skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your list of the extreme/woo edges is pretty well-rounded but it's Eurocentric and missing a few famous ones like Aum Shinrikyo, Sabbateans/Frankists, cargo cults, voodoo, etc.

Also putting Islam, Catholicism, and LDS in the same list as the others would be like me putting similarly more mainstream Orthodox Jews in that list, just because of some cases of organ trafficking[0] or a "child rape assembly line"[1] in a few churches, or circumcision (which is viewed as genital mutilation in most of the world). And the careful adoption of technology (which I admire for the same reason as Amish). So not really appropriate to cluster more mainstream with the marginal cults side-by-side like that because it's disproportionate.

According to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher behind the 2004 US Department of Education study[2] (if you can find a newer one, I'd like to see it), educators likely do 10-100x the abuse as priests. She's appeared on Oprah and NPR.

[0][https://www.smh.com.au/world/organ-trafficking-rabbis-arrest...

[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assemb...

[2]https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/...
It's even better than self-hosting on bare metal, because you can move from one vendor to another quicker using IaC.

Also more expensive of course.

To me self-hosting was always about freedom. The two arguments against self-hosting in the cloud are security and cost.
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What do you think about the events that colonists and western imperialists did to cause China to become extremely poor?
I think it could have been a sensible approach if it stopped at "something associated with the consumption of creative works".

Sadly it (is ?)was way broader than that and you'd have a tax on hard drives sales whatever you would do with them. Imagine needing two extra hard-drives for your home NAS to store your family pics and videos and something like 2 to 3% of the price goes to some artists that _might_ be impacted by piracy some way or another.

https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Thematiques/Propriete-litteraire...
apfs has snapshots, just not block-level snapshots.
The fed doesn't really care if it loses money, but when it has a profit it gives it back to the government. So loses for the fed means the government gets less revenue.

Also these loses accumulate and until the are offset by profits no more money can be given to the government.

That combined with high interest payments on government debt will make the debt ceiling vote a lot harder.
I was referring to the wider movement where young people give up on normal participation in daily life. So I'd also count grass eaters, for example. The 30% came from my memory of these statistics:

"About one-third of women (37.4%) and men (36.6%) aged 18 to 24 described themselves as single and not interested in a relationship."

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-japanese-increasingly-disinter...
My male colleagues enjoy a few months of paternity leave without fear of losing their job. It's not a matter of sex, but culture, law, and policies.
It's weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together.

Sign of the times perhaps.

Though I guess it's not much different from the thread trashing Dropbox however many years back.
I'm actually surprised how much dairy products contribute to global warming. It's only veganism that really cuts down on carbon emissions.
No. Microsoft got in trouble because they were coercing OEMs to not include competing browsers.

Apple has no such problem since they don’t have other OEMs.

Same deal with why Google got in trouble with the play store.
I'm somebody who is usually extremely skeptical of new technologies, to the point of being wrong on the overly conservative side (e.g. I vastly underestimated the impact mobile phones would have on society). And in some of the examples you give, primarily crypto, nfts, and the metaverse, I was highly skeptical about them from the beginning, and (in my opinion) I think I was right.

I do not feel that way about GPT-4-level AI. I am continually blown away by the value I get when I use it. I ask it programming questions, and while it doesn't always get things 100% right, it saves me a ton of time. I've asked it medical questions (I used the prompt suggested by this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319988), and it was invaluable. I even showed the chat to my doctor, and while I could tell at the beginning she was feeling a bit "Oh lord, I thought it was bad with 'Dr Google', now it's going to be much worse", but by the end of it I felt she was even a bit shaken by how good the responses were.

I totally agree there is a ton of snake-oil with respect to "BS AI" pitches, and it seems like there are lots of companies calling everything under the sun "AI". But that doesn't mean there isn't "real" AI, and GPT-4 has been the most mind-blowing piece of technology I've ever used.
> One of the most obvious usecases would be for something like time machine. I have a parallels virtual machine that is hundreds of gigabytes in size and as far as I can tell that each time you modify even a single byte in that vm it will need to backup the entire file all over again. not only is this infeasible in the amount of space it would require it's also infeasible in that every time I do a backup i would need to spend the time transfering the whole thing all over again. this is also one of the biggest problems that next gen filesystems were designed to solve.

This is a likely an issue with Time Machine’s design rather than any limitation in APFS. Time Machine works with full files and uses hard links to link different versions. Unlike HFS+, APFS does support CoW (Copy on Write) and snapshots. You can verify this yourself by duplicating a file on your local drive and seeing that it doesn’t actually create one full copy of he file and occupy double the space.
It doesn't say what the environment is.

64K Commodore 64?
I think books (or any works) staying popular on a long time scale, or becoming popular long after creation, is extremely relevant to how long copyright terms should be, yes. That seems apparent, so why do you ask?

You’re right that copyright is there to encourage creation of new works, and the stated mechanism for doing this is by granting the creator a limited-time monopoly, so they have a chance to make money.

Why do you doubt that publishers aren’t considering more than 5 years, and to turn your question back on you - why exactly is that relevant? There certainly can be a difference between why they decide to publish a book, and whether they should have the exclusive right to make money from a book after 5 years, can there not? Since you’re making a broad generalization, think about all book types, text books, reference books, novels, literature, non-fiction, etc. Aren’t some of those slower to publish and slower to go out of date? Think about walking through Barnes & Noble and tell me you believe that everything in the store in less than 5 years old.

And how does copyright inhibit your artist friends? Copyright doesn’t enable creativity, it just protects it, right? Are you sure your artist friends would even get paid for their work without copyright laws in place? If you are sure, then why?
I went and watched that demo, and unless I found the wrong one, it looked like a 6 minute Rivian advert. The funny bit is that made it feel… scammy.
Vast majority of my family is Chinese nationals, many of them software engineers, EEs, mathematicians. Have done extensive business in China, mostly real estate. Not getting into any more detail publicly.

I don't know what "culture essentialist" means, sorry. And it's good to hear your experience is unusual. I'm quite surprised. But the simple fact is conformity is treasured in China, and has been for untold generations.
We're very transparent in the UI about the fact that messages that mention @AI are not covered by e2ee. See https://imgur.com/a/5kPEdQP

Only messages that actually mention @AI are sent in plaintext to us, and then to OpenAI's API. All content shared between people without invoking the AI is fully end-to-end encrypted. Our servers don't have access to any users' private keys -- those are generated on each client and never transmitted, except in the case when a user logs in on secondary device and uses our QR-code transfer flow (in which case the sensitive information is communicated peer-to-per in that QR code). We'll share much more on this when we publish our tech blog in the coming weeks.

Regarding privacy around strangers joining a group -- Wavelength supports locking down groups to the degree the group creator chooses. You can disable history syncing, so that new members don't get a copy of prior history (which, when enabled, is reencrypted and sent by prior members of the group) when they join. And groups only grow to a size where there would be people you don't know in them, if someone chose to share an invite link semi-publicly, or allow all members to invite new members (which is also a setting the creator can toggle). Personally, I'm in a number of quite large groups including people I don't know in real life, as well as plenty of groups with 2-10 friends I know in real life, where I obviously trust everybody not to screenshot/share what I'm writing, and I appreciate having strong e2ee.
Not impossible at all. For me, ⌘-space, then typing pass is enough for Spotlight Search to suggest the Passwords section in System Settings.
And what of the facts in the article? You simply will refuse to read it (I’m quite sure you haven’t). It doesn’t fall into your preconfigured narrative pushed by US propaganda/corp-funded journalism does it?
Practical applications include:

1. communicating with other prisoners

2. communicating with the team trying to rescue you in your sunk submarine

3. any place where you're trapped but can bang on something

4. keeping your comms secret because nobody will even know you're using morse

5. secretly communicating with others during class (I knew two sisters in high school who would jibber jabber all through class by signing letters with their hands under the desks).

6. blinking in Morse when the terrorists put you under the TV cameras for your confession

7. your radio setup can only do on/off

8. you cannot remember how smoke signals worked

9. you need to flash a lamp at the airplane who might rescue you

And so on.
Yes, these things are sometimes blocked in higher security workplaces… up to and including the public internet. Honestly airgapped systems are not all that uncommon anywhere that human life is at risk.
It's not over until $usdt falls - but Binance was basically a more competent FTX so this is a good development
No there is not. This is drivel. Laughable nonsense.

You're worked up about the current manufactured bogeyman of the present. This too shall pass.
It can work, but rarely. The international flight price has been very well globalized.

What used to work very well is to rent a car through a foreign website. I live(d) in the US and was planning a trip in California for a few weeks back in ~2015. By going through a major car rental company's UK website, I literally halved my cost.

I didn't have much luck with this trick last time I travelled though, unfortunately.
hey, i dont know much about central banking/economics, but i feel like i know enough to know that I know nothing. it seems that this topic produces the lowest-quality, highest-confidence responses of any on this board.

You and a few others seem to be the only posters with an proper understanding of the topic. But I could be wrong - you may be as dumb as me.

Could you point me in the direction of some resources that can help me be literate in this topic? I have already read the BoE paper that gets passed around here.
Hoarders.
I have a patent on using a phone to send/receive Morse using a rocker switch. That way you could text without needing to look at the phone.
Generally, bigger companies have too many of these people and you get a bit of analysis paralysis and too many captains on the ship type dynamics. I've seen this in multiple companies where the number of technical vs. non technical people got out of wack to the point where you have more non technical people obsessing about what the handful of technical people are actually supposed to do. This happens particularly when you have engineering managers with big budgets that start shopping for roles they think they need because that's just the way things are done without much regard for the situation in each team they manage. In some cynical cases, this is just about inflating their own or their companies importance (through headcount). Especially of course with VC funded companies looking for some exit. So, you get a lot of people doing busywork that aren't actually that effective.

Basically, product managers are a form of middle management. Good ones are indeed really valuable to have around. But not all of them are that good. And I've had the "pleasure" of working with a few spectacularly ineffective ones as well as a few really good ones. Same with designers. I've worked with some fantastic designers over the years that I would recommend to anyone. But also a few not so great ones. Some companies actually think of designers almost as something they can just parachute in as a generic skill. I think that's a mistake generally but it is what it is at many companies. Good design however is usually the work of a few people and not a lot of them.

When you look at cost and you need to cut some, you prioritize by what people add to the equation. So, it's not surprising that say a lot of maybe relatively junior product managers or designers aren't really considered that essential relative to engineers that actually can fix bugs, add features, and keep things going without either of those type of people involved. Of course there's a point where teams become dysfunctional. But there's a sweet spot in between where they might become more effective.

In VC funded teams with a track record of hiring people as fast as they can, most of them can loose a lot of people before they ever reach that sweet spot. I'd argue most of the FANG companies could do a lot better than they do right now with far less people. Throwing more people at a thing doesn't make things better. Fred Brooks (recently deceased) figured that out decades ago. That hasn't really changed. The inverse is also true maybe (removing people from large teams undoes the damage that you did by hiring them).
Perhaps this is one of the “user requested features” Apple is going to implement in iOS 17 and its cousins? As per a recent and vague rumor, Apple is going to add more user requested features and is adding them late in the development cycle. [1]

It would be great to have a nice UI for managing passwords, 2FA codes, etc. Add password sharing over iCloud and it could be a game changer!

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/26/ios-17-to-provide-sever...
One problem with the current way these models are being trained is that they have no idea of what they're saying. It's just a recursive guess the next word type algorithm. I would not expect the confidence levels of any given fragment, let alone an average, to be a meaningful predictor of truth.

Also completely spitballing, I expect that a big chunk of OpenAI's 'secret sauce' is simple processing layers above and beyond the model. If you input gibberish to llama does it give you an output? If OpenAI is artificially tokenizing inputs (as opposed to just sending inputs straight to the software), it would both dramatically limit the input domain, thus improving output tuning, as well as give "it" the ability to say when it doesn't know something. I put "it" in quotes since that response would not becoming from the LLM, but from the preprocess tokenization system returning an error code in natural language.

I think there's some weak indirect evidence for this in the service itself, since incoherent inputs are instantly rejected, whereas even simple queries take dramatically longer to output even the first word. It's like the input is not even being sent to the LLM software for processing.
There's no VAT on international flights. Other taxes, perhaps, but that 20% difference is not so easily explained.
I use 1Blocker on both my Mac and my iPad/iPhone and have had no issues with it blocking YouTube ads.

I kinda wish I could use 1Blocker on my Apple TV :P
See what you're describing is much closer to ASI. At least, it used to be. This is the big problem I have. The constant post shifting is maddening.

AGI went from meaning Generally Intelligent to as smart as Human experts and then now smarter than all experts combined. You'll forgive me if I no longer want to play this game.

I know some researchers disagree. That's fine. The point I was really getting at is that no researcher worth his salt can call these models narrow anymore. There's absolutely nothing narrow about GPT and the like. So if you think it's not AGI, you've come to accept it no longer means general intelligence.
That sounds like trying to cure poison with more poison.
China’s leadership is constantly telling the world, however, that they might use their military if X happens, they simply don’t after X happens each time. If we judge china by it’s actions, you are correct, but if we judge china by what it says…
500 seems excessive. One or two should do nicely.
What strikes me is, these questions have already be solved: our desktops have access to banking, and they can have good cameras.

Inherently, these are not technical problems. On the other hand, they become social problems when the services firmly cuts off web access and anything that's not iOS or Google's android. IMHO generic customer banks shouldn't be allowed to do that.
This one isn't decent
Choose one behaviour and document it?

Hard links are such a rare exception in any system that either ignoring them or compressing regardless would be fine.

Or check what others have done. You can do "btrfs property set /path compress zstd", so someone's solved it before.
Dark forest being a trope in other books is irrelevant to it being a huge spoiler for the series if you read the wikipedia which definitely will make the experience of reading it less enjoyable.

That's like saying murder is in a lot of books so it's not a big deal to spoil a book with a pivotal murder in its plot. Have you read the books? Because I would think the importance would be obvious if you had.
A Day:

Wake up at 5 AM. Wake wife up with a kiss. Bottle the milk for the youngest kids then shove them into the shower half asleep. Wife preps school lunch. Take a shower, pray, carry disabled mother in law into wheelchair. Shove kids into car. Enjoy the sunrise.

Drive MIL to dialysis. Send kids to school. Sometimes grab a nice meal out with wife and toddler. Sometimes cook eggs and bread at home, or a smoothie. Get in about 1-2 hours of work done or review PRs.

At 11 AM, pick up MIL from dialysis. Reach home office around 1145, in time for daily stand up. Lift weights during stand up instead of multitasking on browsers. Grab a lettuce for lunch and a navel orange for sugar. Wife picks up kids at 3 PM.

Code stuff until 5 PM or so at home office. Enter house. Kids tackle me. Pry them off. Ask kids if they've done their homework (answer is usually no, but then they get off me). Carry MIL to wheelchair for shower. Younger kids usually shower with her. Cook dinner or answer work messages. Carry MIL from shower to bed. Chase kids around who usually refuse to put on clothes. Sometimes we eat at a restaurant.

Have dinner. Kids are sleepy and fight. Grab a shower while they fight. Wife sleeps in a separate bed because the large one gives her back pain. Kids want the big bed. Kids refuse to sleep with each other but also refuse to sleep in own bed. Sometimes they sleep on the floor. Handle random requests from kids at night (milk, late night snack, watching stars, favorite book, etc). Kids are usually asleep by 10 PM.

I play idle games on my phone or browse social media until the kid on my arm has fallen asleep. Then finish up some work to make up for lost time in the morning. Sometimes do a little freelancing. Sometimes read a book or play a game. Sleep by 1 AM, preferably 12. If I'm still up late at night, it's a good time for prayer.

Week:

Weekdays are similar to the above. Saturday mornings involve bringing kids for classes, MIL for dialysis. Then later in the day, either I freelance or we go grocery shopping.

Sundays we do random things. Sometimes bring the whole family out for food and a walk at the mall. Sometimes the parks. Or bird parks. Butterfly parks. Libraries. Or a movie. Or just sit at home and play some game together. Or I freelance.

Or at times we drive in a random direction and visit a town we've never visited before. There's a really nice view at the local dam, and also at the airport as planes touch down. Beauty is not just in nature.

Split all freelance income with wife, 50-50.

Year:

Take a week off every quarter. I enjoy coding until morning with coffee, mountain dew, ramen, and Metallica. Which leads to burnout easily and so the week off helps me keep out of an unproductive spiral of working long hours to make up for unproductive work that leads to long hours.

Usually spend the week off meeting old classmates, either mine or my wife's. Sometimes family, especially on holidays and birthdays.

Generally vacations are wherever my wife's best friends can afford to bring their entire family. So we don't actually spend too much or feel like we need that much more money.
Yeah, there's a thousand options for counting down, but there's nothing that counts up while ensuring that you're still on task. I'm sure there are some complicated apps that half work[0], but I want a physical device. I want to occasionally press an oh-so-satisfying physical button to attest that I'm still on task. This also solves the problem of forgetting and leaving the timer running, which destroys your record of how long you've worked. With my proposed device, the timer will stop by itself if you forget about it.

[0]: I say "half work" because an app can't ensure you're on task.
At first I was impressed by how easy it was to reach a data model with chatgpt, then I laughed as I tried to tweak it and use it. I realized it didn't really have any model concepts and was just using its various KB.

I am unsure if the so called AI can think in models but so far, not but still an impressive assisting tool if you take care of its limitations.

Another point where it lacks is in logic, my daughter has a lot of fun with the book "what is the name of this book?" but she was struggling with the "map of baal" explanation, her the answer was a certain map, yet the book had another answer, I had a third one as I interpreted a proposition. I never got an answer without a contradiction in chatgpt reasoning, and the book had been mistranslated to French so one of its propositions was changed (C, both A and B were knaves) but not the answer.
I practice calligraphy as a hobby. I mostly do western hands with a square nib. I read Arabic and tried to pick it up but gave up. It was much harder than English especially without a teacher.

A famous Western Arabic calligrapher based in the States is Mohammed Zakariya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Zakariya. Perhaps his most popular work is the Eid Mubarak postal stamp that you can see here https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/eid-greeting...
It looks good but doesn't really blow me away. Ten seconds into the demo I keep thinking, I've seen stuff like this before and the jungle immediately seems to be dead, not a single leaf moving etc.

I mean the level of detail is amazing but there's still the question of how much value does it add to the game in the end. And: how good does MetaHuman, impressive as it is, need to get to escape the Uncanny Valley? Or does it ever?
Coming soon: an AI powered regex explainer.
Those were the days. Slackware in a box of floppy disks. Now where the heck is 6 of 14?