skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's doesn't seem like a bad idea to me, but how would that be different than having the author's name attached to all submissions? we see wsj.com, nyt.com, etc all the time with no other metadata.

i get the label for [PDF] and what not, but does anyone think a link to youtube.com is NOT going to be a video?
"... it’s the strict policing of standards that enables a risk-accepting culture in the first place."

Doesn't just apply to playgrounds.
I can confirm. A friend of mine used to distribute test kits at raves. This was like around 2000, so this is not new.
Putting aside fears of AGI for a moment, seeing the comments here I’m coming back to the same idea I come to every time new tech comes along: Complaints about AI and automation are actually complaints about capitalism. The increase in productivity from AI could in fact enrich our lives, but given the never ending hunger for growth from late-stage capitalism, the average person will see a drop in wages, harder jobs, and more inequality.

Can we break the cycle on this? Is there a way drive innovation while valuing humans?
Nobody pointed it out, because it's not true.
it depends where you take it! plus the initial prompt changes everyday. tomorrow will be a different setting with different characters.
"There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun."
Business Insider is not credible. Its a rag.

They had the basis for peace talks to begin. Biden Administration decided to use it as a cheap way to damage Russia militarily with no American deaths. But massive Ukrainian deaths they find acceptable.
There is no banking secrecy to Swiss residents. How the government would collect taxes ? It is not free of charge here.
Meta topic:

How does such low quality submissions comes to main page when so many of good quality submissions struggle to show up? I'm not implying any fraud or anything but genuinely wants to understand how "SEO" on HN works.
Using a smart card or compatible, nowadays often a TPM chip/SecureZone/Secure Enclave or similar.
We should minimize our eco-footprint with high density living, not subsidizing high environmental impact lifestyles.

How does the rural folk having high speed internet benefit society?
I suspect that the number of workers which AI can't displace due to their unique mental abilities has natural limitations, mostly not enforced by cultures and markets.

With global population growth declining, and negative population growth in most industrial countries, the supply of humans in general, and humans of exceptional abilities in particular, will only decrease.
> Android development unlocks so much more hardware and software and peripheral and protocol support.

Seconded. However, with each release of Android, Google tends to lock things down further.
And you weren’t capable of changing jobs?

Yeah, I changed jobs to another job with similar bullshit Bay Area culture.

Are you seriously trying to argue that they're isn't a pretty universal culture of long hours and, often, the expectation of even more hours after work on "passion projects"?

Even ignoring small companies and "startup culture", the entire Google campus approach was to encourage people to stay longer and work more, and that seems to be the common model among the big tech companies.

And unions wouldn’t have prevented collusion

I didn't say anything about unions, I merely addressed the implication by the parent comment that it isn't an issue in the tech industry. That said, I don't know why you think unions can't help fight wage collusion. Something being illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and it has to be brought to light to be caught.
yep I think it about both, which is why I stopped using Windows many years ago and MacOS more recently

it's becoming more and more unbearable to use them even just part-time for testing purposes, etc

recently I'm more concerned about the lack of real alternatives for mobile
I can't speak for op and evil is subjective - If I have to take a stab at their thoughts, it would be along the lines that he was being a useful idiot for an entity whose goal was to harm a society. You can debate those points; what questions he should have asked, if what the Mueller report says about his sources is true, if he had any actual malice - evil is too strong a word for my taste, as I use it for sadism. He certainly went for retribution however. I don't think we'll know his motivations for sure while he still has legal exposure.
Real drug war has never been tried!
https://archive.md/Vs068
Clinton expressed a thinly disguised desire to see him assassinated. Of course he preferred $not Clinton. Any journalist in the same position would.
It’s not like this is a new phenomena either. People need to go read up on the opium wars a bit.

We have data point after data point about the destructiveness of drugs on people - either it’s fentanyl or more “legal” opiates.

The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.
> physical labour hasn't been replaced yet in many areas isn't because AI tech hasn't advanced sufficiently

I’m a robotics engineer. There are two options. AI can either replace all jobs or it can’t.

If it can then we are all out of a job, and then the next project is how to organise society such that everyone can live a good and fulfilling life in harmony.

If it can’t, for whatever reason, then that is the next thing I will be personally working on. Simple as that.

Because of this I don’t see how would it be possible to run out of programing jobs before running out of all the other jobs first.

You are talking about ChatGPT, and LLMs, but what i am saying transcends particular technologies.
Github Copilot uses a different model than chatgpt, with a tokenizer more fit for code rather than plain english language.
I don't disagree we just don't know yet. I do think these 2 guys will be overworked as f** and constantly context switching to the point they barely know what they're doing anymore...hope we don't get there.
I think that's a great motivation. But now you can also read the paper I linked above and be more informed about the discussion around benchmarks for NLU (Natural Language Understanding). You can also follow the references in that paper. That will then help you know how to contribute to discussions, in particular when it comes to pointing interlocutors to results, without increasing the amount of noise. We sorely need that right now, so please consider becoming better informed.
Agree, infrastructure is worthless, applications are everything.

Mr Edison is famous for "the lightbulb" (actually, "a"), but what he really did was lightbulbs + power stations (through General Electric).

Mr Birdseye is famous for frozen fish, but what [the company who bought his patent] really did was frozen fish + freezers in supermarkets.

The joke about the first telephone being the hardest sell (because there's no-one to call) has another problem, of no phone-lines, exchanges or (today's) cell-towers.

\muse I wonder if a solution to holes/monopoly abuse is to ease entry-to-market? The standard incumbent response is to deny oxygen to entrants, by giving great deals at the low end (like today's "free tiers"). Though, historically, regulatory capture instead raises barriers to entry.
I'm pretty sure you can register the same finger over and over again for new "keys". Assuming you go through the tedious process of disabling, restarting, etc whatever each one of the underlying OS demands. It's an additional layer that Bitwarden (and other apps) do not get direct access to.

So no excuse if you value convenience, PINs are not good. Short easy to remember and enter PINs are also the reason Apple is under fire due to how easily you can avoid biometrics and just use the 6 digit PIN.
To connect the dots that sibling comment nicely laid out, if the universe splits at every decoherence event then its total size is incomprehensibly more enormous than the jump to "the observable universe" when we discovered other galaxies.
It's a substantial improvement when actually coding on the fly, since copilot will also analyze code in your codebase. It just makes coding the BS parts less tedious.
Somehow this doesn't surprise me.

And if I lived then, I'd be the crazy one talking about all the possibilities while people look at me dumbfounded. Same as today. >..<
Only systematically important banks. There are even few official definitions for what is systematically important. Both CS and UBS are.
Ask HN: Good LaTeX Editor for Android
I really would like to use LaTeX for my graduation paper. Anyone can recommend a good editor for a tablet of ~ 13'' ?
How is 11% having electricity comparably to 75% having broadband? Feels like you’re really reaching to make this segway to politics.
Couldn't agree more with this sentiment. And to expand on it - the great outsourcing events we saw in the mid-2000s didn't work out for many of the things outside of programming: IT consulting in general, support and operations, call centers and things like design and architecture. The barrier was not always technical, but often a misunderstanding of how BaU works in the <parent_country> vs offshore and/or what the ask/expectations were. There's a lot of waste that happens when needing to be overly explicit and still having the message misinterpreted, interpreted too literally or simply failure to understand.
It’s 21 years later now
I feel like “thing broken, status page green” has almost become a meme at this point. We need to do better here.
What did you witch to and why?
Takeaways:

- It makes the drills harder, but as a result likely also more brittle, so they may only be "stronger" for certain applications

- Using the bit properly is much more important than what it's made of/whether it's cryo treated - he got an entire plate of steel with one bit with 30 m/min (and the bit was still good at the end) and then destroyed 7 bits, included some treated ones, on fewer holes than that using 40 m/min (I assume that's surface speed).

- This also means he didn't test how much longer the bit would last under good conditions, only that it was able to withstand non-optimal conditions longer. While it's likely that this transfers, it's not guaranteed.
Those points sound interesting, but it's hard to tell, an idea is pretty much worthless. It's the implementation that matter. Finding the target audience. The business model. The UX. Having a great team.

If you believe in it, go for it, if you know who the target audience is, how to reach them and how to make them use your product while being profitable, than you can build any idea.

I am still not sure what your platform is, are you hosting the content itself? So, like YouTube or another social network/Twitter? Or is it just a directory to connect sponsors to viewers?

The biggest question you should ask is: who is it for?
I would love to see this assertion distilled further.
Bent nails at Roman burial site form “magical barrier” to keep dead from rising
I agree with your basic point--and subsidies are a complicated topic. Cities can't exist in isolation.

That said, Starlink, and presumably competitors at some point, does change the game. As does probably 5G and successors. They don't replace last mile/last 10 mile wired Internet for all cases but we do increasingly have viable alternative for more rural locations.

My brother's house had a 1Mb/s down ADSL wired connection and he was the last house on the road that could get "broadband" at all. With Starlink, he's able to work, stream video, etc. which wouldn't have been possible before.
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Alpaca and self-instruct demonstrates the viability of a closed loop self-improvement process that exhibits exponential growth (for some period of time, anyway).
In 2003, I had a vigorous debate with someone advising their nephews not to go into CS because outsourcing to India would commoditize it.

I don’t know if the AI stuff will play out similarly, there are some differences.

But it seems to me there is an infinite amount of software to build, and when we increase the productivity of software development, we just build fancier software, faster.
I had thought there was some merit to the term "proxy war" here. But actually no, it's just another bit of specious nonsense. Thank you for making me look it up!

Wikipedia: A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors, one or both of which act at the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities

Calling this a proxy war ignores the part of the defintion about motivation. The only instigator here is Russia, and Ukraine is mainly fighting for its own interest of not being liquidated by Russia. Supplying allies does not make a country a combatant, nor does it make the supplied party a "proxy".
Doesn’t Israel tend to drip water it’s trees using from the river Jordan for this?
In those 6 years, how many programs packaged and distributed by Debian were exploiting that?

If you can run the "beep" command, you can also edit the user's environment and from their easily escalate to root anyway. In modern desktop linux, the user is almost always the admin as well, a single person using their personal computer, so getting root is merely a matter of waiting until the next time that user uses sudo/etc. Windows tries to mitigate this sort of attack using secure UAC prompts that are apparently difficult for attackers to emulate, or so I've been lead to believe. But common desktop Linux distros don't require anything like that. Instead, the user has to be cognizant of such possibilities and not run programs from people and organizations they don't trust.
post from 1965

Note to AI dorks: This doesn’t apply to neural networks. If neural nets could be more useful for most applications than what already exists (expert systems, human intervention), we would know it by now.
I think you get copilot because you don't end up having to cut and paste stuff into a browser.

Have to say I'm very happy with copilot, it's definitely worth the 10 bucks a month.
> Who know what really happened, but what may have happened was that the hacking was blamed on Russia instead of say China

Or it could have been leaked by someone who liked Bernie, or by some other naive fantasist with a pipe dream that the Democratic Party could hypothetically one day run a fair primary again.

People are encouraged by the media to simply forget about the subjects of these leaks, and focus on the leaker. That's a tactic.
'Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.'
TPM interdiction is readily possible.
“To the electron: May it never be of use to anyone”
― J.J. Thompson
They didn't finish it because they went hard, all in one go, and suffered consumer backlash as a result. From this Apple learned that you have to boil the frog slowly.
As a rural tax payer I'm paying for some city dwellers to sit around all day doing nothing.

All the benefits you enjoy as a result of living in a modern society have been paid for by someone other than you.
Be liable for their actions.

Be an attractive, physical sex partner.

Perform neurosurgery without human assistance.

Raise children, from birth, autonomously.

(Once they can do that, I may be really worried.)
Which governments would you consider “open and honest” democracies?
To those who are complaining about the lack of power/issues with Raspberry pi, don't forget, this is not one of your run-of-the-mill tinkerers, this is Ken Thompson.
TIL

Thanks, when windows moved to the PIN I was wondering how that worked/ they kept it secure but still easy to login.
>from a western mindset any measures taken will appear authoritarian

I have opened my authoritarian kimono then. We do great harm to our children feeding them fantasy and dressing it up as high-technology. It took me, a nerdy and rather credulous kid, a long time to unlearn the bad intuitions of science fiction, particularly around thermodynamics and FTL. It's remarkable how many people still believe that breaking the light barrier is just like breaking the sound barrier, and it will happen any day now.

I was just thinking that very few people have even caught up with science as of 1905. All the science done since then has been stunning, but only because of the intuitions built in the previous century. Without those intuitions to violate, modern science becomes all but inscrutable - and made even more so by poorly labeled fantasy.

>The history of ‘western’ thought, in the tradition of the enlightenment and what followed, is inherently tied to Judeo-Christian ethics and morals.

Yes, humans have several meaningful dogs in this race. "The West" is the dog I was raised in, and the one I honestly like the most, by a country mile. But I think it's entirely possible that "The West" can't pass the GF. "The West" as a dog is rather vapid and lazy and consumer-y who doesn't make much anymore. It's fat and sated so piles of meat aren't enough to get it out of bed. How does such a dog deal with an urgent crisis on a long time scale, especially in the absence of basic scientific consensus among its people? It may turn out that an authoritarian dog, like China or Russia, may pass the GF where The West fails.

I do know that unless awareness grows about the Great Filter, and where we actually stand in relation to it, we will certainly fail. Perhaps the next Great Game won't center around Afghanistan, but rather around protecting life on Earth and spreading life beyond Earth. It seems foolish to say it, but perhaps a powerful person or ten will turn away from their own self-interest to focus on this difficult and long-term task.
Julian Assange has not been charged with exposing secrets or being inconvenient for the powers that be. He has been charged on the quite plausible accusation of helping Chelsea Manning illegally acquire these secrets. There are lines journalists (and you can debate if he is a journalist) are not supposed to cross, this is one of them.

Most of the negative consequences in his life stem from him running from this accusation, and from the rape charges in Sweden. He'd like to frame it in a different light, understandably...
What makes it easier to write in ELisp compared to JS?

Also, other text editors got on the 'real programming language' train too, like Neovim with its support for Lua. There's also Lite XL which is almost fully written in Lua itself. Does ELisp still have a big advantage there?
Developers are really lazy. We have terms like DX and UX. It’s not a false dichotomy at all.
Suddenly getting Error Code 7 (unusual network detected - https://bitwarden.com/help/unusual-traffic-error/) when attempting to login. Googling and looking on Twitter - people have been complaining about this happening to them as well.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/110gpkt/traffic_...

-https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/11vplwv/network_...

- https://twitter.com/lazminutes/status/1624946344564781056

Locking me out of 2FA because of you don't like my network traffic? Yeah, I will be immediately leaving your service, bye. That's Google like bro, lol. Clown stuff. Insane that they would even think of doing this.
> Your comment echos the crux of the article. Yes, this probably wasn’t an explicit goal for AWS, but the end result is that people aren’t using Amazon’s products because they’re the best, they’re just using them because it’s harder to change or more expensive not to (when it could be cheaper if the playing field was level).

I think you hit the nail on the head, at least regarding my own experiences.

Most of the time when a colleague says “hey we can use X service because Y” in AWS, the “Y” is something along the lines of “because it’s just easier to use Z with it,” where “Z” is another AWS service.

AWS has many impressive tools. That doesn’t mean they’re built with friendliness in mind. Their tools are meant to provide value for money, but a lot of that value is predicated on using other tools they provide. They’re building a platform, not -your- platform.

We learned that lesson early on with my business. We ultimately replaced all but 2-3 AWS services with third parties that were actually best-in-class, and kept the 2-3 from AWS that AWS can honestly say are best in class. It was ultimately more expensive and kludgy to build everything on AWS rather than diversify our stack.
Since the famous “it’s the economy, stupid!” each and every US President has taken upon himself to support said economy and to make it thrive, because that’s what was getting the electorate’s votes.

That has mostly meant trying to support the stock market/share prices, but under the current ideological circumstances it wouldn’t surprise me if the US Government were to help other sections of the economy, like housing.
The war on drugs is the sole cause of drug-related violence. If you want to end violence related to the drug trade in free societies, the solution is to end the drug war, not mass executions.
I was a student in a no-name college with no real chance of landing an internship at the big tech companies, given my cv had neither the prestige of a good college name nor many impressive projects.

GSoC basically allowed me to jump into an open-source project (no credentials needed), prove that I'm skilled enough to contribute and gain meaningful experience solving real world problems. This then snowballed into larger career opportunities later down the line.
Is "showing" what makes it deeply concerned? Can it think without that, because "showing" is what an image does.
Literally any modern computer outshines Apollo guidance computer. It's 50 years old.
> The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.

Don't know if I buy this. In general, parties pushing for legalization fall more on the left side of the political spectrum. I can also appreciated that libertarians on the far-right think the same (shoehorn theory?) but on the right this is a fringe opinion, unlike in the left.
Frequent flyer miles are just a marketing gimmick. They're not "useful" as in serving an irreplaceable purpose; frequent flyer miles could be outlawed tomorrow and the world would not be a worse place in any way.
Let's cut off their electricity and phone too and forcibly relocate them. It's not like other countries haven't done that in the past. /s
When the WWW came about I embraced it. Why? It’s a new form of communication like TV or radio. I, like others, recognized the writing on the wall. Embracing it early turned out to be a good decision.

Chatgpt, or well tuned LLMs, are not quite a new form of communication. They’re a new way to enhance thought. Call it Thought++. I’m fully embracing it as my personal pseudo-assistant. Why? The writing on the wall is clear enough to understand the following: I don’t know what the future will be. I know chatgpt and similar have the potential to embrace it in unimaginable ways. Learning the fundamentals of this technology is a safe bet. It’s also an investment in the future.

I’m already using it as a thought lubricant. Can’t wait until I can have do things for me.
I appreciate the humor! I'd also argue that Singapore does "war on drugs" pretty well.
It definitely feels different.

I saw the output of a GPT4 code assistant the other day and my immediate reaction was, "well, my career as a programmer is over." I can still do valuable things (gosh I sure hope so!) but the stuff I've been doing for the last twenty years or so is over. And good riddance! Software is buggy crap. The machines will do a better job.

The main issues are:

Who gets to decide the boundaries of publicly acceptable thought?

Who gets to reap the economic windfall?

How do we educate ourselves in a world that contains talking machines that can answer any (permitted) question?