skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we keep providing such unskilled grifters so much influence over human agency?

Such classist BS exploits manual labor.

We’re just perpetuating empowering the lazy. It makes the screeching about social programs seem hilarious since being a bank CEO is not biology sustaining work. It’s historical barnacle. History we hallucinate since we were never there. We’re more like LLMs than we want to admit
My guess is that someone will eventually end up creating a bootstrapped lifestyle business, similar to craigslist.

Assuming they don’t encrappen it, and there’s some tangential thing they can charge a nominal fee for that rides their network effects, they’ll have a lasting business that will provide ~5-10 people with comfortable income indefinitely.
There isn't really anything non-democratic about the council to be honest. Not in a manner that would be fixable by treaty

The issue is mostly one of awareness, if people cared about the Council there'd be political interest for other politicians to keep ministers more accountable. As is no one even knows what the Council is and who is on it. No national politician is going to waste political capital on council oversight

The main issue with the Council of ministers is that it's a legislative body made up of executive branch actors, I don't like that on a philosophical level. Would be much better if they were replaced by national legislature delegates. Same voting system, same competencies and powers, just 1-2 hundred members instead of 27+1
Sure thing! And no worries, we haven't been great at marketing ourselves :)
It's like how Boeing is actually Mcdonnell-Douglas.

And how AT&T is actually Southwestern Bell.
I Block Ads
> something about the idea of indiscriminately running binaries invisibly downloaded over the WWW rubs me the wrong way

I think that's because the word "binary" has connotations that aren't strictly technically justified. There's no difference between running WASM and running JS (which is usually obfuscated anyway). Both are JITted into machine code, and it's important the JIT is implemented securely. (JIT compilers have been sources of exploits.) The only difference is complexity of the source language, where simpler languages are easier to secure. And WASM is orders of magnitude simpler than JS.
They both made claims. Spy agencies claim that they're not spying on their collective citizens. But it seems that they do, eg:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d...

On the other hand, I'm not sure that the USA has enough protections in place that they feel the need for an intermediary.
>Lots of times I suspect the fears of superintelligence have more to do with the experimental nature of how AI was developed than anything else

Then I would say your expectations are a failure of your own imagination.

The problem with humans being the smartest things on the block is we think we are optimized for intelligence. One problem with wanting to clarify what 'super intelligence' is, is we really have piss poor definitions of what intelligence is on a multidimensional gradient scale. The bounds and limits of intelligence are poorly defined, but I scenerly ask, why would you think that humanity would be anywhere near the upper bound of those limitations? Why would evolution choose 'the smartest possible global maxima' versus 'the smartest possible with 2 pounds of jelly in a 20 watt power envelope?'
How do you determine if an IP address is high risk?
You have the ability to help guide them through social media by helping them understand good and bad. I understand that you might have different beliefs, but social media plays a very critical role in young kids communicating with each other. Covid catalyzed them embracing social media to stay in touch. Youtube also shouldn't be considered social media.
I would suggest analogous rules should be determined for social media.

I am not particularly confident what such rules should look like — I don't think there's an easy equivalent to drunk driving, but perhaps "smoking in a confined public area" might be close to "trolling on forums that people need to use to get normal life activities done"?

But they are their own thing, and need to be treated appropriately.
Well if we're going to be so pedantic I didn't say they were ever productive
Yeah, how would Facebook secure talent for itself on the basis of React if everyone else is also using React? Twitter started using React very early on, and Twitter is one of Facebook's biggest social media rivals. Facebook also made no money from React. They developed it because it solved problems for them internally on a complex code base. I've also never seen the original team (Jordan Walke / Pete Hunt) hit the paid course or YouTube influencer circuit. Angular on the other hand, was barely used internally within Google. Most Google products at the time used Closure, their heavy handed JS tooling system (with its custom compiler): https://developers.google.com/closure/library
Meta is different.

They are pivoting hard from VR to AI.
Some parents in our social circle have been getting their kids smart watches. This allows talk to text and phone calls, but pretty much no internet. These devices are also good for parental controls like allow listing phone numbers (first thing our friends son did was make crank calls :)
When I worked for a computer systems company, pretty much all the PMs had technical degrees of one sort or another, many had worked as engineers, and a fair number had MBAs as well.

But generally, salaries at tech companies weren't as high then. My salary in the late 80s as a PM with engineering work experience and a couple of masters degrees was the equivalent of about $120K today in a major tech hub.
One unrelated correction - you mentioned passenger cars are responsible for 11.9% of global emissions, but your source says this figure is for the whole road transport. Passenger cars AFAIK account for the third of that.
https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer/blob/master/README_...
DMCA gets a bad wrap, and it is abused -- but on the surface it seems pretty right:

I promise that the content that is being hosted at location X is mine, that I did not give Y person permission to publish it, and I'm willing to face the fine of perjury if I'm actually lying.

Like, in a functioning society that seems like the right tool to start a legal dispute over the right to distribute copyrighted works?
Reading these comments on this radical anti-crypto forum makes me always think of "the rumours of [Bitcoin's] death have been greatly exaggerated."

While I don't have a Twitter profile with laser eyes just yet, I enjoy seeing what I think is a technological and political game changer just chugging along, uncaring of scams, maxis, haters, governments, volatility.

I am surprised that few can notice how impressive it is for a currency with limited usability and extreme volatility to still be worth something, improving and growing. Because at one point, all the concerns one has about it will have been solved, and, as economists love to say, good money tends to drive out bad money. The Internet is still in need of its digital cash.

So I enjoy seeing all the Ponzi schemers, con artists and grifters get their comeuppance, but would also love to see the crypto-Luddites inhabiting this forum to be proven wrong eventually. Because Bitcoin doesn't care, Bitcoin still goes brrr.
Kinda, some people I know who did poorly at undergraduate/masters did a lot better at the PhD level though and vice versa as research is very different to being taught.

There is such a lack of permanent research positions compared to postdocs and PhD students that I'm not even sure it's selecting for the best people.
There's a cousin post where I explain how crypto is becoming more useful. As for traditional finance becoming worse...

Suppose somebody approached you in the grocery store and offered to buy your shoes. I assume you have a price, right? I'd walk home from the grocery store shoeless for $100.

Why do we participate in a system which empowers this guy? What about the abstraction he's handing out makes us willing to exchange it for something with less abstract value (there's broken glass on the way home, I'd be taking a risk)? The shallow response is that we can later exchange the abstraction for, for instance, a nicer pair of shoes. But that'll work with anything, so far as somebody else is likely to accept the trade down the line. We could use pebbles or bottlecaps or dogecoin or whatever.

But why USD in particular? What is it about the US government's (or if you prefer, the banks') behavior that entitles them to issue the tokens that we use for bullying people into giving up their shoes (or you know, whatever other economic activity we chose to engage in).

Do you dispute that trust in the government and the banks is steadily declining?

They're fundamentally harder to improve than to erode. It's why nature came up with reproduction: eventually the parasites take over and you have to start fresh. It's why there are very few companies around today that were also around 100 years ago. Entropy wins, it's just what happens to centralized systems over time.

Or to put it less abstractly: We've got banks collapsing and politicians playing chicken over the debt ceiling. Does that not threaten the idea that we can walk home with that $100 and buy a nicer pair of shoes with it? Wouldn't we be better off with a system that was less susceptible to the kind of cancer that ours has?
I have lost patience with articles about kids and teens and "social media" that make no attempt to define what social media is. It is no wonder parents won't seriously - particularly when the follow up advice is "don't give your kids phones" as though it's all or nothing.

Could we please get a list of social media kids are using and their relative levels of harm? If it's mostly Instagram then say Instagram and parents can uninstall that app. Is it Facebook? (I didn't think kids were using Facebook) Is it TikTok? (I'm not sure I'd classify TikTok as social media) Twitter? Reddit? Roblox? Shared google docs? Group texts?
Hacker news?

If we can figure this out then we can have a productive talk about kids and phones and pros and cons. Do I have to point out that phones have more uses than social media? Can kids call and text? Can they access Wikipedia? Can they play Minecraft? Can they take photos? Saying "no phones" is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It shouldn't be hard to have intelligent, thoughtful discussions on kids and the internet. For some reason, no one ever does.
>> Middle class people aren’t the secretary to the prime minister.

> That sounds quite normal, actually.

?!?!

> Unfortunately, people sometimes confuse the middle class with the middle income segment of the working class, which is a very different thing. (And that confusion is often deliberately exploited.)

Oh, I see. This doesn't seem particularly helpful. People don't "sometimes" confuse those two things. The de facto agreed upon meaning of "middle class" has been "middle income segment of the working class" for at least a century at this point.

And, in any case, serving on the Planning Commission seems much closer to "Ruling Class" than "Middle Class" unless you literally believe in the illuminati.
In most countries people are subjects of the government. In the US the people are sovereign. The government doesn't tell us what our rights are.
No control rebinding yet, working on it!
The biggest issue with their recipes is that they, to an extent, tell you to do things in the wrong order. Picking a random recent one we had there was a step to season the meat and then heat some oil and then cook the meat. Well, heating the oil (to the point you'd want to add the meat) can take a few minutes and should have started before you even got the meat out of the package. What you actually have to do with the recipes is read the entire thing to find all the meat and produce and spice prep steps and all the measuring steps. Do all of those first while the oven is heating and maybe the pan with oil (though this can usually be delayed until you put something in the oven since the total stovetop time is usually 5-10 minutes less than the oven time). Then you start cooking, usually, with the recipes we've had, by putting a baking sheet of vegetables in to roast. Then start heating the oil (maybe a few minutes delay) and then start cooking the meat.

If you do that, the prep part takes 5-10 minutes depending on your knife skills and then the cooking takes as long as the longest cooking step (usually a vegetable roasting step). You cannot execute their recipes as written in the time they suggest, but you can definitely cook the meals in the time they suggest if you read the recipe and execute it in a proper order.

It would be nice, for people who aren't used to parallelizing work (most of us are engineers and programmers here, it's kind of what we do) if they laid it out differently, with a timeline or something.

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Prep: List all prep steps (chopping, dicing, measuring, seasoning, mixing sauces, etc.)

1 1 2 2
0123456789012345678012345
|-----------------------|
1 3 4 5 6 7
2

1. Put baking sheet of vegetables into oven

2. Add oil to pan and set to medium-high heat

3. Add onions to heated pan (stirring, etc.)

4. After 10 minutes remove onions, add oil, wait a minute and add meat (the pan will be so hot the oil needs little time to heat up)

5. Flip meat after 5 minutes

6. Remove meat from heat (have description and target temperature so people can know it's actually done), plate and cover with onions and herb butter mix (described in prep steps)

7. Remove vegetables from oven (include description of how they should look so they aren't over/undercooked) and plate

----------

That's how essentially every recipe ends up executing from what I've seen. If you read and parse the recipe steps into the actual prep portion (which they mix throughout) and heating portions (which they often list after they should be started) and cooking portions, the prep and cook times (more the cook times, prep depends on skill and focus) are pretty spot on.
The looks don’t fit in with the rest of the game, at least the SNES tracks actually look really good because they completely remodelled them and kept just the layout of the original
This but not ironically. So many people burn wood to heat homes in France
Show HN: Accelerated Docker builds on your local machine with Depot (YC W23)
Hello HN! We just launched a new feature we built at Depot that accelerates Docker image builds on your local machine in a team environment, and we wanted to share some of the details with you all.

The launch blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/local-builds

Depot is a hosted container build service - we run fully managed Intel and Arm remote build machines in AWS, with large instance sizes and SSD cache disks. The machines run BuildKit, the build engine that powers Docker, so generally anything you can `docker build`, you can also `depot build`.

Most people use Depot in CI, and you could also run `depot build` from your local machine as well. That would perform the build using the remote builder, with associated fast hardware and extra fast datacenter network speeds.

But then to download the container back to your local machine, BuildKit would transfer the entire container back for every build, including base image layers, since BuildKit wasn’t aware of what layers already existed on your device.

The new release fixes this! To make it work, we replaced the BuildKit `--load` by making the Depot CLI itself serve the Docker registry API on a local port, then asking Docker to pull the image from that localhost registry. The CLI in turn intercepts the requests for layers and fetches them directly using BuildKit’s content API.

This means Docker only asks for the layers it needs! This actually speeds up both local builds, where you only need to download changed layers, as well as CI where it can skip building an expensive tarball of the whole image every time!

We ran into one major obstacle when first testing: the machine running the Docker daemon might not be the same machine running the `depot build` command. Notably, CircleCI has a remote Docker daemon, where asking it to pull from localhost does not reach the CLI’s temporary registry.

For this, we built a "helper" container that the CLI launches to run the HTTP server portion of the temporary registry - since it’s launched as a container, it does run on the same machine as the Docker daemon, and localhost is reachable. The Depot CLI then communicates with the helper container over stdio, receiving requests for layers and sending their contents back using a custom simple transport protocol.

This makes everything very efficient! One cool part about the remote build machines: you can share cache with anyone on your team who has access to the same project. This means that if your teammate already built all or part of the container, your build just reuses the result. This means that, in addition to using the fast remote builders instead of your local device, you can actually have cache hits on code you haven’t personally built yet.

We’d love for you to check it out, and are happy to answer any questions you have about technical details!

https://depot.dev/docs/guides/local-development
Humans are incredibly badass physically once they reach adulthood. We have endurance, immune systems, and digestive systems that seem tailor-made for world domination. (you could walk a horse to death, and that's an animal we bred for endurance)

The catch is you have to be smart to take advantage of these things.
Can't say what whould happen here, but remember they had to announce the space heaters (did you ever stand against a machine with Nocona? how about two?) knowing whell the would be eaten by their own mobile arch?
In my PhD program I don't see that at all, in fact our program recently paid for students to attend a multiple day seminar about how to get jobs outside academia. I'm not sure where you get that impression from
There's nothing fashionable or prestigious about debugging and patching a security hole at 1am on a Friday in my underwear.
Sadly they were not PATRIOTS.
The "Patriot" act was a mistake. Unless, of course, being a "patriot" now means spying on your own people.
New EU regulation that all banks who support bank transfers also have to offer real-time bank transfers at the same cost. Pessimist in me thinks that means the cost of regular transfers will raise slightly. No more waiting 3 business days to move my money from one bank to another.
> is AM radio frequency useful for anything else?

Emergency broadcasts.
There's also a difference between language features, and std library or browser API features.

I'm fine with Elm-the-language as it is, but I would definitely have preferred for a stdlib not to expose a function that are just a TODO.

I still use and enjoy the language, mostly because everything else in browserland is a pit of despair for me, but I could see some quality pull requests being merged once in a while.
Do you know of an up to date Elm course?
Although usually I found David's posts pretty interesting and well written, this post does not make a lot of sense.

"Later, that the vaccine would prevent you from getting the virus. Finally, that if you were vaccinated, you couldn't spread the virus. All of that, and plenty more, turned out to be false."

It's full of questionable claims (see above) and his reasoning is hard to follow, unless for anti-vaxxers maybe.
But they would be cool to kill off FM radio?

I assume AM broadcasts can cover significantly larger areas than FM.
Its not complicated, basically after I shower in the morning I just kneel on a yoga mat, sometimes after doing a few basic poses, then close my eyes and focus on visualizing my upcoming day. Or you can choose to focus on just breathing. If a thought appears in your head, don't force it away, just let it drift, like breathing. The key is to not try to meditate, just let what happens happen.

With experience, you'll figure out what works. All you have to do is get started, and you're guaranteed to get better after awhile and be able to start experimenting with your method. You can even do it right now! Don't have time? I read an old maxim once from a buddhist monk: "If you don't have time to meditate for 15 minutes, do it for 30".
Uh oh. I'll need to look into this myself. I thought I've learned enough about keeping track of the provenance and validity of any information I consume, and weighing my beliefs by it - but this one, if true, will be something that completely blindsided me. I'm wondering how I never heard anything like this over what's now few weeks short of a decade.
And then keep setting those rules again and again every month after they remotely wipe your configuration on a whim.

Personal experience with Comcast in the bay area. I now have my own modem.
If GPS is jammed, a device should then automatically try to use GLONASS and/or BeiDou in the expectation that the Russians and Chinese (respectively) would not jam their own systems. Perhaps simultaneous polling of all three is workable to avoid jamming as much as possible.
Most commit messages are just "update" :(

https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer/commits/master
> Imagining a bunch of elephants charging a fortified position in formation, I think they'd win most battles through shock/fear factor alone.

Even trained war elephants weren't great, or at least that was the conclusion of the Romans once they had enough experience with them.

They might be enough to route civilians, but probably not anyone in the military. Soldiers used to be expected to walk into enemy canon and musket fire with discipline and good order.

Also, there were black powder elephant guns. Apparently 4-bore rifles were popular for both big game and birds.
A lot of people in the comments saying that it comes down to an over generalization of the word "caramelize". I would argue that this is instead representative of the very low quality of the vast majority of most recipes which are produced by rank amateurs at best (not to say there are not some pretty impressive amateurs).

There are many higher quality sources of recipes out there today. Serious Eats being one site that rarely fails to get the details correct (though I managed to find a dough recipe that had 1% salt instead of 2% which seems like an error). ATK/Cooks Illustrated rarely has glaring errors on times or quantities. NYT is also pretty reliable. Also many current YouTube chefs are quite diligent. Joshua Weismann is a regular go-to for me.
Was in a black metal band and there was this one riff we had a problem syncing up at the end for the transition to the next. Sometimes we'd nail it, other times it fell apart. Turned out that, while the drum beat was 4/4, the first riff was not. We just hadn't noticed. Once we figured that out, we hit it every time and it was glorious.
Scientists say thay have found a hidden chapter of the Bible