skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it surprising that ChatGPT is restricted from accessing this website: https://chat.openai.com/share/4ccee094-20a7-47eb-88c8-e0103e...

Anyway, in short, I would never try to prepare for worst-case global scenarios because the magnitudes don't make sense for me to try to influence. Even if I was a prepper - I would have no insight into what would signal me being prepared/safe.

I try to focus a lot on optimizing my local conditions because they influence my daily life much more significantly and with much higher guarantees.

I'm in the market to buy a house in the next year or so and even asking myself the question, "Will living in <area> be a good choice in 50 years?" seems like a laughably difficult question to answer. I can look at how insurance prices are changing and historical patterns in temperature fluctuations, or I could bet on living next to civilization is better than living in the middle of nowhere, or I could bet living in a colder region is smart because it'll warm up, or I could find a warm region with geographical landscapes that insulate it from more extreme weather patterns, etc. etc.. but then what if the North Atlantic Current collapses and all the historical weather patterns are void?

In the end, I haven't found it good or healthy to try to build my life in the direction of that mindset. Instead, I strive to adopt an anti-fragile mindset and lifestyle (https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...).

I want to be healthy and fit so that my body and mind are adaptable to the ever-quickening pace of the world. I want to minimize my physical and mental addictions. I want to be kind, friendly, and outgoing to those in my local community as to strengthen them and to increase the likelihood of reciprocity. I want to be comfortable with leadership, and have enough confidence to lead when I feel I can get us to good outcomes. I don't want to make decisions based off of anxiety, fear, or scarcity. I want the systems I employ in my daily life to be efficient to the point of mindlessness. I want enough money to have a couple of years of runway if I have a serious injury.

None of my strategies guarantee me survival in black swan events, but who cares? Nobody's getting out of here alive anyway. Try to not make your lived-life hellish by envisioning what a worse tomorrow could be.
Always encrypt with a password when prompted by ssh-keygen
Eat less meat: Will the first global climate deal on food work?
It's not useful to prove that "your program does what you want, provided the following 10000 functions implemented in C do what we assumed they do". Almost certainly at least one of them doesn't.

There isn't even a straightforward (let alone verified) way to list all assumptions of this type for some proof (you can print the axioms that a definition depends on, but that's not the same thing). It's possible to prove `false` in Lean using functions you'd normally use to make pretty much any useful program.
Isn't the Cybertruck using regular lithium ion? That shows how immature the 4680 production process is, if they can barely compete with LFP, though some of the weight is contributing to the structure of the vehicle.
One of the French tycoons will eventually buy them.
This paper makes a lot of predictions despite the lack of predictive power. Hence, it should not be taken seriously.

Since the 1970's the group producing it has made a lot of very wrong predictions out of the hubristic belief that they can reduce everything about life to a simple system of differential equations.
Yah - I guess what I am saying is that in order to write the, "factor X is worse than we thought" article - you need to know what factor X was before. So really...people who do this work must have a set of coefficients that go into their models. I don't think it's fair to expect popular reporting like this to cover every factor...but I think we could do a better job of sharing the most recent set.
Is what you've linked the patch that should be backported to affected kernels?

As the potentially problematic patch causing the corruption, I found https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux... but it's not present in the 6.2.2 I run.

I'm very conservative in the versions or critical components like kernels or dkms modules, that didn't protect me against the ZFS bug, but it seems to have avoided me this EXT4 bug!
Isn't this the Clathrate Gun?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Unfortunately for all of us, the model does have very good predictive power despite its simplicity. Herrington et al in 2020 checked the 1972 model scenarios (there were 4 such scenarios as sensitivity analyses) against around 40 years of empirical data and the results were close to observed ground truth [0].

0. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?do...
”Once you have multiple tabs selected, you can drag them together to create a new window, or do things like close them all at once.”
Fun fact: You can protect your private key with your TPM, so even if it is stolen and even if you are keylogged the key is still useless.
"criticism of bureaucrats starts with the 1960s" seems wildly off? I don't know much about the history of anti-bureaucracy but e.g., Lenin was using "bureaucratic" as definitionally negative in 1923: https://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/mar/02.htm
Didn't you see the movie?;)
Herbicides and pesticides are actively harmful to bees. Even if chemicals in the herbicides aren't toxic to bees, you're still killing off the "weeds" that the bees feed upon. When there's less food and the bees have to travel further, they're more susceptible to parasites and disease.

We can't just casually sever links in the food chain, then wonder why ecosystems are collapsing.
Ah I wonder if that's why notifications don't work when I force stopped an app
Do you think nobody has thought to compare?

""
n 2020, an analysis by Gaya Herrington, then Director of Sustainability Services of KPMG US,[52] was published in Yale University's Journal of Industrial Ecology.[53] The study assessed whether, given key data known in 2020 about factors important for the "Limits to Growth" report, the original report's conclusions are supported. In particular, the 2020 study examined updated quantitative information about ten factors, namely population, fertility rates, mortality rates, industrial output, food production, services, non-renewable resources, persistent pollution, human welfare, and ecological footprint, and concluded that the "Limits to Growth" prediction is essentially correct in that continued economic growth is unsustainable under a "business as usual" model.[53] The study found that current empirical data is broadly consistent with the 1972 projections and that if major changes to the consumption of resources are not undertaken, economic growth will peak and then rapidly decline by around 2040.[54][55]

In 2023, the parameters of the World3 model were recalibrated using empirical data up to 2022. [56] This improved parameter set results in a World3 simulation that shows the same overshoot and collapse mode in the coming decade as the original business-as-usual scenario of the Limits to Growth standard run. The main effect of the recalibration update is to raise the peaks of most variables and move them a few years into the future.
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> under each headline, it explains a concept from the ground up, no knowledge required. Like "the syntax of a language is...". But just a few sentences in, advanced topics are touched, like assembly instructions, not explained.

As the blurb of the book states: no prior knowledge in the field of compiler construction is required, but the reader should be familiar with at least one procedural language and one assembly language. So I thought it would be OK to assume that the reader knows about things like assembly instructions.

Then the appendix of the book has a short introduction to Z80 assembly (which still assumes that you know the basics of assembly language).

Every books starts somewhere. It would be hard to write a compiler construction book and assuming zero knowledge about computer programming.

I am not saying that the curse of knowledge is not a thing, though, so I will definitely keep this in mind!
What? Maybe my brain isn't big enough to understand this, but I don't see how you could disentangle the two without getting into pedantry.
Same concern I have regarding Spotify. [Which seems to have insane recurring costs. Plus some risky expansive strategic moves]
Does ssh-keygen use a good/modern algorithm by default? My unfounded suspicion is that owing to its age and backwards compatibility, the password could be brute-forced on a modern GPU.

Would love to hear differently.

Edit: To put it differently, would it be irresponsible to commit my private key to a public repo if it were locked behind a 32-character passphrase?
As in any such case, whether a city or a forum, it's not different people, it's the same people getting older.
Great points! If you don't participate in emacs development, maybe it's time to consider it.
> In fact, historical growth trends are pretty much superlinear.

There's no evidence of this at all. We are at a peak right now so it only seems this way. (In fact arguably technological growth seems to be slowing down, only IT seems to be growing).

Extending history beyond just "recorded history" or "recent history" will make it clear that the earth is full of cycles of dominant species and civilizations becoming extinct.
Spectre.Console for dotnet.
You could pretty much say the same thing about Carmack. He just kept making the same doom and quake game over and over with better and better tech. Carmack's space company venture didn't work out, then he went to work at Oculus where he couldn't get anyone to listen to him and got frustrated and left. Now he's at some AI startup.

In some ways Romero actually saved ID software and made everyone a ton of money by working out licensing deals for their game engines. Carmack wouldn't be able to continue to work on his tech and hire Abrash (who optimized Carmack's code) without the money coming out of these deals so he unfairly complained that Romero wasn't pulling his weight for the current project and treated him like crap until he got fed up and left.
“ This trick does not work in Safari on iPadOS, because iPads are baby computers where you can’t select more than one thing at a time.”
Being acquired.
dude how about you climb off your fucking high faux-intellectual horse

> why his views are wrong

So did you never get the basic lesson in the difference between fact vs opinion or are you just too dense to understand that what he stated was an opinion and therefore can't rightly be labeled "right" or "wrong"? which is why I've been couching my responses in the language of philosophy and epistemology, or can you not read in between those particular lines?

> what exactly would I be writing the counter-point to?

Me, you fucking idiot.

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how about next time you step away from the insults? I've included them to show you what you look like to others. It doesn't do your writing any favors and it obviously doesn't increase your capacity to come to a common understanding with your fellow man.

Do better.
Maybe it was Quake. Doom didn't use math coprocessors.
Everything is going to shit.

It’ll hit you soon too.
Can you say more about how this works?
Valuation means Jack shit for early stage startup. WeWork was valued at $50B at its peak.

Until a company is consistently showing growth in revenue and a path to sustainable profitability, valuation is essentially wild speculation.

OpenAI is wildly unprofitable right now. The revenue they make is through nice APIs.

What is Mistral’s plan for profitability?

Right now stability AI is in dumps and looking for a buyer.

Only companies I see making money in AI are those who live like cockroaches and very capital efficient. Midjourney and Comma.ai come to mind.

Very much applaud them for open release of models and weights.
In the original Doom you could use IDKFA and IDDQD for infinite ammo and godmode (from memory!)
After all the praise, I powered through and scrolled all the way but apparently it is closed for enrollment. No mention of the price either.
I really wish there was a more react/swiftui-esque TUI library. One day I'll get around to fixing the fundamental flaws in my crate [0]

[0]: https://docs.rs/intuitive/latest/intuitive/
> Lfp chemistry is not that innovative

The last of the patents on LFP expired last year. Up until then, the patent holders made a deal where Chinese companies could produce the cells, but not export them.

So that appears to be the reason for so much investment in the space in recent times.
And the Utah data center that stores days worth of the entire Internet and then they just keep the most interesting parts and the parts they can't hack into for later analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
>Because secrets in the Secure Enclave are not exportable, they are not able to be backed up, and you will not be able to transfer them to a new machine. If you get a new Mac, just create a new set of secrets specific to that Mac.

I consider that to be a deal-breaker. Hardware fails/lost/stolen, and I need to know that I have an offline backup somewhere if disaster strikes.
Digging holes 2400 meters deep isn't exactly cheap, even for a country like China.
> Says the person who cannot live in a state bigger and more populous than many countries because he thinks they have the wrong core values.

He doesn't like or agree with the values, so he doesn't want to live there. You think he isn't entitled to his own values?
Note that this comes with a set of pretty important caveats, notably no way to backup keys. Which means you absolutely need to have some way to regain access to whatever you secured with this - either via a backup key, by having another person that can grant access or similar.
Doom used fixed point math, not floating point math. It didn't run well on a 386 SX simply because 386 SXs were slow, but it would run without FPU emulation, and at better than 1 FPS.
That's quite an assertion. Why do you think that's true?
Can you explain what you mean by this question?
I have in a dozen other places, forgive me if I don't trust you enough to repeat myself yet again.
It would be interesting to take the same model but use known inputs for different eras, i.e. 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and see when it would then predict collapse.
Applesauce lead poisoning cases in kids surge amid questions on FDA oversight
I can guarantee they are at least as large as protons.
what is an "irregular program" and what audience would recognize the term?
For me all of them have Turbo Vision for Turbo Pascal 6.0 in MS-DOS, circa 1990, as baseline to beat.

Or the various Clipper based TUI for business data entry, as another example.

Since they are catching up with the past, they should improve upon it, not just revisit it.
Interesting, I had issues using Git LFS to store images for my personal site. I thought I just didn't know how to use it properly...
Best rule I believe is just iterate until satisfied.
Systematic review search strategies are poorly reported and not reproducible
I wonder why it's cmd+click and not shift+click?
I think this is unlikely because in this scenario we would see a geologic record of many gap up instant warmings and then a slow decline, which afaik is not the case.
Yes! I think an under-considered aspect here is that this kind of high-volume malicious package activity isn’t particularly dangerous in and of itself, but does represent a operational/sustainability risk w/r/t compromising the index’s abilities to respond to actual urgent issues in a timely manner. More automation (reporting, quarantining) goes a long way towards addressing that.

It’s more the language of compromise I resent: I think treating every low-effort malicious spam package as a fundamental risk unnecessarily “spends” the security mindshare budget that engineers keep in reserve. But I think my opinions there are already well-known :-)
So to be clear, your argument in favor of vigilantism being moral (which you call violence despite it not being so) is that it's effective?
You could always register two keys, at least where that is supported, one for your Mac, another a hardware token that resides in a safe. Requires diligence, though, and is hard to verify that it’s been done correctly everywhere.
i am a but concerned about soil compaction after the transition though. Farm machinery has been getting heavier and heavier. Compaction is already an issue. If we change to batteries within the next 30 years this problem will get much worse very quickly.
Both. KYC, as justified by antiterrorism laws, is out of proportion for a small one-person business earning roughly a living wage.

In the eventuality that KYC could be justified, it should be in the manner of Estonia and other European countries, who have managed to implement digital signatures without the insanity of validating infinitely reproducible pictures of paper ID documents from the last century, and relying on data-hungry third parties to process biometric data through "AI" black boxes.
> The biggest advantage of Bard is the speed, it's practically instant.

They probably have less than 1% of OpenAI's users. That helps.
I think you missed the point. There are multiple realities, and you can choose which one to inhabit.

A lot of people only see one reality, which is unfortunate.

Edit: Minds on HN even simpler than I thought. Time for bed.
Thirty years ago, computers were magic. Forty, too. Haven't you noticed, though? They're still magic.

I do not miss the nonsense with unreliable media, however. Loading Elite from tape took five minutes and if humidity or temperature were unusual or the moon occluded Santraginus or whatever it'd be spewing endless CRC check errors. Some hardships are valuable learning experiences, but this one is just trauma.
If I was going for flamebait I'd call it communist and expect an uphill battle to persuade people that's the right adjective.

I'm taken completely off guard that calling the EU socialist would be in any way contentious. What's all the stuff about consumer protection, free healthcare and equality for all characterised as if not socialism? How can the hostility to corporations (e.g. this opening post) be characterised as capitalist?

I suppose I'm going off behaviour as opposed to what they say about themselves. Maybe that's where the terminology has gone awry.
I don't think it has anything to do with your fever- the post looks like autogenerated garbage. Below they were speaking about "planned obsolescence of compilers" which makes no sense as many make efforts to support legacy architectures.
> ChatGPT is restricted from accessing this website

Huh... they're banning ChatGPT specifically from accessing anything on their website. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/robots.txt

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
...what? This isn't related to anything either you or I have said in this thread.
No.

I'm saying the one time I got in a fight at school, the target of my rage wasn't the person whose actions made me snap.

I'm saying Saddam Hussein didn't cause the 9/11 attacks and didn't have WMDs.

I'm saying you're choosing to make yourself vulnerable to false flag attacks.

(I wasn't saying that expelling diplomats is an appropriate response, but that's also true).
It's IMO a pedantic distinction.

A compiled binary is a bad metaphor because it gives the implication that Mistral-7B is an as-is WYSIWIG project that's not easily modifiable. In contrast, there have been a bunch of new powerful new models created by modifying or finetuning Mistral-7B such as Zephyr-7B: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta

The better analogy to Mistral-7B is something like modding Minecraft or Skyrim: although those games are closed source themselves, it has enabled innovations which helps the open-source community directly.

It would be nice to have fully open-source methodologies but lacking them isn't an inherent disqualifier.
I use borgbackup so the storage requirements are fairly low if the data does not change too much (which is my case). Also diffs are just a « borg diff » away.
Using private keys the way they are supposed to be used is a deal-breaker? You're supposed to have (at least) one keypair per device, so if you lose the device, you can restrict access by revoking the keypair belonging to the lost one.

Are you currently sharing one keypair for all your devices?
It’s funny but also not - Gruber’s sarcasm is always so borderline toxic, literally drains the happiness out of whatever tech thing he is “reviewing”.
There is no way back, but different potential forwards, some more desirable than others. But getting to a forward that is no so different from how things used to be will be difficult.

It is something similar to the Red Queen Race, we should be running as fast as we can to keep things as they are and even faster to improve. But so far we are still accelerating into the wrong direction. And what we are doing is what may turn something into a practical impossibility rather than what is theoretically possible.
What is the point if I still need Xcode on osx
Republic of Molossia
were you there all year? Its not the height it is on an average day, its how high it gets once or twice a year, usually during a storm.
For me, my favorites were:

0. "Computational Physics, Beyond the Glass" by Sam Ritchie (Strange Loop 2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2JgzAl5yU - This guy created an interactive Lisp-based Physics visualizer and got started on it by reading Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. He now has a full-fledged project, and touches upon many ideas for educating people through innovative means. Really loved this video. Connected the ideas of Logo programming environment and something like a LISP-Physics visualizer.

1. "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8 - How does creating a new programming language work really? Who are the players, and what goes behind? Very highly recommend this funny, informative talk to understand aspects of creating a programming language other than the theoretical ones.

2. Function Composition in Programming Languages - Conor Hoekstra - CppNorth 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JELcdZLre3s - This is actually about array languages and Haskell and not C++. Encountered "tacit" programming for the first time, and it opened a slightly new way of thinking for me.

And others that I liked were:

0. Ruby on Rails: The Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4 - Not a Rubbyist, but still liked this documentary.

1. "Software & The Game of Go" by David Nolen (Strange Loop 2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yJ3FBtU4Y

2. "Making Hard Things Easy" by Julia Evans (Strange Loop 2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YWsGDr8mA - I always liked Evans' written content and zines, as they were fun to read and helped people. It was nice to see how she operates, thinks, and works- that go behind all of these.
They are estimating that population collapse is a function of resources, google "civilizational metrics", everything from food to steel production looks like an exponential graph. Population decline will/is occuring, just due to things like 50 years of inflation and a century+ of central planning. They were totally wrong then, and now as an inevitable chapter of history begins, they are saying "look, we were just off a few years!".

That said, you should take the apocalypse as an opportunity to brush up on philosophy. We could have engineered our societies such that they are further constrained in their ability to violate human rights, and avoided this entire thing, but they didnt have a full deck when they wrote the constitution. You can help build a better tomorrow by demanding universifiable moral values and sound economics lie at the foundation of the society to come.