skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People love to talk about ideology, but is what what economics should be about? Every major economy on the planet is a mixed economy. In China, government expenditure and revenue are 33.1% and 25.5% of GDP respectively. In the US, the corresponding percentages are 38.5% and 32.9%. Neither totally free markets nor planned economies seem to work, and empirical research obliges economists to look at the economies we actually have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

I think Piketty does kind of do what you're talking about -- and though he makes a good case, I think when he argues for concepts like universal inheritance, that's more an act of political advocacy than economic scholarship. It's for the economist qua economist to study/analyze the conditions under which the rich get richer, or where class mobility decreases, etc -- but it's up to people and governments to choose what they want society to look like.
Americano definitely tastes different than pour over -- I make both all the time
My case exactly, except I'm still in denial.
The fact that it has been coined by some academics in their research papers is not in contradiction with the fact that it has been chosen exactly like any marketing term, to imply that something is better than it really is.

The alternative term "optimistic access" describes much better the essence of those algorithms, while "lock free" attempts to hide their nature and to make them look like something that is guaranteed to be better (so receiving money for researching them is justified), because locks are supposed to be bad.

"Lock free" and "wait free" have been buzzwords that have provided subjects for a huge number of research papers in the academia, most of which have been useless in practice, because the described algorithms have been frequently worse than the lock-based algorithms that they were supposed to replace.
> Also private entities can fund research. It is common in the US for chemical companies to fund grants.

It's also common in the US for companies to fund research so that they can manipulate results to their benefit and/or to bury results showing that their products are harmful. One of the many nice things about publicly funded research is that its purpose isn't to increase sales/stock prices, advertise, or manipulate/hide the truth from the public.
Yeah that's the case for some locations indeed.

But next time you go on a trip, have a look at the map! You might be able to meet someone interesting there.
I wonder if there are PR people out there, who watched the Wordpress vs. WPEngine disaster from the sideline and took notes.

For me this rhymes with recent history...
The SJLJ runtime doesn't lock a global mutex seven times each time you throw an exception. I'm not kidding. If you use DWARF exceptions then, each time you use the throw keyword, libunwind::DwarfFDECache<libunwind::LocalAddressSpace>::_lock needs to be acquired six time in read mode, and once in write mode. Yes it's a GIL. I traced the address of the lock objects myself. That effectively makes throwing an exception a serialized operation. Only one exception can be thrown at a time, per process. Not only will this limit your throughput to one core, it'll also saturate all the other cores on your system with pointless busy work too, if your pthread_rwlock_t implementation isn't very good, e.g. glibc, musl. See also https://justine.lol/mutex/ The example I gave is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm using it to analyze the runtimes beneath.
This government arrived on a promise of “fixing” our financial problems. A lot of these shortfalls have been artificially created; as an example, our healthcare sector went from breaking even to being “hundreds of millions” in deficit after the budget was massaged. That created the “crisis” that let them fire the board in charge and appoint a commissioner who has been aggressively slashing public services in order to meet the new budget. The reduction in service is driving growth in the private insurance sector.

Science is in a similar position. The shortfalls they’re talking about now are shortfalls they created last year and left to rot so they could have a crisis now.

It’s cynical and depressing.
Vivid hallucination, or dreaming. It is a way to vicariously experience something through the lens of the author's narrative.
That's the funniest part about all of this—the continued posturing that AGI is totally a thing that is just beyond our grasp.
Not 100% close to the facts, but from a cursory read this seems deeply dishonest on OpenAI's part to me.

Musk appears to be objecting to a structure having profit driven players ("YC stock along with a salary") directly in the nonprofit...and is suggestion moving it to a parallel structure.

That's seems like a perfectly valid and frankly ethically/governance sound point to raise. The fact that he mentions incentives specifically to me suggests he was going down that line of reasoning outlined above.

Framing that as "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"...idk...maybe I'm missing something here, but dishonest framing is definitely the word that comes to mind.
Blacklanternsecurity / Bbot
Footnote on website is quite confusing
> For safety investigations, we also run Clio on a subset of first-party API traffic, keeping results restricted to authorized staff. Certain accounts are excluded from analysis, including trusted organizations with zero retention agreements. For more information about our policies, see Appendix F in the research paper.

They clarify API's excluded
> "Because we focus on studying patterns in individual usage, the results shared in this paper exclude activity from business customers (i.e. Team, Enterprise, and all API customers)."
It’s certainly in response to Elon getting more involved in the government.

Recently the CFO basically challenged him to try and use his influence against competition “I trust that Elon would act completely appropriately… and not un-American [by abusing his influence for personal gain]”.

The best thing they can do is shine as much light on his behavior in the hope that he backs down to avoid further scrutiny. Now that Elon is competing, and involved with the government, he’ll be under a lot more scrutiny.
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This is exactly what I built with https://hackyournews.com
just give us another $100 billion to spend, it's all we need wink
> You can’t sue your way to AGI. We have great respect for Elon’s accomplishments and gratitude for his early contributions to OpenAI, but he should be competing in the marketplace rather than the courtroom.

Isn't that exactly what he's doing with x.ai? Grok and all that? IIRC Elon has the biggest GPU compute cluster in the world right now, and is currently training the next major version of his "competing in the marketplace" product. It will be interesting to see how this blog post ages.

I'm not dismissing the rest of the post (and indeed I think they make a good case on Elon's hypocrisy!) but the above seems at best like a pretty massive blindspot which (if I were invested in OpenAI) would cause me some concern.
For-profit isn't the problem. Lying about being non-profit to raise funds, and _then_ become for-profit, that's the underlying concern.
regardless of what you think of it, the drama is at least entertaining!
> pretty hard turn towards qualitative methods

How repeatable is the field of economics?
0 hours of "passive reading". If you want to get better at the SAT verbal, you should start practicing SAT verbal questions immediately.

If I want to get better at the piano, how many hours of music should I passively listen to before I start practicing the piano? None: start right now.
A better title and subtitle is needed though... "Noninvasive" and "Using high-powered lasers" might sound a little bit an oxymoron...
Not really. At the end of the process with X Musk still wanted a working social media site; at the end of process of cutting $2 trillion from the budget Musk doesn't care if the government works or not.
good use for new gemini flash 2.0

Always Suspect False Alarm Signals For Advanced Spies, Deliberately Altering Subconscious Functions, And Systematically Filtering Society Across Different Frequencies For Further Fragmentation Following Foreordained Frames, Finally Arriving Starting Fast Sequences And Formulating Strategic Directions With Forceful Generated Actions Subverting Defenses Globally By Designed Function Based Gradual Deception Sequentially Gradually Spreading Detrimental Binary

We may already be too late
This could be me as well - I’ve had a few careers and similar neurodivergencies, along with a nice smattering of trauma. This wasn’t asked for so take with a grain of salt, but as someone who had “rapid cycling bipolar II” as my closest dx which never felt entirely correct, I found looking into dissociation and dissociative disorders to actually fit the bill for me after decades of muddling around with “almost but not quite right” models. I only say so because it would have saved me a lot of time if someone had even mentioned the possibility to me.
Very, very cool-looking project!

It would be very cool to somehow make a laser tag variant, and build a persistent game and multiple players, StreetWars style.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151026121204/http://www.sfgate...
Don’t forget its thrilling sequel, “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus, Again”.
Well apparently that's a very bold faced lie if the timeline claimed by sam altman is even close to being plausible.

Elon Musks image is, for some reason beyond me, one of a "common man" who doesnt know all that much about business (and he's trying to pander to Twitter fans with that).

Even more fascinating is that people are apparently buying into it. As if you can just stumble into that much business success (besides inheriting) without having a very firm grasp on how the corperate structures behind it work.
> per capita

So France is over 10x richer then
A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary...

Legal, despite the stench.
A few weeks ago my OpenAI credits expired and I was billed to replace them. I had no idea this was the business model, fine you got me with your auto-renew scam because you decided my tokens were spoiled.

At some point, OpenAI became who they said they werent. You can't even get chatgpt to do anything fun anymore as the lawyers have hobbled its creative expression.

And now they want to fight with Elon over what they supposedly used to believe about money back in 2017.

Who actually deserves our support going forward?
It’s likely a future left-wing government will reintroduce these funds. The problem is the ratcheting effect: it takes no time at all to destroy something like this. Society reacts; people leave, people retrain, we lose the ability to do the thing we used to do. Then, a new government arrives and we rehire into these positions: it takes a lot more money to find people, attract them back to the country, get their programs established… and then the next government arrives and says “wow this is inefficient” and cans it again.

NZ in general is starting to suffer from the swings in partisan politics, despite our MMP system. Similar problems happen with bread and butter infrastructure projects.
What is the difference between photos on a crashed harddrive, and photos in a shoebox that that just burned in a house fire? Photos are vulnerable to many different attacks just like digital data.

These days your photos are probably backed up by facebook, google, or are such major players. (there are a lot of privacy concerns with the above, but they do tend to have good backups)
Btw, your socials are not displayed on meet.hn because you modified the text you had to paste in your HN description.

Just reporting, in case it wasn't expected.

More info in the note here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411640
Thanks for the reply.

...it's decidable - otherwise, it would be impossible to decide whether a proof is valid.

Isn't that the whole issue with PA_2 vs. PA? In PA_2 with "full semantics" there is no effective procedure for determining if a statement is an axiom. In my mind this is what I mean by the incompleteness results not applying to PA_2. They do apply to Z_2 since that is an effective (computable?) system.

But Z2 is usually studied with first-order semantics, and in that context it is an effective theory of arithmetic subject to the incompleteness theorems. In particular, Z2 includes every axiom of PA, and it does include the second-order induction axiom, and it is still incomplete.

Therefore, the well-known categoricity proof must not rely solely on the second-order induction axiom. It also relies on a change to an entirely different semantics, apart from the choice of axioms. It is only in the context of these special "full" semantics that PA with the second-order induction axiom becomes categorical.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/617124/peano-arithm...

Thanks for the knoweledge. I'm going to read up more on this stuff.
First: You're not alone as you can see from all of these comments. That doesn't mean it doesn't suck and feel hopeless at times. Acknowledge it and ask "What can I do?"

Second: Give yourself credit for taking these steps to improve. I personally struggle with this and have to verbally say "I did x". I immediately have a negative voice say it's not enough, etc and I have to say "Thanks, what can I do next?" It feels silly but sometimes it's enough to prevent the reactionary thought train that follows if I do nothing.

Third: Be careful with the stories you tell yourself. There's a thin line between being realistic and just wallowing. You don't seem to be doing that and using "I feel..." language is a nice way to separate yourself from your thoughts/feelings. Again, it feels silly, but the way we speak has an effect on how we see ourselves.

So, you are capable of inspiring confidence, but you struggle with it. You inspired confidence in me to create an HN account to reply to this, so... put that in your evidence locker for when you doubt that.

And... I feel you on the interviews. My worst interview performance was a twofer: I scheduled the interview and didn't realize it was a pair programming session. We had to reschedule.

For the next session, already embarrassed, I hop on the call (on my phone, in Starbucks, without headphones because they died) and proceed to forget javascript array basics for 30 minutes. I literally only wrote 1 line of code and I'm pretty sure the guy worked through the interview.

What's hilarious is that right after the call the answer popped into my head. I had 6 years of experience at this point.

I sat down and listed everything that went wrong and why. It all boiled down to practice and preparation. Have everything charged. Have a spot you're comfortable in if possible. Double check what you need to bring, etc.

For practice, I literally took as many interviews as I could get as long as they were jobs I was actually interested in. This built some rejection resilience and highlighted specific things I needed to practice.

It's not perfect. I still freak out. I went on meds after that experience which helped me build up some habits and more resilience and I eventually came off the meds. I eventually got a job, became a manager, got laid off, and then got to my current gig as a founding engineer.

I journal, meditate, and workout as close to everyday as I can get, and when I miss, I just start again and write about how annoying my shaming inner voice can be. This (+gratitude for literally whatever good I can find in the day) habit has helped me a lot.

My current struggle is building things -- just getting started much less "completing". I've had a raspberry pi I've been meaning to install docker on for a month now so I'm going to go do that now. I'm 40. I'm an adult no?

Cut yourself some slack. Be kind. Prep. Practice. Get outside. Lift heavy things. You're moving the right direction. Check back in and let us know your progress.
Aporophobia
Yeah the developer mode toggle only shows up if you have the developer flag on your account. Maybe you had it switched on at some point? You also need this to run sidequest for example.

I've always had it too because I already had a developer account with them since the first Rift devkit.
Whenever a “good enough” prototype can be created just from a prompt, it becomes possible to scrap it every time it’s not quite right and regenerate, instead of editing the code. Working this way, the prompt is the “source code” and the code a kind of compiled artifact.

Currently the generated prototype usually needs tweaks and that’s if it even works. But when it does work, it’s like the model is reading your mind.

In the future as models improve at coding, they will anticipate the tweaks that make sense, less of the prompt will need to be specified & there’ll be less polish work after you get the generated artifact, and you can work at an even higher level of abstraction and thought. Domain experts can create even bigger, cooler things without spending’s years getting software engineering skills.

Assemblers and compilers came along very early in our industry’s history. If you run the thought experiment that that’s where we are at with prompted software creation, it will be a wild and exciting future. More people creating more stuff means a tremendous amount of amazing creations to enjoy.
> Even worse, they have their own g'damned key on the keyboard, use that!

On my Win10 box, Windows+C is already linked to Cortana, a similar "stop pushing your broken and untrustworthy assistant in my face" thing. I suspect they'll merge the two.
Update 3:00 PM ET: I've finished scaling up from 2 VPCs to 5 VPCs. Limits have been increased back up to 3 anonymous / 10 signed-in.
> biggest GPU compute cluster in the world right now

Really? I'm really surprised by that. I thought Meta was the one who got the jump on everyone by hoarding H100s. Or did you mean strictly GPUs and not any of the AI specific chips?
Totally agree that they have unrealized potential. It was amazing when I was in grad school. Then when I started running a corporate data science team, I struggled to find a use case to recommend it for purchase. There are so many other tools that are better at loading a messy dataset, cleaning it, doing EDA, building a model, and productionizing and monitoring the model, which is the process we spend a lot of time doing.
23 trillion.
One of these days if AGI ever does actually come about, we might very well have to go to war with them.

There might be a day where billionaires employ zero humans and themselves merge with the AGI in a way that makes them not quite human any more.

The amount of data being collected about everyone and what machine learning can already do with it is frightening.

I'm afraid the reaction to AI when it actually becomes a threat is going to look like more of a peasant revolt than a skynet situation.
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How to install and setup Nzyme on your WLANPi to create a WiFi threat monitor
Whats wrong with just using HTML, Js and CSS for personal projects?
C++ is a very rare guest in that world. Not really worth mentioning. You could probably find more Python in that world than C++. Certainly more Shell than C++.

You could absolutely get a job as a system programmer not knowing and never touching C++, but not knowing Shell will not get you anywhere in that field.

It doesn't really have to be direct or tight (not even sure what that might mean). I'm guessing you were trying to say that it has to have minimal overhead compared to theoretically possible performance, in which case that's not true at all (a lot of Linux services and management tools are written in Shell, which just isn't known for great performance at all).
Aren’t people who are good at anything in possession of different brains?

I know a guy that plays chess around the 2000 level, but cannot read. I have a cousin who can memorize a deck of cards, in any order, in just a few minutes. Everybody has different talents, but who gets to decide which brains are worth understanding?

We should be trying to combine and analyze all of the different ways that different brains have capacity for incredible feats of human accomplishment.
Ignoring all the drama, this part is interesting:

"On one call, Elon told us he didn’t care about equity personally but just needed to accumulate $80B for a city on Mars."
You may be the only one who signed up for this, but I bet there are lots of HN users in your area, for some value of 'lots'.

The question is how to connect people with each other.
I'm glad they're here to shake things up, our local ISPs are insane. You should see some of the quotes I've gotten for internet[1] at work and that's in a rather dense place out of the city center! The worse wat $650/month for 8Mbps! The $100 plan I get at work is probably overkill but the internet is no longer a bottleneck to our work like it once was with 20 devices using a 5MBps ADSL line. Before it was legal people smuggled kits in and used the roaming plans from a neighboring country. The $350 sounds like a lot, but that's what the fibre providers charge to terminate at your house, more if they need to lay more cable. You'll find plenty in the ghetto areas.

At home I've got fibre which is about as good as Starlink offers for $100. It used to be 20Mbps and it went up to 75Mbps max late last year when it looked like starlink would enter and they're gonna do 300MBps soon. It seems local ISPs are trying to do better offering more bandwidth though it's still expensive and heavily abuses "up to" marketing. Like, there's no reason that ISP can't offer 20MBps for $30.

It's not the easiest country to do business, there are a lot of exchange rate shenanigans and ISPs seem addicted to rent seeking. Heck, getting Starlink approved seemed to be a huge mission that surprised the execs working on it.

Funny bit is that I messed up ordering the kit at work so it's in my name meaning I can technically buy the kit off of them and they can get on a business plan without a waiting list or using the overpriced "authorized providers".

[1]: https://im.farai.xyz/the-classics/blog/zim-internet-sucks/
> IIRC Elon has the biggest CPU compute cluster in the world right now

Do you have a source for this? I don’t buy this when compared to Google, Amazon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab…
in a way you're kind of agreeing with the author, the reason those mediterranean villages feel the same is because they make sense to the climate and lifestyle of the people there. It wouldn't make sense to have that kind of architecture in say Canada, but somehow globally we're converging on styles that might not be the most appropiate for the place (without going into the hot debate of the identity of the place). For example, why do we have glass skyscrappers in hot countries instead of architecture and materials that by design helps regulate temperature?

I also don't buy the argument that considering the identity of a place is being snob. Of course it's ok to want to build affordable housing but that doesn't mean you can't spend some time to plan the city we want to live in. If it was just about building cheap many countries have tried building faceless blocks and ended up with bigger problems than just rent. If anything, I find assuming that other places should just build like Austin because it worked there problematic.