skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A parable:

Once, many years ago, there came an anthropologist to study a distant mountain village. They were an oddly nervous, twitchy people. If a twig snapped, they would throw themselves to the ground. At night, they went through elaborate rituals of barricading their doors, even though, to the anthropologist's marvel, theft and interpersonal violence was virtually unheard of among them. The anthropologist did not speak the language very well, in particular because in these villagers' dialect temporal clauses were especially odd. But he could get out of them that the reason for these customs was that in the distant past, the village had been plagued with man-eating tigers.

The anthropologist, being a compassionate man, thought long and hard about how he could help these people, make them less timid, since it was clear their customs came with a lot of stress and anguish, as well as ostracism of those deemed to be sloppy in maintaining the old anti-tiger customs. But before he could...

You see where this is going, right?

He was eaten by a tiger.

The lesson I want to suggest by this parable: people aren't stupid. They don't adopt harmful behaviours without some sort of reason. A situation that made the behavior make sense.

If the situation persists for a long time, it may stick to culture, and maybe hang around for a while even after the situation has gone.

If the situation persists for a really long time, maybe the behaviour even sticks to biology.

But that doesn't matter. The first step must still be to consider the present situation. Make sure the tigers are not still around.
I can't recall Tesla ever being fined for misleading marketing, ever.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/california-dmv-says-tesla-fs...
The cyberpunk hero we need is a librarian
It's probably too early to tell, but my wild guess is that it will add another conceptual level of abstraction to programming. Instead of say pesudocode→code→assembly, you would get to description/case→code (via GPT)→assembly. I put assembly there on purpose; just like higher-level languages made programming more accessible and opened up the profession, I would expect this to (eventually) happen here as well. Now, how do we get there from here and which companies lose out in the new world, who knows? we hadn't had a paradigm shift like this since the iPhone.
Well, do you need profit to make an empire? If your $major_company takes in $100B in revenue and spends it all, that's a lot of money to spend that will pay a lot of people across many industries. I'd say that counts as an empire, and I dare say I like it better than the one where the emperor gets all the ducats.
Could you explain why this is an example of capitalism failing and not just an example of a business (Amazon retail) starting to fail?
Not sure, I run Windows on Alder lake systems and had official Surface hardware that wasn't able to run stock Windows 10/11 without stuttering. Standard programs like Powerpoint and Word would also have terrible lag, e.g. when using the Surface pen. Still boggles my mind why they design hardware that isn't able to run their software without issues.
> when that’s really all humans are

There's a fair bit of truth in this but it remains a nearly useless oversimplification. We can't adequately isolate or even identify all the inputs into what makes a person what they are, or produce what they do. The idea that this is even possible is rejected by a large proportion of the world population, and for now at least we can't prove them wrong.

> All artists (myself included) are just the ongoing product of various inspirations (inputs)

This ignores that inspiration is itself an active and creative process. There's not a one to one mapping between a piece of art and the effect it has on a person who receives it. Even hating an art is a process of influence in a very real way that I don't know there's an AI analog of. These systems can not include a source in their output, but can they decide to include its opposite? What is the opposite of a tree, btw? A desert, an ocean, a seed? A value judgement based on culture and aesthetics and opinion and worldview that ML software has no standpoint from which to make.

I'm not trying to make a moral case for or against this technology right now. But I think trying to understand and evaluate it in human terms like this is a mistake. It's something else, and we're still trying to figure out what terms are appropriate to understand it, hence the difficulty. It's important to honestly engage with that alienness and uncertainty right now.
so much of the modern economy is basic economic messaging "wrapped" in storytelling. The media is an enormous industry that (apart from news) is a few basic stories wrapped in elaborate ornamentation.
The Link is dead? What happened?
/me slaps lzaaz around a bit with a large trout
Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
On the face of it, that is true. But on a deeper level, AI generation is really just a kind of rapid sketching, and sketching is a practice that goes back millennia.

Additionally, it depends on how you are defining "creation" and there have been various artistic movements which "created" art in a manner not dissimilar to AI image generators. The cut-up technique or some Dadaists, for example. I certainly would consider works by Burroughs or Tzara to be real creations and not simply editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
FWIW, I was seeing it only with boiling pasta and vegetables in stainless pot on a newish gas stove. (Sometimes draining and then heating with olive oil in it, but on a lower temp.)
> I can't recall Tesla ever being fined for misleading marketing, ever.

It's coming:

Tesla Is Sued By Drivers Over Alleged False Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Claims [1]

Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims [2]

California regulator claims Tesla falsely advertised Autopilot, Full Self-Driving [3]

[1] https://www.carandbike.com/news/tesla-is-sued-by-drivers-ove...

[2] https://archive.ph/zceIz

[3] https://archive.ph/7qYSm
2015: the tears of joy emoji

2016: post-truth

2017: youthquake

2018: toxic

2019: climate emergency

2020: (yes, 47 of them) allyship, anthropause, anti-masker, BC (before COVID), black lives matter, blm, blursday, bubble, cancel culture, circuit breaker, community transmission, coronavirus, covid-19, covidiot, decolonize, defund, doomscrolling, flatten the curve, furlough, hygiene theatre, infodemic, Juneteenth, learning modality, lockdown, mail-in, moonshot, net zero, pandemic, personal protective equipment, plandemic, PPE, R number, rona, sanny, self-isolate, social distancing, superspreader, systemic racism, take a knee, twindemic, unmute, veronica bucket, virtue-signalling, wet market, wokeness, workation, zoombombing

2021: vax
We can start expecting this kind of garbage to start polluting our discussion spaces.
If that's the difference (the time it takes) isn't that something we addressed a long time ago when computers could do long divisions way faster than any human? You know, the fact that computers can "think" faster than humans. Therefore the fact that it takes longer for a human to write that essay doesn't mean he's having a different process.
Sounds very annoying. Conversely, many of activision’s users are minors. In the games you mentioned it’s some what rare to encounter adults, especially as a new player. Perhaps not the best place to advertise ones love of erotica. Personally it bothers me when I walk past my 10 year old nephew and the other players in his squad have names that are sexual, racist or inflammatory; so I report them. If the people that I report have to work hard to realize that they are disrupting a community and making people uncomfortable I am ok with that too. +1 for activision in my books.
This is a different kind of dystopia than I expected
It totally is safer, and I tend to agree with it in a business context. But the license itself doesn't seem to indicate that any kind of "RPC" is thus encumbered.

When MongoDB was under the AGPL, your application wasn't under the AGPL if you connected to it and asked it to do queries.
I we have already seen this play out in music though.

Computers let anyone record music when it use to cost thousands of dollars to record music.

The results have been a disaster outside the top 1% of music makers. Such a dramatic change that anyone under 30 doesn't even know what has been lost at this point. Music as a whole is laughably less creative as "popular" / pop music established total dominance. The money all flows upward that use to be much more dispersed.
> Nothing you stated or linked contradicts what I said. Corporations have always been greedy and will always capitalise on anything that can be used to increase profits.

My original point was that corporate greed was behind much of the recent inflation and that Biden should tackle recent corporate greed directly if he actually wanted to reduce inflation.

You disagreed because corporations didn't suddenly become greedy and so couldn't be behind recent inflation, and I provided evidence that yes, they are in fact the main cause.

I don't really care whether corporations "suddenly" became greedy or were always greedy, that's entirely beside the point.
> I wonder what web development could learn from online game development when it comes to "multiplayer" apps - I mean it's right there in the name.

100%. The architecture we used for https://plane.dev takes a lot of inspiration from how game servers work, but using HTTP/WebSocket instead of UDP.

A lot of state sharing techniques that people are now using on the web (like cursor position smoothing and optimistic updates) have decades of precedent in multiplayer games.

We’ve also seen more apps start to use an approach to pixel streaming which more closely resembles stadia than traditional VNC. https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-wo...
Microcenter will not ship most items online. I just did a random check and there are 0 graphic cards available to be shipped online. In comparison my local Microcenter offers 63 models of graphics cards in stock today.
Aranet 4.

Determined my kids rooms are big culprit with doors closed. (Up to 1400 at night) now keeping door open.

I doubt this will fly when they are older so looking into installing an ERV/HRV system if anyone has any recommendations.
Doesn't having competition for jobs geographically-scoped help a lot of us?

For example, I am looking for dev jobs in NYC and LA. It's bad for me that employers could just hire someone equally-qualified in Kansas for less.

Am I misinterpreting your comment?
>I see this all or nothing argument when discussing new stuff.

That's one way to look at it. The other is that you can't pretend that real, tangible, identifiable problems don't exist. And Tesla has a habit of ignoring those.

>Slow charging is only a temporary problem and as evolution of Superchargers has made quote evident to date.

What have the Superchargers proven? That under increased load the locations can become completely overwhelmed? Even with EVs having a single-digit market share?

I haven't met a single person in my neck of the woods that thinks waiting 30 minutes to "fuel up" is remotely reasonable. And that's state-of-the-art. We have a ways to go.

>In fact, Tesla Semi's range is 500 miles because it's right at the edge of how long a driver can safely drive non-stop and right before they are legally required to take a break, during which time they can charge the truck.

Let's wait for some real-world testing before making claims to Telsa Semi's range.
Also, Purify runs on Windows.
Hey ChatGPT, can you write a typical HN comment to this headline?

"I'll never buy a modern car with all the surveillance tech, just something with no electronics that I can fix myself!".
You could also put something like searx [1] in front to search all at once (or at least provide unified interface for all).

[1] https://searx.github.io/searx/
NeRFs are fundamentally a bad fit for today's edge device architectures
I am sympathetic to the developer too and quite amused with how many people have the pitchforks ready. A solo developer offered a lifetime license not thinking they would still be working on it 25 years later. Asks nicely that if you have been using it for over 10 years to think about supporting the product you use. Was a lifetime license a great idea? No probably not but the way the developer handled does not seem like a money grab but value for their continued support on a product 25 years later.
The future is possibilities that are not actualized yet. So, whether or not I actually eat breakfast or not is irrelevant as the future potentiality is the cause of my behavior today. Once tomorrow is today, it is no longer the future.
I feel like this is a false opposition of AI vs Programmers. I would argue its never going to happen IMHO because AI + programmers is going to be so much better than either on their own.

Even if you have some thing generating amazing code you still need the energy to deploy it and check that it works and put the docs in the correct folder and email somebody.

So IMHO the future we all need to be looking it is how these tools can make us all more productive and then the juniors just get a different bunch of shit to learn. Maybe we develop more focus on writing tests to "prove" the software is correct as opposed to reviewing the code output? Idk, but I don't see the industry suddenly replacing devs given that the problems are not entirely reduced to simply writing code.
Once you have kids for yourself, only then can you finally realize how much your parents (hopefully) loved you.
Electric vehicles definitely help with particulates from braking. I don't see why they couldn't do active electric braking if required, as apposed to just regeneration.
> They could design it in a way that it operates on your data but they have no access to the data outside of these strictly defined operations.

That is exactly what Google and Microsoft do with their enterprise products (free or not). They don't crawl your data at all.
It would be easy to take the same whiny tone about cycling, "why do I need to risk my life and get splashed by rainwater etc. when I could just buy a car and drive in comfort" and the answer would be the same, because the more people who cycle, or live in dense, well designed neighbourhoods, the better off we all are. It's something we should encourage, support and build for.

Publicly declaring that cycling was only for poor, suicidal, idiots would not be helpful.

I don't suggest anyone should be forced to cycle or grow their own food, or live in any particular building, but as a society there's a whole bunch of things that we can encourage that make the lives we lead better, even if on an individual basis, it would be considered an imposition.

“A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.” -Greek Proverb
Yep. We have been wanting to get a fireplace insert which would be a major improvement in air quality, managing temperature, and how fast we burn through wood. The estimates we got were $2k for the insert and $2k to install. Still looking into it, but given the cost it’s not something we can move in immediately.
Wanted to share a story that could be related to MS Teams and monitoring, or may be I am just being paranoid and making connections to unrelated events.

I am an h1b from India, working for one of those Indian contracting companies as a contractor to an US company. For my work, I use my employer provided laptop to remote login to client's Azure AVD remote desktop.

____

The incident:

One day, I was talking to a colleague about the 100 year wait period for greencards through client's MS teams. I shared him some twitter links (where people say they would be 115 when they get greencard and such) through Whatsapp. While I was talking about it, Teams got disconnected. Didn't think anything about it, thought it was just a network issue.

Same day, I was talking to another colleague, mentioned the same greencard thing, and shared the twitter links over Whatsapp. Again, MS teams got disconnected. I thought it was an odd coincidence that it got disconnected twice when I talked about this subject.

Same day, at around 9.30 pm, I get an email from Twitter saying they blocked a suspicious login from a city in US. So, someone knew my user name & password.

____

Regarding how someone would know my Twitter username & password: While applying for US visa, we need to give our social media user names in the DS160 form, which my employer will also see. I have used this password else where, so some data breach may have leaked it.

I don't know if one of the employees whom I talked to snitched me to my employer or my client was monitoring my Teams conversation (or Teams is looking for trigger words) and decided to investigate further where I am getting these info from Twitter.

____

This was the Twitter alert I got:

Suspicious login alert

There was an attempt to log in to your account @accountname that seems suspicious.

Suspicious login

Device: Unknown

Location: Springfield, MA, USA

When: date & time (11 minutes ago)

*Location is approximate based on the login's IP address.

If this was you

- There is no need to take any action right now. Just to be safe, you'll need to answer some security questions the next time you login to this account.

If this wasn't you

- Change your password now to protect your account. You'll be logged out of all your active Twitter sessions except the one you're using this time.
Transcranial photobiomodulation enhances human visual working memory capacity
have we ever gotten out of uncanny valley for anything? like, did we finally learn to make non-cringeworthy human-looking robots? or do they still have this weird look they did 20+ years ago that you're able to tell in under a second
I stuck with local BBSs and don't think I ever wound up with a big phone bill that way. I did one time rack up a large bill when Sierra came out with their "Sierra Network" dialup service. I don't remember if that was a non-local call thing or a pay by minute bill for the service, but whatever it was that only lasted a month.
Decentralization Strikes Back
Obviously some part of their strategy is working considering how much usage they get of such a poor product. Building a good product just doesn't seem to be part of the strategy.
What livelihoods depend on Raspberry Pis? Interested in hearing about commercial applications of these.

I googled it and this was the first result haha.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/10-reaso...
Especially over a now $20 3 year license. If someone cares so much go use OSS and contribute back.
Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?
thanks for clearing this up for the large swaths of us who only read the headline.

most of us are devs and as a result, pretty well off to varying degrees. pay other devs for software you find useful.
That might be the case now but who knows where the future takes them. A smart legal council once told me even though you have a great relationship with the organization right now the contract you sign is binding and when ownership changes and revenues needs are different you really don't know who you are up against and what they will do with your data. Not that we have any real power except to try and use another product...
How the Doubly Linked List will fix unsolvable problems
Fun fact - nights in the countryside were louder than in the city. Dogs are barking whenever anything moves near them and then for 15 minutes a wave of barking goes through the village.

Meanwhile in the cities if you don't happen to live near a big multi-lane road - it's basically silent.

Also - what kind of a city has trash on the streets?
The local wireless mesh makes it much harder for l33t script kiddies on the other side of the world to pwn ur base. (You still have to watch out for sophisticated malware, but you're not going to get hit by, say, DDoS attacks.)
Younger-ish person here:

The things you describe sound more bleeding edge and free-form than the combo of bukkit servers, skype, and flash games I was messing with around that time yet in their ends they kinda did the same thing. Setting up my own bukkit server and port-fowarding it for friends was probably the most technically involved thing I managed to set up around that age short of bricking an early android phone when I first discovered XDA-developers was a thing (ouch).

The things I see kids doing now are impressive. For every spam tabloid story I see of a kid being stumped by windows explorer I see another kid making youtube videos of how they pmprovised a (bad) vr setup out of a google cardboad and an xbox 360 kinect. Kids these days armed with video tutorials scare me but so do the platforms that actively try to court them...

Honestly I have no idea what the "kids these days" use as their ends for this same kind of stuff, java minecraft and discord, though I notice the kids that do care about computers seem to be getting steam accounts earlier and earlier which is wild to me.
I have three Pi Zero's (1) and they are awesome at 0.7 W for any IOT stuff. One I use to collect data from my Electricity Meter (S2 Infrared), submitted to Influx DB; the other two run Snapcast Clients for my Multi-Room Audio System.
> It would be easy to take the same whiny tone about cycling

The tone isn't whining, it's indignation.

> Publicly declaring that cycling was only for poor, suicidal, idiots would not be helpful.

Show me where I say that living in a flat is for poor, suicidal idiots.

Yours is the attitude that supports euthanasia, not mine. Yours is the one of nihilism and pessimism of the future of the world.

Stop telling people how to live. Live that way if you want, convince other people it's good, but you cannot bully me into living that way.

Prove to me that you put less of an impact on this world than I do, I seriously doubt that you can.
> Now, if you were to return their money

So they can just re-buy the game under a new account and just carry on as before? Try this: go to a football match, shout racist abuse at a player then demand a refund for your season ticket. I know for a fact you won't get it.

> It's not in any way acceptable to ban people without telling them specifically what you are accusing them of

> "you know what you said"

Note that what I said wasn't "you know what you said" but "you violated these rules within these date ranges." For example:

* "You were detected using a cheat tool on 13th-15th November"

* "You harassed a player throughout March-August 2022"

* "You were repeatedly abusive in private chat in September 2022"

You're not being accused of murder in the Crown Court, you're being banned from interacting in a video game community. If you want access to the exact information, sue for it.

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Caveat
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Should you be banned from playing the game locally / single player? Absolutely not. This I would agree with you on.
Thank you. My two homeschooled boys act like... boys, and there's nothing wrong with that. That doesn't mean that I teach them to be assholes when they are men, but I have no problem with their true natures.
What scare me is, ChatGPT appears to be immensely helpful.

Nobody is nice enough to answer a question like:

"I want to learn Python. Give me 10 code examples of Python."

"Nice. I want see these example codes in C, Java and x86-64 assembly."

ChatGPT doesn't complain, doesn't getting tired and happily answer these ridiculous questions. Yes, it contains the bogus answers but even now, it's acceptably accurate for some usage and if error rate is dropped even more, who could resist using it?