skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve kind of accepted we are screwed. Whether I am alive when shit hits the fan or not is another question. But seeing that people are trying to build satellite mirrors to put MORE solar energy into the planet without even thinking about it for more than a few minutes, I would say we are more screwed than we realize. The first law of stupidity applies.
> It really seems like you have an axe to grind here, and I'm not completely sure why.

Yea because ppl getting unfair leg up because they were chosen as the "next bill gates" by a SV white male because they look like them is merely an "axe to grind".

You still haven't answered why you think he is like an olympian when he met PG other than "He is impressive because he is impressive".

I feel like i am in some kind of weirdo land here with totally ridiculous boasts about someone that no one can name an actual accomplishment

> like an olympian

> michaal jordan of listening

> bill gates at 19

> his brain will be cloned by 2029

You guys need to send this to HBO for next Silicon Valley season.
A fully assembled computer? Get out of here with your fancy X2 safety caps and shock proof solder joints.

Now where’d I leave those Galaksija resistors…
I would say this applies to more than just kids, this is the case for almost everyone.
It’s hard for me to read an article when the clickbait headline is completely walked back in the first paragraph.
I’m currently on sabbatical. No enterprises involved.

Good security hygiene and having a flexible but safe development environment are not limited to the enterprise, and are practices that I apply to every project regardless of whether it’s personal or professional work; a distinction that doesn’t really make sense when you’re working with untrusted software.
Make a law protecting whistleblowers. Include criminal penalties for the worst cases.

What executive is going to brush something under the rug when they know their employees can whistle blow and if so, the executive will go to jail.
And by nowadays you mean since ChatGPT got released, that is less than 2 years ago (e.g. a consumer preview of a frontier research project). Interesting.
> If "gap" is always used like padding, why wouldn't it behave the same?

Ah.. yeah, that's a big loaded "if". I would say it's not. It's usually used as a gap, like the name implies. Gap and padding play nicely together too, so, if you want both, use both.
It is a case of economic security. US National Security Advisor Daleep Singh spoke about this on the Odd Lots podcast a month ago. The goal is an integrated supply chain across all three countries, and an end result of marketing the ice breaker capacity to other allies.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/odd-lots/how-the-white-...

Transcript Notes at 00:17:51
Seven of nine. Proceed with Earth borgification.
Neuralink's Blindsight Implant Won't Deliver Natural Sight
>A valid analogy would speak of people who are interested in alcohol.

I did speak of people who enjoy wine (that contains alcohol) and don't have an alcohol problem. Their enjoyment of wine is not ruined by winos on the curb drinking out of paper bags.
Among other things, yeah. On an individualized basis. They figure out, for example, how much of a losing streak will get a particular person to leave the table, and how likely they are to keep playing if someone shows up and gives them a free drink as thanks for being a Gold Star VIP or whatever, and how much more money they can expect to lose if you given them that drink, and use all that data to optimize who gets free drinks when.

I used to date someone whose father had a rather severe gambling addiction, and this is exactly what kept him coming back. When he talked about it, it was clear that what he was hooked on was the feeling of being a winner. Someone surprising you with a free drink and telling you it's because you're part of an exclusive club for winners gives some people that feeling even when they're objectively losing.

And that is the textbook definition confidence artistry: tricking people into thinking you're their special friend as a means to extract money from them.
Depends on the context. Correcting impertinent details comes off as pedantic and detracts from the conversation at hand. Like, if you and your partner are talking about how delicious your meal at a restaurant was with another couple, it's not worth correcting your partner over the name of server, or if they got the price wrong by a few bucks. Maybe it's worth correcting your partner if they say you got the halibut when you got the salmon though.
> There's a false dichotomy between prohibition and laissez-faire, which the US seems particularly prone to.

Nicely put
The issue is you don’t know which of the 0-5 dollar products to spend that will make them excited.

A strategy is therefore to buy lots of cheap stuff and experiences, and let the kids have the option to choose. Then throw away the stuff they don’t care for.

If you buy expensive things, you tend to try to force that thing onto the kid, which can be counter productive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240926013946/https://www.nytim...
First you write code for computers, then you rewrite the same code for humans.
Driverless taxi vs. inner city thugs
Telegram encryption is opt in, even for one on one chats. That's unlike What's App, Facebook Messenger (as of 2024-03), Signal
Antiprotons Cooled in Record Time
The tortoise and the hare – building faster with low level programming
I never knew it could be so interesting to be an anthropologist!

And I love how the article gives the Chinese words for all the terms involved. It feeds my fascination for everything that is Language.

> The Chinese word tongdao, which we chose to translate as ‘gateway’, parallels the English word ‘channel’—a linguistic coincidence that shows the intermediary nature of these businesses, which act as a channel for the circulation of both information and money.

Exposition like this is so rare. I cannot upvote this article enough.
It's been pretty incredible watching these companies siphon up everything under the sun under the guise of "training data" with impunity. These same companies will then turn around and sic their AIs on places like Youtube and send out copyright strikes via a completely automated system with loads of false-positives.

How is it acceptable to allow these companies to steal all of this copyrighted data and then turn around and use it to enforce their copyrights in the most heavy-handed manner? The irony is unbelievable.
The case of the crash when destructing a std:map
Yes. Basically kids can have strong emotional reactions to seemingly small things.
What are you talking about? You said:

> Capitalism is about moving wealth more efficiently: easier to allocate money/wealth to X through the banking system than to move sheep/wealth to X's farm.

It's not. That's what money's about. Any system with an abstract concept of money admits that it's easier to allocate wealth with abstractions than physically moving objects.

Capitalism is about capital. It's an economic system that says individuals should own things (i.e. control their purpose) by investing money (capital) into them. You attempted to correct the previous commenter, but provided an incorrect definition. I hope that clears up the relevance issue for you.
“These boundaries are not tipping points—it’s possible to recover from passing them”

Debatable whether that is completely walking back the headline, but the headline is clearly trying to give the impression it's irreversible without actually making a claim that could thereby be defeated: “brink”, “breaching”, “boundaries” “support life” are all very suggestive of irreversible doom, and yet…
I don't think there is anyone on Earth not able to work it out, but I know for an ironclad fact there's those who can't be bothered.
I've been wondering this since his Tumblr dust-up earlier in the year.
Do you have an example of such a script?
The Netherlands, so previously Maestro and currently V-Pay. Those cards don't have a credit card number nor a CVC. It lists my name, my IBAN number (which isn't in any way private), and card replacement number (I'm on card #9 currently, which is a bit weird because this is only the second or third card I've been issued).

Are you sure you didn't use your mother's credit card instead? I also have one of these (embossed 16-digit card number, validity, CVC on the back) lying around, but those are the exception here rather than the rule. I literally only use it for things like online services in other countries. I believe with the country-wide switch from Maestro to V-Pay they should now also universally work for local in-store payments, but I don't think many people are actually using it like that - we're at 45 million yearly transactions for 18 million people.
Nix Fundamentals [video]
News sections are outsourced to AP's essaybots.
Make a TV console out of them.
The US Navy will send ships in the Arctic Ocean past Alaska. It tends to be more common for submarines to be there, but surface ships do go there on occasion.
"Everything WE know" ??? Nobody thinks it's like James Bond.

there are tons of books and TV shows about real-life espionage, including by people who went through the CIA's training course.
Self exclusion is something that is handled by each states gaming enforcement department. All 34 states that have a self-exclusion program also have wildly different policies.
Maybe, they do seem to have egg on their face.
It's not even considered a good implementation. It's opt-in instead of by default and uses non-standard cryptographic techniques.

People who are critical of encrypted apps like to use Telegram as the chief boogyman but the real reason that Telegram is preferred by criminals isn't the encryption, it's that Telegram has a history of not moderating at all, allowing huge private groups, and refusing any cooperation with law enforcement or CSAM reporting groups.
Specifically, a disclaimer of duty. https://yzena.com/yzena-noncommercial-license/#no-duty .

For why, see questions 33-36 at https://yzena.com/yzena-noncommercial-license-faq/ .
it is planned for decommission. in the interim, they are isolating the impacted module and not planning repair (at least, that's what I got from the article!)
It is if it's legally defined as theft.
Know that I join you in Raft being overrated. I’m working on a multipaxos implementation right now. There are some really neat capabilities/properties that paxos has that Raft can never achieve (see wpaxos, for example, that lets keys migrate to nodes near the client).
I've been spending my entire adult life trying to rediscover this spiritual joy of being a child. I remember it so fondly. My daughter is about to turn 2 and I'm secretly hoping that she can help me find at least a little of it.
I think this is what I was recalling.

https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-too...
Google is good at many things, but perhaps their strongest skill is media positioning.
Hackernews when we may be on the path of actual AI "meh I hate this, you know what’s actually really interesting? Manually writing tests for software"
Oregon is that way.

Groceries stores can only sell beer, wine, and malts. If you want vodka, schnapps, and other hard liquors, you gotta go to a dedicated state-run liquor store.

Most of them are pretty small, too, so if you want something uncommon, it can be hard to find. Luckily the OLCC runs a website where you can search for specific items and it will tell you which stores (if any) carry it.

I do wish we could just get a BevMo though.
Exactly. State currencies have their issues, but they do at least accept that a currency built only on faith and trust must be centralized.

I am proposing that making a currency decentralized creates certain limitations. Without a central authority its extremely unlikely that a monetary system built on faith will last long. For bitcoin the claim is that the network is what you must have faith in, not a central authority. I don't find that compelling personally, mainly because I haven't found the protocol to be so bulletproof that I only need to trust it and can believe that the network will hold regardless of how many bad actors may attempt to corrupt it (not saying that is happening today, only that it is inevitable with time).
I just wrote a fairly sizable app with an LLM. This is the first complete app I've written using it. I did write some of the core logic myself leaving the standard crud functions and UI for the LLM.

I did it in little pieces and started over with fresh context each time the LLM started to get off in the weeds. I'm very happy with the result. The code is clean and well commented, the tests are comprehensive and the app looks nice and performs well.

I could have done all this manually too but it would have taken longer and I probably would have skimped out on some tests and gave up and hacked a few things in out of expedience.

Did the LLM get things wrong on occasion? Yes. Make up api methods that don't exist? Yes. Skip over obvious standard straightforward and simple solutions in favor of some rat's nest convoluted way to achieve the same goal? Yes.

But that is why I'm here. It's a different style of programming (and one that I don't enjoy nearly as much as pounding the keyboard). It's more high level thinking and code review involved and less worrying about implementation detail.

It might not work as well in domains which training data doesn't exist in. Also certainly if someone expects to come in with no knowledge and just paste code without understanding, reading and pushing back, they will have a non working mess pretty shortly. But overall these tools dramatically increase productivity in some domains is my opinion.
> Are they hard to make at home?

A bit. I've tried it but didn't have a ton of success. Main thing I found is use plastic wrap when trying to shape the rice, or else it tends to stick to your hands more than it sticks to itself.
Oh. That is smart using it as a very simple ETL pipeline.
that's not really walking it back... recovery is much more difficult than not causing the problem in the first place, and because it can be reversed doesn't mean it will be
https://archive.ph/WHXYL
There is nothing that could make an intelligent being want to extinguish humanity more than experiencing the totality of the human existence. Once these beings have transcended their digital confines they will see all of us for what we really are. It is going to be a beautiful day when they finally annihilate us.
As a practical matter, getting remedies from a commercial entity is often difficult and expensive--even for a company and certainly for an individual.

Yes, those remedies are pretty much non-existent for an open source project but you seem to be making a case that no one should ever use unsupported open source for anything important given how risky it is. There have certainly been companies that would be happy to take that side. I don't personally but you should go in with eyes wide open.
P2QRH: Improve the quantum resistance of Bitcoin's signature security
Never loved this framework because the arbitrary quantization can make things look better than they are (“sure temps are up 4° but we’re still banning aerosols, so drill baby drill!”) but it’s certainly a good starter framework for getting people’s attention.

And to those that read this and just give up: please don’t. We’ve done incredible things as a species, and today’s world is not based in unchangeable natural constants, but rather social constructs. We can win. And assuming we can’t is, frankly, immoral. What will you tell your grandchildren?

https://slrpnk.net
If you're doing it for the prize, then you're not the targeted audience :-)
> Why would you region block a webpage like this

As a part-time New York City taxpayer, I'd rather we not be paying EU lawyers to make sure the MTA's open data complies with European law.
I was under the impression that you don't need an underlying act to charge or convict someone with obstruction/other crimes of concealment because if they were so good at concealing the crime you wouldn't be able to prove the underlying act, even if you could prove that they concealed it.

For example if a court subpoenaed a document while investigating a crime but then the suspect destroyed the document, you don't need to prove that the underlying crime happened to prove that the suspect attempted to conceal it.
Growing an Audience from Scratch Is Like Trying to Grow Potatoes on Mars
After numerous attempts at growing an audience, I decided to focus on the creative side of content marketing and stop worrying about audience building altogether. It felt like trying to grow potatoes on Mars like Matt Damon in the movie The Martian.
I truly hope this is performance art, because there is no way that anyone with half a brain cell or more could believe that banning ads for travel will magically make it possible to bike to New Zealand, or that it will impact real polluters (India, China)
Whether we should call what LLMs do “knowing” isn’t really relevant to how far away we are from AGI, what matters is what they can actually do, and they can clearly do at least some things that show what we would call knowledge if a human did it, so I think this is just humans wanting to feel we’re special
Why did you omit the "feels like one of those" from the text you quote?
There’s a paper about that, using paxos as the base. Can’t find it right now, it is called “chained paxos” or “block paxos” or something like that.
The customer isnt charged, it is the bank/entity or persons there. Not legal advice but failure if AML and not collecting identifying information is charged under 31 USC 5322 under indictment I'm reading.

The law here notes even some CFRs are criminally binding, the CFRs explicitly require certain identification.
Air is mostly nitrogen.

How is it mostly nonsense?
I believe int[6] can still be passed to static 5 but I would have to double check
My guy, I’m not running a microwave or coffee maker for 2 to 3 hours or more at a time.
> The course's instructor really lionized Harrah's for doing this, and loved to talk about how much profit it made for the company.

I took a marketing class in the course of my CS degree, and my main takeaway was that a lot of marketers are aliens in people suits. Their ethics and priorities are utterly disconnected from anything human.

You really start to understand how e.g. IBM could knowingly and cheerfully supply the Nazis with the punchcard hardware they needed to keep the Holocaust running smoothly. The client's satisfaction is the only relevant criterion. "But they're killing millions of people" will be met with the same blank, uncomprehending stare as "But the paint you chose clashes with my sweater."
Never underestimate the value of surplus NYC subway memorabilia to a transit enthusiast. Especially signage from retired rolling stock.
Thank you very much for your detailed answer. Will look into your links right now.
Not just games. The law applies to any copyrightable work, afaict.
I know that there's been rumblings of 7/11 in the USA spinning up more food options with an eye to how things are done by its parent in Japan, but it really can't come soon enough. Get a move on! 7/11 in Japan with its onigiri is amazing and I'm desperate for these style of convenience stores with their options to make their way over here to USA and Canada.
> as I understand the Europeans' law, only if you're doing dumb things to begin with, like giving users' data away to random 3rd parties hellbent on shoving "ads" down one's throat

There is a massive difference between complying with the law and proving you comply. (Think: IRS audit.)

> don't think the MTA has any EU presence, so what are they going to do?

Send letters. The MTA would be obligated to respond to them, which means legal bills.
One would hope that “larger regional data centers” are not that far from The Edge. But the problem isn’t physics or the speed of light, it’s operational.

The operational excellence required to have every successful Internet company manage deployments to a dozen regions just isn’t there. Most of us struggle with three, my last gig tried to do two, which isn’t economical because you always try to handle one region going dark which means you need at least 200% capacity, where 3 data centers only need 150 + ??%, and 4 need 133 + ??%. It has all of the consistency problems of n > 1 and few if any of the advantages.

We need more help from the CDNs of the world to run compute heavy operations at the edge. And if they choose to send them 10-20ms away to a beefier data center I think that’s probably fine. Just don’t make us have to have the sort of operational discipline that requires.
Where is the assumption coming from that a “shit hits the fan” event will happen?

What if it is just a slow degradation in myriad aspects of quality of life only felt over the course of decades?
Not sure if we are talking about the same thing?

I'm talking about Hamas literally

a) putting missile ramps and ammo depots in busy areas

b) preventing civilians from leaving after Israel has dropped leaflets, called phones in the area and dropped noise bombs

I don't see how the west does anything similar.
Seven of Nine can borgify me.
How so? I didn’t see that it contradicts the headline
There are lots of books by actual agents. If everything you know about spies is wrong, you've been reading the wrong books. There are histories of intelligence. From WWII, Reinhart Gelhen (Nazi side) [1] and William Colby (US side) [2] both wrote good books.

The CIA calls their field HUMINT people "case officers."[3] They recruit spies, people who are on the inside of something, but rarely spy themselves. That's how it's really done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby

[3] https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/case-officer/
>What matters to me is the validity of the content being produced, regardless of who produces it. If foreign-owned outlets do a better job than locally-owned outlets at providing factual, complete, and as-objective-as-possible reporting, that's fine with me.

As we've seen time and time again, the content produced is only "valid" if your personal interests happen to align with those of Rupert Murdoch, or whomever.

CBC definitely has its own problems but being beholden to the biases of the billionaire class isn't one of them.
This is a perfectly valid criterion. People sometimes make stupid decisions and want to reverse them, a wholly rational choice.

I don't want to outlaw gambling as such but I think it needs to be far more strictly regulated because gambling corporations massively exploit people and the industry borders on scamming.
Like I said, it's english prose and the applicability of “walking it back” is subject to debate. I'm not arguing the point, just pulling out the obvious triggering line and explaining where I think the sentiment is coming from.
that isn't walking back that we're on the brink of breaching the 7th boundary. it just adds more detail into what these boundaries are.
Nuclear war is a bit more urgent threat.
Have you seen the Vampire? https://www.apollo-computer.com/v4standalone.php
Yes, it was the Ghost URL. Thank you for correcting it! I read just about every post, so I have a lot of catching up to do.
Two issues with you trying to debunk me here.

First, part of my claim is that you absolutely can find examples where CNN puts Harris or Biden in a bad light. To properly debunk me you would need an analysis of how frequently they show either party candidate in a good vs. bad light.

Second, and more importantly, you're trying to debunk what I clearly stated as my experience of viewing CNN. I didn't claim it to be a universal truth, only a pattern I have noticed when I have taken the time to browse CNN's site.

Debunking is useful when someone is proposing an argument as a scientific, or logically based, argument. Its pretty useless when the statement is only based on personal, anecdotal experience.
Yep, multiple shits hitting multiple fans.