skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a profound risk to everyone in different ways.

It's very nature induces abnormal behavior.

I recently wrote an article of some perspectives on the topic. Focusing on how the lack of privacy is a key factor.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dakara/p/uniform-thought-machi...
What are they into, tiktoks/instagrams (I'm still annoyed that I can't know if an instagram link is going to be an image, or a video, these days—it's for photos, damnit!) with captions? That's just gifs with worse UI.
I kinda surprised that no one mentioned this game in this thread before, and the few mentions is to bash it. I enjoyed a lot SimCity 2013, don't know why they create a mess with the version number and DRM was a pain in the back for sure, but the game for me was beyond amazing, effectively it was possible to zoom in and follow any citizen in the daily routine, graphics and music were amazing as well, never seen after that nothing close in this genre.

PS. Ok I saw that the problems were related with a buggy DRM system requiring Internet connection on top of that, I was lucky enough to begin playing when that was allowed to opt out.
I wasn't aware of this, do you have a link you could share?
While I understand your point that nut milk chemically isn't at all related to animal milk, I don't think that's the association that comes to mind when using a product.
The association is in it's use. By calling nut or oat milk, 'milk', you're making it clear to the consumer what it should be / can be used for, which is a substitute for animal milk.

By removing the word milk, all you have achieved is confusing the consumer as to what it can be used for. Can I put it on cereal, is it safe to cook with, can it go in coffee, etc, etc.

There isn't a consumer alive who thinks almond milk came from an animal. This is obviously nothing more than industry lobbying gone wild.
Yeah I guess "stay compatible with" and "cover the same use cases" are the connotations for a fork and it really doesn't hit those, fair enough.
This entire article is misinformation. Theres no such thing as verified accounts. Just paid ones.
Definitely isn’t. You don’t have to go that far back to find that obesity was considered ideal.

Beauty is generally more socially constructed then biological.
Delusional. It would be no contest.

Elephants are terrain-limited herbivores with limited manual dexterity and zero technology. They must spend most of their waking hours foraging.

We are omnivorous masters of terrain, endurance, fire, weapons, ropes, rock quarrying, deforestation, and deception. We can fill our stomachs in 5 minutes and spend the rest of the day waging war.
From what I have read and experienced, Joshua trees are very difficult to transplant, but that could be with different tech. Do you have any resources for the technique you mention, would be love to learn more. Fwiw, I’ve tried and failed 3 times with little ones (that were going to be destroyed regardless) and have one transplant that is doing ok.
It's not directly Nintendo, but Pokemon Go is adjacent and is still an absolute cash cow loaded with mobile cancer. Pushing back against that kind of moneymaking potential is quixotic in any corporation.
Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
I think it is mainly the comically long nose.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44307/behold-the-x-59-...
Those were Indian elephants, not the much larger and more aggressive African, and they were used in small numbers - 20 or so. The main defence was to scare them or to lure them into a bad position.

I'm envisioning all elephants working together with discipline and coordination which would make it nearly impossible to stop them.
Evidence suggests that none of this is true. Just look at how Google Fiber wasn't able to navigate the myriad regional regulatory roadblocks thrown up by local governments when lobbied by incumbent ISPs. It's reasonable to expect exactly the same scenario to play out if Google tries to make a competitive ride sharing service from scratch.
I don't subscribe to Bitcoin, I think it was a good Proof of Concept that this "Satoshi Nakamoto" entity released with good ideas that have since been tested and replaced by better ones.

I very well think that Bitcoin itself is going to zero, lest it migrates off PoW technolgoy. I am certain that at some point in the future governments will regulate and maybe even ban that wasteful use of electricity. Particularly when way better double-spending/integrity protection algorithms exist to replace PoW.

Nevertheless, Blockchains and crypto-tokens are here to stay. Ethereum is here to stay and similar networks will keep progressing, as GP said, without regard to scammers, fraudsters, naysayers and skeptics around the world. Technology will keep improving and becoming better performing. This is exciting to me!
> Hypothesis 1: Human-level intelligence is possible because brains are biological machines.

> Hypothesis 2: A computer with human-level learning abilities would generally surpass human intelligence because of additional technological advantages.

Sure.. but these are sci-fi scenarios. Chatgpt has gotten people thinking, which is good, but let's not lose perspective on what is actually happening before we get too worried.

> An AI system in one computer can potentially replicate itself on an arbitrarily large number of other computers to which it has access and, thanks to high-bandwidth communication systems and digital computing and storage, it can benefit from and aggregate the acquired experience of all its clones; this would accelerate the rate at which AI systems could become more intelligent (acquire more understanding and skills) compared with humans. Research on federated learning [1] and distributing training of deep networks [2] shows that this works (and is in fact already used to help train very large neural networks on parallel processing hardware).

Now this is speculative and, to be blunt, kind of stupid. The proposed AI is now a self-replicating swarm intelligence that can self-improve and the rate of improvement increases the more it replicates. How'd we get there?!? To work even in a novel you'd going to have to at least hand-wave in some justification for all that.

[1] and [2] do not show that scaling compute and storage has no limits in terms of scaling AI intelligence. Seems obvious that there would likely be plateaus. E.g., training an AI on the entire content on the internet probably provides a huge gain over training on a tenth. Training an AI on the entire content of the internet a second time provides no additional gain.

Also, it's somehow assumed in here that the suggested future super-intelligent AI will actually have the capability to cause catastrophic harm. I don't get where that assumption comes from. We'd have to grant such an AI some set of magical capabilities, which aren't named. Is "superintelligence" a magical ability to do anything?

IDK... to me this reads as "The sky is falling!"
>It's sort of ironic now, though, because Dropbox has not been doing very well the last few years

Yes, but not for the reasons that famous comment thought it wouldn't (people ...trivially rolling their own with Linux+FTP+SVN or whatever). If anything, for the opposite reasons: because even more turnkey/integrated solutions than Dropbox became available as you say. Which makes that comment appear even more off now!

(Of course the point of that comment was already obliterated when Dropbox turned on to become a multi-billion worth company, even if it's "not doing very well" 15+ years after the comment was made. We could only wish we have that kind of "failure"!).
I think World of Warcraft change that somewhat.
I joined one company and was shocked, discover that practically everyone and every department had an account and played at least casually.

I made sure not to mention that I was in a top tier guild getting server firsts. I didn’t want to come off as to weird. I mean I have three computers and seven monitors on my desk, but one have to know when to draw the line.
> I would usually give new, cheaper competitors a try. Who wouldn't?

Just want to point out that the failure case of self driving (if this product fails I crash into another car while going 80 mph) makes the race to the bottom slightly less plausible.
>Unlike radio alerts, they can also contain an embedded hyperlink to guide the recipient to helpful information within seconds of receiving the alert; given that 85% of Americans with a cell phone own a smartphone

Really stupid quote, who paid for the article. If an emergency, people may need to travel in their auto. Am I suppose to play with my Cell Phone while driving ?

Also if a weather issue will Cell Towers work ? How will your Cell Battery get charged. Real dumb thinking. AM Radio signals can be heard many hundreds of miles, some even a thousand miles.

So yes, to me AM is a must for dire emergencies.
Will Wright designed Sim games, and PP Don Hopkins implemented platform ports.

Who programmed the original games? Is that unimportant?
Did Will Wright program?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hopkins
So, you want to buy a typewriter?
France bans flights between cities linked by trains
To be fair, most companies don't even bother trying.

At least we got FOSS chromium + FOSS android.

That said, things like Google Play Music -> Youtube Music was poorly handled and has permanently shook me. Have been leaving Google since.
Why Job Searches Suck
Somewhat unrelated (but maybe it's actually related). I've been trying to setup a local development environment for Kubernetes on mac. On mac, docker does not allow for connecting directly to the pods, you need to either setup a tunnel or service. The problem for my use case is that each pod could have a different port and local address and a load balancer does not make sense for what I'm building which requires connecting directly to a specific pod. Does Podman solve this problem? I think the problem is dockerd on mac. As of now, I just have a completely separate environment in the cloud that I run test on but it's very inefficient.

I tried switching to nerdctl and containerd but the problem is that I have existing workflows that make use of docker_init files and nerdctl breaks those.
> means they would have to invest more engineering in to filtering that noise out.

Maybe they could take some of the money they're wasting making horrible things like touchscreen controls and use that to do some useful engineering instead.
Software differentiated itself from hardware by means of scale. And then the profits accumulated by said companies created higher wages in those roles. And tech kept booming, and expanding throughout the last 10 or 15 years.

Until supply meets demand, this will continue but I guess the trend is abating or maybe it's just the possible recession for now. Though in the future it will be a mix of incumbents plugging all the vertical holes plus LLMs offering a horizontal suite of products, and then the market calibrating to the new supply.

Eventually though, it feels like majority of the knowledge jobs will be replaced and there would be the need for whole new tier of jobs, and hobbies that people pursue, with a UBI floor.
Why? Some new hardware may get announced, but surely these have been getting progressively less exciting every year for decades. Hardware has been 'good enough' to not be that exciting any more for more than a decade.
Windows Copilot
I think Age of Empires 2 will always be in my top 10 list of favorite games. It's in a similar vein of just upgrading graphics, but I also really enjoyed the spin-offs built on the same game engine: Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and Age of Mythology.
It doesn't really matter if they circumvent it. The problem with social media is not exposure, it's overstimulation/"addiction". If you put an inconvenience between the kid and the stimulus, you're already more than halfway there. If they need to use a desktop and a VPN to go on Instagram, they can't spend as much time on it.

Likewise, the kid will smoke less weed and drink less beer if they have to hide it and jump through hoops to get it. Most of the studies showing harmful effects of drug/alcohol consumption on teenagers identify subgroups who used multiple times per week or every day. Interpolating these effects linearly, they usually become very small below once per week.
You have some fair points. Some of my criticism is not about the linked article but about the inevitable follow up discussions that usually have a heavy dose of "why are these lousy parents giving kids phones anyway?".

Am I in the minority of not thinking of TikTok and YouTube as social media? Perhaps it's only in my head. I mention shared google docs because I've actually seen bullying behavior in shared google docs - it's an easy way for kids to talk to each other with their school laptops outside of any other supervision.
Bitcon Obituaries: Bitcoin has died 474 times (as of April 22, 2023)
And out of that $9, the driver has to pay for their gas (or electricity) and upkeep of the car. Uber apparently earns about $3-4 for their service. If Uber is now covering the costs of an expensive for now autonomous vehicle, it's not clear to me the fare drops at all.
Yeah, I remember meeting someone who designed ASICs back in 2000 or 2001 and he made ~$260k/year ($1000/work day) as a salaried employee for a certain large printer company.
The radio costs very little, but the antenna needed for AM has to be much larger than for FM to get similar performance. I can imagine that auto manufacturers would love to get rid of the cost of installing the antenna by only supporting Bluetooth.
At this point even multiplayer driving games haven't figured out how to not kill half the field every time there is a single late packet. You cannot drive in a concrete jungle and get stable, reliable, verifiably usable internet.
Bing Is Coming to ChatGPT - MSBuild 2023 Announcement
LangChain strikes me as like SpaCY, released too early and with flaws that will keep it always a bridesmaid and never a bride. So many libraries in this space (like ones I have written on my own account and at work) have serious flaws in their design that are partially out of inexperience, partially intrinsic to the domains and most of all rooted in the difficulties of making systems that are research products and in production at the same time. (not a contradiction operationally because this is the essence of ‘continuous improvement’.)
They get added because the head mod adds them.

That's all it takes.

The head mod is god in his sub as long as he doesn't break any official reddit rules.
Wow, I had forgotten about that! Could just as well replace it here :)
This is more nature than culture though.
I love it. This is the kind of thing we lose by moving to electronic-only music. Not ragging on electronic, but sometimes you just need a bunch of human beings getting together and doing what sounds awesome to them, even if it becomes nearly impossible to transcribe later (I guess, in this case, that measure would be 21/32, which... no thank you).
We could train an AI to compile and run itself. Next step is then to train it to optimize its own code and training. Then we have almost evolution.
When I was growing up I obsessed over this game for a few years. Of course, being very young, I didn't quite understand how the game intended you to launch it... it was a 2 disc install (for the deluxe edition at least) and there was something about the disc order. It was either something like "1 -> 2 -> auto launch on completed install but 1 -> launch after" or the other way around "1 -> 2 -> auto launch on completed install but 2 -> launch from desktop after" or something silly for the DRM.

Regardless, young me decided it would be easier to uninstall the game with "keep saved games" checked and re-install the game every time I wanted to play. And that's precisely what I did, hundreds of times. I'd come home from school, boot up the computer, start the install, go do other things, and then that night play Sim City 4. One day I came home and couldn't find the case the game came with, the case that held the product code. After searching around for a while I couldn't find it, and never did )it likely got tossed cleaning up one day). I figured I might as well try to remember what the key was and typed out: 25MM-TNK4-EH6A-6V6K-KHWN. At this point it's nearing 20 years and it's still living rent free in my head, albeit the last 2 groups may be swapped around... would have to try it to be 100% sure. Not too many months into doing this did I figure out what I was supposed to do with the discs, and then later how much easier it was to play a cracked version of the game in the first place. The rest of my history with the game was trying to fit far too many mods into 512 MB of RAM.

All that history and love for the game aside, I do think either Sim City 4 or Sim City 2000 were the greatest city builders relative to when they came out. On the other hand, I think Cities Skylines is the greatest City Builder of all time as an absolute. The shear scale without having to hop between simulations in a region, the more freeform nature of what you can build, and the additional gameplay systems (like flowing water) all on top of being a more modern game with a more modern interface make it shine. Of course, no two city builders focus on exactly the same gameplay so some may feel differently depending if they e.g. want to care about details like transportation along the way or just want to see the city grow.

Also, given this is HN, if any of the modding folks responsible for things like NAM/SAM/NWM/CAM/etc are around thanks for all the additional free fun those many years ago :).
What do you plan to do after that? Not having to do something is great, but do you have a particular positive agenda that makes you excited to think about?
For this exact reason I lost much of my interest in cooking. I know I am not a professional chef and I can't do things as efficiently as possible, but I almost always spend more than twice the amount of time finishing those recipes. Right, excluding the time for preparation or cleaning, just the cooking part. So a "20 minute quick meal" becomes one hour, and by the time I finish cooking I am already very hungry.

Another bad thing is that sometimes pictures that come with a recipe don't even use the same ingredients. You wonder why your dish appears different until you take a close look at the picture and realize that that's not even the same dish using the same ingredients or steps. That's just a scam.
Nah, for example Arabs love their coverage of the conflict. It's way more slanted than Reuters for example, and almost as slanted as Al Jazeera.

It's normal for news organizations to be accused of bias in the conflict, as you say, if both parties think that, that's normal.

But BBC has the lovely distinction of also being accused of anti-Semitism, which is a badge of honor that most news organizations have not received.
We don't need to speculate. Roman legions frequently encountered elephantry and absolutely trounced them. The Romans then adopted war elephants briefly, before dropping them as totally impractical.

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/02/collections-war-elephants-part...
Thank you for the offer. I just went through the list, and unfortunately, I found none in my state. :(

I still might use the contracts, though. Thank you.
I think you're underestimating the draw of para-social relationships. That's what powers the "social media" part of TikTok. I think it would be disingenous to suggest that TikTok is anything other than social media.
An AI powered noetbook? Great! Does it also use the blockchain? I need blockchain too. Also serverless internet of things devices to devops the synergy of my team.
Someone in Congress said, "Is AI gonna be good, like the printing press, or bad, like nukes," which was a hilariously naive historiography.

4 to 8 million dead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
Sure there is: Identify the degenerate behaviour and punish it. Whatever that may be and 51% of us can agree on. If that's tik tok, all social media, YouTube, infinite scroll, use generated media websites, drug misogyny and degenerate sex promoting lyrics, violent fps games, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, ads aimed at children, pictures of swastikas, hormone altering medicine, or whatever, so be it.

If you don't ban it at the source and society-wide, then parents are left with very little means to protect their children's development and growth into good individuals that reflect their beliefs.

I don't get how we're being so laissez-faire and willing to just "see where it goes" when it comes to our society and our future as a species. We're at a critical juncture right now and need to make a decision; we can't fence sit any longer while the winds of peer pressure randomly drag us wherever and based on nothing more than who shouts the loudest or who cancels dissent the best.

/rant
Compliance can be easy if you're designing a form of Faraday cage. Just make sure the car captures enough of the noise within its frame and you've got a pretty good start. Your car will comply with most (far from all) EM regulations as long as it doesn't disturb things outside the car.

The AM radio exists within the car. It probably even exists within the parts of the car that normally just get a metal box around it to shield the components. It's also very sensitive by its nature.

It's hardly an impossible feat, but car manufacturers will save every penny they can. Pretending to be "on your side" against the damn oppressive government forcing them to build provisions for areas without cell reception will probably also score some points with the public which mostly lives in areas where you don't need AM radio for important information.
No problem. I thought I was reading an onion article about the traffic lights.

Truly seems like they desperately don't want to enact any social or 'left' policies so they're willing to go balls to the walls with anything else they can think of.
I completely agree, and it is also why I don't play Collectable Card Games. Not only does it normalize gambling, but it's outright wasteful.
They should expand the use of the AM band to include low speed digital transmissions, and make it a standard for data interchange between vehicles and for warning of road conditions, local alerts, accidents, etc.
It will make some things a bit more convenient, but why is it particularly exciting?
Skyhook: A tool for obfuscated file transfers
You set an obfuscation chain and then your transfers look all confusing to perimeter controls.
China overtakes Japan as world's top car exporter
Mercedes got flack for it, but ultimately they had the right answer.

When a sort of pitch was made to an exec where the car has to crash into a tree or a cyclist, he said the bike. Because you aren’t going to pay $80,000 for your car to choose your death.

If you look at car ownership as owning a weapon, it does only make sense that you’ll have to prioritize for the owner.

But really, we aren’t even remotely to trolley problem. The systems BARELY detect and react properly to single issues, let alone detecting multiple and selecting between them.

I honestly think it’s a scam that was popular in the era of Free Money, and I’m so glad that is temporarily on pause.
Humans hunted mammoths friend.
I'm excited to see this finally happen—acknowledgement that Docker Desktop has been an essential part of the process of onboarding devs (who often use the command line, but sparingly) into containerized development with a gentle on-ramp.

The big question is whether Podman Desktop will be (a) stable and not a memory-hog, (b) make container workflows on Mac/Windows as simple (conceptually at least) as on Linux, and (c) be a sustainable effort for the community that's still extremely Red Hat-centric.

To that last point, I still see very little adoption outside of the Red Hat ecosystem. It seems like `docker-ce` is still installed on most servers, `docker-compose` for lightweight app orchestration, and when people use Kubernetes, few people know or care what underlying container management daemon is running.