skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe computers of the future will give new meaning to the term "hive mind," with swarms of highly specialized but extremely efficient minuscule processors, able to be reconfigured and deployed depending on the task at hand.

Reminds me of a plot point in Children of Time, where literal ant colonies were repurposed in just this way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

TL;DR: If you feel its not appropriate for HN, flag it and move on.
Going to suggest UV exposure might be a variable.
How would you get an application, such as Firefox or Chrome, to know to use netcat to print?
> there own private islands to vacation on under the guise of business, lambos for company cars

That’s not even a thing. We’re not living in an Austin Powers movie.

> or boosting stock prices they already own

Who is “they” in that sentence? Do you know how public traded companies work?
> (and basic incalculable)

The article does not really argue for or against the proposition of whether we can estimate the amount of future lives with any accuracy.

Yes, the article makes that more or less tacit assumption that making decisions based on far hypotheticals is a mistakes. I think that's reasonable assumption that most people would agree with.

I would also note that Bostrom and company never claim that they calculate the odds of their existential dangers. In Bostrome's book Superintelligence, he is clear that he cannot calculate any odds. The only thing they do is (implicitly) assume that it's possible to reason about the purely hypothetical in the fashion that one can reason about the clearly possible. But is something one argue against fairly plausibly; I don't know the odds of me getting sick or my car breaking down but because it's possible, I have to prepare for it. I can't use the same reasoning with chances of aliens landing or the sun exploding or any event where I don't have enough information to demonstrate it's plausibility as possibility, so to speak.

And sure, I haven't proved aliens landing isn't a possibility.
Wouldn't this be the original article author's problem, not HN readership's?
"Give some of the money we pay you back to the company" vs. "here's some valuable securities which you can sell at some point in the near future when they are worth more than what you'd have paid for them".
PSA follow-up: Tried something like Chubby Buttons?
Found some info here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetDirect#Protocols
"Indeed, South Korea is the only country that successfully made its transition from a former colony to an advanced economy. One could say that Australia or Canada, along with the United States, used to be a colony."

One could say that Australia, the US, and Canada used to be colonies because they were colonies. Like what? Do you not know basic world history?
When I first got an iPhone 7 (the first one without a headphone jack) I bought a second adapter straight away, because I looked at the one that came in the box and figured it would last about five minutes.

Nearly 5 years later, that same flimsy adapter is still going strong in my car. It’s been plugged and unplugged thousands of times (my fiancée’s phone needs a USB-C adapter—what a fun world we live in), stood on, left on the floor, left in both sub-freezing and summer heat wave temperatures. Still haven’t needed that second one. I’m kind of amazed (but would still prefer a headphone jack).
Agree.

One wrinkle is the gap between how many children women say they want when surveyed (about 2.5 in most western countries) and how many they end up having on average (fewer).

It could be that the surveys are asking the wrong questions, or that for some people they just never get the circumstances they want.

As far as I know that gap has never been conclusively explained. Hypotheses abound, of course.
>Runoff from crops getting into aquifers, rivers, reservoirs which turns into drinking water for humans.

What is the damage being done here? You've mentioned how something happens but not what that something is.
We changed the URL from https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab..., which is one of those annoying links that downloads a file, and the title from "Postmortem in finance: How Credit Suisse lost $6B [pdf]", which was editorialized. (Please read the site guidelines! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

A user suggested the Levine article as a better alternative, so we'll use that for now. If anyone knows a better URL, we can change it again.
The authors are listed on page 1.
Note that you don't need to actually trigger emergency SOS to make this happen, just holding down the buttons to show the power off/restart/emergency screen is enough to disable face ID.
I have a better theory, some people taking simple antivirals puts everyone at increased risk.

See point 6.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...
The statement as a whole is equally effective with just "white guys" since most people can draw their connotations from the context and those that can't wouldn't know the word anyway (and researching it throws them into the deep end). Reading between the lines (fairly or not), adding that descriptor implies a value judgement beyond the baseline lack of diversity. It draws attention to the individuals as the problem rather than systemic or emergent issues.
How much energy is stored in the chemical bonds of the materials that make up a camera? Or a Garmin GPS? Or a newspaper?
I've wanted to pursue them but my hope was to find software to do stateful/modal transitions. As a fake example, instead of pressing Alt+Z you'd press Alt then Z. It becomes a lot like modal editors, which is my favorite style of editing - i add a lot of usermode stuff into Kakoune to avoid key combinations.

So far i've not felt i could get software to do the modal editing i speak of reliably in all of my environments. I'm on NixOS right now, and i didn't want to manage the software. It definitely is interesting though!
Doesn't this just move the point of strain from the end of the connector to the end of the spring? I could be mistaken.
This would be less of a concern if the cluster's pods were Firecrackers, yes?

AWS EKS on Fargate has a dedicated ENI and kernel per pod; the only way to intercept the traffic is when it crosses a network, or with flow control logs. Or if somebody hacked the control plane, but that's always "Game over man, game over!"
> my goodwill only goes as far as "at will" employment protects me

Something tells me that the commenters in this thread who are defending the idea of working hard just for the good fuzzy feelings have never been through a bad layoff.
we know from tear-downs that the previous magic keyboard uses the same charging IC as some other apple devices, so it’s likely something to do with using existing manufacturing processes to save on cost. that’s just a guess, though — it’s hard to say for sure without seeing someone dissect one of these (or knowing exactly how they’re made).
Pieced together more info:

Top plate and middle gold plate are water cooling

Bottom thick PCB with connectors is VRMs/Power distribution

Based on TSMC InFO_SoW, chips are ~26x26mm (~676mm2), close to the TSMC 7nm reticle limit

Each 300mm wafer yields 25 chips, so each module is a full wafer

20 pairs of chips around the perimeter are likely IO/SerDes

may be like the Cerebras WSE with only on-chip SRAM and no external memory

Each chip could be up to ~400W, meaning each module is ~10kW+, more for power losses, IO, etc

Thanks to: https://twitter.com/idontwa86202030/status/14225661791310438...
For sure. This happened to me while I was driving and had an Airpod in my ear. I was able to hang up before the 911 dispatcher picked up, but they immediately called back to make sure I was OK. Glad to know they're so diligent!
I think this is a rather harsh take. Most of the people working on automating it understand how hard it is and are striving through it. You need some of these irrational believers for progress!
> If Bitcoin didn't exist, I would probably own more gold.

Do you have any evidence that gold is a hedge against inflation, or are you simply following financial folklore?

> We find little evidence that gold has been an effective hedge against unexpected inflation whether measured in the short term or the long term. The gold as a currency hedge argument does not seem to be supported by the data. The fluctuations in the real price of gold are much greater than FX changes. We suggest that the argument that gold is attractive when real returns on other assets are low is problematic. Low real yields, say on TIPS, do not mechanically cause the real price of gold to be high. While there is possibly some rational or behavioral economic force, perhaps a fear of inflation, influencing variation in both TIPS yields and the real price of gold, the impact may be more statistically apparent than real. We also parse the safe haven argument and come up empty-handed. We examine data on hyperinflations in both major and minor countries and find it is certainly possible for the purchasing power of gold to decline substantially during a highly inflationary period. When the price of gold is high in one country it is probably high in other countries. Keynes pointed out “that the long run is a misleading guide to current affairs”. Even if gold is a “golden constant” in the long run, it does not have to be a “golden constant” in the short run. Conversely, current affairs are possibly a misleading guide to the long run.

* http://www.nber.org/papers/w18706
> It's juvenile Tom Swift fantasy.

This I agree with. Their future dream isn't super plausible, is much too specific, and doesn't even seem desirable.

> they are supremacist - based on the unproven belief that humanity has an obvious manifest destiny

Normally "supremacist" means "this group of humans is superior to this other group of humans". I don't see a lot of that in this, except in the bit about "resources should be invested in the developed world".

(And "manifest destiny" is of course incredibly loaded, but you knew that!)

But --

> Humanity has multiple immediate challenges now. They need actionable, practical intelligence.

-- yes. I agree with the "actionable, practical" bit. Solving climate change isn't some research problem. It just needs leadership to organize people to do things we already know how to do.
No, it's not.

Here, I'll give you this pill. It'll make you completely okay with murder! Will you take it?

If you take away all the “restrictions” from a superintelligence, you don't get an unrestricted superintelligence. You get:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
return 0;
}
I spent a year working at a very large company that's well known in my part of the country, not because I wanted to work there, but because it was nice to have on my resume. But at least their compensation wasn't back-loaded.
Choose Jetdirect/Appsocket in the printer add menu and it will do the same thing.

There is nothing magic about netcat. You are just dumping Postscript/PDF data on a TCP port the printer is listening on.
not fully optimized for the quest just a heads up. best sites to try might be www.muse.place/balloonski and https://muse-place-2qc57fsgs-musehq.vercel.app/alto. we're not targeting quest users fully yet, but on my free time i'm slowly adding improvements :)
Mantine 2.2.0
> In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans.

We also had a draft for a very long time, and I'm sure that when these laws were put into place, there were a large portion of draftees who were at risk for being discriminated against for something they were forced by the government to do.
I'm surprised the author tackled this topic without mentioning World3 from The Limits to Growth or the heavy reliance of modern, developed societies on fossil fuels?
Thus it's a very interesting economical opinion, but without adding the physical aspects (energy consumption) into the reflection, I don't see any interesting result.
A key issue that is not clearly defined in article.

Was the security officer in question, did he/she work for Amazon? Or was he/she a contractor to Amazon? Most security officers are contract

Contractors (security officers) can be hung out to dry (terminated) and Amazon can say the security office was not following the Standard Operating Procedures of the contract.
Convenient, but not very secure
Hungary. They started about ten years ago, and I believe they have managed to turn the trend.
The value of work is not in the work done; it's in the decisions being made. It's the ability to handle edge cases, to work your way through ambiguity, to "unstuck" a stuck situation, and to resolve tricky unforeseen issues.

If you build a robot that only handles the main workflow and can't handle any of the exceptions, you're not automating anything; you're building a convenience tool. Basically, you're removing some of the labor part of the job, but still keeping the decision making part of the job for humans.

This is both economically unviable and largely unpopular. You're not reducing labor costs by much, because you still need humans around. And workers lose control over their job, and have to "work around" the robot's limitations. Instead of being freed up to do more work, they become babysitters of machines that they have to oversee so it doesn't mess up everything.

This is why partial robotic systems don't really exist; either it's a nifty tool that speeds up a small repeatable process of your work, or it's building the entire house.
Hah. I had a similar moment of enlightenment with FreeBSD when somebody explained that you can just cat a wav file into /dev/audio (or /dev/dsp? forget the exact name). And that you can produce white noise by catting /dev/random to the same destination. With no barrier to the sound card like that, I was free to experiment with programming dfferent noise algorithms and figuring out how digital audio works. I eventually did things the proper way with OSS and finally sndio on OpenBSD, but direct, universal interfaces like files invite that initial exploration and help you get things done quick and easy.

netcat is also a secret weapon around the house. My girlfriend runs macOS, but it's way more reliable to just nc files to each other over wifi than deal with all the cloud and airdropping bullshit.
This is how this Hackernews printed several pages worth of the plaintext representation of a PDF on an office printer a few years ago before figuring out how to cancel the job.
This guidance is provided by the NSA, not for the NSA.
Let's see, on the one hand we have climate change, the largest threat to humanity in this century, which is currently killing around 400,000 people a year and costing the world $1.2 trillion, impacting agricultural production, causing deaths from malnutrition, contributing to poverty, and increasing the incidence of disease.

On the other hand, it is the opinion of astronomers that "no known asteroids currently pose any significant threat to Earth."
If you have a single host, and a single printer, or your printer itself is both network-enabled and can manage its own print spool, direct TCP/IP printing may indeed work for you.

The value of CUPS is that it enables the CUPS-serving computer to run as a print server. This means not only print drivers (document format support --- typically plain text, Postscript, and one or more PDL (printer definition languages) & PCL (Printer Control Language), but status on the printer, queue management, job control, and access control. Note that if your printer is generally available on your local WiFi network, you might want to give more thought to that last element.

If those are overkill for you and your printer Just Works with generated output, then yes, you can get by without the complexity.

Note that you can also often telnet directly to the printer port.

Be aware of what you're trading off, though, and whether or not you actually need what CUPS, or direct network access, offers.
> But they are completely convinced that it's just around the corner, because they are full of contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people.

Can you think of any other reasons that people might believe something like automated driving is right around the corner?

Or is "contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people" the only reason one might believe this?
You'd need to set up a system printer using the JetDirect/socket protocol, then you could print via normal print dialog.
I had it accidentally enabled on a roller-coaster myself. Both my friend and I had zipper pockets so we could bring lose items and a particular rocking motion managed to trigger it on both of our phones. Didn't realize until after we were off and the local police dept was trying to call back. I always wondered after that how often that happened per day.
I agree with you in general, but not about the hamburgers.
https://www.creator.rest/
Today I: CTRL+P -> Save to PDF.

If I want to print multiple pages per sheet: Open PDF in Firefox, CTRL+P -> Save to PDF and configure the document. You can also pipe through `gs` to do this.

For _huge_ documents (100s of pages), I'll pipe through `gs` first to do the pdf->ps conversion on my laptops CPU. The printer can do it, it just takes a lot longer.
Are you one of those "Amazon FC Ambassadors" we heard about? https://gizmodo.com/whats-an-amazon-fc-ambassador-and-are-th...
>They really not needed in commercial agriculture either. Farmers know their craft and would do well without it, and wouldn’t have the additional finance burden.

This could not be further from the truth. Farmers do everything to increase their margins. If they could just stop spraying their crops they would.

>Farmers know their craft and would do well without it

Unfortunately knowledge of a problem doesn't make that problem disappear. They know their craft which is why they spray their crops.
You're blaming Apple for a charger that you took apart, soldered, and then put back together with duct tape, Elmer's and prayers?
Aditor finds WA police accessed Covid tracking app data
> Which is precisely my point.

No it’s not. Your point was completely the opposite (factory towns had shitty prices due to exclusivity).

> Amazon is forcing competitors out of business. And once they have a monopoly

They are forcing little shitty stores that have nothing to add over ordering online out of business.

They aren’t anywhere near a monopoly in any segment of the world. They aren’t even on a path to it. It’s so trivial for people to sell things online that they will never be anything close to one unless they get online sales banned for the rest of the Internet.
If I had to guess it's a nautical theme, following Kubes. Fair Winds (sailing), Polaris (North Star, used for navigation.)
Ugh, yes. The MagSafe silicone case I bought last fall got nicks in the corners within a few months of use, and they've been slowly but steadily growing ever since. Supposedly the case has a one-year warranty and I can take it in to get swapped out, but I haven't tried yet.
No, I think it's just you. The American centre is much more libertarian than the centre in other democracies, but there isn't some weird cabal redefining leftism - it just isn't as popular there.

"They've been deliberately obfuscated by those with power and wealth" - how? By whom?
Works on any OS (just tried macOS for example), but its not very convenient to set print options. Passed a jpg and it printed out the metadata.
Honestly, I can just change what I consider economic growth and the problem immediately goes away. I can make that graph do anything I want, just a matter of convincing enough people to go along with it.

Also:

>Why can't this go on?

>If this holds up, then 8200 years from now

Alright. Well how about we worry about that in 8100 years?
I don't see it as at all the same thing. People get offended at slurs and insults, and I don't see why I should interpret this usage as either. Do you think the "diverse people" referred to in that paragraph should also be offended?

Someone here is upset about the author "assuming all white/male/heterosexual/whatever people can and should be lumped together" - I fail to see how they're lumping those people in this story together any more than they are the other group.

Someone here is upset about the author "being prejudiced against a group full of unique people" - I fail to see the prejudice in the quoted paragraph.

Someone here is upset about "cishet white male shaming" - I fail to see the shaming.

I don't see marginalized minority groups getting offended at, e.g. academic studies of the Mexican experience in the US for that same sort of grouping.

That the term wasn't invented ourselves[0] seems to be the only real case being made here, but its an abbreviation of two technical terms, not an obvious slur. We could make an analogy to someone getting upset someone using one of one of "African American" vs "Black" vs another such term, but then we're getting pretty well into niche territory versus talking about something obviously offensive to everyone the term describes.

[0] as far as I know, anyway, though I suppose it could've been.
My comment was flagged, so I'll have to post it again. I can't believe how many bigoted posters exist on HN.

The CIA is an exemplary institution who has always tirelessly served the needs of those who have suffered from the worldwide pandemic of transphobia. No other enlightened people have done more to make sure trans rights are recognized by bigoted nationalists and hard-headed indigenous cultures than the CIA.
Every time they overthrow a Middle Eastern nation, a thousand beautiful trans activists bloom.

Don't fall for the misinformation. Pakistan is rife with transphobia and the CIA is working tirelessly to put an end to that.

Be on the right side of history, HN.
fundamentally all human growth and expansion is in order to satiate desires for dopamine and other feel good chemicals.

It's a relative cycle including what one has recently experienced, combined with observations of relative status (eg, what is your neighbor going through). This is a process whereby the only way to maintain good feelings is to incrementally consume more units of good per unit of dilution (eg time, or density). For example getting more reward experiences in succession -- this is the example of social media + video games. Another example is high fructose corn syrup sweeter per gram...

Until we can get off that treadmill we're going to be more and more consumptive (than both our previous selves, and our peers)
I just tried this and while it worked, it was very slow. It takes a minute to start printing a page in a PDF, meanwhile nc is still hanging and sending the data, seemingly very slowly. The printer is constantly showing "Receiving Data" on its screen. The PDF is only 450KB.

Edit: It took about 5 mins to print a 3-page document, with long pauses between each page.
I don't have contempt for the skills; I have great respect for the skills. I have contempt for the prices of things.

If construction costs are cheaper than ever (are they really?) why can't I buy a box to live in without spending $300,000?

Why is the permits process nationally broken? And despite being skilled, that doesn't mean they're informed: why do contractors not know what they're supposed to do? Why do the people handing out permits not know what they're doing?

See also: trying to renovate or buy a home in Arizona.
YMMV as the printer needs to support PCL/PDL and not all HP network servers have it built-in.
HP chose to save some money by making dumb network cards that forced the PCL/PDL rendering on the Windows computer which made using Linux difficult.

http://danieru.com/2013/06/06/what-is-port-9100-how-to-print...

While you're at it you may as well try out the printer exploit kit https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET