skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jack Ma could have 10% of his wealth and that much more could be in the pockets of his workers, and he’d still be one of the richest men ever on earth.

Plus, knowing people who’ve done 996 in China, they were basically sitting in an office with their brains being numbed by pretending to look busy so they could feed the ego of some insanely rich guy who’d use their hours of life wasted as a talking point for international speeches in which he praises himself.

Jack Ma didn’t build China. He’s been out of the country for apparently a long time but things are still trucking along there. So it seems like things would also be fine if he gave a little more back and gave employees an extra hour a day of their life back.

And he’s not really a product of his country. Every single country has insanely wealthy people who accumulate their wealth by exploiting those under them. This guy just packed his bags and cowardly ran when the government said it’s time for him to pay something back.
Ma is worse than that.

Just check taobao, there are hundreds of millions faked or dodgy products openly being sold. Ma obviously doesn't have any sense of social responsibility for letting this to happen.

Let's don't even bother to start on the dodgy strategies from Ma's AliPay.
> So: it is legal for the FBI to call up a company and say what they think. And the company is free to act on that, or not, as they wish.

This makes me think of "the implication" in it's always sunny in philadephia.

FBI calls you up and tell you what they think, and you'll totally ignore FBI. Totally.

People hate Musk way too much that they are blind. If this was trump, the shitstorm would begin. It would be drummed up as the biggest scandal ever.
Are you talking about Newspeak? What you describe does not sound like what I think "orwellian" usually means.
Hello! I'm the founder of the website, thank you for sharing my work. I'm open to feedback and feel free to shoot any question.
What W series? I think you have been sold a fake Thinkpad ;)
I'mma rant. "If it behaves like a hammer, then it literally is a hammer."

The Turing hand-wave is ingrained and prevents too many from reasoning clearly.

Definition of intelligence is nebulous. Still, we should recognize that whatever it is, it is a property of a system, not a property of its output/behavior. Like nuclear powered or hand-made. Unlike fast or industrial-strength.

Imagine: You have a submarine in front of you, and you want to determine if it's nuclear powered. You could guess, using you prior "what have I seen nuclear powered things be able to do historically". This fails when you're out of sample which you'll often for any new technology.

To spell it out: You have a machine in front of you, and you want to determine if it's intelligent. Things people have come up with: "can it chat?", "can it play chess?", "can it do math?", "can it create new artworks?", "can it fool me into falling in love with it?", "can it run a business?". None of these questions examine the system, only its outputs/behavior.

Humans keep developing machines with new outputs/behaviors. Naturally the "what output is a machine usually capable of?" is a bad set of priors in this context. Before flying machines, the can it fly? output/behavior would work pretty well to classify birds. Once the first flying machine arrives, that prior breaks down. If you keep using it to classify, you'd classify a flying machine as a bird. But bird-ness was never only about flight.

So yeah, gotta pop open the hood and see what it runs on. If that's hard to do, then that means we don't know what intelligence is and/or we don't know how our new toys work inside. Both are plausible. Who promised you that there would be a good way to see if something is intelligent?

I bet Turing appeals to the same kind of minds that (when weaker) get fooled by the intelligent design hypothesis. Observe the human eyeball. What's the alternative to believing the LORD created it? After all, your prior is that all complex objects have intelligent designers, that you know about. So arguing from ignorance of other alternatives, you prove to yourself that the LORD exists.

AI people then word-think their way into redefining intelligence. "Maybe the real intelligence was the chess-playing we made along the way?" This is epistemologically pointless; all you accomplish is that we now need a new word for "intelligence".

I've never seen a machine that can turn water into wine, but if someone showed me one, I would not say that machine "literally is Jesus". Whether I'm capable of popping open the hood or making sense of its inner workings doesn't actually have bearing on this question.
Fascinating illustration of the allure, potential and pitfalls of AI. For example, its take on

https://www.songtell.com/death-cab-for-cutie/i-will-possess-...

is superficially accurate, yet misses the clear fact that the narrator is a stalker/controlling sociopath. So it will be if/when AIs that lack the ability to intuitively nuance are thrown at news feeds and other data sources to aggregate and interpret them, and people come to rely on those interpretations

Edit: rather a doom-laden assesment, sorry, I do still think this is amazing work
The power requirements are fixable by better insulated housing (see eg passive houses).

Practically free natural gas has kept people from investing in energy efficient housing, just like in warmer places where people use AC wastefully in poorly insulated buildings.
Eh, every time I open YouTube, it recommends me 'Shorts', which are nothing but young women in scant dress doing something called a shuffle dance, all with 10s of millions of views.

Not sure if TikTok started this crap, but as an old married man, I would have thought Google would have known better. I'd rather watch someone shape and sand wood at this point.
Nice to see hinv finally found its way ;) I agree, those neofetch screenshots are more about desktop GUI and such. They don't cover the hardware enough.
Yes you can customize the prompts and google queries you run like [1] and potentially answer whatever question you can answer by searching Google!

[1] https://github.com/ferrucc-io/gpt-google/blob/57dfd0dc20d614...
Sexy idea, but as someone who started using vi in 1987, a software solution seems way better. I map the seldom-otherwise-used key sequence jk to <ESC>. If I were doing it over, kj would be slightly better, for times when I am Just Kidding. I do this in both .vimrc and .inputrc (using different syntax, sigh). My fingers generate the escape without thought. (As is true for tons of vim normal mode actions I use regularly.)
Make your decades into groups of five years and I'd probably support that.
Because that would be so hard to prove.

It's like when people "voluntarily" do things that cops ask during traffic stops that are beyond what's necessary by law. It's not that people want, they are just scared and don't want to get in trouble.
Let me see if I have this straight ... it's a device that can run a general OS like Linux, but say, have a core that could be run real-time, with all the goodies like timers and stuff that we expect from microcontrollers?

If so, then that would be pretty awesome. I think that people have been trying to get real-time working on Raspberry Pis. It seems that they get kinda close, but never manage to get all the way.
It is! I would like to work on it before then and get a head start and get ready for senior projects.
This chip has 4 cores, and I believe they all share the same memory bus ie. Each core can access the 64GB ram directly. There is also 768K sram for low power use. Only the RV64 large core has an mmu, the two RV32 cores don't. I think the chip's main use could be robotics- the lowest power core for networking, npu for image processing, the mid core for simple tasks and the large core for Linux and complex tasks eg. Navigation.

With the shared memory bus, you can hand over tasks between the cores. You may not have the same software running on each core, but the data can be the same.

For your use then, you could just use the lowest power microcontroller with 64GB ram. You can't get that ability anywhere else.
I always wonder if aliens would think the same about humans -> primitive level of cognition. Just because a living thing is so different then we are means just nothing, and mark them as "primitive cognition" only shows our own lack of cognition, examples for completely misunderstood animals (in the past) are Wales and Sharks...and wonder wonder they life in a total different world then we are.
This is ludicrous. Food labelling long predates the EU, and appears to have started in the United States sometime around the 1930s on a voluntary basis. Food labels predate the EU even in Europe, by many years.

The idea of VAT dates back to the First World War, and while the EU assists European governments in coordinating its collection in Europe, it had no meaningful impact on the adoption of VAT-style taxes overseas. Neither Australia nor the United States levy VAT.

Consumer protections absolutely do not originate in the EU. It’s a claim so absurd I honestly don’t know what to say to it. English civil law has had case law and statute protecting consumers for centuries, which is in no way remarkable, seeing as even Roman law had consumer protections in cases of fraud, mistake, or duress.

The idea that the EU is some shining beacon on a hill that everyone looks up to is something one hears a lot around Europe, but I think the people who think this may have places like Moldova confused with the rest of the world. The EU is the fastest shrinking trade bloc, in relative terms, on the face of the planet. Europeans used to like saying that if they were a single country, they’d be the largest economy in the world. That ceased to be true in the last few years - the US has now overtaken the EU. Whereas the US has to manage runaway growth and speculative excess, the EU is forced to make provisions for its relative economic decline. If European countries were US states, living standards in large European economies like Germany and France would rank near the bottom. This is a huge problem. Less prosperity means less quality government services, including healthcare, social security, and education. Less growth over time means fewer nurses, fewer teachers in the future. If the EU single market is such a towering achievement, why is EU growth so sclerotic? It’s hard for Europeans to hear, but the EU is simply not a model people outside of Europe aspire to, even people who otherwise love Europe.

The European project has wonderful achievements, in my opinion, like the Schengen area, and deep scientific and educational cooperation, including Erasmus exchanges for young people. But instead of focusing on those, the EU prefers to claim credit for the sunrise. I’d rather see the EU reformed than abolished - it’s still a net good, I think - but far too many Europeans are far too myopic about the EU’s shortcomings, and far too ignorant about how the rest of the world functions to consider alternatives. (Or even just apply a reasonable degree of scepticism when the EU claims credit for things that predate it or that are already widespread elsewhere.)

> Sorry but we are on public internet. We dont have the time to sit and get to know people.

You seem to be defending bad faith assumptions as a time saving device. Seems to me like that would just set you up for a lot of unnecessarily adversarial discussions, and a generally less pleasant experience than you could be having.
I think the first US plutonium producing reactors at Hanford also used direct cooling by river water.
It's incredibly cool to see New Vector finding revenue streams working with governments and large companies on frontend and integration etc, whilst still maintaning open source, federated software.

It must be a very hard slog to get there whilst also upholding your ideals, so kudos to you!
I am curious how you measure power usage and how to reduce it on Linux.
Thank you! Checking it out during winter break!
Yes! I think people call this k-shot prompting - where the k is the examples you give to the model!

Apps like Jasper.ai do things like:

```

Give me a list of 10 funny intros to a newsletter:

1. funny intro 1

2. funny intro 2

3. funny intro 3

4. {{ai go here}}

```
This article is also basically equivalent to "the median vs. the average." Just as the mean is not the only average, Whitted's algorithm is not the only ray tracing algorithm. Path tracing is itself a ray tracing algorithm.
What is freedom of speech? Does the freedom to say what you will qualify theft, violations of privacy, and other illegalities? There is no confusion between the freedom of expression and the harms therein. The freedom to express applies to future conduct where the resultant harms are events that actually occur (past tense). People advocating for Assange seem challenged to this distinction.
Aren't you quoting numbers on grid electricity production?

In Europe many household solar installations are connected to batteries, and don't feed directly into the grid. You won't see such use in production statistics, only indirectly as a reduction in demand.

Some of those also don't produce electricity, but use solar for heating.

Maybe I'm wrong (either the numbers encompass that, or the difference isn't substantial). But it seems to me that you'd get a bias against solar if that's correct. Wind installations are usually more centralized, and feed into the grid.
These companies are just as afraid, if not far more afraid, of "the implication" from other companies, namely their advertisers and sponsors, as well as influential individuals such as celebrity influencers who drive traffic for their sites. The G-men will have to get in line for Twitter bending over backwards to all of these interests. Threats to the bottom line are probably even more menacing than legal threats- and many of these businesses and individuals are just as litigious as the FBI, as well.

> FBI calls you up and tell you what they think, and you'll totally ignore FBI. Totally.

The OP literally says that's an option that certain companies have opted to do:

> An FBI agent just reached out with a key point about the “gross” subservience of Twitter before the FBI: “A lot of companies we deal with are adversarial to us. Like T-Mobile is totally adversarial. They love leaking things we're saying if we don't get our process right.” (1/2)

> “I feel like that’s the default position. People used to get mad about that in the Bureau, but — they're supposed to represent their clients and their customers. Why in the hell would you expect them to make it easy on you? Do the right thing. Do it the right way.”

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603890210252668928

It sounds like Twitter was choosing to play nice with the feds, unless any evidence of coercion arises.
I appreciate this! thank you for the quick response.
The term "Orwellian" in describing language comes directly from the properties of Newspeak.

"Orwellian" can mean other things when describing state power or surveillance technology, but in this context it is being used to describe language so the connection to Newspeak is the relevant one.
Crony capitalism is as socialist as socialism.
Almost failing in under 1 millisecond sure is taking fail fast to the extreme...
This is a great idea! that would just mean a few more classes, thank you for the idea!
I really don't see the problem with having an actual ID. We have universally mandated, centrally managed IDs in Colombia, and we have been using them for many decades now.

I find the idea of using social security ID or a driving licence as an ID very backwards.

I have a wallet that has RFID protection.

Public transportation uses a different card, payments also use a different card (a normal bank card, like you surely have), and I don't see why you think these payments will be forcibly linked to the ID card.

And don't get me started about laptops or smartphones. There's an application for smartphones that allows to have your ID digitally inside the app, and that's it. Your ID is not tied to any encryption or login.

So, you actually sound a bit unreasonable. I repeat: the use of social security numbers or driving licences is very awkward in my opinion. An actual ID has many advantages.
TikTok algo most certainly does give you that if you're willing to skip the dancing videos or softcore porn. It's creepy but very effective, at least for me.
Seems to be a popular and valid response. Thank you for the link as well.
There is no proof of any agency threatening (or implied threat) in these emails. Just some hints and voluntary action from Twitter.

I imagine these agencies do put pressure on private entities on a regular basis, but without actual further proof this is all just ridiculous hand waving.
This article promotes false assumptions.

Ordinary solar can work fine in fields, because most plants don't use light beyond a few hours' worth, and endure the heat, after.

A practical arrangement is bifacial panels in vertical fencerows running north-south, to pick up morning and afternoon sun, spaced widely enough for equipment to run between. Blocking morning sun preserves dew, and blocking afternoon cuts heat stress.

Certain cereal crops get slightly lower yield from reduced light, but reduced water loss can make up the difference.
Personally Windows 2000 was the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever liked. And I’m including Microsoft Basic in that scope as well.

XP did mature into something that was decent, but the initial release of XP was just an uglier and more system hungry version of 2000. And thus XP drive me to run Linux as my primary OS.

But back when 2000 was around, most other OSs were terrible. Linux was getting close but still had a lot of rough edges. BeOS was awesome but you could tell it was a dying company. Apple were struggling too: MacOS 9 was less stable than Windows 9x (and that’s saying something!) and OS X took a couple of releases to really take off. Atari were dead. Amiga was basically only ram by enthusiasts. Yet Windows 2000 arrived and it felt genuinely like a next generation OS for its time.

Windows 2000 took NT4 and focused on bettering the stuff that didn’t work rather than breaking the stuff that did. Often little changes like adding short cut keys to Notepad.exe. Whereas every version of Windows since has done far too much GUI overhaul (and always to the detriment of UX in my personal opinion) while doing very little to improve my core complaints with the OS.

I get this is going to be my subjective opinion, just like Windows 7 is yours. But I did wasn’t to share a counterpoint to the praise of Windows 7.
I'm 51. An 80 year old told me the third job is the good one.
This may be difficult for an American to understand, but a driver's license is not a core document, and many people may not have it. In most places it'd not come to mind in a discussion about digital ID.
Google elegantly says goodbye to Waze
life is like a sewer. It doesn't really matter how much you care about what you put in it because a thousand other assholes are gonna shit on it anyways
I only realised that it didn’t say that when I read your comment.
> military budget is greater than the sum total of all their neighbors is because of what

Because PRC has greater population and GDP than rest of region combined, of which she spends less than 2% on defense, less than most of her neighbours, less than what America wants NATO allies to spend on, and now less than JPs revised budget. All in all, too modest.
I don’t disagree with what you posted at all.

It comes down to coercion, which can sometimes be hard to prove. In the earlier Twitter Files, a Congressperson mentioned how banning the Hunter Biden Laptop story was going down poorly and the Congressional hearings “would be a blood bath”.

Is that coercion? For the courts to decide I guess.

But I’m in the same camp as you. I have no idea if it’s legal or not, but it makes me very uncomfortable.

And what makes me more uncomfortable is when people read the story and say “so what? It’s a nothingburger”.
Most recent fail: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aquarium-berlin-hotel-radisson-...
It seems he based his ego on the idea of being the very best Go player, instead of merely being the best human Go player.
That's intriguing. I think I follow the reasoning but the conclusion is obviously "motivated".

So why is it "all pointless" if you all aren't conscious? Wouldn't life be just as enjoyable?

Not that it by definition makes any difference.
The best answer I could come up with: it's not your typical employees who are going to be doing that. Employees are employees. Typically you want someone who is about to leave the company because they are bored and want to do something interesting...and they have an idea (or you give them an idea) that excites them.

So instead of VCs you invest company capital into them.

Obviously 99% of the time employees just leave and startups win the day. Which is fine. But that's basically just how it is. So you either adapt or die until the monopoly/cash cow runs its course.

Facebook turning into Meta making the 'startup' be the whole companies mission is a bold new idea, which I'm skeptical can work. But it's interesting.
Plants in fields typically get way more light than they need, as it is, and benefit from shade.

Some pepper varieties show 3x yield, given afternoon shade.

I wonder about powering UV LEDs under crop plants to control weeds.
$75/hour of GDP is _average_. Per-person GDP follows power law, which means that given the average, _lots_ of people also produce $0.75/hour of GDP or less, and quite a lot of people produce $7500/hour.
This is nice. The QT environment is incomprehensible, they have so many different editors, design languages and packages. And the installation is awful! I spent hours on it and never managed to setup QT6. QT5 is alright but the environment around it is still confusing as hell.

Glad someone is addressing it.
How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile
I've not had a single YouTube short of that type despite using it way too much at times.

It's mostly gaming related and meme videos in my feet, I've never found a way to significantly spice things up sadly so it's really quiet boring most of the time
That's inspiring, thanks.
Capital outlay on residential solar for the utility is $0.00. It doesnt get much cheaper than free.
>So far, four California water districts have proposed to reduce water use by up to 400,000 acre-feet per year. That would amount to about 9% of the state’s total water allotment from the river through 2026.

Even a 10% reduction in use due to Saudi exports would be higher than the current goal. It is considered a national security risk to export encryption to foreign countries, but it isn't a national security risk to export our water? And why are we growing such water-intensive crops in a desert to begin with?
> "Postscript 2: As it turns out, Elon was using the FAA's privacy program (which anonymizes ICAO) but Sweeney hacked it. This only strengthens the doxxing argument against Sweeney because the info he's publishing is non-public."

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1603853205443866624
Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK[0] but to my knowledge he's never said that he posted any of Nine Inch Nails' music there and he certainly never released any of their music to the public domain.

[0] https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_willia...
Does this just query ChatGPT?