skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Response looked a bit weaker than usual, so I was curious on the comment count on historical posts. Of course, comments can keep being added for 2 weeks before the thread is locked.

May 2023 - 272 comments so far
Apr 2023 - 592 comments
Mar 2023 - 641 comments
Feb 2023 - 602 comments
Jan 2023 - 535 comments
Dec 2022 - 583 comments
Nov 2022 - 642 comments
Oct 2022 - 567 comments
Sep 2022 - 629 comments
Aug 2022 - 771 comments
Jul 2022 - 630 comments
Jun 2022 - 864 comments
May 2022 - 856 comments
May 2021 - 933 comments
May 2020 - 697 comments
May 2019 - 1020 comments
May 2018 - 1198 comments
May 2017 - 1096 comments
May 2016 - 937 comments
May 2015 - 891 comments

I used https://hn.algolia.com/ for quick searching.
there were 4.97bn mobile internet users in 2022 accounting for almost 60% of total web traffic.

yeah. most people don't know they're supposed to care about the amount of just how little to no privacy they really don't have anymore. general awareness to the function of a tap-on tap-off feature like this, something that's, with a staunch juxtaposition, not currently infringing nor bearing any matter to whatever social-media-esque consumption they're filling their eyes-on-screen time with as they go about living a naive inspired blissful existence, their attention no doubt occupied by and kept busy with literally any and every other thing.

:/
FFS, how did I miss this? Considering how counter culture Vice was early on it felt quite left wing.

Does every fringe political thing wrap around? In other words if you move super far to the left, do you end up wrapping back around on the right wing? Is the connection libertarian or authoritarian, anarchist, fascist or what?
I enjoy this kind of creative exploration.

I get a lot of value from HN, but technocratic communities often fail to understand the value of reimagining everyday things.

They sometimes get so caught up in the technical bits and pieces they don't like about something you end up with responses like those you in this discussion, or HN's reaction to Dropbox, or Shallots Slashdot's reaction to the iPod.
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Yes, but what’s the problem? Ignorance is not a better solution. People could digest a few basic statistics like the reserve ratio of the bank. We do this with Energy Star appliances.

Ultimately I don’t care if people change their behavior, but I’m offended by the fact that I’ve opened several accounts in my life and none have clearly indicated that they don’t keep most of my money. I’ve even read a couple sets of the papers that come with an account and they didn’t seem to say anything about it.

As far as I’m concerned banking is fraud / conversion.
You seem to be taking my usage of the word prescient as meaning he can either see the future perfectly or he cannot. That’s… not what it conventionally means. I simply mean his track record of predicting the future trajectory of AI is not great.
And the water miraculously makes that heat without chewing up fab capacity that could be used on cancer research or whatever.
But it's frustrating to me that you are trying to negate my complimenting some
people who worked hard and made things better just because they didn't also do
the things you want.

Funding public transit is a zero-sum game. TransLink/Clipper was a bloated giveaway to military contractors that left the Bay Area with a ridiculously flawed implementation. That's money that could've been better spent elsewhere (e.g. electrifying Caltrain). It wasn't state of the art in 2006 and it's sure as shit not in 2023. My issue is that TransLink/Clipper isn't something that should be celebrated. This isn't grade school where you're congratulated for your participation, the actual results matter. Worst of all TransLink/Clipper didn't actually solve the ticket problem. You still have Muni and BART pushing their own proprietary ticketing solutions.

Honestly I don't particularly care about a single fare system as the last time I did a big multi county trip was around the time TransLink was being rolled out. Yeah it was neat to be able to use an RFID card on some of the systems, but that didn't make up for huge gaps in service.

TransLink/Clipper merely put a few drops of CA glue on a gaping wound.

Edit: To be fair I think that electronic ticketing is a good idea, but it needs to be part of an overall simplification of Bay Area transit. On its own (the way it is now) it's a marginal benefit – and now that transit agencies have absolved themselves of any responsibility Cubic's customer support sucks.
What compells sovereigns countries to compete in this arena?
that's great context, i started having a flashback to hypepitch around thegrid.io when i started reading the copy.
Absolutely. I'm entirely responding to the "does it even matter" part of things. It's possible to simultaneously be an across the board improvement and still not reach the level of trivially inexpensive.
You get notified that you got penalty points for speeding and then you slow down everywhere because you don’t want to lose your licence.
That was genuinely fantastic. Such a solid explanation of something I've been trying to do for a while. Well done.
So when we refer to the weather induced disconnections, these are issues with things like trees on the lines and problems with our substations. These are principally managed by the utility, which you know is what I was referencing by “grid”.

What more would you like explained here?

Live with PG&E and live with PAU and then talk about it. Semantics are totally irrelevant.
Is there something that the bused in/out employees could do to make a difference?
U.S. to end Covid-19 vaccine requirement for international travelers next week
Does this work with jmri?
That’s exactly why it’s guilt-tripping.
Carriers have been able to (at least roughly) determine your location for as long as there have been cell phones. This isn’t news.
Was feeling concerned when I read this:

> Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended by PRISM Break because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

I clicked the link and it was from Ubuntu 12.04. This is something more than 10 years ago and has been unmaintained for years. It becomes hard to take this seriously when they make it seem like it is an ongoing issue (or do not link to a newer article if it is).
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Waypoint and sometimes Motherboard were incredible. It's sad to see them disappear from the space.
Good point, I suppose it will come down to how much people value something being "made by a human" ("real" for lack of a better term) vs "made by AI/automation" ("fake" flbt).

By analogy, I suppose in a way what factories did to craftsmen of the pre-industrial age for physical goods, AI may do for information. Factory made bits so speak, as opposed to our "hand crafted" bits
The results are mixed at best, but the defund movement exists

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/08/13/at-leas...

https://theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund...
Nope, Vice media is a capitalist corporation, so no it was never left wing. It makes sense that an edgy founder of a capitalist corp. could go far to the right, as that is acceptably within the system that preserves private wealth.

Perhaps by left wing you meant liberal. There are some (very few) examples of rich people that became class traitors, Engels was one, but usually they have some distance (e.g. via inheritance, as with Engels) from how the money was made.
The other way around might have worked. If Amiga became a graphics card company they could have leveraged a market that was several orders of magnitude greater in size. Imagine a PC but with the sound and graphics of early Amigas, instead of CGA/EGA + PC speaker. Look again at the article in my earlier post[0], specifically the graph[1]. No way was Amiga going to supplant PC compatibles as a business necessity in most middle-class households. But as GP mentioned, graphics card companies are still ticking along today.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/6/
[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/artic...

> In 1985, Bill Gates wrote an amazing memo to Apple management. In the memo, he praised the Macintosh for its innovative design, but noted that it had failed to become a standard, like the IBM PC was becoming. He correctly deduced that it was the advent of inexpensive, 100%-compatible clone computers that was propelling the PC ahead, and that any defects in the design of the computer would eventually be remedied by the combined force of the many companies selling PCs and PC add-on products, such as new graphics cards
They all got laid off. Waypoint is no more.
Yes, everything but ICE, unless your train is 20 minutes delayed, otherwise you can split things up via regional routes.

Can I use an ICE/IC train with the Deutschland-Ticket if I know I will reach the destination with a considerable delay?

Yes, you have the right to do so according to statutory passenger rights if the local train has an expected delay of at least 20 minutes. To travel by long-distance train, you must first buy a ticket. The travel costs will then be reimbursed subsequently upon request by the railway company with which you travel, e.g. by the passenger rights service centre of Deutsche Bahn.
Companies like Walmart are the size of some national economies and seem to centrally manage pretty well.
What's so terrible about the California DMV? In recent years, they've done a huge digital modernization effort.

When I had to renew my license in person within the last year, I completed almost all of the application online. I could also upload and submit documents for pre-review for a REAL ID. The website let me book an appointment at a nearby DMV office. I can't remember exactly how long it took overall, but compared to many other governmental or big business processes, it was a perfectly fine process.

Now, the California DMV's approval of AVs without safety drivers... that I do have many more concerns about...
One thing I like about Krita is that it has Mac and Windows versions which aren't terribly clunky.
I have no idea about the perceived need but it seems that e-ink license plates are quite real.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/digital-license-plates-...
This attitude is what actually makes room for the authoritarians. Our democratic systems today are built with a lot of self-healing mechanisms against this exact kind of authoritarianism. The desire to circumvent those mechanisms because "it's different this time, I swear" is what makes room for dictators and authoritarians. This happens all the time in third-world countries that try to set up democracies: the dictator comes in after someone starts tweaking with the rules in the name of "safety." Society has been through several paradigm shifts that have accelerated the spread of misinformation, and survived them.
Well he bet on neural networks in the early days when it was unpopular, and that turned out to be the right trajectory.

He received a Turing Award for his work that was foundational to the current state of the art.
There's too much wind in three senses:

- excess supply would force rates to go negative

- excess supply would damage transfer equipment

- the wind exceeds the safety rating of the generators, due to either vibration, blade stress, or thermal issues

Increasing demand only helps with the first scenario, whereas I suspect the latter two are more likely reasons in the UK (esp with so much generation stranded up in Scotland).
If these criminals are caught for thefts, should the wealthier jurisdictions also pay for their justice via taxes?
Sounds like a "guess" rather than a "solution". They have noticed a numerical coincidence and formed a hypothesis. Without additional evidence tying the 819-day count to astronomical observations its not particularly convincing.
1) you violated the house rules, thats a complete thought, looking for 'what did I do wrong' after that misses the point

2) because that sort of thing tends to lower the level of the conversation. Sniping at each other is easier than substantive conversation and tends to crowd it

I think dang also has an explanation of moderating style and intent floating somewhere that is persuasive and interesting. If you are interested I can try to find it for you, although you might be able to find stuff using the search or reviewing his comment history
It's the government subsidies that make it shitty, because they're not merit based, they're based on selection criteria that align with whatever the government wants to push. Canadians could make way better shows with less government intervention.

As I said in another comment, the same is true for all of our industries. Instead of making stuff people want, everyone optimizes for getting government funding.
It would certainly make you stand out on that network map compared to others who are even more boring than you are (read: just about everyone, sans criminal enterprises as noted above).
Latter may be a good place to start.
link to request: https://www.acxiom.com/about-us/privacy/
FAA doesn't regulate communications (that's the FCC), they regulate aircraft. If you're flying in controlled airspace, you need a license from the FAA.
Yes that was my caveat about the proprietary baseband modem that we cannot totally control. If I was in a different threat model category, I would use a phone with physical switch to the baseband. Those devices like Pinephone and Librem that only run Linux are not quite mature enough to fit my needs. They may be my next choice.
So what? There’s a cli option for fundamentalists. I don’t believe they should be catered to excessively, and thankfully they are not.
Steganalysis is the process of trying to separate cat pictures from cat pictures with steganographic information added. It's quite possible to do this well under ideal conditions -- where you know the proportion of the two a priori -- but much harder in real life.
There were no machines with any kind of fast RAM until then.
I don’t know how to feel about a promising designer only spending 2ish years with ADT and bolting. Perhaps if this work is paired with a personality of similar righteousness, that could be a team issue - otherwise to have someone attempt to do great things and see them immediately (in the relative product roadmap sense) leave, is troubling from the outside.
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could she leave the house, perhaps?
I agree. Some of the contents were amazing. Especially for a media company, try and keep those winners.
The real question is, how to make money with FileCoin these days ? Any stats on this?

It seems free hosting and earning the 10x block rewards for “valuable” things, is the only way.

Has ANYONE here successfully set up a Filecoin Plus mining operating lately? How much does this program pay out per $1000 in cloud storage?

https://sp.filecoin.io/plus

I would pay someone to show me how to actually set it up and expolain where to advertise my pinning service. I can find almost no useful information on any of the above. Looking forward to MaidSAFE launching soon.
How are your future prospects looking? How have your goals shifted? I'm curious more specifically what kind of job titles you'll be looking for, if you have any in mind.
They have a large number of volunteers either proselytizing or serving in various countries. Security help ensure that the areas they serve in are reasonably safe. For example, moving out people in advance of the war in Ukraine [1]. These are similar to the teams or consultants that travel manage risks for large, global conglomerates.

In addition any high profile event or personality is a potential target and requires people who can help manage the risks.

1 -https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/missionarie...
I said that in 2019 [1] as an hypothesis and probably many people said that before. It is always a good practice to trace ideas back in time.

[1] https://blog.coinfabrik.com/libra-association-a-menace-and-a...
Maybe “left versus right” is too simplistic of a mental model and we obscure important information about political beliefs trying to shoehorn everything into a single, arbitrary dimension?
The big companies can make AI smarter than people. This is now a national security issue, and they aren't going to open it up.
Yes, it was some of the best reporting in the conflict by Simon Ostrovsky who’s now at PBS (https://www.simonostrovsky.com/). His material and access to people from both sides of the conflict was without equal.
What? They are already selling energy to neighbours - it contributes 30% to GDP. Are you suggesting they cannot sell more of it?
Even if it includes porn streaming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35775232
The expectations are just so absurdly high now, it's the same problem in the browser space (which at this point is there a difference between OS and browser).

There isn't a lack of attempts though, there are many tiny OS out in the wild (believe there are like a dozen alone written in Rust) to play around with but many have had to dial back their ambition purely based on hardware support alone.
Your premise is invalid to me.

I wouldn't tell a person with depression to "just be happy", but neither would I allow them to humour the idea of giving up on life.

They certainly won't find companionship by giving up and deciding to mess around with bots instead.

It's more like telling a depressed person to get some sunlight in the morning or whatever. Is it going to fix everything? No, but you do it anyway, because behaviour is sticky.
You should check your comment history if you’re honestly surprised. I found at least one comment offensive.

As I do general puritanism.
Nice ambiguity in the expression that I’d never noticed that before!
It seems incredibly clever - and I realise that I assumed they weren't aware of most planets since they're hard to see today, but I'm sure they were very noteworthy event in the pristine sky they were looking at.
You know I agree with you in general but I think people underestimate the amount of organized crime that goes on. A lot of criminals may not be the sharpest pencil in the drawer, but especially when it comes to theft often things are organized, planned coordinated and run a bit better than random crimes of opportunity.
So you don't just need a card. You also need an app. Which I seemed unable to setup when I was last in the Netherlands.
Indeed. It's interesting how different it is in the US vs. Germany, isn't it?
What do you mean you can't sell it? Bhutan exports 70% of their energy to India (https://www.sasec.asia/index.php?page=news&nid=1178&url=bhu-...). India needs lots of energy to do normal energy things that improve people's lives, like lighting and cooling homes and running irrigation systems.
Yes, we needed clever ideas from scientists to make them scale. In fact, we still need clever ideas to make them scale because the current architectures still have all sorts of problems with length and efficiency.
> I'm not saying this person is wrong or did the wrong thing. I really don't have enough information.

Despite what other people may claim about why this story was previously flagged, this is probably why: we don't have enough information to know for sure this story is the truth, but people are going to come armed with their own presuppositions and argue about it anyway.

> On its face I would have to entertain the idea that they are not engaged in wide scale discrimination of anybody who is not a straight white male.

Not to mention that, as per the blog post, other employees close to the matter disagreed with OP's interpretation. Still doesn't mean the OP is wrong, but hopefully at least some of the people who responded to the article favorably will reserve some doubts.
Too bad following the "More Information" link only leads to a Cambridge University Press page offering the article for $26.
It's a common enough sentiment here and on reddit when the topic comes up. But if Blind is any indication, it's possible more people would trash a resume that lists pronouns before just... using it to inform how they address the candidate
Yet is it too late to change (perhaps some people have this in their muscle memory?). And what change would be best?
Given his pedigree accusing him of bad faith seems missplaced.
> you can’t sell it

Bhutan sells a massive amount of power.
>But, as of right now, LLMs can't generate new knowledge

my bar for tech singularity is an AI that can clean a toilet.

GPT's language model is already sophisticated enough to "understand" this instruction. It's missing spatial understanding and a way to interact with the real world, but I'd be honestly very surprised if there isn't a GPT or equivalent already hooked up to cameras/motors/actuators in a lab somewhere.

within our lifetimes we'll be reading papers with titles like: "does my roomba have feelings?"
Of course he was lucky, you should expect that in general for well-known people because selection pressures that led you to hear of them, vs not hear of them, are likely to involve luck.

That is not at all a slam dunk argument. It’s barely anything.
My mother had lyme disease, which kicked off several years of auto-immune issues. Low energy and near-depression for years. No joke.
How is this a click bait title? Hacker News commenters often have a bad perspective on how non-tech people ought to see the world, and this is a great example. I'm not in tech, so I find it entirely reasonable to expect that if my phone has a "location tracking off" switch, it will disable location tracking. I honestly can't comprehend why you think this isn't a reasonable point of view.
> I'm sure it's nice to have Netflix pay Canadian taxes, but what is better is if Netflix helps create jobs for Canadians by using revenue that Netflix earns by operating in Canada.

So Netflix's taxes in Canada are not helping Canadians so far?
I don't know. My question was if you don't.
I presume that if this got beyond some pretty sketches there would eventually be some kind of way to install new "verbs" and "nouns" and "modules", maybe even a place to go exchange money for interrelated collections of these things... How this would differ from "I downloaded Plunko 3D from the App Store" remains to be seen.