skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a particle physicist, but as I understand it, it wouldn't be very exciting to be hit by this because even if it interacted with you, the shower of particles produced would be so energetic that they'd nearly all come right out of the other side of you and go deep into the Earth before hitting anything else. One atom gets smashed, and one molecule gets excitingly altered but that's all in a day's work for biology.

It's a bit like how the depth where the energy is deposited of radiotherapy gets deeper with increasing energy. Past a certain energy (hundreds of MeV), most of the energy ends up being delivered somewhere behind you. This particle is hundreds of billions times more energetic than that radiation.
Infact Sysinternals used to have a screen saver scr file with a selection of BSODs from various operating systems
at least it's part of the example to spot it :)
A few observations: The US has the laws and infrastructure that make starting a company easy like LLCs/Incs, equity agreements & tax advantages, weak labor laws, cloud compute, accounting styles, VC money, etc. On top of that you are already in a huge uniform wealthy market with 0 need to localise on day 1. Europe (I have heard) has difficult laws around equity agreements and thus it is hard to incentivize employees or do the correct accounting. Also there is a string entrepreneurship culture in the US. Also, US poaches top talent.

Of course it is possible to do a great tech startup in Euro/UK. However, after working at a European company I can say that culture is VERY different, and that is OK! However, it makes building or running a company hard
> Also, is it confirmed anyehere that DDG pays Apple, or is this just conjecture?

It came out during the trial, in Weinberg's testimony. They pay Apple a revenue share for all searches done via the Safari search integration if the search engine is set to DDG.

As far as I know, none of this was even conjectured before that testimony. That he is so happy paying a revshare to Apple is pretty surprising given how vehement DDG was about the original Android search engine choice screen in the EU.
I think this bill is a good idea and a good safety measure. That said to me when a law requires kill switch if it detects drunk driving - that would seem to me as qualifing as "true" any statement that says "the law requires a kill switch." This also applies for good laws requiring a kill switch.

I think your statement "up in arms" suggests the conclusion, these fact checkers are rating it as false because they are not in arms about the law. But being up in arms is not relevant to whether a statement is true or false.

I think if the fact checkers were being genuine, they would rate it as true and give an explanation about the benefits of the law
And better adhesion due to less cooldown
Yeah, I think people have this assumption because it’s been portrayed that way in fictional media so many times. In actual real-world disaster situations, people don’t instantly revert to murderous zombies—they tend to band together and act altruistically.
Well written and enjoyable read.

The image of a Burgermaster 5000 operated by a Highschool kid producing burgers is one that really gets stuck in your head.

I am wondering to which degree something like this might or might not come true with the advent of AI driven coding.

I have built a full swift app using Ai (not writing a single line of code) but it took a lot of coding knowledge to pull it off. I wonder if this will change.
maybe ferrets would do better with better interfaces. with better ways to interact with the world and better co-processor. but the main brain might already be capable of those aforementioned things.
> People of the past lived happier, more in peace and more fulfilling years of life than modern people

That's a pretty broad claim. How far back is "the past" that was so much better? Which people did you have in mind? The Irish peasants starving because of potato blight? European villagers during the Black Death? The slaves building pyramids in ancient Egypt?
OpenAIs big innovation was “bigger”. It is not clear when we should stop scaling.
I'm left handed, and I previously put my mouse on the left side of the keyboard. I eventually stopped because video games assume you'll use your left hand on the keyboard for wasd movement etc. I blame this for my poor performance, I used to be good at video games.

Anyway, one day at work, my team lead comes over and tries to use my mouse to show me something. It's not moving. They do a double take, pick up the mouse, and realize it's an orange that was sitting to the right side of my keyboard.
That was an intentional misspelling to demonstrate the use of the [\#Override] attribute.
So basically, EU did not actively enslaved or colonized anything. But, past colonies of some EU member states mean that there can not be genocide anywhere outside of Europe.
It's great isn't it.

Npm packages that don't exist and yet always have the same parameters as your data.
There is a real life example, unfortunately. In 1978 Soviet scientist Anatoli Bugorski was hit by a 76 GeV particle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Looks like he survived the incident and even completed his PhD in following years. He did lose hearing on one ear and was partially paralyzed though.

Now the particle mentioned in the article was million time more energetic so...
> We're not talking about exotic and expensive...

> "general" or common steel and "common"/"general" titanium

Why would you compare 'trash-quality' steel vs exotic and expensive material like Titanium?

That does not make any sence.
> That's why failing fast and not retry is the best strategy for most if not all applications.

I think it's more complex than this. You also have to lump timeouts, caching and failure behavior into the conversation. And there are also situations where you absolutely need some amount of retries. Say, for example, you want seamless failover between backends...you're expecting some failures and don't want or need to expose those to your end users. Or, maybe the "end user" isn't a person. Like, for example, finalizing a financial transaction from a queue.
The Coming Psychological Black Death [video][53 mins]
Gary - his posts go from -“oh my god! AGI is 6 months away, Take all GPUs, stop all AI” to “AGI will take 600 years, what a bunch of horseshit, idonbelieveit”.

I wish he actually put out research saying how we solve some of the shortcomings of current techniques instead of pointing fingers.

I do agree the media loves to hype for clicks.

I loved his book “Rebooting AI”.

I think openAI is overvalued and overhyped. But such is the train of progress.
Or, don't: as in compile PHP library to JVM.

Something like https://github.com/mridoni/llxvm
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What you are saying is false, and on top of that, you can install a 3rd party browser on iOS and choose whatever search engine you want.
"Let the Orcs come as thick as summer-moths round a candle "
Not really!

One extremely-high energy particle is way, way less dangerous than a bunch of billions of less energetic particle... repeated every 25 nanoseconds!
I can use 3Ds max with pretty much one hand and when I zoom with the mouse wheel it zooms where the cursor is an not the center of the screen. The metaphor I like to use for blender is it is like riding a bike with the seat missing, you can get to where you need to but the ride is much less comfortable. Gimp is like a bike with no seat, you have to peddle in reverse and the handle bars also work in reverse.

I’ve used many other 3D programs, even some that don’t exist anymore like XSI so no baby duck syndrome here but I just find blender just not fun to use. Even milkshape 3D back in the early 2000s was way more intuitive than blender.
> objective reality, "truth" is not something an LLM can have

Nor can we. All our truths are subjective in the end. You believe you read something which you believe said xxxx. You believe you saw something etc.
If someone on my team leaves their PC unlocked I usually start writing a self-incriminating email to cybersecurity on their PC before locking it.
> The problem is, the time between when you notice and when it's too late to act, might be days, or hours, or seconds, or even negative.

I agree. Especially if there is a hard take-off where AGI goes to 100x ASI in hours , days or weeks. Or the AGI could be really hard to detect, even if it took longer to develop. There is certainly a significant existential risk associated with AGI/ASI.

However, if we imagine a scenario where AGI was ONLY constrained by algorithms and code, and NOT at all from compute, then this kind of scenario would be much more likely. Lately, though, increases in AI strength have come more from increases in compute than improvements in algorithms.

If (which we may hope is the case), an AI explosion requires hardware improvements to take off (even if the AI can design the hardware itself), then we can HOPE that an explosion would be easier to detect.

> When that happens, the US government better be sending men with guns to forcefully shut the businesses involved down,

All the actions I described are ultimately backed by the government's guns.

> and getting ready to lob some cruise missiles at some data centers for good measure.

This could be an option if the data center was outside the US. Inside the US, the government can shut off the power, if needed.
Middlemen can also just reverse lookup the sites you connect to. Need a trustworthy VPN to circumvent that at least for ISPs sniffing.
PHP was, and perhaps still is despite stiff competition from frameworks like Next.js, the ultimate backend-for-frontend (BFF) solution. It's a server-side, super-flexible layer ideal for connecting various components and delivering static HTML with JavaScript enhancements.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with using PHP for tasks Java already handles well, given Java's proficiency in its domain, it's not always necessary to replicate these functions in PHP.

However, there's a tendency to undervalue PHP-based applications, often labeled as 'home.php-style' apps. It's true they can become unwieldy and unmaintainable if not properly managed. Adhering to good practices is essential, but it's also important to remember not every project needs a complex solution like bootstrapping a Laravel project for a simple task list. Everything comes with its own set of trade-offs!
the whole point of a democratic state is power to the many. Maybe not to all, but certainly not unequally.
How did the fact checkers get this wrong?

> “Our rating: False,” said USA Today.

> “ASSESSMENT: False,” said the Associated Press.

> “We rate it Mostly False,” concluded PolitiFact.
How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop
The secret to happiness is low expectations :)
I'm not saying it is or isn't genocide, but if Hamas attacked Israel first then you're ignoring something like 75 years of the conflict.
What a fun read; thank you!

I’m still very early on in my career in software dev (~3 years in) and you articulated the idea I’ve been grappling with extremely well in this piece. I could never find the word for it but “commodification of technical work” is the perfect way describe it.
'Toys' that work for the intended function makes them tools. Why blow money on hardware and power when a Coral will do the job well?
Awesome visuals!
You're intentionally arguing poorly for the average joe case in most of the US.

You can pack up 6 people in an SUV and take an 800 mile trip one-way for <$200 of gas. The same flight costs $1600. You do that trip as little as once a year and you more than erase the lifetime savings of EV and the car that's better for your use-case costs significantly less.

And this is the "disney vacation" case where you don't need anything. If you're going camping you're
not gonna take your gear
and bike on a plane.

EVs are fantastic, I love commuting on my e-bike because it's the path to realizing the gains of an EV for short commutes with the benefits of an ICE for everything else. But I'm also young, healthy, fit and abled and there seems to be little market in the space of inexpensive EV transport for people who aren't that.
And there is a lot of this sentiment around, specially with young people
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Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
> Let's assume about 1 word per token and 5 characters per word. Furthermore, US-ASCII tokens requires one byte per character in UTF-8. So, that gives about 40 petabyte.

Thanks, I was looking for that estimate but could not quickly find it. (Although are you sure about that 'petabyte' figure? I see 1e13 * 5 = 50e13 = 50 TB?)

I love these sorts of bulk comparisons, since they let us start to reason about how much humans learn from "each bit of experience" versus LLMs. On one hand humans process a lot of sensory information (most of it by discarding, mind), but on the other humans do a lot of 'active learning' whereby experience is directly related to actions. LLMs don't have the latter, since they're trained on passive feeds of tokens.
Study reveals wintertime formation of large pollution particles in China's skies
No

Unless it's a response to a well posed query. The reason is that words have multiple definitions, thus one phrase might convey multiple conflicting, but plausible meanings to it's intended audience.

To get precision (aka Truth) you have to work very hard to resolve all the ambiguities that result from any combination of words. The more sure you want to be that the reader will interpret your meaning correctly, the more words you're going to require.

Personally, I like to utilize an iterative approach (aka conversation), in which error correction is generally accomplished over time. This is also why I like long form podcasts, the host is allowed to explore the meaning of what the guests say, and dig deeper, and correct any misperceptions (if they are a good host).

If I'm composing a static text, again I favor an iterative approach, posting, then editing, editing, editing until 2 hours is reached, and edits are no longer possible.
It is scary to think what is the actual lead time on grid scale components... When you are in multiple megawatt range. It is pretty long and pretty specialised.

It is not just transformers, but switches, relays and even fuses. Much of that will have surviving spares, but still building up the capacity to build those components is not entirely trivial.
> Then we could start replacing steel with titanium in many applications.

The world's production of stainless steel is growing almost exponentially and we are replacing many applications or ordinary steel with stainless. Every year millions of tons of steel are lost to rust.

Its a gigsntic shift noone is noticing
I didn't know this existed and as someone who is in the process of buying a new ride this is great! I can now have a pretty good idea how my position will be on any bike.

However, I have no idea of what I should strive for when looking at the angles? Are there some well-known ideal values I should look into?
> The system could be abused or hacked

E.g. by a hostile foreign power.
Shopify has a similar dashboard as well: https://bfcm.shopify.com
Attack on debit provider London Zurich leaves customers with 6-figure backlogs
Unlikely. That poster is well into the deranged zone.
> I wouldn't hold up GrapheneOS as a good example of more freedom compared to Apple or Google tbh.

I don't see why we can't have both, but this doesn't really a fair criticism of GP's comment. The specific word GP used was 'privacy', not 'freedom', and you are attacking GrapheneOS's stance on the latter, not the former.

GrapheneOS is more focused on privacy over freedom, as you said ("their stance on user privacy is so extreme that it gets in the way of user freedom"). They have chosen to prioritize one over the other.

> For freedom, I'd moreso point towards projects like LineageOS.

This might be true, but LineageOS doesn't have access to microcode either, and certainly GrapheneOS is more 'private' than Lineage, assuming that GrapheneOS hasn't been compromised either internally or at some point in the AOSS supply chain. Except for niche mfgs like PinePhone et al, Google is probably the most free of the major manufacturers (ironically, less private but more free).

I agree that we should aim for both freedom (as in free speech, not necessarily as in free beer although it'd be nice!) and privacy.

Both are critically important, and the efficacy of the latter depends in large part on the former.
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This. That was really a wake-up call.

I certainly do not support honking horns all night in cities for weeks, and I wouldn't have batted an eye if the government declared the protest a riot, arrested every individual involved, and put them all in court the next week.

But the extrajudicial freezing of bank accounts under an Emergency Act was a siren, and I'll certainly view any new proposed new tools through that lens.
The media. Mostly. And politicians. /s
I lost it at Overwhelmingly Large
“Falling for Israeli propaganda”?

The western liberal sentiment is irrelevant. They cared about the Uighurs, Kashmere, Hong Kong, and Ukraine for upvotes, shares, and likes. When those didn’t generate enough interest they moved on. Hamas is their new shiny bauble.

The Gaza strip will be completely leveled. A bunch of noise on the internet will not change that. There will be a new topic in less a years time. We shall see what it is.
There is one company (close.com)that gives you the option to work for 4 days @ 80% pay, or 5 days a week for full pay. All the other companies offer a 4 day work week at full pay.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was licensing fees. You could always try emailing them, too :) https://somafm.com/contact/
Sorry, I wasn't intending to provoke.
I doubt most people would agree that you have a right to drive no matter how much you have had to drink.
Now multiply that number by 2% which is about what stripe charges per transaction. Pretty nice revenue
Funny that reading the manual was the source of, not the solution to, the problem.

The British-sounding phrase "uppity know-it-all whose seniority level was substantially above their competency level"* is a nice one to put in the memory banks for future use.

This reminds me of the classic web-comedy 'The Website Is Down', the first episode of which has a version of the error path in question as a plot point.

* To be clear to those who didn't read the article, the user in question was not in that category
These are “victimless crimes” only under a highly individualistic mindset that doesn’t consider that bystanders and society as a whole can be harmed by conduct between consenting adults.
There’s no reason you can’t address a mixed-gender group as something like “hey everyone” or “hey folks” rather than something like “hey guys” or “hey gentlemen.” It’s just common courtesy we should feel a duty to perform it as members of a society, in my humble opinion. The point I was making a couple replies up was that some terms aren’t fungible, like paternalism and maternalism, because also they seem superficially to be different genders for the same topic, they mean totally different things, so we should use paternalism to mean what it means, despite the gender connotation.
Reminds of a non-techie friend who had a shirt which said 503, which apparently was a brand name for some vaping liquid. Wasn't my first guess.
> Support for PHP7 has been discontinued...

True. But given how zealous humans are [not] about bothering to patch / update / replace all their non-PHP computer hardware "when security"...

Re-skimming the article - yes, it definitely has a very heavy "New and Shiny!" emphasis. The security argument would go far better with:

https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/p...

etc...
I'm more concerned about cartels exploiting this tool to kill people 2bh.
How frequent are such situations? With safety stuff you always have to weigh lives saved when the safety measure works as intended against lives lost when it doesn't.

E.g., seatbelts save about 15000 lives a year in the US. But occasionally someone is killed who would not have been killed if they hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, like this guy [1] whose neck was fatally compressed by his seatbelt. Politifact had occasion to look into deaths due to seatbelts [2] and found them rare, and worked out that if every crash that ended up with the vehicle on fire or in water with the occupants wearing seat belts ended up killing them it would be a couple hundred or so per year. The real number is going to be much lower than that.

I can't find any statistics on pyroclastic flow in the US, but in the last 100 years it looks like there have been under 100 deaths from volcanoes, which should be a superset of pyroclastic flow deaths.

How many more would there have been if those who avoided being one of those 100 by fleeing in their cars had cars equipped with the new system? I'm guessing that it would be less than 10x as many, since it is mostly only going to people who stuck around long past when evacuation was called for. So 10 per year.

As a check on that, I've seen estimates that over the last 2000 years in North America there were around 5000 deaths from volcano, so on average less than 3 per year. Since most of those were at times when people didn't have cars, volcanology was much less advanced, and communication was much slows that number should be higher than what we'd have nowadays even if cars were very flakey when fleeing from volcanoes. This suggests that my guess of 10x is very generous.

Drunk driving kills about 10000 per year in the US, so to make a persuasive argument based on deaths from false positives you are going to need much more than increased pyroclastic flow deaths.

Someone has brought up driving erratically while rushing to the hospital to give birth. I haven't found any stats on that. I'd guess that it is not super uncommon, but also that most of the time if you don't make it to the hospital in time it is not fatal. (And also increased deaths due accidents causes by rushing to the hospital should be considered...).

Anyone have other ideas? If the anti-drunk driving technology only prevents a quarter of drunk driving deaths that would 2500 per year, so we probably need at least 50 to 100 deaths per year due to false positives for that to be an effective argument.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608342/

[2] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/jul/13/joseph-tri...
I'm sure there are innocuous ways of implementing this advice, but I think it also leads to a lot of degeneracy. I understand many people prioritize success and that this is probably a common part of business. But that doesn't make the principle "it's ok unless there's a formal reason saying it's not ok" any less awful.
> it's another to be old and dying and watching someone who was born a century before you gifted with youth and vitality.

So, no one can have nicers things than me?
I can’t intentionally argue poorly for people in the US since I don’t know any of the details.

Edit: this is the closest you’d get in my country: https://abetterrouteplanner.com?plan_uuid=75ba2435-fd1b-4a49...

6 charges, under 2 hours of charging on a 16 hour journey. Not ideal but considering ( IF you can charge at home ) you’re saving petrol station visits the rest of the year and your running costs are 3p/mile vs 10-15p/mile for ICE it CAN be worth it. Not for everyone. I think I’ve tempered my language well enough.
Technically very impressive. I get a little dizzy when considering everything (physical) bought is also sourced, manufactured, stored, packaged, transported and so on.