in being anodized and finished in a large variety of beautiful ways. If you are ever interested in seeing some truly unique and beautiful titanium finishes check out "Knife Modders" on instagram. Combinations of coatings/anodizing/laser etching can produce some truly beautiful pieces.
Well I guess that’s sobering. It would still be nice to have some context given the current annual growth rate.
It depends on the type of job, of course, but at least in my profession I don't know two workers who are equal- in the sense of equal skills, equal commitment, equal working hours, etc. (However I do know of huge pay disparities that are definitely not connected to anything but luck or willingness to look for other opportunities.)

So I am pretty skeptical of any measured "pay gap"- how is it measured practically?
> Has she seen it fail clinically?

Flu vaccine efficacy has been <50% for over a decade. Usually it floats around 30-40%. So even by the official numbers, it doesn't do a lot for groups not really at risk.

This is not a surprise: The yearly shots are for a subset of flus, created in the spring/summer for the strains they think will be most prevalent in the fall.
We had many female and LGBTQ+ designers and artists working on The Sims because they were excellent at what they did, and their unique perspectives that most straight white men simply didn't have were essential to the game's popularity and success across all genders and ages and cultures, and for you to slanderously claim with no evidence that they were incompetent, chosen because of their gender, or to increase percentages in a report, is idiotic, incorrect, insulting, assinie, and misogynistic.
Apple should give this developer the benefit of their shady practices? That just encourages more apps like this.
For anyone curious about the game itself, I'd highly recommend it if you're into space sims. It's not exactly difficult, but it does get somewhat technical and gives you minimal handholding. It's fun and satisfying to figure out how the game mechanics work via experimentation, though, which I think is the kind of thing this crowd would find appealing.
Libraries and services both have maintenance costs and upgrade impedance from clients. The costs might differ, but in my experience work out to about the same overall. The correct way to determine whether a piece of software should be a library or service is by examining its intended purpose and its dependencies.

- If the software is dependent on another service or a data store, it should be a service: this provides the owners freedom to include error handling and observability that is appropriate for the service and provides protection for its dependencies against unbounded access (via observability at minimum, or human-organized contracts, etc.). Examples: software to retrieve user data from a database, software that aggregates data from a user service and an inventory service to produce a purchase history

- If the software is self-contained, e.g., it does math or "pure business logic" algorithms, it probably should be a library: performance can be optimized for one or a small handful of common use cases, error handling and observability become the responsibility of clients, and neither owners of the library or clients of it have to concern themselves with the impact to transitive dependencies (e.g., load added to a database). Examples: software that transforms user input into internal serialization formats; software that validates data, encrypts or decrypts data, or otherwise is "purely functional"
> The gatekeeper here now is generating MS signed apps.

And Valve saw that coming some time ago, and invested in making both Steam and the games sold through it run on Linux.
I like the theory that the CNS is part of the brain. So the spine, organs, connections between them... there are actual neurons in the stomach, for example.
And that’s exactly what Bitcoin is. I don’t think someone with his mental faculties would have been naive enough to not realize how it could and would be used.
You're grossly overestimating the significance of these businesses - AI startups that integrate with a LLM API are a rounding error in the overall market. They're tiny and there isn't as many of them as you think, nothing like 2000.
There were many currencies in history that have lost all or almost all its value upon serious economical crisis in respective countries. It seems you wouldn't call that money? Crypto is simply an alternative currency.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency
I have batted around the idea of realistic terrain explorations with a few friends and have a bookmark folder of potentially useful links if we ever decided to actually do something about it. Which is to say, I'm not at all a good resource, just someone vaguely interested from the outside.

Have you looked at Gaea? There is a community version and it seems like it could be useful for exactly what you describe. https://quadspinner.com/
Upload. It’s hilarious and has totally put me off the idea.
wxWidgets, FLTK and gtkmm use only pure C++ (and some preprocessor macros).
In hindsight the decision is easy, at the time less so. The patient was making informed decisions alongside family but the speed and nature of necrotizing fasciitis make it very difficult. The skin can look largely fine until you begin surgery and find that the infection has spread 12 full inches along the fascia. So you cut that all out, plus some margin and hope for the best. There certainly was a chance he could have lived after the second surgery with a very altered life. And I get that, now that I have children I’d probably chose to live a very rough life just for a chance to watch them grow up.

I truly can’t imagine what that man and his family went through in that short period of time. Decision making I slow decline with weeks or months is hard enough.
> * Then there's the "AI will go rogue", which I don't think is substantiated at all. Like, one can theorize about some novel, distinct system that is able to interact with the external world and becomes "evil", but that seems way, way beyond the helpful word-spitter-outers of today. *

It seems far away until it doesn’t. A year before AlphaGo, most researchers in the field thought it would be 20 years before computers could beat the best human Go players. 5 years ago most researchers didn’t think we would have GPT4 in 2023. Could we have AI smart enough to go rogue in 2 years? I doubt it. But 10 years? Who knows?

It seems prudent not to wait 8 years before starting to worry about the problem, even if (especially if) we don’t understand how it will manifest.
Your comment is a bit ambiguous, so you think that ASI/AGI safety will be important in the future as we get more compute and are less compute limited?
Foom seems difficult to achieve with current LLMs, but I think there is always a possibility that we are just one or a few algorithmic breakthroughs away from radically better scaling or self-play like methods. In the worst case, this is what Q* is.
Even if it's still too cheap, then they still need to split the money equally, and not just not pay small artists.
Not for postgres or mysql.
Curious that this doesn't work for Apple services. If you cancel the free trial, you lose access immediately.

I was a bit disappointed that they don't live up to the standards they expect of 3rd party devs.
This still doesn't explain why the language of the compiler matters. I could write a C compiler in Pony-lang targeting a 30-year-old MCU were I so inclined.

The available compilers targeting your microcontroller certainly matter, though. You certainly still find lots of options that aren't Rust-compatible, but a non-trivial number microcontrollers are ARM or RISC-V based now, and can be targeted by LLVM/Rust.
An even better reason to start using open source phone operating systems and E2E encrypted communication.

hint: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
Wasn’t there a protocol (?) with just text, Gemini or something like it?
> the design of async/await.

I am curious

How is "the design of async/await." for embedded programming?
What is the response to stress by this build method? Will it fail gracefully over a lifetime of stresses? Any single big stress-event?

In terms of (rigid, diamond-frame) bicycles, this is why I’m still firmly in the steel camp. No aluminium, no carbon; just steel. It really does have an excellent combination of nice ride quality, low weight, high strength, good failure mode (I’ve broken a few frames, and they tend to just bend/sag, vs the rapid unscheduled disassembling of carbon/Al).
Sure, as long as you don't introduce new emergent behavior, which in a kernel can be deadly.
The problem is Apple still control the only browser engine on iOS. So they're incentivised to not implement proper PWA features to prevent this and force everything to be apps through their store.
Then why is Apple keeping the money instead of refunding it?
I also liked this article which goes deeper no pun intended into the invention of the Plimsoll Lines https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/story-samuel-plimsoll-develop...
Snow Peak's titanium spork is awesome as well. I got two and use one for my regular meals and the other I EDC in a cargo pocket for use away from home.
> ...and I am hoping all nuclear missiles are air gapped anyway...

These are running on hardware from 50's. We can sleep softly.
There is a way for the platform to handle that scenario... Manual review. Apple chooses not to rely on manual review and we shouldn't discount this decision of theirs.