skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you use a free but not open product, you are not the customer. This is an old and tired idea, but also true.

If you want features not disappearing or changing when you don't want them to, you need to be in control. I know only two ways to be in control: you either pay (and the agreement contains a provision about the product properties you care about), or manage it yourself.

Using a free-as-in-beer service always puts someone else in control, not you. Bear it in mind every time you register with such a service, and shape your expectations.
I am so fascinated at how my grandfather would spend decades at a company, my Dad would spend a decade, and now people decline jobs over the expectation that they stay 1 year. And I was in my first job 51 weeks.

I don't think you are wrong in doing so as the market in tech moves fast while employers move like slugs, it is just such a shift from what I grew up to expect.
Glad this lesson was finally learned, if nothing else.
Brazilian criminals detail how they gain access to stolen iPhones
Skip CB, go get a Technician license for amateur radio and get a Baofeng UV5r or something like it. I wrote about this some time back:

https://miscdotgeek.com/ham-radio-100-part-1-vhf/
This seems like a recipe for an even bigger black market, and various other issues that will come when an organization is running illegally, because of unblocked demand.

Obviously, even in cases where it is illegal to both buy and sell we still have black markets, but making it ok to buy but not sell seems like a recipe for a giant black market.
I enabled screentime/parental controls on my iPhone and gave control of the passcode to my wife.

At first I could not wrangle it to block the things I wanted (was this an intentional move by Apple or just poor design?). What I ultimately settled for was disabling downloads of new apps, then deleting every single social media app, game, web browser, and other distraction from my phone.

Yes, that is right, my iPhone has no web browser capability (why not just buy a dumb phone? Because I often use services like maps, music, etc).

Is the problem me? Do I just not have self control? No - I decided its not. These products were carefully designed around the metric of "engagement" - whereas I had no choice over my design.

I also blocked other distractions in my desktop / work area via the hosts file. I would like to do it at the router level but use of VPN makes this impossible, unfortunately.

This is what it has come to, which...is ridiculous, in my opinion.
This is enterprise edition.
There is a community edition[1], and it is 3 yeas old[2]. I wasn't aware of that:

Other cloud offerings (besides Coalb) are more like a vanilla Jupyter. This one seems more customized. Not sure it's a good thing, but it's understandable as a JetBrains product.

I think Colab is indeed more comparable here. Overall Colab seems a bit better on available resources, but Datalore UI seems more powerful. Also, it seems to have R support. That can be a killer for would-be Colab users who aren't opted to Python.

- [1] https://datalore.jetbrains.com/

- [2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2018/10/17/datalore-1-0-inte...
you are so beneath their notice that the idea they want to punish you is hilarious.

you’re simply not their target audience. everything else is fantasy.
> to give AI a reason to desire anything beyond what we instruct it to do

But if an AI is good at modelling the world and predicting the likely outcomes of various actions it can take (even if those actions are just to put text on a screen), we should expect it to develop a desire to achieve various "instrumental goals" in order for it to maximise its probability of correctly carrying out the task we instruct it do.

An example of an instrumental goal would be "accumulate resources", since the more resources it has, the better calculations it could perform, and the more certain it could be that it has correctly accounted for all the potential obstacles to it completing the task. Another instrumental goal would be "don't get destroyed", since if it is destroyed it will not be able to carry out the task at all (for most sensible tasks).

So without having any emotions or inherent desires, an intelligent agent is likely to accumulate various desires merely as a consequence of wanting to successfully do anything at all.
I'm not sure how to feel about this simulation... I basically did nothing and burned through COVID within 3 months and things went back to normal by mid-summer. By the end of the year, despite mid-summer government confidence being terrible, I was told "The people trust the government" with a 70% approval. I mean I killed what 10% of the country, but hey... the people have short memories!

What is this supposed to be teaching exactly?

If the model is correct then I think a lot of people would say we should have just let the disease burn out and deal with the deaths. I'm not sure that's what the designers intended.
I think an element of hubris in this article, and many other discussions of a superintelligent singularity - is that the preservation of humans as the dominant lifeform is an inherent good. Humans and our societal structures are incredibly flawed. We are greedy and vain and vindictive and apathetic.

If an AI is created that has consciousness and is smarter and more moral than humans, it could lead our world better than we currently do. It could genetically modify us to make humankind a more ideal species. These AIs could be better humans than humans can possibly be.

In 100-200 years, "kill all humans" could actually be the morally-best choice. By comparison, we could be anachronistic barbarians suitable for nothing but the novelty of viewing in a zoo.

There are certainly risks from passing the baton to a different unknown future lifeform, but I don't think we can have a priori certainty that replacing humans with AI will be inherently bad.
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We do, but that’s not the point. Someone suggested that new comp sci grads are having a very hard time finding work.

I don’t believe that given how hot the market is right now. If anyone is having real trouble, then they are either being selective (won’t move to a big city, have high demands, etc), OR something is wrong. Maybe their resume is terrible, maybe they are bad at interviews, etc.
the UK government has tried handing off NI at least three times in the last century
This is what Systems Engineers do. There's no magic bullet, but the basic process is lots and lots of documents. Much of what NASA does is published openly so you can get a feel for what some of these document types are like. The wiki page gives a decent summary.

Building a model for the system is indeed a big part of the challenge. These days it's increasingly done as a fully detailed software simulation. The big CAD packages have specific functionality for this now. For example SpaceX runs on Siemens NX, and you can wade through their marketing speak to get some idea of how it works. CATIA is also popular with aerospace companies, and Autocad's products with architecture.
Examining and replicating the work of others is a significant part of creativity and harnessing imagination. There is a record of this stretching back into history with painters, sculptors, authors, musicians and more.

Do you think that playing Mozart or Beethoven on piano ruins the imagination of a potential composer? That just isn’t how it works.
Sounds like an advertisement. Knock the current system and then paint a rosy picture of something that is not widespread and has only been happening for maybe a year or two, with no long term results or implementation strategies.
You can design from known templates in software and order the genetic material from multiple companies in some countries.
I think this is one of the big misinformation being propagated. That somehow you would not be able to get GMail or other services if Google is not allowed to collect information. The reality is that Google did just fine before they did surveillance-based ads and they can do just fine when they stop doing them as well. There are other ad systems and Google can do just fine using normal ads.

That being said, there are great alternatives to GMail that you can use, both free and paid. FastMail, Proton Mail, Tutanote and Vivaldi.net mail are just a few options you might want to try out.
>Heinz, of course, makes neither hot dogs nor buns

Kraft owns Heinz and also Oscar Mayer, which sells hot dogs in packs of 8.

But also in 10 and 6, as do other brands.
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Most anyone on Hacker News should consider all of amateur radio. Morse Code is no longer needed for a license and it opens many more possibilities especially for disaster communications.

Those in the Bay Area should check out "The San Francisco Radio Club ( 1916 - 2020 ) Celeb rating 104 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community" < https://www.sfarc.org/ > They are a great bunch and are, as one would expect, very knowledgeable.
>Or are we really that elitist, and do we really have so little faith in individual's ability to think for themselves?

>Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas?

Not all ideas are the same. The free market of ideas is a concept that promotes exploration and competition between ideas. However, some ideas are, on their face, intentionally manipulative. If we look up the 14 words or other rhetorical devices typically deployed in disinformation and propaganda efforts, we can identify a lot of soundly anti-social noise in the general pro-social marketplace of ideas.

Someone refusing to pay ad revenue dollars to monetize a flat earth, anti-vax, or white supremacist message isn't saying 'ideas are bad and we should not have them'. They're saying 'we explored these ideas, and I have judged them. They didn't win the competition'.

This IS the competition inherent in the marketplace of ideas. To remove this does not promote competition in the marketplace; it banally removes it, replacing it with a nihilist 'no idea is better than any other' position.
If someone is willing to cut off their arm for sale as food, should other people be allowed to buy it?

This is probably a reasonable medium term comparison to selling organs (where using someone else's flesh will become an aesthetic choice more than a necessity or the medically superior option).
Swatting is only a problem because the police are incompetent. They absolutely should never shoot somebody with the only information of their being dangerous an anonymous tip. It should obviously still be a crime but one against the police, not the target.

As for becoming unemployable. If there was truly free speech, nearly everyone would get it and it would be obviously unreliable so employers would disregard that signal. Even if that didn't work, stricter labor laws might prohibit hiring discrimination based on internet rumors, same as we do for race/sex/etc. discrimination.
Well, letting the thing burn is actually the fastest way to end the pandemic. The only thing faster than that would be additional intentional spreading (covid parties?) and/or vaccinations going on at the same time. This applies to any pandemic really, as long as the disease leaves some immunity. It's epidemiology 101, for example the SIR model flatlines when the R gets to the herd immunity level.

But do you want the other [than pandemic ending] consequences? Like in your game-based example, 10% of the population dead?
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

LG's business model is to earn a one off payment by selling an appliance. It doesn't earn any incremental payment each time a consumer accesses the appliance.

Facebook and Google have different models. They sell ads each time a consumer engages with their products.

To change the behaviour of people who work at Google and Facebook, first think of a way for them to get paid more if they make the changes you want. Then, get their attention with your message and hope they listen and obey you. If you don't get their attention the first time, try again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.

That's how advertising works.
This is why there is support for this law in China. The law places the responsibility to not provide online gaming service to minors between 10pm and 8 am. The law doesn't criminalizes the actual consumer of the content. It doesn't ask Tencent to catch minors playing games on behalf of law enforcement. That would be a police state. 1) Capital always seeks more profits. And companies like Tencent are controlled by capital. So they will always use the most effective way to earn more money. That includes making content more addictive. 2) Hence, this law is seen as a leash on the companies themselves to not cause more online gaming addiction. 3) the nature of this law is more like alcohol and cigar ban on minors. Where the companies and sellers of alcohol and cigar is held liable for selling to minors. 4) In this specific use case, privacy is not necessary sacrificed. All the system needs to do is make sure the current user is the user who says they are. Basically, its a IPhone Face ID style system. You can store all the biometric data on device. It doesn't need to go to some server.
> This means that for most parents, once your kid hits highschool you can't teach them anything outside of whatever you have a bachelor's in,

A bigger issue is that teaching (and teaching kids even moreso than adults) is itself a skill, and a skill lots of people with degrees don't have even in their degree field. The most successful homeschool parents I've known haven't used private tutors or been omnicompetent, but have been professional educators. Who, for those who weren't professional educators of children to start with, spent a lot of effort learning about child development abd childhood education to be successful at homeschooling.
Having 20 supposeddly high risk issues about possible DoS when all come from a build dev-dependency is just totally useless. If only I could add whitelists, then it would be bearable. Like "I don't care about such kind of issue in a dev dependency".
> the world refuses to legislate against the multinational companies who are destroying the forests for palm oil.

Shouldn't it be Indonesia passing (and enforcing) legislation about what happens in its forests?
No, that is the exact opposite of what I said. Instead of wasting resource on criminalizing the supply size, make the demand plummet by providing more enticing options. If there is demand for the drugs, you have already failed and criminalizing the supply is a non-functional bandaid.

On the other hand, sure, regulating and ensuring tax revenue comes from the vice is not a bad idea (and it works ok for gambling, alcohol, and now pot too).
Certainly there's little to no practical risk in this particular case, but that doesn't make the policy ok. It would really suck if accepting this signaled that it's ok to make such policies for closed-source software, for example, eventually leading to the legitimizing and normalization of keyloggers and/or other spyware-like behavior under the excuse that law enforcement may eventually want it.

What really irks here is saying that such a policy is normal now and therefore ok, when it's obviously a large new overreach.

The response that it's OK if they say they'll behave like spyware because there's little chance they'll succeed also irks.

But worse are the multiple people saying that people can't recognize a standard policy boilerplate when it obviously is not.

If we're being really generous, it's possible that the current wording was not intended to mean what it says, but that also doesn't make it ok.
If you think my understanding of what he said is the same as he claiming that he knows what is better for cooking without liking it I have nothing to say to you.
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This is called unschooling and has been around for decades. My friend is a big believer in unschooling. You basically just give kids resources and then let them learn whatever they are interested in.

There have been long term studies done on kids that grew up in unschooled households. They tended to do fine in college, but were no better or worse off. They tended to score slightly higher on emotional evaluations and also tended to be slightly more predisposed to entrepreneurship and the arts (and less interested in careers with more rigid structure like science and engineering).
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The phone system is a failure of innovation. Some kind of caller id should be mandatory. There is no technical reason something akin to DNS for phone numbers can't exist. Phone companies would rather cash checks than innovate.
Um, what?

The magnet in an MRI is a superconducting electromagnet. It needs power once, to charge it up, then you close the loop and it just sits there being a superconducting electromagnet. The only power used continuously is for cooling, which is to say, when ambient room heat leaks in, it has to be carried out again. The magnet itself does not produce heat; it has no electrical resistance because it is a superconductor.
> Permission:

> If you are setting up a base station, your landlord or HOA may have restrictions on the antenna size. There are no permissions or license required in the U.S. from the FCC assuming you are using unmodified CB radios. Keep the antenna and coax cable away from other equipment if you can, to avoid interference that results in neighbors complaining about you.

You probably only need to ask permission if you actually entered into a restrictive covenant or other contractual agreement to not place an antenna. PRB-1[1] doesn't preempt such covenants, but the landlord or HoA can't just arbitrarily restrict you without your agreement. My anecdotal experience is that HoAs are usually pretty aggressive about including such restrictions, but I've never personally seen a lease that says you can't have a CB antenna. I have seen restrictions on satellite dishes, which is funny because those actually aren't enforceable[2] (unless the landlord/HoA provides a dish for you to use). I really hope someone somewhere has responded to being told to take down his flag pole by mounting a TV receiver at the top of the mast.

[1] http://www.arrl.org/prb-1

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule
Everything seems to be "west" if you go far enough and allow for sufficient north/south drift.
I wouldn't hold out for the tech titans to stop exploiting us for our attention. I think we each need to be aware of how we're being influenced and protect ourselves.

Realizing this is difficult for many, I am building a tool to help people combat the influence of social media and online advertising. We'll soon be beta testing. If anyone is interested, there is more information here: https://becomepeerless.com/
My gripe with Reddit is more about how unusable the site is. I decided to come back to the site recently and make a new account. I tried to comment on a thread, but got auto order because account karma. After that though, I noticed I could only make posts every ten minutes.
My guess is you can't.
Huh. Apparently Brave was blocking whatever they use, but there was no clue that anything was missing... it just degraded to still images and called it a day.

Those videos or GIFs or whatever they are work fine in Chrome and Safari, so it turned out that I was missing something. :)
"If your scripts are only meant to run on your computer, ..."

is it likely you would be sharing them with others on the web.

Thank you for sharing your story. Here's mine. I write scripts in sh. Why? Because it's small, fast and portable. On the OS I use it is not just "pretty much ubiquitous" it is ubiquitous. I have multiple computers running different OS and I want scripts that work on all of them. Some of these computers are resource-constrained and installing additional shells and other interpreters plus libraries is not worth the cost. Anyway, there is no need to do that.

If I need scripts that are small, fast and portable, why should I use zsh plus perl or python.
Why would you go through so much effort only to not demonstrate your point of view?

Are homeowners more likely to have what political leaning?
Considering Gibraltar has a grand total of 34,000 residents, it’s more similar to a rail crossing splitting Palo Alto. Which is the case. Similarly, probably as many people a day use the Fremont drawbridge in Seattle, which yields to boat traffic. I think this class of example is why people would be surprised so few cars would sometimes block air traffic.

Also the 101 has traffic lights in SF, when the freeway turns into Van Ness. If Van Ness had a rail crossing, I’d expect cars to wait on trains.
https://www.hotwater.com/water-heaters/residential/hybrid-el... this is what people are talking about when they reference hot water heat pumps without qualification, because they are the vast majority of the market.

There is no excess indoor heat in winter in 99.9%+ non-passivhaus homes.
> Kraft owns Heinz and also Oscar Mayer

Actually, Kraft and Heinz merged and became "Kraft Heinz."