skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft Goes All Out on Generative AI
Binary Ninja – Restructuring the Binary Ninja Decompiler
Replace government with collective society assurance that no one cheats so we aren’t all doomed. Otherwise, someone will do it, and we all will have to bear the consequences.

If only enough individuals are willing to buy these services, then again we all will bear the consequences. There is no way out of this where libertarian ideals can be used to come to a safe result. What makes this even a more wicked problem is that decisions made in other countries will affect us all as well, we can’t isolate ourselves from AI policies made in China for example.
Hardly. He's creating tools that interest state actors with no real means of defending himself or the tools. If he's that concerned he could just destroy the tools, but he wants to have his cake and eat it too.

Then, in response to what should have been an obvious outcome to his actions, he commits what should be described as a "crime against humanity" against the entire communications infrastructure of a foreign country with nuclear weapons.

There is nothing based here. This is stupid with a tinge of greed and ego mixed in.
Patients generally can't be relied upon to be objective. There may be exceptions but patients will often say they don't have symptoms that they do and that they do have symptoms that they don't.

Speaking as a patient myself.

I wish there was a way I could get an objective test that spits out exactly what's wrong with me and which treatments are most effective. I've been through several psychiatrists and treatments and am yet to find something effective.

I'm glad research like this is being done.
So, the main use case of this is for writing Electron apps, the biggest benefit of Electron is having cross-platform apps, using swift code in your Electron app that's only work on macOS gonna defeat of propose of an Electron app.
> Government is controlled by the highest bidder.

While this might be true for the governments you have personally experienced, this is far from being an aphorism.
I wonder if this is an Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park situation, i.e. “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could they didn t stop to think if they should”.

Maybe the only way to avoid an unsafe superintelligence is to not create a superintelligence at all.
If Japan applied tariffs to iPhones to raise the price of them relative to domestic phones then it would be protectionism. That is the dictionary definition of protectionism.

They didn’t, in this case, so it’s not.
I know it was slow, but I miss when NT had the graphics drivers outside the kernel. Crash the UI? Just wait a minute for it to restart. No BSOD.
> IPIs (inter-processor interrupts) are inherently and hugely expensive

I’d be interested to hear more about this.
Swift code can run on Windows and Linux too
It's not called NameCheap for no reason
I bet they will not be the first to get super intelligence or that they will devolve back in to move fast and make money to survive and deprioritize safety, but still say safety. All companies knows this, they know the value of safety(because they themselves doesn’t want to die) and that to continue development, they need money.
No, NT was a re-engineering of the kernel, mostly with Mach-microkernel influence, but also with input from VMS.

I think the point is that people who whinge (like here) about Unix are actually complaining about Unix filesystems and user-space. I'm not so sure they care about how exactly privileged execution is partitioned (or not).
Not to be too pessimistic here, but why are we talking about things like this?
I get that it’s a fun thing to think about, what we will do when a great artificial superintelligence is achieved and how we deal with it, feels like we’re living in a science fiction book.

But, all we’ve achieved at this point is making a glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans), not really being able to be creative outside of deriving things humans have already made before. Granted, they‘re really good at doing that, but not much else.

To me, this is such a transparent attention grab (and, by extension, money grab by being overvalued by investors and shareholders) by Altman and company, that I’m just baffled people are still going with it.
Nice work! What's the boot time like? I didn't see it in your Medium page.
It did go down, just not much. Would it have gone down more if nuclear was still on the table? Yes, that's very likely.
I watched that, was amazing, those kind of creators like Applied Science are on another level.
Fongo Mobile seems to be the best free equivalent. I have a Canadian number through the World version, and it's worked fine for me the few times I've used it.
Let's say the cost of pollution for a tonne of CO2 is about $100. Using some silly and outdated assumptions, solar power is listed at 41 g CO2 / kWh and therefore has a pollution "cost" of 0.4 cents. The cost of a kWh from a solar panel ranges from 0.5 - 4 cents, so adding the two together is still way under the cost per kWh of nuclear power whether or not you add the 12 g CO2 / kWh carbon footprint of nuclear power.
> Dell is in the AI biz now?

No more so than the concrete contractor that poured the slab the datacenter is built on, it sounds like.
It’s that it’s well established and there’s little need for hype on the topic. I work in a large enterprise with lots of autonomous teams where decoupling is key tenet for loose coupling those team systems.

We are now based firmly in the Azure landscape and Event Grids provide us with an effective team service boundary for other teams to consume our events all with the appropriate RBAC. Internal team Azure Service Bus is the underlying internal team driver for building decoupled and resilient services where we have to guarantee eventual consistency between our internal system landscape and the external SaaS services we actively leverage. At this scale it works very effectively, especially when pods can be dropped at any point within our k8s clusters.
It's not collective action. It's a bunch of individuals who have decided that they don't care about promotions.
This. For people looking for hosting as a service that don’t need scale (and even for some people who think they do) shared hosting is often the best low-admin + low-cost solution. Buuut you can’t brag about your cloud setup.
It's slow haha. Faster on the Pi Zero 2 with bookworm. I think it's 20-30 seconds.

I use systemd to run main.py let me time it real quick.

Edit: I was off, it's 40 seconds when the intro animation starts playing.

This is why the camera spends most of its time in the home screen state until you're ready to take a photo which is when the live pass through plays or while recording a video (allows you to change focus/aperture while filming). That also conserves power since it has the highest current draw while recording/showing a live preview.
The problem is, none of that is stopping anyone else from being joebob@greenmastodon unless you get there first.
Managing structurally deficient bridges is more problematic in places with winter or at least more varied weather (like Pennsylvania).

Just like this bridge, the big problem is that something happens and degradation switches from "slow but manageable" to "Oh, shit, suddenly that beam is gone and this bridge might collapse".
The problem is not the ISA itself.

1. They lied about the student success rates

2. They went after graduates for the ISA when they shouldn't (e.g. graduates not working in tech, or continuing the job they had before lambda school)
For .CA domains, the privacy protection is on by default.
But...we all already have it.

Can't the app update itself?

Is that F-Droid-only functionality?
The feature I’ve heard the Bluesky devs talk a lot about is aggregating likes across multiple servers. And search. As far as I can tell, they want Bluesky to be as fast and scalable as Twitter while being decentralised.

If a celebrity with millions of followers uses Bluesky, all users across all servers should be able to follow them and like their tweets.
I always wondered how I knew what a line sounded like.
I'm probably too cynical, but a strong "personality and fixed opinions" doesn't really give me a lot of confidence in a human being's competency (I also wouldn't use the word "competency" to describe an AI). The person writing the prompts can absolutely bend an AI's output toward their preferences, which is a real danger.

It would be interesting to be able to have a public record of both the input and the output for stuff like this - maybe a future where we have votes for "County Prompt Engineer", and candidates get to show off the prompts that best demonstrate their ability to get 'competent' responses that have resulted in life improvements for their constituency!

At the very least, ChatGPT will admit a mistake when someone points it out. "I'm sorry for the error, you are indeed correct that corruption is unacceptable, here is my revised proposal:"
"...then you ignore them."
You might be right that the AI is more difficult, but I disagree on the androids being dangerous.

There are physical limitations to androids that imo make it very difficult that they could be seriously dangerous, let alone invincible, no matter how intelligent:
- power (boston dynamics battery lasts how long?), an android has to plug in at some point no matter what
- dexterity, or in general agency in real world, seems we’re still a long way from this in the context of a general purpose android

General purpose superhuman robot seems really really difficult.
If you disagree with the statement, "guns don't kill people, people do," then you agree with McLuhan's maxim of the medium being the message and that there is no such thing as an unbiased tool.

You can use a hammer to screw and a screw to hammer, but the biases for their respective uses are embedded in their affordances. McLuhan argues that the same can be said for any tool, whether it's a binky or a bomb.
Exactly. Regulation and safety only affect law abiding entities. This is precisely why it's a "genie out of the bottle" situation -- those who would do the worst with it are uninhibited.
And if someone else has created accounts for `joebob@<all the colors>mastodon`, what do you do? And what if they all start claiming to be the original joebob@bluemastodon?
I don't think the AI has to be "sentient" in order to be a threat.
What is your point? That the NIH's COVID-19 ideas about zinc are outdated and might be harmful?

They they try to obfuscate by making bold only one part of this statement? "The Panel recommends against using zinc supplementation above the recommended dietary allowance"

So it is not that they recommenced against taking zinc, just zinc over 11mg.

But what if someone is zinc deficient even though it goes against their own guidelines? Should they not even recommend testing for zinc deficiency?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493231/

They are leaving us behind because they do not care about us.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36367144/
Electron apps can have native components and in fact many do.
The article also mentions that enterprise SSD often have supercaps & can be basically free because there's enough runtime (even if power goes out) to persist any in-flight data.

So it seems like it wouldnt be an issue. But it would be running your dev & prod in two different modes.
Costco uses these to transport cash to the main security safe, Costco doesn’t get robbed
Thanks.

RT-AC5300 is End of Life, but there are other wireless routers that are also EOL mentioned in your link.

https://www.asus.com/event/network/EOL-product/
It's always been interesting to me that psychiatrists and psychologists just have to sort of trust the story they're being told. Recently CVS and other pharmacies have started denying prescriptions from some telehealth based psychiatrists because they believe they're over-prescribing amphetamines. How do they know?

This article also makes me think of the neurologist that unknowingly analyzed his own brain scan only to discover he was a psychopath.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscien...
Yes! I went to a professional meetup with 80 people. Every single person I met was interesting, but they keep moving, so I had to pull aside the person I was talking to at the moment just to continue a conversation.
Great Animations
It's no mystery, AI has attracted tons of grifters trying to cash out before the bubble pops, and investors aren't really good at filtering.
>I'm not optimistic about non tech people easily logging into mastodon.192.168.555.2.xproxy.remoteinstance2452456a1.mirror.com.

Why are you trolling? Mastodon instances have normal URLs like https://mastodon.social, and you can just log in there like any other site. And there's a ton of "non-tech" people on Mastodon.. in fact the people who seem whine the most about how hard it is are the "techies" on HN. It's weird.
Logical Rudeness (1987)
> which benchmarks faster than DuckDB for OLAP [1]

that link doesn't do any performance comparison. They claim that CedarDB executes less "code branches" than duckdb, which may or may not translate to faster performance.
Fair enough, and we could get into microcoded architectures too.

But basically the analogy (originally built around TLB handling) is supposed to be:

software slow & flexible conscious response
hardware fast & inflexible reflex response

We're altricial, not precocial, so over our lifetimes we can (and hopefully do) alter many of our own "reflex" behaviours. In particular, details of the 4 F's are firmware configurable.

Does that make sense?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__KfrDZoBgQ (for mistermann)
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages – even encrypted ones
Egos man. Egos.
Making people feel worthless isn't necessarily a bad approach. Break them down and then built them back up again into something better. But it can also fail catastrophically.
for most people, the browser is the platform.
for a somewhat different "most", the phone is the platform.

none of those people care whether it's apache or nginx or something else handling the socket, or what kind of socket it is, or how app routing works, or how that app accesses storage, allocates RAM, etc.
It depends where you live. If it’s populated, you may likely get 5G.

Where I live you have to go deep into the forest or the countryside to cure your internet addiction.

https://www.telia.no/nett/dekning/

https://www.telenor.no/dekning/
Forget AI. We can't even come up with a framework to avoid seemingly reasonable goals doing great harm in the process for people. We often don't have enough information until we try and find out that oops, using a mix of rust and powdered aluminum to try to protect something from extreme heat was a terrible idea.
> Patients generally can't be relied upon to be objective.

Neither can doctors, or researchers. They obviously see something wrong with you, as they did with me, so do we worry about their objectivity? No. Because bias and stigma.

And if you are looking for answers, like I have been for 20 year, you might want to look at the role the purine pathway plays in mood disorders. Here is an article I wrote about it.

https://christianbonanno.substack.com/p/what-caused-my-menta...

Best of luck because I objectively know the crap you are dealing with.
Cool. We use it a lot at work for working with large data sets on a GPU cluster.
"Given its significant role in the immune system, Zn has demonstrated positive effects and potential therapeutic benefits in the treatment of COVID-19."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11066294/

It's turtles all the way down when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Comparison of binary JSON formats in databases [video]
Reinventing government and calling it a private corporation is one of the main activities that libertarians engage in
> We don't have anything like this

How do you mean? Is anything e2ee actually "allowed"? Aren't VPNs illegal? Telegram doesn't count
He shows up as a key early player in 'The Dream Machine', Michael Waldrop, which follows JCR Licklider's career including the early development of what became the personal computer and the internet.
That doesn't mean a brand new project needs to be started from scratch though
Why wouldn't it be? A lot of super intelligent people are/were also "destructive and evil". The greatest horrors in human history wouldn't be possible otherwise. You can't orchestrate the mass murder of millions without intelligent people and they definitely saw things as a zero sum game.
If you can build a PC or configure a consumer router, you can set up an ATA. Just make sure to buy the right ATA (one that supports pulse dial). Then find a half-way decent VoIP provider.
From the gorilla’s perspective, humans who preserve gorilla habitats are preferable to humans who hunt gorillas for sport. But gorillas have tribes of their own[1] and if gorillas could invent humans, some of them might invent humans who hunt the enemy tribe while helping theirs. So if you were a gorilla from the rival tribe and you had nuanced ethics of your own, you might even try to invent humans that try to stop the enemy humans without necessarily exterminating the enemy tribe.

[1] I don’t know if gorillas specifically have been observed engaging in tribal warfare, but chimpanzees have; the Gombe Chimpanzee War for instance.
A little sad finding out it's proprietary but to be expected I suppose.

It's neat seeing postgres gearing up for async support. There's also folks like OrioleDB doing massive revamps of postgres & doing disaggregated storage in public. https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb https://hn.algolia.com/?query=orioledb&sort=byDate

Oh they were bought by Suprabase two months ago... Fingers crossed! The Suprabase CEO commented at the time, with a nice basic overview, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40039138
Does it ask every time?
Depending on which source I use, there are around 27 million software developers in the world. I'm not claiming it doubled our productivity, but I will say that if we earned an average of $100k, we'd be 2.5% of the global economy just by ourselves.

I can't find out how many copy editors and copy writers there are in the world (I keep finding numbers for the USA alone).

I don't know how many graphical artists there are, nor how many are willing to use the various image generator AI, but I am seeing that stuff pop up IRL.

We know at least some lawyers have used it because they didn't check the output for hallucinations and it bit them hard; we don't know how many use it carefully.
Honestly a lot of these diagnosis issues are incredibly difficult.

depression with anxiety is dramatically more difficult to treat than either or.

Bipolar can come across as ADHD in certain parts of the cycle or just usually depression. In fact, you can even have uni-polar depression that does not respond to traditional anti-depressants and you don't necessarily exhibit hypomanic episodes.

Relying on patients to know and understand what they are experiencing other than "this is just normal I assume everyone else experiences this" is not reliable.

Having something that can reliably diagnose and find markers for these conditions would be _huge_.

I wade through whitepapers and books on this stuff because of my own issues. I don't expect the average person to even remotely know about all of this; it's a lot and very subtle.

To add on to all of this, people tend to not seek treatment until there IS a problem. Sometimes this can be really life alteringly bad, sometimes it's benign. But it would be helpful if people could just "take a test" and know or at least have an idea.

The issue with being "objective" is also that your doctor has to be "objective" and I've had a lot of friends that are clearly ADHD and end up with DRs that think they are just trying to get medication and don't have ADHD.

Worse yet; they do get medications and they have to cycle a few different ones because of the way they tolerate it. It would be really nice if we had an idea to correlate your ADHD, your body chemistry, and which drugs would be most effective for you rather than the 3-12 month ordeal of figuring that out.
Like Theranos, WeWork, and FTX - it's the story of a darling founder who has to justify an unrealistic valuation in a frothy market.

The other issue for all of the examples you cited (and Lambda) is an-almost complete failure for the VCs and accelerators and other gatekeepers to effectively carry out due diligence.

I say "almost" because in the case of Theranos, some investors did pass, according to the documentary and WSJ reporting. And there may be others that passed on Lambda and WeWork that will never come to light.

But FTX - the transcript of the Sequoia internal chat
supposedly vetting SBF is laughably amateur and shows the mindset that allows VCs to be duped by pattern matching and specific personality types (Ivy dropout, MIT mad scientist, charismatic new age genius, etc.):

> That’s when SBF told Sequoia about the so-called super-app: “I want FTX to be a place where you can do anything you want with your next dollar. You can buy bitcoin. You can send money in whatever currency to any friend anywhere in the world. You can buy a banana. You can do anything you want with your money from inside FTX.”

> Suddenly, the chat window on Sequoia’s side of the Zoom lights up with partners freaking out.

> “I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner.

> “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another.

> “YES!!!” exclaimed a third

(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38128504)
How would this work with the XOR operator? Would it give all possible inputs?
Most people take a track where they start at junior engineer and reach mid-senior level through seniority. I don't really know of a more surefire career path to the six-figure positions.
Sorry, I didn't know that, I thought swift is only for Apple platforms.
Your very own host is https://krapp.masto.host/@krapp

All im saying is it’s not a good look as opposed to a single simple Twitter.com

I’m obviously exaggerating but when I click this link all I see is a scattered mess that the majority of people don’t want to put up with. The non foss people who could care less about the musk takeover enough to actually jump ship.

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

I feel like I’m playing CS 1.6 or something
Not related - it's a good day for science on the YC front page. Lots of good stuff.
It's not at all the same thing, but I always wished Project Silica[1] would take off. I want durable, scalable write-once storage that I can put in a file cabinet for decades and then reliably read.

1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...
It was fun to read the recommendation to switch from W to X. I guess we are now back to W :P
> This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic.

You can convince somebody with an unsound argument if you say it in a certain way, but it seems unethical to do so.
4 accounts, one joint checking, one joint savings, two personal checking.

percentage goes to joint savings and living expenses go to joint checking.

rest is to do what we want.
I think that Cloudflare Workers have been optimized to avoid the cold start problem far better than Amazon Lambda.

Do you know about them?
Discussion (54 points, 8 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727474
> TAs in colleges are graduate students. They aren't undergraduates who can't find a job.

So they're... graduates who can't find a job? I'm not sure you're making the point you're trying to make here.
>> understand the basics of calculus

I think the issue is that many programs expect students to understand 'the basics' of calculus as an academic mathematician understands them, which I would consider to be more suitable as an upper level elective for a CS program.

A fun exercise would be to have graduating CS students take the same calculus exams that were required for admission to the program. I would expect that 10% would score much higher and the other 90% would score much lower.