skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AI is antithetical to both Google.. and to Amazon.

With Google I can understand the argument (though I think a huge company has a lot of ruin in it and Google will trudge along with perhaps reduced profits). Buy why Amazon? Amazon will still have a logistics advantage over most competitors, and AWS should do just fine.
Haven’t tried this project yet, but the Ruby interpreter itself starts up very quickly, so I’d expect it to be essentially instant on modern hardware.
If he dies, he dies.
In 70 years we will look back at today's kid's toys and wonder how we could ever allow them.

From mobile games casino-style monetization to depression-inducing social networks, passing by Roblox (that takes the usual predatory monetization schema and brings it's own creative touch by using kids to develop their games).

Or probably we won't, because it will be even worse by then.
A "negative income tax" is UBI (minus the presumption the amount needs to be enough to live on, in some formulations..)

The "bureaucratic costs" argument is not something anyone that's paid any attention whatsoever to the actual numbers can make. The number of working age people who currently receive a livable income or equivalent in services from welfare programmes is a very small proportion of the total number of working age people who don't work enough to pay [non-trivial amounts of] income tax. If you're suddenly paying many more millions a livable income, you're not funding that through making a few thousand Jobcentre staff redundant.
Unsurprising. Private repositories are not 'private' [0] and GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI are thanking you for allowing them to train their AI on your so-called 'private' code. [1]

This is essentially a shameless admission and they not even hiding it any more:

Private repository data is scanned by machine and never read by GitHub staff. Human eyes will never see the contents of your private repositories, except as described in our Terms of Service.

This is another great reason to self host instead of using services like GitHub openly reading your private code, which I have been saying for years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258431

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/privacy-on-github/abo...
You're overloading your definitions of "grift", to simultaneously mean dishonest scamming and standard profiteering.

SpaceX is a regular for-profit defense contractor. They aren't scamming the government. For anybody aligned with America's foreign policy interests, both of these are a good thing. (And for those who aren't, it's an unmitigated disaster.)
Why shouldn't he tell the public that every cancer is unique? It's technically true, much in the same way it's technically true you studied cancer but have for years been working with entirely unrelated fields to the advancement of cancer research. You're as much of an authoritative figure on this topic as a random person on the street.
I don't think anyone on HN likes software patents but god damn do they love copyright of code.
Chris Latter: Future of Programming and Al Lex Fridman Podcast #381
that would be in line with my crossbow [7th bday]
Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn?
Also AFAIK if no one acceses the content for a long time, it can get lost, like torrents.
Wikipedia definition:

Socialism is a political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems[1] which are characterised by social ownership of the means of production,[2][3][4] as opposed to private ownership.[5][6][4] As a term, it describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems.[7] Social ownership can be public, community, collective, cooperative,[8][9][10] or employee.[11][12] While no single definition encapsulates the many types of socialism,[13] social ownership is the one common element,[6][14] and is considered left-wing.

If the state owns the roads rather than an individual or company, and they are maintained via taxes rather than tolls, then that is a socialist system. It may be part of a wider system that is mainly capitalist (which it is) but that subset of the system follows socialist principles. You can’t get around it just because you don’t like it. You want to label everything black and white, good or bad, but the world doesn’t work that way.

You may wish to read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy

Whether you like it or not, most nations are mixed economies nowadays.
That might be how some client(s) work, but I don't think that is how IPFS works.

If you access a piece of content over ipfs.io for example, I would think you just make https requests like to every other website.
I keep reading how "it'll get better soon" but still can't buy them like I used to. Looking forward to "here is the link you can buy today for low price". Feels a little marketing PR otherwise.
>Universal healthcare would also contribute to equity, probably more effectively than UBI. We should definitely do that first.

We already have universal healthcare
Isn’t the point of UBI that it’s balanced by income tax increases? Everyone would receive £1,600 / month, but the high earners would pay that much more in taxes, so they wouldn’t have any extra money to spend on massive houses.
Show HN: WebAssembly port of Neverball, a 3D rolling ball game
Neverball is a rolling ball game in the vein of Super Monkey Ball. I ported it to the browser via Emscripten with some tweaks to integrate well with the browser. It feels solid on desktop and mobile, to me. That said, I'm just one guy. A question to HN readers: your impressions on what's good, what's bad and what's missing?
Are there high authority structures that have both low dominance and prestige?
The newest thing is to avoid ground level apartments in a city with traffic if you can.

I’ve been told brake (or tire) dust is the newest suspect for why young never-smokers are developing lung cancer (combined with certain relatively prevalent mutations).
Let's imagine that they started by investing equally in each of their seven strategies. Three of them lost money, but the other four made colossal returns. Eyeballing the chart, this combined strategy would have made at least 12/7 times returns, which is a 71% increase in a period when the market as a whole lost 12%.

The results are implausibly good, period.
It can alternatively mean that the DoD is now satisfied with SpaceX's opposition to strapping Starlink to drones and is willing to pay them as a result.
Because its using a gateway.
I think if you are accessing it natively through IPFS, it will default to adding you as a peer.
My understanding is the same is happening to the Akihabara's famous warren of small parts sellers.
Freshman year, first semester, I paid $1100 for books, and then we only actually used one of them more than slightly. I still have them all. One of them was a Discrete Mathematics book that cost $250. We used it twice to do a "reading assignment" and since the class was only taught by the teacher who wanted this book just this one semester, the school store wouldn't buy it back at the end of the semester. It still creaks when I open it.

I was a first generation college student, my tuition and living expenses were funded mostly by a scholarship (covered all of my tuition and about 30% of living expenses) and a private student loan covered the remainder. My cash flow was strictly negative and the surprised $1100 bill right at the start was extraordinarily unappreciated and the fact it went to such comically little use was just spitting in your face.

So the subsequent 7 semesters I paid $0 for books, which still left me with an average cost of books at $137/semester. Ridiculous.
It's censorship resistant if enough nodes mirror the sqlite file I guess.

Is there any incentive for nodes to do so?

Is it possible to see a statistic about how many nodes mirror it?
> I think one of the biggest problem with this kind of tools is the inability to know that it doesn't know.

Having young children, knowing what you don't know seems to be learned behavior all on its own. I as an adult know I don't know what the weather will be tomorrow, but my 2 year old is very confident in their knowledge of things to come.

Even as an adult how many times have you confidently believed something only to find it completely false? reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect has 900k subscribers for a reason. Individual testimony by 8 people about an incident results in 8 different, sometimes very different, depictions.

> I think that every single response from an AI is a liability on the company's part. This is unlike an internet search where it is only displaying links but LLMs are basically synthesizing new contents.

Altman fortunately agrees with this, in his Congressional testimony. I think courts will rule that way too. Judges aren't dumb, an LLM that communicates in real time and behaves as more than a blind channel for other users' words will probably be ruled an agent of the organization.
This is the first hn headline that I can remember actually making me laugh out loud. Bravo.
Yup. Can anyone point to even any injuries caused by this kit? Meanwhile, kids were actually killed by lawn darts, and plenty of kids have died on bicycles (though the ultimate fault there typically lies with cars).
Culprits are always the instructors/professors who teach courses. Aren't they happy with their salaries? How much royalty do these instructors get from selling $200 textbook to their students? These professors should be ashamed of themselves in involving this scammy behavior, while at the same time these unethical/immoral professors ask their students to sign honor code.
>We cram our secrets into git, then shove it off to the most expansive code forge in the history of humanity

Do we? Putting secrets in git is against policy almost everywhere.
Right. A tautology would be "it is ∨ ¬it is"
My understanding is that they have stations near the Polish border, which are close enough to cover many parts of Ukraine. For the other parts they are probably using laser links.
Chris shares really interesting perspectives on developer ergonomics of Python, lessons learned from Swift, real-world practicalities of how programmers work, and how all that influences Mojo.
Conservative policies can succeed if there is a progressive city just across Lake Washington. Why smash windows in a place where the police will harass you if you can be in a place where they don’t? Well, it works locally at least.

I see how treating underlying causes would help, but people are mobile, so doing it with local resources is never going to be a winner. So conservative solutions will show more effect locally than progressive ones, unfortunately, and local voters want to see improvement, not futility.

The other problem is that we are still conflating a drug crisis with a homeless crisis, the people busting your car window and stealing your Amazon packages are more likely in the former category even if they might be in the latter.
There are definitely comedians and authors and artists on Mastodon, but perhaps not name brands from NBC who make it a brand home.

Expecting a one to one drop in network swap seems like a consistent barrier, no shade intended.

I don't agree with it but I guess I get it. My feed has a little tech but mostly science, authors, artists, and ground level activists. But almost no one I already knew, and of them one is a roommate and one is an amazing but very local author I already supported on Patreon. I'm actually meeting new people and actually getting to know a lot about them.

It's much more interesting to see individual real humans doing things to make the world better than to just read them commenting on it.

I'm kind of done following big names personally. The added value is overblown relative to how awesome strangers actually often are, plus strangers don't have a communications team filtering out anything too interesting.
Is it actually that dangerous? I thought beta and alpha emitters were pretty safe as long as you don't get them inside your body. If you opened a vial of one of these and dumped it out on the workbench and stood there for an hour, how bad would that be?
This is like saying Ford chose to kill people by shipping a car. Guess what, cars kill people, society has accepted that.
It really doesn’t matter. Just get the informatics degree and start looking for a job. At most places with education requirements, all they care about is that you have some kind of bachelors degree. I have worked with dozens of engineers with English, Philosophy, etc degrees. You’ll have to put in extra work getting your first job, but it’ll be just fine.
These UBI trails have been coming up again and again without actually solving anything. 95% of the developed world have a problem with housing cost. UBI does little to zero to solve that.

May be worth submitting this on HN from @patrickc

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1665087620798349318

https://www.sambowman.co/p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-veto...
If you access a piece of content over ipfs.io, and you don't have your browser set up to actually do those requests over a local IPFS daemon, you are not using IPFS. You are just using a normal centralized website.
Really? From what I could find, they only pulled Russian registrars, not the domains, which you could transfer to a non-Russian-based registrar to renew: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/15/nominet_suspends_russ...
> Why are you saying "pump the brakes on a Chernobyl comparison"?

I say pump the brakes because even Russia has fixed its regulatory program and not had another Chernobyl in decades of operations - or anything even close. Hundreds of reactors operate around the world safely. Another Chernobyl won't happen. Bringing up that this could be Chernobyl is to me at least pushing on fear rather than realizing it's risk as incredibly small. Oil spills occur far more frequently but we still approve oil drilling even though it's incredibly damaging. Just because we want to use different technology doesn't mean we all of a sudden risk a Chernobyl.

> All of this was before Three Miles Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.

In the commercial US space maybe. But several countries with just as rigorous of technical regulations as the NRC utilize this. Japan, France, Russia etc. NRC, to me, can get there to successfully approve these projects but the government doesn't have the political will to push this.

And I'll note that none of these accidents were at a facility like this. Just saying not all nuclear facilities have the same accident possibilities.

> That's not because of any technical difficulty. The US is disposing of military nuclear waste at the WIPP facility.

Very true - and a WIPP like solution is feasible. But the state of New Mexico has to want that. WIPP (it's in its name) was supposed to be a pilot plant which obviously no longer is. They may not want everything coming to their land. And it hasn't ever supported spent fuel receipts because it wasn't designed for it. That's what Yucca was supposed to do but can't get built. So it's just more political issues to go that way too.

But that's not an economic argument - it's a government one. So saying it's cheaper to just burn fresh fuel depends on there being a government solution to disposition. I'm just saying the "cheaper" argument is applying free market theory to something that's obviously heavily intertwined and depends on the government. As it should.

> I am personally not that worried about storing the spent fuel on site. It is not a huge amount.

Sure for now - but just like other political issues we are just kicking the can down the road and saying "future us will figure it out"!
The AR-15 for Kids seems like it could be pretty dangerous

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/wee-1s-jr-15-is-the-...
"Banana equivalent dose" is a misleading concept, because the body actively regulates potassium levels. It's very unlikely that somebody with healthy kidneys could give themselves hyperkalemia by eating bananas, and if they somehow did, the radiation would be the least of their concerns.
(Genuine question) what is a use case where an employee needs to fork your company’s repo rather than open a PR?

The only one I can think of is what you mentioned (testing CI workflows that match a branch name) but at least at our company that can usually be done in a PR.

I don’t see any obvious reason why an employee would ever need to fork a company’s private repo to their personal GitHub account.
I never heard of Hear One until now. I need this, heating exams insists my hearing is fine, and yet…

From an audio processing perspective, how would I even build the software?
That would hold true if IPFS would be a specific application.

But it is a protocol.

I would not expect that the protocol specifies that a complient client shares what it downloaded. That sounds more like a choice the client developers make on their own.

But I'm happy to be corrected if someone has a link to the protocol definition and it says different.
They do, or at least I've seen it in some railway renovations here in Argentina (through posts in SkyscraperCity forum). The funny thing is, when the state runs out of money, they start to cut corners and the geotextile fabric is one of the first things to go.
I'm using it since WSL1 and never had problem with that...
Doesn't seem significantly more dangerous than any other firearm that can be easily handled by a child. I would venture to guess that most accidental firearm deaths and injuries caused by children are caused by pistols.

Let's also be clear that a firearm is not a toy and this is not advertised as one. if it were, then yes, it would be a very different situation.
> There are other door openers, like being a really good coder.

This may have been true at one point, but if it was ever true, it no longer is.

To get well-paying jobs (above the poverty line), you either need a degree or you need a certification. The certifications run into the exact same component issues of academia. Its optimizing for a specific type and limiting everyone else, and importantly its not primarily based upon knowing the material.

Certifications are the only alternative to a degree, and they get deprecated regularly and have no due process. Deprecations are as if you never had the certificate. If there is an issue, at best the single (only) company doing the testing will refund you for one certification, and then not allow you to try again (barring you from receiving a certificate). This is only in the case where you can prove they have done fraud/deceptive and unfair business practices, but can't get a court to nullify the NDA to provide standing for future litigation. If you can't, prove malfeasance they'll just keep your money; and their default practices try to limit any evidence they might provide. Accountability SOPs in a normal functioning business are often completely absent.

Employers will bring you in for interviews, and low ball you because they'll say "I see you don't have a degree, or applicable certificate. We can't pay you what we would pay a qualified person... How does ... <lowball or just above minimum wage> sound?" (for skilled work normally paying 70-100k for the IT position). They count on you being desperate enough to take the pay cut after they have wasted as much time as possible.

Additionally business insurance can sometimes dictate that certain positions hold a comparable indicator of proficiency, where experience is not counted.

This same conversation occurs regularly even when you have a decade of direct experience doing the exact same job. I know because its happened to me during many interviews, and I've compared notes and every other person who has followed a similar path that I've met has had it happen regularly as well. I do well because I'm a miracle worker, but I always have to prove myself at every step, because I am significantly more than I am on paper.

For many people who have the education and skill to do the jobs, qualifications are just another means to limit future opportunity, keep wages low, and reduce income mobility.

In my opinion your advice is harmful because it misleads about reality, and the experience required to find out otherwise necessitates needless suffering.
Thank you for sharing this, it warmed my heart this morning.
The cost of living around the world is highly variable. Just in the U.S. you can find an order of magnitude difference, and as such the pay scales are very different per location. Why would we expect a universal wage?
An occurrence of this bug caused a lot of pain for one of my previous employers.

One way we tried to isolate the bug was creating a replacement for std::vector. This vector used an array for the elements, but capitalized on the x86 page-protection system:

- Between every pair of adjacent elements, this vector allocated a dummy page, marked as un-readable and un-writeable. Any attempt to access it would immediately trigger a segfault. This was to detect erroneous attempts to access some vector element; e.g. punning it to a type larger than the element's actual type.

- Any time the vector needed to replace (or just retire) its internal array, it would not return the array to the free pool. Instead, it would leave it allocated, but mark all of its elements as un-readable and un-writeable. This was to detect usage of stale pointers into the vector.

I think the team discovered the bug by other means, but I still think this approach has some merit.

TL;DR:

- The basic idea was inspired by Electric Fence.

- This vector wasn't exactly a drop-in replacement for std::vector, because (at the time) it seemed like that would require a lot of additional code.

- Obviously this wastes a lot of memory. It's only something one would use in certain debugging situations.
In the English language, ungendered terms or unknown gender is identical to the masculine gender. And even in languages without this property, there is no issue referring to a hypothetical as male.
Also, steel wheels rolling on steel rails results in lots of fine metal powder everywhere. Also, particularly in cities, everything gets covered in small particles from a lot of sources.
Yes but when you compare the TDP and compute/watt of such a system compared to an arm sbc it pales in comparison. Being fan-less hence much more compact is another thing they lack as well.
I have to read that second book just because the author has my name
While that's true, there are niches that have different requirements.

One that springs to mind (for me) is audio monitors, where speakers are supposed to (in theory) be neutral in order to provide a good reference.
It's not the number of terminals that is relevant it is the total $. If the buyer pays $100m and receives 100 terminals with retail price $5m there is zero charity, it doesn't matter if you label 99 terminals as "donated" except for PR purposes.

> ... 70% of the service costs were being borne by SpaceX.

That's Musk's completely made up number for the price of the service ($4500/month). By that logic he could have said it was $10000/month and therefore been "donating" even more. That price 1. isn't the cost of providing the service; 2. isn't the retail price of the service, 3. isn't a reasonable mark up on the retail price.
Anyone else think Stackoverflow has been in a decline the past decade?

Stackoverflow hardly surfaces when I am searching for help and when I find answers it's usually a blog or a hosted blog somewhere. Most Stackoverflow answers are usually 4-5 years old and outdated.

Perhaps it's simply my engineering has improved in the last decade and I no longer search for help very often and when I do it's outside the scope of Stackoverflow..
Though the basic income aspect should refect a smaller bureaucracy;

In the recent US debt ceiling deal adding means testing and work requirements basically reduces welfare outflows single digit % while increasing the bureaucracy outflows > 100% (gov workers, gov pensions, consultants)