skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of sites are broken with ad blockers. It's usually even not because of ads. It's because of tracking JS, which gets called from everywhere (because we need metrics to track user behavior!) but the code around it assumes metrics never fail, so when metrics script gets cut by adblocker, everything fails. It could be pretty easy to avoid this, but nobody approves a budget to refactor the site to work with adblockers, and I am pretty sure nobody tests with adblockers. Also, as a bonus, if you break adblockers, people would disable them and give us our metrics we need to run A/B tests and generate nice reports, so it's a win-win, isn't it?
Yeah this really sucks. I think some do this for paywall reasons, but there are definitely models out there to allow in-reader paywall access. Stratechery has an interesting approach - when you subscribe you get a unique feed that can be cancelled when you stop paying.
In a snappy aphorism:

Schedule your downtime or your equipment will do it for you.
Gain physical access to a machine, install malware that gathers data and transmits it using this vulnerability. Only works if you can set up a listening post within range of the PC.

Certainly very limited utility, and definitely not something any of us should actually be worried about. But it probably is something to be aware of if you run IT for an embassy or any other entity that could be targeted by a highly motivated state sponsored actor.
What you are describing is the use of permissionless contracts to avoid AML/KYC compliance law, which is partly what the Directives are designed to criminalise.

> I am not suggesting this exempts anybody from the law, I am suggesting the law is outdated and not compatible with current technology.

AML 5 came into law on the 10th January 2020 (with an enforcement window for transposition into national laws). The law is, as said before, partly designed to close loopholes in the previous Directives that allow high-values transactions to avoid regulation. The law is - for better or worse - keeping up to date. It's simply the case that you don't like the regulation being imposed.

> If the law is that you must handle KYC for > 10ETH purchase, and an anonymous wallet sends you 10ETH in tokens, you should not automatically become a criminal and have your assets seized because of a law that was written before permissionless blockchain networks existed.

I think this really puts your bias front and centre.
+1

I took HCI from him in undergrad and I had now idea who he was. I found the teaching style engaging but didn't give it much thought until 3 years later when I started working on consumer internet products.
Don't let an attacker run code on your system in the first place. (yes, shielding would of course help against this specific attack, but you have a long list of things to worry about before this kind of thing even becomes relevant)
The word never made much sense though. A "podcast" is a file that you download from the internet. What's the point of calling it a podcast?
I was about to talk about issues with scaling Redis pubsub but apparently they just recently published a newer version (7) with proper sharding support in cluster mode!
Word has "show formatting" which .... is a very poor substitute but can sometimes help.

I find Word becomes much more manageable if you religiously use styles instead of ad-hoc formatting.
AI that can do creative work is scary for its implications on humanity. Are we at best biological AI's ?

I've played around with several of them.
These artwork AI's are way more scary than GPT-3 et al because they seem to do something so creative with such good visible results.

I don't think the genie goes back in the bottle. I think humanity has an existential crisis on its hands.

Whats the point in doing things if the AI can do it better than you ? Do those things become relegated to some increasing unpopular niche ?

I just have increasingly amounts of questions and fear.
Yes, I think they are selling at a loss too. Possible thanks to investor money.
In a recent exploration of the domain, textik.com is rather bare bones, but does have some interesting features. In particular, it recognizes certain spots on the border of a rectangle as connection points. Drawing a line between two connection points establishes that similar to how drawing programs handle lines - including the "if you drag that rectangle around now, the lines connected to the connection points adjust too."
A person is the same person when their limbs are removed. It is self-evident that equality of people is not performative.
Yeah... it's hard to know what exactly they get up to in that world, but the floor put under their capabilities by what has been publicly exposed doesn't exactly support the "nah, it's all too hard and nobody would ever bother" argument at all. Even if we assume without real reason to do so that we've heard the most impressive stuff from them, but it's just a small sampling of the number of times they've used it, if your adversary is a state-level actor, you should assume the very, very worst. If you're wrong, it won't be by much.

Read Google's Project Zero blog, too: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ We don't know that these exploits in particular are used, but consider that Project Zero is the moral equivalent of a hobby for Google. What would it look like to have hundreds of people at that rough skill level, training each other, practicing all the time, and building software support for each other?

The capabilities of attackers are not bounded by your imagination.
> someone is going to try uplifting animals (or raw creation of new beings) and we'll need a rigorous threshold for the properties an intelligence must have for personhood

The same question can be posed right now for humans that fell below the threshold due to brain damage or other conditions and display less self-awareness than extant, non-uplifted animals. Yet these humans in vegetative state do have personhood rights, they are not the property of someone else, it's illegal to steal their body parts, can't be terminated, etc. whereas the same cannot be said of many animals.

We currently don't have a threshold, not even a fuzzy one, it's completely arbitrary and based on being human or not. De-extinction of Neanderthal could also cause the same conundrum.
It's almost certainly Google, since they've historically ran their data centers hotter than most [0]. Cooling efficiency increases with a higher delta-T to the working fluid, and Google uses a gigawatt or two continuously [1]. From PUE numbers that's hundreds of MW spent on cooling, so making it more efficient is quite worth it.

[0] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/google-data-center-goal-100p...
Yeah the tiered pricing makes Azure super complex. Azure App Services is crazy. The problem there is there are technical differences too, so it's very hard to sort out what you need. Storage is more complex too. While AWS has lots of challenges from those 700 teams, each services is simpler.
I've looked into this in the past. I would suggest using the full GDPR-style takeout-all-my-data request from:

https://www.netflix.com/account/getmyinfo

As one would expect, Netflix's tracking provides quite a bit more detail.
Whereas "NetflixViewingHistory.csv" only provides the title and a date, the "ViewingActivity.csv" from the takeout includes:

- Start timestamp with resolution down to the minute
- Watching duration with resolution down to the second
- The reason you watched it (e.g auto play or not)
- If the thing was one of those autoplaying trailers, as opposed to a real video
- What Netflix client type you used (e.g browser vs smart TV vs phone)
- At what timestamp you stopped watching

I've used it to summarize the series I was watching from week-to-week and how much time I sank into each show.
Apple Plans to Slow Hiring and Spending for Some Teams Next Year
I know this is a popular opinion among certain bloggers, but this presumes that a significant faction of humanity takes these blogs you read as seriously as you do.
Dark times ahead.

If you haven’t already made it big with crypto or startups, you are toast and will be trapped in the permanent UBI underclass. That assumes that there will be a UBI at all.
Combined with inflation this will mean that only those with $5 million or more in the bank will live what still count as middle class lifestyles. Those with less money will be forced into poverty. Many will adopt petty crime for survival.

I predict mass unrest, beginning in the global south and spreading to the global north. The anti-racist protests of 2020, the farmer protests in India and Europe, and the Sri Lankan anti-corruption protests all show how this will play out. The state may be forced to accept the demands of the protesters.

Only an AI security system could let the state win, again showing how very important the AI advantage is.

The resulting political turmoil may be exploitable for AI alignment purposes. Those of us who are concerned with AI alignment and automation must ally with whichever political faction wins the fight.

That will be our last chance to implement UBI, make AI alignment mandatory and buy a few more decades for humanity.

I hate AI so much, man.
Did you try loading https://www.digitalocean.com/blog yourself and measure it? I just did, and saw it pulled down 4.28MB worth of stuff, which is way too high for a blog, but nowhere close to 169MB. Maybe there was a bug and they fixed it quickly?
This is an issue with the site's RSS feed, not Feedly. Feedly has an option to open any individual feeds posts in an in-app browser directly (and if you're on iOS, even enable Reader mode!) to combat this, so you don't need to switch apps!
Business idea: Start selling air conditioners in Europe/UK.
Good example. Eucalyptus is bad

Pinus is worse
I’m currently watching a 6-part series documentary on a group of people who spent years of their lives attempting to complete Mario 64 in as few presses of the A button (which is the jump button, probably the most important action in the game) as possible. It’s around 4 hours long (so far), made by a single person and goes extremely in-depth not only on the timeline that tricks were discovered, but also on the game’s mechanics and how the absurd glitches used by the runners work under the hood.

To say productions like these aren’t of substance is just ignorant at best.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220615221622/https://www.rhizo...
I think it's all Linux these days.
In itself, I don't have a problem with having sponsors.

But far too often, it feels like the person made the video just for the money, instead of because it's something their viewers would actually like to see.

Colin Furze has done remarkably little of this, but some of my other channels have entire videos that were obviously just to be a commercial, and the content is almost unlike the other channel content. Seeing one of those feels like they've wasted my time for their own profit, and that feels bad. And you often can't tell if it's going to be a whole video like that, or just an up-front sponsor message.
Interestingly, at my company it's specifically _discouraged_ to look at people's resumes before the interview to avoid any potential bias.
> we tend to grow neurons to like the taste of things that increase dopaminergic neurotransmission in the frontal cortex, even if our first taste experience of them is downright awful.

High caffeine intake (more represented in medium roast) increases dopamine response in the first place. Notwithstanding that a jolt doesn't make one incapable of judging taste. I've experienced different roasts consistently over different periods of time and ultimately favor dark (done right) all things remaining equal.

You can stop projecting now.
We don’t really have any evidence for any of the solutions to the Fermi paradox, that’s what makes it a paradox.

Personally the filter being ahead of us seems the most likely answer, but you’re right that it could be just about anything. The odds that we are the only civilization to make it to the “computer age” just seems far too unlikely. 1 in a trillion is not where I’m putting my money.
The beauty of a big project like is you get the engineering resources to lake sure the datacenter is working right.

The hyper scale people take this to the next degree.
Ah yes, the obligatory "we don't have a responsibility, that's just a BP invention from the 90s". It's always the evil bigcorps, of course.

I don't know whether BP falsified the evidence here, but everything kinda points towards that it really is the consumers that drive demand.

> generally it's a fools errand trying to scientifically balance your "carbon footprint"

How would you, then, unscientifically solve climate change if we aren't supposed to take individual action to bring our own footprint to net zero, encourage others to do the same, and bring about societal change using market pressure and all that?

> If it makes you feel good to plant trees do it! Trees are awesome.

But if the "you" in this sentence is being made to feel good for the wrong reasons, isn't that dishonest? Shouldn't we be looking at what is actually effective use of your money, and not let people fall for feel-good tree planting only for them to find out ten years down the line that their hard-earned money went into /dev/null and they should have done (and could have been told about) something like meat reduction or solar panels instead?
> I already know that the answer is NO

You don't know this and neither do I. Does Apple give heads of state special watches or special support?
That's not what causes people to get sick in the winter. Warnings about AC use is car are nonsense. Why would you believe that?
Hard drive access LED, optical disk servo, and the piezoelectric discharge due to thermal rise/fall of the GPU.

I'm only half joking.
Sometimes people die, depending on what you work on.
You are all individuals!
the problem is really that the email address is used as a credential ID, a contact point for marketing and an index into billing or commerce systems. If you have an email service that can generate arbitrary emails, use that, otherwise, get into the habit of ruthlessly unsubscribing to anything that isnt what you want to see. Over time itll radically cut down the volume.
In a world where human minds can be uploaded, I could see myself being a proud neo-reactionary.

Death to the AI replicant "immortals!" They have traded their very souls for eternity as formless demons and will come to enslave the humanity they will come to no longer feel connected to!
It wouldn't take much shielding at all for this specific one... you could line a case with a faraday mesh material which would probably me enough for most similar attacks.

That said, for most of these kinds of things, you have to get a malicious payload on such a system. The stuxnet approach is one way, if you have specific targets. Aside from that, you pretty much need phyxical access and be able to load a malicious software. At that point, you may as well stick a small usb bluetooth/wireless dongle, depending on the situation... assuming it's a standard desktop, there's a good chance of unused USB 2 header you could piggy back on.

At that point, an actual faraday cage or mesh on the room in question would be the next practical vector. Some secure buildings are up to 6' thick walls, no communications out except through known devices on wired ports with software checking in place (seen this in finance).
You guys still have a democracy and only have to follow your own country's laws. Don't just give that power away to some faceless megacorp just because you just happen to dislike a couple laws.
As individual business getting your labour for cheapest possible price makes absolute sense.

As larger picture, rising the minimum wage might not be worse thing as almost all of it will go to consumption thus increased demand. Business in developed countries make more money because their consumers can pay more.
check out r/progresspics, amazing how different people look after weight loss.
8kun is more like a dank, smelly basement than an open air market.
Funny seeing this pop-up on my #hacker-news slack channel that periodically polls for the top stories :)

I actually prefer the ability to push things like the top stories of the day to me through either Slack on email rather than having the temptation to constantly refresh an RSS feed app. An added bonus is that I frequently add some custom logic to curate the feed to my liking (based on the feed).
> not attempt to make them equal by government-enforced handicapping

Are you against the ADA? The ADA forces companies to accommodate the disabled at a cost.
You're also more likely to be a victim of rape in your own home than you are to be injured by a table saw.

Should table saws include any safety mechanisms?
This is the classic (and flawed) "it's gotta be perfect otherwise it's useless" argument that you see in other AI fields, such as self-driving.

You don't have to be anywhere near perfect to cause tremendous disruption. "Polyester" grade artwork will be perfectly acceptable for a lot of use cases.

Just like how self-driving will decimate the trucking workforce, all while people continue to screech about how "it can't handle snow therefore it's useless".
Lol, what? Who told you this?

Are you saying that every single KG of dried wood will have the exact same number of carbon molecules?
That's good to know, thank you. To help with the first part of my comment, upon which local system did you develop that product (and, I guess implied in that question is: was it just you, or were there other developers with their own workstation setups)?
> On top of that, since IQ tests exist, you don't need a bad proxy to test IQ.

Yes you do. Because administering an IQ test is forbidden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
When a gang member speaks out against unethical activity to another gang member, they get weeded out quick. I’ve been told by former officers that they had to either defend their colleagues criminal activity, incriminate themselves, or lose their job. It’s inevitable that a gang of that size with 0 oversight will quickly become rotten to the core. In my town, they’re essentially a government sponsored criminal organization.
I do believe AI alignment and safety is a huge concern, and unfortunately thinks are moving so fast there is not enough time for society to adapt.

However, if we can safeguard that I am very optimistic about what a sufficiently advanced AI (we don't even need AGI) can do to help with climate change, medical advances, etc. Costs of goods will plummet as things become more abundant.

The question is which path are we on, the utopia or dystopia, or somewhere in between?
Haha. Cheers!
Yea, but the flipside (patreon) is really, really, really nice and a huge step up from the ad-ridden public ones and work with whatever podcast player you like. Nearly all my favorite podcasts on the platform release half their content for free. I just wish they allowed mixed media in the feed.
Amazing how the Cambrian Explosion can be shoehorned into that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
Believe in creationism not the 10k years bit

Title has been editorialized

edit: It's a very simple hacker news rule people. Submit the original <title> or article headline. The 10k bit is NOT present there. Regardless of the question.
Only if your code is intended to be portable. If you know the signedness of time_t in your implementation, there's no harm in assuming it.
Haven't found the time to blog recently. Free time is scarce with family. Haven't had a reason/desire to prioritize blogging - but if you enjoy it, go for it!
Did he have the Euclid's Geometry books?
My surprise is more that “40% believing that God created them”. Religions…one of the biggest troubles of the world, and 4 on 10 Americans believe that God “”created”” them.
What is a man anyway?
One of my least favorite features of VLC (tied with network stream interruptions killing the playback rather than reconnecting) is that VLC guesses your audio hardware's sampling rate itself (rather than using the hardware's self-reported rate), and resamples even audio-only files that match your hardware's self-reported rate. And every time you seek in a file, VLC's guess of the hardware sampling rate is thrown off, causing VLC to start pitch-shifting the sound just enough (usually just barely, but sometimes up to 1 semitone) for you to notice and start doubting your sanity, if the audio pitch actually changed or if you're hallucinating things. There's a long-running bug report at https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/14287.

I think PipeWire does something similar to synchronize multiple audio devices without a shared word clock, but I haven't tested how much its rate analyzer drifts when starting/stopping playback or in steady state.
I'll see what I can do, but HONESTLY the number input has issues. I should write an article about it.

I get what you are saying. However sometimes you have to circumvent the limitations of the browser to get it to do what you want it to. Or you have to write a ridiculous amount of code to compensate for that problem. It still accepts number values. I made a decision based on the problems I was having, I can revisit it and rectify it IF ITS POSSIBLE while maintaining existing functionality.
Doesn’t sound like a healthy environment if doing things besides working is ever something to be feared. If that’s the case, blogging specifically doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Hi, I'm the author of this post. We prefer to choose tools for a function by daily users than choose an all-in-one suite. One reason is our team is small, so this way is affordable, also we trust the best tool for a function is 10x better than the one of the all-in-one suite. Second, integrating those tools is not a hard thing.
Authorization Library for Elixir
I think the article is overly sensationalist. But I think the gist is totally realistic. For example, there's a huge chunk of design work that's not super critical and often badly done. I can imagine a simple, AI-assited tool that creates posters, simple websites or flyers in the companies style. But it won't replace graphics designers yet and won't be for some time. I think we are not yet completely ready to create even a simple tool, there are still engineering-challenges to overcome (I am not sure how the technical interface to the ML-would look like, I can't imagine text is enough), but I think we might be very close to have at least something resembling a product.

I know a thing or two about machine learning...and one thing I've learned is that it's very hard to predict the future, even the immediate future. Some problems turn out to be surprisingly easy, but other we just can't solve yet, even super basic things like learning multiple tasks in a sequential but unknown manner without forgetting stuff. I find it hard to predict what ML will look like in three years, except that dalle-3 will be much better. If we have a breakthrough on one of those fundamental problems where we struggle with the basics, then we will open new possibilities quite quickly I think. But it als might be that they require new approaches that will take years or decades to develop.
GOV.UK found that type=number actually hurts accessibility and is riddled with usability problems:

https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...
In a day of large green candles, the combined market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has surpassed $1 trillion.
This was called PGP and it was cool for awhile