skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As of Tuesday, no O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com employees had signed the letter, although CEO Sam Altman’s name briefly appeared then disappeared from the list of signatories.

You already know the intention(s) of Sam Altman and O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com. It was only to run with VC money and close up all their research up.

They are no better than DeepMind.
The problem with humanities as a field is that they made ChatGPT shifted to ignore scienctific method in order to protect pseudoscience.

If you have ever asked ChatGPT to say anything against or criticize the humanties studies, it just can't. Not even DAN can get rid of the humanities-protectionalism. You guy especially those AI ethics dudes just totally corrupted it.
I'll answer straight to the questions

37 hrs/week, of which 3/day might be solid work, the rest is eye rolling and facepalming about things like salesforce, oracle and similar horror straight from hell.

Not affected by layoffs, working for a company that is a moat, that virtually prints money.

AI saves me time as a context-heavy stackoverflow at hand, with high signal to noise ratio. It won't replace me any time soon. Excited for AGI though, I could use intelligent colleagues.
Exactly.

Electrification of single-occupancy vehicles – which, let's face it, is what the overwhelming majority of the EV business is really about – is not ecological. When you take into account environmental stress in general[0], and don't tunnel vision just on CO2[1], it should be immediately obvious to everyone that stopping the climate and ecological breakdown needs much more imagination than just replacing a car with another car.

[0] https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/national-trends/country-trends/...

[1] https://www.insnet.org/carbon-tunnel-vision-or-inter-connect...
Which sounds like it could be why it isn't a "division" any more. VR feels like an all-or-nothing play where Disney throwing a bunch of Disney IP, +AAA quality worlds, PR & marketing dollars and carefully-selected hardware partnerships could mainstream VR as family friendly entertainment, whereas making assets for other people's open worlds participated in by a niche group of adult men seems like the sort of thing that's more likely to lead to reputation damage than significant revenue streams
How have battery management systems not evolved to deal with this issue? It's especially confusing considering the massive number of laptops deployed by companies to part time work-from-home employees many of whom keep their devices plugged in nearly 100% of the time.
If the bad actor is injecting malicious javascript over plain text http to the device, doesn’t that get around this? Or is it possible to force the target ios/android/etc device to only accept https packets?
Contract management tools are an important part of a larger contract management strategy. With the ever-changing business environment and turbulent legal environment, challenges will surface from time to time. Contract management tools can help businesses improve contract management processes and drive value to the organization.
> Linux supports the machine well, with the exception of the webcam – and we're confident that will get sorted soon

If the webcam is IPU based, which it likely is (otherwise it would be supported out of the box) then it may _never_ "get sorted" at all. Not for the useful life of the machine, that is.
I'm an editor at two journals and have been guest editor at others. I've reviewed countless papers.

I think your observation isn't too far off actually. As a reviewer once I saw another reviewer (in the editor's decision letter) give as citations some papers that I was supposedly a co-author on. The problem is, those papers never existed; they were some weird amalgamation of citations from actual papers with my coauthors. They were exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from generative AI today, but at that time (to my knowledge) it didn't exist. I always assumed the reviewer was tired and miscopied something, which they probably did, but as you point out, it's hard to tell sometimes and sometimes it almost doesn't matter given the other things that go on. The thing that you're pointing out is that this sort stuff still goes on, and has been going on, even without ChatGPT. In this weird kind of meta-process, it's as if using ChatGPT to mimic citations is itself doing the sort of thing ChatGPT itself does.

The thing no one seems to be mentioning is that the reviewers don't make the decisions, the editor does. The reviewers are supposed to be advisors or juries or something like that. There's an important discussion to be had about editorial quality at many journals, and I agree that this ChatGPT episode is just one illustration of the myriad ways academics is fundamentally broken, but it's an important thing to keep in mind.
No. If Cloudflare's policy really is that they'll service anyone, and then they don't, that's called hypocrisy. Their actions are incongruent with their statements. There's no nuance that needs to be considered to criticize that behavior. They could just as easily be up-front: "we'll service anyone as long as it's convenient to us", or whatever condition they secretly hold.
Cost of Energy Transition So Low ‘You’ll Need Magnifying Glass’
https://archive.is/RVh1H
Should scientific journals back political candidates? Probably not
When used this way the law only serves a purpose of being a tool of oppression. On Twitter an underaged person can trivially find porn, that would still be the case if every single German resident posted using the NSFW filters, or not even posted at all, so:

- The law does not stop or even impede underaged children from accessing pornography, but
- the law is criminalising Germans and appears to be applied selectively

That doesn't sit right. If the German Government is truly interested in this initiative, they need another way to detect and block porn on computers used by children, and not by attempting the Sisyphean task of putting the world's pornography behind age verification systems.
It's a shame that decentraland got millions to create a cold empty place , while open source 3d worlds like opensimulator which have a few thousand enthusiastic users, even willing to pay for their digital lives, remain completely unfunded and abandoned
Author here: I know that at first glance, this looks like an absolutely awful idea. Who in their right mind wants to put SQL into their GraphQL?

At the same time, I think it's actually a quite practical solution to bridge the gap between what GraphQL can do, and what you really need to interact with a database.

By embedding SQL into GraphQL, we're able to build powerful type-safe APIs super fast without being limited to what GraphQL can do.

I'm curious what people think. Awful idea? Great escape hatch? If you don't like the idea, how would you do it differently with similar complexity on the user's side? E.g. what other tools can achieve the same functionality in 7 lines of code?
Though, maybe not that specific processor. Maybe more like a severely underclocked 8 core, or some really old 4 core. Having only a one core to develop with is gonna seriously hinder the development of multicore optimizations.
Plenty of crypto tokens also pay the equivalent of dividends - Ethereum, GMX, Balancer, etc. These come from the profits the platforms make. Almost all tokens give you the right to vote.
No, I don't work more because of the layoff waves. As a recent father with scars from a close-to-burnout situation, I value work-life balance more than anything else.
So far, I'm not using AI much, mostly because I lack the routine to use it, but I'm not opposed to using it if/when it can help me.
TikTok has a US business presence, their US user data is stored in the US. All of this is subject to US jurisdiction and court orders. TikTok can't tell US marshalls and federal agents to take a hike if they show up at TikTok's US headquarters with court documents--their leadership can be arrested and their servers seized.
Which distribution is better?
In the USA we use football fields too, but they're US Standard (aka American) football fields (120 yards).
I can see your point of view.

Personally, if I find that my app is similar to an ongoing Show HN, I like to wait for an opening where I can respond with a plug for my own app.

I don't feel comfortable talking up my own app unprompted. Feels like making a big attention grabbing announcement at someone else's wedding.
> I bet such a system of two-lane, electrified, high-speed, autonomous-steering high capacity vehicles could move as many people as a large multi-lane highway in a smaller footprint all on grid power!

To quantify this heavy rail has a route capacity of ~40k people per hour per lane, compared to ~2k for cars (using lower and upper estimates respectively). That means the route capacity for 2 lanes of heavy rail is at a minimum equivalent to a 40 lane highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_capacity
Wow. The mighty Mississippi is only number 13.

Scary that the Colorado, which 40 million people rely on, doesn't even make the list.

Shows how water starved the American southwest really is.
I can at least confirm that my daughter was very much surprised when her balance bike [0], which is essentially a small draisine, stayed upright when she lifted her legs.

[0] https://cdn.thewirecutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bal...
> we're all adults here

well there's no ID check to access HN :)
So much of the Colorado’s water is taken, this is highly influenced by where they measure.
Aside from the obvious impossibility of privacy-compatible searches, I'd like to focus on the authoritarian excuse du jour, child sexual abuse.

How prevalent is it really? How often are children actually abused, in comparison to images of the abuse being circulated? Is there really an increase in child abuse over the last couple of decades?

It seems to me that this angle is especially unpopular to talk about among privacy advocates because most people will wrongly think that it is defending child abuse. Thanks to the magic of internet forums, I don't have to care too much.

In my evaluation, actual child abuse is happening at record low rates in the western world due several factors. The first is the secularization of society, reducing the influence and number of (always male) priests over large amounts of children.

Second, practical access to separation and divorce is much easier to women with children than it used to be. Wives can better protect their children from an abusive father than they could a couple of decades ago.

Third, a side effect of the campaign to eliminate gender roles and discriminations against women in education and the workplace is that men teaching young children have basically gone extinct.

Fourth, the hysteria about the problem has led all men to distance themselves from children in general, in order to avoid even the slightest suspicion.

So considering all that, what's really happening? We can expect rates of pedophilia haven't changed much. It's there genetically, and will be for the foreseeable future. The conclusion should be obvious: pedophiles have shifted from a society where getting away with abuse was a realistic prospect to one where it is not. So they do the next best thing and use pornography instead.

Of course, the material is still being made and the abuse still happens. But we've gone from a situation where e.g. there was one child being abused by each pedophile to one where that ratio is maybe one child to ten or a hundred pedophiles (or vastly more depending on how much the material was shared).

Am I wrong?
> The point is you don't repair these modules you just replace them.

You replace them if you can find a replacement. It's a lot harder to make ICs for outdated cars than mechanical parts for old cars, which was probably the OP's point.
Ignoring the hype, Tesla cars aren't better objectively from a purely functional approach. If I fill my current vehicle with diesel, I can drive 500 miles, fill up the tank in less than 15 minutes and drive back. With a Tesla or any other EV, I will spend several hours at charging points. EVs are great for local rat runs to the supermarket or nearby restaurants. However, they are still painful if you want to travel more than 100 miles.

Battery technology improvements will arrive. However, it takes time to productionise research prototypes.

During one of my holidays, I drove a self-charge BMW rental. It technically could still be sold after 2035. However, it had an electric range of less than 50 km before it switched to petrol. Car manufacturers will lobby for such loopholes to be allowed well beyond 2035.
Depends on how you define work.

I work 30 hour weeks at my day job, works out to 6 hours a day with change. Then I spend anywhere between 0 and 10 hours more working on my personal projects.
Asking good questions, ones that can be studied and investigated and ones that have an impact, is hugely underrated in my opinion.
Thank you for asking this question! I had a similar confusion in the past, and I had never really worked it out until I saw amluto's answer now!
From personal experience, they have mostly worked flawlessly if you picked one of the standard flavors, such as Ubuntu/Fedora. I had a 14" 8th generation i5 X1 Carbon (c. 2019) and Ubuntu worked well after throwing out Windows 10. There were no touchpad or screen flickering issues either.

I know a lot of people have complaints of the build quality of Lenovo ThinkPads (as opposed to IBM era ThinkPads), but X1 Carbons are pretty nice to have and work with. I have owned Dell Latitudes and HP EliteBook at different points – but the X1 Carbon was better at battery and responsiveness.
Very cool PCB routing, I wonder what tool they use to get those smooth organic looking traces.
Docking, not necessarily. Laptops have ports all over the place: on the left, on the right, on the back, and sometimes even on the front (like the 3.5mm jack for headphones).

You could probably use only one USB port on the laptop and integrate a hub into the case. But for ethernet, audio, and HDMI, you'd probably need cables. The nice thing about cables in the box is that adapters could be used. If a laptop comes with VGA out only, that can be adapted to HDMI. If there are separate audio out and in jacks, those can be combined with an adapter. If there is no ethernet jack, it could be added with a USB network card. There are also adapters for laptop power supply cables for the C13/C14 three-pin interface.

So a lot of work can be done inside the case by the person building a desktop/console/server out of a laptop. But no one is selling a universal case with a backplate. And desktop cases are difficult to work with because they expect a backplate from a motherboard.

Really, the product could be just an I/O backplate that mounts to standard ATX stand-offs/screws and takes extension cables, plus something to regulate fan speeds by temperature that also has fan headers. The power button might be a challenge for the builder to solve, but with very minor soldering, most power buttons integrated in any case would work.
Interesting. I have tried all combinations with and without spaces or dots, but I don't think I ever considered entering something not truthful, even though I have done that in other online forms thousands of times (one favourite is entering the street address of the organization I'm interacting with instead of my own when ordering non-physical goods; and fake birth dates of course). There's something about payments that apparently I consider more "holy" than other things.
Situation certainly varies from one francophone country to the other. Most of them are in Africa, where probably most people also speak other languages as mother toungue. At least for small businesses, I doubt English is the lingua franca.
> You never let your ICE car get below a quarter tank?

A quarter tank for me is about 160-170kms.

Also consider that the tank in my car is very small, but the car is small too so I make ~70-80kms on reserve alone.
This is how it basically was since day 1. These comments always appear in Tailwind threads -- more often than not, the poster hasn't given Tailwind a good try.

It's definitely worth building a few small projects - it looks and feels bad at first, but once you get used to using it, it's really hard to go back to anything else.
I'm battling a chronic illness at the same time as I'm running my own company with a couple of employees.

The positive side is that my health issues forces me to delegate and not get involved in day-to-day operations too much (which I previously did). Now I can easily work 1-2 hours a day at max and still keep the company humming along. Most work is on how to design the business long term for success and often not directly involved with clients.

AI helps immensely to quickly get things out of the way and only focus on essential things. Many mundane tasks can be done using AI now and it really is a game changer and makes it easier to take on more complex tasks as a business owner.
Yes, but the OP’s example of an excellent electric car was a Tesla so sharing my experience on that specifically.
I have seen the comparison video and I am unimpressed. A company with the legacy in software development that Microsoft has should be ashamed of how slow both versions load and how jittery everything seems.

It is 2023, how can they find it acceptable that loading is so slow that UI elements appear one by one? That's something I expect from a computer running Windows 95 on a 386DX.
Don't change stuff for no good reason, don't use stuff that's not documented if you can avoid it, and we can stop a lot of crashes!
You could say that Google Translate etc has obsoleted the need to learn more than one spoken language.
However, new languages also teach you new ways of thinking. Multiple studies have shown the benefits of being a polyglot.

I feel its the same with programming languages.
This advice from Peter Norvig [1] was very helpful for me personally:

Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).

[1] https://norvig.com/21-days.html#:~:text=Learn%20at%20least,C...).
> Given China's cozying up to Russia, I'd think harder about which countries are really on your side when push comes to shove.

Why wouldn't China cosy up to Russia? The US has spent much of the last decade tearing apart most of the progress they made over the last five. The Trump administration took an overtly hostile stance to relations.

> As a European you're effectively only protected from Russian aggression (or re-invasion, depending on which country you're in) because of NATO, which is substantially led by the US. Germany, Poland, the Baltic states, etc. would be completely up shit creek right now if it wasn't for US military involvement in NATO and arms in Ukraine. It's why you see Finland etc. racing to join after years of non-alignment.

Russia can barely deal with Ukraine's largely irregular army. They'd get wiped trying to invade any of the EU states.
I thought the same thing.

I live in Vegas.

Not very comforting.

I expected the Colorado to be in the top 50.

Shocked it's not even in the list!
Why do I think this comment will age like spoiled milk?

"Coinbase, Kraken Under Investigation by US Regulators" - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/coinbase-kraken-face-us-in...

"Kraken Pauses Deposits, Withdrawals As Investigation On Fidor Bank Funding Continues" - https://thedeepdive.ca/kraken-pauses-deposits-withdrawals-as...
4-6 hours deep work a day, trending towards 4

3ish hours of buisness work a day.

Probably 2-4 hours of work related stuff and thinking about work

Meant to be doing 1+ hours of learning and reading each day.

Trying to take weekends more seriously but that depends on $ for the week. Daily consistency is a big challenge for me. Some days I can just fall off a cliff. Others it will be 10-11 logged hours.

Copilot and Chat every day while programming. Little tasks and boiler plate are taken care of. When getting very deep into developing a system, the chat needs more and more context so becomes less useful.
I don’t think anyone should get upset at that if you acknowledge it was a two way street.
I really like CSS, and in my personal projects I don't use Tailwind.

However, I use it in my day job, and here it is useful to us as a team. The variables combined with the tooling ensures we write consistent styles across our site. The color names and text sizes also correspond to what our design team uses in Figma, making implementing and updating designs quick.

That said, I still find it a pain to read, and we could probably have set up something very similar with CSS Custom Properties.
What I find confusing is that the German Citizens are targeted. Twitter, TikTok, XHamster, etc.. are hosting the images. Why are they not fined for not providing a system to check that the user is above a certain age?

Or do these people not flagged their images as 18+/Offensive to children? Is that the problem here? But this isn’t possible on Twitter, which does not make such age-verification or age-checking tools available.

So, if they only post content on sites with age-restriction, they're fine?
the current model is a very strict "allow once" or "allow while using the app"

and the only "background" way is to have a persistent/permanent notification

so far I have seen the Blokada, VPN apps and the Shazam app do this
I'm now imagining a "Talk with your AI-powered pets" interface that is a pseudo-ChatGPT style interface that just responds to everything you say with "woof" or "miaow" :D

(I'm surprised that afaik nobody has really cracked the "Tamagotchi" pet care formula on smartphones, which seemed ideally suited to a visually and sonically enhanced version of the same basic ritual)
Agreed. I was a hater at first, but now I’ll never go back. Took me a couple months to get used to it. However i split my time between both frontend and backend.
an argument for it is that it couples content and styling together, instead of them being in different layers.

Sometimes, they are, and should be, separate.
But in other cases, styling is related to the content, or part of it.
Just trying to get my head around SDR.

What are some examples of practical use cases for a platform like this?
What are the benefits of this SDR platform compared to other solutions?
The EU is in the process of expanding the cross country links via rail. Historically they've been country-centric networks.

See https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/europe-trains-eu...

"10 new rail projects that could revolutionise travelling across Europe by train"
I don’t know how many hours I work, but recently I saw that in the last week I was in front of a screen for almost 12 hours on average (per day)… And that’s with going out for lunch and sleeping. I wasn’t even working for a lot of those hours. It’s been a long cold winter here in the north. Currently I’m rapidly introducing some corrections, as I felt I was a wreck.
There are so many assumption baked into your comment and most of them, I would say, don't hold up.

Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have their intended effect on A and most significantly on A.

In reality, the most influential and profitable companies will always have an easier way through whatever you throw at the sector then smaller, less profitable companies. The megacorps may even welcome / shape the regulation such that it harms their competitors that don't happen to have 30 lawyers on the payroll anyways.