skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a biker has a choice between possibly getting hit by a car or possibly hitting a pedestrian, the choice is kind of obvious.

I don't think that's true, though. The alternative is not "endanger pedestrians", the alternative is "walk". A biker has a choice to not bike. And that's what I do; I walk when I'm in Boston, because I don't think urban biking is safe enough for me to make that choice.

Like, yes, better bike infrastructure is a good idea and separated bike lanes is something that I absolutely support, but biking is a choice, and right now a lot of people on e-bikes (not so much regular bikes, to be honest) make me feel unsafe to walk in places that they tend to congregate.
This is shockingly good, lots of fun. It does not really get the styles I ask for, and as observed elsewhere only really generates hip-hop style vocals, but man this is very cool.
> the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI

Even before AI, humanity was already addicted to technology, then the Internet and now also pretty much any screen.

I don’t think we will ever get to AGI as one entity/ego. But in some ways we could call AGI the sort of hive mind produced by the huge globally distributed and interconnected interactions of humans with their technology.

As a species, we’ve become a sort of simbiosis with our tech, and this happened way before computers.
> What if one day Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp want to implement something "different"

That's allowed. There's not some new law that all messaging apps must implement the iMessage protocol, or that they must interoperate with iMessage.
I'm not arguing for anything in particular, just relaying what I've heard about the situation. One of the compromises that allowed for the construction of several major toll roads decades ago was that they would eventually become public and toll-free. But, this can be delayed by implementing continual capital improvements and making sure the road is never fully paid off.
It doesn't really work like that: a second is a second anywhere in the universe, but time at different places in the universe doesn't progress at the same rate.

ie. the issue is not with how we define the second. The issue is expecting that if two people in different frames of reference wait for one second, that they will continue to be "synchronised".

In fact it's worse than that, it's impossible to even define the concept of "synchronisation" for entities in different locations. You can only know that two things are synchronised if they are in the same location.

If the two entities are in the same frame of reference (ie. not moving or accelerating relative to each other) then you could argue that you just send a beam of light there and back, and assume the light takes the same time in each direction in order to synchronise... But we don't even know that light travels at the same speed in all directions! We've never been able to measure the "one-directional" speed of light, we can only measure the round-trip, so for all we know light could have a preferred direction in the universe and travel faster in that direction, as long as it is the same amount slower in the other direction. We would never be able to tell.
It's like Continuous Integration versus previous practices of "Jim has a working checkout, and I think he built the release version last time, ask Jim to make you a fresh release CD, remind him to switch off the debug symbols though. Oh also I think we're over 650MB now, so he might need to change settings in the CD burner app".

It's not that the previous practices didn't work, more or less, it's that they were manual and so you couldn't really rely on them. CI is categorically better, despite being in some sense just an automation of what should be existing practice.
I don't get it at all. How exactly does AI prevents you from creating art? If you want to write your own song, grab a guitar or midi keyboard and go for it. Do you really think AI will make a simple guitar unaffordable in the near future?

Yeah, AI might make "manual content creation" less profitable... but you said creating art is an enjoyment itself, right? If you only do it when it's profitable, then maybe you don't enjoy it... you enjoy the money. Most people are willing to spend time with their SO even it's not profitable. That's how I know they enjoy it.
There will be a middle ground where the technology augments professional tools.

If you can pull open an audio editor, start with 20 tracks and have the ai pull things I like from other songs AND modify each track to match as elements get added, you’ll start to see pros make some amazing things. Similar to how people with a photography background have a huge head start with midjourney.

What you are describing will be more powerful when I can make a playlist of my 10 favorite songs AND write a sentence about why I chose each song, and what features of the song are worth preserving. Then it can be used to match me with existing or generated songs. Current gen streaming radio doesn’t have the context for why I like each song I like. Use the ai to take songs apart and understand their elements.

This video is something I would like generative ai writing to understand. https://youtu.be/QWveXdj6oZU. This tools current rhyming isn’t any better than Kurtis Blow.
That’s color temperature. A bit of blue makes white look more like white does in direct sunlight, which we think of as whiter.

A but of orange will make white look more like white does in the evening, or in firelight.
> Side note, if you want to explore your inner experience in a more active way, try finding a local meet up that does shamanic drumming with a guide. I know this sounds weird, but our subconscious is all about symbolism, and if you can play along it's basically a short and gentle drug-free psychedelic trip in a good setting that can be very rewarding.

I am really intrigued by this (and I don't find it excessively weird). Would you have any material to recommend if one wants to understand how it works and why before actually trying it?
Aren't there only, say, two or three companies that fit that criteria? The legislators may as well have called them out by name.
> The main reason the JavaScript era happened is because HTML ceased to move forward as a hypermedia

I think you have cause and effect reversed; Java, JS, Flash, and other non-HTML technologies appeared on the web very early on, and are the reason the evolution of HTML as hypermedia stalled; when it resumed, JS was so well established as a complement that even what evolution of HTML as hypermedia occurred was generally JS dependent.
Well, bodies did literally start to pile up in morgues and hospitals and still some groups of people managed to convince themselves that it was fake or made up.
It is true but the difference also does matter; phones are always with us, they invade social situations in a way that TV and desktop internet could never do.
This seemed relevant, given the lunar time discussions.
The combination of a 30 year career in software, being a little smart about money, and not being unlucky about unexpected expenses is usually good enough to soft retire. In your early 50s. A lot of people do it.

I was responding to why some people would choose not to do it. S&P500, Dow, and Nasdaq peaked 2 years ago. I know that's influenced people in my sphere to keep up the grind.
Because enterprise Java programmers never stare puzzled at anything.
The nuance of anti-competitiveness through bundling or the merits of competition at more granular levels appears lost to you.

If products have to compete on their own merits, rather than leaning on other aspects of a larger bundle, then software and products get better for all of society.

For example, if you were allowed to install any car OS you wanted, rather than forced to use the manufacturers, car OSes would improve significantly. Some people will buy a car for the hardware, despite terrible software. This is bad for the evolution of car software. If a manufacturer was forced to compete, they would have to invest more heavily in improving their software... or simply cede control of the OS to a better implemented third party one, and focus on the hardware. Both outcomes are better for consumers than allowing anti-competitiveness via bundling
This is one of those things which sounds great on the surface, but isn't going to work out like they assume it will. It just seems like it'll end up being SMS 2.0.

For example Meta's Instagram chat doesn't even have feature parity across devices. Let alone into their other properties, so the idea that they'd be able to telegraph features into some interoperable standard isn't realistic, however I can imagine them slashing features until they meet the required level of interoperability.

At its core the problem is that governments write tech legislation under the wrong assumption that these companies will take it then innovate from that point onwards - but that's not how it plays out. Developers aren't mind readers, so the moment the government says they're interested in legislating how some kind of service should be run, development freezes in wait of the final legislation (and if need be, any court cases that may stem from that legislation.)

From this point development is focused on meeting the legislative requirements and the usually short timelines imposed by the EU (Because bugs never happen and testing is just something we do for lolz.)

Depending on the wording of the legislation there are limited opportunities to differentiate the product and there is the constant risk that the EU interprets any new features as an attempt to circumvent the legislation. So the best thing to do is just put the product out to pasture.

I'm also entirely of the mind that this is simply not needed. What is so hard in closing one chat app and opening another? The majority of people in the EU are using whatsapp, and new entrants are constant. This just seems like such a non-issue, especially as the mac notification system allows for immediate replies regardless of where the message came from, that is totally abstracted.
Would a virus with a lethality of, say, 10% really have its infectiousness damaged that badly by 1 in 10 sufferers dying? I appreciate that once you get up to a more substantial fraction, people die before they can spread the disease... but "too deadly to spread" is a much higher number than "deadly-enough to literally decimate its carriers".
Not just that, it's removing barriers for competition. Which is what good regulations is all about. (and, technically it more than just bubble color, it's also including everyone in group chats)
It is exceedingly disturbing. I have no answers. The potential solutions will probably be even more disturbing. I can imagine there will be proposals for everyone having some cryptographic ID to use the internet so all data creation can be tracked to an individual. The end of privacy and freedom.
> DART, which was the size of a golf cart, collided with a Great Pyramid-sized asteroid

Ah, the wonders of the imperial system ;-)
Erm, the article is about influenza. It hit a pretty good sweet spot of deadly and contagious a little over a hundred years ago.
The regulation was originally an antitrust case leveled against Apple by the European Commission. It contained many things that are unrelated to saving human lives, but will make developers and users lives better in the long run. We do this because the status quo (Apple having unfettered control over their ecosystem) hasn't worked out for people outside of the ecosystem. In lieu of trusting the world's largest company to build a text-messaging replacement that works on other phones, we do have to drop the life-saving legislation to focus on nannying the next iPhone.
Exactly. Water surfaces or solar panels near airports or buildings near expensive cars [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675
Yep, accessible is different from compliant
Science is the only part of our world that is restricted on moral grounds...
That makes sense for smaller businesses, where "closing" might mean closing the entire business.

But the situation seems materially different for a large company like Starbucks, where each physical location is only a small part of their overall business operations.

What SCOTUS ruling was that? I wonder if it applies to e.g. shutting down a warehouse or dismantling a department within the business, as opposed to shutting down a business entirely.
As a rails developer, I miss haml and coffeescript.
But then your messaging app will have to be compatible with discord, and both offer and accept video streams.

It will be impossible to build an app that supports everything. And with 10%-20% global turnover as a fine, the EU is turning into a dictator.
Free tiers have already been reduced. There are already new ways to make $$$ e.g. the faster runners. What justifies the price increase? Sure you have new features but you also have better scaling from more customers.

Meanwhile is this a hint for Github to also increase prices? Hm.
Outside of tech it was relatively soft
I actually expect them to route them towards Earth, to some stable orbit, to be mined. But yes first the collision protection, that's much simpler to achieve and important
Or the events do still make sense, it's just the processing rules for them have changed several times over the years and of course, the event "use the business rules ver. X.Y from now on" is not logged anywhere.
Not that I disagree with your overall philosophy, but I just want to point out that anything that provides enough force to break a bone provides enough force to kill you if you don't land well. Perhaps some training in how to fall would be valuable too.
I still have a Decimal time app on my phone, though. My Mac, too, thanks for Catalyst.
I suspect we are one of either tens or hundreds on here who have read it ;-)
Of course it works, and can be the only protection. It just depends on your risk profile.

I can hide my service with a random key and you will never get to it. This is how a lot of data is shared when you do not have identity management.

Of course once you share this URI then the one who what it can access the data. But again, it is a choice.

Security is difficult, especially when someone jumps on without assessing their threat profile.
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> The place to enforce USB-PD is at the source, which is what is happening in your described scenario.

Which source? The charger or the device? Because either could be at fault.

> This hard drive probably violates USB spec, as most spinning disks do.

It's a SSD from a well-known manufacturer, with a power draw of less than 4W at full load.
Bodies piling up in morgues is one thing but bodies piling up in houses because there's no more room in the morgues and no one going around to collect them is quite another.
I think trying to control human behavior better might be futile but something we could improve would be the supply chain issues.

And for added benefit that would also apply to other potential disasters.

Like imagine the impact if the Port of Los Angeles couldn't operate for X period due to an awful earthquake.
Or "Washington Square Park was also called 'New York City'".
I think this is a clear cut case of retaliation and the SCOTUS is wrong in this case.

At the minimum there should be a $Duration long waiting period.
Human challenge vaccine trials.
AI generated episode of Silicon Valley (2min video)
I love seeing this taken more seriously by the leadership.

We are not where we need to be, but this is the start of the solution.
I am not a fan of offline key exchanges through a centralized privacy-focused server as in, the server stores a key. Moxie knows why too. I wish he would come here so we could have that discussion. Perhaps I am old fashioned but I prefer military procedure of go for authentication in an out-of-band communication and verifying via voice each others key fingerprints or better, physically exchanging keys in person.
Fishworks made a lot of money for Oracle, if that's not success I don't know what is.

PS: I would really love an episode about Sun deciding to go to bed with AT&T and merge and BSD and System V. That seem to cast a long shadow and must have left some scars.
This is true, and we should be suspicious of gender stereotypes. But it is also true that on average men are worse at seeing color gradations, just because the incidence of color deficiency is 10x higher in men.

So any particular man may see color as well as any particular woman, but if you had to pick one person at random to save the world in the galactic color identification game show, you’d best pick a woman.
> restrictions on antennas

Assuming you’re in USA, what you need is a tower with “An antenna that is designed to receive local television broadcast signals.”

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-own...
Although I admit it is a niche, retro computing web pages can be found unencrypted to allow access to ancient computers incapable of performing TLS computations.
It doesn’t matter if it’s an obscure protocol, if it’s used in a large business then they must comply. Wait until discord or any of the gaming focused media apps try to unify on features.
Elixir Commanded is one of the best and full featured libraries/frameworks I have ever seen for working with event driven architecture and cqrs. Add in something like Oban Pro and you have a robust system that handles failures and scales
There is no gunits formula on homebrew, the formula is called gnu-units.

The command to use it is `gunits` though.
Maybe, but you should watch Scott Manley's videos about keyholes. Asteroids can have orbits that are highly sensitive to initial conditions so you can't predict that much in advance even for some asteroids with known orbits.
Yeah, like Android. 10 app stores and today nobody downloads their apps from Google Play anymore. Also all Androids are full of viruses too. Those reckless grandmas and their Android phones...
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It was about the size of a golf cart so I presume it's mass would be in an equally bizarre measurement, like "mass equivalent to 175 gallons of milk".
I’m no a COVID scold but it is behind only cancer and heart disease for leading causes of death, in the US. It certainly could have been worse, but, pardon the pun, that’s nothing to sneeze at either.
I already have all the emojis I need in Unicode. Only need to send multimedia reliably and have groups.
correct me if I'm wrong but aren't relativistic differences due to velocity and not gravity differences?
So we have talking computers. The normals are losing their minds, and that's pretty concerning.

I figure that the problem of the computers hallucinating can be cleared up by connecting them to empirical feedback devices: make them scientists.

The problem of normal people treating them as beings and getting effectively hypnotized into living in an artificial world (a "Matrix" like in the movie but without the creches) and controlled like so many electrons in a circuit, well, that's kind of a big deal, eh? These things are far more effective than television, eh?

Carl Sagan wrote about the "Demon-Haunted World" and here we are, not having quite banished the old superstitions, rapidly installing a "Daemon-Haunted" world: Alexa, Cortana, et cetera.
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Indeed we are addicted. It will get worse. AI will be able to data mine everything that triggers that dopamine response by your interactions. Eventually it will invoke that perfect response such that AI will be the best drug you have ever known.
Emissions from restarting can be higher or lower than idling [1]

• Idling for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel and emits more CO2 than engine restarting.

• Idling fuel usage varies from 0.2 to 0.5 gal/h for passenger vehicles across a range of sizes, and increased with
idling speed.

• NOx and THC emissions from restarting are larger, but at least an order of magnitude lower than those from starting a cold engine.

• For short stops, it makes sense to turn the vehicle off in order to minimize fuel use and CO2 emissions. At least for the conditions evaluated in this work, the penalty in terms of criteria pollutant emissions

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> This is almost backward, from my understanding. If it was much more deadly, it wouldn't have spread.

You should read up on smallpox. 30% death rate and extremely transmissible.
Matrix comes up quite often here. Tell me why, even as a nerd, I want to run a server and get my friends and family to join to chat, instead of them opening the built in app and just having at. This is a non-starter.