skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would posit that the causality is reversed. Abandoned parts of town are caused by a lot of people failing to improve their lives, and that past experience destroys their hope.

Likewise, economic collapse is caused by the collapse of belief that things can get better, which destroys the shared beliefs underpinning the economy. Economies can be repaired as long as people believe the economy is worth repairing.

I would venture a guess that the optimism of engineers eating in Stripe's cafeteria is different than the optimism of the cafeteria workers. The former likely have a string of positive past experiences to fuel their hope to even get where they are (promotions, raises, etc). The latter probably hope to do something else, but have failed and/or given up on trying due to failure.

> It's not that we pay so little that people can't make ends meet. It's that life costs so much, and can be so good, that people can't make dreams meet.

I think they're expectations more than dreams. Their parents owned a house, so they expected to but can't. Their parents went on vacation once a year, but they can't. After a certain number of failed expectations, they just assume the rest of their expectations are void, so why bother? Meanwhile they watch the more successful people's expectations grow; those people don't just want a raise to offset inflation, they want their income to grow. They want to vacation internationally instead of domestically.

The loss of a dream certainly sucks, but the loss of something that was "promised" to you as a child hurts so much more. If you give up on all of those promises, you no longer have to feel the hurt of being denied them.
Depression is a state with causes. Remove the things that make it persist and it will go. If you’re talking about a chemical imbalance that itself is abnormal and could only truly respond to treatment like drugs (e.g. like schizophrenia and lithium) then I agree, but most depressed people have “normal” brains that are in a currently unhealthy state, so I’ll avoid arguing exceptional cases.

I’m also not suggesting that hope cures depression, I’m suggesting that hope prevents suicide. Basically, why kill yourself if there is hope? Depressed people aren’t being rational but then neither are optimistic people, each with their own distortions of reality. However, they’re not delusional, you might call it a state of hyper-realisticness that actually distorts through the destruction of possible branches in reasoning. An optimist thinks “it’ll be sunny tomorrow“, a depressed person thinks “it won’t be sunny again, ever”. Neither requires reasoning for their position snd can easily dismiss any given, but it can be done. Reason with an optimist and you will deflate them and they will react badly, usually we avoid this because it has little upside. Reason with a
depressed person and they will also react badly but the upside is that it may sow the seeds of their remission.

Regardless of all their defences, distortions and dismissals, if they can be convinced there’s hope it will keep depression from being suicidal.
Using an IDE for Java will, in general, make you orders of magnitude more productive. Not because of generated files or anything like that, but because it can recommend methods, auto-fill in details, add imports, etc. That kind of things saves a lot of time over the long run.
Recent YC Launches
> While not 100% easy people have been running Linux on x86 Macbooks for a long time. Not sure what you're getting at here.

Linux support on x86 MacBooks was pretty bad for recent models, and moved along really slowly compared to Asahi. There was definitely less interest in those porting efforts.
Location-based isn't personalized.

Personalized is "we're showing you ads for local gyms because we noticed that you've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about workout routines". Or whatever.
Yes, T-Mobile for example. I just dumped the interface information from my iPhone and the only address available is an ipv6 address. Everything else is put through an ipv6 to ipv4 gateway. Works fine.

Apple has required app developers to support ipv6 only deployments since 2015: https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/
> Another is the fateful decision of the author of make to have the space character and the (visually identical) tab character do very different things.

Tell me that your editor has bad defaults and you don't know how to configure it without telling me that your editor has bad defaults and you don't know how to configure it.

I can't understand how that still gets always claimed. I can't remember when editors got clever enough to show whitespace with distinct features but Eclipse had that, so at least early 2000s?

Fun fact, on the homepage of Apache Ant, there was for years the paragraph that one reason for its existence was due to the author not being able to handle tabs in Makefiles.

> Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but still have yet another format to use and remember.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100203102803/http://ant.apache...
Is this limited to federal elections? Does the constitution say much about state elections?
NanoODBC: A small C++ wrapper for the native C ODBC API
Perhaps so, but the synchronization primitives leak out eventually, e.g. while profiling or debugging. Semaphores also exist in other contexts, like POSIX/IPC, distributed semaphores etc.

Even if you did manage to avoid them entirely, it would suggest a lack of curiosity if you've never looked into how concurrency is implemented beneath the surface.
Nextcloud has three recommended add-ons that you can install in a few clicks:
-Brute force protection
-End to end encryption
-Multi-factor Authentication

E2EE will consume more space.
Anything over a network can be decrypted and inspected with a MITM proxy (manually adding its root certificate to the trust store), as long as only TLS (no application-level encryption) is being used.
The "unnecessarily intelligent" nature of a lot of humans was something I was thinking about too. For example, crows obviously have significantly smaller brains, yet demonstrate enough intelligence for at least basic tool use. So, in a biological sense it shouldn't be too surprising to find fire use at that point in evolution.

But perhaps it's more interesting because of how that would relate to human level intelligence in general. If they were capable of manipulating fire and were capable of enough planning to use them to maintain a path within a deep cave, they would probably have had some ability to communicate as well.

In which case, was our larger brain mass due to it simply not being enough of a detriment to survival or was there some big cognitive difference between these ancestors and modern humans that was also so much more advantageous to lead to our much larger brains?

Yes, step functions don't really exist in evolution, but even for gradual changes it's worthwhile to understand why we specifically were successful in comparison to others which seem to meet the requirements we think might be important.
Absolutely not.

People who didn't live through that era really don't appreciate a key aspect of it, which was that MSFT OWNED the desktop -- like, 90+% of the market. There were no other real options. For a good chunk of that period, Apple was seriously on the ropes and might not have survived. (Michael Dell famously said it should be sold off and the money returned to the investors.)

Microsoft had deals in place with PC makers so that it was impossible, nearly, to buy a computer without buying a Windows license. BillG specifically told Netscape he planned to "cut off their oxygen supply" by shipping a browser with Windows, and he did this because he was smart enough to see that browser-based software could endanger their control of computing. That was literally illegal.

No one has anything like the control they had back then. The desktop market is still mostly Windows, but Apple got healthy and took a decent chunk back. Now there's also ChromeOS and Linux out there, too -- plus, we have mobile, which is an even BIGGER chunk of the platform market, and it's split between iOS and Android.

So that's at least 6 different software platforms a hypothetical user could pick in 2022, and they're spread over dozens of hardware manufacturers. That's been the norm for so long now that it's easy to forget how little choice we had in 1998.

*ANYWAY* the bigger point is that adding features to your system isn't a problem if you're not acting as a monopolist. Microsoft WAS in the 90s. Nobody has that ability now.
> This is perhaps a naive question, but are there many machines that need more than 64bits of address space?

Not many machines currently, but CHERI has 129-bit pointers (yes, 129), and there's already some work on for instance Rust to be able to work with that (see https://faultlore.com/blah/fix-rust-pointers/ and https://faultlore.com/blah/tower-of-weakenings/), and also on GCC and glibc (https://lwn.net/Articles/909265/), and it's not completely improbable that this becomes more common. Creating a brand-new API today which cannot handle pointers wider than 64 bits seems a bit short-sighted.
Gamers in space with 300fps and no lag. In the future when I get sniped in matchmaking it’ll be by an astronaut.
2 EiB to be precise.
CHERI[1] anyone?

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Looks like they dropped the plans for the hash check anyway: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...
>If IPv6 were IPv4 with more octets, then we would all have been using it for like a decade.

The only real reason v4 is being replaced after decades is that it has a single showstopping flaw - the lack of addresses. v6 solves this forever with its massive address space. We've seen how incredibly hard replacing v4 has been. Without a similarly huge flaw to drive a replacement it's very possible that v4's successor could be the universal internet protocol for hundreds or even thousands of years. With that in mind, even though progress has been frustratingly slow, going for something closer to the global maximum in design and avoiding ease-of-adoption hacks might be the right thing to do.

That's not necessarily to say that your suggestion of still using dot-separated numeric values would be objectively worse, but bear in mind that doubling the number of fields from 4 to 8 as you've done only gives you a 64-bit address space, whereas IPv6 as it exists has a 128-bit space, so would require something like 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.
This is very interesting - thank you for sending. His "cyclic cosmology" somewhat fits into 2 but with a different flavor. And given you reach a stage of maximum entropy during the heat death of the universe prior to folding back into a new singularity - it seems the same result would still occur each time given no changes in initial conditions.

I'm sort of leaning towards LinuxBender here in thinking this is all some infinite movie on loop generated bc consciousness was bored by itself in the dark.
> So how 'big' is GPT-3?

For inference so basically running it you need multiple GPUs and hundreds of GBs of GPU memory. As to model size it's around 100x bigger than SD.
You can forget about running it locally unless you have dozens of high-end GPUs or you want to wait hours/days/weeks (depending on your hardware) for a single response.
I think the engineer's responsibility to society should always come first. If your boss is knowingly shipping a severe defect and your efforts to communicate your views on the matter to them have been met with ignorance or refusal to take action, then it is your ethical duty to take whatever steps are necessary in order to prevent harm being caused to society from the defect. This might include, for example, going over their head and raising the issue with upper management, or taking the issue to external organisations.
The conversations are pretty snappy and deadpan, reminiscent of one of the writer's previous work on Veep and The Thick of It, this show is often funnier to me than many comedies.
Xiaomi Humanoid Robot playing drums
Radiation is everywhere. We can detect radiation incredibly precisely, to the point that we can tell which person ate a banana for breakfast. I wrote that contamination was not detected, not that zero radiation whatsoever was detected. Again, we can detect radiation that's a trillionth of a deviation above average. But we don't care about the mere presence of radiation - it's all around us in low quantities - radioactive contamination happens when levels reach harmful concentration. None of your studies concluded that radiation would reach harmful levels even if it increased by a factor of 1,000. And remember, we already get 10% of our electricity from nuclear power so I'm not sure where this figure of 5,000 came from.

We all know that the cooling systems of nuclear power plants leak tritium. But the levels are negligible and nowhere near the concentrations that would cause harm. But organizations like Greenpeace continue to try lie and insist that it's contamination when it's not. The same thing is happening with La Hague.

There is absolutely nothing misleading about saying radiation isn't at harmful levels. On the contrary, insisting that the presence of any radioisotopes is evidence of harmful contamination is, itself a highly misleading kind of rhetoric. If you care about the levels of radiation released by La Hague you should be frantically trying to ban stone and brick housing.

Hopefully this will better convey a sense of what radiation exposure really means: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
> The real problem is that you need hemispherical hairless cows. ;)

That's a good opportunity to join forces with Sabine Hossenfelder and together move some of excess funding from, say, particle physics, and allocate it to fundamental research on which all physics depends: creation of frictionless, vacuum-rated spherical cows.
They also appear to have killed the crazy part of scanning on device. That’s the crazy part, not scanning in iCloud.
Just another bad day on Cisco Webex™
$399. 22k battery, 66w fast charging, IR, weather proof, rugged shell... I mean, looks like a perfect 2nd phone for outdoor folks
Can I use AppleTV+ without them tracking what programs I'm watching? Can I get them to stop showing me an ad in front of each program? Can I use Apple Music without them tracking the music I listen to? Can I use the App store without them tracking what apps I browse and download? Can I remove the ads from the App Store? Can I remove the ads for Apple Music from my iPhone?

> they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch just like they did to the Hi-Res music industry.

Except they only control 50% of the smartphone market and 15% of the PC market. So there is still a large market they're not covering
My friend who suffers from depression said it was basically being in emotional pain all the time. She said she has thought a few times that ending her life would stop the pain. It's a horrible form of mental illness. It's pervasive and while she has a grip on it now, it's something she struggles with often.

I also have a friend who committed suicide a few years ago. He had 2 kids but as his other friends described, he had his demons since he was a kid. I wish I could have helped him more.
Also an indicator of cognitive distortion and breeds extremism, but we are told to endure because of the principle of charity...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#All-or-no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I’ll keep an eye out for this then :)
Ah. I mean that’s somewhat true for any language. Is Java still super boilerplatey?
> but how would we feel if one of the other employees who did more of the actual transfers/faulty accounting got more of a sentence

Sunny wasn't just one of the employees, he was essentially a cofounder and was Elizabeth's closest advisor. The book made it sound like he ran the actual company while she was distracted with the media and having dinners with politicians.

Re: SBF, he owned 90% of Alameda and was responsible for sending them FTX customer funds to cover their loses, so he will always be more guilty than the girl who ran it and likely made the actual loses. These details matter. CEO's have more control formally but who did the dirty work is most important.
Yes link-local is only local to the link (same broadcast domain).

But most home networks are bridged on layer 2 anyway.

IPv6 allows for a design where you don't have everything on the same broadcast domain but actually use subnets for e.g. the WiFi network. But since you still want to retain IPv4 compatibility, this is usually not an option in home networks.

> So point me to an overview of ipv6, enough to manually configure a small network

Just enable router advertisements on your router (likely already the case) to announce a /64 prefix that was derived from the prefix you got from your ISP. You also want to enable RDNSS so DNS server information is included with the router advertisement. (also usually the default)

Then enable SLAAC on your hosts (already the default) to automatically select an address based on the prefix from the router advertisement. A /64 is big enough that the router doesn't have to individually assign addresses. Hosts can just pick one and if they are polite, ask if it's already used by someone else (duplicate address detection).

Presto! You now have IPv6 connectivity.
min + (max - min) / 2

Edit: never mind, this can overflow too
I mean i think it was the companies overhyping. Actual researchers have been much more cautious in their predictions, and we are basically on thecpredicted trajectory of people actually doing research.
Beyond the "good ol days", there's something to be said for mass popularity. When something has its moment, there's a magic in the air. A lightning in a bottle feeling coming from shared attention and excitement.

Sure, modern rock might be technically as good as classic rock, but rock doesn't rule the music world anymore. Honestly music doesn't really rule the entertainment world either.
There's never magic in computing. Its always ignorance.

...Although I will admit that whether its feasible or useful to demystify the magic varies from case to case.

As for Java, an IDE helps a lot for Java because the build landscape is quite tedious otherwise.
Seriously? What even is this take?

It's nowhere *near* as emotionally difficult as... You know... Being the person who's life got upended.
You can use a text editor. I’d look at the hello world Java application to see how simple it can be. It’s the frameworks that are responsible for config files, generated code, etc. That said, it’s much easier to manage large applications with an IDE.
But if they can't pay, society will have to. Granted, I guess this isn't technically paying for everyone else's healthcare.
What do they talk about online? It seems that the reason they BBS is that that in-person meetups (or even plain IM/email chat) don't work for them.
You appear to be telling others to respect choices or beliefs, yet you don't seem to be respecting the choices or beliefs of others. Ironically, your comment also feels remarkably unempathetic to me.

> There’s not a single individual there who is all smiles and mentally balanced after taking those calls.

The same issue exists in the police, in front-line medical staff, and also psych services. I have gentle friends that seem to cope with some awful shit at their workplace, and obviously we all have to deal with it in our own lives. We unfortunately don't live in a world of ideal happiness (work or personal).

In New Zealand the suicide line is run mostly by volunteers, a selection bias for the caring and empathetic, so it is choice of the volunteers to help. Perhaps you are only considering the downsides, without balancing the ledger with the upsides?

Do you think that employing emotionally detached people would be an improvement?
I can't help but think it might be more like putting a married person in a singles bar.

In other words, you might make choices how to behave in the situation that you might not have made earlier in life.

I've noticed many of my friends have mindfully chosen more things in their life. They have chosen relationships and behaviors, or more importantly avoided certain relationships and behaviors to allow other things.
So I guess the question is, how would one scale the number of nodes? Isn't that really what's needed then?
Censored Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Surgeon General of FL Speaks to mRNA Heart Death
When Dr. Joseph Ladapo shared an alarming study on increased heart-related deaths in young males who took mRNA vaccines, his post was immediately censored by tech platforms. But the takedown didn't last long: within hours, the censors must have realized that they'd just tried to silence the actual Surgeon General of Florida.
Knowing more now about Chris Seaton than I ever did, ironic that this comment got downvoted. Chances are good he knew more about cold, wet, and moving than the vast majority of people on HN.
Yes weather is still a challenge for space to ground communication. However there are numerous techniques being developped to handle this. One is to use adaptive optics similar to what is used by telescopes, a similar approach can be done digitally (like MIMO antennas in wireless). Now if the sky is overcast all these techniques don't help, however you only need relatively few ground stations to essentially get to above 99% availability.

That said the first rollout of optical comms is to intersatellite links. There the only issue is loss due to diffraction (and pointing etc., but that's a different discussion). Optics has a big advantage because diffraction is proportional to the inverse of wavelength, and the wavelength of light is several orders of magnitude smaller. This determines the size of the transmit and receive antennas/apertures needed, or the loss for a given size. For realistic parameters optics would have 30-50dB less loss which is translates directly to SNR and thus allows the much higher rates.

Source: Doing research in this area
We should attempt to reproduce it, but that will take time and until that happens, we should go with the best information we have.
Shameless plug: I wrote about what I think is bad about Julia:

https://weissmann.pm/julialang/
InstructGPT is actually 1.3B, you don't need 175B like initial GPT-3 model: https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/

ChatGPT is likely a much better variant, but also must be still small and will likely be portable.
>Fixed now

Flexing your unlimited comment edit privileges I see ;)
Is this why the Iranians hate their religion along with the govt? Because they mix them up as one and the same?
This is why I only ever give tips in cash for app based deliveries
This is probably posted in jest, but there was a time - not so long ago - where folks firmly believed nobody would need more than 16 memory bits, and even 1 Gigabyte of storage was considered outlandish.

Things have gotten exponentially larger in the meantime... with your average home computer going from < 1GB of RAM to 8GB and ever increasingly larger (my cell phone has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for what it's worth).

Having storage ranging in the Terabyte category is simply the norm, and things like Petabytes of storage are rapidly becoming more accessible for average users.

Saying "X is enough" - ever - in computing is foolhardy.
A lot of places probably set up
CircleCI and don't want to invest into switching since the value add between services is so minimal.

Why start a new project with CircleCI? That I don't have a clue.
The only software worth developing for Apple machines is FOSS software, and one should not plan to make a living exclusively off it.