skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like to know what data applications are sending or trying to send

Good luck with that. Unless you are running a Commodore 64 it is unlikely that a single person can understand, inspect and make decisions on modern operating systems or even individual applications.

There was a small window in which you had the option to use your computer as a 'digital typewriter' and 'sometimes send a fax', but expected and supplied functionality this day and age relies on many small components being heavily interconnected, much in the same way that social circles are interconnected, social networks (the digital variant) are based on critical mass (not technical prowess, legal status or privacy) and the amount of people that have narrow/well-defined use cases for their computers are at an all-time low making them less and less significant to cater to.

If you had a Apple computer with 10.3 or newer, this was the norm. If you had macOS 9 with iTools, it was the norm as well (for a bit until it got dropped in favour of MobileMe).

The old times weren't better, just different (and much less feature-rich). Great for a few power users, bad for everyone else.
You blew my mind.
Some great resources:

* Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB)
https://ifdb.org/

* IFWiki
https://www.ifwiki.org/

* Playfic
https://playfic.com/

* The Interactive Fiction Competition
https://ifcomp.org/

* XYZZY Awards
http://xyzzyawards.org/

* electronic book review
http://electronicbookreview.com/

* Electronic Literature Organization
https://eliterature.org/
The Zork Anthology is available on GOG (https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_zork_anthology), there are also a few of them on IA like Star Trek - The Kobayashi Alternative (https://archive.org/details/msdos_Star_Trek_-_The_Kobayashi_...).

Some of my favourites are Enchanter and the great classic Planetfall.
I Like the cleanliness of your website. Especially when compared to the bloated sources.

But I’ve got to admit, that I fail to understand the purpose of your website aswell. I’ve clicked through some examples and compared it to the source material. So far, the only thing that was scrapped on your site have been the notes or helpful texts.

Maybe you could create an about page or show the user what content was scrapped (doesn’t have to be a wordcount. Can be something like: 5min readtime vs 1min readtime)

Show the user, why they should use your site instead of the original.
Every time I want to watch a specific movie I have to search all the streaming services I have access to and often its not there.

So these days I just buy the DVD from ebay from a few bucks, it arrives in a couple of days. Feels no different to the 1980's when I went to the video shop and brought home a VHS.

I've gone back to physical media. Streaming has shot itself in the foot.

I've cancelled most of my streaming services cause in Australia the free to air streaming services are really great anyway.

I do pay for Britbox for the classic Doctor Who, Blakes Seven and other dorky delights.
Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, but it was initiated by 2 Democrats and one Republican. There was this well-meaning effort to curb the abuse of involuntary committal (mental asylums) that was unfortunately completely disconnected from reality that some people do need to be committed for society and their own safety. Perhaps this was due to the romanticization of mental illness as in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (released a decade after LPS but partaking of the same zeitgeist).
In English, we don't capitalize common nouns.
You are missing something. Resolution is the feature size on the ground that can be resolved. So (to simpiify) if it's 0.5m resolution, and I have some much smaller, but bright reflector on the ground, you will see it blurred out to look 0.5m wide. It could be a couple pixels wide, it could be a thousand if you want to up sample it, the point is you won't see small stuff. This is why pixels are not mentioned
Copyright doesn't have an explicit size, but rather uses size as one of many indicators.

For example, I could take a massive 8k video and covert it into a very small 144p youtube video. Am I in the clear simply because the output is tiny compared to the input? Similar I could take a huge studio master copy of a song and convert it to a very small and rather compressed (distorted) mp3.

I partially agree that some of the problem is when perfect copies are spit out by the models, but I do think there is a bigger problem. Copyright is a complex concept that can't be defined exclusively by a single metric like size, and any mathematically definition will in the end be killed if large copyright holders feel threatened by it.
So does older hardware, nothing was gained here.
Logz.io comes to mind: https://docs.logz.io/user-guide/accounts/account-region.html. I’m sure I’ve seen configuration for other services, but haven’t cared as much since usage was sufficiently low and latency-insensitive that the region didn’t matter.
Years ago there was Nuke Zone, but not sure if it's still around

edit: it is still around, but got renamed https://assault.online
Actually it comes from Smalltalk.
> If you have an image, then train a neural network on that image, then use the neural network to reconstruct that image in detail

I haven't seen that happening since the discussion started. Most of the complains I saw aimed at things like "it stole my style" not "it reproduced my art".

Do you have any examples?
Because, it really wasn't an issue until relatively recently. It's more fair to say, why haven't they done it in the past 10 years? And the answer is, they are.

The state has been pledging increasing amounts of money into the system, and has been working to draft legislature that allows for extended holds.

Spinning up an entire new hospital system is difficult. It's not something you can do in a year or two, and expect to have positive long term outcomes from.

Implementing longer holds past the 72 hours is difficult to do, unpopular legislation (because of potential for abuse), and fraught with legal challenges. The laws required basically have to say that the state has the right to hold someone against their will, and force medication upon them. That is a very difficult thing to write, implement, and monitor.

Furthermore, implementing these facilities and conservatorships in a humane and ethical way is difficult - Reagan was right to shut down the facilities, but wrong to not instead spend the money and effort to improve and overhaul them.
I'm 35. I haven't done one good thing in my life, I'm stupid and useless and I want to die
I agree that Congress has the right to investigate, I just wanted to point out that the investigation won’t necessarily be scientific in nature.
$0.0015/kWh is actually quite expensive.

That’s ~7% of the total cost for solar per kWh and doesn’t even get you to fuel rods.
I wonder if the bug was present in the initial game, or if the boolean test was accidentally inverted during reverse engineering.
tThe general term is "interactive fiction", and the ancestor is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure : you can play it in a browser at https://rickadams.org/adventure/advent/, and when you've tried it the source is small enough to just read through.

More recently the scene converged on the programming language "inform" https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ - so Inform games are portable. They're easy to write.

Infocom produced a whole series: https://if.illuminion.de/infocom.html ; try Trinity. Hitchhiker's is notoriously difficult and "unfair".
I suspect that this limit was just the Max value of whatever number format they were using was. The chances of it not really being 65536 are fairly low. Its just too coincidental.
All tornado notes generate a proof that you can use to show where it came from. It’s the same as monero, another privacy coin which is not illegal.

There is a long list of issues here but tornado is just a program. The users of that program can use it for good or bad. They sanctioned the creators and Tornado is still chugging along. It’s equivalent to banning cryptography because money launderers encrypt their messages.

Here is a good summary of the argument against Treasury by Coin Center

https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-is-suing-ofac-over-it...
Wow, I didn’t know you don’t need to vectorize Matlab code anymore! Though that’s a useful skill to have, has saved my skin a few times in scientific Python land too!
I went the other way… back in the day, I ripped my ~400 cds to MP3’s. I still have them on my file server hard drive, but am happy paying Spotify $10/month for the convenience of having access to pretty much any album I want on any device, so I haven’t listened to my own MP3s in years.

I thought by now I’d be doing the same thing with movies, but obviously that hasn’t happened.
We have scrum master as a rotating hat with all the other senior developers on the team. 99% of my day is code or meetings on what I'm coding. The only burden is once a week I look at jira with some managers and help them click boxes. I'm not sure what a full time scrum master would really do.
I have to ask: Do you have a solar array?

I ask because of comments you have made such as: "you can sell excess most days"
The fact it's expensive on a relative scale is irrelevant because it's cheap on an absolute scale. In fact the price of raw uranium input is 100X lower than that in a breeder reactor because more of the fuel is consumed, $0.000015/kWh. Being objectively cheap also allows you the flexibility to collect it in more expensive ways, for instance seawater extraction (which makes nuclear renewable) is only double the price, and falling as the technique is improved.

> That’s ~7% of the total cost for solar per kWh and doesn’t even get you to fuel rods.

Which again doesn't matter because it's still objectively and on an absolute scale very cheap. About 0.8% of the cost you pay for electricity.

Solar is great, nobody, certainly not me, is trying to tell you not to build solar.

The reality is the future of the grid is going to be a mix of generation sources. That's going to include solar. It should, in my opinion, also include nuclear due to their different generation characteristics.

> The only thing that matters in economics is the relative scale. Nuclear being more expensive compared to the alternatives is a deal killer even if it’s not that expensive per kWh in absolute terms.

I disagree because it has different supply characteristics. One supplies a constant amount over a long period of time and is difficult to adjust. The other varies massively over the course of a day and zeroes out at night. Solar alone isn't going to meet needs, you need either or both of base load plus storage in addition.

It's disingenuous to compare the price of a kWh of solar by itself to nuclear when one works at night. If you want power at night, which I think many of us do, then you need to price into the $/kWh rate the cost of storage. You need to compare like for like.

[edit] In 2021, utility scale solar-plus-storage with a capacity of 50 MW/200 MWh is estimated to reach $0.085-$0.158/kWh. Nuclear is $0.131-$0.204/kWh. [1] They're actually quite comparable, and we have line of sight to making nuclear cheaper. Again, nobody is advocating for a 100% nuclear grid, it's not possible, because it's only suited to providing base load. A 100% solar grid is impossible because of the night time.

[edit2] Are you not reading what I'm saying? Nobody is advocating for a 100% nuclear grid. I am advocating for a mixed grid of renewables and nuclear where each operates according to its optimal utility function.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/05/utility-scale-solar-r...
I keep a list of media that I have heard enough good things about in my notes app to prevent this.
For Context: This interview was originally published in the Swiss newspaper "Die Weltwoche," which is owned by a far-right politician known for taking pro-Russia and pro-China stances. The owner of the paper has publicly called the President Selenski a "liar" who "needs to be urgently restrained" and has blamed the war on the West. He is also a frequent guest on Russia Today.
The issue is the FSD, not the driver. Also, drivers might not react quickly enough; what reaction time is needed to OODA. Finaly, if drivers are 100% engaged, they have no use for FSD.
Someone has to have it on DVD/BD first for it to get on the Pirate Bay.
Wi-Fi Routers Used to Detect Human Locations, Poses Within a Room
Inherit environment variables from PID 1 by reading /proc/1/environ
Where is that number? I only see $65B
> Yikes, Writable DVDs/CDs are not permanent, far from it! The dyes in writable DVDs degrades over time.

They do degrade, but a "couple of years" is pessimistic. My earliest CD-Rs are from 1994 and they're still good.
It seems the market isn't what you tink it is. At the same time, people also don't understand that the issue isn't what they think it is.

There is a vocal minority on most of these things:

- Powerusers and "learnt just enough to be dangerous" users complain about products not being targeted towards their wishes

- Privacy alarmists don't like what they can't control

- Commercial interests don't like having to pay for things, but do like getting paid for their own things

Technically all correct, but in practise this is nearly all in the same bucket as fastfood, sugar, air pollution etc. It's something that affects everyone, but it's much easier to deny it, ignore it, and just go with the nice, easy, comfortable, and profitable paths.
Figuring out which charities 1. aren’t scams; 2. aren’t wasting 90% of your money on on overhead; and 3. are doing something impactful rather than something frivolous with your money, is “the basest selfishness”?

If that’s not how you personally define Effective Altruism, then what name would you give to the concept I just described?
tarquinfintimlinbinwhinbustopftangftangolebiscuitbarrel quickly runs off the edge of the world. Maybe connect opposite edges to form a toroidal geometry to avoid this?
> before LinkedIn existed

It's surprisingly easy to make up a LinkedIn profile. I have one that has over 50 connections. Many sales people accept connections requests, and some non-sales people do as well. It just goes on from there.

I use him for looking up people without leaving a trace, and it's generally great fun to make him do posts on various topics.

I didn't put much effort in it though (for example, his photo is just a random stock photo, not anything AI-generated). I wonder how many virtual people exist on social networks.
ModelingToolkit.jl, a comparison is given here: https://docs.sciml.ai/ModelingToolkit/dev/comparison/#Compar... . A showcase from one of the library's users, demonstrating a 15,000x acceleration, was given at a SIAM conference and the recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpqsmwlfY0
Hey! I would definitely recommend putting this somewhere on your website.

I have been encountering it now and then - mostly on Nix/NixOS topics (by the way, thank you very much for some very useful articles!), and while I don't have any issues with the format, those characters were a kind of small and a little bit weird (not in a bad way, just... unusual) mystery, making me wonder "who are those, what's the story/going on here besides the obvious dialogue format?". Not much, of course, just a minor casual curiosity, but made me look into the footer/about section if there was anything in there.

Just saying. And thanks again!
And what they are approved for is, frankly, pretty lame. It's lane keeping in stop and go traffic (under 40mph).

Essentially, Tesla's EAP.

Waymo is WAY beyond this, as is cruise.
Correct. On the highway, every tesla would be on the old 2016-born autopilot stack, not the FSD model. the only cars that have v11 fsd highway stack are internal tesla test cars.
Do you really think the general consumer knows about any technical details of the products they buy, and if they did, they would care enough to chose the less-comfortable option for no perceived gain? This almost never works, and I think you know that.
Oh god, the Fibonacci numbers.

Project planning does not get easier if you limit yourself to a number system that is not closed under addition. A strange thing to have to tell people, but here we are.
I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies.

Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality.

If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.
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He takes no responsibility for the idiots who will die because "Elon said his arm hurt."

If the damage were limited to only those idiots I'd say go for it. But those idiots will infect innocent sensible people.
How to think about democracy and autocracy in 2023
> Since it's impossible to identify such functions by simply looking at them, it'd be a great way of basically performing a DoS-attack on the model.

Correct that it's impossible because you would need to solve halting problem to do it but you could set energy/time limits for query and just stop it when you reach that limit.
I never pick up the phone if the caller isn't already in my contacts. They can leave a message and I may call back, or not. But the risk of being caught into a stupid sales call for a new energy supplier or some such is just too great.
Looks like a bug to me.
if the update was just an executable, it wouldn't require maintenance, just hosting. They chose to have the update use a webservice. That's on them.
I'm not mad about it. I use Linux, so I was able to update my controller on Chrome/Linux. I expected to need to borrow a Windows computer.
Frankly, quads are used offensively, and there is a ton of videos from Ukraine showing quads dropping small bombs onto valuable targets.

But this is usually not a frontline operation. Quads penetrate to the rear where ammo warehouses are, or find small groups preparing an ambush, etc. They are typically not used against moving targets, or heavily armored targets.

With all their shortcomings, quad copters have two advantages: they are much less optically prominent, and they can hover over a target, allowing the operator to hit it exactly at an opportune moment.
You worked at Autotrader?
Have you ever driven the 101 in the Bay Area? I’ve never seen so many purely shit drivers in my life. And I lived in Florida for years. People routinely merge across from their on-ramp to the express lane doing 5-10 mph under the speed limit, brake suddenly when the car a dozen or more car lengths ahead of them flashes their lights, etc. It’s a pure shitshow.
Sure, but you probably want to see the dark sky on a new moon.
tried zzzyyyxxx... so infuriating
None of this amounts to an "overreach" argument. Again: statutorily, where has the Treasury Department mis-stepped?

You'll note that all kinds of entities, including full banks, are on the OFAC list[1]. This doesn't amount to a blanket ban on banking, and "it's just a bank, there are others" is not an argument that anyone finds convincing.

[1]: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34468436 for how to avoid that problem.
I'd be curious in a few years. I don't watch old things anymore and keep consuming youtube stuff, but honestly I don't like it anymore. It's not the same somehow.

ps: I just bought a dvd from CL
Does this give any insight into the Traveling Salesman problem? The salesman would with some probability make some bigger sales on some cities while less so in other cities.

I think this gives a good more realistic viewpoint on all these graph-traversal problems. Of course the only reason to traverse any graph in some way would be if there is some benefit meaning negative cost for traversing it.
The only thing that matters in economics is the relative scale. Nuclear being more expensive compared to the alternatives is a deal killer even if it’s not that expensive per kWh in absolute terms.

Again if 7% represented a total fuel costs that might be helpful benchmark, but Nuclear’s actual fuel costs are higher than Solar’s total costs.

Yes, that’s right even if the only costs where fuel rods nuclear would already be more expensive than Solar per kWh.

Edit: In response to your edit unsubsidized Nuclear is currently more expensive than unsubsidized solar + batteries which can not only provide 24/7/365 power but actually respond to changing grid demand. Base load power isn’t a benefit it’s a major limitation to adoption because demand isn’t constant.

A true apples to apples comparison shows a 100% Nuclear grid would required vast price increase, while a 100% solar grid is roughly the same price as what we pay today.

Edit2: “Nuclear is $0.131-$0.204/kWh” that’s only for base load nuclear costs skyrocket if you want to respond to changing grid demand on a 100% nuclear grid. Rough estimates are close to 50c/kWh for a pure nuclear grid which is why nobody did so and even France was forced to import and export a large fraction of their generation and useage.
Y'all killed it...
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Yeah, pricing-based manipulation works only best if supply is completely inelastic but demand is completely elastic.
Google result:

> Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice.

Doesn't sound that bad.
A frequent comment we get is "there's no consumer market cause it's been tried before"...false. Of course there has not been a consumer adoption because you have to buy huge chunks of earth, enter a contract for 5-6 figures, and the whole process takes months and months. Previous business model before we started was like Uber saying, "contact sales if you want a ride and they'll get you a custom quote for the year with a minimum price of $10,000". Uber would've lasted a couple weeks with that mindset. So why has the EO industry persisted, cause there has been no other options and the Govt has been the largest spender.
For what is worth, one of the smartest, most amazing people I met was bipolar. From the outside he really had his shit together.

> I am convinced that “religion” is the cure for most of these illnesses.

Can you expand?
I'm not going to download and install your app to discover pricing either. There's a fair chance you can't get me to install your app ever, and the more of your service is tied to it, the less likely I am to use your service at all.
Amazon AWS, the new ATM machine :)
“If we are going down, lets nerd snipe while we do!”
It's not quite what you're describing, but it's an amazing game built entirely in ASCII: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com (not playable on mobile).

The guy who built the mobile app did a really interesting recording about how the blind community picked up on it in a way that hadn't anticipated thanks to screen readers.
>Given the uses for crypto in practice, it's a safe bet that the majority of use will be for illegal activities.

For the moment, that appears to be a good bet.

I'm not aware of any current practical use case for cryptocurrency, that government-backed currencies don't provide, other than purchasing illegal goods and services.

That said, government-backed currencies are also used for doing so as well, except cash transactions require physical proximity while cryptocurrencies do not.