skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An instance? We now have decades worth of these "instances" along with the fact most of the successive years in the twenty-teens were "the hottest year on record." Yet I still hear people claiming "See? None of their predictions came true! Can't trust the experts."

What really gets me is the fact billions of people are perfectly willing to believe in gods that they can't see and for which there's never been a shred of evidence, and yet many people, often the same people, don't believe in something they can actually see with their own two eyes! Can anybody with a background in psychology explain this phenomenon?
They promised to redo the text tool last year. It's not released yet, but I'm sure they are at least aware of this issue.
This is exactly why so many bots online are absolutely hammering the British monarchy. If we were to remove the King, it would totally destabilise the country. It would make Brexit look like a garden party.
Building a genome-based understanding of bacterial pH preferences
If not Krita, then what might be a better alternative to Paint.NET?
Sorry, I've never been very sympathetic to "The Devil/Meta made me do it" excuses.

You are aware that literally billions of people somehow manage to use Facebook without going out afterward and murdering their neighbors, yes?
Rattlegram is an app i've used with Ham for some time to send audio based messages over analog audio. It also works well in air-gapped noisy rooms too, due to the excellent efficiency of COFDM (coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing). Of course not many situations are actually like that, so more of a fun experiment, but the Ham use is actually pretty useful.
PCB trace routing
Trainbot watches trains and stitches together images of them
We could have a lot more stability than we've had. The last president screamed for zero interest rates and tax cuts while the economy was already booming and got his wish. Current admin did different kinds of helicopter money for votes, even though it was likely to end in inflation. Much instability is due to politicians serving their own interests instead of ours without consequence.
This is an excellent tool. I hope that sensors and cameras get good enough to keep track of dangerous drivers and that police can be prompted to issue tickets to violators.
Most kids had computers at home when I was a kid in the 90s/00s but they had more powerful computers than I did so they would just play games. I couldn't even play Counter Strike on mine so I learned to program instead.
They are precious
I would not personally put my savings in BitCoin. The price is far too volatile [1] and storage of BitCoin revolves around problematic centralized wallets or keeping your wallet offline which is similarly problematic for lay people. You might be able to create a fund that amortizes risk across various coins to get what our existing popular savings funds are, but you'd need some anchor coins that are mostly stable to do that.

1: https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/
> the main reason client cents aren’t adopted

I agree with the UI objection, but not the cost objection.

But my principal objection is the same as my objection to WoT: I want my certificate to identify me as the holder of the certificate, and nothing else. Nearly all issuers of client certs insist that you provide driving license, bank statements or whatever, to tie the certificate to me as an identifiable individual person. Most relying entities have the same expectation.

That binding to a real person is quite separable from the idea of a client certificate, but in practice usage of client certs always seems to rely on that binding.
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I’m not certain it’s being done for 100% of bills, but it would be easy to track any single bill between being withdrawn from an atm/bank and re-entering one by noting the serial number and account number as it comes and goes. Exchanges will certainly happen between withdrawals and deposits, but still your privacy is only preserved when neither of your counterparties withdraw/deposit the bill
The Path to Abundant Air Travel
> If a country has to stand on the blood of its working class to survive, that country probably shouldn't exist.

You speak like zealot. I can't take any of this seriously.
Can we have a line on the HN guidelines saying "telling people you asked about <topic> on ChatGPT doesn't make for interesting discussion. Please refrain from doing so."

Especially in this case where you don't even tell what did you find out, only that you did ask ChatGPT. Good for you.
It didn't work like that in 2007/8 in Germany. Deposits didn't just all go to the Bundesbank/Finanzagentur. Maybe you need different banks in the mix, e.g., more coops. For lending, some alternatives exist already, same for trade finance. I think the delta to the current state would be surprisingly small.
> Browsers just aren't intended for doing things that require the generation and safe storage of private keys.

This sounds like webcrypto and it’s interface which is designed to make some data unexportable.
I wouldn’t have a career in computer science if I didn’t take an early college computer science course my senior year of high school. I had no idea about the world of programming the same way the a classroom setting would gave me and my high school was so poor it didn’t have AP classes to introduce me earlier.

I’m in my early 20s. it’s absolutely about access/support.
> At least I can just ignore them

But how will you be able to do that if they can't be distinguished from genuine photos/videos/posts ? I think we're already at that point for photos and text, and video is coming along incredibly fast - give it another year perhaps.
My wife and I have played chess against each other off and on throughout the years. Once or twice I had started to get "serious" about levelling up my game but quickly dropped it due to other priorities.

Then I saw the Botez Sisters on Lex Friedman's podcast and started checking out their content. Holy crap is online chess ever entertaining as hell these days.

Not only are the various streamers on Twitch and YouTube great, but there are so many different variations of the game to come out, like Duck Chess. The bots that Chess.com creates every few months are more entertainment fodder. There is even Chess Boxing!

So I can completely understand why it's gaining traction with teens. Chess is "cool" now for the first time that I can remember.

This is also, of course, following The Queen's Gambit on Netflix and the Carlsen / Nieman cheating scandal. It is so entertaining.

Edit: it's also worth noting that a lot of non-Chess streamers have even started getting into Chess. That undoubtedly has an effect as well.
No, it didn’t use the word “overall”.
> Do these matter if ridership is falling?

If they're not a proximal cause, no. If they are, yes.

But if ridership is going up even whilst prices are offensively high, satisfaction is at an all-time low, and reliability is a joke, then you can't assert that ridership is going up because of privatisation, it's more despite privatisation because people have few other options (cf London where driving is slow because of congestion, buses are often stuck in the same congestion, cycling is still sketchy in some parts, high prices have forced people out of walking distance, etc.)
Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits
Sounds like a textbook transition to gaiety. Don't fight it with substances.
Also this basically already happens, except instead of artificial intelligence it's just SEO spam sites that are curated and maintained the old fashioned with, with cheap off-shore labor.

The examples of clothes is pretty glaring. There are already sites that will generate images of T-shirts or mugs based on popular search terms and then print them on demand when people order.
That kind of argument can be applied to any value-based systems. s/crypto/ with /banks/, /religion/, /houses/.

The real question is how big the risk is relative to inflation, central banks collapses, bank runs and all other types of institutional risks.
Yeah, this guy getting suppressed is a clear abuse of the HN voting system.
I'm listening now. Goodness. It's such a hopeful piece. Each instrument (or perhaps section?) is taking their turn carrying the hope on to the next set of measures.

Going to keep listening to the rest of the movement--- actually I'm just going to put the whole symphony on today while I work.
True, but it only takes a single country anywhere in the world to keep the internet free. And by keeping the net free, they'll get all the money, so they're is a strong incentive to do so.

In the event there are no countries left there are still options:

1. Hidden services

2. Decentralized

3. Just create a pool mechanism where you contribute your private key for whatever gov Auth system exists, then use a random id from the pool among all sign-ups everytime you sign up for a service.
I loved spinach, and I loved pizza.
Just like I loved coding and MMOs.
being called strange for learning stuff on freaking Hacker News is what's really strange
> debased by money printing

Why is this a bad thing?

This is repeated by the crypto people as some kind of root of all evil, and it puzzles me.

I see monetary policy - including the ability of devaluing a currency - as a powerful tool central banks have to keep the economy working.

I fail to see how "hard money", which normally comes peppered with some vague desire for a deflationary economy as desirable. In my view this would very quickly turn into an intolerable distopia.
> But in the end it’s never only about the final piece of music/canvas/etc it is about the person that did it.

Nope. Good art stands on its own merits. The only useful thing about knowing who did it is that you can find more of 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

Wonderful. The less attention that people give to celebrities, the better.
You sound like you're burying the leed here a bit. What tech company only has 40 hours a week of measurable work ready? Most companies have a big backlog of work that needs to be done.

It sounds like you're not doing all your tasks, you're making it look like you're doing enough tasks to not be fired. What happens if you have a project that takes 40 hours to get done? Do you work 10 hours and stretch it to the whole month?
Try Pinta, it's pretty close to Paint.net in terms of functionality. But make sure to install it from the repository specified on the website. The version provided by various distributions is very old and unstable.
> I think if I met Newton, I'd have judged him a self-promoting bullshitter.

He was a thoroughly unpleasant man. However, even people who hated his guts (e.g., the Bernoullis) recognized him as a genius quite early on.
I'm pretty sure the companies and people who held their money in First Republic would survive losing the money they had with them (in most cases it's only a part of their assets). I'm also quite sure the owners of the First Republic stock could afford losing the value of those stocks.

It might have been a little tough for some of them, but most would just shrug it off. I do not understand why government and other banks are so anxious about a bank or two failing? Is it because all other banks are also rotten and leveraged?
They (i.e. materials like gold/silver) have inherent value as being relatively difficult to obtain without significant work and being useful in creating valuable objects.

Because of those properties they become a store of value (representing the work and rarity) which then makes them a useful proxy for trading that value, which increases their rarity/value by taking it out of circulation when used as a store of value.
I put a few pics and videos of my dad's old Hero Jr. up. I barely remember him piecing it together as one of my earliest memories. Still works fine. Had a little Y2K glitch but was no problem. Just thinks it's 1923 now.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/the-hero-jr-personal-rob...

A guy keeps contacting me to try to sell his if you want one.
Although if 23andme say you don't have the genes, you might still have them. Also they'll probably sell your data.
It seems like you do not realize that the 30 year olds who don’t flip burgers and make more than minimum age were once those 19 year olds whose career you’ve delayed by 1 year.
The worst thing about AI becoming common is people accusing each other of having used AI to generate their work for them, when it probably isn't the case.
Crypto wallets also have access to the secure enclave via webauthn. I develop a new wallet (Portal) which will have webauthn but I know Glow uses Windows Hello right now.
You didn't have a computer until your senior year of high school?
Yeah I’m sure one day those “suckers” will decide they don’t need financial privacy and have no problem with the state reaching into their wallets at will. Then they’ll go back to happily storing their money in a bank account that can get locked for having the wrong opinion, or restricted by alleged investor protections that aren’t even opt out.
With all due respect , and I mean it. Ewww
Rumqttc 0.21.0 released with MQTT5 support
> way less risk of ticks

That's only a side effect of "way less life" though
Brands that never die are called necrobrands? Necro means of death. More like immortal brands.
> And when h.264 hardware encoding is not available ?

It's still orders of magnitude better than X over network, in my personal experience.

I used to watch videos over RDP served from a 300MHz Pentium II with a graphics card from back when having hardware MPEG2 decoding was special. Even today using X applications from my Ryzen 1600X server on my Ryzen 3900X desktop over a direct 40G ethernet link is jankier than RDP was 20 years ago.

X's network transparency is occasionally really useful, but there are newer and better ways to solve this problem. The way it does things made sense for the world it was developed in where asking the host to maintain a framebuffer would have been a massive waste of resources, but those resources are now plentiful.
> There’s occasionally actual uses, like nfts

Surely you're being sarcastic.
The GP seems to agree with you. How can you construe the second paragraph as being negative?
The same story was told about a chapel that was part of the Little Norway museum in Wisconsin. I think these stories might be completely made up in response to the ship-like style of the roof.
Why is it a concern? Do you have a girlfriend who wants it more than you do? Would you be embarrassed talking with your guy friends about it?
Water filtration is not a key enablement tech for totalitarianism, tightly controlling who says what in communication is.
That sounds incorrect, though WASM you have access to webcrypto getrandombytes which is native OS randomness.
Yes, such as Estonia! Their digital governance infrastructure should be a leading example for the rest of the liberal world!

I apologize for the incredibly American-centric point of view!
I always blamed it on heat accumulation, after stuffing all those bodies, laptops and even old inefficient lighting/projectors into a confined space it gets way too warm, then the body slows down to compensate.
That's mostly just a consequence of those banks being "too big to fail". In 2008, allowing the largest banks to fail and shareholders lose everything could have seriously crippled our currency itself.

Shares of those banks play a much larger role in index funds, retirement accounts, etc than First Republic or SVB. The major banks are so tightly coupled that if one fell most of the others would have, and the very debt that created our currency in the first place would have disappeared.

Whether bailing out the banks in 2008 was a net positive won't be known for a while. We're still dealing with the blowback from 2008 and we can't know whether the bailouts saved us from further pain or pushed it under the rug and made the pain worse later.
This free market you are thinking about has never existed in the United States, except maybe during the Articles of Confederation. Article I of the constitution explicitly states that "The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
Precisely my point. WH (or any other business for that matter) must learn to adapt to the market or it will fail. Labor pressures in any direction will force changes - in low elasticity domains (like the food industry) they must do this quicker.

FWIW you're going to see a lot of chain restaurants turn to automation to avoid labor in particular, but it also has the benefit of consistency and food safety adherence.
There’s a non zero chance of two great filters ahead of us, expanding sun or asteroid impact
the West’s Lust for Liberty
> No parent will bat an eye if you play 3 hours straight. I wonder if thats because all parents have seen the queens gambit.(?)

I'd say it's more that chess is old, famous for being intellectual, and doesn't have the flashy childishness and addictive mechanics of many computer games.

So many of the usual parental worries around screen time - cyberbullying, causing body image issues, destroying attention span, rotting the brain, designed by experts to be addictive, promoting gambling - simply do not apply.
I had no level of price increase in mind. (Obviously any increase has some harm at the margin.) Rather, I'm saying that certain services that cost money to provide--especially given higher labor costs--like daily room cleaning don't deliver much value, if any, to many consumers. Pre-pandemic some chains would even let you opt out in exchange for some points.
Is this true? I can’t actually think of any examples of this off the top of my head. I can think of examples of popping anxiety pills to show weakness and lack of resolve, pills that suppress their acuity in some way, or some sort of amphetamine because they need energy.

But pain pills don’t ring a bell. The classic move is strongly taking a swig of hard alcohol and then pouring it over a wound and wincing.

In my opinion, people shown to be taking pills are usually portrayed as weak or digging themselves into a hole.

Perhaps with some exceptions to people shown taking pills which I interpreted as a display of competence and experience more than anything.
No. In the US, passwords have been held by courts to be "testimony" which requires a court order to force you to disclose. Fingerprints, gestures and face-id are legally equivalent to keys and any law enforcement agent can order you to use keys to unlock a thing. The difference is that the 5th Amendment prohibits testifying against yourself - therefore passwords are legally safer.
The difference is the US still largely abides by and enforces human rights. Major powers will always do crappy stuff, I think, but there is a difference in degree.
Ask HN: I am installing Linux for my mother so I can help her remotely, tips?
It has been increasingly hazardous to run windows machine for old people as they often cannot differentiate a pop up from a system message. So i will move my mother to Linux and install something to remotely assist. Any tips from experience?
The same well-known issues plague PyPI with setup.py. What I found perhaps more interesting is the Sandworm's finding that about a half of new npm packages are today SEO spam:

https://blog.sandworm.dev/one-in-two-new-npm-packages-is-seo...
Introduction to Alexander Technique
They may be normally distributed, but most people have at least one or two outlier parameters that customization could help with.

Personally I just suggest going to a keyboard meetup and trying out a bunch of ergos and picking the design you find most comfortable.

I lucked into the Mitosis layout in 2017 (literally, I won it in a raffle) and have used it ever since. True endgame.
That's because exploitation and misuse are classic characteristics of people. We do that with everyone and everything.

It's too late to put the tech genie back in the bottle. We won't be giving up LLMs just like we didn't give up the internet when that was invented. Your summary (and thank you) sounds like the author is making standard Luddite[0] complaints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Can you elaborate on the thumb problems from Manuforms? This is the first I’ve heard of them. I’m in the process of building a corne Manuform.
I don't have trust for things, I build trust with other humans if earned, potentially dogs. Beyond that there's no reason to trust with objectivity and reason.

Digression aside, I would impress upon you I haven't claimed, nor do I believe what you're claiming I have. I am simply providing you with a slice of the larger original academic paper that provides great, rigorous, and peer-reviewed documentation of precisely what GPT is, and what it's trained on.

From this paper you'll perhaps gather an instinct that these folks working on this problem are widely aware of the extremely well-known concept of "open source knowledge" and were well considered in their application of pruning data to their needs.

I believe you'll perhaps further gather retrospective insight upon the idea that GPT is doing anything more than giving you a T9-predictive-autotext for the entirety of that dataset; meaning you can try to coax it into saying anything you want but if the p-values aren't right or the predictive potential of a given token "coming up next" isn't there, that's just.. how it goes.

It's data. It's not quite the tower of Babel, but we'll get there soon enough. Kind of like how all the fancy 3D video game rendering software that looks incredible these days is still just manipulating tuples and vectors with matrix calculations, stuff you could do on paper but why would you do that math to describe a picture when you could just draw it.

ChatGPT is just drawing the pictures (in this poorly chosen analogy), and giving us the cool graphics. The math is all pretty benign and based in the fundamentals of neural networks, not even the more fanciful CV and deeper trained NLP can get to.

Info-scientists, I wonder what the "rainbow table" of all language and ideas etc. that would be relevant to a latent language learning model would be... this is a wonder to me because I lack the sufficient knowledge and field expertise.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

Does this seem normal to you? Imagine you are a patient and you took data like this to your doctor. Would he say you are healthy after having such a gradual rise all your life and then complete chaos?

If things have been going great the past few years I’d say maybe it doesn’t matter, but things don’t seem to be going great for anyone except the wealthy (those by nature closest to the money printer).

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/charts-that-explai...

>Since 2007, wealth has declined for all but the top 20%.

Oddly (or not oddly) enough that’s when the monetary base graph starts skyrocketing.
I have to imagine once you find your trap street, you can start looking around for other copyright infringements that actually can be prosecuted. In fact, it might be a better strategy to never bring up the trap street at all, extending its life a bit.
Do you realize that page was established in 2013?

If the reference is keeping all your messages, and potentially your PGP keys, in "cloud" storage at a PRISM provider it's not particularly hard to understand some ways in which using Thunderbird instead is supposed to help. It's a fair point it's not a particularly satisfying mitigation though.
Unfortunately US and Canada residents only for now.