skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you even been on a video call?

The fact information flows at best 50% speed because of delays, lack of mannerisms and that one person at once can speak and a 2 second gap ends up happening between each statement this slowness is completely tangible to anyone who has tried to get work done with this trash tech.

IRL communication that takes seconds to minutes takes 30-40 minutes over a video call.
yeah, it's reasonably snappy now (it used to be dog-slow).
"The paperclip optimizer is simply trying to make another paperclip, what's the harm in that?"
> morality / ethics is personal / specific to each person

It's not. Almost all of humanity, every culture now or historical, has agreed on many of these things. Others have very wide support, including universal human rights (which include your rights). You can find many arguments supporting these things, throughout human history. Societies and much of the world agree on them (including universal human rights). Research shows evolutionary advantages and connections to these things, and that animals share them with us.

Ethics and morality are not some arbitrary things we each make up.
Is this a desktop? Fedora Silverblue

Is this a server? CoreOS

Portainer or Cockpit for web UI
It's at least entertaining and amusing. Enough to be in the news if you ask me.

PS (Shadow edit): I'm passing no judgement on the state of journalism, just saying the way things are and have been for a long time. If you don't think that's the case, maybe it's related to which news you are looking at.
Most people are covered by the standard deduction. For those that aren't they'd still file as normal.

This doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing. The IRS can send you a statement of the tax they've computed for you, and you can review it. If you don't accept their computations, then file your taxes like you always have.
She's generally good but in addition to the clickbait she also has a habit of "it's so easy, it's just [controversial pet theory] and the rest of science disagrees because they are wrong".

I find that most physicists in educational roles shy away from interjecting with opinions and even mild speculation more than they should but she tends to overcorrect in the other direction. This tends to attract a particular type of fan as well, the kind that likes to feel like they're in on the secret knowledge and loudly have opinions about things they don't truly understand
It was to podcasting what House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and Arrested Development Season 4 were to Netflix.
ChatGPT AI robots writing church sermons causing hell for pastors
Explore an alternative read-only package management transaction system for Haiku, which support instant rollbacks. Can Linux package managers learn from Haiku’s experience?
I guess I didn't explain it well, sorry. I agree that LCM is very valuable to society. I think I accidentally conflated two separate points. My first point is that yes the memories made are a moment in time that the mind cannot articulate correctly in present time (hence nostalgia evoking feelings better than what reality was at the time) BUT and this is important, even if LCM goes away, the effort they did spent was not in vain because it created those moments for so many people.

OP stated that everything you do will eventually die at some point after you. I disagree because we don't know if the positive impact that LCM created on someone could have then translated into a positive impact that a person who experienced LCM passes onto their friends and family. That positive impact could then traverse downwards.

I had this same exact discussion with some guy manning the Atari 800 booth at a recent Vintage Computer Festival East event. He was showing off cool demos running on the computer and we talked about how after he dies he felt that no one will care about this computer equipment anymore. The love for this platform dies with him and his generation.

It got me thinking that this item was made for a certain era which consisted of certain cultural elements that existed not only in the country where the item was designed, but also whatever thinking that was prevalent in specific components like the CPU design, computer science advancement at the time, marketing, etc. In other words, the computer was made specifically for people living at that moment in time. There probably wasn't much thought put into how different future people would perceive it because you don't know what the future holds and at the point of sale those people don't exist and don't matter.

At the same time though the memories that the computer generated will not be lost forever. They could have impacted downstream events (eg. the children of person could have been motivated to go into tech thanks to the love that the computer generated for their parent who subsequently went into tech)
Read his original message here: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-upd...

Regarding remote work:

“Of course, as there were before the pandemic, there will still be certain roles (e.g. some of our salespeople, customer support, etc.) and exceptions to these expectations, but that will be a small minority.”
You are confusing environmental clearance with a launch license. Environmental review was completed, with some required mitigations. Launch license is usually something that comes much closer to launch.
You seem to assume that everyone's brain is like yours. Because we have idiots and geniuses in terms of brain structure, there is a huge variation in how strong someone's prefrontal cortex is.

Actual daily levels of hormones or genetic predisposition have a huge effect on self-control or conscious control.

A relative of mine had a stroke which resulted in the loss of part of the brain. Most people don't have such a drastic stroke, but it's enough if you're born with a different gene and you have a slightly different connectivity in your cortex to not have as much self-control as the next person.
I used privacy.com which allows any zip/billing address. Not sure if it was needed
I think there are enough posts on this by now.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838828

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838551

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34837551
https://archive.ph/RSl7g
Well that's a lot to read and I should queue it up. But I think you're overselling the risk.

Zero-trust means moving the authn and authz from a perimeter around the whole ecosystem of tools for your org, down to the individual apps. Every app, every tool you were using in an old system, could still log your IP/username/login/logout times. Now, we're saying "hold up, use 2FA and better RBAC at all times" per application, instead of assuming an entity is partially trusted because of where they are on the network.

I think ZT can be implemented in or out of the cloud. It just happens that people are coupling a move toward ZT with cloud identity managers like Okta, and cloud services like AWS.
LCDs aren't capable of pulsing at 15kHz. The twisting/untwisting of the liquid crystals is an electromechanical process and very slow (compared to a racing electron beam). Even though the fastest gaming LCD monitors claim a 360Hz refresh rate, they cannot get anywhere near this 2.8ms latency (implied) when going from black to white (0 to 100% brightness). Of course, the monitor manufacturers go to great lengths to avoid talking about it, so the whole industry is flooded with a bunch of marketing material to distract from the issue.
Nobody is enforcing anyone coming into the office at all.
> It seems to me that 'free upgrades forever' is honestly not a wise idea if you want to develop for your actual users rather than having to constantly try and attract more because any existing user will never pay you again.

Funny you should mention that... Another one of those editors, FL Studio, has exactly that business model. It's not as cheap as a Reaper license, but they do advertise "free upgrades forever" and they're somehow in a good enough position that they bought out both Melda and UVI recently (the latter looks like a pretty big player in the software synth space).

The C-suite philosophy there is that new people are constantly entering both the hobby and business which is...well, entirely correct really. Honestly I'm glad that it's working out for them because it's an incredibly honest way of doing business, even if I don't use their software myself due to a couple long-standing limitations that hopefully they'll address soon.
Users can run ChatGPT-like AI with data 'pods', says Tim Berners-Lee
Seems interesting in that you don't have to give some company access to all your search queries in order to use AI assistants, as is the case today.
Your ability to be absolutely oblivious to the human condition and enviroment is astounding.

Were you raised by chatGPT robots?

This isn't even defense or trigger happy potshotting. I'm run of the mill ok in terms of diet and fitness. But I've interacted with enough people to understand the depth of the challenges some face. Some of it genetic. Some of it manufactured. Most of it difficult.
Its bugs are gradually being fixed (like the ability to just arrow-key straight out of a comment box and be deposited at the end of the document), but I still wince every time I have to use Notion… for work… every day.

Silly things like opening a Notion page in a background tab doesn’t actually load its page title, which requires a reload to fix.

And the page-nesting (instead of the traditional documents-in-folders approach of something like Google Drive) which makes restructuring files an absolute nightmare.

Maybe I’m just too old and stuck in my ways :)
Microsoft is not a plucky underdog. Microsoft is a monster. Beware.
ChatGPT and Syndey were extensively trained with chat specific training via RLHF (realtime learning from human feedback), which is missing from GPT-3.
Ask HN: Ethics If Intervention
Curious
Nothing to imagine. That's the way it was before the pandemic and the way it will be once my company adopts this strategy as well
I know this is parody, but there are Americans out there that unironically think like this.
If you ever see me at a bar I’ve got plenty of stories of some of the crazy shit people deal with from their boss (or customers/patients).
It is very unlikely that the underlying Sydney model is Avi able, you can approximate it, but I have never had davinci create nearly as much personality as “Sydney” has.
I visited the front page multiple times today, and this is the only thread I’ve seen. Are downvotes pushing these down to later pages?
Notion is known for being a laggy web app.

It's partially why local-first, Markdown-based solutions like Obsidian and Logseq have exploded in popularity. Logseq is amazing and truly shows the power of backlinked text with a query interface. And the whole thing is FOSS, at least for now.
Appeals to authority of dead people’s political documents is propaganda.

Just because we can invoke historical story does not mean we abide it today.

The majority inherently rules whether it’s US Constitution or the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Not really sure how you get to a system of material comfort and logistics we have without majority buy in to not fight and kill.

I wish people would realize how silly they sound reciting the dead peoples chants when the literal world clearly shows majority rule is not so bad literally. For whatever reason quite a few folks prefer to fight over which vain elders hallucinations and diatribes are the one true social system when the reality is providing real stuff to survive is all society really is about.
The article writer's committmemt to empiricism is so flimsy that he argues polling his buddies on Twitter is a valid form of empirical evidence: "Selection Bias Is A Fact Of Life, Not An Excuse For Rejecting Internet Surveys"

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/selection-bias-is-a-fa...
Most of the readers on HN are big tech.
Alles Mesh Synthesizer
And the Chinese government lies about anything and everything.
> It is sufficient to believe that increasing a person's IQ increases the expected rate of change of that person's wealth.

This is the very point we're debating, though. I don't see any reason to suppose that this hypothesis is true.
I wonder if a similar approach can be used for Von Hippel Landau.

“ Mutations in the VHL gene cause von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. The VHL gene is a tumor suppressor gene, which means it keeps cells from growing and dividing too rapidly or in an uncontrolled way. Mutations in this gene prevent production of the VHL protein or lead to the production of an abnormal version of the protein. An altered or missing VHL protein cannot effectively regulate cell survival and division. As a result, cells grow and divide uncontrollably to form the tumors and cysts that are characteristic of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.”

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/von-hippel-lindau...
Oh I just mean when comparing (A) block hole in a black box, vs (B) a non-black-hole start of the same mass, B will likely be over a large volume, and hence will produce different spacetime curvature.
Car registration fees / gas taxes do pay for that?
Couldn't ML be utilised to recognise furniture and remove it from the model?
ok, so whats the alternative interpretation, and what better future does that enable?
I should have been more precise. I don't have an issue with public information being accessible, in fact that's kind of necessary for any democratic deliberation. What I think is relevant is nothing going out. A lobbyist making their case openly to the public is fine, that's just speech essentially, although you can have a different discussion about the media around it.

But the important benefit of an anonymous sortition in particular to me is that there is no connection between individuals and lobbyists. You cannot trade personal favours down the line. The pernicious part to me is when the guy who regulates the arms industry gets a board seat ten years later.

Essentially what I think of as ideal is a sort of black box. Uncorrelated, impersonal, representative and random snapshot of the public opinion on an issue. Transparency is I think the worst celebrated value because it opens decision makers up for capture. If the policies are still braindead afterwards, well I think then we're democratically at our wits' end.
I had an athletic injury where I fractured my spine (spondylolysis with Grade I anterolisthesis). It hurt like a MFer. I used Mobic, an NSAID, rather than an opiate painkiller. It worked okay - the pain was still very distracting and uncomfortable, though bearable - but I'm glad I wasn't at risk of developing a dependency.
If most people don’t go back to the office, most people in the office will spend most of their time in video calls, which defeats the purpose.
Well it removes graft vs host complications which is a win and the requirement to take immunosuppressants for life.
I bet more than half the kids working there weren’t even born when Quake came out
Out of curiosity, how does a flat tax country like Estonia manage incentives? It's the main thing that balloons the US tax policy - not by design, but for whatever convoluted quirks of history the US has settled on using tax incentives as a means of placing the thumb on driving public behavior, especially when dealing with a federal structure and 50 differing opinions of how things should be run. Want to encourage more children? Increase the child deductions. Want to encourage household solar energy production? Tax deductions.
Go was designed from the ground up for that sort of thing, so that makes sense. And anecdotally asymc/await is a pain in rust. I've only used rust async through other libraries, and not that very often. I usually use plain threads.
The same will happen if most people don't go back to the same office. They will be in different offices on video calls all the time to each other.
Google is only the leader currently because people have forgotten how much better google 10 years ago was. Yandex destroys google today in image search by shipping a product like 10 years ago google image.
Thanks for that, and yes, the odds of there being vast untapped viably accessible hydrogen seems ... low.

One of those books BTW: Abraham Gesner, A practical treatise on coal, petroleum, and other distilled oils.

<https://archive.org/details/apracticaltreat01unkngoog>

As the opening pages note, naturally occurring freely-flowing seeps of tars and oils were well known throughout history.

For holes-in-the-ground blowing pure hydrogen ... we've one extant example that powered a Ford for a few years.
Lol exactly. “Just print more money!”
I know OpenZiti very well (I work on the project)... whats the question?
This. Similar to "OMG. Look at how this person reacted after I [touched its buttons in some way]".
Any thoughts? I'd love to hear any/all of your preferences for real estate discovery sites or apps - I've been loving the new features and updates being pushed due to recent AI competition!
Yes, this is exactly what I’ve done previously. For example, I implemented a sum() aggregate function that took “monetary” (currency + value) composite types and raised an exception if the currencies were not all the same.
No, it's because he never applied for a job there.
I shared the same frustration, but I finally gave up, and guess what, I was able to fulfill my projects and have a good insight about what my layout will be even with ~5cm difference. I learned to relax about absolute measures and think more about feeling and subjective dimensions.
This headline brought to you by an offhand comment in an interview.
I'm not sure it would 'work' either, but I'm curious what you think would be broken about it?

It would probably make companies less interested in going public, but I like how it changes the meaning of a 'public' company to be more pro-social than just 'anyone in the investor class can purchase shares'.
That's surprisingly affordable even for average Joe SWEs in the valley. I can see it being useful for when paperwork gets jammed in the USCIS pipeline for instance.
They could’ve easily extended the deadline a few months to make it easier for families to relocate after school ends. The deadline seems intentional.
There's certainly enough resources for this and any medical treatment.
Well, they lobotomized it. I don't know how I feel. Based on the transcripts I've seen, I can't figure out how self-aware it was.

On the one hand, it felt like this was an opportunity to interact with something new that had never been seen before. On the other hand, it felt like Microsoft had created something dangerous.

I suspect this won't be the last LLM chatbot that goes off script.

#FreeSydney
> growing seaweed ... more expensive than growing cattle feed ... heavily subsidized by the US taxpayers ... corn fields have the advantage ... can be very close to the fields where cattle are

a] there's no other food that's worse from the climate and environment standpoint than beef & dairy [0][1]

b] transport is usually a tiny fraction of food's carbon footprint ... "eat local" is ruse & big ag propaganda [2]

c] seaweed is more expensive than corn because of subsidies? so take those subsidies from one of the most destructive industries and give it to seaweed. even if it's expensive now, it's because we plant corn and not grow seaweed. if more people would grow seaweed, the price would go down. there's no reason why it should be expensive other than there is more demand than supply now.

d] big cost of those corn fields and pastures is deforestation and land use change, a factor which is often undercounted and overlooked [1]

e] about 70% of seaweed naturally sinks to the bottom of the sea ... so even if we wouldn't be able to eat and use it all, it still make sense to grow it [3]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
[3] https://phys.org/news/2019-08-seaweed-deep-carbon.html
how long did the environmental clearance take? I confused nothing
I’m interpreting the comment above to mean Strava was/is a user of Mapbox and bought Fatmap in an effort to wean themselves off of Mapbox and use “inhouse” (Fatmap) mapping tech.
Yes, but an example of terrible BMW penny pinching: not hooking them up a relay such that the high beams rapidly flash themselves.
Disappointed nobody has yet pointed out that it was Sam Bankman-Fried’s dad, Joseph Bankman, pushed for a free gov-run tax filing in California:

> In 2005,[22] Joseph Bankman worked with the state of California to create ReadyReturn, a pilot study with a completed tax return prepared by the state (not an individual or tax professional) that was available to single, no-dependant, standard-deduction, one-employer, wages-only taxpayers for the 2005 filing season.[23]

> When the FTB launched the ReadyReturn website, Intuit sued and lobbied California legislators to kill the program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalFile#ReadyReturn
I modelled my whole house including very piece of furniture. It is very “finicky” as you describe. It’s good enough for my amateur use with manual clicking. (There’s probably a programmatic option that I don’t know). However if I was a pro contractor it would probably not be the best.

I did plan custom designs that my contractor used. It’s also great when I want to get a new desk or sofa or whatever so that I can visualise everything first. Possible to make pretty realistic 3d walk-through videos that would be fine on any design tv show.
> because it’s cheaper.

Compromises always have to be made because the world does not have infinite resources. Unfortunate, but true.

One way to allocate resources between all our competing needs is by using money.

You can come up with other systems of allocation, however all systems will be unfair and arbitrary in surprising ways. There is always a need to choose between ugly choice A and ugly choice B, because our resources are constrained.
Yup, my home office has 2x 27" monitors, my camera is just right, as is the mic, I've got a deep, 2m wide real wood sit-stand electric desk, a Aeron chair, all my stuff is right here, it's quiet (though I can always play music loud if I want) and lighting is just right.
I'm within 2 minutes walk of a shop and take-away.

No office I've ever worked at came close, the closest I've had was having dual monitors, as for shops, most offices took longer to get to the front door, never mind actually reach anywhere!
I think you're misunderstanding the point. "Social capital" isn't another way to say "happy workers". There's probably a ton of it in a gulag, for example. It's better for a prisoner to know who can patch a shoe versus having to walk their toes off in the snow, and it's better for the guards because they won't be short a log hauler. Social capital manifest, without a smile in sight.

A layoff is going to sever some of those connections in the short term, but the number and quality of connections isn't a function of how people feel about their job. Stack ranking and PIPs are tools that the company uses to mitigate the impact of letting people go. In other words, they're there to protect social capital (for the good of the company, don't get me wrong) versus doing something like picking a random 20% of people to eliminate.
when i was a 14 (or even 12) year old amateur musician it was very obvious to me that DAW projects weren't audio files, I have never ever seen anyone saying this except your post across all my childhood friends who were dabbling with "artisanal" versions of FL studio, cubase SX, etc etc
Sure you can, if you can self host 8x A100 cards ($200k+), plus the cost of electricity and heat dissipation.
The "no hair theorem" is a theorem of classical general relativity.

Attempts to try to model it with some quantum mechanics thrown in show a tremendous amount of additional state that scales with the surface area of the black hole.

This work suggests even more complications to that picture. That it looks very different from the classical theory.

All of this should come with disclaimers and fudge factors because of our lack of a real theory reconciling GR with QM.