skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post ignores the existence of democracies. Governments fail all the time. In a democracy failures of government will often yield a total collapse and complete replacement. If a failure is spectacular enough, these failure often come with constitutional reforms or even revolutions.

In addition, democratic governments (and even many autocratic governments) have some levels of distribution of power. Your small municipal government may very well end up being absorbed into you neighboring municipality because it is more efficient. Maybe an intermediate judicial step is introduced at a county, or even country level.

Governments do try, and often succeed into making your freedom and your interaction with society at large as efficient as possible, while trying to maximize your happiness. (Although I’ll admit way to often democratic governments do act in a way that maximized the profits of the wealthy class more then your happiness).
Nobody is forcing anyone not to use Document.write(). The author has voluntarily run a test using Lighthouse on their website, which gives this suggestion as it is not conforming to the Lighthouse "Best Practices".
It is true that air temps alone do not tell the whole picture, but my coldest winter days also tend to be clear skies and also have lots of direct sunlight. My summer days are also more overcast than one might expect.

It isn't my profession, but I've spent a fair amount of time tweaking building envelope and conditions in HVAC calculations to make decisions in how I build.

A delta of 30 vs 100 is not the only factor, but I'd bet in my case it is the largest factor. I still agree with your point of bringin up other factors. Even changing the direction a building faces can change the load on it.
The police are NOT required to respond to your call, much less defend you or your property.

SCOTUS have repeatedly re-clarified this point.

So, what is an average citizen going to do? Drop dead by gunfire? Or take it back by force?
> In fact, way, more KSI from car accidents than even gun related homicide in the US. I hadn't realized that!

Guns get an outsized portion of air time on most media. Especially crimes committed by legal weapons against white people. If all gun crimes were covered equally you would hears a lot more about gang violence and illegal weapons.

> Deaths by gun related homicide in UK - 200. In US - 20000. (Both numbers pale in comparison to motor vehicle deaths, but there are a lot more in the US. Probably to be expected as there is stringent firearm control in the UK.)

I'd be curious to see the difference between gun homicides and homicides. The UK has a huge knife crime problem.

> I'm thinking overdoses is a major contributor. It's the only way to get to millions in less than 10 years. Car accidents, maybe, but honestly it's not that much compared to the number of young people who die every year. Ditto, with gun related homicide, which is even less than car accidents.

Overdoses and drug related deaths. Drug addiction will shorten a person's lifespan by decades.
Fair enough, personally I certainly would find being forced to read through "how to choose a password" every time I needed to create one worse than just having some restrictions... but I also put _everything_ in a password manager w/ long random passwords, so seldom run afoul of the common restrictions either.
Interesting. Who said it?
I found it's lack of support for native functionality in MacOS too irritating (eg doesn't support system wide autocomplete - so my @@ shortcut that puts my email address in doesn't work in FF - I know I could put it in again in FF but it's annoying it just doesn't work) so I went back to Chrome in the end.

I was using Edge for a while but the absolute car crash their UI has become - and can't be configured - sent me running screaming for the hills.

Edit - and don't get me started on the massive slowdowns once I have more than a handful of tabs open.
It is common to solder off the beeper.
I'm interested.. but is it possible to show a demo experience so I can get a taste before registering?
Mozilla had been working with Microsoft to resolve Teams compatibility issues.

Teams users using teams.microsoft.com (primarily Business and Enterprise customers on a paid plan, but also some free/personal legacy accounts) should be able to use Teams without issues now.

However, there is a second Microsoft Teams instance running on teams.live.com. Most Personal/Consumer/Free users of Teams are on that version, and there, Teams is currently showing a "browser unsupported" banner.

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070#issuecomm...
> isn't that arguably worse? he helped people in a lot of countries break the law (created a place where illegal sales can be facilitated)

The logic is not sound.

1. If someone started selling drugs using someones GitHub/GitLab issue tracker, would the project owner be accountable? I understand that Ross was likely well aware about the drug sales on his website, but saying someone is facilitating the activities because they own the place is not a great argument in isolation.

2. What is illigal is very different different from country to country. A majority of the sales on Silk Road was marihuana, which is now legal in a 21 US states and decriminalized in 10 others. There are countries where it has never been illigal. Personal posession of AR-15 is legal in the USA, but illigal in a lot of other countries. Suffice to say that it is pretty subjective.
I can’t report any of those issues, my biggest gripe is Ubuntu forcing a snap package on to me
> This is the job of the government. The ultimate effect of virtue wanking CEOs and corporate governance is to deceive people into thinking democracy is something that can be achieved by for profit organizations

Sam Altman says the opposite of what you're insinuating, if by "virtue wanking CEO deceiving people" you are referring to the subject of the article, Sam Altman. He says he wants a global regulatory framework enacted by government and decided upon democratically.
That's lie pushed by Google. MV3 removes the ability to block requests, but keeps the ability to observe requests. Great for ads-related spying.
> Headscale is a self-hostable version of the Tailscale control plane. It's a great project, and it's quite remarkable what they've been able to accomplish through sheer reverse engineering fueled by the boredom that came up at the start of the pandemic

Not to take anything away from the creators of headscale for their excellent work, but I think this doesn't give enough credit to Tailscale. They've gone out of their way to support headscale.
He's saying you're arguing in bad faith because you are: Human drivers are fully autonomous and make mistakes - the difference being we accept the risk of human drivers and their mistakes as a society and have not (yet) with self driving cars.

That fact does nothing to disprove the existence of autonomous vehicles.

Go outside, friend.
This is overblown imo. of all of the areas/domains where this might be an issue, programming isn't it. Programs run. if they work as envisioned then you're good to go.

and in numerous other professions, nobody is signing off work that hasn't been checked by multiple parties either way, LLMs will be a pipeline in this process.
The Salmon Taboo (2015)
Honestly I do not think Apple does some special magic on Mac OS for Safari. I settled on Vivaldi (a chromium based browser with built-in ad blocking developed by former Opera devs). It gives battery life not much worse than Safari to be honest. Safari is very nice and snappy on a mac, but the extension support is extremely limited.
This is true. Erlang's heap per PID. Azul's C4 and other JVM GC move in the no world stopping direction but they're still at the mercy of the model of the JVM.

If one can avoid GCs altogether a-la precise (de)allocations like Rust's non-reference-counted entities, this is cool but often requires unnatural contortionism. RC is still necessary in certain cases.
Fantastic talk!
> I'm not sure, I live in a rent controller apartment and it certainly is great for the many people in my apartment who work in the city but could never pay the rents.

That's kind of like saying "What's so bad about zoning restrictions? I own a house and it's not affecting me at all!". Of course it's great for you and other people who have a rent controlled unit. The OP explicitly acknowledges this. The issue is for everyone else who doesn't have a rent controlled unit.
If we speak to each other on the internet the same way we speak to each other face to face, it will become a more pleasant place.
My dad was a 30 year army reserve veteran (served in both the Gulf War and Afghanistan) I would consider him to be a typical American "mans man" and definitely made a point about my brother and I learning how to cook, because its how you make a good impression on the in laws and girls you care about (his words, more or less).

I credit this with why I know how to cook as well as I do. We grew up poor by most standards in the US, but my uncle was a butcher, both grandparents were farmers, so the one thing we had access to was fruits, vegetables and good meats.

Its also why I think i never learned good portion control as a child and still have trouble maintaining a healthy weight (among other reasons I won't get into here), we made very good savory food all the time because its what we had. We had to cook, as take out wasn't an option, and frozen foods weren't cost effective the same way for us (due to familial professions, we had access to things most people don't in this way).

That's the irony. I feel like I grew up with blander foods I'd be less inclined to eat them so much growing up, feeding a long habit of food being comfort.
Interesting article but please stop disabling default behavior like mobile pinch to zoom! One of the image captions says "if you squint you can make out the list of flavors"... squint is too accurate when I can't zoom in.
A few months back a HN user suggested it may be wise to continually delay an unpopular change, im no PR expert but I thought that was an interesting perspective.
Ask HN: What type of software development won’t AI replace? Or at least later on
It’s given that app development is going to go first, much of it has already been done away not by Ai but low code frameworks.

I have a feeling fundamental software will take a long time. Browser engines, game engines, compilers, os kernels.
No because there’s no dish that’s a curry. It’s a component of a dish. Furthermore it’s a very specific component historically pepper based.

This is the problem. You borrowed a word that you don’t understand the depth of and are now arguing that it should be used in your way when people raise what it actually means. It’s a co-opting of a cultures word and cuisines.

There is no dish that’s “curry”. The British generalized it to be all spiced thick stews.

Would you call an eggs Benedict “a hollandaise”? Or roast potato’s as “chips”? No because there’s specifics to a dish that you afford it because you’re familiar with it. Calling them curries and expecting that to be the actual term is ignorance.
Yes you can [0]. Get a clue.

[0] https://ichisushi.com/can-you-freeze-sushi/
The market will follow its inceotives. You shape those incentives with laws. If you want a market that allows people to take risks, you do that by inventing the limit liability corporation not by telling people to be nice and to not pursue their debts unto their debtors' personal property. If you want a market that discourages monopoly you do that by regulating combination not by writing articles about how "good businessmen" don't act anticompetitively.
I recently discovered that on LineageOS (Android 10), good to know Google does this too.
The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites
This is a really cynical take.

CEOs and companies can, and should, act ethically. Not just because it's the "right thing to do", but because it's the best way to guarantee the integrity of the brand in the long term.
> by most accounts Slack is a better product

Perhaps but it doesn't seem customers value it very much.

> I highly doubt it Microsoft would have made Teams a stand alone product each company had to buy per user that it would have gotten anywhere near the adoption it did.

To me the fact that people would pay for a chat app was an oddity in the first place. Skype (the consumer version) was mostly free.
I tried a ~1x1cm cube of it when I was in Iceland... that assessment is pretty spot-on.
It depends on how Firefox was installed, snap and flatpaks are becoming the default for firefox on a few distros every variant of each that I've tried has those issues

I usually have to download the developer edition from the website and setup a desktop entry for decent performance
I believe it is about the audience, they are very casual about killing products. The users of the Reader was people with interest and influence in technology. Killing a product that is utilized by the people with the higher influence created no good.
In Hungary I as CEO am legally bound to kick people out to use their vacation days.
See the following page for an explanation (in particular the "Native Graph Processing" heading)

https://neo4j.com/blog/native-vs-non-native-graph-technology...

In native graph databases like Neo4J query times are proportional to the amount of the graph searched, rather than increasing with the overall size of the data. That's the clincher.
LOL how the hell did they make this URL work?

https://www.amazon.com/set-your-computer-on-fire/dp/B01DV1Z3...
What's unique about LLM's is that they break the idea that consciousness is a function of language and its narratives, and a whole bunch of other anxieties go with it. My optimism is that it clicks that truth does not come from internet narratives, or any ideology or narrative for that matter, and that more people are driven to develop competence and real experiences instead of imagined ones.

Optimism is rarely rational but it's always risk taking, and that's worthwhile, imo.
These baseless speculations about ChatGPT are somewhat ironic given that the article itself alludes to what has unlocked this specific advance:

"The RDRE achieved its primary test objective by demonstrating that its hardware – made from novel additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, designs and processes – could operate for long durations while withstanding the extreme heat and pressure environments generated by detonations."

It's much easier to imagine that steady advances in manufacturing, computational modeling, and "mundane" technologies like that are contributing to progress like what's described in this article... Rather than some super secret AI assistant.

Please, folks, don't give up on reading just because computers can do it too now. :)
I'd be very happy to see existing regulation on safety critical software systems updated to put a moratorium on AI integration for at least the next 5, maybe 10 years.
I was given a 3rd gen dot at a conference and haven’t even set it up. It’s yours if you want it.
That's literally my point. When you want behavior that is contrary to market incentive you need laws not guilt ridden editorials.
> I asked chatGPT to recite a poem by Emily Dickinson. It recited it correctly but then added its own made up lines. The poem actually ends with the line “till acclimated-to”. So why would it then tack on additional invented stanzas after correctly reciting the full poem?

The core lowest-level ability of large language models (LLMs) is to generate the probability distribution of the next token in a sequence. Early ones were so dumb that they could not even form complete sentences. Now, they are so advanced that they can not only make grammatically correct sentences, but also amazing capabilities in natural language processing have emerged, allowing them for example to do well on various standardized tests. Some extra reinforcement learning or other processes may be stacked or wrapped on top of the basic LLMs. But at their very core they are "bullshitters" that say whatever they think might come next. With that understanding it's not so weird at all that it would try to continue the poem. Maybe a more advanced one (GPT-5?) would say that the poem is over and say that another poem is starting.

> Seems strange and misleading.

That description may be the best description yet that I've heard for the emergent abilities of large language models, and it will probably remain valid even as they reach and surpass human levels of cognition.
The Unsung Hero: Microsoft Visual Basic for Internal Tools
Forced rent control definitely causes a problem as it suppresses supply.
You are missing the scaling on context size.
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In the US, you can use sick time for these things, BTW. Things that are required for care are legally allowed to be used as sick time instead of PTO.

I think the unlimited time off loophole damages the sick time more than actual vacation, as others have pointed out in this thread, which is the real shame.
Nice write up, have you looked at Conflict free replicated relations?

We have been discussing Lamport clocks and CRDTs in the context of building local-first applications in our LocalFirstWeb discord https://lfw.dev.

Causality approximated with temporal proximity is a nice way of putting it. I've been trying to wrap my mind around an append only DAG to represent user actions so that multi account, multiuser and multi device experiences can run offline and get to eventually consist state when synced.
I hope haha.
I can't make sense of this. CPUs microarchitecture is run at their clock speed. If they're running close to their physical limits, either they don't fail in which case all's well, or they fail in which case it's a wipeout such as a blue screen, reboot, freezes, corruption or whatever. AFAICS they can't run correctly but somehow slower. Be good if you could explain where I'm getting it wrong.
Or wrap in tape. Leave one for decoy too.
chatGPT, like Google search has essentially democratized knowledge and wisdom to every human on planet earth.

OTOH, it's the governments that have banned it.

Do you think the citizen's of Italy are better off because of chatGPT?

Corporations are more benevolent than government
I've also heard the Cisco Meraki acquisition went well because Meraki was profitable enough to remain independent.
Tailscale now supports custom OIDC providers. But if you already have the ability to host one, you won’t benefit from what’s in the above article (which is about hosting stuff at home even without a public IP address). https://tailscale.com/blog/custom-oidc/
Yes, this is a hidden benefit of having people take real time off. No org should be dependent for daily/weekly functioning on one person. If the cracks start showing in a single week of vacation, you’ve got some knowledge/skill sharing to do.
> bad font rendering

would I be correct in guessing that you're using the snap? It's pretty, uh, garbage. The Chromium snap keeps having font problems too.
If unelected CEOs have more power than the democratically elected government, we aren't in a democracy. That's the problem.
> I'm not in Sweden but why are we always pointing the finger at the poor immigrants?

It's not about pointing fingers but rather that people with one foreign born parent have increased from roughly 16% to over 40% in the working age population during the last 30 years. When you become half of the population, you'll have a major impact on all statistics. People outside of Sweden most likely aren't aware and might draw rushed conclusion if they don't know why different stats are currently changing rapidly in all areas.
Wow, "pizza roll" refers to something very different here in Australia (a bread roll with cheese and bacon on top).
Well. It’s a good joke because it makes us wonder if the latest innovation is actually the best tool. Keep ya on your toes a bit.

I’ve seen a project revert from python to php. That would sound like a joke to me if I didn’t know why they did it ;)

But I am glad that “April Fool’s” was in the top comment so I didn’t have to waste tooooo much time being perplexed or mad or… foolish
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Agree that 25% doesn't sound very exciting or revolutionary, but computers have been used to design space-related stuff for a while, for example, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/TECHNOLOGY/antenna.html . I would be surprised if no one had tried it with propulsion systems yet.
If you're just getting started with documentation, this is a great resource: https://diataxis.fr

The structure described there helps people avoid creating docs that mix the different use cases we all have for seeking out documentation.
My apologies, I was being facetious. Of course he had failings but our society rewards rather than punishing them.
And how much end-user privacy was thereby saved?
CEO's and companies can act ethically while that aligns with the interest of the shareholders. Reality is that at some point, this becomes impossible even for those with the best intentions. "Do no evil" rings any bells?
I'm glad I have the choice not to follow desktop "innovation", because I was here for the history of GNOME 3, and Xfce's lack of ambition keeps proving correct. CADT is not, in fact, a good idea.
Date on the article is 25 Jan 2023, so seemingly not.
Possible to Elaborate?
Bicarbonate Soda powder in the litter box (dumped in and shaken around) entirely eliminated any smell of urine, at least with our two bengals. We started looking into odour treatments, we were tipped off by another savvy shopper at the pet store. Became part of our litter box routine very early on. My backyard science hypothesis is that it reacts with the odour-causing compounds in the urine (urea or uric acid?), which neutralises the smell.
Compared to 20 days off (minimum), and unlimited sick leave, plus holidays. Yes it is.
The SEK used to be locked. That lead to another kind of crisis in the nineties. You are right that we should've adopted the euro though.
What a flashback!

I don't miss the days of bouncing between media backends hoping one would play a media file better than another.
Results drive modernity
If I had to guess, the number at the end is the ASIN (Amazon Stock Indicator Number), this is unique among all items listed on the site.

I suspect that as long as that number is in the correct location, the page will load the right item.
>Rent control doesn't solve the problem, but it doesn't cause the problem either.

It causes the problem by diminishing the returns for new construction. That in turn disincentivizes people willing to fight through the bureaucracy to get new construction approved.

>Capitalism also guarantees that these owners are the ones with power. It gives them the means and the motive to torpedo new development. So they do.

I'd be sympathetic to this if all the home owning NIMBYs are funding super-PACs or lobbyists to "torpedo new development", but they're not. They're just people showing up to local government meetings in their spare time.
They're one in the same though. If the time off isn't on the books, it's definitely not making it into any study's datasets no doubt sourced indirectly from those books via some employment-related TLA...

Understanding the inherently undocumented ad-hoc nature of the "unlimited time off" scam makes it pretty obvious IMO.
Amazon only checks the id after the /dp/. Stackoverflow does a similar where only-the-id matters url scheme so that posters can change the title.
History proves that we have way more CEOs and companies acting out of self-interest, against the common good, than otherwise.

So yeah, they should, but they don't.
The problem is not AI / weapons / wealth / liberty / …

The problem is you having them, and getting a taste for acting in your own best interests, instead of, you know … the interests of the people who deserve these things.