skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these are examples that highlight our tendency to panic about things

No, they are examples that highlight the tendency of certain sorts of people to panic about things. You're over-focusing on the objects and under-focusing on the subjects.

There are two heuristics at work here:

1. People have been talking smack about AI for a long time. Remember that GPT-2 was advertised as too dangerous to release. GPT 2. Google claimed Imagen was too dangerous to release. Others claimed open source models were dangerous. Or that foundation models were too dangerous. This has been a pattern for a while. A bunch of people believed them and became AI safety extremists. Then ChatGPT made a much better version available to all, including image generation and ... it was fine. The world didn't get more dangerous.

Data point: the people who said AI safety wasn't a real problem were correct. The people who said everyone should panic were wrong. It makes sense to generalize from this experience.

2. There is a certain class of person, let's call them intellectuals, whose status and income depends on their production of attention-grabbing claims. If these people stop being interesting then their careers shrivel and die. This leads such people to prioritize making claims that are optimized for virality, but not optimized for being true. Claiming the world will end if they aren't listened to is the natural evolutionary end-game here because it's impossible to be more attention-grabbing or viral than that.

Data point: intellectuals specifically have made a long stream of claims about supposedly world-ending risks, which were later falsified.

Data point: Since leaving psychiatry, Scott Alexander is primarily a public intellectual. it is important for him to make several interesting claims a week, which is not very easy. So it's expected for him to be attracted to claims like AI X-Risk regardless of genuine risk, and he's a very intelligent guy so can easily convince himself of things he'd like to be true (not in this case that X-Risk is high, but that X-Risk should be considered as if it might be high).

Add it up and what you see is that the people in society who ignore intellectualist catastrophizing are repeatedly the winners. Sam Altman got his researcher's fantasies under control, got AI launched and are now the big winner. Other AI groups (Google) stayed in fantasy-land for far too long and were dragged kicking and screaming back to reality, and they are not the big winners.
Planet 9 should be Neptune.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Orcus, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, etc.

If you want Pluto back you have to take Charon as well! Don't discriminate, accept all the astronomical bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium orbiting the Sun!
But that makes sense.

I am a cynic, and I believe the real reason that nothing is being done, is because telecom companies love robocallers (they make a lot of money, and don't get bothered too much for customer service -I saw the same thing with spam emailers and fraudsters. Hosting providers love them, because they buy a lot of product, and don't ask for much customer service).

I also think that politicians don't want to address it, because they use them, and people really don't like political robocalls, because they can be downright noxious.
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Really? Why?

Let's look at Google's business:

- They own and operate the largest ad network in the world

- They own the most widely used mobile platform in the world and have many ways they can generate revenue from that platform

- The sales of Chromebooks is on par with the sales of MacBooks, and like their Android mobile platform, provides many ways to generate revenue

- They own the most widely used email client in the world which they use to get better consumer data to support their ad network

- 'Google' is synonymous with web search. People will say "let me Google that" and then proceed to use whatever web search engine they prefer, which is still overwhelmingingly Google.

I'll close with this - I've never heard someone say one of their goals is to limit the amount of time they use one of Google's services, but I've heard several people say they intend to use Facebook and Instaqgram less. If we look out 50 years I have more faith in Google still being around and being relevant than I do in Meta still being around.
Yep. The author complains that there used to be plucky startups with Open Core business models who've now gone "extinct", while simultaneously sharpening their pitchforks because those same companies got successful and _slightly_ amended their licenses to prevent loosing revenue against IaaS giants so that they can, in turn, continue innovating. I guess money grows on trees where they live.
You're being down voted for telling the truth, which is extremely inconvenient. Notice all the debate in this thread is about partisan score keeping and no one is able to explain why they want these rules back after all their predictions of terrible doom failed to happen. They need them back so they can claim doom was just around the corner if they hadn't been passed. The longer they went without being in effect, the more difficult it would be to explain why the doom never came to be.

It is 100%, Grade A partisan score keeping to preserve future doomsaying without being called out on this absolutely failed predictions. Looks as bad for the doomsayers as a Bush administration's doomsaying about Weapons of Mass Destruction piling up in Iraq, ready to attack the US if we didn't invade. Incredible what people will let their partisan brains twist reality into. Of course, when this is used against them in the future, they'll scream like banshees, claiming it's unprecedented. This is the power of a brain addicted to partisanism.
The goal here seems to be to incentivise bandwidth-sharing, but this is not the main problem.

For a "decentralized youtube" to ever make sense, the problems that need solving are how to compensate content-creators/owners, and how to prevent piracy.
How is that ruthless? If their prices suck wouldn't you just switch to another provider?
It's incredible just how long the Iberian fascist regimes lasted. I imagine that if you polled a set of random people from the street, and asked when they thought the last war for colonial indepence from a European power was, very few would answer "the 1979s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War
>EUV was cracked

More like it was started. There were a ton of gnarly problems left that took over ten years and billions of € to solve.

Producing a few flashes of EUV and getting a few photons on the target is relatively easy. Producing a lot of EUV for a long time and getting a significant fraction (...like 1%) of the photons on the target is very hard.
Reminds me of people blaming UberEats/DoorDash for their poor financial situation.

AWS sells a convenient service, if you cannot afford that service maybe just don't use it?
It seems in a lot of europe people are over the cycle and are thinking that going ultra right is a Good Plan again. Portugal voted way too right these elections.
One iconic photo:
https://bit.ly/3y2dYej
TikTok in the US is not run by the Chinese parent directly, it's run by a US-based company called TikTok U.S. Data Security
Also - it's completely free open access, but you can also buy a copy here if you like spending money: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/tor/
It really depends on your needs and your staff, but 3x $50/mo servers in 3 different data centers will give you excellent uptime and performance. You could host millions of page loads a month with that.
It’s a business. It will by default do the easiest and least riskiest thing to make as much money as possible.
I always joke that we already have ‘AI-like’ entities: corporations are algorithms that ravage everything in their way to profit.

We have a lot of cross-disciplinary work to do to keep these paper clip optimizers in check.
> You need more than this to get on an aeroplane, but that also applies to domestic flights in the UK.

Can you clarify what you mean by "more than this"?

I've travelled on many domestic flights within the UK, and ID is not routinely checked.

> If this was your best example of governments lying and changing the rules

Ouch.

The common travel area has its origins way back in 1923, the rules are clear, no-one is lying.

It's just that it's hard to prove you are entitled to its benefits without having an ID document with you that - if you're entitled - it says you don't have to have with you...
Just to give you a concrete example:

We use grape-api for some of our API endpoints. I needed to set some custom cache headers for some GET API responses and was looking into gems that do that for grape. They have a list of 6 libraries in their docs [1] that they recommend.

Their newest commits were 4, 9, 9, 10, 8 and 9 years ago, respectively. This is just one example, but I would bet half of the libraries in our transitive dependency tree haven't seen any maintenance in this decade.

https://www.ruby-grape.org/projects/ [1]
If you want to accelerate LLMs, you will need to know the architecture first. Start from that. The hardware is actually both the easy (design) and the hard part (manufacturing).
Yeah my experience is that, like you said, it's good for configuration, and beside this it only generates utils it has seen before.

The thing is I don't need to rewrite a function I've seen before, I'll use a library or framework that anyways offers all of that.
https://archive.is/no1cS
To sell hardware just like any other hardware & software company.

At least it is not a complete subscription on the device itself or a SaaS for once.
How does this compare with Dragula.js
Hey Noa thank you for trying it out!

I really appreciate the feedback and will definitely take it into consideration.

The model is definitely not perfect yet lol.
Has AIPAC in particular said this too? Because I've seen JFNA's letter to Congress encouraging a ban but nothing from AIPAC so far.
It's boring? It's like when an old person makes a joke they make every time you see them. It's utterly boring and devoid of joy.

You do you but indifference turns to resentment.
Came here thinking it was the Saas Chime. Delighted it was the physical chime.
Title could use a 2021 in it to frame it as being separate from the current restoration of net neutrality.

It’s really unfortunate that, as far as I can see, there were zero consequences for this behavior. Maybe it’s lack of evidence tying it to the companies, but there didn’t seem to be serious attempts to investigate or curtail future behavior.
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Yes this is the exact effect I am aiming for. There's just something about watching yourself from a different perspective that lets you have fresh judgment on it as if it were a different person.
I'm looking for exactly this.
> Then banks invade my privacy, the DMV invades my privacy, etc.

That is a reasonable and factually accurate statement.

> There's always tradeoffs, I respect people's concern about them, and I wish there was a gentler to say it.

The tradeoff here is astonishingly bad. Studies have shown that AML/KYC have an effectiveness of less than a fraction of one percent. They continue to proliferate because their largest costs fall on the users rather than the companies, so they're the thing that large corporations suggest as a "solution" when they're being pressured to do something. Because people have the perception that it will do some good, even though that perception is inaccurate.

In reality what they do is provide a means to satisfy "something must be done" in a way that dumps the costs on marginalized users instead of politicians and corporations.
I don't think saying "They collected payment for a service they then did not provide" is necessarily blaming them, it's just saying that if you collect money for something they customer does not receive you have no grounds to hold on to the money.
Actual article: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/04/vulnerabilities-across-keyboar...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149332
It's interesting, when TX which looked like a winner with HQ moving there three years ago, is now left scratching their heads as Oracle keeps on trucking to another state. It's just those wonderful market incentives working "as intended". In three more years HQ will move again to Mississippi or something.

Another reason for these kind of moves is to shed workforce without going through layoffs. People with higher salaries, mortgages, houses, family will choose to resign instead relocating to TN perhaps, while new college grads, with lower salaries might be more willing to move.
About retail coming back: I wouldnt be surprised if dollar stores (dollar tree etc) took advantage of Wal-Mart's departures
If you read me as saying making and selling proprietary software was wrong, you read a very different text from what I wrote. Making and selling software is perfectly fine, and building that software on top of libraries specifically released for that purpose is equally fine.

Open source licenses that in perpetuity lock you out of any form of gains from your own work, even when that work is the very backbone of someone else's non-open-source, for-pay product, are morally objectionable licenses.
The higher or lower learning curve for a language has no impact on when you stop learning, only on when you stop learning the language (or making significant gains in learning the language, since there's likely some corner you still don't know or know well).

If you stop learning just because you've mastered a language and learning the language was not your actual goal, you've failed. You should continue learning by applying the language to solve problems, which, unless you solve the same things over and over again, offers plenty of opportunities for continued learning.
Thank you! I appreciate it. I see your email :)
Arguably there's an energy cost to running that software as well that's wasted. Plus potential waste on cloud providers adding hardware to support it all.
"TikTok" in the US is already a US-based company in LA.
I’m looking forward to this book, but do we really need to debate all these little issues and angles as a society? Or can we just say these companies are too big and need to be split up and face fair competition? I feel like our response is always to waste years on some small aspect in courts instead of making a meaningful broad change to antitrust law.
I wrote my Vision Pro killer app (Script Anchor)
Here is what immediately comes to my mind.

- Figure out a way to parameterize joints
- Create an automated evaluator that uses finite element analysis
- Evolve joints with a genetic algorithm
So do the senior executives all work remotely after they moved HQ out of Cali?

There are a number of them that I cannot imagine living in Tennessee, despite various advantages to doing so.
As long as you can only train an AI with an AI in an adversarial context, and not do something like training a LLM on another LLM without degradation, I think we can still sleep fine. Once it isn't true anymore, we'll find ourselves in interesting times.
Then how do you explain these?

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/anony...
I think it's "bad" only in so far as social and cultural pressure may have dissuaded some talented young women from a great career in STEM.

Also, if we as a society want and need more engineers and scientists, we want to broaden the talent pool to the extent possible.
PalmOS was a decently civilized platform to develop against. I remember using the CodeWarrior IDE to build a little portable app for managing parking meters. Using XModem over RS-232 you could update the machines' configuration, download transaction records, etc.

We were using the HP-95X before that, and the Tandy 102 even earlier. The Palm was a sexy modern alternative to those clunky platforms.
> Unfortunately, if you have a contentious issue

At it's core, it is a technical issue - primarily network management. Under NN framework, ISPs would adhere to minimal straightforward rules that would disallowed them from prioritizing, throttling, capping, purposefully degrading, etc wireline networks. For most of 2 decades, this is where NN lived.

In apparent response to NN becoming reality, ISP funded representatives began echoing the talking points of ISP lobbyist groups and contention was born.
The ISP customers already paid for that. The ISP customer already paid for the bandwidth, hardware, and all other costs. Not sure why this is confusing for you. The ISP isn't paying more because Bob next door decides to watch netflix for a few hours a night.

>Who do you think is paying?

The customer..? Are you really confused about this?
As much as I support the decision are we just going to keep playing this game flipping back and forth across administrations?
Those “robber barons” are also the source of most tech jobs and how most of us here earn a living
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That has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality.
Nice idea.

So to recap:

1) Nango supplies easier-use-to-use wrappers over a host of common APIs, making the most common operations simpler. Nango generally handles auth, logging, pagination.

2) Nango is extensible through custom scripts when your use case falls outside the common ones.

Question 1) Nango provides some consistency to the APIs in its wrapper so, to some extent, you are learning the "nango way" vs hundreds of bespoke ways?

Question 2) How do you handle API churn with hundreds of APIs supported? On any given day, there's got to be a decent chance of something changing that breaks you?
> Now I want the story of the 9000 bytes MTU.

* 2018: https://blog.dave.tf/post/jumbo-frames/

* April 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35647779
> By design, Congress is unable to do anything. It's either one party (always the same party) being completely obstructionist, even other presidential appointments, or if a rotating villain who defects and stops any meaningful legislation.

Don't pretend like the Democrats wouldn't be just as obstructionist if it suited their political objectives.

What we actually have is lack of consensus, and excessively polarized factions that are unwilling to budge to create a consensus (or rather waste their energy making a great deal of noise on non-consensus issues and nonstarters and bickering with each other).
The advertising market in the US pretty much eclipses the whole rest of the world, so yes the owners are very likely to sell it to appease a single country.
The overruling of Chevron is not about stripping power from federal agencies, it's about determining who should resolve ambiguities in regulations. Should it be the agency itself, or should it be the branch of government whose job it is to "say what the law is"?

That being said, I don't think Chevron deference has a part to play when it comes to Net Neutrality flip flopping all the time - these are not ambiguous regulations. In that sense I don't agree with the person you're replying to - Loper Bright won't help here. Now, if you want to say that the FCC doesn't have the authority to issue this rule, that's something that was always reviewable by the courts.

The concept that would actually attempt to strip power from agencies is the nondelegation doctrine. While I suspect that has support among a few justices, it would be a very radical change and there is no case on the horizon that I'm aware of that would be a vehicle to implement it.
1. I don't think this could be called seamless. But I just don't use the normal Nix-Darwin installer. I:

a. build darwin-rebuild from the Nix-Darwin flake
b. do a darwin-rebuild build --flake of the target system
c. delete all of the files Nix-Darwin will complain about colliding with upon first install, including `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
d. run the activation scripts in the built system directly, like
./result/activate-user
sudo ./result/activate

For (d), make sure you run them in that order because it's actually the user activation script which ensures that /run/current-system exists.

For (c), just inspect the files in `result/etc` (or wherever you put the symlink to your built system, or directly from the Nix store) and compare them to what already exists in `/etc`, e.g.,

find result/etc/ -type l | sed -E 's|^result||g' | xargs -I{} sh -c "test -f '{}' && echo '{}'"

should give you a list of files to nuke or back up or whatever, if you're trying to automate this.

2. Nix-Darwin has its own uninstaller whose job is to go remove all the references to `/etc/static` from `/etc` and some launchd crap, which are the bits and pieces that the Determinate Nix Installer finds and complains about when you try to uninstall Nix with an active Nix-Darwin installation. The uninstaller gets installed by default (try `less $(which darwin-uninstaller)`), but if it's missing for some reason you can also run it from the flake like `nix run github:LnL7/nix-darwin#darwin-uninstaller`.
It’s true but “keep the government from grinding to a halt due to pure inaction” is kind of the absolute minimum bar for congress that I don’t think it’s reasonable to call it a win.
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Bing bing bing!!!

Your just a hair off the mark its dollar general. And its next level fuckery there too:

https://www.businessinsider.com/dollar-general-overcharging-...
Perhaps it's also time for a new generation of antitrust protections with our newer, expanded understanding about how companies undermine competition: oligpolies that are technically not monopolies, price collusion (rather than explicit price fixing), undercutting to extreme levels to put others out of business, SLAPP lawsuits, etc. If we're going insist on a "free market", then a highly competitive market is in our best interest.
This consensus doesn't exist. Computers have been designating targets and commanding attacks since at least the 60s. The Phalanx CIWS for example is designed to be run in fully automatic mode, choosing which radar contacts to engage and when to open fire on them. There's even already been friendly fire incidents from the system.

Modern anti-ship missiles, torpedos, and BVR missiles also are designed with the ability to "go to this point in space and then find yourself a target and kill it"

We automated target selection and tasking in warships shortly after the second world war, to combat the fact that we expected the soviets to send 200 missiles at a task force at once, and didn't think humans could manage that kind of task load.

If you turn the right keys in an Arleigh Burke, every single human can leave the command part of the ship and it will still shoot planes out of the sky, all automated.
Wayland? Sure does. I have been using sway for a while with three monitors; two of them 1080p, one 1440p.
I think at this point it's undisputed that modern society relies on a lot of permissively licensed software, and the people who maintain that software aren't getting paid enough (or at all) to do it. xz is only the most recent example, NTP and OpenSSL come to mind.

I used to do OSS development full time, but it wasn't financially sustainable for me.
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I don't know about that, but I've used it to reprogram the i2c EEPROM in SFP transceivers. Cooking up a little board to make that easy, actually; I'll publish the files as soon as I prove the prototype works.