skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An intersting angle to look at these changes is how long it took, and why it didn't happen until then.

Minor looking, cosmetic changes often come with deeper and more transversal meanings.
It's been a rough week for my cat and best friend Nomi since last Thursday when he started showing signs of back pain, lack of appetite and GI distress. Over the week he's lost the use of his tail and back legs which is scary, but we are doing tests and working on figuring it out. I feel bad he had to spend the week in critical care, but he would have died because his kidneys were failing from dehydration. He will be back home tomorrow and I can't wait. I've been visiting him at the hospital every day.
But you'll forever stay in a history as a guy who did it.
Amazingly good demo. You rock.

Also you're apparently very, very fit and flexible. I pulled a hamstring just watching the dance.
I think about 64% of murder victims know their murderer, but that depends a lot on your background and social network.
I think you are vastly underestimating the changes that some of those technologies i mention had on the lives of nearly everyone in the planet. For good and for ill. Probably because they were “normal” when you became aware.

Sure, lots of people didn’t have electrified houses, or cars,
but very few weren’t deeply affected their rise. That doesn’t even get to into the radical economic shifts from agricultural methods and globalism (built on such technologies), or the political shifts that radio and then television brought, most places.

You are correct I should have been more careful in how I stated it, it to sounds like everyone suddenly got a personal automobile and am electrified home. Fair enough, hit the point stands.
In my experience, that has not been true. Setting up Azure is its own major undertaking and requires an entire separate set of security reviews and approvals.
>But suddently people discover Russia is getting in on the action too, now its cause for panic?

Yes, an adversary working against American and democratic interests is a cause for concern over and above the typical American and western profit-seekers.
Yes, there’s one called Mostr
I’m Never Fine
> We do use those for geo-unblocking

What steps, if any, are you taking to make sure you are sourcing your residential proxies ethically? Honest question.
A donation like this would be extremely impactful because it would: 1. Get a lot of people talking and 2. Probably cause a bureaucratic headache for a LOT of people and waste insane amounts of time nation wide.
In essence: “have a hobby”.
I wonder what immortality would do to fertility and demographics ... people dying often "gives" a place so someone new can fill the old place. But if everybody is immortal then the number of people on earth would just keep adding up, even with the demographic stagnation in developed countries.
You think precogs are required for any level of crime prevention? No wonder people are fleeing SF
Well, who else but for me? I make a living by thinking analytically about technical matters with sound logics and clear evidence. But that part of me wants to think about stuff that is completely opposite of what I normally do. So they are mad at each other. Kinda schizophrenic, I know.

But that is just human, right? Frankly, I would be more afraid of someone who never argue or debate an idea within themselves than someone who does so occasionally.
At this point, you have an opinion on him. He does not have an opinion on you.
More than SF currently has… clearly
Playing devil’s advocate is a great antidote to this article.

I also agree that Harvard doesn’t need any more money, but…

You notice something in that article, which is that Harvard is almost twice the size of the next largest school in that article’s list of richest schools per student. The undergraduate part of Harvard is extremely small and exclusive. Griffin gave the money to the graduate school of arts and sciences, which is actively building the capacity to serve more students. They’re building what is effectively a second campus on the Boston side of the river, with even more land than they have in Cambridge.
Don't get distracted by the specific task. The task is analogous to Hinton's neural networks doing handwritten digit recognition. It's a placeholder task while the tech evolves. Not too easy, not too hard. Not crazy, has some value, but not claiming to be a killer app. The robot is doing mobile manipulation in a semi-structured environment that was not designed for the robot: this has been in the 'tough' category for a long time.

It's also a clear nod to Connell's Herbert, from nearly 40 years ago. A seminal project in AI/robotics history.

https://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1986c-herbert-th...
> But reading to find how you might dismiss it is different from reading it critically.

How so?

You're free to believe whatever you wish about me, only the actual issues raised are what matters, not the person raising them.

> It's not about the trucker convoy, no.

This is far more important than whether or not I personally rub you the wrong way. It means the paper is not legitimate.

> when it's simple to find the definition just by searching

I didn't just search, I actually read it. Stare at the paragraph again:

> Figure 2: Overall hate speech on Twitter increased after Elon Musk bought the platform. Number of hateful tweets sam- pled during each week in 2022, compared to a baseline of tweets collected during the same time period. The spike in March, 2022 coincides with the Canada convoy protests.

Look at the chart and this description and tell me you don't understand the problem here.
I am getting major psychoanalysis vibes from this article. I am reminded of Sigmund Freud and I think he wrote about dream interpretation. Today, we tend to think about dreams as random thoughts that don’t really mean much, but Freud had a hypothesis that they had something to do with wish fulfillment.

It also reminds me of a recent submission here where I believe it was an article in the WSJ about being able to choose what you dream.
> a boneheaded assumption that this money is being donated for its societal impact

Pretty hard disagree. The subtitle of this article is "Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be." The author seems pretty clear-headed about what the purpose of this gift is. The also seem to say "sure, EA isn't the end all/be all of donation guidance", but it is an easy way to highlight that Griffin's act of altruism is a vanity play.
a hub-and-spoke model comes to mind, instead of a mesh. That would probably help a lot with the management aspect, at least for consumer devices.
I mean, yes you could argue for no true scottsman here, but it is a little different when the initial book or whatever that spurred the movement is the one being quoted.

Any movement distilled into only three words is gonna have a bad time right?
Obviously they do as it is just as common in South Korea as Japan. I have never heard of the word hikikomoro before. It's definitely not in common English usage at all. Otaku is what I hear in Korea. Recluse is English.
Because not everyone knows that donations to Harvard are ~scams.
This seems dramatic given the context haha, I would think NOT donating $300m would be a bigger sign of what you're describing
I have similarly experienced dreams (day dreams even) that seemingly predicted the future. Not discounting a possible spiritual phenomenon, but at least for me I reconciled these situations as being possible "memory falts".
E.g. one time I knew exactly what a friend was going to say before they even said it (phrase was long and unique enough to seem unlikely for me to just be able to predict it). Although it seemed my mind reading powers were happening in real time, experience of the moment only exists in my memory. So it is possible that my brain imagined that experience.

Maybe recording dreams on physical notes is the way to go to account for possible memory shenanigans.

Or indeed it could be that one can recall a dream that happened by chance to be analogous to a real event.
A donation to Harvard only accelerates opportunity inequality. Harvard benefits only rich kids.
Another old UNIX prior art is finger.
Utah passed a law that social media sites have to verify the age of users using drivers license or passport, etc. Check boxes aren't good enough. The end effect is adults will have to upload their government papers to continue participating in online speech. Other states have similar laws in the works; it remains to be seen if they will stand up to legal scrutiny.
Do you mean mustie1? I used to watch that channel all the time, super entertaining. Shows you all the cool technical bits of engine repair and maintenance without boring you to death.
He should have given that money to an advocacy organization instead. (But only if it’s one that this blogger happens to agree with.)
I know what you mean, but the intensity is not comparable
> Cruise can only operate in a small region between 10pm and 5:30 am when bus service is limited and there will be few interactions to report.

This is wrong. One of the incidents referenced in the article happened during the day (driverless cruise rear ending a bus.)
I'm obviously not staff either. Indeed some user's submissions are to their own interesting blog or similar with insightful or interesting views.

I should have been specific (and not merely what was relevant to the OP) but I figured both looking over the guidelines as well as all the sites which are marked as dead, would have formed a useful basis of OP's future submissions and comments.

< Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. />
huh, now i wonder if we could make a 3d printer heat brake out of zirconium oxide

I hope these peeps expand into diamond as well, there's barely anyone doing work with fused or solid polycrystalline diamond anywhere near the consumer market
For less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day (per taxpayer)...
I want to animate video game characters with as much automation as possible because hand drawing frame-by-frame takes forever and ever. Is this my best bet?
only fans
Harvard produced many of the people that built a society with staggering and increasing levels of income inequality. Consultants, hedge fund managers, architects of super addictive social media platforms, politicians who write laws favoring corporations over workers, etc. etc.
I don’t think it’s generally true that Indian companies lie about the provenance of their products.

However, when it comes to these products who are blatantly playing on patriotism (the last refuge of a scoundrel) I find that these products invariably lie about their provenance. There’s this, but there was an Indian phone that was supposed to have been made in India which also happened to simply be a reskinned Chinese phone. But on US shores you has the Freedom Phone which sold itself as a Patriotic all American made phone which was also a reskinned Chinese phone and little else.
On the LLMs? Is that a first strike against SkyNet?
I'd love for there to be some competition. Absolutely.

This submission is about cordless power tools batteries, so that somewhat affects the scope. In general, cords can be super dangerous & limiting for power tools, so battery based has naturally really taken the heck over, for all kinds of good reasons. Even still, I think the questioning is fine & good, could apply to this segment.

Bluetooth is a bit hard because of pairing. Where-as a physical connection is unmistakable & zero additional effort.

I'd also point out, we're still bloody fucking awful, just dogshit terrible, about using USB. USB-hid has really nice specs for batteries & chargers to offer telemetry. Our wall chargers could report tons of stats on what they think is happening. Our batteries could self report all kind of stats. There's no good reason we have simply ignored the longstanding spec for so long, made such & continue to make such poor use of USB, other than abysmal expectations & abysmal delivery. (well, for a while, usb charging's high power modes only worked if there wasnt any data, and that was a dumb if valid reason).

It would be great to see usb-pd batteries keep winning and wireless telemetry.
If I point out that something you did is bad because of a particular outcome, that doesn't mean I thought your goal was to avoid that outcome. In fact it means exactly the opposite; if your goal was not to avoid that outcome, but it should have been, then my criticism is even more applicable.
For some reason I can’t get over the word “juxtaposition”.

Whenever I come across the word, it’s a pretty strong signal that a writer/speaker is simply trying too hard. Similar to the abuse of the word “unctuous” by food writers, it’s a deceptively narrow word that tempts people into seeing where they can fit it in.
I wish that were possible here. Looks quite ingenious actually.
Side topic. Is it better for society to give 300mil to an ivy league. Or start a new university?
>I guess there is some sort of indirect benefit to be had after such a donation, like an entry pass for a child, an entry pass for a PhD, or something of that vein?

You could get that for a million probably. He donated it because he's a vain billionaire who wants the world to remember him despite not achieving anything memorable.
Implementing all of that, without using a significant amount of memory for every step of the way to boot. It's impressive how little memory an Erlang process needs.
Most of the property crime seems to involve people in cars. In addition, drivers killed 50 people in San Francisco last year, mostly pedestrians. There were 55 homicides in the last year -- to be clear that 105 killings last year, about 50% by drivers.
I'm just guessing by the demographics of this site that you work in tech. I don't, unfortunately.
There's some YT videos making really wild claims about how everything is about to be revolutionized from some examples people have tried, or just ideas of using LLMs for everything. The cynical part me things it's half fundraising.
If I was one of these creepy organizations, “deleted, edited, or not posted” would have to be a pretty strong signal that I might be interested in it.
Internet Trolls Have Tormented This Writer for Years – and He Can’t Stop Them
I'd go one further. There are plenty of actively harmful donations one could make. As one example, most people would probably feel that way about roughly half of political donations.
The problem with nazis is not their proclivity to murder. It’s their radical upheaval of social norms to dangerous selfish ideals. And in that sense I don’t see much of a difference between the larpers.
But what? What would be lost without the 300 million? If you can’t be specific then I think it’s to the authors point. I mean, just consider that he spent 300 million and the impact isn’t obvious.

At least in your fish example they used it for the intended purpose for some period of time and there is still some low utilization for dried fish. It’s also half of 300 million so it seems they did more with less despite it being a failure.

Regardless, effective altruism is bullshit. They can donate the money however they want. They wouldn’t be a better person or even more charitable if they were an “effective altruist.”
yeah, the whole letter sounds like it was coded with a gun to his and his wife's head.
Salesforce Is Leaving a San Francisco Office Tower Bearing Its Name
I'm sure it will have some impact, but a school that refuses to increase student body size at the expense of plenty of people trying to get in is disgusting to put it lightly. Not to mention their promulgation of a legacy system, which comprises nearly 30% of undergrads.
Harvard and it's peers are some of the very few academic institutions that have need blind admissions and generous need-based financial aid.

For poor students, Harvard and its peers are pretty much the only free college options besides merit scholarships.
Every dollar KG gives to Harvard is a dollar he can't spend to fund nutjobs for public office.

(Plus, the way he wasted $50M in the Illinois primary is probably the least effective way to have spent money)
You know what is interesting? Of all the actors on that first chart, Tom Hanks might be (and I am not so sure even then) the only one who does not feel like the same person on every role. The characters and their personalities change but the actors' demeanor and core attitude and "soul" feels the same.
The Twitter example seems different from the rest. Verification as a service is exactly something you would do to create trust between people who aren't celebrities.
The article very plainly spells out how this is just done villainous vanity play…no?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sundar is forced to step down, his tenure at Google wasn’t that great
It's what the coroner told us happened, yes. It's also what the video evidence we saw with our own eyes said had happened. It seems very likely to be what really happened, unless you have evidence you're hiding from everyone else.
I mean, Blackberry was huge and the market was still rapidly growing with no signs of slowing down. The addressable market was even bigger since even back then lots of people didn’t have cell phones and the majority were still feature phones (but more and more people were ditching landlines instead).

Sure, it can be hard to know when to stay in, but the “death by a thousand cuts” is not a financial problem. These are often rounding errors to continue. It’s a question of focus. And Intel clearly made the mistake of thinking they didn’t need to focus on mobile.
$300 million is a lot to pay for your kids’ tuition.
Is there a logical fallacy somewhere in there?

If everybody thought the same then no one would donate to them and they wouldn’t be the richest school.

Isn’t it similar to saying “what’s the point of voting, in my state my party always wins anyway”.
tl;dr: automatic enrollment has resulted in more people contributing to 401(k) plans. Also, preaching the gospel of target-date fund allocations is driving young people to prioritize equity investments.
> it wakes you up at 5am

by loudly vomiting up a furball onto the carpet.
The point is that the cellphone is a multiplier with which every person can improve their lives. That was true before the internet (see fishermen in Africa using phones to communicate about the best current fishing spots) and even more so now.

If you put me on a desert island with an internet-connected phone that I could recharge once a day, I'd have a far better chance of surviving [1] than if you gave me a flushing toilet or a power point in my house. Obviously there are comparisons that will fail this, but this is to underscore the spectacular catalytic influence that everyone (roughly) has in their pocket.

Our child's carer has a mom living in Zimbabwe, who has no power and running water. She used her cellphone to contact her child when she was sick, to get money, get a lift to a bigger hospital. She made her own choice on what she would buy and in this extreme case it was the smart move.

[1] Help I'm on a desert island, here is my location. How do I gather water. Is this plant edible. Is that animal dangerous. How can I build a shelter.
Right, I didn't say all browsers, just the popular mainstream ones. Safari, Chrome of any kind, including Edge.
There's also Alexa. I've seen no noticeable improvement in 5 years. It is difficult to believe that Amazon has any credible AI expertise to sell.
Start a new university.
> Emacs also has a built in email client, RSS reader, IRC client, calculator, file browser, web browser, markup language, regex DSL, Vim emulator, terminal emulator, custom elisp based shell, interactive REPL that works for several programming languages, and probably at least 200 more things that I don't even realize exist yet.

Chrome and Firefox also have all this stuff, but I don't see people trying to conflate a web browser with an OS. See the difference between ChromeOS[0] and Chrome[1].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
I like the idea of Effective Altruism (EA), but it’s ironic to use EA to call out ineffective charitable spending in the wake of all the Effective Altruism ridiculousness of recent years. EA was a key part of SBF’s cover story to make his frauds appear to be coming from a philanthropic angle. An EA figurehead recently spent multiple millions, some of which was FTX donations, on a castle/chateau to “host events”, which they rationalized as a good use of funds for weird reasons that even the EA community isn’t buying ( https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pbe8x4AQDqftQoaT5/... ).

When you look into the history of EA movements, a lot of the spending becomes weirdly self-serving and requires a lot of mental gymnastics to justify. One shining example that comes to mind is the $30K grant they allocated to printing Harry Potter rationalist fan fiction and distributing it (Yes, this really happened: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/... ). Hardcore EA proponents will get staunchly defensive about all of this weird spending, but then they’ll single out $300mm donations like this for not going to malaria nets. It’s getting old.
Avoid building new protocols. However if it really can't even be shoehorned into an existing protocol, or if there are extremely clear problems (to the point that the existing closest option is even unsuitable as a compatibility / bootstrap interface); then go ahead and make a protocol that really covers the use case, if you can also make an open source (as in free beer) library anyone can use to talk with it.
Some example of how your app work would be informative.
Composition/SeqComp comes for free. A monad is how to wrap something up,apply a function to the wrapped up thing, and how to unwrap it.
Not saying it is cheap, but production yachts seem to be going for $300-400k. That's like an RV, which you see around.
Square-Wheeled Bicycle Works Like a Pedal-Powered Tank
That costs a lot more than $300 million.
Good luck, hoping for the best.
Turnitin's AI Writing Detection Capabilities
The difference is that if you make up your mind about the paper before you've even read it, a.) You've written a self fulfilling prophecy, b.) Your criticism will be shallow, and c.) You're not going to understand the paper.

The problem isn't that I have any animus towards you (which I don't). Frankly the problem is that you're misrepresenting what's in the paper. If you say you've read it, you shouldn't be saying it's misleading and justifying that by things that are trivially checked by searching.

I'm doing my best to presume good faith and to presume that you weren't doing this intentionally. But you're not really giving me a lot to work with in that regard.
A cursory reading of the history of Stalin's mass murders and deportations puts paid to this. No one living through the Terror mistook this bullshit for a Captain Kirk Iowa boy in space fantasy. And his usefulness isn't lost on the current FSB animals who wear Yuri pins inside their jackets.
That is so obscene. So basically every American paid a dollar per day, I guess. (I know, ~most don't pay income taxes, but yeah.)
GNU toolchain for RISC-V including GCC
I was quoting the tweet :-)
It doesn’t cost $300m to get your kids into Harvard.
Cotton Candy and $864 in Sex Toys: Influencers Go Big on Tax Write-Offs
The lamest thing about EA is easily its name.

Imagine if Disney came out with “Effective Avengers” tomorrow
I used it as a reference for the Welford's method of calculating the mean and variance, and for other random things throughout the years. If you need a solid /reference/ for some mathematical-computerish thing, it's probably there.
UML is dead! Long live UML!
Italy’s new rules for ChatGPT might be a template for Europe
Model Ms are terrible. A nice modern mechanical with light linear switches is neither.
Twitter Enables Trading via EToro
i'm imagining it, and i honestly can't think what information they could learn that they couldn't learn from your browsing history or all the other data they already have