skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing can “grow” with this kind of inflation and federal spending.

Remember when you have 1T company you don’t think like a typical employee.
The use of sniffer dogs in schools and airports.
The way I see things, it all starts from the interests of the participants. Stable diffusion got their publicity from opening their model, but their interests are squeezing a maximal profit from it. And then there is Dall-E and midjourney, with similar incentives.

Then there are narratives. They are weaved so that the suggested actions and solutions will somehow fit the interests of the participants. The narrative can be CSAM, it can be copyright of artists and owners of the training set, the narrative can be disinformation. The narrative doesn't care that current laws do not prohibit anything and that it's all legal. The narrative justifies actions the participants wanted to do because of their interests.

And finally there are actions. They can push legislations, but that's not the only tool (and yes it's slow). Companies can always comply and cooperate, especially when their interests align. Google itself is a participant, with Imagen. They can create a restrictive policy and kick things off their search engine, because that is in their interests too, not because of a narrative or legislation. Just like they profited in YouTube for every piracy site suppressed.

The interests of every single company is stacked against individuals running this at home for free. There are enough narratives to be weaved to justify actions which would stop that.

For decades, and in many countries even today, just getting paid to drive someone in your car is illegal, and you need a "taxi license". It doesn't need to make sense. We could end up with required license to use generative AI in 10 years and nobody would bat an eye after decades of propaganda and narratives.
Are you joking? Bluetooth takes 20-30 seconds for me to send a 5-page PDF of a scanned document. As someone in university who had to scan hand-written documents and submit them for exams during COVID, bluetooth was literally useless. I used WhatsApp instead to send it to myself.
The DNS cache in hot-shots is broken. That is why we added the UDP socket options.

https://github.com/brightcove/hot-shots/issues/223
Three hours of study for each hour spent in class is an average estimate of what it takes to absorb even moderately difficult material in courses in sci/tech.

Relevant quote: "Every truth has four corners. As a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three." (Confucius)
Perhaps I'm just... thick, but if a goal is to have someone write, say, 8 pages of thinking and ideas about a topic... I'm not sure there's 'better' ways than to have the person write 8 pages of thinking and ideas about a topic.

If the goal is wrong, perhaps just don't do it, but... "it's on you to show that it's the best way". I don't get it.

If I want to see that a student has writing skills, I would think expecting them to write is somewhat definitional?

Maybe it's on someone else to 'show' a better way to demonstrate writing skills that doesn't involve writing.
You’re assuming much more “cross-polination” than actually happened.

Humans didn’t use to mix geographically (hence different races).

And there’s isolated subgroups that didn’t mix or mixed much less (e.g. Jews in Europe)
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If you're going to up-end hundreds of yers of educational theory and practice, it's on you to be able to show your work. Not all progress is forward.
Why not have the AI produce the five points?

Seems silly to have an AI write an essay and derive the main points itself, except perhaps to differentiate from another AI, but isn’t this what seeds are for?
Thats really impressive students are doing this. These tools are non-trivial to use and it shows great initiative from them. I could see these tools being used proactively as part of a creative writing class or helping people improve their language skills. Top stuff!
Maybe, but the flip side is that I'm wondering how many schools will look at the opposite and try to start using machine learning to grade essays as well.
It's funny because the author's idea was to discredit the notion altogether, so it's relevant because it failed to do that.

The core of Mary's adventures is a false dicotomy: that matter is the only component of physical reality. But processes, structure and energy flow are as real as matter. Actually, at a very small scale, matter seems to be exactly that.

So as usual with all these dualism "enigmas", the only problem is starting from an old perspective that doesn't play well with current knowledge.

Consciousness seems to be a complex physical process seen from inside itself. There's no mistery or toughness in that, except that we can't compare it with anything else.

We can't use the inside and ouside outlooks at the same time. But Wittgenstein already stated that more than a century ago.
More and more devices already have GPS L5 chips which is accurate to a foot

The problem is altitude. I can't get my watch or phone to give me proper altitude anywhere. Within a meter would be amazing forget a foot.

https://barbeau.medium.com/tl-dr-dual-frequency-gnss-on-andr...

https://barbeau.medium.com/crowdsourcing-gnss-capabilities-o...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXtRCoEnnFNWj6_oFlVW...
VRBO existed before Airbnb, and I’m sure it will exist for quite a while longer. The concept isn’t the issue.
I had one of those!

Very cool piece of kit for its time.
You currently get 239 apps with the setapp bundle, I don't think there's anything special about that relationship.
In the 90’s there was a magazine article about Bill Gates. He interviewed some kids to hear what they want from computers. Doing their homework was the top answer.

I remember thinking: yeah right, that will take many decades. I guess 2-3 decades was enough!
> handing out DNA and fingerprint kits

That the state is neither mandating nor collecting. Seems a fairly rights-compatible way of doing it. (Although I'd also question if its really worth doing overall)
>[...] all of them will lose their life.

Basically. That's the third world in essence.

"It's only me, no one will know, lol" multiplied by millions through a couple generations; then it becomes "Why don't we have good institutions?", "How come we lack basic services like clean water and trash removal?", "Why is there so much corruption in here?", and so on ...
The world used to be made of user-serviceable lego bricks. Parts of it could be yours to own. You could take them apart and put them back together any way you wanted them. New technology meant new bricks to add to your collection; new ways for people to impose their will on the world, entire new categories of things you could shape from your imagination.

The future used to be full of possibility. We would explore the universe! We would cure disease and push back death! We would automate away drudgery and lead lives of abundance free to create!

The world is now made of black boxes. Parts of it can be yours to rent. You can arrange them in precisely the manner the designer specified, and sit back on your couch and pay in some fashion to keep looking at the pretty result for as long as the owner is willing to accept your payments. New technology means more different pretty things you can rent and put in front of your couch.

Lego itself has gone in this direction: more and more large carefully moulded parts that can only be put together one way, for one specific design or theme. Once the design on the box is assembled you can place it on the shelf to admire from your couch. "Lego is great for encouraging creativity", people used to say once. "Lego is good for teaching kids to follow instructions, I guess", someone said to me recently in full seriousness. I imagine that the younger the reader, the less sense the metaphor in the first paragraph of this post will make.

The future is full of doom. We've abandoned space: there is nothing up there worth the cost of getting a canned ape up there and back. We've decided we are tired of experts, and only the rich deserve to be healthy. We've automated the jobs of telling people things they won't want to hear, and people are now drudges for machines when they are not sat on their couch renting chewing-gum for their brains.

...at some point, new tech stopped being exciting. What happened?

...I got old, perhaps. Try asking a child what excites them. Time to put the social media down and find something fun to hack on.
I met Kyle when he taught a OpenFrameworks workshop here in Toronto many years ago. He's not a pretentious guy at all. He seemed very chill and down to earth, and just deeply curious with a highly competent ability to use programming as a tool to investigate questions. I admired his steely patience trying to teach that workshop while a couple folks kept interrupting while they struggled installing the prerequisite tools.
yes, if you see a blog post from google that follows this title pattern and the text says what this does, it means there's an explicit acknowledgement that something serious wasn't working and the leadership decided to course-correct.

TF will continue to have a place at Google for prod work but its application base is going to continue to shrink. I'm just blown away they're rejiggering the distributed model again.
Android TTS upgrades for 64 bit devices
Control persist still creates multiple SSH sessions though?

I have a SSH hook that sends a chat message whenever someone SSHs into a server, and Ansible without mitogen floods these, even with ControlPersist.

If you have it working, can you share your ansible.cfg?
I am familiar with this quote and I while I do not want to assume, I think it was intended as a rebuttal/counter to old codger how ancients also thought writing would kill memory.

Spoiler alert. It did. Very few people attempt to commit things to memory outside some Guiness record competitions. And just in case I did not hit the point, introduction of Google with world encyclopedia at anyone's hand, further exacerbated that trend.

To sum up, I appreciate the sentiment, but in HN I do hope for, nay, I expect pushback in the form that goes beyond weirdly smug quote.

What I am saying is: argue with me. Don't quote me philosophical bumper stickers.
Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
The majority of items mentioned in the article are still in the earliest stages of the standardisation process and haven't even had their specifications finalised yet (see overview at https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work).

Having access to these cool new features so early on is nice, of course, but be ready and willing to deal with possible breaking changes or even future removal.

Here's a recent example of once such breaking API change in the `:has()` selector spec being discussed on the Firefox tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418039#c44. It will be interesting to see how the other browsers that have already released the outdated implementation to production deal with this.
This is going to be great for the economy. Think of all the new trucking jobs and infrastructure projects./s
Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly
Not really in my experience. For example, Marriott's suite brands are often cheaper than their more upscale standard hotel room brands.
> 2. Unit has a kitchen but we were told that it doesn't have pots and pans. Again, a lot of back and forth. We packed a lot of utensils since we have some food allergies and can't eat restaurant food. In the end it turned out to have all the essential kitchen utensils.

I've got a friend who has used AirBnB and has been burned by this every single time. She comes with her daughters and wants to do a bit of cooking buts not a single pot or pan to be found? Once she came and borrowed my pans which wasn't convenient and not really why she was paying AirBnB fees.

After being burned multiple times, she just stays with me. It isn't as convenient as i live further away from where she wants to be, but at least i have a working kitchen.

I don't get why people advertise they have a kitchen, yet remove all the tools needed to use it? Just seems like a real dick move.
I'm not arguing that it's justified here but not elsewhere. Selective enforcement of rules is one of my biggest gripes with companies.

I'm also not arguing that applications shouldn't be able to use contact permissions, obviously some applications will need it. But I do think that if you need X permission, you should be evaluated against everything that the permission grants and not just "we promise not to use Y part of X permission".
I’m not sure you can do the cold calling thing at a public school. Everybody at HBS signed up for that, public school kids did not.
Essays are wonderful. It gives me great joy to write essays today, although they're sometimes called "blog posts" or "rants" or "emails" or "memos".

I hated writing essays in school, because the assignment was always "reproduce a work of writing that adheres to the arbitrary standards of the institution for grading purposes". Great writing can't be graded, as its value is entirely subjective.

As an example, here's an assignment that I might have completed under duress, vs. one that I'd complete voluntarily for fun:

"Explain how the theme of Chaos is expressed in Slaughterhouse Five. Use at least five supporting examples from the text and cite your references MLA style. Four pages minimum."

"Convince your best friend that Slaughterhouse Five is a terrible novel. Cite the text any way you please, ideally by comparing it to a book you think is actually good."

Whatever I produced for the first prompt can be graded by ticking off boxes and looking at my grammar; whatever I produced for the second prompt would need a thorough investigation of my own writing style and a framework of grading that takes into account my own voice as an author.

(To be clear--I don't think that giving my prompt in a modern classroom would immediately inspire students. They are far too burdened by the entire system for a single change to fix their experience. I am merely discussing the difference between "pointless essays" and "essays that authors care about".)
But that doesn't work, because the port number algorithm won't have collisions between different IP addresses.

Sure, they're already combining whole /48 blocks into a single tracking point just like they're combining a /32 IPv4 address, but at least on IPv6 it'll prevent this type of passive monitoring.

On IPv4 the fact there's a NAT gateway with its own hashing table for multiple devices will already defeat this this type of tracking most of the time.
It's been a decade since I did any app development on MacOS. But I do recall having to create a separate dialog box XIB resource for each language, with different sized buttons.
In high school the first few months of having a copy of Encarta to print out essays for homework was fun before the teachers caught on.

If you don't want students to cheat like this maybe build systems that respect their time and engage their brains.
NRA = National Republican Army, an insurgent group inside Russia, working to overthrow Putin.

Not the National Rifle Association, though Americans could be forgiven for thinking that they possess Russian national security information after the arrest of a Russian mole working for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina
Which means both Taiwan and China have no idea what to expect. And if China thinks the US won't defend while Taiwan thinks they will, you've got a war on your hands that wouldn't happen if it was unambiguously clear that the US would defend.
> when Mary sees a red apple for the first time, some optical/neural pathways get excited that weren't before

Not necessarily. By hypothesis, Mary has complete knowledge of all the physical facts. That includes the knowledge of how to cause her optical/neural pathways to be excited in the particular way that corresponds to "seeing red" even without the corresponding external stimuli being present. So she could have caused herself to see red. (We might describe this in more conventional language as Mary imagining seeing red, and her complete knowledge of all physical facts giving her powers of imagination far in excess of those of ordinary humans.)
They sync everything. If you store stuff in collections, requests, or environments, it’s uploaded.

Presuming it’s end-to-end, but don’t know about at rest encryption
Awesome-Terminals
I like this idea. Fwiw I feel I learned / grew a lot more in one technical writing class in college than I did in all my years of English classes. Later I picked ip a book “writing with style” that was also quite helpful.

One issue for me in English was I really was not interested in the kinds of essays the English teachers were interested in having us write, eg coming up with a thesis on plot themes in Shakespeare. Just not my thing and so I couldn’t get anywhere in those classes.
UK Reviews Net Neutrality, Public Response Open Until Jan 2023
>The problem is that GitHub is so endemic

If your project is worth the attention, people will join you wherever you will be.

>and useful for open source project

Embrace, extend...
Does that need to be shown? Seems tautological to me. You learn to write by writing.
It also doesn't work on recent Linux kernels, only on the older versions that didn't get their fixes backported.
good advice to writers from Benjamin Dryer, whose book "Dreyer's English" is full of a lot more of it (and is funny as hell).

"Good writing, I think, ultimately exists between the twin goal posts of as-few-words-as-you-need and as-many-words-as-you-want. I, a natural natterer, lean toward the latterer.

But one must draw the line somewhere. I recommend striking out 'actually' at every opportunity, unless it’s in a discussion of the movie 'Love Actually,' in which case we might want to focus on the title’s confounding commalessness. Similarly, though I would never fault the supreme lyricist Johnny Mercer for the gorgeous 'You’re much too much / And just too very very,' I am on constant alert for 'very,' always looking for the chance to dispose of it. I’d encourage you to do the same."
I was thinking like you until the day I realized that a lot of learning actually implies busywork, like being good at a sport implies a lot of busywork like exercise and nutrition.
I personally cannot wait for container queries to be fully supported. And I’m pleasantly surprised it’s landed in the new version of Safari.

If only for some presentational aspect of an internal design system I’m building, it’s a dream come true.
Or just have a lower fine that increases exponentially every time it occurs. That would make it easier for small companies to compete which would otherwise just have to go bankrupt on the first violation.
I don’t use an IDE and don’t believe an IDE is the right environment for anything other than docs relevant to the work done in the IDE.

It’s just context-sensitive help at that point.
Might also be time that companies stopped taking grades into account when hiring and selecting for internships.
I'm just showing you the work of a talented young artist. No one obviously knows, but there's a lot of museums out there dude. I feel like you assume the museum has to be the MET. Could be a regional textile museum, who knows? My point is she's an artist who's aspiring for something. Why shit all over that?
If you are a minimalist, and are using VS Code, try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... which is a pure text syntax to describe API requests, and execute them right from the editor window. I now have api.http text file in every API-first project I am building and I love it.
> She would also need someone to tell her the common name of the new visual sensation she experienced.

No, she doesn't. She has complete knowledge of all the physical facts. That includes complete knowledge of what patterns of sound waves are used by humans to name visual sensations, since those are physical facts.
I'll go a step further and defend "busywork". Unfortunately we don't live in a perfectly efficient society so being able to learn and execute a formulaic task that might not seem valuable is a necessary skill for most adults. Especially since individual actors may not have all the necessary information to fully assess the value of a task within a larger framework.
Firefox with ublock origin should not cause any issues. The issue might be caused by Firefox's private window implementation which does not allow IndexedDB operations, which is what Restfox uses for storing the data of the application locally.
Doing the dishes seems reasonable, I behave as a guest in an Airbnb.
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Air BnB is terrible it's not worth using any more.

Too many of the hosts are weird, with odd rules and renting out weird spots.
Symptoms of a broken product culture – Part 1
Had the government wanted to give him a harder time than they did, it could've been a significant issue.

FBI agents are trained in interrogation techniques designed to manipulate you into saying contradictory things, for the sole purpose of being able to slap you with a false-statements charge in case they can't get enough on you to convict you of the crime they were actually investigating.
Well and I don't have to do chores at a hotel. AirBnB says pay us $200 for a cleaning fee but make sure to take the sheets off the bed, cut the grass, and paint the walls before you leave.
I'm fine with the repos. After all what am I using? Firefox (I know how to switch to PPA), Thunderbird (with the features that were there 10+ years ago), LibreOffice. Slack is a snap and customers use it. Server side stuff is usually docker. Languages have their own package manager or an asdf plugin. Emacs is apt-get. Is GIMP still an apt? It seems they are going for flatpack https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Not a fan of that too.
I’ve heard it said that the angular size of many astronomical targets is not so small — that the real limit to seeing them is the overall amount of light collected.

But then some basic sense of scale eludes me:
1) isn’t most astronomical stuff insanely far away, to the point that it would have to be cosmically large to take up a medium angular size?
2) the angular “real estate” in the sky is severely limited (4pi solid angle) so wouldn’t this get quickly used up such that we could only see a small collection of such objects? (Andromeda is already taking up a huge patch of the night sky!)

Of course these are quantitative questions that can be settled by calculation, but does anyone have relevant intuition to offer?
I meant that if you get it working in Home Assistant (FOSS) then the path to Amazon, Google, Apple (closed systems) is easier.
If one way or another Starlink starts providing precise positioning data it will turn their satellites into a valid military target in case of a war. E.g. if China invaded Taiwan, they may take down the part of the constellation that passes over China (if they can cheaply mass produce and launch interceptors).
NanoGraf’s Li-ion 18650 battery achieves a new energy-density milestone
Especially the 5-paragraph essay. Doubly so where paragraphs are rigidly-defined as "a collection of five or more sentences". I argued with a lot of teachers over that one.

All it did was teach kids how to write boring simple sentences to meet the implicit "punctuation quota". An equal amount of content compacted into a couple of complex/compound sentences would actually result in marks off.
When the book was written in 1941, he was a graduate student. His attempts to popularize science were many years in the future. Lorenz's work with chaos and powerful enough computers to enable it were still 20 years in the future. Terms such as "the butterfly effect" did not get introduced for another decade.

It was unlikely that he was unfamiliar with chaos. Doubly so given that the first prediction of what we now call chaos theory is that we won't see the periodic behavior that is a fundamental premise of the story.