skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not that worried about nuclear conflict because it's a scenario where literally nobody wins. There's always the "Madman" hypothesis but really that's no way to do geopolitical analysis. Nobody is truly "crazy" (IMHO). Remember those orders have to be carried out by someone. They've studies on this with missile silo operators and they had a disturbing or comforting (depending on your POV) tendency to not launch.

It's really the "slow death" scenarios that are a much bigger risk.

While I'm firmly in the AGI camp, I'm both fatalistic about our willingness to do anything about it but I'm also highly skeptical of the "runaway climate change" doomsaying. The Earth has been around for ~4.5 billion years. While it's only been similar to what it is now for th elast 300 million or so, that's still a really long time. We've had periods where ice extended to the equator (~500 million years ago). We've had much warmrer periods.

The Earth will be fine. We however might fall by the wayside. There's really been such a long period of time that if runaway climate change were going to happen, why hasn't it happened already?
I have home automation done with rpi.

They have a touch screen, speakers, and control the lights via gpio. I use the same thing to set timers, play the internet radio in the morning to wake me up, and put the lights off.
Compare and contrast to https://maddox.xmission.com/ "The Best Page in the Universe"
I hope this eventually also works for Linux so that N64 games can be reliably played on very low end portable handhelds. N64 is notoriously tricky to emulate, but building them for the platform natively removes all performance problems.
Grail is looking at DNA methylation sites, this is looking at proteins.

GRAIL is available today, this test will need to be validated and commercialized
Absolutely. Gemini results tend to drop off after 128k tokens according to RULER: https://github.com/hsiehjackson/RULER
If it looks bad, they just shouldn't be offering such a service. As it stands, they're misleading people. Moreover, the right time to scan a file is when it is created or updated, prohibiting the action at its onset, instead of unnecessarily suspending the user at a future time. Google has a very nasty habit in that it just doesn't care about its users at all.

I happily moved away to a different provider (an alternative to G Drive) that has no such ridiculous issues, and is substantially cheaper too.
Making a Rider plugin to attach the debugger to multiple processes at once
This example is also an odd choice because... it's not the right way to do it. If you're super concerned about people misusing hashes, using string as the type is a WTF in itself. Strings are unstructured data, the widest possible value type, essentially "any" for values that can be represented. Hashes aren't even strings anyway, they're numbers that can be represented as a string in base-whatever. Of course any such abstraction leaks when prodded. A hash isn't actually a special case of string. You shouldn't inherit from string.

If you really need the branded type, in that you're inheriting from a base type that does more things than your child type.... you straight up should not inherit from that type, you've made the wrong abstraction. Wrap an instance of that type and write a new interface that actually makes sense.

I also don't really get what this branded type adds beyond the typical way of doing it i.e. what it does under the hood, type Hash = string & { tag: "hash" }. There's now an additional generic involved (for funnier error messages I guess) and there are issues that make it less robust than how it sells itself. Mainly that a Branded<string, "hash"> inherits from a wider type than itself and can still be treated as a string, uppercased and zalgo texted at will, so there's no real type safety there beyond the type itself, which protects little against the kind of developer who would modify a string called "hash" in the first place.
There is no such reluctance to do this in law. I think in philosophy classes, professors feel shy about acknowledging the humdrum reality of insurance, the tax code, and our regulatory bodies continuously assigning dollar values to human lives. It feels good and makes you look like a better person to say things like "the value of a single human life cannot be expressed in money terms." Perhaps this is the case, and what the companies and the governmental bodies are really valuing is the economically meaningful activity associated with a person and not the totality of their person.

Babies are worth a lot of money even at a low imputed earning potential just because they have so much life to live.
Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI
Similar issue, I have an old desktop as a server already to do all the heavy processing stuff. Only finally found use for RPi to be the brains of my 3d printers.
"Drugs are Bad" except all the ones we advertise on TV and might require school kids to take in order to attend school.
I suspect the Psychoanalytic defence mechanism "Displacement"

scenario:

He has a small argument with the girlfriend.

He gets angry but is scared that if he shows his anger she will dump him.

This is where displacment comes in.

To relieve himself of the anger he then offloads that anger onto some innocent victims, in this case the supercharger engineers.

Extremely unlikely that a narcissist like Lone Smuk would have enough self awareness to see it coming.

Just like getting berated by your boss for being late for work, even though you are not in control of the train timetable or striking railway workers. You have no power to confront him, he may sack you. So you give the cat a boot up the arse, slap the kids or beat your wife when you get home. Anger displaced.
The problem with this type of thinking is that it often assumes externalized costs, and even at that, what price do you put on “I don’t want to use car of brand X because the car maker is doing sus things and people speaking out about it are dying.” ?

Take for instance the recent train derailments. Are the costs of cleanup n>0 if the company can get their lawyers to successfully argue they don’t need to pay it? For the company it’s n=0 but for society it is n>0.

Doing the maths is simpler when you can disregard many factors and leave only the ones that affect your bottom line.
Basically intermediate distance glasses.
You said it mate. I feel bad for folks who turn away from this technology. If they persist... They will be so confused why they get repeatedly lapped.

I wrote a working machine vision project in 2 days with these toys. Key word: working... Not hallucinated. Actually working. Very useful.
You can still do this with classes in typescript:

class Hash extends String {}

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/MYGwhgzhAEASkAtoF...
Shaming must be one of our worst generational traumas. I don't think millennials like me can stop it, but Gen Z already has a slim chance of doing it.
Wait, people use them for benchmarks? I just use them to find quick workarounds to incrutable compiler errors and language idiosyncracies. I wouldn't trust a web app for any serious optimization testing (unless the web was my target platform).
I remember him being a conventional Peterbilt in the movie.
Hopefully the improvements in efficiency are real. I've had trouble trusting the numbers coming from car companies after the emissions scandles
How can no one see what we have today? You only need six instances of an LLM running at the same time, with a system to coordinate between them, and then you have to verify the results manually anyway. Sign me up!
Every promise has over delivered by a decade or more, so don't worry, you'll likely have your legs up 20 years faster than promised.
The Weird Politics of Housing Abundance
I never attended a DARE class, but in the early 90s the t-shirts were everywhere so my memory of it was people wearing the shirts "ironically".
A currency that rises in value over time.
I've already seen likely malfeasance from the traffic overrides used to help emergency vehicles (in the US) control traffic lights. When the override is activated, a white light turns on near the traffic light. I've seen that go on in heavy traffic when there were no obvious emergency vehicles present.

Another time I was in heavy traffic and held up for about an hour because a parked police car had left their traffic light override turned on, causing the light not to cycle.
Collaborative Assistants
I use my 3B solely for adblocking via Pi-hole and it works fine most of the time
The Possible Collapse of the U.S. Home Insurance System
If I understand the paper correctly,

Southern Hemisphere westerly winds are intensifying due to a natural cycle on the scale of decades. This makes the southern ocean warmer (and the arctic colder, but the ocean is mostly in the south). Warm water doesn't take up so much carbon dioxide. (Water takes up carbon to produce carbonic acid, so if the water is warmer it incidentally reduces ocean acidification, a possible benefit?)

Or it might be about convection.

> The drivers and source of these centennial-scale CO2 jumps are unknown. The proposed mechanisms include enhanced ocean–atmosphere CO2 exchange in the Southern Ocean (via wind-driven upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters or invigorated convection), surface ocean temperature changes (impacting CO2 solubility), biomass burning (via NH subtropical wildfires), or a combination of mechanisms.
If they're buying disposable vapes, then it's likely on par with cigarettes in terms of price. That industry has been working hard on getting disposable vapes that last long enough and contain as much nicotine as possible. In my area it's next to impossible to find any disposables that contain less than 50mg (5%) nicotine, which is downright criminal.

If they're going custom then the upfront cost will be a lot more, but e-juice is super cheap. Have to replace the coils every now and then as well unless it's a refillable pod system. You can also choose whether you get freebase vs nicotine salts and how much nicotine the juice contains.

I personally believe disposable vapes are dangerous and can get a newcomer as addicted to nicotine as a pack-a-day smoker in a matter of weeks. And for smokers, it won't give you a pathway to taper off your nicotine intake.
I don't think it's binary, exactly. We have entered a grey area where large swathes or land near the equator is technically survivable but really sucky to live in, where one month of the year is spent sheltering from the heat in an air conditioned mall while you're barely working and your kids' school is cancelled, and the other 11 months of the year suck more than they used to but you're still surviving and working.

As we go from 2C to 4C warming that's when the mass deaths near the equator should start happening from the wet bulb temperatures due to sheer lack of AC in poor areas and households. But even then we might figure out logistics and information systems to get rural and poor people to the nearest mall when a heatwave is expected, which will be often. Assuming a blackout doesn't happen. They might not die if these systems work properly, but it'll be terrible for their economy and human development indices.

At 6C warming, it's just an even worse version of the above.

Whatever the case it's going to massively suck and the people who will pay the biggest price will be the people who have pumped the least amount of carbon into the atmosphere. Life is just structurally unfair.
>So it can and will happen whether you (not you personally) like it or not so with WFH the question is that which one do you prefer.

No, with WFH the question is if you'll accept a WHF employer that practices it, or if you'll instead work for one that doesn't.
Fear of AGI is very real. But our proximity to AGI is marketing hype. In terms of existential crisis #2 and #3 are serious and already worth investing in mitigation. But #1 (AGI) is science fiction.
A fair amount of 32-bit and later emulators do have JIT recompilation, but I'm not aware of any ahead-of-time translation unless that's how TeknoParrot works (you can run linux arcade games that use ELF binaries on windows with it for example), but I wouldn't call that emulation either way since the architecture is the same.
Where did you donate? The only feedback I usually get is a certificate every 8 trips.
> Show them a Quentin Tarantino film?

Mia's OD scene in Pulp Fiction definitely scared me away from drugs

even though I wasn't supposed to be old enough to see it >_>
> Monopolies do as monopolies do; extract all the wealth they can from the system. The only people who benefit in a scenario where 95%+ of stock trades go through the NYSE is the NYSE.

What's the risk here? That if the NYSE establishes a monopoly, it could extract a 0.5% tax on every trade?

I feel the theoretical possibility of wealth being extracted from you is somewhat insignificant compared to the actual extractions you are subjected to in the UK.
Cabovers have worse aerodynamics so bad for long haul.

Short haul and in town they win with a tighter turn radius.
Luckily we have 1 to 1.5 billion years to figure out how to survive outside of this ball of dirt... (cataclysmic asteroids and other similar events notwithstanding)
Used toys to write a working machine vision project over last 2 days.

Key word: working

The bubble is real on both sides. Models have limitations... However, they are not toys. They are powerful tools. I used 3 different SotA models for that project. The time saved is hard to even measure. It's big.
The big [Censored] Theory (2022)
I'm loving this absolutely breathless parroting of "AGI in the next 5 years" and yet: we don't even know what general intelligence is. We don't know how/why/where consciousness arises. It's not even a clearly defined concept. But here we have "Workaccount2" prophesizing the rise of general intelligence :D

Please enlighten us sensei, what is actually General Intelligence, and how will you know it's here?

I realize my reply is a bit flippant, but it's tiring to see how certain are people about something that nobody truly understands.
Amazing how right you can be and still wrong.

5% of German production is about twice the projected capacity of Hinkley Point C, the only current nuclear plant I remember the name of, so that might cost maybe €60B. The same amount of PV would cost maybe €2B. If you overbuild PV by 300% you still have >€50B cost difference.

You can reach any conclusion if you're willing to disregard price differences of more than 10×. Ditto if you're willing to assume near-zero cost by assuming inexpensive restauration of hardware that's past the end of its design life.
In my case, I use NetNewsWire at desktop and Feeder for Android. In general, works well.

Have a lot of RSS readers through the web, some of in the web, other destkops, etc. You can see which ones fills better for you.
Secure Registry Access with Dagger
No, 4D spacetime is a real thing in physics, which explains things like time dilation and the speed of light. But sci-fi does tend to abuse the term "dimension" for other ideas that are not scientific.
His channel is literally called not just bikes. He likes bikes, but is not a bike supremicist. He has videos talking about how driving is more pleasant in Amsterdam (true from my experience), he has videos about how awesome Swiss trains are, he has videos about how a walkable city is good for health.

Really his channel should be called “not just cars.” Bikes are just one option he likes as an alternative.
it is also incredibly costly and difficult to be listed in multiple stock exchanges.
"Sorry, computer says no."

Humans can be wrong, but they aren't able to be wrong at as massive of a scale and they often have an override button where you can get them to look at something again.

When you have an AI deployed system and full automation you've got more opportunities for "I dunno, the AI says that you are unqualified for this job and there is no way around that."

We already see this with less novel forms of automation. There are great benefits here, but also the number of times people are just stymied completely by "computer says no" has exploded. Expect that to increase further.
I think they are mostly for hobbyists and students so maybe being pragmatic is not the top concern.
> The Vision Pro is the first "new" product that Apple has released

You forgot all about the Apple Watch?
Is the size the biggest difference or the fact that the center of gravity is totally different? So much so, they created an "hidden" software program to counter the CoG difference so the pilots feel like it is in the same place they are used to?
GM-owned Cruise reached $8M settlement with dragged pedestrian
Oracle doesn't have some ideological preference for licensing. Oracle just wants what is best for Oracle.
Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
Arguably, we are now entering the Trough of Disillusionment phase of the hype cycle.
Another victim of enshittification. His essays used to be quirky and fun but he went off the rails once he started doing Youtube videos.
Ilya is one of the Founders of the original nonprofit. This is also an issue. It does look like he was not the Founder or in any control of the for profit venture.
How Workers Can Build Power Amid Corporate Co-Optation of DEI Programs
Kids want to do what they see, if they see people smoke, they want to smoke. If mommy and daddy drink coffee in the morning, it doesn't matter that it tastes like ass, a literal 3-year-old will just by sheer force of will drink that bitter nectar just to feel like they belong.
I had a (low traffic) app with Redis as the only data store, that we'd periodically dump to disk and copy the dump off for backup. It was... not great for anyone who was used to maintaining a normal web app. And it broke down because the underlying relationships we mostly cared about were, in fact, relational. So you got a lot of duplication / nesting, homegrown hierarchy, or pointers to other areas in Redis...
Minor feedback: don't use AI-generated portraits in the example cards on the landing page. They stick out like a sore thumb.
Three Blue, One Brown has a decent video which perhaps helps get a handle on how one can use higher-dimensional spaces, without needing to wrap you head around trying to envision a four-dimensional cube, or similar.

https://youtu.be/zwAD6dRSVyI?si=QC1s1JcMopGWEkUR
Thanks a lot!
I am part of the Amplication team; I'll try to answer your questions:
The first question is spot-on. We are already in the beta phase for .NET code generation, and it will be publicly available soon. You can contact us via the website for a personal demo of the .NET code generation.
For existing code bases - we do not currently READ any existing codebase. We can be used for scenarios where you want to modernize a legacy codebase into modern service architecture. One quick way to do so is with a DB-first approach, using our schema import feature (introspect an existing DB and quickly build new services with the same data models and APIs for them)
They can spend orders of magnitude less, or about the same depending on how they do it. Mixing your own fluid is stupidly cheap - a weeks spending for a pack-a-day smoker will cover at least a year of vaping like that. If they build their own coils, it's also very cheap - nearly a life's supply of wire can be had for one or two packs. On the other hand, if you buy disposable vapes or cartridges, you can easily spend more than a smoker, if you buy disposable coils and premixed fluid it probably comes about the same or slightly cheaper. If you have a huge collection of vapes and buy all kinds of different attachments and coil heads you are going to be spending a lot of money.
On the topic of “Mother Gaia” being a bloodthirsty bitch (how we humans like to anthropomorphize rather than grasp things as they are) see Tiptree’s excellent story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Flight_of_Dr._Ain. We may have come close to this being reality four years ago perhaps.
> And with a lot of information comes a lot of noise

Which you need to filter out precisely to avoid

>ensuring that every new update will be there for easy access, being notified about it

(notifications are a specifically obnoxious type of noise)

But then you get very little help with then in the RSS services

And you're missing on that whole important social aspect as well
One person can make one command decision and make #2 a reality. That's all it takes. No matter how many people drool over AGI the bandwidth and processing just isn't there. We barely have control systems as intelligent as a bacterium.
I watched the youtube video this article links to the other day and it mentioned that it supports Linux, specifically mentioning that it should be usable on Steam Deck.
That will likely require full decompilation. This is akin to wrapping the emulator up with the rom, with a few common functions (found via decompilation) being updated to support more modern rendering approaches. This isn't so much "native" as it is a patched container in an executable form.

EDIT -
But hey, you can always just add another layer of emulation via Proton to run it in Linux.
Datalog, Chain-Forward Computation, and Relational Algebra
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128
Actually my argument was the opposite. We as humans can imagine a game, explain it to the LLM and it learns, consistently, every time.

Generating new games is something else, that is creativity not merely intelligence.
In case people haven't noticed, this is the second resignation in as many days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128
>>Also, if time and energy permits, please, learn the language.

My opinion: Even taking ten hours to learn a few polite phrases makes a Japanese trip infinitely better. It signifies to Japanese people that you're trying to understand them and they very much love it.
Show HN: Prisma Optimize
Ever wondered what SQL the Prisma ORM generates under the hood? With Optimize, you can do just that.
Only the latest ipad is OLED.
> N64 is notoriously tricky to emulate

Huh, I wouldn't have expected that. I don't know much about the specifics of N64 emulation, but I've had N64 emulators running perfectly since the early 2010s. I played mostly the big classics, so I'm unfamiliar with more niche title performance.
I bought one of these from Toys R Us and have such fond memories of Wario Land, Telroboxer, and even Mario Tennis. For as much flack as this system received, I thought it was just coolest thing ever but finding games felt next to impossible. Every now and then I'll still boot it up and play a few rounds.
The worst websites in the world are the ones that are just blank pages without any content at all. Most corporate websites are like that these days unless the stars align and all the javascript executes just right.
Breadboard OS
"BreadboardOS is built on top of FreeRTOS, enabling fast integration of new functional blocks and allowing for task concurrency without breaking the base system. Existing knowledge of RTOS is not necessarily required."
Thanks a lot! I am part of the Amplication team; I'll try to answer your question. We do not currently READ any existing codebase. We can be used for scenarios where you want to modernize a legacy codebase into modern service architecture. One quick way to do so is with a DB-first approach, using our schema import feature (introspect an existing DB and quickly build new services with the same data models and APIs for them).
You can push new code into existing codebases, but we will not "know" about the existing code. If you want to create new services that will integrate with your existing services, that is something Jovu can support if you have a spec (like Open API spec) for your existing services.
These are all evolutionary changes, not revolutionary changes.
I’m pretty sure Linux is natively supported via N64Recomp: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

An example of this can be found here: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/Zelda64Recomp?tab=readme-ov-fi...