skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You design a language for a purpose (which could be anything) you develop and mature it's features to better fit it's use case.

html, a crappy defective xml implementation refuses to grow up, js, while great for little html tweaks is not adopting any of the useful features found in popular npm packages. It was actively developed for 2 weeks. Ripping off it's head (nodejs) gave us a poor sailor jargon ~ but without the boats!

Therefore there is nothing wrong with npm, she is a fine ship. The harbor doesn't want to take it's much desired cargo, it must sail the 7 seas forever mon capitaine!
While I think it’s good to keep things in perspective and recognize that statistically you’re more likely to die on the ride to the airport than on the plane itself, it needs to be said that these statistics shouldn’t lead to a complacent mindset especially because the redundancies in aviation can lead to such a mindset.

Slowly but surely we see more cutting corners in aviation, especially in the US.

This ranges from trying to evade certification for planes to crew hours, to more lax regulation on how air traffic is managed to increase movements at airports, to overworked and understaffed ATC.

I don’t think it has risen to levels that affect statistics in terms of death, but the statistics in terms of near catastrophic events has risen over the years.
It's a good idea to not listen to Physicists talking about Economics, or Economists on Physics either.

An even better idea would be people not producing these "authoritative-seeming hot takes outside of their field of expertise" in the first place though.
I think, more often than not, those people are scientists and engineers, and physicists seem to be the most willing to do so.
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A strange feeling of de javu. Once upon a time Nvidia made a card called Riva TNT, which was a great polished product for the needs of the time, and really pushed their competitor of the day, 3dfx. Now this today's card looks like nothing revolutionary, yet suspiciously close to what the market is seemingly asking for...
Twain was mentioned in the article a couple of times with various works more or less stating "God apparently made everything like this on purpose:

>In Mark Twain’s Letters from the Earth (published posthumously in 1939), Satan sends a series of reports from Earth to the archangels Michael and Gabriel. In Letter VI, Satan marshals the evidence to call God a “malevolent lunatic”:

...

>The Christian begins with this straight proposition, this definite proposition, this inflexible and uncompromising proposition: God is all-knowing, and all-powerful.

>This being the case, nothing can happen without his knowing beforehand that it is going to happen; nothing happens without his permission; nothing can happen that he chooses to prevent.

>That is definite enough, isn’t it? It makes the Creator distinctly responsible for everything that happens, doesn’t it? . . . .

>Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have prevented, the gifted Christian blandly calls him Our Father!
Yarn does that in some modes.
Some of the comments in this thread are talking about government corruption and safety issues but I think we should put something into perspective. Not a single passenger has died on a commercial flight in the United States in the last five years, and even then, it was a single fatality in a freak occurrence. To me, that’s not government corruption but mind boggling success.

To put that into perspective, you have a significantly better chance of winning the lottery than dying on a United Airlines flight.
SpaceX is doing things nobody else has done. ULA is equally reliant on government dollars. Boeing is a company that builds rockets and airliners and they aren't doing a great job of either at the moment. Who else is responsible for that if not the C-suite?
Wait, you don't swear at work?
Having worked in IT with both the public and the private sector, my opinion is there is no difference in 'efficency' between them at all.

Efficiency seems inversely correlated with the size of the organization. Public sector usually has large orgs, but they are not run less efficient than equivalently sized enterprises.

You might jump to the conclusion that smaller entities would be the efficency solution, and even observe how this allows sometimes for a smaller entity to outcompete a big enterprise. However, if you approach it from a more systemic analytical point of view you have to take into account that surrounding the 'small' efficient business, there are dozens if not hundreds of unsuccessful competing small entities vying for the same niche. Taken together and purely looking at aggregate efficiency, this collection of competing businesses is even less efficient. The strenght of an openly darwinian struggle lies in innovation and adaptation, not in aggregate resource waste reduction.
> Most complications arise either from:
> You run your own business ...

Adding to this, even if you have a small side hustle with low overhead (no employees, few expenses, etc.), the labyrinthine process of filling out all the additional forms is just plain ridiculous.
Like most pop-sci, there's enough nuance to be found in the papers to tell its own story. I wasn't familiar with the Shaposhnikov and Wetterich paper, or asymptotic safety in general, and that 126 GeV Higgs mass prediction is the best I've seen. Their paper ends with
"Detecting the Higgs scalar with mass around 126 GeV at the LHC could give a strong hint for the absence of new physics influencing the running of the SM couplings between the Fermi and Planck/unification scales"
which seems surprisingly prescient after a decade of null results from the LHC. So why is this ignored in mainstream (aka not youtube) physics?

Well, a quick search on InspireHEP shows a 2019 paper [1] that adds on Shaposhnikov and Wtterich's. Of note is that an updated top mass value changes the Higgs mass prediction to 132 GeV, rather in tension with 125 GeV. (The paper then cleverly tries to extend the Standard Model to adjust the prediction back to the measured Higgs mass.) The original argument doesn't look like such a slam dunk anymore.

[1] Kwapisz, "Asymptotic safety, the Higgs mass and beyond the Standard Model physics"
Inflight entertainment system leaves something to be desired.
We understand what it’s for.

What we don’t understand is why someone would spend so much time on HN complaining about “westerners” and lobbing ad hominems at anyone critical of China.
As much as I'd love to believe that a better leader would make an American company fully keep pace with BYD, I don't see any evidence that this is the case. I really doubt BYD would be doing any better on worker treatment and unionization.

And besides, BYD did that by selling a lot of very cheap vehicles. I don't think that really fits the business objectives for Tesla.
When you look at some of these attacks, you realize you can't really build mitigations through code or more training. You will need AGI for this. Your AI will need to reason and make decisions which will often include ignoring instructions. It's going to get very muddy then, what AI should be allowed to do autonomously. We will need a lot of append only telemetry/logging to do retros.
Navajo objection to flying human ashes to the Moon won't delay launch
Well what she is saying is if you intentionally attempt to circumvent the intent of the regulation they will adjust the regulation to continue to bring about the intent. An awful lot of law and regulation isn’t cut and dry like a computer program but is intent driven. Sounds like Nvidia understood the intent but is trying to knowingly circumvent the intent by being minimally compliant. They can sue but it won’t go their way, and the government could move against them hard for willful non compliance.
In sixth or seventh grade, we had to write an essay on a historical figure. The teacher gave us a long list of people and we could choose whoever we wanted.

I chose a random name from that list: Immanuel Kant. We went to the school's small library, and I searched and found the one book by Kant in the library: The Critique of Pure Reason. I quickly scanned through the book to see what I can find out about this Kant fellow, to be greeted with sentences such as:

> For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience?

and

> Whatever may be the content of our cognition, and in whatever manner our cognition may be related to its object, the universal, although only negative conditions of all our judgements is that they do not contradict themselves; otherwise these judgements are in themselves (even without respect to the object) nothing.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm

I remember closing the book, thinking to myself, "I can't write an essay about this guy", and finding it funny that his name was "I. Kant". I don't remember what I actually ended up doing for that essay. The deadline was very short so there was no possibility of reading a whole book, let alone that book (which anyways wasn't a great reference for writing about Kant, the person).

As an adult, I still find Kant's serpentine sentences incredibly difficult to digest. (Though some of the problems may originate from the translation.) Maybe I'm just a rube, but I wouldn't consider a sixth grader to have average intelligence if they read some Kant and come up with that criticism.

Update while writing this post: I'm not well versed in philosophy, so I quickly perused the Wikipedia summaries for Deontology and Consequentialism. The criticism, "The fatal flaw, as I understand it, in Kant’s deontological ethical system is his disregard of consequentialism." is rather shallow, wrapped in juicy terminology from moral philosophy. Though, I still think it's a notable feat for a sixth grader to read and even somewhat comprehend Kant.
I agree "revolving door" is also a huge problem.
This is how you become a flat-earther.
Probably the last update, but: I opened 73 tabs on FF on Windows with no issues before I got bored and gave up.

RAM usage as reported by Task Manager was ~6GB. (This counts memory differently than ps)
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Like in I have no idea but I know it when I see it?
Oddly i think he’s less important than you do, but you think I’m simping lol.

If you really think Musk’s drug habit is that important, People.com and NYPost Page Six may be closer to your preference.

There’s a couple of wars, shipping crisis, antisemitism, airplanes grounded, an upcoming election, employment and inflation numbers that are of more consequence than the private behaviour of Musk.
I live near the area from [4]. Driving through flooded streets is a huge issue, people don’t understand the dangers. I have a light 4wd and would never take it through any water, no matter how small it looks. You just don’t know what’s beneath the surface of the water.
The heart problems probably make it a non-starter.
Yeah, their system is really foreign to us in the US (no pun intended :)). The idea that people not employed by Tesla will actively block Tesla is weird and really tilts the balance of power.

I'm not aware enough of the details of how this works in general to say whether this is good or bad overall.
Bazel does a lot more than just download packages though. It can also track dependencies down to individual file level and isolate build steps to assure they don’t have side effects. This is largely why it is so big and need to be language aware. Add remote build cache and lots of other stuff.

A general package manager that only sees packages as directory blobs would not need to be that complicated. In fact I don’t think npm has this deep knowledge about JavaScript either, it just put stuff inside node_modules and calls it a day.

That said, it would be great if more projects adopted Bazel, its biggest problem today is adoption, forcing you to convert any dependencies to make it Bazel compatible.
> That's it, that's the entire position ... that's not a lot of substance

With reference to 2 specific papers, one by Weinberg, the other by Shaposhnikov and Wetterich; which she claims are overlooked; and the correct prediction in the second paper. Is that not a little more substance?
I’m not anti-roundabout but for $15 million could they have made it a highway interchange instead, raising one road, lowering the other to go under? Looking online it seems like it’d cost about the same amount for an interchange.
> No? The problem of evil is applicable to any religion that claims that an omnipotent and omniscient creator of the world exists, which many strands of Hinduism do.

It's mostly the religions descending from the Abrahamic belief system that holds the concept of evil as a central belief and holds the concept of an ultimate evil personified as a central belief, and offers itself as the only way to escape punishment for all evils.

As I understand it[1], the concept of "evil" cannot exist in any belief system that is built around the concept of a reincarnation which depends on the way the person lived their life.

If you believe, as most orthodox Hinduism strands do, that you are reincarnated and move up or down the ladder of greatness (ants vs humans, poverty vs wealth, etc) depending on how you lived, then there is no such thing as "evil".

You simply get what's required to ensure balance. IOW, "you always get what you give" is not a punishment at all for doing "evil" things, because "you always get what you give" doesn't require the concept of evil or good to simply return what you doled out when you are reincarnated.

Think of it as balance - each act you do (consider good/evil on a scale from 1-10 with 1 being evil) will eventually balance out some other act you do or did in a previous incarnation, and if not, will be balanced out by some future act in a future incarnation.

[1] I'm an atheist, and as such much more aware of what and how different religions supply a "belief system" than followers of those religions themselves.
You can point it to a local webserver URL with your media, I think. I also think the VLC-native streaming works with only LAN access, no credentials.
> "Pay what we say you owe or we'll nuke your finances with an audit". Yes this is exactly my problem.

You might be misunderstanding in what an audit entails.

There’s no direct “nuking” of finances due to an audit.

In the vast majority of cases an audit is nothing more than “you claimed this on your return, can you please provide the documentation that supports it?”

More specifically, I believe most audits are about claiming child tax credit and them wanting documentation to support the claim.

If your finances get nuked that means you lied on your return, with very few exceptions.

Main exception that comes to mind is claiming expenses that are up for debate.

Also circling back to your earlier comment. Yes the tax code is needlessly complicated, Intuit et al. are the ones who caused that and are actively lobbying against simplifying it because their paid services would become obsolete if the tax code was nice and simple.
I think that's still consistent though. Lots of people try to take credit, only a few succeed. There is no shortage of work to be done, so there is enough room for everyone to do work.
> The fact that he is describing the practices of the aristocracy is also very relevant because every human being in the "developed" world today lives like an aristocrat and commits so many atrocities throughout the day that it would be impossible to catalogue them all.

Any example of these atrocities that every human commits every day which are on the same scale and personal involvement as the fox hunting presented as the example of an atrocity?
> Under current law, prosecutors can only secure convictions if a victim testifies in court that they locked their doors prior to the break-in. That means some evidence, including witness testimony and even smashed windows, is basically irrelevant.

Hahahahah. It’s almost in purpose.
I don't disagree with you, ecosystems are both delicate and robust in cycles. The focus on parasitism is also because it is believed that there is more parasite life than non-parasite life. From the article:

>Or, as Kevin Lafferty, a marine ecologist for the US Geological Survey puts it, “Parasitism is the most popular lifestyle on Earth.”

>So popular, in fact, that many parasites are themselves prey to their own parasites. In a phenomenon called “hyperparasitism,” parasites are invaded by parasites that are invaded by still more parasites. These Russian dolls of internal flesh-eating have been observed to five levels down, which one article describes as “an endless progression of interspecies abuse”:
It refers to the word STEM, what the acronym stands for, and what it does not contain.

Many of the smartest people I have met, including some of the best programmers, have had non-STEM backgrounds. The push by the STEM industry has pushed universities to be STEM industry preparation and training centers. This, among other things, has greatly devalued non-STEM education. And even within STEM, there are subdisciplines that been devalued.

It's a shame, because many of the non-STEM disciplines that have been devalued are effectively systems disciplines that help train for understanding complex relationships and the effects of time and other effects on these relationships. So we are also devaluing those skills in favor of short-term STEM thinking.
This is C though, so a C++ package manager wouldn't help ;)
This is me. I have an IQ of 163. All I heard my entire childhood was "you're so smart, you don't need help, you just have an attitude problem". Was placed in the only special class in school, where all the kids from the other side of the normal distribution were placed - retards, bullies, etc.

Got beaten every day until I learned to fight back. At what point was I supposed to have the time and energy to learn? There were no role models. My parents are horrible. Just skipped school as much as I could to play with tech/computers. Still unproven if all my experience amounts to anything. A genius quietly suffering in poverty and loneliness, fallen off every bandwagon, used and abused, desperately trying to achieve literally anything.

The worst part is the chronic thinking that I could've/should've/would've done something amazing, if a single shit had been given at any point along the way. Such a waste of human potential. Even if it wasn't my fault as a child, it's my responsibility to fix as a developmentally disabled adult. To this day nobody gives a shit. So I work out, do what little work I can, cry myself to sleep, and pray for God to use me as an instrument for good.

The next 10 years will make or break me.
Where is that post-scarcity society you're talking about?

The whole demographic catastrophe unfolding in the West is to do with how hard and expensive it is to raise even 1-2 kids to have good chances at life, and people largely choosing scarce commodities over having kids.

There are no lessons in this article other than that made-up preferences lead to silly outcomes.
I'm not from the US and I'm largely Elon indifferent, that said this is pretty much a US three letter agency problem, especially the DoD.

They've entered in contracts with him, they've had the chance to fully read all that is public about Elon in advance, and now they've got the tiger by the tail.

I doubt a third party (Russia?) threatening to tell on Elon to the DoD about his cocaine | LSD | mushroom | et al. habits would do squat as far as blackmail goes, they very probably already know, if not they're kind of incompetent.

He's delivering private launch facilities and Elon having loose lips is a greater threat than Elon being threatened with being outed about drugs unless he discloses DoD "need to know" secrets he has access to.

Ultimately he has value to DoD and they have bank problem;

if you owe $100 to the bank, you have a problem, if you owe one billion to a bank, the bank has a problem

He's not ANYONE else.

( again, not a fan, not a devoted Elon hater - this is just the pragmatic assessment )
> No company (not even Google) was able to make something better than GPT-4.

GPT-4 Turbo, which was only released in November, is better than GPT-4 while having a much larger context. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's still called the same in marketing terms. It's a significant step forward, while coming only six months after GPT-4.

And "not even Google" is a strange phrase. Google hasn't been at the forefront of innovation anywhere in a long, long time.

> it's become clear that GPT-4-level intelligence might be the best we can extract from the current LLM technology

That's not clear at all. Where do you get this idea?

> and no one takes AGI seriously anymore.

Bollocks. LLMs are beating lawyers, doctors, and software engineers at post-university exams. We are galloping towards AGI.

What also happened in 2023 is that more than half a million H100s were installed globally, which are currently training the next-gen models you are guaranteed to hear about in the coming months. Compute capability is still growing at a stupendous pace, and there is no reason to expect that this won't lead to much more capable models.
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Rational unto himself? The last line of the article reads:

"Imagine a teenage fan of gross-out movies—whose all-time favorite movie scene was the chestburster segment in Alien—got access to a video game in which he could create simulated worlds populated with millions of species, many of them sentient, for his sick entertainment.

Would that world look significantly different than our own?"

A bit grim. Most polytheistic religions are an attempt to deal with the problem that the world isn't that tightly organized and has much built-in conflict.

With what's been learned about AI in the last few years, philosophy and theology need to go back into the shop for an overhaul. Stuff which used to be pure speculation is becoming industrial strength technology.

- Much of what humans think of as intelligence comes from scaling up some rather simple operations. How could brains evolve? Mostly by scaleup. Biology told us how similar nervous system components are across species, but not why bigger worked better. Now we are seeing that quantity, all by itself, yields smarter.

- A lot of stuff that was thought to be uniquely human - isn't.

- Munge enough data with some random inputs and creativity comes out.

- Optimizing gets really effective in high-dimensional spaces.

- Free will and randomness are closely related.
Driving is so dangerous and difficult that we have an entire licensing system set up, but we’ve also made it necessary to live, so we can’t deny anyone a license and we can’t do anything that requires drivers to learn anything new, because maybe they won’t feel like it. Wonderful society we’ve built here.
libcurl? Old project, actively maintained, used in lots of embedded devices, maintainer understands the needs for stability, no silly rewrites.
Not sure if your comment is satire or not.
I seem to recall this is also a thing in "the city and the stars" by Clarke (1956), including the fact that it's faster towards the middle. I imagined a river of asphalt and it was kinda cool.
Here's one person's approximate location guess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/190col8/probable_...
thats really useful insight.

Yes it is usecase specific but thats also why its crucial for real world trial results to be shared so that theres a better understanding thats qualitatively accurate.

P.S: hackyournews.com is great!!