skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI catastrophe will be how our oligarchs will choose to use it. As far as I can tell, there are no moral qualms amongst the powerful against using it for total surveillance and continual automated policing (can't wait to get a phone call from an AI asking me about the content of a tweet.)

Star Cops thought about it more than our popular journalists or philosophers seem to think we should:

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Michael: ...it was slightly sensitive material, and in my field one is aware of the vulnerability of carrier waves.

Nathan: Is that what you do here?

Michael: It wouldn't be wise to read too much into a casual remark, Commander.

Nathan: That's your principal research area here, isn't it? Communications monitoring.

David: Not more buggers and supersniffers...

Nathan: More impressive than that. We've always been able to hear more than we can listen to. Are you developing intelligent listening systems?

David: Sounds impressive.

Michael: I must suggest that to go on could be a foolish risk.

David: Threats, Doctor?

Michael: Observation, merely.

Nathan: Machines that listen to everything and decide for themselves what's worth passing on? Is that where your BHG information came from? Did you do a test running? Did one of your new computers pick it up from the babble of all the world?

Michael: Commander, it's a pleasure meeting you.

David: Well, tireless attention to every word spoken? No possibility of human error. You can tell it to listen to the bad guys, it'll listen to everyone and identifies the ones you [won't like.]

Star Cops, Episode 3 [1987]

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https://youtu.be/G3RVPQyMCoY?t=713
Ha. Not disagreeing with you, but it's a social network for athletes. What's my favorite athlete up to? How can I emulate her? Strava tells me.
If you look at the Pacific Ocean from "top" (i.e. get a globe and rotate it), you'll see that it effectively covers almost entire hemisphere. So there is no surprise that most of the land has no antipodal land. The more interesting question is why initial continent, Pangea existed as such instead of the bunch of the smaller continents, which would seem more logical and likely.

EDIT: also, do we know if there were no other continents that submerged?
To be clear, I was not meaning to blame and sincerely apologize that my comment may have come across that way. Your comment was very helpful in conveying why, ceteris peribus, the perception of doctors may be diminishing. They are too overworked to excel beyond the standard of care, and even consistently meeting the standard of care is a tall order.

But that’s what I was trying to suggest by saying that it seems the medical field, as a whole, seems to be optimizing for the wrong thing, viz. quantity over quality. As others note, there are clearly economic forces at play, and maybe too much constraint on the supply side. And it’s not clear to me that any reasonable discussion is occurring with respect to that. And so I reiterate my pessimism that we’ll somehow get from where we at currently, to a brighter future brought about by a kuhnian revolution as hinted at in the original article. We need to fix what’s broken before adding new features, to put it in software terms.
Is it just me, or does this still seem about an order of magnitude larger than it reasonably needs to be?

Given the size of Alpine itself (less than 10 MB, last time I checked), is it node that pulls in so much extra stuff, or something else?
Nah, seems like they'd be more likely to use floats for accounting.
I usually try random codes with the following format: COMPANYNAME15, COMPANYNAME20, etc. Every once in a while (maybe 10% of the time?) I get lucky.
It's just self promotion. Influencers are just that, influencers. They influence people.

Maintaining the public face of these people is a full time job.

None of the people in the media are really like what they show us on our screens. It's all entertainment. Much of it in the service of business interests, like Elon.
Do his politics lean right? Sure why not. Does he also lean left? Probably. We're all not 1 dimensional. Getting us to "fill in the blank" and project our own ideas into their personality is how they hook you.

The public / promotional image caters the 1-D chess crowd.

The fact people let this stuff influence major purchase decisions like a car is endlessly entertaining to me.

The appeal of celebrity used to be mostly confined to teenage spheres, bored housewives, and old people. But now in the digital era having a public image has become a spectator sport, and we get emotionally caught up rooting for the team we've chosen. This is how they win people.

For the younger of you reading this, I'm letting you know it didn't use to be this way. Nobody cares much about what car you drive or why.
Used:

1. Non apple music format, indeed one typically used for video

2. Non apple messenger service.

3. Tried to get those to work with the apple application primarily designed to support purchase and playback of corporate media.

Didn't have a great experience. We are all shocked.
"5000off" sounds like the discount code equivalent of "password" as a password. So probably just a wild guess as a joke but then it wasn't a joke.
Opportunities in Disguise
Yeah, next to the actual article I really thought people might notice that more. I'm glad they seem to be in a slightly better place now at least...

The patreon is currently mostly empty, seems like a good candidate if you're into keyboards and other nerdery. :)
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I have, and my first-hand experience is that such people are like black holes, warping everything around them. One such person I worked for sued a supplier, thankfully over a relatively minor matter. They refused any kind of mediation/compromise and insisted on having their day in court. They lost. Outside the court afterwards, the person seemed momentarily despondent, but then shook it off and announced 'That will be the last time anyone sues [me]!' I cut ties immediately, sending back every conceivable business document by courier and waiving my own financial interests. Life is too damn short.

Though it's worth knowing how to deal with such a person in real life, the fact that Santos is an elected politician and recourse/remedies are very different from interpersonal/business ones means that it's not a great discussion topic for HN.
eh I don't know that I would say that yet, the accuracy problem with the current generation of GPTs makes them mostly toys. I have yet to meet a developer that has continued using them, most of the ones I know, including myself have tried.

That being said we aren't far off from them being the most useful things ever
I think the OkCupid questions in that period were great (submit your answer, what you'd like your match to answer, and how important you think the question is). My ex found her now-husband on that site.
Thanks man!

I mean you can do bikes, it just takes a GPS track file (GPX or FIT) and plots the route. You can also try it out without creating an account (drag and drop your file on the front page: https://cubetrek.com)
Oh I do. The point of ordering food is that you have been working on something for 20 hours and do not feel like cooking.
Not without proper ventilation, please -- which building codes require for gas stoves (which is often overlooked somehow, but that's another issue). People asphyxiate in blizzards every year because this solution is available and doesn't work with a window open.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if we get a flood of relatively cheap to maintain EVs from China, as a parallel of the durable and cheap cars we got from Japan in the 80s. Except this time, it wont be so much that the components themselves are reliable as that they are standardized and all the DRM is removed so that they can be affordably serviced. I don't think the future is very bright for domestic auto makers. First, they foolishly declare they will stop selling ICE vehicles, handing that entire market segment over to asian competitors, and then they screw the pooch with EVs via user-hostile designs. 2021 was the first year since the 1930s that GM wasn't the best selling car maker, being dethroned by Toyota - a company that really does make lower TCO vehicles.
Interesting, didn't know about that.

> In November 2018, as a result of backlash generated by material pertaining to "murder of gay Chechens" published in a Vampire: The Masquerade Fifth Edition source book as well as the inclusion of optional neo-Nazi aesthetic in the Brujah vampire clan,[7] it was announced that White Wolf would no longer function as an entity separate from its parent company, and would cease developing and publishing products internally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wolf_Publishing#Purchase...
that's like blaming RPi for how expensive they are even though RPi has not changed prices. it's also like blaming the band because the scalpers are charging so much for their ticket prices. it's not the band's fault nor the maker's fault someone buys them all up in bulk and then resells them.
Hasbro Suits: "Hear me out, if we kill the WotC goose, we'll get all the Golden eggs."

I really wish they would sell WotC and that it would go private. Not everything needs to become a billion-dollar idea. Why can't we just have simple consistent million-dollar ideas that sustain our sense of fun and joy.
The guy telling the report-writer what belongs on the report arguably has more power than the recipient of the report.
I don't know how much weight courts currently place on click-through contracts, but given how many such contracts we "agree" to in modern life, how impenetrable their jargon is, and how often they change, we should be extremely cautious about giving them too much, or any, validity.

E.g. how would you feel if some no-name free website/service sneaked in a "you owe us $1000 if you use this service on Tuesday" term into the novel that is their ToS/EULA? Or if the grocery store put up a "by entering you agree not to disclose our prices to others" sign?
I've also heard it cures cancer. Any truth to this?
This reminds of switching from Disgaea, a grid-based tactical RPG, to Phantom Brave, which ditched the grid and handled combat using distances.
In my country, there is a branch of police that deals with such things. They have a relationship with an organization called Business Software Alliance, which I believe is formed with this specific goal- to allow foreign companies or their local distributors reach pirate users. However, I'm only aware of the major software companies being members of this org: Microsoft, Adobe, Dassault (Solidworks), Siemens.
> A large chunk of the tech world today relies on their products, but they were making next to nothing for it.

Yes, but only because they ran a massive marketing campaign, and then achieved market penetration as a result of years of developer cargo-culting.

Containers have been around years before Docker, docker added a ton of bloat and a repository. So what? None of the predecessors (Jails, OpenVZ, etc.) needed tens of millions of dollars. Docker just capitalized on something that was open source and shamelessly monetized it. Great for them but not really worthy of admiration or anything to be remotely impressed by.
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Edge on android blocks ads.
Buying replacement ac adapters, when that is possible,
is usually extremely expensive.

Can you provide an example? Apart from some kind of weird branded adapter, I find this implausible: I can find dozens of both model-specific and universal adapters under $20 on Amazon...

What is the solution to the plague of missing ac adapters? Someone must have figured this out?

I can think of a couple lower-tech solutions:

* devices in some domains have de-facto standardized, for instance 5.5x2.1mm barrel plugs for guitar pedals

* devices in other domains have switched to USB connectors, especially if they don't need more than the default 5V@500mA

* keep the devices and the adapters together, instead of splitting the adapters into a drawer
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We have taken a stab at combining the power of datawarehouses and GPT into a single platform. Here is a quick demo of our capabilities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWsYkg-opE Would love to get some feedback.
There’s a decent argument the President is constitutionally obligated to ignore the debt limit.

If Congress doesn’t want the money borrowed, they shouldn’t authorize spending more money then was collected.
Don't Fear the Programmer (2007)
Thankfully, literally 100% of the most critical problems facing our society have been completely resolved. We can now move onto the use of natural gas for cooking.
This is more closely related to (for example) the company that's currently trying to reprint Star Frontiers, an 80s game to which WotC holds the rights, except they're adding racism.

https://www.thegamer.com/tsr-dave-johnson-star-frontiers-pla...

Good open licenses don't need a morals clause. Once you start licensing people to put your logos on their products, you need to think about it.

This comment is not intended as approval of the OGL 1.1 in any way, but I think the objections to the morals clause on the basis that it's not needed are missing context.
That sounds very weird, unless you are working

1) With with an esoteric environment that has relatively few users.

2) Have specific objectives that require a lot of edge case testing or ridiculously thorough fuzzing of the binary.

3) Go out looking for them by crafting nifty things that aren't much used.

Otherwise it would imply large companies (Google-scale) experience thousands of compiler bugs per year...
I suspect the initial negative take on the license change was correct, and this is the dying gasp of the company.

It's just taking longer than expected to replace Docker Desktop. But I am seeing a lot of progress on Podman and Rancher and a few others, and some of the larger tech companies are also building in-house replacements. A lot of the people who had to scramble to find a replacement are not happy about it.

In a year or two I think some of the companies that paid for licenses to avoid migrating are going to rethink their license costs, because the free alternatives will be just as good as Docker Desktop. Then we will see whether this revenue increase was sustainable or simply the transient result of holding customers hostage when they had no alternatives but to pay.
Iook up https://intervals.icu and scroll down - i would say strava got blown out of the water!
Correct, I only use them for very specific needs where it would slow down my website, or be weird to spin off a new thread in the background. I do know Azure supports WebJobs which is probably the closest you can get to something like Celery, which funnily enough, is what Azure Functions (at least originally) are built on top of.
That is amazing! A totally deserved plug - love it. I don't live in a very hilly area, but I was frustrated my strava jig tracks looked so 'slow' as I was going up and down my local coast hills on my run. Hope it can work in my area.
Rust vs. C++ Formatting
> An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage.

It's not 100% clear that consciousness is necessary even for things like creative problem solving or goal-setting (i.e. choosing which problems to solve). That is, advanced intelligences that can do all we can and more—and could even "decide", in the worst case, that they'd be better off without humans—may not need consciousness as a precondition for that.

Cf. Peter Watts' Blindsight

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
The pure dopamine hit from this sound clip: unrivalled.
This is exactly my experience. I think TypeScript is an amazing feat of engineering and one of the best typing systems in existence today, largely because it has to describe such an insane set of hacks common in the JavaScript ecosystem. TypeScript has contributed immensely to the theory of programming languages.

But the tooling and the ecosystem are nightmarish! It's skin-crawlingly awful to set up a new project, or to update anything, or add any dependency. This is not TypeScript's fault; not really. But literally everything from the IDEs to the package manager to the output messages are awful. I can even add to your list:

8) ignore hundreds of lines of SEVERE SECURITY ISSUES because literally all of them are false positives all the time

9) deal with Visual Studio constantly crashing, throwing up 600 "build errors" because it doesn't like the standard DOM typing definitions

10) struggle for days to compile and package all the TypeScript files into a re-usable library; give up, and instead set up a script to literally copy the raw *.ts files around.
I agree. Ignoring them is probably a good strategy. #2 in the list is too time consuming and has opportunity cost for the small team already wearing many hats.
At least one "Gourmet" pizza place I know of (Ann Arbor, MI) has a load of $46 to $54 pizzas on their menu.

It's not bad pizza...but when I could have a 14oz. NY strip and drink at a very classy old local restaurant for less? "Sorry, not interested."
Meh, a person has to pick their battles. If you think Amazon is a worse company than Tesla, by all means, boycott Amazon, and feel free to tell us why.
What I don't understand about this is how they're able to retroactively change the licence terms.

As I understand it (and I'm not an expert, hence the question), Pathfinder is based on D&D as released under the OGL, and has been a successful commercial product for years.

How is it legal for WotC to change the terms of the OGL licence and invalidate Pathfinder's ability to use the D&D content retroactively? Surely Pathfinder can point to the original OGL release and say "all our content is based on this release which you released under an open licence".

Secondary question: does this apply to OSS as well? Can (e.g) Postgresql wait until the whole world is relying on their software, and then pull a licence change that makes it non-free/libre and requiring a paid licence fee?
Well, with non-diversified commodities, in a market with instant arbitration and universal complete knowledge about the products the Econ 101 models work.

On the real world, they don't.
We do not deserve Justine. She is proof of divine grace.
WOW. Ray / DCRainmaker is a huge voice in the endurance sports world, you don’t want this kind of publicity from him.

I’ve had a Strava since, forever? Over a decade at this point. It’s the de facto app for cycling and running and is one social media app I get real value from.

I will say- as someone who pays for Strava Premium their product strategy has been a mess for ages. Feature requests go unacknowledged for years and they keep adding silly features no one wants.

I’ll keep using it because my friends are all on it, but it does feel like they are slowly dying of self inflicted wounds.
The cracked copy is the start of your sales funnel, literally don't fight it, you're doing yourself a disservice.
Very much agree. I hope language models make a big dent in the problem. Many other places tech can move the needle as well, like imaging and diagnostics.
> I've ... made some very good friends.

This is my experience. Strava is the only social network where I've made friends. It is a net positive in life. Every other social network I tried to use caused me to fire some friends eventually.
And nobody noticed because nobody reads CNN.
>goes to all that effort

>not cupped

Probably better off going with a Matias then.
ChatGPT has no concept of trying to be correct with regard to world knowledge. This doesn't just apply to obscure things. For instance, when I ask it about mainstream books and TV shows, it frequently misattributes words or actions to the wrong character. But not only that, it will then proceed to explain why the character said so, and how does it reflect on the character.

It's not about awareness or limits of knowledge. From the point of view of a language model, it doesn't matter whether it was Todd or Walter White who killed Lydia, or whether it was Kinbote or Shade who invented a phrase. It only tries to generate a response to your input, such that it is a plausible continuation.
I think the bigger problem is that their users all have accounts on competing services by this point.

By the time they got serious about adding features, everybody who wanted them had already signed up for alternative services that had them. Now Strava is playing catch up with a bunch of newer companies, and each one them is focused on a subset of Strava's users.

For me, I signed up for RideWithGPS ages before Strava had a good route planner. Now Strava has one, but now I'm happy with RWGPS and don't have any reason to switch back.

Other people wanted better training tools, and they found services that helped with that.

Meanwhile, we've all kept our Strava accounts, because that's where the leaderboards and groups are.
Noooooo. Absolutely not. The second it's a significant advantage in business or war to hand the reigns over to AI, no human in the loop, it will happen. Because the side that doesn't do it will lose, badly.
And that would be a great value at $3-4 a month, but at double that, meh.
AskHN: What advice do you have for an ADHD,information hoarding, Researcher
I’m a Ph.D student who’s also suffering from ADHD. I come across loads of research papers, books, articles, lecture notes, video lectures, audiobooks, podcasts, media , links and everything that interests me. I love to learn and most of the stuff I find are extremely interesting/useful which I either have some use, an interest, or want to consume someday at least. I also write copious notes both digitally and on notebooks. I write blog posts but leave them half completed, only to start over again and use the earlier one to use as writing material for a fresh draft. What this has resulted in is unsurprisingly an overwhelming number of stuff to consume and work upon both in terms of work - interesting research papers in my field and excellent sources for everything that I am unable to delete, for i definitely know that I want to consume them someday, even if they aren’t a priority at the moment. So if I have a day off, there are just too many options and I waste all energy on analysis paralysis just to choose what to enjoy working on. Ideally I would want a system where I know everything is, like a file Wikipedia like system.

I have tried so many tools and left so many that it creates even more duplication. For example, having first tried notion, then shifting to obsidian then logseq etc that sometimes I forget what are in my vaults and rewriting notes from the source in a different app again.

Another example being calibre for e-books but the same books on the Apple Books app, my kindle and in my pdf cloud storage. Similarly research papers within Zotero and in my PDF cloud storage.

Trying apps like hazel, notion, obsidian, DEVONthink, Zotero, raindrop, everything tool, sync thing. It doesn’t help that I have multiple devices- a windows laptop, an iPhone. This caused usage of multiple cloud systems iCloud,OneDrive, yandex(for Zotero WebDAV).

The first thing I did was just dump all of my files into a single folder and created just a few sub folders for the kind of file. Subfolders beyond a certain level was the worst pain for what I thought was an organising exercise.

What all this results in is that I have difficulty prioritising what to do, when to do it, find stuff and keep it sustainable.

I just need to structure a system like a reference for everything where I just know where everything is, and non redundant. Would love to hear some strategies and tips.
The reason I can’t continue with a single folder dump is that it limits discovery of what can I do and has high search effort.
Intervals has maps and can be shared. I'm already in a couple of groups.
Getting more people to jump across may be easier, now.
Thanks strava.
a 16 bit unsigned integer with a unit of a million dollars, a very odd choice indeed