skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when tuple spaces were the new hotness and going to a presentation from GigaSpaces at my local JUG.

And now I can't even remember the problem they solve or any potential use cases. Weird.
This is probably what Google will do soon. We'll see!
Yeah stopping a power hungry warmonger in Europe is such an imperialistic thing to do! It’s Russian propaganda, whether you’re Russian or not is irrelevant.
True, but it’s only idealistic because nobody is seriously talking about it. The two options seem to either be defund or militarize. If more people talk about sensible options regularly then they won’t seem like pipe dreams.

In any case the point here is that college degrees clearly don’t serve as great police training.
This is the real consequence of Intel being run by MBA sociopaths for two decades now.

Intel (and AMD) needs a good consumer OS to keep it relevant in the next decades. It's what keeps the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS on x86, and therefore use x86 server architectures. Either that, or it is a commodity ARM business.

Microsoft has never been up to the task of a good consumer OS. Intel always should have had multiple irons in the fire, and with Linux they had a built-in weaponized competing consumer OS. They delegated all leadership to Microsoft rather than keep irons in the fire. WHich is ... ok ... when MS is the big monopoly on the block. That doesn't exist anymore.

If Apple pre-iPhone produced OSX out of probably less than 100 or so engineers... Intel could have done that with 1/1,000th of their quarterly revenue. Or less! It's just spitshining an existing, working kernel, and adding a bunch of testing for the cacaphonous PC hardware/peripheral market that they were already at the nexus of.

Apple had revenues of 6 billion in 2001, the first year of OSX. Intel make 26.5 billion in "a bleak financial year".

It's not too late! It's still peanuts to do a spitpolish of Linux and do hardware testing/driver development for desktop linux! AMD or Intel (or a shared foundation) could do it! It could probably happen within a month. Partner or acquire ubuntu, or Suse, or ... anyone.

This isn't just insurance. Intel has had DECADES of frustration getting Windows to fully use/support its hardware and CPU features. A lot of the time Windows would hold people hostage by waiting a major OS release (like for USB) before supporting something.

Not with Linux. Boom, your stuff is supported as soon as you integrate it into your distro.

This is the path to a key thing that Intel doesn't realize it lost: relevance. Microsoft has decided Windows isn't really relevant. That was Intel's only path to relevance.

All the things they wanted to stay relevant in: x86 on phone, SSDs in PCs, Optane, etc. The path to that relevance was having a usable consumer OS. That you had good control over. You get your hardware demo'd and supported at maximum speed.

Don't like Linux? Well fine, pick up OpenBSD, or whatever remnant of BeOS is out there. RedoxOS? whatever.

Gelsinger probably is following a path of "get engineering" fixed. Well, ok, good strategy given how bad the MBAs fucked up everything. But Intel isn't the big daddy and that doesn't really solve the problems, it just mitigates the biggest bleeding.

Intel needs SOFTWARE RELEVANCE. Intel does not have that anymore. Intel still has the resources and marketing power to achieve that. THE WINDOW IS CLOSING FAST. Regain software relevance.

Just do SOMETHING.
Had the same issue with my Secretlab. The softweave fabric makes static like crazy an when getting up the main body comes in contact with the roller base which is shaped like a star thus working as an antenna. Big ESD pulse, all Display port screens flicker. Solved by using a towel where I seat.
USCIS still has a lot of leeway over how they adjudicate visa applications (both standards and the time duration) and this is used by the administration through political appointees to shape who and how many people they admit.

Post 2016, they dramatically increased RFEs (Request for Evidence) and slowed down visa processing for H1B visas and employment authorization (EAD) cards from a few weeks or a month to years. Many, many women lost their jobs because of that.

This is also primarily why they operate on paper and refuse to modernize.

They wasted hundreds of thousands of employment based green cards every year simply because they didn't bother to process applications on time from people waiting decades.
The future of fossil fuel companies is in question due to climate change-related regulations. I’m pretty sure they will milk every penny then can on their way out.
1990 Impact Electric Drag Race [video]
If someone I didn't grant access broke (in a very smart way) into my house, turned on the lights for a minute and then left, I'd still be pissed and would call it illegal.
This is almost certainly an instance of Unauthorized Use under the CFAA and therefore criminal in the USA and any jurisdictions with similarly broad anti-hacking laws.
> For me, I don't get the point of having wealth/resources if I can't share them freely. Especially if you come from a more modest background and now make 5x what some of your friends/family do.

In my experience the most adamant refusers are people who literally live paycheck to paycheck. It is a mix of pride and the (very real!) fear that you might think they are only friends with you because you got the funds.

If anything you should see it as a compliment if people who would need it refuse to let you pay.
Doesn't WASM even use native machine hardware and video cards?

So like the gap is closing between a binary and a browser.
I think it would be like a youngish person today walking around using 1980s slang. It seems pretty clear in use that it is a conscious, affected choice.
STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries win EU approval for French chip factory
Exxon, BP, Shell, etc. are all investing in alternative energy now so that is one good thing.

On the other hand, I feel kinda disgusted after knowing how and where the money came from. With that context, the amount being spent by these oil giants on research are nowhere enough. They should be taxed to the ground and forced to spend all these profits for environmental research and recovery instead of giant buildings and luxury houses and big bonuses.

It is a sad state of affair though in reality. Jobs at these huge oil corps are still highly compensated compared to working in healthcare or generic engineering jobs.
no, it's not "that bad", but it also constantly annoys me with things that don't feel right, even though they generally can be made to do what I want in the end. It just feels odd to me that this is the best there is given how big a deal has been made about monitoring in the past decade.
All I'm saying is you need to make sure housing available. Otherwise the cost of rent skyrockets because demand outmatches supply. Similarly, when you have a lot of low-skilled labor coming in, the salaries for those jobs plummets / competition becomes tougher which pushes out locals. That all can combine to make the homeless problem and political problem worse (immigrants don't get to vote).

Now high skilled labor, that's OK. The salaries are already sufficiently high that down-pressure because of immigrants isn't an issue - it's skilled labor so you should be upleveling your skills such that you're not competing with "common" skills that are shared by more people.
> deprive them of their subsidized agriculture

Yeah, that's not going to work out the way the "cities" think.
lacking something specific to point to, I will hand-wave by saying that there are at least three different framework "lenses" to add context to these changes.. perhaps one is the "evolutionary spiral" technology-optimist view, like Kevin Kelly at WIRED; two is the "social stability" thinking apparently in that Collinridge book and others; third is the one I refer to, which is brute force politics and law over time.. probably a crude reference to that is "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene or some historical writing..
Why wouldn't the users of the product pay?
Deno KV
I’m not familiar with the 2005 bill,
What part of the bill is bad in this context ?
Glad to see an update to Pythonista. It was beginning to look like a dead project, especially with all the spam in their forums.
You're kinda railing against locks on doors ("I just want them all to easily open for me!") without realizing why they are there.

You can thank abusers and spammers for ruining the internet for you, not website operators trying to deal with spam/bots.

I've had my most inconsequential service taken offline with a $5 booter because the user wanted to brag on Discord. You can bet I default to Cloudflare now.

It's not just for the website operator either. All of my users suffer when $5 botnets take down my server too. And it's cheaper and cheaper to do that every year thanks to the internet of shit.

So I'm not sure who this "Tell HN" PSA is for. Are the baddies going to read about your inconvenience and stop being baddies so we don't need to use captchas anymore?
In the places where a young adult makes $250k a year? In NYC $3600 a month gets you a small room. If you want to have the luxury of a dedicated, doored off bedroom, you will be paying significantly more than that. Sure hope your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend is also a FAANG superstar so you can afford to live together.
Those may be justifications people use, but ironically they are all statements that people take as true but in reality often are complete bullshit.
> I really wish we could fallback on the free market here. If someone wants to live, work, and pay taxes in the US, they should be free to come.

Other than people banned from entry for personal reasons rather than numerical caps (crime, etc.), I agree, thet should have a free choice to come.

Regulate quantity to mitigate impact via fees in place of caps (for the visa categories that currently have caps), with a share of the fees going to states and localities in proportion to the resident alien population settled there, with lower fees in the “higher preference” categories.

And have a catch-all immigrant visa category (lowest preference/highest fee) for anyone not banned but not in any other immigrant category.

(I’d probably also eliminate H-1B and several other visa categories entirely, because they would no longer be necessary.)
That is not how it works, with modern tech having the foundries and designs is not enough to fabricate products that work.
I still need to dig into the details, but does this exploit work primarily by changing stuff that appears in a URL?
I'd rather be vegetarian than eat lab grown meat.
Agreed.

> If education is expensive, then making it less expensive seems to be the natural solution than eliminating its requirement.

Most of the arguments I see saying that college is too expensive are kind of like people using Lamborghinis to say that cars are too expensive. The fact that you can spend $500k on a car does not mean that cars are expensive. The fact that you can go $400k into debt for college doesn't mean that college is expensive. It just means that you can spend a lot on an expensive college if you choose to do so.

If someone takes dual credit courses in high-school, then gets a 2 year degree at a local community college, then transfers to a state school that offers a good return on investment, and does all that while working a part time job, college isn't that expensive.

And the more people try to take that path, the more college will respond to increasing those types of options.
It’s a heuristic. And it doesn’t catch when your move isn’t really a move. And writing move constructors is difficult busywork.
What part of "private API" is the one you don't understand? We could elaborate.
Those ISVs charging $250 an hour are the source of lots of the insecurity, because "that makes it work" finally.
I reckon I am the obligatory whoosh of the day :) -- thanks for recontextualizing
> The point is - if you are dealing with inconsiderate bots, a captcha of some type is pretty nearly a bullet proof way to stop them.

Not any more.
Interesting article. It mentions phase changes here:

> "Critical phenomena represent another distinct form of emergent properties."

A single water molecule won't undergo observable sharp phase changes from ice to water to steam as the temperature is increased, so the emergent property vanishes when looking at the (isolated) microscopic constituent.
Hiring employees is a risky prospect and firing a bad hire can be an expensive and lengthy process, depending on the jurisdiction. So naturally employers want to minimize the risk of hiring someone incompetent.

Decades ago the use of IQ testing for job applicants was made illegal. Requiring a college degree serves as a legal and socially acceptable proxy for a level of intelligence.

Whether or not that is actually valid is another matter. From an employer’s perspective the amount of effort to require a college degree is virtually nill and it helps to cut down on the sheer number of applicants they have to process.
A paper wallet is redeemable for bitcoin. More accurately, it provides access to the bitcoin on chain. Ultimately, paper wallets as money increases the risk of bitcoins being lost forever if the paper is lost or destroyed before the bitcoin it contains are moved.
Inefficient use of time is a business problem. LLMs save work hours we would usually spend on mundane tasks.

Regular office workers can make automations, devs can enhance documentation with LLMs, LLM powered search and spreadsheets, these all save time.

Businesses that don't take advantage of this will be left in the dust. In a few years not using it will be like not allowing your employees to use Google, because there is fake news on the internet.

The time efficiency gained will surpass the hallucinations, just like how people for the most part have learned to use the internet for their benefit despite all of the garbage on the net.
Honestly, it looks like the whole court is crooked at this point. It's up to Congress to keep them in line, and it's up to them to keep Congress in line, but big money runs politics and they're all on the take.
Wow, this is great. I have similar chair and monitor problems. Never have been able to connect the two.
One of the topics of the article (though he doesn't mention PCs themselves, but other technologies).

> In 1994, the economists Sue Bowden and Avner Offer studied how various 20th-century technologies had spread among households. They concluded that “time using” technologies (for example, TV and radio) diffused faster than “time saving” technologies (vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines).
Bluesky Is the New Hotness
Because many of the companies funded by venture capital benefit from abusing those systems and this is a pro-venture capital site.
I already only read the business section for laughs.
Currently working on building a virtual art gallery populated with fictitious works from dead artists generated by Stable Diffusion. Users in the same room can talk to each other using WebRTC.
Ingress of pathogens into pig farms almost always come through contaminated clothing, tools or fodder, not some fancy human to pig contraction. Vertical/indoor farms will need a lot of human supervision and interaction, as well as water and other inputs from the outside. Making sure that all of this does not lead to contamination (which includes sterilizing the entire facility on a regular basis) is prohibitively expensive in all but the most edgiest of edge cases.

And again: why bother? Market gardens are highly space efficient and can feed hundreds of people from the space normally occupied by a suburban house plot. Locating a market garden outside an agglomeration and transporting the produce an hour or so into the city is also very practical. And of course actual staple crops are shelf stable and can thus be transported anywhere at leisure. This fancy "vertical farming" stuff makes sense on a space station and desert cities flush with petro dollars but that's about it.
In the ancient times of the year 2000, these same pieces were being written about how the Internet would ruin society and dumb down the population. This is hard to remember now, because the Internet ruined society and dumbed down the population.
I personally prefer those sorts of topics to yet another entirely-predictable immigration "discussion"
I mean... I know this isn't legally the same, but OpenAI has sold a repackaged version of all of our data, too.
> Sales decline is never good.

It can make future results look better. If you don't mind reducing revenue now you may get in exchange more revenue in the future - and a more favourable baseline for growth calculations.
Only if, in your analogy, putting the key into the lock, turning it, hearing click, and having the door open reveals the same fucking door instead of what's behind it.
Bloomberg publishes Memray, a new open-source memory profiler for Python (2022)
Not a good take in my opinion.

Why aren't other countries as desirable to immigrate as European countries, USA, Canada, and Australia?

Like what's the common denominator with those countries that makes them so desirable to immigrate to?

The same thing applies to neighborhoods which are sort of a microcosm of countries.
My service uses Cloudflare and we get hundreds of millions of bots trying to abuse our service.

The other day I stopped the Cloudflare CAPTCHA for a day just to see what would happen and the next day I saw fake orders with disputes and credit card testing which costed my business thousands.

I don't think this is a major problem for consumers, but for merchants, without CAPTCHA it is even worse for merchants.

I think I'll keep the CAPTCHA turned on, not sure if there is an alternative though.
Yeah, I've cleared it many times. Sometimes no matter how skilled you are luck is not on your side :)

Maybe the game could benefit from a mode that verifies if a seed is solvable but I haven't gotten past it being just an idea.
Can you, though? You'll fail e-verify and won't have an SSN so you'll have to live like the people who cross the Southern border. You'll be picking strawberries instead of writing code.

I'm an immigrant and the two processes are not substitutable.
This reminds me of the origin of "jaywalking". People used to walk wherever they wanted but when cars became a thing they found that people where in their way. So they started to blame people for "jaywalking" to turn it into a bad thing that the pedestrians are doing rather than framing it as cars wanting to take some of the road away from pedestrians.

We are trying to frame people who are trying to protect their privacy as "suspicious" rather than saying that we want to track them better.
The things you identify as problems, are completely opposite of what I see. I'm going to make a wild guess that you watch a fair bit of media owned by Murdoch. Feel free to correct me on that.
Annoying humans is a good way to get them to not want to post in your subreddit, or so I hear.
Do you also run every single EULA through your lawyers?

CLAs are becoming common because litigation is becoming common. It's a product of our times and mostly a safeguard for companies in case a person is able to slip in some malevolent code or write hate speech in docs, or if someone tries to claim copyright on docs/code.
Coffee with Creatives in NYC
Is the gas in the car you parked publicly really yours ("private") if there is a way to siphon it out?

Just because there is a way to obtain a resource doesn't make it yours automatically..
You can't have it both ways.

People use CloudFlare to solve a multitude of problems, some of which include automated attacks by bots, which would make the website unavailable in the first place.

If you're going to use a non-mainstream browser then you're going to compromise in some way. If people are going to defend their website against attackers then there's compromise.

CloudFlare isn't the problem, it's a symptom of other problems left unsolved. Is it a compromise? Yup. What's the alternative? Not using it and thus having constant downtime?
Right -- although many things that are ambiguous in text are disambiguated in actual speech, so the problems that arise with audio speech are not wholly the same as with text.

A classic example is the word "record", which has first syllable stress as a noun, but second syllable stress as a verb. "I bought a RECord" vs "Please reCORD the music".

(in the dominant American dialect; I don't recall about other dialects/countries)
I tailor them upon request. I would like to make a self-serve site, but don't have the time or skills. I would prefer to give this away, people are usually in their worst moments, so a little generosity makes me feel like I make the world a better place.
Who determines what is a sewer and what is the voice of the unheard?
Totally agree that they save time, I think that may be the primary problem LLMs solve.
IANAL, not even US Person, but 17 USC ss 1201 (a)(1)(A) states: "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. ...".

Is "work" defined anywhere by law or by precedents? I just genuinely don't know. It seems to me that depending on that, the OpenAI API might be considered "work" just like a copyrighted manuscript. I'd also think there must be some other laws forbidding hacking, but DMCA must have a fast track everywhere.
I've seen a decent number of agricultural areas where the crops are covered with a vast mesh tent supported by a wood or metal framework. Lets sunlight in, keeps insects out. That seems a lot more economical than building a vertical farm in most countries.

There are edge cases where the technology developed for vertical farms seems very useful: densely-populated, small countries; space stations, and off-world colonies. But for most of Earth? Look at how much of the US is farmland, and then imagine how many expensive towers and associated infrastructure you'd need to replace it.
Ask HN: How to learn to be good at conversations with anyone?
How do good conversationalists find topics to carry out conversations even where there seems to be none.

Whenever I try, most of my conversations revolve around work or day to day activities and stuff. I don't think they are interesting and the conversation naturally dies off after a few exchanges.

How to get myself better at conversing?
How can I import packages from npm? I tried it out and got an error.
How ChatGPT and Our Language Models Are Developed
Disclaimer: you're preaching to the choir since as a car enthusiast, I'm not one to follow the advice I posted.

However...

When the car dies, it's expected to have been driven long enough that it's nearly worthless anyways, so you're not going to be losing much.

I would expect a 2013 (ten years old) Toyota or Honda to be pretty reliable. I would even gamble a 2013 Toyota Camry will last longer than a 2023 Mercedes Benz or various other brands.

Is a 2013 Toyota Camry safer than a 2023 Toyota Camry? Probably not, but I'm pretty sure there is a certain level of diminishing returns, and the gap between a 2013 Camry and 2023 Camry is not significant.

Also, this is a Camry (or Accord or CR-V or RAV4 etc.). We're not talking about a high level of sophistication. I'd be more concerned if this was something like a Mercedes or Porsche or even something like a Civic Type-R that have long had all sorts of fancy technology to achieve a high level of performance.
Exactly. This is ytdownloader all over again.
I would wager your more luxurious, expensive hotels have enough "cushion" to absorb these fees - while your standard hotels may not.

You see similar things on online marketplaces, such as Amazon. Amazon's commission fee can be anywhere from 15%-30%, depending on the category. Unless there's huge margin baked into the product price, you may very well be paying 15-30% more for the product on Amazon. Not always, of course, as it does come down the the business and the strategy they've chosen.