skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Co-ops, unions and non-profits are detrimental to private capital profit and thus they tend to get marginalized when private ownership becomes too powerful. E.g. telecoms were co-ops, but then privatized and the memberships-turned-shares were amassed by big investors. Similar happened to banks in the UK (in Finland many non-profit banks were more or less plundered to bankcrupty).

That said, co-ops are still huge in Finnish retail, banking and insurance (to great annoyance of the right). But they nowadays they tend to even sort of hide being a co-op and economy is mostly discussed as for-profits vs gov ownership. Other than for-profit doesn't really sit that nicely in the neoliberal ideology.

Co-ops are quite a different form of ownership from private corporations and bring about different kinds of economic organization that is e.g. more robust against offshoring, speculation and asset-stripping.

The type of ownership, i.e. what is enforced by the law, and violence in the extreme case, is the crux of any economic system. E.g. socialism vs capitalism difference is essentially what kind of ownership is enforced by law/state/community.
I don't buy this theory, because in my job we get a lot of new customers every year, and we don't advertise. Other forms of marketing are just so much more effective. Putting your product out there is not the same as advertising, people can find your product by search engine or other means, and then if you compete on price, quality and features, the product is marketed by word of mouth.

Do products show up on your store shelves because the company did a ton of advertising and customers were begging the store manager to sell it? Usually not. Instead these are negotiations between businesses. How often do you see ads for new products, compared to products that have been around for decades?

The only situation were advertising is wise is when you have a product that is not different from your competitors product and you have a customer base that is ignorant, so that you have a lot of margin for advertising to get your stuff moved. Ignorant in this situation can mean just ignorant on the product category.
It’s a law that forces your device to monitor you. Is there currently an equivalent?

People had a problem with Apple monitoring CSAM on their phones. But monitoring blood alcohol in cars gets a pass.

It’s not quite the same, because the phone would report you to authorities rather than shutting itself off. But in modern times, it seems unlikely that the data will remain on the car. Which means if someone somehow gets ahold of the data, they can easily drag you on social media if your car ever detected any alcohol.

(Personally, I’m undecided.)
Could I ask which markets are starting to crash right now?
Sometimes sudden braking is due to other drivers, animals, etc.

They already have data readers that plug into your OBD2 port for insurance purposes.
Yeah, it's quite clear the designers have never lived outside lived of a car sewer. Every justification they've given thus far circle back to contrast for road features and while driving. It's peak car brain.
Is Mathematics a Game?
> "the same node might be able to encode multiple locations of a maze, rather than needing specialised nodes for encoding specific locations"

That may sound surprising, but it's actually not unusual. It's worth remembering that the difference between highly local encoding and everything encoding everything at the same time, is often a matter of a reversible transformation.

For example, take FFT of an image, and the result will be an image where each pixel encodes information about all pixels of the original image simultaneously. And Fourier transform - a shift from a time/spatial domain to frequency domain - is quite simple, very useful, and occurs in nature.
I've been using GIMP for well over a decade, and the UI still deeply frustrating.

When I see what Blender has achieved over that time, I wish GIMP could have done the same.
No, 'they' voted for Brexit so the UK's borders and immigration policies could be controlled by politicians accountable to the people of the UK. But they didn't predict that a Conservative Party promising reduced immigration would, in fact, increase it to the highest levels in history. One reason they're heading for catastrophic electoral defeat in the near future.
Like what? They don't know anything about what you like so they are going to have to go with the global average.

So your suggestion is to just turn off recommendations? You can hide them from view using the chrome extension unhook if you want to see what that experience is like. I do it myself when I'm trying to avoid distractions but when I'm actively looking for them i turn it off.
Would you accept 1:1 for the number of innocent persons imprisoned to the number of guilty persons who go free? In other words, for every fairly executed person we can have up to one wrongly executed person, and that's totally fine?

If not, why is 1:1 even remotely acceptable for this?
Average Joe is skeptical about electric cars - until they actually try driving one for the first time. Then Average Joe actually wants one but can't justify the price premium when compared to an ICE.
Earth was just struck by a powerful cosmic ray
I agree with your analogy to nuclear weapons to some extent. Preventing AGI is going to be hard. The incentives are too massive.

The difference between having nuclear weapons and building ASI, is that you can chose to not use the nukes as long as nobody else does, while the ASI by it's nature needs to be deployed to some extent to exist at all.

Not only that, in the kind of competitive environment you describe, not only will the ASI's be deployed, they will most likely be in competition with each other, which creates the precondition for Darwinian evolution to start happening.

My personal belief is that while it may be possible to develop safe ASI as long as it is NOT subject to evolutionary forces, it probably still isn't if they are.

As far as I can tell, this is by far the greatest existential threat we're facing at the moment. Finding a way to deal with, while working around the game theoretic challenges you identify, may be orders of magnitude more urgent than for instance stopping global warming.

If we do manage to steer AI development into a good (for humanity) outcome, I'm pretty sure ASI's will be able to find technological "solutions" to the problems caused by global warming (an maybe stop the warming itself). On the other hand, if self-replicating ASI's run wild, they would not only be likely to exterminate humanity, but also most other advanced life forms Earth.
Can't tell if you're joking or serious.

In the latter case, the first humans (H. Habilis) had about 1/2 of H. Sapiens brain to work with, and a much smaller fraction of neocortex.

If that doesn't satisfy you, let's say I was speaking about some sort of human ancestor before that, which would have been about as dumb as chimps, unless you require proof of their dumbness as well.
well, for me it's 99%. But true, I don't use short loops, and I also don't use array a lot (when I feel the needs to use arrays, I switch to a different language anyway).

"what errors remain" is hard for me to say – I get a wide variety of helpful errors, regularly.
I was on the interstate really late at night and a person's car had caught on fire. They had stopped in the middle of the road and ran out of the car. By the time I got there, at 70mph/110kmh, the fire had destroyed the electrical system, so there were no lights on the car. I swerved to avoid the car in the middle of the road and nearly rolled my car.

I suspect these kill-switches will need to configure lights, etc. No matter what, you'll end up with a dead car in the middle of a road, potentially right around turns or on the edges of cliffs. I suspect this kill-switch would kill more people than the "suspected drunks" ever will.
Might work until the AI starts self-improving. When it does, it's a race, and most likely the first one will win.

In general, nukes aren't a good analogy to AGI/ASI. The x-risks of AI are such that you can't use them in MAD fashion; AI is more like increasingly potent engineered pathogen - you can't do MAD with bioweapons, and you're one lab accident away from ruining the day for everyone on the planet.
Notepad++ kicks ass! Kudos to the author!
It is a shame I had to move to mac where I cannot use ot anymore.
So, where does it end? If the cops crash in to your car, even if they aren't pursuing you, they won't pay for repairs. If they remote disable your car and it turns out they weren't after you and it borks your car electronically, what makes you think they will pay for repairs? A bad guy, driving a certain model of car similar to yours, needs to have his car killed. They send out a "kill all" command and get your car, that would suck, huh?

All the above examples is a violation of something, if not privacy. And who's to say they all aren't possible in the near future? So what if you spent $35K on your vehicle and they infiltrate it, it's not really yours anyway, right? (sarcasm intended)
I came up with an approach for placing labels where each gets a min zoom to show up at such that there are no collisions and always appears beyond that. Personally I like the feel of it a lot better, but the downside is that at a given zoom labels are less dense than if they could show/hide to fill in empty spaces. Also, it makes it impossible to dynamically style the labels, or rotate/tilt.

Demo: https://msbarry.github.io/maplibre-minzoom-demo/world
And how well has that worked so far, you feel?

Having limits on things doesn't automatically make things a "nanny state". Don't argue like that. Is it a nanny-state that there are speed limits?
Maybe, although as proven multiple times, that has lots of issues with platform integration.

Shortcuts don't work, accessibility doesn't work, integration with OS workflows might not work, lags behind any OS updates, there is Look but no Feel.
“IIRC in 2012 the Earth missed a giant CME by one week, and had it hit Earth there would have been 80% casualties in the US...”

By casualties do you mean injuries/deaths (to people)? Do you have a source? From what I could find, it would be really bad for infrastructure, but not something that would outright kill or injure most of the population.
When I tried manually changing the video element’s playbackRate the subtitles would desync
Ah, that one, too. Sometimes even if you're:

A. A developer

B. That is familiar with the software stack used by the application

C. Has enough time and energy to investigate the root cause of the bug or a proper design for the feature

D. Has enough time and energy to design the fix/feature, implement it properly, write tests, jump through all the hoops

E. Send the pull request

... sometimes the PR still languishes for years or the nightmare scenario, is discarded during a big rewrite that doesn't actually cover this requirement...

So even the code being out there isn't a silver bullet.
exactly this, debugging is a pretty big part when it comes to operational aspects.

but I feel like similar to kubernetes container injection systems. I suspect in future we would see dynamic injection into the unikernel where you can enable debugging environment instantly.

like the library unikernel exposes a plugin system that you can inject in future, this way the unikernel is lightweight and only gets bloated when you eventually want to debug something.
Langfuse (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build LLM observability
There are legitimate use cases. Some people go to the track, emergencies in sparely populated states when emergency services are far away, etc.

The other thing to realize is the people who go those sorts of speed also tend to modify their cars. They'll just push a new tune that removes the limit. So you still need traditional enforcement.
> I had thought that the tug was actually pulling backwards while the ship was moving forwards.

They might be doing that at very low speed, but in general an aft tow is very dangerous for a tug as it can be pulled under very easily, especially if it goes abeam/side-on to the direction of travel. Also in shallow water like some ports and estuaries, the force from the tug's props/thrusters can push against the vessel under tow cancelling out much of the force from the tow (one of the many reasons that tugs prefer to push than pull).

When a large vessel performs an emergency brake, it does so by pushing the rudder hard to one direction to use the additional drag from the hull during turning followed by going hard over the other direction to return to the original heading (it's rare a ship will have to perform an emergency stop anywhere where it has room to continue the turn - otherwise it would just continue on the new heading). This trades speed for lateral displacement and is extremely effective (although very hard on the steering gear).

However, in a congested TSS/shipping lane or river/estuary, that lateral displacement may not be available. In that case, you counter intuitively will see a tug that has an aft tow line assisting the vessel to brake by pulling 90 degrees to the side of the direction of travel/braking. This is to allow the ship to rotate in the water to push more of it's hull into the direction of travel which increases drag. Normally the resulting force would also turn the ship (ie, change the Course Over Ground, not just the heading/direction of the bow), but the tug can minimise this by pulling the stern in the opposite direction. This allows the ship slow very quickly with little lateral movement.
> There's a reason police don't just camp outside of restaurants that serve alcohol and arrest every single person that comes out and starts their car's engine.

Why is that?

My guess it's mostly because police officers are over represented in drunk driving themselves?
People with street-legal cars should still have the right to drive them on private roads if they want to. This law restricts that.
This is the correct sentiment and although I absolutely love what SpaceX has acheived, whenever there is some news about a new (or old) rocket here on hn, here comes a bunch of folks stating that everybody should just stop everything they're doing and just hire SpaceX for everything forever. Very cultish imo.
We should care because we're all meat. Do you want to live in a society where people are devalued because a computer program approximates memory (badly)? Humans ought to be treated exceptionally regardless of how good a computer is able to do things. Computers are already ridiculously better at arithmetic than us, that doesn't devalue human rights. If you think you've got a system close to cognition, you better be god damn sure because the alternative is an enormous amount of human suffering.
Maybe, I think the research here is from a brain perspective, AI and Brain Science are having an interesting time, with learnings from both feeding in, so this article is focused on the physicality of networks in the brain, and looking at whether by increasing the alignment between the way a neural network works and the way brains work they can develop a 'digital brain', for me this is distinct from machine intelligence, this is emulating brain activity to provide cognitive and psychological insight in meat space.

Topology is hard for me, visualising multi-dimensional topological manifolds even more so, however, I am intrigued by the opportunities, we use graphs and other forms of visualisation to reveal topology, and it would seem reasonable that behaviours of NN that are 'transferrable' e.g.. trained on one set of data and able to operate on another category of data, may be a 'shape', a complicated one, but perhaps one that would once revealed would aid in the understanding of what happens under the hood.
actually I think this might be the intention of mirage as well, especially since they put "modularity" in the title
And you did.
Is generalization also a form of compression?
OK, there is 4 types of values.

Value here meant productive value. I'm sorry I should have been more explicit.

Financial companies create exchange value (that's their main goal) and sometimes incidentally sign-value (for notation agencies it's not incidental, but I try to generalize here). They do not have any effect on productive value or use value (well, in theory).

You're right and I wasn't precise enough, I should have been, thank you.
> Yes, statistically sales of EVS are increasing but growth is highly uneven

But the same thing happened when horses were replaced by ICE vehicles - cars started to be used by the rich in cities and then in the country over decades/generations as cars became cheaper and running a horse got more expensive. The takeup of EVs is happening at a much faster rate than ICE.
In the kind of corporate environments I work on, you won't be doing any SSH into the production containers.

Nothing that a classical UNIX admin would expect is installed on those images.
Some content on YouTube is worth it but I would say most of it actually isn't. The rules have been gamified for max monetization. So now something that shouldn't take 10 min to say is full of fillers and bullshit.
Most "pro" content creators are also double-dipping with sponsors ads inside the video. I think it's disrespectful and it should be an either/or situation.
If YouTube displays ads, then they have to be reasonable and the videos themselves shouldn't have any ads. If creators want to display ads, then they should pay YouTube for the video hosting and bandwidth.

YouTube created this mess. Under the disguise of "free money" they attracted all kind of creators/organisation lured into a video hosting platform (something that is expensive to do at scale) under the unsustainable promise of "we host your stuff for free and you can even make money out of it". This removed most of the risk for launching video production activity but also killed diversity of potential business models and alternative sources/technical solutions.
Now both parties are extremely greedy and want even more money because somehow, they think they have a captive audience. YouTube shove more ads and creators shove more sponsor bullshit. They are the ones full of shit, it's not the people requesting a fairer deal that are entitled, you have it backward.
I used to watch YouTube completely with ads up until 1-2 years ago; it just became unwatchable and pretty much every "creator" has some sort of ad in the video anyway.

It's particularly disgusting because in general those are people already making 3-4 times median/average wage with complete freedom and what would be considered low output in a traditional job paying way less. Like most tech companies, YouTube enforced winner take all feudalism and single source for maximum control on the market.

If those creators had started their own website with their own hosting and figured out a way to monetize this (subscriptions, their own ads with sponsors, products, etc) and actually taken any risk to start (like pretty much every single business has to) we would not be here.

It's a situation entirely created by dishonest representation of reality and then trying to impose rules by force to extract even more money. If YouTube needs more money to run, they better ask the creators placing ads all over their content to pay for the bandwidth/views.
It's completely wrong to blame AdBlock users, they alone created wrong incentives and they alone are the one responsible for all the monetization shenanigans/cheating going on...

As far as I'm concerned, I'm pretty happy they are going at war with AdBlock, because we will see what's what. It may open up opportunities somewhere else, because I don't see people paying for Premium and I don't see people sticking around with so many ads. People's attention is going to be redirected somewhere else (free or cheaper content exists, starting with the public library or TV) and we may get something better out of that.
Is it really that granular? Wow, insane, this is getting into where "technology ends and socery beginning" teritoire
I was adding to your reply to the GP comment.

Also, for Gimp - Gtk, that was true for Gtk 1. Gtk 2 went beyond this to serve Gnome and random apps and Gtk 3 is quite far from the Gimp world.

Gimp 3 is about a port to Gtk 3... 10+ years after the release of Gtk 3.
What phone never loses support? I'd expect that cell network changes alone invalidate that claim.
It's strange how we can think about totally normal situations as being awkward. I always liked the scene in the movie "As good as it get's" where Jack Nicholson asks Holly Hunt to go for a walk, and she replies that it's very early in the morning and it would be strange to walk through the city at that time, and Jack Nicholson then say's "Yes, but in 20 minutes the Cafe down the block opens. If we go there we're not some weirdos walking around in the morning, we're just two people getting some coffee." I don't know if the conversation was exactly like that(been a while since I saw that movie) but you should get my point I hope. :)
Carbon is very stable, so there's no life? I'm hearing 2deep4u 'philosophy' about the universe, nobody needs a condescending goofy sounding false prophet about how to think.
They've had to become this drastic because they refused to do it and decreased it instead when exchange rates & inflation were already getting out of hand and relatively small adjustments could have had an effect. It was a weird religious belief and personal "feelings" of the president, who calls himself an economist (among other things).
The solution to this is actually fairly simple: allow an override, but if you get caught breaking the law having overridden it without a good excuse, have very harsh penalties. The same would work for automatic speed limiters.
Making games in Go for absolute beginners
I also couldn't think of anything more embarrassing than using a friend this way. Could you imagine having a conversation along the lines of "hey can I use you as an insurance company, if I'll pay you $10 will you pay me $100 back if I'm Ill for a meeting?". Frankly I've never heard anything quite so ridiculous.
It is a concern, look at the current monoclonal antibody alzheimer's treatment that's insanely expensive.

Generally though it's in the interest of the rich to extend the useful lifespan of their workers, training workers from babies is expensive, so it could be cheaper to keep the current ones going for 200 years.
Running a website to get traffic from a search engine is advertising, it's just not directly paid advertising.

Products often show up on store shelves for two reasons. The product does independent advertising so the store knows it will sell or they advertise to store buyers.

If you think that is the only time advertising makes sense I'm going to assume your employer is very slow growing. Advertising pretty much always makes sense one you have protect market fit. I can't think of a single business that has that which would be worse off with advertising.
Not at all, WebAssembly is replacement of PNaCL browser vendors could agree on.

Then a bunch of folks, with some VC money, decided to make the second coming of Java and .NET with it.
I used to use PhotoShop heavily and still have a lot of the UI muscle-memorized. I switched to GIMP + https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP and found it mostly fits my needs for basic image editing.
This is cool. Thanks!

In my mind, this is what real technology entrepreneurship looks like. As opposed to the latest crypto or social media thing.
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

I had Hisense, Vizio, LG, and Roku smart TVs that were fine if left unplugged. I guess the Samsungs are more finicky.
Not naming names is also potentially very damaging, so should not be done?