skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FreeBSD Status Report First Quarter 2023
Since I happen to know these species: the spider pictured at the top of the article is an Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider), a European species which closely resembles A. trifasciata (Banded Garden Spider, one of the two species in the study).
Same. I got rid of my Amiga 500 back in 2002 and have regretted it pretty much ever since. I bought an Amiga 1200 before the pandemic but, whilst it's a great machine (and obviously more capable than my old A500), it's not the same because I don't have all my old software, programs I wrote, etc. Absolutely feel your pain.
Maybe they want to stop NSFW content creators using post scheduling apps to post their content on dozens of subreddits at once.
> This is pretty much the standard line corporations throw out to try and shirk responsibility. This is why they've always been so keen on recycling relative to other, more effective methods, for instance.

Yes, but this is only part of it and once again is an easy way to blame corporations. It's not just easy for them to tell people to recycle. It's also really easy for people to recycle and feel good about themselves while not doing much.

To really impact climate change, we need societal change and that has to come from everyone. People, companies, government all need to change, we can't keep pointing fingers at each other, but that's what we're all doing.
I did, at age 45. Will I be around when I'm 75? Will I be working in 10 years? No idea.
I think the answers to those are:

> Does this ball running into the road, means a child might be running behind it?

There's no ball. There's merely a non-car object on the road, which means you smoothly stop and alert the driver.

> Does the pedestrian on the sidewalk with headphones and looking at the other side, not seeing my vehicle and the red light, is going to cross anyway?

If an object intrudes on the road, and could collide with the car, brake as per above.

> Since there is crashed truck on the road ahead, does this police officer making me signs to temporarily cross to the other side of the road, wants me to drive ahead ? Do I see its Ok anyway, because his colleague on the other side is holding the traffic coming this way?

There's an obstruction on the road. Brake, alert the driver, have them figure it out.

> Can I go off road for 2 minutes because the hole in front of me is too big and the off road track looks good?

No. Self-driving cars only automatically drive on a proper road.

> The discussion of how sensors are better than humans, and the systems don't get tired compared to humans misses all these.

My view is that this kind of thing just tends to over-complicate the issue. The initial goal shouldn't be an AI version of a human driver, a system that recognizes and knows about balls, children and police officers.

It should be the car equivalent of an elevator -- a dumb machine with safeties that automatically stops if anything isn't right and waits for a human to figure it out. An elevator doesn't know what's standing in between the doors. Something is, therefore the door doesn't close until it goes away.
If you look carefully at Paul’s writings, you will notice that he never says that our righteousness comes from faith alone—only that it comes from faith apart from works.

Might need to wait for gpt5 for it to go more deeply into the topic :)
Financial Contagion in Network Economies and Asset Prices
Scaruffi.com – refreshing and current web 1.0 site with a ton of content
Apologies if this isn't appropriate but I know a lot of other HN readers dig this kinda thing.

I stumbled across a list of "best shoegaze albums (https://www.scaruffi.com/music/shoegaze.html)" and found a ton of other stuff on this site to check out.

Scaruffi, if you're on here, nice work man!
I built and run UXWizz (https://uxwizz.com), the revenue varies, but averages around $2k per month in a year.

It is not a service, but has one-time payments, so there is no stable MRR figure. It was initially sold through CodeCanyon, here's a graph with my earnings there: https://i.snipboard.io/7lubPE.jpg

Being a one-man-team, I tried to keep operation as simple as possible and automate the processes that could be automated.
> some silicon ore

It's called "sand", btw. And you'd actually also need boron and phosphorus, to dope it with... hmm.

In any case, one shouldn't try to jump over the steps. Black metallurgy first, parts standartization second, then coal chemistry, then toy-scale electricty, then steamworks, etc. Not to mention radical changes in the structure of human societies! Good luck with that.
Is this equivalent to Firefox Multi-account containers?
Many of them even float... Referring to ships that are next size up.
This is why I'm sticking with 1Password 7. They can pry it from my cold dead hands.
Yup, and no one is paying for oil in dollars anymore. The global value of the dollar is going to be destroyed over time. It's really breathtaking how quickly the west has decided to shoot itself in the foot with nothing to show for it.
Same deal in Seattle. Small parts of "the underground" remained in use for decades, including as speakeasies during Prohibition, but nowadays it's only tourist thing (but pretty cool nonetheless)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
> Can't obliterate even the tiny Russian economy without some knock-on effects on the rest of the world.

Maybe the GDP isn’t the best and only measure then.
Right.

There's a great deal of technically unnecessary complexity that many people here handwave away because "that's just how it is."

It's kind of funny how, e.g. above, the emphasis is on "UI," when that's not it at all. It's the underlying infrastructure that's often encrusted layers of unnecessary (but profitable) stupid.
Only on HN would the domain of "technical topics" be constrained to software.
It’s catchy. But I’d love to hear like a more punk Green Day version. Someone clone Billie’s voice and render that please.
Another one is Beyond Vision by Allan Jones[1]. He dealt with it partially by cultivating an Advaita meditation practice.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36627585
So, you're suggesting the tech is on an S curve, and you might be right, but I think the top of that S curve is going to be much higher than you expect.
Or for legal contracts ... though no-one is going to go there with a commercial product unless they can indemnify themselves somehow against erroneous answers.
What is your point? Yes, it's owned by humans.
Where's My Feedback Loop?
Another round of mass layoffs expected at Meta this week
Stop trying to have “interesting” friends
TBF I hate accounting too, and now that it's past tax season I look forward to pushing as much as possible to the back of my head...

When you say some of your wife's architecture practice's salaries "were classified" as R&D, who/what did that classification?

I'm wondering if a large part of the pain is businesses that were classifying as much as possible as R&D to get the R&D tax credit, and now that classification is a liability and they can't change so quickly. Otherwise it would seem that established companies could call much of their software engineer activity "maintenance" rather than "development" (and the change shouldn't really matter to pre-revenue startups).
I don't think the issue with phones is that people aren't engaging with each other in public spaces. I'll stipulate that it has never been the norm to engage with strangers on public transport. But I see a number of other differences between then and now.

For one, I don't think it was common for people to take a newspaper out of their pocket and look at it during social events with friends and family whenever conversation slowed down for a moment, or whenever it pinged with a notification. I observe my own wife spending far more time looking at her phone today than she ever spent reading a book before. Ten years ago, she might get lost in a book for a day or two, if it was a really good one. Now she walks around the house with her phone in-hand at all times. I had to pry myself back from that after starting to notice the same behavior in myself.
Oh, they're never going back. We're all going to be less wealthy going forward. But it isn't because of a rice shortage.
The end result is that if you open a project and for some reason the controls get resized...

I used a graphical diff tool that showed both versions and allowed to revert unwanted changes with a couple of clicks. I think it was WinMerge. Also, I never opened the DFM designer unless I was going to make a change.

Top and Left need to be published properties, even for non-graphical components, so the designer can place them somewhere without covering one another. That's why they're declared so deep in the hierarchy.

The serialization code is one of the nicest parts of the framework. I was tasked once with translating an old and messy application. Translation tools, including the one by Borland, included in the enterprisey versions, were utter crap. I hacked the serialization code to extract the relevant strings into an Excel that we sent to the guy doing the translation and then use his output to create different DFM sets, all of them included in the exe, and selected when starting the application.

Actually everything about the IDE was great, there was a comprehensive API to make plugins ("experts") for the IDE, mostly undocumented, but Ray Lischner wrote a couple of great books about it and some nice guys created a set of useful utilities with source.
They're making stuff for people who get no input into how that stuff is made, much of which they can't just stop consuming.
That's my disagreement, they are not sick. They made a choice. Sickness is something harmful to that you can't help and don't want. Esentially what you are saying is a belief you disagree with can be a sickness. If someone believes stealing is fine how is it in the purview of psychology to tell them otherwise? Why is that different for mass murder?

You're saying psychology cares about evil just prefers to use the term sickness. Or maybe I misunderstood and you were really saying psychology does not consider analysis of why people do evil something worth studying.
I don't know that I'd call Germany collectivist. Under your examples by the US having national laws and regulation, we are somehow collectivist, which is not true. It's a trait of society and government.

Collectivist societies are unique in that they punish individuality. The government decides something and everyone must comply or face extra-judicial and potentially judicial consequences.

Individualistic societies often celebrate individuality. It's not marked by the absence of collective decisions, but that there's tolerance to dissent, or even that dissent is given weight and merit philosophically.

I'd summarize this as, collectivist societies are a proxy for government cohesion; it looks like people have power, but they don't. Individualistic societies retain power in both large numbers of people, but also individuals. The government is at competition with it's power to groups of people, which theoretically plays a role in keeping it in check.
I subscribe to this theory as well. Another earlier book about the topic is I Am A Strangle Loop by Douglas Hofstadter[0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123471.I_Am_a_Strange_Lo...
The spiders haven't even been shown to change their silk in response to conditions. It's just two species of spiders each with their own silk recipe.
> Disable IPv6: this approach relies on ARP, which IPv6 doesn't use

This makes me kind of sad. Even if it’s just for a private/local usage. IPv6 has the features of ARP built in via “neighborhood discovery protocol” (NDP) with the addition of various security to prevent spoofing.
Connect your LLM with external data
Apple allows downloading updates over cellular network. However, it seems to not be allowed in every country [0]. To be more specific, I think each mobile carrier can choose whether or not to allow it on their network, and iOS enforces it. I'm not totally sure though.

[0] https://osxdaily.com/2022/08/05/how-to-update-your-iphone-ov...
I guess it can easily repurposed for the fediverse, nostr, twtxt or anything that works with an api.
A person today could build something to be used by a person tomorrow.
This article is interesting as it's from the perspective of a major exporter, India, (rather than a commodities trader):

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/india-ric...

> "“We can’t resume broken rice exports just because somebody in China or any other country wants it as a raw material to make ethanol or cattle feed. We’ll rather prefer our domestic industry consuming it... We don’t want to take a chance. We’ve limited wheat stocks but ample rice stocks, which we can use if the weather throws any big surprises."

Incidentally, much of the research into how rice production responds to rising CO2 and rising global temperatures was based on greenhouse studies in which CO2 and temperate was artificially manipulated, for example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751296/

However, it's turning out that the increasingly random and extreme incidences of droughts and floods is what's impacting agricultural production the most. India's approach seems the most rational: build bigger domestic buffers against future uncertainties.

Also, the future of biofuels and meat production looks quite poor, as crop production is going to be needed to feed humans directly.
This is most definitely the default combo box. In fact, I just tried the version without visual styles as well, and that one looks fine under high DPI too (see screenshot). At this point I'm very confused what you are doing. Perhaps you're not on Windows 10?
I mean... this would happen in any place where you get to sound off against someone famous. Right?
Hmmm is this a psychological op from ChaosGPT? Diabolical!
I really like kagi.com
Can you name one time in history where sanctions have actually worked?
Should be "housing" in title.
well my point is that nobody can really pin anything on "Microsoft" but surely there are people who chose this kind of approach to advance themselves.

Versus building new tools or experiences, etc. etc.

This is on some specific people's conscience, nobody made them do it in a way an angry tiger makes people try to run away. It was some one or two people's choice.

Were there other people in their place, we would have never had this problem.
and yesterday, he updated his claim.
I'm surprised you're willing to engage, but since you are, happy to!

Basically there's only 4 variables for Myers-Briggs. It's so simple I can accurately type someone after talking to them for a couple of minutes. Here's a breakdown:

Extraverted (E) vs Introverted (I)

“E” generally means gaining energy from other people, while “I” means people drain your batteries. This one is not always immediately obvious for people. In general "E"s talk more when with groups of people and "I"s think more.

Sensing (S) vs Intuiting (N)

This is about how you process new information. S people see what's actually in front of them - they think and talk more in specifics. In general, S types are better at detail oriented work.

N types intuit things, so they sometimes aren't great at focusing at what's in front of them, but are great at coming up with ideas and next steps based on what they see.

I am a typical N - not great with details, but better at abstractions compared to the average person.

Feeling (F) vs Thinking (T)

Everyone feels and everyone thinks. A good way to judge this is people's reactions to situations. Feelers react with empathy first, thinkers react with problem solving first.

Very basic example: Your friend comes in with their arm bleeding. Is your very first reaction?

"Oh no! What happened?" - Feeler

"You should go to the hospital!" or "Let me get something to wrap that", etc etc.

In general feelers are more likely to feel empathy for someone, even if they think they are dead wrong or disagree with them.

Judging (J) vs Perceiving (P)

This is about how you make decisions. And it has nothing to do with the dictionary definitions of judging and perceiving.

Some defining traits of Js:

Achieving the goal is more important than the process.

You are comfortable making decisions with limited information.

For Ps:

Being true to your moral system is more important than achieving the goal.

You prefer to collect more information before making decisions.

The side effect of these two things means Js tend to have steadier lives with more commitment, while Ps tend to have a broader range of experiences and a bigger variety of life experiences.

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In practice: Even though its just 4 variables, 90% of people alive fit comfortably into their personality bucket.

I had a new boss at my company. After talking to him, I internally guessed at his type (ESTJ), then asked him if he ever took a Myers-Briggs test. He said yes, he got ESTJ but didn't really know what to do with that info.

ESTJ is the same as my type but with S instead of N. So the big practical difference between me and my new boss is that I start thinking with abstractions/big picture, while he starts thinking with nuts and bolts details.

In my reporting I make sure I include plenty of specific details and reasoning to back up statements, which he really responds well to and digs into.

I could talk about this for hours but I'm not sure anyone will read it anyway. In any case this is just scratching the surface of how I get use out of the framework.
Probably because you are very far from the people actually dying from hunger?
We've had the solution in the form of basic TLS cryptography and verification for decades now though, the problem is no one's implementing it.

Governments already maintain registers of legally operating businesses: there's no reason that registration should not also be issuing cryptographic certificates which verify all forms of outbound communication by that business including phone calls.

But despite telecom being almost end-to-end digital (i.e. digital to the box on the street pretty much), there's been no push to close the last 100m. "Phone lines" shouldn't exist anymore with packet switched networking: you should just dial a path against a business, which is verifies itself with TLS certificates linked to it's business registry.
The sanctions didn’t fail. They probably complicated the oil transport logistics a lot. There’s been stories of how uninsured Russian tankers offload oil bear Gibraltar. Then the oil goes somewhere in China(or India). I suppose it’s going to find its way back to Europe as “Indian diesel”.

So, exactly as you describe. But all of this should add costs even if the crude oil prices are at the proposed ceiling.

Who lost? Russia and the EU. But who said that wasn’t the plan.
... so?

That happens to every new technology. It is mostly useless until some development makes it viable or useful.

Getting a time cut from 2019 to 2023 and extrapolating that now it will advance at an exponential pace every few years is as stupid as getting a time cut from 1980 to 2020 and predicting it will have a glacial pace of advancement in the future.

Truth is that there were some interesting advancements in LLM research, but it's difficult to tell what will happen. Will it plateau for a while? Will it keep advancing at a fast pace? Will it have frequent minor improvements but never really get to the point of AGI (basically growing asymptotically)?
Maybe People should take a closer look to dev containers: https://containers.dev/
I'm probably over indexing on it, but the nocebo effect did not begin and end with a generation. People are remarkably influenced by what they are told. Even if they know it is unlikely or not true.
Nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas, so maybe the nitrogen fertilizer plants in the EU were shut down to ensure adequate supplies for the EU's more inelastic demands for natural gas.

(More precisely, the natural gas is a cheap source of hydrogen atoms that get combined with nitrogen in the air to produce the fertilizer.)

Maybe Russia realized that it would be profitable to use some of the natural gas it could no longer sell to Europe to make nitrogen fertilizer, but it takes many months to build the capacity to produce and export it, and in the meantime of course the price remains high.
Especially when NDP covers all of the features of ARP
I agree. I'll gladly help buy OP a ticket to Ukraine. Those of us that have family who have died in this war and others who are still suffering are more than proof that the cost of this war has a far greater toll on humanity than short term price increases. And, yes, I say that fully aware that economics impact and starve other humans, too. But lets remember who STARTED this war, and that the world has a moral obligation to do anything it can short of obliterating the earth with nuclear war to stop it and deter it.
Source?

As of March 2023 US inflation was 4.99% the lowest its been in almost two years (since May 2021).

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_inflation_rate
To tag on to the others, the former 'chief of disguises' for the cia does interviews[1] all the time, I think also on the board for the Spy Museum (and featured quite a bit in it about both disguises and being a woman). Depending on their personality, why not play up the 'former cia/fbi/nsa' thing to educate/entertain/lend legitimacy to their business?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg
Put anothernother way, the structural integrity was sus following such an enormous move and eventually leveler heads won out after Kurt Vonnegut Senior died in 1957 (in Indianapolis).
We aren't even far off from an LLM being able to infer that the parents are fake on the basis of the dog name. I'm not even gonna touch the chain gun shooting up a parking lot aspect.
There are other fast-growing occupations that pay way less than others. For example, wind turbine service technician pays way less than the top fastest-growing occupation.
Nope - look at the central park bird watcher/dog incident or the SA aids lady as you mention - both of them I guess had a social media presence, but it was along the lines of 50 followers, probably just the people they were friends with in real life.

But also being in a gang doesn't even protect you. Lots of intragang cancellations, if the gang seems you to hold the wrong values for the gang. Eg Lena dunham
A totalitarian police state in the making there. Yes, with ChatGPT (and its successors) they will be targeting politically subversive conversations that threaten state power, in 20+ years time.

It's happened before and we are already showing all the signs of early stage fascism[1], and there is no reason that it won't happen again.

1. Yes I am using the word fascism, instead of authoritarianism, because that is what I think it is, it is that severe, when you consider what is happening already (mass Internet surveillance, protesters being criminalized).
> There's an obstruction on the road. Brake, alert the driver, have them figure it out.

That is the whole crux of the problem. There is no driver, it was supposed to be self driving. Like many of the "self-driving taxis" in San Francisco whose passengers might not even have a driving license.

> No. Self-driving cars only automatically drive on a proper road.

Not good enough. All those human driven cars handled the situation is seconds.
Now all your "self-driving" cars are causing a huge traffic jam. In the meanwhile the police has just open a second lane for the human driven cars to overtake the AI ones....
Instead of using anti-AI essay checks, why not have progress and history tracked
Yes, this is exactly what the fine article says. It's not very long.
> instead more sane two letter rule

The what rule? The one that "printf", "curl", "tar", "gunzip" and pretty much every other command don't follow except for "cd", "ls", "cp", "mv", and "rm"? Those two-letter commands are only really needed because UNIX started on paper ttys and follows "ed" in its "don't show current context to the user" philosophy; launch "mc", or use "fzf", and you can forget about them as if they were a scary dream.