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@dang - looks like this article has been flagged tactically for ideological reasons. Can you please restore it to view?
I think taking down linkedin would be overall better for humanity...
Yes that confused me for a while.
Haven't you read HN in the last year or two?
This is why back in 2018 I was so excited by moving the RFC process to a staged one. Niko wrote up his version of the idea on his blog back then: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/06/20/pro...

Stages let you build consensus at more points. You could imagine RFCs go through stages of consensus:

First a proposal phase, where agreement is found that this is a problem worth solving and the broad strokes of the idea. This would be the similar to the summary and motivation sections of current RFCs.

Then an implementation phase, where a design is sketched out. I think the timing between this stage and the next is one of the more interesting/weak parts of this proposal, but the point is mostly that these things don't have to be strictly done in order, just that you make the points at which consensus to move forward is found in order.

Next, there'd be a design review phase. This would be a specific proposal based on feedback from the implementation, kind of like the Detailed Design section of the current RFC process.

Finally, you'd accept the design, and the RFC would move into a terminal "it's done" stage.

Anyway, just throwing that out there. You all still have a ton of stuff to do, of course, but this is something I really wish I could have actually pushed for back in the day. I think it would make it easier to move on bigger things, and give outsiders a much better idea of how close an RFC is to becoming reality.
Benchmarking Flutter, Flame, Unity and Godot
shocked. shocked! well not that shocked.
speaking of which, try asking ChatGPT how many r's are in strawberry
At the end of the AI hype, we'll still have LLMs, which have massive transformative power. At the end of the crypto hype we have nothing to show for it.
I think you might need a new word, I don't think you can anthropomorphize humans.
one nuke in orbit, will disrupt satellite service, duration dependent on design.
The vulnerability is an RCE in CUPS that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands when sending a print job. The disclosure has already been leaked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662355
in this case the "rules" you're talking about are licensing terms, so I have trouble interpreting your statement as anything other than "licenses wouldnt be needed if everyone would just use software the way the author wants"

How is WPEngine a parasite? If you don't want people to use your code don't release it GPL
I was bashing my head into walls since 2017 or so when people were saying AI will eat the world and we have to worry about non-alignment and I felt insane realizing no one else even asked if it was manufactured hype. People in my life to this day are still falling for these tactics despite, to me, seeming bright regarding everything else.

To be clear, it is true that transformers did change things but the merchants are still over selling it and everyone else laps it up while not meta-thinking about it for even one second.
Karpathy himself believes that neural networks are perfectly plausible as a key component to AGI. He has said that it doesn't need to be superseded by something better, it's just that everything else around it (especially infrastructure) needs to improve. As one of the most valuable opinions in the entire world on the subject, I tend to trust what he said.

source: https://youtu.be/hM_h0UA7upI?t=973

I think the consensus of people with the most valid opinions is that AGI is actually not that far off, definitely in our lifetimes, and likely in the next decade.

I'm personally not concerned if we recreate a human in a computer, in fact we might be better off not doing that. If we can replace nearly all manual labor, all software development, and all driving, then I would be really happy with the state of automation of "AGI" (societal ramifications aside).
I think the other poster was implying that the governments don’t care.
What's with his obsession with GPT-5? Altman has conistently been saying that there will be no GPT-5 this year almost since the years beginning. He's acting like OpenAI promised GPT-5 and are unable to release it or something.
Outside of Apple's ecosystem, is anyone using Swift?

Kotlin is growing in all areas, especially backend (being fully embraced by Spring/Spring Boot et al).
> Java's problem is that it doesn't do this well for anything but heavy business logic applications, and the more clever the programmer, the more they can build up complex structures

Java has very simple OOP constructs (classes, interfaces, inheritance, simple generics) which everyone supposedly know already in industry. Golang from another hand implemented unorthodox solutions, which actually require some learning curve (e.g. how to model stuff without inheritance and generics).
Yup this is our plan! Collaborative features + Gen AI features as part of premium version.
Yeah, really. It's an upper division elective[1] bucketed into PHIL 4380 generic catch-all, capped at 17 seats, and primarily targeting philosophy majors[2]. To be sure, my alma mater taught me a thing or two about independent research towards a due diligence imperative. Did yours?

Moreover, you voluntarily paid for and committed to earning a holistic degree---full stop. How you appraise its normative pieceparts is wholesale irrelevant, and the matter of extracting value from the vested experience is entirely on adult you. Something about leading a horse to water comes vaguely to mind.

A relevant counterfactual is that you could have bypassed lower division altogether and just audited upper division courses which you independently deemed to contain intrinsic market value as a non-degree-seeking student, dramatically reducing financial liabilities and time commitments to academic lethargy. Hell, you could have skipped university altogether and developed the necessary technical skills that you think the market values online for free! And yet you didn't...almost as if you desire the fringe benefits that society extends to formal degree holders without actually putting forth the honest effort expected of your accredited peer equivalents across the nation. Have your cake and eat it too much?

Example of real world consequences? Every year, my employer swallows an absurd indirect expense explicitly reminding its workforce of statutory regulation, internal policy, and professional obligation towards ethical practice to cover its ass because so many of my so called "learned" peers conveniently dismiss the softer elements of their formal education---major election years being particularly egregious---and then these former employees cry when an industry conditioned to anticipate such halfbaked behavior catches them in the act, chews them up, and spits them out like expendable cud without regret.

You reap what you sow.

[1] https://a.ualr.edu/classes/index.php?term=202460&campus=M&se...

[2] https://catalog.ualr.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=20&poid=...
Because we mostly remember the things that are still around. Everyone knows about Charles Darwin but nobody knows about Erasmus Darwin, kind of thing.
We are literally standing on the precipice of agency. After that, it's over. You see us approaching a wall, I see a cliff.
You don't get one. It's a matter of discretion. Don't be an asshole and you won't have problems.

You'll find that the real world is filled to the brim with exceptions, discretion, and the under-the-table deals. The ones who succeed know how to coax and build them. The ones who fail demand hard rules. Typically, those "hard rules" start at 0, and you get nothing.
In the end, there will just be Sam Altman sitting in a grand chair with the pre-eminent sentient superhuman AI at his side and at his command. Think of the power he will have!

If the future unfolds where AI does really take off, his power may be unmatched by anyone in the past if he stays in control of it.

I think this is purposeful consolidation of power by Sam. He sees what is coming and the value of being in singularly control of it.

Feels like a movie script.

(I think he needs to acquire an android company next, AI needs at least some type of embodiment. Boston Dynamics?)
Since Kia/Hyundai is the only automotive group to have this problem, I'm going to go ahead continuing to blame them.
It seems more likely that Russia would just be using the hardware to communicate with their own systems, probably not Starlink's actual network. For a kamikaze drone, if you don't have to pay for the antenna, great, money saved. Two years ago there was a Black Hat talk on hacking the equipment, full compromise, is it inconceivable that Russia could find more vulnerabilities? They have their own satellites, too, it's not like they need to use Starlink unlike Ukraine.
It's been obvious that it's CUPS as it was reported to affect linux, bsd, macos, etc.. The guy even forked the repo on github a couple weeks ago..

very lukewarm and over hyped imo.. it's a bit sad that the person spent weeks of their vacation on this..

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-browsed/issues/36
> I haven’t carried keys of any kind for… 6 years at this point?

You do you, of course, but I've absolutely relied on physical keys on numerous occasions over the years even when electronic methods exist.

Garage door spring broke or power is out, and battery died on your electronic house lock? You're not getting in.

Keyless fob ignition car ends up in a very strange state where, even though I have the fob in my hand and the car is running, it won't respond because the doors were locked from the inside by the dog? Happened.

Actually had that conversation about the house with my wife when she didn't carry house keys: do you want to find yourself stuck out of the house while the pets freeze or boil because you didn't just carry a damned key?
Apples main advertisements are the app store placements.

You're vastly underestimating the significance of that, as this is personalized too. It's also been shown that you cannot actually opt out of everything, only some things.

At the end of the day, I still consider my Apple devices to be less intrusive then the android and Windows devices I use, but you seem to have an outdated view of Apple's business practices - at least from my perspective
Researchers discover an entirely new way to treat anxiety
Yeah, it's a good point. The end of the handle for the Little Dipper is Polaris, the North Star

I have it lined up now in Celestia, to see how it would project relative to someone looking down on the columns in Canberra from above, and seeing the LD thru the Earth. The whole constellation is flipped left-right, and would always be a bit under the horizon looking North, and skewed if projected on the ground plane.

Also filtered down to only visible stars.. looks more like HIP 90182

https://www.universeguide.com/star/90182/hip90182

Another thing, pillar 4 (pillar instead of column on dcrypt.org) uses a constellation encoding

https://www.dkrypt.org/Pillar_4
Someone supposedly have reviewed the report and scores it 6.3, they say 9.9 is overblown to bring attention to fix the issue promptly https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23466721&cid=64817845
Eggdrop IRC bots. Even 25 years since I first created one, Eggdrop is still the best and most reliable + flexible IRC bot platform, and comes with native support for Tcl.
Oh, oops, the piece I was missing was Radford et al. (2018) and probably some others. That's perhaps what you were referring to?
Similar example can be seen with the demise of Twitter under the new owner, which has no safeguards or guardrails - anyone who opposed him is gone and we can see in what state it is now.
What they were lobbying for until very recently isn't a moat, if anything it's the opposite: "we know anything less capable is fine, focus your attention on us and make sure what we do is safe".

What's changed very recently, which is a moat and which they may or may not get, is seven 5 GW data centres — the equivalent of "can we tile half of Rhode Island in PV?"
Seems clear rent controls don't work in a hyper inflating economy where land lords can't lockin rent for multiple years because 3 years down the road, tenants are paying price of bread for rent. The core problem is the hyper inflation, not the rent control, which under "normal" performing economic conditions will not trigger same set of behaviors, or at least the costs/benefits are not this obvious.
That's the problem though. It's a chicken and egg issue. Those donated hours could be directed towards things that aren't in WPEngines interest. To use an analogy: it's taxation without representation. That seems counter to the open source ethos.

If everything was handled by an independent, transparent and accountable foundation then this would be a different conversation. It isn't. It's handled by a private, for profit, vc-backed company with a leader known for personal vendettas and holding grudges.

I want to be clear: I have no love for WPE and agree they should be doing way more. I'm just pointing out that the current arrangement is not exactly conducive to facilitating that.
I think there's a deeper implication that the naysayers _about the subject of the hype_ are usually right, rather than simply about anyone trying to exploit the hype. Metaverse was going to be the next big thing. Naysayers (correctly) laughed. Nobody talks about metaverse now.
It isn't an insult to anyone. I very clearly said "most" and "usually." We also have excellent IT support, done by developers, because we specifically negotiated for it. They are excellent. But we specifically included that in the contract because it is an inarguable, objective fact that most IT help desk support is not staffed with the most skilled people in the tech industry.

Unfortunately, the kind of sacrifice and selflessness you describe is not the norm in our society. As a result, the dynamic I articulated holds for "most"—just like I said.

Your post is deliberately dishonest in its characterization of what I said, and excessively hostile. That kind of behavior is not consistent with the community norms on HN. I urge you to reconsider how you interact with people here.
The manufacturer in question is ReWalk, which has rebranded as LifeWard.

https://www.therobotreport.com/rewalk-robotics-rebrands-to-l...

Wikipedia still has the outdated name, in case someone here is an experienced editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReWalk
The vast majority of startups fail. Most attempts at business will fail. It's just the nature of things.

But I think a not uncommon pattern with "too big to fail" startups is that they can change their definition of success or failure in order to claim victory. Or at least, in order for Sam to do so.

They might not reach the stated goal of AGI or even general profitability, but if Sam and some key investors manage to come out ahead at the end of their maneuvering, then I'm sure they'll claim victory (and that they changed the world and all that pomp).
This is like saying that no great software would exist if people didn't get paid for developing software.
The entire point of the article is to argue we are unwise to consider ourselves more "doing fine" than "between crises at the moment." It doesn't make a very cohesive argument, but the nature of the concern that it treats is such that not much cohesion is needed to reveal some potentially considerable risks; the failure modes here are also not guaranteed to be intuitively cohesive, and there are a few which could require the kind of postmortem it takes an army of historians two or three decades to complete.

I've worked with complex systems many times before. Some of them were quite resilient. One of them was so well architected, it could stand up to anything short of EKS falling over entirely. One day EKS fell over entirely.

Noah Smith has not favorably impressed me, but as a collator he's acceptable; there is less than usual reason here to discount this work only for the sake of the byline under which it appears. And of all the professions in the world, I would expect ours among the likeliest to produce by random selection someone who understands the difference between "seems resilient" and "resilient".
I think don't you can assume the massive data centers are an indication of the training needed or expected. I think it's also perfectly plausible that they're expecting massive demand of actual services, and as with most things, the larger scale you can do something, the lower the cost per user.
I must say your blog has been really helpful. I remember learning about vim from your blog
Curious as well. The only time I've seen it used in the wild is Redis' test suite. https://github.com/redis/redis/tree/unstable/tests/integrati...
If there was a way I could give the authors a few dollars for their work, I totally would. Instead in the system we have, I have to give a publisher $100 so they can give the author $0.50. The publisher uses the money to make rich people richer, and scaring people by suing for violating laws that they themselves wrote.

Whenever possible, I try to but stuff from the authors & creators directly. I haven't been in the market for textbooks in a long time, but even 20 years ago it was a ripoff, and it seems to have only gotten worse.
No company is ever going to release a closed source retired product again.
> initially was advertised as "the world's first robot lawyer" with the ability to "sue anyone with the click of a button."

There is no world in which allowing that to happen is a good idea.
If it wasn't this way, it would mean new things are more likely to succeed than fail.
Personally I like Anthropic, they do one thing well, but there are a lot more applications for AI that OpenAI is offering solutions for. Anthropic, not so much.
On the modern internet, you don't need to know who runs it in order to shut it down. They already have a court order to pull down all of the known domains and the registrars have 20 days to comply.

If that doesn't work, many countries have systems in place where copyright holders can tell ISPs not to let their customers access certain links. (Either via blocking DNS requests or null-routing the IP/netblock.)

Serious question: Why aren't Libgen, Annas-Archive, and others operating solely as an onion service on TOR?
Old civil GPS receivers had limitations that would prevent their use on ballistic missiles. Why Starlink does not have such limitations? It would be very easy to detect receiver is flying on some airplane. Such use should require special permissions and licencing!

I find it very hard to argue Starlink is not a military technology! At least its satellites are low, so debris wont stay on orbit forever!
I didn't say they were created by new farming techniques, I said new jobs in general were created by increased urbanization, which was partially fed by agricultural innovations over time. For example, Jethro Tull's seed drill (1701) enabled sowing seeds in neat rows, which eliminated the jobs of "broadcast seeders" (actual title). If you lost your farming job due to automation, you could move to the city to feed your family.

There is no similar net creation of jobs for society if jobs are eliminated by AI, and it's even worse than that because many of the jobs are specialized, high-skill positions that can't be transferred to other careers easily. It goes without saying that it also includes millions of low-skill jobs like cashiers, stockers, data entry, CS reps, etc. Generally people who are already struggling to get enough hours and feed their families as it is.
Tons; have you actually looked?

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/kubernetes/operator/automatic/
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
That is my read completely.
I don't have an answer to that.

But Communism was never implemented in it's "described" (or "pure", if you want to frame it that way) form. The Soviet Union was clearly heavily corrupted, among many other issues that diverge from what Communism is "supposed" to be.

Perhaps a system that favors people over corporations?
Sometimes you can write mostly high level code and only add trick and annotations for speed to very hot loops.
Url changed from https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-m..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh, yes, because that’s how network effects work. Every single one would be happy if Meta and all its properties folded tomorrow, though.
I don't know if it has its place here but for a minimalist static website, here is my approach:

- create a simple html template using simple.css [0]

- write markdown files

- wrap pandoc [1] in a simple bash script to manually convert markdown to html

- and that's it.

By minimalist, I mean: no script, no component, no database, no react, no SEO.

The result is a minimalist website that you write in markdown.

It's very limited compared to full-featured frameworks, but it can do the job for a simple website.

Here is mine: [2] (I'm not a web developer at all).

[0] https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css

[1] https://pandoc.org/

[2] https://remipch.github.io/
For those that are new to Tcl, there's an alternate universe where Tcl is the browser language instead of Javascript:

"Interesting footnote: the founding of Netscape occurred at the same time I was deciding where to go in industry when I left Berkeley in 1994. Jim Clarke and Marc Andreessen approached me about the possibility of my joining Netscape as a founder, but I eventually decided against it (they hadn't yet decided to do Web stuff when I talked with them). This is one of the biggest "what if" moments of my career. If I had gone to Netscape, I think there's a good chance that Tcl would have become the browser language instead of JavaScript and the world would be a different place! However, in retrospect I'm not sure that Tcl would actually be a better language for the Web than JavaScript, so maybe the right thing happened."

Source: https://pldb.io/blog/JohnOusterhout.html
By law, we need to be able to disconnect cars from the cell network. This is stupid.
I am not sure. I think Sam is consolidating power in preparation for the next stage.
You could just slap on any library like Swup.js, Turbo, etc. and get SPA-like fast navigation out of a regular "MPA" Astro site. And that's true for any MPA, actually.

In addition, I believe Astro now has their own solution for this, though I haven't tried it personally: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/view-transitions/
If I'm not mistaken there's no such thing as a "sucking" force.
Does that mean every successful company needs to start financing Linux, curl, Postgres, Python, etc which are undoubtedly powering who knows how much internal infrastructure?

Either you are a free license or not.
Just use OpenTelemetry.
No need to keep reinventing wheels.
> we know anything less capable is fine, focus your attention on us and make sure what we do is safe

This is a form of regulatory capture. You get a lead against your competition and then persuade governments to make it hard for people to follow you by imposing rules and regulations.

Regulatory capture is used in this way to build moats.
Yabbut, why burn your « reputation » as a privacy protecting service by taking down book pirates?
The bottom line was always the priority.
Sure, but where did I say that work computers would be replaced by VR/AR? In my original comment I specially said phones might seem anachronistic. And the usage of phones (computing devices) almost certainly dwarfs usage of standalone computers.

You are somewhat arguing against a straw man here. I was talking about phones being unnatural and thus replaced by AR/VR.
My library even lets me check out books from Kobo e-reader.