skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our paper recycling bin is close to the front door. I see minimal unsolicited mail because it is expensive to deliver.

I do miss the old phone books - nice thin and absorbent paper. The old (UK) large format Yellow Pages could see you right for ages if money was tight.
I actually agree with this. Probably because virtual worlds are already ahuman to begin with. They're artificial, machine worlds and so there's nothing lost by having them generated by machine.
These posts are stupid because they are predicated on the idea that corporations have finite tasks they want to perform and will hire the optimum number of employees to do those tasks and then stop.

Corporations are made up of managers and those managers are going to hire as many people as their budget allows, and their budget is going to be based on the companies profits. Look at every tech startup that has VC money poured into it. Their headcount explodes in response to the huge budget they suddenly have. None of the FAANG companies need anywhere near their current staff if their goal is to milk profits from their IP until they get overtaken.
The American version is far, far spammier!
$700 million is a joke.
Handguns are the most interesting statistic here, with the US being a serious outlier (58%! vs 12% in Canada), it could be related

I still don't see how you deny that more educated officers are less violent when I've made multiple links supporting that argument
Maybe a tangent but somehow typical for this paper:

>Imagine if you could only upload a song to Spotify after you got a degree in musicology, or memorized all the sharps in the key of A-sharp minor, or demonstrated competence with the oboe.

Considering the state of music IPR we are possibly nearing that point.
Ulysses I assume as he very famously had a bad head for business and many people who took advantage of him.
Sounds very interesting. Do I’m having trouble picturing how it works. How do you get the links into the system? I’m assuming this won’t work for links that you find on your phone, i.e. when not on your on your computer? And how do these links get indexed? By the stuff that’s on the page? What’s an example use case of where you use that system to find a link?
unfortunately political parties are machines to continue influence and power. It would change how influence was applied, but the team sport that is politics would continue with different spokepeople in office and the same people running the machinery of party in the back.
That is correct. The dots are there for our convenience to be able to spot individual bytes. I hope the author addresses and edits their article accordingly.
> Eh?

It's the punchline of a vaguely racist old joke involving Lone Ranger and Tonto. I have to admit that I also often think of when somebody uses "we" inappropriately to make their opinion or experience appear universal.

(But as seen here, you can't really just drop the punchline into a conversation.)
I can use chicken droppings as fertilizer. I am unwilling to do that with my own waste. I get an incredibly useful by product by including them in my food system.
Thanks for sharing! Best of luck!
fix the market? sir, this is a casino. $40 B market cap is chump change in the quadrillions derivatives market https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1637522483476680710?...
I never saw this newsletter before but I must say I am impressed. Fantastic approach to writing style and a great showcase of domain knowledge.

The Web could use more of this.
If Gmail and other big providers reject email with correct DMARC, DKIM and SPF then these technologies are not doing their jobs. Why have this if you can't trust them? We need something new here, something really secure.

I am self hosting my email and had the luck that after setting up DKIM I'm no longer being sent to spam. I think it worths the effort.
Had an army of these things doing bridge wifi all over my house for many years, well past their use buy date. I still have them in a box, too slow to be of much use now. I still have the reputation with tech friends as "The WRT guy". These days I buy GL.iNet routers and run OpenWrt.
Go with Mac if you like the apps available and the desktop environment.

If you want to be as similar to prod as possible, then Linux is much closer. Containers are much more convenient to run on Linux.
I honestly think it was all just hype, or some sort of FOMO of every reviewer not jumping on the M1 hype-train.

I own a base Macbook Pro 14", 16GB RAM. If anything, it feels like less than 16GB (maybe because the shared video memory or macos bloat) saved by the fast SSD that's inevitably going to fail not too far and turn the laptop into e-waste.

I feel like every single talk point of the early review cycle was a huge exaggeration:

1. battery life just browsing the web is no more than 4/5 hours. Like any other windows laptop.

2. Performance is really nothing special really. Things like maximizing/minimizing a youtube video are choppy and lag for 2/3 seconds.

I mean, it's still the best value in the market for the screen, keyboard, chassis, speakers combo but Apple Silicon is extremely overrated.
Ask HN: Could subjective experience arise via matter hidden in extra dimensions?
And so whether an animal has subjective experience depends on whether it has matter to support it in those extra spatial dimensions?

But since we can't access those dimensions, it would be impossible for us to check.
> Python 3.12 improves the language perf by 4%

A bit shy of the original target of 50% improvement per release, totaling 5x speedup across four releases. Hope it catches up in the next couple releases.
Sounds super simple, but was awesome at the time. In the 90s when all of my music was either on CD or ripped to MP3, I built an FM transmitter to broadcast my computer audio (sonique or winamp) to any radio or receiver in the house. It was a perfect solution that didn't take long to implement. I didn't know anyone else who did this.

About 5 years ago, I had a car stolen and lamented what affordable tracking mechanisms I could use. I cobbled together an extra cell phone and a data only SIM. I kept the phone running in the back of my van plugged into an auxiliary cigarette lighter port. It uploaded data to google spreadsheets every 15 minutes. I had to root it to have it automatically boot when connected to power. In the end, it was flawlessly reporting its location every 15 minutes. While I was testing this, my car was stolen. The google spreadsheet pointed me to the GPS location where it was. A phone call to the police and a 40 minute wait for them to arrive got my car back only hours after stolen. Dude was sleeping with a big knife next to him, so I'm glad I let the professionals speak with him.
For a project that has real world consequences in regards to private data, yes, they should have already been experts. There are about a million opportunities between the start and end of a project to evaluate and address data concerns and get the sharing and visibility model right. The permission model in Salesforce is not as black and white as zero permissions or big blanket * permissions. With a few exceptions for system administrators, Salesforce makes you make the decision of what to share with who whenever new objects and fields are created.
interesting; I didn't realize libraries were adding official emscripten ports using the emscripten APIs. That's definitely a level up in my eyes, then.
And this is wrong. Oracle stores the physical address in the index. The ROWID is the relative file number (in the tablespace) + block offset in the file + an index in the block row directory. The difference is that Oracle rows usually don't move and are updated in place. Because old version diff goes to undo segments.
I agree they are not true general purpose computers anymore, but I think the point was that this passive consumption machine can still be used for consumption of educational material. It has never been easier to get access to learning materials. You also don’t need a CS degree to still use them for learning programming.

That’s not what we do though, let’s be honest here. The traffic speaks volumes. Everything goes to bullshit and porn. And because of that, that’s where the money is.

Not everything is corporates’ fault.
The police asked them for lots of information like CPF, bank accounts, home addresses. Stuff Telegram never asks anyone about. I assumed that's what they meant by impossible.

Also, wait a second. You know people who are monitoring others to study the impact of disinformation? Where can I find more information about these activities? Are you monitoring this place? Am I being monitored?
Creating content is easy too, tons of people do it. AI is still a nascent technology so it's not involved in the creation as much.. yet.
Certainly, but my point is that it's still entirely possible they're not in the US. Plenty of Catholics throughout the Americas for one thing.

Also if you come to the midlands you'll find a huge number of "Jesus I Trust in You" sacred heart posters all over the damn place. I've been asked if I'm C or P more than I ever expected. Our neighbours told us they were Catholic within literally 10 seconds of meeting us. They tried to suss out what we are by asking where our kids go to school - they fancy themselves clever. But maybe that's what I get for moving to Offaly.
This really isn't any different than the "hand crafted" trend. People like hand crafted even in cases where it's objectively worse than machine made. Also, it's often hard to know when something is really "hand crafted", or indeed where the line is before you can call it that. E.g. how many parts needs to be made by hand to say it's "hand crafted"?

Also for writing, even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.
While we are omnivores, I think the role people place on meat is greatly over stated. We where primarily plant eaters with the occasional meat as it was available. Yes there always exceptions to this rule, especially in fishing societies. Even as little as 100 years ago you can see just how little meat was in most peoples diets, it was there but not very often.

As for the nutrients, the big one is the B vitamins which is funnily enough a result of us cleaning the food system too much! Most vegetables used to still have a bit of soil left on them and that was were the B vitamins come from, now everything is so clean we have stripped away that.

My solution is Nooch and a bit more Vegemite than usual. ;) have no issues so far.
>> But we really need to also be helping build better real bicycles for the mind, that we can push off under our own power with.

Ok, suppose I have a nice, shiny real bicycle for the mind. Who or where are the potential buyers?
> edit: or the time I got around their EXE blocking by changing a bunch of strings in UnrealTournament.exe to look like Norton Anti-virus. Got a couple weeks' suspension for that!

OMG That's awesome!
Mighta been a case at the time where someone saw the patent and a bunch of people jumped to the conclusion that it was a for sure thing that was gonna happen.
> Electric resistance heat is super inefficient. That's why it's often referred to as "emergency heat".

Yes, which is why it only kicks in when the heat pump isn't enough. Which is not most of the year!
It’s very difficult to compare numbers between countries like this because of different definitions. In the US are INS or FBI agents cops, what about secret service agents dealing with counterfeiters or protecting the president? How about detectives, dispatchers, part timers, managers etc. This is why you will see wildly different number of how many cops there are in the US generally it’s between 600k and 1 million but there’s many different counts.

When comparing things to Germany simply don’t see a 1:1 fit for what’s a US law enforcement officer.
You can be dirt poor and still be a moral person.
That is fair. The idea of Humanure is pretty cool but if done wrong can be very nasty. Done right, it can close the system pretty tightly.
I'm not sure I understand the argument (granted, twitter is not always the best medium for that). If I understand the quote correctly, Lanier's argument is "if we don't believe humans have a soul beyond the phyiscal then we can't make a society or make things that serve humans"?
Not the OP, but a kiwi, and here are mine:

- Marmite. Not too much, just a light spread. Try it with eggs.
- Eta Munchos, spicy tomato flavour (NZ based, but you may find them)
- a pie from a bakery
- tim tams
- whitaker's chocolate
- anzac biscuits
For software engineering, that makes sense. I think it's only worthwhile if some conditions are right (good school and covered costs). Which it was for those guys.
Well, this article is 7 years old now
Kerrygold is amazing for the price and availability. I always set some out for dinner parties.
Human-made art becoming so rare that it's "artisan, hand-crafted" is such art not really existing, in my view. It would mean that 99% of all the "art" I see around me is effectively alien and meaningless. It would be very hard to actually take part in such a society.
Only stealing from people who haven't asked you nicely to stop doesn't scream "highly ethical" to me

Security researchers put a lot of emphasis on responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities. The maintainers of this project could have easily done the same, but they didn't
You guys aren't having fun coding?
Kerrygold is great for strong savory foods, but I am too American to enjoy itin some cases. Frying eggs, grilled cheese, some cookies all suffer from the grassy taste overriding weaker flavors. American butter doesn't really taste like anything but cream/fat to me.
Damn. That's basically just the 4090 and 4080.
Here's a cat book (Red Dwarf clip): https://youtu.be/V5Ks8wp110o?t=211
Jagex is not using bot farms, they’re relying on gold farmers to produce in game resources.

The Old School RuneScape economy relies on these gold farmers because most players don’t want to take the time to gather the resources themselves. Most players purchase resources from the games global market, the grand exchange, with the money going to both gold farmers and regular players.

Theres another aspect though, and this is where the gold farmers make their real life money: They sell their in game gold to players who are essentially cheating by trading real life money in exchange for large sums of in game money. These players then use this in game money to more quickly level up skills.

I’m not sure Jagex can clamp down on this cheating without breaking their in game economy.

As a side note, there’s a fairly popular game mode in OSRS called Iron Man where you’re forced to acquire resources purely via the tedious game mechanics instead of purchasing via the grand exchange. It’s a bit masochistic, but I enjoy it personally.
It's very dubious to be putting our efforts advocating this as the "single biggest way", certainly it's terrible marketing if you want to really convince people.

According to the IPCC: https://ahdb.org.uk/carbon

Agriculture makes up 8.5% of global emissions - knock 75% of that off if we somehow convinced the *entire planet* to go vegan, add a bit back for the extra veg we need to grow and other unknown inefficiencies and we're talking a relatively small shift in GHG emissions compared to other areas. We need to cut 50% total, not 5%!

Yes, every little bit helps... but as I emphasised above, you need the ENTIRE PLANET to switch to veganism in the next 5-10 years and it's still not enough. The serious danger of the rhetoric put out by vegan activists in regards climate change is that people will think they've "done their bit", when in reality it's peanuts and completely disregards the biggest factors in climate change.

The single biggest way to reduce our environmental burden isn't eating more veg/less meat, it's voting for green causes - both politically and with your wallets (investments, pensions, local goods, etc). By all means go veggie on top, but please don't do just that!
Question from a beginner: I'm deploying a python project to aws (beanstalk + lambda, among others), and I've noticed I can only use python versions 3.9 and 3.8. Why is that? Is 3.10 not considered stable?
> Salesforce's permissions are very, very powerful and flexible, which also makes them complex

Otherwise known as the "Jira Problem".
It is also all the inputs for agriculture that goes into that pig. The plants > pig > food system is a wildly inefficient way to distribute calories.

But also, if you can, try to not use the car as much or just get rid of it altogether. ;)
Especially in Switzerland where the trains actually go on time :P But anyway does it really matter? It'll still be hard to identify the actual apartment.

Most online webcams are easier to identify
We actually also have a hobby wine production. About 200 plants. Established back in 2010ish. Its very insightful and a very interesting perspective to add to “just” drinking and tasting wine. I’ve done 5 vintages now, and there is still so. much. to. learn… and thats before the wine even gets into the bottle.

What country are you in? We are en Denmark, which is horrible for reds.. but red is “real wine” so thats what we are making
From yesterday's Money Stuff about First Republic:

> Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Monday.
https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server
Another bank, another leeway for the FDIC insurance limit?
the chicken is involved, the pig is committed
> The US is not hurting for land, we just don't use it as best we can

Hmmm, really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
The author ends the piece with,

"it is something that we should never devalue."

not sure when that come into the equation? People have been creating crap before generative AI. It seems to me like the author doesn't like the process of creation using generative AI techniques. For some people, generative AI allows them to express their art. So, there you go.

Humans will continue to produce valuable art, with or without generative AI. Until a computer and the brain are indistinguishable, the expression of thought will be valuable in it of itself. I think, therefore I am. We are far from having "thinking" machines--whatever that may even be. We don't understand consciousness and the goal posts for what is AI / AIG keep moving.

With that said, we know what the end-state may be. Singularity for instance, would be a game-changer.
I was surprised that ETH successfully pulled off the switch to proof of stake. A big risk for the #2 but they did it.
I would like to see this done using domain validated identities. It might not work for everything, but, if I can prove I own a domain, it's a globally unique handle that can be used to build online reputation and trust.

It would also make is possible for larger companies to attest to purchases made and / or the quality of participation within their community. Imagine a scenario where I donate $50 to an open source project using GitHub Sponsors with my domain as the identity and GitHub attests to me spending that $50.

Over time, it would be possible to demonstrate a significant "investment" in your domain validated identity and it would be done by spending money online like you normally would without any additional cost. The attestation that you spent the money is simply a side effect of something you're already doing, but it's a really good indicator (over time) that you're a normal participant.

At the very least, I think having a domain as a globally usable handle would help to reduce impersonation which is a serious, difficult to solve problem right now.
They are not against monetization, you have made that leap. They are against AI replacing humans simply because it will be cheaper. Your comparison is flawed.
But a calculator is just a brain tool, letting people offload rote calculations. AI of the sort we're talking about here isn't just that. It's about machines replacing people doing human things.
We specifically preferred Leiningen for all new projects at my last job because of a number of plugins we still used that were unsupported by Deps. This was a year ago, so that may have changed since I left.

I still find Lein a little easier to use, and use it for personal projects, but appreciate Deps's more data-driven, "simpler" approach -- and it seems faster.
Where did you learn that they do this to destroy hormones?
Ironically, I just got downvoted in another thread for saying science advisors should have relevant education or practical experience.
The problem is that the input is tokenized before the model gets it as input. It does not see the individual letters "t" + "o". It gets one single token, #1462. The word "toe" is another single token, #44579. Maybe over time it could learn from context that inputs that start with #44579 also satisfy the constraint of starting with #1462, but that's a lot of work and it's not going to happen for all combinations of letters.
That screenshot from the web interface gives me flashbacks. Wow.
I’d save my mom over you. No hard feelings.

My point is your composition or substrate or whatever is irrelevant.
you will find it when published. assuming you read anything other than facebook.

big advantage of public education system is that research is, well, public.

also yes. i assume. everything public today goes to some database. If nothing else just to train some autocomplete people will worship as god.

learn basic privacy and security ops if you care about it in a public space, instead of just being melodramatic.

lastly, i doubt they ask for cpf, unless they have a paid service that takes Real, then they should have a cpf on file otherwise it's wire fraud equivalent in brazil law. meh. i assumed they were just asking ip addresses. not that i care much about any of that.
If you're a SQLite fan who does stream processing, we (Estuary) recently introduced a capability to write transformations as event-driven SQLite [0].

Basically you get a provisioned SQLite DB to which you apply whatever migrations you wish, and write SQL lambdas that are run with each input document, where your lambdas update your tables an/or publish outputs via SELECT.

[0]: https://docs.estuary.dev/concepts/derivations/#sqlite
Well you could open a window.
We should be able to spell out IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in WingDings.

EDIT: WingDings is the Grandparents to Emojis.
I'm running self-hosted email, and Gmail users have no problems receiving it (spf, dkim, etc. are all working, I guess I'm also lucky to have used the same IP for a very long time). But what is funny, is that most of the spam I receive, and that isn't cought by spamd, is actually from Gmail spam accounts.
One more reason for open-source: no lost revenue from improvements, and if you don't make the improvement someone else will.
Kinda unrelated, but I recently found out Lidl's Irish Butter is made in Germany. Thought this would fall under EU Place of Origin Denomination Rules and thus not allowed.
I don't know why it is, but 3.10 and 3.11 are considered stable (and I would suggest you use 3.11 if you can).
To be fair the question did not specify the language and included a disclaimer about it.
Hah I knew it was that one. I had the same. Back in those days there were only a few models on the market. The quality was bad though and it was even black and white. This one is color so it must be a slightly later version.
Sorry "should" was a very blunt word to use there. But if one is to project the message about reduced consumption, it shouldn't just be framed in a narrow aspect of a single action.

Also, while this is political it is also about the actions of a individuals.

The rain drop doesn't blame itself for the flood, but the flood is made of rain drops.
Cloud providers tend to be pretty slow to provide up to date software versions, I wouldn't rely on them to signal what versions are stable

I'm personally watching https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1191155/... because Sidekiq 7 requires at least Redis 6.2, but Azure Cache decided only major version upgrades matter

This should give you a better idea of Python version status: https://devguide.python.org/versions