skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Graeber argued that 21st century democracy is not directly based on any ancient model, including any Greek one. You'll notice how the Greeks didn't have any permanent civil service*. You'll notice how they kept slaves. You'll also notice how they didn't have much resembling our notion of civil liberties, including free speech: Otherwise, on what grounds was Socrates murdered?

* - We might partially have borrowed this from China.
Dark patterns like what?
Yeah, they redirect to that website which has all these issues. The back button hijacking (it doesn't work on that site in Chrome) is the most annoying one.
> But you can't just deride people for being concerned about industry since industry, or more generally, the immense energy requirements needed for (and wasted by) an (increasingly less) western lifestyle, is is the source of the problem in the first place.

The point is that seaweed is actually less intensive than other forms of agriculture, though, so replacing other industrial agriculture with seaweed agriculture is a net decrease in intensity.

It's similar to EV's: you still need to damage the environment to produce and operate them, but they cause less damage than ICE vehicles, so substitution is a net win.

Another comparison would be when people complain about building tall apartment/condo towers "hurting the environment". Sure, it probably does hurt compared to doing nothing, but the alternative isn't nothing, it's lower density sprawl that hurts nature far more. This is why being opposed to urban density is a fundamentally anti-environmental position.

Same deal for seaweed scaling. If you're opposed to scaling up the thing that hurts the environment less, then you're in favor of hurting the environment.
Lots of other cards give 2% cash back without Apple Pay and Apple’s advantages in fraud prevention, so I would expect Apple to be able to offer even more cash back if they wanted to attract other credit card users.
You can disagree all you want. You’re still wrong. 100km on a bike is 2000kcal. Back of the envelope maths on a 65mpg car puts it at 35,000kcal.
Wikipedia has found the 'sound of all human knowledge' with new audio logo
I think they saw your comment because that URL has stopped working in the past hour.
You might see more training on Intel XPUs when they come out, since they have such enormous RAM pools. Maybe AMD MI300s and Intel Ponte Vecchio (both 128GB) in the shorter term, though I think they will mostly be in HPC supercomputers instead of cloud instances.
Some (good) e-cars burn ~250Wh per mile.

Humans burn something like 750Kc per hour on a bike, and go 15 miles

A Wh is ~1Kc (0.8:1 but ok)

That makes bikes, what, 5X more efficient?
I do not understand the whole "paracetamol/acetaminophen is useless and dangerous". It is dangerous if you overdose, but in normal doses it is as harmless as it can go, and while it may be indeed in issue when people are not as well educated in how to use it, judging a drug by the effects of what happens if you overdose would rule out a lot of other drugs and substances.

About its effectiveness, it is more useful in some cases and less in others, in principle if inflammation is part of the problem NSAIDs will work much better, but in many cases they are both effective in comparable degrees. It all depends on the source of pain. Personally I take NSAIDs only if it is really needed, because in the past they have really messed up my stomach. And the cases that NSAIDs were effective and paracetamol was not was in some injury cases.

And yeah, there are studies that show paracetamol is effective and others that show it is ineffective, it all has to do with the exact cause of the symptoms because "pain" and "fever" are too general as symptoms. The fact that it does not work in some case does not mean it does not work in another and it is useless.
I’ve purchased a handful of keys over the years. It’s legit.
All those mechanics are explained further down. There is a whole segment in the visualizations dedicated to steering and how you steer the othet way first.
Yeah, the thought that Yubikey may not require PIN in some cases is scary. It’s like a GPG key without a password in home directory. Not only it will be useless, but actually harmful.

For such reasons, I have been searching for alternatives. It seems other products have other issues.
This is, unfortunately, a misconception.

Sure, a bullet the same size or smaller will 'fit' in a given barrel, but a depending on its weight and dimensions it will, at best perform equally, and at worst destroy the barrel.

But a bullet isn't the whole story; the rest of the cartridge has to fit snugly for the action of the gun to lock properly. Again, best case - the gun doesn't fire. Worst case, the action blows up.

This is a pretty simplified overview, but unfortunately the assertion above is a (pretty absurd) myth. Sorry :(
Did we already observe our first “blitzar”?
You're right. Everyone keeps whining "privacy and usability" this and "I already paid for the OS" that. To them, I say: shut up! Don't these people know that computers are only about consuming content? We should be advocating for an even greater ad-filled future for everyone to enjoy

Why aren't we seeing ads in context menus? Why can't I yell "Burger King" into my mic every 10 minutes while streaming to get access to higher bitrates? Why hasn't Microsoft put ads on the BSOD? Why am I not paying a microtransaction every time I start up my computer to get it to skip an ad and boot faster? We are still missing out on some serious advertising potential! Every eyeball that isn't looking at a corporate logo is selfishly wasting time
Microsoft ended extended support for Win7 in 2020 and security updates in Jan this year. Seems reasonable to stop supporting it for third party, networked software.
Not only just fine but often times way more fun!

I rode my mountain bike A TON as a kid, gave it up for the more "prestigious" road cycling as an adult, but maybe 2 years ago bought a mountain bike to ride with my kids.

My goodness it took about five minutes on a local trail to feel like that same little kid I was back in the day, the feeling of speed, focus, and flow. There's nothing really like it for me, as it puts me square in the moment.
This is another awesome post, although it doesn't address the one thing about bicycles I can never remember - which of the pedals has a reverse-threaded attachment to the pedal crank arm, and what's the complete force-based explanation for this necessity?

I'm not even sure if the force responsible for this is friction-related, or torque related, or some combination of both (probably the latter). The force is transmitted to the chaindrive in an off-axis manner, but the pedal itself is further removed from the axis, so when you push down on the pedal axis that's ahead of the bottom bracket axis - one side will tighten clockwise from the pedal's perspective, and the other side will tighten anti-clockwise.

Wow I got it right after going through this post! That's a first, though I'm still not sure I got all the forces right.
There's actually some equipment that's sorta similar - meat packing plants can get conveyor belt x-ray machines which detect bones and bolts inside burgers.

I've never heard of it for general retail, though.
Legalese is like that thanks to a long history of people looking for and abusing any and all loopholes.

That led to the natural conclusion of legal words holding standardized definitions that might differ from common understanding, and extreme specification of all details in an effort to preemptively close off any and all loopholes.

Anyone who tries to make legalese simpler finds themselves immediately torn asunder by the aforementioned people looking for and abusing any and all loopholes as lawyers and those who learned the hard way look on shaking their heads.
How to create a private ChatGPT with your own data
Imagine the commission (not saying it’s such) is $0 on the base model and $199 on the top end.

Why bother giving the customer what they want if there’s any chance they’d jump for the big one?
I think it is closer to 9-10 times (on level asphalt road on a "normal" bike) although it heavily depends on some factors like speed, type of bike and your proficiency, terrain and type of ground.

Riding a bike is most efficient at a certain speed and becomes less efficient very quickly as you get faster. So when I mean 9-10 times more efficient, I mean a person walking at a comfortable speed vs cyclist riding at a comfortable speed (on relatively level asphalt road).
I think it just depends on how critical the software is. If it's just a webpage running in your browser then it's not a big deal if it crashes on some weird input. If it's a database, each crash can cause huge amounts of damage.
I'm actually fine with this argument. "I'll be fine, I can move up another abstraction level." is pretty solid.

You've made me realize the difference between the arguments I find weak vs strong. The weak argument is I can do something that ChatGPT can't. "I have people skills!". The strong argument is that as ChatGPT grows, I will grow with it.

The AI floodwaters are rising. People are climbing up the stairs when they should be building boats. If you seek shelter and are wrong about how far this goes, your attic will become a coffin.
> Real low-level assembly language probably is easier to really understand and reason about than C++, isn't it?

I've often thought that. If nothing else, if a given opcode (say, an ADD) is being used, things like integer wraparound are going to do something specific and well defined, not cause undefined behavior and invalidate the entire execution of your program. I miss that from my 6502 assembly programming days :-).
Yeah, this is weird, because there are plenty of open source implementations of the lama model on github - alpaca.cpp in c++ is one, there are many others in PyTorch such as the one used by ChatLLaMa. But without the weights they're not very useful (unless you're going to try to train it yourself - good luck with that unless you've got a lot of compute power available).

A quick check on github and I find this one also with an Apache license: https://github.com/chris-alexiuk/alpaca-lora
and alpaca.cpp with an MIT license: https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/blob/master/LICEN...
I figured this out long ago that's why i search for useless domains in hopes they will waste money on them for nothing. screw em.
This makes no sense. It's an argument for proper security controls and permissions setup on the OS level, not an app store.
Ask HN: Have your work PCs been updated to Windows 11?
I think there's a clear path to grab ad revenue and not alienate power users. Reddit follows the standard 90/9/1 law that 90% never log in, 9% do, and 1% actually post most of the content. Anyone who stumbles on a reddit page from search or gets sent their from another social gets the ads. Anyone who posts, should get a usable website.
>It shouldn't sell my data, or shouldn't do anything like that. It especially shouldn't harass me to log into the owning company's account

Consumers didn't react harshly enough after the prism leaks. Microsoft has gotten the inch and is taking a mile.
Reminds me of the senator that asked Zuckerberg how do they make money [0], and Zuckerberg simply said they run ads. What a way to use your questioning time, with something that was a google search away.

[0] https://youtu.be/n2H8wx1aBiQ
In the time since my loan payments were paused they lost over 12% of their real value through inflation alone. It's hard for me to complain, but the longer the can gets kicked down the road the more taxpayers are already paying for it.
You should probably look at charts of things people talk about to you
this has been a recent consideration of mine I haven't fully explored or thought how to deal with yet. I now look at new friends with suspicion, especially those who are not tech savvy. I just gave out an email to a friend recently and he forwarded me an email list without BCC revealing all the recipients. I thought to myself, "oh boy somewhere down the road I'm going to be getting hacked email messages from one of these individuals."
This is how my business competes, at least partially.

To be intentionally vague:

For our product we have taken the “old” ways of doing things and just automated them using automation tools like Ansible AWX. We didn’t try to compete with the firms offering “new web scale 2.0 instant” nonsense, and we use their architectural shortcomings to market our strengths. We losely couple everything we can to achieve flexibility in our product rather than building flexibility as specific features.

It works well for us. Most of our clients left absolutely massive but effectively cookie cutter companies and are much happier. And we make money.
What do you use for pain relief?
My understanding is that it is enabled by default. I wish it were better documented.

Apparently, the official feature name is "Sound Check": https://www.cultofmac.com/622492/apple-music-volume-sound-ch...
It also infuriates me that they won't let you actually say no. It's always "remind me later" or "skip for now" or "try again in 3 days".

What has gotten into the minds of these people? Why do they think this is at all acceptable?
What is your definition of non-boring architecture? I'm curious as to what you consider the exciting architectures necessary for scaling to make sure we're talking about the same thing.

Quora, Pinterest, Twitter, etc are all just big app instances talking to DB instances, with separate systems for background processing, queues, and caching. Are you suggesting that they would scale better with serverless functions instead?

Here's a list of architectures: http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
> At what point is a situation so convoluted that it can be considered an edge case?

People have edge cases all the time! Failing gracefully in edge cases is a critical feature for anything that's so deeply wired into your life like a payment processor or a cloud account!
But very high beer prices.
>What on Earth could they possibly do now to top that ?

Autoplaying videos with sound
And now of course some of the most prestigious races in the professional cycling world are across predominantly cobbled roads as a form of torture for those racing.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hD4Vtdmow7B4Jf4XiWPH5g.jpg
You can get a Chromebook for $149 today right now at Walmart.

And a windows 11 craptop for $200. These things are absolutely completely insanely cheap.
Don't believe vendors' lies about "end-to-end" encryption.

If caught red handed, they will always say it depends on how you define where both "ends" begin.

Do not trust a cloud service that you have not developed and deployed yourself.

You may trust untrusted hardware with your encrypted content, but only if you have given it your content pre-encrypted by yourself, not trusted a third party to encrypt it on your behalf. Obviously, this excludes mobile devices.

Do not trust a tree of certificates if you cannot trust the root certificate because it belongs to an organization that is in a jurisdiction where people may be interested in what you have written and said in your encrypted message.

Don't trust old-school typewriters and the postal system either. Letters are routinely opened and typewriters can be matched. For example, the Stasi (secret police of the former GDR - German "Democratic" Republic) had an archive of type samples of all sold models of typewriters for re-identification of political pamphlets.

You can trust a few things: You can trust your Linux box with your self-compiled kernel (no 3rd party drivers), at least as long as it is not on a network. To build a safe environment, you could start there, taking a defensive approach.
Remember, last time the paranoid turned out to be naive when Snowden revealed the real status quo in 2013 (ten years ago, when I couldn't buy a 1 TB USB stick).
Considering all the ingredients for meth comes much cheaper in bulk from China through Mexico and other Latin American countries I doubt there is much demand for over the counter Sudafed.
I'm part Asian and eat seaweed by itself sometimes (well, it's salted of course).

Of course it's not really a staple food the way rice is, I'm just saying it can be a common side thing.
I just remembered a good image upload service: https://abload.de/

It is online since 2006, does no obviously evil browser stuff, and the guy hosting it seems cool.
okay then what's the advantage of my4th over something like picorv32 for you
My last name is unusual enough that I recognized the street names that family had lived on from the set of options.

So not my address, but real ones that extended family members lived at. Just not me.
>They absolutely care about influenceing the US public to oppose military support for Taiwan.

Soo... where is all this anti-Taiwan stuff on tiktok then? Because I've seen exactly 0.
Didn’t know he grew apples
>On the fresh install of Windows I do see some ads and ad-adjacent things.

I'm curious, did you pay for the installer or did it come bundled with a device?
Any time I hear the word "federated" in tech contexts I am led to presume someone is attempting to reinvent the wheel, and badly at that.
Also lots of competition on non-paved roads:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclo-cross
Well, I shared it, so the "you" felt a bit personal. :)
Correct. Sharing contact information is opt-in, and what gets stored on the server is only salted and hashed phone numbers, not even names. It’s just a way to find people on Wavelength whose phone numbers are in your contacts. Also, if you later choose to delete your contacts from Wavelength, everything stored on the server is deleted. The privacy policy makes this clear, I think.
how big is the eprom, that might be too big for discrete components in a small room
As I tell all my friends, if it isn't behind the counter, it isn't really Sudafed.
I love that you added a conclusion at the end of your list. Adding conclusions to the end of lists is one of ChatGPT's favorite things to do.
I appreciate your response but that is not what I was getting at. I understand that with this you only have to write Pandas and then not worry about scaling.

First, I think PySpark syntax is much better than the insanity than is Pandas but if you really like Pandas then you can always use Pandas UDF which Spark supports.

But let's say that writing only in Pandas is the preferred way. Now comes the magic part. How do I know that it is using the best join? Will it optimize for spills? Will there be OOM's? These are the things we need to worry about which often lead us needing to go deep inside Spark magic.

Now if there's another level of magic which is Pandas to Spark transpiling as I imagine you do here, then I have even less of an idea how to tune it.

Again I appreciate you are solving a specific problem in a nice way but I feel like we are actually making the problem even more complicated.
And that's fine with me. The only reason I keep windows around is because I use VSTs in digital audio software. I don't need to connect it to the internet so there's no security issues.

In maybe 5 years I will have to think about what I do with it all...
Water on the Moon stored in glass beads, Chang'e-5 samples reveal
Radicle: Opinionated starting point for WP projects with the Roots stack
I can confirm this happened with an obscure .ai website I searched on namecheap last month:

Registrar: Namecheap
Registered On: 2023-02-12
I had outpatient surgery about ten years ago.

I was to alternate between prescription strength Tylenol and Ibuprofen. It was then that I discovered that Tylenol seemed to do very little if not nothing at all for me. I would be in horrible pain for the couple hours I'd be on Tylenol and in mild discomfort durring the Ibuprofen's reign.

My dad outright refuses to use tylenol because he swears it makes him anxious and angry. I have never encountered this.

My wife uses Tylenol regularly and says it works great for her, just as well as other painkillers.

I am not a doctor nor a scientist and my sample size is meaningless - yet I suspect it's efficacy varies by person.
I think you will see private, maybe even self-hosted AI. Think about using online stock trading versus having a Bloomberg terminal.
I just wanted to share my experience using Krisp's AI Meeting Assistant - it's seriously a game changer for online meetings!

First off, there's no need for any additional software or plugins, it works with all audio and voice applications out-of-the-box. And the best part? Your voice stays on your device, so your personal information is safe.

The high-quality meeting notes are professionally formatted and ready to share with your team.

Overall, I highly recommend giving Krisp's AI Meeting Assistant a try - it's made my online meetings so much smoother and more productive.
> I find it quite disappointing that we do not have 100% compatible LaTeX with a modern codebase

That would be a huge effort. Your time would be better spent designing and creating a new typesetting system.
For me, it was worse. It happened every time I booted Windows because I only used it occasionally to play games.

After I select Windows in the boot menu, I'd spend like ten minutes waiting for Windows Update to complete. Then I have to click through a series of full screen ads and prompts to disable my privacy settings, which is getting increasingly difficult with all the dark patterns thrown in after every new release. It really shows a lack of respect for the user, taking my computer hostage while I resist their attempts to enable numerous privacy-invading settings that I declined over and over and over.

Over the years, this made me distrust Windows so much that I removed anything critical off of it. I removed my password manager, deleted my browsing data, and made sure to remove anything tied to an online account except Steam.

Then I finally had enough and moved my games over to Linux. So far, the experience is good and I'm glad that WINE is going through active improvements.
Even if you pay everything each month the company makes 2-3% on you minus whatever cash back, which is 12-30+% a year on your monthly spend. You just don’t see it directly.
No. Where AI is going it s going to be "notify me if some news affects me, tell me how, and tell me what are my options". Life becomes like an rpg of sorts
I only use Windows for games, and I don't think its fine, which is why I only use it for games. And its like another commenter said - you also have to deal with Nvidia's trash application, all the game stores, Discord (which I swear has more bullshit popups pushing whatever monetization every time it updates). I just try to ignore all that crap as much as possible. Any time I'm forced to do something more than cut over to the PC on my KVM and launch the game I want to play, I cringe.
Yes, it is the user who is wrong. :D
> Aren't like 80% of all people religious?

You mean they have a confession? That is not the same thing as being religious. I for example have been born into a confession and till I went through the not uncomplicated act of leaving church I would have been counted as religious. I have been an atheist since I was 12 or so.
The intended purpose is to serve as a discussion point for how to best interact with you. Same with the other big 5 tests. It turns out people are not good at articulating that absent a weird context like a personality testing process.

The typical use of big 5 and MBTI is to help teams work together and understand each others' working styles. That's it. The Jungean crap is just crap. Like literally everything else in psychology, it's a discussion point that gets the conversation started. So is Big 5. So is CBT (arguably the most "evidence-based" form of psychology, which still turns out to be scientifically debatable).

It turns out that psychology is just about having structured conversations about your feelings. Personality tests are a framework for that, and they work for that purpose (and basically that purpose alone).