skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your original post didn't just posit a "dystopian" future. "...even the overwhelming majority AI experts coming out and saying there is at least 20% chance of a global catastrophe or even risk of extinction".

You're the one bringing up the prospect of extinction. Extinction! And a 20% chance at that. So no, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask about how we arrive at that outcome. Because there's a massive distinction between "dystopian" and "extinction".
No U.S. bank executive is worth over $30 billion.
Check your link? It isn't working for me.
It's probably some of the culprit. But we've had 20% CPI since 2020, so it doesn't wholly explain everything in a "double the money, double the inflation" way. And a higher money supply doesn't mean that quality of life is worse either, since I'm sure you wouldn't want to go back to the 1930 US economy with vastly less money supply. If we could 2x the money supply again and get 1.1x goods & services for it, we should. Ultimately, I'm still not saying that recent inflation / money supply was good, just that you can't simply conclude that "because money supply went up, it's worse for people now."
> Braves success

Brave has <1% market share.
Read it, and that's my response. I get it, we could be more like the U.S.A. in the way we operate by removing / changing some of the obstacles we have for business. I don't want that.
Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt
CZ is wise, the opposite of SBF. He willingly pled guilty and got to keep his Binance majority stake worth tens of billions. He didn't run his mouth endlessly and gift a case to prosecutors like SBF did. Most importantly, he let people trade shady shitcoins but never stole customer funds.
He'll spend just four months in a minimum security prison, come out and sail into the sunset with his billions. If you make things easy for prosecutors, especially as a first-time offender, they'll make things easy for you.

I don't admire crypto, but CZ played his cards well. Bloomberg quipped that he'll hold the title of richest inmate in the US, lol
There is no proof that Google refuses AI content. As long as it is helpful, it ranks just like any other - proof are the websites using this tool and growing in rankings (screenshot on the website).
What complaining. There weren't paved paths before. Whatever one person learned was different from how anyone else did it. Few of the tools had anywhere near the essential capabilities, serving o ly some tiny niche of the use cases in some tool specific limited way.

Look at all the different netsevs supported by systemd-networkd. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst... This is a huge list of tools that required a huge assortment of tools to do before, few of which had even part way decent management & fewer still had good init scripts. You used to have to learn from 0 each time, with each tool. Nothing was alike, nothing was as capable, nothing was integrative.

Don't listen to these complainers, for God sake. Your life is too short to get pissed off about well built work together featureful tools being built in a mono-repo fashion.

I'm so tired of the sabotage, so tired of broadscale general refusenik attitudes. This post is absurd. There was nothing to learn before, everything was 100% special snowflake & distinct. None of it was great, all of it was limited. Systemd mono-repo is built of many small pieces, but they couple together and are 100x more learnable. What you learn today will work across whatever system you run across. It's such a a better world, and these "pry it from my cold dead fingers" attitude can keep to that path for all I care, but I wish they weren't poisoning kinds with absurd incorrect negativity & being such magnets for disdain. The world today is fantastic & you rarely see these folks with even an iota of appreciation for how good we have it, never a drop of balance. But hate sells, & unites, powerfully.
If you're on AWS you can use something like Athena or you can load data from csv/parquet in S3 into Redshift. But yeah, not directly within RDS Postgres to my knowledge.
None of the examples in the article even hint Microsoft products need to be involved, let alone as the sole source to trace scams down to using. It certainly plays a part but so do the same sorts of things you say don't have any problems. I.e. it's not really a tech focused problem, though tech may be able to help some still.

Another question is how much of a problem it really is vs the options. 3.4 billion is a lot but in terms of US retirement savings it's also not really a lot at all. That can sway how much it's worth trading off in a solution.
the real problem for these loss-leaders is they all too often wind up on city ledgers, retirement and pension funds. these companies treat water and burn money, generate enormous value for the shareholder short-term, but eventually die and take an enormous amount of wealth with them.
AFAIK, diesel hybrid locomotives don't have traction batteries though.

Many actually have big radiators to dissipate energy regenerated while going downhill by their electric traction motors.

Hopefully, as batteries get less expensive this changes.
> you probably can pick dates to make any investment strategy look good

But buying internet stocks in 1999 is the worst year. What happens if you buy gold in 1979?
Seems troubling for the recent vendors Ford and Rivian that just signed on to be users of the Supercharger network if the thing now has high odds of (figuratively) rusting away without support.

I wonder if Tesla is in any breaches of contracts that they may have signed with these companies, and how much Ford/Rivian paid for acccess.
But you are free to change your manager and hire a new one
The solution to people’s income instability is government subsidy. Levying the costs of this risk on individual businesses both entrenches existing large players and disincentivizes new businesses.
What!? you didn't add a versioned database layer on a server with code stored in clearcase that stored those ClearCase config specs to manage the configuration of your config specs to manage the configuration of your version control system that had your application configuration in it?! How did you even operate? /s
CZ of Binance sentenced to 4 months in prison
Fixing imaginary problems that nobody wanted nor needed. We need more meaningful fixing beyond questionable apps and speculative lotteries.

Maybe the wider problem is the belief as tech as a messianic device, as you mention. Technology is great, but like anything it needs more warmth rather than more money grabbing.
Any word on a Europe launch?
Can you elaborate on what you meant by trackable when they're "continously in close proximity to you"?
Good question. The answer ain't 'nobody', is it? It's almost as though, perhaps, we don't know the whole picture.
> The 15 launches is a big deal, because it requires either a dozen or so Starship Tanker full stacks,

It's more a logistics problem than anything else. If a Superheavy and Tanker takes 3 weeks to relaunch, you build 3 to launch weekly and 21 to launch daily. Now you need to have 21 processing facilities and 21 times more people to do that. Launch pads, landing pads, and Mechazillas don't need that long to recover, so you can build just a couple extra ones with each one serving a group of processing facilities.
What an embarrassment to anyone in the DEA or public policy in general that this is still a thing.

Not sure how the DEA can consider itself a serious organization.
I think the "swap station" idea is pretty close to what we have now and would transition easiest. Fuel deliveries are typically dispatched on a route that will service more than one location (unless it's an emergency drop), so there's already a distributed refueling system in place to be updated.

You're right that it would take multiple swap stations on nearly any given route that doesn't go too far out of an interstate or frequently traveled highway. So smaller towns or out-of-the-way towns will likely be forced to pay higher costs to get the deliveries using a regular fuel-driven truck, at least until they can solve the EV drive distance issue(s).

I think the biggest point of contention over this will be when Mom-n-Pop stores start going under fast due to the barriers of entry to afford so many expensive, large, and very heavy batteries. That's not even considering possible requirements to use specific machines for safety reasons, which I imagine will also jump when Mom-n-Pop try to wing it.
And in the other corner you have Chomsky with universal grammar... and in another you have Platonic Forms...

I love the "draw me a tree" idea of a Platonic form, we all have an idealized model of what that is, that is uniquely our own. With that in mind isnt everything subject to some sort of semantics?
And Tesla still has employees, but fewer than before.

I was trying to highlight the idea that most workers dont have to rely on having a shitty work product to ensure their job security.

This itself is a reaction to the idea that a job offer is a life long commitment akin to marriage. In a healthy labor market, employers would want to retain talent because it is profitable to do so. I don't employers retaining unproductive employees is a desirable state.
select sum(us_bank_executives) where year >= 2007
No XML, Excel,PDF or CSV support yet.
> He'll spend just four months in a minimum security prison

Probably on work release during the day.

It's not even a time out. He's just going off to sleep at summer camp for a few months.
> Abortion is probably the biggest issue and that's because a lot of the country does not support it and this has not substantially changed in over 50 years: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

I'm sorry, am I reading the data incorrectly, or your comment incorrectly?

> Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?

> 2023 | 34(any) 51(some) 13(illegal) 2(no opinion)

According these data, the vast, vast majority of Americans support the right to abortion, correct?
If you prefer speedy executive action, perhaps American democracy isn't for your tastes.
> In business theres a term called “Total Adressable Market,” or TAM. This is basically everyone in the world who could buy a product in a given category.
What’s the TAM for a product like fishing rods? Well, that would be everyone in the world who likes fishing...

> The reason we mention this is because when Pablo first started selling his art online, he created all his posts strictly in Spanish - his native language.
Over time, he felt that this was limiting him, so he started making posts in both English and Spanish, and then eventually just English.

The bit about cutting out Spanish entirely suggests this is not a lesson in maximizing one’s TAM
Each country needs to weigh the risks of letting a foreign power like those companies control so much of their information access, against the benefit of the services they provide. Of course the United States wants United States companies in every country so the US government isn't going to pass a law prohibiting this out of some odd sense of propriety or altruism. And some countries are likely going to decide wrong in both directions.
Supreme Court Declines to Block Texas Porn Restriction
I dunno man the company pays you 10x your peers for a reason.
Because the world doesn't stand still. If you're stagnating then others pass you by.

Why stagnate now? Why not the economy of the 60s? 70s? 80s?

Today life is significantly better than back then. If Europe stagnates even more then we will still be in the same place in a few decades as we are now.
Rocket Science: From Russia and Bloomberg, with Love
Agree with the sentiment but isn't legal marinol roughly fulfilling that niche of THC pill?

You could already get THC script, in that context this seems like a half hearted concession for flower to stall and poison legalization efforts by giving a victory poisoned with DEA licensing that inserts the nasty tendrils of the weed hating DEA into medical flower.
What is powering the vectorized query execution? Are you embedding something like DataFusion or is it entirely custom? (Also will any of this be open sourced?)
Citation?

Anecdotally in New Zealand, I know plenty of children of immigrants who have done fine. And their parents that don't integrate (sometimes not even speaking English at all).
Emphasis on hints.

And my point is that it can be way too capable.
I think a corollary to the problem of seeking perfection is the notion that there is always a global optimum and that we must be seeking it: a kind of fallacy of the One True Way™. Implicit belief in One True Way™ shows up in many places, like the adoption of "best practices", rather than "preferred practices", or merely conventions. Also in the undertone of many discussions that assume that if there are two solutions to a problem, then (at least) one must be suboptimal.

The concept that I have started leaning on in development is "satisficing"[0], i.e. finding the first solution that satisfies some criteria for acceptability. My new (tacit) motto is "satisfice first, then only optimize if needed."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Years ago some big-name VC or another tweeted "Good enough sucks" and got a ton of attention and praise for their keen insight and commitment to quality. I remember rolling my eyes and thinking, "If it sucks, it wasn't good enough".
There's already two duelling posts [0](13 points, 2 comments) [1](9 points 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215052
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215071
Our customer workloads are bursty, so being able to scale down to 0 (or close to it) saves us a lot of CPU and memory that would otherwise do nothing for most of the day.
This is a directional error. Roe protected liberty. Federal criminalization of weed impedes liberty. While ending both of these things returns policy to the states, one necessarily reduces liberty while one necessarily increases liberty.
> just as Terraform can technically do cloud and local.

I feel as though we're splitting hairs here, given there is, to the best of my knowledge, no `resource remote_file make_sshd_config { inventory_host = "whatever" dest = "/etc/sshd_config" src = "./sshd_config.tmpl" vars = {...} }` in TF. There is template, and there is local_exec and the rest is a Simple Matter Of Programming :-/

I'm waiting patiently for someone to chime in "well, just spawn ansible in local_exec" as if they're missing the point
Is it possible: yes.

Can you write your own home-grown rules engine in Ruby: yes.

Can you use off-the-shelf gems: yes. Here's a few I poked around in my previous explorations into Ruby Rules Engines:

* durable rules - https://github.com/jruizgit/rules?tab=readme-ov-file#ruby

* wongi - https://github.com/ulfurinn/wongi-engine

* rules - https://github.com/azach/rules

* ruleby - https://github.com/Ruleby/ruleby

- bonus: video of original ruleby author explaining rules engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMh2RDL6aBM

edit: It's also possible to write your own Ruby gem in C so that you can pass the handling of the RHS of your rules to a Ruby script.
I'm not sure if simply having an attractive UI is enough to disrupt the browser industry. For Arc to make a dent in the desktop browser market, they need game-changing features like the 'Browse for Me' available on desktop
Hi @Fizzadar and congrats on making this and getting it out the door; kudos!

As you craft your "Why this and not Ansible" content, you might actually state clearly what you already noted on the Performance page, namely: "One of the reasons pyinfra was started was performance of agent-less tools at the time." If I read that, it'd instantly make me want to stick around and read some more, play with pyinfra, etc. BTW, i will be playing with it anyway, but just wanted to point out that you likely won;t need to start from scratch for copy (on a comparison or answering "Why this and not Ansible" content). Cheers!
> because their passports are kept away from Western databases.

Except unless they get arrested in the West and their secret passports fall into Western intelligence hands.

> It doesn’t help to block spy operations, because you can connect passport numbers to specific actions only after they happened

But getting caught must be no fun.

> It doesn’t help breaking plausible deniability to blame Russian government officially, because you would need the hard evidence.

Nonsense. A block of sequential passport numbers for supposedly unrelated people you suspect of being spies is evidence plenty hard enough.
> journalctl supports -f, which by your own account you were already using for tail, so I'm not clear what's worse there

Yeah, this is a bit of an odd complaint. If I were this bothered by having to type those, I'd just make an alias to "journalctl --follow --nopager"` and would have forgotten about it years ago.
How do you (or anyone) personally benefit from "having Crimea"?
I wonder if this has something to do with his China visit. Like is he outsourcing this to someone else like BYD?
Sounds like 'copy & patch compilation' is a close cousin.
Anzu launches US-based licensed clone of DJI Mavic 3
> It is used by hundreds of people daily, who by all reports absolutely hate it.

This made me chuckle because as a software development intern in 1988 (being paid like $8 an hour) I wrote a giant monstrosity of a time tracking program for a local CAD company in an Empress database using its forms builder interface. It was in use for far longer than anyone ever intended and whenever I ran into someone from that company years later they would tell me how bad it was. Sorry guys!
Surely the uniqueness is only required at the bottom end of the stack before the first 'router' ie the cell tower
Thanks for the analysis. I hope the next time someone writes "dancer" and means "professional dancer", they think for a second and write "professional dancer" instead.

Btw:

>> If you pursue professional training to dance, odds are you're a woman.

You mean in the US. Reference, please?
How about a talk by an expert on the topic of noise in an image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RH93UvP358
Physical field technologies for extraction of juices with enhanced quality
Something I was told once by a particle physicist that really resonated with me was that almost every revolution in science and engineering has a direct cause that can be traced back to finally being able to measure some new property or measure some property in an much improved way (this jives with my understanding of most things: as a random example, debugging is generally greatly improved by understanding more of the space of the problem). This seems to be one of those breakthroughs, so I'm cautiously excited. Would be interested in an expert in the field to confirm/temper my excitement.
Don’t forget Corporate PR

I was kinda shocked to see the stats on active editors, laid out fairly well in this report by a source that was banned from Wikipedia by a ridiculously small group

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censor...
Wow, yes, actually something like this. Thanks!
Why compile to Go rather than less-than-ideal (or even slightly-unsafe) Rust?

I find it conceptually compelling, I'm just surprised the target would then be in the GC'd, larger-binary'd direction. Like 'Java expressiveness with C simplicity, transpiles to Java'.

Perhaps 'just' because it's a lot simpler to just expand the target language slightly and then you only have to deal with mapping the new bits into implementation, it's less like writing a compiler for a whole new language?
he was in a well, actually
Any of it has to be done deliberately. The length of the data reveals something about its contents whether it's compressed or not.

The special concern with compression is when attacker-controlled data is compressed against secret data because then the attacker can measure the length multiple times and deduce the secret based not just on the length but on how the length changes when the secret is constant and the attacker-controlled data varies. This can be mitigated with random padding (makes the attack take many times more iterations because it now requires statistical sampling) or prevented by compressing the sensitive data and attacker-controlled data separately.
I read the first 4 words and my mind worryingly filled in the rest.

This was what was conceived in my mind.

First fetus-to-fetus transplant demonstrated in humans.

What is the point of any fetus-to-fetus transplants on any member of the animal kingdom.

In the name of science!

I used to keep 4 pet rats. They are wonderful intelligent pets.

After a few years all 4 of my rats started to develop huge cancerous lumps on their little bodies. My vet said it was cancer and they all needed to be euthanised.

He also told me that over the past 150 years since rats have been used in laboratories the general population of shop bought rats are linked via DNA and this is why shop bought rats are likely to be infected with cancers. He said he sees this all the time.

How about we get hold of these rat scientist and introduce some cancer in their big human bodies to see how they like it!
They rate limited it at some point later in the day. The rate limiting applied to all the other OpenAI models also, but none of the non-OpenAI models. Just another data point of validation.
Drugs aren't just an escape from suffering. I have a very good life. I also like having a beer with friends or, yes, smoking weed with friends. That amplifies an already positive experience.

If you magically eliminated all suffering in my life, I'd still enjoy a beer at dinner.
Related Roger Ver was also indicted and arrested today:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charge...

The real crime there was selling 131k Bitcoin at ~$800 in order to back Bitcoin Cash. That's a ~$7B upside he missed because of block size politics.
This is 100% a privacy concern if you're dealing with state level actors.
CS Master Thesis Topic Ideas
I need to write my master thesis soon. I have trouble finding a relevant and for me exciting topic. Any recommendations?
Cool! Thanks for sharing! didn't know that there is a number of such solutions already.
FFS predates FreeBSD and is in some capacity supported by all 3 major BSDs. I'm fairly confident that Linux actually supports it through the ufs driver ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/ufs ); whether the use of different names in different places makes it better or worse is an exercise for the reader.
When smallpox was eradicated, the WHO organized teams to collect and destroy samples of smallpox used in remote places for variolation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation#Decline IIRC the samples they found were too old and did not contain viable virus, but they were afraid they could start a new smallpox epidemic. So ... I guess they think virus can survive for a long time.
UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine'
I’ve not even heard of this substance. Do US laws allow companies to use any random chemical without any review? Is it a whitelist or blacklist approach and should it be changed? I feel like we have seen companies use something dangerous for decades while its dangers become detectable and until then they get away with it, which isn’t great.
Bots used to just take other popular comments and repost them either in whole copies of threads, as in the example here, or taking a top comment in a new thread and reposting it elsewhere in the same thread. Now they're using LLMs to rephrase comments to try to avoid detection (though they often come across sounding a bit off so they're sometimes easy to spot).
I think the terrible endings are for the books that he has to meet deadlines on. Both Seveneves and Termination Shock suffered, in my opinion, from premature endings.