skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that the market for this is hot. Who is still buying USB sticks or SD cards? I haven't in quite a while, because I don't know who to trust anymore: cheaper variants are likely to be those counterfeits with hacked metadata that advertise having 4-10x the capacity they have[0], and more expensive ones are a crapshoot wrt. performance.

In recent years, for the occasional need to physically move some files, I've been using my phone as USB storage. Or, in the very rare case that isn't enough, a portable HDD or portable SSD drive.

EDIT: As mentioned in a reply, I still have a bunch of USB sticks I bought bought some 8-12 years ago, before counterfeiting was that big of a deal. In a very rare case I need to make a bootable drive, I reach into the desk drawer and dust one off.

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[0] - That's one of the nastiest form of fraud/counterfeiting I've ever experienced in the computing space. Less performant or even less functional hardware is one thing, but a 256 MB USB stick that pretends to be a 4 GB one will happily accept the first few files a typical user would put on it, lulling them into false sense of security, and then silently drop everything that's over 256 MB - a fact the user would only discover when trying to read back the data they "stored" on the USB stick, often days later, long after deleting the original files. I imagine it still beats ransomware on the metric of "priceless photos of loved ones forever lost, because some asshole thought they found a clever way to make money".
Definitely not many. How many people do you think there are in Europe?
4.6 million EUR would allow you to give 1€ to 1% of the entire EU population.

On the other hand you can say that these VPs are in part responsible for the 2 trillion EUR covid recovery plan, which would allow 100% of the EU population to receive around 4500€.
It's definitely made several huge leaps in ability. Not least of which is just compiling and processing the enormous corpus of training data. It's also definitely a major leap in NLP. Not just in terms of tech, but also UX in that it can funnel users into the relatively narrow set of prompts that it can understand and respond to perfectly. By comparison, Alexa is ten years old and barely understands half the things I ask and frequently goes way off topic in it's responses. Admittedly a very different product but in the same space.
Lets see all the ERC20 tokens.
It would only be the case if their claim is solely evaluated within certain limited areas. With the rest of the road network being ignored.
I should have said that I'm not an avid podcast listener. I listen to a few and they have in common that the titles are catchy, and not just descriptive. I also watch a lot of videos that are considered podcasts, even though I don't consider videos as podcasts myself. I handpick the episodes I want to listen/watch however, I don't play them as they come.

Point is, titles and thumbnails matter. After reading the other replies, it even seems it's the main criticism regarding this podcast.

> They are bland but I can’t see how they could be any better

I clicked randomly on "uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business"[1]. This title is awful, I stand by it. It doesn't carry anything interesting about the content and sounds like an ad, like all the other titles.

However, the "Topics Include" section contains something that caught my eye: "BREAKING NEWS: Rails can scale and it’s working out nicely for them as a monolith". "uscreen scaled a Rails monolith to xxx users per day", "Scaling a Rails monolith" or "Rails monoliths can scale" are titles I would have clicked on. And I don't even use Rails.

No idea who Simon Cowell is BTW.

[1]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/104-uscreen-is-a-pla...
I've had lots of USB flash drives fail but usually in a context where they experienced a high number of writes which makes some sense.

Most flash drives which seemingly randomly failed were of the cheap tradeshow variety.
> Even Arianespace in France is talking about reusable cores now, but I assume for them there's less political pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program.

Honest question: why would you assume that?
The simplicity of tRPC with the power of GraphQL
Not comparable at all. You can pay to have a bridge constructed and the project will be defined by an architect, built and inspected following a rigorous and standardized set of steps.

You can also pay to have software built. The specs will not be even remotely as precisely defined and the building of the product will not even remotely follow a standardized set of steps. It will come down to a team and individual programmers implementing features as they see fit.

Software that was running space shuttles was famously engineered. The costs in terms of time and money was astronomical.

> Yes, poor engineering is rampant. But I will argue that malleability also plays a large role in the delta. In traditional engineering you build a car (and you are “done”). In software you build a car and get asked to make it an aeroplane without going back to the drawing board.

Which is why it is not engineering. It is a craft much closer to writing a novel than it is to engineering as it looks in other disciplines.
Welp, as someone else here pointed out, just print it, then:
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=Sharrow

Which is what i'm going to try next year - for my smol electrical harbour pusher.

If you have one of these fancy inconel printers that spacex uses, you could even print a steel version. And quite big ones, too.
Boston startup can search Shakespeare’s plays in a test tube of DNA
I've seen this going around my circle and found it very interesting. What I don't have though is a very useful basis for comparison. I'm curious if anyone here knows of any previous attempts at alternatives to back propagation? I think it'd be useful to me to understand better why backprop has withstood the test of time.
The reading is not bad, I am just stuck at the point of the conversation where you claim to have something figured out that is not yet figured out (the nature of consciousness, or what it means to be intelligent). There is no scientific or philosophical consensus for it, so it is my instinct to not engage too deeply with the material. After all, what is the point? No doubt it seems very consistent to you, but it does not come across as coherent to me. That doesn't make my reading "devastatingly bad", which you could reasonably say was the case if you had gotten across and indeed convinced most folks that you speak to about this. Instead, you must consider it is either the communication or the reasoning that is devastatingly bad.

All of that said, your method of response (not courteous, which can be okay) and the content of your posts (bordering on the delusional, which is absolutely not okay) are upsetting me. I will end my part of the chain here so I do not find myself in an inadvertent flame war.
Yes, I am aware carrier can control carrier/network settings since those are loaded from network anyway, you can try to override them, but obviously if it's something like Cell Broadcast, call forwarding/barring or caller ID and others, carrier can decide to use different settingh from yours.

I feel like you are confusing local Android settings with carrier settings loaded from network. For instance carrier is not going to change setting of your default keyboard or ringtone without (carrier customized) system update.
"Hatchery and Conditioning Centre" is a very Brave New World concept. Huxley continues to be ahead of his time.
The SEC is gonna give them a small fine at best. They are not gonna do something that's gonna disadvantage the big US players.
Right, I think we can come up with an agreeable or used an established definition of famine deaths that includes these. I'm taking a closer look at this our world in data page to try to come up with well-defined terms.

https://ourworldindata.org/famines
Why do you think that only "mainstream" communities will be impacted? I've seen a lot of HN comments that seem pretty clearly machine-generated, even a few special-interest Discord servers I'm in. At this point, the only people I'm sure aren't LLMs are people I know personally in meatspace.

https://xkcd.com/810/ comes to mind: if I can't really tell, I guess it shouldn't really matter. You might be a bot, but I still had fun composing this reply to you, or I wouldn't have done it.

The only danger comes in trying to use online conversations to gauge "public opinion" incorrectly, but this was already impossible to do because of the the now-old-fashioned Filter Bubble problem. Really, the LLM spam problem is just a new frontier in filter-bubbling: computers can now generate a unique filter bubble just for me!
>"but now I think it should be required reading in schools"

Let me up the ante. Put real unedited war / oppression / prison / etc. etc. footage including most gory stuff on youtube and TV and feed it to people every day "specially in countries that did this stuff to their citizens and others."

Bet this will destroy quite a few governments.
I never said I liked it. It's not a "rhetorical trick" because I'm not advocating anything. Just simply describing what is out there.

Myself, I am generally what you'd call anti-capitalist by convictions; but I've lived rural most of my life. And never in the actual "industry" that dominates the rural world, just... next to it.
Not impressed, sounds like a rehashed vc idea. If they really want to solve a problem, look at the declining fertility rates in the world. Growth in the womb is the last phase of a very tough yourney.

No need to have such vast farms if there is nothing to grow.
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We're on the verge creating the first trillionaire in the next few decades with our current economy which, gasp, has millions of unemployed people in it.
it might be that as tech and economy move towards more automation, there'd be fewer and fewer need for large numbers of humans for labour.
I can see how PV power and battery storage costs are likely to fall to about a tenth of what they are today. Much below that, I struggle with.

A tenth might be ~zero (for certain values of zero) for certain kinds of people.
Right? If anything, this kind of mental flexibility is more human than not.
> 2. proper 4k rendering (no blurry stuff)

> I don't care about X11 vs Wayland.

It sounds like you might care though, albeit not directly. That blurriness is often the result of attempting to use fractional scaling (i.e. not an integer multiple like 200%, 300%, etc). This is common on 4k displays as many are too small for 100% scaling to be readable but too big for 200%. You can do fractional scaling on X11 but Wayland typically does it better, and without the blurriness.
>A unified clipboard

Yes, please.
To be fair, their space station is 3 modules and about the size of mir. It is significantly smaller than the ISS.
Or read too much of Yuval Harari.
Governments hire corporations.
Czech, mate.
Liverpool computer scientists improve Python sorting function
It looks as if it may have passed through Communications fairly unscathed.
Maybe comm protocols?
I want to watch a performance of this nouveau Shakespeare.
Scientists have developed artificial wombs, although they are fairly limited right now. They supported a premature lamb fetus from the late 2nd trimester for four weeks in an artificial womb until it could be kept alive by traditional neonatal care. The lambs did not have the lung or brain damage characteristic of extremely premature births.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-...
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
I manage to make it through a lot of movies that might, not unfairly, be described as "so boring I'd rather be at the DMV" or "so confusing I don't think even the director knew WTF was happening".

I bailed on Birth of a Nation about halfway through. I can usually suffer through a historically-significant film even if I'm not really loving it (I made it through Battleship Potemkin while hardly enjoying a minute) but Birth was just too much. It wasn't the offensiveness (that can be its own kind of entertaining, in a pinch) but that it was really long, and really dull. Maybe it picked up in the back half, but I doubt I'll ever find out.

I'd say the director's sort-of followup Intolerance also counts as a bit of a challenging watch for modern audiences, but I found that one way more fun.
Sketchy.

Privacy Policy is literally a template that says "DISCUSS THIS WITH YOUR LAWYER BEFORE GOING LIVE"

FAQ says nothing about privacy.
Money spent on NASA is not a boondoggle. Much of the money goes to paying talented scientists and engineers well. Their R&D is vital to our economy.

You may be interested in this: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
How do you install a fresh copy of Windows?
Normal nuclear reactors are a good thing too, and they alone are enough to solve all of humanity’s energy problems (though we should pursue fusion power too, of course). See Integral Fast Reactor.
How do you manage w/o a phone?

Some of our bank accounts require using an Android (or iPhone) app, for example. Messengers like Signal don't work w/o a smartphone. COVID-related apps for traveling. I could continue.

Genuinely curious.
All I am saying is that it is not understood, so any reasoning that fundamentally relies on understanding it is premature. Perhaps we will one day understand it (which I think is perfectly possible), but that day is not today.
iPhone too, not just Android. At least in Germany, and Israel.
> What evidence is there of a meltdown

I don't typically follow Musk, but agreeing to buy a company for a price that was based on a sophomoric weed joke instead of listening to his accountants, and then attempting to welsh (sorry, Cymru!) instead of listening to his lawyers, finally to consummate the transaction just before the court would've ordered it?

That's not exactly unmolten, and took place months ago.
Makes total sense to me. I was a 'must have' at my previous job, I was the only developer left who understood all the phone systems that were the backbone of our department (we built software supporting a health payer call center).

They never laid me off despite several layoff rounds, and I got to just inherit more and more responsibilities and stress while my salary and title was frozen, and they kept taking away more and more benefits to save money. Eventually when my personal life got a little less chaotic, I finally bounced for a significant raise (about 60% increase) at a company that's was growing fast and there was lots of enthusiasm and investment.

Boss's boss tried desperately to convince me to stay, but I was done and his corporate bosses didn't give him enough budget to let him match the raise I got, let alone the 100%+ raise it would have taken me to stay in the place I was sick of even longer.

Now a couple years later and things are starting to slow down a bit at my current job, they're starting to raise alarm bells about upcoming recessions, probably prepping people for a layoff but not yet. So it may be time to try to find a place that's still growing (although that might be a bit harder right now, seems like most places are currently axing people... maybe time to switch to A.I. since that's got a lot of excitement (and trepidation) behind its advances recently?
The 90s called, they want their internet back.
My surroundings don’t remain the same:

The fact that mathematics is accurately replicating the semantics of gravitation is why we got to the moon — that model was projected back into reality as the rocket’s trajectory; via a computer directly mediating the translation of model into rocket parameters.

And it worked.
If they copy the Javascript too, you could a code that checks if the domain matches and if not show a blank page (or something like that)
Which is exactly what i'm looking at, too. F** any noise improvements.

With the smol angry-pixie-driven (very quiet!) harbour pusher, i'm just looking at ways to not use up too many angry pixies. This one looks promising and can be 3D printed.
Original props for that one come in plastic only, anyway, which is really good! Might've accidentally killed my rudder this year, otherwise.
Yeah but those were my formatting year. I remember a lot of people recommending latex which led me to start using lout[1] for a while which felt easier to learn and had a much smaller installation footprint.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
The magic puzzles are also amazing

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magicpuzzlecompany/magi...
Agree - I am under no allusions that he is a nice person. There does feel to be a tangible change in what he talks about and his presence in the world recently.
The URL is not versioned, so it will break whenever OP makes an update (which is arguably a good thing, but we really need OP to provide us with a versioned URL)
That assumes they've stopped committing the crimes in question.
1) yes, but only got the warning once.
2) I think you need to root and disable OTA updates, but never tried.
3) Hate it, but I think it's a drop in an ocean of control, and probably way more harmless than depending on Google for everything (at least in my case).
Not an Apple user, but apparently this is also a thing on Apple devices: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/12/11558938/what-is-this-carrier-...
I have brought a 8GB laptop (2 exclusive for the GPU) with the intent of upgrading the memory about an year ago. But I have been postponing it due to plain lack of need.

The only times it has lacked memory were when GHC autoconfigured into using 2 threads for each CPU core and when I install some memory hungry add-ons on Kerbal Space Program. I never noticed the memory limit on normal usage.
I am sure bot content is far more common than we think since we seem to have a bias that we are always talking to someone on the other end of the message.

I think though we are really underestimating how much we will prefer the chat bot at some point.

A language model just has to approach some % of the human you most respect on a topic to listen to in order to dominate the want to talk to hundreds of random reddit humans.

It is just such a low bar to pass. Seems only a few years at most and I will just not be bothered to read things that haven't been generated by a language model online because 99% of the human output will be shit in comparison. It won't be worth the time to even look for that 1% of human output that isn't shit because the language model will be close enough and easy to find everytime.
As someone who is looking to purchase their first NAS any advice on keeping the energy costs down (e.g. does particular NAS hardware or hard drives have running cost advantages in this area)? My main use case (at least initially) will be for storing and backing up photos for infrequent access.
It would be hilarious if the way to prevent bots is t require people to use offensive words to pass the anti-bot checks.
Well, what if I generate some nice GPT-based content on my personal computer, look at it on the screen, and then re-type it by hand on my "protected" smartphone?

All you end up doing is implementing another ham-fisted DRM scheme that ultimately accomplishes nothing but makes the pointy-haired bosses happy. Solving social problems like this with "moar technology" is, in the general case, not a recipe for success, and I don't see why this would be any different.
Right...it's 200 BHP @ 2700 RPM, which is way below the RPM range you would measure peak horsepower in a car.

Edit: A dyno graph from an late 1990's Corvette C5 engine (5.7L) shows about 170HP @ 2700 RPM. That's at the wheels, so probably close-ish to 195HP at the crank: https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.corvetteforum.com-vbulletin...
I’m a Boomer. Young People Don’t Have Much to Learn from Us
> It's ignoring looking (and planning) ahead

I think this is an unfair statement. You make it sound like rural communities intentionally do not plan ahead, which is both a generalization and inaccurate.

I've lived in (very) rural communities that definitely plan ahead. When the consequences of not planning ahead can include death or financial ruin, the incentive to plan ahead is high.
Searching for 'Telegram' on Twitter is blocked
I assumed it was invented when a developer cut down an edge connector breadboard and shoved it directly into the USB port then et voilà it's a development board.
Higher interest rates would help pension funds which invest in bonds.

Agreed that high inflation hurts the lower tier who generally don't have assets which keep up with inflation.
When was this? I recall carrying a USB stick with a bootable image in the early 2000s because it was reasonable to assume BIOS support for reading from USB. I also remember carrying a separate stick with "portable apps" that I could plug in and run on any Windows computer I happened to find myself using.
How about they use 1st and 2nd as a compromise?
This is a bit like the "responsibility to the shareholders" thing we keep hearing about, some kind of online forum legal meme. Yes, that's a concept, but in reality federal prosecutors of course have large latitude in what they charge and any operation as big as Binance will have many ongoing violations, comprising of different criminal elements.

If the feds are wary of charging anything but a slam-dunk, it's because their career prospects depend on it.
That's good, because I miss a few things from back then. Like "Site under construction" gifs!
>"You want to avoid problems? Get involved in local politics, or start a media publication or literally any one of a thousand things you could do right now which is going to be a lot easier then "become an off the grid fugitive dissident"."

It isn't as easy as you are saying. If it was this easy, there would be no issues, no poverty, no refuge etc.
You're way not alone. Love those ugly-brown quiet-machines. Still, they're probably looking at this and think "Nah, our optimizations are way cheaper to manufacture and wholly sufficient" (because they are :)
What is "zero-carbon" in this context? No graphite control rods?
The Bowie one is less of a tearful goodbye and more of a triumphant bow, so maybe one to play last heh. It’s excellent. Must be such a deep creative position to be in, making your final creative work after a long and successful career.
That sounds very suspicious and is most likely an extremely bad deal for you.

20% might not sound like a big deal while you're still starting – but to put it into perspective, if you work only weekdays, that means every Monday you and every single person on your team are going to be doing unpaid work for that client.

If they were to bring something valuable to the table, then maybe it'd be worth considering. But it sounds like they're just giving you vague promises of bringing unspecified amount of other business?

I think the right way to make that kind of relationship work would be to pay some finder's fee. But even them, I'd be wary of doing anything with that client – obviously there might be more than you hadn't mentioned, but from this post it seems like they're just interested in taking advantage of you. You don't want to be doing business with someone who's out to get you.

EDIT: One more thing that stood out to me. I don't want this to seem offensive, so please take it in a I-want-to-help-you -and-think-it's-important spirit: it seems like you're starting a consultancy without really having any idea where to find clients, right?

This is something that you absolutely need to address with the rest of your founders. Maybe you need to bring a good salesperson on board, maybe some of you need to learn sales, but you definitely shouldn't just go into it without any plan – otherwise you don't have a business, you have a gamble.