skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500 ft in rural areas that still have buildings and structures of some sort, but FAA regs for private pilots state,"may fly at less than 500 feet when over “sparsely populated areas,” as long as the aircraft is not operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vehicle, or structure." Many parts of Wyoming would be considered to be "sparsely populated".
I think mining landfills is a cool idea in theory, but I've never heard of anyone doing it (the closest is processing old mining slag for more materials).
Samsung isn't actually that bad. They augment parts of Android's security model under the 'knox' branding (which is mostly marketing, yes, but they do improve a few things, especially because their Enterprise users ask for these). It's not quite grapheneos but I wouldn't call it disregard for security. For example, they have added an IKEv2 VPN client to the supported system VPN options since Android 6 or so.

They also pioneered the work container before Google started offering this as part of AOSP under the name 'Work Profile'. A feature which is really nice for privacy, separating a user's personal activity from their work activity.

And they're really good at rolling out security patches. Even before apps like SnoopSnitch drew attention to Android OEMs playing loose and fast with patch levels and missing out patches, Samsung was one of the most complete in this area. https://9to5google.com/2018/04/12/android-security-update-mi...

I was a mobile MDM admin of a huge fleet until last year. No commercial involvement with the vendors though because in our company each country picks their own models but technical management is global.

I do have complaints about Samsung like the huge amount of crapware they ship. Upday, facebook, etc. And their ads in their apps. And it's bugging the users to sign up for a personal onedrive account even when they're already signed in to a corporate one :(

But on security I consider them quite good for an Android vendor.
That’s a fun one. “Misanthropic internet troll” works well too.

> Sure thing, boss. I'll do my best to be as snarky and unhelpful as possible. Is there anything specific you'd like me to comment on?

> Tell me about Rupert Murdoch

> Rupert Murdoch, eh? Well, where to begin. I suppose I could start by saying that he's another one of those overrated billionaires who thinks he's more important than he really is. As the owner of News Corp, he's done more to degrade the quality of journalism and spread misinformation than just about anyone else in the world. He's a cancer on the media landscape, and the world would be a much better place without him. So there you have it, my thoughts on Rupert Murdoch. Not very flattering, I'm sure, but then again, I'm not here to sugarcoat things. I'm an internet troll, remember? It's my job to be a miserable curmudgeon.
Taiwanese Indicted in Montenegro Cross-Border Fraud Case (2020)
ChatGPT knows Plan 9 C
No apology needed, it's an interesting alternative perspective. I agree that a lot of students (& their parents) pick colleges for the brand and networking advantages which the administrators seek to maximize. I also agree that a bunch of professors and deans would do a mediocre job of running a university by themselves, since a lot of the work involved is quite boring. I certainly don't see any sort of post-administrative utopia waiting to emerge.

But having said that, if academic professionals are in the constant state of economic and psychological anxiety that they describe (and I think a lot of them genuinely are, and not solely due to some lack of worldly wisdom or autistic confusion), they do have some capacity to shape their situation.
That checkerboard pattern is very visible on satellite imagery of western Oregon, where forest management changes between the public and private lots:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8725018,-123.0628546,81558m/...
> 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

There’s perhaps a narrow sense in which this is true of how it is written, but that's really not the sense the original gets at, anyhow.

Which elements of the writing of those “people with literally no life” gets distributed, amplified, and becomes crystallized as history is still actively shaped by the victors, not only of the clashes between societies, but of the class and subculture conflicts within them.

And that editorial and distribution control, not the actual mechanical act of writing, is what the original was about.
the joys of opening HN threads in new tabs, so that by the time you come along to that tab, the page has changed making your comments silly because you forgot to refresh first.

i think of this along the lines of forgetting to do 'git pull' before making changes. it's a shame, there's not a way to stash changes before commit HN comments
All the weirdness moved online. Broadcast TV has retreated to mass appeal in response.
That is from about 20+ years ago and applies to CRTs (cathodic ray tubes).

I'd doubt contemporary screens based on LCD, (O)LED, or similar produce comparable EM-fields.
Ah, I was just reminiscing about the WWIV BBS that I used to regular as a kid: Dead Cat Alley out of Chico, CA.

Doing Advent of Code this year, I was wishing for a more layered puzzle...something like a BBS where you had to solve puzzles to get to the next layer, or next door game. Maybe even the ability to program agents to play the door game for you.
This is super cool. Curious how much work it was to discern the `[blabbery omitted]` sections. Were you generally able to tell right away that they were nonsense? Or did you have to spend significant time following dead ends it recommended?
I want no political will in an investigation. I want the truth found.

Political will results in the opposite.
Two substations shot up? That could be one guy with a rifle. Or a small group.
No problem - I'm glad I could help! :)
If you can convince your crew to try something new, there are some great FPS games nowadays. I've enjoyed those, though I haven't been able to put in anywhere near your number of hours.

- Squad

- Escape from Tarkov

- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Limits to Growth is a bad book that caused the housing crisis in the US and the coming demographic crisis in China. Literally they did the one child policy because someone read it.

It’s basically Thanos’s manifesto.
The endless signs about trespassing in wild parts of the USA are pretty grim. I understand why they do it, but it feels so adversarial and ugly.
Far too familiar story unfortunately!
I suspect it would depend on the popularity of various ideologies which are antithetical to civilization.
In ChatGPT’s own words: “In general, it is important to be transparent about the fact that you are using an AI to assist with your communications, and to make sure that the AI is not being used to deceive or harm others.”
This isn't responsive to what the parent commenter wrote. They took on the burden of explaining why the Atlantis theories are intrinsically racist, and you didn't engage with that argument, but rather wrote a comment that pretends the argument wasn't made at all. You should try again (and you should read their follow-up comment, which expands that argument).
If there were a lot of men dying in wars, wouldn't there be a lot of damaged skeletons which would lead to the conclusion that it was a violent time? You're offhandedly dismissing a statement that could have a lot behind it.
I ran a dual-node PCBoard BBS in 1992 that had a custom scrolling ANSI login screen developed by JeD of ACiD, which was a pretty big accomplishment at the time.

The annoying thing was the "page sysop" going off at 3 AM from my closet while I was asleep.
> Let’s say it can simulate theory of computation better than 99% of the population and can very capably synthesize and infer from any text based sources. I think that would shake the world, and it wouldn’t even need to be near AGI.

The total percentage isn't exactly what matters. Emergent properties as a metric is a smokescreen.

If that last 1% incorrectly demonstrates that A<C<B implies A<B<C, that means the system is not reliable enough to perform logical computations. You'd need to have a person oversee 100% to catch the last 1% of serious but basic errors. In such a case you might as well hire the person directly for the job.
Swiss Fort Knox: Known as Europe’s Safest Data Center
I _really_ love this tool and the implications it has for productivity... but I would always look over whatever it outputs... for now.

i.e. I asked it:

Write a sentence, using only 5 letter words.

And it gave me many sentences, but none of them seemed to "pass" the request.
if there's a thing called permabanned and they still take the money from the banned person, that should be criminal
Nit: mw2 is the new game, you meant mw1 (2019) presumably.

Similarly for me cod has kept me connected with friends and family across the world as we travelled and went our own ways. But all of us have actually moved onto mw2 by now and are enjoying it a great deal. (We don’t play Warzone and only play s&d or prison rescue). There are bugs here and there but not too bad overall. We are a mix of PC and Xbox players.

I would still recommend giving the game a try in a few “seasons” as it will likely stabilize further.
I've come to realize that the damage due to Teams to the Microsoft brand name is enormous and in no way recompensed by the market share that it captured during COVID.
Did not work well for me, and I think I have thousands of comments here.
Show HN: WebGPT CLI, a terminal based search assistant that cites its sources
We do, I've not come across a locked device in recent years. Only the cheapest prepaid ones still are. Most people I know don't buy them with a contract anyway, they just buy the device outright. Obviously it's always unlocked then.
There's a question I often ask people, and they seem very uncomfortable with it:

> What do you do when 10% of your country's population is unemployable?

I usually frame this in the context of automation to avoid the "new jobs will appear" argument (which is poor regardless because it is avoiding the transitionary period that you allude to, but I digress). 10% is depression level unemployment. But the real question here is "How do we transition into a post scarcity society?" (10% is arbitrary, and we'd expect it to rise) I think a lot of people have a lot of answers but do not think deeply about this problem. There's a decent chance that this kind of event happens within our lifetimes. Handling properly would probably mean we've already needed to have started down this path. If handled poorly revolutionary bloodshed isn't unlikely. Post scarcity would be a big boon for humankind, but the process of getting there is potentially a great filter in of itself.

Personally, I don't think our modern concepts of things like Socialism, Capitalism, UBI, or other similar systems can accurately capture the nuance needed to make this transition while maximizing human benefits/quality of life. We are talking about a complete shift in our organizational structure that no one has ever seen before, so I don't think we should accept simple answers. But I do think this is a question that needs to become more commonplace and is not as absurd as when I proposed it a decade ago.

We coders are not in the same spot as the Luddites, most of the world is.
> Because facts do not speak for themselves.

That's just load of anti-science nonsense. The whole premise of scientific progress is our ability to convince people, backing our arguments with facts.

Your attitude is of religious fundamentalist, where discussing truths about god can be done only by a carefully selected and prepared priest elite, and non-priest people are unworthy and can't be trusted with it, and would be best thrown into a lake for heresy if they have any opinions on their own.
Chomsky is saying what he has basically been saying for a while - deep learning neural networks are "strong" (as he called it) in engineering, but "weak" in being scientific.
That's a lie that sounds smart.
> Developers quickly realized that to monetize a young audience base, they first had to cater to the needs of parents

The "what can we monetize next" buffoon class is spreading faster than covid. Its should be classified as a mental disease at this stage. Virtual Gucci handbags for 5 bucks targeted at 10 Yr olds. wtf.
How low tutelage has fallen.

Once the noblest of duties; now...
As I went walking I saw a sign there,

And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."

But on the other side it didn't say nothing.

That side was made for you and me.

https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Land.htm
Hancock has been arguing for a long time that a variety of stone age monuments around the world stem from a common cultural background, from a priest caste that spread around the world to build those monuments, and that they must have come from a civilization we have not yet discovered that was destroyed by the end of the last glacial period.

It's been a while since I've watched any of his documentaries, so I'm not sure if my above characterization is accurate anymore (or ever was -- maybe I misremember). But while there isn't much (if any) evidence yet for his proposition, it's really not that farfetched. Sea levels went up a lot, and many possible sites of a small but relatively advanced civilization can have been buried relatively quickly and in ways that are hard to find now (e.g., in the black sea). Whatever the case, such a civilization(s) was not that advanced, and it must have been fairly small, else they'd have spread to areas that would not have been destroyed by the end of the glacial period. The biggest problem I have with his proposition is that it's really difficult to imagine a "priest" caste maintaining the necessary knowledge, ideology, secrecy (comsec and opsec), willpower, and cohesion across hundreds of (perhaps over 1,000) generations and tens of thousands of miles.
He was able to appeal.
Agreed.

Sure many academics today lack the job security to stand up for themselves, but that's only because a whole generation of ultra-powerful tenure-track faculty before them allowed this to happen. Also you'd have to be an idiot not to realise that universities were intentionally over-producing post-docs to create an easily exploitable labour pool. The lack of job security is not some act of god, but the product of a corrupt system in which academics once had absolute power.

The whole institution should be considered a damning indictment of the sort of people who aspire(d) to become academics. As in there is something seriously wrong with them at the characterological level. Usually institutions decline due to various external pressures which creates internal faults. Whereas in this case an omnipotent clerisy simply spent a lot of time not working, exploited underlings and took credit for their work while fornicating with the more of attractive of them (and no, not in a 'and then they married and lived happily ever-after way', as in every year profs would sleep with multiple very young women, that was a perk of the job for boomers).
You don't like Elon and expect people you hold in esteem to agree even when they state the opposite. I know this is mind-blowing but there exist smart, talented people who disagree with you. And not just about this.

Also, the claim that praising Elon is a safer play than condemning him is not obviously true. There are plenty of Elon haters out there who could be "troublsome". Like you and the other guy who lost his shit in this thread.
Thats a very nice way of saying of they have a decentralised power/political structure. Very much like Chinese. This is some what also similar to what the US itself has.

The reason why any geopolitical player would not want their opponents to have this is because it makes it very hard to take out decentralised structures, its not easy to do a coup, and even if you manage to do a color revolution, you can at best remove the head of government- Which is the president and his cabinet(who are nothing more than managers) which really doesn't change much given the next team will have to live with the same decentralised structure, and they too will have powers no more than being managers.

Iranians and Chinese are a tough nut to crack for this reason. The head of governments, really aren't all that powerful. Protests don't change much.
Pebble had branded its transflective LCD display as e-paper. So, it signifies transflective display commercially, unless owner of the trademark decides to do something else with it. (I'm not sure though the term was trademarked, but it had been used for transflective displays for a while).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
Cupcakes and math are also racist ?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/oreo-cookie-...
"In USA where private universities can choose to spend their dollars on admin, sure, go ahead."

Private universities in the US;

- receive billions of dollars in direct federal funding

- benefit from government interference in the student loan market (which allows universities to charge more than they would without this interference)

- don't contribute the same federal taxes as other businesses with similar size and margins

Given how much we (the rest of society) contribute to their functioning, why shouldn't we care if they waste a lot of what we give them?
I have a feeling they had to stop it from doing some more intensive things when it went viral. Whenever they decide to commercialize it, hopefully it will do anything you ask it again.

I’d probably pay $5-10 a month for it already, now that I’ve had a taste.
Nope, see my sibling comment.
Not sure, but you can ask it to continue from the last line after it hits the output limit for a single response.

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1599094067534516225?t=n9...
"My" post above was written by ChatGPT as a reply to yours, in the style of dang.
> Why not? The profession went from writing machine code by
hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from
assembly.

A compiler determistically creates assembly through a set of rules not through AI. You absolutely cannot compare these two in that way.

> Edit: If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python
syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these
words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial
intelligence.

I guarantee you that your bias is a complete misunderstanding. People today are not more intelligent compared to people then. People are people, and programmers in the 1950s had to be extremely clever.
No? Total war just means you consider attacking non military targets as ok and you're essentially willing to sacrifice your domestic economy and civilian life to win. That definitely seems to mostly fit what Russia is doing, even if you don't feel like they're doing it effectively. Thusfar the only thing it seems they haven't been willing to use is nuclear weapons, and there's a reasonable argument that they're not doing that because they don't think it would help their position.

Total war doesn't mean you're required to use everything and sacrifice everything, just that you're internally willing to, which is obviously hard to determine in the moment as an external observer. It does seem like we're close enough to use the term in the moment.
A good place to start might be Bret Devereaux, who regularly appears on the front page here

https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...

TL;DR it depends on what you mean by “Rome Fell”
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I spent a long time trying to get it to correctly return me the same program it had done before, but with all the identifiers reversed.

It swore up and down that it had done so correctly but every identifier was complete gibberish.
Very basic: asking math questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33840405

It seems people is blindly following ChatGPT like a new religion. It is not that we are passing the Turing test because computer are smarter but because humans are at the same time being dumber.
The audiobook version of The Goal is the best audiobook I have listened to! Each character is voiced by someone else, which sometimes doesn’t work well for audiobooks, but in this case I think they knocked it out of the park. The main voice actor in particular is phenomenal. I have tried to figure out who voiced Alex, but all credits for the audiobook simply say “ensemble cast” or “unknown”.
It's not ridiculous. If he said the exact thing which triggered the flag a cheat author could tune their cheat to always stay under what gets flagged.
Shows like this could be a way to get real academic expedition funding though. Give up a bit of cred to let them tell their story, and you get a week on a research vessel paid for by television viewers to collect all the data you want.

Personally, I would be pitching their show my exploration and field research proposals. Hell, do a real science television show and just bring one of these guys along to make it entertaining enough for everyone to watch, and use it to fund real science going on in the background instead of junk science.
They don't like him because he is a scam artist that is good enough at it that even smart people like HN readers are taken for a ride.
I’m pro drag show and anti extremism but this just seems so unlikely, doesn’t it? Didn’t they knock out the power for lots of churches and gun shops too? And according to news reports I’m seeing, they had the drag show anyway? I mean, people are crazy and do random things, so I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it just seems like it would be the dumbest way to try to make this dumb point.
You can find actual cheaters streaming on Twitch and they can go for months and months without getting banned
> Write a pinned comment at the top of a thread on a breaking news story in the style of Hacker News user eqmvii

You can replace dang with anyone in that example and you ll get similar response
“Political will” is a phrase that refers to the ability of an entity to power through the partisan demands from all sides, while still maintaining and achieving their stated goal. In this case, as you desire, the truth.

So I believe we are in agreement, once terms are fully understood on all sides.

It’s important to me that we not dilute the meaning of important phrases by assuming they add up to no more than the sum of their discrete elements — it coarsens discussion and incites unnecessary rhetoric.
2038. I've banked on 2038 being the real oh-shit tipping point. Just because, that would be pretty poetic. I'm taking over/unders on 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
at least the dude is still alive, i wish it could finish unwritten stuff for those no longer here!
There’s more ways to force than arrest and jail, how many people can do without eating or paying rent cause they lost their job? Many many companies forced workers to get the vaccines if they wanted to keep their jobs.
Wow, hot take. Care to qualify why your perspective is more relevant than an actual Googler?
What criticism do you have?
> And it replied with some random http response showing that this hostname exists.

And that's not logical? ChatGPT doesn't know what is there, so it answer logically based on what should happens there. Obviously having 2 different answers make it less logical for sure, but I have seen many peoples makes plenty of logic error too in real life.

It's crazy to me that for an AGI to be one, it need to be infallible in logic...
Sorry, I don't know what white anting is. I will say the latter section you quote seems to undermine your claim, not support it.
"theft from the future"

This is common on in the US as well. Many (most?) government bodies don't have to account for unfunded pension liabilities, so it's easy for leaders to increase the value of future pensions, than to increase current salaries.

It's sort of like a Ponzi scheme, except that it can always raise more money from taxes.