skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just over 2 years on a 500GB M1 mac

Percentage Used: 14%
Data Units Read: 1,101,421,696 [563 TB]
Data Units Written: 902,660,422 [462 TB]
Power Cycles: 238
Power On Hours: 2,489

Assuming the %age used is even close to accurate, I'll be upgrading to a new device long before the disk craps out.
I don’t understand your point — I’ve been rehearsing that response to the normal and all-consuming test question “Are you human?” since Wednesday.
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As time goes, I tend to believe keeping using Microsoft and Google’s offering until equivalent alternatives emerge will make it more difficult for these alternatives to rise.

As a real world example, China wouldn’t have many of its mega corps if it was favoriting the established US equivalent until something rises to the same level. I hate to say this, but in this field, provided an entity has enough resources, protectionism basically works.
stop i can only lose so often
I use an Airthings device to measure the air quality in my bedroom. I'm noticeably more groggy in the morning if there is more than recommended CO2 in the room. I don't care that much about the other things it measures. Another nice feature is having all of the history on my phone.
People seem to be especially impressed by code generation like people were with chess because we associate those tasks with intelligence but they are constrained environments with well defined rules and a lot of data. Anyone who has followed the progress of RL knows that strong performance in such conditions does not mean it is comparable to human intelligence or that current architecture will scale even close to general human intelligence. It is much more comparable to a calculator.
Why does a lifetime extension need automatic extension in the first place?

Selling lifetime licenses are terrible for your business; they bring in a load of money upfront, but your revenue stream will start to dry up as your customer pool gets saturated.

It's a small fee for many people, but I'd argue it's an unnecessary one.
>And, as the processor, they are required to do as the controller (you) instructs.

There seems to be a terminology issue here, "You" would generally be the data subject, not the data controller, unless you are a company.

If you're directly using Office 365 or Google workspace, then MSFT/Google would be the data controller (the primary company who handles the private data), and any subcontractors involved would be data processors on behalf of the controller.

If you're a user in the school system, and have no direct agreement with MSFT/Google, then the school may be the data controller and MSFT/Google handling that data on behalf of the school.
The way modern economists analyze this, any transaction creates value for both the buyer and the seller.

If owning a Thingie is worth $60 for me and $20 for you, we both gain $20 when I buy yours, and the world is $40 richer. You can think of all wealth as created by trade from this perspective.

In the Linux case, it destroyed value for proprietary UNIX vendors, and created value for millions of UNIX users.
I don't think that's true at all. There are a ton of niche music makers and a ton of ways to find them...infinitely more than there were a few decades ago. You just have to go looking for them. Which frankly isn't even that difficult with YouTube and SoundCloud. Maybe the musicians aren't making millions, but the creativity is definitely there.
GPT-2 is 4 years old and word2vec 9 years old. I feel like you're underestimating the rate at which we're progressing.
I've noticed that ChatGPT tends to give non-answers to specific questions like this. It will reply with an answer that "makes sense" but it's just repeating a very high level observation that essentially means nothing. Like "This could include focusing on areas where language models are not yet advanced, such as visual and fine motor skills." is literally just repeating the op without any extra insight and the conclusion is entirely about the present day which is not what the question is asking about. I like to say that it reads like a 7th grade essay on the subject. ChatGPT is definitely very good at some things (ask it how to set up nginx), but I get easily frustrated when I ask it something specific but non-technical and it gives me an answer like this. It's like it's afraid to pick a side on anything.
My experience as a traveling engineer

The software we used before Concur was definitely better, or maybe it was the original version of the software before SAP bought them, I'm not sure. Prior to the switch, expense reports would take 5-10 minutes. After the switch, more than an hour easily. They made a lot of changes to Concur to try to help speed up the process, and fill gaps where the old software worked great. However, the final product still ended up far less efficient, and far more confusing.
Excellent analysis. But the issue here isn't that someone made a mistake somewhere.

But rather, that at a very high level: Amazon knows perfectly well that a certain percentage of its customers are getting screwed over, just as it knows it could probably do a lot more internally to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. But having sat down and done a "rational" cost-benefit analysis -- it has calmly decided that it plainly doesn't care, as long as it thinks it can get away with it.

That's just the way the company is - from the highest levels down.
it bothers me that the article starts with

> we use X technology that is better than Y technology

it makes me think the entire point of the article was to advertise X technology to me.
I am amazed IRC is still a thing people do.
Yeah, I used to prefer gas until we bought an all-electric house. The heating rate on the induction range that came with the house is bananas.

The burners go from 1-10 by halves and on 10 the big burner will boil a big-ass stockpot of water in what feels like a minute or two, and that's all I can use it for. 10 is literally too hot to sear meat, it will char it (and set off the smoke detector, apropos of the thread - it's a townhouse so of course the kitchen is right at the fucking center of mass of the house so the other rooms can have better light). It's also super-responsive and lets me get great heat control, if I go from 5.5 to 4 I can see what's happening in the pan change almost instantly. I never had a really fancy gas stove, but the ones I had were certainly not this responsive (although they sure beat the many crappy electric stoves I had).

It adjusts with buttons instead of a knob, which I kind of hate (a lot harder to work while cooking) but obviously that's not a comment on the heating technology.
One of my startup ideas is the creation of a virtual assistant service that would help out in situations like the one described.
You’d give full access/permission to this service (major security and selling point drawback), and in case you didn’t respond it would manage your accounts according to your wishes (transferring of ownership, closure of accounts, setting up of payments, funds allocation…).

The easiest and more practical way is to have a couple of friends/relatives/spouse be aware of your wishes and leave detailed instructions on what to do.

The dead man’s switch is a very clever alternative way of doing this.
Doubtful, as Garage's features are a small subset of Ceph's. Ceph supports block storage, object storage (via RadosGW), and file storage (via cephfs). Ceph is highly sophisticated and very complex. It's anything but simple.
I think sometimes this happens to reset the reviews. If the score gets to low, they just publish a new app. Or they fix an issue that people have been complaining about for a while. Maybe they want to increase ad spend and those 1 stars from three years ago make it hard to promote?
Dude's been maintaining an IRC client for more than a quarter of a century. It seems reasonable to believe that he will be responsive to these emails for as long as having a license continues to be meaningful (in the sense of access to future updates).

But seriously, just pay the man.
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
The discussion so far:

Me: The VM prompts give a defeasible reason to believe it has a world model

You: No it doesn't

Me: Why do you think so?

You: It fails badly in these other areas

Me: Failure in unrelated areas doesn't demonstrate a lack of world model in the examples demonstrated

You: The burden of proof is on you!

It seems that people are just universally terrible at constructing rational arguments. What can you do.
There already are full managed solutions. They’re 5x more expensive. It sounds to me like people expect the whole managed experience but 5x cheaper, which is never going to happen.
I'm assuming this comment was written by ChatGPT, am I correct? It's got quite a predictable writing style, and also your comment doesn't add anything to the original, it's just reworded
> and will actually give you lifetime license after all, if you're willing to write an email and wait a little.

He doesn't say that you'll get a lifetime licence. In fact, if he now regrets ever issuing lifetime licences, it seems pretty unlikely that he'll issue new ones.

I hate software licensing models. I wish developers would just sell proper support contracts.
Yes, electronic logs are mandatory in the US.
> It makes some content cheaper, but what are the side effects?

"Content" is already maximally cheap: just copy and paste. AI-generated material – at least, with the current genre of GPT-style predictive text algorithms – doesn't produce original content; it just serves to dilute our global knowledge base with semantic white noise and lossy copies of existing knowledge.
I do agree that insta-banning for _just_ using a rude word without warning is huge overkill. Giving fair warning (and telling them their account will be banned if they repeat offend) should be the baseline. The fact that it's not, in too many cases, is definitely something to criticise.
The game is sold for Windows.
Sally's Baking Addiction is the only site you need, FWIW. Trust me on that!
> I must also consign myself to the misery of living in cramped housing surrounded by inconsiderate arseholes.
How is getting punished without getting to know the reason useful for anyone? How do they learn anything from such an experience?
I do. I just got started because it looked like a fun project to build, I went with the Airgradient DIY solution[0]. At first I used a combination of Prometheus and Grafana, then I integrated the solution with an MQTT server and Home Assistant[1] instead.

I live in a duplex, which means there's _a lot_ of air volume and mostly just me, so CO2 levels don't skyrocket and won't even reach 1000ppm after the whole day. I usually blast the windows open for a few minutes first thing in the morning and that does the trick, bringing levels down to ~500ppm.

What's worth mentioning is the massive temperature difference in between the top and the bottom floor, which is from 3 to 5 degrees Celsius higher upstairs. CO2 is also higher upstairs, about 150ppm, and P2.5 is usually higher downstairs (do they fall to the ground?)

I'm taking one of the sensors to my parent's this week, since they use a closed log burner to heat the house and I'm curious what the levels are going to be.

Last anecdotal point, I was fitting a Bosch Athlete upright vacuum cleaner with new VTC6 batteries for extended battery life and increased suction power this weekend, which requires a lot of soldering iron and tin, and I was amazed at how the PM2.5 would go crypto-style _to the Moon_

[0] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...

[1] https://github.com/nsbk/airgradient_mqtt
> You don't get to unilaterally revoke a contract just because it turned out to be unprofitable or unfavorable to you.

What do you suggest, or are you even suggesting anything?
Look at my comment. 2020 was a doozy.
If it's going to be a logical fallacy there has to be a logical argument, which there is not here. So I'm at a loss. Maybe you're referring to poisoning the well, which the wikipedia page refers to as an "informal fallacy". I disagree in any case -- OP is only presenting relevant context that can be a guide in assessing motivations.
I've been looking at simple mathematical logic problems that are computer science adjacent and while I've had a little success on some simple toy scenarios, I've found it incredibly difficult to get it to provide even "directionally correct" solutions for anything useful.

Coding is probably a pretty restricted problem space. After all, there's only so many ways you can handle a string until something throws an error.
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Not so original
Let's not conflate these product offerings with "basic services". The basic services are document editing and e-mail, which can be done locally or with a local provider respectively. The conversion to a SAAS product changes the product offering, but does not change the basic services that schools/businesses require.
I'd argue that sustainability (and then to a lesser degree, growth) is arguably the single most important value in any culture. Because the best of cultures that can't sustain itself will "lose" to the worst of cultures that can. The ideal of a culture, at least in my mind, is not one of a snapshot of hedonism or liberty, but of a long-term sustained healthy society.

Western culture already has driven fertility rates well below replacement. Alongside that we also have skyrocketing obesity rates, skyrocketing rates of mental illness and drug dependence/abuse, plummeting testosterone levels, the end of the Flynn Effect, governmental approval ratings approaching zero, and more. Our culture, in its current form, is not even remotely close to sustainable.

There has to be some meet in the middle between "Follow the ancient holy book, or die!" and "Let's hedonize ourselves out of existence." As both those extremes mostly feel like two opposite ends of a horse-shoe, to me.
I dunno, Digestive Biscuits dipped in gravy also sounds pretty good?
Call it mIRC 2
It's not just SEO it's also a requirement to get copyright protection
So crazy reading this and thinking how wrong some of the theories then were. Makes me wonder what todays theories are that people will look back and scoff.

Side note, also makes me miss playing drug wars on the TI calculators back in the day
Open windows.

There's not much else you can do. Even in the winter, I open it long enough to change the air and hopefully without letting the heat escape too much.

I used the old generation Awair, they are no longer supported. Now it reads false readings about air quality, so I'll be switching to one of the competitors. Good things is that Awair seem to have opened the door, there was not a lot of devices a few years ago and now there are a more options.
Funny how different something as mundane as deliveries (and as widespread as Amazon) can be.

> your delivery guy doesn't just dump everything on the doorstep as quietly as they can?

Never had that, no.

> Or for anything requiring a signature (actually, can't remember the last time I had that through Amazon)

They email & show in 'my orders' numeric codes to give the driver who then enters and verifies them. (This verifies they actually delivered it too, since they don't know the code, just enter what you tell them.)

> run up and stick the "customer wasn't home" sticker on the door without even trying the doorbell or knocking?

You get stickers on your doors? Here in the UK (with any courier) it's a piece of paper through the letterbox that says missed/with a neighbour/in your safe place/whatever.

I suppose that's because you have mailboxes outside with little flags rather than letterboxes in doors, so they don't want to try to deliver to your door and then look for that as well when it doesn't work, easier just to stick something on the door where they already are?
If I want to have an app that needs to eventually persist user state to a server but still work well when the user is offline, e.g. a personal vocabulary app that can work with multiple devices but also can work when the user is offline, so the user can still define new words manually on both devices, and then when the phone is back online, the state still makes sense in both, should I use CRDT?
If Amazon is not "peak-capitalism" through and through, what else is? If they don't get these things right, who can, who will?
> how many people have the pitchforks ready

Empathy is lost on internet, hidden behind entitlement.
Neat. Bravo.

FYI: Ages ago, prepress software apps TrapWise, Color Central, and maybe Preps had color management for PostScript and then PDF.

IIRC, all the smarts were embedded in the print stream. Meaning you might be able to get your local print shop to process some files and capture the result. I think the print shop would need the capability to do lithography, requiring color separations, vs just composite printing. So be sure to ask.

As Jussi (nibblestew) shows, happy case color conversion is straightforward. The (PostScript) madness is because of interoperability. Accepting every mutant source from Quark, PageMaker, etc and ensuring it prints successfully with every mutant PostScript RIP like Harlequin, Adobe, etc.
You're conflating two meanings of sketching though. Artists and others do uses it as an exploratory tool, and I've already seen AI generation used in a similar way so I know that's a valid application of it.

But at a lower level sketching is itself a visual interpretive and creative process. And yes what we're talking about is mechanically similar to the cut-up technique, but is that used for "sketching" in the exploratory sense?

I don't know, maybe. My point overall is that these tools aren't "really just" anything. They have similarities and similar applications to many things we've seen and done, yes. But they are fundamentally alien and in important ways are unlike anything else we've done. We should be careful about and aware of the limitations we put on our understanding when we try to interpret them through the lens of what has come before. To some extent we have no other lens, but that doesn't lessen the limitation.

I think in this case the role of the human in the process does have a strong analog to that of an editor. Where you have the ability to initiate and then shape the creation of another entity, but the creation itself is out of your hands. It's not exact, but it may be close enough to be useful, in a way I think comparing it to the cut-up technique is not quite.
Knock on wood my experience with Activision/MW/MW2 has been pretty flawless. The new game has some bugs, but in general it has been the best way for me and my buddies who live 3,000 miles away to remain in touch and hang out on the weekends.
Threema introduces PFS with new cryptographic communication protocol “Ibex”
This article claims Google already does https://websiteincome.com/ai-content-generator/
yes, and also yes — I replaced my gas range with an electric induction range, considering installing heat recovery ventilation
I'm letting this get buried. As I want to point out some contradictions

* This article neglects that we already in post truth and have been since 2016

* It also mentions it is never a good idea to train on your own data. And yet in post truth there is no such thing as good data unless it is verifiable that a user handed it over themselves. This is neglects the emergent field of using synthetic data on purpose.

What is going to be interesting and I hope pay attention to is that any criticism of Ai is a direct criticism of the norm and the fear of it's continuation accelerated. And yet we are already in the acent, so I would hope instead of expressing fears. We embrace solutions and talk about the future we want.

As no conversation can alter the path we are on now. So do you guys want the forever treadmill? Or UBi?
No in Tesla's case it is because a person still has to be on the wheel to correct any potential errors.
> ChatGPT+ will definitely have some affect on junior devs but us more experience folk should be fine... for now..

It affects both. If a single team was to be split with 5 juniors and 5 seniors, ChatGPT significantly reduces that headcount from 5 juniors to 0, and 5 seniors to 2 or 3.

With many companies cutting costs and with the cheap money getting dried up, no-one is safe. HN may not like it but, the same thing that has happened to digital artists with Stable Diffusion which was welcomed on this site, now has happened to programmers and I see lots of worrying and frowns everywhere.

It appears that StackOverflow (which lots of juniors and senior developers use) has just become irrelevant.
That doesn't really capture what the answer was supposed to mean. Infinite monkeys will inevitably compose The Odyssey if you give them infinite time, but it doesn't mean they match the moral quality of a human that is captured by the ability to create art. Art is a representation of experiences, beliefs, internal states, life history, desires, that ChatGPT doesn't have. It is the subjective experience being communicated via art that makes humans special.

And, to be clear, it doesn't make humans that special. Other animals have created art that expresses their sincere internal experiences and desires.

If I'm being perfectly honest with myself and you ask me what makes humans deserving of special moral consideration, I would have to say nothing. I think an elephant, gorilla, octopus probably all deserve the same consideration. I give more consideration to humans because I'm human, and what makes us human isn't art. A person with severe brain damage and the inability to understand or produce language or art is still human.
Microcenter does sell/ship a good chunk of their inventory online so it's an option for people that aren't close to a location. I usually make the trek to my nearest one precisely because I can avoid the issue of counterfeits by shopping there.
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No kidding. I never registered my copy of mIRC as a kid (sorry Khaled!) but in hindsight it would've been one of the sounder financial decisions I could've made in grade school.
So easy to control people when you can decide what and with whom they can transact with.

Surprise! Your bank and credit card company can do that now.

As being proposed in the USA, a CBDC will only affect settlement transactions between banks. Everything else will stay exactly the way it is now except transactions will be much faster with settlements taking place in real time, 24/7/365 instead of only during "bankers hours".

You'll be able to split the dinner check with a friend by putting money in his account instantly at the dinner table.

And this is all much closer than most people realize. It is in trials now and expected to go live in mid-2023.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
IME, review resets are definitely part of it, but not all. The other big one is "we lost control of the app namespace when we fired $vendor and while it may be ours (and sometimes we agreed to bad deals where it's not), we don't know how to get it back."
Knowing about AWS was just a shortcut where steps were skipped because of prior knowledge. The user could have been more naive and asked more leading questions about “how do I write a program for the internet?” Or “what is cloud software?” Or “tell me about popular ways programmers solve problems for internet users” or some such. Become the 5 year old asking infinite “why?” And “how?” This is a conversational chat, not a one-and-done Wikipedia entry.
This has nothing to do with the repository itself, but your GitHub username is pretty awesome. I had no idea they allowed one-character names (but they're all taken so it doesn't matter)
Do you have a drivers license? A passport? If so, the government already has your photo tied to your identity.

Myself personally, I’d rather not take my laptop(s), iPad, keyboard, mouse, etc out of my carry on, take my shoes off and belt and wait in a longer line. For what purpose?