skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally expected this to be AI generated photos of factories floating in space before I clicked the link.

Similar vibe to cats on keyboards in space, you know?

https://www.knowyourmeme.com/memes/cat-on-a-keyboard-in-spac...
What? Even allowing that all those nines are hyperbolic, at various points in time it was reasonably popular for "right wing" people to be concerned about defending from Russia and biological preparedness. The past few years have shown those to be more than mirages.
You are not accepting DMs from people you don't follow.
> I think in order to use the plural form you really need to have two examples.

Perhaps, but I don't see the value proposition in relaying another. Altman was fun to point out. I see no remaining enjoyment.

> Sam Altman is of course the least convincing signatory

Less convincing than Grimes?
127 comments so far with no mention of the partial solution described at the bottom of the article:

> take all the Play stuff and move it out of its tight integration with the low level system and into userland, where it can be sandboxed. That gives you back granular control over all the resources Play Services wants to use, and what data it and the app which use it want to send back. That's the approach GrapheneOS takes, a Pixel-only open source Android distro – OK, ROM – that by many reports hits the sweet spot of maximum control over security with minimal impact on the daily Android experience.

> Teamed with a second-hand last-but-one generation Pixel, GrapheneOS raises the seemingly oxymoronic possibility that the most data-tight and user-configurable mobile platform costs less than $200, has negligible environmental impact, and is powered by the data ogre Google itself.

> It doesn't matter how badly the FBI, NSA, GCHQ or the dictatorships behave, they can't have your data if you never send it. You'll still have to take care of what you do online and how you do it, but at least you can build that castle on a halfway decent rock.
Yeah naw. Bitcoin worked just fine without this Bank 2.0 LN crap that can’t even scale.

Ordinals wouldn’t even exist without Segwit.

0-conf worked just fine for immediate transactions.
i'm interested in this but that link doesn't work, what happened with ublock?
I agree re: junk.

Their build quality feels poor. Sometimes it's hard to tell when an issue is just a vicissitude of using Linux or their fault, but I would overall not recommend.
DNSSEC does actually have protection against bgp hijacking. The dnssec root key are (generally?) hardcoded into the resolvers, so even if someone would do a bgp hijacking of the root servers they would still not resolve.
He for sure admires effective cruel dictators. You can add MBS on that list, he bragged pretty openly about 'saving his ass', which even from common media looked exactly like that.

I am sure he did some good stuff, but he made sure its extremely easy to hate him by often behaving like a childish diva. Oh and for anybody in US - basically whole world outside, apart maybe from few friendly dictatorships like russia or saudi arabia, hated him during his presidency. Kind of 'insult your basic intelligence and human decency in 2 easy steps' guy. But current pro-russian, anti-covid etc crowd liked him a lot (when you are getting manipulated like a marionette I guess it doesn't matter if from east or west)
> Instead they didn't, and the world is better for it. Why should they change now...?

So this is where we fundamentally disagree: I do not think the world is better off with an uncompromising FSF. I think the world and state of Free Software would have been significantly more advanced if they had adopted a more pragmatic attitude. I don't think that's "compromising" per se, but rather accepting that things don't change in a day.

Also consider an alternative universe where the FSF and/or GNU had invested in to a good code hosting platform and a system to setup payments for people developing software instead of the ecosystem rolling from one proprietary platform to another over the last 25 years.
As far as I know something similar is used in Finland, but not with the industrial processes.

Some apartments dig a deep hole into the ground, and pump the heat up during the winter, pump the heat down during the summer.
"Take my brother--no really, take him"
It appeared to have been written by ChatGPT.

One of the biggest "tell" of using ChaptGPT is not enough simple sentences.

In short, the article is simply "mouthy".

This is why US military manuals to complex machineries are written at 8-grade reading level.
By burning all the children alive?
They probably do, but I haven't used Facebook at all aside from a brief period in the 2010s. If they organize on Facebook, and I don't have any other way of finding out about them or otherwise contacting them, I just don't bother.

I am willing to accept some inconvenience in order to be aligned with my goals, which I am learning puts me very much at odds with the average person.
I find it amusing that even when you're on the MDN Blog URL (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/), it still shows you a banner on the top that says "Discover the latest web development insights on our new MDN Blog", which links to the exact same page. :)
Stripe just shut down a small biz we own
While I agree that having people settle in a place where their wages far outstretch those of the local population is problematic, I think there's more at play here and it's reductive to attribute rising costs and rents to this pretty small population of people. Rents and costs are rising everywhere, even in places where there is little or no digital nomad population. There are bigger factors at play such as global supply chain issues, rising inflation, globalisation, tourism, poor housing policies and corrupt local governments... Don't like Digital nomads per se (certainly the people conveyed here) but they are not solely responsible.
Maybe a bit convoluted, but you could create a Prisma adapter in front of your sqlite db and use Prisma Studio to access your data. You can use database introspection to generate a schema file.
https://www.prisma.io/docs/getting-started/setup-prisma/add-...
Are there betting odds anywhere for regime change/invasion of Taiwan?

I would put it as ~1% per year right now, but perhaps other investors see it differently.
Racism isn't an objective order existing in the universe separate from us. It's part of human experience and exists where humans experience it.

Given the recent history of equating black people with non-human primates, and using that to deny them rights & full participation in society, making this error is going to be experienced as racist. It's not a matter of individual malice or taxonomic classification, but of history and social relations.
> "Nobody listens to him" and still the likes of Microsoft now develop predominantly in the open.

Stallman had exactly zero influence on that shift.
Nvidia becomes first chipmaker valued at more than $1T amid AI boom
I always play this every Christmas.

https://youtu.be/6dHETOyiE6U

The BBC has quite a few of the "all aboard" series, if you want slow TV.
I don't know why this caught HN's attention today, but I first found out about the Halton sequence a number of years ago when I needed a random seeming, regularly distributed and stable set of 2D points to sample an image, and the Halton sequence fit the bill precisely.

After implementing and benchmarking it I found my code was spending more time calculating the sample points than I'd like. When trying to speed that up I found this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0898122193...

Later when learning Rust I ported that faster approach to Rust: https://crates.io/crates/halton

And when I wrote a Rust library to bind Rust to Ruby, I created a Rubygem of the same as a testbed: https://rubygems.org/gems/halton

A few years ago I also put together a fun D&D game using the Halton sequence to place items/encounters on a map.
I'm sure there's no one size that fits all, but we've replaced it with small groups.

For example, my family is in a discord channel. My SO's family is in a group text. My local motorcycle buddies are in a group text. My college friends from way back are on Slack. My expat coworkers from my last job are on Slack. My high school pals I'm still in touch with are on Discord.

And I get feed news on Mastodon, which is non-algorithmic. And it's great.

I still have accounts on those other sites for DM purposes, but I've deleted most of my past content and the rest is inoffensive stuff parked there just in case someone looks for a job or something.

I definitely miss out on the day-to-day of a lot of people I know, and that's a loss. But I still feel I have a net gain for my own mental health.

Again, this is only what works for me. YMMV.
You are citing a cartoon with a dick joke and a mom joke to say that metric is just as human oriented as imperial. Seriously:
Imperial:
1 Foot ~ the length of some guy's foot.
1 Second - the duration of one heart beat.
Metric:
1 Meter - some 1/10000 of 1/4 of an mis-measurement of the circumference of the Earth.
1 Second - stolen from the Imperial system cause 86 microdays did not easily divide by 10, 7, 24, 60, 30, 31 or 29.
I tend think the transition to living online is basically a repeat of the transition to living in cities. That is, from villages to cities is the same as cities to online. There's more of everything - people, stuff, contact, density, access, coincidences. I wonder if we can learn anything from the previous transition.
I think the ATF has a much higher incident rate of over-reach then the FBI, the FBI tends to create thier own crimes by "infiltrating" non-violent groups, then making them into extremist, providing them with a plan for a crime, then arresting them before they carry out the FBI informants plan...

ATF however tends to just rewrite regulation based on political goals, and then use their new regulations to make people felon's then respond to these new felons with extreme violence.

Ruby Ridge, Waco, and many other famous cases like them were all started by the incompetent ATF not FBI.

ATF routinely violates the civil rights of citizens and an business owners, openly and with out remorse. Personally I think Waco would have turned out far differently if the FBI was the original agency going after them. the FBI only came in after the ATF royally fucked everything up, as usual
Please don't post AI-generated comments on HN.
That's not what the terms socialism and capitalism mean. They describe the process, not end result.

You can have full blown worker coops in the capitalist system, the question is if they are state mandated or not.

The definition of socialism isn't any sytem with a good outcome for workers.
Yeah I was going to bring up Podcast Addict as well. Dunno why you'd use anything else.
In my view, browser extensions are the biggest example of projects where this approach is a terrible idea. Most of them have enormous access to their users' browsing data and it's easy for them to inject ads, and so there's a lot of incentive for bad actors to try to take over popular extensions. From what I understand it's fairly common for publishers of popular extensions to get offers to purchase them.
The whole premise of your argument about set-top boxes and CT was refuted, and you've used that as evidence that you were right all along.
> In large scale TS applications of my experience, there's always several places where you're writing out long terms exactly corresponding to types in some mechanical way, but there's no real infrastructure to help you there so it's just a manual process.

I’ve been at this point several times, and for most of the time, the solution was to either use the satisfies operator or remove explicit type declarations in favour of what TS infers on its own, then refactoring the code. This resulted in a leaner, more elegant, and most importantly correctly typed code base.
YMMV of course, and sometimes this just isn’t possible, but I believe macros to be way too dangerous for that fringe use case or hobby project - inexperienced developers would jump to introduce them everywhere immediately, guaranteed.
Breaking records in scaling Mount Everest is like modern data storage
I read the entire wikipedia page on racism to see why people call a bug in an experimental product feature, based on bad classifiers and data, a form of racism.

It's unfortunate. And I can see why it worries people. Because on the surface it looks like a systemic problem. But is it really?
Yes, so he might have been wrong in making a scientific judgement.

Again, do you have a point? Just come out and say it.
Try Thorium. Still a work in progress, but they are trying to be up-to-date on standards compliance, which puts them ahead of a lot of reading systems. The UI is decent.

(you'd think maintaining an epub extension for a web browser wouldn't be that much of a stretch, considering that epubs are built on web tech, but who knows why they cut that.)
Bankman-Fried charges should not be tossed, prosecutors say
Destructible Tetris blocks: https://unit520.net/deadtrees/

Silly physics fun in the browser, but not a complete game (yet).
This has been a thing since 2019 at least.
There used to be a workaround where you can still access the full archive as an exported JSON document
Samsung's partnership with Meta (2022)
> My dream stack that I am using for my business is Phoenix, Live View and Stimulus.js with Tailwind.

I am curious, why both LiveView and Stimulus.js? Why and how are you combining the two together?
This is a fun, spicy comments section!

A lot of UX design has been formalized to the point where the UI frameworks really do provide just enough. Even better, the UI available in native options (browser or native apps) has gotten Really Good.

Really Good is Good Enough for most consumers, and perfect for businesses/enterprise.
I suppose if you have some kind of compilation that can saturate 100+ cores for so long it makes sense to send out the work to other machines then this could be useful. One machine is an advantage when we're thinking about the I/O overhead.
I suppose giant Infinibuild projects exist so there's a market for some C++ devs perhaps. It still seems fairly niche to me.

The aggressively parallel automated testing is nice but I don't see why that requires the IDE in the cloud.
Germany, for example would disagree with you. They believe violent speech is an act of violence in itself.

>AI is an application of math.

It turns out that people hook computers to 'things' that exist in the physical world. You know like robot bodies, or 3D printers. And as mentioned above, even virtual things like social media can cause enough problems. People hook AI to tools.

And this is just the maybe not quite general AI we have now. If and when we create a general AI that with self-changing feedback loops then all this "AI is just a tool" asshattery goes out the window.

Remember at the end of the day, you're just an application of chemistry that is really weak without your ability to use tools and to communicate.
If it's equal, why can we do it and they cannot?
I would argue that the FBI and ATF should not have been there at all, and the situation should have been handled by local and state law enforcement.
The E in P/E ratio going from $4.77 in 2021 to $0.21 in the most recent results.

Presumably investors are anticipating/hoping for a return to previous levels.
I'm sorry but I really don't understand the point you're trying to make. Yes, there's a difference in features, but my original point was

> cartoon figures in professional applications (please explain to me how Octocat is different from Clippit)

Is Octocat not a cartoon figure? Is Github not a professional application?

I'm not aware of any authoritative definition of user experience that excludes "aesthetic grounds" from the field of UX. How an interface looks and the feeling it conveys is a part of the user experience. The UX industry doesn't operate with this distinction -- see e.g. NN Group's oft-quoted definition (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/definition-user-experience/), which considers aesthetics, and UI design in general a component of UX, or the ISO 9241 definition.

A tongue-in-cheek logo is one thing, but a goofy interface, from the ever-present logo to the overall widget design, is way out there in kindergarten land. The comparison between Octocat's use and, say, that of the Rust crab, is itself unwarranted: you can (in fact, I do) write Rust all the time and not see the crab for weeks, whereas that goofy cat critter is literally on every Github page.

As for Clippit specifically, while its graphical design was obviously not the primary reason why it was hated, it was definitely one component of it -- in fact, it's one of the reasons why it was specifically considered distracting. Contemporary studies, like Swartz's notorious dissertation about why everyone hated Clippit, obviously focused on the functional aspect, but it's telling that the quantitative framework in use at the time put "fun" and "useful" in separate categories.
Here what you really mean is "if your certificates will never touch Chrome", because it's not just that Chrome won't accept them, but that Chrome's SCT auditing is part of a surveillance system for certificate misissuance.
Here's one of my concrete worries: At some point, humans are going to be outcompeted by AI at basically every important job. At that point, how are we going to maintain political power in the long run? Humanity is going to be like an out-of-touch old person on the internet - we'll either have to delegate everything important (which is risky), or eventually get scammed or extorted out of all our resources and influence.

I agree we don't necessarily know the details of how to build such a system, but am pretty sure we will be able to eventually.
It's up for debate how productive Japan's companies really are.

Studies show it is one of the least productive/efficient among developed economies, with all the unnecessary meetings, lack of quick decision-making, and outdated processes.
This is a valuable lesson in what AI can do for society: act as a mirror to show us systemic biases that exist that people try to pretend don't exist.

I think most here would understand systemic bias if reflected in a distributed system. Imagine a classifier where, through no explicit intent of the designer of the classifier, always said that some user login was malicious or some binary was malware or the like, even when it was not. And all those users or binaries had something in common that was apparent, and were all being misclassified. That would be systemic bias, and nobody would blink an eye about a call for it to be corrected.

Here we see systemic racial bias, probably not because of individual racial animus on the part of some Google engineer, but because society has systemic racial bias and the classifier is just reflecting that because it was trained on public data.

We should look at incidents like this differently: not as yet another chance to argue about what Google should or shouldn't do, but as a chance to see that a socially-neutral AI that does not have bias built into it is learning racial bias from society.
Entire volumes of books have been written about how the ATF screwed up everything in that case... I am not going to write an entire essay. Read some books on the subject
SW CEO says using ChatGPT cuts coding tasks from months to days
This is the same CEO who apparently started his company a few years ago based on a comment in Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336815
Reminds me a little bit of the time in an intermediate programming course where we had to write a variety of programs and the input was an enormous string containing the entire novel "Jane Eyre."

I discovered very quickly that building a string by concatenating the input one word at a time in Java, my preferred language at that time, was a huge mistake, because of the way string literals work in Java. StringBuilder to the rescue!

At first I was astounded at how slow it was, but when I learned how the underlying language semantics worked, it made sense.
I've explained several times on this thread already why DNSSEC won't ever get transparency logging.
I think I could write a classifier that would accurately separate out gorillas and humans in a weekend with a dataset. But I guess as its pointed out here, there's no upside to getting it right and massive downside to getting it wrong
The problem that will always remain with AI is speciesism. Till the time we stop thinking of AI and machines as "lower" than humans, their output will always be looked at with a frown, no wonder how good it gets.
The Portugal model: How one country is winning the war on drugs
So is this a "racist data" thing or a "bad recognition" thing? Do pictures of white people get mislabeled as something else in ways pictures of other ethnicities don't?
That makes sense from a Western perspective where the primary value of nuclear weapons is deterrence. But for North Korea the calculus is different. North Korea already has a conventional deterrent in the form of artillery that could be fired at Seoul and do enormous damage in a matter of seconds.

Instead, their goal with nuclear weapons seems to be nuclear blackmail to obtain food and other economic aid to prop up their dysfunctional economy and support their totalitarian regime. For that purpose, liquid fueled rockets are fine because they don’t need to be fired at a moment’s notice. So it’s not hard to see how a space program could be used to further nuclear aims.
Enterprise SaaS is brutal because of cashflow.

A16Z even wrote an article on this 9-years ago.

https://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-why-the-pundi...

Essentially, in Enterprise Sales - you have huge upfront costs to win a deal (e.g. paying commissions, pre-sales expenses like T&E, marketing, etc).

And in SaaS, you only collect a small monthly fee (as opposed to On-Prem when you collected a large upfront fee all at once).

So it becomes a cashflow / revenue recognition issue for these SaaS companies and you might not even be profitable until 2-years into the life of the customer contract all due to this cashflow issue.

This gets compounded if you're having high growth in New sales (you go further into debt).

To this point, when the market crashed in 2008 and sales slowed - that was the year that Salesforce experienced higher than normal profits.
>They killed twenty-eight kids.

>This suggests that "going after" the compound was not really about the welfare of any children.

Not just that, but given the way things played out repeatedly (not just Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Elián González situation, etc) it's hard to believe much of what the FBI asserts happened in those cases. It's too difficult to not see some higher up putting their fingers on the scale and trying to whitewash what happened after the fact. What little we do know seems to really reek of REMFer controls over what was allowed to happen.

And who can forget the infamous images of some of the agents standing over the ashes with grins? No the official story on Waco is one of the things that I cannot take at face value. It certainly didn't help going to public school and hearing about the events while attending a church that had an (undeserved) reputation due to busybodies who made up stories. I grew up sincerely wondering if one day the government was going to show up at my church one Sunday.

For all that we're told the Branch Davidians were a cult (and certainly it sounded like they were depending on the sources you read up on) they had all the trappings of being just another church. It is only because we were told that they were cultists, that we were told they were child abusers that we mostly didn't wonder at how the government was acting towards a CHURCH, a place of WORSHIP. It's a serious blindspot, compounded by the fact that it was the government, their accusers who were responsible for all these deaths.

Yeah, I've got questions.
Way too many people substitute pattern matching for critical thinking.
fair, i moved away from a seedbox because it took so long to sync back home