skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one?

> But upgrading the urban wastewater-treatment facilities surrounding the bay would eliminate nutrient pollution, permitting more delta water to be directed to California’s farms and cities—a lot more water.

The main reason for "flushing" fresh water into the delta is to preserve the delta ecosystem. Without putting fresh water in the river, the salt water from the Bay works its way up the delta.

I tried a few searches to understand whether this wastewater issue is real or not, and the main "nutrient pollution" issue that comes up is not human waste, but instead fertilizer runoff from agriculture [1,2].

Upgrading wastewater treatment sounds great, but overall this author just doesn't seem to be honest.

[1] https://ucanr.edu/sites/DRAAWP/files/358402.pdf
[2] https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/10/2845
The kind who's part of a group so large that all top positions are already filled.
The famous “You can’t send message because user is offline” Ms Office Communicator aka Lync aka Skype for Business aka Microsoft Teams.
Alright then, let's move forward and encompass living writers!
A better phrasing is "do submarines swim?" which is an obviously stupid question. They don't swim anymore than any other ship does. They do however do something that's a reasonable or even superior substitute for swimming in many cases.
At the point where you have root you basically won. You can ship user’s data elsewhere. You can install a key logger. You can empty their bank account.

But yes if the OS also let’s you change the boot ROM then you can make your root access semi-permanent.
Graphics aren't really the problem anymore. We've already reached photorealism, and iterative improvements to render it in real-time are developing quickly, while the hardware gets more powerful, efficient and cheaper.

The bulk of the progress will be in human-computer interfaces. We're still mostly interacting with keyboards, mice and 2D touchscreens; voice recognition is still primitive; XR is still experimental and nobody wants to strap a heavy headset to their face, etc.
Well de-facto the balanced approach is here already. If you don't like OpenAI, you can go work for Gitlab. The actual interview is not as extreme as the title, and since Altman mentioned they have remote workers too, he seems to be trying to say that 100% remote for everyone is over.
>Maybe some of the really big journals like Nature pay but not those like "Journal of Algebra" or "Journal of Cleaner Production".

Ref? Elsevier (publisher of "Journal of Algebra") does pay their academic editors:

https://medium.com/@SiccodeKnecht/so-what-about-editor-compe...
I don’t doubt you’re right, but that doesn’t make it logical.

I’m curious how common this sort of thing is in other languages—words or phrases taking on the opposite meaning of their literal definition. “I could care less” is an example of a phrase that’s commonly used in English. Perhaps it’s debatable whether that one has achieved acceptance or not.
...isn't such signing usually done the other way around? Intel would hold the signing keys, MSI (or any other OEM manufacturer) then sends (over a secure channel) their firmware to Intel, Intel signs it and sends the signature back.
> If this is sincere then it's a heartbreaking moment of reflection and clarity for Microsoft

Don't worry; it isn't.
You might enjoy digging into the philosophy of C.S. Peirce then, specifically his concept of "abductive reasoning."
Were you a troublemaker ?
You are right I think, it's about impulse, force over time, surface area and how much energy can be transfered through the surface area through the underlying tissue and create a ripple basically. I suspect that at some point, the 'transfer function' of energy just maxes out and mass of the vehicle itself is pointless over that point, as it's all lethal.
Early thirties, probably less than 10 memories of my childhood
Sadly I think it’s just human nature. Problems always look easy from the outside. Underdogs which are at first rooted for, if they succeed enough, become reviled. New things that challenge the status quo are scary and vilified.

In the end… if the day comes that I install a new update on my Model 3 and it boots up with full-release FSD with an Enable Robotaxi button, fact is people will still hate on them.

I recognize it as hugely advanced, world changing technology. If they truly nail it, every other passenger car is obsolete.

The idea that such powerful technology would be locked up and controlled by Google of all companies… on highly customized vehicles that only they own… you would think HN in particular would realize how badly that future turns out.

What Tesla is doing in entirely laudable, and they’re doing it in a way that democratizes rather than monopolizes the technology. And this fits with Elon’s entire ethos of tackling challenges he sees as necessary as a way to protect humanity.
I love this comment, thank for such a good laugh.

I really hope no one would ever think this non sarcastically.
Having to regenerate all your keys just to switch client is an order of magnitude (or two) harder than migrating from one password manager to another. The article we are commenting on is titled "the beginning of the end of passwors" as if passkeys were an improvement over passwords.

They are an improvement for service providers, sure, but not for users, due to vendor lock-in. This was my initial argument from the start.

You kept countering with arguments such as "you can use a FOSS client", "but Google is a contributor to open source" or "Google can't access your Yubikey" - which are irrelevant to my point, which is that the new standard introduces further vendor lock-in.

In addition you resorted to personal attacks - calling me and other users in this thread conspiracists or uneducated - but could not counter any of the points we were making with valid arguments.
What about Nintendo?

Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Gamecube
Wii
Wii U
Switch
And toothbrushes too, did you know in some countries it is legal to brush your teeth and buy a toothbrush even if you didn’t see a dentist in the last year?
Oh, should I disable TPM2?
I became addicted to mine after only a few days of use! Now I use them every day without fail and I think I would have a very hard time stopping.
Whatever, it does not imply that any part of that expense is editorial. In fact it could be lobbying costs, marketing and sales. Or the cost of maintaining the paywalled system, and copyright lawyers.

The www was quite literally designed for sharing scientific papers. Hosting them is a 1990s problem. The real cost is in building a paywall and enforcing it
We have a nimble EV and a slow lumbering non-EV. Never had this issue and neither has my spouse.
I hadn't thought about the saltwater creep. But fertilizer runoff from agriculture is a big deal, and can have serious implications. If it's too concentrated, it can kill entire ecosystems after algal blooms. I actually did my undergrad thesis on looking into using mushrooms to reduce fertilizer runoff.

I guess it's probably pretty complicated to decide what solution would have the least environmental impact/or the one with the most desired outcome in this case.
Not listening to farmers is how elections are lost.

Even so, agriculture creates a huge number of jobs in and adjacent to the agriculture industry. You might solve one problem, but you will have a new one too.
It's just a matter of prompting. It's relatively easy to prompt ChatGPT to tell all kinds of "lies." I use the quotes because of course a token generating statistical model has no concept of truth or falsehood and is thus incapable of lying. It's literally a bullshit generator in the technical sense described in the charming little book On Bullshit[1].

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on...
I’m not sure text prompts offer the kind of plasticity needed for artists to really do their thing.

Frank Gehry used to do really chaotic abstract drawings and hand them off to aerospace CAD operators to turn them into something that could be engineered and machined and assembled. Lots of people could do the drawings and have magic mushroom facades but Gehry understood the resulting interior spaces as well … I think it’s there is a ton of potential for great tools employing the past decade or so of ML/AI but ISTM it should empower the process rather than replace it.
pass has issues: https://rot256.dev/post/pass/

This is very much a case of "don't invent your own cryptosystem", especially not in bash.
Might as well do ordinary glasses, too.
I think that in the heyday that parent (but not grandparent) is referring to, all that you needed to maintain state was to have a memory card of your own. I remember playing GameCube games at a local video game cafe place when I was a kid, and I would either just play a game from scratch with whatever card they had lying around, or I would bring my own memory card.
Level 5 might be recursive - thinking about thinking. Or it might be observable thought - the ability to watch yourself think.
No, the difference between operating profit and net profit is not simply tax. It is not "semantics". The net profit is the actual profit of the company. I see you haven't removed your personal attack above, so this is the end of the discussion. You clearly cannot argue logically and civilly, so it's a waste of time.
My readers from 3 years ago are not dangerous I promise you, absolutely no chance of “abuse” from my Costco glasses. If you could please clarify?
Bluesky doesn't have any yet, so that's kind of obvious. How bluesky fares once it gets there remains to be seen.
I vote that we humans claim we’ve solved “AI” and now have AGI and move on with solving actual real world problems instead of pumping billions of dollars of time and money into “AI” and playing with computers all day.

Climate change is some real shit.
It's never too late to learn the meaning of a new word. Why just yesterday I was reading The Count of Monte Cristo, where the author used "felicity" in a context I'd not seen before. Fortunately in my very pocket was a powerful device that includes a dictionary unsurpassed in the history of mankind, and thus my brief ignorance was swiftly overcome! Perhaps the author meant to exclude me? Oh dear...
There's a lot of talk about 'political extremists' and 'lobbyists'... Who exactly are we talking about, because those are specific people with names and not some boogeyman.
Wait the ratio is only 2:1? From the original article and your first sentence I was expecting Xbox to be on the verge of a death spiral, not getting as much as 50% of PS5 sales.
In most cases I'd even prefer the 16 bit fixed point, with 11 significant bits the rounding errors become visible fast.
Twitter remains a great and useful social network if you stay in the right circles.

ML Twitter is fantastic for example.
As some other users have noticed, this particular author's syntax is a bit aggressive. The author of this opinion piece, Edward Ring, is the founder of the California Policy Center; according to Wikipedia, the CPC is a "conservative and libertarian public policy think tank".

In the last two weeks, he's penned and published writing like:

"Few on the American Right are unaware of Anheuser-Busch’s recent foray into woke politics. Taking their regular customers for granted, the once-great American company “partnered” with a transsexual person" [1]

or

"construct low cost, minimum security detention facilities, and classify them as “permanent supportive housing.” Locate them on state owned land in rural areas with mild winters, and set up at least three types. One for criminals, one for drug addicts and alcoholics, and one for the mentally ill" [2]

or

"By adhering to junk science, promulgated by the billionaire-fueled “renewables” lobby and abetted by institutions filled with cowards who dare not touch the third rail of California politics – the “climate emergency.” Phony, futile but draconian measures to mitigate this concocted crisis are the main reason everything is unaffordable in California." [3]

Some of Edward's points ring true -- especially when he writes about certain things like slow bureaucracy that plagues Californian municipal and state governments. But I have a problem with this kind of extremist (and poorly researched+presented) writing. I'm not an expert on watersheds and so on, but based on Edward's prior writings, I'm also pretty sure he's not an expert either. What gives him the authority to be so dismissive against (what I presume) is policy driven by science?

This is also a mild rant against the awful selection of opinion writers for the WSJ Opinion pages as they often are cast from the same mold as Mr. Ring.

[1]: https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/02/the-other-hills-to-die-on...

[2]: https://californiaglobe.com/articles/heres-what-you-can-do-a...

[3]: https://californiaglobe.com/articles/assemblyman-isaac-bryan...
That’s deeply surprising for me - the Xbox series X is admittedly a weird shape, but the PS5 is way bigger overall. Though the PS5 certainly is a more traditional shape. When you say thick, I assume you were thinking of placing the consoles horizontally?

PS5: 15x4x10 inches
Xbox Series X: 12x6x6 inches
They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad.

They read you Peter Rabbit, too.

They give you all the treats they had

And add some extra, just for you.

They were tucked up when they were small,

(Pink perfume, blue tobacco-smoke),

By those whose kiss healed any fall,

Whose laughter doubled any joke.

Man hands on happiness to man.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

So love your parents all you can

And have some cheerful kids yourself.

- Adrian Mitchell
I despise all things Microsoft but the 360 and later controllers are excellent designs and are possibly the best standard-issue console controllers ever. I will die on this hill.

Sony's stubborn refusal to modify their basic controller shape/layout in the last 28 years isn't admirable and is not endearing them to people with good taste (i.e., me).

And yes, I am aware that I just declared myself willing to die on a hill while simultaneously criticizing Sony for dying on a hill.
Thing is, North American cities are so spread out that even 3 stories would be close to an order of magnitude of improvement.

Imagine if no zoning code could prevent a developer from creating up to 3 story, multi-unit buildings on standard quarter acre lots. Just that alone would more than double the density in the United States overtime and still give most people PLENTY of space before we even have to start making sacrifices
The apology she gets from her dad is extraordinary. I'm quite sure my parents will not apologize even on their deathbeds.
Remembering all the times the former US president said such and such general was "straight out of central casting".
I think that would make sense yes. It isn't clear to me why they would distribute the private keys to the OEMs (laziness?).
I'm curious maybe anyone have experience in large bank or broker how do they generate statements for customers ?
not op but I think i'm too dumb on this topic to understand what you mean, could you explain further? ( to me it sounds like you're suggesting using encrypted weights while they're suggesting using encrypted inputs which to me solves two different use cases )
The core problem MS has is that, it is bad at studio management and simply does not have the same creative vision. Hence the playbook of buying big studios. If they can fix that they’d be fine. Using Sony as a comparison is not ideal, Sony buys comparatively small studios and nurtures them to big IPs. It’s not the same thing, despite the complaints from MS. Recent Redfall release is a classic example.
DragThing died in 2019 with the loss of 32 bit carbon.
So you're in the (human level intelligence) is magic camp?

You don't have to understand how something works to build it.
If there were no symbols, what did this "wondering" consist of? Did it really happen? Is it possible to "wonder" without using symbols?

The example does not say it out aloud that it assumes you can do "wondering" without symbols. An example like that implies that what it describes as happening actually happened, therefore proves that that is how the world works.

I think that is a logical fallacy even though I'm not sure if it has a name or official definition. The fallacy is that because in an imagined situation something is imagined as having happened, it would prove something about the actual world, without us also proving that such an imagined thing can actually happen in the real world.
KDE Developers in Germany Planning for Plasma 6.0
> It was a genius idea - you cannot install Windows 11 on an old computer. So you need to buy a new one.

> Monopoly practice hidden as security.

Actually you can, it's only checked by installer, if you modify it there is nothing stopping you from installing it. I have installed one on my parents computer. CPU wasn't supported but after installation everything worked ok.
doesn't run so much in that awkward zone where the names kind of suggest they denote an order but not really. Not perfect, but still better then MS.
I meant things like Microsoft's signing keys embedded inside BIOS, Microsoft Pluton CPU, secure enclaves inside CPU (now deprecated though) and things made for Secure Boot and DRM.
Given the cost and length of time between needing to buy a new license, it’s effectively lifetime upgrades.
First, I actually like hamburgers! Probably prefer them to steak, to be honest - especially when cost is factored in.

The problem, as I see it: people went from nice useful computer screens to these tiny phones, with very narrow horizontal space. If you show up to a restaurant and can't eat steak, the smarter restauranteurs are going to adjust.

Some sites are able to figure it out, but lets not blame the proprietors for giving the people what they want: a horizontally tiny viewport for nav. If you use that space for nav, you don't use it for actual content - I'm sure people in this forum hate that as well.
What's even the rationale to assume that AGI can be 'aligned' or 'controlled'?

It reeks of cognitive dissonance to me. The people running the show now are the ones who grew up getting their first computers aw kids when that tech was just entering people's homes and it was such an amazing and fun thing to play with. Some of them developed these deep fascinations with things like AGI at a young age and that child-like sense of wonder never left them. Now when confronted with the possibility that they can finally make their childhood techno-fantasy a reality, it's too damaging to their psyche to engage meaningfully with the discussion of X-risk. I've watched many interviews of Demis Hassabis and he seems like a wonderful and almost magical human being, but he also seems like a starry-eyed fucking child.

I dunno... maybe I'm just too cynical after all the rabbit holes I've been down.
New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
Rice is grown in the wet part of the state, where water is seen as a nuisance anyway. The belief that every part of California is always parched is wrong. It's a large state with multiple climates.
Yeah, I only worked in the business shortly but I would dispute that statement as well.

Back at the time licensing from iD was basically "here's a cd, never call us again." Meanwhile Unreal, at a much more approachable price, also came with support contacts, a private email list and irc channel, etc. It was like night and day between the two.

In my role as a level designer I vastly preferred UnrealEd. The workflow was more interactive, and the BSP implementation way more robust against leaks. There were flaws to Unreal... the initial versions of UnrealScript were not great. But again, there was simply no comparing the two imo.
“D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.””

“Thomas gained legal custody of Martin and became his legal guardian around January 1998, according to court records.”
This post managed to say a lot of things and nothing all at once.

Lots of people died from electrocution because we didn't really have good regulations on how to wire stuff, and even a good grasp on the dangers of electricity.

Also, some countries have pretty good regulations and are generally happy. Other countries have terrible regulations and lots of human suffering because of it.

This is why your post is really meaningless. We're trying to incorporate a new system of regulations and rules and not have it be worse then what we currently have!
Grocery apps are almost universally tedious trash.

Want me to on board? Probably 70 percent of every grocery trip is the same essentials, so just let me scan my recipes and offer the opportunity to quick select from that list of items next time.
Because Apple don’t release low-level dev tools externally? I’m sure there are some wonderful frankensteins in their labs, but they have less of a need to release them externally.
> Incremental compile time when changing files in cli/js takes minutes. This is crushingly slow and painful to modify.

This is in my opinion the worst offender of TypeScript. TSC is insanely slow even in incremental mode for large code bases, and no alternative compiler exists. There are projects which can strip types and convert TS into JavaScript, but they do not check types.

Alternative implementations have been swatted down by TypeScript maintainers like Daniel Rosenwasser, with the leading argument being that the TS spec moves insanely fast and keeping two or more implementations up to spec would not be worth it due to the work it would require.
The simplified terminology is not for you or I as technologists. It is for the general consumer market. Yes, public/private key cryptography has been a thing for decades, but it has been out of reach for the consumer market. The whole passkey idea is to reduce the technical and cognitive friction to make it a viable replacement for passwords.
I'm actually not so sure about that statement. For example, knowing if the code will be executed on a raspberry pi, a HPC with 10TB RAM and 512 CPUs, or a home desktop with 128GB RAM and 8 core CPU will greatly affect how the task may be done. Also, if code aesthetics are important with dependencies that allow it, or fewer dependencies are required, or if performance is more important, or if saving disk space is paramount, etc.
All of these considerations (or if the need to run on any of them easily) heavily change the direction of what should be written, even after the language and such have been chosen.
So, yeah - effectively you do need to specify quite a bit to a senior dev, if you want specific properties in the output - so it's obvious that this needs to be specified to a linguistic interface to coding like these LLMs.
> Time zone is not a moat, I promise you.

It may not be a moat, but it does serve as constant friction that adds latency. Sometimes you can plan your way so latency doesn't slow things down too much - but anything that requires operational coordination is going to be very difficult.
A rock doesn’t make mistakes, it’s awesome at being a rock.
Social solutions to social problems. Perfect!
Given the sibling comment, I feel the parent needs some explanation, and the full poem! Larkin's poem came first, then the one in the sibling comment.

***

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself. [0]

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
Article title his “a child” not “his child”. No need to put child in quotes.

The article opens with: In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy