skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most if not all of our social problems can be solved with enough education. If you're the type of person to read census data for fun you'll probably not want to have kids. If you're exposed to the liberal arts continuously throughout your life, you're less likely to take metrics at face value. The system is just like any other: you put garbage in it, and you'll get garbage out of it.
This is very unfortunate. Are there any better solutions to (consumer side) credential stuffing? The only ones I can think of are, and of varying effectiveness:
1. Don't share passwords between services - encourage use of password managers.
2. Encourage use of MFA - still low penetration rate
The Danger of Ebooks [pdf]
I could dig a hole with a shovel but I'd rather use an excavator if one's around.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. But in reality correctness in language is dictated by usage. After all, their r hella many formerly “correct” parts of language no1 uses ne more or sth.

Otherwise we’d still be speaking proto-Indo European arguing about words that came from whatever language came before that.
Our jobs could eventually become unnecessary
There's a cool and weird scene in "Gravity" which depicts this kind of contact.

If you've already seen the film, you should check out "Aningaaq" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrm2fv_zXoU
It works fine but the image will only appear 3D to the person wearing the sensor because the effect is entirely based on responding to the wearer's head movement.
Forgive me if I am wrong but I was under the impression that what you described is how machine learning basically operates: reporting and trial and error to achieve better and more efficient results.

At least when analyzing actions. Is that not the case?
Having it be targeted as in-browser, not to mention for shopping (?!) Is weird.

But it seems like an interesting technique. I wonder if it would be more applicable to an iphone app where the hardware is more consistent.
not far off the mark, especially if you stick to '77
You bring back memories. In my early Linux days, every attempt to upgrade an RPM based distribution lead to me needing to wipe the system.

The first time I did a major version upgrade on Ubuntu, I was shocked it worked.
he’s 12.
Caching as an option is also good.
Maybe in an ideal world, but in my experience most corporate "goals" are just "influential" people playing political games with minimal if any real-world productivity attached. They might as well be playing Monopoly but with real money. None of them ever get fired even in abject, catestrophic failure. The only "capability" for them to cultivate is convincing enough other influential people to give them resources through various political means so that they have the biggest chair when the music stops or they retire. It's largely up the ICs to produce the "real things" as best they can given circumstances foisted upon them.

Maybe at some companies "designing bigger systems", "leading bigger teams" and "defining winning strategy" is correlated with said resource extraction, but that's all. The moment those capabilities aren't in sync with resource extraction, they become worthless. The ideal company abuses its workers and robs its customers, and will get as close to that ideal as it's allowed. It's only force of popular will that keeps that in check, and the rare decent person who makes it into leadership.
Replaced in what? I don't necessarily care what spider-man's regular person name is, as long as Sony releases a movie every 3 years. Losing alliteration is a bad move though.

But, these changes aren't anywhere near changing the name of a main character. The author references are a tiny tiny part of a large work that never comes up again. It's not at all like when Wally was renamed Waldo, or when Wilma was replaced with Wenda.
Jesus people, stop buying from this DRM-ed cloud crap. The only acceptable formats for ebooks are LOCALLY INSTALLED PDF and epub. Steal them if you have to!
It works for tony stark because he’s a fictional comic book character and there probably wasn’t that much thought put into it.
powertop is way underrated. You don't have to know much to get a lot out of it safely.
I have thoughts about this one!

> why dont they just take your idea and run off with it?

I think the concept of the "million dollar idea" that someone could steal is overplayed.

Disrupting an industry (or even just creating an industry niche) is extremely stressful and usually involves beating long odds. Most of the good ideas are obvious to everyone in the industry, so you'll have to compete with the incumbent giants and newer fast-followers (think Zoom vs. Teams vs. Google Meet, or MySpace vs. Facebook vs Google+). I think execution matters much more than the original idea in these cases.

Most of the remaining ideas are non-obvious, and people won't see the value until you succeed and the value has been realized (e.g. EVs were a stupid idea until they suddenly weren't).

I also think that if a career industry exec wanted to start their own company, they'd have a stack of their own ideas to start with.

Finally, I think it's a misconception that successful products always start with one clear "winning idea." The process of developing a product and reaching product-market fit involves creating a thesis, testing it against the market, and iterating. Your idea can change into something completely different by the time you find a match.

> how do you get these experienced senior people to come work for you?

This is a tougher question, and one that we're thinking about a lot right now, given some of the advice in this thread.

I think hiring a senior industry person as an inexperienced nobody would be extremely difficult, but if you're a team with experience and resources in a separate field (e.g. tech), then there are situations where it could work. An mid-level exec might want to get hands-on again and experience an environment with more excitement and direct autonomy. Someone in a different industry might want the opportunity to teach and learn from software folks. If you have a meaningful mission, I think that can be a real motivator for some people. Finally, if hiring a senior person from another industry will let you break into a lucrative market, you're going to try and compensate them financially for that (to the extent that a smaller company can).
This is just you. Just about every web shitter calls themselves a senior software engineer.
> Want to play games?

This is an interesting topic. I found a surprising amount of games available that run on my new MBA just fine.
Mathematica is definitely better than Julia for symbolic math, but for computational math or algorithm development, Matlab is basically unusable.
> does one truly ever own their home?

Does one really ever own anything, if someone can just take it from them free and clear?

As I say, there's more than one philosophical perspective on this. I am not a philosopher, but here's my take on a few perspectives:

- Pragmatist: If the law says your average person can't roll in and take it, you own it.

- Libertarian: If the law says your average person can't roll in and take it, but corporations or HOA's or other entities tell you what you can and can't do with it, you don't own it.

- Tribalist: If there's no law, and you can slaughter anyone who tries to take it, you own it.

- Feudalist: If the law protects it, but the wealthy and powerful can just roll in and take it because they make the law, you own it. Until at least it becomes of value, then you can rent it back from its gracious new owners.

- Communalist: You don't own it, the community owns it, but they're happy to allocate it for your usage as long as you play by their rules.

- Common language: If you have a mortgage on it, you own it in the eyes of the law. If you stop paying the mortgage, or go into tax arrears, or at the victim of eminent domain, people can make it not-yours, but you still own it (for now).

- Expansionist: If you were there first, you own it. Unless your culture has no concept of ownership, in which case, you don't own it, but someone else soon will.
>I would be very surprised if you could find rent in South Dakota , that you have room and power to cook rice at 500 a month

Using dorm room style accommodations would significantly reduce costs compared to typical estimates using rent for a bachelor apartment. Plopping down the building in the middle of a corn field (as opposed to some sort of high cost urban center) reduces costs even further.
Shopify serves online vendors.
Ask HN: Wouldn't it make sense to use GPG as the activitypub user?
I was thinking about this while trying to use Mastadon. I don't get why I have to create an account on every Mastadon server just to read. The thing is that GPG is already a federated "user identification" system so why not use that to sign posts. And with Mastadon doing the ActivityPub thing I think GPG should spread to ActivityPub too. Think about it, this is what GPG was designed for.
It was my turn this month and I had my book club read Diamond Age. While I absolutely love the book and think it's god damn prescient, it's been the most contentious book that we've read so far. This man does not know how to write a satisfying ending. I still absolutely love his work though, despite the extremely lackluster and rushed ways he wraps things up in his books.
Oh man, I remember this YouTube video at the top from when it was new. There was a lot of cool uses for the Wii remote when it first came out.
For those wondering about the hardware: 16MB of RAM, 133MHz ARM9, and 33MHz ARM7. 256MB of internal storage.

In other words, it's comparable to an early 90s PC. The fact that it can run a browser, complete with JS support, seems nearly unbelievable these days.
Okay, then you have a whole c-suite of fall guys, and the real CEO is actually called "VP of global operations" or whatever.
in this case the change was so material that it has made national news in dozens of articles and both the prime minister and the queen have criticized it
It's not a contradiction because it doesn't know about the successful attack in the Deus Ex backstory. At least, that's the claim in the conversation you quoted. Wrong but not self-contradictory.

> But it doesn't really matter; it's inconsistent and unreliable. Whether you could classify this or that as a "contradiction" isn't important and mostly just pedantic argueing.

But it wasn't inconsistent in your conversation. That's my point. It was wrong in a self-consistent way.
perhaps it would make a libertarian want to abolish copyright
Personally the DS/i was just a bigger part of my life. The 3DS homebrew scene is a lot bigger but I still just love messing with the exact ds I used when I was in school.
Telling your son how good Android phones are isn’t going to work. You need to tell the bullies that Androids are good phones.
Aaaaah, so that's why <company I interned at a few years ago> used RHEL!
Ya they’re the same thing.
Kids can be shitty to each other. If it's not the phone, then it's something else.

You don't have to convince him.
Waymo hit by second round of layoffs, has cut 8 percent of staff this year
820 is an incredibly small data size for deep learning. Further, my first instinct in filtering human frequencies would be to just filter them, which has the advantage of being interpretable and straightforward. So I would need to see some justification for using more complicated methods.
Tilt.
I gave up on external monitors a long while ago. When you have to have them, it's indicative of a workflow that needs to be fiddly about the data you're working on, usually either manually monitoring a lot of stuff, or parsing things on one screen(docs) to do things on the other(editors). Some jobs do need it, and I'm not denying that, but if you're doing something where you control more of the environment ground-up and dipping into a variety of digital tools for parts of the workflow, going with paper notebooks and the phone as the second screen can be a lot better; Gridded or dotted 8x5" or A5 spiral notebooks are very convenient for having "enough" visual structure in a document and they aren't particularly more or less constrained than toting around a second monitor. Prop them up on a bookstand so they're at an ergonomic height, and give yourself a color multipen so you can add highlighting and organization by color. Do your tasks by documenting the plan in the book and specific editing functions or build processes you plan to use so that during execution, you have both a plan and a cheat sheet, and it's always in the same place. When you need to share, take a photo.
I want to respond but I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says
Reads like a ChatGPT comment.
Ask HN: How good is iPad to write technical ADRs / RFCs?
Wi (Kana)
AR as in overlay on what you're looking at, or VR as in replace everything you're looking at?
Dark mode.

Full markdown, ``` for code blocks.
Yeah, personally - and this might be a controversial opinion - I think most people who say they have an inner monologue are actually misattributing their experience of subvocalization while either reading text, or planning hypothetical conversations with other people (like a child might speak to their imaginary friend). It seems dubious to label that a monologue, because it depends on external stimuli (either the text you're reading, or your previous experience with people to whom you're imagining yourself speaking).

You might classify talking to yourself as a monologue, but when most people discuss this topic, it sounds like they're describing a dialogue (i.e. one between multiple people). That seems crazy to me, because who does the other voice belong to?

If you have an inner monologue, then by definition you should be able to predict what it's going to say - because mono- means just you. Yet people talk about this experience like there is some novel conversation happening in their head.

It's frightening to think about a voice in my head that is one thought ahead of me. If you experience this, how can you possibly feel in control of your own mind? When does an inner monologue become schizophrenia?
Given the extra leg holes it seems most compatible with the two-day underwear, but it's still gross af.
And you think a 12 year old cares about any of that?
TrackIR is existing and mature product using the original idea.

Sure it requires extra hardware, but it's amazing in first person games that support it. You get to use your good monitor, don't get dizzy like in VR and it could be quite cheap.

I think implementing similar thing with just camera and computer vision is a good idea, let's make this more common thing.
>Most if not all of our social problems can be solved with enough education.

So by "controlled growth", you actually mean "better education"? What type of education you think is needed? Do you think that making sure everyone has a bachelors is magically going to make growth "controlled" enough for your tastes?
no, most authors clearly don't want drm or they wouldn't upload their work to dreamwidth, an archive of our own, hacker news, the internet archive, youtube, mastodon, facebook, twitter, etc.

but even if they did, the interest of this narrow special interest group in not having their works get pirated is clearly less important than the public interest in having reliable access to honest knowledge about the past
The author is correct. Growth is typically just a debt-fueled spending binge. The cancer is actually the fiat, soft money that’s improperly aligning incentives in the economy.
While it’s easy to say to administration… it’s more complicated than that. Salary for professors didn’t increase much, but benefits increased massively (because of the increased cost of health care and pensions). administrators also get paid more. Higher ed is a labor intensive business, and labor intensive businesses are expensive.
ADHD means "out of sight out of mind"

You know, it's funny. I believe I'm similar to you in this department. I use a giant 4K monitor as an ADHD mitigation tool.

But I used to work with another guy. Also ADHD. And he said he absolutely had to restrict himself to smaller, single screens, in order to focus because looking at multiple windows at once was anathema to his ADHD.

Just doubly reinforces how unique brains are. Even with the same diagnosis, different strategies.
We don't have continuous exponential population growth. That's not to say that we won't exceed the limits of the biosphere at some point to meet our needs, but as a society becomes more developed the birth rate falls off massively. Just 60 years ago the US and Canada had a fertility rate of 4, meaning 4 children born to the average woman. In the US, it's now 1.64 and Canada is just 1.4 - well below the replacement rate of 2.1-ish.

The best way to be anti-growth is actually to just encourage a society to develop. The best way to lower fertility rate is to educate young women and girls and to raise incomes.

>In decreasing order of strength, fertility (TFR) correlates negatively with education, CPR, and GDP per capita, and positively with religiosity. [1]

The only reason the population of developed countries is stable or growing is immigration, but that will only last so long - development comes for us all.

[edit] The graphs of income and HDI vs. fertility rate are pretty clear. [2]

Rather than cancer, it seems more like population growth is favored in less-developed societies to encourage development - and once development happens, the population growth ends and the population even meaningfully contracts.

[1] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
By trivia, I mean it can be thoroughly explained in a paragraph or two.

Separately, if it's the kind of thing that can be learned in less than a year of experience, it's not helpful for determining whether someone should be hired as a senior engineer.
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You do you man, but I like my big monitor :)
Did he ask for an Android phone?
Around the world in (at least) eight court cases involving Pegasus and the press
Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes (2022)
couple live web demos with similar approaches you can check (!need a webcam for this to work)
https://cables.gl/p/nrv_-a
https://cables.gl/p/2Zf0Hk
Re UI, my theory is that this is partly because minimalism doesn't become dated as fast.

Related, I remember that what blew me away upon seeing the 3DS for the first time was not the 3d playfield (which looked exactly as I expected), but the UI in 3D. It really felt like a glimpse into an exciting future.
I didn't even mention VR and I am so beyond tired of it being brought up every time AR is.

I said AR because I meant AR.
>If people have UBI to cover their most basic needs they could actually have savings and they could use that to maintain their standard of living while they find other work.

This assumes that people will plow their UBI into savings, which is a doubtful assumption given how we see very well paid professionals live paycheck to paycheck due to lifestyle inflation.
Comments on OpenAI's “Planning for AGI and Beyond”
Well that too, but I think there is something to it as an image of what is possible.
Do you know what it's going to say next? If not, who's generating each new word? And if yes, then isn't this just subvocalization?
That's so interesting. I'm the opposite, but I've worked with plenty of people who work like you do. Both styles are pretty common.

My overall mantra at work is that I can
only do one thing a a time if I want to do it well

I'm curious. What about tasks that are "one thing" but may involve >1 windows/apps? For example, referring to documentation while looking at code? Or tweaking CSS/markup while observing the resulting changes in the browser? (If you do that sort of work)
I have felt something like that would be advantageous for the member's thread page - but I would be simply happy with the number of comments in brackets after the thread tittle ... it would be at least of all be useful for those when their reply was amongst the first handful of replies to the subject or those who have a good memory of how many comments was there the last time they visited.
None. All the niggles and lousiness here serve well to keep a critical mass of people away who will be the eventual ruin of this place. It's an unignorable trade-off.
It is a bit odd, Apple’s laptop chips are of course very good. But breathless articles like this make me wonder if the author is not aware that Intel and AMD have desktop chips? Especially in single core performance, Intel’s designs are, from the ground up, built on the assumption of higher power budgets. Apple’s “workstation” chips are a bunch of (very good) laptop cores, they can only go so far.
If a date is something that helps categorise something in a sane, indexable way, and SEO experts don't like them, they can go and [obscenity] an [animal-noun] with a rusty [ambiguous-from-context] and [illegal-act] and put it in their pipe and smoke it.

Metadata matters.
You're right. It's been awhile since I played around with it, and confused some of the discussion here and on LWN with the splice prototype.

Regarding non-blocking I/O, the biggest issue is splice'ing to or from a regular file I/O can still block, as file I/O in Linux is not asynchronous. For buffered I/O, io_uring gets around this by first checking if an operation would block, and if so scheduling the operation for a worker thread to perform. User space can't implement this performance hack without running into TOCTTOU issues, so you have to choose between possibly blocking, or pessimistically always pushing the operation to a thread pool.

Then there are other issues, IIRC, like the fact that readiness polling on sockets doesn't obey low water marks. Specifically, you can't set SO_SNDLOWAT on Linux; it's fixed at 1 byte. For something like splice this makes it more complex to efficiently track through polling when borrowed/gifted pages have been retired from the send queue. I think the proper method now is polling on timestamps events in the socket error queue, but this is also an indirect method. In short, it's just very difficult to track the state of pages that have been spliced, which can be problematic for splicing from a regular file (e.g. the Samba issues), but especially also for managing vmsplice buffers. In synchronous contexts, and especially simple I/O chains like a command utility implements, these aren't likely to be huge stumbling blocks; but when concurrently juggling many I/O contexts and trying to use your resources as efficiently as possible, they stick out.

I think these and other issues could be fixed or addressed, either with kernel changes or a user space library (or both), but in well over a decade nobody has; and now we have io_uring, all but guaranteeing they will never get fixed.
I’m pretty optimistic about V, it so far has great language ergonomics, solid performance, and memory safety through its “autofree” memory feature flag. https://vlang.io/
I added a basic search functionality!
7. Amazon can afford to run that product line at a loss until every competitor is driven out of business.
More time to delete my own dumb knee-jerk reaction comments.
What is high quality in these few lines? I found it quite clear to follow, and it has value not just for investors but for founders, too.
They are learning to summarize their month in a few clear lines. Isn't that the basics of communication?