skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is actually him and he doesn't want to be associated with that persona then making this video [0] was a weird choice... But in any case it seems natural that people are curious about this, after all it's a popular project and listing virtual avatars as members is strange.

At this point he should probably just own it if it is indeed him.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk
Right, but we don't yet see this projects happening, and it might be time that they start happening. But how to talk people into that, when half of the USA thinks climate change is a liberal scam, I don't know.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9000168/pdf/jcm...

You are wrong. Surgical interventions are performed for children by reputable hospitals and surgeons.
Either you left off the "/s" or you're missing their point. Who will be doing the space and resource management?

This is not a future where individual consumers have control. This is a future where corporations give consumers enough of an illusion of control that they don't notice how much they've actually given up.
Congratulations for working for free for a for-profit company?

Might I recommend you to turn towards places like Lemmy or other less-commercial and less exploitive websites?

Reddit relies on free work, but doesn't value or help the mods. And now, they're doubling down on screwing everyone and manufacturing fake content for what appears their IPO.

I think it's time to skedaddle.
Quit with the gaslighting. It's not about an anime avatar, and you know it.

The problem is more that HN is perceived, with good reason, to be transphobic, and Asahi has several trans developers. This is also the reason why a couple of other people I won't mention don't want HN to link to their projects either, because for every link, several people will bitch in the comments about the validity of their gender and pronouns. (As if creating a web app somehow makes one an authority in biology.)

I mean, obviously, it's not like everybody who comments here takes part in the abuse, but when you spend every damn day of your life seeing it and depending on where you live, possibly being harassed by the government over it too, HN turns out to be one more place where you simply can't have any peace.

(And honestly, even if Lina is a anime alter ego, which you haven't proven, and only suspect, why the fuck do you care? Don't you have something better to spend your time on?)
What does it change?

This seems to be a perfect example of a moral compromise. Snowden had a stated moral that freedom from government surveillance is incredibly important. Now he swears allegiance to a country that is even oppressive when it comes to surveillance and other authoritarian practices. That is a moral compromise.

The motivation can make that compromise understandable, but it doesn't stop being a compromise. It is irrelevant whether he made it for his personal safety, the safety of his family, or just to avoid the "constant headache" other people in this thread have stated, it is still a compromise.
Right. The service allows one to make tiles without any knowledge of gdal or tippecanoe. The service also hosts the tiles and makes them available.
> "unexplainable"

Just unexplained, which means noone there bothered to explain them seriously enough to create an official document. Which was correct (lack of) action to take because those observations were irrelevant for anyone except the most keen ufologists.

> Let me point them, and the fighter jet pilots

Jet pilots are good at flying jets. It's kinda hard so they don't have much capacity left to be good at anything else. Like explaining visual glitches and unusual outputs of highly complicated machinery.

> to "Scotty79-from-the-internet"

That weren't my explanations. I was merely citing the ones given by a guy with doctorate in physics and expeirience with IR cameras. There are others. All infinitely more plausible than "it's aliens".
Since translation is given less and less thought, the underlying system is also becoming more basic and less context-aware.

I don't remember exact occurrences but I've noticed quite a few similar problems on macOS that are just the result of words being translated out of context.

On a popular forum software I used to do support for, "flag" (for moderation) was translated in French as "drapeau" for example. Which is technically correct I suppose, drapeau does mean flag, but the wavy kind of flag that countries like to use as symbols. Nothing else. And it's not a verb.

In this case, there is simply the string "zip" somewhere that is used both in some address forms and for the file type, and the translator just happened to translate the first occurrence probably without even knowing that is was also used in another context as well. Or without any means to ask the dev team to separate them into two terms. Which might not even be possible if they used too simplistic a translation system.
Agreed. Three things that stood out:

- "You had nothing to fear unless you were plotting something": someone overhearing mild criticism or a politically charged joke was enough to ruin lives, get yourself or relatives kicked out of universities, lose jobs, homes, and so forth. It's impossible to describe living a day after day for decades under that constant anxiety to a person who has always had the freedom to say whatever they want. Even rural potato farmers knew to keep their mouths shut unless they were in a circle of people they trusted.

- "Alcoholism is worse now": oh god no. For starters, it was socially acceptable to drink and be drunk at work, even if you worked with heavy equipment (farms, factories). If you caused an accident, then being drunk was a valid excuse and lessened the punishment.

- "Corruption is widespread everywhere": given the contant shortage of goods, everyone in positions of power always had the attitude of "what's there in it for me?". Everywhere you went to ask for something, be it officials, nurses, dentists or teachers, had the expectation of getting something in return. The whole society ran like a giant "one red paperclip" experiment, with people constantly exchanging bribes and favors and looking for best deals for themselves without any regard for laws and fairness.
> The only thing that makes sense to me is that he's trying to distract the world from actual risks of LLMs by getting everyone worked up about imaginary risks of LLMs.

It's absolutely this.

He's selling us the threat of extinction while actively working to undermine the very idea of industry itself.

I'll take a page out of his book and turn my garage into a meth lab, then offer to protect the neighbors from the danger it poses by selling only the purest of meth to their kids so they don't try to buy it from some shady guy who'll lace it with fentanyl.
The Seattle times reported that we were 6 inches below average in recent rainfall and had the driest May on record since 1966. So it's likely we'll have more fires in the fall. Normally we have moderate weather because the wind blows from the coast to the east. But when we have a low pressure event, it sucks the wind from BC and Eastern Washington toward the west. Even when we don't have smoke here in the concentrated Seattle area, it's affecting millions of people across the state and the country. All those people east of the Cascades are getting it worse.

Added link: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/western-wa...
What GUI toolkit are you using in 2023 where a widget doesn't adjust its size the size of its text label?
Kami home camera app suddenly started displaying ads in the app
Hi!

There is this remote camera app for baby cameras and home survelliance cameras, that all of a sudden started displaying ads in the application that lets you access the camera remotely.

Also these ads are full screen, unskippable 5-10 second ads that occasionally have sound as well.

Upon asking about this, the only reaction from them is a canned response telling about some discount, but there was no ad in the product before, they changed the deal afterwards.

Is this the new trend for companies to extract revenue from already sold products?

How is it legal to add ads into an already sold product afterwards?
I like HackTheBox. It has lots of “real”/CTF like instances, and interesting smaller challenges as well.
Haha. Have you ever calculated movement from wheel speed sensors? On top the other sensors are mounted on the body and there is a whole world of mass-spring and tire equations between... And then there is parking with the nitty gritty details of tire models etc...

Funny. Just today: https://imgur.io/gallery/hMpaVzC
Ohio cryptic lineage update
That's not how energy markets work. This is by design and whether or not you think it's fair isn't really all that important. Energy prices are determined by the most expensive source of the moment, not by the least expensive one.
I'm a fan of this guys channel, he does good work and is generally well informed and informative. This video was by far his worst ever. Yes, the groups supporting this stuff have questionable motives, but the fact is that the payment model for power needs to change under a "prosumer" paradigm. Disentangling grid connection fees and power fees just makes sense. And yes, it does reduce the incentive of putting rooftop solar, but that's because the incentive was artificially high. Being connected to the grid is a valuable service that should be paid for. We used to pay for that because the cost was baked into the price of power. Now that some people are, on net, not buying power, it needs to be disentangled. Infrastructure needs to be maintained, and that has costs that need to be paid even as we switch to a renewable future.

Imagine a situation where everyone has rooftop solar, enough that, under net metering, they pay no fees. What happens? The power company goes under and now you don't have a grid. Which every one of those solar users _still needs_. There is _value_ in being able to buy power when you want it and produce it when you don't, and that value should be paid for.
Another angle is comfort and ergonomics. Less stress and strain on the wrists and fingers using less contortions to get where you need to go.
I am fully pro solar, but the duck curve is a real thing. Time value of money and time value of electricity. If there is nobody to consume that extra juice it is of limited utility.
https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started/react-essentials#why...
Prob not as that lowers the barrier to mass side loading via test flight
It's 3 clicks if you know how to do it, which they go out of their way to not tell you in the error you get when you try to run it like any other program.
I learned for foreign languages and was obviously a beginner in each.

Not sure what hating on 'AI' and 'scalable' (your word by the way, not mine) accomplishes.
Only if that monitor was hooked up to a camera that could dynamically adjust its gain to achieve best possible image contrast in everything from bright sunlight to moonlit night.

You’d also lose depth perception entirely, which can’t be good for your driving.
> It appears that the relationship between interest rates and inflation is still an open question in economics

Thanks. I have never understood why a zero sum interest would lower inflation. Or why fewer employed poatoe farmers would make potaties cheaper. And people talk about it like it was obvious but can never explain.
> the general lack of cruelty so far in the comments, sometimes HN can be pretty rough.

I would only be surprised of this outcome on no -Apple posts. It's quite clear there is mass adoration (or cult following, you judge?) of Apple on HN
Precisely. The speaker might happen to be "a bro" in the derogatory sense of the word (especially given involvement in an activity that may have a significant population of those people), but that's fairly distinct from simply calling someone "bro" as used in this quote. But I do say "fairly" because bros (in the derogatory sense) probably also call each other "bro" (in the sense that someone is close like a brother) at a rate that exceeds baseline. That elevated rate is probably pertinent to the etymology of the derogatory sense, come to think of it.
> and can be weaponized by terrorists or an invading army.

These risks seem vastly overstated for a large fraction of the world. That such events happen occasionally does not mean the entire world needs to be on a war footing all the time. That would be incredibly wasteful.

> it's vulnerable to water/cooling issues

Yeah that seems more like an issue but may be solvable by using sea water for cooling?
These are not dumb people, they are my friends and neighbors who are being systematically oppressed.

Unless you're working a blue collar job in America you don't see this
Setting an email address you actually check in /root/.forward would provide most of this, and all of it with the addition of low-tens of lines of shell script and a cron job or two, no? I get that tastes vary, but adding more services to worry about & keep updated to my home server(s) is not my idea of a good time. I doubt the custom pieces required to get all of those alerts via email would take longer than installing and configuring that stack, and then the maintenance is likely to be zero for so long that you'll probably replace the hardware before it needs to be touched again (... and if you scripted your setup, it'll very likely Just Work on the replacement)
Dropbox

Joplin

Additional Google Storage

Google Sheets add-on

Hetzner VPS
>Civic is ~30k not sure how long for delivery tho

It's been a few months since I've been looking, but Civics were touch-and-go in Canada for a while. Dealers were getting a few a month, most spoken for. But you could get one.

At my local dealer they were asking more for used Civics than the new models. I couldn't do it.
Many of the static webhosting sites can pull from GitHub. That seems pretty automatable.
This depends on taste. I find it very easy to type "ls" on Dvorak, where it is typed with the same finger on adjacent keys.

Moreover, the variant of Dvorak that I use is much more shell-friendly than any QWERTY layout.

While for the alphabet and for the punctuation signs that are used in natural languages I use a layout closer to the initial Dvorak layout from 1932 than to the modern Dvorak layout, for the other non-alphanumeric symbols I have made a few changes that I consider best for typing shell commands or other kinds of programs.

The pre-WWII Dvorak layout does not say anything about most non-alphanumeric symbols and there are no suitable standards for them (i.e. any standards than are based on rational criteria, not on preserving a random historical layout), so anyone who wants an optimal keyboard for programming or work with a command-line interface should design a custom layout for the non-alphanumeric symbols, according to taste and experience.
Until the very recent inflation increase, food has been cheaper than ever. It's been making up less and less of household budgets for decades.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/92689-over-the-past-100-yea...
> Apple will tell you that they can't tell if the app is dangerous. Not that it is dangerous. Specifically, they will tell you that the app Cannot Be Opened Because the Developer Cannot be Verified

Okay, how about this? They're trying their hardest to give everyone the impression that it's dangerous without explicitly saying so.
The last time I've seen it SmartScreen did not make the option to continue completely undiscoverable though.
Same thing happened to me after I started using Facebook. No ads for the first couple years (around 2004). Now there’s an ad every 5 or 10 posts I read
SaaS Ransomware Observed In-the-Wild for Sharepoint Online
....like what?
If true...is the assertion that Snowden waved a magic wand and made the air-gapped information in VA grow wings and fly to Hawaii?

Or is the assertion that some separate (and never caught?) source operating in VA was passing out copies of air-gapped data, and Snowden just happened to be one of the recipients of that?

Or - far more plausible, in light of details we've heard recently about the Teixeira leak - the actual practices in VA were so shoddy that the whole "...air-gapped...not internet enabled..." claim is just CYA BS?
Thanks!!

I originally called it eval town and called the units of computation evals, but my friend JP pulled a sean parker on me and told me to drop the 'e', and it became val town! It's short for 'eval' or 'evaluation' or 'value' as in a 'javascript value'. What's value town?

Really appreciate that you understand the value prop!

We want to be used for all sorts of compute one day, but want to start with lighter-weight things (think zapier for programmers or api prototyping) but one day scale to be a real aws or heroku replacement, but that's a long ways off
and yet you're willing to admit to your shady style on hn and describe that style as "best". its no wonder your industry is looked upon with disgust.
I think I'm out of the loop... what is this about manufacturing fake content?
Ironically, colour (like a few other ou-isms) is actually a modern French influence that took root in Britain but not "in the colonies".
I was going to say since the invention of ASCII in 1963, but there were encodings before it and arguably you could say since the invention of Morse code in 1844.
Original (?) discussion thread here, with archive.org links documenting the tampering,

https://old.reddit.com/r/QuadCities/comments/13vxo8m/davenpo...
Absolutely, use them for nuclear.
For one, it's incredibly hard to believe that anyone genuinely believes that "killing" a carrot and killing a dog are in anyway morally similar.

Secondly, this is utterly IRRELEVANT IN PRACTICE! Your consumption of animals causes far, far, far more plant "deaths" than if you actually just ate plants. BY YOUR OWN LOGIC you should be vegan. Of course, you can also use your logic to go the other way. If it's all the same morally, might as well start eating humans. Us white people have got some experience with that.

> I am in favor of reducing the harm I am able to

Wonderful, that makes you vegan. As in, that is the actual (common) definition of veganism: Reduce suffering and death as far as practicable and possible.
42.7% is unbelievably huge. Can the tech economy even survive if half the people are taking free rides? For the longest time it was no more than 10% since only the technical class used the things. Nowadays corporate and government policymakers are requiring adblockers be installed on normy computers.
Well HN has the ability to create arbitrary screen names to create pseudo anonymity. So there's that.

I guess what appears to be abrasive is just lacking tone. It's just me being mildly exasperated for effect. My point is to stress that the Mac has always been a general purpose computing device. Jobs may have chosen to optimize the Mac for productivity in the 90s, and that probably stemmed from the niches that were available to Apple in the Windows-dominated 90s and 00s (that he learned from running NeXT).

The lack of upgradeable components also held the Mac back in graphics technology which precluded it from premium games market. But the M1/M2 chips are game changers. But since they're newish and the Windows market is so established and ARM chips are different from traditional x86 based chips, it's tough to get devs to port for Mac. If they can provide tooling that automates it, it's a great win for Apple.
I had the same experience, it’s a mentality for sure, some are open to try and test and others are not, to the point for some close family members, after failing to convince them, next time I took it to “fix” something, I sneakily installed it.

P.S. My home network had a network level blocker, but that was in case they don’t use my network or for other ads that are in the same domain.
You find a lot of British-English terms are different from what we use in the US.
Welcome to a World Without Endings
It always has for me. I was forced to use my gh logged in browser when I wanted that feature.
You should check out “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. I think most of us are more unimaginative than we know wrt what the future can look like
Thanks for the recommendation. Will definitely read it
I think you are getting your information mixed up. Here is a comparison that shows quicksort running in 1/10th the time as heapsort.

https://johnysswlab.com/why-is-quicksort-faster-than-heapsor...
You're missing the point. Site owners shouldn't be allowed to say "people aren't allowed to talk about my site on Hacker News".
How does one download and play with these models?
You literally did not use a metaphor. You claimed that other people were making comparisons. But a metaphor is just one kind of comparative tool.
This “new technique called implicit code execution” sounds a lot like an early version of the ChatGPT Code Interpreter plug-in.
Gives new meaning to putting my shell scripts in /usr/local/bin :-)
It's at least clear where the balls come from. A tab redirected to Google would just leave me confused and concerned about malware.
One problem is that currently the mix of solar is low enough that grid storage has to be sold as "backup" or "leveling". Grid storage that is actually used will for obvious reasons have a better cost-benefit ratio. If you still have three times as much gas as you do solar, why would you buy a battery?
The standard of life in eastern Ukraine wasn't that far off the one in Russia. There were many pro-Russian people there (probably way less now) and given that western Ukraine chose their man and party to run the whole country I can imagine plenty would migrate to Russia given the right push with open laws and some advertisement/propaganda.
Would have been much more impressed if Google had released something like a super pro version of OpenChat (featured today on the front page of HN) with integration to their whole office suite for gathering/crawling/indexing information

Google keeps putting out press releases and announcements, without actually releasing anything truly useful or competitive with what it’s already out there

And not just worse than GPT4, but worse even than a lot of the open source LLMs/Chats that have come out in the last couple of months/weeks
Isn't that how Waymo killed a pedestrian/cyclist? It couldn't decide if she was a cyclist or pedestrian, as she was walking and pushing her bicycle, so it never braked.

She was homeless so the shape of her bike wasn't a proper bike so it got confused.
>> Like the numbers they combine with, SI units and unit symbols are never shown in italics.

That's so absurdly specific. I love it!
If what you care about is climate change, single home rooftop solar is a _terrible_ investment. It's dramatically harder and more expensive to install relative to large installations. For the same exact dollar, you get nearly twice the installed capacity with large scale installations vs. home scale.
I had a similar beginning but using all the fingers, so I have to ask: was there something wrong with those manual typewriters, or did you just find manual typewriter keys in general hard to press?
Thats true, but facebook is a free product (in a monetary sense), however these cameras are sold at a price.
> We still have only one data point for life and one data point for intelligence.

Don't we have many points for both? There are ~8.7 million species on the planet. What we only have one data point for is a planet that contains life and intelligence.
> because it's obvious you're doing it specifically to spite the people running those sites. If you applied it to every link, that might be different.

It's not to spite those people. It's because only those sites abuse the information. Applying it to all links would almost be collective punishment.
You can get a new Hyundai Elantra off the lot for less than $25k CAD. That's sub-20K USD?

Not a car I'd be particularly excited about. But they're reliable, decent standard options and really good on fuel (had a rental achieving 4 l/100km on the highway).