skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems like a good place to chime in with my personal anxiety about AI: that each citizen will have an AI assigned to spy on them full time.

Reminds me of the Culture novels by Iain M Banks. They use AI drones to prevent criminals from reoffending by constant monitoring.

> The Culture doesn't actually have laws; there are, of course, agreed-on forms of behaviour; manners, as mentioned above, but nothing that we would recognise as a legal framework. Not being spoken to, not being invited to parties, finding sarcastic anonymous articles and stories about yourself in the information network; these are the normal forms of manner-enforcement in the Culture. The very worst crime (to use our terminology), of course, is murder (defined as irretrievable brain-death, or total personality loss in the case of an AI). The result - punishment, if you will - is the offer of treatment, and what is known as a slap-drone. All a slap-drone does is follow the murderer around for the rest of their life to make sure they never murder again. There are less severe variations on this theme to deal with people who are simply violent.

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
It's a reasonable brief summary of the life of Yukio Mishima (a 20th century Japanese author), which is what I asked for. It gives a few major points and lists some of his major works with their usual translated English titles. Just five years ago I would have told you I probably not see in my life time, that level of machine translation/language processing for that kind of natural language query, let alone in Latin.
Because op found a solution (a tiling window manager) and then needed to find a problem.
How safe is working with 300VDC?
It would take some serious overlay resolution to replace a monitor, which just doesn't exist right now (?). If the angular size of a pixel is too large, it's essentially like being nearsighted. A person with 20/20 vision can see detail down to the eye forming an angle of 5 arc minute (1 arc minute = 1/60 of a degree).
I haven't personally run into IO bottlenecks so I have no idea how you would speed those up in Python.

But there's two schools of thoughts I've heard from people regarding how to think about these bottlenecks:

1. IO/network is such a bottleneck so it doesn't matter if the rest is not as fast as possible.

2. IO/network is a bottleneck so you have to work extra hard on everything else to make up for it as much as possible.

I tend to fall in the second camp. If you can't work on the data as it's being loaded and have to wait till it's fully loaded, then you need to make sure you process it as quickly as possibly to make up for the time you spend waiting.
I cannot wait for the Nix zine :)
Dang, that sounds stressful. Hope you came out the other end of that ok! And thanks for the extra context and sharing your experience.
I think there are two major problems.

There's a legal+technical+cultural problem where people aren't purchasing immutable copies of books or other media anymore, instead they're purchasing a complicated license that grants access to whatever they say the thing is at the time you request it. That problem can have a legal solution, or a technical+culutural solution (the technical solution alone is insufficient since there's still the cultural issue that most people don't care most of the time).

But there's also a separate purely cultural problem, which is that people felt like these changes to these books were a good idea in the first place. To me that's at least as concerning as the first problem. The sorts of changes made here--e.g. expunging usages of the word "fat"--are totally disrespectful to the author and the readership. There is already an established pattern for making material changes to a book for the sake of young and/or sensitive readers: Publish an abridged version. Make it clear that it is abridged, and sell it as a separate product. I remember reading a handful of classics as a very young kid in a format like this, which I'm sure I couldn't have managed at that age otherwise.

That second problem is emphatically not a legal problem, or even a much of a moral problem. Nobody should be prevented from behaving this way. But it's still evidence of a cultural problem. You don't make material modifications to a wildly-successful author's books and publish them like it's just another printing. That wasn't the way things were done two decades ago, and it's starting to be the way things are done now. Not illegal, and maybe not even morally wrong, just... not good.
I swear I can remember this debate for at least 40 years of my adult now.

Every. Single. Year.

I find it interesting the disagreement of which mode to keep permanent though.
Sounds like an American thing. It's the other way around in the Netherlands. An iPhone is seen as a wasteful cost, especially for teens.
Your second paragraph.

Are you really arguing that the majority of authors don’t want DRM but they can’t stand up as a majority group against Amazon? I don’t buy it.
Tony Stark inherited tens of billions of dollars. YOU DIDN'T.

And, so, if we get Jarvis level AI, and you will get rendered obsolete.

When these tools come, inheriting billionaires will hire 10 people with Tony Stark intelligence as opposed to 10,000 devs with your level of intelligence.

So, don't be in denial that you will be made obsolete.

(And probably so will I.)
Nothing matters more than fitting in at that age. Get him an iPhone.
You can send a text email. But that’s not “professional” enough because it’s not about the text, it’s about presenting it.

So you can make a portal (ie: website behind auth) where you investors login to view their investors dashboard and update it regularly.

But that’s a lot of work and you barely have anyone in your “tech startup” that can setup such a thing.

Notion helps here because you can add all the gadgets you want but you don’t need to setup/host/code a website yourself.
Ada actually trades blows with C in Debian shootout game. It is the language of choice for automotive and aviation safety certification. You cannot get safer than that. and it doesn't have oddities of Rust.
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?
Maybe I'm just not understanding the use case here but your using graphql with a compiler to produce rest (JSON RPC) endpoints? Why not just write rest endpoints? I can see how it might be easy for simple endpoints but as soon as you have to optimize anything you'll need to add features to your compiler.
That's because your people are more educated and cultured.
Bigger font size for easier phone reading
Fantastic article. Thanks for everyone's comments as I wouldn't have read it otherwise since I read the comments first!
I had the same thing with compiz when it first came out. I loved it in all the videos; and the first day, but I quickly switched back to plain old desktops.
Actually, your comment sparked a new thought for me. What if this (two concurrently published versions of the books) is purely an emergent property of our increasingly bifurcating society?
Eeeh, not really, no it doesn't lol.

Not compared to what private companies could be paying them.
How so?

How much of this is just SMS? Is it Apple’s fault that SMS doesn’t have group chat, etc?

People forget that the iPhone only had SMS the first 3-4 years of its existence. It was a green bubble from day one. So it’s not like they’ve planned this from day one. They needed to differentiate between SMS and iMessage so they started switching colors. I do wonder if anyone has checked the shade of green though. I bet you they’ve made it subtly more visually annoying.

Also, yes RCS exists but the feature set is spotty across carriers and it’s not end to end encrypted.
Infrared is the missing part: https://youtu.be/wadKIiGsDTw
Especially for covid, dementia, autoimmune diseases
> An author, and by extension the vehicle that they choose to shepherd their work after death, should have full rights to do whatever with their work.

Nope, not with the sold copies. Not to mention copyright terms in the US are ridiculously overextended by congressmen comfortably sitting in Disney's pocket. So no argument about "extension" plays anymore - they overplayed their hand so hard there it is not even close to something natural, it's purely "the law is what I can buy" now.
As I recall, Sun Microsystems was fond of reminding everyone that they'd bought and paid for a perpetual, irrevocable license to Unix, so there wasn't and couldn't be any legal issue with Solaris.

I found a commentary (https://landley.net/writing/halloween9.html) that says something similar:

> UnixWare and OpenServer were always minor versions of Unix, the versions belonging to other vendors have always been more important and more lucrative: Sun's Solaris, HP's HP-UX, and IBM's AIX being three surviving profitable examples. All of these companies have purchased "irrevocable, perpetual" licenses to AT&T's old Unix codebase, and will never owe SCO another dime for it.

So, if SCO had managed to kill Linux, then Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX could have stepped in to compete with Windows NT.

One of the reasons Linux was eating commercial Unix's lunch was that x86 hardware was cheaper than RISC workstations and had finally hit a point where it performed as well (and eventually better). RISC systems were on their way out, and commercial Unix companies didn't seem to want to give up that fight.

So commercial Unix vendors would have needed to sell x86 ports of their Unix systems to compete with Windows NT, but as a technical matter, those x86 ports already existed (Solaris x86 certainly did).

TLDR: If Linux had been killed, there would be other Unix options to compete with Window NT.
We don't need AGI to have transformational AI that is extremely disruptive to our civilization. With some improvements LLMs threaten to make a lot of people's white collar jobs redundant. We've also seen AI doing things like flying jet fighters better than people, drone AI, all kinds of military applications, the boston dynamic robots to replace manual workers. None of these qualify as AGI but AI doesn't need to be sentient or truly conscious in order to

(a) potentially self replicate if properly set up for it
(b) centralize a lot of power in the hands of a few
> it doesn't know about the successful attack in the Deus Ex backstory

There ya go:

What's the backstory of the statue of liberty in Deus Ex?

In the game Deus Ex, the Statue of Liberty serves as a central location and plot point. The statue has been converted into a highly secured base for the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO), which is the organization that the player character, JC Denton, works for.

The backstory of the statue in the game is that it was damaged by terrorists in an attack prior to the events of the game. The terrorist group responsible for the attack is a shadowy organization known as "Majestic 12," which serves as the game's primary antagonist.

In response to the attack, the statue was converted into a heavily fortified UNATCO headquarters, which serves as the player's base of operations for much of the game. The statue is also home to various high-tech facilities and laboratories, where UNATCO develops advanced weaponry and nanotechnology.

Throughout the game, the player learns more about the backstory of the statue and the role it plays in the game's overarching conspiracy plot.
The W3C DID spec enables private-key based identity in a generic way. It grew out of the ideas behind KeyBase.

There's a bunch of different DID methods, some of which use crypto ledgers to enable public key distribution. If that isn't what you want, the DID:key method[1] might be interesting.

[1] https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-key/
to me this reads like the author was simply too frustrated with their wm's handling of large / secondary monitors and post-facto justified the switch to only one monitor
I think we are all just talking about start and stop delivery trucks. I know the UPS vehicles as well as the USPS vehicles in my area all stop running the engine when they stop and get out.
Alive authors often become dead
I don't think subscribing to a library service is the same as buying a digital copy of an item.

Someone subscribing to Kindle Plus (or whatever) might not expect to have a permanent copy of each book, but someone who pays for a digital copy definitely does.
Curious how much context and chat history you can maintain from response to response without exceeding the API's max token limit.
If it's more dangerous, surely there's a long list of people who have clearly died of adverse reactions to their shots, it makes sense that some people didn't react well due to the toxicity of the spike protein of covid-19. Surely in a population of 130,000 people in my locale the six degrees of separation should mean this news is in the social grape vine even if there's a nasty govt. conspiracy to bury such news ...

However for the most part, searching the author names (oh I noted that they were only in the image) their names are mostly found in conspiracy sites or in connection with out there media pieces.

I was unfamiliar with who they were, not that it should diminish an effort done in good faith or ability to apply good science, but I'm all too aware there have been a couple of dozen well known people over the last two years who've committed career suicide for IMO $$$$$$$$ to supports certain views with nothing more than tacky tape science hammered to look like good science ...

https://veterinary-science.uq.edu.au/profile/3162/conny-turn...

https://au.linkedin.com/in/astrid-lefringhausen-48a976233/de...

To save clicking ... vet and account manager who have doctoral degrees.
Dahl didn't write that. So selling that under Dahl's name, as if it were the works by Dahl, is a fraud. Just as selling a bean patty and claiming it's meat, and then saying "well, it's actually is much healthier than meat!". Maybe so, maybe not, but whatever it is, it can't be called "meat" if it's not "meat", and it can't be called Dahl's book if Dahl didn't write it but some PC corporate asshole did. If I want to read a book by a PC corporate asshole, let them publish their book and I'll read it under their name.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of clay?
Is the Thiel fellowship still a “thing”?
why isn't the thiel fellowship as big now as it was 10 years ago.
3 single Anderson Powerpole connectors (they are designed to slide together, and a drop of CA glue can make the connection permanent). Available up to 45A
Well first of all, 12 isn't that young. He could understand it if he had to. Second, its kind of a great teaching opportunity. Why does he care what other kids think? Get him to try putting into words exactly what he thinks the iphone can do better. There's no time better than now to not get sucked into the consumerist bullshit signaling game of owning things for others to care about. It may hurt now, but not being a slave to marketing is a valuable lesson to impart.
>If they had the new one released separately, nobody would have purchased it.

This is true, and they wouldn't have wanted to do that, not least because it would reflect poorly on the changes, but this would have been an alternative honest way to have released the new editions had they wished to, in contrast to what they actually did.
Personally I picked KP purely because I had no interest in playing middleman between my doctor and insurance company.

The US healthcare market is a complete clusterfuck. Other countries get comparable outcomes from universal healthcare for about the same outlay as we already spend on public healthcare.
Please tell me, what exactly makes this language "inclusive"? Whos lives got measurably better because of it, and in what way? What specific instances of racism were avoided because of it? Which bad political decisions that would have been reverted because of it?
There are many 3rd-party email notification services out there. I use https://hnreplies.com
My first accidental flag (on mobile) tonight. Felt really bad about it!
Maybe having many specialized neural chips on a motherboard is the next step on the way to making an artificial brain.

Then, we will have just a few large chips running several functions in parallel, with those functions having the opportunity to integrate and modify each other as needed.
Having spent the time working on a space telescope design (Worked on making a cubesat amateur telescope during COVID lockdowns) it’s a significant driver of secondary costs beyond the primary “launch cost”. Space telescopes are commonly “volume constrained” not “mass constrained” like how only Ariane 5 had a fairing big enough for the James Web Space Telescope, how Hubble was as big as they could fit in the Shuttle cargo bay, and many other “big science” general purpose “an observatory in space” sort of telescopes end up expanding to fit their launch volume because the main structures are “empty tubes” or folding mirrors, or extending booms (X-ray telescope mirrors are super clever things) and so you end up with everything else around these low density telescopes structures having heaps of mass budget… but then your still looking at vibrations, ruggedness requires mass… and so the circular game of musical chairs with engineering constraints begins… and you do a lot of engineering work to keep your mission on track.

With major reduction in launch costs it becomes a lot more practical to launch smaller more specifically focused telescopes like we’ve seen with Kepler, TESS and CHEOPS, there’s commercial suppliers of professional grade telescopes, which are more than enough for useful research and with ample spare launch mass they could be given the same kind of cushy ride to space that the commercial cameras you see on the ISS got… it’s a bit of work to vacuum rate something but it would be less work than a camera by far given the fewer moving parts… and so then it’s just your instruments… with lower launch costs you can get significantly better science. Astronomical grants routinely cover the development of new instruments for ground based telescopes, and the costs of some of these projects would easily be able to cover the development of a small dedicated space telescope for a smaller version of the same instrument ( not necessarily a loss in capacity given the advantages of a space telescope ) … it’s not going to be the case for every single telescope project… some of the advanced robotically driven fibre optic spectroscopy instruments would be a bit more challenging given that motors in space aren’t as simple as on the ground (lubricants, heat dissipation and all that) but there’s a lot of other work that could “make the jump” and I expect will make the jump once the cost comes down… there’s whole fields of astronomy that are in a tough spot because of atmospheric absorption, notably ultraviolet astronomy, and they’ve eagerly been producing mission concepts for decades.
It's very important to have the base/grounds/fundamentals in a good way to support things building on top.
If you have shitty network your application will be shitty, too.
If you have bad roads you can't have a fast and reliable shipping of goods between companies.
You have to invest in the base to have an enviornment which allow to grow and evolve.

In Germany there was a lot of discussion about fiber Internet build out and if we need it.
At some point the discussion changed to "Yes, we need it as the base" and only discussion about you pays for it.

For me personally I feel more comfortable and safe with a working base (aka Goverment/Community/Society).
And a lot of people working hard to have the base up and running to just let some egiost running their company and proudly saying "It's me who worked hard to build this great company and I'm the greatest man on earth".
But of course he could only do that with the base.
> do we think about vectors for abuse in 10, 20 or 50+ years?

Of course, but what's to be done about it? Should we outlaw research like this?
> Part of the fun of designing within constraints

In this example there were constraints, and they were designed within. You just don't like the result.
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“it actually feels good”

…unless and until it doesn’t, and some stop easily and some stop after a good hard struggle and some keep drinking.

We can rationalize alcohol as being part of the human story for centuries, but people who drink often underestimate how many people never — or almost never — drink. If you’re struggling to stop drinking and feel like “everyone drinks”, that’s not true.

“In 2018, two-thirds of adults aged 18 and over consumed alcohol in the past year. In 2018, 5.1% of adults engaged in heavy drinking in the past year, 15.5% engaged in moderate drinking, 45.7% engaged in light drinking, and 33.7% did not consume alcohol (Figure 1).”

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db374.htm
From the abstract -

Across 12 experiments (total N = 27,227, five preregistered), we demonstrate that when a video ad depicts a product in slow motion (vs. regular speed), consumers perceive the featured product or brand as more luxurious. The effect emerges across various product categories (chocolate, shampoo, mineral water, wine) and in different countries (United States, United Kingdom, France). Tests of mediation and moderation suggest that the effect occurs because viewing a slow-motion ad increases feelings of immersion, which in turn lead consumers to expect greater hedonic value from the featured product and thus view it as more luxurious. Consistent with this account, the effect weakens when video blurriness or buffering impairs the immersive viewing experience afforded by slow motion, and the effect attenuates among consumers very weakly or very strongly predisposed to experience immersion. Finally, by enhancing perceptions of luxuriousness, slow motion subsequently boosts consumers’ desire for the featured product or brand (as manifested by higher willingness-to-pay, purchase intentions, and ad click rates), particularly when the goal to consume luxury is salient (vs. not).
Continuous growth is necessary to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If there cannot be continuous growth, who becomes the arbiter of human potential? People who call growth cancer? You can't be serious.
>If the namedropped authors aren't well known by today's children, why not adjust them? It doesn't much change the tone and it's not really relevant to the plot.

Do you think children in 1988 had a better understanding of who Joseph Conrad was than kids today? Maybe slightly, as I'm sure some parents bought Heart of Darkness after Apocalypse Now came out, but I certainly had no idea who he was at the age I read Dahl books.
Am I naive for wondering why Amazon would allow this? What's in it for them? It hurts the customer, it hurts their brand, it breaks the illusion that you own the book, it breaks trust in buying books on Kindle. If I were above the Kindle division on the org chart I would be furious.
I have mine setup to send me a text message for every transaction. However, I suppose I might stop getting the texts if my number was compromised.
Or just buy real books. I ditched my Kindle years ago and have never looked back.

Nothing beats a hardback.
It doesn’t even really work for two eyes if the viewer is close to the display. Close one eye to really nail the illusion.

Think of it as the perfect approach for pirates with no friends.