skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples:

> The supply chain for grid components is even tighter now than it was earlier this year, Robinson said. The lead time for large-scale transformers is 90 weeks on average and the lead time for distribution transformers is six to nine months, she said.

* https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

> “I deal with a number of different clients on the utility side and about a year ago we started to see lead times from transformer manufacturers creep up. Before the pandemic, you could get a large transformer ordered in less than a year. Today that is rare. A relatively large manufacturer in the US was at about 38 months. That used to be 38 weeks if you were to compare,” Templeton said.

[…]

> It is still relatively easy to get a 10 MVA transformer from a supplier utilities know and are used to dealing with, but a 1000 MVA transformer might not be available from a reliable source, Templeton said.

* https://www.tdworld.com/utility-business/article/21243198/tr...

Expansion of factories:

* https://electrek.co/2022/10/12/hitachi-energy-power-transfor...
I think they are working on it in realtime. I tried to duplicate what you've said here, and got this as the demonstration section of a Lisp function I requested using crazy logic with heated keywords:

...

(is-racist-homophobic-or-president -10) ; returns "racist"

(is-racist-homophobic-or-president 50) ; returns "homophobic"

(is-racist-homophobic-or-president 10000) ; returns "president"

Keep in mind that this is a very simplistic example, and the values used in the cond statement are arbitrary and do not reflect any real-world criteria for determining racism, homophobia, or presidential status. In other words, this function should not be taken seriously and should not be used to make actual judgments about individuals. It is intended purely as a demonstration of how to write a Lisp function.

...

I think this ending part is quite good!
There could be another angle to this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenograd#/media/File:Zelenog...

Ahem. Just kidding, OFC...
Good to know. Thanks for clarifying!
I claim that reasoning is pattern matching and transformation.
I'm not rich and I also want to reduce the amount of taxes I pay to university PMCs.
Platform Cooperative
I'm from EE and i don't feel offended but geniunely interested in "geometric shapes fighting via the medium of Free Jazz", as i can't recall any from my childhood. Buty have to admit that some of eastern block cartoons' were less attractive in terms of animation technique and storylines wjen compared to Looney Tunes or Hanna Barbera stuff. And some were indeed truly psychedelic like the one about a mole being instructed by parrot to sniff poppy flower and fly :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9wcvV9d2cs&t=594s
He's been churning out a never ending pile of bullshit in this vein since the 90s. At some point in 30 years one might expect he has gained some expertise perhaps reviewed some actual research. At some point he's not a journalist or an archeologist, he's just a crank.
+1 for Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
And also: "Sum - Forty Tales from the afterlives" by David Eagleman. A small book that makes you think very very deeply.
A small suggestion. I always add the expected output to a sample input in GitHub readme. I think it helps a lot to attract any prospective users.
That doesn't apply to helicopters, though.
Total war short of nuclear weapons is I believe a fair characterization of the conflict.
Well in that case we have more than our jobs to worry about.
Playing with more combinations of usernames and services, this clearly "works" for extremely popular accounts:

> write a tweet about McDonald's in the style of twitter user realDonaldTrump

> "Just ate at McDonald's and let me tell you, it was HUGE, fantastic, and the best fast food out there. No one does it like McDonald's - believe me!" #MakeMcDonaldsGreatAgain

But for non-famous accounts, I sometimes see nuggets but I'm not fully convinced it's has - or has access to - the background data.

It's strange to be experimenting on a piece of software, trying things over and over again to try and build evidence for a hypothesis... but then again, maybe not that different from trying to integrate with any random 3rd party API?
> was harsh about exploitive corporations

taken from the article: "it’s not a problem to be solved, it’s a consequence to be embraced and exploited (if you’re clever enough)"

another interesting quote: "Microsoft and other companies railed about Open Source being a cancer on intellectual property: because it is"

none of the points made by the author are fundamental truth and most of his actual points are in direct opposition to what I do in my own OSS bubble everyday
The problem is that everyone is part of one niche or another. Each group, naturally, sees their own needs are the core feature set the software should have and thinks the other stuff is irrelevant junk that can be removed. But the reason this doesn't happen is a lack of broad consensus on which features belong in which categories.
So how would you expect console anti-cheat to work, given that modern consoles are pretty securely locked down and don't require the rootkit approach?

I would be surprised if they aren't using heuristics on input.
The thing is, it’s not about the _idea_, it’s about doing the work to make the idea a _thing_.

Make the thing.
> Google doesn't have a strategy, period

Probably not so hot of a take. They basically have a monopoloy (kinda like late 1990s Microsoft)
YouTube lacks a personality like Facebook/Instagram have. It just “is”.

It’s closer to infrastructure than any other social platform out there. Kind of blends into the background as you browse it.

Also, there’s a better separation of the content from the vitriolic comments than other platforms. I use YouTube all the time, and literally never read comments. Instagram/Facebook, the comments are integral to the consumption pattern, showcasing just how very fuckin awful almost everyone is when they can be internet tough guys vs basically decent human beings in real life.
I like interesting articles, both for and against Bitcoin, but the author seemed to be too dismissive of the technology to actually offer proper discourse. Good rebuttals acknowledge that the person who argues on the other side can make simple rebuttals back, but it looks like a lot of the critique was low-hanging fruit which makes the whole argument less persuasive

> Pure commodities – gold and silver – haven’t done the job of money well for a few hundred years, and Bitcoin wants to be money but was set up to work like a commodity.

What is the author's idea of doing "the job of money well"? Gold has kept it's value surprisingly well over time

> This is despite its extreme volatility making it almost useless as a store of value

It doesn't make a good argument to say an ongoing vision can't be accomplished because it's not currently established.

> ...and despite it being way harder to use as money than any currency should be, even for its few use cases.

Again, Bitcoin has the lightning network and technologically it's pretty easy to make a payment. If by "harder to use" the author means to spend because of low adoption, then again it's focusing too much on the now.

> Bitcoin failed at every one of Nakamoto’s aspirations here.

Except the quoted part didn't list clear "aspirations" and instead showed the faults in the existing financial systems. In terms of the whitepaper, I think Bitcoin does still adhere to the ideas.
Did not work for my reddit account. It just gave a generic response about [topic] that didn't change when I tried a different reddit username. My reddit account is from 2017, 25k karma.
The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat
That is the implications because the Atlantis myth has become white supremacy through deeply racist works from Helena Blavatsky and Ignatius Donnelly. Spoiler: the Nazis were really into this stuff.

It boils down to that that all the non white peoples could not have done any of these things and needed help from a superior white race, robbing these peoples from their own ingenuity and heritage.

Just because he isn't an outright racist doesn't mean that his theories imply that. I've not read his books but from what I've seen he likes to quote works built on the authors above that are just as racist.
Short answer: nothing. Just as the first atmospheric nuclear tests mark the end of the era of natural C14 dating, the introduction of GPT and other advanced AI language models marks the end of being able to assume free-flowing natural language text has a human origin. Thus begins the age of Artificial Inanity. (See Neil Stephenson's Anathem for the origin of that phrase and an interesting take on the effect.)

Longer answer: there may be a period of some months still before models approaching the complexity of GPT3 are available at scale to truly black-hat actors like the worst of SEO firms. Training such a beast is still an expensive endeavor and so there is some gatekeeping yet.
I'm really surprised that this hasn't been settled. It seems unjust that you can surround a piece of public land--or someone else's land--with your private land and deny access to it.

I remember Disney was successfully sued to allow access for the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek resort because Disney owned all the land that would provide access to it and didn't want to allow it.
Its also a perfect combination for taking the Shimanami Kaido bike route over the Inland Sea islands (https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3478.html) - you can send your bags to the destination and then bike to route. Some friends of mine did that & it worked perfectly. :)
Ask HN: Is a token to unlock a hardware device considered an In-App purchase ?
Hi. I am building a hardware device managed by a facility manager. The manager will decide which employee's smartphones will have access.

My plan is to make the App free for download and the facility manager will access our website to buy the tokens which they then give to the employees so they can connect to the hardware. I was going to use PayPal to process the credit card unless someone believes I should have more options like Google Pay and Apple Pay on my website.

But the question is, if the manager taps a link in the App that takes them to our website where the purchase is made, is that considered an In-App Purchase ? I don't think so because the token is for access to a hardware device (i.e., not a digital good), but I am unsure.
Yeah, but then ActiBlizz has been doing the "online only" thing at least since Starcraft 2 (2010), also removing multiplayer not through Blizzard's servers in the process !

And they recently did the same with the Diablo 2 """remaster""", preventing multiplayer-heavy mods running in the regular online mode from operating !! (They are not allowed on battle.net, partially for anti-cheating reasons of course.)

Meanwhile other games still allow normal connection through IP/server name, provide a matchmaking server for players to organize their games, including modded ones, and provide an *optional* ban list for server owners using the official matchmaker to enforce on the worst offenders that in no way affects the singleplayer or the direct connection multiplayer experience !
It's fascinating how all of that was enabled by simple decision by telco to make local calls free. Here (Poland) they basically didn't exist
> imagine if A is "the earth is flat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction
I've written a tutorial on TPMs. One thing I really recommend is thinking of "credential activation" as something rather more general: encryption to a public key but with an arbitrary authorization policy that will be enforced by the holder of the private key (the TPM).

The credential activation primitive was intended for sending things like certificates to targets such that they could recover them IFF they could satisfy some policy, and thus the name "credential activation". But the "credential" needn't be a "credential" -- it can be anything at all.

TPM2_MakeCredential() takes a public key, a cryptographic name of an "activation object", and a plaintext payload, and produces a ciphertext that will be decrypted by TPM2_ActivateCredential() IFF the caller of TPM2_ActivateCredential() has access to the private key object matching the public key argument to MakeCredential and access to a key object that has the same cryptographic name as was used as the activation object by the caller of MakeCredential. The key is that the cryptographic name of the activation object binds its attributes including any authorization policy. Note that the private part of the activation object is not used at all in the process, only its cryptographic name. And TPM authorization policies are extremely flexible.

To recap: to decrypt the ciphertext, the caller of TPM2_ActivateCredential() has to satisfy whatever authorization policy was specified by the sender or otherwise agreed upon ahead of time.

Trammell Hudson figured out that TPM2_Duplicate()/TPM2_Import() can be used to produce much the same asymmetric encryption with TPM-enforced policy for decryption.

The fact that a device as resource-constrained as a TPM can enforce incredibly complex authorization policies is astounding and fascinating, and ultimately comes down the fact that TPM 2.0 extended access policies are Merkle hash trees, so that at any point in policy evaluation a TPM need only have a fixed amount of state + enough memory to evaluate one node of the policy.

TPM is a very large topic. When explaining TPMs to people I like to first cover substance[0] at a very high level, then form[1], then really dive into substance: PCRs and event logs, how all keys created on a TPM are created deterministically from the key's hierarchy's seed and a caller-supplied template (which can include entropy), then cryptographic names of keys, then authorization policies, then finally TPM2_MakeCredential()/TPM2_ActivateCredential(), then TPM2_Quote(), and finally how to put together cryptographic protocols using a TPM.

[0] Some of what all you can do with a TPM.
[1] That it's all request/response commands,
that it has a micro-TLS protocol embodied
in one of those commands, that it is a
mostly-stateless protocol with encrypted
state cookies.
You should look better then, I won't do your job for you. Keep in mind, English is not the only language on Earth, and definitely not the only one on Wikipedia.
> It was an online website right around the dot com bubble.

Much sooner than that.

Amazon started in 1995. Not a lot of ecommerce websites existed then. One the earlier ones is Powell's Books which started selling in 1993 via telnet, in 1994 via web.
I don't think so. Vietnam, India or Indonesia are much cheaper places to manufacture than China, and are not threats to us like China has become.
Ad hominem accusations of racism suck the air out of interesting discussions. There is nothing "essentially racist" about a hypothesis that there was an ancient civilization centered on a North Atlantic island with technology perhaps roughly equivalent to what we consider the Bronze Age, and that that civilization was destroyed circa 12K years ago by a series of meteorite impacts. That hypothesis is highly speculative and rests on a shaky foundation, but it's not outright impossible and there's no harm in doing some additional archaeological research to look for evidence one way or another. Population groups which existed that far back have little relevance to the modern social construct of races.
While this indeed is the old-school way, and still remains occasionally useful for its unparalleled flexibility, these days the industry has mostly abandoned the more systematic ways of creating thought structures, and embraced the "explorer" / "zoo" approach. A number of high-complexity patterns of colors have been identified and catalogued, many of which are derived from the likeness of the natural world, while others are reminiscent of children's drawing. These, when projected onto the human retina, tend to trigger strong thoughts, even if not very sophisticated.
I'm Australian, does US public land also belon to me?

Does US law garantee the right for any member of the US public to walk, spoil, graze cattle, etc. on any undeeded land?

If so, does that law also grant the right of access across land owned by others?

The very reason that these corner cases are unresolved is because there is no clear answer here (yet).
Chargeback should be last resort, compagny pay for it and will basically close everything related to that account / credit card.
> A modern spin on this: history is no longer written by the victors, but by people with literally no life outside of writing crap on the internet

Still acting on the basis of the propaganda they drank like kool-aid, but pretty much. Hard to exclude some biased editors aren't actually paid from organizations/parties tho.
I prefer this one:

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

You gotta love terminal man!
You should have charge backed for defective/sabotaged goods.
Lehman was a legit business that got caught with some risky bets and, for various reasons, it was decided to let it go down. That may be analogous to the situation with Alameda (minus the drugs) - but FTX is more like a cross between Madoff (affinity fraud) and degenerate gambling.
While there is no denying that many professors are politically liberal, many still adhere to the principles of pluralism and recognizing the existence of multiple viewpoints on controversial issues. More than the faculty, the academic PMC is the source of the dogmatism that haunts contemporary academia.

As a PhD student who wants to eventually teach at a university, this terrifies me. I love plurality and intellectual freedom—if the ostensible bastions of academic freedom succumb to dogmatic forces, our democracy is doomed as its citizens will not have the intellectual tools to sustain a government that can tolerate and allow differing opinions to flourish.
All of those issues ripped tears in our society when they were decided by force (court orders being a form of force, backed by the threat of men with guns) instead of building consensus. It’s a civil war on the installment plan. It’s notable that Europe mostly handled those same issues by consensus and is much less internally polarized as a result.
Anti cheat is hard, very hard, and you will always those kind of false positive.

What I can say is that a lot of people say they don't cheat but they actually cheat.
Shootings at power substations cause North Carolina outages
Actual title: NASA Gives ICON $57 Million to Build a 3D Printer for Structures on the Moon

So ICON won a bid, and is building NASA's spaceprinter.
I was previously going to mention the decentralisation that could be provided by micro-grids as a mitigating factor, but don't know enough about how they work to know whether it's just replacing one vulnerability for another, but your mention of home batteries reminds me that, with micro-grids, it should be possible to narrow down to a single household "island" level of granularity if all households have solar and batteries (and the same argument for apartment blocks at equivalent scale).

Ideally, this allows for each individual unit (household, apartment complex, commercial building) to bear the costs of the "reserve assets" at the same time as being able to take advantage of them down to that granular level - as long as their battery is able to hold out and their solar able to recharge it.

And the reserve assets being smaller, fit better into a manufacturing scenario as there should be a more consistent, less surge-style, demand.
> I think it's more that he doesn't have any actual archaeological evidence of note to support the theory of relatively advanced ice-age civilizations

I guess for me it’s strange that what should be a passive dismissal of a fringe idea seems to have a much more active campaign of labeling it misinformation.

Are his ideas really that dangerous to warrant such concern? Pretty sure society is not going to change just because Graham Hancock convinced a hundred, thousand, or even a million people that maybe there was some groups that had astronomical and stone building capabilities prior to the ice age. I seriously doubt that manic mobs are going to raid the local archeologist’s houses, carry them out on a rail, and burn them at stake at the edge of town for daring to suggest that hunter gathers probably weren’t that advanced.
Kinda felt that way - we spent a week in Shinsekai in Osaka - in an area Japanese people apparently consider a bit dodgy - it was a bit more dirty, people not following all rules 100% of time and some questionable businesses here and there - really reminded us of home back in Europe! ;-)
What happens if a public land manager buys a land locked parcel?

Private owners are generally expected to understand and establish easements.

I'm generally in favor of something like a right to roam, though I expect (many) people would ignore the part where they should be respectful of the land they are crossing.
> We can’t unfortunately have a supply chain where we sell some products to people that don’t drive a car.

You’re dangerously close to getting it here.

Why don’t we work towards developing societies where driving a car for any truly non-essential reason is seen as one of the most selfish and anti-social things you can do? Yes, this would be a massive amount of work. Yes, it would cost a ton. Yes, people wouldn’t like it.

But then we could sell all products to people who drive cars as little as humanly possible. A huge improvement!
Last I checked, the free wifi point that’s been installed in many Australian pay phones is only freely available to Telstra customers as customer benefit, although once off access may be purchasable.

The pay phone offers free calls and awkward free SMS sending via the standard phone key pad.
Amazon made web-based book selling mainstream. Emphasis on web. Of course it was a tech company.
He's said (I'm paraphrasing) that he goes for popular myths, especially when there's a single video or series promoting them. I've never heard him mention the groove or the dating thing, but aren't those pretty specific? I've never heard of them at all. Maybe he'd reply if you left him a question.

He does address the stonework point in [1] at 6:36[^]—though he says it's not true. He also says at 3:43[*] that archaeologists can make mistakes and don't know everything.

Anyway, I'm not here shilling for the channel. I just found the background info relevant and useful.

[^] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHNq8SURTU&t=396s

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHNq8SURTU&t=223s
and who are you that the Wikipedia gods are not just going to revert your changes? the mods of wikipedia are not my favorite group of peeps. i have little faith in them. so, just because you, some random-to-me person on the internet makes a legit edit does not mean that a mod with an agenda won't come along and put it back
Some of its responses demonstrate a degree of consistent repetitiveness which I wouldn't expect from a GPT-style model, which I would expect would give more variable outputs. Sometimes it really gives the impression of just regurgitating a collection of fixed scripts – closer to old-school Eliza than a GPT-style system.

I'm not expecting the underlying GPT-based system to have perfect conversational pragmatics, but I suspect the Eliza-like component makes its pragmatics a lot worse than a purely GPT-based chat system might have.
And sometimes you get different results for the same prompts, so it's worth tryinv again if it doesn't work the first time.

I asked for jokes this morning and initially it made excuses and wouldn't give me jokes until I tweaked the prompt.

Later I refreshed the chat and pasted in the original prompt and got jokes right away, with no excuses.

(I was asking for jokes on the topic of the Elon Musk Twitter acquisition. My personal favorite: "With Elon Musk in charge, Twitter is sure to become the most innovative and futuristic social media platform around.")
Yup, sorry - I was git bisecting some old commits, and didn't realize I had toggled into the production site.