skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why any highly sophisticated AI should invest that much resources to kill us instead of investing it to relocating and protecting itself

Why would it invest resources to relocate and protect itself when it could mitigate the threat directly? Or, why wouldn't it do both, by using our resources to relocate itself?

In the famous words of 'Eliezer, that best sum up the "orthogonality thesis": The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

> ants could technically conspire to sneak up to you while you sleep and bite you all at once to kill you, so do you go out to eradicate all ants?

Ants are always a great case study.

No, of course not. But if, one morning, you'll find ants in your kitchen, walking over your food, I don't imagine you'll gently collect them all and release in the nearby park. Most people would just stomp them out and call it a day. And, should the ants set up an anthill in your backyard and mount regular invasions of your kitchen, I imagine you'd eventually get pissed of and destroy the anthill.

And I'm not talking about some monstrous fire ants like the ones that chew up electronics in the US, or some worse hell-spawn from Australia that might actually kill you. Just the regular tiny black ants.

Moreover, people don't give a second thought to anthills when they're developing land. It stands where the road will go? It gets paved over. It sticks out where children will play? It gets removed.
Reassessing Wayland
Modern materialism (since the 17th century) defines the material world by that which is quantifiable and hence measurable. Consciousness is not wholly characterised by what we can measure. Therefore, if one believes that consciousness exists, then necessarily materialism is false.

This widespread notion that whatever affects the material world is itself material fails to understand what both materialism and dualism means.
StratoPi: Open-source Raspberry Pi into the stratosphere with a weather balloon
JSON's not even that bad if it's gzipped! It compresses relatively well.

If only there were some way to easily send this binary gzip data to this API that accepts JSON...
Yes, you've nailed exactly why it's frustrating. They still could have written his piece almost as is, even including the napkin-math extrapolations for future tech, and it would have carried a little more weight.
The EU really loves such organizations, especially for regulatory purposes in a specific field like power distribution. The effect is that you get a revolving door between the industry and the regulatory bodies, making our lives a bit more expensive per revolution. The oversight is especially so-so since they're and independent body and very hard to kill from the legislatory perspective.
The customer initially sued Tesla because they were refusing to provide the data. Apparently, to you, that’s overreaching by the customer.

And then when they did, they didn’t release it to her, they published it publicly, with identifying information leading to her allegedly receiving threats (when we all know Tesla fans would never ever harass detractors).

Regardless of who was actually at fault, the contortions you go through to paint this as a “restrained” response would likely put a pretzel to shame.
the amount of data concerning the earths internal structure is growing in leaps and bounds. The ability to discern between rock types, water, oil, gas, faults and fractures, and molten and semi molten rocks is becoming much more precise.
The fun part is that siesmologists use the earths own movements and resulting siesmic and acoustical waves to build the picture, though the scale is intimidating, beyond human capacity to know in any fine detail.Add in ground penetrating radar and
experiments useing known explosive charges, placed in precise locations, and the fine resolution just gets better.
Bet the whole geology field is having fun.
I think your mom did a great job, and that’s the whole point of the post. We need to focus on bonding with our kids and building trust with them. I’m actually a father of three, and being a father to my youngest while being much older is an entirely different experience. I pay attention to all the small details with my kids (which is actually why I wrote that post! ).
I worked in phishing detection. This was a common pattern used by attackers, although .exe are blocked automatically most of the time, .html is the new malicious extension (often hosting an obfuscated window.location redirect to a fake login page).

RTL abuse like cute-cat-lmth.png was relatively common, but also trivial to detect. We would immediately flag such an email as phishing.
Funny how principes are unevenly distributed too...

Like, by the same principles (called, the law), the man that you made your president today should have been in jail for months, if not years; or, as in any decent democracy, should not have been able to run with so many pending lawsuits (hey, principles).

But, somehow, he got a pass. And he got elected, so that gave him another pass. And now he disrupts the principles he's supposed to uphold (a thing called the Constitution). And he gets another pass.

But. Sure. Principles. Of course.
Get involved in the local AI community. You're more likely to find people with whom you share affinity on places like r/LocalLLaMA. There's also the e/acc movement on Twitter which espouses the same gen x style rebellious libertarian ideals that once dominated the Internet. Stay away from discussions that attract policy larping.
Apparently, they don't actually do this. However, they do do the next best thing:

1) You talk to a friend, in-person or by message, about [topic]

2) You go about your business

3) Your friend Googles [topic]

4) Google associates [topic] with your friend's ad ID, as well as the ad IDs of anyone they've been near in the past 24 hours (you)

5) You and your friend see ads about [topic]

I don't know how smart they are about it, but it's likely working on the same system that runs their location services "Your reviews/photos are being read on Google, answer questions about [place you recently visited]?", and Google Rewards which tracks your location to ask you about receipt data and other things. It's very good at knowing if you've been into a lcoation and spent time there.

So, if they know a group of people were at a location for a period of time together, and those people have done so before, they can show ads based on one group member's search history to all of them.

No creepy message reading, or sneaky microphone recording, just regular creepy location tracking.
old parents as well btw
How can you say that? People have consistently said not to take Trump seriously. But he does seem serious about imposing tariffs, abandoning allies, annexing random parts of the world, and about drastically cutting the government. Why shouldn't we take the 5% thing seriously? What can be more serious than this anyway?
> It is entirely possible to
> recreate a punch card using
> an image—by hand,
> laboriously, with a physical > hole punch

I was quite surprised that computer vision modeling (to compensate for warping and other distortions) followed by laser cutting failed to produce the tolerances required.

Wondering whether a sprocket feed with a 'punch' in place of a 'dot-matrix head' might give better results.
The same folks (Arnell Group) did a redesign for Tropicana.

Tropicana lost 30 million dollars in sales and had to revert the change.

They also spent 35 million on a campaign to advertise the redesign (also ran by the Arnell Group)

https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...
Did things get better after dollarization?
What are you telling about exactly?
As an outside observer, it's fascinating how clear the divide has become between the grassroots DEI companies and the ones just cargo-culting whatever pleases the investors. I have always assumed this will happen, but never in such "Caught in 4K" clarity.
They should just launch 5, and stick with the same API structure

Curious what would be the context length on this
> do people actually like eating marshmallows, if so why?

Everybody around me likes them. I have no idea why. It could be cultural. I moved to the US when I was about 19. Tried my first marshmallow when I was maybe 25. Ick. Its mostly a ball of sugar. I don't like Vanilla ice cream either. For similar reasons.
Did you think previously it was worth $22 p/a?
There is a lot less of that in IRL interaction than online interaction. I find months can go buy without anyone knocking on my door.

IT does not help with the just phoning bit but does with stopping by.

I do not get that many spam calls but I think that varies a lot, especially between countries with different laws about it.
> medical malpractice for obstructing access to care they already admit is medically necessary

This has been tried before and failed. The insurers argument is that they are not denying care, they are just not willing to pay for it, which isn’t practicing medicine.
How does your theory account for the Eliezer Yudkowsky type person, who clearly shows no love for any of the labs or the current progress, and yet is very much pro-"AI safety"?
> Crystal was suppose to be faster Ruby

No, it never intended to be a replacement to Ruby. They share similarities in syntax, the same way Elixirs syntax reminds you of Ruby.

If you want faster Ruby, check out MRuby (not always an drop-in replacement though).
Writing up the next steps for me:

- continue attending networking events

- start reading books on technical topics that I'm personally interested in

- look into e-commerce businesses

- write some blog posts about technical/business things I have strong opinions on

Appreciate all the comments!
Yes, for now. But:

"Task Explorer is built using the Qt Framework, ensuring a cross-platform user interface with plans to eventually port the tool to Linux, which could make it one of the first advanced, GUI-based task managers for the platform."
It is also a matter of scale. Billions of animals are killed after living terrible lives, for single use (consumption). Thousands of animals are (horribly) killed for the long term (science).

Which should we focus on first?
I think you have a really important point. There are these philosophical or political individualists that don't get this.

You could make an analogy with dogs. There you have plenty of examples of what can happen in isolation. A functional collective will in most cases manouver you out of parenting in part or fully with soft or hard means if you are bad enough since you will indirectly wreck havoc otherwise.
> It makes no sense.

I'm assuming you live in the US: how many US consumer companies could you cite that make product that are almost useless in the US ?

For instance, would you see Tesla make mainly cars that extremely well adapted to small and tortuous old european cities ? Or would you image Apple's next iPhone line to be fully revamped to only work with Felica NFC payments, dropping credit card and Apple Pay support ?

That is kind of how electric cars are positioned in Japan, and Toyota is a Japanese company. The market exists, but is marginal and not where the country is putting its weight on (I think you'll understand why nuclear energy in Japan much more controversial than in the US)
Fantastic. This is something I've thought about doing too. There are days where visual studio's shenanigans make me consider the benefits of a bespoke web based UI very strongly.

With libraries like ace and codemirror available, the hard part is mostly on the server with managing state and integrating tools.

I use C#/.NET for everything, so I'd lean on the Roslyn APIs to handle code completion, reference tracking, workspaces, debugging, etc.
yeah it sucks, but if the US gave up its death cult ways then youd still probably eventually live in one as a new conquering force fills in the void which seems inevitably going by history.
Hyundai and Kia still manage to make fairly competitive EVs. Having an established dealer, customer and maintenance networks can mitigate those BYD advantages.

Also if Japan had a serious contender fr the EV space, a good CEO should be able to persuade their government subsidies are deserved. With a trifecta of corporate, union and environmentalist lobbying.
Why are there no images of a GUI app on its home or GitHub page?

https://xanasoft.com/TaskExplorer/
https://github.com/davidxanatos
Bouncy radio buttons using modern CSS
This seems very powerful. Specially the threads section. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve read online that the skin of fruits can contain bugs and larvae that when washed help keep your fruit longer and prevent things like fruit flies.
> the C code is still going to be waaay faster than the Ruby code even with YJIT.

I can't find it but I remember seeing a talk where they showed examples of Ruby + YJIT hitting the same speed and in some cases a bit more than C. The downside was though that it required to some warmup time.
No screenshots, and not obvious what platform it runs on.
The way I understood the line about "minimum viable reproductive unit" I quoted is different, more straightforward: a nuclear family can't survive alone. Two people and a kid just can't survive in the wilderness; we've evolved to function in group.

From this POV, the "village" is still there, it's always there. It may not be a literal village, and you and me might both be pretty much alone except for our partners, when it comes to parental responsibilities. However, the modern "village" is the society we live in - our neighbors, our friends, co-workers, the market economy as represented by people selling good and providing services we need to survive; later, also parents of children our kids go to school with. These are all people we interact with daily, share the same material and social environment, and we all influence each other.

There's no way to avoid that influence (in fact, if you try, the "village" will start getting worried, possibly to the point social services might get involved). It's always there, and once your kids start education, they'll be interacting with other members of society unsupervised - this is what I mean by "village finding your child".

> I think a large, maybe even the main part of why community of family and close friends raising children together works: humans are uniquely motivated by shame and pride, and having that many eyes on you leads to quick corrections before bad habits take root.

I 100% agree with that. I think it's fundamental. But it works only up to certain size; it's not that globalization is in opposition to that, it's just that to form societies larger than ~150, you need replacements for "shame and pride" as behavioral regulators to keep a group from self-destructing. Hence leaders and rules - and applied recursively a couple times, you end up with presidents and districts and rule of law and bureaucracy and all the staples of modern life, existing next to and on top of groups of families and friends.
People say that and then get upset by terse replies. Even programmers sometimes, albeit less often.

A lot of the suggestions on "How to professionally say" are not only more polite, but also more helpful than the original knee-jerk reply.

"This is not my problem" -> "I recommend directing this issue to <Name> as they have the proper expertise to best assist you"
Or the most money and access to lawyers to do so.
the ultimate music player was banshee. it was glorious :'(
Africa of North
This is so reminiscent of doing web development in smalltalk with seaside.
That makes zero sense. Largest number of denials? Certainly. Largest denial rate is not implied by being the largest insurer.

Yet by their denial rates, 30% above the industry average, you can reach one of two conclusions:

1. Every other insurer is acting as a charity and under denying claims it should, or…

2. UHC is issuing excessive denials.
Depends on how many people just refuse to ever click such a video on principle, or never start a youtube subscription so long as the thumbnails are like that. All you need to wait for is for that group to be bigger than the group of people who mindlessly click the sensational ones. I'm holding my breath until it happens.
Interesting! There seem to be a lot of limitations though:

> Boost.PFR library works with types that satisfy the requirements of SimpleAggregate: aggregate types without base classes, const fields, references, or C arrays:

And in general seems to be dependent on C++20 for getting field names.

Do you know how this works? Initializer lists seem somehow involved.
Keep in mind that Meta pulls something of a fast one here, because a lot of instagram accounts end up creating an attached Facebook account (so that they can share Reels across both platforms). I don't have current insider information, but as of 2019 they were heavily using instagram sign-ups to shore up the Facebook numbers.
>Streaming video gets compressed to crap.

That's because your source video is crap.

I'm not sure if you realize it, but all forms of digital media playback are streaming. Yes, even that MP4 stored locally on your SSD. There is literally no difference between "playing" that MP4 and "streaming" a Youtube or Netflix video.

Yes, even playing an 8K Blu-Ray video is still streaming.
This appears to be little more than an ad.
> or even street in said neighborhood

Or even one individual on different days. It should be all chaos and noise and yet it's not because these "general" numbers get translated to a realistic "it's more/less likely" not "it's guaranteed".

You're arguing against comparisons you don't like, or feel make you look worse than others. In other words you want to get to arbitrarily define the brush width presumably based on where you feel you sit in the comparison.
Website is not working?
Show HN: I turned 'edit PDFs with plain English' from idea to reality
The sort and reverse stuff is a bit overkill to me, maybe the guy writing tables?
"First impressions count".

Like it or not, this is a truth.
Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features
Secret is to try off alg.
Wikipedia mentions that immunity to any particular strain of norovirus lasts for 6 to 24 months.
Thank you for this excellent comment! It seems then that basically everything that's revolutionary - whether technology, government, beliefs, and so on - will tend to extract a blood price before the dust settles. I guess it sort of makes sense: big societal upheavals are difficult to handle peacefully.

So basically we are a bit screwed in our current timeline. We are at the cusp of a post-scarcity society, possibly reach AGI within our lifetimes and possibly even become a space faring civilization. However, it is highly likely that we are going to pay the pound of flesh and only subsequent generations - perhaps yet unborn - will be the ones who will be truly better off.

I suppose it's not all doom and gloom, we can draw stoic comfort from the fact that people in the near future will have an incredibly exciting era full of discovery and wonder ahead of them!
I use it because most of my clients use it. Chrome still has a market share of 66%.
I don't feel like going on the anger journey with you
I'm so sorry my friend!
I think I somewhat understand what you mean. I used to either debate or argue with such folks. But over the years I’ve realized it’s not a useful exercise. Funnily some of them toned down their hard stance and began to see for themselves how the system works and what’s going on.
Well written comment... compliments the article well.

I think you inserting the objections to the culture/country part yourself. I don't think they are present in the actual article.

The central idea here is that children are shaped by their environment, the people around them and those people's behaviour. They sponge up behaviours of their parents, peers and such.

But... it's not all mimicry and habits. It's also a response to incentives in their life. That's the writer's point about trust... and the marshmello test. Does the child live in a world where trust and patience pay off... or a world where you get what you can while you can? The socio-economic correlation to patience in the marshmello test is a proxy... demonstrating his point.
Like other folks here I also made something similar for myself. It started as a jsbin clone, but then I wanted to play with tweaking the environment itself. So now it's become a single editable directory tree where both the editor and the actual projects/demos share common parts of code, all synced between local storage and the server. If I break the editor and refresh the page, there's a simpler alternative editor backup to fix it. Lots of fun with such setup!

Here's a screenshot with the editor showing a preview when editing itself: https://imgur.com/a/RxMCrlf
Yeah, you will lose that bet and it won’t even be close.
was so ready to be snide and dismissive
but that thing is tool kit magic
not to mention is removes any excuse for just jamming screws in, without pre drilling
50% is an underestimate of time saved
its also interesting in that there are very few true inovations in wood working , as the high point in wood technology is behind us, and the skills and knowledge are far less common today.
Rewind 100 years, and peoples lives were constantly dependent on wooden structures holding together, cars, airplanes, ships, train bodys ,bridges, were made from wood.
On my Android phone,that displays "Go[][]" in the Google logo font.
I found it so useful
> Does ruby have its equivalent to typescript, with type annotations?

Someone recommended me this, so I might even spread the word further https://github.com/soutaro/rbs-inline?tab=readme-ov-file#rbs...
End of CUDA programming jobs, or not the point to worry about?
It's not just Philips. The common hex screws are also very prone to stripping.

Torx is pretty much impossible to mess up short of overtightening it.
I think the main potential benefit for a child, and the future community it will be part of, with secondary caretakers, is if the primary caretakers are insane.

It is like abit of good influence outweights alot of bad influence.
Yeah, I’m also in serious doubt about this. At least for Taipei (could be regional differences)? I don’t live in Taiwan, but visit often. Last time we had dinner with another family and the kids got iPads/phones immediately.
> In fact, I would go so far to say all the talk was an outright liar liar bold faced lie of epic proportions.

I mean I'm not sure what else you'd expect from him.
> Have you noticed that the mainstream public-level discussion of almost any topic never progresses farther than a point estimate? [...] Variance isn't even that much nuance, because it is also just a point estimate for the variability of a distribution, not even its shape.

Next time you're doing something that isn't a professional STEM job, see how far you can get through your day without adding or multiplying.

Unless you're totting up your score in a board game or something of that ilk, you'll be amazed at how accommodating our society is to people who can't add or multiply.

Sure, when you're in the supermarket you can add up your purchases as you shop, if you want to. But if you don't want to, you can just buy about the same things every week for about the same price. Or keep a rough total of the big items. Or you can put things back once you see the total at the till. Or you can 'click and collect' to know exactly what the bill will be.

You don't see mainstream discussion of variance because 90% of the population don't know WTF a variance is.