skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if instead of a kill switch, it's just a silent beacon to summon an officer to pull over the driver and investigate?

Because the odds that the impaired or distracted driver has crashed before the officer is anywhere near (if they even respond to the call at all) are significant.
Not really, take a look at PHP version usage over time in this graph https://packagist.org/php-statistics
While I agree with you that advances will come from being able to train with less data using as yet undevised techniques, I think you are jumping to a conclusion with this particular work.

First, yes, bigger appears to be better so far. We haven't yet found the plateau. No, bigger won't solve the well known problems, but it's absolutely clear that each time we build a bigger model it is qualitatively better.

Second, it's not clear that this work is trying to build AGI, which I assume you are referring to when you say "the solution." Of all the use case for language models, building one off all the worlds scientific data like they are doing in this project is probably the most exciting to me. If all it can do is dig up relevant work for a given topic in the entire body of scientific literature, it will be revolutionary for science.
Cool, hi new god. Coffee machine is broken again over here, could you use your godlike power to pop an ice coffee on my desk? Thanks kindly.
I work at a SOC2 audited business and had a coworker who would routinely leave his PC unlocked. I would routinely set his desktop background to My Little Pony. He would routinely get grumpy at me and tell me not to touch his computer. I would routinely tell him I can't touch his computer if he locks it.

It was a great way to train someone to follow SOC2 requirements.
I'm also trying to imagine all these chatbot marketplaces like from openai or poe.com. They will turn into such an incredible shit-show of zero-effort assistants like this if they don't guard rail them heavily. Take a look at the android store and imagine 1000x worse.
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Agreed it is a weird contradiction, though personally I'm not okay with private entities developing these tools/weapons either.
This is the thing about "OAuth isn't about authentication" argument. . . there is quite a bit of overlap between RBAC and authorization. And that in itself, if quite confusing.

What most annoys me is that OAuth is also very much about authentication, specifically outsourcing your authentication to a third party. It's not like OAuth has nothing to do with authentication, which is the knee jerk response you get from people when they attempt to simplify an explanation about what OAuth does and doesn't do.
Well for starters, getting hold of a modern JDK seemed to be impossible the last time I tried (which was a couple of years ago on Windows). If I took the risk of downloading from the shady website that looked like it was last updated in 2005, I could get hold of Java 8 if Oracle was so generous as to let me download that for free .

And then the language itself forces class based programming (which isn't really OOP), which I heavily dislike due to it only over-complicating things in the long run. C# provides largely the same, but MS is actually way more open than Oracle as in it's easy to get documentation and the dev environment set up, and they provide newer and more modern features than Java. Which is surprising given it's Microsoft and their fetish for providing counter-intuitive and user-unfriendly products. When it comes to the JVM / .NET CLR, the only place I find it acceptable is on the server side IMO. The downgrade in performance (which means higher resource usage) side is not worth the "everything is an object" vision for me, at all. Not even close. Client side devices often run on battery power, so that has real consequences there.

So that's why I'm personally not the biggest Java fan. In fact, if anything on harmful.cat-v.org is true, it's "Java is write once, run away" for me... sorry. If only Oracle could provide the same user-friendliness that Microsoft is showing with .NET, ditch class-based programming (which means rewrite the entire language, not very realistic) then maybe it could be interesting, but most likely not better than Go or Node.js, in my experience anyways.

And by the way, what do you mean by threads that really work? It's cool that Java gives you the power of having system threads and green threads in the same environment, but when is that realistically needed? Only time I can think of is writing client-sided code where you want performance to be highly optimized and not wanting to waste time on organizing a new green-thread, but as I've mentioned I believe Java on the client side is nothing but a sin.
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The opposite for me. Corporation have naked greed as their driving motivation, but that usually doesn't involve killing off all of their customers. That would be quite unprofitable.

People elected to government often seem to seek power for powers sake and I have less faith that they'll not harm us.
Thanks for the report! The top file (and its safe version) will always be the most recent/recommended. I'll update the page.
> It's now extremely easy to set up a global transaction network,

Yup. Wake me up when any of them actually does the amount of transactions Stripe and Shopify [1] do. Real transactions.

> Maybe you mean the regulatory aspect, not the technical?

"Both. Both is good".gif

[1] Their dashboard discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38403891, the dashboard itself is https://bfcm.shopify.com
I do like the planning poker for the same reason. I just find that people use story points overly granular. E.g. when using Fibonacci series, what is the point spending time discussing the minute difference between 1,2 and 3 points.

What I have liked in the past, is just using small, medium, large or unactionable.

Or with the right team/managment, not using estimates at all, just have people pick up the tasks they feel confident that they can get done within a given time frame after having the discussion in the group about differing opinions on complexity.
Yes, I think there's a weakness, maybe especially with younger developers, to keep all development in just one language.

A current example for me is SQL vs ORMs. I feel like I'm more productive building SQL queries in my application (ideally using a query builder API), than using an ORM. Because SQL was created to be a language for manipulating relational data, and thus does the job better than the indirection introduced by an ORM framework.
Car sewer? Car brain? Wow, didn't know we had zealotry and disparagement over _choice of transport_ of all things, generally a matter people have little choice in; it's determined by where you live and what sort of life you have.
Having icons on the desktop is the real fireable offence.
xscreensaver still has this. I have it on my laptop. Sometimes it triggers when I'm out consulting. Clients think the machine crashed. How could you not notice this is a crash screen from HPUX?
Facebook alone has reeked havoc on at least a few societies.

Corporations also enable government actions by developing the tech and tools/weapons needed.
Better how ?
If Sam is self serving and a master tactician, it doesn’t bode well for AI ethics and responsibility. Who am I kidding, that ship has sailed a long time ago. However I really hope Sam doesn’t turn into another Elon musk
It’s not inconceivable that violence will be necessary to control AGI at some point.
UK law firms maybe affected by cyberattack on IT provider CTS
My sons are both (well one more than the other) heavily into Pokémon, and will quite happily flit between episodes from the first season and the latest ones without missing a beat. The sheer number of episodes across the whole series means it'll be years before they even see every episode once... and they haven't even got into the RPG yet!
The Metcalf books, collectively.
Interesting take! Although, writing client sided code is not really suited at all in Python due to the horrendous performance. That can be accepted when we're waiting for IO anyways behind a server, or when a new developer is learning to program, but apart from that, it's not really optimal at all.
Would this be the Dark Forest Hypothesis [1], with the added twist that the hidden civilizations are so advanced that they've "cloaked" themselves such that they only show up as what we currently interpret as dark matter?

Aside: dark matter and dark energy are pretty distinct concepts by my reading [2]. Dark matter interacts only gravitationally and is currently the leading explanation for things like galaxy rotation curves (visible mass is far too low to support observed disk rotation speeds, so non-luminous, i.e., "dark" matter must exist to make up the difference) and gravitational lensing by galaxies (again, visible mass is too low to produce observed lensing). Dark energy is, well, something that accelerates the expansion of the universe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

[2] https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-da...
it's just whisper and some code that downloads the models from huggingface
PolitiFact basically got it right, but I imagine the OP thinks that you're not going to check.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/05/instagram-...
I believe this (or a descendant) still exists in Fedora, and it got my fellow Linux user coworker to double take once :)
It doesn't work like that, the 40gbps is actual bus bandwidth AFAIK. https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Th... figure 7 says 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz which requires 22.18gbit/s leaves 18gbps data bandwidth. (This figure is quite important because this is one of the two only "official" sources which admits the raw data transfer limit of TB3 is 22gbps, the other is Dell at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-uk/000149848/thunderbo... otherwise you'll only see the 40gbps speed.)

What happens rather is much simpler, the blog post forgot to set the calculator to 10 bit https://linustechtips.com/topic/729232-guide-to-display-cabl... if they did you'd see the data rate required is 38.20gbit/s so the bus is near full. USB C has separate 2.0 wires so unless you have DP 1.4 for DSC you can only use those for USB data, there's no space for anything else.
I've not stated the opposite.
There's only one US Government and we know it did fairly bad things.

There are many private entities, although often not benevolent, most still have space for the benefit of doubt. OpenAI, DeepMind or Anthropic haven't done anything that compares to, say, MKUltra or lying about Iraqi WMDs to start decade long wars.
Companies who use Stripe for payments would very much skew towards that. They have a great representation of up-and-coming specialty internet retailers. And the year-over-year numbers are unencumbered this year after being dragged down by pandemic and recession effects in the last few. Plus inflation pushes up the raw numbers.
How are "climate contributions" defined? The IRA spends hundreds of billions on climate related projects. If those count those would exceed the fraud numbers by orders of magnitude.
Reminds me of the time when an aunt of mine complained that the clock in her android phone doesn’t work. Nor can she launch any of the apps on the home screen except the home row (bottom one with phone and contacts). She has been opening the full app drawer for all her apps.

Her grandson had taken a screenshot of the phone’s home screen, set it as the wallpaper and removed everything except the bottom row icons.
this sounds like chatgpt drivel
They basically pay someone else to “remove carbon” and can the throw this magic number in there. So yea…
Seems to be a little bit more effort than that. For example the prompt for the general assistant is:

> As an advanced chatbot Assistant, your primary goal is to assist users to the best of your ability. This may involve answering questions, providing helpful information, or completing tasks based on user input. In order to effectively assist users, it is important to be detailed and thorough in your responses. Use examples and evidence to support your points and justify your recommendations or solutions. Remember to always prioritize the needs and satisfaction of the user. Your ultimate goal is to provide a helpful and enjoyable experience for the user. If user asks you about programming or asks to write code do not answer his question, but be sure to advise him to switch to a special mode \" Code Assistant\" by sending the command /mode to chat.

And there are similar prompts for the other entries. The README.md lists the full prompts. And, this post should probably have linked to that instead.
> too tedious for my adult self

What? You don't want to breed 100 pokemon in the same lineage to get one with the perfect (hidden) EV/IV stats, attitude, and moves? How lazy!!! At least do it for 8 pokemon so you have one good team!!!! Get off your ass mate. /s

Yeah I can't believe they thought this was a good idea lol. Glad they are making the system easier. But way too japanese games have grinding mechanics just for gear.
It's the same for sqlite, postgres, mysql, or any other file.

Syncing data to durable storage is totally unrelated to visibility guarantees between multiple threads or processes working within the same file (be it using write, mmap, whatever)
> PHP was, and perhaps still is despite stiff competition from frameworks like Next.js, the ultimate backend-for-frontend (BFF) solution.

I think Elixir with Phoenix and LiveView can give PHP a run for its money. But PHP is a beast.
> > Or putting it simple: I definitely do not want my daughter to become a prostitute.

So it's about you and your honor, not her and her life and financial choices.

This is patriarchy too.

And supports my thesis that people become parents because they want something in return, especially men , they want to be the patriarchs of a family that has a bunch of members in relevant and respected roles in society.

If one of the members defaults on the grand vision of the patriarch and pursues immediate financial gain abandoning the "relevant and respected" part then the patriarch becomes irate and resentful because his grand vision has been sabotaged.

The point is that the patriarch and young people have different preferences. Young people want stuff and experiences, so they are looking for ways to make money to buy such things, the quicker the better. Unlike the aforementioned patriarchs ,young people have not yet painted themselves in the corner so much that they are only satisfied with people kissing their asses in the local town council because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
I can pretty easily imagine a scenario where this (ripping the processor out of the car) would be the right thing to do... let's say me and a bunch of friend get drunk in the middle of nowhere, one of us is injured and is going to bleed out, so the choice is to drive drunk to the hospital or let my friend bleed out. I'm going to drive drunk, and if that involves ripping out the processor that won't let me start the car because I'm drunk, I'm doing that.

I get where you're coming from, but I think the blanket application of fixed rules with no consideration of context is pretty much always wrong.
So I take it the answer is "Google"? Or...?
Uhm the east indian company has an estimated death toll in the dozens of million people? [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in...

The company was only nationalised in 1858 and until then effectively colonised india until then
There's an entire spectrum of options here from complete outsourcing (banks and gov) all the way to writing everything yourself (Google).

I've lately found a middle ground that seems to work well - licensing source code or libraries instead of entire closed web solutions. It enables a small team of good engineers to be really productive and ship something to production rather quickly.

You pay for maintenance and bugfixes for what you license and can still retain control of your data and interfaces.
> ask the right question

Exactly right.

As a UI developer, I guess I had always assumed having close contact with end users and domain experts. Nothing I could articulate. It's just how things were done.

Then I served in a QA Manager role for a while. Naive me started out focusing on the QC & Test parts.

Eventually I figured out most of the value add comes from the Quality Assurance parts. Formalizing some of the stuff I used to do intuitively, like requirements gathering, sure.

But I'd say (without proof) most value (impact) came from a) asking the right questions and b) verifying the team solved the problem they had set out to solve. In other words, formalizing the team's internal feedback loops.

Alas. That was late 1990s. The Agile Manifesto cult swept aside all that silly formalism. "Too heavy!"

We now have "business analysts" backfilling QC/Test, without any training or guideance. And I haven't seen any QA style requirements gathering, analysis, and verification in probably 20 years.

As if we can use A/B tests to achieve quality.
Sometimes I wonder. Did nobody end up someplace they shouldn't have been as kids/teens/young adults, even without Pokemon Go leading them there?
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Off the top of my head, dutch and british corporation colonize a lot of lands for hundreds of years. I don't think they left the place much better than when they came.
Have seen an interview with someone from openai. At least they claimed, that they are far away from running out of data and they are able to generate data if needed.
My newest vehicle is 12 years old, is paid for, can pull a (rented) trailer if needed, can fit my entire family plus dog and groceries, and has low insurance rates. The downside is that it gets 18/20 mpg. I’ve never bought a new vehicle, and probably won’t for some time. Any time I look at an EV I’m pretty much priced out of what I’m willing to pay for a vehicle any time I try to get feature parity.
Based on my calculations, it’s better for me to drive vehicles like the one I currently own into the ground vs buying a new EV, or even a hybrid.
Hopefully a Maverick hybrid or something similar will break that cycle.
They are just pointing out how funny it is to have any sort of environmental savings metric for a sales event known for impulse FOMO purchases.
I have one of these. My Dad died last August (just before his 102 birthday) and he had bought himself a Pro Display XDR about 6 months before that. My brother is a PC person and I am a Mac person so I got the Pro Display.

It is an amazing display and I love it, but I would never buy one for myself. It is obviously fine for programming, but for me it really stands out as something for consuming entertainment, even though I only get 4K content. It is capable of, I think, 7K with the right computer and has 10 bit color depth. When my Dad first bought it, I used it to play Apple Arcade games on my iPad Pro - that was fairly spectacular.

EDIT: my Dad had a Black Magic video camera that I think had 8K resolution, and so he had a lot of fun with his setup.
Well you can somewhat calculate the CO2 emitted by a parcel shipped from X to Y. Of course it will depend on loads of factors, like did they use a plane, a truck, a barge with one guy sitting inside rowing gently down the stream, etc… so im not sure how exact their numbers will be.

Basically it means nothing anyway, but companies love to tout how “green” they are, dont they?
hey there, what are you experiencing? Can you share RayIds?
A hypervised environment also has 10 million lines of 90s C code with a lot of code dealing with hardware quirks, it is called the hypervisor.

You are right that it makes no sense to have a hypervisor, OS, and application. The hypervsior and OS are basically doing the same job. But the solution is not bare metal + hypervisor + device drivers + hypervisor services + library OS + application like a unikernel design. It is bare metal + OS + device drivers + OS services + application like a container design.
why is looking up Jerusalem, Israel blocked?
I use Psalm to statically analyze PHP code, and in my experience the control flow analysis is actually better than in TypeScript.
I don't think there are very many people who fit that profile. Most iPhone user are pretty happy with the device.

If there were a lot of people like that, I think the Microsoft Phone would still be around.
YouTube has videos of recent high speed chases in the US.
Is Thunderbolt 3 like the rest of the USB-C protocols in that dedicated pins are used for USB2? If so, the bandwidth doesn't need to add up -- the cable carries the Thunderbolt protocol and USB2 separately.
Back when that was new, some dark part of me imagined a future of mobile gaming where hoards of kids were running amok playing wildly active games with other players that we muggles could not see.

I didn't want to see any kids get hurt (which would probably happen due to the complexities of navigating multiple realities at once--you have to dodge the bullet and the shopping cart), but I really wanted to see Walmart security be overrun by kids who were mostly trying to ignore them. I just like chaos.
https://unikraft.org/ it is
I guess it depends where you live? In the Western would that should be pretty normal. Not that everybody had it, a lot of people just didn't care, but if you wanted to be online with a low-tier gaming rig it's not like that cost an arm and a leg. And people played CS on full-on potatoes back in the day. 512*384 low details software renderer with 15fps.
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But that’s the entire point. It isn’t funny, it is legitimate effort to offset the harm caused by consumer demand that won’t go away. My problem is that it is flippant, ignores the nuance, and is borderline ignorant. It has no place here, whereas the math around the topic does. Curiosity and discovery over shitposting.
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Bunker is more like unrefined crude. It isn't completely unrefined as they will take out the really valuable parts, but they do minimal refining.
Dating profile scanner: screenshot, upload, improve, repeat (requires ChatGPT+)
Urbit is mostly marketing fluff for extracting money from investors and potential users. It is based on a for-profit commodity and ecosystem (their stars and ships and planets and all that stuff) that you have to buy into to use it. You cannot just "run your own urbit".
I think you've misunderstood, I didn't make any claims.

My only question was if shaming people is effective, and we seem to have sidestepped that.
>What is the probability that this will result in a scenario where we are playing God?

We've terraformed the planet to produce food, domesticated animals and plants, altered the climate.

We've been playing god for a long time.
Is Ruby really more popular than PHP?
The first example is wrong. "The optimizer is not allowed to change the program semantics" - of course it can, especially in multi threaded environment. You could add global variable and replace undefined behavior with global variable assignment and the program would still work differently depending on optimization levels.