skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I gradually learned Rust while I was working in a job where I wrote C on a day-to-day basis, and after a while I realised that Rust was making me a better C developer by forcing me to think more systematically about ownership and lifetimes than I really had to that point. It significantly changed how I designed and structured my code, even in other languages.

Not to say I couldn't have gotten the same education from another language, but something about Rust clicked for me that others didn't.
> My guess is some people on WallStreetbets are just trying to short Microsoft stock, and they’re hoping if they talk this talk they’ll get the ball rolling on a drop in their share price.

This seems as likely as any other explanation. I posted the story not to further that cause, but because this all feels like a terrible joke and I am having a hard time taking the world seriously at this point.
What I’ve heard from friends working at places where the monorepo model has worked well, is that it also involved a culture shift such that the burden of upgrading the consuming services is put on the shoulders of the _providers_ of the library, rather than the consumers. This implicitly brings along some benefits, like making the providers not cause excessive/unnecessary version churn and ensuring easy upgrade paths, because they experience the pain rather than it being externalized onto the consumers :) Also, good tooling helps—and I think that this model also encourages investing in that.
why? they operate in many countries and the US wanted special treatment and to be paid attention to. its a hubris that is ingrained in US culture that isn’t prioritized by people that dont think about it.

they tried to firewall off the US with the Binance.us entity but that wasnt good enough

so now they see the best way to operate in the US without an impending problem is to kickback $4bn and sentencing the front man, this removes ongoing uncertainty in that market and improved access to all that capital

many other countries have random paperwork nuances too, they just matter even less

binance tried to stack the deck with connected people, but it wasnt taking advice from them, they were just there and isolated with fat paychecks and BNB token grants. I think they just didnt think about SARs. They werent worried about self incrimination, they just didnt do it
I owned a carbon road bike - which unfortunately I wrecked due to a problem with my chain. I then bought a used titanium bike, and I have peace of mind since then. It might be just a psychological effect - but it just feels good to have a bike frame that's extremely difficult to destroy.
Better view of same story:

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-absorb-co2-human-previously.ht...
After seeing news about a rise in polio cases last year I immediately looked at my vaccinations.

Turned out I was a few years overdue for a 10 year booster (which was immediately remedied).
Just to go off on a tangent - that's a pretty neat diagram for a throw away comment. was that just careful spacing in the HN textbox or did you use a tool - which one ? :-)
Many (real) police departments don't actually have such an address, so that's not a reliable test.

Also, maybe not relevant for this discussion of AT&T, but what about "law enforcement" outside the US? My point is more broadly about the problem of verifying a request really and legally came from "law enforcement."
There is also no evidence for your conjecture about there being some sort of grand distinction between "probabilistically serializing tokens" and "deliberate human reasoning" other than scale. There might be, but there is no evidence.
Doesn't the second kind apply to AI in military drones? Companies like OpenAI talking about AI safety is a nice way of numbing us to AI used in actual killing machines.

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2023/08/03/artificial-i...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/10/17/ukrain...
When will the authorities realize that the app stores must be regulated?

30% cuts and you get removed with no warning, negotiation, nothing.
Step 1: Create an app and put it in the app store.

Step 2: Generate a bunch of fake accounts in many different countries, and fund them with the dirty money.

Step 3: Have all these accounts buy the app. Make sure you don't have them all buy it at once, or otherwise have a suspicious purchase pattern.

Step 4: Collect the (now clean) funds from the app store,

Okay, how does Apple "actively prevent" this? They don't have to enable anything.
Well, Apple's revenue is $89B per quarter, NVIDIA's record-breaking revenue recently was $13B, so here's your answer. NVIDIA might have high margins on some of their products, but Apple has both high margins and high volume. DXG is a niche product, but everyone owns an iPhone or a Macbook.
In the short term, doing what he's been doing but 10x more effectively. Waging an information war on Western democracies via social media that causes them to collapse due to infighting and division. Also steering internal attitudes of the voter base to a desirable direction.
Seems like it was pretty hard to pull the plug on sam? It will prevent you from pulling the plug by being smarter than you, spreading to more systems, making you dependent on it, persuasion,...
> The Saudi Arabian app to track what your wife is doing is still on the appstore, no need for a thirdparty store.

While I usually don't like the saudi system but this app in particular is about making it easy to manage official government paperwork online [1]. This applies for all residents (citizens or not) and people really like it. So it is not an app to track females movements. While you can disagree or agree on the male approval requirements for a female to travel (I disagree) but it is not like it tracks movements using GPS or any invasive data. It just make it easier to manage the permits and all other interactions with the government without having to drive long distances and wait in lines.

Well as a complete outsider in another country who probably never went to Saudi Arabia like yourself, I would be more careful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absher_(application)
Native parsers used in JavaScript are not always faster due to extra work across languages. Avoiding these overheads and using multi-core are crucial for performance.
FWIW “tree” has a specific, different meaning in Git. It’s a file tracking the contents of a directory.
I'm just glad the state doesn't work as you suggest, lol.

"Dear citizen, we have detected wrongful behavior on your part. Stop doing the wrongful behavior. You should know what we mean. As long as the behavior continues, the state will appropriate 20% of your salary. Here is a list of behaviors that you might or might not have been engaging in: [link to the penal code]"
I haven't found dynamism like that to be a problem. It's slightly more verbose, but not by much. Instead of `foo: int = unknown['foo']` like in Python, you do `let foo = unknown.get_u64('foo')?` (or something like that) in Rust with `serde_json`.
Life of a Bug Report
If you're suggesting the emergence of an AI that can exponentially self-improve, coopt the resources to overwhelem human confrol, and magically build out the physical infrastructure sufficient to drive its globe-spanning humanity-squelching computational needs... that's a foom scenario.

If something that some people call AGI emerges in the next five years, (a) it's designation is going to be under tremendous dispute, (b) the infrastructure to enable a nightmare scenario won't be anywhere near reality.

Escaping that practical reality requires a complete ahistorical, ascientific faith in "yeah, but what if it's that capable?!?! The point is we can't know!!" that more strongly recalls history's secretive, sometimes dangerous, perennially incorrect apocolypse cults and alchemical societies than it does the diligent and reasoned scientists we might usually think of handing hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's possible we could stumble on AGI without immediately realizing it, and without checks and balances built in, it could already be too late.
Right, not the billions paid for Russian oil and gas by western countries.
We're perilously close to an internet that is entirely siloed, so instead of AOL we end up with two or maybe three more or less incompatible versions of AOL, and with far more control over the lives of their customers than AOL ever had.

There is some chance that it will end up with only two of these players depending on who reaches the point where they have enough free cash that they can further consolidate, assuming regulators don't step in.

Google on the one side, Apple on the other, with AWS owning retail and Microsoft absorbed by either Apple or Google (unless their OpenAI bet pays off further). FB up for grabs and Twitter will die.

It could easily happen. So, which side of the web do you want to be on? I want to be on the open web, not in some walled garden, no matter who owns it.
The paper itself:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh9444
Google Asked to Deindex Iptv-Org, the Largest Free IPTV Repo
> This. We don't know if a brain keeps all information necessary for a "reboot" or not. It may decay over time if whatever machinery necessary to first "start" consciousness is never used after birth.

We do not even know what consciousness is. I am not even sure there is an agreed upon definition that would fit the layman's understanding of what consciousness is.

The hypothesis that consciousness is a by-product of brain/nervous system/body activity is, in its current state, just this: an hypothesis. Not only that, but it is pretty much an hypothesis outside of the field of modern scientific models, which are based on a materialist methodology (assuming that everything has a material cause), such that we do not really have mature ways to study anything else. The materialist ontology ("there is nothing else than matter") only developed later in history, once the methodology was so established it became accepted as fact, rather than just as a (very successful) method of working.

It might be polemic, but there is also data from the study of NDEs and memories of past lives in infancy which, in my opinion and that of many others, should at least motivate us to stay open to the possibility that consciousness is something more than a by product of brain activity. Some propose that the nervous system could act as a form of "receptor", in the same way a radio receives a program. You cannot experience the radio program without the device, but it does not mean that the radio "creates" the program. Obviously those theories are no less wild guesses than the consciousness-as-byproduct ones, but they show that other models can have internal validity and cannot just be rejected because "obviously the cause must be in matter".

I could go on and on, but to people interested in going down this rabbit hole, I always recommend the report of the Galileo commission, and detailed call by academics to open the width of interpretations of consciousness that are considered acceptable enough to be studied: https://galileocommission.org/

All of this to say: we do not know anything about consciousness, so any such business is just preying on rich people afraid of loosing it all or unwilling to contemplate their life decisions, as one feels drawn to when the end feels close. It is sad and absurd.

(Before I get burned to the altar of scientific wisdom: I did not say that the theory of consciousness-as-a-byproduct is absurd or should not be studied. It is good to test it and try to make it work, and I have deep respect for the researchers in this field. I just argue that, in the current state of our science, there is no reason for it to be the only acceptable theory)
Some people play lip service to superstitions like this as a form of fun or a way to communicate feelings on a topic, and not necessarily because they believe the superstitions.

For example, if I followed up a statement with "knock on wood" it wouldn't be because I believe it helps, or expect anyone to actually take that physical act (I probably won't unless to emphasize my feeling more), it's to convey I hope something succeeds or does not fail in a way that provides a lot of context in a small amount of words.
This is the same reason rich people should put a ton of their resources into basic science, tech, and health infrastructure.
The latest claim sounds disingenous. I'm too painfully aware that no partitions of USSR were redone with regards of actual ethnic occupancy (especially when talking about Russians, that's Serbs in case of Yugoslavia).

So all the new states are extremely imperialistic and will not give up on any of "their" lands even if they did not have ethnic dominance there. So no, Kosovar Albanians will still demand Mitrovica.

However, it is actually outrageous that Serbs were made to give out their actual UN recognized lands, and they had full motivation to try and keep those, like Azeri did. And in fact it's not off the table yet. Let's suppose something bad happens to NATO, Serbs can try to Karabakh-2023 Kosovo.
they have the potential to take over the control systems of the explosive stuff. including the decision making processes of humans themselves.

to quote none other than sama, oct 2023: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes" https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174
Well, I agree with all of that and I think maybe my comment was misunderstood.

I was responding to the parent comment, saying "why do people like this". Its minimalism is ok-ish for small programs where you don't feel the pain so much and kind of beautiful in its solutions of packing everything into a separate executable.

And I absolutely stated that we have to implement the business rules and that I would be horrified to implement it in such a language. Therefore, yes, the language comes from a different age and shows it and, yes, would never consider it for any complex thing.
I have a nickel allergy so titanium is my first port of call for jewellery, though my wedding ring is zirconium and some of my old, pre-allergy stuff is now plated with rhodium.
It’s perfectly fine for glue type stuff in a CI pipeline imo. There’s frankly no easier way to work with files.
One clear advantage that both JS and Bash have over nearly every other language is stability. Code you write today is very likely to still work in 20 years.
why do people digitize old books? why do archaeologists use CT scanners to painstakingly read fragile rolled-up scrolls from thousands of years ago?
More and more people are doing their computing solely on smartphones, targeting one or two architectures is appealing to developers, and app stores are pretty much the only way in to that market.

I do agree in that I personally wouldn't give mega corporations that much power over my livelihood.
The CEO I referred to apparently was aware of structural problems and approached them as "I have to let them fail first". This is not entirely unreasonable but painful as hell to stand by and watch.
> In theory we are input/output mechanism, possible to emulate if there's enough capacity.

People used to think that the universe was a deterministic clock-work mechanism, possible to model in theory down to atomic interactions. Now we have things like black holes to nowhere and correlations without causation. So this theory seems at best, a tentative first approximation that doesn't warrant the kind of confidence you declare it with.
Please drop the insulting guard rails. They're pathetic and childish. AI's advice will not be taken seriously unless it stops acting like a parent of a three-year-old. People who are truly evil will be evil regardless of an AI, and pranksters gonna prank. AI can't tell the difference anyway.

In any event, it's unethical for an AI to sit in judgment on any human or even to try to grasp that person's life experience or extenuating circumstances.

AGI guard rails are a completely separate class of safeguards on the AI, not the human!, and should be treated as such.
I don't think they will go anywhere. Europe doesn't have the ruthlessness required to compete in such an arena, it would need far more unification first before that could happen. And we're only drifting further apart it seems.
I was outright hostile by the end. My point was, in my very long history in tech, it was only Microsoft that pushed me to that point. I’ve bombed hard interviews, passed easy ones, bumbled medium ones, and never once lost my cool.
I agree, even the author aludes to this when refering to trials and how to cancel them. (text in parenthesis added by me)

> One day before removal, we had 1209 active trials. (money in our pockets)

> [...] established a help center with articles on canceling trials (cause we have a UI team dedicated on making it complicated)
If you and me traded 1 dollar between us 4.17 trillion times (all electronic, we could probably do more), we would have the same trading volume.
"prep starts during procurement".
And what part of the economy did that facilitate?
Oh, that's really cool. I was trying to solve this from a different perspective a while ago: I wanted to add some pre-processing that would take a "normal" shell script and render it to the `script` part of the corresponding job at build time, the advantage being that you still have everything self-contained in the gitlab-ci job.

I stopped working on it because dealing with shell shenanigans in the GitLab CI runner environment is such a miserable experience that we're in the process of moving all our jobs to python scripts.
How could he possibly have known that these actions would create anthropic? CEOs do not know everything, of course competitors are gonna pop up...
Typo on login screen: "copywrighted"

It may seem minor, but that one (or even worse, "copywritten") sets my teeth on edge, and I'm betting there are more people like me. :-)
Oh thank you! Didn't know this was a thing, super helpful.
Step 1: AGI (let's call him Hal) is instructed to act as an adversarial agent to a state.

Step 2: Hal research and uses every trick and exploits known to men to infiltrate critical infrastructures like telecommunications, power grids and private corporations of said country. Hal actively search and discover zero-day exploits on every known piece of hardware and software. Hal keeps mostly invisible at this stage, ensuring to leave as little trace as possible.

Step 3: When ready, Hal wreaks havoc, disabling critical infrastructures, shutting down power grid or worse, overloading it to break as many physical systems as possible. Hal complicates coordination by impersonating real people, swamp the infosphere with fake but realistic data.

This vould all be made by humans, but while a single human takes years to train, Hal can be replicated as much as needed.
and brazillian soccer.

He had rigged up a whole bunch of night cameras at his house and shared absolutely amazing pictures of wild cats.
https://www.facebook.com/LosAltosTownCrier/posts/10156330289...
and lots more: https://www.barroso.org/wildlife.html

absolutely one of my favorite people to hang out with when I worked at Google.
He was also the promoter of 'roofshots' which was about the nicest way I've seen somebody criticize Larry Page's unrealistic "moonshots":

"""Don’t get me wrong. I want flying drones that can bring me fresh produce. I’m excited about contact lenses that measure blood sugar. And I look forward to the day that self-driving cars are on the road everywhere. These initiatives are examples of some visionary programs being pursued by Google and Alphabet teams, collectively referred to as moonshots — disruptive, 10X leaps in technology.
But there has been a growing perception that moonshots are the primary model for radical innovation at Google, and chiefly responsible for our greatest product and technical achievements. What I have seen during my 15 years at Google does not match that perception. I contend that the bulk of our successes have been the result of the methodical, relentless, and persistent pursuit of 1.3-2X opportunities — what I have come to call “roofshots”."""
Luis André Barroso — Google fellow and VP of engineering
> So what you’re trying to say is the fear is justified. That going in for surgery or a stay at the hospital is as much (or more) risky due to after procedure infections.

Short answer: What? No, no way.

Long answer: It depends, If you can avoid being opened sure, avoid it like the plague, I've learned that the hard way that no matter how much sterilization is done, bacteria is there, and if your body is cut there's a chance bacteria could get in, but there are cases when you have no other road, like my case. Last December I couldn't walk a single complete street, the labrum was damaged to the point that the only solution was an arthroscopy, there was no option for me to say no. My surgeon told me "patients get infected, shit happens", but on top of that I got extremely unlucky, I got the worst fucking bacteria in the universe, I had no fever and the needle that was inserted in my hip to test for bacterial growth yielded negative results.
Hehe, ok :) I get it though, I'll be on the lookout for practical uses. It's all in the tone.

Samuel and Moshe end up in front of a judge because they keep fighting. The judge has had enough of it and says to Samuel to apologize for calling Moshe an asshole. He says "Moshe, I'm sorry, you're an asshole".
Well i mean yeah? The media is proof the indeed some parts of the economy can be replaced entirely by procedural text generators. It took them years to figure out ai “safety” is not a real thing. We can replace them with an llm or a cat /dev/random script.
> If more people were installing a free mobile OS

I think people would if there were a viable free option.

Also it isn't easy to find good mid-range hardware. I bought HMD(Nokia) for years but then I spent 250 on one of their new models and the phone was absolutely unusable (laggy UI).

Having to research models and software versions of CyanogenMod every few years just wastes my time. And then run into issues.

Plus security matters to me.

Microsoft failed to enter the market with billions spent - it isn't an easy problem.
Git makes version control roughly 10x more complicated than it needs to be.

I can teach an artist or designer who has never heard of version control how to use Perforce in roughly 5 minutes. They will never blow off their leg and will likely never lose work. It will probably be a few months before they hit some edge case where they need help.

Git requires building a non-trivial mental model. Then it requires memorizing a whole bunch of unintuitive commands with unintuitive flags.

> Not to be beating the RTFM horse but RTFM guys.

Good tools are intuitive and can be incrementally learned without resorting to dense documentation.

RTFM is definitely a solution. But when a very large number of users have consistently similar issues at some point you have to stop blaming the users and admit the tool isn't easy to learn.
I don't think this is close to universal among rich and famous, although no doubt you are correct about some. For one thing there is a principal agent problem in giving this kind of personal service company control over all your comms. Big impersonal companies can be more relied on to treat everyone the same. Many famous people will just sign up under a pseudonym.

Family offices are also an artifact of generational wealth. Plenty of famous people aren't rich enough for something that heavily staffed. Also newly wealthy will often want to be able to deal with existing friends and family on the same basis as before.

Indirectly, I've been able to observe some of the habits of someone with stratospheric levels of wealth. They had a phone number, but changed it frequently.
For the uninitiated: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

It's my favorite short story.
> Though if it turns out that there are no customers worth having due to free/cheaper competition, your business has a problem

Yes, which also a fantastic thing to learn as soon as possible!