skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great idea, and I'd love to do this at other networking events or even social events like weddings.

The biggest obstacle to doing this at social events is that people often want to take photos throughout the night, and own phones are almost always how we do this. One solution is to ensure there's a good roaming photographer who can take peoples details and share the photos later, but it still feels like a bit of a barrier to scaling this to places like function centres, etc.
People are welcome to be mad, I don’t care. But the words should be allowed to be there?
You may be right, I don't have good memories from the late CRT / early flat-screen era (I must have been 13 or something). Now that you mention it, I think my first flat screen monitor might have been 1440x900 / 16:10. I'm sure that my screen has been 1080p "full HD" since ~2007 because I still use that screen as my primary monitor. Whether I had one in between those two, I don't remember.
Such images are shown in books about human sexuality, or sex guides. The purpose of those books is not to tittilate in an erotic sense, but to provide information or education.

To go further, almost everyone agrees that a cartoon of a man and woman having sex in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation is not necessarily pornographic; this is a standard sort of picture in age appropriate sex education materials.

Granted, these images concern sexual reproduction. However this only makes me question why people deem that image appropriate, but images of other positions or acts not worthy of learning about in other contexts.

The fact is that we do learn about sex at school for other reasons. "Safe sex", consent, and in many cases contraception are all taught.

So hypothetically, if we're fine with images to educate about reproduction, and images to educate about consent or safe sex for nonreproductive purposes, what makes the images in the book so different as to deserve to be forbidden knowledge?
The phrase "cities without commercial on street level and residential above, cities where you need to own a car" is adding a condition onto "this is how cities die" to say that the original prediction doesn't apply to SF. Because SF has "commercial on street level and residential above" and you don't "need to own a car", people in the rest of the city depend less on the downtown. While downtown may be abandoned, it's not heart of the rest of the city.

At least that's what Terretta is saying. I haven't even visited SF in over a decade, so I don't know what its current situation is like.
I'm not saying they have the obligation to keep the free tier, but don't expect people to stick around.

Also free plans can definitely last, best example being Github. If Github would cut off free open source repos it would be over, and I'm pretty sure they are very aware of that.

My point is, it's a mistake to assume people will pay for something that was free and it's a misunderstanding to think there is no symbiotic relationship. Hosting a giant community can be incredibly valuable, especially when it's tech people with big budgets in your sector.

It's imo a business mistake to monetize in a way that goes against that. The community will have no issue finding a new home that does appreciate them (e.g. Github).
Have you ever given your car keys to a valet?
People tend to also underestimate the value of humor and pacing in writing. Injecting a little bit of comedy into everything you write (including technical specs) can be incredibly valuable.

That being said – it's really hard.
I agree strongly. It really encourages people with poor credit and/or little experience using a credit card "the right way" to finance what should be trivial purchases you either save up for firts, or just don't buy. BNPL for groceries is the ultimate borrow from tomorrow to pay for today; modern economies have taught their citizens well!
The problem I have with this line of thinking is that there's no attempt to even engage in any serious discussion about whether rogue AI is actually likely at all. Is the chance that AI will wipe out humanity in the next 100 years 1%, or 0.1%, or 0.0000001%? What about in the next 1000 years? Nobody can claim any sort of confidence in those sort of estimates right now. If you're grouping rogue AI, super pathogens, and nuclear winter separately from climate change because of potential impact, you might as well throw in alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, and the rapture as well, because those all could have the same impact, and the claim that rogue AI is a serious threat is much closer in level of rigor to them than your other examples.
And yet upon reading your comment I immediately thought, "They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
Now they are owned by Microsoft, its a celebratory 10 year tradition. Cause a worldwide outage, by letting your certificate expire...

"Windows Azure Service Disruption from Expired Certificate" (2013) - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/windows-azure-service...
you can still download it https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=237...
I've also seen people put disposable cameras at every table, or have a few polaroids circulating
They are rich!
Would you be happier if it was a foundation primarily funded by Alphabet?
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008) [pdf]
If it has WhatsApp I might just go for it. Nobody I know aside from _sometimes_ my 80-year-old grandmother uses SMS.
What's your local NPR affiliate? KQED is all identity politics, all the time. It's been over 10 years since I was in the DC area, but WAMU always seemed to have better political shows (even though some of them touched directly upon, e.g., race long before KQED went down that road), and from what I can tell their lineup is still far better than KQED.

I still regularly listen to WAMU's The Big Broadcast; they may be more selective about the classic episodes they play, but I wouldn't know as they haven't turned it into a virtue signaling exercise. Ditto for Hot Jazz Saturday Night.

Some of the national, NPR-produced shows definitely recite identitarian narratives more often than they used to, but compared to KQED-produced content it's still a massive difference in tone and content.
Cutting and pasting someone else’s work is not a discussion. Not to mention what you added didn’t exactly contradict my take so there’s not much else to say.
Not for any 'good' reason, given how they are not allergic to other utterly insane examples of state propaganda (constant glorification of the military, the executive, childhood recitation of the pledge of allegiance).

The only reason for why there isn't a CBC equivalent in the US is 'because it happened that way'. Trying to find some generalized reason in this particular artifact of a political culture is like trying to find reason in a drunkard's walk.
Neat concept, but the website and the ad on it are so pretentious that I cannot take them seriously.

If you are selling a phone then show me the phone, its specs, what buttons it has, what ports it has, how long the battery lasts..

Instead we get "It's an experience we call going light." "We're humans, we are taking back our lives."

Give me a break.

I also don't see why anyone would pay $300+ for the same tech as a $30 prepaid flip phone you can get at any gas station.
“My cofounder needed me to 2FA our Stripe login and I couldn’t”

I’m guessing the issue was that the request to 2FA was sent to the founder’s phone and thus they didn’t see it. It would take some testing but perhaps it’s possible to take advantage of Do Not Disturb and other similar features on modern phones to upgrade a phone check with the ability to notice when there’s something important and go fetch the phone’s owner. I’ve always wanted an Apple Watch in the hopes that I could set it up to be a low-information zero-interaction way of letting me know when I need to look at my phone, but it has always seemed like Apple Watches are designed to be mini-phones and just as distracting. Maybe there’s a way, though.
Probably the cheapest solution would be letting GPT monitors user feedbacks from various social media channels and alert human engineers to check for the summative problem. GPT can even engage with users to request more details or reproduceable cases ;)
Writing down your thoughts and reasoning is a great way to think.
I understand what you're saying. I just thing the world isn't so black and white. When you ask the idiot, or the smart person for that matter, a question, you have no idea if they are right or not. You only know after the fact when you get enough data to prove them wrong or someone that you trust more than that person tells you otherwise.

What is your error rate? What is my error rate? All of this stuff is unknown because we don't have counter factuals and we don't think of the world in this way (Did you order the correct food at dinner? Did you wash your clothes at the optimal time?)

To me you're thinking of it as a classical deterministic (binary) computer rather than a probabilistic thing. It's not an oracle, or a miracle, or anything other than some thing that gives useful information some percentage of the time. If something has to be right 100% of the time for it to be useful, or even 60% of the time, then the world is missing out on a lot of value.

Investors are right ~51% of the time, startup founders in the aggregate are right ~10% of the time, a great batting average is ~30%, etc.
i sometimes wonder if life first wvolved in the earth rather than in the sea or a puddle.
I went to look this up, and [1] says "virtual machines for Windows and Linux were introduced in 2012".

[1] https://studysection.com/blog/history-of-microsoft-azure/
NPR isn't definitionally "corporate" news. It may functionally be, due to the way funding has worked out, but this is not baked into its structure or culture. Yet.
God yes. Good humor is so hard to do when writing about technical things. I try to get a good balance by judicious application of surrealism, but a lot of the time your jokes won't land, and your references are both too old and too young for your coworkers simultaneously.

I try regardless, but it's very hard to avoid accidentally irking coworkers.
In what world is 49% a majority?
I think most people here saw this coming. Unfortunately this isn't a question of whether the law is good, it's a question of whether IA broke the current laws we have.

IA can and should lobby for copyright law to change. But breaking it before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good.
No arrests in this example but still quite concerning.[1]

Power can be used without needing to publicly arrest someone

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-by...
You're implying that car-theft would be equally as bad or worse than phone-theft. I'm not sure that's true for everyone. Further, stealing a car may be more difficult than stealing a phone.
Sure, but I think it's a bad faith argument to draw a comparison between such vastly different situations. Is my car my phone? No, no it is not.
Na, that's crazy talk. Of course the government printing oodles of money has absolutely nothing to do with inflation.

oBViOUSLy tHE rUSsIANs dID it ;p
Regarding the remarkable points about AL-26,

"Meanwhile they were heating up, mainly from the radioactive element Aluminum-26. ... this hot stuff’s radioactivity is short-lived: With a half-life of 700,000 years, it was basically all used up, or extinct, within 2 or 3 million years."

So why was there a significant amount of it in the young Sun? Wiki[1] says it "is mainly produced in supernovas ejecting many radioactive nuclides in the interstellar medium." So are they guessing that the Sun condensed from a cloud of material that was _recently_ ejected by a supernova? (Because if it wasn't recently produced, there wouldn't have been any AL-26 left.) Something of a violation of the Mediocrity principle[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium-26

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle
20 years ago a dream of mine: use AI to read all novels who have been made into movies then watch the movie version... rinse and repeat until the AI can synthesize a movie given any novel

We're still far from this today however this will happen... Can't wait
Anyone who contributes $100 to NPR deducts $100 from their income for tax purposes. So the public is paying, in that he or she would have paid $40-50 in taxes on it otherwise.
Makes me laugh! So many issues (not just this) because no one wants to pay for an FTP server and write some FTP commands, secure of course. And the VC companies make something say a tiny but more
convenient but then pull the rug.
Most of the people who run the BBC are linked to the Tory party (who are very right wing). It generally acts as a propaganda arm of the government.

It used to swing left wing in, like, the 1980s and it used to be independent until the Hutton enquiry.
What do you mean by neutral? Because being "neutral" on an argument like "is the Earth flat" is a terrible journalistic standard.
I guess the issue with allowing voluntary departures is that you could lose numbers of engineers in vital functions. Also I imagine there tends to be a bias towards your most confident engineers leaving since they know they'll have the highest likelihood of easily finding a new role?
The whole thing was just a novelty so they could write a blog post and get some attention for their software.
Many of them are not (yet?).
Hover Is Over
Invisibilia, a show about investigating the hidden side of human behavior - was a ripoff of 99% invisible, a show that focuses on the unseen aspects of design?

I think your are confused about one of these shows at least, I don't see these as being relayed at all other than they are podcasts talking about things, which can hardly be claimed as original.
How does one cop unlawfully looking up and harassing someone justify producing all the names of all the officers including those who are undercover?

That’s like asking for every mod name to be revealed on Hacker News in order to be able to pushback against a ban.

I don’t worry about cops beating my ass. I always comply when I’m confronted and it’s amazing but they treat me with respect. I also don’t commit violent crimes, that helps as well.
They’ll have to take something without salt to learn anyway. It seems pretty inevitable that AIs will replace generic search engines and change the way “blogs” work. Like it doesn’t matter to google today that you wanted ["foo" "bar"]. You may be smart, but a completely irrelevant “S”E“R”P is all you can have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

I get not having kids, but 12 billion views, c'mon
> The fact that many of these other sources will also be covert lying AI will be a great lesson in media literacy for everyone.

Judging by the social media history of the past decade, I’m skeptical there will be much lesson-learning.
That's not an accurate way to describe HK MTR or Japan Rail and it's definitely not accurate for Brightline.

Most US transit systems are bad because the government puts even more effort into stopping them from working (via bad land use, incredibly slow decision making, power-harassing Andy Byford) than it does operating them.
What happens if some exception other than CancelledError is thrown?
Because AI doesn’t have it’s own mind. It’s gonna put some bugs here and there, sooner or later, and then it’s gonna repeat that same thing everywhere, after enough iteration the bug will be so prominent that it’s gonna be a pain in the neck for user (also the premises of almost every AI bad Sci-fi movie/book). It’s a blackbox. It’s like infection spreading.

And because of the corp greed. Cheap solution will always triumph good solution, so I am pretty confident that they will remove the guardrails way sooner that they should. I mean Facebook literally fanned the flames in Myanmar[1] so my bet is on corp greed this time too.

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
So is it that you think you can trust the objectivity, or just that they're private entities? Purely a coincidence that some of those have biases in the opposite direction as NPR?
This. I'd rather my vehicle was stolen vs or damaged vs getting digitally compromised. The damage someone could cause with my phone vs. stealing my car is vastly different.
Here was the EFF's statement on the case when they initially agreed to represent the Internet Archive: https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive

IIRC this all came about because the IA decided to increase their lending beyond the limits of the licenses they had during covid, when more people were trying to use their services due to being stuck inside.

Also of note is that the is only the district court. We'll have to see if the EFF appeals to the circuit next.
this is hilarious! the phone check is a gimmick...

they have a chrome extension and app [1]

saw them on product hunt a few weeks back [2]

[1] https://www.getclearspace.com
[2] https://www.producthunt.com/products/clearspace
Sure, but this is a false equivalency. A car and phone are completely different issues. Cars also have “valet modes to lock things down”.
I do the same by walking and mostly talking to myself like a mad scientist.
That's the thing. As long as what you do is rudimentary, it's good.

For example, it can create a schema for, say, a subscription service. No problem. It'll be good.

But ask it to add multi-user accounts with roles, 2fa, multiple payment methods, a denormalized invoice history, the ability to create one-off invoices, and it's pretty much guaranteed to fail. And that's still barely scratching the surface of what's required from a modern app.
Because it's what you would call "misinformation."

Individual contributions to NPR are tax-deductible. That means the public IS indeed subsidizing NPR, far beyond the government's direct payments.
This would be a really nice restaurant/bar idea, too bad cell phone jammers are illegal in the US. Maybe you could layer your walls with foil to naturally block antennas?
Specific example? Just because you may not agree with a program doesn't make it "propaganda".
Absolutely not. But Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Czechia, all have comparable or worse inflation. Brexit was and continues to be a shit show, but the UK isn't uniquely in trouble here.
Yes, you’re right. They avoided my problem entirely. I probably should have said that instead.
How is this possible in wasm? Forgive my ignorance? Would this only be the case if multiple binaries are running in the same VM?
Yes, but not before removing my wallet and passport and briefcase that has all my logins to my business’s internet banking written down on a sheet of paper inside.
Yeah I have to agree copying entire works and lending them out is probably not the best idea. I wonder how Google got away with the same though.
Is the UK any less polarized?
> NPR was clearly on the left before, and went hard left after that. It's
essentially propaganda now.

Do you understand that actual leftists consider NPR to be a voice of the corporate right-center?

Anyway, the correct analysis of NPR, like most "mainstream" media outlets, is that they are biased but not consistently left or right (or any other direction in whatever N-dimensional political space is now fashionable); their bias is pro status quo. That is, their bias is always towards the idea that we live in something roughly approximating the best of all possible worlds, that it requires a bit of tinkering, some careful tweaks to get it dialed in even closer to justice and desirability, but that's about it.

The concept that we live in something that is basically, fundamentally broken on the deepest levels is very difficult for mainstream media to tackle, and even though some occasionally do try, it is quickly put back in the box so that we continue to consider how best to tweak and tinker with what we already have.
I realized it was nearby as I was stopping for gas on a 7,500 mile road trip in the summer of 2021 and so stopped by. I spent quite a while there photographing the installation as well as the other people visiting it. Corn was planted in the field it's in and it was about 2' at the time. There were a couple vendors in the parking lot along the frontage road selling snacks and cans of spray paint. It was pretty fascinating to see how thick the pain was that has been deposited on those vehicles over the years and to watch people climbing all over them to add their own "touch".

I texted a photo to my sister and she remembered that we'd visited as kids on a road trip out West. She was even able to dig up the photo and send me a copy which was pretty neat.
This sucks, big time.
Elon wanted it to be Open?, Musk wanted to buy it, take charge and lead it himself with his team of yes man from tesla. Probably would fired on the spot most engineering teams, do code reviews personally and demand hardcore work hours in the office.

If Musk had been the CEO, ChatGPT would never have been released.
ChatGPT Slackbot
Why would you want to buy the VB6 IDE? If you’ve got legacy VB6 stuff to maintain, you’ve probably got a 20-year-old license for the IDE already. If you somehow do not, you can buy a Visual Studio subscription [0] and get it. Supporting something does not necessarily mean they sell new licences.

[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/#software-a... > "Download complete list of software" lists VB6 as available.
Didn't google do almost exactly this with google books - making agreements with libraries and digitising their collections without paying the publishers or the authors? Maybe I misunderstood.
writing prose is a skill like any other - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the faster and easier it goes. I would outright say doing it without tools is a better learning experience than using tools.

A word processor, you, and time are all it takes.
The other way around, to me this means that the total floor space is the size of a 66 meter square, which is ridiculously small. I think it must have been at least 1000X times that
The system shouldn't require lobbying to get results that benefit the greater good
I am quite the clutz, and do spill a lot, but I have yet to ruin any device in the process. A few close calls, but none fatal.

I try to mitigate theft/loss/disaster anxiety by keeping a backup/recovery hygiene that enables me to be productive in <2 hours of obtaining a replacement (but I'll sheepishly admit a tool update has the backup script failing atm and I haven't found time to debug).

IME I'm more likely to spill beer on one at home than out and about. Something subtle about space or psychology? (Spaces at home are more likely to be cluttered enough to nudge me towards a risky drink placement? Not habituated to expecting spillables near the computer at home? Idk.)

I did have some jackass having a whiny argument with someone else spill my beer on my laptop this past summer. Close call, but luckily it was almost empty. This was, to some degree, my mistake for going against my gut and humoring his curiosity about what I was doing long enough for him to decide he was welcome to sit across from me.
Oh my god, I love you guys. Thank you.
Ideas like I’m not pro-Union and tend to vote republican. Just because people don’t like a side doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have voice.

I’m certainly not against investigating and punishing bad cops to the full extent of the law,but to post the names of all officers, many who are doing their job right and just, and many of whom are undercover? That’s ridiculous.
Ask HN: Any group to learn xv6 together?
I am going through the xv6 course from MIT[1]. On my own.

I wonder if there any group/chat/place that discusses this? There was a thread 8 months ago, but I mised that train. I want to find community where I can discuss this thing or to find some motivation to go trough the hardest parts of xv6 labs.

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2022/xv6.html
But you don't need a team account to squat a namespace.
Username and email are totally separate.
They didnt offer the full books afaik.
Python does not have private symbols. __foo__ is just convention