skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we might assume it's intelligent until we had a second conversation and it's forgotten everything from the first. Then we're back to a state of confusion.
$615 million dollars seems like chump change for 9 million counts of identity fraud. I recently read a story where the local DA in Portland charged a homeless man for identity theft for stealing a wallet. He hadn't tried to represent himself as the other person; he literally just had the wallet and ID.

Yet again, turns out it's OK if you're a corporation.
I'm no advocate of the CCP, but China has seized assets from, imprisoned, exiled and executed white collar criminals that committed fraud, engaged in corruption, etc. Risking your assets, freedom and life might make brazen fraud less enticing.
It also seems like you need to "cram" for the university-final-like interviews most companies seem to employ. "Ooh you don't remember how to code a dynamic programming algorithm that you haven't used in 15 years to solve this contrived scenario of a person hopping on frogs? That's gonna be a no from us dawg!"

Fun fact is that I didn't even make up that scenario, I literally didn't get an offer at Zillow because of it.
At large companies, a remarkably number of new initiatives to improve efficiency end up looking like Chindōgu.
Very impressive malware attributed to the FSB. Detected in 50+ countries. Windows/Linux/Mac attack surface area with Protocol masquerading --- implemented as a p2p stack-based network architecture (with p2p relay node support) -- i.e. any payload/activity can go over tcp, udp, ssh, http, https, etc., and can be relayed through nodes.

The PDF goes into quite some technical detail and it seems to be an impressive feat. It includes some potential remediations. No known rootkit detectors seem to be available at this time.
The ACCC (https://www.accc.gov.au/) don't fuck around. They're basically the reason Steam started offering refunds for games that didn't work for example.
Good intuition.

Business Insider is almost entirely a propaganda outlet and not actually a business publication, insider or otherwise.

The claim comes from an ex-employee from 2018. Most people want it to be true, so it is. I have no idea.

My default for TikTok stories is that NOTHING they can do is not first made possible by Apple and Google who take zero blame in any of this. That right there tells me it’s all game. TikTok/China is being used to trick people into supporting more domestic spying.
Its hard to argue with true.

While there is a small amount of uncertainty, since the future is uncertain, that uncertainty continually decreases as you approach a point of no return.

Companies have propagandized this to protect profits following the MIT Study "Limits to Growth", under the business as usual.

While that doesn't mean we'll all die in this doom scenario, fatalistic as it is, there likely will be a lot of death ahead of us because of failures to act at a time when such action could have been much more moderate. Exponential curves are a bitch.
This doesn't return the current date, it returns the date at the time "date" was run.
You can use 3D printers to print 2D things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWZWAfBsm8

Some 3D printers are open source.

Unfortunately, I suspect that most would not be happy with the results.
People in the San Francisco Bay Area can visit the Hornet in Alameda, where it's docked as a museum ship!

https://uss-hornet.org/
Well, those are the rules. That's how capitalism works.
I recently tried to decrease my calorie consumption, improve portion control, and eat better foods[1]. I was surprised to find how much of my desire to eat stemmed from boredom. Especially since I'd traditionally considered myself someone who didn't care about food much.[2]

[1] I ended up mostly abandoning the decreased calorie consumption; however, I've maintained the portion control and better quality foods.

[2] Looking at it now, I think it might actually be: I don't care as much about eating specific foods that I crave. However, I care a lot about being able to eat foods that I at least somewhat like whenever I want. So I found switching to more healthy foods relatively easy; however, I found cutting out sweet foods completely or eliminating snacking very difficult.
The fine was $615 thousand, not $615 million. Although I might agree with your original statement too.
The article is “business insider” I always suspect either another side of the story if not complete and outright propoganda.
"Stop" should be past tense and you forgot the quotation marks around "democracy"
He hasn't heard about this. His ears are clogged full of private equity funds.
Memetic warfare I think they call it.
Elden Ring has sold more than 20M copies
In a remarkable feat, FromSoftware's highly anticipated action RPG, Elden Ring, has achieved a stunning milestone, selling over 20.5 million copies in just a little over a year. This impressive achievement was revealed in an investor report, as shared by a vigilant member of the ResetEra forum and reported by Eurogamer. Bandai Namco, the publisher of the game, disclosed in the document that Elden Ring's sales exhibited remarkable strength, particularly in international markets, culminating in a global tally of 20.5 million copies sold.
I decided to stop buying ink cartridges and switched to a monochrome laser printer years ago, but kept the old inkjet printer because it could do scans. I recently had to do a color print. Instead of buying new ink cartridges for my old HP printer, I purchased a new printer from Canon from walmart. Then I gave it away to someone who would use it.

More recently, I decided to buy a color laser printer that can do copying so I do not need the HP anymore and will have the option of doing color prints immediately no matter how many years pass. I brought a Canon. Unlike HP printers, it lets you opt into mechanisms that disable third party toner. I just did some of the first prints with it and it is really nice.
I already told you subscribe to Matt Stoller’s substack he’s been documenting it for years.

Here’s a non paywall summary: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/125187888328203878...

I don’t really care for message board arguments with people who aren’t curious and are trying to score points by restating their not particularly researched position. If you’re intellectually curious about this topic you now have an entry point.
Those two things aren't related. This was during a Republican FCC adminstration and Ajit Pai would've repealed net neutrality even if every comment was for it. He doesn't care what public comments say nor does he need to.

That not mattering was then canceled out by another not mattering, because California passed the same rules so they effectively apply to everyone anyway.
tbh, this sounds like Comcast, but I didn't want to assume
I agree that the author is too dismissive of that, but I also think people are way too quick to oversimplify to "Bard has up to date information"

From what I can tell, Bard's access to recent information is through augmentation, not continuous training, and that's a really important difference. ChatGPT also has its "web browsing" alpha, which is a similar concept. The problem is that being able to search the web isn't the same as having a piece of knowledge integrated into your model of the world.

So, for example, if you ask contrived questions like "Why might Elon Musk have more time to focus on Tesla soon?", both Bard and ChatGPT+Browsing get a clue that they should search for Musk in the news, and they'll tell you about Twitter's new CEO pick. They'll then apply that competently to your question, and give you a reasonable answer.

But if you ask a question that requires more indirect inference, you immediately see the shortcomings of this kind of augmentation. For example, if you try "Is there hope for LGBTQ rights improving in Turkey?", neither model finds the extremely relevant point that Turkey's homophobic current president stands a significant chance of losing reelection. I can't see what Bard searched for in collecting its information (in fact, based on the answer I got, I'm not even sure it tried to go beyond its training data). I can see that ChatGPT searched for "LGBTQ rights in Turkey 2023". It's not surprising that that search didn't clue it in.

Now, obviously, I can't actually examine what would happen if each model was actually trained on the most recent news about Turkey's politics. But I'd have a very high expectation that GPT-4 would make that connection, and I would be fairly surprised if 3.5 didn't as well. But there's a bottleneck because the information isn't actually integrated.

Which isn't to say that that kind of augmentation is useless, of course. But the distinction is important.
These posts are coming out of the same team that popularized the term "indirect prompt injection" around Bing chat, which was a pretty big wake-up call to me about the potential dangers. Definitely worth following.
At some point in the recent past, people's ideas of what constitute a contract changed. Previously, it was a firm agreement between two parties, who had met and discussed it, and made a formal declaration that the agreement had been reached (not necessarily by signing papers, but at least some gesture/voiced assent). Now?

Now people seem to think that the other party doesn't even have to be present. It's one-sided. No discussion or agreement need take place. No evidence need to be preserved that there was a discussion or agreement. It only protects one side of the deal, not both, and can be amended by one side with no recourse to the other. If you listen carefully, you catch wind of this idea all the time in daily life. Talking about gym memberships, cell phone plans, cable tv, etc.

The people talking about it are on the losing side, too. They don't seem hurt or angry or confused, they accept it as if it's the way things should be or have to be.

It's not entirely clear to me why this switched. It's not clear to me how no one ever seemed to be outraged over it.

I don't think it could be fixed. Sure, I can imagine legislation that might cut out the worst aspects of it (no, gyms can't demand that people sign year long contracts unless they also prove that they're using the existence of the contracts to justify the purchase of new equipment or the like). But without people at least grumbling about these things, there'd never be pressure for any legislation anyway. Let alone the likelihood that this is more of a matter for the courts than legislatures.

Given all this, I don't think that people are buying physical products anymore. How many exercise bikes or treadmills out there are cloud-connected and will stop working if the company goes out of business? Or if your "subscription" ends and you don't let it auto-renew?

The ship has sailed, I think, on the concept of personal property.
When is 1.10 expected? Just wondering I did a quick google and it seems a lot of the 1.9 improvement were back ported from 1.10? Or is that really 2x on top of current 1.9?
Plenty of examples (celebrity suicides) that show that isn't true
A video that someone changed their perception was discussed here, earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917912&p=2#35919980

The actual video it mentions is here:
https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1100
Public comments aren't votes so they aren't part of democracy. Influencing an unelected official like the FCC chair who gets to rule however he wants isn't democracy.
Show HN: TagU – Send Comments on the Web
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> Pain is a signal of impending damage/injury, or existing damage/injury that may well worse if not dealt with immediately.

Pain is not necessarily associated with injury.

>All signals within a human nervous system can be mistaken in principle. Why would this one be different? Phantom pains that indicate no injury seem plausible.

What would phantom pain feel like? Would it hurt? Then it is incidental that it phantom and is nevertheless pain. If you believe you are in pain even if there is no stimulus associated with it, then you are in pain. You can not mistake pain regardless of whether it is "real" or not. What makes pain so special? It hurts, it is painful.
Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society
Using reflections to see the world from new points of view
The Work of Lifting Weights: Lifting heavy, burning out
I dunno, my real life experience shows the most insistence on agile/scrum bullshit coming from older engineers. SDETs specifically.
Yeah. We can hate on TikTok for allegedly having a pipe and censor system to the ccp. In absolute terms it would not be better if Mexico did the same, but I'd prefer Mexico over China. It's the repeated denials that bug me too if proved. How fake sanctimonious can you get?

The more and more I see china ccp outside the box, the less and less I like.
Ah, I see, could you try asking in a more neutral fashion in the future? I've noticed the last couple years that a lot of potentially interesting or valid criticism sabotages itself with weak implications of conspiracy followed by accusations of persecution.
I like the chassis and keyboard of the ThinkPad T14 a lot.

I would gladly pay the OEM $4,000 for the same product if firmware chips were detachable, there were no binary blobs, and firmware couldn't interfere with the OS like Intel ME does. The AMD flavor of ThinkPad T14 is great it's a shame that it has PSP (AMD equivalent to ME).
For what it is worth, HP barely still designs printers. Most of them are just rebadged Canons. They have a small number of models that are based on Samsung models that they got from their acquisition and an even smaller number of printers they actually made themselves. For the most part, when you buy a HP, you are buying a Canon printer with HP's label on it and HP firmware. HP is really just a middle man, and I am not sure why people keep buying their printers given that middlemen should be avoided.
Side note: textbooks like to talk about the "amazing" productivity growth in manufacturing, but that's only been something like 6 to 20 times, not 350 - 700 times.

The real story of productivity growth is in agriculture, and it's still going on, with autonomous vehicles and robotics. An amazing world we live in, where the process of growing food was capable of such incredible labor efficiency gains. Imagine if medicine was the same way...
I think individuals would have to prove some sort of damages if they want to win a suit, unfortunately.
There is a lot of electric heating in the world and all of it should be performing computation rather than just sending load through a resistor.
It doesn't sound like they're front-running.

Fetch data from Hacker News API
Set up Google Alerts for your query
Fetch data from Google Alerts XML
Enrich data and store in SQLite file with a cronjob
Send alerts with other cronjob to Twist API or Telegram API

I think the "Fetch data from Hacker News API" part is just to get keywords from popular submissions that they use to make Google Alerts for. Then when new stories about those keywords show up, they can write an article first.
Lots of the software in a modern printer is licensed by the printer manufacturer. They can’t open source it because they don’t own the copyright, they’ve simply bought a license which allows them to make modifications and ship products with the resulting binaries inside.
I think you give game dev too much credit. Is full of unmaubtainable code that will never be used in another game and has bugs that don’t affect the primary goal of fun. Learn to love the spaghetti and embrace not knowing what half the stuff you wrote does the next day. If it’s fun it’s good.

There’s only a handful of long duration games under active development anyway.
Reluctantly agree. The total product is what matters in the marketplace, and the silicon itself, and arguably even the OS, together are relatively minor factors.

Sometimes I wonder if there was a point in time - where real history switches to a fantasy history - in which a non-pc clone paradigm ends up winning that war. If so what was the earliest point this could have happened, and would it even matter since market forces would ultimately pull any alternate success in the direction of an informally standards-federated clone paradigm anyway.
Let's take the phrase

> I think, therefore I am

as a starting point.

I would ask them, "whose language are you using to make that statement?"

and I feel that would set the proper frame for answering the question of a life's purpose.
For what it's worth, the food selection heuristic I've been trying to follow which seems to work for me is a combination of:

- Try to maximize the ratio of protein to carbs in a food.

- For a given number of calories, look for foods with the highest amount of protein. Or somewhat equivalently, for a given amount of protein, look for foods with the lowest number of calories.

To me it feels like these allow me to reason about and compare foods without getting bogged down in things like serving sizes.
macOS Apps in Rust
As have we, and much longer than that. It is only fairly recently that GPS broadcasts an accurate signal on non-military bands.

The military eventually gave up the idea of having people pay for satellites they can't actually use. Mainly because capitalism decided to give up, call the taxpayer investment wasted and stolen from the people, and just build a location network on the ground that's more accurate than GPS. The military now uses $450 hammers and toilet seats to steal from the people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS
> It seems especially bad during European office hours when the Californians are asleep.

Agreed, the people outside of the SV bubble submit and upvote different stuff and downvote the hell out of anybody who disputes their Eco-Marxist worldview.

Which is fine, just wish they’d be more open to debate instead of just squashing opposing points of view.
TLDR:

1. Be the guy that posts the news articles

2. Try the same post multiple times if it doesn't 'make it'

3. Timing is important - weekends are good opportunities.
Funny we had a similar issue on a Jupiter bound spacecraft 3 decades ago.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-31-me-4278-s...
Using Feature Flags in React
Dave Chapelle rails on San Francisco at surprise show
No, because the program has to be run by slurm over several compute nodes, so it can't process them all at once.
Canon does not do this. They also let you opt into the feature that blocks third party cartridges. You read that right. The feature is opt-in.

Coincidentally, many HP and Canon laser printers use slight variations of the same toner cartridges such that third parties can support both printers with the same cartridges:

https://www.shop.xerox.com/supplies-accessories?brand=6346

I am curious if this is also true for the inkjet printers, but finding out would probably involve buying every cartridge and comparing. I cannot justify that expense to sate my curiosity.
>a group stood in a circle debating what had gone wrong with crypto.

One guy blamed the large amount of “fluff” in the market, because anyone could spin a token out of nothing.

Hence, 'dogey coin' aka 'Dogecoin'

[1]>Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer,

who decided to create a payment system as a "joke", making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time.*

[1] Dogecoin : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin

Greater Fool Theory : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Tulip Mania : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Ponzi Scheme : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

'Fool Me Once, Shame on You! . . . Fool Me Twice...'

'foreWarned is foreArmed' : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forewarned_is_forearmed
There's SatStat[1] and GPSTest[2] on F-Droid. Simple little apps that show information about the satellites your phone is currently receiving signals from.

[1]https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vonglasow.michael.satstat/

[2]https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.android.gpstest.osmdroid...
Why do you think that in practice, climate doomers don't do anything to minimize their carbon footprint?
I've been burned to the tune of thousands of dollars because I took star ratings on Google at face value without looking into the actual reviews to see if they were real or not. I still feel like an idiot because of it.
I can echo the same. My Python use has largely been automating some tasks at work, nothing incredibly large, but new installation of the deps is always problematic. And the same goes for more than a few OSS projects I try to get working locally.
There was an interesting discussion about this quote on r/math about a year back: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/obipos/academics_when...

The main counter-argument presented was that if a student makes it all the way to graduate school in mathematics while following instruction, they must have some base level of mathematical talent. Then, continued hard work and persistence can set you up for a strong career in mathematics, without necessarily being brilliant.

The perspectives shared there were quite interesting. There were quite a few users who have worked as professional mathematicians—some very successfully—who talked about how they didn't really worry about whether they had mathematical talent, but just worked hard at their goals to become mathematicians because it's what they wanted to do.

So, in many cases, it's a valid approach to work hard at mathematics without worrying if you have enough mathematical talent, and eventually find challenging and interesting work along the way.

~~

Separately, there was an interesting Medium post discussed on Mathstodon and r/math a while back, about a father encouraging curiosity for his daughter to learn about the definition of the derivative: https://sunilsingh-42118.medium.com/the-death-of-the-mathema...

I liked the second part of his essay more when he talks about his approach in encouraging intuition. He wrote about creating a sense of mystery by rolling a marble up and down a curve to introduce the idea of a tangent line and the concept of a slope, then got his daughter curious about finding ways to numerically calculate the slope.

I thought that was an interesting approach for kindling a innate motivation to learn mathematics for a person new to mathematics, rather than focusing on physics, engineering, or economics applications like many textbooks too. Though motivating students to learn calculus for applications can also be interesting (especially for different types of students), it's a bit rarer to find ways for educators to motivate students to learn mathematics for the sake of itself, especially for students learning calculus for the first time.
This would make sense if not for the fact that heat pumps are far more effective at heating homes than simply sending electricity through a heating element.