skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did management know the date or time? Management is responsible for scheduling the cement trucks.

According to a sibling comment[1], no.

>Separate from this issue, a lawsuit is a huge burden to place on workers. For striking to remain any kind of negotiation we can't have workers going unpaid and then buried in legal expenses.

Giving the workers a pass on illegal behavior just because they're on a strike doesn't sound too good either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179122
Old reddit was at least a bit more tech and intellectual adjacent than new reddit. The "mainstreamification" of Reddit came largely with the UI change and mobile app. Even with old Reddit it was more mainstream because of UI aspects YC doesn't have (social media sharing, video embedding, custom subreddit CSS)
Yes, but note this is only the scp protocol. The /bin/scp tool uses the sftp protocol by default now, and you can just continue using it without problems (if you ssh is new enough; check the manpage).
> That has literally no impact on corporations or their drones, whatever that means.

It does if they want to use his code for anything. The parent commenter is also clearly making the point that his efforts are to be used by people who share the same sentiment of "fuck copyright". Which I think is a noble perspective, since IP laws in the US are much more bad than good.
Reminds me of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack[1] which was investigated by the CDC and also blamed on sick workers[2] because they were the first to fall ill.

Only after internal conflicts between the Rajneeshes rose up to the surface, it turned out it was an intentional biological attack.

Netflix' Wild Wild Country is a good that covers it (eventhough it is too long, and way too nice towards the Rajneeshees).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_atta...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/21/us/ill-handlers-suspected...

[3] https://www.netflix.com/title/80145240
It seems that every generation of lonely engineers brings about a unwanted assistant that the world rejects.
Lara has always been a weirdly uncanny valley character who existed in the coming of 3D graphics but is less realistic than say, Cloud and other Final Fantasy characters who actually have 2D renderings with realistic proportions. Just her face is sort of oval and unreal.
decades later, an Urban Planner and real-estate developer named Peter Calthorpe in Berkeley, would propose more infill with different endpoints. That plan was very publicly denounced by Save the Bay, and a battle of the blowhards ensued, with the loser (Calthorpe) retreating to design eco-cities in China, and the Bay once again escaping further pavement.
There is years and years and years of amazing content and community on Reddit. Rallying people around a replacement looks challenging. I am hopeful that it happens.
I read this great reply in /r/ProgrammingLanguages[0] that really spelled out the pros/cons of certain languages/type systems so that I don't think that Haskell is for me, even if I put in the effort to get better at it. F# is more my cup of tea.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/13voz...
Only the protocol; the /bin/scp tool uses the sftp protocol by default now. You can just continue using it without fear.
Coming from the owners of a battery factory, also sounds a bit like a Sim City news ticker message: "Pineapple-based economy a no-brainer: President of the World Pineapple Trade Federation".

Then again, they could well be right on a one-ship basis and maybe that's all they need, and this needs less capital expenses like, say, a hydrogen handling terminal at each end.
> Creepy employees

This is tip of the iceberg.

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/125oiud/what_is_the_...
'When Get Help is opened now, it may display an ad for Microsoft Teams at the very top of the application's interface. The ad is shown with a slight delay, likely because it needs to be retrieved from a Microsoft server.'

'It states: "Increase productivity and collaboration all while staying organized, using a new meeting solution designed for small businesses."'

'A learn more link is provided and an x-icon to hide the advertisement in the Get Help interface. Microsoft does not reveal the name of the app in the advertisement. ...'

'Activation of the link in the advertisement opens the Microsoft Teams Essentials subscription website. This particular version of Microsoft Teams is available for $4 per user and month.'

We are quickly approaching the "drink verification can"-level of ad injection and user hostility:

https://i.redd.it/t9hsu8y6cts11.png

Want to get help? How about subscribing to Microsoft Teams Essentials? Maybe you can use Teams to get someone on your team to help you!
Open source cheats for multiplayer games are a benefit to everyone who doesn't want cheaters.
It does make a lot of sense. In the most basic terms, almost no American spoke Japanese, let alone at a scientific level. Collaboration would be at the essence.

But I think the greater point that you are missing is that you can't walk over a country of 150 million people and achieve total power. Without large doses of good will, collaboration, and soft power, resistance gets in the way of every single goal an occupation has.
I'm using it right now.
Why are there fewer serial killers now than there used to be?
Because what they're doing isn't a general tax, it's taking an action that's already more beneficial to news organizations than it is to Facebook (linking to news), and making it less appealing for Facebook to continue this action.

Please see the entirety of my original post in context, the part you quoted doesn't stand alone. The robotaxi analogy helps to illustrate the difference that your comment is alluding to.
You did have 100% coverage back then, but not high quality all of the time. In some rare cases only a single satellite pseudofix would have been available. That can still be accurate if the location device carries a decent synchronized clock.

IOC was defined as always being in sight of 3 or more satellites, plus maintenance capability. That was achieved in 1993.
I don't see how this fits with what I said above:

> Embedded frames can be made invisible, overlaid with something else, or put off-screen
Also, this article talks about a protest (which is new information, unlike previous HN submissions which only reported the changes.)
The post you're referencing is great, undoubtedly true, and one that I have bookmarked and return to often.

However.

We are still very early in the curve. We are warming the planet, but not because of any energy we are producing, merely because of a chemical inbalance in the atmosphere. We are not close to any of the limits specified there.

When energy costs 0.0001 / kWh, we may re-evaluate. But we have a long way to go before we get there.

It's so early!
I'd rather fix the problems with a straightforward but flawed system than unwind a dizzyingly over-engineered one. The intent and implicit requirements are usually clearer with the former.
Browsers don't call the OS to open a URL, it would have to be an add-on or something
Fantasy Online
> So only people capable of auditing source code and build scripts deserve to be able to trust software?

I don't know about "deserve" but it's true that we have the knowledge necessary to understand what a script or program is doing.

> There should never be any other way to offer trustability?

Of course not. Someone else can audit it for you. If you trust that person, then you also trust the software that they audited.

Linux distribution packagers are the simplest example I can think of. If something makes it into a Linux distribution like Debian, it's pretty trustworthy. That's a big reason why we users like that model. It's also why developers hate it.
From https://lemire.me/blog/2023/06/03/science-and-technogy-links...

I thought it was interesting enough to post.

I had previously read that increased freedom, the interstate system, Vietnam trauma, and cable news coverage were all factors in the rise, or perceived rise of serial killers.
Ironically, Reddit doesn't have any interesting technology or a novel product design; it fails to compete as an ad-tech platform. They are just a community. Its value is the goodwill of the Reddit members, and that's it. Their revenue is Reddit awards and premium memberships.

Acting against the interests of their own users will make the platform less valuable in the long-term if moderators and users lose trust in the platform.
It's fast, does not have ads, doesn't have layout reflows, doesn't have popups, doesn't have marketing overheaad and BS.

Those things alone would make 90% of sites better.

My god man just give us the goods!
Who knows how long that contract is, though. Or if it's indefinite.
That makes sense and I knew this, but browsers are the main use case for me, not external programs
> “the brain is the single existing example of general intelligence,” that’s true of the whole thing, with glial ion buffering, ephaptic coupling, global oscillations, and so much more. We should be honest here: the system being studied in DishBrain is very far removed from that, so it’s tough to use the existence proof like you are doing.

Our vision is incredibly ambitious. We can't build a whole brain yet, only small 2D fragments. We have a roadmap that goes all the way to a complete synthetic biological intelligence. The short and medium term milestones are concrete, achievable and valuable. The long term goals are more speculative, we're clear about that. It's a path, a tightrope, but still a path.

> [...] but you guys alienated a lot of people both in how you talked about “sentience” and also seemed to heavily hype this as totally novel.

We clearly defined our terms, our paper was accepted via a long peer review process into a prestigious academic journal. We coauthored with multiple top neuroscientists from around the world. Our discussion section alone has more citations than
most entire papers. If scientists are "alienated" by this, it's a grievance that we cannot remedy.

Our work was hyped, we hyped it, it deserves to be hyped. Can you cite an example in our own words where we claim our work is totally novel?

> I tried to ignore it but the bad faith attack on neuralink, which, look, I have complicated feelings about too — you should know the animal use data in the press is extremely out of context (to the point of simply being wrong) and also neuralink has had zero chimpanzees in its entire history.

Please accept my apologies; it was meant to be more collaborative. I really do think that our system could be used to reduce the need for animal sacrifices and this is a good thing. I also believe you take making animal sacrifices seriously.
Mainly yes, although they do also make dedicated gpus
What about being an incubator for trillion dollar companies?
There’s the cargo ship mod and chargeable batteries and accumulators that you can ship - maybe that’s how they validated the idea in the first place…
This is 1945, before the decades long alliance and best friendship between US and Japan, before Internet, computers, and most electronics. Americans can't even read the signposts in the streets, let alone find and interpret the results of extremely secret operations.
Agreed. But it's also a small mistake, if it was one at all.
If a new version of a dependency introduces a vulnerability, then dynamic libraries allow you as the sysadmin to stick with the secure version.

For package managers, difference is how often the decision to update a library must be made. Dynamic libraries mean that the package maintainer of libFOO must be aware of security issues in libFOO, and update accordingly. Static libraries or AppImages mean that the package maintainer of every user of liBFOO must be aware of security updates in libFOO, which is a much higher burden.
There is no other side. The problem is lack of legislation.

My sister is a physical therapist. She has a doctorate. Her work fundamentally involves being close to other people and touching them. This is one of those fields that 10-20 years ago everybody said would be booming and highly lucrative. Her sick time is counted against her vacation time.

We live in a country completely captured by corporations.
That table you linked only measures rates of 34 countries. You realize there are ~200 countries on the planet right?

It’s just objectively true that the US enjoys much higher living standards than the rest of the world…even if Brazil’s homelessness rate in 2015 is 0.1% smaller than the US 2020 figure…
On the present being an exceptional time, it really is. Technological advances in the last few hundred years have changed the human condition in developed countries to almost unrecognisable levels. I saw this in my grandparents. When I talked to them about what my life was like, much of it made no sense to them. When I showed them an iPad and video called my wife and kids in China, it took a while for it to sink in that this was a live two way video feed to another continent. For quite some time I’m convinced they were worried they were being tricked. I saw them experience real, disorienting future shock multiple times.

So in many ways now really is exceptional historically, and this has been the case each generation for the last few generations. It’s likely this will continue to be true. The world my grandchildren grow up in might well be even more exceptional again.

As for Hinton, he knows what he is talking about. A.I. alignment is a fiendishly difficult problem. A lot of alignment pathologies that were once theoretical are proving to be real and difficult to avoid phenomena in LLMs. This isn’t vague poorly specified paranoia. There are a lot of very real, verified failure modes for A.I. and for some of them we genuinely have no real idea at all how to properly address them. The reason Hinton changed course is because previously he didn’t think we were anywhere near the point where such problems could pose actual dangers, but the level of advancement in the last few years has been so rapid he’s changed his assessment.

I highly recommend Robert Miles A.I. Safety channel on a YouTube. He has a lot of very good introductory videos on many issues in A.I. safety.
finally someone wrote an article about it
To be fair, FSD does what it's called. It doesn't imply it doesn't make mistakes. Otherwise humans wouldn't be considered FSD either.
I haven't read the study, but I think there is an extremely high chance that this is showing confirmation bias. And i feel the video they show supports this interpretation. I don't know monkeys so didn't know which ones had opposable thumbs but felt just from the hand movement that I understood when the researcher intended the monkey to follow the moving hand and when the researcher didn't, moving the hand more significantly when wanting the money to focus on it, and damping the movement when wanting it to focus on the still hand.

If they didn't already do this, they should train some people to perform the trick that doesn't know the difference between the monkeys and don't know what the expected outcome is based on their current hypothesis.
Some buttons/links are too small for touch
If something good ever started in a Waffle House, that would for sure be newsworthy
To be fair, changing your direction or changing your mind isn't lying. We all have a right to do that.
Hn loading in poor network conditions is maybe it’s best modern ui feature.
And in 78 he did the Disk II. Also an incredible feat, truly hardware economical and software flexible, in the best Woz style.

It arguably turned the Apple II into a serious business machine, because few people could withstand working with cassette tapes.
> It also gives you RSI issues from bending solid core wires if you're not careful. Take breaks! :-)

Too late :D

> And you can stuff it in a frame and have some cool wall deco!

Right, i have already got a ground plane to mount it on. Do you have a glass/acrylic plate on your frame like this https://monster6502.com/ ?

> I eventually added a boot loader and "punch card reader" to mine which works with some photo diodes. I print out a programming strip on an ink jet and can slide it through the reader to load a program. When I have geeky visitors I give them a program to load.

That idea is really cool, maybe i'll try that too in the future! I have thought about adding a diy discrete UART of some sort. Oh and upgrade it to an SAP-3 in the future.
I remember when the internet started I was telling a friend of mine she should look for a new career. She works as a travel agent. I was convinced the internet would relace all those jobs. You know she still works as a travel agent.
I’ve heard some pretty legendary stories about street people and the Hotel Whitcomb - worked for a place that stopped housing consultants there because of all the chaos of those stories. (They’re not apocryphal, either - real talk.)
Lemmy is pretty good, and is working towards full activitypub federation:

https://join-lemmy.org/

As for the usage.. there's some, but it is niche. The average user just won't move unless something goes from so-so-satisfactory to offensive. This is how mastodon got its (seemingly brief) user spike.
I don't know about perfect. The tiny action button/links result in misclicks for me fairly often.
Machine Learning Turns Up Covid Surprise
Yes, you have it right. Japan collapsing politically would invite Soviet "aid" in the occupation of Japan. A partition like Germany was to be avoided. I just meant that you won't find anything from MacArthur clearly explaining it that way, as his retconned history, which became the accepted history, had a largely blameless imperial institution, so no justificatiom for its retention was really necessary.
The only reason MS is doing this is because they know they'd soon be employees of OpenAI if they didn't.
> Linux was intelligent enough to keep the i-node references even if the parent directory was different so the docker container kept working inside the deleteme_after_202202 directory.

Who would have been launching a container inside the deleteme directory? They were very lucky if that's how they found it. How long did it take to discover that?
I dont understand why the courts dont treat this as fencing, or wire fraud.
Watching for the Plot Holes
D3 is not as ubiquitous as one might think. Outside newsroom graphics departments most visualizations consumed through the browser are published using low-effort crappy BI tools like Power BI and Tableau or some generic charting libraries. So still even in 2023 when you see something that’s been meticulously crafted using a low-level approach (like D3) that allows that slick native feel it’s very impressive.
Absolutely not. Discords UX is a hot mess for its intended use case, absolutely no way it is good enough to flex to being a Reddit.
I have a userCSS for that as well:

.togg { float:left; margin-right:.5em; letter-spacing:5px; } /* Collapse button to the left and larger */
Copilot censored its response to my question about linked lists yesterday. Ridiculous.
Mere child's play compared to smothered, covered, and chunked hashbrowns.
Singapore executes a dozen people per year. Trafficking, not consumption results in the death penalty. If that is barbaric, do you know that a hundred people per day in the US die of opioid overdoses? How many people are in prison for drug related crimes in other developed countries? How many families are ruined by drugs?

Singapore has made its rules clear, these punishments aren't arbitrary. If you bring drugs into a country that will sentence you to death for it, something the population supports, that's not barbarism on part of Singapore, it's just reckless crime.
Though dark mode would be really nice. And seemingly pretty trivial to implement?
"Torvalds built Linux in grad school. He used C. He had to build everything himself. The code quality is one of the finest. He was an engineer more than anything"

This is incorrect though. Linux, as in the Linux kernel, started out as a small hobby project hacking on Minix using the GNU tools from RMS and friends. Minix, at the time, was a small UNIX derivative famously created by professor Andrew Tanenbaum to teach how to build Operating Systems to students (and not-so-much-students who happened to be interested in the same subject).

See: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

What all the mentioned people (and most nerds from the same period) share, by the way, is more or less the hacker mindset which was famously described in Phrack #7: http://www.phrack.org/issues/7/3.html#article
I use "telnet -8 -E" for our VAX (which runs on the Charon emulator).

We have Multinet ssh, but not enough ram and sundry resources to support 300+ concurrent sessions.

I have a container with TinySSH, with /etc/passwd accounts for each of our VAXes. These accounts are set to "exec telnet -8 -E (vaxhost)."

We used to use the Reflections terminal emulator with an stunnel binary packaged with it. Reflections is now over $500 per seat in licensing, and Rocket is under $100.

Rocket terminal refuses to allow a self-signed cert, and instead of renewing certs every two years, we push a private key to all our VAX users with Rocket, that launch the telnet.

Without the -8 option, the line-drawing characters don't render properly.

There was quite a bit of trial and error in getting this right.
I have been to Dennys
Focusing on on performance, seriously?

I'm more sysadmin than devops, but how fast you can script over something for a quick automation is the defining trait for most devops tasks, not performance. Going for performance is closer to dev than to ops. Using APIs of several systems doesn't need so much performance neither, unless you are doing pretty intensive amount of calls (and the backend/network could be more of a limitation than the language you use in your side).

Yes, the performance and one-file-deploy are Go advantages against python performance (not for that much) and dealing with dependences and versions. But that is not the whole story, at least for most of the tasks I had to deal with.

And it is not "or". You may want to decide between python or i.e. perl for scripting language used for automation, but there are things that should be addressed with python, and others with go.
Finally destroying the hellsite, for the benefit of all.

(As someone who (a) used to enjoy Twitter a lot, (b) always suspected that Twitter was quite bad for society, I have mixed feeling about its current implosion.)

(To be clear, he obviously is not destroying Twitter for altruistic purposes; the above is a joke. It should not be necessary to point this out, but one odd attribute of figures like Trump and Musk is that there are always people who insist that everything they do, no matter how obviously ridiculous, is actually intentional and ingenious, so Poe’s Law is in full effect here.)
I assumed the ratio of travel agents to travelers has gone down since the advent of flight search engines, is that not true?

I certainly haven't used travel agents since I became aware of Google Flight Search etc

But maybe older people / business travelers still use them for convenience?
No you're not, although the zeitgeist is annoyingly against you. The same bullshit they rolled their eyes at as a kid they accept uncritically replayed as an adult. Most notably they didn't come up with that conclusion on their own after maturing, but by following demagogues and propaganda-documentaries.