skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few AI generated pages in top results that felt like having a stroke trying to read. I hope these can be eliminated.
what's interesting about it to me has nothing to do with the artistic merit, but the understanding it has about the meaning of the input text, and the composition of the result. It knows about the story of Sisyphus for example, and can compose visual elements that riff on it.

These example don’t do it justice because these profiles are pretty dumb, there are much better ones out there that show off it’s interpretive ability much better.
This isn’t great in terms of storage waste, but I don’t think this is a “significant” security risk for the average user: most users should have both iOS FDE enabled and Signal’s own DB is encrypted (with a stored key, but accessing that key requires ACE, which is already a “game over” condition).

If you want guaranteed deletion (modulo screenshots), you should probably use timed/self-destructing messages. That’s what they’re there for.
Agreed. That was a large source of "loyalty" for older generations. My wife's father will retire soon with a generous pension - one of the last of the factory workers who had a pension. Employees aren't loyal and that is largely a self-inflicted issue.
In the late 90s before Wikipedia, Encarta used to scratch that itch for me. I would spend hours browsing articles, and some of the multimedia presentations were truly impressive[1].

I think if it were alive today, presentations like this Getty one would be common. As much information as Wikipedia has, it's presented in a very static way, which is a shame. There's huge potential of making the information there interactive, and thus more appealing to younger generations (and everyone, really) who otherwise wouldn't read an article with thousands of words and some pictures and audio.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHM6oGttsA
Don't rule out the complexest explanation: alien error.
No "we" do not, some people do, some people do not

There is LOTS of scholarly economics works that shows government intervention in the markets not only lets to the crash, completely extended the length the crash.

Specifically the fed actions in 1929 lead to prolonged pain not seen in other nations that recovered faster because their central bank did not try to "solvable the problem"

To state that is a forgone conclusion that everyone agrees that "free market capitalism" was the cause of the great depression is highly ignorant
For other readers this seems to be a joke.
Except they don't know where it crashed. Here they have a much smaller area to search. I'm fairly certain in 1953 that even the U.S. military lacked the advanced sonar that's available to the average person to use from a boat in 2022.
This internal tension between chasing AI tooling and avoiding AI-generated content is just a prelude to the bigger shift of search engines getting reinvented around generated results instead of found results.

Fast forward 10+ years and for knowledge-related queries search is going to be more about generated results personalized to our level of understanding that at best quote pages, and more likely just reference them in footnotes as primary inputs.

These knowledge-related queries are where most content farms, low quality blogs, and even many news sites get traffic from today. If the balance of power between offense (generating AI content) and defense (detecting AI content) continues to favor offense, there will be a strong incentive to just throw the whole thing out and go all-in on generated results.

Big question is how incentives play out for the people gathering the knowledge about the world, which is the basis for generated results. Right now many/most make money with advertising, but so do content farms, and more generated results means more starving of that revenue source. For a portion of info that people want to know (e.g. factual info, not opinions, guidance, etc), Wikipedia is an alternative fact- and context-gathering model, but if search relies on it more, it will strain Wikipedia's governance model and become more of a single point of failure.

Really interesting stuff ahead.
The first killer app. It made the Apple II a must-buy.
Traditionally, "elite overproduction" would've been viewed as an engine of social mobility: I don't think that it alone can explain social 'collapse'. The ideological superstructure matters, too; and "woke" ideology as described in the article seems like one main factor that would ultimately impede the desirable circulation of elites.
"Most of my life I have had to work hard to create opportunities for myself, and open as many doors as possible. I was lucky to open quite a few."

But did you really? To me it reads like you got to the circle of doors at the start of your career, opened one (tech) and the ran down that hallway full pelt. You've got plenty of doors to open...but they are all in one narrow realm. Imho it sounds like you have a really narrow concept of what work/career is and what different jobs entail. Maybe take a year out and go do something completely different. Who knows maybe you like working in tech...but maybe you love hanging off the bough of a boat as it sidles along a dock to moor and your jumping over to tie it on 10x more than coding, your not gonna know if you have no exposure to the experience.

I took the opposite path, worked all kinds of jobs that aren't tech(mining, out at sea, movies). It helped me narrow down what I want...and firmly set in stone what I don't want. Maybe thats what you need? I dunno I find the concept of locking into one career especially early on incredibly daunting. You only have one life, imho you wanna try experience as many polar opposite things in it as possible to suss out what they are like before you lock into one. I couldn't think of anything worse than spending say 40 years in a career to discover on a whim that I enjoy something else more (I mean hell, I discovered I love stuff like concreting, who'd a thought shoveling sand for 8 hours and making concrete look like rocks was so much fun!?).
what happened to just using Vulcan
How do negative externalities fit into your picture?
Raytracing, a 4 Year Retrospective
Then no business is private and no individual is private.
are there in india "comparable" life/quality jobs, if one doesnt want to start his/her startup?
Wow! I'm in a similar boat, especially regarding the US v. Europe thing, and I realized I'm very divided between a life that most people would think is made of the "good choices", and one that could go "less optimal", but will probably help me figure out what I like better. Staying in the US got very predictable in terms of what my journey will look like 5,10 years to come, and I got less interested in that, even though, and I know it's a privileged position, it will most certainly guarantee I get paid more than any other place. However, there's something about taking the plunge and finding out what it could possibly look like in Europe, and maybe trying to make it financially "work" there too. I've acquired a certain level of professional confidence in myself over the years that made me believe I can be very successful in Europe too, and I've been wanting to try a better social life. I've been living here for almost a decade, and at this point I feel like I've tried all that the country can materially offer me, but in a smaller scale. I did college, NYC, the beach life, and everything in between, and I want to experience something else.
It wasn't scarce where I was because I wasn't legally allowed to even try and get when it was scarce. The vast majority of students weren't offered a vaccine in the UK until we were vaccinating hundreds of thousands of people a day.

The only hard deadline I had for myself was to get it before I had to actually interact with groups of people again, which I did meet, but only just. I also know people who didn't bother getting theirs at all.

So yeah, I don't really have any huge issues with the policy.

Equally I wouldn't care if they just bribed the students with something.
But who expects that?
Signal's insistence on doing the wrong thing for 99% of users (storing media blobs in SQLite) drives me crazy. Protect our metadata over the wire, fine, but there is almost no additional protective benefit whatsoever by storing the files inside SQLCipher when the user's fingers can be broken one-by-one until they unlock their phone.

Meanwhile it causes issues just like this, not to mention broken integration with every audio/gallery/video app on the device.
I also highly recommend reading this thread by Naomi Wu on her thoughts of the Shanghai lockdown: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/151273459548510617...
The offices solution to Coase's paradox is that central planning doesn't scale well.

This is similar to federalism -- central governments don't work very well for everything, but scaler local governments are still effective for local issues.
> Stanford prof calls cops on Berkeley prof who exposed her $5K/hr consulting fee

I'm sorry Professor, but you need to call the Twitter police, not the Berkeley police.
> This will be a better argument when vaccine choices are added to the list of protected classes.

List of protected classes is just a list that can be amended, changed or entirely removed. I am not really sure how it’s an argument for anything unless you are a hardcore ultra-legalist who believes that a law, a completely artificial human construct, has some sort of divine importance over everything else.

> That does not seem too likely, however, given that it is a choice rather than an immutable characteristic.

It’s a weird legal meme that immutable characteristics should somehow be treated differently for the purposes of moral blameworthiness. Again, I am not really sure where it comes from and why people seem so eager to parrot it, but it looks completely baseless.
I'm neutral about Swift vs. Obj-C, I can see the advantages in Swift (especially now that the language is starting to tackle concurrency and getting closer to solving its existential issues) but I miss just having a simple set of tools that would still let me do everything I needed without thinking too much about them. Too much time spent being precious when writing Swift code...

I'm more worried about Apple's mac approach becoming Windows circa 2005, currently you can develop a mac app using AppKit, which is slowly rotting away, or using either Catalyst of SwiftUI, both of which are playing catchup with iOS and not really getting there. Too many options, none that are truly polished up anymore.
I mean, the bicycles they had throughout most of the 1800s were not at all as practical as today’s. The safety bicycle that you’d recognize as a modern bicycle wasn’t a thing until around the 1880s. I think the calculation would be different had people in the 1800s had modern bicycles.
The transistors available in modern digital CMOS processes are worse and worse for analog functions, the more recent that process is.

The very poor device characteristics may be mitigated only using very complex schematics for the analog circuit, together with various auto-calibration methods.

The additional cost may be deemed too much for a voltage reference in a cheap microcontroller.

One can always use a good external voltage reference, but that may cost as much as a microcontroller.
One way to transfer files is with FTP. This is how they did it in say the 90s. It works well but it's not encrypted.

At some point we put SSL on there and started calling it FTPS. The problem is SSL was sort of bolted on and it's a hassle to configure / works weird with different clients.

Around this same time ssh came into use. FTP ports are 20 and 21. SSH is 22. Usually terminal connections are sent over 22, encrypted. But you can also do a few other things. One is transfer files. The protocol is called SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) and is unrelated to FTP or FTPS. It requires no configuration and works with your ssh credentials.

Into the 2000s it became less common to use FTPS because it was less secure and more difficult to configure than SSH/SFTP. Not terrible, lets say like 60% more difficult.

As we progressed further into recent years transferring files over ports like 22 or even 20 or 21 is less common. Usually apps have an api endpoint where you upload files on a webpage. That web page would be encrypted and in some ways might look like FTPS. In other cases it very well could be FTPS, or SFTP.

There are also various other similar file transfer protocols. This was from memory so some details / dates may be wrong.
IIUC, NTRU is only "quantum proof" because there is no (publicly known) quantum algorithm for breaking it, while there is Shor's for everything discrete logarithm based (both RSA and elliptic curve anything).
If you're not a New Yorker subscriber and have run out of free articles, there's a good free-to-read account of him in this Guardian article from November 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/09/secrets-of-top-... (There are some quotes from this article in the New Yorker piece).
I'd go by bike or use a hand cart
Eresia pagana!

... which I fully endorse.
lol wut? i like the name.

my s4: https://github.com/nathants/s4
Considering how much a single Javelin costs, for example, infowarfare is so much cheaper!
You don’t seem to have a clear definition of what exists is
The cost of a car isn't just gas, you have to amortize the cost of the car depreciating, the maintenance, registration, etc. For a quick example, https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/total-co... has a monthly cost of 690 using average (used) values and 0 dollars for gas. So you can drive 17 days a month and still come out ahead renting. There are services like zipcar, or [hourcar](https://hourcar.org/individual/) that make renting significantly more convenient, though the costs are marginally higher if all of your trips are full day.

I've done this calculation multiple times in my life, and because I mostly get around via bike (perks of living in college towns which have to invest in non-car infrastructure), its never been worth buying a car.
Could you share an example? I thought async functions weren't callable outside an `async` invocation from the `Inline` calling convention.
Back then flying saucers were hard to operate. I wouldn’t blame the alien.
Ask HN: Creative ways that you use Amazon S3 service?
S3 is now strongly consistent which makes it viable beyond the blob storage. I am curious to learn about the interesting ways in which you leverage Amazon's S3 service.
People who claim that education was "dumbed down" conveniently forget that until after WWII, most people in America didn't even graduate from high school. Until after WWI, or just over a century ago, most people didn't even go to high school.

Education didn't dumb down. Students now learn robotics, foreign languages, and advanced laboratory sciences in good districts (and even some of the crappy large ones like LAUSD). The good ones learn more advanced topics, and at a younger age, than people in previous generations.

There are simply many more students than there were before, so while the performance of the good ones got better, and there are more of them, the average performance got worse.
Hard disagree. There is no evidence that startups of India are helping the GDP or improving the lives of rank and file Indians. In my understanding, right now, all these VC funded businesses are catering to top 100M of Indian population, people who are already living US-lifestyle in India.
Later released as Them’s Fighting Herds.

(Stripped of has to ip and largely rebuilt from scratch)
By focusing on the numbers specifically you're missing my entire point, which is that there are always businesses on the edge. This will put some businesses out, causing those employees to lose jobs and those owners to either try to open another business (expensive) or find work elsewhere (and most of the time if you own a business and it goes under you're not eligible for unemployment). Whether that's okay, or even good, is a separate discussion, but I don't see anyone arguing that not a single business will go under by having their payroll costs go up to cover the same number of hours every week.

> Businesses can take the additional profits from rising prices

If a business is increasing its prices, it's much more likely that it's doing so because its own COGS and other expenses are increasingly similarly.
The idea of world generation being this easy in a game engine is cool. I can't wait to play around with it! Thanks for sharing this.

https://heaps.io/samples/world.html

Edit: spelling
I will repeat a part of my comment I posted in another thread:

It’s a weird legal meme that immutable characteristics should somehow be treated differently for the purposes of moral blameworthiness. I am not really sure where it comes from and why people seem so eager to parrot it, but it looks completely baseless.
Its also from who the business owners perceive as their customers. They probably associate car ownership with higher income levels and would prefer to make their business as accommodating for that customer as possible vs someone who takes the bus and is perhaps perceived as having less disposable income to spend at the business. Sometimes businesses reserve their parking for the most high income customers e.g. when they make it valet with a high price vs first come first serve.
If it's big enough, you'll become aware of it anyway.
I would like to second that! I converted multiple of my lab mates into Einops just by having them browse through the tutorial in https://einops.rocks/ :)
The mere fact that the sidewalk isn't public property maintained by public works says a lot about the transport priorities.
There has been some effort on going to really deep depths in IDDP (Icelandic Deep Drilling Project) - see https://iddp.is/about/

If I remember correctly, they were never able to hit their goals because of drilling down into magma chambers. The steam coming up was also of a different scale than regular geothermal steam, causing corrosion that has not been dealt with before.

As far as I know, the main problem is coming up with casing materials that can withstand the extreme corrosive environment at scale and at cost, and for IDDP that's one of the main focuses.
They should not have closed the bug, but you have an opportunity to put on your hacker hat and take control of your device storage! Do you know how to attach a debugger to an iOS process? If necessary, could you fork the client, modify and install it locally? Do you know how to find out which files are taking up all the space, and delete them, from inside the process? (It's actually one reason I prefer Android because although I'm not an Android dev, I want (need?) to be able to do all of these things on my own devices.)
Windows is much more end-user-focused than Unix. This was even true in the 3.x days. I played around with a late-90s Solaris 2.x image recently and its usability was garbage compared to Windows 3.x, let alone 9x or NT 4.

Plus, the NT kernel is just a much better design than Unix. Multithreading, dynamic linking, fine-grained access control, and async I/O are baked into the NT design, not bolted on as afterthoughts.
Signal seems increasingly like a Tesla in the chat space, where certain parts of the product are excellent (E2E encryption and battery/drivetrain, respectively) but everything else sits between mediocre and bad, and the bad parts are rarely acknowledged or improved upon. Disappointing.
It's pretty easy to improve that almost every "real" number is impossible to name.

"Real" numbers are really the "realizable numbers", on a potential sense, like how every sperm is a potential mammal -- anything you construct on the "real" line is real, but the "real line" is mostly space for numbers that will never be realized.
You have a large flashing sign in someone's face and instead of using that as a sales tool ("buy a ham biscuit!", aka "hot donuts now!"), you're going to use it to tell them bad news?
I was going to comment "Why would a joke have a PayPal link to subscribe?"

...and then I clicked on the PayPal link :)
No one can predict anything when they don't have access to the larger model. Assuming the real world corresponds to big models rather than the small models and understanding people usually have.
Thankfully Google operates in a free market where it is possible to compete by building a better search algorithm.

I don't buy into the position that all this great content and diversity of content is lost because of Googles algorithm. It isn't as discoverable as the mainstream content that Google search returns but that's no different than being in a world where Google didn't exist. Except for perhaps in such a world people would have different content discovery habits.

Complaining that Google doesn't surface your preferred set of "great content" is like complaining that prime time cable TV only shows lame sitcom reruns. It's true, but it doesn't prevent you from buying HBO, or Prime Video.
I am aware of the 2nd law. I am looking for data on the magnitudes involved. Every time there is a promise of very cheap energy, I wonder how we will deal with the waste heat.
Google search has been poor for years. I think it's time to say can't.
It's honestly not that hard for a random iOS dev to learn the macOS ropes, the principles and paradigms between UIKit and AppKit are the same and at this point both frameworks have a comparable amount of baggage and quirks. AppKit adds some complexity in some areas (window management comes to mind, which UIKit has now but no one bothers with) but helps in others (document management is still miles ahead of UIKit's).

The problem is convincing someone to try. There's a reputational issue "AppKit is haaaaard" "AppKit is baaaaad" "AppKit is dyiiiiiing". There's also a career issue as it's felt that building native mac apps is a career dead end.
A really nice touch is the case study they use, which shows a nonexistent MothersInLawPhotos . com
(http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.p...) with all the images broken
Signal is a nice entry into encrypted chat. The fast signup makes it easy for me to recommend it. I prefer to use Wire, Threema, or Element but concede that too few people really care about private chat. This issue of Signal gobbling up storage space is an issue, possibly enough to gift licenses for Threema to the people with whom I chat the most.
If you mean Vulkan, there are a lot of platforms where it's not available.
Thank you. I did find it odd they compared their service to floppy disks and abacuses.
I mean, in small enough orgs they're typically workers who have been promoted so they can teach the required skills. I guess in bigger orgs there's another layer...
This entire thread seems to be you willfully misinterpreting their comments, or taking the most negative possible interpretation, and then responding to that. In addition to violating the site guidelines, it's boring, stifles discussion, and is the stuff of emotional, uneducated partisan hackery.
That's not how the legal theory works, fyi. The theory is that “sincere belief” is not a choice, and since it’s impossible to determine that externally the only choices were to not protect sincere belief or to protect all religion sincere or not.