skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in my city (state, really) the police have vacated their duties to enforce roadworthiness because hand-wringing quasiliberals said that enforcing the laws against bald tires and missing headlights was hurting the poor. Also my state does not have and never had annual safety inspections.
The general problem here is monorepo disease. Instead of composable components with standard interfaces, you get a single huge project which is too big for anyone to replace as a whole but also has shifting internal interdependencies that prevent you from replacing only a part of it.
Don't forget that you can score points with the basilisk by actively spreading awareness of its existence (and thereby ensnaring more people in its gambit). ~
Even when dynamic linking a lot of calls will be internal to each library. So you can either:

1. Use a stable calling convention for external interfaces.

2. Use a stable calling convention for everything, but generate trampolines for external calls.

Swift is actually pretty cool here. It basically does 2. But you can also specify which dependencies are "pinned" so that even if they are dynamically linked they can't be updated without a recompile. Then you can use the unstable calling convention when calling those dependencies.
It used to be called "trolling," before trolling was redefined to "publicly disagreeing with important people." It's maximizing the ratio between the characters you type and the characters typed in response to you.
Wait, I'm sorry - philosophy has no audience beyond its own practitioners? Just look at all the people interested in philosophy in this thread. I'm willing to bet a large sum of money that the majority of people who have implicitly expressed interest in philosophy here are not practicing philosophers. I'm quite surprised by your reference to music; music is something I usually bring up when people tell me that philosophy is useless.

You yourself like Dennett's work, don't you? I know you think that most philosophers haven't produced anything that interesting to you, but I think it's often the case that impact is Pareto-distributed across practitioners of a discipline, certainly not unique to philosophy. Like, I imagine a lot of people are only interested in a select few musicians/bands.
> Antivirus software has to have full access to every part of your system so it can scan and remove things. Should the software become compromised, it can become the entry point...

That's precisely why it was never necessary.

> The internet is full of outdated cybersecurity advice that just won’t die but should, like “public WiFi is unsafe” and “you should change your passwords regularly.” For the more pedantic in the crowd...

This was never pedantry and still isn't.
I haven't run any in probably 15 years. Slightly possible I'm in a botnet or my nudes leaked but no money missing from my bank account and no drives wiped
The title is misleading in the sense that the article concerns the cosmological principle, which is (as the name suggests) a principle, not a law. That is, it's a guiding assumption, or paradigm. It's been guiding cosmology since the time of Newton. But I'd argue that cosmologists didn't adopt the cosmological principle based upon observations of the cosmos, but rather because if they didn't adopt it, then making any hypothesis about the cosmos as a whole would be next to impossible. The fact that observations may now be suggesting that the cosmological principle doesn't apply to the large-scale structure of the universe suggests that there may be hard limits to what we can know about the cosmos as a whole.
"Completely paranoid made up q-anon level nonsense" from the New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Associated Press, and many others? I think not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/world/middleeast/book-rev...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/gchq-targete...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

https://apnews.com/article/b25197d5b11740b2b29681bbc521a45f

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-fore...
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The App Store sets a pretty low bar.
Canon Bubble Jet Technology [video]
The people of Chad? Oh wait, I forgot that Africans aren't capable of self-governance /s
> Dennett is denying the existence of qualia altogether

Not quite. Dennett's thesis is that qualia are illusions, not that they don't exist. Illusions exist, they are just sensory perceptions that don't reflect any actual underlying physical reality.

> The idea of a necessary explanation is that the answer to the question of "why?" is that it must be that way

Yes, I know that's the idea. But you can't get past the anthropic principle. Even if that is not the ultimate explanation, the fact that it could be, and the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that humans are not privileged in any way, means that even if there is a better answer, we can never find it because we can never rule out the anthropic principle. We have to make our peace with that, just as we have to make our peace with the Second Law and the halting problem.

> Well, the discipline of philosophy also includes people pointing out reasons why such arguments don't work, which seems worthwhile, just like science includes reasons why arguments for the flatness of the earth are untenable and reasons why the roundness of the earth is a far better explanation for the data.

Actually, scientists don't spend a lot of time debunking flat-earthers. They just write them off as crackpots who are not worth the bother. You're not going to get an NSF grant to study whether or not the earth is round.
Why everything is becoming a game
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099135
Take a look at Vagrant! https://www.vagrantup.com/ In my admittedly limited understanding I believe it offers closer to a Nix like reproducable rather than repeatable deployments. Like Nix I beleive you can also hash verify each VM to be confident you have the same image.
Is an ideal response one so thoroughly perfect that nobody has anything to say after it? Or is leaving some room for continuation good until it's excessively so?
I'm really tired of arguments like this. The US (and West as a whole) are not a bunch of angels, of course. But the kind of censorship, state-mandated propaganda, and market control you see from China is not even remotely comparable to the situation in the West. Equating the two is at best uninformed, at worst disingenuous or actively malicious.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099135
This is a good business model. I can see the product for free and if I have a use for more than personal level of access I can buy.
Oh, the demo doesn't load with uBlock Origin.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
Is there an open source solution which I can self host without paying anything?

E2b is doing great stuff but it is way too expensive and we users do not like that. What is a solution for that?
If you email hn@ycombinator.com I'll try to help.

All YC's group partners are speaking at Startup School today so it might be hard to wrangle one immediately!
> causing pains that discourage mappers from contributing

Like not rendering (bus dedicated) roads despite them being tagged as (bus dedicated) roads using a tag approved by the community three and a half years ago. The openstreetmap.org website currently shows gaps all over the world wherever bus dedicated roads exist. This certainly discourages for mappers.

Compare:

Carto (default):

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.32853/5.04991&layer...

Tracestrack Topo:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.32853/5.04991&layer...
How I tricked iOS into giving me EU features
Thanks. Great tip for iPads but probably doesn't work with Kindle devices.
> the JIT only knows about those that happened in the past.

This is typically handled by assuming that all future calls will be representative of past calls. Then you add a (cheap) check for that assumption and fall back to interpreter or an earlier JIT that didn't make that assumption.

This can actually be better than AOT because you may have some incredibly rare error path that creates a second call to the function. But you are better off compiling that function assuming that the error never occurs. In the unlikely case it does occur you can fall back to the slower path and end up faster overall. Unless the AOT compiler wants to emit two specializations of the function the generated code needs to handle all possible cases, no matter how unlikely.

Of course in practice AOT wins. But there are many interesting edge cases where a JIT can pull off an optimization that an AOT compiler can't do.
> This is not complicated: If you run a telegraph wire between El Paso and Juárez, the executive has the Constitutional authority to tap it to intercept communication to or from a non-citizen not in the United States, warrant-free.

That's not correct at all. It would only fall under federal overview if it's commercial (Article 1 section 8 clause 3 of the constitution gives congress the right to regulate commerce with foreign nations).

The Feds don't just get to do anything they want by default. All powers that aren't specifically given to the feds are defaulted to either the states or the people.
By the way: logicians sometimes pedantically draw a distinction between ‘recursion’ and ‘induction’: induction is for proving things; recursion is for defining things.

And it’s not just terminological: the difference becomes very important when you realise one needs to prove that recursion is possible (that is, function definitions by recursion on a well-ordered set are well-defined) by induction. So one actually comes logically before the other.

I guess to truly determine whether they’re distinct concepts you’d have to exhibit some model of set theory that supports recursion but not induction, or something. But that’s beyond me.
I don't think the problem is slave labour. I think it's just that the Chinese companies don't seem to care about undercutting themselves, and will instead sell as much as they can to whoever will buy.

I can go on Alibaba and buy batteries directly from Eve Energy Co for reasonable prices-- batteries that I could stick in my homebuilt electric car, or do exactly whatever I wanted with. I can buy synthetic crystals, quartz, yttria stabilized zirconia monocrystals, sapphire boules, etc.

In the west all these things are locked up. You can't buy them if you're an ordinary person, so no one buys them to experiment on.

A western car manufacturer wouldn't sell batteries to an individual, nor would his supplier. But in China they don't care, if you pay, you get it.

Of course, upon all this, they're also strategic. The government actually analyses things and figures out critical technologies for the future and makes sure that a decent number of people are working seriously on them, that they do this as a job, and with the intent of actually realising large-scale production with real impact.
I can't install Arch on OVH Cloud. It's by far my favourite distro, tbh.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067556
It's entirely different than unfair. Communism would be a fully-ergodic system, but it's also very unfair and undesirable.
Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too good to release
That reminds me of Wellington's response under similar circumstances.

A former lover tried to blackmail Wellington. His response was 'Publish and be damned.' It was published to the delight of many. But he still went on to become Prime Minister.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rear-window-when-wellin...
When I was a kid, my dad and the neighbor put a gate between our yards, so we could play with each other
> user: enderfusion
> created: July 21, 2015
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Interesting - and WELCOME!
> But that’s not how you find business opportunities in the real world. You can’t just say I’m going to pivot, and suddenly a good opportunity lands on your lap from heaven. You get good ideas by embracing randomness for a long time, until something looks like it has a fighting chance of paying off. The pivot idea you were forced to come up with is extremely unlikely to be one.

This is in general true, but I fail to see how that's against the idea of pivoting as advocated by YC. We find out interesting pivoting ideas by doing, and one of the most effective way is to get ideas by exploring adjacent areas while we invest deeply into an area the we are are interested in. That is, we discover by doing. Is that what the startups do?
It isn't one company. It's a bill granting the government tremendous power to ban near arbitrary content from 'foreign adversaries.' TikTok will be the first, but not the last. You can read the bill here. [1] Similarly, the Great Firewall of China did not start with a bill to defacto ban all foreign content. It started with this paragraph:

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Individuals are prohibited from using the Internet to: harm national security; disclose state secrets; or injure the interests of the state or society. Users are prohibited from using the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit information that incites resistance to the PRC Constitution, laws, or administrative regulations; promoting the overthrow of the government or socialist system; undermining national unification; distorting the truth, spreading rumors, or destroying social order; or providing sexually suggestive material or encouraging gambling, violence, or murder. Users are prohibited from engaging in activities that harm the security of computer information networks and from using networks or changing network resources without prior approval.

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[1] - https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/TIKTOK_xml_a8572d67bb....
Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
oh i just meant this in general about transaction cases, i actually think bitcoin sucks compared to ethereum
Love the insights. I agree the lack of principles and stability has taken away soft power.
Looks really interesting. Found it free to stream on Plex: https://l.plex.tv/mR6jp
Part of being an interesting contrarian is that you have to actually be right about stuff. Simply espousing the opposing view to the popular view is going to be wrong more often than not.
Most cloud providers don't provide NixOS, e.g. I use OVH Cloud. IIUC, there is a way to run a script that will delete my OS and install Nix, but I think there might be side effects like cloud-specific network setup which will probably be too much for me :)

Edit: But NixOS looks really good, I have to agree. I guess 'immutability' will let me just install and forget about it.
For two publicly-reachable services I personally run, I decided the way that involved the least work and was most likely to be low-drama -- initially, and ongoing -- was to just put them on separate $5/month Linodes running Debian Stable.

My personal wiki has very short notes on how to rebuild each from scratch. (Pretty much: push Linode Web site buttons to make a new Debian Stable instance, get a shell and do this `apt install` command line, and edit config file like so). Data gets pushed/pulled via simple shell scripts run on laptop (usually using SSH and rsync).

Separate from those services, my GPU server is a separate box at home, and frequently changing at a low level, so blasting it entirely a few times has made pragmatic sense, so I'm glad it's not sharing config complexity any other resources. And setting up the large ML stacks down to proprietary drivers sometimes is initially very experimental, and I need to do it manually first anyway, not yet ready to make a Dockerfile or set up passthrough for containers, and after the experiment works, there's no reason to do that. Were I making a production setup, or something reproducible by others, I'd do more after the initial experiment setup.

Wrangling much more complex layers atop (e.g., K8s, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, NixOS, etc.) sometimes means more things that can go wrong, and sometimes more time spent learning someone else's bureaucracy. Most of tech work now is learning piles of other people's bureaucracy. That makes sense for businesses that actually need that complexity, and for people who just want to copy&paste cargo-cult command lines and hopefully it works, and for people who want to homelab it for experience (which is perfectly valid). But the way I run my important services and my experimental box seemed to be easier overall.

Of course, for curiosity/resume/masochism purposes, I do have a separate K8s cluster at home, which runs nothing important, and which I can obliterate and change and experiment with at will, without being encumbered by it running services I actually need.
Or if it had a mood sensor, and scrolled >>rapidly<< downwards if distress detected, with the logic that the user would never be satisfied with the amount of dopamine generated from any amount of doomscrolling performed.
I don't think it's delusional, I think it's intentional. The people writing and backing this bill are fully aware that the sale is not going to happen. The sale provision is merely there so Congress can say they're being reasonable, that they're not trying to take TikTok away from the millions of people in the US that use it. That if it ends up having to be banned, that's on China for not accepting the "reasonable" alternative that was presented to them.

Whether or not most TikTok users in the US will buy this bit of malarkey is another questions.
I never said or implied in any way MKBHD or other reviewers should feel compelled to protect the companies they review.
I chose an example of landlords playing games in Ireland. The only generalizable fact across the western world is low interest rates from 2007-2022 and the landlord class continuing to jack up rents every time they got more access to cheap money. That's the problem.
I'm waiting for your onions!
Parsing is hard and this definitely beats having to write ad-hoc parsers for stuff. I worry we're essentially reinventing a less verbose form of SQL though.
It should not be possible to “ban” software. I am appalled that the government, in collusion with OS vendors, can tell me what software I’m allowed to run on my personal devices.

In an ideal world, TikTok would be prevented from doing business in the US, but everyone would continue to download the TikTok client and act like nothing happened. Just like with Napster and BitTorrent.
True, but the overhead is large. I graded into linear algebra and intro calculus, so there were a lot of students - I think 150 or so - and most of them were wrong.

Graders know that wrong homework takes much longer than correct homework to grade. It's correct? Full marks, move on. Is it wrong? Well, how wrong is it? Did they make a bad assumption, but followed it through to its conclusion? Did they forget a minus sign? Or is it complete hogwash?

So it might not be 10 hours, but still would be around 8 hours. And that's still too much.
Say what you will about MS (and I said a lot when I worked at Lotus on the mainframe port of Lotus 1-2-3) but they knew what was important for success.

A spreadsheet on it's own is a thing of technical beauty but for market domination you don't want to keep pouring resources into that one product, you want a suite of complimentary products.

You want to be able to embed your spreadsheet into a document, into a slide presentation. You want cutting and pasting to work sensibly between products. You want consistency in the menus and layouts.

Bill Gates understood all of this from the beginning, the same as he understood that the strength of a PC operating system is not how reliable, memory safe and performant it is, it's in how flashy it looks and how important the windows paradigm is.
Antivirus is useful for those who are tech illiterate, like those who will click on any link and install whatever it is that comes out of it.

Antivirus is likely not useful for the vast majority of users that regularly browse HN.
> The built-in Windows defense tool – appropriately called Windows Defender – has gone from being virtually useless to pretty robust and experts agree that it’s adequate for most users.

Agreed. Last time I saw a third-party antivirus in a Windows machine was 10 years ago and it was due to company policy.
Probably none, or very few, but the reason for that is China doesn't allow local companies to be majority-owned by foreign entities in the first place.

Another, somewhat equivalent answer to your question is, "all of them".
You’re going to need to substantiate “irresponsible” a lot more than “he said an opinion that he actually factually holds to a lot of people”.

Who was harmed? What was the source of that harm? What was the moral or ethical failing that caused the harm?

I think you have cause and effect mixed up.
For the existing models is beam-search like methods hopeless due to combinatorial explosion? Are there no smart ways to improve it? Evaluating multiple futures will be slow but if it means that the model can give vastly better output, it might be a worthwhile trade-off in some cases. I feel like our standard way of sampling the output of the LLMs is a bit too simplistic and my hunch is that it should be possible to get a lot more out of them even if it means losing speed.
Where Does Culture Come From?
I wouldn't go the route and use a VPS for personal stuff, ever.
Or a Cloud Provider for that matter.

Find a Hoster which offers you a shell login where the Hoster manages close to all services you need, including backups, security updates and so on.

That should massively simplify your setup.
>4. That a 1.25% chance of creating a company worth more than a billion is a bad outcome

Slight logical problem, or unclear or poor wording here:

A chance is quite different from an outcome.

The first is in the future (chance), while the second is in the past (outcome).

A (1.25% or other) chance means something may happen.

An outcome means something did happen.

Also, a 1.25% chance in the past does not in the least imply the same chance in the future. See stock trading, for example.
It seems it would take less time for Instructure, Inc. (makers of the mentioned software) to fix this than it took do this research.

Anyone know whether this is happening, and if not why not?
10% of users but I would suspect that they are more than 10% of the profits.