skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From now on we need to actively lash back/keep eyes wide open whenever a SV exec/founder starts spreading their cynical PR about “benefiting humanity”, “connecting humanity”, “opening things up for all of humanity to enjoy”, “making things safe for humanity”, “solving humanity’s greatest threat”, etc.

This was always the case — put a bullshit brand in front of cynical extractive machinery — but in this AI saga it’s reaching mind boggling levels of cynicism, including incorporating patsy nonprofits and holding congressional sessions to peddle sociopathic projective bullshit to our elected lawmakers. (You need to slow down the thing from being made (which is the thing I’m making and working on scaling up as fast as possible lol!))
I think it's a mix of personal opinions, fear of regulation, and fear of public/corporate backlash.

Not to mention, if you're building a chatbot API for someone, no one will use it if customers could accidentally send it into a profanity loop.
Indeed, because it is easy to keep updated with compatible library package standards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag... ).

Docker and Snap core use-case purpose is a necessary compatibility layer. =)
If they figure out how to give an LLM infinite/really long context length, it will basically become self-learning.
I was actually going to suggest that. If we are to draw on what LLM can currently do, we know that it can imitate human writing pretty well and pontificate at length at a variety of subjects in different formats.

So if you wanted a tool to generate a lot of blogspam, clickbait, wiki hoaxes, and fake news, an LLM could probably expedite the work the infamous Internet Research Agency is purported to do. Of course, there’s still time remaining for the kinks to get worked out and it fully sounds convincing and like the natural language from a native speaker, etc.

And I don’t think existing LLMs are able to know where to deploy these propaganda attacks yet. That really requires human social analysis. So people are going to have to be involved in every step of the loop.
That gives me a new found respect for Mercedes-benz.
I really don't understand why HFP is still the industry standard. Even devices within the same ecosystem, like MacBook / iPhone / AirPods seems to use it based on the audio quality. Or maybe it's AVRCP. Sounds horrible either way.
Neat idea, so it will conform like most humans in society and try to create more value than it destroys to avoid persecution and jail time? Sounds like our shared societal values will keep it in check then the same way they kept the openai board in check.
This one, and Clarke's The Star.
Keylock: Keylock: macOS utility to lock the keyboard for easy cleaning
Honestly, I just use freely and flip it when it starts performing poorly...
Grade 1 is still pretty common for ultralight backpacking items like pots and pans due to its ductility.
I did not mean to insult you, i actually tried to make an argument. Nor was I looking for maternalistic. That's a different thing and i meant the negatively connoted one.
Also reading again I realize I went too far saying all the helping, which is an unfortunate generalization, surely, being compassionate is a good thing.
The markets are just starting to crash. Listen to the big banks and governments and you will get crushed.

Next year will be worst. 2025 will be fun.

Start saving. Time of the meek.
Are scientists discovering anyone who is immune to zoom fatigue?

Because I went full-time WFH in 2015 or so and never experienced it and have never understood what people are talking about.

I hate IRL meetings much more when you want to hide behind your laptop and yet want to act like you're paying attention and yet you're bored to death.

With zoom if someone starts pinging you something important over slack you can just mute and hide your video and respond and let yourself be distracted while keeping a bit of your attention on what is going on in the meeting. In IRL, you're stuck trying to sort out the urgency of responding to the issue in slack vs. the urgency of appearing to pay attention to the meeting you're stuck in.

And I haven't even had "zoom fatigue" when I've been the presenter in 2 hour long recorded training sessions with junior devs, even though I'm an introvert. I get a bit exhausted after doing that, but talking at people for 2 hours just exhausts the shit out of me any time.

That last bit kind of makes me wonder if extroverts experience "zoom fatigue" due to actually experiencing self-reflection in conversations for the first time or something like that.
It’s usually the frame and sides / scales that are made of titanium, never the blade afaik.

Except maybe in some multitool keyring single
piece doohickeys, but it’s not expected to cut anything beside the tape on your packaging.
As a kid, something similar happened to me sort of regularly (maybe a few times a year?). As I was falling asleep, some noises that initially might have been normal ambient noises started looping, acquiring some rhythmic pattern and becoming progressively louder, until suddenly there was a loud bang followed by a sense of complete void and silence.

After a while I learned to notice the "looping sound" pattern and just raise my head from the pillow to interrupt it. Then, at some point, it never returned again.
Hoping that future drought events don't have a massive impact on forests. The 2018 drought in Germany already induced some heat and drought stress on trees.
If the trees die, they will not take up 20% more CO2.
As long as there is more than one pharma company, there's an incentive to cure chronic conditions because you'll take all of your competitor's business away and can charge a price equal to the lifetime costs of the chronic treatment.
From a newbie here, Aside from the one (and sufficient) self referential formula, have we come up with other examples of non decidable propositions that are meaningful?
This is the best argument I’ve heard to date for regulation in a democracy.
> mismatch to the intuitive “a named lineage in the DAG” conception of branches

Once more, that conception may be intuitive but it is wrong. A branch is emphatically NOT a line through the DAG, it's the whole DAG. There simply is no single list of patches to apply to get from one commit to another, even if both were at some point heads of the same branch, and even if one is an ancestor of the other.

And the reason it's wrong is that branches can merge together. You can have commit A descended from both the "main" branch and the "topic_a" branch, despite the fact that those two had diverged. This isn't a bug, it's a feature. You don't have to use it if you don't want to (lots of projects require linear commit histories in their main branch), but it's part of the tool nonetheless because some projects (Linux especially) use it heavily and to great effect.
I think that there is a >0 probability that the proponents of the 'AI safety' are bad actors of the state that has zero intentions to keep AI safe.
ehhhh.... If I want to reach as many people as possible I would build rpm, deb, docker images, provide source code. I would not use snaps because it would imply more effort from the end user -- they first need to install snapd and only then my app.
That company sells titanium pots, too. And they say “ Titanium leaves no metallic smell or taste.”

I don’t believe it. Titanium is, mechanically, a great material for a lightweight pot, but in my limited testing, I don’t think it’s inert enough. Green tea in a titanium pot is especially nasty.
There are so many half baked takes, but this is my favorite:

> There will always be a market for stable-over-latest software, especially for businesses.

That market is called the nvd.nist.gov at best and 0 day brokers at worst. Why do people stil not accept the fix forward supremacy and patch their mess?
One of the most interesting question i was asked was: What is the biggest fire you created and how did you handle it?

The interviewer told me that the purpose of the question was to learn 1) are you willing to admit mistakes 2) what is the most responsibility you've been trusted with. After all the bigger the fire, the more you were likely trusted 3) how do you act under stress 4) can you learn lessons from your mistake.

I think it's a fantastic cultural fit type question.
> which to me is a little like saying, "We don't know if we'll have time travel and ray guns in six months or 600 years."

I wouldn't be surprised by AGI tomorrow, which means I have to consider the possibility.

We have, at this point, an extremely good idea of how matter and energy behave. We also know roughly how long it takes to build physical objects and to do R&D cycles with physical prototypes in the loop and how much progress you get out of each prototype cycle. We have a number of good ideas for what a ray gun would look like and we know where we need advances. We've probably already made all of the necessary fundamental breakthroughs, things like laser diodes and capacitors and optical sapphire. We even have some deployed, just at artillery size and less-lethal energies rather than handheld blaster power densities. If you asked DARPA how long it would take them to field a ray gun for the US Army they could give you a date. So I would be extremely surprised if deployment was announced today. I would go looking for fundamental breakthroughs in battery tech and laser media that I had missed.

We can't even agree what AGI is, even on an "I'll know it when I see it" level. We have no idea how to get there. R&D cycles are days or weeks long and produce unpredictable and sometimes significant advances in observed functionality. Fundamental breakthroughs come unpredictably but probably about once every two to five years and their effects are even more unpredictable than the effects of individual R&D cycles. Even worse, we have no idea what required breakthroughs are left or if there even are any. So, yes, I believe that I would not be surprised by - and therefore must consider a future containing - one of these AI researchers glueing the output into the input in exactly the right way or something and producing a living, thinking being in their computer tomorrow.

I cannot concretely refute the possibility of AGI Tomorrow the way I can argue, in specific detail, against Ray Guns Tomorrow.

(There is, of course, the possibility that I've missed some breakthrough that would enable Ray Guns Tomorrow, the same way the people who pooh-poohed heavier-than-air flight the week before the Wright Brothers' fight missed gasoline engines and aerofoils and did their calculations based on a dude flapping wings with his arms. This is why I say that I would be extremely surprised, not why it's impossible.)
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Shellcheck is great. Unfortunately, its checks pale at the idiosyncrasies of per-version bashism.

For example:

set u
ignored_users=()
for i in "${ignored_users[@]}"; do
echo "$i"
done

passes shellcheck's checks, however bash <= 4.3 will crash with "bash: ignored_users[@]: unbound variable". Therefore, set -u isn't available to use in this (valid) use-case.

Shellcheck also doesn't catch the expansion of variables as key names in testing assoc arrays:

declare -A my_array
un='$anything'

[[ -v my_array["$un"] ]] && return 1

will will fail as "my_array: bad array subscript" because "$un" gets expanded to "$anything", which on a second pass, gets expanded to "", making the check [[ -v my_array[] ]]. Even worse, a value of

un='$(huh)'

actually gets executed:

[[ -v my_array["$un"] ]] && return 1
-bash: huh: command not found

Here's another one: in versions older than 4.3 (maybe?) these -v checks don't even work:

$ declare -A my_array
$ my_array["key"]=1
$ [[ -v 'my_array["key"]' ]] && echo exists
$ [[ -v my_array["key"] ]] && echo exists
$ [[ -v $my_array["key"] ]] && echo exists
$ [[ -v "$my_array["key"]" ]] && echo exists
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.46(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

I've recently been documenting some of this on my website: https://joshua.hu/more-fun-with-bash-ssh-and-ssh-keygen-vers...
PPIs do the same thing - suppress acid. That suppression of acid makes you vulnerable to bacteria like c diff. Long term use of PPIs is also linked to dementia.
If Apple says it is laundering, wouldn’t they claim it is not your money. And wait for every payer to complain. Evil but corporations often are.
A classical liberal would believe in the social contract. If society adds a chain then society has a debt.

For example, a municipality doesn't need to provide a toilet to the extent that it doesn't have a problem with the freedom to not own one. If the municipality wants to achieve hygienic high density then it should pay its debts.
Huh, I didn't know that! I thought it was transferred via fluids, like most other STDs that I'm aware of. Thanks!
seriously, I don't understand why would any linux user use them. If I need some bleeding edge software I would install it through docker
Yup :)

The original inspiration for the app was when I was looking around the gym during one of the The Opens and listening to people 'strategize' about the workout. "Don't come out of the gate too hot", "Pace yourself", "Hit this many rounds/reps by this point on the clock", etc.

In other words, everyone was building a personalized "pacing plan", and it occurred to me that optimizing a plan to achieve a goal and delivering it through a digital experience was an idea I wanted to explore.

I've been a life long fitness junkie, and I really think that Greg Glassman's original blueprint for "quantifying fitness" as outlined in the CF-L1 Training Manual pretty much nails a winning formula for a lot of people. (e.g. the ones who are inclined to work out.)

The vast majority of the app experience itself (as well as a lot of the internal data architecture + software design that you'd never see or necessarily think about) is very much built around the idea of "workout prescriptions", "workout plans", "workout performances" and the "algebra" on those data structures that starts to quantify all of the splits.

You only need an iPhone to use the app, but the overall UX is a lot better (especially during a metcon) if you have a watch because you can just advance through the workout and track your splits with a tap on the wrist. IOW: start the workout on the phone, set the phone down, train, pick the phone back up later to get all of the analysis

This post and a lot of this dialogue has been TREMENDOUSLY helpful to me (both directionally and energetically) as I seek out a way to create a more focused experience in the app with a much more focused value prop (both in the app itself and in the marketing messages.)

Would very much welcome your (unvarnished) feedback if you decide to check it out and have any thoughts!
Serious scholarly work went into analyzing the degree of omnipotence of the Christian God. Does that imply we actually have a true understanding of the Devine, its intentions and abilities (or even its existence)?
oops yeah, sounds absurd, i was falling asleep when i wrote it. p sure i was thinking about the first few months of covid lockdowns in the US as a comparison when i was writing the reply
I wish something like this existed on MacOs :/
Bigger practical issue with "AI safety" is the fallout from low-cost / high velocity bullshit generators.

The "AGI safety" issues are a distraction away from the ways that LLMs can be used to pollute the public discourse
Lots of mentions of this:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=shellcheck.net

with the last large-scale discussion (301 points; 54 comments) being in 2021:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030504
That's wrong, actually. It uses sign-magnitude internally, it just supports various bit-related operations as-if it were two's complement.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/28026434f74726d72857e781...
We usually wrap a set of valgrind debugged small test/demo programs that hammer a library to monitor for leaks etc.

However, ensuring thread safety can sometimes be a challenge. =)
The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish: https://youtu.be/plVk4NVIUh8
Call me naive but I think that some amount of fearmongering results in attention and publicity. Fits with the "fake it before you make it" approach.
Seems so strange all of this happened
> Of the 7,600 women who were sterilized by the state between the years of 1933 and 1973, about 5,000 were African American.

Stop lying. You come in with a false faith argument and can’t be bothered to research elementary facts.
This here. Consumers should expect that their data will be sold as soon as it is available to another company.

Facebook, Google, etc proved that user data is lucrative. Why is it surprising when other companies want to jump on the same money-making stream?

Users don’t read terms and service agreements anymore. As long as companies include data collection and selling the data in the ToS, and customers continue to agree to it, what is the problem?

Customers can either vote with their wallet and move to a provider who respects their data, or they can push their elected politicians to make the sale of data like this illegal.
I’ve turned some time ago a build and deploy script (single production server) some bash scripts into Haskell using Turtle [1].
What I enjoyed was the ability to reduce redundancies significantly.
It was significantly shorter code afterwards.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle
I had similar experiences with titanium cookware. Could it be acting as a catalyst to something that would otherwise not happen?
Old people have always complained about music of this generation being crap. Even in my lifetime, people complained about rap music of the early 80s and the 90s that are now considered classics.

Tipper Gore was up in arms about NWA (Dr. Dre is now considered a legend and Ice Cube is making family movies) and Ice T.

And even in the modern area as hip hop has become mainstream I remember people complaining that the pop charts had too many rappers.

People complained about Elvis and the Beatles when they were first coming out.

Do you think your parents wouldn’t say the same about the music you listened to growing up?

I know my parents thought the rap music I listened to were crap.
While it's just an anecdote, it's more than just a funny tidbit as an increased risk of non-influenza respiratory virus is a possible side effect of flu vaccines.

"We identified a statistically significant increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infection among TIV recipients (Table 3), including significant increases in the risk of rhinovirus and coxsackie/echovirus infection" [1]

That's one of the complications in assessing efficacy: if the benefit in flu vaccine is potentially quite modest (as determined by some long-running studies [2]), and it causes an increased risk of other noninfluenza respiratory viruses, then we need higher-quality, more detailed studies to understand what's happening.

But based on the discussion of the Cochrane review it seems unlikely. [3]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404712/

[2] https://www.cochrane.org/news/featured-review-three-updated-...

[3] https://community.cochrane.org/news/why-have-three-long-runn...
Are you trying to print billboards? Absolutely nothing about large-format printing is 'mainstream'. Sensor fuckery is still a hack that can't do many types of shots (any kind of quick movement for example) while leading people to believe you can. That's the very definition of stuff you should be using specialized hardware for. Are they going to incorporate a 10+ bit sensor and at least an sRGB color space too? Otherwise it's like putting 16gb of VRAM on a geforce 1060

I've done large format printing, you need at least those things in place for the print to come out accurately.

> I find it irritating to talk to people who speak this way, just FYI.

I find the gentrified, milquetoast corpo-speak that seems to be the norm here to be just as annoying
> Whereas for myself and most of the C programmers I know, Zig has sort of filled that similar space and seems to take the concerns of C programmers more seriously and the team has an attitude more in line with the C culture than the Rust team does. I could spend hours writing examples of this but it's even apparent in the way the Zig team has handled its relationship with LLVM, where they seem very serious about trying to not accept it as fundamental to their language and eventually even eliminate the dependency on the C++ code...with Rust it doesn't seem like this is even on the minds of most of the users.

Yes, the Rust language needs a complex optimizing compiler to really be viable. In this respect it is more limiting than ANSI/ISO C. For a lot of contexts, this isn't really a problem though? You aren't going to be able to build the Linux kernel without GCC or Clang anyway…
Well I've done something now...
Okay, let's say that you want a script that counts the number of lines in files versioned by git.

You'd write a Python3 script I assume? With subprocess?
Well, I was just responding to your particular claim that this app is tracking "what your wife is doing". But unless the wife is exclusively moving by airplanes (so that the app will notify male guardian she entered airport) that's is not tracking what wife is doing. It doesn't give information about activities or locations like saying many other apps.

This is one service among all other government interactions services that the app provide. If the app is not here. Women still need to get male guardian approval because this is local law. You can disagree on that matter (I am not defending or debating it).
I was just clarifying.

And yes, apple has to follow local laws. The app doesn't collect privacy invasive information used to track movements as your comment suggested. And it is not required to be on your phone.
Tea, especially green tea, in a titanium mug is, in my experience, utterly gross.

Maybe anodized titanium would work better? I don’t know what the chemistry behind the problem is, but even stainless steel kills green tea after a while.
What user need does encoding area in the number serve? What’s wrong with a random 8-10 digit number?

I can understand the inverse, so that you don’t have similar numbers nearby (as in RingGo).
> Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories

Regular Russian credit and debit cards‡ now work there, thanks to the magic of NSPK. I don't think Crypto had any significant market share there.

‡ Including the ones which were previously branded MasterCard and Visa, these no longer work internationally obviously, but domestically they didn't skip a beat thanks to aforementioned NSPK
We build meldstudio.co (a performance oriented desktop app) using Qt/QML and managed to entirely avoid Qt Creator. It’s like traveling back in time coming from a VS Code configured with clangd and LLDB debugger.

Really wish they would invest in getting QML LSP to a working state. It’s been in development for well over a year now and still not used by Qt Creator itself. qmlls is missing proper formatting support, syntax aware highlighting (although we paid a contributor to land this upstream over a year ago, the PR is still pending). It has unusable latency compared to other LSPs, the list goes on.
It depends. Phone carriers can still get metadata about iMessage. What phone numbers you are connecting with, when you send them, etc. Even if the actual content is encrypted, the metadata could be useful.
Everything that involves privacy could potentially go around the wishes of the majority, yet everyone has the right to it (so they say) which is guaranteed by democratic laws nowadays.

We all know, for example, that terrorist groups plan their attacks on platforms that use e2e encryption, are you suggesting to end privacy for all to be able to catch a bunch of terrorists? Because there is no gray area in all of this, you either have it or you don’t.