skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are social incentives going to be enough long-term though?

I'd say all the long-running forum based communities proves that yes it is. Not counting Usenet, IRC and other "old internet communities" which have withstood the test of time.

> Can you trust an admin to host and police your social network?

That's where the federated part comes in, you choose a server and admin that you trust.

Preventing people from moving server would be holding them hostage, breaking the fundamental trust of the platform and become public enemy numero uno overnight.

I really doubt anyone would do it, but yes the chance isn't zero. Plenty of people host servers with their real identity and reputation on the line though.

If you are still paranoid you can join a commercial server where by contractual obligation they have to provide service to you and allow you to move away.

> What is there to hold hosts accountable for security? The threat of reputational damage doesn't seem like it is going to mean much to pseudonymous volunteers, so what can be done to ensure hosts are properly protecting the system from promise?

Again, you choose your server based on your risk tolerance. You can go with the main mastodon.social server, or join a server owned by a real person you feel is reputable/trustworthy, or join a paid server.

And I would disagree about pseudonymous volunteers not caring about reputation damage, the vast majority of people would feel a sense of ownership over their online identity, especially if it has a lot of clout.

> Reddit moderators are, by and large, reasonable but there's a non-trivial minority who will do things like stage a coup against the other moderators, start arbitrarily banning or harassing people, or just straight up ghost the site and never follow up on the rules. same as above, what mechanisms exist to prevent or reverse or take over the actions of an rogue/absentee mod?

Reddit mods are not server owners, at the end of the day they know they're just hosting someone else's party so there isn't a true sense of ownership.

But if a moderator decided to go rogue? It's just like a forum isn't it? Either the owner gets rid of them or you're out of luck.

You can limit damage by backing up your followers and follows on a regular basis so you can rebuild your network if you are forced to create a new account on a different server.

With federated system come the freedom to chose your server and the consequences thereof, you're gonna have to take some personal responsibility by choosing a server that has a healthy community and a responsible moderation team.

At the end of the day I don't think a perfect system exists, they are just different sets of compromises.
Sectoral bargaining agreements are less problematic wage-wise than employer unions.
It's not a good thing because???? I'll accept a well reasoned argument, but you've not presented any yet in this discussion and engaged in your own naturalistic fallacies. If you're using the reason that "Wanting to breed is natural" then surmise that you've never been involved in animal husbandry before. Nor have you studied mammal populations between species, especially those that have boom and bust cycles.
Are there Python bindings? I couldn't find any.
Japan isn’t as threatened as Taiwan, but is still liable to earthquakes, tsunamis, and is uncomfortably close to both North Korea and Russia.
Wow, I get it is an opinion piece so it shouldn't be fact-checked, but still, what an absolutely ignorant and naive take on the subject.

It seems like the author has never come across the concept of what a "Behavioral sink" is, which is not really hard to find/understand; as well as the many other sources of data, experiments and thoughts that would easily invalidate the purported benefits he portrays.

"More geniuses, more R&D investment, more ambitious projects, better aesthetics, better careers, more niche communities, more niche markets"; no correlation between this and population size. If you take a look at the most populated cities on Earth, about 8/10 are FAR from being "an aesthetic population center where people live happy and fulfilled lives, with artists and geniuses together to improve human progress". Had the author not traveled outside the US ever in life?

"but that's due to economic and social factors that have kept them subdued for centuries"

1. It's not ...

2. ... even if it was, why would a larger population get rid of those issues instead of making them worse?
Take a look at the linked chart in my other comment. Visualization is absolutely a driver during research, it isn’t just an embarrassing revelation. Charts killed the Challenger crew.
Yeah frankly as an other commenter noted I’d probably use the parent process as orchestrator of IO in which case tqdm would work fine, for that sievific case at least.
The first word of an editorialised title, frowned upon here, and not mentioned in the abstract (which I did read)
Well, I guess the response to Rust just means people are still waiting for a language that:

- has a very expressive and sound type system

- provides a good mix of paradigms (functional, imperative, object oriented, etc.)

- uses modern techniques to address the warts of many existing languages (nulls, exceptions, optionality, unsafe memory access, async, etc.)

- is (reasonably) fast

- comes with great tooling and docs

- is mainstream, general, open, and not tied to any particular vendor

Whether they are right to pin these hopes on Rust is one thing, but there's no denying there is still an un-addressed hunger for a next-gen open language that generally addresses many pain points with modern software development.
Exactly: marginalia results are good for geeks; I search for me, not for J Random Consumer.
> The US doesn't want domestic chip production

Wasn't the entire point of the CHIPS Act to "authorize roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States, for which it appropriates $52.7 billion" including "$39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on U.S. soil"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

edit: I see -- The point of the article is that Congress's goal has been hindered "on the ground" by conflicts with construction unions, negotiations over profit-sharing with the US government, and environmental regulations that slow construction.
>Don't you think those bad leaders would've had a harder time coming into power if there had been less contention over resources?

No. For most of human history we've been lead by shitty autocratic leaders. Now, when there's too little to go around we're more apt to go to war and/or have population migrations which is a different subject.
Fake: It's only a matter of time until disinformation leads to calamity
I don't feel like I need to be nice to Facebook.

The raison d'etre of this thing is to allow interactive ad hoc exploration of large-scale systems. It is, in other words, a thoroughly bad idea.
How could you possibly interpret what I wrote as an exhortation against the poor?

Should I specifically explicate the groups that this exhortation is targeted to?

Use your judgement based on the content and context instead of requiring me to think for you and fully solve all of the questions you might have.

Do you own a Ferrari? Are you taking the Delta flight? Can you extrapolate from those two examples of egregious veblen good luxuries (Veblen himself writkng a thourough exhortation himself!) to think of other ones which do or do not apply to you and then you determine whether that applies?

Jfc
It’s result 10 on Kagi.
> Ok, but LLMs are just tools, and I'm just asking how a tool can be made more useful.

I think I know what you're after (notice my self-awareness to qualify what I say I know): that the tool's output can be relied upon without applying layers of human judgement (critical thinking, logical reasoning, common sense, skepticism, expert knowledge, wisdom, etc.)

There are a number of boulders in that path of clarity. One of the most obvious boulders is that for an LLM the inputs and patterns that act on the input are themselves not guaranteed to be infallible. Not only in practive, but also in principle: the human mind (notice this expression doesn't refer to a thing you can point to) has come to understand that understanding is provisional, incomplete, a process.

So while I agree with you that we can and should improve the accuracy of the output of these tools given assumptions we make about the tools humans use to prove facts about the world, you will always want to apply judgment, skepticism, critical thinking, logical evaluation, intuition, etc. depending on the risk/reward tradeoff of the topic you're relying on the LLM for.
So you have an example how to spawn gnu parallel from python and displaying progress?
Yeah this wildly off.

4 kids, typical tech salary ladder career / upper middle class lifestyle, my marginal costs are maaaaybe another $40k year in total ... and I get about a $25k tax break for having them.
This post is really bringing out the classic HN mental block around changing the structures of our society
Giving the Finger to MFA – A Review of the Z1 Encrypter Ring from Cybernetic
Haha, yeah I've seen this. Highly tuned production server? No match for a junior security admin whose only tool is a hammer.

It really really messes with windows defender too.
I do not understand these comments at all. Sora was trained on billions of frames from video and images - they were tagged with words like "ballistic missile launch" and "cinematic shot" and it simply predicts the pixels like every other model. It stores what we showed it, and reproduces it when we ask - this has nothing to do with understanding and everything to do with parroting. The fact that it's now a stream of images instead of just 1 changes nothing about it.
Machines which seem to think (1954)
It’s enough to make you lose faith in science.
I assure you behavioral economics has not run its course.
Anyone else find the article footnotes to be really.. moralizing? It's like the author had to keep injecting that they are a non-sociopathic, responsible member of society with good thoughts as opposed to the interviewee.
There are solutions that don’t involve reaching into the mess and sorting it.

Some places incinerate their waste for energy. If done well, pollution (except CO2) is minimal, and the outputs are energy and ash. Perhaps some day the ash could be processed to extract useful minerals.

More generally, if you imagine waste to be a clumpy soup of organic goo, assorted interesting elements and minerals, and polymers (which are technically organic goo but are sort of worthy of a different category), perhaps it could be treated as such and processes could be developed to economically extract useful things from it, kind of like how geological processes turn dead cells into oil.

But I see no fundamental reason that, say, old polyester needs to turn into new polyester as opposed to anything else. And keep in mind that, even if burnt to CO2 and ash, there are processes that use energy that turn CO2 into valuable chemical feedstock.
Source UN Population to 2300

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...

Now the issue is both OP and you are taking one of the trend lines rather than looking at the projection spread. Ops seems slightly off as the UN numbers are showing 10B max and 7.4B min.
I've been using tacit programming intensively to the extent I get rid of most variables. I use both syntactic threading macros and functional combinators to achieve this. It is a double-edged sword in that it can make code as ugly as the original code it is trying to improve upon, but working without variables isn't that difficult nor does it lead me to intense clusterfucks. Composing lambdas contribute to this a lot more though.

As for making things clearer for everyone, well, this is code I work on solo (hobby), but I think providing example inputs as well as debugging macros can help a lot. Consider the following:

(defn parse-it [dependencies]
(pp->> dependencies
str
str/split-lines
(keep (|| re-matches #"- (\d+(?:\.\d+)?) -> \[((?:\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:, ?)?)+)\]"))
(>>- (map-> (juxt-> second
(->> third (re-seq #"(?:\d+(?:\.\d+)?)")))))))

(parse-it (str "- 4 -> [1, 2, 3]\n"
"- 5 -> [4, 2]\n"
"- 6 -> [1, 2, 5]"))

;; The use of pp->> will lead to this getting printed
;; ->> dependencies : "- 4 -> [1, 2, 3]
;; - 5 -> [4, 2]
;; - 6 -> [1, 2, 5]"
;; str/split-lines : ["- 4 -> [1, 2, 3]"
;; "- 5 -> [4, 2]"
;; "- 6 -> [1, 2, 5]"]
;; (keep (|| re-matches #"- (\d+(?:\.\d+)... : (["- 4 -> [1, 2, 3]" "4" "1, 2, 3"]
;; ["- 5 -> [4, 2]" "5" "4, 2"]
;; ["- 6 -> [1, 2, 5]" "6" "1, 2, 5"])
;; (>>- (map-> (juxt-> second (->> third ... : (("4" ("1" "2" "3"))
;; ("5" ("4" "2"))
;; ("6" ("1" "2" "5")))

In the end I think it doesn't really bring a lot, but it's especially useful in making short piece of code more readable:

(->> [1 2 3 4]
(map (when| odd? inc)))
;; vs
(->> [1 2 3 4]
(map (fn [x]
(if (odd? x)
(inc x)
x))))
;; result (2 2 4 4)

Or this:

(-> k-or-ks (when-not-> coll? list)
(map-> ...do-something))
;;vs
(let [ks (if (coll? k-or-ks)
k-or-ks
(list k-or-ks))]
(map ...do-something
ks))

Or even this:

(-> 1 (juxtm-> :incd inc :decd dec))
;; vs
(let [n 1]
{:incd (inc n)
:decd (dec n)})

Granted I have insane shits like this teleport arrow (very useful though):

(-> '(1 2)
(•- (conj (-• first dec)))) ;; => (0 1 2)

Or this >-args "fletching"

(-> {:a 1 :b 2}
(•- (-> (>-args (-> (/ (-> :a) (-> :b))))
(->> (assoc (-•) :result))))) ;; => {:a 1, :b 2, :result 1/2}

I actually write this kind of stuff in my code ahahaha (the right move is to implement assoc-> of course hahahaha). Now there are combinators I wrote I never use, like departializers, unappliers, argument shifters, etc
holy shit what a misquote. For anyone that wants the whole quote:

> Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
We cleverly just ensured any amount of our currency is worthless here in South Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

An established company often does not want to cannibalize its own products, and an incumbent does.
Be aware that these tricks exist.

Be aware that you too are fooled by it.

Remind yourself of the above in the situation.

Not perfect, but should go a long way.
Totally expected norovirus .
It is true that folks who host content will have to deal with the legal repercussions of the content that they host, and that inevitably, they will have to deal with this. That's true no matter what protocols you're using to host, however.
This apply not only the mall, even in a museum, disco, party, crowds, time perception will be altered, i suspet the key is in the moltitude moving around the person, this can be distracting, dimming the simple original task we have entering...
random observation: mall with sad music sell better than those with happy music.. and so on.
And this work in large numbers, having thousand entering such environments and with a substantial part being less or more influenced.
Are you assuming the gene sequencing and custom vaccine development tech of 2020 or 2005 in that conclusion?
I am going to be honest, I do not see how I demonstrated that. Can you be more specific?
It can be a driver. But then you do a deep dive. You create frequency tables, you create crosstabs, you calculate summary statistics, you do inferential statistics. There is no excuse for not catching this pre-publication.
Ah, this helped clarify my doubts. Thanks.
In a way, it's a subset of the distributed systems tracing problem - you have multiple tasks running in parallel on the same node, but they will have been initiated as different (sub) tasks, and should be tracked by the specific task via which they were initiated. So systems like OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb can be great for this, allowing you to see events in aggregate as well as in the context of a trace that propagates between different threads and systems.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/python/getting-start...
https://docs.honeycomb.io/getting-data-in/opentelemetry/pyth...

But there's so much complexity there that IMO it's best left outside of standard libraries - and it's indeed a daunting amount of new vocabulary for newcomers. I'm not aware of simpler abstractions on top of the broader telemetry ecosystem for monitoring simple parallelization, but arguably there should be one that keeps things quite simple.
I'd be willing to bet that the total biomass of ruminants is much higher today than it was millennia ago due to domestication/humans. Ad a lot of that fossil fuel use and fertilizer is going to those domestic ruminants; you've gotta grow the food to feed your food, so it's a lossy process vs just eating the plants directly. It's not always that simple though; cattle can graze on marginal land and their manure/byproducts can be fed into other agricultural processes. It's not something I really know a lot about other than to know that it's all quite complicated. That said, I suspect if the world gave up beef, it would indeed make a significant dent in global warming.

I'm far from a vegan and can recognize the above. When it comes to cruelty, that's a different axis. I believe beef is actually lower on that one since the cows spend a lot of their lives wandering in fields and getting to do more or less what they want. The finishing process where they are put into feedlots seems pretty bad but is rather short, and the slaughter is about as humane as can be; they are rendered unconscious instantly with a blow to the head and then insanguinated. Chickens are sort of the opposite; they are marginal in the scheme of global warming but live lives of immense cruelty. It seems hard to win.
I expected scan-and-sand to be somewhat automated, but they're doing it by hand? Incredible!

Might another way to resolve issues with the PCB dishing be to photograph the layers at a fraction of a layer height? So that in that way you have a lot more slices to work with, and you can digitally "flatten" the PCB?
Check my youtube link above
>Are you going to tell him that he needs to change his culture

If you're going to life a modern lifestyle, yes 100%. Modern human lifestyles are hyper energy/resource intensive. The reason people had 14 kids back when is 1. most of the kids died, and 2, the kids were work resources. If 1 and 2 no longer hold, then yea, change.
Everyone has their weak moments where they’re prone to falling for a real phish.
This is news to me. Where can I read more about this?
Is this meant so say it's good, bad, or just is? (which is what I meant by pruning cycles).
Confirmation bias? It’s easy to run with the assumption you had at the back of your mind when your experiment seems to confirm it.

I have definitely done that with benchmarks / profiles.

It’s probably even easier when the incentives encourage “the find”.
Can you provide a single link to a professional organization or group of relevant scientists that states humans are not causing global warming, or states that we cannot affect change? If there is “broad disagreement” it should be easy.
What is your source for the planet only being able to support one billion people? That's a very bold statement, given that we are currently at eight billion and have fairly clear technological pathways to sustainability.

Of course sustainability is not a guaranteed outcome, it will require making good decisions, but I'm sure that a "mere" one billion people would also be unsustainable with sufficiently poor decisions.
So it’s like saying “this soap cleans 10x better than if you washed the thing with poop”?
That’s not nearly as interesting to debate.
OS state introspection can get expensive quick and often has a performance impact beyond the process doing the sampling, because you're locking tons of kernel structures to read from them.

Case in point, a simple "select * from processes" takes a solid 3 seconds of kernel time on my laptop.

Now you might say, "well that's clearly a dumb idea because osquery certainly relies on vtab's colUsed field to avoid querying all sorts of expensive stuff when it doesn't have to so you really should only query what you need" and that's of course 100% true. But it's also a senior developer thought. Easy to see how an inexperienced person might make mistakes like this with any one of the dozens or hundreds of tables offered by osquery and cause performance issues.

In terms of security, well it is clearly a kitchen sink project (there's a prometheus client in there, for example: https://osquery.io/schema/5.11.0/#prometheus_metrics), so there's a huge breadth of interfaces it talks to and files controlled by all sorts of people it parses, and the default does seem to be privileged usage, which is the general ballpark where AV engines and their highly dubious track record live.
I used to play a MUD that has a sizeable player population that used Mxit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxit

It was... strange. I still don't understand how it could have possibly worked.
I actually agree(disagree?) even more strongly.

The entire concept of "personal carbon footprint" is a distraction. The behavior of individuals is both random and highly variable (e.g., cyclists vs coal-rollers), and even in the practically impossible situation every individual moves in the same good direction, is still dwarfed by the institutional and industrial scale

It is not only "also" reform political and economic systems, it actually the only path to a real solution.

(Of course, do what you can to incidentally optimize footprint when it's an A/B choice. But if it's two hours of extra work to avoid some personal carbon output/use, it's better to spend that two hours on some political or economic action)
I just got back from vacation in Japan. It’s completely unsurprising that American mid-skill workers are worse at cooperating on delicate large scale manufacturing than Japanese ones. The culture and habits of a country’s population makes a difference, and the coarsening of Americans has been quite apparent to me over the last 30 years. I bet this delta between US and Japanese workers wouldn’t have existed in 1960.
Even that expanded quote doesn't entirely make it clear he was criticizing the government

Here's the entire thing

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-state-...
The article says "Using MRIs to gauge". I've never seen a supermarket with an MRI. I have a seen a mall with an MRI, but it was more of an opportune space. It didn't face inwards into the mall concourse but was on the end.

So in other words, the study probably took people from a mall or supermarket after a set amount of time and MRI'd them in exchange for $25 or something. I really doubt they measured anything relevant here.
> can accept that massive geoengineering is going to be required

The term geoengineering may need to be dropped. It sounds scary. But that belies that we're already doing it, just unintentionally.
Nothing a small group of people does changes anything, unless the small group happens to be politicians enacting laws to reduce carbon emissions.
I've been impressed by the results I see there. And you've chosen a sick name for it.
Think of it this way:

Intelligent beings in the real world have a very complex built-in biological error function rooted in real world experiences: sensory inputs, feelings, physical and temporal limitations and so on. You feel pain, joy, fear, have a limited lifetime, etc.

"AI" on the other hand only have an external error function, usually roughly designed to minimize the difference of the output from that of an actually intelligent real world being.