skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of your examples replaced humans, they were/are used by humans.

For VR, many saw through the hype due to its inconveniences and minimal benefits. If VR had tapped into our nerves then things would’ve been different. No rational person expected this.

Wearables are the future, depending on if you have any medical issues or not. You misinterpreted the hype likely because you’re not seeing the medical applications.

Crypto replaced money and banks. Anybody with an idea of the function of money in a society also saw through this one.

AI is different. It aims to replace a human brain. 5 years ago if you told me a program could listen to me literally speak and then write code that not only compiles, but works, with non trivial requirements, Id have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
Bullshit. The User should be able to get at every implementation detail. These things should be discoverable. A tech that cannot be learned except by some esoteric priesthood is a failed tech.
From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak
I saw "textbrowser" and I got overly excited. A usable modern terminal browser which generates the modern web sanely would be great.

By "sanely" I mean that across the board. For instance, if you go to youtube, using say, libcaca isn't sane. Just start up a helper app for web video like vlc or mpv. Similarly, you can block out a rectangle of the appropriate size for an image but you'd still start some helper app like imagemagick or whatever if the user wants to see it.

I just want a distraction free engagement with online content.

It doesn't have to be from the ground up. You can use v8 for js - large chunks of existing engines ... just make it a full screen terminal app.
There was a problem a while back with churches using private band wavelengths for their microphones/speakers.

Lots of church suppliers weren’t being diligent about using proper wavelengths. Church pastors were understandably ignorant of the matter.

It wasn’t an issue until some telecom purchased the block.

Lots of warning letters sent out. Lots of WTFs. Eventually a policy was “you can use the bandwidth until X date, then we’ll start enforcing it.”

Not sure what happened on X date.
Garments aren't manufactured in Shenzhen.
It takes an hour at most to grasp most of dart if you know java/typescript.

The problem with flutter is lack of high quality libraries. Jank. And finally, flutter web not being good enough yet.
Android is dominant in pretty much the entire world except for the US and Canada (maybe some European counties too). Dollars are expensive, and iPhones are priced in dollars. Plus, iMessage is a must have in the US but nobody cares about it outside of the US. I have more digits than iMessages I have sent in my lifetime.
Ah the excuses when facts are put on the table.

"Fast. Swift is intended as a replacement for C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C). "

-- https://www.swift.org/about/

"From its earliest conception, Swift was built to be fast. Using the incredibly high-performance LLVM compiler technology, Swift code is transformed into optimized machine code that gets the most out of modern hardware. The syntax and standard library have also been tuned to make the most obvious way to write your code also perform the best whether it runs in the watch on your wrist or across a cluster of servers.

Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C"

-- https://developer.apple.com/swift/#fast
Any private clinic would pay the better nurse more? You can check this quickly on job-listing portals – nurse wages are in the 20000-100000k/year range, so clearly supply and demand as well as qualification are determining it. Which socialist country is it where wages are ceiled by the government?
Interesting, when I first saw these chips my thought was Epic performance for Epic prices, now it looks like 2x Ryzen performance for 2x the price. Which is a huge improvement, I could save on the other ancillary costs of putting together a computer so it could probably be quite cost effective overall. I think I’m just outside of the target market for these chips, my workloads are in bursts so power consumption isn’t a big deal for me. Given that it’s a big deal for others I would expect Ampere Altra to price their chips to a point to go after that market which makes total economic sense. It’s generally not good business to target cheapskates like myself. I do love the chips though.
I'd argue the worse UX is letting apps change their UX on a whim without my input, i.e. auto-updates.
But it’s not really a public good. A public good can’t be provided to just a few people.

Protecting “scarce” bandwidth is about managing private goods.
That's solved by keeping it in its own window.
The parking brake issue also occurs on my Colorado. It will click and then pop back up, not engaged. VERY dangerous when parking with a trailer...
People keep mentioning we will have agi in our lifetimes but do we have any proper definition of agi? Are there any benchmarks to prove it?
The next big thing will be to reify "vertical communities" as private societies.
I've written about all the different methods here:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/evaluating-elisp-emac...
Hmm well, the Library of Alexandria is millennia older… but I guess it didn’t lend boox?
Sometimes I get this feeling that most people here are not actually interested in tech, it is just a paycheck. Difference is that I would do my job even if I wasn’t paid anything at all.
From my chair as a parent, I could not get teachers to care about one of my kids being bullied in class, and it was the administration that finally did something.

I have now dealt with dozens of public school teachers and while some were good, most were ambivalent and there were more garbage teachers than good ones.

The refrain of It's Not The Teachers rings hollow. It is the teachers. It may also be the administration, the parents, the community, the politicians, everybody, but it is still the teachers.
Nice, had no idea. Does this also work with pry? Or is there a plugin or something?

Edit: Just googled. Didn't find anything about pry, but I found https://st0012.dev/whats-new-in-ruby-3-2-irb
"Cannot reproduce the bug on my local development environment. Ticket closed"
Here's how I do that thought experiment. Maybe your answer is different.

It will depend on who owns the machines that do the work.

It's not comfortable to think about, but I think it's silly to ignore completely. I've worried about it a lot and am at peace with it, for what it is worth.

If there's a strong safety net and regulations on corporations

No matter who owns the machines that produce things people need, people are able to live comfortably. In that scenario, the world looks like one where those undesirable jobs pay exceptionally well, gain increased respect, and improved working conditions until they're desirable -- because starvation and housing is no longer under immediate threat of being withheld. I don't hate that world, it seems frankly more fair. I think we can agree that more rational decisions are likely to be better, and that forcing people to make decisions that are only rational to them under threat of food and shelter is bad.

It's not like my friends and I in middle school loved doing engineering because we saw dollar signs. We did it because we had a knack for it and liked doing it with no ulterior motive. Forcing people who weren't interested in engineering to be engineers has honestly just never seemed like it worked that great. Give kids opportunities to discover that they find engineering fun instead... there are other means to get to a good place without the threat of food, health, and housing. Much of it education.

But maybe for me, meaningful means going and helping with my friends projects until I'm inspired to make some kind of art or work on a project to make a new idea. Who knows, being productive financially is just not necessarily always what will give me a meaningful life, and we only get one. Lots of things that are meaningful to me aren't productive financially.

If there's not a strong safety net

God help us all. If you don't own the increasingly small number of things that do an increasingly large fraction of all production you are way, way, way more screwed.
I live on an RV and primarily use a IC-705 and one of two Chameleon antennas (the CHA-MIL and the CHA-TDL in vertical configuration)... just got a hexbeam pole but have yet to try it!
> I've also been looking into how to "branch" a database instead if just doing a backup, it does require some ZFS tricks but that is also just pure power and not something you find with a cloud file system.

In the cloud you can just snapshot/clone the underlying EBS volume and you’ll get a “branch” of any database on any file system, right?
That's not how it works: It's not just stations on the same frequency.

There a rather complex set of calculations which avoid interference to adjacent stations, plus interference to other services via harmonics, intermodulation products, images etc.
OpenAI vs Google, Meta's legless avatars, etc. FAANG is known, but are they the village to rise the next level of civilization?

People at FAANG are at the center of our culture. Can they question the foundation of their wealth? Maybe Apple will allow them to sacrifice a cash cow. Otherwise, it takes an outsider like Tesla to facilitate change that had been possible for quite some time.
This is how you can be surrounded by people and still be lonely when your views differ from the group.

It's also why social media can be such a positive force in peoples lives, and a potential negative in banning under 18s from all social media as was discussed in relation to a recent story.
I didn't know about the eye exams, that's pretty fascinating.

It kind of reminds me of some of the senior couples that were driving church vehicles abroad in mission territory...one of those couples got their car stuck in a narrowing alley (all dented up by literal alley walls, and bits of infrastructure on the walls) within the first week, then within the first month the trunk was held mostly-shut with rope.

It looked like a wreck on wheels, having very recently been new...but by god could that same driver tell a Japanese fairy tale in a way that got kids SO excited. Funny memories.
Html email is a pox. I set my email clients to use RTF as it’s simpler, more consistent, and one doesn’t send huge email messages full of utterly useless crap (otherwise known as html tags and stuff). I’ve been using email for 40 years and has been perennially a problem of inconsistent email rendering since html became a format option.

It was however a highly reliable and simple indicator of spam and junk.
IF format = HTML then isJunk.

Nowadays with the mindless guzzling at the web junk firehose html email is now ubiquitous and consistent in rendering it seems. But With no improvement in copy or relevance. But it does have bling!
Givewell is the correct answer. They spend a fixed percentage researching the most impact-per-dollar in reduction of human suffering, then they put the other 97% or whatever each year toward that one thing.

Give to Givewell.

https://www.givewell.org/
That’s a good thought, although I was more thinking about something up-to-date, just smaller. I think ES5 didn’t even have “let” :)

There have been a lot of improvements, in addition to the obvious bloat/creep.
https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
They should just make it easier for people to scan books. Or give incentives. Why mail physical books around when all you need is their content?

Or just get people to upload photos from the backs of the books in their library. Then extract from those the titles. Match them up against books that are missing in the digital library and are being requested by users.

Then send a message to the owner and ask them to scan this particular book.

Give an incentive based on both the number of requests and the speed of uploading the scan.

Could even allow requesters to set their own rewards. “I’d be willing to pay X to get this book scanned before Tuesday”.
> Transitions are hard, disruptive and can often cause very real and negative problems, but they are unavoidable and historically technology brings humanity to a better place in the long run.

First: Why does it have to be that way? Is it maybe because that the top does always impose the costs of disruption to the bottom?

Second: Now that we have AI that seems capable to do this kind of disruption can we kindly ask AI to do this transition smoother?
I am old enough to have one and know how to use it. My dad gave me one when I was in high school and said I wanted to be an Engineer. When I went off to college in 1975, he gave me an HP-25, I still have it and it still works. But there is something special about a slide rule, the way it's made with such precision. I still have that one my dad gave me.
And the Android rules the mobile world with 80% market share.

Also iOS applications tend to crash due to memory leaks or not enough memory being available.

So yeah a real comparison.
Ask HN: What's the best textbook or video lectures on a topic you've come seen?
What made it so special? It can be of any topic.
A similar project, but without the copyright lawsuits entangled, is inventaire.io
Interesting. Thank you for the detailed response. Paternalistic is indeed not the right term and it’s nice to worry about your fellow humans to this degree. I guess I am anti-social.

But I disagree on the premise that this is comparable to a dangerous boobytrap. It’s not completely without danger of course, but that’s a property it shares with kitchen utensils, cars, scissors, religious texts..

Are we going to preface the Bible with this kind of warnings too? I’m all for it, but be consistent.

I also think that warnings like that are cheap ways to evade liability and do not actually solve the issue which is people being stupid.

Your example is not about people being deliberate and thinking deeply about their actions based on given information. If people kill themselves after talking to a chatbot I do not think a textual warning would have sufficed.

> it is that there are potential and serious harms that are easily avoided if they are told

Let’s agree to disagree.

Sorry for sounding obtuse. I enjoyed your input, makes me think. I’m just a classic annoying neckbeard.
By that measure same applies to C++, as C++20 removed the GC API introduced in C++11.
It's Sunday again, so grab a coffee and read Five Things!

You can read about the age of average and all the conformity all around us. You can also read about how California shaped the modern world. Or about how Paris got read of the cars and improved the quality of life for its citizens. Have you ever noticed how much planning out private lifes looks like planning our business life? Oh, and sorry to break the bad news, but alcohol really isn't that good, not even the one glass of red wine in the evening.

Enjoy.

#average #conformity #paris #cars #planning #alcohol
When Elon said he thought Twitter should be more like WeChat, I thought he meant payment features and the like, but nope, just censorship of things he doesn't like and boosting things he does.

Well....it is certainly more like WeChat now. Mission accomplished!
It’s also fairly easy to make your own. The wonderful thing about that is you can sample your kimchi periodically as it ferments to learn what stage of fermentation you enjoy most. As it gets really sour, it also becomes amazing as an ingredient or grilled on its own.
AGI can solve problems in any general context using its capabilities, including problems never seen before.

There's weak and strong AGI. Right now I'd argue we have weak AGI with ChatGPT and its plug-ins. The GPT-tech allows for general purpose problem solving, but it often makes mistakes and gets things wrong. We are on the path towards strong AGI, and I have no idea how long it will take to get there.

OpenAI and others are developing benchmarks to test this tech against various problems.
Just how “underpowered” are we taking here? I’m having a really hard time imagining a chip which cannot render a menu in non-fractional fps. An 8088 can do this…

So it still sounds like a software problem to me.
I thought the vast majority are OCR and the humans are for the ones it fails at.

Regardless, all you have to do is tell people, say at the post office, that if they type the address and cut it out and tape it on, the mail will get there faster. Alternatively they could use a label maker to print out the address and then affix it to the envelope.

I bet people still writing address labels by hand probably mostly don't know that there's a speedup for fast machine legibility.
> did they purchase double the spectrum as those higher-frequency stations?

Pretty much, yes. There are always guard bands allocated, plus careful calculations to avoid harmonics, intermodulation products, images, etc, which could interfere with other services.
Perhaps Carbonyl may be of interest to you?

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
The reality is that many people use drugs, likely yourself included, and they are dying from this unregulated market. Prohibition is taking lives and making addiction worse. Whether some x percentage of people may be dissuaded from using drugs is not at issue. in my mind the harm from unclean supply is much greater.
> Why mail physical books around when all you need is their content?

Because physically mailing books is not copyright infringement.

Physically mailing books provides a legal way of sharing the contents of books with more people.
That power was diminished by the capitalized title appearing right after the first word in the sentence, which thus was also capitalized. Adding quotes would have made it easier to parse I guess.
Agreed. These usually come up when people use the LG oled TVs with pcs and get annoyingly reminded that they are not actual monitors. In particular it can be very difficult to turn these "optimizations" off.
No mention of chip sanctions?
You can unselect all from the dialog every time, iirc, as a work around for this.
I think it's a good design decision that just lacks control during the app review process.

There are apps that need full access to your photo gallery to be really useful (i.e. where limited pool of photos may have little sense in those contexts), photo deduplication apps being a case on point. At least that piece of information gives the app a chance to tell the user that it may not work as expected.

Now, if an app misbehaves based on photo sharing permissions (i.e. Google Photos not being able to work), that is a decision that the product team took. They're the ones responsible and that should be judged.

If anything there should be tighter controls during the app review process on how those apps use that info and avoid the ones that only work when sharing the full gallery.
A "library" simply refers to a collection of materials.[1]

For example in the tech world, the second "L" in DLL stands for Dynamic Link Library, a modular collection of code.[2]

There is no implication of lending in the word or concept of a "library" by itself. An explicit example of this are private libraries, libraries held and used by individuals.

A public library is a library owned by and operated for the public, aka the people, and as a library of the people the people can take (and must return) books from the public library. This is where the common concept of "borrowing books from the library" comes from.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/library

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...
Wow, giving Texas and co ideas
> keyboard-smash Chinese brands

I’m stealing that!
I thought the main reason why people use separate refridgerators for Kimchi is the smell.
> To handle the risk of misuse, strict automated moderation and periodic human reviews of selected conversations would be implemented.

If it is just as neutered as ChatGPT then why use it instead? Just because it is free as in beer?
Direct link to PDF: https://mentorembedded.github.io/advancedlinuxprogramming/al...
Another AI achievement. Frankly, I didn't see any useful application of AI yet, just evil.
Your explanation is very clear, but I still think that the article is confusing about that. Note how the author sets the expecatations at the beginning of the article:

"...the proof these young trailblazers have proposed might make a few established mathematicians eat their words.

This is because their proof uses trigonometry."

This wording implies to me that Jackson and Johnson are actually the first who came up with a trigonometric proof because otherwise how an nth in a series make a few established mathematicians eat their words? Why would they eat their words now? Why not after the first trigonometric proof?

So, he raises the expectations then drops a "it's been done before" bomb, now what are we supposed to think about what's happened here? Is it what we read at the beginning? Or is it just the elegance of the proof that's cool? But, why does THIS one make the mathematicians eat their words then?

The whole "yeah it's awesome, amazing actually, but hey, forget what I said earlier, it's been done before" kind of composition confuses me.
Are you using TypeScript, Babel, etc. or do you have to create code to check if the browser supports fat arrows, template literals, const, etc.? What's the size of your team and how many older browsers and old phone browsers do you have to support? If you have to support many browsers, want to use modern language features and you don't want to write code to check that the browser supports modern syntaxes then you do need a build system.