skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In my area it's next to impossible to find any disposables that contain less than 50mg (5%) nicotine, which is downright criminal."

What do you mean by this? Why would you buy less than 50 mg at a time?

I use snus, and I'd guess it's several mgs per pouch, and I buy something like 200-250 pouches at a time because I'm not a heavy 'snusare' so one roll at roughly 30 bucks lasts more than a month. 50 mg would be, what, like two-three packs of cigarettes?
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-n...

A larger proportion of people diagnosed with mental disorders report cigarette smoking compared with people without mental disorders. Among US adults in 2019, the percentage who reported past-month cigarette smoking was 1.8 times higher for those with any past-year mental illness than those without (28.2% vs. 15.8%). Smoking rates are particularly high among people with serious mental illness (those who demonstrate greater functional impairment). While estimates vary, as many as 70-85% of people with schizophrenia and as many as 50-70% of people with bipolar disorder smoke.

I am accusing OpenAI (and Phillip Morris) of knowingly profiting off mental illness by providing unhealthy solutions to loneliness, stress, etc.
Injection locking. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-c6S6SdkPo

I mean it hides nuance in conversation.
it was worse than just a quick assassination... he was arrested and sent to a horrible russian jail where he was tortured repeatedly and then withheld from medical treatment for a period of time until he died.
Any reason you can't do GPIO with the ESP32? I've had pretty good luck with GPIO in NodeMCU.
Intel chips are becoming dirt cheap. Intel has a lot of cheap dev boards that are more robust than RPi. Maybe not the same level of community support. Recently I bought a refurbished Intel micro size desktop PC to replace my RPi home server.
The author just states the published article, nothing more informative
I see, so in that second case it’s a runtime check rather that a static check. That makes sense.
The fact that you can now ask an LLM in a chat like fashion is absolutely irrelevant to you?

Not an achievement at all?

Talking to an ai?

Generating any image you like?

Etc.?
I said it eliminates the most unpleasant ones, leaving the less unpleasant or neutral ones. I did meet a woman once who never got hangovers but instead a mild euphoric high, almost certainly some unusual GABA related brain chemistry.

For the rest of us though, what’s left over is a mild lethargic unfocused feeling, no headaches or nausea just a strong need not to be bothered and lay around all morning.
How would the divorce rate be dangerous at all?

edit: downvoted? Really? For asking a question? This seems more like Reddit than HN, I'm really disappointed.
I am not sure that is unique to the Dutch, it is the line I have heard in several countries.

Heavy agreement on your last part - if there is substantial evidence to back this up I would like to see it.

As it stands I personally prefer the idea of constant mass testing in order that we learn as much as possible as quickly as possible, including improving the tests from the resulting feedback loop.
TBH for projects that need GPIO I would be inclined to use an RP2040 or similar hooked up to USB, then any machine can be used as the host. That's pretty much how the Pi5 works anyway, the GPIOs are driven by the RP1 southbridge which is more or less an overgrown RP2040.
That one looks real.
That's decidedly not a data race, however.
And yet ... look at how much manipulation happens at the political level.

I find myself constantly wondering how people can be so gullible as to buy the drivel they're being fed.
This is a great piece of writing. "The press release makes heroic use of the passive voice to obscure the actors [...]".
I don't agree with it either, but the reasoning i've always seen has been along the lines of, "it prevents people from putting passwords into the clipboard which can be stolen by other programs", and then similarly for disabling browser or password manager autofill "because it prevents people from making a mistake and letting a field get filled with a password when it shouldn't". Basically leading to "users should just manually type in and remember all their passwords" at the extreme end of the reasoning.
I'm paying Raycast Pro again and its pretty nice inside there!
It definitely seems like a matter of simple math. But, I'm not 100% sure it's always the most logical choice to defer to statistics.

By definition, stats operate at the macro level. So, for instance, I may be a safer driver than the AI average. Should I give up control? I suppose it's also a matter of degree and there's the network effect to consider (i.e. even If I individually beat the average, I'm still on the road with others who don't).

So it gets a little more complicated and I'm also not sure the aversion to relinquishing control is strictly "emotional" (as in the irrational sense). There's something about the potential finality of a failure that goes along with autonomy and agency over one's own life. The idea that a machine could make a mistake that ends your life, and you never had a chance or say in that outcome is off-putting in ways that feel more rooted in rationality and survival than in emotion.
In theory it will work for anything, but there is a LOT of work that must be done to annotate the binaries on the source platform so that tooling such as this can pull it apart and reassemble all the pieces into something that works on the target platform.

A straight recompilation is one thing, but what this tool does is recompile with the target system’s apis for input and output in mind. A straight recompilation would offer less than an emulator, really.

This tool knows (or is told) where rendering routines are, for example, so that they can be replaced with destination platform versions. That’s how higher resolutions and different aspect ratios are supported in a recombination.
Where are you seeing the drama? Two people have left a startup, that’s all. It happens all the time.
Still waiting with bated breath for their geometric Langlands article ;)
This is like the non-crime version of the Butterfield Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Butterfield#Criticism
One of my tasks at my first job at 17 was writing some visual basic involving train track tilt formulas for a national railway. I dearly hope no-one is actually using it anywhere, and has never used it anywhere.
E6 in facebook is something like USD 750k total comp.

In Canada you'd be lucky to get USD 180k total comp.

It really is x5 to x10 for seniour programmers.
ENTERPRISE'Y
Specifically I am supposing the superalignment people were generally more concerned about AI safety and ethics than Altman/etc. I don't think this has anything to do with superalignment itself.
The worst website of all time was that of Yvettes's Bridal and Formal, a bridal shop in Panama City, Florida.

Here's a copy of it [1]. Here's a video that explores it and talks about the person who probably designed it [2].

You won't get the full Yvette's experience on a modern browser and computer because even if your browser does automatically play the MIDI file that the site tries to send it will probably sound good because you've probable got a decent sound system with good MIDI instruments.

[1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rofmr7_xc7A
Strings might not be the best way of demonstrating nominal typing, since that's already something TypeScript can manage: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBAEghgZwB...

Also, since all examples of branded / nominal types in TypeScript use `as` (I assume to get around the fact that the object you're returning isn't actually of the shape you're saying it is...), you should read up on the pitfalls of it:

https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/stop-misusing-typescript-type...

https://www.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/z8f7mf/are_ther...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230529162209/https://www.bytel...
"clearly bad" is doing a fuck ton of work here.
For many it's to support SSO. so if you put in an email ending in `@company.com` and Company signs in to that site with SSO they direct you to the right place.
Elon Musk ordered to testify again in US SEC probe of Twitter takeover
Bass is 30% melodic, 70% percussive. For live music if they are out of sync with the drums you may as well give up. Music today today is often far more percussive in style The bass is a big part of that.
I’m saying that before very long China will emit more per capita than the US does too, because US emissions per capita keep falling while China’s keep skyrocketing.

So, no, even when you take population into account China is a bad emitter and not doing nearly enough to invest in decarbonising their economy in the same way the US and EU have.
Great. But anyone good gets offered so much they move eventually.

It might not be a year after uni, might not be 10, but eventually they will move because the pay in the US is just so much better than anywhere else.
This sounds suspiciously like that old chestnut, the god of the gaps. You're splitting finer and finer hairs to maintain your position that, "no, really, they're not really doing what I'm saying they can't do", all the while self-driving cars are spreading and becoming more capable every year.

I don't think we have nearly as much visibility on what Waymo seems to believe about this tech as you seem to imply, nor do I think that their beliefs are necessarily authoritative. You seem disheartened that we haven't been able to solve self-driving in a couple of decades, and I'm of the opinion that geez, we basically have self-driving now and we started trying only a couple of decades ago.

How long after the invention of the transistor did we get personal computers? Maybe you just have unrealistic expectations of technological progress.
long term, companies that operate like this are better off paying for third party services that handle the more technical details that they aren't interested in managing. these are the target customers for managed infra services like heroku, fly, and such (or more task-specific services like pack digital). imo if you get into heavy technical requirements territory, the leadership has to re-assess their priorities or risk drowning the org in tech debt.
If it doesn't work in the war on drugs, then why is the drug epidemic worse in the US than it is in Asia?

The reason the US is losing the war on drugs is not because harsh measures don't work, it's because the measures in the US are inconsistently applied by incompetent and corrupt leadership and agents.
True! I was trying to keep a neutralish tone.
Profiling PyPy using the Firefox profiler user interface
cool! At the same time, i-mode started emojis.
No; USB2 cables are passive and shouldn't have any circuitry.
Reminds me of Lings Cars which is actually awesome https://www.lingscars.com/
It's a standard entry in the OTR long haul market segment, Volvo's equivalent of the Freightliner Cascadia and International Lonestar, all with their own take on the same set of features. Efficiency trim like aero and tires are standard, but marketing hypes it anyway and brags about how their new engine technology is superior when they do something as banal as switching to a different injector supplier.

The USA market supports a substantial truck hauling segment to fill the rail deficit. All they do is drive a thousand miles from warehouse A to warehouse B over and over, so aero between cab and trailer that restricts tight maneuvers doesn't matter, LRR tires start to make sense since they never spend significant time on lower speed surface streets, etc. It's not like the USA is going to update (much less upgrade) rail and that truck market is fully saturated and primarily cost sensitive, so actual disruption only adds risk.
Here is another interesting tool, this one for patching executables

https://github.com/corsix/polyfill-glibc
The author added a ton of extra relevant information and informed opinions based on their own knowledge and experience of GCP.
I get what you're saying. It has character, that's for sure :)

But have you tried to actually perform a task? Ie "I want to buy an animal-shaped robot".
Your eyes don't have anchor points in such a chaotic layout, it's very easy to get lost, miss items, and forget which items you already checked and which ones not.
Users probably get a brain seizure after 1 minute trying to actually find a product.
The use case is mainly interoperability with VirtualBox; they can still keep thier own disk/vm formats, guest tools, etc. and use HyperV as the 'virtualization engine'. Users that have workflows that call out to VirtualBox can continue to work; a lot of vm image tools (vagrant, packer) continue to work, etc.

But yes, of course you can also change your tools to use HyperV directly.

"Having to use HyperV" is not actually anything nefarious as the other comment seems to imply. You can't have two type 1 hypervisors running cooperatively on the bare metal and you cant implement your type 2 hypervisor hooks if you have a type 1 hypervisor running. So if you have enabled HyperV directly or indirectly by using WSL2 or installing any of the container runtime platforms (Docker Desktop et al) that use it, then you have to use HyperV as your hypervisor.

Note this is different than nested virtualization (ESXi on HyperV, etc.) which is supported but a completely different beast.

For the same reason you cannot run Xen and KVM VM's simultaneously on Linux (excepting nested virtualization).
It depends upon how you look at it. Something like the Raspberry Pi is considerably more expensive. On the other hand, they started with a very low performance and weak feature set and have evolved into a product with good performance and a much richer feature set. Something like the Raspberry Pi Zero is much closer to the original Raspberry Pi, and its price is much closer to the original Raspberry Pi. Much of the price bloating features were a product of customer request. To be fair, they dropped many hints that it would increase the cost of the product.

From my understanding, support has also improved over the years. Raspberry Pi always had a bit of an edge in community support, but they also had a push to develop free resources for education markets and hobbyists. The former has been traditionally been a high-priced add-on. The latter has traditionally been provided by third parties (more reasonably priced, but still at extra cost). None of this has disappeared, though it does appear to be less prominent than in the past.

I think the big change is in the competition. SBCs were traditionally high cost poorly supported products or even higher cost well supported products (though you were unlikely to get support unless you were a business). Now we have a flood of low cost poorly supported products, albeit with slightly higher standards for support than in times past.
Lots of drug companies talk about putting patients first – but this one did
On the keyboard and the USB controller on the host (right next to the port) however…

So unless they’re dumb enough to put it literally in the middle of the cable? My point stands. These tools don’t typically have the resolution to tell.
I don't know -- I do use the icloud/appleID to share cut/paste between my devices or have my watch unlock my mac, but all my files are stored on dropbox, my omnifocus is in OF's storage, passwords in 1password's storage etc. I use MS word, not Apple's crappy pages, etc.

I have used android and windows. It's just that the Apple stuff tends to suck less (but not always, per the examples above).
Consciousness appears to be a form of intelligence. Is it required for general intelligence (whatever that means)? We don't know. Would humans be classified as having general intelligence if we weren't conscious? In any case, I perhaps worded that poorly. I wasn't saying that consciousness is the same as intelligence, it was just an example of how little we actually understand intelligence.

> AGI simply means that we can create a type of machine that can do any kind of mental task that a human can, at least at a human level.

What does this even mean? What is human level? The ability to write a symphony? Or the ability to calculate 2+2=4? These are such poorly defined metrics that I don't understand how can we then start throwing around very precise (and short!) timelines for attaining it.

The statement: "we'll send a human mission to Mars in the next 5 years" is 10x more believable than this breathless AGI hype, because at least the former is well defined.
I apologize if my comment came off as snark. Your comment was nothing but pasted text which ommitted relevant detail, so it was not clear what the intent was. In context, to me, it did not seem to be illuminating. It actually seemed to be introducing confusion where there previously was none.

Data races are not possible in safe Rust. Race conditions are. The distinction is made clear in the Nomicon article, but commenters here are really muddying the waters...
Can we please stop calling it "hallucination"? That is such a poor word choice it's not even remotely accurate. Hallucinations are perceptual experiences not grounded in reality. LLMs don't have perception and they most likely don't have experiences.

What LLMs are doing is bullshitting (or confabulation if you want to mind your language). Oh and by the way, humans do it all the time.
I think it depends on what your business goals are.

Do you want to have a one-man business that provides a good and reliable income for you? Then raise your rates -- that's one of the knobs you can turn to reduce your workload to something that won't consume your entire life.

Do you want to grow your business into something larger, supporting employees and having numerous clients? Then lower rates will help with this.

Both things are legit, and each has their own advantages and disadvantages. My advice is to clarify what your goal is here so you can better aim for it.
> You can have a PhD and good intentions. You can have money and buy-in. You can do a bunch of reasonable things to prevent a problem that everyone agrees is bad.

Imagine what they could do if they had a PhD and bad intentions...

But let's say, first they do have good intentions. However, even then, if these people devoted their lives to their cause, they promoted programs, wrote countless powerpoint slides, even books. And now some other research comes out and says "well it looks like that other stuff was actually hurting kids". How many of the PhDs with good intentions, will acknowledge that and effectively throw away their life's work?

> Some famous CEOs were mean to their employees and got good results, so I should do that too, which is convenient because I am a jerk.

That's exactly what one of the leadership team did in a company I worked at. They tried to emulate Steve Jobs. And out of brilliance, dedication to perfection, design, hiring the best people, all possible qualities they could have tried to emulated, they emulated being an asshole, hoping the company would become the next Apple at some point.
AI Drugs So Far
I'm sure they considered it. Can a '57 fit in every airport (runway length, gate size, or base altitude) that a '37 can? What about engines? Would any engine maker have been able to deliver revamped '57 engines when they have been mostly focusing on other models?
If Brian Krebs was using a mastodon server instance, you have never been blocked from following him.
Then issue a technical statement saying that such-and-such API was called with such-and-such parameter, and it did the following bad thing, and here’s why, and here’s what we’re doing to make it harder to do it by accident in the future.

In Google’s case, Google already has a reputation for poor-to-miserable support and for arbitrarily removing its users’ access to their data. (Heck, another incident of this sort was on HN today.) GCP gets considerably revenue from very large users, and those users and their decision makers will do just fine moving from GCP (which is not #1!) to AWS. [0]

Imagine an aircraft manufacturer or regulator in a similar situation. A plane crashed, and it behaved as documented or intended given pilot inputs. But it still crashed, and the factors causing it should be identified and appropriate improvements, if any, should be implemented.

[0] Some of them will grumble about how AWS’s user experience is dramatically worse than GCP’s in a lot of very obvious ways, but the overall comparison tilts strongly toward AWS here. Sure, AWS makes it miserable to configure Organizations and Accounts in line with best practices, but Google might arbitrarily delete a project/account/whatever! Google should get out ahead of this.
We have a mutual extradition treaty, and since the us frequently desires the extradition of high profile cases it’s not impossible that his could happen.

The biggest problem would be the absence of an European criminal law pertaining to companies.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/agreement...
Remember Google just laid off big swathes of their Python team and their core team.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-...

From the article:

>The Core unit is responsible for building the technical foundation behind the company's flagship products and for protecting users' online safety, according to Google's website. Core teams include key technical units from information technology, its Python developer team, technical infrastructure, security foundation, app platforms, core developers, and various engineering roles.

Basically, Sundar Pichai is taking the McDonnell Douglas approach to engineering and just deciding to coast on Google’s previous engineering.

The danger is that while you may have short-term stock returns, you destroy the engineering culture and it is only a matter of time before the doors blow off mid flight like a 737.
As Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage
Despite the IPCC being very conservative/optimistic in their scenarios, this is in fact in line with their reports; admittedly my comment above might be badly worded - when I said "near-term", I meant "in the upcoming two centuries or so".

The IPCC reports say we might reach 4C, 5C or even more; based on the historical record, such a major change in such a short time - several orders of magnitude faster than previous CO2e-gases-linked mass extinction events - likely cannot be adapted to by the majority of species (there will of course also be a few evolutionary winners), resulting in potential extinction. I also quote the latest draft report from that same IPCC, leaked about two years back by concerned involved scientists to newspapers before the usual step where political stakeholders are allowed to reword the parts they deem too disturbing or against their interests:

"Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems," it says. "Humans cannot."