skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand you correctly, your gripe here is with the name of the worst scenario, because you believe that:

> A 500% increase in anything is not "business as usual" by definition

I have two questions here:

1) why is a 500% increase in coal usage "not business as usual by definition"? What is the definition you're going off, and why does it not fit? "Business as usual" doesn't mean "everything as it is right now", it means "continuing on the current trajectory". If there was a definitive trend of increased coal usage, how would a 500% increase fall out of the definition of "business as usual"?

2) this is a gripe you have with communication, but it's actually not really relevant to what I asked. Do you have a specific answer for my initial question? An example could be that you show the prognosticated change in temperature, and show that current data falls completely out of it.
Ah! Brings back memories of Oracle Pro*C from decades ago...
> Just feels like such a weird way to operate such a business - to just go completely hands-off and let all participants tear each other apart via content reporting or takedown requests.

It's a free hosting site, the correct way to operate that business is to lower your operating costs as much as possible, such as for example by not employing thousands of additional lawyers to arbitrate in complex legal queries where, if the case goes to court, there is a significant chance the finding would be different to a legal analysis anyway (most analysis of fair use claims by a competent lawyer would have a substantial part of the answer be "I don't know but there's a risk...").

If you want a hosting provider who'll do that, bluntly they are much more expensive than YouTube are.
Once again, EU laws benefiting everyone.

And even this article only acknowledge this at the 3rd paragraph, if you only read the title or the first few sentences it depict Apple as the good guy.
Related: Matthew Butterick has a very accessible online book called Beautiful Racket on how to create little languages using Racket to solve problems (including some Advent of Code) which I found a really fun read:

https://beautifulracket.com/
In their terms it sounded like if they close your account for whatever reason, you can still go directly to the banks and recover your funds. They did say the funds would be temporarily uninsured at certain points while in transit (deposit/withdrawal, redistribution, etc) but that seems like a relatively small risk

Is it possible they'd try to claim first-dibs on your funds that are living in other banks if they went under and had to pay back shareholders?
> LLM sure looks to be the end stage of the enshitification of the internet.

The web is not the internet. Join us! https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Also "worst gaming device" is a feature, not a bug in that market.
> Many of the experiments and developments during the 1800s led directly to the eventual development of the powered airplane and transatlantic wireless communications in the early 20th century.

The article goes on to explain that the Wright brothers we avid kite fliers, but doesn’t pick up the other thread about transatlantic wireless comms. I would presume it has something to do with lifting an antenna, perhaps?
> How could custom software destroy a phone, a computer, a TV, a printer?

The problem with your question is that you replaced the word "firmware" with the word "software" when the distinction between the two is the answer to the question.
This is one of the most insightful books about the nature of thought ever written.

It's particularly interesting now, of course, as AI models are starting to solve some of the problems Hofstadter discusses but completely failing at others.

There's an example problem in the book... "If abc were changed to abd, how would you change ijk in the same way?"

A good answer is "ijl". We guess that the rule is "advance the last letter by one".

I just asked ChatGPT and it said "ijd". This is a valid but boring and stupid answer.

Another is "If abc were changed to abd, how would you change xyz in the same way?"

Do you try to move z past the end of the alphabet and say "xya", or do you recognize the edge as significant and say "wyz"?

ChatGPT again just says "xyd". You can make it generate the other answers by cuing it to "consider letter position" or "consider symmetry", but it also then explains its reasoning incorrectly.

As we're trying to figure out what the difference is between actual creativity and mash-ups of earlier concepts, this book is basically required reading.
There is seemingly a movement or line of thought that blames the success of “big tech” on permissive licenses. You do not see it as much on Hacker News, but it certainly has spread across IRC and many other forums. What is even odder is that a subset of it uses alt-right terminology to refer to both permissive licenses and their proponents. It is all very weird to experience as someone that entered the FLOSS community in the early 00s. Not to mention having had a personal conversation with rms bemoaning the license schisms and him explicitly expressing gratitude for the BSDs contributing to the larger FLOSS movement.
Are we talking about something like Amazon having a record of things I have purchased from Amazon? Or are we talking about Google buying a copy of my credit card transaction data?

Because one of those is a perfectly normal part of any business relationship, and the other is absolutely not normal and not acceptable.

I mean, Amazon stopped mailing receipts with line items of your purchases to Gmail customers because Google was maintaining a purchase history for transactions that they had nothing to do with.

> Google’s secret page records everything you’ve bought online

https://www.komando.com/shopping/googles-secret-page-records...
No government employee will get fired for enforcing the status quo or coming up with a new regulation that seems to improve safety.

However there is huge career risk to reducing regulation, easing up on "safety" rules, etc. And anyone who does that will be attacked and if possible punished if anything goes wrong.

Literally there is no incentive for bureaucracies to do better.
Yep, people's behavior respond to incentives, and in most developed economies, each kid represents a major sacrifice instead of the 'investment' they used to be.

If you want more kids, you have to make the cost of having them lower. This means building more housing, subsidizing childcare like france and sweden, but stronger, and making higher ed affordable.

Now all that costs a lot of money. To do that, we'd need to cut spending on other things, and raise taxes. I don't buy the assertion from Zeihan and others that it's impossible though.
Calhoun's rat paradise experiment doesn't replicate, as Gwern helpfully discovered for us:

https://www.gwern.net/Mouse-Utopia
These days, there are showrunners who would have changed the plot because "someone online guessed it".
"tough", "rough", "though" and "borough" all come from Old English, without any French influence. The wackiness in pronouncing "ough" is sadly not predictable from any set of rules and as you'd probably expect varies between dialects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)
My claim is that 'mean things' have to be true. Claiming a false belief isn't mean or an insult, that's just being wrong.
> I’m sorry but what do you mean by “organics”?

You know, "meatbags", "carbons",
If successful it will inevitably accrue it's own cruft.
Thanks James, nice article. (I had not seen the TLA "PDN" before but now I know you mean "Power Distribution Network".)

VNAs have become remarkably cheap; here's one that < $ 60 https://www.amazon.com/50KHz-900MHz-Analyzer-Measuring-Param... I have one of these, it works very well.

Fancier ones are of course available. This one goes to 6.3 GHz https://www.amazon.com/LiteVNA-64-Analyzer-50KHz-6-3GHz-Port... and is $ 180.

I have this 'fancy' one: https://www.tindie.com/products/hcxqsgroup/nanorfe-vna6000/

One trick I learned from the RF guys is: put two same value capacitors in parallel; it doubles the capacitance, and also reduces by about half the ESL (inductors in parallel rule). Clever.
Oh, only for people with iphones? And then these companies act surprised when people call for breaking them down.
> the big car won't fit in the city well, and your other options is paying a lot more on public transit because odds are there isn't a family pass, so the big car is probably cheaper.

The TCO for a car is thousands of dollars per year. Granted the US only has three or four cities that come close to facilitating carless society, but in those cities, I doubt public transit costs $5000 a year or more.
I can't find anyone out there that advocates teaching only phonics. It's a step in the process of learning to read that, if left to teachers that were taught under a non-evidence based approach, many try to skip.
The Natl Guard Plans to Geofence High Schools and Target Phones with Recruit Ads
> "Charlie's not a dog, he's my best friend"

I'd argue that one can be damaging and we should call people out on it.

Dogs are dogs and they need to be treated like dogs. The infantilization of dogs is how you get unleashed dogs getting into dog fights when it turns out that Charlie really just is another dog and should have been leashed.
I was a skeptic, but it's very useful and not hallucinatory for small and specific coding questions.

For example, today I asked ChatGPT how to write a class method in Ruby and to explain the class << self idiom. Super simple stuff, but it gives accurate answers and it's way more convenient than Google.

For this class of simple queries there's a lot of overhead to do a Google search and then try to filter out bullshit and padded results vs a super simple prompt to ChatGPT.
It’s an advertising company. Their destiny is to reach parity with Clear Channel Communications in terms of ethics and quality.
So, a few comments down from a substantive comment by testfoobar, we've arrived at the inevitable comment saying almost explicitly that black people are dumb. If you want to just say this out loud, there are corners of the internet where you can do it. Hopefully this is not one of them.
Which numerous credible accounts?

We're going in circles here. You know the citation I'm referring to; you also know that the source you're linking to mostly doesn't address those items (except for one, and mostly by spin and in a way I just don't credible).

Some might have jumped on the train considering the nature of the accusations.

As if women don't know when they're being hit on.
It has been several years since I gave Android a try, but my experience was that the Android ecosystem (specifically the Google Play Store in the U.S.) was indeed much worse than iOS with apps distributing malware, destroying battery life and performance with background tasks, sending all your contacts off to their server, using push notifications for spam, etc. (To be clear, these things have also been problems on iOS, and my position continues to be that Apple should be even more restrictive about this stuff).
programmers from different origins and cultures working on the same codebase will have a noticeable problem in naming things.

there is currently no tooling to address this problem.

it was always amusing listening to oral history of a part of the codebase where developer X named things with bias to their heritage.
> The setting that Facebook hates and evidently bet the whole company on - "Ask App Not To Track" - probably wouldn't go away for sideloaded apps.

Apple phrased that as peculiarly as they did for several reasons. "Ask App Not To Track" is not "Force App Not To Track", it relies a lot on self-disclosure from apps and some discovery from App Store testing cycles and apps already currently lie about it and things are missed in App Store certification.

There's less reason for self-disclosure by sideloaded apps and no certification process to spot-check such self-disclosures even if a sideloaded app provided them.

"Ask App Not To Track" does feel like a vulnerable tool if sideloading is allowed and certain major apps create pressure to encourage average users to sideload some common apps.

Whether or not you are looking forward to capabilities that sideloading would grant, it is fair to lament the possible loss of how good "Ask App Not To Track" has been so far and assume it will get worse in a sideloading world.
I thought DDG was just a thing wrapper around Bing. Has that changed?
While I do think every software patent I have seen fails the enablement requirement (there is a bit of selection bias there I have only looked at ones people call out as horrific), I think requiring source is a bad idea.

Something like what would come out of a clean room reverse engineering effort should be good enough.
Is GCP really a failure? I think the product is OK and they seem to have some big customers. They're maybe #3 in the space, but you can make a lot of money without being #1.

Yes, we all hate their support structure (it goes through SADA), but the price is right. At my last company with 4 engineers we were paying AWS ~$1000/month for support. At my current company back when we had a cloud service on GCP, we got weekly calls with support for $0/month. Folks at Google also seemed to approve my weird resource requests (tons of GPUs in the midst of a GPU shortage, etc.) without me going through any back channels. I didn't find it terrible to work with at all, and it was much cheaper than AWS.
Yeah, I suppose this stuff isn't common-knowledge outside the commercial mobile development space.

There are complaints in this very thread about how shit the software selection is on the Play Store compared with iOS. This is why. Companies that have to, for whatever reason, pick only one platform to start on, usually pick iOS. If they add on Android later, they expect it not to make as much money as the iOS app, so may half-ass the port. In some cases, good apps that have enough revenue to keep them alive on iOS, may judge that an Android port won't be worth the added cost (especially smaller apps—think, one or two developer sorts of operations, they may run the numbers and project only a 20% revenue boost from adding an Android port, which may not be enough to cover the dev, testing, administrative, and support time the platform would require). There's a perception that, basically, Android users won't buy apps (which is... kinda true) and that's why the iOS version of an app might be ad-free and paid, while Android only gets an ad-supported variant—the vendor doesn't think creating and supporting a paid option on Android is worth the extra overhead.
The press release from Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-...
Dunno why you're being downvoted - folks this is very clearly satire.
Improving animal welfare through technology – announcing Innovate Animal Ag
You are wrong on this.

A patent makes claims, patents should be shown to work, code is a proof of that. They are computational existence proofs. We should hold our systems to higher standards of rigor.

You are shooting something down for how it could possibly be subverted, rather than do that, how about we think of ways that it could be made less corruptible? Is this not a pro-fatalistic stance?

Not only should the patent require the code, the product should require the code to be held in escrow. And for safety critical systems, the formal checked models should be presented in a way the proves that the bits on the system were generated from the formally checked code.

Would it fix all problems? Hell no! Would it prevent some entities from innovating in the market, hell yes!

As it currently stands, you don't even have to have a working system. Corporations are effectively patenting problems, not solutions. Patents themselves are a worthless way of transferring knowledge, this is what needs to change.
Pickpocketing is less of a problem in areas where people aren't carrying around cash and credit cards.
But so many teachers have been miseducated and they try to leave it out. Wyse and Bradbury at UCL are pushing non-evidence based approaches on the false authority of Margaret Meek Spencer [1] by making up a strawman of teaching only phonics, as if people that advocate teaching phonics claimed that were the only step in learning to read.

[1] https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152356/1/Wyse_The%20...
Apple Launches High-Yield Savings Account
4.15% is still well below annual inflation.
They missed the chance to call it OpenPajama
> I promise you, they are not sitting there thinking "Alright yeah! A bunch of people are really pissed off at us! High fives all around, this is exactly what we aim to do here at Nintendo!"

Despite that, there could be a handful of people with influential roles in the company who consider this to be a part of doing business. To your point, those same people would likely still know about this situation (rather, the general situation around copyright / marketing) and understand why they make the decisions they make while still being genuinely concerned with the trade-offs. To your parent commenter's point, that doesn't mean this is any sort of crisis (or "nightmare") to the most influential decision-makers at Nintendo; it's just part of their job.
What is false?

Facebook could pull Instagram and tell users to visit Instagram.com.

They can now block some/all of the app based on whether or not you've enabled location tracking.

And malware on macOS works different because macOS doesn't have the same security model as iOS. macOS apps can access large parts of the system after one or two security prompts, and Apple has gone on record that this is not the security level they want for iOS[0].

I guess you could mean that Apple would do notarization, but I can assure you that enough third parties would still fight Apple in court/via lobbying to remove all of Apple's oversight over app approval.

0: https://www.cultofmac.com/742918/craig-federighi-apple-softw...
Hey, thanks.

It should be easier to get started with Whatsapp Cloud API. I have been using the gem for a while and it's working for me.
Freedom of Speech, Not Reach
Show HN: AI Commits IntelliJ Plugin
Doesn't that leave you wondering if the answer it gave you for certificate based auth is accurate? How do you verify?
These days? Sadly, yes. With good reason, I cannot by default trust any software from the web.

Depending on how exactly this is done, it might yet be safe: we can have multiple roots of trust, multi multiple app stores, etc.

I'm nostalgic for the bygone days when I didn't feel even slightly concerned about spyware because no bank cards were stored on my device and tech companies didn't phone home so routinely that the EU nations unified their existing legislation into GDPR in a vain attempt to try to get them to stop.

But I don't see those days returning short of a Butlerian Jihad against anything post-2002.
I'm only interested in products that wholly refuse to use LLMs.
Any of a large number of things that Apple currently doesn't allow on the App Store.
Late reply, but no, legally you cannot buy or sell a CPAP machine without a prescription. It so obviously should be OTC that there's a thriving gray-market.
If it isn't, then my question "why the inverter" still applies I suppose. Anything else might just be out of scope or not shown, I'm not sure. It just seems like overkill for just the pi and display.

edit: His desktop computer is powered by this at times. Not pictured and not labelled on the photo. Makes sense though.
Vim-ccls: Vim plugin for the ccls language server
You're right, game console are more expensive. But both of them are more expensive than the other streaming boxes/sticks that most people buy (roku, chromecast, fire stick).
Formal methods and AI: Where does Galois fit in?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600882
> so much so that it terrifies bleeding heart liberals

Can you break this term down for me then?
If older techniques work for you, there is of course no reason to switch to LLMs besides general curiousity or to explore what's possible already. That said, in my case I was enable to generate much more engaging text summaries of tabular data using a Llama derivative.
I expected the process of how you obtain a label and the testing involved, and didn't get that at all.

So I have to agree with the above commenter that this article has no useful information at all.
It is, but the context is that most other savings account in the country have been giving less than 1% for years now, which is unconscionably low.
Andy Ngo is a neo-nazi-friendly liar that claims everyone who criticizes him is antifa, and selectively edits his videos to distort the truth.

Twitter threads of Ngo using selective video editing to make it seems like up is down:
https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/116496174509978828...

General summary: https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-...

Ngo lying about leftist critics being violent, and Musk taking him at his word and banning them: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
On the flip side I tried to get chatgpt to help me generate a pandoc metadata.yaml file to convert a bunch of markdown files into a single docx file.

I tried to keep it simple to start with so I could incrementally build it up so started with wanting double line spacing and the content of each markdown fike to start on a different page.

I gave up in the end and had to do the research myself as chatgpt was massively hallucinating and throwing random stuff in I didn't even ask for.
Some k8s changes also the biggest thing that stands out is the backend DB can now use SQLite instead of the default BoltDB.
The Apple Store makes it incredibly easy to cancel subscriptions and getting charge refunds. Try getting a refund out of a side loaded app charge.
OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
At that rate, is the codegpt output any different than outputting from /dev/urandom?
As it stands, the only "image" these corporations are maintaining is "suit-wearing hypercapitalist squares who only love money and absolutely despise anything resembling fun or creativity". Issuing takedowns over "the wrong kind" of ad is counterproductive.
I'm looking for a good half-edge mesh library to use with Unity. In theory anything with C bindings should work. Only issue is I'll need a dll or equivalent for Windows, Linux, MacOS (including Apple Silicon) and Android.

Anyone tried compiling this for Android? I'm a C++ dummy so it needs to be trivially easy. I usually waste an entire afternoon every time I tackle trying to compile native code.
It is a helpful comment because a lot of people don't think about things in the terms that I'm outlying. In the same way that people don't think about how getting paid a salary in USD is the same as buying dollars.

Your response suggests that the only way to protect yourself is by holding cash and taking the loss as some sort of convenience cost. I'd say that there are other ways to hold liquid funds that try to combat inflation beyond just gambling in the stock market. To preempt a request for an example, gold is a popular method. And I know HN hates this, but the current bull market in crypto, is another. For that, I'd suggest more than just buy/hold and really delve into the lending/borrowing markets in DeFi.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to discover duplicate code in a large repository?
I feel similarly. The other problem I'm experiencing: extremely slow search page loads, both on desktop and Android Firefox. For now, I've been able to work around it with DDG's HTML site (thank god this exists!), but if I want image search I'm still stuck using the main site.

There are a few small private search engines out there, I've been meaning to try out a few. This space is absolutely ready for new ideas, hopefully we'll see some decent options crop up in the next year or two.