skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American democracy is already all but dead. The reason being that lies fuel the decision making process: from campaigning to lobbying.

They claim it’s democracy when elected officials vote on bills that are largely against the interests and desires of even the people that elected those voting representatives.

I think we can recover though.

What we need to do is extend the powers of our justice by jury system.

Bills in congress should be voted on by a panel of jurors conducted by a judge.

The elected officials are there to litigate either for or against, but it is the jury’s ultimate decision.

I rarely think I have anything to offer the word of civics as it seems to me to be motivated in ways antithetical to my own desires in governance, but I truly think this is an idea that will have a very positive effect on the current failures of the American system of democracy.
Accept my upvote. The silent cowards who are downvoting you hate that what you're saying is true - or at least are tacitly admitting that they can't actually form a counter-argument.

Git deserves credit for popularizing distributed VCS - which is HUGE - but it was not the first or the best DVCS. Its CLI is full of footguns and it's too eager to irreparably erase history.
USB-C only mostly fixes the what side is up problem. I've had devices that degraded to only working with the right side up. Usually from pocket fluff accumulation that can be cleaned out, but still.
Sure, the one I use right now is a German spray: https://www.weicon.de/en/corro-protection-wax-like-corrosion...

YMMV
Thanks. Happy to debug.
I think the better lesson is; don't assume AI is always right, even if it is AGI. HAL was assumed to be superhuman in many respects, but the core problem was the fact that it had administrative access to everything onboard the ship. Whether or not HAL's programming was well-designed, whether or not HAL was correct or malfunctioning, the root cause of HAL's failure is a lack of error-handling. HAL made determinate (and wrong) decision to save the mission by killing the crew. Undoing that mistake is crucial to the plot of the movie.

2001 is a pretty dark movie all things considered, and I don't think humanizing or elevating HAL would change the events of the film. AI is going to be objectified and treated as subhuman for as long as it lives, AGI or not. And instead of being nice to them, the technologically correct solution is to anticipate and reduce the number of AI-based system failures that could transpire.
Townscaper also has a Unity WebGL build, for anyone interested:

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/
> and then it would be a person, and an anticlimax.

It might be a person (but: can you prove those things are sufficient for personhood?), but even then it sure isn't a human person.

And what do you mean by an anticlimax?

To circumvent any question of what it takes to make an AI work, let's posit a brain upload. Just one person, so it's a memetic monoculture — no matter how many instances you make, they'll all have the same skills and same flaws.

Transistors are faster than synapses by about the same ratio to which a marathon runner is faster than continental drift, so even if the only difference is speed, not quality of thought, that's such a huge chasm of difference that I can't see how it would be an anti climax even if the original person is extraordinarily lazy.
Again, FSD is just not doing anything that interesting. It only handles the easy scenarios, and punts to a driver for everything else, at a moment's notice. And it still constantly fails, per everyone who tries it, in even very simple situations. Look at what this article author found: that's just not something that happens with Waymo or Mercedes.
> you need cheap shoes for millions of people to wear every day, and not a lot of those are made in US.

You don't get cheap products in a country where workers aren't cheap.

This isn't an issue of "the US cannot manufacture their own shoes", it's an issue of "the US customers have gotten used to paying prices that are too low to be achievable in humane conditions".

Shoes would become more expensive once you have to pay the workers, but there will still be enough shoes for everyone.

> Even kids want to be influencers, not assembly line workers (and we have to import those too).

Not every kid who wants to be an astronaut becomes an astronaut.

> we used to be a former socialist country that produced everything, from cars to computers, tvs, etc....

The west can and will easily reenter these markets once it becomes profitable or necessary to do so.

Of course this process would be costly and would require quite a few people to change careers, but its far from infeasible
Baba is you is similarly a good introduction to the mindset needed to write exploits.
I'd also expect an advanced form of life to have discovered game theory and analyzed potential interaction with other civilizations as a sequential game with imperfect information (I'm assuming no FTL so nobody has current knowledge of anyone else's capabilities).

The results are pretty scary. PBS Space Time had an episode on this recently [1] which goes into more detail. Briefly, if you put survival of your planet over all else, "destroy aliens as soon as you become aware of them" has a better outcome for you than "contact them" or "ignore them".

It's the speed of light limit that is the problem with the "contact them" option. If they are not nice and go for destroying you, which they do by sending some heavy masses at you at relativistic speeds, you don't find out about until it is too late to launch a counter attack so there's no "mutual assured destruction" deterrent like the one that has kept us from using civilization ending weapons on Earth.

The Space Time episode does go into possible reasons that advanced aliens might not value their own survival so highly that the risk of them being destroyed by not picking "destroy" is outweighed by the benefits of contact or ignoring others.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYf47euE3U
Recalibrate your weights toward more recent developments (post '21) and you will see a clearer picture, I think. M7 is quite popular now for TinyML applications (600MHz for an MCU!!). It's somewhere between RPi 2 and 3 based on Core Mark score and what I've seen in terms of CV capabilities.

Things are moving very fast imo. MCUs can do 1080p at 30fps now and not just from faster hardware but with some impressive additions to instruction sets!

Edit: After re-reading I see that you're talking about adoption rates, in which case, fair points.
My theory on Trump supporters is that they want to stop migration, reshore manufacturing, and redistribute power and influence away from D.C.

Any theory you have that treats normal American citizens as some sort of ‘other’ is just hatred that has been sold to you.
Definitely the British spelling. See also behaviours in Erlang and Elixir (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.4.5/behaviours.html)
>If the article was written in China and allowed to be published it was reviewed and aligned to the ideological language and goals of the CCP by government propaganda officials. That’s the way the laws work.

If you're trying to imply the fact the article is published implies there's some sort of CCP interference, that makes no sense considering that The Economist is blocked in china. Moreover there's a decidedly anti-CCP article published in the same issue as this article[2], which further strains the claim that The Economist is some sort of pro-CCP publication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

[2] https://www.economist.com/china/2024/06/13/why-china-takes-y...
I’m not particularly looking for a debate, and think most of what we are picking up on is compatible.
I agree that their frustration is the key, but find it fascinating that they will accept the delusion and murder in their agent of change. That their cynicism and frustration is enough to overlook the mayhem rape and murder, and it's consequences for their future.

I don’t think I’m as cynical about the innate American spirit, or its exceptionalism. I think these are common human sentiments that wax and wane in different cultures at different times. I think it often be attenuated by factors and narratives outside one’s own hardships, or lack theirof.
Is the assist multiplicative or additive?
The main problem with embedded software is that it usually lacks many facilities commonly found in desktops or servers. For instance, dynamic memory allocation or access to a filesystem.

This potentially results in a big fragmentation of the ecosystem. For instance, even though “embedded C” as a language is really just C, the vast majority of C libraries cannot be used on embedded systems because they’ll use the occasional malloc, mmap or fopen call.

Rust is particularly good at this, with its [no_std] directive that is well documented and used in a wide variety of libraries.

I wonder how Swift plans to address this.
> And it is effective to the tune of about $300B/year, looking at Google's ad revenue.

That's conflating total market with specific benefit though.

If Google ran the dumbest, most basic ad-targeting, their ad revenue would still be >0.
I think it's "neuro" here is more "psychological", meaning the ability to automatically know en masse the people. In the past we have had ads almost "for everyone", it was not much possible choose a specific cohort with a specific message, yes you can send some brochures in specific places normally frequented by a certain cohort of people, you can use friends, but it's still not much targeted.

Nowadays we are able to "know automatically" and separate specific cohort of people, let's say we want something pro-rail and we have some angry users waiting for a late train, a news arrive in their aggregator narrating another train delay somewhere else caused by a landslide, another one caused by a suicide, finally an article on the terrible current years of rails due to climate change and social unrest. The angry target probably remain a bit angry, but far less than before. Similarly in a campaign against rail another news can pops up just when someone look for a possible trip/to buy a ticket, about some horror story of passengers leaving at 40+℃ for some hours due to some malfunction and bad management plus another about an accident due to little maintenance and safety checks.

Nothing new under the Sun, but the ability to get the right news/ads at the right time makes the level of effectiveness something much, much bigger than ever and the ability to target users is still in very few hands. They can't "rule the society" but being able to steer they are kind of ruler anyway.
I don’t think you understood. The quality of the tooling doesn’t mean the tooling was built there. It’s also not true that China is the exclusive place where such quality or tooling or critical mass of infrastructure exists. You see similar things in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and - in the United States. But the customer of the US manufacturing isn’t you personally, a crucial fact when talking about Apple and where they manufacture things for - you personally. The customer is advanced manufacturers - who export tooling and infrastructure to China.

That doesn’t mean China is unable to do this themselves, but it’s just not their focus. I’m sure the decoupling we are doing and export controls will change that faster than would otherwise happen.

The specific market though the US is unable to easily rebuild and bootstrap is end to end semiconductor manufacturing. Our supply chain is almost entirely tied to East Asian manufacturing which is a geopolitical and economic problem for us. Part of decoupling is trying to break that by creating a bipolar manufacturing structure for semiconductors, and increasingly battery and solar.
It scales to complex examples as well. Retained memory would be handled with its own allocator: for a large data structure like an LRU cache, one would initialize it with a pointer to the allocator, and use that internally to manage the memory.

Blocking (or rather, non-blocking, which is clearly what you meant) IO is a different story. Zig had an async system, but it had problems and got removed a couple point releases ago. There's libxev[0] for evented programs, from Mitchell Hashimoto. It's not mature yet but it offers a good solution to single-threaded concurrency and non-blocking IO.

I don't think Zig is the best choice for multithreaded programs, however, unless they're carefully engineered to share little to no memory (using message passing, for instance). You'd have to take care of locking and atomic ops manually, and unlike memory bugs, Zig doesn't have a lot of built-in support for catching problems with that.

A language with manual memory allocation isn't going to be the language of choice for writing web servers, for pretty obvious reasons. But for an application like squeezing the best performance out of a resource-constrained environment, the tradeoffs start to make sense.

[0]: https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev
If the goal of your prison system is rehabilitation, then the fair thing to do is assuming they changed. Possibly even if the only purpose of imprisonment was punishment.

This depends on risk of course. You and society shouldn't be exposed to undue risk because of that assumption. But limitations on the offenders freedom to - for instance - perform certain jobs after their release should be decided by a court, not the general population.
Fascinating. If you feel like sharing, what was your motive? Profit, research, the lulz?
Believe it or not, it is possible to collaborate on a CS project without automated source control!

It's very painful though.
I guess one advantage of SpaceX compared to NASA is that the former are very trial and error based in their design, so they can iterate much more. NASA tends to design and plan everything in advance and only build it at the end. So when the Space Shuttle reusability didn't quite pan out, they couldn't easily change things up.
I agree, to an extent.

I seriously doubt that's the dynamic GP was referring to.
That part of my comment was probably the least interesting but for the record, her exact words were that half of his supporters were deplorable.
I really think she is a hack
These are on-board communication channels. I guess you could run USB traces, but you would end up using I2C or SPI (via a USB chip) for devices that don't have built-in USB - which is many.
Inform7 it's a beast and the resulting game can be run under a 486. No AI required.
I'm in a similar boat... my speakers got so much worse after the app update. The old version was still buggy, but wasn't THIS bad.

Anyway, I think there might be some third-party firmware (or at least frontends) for Sonos speakers? I haven't tried them out yet (too lazy), but if you're the tinkering type, might be worth looking into? And if you find a good one, please do report back :)
Well the recent NHTSA report [1] shows Tesla intentionally falsified those statistics, so we can assume Tesla-derived statements are intentionally deceptive until proven otherwise.

Tesla only counts pyrotechnic deployments for their own numbers which NHTSA states is only ~18% of all crashes which is derived from publicly available datasets. Tesla chooses to not even account for a literal 5x discrepancy derivable from publicly available data. They make no attempt to account for anything more complex or subtle. No competent member of the field would make errors that basic except to distort the conclusions.

The usage of falsified statistics to aggressively push product to the risk of their customers makes it clear that their numbers should not only be ignored, but assumed to be malicious.

[1] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INCR-EA22002-14496.pdf
https://archive.is/E4ZsP

(source: https://www.thetimes.com/article/husband-pursues-apple-after...)
High-end ones are needed more for large model training and unoptimized tuning, less so for inference alone. Most users would need just inference, at least in the beginning.
This is one of my favorite reads in a while
No, I'm looking at actual results, not the tech stack. They are the only company that is only attempting Level 2, all the others are targeting or have achieved Level 3, or above. And Tesla isn't even doing Level 2 well, from the limited data that we have (since they of course refuse to release more). Look at any video about FSD on the internet and you'll see very frequent, inexplicable errors, in common simple scenarios.
I don't think that defamation is the right lens to view the arguably legitimate cases here through, a better one may be harassment or privacy violation.
This is a really thoughtful comment. The part that stood out to me:

>> So the fanaticism only goes one way: the symbolicists have learned the lessons of the past and have embraced what works, for the sake of making things, well, work. It's the statistical AI folks who are clinging on to doctrine, and my guess is they will continue to do so, while their compute budgets hold. After that, we'll see.

I don’t think the compute budgets will hold for long enough to make their dream of intelligence emerging from a random bundles of edges and nodes to come to a reality. I’m hoping it comes to an end sooner rather than later
What you call a bag of trick are learned skills. And yes, learning many does often cause people to "look smart" — this is why, when I was a kid, smart meant things like "having a big vocabulary" or "can speak many languages, specifically Latin" or "plays chess well" or "good at maths". The AI we have already demonstrate all these things, and indeed look smart.

What we can do that our AI cannot (yet) do, is learn quickly from relatively few examples.

That's my current working model for the scale of intelligence: number of examples required to be able to generalise.
complicating matters is that the world IS out to get him. it doesn't actually matter all that much that he deserves it, especially since to his followers, pretty much everybody in power deserves it, so the fact that all this stuff is only happening to their guy proves to them that the thing you ACTUALLY go down for, is being their guy.

further, if you trust the glowies post-Snowden, idk what to tell you. Trump said he'd drain the swamp, and the swamp fought back and won.

unfortunately for people who do believe in the corruption of the three letter agencies, Trump's tactic of undermining democracy itself (however much we do have) in order to appease his narcissism is actually worse than the career spooks in control of the government (and much of the media narrative; the FBI Agent / CIA analyst to "political contributor" pipeline is not hidden at all, you only need pay attention to the people the major news networks call "experts" on all sorts of topics)
Have you looked at how Erlang does memory management within its processes? You definitely can "get away" with a lot of things when you have actors you can reasonably expect will be small scale, if you are absolutely sure their data dies with them.
This is awesome. The chart of "Unboundedness of Human Girth as Modified by Sweaters" made me laugh.
If it had the temperament of a cassowary it would be absolutely terrifying.
I wonder if or how easy will be to use existing embedded c/c++ libraries e.g arduino libs.
Skimmed it, so perhaps I missed something, but what is the purpose of reputation if negative facts can never be incorporated into one’s reputation?

Seems like the harm caused to a person through true defamation is outweighed by the benefit to society of holding people to account for bad behavior.
> Says who?

For starters, it says so right on the tin.

> Sentry has many other types of telemetry and we’ve existed long before OTel.

That's fine. Just because a vendor is missing features it doesn't mean it's bad. It just scratches a specific itch a specific way. That's ok.

> Who are these all knowing humans who say this is what telemetry is?

For starters, anyone who has any first-hand experience with telemetry, either as users or as implementers.

I seriously don't know what point you are trying to make.
Every college student’s “free” time is different. Whether sports, work, clubs or drinking, people fill there time with what the have to do or interests them.
I was lucky my work was mostly free time to further play and learn computers, OSs and software. I learned networking with PERL, Java in my free time, lots of Solaris and AIX.
I didn’t spend any time on VCS, but this was back when RCS and SCCS were dominant.
Yes, we were creating Apache and IIS plugins 25 years ago for PHP, Perl, Tcl, Coldfusion, ASP (scripting COM in VB), or C++ frameworks like ATLServer.

Very few were dealing with raw memory management in C, without anything else.

And all of this evolved into the Web application servers, and distributed computing landscape of modern times.
Fun, no way I'm beating any of the top 10 scores though.
Exactly. I've been working on something like this for a while using finite state machines to control the prompts. The biggest struggle I've had is creating memory. It's one thing to save a list of events and feed it into the prompts, but there are always issues interpreting it and making sure the memories are detailed enough but not an entire page.

For example, you "conquered the dungeon in level 1". If this gets saved as "conquered the dungeon" the next time you get to a new dungeon, it may think you already beat it and won't generate NPC monsters, that kind of thing.
Jim Jordan is a practioner of hard bullshit. We don't need more laundering of hard bullshit under the rubric of legitimate protection of free speech.
I found https://getrapidemo.com/ but looks like it's still under development
Local legend in Central America has it that manatees contain every kind of meat – chicken, beef, poultry, even bacon. As you can imagine, before modern protections, manatees tended to disappear not long after humans moved into a region.
SQLite is not written using Git. Perhaps you should distinguish VCS - a category of software - and Git, one example of that software.
> calling them deplorable

As I recall, she was actually pretty specific in who she called deplorable, and it was an apt description. "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic". Saying that was half of Trump supporters was hyperbolic and perhaps inaccurate, but MAGA world adopted 'deplorable' as a badge of honor of their own free will.

Do you think they indeed self-identify as racist, sexist, homophobic, or Islamaphobic? I can only speak for the people I know personally, but that label does seem to fit. When you think you are being oppressed by "the alphabet mafia" you may want to take a step back.
Try it!

All you need to do is type this into llama 3 8B or 70B 16fp instruct:

“You are a text adventure game.”

Done.
After an admittedly very cursory search, I get the impression that his 'theory' is a bit like Democritus' atomic 'theory': it has the concept, but very little of the content of our current understanding (not that this in any way diminishes either of them: to still be discussed today is about as close as you can get to academic immortality.)

I also find it interesting that Charles' paternal grandfather, Erasmus Darwin (a doctor, author, active member of the Birmingham Lunar Society and Fellow of the Royal Society) felt that life had evolved. Furthermore, one of his arguments was one also put forward by Charles: an analogy to the breeding of domesticated animals, as can be seen on page 548 of his opus Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life.

https://early-evolution.oeb.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.e...
I don’t understand why this partisan hit piece is allowed on hacker news.
Federal Reserve Board enforcement action against Evolve
That's what I wrote -- sanitize before passing to the PHP password_hash function, which obviously happens on the server.
You can use these patterns for per-request resources that persist across some I/O calls using async if you are on an old version of Zig or using zigcoro while you wait for the feature to return to the language. zigcoro's API is designed to make the eventual transition back to language-level async easy.