skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Presumptive positive" means that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has tested them positive, but the CDC has not yet confirmed it.
Accept that that is how it works for you. Like, maybe you do different types of work and subconsciously find it useful only for some of them. That's OK.

Consider it a tool you sometimes use, and think of using journaling as an option when you're frustrated with something.
I think this is a fair assumption if your concern is about the impacts on the “real world”. An ASI which wreaks havoc in a simulation is not really cause for concern.
The Japanese have been supposedly working on robots to support their aging population for a couple of decades now. It sure seems to be extremely difficult to make progress in this field (and in robotics in general).

Also, as you noted, half the picture are people whose problems are self-inflicted, mostly due to bad lifestyles. Right now, companies profit off bad lifestyles (first by selling them and them by helping to manage consequences). No comercial entity will profit from population keeping itself healthy and balanced, as mostly involves substraction (NOT doing some things) and not addition (doing/buying). It's a awareness and policy issue, and can only be fixed through either campaigns promoting good living, and through policies which enable it (more vacation time for workers, healthier food in stores, less stress due to economic pressures etc.).
> The classical approach was to understand how genes transcribe to mRNA, and how mRNA translates to polypeptides; how those are cleaved by the cell, and fold in 3D space; and how those 3D shapes results in actual biological function.

Do you have references for this approach? It’s my understanding that structure solutions mostly lag drug development quite significantly and that underlying biological understanding is typically either pre-existing or will end up not existing for the drug until later. Case in point look at recent Alzheimer’s drugs where the biological hypothesis is even straight up disproven.
> Step zero is actually having a process/protocol where any phone is tamper evident meaning we can tell 100% that this call came from this operator and the operator knows the call came from this user.

This basically doesn't work because the mapping between phone numbers, users and operators isn't exactly 1:1:1.

Some businesses have a single number that they use as Caller ID on all their calls , despite having one corporate HQ in New York, one branch in New Orleans and one customer support callcenter in New Delhi. All of these use different carriers and are based in different countries, yet they're all legally authorized to use that number.

If you want to read more about why this is such a hard problem to solve, see https://computer.rip/2023-08-07-STIRred-AND-SHAKEN.html
It's been a long time, but I think you're correct. In my environment I didn't actually care (any failed push would be retried so the layers would always eventually complete, and anything that for whatever reason didn't retry, well, it didn't happen enough that we cared at the cost of S3 to do anything clever).

I think OCI ordered manifests first to "open the flow", but then close is only when the manifests last entry was completed - which led to this ordered upload problem.

If your uploader knows where the chunks are going to live (OCI is more or less CAS, so it's predictable), it can just put them there in any order as long as it's all readable before something tries to pull it.
American businesses, especially in predatory industries like adtech, complain all the time.
I got worried when I got to ftxbro's comment
So the tin foil hat people really were on to something
Right, so there is a genuine moral case for Mozilla doing this. It depends why you hate ads:

A: the main problem with ads is tracking and privacy invasion

B: the main problem with ads is manipulation and seizure of my attention

If you only care about A, you might like this approach, as in principle if it works and becomes standard, then the pressure from the ad industry to track everything will be easier to resist, as 1) they will have less incentive, and 2) the argument that tracking is essential is undermined, so it may be possible eventually to ban it.

Of course, that assumes that you trust that this is better for your privacy than tracking. After all, it does feel a bit like tracking... If it's done properly then your individual data is not sprayed to a thousand dodgy ad brokers, but only to one company who tells advertisers not about you personally, but just whether their ad is working.

The question is, does it work? Are they doing it properly? Do they have the correct incentives to keep doing it properly in the long term? Can advertisers just undermine it by giving everyone's ads a different ID? Also, your threat model may include that this aggregator company is hacked, or that the government secretly forces it to share the data with them.

Nevertheless, I think that Mozilla probably genuinely think this is better for privacy. And there is a case that there is.

A big issue however its that at present the constituency for Firefox includes people who care about B. This doesn't undermine that directly, but it does mean that Mozilla have an incentive not to care about it.
Just FYI here: To the extent that I explored even BigDecimal in Java falls short when it comes to the calculations. It does do well on the rounding. There might be other libraries that are better when it comes to calculations. If those libraries don't exist integers are the way the go.
Which is why I usually installed software I have heard about already.

There are app stores that are curated. F-droid and Linux repositories.
ggplot2 is pretty much an exception at this point, and if the package was created today it would use the pipe instead of add [1]. Most packages use pipes now (especially with the introduction of the pipe operator in R 4.1.0).

[1] https://forum.posit.co/t/why-cant-ggplot2-use/4372/7
Also, UNIX like system includes Mac, yeah?
Where is the "crusade"? This just shows political donations. Is the FEC engaging in a "crusade" by publishing details on PACs?

There are constantly HN commenters on a crusade to extol and defend the alleged virtues of various "crypto" projects. We could accuse these folks of having a "bias against government-backed currency".

Perhaps HN has a bias _for_ true stories of fraud, corruption and crime rather than a bias _against_ all crypto projects.
Most places don't actually store or process anybody's credit card information any more, all they have is a Stripe token, which is completely useless to a hacker.
So you install from app stores.
> Did the 10 independent experts provide any evidence for these new claims? I

somehow they can't get their people in, because big bad Israel, and at the same time, they seem to know exactly what's going on on the ground, and can make such claims. gaza seems to be the land of logical contradictions...
Like Chinoiserie in the 18th century, with this cultural borrowing — in this case, of a bird found across most of Europe — the designers using these symbols are not engaged in, or particularly renowned for, presenting an accurate portrayal. These design elements are used to invoke a certain otherness (in this case Englishness, presumably) for an audience comprised of only a tiny minority of ornithologists. That is, the mostly Japanese audience likes the striking blue bird and the word 'robin', and wouldn't know a European robin if it landed right in front of them — the only reason I do, as someone who knows nothing of most birds, is that they visit my garden in Europe.

The illustrator likely just found that the blue bird just looked better in their sketches.
Uhh this makes me feel old. These were like university age for me. I played with Dr. Genius painting software when I was child.
I'm not convinced that merchandising would keep an artistic creation relevant in society. It'd be just as likely to reduce the artwork to the lowest common denominator and it'd become just another slogan/logo.
I had a whole CLI full with bash scripts and a Sublime Text app with self-written plugins that functioned like this at my previous job.
The bubble is quite big though. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook typically offer developers laptops with a choice of Linux / Mac (but not Windows).

Windows for development is really a common choice if you make video games, hospital, school software or desktop stuff. But even there there are exceptions. It's unfortunately a common choice in some, esp. American companies where the product is intended for Linux, but they would still hand out Windows laptops to the employees because of their bad / backwards IT that only knows ("knows" is an exaggeration here...) how to work with Windows. So, it often comes to that an employee gets this decrepit system, but then works on Linux anyways, but the experience is worse because they need to jump through some hoops to get to the system they actually work with.

Anyways, any claims about what "most corporations" do smells like LinkedIn posts promoting a technology, where the claims are usually made w/o any research but also any way to disprove the claim. Just don't go there.
How do you usually discover new games?

> If it's not a well-known series where I'm waiting for the sequel, it's usually through YouTube videos or articles about a new game that sounds interesting.

What are aspects of games that you enjoy?

> Mainly the gameplay. Graphics, when done well, create an authentic atmosphere. This also includes things like suitable textures (example: In a medieval game, I find highly polished wall textures rather inappropriate, it has to look a bit dirty and old). Apart from that, it is now important to me that there is mod support and ideally a community. That way, I can play games that I really like for longer once I've finished the normal content. Apart from that, it's very variable and depends on the type of game. In an RPG I want character development and lots of items, in a shooter I want cool gunplay, in an RTS I want lots of tactical options that really affect the game.

Do you think finding new games to play is easy? If not, what do you wish was easier to find new games?

> It's easy, the whole internet is full of suggestions. There are in-depth videos on almost every game. If you ignore most AAA publishers, you can even have fun with your games.

What's your most recent favorite game? How did you find that game?

> Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront (WW2 RTS) and 7 Days to Die (my wet dream of a zombie game, especially because of the super cool basebuilding possibilities)
Hmm? I keep (shared if needed) google docs for every project called "XXX random notes" and we throw info in there. I thought everyone did that?
Because it was repeatedly the easiest path to making more money.
The problem with this article starts at the very begining. Where is says “The last few years have seen a wave of hysteria about LLMs becoming conscious and then suddenly attempting to kill humanity.”

That is not a fair description of the fears of AGI. The idea is not that LLMs themselves become a threat. It is not like someone will ask Llama one too many times to talk like a pirate and it will climb out of the GPU and strangle humanity.

It is more likely that an AGI will resemble some form of reinforcement learning agent applied by humans on the real world.

There are multiple entities on Earth whose stated goal is to make an AGI. Deep mind, OpenAI, readily comes to mind. There could be others who keep secret about their projects for strategical reasons. (Militaries and secret services of the world.) They can use the success of LLMs to get more funding for their projects, but the AGI need not be otherwise a descendant of LLMs.

This misunderstanding then goes through the whole article. Under the subtitle “Human writing is full of lies that are difficult to disprove theoretically” which only matter if you think that the AGI needs to learn from text. As opposed to conducting its own experiments, or gaining insight into raw sensor data from experiments.
>BigDecimal in Java

Correct me if I'm wrong. The last I checked, BigDecimal in Java falls short when it comes to the calculations. ( very big and very small numbers). It does do well on rounding. There might be other libraries that are better when it comes to calculations. If those libraries don't exist integers are the way the go.
Internet in 1995 had already solved all the problems required to revolutionize the world with cheap fiber optics fiber being laid everywhere, the world just had to catch up to it.

The same isn't true for generative AI today, in order for it to revolutionize the world similarly to how the internet did it still need some more unknown pieces, which you are expecting to happen but it might not. The internet however was already completely solved when it was hyped, very different.
Don't want to praise scammers, but that is a very clever trick still. Especially since it preys on the mark being too happy about getting flowers for free to think straight. One could go the extra mile and search up data on people to do it on their birthdays or around significant dates.
It strikes me that the saying can mean the person is enjoying their profession... Or that nobody else values their passions and they are very unemployed.
Well, hats off to your memory and intellect. If you take a poll and see how many people remember or comprehend the special-case syntax sugar for the dozens of distinct CSS properties - which gets more and more complicated yearly with every CSS enhancement, I believe you will be in the super-minority.

CSS has already become one of the most complex languages in the world. Wish there was an attempt to simplify and unify syntax as opposed to just adding more and more features.
The C-suite and board are not the shareholders.

The shareholders are mostly the pension funds that will eventually pay your money and the banks that already do.
There are tutorials out there, that tend to start out with the "fantasy system", the chip8:

http://www.emulator101.com/introduction-to-chip-8.html

(You can google "chip8 tutorial rust|golang|c" to find language-specific guides.)

After that it's a matter of trial, error, and so much testing. I've written emulators for Z80-based systems and they're thankfully old enough that there are tons of documentation for them - often scattered, often incomplete, but still useful.

Jumping straight into a "big" system like an Xbox, PS/2, or similar is not recommended. But once you get a feel for architecture and how the various low-level things interact it's quite addictive to add more and more steps. Writing a gameboy/NES/SNES emulator should be a fun challenge for many people - you can get some stuff running in a month or two, maybe more, maybe less. But after that comes all the refinements and accuracy fixes that can take years. More modern systems are more complex, but also they offload a lot of stuff - you're not so much focused on CPU/BUS/AUDIO timing as on blenders, shaders, and things that are outwith the core. I'd not have the skills, patience, or interest in those things personally. I guess that's why I've been emulating CP/M recently - zero graphics!
They’re going to have a hard time exporting oil and gas if Ukraine keeps attacking their refineries. Repairing those refineries requires equipment that Russia has a hard time getting thanks to sanctions.
Is the advantage of this, that you only have to keep the one binary up to date, in contrast to e.g. a host with docker-compose and the containers therein?
You mean, for journaling, or to automate the process?
If Firefox delivers a feature the AdTech industry would be OK with, then Chrome can adopt it and kill third-party cookies. Firefox already can block such cookies, but some legitimate sites may break (but developers don't care about Firefox). If Chrome blocks them by default, those sites will have to adjust.
Top maximum valuable corporations in the world
Is this illegal in GDPR countries (EU + Norway + ...) or am I reading GDPR wrong?

"If informed consent is used as the lawful basis for processing, consent must have been explicit for data collected and each purpose data is used for"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdpr
Given the potential implications of discovering sterile neutrinos, what other anomalies or unexplained phenomena in particle physics might be re-evaluated in light of this new understanding?
Then how does something like moonlight, parsec, or Geforce Now work? Sub-10ms latency, sometimes even sub-5 depending on time of day and network congestion.
"The idea is not that LLMs themselves become a threat."

Not my idea either, but I did hear and see that idea expressed many times already. Usually more dramatic, the less the persons knows about the actual tech, but even here I saw that point of view.
Interesting tool.

I currently use a TODO text file in the root of each project I'm working on, which I update right before I stop working. The lists are hierarchical, so each task I'm focused on has a parent item, which helps me remind of the bigger picture.
Why do different technical subcultures choose each of these almost as often as the others?

1. Network effects are stronger than we realize, due to being in the networks

2. UX detail matters more than most of us here give credit.
More like, for a simple problem or a sufficiently small instance of a complex problem being solved in C, or a language written in C (simple one or otherwise), maybe it's fine to never free memory until the process quits.
Is it a matter of not being able to think straight? "Selfie authentication" is no less legitimate for flower delivery than for anything else. And you wouldn't expect to know anything about the company. We don't know anything about most of these companies that hold so much information on us.
I've used Calvin and Hobbes to learn English.
That would only follow if the knowledge that we have today isn't enough for an ASI to do anything. And furthermore it would only hold if there was no way for the ASI to leverage (i.e. manipulate) humans or existing systems to get access to "the real world". Neither of those two assumptions seem realistic to me.
I follow the same structure, and I use Notion, Google Calendar, and Flow App.
If so many developers manage to get stuff done on Windows, students can do it, too. This post feels like it's 10 years old, when there was no Visual Studio Code, Windows Terminal, or WSL.
Bob addresses this in the introduction^:

> We will abstain from using [parser generators] here. I want to ensure there are no dark corners where magic and confusion can hide, so we’ll write everything by hand. As you’ll see, it’s not as bad as it sounds, and it means you really will understand each line of code and how both interpreters work.

^ https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html#the-code
RSAF: Android Storage Access Framework document provider for rclone
How is that different from bitcoin being used as currency in many places all over the world? You used to be able to go and buy a pizza using a bitcoin transaction, then that regressed but at the time it looked like bitcoin might actually be the future.

Turns out there were some problems that crypto currencies hadn't solved yet, and those still aren't solved. At the time people expected the tech to advance to solve all those things, but they failed to do so.

Same thing applies to current day AI, in order to revolutionize the world like the hype expects they need more things that are completely unknown whether we are actually able to solve or not.

Until those things are solved generative AI is just new search, translation and some funny pictures. Useful but not that world changing. Internet 1995 you could already connect and talk to people from all over the world in social networks, do banking, shopping etc, all the technical problems were already solved, people just hadn't caught up to it yet.

Internet just needed social changes to happen, generative AI still requires technological breakthroughs.
Until most people switch to VR / AR and devices refuse to play any content unless they successfully do a retinal scan.

This definitely won't happen in the next 5 years, but the next 30? I wouldn't be so sure.
This is actually good news, since even with all those infected people there was no additional person-to-person transmission found.
Can you cite examples. I haven't seen any personally.
LaTeX itself is sort of a rite of passage. It's slightly more useful, because the mathematical side of academia runs on it.

There's a bunch of template you get for free by doing what everybody else is doing. The corporate world has those too, but for Word, because that's what they use.

There's this subconscious believe that something that has a steep learning curve will make things easier later on. That is not always true. If you want stuff that is more complex than normal, Word and LaTeX are about equally as annoying, if nobody solved it for you (templates, Google). LaTeX is just harder for the easy stuff too.

Doing my resume was the last thing I did in LaTeX, not the first. Doing anything in LaTeX just stopped being useful when the recipients didn't recognize Computer Modern anymore.
Does anybody know whether this also applies to firefox android?
Every founder I have met after selling their company.
Interesting read if at least having some C knowledge. Summarizing, Rust's safe area means absence of: pointers to device memory, calling externed functions, altering mutable static variables and unions.
There is no personal data collected as it's one of the key feature of that process, so in my humble opinion it's out of the scope of GDPR.
Energy is largely fungible in aggregate, so this ends up not being true.

But I do agree with your implicit point that we should be emphasizing renewable generation instead of energy rationing.
Furthermore, the underlying point of AGI risk is that at no point in the history of forever have we had entities that were more intelligent in all dimensions than a human to contend with. Anything that threatened us we could just push to the limits of their ability to plan then go a bit further to destroy them. And we have humans in every system we've ever built because something has to do the executive decision making and putting a human in was the most cost effective option - which means democratic institutions tend to have an easier time controlling everything.

The threat here is we have no idea at all what happens economically when machines are stronger, faster and just generally better than people. In the long term we might plausibly find an economic equilibrium where humans are not worth feeding. We might find (imo probably will find) that a human-free military is more effective. There is a much greater level of disruption possible here than in the industrial revolution that led ultimately to WWII.
Temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru
Just vote harder?
C. the main problem _is_ ads

Mozilla assumes ads are required.

Ad blockers assume ads are not required.

Ad blockers are probably more popular than Firefox.

The original web did not have targeted ads and did not require ads to exist. It has never faced an existential threat due to "not enough data collection and targeted advertising".

Ad blockers are correct.
AI as a cause of inequality needs a bit more evidence than the current cost to run and expected business productivity gains. Easy way to virtue signal though.

>People used to be in awe of creativity, originality, and innovation.

People could choose to admire AI for those things but in truth it was only ever a very small % of those things which ever got a positive response for being partly new and partly familiar (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable design principle). When a tool comes along that can be too advanced and too familiar to everything they hold dear of course the focus is on how bad it is.
I expected something funny about making people angry with articles about heated but ultimately not that important issues. Like, you know, what is currently happening in much of the internet. It's really effective!