skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does address that point with a quote:

> I remember the spring of 1941 to this day. I realized then that a nuclear bomb was not only possible — it was inevitable. Sooner or later these ideas could not be peculiar to us. Everybody would think about them before long, and some country would put them into action.... And there was nobody to talk to about it, I had many sleepless nights. But I did realize how very very serious it could be. And I had then to start taking sleeping pills. It was the only remedy, I’ve never stopped since then. It’s 28 years, and I don’t think I’ve missed a single night in all those 28 years.

-- James Chadwick (corrected Chadwich -> Chadwick)

That said, I'm not sure the parallel between AGI and nuclear weapons is really that strong. Nuclear weapons are a game-changer on their own in that once you have the warhead and some kind of a delivery mechanism then you can affect events. AGIs are different in that they will manipulate and organise only information and knowledge, not physical matter directly.

Aschenbrenner sort-of-considers this point, for example

> Improved sensor networks and analysis could locate even the quietest current nuclear submarines (similarly for mobile missile launchers). Millions or billions of mouse-sized situational awareness 130 autonomous drones, with advances in stealth, could infiltrate behind enemy lines and then surreptitiously locate, sabotage, and decapitate the adversary’s nuclear forces.

...but he doesn't really consider the wider issues of, y'know, capturing the additional information that locating those nuclear submarines would require, or the technological jumps in actually creating and manufacturing those mouse-sized drones.

Perhaps the AGI is going to solve all those practical and logistical issues, but that really does remain to be seen.
Seems like you haven't seen the latest news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/11/boeing-sa...

New orders are significantly down.

Old orders will rarely be cancelled even if possible simply because there's no alternative. Airbus's backlog is longer than Boeing's. And while currently Airbus's manufacturing rate is much higher currently, it won't make a difference if everybody switches to Airbus.
Not sure why people keep seeing this situation through the App Store lens.

Apple has had countless partnerships over the years eg. Foursquare, Google, Sensis that don't require a 15/30% commission.

It doesn't even make sense how or why they would implement an IAP flow directly into the OS.
I agree with your fact, but not your conclusion. Someone reading only the headline gets the single most key piece of data/conclusion - that N95s are the way to go.
That's super cool.

India has enormous potential and it is amazing to witness the rise of its tech scene.
Spyware
If the limit of censoring the model was preventing it from answering questions about producing harmful materials that would be fine with me. But you know that your example is really not what people are complaining about when they talk about LLM censorship.
Microsoft retires CoPilot GPT Builder after 3 months
'Smart' chemistry allows recycling of networked rubbery materials
> feature eight engines in total and able to carry a 300-kilogram payload to an altitude of around 700 km. The launch vehicle used in May’s test was only 6 meters tall

Significant military implications as well [0].

There is a significant spy-sat race going on in the region right now [1] with China, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, US, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Israel, etc all investing in capabilities in the region.

Also has an impact in enhancing India's Ballistic Missile strategy used to combat a two-front war [2], because Missiles are to Indian military strategy what Drones are for Chinese military strategy.

Also highlights how the India-US relationship is built by the Indian-American diaspora. The VC who funded Angikul is Anand Rajaraman - the Stanford professor who started "Big Data" with Ullman, was one of the earliest investors in Facebook, and lead Amazon Marketplace after getting acquired by Amazon early in it's history (Marketplace was originally an Indian e-commerce startup called Junglee).

As India gets richer, and America's immigration system gets more and more rickety, a reverse brain and capital drain has started to form, much like with Chinese Americans in the late 2000s.

[0] - https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/agnikul-showcased-more-...

[1] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/China-and-India-lea...

[2] - https://www.usiofindia.org/publication-journal/Evolution-of-...
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There's also magnesium alloys, but if MgO is any better in the stratosphere is anyone's guess
"Boeing sales tumble as company gets no orders for 737 MAX for 2nd straight month" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40649943
>opposable thumbs were partly successful because they make survivable rape easier

????
Yeah, could this be caused by turbulence? Winds?

Looking at the video, now i'm not sure I haven't been through some dutch rolls also.
I couldn’t see a quantitative estimate of how much ozone would be depleted in a typical year as a result of the extra catalyst being present. If it’s only ~hundreds of tons, that seems both immaterial (there are about 3 billion tons of ozone in the atmosphere currently) and potentially easy to replace (fly up there and dump some fresh ozone).
I have 2 of these (their campaign manager payment service was confusing, and I accidentally bought a second one).

For me, it is very disappointing.

The screen is _very_ small and most people won't be able to read this from a shelf. The only place this is appropriate is next to you on your work desk, but personally, I prefer a desk free from decoration.

It takes a lot of effort to read a quote, and they're usually disappointing.
The quotes are banal without context. It is a thrill when you recognize a quote from a book you know, but it rarely happens.

The wood is thin and plasticky, the brass knob is too sharp-edged and feels unfinished. There's a gap all around the bezel. It runs out of charge quickly, the interface is much slower than is comfortable.

I'm really sad to say, I can't think of anything good about it. I accidentally bought two, and decided not to cancel the second so I could offer it as a prize in my club. But now I won't inflict that disappointment on someone else, and it is still in the box.
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Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is exception, warning, errnospc.
It may have gotten lost in a sea of Boeing bad news.
It's great to shift on renewable energy, but the end goal is to reduce greenhouse gazes, and mostly Co2. Regarding this, they are still doing really bad [1], compared to countries like France who kept nuclear plants. I think that shutting down their nuclear plants and shifting on coal is a weird move. In the end, they couldn't prove that shifting to renewables was efficient. They also still buy some nuclear power to other countries.

[1]: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
> It was immediately apparent to me even on the first cook how vastly superior the surface was to any standard Lodge or whatever.

Can you expand on this? What was different on the first use that made its superiority so obvious so quickly? I have only a rudimentary understanding of cookware, so the difference between a $10 cast iron pan and a $200 cast iron pan isn't immediately apparent.
What reasons are there other that corporate shenanigans?
Sure it takes more effort to mainline the driver and address review comments, but if you aren't designing a throw-away product, it's effort well spent.
Can't read the article, but the way they described it in the WWDC Keynote, you _are_ locked into Apple Intelligence on eligible devices for all the stuff Apple Intelligence actually does. The "AI App Store" only comes into play for specific questions that Apple Intelligence punts on and then tells you, "I can't answer this, do you want to query an AI Supplier?" Apple is not giving you the option of selecting a back-end AI Supplier for all AI-related stuff on the device.
In the US this is common.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1626950/the-fax-is-sti...
It says join our discord, which uses your data without telling you and is not encrypted
Four minute video illustrating a dutch roll:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gt-IcCBiQ4

Longer 15m video from Mentour Pilot with some more details:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2J_LUDWioA&t=1m
If you’re in downtown or midtown they’re small. I lived in Washington Heights (north Manhattan) for a few years and my apartment was two bedrooms with a relatively big living area, and I was able to afford that with an academic’s salary. I don’t remember the exact square footage but my wife and I lived there and it didn’t feel cramped at all. I own a house in Brooklyn now and if you count the basement it’s about 1600sqft.

Though York is a fairly rural town, and houses/apartments that small in rural America, as far as I am aware, are basically unheard of.
Institutional momentum at airlines is huge. Southwest flies only boeing to minimize training requirements and keep pilots interchangeable. Now they are appreciating the riskiness of that strategy in hindsight.
>It was whether ~~providing any answer~~ asking the question at all at all would get you cancelled.

FTFY

If someone were so uncouth to ask the question, there is a prescribed "correct" answer for others to immediately repeat, mantra-like, that will avoid social and professional opprobrium.
This looks like a state machine builder and executor.

I.e. It's a state machine which starts in the state of holding no state machines in memory, and can then transition to holding a built state machine in memory, and can then transition to running the built state machine.
There are quite a large number of parameters other than the material, surely. The whole design is different.
1) Even if the max had hiccups, plenty of them, it is an absolutely safe airplane by any measure.

2) Your fleet may mostly be formed by Boeing airplanes, having all of those move to Airbus airplanes is also a safety issue. Pilots have to re-learn and even forget things they accrued and evolved to react instantly for decades. At some point you need to weigh the odds of increasing human error vs relatively safer Airbus alternative

3) Maintenance and logistics conversion would be a huge pain

4) If you order an A320 today, you're gonna get it no sooner than in a decade. Not taking your ordered Max is really not a smart idea.

5) Boeing hasn't received a single new order for max airplanes in two months
Can we finally admit that one person’s clean code is another person’s code smell?*

Uncle Bob has caused more wasted time and effort than any other “thought leader” except perhaps Martin Fowler.

His examples are absolutely terrible and really make me question how anyone can read more than a few chapters into this book and still think Uncle Bob is an expert.

It’s subjective. It’s easy to obfuscate code, really hard to make it “clean.”

Personal anecdote: our cto is hung up on making super tiny methods bc of this book. You can’t follow logic because you’re constantly hopping between tiny bits of code all over the project. It’s like trying to read a Wikipedia article that’s been condensed to one run on sentence with every word hyperlinked.

*Terms popularized by consultants selling books and consulting.
This could be pretty awesome. I've been looking for some form of Desktop OS that can hold a candle to the Privacy and Security Features of GrapheneOS and they are intimately tied to the Pixel Chipsets.

Now, a ChromeOS Notebook or even better an Android Tablet with a ChromeOS style Desktop mode getting the GrapheneOS Treatment would be an instant buy for me.
I've worked with big and small businesses that use salesforce and they all have some kind of programming layer. Small businesses tend to buy plugins or pay some contracting firm to write customizations.
> touching on so many subjects, without actually saying anything

This is a characteristic of modern rationalist/EA discourse: It’s more about opining on a subject in a heavily hedged manner that only dances around the topic. Making points too directly opens one up to being wrong, and therefore is avoided. The goal is more to wax philosophically about the subject to flex your understanding while touching multiple sides of the argument to demonstrate your breadth of knowledge, not to actually make a point.
Last time I had to fax something was probably around 2018. It were legal documents, sending it to a lawyer. Most faxes I've sent in my life as a private person were legal documents. This is not something common for most people, but it can happen. There are several corners in administration which are famously still use fax, but the good part is, the normal citizen will barely encounter them these days, and they are working hard on removing them.
Arxiv Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06282

Previous submission (paper link submitted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646450
It's not really that disjoint, though. Academics spin out companies, and companies employ scientists.
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The goal is to use the technology which brings us world-wide fastest and cheapest forward. That's not nuclear, which stagnates mostly in building&deployment and is getting more expensive quickly.
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No fan of Boeing. But where are you going to go to buy something else? There is only Airbus. There isn't a huge competitive market, it is just 2 companies left standing. Perhaps a good argument for fighting monopolies?

And, while Boeing looks bad, when sales go down, corporations adapt.

The pesky customers want "Safety", and we aren't selling "Safety", got to get some of this "Safety". Guess we better do some re-orgs, some focus groups, some training to make sure everyone knows "Safety" is important. Maybe throw in some training on "Quality".

They'll adapt.
It looks like this is using lignin as the food stock to make traditional plastics like abs and friends. Super cool, but definitely not addressing bio persistence of those plastics
What does the line "So long and thanks for all the fish " mean?
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They also have small, large and ultra size models. Who knows if those will be made open though.
like they did to our dear Anton in Silicon Valley
Germany has big industries using coal for chemical reactions, unlike France. But they are working on switching to hydrogen for this, so maybe it will change at some point.
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I know, but that doesn't mean that I am not helping
Ah, technically not but in UK still with GDPR so that could be it! (Though still strange about the archive, unless IA's crawlers are also in Europe?)
Will be streamed on YouTube in four hours from this comment:

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The FAA reported: "AIRCRAFT EXPERIENCED A DUTCH ROLL, REGAINED CONTROL AND POST FLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED DAMAGE TO THE STANDBY PCU, OAKLAND, CA." and stated the aircraft sustained substantial damage, the occurrence was rated an accident.
This is like saying a movie theater had a choice to not screen your favorite movie while actively sneaking in.
Fine if you don't need to use it for online banking on your phone, that's my main blocker.
I expect not really? I'm 42, married, but no kids. I can't imagine joining an early stage startup. Not just for the kinds of reasons you mention (being present in a marriage), but just because it sounds so exhausting. When I was 30 I could pull an all-nighter and still have a somewhat productive next full day at work until I could finally get some sleep that evening. But these days I'll be a passed-out wreck by 10am, at best, assuming I even make it through the night, and will feel like shit for a couple days afterward.

There's a reason why people in their 20s or early 30s, and/or without a partner or kids, are over-represented in early startups. When I was deepest in my startup work as an employee, I had no time to date, and didn't bother to try. My friends barely saw me; most of the little socializing I did was with my co-workers, and that socializing often felt more like work than play, as we were usually discussing (or complaining about) work.

I do know people our (current) age, with families, who have done it, but I frankly have no idea how, and I'm sure it put a strain on their marriage and on their relationship with their kids.

On the flip side, as someone who has no kids (and doesn't intend to have any), I have noticed a lot more tolerance for missing work / missing meetings / ducking out for a while when it's for childcare than for any other reason. But a childless employee is seen as having no excuse for needing time out of the office here and there for whatever reason. (I suppose this is true to some degree of both startups and established companies, though.)
> their own custom stack to interact with GPUs

lol completely made up.

are you conflating CUDA the platform with the C/C++ like language that people write into files that end with .cu? because while some people are indeed not writing .cu files, absolutely no one is skipping the rest of the "stack" (nvcc/ptx/sass/runtime/driver/etc).

source: i work at one of these "mega corps". hell if you don't believe me go look at how many CUDA kernels pytorch has https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/tree/main/aten/src/ATen/n....

> Everybody thinks it’s CUDA that makes Nvidia the dominant player.

it 100% does
Always been, never seen/heard of.

I guess there's plenty of popular content on the internet or elsewhere I could name you and you'd be like "never heard of it".

Even extremely popular one.
If you dig a bit you’ll find studies that show things like “95% of vehicles are driven less than <some number much smaller than standard EV 400km range> per day”

So no, I don’t think range is a huge issue, and fast charging infra is a lot better in EU than US in my experience.

Price though - it’s a tall order to expect everyone to buy EVs when the low cost options are so much higher than the low cost gasoline options. I can see how that would make politicians nervous
I would argue that the EU is quite a successful organization given the task of setting up general market rules for 26 countries.

Obviously there is a lot to criticize about the EU and I can offer you a gigantic list there too. However, I do not see any clear failure of the EU’s approach as a single market so far. Additionally part of the philosophy was establishing peace in a region that was torn up by wars for a lot longer than Christianity exists. I would argue the EU was quite successful there too.
I wouldn't say range is really a problem outside of a few groups - people who tow horses or caravans, people who use their car routinely for long journeys.

The challenge, certainly in the UK, is that only half the population has the potential to charge their car "off-street" and the roll out of on street charging is slow and the costs mean it could cost more than conventional car - which given it's also more expensive makes it a challenge to justify.
You're mixing up cause and response, once again, and ignoring the timeline of events.

> There has been order-of-magnitude 100 billion dollars worth of NATO gear provided to Ukraine with the express purpose of killing as many Russians as possible, let alone the intangible value of various forms of aid provided (things like intelligence are hard to assess). "Hehe, well we didn't file the proper paperwork" isn't exactly the sort of response that is going to get a good result.
> I doubt the Russians are worried about whether the US followed its own self-imposed process of officially declaring the alliance. They're worried about the network of countries that the US is building up with the fairly plain purpose of destroying the Russian military followed by regime change. They respond to threats when they detect them, not when the US or whoever decide to officially declare that the threat is being made.

Many countries, just not NATO, have sent weapons and other resources to Ukraine for it to defend itself against the Russian invasion, and to deter further Russian incursions or invasions beyond Ukraine. They were not sending those quantities in advance of the war.

Had Russia not invaded Ukraine in February 2022 two things would be presently true: First, it would not have lost all that military personnel and military equipment, and, second, Ukraine would still not be in NATO. Once again, Western countries spent months trying to convince Russia not to invade, as they expected Russian forces to swiftly overwhelm Ukrainian forces and take over the country. It was only when Ukraine put up better than expected resistance and repelled the attempt to take over Kyiv that Western countries began supplying it in earnest.

> The presence of all those members is why I think it might well happen. NATO has the real estate and doesn't seem worried about escalations. Why not? NATO seems to be pretty firm in their belief that a good offence is the best defence; I think technically we've never seen them fighting defensively? Although I maintain de-facto that what seems to be happening in Ukraine is the defence of a NATO country.

Now you're just speculating. The actual history of NATO expansion, its actions, and the restrictions it has openly placed on forward deployment of forces have shown it to be very concerned about escalations and about Russia's fears.

> Can you name a war where the invader had a right to start it? This is war! The people purposefully starting wars are almost uniformly monsters clothed in human flesh. The best case is that they are monsters in an age of other monsters. If there are exceptions to that none spring to my mind.

Yes, the coalition attack on Iraq in 1991 to repel its forces from Kuwait is one example, but there are others. You should read up on jus ad bellum and how it applies.
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POVray has been around for a long time. Are there any new major capabilities added in recent years?
This whole idea that you can just generate a magic set of words and shift opinion the way you want is complete nonsense. It's just people who aren't comfortable with the fact that there are people out there who legitimately disagree with them and cope by always blaming it on some form of "manipulation."