skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say it in every AI thread, but the only solution here is humanity declaring war on AI and the sooner people wake up to this the better.

AI at it's limit is practical guaranteed to destroy advance human society by concentrating mass power either to a single or small group of individuals, to itself or to everyone. Whichever happens the ultimate outcome is probably the same. Whether you open source or regulate, it really doesn't matter in the end. These are not solutions.

If a small group of individuals have access to AI they in effect become gods, that power will corrupt. If AI itself develops agency then it becomes our god. And if we all have the power of gods then it's just a matter of time before someone decides they want to use this power for destruction.

What we're building here is fundamentally destabilising and that's not even factoring in all the near-term risks of AI like mass job loses. And I think it's frankly disgusting how so many people dismiss this. I was checking out the VFX subreddit post the Sora announcement and many people there were literally suicidal at the prospect of their passion and economic value become obsolete in perhaps just a matter of years. It's heartbreaking.

And who even wants this future? We act like we have no choice the matter and maybe long-term that's true, but right now at the very least we have the chance to slow this rate of progress down and reduce near-term risk.

I know I sound like lunatic in all these AI doomer threads, but I continue to feel the need to normalise the obvious radical position that we need a UN agreement prohibiting the construction of AI data centers. And where data centers are built that exceed thresholds can and should be destroyed. As a global community we must also encourage anyone working in secret AI teams to become whistle blowers so that we can reduce the risk of governments or corporations building advance AI systems in secret.

And who knows, this might only buy as 3 or 4 decades, but at the very least we will give ourselves more time to improve our biological intelligence and equip ourselves with ways to deal with the risks AI presents.
> What a terrible misreading of parent's comments, that's completely not in the spirit of HN and its guidelines[1].

And not that I agree my comment goes against the guidelines, but let me be generous and ask this of GP: What autonomy over your life now would you lose if AI were to become as prevalent as you're implying?
> As per my prior comment, the sort of logic you are employing is "A bad thing happened once, so we MUST stop all efforts along this tact". Such thought processes are akin to "Let's curl up into a ball and cower". If we took this tact, literally every scientific improvement we've ever had would be out the window, because literally everything we've done has killed people.

No; you're fighting a strawman.

Interventions of this nature must be carefully planned, tested, and understood. I support, for example, efforts to eradicate Aedes aegypti because the due dilligence has been done. We have a reasonable understanding of its position in the food chain, smaller-scale test efforts have been done in a variety of places, etc.

"We should eradicate everything that eats blood" is... not the same.
Writing code by typing on a keyboard will be just a hobby?

Sure, and who is supposed to understand the code written by AI when we retire? Since writing code by typing on a keyboard will apparently cease to exist, who will write prompts for an AI and put the code together?

Person: Hey AI, build me a website that does a, b and c.

AI: Here you go.

Person: Looks like magic to me, what do I do with all this text?

AI: Push it to Git and deploy it to a web server.

Person: What is a web server? What is a Git?

AI: ... let me google that for you.

Yeah, I'm just not seeing it play down as in the conversation above.
Windows has gotten pretty good at staying out of your way with updates if you have typical usage patterns. That is: either you turn it on at the beginning of the business day, it downloads updates in the background and installs them when you shut the machine down at the end of the day; Or you leave the machine on 24/7, get a couple prompts over multiple days about a scheduled restart with the option to schedule it, and if you don't react it just restarts in the dead of night (or rather, a reasonable prediction of when you won't be using the computer).

The rub is that this doesn't work as well in atypical setups like a lab. The machines are probably only on while students are using it, preventing the "install at night" strategy, and if your normal workflow includes restarts Windows will take that as a cue to finally install the update.

Of course all of this is avoidable by configuration, or by the user (restarting explicitly without updates). But the Home version hasn't always given you as much agency in this as the more expensive Windows versions.
Edited my comment now, forgot I was caching the release builds with sccache so wasn't actually compiling all the units, but fetching a lot of them instead :/
Freakonomics!
FAA Audit Finds Boeing 737 Mechanics Using Hotel Card and Dish Soap as Tool
>Which is why the Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a worldwide transient (impulse response) inflation.

I think the worlds response to Covid (money printing) had a lot more to do with inflation that Russia invading Ukraine.
Uber drivers would love this feature.
My gamefaqs account has been used basically every day since April 11th, 2002.
There is now way this is overblown hype. This is real- And the progress on AI capabilities is exponential with no signs of slowing down.

Agree that we don’t think enough about it.
It's slightly arbitrary, though; the real limit right now is the voltage limit set in firmware of 1.0000V. I think we could get a stable overclock to at least 3.2 or 3.3 GHz with more voltage.
That math is sometimes practical is nice, but it's not the point.
Would be a great topic for pgconf.eu in June (pgcon moved to Vancouver). Too bad the CfP is over, but there's the "unconference" part (but the topics are decided at the event, no guarantees).
"The thing is, you’ve been listening to the wrong expert. You need to listen to the right expert. And you need to know what an expert is going to advise you before he advises you."
The same way we pinched off a cottage industry of mustard gas manufacturers: you ban and tightly regulate it.

Why does tech believe there should be no constraints whatsoever on what we build? Either our "change the world" pitches were completely inflated--what we do is meaningless dross--and we don't need to be regulated, or our mission statements were bang on and like any world-shaping thing we desperately need need to be regulated. You can't have it both ways.
it's also baked into windows 11 (insider's build maybe?) as a taskbar button
[dupe]

Lots of discussion earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709991
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> Or the sleep system doesn't suspend to disk after an hour of RAM usage so that my battery is flat when I return latter.

This is almost certainly a firmware issue. Did you contact your hardware vendor for support and ask them about it?
PGA golfer penalized after putt dangles 40 seconds on hole rim
> fines were because of inappropriate use of cookie consent popups?

see: "8 companies that faced cookie consent fines"

https://www.cookieyes.com/blog/cookie-consent-fines/

"In January 2023, France’s data protection watchdog, CNIL, fined TikTok €5 million ($5.4 million) for making it difficult to refuse cookies on its website. The CNIL found that TikTok manipulated consent by discouraging users from rejecting cookies. They required multiple clicks to refuse cookies, but only one click to accept them. TikTok resolved the issue by adding a “Refuse all” button to its site."
Rails 8 adds allow_browser to set minimum browser version
Rails 8 allows us to set minimum browser version for compatibility.
I’ve had my account on CIX since 1990. It’s a social network; I get to see people arguing, and occasionally helping each other.

For a while, pre dial-up Internet, it was my gateway to Usenet.

https://cix.uk/contact/about
I have a DSLReports account that is still active from 1999 or so. Also my yahoo email from 1997.
Nice post, thanks! Do I read it right that using jit results in the worst max times? What could be a reason in your opinion?
I've had a small, shared hosting plan for personal stuff since fall of 1999. I recently talked to an employee who was younger than my account.
But most rural consumers aren't ready/able to pay the outlay needed for the build. Normal suburban/urban residential broadband costs >$1000 per household to build, but rural broadband where you need many poles or lots of trenching is many times more expensive.

In some places the cost could easily be over $15k per home passed.
I'm sorry this isn't what you asked for but it made me think of this clip [0] from a documentary about Benoit Mandelbrot- he worked at IBM Research for 35 years [1].

I just love the quote: "It was 1958- the giant American corporation was pioneering a technology that would soon revolutionize the way we all live: The Computer. IBM was looking for creative thinkers; non-conformists; even rebels... people like Benoit Mandelbrot".

[0]https://youtu.be/HqGpiUERl64?si=I_ieKm6Viq_IBKDO

[1]https://youtu.be/REqM_L6vryc?si=x8thI6IUX4GBdItV
I strongly suspect that a forcing function that causes people to have challenges that proves their self worth, society is likely to collapse in the style of the "behavioral sink" experiment[1] (though I agree the way it'd play out in humans would be a bit different).

Traditionally, these challenges have come through challenges associated with a hunter-gatherer or an agricultural lifestyle, and in contemporary times, it is associated with a job.

There are other forms which can make feel people rewarded, such as through the excess consumption of food or social media activity, but since they do not have an associated mental or physical challenge, they only have negative worth and cannot be the basis for someone's self worth and value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
I've recently resumed research I initially started with Indiana University (and stopped for life reasons). I've been out of academia since 1995.

Back then, I had the resources of Indiana University for support. Today, lacking institutional affiliation, I couldn't do research at all - the typical price per paper is $35 from publishers, which is on average something like $2 per page. And why not? They don't have competitors for any given paper, and papers are not fungible.

I'm not independently (or even dependently) wealthy, so I can only do this research using the shadow archives. And the irony of the situation is that the access I get through shadow archives is far, far better than what I had at Indiana University in 1995, where I had to physically go to the library and hope nobody had checked out their copy of a given book, and where I paid 10 cents a page for Xerox copies. (I recently went through my files and found every single article there in PDF online - and burned all the 10-cent pages I'd copied in the 90's. It was ... weird.)

Knuth's right (well, of course; he's Don Knuth, what did I expect?) - the commercial academic publishing industry is holding us all back.
You're not saving money; that would be deflationary. You're making money and putting millions of people out of work.
What often goes conveniently unmentioned is that DM failed to correctly predict the first and second peaks of the power spectrum (which MOND correctly predicted) and only correctly predicted the third peak (which MOND did not correctly predict).

Rotation curves are also not compelling evidence for LCDM because it's not predictive, eg. each galaxy needs to be fit post-hoc with a custom distribution of DM to match the rotation curve. Lensing in clusters is about the only evidence that there's some amount of DM, but the amount postulated by DM-only theories may be excessive, ie. under modified gravity, only an amount of dark matter about equivalent to normal matter is needed, not the 5x needed under LCDM.

I'd say that's pretty far from a slam dunk for DM theories over other possibilities.
As someone who pays for insurance directly (at $3k/month for a family), I'm all for making these costs more visible. A significant amount of the resistance to single-payer healthcare is people incorrectly thinking they pay $50/month for theirs because that's what their employer makes them chip in.
The Tibetan caraveneers sleeping on their shins is metal af.

As a bonus, in that position, the penis is protected from instects.

Did that little observation, erm, stand out to anyone else?
Your present self sets the trajectory that can drastically change who you're future self is. Your present self is who it is now based on the trajectory set by your past self. Being intentional about this idea can help you decide who yiy want your future self to be, and help you get there. That can give a string sense similar to "ownership" over your future self. Your future self is a project you work on in the present.
In my city companies pay for billboards and other advertising in public space.
Seems to be working against every surface being plastered with ads which I see as companies forcing your attention on them.

You could argue computer operating systems are needed to access the digital public space and therefore the same line of reasoning applies. If you don't have a choice of operating system you shouldn't have to be subjected to excessive advertising. For people suffering from overstimulation it's also an accessibility issue.
The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet–and Money
I've had my Amazon account since '98 or so. I still have items on my wishlist from the 90s.

Think of all the database upgrades over the years to move that data forward...
Before iLok and USB, there were ADB dongles. You'd daisy chain each one and then add your normal ADB devices like your keyboard/mouse cable. The company I was at would rent out it's Avid bays at night to freelancers and students. They would have to unplug the ADB cable to add/remove any dongles they needed for their work. For those unfamiliar with ADB cables, the pins were not the sturdiest. It was also very similar to the SVideo port common on Macs at the time. I found this out when I came in one morning to start prepping for a session when the keyboard/mouse didn't work. After checking the cable, I noticed the dongles were in a different order on the ADB cable. Turns out, one of the overnight users had attempted to plug the ADB chain into the SVideo and bent one of the pins on the Avid dongle. Removing the dongle allowed the computer to function, but no Avid and a client was due in 30 minutes. Dongle replacements were not something just available at the local store. It took lots of phone calls and a week's down time. Yeah, I hate physical DRM in any form whatsoever. </rant>
>> criticizing the "stuff" is okay ... but not the "person"

> In my experience, people generally cannot tell the difference.

Often/Usually

> It's possible that I'm at fault in my approach, though.

Probably usually not. Broadcasting good intentions only gets you so far. For most of us it's high skill communication. Earned trust can pave past issues. Past that it's often a minefield of psych factors (you+them) - like having a good/bad day, internal disciplines, where is self-esteem in the equation. A good read on the other person can make mines visible.
SFNB offered online accounts in 1995 or 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961114220302/http://www.sfnb.c...
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Its getting downvoted because its using weasel words to make a non-falsifiable statement, which is annoying rhetorically. Depending on which side you are on, you can either claim there are other fields the opponent just haven't thought of, or you can claim that a specific mentioned field isn't a "real" field (e.g. flat earthers would fit, but i don't think that is the sort of thing that is meant)

By definition, the replication crisis wouldn't apply, since it is a crisis because people in those fields are asking the question. Hence those fields would not qualify for the grandparents point.
1. It's your own idealistic preference. Low priority for everyone else.

2. Sure, I don't disagree, I was mostly saying the whole stuff is configurable and we can tune it however way it's more convenient for us.

3. I agree and I'd want a fingerprint or a proper FaceID (with depth-radar and lasers and all, not just something that can be duped by print photos) on my computers but it's not something that would stop me from buying an otherwise excellent machine if it doesn't have this feature.

As for Caddy, let's agree to disagree. :D I will concede that many programs' installers are quite dumb but Caddy itself is excellent once you start it up and it starts doing its own thing.
Same here. Created a Gfaqs account on August 30th, 2001 and have kept it active ever since.
Ivermectin has been tested against certain ticks as well: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34656045/
yeah that must be some weird ai thats misused here
I know it is a word people use, and "centi-" is ambiguous without no context, but it's extremely unambiguous in the context of units of measure, and the word "hundred-millionaire" already existed and had the same number of syllables, so it's a really awkward choice.
Possibly. The author mentions a few other uses under "Practicality":

> Once the novelty wears off a "practical" example would be rendering "in-game book pages" that don't look like complete gibberish, or an "accurate print preview" with real text instead of blurry placeholder pixels that don't even look close to being the glyphs scaled down.
Would it be naive to assume a general compile-time reduction of 20% for all Rust projects by swapping llvm with cranelift?
I'm So Old: Web Edition
biggest threat on the web is Google.
They lower the bar so low that people who have no business collecting user information are collecting user information, then they host it insecurely for you with no liability to the end user whatsoever.

Not only that but they provide the same crappy services to schools and scummy gambling websites alike.

It frustrates me watching people who believe they are professionals flock to these services. Honestly, if you can't roll your own you probably shouldn't let someone roll this for you. But Google won't say no and none of you cloud devs can help yourself. So we have this race to the bottom in cost and first to market and all the products are least common denominator shit that gets built in 6 hours by copy pasting as many GH repositories together as possible on rented infra.
The opportunity to work well below the poverty line.
This goes for the other websites on the authors CV as well. My eyes are bleeding.
Why should we have sympathy because of an artificial constraint on the supply of taxi drivers? They're really nothing special except by being in an artificially protected market.
Or find a middle way. Call it the Butlerian Compromise.
I can think of several devices I own that never do this.

1) My LG webOS TV. Somehow it always does its thing in the dark. OS and application updates have never been visible to me.

2) My car. Even though it can update over wifi, and by other means, it never tries to do it unbidden. You have to invoke its maintenance mode, at the time of your own choosing, if ever.

3) Google/Nest Wifi, OnHub, et cetera. Always up-to-date, never noticed it updating at any time in 8+ years.

However, I can also think of devices where the updates are prominent. macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android are all in your face about OS updates, and Android will even throw up a notification that some app updates are available, as if I want to think about that. ChromeOS is a little better in that it silently downloads and installs updates, and they are applied almost instantly, but it does prompt you to apply them.
If you really want to make more work, blow up budgets and create positions for masses of developers and assistants then you should demand we go back to punch cards and doing all the planning and algorithm design on paper before we translate it to instructions and hand it off to computer operators.
Photon-like electrons in a four-dimensional world discovered in a real material
There has been a browser setting for tracking cookies since 2002! https://www.w3.org/P3P/

It has even been implemented in Internet Explorer when it had 90%+ market share.

And then Google intentionally sent malformed P3P header to bypass user preferences in IE.

When Safari added a heuristic rejecting Google's 3rd party cookies, Google has found a technical workaround to bypass it (and has been fined for doing this).

When IE and P3P were totally dead, browsers have tried to give adtech the simplest to implement bare minimum setting - the DNT header. The adtech has completely ignored it.

There are trillion-dollar businesses relying on tracking, and they will do whatever they can to undermine any technology and lobby against any law that would harm their business.
The fact that you have to use a plugin or other thecnical remedies to fix the cookie banner situation is all the proof we need to see that the EU totally fucked up. It is easy to declare that you just need to install this or that to get a obstruction-free internet again. But it is also very very elitist. Not even 1% of the population is truly capable of handling that.
Yep, this is exactly what I do. It's nice to be able to use Messages from my desktop, plus it fulfills an edge case of 2-way backup with Synology Drive and iCloud for me
What do you mean communication lines? And what do you mean signaling?

You don’t really need to be precise with shooting a transformer to damage it.
They don’t seem to be in order of importance.
Is there a way to check how old the Yahoo account is? Back in the days you only had some megs of storage available, so my older emails are all deleted...
Don’t fall for the hype. Self driving cars have taken far more effort than a few hundred people for a decade and still aren’t replacing jobs in any meaningful capacity. Books still go to editors after spellcheck and grammar check exist etc etc. Hell Dishwasher is still a job at most restaurants even decades after effective washing machines were invented, automation is just slower than generally portrayed.

Generative AI is still terrible at producing content people would actually pay to access. It’s hit the commissions market because the commissioner has some idea they want and someone who knows how to do the promos can make a lot of images quickly. Yet, Disney animation isn’t laying off anyone these images don’t suck but they’re also not good enough yet. Give it 40 years and who knows but that’s not tomorrow.

In terms of programming yes in very specific situations these things can improve productivity, but so can new libraries etc. It’s a long way from actually replacing programmers because what they are good at is what there’s examples that are close to it in the training data. Ask for a basic weather simulation using different atmospheric gasses and it’s not going to know what to do.
Cold plasma could be hot stuff for grain growers, say researchers
Being homeless in a place with a nice climate isn't bad, you can camp every night under starry skies, read books, make art, hang out with your friends and hook up with hippie chicks. It only gets shitty when you get sick or the weather gets bad.
Look up the number of CVEs by OS and you'll find the results are... amusing.
Thats right, however, there is a consent needed for cookies that are not necessary. If you don't have the cookie banner asking for consent to track you with the unnecessary tracking cookies you can get a letter from the abmahnanwalt which means that in germany there is a defacto cookie banner law (next to the self censorhip brain bucket) just to be on the safe side.