skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd imagine that they are different people. Arguing with crowds can be a bit frustrating because the crowd will argue strongly in favour of something, then the winds shift and the crowd argues strongly against it without anyone really changing their minds. Ditto strongly believing contradictory things.

This is a good point. It took me a while to realize this. It is like "winds" are magnified and out shout the prior wind.

A similair concept politically is when some people want to punnish you for some other people holding it wrong or something.
On desktop shift+rightclick overrides context menu event handlers.
> The world’s most valuable resource isn’t data, compute, oil, or rare earth metals; it’s dopa, i.e., the fuel of the addiction economy, which runs the most valuable companies in history.
Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious

Marvin Minsky, Published 1 November 1980

Freud’s theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental “censors” that make it hard for us to think “forbidden” thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and, particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and suppressing bugs — ineffective or destructive thought processes. When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or mysterious, becomes more understandable.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/ai/aim/...
I think a more accurate description is they’re a standard company with a consulting/professional services arm.
> How many people have you talked to face to face about various existential risk scenarios

A decent amount.

I started off as a NatSec adjacent staffer and have helped build Cybersecurity and Defense Tech companies, so a lot of my peers and friends are working directly on US-China, US-Russia, Israel-Iran, Saudi-Iran, Saudi-Turkey, India-Pakistan, and India-China relations.

These are all relations that could explode into cataclysmic wars (and have already sparked or exacerbated plenty of wars like the Syrian Civil War, Yemen Civil War, Libyan Civil War, Ethiopian Civil War, Russia-Ukraine War, Myanmar Civil War, Afghan War, etc). We are already going through a global trend of re-armament, with every country expanding their conventional, nuclear, and non-conventional warfighting capabilities. Just about every nuclear state has the nuclear triad or is in the process of implementing a nuclear triad. And China's nuclear rearmament race has forced India to rearm which has forced Pakistan to rearm, and is causing a bunch of regional arms races.

I think the world is more likely to end due to bog standard conflicts escalating into an actual war. Not some sort of AGI/ASI going skynet
Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies and Save Billions
It would have been fairly straightforward on some code bases I've worked on, at least for a while.
AI powered state would be a significant improvement in many places with endemic corruption. An AI has no incentive to steal.
Why does it have to take decades? That sounds insane
people already do this with algorithms. IMO AI is just a continuation of that.
>anthropomorphize AI as some sort of "God"

Lets call this AI theomorph)
Next president: for every executive order I emit, I will cancel 10 previous...
Reprompt (YC W24) is hiring an AI Engineer to build world class Location Data
>Raise pay until you have enough staff.

That's never going to happen. Americans have reached the "drown it in a bathtub" phase of their contempt for government. All of the air traffic controllers will be replaced by ChatGPT agents before more are hired, much less paid a cent more. And if the planes crash, they crash.
> Then discovered they had to turn it off in each app that uses it individually.

Technically the "Learn from this App" feature isn't an Apple Intelligence feature. It's been there since at least iOS 15 in 2021. I haven't heard people really discuss it at all until recently.

My understanding is that it basically just enables suggestions. So, ordering things on your share sheet according to usage, search suggestions, the little button in Maps that navigates you to the location of your next calendar event, etc.

It could still really benefit from a "turn off all" button, though.
Whatever, good luck hauling electricity on a truck. We’re talking in the context of „you’re building a new highway, good luck getting enough electricity to charge those machines in that place”. What, you gonna haul your solar farm as the construction moves on for dozens of miles?
Par: An experimental concurrent language with an interactive playground
Last time I went was 2018, I don't really remember any queues back then. I might be misremembering, but I do remember attending a lot of the talks I wanted to.
Well we look at it objectively (as a country whatever) and say, hey, here is a pain point with potential for engineering excellence. And then engineer our way to a place of superiority. Basically mandate that the cost of air travel/traffic (for EVERYTHING) is calibrated to be able to support the infrastructure it relies on? Top heavy corporate structures (aka cutting corners for profit) pretty much only ends one way and that's with people dying.
ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did
No, batched inference can work very well. Depending on architecture, you can get 100x or even more tokens out of the system if you feed it multiple requests in parallel.
Linux Foundation Makes Statement About Banning Russian Programmers (3 Mths Late)
In my case: yes and yes. In my case: everything works out of the box with one laptop. The only thing that doesn't work out of the box with my other laptop is the fingerprint reader. Both laptops shipped with Windows. Neither laptop came with any claim of Linux compatibility. Contrast that to Windows, where sleep mode is unreliable on one. You cannot even do a clean install Windows without jumping through hoops on said laptop since generic media does not include WiFi, trackpad, or touchscreen drivers.

Every operating system has issues and operating systems that don't work for some people may work for others. From this thread alone, I can guarantee you that there are at least two people in this world for whom Linux supported their hardware out of the box.
An "AI-Driven State" is literally what econometrics is. All of the same math, models, and techniques used in AI/ML are the exact same used in Econometrics and Optimization Theory.

A pure technocratic driven state leveraging econometrics or optimization theory for the sake of it has failed multiple times. For example, the failure of the USSR's planned economy, the failure of the US's Vietnam War objectives due to a hyper-metrics driven workflow, etc.

On a separate note, I have always considered returning to grad school and making a small career of translating esoteric Econometrics models into ML models to make a brief publishing career. A Russian American friend of mine did something similar by essentially basing his CS research career on older Soviet optimization theory research that wasn't translated into English, so he could boost his publishing ability.
That's only because a capitalist economy uses the circulation of currency and goods as a way to multiply wealth, while motivating the people who generate the wealth.

Sufficiently advanced AI offers the potential for exponential wealth generation for our (former) capitalist overlords, without you or I needing to produce or consume anything.
As someone with no horse in this race, I must say that I'm a little disappointed in the way Linux "compatibility" deals with platform differences. Most parts of the crypto API seem to be marked as "works on Linux if/except when" which seems strange given that porting to macOS didn't seem to impose such restrictions. In some cases, the inner workings of the underlying library works differently and you get an exception when using certain functionality on Linux at all.

I though Microsoft did better porting dotnet to Linux. I knew they don't care about Linux GUI, but I hoped they'd at least do system libraries better.
You are correct. YouTube is owned by Google.
Building Your Own Git from Scratch in Go
Why did you decide against Panache? Im experimenting with moving my booking system from node to Java and at crossroads between spring and quarkus. So far quarkus CLI tooling and ability to generate REST client code is incredibly productive and pleasant, but panache feels a bit different from spring data that Im used to.
Now we need to make dang as a service.
> It feels like they always anthropomorphize AI as some sort of "God".

It's not like that. It is that. They're playing Pascal's Wager against an imaginary future god.

The most maddening part is that the obvious problem with that has been well identified by those circles, dubbed "Pascal's Mugging", but they're still rambling on about "extinction risk" whilst disregarding the very material ongoing issues AI causes.

They're all clowns whose opinions are to be immediately discarded.
This is bait, but someone with a pattern of behavior or on various people's shitlist being fired for this as the excuse doesn't seem impossible.
In practice, hydrogen cars take significantly longer than gas cars to fill, and the filling station can’t have a high duty cycle because the nozzle will freeze to the car. (Ideal gas law means the hydrogen cools as it goes from high pressure to low pressure.)

Synthesizing fuels from CO2, water, and electricity seems like a better solution. It works with existing infrastructure and doesn’t have the storage or safety issues of hydrogen.
Fully agree on minimizing the use of cars. But I still wanted to do this computation to compare:

EPA says a gallon produces 8.8 kg CO2/gal tailpipe emissions [0]. A best-case sedan does about 50 mi/gal [1]. That's 17.6 kg CO2/100 mi for a best case sedan.

A Tesla Model 3 uses about 25 kWh/100 mi [2]. 1 kWh produces about 1 kg CO2 when produced in the dirtiest way (coal), but in the US it's currently about 0.4 kg CO2/kWh on average [4]. That gives you 10-25 kg CO2/100 mi.

So the best case ICE is better only if you are producing the electricity from coal (even gas power is better than ICE). The nice thing about EVs is that you can often charge them with the cleanest power (e.g. solar), but I'm not sure how common that optimization is.

[0]: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
[1]: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.shtml
[2]: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=46206
[3]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
[4]: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US/12mo/monthly
Is Swift actually serious about embedded?
I think you’ve found the root issue. There is no short term fix. And our current governmental setup isn’t capable of handling medium to long term problems. It has been this way for quite a while, so this issue isn’t new.

Long-term political will isn’t there, so if the problem can’t be fixed quickly, it’s as if there is no possible solution.
This is basically how you would do it in C as well.

I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to play around with Zig. But, it seems like Zig is like C, but with much stronger static checks, much less UB, lots of useful syntactic sugar, an anti-global agenda (explicitly passed allocator in Zig vs strtok in C) etc. And, truthfully, I really like this.

If we can move from a C/C++/Java world to a Zig/Rust/Go world, I would view that as an absolute win.
India and China almost went to war with each other in 2020.

The decision of whether or not to shell Chinese troops and start a war between two nuclear states came down to one brigadier [0]

Conventional War between two nuclear states is a MAJOR risk, and has already happened before in 1999 (even if Clinton's State Department didn't want to call it that).

These kinds of flashpoints are way more likely to cause suffering in the near future than some sort of AGI/ASI.

[0] - https://theprint.in/defence/nearing-breaking-point-gen-narav...
If 4-day workers are 25% more productive than 5-day workers, or 5-day workers are 20% less productive than 4-day workers, then no.

While it's hard to increase productivity by 25%, it's not a problem for workers to drop productivity by 20%. Owners can work as much as they want, of course.
JVM's advantage has not been "Write once, run anywhere" for a long time - we all run code in docker containers anyhow. The real advantage is stability and tooling availability
yeah, that works!
how many newsletters have you subscribed to that way?
Toronto is finally beating New York at something: rat growth
"These types of arguments aren’t good faith and are actually quite boring."

Yes, I agree but I am tired of watching yall make them.
That reminded me to try a version of the riddle that I had come up with that I had never seen an LLM successfully answer:

Me: I'd like you to solve this riddle for me. A farmer has a cabbage, a goat, a wolf and a lion,
and needs to cross a river on a boat. If the goat is left alone with the cabbage, it will eat it.
If the wolf is left alone with the goat, it will eat it. If the lion is left alone with the goat
or wolf, it will eat them. The boat can only carry the farmer and one other thing across. How can
the farmer safely transport everything across the river?

O3-mini spent a very long time on it (over a minute), delineating its various strategies that it was trying, and finally, correctly, concluded that the puzzle is unsolvable.

Good job!
The set of active controllers isn't static: people come and people go. If you raise pay right now, current, skilled controllers will be more inclined to stay, while new controllers who've been training for the last 2.9 years join. Raising pay helps combat attrition, which increases the population.
AI has some approximation of the incentives of whoever trained it. Unless it's handed to us from above, I don't see how that would work.
If there is one thing I've learned in the past few days, acutely so, is that the vast majority of people do not understand the sheer complexity of what it takes to have an aviation industry.
I was pleasantly surprised to see FreeBSD part of the list of available cross-platforms running .NET. I already had a FreeBSD instance for ZFS and was able to also host a website and some workloads written in C#, avoiding the need for a separate Linux instance.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET
and people are missing the "Starting at" price. I suspect the advertised specs will end up more than $3k. If it comes out at that price, i'm in for 2. But I'm not holding my breath given Nvidia and all.
Pay isn't enough, you also have to give the plausible impression that their job will still exist in a few years, and they won't be laid off on the whim of a shadow president.
The people who control the AI, however, do.

AI is not some runaway Skynet type of a thing. It's controlled by people, who will use it for good and bad.

Not to mention that AI is and will be owned by people who are already concentrating power in their own hands. They're not going to, voluntarily, relinquish that power.
An arcane Treasury office became ground zero in the war over spending
> You're probably spending $0.20/hr on power (1 kW) alone.

For those that aren't following - means you're spending ~$10/MTok on power alone (compared to $2/MTok hosted).
Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp
I’m not sure how the first part of your comment is related. I was referring to the potential defying of Trump’s orders by CDC employees (the topic).

The main point was about “anti-democratic” which again only makes sense if you know that it is the public’s will that e.g. the CDC data is dismantled (the topic). You still haven’t given a convincing argument that that is true, other than “I think approximately 0%..” Do you have anything more substantial than “I think”, because _I think_ millions of voters voted vaguely on “the economy” and “immigration” and don’t en-masse support something like “less CDC data”.
Making the world a better place than some billionaires, no matter how much they "spend". Or how much they monopolize and extract from the rest of the world, which are sometimes the same thing.
I'm 37 and the only time I ever had a cavity, it was a small one when I was 29. I experienced intense pain and then numbness in my face as the plane I was on was landing. My mouth felt normal like 20 minutes after landing. I suspected a cavity, did some googling, went to a dentist and got it filled. That was the first time I had been to a dentist in over 5 years. I figured I should use my dental insurance and start going in for cleanings regularly. So I did that for a bit, then covid happened. I haven't been to a dentist since 2019 and my teeth seem fine. I usually brush twice a day, but sometimes I fall asleep on the couch and miss brushing. Sometimes I'll go a month without flossing, but usually floss every other day. I have some dental picks I use regularly. Orbit gum is chewed pretty often. But yeah I think it's gotta be genetic or something.
Jesus, you sound like the X11 fanatics I used to debate with about NeWS, long before anyone had envisioned Google Maps or coined the term AJAX for what we'd been doing with PostScript since the 1980's.

The NeWS window system was like AJAX, but with: 1) PostScript code instead of JavaScript code 2) PostScript graphics instead of DHTML graphics, and 3) PostScript data instead of XML data.

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

NeWS – Network Extensible Window System (wikipedia.org)
86 points by stevewilhelm on April 12, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 76 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477565

ScriptX and the World Wide Web: “Link Globally, Interact Locally” (1995)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/scriptx-and-the-world-wide-web...

PizzaTool was a NeWS front-end entirely written in PostScript for ordering pizzas, that had a price optimizer which would immediately figure out the least expensive combination of pizza style + extra toppings for the pizza you wanted. (i.e. ordering an "Tony's Gourmet + Clams" was less expensive than ordering a plain pizza plus all the individual toppings.)

Source code:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt

Of course the untrusted front-end client side user input was sent via FAX to the back-end "server side" humans at Tony & Alba's Pizza, who validated the input before making the pizza, because performing input validation and price calculation and optimization in the back end end via FAX would have been terribly inefficient. (This was in 1990, long before every pizzaria was on the internet, and you could order pizzas online, kids!)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...

Computers and networks are fast enough (especially now 35 years later) that it's ok to perform input validation twice, once in the front-end to make the user experience tolerably fast, and again in the back-end to prevent fraud. This is not rocket science, nor a new idea! It also helps if the client and server are implemented in the same language (i.e. JavaScript today), so you can use the exact same code and data for modeling and validation on both ends.
I'm pretty sure what's more topical is Trump telling all ATC controllers to leave, immediately. Rather than a shitty test that was used for a few years and then phased out.
My best guess is that at some point a “neutral“ AI will be put in charge of everything and everybody must obey for the good of society. As in one day you only have 22 energy points to spend on electricity or another day you can only eat crickets and whatnot. But it will only appear neutral - in essence somebody will control the AI and hence control the people. And people will agree to its decisions because the AI “knows best.”
The actual feature set is rather disappointing, too. I don’t want magical summaries of texts or notifications. I don’t want a poor implementation of an email categorization feature that’s years late to market. I do want better Siri, but that means more actual capabilities to control things, especially when triggered from a watch. I don’t want slow, unreliable language models that still can’t get “call so-and-so on Bluetooth right” [0].

What I do want is privacy-preserving AI-assisted search, over my own data, when (and only when) I ask for it. And maybe other AI features, again when and only when I ask for it. Give me hints that I can ask for such assistance, but don’t shove the assistance in my face.

[0] Somewhere along the line this improved from complete fail to calling, with Bluetooth selected, but audio still routed to the watch until I touch the phone.
So you got the impression he didn't like the paintings? He seemed to be moved by them to me.
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Later in the piece he notoriously declares that “welfare beneficiaries” (a well-known racist dog whistle about Black people) and letting women vote are both impediments to his libertarian dreams of dismantling democratic government.
This comment is solid gold! I will definitely be sending people to it.

Would make a great article for your own site, otherwise I'm happy to link to it here instead.
> as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity.

The college educated person -- but not the university educated STEM degree holder -- takes these three things to mean what they are labeled as at face value.
> Hydrogen fuel is one of the ultimate tarpit ideas.

The problem is, there are some applications that reasonably cannot be made to run on electric anywhere near soon (i.e. at least 20 years from now): oceangoing ships, planes larger than a Cessna and heavy machinery that runs for longer than a few hours every day.

For both environmental reasons and the foreseeable peak oil, these applications need to shift off from fossil fuel - and for that in turn, it's either biofuel (which is ethically questionable because it takes so much space) or hydrogen.
Avoiding politics completely, so the FAA has been systematically understaffed for decades because of this current administration?
Ask HN: Modern alternatives to Guacamole as RDP gateway?
I’ve had a long history with RDP (https://taoofmac.com/space/protocols/rdp) and use it extensively on Linux with the new GPU-accelerated xrdp builds, but I have been looking for a modern replacement to Apache Guacamole that can work as a direct web-to-RDP bastion without requiring a database container, Java or a lot of overhead, and all I can find are 3-4 year old Rust/WASM projects in various states of abandonment.

Is there anything like that in active development? I know people will suggest KasmVNC, but that isn’t really what I am looking for (and the wire protocol isn’t as efficient as RDP).
> So, given that we need to make hard choices, what criteria should we use?

That's a great question. I suppose we should start by asking ourselves who is currently paying them. It seems to me that would mostly be the for profit colleges who offer liberal arts degrees.

So far, letting "the free market" decide seems to be working for the most part. Although I am concerned that people are forgetting the value of having an educated popluace, and conversations like this one reinforce that fear. Do you know that 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate and the 54% read below the sixth grade level now?

It sounds like there is a quiet part you aren't saying out loud here, and I'm curious what it is? Do you feel that the government should be limiting access to education in some way?