skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxation to support UBI is, as you point out, problematic.

However, there is a long-running UBI project in the United States that we have a ton of data on.

The Alaska Permanent Fund, which takes profits from selling off the natural resources of Alaska and distributing those profits to citizens of Alaska.

The ideal with UBI is that we take the profits from Generative AI, for instance, and distribute them to people. Ideally, the population that have lost the ability to support themselves, because they've been replaced by Generative AI.

"The PFD is a Basic Income in the form of a resource dividend. Some researchers argue, "It has helped Alaska attain the highest economic equality of any state in the United States... And, seemingly unnoticed, it has provided unconditional cash assistance to needy Alaskans at a time when most states have scaled back aid and increased conditionality."

A 2018 paper found that the Alaska Permanent Fund "dividend had no effect on employment, and increased part-time work by 1.8 percentage points (17 percent)... our results suggest that a universal and permanent cash transfer does not significantly decrease aggregate employment."

A 2019 study found "a 14% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the [Alaska Permanent Fund] payment and a 10% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by a 8% decrease in property crime, with no changes in violent crimes. On an annual basis, however, changes in criminal activity from the payment are small. Estimated costs comprise a very small portion of the total payment, suggesting that crime-related concerns of a universal cash transfer program may be unwarranted.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
Further cementing his hero status, I checked if there was a way to donate. The homepage says:

> The uBlock Origin project still specifically refuses donations at this time, and instead advises all of its clients, users and supporters to donate to block list maintainers.
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/snowden_report_...

> “The Committee further found no evidence that Snowden attempted to communicate
concerns about the legality or morality of intelligence activities to any officials, senior or
otherwise, during his time at either CIA or NSA.”

> “The vast majority of documents Snowden removed were unrelated to electronic
surveillance or any issues associated with privacy and civil liberties.” (p. 22)

> “Since Snowden’s arrival in Moscow, he has had, and continues to have, contact with
Russian intelligence services.”

> “Some of the personal network drives Snowden searched belonged to individuals involved
in the hiring decision for a job for which Snowden had applied. On these individuals’
network drives, Snowden searched for human resources files and files related to the
promotion and hiring decisions.”
Luckily, sprintf() is irrelevant to the headlined case, that involves isspace_l(), which is in the BSD, GNU, and even musl C libraries.
I’m on day 3 of the Orion browser - on one of my computers I indeed installed UBO, but I can’t tell if it’s necessary.
> Autonomous vehicle companies have picked the unsolvable moonshot problem instead of improving the controls UX of driving to where it provides greater leverage to human ability. Make the driving experience more like a motorcycle, which is an extension of your body, instead of a mediated service where driving is reduced to a transaction.

Who the hell would want this? My guess is that 99% of the people that would want this already do drive motorcycles, exactly for that reason.

But for the vast majority of the rest of this, I don't want driving to "provide greater leverage to human ability". I just want it to get me from point A to point B, ideally without me thinking about it so I can do other things.
Anecdotally I like them, and not just because it's Apple, seems like great hardware/software/industrial design etc.

But valid to be annoyed at it, Apple do tend to be quite polarising for people.
Immersive FaceTime? How is this going to work well? The person you're talking to will be using their phone/tablet and where is your camera? If you use the continuity camera feature with an iphone, you're going to see their entire face without the headset and they're looking at someone with these goggles on. Not a good user experience IMO.
I wonder how long will it take for all the software to mature to fully be able to use full performance of today’s hardware. I mean all the optimizations in language compilers, OSes and such. 50 years? 1 year after the first AGI coder?
Files app is a crutch and a band aid to solve the problem of not building a file centric interface to begin with.

If it's anything like iOS/iPadOS it just doesn't work for getting work done or keeping projects organized, buildable upon and sane.
it should.

i will be the first to say he is pretty obnoxious, but i think people also underestimate the degree to which they are influenced by targeted social media campaigns
> I considered loading another wiki of something different, but it's less convincing as a proof of concept because it needs to allow addition, change and exclusion of small bits of data without the bot going offline for retraining 3 times a day.

I'm not sure how privateGPT works, but any sane implementation is going to store the data in a vector database, not constantly train it into the llm itself. Updating it is easy, fast, and can probably be done without going offline.

...But yeah, the key is somehow replicating your wiki closely enough for a demo. With access to the wiki, maybe you could copy the structure (but not any data) and populate it with dummy data from an LLM? If they are good at anything, its producing something convincing and totally made up.

EDIT: Also, if the backend is llama.cpp, recent advances will make it very easy to run, but questionable for commercial use depending on the model it uses. LLaMA itself is basically illegal to use, even if Facebook doesn't seem to care.
5 Lessons Learned Connecting Every IdP to OIDC
> QWERTY users naturally wander around and have their hands leave the home row and I'm not entirely convinced it's actually wrong.

I think you are learning it wrong. It's not hard at all to learn QWERTY with the proper training technique.

I took touch typing in High School, back in the 1980's. Even back then I knew I was going to be doing a lot of work with computers so it made sense to take it. It turned out to be the most useful class I ever took in school by a wide margin since I've used that skill all day every day for 35 years.

It was a loooong time ago but I remember it started with lots of simple repetition. We were all using IBM selectrics and the instructor would call out "J-J-J Space, K-K-K Space, L-L-L space, sem sem sem space" etc. in a pattern around the keyboard while and we were told to avoid looking at the keyboard at all times. Eventually we would start copying simple and then longer, more complicated text, again without ever looking at the keyboard.
The human operators most certainly won't be inside the semi.
They will be sitting in a control room wearing an Apple Vision.
So, here's an anecdote of a sub that miraculously survived a head on collision. What's your point?

From the same article:

“The collision was so serious that the vessel was almost lost; accounts detail a desperate struggle for positive buoyancy to surface after the forward ballast tanks were ruptured.”

I doubt these are problems any submarine crew wants to deal with, even at slow speeds. Besides, one sharp edge at the sides will open her right up like a tin can.
I'm not an expert, but I think the memory used is not necessarily the memory it requires.

I think Java tends to grow memory usage up to a point, rather than to try and release it at the cost of performance. That doesn't mean it would not be able to run on a machine with lower memory. It could run more expensive GC if it was needed
I think there is immense value to being able to walk up to any computer, change the keyboard setting and being productive.
Of course if you ask a clincian if they should be regulated more, they will say no. The fewer stakeholders involved in the relationship between patient and doctor, the more power the doctor has. The truth is there should be others involved, at the very least the government health agencies.
I don't think that price can always be outweighed by other factors. Successful game consoles are always pretty cheap. Only productivity devices can ask for a high price.
> Vim keybindings

Dvorak's actually pretty good for vim keybindings.

While 'hjkl' is positionally significant; Dvorak 'jk' are still adjacent and easy to reach in Dvorak, and 'h' is still to the left of 'l' on the same hand.

Other keybindings are better remembered by the letter itself rather than by the position on the keyboard (e.g. "di'" or "gg"), so these aren't that much of an issue.
Classic Mac OS had multitasking shoehorned into an operating system originally designed for single-tasking. This meant that if one program locked up, it would never give up the processor and your whole system would lock up. The only way to recover was to hard power off the computer. It also meant that you couldn't do things as basic as listening to MP3s while web browsing, because whenever you loaded a new webpage your browser would hog the CPU to render the page so your MP3 player would skip.
The House Intelligence Committee has every reason to discredit Snowden. Why should we believe this?
Sale prices in EU now require (kinda, there are either exceptions, or many non compliant sites and stores) to show some comparison price.

Here is a page from Amazon explaining it: https://www.amazon.com.be/-/en/gp/help/customer/display.html...
This sounds very alluring but having to deal with setting up VIM in every environment or going to a new environment with VIM not set up sounds so painful.

I imagine the native VIM bindings would be atrociously positioned in DVORAK
I did not jump to that conclusion, you are putting words in my mouth.

The whistleblower reports of the existence of a research program that he was briefed about. He testifies this program was stuying non-human technology, among that functioning craft, aka "flying saucers".

The determination of it being non-human in orgin was due to extensive material analysis, evident morphology and working characteistics of those devices.
What kind of useful data would accelerometer provide? 99.999% of the time wheel rotation rate matches exactly car movement speed and direction, so as long as you have odometer (resolver/encoder), you have accelerometer data for free. For the cases when wheels are spinning freely, you have a serious situation which needs to be dealt with using specialized safety equipment.
Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
Maybe assess the argument by the first two studies. If either of them do not support the point (or as has frequently happened for me, actually oppose the point) then you can reply for posterity and no one else needs to replicate your debunking effort.

“Your first two studies not only don’t support your argument but invalidate it, and I stopped reading after that.” ends most disagreements.

You will have probably done more work than the poster who often has just discovered keyword searches and related articles in google scholar or science direct, but everyone will learn something.
Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well.

For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.
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Hey thatsadude, thanks for your input! I'm also working in this research area and it would be great to connect with you on LinkedIn. Here's my proxy LinkedIn Profile - https://bit.ly/3ChXFcm. If you're interested, could you send me a connection request? Looking forward to connecting and discussing more in the future!
> It's in a docker image on my file server

At this point you could|should run a proper mailsever with fetchmail. I'm running [0] specifically as a local archive solution. Now that can be accessed by Thunderbird.

docker.io/mailserver/docker-mailserver
Your move, Chrome.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
>The Germans are using any plausible excuse to cut out American influence and leverage.

One of the most absurd statements I have ever heard. Especially when even suggesting that Germany has any relations with Russia, is near criminal and all government parties are heavily dedicated to the alliance, especially the greens.
A giant TV can also be shared with many people. The only use case I see for this thing is if I wanted to watch something on a big (fake) screen when I'm out, even though I didn't see this use case in the commercial maybe it's just a bit awkward using it outside.
While I agree that there is some work in the field that is important, there is an absolute deluge of ideologically driven garbage. There is also a lot of garbage of the "yeah, duh, of-fucking-course" variety. studies like "negative interactions with community reduce feelings of belonging" ... uh yeah, no shit sherlock.
And then even the more important stuff cannot be investigated in the same rigorous manner as other scientific disciplines.
I think we just need to stop calling sociology papers "scientific". Fundamentally, they are not, and should almost always be taken with a massive grain of salt, and they damn sure shouldn't be influencing public policy decisions to the degree that they currently do.
With tax credit the cheapest Tesla is $30k. With default interest and loan terms, the Tesla would cost about $4500 / year.

Median annual household income in the US is $71k, so the cheapest Tesla would be ~6.3% of median household income.

Personal finance experts say car loan payments should be no more than 10% of take home pay. (https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/much-spe...)

You not being able to afford a Tesla and the cheapest Tesla being generally affordable can both be true.
I bet you're a real hoot at parties
Optimising computer systems with more generalised AI tools
> Like how does all this Metal, compile-your-shaders, port-your-games stuff even get budgeted, when it's eventually dead on arrival?

their Survivor bias of the “control the whole stack” philosophy.
Jetbrains doesn't allow you to use the current version forever if you stop paying. It allows you to use the version YOU CURRENTLY FULLY PAID FOR, which is a year old version. That's a very clever trick, and also shows that in the end it's really just about providing a feel-good factor.
No, this isn't standard operationg procedure in countries with laws against this very thing, such as Australia, which the article is about.
> Indie Devs should... Just ship it.

"Make games that are fun to make." Sometimes that means "thinking of games as databases."

100s of games released every day across Steam and the App Store. Who cares? I guess they shipped, but then what?

> Don't get bogged down in articles like this, or what's the best tech.

Jonathan Blow is excited about Jai. That makes him wake up every day and commit. Secularly Jai will not make the game better. But intellectual stimulation helps you ship.

So your advice is a negative sign in front of the right answer: it's pithy and simple, but it's 200% wrong. It's so far off the mark and so steeped into the exact kind of hustlebro culture that is responsible for the 100:1 ratio of bad games to good.

> ...maybe good for very big companies

Big companies struggle to innovate. They worry way too much about shipping, deadlines, whatever. So they wind up with the least risky and conservative game design. They are interested in deep tech because, if you're making the 100th CS:GO clone, it makes the work intellectually stimulating enough to make you wake up every day and grind 65h/wk for Riot's garbage pay, not just because it makes some kind of secular sense.
I managed to get Ryzen 5850U/15W Thinkpad with 4k display in 2021.
There were some necessary firmware updates during the first year to get the suspend and power management working (afaik, not so many kernel bugs), luckily fwupd now works for Dell and Lenovo so fw updates are easy and there is a popup to recommend them when available.
For the past year it has been very stable running Fedora and thus using the latest kernels.

Now waiting for the Ryzen 7840U configured to 15W to be available with 64GB ram.
Google DeepMind Unveils AI System to Discover Faster Algorithms
I don't think that's accurate. His main point is that there is no market for this, and the points you mentioned are just digs he gets in whilst Apple's on the ground.
There were some Apple events in the '10s that featured significant price cuts, often alongside an improved product. Better iPad, $100 cheaper, better MacBook, $200 cheaper, that kind of thing.
For your mobile needs, uBlock Origin also works great in Firefox for Android!
Yeah, an item that would simply be sold for 2.50 at Walmart is stickered at 5 and bogod at 2.50. I think this is why so many stores avoid selling the same exact brands, so price comparison isn't possible
The problem is that this is hard. Just think about how game engines consist of a graphics engine and a physics engine. You would need various other engines that can just be plugged in. A realistic economy requires a complicated supply chain for example. This means just so your NPC vendors can sell a sword, you would have natural resources that can be extracted, manufacturing processes that require inputs and machinery/tools and labor and all of this for something that the player clicks "buy" on and never looks back.
key word being "there", in your scenario the process is entirely in the favor of cheaters.
The elites are much better at managing public opinion in the modern West than they ever were in the Roman Republic.

We would never see something even remotely similar to the Gracchi in the US today.
I'm not the only one who wouldn't mind hearing more of your thoughts on this. I've got young kids now and want to know what I'm in for.
I think this is an example of how ideas about what people really consider important are skewed by marketing. The gaming market is HUGE. How big is the premium, chasing-that-last-quarter-percent-by-spending-twice-the-money market comparatively?
Never had issues blocking YouTube ads...
My terminology may be wrong, but I would assume these ad-blockers are great until streaming platforms catch up and embed ads directly into the video stream.

Twitch is getting close to that. They directly inject video ads into streams at random times causing you to miss parts of streams. uBlock Origin seemed to have a way around that with some extra setup but it's only a matter of time before it's completely transparent, seamless, and technically unblockable by client-side addons.

Part of me wonders why they haven't done so yet.
End users are capturing the value. But of course that's the point of open source; you're voluntarily avoiding the proprietary software strategies that let you capture more value from your users. I don't think it has much to do with shareholders or executives.
Thank you Mr. Gorhill.
I understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.
Show HN: Cells, singleplayer game inspired by agar.io written in Rust
Even if it were true, one should see it as an attempt to distract from the leaked documents themselves.
You almost can't watch a YouTube video to critique it without implicitly endorsing and spreading it through the algorithm.
Now if only I could install this onto my corporate locked-down laptop.
Don't things only rich people will buy it e.g. I think it can be very useful for blind people especially those who recently got blind and haven't adapted yet.

I would be happy to hear opinion of any developer here on HN that is blind if they might find this tech appealing and useful.
The thing about a "database", relative to any other assembly of data, is that it typically has a universal query system whose particulars are not dependent on the schema of the data you're querying over. This is pretty much the focus of this article.
Why would it matter where he went? I don't care about Snowden as an individual at all, it's the information that he revealed that's important. He exposed wide-scale spying on US citizens by the US government. Everything else is inconsequential.
I got banned from Hacker News for calling a Chinese operative racist on a Hong Kong topic. I wonder if this topic will also get astroturfed.
There are worse fates to suffer than that.
That's the best landing page I've seen in a while. +1 for having a map of some place that isn't San Francisco!
Whichever subgroup and goalpost makes you look wise and correct, I suppose?
Even if there was a "cabal" of string pullers, don't you think there are more direct reasons in that case?

Such secret networks, to the extent they exist, generally value stability. Chaos is dangerous to the powers that be.

If these groups felt threatened by leftists and liberals rocking the boat, don't you make the mistake of what they feel threatened of.

It's not primarily the ideology, it's the rocking of the boat.

If the right is now rocking the status quo, don't you think that is also threatening?

Somewhere mixed in here are also (probably a huge majority) of bureaucrats, for better or worse, just doing their jobs.
I am not as confident about predicting the future but I like to think that the current demand for a Snowden pardon, despite “Russia”, would have been significantly louder.
As a bit of history, Windows NT 3.1 was published in summer '93, and it was the first Windows version with Unicode support (UCS-2, not UTF-16 that didn't exist yet). Presumably development started well before that.

UTF-8 was publicly presented at USENIX at the beginning of '93. Not sure when Unicode incorporated it.

It is unlikely that Windows would have been changed at the last minute to use it, especially as the variable encoding of UTF-8 was significantly more complicated than the fixed size UCS-2.
Where does this "publisher/platform" meme come from? It's completely incorrect but I keep seeing it. https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre... for more.
I know! ... my guess is the price will stay the same for the Pro version for a long time ... released with a lower spec slightly cheaper version ...

Then they'll keep adding features to justify the price ...

Then after a few years, the price will start creeping higher and higher.

And then, when the implanted-AI version comes out, it'll be $15,000 for Pro Pro AI Max version ...

"Literally Think Different!"

/only semi-joking ... this was basically the iPhone playbook and why wouldn't it be applied to the Vision?
Agreed. Problem isn’t timed rollout but lack of automated rollback. If you don’t have one don’t do this. The automated rollback should look for acceptable error rates, latency etc.
Yeah, this is a trick that retailers have been playing for a long time. Same with buying from those bulk bins. Much of the time, the bulk bin goods are the same price as the packaged versions. Sometimes, they're more expensive. Numerous times, I've seen store employees filling the bins by opening retail packages and emptying them in.

You can trust nothing in grocery stores.
The Intercept's treatment of Reality Winner under his editorship, and his refusal to take the blame for it is one good reason - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/real...

His embrace (and defence) of right wing ideologues like Tucker Carlson is another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1bp7jSBY0

His embrace of politicised conspiracy theories is another
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greenwald-int...

His leaking of Chelsea Mannings private chat logs is another
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/08/what-happened-to-glenn-gree...

The guy seems to have moved from a progressive, anti-authoritarian civil rights campaigner, to a populist self promoting zealot.