skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know Jason Kottke’s depth of knowledge about being a pilot, but I’d be willing to give him some credit. His father was a pilot and operated a small cargo airline. Jason regularly few with his father in small craft.

Blog posts about his father

https://kottke.org/tag/Jerry%20Kottke

And his decades of blog posts about flying.

https://kottke.org/tag/flying
You’re literally off by a factor of 10. Andy Jassy himself said that only 4% of all IT spend is on any cloud provider.
Why?

Because making is not selling.
It also forces China to develop its own competitor to ASML, which will eventually drive them out of the market.
Statistically, by firing entire teams, you're bound to catch a few unproductive people. The acutally productive ones that you fired can be filed under "side-effects of making the company lean".
If bypassing "protection" like this makes you automatically in the wrong, does that also make it immoral to try to refill ink cartridges?
There is nothing wrong with laypeople learning words. But if you use words that laypeople don't know, it's not a good laymen definition. You seem to be under the impression that laymen terms means it's outside the capability or expected behavior of layman to understand ever.

Ironically, you ought to look up the definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/layman%27s%20term...
React is still backend agnostic
> I think that you are agreeing with the main point I'm trying to make, and you're even going further than me.

Pretty much.

> You're just disagreeing with my wording.

Yeah, that's the "going even further" part. Words are important. The importance of words is really foundational for a lot of what we are talking about.

> What you're describing is, it doesn't think, it doesn't understand, it just follows whatever patterns in its training corpus kind of correlate with patterns in the prompt. And I agree.

Cool. It's nice to be on the same page. Let's read the next one:

> Where I may differ is how to regard the training corpus. True, it contains a massive amount of distilled thought, encoded in words.

That's the biggest point I'm trying to make by "disagreeing with your wording". Words have significant implications. In this case, the implication is "problem domain": language vs. text. Language is a subdomain of written text. Written text is a subdomain of all possible text. GPT is dealing with written text.

GPT does not only model the language patterns that humans intentionally put into text. GPT models all of the patterns that exist in the text.

Humans, when writing, do "distill" thought into language; but the result is messy: we end up encoding more patterns than we intended to. Our behavior, our choices, our reasons, and the surrounding situation we exist in, all inform our writing. Those are the patterns that get encoded into the text, right alongside language.

GPT doesn't see any pattern as different from another; so it's misleading to say that it models "language". GPT doesn't categorize that specific set of patterns: it models all patterns equally.

We humans have a good idea of what to expect from only language patterns. If that were all that was modeled, GPT's output wouldn't be nearly as interesting to us.

GPT's output is interesting to us. If we look objectively at the model it generates, we can see why: there are patterns there we had no intention of writing; and GPT modeled them just like it modeled the language-specific patterns we expected it to.
People sometimes die due to collisions pedestrians.

Should it be illegal for people to walk around drunk as well?
Platform APIs
It's no surprise that less and less people are accessing them in the last few years.

They have apparently blocked access in Europe.

Reports show that it is blocked at least in the UK, Germany and Spain.
Are you locking your bike to something angle grinder resistant when out and about?

The last bike I had stolen was from an underground bike store, behind two armoured locked doors and locked to a permanent bike-rack embedded in concrete. Thieves didn't cut a single lock, instead they cut all the bike-racks and emptied the place.
Been thinking about using webassembly to compile something like this, then you build the callouts to do the actual rendering... could potentially be even smaller. Compile TinyVG > Wasm > Wasm to bytecode.
Imma be honest with you it has never occurred to me that I would legitimately be considered a transphobe, racist, fascist, or nazi. And if someone sincerely was informing me I was doing this to the point where they could no longer tolerate my presence I would take some serious time to introspect what I did and potentially reach out to a neutral third party like a therapist to figure out if I have to do some work on myself.

Basically I wouldn’t worry about a stance like that, because either it will never apply to me or if it does, I can take it as a fairly low-stakes learning opportunity! (It’s not like I’m losing my job, getting divorced, etc. from this!)

(I would consider it a similar hardline stance to, idk, “we do not work with human traffickers, if we think you’re pro human trafficking we’ll avoid you” or “we do not work with serial killers, if we think you’re pro serial killer we’ll avoid you”. Like I know I’m neither of those things, and if people think I am, holy shit!! I need to fix that asap!!)
I worked in the PLATO group at CDC from 1980 to 1986, both in authoring system and courseware development. The Magnavox terminal I took as salvage is now in the Computer History Museum, and I still have the wire-wrap prototype IST-3 in my storeroom.

Happy to answer any questions that people have.
It took then that long to make it profitable. Big difference making something and making it profitable.
I (mostly) agree – which makes the reply somewhat confusing. Am I missing the contradiction or did you maybe misread my comment?
Then you make it so the AdBlock checker is the one that actually loads/displays the content
I think everyone knows at some level that the cookbook for the success you highlight is correct and works, as south and eastern asians have demonstrated so systematically. Yet, sadly, many groups avoid it… I think often for intentionally self-defeating or other pathological reasons.
Nice packpedal, except now what you said makes no sense anyway because the discussion was about tools doing what you expect them to do, not "tool + human systems" doing what you expect them to. These are two different things.

Do you think a carpenter who hits themselves with a hammer blames the hammer or themselves? Or are you going to unironically tell me they would blame the hammer + human system?
When I click on that link in the UK, I just get a “this offer is not available” error. Seems like they don’t yet offer such a thing here.
That's pretty much my experience in the city where I used to live. I'd regularly pass bikes securly locked to some post or other but with the front wheel stoved in and bent. I always assumed a would-be thief had done it in a fit of pique, after failing to get the lock open.
People just move on if it's too complicated.
Many are lying about degrees
> Large taxes on petrol which is already much more expensive than in the US.

Oil is the most subsidised industry in America. Oil is more expensive pretty much everywhere but Saudi Arabia where you can get it by kicking about the sand.

Despite all the restrictions London has placed, it is still the most gridlocked city in the planet, with the lowest traffic movement. London has too many people, and too many cars despite its incredible public transport options.

On of the main reasons is that it is not a very tall city, low density means sprawl, means lots of cars. Replace a lot of the Zone 1 2 floor flats with a garden for a 10 story multi family house and suddenly car useage would plummet.
What is your point then, if not “cycling drunk is as likely to kill somebody else as driving drunk?” If it is “it’s technically possible to kill somebody cycling drunk” - then yes, I concede the point. But it’s not a useful point in this discussion.
A dozen times? Damn, where do you live if you don’t mind me asking?
https://www.ic.org/directory/intentional-communities-by-coun...
For anyone interested in what 1.5C represents, I can't recommend enough the Climate Fresk [1] exercise.

It's not just the droughts and floods, the heatwaves, the changes in birds, insects, crop yields, … Include permafrost melting and releasing greenhouse gasses, civil unrest in populated areas that won't be livable anymore, unstable food production, and quite a few other causes and consequences.

It's a feedback loop of many moving parts. Thinking that "we will reach an equilibrium eventually" is probably a naïve take. The next natural equilibrium probably includes a decimated world population.

Positive action is necessary now. If you don't know what action to do, go to [1] and start there.

[1] https://climatefresk.org/
I cannot comprehend how someone could look at the evidence and conclude that growth will continue uninterrupted as the natural world is destroyed around us.

If you really don't believe climate change will have any impact, you should take a look at the actions of insurance companies. Their survival depends on them properly pricing in climate risk, and there's a reason why they've largely abandoned florida.
Essentially: It doesn’t scale. I wrote a small adserver for our website, and I also detect if ads are blocked by simply fetch-ing the google ads script (which we also run because some agencies require it). When they are blocked (or if there is no GDPR consent, same thing from our PoV), we only deliver ads that only depend on our own servers (we have several partnerships with merchants, so we can show their product ads or our own products, simple HTML with images).

But all that only works, because it’s only active on a single website and could change in any way we want in minutes. If it were widespread, it would quickly be blocked, and changes would have to be replicated by everyone using it.
Then you don't need this lock for your bike. - Cptn Obvious
I live in Berlin, within the Ring (for those familiar with the city). I don't own a car, I have multiple carsharing subscriptions and I have two children, 1 and 4. We have a cargo bike to move them around and do groceries, almost in any weather (as long as it doesn't rain), otherwise we have public transport as a backup.
And they sure look like it too. Shiny black, bulbous, with the red hour glass on their underside. Yikes!
Even if ethical ad networks exist, they most likely wouldn't want entangle themselves with a file dump like ZippyShare.
Microsoft recently laid off nearly the entire HoloLens team. Even groups working on AI/ML for things like computer vision and scene detection / 3D understanding weren't spared. All they care about is a Chatbot these days.
That doesn't quite make sense, "it's difficult to avoid having a car because you can't store it"? Can you elaborate? I'm interested what life is like in these cities that charge drivers so as to reduce cars in the road.
Stealth bomber crashed in field on Google Maps (2022)
Featured Snippets SEO = Google Bard SEO?
It's too bad that the word "liberal" got intertwined with "left politics" since mainstream Democrats and Republicans are both "Liberals", or at least subscribe to the "liberal intellectual system". It's about how knowledge is created and validated through public criticism and checks. No one and no ideal is above this system. It's about skepticism in that NO ONE get the the final say on anything and NO ONE has personal authority. A claim to knowledge can only be made if it is falsifiable and can be debunked.

This is where modern Progressives (or wokes) diverge from Liberalism. It is a politics of radical egalitarianism and fundamentalism. The idea that certain people have access to certain knowledge and "other ways of knowing" that makes them the authority on a subject and them and only them should be listened to. And of course, using unfalsifiable methods to achieve this as evidenced in their most popular literature that states "All white people are racist and denial of this is evidence of their fragility, which is racist". This language trick is used over and over. And of course, creating a grievance hierarchy that intends to flip Liberalism on its head since clearly the Liberal intellectual tradition was created by and for white men to maintain their power over everyone else. Of course ignoring that all of the so-called "progress" we've made (women's right, gay rights, civil rights, etc) are from the Liberal tradition.

Some people are bigots. But many people that are labeled bigots are simply skeptical liberals, which are often called fascists now.
Blog spam will continue to be profitable since all the LLMs have reduced the cost to churn out ok quality texts very quickly. Previously they'd have to hire freelance writers at like $0.05 per word on the low end.
Anything portable has always emulated well (or at least have since 2012).

Virtual buttons exist for the gamepads of older devices (NES-derived layouts generally look pretty good, so NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA emulates well).

The 3D home consoles tend to be a bit more dependent on the game (early 3D games have some pretty shitty button mappings in general and that's only amplified when emulating with virtual buttons).

As for emulation quality; handhelds emulate really well. Consoles made after 2000 are a bit of a toss-up at times, but generally also work decent.

As for battery drain; not an issue with handheld/old system emulation. Can't speak to home console emulation sorry.
This is the same company that creates the touted highly secure LiteLok Gold that LPL cuts in 16s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On0DGcDlc

I'm skeptical of any bike lock's security that is not reviewed by LPL.
Where does the air in the masks come from? I assume it’s a mix of bottled oxygen and something else.
I wonder how long it will take before people start to use LLMs to generate prompts...
I have not found it especially useful on my MBP, but it is a huge improvement for me on the iPad with keyboard and mouse. It feels much more natural now to have two windows open and quickly switch between apps. I used my iPad for about 80% of my work now, up from 10-15%.
So you sit there and watch every sponsor segment? You don't skip past them or mute them?

Get sponsored by something worth buying and I'll watch the sponsor reads. Hell, get sponsored by something that isn't actively a scam and I'll watch the sponsor reads. So long as people are shilling Raid Shadow Legends and Established Titles I'm gonna skip that crap.
The damage is a function of mass and speed. Obviously walking < e-bike << car
I'm not from Netherlands. What I have learned biking in snow blizzard is that it is good to have gloves and glasses. Everything else is just getting used to things.
All motion is more dangerous while drunk, but how drunk you are matters, how fast you're going matters, and how dense traffic is matters. I'm not convinced of how much more dangerous biking is while mildly drunk than walking, or biking very slowly while very drunk, especially at night when almost no one is walking.
It isn't just standard ad blockers being used to access Zippyshare. A whole lot of the content is .part files or similar. People share links and run them through specialized downloaders, wget etc. in order to grab all the part files from a link, skipping the ad interface entirely.

At one point this was a specialized use case (I think) but I get the feeling that over time this became the norm. As such, I think most of parallels people are making to general ad-block use and the Zippy is based on a bad premise.
Cars are a poor mans choice in Europe you only have to have a car if you are really poor. Europe is more mixed economicaly so this isn't true everywhere. Sure if you are rich you are also more likely to make life choices that make car ownership "a must", when you can buy cars like toothpicks it does not really matter.
But how much longer though?
This stood out to me too. I'm pretty sure that every nice e-bike left outside gets stolen within minutes in my city.
Or, you know, we can do both at the same time?

Also, once police are no longer occupied ticketing motorists, I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws. The police budget isn't going to refill itself.
I love only having a bike in the city. So convenient and helps keeping my energy up. Worst part of living in Stockholm is that it is completely inconvenient in most cases if you actually wanna go to the city.
This is not even an argument, only a disagreement.
I have been teaching at european universities for 20+ years now.

You can graduate without writing a single line of code, without having ever heard of SQL, and knowing nothing about math.

If you do it right. Or is that "do it wrong"?
Nice suggestion, but drunk-cycling is self-limiting in a way that drunk-cycling is not. Drunk-driving you are seated, and only need to be barely conscious. for drunk-cycling, you still must be sufficiently functional to balance on a bike, which puts a bit of a floor on the level of perceptual and cognitive function available, in addition to the far lower bike vs car ceiling on available momentum to do damage.

Not recommended, but cycling is a very substantially less-worse choice, absent getting another ride.
The device connects directly to EEG electrodes, which means that in the presence of a sufficiently severe failure it could potentially drive current across the brain. There's also no obvious galvanic isolation (transformers, etc., like an Ethernet PHY) in the pictured design, which is especially concerning since it means the device could potentially provide a path to ground (again, through the brain!) in the case of a miswired or damaged appliance exposing mains voltage - which sounds like a rare concern, but has actually happened to me once; I was fortunate that the consequent cross-chest shock was only deeply unpleasant, and not lethal, which it easily might have been if I hadn't broken the connection by falling over.

At an absolute minimum, I'd expect to see clear warnings to only use this device while it was powered from battery and with no wired connections to a power supply or to any other device plugged into the mains. In that condition, it should be relatively safe; in any other, I wouldn't think of using it and would recommend no one else do, either.
Now ask yourself what that is doing to the industry at scale... It's not surprising to me that academia has become a series of contrived hoops to jump through.
I welcome a paid model for all sites, honestly. That way, sites aren't slaves to the ideological driven policies of the advertisers. Post something the advertiser doesn't like? Ads get pulled and the site loses money. When you pay for the service, the site owner can raise their middle finger if anyone outside of the site staff doesn't like content on their site.

Sites like YouTube are a perfect example of this. Constant censorship and other nonsense because many of their advertisers are American, and thus 'prude as fuck' (lack of a better term). So content on YouTube has slowly been becoming more and more squeaky clean (advertiser friendly).

In a few years, YouTube's content policy will be 1:1 with broadcast television. Fuck reliance on advertisers. Eventually, any monetized content online will need to be squeaky clean and society will move onto another model, which is hopefully a paid model.

P.S. The idea that content will only be paid for by the golden 18-24 demographic with disposable income (while excluding others) is a myth. If kids can beg their parents for Fortnite skins every month and get Epic Games up to 5 billion in revenue per year[1], then $4 per month to stream content for a streaming site in the future is very possible

1: https://www.charlieintel.com/how-much-money-has-fortnite-mad...
Among the Frontline documentaries, The Secret History of Isis gives better regional details:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-secret-hi...

What would Isis have achieved without the chaos of the US/UK invasion? Was Zarqawi surprised to find himself at the head of a movement that was convenient for Cheney? Was the 2003 invasion destined to make someone like Al-Anbari?
"Economic growth" is probably a bad indicator to follow.

I would rather follow "number of excess death directly or indirectly linked to climate change." I don't know if that can be calculated somewhere.
Humans change over time: their old versions disappear, and their new versions are cloned every moment to replace the previous clone.
dropouts learned this because they love it. CS degrees learned enough to get the big salary they heard about.

your choice.
Look into something like Paprika [0]. Nowadays I barely look at the website, I just import it to Paprika (works automatically 99.9% of the time, no input needed from me) and then never visit the site again. It has the added benefit of having all your recipes being consistent and the ability to make edits.

[0] https://www.paprikaapp.com/
Where do you live for those of us unfamiliar with the city? Paris?

More on topic - Bikes make a lot of sense in the city but if you add kids to the equation the safety risk just becomes too high to stomach IMO.
A lifetime of graft, looking after yourself, so smoking, no excess. Your reward: your last years devoid of human contact with a robot wiping your arse.
Not only do they lose a huge customer, they'll likely face competition from China in the future. All this because the US is bullying them into an export ban that only benefits the US.
If Ken is not a big celeb, then nobody is.
The bankers are very well paid, the politicians are very well paid-off, and "we" has a very poor record of actually showing up at the table when decisions are being made on such matters.
They don't block affiliate links so instead of content that is useful outside of selling you something directly you get more content geared toward directing you to buy something.
"I could build one of those in a weekend!"
I'm willing to unblock ads for a site if all the following are true:

* I like the site.

* The ads are static images or text.

* The ads are hosted locally.

* The ads are not malicious.

If any of the above is not true, the blocking stays.
Also there is the balance (i.e. "go home and watch football after 5 p.m.") that the interns want as well. There are people who go do additional research and learning after class, but many don't. In the high-stress environment of CS or engineering school it's not easy to keep working in your little spare time, and I've seen burnout and loss of social opportunities occur to those that push too hard.
I think it can be okay in ecosystems where developers understand and respect semver
I think as blocker prevalence is a lot lower on mobile, especially iPhone, but that’s less helpful for a bulk file sharing service where I’d expect a lot of desktop users.
>Isn‘t the same statement true for car drivers?

Yes. Completely.

Even before you get into discussions of selfishness/malice there are people who are just shitty at understanding how traffic works and how the different classes of traffic interact with each other. These people create problems wherever they go whether they go their on foot, two wheels or four.

In online discussions they're usually the ones screeching loudly about "rules" that get ignored contextually because they don't understand the context(s).
It's just a very loud part of the crowd. The other part, which includes myself, are control freaks. I personally pay for YouTube Premium, but for longer train trips I download everything using yt-dlp and view the files in VLC. I've been burnt a few times with the YouTube app deleting the downloaded videos after they've been taken down.

The other sideloading example is Telegram - some channels are simply banned by Apple/Google, but on Android it's possible to sideload the unfiltered app (even though RT is still banned there in EU, for example). Yes, 90% of those banned channels are irrelevant, but it infuriates me beyond anything that I don't have any control over my phone and can't decide myself what is available.