skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Brave's Defaults (har har) in a lot of places but I am firmly against their monetisation schemes.

There is an attitude among a lot of people in the founder space that "subscription models are what everyone says they want - but no one actually pays up".

This is demonstrably false. Plenty of content creators are making modest but sustainable incomes via Patreon, even despite the skew towards the top 2% of creators.

I think what the phrasing should be is, "I could make a modest income via the subscription model, but a notably higher income via other methods. Because this is my primary means of evaluating an approach, I therefore consider the subscription model unviable, assuming maximal competition."

That would at least be more defensible if one could justify their concern that their sector is high-competition.
But those classes only.

The author is much more likely to be targeted by automated botnets than a dedicated attacker who will actually manually look at his machine.
Why can't I remove the network from my phone then?

Makes "perfect" sense.
The recommendation to support conversational interactions is very good. After all, if you consult with a human expert, one of the main things they'll be doing is conversing with you to figure out your requirements. I find it a bit frustrating that even ChatGPT will give you a giant answer straightaway instead of clarifying your requirements first. (Prompting can help with this somewhat, if you explicitly tell it to ask clarifying questions.)
I am referring to not being logged into Apple ID.
Title generated by gpt:

"Apple Trims Corporate Retail Teams in Cost-Cutting Move, Avoids Massive Layoffs Seen at Big Tech Rivals"

Nice to see that clickbait like this will day in the hands of AI.
Hardly exotic these days. I have multiple APs at home, all sharing the same ssid with automatic handoff. Practically every ASUS router (at least) can do it, and it's only a few clicks to set up.
WiFi isn’t just for accessing the Internet. It’s also for accessing other devices on your home network such as printers. This is a broken implementation with no room for argument.
Unfortunately, I think you're right, at least initially. Not much happens unless the cost of losing access to remote talent becomes too significant to ignore.
I'll just have gpt email it to me
Really? Isn't that a thing of the past?

In the last 10 years all my updates on Mac and Windows alike have been a matter of clicking OK and waiting 30-60 minutes.

On Linux and BSD I've had some more issues at times but that's been more because of my own messing around.
Quiet opponent of Oregon data center clean-energy bill? Amazon
Have you considered it might be their life's outlook? What do most of these girls have to look forward to after school? A well paying job? Most of them will have crap jobs barely scraping by, and most of them know it. A house? Most will pay absurd rates for an apartment and never build equity.

Our school system is pretty trash too, depending on state. I think social media might be a scapegoat, because it's easy to, "just do something," while the real issue goes against the political donor's wishes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a capitalist, but business have done everything to push down wages and working conditions since Reagan. Would you want to be a kid today with our current outlook?

And then there's the news. Kids don't realize it's mostly fear mongering BS and they believe all the doomsayers' predictions. That's pretty hard for a 14 year old.

Social media probably has something to do with it, but we have to fix all the other stuff too if we want to actually make a difference, rather than just feeling like we made a difference.
Age isn't directly measurable either. Or we would just measure the age of the person and have our answer.

Measuring age depends on records and tying records to people. Both of which are easily failable proceses.
> So each cell is now a x86 cache line wide, that's wild.

128 bits =/= 128 levels

You're mixing up the units. 128 bits require 2^128 levels to represent. 128 levels can only represent 7 bits. The only way the two are related is the number "128", albeit with different units.
Regardless it doesn't mean the US should continue to make poor choices just because China is given more grace.
Steve Ballmer? Is that you?
No, unless you have found an exploit for EAP-SIM, Passpoint, etc.
From my experience, there is a lot of software that will not build for platform older than 7/2008 due to missing APIs. Visual studio stopped support for xp compilation awhile ago. You still can use clang or such for simple programs today, but chromium is probably too complicated to port at this point.
Here's a scan of the pdf: https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrateg...
Location: Southeast Asia
Remote: Yeah
Willing to relocate: Not at the moment
Technologies: Typescript, Go, C#
Email: evasive@duck.com
Résumé/CV: [*]

[*]: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/donaldchicken/8cb66513a44...
> I always tell folks that it's a great opportunity to rebuild those institutions better

One of the big problems right now is that it's easier than ever to just burn down institutions for the sake of a little social or financial profit-- far easier than actually building them up. It's no wonder most people take the easy and profitable road instead of the challenging and unrewarding one.

It's not that this potential didn't exist before, but it is more frictionless than ever thanks to the democratization of information afforded by the internet. There's probably a Turchin-esque "elite overproduction" angle to it as well, where previously the institutions had enough slots to absorb all the talented people who might go this route and give them rewards consummate with their status of keeping the machine running; now there aren't and so people who get left out turn to burning it down instead.
> there's so many positive pro-human pro-Augment-Intellect things tech could be doing

But can it do it without baby steps?
https://www.popsci.com/environment/renewable-energy-generati...

The US is on a steady march, and has an incredible amount of green funding.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-congress-clima...

But I guess that doesn't fit the narrative of "US bad".
Lazy framing and Ars is, sadly, an extremely common combination.
And I invite the 3GPP alliance and Apple to stay the hell out of my Wi-Fi preferences (or at least give me a clear option of opting out of autoconnecting).

Their job is to get my phone on a 3GPP network, and (already a stretch) to possibly offer a reasonable default of autoconnecting to secure Wi-Fi networks that can alleviate mobile network load in crowded locations, but never in preference over my home network, and never ever without a way to opt out of all of it.
Not sure about the "invisible" hand part. Note the difference could be explained by the structure of each respective economy. Chinese economy is not nearly as service centric as US (Chinese marginal cost of service labor still relatively low), so chatbot type of applications are not nearly as interesting to China, though that attitude could change with time.
You could say his algorithm is 0(n) while others are O(n*m) where m is the size of the window. The window size happens to be a constant in practice, but parameterizing it does seem reasonable from a comparison standpoint. His algorithm works like other algorithms with a window size of 64, but does so more efficiently from an algorithmic point of view. He is using a hash table rather than a linear search after all.
Maybe it's related to some cloud service? (However, MS Word used to give you a fair amount of exposure to the beach ball. But I'm not familiar with any of the later versions.)
There’s a certain type of work environment where managers are only half paying attention — they evaluate performance and reward people based on how they perform in meetings, but they don’t pay enough attention to look at the real performance of people over time.

This rewards people who are good at being performative in meetings: They try to flex their importance (“it has been brought to my attention that…”) and they try to raise issues with everything because it makes them look like they’re on top of it all.

The weird thing is that they don’t really understand what they’re doing most of the time. It’s just what they’ve been rewarded for in the past, so they’ve continued to do more of what has brought them rewards.
Add time travel, UAPs etc to the mix and you have the grey alien stereotype making sense. I've always thought China would be the one to make the leaps that humanity doesn't want.
It means something as technophilic 50-year-old Stanford CS students, and the people they hire. These are rational, educated makers who pride themselves on their intellectual achievement. They are drawn to the futuristic, fair, wealthy, egalitarian meritocracy of Star Trek and hope for a post-singularity future. "Don't be evil" has a clear meaning within these (valid) stereotypes of liberal/libertarian California and SV culture.

I cannot imagine what happens when you pickle such a view in infinite money for 20 years. It's probably not good.
Often one of the parameters given is a timeframe that no sane person would request in a real-world setting. The justification I've heard for that is "we don't wan't people spending too long on it."
I’m with you on this, especially when people don’t realize that plugging GPT into some arbitrary product isn’t an original idea. It’s a bit cringe.
This is sadly extremely common. Zenimax threatened to sue the developer of Prey For the Gods because they were worried it would disrupt their SEO for the Prey remake. Which is why it's named PRÆY for the Gods now.
Scrum seems like it was lifted from this.
Weird.

The author obviously likes security updates. He isnt running zero day windows xp (which is a hoot to expose to the internet btw) he is running fully patched windows xp.

The issue he says is productivity. With maybe some amount of trying to squeeze more time out of old computers. I can empathise with the first point but not the second.

Productivity isnt a function of just the OS, its also hardware and user skill related. I feel like he could be just as productive on either flavour of 22H2 as Windows 7.
> make way more unfavorable social comparisons

I wonder if this is a huge part of it.

Instead of only having to measure up to your local friend group, who are more likely than not to be close to you in living standards and upbringing, you have to measure up to people all around the world - and most of what’s posted on social media is carefully framed and selected, making things seem better than they are; you can’t even blame them for this as people who post are incentivise to do so to increase their chances to get noticed.

One could argue that traditional mass media has already made that a thing. But I feel traditional celebrities have an air of alien-ness to them, they are like Greek gods on Olympus, such that people are less likely to compare themselves to them or at least not do so as seriously.

Social media celebrities on the other hand often present themselves as the guy/gal next door. Someone you feel you can be friends with. The fact that they might even directly reply to you via social media further reinforces that perception. All this ratchet up the pressure to measure up and when you fail to, you feel bad.
For some reason I lost it at the "PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE"
> it isn't smart enough to thoughtfully make comments about how data is pipelined through a complete application

My take is that data-centric programming requires too much context for GPT, and we're going to see a move back to doing things in a more OO way, hopefully with better languages than exist now. The ability to reason locally about objects helps both human and AI developers, so we can build larger systems. Data-centric/functional programs are akin to hand-crafted, artisanal goods that were slowly overtaken by standardized parts/division of labor production methods in the industrial revolution, and we are in the middle of one for software [0]. By the ended of it, software engineering may no longer be an oxymoron.

0. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brad-Cox-2/publication/...
Maybe the OP just needed to enable e.g. Nouveau with the appropriate kernel module parameters?

I am regularly using a 14 year-old MacBook on plain X and it is surprisingly fast.
One way they might do so is to require government ID, like other countries do. If we want accountability then perhaps every account should be tied to a government ID.
True, Donald Trump was way more chivalrous to women. No one has more respect for women than Donald. No one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOvJC-tY2ek
There is no way ATT is going to abandon the attwifi SSID.

You did not mention exceeding Part 15 emitter limits in your previous post.
Another skill that'll be pretty valuable in this era is one many of the best technical leaders possess: the ability to coach desirable outcomes from squishy autonomous black boxes over time.

Getting excellent, exact performance out of deterministic systems is an impressive feat, but autonomy means variability, and getting excellent performance out of variable systems (especially illegible ones) is a different game.
Render Svelte Directly into Phoenix LiveView with E2E Reactivity
I feel like bad UX is the least concerning problem we're going to have to deal with.
Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Get an Android phone. It's the bee's knees.
The funny thing though is that Windows 2000 was never meant for consumers playing games.

They would have to put up with Windows ME, at least in Microsoft's eyes. Which was the first version you could play games on and leave it running for hours between crashes, lol.

I also used Win 2k Pro and it was an amazing leap coming from 98, yes. My laptop came with ME but it sucked so bad I changed it after a week.
> Just VPN back to your home network if you're not confident in their security.

So you expect the average user to be able to set up a Zeroconf/mDNS-proxying VPN, since that’s the only type that will allow things like Google Cast or AirPrint to still work?

Home networks are not just about security or speed, some people have devices on them they can otherwise not reach.
My fear is AI trends towards obsoletion, and then we're penniless. If I can get some cashflow though, and put some towards also building cloud services to run AI, then at least that hardware might keep us going when one AI tool comes along that basically does what all other software projects do combined.
Why burn photos of yourself, though, at an advanced age?
I will never understand the hype behind Brave. Why would I watch ads that give Brave a cut of the money, instead of watching ads that actually benefit the content I'm looking at?
A while ago someone posted https://www.calligrapher.ai/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530011)
The sliders were interesting and generally useful but I found it frustrating that they were not repeatable. Since then I've started to think I was approaching the sliders the wrong way by assuming they directly controlled the output, rather than being weights in one direction or another.
Right, but that's the problem with the "no advertising to kids" thing. It means that advertising probably can't be used on any site that doesn't require logins, and that means that most of the commercial sites that don't require logging in will go out of business overnight.
Uyghurs are Chinese, why the wish to separate them from China, due to their location on the map? The US likes to split countries, but c'mon, not using that argument..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_Muslim_genera...
> really don't like change

> Still using a penny

Sorry, too easy... :)
Agree. The AI stuff is pure novelty, I’m skeptical it’s going to be truly adopted in its current form in any substantial way.
Very fun idea. But it seemed like they "couldn't hear me"
Nothing in the piece makes a case for that at all.

The agent says Putin lives in a bit of an information bubble but also repeatedly says he’s solely responsible for the war.

If this guy is a plant… then his FSB handlers really screwed up!
They had actually planned one but withdrew this at the last moment, replacing it by ME which was a hastily scrambled version of 98 with a 2000 look on it. And extremely unstable, at least at launch.

I still wonder how they would have thought this was better in any kind of way. A windows 2000 home release could not possibly have had as many problems as ME.
This project is from a couple of years ago. Sibling comment is correct that I'm working now.
The Gervais Principle comes to mind.
The article taught me that I can control Siri’s feedback volume by for example saying “Hey Siri, speak 25 percent.”
We’ve taken the same tact in my home. Instead of fighting it using ever evolving tools, we just use Group Policy and wholesale disable it all.

Windows is a joy to use when you turn off all the half-baked consumerized nonsense.
> I wish brave would focus less on attracting advertisers and more on the use case where people just buy BAT and let their browsers fund content creators from the wallet without having advertisers in the loop at all.

Sounds like a tax nightmare since you'd need to keep track of your cost basis and calculate your profit and loss on every time your browser made a payment on your behalf.
I'm shocked that Putin seems to never use the internet or a phone. That indicates he feels he can trust his inner circle to feed him correct information. Russia may be more politically stable than one might assume.
Sure, but that's my point, it boils down to good processes being better than bad processes.

I guess part of what is being talked about here is that people sometimes have trouble reasoning about automation vs reasoning about some human mediated activity.
It was also supported on Win2k. For D3D 10 you have a point though.
We? I don't remember choosing to build parking lots.

Wait a minute... You're trying to tell me how to live my life!
Great job. I must say that the speech synthesis sounds pretty realistic. I talked with Jobs, Musk and Obama and liked how they sounded and more importantly how they handled the questions. Do you mind sharing the entire stack you used to build this? Very well done!
That’s not how 802.11 works. If your device can’t connect to a given BSSID that’s broadcasting an SSID it wants, it will put that BSSID on an ignore list and try the next one, whatever the received signal strength.

You can of course saturate the entire spectrum, but that breaks every network, not just the SSIDs you’re "waging war" against, and will probably get you a visit by the FCC sooner or later.

Maybe you could broadcast thousands of spoofed BSSIDs; I have no idea about the legality of that, and the legitimate operator of the SSID might not find that too funny and take legal action against you as well, as that would be pretty transparent denial of service on a public band.
Not OP but I'm very fond of Bang!, the card based version not the dice version though. And now that I'm reading the Wikipedia page I'm seeing there's actually multiple options for playing online, which is great because all my friends hate it haha. Very cool. No sleep for me tonight :)
I’m commenting to bookmark this. It reminds me of Ben Stein’s “How to Ruin Your Life”.

These types of references are great for taking personal inventory. I can’t say I haven’t been doing a lot of these things unknowingly.
What I'do you laid all the cards out face down on the table, rolled the dice, and chose whichever card was closest?
gyro move kinds feel extremely artificial compared to the simplicity of all other canonical moves.
Junior high on remote Japan island holds graduation ceremony for only student
Also, "In Photos: Only junior high school student on remote Japan island graduates": https://mainichi.jp/english/graphs/20230325/hpe/00m/0na/0010...
Gonna go out on a limb and say perhaps the creator of this is a fan.
Using an LLM yesterday to code, there was no way I’d be proficient with the workflow if I wasn’t an experienced programmer.

I’ve never seen code look so correct, sort of work but be so strangely crap.
Yeah but I think all their soldiers will be tarded.
Lots of things in concentration taste bad/offensive on their own, like salt or vinegar but great mixed with other things, so I don't think this is unique to alcohol. Things with lower alcohol level like beer and wine can taste great where alcohol is just one component.
And broken USB support. Even with OSR3 it didn't quite work with many devices.
Does Apple ever respond to bug reports? I've only ever heard of them disappearing into the void. Beyond that though, users shouldn't have to file bugs against hostile features like this. Spreading the word as widely as possible about Apple's behavior here is likely to be far more effective.
I’d double check the code.

I have a similar experience but when I actually look at what’s been returned I find strange things in there.

Like it often works, but it’s rarely as correct as it seems. At least for a given use case.
Apple was not a participant in Prism. Neither was Google.

Consequently they are not complicit.

Smartphones concentrate so much personal data in a single inadequately-protected device. The severity of vulnerabilities is greatly magnified, and they are "juicy targets", as we say in the industry, for attackers of all kinds.

If that's your argument, then you're on solid ground.

If you believe that your phone is a tool of the NSA, then you're just hypothesizing a worst case scenario, unsupported by evidence.
You can't turn off the tracking crap, this is really the biggest problem IMO.

Same here by the way, I don't use it for anything but gaming and work for the tracking reason.
> The article at least has the good grace to correct itself in its subtitle

See that seems especially egregious to me. It’s proof you know the headline is terrible.

(Of course it could be that wasn’t the writer’s original title)

It’s not very common for Apple to lay anyone off, this could’ve been a decent story. Honestly the rest of the article is perfectly fine.

It’s just the framing.

The framing could’ve been something like “this is what it looks like when a company does layoffs right“. After all if you’re laying off a handful of people instead of 20,000 you clearly did a better job at not over-hiring.
You should tag this submission as (2018).
> This is not a sensible or technically sound thing to do. It is purely irrational.

It is not purely irrational, in fact it is spelled right out in the article why the author does so: he finds the Windows XP interface much better as a user than any other OS.

I can't say i fully agree personally, but the core of the problem and really the reason i don't see any of this as irrational is that people do get used to the interfaces of the OSes and programs they use and updates pretty much always tend to come with changes to those interfaces that are seen as degradation.

Though i do disagree with his assessment of Linux: while perhaps whatever he tried was slower than Windows XP (i remember reading that Lubuntu doesn't focus on low end systems anymore), Linux can be much faster. And also it is the only mainstream OS where you can have the latest and greatest underlying kernel and libraries without being forced to change your desktop interface (though depending on your choices, some DE can take more works than others).
We need to look for patterns in the birth records of people born around the same time in the same area, but who died at a "normal" age. If the same patterns occur in both cases, it's just lossy record-keeping. If not, there might be something dodgy about the supercentenarians in particular. Without a proper control group, it's all speculation.
Is a government not about making choices? Is a government not constrained by laws? Does a government have to offer services that no citizen will use?

I don't understand your distinction at all.