skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which VPNs? Nord or Azure Express route?
If that was the case, wouldn’t we still have Concorde or something similar?
The SEC recently went on a four year hiatus. They're just now catching up.
> I walk into a library or a bookstore sometimes and see how many of these things are on display, and I feel that same feeling, that there’s so much content you could drown in it all. It makes that howling feeling more intense, as my own contributions to the culture are rendered insignificant.

This is the singularity. The typical definition of the singularity involves "unpredictability," but that is just a symptom. The cause of the singularity is AIs generating new information faster than we can consume or act on it.

Of course in art there is no point in exceeding the rate of human consumption; as others have pointed out here we face a future in which AI continuously generates art tailored to each individual. As a result, this doesn't quite rise to the level of "unpredictability" envisioned by singulatarians.

All fields will eventually face the same reckoning as this author has spelled out for art, and some (such as circuit or AI design) will introduce positive feedback loops that will not only put the relevant engineers out of work, but also cause the field to advance so rapidly that we humans will have no chance of catching up, let alone predicting what the AIs will develop next.
> ~$1000/week

Does that include car-related expenses? If not, what did they amount to?
The car knows how intense the sun is. It has sensors to measure that. Coupled with some decent low emissive tint it's really not hard for it to handle such an idea.

I live in Texas. I assure you I live in an area with high heat and intense sun. My cars have glass roofs. My cars seem to handle it fine.
What Americans call bologna, it isn't what Italians call bologna or mortadella.

Whatever the hell is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage vs the real deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortadella

But to be honest I always thought mortadella was overrated. I'm more of a salame kind of guy.
Absolutely not the point, don't be dense.

Public corporations do things in their own interests. USA legal environment guarantees that. Google has been a decent actor in the past, but have slid into monopolizing ad sales and into surveillance capitalism.

Google will use a Chrome market dominance to warp standards for their own purposes. You personally may or may not like the warping or the results.
No. Federal government accounts debt on accrual basis. The loans were recorded as 0. This action records an immediate deficit.
It's not remotely hypocritical.

He lives in a quiet neighbourhood and he likely moved there for that reason.

The community wants to keep it that way.

It's (almost) entirely none of your/my/our business otherwise.

The anti-NIMBYism issue is an irrational hysteria ... pushing everyone to think that the moment an area becomes popular, it must be turned into New York or Hong Kong.

And FYI are those places affordable?

There's tons of land in the US, it's time for stupid cities to organize themselves and not have antiquated/disjoint transport systems i.e. Caltrain/Bart.

If the 'Valley' were 'intelligent' they'd have a train from Santa Rosa to Morgan Hill in 1 hour.

What is 'very hypocritical' is that in Atherton they apparently refused the infrastructure changes necessary to electrify the CalTrain.

Now that - is terrible.

I'd imagine this would mean a modicum of change / trouble, for quite an important common/civic benefit.

Andreesen should be pushing for that electrification change, and probably other forms of change, and finally not be ALL CAPS in emails like a giant turkey. I mean, it evokes images of an angry giant bald man smashing his fists on the table. I mean, Marc, chill. Just make your point ...
The people who buy art are usually not artists and have almost nothing in common with artists.
Quick search says we're #27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Thinking of the underlying physics, I think all this means that their filters do funky things to the polarisation of the light to get cancellations, and since the detector isn't made to measure polarisation the process isn't invertible.
TO make using SSH more ergonomic, use it with a terminal that integrates with it, such as kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/ssh/

That makes using SSH ControlMaster automatic, scoped to the lifetime of the terminal session, and allows for easy automatic syncing of local shell and editor rc files to the remote host, as well as easy opening of remote files in the local editor and can even clone shell sessions into new terminal windows.
I remember Connection Machines supposedly had an array (well, hypercube) of “one bit processors”. I never knew what that meant. Is this similar?
Well, to speculate: presumably some portion of taxes goes to remediation for wildfires and other weather events, and general cost of living will be higher due to power grid failures in heat, and increased pressure on some crops. People may also use air conditioning more to cope with the weather, and it will be working harder to maintain a livable temperature.
Seems like they could blackmail the perp for 30-100% instead, or get it on it 50/50.
pacific palisades
> that's blatant user hostile elitism

A small amount of elitism is okay. For example, the Arch Wiki requires users to run a simple command before it allows them to create an account:

pacman -V|base32|head -1

That command more or less proves the user has successfully installed Arch Linux. People who can't provide that output probably shouldn't be editing the wiki. I realize it's nowhere near a perfect proof but it's probably fine for the wiki's purposes.
That would be true if they were actually using it to indicate support for police. But they're not. You'll only find it next to MAGA and expletive-laden flags.
How do you know if you did a good job if you leave after a few months? Did you leave a beautiful work of art, a bug-ridden unmaintainable mess for others to clean up, or anything in-between?

A large part of experience is doing things that seemed like good and reasonable idea at the time, and then discovering that it actually wasn't. And how do you know what are and aren't good ideas? By sticking around and seeing what does and doesn't work.
Completely true. You have to understand the economics behind this to see why their claim is hyperbole at best and flat out misleading at worst. The fundamentals of scalable vector search is that you are dealing with potentially huge dimensionality and huge datasets, that means that memory consumption will be huge even for a modest (by today's standards) datasets. This problem has garnered lots of research attention, so making such a bold claim makes you think what Pinecone has under the hood that others don't.

Pinecone is VC backed and they have taken in to the tune of $50M in funding. They have to claim the "first" in solving these challenging technical problem, otherwise they'd have to really explain that their "secret source" is not really ground-breaking but relying on a series of open-source components under the hood. VCs wouldn't want to be backing yet another donkey in the derby. The truth is that solutions like FAISS, ScaNN, Weaviate, Quadrant, ANNOY and co. are working on this problem on a much more fundamental level. Pinecone and Google vertex matching AI are working on it on a application level. If Pinecones's solution is truly groundbreaking, they'd publish it in a more scientifically rigorous way. So these claims are to be taken with a grain of salt for what they are: developer evangelism/marketing speak.
It’s time to build! Except … housing which can harm my property value
Interesting take. In British history the first positive step towards freedom that I note was the creation of law courts. These gave surfs some power over their lords and provided some level of fairness rather than everything being about favour.

The US does seem to lag the UK and Europe in terms of employment law in some cases (no formal employment contracts for most employees, can be fired without notice, little statutory holiday, maternity or paternity leave entitlement, etc. etc.)

It has been argued that the union movement — while susceptible to corruption — was a hugely positive force in economic and political terms for American workers. Unfortunately thatcher and Reagan saw this as such a threat that they attempted to destroy their own manufacturing base in order to smash the unions.
So, which is cheaper:

1) Capturing CO2 from the air and making fuel from it, or

2) Capturing CO2 from the air, sequestering it, and using it to offset the CO2 produced by using fuels derived from petroleum.

If 2 is cheaper than 1 then this process is useless anytime soon.
> Walking isn't hard for most people; in fact, for most people, walking is among the most pleasant human activities.

But walking is hard for some people, and I don't get why Segways didn't take off as mobility aids. Especially since the Segway technology came from a power wheelchair that was able to stand and climb stairs (!) Yet even there, I don't know any paras or quads who use them, or anything like them.

Hoverboards require balance, e-bikes are hard to mount, neither can be used (politely) indoors. My wheelchair has e-bike-like wheels, which helps amazingly, but I can still walk a bit, so I'd like some kind of compromise. Where's the innovation? It's 2022 and I want my powered exoskeleton, damnit!
Anyone in the know care to summarize what this is more specifically, for those of us not eager to read 97 pages of legalese?
EVgo, ConEd, Electrify America reimagine the gas station
Fair enough! In this case, the OS analogy sort of makes sense.
> Houses in Atherton, supposed home of very expensive homes, seem to sell for around $10M per acre of lot. (Yes, Atherton is so fancy that it uses different units in Zillow!). That’s about $230 per sq ft of land.

It should be noted that the zoning rules in Atherton require a minimum lot size of 1 Acre per home. Thinking of it in terms of square feet lets you compare it to nearby towns somewhat, but misses that building say two houses per acre (1/2 acre lots) is illegal there.
No, non-Atherton residents can 'f-off' with whatever their opinions are, unless it materially affects the community at large.

The residents can have whatever kind of municipality they want. If they want to keep it quiet and not be Manhatten, it's their prerogative.

Now - blocking the electrification of Caltrain - that - is actual NIMBYISM, because they're blocking needed infrastructure changes that don't likely hugely affect them.

Those kinds of actions make it impossible to have High Speed Trains etc. etc..

But otherwise, there's plenty of land, people can go elsewhere, and tell Google they need to open an office in Morgan Hill because nobody can get to GHQ without spending 1/2 their salary just to survive.
> It's a Virtual Private Network connection, you create a Virtual (not physical) Private Network (between your device and another device/server) there's no real difference between a site-to-site VPN and a client-access VPN other than if the devices at each end route more than just the partner traffic over the private network.

The difference is one end is not a network but an endpoint part of a network. Multiple client access VPNs can be part of the same subnet.

> If I connect a "site-to-site VPN" between my computer and your computer, if I add a route to send all traffic for a particular network to your computer as the next hop, that makes it "client-access" for that particular network, if I add a default route it then sends any internet request I make to your device as the next hop.

In site-to-site VPN, your computer would need to route a separate site network as would the remote end. With client access only the remote end routes a sparate network. Windows for example cannot be used (unless server versions) to provide site-to-site connectivity because it does not route between NICs. Your tunnel IP is used for connectivity with client access but with site-to-site the remote end expects you to adverise a route or have a separate config for a static route back to some other network on your end which is what it will route (won't work otherwise). Hope that is more clear. You can turn your nix box to a s2s vpn terminator but in every VPN type this requires different config which is why the different terms exist.
You can't carry a classic Segway up stairs. It is a balancing wheelchair technology that was turned into a consumer product without considering the usability flaws.
Well, ~^Z and then figure it out.
Moreover, why do you imagine that the VPN is not being operated by the NSA? THere are really a few different kinds of VPN operators: intelligence services, organized criminals, and legit businesses. You have no way of determining which is which.
Can we get a few more paragraphs about you? You sound interesting, obviously you like to talk about yourself, got another anecdote?
I've seen a couple of mall cops on them, and Steve Wozniak was riding one at a party I was at.

That's it. I don't think I've seen any other Segways in use in real life.
These sort of complex 2D environments are a nightmare to work with in adventure games, since you have to manually detail where the player character can go, how the character should grow/shrink to simulate perspective, etc.

I checked a video of Milkmaid of the Milky Way (2017) and sure enough, the environments are 3D with heavy stylization. Characters are animated in 2D but positioned and rendered as billboards or similar. 3D environments are much simpler to work with, using an off-the-shelf engine.

There is a kind of adventure game you can easily make with static 2D graphics: graphical text adventures. Not particularly exciting, but it'll work. For more sophisticated games, you can probably get away with AI generation for stuff like character portraits.
Has it even been about the "Art"? A Picasso painting looks like something a group of toddlers scrambled together until you know it's Picasso. Emma Chamberlain could sell T-shirts to her fans tomorrow that's no better than what you'd find at local no-name store. Do you think people are buying them because it's fashionable?

It's always been about the artist. And I don't see that changing.

This does have the potential to affect a graphic designer at a startup because they are, in some sense, more fungible. And even that's a big "maybe" to me at this point. At least, in the short team, I see them using the new wave for AI generators as a co-pilot rather than an auto-pilot.
My wife has been making something very similar - I didn't know it had a name. Goes well on all kinds of things, but it's a must on fish tacos.
Invisible Finger – EMI attack on touchscreen-based electronic devices
Poor people can't learn.

Sorry man.

Also, corporations aren't incentivized to learn either.
There are alternatives these days:

* https://www.cgal.org/

* https://www.libfive.com/
New Jersey takes and stores blood samples from every newborn for decades
New Jersey takes and stores for decades, blood samples from every new born and then police uses them
And IBM and RedHat both poured literally billions into it to make it work at the level it does today, which underscores the point. And there have been billions more poured in from a lot of other corporate groups.
Comparing global fuel consumption with global electricity production is a good approach. It’s clearly substantial, but doable, especially since fuel production can utilize “unreliable” renewables (make gas when the sun shines).
Thing is, if you ping experts in the privacy field (like Mike Bazzell, the former FBI OSINT guy who billionaires and celebs hire to keep their personal info off the internet), they will all say the VPNs are a very important tool to create a layer of privacy between you and the site you are visiting and also a good tool to prevent said sites from easily profiling you. No, they are not a panacea -- much like the security universe, the privacy universe requires lots of other active and passive behavioral and technological changes to properly lock things down to whatever standard you require for your threat model. But they are very much an important tool. For a small subset of people it's literally a tool that protects their life.

So yeah, it's a kinda a big deal if it leaks. (Which is why most privacy experts, were you to tell them you were sufficiently paranoid, would have you fire up a pfSense and link it permanently to a VPN service and then run a separate brand of VPN software on whatever device, so that you have two layers going through two companies.)
Either dodge chargers in your area don't have the loud exhausts that they do here in California, or you have a problem of some sort. Loud noises bounce off the road, off buildings. Basically the reason you can hear someone talking yell even if they are facing away from you.
Doubtful, especially if you are referring to sea level rise, since those fanciful predictions have already started to drop. And most of Florida is actually far enough above sea level that only costal areas might be affected.

Also, it’s pretty wildly understood that areas closer to the equator will tend to have less climate variation than northern and more southern climates.

That leaves the “old hurricanes will get worse” bullet point…except so far…they haven’t.
The app requirement is silly, not the law.
I wouldn’t call Swift (or Kotlin) antiquated. I’m sure it’s easier to hire JavaScript developers to hack on React Native because the talent pool is larger, but I’d wager your app quality will suffer. Depending on the app, sometimes a first class user experience just isn’t a high priority, in which case native-focused developers aren’t going to be attracted to working on it.
You’ll definitely need to nap the walkable areas and even worse split the image into layers so you can walk behind/between things.
"Data is leaving my iPad and not traveling through the VPN tunnel."

It is is interesting how the iPad purchaser refers to "my iPad". He owns the computer. But how much control does he have over it. He runs an OS controlled by a HW manufacturer turned trillion dollar tracking and data collection company. (Apple computers are extremely chatty on any network and phone home 24/7. Apple is fervent about its need to collect and store data from purchasers.^1) As such, he cannot find the problem in the iOS source code, remove the phone home "features", re-compile and reinstall it. The best he can do is complain to the internet.

I have owned various Apple computers over the years, including an iPad. However I never used any Apple computer with an Apple OS for internet use.^1 I only connect them to the LAN. I just think there are better OS, namely ones I can edit, to use for internet-facing computers. For internet usage, I like OS where I can control the routing table. Since I started keeping these computers running "consumer OS" off the internet in the 2000s, the internet has become a vector for pervasive surveillance. I treat computers running Windows the same way. No direct internet access.

In the 1990s/2000s I can recall the "experts" advising against leaving computers connected to the internet when not in use. Today, "tech" companies try to compel people to leave their computers connected 24/7. Not to mention "experts" who believe this is justified because "automatic updates". Granting 24h remote access to unknown people to install software on computers that do not belong to them. Some people call this a "botnet". I do not care for broken software that continually needs fixing. But as the author alludes to when he quotes Steve Gibson, iOS is never broken, it just has not been fixed yet.

1. Today's Apple computers require some connection in the beginning to "sign-up", "register", download "approved" software, etc.

2. Apple computers owned by employers excluded. Also excluded are older Apple computers on which I ran NetBSD.
My Subaru doesn't have any buttons to go to preset radio stations. I can use the steering wheel buttons to go one by one till I get to the right one but it's an awful experience. It takes a second just to switch one time. Several seconds just to get to something that's instantaneous in cases that have buttons.
Kind of. The interior of car from 15 years ago with mostly buttons and a tiny screen is much cheaper than a Tesla with a massive screen and powerful computer.

Of course if you're going to have a massive screen and powerful computer anyways (because people want that), yes, you can save in not having buttons in addition to the massive screen.

But the massive screen is not cheaper than old school cars.
Well, walking is hard for many people of course, but for most of them, mounting and dismounting a Segway would seem to be almost as hard.
Operating System has a precise technical definition, but it is sometimes used as an analogy in context.

Another example I noticed: Railway.app, a startup in the infrastructure deployment platform/management space, said in a recent job posting [1]

> Our goal is to make developers orders of magnitude more efficient by becoming the operating system for modern development.

[1] https://railway.app/careers/developer-relations
So that's a no.

From [1]:

> Fear of Decisions

> Decisions are the first step to failure, and nobody wants to fail. But decisions must be made. How does this dichotomy resolve itself? Meetings. Endless meetings and emails, planning documents, pre-planning documents, post-planning documents, meeting documents, and endless discussion of all the things by all the people all the time. The thinking goes, if everyone is involved in the decision-making process, then when something inevitably goes wrong, there’s no individual person to blame! Problem solved.

Also from [1]:

> Crowdthinking

> If you are in a group of Japanese people and ask a question, you will sometimes witness the following sequence of events:
>
> Everybody looks around at other people
> One person begins to suggest something slightly
> Slight or emphatic agreement in a domino-effect across the group
>
> The need to protect social harmony is so deeply ingrained in society that sometimes even in friendly events this will happen, not just at work. This often works well for social questions, but anything work-related will probably best be asked 1:1.

From [2]:

> “It’s not only about the etiquette,” says Yuko Morimoto, a consultant with Japan Intercultural Consulting, a Japan-focused firm that helps foreign companies work effectively with each other. What’s really important is understanding the different styles of communication that different cultures have. Like American’s reputation for being direct. And the Japanese’ predilection for what Morimoto says is just the opposite. The Japanese, say Morimoto, often say no to saying no.

> “They feel hesitant to say I don’t like your product,” Morimoto says. “So they say something like, ‘Oh that’s a good idea. Let us think about it.'”

> “Yes” in Japan doesn’t mean the same thing as “yes” in English. Instead, notes Morimoto, it could mean, “We just met, and I don’t think it’s polite for me to say no right away.”

> “Or they say, ‘Yes, yes.’ But yes means, ‘Yes, I’m hearing you.’ It doesn’t necessarily mean, ‘Yes, I like it,’” she says. “It can be yes-yes, or it can an iffy-yes, or it can be a no-yes.”

> To decipher what’s really being said, you need more information, Morimoto says. Was another meeting scheduled? Was a price agreed on? Was a contract signed? The Japanese, she notes, are more risk-averse than Americans. They want consensus. So you can expect that a Japanese company will take its time making decisions and making sure everyone is on board with them.

Finally, because I think I've helped you enough, every Thursday this[3] Reddit sub publishes a complaint thread. You can learn an awful lot about Japanese work culture from it, and from the regular posts about strange work behaviour, without ever having to leave your home.

[1] https://xevix.medium.com/gaijin-engineer-in-tokyo-aaa9be8919...

[2] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/08/11/world/etiquette-and-r...

[3] https://teddit.net/r/japanlife/