skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- It started with long periods of insomnia and without any voices.

- I received strange phone calls from languages I didn't understand (it was a Belgian number)

- The voices started telling me that my phone was hacked using NSOs Pegasus by a well connected criminal gang.

- they picked stuff that was real. My spam caller, knowledge of spyware corporations.

- they then used that to build stories and paranoia to the point of delusion.

- at the peak of my delusion. They mimicked voices of people I trusted (mum, friends etc).

- they even claimed that NSO was so advanced that they would summon the cenobites (from Hell Raiser) to come & touture me.
This is my favorite conspiracy theory now
I think it’s counterproductive to limit it to one definition. There are many levels of safety that we genuinely need to worry about before we even have to worry about the more lofty goals like preventing Skynet. Just off the top of my head:

* does the LLM act like a 4chan commenter when someone is expressive thoughts of self-harm
* can it be used to automate security research
* can it be used to bootstrap from backyard machine shop to weapons manufacturing
* the above but with nuclear fuel enrichment

There are a lot of low hanging fruit like that. They make up what I think is the real meat and potatoes of AI safety in the short to medium term.
I have 3 categories of projects:

1. Bigger than I thought
2. Dumber than I thought
3. Too small to really be proud of
I don't know what we're arguing about, but it seems rather subtle, except maybe to you. Why does it matter that "anxiety is highly amenable to cognition-based therapies?"
The largest dam removal in US history is complete
> But this does highlight one weakness of these FIDO tokens - you have to manually maintain a list of where you've registered them. And if your token is lost or stolen, you have to manually revoke every single one.

I agree. I've been keeping track of FIDO tokens and where they work in my password manager and it's great.

I honestly want to extend this idea not just to FIDO tokens, but for anything that would ever need to be revoked and replaced. So stuff like FIDO tokens, 2FA secrets, Passkeys (both already handled by my password manager), payment methods, GPG keys and such.
This isn’t really true. HVAC in a dry hot desert isn’t that bad.

The main reason NV and AZ don’t have significantly larger data center foot prints is mainly just from lack of cheap energy (data centers run 24/7 at a pretty constant load so solar isn’t a good fit).

When I last looked into it, CoLo space in Vegas and Phoenix at small scale has prices competitive with other locations. The biggest downside is distances to major IXPs. So using them is contingent on latency goals.
Just a nit, but there’s a big difference between establishing a social norm and establishing a legally protected right.
What, 3 out of 4 isn't good enough for you? The high rise part of the comment is an example of "one of these things is not like the others" in that of course people all about the money will like high rises.

It also doesn't matter what you think Donald Trump does or does not believe. He has a 4 year track record, and is on record making comments about what he will do if elected again.
> None of this is easy and the post doesn’t seem to provide any insight into finding a good fit.

Oh it does:

> So it’s not that the world magically offers the lock to fit everyone’s key. It’s that everyone’s key has a bit of give, enough to fit the locks available. We screw this up when we assume that our keys are made out of Play-Doh and they can fit anywhere, or when we assume they’re made out of obsidian and they’ll shatter if you try to stick ‘em in the wrong place.

It actually warns about having unrealistic expectations what fitting in means and encourages to have some flexibility but also not too much flexibility. I think that is a good approach

> The post also conflates employment with happiness.

The article doesn't talk solely about traditional employment but has a broader definition of niche.

> And that’s just thinking of niches in the dumbest sense possible, which is “things you can do in exchange for money.”

Later:

> When I was thirteen, I got promoted to moderator of the “Flaming Chickens” forum of a Yu-Gi-Oh! message board, which is where people were allowed to “flame” things that they hated (stepdads, math class, low-quality English dubs of Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes). I was so excited because it meant I meant something. Was the job pointless? Yes. Was it not a “job” at all in the sense that it paid nothing? Yes. Did the forum eventually die because of an infidelity scandal inside the polycule of people who ran the message board? Also yes. But for a bit, I fit.

You comment could be more insightful if you had read the article.
By the members; we all pay a tiny bit into the co-op each month. Most people pay 1 USD or GBP per month, if you use some of the other services we offer through organizational memberships in other co-ops (ie. we're a member of meet.coop for video calls, May First Co-op for Nextcloud and email and what not, etc.) then some people pay a bit more (normally no more than 3 to 5 USD or GBP).
In countries that span time zones (aka lines of longitude) the grid likely already provides for "lengthening" the solar day.

For example in the US solar power from the west coast could easily supplement east coast evening demand. Ditto east coast supplementing west coast mornings.

Yes, this means investment in Trans-continental grids, but that makes sense in countries that are hot and wide.
Do you consider Canadians willing to relocate, no expenses covered just visa sponsorship?
Yes: the keys the Y4 tokens generated were susceptible to attacks; here, it's the device itself.
> a country not known for its vast wealth

Its looting of the gold and silver from S. America apparently didn't help.
is there any work done to show that Cities Skyline can approximate real problems and is not just a fancy game?
Faster Integer Programming
Sure. But those are far from the only massive codebases out there, and many of the biggest are monorepos because sorta by definition they are the size of multiple projects.
Would love to discuss about LinkedIn lead generation, as I am already working on a LinkedIn automation tool.
Seems much more likely that in the US at least, fossil fuel interests will push for taxes on solar installations and usage to bring their costs up to the level of oil and gas.
I’ve been debating writing a book about this to enable hardware to jump to software. I work on a bunch of infrastructure related code (make sure everything is running correctly). As for the switch, it takes a bit of luck and hard work. Luck wise, my employer has an opening and I happen to fit the need. Hard work wise, you still need to prove your worth. I was coding about 50/50 in my previous role so it was easy to sell my case. I went on some interviews lately and it’s important to know the game. Being able to Leetcode and system design is for the better or worse the de facto standard if you want to land a SWE role.
Can they give you back a duplicate?
I mean the ruskies cooked up this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

Invented by THE theremin. Yes, the instrument, theremin, the wacky one where handwaves and suck around some metal stick make funky horror movie noises, there was a Dr. theremin who invented that, and also this. Anyway, it was a "passive radio device" (given as a "gift") whereby if radio waves are projected onto the device it shall convolute said waves with sound waves of the room and then back-project a signal of radio waves with voice data overlayed, which can be read. Fancy at that sounds it is trivially low tech and simple. Very analog.
It’s not human rationality, it’s cold, hard economics (scoped to renewables and storage uptake). Climate change is already happening, and there is nothing you can do to stop it immediately, just as you will get killed stepping in front of a freight train. You can only build systems that can attempt to outrace it to slow it down (various efforts to achieve net zero in a domain), and then eventually reverse it (an efficient, scalable carbon sequestration solution to existing atmospheric carbon load, powered by clean energy) over the next ~100-150 years.
No, just a very high voltage grid since P=I^2*R and with very high voltages I (current) decreases proportionately and therefore exponentially in resistive power loss.
I have run a dehumidifier off of excess solar before to collect water and use on plants. It was mostly for fun, and not ideal bc of possible contaminating chemicals from the dehumidifier involved, mold, and lack of minerals for the plants, but hey, it worked.
There are multiple Kibbutz in Israel that plant and harvest on time and are the major source of innovation for Israel's AgTech sector (which is only behind the US in terms successful startups).
Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
So the Fourier transform on wave functions is like integrating a normal function, like the velocity function, in Newtonian mechanics?
NFL Survivor Optimizer
I quite like that. Simple and with beautiful art. Congratulations
I listened to the Oxide Computing podcast on sagas recently, and it's like 95% a story for state and where it's kept and how it's shared. "Manage state of vm instances that are actually running"

I so so so strongly believe eventually git will be the thing. Computing will just unfurl into git logs. We will be able to share our spaces effectively & build tools stop that.

Lovely to see this article. Very fun future.
It's honestly not that bad if you have a good relationship with your editor. Git really emphasizes word by word or line by line changes; while publishing, at least in the earlier stages of working with an editor/agent, is much more focused on complete drafts. Getting down into the minutiae of word or line edits usually happens rather late and with a copy-editor.

Saving complete drafts, then receiving marked-up copies, worked fine for fiction, at least in my experience. They've been using Word for decades at this point so it's quite formalized. You just follow their instructions (even with file naming conventions). Trying to get a publisher up to speed on Git while your editing is usually just not worth the hassle.

Technical writing, though, is a different story. Managing code blocks is pretty essential in git, in my experience. But then you have specialized publishers for those.
So the president makes less than a middle manager in a Fortune 500 company. I hope there are some other benefits…
I really don't know. I wasn't told.

But from Googling about the medication (Risperidone).

It looks like I had bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Yes. I am 100% off meds. It has been about 1½ years now.

I don't hear a single "voice in my head".

Those voices are very different from "thinking" or "talking to yourself".

I am glad I haven't heard them in a long time.
There are more of them, but good design "just works" and so goes mostly unnoticed.

Actually, I wonder if there's a word for this effect?
No it doesnt mean either of those things. It means you built too much solar and made the grid more unstable given the physics constraints on short term supply and demand. Its not waste, it is not good.
Because returning to the user what is requested is considered an 'attack' I forsee an endless list of 'vulnerabilities' until the model is lobotomized to the point of uselessness.
Where Did Microservices Go (2023)
This concept was explored in the cancelled show Raised by Wolves.

Non-religious people were escaping pious people. But unbeknownst to either group, their God was a quantifiable being that could only inhabit higher order organisms experiencing a trauma, and then stay inside their minds, and help it interact in our plane of existence.

Might be some merit to this idea, given the shared experiences many psychedelic users have. Frequently there are some entities that were always there, just not perceptible.
Energy has a lot of dark horse candidates and it's hard to pick winners. But one that sounds interesting to me, though it's still early, is pulling carbon directly out of the air using solar energy [1].

On basic principles, it sounds a whole lot easier than mining landfills? But that's assuming the capital costs can be lowered enough. (Solar costs keeps dropping, they figure out the other costs.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/terraform-industries-conve...
Related: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/deadly-heat-limits-te...

> Heatwaves loom as a growing threat to humanity in a warming climate. This summer alone, in the northern hemisphere, thousands have died during extreme heat events. It's driving researchers to find out more about the point when heat turns deadly.
There is a sustainable deal that can work with negative prices. Charge EVs when price is negative and pay the carowners. For this, car owners have to be always plugged in (except the 20m - 1hour) that they drive. When demand peaks, the cars can supply power back to the grid and make even more money! Households can put solar panels, provide the entire energy infrastructure: production and storage.

Car batteries are ~6 times larger than powerwalls and powerwalls can make money supplying power back to the grid: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...

We don't need peak power infrastructure (natural gas) which runs only a few hours per day. All of it can be replaced by EVs.
The demo at the CHM is very impressive. They extracted the data from the drives many years ago and it turns out that it was a bunch of records about Canadian companies from the 60s or 70s.

I love the sound it makes.
Or not build cities in deserts.
What possible contamination?

Easy enough to add minerals/nutrients after the fact!

What kind of wattage was the device?
How does the Voice manifest? Do you hear it with your ears? Is the Voice distinguishable from an actual person's voice? Can you tell it is the Voice, without looking around you to see if there's someone, and if there's no one then that's how you know it is the Voice?
Still boggles my mind the amount of people that decided to move to Arizona without considering what it is like to live in Arizona. People that are not used to heat should think multiple times and try to live for a summer at a hot place before ever deciding to move there, as someone born and raised in the tropics, and that lived in the most arid places in South America, it's not for everyone.
We need to bring back "scrip": only pay the company town workers in money that has no value outside the company town.
I'm asking based off of what they wrote in the readme

"While not a completely accurate simulation, this "toy universe model" provides a useful tool for visualizing and communicating urban development concepts. We present this tool in the hope that it will facilitate better communication and understanding of urban planning issues in Colombo."
https://www.reddit.com/r/KingOfTheHill/comments/8j8t1y/phoen...
> really, this is a stupid question and a waste of everyone’s time

Yeah, I think I agree. I was just responding to (what I saw as) sentiment that it was entirely unrelated to performance, which seems to overstate the case.

> Could you image how idiotic you’d sound beginning by asking is it a real car?

Tbh, "willing to sound like an idiot to double check assumptions" is probably something worth selecting for! I don't think that saves this question, though.
Deserts are coming to you, at least seasonally. With less snowpack, many cities even in temperate climates are seeing their summer water supply dry up.
In Fusion 360, you can drag underconstrained parts of the sketch around with the mouse. So the “degree of freedom” is still specified, but by accidental placement of how you drew the sketch. Fully-constrained sketches show a black outline and can’t be changed without explicitly editing a constraint or dimension.

For a quick example, see slide 10 in https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TiVoKF7mLlF360Oxy8hN... This is just a quick doc I made to show a friend how to use Fusion 360.
Nice, love that it is short and sweet!
> There is no value without labor.

True, but there is also no value without investment and risk. Marx's failure was ignoring the other two ingredients.

Marxism is building a road with hundreds of laborers with shovels. Capitalism is one guy with a bulldozer.

P.S. Cuba has no riches to steal.
Its interesting that Rojava wasn't mentioned here. After driving out Islamic State, they founded their own country in north east Syria, not widely internationally recognised yet but functioning much better than the rest of Syria.

They are still a developing country and by no means wealthy, but the average income in this area is double what it is in the rest of the country.

Their economy is built almost entirely on cooperatives. The government provides land and seed funding to get the cooperatives going https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-social-economy-of-roja...
If I recall, rustfmt had a bug where long string literals (say, over 120 chars or so — or maybe if it was that the string was long enough to extend beyond the gutter when properly indented?) would prevent formatting of the entire file they were in. Has this been fixed?
They need (or are desperate depending on your milage) to find a way to get AI onto Windows 11 to justify their huge investment in AI. A PC with a dedicated "AI-chip" is one of these ways. It is also a requirement if they want to compete against Apple when it comes to running local on-device models and workloads.
Not exactly, though. And Japanese kana should be phonetic enough that a direct input method should be used for kana, but the dominant input method there is Romaji, i.e. typing Latin characters to get both kana and kanji. So that is not a defining factor.
Places with 1% vacancy rates only exist when the government prevents more housing from being built, or makes it unprofitable to be a landlord.
In such a world, shells would probably have something like a $SCRIPT_NAME to work around this.
Even if they have changed, I seriously doubt you can distill something complex like societal interactions and norms down to a simple one-variable model like the introduction of pensions.
It's not often a self-promotion blog post has the entirety of HN telling you you're wrong. Better luck next time lol
Tbf, it's not commonly run because it increases TLB miss latency for rarely any benefit (why are you mmap-ing so much? How can you afford to keep that much data around...).
I am actually unaware of downsides of PCRE. Could you explain? I hardly ever use literal grep nowadays.
gotta bunch of yubis and was about to ask about https://store.google.com/product/titan_security_key
then found https://ninjalab.io/a-side-journey-to-titan/ by the same folks
Since this drama keeps showing up, I looked into it.

This all started because Elon Musk actively chose to give voice to specific known terrorists. This really isn't about political speech, there was actual violence involved (that's the definition of a terrorist).

The way the judge is mingling assets stored in different companies (just because they have some common ownership) isn't how things usually work in America, but we shouldn't expect such paper shields to hold up so easily everywhere.

As for the much-quoted "threatened to arrest the legal representative [note: I'm pretty sure it's not 'someone acting as a lawyer', but more like 'regional representative of the company']" - what do you expect when you refuse to obey a court order? Arrests happen for that in America too.

I don't speak enough Portuguese to read all the original sources without machine translation, but I saw enough that I'm pretty sure I got the gist of it, even if I didn't go through all the procedural details.
Yes, there is a place for everyone. For some it might be prison but it is a place nonetheless. Everyone has the right to live.

While psychopathy is relatively hard to treat it is worth noting that not all psychopaths are actively harming other people. They can also be functional and productive members of certain groups under the right circumstances. You might want to be more careful with stigmatizing a whole group of people.
Not no cost unless you have a spare computer sitting around. But a possibly low one-time cost.
Socialism is seizing the workplace from the capitalist.
Kernel anticheat is software non portability as a service.

There are a ton of games from the 90s and early 2000s they no longer run on modern windows. It would be helpful if there was a culture of open sourcing game code allowing for recompilation to modern architectures.
Can someone explain to me why this is a "good" thing?

If solar is too cheap, it won't be overbuilt... or people will lose their return on investment => less solar.

Unless I am missing something major, another way to say this is "solar power during peak solar flux will become so valueless that people will stop building solar".

To the downvoters: Off-grid solar will be unlikely to be dominant energy consumption, and there are other options to build cheap, efficient and clean energy. Solar is an option and I don't "hate" solar.

This is a simple argument of negative prices or low-cheap prices will correct themselves on the market without external forces like subsidies from tax payers... which means it isn't nearly as cheap as everyone is saying.
> Musk et al bent over backwards for India and Turkey and suddenly gained principles in Brazil?

The question isn't what morals the company decides to stand on other than the moral that they will only comply with government requests and court rulings that are legal under that jurisdiction's laws.

I don't know details of Turkish or Indian law, but I do generally understand their governments to be more oppressive than the US. It seems plausible that the requests made by those governments were legal there, as opposed to the Brazilian request that Twitter is claiming not to be legal there.

Supreme Court justices are in fact fallible. There have been a handful of decisions coming out of SCOTUS that many have been extremely unhappy with to the point of claiming the rulings were unlawful or unconstitutional. Is it impossible that the Brazilian judge made a request/demand and threat that isn't actually lawful?
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I've been reading headlines such as these since 2010 during my undergrad. It is 2024 and solar is still an expensive option.
Companies go bankrupt all the time.

> Our economic system is predicated on withholding basic needs for profit.

An economic system based on "to each according to his need" has been tried many times. It fails to deliver.
I don't understand how AI is any different than going to Fiverr. I can specify what I want in the style I want, and have a human do it versus a computer.

"I want a black and white logo in the style of an 1960's Archie comic for an ice cream shop named 'Bettys'"

Once I say "1960's Archie comic", why doesn't the work instantly become derivative whether a human does it versus a computer?

If I understand your argument correctly, the person from Fiverr will not pay license fees to the owner of Archie Comics, even though he may use it as reference material.
I double dog dare you to port doom
Everyone seems to be saying this but whenever I get quotes they are always the same, for every dollar the hardware goes down the labor seems to go up the exact same amount… strange how that works.
Yet to be mentioned here is writing with pen and paper... Anybody still do that? If so, what's your approach?

When writing an essay, I often start with pen and paper. Mostly, an outline, and sometimes also the introductory couple of paragraphs. But I switch to a word processor when the bulk of the words start flowing.