skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> isn't that a clear hint that I'm still missing a concept somewhere and need to look around for an explanation?

No, it means you are being gaslit by an autistic nerd, there was no committee going over those docs it’s just one person’s interpretation and attempt at interacting with the rest of society

I agree with your general idea and great! Now we can just copy and paste the docs into chatgpt for a real explanation and move on
On the other hand it could also mean that can civilizations never reach that stage and there is still a great and possibly even final filter a head of us.
> Copyright grants a time-limited monopoly to the reproduction of works by their authors

The copyright length is so long and has been extended so many times that it for a long time could have been considered infinite. Maybe with some new works showing up in the public domain on January first now it's true again. But still, the length is looooong. There are books from the 1980s and 1990s that are out-of-print and almost impossible to find. Some authors are able to take back their copyright and release them to the public domain or some CC license after they are out-of-print but many works are just abandoned.

I'm all for people making a living, but man, it's absurd these days. Maybe we should move copyright down to 20 years or something.
I remember coming out of the cinema completely mesmerized. A but like reading poetry when you cannot express why it touches you.

I watched quite a few experimental films and some can be long after only 5 minutes. Koyaanisqatsi on the other hand feels completely coherent and keeps its tension for 90 minutes even if I couldn’t re-tell the story.
My dad wrote a book. It sold reasonably well as an academic book, but his hourly pay for it probably was in the single digits of pennies. He knew this in advance, and wrote the book as a prestige thing.
"Rich" isn't a binary thing though. The wealth population drops off rather quickly. People with a net worth of ~$1-10M are unlikely to be sending their kids away I think. It also doesn't matter so much because their taxes would still be paying for the education of everyone who's not doing this and the sending away is an extra tax they choose to pay.
LibreOffice et al are not Microsoft Office replacements either. Thunderbird doesn't even come close to full-fat Outlook if you're a power user.

Are they alternatives? Yes.

For a large number of average usage scenarios, it suffices. If you need x, you'll likely know that you need x and continue to use x. For the average Joe who uses "Microsoft Word" as a synonym to describe "word processing", or "Photoshop" as a synonym to describe "image editing", it'll be fine. The same people call game consoles "a Nintendo" or "a PlayStation", even if it's an Xbox, same people who called any generic MP3 a player "an iPod". That's fine.

This same train of thought are the people that parrot "desktop Linux can do everything now". For the average Joe, perhaps. Need to use a niche piece of hardware or want to install Linux on a modern-day laptop and/or use every piece of hardware on your device like a docking connector on a ThinkPad? Forget it. It's half-baked for the power user that cares about niche features.
100% agree that the gleam of a FAANG engineer is more lackluster these days. From the well-known bureaucracy, the wealth of internal tools, and slower release cycles, engineers from FAANG are sometimes a liability to a startup/smaller company. I think though they remain above average engineers who IF they are able to pivot back into execution mode and integrate well are still worth it (and by worth it I mean going a little above your comp band to hire them).

+1 to your point that FAANG tenure is probably best for Series C/D startups who need someone who has experience in big teams.
In programming languages with generics you can substitute an implementation that is compatible.

I want to program my code that it can interoperate with many other pieces of software, without too much deliberate effort.

It means that the computer can work out how to wire one class with another class based on the desired behaviours of each class.
It's possible that advanced civilizations actually become more energy efficient over time. I'm thinking about how cities are much more energy efficient per capita than less dense environments.
FIDE doesn't make a profit. But the revenue they get from the match (about $1m) is a large part of their budget.
wait until you read the 100 sentences the "book" linked in the post-scriptum has*

* https://paigespage.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DRF_book-f...
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They surely would keep that capability secret.

Like the USA itself couldn't? Strongly doubt, the amount of recent leaks we're just discussing proves me right. No nation could have such an espionage system in place without it ever leaking out in some way.
That's the thing, they weren't "the first with some early steps", they were way ahead of the US on literally every single measure that matters. The only thing the US managed to do first was land people on the moon, which is mostly a symbolic gesture.

However, because of a decades long PR campaign, people think the US "won" and don't even realize all of the USSR's achievements. That's the rewriting of history that I'm referring to. I'm happy to acknowledge NASA's achievements, as long as it's not at the expense of others.
You aren't really engaging. Is it the best and sole solution? I never asserted it was. Unless you go with the weakest read. Which, charity to the argument, if you want to engage.

So, my assertion a little longer spelled out it that I don't think we want giant caches of wealth in small numbers of places. I would prefer active use, I think. But diverse use by many actors is a good means to that. So, if it gets 250k in 100+ banks, that has better odds that someone finds a use that isn't just "credit cards."

That said, I confess I also see little value conversing with you. I hope others have a better experience with you. Good luck.
I'm not hugely invested but I do prefer cooking on gas. I've had element stoves, they suck. I then had gas, it's great. I stayed in an Airbnb for a month and a friend's condo for a week with induction, it was better than radiant but worse than gas to me.

Also the power goes out at my house about 2x a year when we have windstorms. The stove still works, induction doesn't. So I can still cook and make coffee. My other option would be to use my grill in that situation. I like having backups.

It's not some conspiracy with me, I just didn't like it as much. There are dozens of us.

I also ran an experiment a few years back with some particulate sensors. I noticed when measuring during wild fire smoke the particulates went way up when I cooked bacon. So I did it again on a hot plate not gas. Same thing. The bacon grease and cooking itself was giving off a ton of particulates. To me the lesson was maybe cook outdoors. Or figure out how to plumb a vent through an upstairs living space attic and roof to vent outside.

I've also been hesitant on electric cars. My friend has an original roadster that I've driven several times. It's great even tho I can't even get out of it because of my size. However I go out to ski and road trip a lot. I constantly am evaluating if an ev is ready for that use, it's getting closer but not yet. The ski hills I go to are near range for a EV and the charging spots are all taken as are all the spots so that's a risk. Camping and backpacking is more iffy. There was charging at Yellowstone in a few spots but I doubt they ran it to mowich lake yet.

But the kicker is I just have several old cars (08) that are in great shape and I hate all the shit on new cars when I rent them. There's a few features that are great like the anti-tbone feature, and some backup cameras. But he'll they used to beep whenever someone was near you, or they freak out when your 5 feet from a hedge when parking moving .2 mph and slam on the brakes, or the infotainment system is slow, crashes, and has no buttons. So I'll just hold while those bugs are worked out. I think these cars may all get to 20 years easily.
Two things:

* Having AirPods in doesn't mean not listening. I just wear mine and have them on transparent. For particularly loud settings I use live listen.

* I would love if my server was allowed creature comforts like being able to listen to music or podcasts. Working in a restaurant that has the same 20 terrible songs on repeat is miserable. Service jobs are miserable, people suck, the less "masking" the employees do the better.

If the cost of labor is too high just get rid of the labor. It will be a hit with young people. The last thing I want is having someone waiting on me, if people weren't already used to it we wouldn't invented it again because it's weird. The best restaurant experiences I've had are seat yourself, get your own drinks, order on the website from the QR code at the table, and pick up your food from the window.

It's why "food halls" are doing so well.
It does, generally. However you've failed to demonstrate such enough to remain on topic from what the article is actually saying and to what you posted. So much so I would assume you haven't read the article before you posted.
I think the doom and gloom about the arts dying by generative Ai is a bit overblown. Yes, generative Ais can significantly outproduce humanity in the arts, sure. But in the end it’s never only about the final piece of music/canvas/etc it is about the person that did it.

I am very certain that when the output loses its value due to endless supply, as the article fears, we will return to other more human values in order to judge what we like
Playing devil's advocate: a lot of your requirements become easier if you allow for tethering to one or more devices on your belt, or even on a backpack, through a discreet cable behind the ear. The hardest part is probably #4 (the lenses and projector) combined with #1 (looking normal).
I've seen the Philip Glass ensemble playing live to the movie!
Check out Page 11.
Examples of trivial AI reverse engineering? Are people like, just cloning things like Adobe Premiere overnight and undercutting Adobe?
The narrative weirdly lacks, why his leak was "against power structures".

The spin of the story has it, it was all about "spying against illegal activity". While really all that spying is just part of the objective to actively influence states. Not only passively observing your neighbors under the shower.
Particularly civil societies. Of "allies" at first, but conveniently, you have five eyes, looking at each other.

You don't in all seriousness spy on foreign leaders to "uncover child trafficking" or manipulate YT to "counter terrorism".
Foiled plots are few and far between. Mass media manipulation and economic exploitation persist and are commonplace.

A democratic society not subject to tight control seemingly is a very scary thing. Even more so when it is your own.
This is cool, could you expand this into an API/SDK to plug the chat feature into existing apps?
iOS has had storage encryption enabled by default since the iPhone 3GS (2009) so you’re not going to be able to recover anything from the hardware and applications have to work at it to retain data unintentionally. This is bad for data recovery and forensics but makes it much safer to sell a device.
> We tend to act without consideration and have confidence we can just engineer ourselves out of our mistakes.

Or the people acting without consideration are not impacted by the mistakes and will not be held responsible for engineering their way around them.
If they could do this, wouldn't they go to as much effort to cloak themselves?
Everyone talking about the end of pop but nobody is talking about the end of wannabe chuck palahniuk blog spammers
Oooooh. Now I want some Chicken Tiki Masala.
Sounds really interesting! Do you have keyboard on these devises or how do you send the texts? Id really love to see some pictures and internals how they are built up...awesome anyhow tho! :)
You're going to have to go back to the 1990s if you want to undo the "risky design technique" of speculative execution.

You're ignoring half the equation too here. There are benefits to having faster and more efficient computers for the past couple decades that could execute more instructions per clock cycle.

These vulnerabilities are subtle, hard to predict, and can take years or decades to discover. Anything that makes computers faster is a risky design technique. If you want safe chips, you'd better say goodbye to caches, multithreading, and hyperthreading as well. You'll be left with a slow, inefficient chip. Non-American companies that aren't forced to take zero risks would take over the market and be miles ahead.
Compact Certificates of Collective Knowledge [pdf]
The intro video for that app is one of the best I’ve seen in explaining quickly the value proposition of the software.

Many websites for software use so many buzzwords or marketing language as to not effectively communicate the value of the software.
50,000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. On Soundcloud, it's over 120,000 per day. Is Seth not aware that people were already making lots of music, and that more music is released beyond Drake and The Weeknd...?

There is already "too much" content to consume, for some definition of too much. If AI-assisted music creation boosts the number of songs on Spotify from 50,000 to 500,000 per day -- does it really matter? If you're an artist who doesn't have a fanbase, you're currently releasing music into the void, and you would be in a world of AI-generated music spam, too.

Making a popular pop song is 10% about the song itself and 90% a combination of marketing and luck. AI isn't going to change this. Thinking that people are going to stop listening to Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift because other music exists is, frankly, really stupid.
"The cloud" simply means remote servers. Those servers may or may not contain application-specific hardware acceleration.

Nowadays many cell phone application processors also have dedicated hardware to accelerate neural nets, but they will always be limited by thermal constraints.
Our leadership had no vision beyond doubling down on VR and doing a complete copy and paste of TikTok. Meanwhile our middle managers hired as many people as possible to justify their own promotions, as everyone is too lazy to consider impact beyond # of reports and there's no accountability. Finally, due to the above, we laid off many ICs.

I guess that's what he meant?
don't overlook the first line by smith which i originally intended to highlight: "Landlords' right has its origin in robbery."

in effect, from smith's early draft of "the wealth of nations" (~1763): "In a Civilized Society the poor provide both for themselves and for the enormous luxury of their Superiors. [...] [T]hose who labour most get least."

which calls for that staggering question by spinoza: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" deleuze & guattari following: "the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike"
Let's be honest, if the two crashes had happened to top-tier US or European airlines, there would have been a grounding after two similar crashes. But the crashes happened to third world Indonesian and African airlines, and the first, second, and third instinct was to blame pilot incompentency or poor training.
> we've never encountered a problem we couldn't later engineer ourselves out of

I think this is survivorship bias. There have been several civilizations which have basically completely died out in human history, who weren’t able to engineer themselves out of whatever killed them.
Speculation and gambling is just complicated casting lots.

Predatory gambling where the participant can only win good feelings and lose money, is the immoral, addictive nightmare nobody wants. When talking about regular joes anyway. Be honest enough to sell good feelings straight.

I can't comment on the select finance bros who have manipulated the rules towards a specified outcome. Not really casting lots anymore at that point.

If it gets too corrupt all bets will be off, and that will hurt everyone who needs short term liquidity and to take speculative moon shots.
Seth has delivered the daily food for thought for decades — this in itself is already the message; regardless of swings of superficiality. I'll take that over the twenty-something business hustler who drops rehashed 'value bombs' on Twitter any day. Now let's talk about pop. I for one welcome that KK's 100(0) true friends finally materializes, but I also miss widespread collective cultural (pop) experiences. Can't have it all.
I disagree with this on two levels. First the idea of "finished" is not how technology works. Technology is constantly evolving and improving, whether we are talking about Level 2 ADAS technology, or Level 5 self driving. It will never be the case that ADAS is "finished", we will always find ways to improve performance, reliability, and comfort of these systems.

Second, your claim it's a time bomb waiting to kill someone is unsubstantiated. They are not perfect technologies, but the data show they are safer than the average driver and therefore accurate to call them life-saving technology, even if they don't save every single life when they are active.

The data show: the more cars that have and use this technology, the less carnage and death we see on the roads.
> anyone arguing over the definition of "bug" is usually trying to weasel out of having to fix one.

Meh. It's just as often that they're trying to get something changed against maintenance or stability policy.
Curious: why not routing and vpn? I do this with opnsense, for instance Pandora is forbidden where I live so I’ve looked up all IPs for their ASN and made routing rules that any packet going to these IPs go over the US VPN. And I’ve made WireGuard profiles for mobile phones so the Pandora traffic goes over WireGuard and through the us vpn via my home opnsense.
Not that the commercials were this deep, but the ability to afford something by the buyer doesn't change the relative pricing compared to the market. If I throw a 3 bedroom house on the market in a HCOL area for $200k when every similar home is going for $500k, it's a perfectly truthful statement to say it's being sold for a "low low price of only $200k". The fact that is out of the price range of a part time fast food worker is irrelevant. Though it's probably worth using "low low price of only" as a marker to investigate why something is so much cheaper than it's market price.
The art of analog electronics is amazing and especially underappreciated in computer-oriented circles. Widlar's brilliance manifested in the extreme simplicity of the circuits he designed for incredibly complicated ideas.
In my opinion, mass shootings and other things like that are some of the reasons we need to be armed. Making yourself helpless is never the answer to a problem.
Are there any Android alternatives?
Art of Influence
> whistle blowing process in the military

I was also in the military, and can tell you if she had complained no one would have cared and probably would have just gotten her into more trouble. Whistleblowing to the military chain of command is just for stuff like if your CO is stealing money or your LT is coercing a sailor into a sexual relationship, not for stuff that makes the military look bad. The stuff Manning released was definitely not stuff you would take to 'mast'.
How sure are we that a galaxy’s worth of heat can’t be radiated in a single direction, calculated to avoid as many observers as possible?
I definitely agree on cooking at home more myself. Though for eating out for me used to be more for meeting people or spending time with your partner. I still do that, but instead of meeting at a brunch spot, you do a takeout and hang out elsewhere.
If you can saturate it, sure. The average person is not going to be running 24/7 AI compute tasks though, so paying for a month of A100 dedi when you only need 10-20 minutes of compute/week is a complete waste.
None of those things you mentioned are an immersive virtual world, at least not by how I understand that concept.
...only true of course if you forget that user != user agent.

Just because jschmoe seems to get his password wrong 95% of the time doesn't mean that I don't find the 9500 times he flubbed a sudo command valuable signal that something may be up. Especially if he can only recall ever using sudo himself once in a blue moon.

There is the user in the context of the system, then there is the ultimate person interfacing with and feeding the system input and output.

Hell, sudo itself is the perfect illustration of why an operator would want such a log.
It's a bit like software developers reading Martin Fowler's blog posts. Nothing new or exciting, but the cult is following blindly.
> this lawsuit was due to the actions of one manager in an autobody store.

There are two named people who violated labor law, according to to the judge. They are Andre Ayala (manager) and Cedric Leith (associate manager). Quoting from "Legal Analysis", "The Section 8(A)(1) Violations" on p 14:

] During an all-hands shop meeting around mid-December, Ayala violated Section 8(a)(1)
by instructing employees not to discuss their pay rates or the newly hired employees.

] After picking up his tools and turning to leave, Leith told him, "If I were you, I wouldn't talk to anybody." In the circumstances, Leith’s statement also violated Section 8(a)(1).

The facility has "approximately 25 employees, including 22 collision technicians", so it's not like there's much other local management.

Further, Tesla's organizational response was judged to be inadequate:

] Its attempted repudiation of Ayala’s statement regarding pay was timely since it was disseminated on June 13 - a little over a month after it first learned of the Region’s investigation regarding the statement and four days after the amended charge issued on June 9. However, the notice was deficient it all other respects.

followed by three points where it was deficient.
Stopping innovation not the alternative, you're creating a false dichotomy.
By the way this is ridiculously sensationalised. Would love to see the world rid of nonsense chem journalists. They’re operating about 200 ppb at lowest conc. usually we’re looking to remove from a 1 ppb. Low quality journal. The issue with PFAS and them bad bois is the accumulation in body. It’s already low in the environment and doesn’t degrade. So this guy will be all good if we’re sitting at 200 ppb in the environment. If we were at that level I reckon we’d be a lot more cancery. Most of top of my head, please check what I say. I’m not an encyclopaedia but I did research in adjacent areas
> But in older browsers that don't support ...

I think, regrettably, that 2023 might be roughly the time where the "old browser" support consideration is finally put to bed.

For example, you no doubt have to perform all sorts of code contortions to make things work in old Internet Exploder. It means you have to use old coding methods compared to things that are quicker and easier to implement and get working cross-browser & cross-platform in modern CSS. It also means you are writing more LOC, which means more scope for weird little bugs and time-consuming troubleshooting.

Secondly (and perhaps more importantly), making things work in old browsers means you are removing further incentive for people to upgrade. Given the increasing prevalence of browser-based attacks where people can be pwned simply by visiting a website that contains "specially crafted code", I think the quicker everyone gets onto modern browsers the better...