skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be very surprised if all those problems were just theoretical even for you. Insurance companies are already using info from data brokers (https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-are-vacuu...), employers are using it in employment screening (illegally) and data brokers have already been fined because of it (https://www.engage.hoganlovells.com/knowledgeservices/news/f...), it's used to set individualized prices online and offline (https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2014/03/26/different...). Data brokers are already selling lists of people who have visited abortion clinics. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortio...)

Companies are using every scrap of data they can get their hands on to take more of our money and they want more. The government is buying up data they can't legally collect directly. It's pretty likely that you've already experienced real world consequences of the data taken from your online activities. (https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/data-brokers/)

They tell us that all the tracking we're subjected to is just about ads, but the data being collected is used all over the place offline. What we really need is privacy regulation with real teeth, but that's probably not going to happen any time soon because it's making companies tons of money. There's a multi-billion dollar a year industry around the buying and selling of the our data for a reason.
> It might've seemed like there were more positive voices for web3 because many people stood to gain monetarily from it.

Yeah, I think people underestimate the prevalence of this effect. At one point I tried figure out the origins of a story (covered by MSNBC) that the web3 game Axie Infinity was lifting people out of poverty in the Philippines. Every story was sourced back to the same report by a related party of the game.

(Axie ended up imploding catastrophically. I haven’t seen any stories about what happened to all the Filipinos dragged along into it)
The lot the Curry's and other oppose rezoning, 23 Oakwood Blvd, is not an appropriate place for high density housing. Despite the Atherton address, all cars to and from the property will enter and exit on Redwood City residential streets. The streets in that neighborhood of RWC are substandard, they were put there in the 1930's and have not changed since. Even the Atherton town council thinks it is the worst lot in the town for development, but the owner is insisting on the highest density possible.
The talk I linked suggest this isn't the case.
I'm having a hard time taking a website called "free minds and free markets" seriously as a reliable source.
> I often wonder how much of their tech stack made it into the larger Google org.

Very little, though that may be changing. Most of YouTube was written in Python, which is essentially unknown for a production system at Google.

> Example; for the longest time when you'd log into gsuite via a SAML IdP you'd notice a youtube url in the login flow.

This was just to set the YouTube "logged in" cookie.
I suspect it will be more than a "shrug". When the TSMC chip production drops off a cliff European manufacturing will be affected as much as anywhere else. It will have more affect than Russia cutting the gas off.

With Gas there was existing storage capacity and after 6 months Norway and LNG were there to replace Russian supplies. Sure it cost more but it is out there to be bought internationally.

Germany won't be shipping in tanker loads of chips from Qatar, the manufacturing capacity just doesn't exist.

This is why Europe and America have woken up to microchip fabrication issue. The capacity to cover being cut off from TSMC fabs wont be online in Europe for many years.
Of course AI doesn’t understand words. It has never interacted with the world. But that’s a weird test to use. AI systems that do facial recognition don’t actually know what faces are either. And when they classify a plate as a face we don’t get too worked up about it. We just continue to tune it or make the next big advance.
Like I said, I'm still waiting to experience it. As far as I can tell, most moderation of HN is done in public, not in private over email.
Perhaps I was wrong - I've just seen this follow up article https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/signal-messaging-hacked-c...
Show HN: Ask Naval Ravikant
I'm currently reading the almanack of Naval Ravikant. So I built a QA bot using GPT to ask questions as I review its content.

Stack used:
* LangChain (framework + QA agent)
* Steamship (AI Infra)
* Vercel (Front-end)
There's a piece of graffiti from the May 1968 Paris riots that goes "I have something to say but I don't know what." Reminds me of this. I can't find the original French but I think it's something like "J'ai quelque chose a dire mais je ne sais quoi."

Found it: https://www.dicocitations.com/citations/citation-67489.php

They use the pas
Another Way to Scratch the Itch
Whenever someone tells me how much they hate kombucha, I get the feeling they tried one gross bottle one time, and wrote it all off as bad.

I am brewing 5 flavors right now in my house. I assure you, they are delicious.

Guava Jasmine is my current favorite.

But keep hating on it if you like, you're missing out on something great.
The also tried to make The Hobbit the Lord of the Rings when they are complete different in tone and style. I wish we got to see Guillermo's version.

The Hobbit also had the fingers of 4 or 5 studios in it.
I think that we just reached a point of diminishing returns on special effects in the early 2000s. The improvements since then have mostly been in reducing the cost to produce convincing CGI, with very little gain in the maximum quality that can be achieved.
The biggest risk is AI becoming economic agents - the elite will then have less and less need for human consumers, who will lose political power and protections, slowly diminish. Then... AI will slowly take over the elite, until there is no one left. Earth will spin endlessly through space, soulless.

Of course, that's not how AIs see it.
> And when the thing you're doing is outside the scope of what arduinos library ecosystem can provide (eg. you need to drive some GPIO pin with cycle accurate latencies), you can still write your assembly to do it.... But you still get the benefits of simplicity for the rest of your functionality.

In my experience, escaping the Arduino system isn't so simple. The Arduino framework pulls a lot of stuff into the global namespace when you include even just one of their headers, some of which is incompatible with standard C++. For example they `#define` all pin names, some of which can be common terms like `led`, `button`, `mosi` or `clk`. Any of those you then can't use a variable name. It's even worse because the pin names differ between boards, and there's no master list of defined terms.
Although, in this case, it looks like they just give ChatGPT an initial prompt telling it to act like a $religion professor.
I just used ChatGPT to help me code something in a day that would have taken me weeks and lots of StackOverflow previously. So I mostly agree with you.

But consider that I didn't use Github Copilot only because I wasn't sure if it was free (and ChatGPT functioned well enough). This, even though I kept hitting limits in the system. It's still the case that for a lot of these use cases that people are using ChatGPT for that a chat interface is pretty inefficient for getting things done.

I do think the chat UI is probably overdone right now. But that's just because there's a multi-year usability learning process that still needs to happen. It's why Microsoft is building GPT into each of their products differently and others will do the same. Chat is a short-term design trend for many use cases, just for the moment. That said, the tech is expanding so quickly that we'll likely see more chat rather than less even as other UIs have even more room to grow.
Almost all Google search for businesses are "scam". If you search for locksmith, plumber, heating and cooling, lawn, mechanic. It's all fronts often in eastern europe masking like local business and taking a hefty cut.
But Dufour maps use "hachure" [0] lines for relief, not this type of shading, I think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachure_map?wprov=sfla1
Correlated with Kathleen Kennedy being put in charge of the property. The franchise has flopped so badly that they have not only had to cancel movies, they've had many big name directors pull out because they don't want to be associated with the ongoing carnage.

The only bright spot left is what Filoni or Favreau are doing.
I was entirely unable to convince it that England has a King now.
Allowing the coupon to be used for the treatment of obesity is an implicit approval for the drug to be used in this way, and coupons are a form of marketing. Lilly cannot approve nor market this drug in a way that is off-label. This is why when Lilly talks about testing tirzepatide for weight loss, they say tirzepatide and not Mounjaro. Whenever you see articles mentioning Mounjaro for weight loss, these are statements not originating from Lilly.
The Age of “Assisted Everything”
Very nice output but I bet the experience you go through beats anything. From my experience, when you enter flow state you can let it take over intent and then anything goes as long as it’s at the same tempo as the flow. I paint too and similary just take whatever direction the work wants to go while clearing my mind. There is a slight adjustments to the flow here and there but the decisions largely come into being by chance. I get a bonus dopamine hit when work is completed. I work on 10 to 20 works at a time so as not to linger for too long on decisions or interrupt the flow.

I do this first as a form of therapy and don’t care to display or show the world my works as I feel knowing there was an audience would interfere with my process, would make me more self conscious perhaps wanting to please a perceived audience. I applied the same philosophy to music making.
We could have more of Middle Earth since there's plenty of material. The problem is TV/Film written and directed by committee that has to dance around the stories that Tolkien actually wrote in the world as he built it since his estate has never sold the rights to the Silmarillion and the History of Middle Earth.

That's really why the Rings of Power sucked. The company wanted 10 hours of content and paid nearly half a billion dollars for it. But budget can't create story and characters where there are none and the writers have to work around the appendices of a book.

It's the same fundamental problem as the Hobbit trilogy. That could have been a fantastic 100 minute film.
Well, they can certainly converse intelligibly. Intelligently is up for debate.
I'll give it a look over and see if I can get a blinky.toit going.
Your cousin, the king of France, says differently. Shall we have a war?
Archived 14 hours ago

https://archive.ph/VCMxH
If I had to guess these are used for urgent video transcodes. New uploads to popular channels and on-demand transcoding. I suspect that CPUs are still often used for background batch encoding. But maybe 20x is enough that the power cost of extra CPU usage isn't worth it and they will do it all in hardware.
I am 26 and the movies still feel fresh. I didn't even get to watch the movies until I was an adult...I only had the books, so the respect the movies had for the books was very special to me.

What pisses me off about Warner Bros is how they are latching onto LotR and Harry Potter because they were glorious 20 years ago, and they want to reclaim that glory without putting any work in to make something worth watching. They would rather milk one man's life's work to death for a cheap buck instead of trying to make something new. And, its probably going to be successful. Harry potter was fun 20 years ago, LotR was fun 20 years ago, but as a society we need to move on to new works instead of latching onto past success. If Warner Bros could realize that, they would be better off for it.
If I was a publisher I’d address it by making a micro transaction to temporarily add a boost to your MMR. So players can pay money to play better opponents.
The chromeos argument is straight up bad faith. Google is a tech giant with immense marketing capabilities. They sell laptops which obviously outsell anything like framework/purism/system76/pine64, they would even if the product was garbage. Now chromeos is what these machines get preinstalled with. The domination is a mechanical consequence of what google is and that they happen to have a product running it, it doesn't say anything about chromeos.
Well for one thing it completely misrepresents Christianity. The Bible is clear that salvation is through believing in Jesus and resting in Him as your sole hope for eternal life. But when asked about salvation the bot responds:

"According to the Christian faith, salvation is both by faith and by works. Faith is necessary for salvation, as it is through faith that we accept God's grace and forgiveness. But works are also important, as our actions demonstrate our faith and commitment to following God's will."

Which is a damnable heresy that sends millions of people to hell.

Here's what the bible says:

"8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast."

It's pretty clear...
Those were mice.
What even is this argument? You don’t need a Facebook account for the Quest 2, and what do you think people do with their Quest devices? Put them on and stare deeply into the void? No, they buy it to play games.
I'm afraid Youtube will just die. As far as I know, it's still not profitable on its own.
I was using "magic beans" way before it was cool.

I could prove it, it's just that I've had several HN accounts banned since then.
I wish I shared your optimism about education's ability to adapt and meet the needs of students.
> The point is not to make any money on the hardware; the point is to understand the metaverse so well that when it eventually emerges they will know it better than anyone else and can dominate rather than be squeezed out.

Except they dont understand it...

We already have pseudo-metaverses in Minecraft, Fortnite, and such, and Meta (so far) is entirely missing the point in their own VR game. Its like they are an AI that has literally forgotten what it is like to be a regular human.
In what way is Mozilla selling their users to Pocket? Do you realize that Mozilla acquired Pocket years ago?
Using Flutter Rust bridge in 2023
I thought getting money to places governments didn't want to get money to was one of the explicit aims of cryptocurrency.
How so? They really are not. The VR market is not really big enough to have devices specialized for one part of VR vs another.

You put either of them on to play games. That’s it. Where’s the market differentiator?

To a common person, they’re not going to see the differences that exist. They will say “oh Timmy wants to play VR” and get whatever option they can to allow Timmy to play VR. Both the Quest and PSVR2 are options for that.

And the Quest has been out longer, has an existing user base 1/7th of a PS5 and doesn’t cost the same price as a new console. All of those very much work in it’s favor.
Brand new drugs tend to take a while to get on insurance formularies. I believe Mounjaro is still missing in most formularies. Lilly wants people on their drug, not the competition.
My point was not to debate the seriousness of covid but talk about relative risk. If you think covid is very serious and it's perfectly logical to take some precautions with your child.

To my point, there is a huge difference between taking your child to a sports game and introducing it to one or two people over the course of a year. If you magically knew there is a 1 in 10 chance your child would die, of course don't do it. The question is when would you start to do it. One in a million chance, one in a billion? At some point the logic of better safe than sorry works against you.
This is the company cofounded Prof. Donald Sadoway from MIT. I have been following their progress for a while. He made a lot of media around this technology 10 years ago. See the TedTalk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA

So this is one of those case where you hear some news about amazing battery tech, and the reality is it minimum 10 years before it ever on the market.

The company had ups and downs and it seems they are actually pretty close to actually deploying a major system within the next year or so. This if further then most other grit batteries companies get.

This is a bit of newer talk with some more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2N3QAMhtPU

He also worked on a really cool idea for Green Steel making, producing iron from iron ore like we do aluminum from Bauxite. The startup company for that is called 'Boston Steel'.

Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pYNzxorJs0

Full presentation for more technical people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhQaxFZOptE
Yet it’s all still deeply impersonal. I would have thought it would be much more effective for the one whose questions are being rudely ignored to deliberately make it personal in response: to bluntly impugn the honour and integrity of the other, politely offering grave insult to match the insult received by the ignoring of the question—the sort of thing that would probably have led to a duel in bygone ages. (I wonder if such bodies have any specific rules against referring to someone as “the dishonourable minister” or similar, or anything about means of address in general.)
Who is actually using JMAP? I never heard of that, what's the point of implementing something that is not used at all.
> In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one ..[snip].. I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too.

I am confused. Vancouver is on the West Coast of Canada while your statement is about "four eastermost provinces". Is it then a nation-wide problem?
> We still don't understand how these models really work, at least not in a way that teaches us anything about language or about humanity.

We understand how LLMs work conceptually. Human language, when parameterized as a sequence of tokens, has geometry and structure in a billion dimensional space. A priori, we didn't know that. So in a very real sense, a discovery was made.
Ask HN: Will non-US Google Play app developers simply get shafted?
I recently got a letter through the post (UK) telling me that if I am a US app developer, I am entitled to a settlement payment. (See googleplaydevelopersettlement.com)

Well, I am not a US app developer. This settlement feels like it's been agreed to avoid settling with all parties (i.e. me)

I appreciate that whoever took Google to court did spend money on lawyers and I spent 0
Not the only one, but idk why people would follow Musk’s lead as opposed to, say, Tim Cook’s, when apple’s valuation has barely taken a dip.
Sorry that happened to you. Using a de-duplicating backup solution (such as rdiff-backup or restic), will let you keep daily increments indefinitely with very little overhead.
I suppose it was probably on its way out, but nb. that Hamilton's son had died in a duel only 3 years before.

Andrew Jackson fought in at least two, killing a man in 1806, and was later president.

Apparently, Mark Twain only narrowly escaped dueling with a rival newspaper editor (!) in 1864.

Given the accounts of folks taking bullets to the torso and surviving, it's hard to avoid concluding that dueling perhaps only continued because of the relative inefficacy (lower energy & accuracy) of firearms of the era. Jackson took a bullet to the CHEST and survived, as noted.
Really hoping the name is inspired by the Graham Priest book...

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-9780199688258?cc...
either! You can select apps and sites to block.

In terms of your second question, yes a user profile is required to use the application..
We haven't even scratched the surface yet. "chatbot" isn't the killer app, AI in the loop is.

https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1628270074074398720

https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1628420476136730624?cxt...
Ask HN: How to deal with a difficult senior team mate at work?
Hello HN,
I recently got promoted to a management / leadership role at a fast growing post series A startup.

As part of this, I have to oversee a new team where I am being confounded by a problem I havent handled before.

I have a very senior engineer on the team who

* Refuses to write tests (says things like the cyclomatic complexity of my code is low so I dont need unit tests)

* Refuses to use modern tools and practices (Example: Handwrites every single SQL query, refuses to even explore an ORM)

* Refuses to help me or other engineers in other related code bases or service (He keeps pointing to bugs and issues, but seldom takes up a refactor or a fix)

* Sticks to his own conventions even though a lot of the team does not agree with him ( Example: He refuses to follow rest patterns for apis, will not let us introduce api versioning amongst other things)

* Insists on bringing 100% clarity before starting execution (Example: any minor change in requirements and he insists on going back to the start)

Now the thing is he is one of the earliest engineers in the org and he is leading a team that has to deliver a very critical project.

This project is already 6 months late, and I am still seeing us going in circles.

If you dont agree with him on a technical issue, he would agree and then some how the work will slow down to a crawl till we dont revisit the original decision.

I am sure that there is his side of the story as well.

But by God I am clueless

How should I handle this ?
Only one Star Wars film "flopped" and that was Solo. The sequel trilogy each grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office.

The films and series that have been produced since the Disney acquisition a decade ago have created an entire new generation of fans and spawned theme parks, hotels, cruises, merchandise, and spinoffs... it's been an amazing success for the franchise.
I'm sorry to say bad things about your home country! It wasn't all bad. I felt a deep connection to the greeks of the past at the Acropolis, and wished I could have seen more wonders of that time.

I will definitely give it another try. The beauty of Greece is undeniable
Here's a related article explaining the most recent test;

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-power-plasma-gigajoule-energy-...
It's so strange people are calling this advertising. It's functionality of a web browser plugin that you have to install. It literally one of the features on the extension's description page.

"Enable Built-in Email Protection — Over 85% of emails sent to Duck Addresses contained trackers that can detect when you’ve opened a message, where you were when you opened it, and what device you were using. Email Protection makes it easy to block most email trackers and hide your existing address when signing up for things online, all without switching email providers."
Show HN: An interesting animated clock app, made with flutter
These complaints mostly seem to come from folks who are spinning up lots of VMs and architecting solutions the same way they would build in a data center. If you're running VMs 24/7 of course it's going to be expensive.
It's a movie series set in an old timey fantasy world so it's not going to seem dated the way an 80s movie like The Breakfast Club or even Ghostbusters might seem dated.

That said I don't entirely buy your premise about freshness if by that you mean quality. I'd say Ghostbusters still holds up much better than the majority of modern hollywood movies even if it used a different style of film stock and different special effects.
Every response I can think of is inadequate. Bravo sir.
Honesty, civility, fair play, respect for the spirit of the law, respect for free markets, respect for their customers.