skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately this question is the question of why the universe isn't completely isotropic in all directions with a completely uniform distribution of matter and energy. To the best of our knowledge this is due to quantum effects at the beginning of time creating a temporary asymmetry whose resulting "sloshing" created everything more complicated than evenly-distributed hydrogen gas. Life on earth is the tiniest swirl of complexity in the vast waterfall of "wasted" entropy that is the sun burning out.
Wow that average time to respond timer is nice, wish more sites did that.
> or example, I could write a book about software development without research only inventorying my opinions, arguing for them, illustrating them, and so on.

You have a great deal of confidence if you think that you have a lot of original thoughts that have never been expressed by anyone before
At every place I've worked that had bonuses, the rules and structures for them where very precis and documented and decided on at the top level. Didn't matter how well our department or division did, the bonus structure couldn't be altered. If/when my boss wanted to reward us specifically for a job well done, his only tool was to buy us food and take us places.
> I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on.

This is still the case.

Your browser allows you to choose which font and size you want to use, as well as editing the css loaded on a tab and most browsers have extensions available to automatically load the css of your choice for a particular site.

The fact is that you choose not to use that freedom.
Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
I have absolutely no position on the subject matter.

Just pointing out that for those people who are passionate about pizza parties and whether employees like them or not, the article is not helpful.
Papers will be written on how different reactions to AI emerged in all this noise. Unfortunately, I'm all in (unwillingly) for the doomers perspective. I really can't help it but I'd love to be proven wrong. Altman keeps saying intelligence will be cheap and all I hear is I'm heading to (one day, some day) become the horse and carriage of cognitive processes.
> PhD is little more than a UBI program for people unable to integrate into the workforce.

People with Ph.D.s have the highest employment rate of any degree, so I'm not sure how you can hold this opinion. Maybe you're just a little biased against Ph.D.s?

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2022/data-on-display/educa...
In this case it may be Facebook running the show. But I was answering to the "this is a use-case for blockchain" point.

It is not a use-case for blockchain: it is (much) easier to get one or more third-party servers to host the repository.

Blockchain is a pretty cool technology, but let's face it: it does not solve anything (other than cryptocurrencies) that we don't already know how to solve in a more practical way.
> 41.2% is not the majority…

Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.
The continental plate based definition seems to include a number of splits they are not widely considered continents. I mean I’ll happily combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia, and India is clearly a continent, but an Arabian continent doesn’t seem to be brought up much at all, and I’ve never heard of somebody listing “a bit of Central America” when talking about the continents.
Here is an archived version of this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230414083903/https://www.elbru...
If they remove the human element then it means all the rules become hard and fast because we lose the ability to reason with and get exemptions in special cases right?

There are many dystopian movies that showcase this and the resulting oppression.
> given that it's quite plain it's an emergent property.

This explains nothing. Stating it's an emergent phenomenon gives us just as much information as saying it's magic. Arguably even less, because it sounds like an explanation, whereas "magic" doesn't pretend to explain anything.

> displaying emergent behaviours that couldn't have been predicted beforehand.

Same problem here. You say "couldn't have been predicted". Which is only true if you explain it away with emergence. The behaviours weren't predicted, because we don't understand how these networks work.
Saying they couldn't have been predicted implies that we can't understand them. Which is a very bold statement and I'm fairly certain that it's not true.
Yes because reading and interpreting an 11 chapter 99 section law is really simple…

So now every website owner should have to consult a lawyer who his technical enough to understand the intricacies of the law?
I believe your ontology is a naively inconsistent overessentialization of miraculous paradoxes that have confounded human thinkers since prehistory.
To improve security, consider how the aviation industry stopped blaming pilots
I think you'd have trouble finding a banner that wasn't also asking for cookie consent.
AWS debuts generative-AI-as-a-service that's so smart you'll pay for it twice
Oh, you mean stuff like this?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau9813

There's only one person here trolling, and it's not me.
Zig actually transpiles the C code into Zig code, then compiles that
Depends on the setup, but for the proper certificate pinning cases where it doesn't work automatically, I have a Frida walkthrough & script you can use to easily do this at https://httptoolkit.com/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/ and I'm working on fully automating that part within HTTP Toolkit too (more details: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/frida-mobile-interception-fundi...).
Yes: ease of use, lots of additional power (for starters, you can modify traffic, not just view it) and being able to intercept anything (multiple tabs, multiple browsers, mobile, docker, CLI tools, backend services, you name) all in the same interface.

For the web dev case, for example, if you're debugging some interaction that means you can intercept your browser <-> server traffic and your server <-> upstream API traffic all in the same place, and see the full flow, and you can modify server responses or backend API responses in flight, to test out different edge cases.

There's a Chrome dev tools vs HTTP Toolkit comparison page here with a little more detail: https://httptoolkit.com/chrome-devtools-alternative/
Lol, are you saying the issue in Canada is poor people don't fear god?

Btw what struck me -weird- when visiting over there, was how much the state seems to do to keep their poor citizens at bay.

Disposable needle containers in the Tim Horton's bathrooms is not something I was expecting.
Buttondown is great! It seems that being indie allows you to just ship a good product that does what it says on the box, instead of trying to squeeze every last bit of juice out by building a bloated product that is a jack of all trades but master of none.
> just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

A leader in the clubhouse for the Accidental HN Slogan of the Year award.
Just to be clear, the "vast stores" of water are only theoretical. There are no implications for Moon colonies. You are not going to try to extract water from glass beads. You would need to go through thousands of tons of regolith before extracting a single liter of water, and that's only if you have 100% efficiency, which you will not have.

If we ever decide to have Moon colonies we'll have 3 big problems: we won't be able to source easily carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. I predict that when we'll have such colonies, the phrase "you're worth your weight in gold" will mean you are useless, since your weight in carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen will exceed many times your weight in gold (which can be sourced locally). Similarly, "you're full of shit" will be a high form of praise, since shit will be thoroughly recycled and highly valuable.
Couldn’t that taproom be subterranean? I assume that 10m of regolith is a fine radiation shield?
I run a service that lets browser extension developers easily take payments in their extensions: https://extensionpay.com

Started making $0.15 a day and has taken a couple years to make decent monthly revenue. One cool thing is that it's also helped developers make a lot of money — over $200k so far and growing!
> It would actually 'solve' the problem by limiting the border to a manageable size.

The natural southern border is Panama. That's where you want your bunkers and siege tanks.
Intel pulls plug on server system design division
I'm one of those non-fullscreen browser (and most things in general, other than vim) window people.

> Having a large window should be telling the site "you have this space, make the best of it"

I 100% agree but I interpret this in reverse: if I made my browser window gigantic I expect you to use it. If I make my browser window small I expect you to responsively shrink.

The reason this doesn't happen is that it's pretty hard to build layouts that work across all these different screen sizes. That's generally why you get mobile/tablet/1600x900 desktop layouts and that's it.

---

I suspect this is another consequence of the app vs. text tension on the web. Apps are great to fullscreen: you want Spotify or Figma to take up the whole window. You don't want a single sentence to unfurl entirely horizontally. But there's no way to say, "I'm the kind of user who sets the browser window size to as much as you can use, so use it all" or "I'm the kind of user who wants you to center your text elements and take up at most 1600px of space even when my browser window is using 3800px."
For many people, loss of life is not the overriding concern.
I made Dynobase [1], an alternative GUI for DynamoDB. Passed 2k/mo few years ago. Runs 100% automatically now, I spend ~2h/week mostly responding to customer inquiries. I could leave my full time job but I just like it (and money) too much.

[1] https://dynobase.dev
What? Nobody is arguing that companies should avoid paying employees. How are you reading that?

For the overwhelming majority of jobs, you get paid only what's in your contract. If that number is not enough, fine, renegotiate it if you are able. But employers cannot be expected to pay you more than you're entitled to.
The performance of Microsoft Teams suggests otherwise.
Many of the Linux drivers we have today are reverse engineered. At minimum the entirety of the Apple M1 support, all of the ARM GPU drivers, the nouveau driver.

Open source firmware is much less common and firmware reverse engineering even more rare though.

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
In reality though, you wouldn’t ‘launder’ money that wasn’t ‘dirty’.

As an activity it’s basically always indicative of a crime. (Wether you agree with the law or not)

And by its very purpose, it makes the ‘base’ crime harder to prosecute and trace.

I think you’ve flipped the causality.

So I don’t think it’s so much that prosecutors just think it’s easier way forward, and if they put their mind to it they could prosecute the base crime, but don’t want to. As much as the laundering activity itself has made it too hard to prosecute.
And how many shots does it take for the kid to learn what "swimming" means or what "tall" means?
libsodium is written in C and Assembly, but uses Zig as an alternative to autoconf/make/etc.

Builds are much faster than with make, and it makes it very easy to cross-compile to other platform, includes Windows, Linux with specific glibc versions, and WebAssembly.

In fact, it was the easiest to build Linux binaries for .NET, that have to support glibc back to version 2.17, but on a recent OS, with a recent compiler toolchain.
Steam engines existed in ancient greece. It took a couple of incremental steps until they were good enough to kickstart the industrial revolution.
Already have it running!
I’m trying to show you something miraculous. It simply involves understanding that you are not your thoughts.
That attitude isn’t invited to the dinner party.
Big fan of Poolsuite!

Another one is here: https://www.vistaserv.net/

The font rendering is especially impressive to me. You can read more about it here: https://www.vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers
No, that is not true. `zig cc` uses libclang to compile it in the same way that clang would.
It's remarkably difficult to find good data comparing the "generous safety net" approach to the "tough love" approach in terms of effects on homelessness, poverty, and crime.
does anyone know what's the string above the "NO CARRIER" written at the bottom of the page?
Eventually the call makes its way onto U.S. copper. That gateway carrier should bear some responsibility for how its customers are abusing its service. For example, why do they seemingly allow one customer to make so many 911 calls?
I'm not condemning romance. I'm saying don't put that pressure one, let it happen.

I agree that sometimes you will get a bad mix, but that won't happen every time.

The idea is every month you have a different group of 4 you meet with for an hour. Small enough that the "wall flowers" cannot hide, often enough that they get pressure to contribute to the conversation. Often enough that the socially awkward will get some practice, but not so often that they get overwhelmed and quit. Low pressure to find someone to marry (include some married people in the groups), but still meeting enough people that there is a chance to find someone in a couple years.

Nothing is perfect, but given South Korea's goals I think it can help. (south Korea has other problems not touched on of course)
Russia’s commando units gutted by Ukraine war, years to rebuild, U.S. leak shows
It’s because they didn’t get the political support to fully defund then police. Slight defund = more crime.
> I think the OP's argument is, the ChatGPT can only average inputs into an output, as opposed to a human mind that can extrapolate.

Well, it doesn't. It determines where the input should be in an absurdly high dimensional vector space, goes there and looks around for what else is there, then picks one of the closest things and returns it as output.

This is not averaging input. If anything, it's averaging training data. But it's not working in the space of all things ever written in the training data - it's working in a much larger space of all things people could have written, given the conceptual relationships learned from everything they wrote that end up in the training set.
His Wikipedia article [0] is not as skeptical of his abilities and qualifications as I would have expected. Neither is that of the Vidocq Society [1]. Articles on controversial living people are hard to manage, but the Wikipedia articles and the NY Magazine article present opposite views of Walter, and I suspect they're both a bit distorted.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Walter_(psychologist)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidocq_Society
this is such an awesome idea, i can't wait to check this out!
In relational databases, the property graph queries can be really effective to write authorization queries.

Whether user 'x' has access to a resource 'z' which is related via 'y', becomes a much simpler looking query.
> I regularly see people moving the goalposts by asking ChatGPT to solve "world problems", as if asking a god. People can't do this, so why would you expect an AI trained on the output of people to just snap its digital fingers and do it?

Because (some) people are desperately looking for a _god_ that will precisely snap its digital fingers and... do it.

Seen under this prism, some of the reactions here start to make sense: "I gave it this particular problem that I thought up, and it made a mistake / couldn't answer it, hence I cannot trust it / it's just a parrot / not creative / not _really_ intelligent."

It does not matter how many things it _can_ do, all it matters is that there is this one thing that it can _not_ do. It may be more learnt or creative than any single human, but it is not yet _omniscient_.
I think the point is it would probably be well worth spending more time on. Either tapering off employed work, or being underpaid/using savings for a little bit while you push to increase it.

At least, that was my reaction too, and it seems echoed by many of the people sharing their ('no longer a side') projects.
No need to be ;-) These old-fashioned things were 'new' for me, too. About a decade ago, when I had my first induction cooking experience.

But nerd that I am, one of the first things I tried was that bubble check until boiling, and how exact the display is. Since that time I'm considering any other method obsolete. Power in Watts? Useless. Some arbitrarily chosen steps? Useless. Temperature, sight and smell it is!
I don't know if that counts, but I see it as a tech side project.

Last year I've built for my gf, a custom D2C (direct to client) ecommerce webapp [0] for her handmade products.

Then I started looking into PPC, tracking, social advertisement & marketing etc.. Now we are profitable avg ~8k / month only on retail.

[0] https://yuma.gr
Ask HN: Can I safely run a made-in-China Single Board Computer as my firewall?
I want to run a single board computer as my firewall (Internet -> Modem -> SBC -> Router). I bought a Nano Pi R4S because its hardware specs seem perfect for this use case. By default it runs on an insecure fork of OpenWRT called FriendlyWRT, but it's possible to run OpenWRT mainline on it, as well as DietPi.

Assuming I successfully flash a mainline kernel onto the device, how can I trust it's still not doing something nefarious? Is it possible to "secure boot" without a trusted compute module? Or at the very least, can I verify the running kernel is the one I expect to be running?

Some other ideas I had:

- Buy a device that isn't made in China. Unfortunately the options are slim, if I want a passively-cooled dual gigabit device with multiple cores and a few GB of RAM. But there are some appealing options, like H3+ from ODroid (South Korea) and STAR64 from Pine64 (which is RISC-V and also out-of-stock). I also considered some rootable Mikrotik devices (Europe), but they don't seem powerful enough to run WireGuard efficiently.

- Monitor outgoing traffic from the SBC by adding a switch between it and the modem, with port mirroring to a monitoring device. This wouldn't eliminate risk but it would at least give me some peace of mind.

Is anyone running a setup like this? How do you stay secure?

It's crazy how hard it is to find a dual nic, passively cooled single board computer that's manufactured in a trustworthy country. There are some options that look appealing at first glance, like Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Visionfive2... but when you look more closely, things are so sketchy; there are three different Orange Pi websites, one at .org, .net and .com... all with different links in their footer! Even Visionfive2 is "open hardware," but the first step is downloading some blob from Baidu drive.
Not really! To be honest it's a bit of a hassle and I don't have good tooling or a proper setup. I write a little script, then just record myself manually clicking through it (which is boring, and takes a bunch of tries to do smoothly) and then load it into iMovie and trim it down and speed up any awkward slow bits. It's not a perfect solution at all, but it does the job and I only update it once a year or so.

In a perfect world, I'd kill for a tool where I could define a script (something similar to a Playwright test) and it'd automatically run and record everything, so I could redo the video much more frequently and accurately. I think you probably can do that for a normal web app already (?) but the challenge here is that HTTP Toolkit is launching other apps that also pop up over the top, and so I need to record them all together.

If you're looking for inspiration around this sort of thing, the Android demo video is different and also worth looking at: https://httptoolkit.com/android/
> burden on other side to providing a definition of terms

The skeptics are really not making any claims are they?
If not then there's no burden of proof on them, is there?

Whoever says or implies that ChatBots are or are "becoming"
"sentient" are the ones making a claim. They should prove it
if they make or imply such a claim.

Skeptics are rightly skeptical, until they see a proof with clear definitions of terms from those who are saying or implying that ChatBots are
'approaching sentience".
Yes it will be limited, as long as it’s being operated by corporate entities with their predictable needs and wants. AI probably won’t get really interesting until it’s escaped the corporate world, so to speak.
have you considered making up your own tabletop RPG?

Kids love "make believe", being heroes, and playing with their parents: just make up your own story, give them some hit points and dice, then invent some checks as you go on.

It's good for their creativity, and you can sprinkle science-y concepts here and there (levers, archimede's principle, solving small puzzles).

I've been doing it with my kids, and they seem to have enjoyed it a lot, and I did more than them, I think :)
Mmmmm... There's a lot of tutorials about the general guidelines of GDPR on internet.

Then:

- either it's a simple website for fun... and then, why is tracking users so vital?

- or it's a real business, with real money... and then you should have a lawyer anyway for GDPR and others
The cost per plate is negotiated with the restaurant ahead of time. We collect all of the money at time of RSVP which includes our margin. We then pay the restaurant and keep our fee.
Every influencer is basically an ad on two legs.
Are you perhaps a Windows user accustomed to maximized windows only?
This reminds me of a fun computer science class back in university called "Programming Challenges", which followed the Springer book of the same name. Over two or three weeks, we had to solve one problem every day. That was really fun! Edit: Forgot to mention that the recursive "lake on an island in a lake ..." problem was one of the excercises.
FWIW, the PDF spec also costs some crazy amount like that for something so ubiquitous.
The vast majority of batches are not fully usable. They get the metal and often the paper, but the plastic is rarely of the purity required to make recycling it practical
Yes I remember when a local direct connect hub had a LAN party and many people met IRL for the first time. I continued to meet these people in later years in normal life even after the hub was shutdown. That was semi closed and people were generally trustworthy.
Huh, how views can differ...

I think SQL/PGQ have the potential to outright kill the whole field of PG databases (if/once existing databases actually start implementing it).

The big marketing claim of Neo4J & friends has always been that they make graph queries possible, with a big portion of that claim being that those queries would be intractable for RDBMs performance-wise.

With SQL/PGQ it becomes quite apparent that there is next to no magic sauce in PG databases and that it's all just syntactic sugar on top of node/vertex tables. All the rest of their query plans looks 1:1 what you'll find in a RDBMs. Now that they are on a level playing field query syntax-wise, PG databases will have to compete against RDBMs with a lot more advanced query optimizers, better administrative tooling etc..
It’s a Chess Puzzle
Fraud Friday: Investigation into a ring of fake Universities
Raspberry pi fabriqué en GB
“I think you might be underestimating how large the Earth is. Also Earth is receiving thousands of meteorite impacts every day, it's hardly undisturbed. It's not some unchanging museum exhibit - it's an always changing planetary body.”