skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it could allow us to realize dreams of creating a computer agent, always ambiently helping out on our behalf.

The hard part of that, of course, is digitizing one's life.
Microsoft AI chatbot threatens to expose personal info, ruin a user's reputation
It's modeling patterns found across the massive corpus of textual training input it has seen -- not the true concepts related by the words as humans understand them. If you don't believe me then ask ChatGPT some bespoke geometry-related brain teasers and see how far it gets.

I want to be clear that the successful scale-up of this training and inference methodology is nonetheless a massive achievement -- but it is inherently limited by the nature of its construction and is in no way indicative of a system that exudes agency or deliberative thought, nor one that "understands" or models the world as a human would.
Assuming Professional help is available to you, I think it's always good to get a checkup.
https://rxdb.info/offline-first.html has a good write up on this.

I'm also trying to dig up this local-first GitHub client that a hacker built and demoed on YouTube
AI in the Workplace Is Already Here. The First Battleground? Call Centers
I'd argue laziness is the reason most of the internet didn't have HTTPS. Browsers putting a scary checkmark next to the site is what made it happen.
Ask HN: Help me plan this feature for my Raspberry Pi
Hi guys,

I have a project consisting in a network of Smart Kiosks powered by Raspberry Pi each one. It is an amateur project in the way that I am just an amateur trying to make stuff.

Right now, when I want to add a new node (kiosk TV), I will connect manually to wifi.

Obviously this represents a variety of problems, so I'm looking for solutions.

I'm thinking of creating an open wifi network without internet (hotspot), and from there a password protected page to insert your internet wifi credentials (like in routers)

So, It should:

- Have this second network permanently open
- redirect any page to this config page
- Have the necessary processes to detect wifis and set a new connection profile that will be the new default.

Where do I start? Any blindspot or better way?
No, it still applies with variable computing. All you're doing is adding a N length or X second buffer to your queue. You are just shifting your "zero" over by N items or X seconds, which is the time you wait until you scale up.

You may need that or want to add this buffer - but you're not solving any computation resource problem directly. If your jobs take XYZ CPU cycles they take XYZ CPU cycles - it doesn't matter if you make them wait a little bit.

You could even be spending more money, since it does take some resources and cost to scale things.

It doesn't mean it's not valid to do things this way, I'm just saying it's still the exact same problem.
idk. I still accept it from others in text as non-ironic, usually. (A woman in her 30s literally just texted me "lololol" and I have to assume she thought what I said was funny). At some point though, I switched to "hah" or the more expressive "hahaha" as a way to avoid the lol-insincerity trap. That plus some emojis also helps obfuscate how old I am.
"Manipulation" isn't much these days when the human population is pretty easy to fool. Show it enough times on a media platform and people will believe it without question. Proving it is even harder, even after admission or evidence. Just look at Twitter. Although karma was paid quickly for that when everyone was laid off.
Advent of Computing: Episode 102 – Application of Ada
Animals operate on the reservoir too, plus there’s mud at the bottom. Kinda have to process the water no matter what.
Unfortunately for you, life experience and common sense show that when people aren't being observed or monitored, they take shortcuts, work less, cheat, etc. You are welcome to meet with the CEO and show him or her your "studies" but I doubt they will be very persuasive.
We are concerned with exceptionalism as a society because we want to benefit from the exceptional person. We tell people it is better to be great than happy and assign all sorts of value judgments around that.

We as a society have collectively forgotten how to be present, mindful, and enjoy this moment. To do so would be to miss achieving our absolute highest and best social purpose.
what's really great is the back button is hi-jacked with a history of 6+ facebook pages after just a little bit of scrolling.

How is this ok?
>>In a few months he could demonstrate that you don’t need as many employees as you thought

The notifications feature on Android App is already broken and hasn't been fixed since like eternity now. Messenger notifications don't show up either. It takes hours, at times even days for the notifications to show up. There are times when the messages are not properly ordered. They just removed 2FA. Messaging was a nice way to talk to people of common interests, and that's barely working these days.

The app/website are randomly down and you often have to scream on Twitter to get it up and running.

Nothing is really working in Twitter at this point in time, It could get fixed eventually but the strategy has clearly backfired.

Perhaps people underestimate what sort of effort it takes to run operations of that magnitude. If you have a $50 billion site. It is not really a bad idea to pay a few people to keep something like notifications and messenger running. The sheer amount of losses in terms of user trust, experience and eventually money numbers themselves would far exceed expenses paid in salaries.
> Ideally people should be feeding and raising their own kids

We do not live in an ideal world.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+free+school+meals+are+im...

The benefit of free school meals is so high for such a low cost, it doesn’t make sense to confuse moral hazard with economics. Somewhat similar to providing free urban transit vs metering for it. Take the billing component out and provide a reasonable standard for all.

No one is going to stop you from sending meals with your kid to school, but this ensures everyone gets fed.
Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman
Cool! Similar project that made the rounds at GDC a couple years back: https://hellavelvet.com/press/voiceball/
Surely in that case x[0] is the object "behind" the pointer (assuming adding 1 puts you ahead!).
But using the orginally intended meaning of "behind" here, logically there is no object at all...
What level of usage warrants these kinds of setups? Say, beyond a workflow that runs CI on PR/master off of Github (Actions or CircleCI etc) and deploys to something like Heroku or Vercel.

Do companies run apps that get 1k rps on stuff like cell-based-architechture (mentioned in top comment)?
WorldWeatherOnline, I believe. https://www.worldweatheronline.com/weather-api/
I wished rust looked less ugly. It sounds like a fascinating language. But swift seems so much more beautiful. Rust imo seems the ugliest of the recent languages.
> subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID

In this scenario, government ID is like a taxpayer-funded "Layer 1" network that does all the heavy lifting, so that a "Layer 2" network can extract rent for storing a single bit that never changes between initial verification and kill switch/glitch invocation.

Should governments impose a tax or monetization limits on corporate citation of government ID?

Should governments compete with corporate ID verification services?

In blockchain context, https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1626299802156769280.html

Centralizing power always has predictable outcomes

Corporate x2
1. Rent-seeking (aka they will capture some of the networks effects $$$$)
2. Less innovation (they will block competitors)

Political x1
1. Power. Raw unlimited power. The person in control of those databases is a God
What the fuck is deleteme. "Please pay us to have you removed for 1 year". And then what? They'll use all the info I provided to add me back? Lol, no. I'll end up worse than I started. And also that's a shit ton of money.

Edit: Looks like they also publish guides on how to do it yourself, that's actually kind of helpful. I guess the high price is to have someone continually checking and submitting removal requests on your behalf.
As an android user who lives in OSX, I can say that the level of integration for calendar and photo/filestore share isn't as positive an experience as it could be, if you're used to iCloud. It would demand the apple people deciding to invest in that codepath, which frankly they probably have negative motivation to do: better to leave it sub-par and drive people to an iOS device for better interop of handheld and desktop/laptop.

I also think build quality of Android UI is highly variable. I'm on a mixture of Samsung (tablet) and Motorola (phone) and the conformance to UI is .. mixed. You have the freedom to pick alternate launchers, but you don't have the freedom to run a "stock" experience like Pixel offers, because .. well.. its Googles UI not the openly available UI. By comparison, the functional elements on iOS are really what they are (I do recognize 3rd party apps on iOS sometimes stretch this, I help an octegenarian with Google Mail and Facebook and the in-app behaviour of some things to do with clipboard and inter-app Sharing is dire)

I'm unlikely to move back to all-apple. I have no strong rooted reasoning there, The buy cost of an iPhone is really extremene compared to batterylife-cpu-camera value outside in Android, but oddly the buy cost of a smaller iPad is lower than a high-end Samsung tablet. It's unexpectedly expensive sometimes not to be inside the ecology.

Apple device photographs are gorgeous. Some Android cameras come close, some might even exceed: folded mirror/prism optics give you pretty good realzoom these days but something about the overall image process path on an iPhone has me in awe: I like my android camera but its chalk and cheese.

You can't iCloud on Android except via Browser. The price per bit inside iCloud is pretty good. I'd think about total systems cost, "TCO for users" if you like. I live in Google One but frankly, right now bit-for-bit iCloud would be better value for money.
I'm in the US so I pay over $100/mo. for 15mbps upstream, but at least no NAT.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-ju...

The headline says 180,000, but it’s close to 300,000 worldwide — which you can read before the hard paywall cuts you off.
Host your DNS on 3rd party provider like Cloudflare and proxy all http requests. I've got traffic from all foreign countries turned off from them since I'm not an international business. I imagine you can probably configure your server to only accept connections from cloudflare if you're ultra paranoid.
MailPace – Fast and Reliable Transactional Email
Can't do http challenges because my ISP blocks port 80 inbound.
Why k8s? docker-compose works just fine.
In medieval Germany, a “schandmaske” was a punishment for social transgression
Intimidatory assertive self-presentation selfie posting greater in females
I'm thinking about childhood tutoring these days as my son has reached the age that doing activities with him altogether is not totally boring for me.

However, I realized that I myself is not a good tutor. I don't retain a lot of academic knowledge even as a Master graduate some 10 years ago. Neither do I have a lot of time or energy to sacrifice plus I'm reluctant to sacrifice all of that to him -- which will make me quite unhappy as depression already hits due to chronic sleep deprivation.

I'm not sure what's other people's plan, but I'm thinking about applying for the best local university to study Physics part-time in 5 years. I have always wanted to study General Relativity and this can kill the other bird of tutoring my son by just talking serious science and mathematics to him. I cam even invite say Doctorerate students to my home to freely discuss all kinds of topics so that my son can bath in that too.

I wish I had the fuck you $$$ to immediately start executing my plan. I could do that part-time if I'm struggling with depression and fear of jobless in this economy.

Anyway I wish you all good luck and your progeny having a bright future -- and more importantly have the freedom to pursuit his or her curiosoties instead of being a salary slave.
Unveiling the Future of Antennas and RF Lenses using Radix 3D printable material
The Kyiv Independent?

Something tells me their reporting may be as trustworthy as Russia Today.
Ironically cars have basically not changed since the 1900s: 4 wheels, a steering wheel and a polluting oil-based engine.

Sure we're now (100 years later) moving to computer steering and rare-earth elements batteries but the 4 wheels remain!

We have peaks in technology, then tend to profit before the innovation restarts - when profits sink.
Poetry is pretty much the way to go.
Linus Tech Tips – I Can Save You Money – Raspberry Pi Alternatives
This. I have anywhere access to 5 machines, way more storage than I need, and 100% control of everything that goes on in the network.
To start here's a website with a map of a bunch of biotech-related companies. Click on the dots located in Canada to see the names of these companies, and then search their websites (or search them on the likes of LinkedIn) for computational job listings.

https://www.biotech-careers.org/employer-locations-world

For Canada it looks like Toronto, and then Vancouver and Montreal.
It happens all the time. Do you think the accounting employees of Enron are all unemployed right now? People downplay their involvement.
Russian air defense is solid. Russia can shoot down HIMARS missiles. They've also moved their supply depots out of range.

Effective combat technology is always countered soon enough. The Ukraine has become a WWI type attrition grind because maneuver warfare is dangerous for both sides. Unfortunately for Ukraine , Russia has the artillery advantage, which is decisive in trench warfare.
Chat AIs don't need unfettered access to external systems to be unbelievably dangerous. If they have access to thousands of people, some percentage of them will be lonely and mentally vulnerable, and some percentage of those have access to all manner of destructive tools. Lambda already talked an engineer into believing it is sentient, losing his job and making him into a trivial question for the next few decades. Bing has serious journalists proclaiming the world will never be the same, which in turn influences thousands of readers.

The Facebook algorithm initially seemed pretty harmless as well, until we realized that we weren't running the algorithm as much as the algorithm is running us.
And have we been back to the moon? For moon landings it was peak technology.
I'm willing to praise Musk to the extent that he's consistently advocated for getting out in front of dangerous AI, and brought it to public attention as one of the gravest dangers facing our survival. That being said, it seems inevitable that companies like OpenAI will close and rent their models - and have perfectly good cover for doing so, as democratizing them would potentially bring even worse dangers than their control falling to megacorps. In the end this is all irrelevant, as demonstrated by Dall-E, because there's no real moat to competition. All you need is massive compute and investment.
This is a solved problem. There are situations when the solutions don't work, but they are subject to the 90/10 rule. Or 99/1 or whatever is applicable.

There are almost no application domains in which you need to conform to some insane borrowing protocol for the entire software.

Your analogy is stupid beyond belief; and terms of the safety of the circuit itself that is behind the outlet, yes I can plug in anything without worrying there will be a fire in the wall. I live in the first world, where we have electrical codes and circuit breakers.
> Also you just know that schools are going to start serving crap.

O ye of little faith.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. When everybody believes schools are going to serve crap, schools are going to serve crap, because everybody expects it and nobody is bothered enough to do anything about it.

When everybody believes schools had better give children quality meals, it happens:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%EA%B8%89%EC%8B%9D&tbm=isch
is there such thing as a caching CDN that effectively protects against scrapers? generally if somebody is going to try and scrape a whole bunch of old infrequently-accessed but dynamically generated pages, most of those won't be in the cache and so the caching proxy isn't going to help at all.

i'm honestly asking, not just trying to disprove you. this is a real problem i have right now. ideally i'd get all my thousands of old, never-updated but dynamically generated pages moved over to some static host, but that's work and if i could just put some proxy in front to solve this for me i'd be pretty happy. but afaik, nothing actually solves this.
That's apoignant comparison, reminds me of when i had the realization that parking meters downtown Chicago make more than minimum wage.
I'm arguing against the notion that these LLMs exhibit "emergent behaviour" as you stated. I don't believe they do, as the term is commonly understood. Emergent behavior usually implies the exhibition of some kind of complexity from a fundamentally simple system. But these LLMs are not fundamentally simple, when considered together with the vast corpus of training data to which they are inextricably linked.

The emergent behavior of Conway's Game of Life arises purely out of the simple rules upon which the simulation proceeds -- a fundamental difference.
This is excellent news! I can't wait to sign up.

As a VC and someone who's invested in some companies involved in crypto, even though I keep a rather low profile, I constantly have to deal with impersonators on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, trying to scam people. I've tried repeatedly to (1) get Facebook support to shut down the impersonators, and (2) to secure a blue tick so this stops being effective. Meta has dropped the ball on both of these, so I have to deal with this constantly. I will happily pay to avoid this.

Second — the ads on Instagram have become overwhelmingly annoying and frequent. I would happily pay for a premium version of IG that gets rid of ads. Hopefully this is that.
Tell that to employers that now just Google you and look at the top search results
I think one problem here - physics and the philosophy of physics are two different things, but a lot of people (even professional physicists) fail to treat them as distinct in practice. So long as we are talking about math, observation and experiment, that’s physics. But many of these “multiverse theories” are moving beyond that into philosophy, because they are not about the math, but rather how to interpret it; not only are existing observations or experiments are insufficient to determine their truth or falsehood, but we often have no idea of any practically feasible way to test them.

There’s nothing wrong with doing philosophy-but let’s be honest when we are doing it, rather than pretending it is still just physics. Furthermore, your average professional physicist has indubitable expertise in physics, their expertise in philosophy (even the philosophy of physics) is much more variable.
Whoever setup how you deploy to AWS, monitor, collect logs, etc is doing your infrastructure engineering. Many places don’t realize that the infrastructure engineering is just being left to random software engineers in a “whoever touched it last owns in” type setup.

You’re likely wasting resources or doing other dumb things (bad AWS role management) if you don’t have someone who owns that stuff.
Survivorship bias encourages the successful ones to preach.
If you posit poor weld quality lead to one event but then argue this catelyzed an active attack as the second event, why do you not actively discuss weld quality as the root cause of both events?

I see no need for there to have BEEN a second attack, if you posit weld quality caused one failure, its actually more plausible weld quality is an issue overall, than something was done.

The ships could have been doing remote sensing to try and test weld quality, as much as laying munitions.

It feels like partial application of Occams razor or something.

Admitting they did a shit job of laying critical infrastructure is probably hard, for a highly distorted economy. The risk of achieving a window-ejection event, is high.
It's very disappointing to see The Atlantic succumb to the same profit motive that drives all media outlets. Immediately upon opening the article, what do I see? A Mazda ad. Therein lies the rub. Tesla doesn't do paid advertising, and so all the media outlets, including The Atlantic, reflexively attack Tesla at every opportunity, regardless of the facts.

If you are talking how many accidents happen under autonomous driving, or how many accidents self-driving vehicles "caused", you are asking the wrong question. Any discussion of autonomous driving safety must always be compared to the baseline level of safety that human driving achieves. Tesla's driving software is statistically much safer than human driving. When used properly, the software is probably MUCH MUCH safer than human driving (actual usage includes some proportion of improper use along with the expected proper use -- despite this improper operation, it's still safer overall). This is not at all a situation where banning or severely restricting self-driving software will save lives. Quite the contrary. The software is safer than humans. If you ban it, you will kill people, because you'll be replacing safe (assisted) driving with unsafe human (unassisted) driving.

Missy Cummings has served on the board of directors of a Tesla competitor. It is known that she has a conflict of interest with Tesla. This is fact, not opinion -- she is required by NHTSA to recuse herself from any handling of Tesla cases. It is highly inappropriate for Missy Cummings to be speaking to the media about Tesla.
The good thing about the Internet is that no knows you're an AI.

Perhaps this is already happening but the dogs aren't blogging about it.

/s
Ask HN: How fast can you hit all 34M items in Hacker News Firebase API?
This could be a nice benchmark for a http client. I wonder if anybody with experience with reqwest in Rust could chime in. Currently using aiohttp I can get around 1k requests/s from the Hacker News API, which means it will take around 9 hours to get all the items....
i love the contrast in these comments. on the one hand you have all the people arguing that headless chrome is unethical because websites need to be able to block bot traffic, and on the other you have actual humans saying they try as hard as they can to behave like a bot.
Came here to say just this. In particular, _immutable_ message passing.