skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what really and significantly curbed RSS usage what Google reducing effective tooling (allowing you to see/subscribe to RSS in the browser) combined with killing Google Reader. Of course by that time, half my feeds were just links to the full URL (ads and all). Then, they take the next step and introduce AMP, which is really cool in a way, but effectively makes Google the gateway to it all, and Google Ads especially.

Google makes ad revenue, cuts out most of the sites themselves and increases google value, while reducing the value of the actual site producing the content.
Article from 2020... many of these issues are no longer a thing and/or are just really weird to call out. From their accessibility bullets:

> cannot be dictated or selected when using Dragon Naturally Speaking

Isn't this just a speech-to-text engine? I can say that I haven't ran into anyone using this for web control in my entire career. I'm certain it has an accessibility use-case and all, but I haven't ran into a practical example. I'm very apt to write this off as "moot," and would also suspect it may have been addressed since 2020.

Does anyone here use Dragon Naturally Speaking for web control? Good faith real question.

> appears as unlabeled in NVDA's element list

Fixed - https://github.com/alphagov/reported-bugs/issues/41#issuecom...

> appears as a spin button in NVDA's object navigation, which has an edit field and two buttons inside - those buttons are unlabeled, but decrease/increase the value

Fixed - https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/9675#issuecomment-59...

> is reported as unlabeled edit field when using nvda+tab

Fixed - https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/9675#issuecomment-59...

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I want to point out that this article is out of date and basing any sort of modern FE development decisions on it merits much more research than just "GOV.UK tried it and it hurts accessibility" ... I attest that not using the correct input type on fields is more of an accessibility issue - especially numeric fields.
There are formal efforts to create 'decentralized identifiers,' including W3C DIDs[1] and KERI[2].

1. https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
2. https://keri.one/keri-resources/

The former has good traction, why not support that? (they don't require a blockchain btw, though some implementations propose perhaps one of the most appropriate uses of one, simply to store public keys and revocations).
You're not going to understand 95% of mpv's settings without a very detailed explanation anyway, unless you're one of its developers.

Anyhow, I configured mine back when I switched to it (probably around 2013), and never had to touch it again. Doesn't seem like a huge problem.
Sorry, but that is all crap.

Everything is equally approachable on the Windows. Powershell is light years ahead compared to any Linux shell. Chocolatey is maybe most up to date package manager around, on par with Arch.

One thing where I would use Linux over Windows any time is IoT simply due to size and price. Windows nano version is still pain compared to mini Linux distros.
A God entity snapping its fingers 10,001 years ago fits neither "guided" nor "over millions of years" nor "less than 10,000 years ago".
I've been finding these things everywhere. How the fuck are they legal?
Didn’t the Vikings have thralls?
This is an excellent article that does what precious few "serious" online blogs do: it puts in the extensive research required and makes a conclusion based on that evidence.
Pick a baseline, like 1970, and call the level of coding productivity based on its contemporary languages, processes & tooling "0% Automated". Wouldn't we already in 2022 be well over "50% automated" perhaps even 80% or 90%? So we may indeed see some improvement in 3 years, but it would be a more accurate perspective to call that a move from 90% to 95% automation or something, not 0 to 51%.

Think about agriculture, for example - based on a preindustrial baseline we are at least 98% automated now. Likely also quite high for textiles and other industrial production. It often seems that in discussions of near-future automation, the vast gains in productivity seen in the past 2 centuries are ignored.
RAM has been parallel for ages. IBM's new POWER10 achitecture switches to serial control of ram with firmware running on the ram sticks. As long as complex mitigations and monitoring are going to be required this might be the way to go.
To clarify the chronology and background here: Rota was born in 1932, and starting teaching at MIT in 1959. He died in 1999.

Rota was not a boomer; he taught the boomers (and the succeeding generation). The students he is talking about here are the young boomers-to-be. This page is dated 1997 but it reads like a reprint of something written much earlier. I was an undergraduate at Caltech in 1968-72 and this sounds similar to the faculty, students, and workload there at that time.

Regarding WW2, Rota was a child in Italy during the war until his family fled in 1945 to escape the fascists. He reached the US in 1950 via Switzerland and Ecuador [1]. Not really a pampered boomer upbringing.

1. http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N21/21rota.21n.html
Please don't post flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It'd be very pretty and modern, but you'd be very likely to splash or splatter water out of the sink with that sort of design.
I don't remember, to be honest -- definitely something super mass market that I just picked up randomly. I'll check that one out, thanks.
Linking that article from 2020 is problematic - please read my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32141468
Cascade cooling is a fun thing. The next step after water cooling before getting to liquid nitrogen...

Still, I wouldn't really go for that. Knowing how noisy the average compressor and fan for that size is. I much prefer my nearly silent fan cooled machine...
This bs is debunked in every crypto thread... We're facing climate collapse and need to immediately ramp down nonessential energy use. Crypto mining facilities simply do not make the cut. That said, the mainstream financial system requires a haircut too, no doubt, but at least it provides some basic use to normal people.
My dream is being able to get only the events off my Facebook feed. Invitations, events my "friends" are going to that show up on my feed, events people post on their timeline that would show up on my feed, whatever.

If Facebook had any kind of API I could probably build this, and stop using facebook otherwise. Which is probably why they don't?
I imagine for most people it's a total non-issue. Unless you're a scientist or you breed plants/animals, believing in creationism instead of evolution makes pretty much no difference.
The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855163

Maybe this explains all the "You Probably Have Less Testosterone Than Your Grandfather (and Grandmother??) Did" claims.
Well that's just not true. Crime has more correlation with density than pricing but that is correlation, not causation.

Many cheap broke areas are also high crime areas.
Unrelated, but I'm pleased with how ec2instances stayed even after Vantage bought it. They don't shove the service down your throat.
> The first one was decided on the basis of the US Constitution's First Amendment.

Yes, but much more narrowly than you're trying to apply it.

Subsequent decisions made clear internet services are not the same as company towns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

> The Marsh holding at first appears somewhat narrow and inapplicable today because of the disappearance of company towns from the United States, but it was raised in a somewhat high-profile 1996 cyberlaw case, Cyber Promotions v. America Online, 948 F. Supp. 436, 442 (E.D. Pa. 1996).[1] Cyber Promotions wished to send out "mass email advertisements" to AOL customers. AOL installed software to block those emails. Cyber Promotions sued on free speech grounds and cited the Marsh case as authority for the proposition that even though AOL's servers were private property, AOL had opened them to the public to a such a degree that constitutional free speech protections could be applied. The federal district court disagreed, thereby paving the way for spam filters at the Internet service provider level.
> those systems are not a path to AGI

If that's the actual meat of your claim, it's weird to just put it unsupported at the end. If you think it's an aside you've got a big problem, because without it the rest is pretty weak.

We saw this with chess. Anybody who was clinging on to the idea that well, the machines can't really play chess, because technically there do seem to be a few humans who are better, was screwed the moment the machines begin routinely beating grand masters. Either this categorically isn't something that the machines can do, or, it is and so it's important that they can do it at all. We shouldn't expect any half measures on this.

Do you consider Rob Liefeld an artist? What do you reckon the chances are that the machine can get human anatomy right more often than Rob Liefeld? Rob is a human, so it seems like that should give him an advantage. However unlike Rob DALL-E has learned by seeing lots of existing pictures of humans that they don't look the way Rob draws them...
The BBC as well: https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 ("top stories", "world", "politics", "health", "technology", ...)

Though like many sites, I have no idea how you would reach the "feeds" page from the front page (I gave up and searched Google for it)
I'm a working class guy in North Dakota. Very conservative, Trumpy, and Jesusy around here. I know plenty of Trump supporters and churchgoers. I don't think any of them believe that the earth is only 10,000 years old.
So your prompt changes daily?

A fixed prompt likely was why I couldn't maintain it. The prompt was generic and open ended, but I tired quickly of coming up with new stuff to the same questions.

But the likely real reason is that it just became a chore. I probably should have reduced it to once a week or something. I have kind of tried that as well and still failed.

Another reason is quality. The first draft of anything sucks really bad, but I don't want to write badly. It's a lot more effort to write something present or future me will be happy with.

Ultimately, I think it's a matter of perspective and priority. I like the idea of journaling, but it is somewhat labor intensive (especially if the "first draft" is not good enough for you). The reality is I often choose to do something else with that time.
How is it ambitious to have a bunch of teenagers on scooters delivering shit after school?

We would've had this the entire time if we didn't have minimum wage laws, that these companies are skirting.
The "better experience" argument rests on a false premise - that everyone has the money; they never spent it on cabs earlier because it wasn't easily accessible.

This kind of thinking is pervasive among tech startups now, and much of it is deeply embedded among startups founded by financially well-off, living-in-SF folks. The idea that the vast majority of people don't really have enough money to afford fair price cabs (or food delivery or consumer good) seems to be lost on them.
The law allows for abortions due to "risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family (up to a term limit of 24 weeks of gestation)"

And to quote this (correct) wikipedia entry: "The third ground [the one I quoted above in this comment] is typically interpreted liberally with regards to mental health to create a de facto state of abortion on demand, and nearly all abortions—98% in 2019 and 2020—are performed to protect the woman's mental health".

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

Maybe it would be better to legally enshrine it as "on demand", but every woman I know in England who either has had an abortion or thought about the possibility of maybe needing one, currently considers it to be on demand.
From what I’ve noticed, the Chik-Fil-A playplaces are considerably smaller than the McD’s and BK places of yore, just fair warning, YMMV.
I love the Internet Archive and frequently donate to them (2 times so far this year).

What I'd love to see improved is the ability to be less "fragile". Currently it's all located in the US and they have a huge focus on the US, both technically and politically.

But why not try to replicate it all over the world? There seems to have been some smaller efforts inside the Internet Archive to make it more decentralized, but it feels like it should be a much bigger focus on it.
I blog about electronics at tomverbeure.github.io. I find it incredibly useful, not for others but primarily for myself.

I see 2 major benefits:

- I blog about things that I didn't really know about in-depth earlier. Just writing down the words to explain things to others often makes me realize that there were aspects that I didn't quite understand. I learned a ton of stuff that I wouldn't have without blogging, and it's surprising how some things turn out to be useful at my job.

- I try to maintain a 2-month cadence of blogging about something. (It doesn't always work.) This artificial requirement is a great motivator to force me to finish a project. My blog has 67 git branches. That's 67 topics which are at some stage of completion (often just in the information gathering phase, with a list of web links.) Most will never materialize in a completely blog post, but sometimes I go through them and pick up a topic that I had left behind a long time ago and just finish it.

I use github.io with Jekyll as blogging platform. It's essentially effortless...
When I read the parent comment, I imagined a panel saying:

"Oh dear, Poor John there was born without a left leg. Alright, everyone else line up in front of the man with a meat cleaver"
Spf13 is leaving Google
> Rota was not a boomer; he taught the boomers (and the succeeding generation)

And the preceding one (if he started teaching at MIT in '59, Boomers were still in their early teens at most.)
The money from the purchases after the value is inflated.
Many people, including HNers, find it challenging to find purpose in life without a belief in a higher power. What's stopping us from just going on murder rampages or acting good towards each other if we have there is no promise of a holy afterlife?
> Are there any technical reasons to use RSS instead of Atom in new deployments?

There's no technical reason. Unfortunately many CMSes still emit barely usable RSS v2. There's also the branding issue of RSS the format essentially being the name of the technology. Someone saying "I want an RSS feed" ends up with the implementer making an RSS v2 feed rather than a better Atom feed and just labeling it RSS.
Did you read down to the third paragraph of the article you're citing?

The third ground is typically interpreted liberally with regards to mental health to create a de facto state of abortion on demand, and nearly all abortions—98% in 2019 and 2020—are performed to protect the woman's mental health.
If you could be construed in any way to be a competitor of Amazon (retail namely), you'd be crazy to pick Amazon, who is in the business of stealing their customer's lunch money at every level.

You'll be surprised to learn that quite a lot of major companies running on Azure aren't Microsoft/.Net shops. Linux/Java workloads are very common. The tooling is pretty good for all that stuff too (nearing "First Class Citizen", but mayybe not quite).
> We have spent the last 40 years reducing teacher autonomy, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's harder to get teachers who care.

I think schools are in a death-spiral where they can't get enough decent teachers with good judgement who can work autonomously, so they keep clamping down with more control over teachers' day-to-day activities, which just drives away more of the good teachers because working like that sucks.

Current high inflation (wage-inflation plus just the regular kind) is going to drive this to a crisis point before long, I think—when fast food joints have signs up begging people to apply at $17/hr with basically no education requirements, a starting salary in the low-$30k range requiring a bachelor's degree starts to look like something only a crazy person would opt to do.

[EDIT] Relatedly, school admin is also totally fucked up. The people doing those jobs are generally terrible for a bunch of reasons, including that they're also under-paid for the kind of person you'd really want doing those jobs, while also being very high-paid relative to teachers. Teachers who may or may not be good at teaching, but who are not good at admin, go into it because it's the only way to make real money in education until you're nearly at retirement age and holding a PhD, on a classroom teacher pay-scale, and people who can't hack it in private sector management go into it because it pays pretty well and you can coast while getting an ego-boost from being the Big (Wo)Man In Charge and bossing people around. The entire field is a cess-pit of incompetence, neglect, and outright idiocy, and it's a huge problem that doesn't get enough attention compared with teacher quality.
They did a pretty dumb thing and that's me being a supporter. I really wished they had thought a little longer before pulling that particular stunt.
Previously: GSMem, BitWhisper, AirHopper, ODINI, PowerHammer, LED-it-GO, USBee, Bridgeware, MAGNETO, etc etc.

See the other ≈50 copycat papers of the author: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Mordechai-Guri/226003...

At some point the author is going to run out of clever puns...
The way I have put it to my artist friends is in the form of litmus test: If I sat at a local farmers market selling this art, people would likely buy some of it.

If the delineation can only be made because you are an art major, or practicing artist, that is not really compelling to your own market.

We are on the third generation of these type of "AI" and they are already past the point where people would exchange cash for a print of this work. It is only a matter of time until people are using these to generate the general picture and then drawing it using their preferred medium (e.g. oil, watercolor).
Right on. When do you expect a productized AI that can replace your average skilled programmer?
Spotify has started and rapidly escalated a program to pay podcast producers for spotify-only podcasts. (with no rss feeds). Several podcasts I used to listen to and enjoy have become spotify-only.

When I recently asked friends for podcast suggestions... several were spotify-only, i don't think the suggestors even realized it, cause they just listened on spotify anyway regardless.

So I think Spotify agrees with you and is working on it...
Van Eck phreaking works through walls. I haven't seen the interview but most likely he was just hiding the physical act of typing, since that too can leak information about a password.
It's amazing that Western Union didn't lobby congress to ban free, government operated, time synchronization services.
Really glad you enjoyed it!
mpv also does fine as a simple image viewer. Bind image mime types to /usr/bin/mpv, and you're golden. If you want a slideshow, run `mpv /path/to/image/dir`.
That's more about the pizza than the delivery. Pizza scales really well. If you order chinese food for 10 people you're getting a lot of different things. For pizza you're getting pizzas. They go in a standard stackable box that sits nicely in the front seat. If it's a busy time you can stack multiple orders of pizza together. Pizzas are higher margin than most foods, requiring not a lot of labor or expensive ingredients. People tend to order more pizza than they need because it saves pretty well. Pizza is pretty clean, at least to the extent that even the greasier ones won't leak through a good box. It's a common party food meaning you'll get more big group orders. It doesn't come with expensive ingredients. It's easy to package. If you start an order of 5 pizzas they should all be done at about the same time. And in some fiction your delivery workers work under threat of death from the mob itself.
Because "guided" isn't obviously compatible with the "act of special creation" for humans that is an inherent part of many religions.
Definitely agree that the survey results are likely to be skewed because of the lack of an option that suits those who believe in special creation but not the "10 thousand year" timeline. Especially if they think 100s of millions of years is wrong (anatomically modern humans haven't been around anything like that long!).
Yep, Con games almost always involve making the mark believe that you're helping them rip somebody else off. If and when they figure out they've been ripped off it makes them hesitant to reach out to the police for health.

Psychics take advantage of people's gullibility, a fact that impairs their ability to get any justice, if you can call it that.
This is already covered in the article:

> Technically, abortion is never available on-demand in Great Britain. (Northern Ireland is a bit different from England/Scotland/Wales.) However, the law allows abortions up to 24 weeks if there is a “grave risk to the mental health” of the woman and nowadays abortion providers—who make the determination—almost always view the fact that a woman wants an abortion as proof that such a risk exists. Thus, abortion is de-facto available on demand for 24 weeks.
Could have added a qualification like "according to best available data", but that would sound scary.

But then, they probably thinks it's true regardless.
When I'm tempted to work more
Doesn't the same zero-sum dynamic apply to political persuasion? There are many competing groups in the world that already spend money on political persuasion. You said "convince them of whatever is ordered by the highest bidder" so I'm not considering the case where one secretive group with a pointed agenda (the CIA? the FSB?) has a monopoly on super-persuasion.
If it really is an existential threat why didn't a politician rally the population against AI in 1984 after the Terminator and War Games movies came out?

I guess because nobody would take them seriously and they'd look ridiculous?

You're positing at some point this is going to change but I'm not seeing how.

Nuclear weapons are already an existential threat and I don't see anyone rallying against it.
I sprayed my coffee
One of my first jobs was for a local MSP who had a lot of law offices as clients. Beyond the massive CD towers that contained Lexis Nexis and other legal libraries, everyone used WordPerfect. For DOS.

Why would you do this, when Windows and Office 97 existed?

You could view open documents and scroll through them with the keyboard.

Click, click, click, click - "That's the one I need!", a lawyer would bark out. It took far too much time to use the mouse and open documents one-by-one. Even if you hit Alt, F, O, you still had to scroll through hundreds or thousands of files, try to remember where you were...back then you had friendly filenames like DM928032.WDP
Shove that into ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf (each parameter on its own line and without the dash prefix) if you don't want to repeat yourself over and over again.
The US has had Italians for just as long, and unlike Australia didn't let the mafia corner the produce industry.
Q: Did the customer get exactly the same version with the re-update? Or was a patch or revert pushed in the meantime?
You fork a project on Github, is it ok to delete the original? No. Both will grow separately and slowly diverge / become their own personalities.

Let both live on their own and after a while, if both you and the AI consent to it, merge the brain state back together.
They write only random data and discard any data they read, so FDE should not have any effect.
> the piezoelectric discharge due to thermal rise/fall of the GPU

now this is something id like to see!
Is anyone convinced it's not just marcan?