skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But private logging operations have long understood that they need to split up land to have forest at different stages so that they can continually harvest wood for a long time.

Private logging operations have started taking a more sustainable view only after a lot of pressure from conservationist groups. And even today, private logging operations are destroying incredibly important forests. Private logging is a good example of why privatisation is so extremely bad about the commons and the environment.

> communication, monitoring and enforcement.
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Which is a roundabout way of saying government. Privatised, for profit ownership encourages unsustainable exploitation, without much regard for the longer term consequences. Again - forestry is a good example, and so are fisheries. Likewise:

> Privatization (as in splitting up the resources into various parts) can align the intensives correctly, the damage the resource takes impact your own utility and thus aligns intensives correctly.

Again is a roundabout way of saying government. And instead of adding for-profit middle-men here, we can just skip that part and just govern the resources. Then you don't need to deal with a fiddly system of incentives, that will most likely be made weaker by lobbyists representing private interests.

> Now one can make the argument if the privatization happened in a fair way. Meaning did all the people who had access to common land get a fair share. That however is a different question.

Intimately connected to the topic however, since historically, privatisation has always been used in order to enrich the already wealthy. So it is important, because this is the cause for privatisation, and therefore there will be a lot of propaganda and justification on why it needs to happen - which is what we see historically as well.
Universal Paperclips is great, but I doubt you spend more than a day or two with it, interacting sporadically.
Re 19. Horse Archers Were Unstoppable

People do not realize, that Carrhae was a special case. In normal circumstances horse archers would run out of arrows quickly and Roman infantry would simply wait them out in testudo formation.

Surena (Parthian general) had prepared well for this particular battle and for every horse archer he had 2-3 transport animals with spare arrows (that must had been a lot of arrows per archer) so his archers could keep pressure for a few days without running out of arrows, wearing Romans out. He could do that because Parthians had been operating close to home [so Surrena didn't have to worry about fodder for horse and transport animals] (and he had enough time to manufacture all those arrows ahead).

Also generally Roman infantry had been generally more rapid force in the field then any larger mounted force. Mounted Roman army required fodder transported by oxen carts - which made horsemen much slower over larger distance then marching infantry... So logistics matter...

> Crassus now hoped that his legionaries could hold out until the Parthians ran out of arrows.[28] However, Surena used thousands of camels to resupply his horse archers. Upon this realisation, Crassus dispatched his son Publius with 1,300 Gallic cavalry, 500 archers and eight cohorts of legionaries to drive off the horse archers. The horse archers feigned retreat and drew off Publius' force, which suffered heavy casualties from arrow fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae
Do you imply that chip is fake and does not work? :-)

Do you imply that there are no fake products on Amazon, which is also making chips (AWS Graviton)? Exactly the same issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y83BS_mK9GE

There is a reason why Aliexpress and Amazon suffer form the same curse.
It doesn't seem straight-forward to implement.

Emulating microcontroller peripherals? - https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/611403/emula...
Spotify not working properly on HomePod is on them because the tools to properly integrate third party music apps have been available for almost 5 years now.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/10854/

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/207
Those are some cool topics, they should use them in a videogame story, built around a secret underground resistance movement in renaissance Venice, fighting against the establishment in power, maybe even get the church involved in the story. Has potential to sell well, maybe even spawn a franchise, who knows.
Spot on assessment. In fact, AMD has gone the opposite direction by shrinking die size through their Zen 4c architecture (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458678).

To me the more interesting aspect is how memory architecture will be approached going ahead by both parties. Apple can afford to go more bespoke and integrated, but how can x86 maintain a good mix between performance and design flexibility.
That's the normal stickiness of a job, but if you are a junior and you've levelled up to senior you'll likely be looking at a wide number of roles far more than a senior staying still.

Some things are easy wins for retention -- my company gives extra holiday as tenure extends for example, and people of a certain age still have a defined benefits retirement plan which has significant value. The extra holiday costs companies nothing, but an extra day each year really helps, start with say 28 days, but after 5 years you're on 33 days. It's harder to put a monetary value an extra day off, so harder to make the jump-ship calculation.
That argument only works in multiplayer games.
In which country was that? You mention GDPR, but I've not seen it in the ~10 EU countries I've used airports in in the last few years.
When exclusively moving from HTTP to WebSockets the only difference between client and server is that a server has an event listener running to listen for socket connections. In a distributed model everyone is both a client and a server where the role is dictated by who initiates to connection. This is the model used by git, which is why git uses term local/remote instead of client/server.
> Combine that with the fact that they chose to implement the scheduler in Java instead of C(++) and you're set for performance problems.

Ah yes, the argument from the 1990s. It would make sense to understand where the JVM and its compiler are these days before making incorrect statements about performance.

From your link:

> Blocking network TCP IO needs a sychronized block to work

This is utterly false.
Emacs has something similar in which-key.

Of course GUI apps have had pop-downs from the File-Edit-View-... row [since forever?] so that things like Alt+F will show contextual actions. But at least in the Emacs community people get blown away when someone makes such a basic addition.
An extensive HYPOTHETICAL argument, stuffed with assumptions far beyond the capabilities of the technologies they're talking about for their own private ends.
Probably not worth worrying strictly about the info gathered by airport security unless you're a person of interest, either to that nation or it's allies. If you're that interesting to whoever, all bets are off. Plenty of other ways to get info off phone.

FWIW I really don't recommend just fingerprint for phone access. You can change a PIN if someone else gets a hold of it, there's not much you can do to change your fingerprints.
Yes, so just like some men do it.

The old biogical gender stereotypes of lustful males and "innocent" women are a bit long in the tooth. The biological genders are not that different, with lustful women and "innocent" men just as likely but all forced to fit a single mold.
The model has been extensively tested in TLA+, which can reason about all possible timing combinations, among other things.
This is very similar to the robodebt scheme [0] that happened in Australia with similarly devastating consequences:
- Welfare recipients' suicide after receiving automated debt recovery notices
- Debt notices were issued to deceased people.
- Issuing debt notices to disability pensioners.

Looks like Wikipedia has termed this Algocracy (government by algorithm).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
If scrum sucks, suggest better. Waterfall is not better for software development. Author gives examples from bad management practices, work load, overloaded job queue and points all the problems to scrum but scrum has nothing to do with these problems.
Your name is fairly common, so I would advice you to include explicit links to social media profiles to minimise confusion by (automated) HR profile builders/analyzers.
Lambda Island 40. The Ultimate Dev Setup (2018) [video]
What Else Were the British Doing During the American Revolution?
>unsuspecting

Therein lies the crux, I think. Perhaps lowering the consumer trust barriers boosts the economy, perhaps it's the road to hell.
And unfortunately I see the same
shit on Mastodon as well 24/7…
> They don't decide what is the correct way the product works.

Of course we are, we're the ones writing it.

> Maybe they created the bugs because they implemented the specification exactly as written?

If your argument is "maybe they were told to write the bug in", I don't know what to tell you. If I were told to write a life-destroying bug into the software I worked on, I'd quit, because I don't want that on my conscience.
> What is the reason to believe that LLMs are an evolutionary step towards AGI at all? In my mind there is a rather large leap from estimating a conditional probability of a next token over some space to a conscious entity with its own goals and purpose.

In my highly-summarized opinion? When you have a challenging problem with tight constraints, like flight, independent solutions tend to converge toward the same analogous structures that effectively solve that problem, like wings (insects, bats, birds). LLMs are getting so good at mimicing human behavior that it's hard to believe their mathematical structure isn't a close analogue to similar structures in our own brain.* That clearly isn't all you need to make an AGI, but we know little enough about the human brain that I, at least, cannot be sure that there isn't one clever trick that advances an LLM into a general-reasoning agent with its own goals and purpose.

I also wouldn't underestimate the power of token prediction. Predicting the future output of a black-box signal generator is a very general problem, whose most accurate solution is attained by running a copy of that black box internally. When that signal generator is human speech, there are some implications to that. (Although I certainly don't believe that LLMs emulate humans, it's now clear by experimental proof that our own thought process is much more compactly modellable than philosophers of previous decades believed).

* That's a guess, and unrelated to the deliberately-designed analogy between neural nets and neurons. In LLMs we have built an airplane with wings whose physics we understand in detail; we also ourselves can fly somehow, but we cannot yet see any angel-wings on our back. The more similarities we observe in our flight characteristics, the more this signals that we might be flying the same way ourselves.
This is right. I tried and gave up on spaced repetition a few years ago. When I tried again a year ago and did more research, I realised my problem on the first attempt was that I made too complicated cards.

I went back and dug up some of my more valuable cards from my last attempt, and some of them were so complicated that I had to break them up into 10–15 cards now that I know how to design good cards.

That said, I don't think the point is to make them easy. Since you want to aim for a 90-something percent success rate to get the most benefit out of it, too easy will make the going slower. The point is to make them atomic and that usually feels easy, even if you fail 10 % of recall tests.
> Does airport fingerprinting compromise my biometric security?

Access by a criminal? probably not much - if they can get physical access to your phone, access to your fingerprint by social manipulation or threat isn't that hard.

Access by government agency that confiscates your phone? theoretically yes, but no more than using printed fingerprints on an arrest record or lifted from your home and printed so they can be used on your phone.

Access by a local sheriff/corrupt cop? a lot of hassle compared with getting access to your finger
What's striking about this article is Gates's refusal, even now, to say anything bad about Welch.

Why is that?

The vast majority of the bar culture problems are traceable to Welch, as is the shadiness of GE Capital.
Sure.

Or by writing buggy early warning radar systems which forget to account for the fact that the moon doesn't have an IFF transponder.

Which is a mistake humans made already, and which almost got the US to launch their weapons at Russia.
If being simple gives us go, perhaps we should try to drop simplicity for simplicity's sake and accept that complicated things might be needed occasionally?

Go is a modern programming language, which suffers from a lot of issues that were well known at the time of its creation.
A glorious Clojure 'ed'itor.
I also made the observation that more expensive laptops tend to have fewer replaceable parts vs the cheaper models. There is clearly also a manufacturer difference. Out of all the OEMs it's HP that often offers laptop with replaceable memory (especially on the low end).

Playing devil's advocate it might be that the more compact you try to make a laptop the less servicable it gets. I don't buy it tho.
> Note also, it’s not just electronics regs that act in this way - our societies have become much more regulated and rule bound in my life time. Often things for good reason.

After WW2 we were in a high-trust, low-barrier society state across the Western world [1]. You could leave your door unlocked and no one would come and rob you, your children could roam free as they pleased, you could start what could become a multi-billion dollar enterprise in your garage and neither the IRS nor "HOA enforcers" would raise an eyebrow or keep annoying you with audits, you could afford a home with a garage in the first place even as a blue collar worker. And that worked out pretty well in retrospective - we had a literally booming economy from both large giants as well as small startups, people had lots of children as they actually had money, employees in companies had actual freedom to decide things even on lower levels where the actual work happened, employees entered their company at 16-18 and left at 65-ish, and the focus of upper management was to keep the company healthy.

Around / after the fall of the USSR, things took a serious nosedive all at once. A lot of solid blue-collar employment got moved off overseas, poverty shot through the roof (and with it, related crimes like burglaries and robberies), IRS shifted from enforcing the tax code fairly to focusing on small businesses and people (partially because the uber rich and international megacorps now employed sizable amounts of lawyers and tax specialists that created schemes that were way too complex for the IRS to dig through), companies more and more focused on quarterly results, short-term benefits and financial plays instead of sustainability (we're seeing right now with Boeing how a once proud company has fallen to the MBA beancounters), employers completely forgot about responsibility for their workers and hired-and-fired them in response to said quarterly results, the resulting loss of trust led to absurd micromanaging from above, and everyone in general went for "side hustles" and squeezing out some tiny amounts of money for themselves by tricking others because there was no other way.

And the combination of all of that is IMHO what created the low-trust society state we are in: we cannot trust our neighbour, our employer, a random hobo on the streets, the government, no one any more.

[1] Yes, I know, distrust against non-Whites, LGBT, ... was a (massive) thing but that's not my point here. And yes, I'm painting a rose-colored picture, and realities could vastly differ.
Hall of Worthies
Is it not a bit disingenuous to assume all open source AI proponents would readily back nuclear proliferation?

It's going to be hard to convince anyone if the best argument is terminator or infinite paperclips.

The first actual existential threat is destruction of opportunity specifically in the job market.

The same argument though can be made for the opposing side, where making use of ai can increase productivity and open up avenues of exploration that previously required way higher opportunity cost to get into.

I don't think Miss Davis is more likely an outcome than corps creating a legislative moat (as they have already proven they will do at every opprtunity).

The democratisation of ai is a philanthropic attempt to reduce the disparity between the 99 and 1 percent. At least it could be easily perceived that way.

That being said, keeping up with SOTA is currently still insanely hard. The number of papers dropping in the space is exponential year on year. So perhaps it would be worth to figure out how to use existing AI to fix some problems, like unreproducable results in academia that somehow pass peer review.
Why couldn't JVM detect when all carrier threads are blocked, and just spawn more of them?
The new Ubisoft+ and getting gamers comfortable with not owning their games
Thanks!
It can be connected to phone’s wifi and be with you outside home. I use it this way.
These look awfully like the things they tell people to mount above their 3D printer in case of fire. Interesting
> those have stalled at local maxima every single time.

It's challenging to encapsulate AI/ML progress in a single sentence, but even assuming LLMs aren't a direct step towards AGI, the human mind exists. Due to its evolutionary limitations, it operates relatively slowly. In theory, its functions could be replicated in silicon, enhanced for speed, parallel processing, internetworked, and with near-instant access to information. Therefore, AGI could emerge, if not from current AI research, then perhaps from another scientific branch.

> We've built some incredibly impressive tools, but so far, nothing that looks or feels like a concept of will (note, not consciousness) yet, to the best of my knowledge.

Objectives of AGIs can be tweaked by human actors (it's complex, but still, data manipulation). It's not necessary to delve into the philosophical aspects of sentience as long as the AGI surpasses human capability in goal achievement. What matters is whether these goals align with or contradict what the majority of humans consider beneficial, irrespective of whether these goals originate internally or externally.
Xcode (or even the command line tools) comes with an arm64 toolchain, so you can just install that.
When choosing how to reward existing employees, companies have to choose a point between two extremes:

Increase salary too quickly and you leave money on the table by wasting raises on employees who would stay for less

Increase salary too slowly and you cripple your business with unsustainable turnover

This is simply a disagreement about where the “sweetspot” lies that generates the most profit for the company.

The general opinion on reddit / hacker news is that big companies choose a balance that doesn’t reward employees enough. But that’s not surprising because users on these platforms are mostly employees.
Perhaps they should do the same with ssd memory too, just in case.
The text is the only reason to visit the blog, so why waste bandwidth with images of four-handed people?

At least they could try and generate something where I can't see malformed bodies within seconds. Or create a nice diagram that actually adds something to the text.
USB 3.0 can eat alot of power due to high speed, if it's always active...
I hear what you’re saying, but AI makes memory bandwidth much more important in computers. As I understand it, it’s much easier to increase memory bandwidth by soldering ram adjacent to the CPU - like GPUs have been doing for decades.

Of course it’s suspicious that computer manufacturers can make more money in the process. But that doesn’t invalidate the technical argument.

If this standard solves the technical problem, I’m all for it. We’ll have to wait and see which manufacturers adopt it.
P1: I brought down prod with a faulty migration script

P2: oh Im responsible for the deaths of many people and court cases spanning 2 decades. There's even a tv show based on the story
Excel "tables" feature is almost what you describe as zones.

W.r.t non-unicode text: what's your use case?
As an old vim graybeard, more power to you.

I'd recommend checking out `vim -y` as well. (And once you try _that_, you'll likely have a question, the answer to which is Ctrl-l.)

To others on this thread decrying this as heresy: leave 'em be. Let everyone use whatever editor flows works for them.

Programming is hard enough without having to conform to other people's beliefs of how _you_ ought to use your own editor!
It all has the cost of a significantly lower throughput in case of Erlang.

Also, this is more of a user error, than a fundamental issue.
> It sounds like you've been out of work for a year and you've fallen into a state of anger and despair.

I've had non-stop employment for the last 17 years.

I think you get the wrong idea. I am happily employed for the moment. I am lucky to be in a very senior (VP of Eng) position in a company that I helped start. I am also able to hire and retain engineers for my teams so, luckily, I am not at the mercy of risk-averse hiring managers "scared to work with me". My point is that not everybody is that lucky, and that now even great people with great skills like the OP are struggling to find employment, and it's not their fault, but it's the system's.

One of capitalism's great ploys is the: "suck it all up and grid, it all depends on you" attitude where all emphasis is on you and your skills, but no emphasis on the problems of the system iself. It's like lottery, somebody got rich playing it, so you must be doing it wrong.

- If you didn't make it, you didn't grind/hustle hard enough. Must be something wrong with you

- There is a great garbage island in the Pacific ocean. Must be that you, the consumer didn't recycle well enough. Totally nothing to do with the corps created non-recyclable materials that are cheaper to throw away than reuse.

- The cities are choking with air pollution. Must be YOUR fault for not using a bike, and not the government which didn't make the infrastructure for biking or quick and efficient public transport, nor the corps which didn't invest in alternative fuels when it was the time.

It's always the individual person's fault in capitalism, and all attempts to question the system are explained away with the individual sucking at it. Even individuals within the system are likely to turn on other and say: "oh, if you just did this harder or better, you'd be richer". There is a lot of survivor bias there and not understanding that success in that system is often based on pure luck, where you were born, and who your parents were. In reality, for the majority of people, unless you are very rich, or live in a country with at least some amount of social security (i.e not the US), they are one chronic condition or long sickness away from homelessness.

We shouldn't close our eyes and see how the world is for others, and realize that we are one of the few lucky ones. But we could easily, as you said, have been out of a job, despite a very impressive amount of skills, similar to the OP.

And while there are for sure things that they can do to get some employment, the fact that the OP is actually a legend in some communities but is still struggling to find a job, that should be ringing alarm bells for all of us. Because I don't think all of us here have the same or comparable accolades as the OP.
I don't think discussing this on technical grounds is necessary. AGI means resources (eg monetary) and means of communication (connection to the Internet). This is enough to perform most of physical tasks in the world, by human proxies if needed.