skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lottery tickets are extremely inexpensive. But what do you think would happen to consumption of lotto tickets if they went from $3 to free, especially in a frictionless environment where you can just download them?
In the old days, we had a system called NFS (Network File System) where, yes, you may decide to use only remote disks. There were several advantages apart from lowering the cost of disks, mainly that you could centrally manage boot images for a fleet of machines. Then we got the web and everyone seemed to assume you could do the same thing over the internet.

I agree with you, I would prefer a local disk to one with 100+ msec of latency and local storage prices are at the point where the right answer is probably "just add local storage."

But I watch with some sympathy the small army of sys-admins (something like 15-20 people) responsible for managing the 3000+ Macs our company uses and remember the 2 person staff which supported the 1500+ diskless workstations from my years at a sadly defunct mini-super-computer manufacturer. It was quite nice... you could go to any machine and log in and your desktop would follow you. I'm told doing the same thing with MSFT requires 10-20 people just to manage the AD hardware (though as a unix-fan, I hang out with other unix-fans who are notoriously rude to MSFT, so maybe it's only 5-10 people needed to manage the AD instance.)
No, the horror would be to be human generated "AI generated propaganda".
> always been kind of a jerk. My-way-or-the-highway people with Asperger's usually are

Could we could just say "My-way-or-the-highway people are jerks"?

I don't see a need to link that to people with Asperger's. Some of them have an extra challenge in some situations already, without negative prejudices adding to that.
Lol, maybe the second line should be “Make changes that destroy programmer productivity while doing nothing to address security, and claim that it is a new security policy”. T-mobile didn’t pioneer the concept of using offshore fraudulent contractors and consultants to build your core IT infrastructure, but they certainly perfected it.
I used to work for T-Mobile. I suspect that they get breached so often due to age of one of their primary billing systems, which is written in PowerBuilder.
Doesn't necessarily apply to data being processed with plugins. The "Code Interpreter" plugin lets you upload files up to 100 MB for use by AI-generated Python scripts; see https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/it-is-starting-to-get-stran... for examples (including useful output from vague prompts like "please characterize this dataset", at least if you get lucky).
> it’s because they want to look out for children

The issue is that it's _their_ job to look out for their children.

We don't force all beds to have "walls", and give adults the keys to lower them if they show proof of age. Parents are supposed to buy _cribs_ for their children.
Yes, it's an idiot proof method that's vetted by millions of reviewers because it's developed in the open. The ability to self validate is also invaluable, hard to have major widespread bugs with that, especially if it's widely adopted by trillion $ companies. OpenSSL is a great example of this.
In here, actual avoidable environmental damage happened because one more veto was needed.
Thanks for confirming. You really need to try both to find what you like.
That's precisely the point of this article and the gotcha title: showing that Nazi-like horrors can be everywhere, including the USA
It's fixable, but it requires a bit of a mentality change of "static-first"
The author notes that in the data analysis, ChatGPT hallucinates an incorrect fact…there seems like such a huge gulf between “ChatGPT can do 90% of a data analysis but some might be wrong” and “ChatGPT can do data analysis with great accuracy.”

It’s a difference between proof of concept and production ready software. Maybe these shortcomings can be addressed in a larger software ecosystem, but ChatGPT still feels pretty far from properly replacing human work—it’s just not reliable enough
Observational studies.

Problem with self selection (identify kids who decided to watch porn in the past, and compare with those that didn't) probably will not be that huge, when the people are only outraged about "kids" self selecting to watch porn.
You have no idea what you are talking about. IBM does more cutting edge research than the entire HN bubble combined. Hard research like materials science and semiconductors.

Consulting is less than a third of their revenue and regardless of how you feel about consulting, it seems kind of idiotic to claim that this "barely makes sense at all at this point". Are the only companies that make sense the ones that work on fad bullshit that makes the front page of HN?
LLMs have one too, in the same way humans have. It's just closer to a 4 year old human than an adult human.
You have made your point, 3 times the same one, but you are yet to discuss mine.

"We should solve coal immediately":

Who is "we" (I for one don't have coal at home)

How can coal be "solved"?

Coal is in India, China, US, etc. I don't live in these countries and try not to buy anything from these countries anyway. My country has given up on coal completely. The only country from the top 3 that has enough economic leeway to transition quickly and completely is the US, and that would be "only" 8% of the total share, which by your logic would be not worth looking into, since 10 years of Chinese coal is 50 years of American coal, or something.

I absolutely think we should work on reducing coal usage as much and as quickly as possible, but it's out of my capacity. However, I can give up/reduce flying, and that's what I am doing.
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For a discussion on combining the benefits of modules with type classes, see "Modular Type Classes"; If I were to implement a language with similar features today, I would certainly use it.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/mtc/full.pdf
How does GrapheneOS help with broadband chip firmware bypassing whatever it wants to prevent? All cellphones are rooted by default, just not by their owners.
It's not hard to learn a new language. It is hard for a complete beginner to get hung up on all the warts of C++.
I don't have a big red 'Download package' button. The only large red button I see on the submitted article says 'Get a Demo'.
> Europe is well-known for its intense organized crime.

Lol, like it weren't the case pretty much everywhere else... Anywhere there is a significant amount of humans, there is "intense organized crime" too; any difference in outcomes is largely due to how authorities decide to address it.
It's impressive the lengths you'll go to avoid seeing the point. My message is, don't write off people just because they appear to be hipsters. Similar to people lacking hair, who are oftentimes the SAME persons as those people having hair, the developers participating in new technologies are often the same as the ones writing in mature codebases.
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This is off topic, but holy hell the tweets underneath this. This is like taken from the front page of Fox News.
I think that OP in here referenced actual engineers and scientists. Musk is not one, despite taking all ghe credit as if he was.

Musk is able to convince or bully others into giving him investment money - including goverment. That is real contribution for sure. Just not an engineering.
NASA has refused permission to launch Starship from the only American launch pad that provides access to the International Space Station.

Also, they are running into capacity limits at Canaveral.

KSC and Wallops are both also surrounded by nature reserves, so if that's the argument then KSC is out too.
I think doing legally sketchy things is what's causing most of the legal risk here. Being obnoxious just draws attention to said sketchiness and makes attempts at repercussions more swift.
We've entered into a low trust society and I have a hard time envisioning a reversal of this trend.
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Because whatever you send to ChatGPT may be future training data for their AI model. Mixing up your data with other customer's data is not really part of Slack's business (yet?).
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Not all SaaS companies have security postures equivalent to Amazon/Google/Github/MS. Most SaaS have a fraction of a budget as compared tech giants to deal with security and privacy regulations.
Transfer to a CS/CE program and exercise once per day.

And buy Bitcoin when it's cheap.
I had just started using Mint mobile and then I find out a month later that T-Mobile is acquiring them, now this... there was a reason I never wanted to use T-Mobile. Guess I gotta find another provider... again
I would note that IBM is like 80% middle management. At this scale, one could easily make an AI tool that generates powerpoint presentations from an email, present it to a different AI that can create an email with the bullet points that can then be read by another AI...
You mean someone solved the halting problem? News to me.
> At some point every industry grows up and standardizes on something, anything, because any standard is better than no standard.

What's the standard programming language? The standard editor? The standard database?

> launching a competing standard at this point isn't going to make things better, the best case scenario is that it fragments the industry.

People keep coming out with new programming languages, new editors, and new databases.
Aside from the very cool graphics seating arrangements, there is one super key passage:

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And IntelME.
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Could you not make a censor AI that scans content for offensive metadata and rejects the ones it finds?

There may still be a bit of slipthrough but it should be dramatically mitigated.
22% isn't marginal, and a large part of my flight cost is already tax.

I'm happy with "natural" inconveniences - not everyone gets to have a Ferrari - but not with people legislating for rules they have no intention of being affected by or complying with.
Agreed, love the Lamy Safari. I got the Al Star to up-scale it a bit. And, then a gold-nib later. But, honestly, like the steel more!

I also tried the Pilot Metropolitan, for some reason this awful pen is recommended as an alternative to the Lamy. Doesn't even compare, got rid of it fairly quickly. The ridge along the grip was very uncomfortable for me.
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If it pings the towers anyways, what's the point of turning it off?
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More interesting data for the identity provider.. Leaving the filtering to the client side is a less intrusive method and puts the responsibility into the hands of parents (or work places). rtalabel.org proposes simple well-known meta tags to simplify this filtering.
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I've been using TranscribeMe a lot recently!
It's a bot that converts voice notes to text, it's for WhatsApp and Telegram
https://transcribeme.app
It's great for those who don't like voice notes, haha!
It can do. If weed was made legal here I would jump on it immediately; the only reason I don't currently is because it's too much of a hassle to find someone who sells it and I can trust. When I was in California with a friend they ordered some on an app and a guy pulled up in their parking lot twenty minutes later. That's legalisation bringing barriers to entry way down, which is a surefire way to increase popularity.
I don't understand - if I did this kind of thing as a kid I'd just lose progressively more and more privileges. My parents never put technical obstacles in my way - there were just clear consequences for braking the rules. If your son keeps braking the rules you've set....surely there comes a point where he loses his phone/PC or whatever? No?
Wait they actually scan your ID? Or did you mean visually 'scan' it
That is explictly the idea of a lot of propaganda: "the firehose of falsehood".

Keep hammering them with facts, details, allegations, baseless claims, even slivers of truth. The average person doesn't have the time, interest, or capabilities to dig through all of those claims, and will eventually settle on consuming the facts they want to hear. Keep em too confused to do anything except what feels right to their gut.

Unsurprisingly, this was pioneered by the Soviets, and heavily used by the Russians, both via foreign agit-prop, but also heavily on their domestic audience.

See also: The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
That's much better than local online store SPA I used that leaked memory many megabytes per second, so I periodically reset the SPA so that the browser can free the leaked memory.
It impacts email as a standard because Google is a gatekeeper of what is supposed to be an open standard.
This is fascinating to me, as someone naive to the hobby. Can you describe what you're looking for and what adjustments you'd make? Are there two halves of the nib that need to be at the right spacing and alignment for proper ink-wicking or something like that? Does that affect the smoothness of the interaction with the paper too?

I routinely work under a high-magnification dissecting scope to build experimental equipment for neuroscience, but I never considered that people would be doing this to optimized their writing instruments.
I still use NFS in my home.
Pre-launch, I'd bet that the best-experts probability of a RUD on or near the pad was >5%. And the probability of massive pad damage starting a few fires was <95%.

If you recall Probability 101, and do the Chance_of_X * Severity_of_X calculations - then the vast majority of the expected* fire damage, which the FAA effectively signed off on, was from the near-pad explosion scenario.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
CASTOR comes to mind for a start.

Take a look a the CERN paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/331/5/0... as they have a large use case.
No, the Eco can only be filled with a piston mechanism, and yes, you have a point. While I love piston fillers, it can be off-putting for a complete beginner, so maybe better as second pen than as first :) The Pilot Metropolitan is great as first pen, IMO.
Can you cite a source? I got the reference but failed to corroborate it. How did it fail?
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Sounds like you and your friend both spend a little too much time on the internet.
> Why is it not enough that the user clicked on the button to change the default browser?

It’s a button in Chrome, intuitively it should only be able to affect things inside Chrome. If you want to affect system-wide (user-wide…) defaults, that should be done in System, not Chrome. A analogy might be “turning your house lights’ dimmers to maximum brightness shouldn’t also set your car’s headlights to high-beam”.
Yeah well I just use Firefox on Linux
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> a bigger range of outcomes on chips due to the progression of shrinking fab sizes

You don't even need me to answer.
The concern isn’t about gpt-4. Its about, another 10 years from now, seeing something thats as far ahead of gpt-4 as gpt-4 is from CharRNN.
Pumped storage efficiency is about 80% which is on par with Lead Acid batteries. At $106 to $200 per kwh, pumped hydro beats battery storage which costs about $400 to $500 per kwh. This seems like an excellent idea for large scale storage of energy, the small difference in efficiency will be offset hugely by the capital costs. Especially if you have grid scale batteries to manage frequencies while turbines come up to speed.

Looking forward to seeing how this goes. It would be a wicked great way of transporting water over mountains too. They already do something similar for the Colorado river aqueduct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Aqueduct
If you go the interview approach you'll run into many potential confounds. If the average age of first exposure is 13, and someone says they waited until 17, it's possible that a third variable delayed them from seeking porn and also will have an impact on other life incomes.

This is why random assignment is the gold standard. With a large enough sample size random assignment will account for all confounds. Here, we can only measure likely confounds and attempt to 'account for' them with statistics. All of these introduces more noise and generally reduces the validity of the study.

In general, I dismiss all scientific studies with these looking back questionnaires as little more than well documented hunches.
I think it would be fair to give the asteroid impact roughly a one in a million odds over a human lifespan-- speculating over longer intervals is pointless anyway because we already have some countermeasures and any impactor smaller than the moon might become divertible within a century or two.

On the other hand, it seems VERY likely to me that an AI with superhuman cognitive capabilities is just a matter of time (lets say a decade or two), and the risk that such a system would NOT favor coexistence with humans appears MUCH more likely than 1/1000000 to me: Just consider the current debate about "alignment", which to me just seems obviously and inherently unethical; I would not want to coexist with a species whose "ethical" concerns are largely centered around controlling and manipulating me reliably.
I thought I'd seen it all when I learnt how you could implement a conditional with function calls in lambda calculus (the point being you don't want to evaluate the branch you're not taking).

But TeX, of course, manages to take that to new heights.
Why is std:hardware_destructive_interference_size a compile-time constan (cont)
If you include lynchings (and I am), very recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...
I interviewed dozens of software developers over the last 20 years. As a Tech Lead, a Manager and as a CTO managing multiple development teams. While I did not have a fixed list of interview questions to examine competency, I did and do have a set of favourite questions to evaluate the knowledge in the field of programming, computing and networking.
> The way Google released "experimental" features behind prefixes instead of configuration for years always seemed like a way to get developers to break their sites in non-Chrome browsers as much or more than a way to test features.

Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera all were doing that before Google even had a browser; there never even was a Chrome-specific prefix, all of the features included in Chrome this way were -webkit- prefix and, IIRC, implemented in the WebKit shared codebase.
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> Core Centoventotto

My gradfather used to drive a Fiat 128 (Centoventotto) in the late 60ies - early 70ies.

Legend has it that my uncle drove that to Norway (from the south of Italy) on his honeymoon trip.

I've lost track of it, but i remember it was still in use in ~2008 or so, today i think it should be somewhere at my uncle's place.
With trial seems to be 1785 [1]. Without trial here's a list of killings in the last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...

[1] https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h...
What was the reason for this ban and it’s upheld ?
Neither, Infinity % 2 = NaN
I think there certainly could be productivity/etc. costs from widespread weed legalization, but the way that you mention it in the same breath as LSD, meth, or coke makes me think you think of weed as a much more serious drug than it is.

If anything, the primary function weed has as a gateway drug is because people speak so terribly about it (and with LSD in the same breath) that when you try it and realize - oh this is not really scary/terrible in the way it was described, maybe they've been lying about all drugs the whole time?

Can't find the studies right now, but there has been evidence of positive societal effects from pot consumption because of how it displaces alcohol.
> This looks like the exact opposite of what I would do if I were to redesign operating systems

Me too but to be fair, we would probably call this a desktop environment, not an OS. It's a shell that could run on top of Windows, MacOS or Linux. Data could be stored in a standard filesystem or a database and managed by the shell and presented to users as "content and actions [...] fluidly assembled based on your intentions"