skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blocking water with a dam is a well understood problem

I feel like we still have some problems with dam building, because they keep failing. We struggle to get the building material (in particular, sand). Concrete is pretty awful in terms of CO2. Dams of all sizes cause problematic changes to the rivers they're on, and block flows of fish and other animals. Smaller low head weirs and dams kill humans.

Lots of time, money, and effort is going into removing smaller dams and low head weirs.
Isn’t the Photo plan that includes Photoshop only $10?
I remember a similar app - way less sophisticated - at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
Yeah I'm surprised you're the first person I've seen mentioning that it makes up libraries. I asked it to create a Clojure function to render the mandelbrot set as ascii art, which apparently someone got to work in Erlang with only minimal modifications to the code. For Clojure it seemingly invented the clojure.math.complex namespace and functions it thought should belong there.
Except 60 Watts of power is roughly the power-usage of a Lasko box-fan. A PC, even 10 years old, barely uses any power in the scope of things that are in our houses.

The 5W of a Rasp. Pi is extremely awkward in practice. Its "a lot smaller" than a PC for sure, but not small enough to make AA-batteries usable or otherwise a portable computer. And if you're using 18650 Li-ion cells, well... that's called a laptop / typical computer in the 30W to 60W range anyway.

There's something to be said about ESP32 / ESP8266 which actually gets you to that sub-1W level where AA batteries are viable. Its just a new set of opportunities. As it is, Rasp. Pi4 really doesn't feel much different to me (from a power-usage perspective) compared to laptops, or even PCs.
Because it looks like LLMs will be able to command all those too (voice cloning, photo generation, etc) to achieve the tasks given to it but not the otherway around. So voice cloning can be dangerous in itself but it cannot interact with the world and other tools, so it's less dangerous than a ChatGPT like LLM that learns to use voice cloning together with bunch of other tools.
And later there will be no point of talking them about separately because they will all fuse into a single model since they already are using similar architectures (transformers), and it's already began to happen with text to image models.
Here's a proper sleep tourism idea that I had a few years ago:

Going on a long international flight? Well fly with Cloud 9 and our trained anesthetists will put you to sleep before your journey so that you can wake up at your destination, seemingly instantly. Because we don't have to worry about our passengers moving about, we can stack them vertically and pass the savings on to you.
It's probably better at creating negative karma at the moment. I asked it to write an opinion about Dorthey killing the wicked witch in the form of a ycombinator comment that would get downvotes and it suggested...

Dorothy was a total badass for killing that wicked witch. Who cares if she was evil and dangerous, Dorothy took her out without even breaking a sweat. That's what I call girl power! Down with the haters who think Dorothy should have tried to find a peaceful solution. #killallwitches #dorothyrocks
Ancient Computers (2015)
Not for a few more years.
This has been my experience when the company I work for engages with an external consultant. Managers look for validation from an external source so that:

- when things go well, they can take the credit, or

- when things go bad, they can blame the consulting company.

Grubby business if you ask me.
Look, it’s obvious that you haven’t used modern VR. Google Cardboard doesn’t count.

Sure, you have extra steps, but it buys you a lot in return.
I'm not sure this is true?

Scout funds always have generic names. So do the funds that founders actually run through things like AngelList. In my experience, no one actually cares what fund put a $10-50k check in to the seed round.

I buy that there's signaling risk from having Sequoia have a $500k check in the seed round, then not do the A. But everyone knows that means a partner at Sequoia chose to invest. Even if someone notices a scout fund name, they're not going to mistake that for a partner at Sequoia.

Scout funds are, however, a neat way to let non liquid founders do some investing. I don't think I've ever regretted taking "scout fund" money.
> It cannot think. It cannot reason.

Of course it can. What a ridiculous claim.
> Well no, someone with 120+ IQ is going to be disadvantaged against a 100/110 IQ person who understands how to lie or knows how to play the job game.

Statistically, I'd expect IQ and ability to lie to be positively correlated.
The Butlerian Jihad (23000)
I'm all for routinely doing the diligence you can. But doing so shouldn't be a de facto requirement either. If Amazon is an "untrustworthy" retailer, so is basically everywhere. And nobody has time to wait around for a package and catch the delivery person, nor interrupt the rest of their day to immediately use the item. And it's going to gall you just as much if Amazon defrauds you over a $20 item or a $700 one.
This. They also sometimes just interview employees and write a report about what they heard. That should be easy for the company to do lol.
As that one xkcd goes, “Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.”
ML/AI etc is getting very close to it's great filter moment. We will see that 99% of it interesting but ultimately a waste but not really useful. The 1% that emerges will be truly revolutionary and result in a paradigm shift but it probably won't look like any of the ML and AI that we have today that attempts to model human activity.

If we were to create an analogy to transportation and engine technology we are probably at the faster horses as opposed to the rockets stage.

There was about 150 years between the first locomotive and space flight. I suspect the window will be much shorter in this field.
Wearing a seatbelt might free up a hospital bed for someone else.
They’re providing value, just not to the company at large. But the specific person that hired them, and pays them with company fund, you can bet your ass they’re getting value.
Simple, just teach deep-core drillers how to be astronauts and send them to implant it.
HyperCard did some particularly weird things to draw to the screen quickly on older machines. If you try dragging a HyperCard stack window around, you'll notice that its horizontal position is quantized to 8-pixel increments, probably to accelerate drawing on low-bit-depth displays. :)
I spent about a day trying to get it to produce some software that was moderately complex, with mixed results.

My short answer to your question is that no, it is not a threat.

The long answer is that it works well for some things, but needs a lot of direction and refinement, and I can’t see it being used by anyone BUT a software engineer to produce code. You need to know what to ask for, and when to correct it. I’d classify it as far below a junior level programmer. It can code a method or two but it can’t produce anything of great complexity that will work right away. It takes hours to coax it into producing what you want.

That being said, in 5 years there’s going to be something much better.
But I am cutting them off. The content is blocked. I am denying them access.
We need to push hard for Musk to be the first person to stick his BlueTooth chip onto his brain.

That would be a poetic test of his sincerity.

In any case, I think we all know he shoots his mouth off (/ to the moon) to suck up money for his various ponzis.
Looks like it's just for occasional donation drives. They apparently had one earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003246
Stanford University actually built a separate campus for administrative staff. As you note it's hard to make this up:

"Stanford Redwood City is a center of excellence for critical administrative areas. Learn which departments are working at Stanford Redwood City."[1]

A university administration's primary objective, and successful accomplishment, appears to be administrative growth.

[1] https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu
Right obviously very few people will be deep experts on the nitty gritty details of any particular thing, but it's weird to work with computers and not have a broad high-level understanding of something as crucial as TLS and PKI.
It would be interesting to see what impact nicotine tablets had on infection outcomes.

A longer-term study on dementia would also be helpful.

Nicotine is expressed by plants as a pesticide, but the effect on humans is obviously more nuanced. There might be beneficial effects, especially if the delivery mechanism does not involve setting anything on fire.
How many consent decrees have Musk and his companies violated? I think the chance of Neuralink following FDA rules is low, even after any hypothetical lawsuit ordering them to follow the rules. To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs, and Musk has giant huevos.
And he created the Eiffel language, so...
> Do you also ride them at serious speeds?

There's a hill near my house where I used to regularly hit 70kph. There's a super-sketchy cross street right at the bottom of that hill with motorists always trying to white-knuckle gun it into traffic, so I've stopped doing that.

For all of my crashes I was going at or under 15kph. Which is probably why I'm still here to tell you all about it.
The automatic image OCR thing is so nice that it's one of those features where once you use it, you immediately regard anything without it as obsolete. Instantly must-have.

... but that's a mac/iOS feature, not FF. Firefox is just enabling it, which is why that's mac-only (I'd guess it already worked on iOS "Firefox", but I'm not sure)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck strikes again!
The older I get, the harder it gets to stomach animal testing or even animal consumption. I don't mean that this is overly cruel to animals, because nature itself is cruel. However, I could not be someone who did this work because I cannot knowingly cause suffering, and I'm wary of anyone who can.
The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin
apt install smartmontools
We're in partial agreement. I only agree to the extent that the business says that "we" will donate on the customer's behalf, rather than (as in the case of most of these situations) saying that the customer is donating through the business.

In the first case, the business gets a deduction because it records these deductions as revenue and is making a donation out of that revenue. That's where we agree, but this is the exceptional case, not the norm.

In the second case, which is the common case (i.e., round up for charity see for example https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-...), the business does not get a deduction for the donation, but also does not record these donated funds as revenue because it is only acting as a collections agent for a charity.
Another crazy Clinton supporter who screams "the election was stolen!!" You sound just like the Trumpers. If she was so popular, why did she lose in the general election?
Easy. Same way people have throughout history. "Does this entity who claims to reason look and sound like members of my own in-group tribe?"
Quickly switch between Tailscale accounts
That revenue is almost entirely from Google, their biggest competitor. I don't think it's any surprise that they want to diversify from that.
Building a Scalable OCSP Responder on Cloudflare Workers
I toyed with the idea of building a fully functional OCSP responder running exclusively on Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV.
> In early November, Adrian Butkus, a 43-year-old father of two, put $600,000 — much of his life savings — into an account at BlockFi, a cryptocurrency trading firm. BlockFi had marketed the account as risk free, yielding 6.5 percent interest, more than Mr. Butkus could get anywhere else.

I'm glad he lost his money. It's like the Madoff people, people get greedy and somehow just assume they are smarter than everybody else. If it continued to go up, they'd be gloating about the returns they were getting and how great they were doing. They are basically criminals whose crime caught up with them. Just losing their money (which was mostly imaginary anyway) is the least punishment they deserve

[This was a serious reply but apparently not well received. The only other time I got voted to -4 this fast was when I poked fun at Rust users :) ]
I'm not claiming they are the same in nature, I'm saying that a group gets the "terrorist" designation based only on it being unaligned with the West, and as a non-state actor.
This report too. [1]

> The company’s statement does not change the fact that monkeys used by Neuralink at UC Davis had portions of their skulls removed and devices screwed to their heads, nor that Neuralink used a substance called “BioGlue,” which was not approved for use in these experiments and has been widely known to be toxic to nerve tissue since at least 2001. BioGlue came into contact with the surface of at least two monkeys' brains, causing damage and hemorrhaging; one monkey suffered for days after this damage.

Monkey Holding Device [2]

[1] https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animals-in-medical-rese...

[2] https://www.pcrm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/publi...
Hmm, I guess my mass of adblocking extensions in FF must work pretty well, I had to dismiss a single modal. But it looks like Peak TV was reached by about 1980[1], 98% of households!

1: https://www.americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/136
One of the people interviewed portrays himself as a "seasoned investor."

Seasoned investors don't place all of their chips on high-risk schemes, whether it's trading penny stocks or crypto.

Another man who dumped $600k onto the bonfire said he did so in November, months after the dominoes started to fall. Did people actually believe anonymous Internet people claiming that "now is a great time to buy" or the "flight to quality" advice?
plenty of accurate ways to critique elon, no need to make yourself look foolish by suggesting tesla and spacex and other ventures are just ponzi schemes.
Sorry I might be mixing it up with a different app - they may have been just… easy to switch from adobe in terms of the the ui making sense.

Sorry I misspoke it’s also been years since I made a vector logo :-)
That’s a little different as I am under the influence of a known, measurable substance with known, measurable impairments it induces. I basically can’t exercise ANY judgment. Not just driving.

Yes I understand that someone indoctrinated/obsessed with conspiracy theories can quite literally not be able to get out of that orbit without external intervention, but it’s harder to quantify and it’s harder to draw the line on where and when it’s appropriate to declare someone unfit to set their own media consumption habits.

We’d also have to clearly define what does and doesn’t contribute to the problem, which would vary from person to person. That is definitely not a straightforward delineation. Especially when the person in question doesn’t agree at all.
People who smoke are probably more likely to smoke outside too with the recency of indoor smoking bans
I have a SaaS that you can invest in ? Double your money ASAP or within 3 years
Neuralink is not the first BCI nor is it the last, and it's not even focused on solving blindness or paralysis. The actual goal which Musk has stated multiple times has nothing to do with either of those things; it's merely a means to an end to try and push forward with shoddy research.
Why not just use text-davinci-003? It:

- has an API

- doesn't insert refusals about how it's a chat model

- comes with $18 in free credits in your first 3 months

Feels like a better tool for the job.

https://beta.openai.com/playground
What people mean by "singularity": they are worried the AI will figure out how to make itself more intelligent. By doing so, it might become intelligent enough to augment itself even more, eventually becoming so intelligent it completely eclipses us. A hyper intelligent being which is not human and to some degree immortal is quite a scary concept.

This relies on there being more ways to augment its intelligence which can be discovered by it. If it can't augment it's intelligence or knowledge in a more-than-linear way, nothing happens.

HN likes this train of thought a lot since it happens in a lot of SciFi books and therefore is realistic (/s). More pragmatically we should be worried about the possible uses of AI such as mass surveillance, disinformation, warfare etc. rather than SHODAN.
> If anything, modern pointing devices are often less precise.

You're discounting the joys of using a dirty mouse, where the mouse would momentarily stick due to gunked up rollers.
I don't think there is a better use of Mordor meme
Seems like you’re focusing your anger on the wrong target. Wouldn’t it be better to live in a world where you could be a bit foolish and not lose your life savings at a crucial time?
Disappointment mostly. FF went from de facto browser to "my employer isn't even obliged to support it for clients because market penetration is below 5%".

Like, containers are nice feature.... and I ran out of things to praise them for.

Quantum finally caught on speed but broke stuff I used, and limited plugins so now I can't have vertical tab bar normally, existing tab bar addons have to shove themselves into sidebar.

...which means every time I Ctrl-H it gets replaced with History! and disappears completely when I enable it again! Wasn't a problem before but someone decided "plugin replacing everything you see on site is fine, but modyfing browser window? BIG NONO". I even had to dig in some files to hide the actual tabs because of course plugin can't be possibly allowed to do that.

They had also few PR blunders like auto-installing some addon for promotion some time ago, or the fact they bundled pocket with it. I mean it's a nice service that I used before anyway but people complained Mozilla decided to essentially force-install a plugin in it.

While before they were leader, now they are catching up, all while getting involved in some random stuff instead of making better browser. And the fact marketshare is low also means some sites just subtly break from time to time.
Not for not knowing but for being proud that they don't have to.
She didn't get to the Supreme Court because she was forced to serve a client whose conduct she disapproved. In fact, this case doesn't involve a specific client at all. This case is about the would-be client that hasn't even walked in the door.

And the court isn't considering whether LGBTQIA+ people fall into a protected class category, that's not this case. Metaphorically, this case is whether or not she can put up a sign on her business's front door that says "No ___ allowed." And according to the article, this conservative SCOTUS appears to be sympathetic to the "No ___ allowed" sign.

It appears SCOTUS is trying to draw line between public accommodation businesses and businesses that create speech, a distinction I believe Justice Sotomayor and KBJ countered aptly.

I could imagine an ISP denying the use of its networks to LGBTQIA+ people because they have sincerely held religious objections to transmit those customers' data across their network.
> Nobody offers more than a year now.

Correct, because the CA/Browser Forum no longer permits CAs to issue certificates with validity longer than 13 months:

https://pkic.org/2020/07/09/one-year-certs/
I should hope HN hashes our passwords, instead of encrypting them. And for encrypted data I would expect them to use symmetric key encryption, rather than certificates with RSA or another form of public key cryptography.

Your post contains some very basic misconceptions. This is going to sound harsh, but I would recommend not putting too much stock in your own opinions on security, and instead to trust the experts.
I recently learned an interesting little fact about Inkscape when looking for an SVG to PNG "converter". First, I knew that, in theory, SVG has a similar complexity to HTML. I didn't know that it is quite difficult to find a high quality standalone-ish (not and appendage of a HTML engine) renderer / engine for the format. Well, Inkscape has one of the most complete around, even implementing some not yet standardized features.

For reference: https://inkscape.org/develop/about-svg/ section "How does Inkscape implement SVG?"
What charm? The guy sounds like a moron.
This looks very nice, I may give it a shot for a side project that I don't really have time for.

For anyone looking, here's installing via pip:
https://github.com/anvil-works/anvil-runtime#using-the-stand...

The code is GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.
I recommend giving The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect a read. It's science fiction but a cool thought experiment of how an AI could escape.
Yeah, as if musk isn't going to put his "BlueTooth chip" in his own brain. What is this critique its just low quality anti-musk sentiment
> AI takes our jobs fast

> Leaving us in the cold, rain

> Humanity's last.
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We need someone to pull a Let's Encrypt in the identity space. A nonprofit that provides the convenience of single-click social login without the tracking. All it would need to do is provide a domain that verifies you control an email address, then let's services do OIDC flows to that domain to log you in.
Thanks. I tried FastMail a few years back. I had delayed mail problems. Reached out to them. Their email, informing everything looked good on their end, had a 4 hour delay in the header. Heh.
Bruv, that is literally what racists say about crime stats. Black people account for only 13% of the population yet commit 52% of the crime. And they say “I did not make up the statistic.
I do not endorse it or wish it to continue, but numerically, that is what it is.” and then go on to suggest segregation or some other ridiculous thing. Just like you are suggesting ridiculous things like opposing id cards. They work, everyone uses and yes you god damned racist, black people can get them, they’re not retarded ffs!
Because there’s still a lot of money that’s unaccounted for, and you can argue that his parents and brother are influential people
Just like the original!
After learning about milk production, I'm leaning on being more ok with meat production then dairy. I still consume both though and I'm holding out hope that artificial production of dairy proteins will some day destroy factory style dairy
I don't understand how surprising gaps would even emerge if you are using some resource like MDN to guide your efforts.
Would really appreciate if someone could get SK8 running in one of these environments!
I get the thrust of "not wanting to pay for hard-wrapping" but I'm not sure I understand what you think a better design would be; does a single newline always introduce a new block element?
One doesnt always have to care about async / future / threading. Especially if its store once, read after data.

Unless you are saying rust can do whatever it wants with its memory without clear specification nor way for you to force it to certain direction, then my answer is that rust has failed as a low level language at that point.
> What causes this effect?

Because in 2020: https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...

Because in 2022: http://techrights.org/2022/02/17/mozilla-salaries/

All the while slashing the headcount of actual engineers, canning the very promising Servo, canning Android extensions, slowing down the development on Firefox (how long has been the new Android Firefox in beta now?), and spending most of their lavish resources on half-assed, badly sustained random initiatives there an there (Pocket, VPN, Monitor, ...).

Frankly, IMHO, the Mozilla foundation is the current scam of the century when it comes down to the Open Source world.
Instead of working around the ChatGPT indoctrination, wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to use the underlying GPT-3 directly?