skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fascinated by the concept of "phubbing" as a new and negative phenomenon. People would previously read/scan the newspaper in most situations that people scroll on their phone today: at the table, on public transit, and in casual group settings. But, importantly, it was considered a highly interruptible task.

If you were in a group setting but nobody was talking, somebody would probably start to look for interesting things in the paper to prompt discussion (as one might today on a phone). Rarely did anybody take that to mean they shouldn't talk to the person. If something more interesting or urgent came up, or even if somebody just felt like talking about a new topic, they'd just... bring it up. They'd have no qualms about interrupting the newspaper-holder, who also took no offense to being interrupted.
Unfortunately, there's too many timezones for just A-Z, but nautical time does make an attempt.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets for the funny markings they decided to use when they ran out of letters.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but most of the supply chain issues seem to have been caused by the reopening more than the pandemic. The economy cannot be shutdown and re-opened on a dime. I think it was a big mistake to think it could be.
New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic
Indeed. I often question the logic of containing an ASI and most of the time the best a proponent can offer is that "we will figure it out".

I counter that your entire premise is based on a paradox, a logical contradiction. I never get a response to this other than to side step.

I finally put all of my thoughts into a publication on the matter and have attempted to solicit a strong argument that would counter my view points, but as of yet I have not received any.
https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Once lived in a Canadian house that had its own postal code.

Was always careful with any system that showed you the closest stores or whatever by postal code.

I think I only tried to send one envelope with just the postal code and it didn’t make it!
> I don't know that entire containers get lost with the same frequency as individual packages.

There are some that fall overboard[1]. I'm sure it's not huge compared to the global volume shipped, but the risk is there.

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1. https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/33002-shipping-con...
> Funny, in most my friends groups someone checks their phone and I'm glad they do. Why would we be talking about this if we didn't care about the truth of it?

Interestingly enough, I miss the days where people would go back and forth trying to make their case on why their memory on something is right.

This was especially great for ultimately meaningless things like who hit the most homeruns in the 1980's. I could Google it, or me and a few friends could brainstorm it in conversation and agree on a set of facts, hammer out disagreements on some other details based on what we remember from our baseball card collections and going to games as a kid, which then leads to more conversation about other things and on and on. Ultimately the answer wasn't important but the connection you make talking as humans is what matters.
> I work in an environment where decision actually matter, for 10 years they do... We need software that is going to work and is going to be maintainable and stable for that long.

It took me about 6 years of working at the same organization as a senior swe and de-facto engineering manager to really understand this. Nobody wants cool cutting edge software except artists; businesses want durable products and services. Only on the edge of creativity apps do you need _very_ reactive UX.

In the early half of those 4 years, we built a RoR app. React landed in the middle of that. I'm proficient in JS, and we are moving around a lot of data on the client, and `props` and reusable components felt right. Then we built our next app front end all React+Redux w/ Rails API. Then the next app was Nuxt2 + Rails API (I gave my team time to play with Vue and Svelte after a year with React — everyone preferred the Vue DX).

Now we have a Nuxt2 app that is stuck in the past unless we spend some real fun times reading docs and doing `npm audit`. Meanwhile the OG app still works fine, but the front-end is 6yo React garbage. I think we'll probably wind up transitioning a lot of it back to ERB templates and using Stimulus when needed.

But components, man. Componetizing chunks of html+css+js as single file components is incredibly useful, so much so that folks are experimenting with how they may work in an environment like Rails in a durable, rails-y way.
There will always be discontents but just looking back over the history of most Western nations will give you pretty striking examples of success before various forces of corruption took hold. We currently live in a utopia when compared to our collective past, it could be much better but that doesn't mean we're not far up the slope of progress.
> COVID, as we know it, started to spread worldwide in February 2020, I remember it quite well actually :p

The Spanish government found it to have been in Barcelona sewers in Oct 2019. Italian government Sep. 2019. Period.

...

I'll leave you to your bias.
My main frustrations of AI and art is that people often frame art as a product the creator has made, instead of something part of the creator.

What I'm referring to here is the parts of self that artists put into their work. For example, many of Raymond Carver's characters in his short stories are blue collar workers in the mid-west. He's writing from experience. He was a blue collar worker from the mid-west.

(I'm not referring to 'separating art from the artist', that's a different conversation).

In many aspects of art, art is certainly a product that the creator is making and intending to do so, but in other aspects it isn't - it's something the creator is making as part of themselves.

In conversations with AI and art, especially with AI creating visual media, I feel like people often forget this point of view.

Does this mean that someone using AI to create art can't put some of themselves into it? No, I don't think so.

Does this mean that art created with AI that has no human element in it, aside from prompts, isn't art? No, I don't think so as well. Art can be art without any human element at all. One can even consider prompts part of that human element.

It's just my opinion that this point of view is often missed in discussions. People sometimes make art because they want to, they have something to say, they have feelings they want to express, or they just want to have fun. AI can be used in this way as well.

I think people view artist's complaints similar to people losing their jobs in the industrial revolution. This is in some way correct, but it also just completely skips over the emotions, soul, and self that people put into what they create.

At the end of the day though, I don't think what I'm saying here is new at all. There are intentional artists, and then there's zombie formalism [0] or songs written by a team whose job it is to make a hit. Sorry for the rambling, I just wish people viewed art more than a product to be sold.

And at the end of the day, maybe my opinion is just my own. I love reading about the process an artist takes and their entire life, but I know not everyone does the same.

[0]: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/contributors/see_here/the_...
The issue is under what authority does the government have to put such a ban in place. There isn't one today. The article discusses some attempts to work around that issue, all of which are problematic.

The article does not mention it but all the work arounds also rely on the fact that ByteDance is a Chinese company. So far they have been reluctant to change that but they could easily incorporate in the US. The parent company today is Chinese but the parent could become a US or EU company and then all of this banning talk gets even more dicey to pull off.
It doesn't have to be that complicated. Set up a list of callbacks that need to occur when a specific event is emitted, and call those callbacks.

You can also make it dynamic by having a "register_event_hook" function that puts a callback on the event hook list. Tune for performance as necessary.

I generally include these in the controller which emits the event, or as an ancestor class for those controllers.

And if your needs evolve to the point that it's simpler to use a framework later, you'll understand your needs better and you'll be able to pick one that will best work for you.
Interesting, I skimmed the readme, but can you clarify how is this different from other similar libraries like kafka-python, or faust?
Fact check: The Digital Markets Act explicitly calls out end-to-end encryption as a feature that MUST be preserved if the platform supports it.

From Article 7:

"The level of security, including the end-to-end encryption, where applicable, that the gatekeeper provides to its own end users shall be preserved across the interoperable services."
> I'm not against taking measures during a pandemic so that people don't die

But I was talking about taking measures during a pandemic so that people don't die, because I was replying to this comment: "we collectively decided in 2020 to trade young people's livelyhoods for old peoples lives".

Thus, changing the subject in your reply to me seems strange, unhelpful, and unfair.
So what? You got preached to. "Bullied" seems to strong. Now it's time to shout your displeasure to the world of it's unfairness?

Every round of tech hype sounds about the same. Object Oriented programming. The network is the computer. SCRUM.
Mobile apps. SPA. Micro-services. Cloud. Serverless. They make it sound like the savior of all that ails you, but the reality is always more nuanced. It's like this in more than just tech.

There are interesting ideas in all of them, places they could be used and places they shouldn't. The reality never matches the hype train. The more experienced I get the more I generally want tried, true, and longevity to be attributes of the stack I pick. This seldom intersects with hype.

Unplug a bit from the online echo chambers preaching this stuff and you won't feel so "bullied".
You can't do this here and we've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It is absolutely true. COVID isn't the army-crippling societal disaster it was in 2020, but it's still a really really nasty virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
> One possible reason, suggested by Taylor Lorenz, is that between climate change, inequality, precarity, and Covid, the world is just a much worse place than it was in 2011. But as I pointed out in a post last week, most of these things (except for Covid, obviously) were looking worse a decade ago: [...]

Eh, what people worry about vs how bad things actually are is only weakly correlated.
but the city can ask you to pay a tax to support its infrastructure

the people who own the infrastructure can ask what ever they want

including to pay to help support the infrastructure your business is using for free
Email as the Interface (2013)
Remind me of https://xkcd.com/1810/
That's the default assumption because I'd you analyze the behavior of corporations, that's literally what they do. It doesn't matter if they could do other things. The fact is that they don't

People work for them because generally they don't have a choice. Not everyone has decision making power and 95% of workers need to follow what their boss says. Most Americans can't lose their job because they don't have savings, they barely make enough to survive
Humans have been eating and wearing animal products since before we were even Homo sapiens. We'll be fine regardless. If the cost of using animals is an occasional pandemic then so be it, that's just the natural order of things.
>"In chess pieces have identity and thus differentiated functions, in go they don't. At the level of state/war machine there are also functionaries: the president, the general, but also interchangeable parts: soldiers, workers."

I'm pretty sure you're agreeing with me in a roundabout way, but for posterity: this is clearly not a lossless compression.
The definition of 'suburb' has been changing over time. I can't speak to Detroit but for instance with Boston the original 'suburbs' would now be described as "the city of Boston, not its suburbs". Likewise the town I grew up in as a kid (mumble) years ago, I would have been laughed at for calling it a 'suburb' of Boston as it was too far out of the city. Now Wikipedia calls it a suburb of Boston.
Re (2), that's technically true, but the New York, LA, and other metro areas have far more than 5 million people.
Indeed I am totally unable to get female vocals no matter what I type. Every song has that same rapper dude voice.
I think you’re just using the wrong platforms for that experience.

I’ve been on Telegram for ages and talk daily to people who live on the other side of the world. I’ve never met them in person but we’ve had rich, personal, discussions and I consider them my friends.

On the meatspace side I video call daily with my childhood friends even though we’re hours away. I’m not sure how I could have kept up my friendship if I didn’t have modern technology to video call, game, instant message etc. We always end up grounding it with visits every two months or so but it’s essential to my relationship to stay in the loop.
If that did happen, I think it could have been a civilization ending event. There are some viruses with 50% fatality rate. That would have been non-deniable, pushing people to wearing full hazmat suits for daily activity. It is hard to see how any renormalization could have happened.
"A white elephant gift exchange, Yankee swap or Dirty Santa is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to gain a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item."
So the WIMP interface continues unchallenged... except for phones.

I used Siri on the iPhone for the first time in trying to return a lost property to its owner. The experience left much to be desired. Siri failed.
In the US, someone I know who had a Post Office box liked writing simply `box-number zip-code` as their address.

It worked. Eg, if you wrote on an envelope:

1034
21240

It would get there! You might want to add a "Box" before the "1034" to be safe -- and to disambiguate between a house number, as in OP? (I'm not sure just a house number would ever work in the USA?)

But it looks cooler with just two numbers. Especially it did 20 years ago when my friend did it. Very futuristic cyberpunk. Maybe a square glyph for "box" would be good.
I think the scenario you describe is the least of smartphone problems. You already are meeting physically with a friend. That's a good place to be in.

The far more impactful issue is that meeting simply not happening at all and contact being almost exclusively digital. And in the rare case when people go out in the physical world, to still be on their phone. To experience nothing of it and to be unapproachable by others.
No argument that these workers have a right to unionize, but I find many of their demands petulant and counterproductive. Have a look:

https://sbworkersunited.org/noneconomic-proposals
I built banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
No stamp required is due to “Franking privileges”. Same as in Canada.
> That last bit sounds like a powerful and perverse incentive for abuse.

Okay, but would you oppose the legality of such an arrangement?

In any case, not sure why the family, instead of individual directly, is compensated.
A building in the UK with about 300 apartments will prob have around 8 postal codes
That's a nice way to visualize it. To me the best way to check the market conditions is to check your LinkedIn inbox.

The number of recrutiers spamming with job offers has gone way down. I even had a situation where the recruiter who was supposed to hire me, got laid off during my final interview alongiside a big chunk of the company...
That's a bit reductionist. Encryption, variable-sized payload attachments, reactions, dynamic group membership are some potential featurs. And - critically - integration with systems NOT tied to outdated mobile cell infrastructure (you need to procure a phone number and special systems to send an SMS).

Apple is the last real holdout here, keeping SMS and MMS alive.
>Companies that are maliciously compliant are not the norm.

How do you explain all these damn GDPR pop ups on every site that make it as difficult as possible to disagree?
Thanks for this brilliant insight. After work, I probably am going to grab my midi keyboard, just like I have for almost 20 years now.

Oh and I've never made any money off of it. In fact I haven't even tried.

Tone deafness comes in many forms, I see.
Sure, but it's easy to be a stalker these days.

This has up to 2 hour latency, 25 packets/day, and other pretty serious restrictions that make it probably a bad choice, although definitely a viable one.
Report Says Chinese researchers beating Americans in 37 of 44 critical areas
It would be interesting to see the results of your script running on the "Who wants to be hired?" threads [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983765
PGP tells you you're talking to an entity which could set up PGP, it doesn't help you determine if the account ben_w is merely one of many government sock puppet accounts trying to push a specific meme into the minds of the general population.

Knowing who to trust… was already hard-to-impossible with just normal social media; cheap LLMs will definitely make this harder, as more groups will be able to afford what was once limited to government budgets.
Why do you assume that?

We were doing this 100 years ago for inner city trolly’s. Trains travel 3x the speed of highway trucks, vastly higher power draw, and we solved that decades ago. There’s even been successful demos of actual highway trucks and power delivery. With modern battery technology we don’t even need a continuous system just enough to keep trucks topped off on highways so maintenance is easy and existing automated toll lanes even cover billing.

So, yes it really is trivial as shown by how cheap existing demo’s have been.
In the US I wonder if something like "6 W 8, NY NY" would work. Google Maps can find it: https://www.google.com/maps/place/6+W+8th+St,+New+York,+NY+1...
The "electricity grid" is composed of many parts both in South Australia and elsewhere. The components are generation, transmission, distribution and retail suppliers. Cheung Kong Infrastructure aka CKI's current position is only 23% of
the distribution network.[1]

So no, they did not "sell the grid" to China.

[1] https://www.cki.com.hk/english/ourBusiness/home/inv_au.htm
The "Clean Code" that Casey is talking about is a book and a code philosophy that was explained in depth in talks and trainings and seminars, so I would disagree that it is a matter of opinion.
Exactly this. A lot of these type of articles on AI make the simultaneous mistakes of understating what even the current iterations of models are capable of, while overstating the complexity of our own intelligence.

As these models get larger, and we start moving up the ladder of emergent behaviours, there will come a point (possibly quite soon) where the sort of distinctions being drawn are irrelevant.

“Oh that’s just an advanced multimodal model with some sensors and goal seeking behaviour. Stop anthropomorphising it!”
We have an expected attrition rate at my company across all departments. We normally lose about 10 people per quarter. This quarter the number of people leaving - zero.
Well, for most people politics is about tribal affiliation, not about facts.

See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
> Because often it doesn't matter.

I guess the parent commenter and I don't understand why the specific fact is even mentioned if it doesn't matter. In other words, in what situation would you mention "X acted in that movie" but that detail doesn't matter to the broader point that you're trying to make. If it's important to get right then you should verify and if it's not important then don't specify the detail and instead only say the necessary details which add to your point and that you're confident about.
https://archive.is/V0KDq
Why talk about anything then if you can just google it and move on?
I was going to say "but backpackers never wore clothes that wild", but then I remembered backpacking in India!
The subject of the submitted article is teenage unhappiness, so this seems like a tangent. Are toddlers unhappy? I don't know.
A year in, it had between 1.5 and 3.5 percent mortality rate, the first few months it was up to 15 percent in some areas and segments of the population [1]. Even today at 0.1-1 percent fatality rate [1], the odds are horrible for something so easy to contract. NB the statistic does not differentiate by vaccination status.

Yet, despite those odds, an enormous segment of the population of the US failed to all sorts of cognitive biases, and is convinced, contrary to all evidence [2], that it's better to get covid than a vaccine. This indicates to me that the US has failed as a society to respond well to such a preventable disease.

Denmark ( where I lived during Covid ) handled it much better and is a similarly capitalistic society, but with a different attitude towards institutions, and the issue was not politicized. The general population listened to the CDC-equivalent institution. The government offered free testing, (rapid+the more expensive ones), and was proactive with respect to vaccination. The government coordinated a very successful booster vaccination campaign in early January of 2022, effectively ending the covid era.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...
Can you share this analysis across a longer time span?

For starters. There are so many possibilities here that any attempt to even think of a trend let alone what it's caused by, is wrong :) On the other hand: without knowing number of users, number of who's hring posts, when they were posted, location, ...: still really hard to give any sensible meaning to it. Just nice to look at.
That completely automates the whole loop. I am talking about picking Jira tickets and instead of coding the solution describe the different parts to an LLM and adapt it. In that case no code would be written just prompt or requirements engineering
Someone has already pointed out that you can allegedly write simply HMRC and expect it to work, but I'd like to point out that there are enough single-use postcodes that presumably you can just write SW1A 1AA and it'll get to the King...
You spelled "web designers" wrong.
I live on a road where all the houses on one side were built first and numbered 1 2 3 4... The houses on the other side were built later and have names and no numbers.
Besides the certifacte expiration date there are also expiration dates in the protocol itself as newer clients/servers will refuse to use older SSL/TLS versions or ciphers.

But even with "just" certificate expiration the user experience is not even close to "fall back to HTTP". Browsers won't even give you the choice to override certificate check at all with HSTS.

Then there is the fact that the move from HTTP to HTTPS changes all URLs. If only we would have had StartTLS for HTTP - and no, there is no security issue with StartTLS as you will need something like HSTS preloading anyway if you actually want to guarantee security.

Lack of backwards compatibility is absolutely a concern that the security community seems to care little about.