skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I visit Paris as a tourist, I have another impression.

Each time I stop, as a pedestrian, to wait for a traffic light to turn green, grumbling Parisians walk around me and cross the street with complete disregard for the red light. (I'm not sure I've ever even seen a Parisian pedestrian waiting for a traffic light. They might wait for traffic to clear a bit, but not until there's a green light.)

So to me, it looks like the locals have zero respect for traffic rules. Therefore I'm not surprised that new modes of transport come with a lot of problems.
"Money won't buy you happiness", said the billionaire. But how does that calming message really help the guy who'll get evicted because he won't have enough money for rent?

I don't think we need these messages. They're a mix of humble brag, virtue signalling and self-marketing for all I can tell, and don't hold any insights that you won't find on one of those One Inspirational Quote Per Day calendars.
Seems to me that you just have to be careful when bringing out a new version. You can't change the memory model from chip to chip but that goes for x86 to. Not sure what other behaviors are not really changeable.

Can you give me an example of this? SPARC of the late 90s ran 32bit SPARC.
As an atheist, there's something that appeals to me with science fiction that treats an aspect of religion as being literally and observably true. Ted Chiang is probably the pinnacle of that kind of fiction.
SCM Manager – Self-Hosted SCM for Git, Mercurial and Subversion
Not to confuse with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_orange, which by coincidence(?) is also the brand color of the french Orange group: https://www.brandcolorcode.com/orange
Remarks on the ancient Chess-men discovered in the Isle of Lewis p. 203 (1832)
> Worldcoin’s parent company, Tools for Humanity, insists that the process will someday be fully open-source and run by the nonprofit Worldcoin Foundation.

Where have I heard that before... I think it was another Sam Altman venture. Deja vu here, someone help me out.
In Melbourne they have taken to calling them Emotional Support Vehicles. I think it's a pretty apt name for a vehicle that has no practical purpose in a city.
Seeing Windows Admins having to write boot-up scripts that keep re-fixing this crap is the saddest thing ever.
I think this is a logically unsound, or at best uncharitable interpretation. My read of it is simply that calling CPS would hypothetically be an exaggerated reaction, even in circumstances that are unusual in their day to day context, and would require at least a higher bar if not much higher bar, and presumably other measures having been taken, like talking to them
No one is preventing you from criticizing them. I am just saying that criticism from the standpoint of free speech or sovereignty is inconsistent with the idea that you can satirize whatever or whoever you want.
That's really not true, I ran each of my "Windows" laptops for 6 years; a Toshiba from 2011-2017 and a Asus UX430UA from 2017 to this year. Bought a MSI GF65 Thin for a GPU, I refreshed Windows and installed only what was necessary and removed dead files/services, with constant HW health monitoring as long as I could; then migrated them to Arch/Fedora with i3wm; keeping as minimal of a setup as I could.

I don't know if that qualifies as easily using hardware, but I think I am very lazy, and that was the path of minimal resistance to keep them up and running. Both those laptops are happily being used by my parents for keeping track of their finances, doing admin tasks for whatever organizations they're a part of. My father even uses them for complex SAP tasks. The only HW fault that came up was the Toshiba fan broke once and was very quickly replaced and has been working fine since. The battery is dead of course, but the Asus still gives a 2-3 hour backup if necessary.
>printing of a hundred thousand character minified line of JavaScript.

Yeah... Terminal is not the issue, rather why you have 100000 line js file in the first place.
I am sure that's true for some, but I doubt that's true when a Google exec talks about, eg, Jeff Dean being an absolutely fantastic engineer. Now Jeff Dean being, well, Jeff Dean is one thing, but I'm sure there are engineers at Google who the outside world has never heard of that have done fantastic work internally.
That would be a copyright violation, not a licensing issue. GP is giving you a _license_ to use his code without having to say "GP wrote this", he is NOT giving up his rights to the code..

edit: to clarify, he's allowing you to _use_ it however you like, including making a derivative work, including it wholesale, etc. However, claiming authorship of the original code would still run afoul of the original copyright.

edit2: oh - if you mean relicensing the code - that is allowed.
From an American perspective, of course. So what happens when a US family moves to Europe? Here's a quick video of a mom now living in Europe explaining the details: " 5 Ways my Kids Lives Would be Different in USA vs EU" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKOfT5TKHQ
Dude, just pop a human eyeball in your eyeball socket and you are good to go.
Don't worry, soon shitposting will be considered "hate speech" and you'll be unable to post anything that is considered inappropriate by surveillance language models' creators.
> Big call out is controller support. Sometimes I game on my TV, when I do I use an Xbox whatever-the-current-gen-is controller with the official usb dongle.

My 8BitDo controllers connected just fine on Linux. Once I add them as trusted devices, they connect automatically as soon as I turn them on
The EU doesn't have a Court of Human Rights, that's an institution of the Council of Europe, which is unrelated to the EU.
Comparing Microsoft and Apple seems appropriate because they both develop operating systems that compete in the consumer market. It’s really not.

Apple is a hardware company that develops an operating system and services to add value to their hardware. They make nearly all of their money from hardware.

For the longest time, Microsoft didn’t really make any hardware at all, apart from some peripherals like keyboards and mice. Now they have Xbox and Surface, but they’re still predominantly a software and services company. The biggest reason they’re trashing up their OS with advertising and other crap these days is that they now make a lot less money from Windows licenses than they used to.

Long gone are the days when people lined up at the stores for their chance to snag a copy of Windows 95 on CD!
Integrating OpenAI's bot. How that worked for software security scanner Socket
"granted Fridman has kind of outed himself as a complete hack more recently"

What do you mean? I'm out of the loop, not arguing with you.
It'd be fun to make like a modern ZX Spectrum / Commodore style machine - where the shell is also the interpreted language for the actual machine.

It's a shame how complicated modern computers have made stuff like drawing directly to the screen in comparison.
We seem to have a arrived at a stage of collective thought in which every action which is not directly confrontational against those that have a different belief system, is seen an acknowledgement of its support. Discussions on any topic have become so polarising that even those that try to remain neutral are being met with hostility and cancel culture treatment.

I have never been so pessimistic about the future of the world as I am today.
I wanted to be capable of bringing up an entire environment with one command using an orchestration of Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef and Packer.

I wrote https://devops-pipeline.com/ it toplogically sorts a dot diagram file and executes a Graphviz diagram. In theory your code should produce an entire environment that is ready to use.

It is infrastructure as code and pipeline's as code. It also runs parts of the diagram that can run in parallel in parallel

Creating robust stateful code is an exercise in frustration. Just look at any command line utility that manages state of files or EC2 instances. If you run something and it fails then the files or infrastructure Is in an unknown state. This is the problem that both declarative and imperative tools have
Au is only slightly smaller than the USA with 25.7 million people vs just California’s 39.24 and the Netherlands have 17.53 million — but bear in mind Australia is 186 times the size of the NDs. So it’s not surprising service is so good — the density of population makes broadband extremely profitable.

People forget. The numbers tell a really great story.
X will never bring true happiness. So much nonsense
How do you know all the others are "blind cargo cult following"? Maybe is it that people that frequent Hacker News are interested in Rust, and as Rust is in the wind a lot of content is made about Rust, which again means that a lot of content is upvoted. I don't think it means its anything nefarious. A new language can get a lot of hype, a lot of hype means a lot of content. (I say this as someone who haven't done any Rust other than looking at some intro exercises a bit over a year ago).
It's not a very balanced take on the affair. Ascribing the whole concept of a stochastic parrot to one guy and subtly dismissing it, is blatantly unfair.

We come up with those interpretations like 'robot parrot' individually and just because one guy wrote an article he is speaking for me?

No.
Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project Team Up to Release the Mullvad Browser
The idea of a global id system that pays everyone some basic income is actually pretty decent and admirable but this entire thing is wild.

"This here is our orb which scans your eyeball for biometric data so our AI company can pay you in something called Worldcoin" isn't tech, that's a whole ass Deus Ex plotline. Only thing missing is Bob Page popping out of nowhere. You better hire the best PR team on available for that one.
> but if someone does make it to the UK ... we should help them do so.

Didn't brexit happen exactly to fight that ?
Inconsistency of English is high compared to basically every other language.
Either my terminal does some magic or this is not true. Most of my vim & tmux commands are alt+something and these execute as soon as I press the bind.

Or does tmux make them work automagically?
I have a Russian friend working in IT in Poland and he fears deportation.

Unfortunately these things are reportedly happening, the sentiment should be anti-Putin but ends up being anti-Russian, mostly thanks to Russians like these: https://t.me/glavredinfo/61841
Control EMI, Don’t Dump AM Receivers
I think generally owning slaves goes against the idea of freedom (let's discard the concept one has the freedom to sell themselves for once). Thus company does not have the right to own slaves.
When playing it "again" the animations and sound are not sync anymore. Otherwise great work.
Does SteamOS do this? (genuine question - I don't run it, but it's probably one of the bigger consumer-grade Linux distros)
Ask HN: How do you interop between Rust and C++?
How do you interop Rust code with third-party C++ libraries and source code? What are the challenges, and how to mitigate them?
> once it is achieved, we might as well wrap our stuff up and leave.

I don't subscribe to an achievement based view of life. I think the best part of living is enjoying a good view, appreciating the company of friends, etc. I don't play chess because I'm trying to become a grand master, I play because it's fun and it gives me an opportunity to have positive interactions with single serving friends.

To that end, if someone achieves the Ultimate Achievement, that's of no account to me; I'm not here for great achievements. I'm here to enjoy the view
Status and money is essential, people with high status make good money, and you need it just to get to retirement, money that is. I do not like X good think will not bring happiness, its a pattern of X where X = working hard, money, status, etc does not bring happiness. Its dangerous and bad to teach people to be anything other than selfish in a constructive way.
To be fair to Microsoft this was a Lenovo laptop.

Though why Microsoft continues to do business with a company that thought it was a good idea to install a root certificate (with a publicly known private key) onto every single laptop they sold so they could MITM some ads into websites is beyond me.
I just ask ChatGPT at least 5 times using different prompts then take the most frequent response. The result is aligned correctly as long as you don’t resize the browser window.
Will put a whole new meaning to being "retired"
Also out of the loop, my current opinion is that Fridman himself and his interviews are always really great and interesting.
Most things are tied up with status games, even if they don't look like it at first glance.

Nietzsche gives the example of the self-renouncer, who might seem to go beyond status games by renouncing material things. But this renunciation of one status game is just replaced by another. It's the same desire for status, but aimed at a different object. The self-renouncer's object is the status of being seen as the exalted person who soars above everyone else, free from vulgar worldly desires.

> What does the self-renouncer do? He strives after a higher world, he wants to fly longer and further and higher than all men of affirmation—he throws away many things that would burden his flight, and several things among them that are not valueless, that are not unpleasant to him: he sacrifices them to his desire for elevation. Now this sacrificing, this casting away, is the very thing which becomes visible in him: on that account one calls him the self-renouncer, and as such he stands before us, enveloped in his cowl, and as the soul of a hair-shirt. With this effect, however, which he makes upon us he is well content: he wants to keep concealed from us his desire, his pride, his intention of flying above us.—Yes! He is wiser than we thought, and so courteous towards us—this affirmer! For that is what he is, like us, even in his self-renunciation

I can recommend the book The Status Game by Will Storr if you want to read more about status.
For a little more context and a PoC illustrating the matter: https://github.com/FiloSottile/whoami.filippo.io?ref=words.f...
Sure, that's quite a leap though, that higher car insurances for poor people are a cause of poverty. Surely they contribute something, but how much? Is it 0.001%? Is it whatever they contribute to big enough to not get lost in noise?

You would need a prove for the statement that higher car insurances are themselves a cause of poverty. Maybe higher car insurances make poor people less likely to get a car, and they end up richer because they don't waste time in useless holidays that would've made them poorer.

I'm not claiming this is what happens, just that your logic even if it makes sense in some abstract sense, may be separated from reality.
I'd argue Spain doesn't have a property crisis exactly because speculators and developers. There is lots of housing stock available. I don't know any single EU country which has ready to live in apartments listed at 20k EUR.
The problem is everywhere from the US to Europe, is that there is simply not enough housing available. Blaming speculators is blaming a symptom.
Just noticed that there's another higher-ranking thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421034
You're barking up the wrong tree.

Stable Diffusion allows for just about everything, including pornographic images and parodies of Xi Jingping.

MidJourney is a more controlled platform that doesn't allow for those things. And, because it's so tightly controlled, it hasn't degenerated into a mere parade of sexualized anime characters -- and it minimizes the political risk to its platform. MidJourney actually seems competently managed, in all seriousness...
It's 2023.
Not ridiculing xi is the regulation
I once wrote a webgl viewer for viewing results of CFD simulations in 3D in a web browser, and doing the 3D stuff was an easier than getting the text and GUI components to align nicely the way I wanted.
You are confusing science with the social process of science and how it is applied in academia.

Science is a way to get to the truth. It has no concept of money or grant makers, or academic institutions.

The social process of science is more complicated and yes, academia has developed some perverse incentives to keep the publishing mill running, regardless of scientific insights.

But that has nothing to do with the article. I'd recommend that you actually go and read the relativity of wrong, it's not that long and most of it is just as accurate today as it was then.
If you're referring to this passage

> democratising the means of digital production is the difference between a dystopian authoritarian future and an empowered (and admittedly chaotic) humanity

The usage here means make accessible to everyone.
Find an episode on a topic you’re a subject matter expert in - you’ll quickly realize how overconfident and misinformed he is more generally.
Very slick!
Looks like it only breaks on safari/ios

Works fine on windows on all browsers, works fine on osx with chrome/firefox, doesn't work with safari though
I mean, I can't walk into a car dealership with $10,000 and tell them that's a big pile of money, and walk out with a $100,000 car, so I'm not sure why $100 million should get you $1,000 million of company, just because you asked for it.
They are novel from a end-users perspective and that they can trivially applied to most stuff that the end-user might be doing otherwise.

That the idea and execution existed before doesn't detract at all from that.

Something "trivial" can still be a game-changer.
Maybe when an LLM finally automates my career out of existence, I can make a comfortable living as a kind of ocular bandit, harvesting people's eyeballs for sweet, sweet, Worldcoin™
Isn't that more or less the same thing in the end?

Storage at this point is plentiful. Most people can live just fine with 1 TB of it, which is trivially found in both HDD and SSD forms. Using less saves you nothing, as the media is still there.

Bandwidth is also plentiful and available 24/7. It's also very bursty -- you only download your game once, while you may play it a lot. So saving 50% download time makes no difference energy-wise.

What we can control a lot is CPU power usage. We now have 16 core consumer CPUs that are designed to sleep when not in use, so difference in power usage at runtime can be dramatic.

So an algorithm that trades disk space for decoding efficiency is probably the best way to save power.
The site (Blogspot) from Google, something from the earlier days of the Internet, are not really updated since a very very long time.

I have set my browser to default to Reader View Mode for Blogspot, PG's website, DaringFireball and few others.
Instead of beating around the bush, address the problems at hand. Lots of people can't read your code words, when you leave your comments, but I can.

Here is modern description of Brahmin Elitism By Prof Amy Vax
https://twitter.com/Hakicat/status/1642631554554900480
I only watched snippets of that, but I thought Altman was saying reasonable things. I'd expected worse based on the general AI wackiness and the vague knowledge that he had some eyeball/crypto thing going on too.

Maybe I need to watch the full thing.
Do you know how many Eddies these Kiroshis cost me?
Mostly, but surface tension in aggregate is meaningful.

Surface tension is doing two things, first it’s contributing to back pressure several times in the same way it’s just barely keeping water from over topping. Secondly it’s taking up volume in air pockets thus increasing the pressure of those pockets. So, if he added soap to reduce surface tension the tank wouldn’t empty but it would end up lower. My guess is roughly an inch but it’s worth testing.
Seems like it's hug of death'd.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230403101515/https://mullvad.n...
Was that really the reason? What difficulty? They created this difficulty to find a chance to invade.

There was a clear plan to create an addiction and even as it was banned to smuggle more and more into the country.

A lot of things don't happen by chance. So does a certain country not actually have "weapons of mass destruction" etc.
Bigendian ints in the header? Why.
How and When to use Micro-Front ends in 2023 (Part 1: when?)
Give King of Stackers, Cultris, or Nullpomino a look.
Nah, not at all, just don't like power structures that feed on benevolent naivety. Of course it's good, but compensating those people should be the norm. Where is the payments side of github for example? So it's open source but in order to clone the rep you should spend 1 bucks on it, or if you want a bug/feature addressed you could name a price or the dev can set the price on it?

Because the holy sacred cow must not be agitated... suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

And people rationalizing the all devouring machine, hell, it is just bonkers.
> Here in Romania, THE CARS litter the urban spaces.

Cars are indeed a cancer on all urban spaces, and one which has been granted too much privileges for decades.

The Netherlands' Jokinen Plan[1] is widely used as the epitome of idiocy that we get by designing cities around cars.

But the fact is that services provided by multinationals like Lime do nothing to address this issue. People do not drop their cars for ebikes just because a multinational dropped one on the sidewalk.

Also, it's a red herring to portray services provided by multinationals like Lime as synonyms for replacing cars with alternatives. They do nothing of the sort, and it misrepresents the problem. Companies like Lime scatter crap around cities with impunity and expect the public to just suck it up. Any small business owner who did a fraction of the abusive practices of occupying the public space would be fined into bankruptcy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan
Pretty similar in Thailand. I normally live in Bangkok and even the rich kids that attend the expensive International School nearby frequent the malls and park nearby with no supervision. There is definitely still some overly-sheltered children but it seems far from the default.

My GFs hometown in Nakkon Si Thammarat (Southern Thailand, semi-rural) kids play outside just like we did when we were kids (90s, Australia).

The insane helicopter parenting seems to be US phenomena primarily but is also spreading to other Western-sphere countries like Australia.
I find his style suffocating, he mostly likes to talk about himself, and hear himself say bullshit, and same with the interviewed person, some times even cutting 'em off
They’ll be adding ‘minor attracted persons’ to the kiriarchy rubric any day now…
Thinking of what I would have needed to hear in your place:

- By your burnrate, it sounds like you have about 5M left. First give yourself 500k safety bonus, so you have some piece if mind to think clearly. 10% doesn't matter negatively, but it make a huge difference since it sounds like you're the heart of the company. Check with your personal lawyer.

- Reduce costs ASAP, and do that dramatically. Fire your COO and anyone that isn't making money or is absolutely required to mainting money-making contracts.

- Take a few days off and do something fun and social with close friends. I am not joking, you need to literally ask your friends to cheer you up. This should temporarily patch the burnout and help you operate. Just don't drink too much.

Know that you've paid your fiduciary duties in advance already in all those ramen days, you deserve at least FMV = 200k * 10 years - what you got paid.
Agreed, although normally the focus is on the interviewee, and they will quickly correct him.