skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have created two accounts in the past year and successfully posted once, despite trying dozens of times (ironically the one that made it was a rant about how impossible it is for new users)
Why Some People Have Such a Hard Time Saying ‘No’
Very sad to see such comments. We humans will still require attention spans longer than goldfish even with GPT.
Used to buy this on CDs at computer shows along with latest Linux distros and whatever other wonders InfoMagic and their ilk published.
I dunno, as someone generally disillusioned by tech and its shady practices/ethics, this doesn't seem all that bad to me. It's a little gross but maybe a necessary evil in this day and age.
Of course I’m only speculating on how someone who has lived their entire life primitively might feel - I haven’t done that myself. I’m looking at things from the perspective of if I were born into a tribal, primitive society. As you alluded to in your previous post, things clearly change when you’ve lived a modern life.

Having lived a modern life, we know that the diseases primitive societies face are preventable. We know that we don’t need to struggle for food. If we didn’t know that, we’d probably feel differently. For example, a lot of primitive cultures have very different relationships and views of death.

I think that “going from modern to primitive life” versus “always living a primitive life” is a huge difference.
CVPR 2023 Papers Semantic Search
Not at all.

If I am forced to surrender my phone at a border crossing, for example, I would like to know that the fact I powered it off is sufficient to deter these kinds of attacks.

It's relatively easy to thwart this attack--the CPU only sends encrypted data to external memory chips. The devil is in the implementation--encryption adds latency to memory access.
The Disclosure of the CARET program at PACL (2018)
Maybe a website for people to share ideas for things they would want but don't have time to work on.
Using Tech to Make Government Better
I live in New York City, but no, I haven’t spent time in a random local station near Sugar Hill. Not sure why that would invalidate the rest of my experience. Penn Station is fine. Methadone is taken orally (as a drink) to treat addiction and no syringes are involved, so the methadone clinic wouldn’t have anything to do with syringes in the station.
I’ve been learning rust and I spend the vast majority of my time dealing with lifetimes and borrow checking. Common ways in used to doing things simply don’t work in rust and a lot of effort has to go into keeping track of how and where data is used.

I’ve worked in OOP languages, functional languages, and dynamic languages but all of them were essentially garbage collected, so having to keep track in my head of how data ownership is managed is a big learning curve.
So much for the drama.
While I see what you mean, I can't think of any example right away that are touted by people like Snowden - I see there were many honeypots on crypto, TOR and "encrypted" phones, but other than maybe VPNs I wouldn't know what was shared this way.
Which sort of is my point. An option to share blocking information with another (trusted?) person should be possible, but as an explicit opt-in from the first party, with the third party not being able to intercept this in any meaningful way.
Gain of risk
Which model ?
I mean that’s also the Boomers fault. Who are the people voting en masse for NIMBY voting restrictions and showing up to “community meetings” to furiously shout down and bury under lawsuits any attempt at building new housing? Cause it ain’t Millennials.
I've only read some of these books, but the ones I've read had 20 or 30 points or pieces of advice that took a few pages each. One of them would put just a few sentences on each page. If it takes you a long time to read the sentences that expand or illustrate the idea, learn to skim.
The US has a version of this on April 1. Important things still work, but it's best to avoid the internet (and mass media) on that day.
What specific problems are you hoping a CPA will solve for you?

For professional services, I'll usually try Yelp if I can't find a referral. Go to startup/small business owner meetups in your area to kvetch with founders, and trade contact info with everyone you meet. Great way to vet CPAs, contractors, misc labor/services.
Its community knowledge, just like wikipedia right now. Infact someone mentioned in another thread that maybe thats the ownership structure Reddit should have had.
Wow that’s really cool. Great job!
Making a profit is how it becomes sustainable.
> How come the US for example don’t cut off the internet because students at MIT are doing some exam?

It is not some exam. It is the exam which determines your future in nations which rely on single exams for university admission. Imagine if the SAT determined nearly everything about your future and you had a single shot at it.

Now, I still doubt the USA would block the internet over it, but I could easily imagine jammers being used around test centres.
Right. The blockchain at least has semi-novel ideas around hashing and distributed trust, AI is just spitting out the same words we've seen for years!

I'm not a crypto or AI advocate, but it's easy to see how "technology with overestimated social consequences" could get tiring for everyone who isn't an investor. The "fundamental difference" between cryptocurrency and AI is that one is built on reproducible and accountable logging and the other is guesswork. Trying to champion one or the other feels like pointless virtue signalling really.

I also have to admit I really don't like Cory Doctorow's other works (I especially despise the reductive theory of "enshittification") but his thesis is 100% the truth. People need new buzzwords to cling to, and AI is the one with the most popular demo. The usefulness is an accessory to the marketing and positioning of AI-powered products.
Sounds like they just needed to tighten some screws, and came back with the original engine.
Or for cat mutilation. Until now.

I picture my mother using Twitter, searching for cat videos.
On the same/similar topic: advertisers, you know me. I've never clicked an ad. Why serve me ads?
> If I think I can't control myself around a bar of chocolate, I'm just not gonna put myself into a situation where I have one, not force a country-wide ban so there's no chance any chocolate can possibly end up near me because then I might have to exercise some self control, that's just outrageously egoistical.

And that's also not what those cultures do. Whatever you think of their customs - and I'm definitely not trying to defend their ethics here - those people are not stupid, individually or as societies.

BTW. you used an interesting turn of phrase - "I'm just not gonna put myself into a situation". The things that end up discouraged or outright criminalized by governments usually aren't of the kind where you can trivially control them or avoid exposure. With those things, you are going to be put in a situation, whether you like it or not. For any given thing, maybe not you specifically, but enough people will, so it becomes a problem at scale.
In the original LISP with dynamic scoping I think it would be fair to serialize that expression as is: "just use whatever value is bound to 'y' at the time of evaluation, if any".
Not every book is worth reading. There's only one or few original works and rest is always commentary or reaction, rejections and impressions.
Hmm, heli missions? Gives me SimCopter vibes...
> "the areas with the highest concentration of centenarians — every one of them is situated along a coastline."

geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Noone will use it
Right on both accounts?
Probably Internet is not as critical in Algeria as it is in US, so people see it as a worthwhile tradeoff for a limited time period. I am actually impressed that they care this much about education, could fix a lot of their problems in the next generation. Imagine Americans being asked to put away their phones for a week to prevent cheating in schools?
I’ve yet to hear anything akin to self authorship from someone that didn’t have a book/seminar/consultancy to sell.

It’s a somewhat amusing thought that there is this human phenomenon wherein we can transcend nature, nurture, the id, the ego, the superego, biology and chemistry — and overwhelmingly those that achieve this enlightened state coincidentally tend to end up as self-help bloggers and motivational speakers.
The visualization looks cool, but it's not fun to use, not having an overview of all the project names really messes with my head, especially always having to scroll back up and not seeing what I'm clicking on.
A lawyer will advise you on legal and matters that involve liability. Accountants/CPAs make sure your finances are in order and that you do not have any local state or federal tax liabilities.

There is a small intersection but I would highly recommend a tax lawyer if you enter that territory (government sends demand letters about your tax liability).

I went with my personal accountant for my 500k-1m/year startup with contractors. They provided me a rep and they were responsible for ensuring my p&l and irs filings were accurate. I spent maybe 30 minutes a month with them, depending on how much travel I had. I would graduate to a real accounting firm if I needed someone to manage my employee expenses / needed healthcare providers.
My reasoning is that this, to people not as well versed on the subject, indicates that the CIA shares anything that it doesn't absolutely need to keep hidden from the public. It indicates that they are trustworthy.

Also, everything in there is somewhat "common knowledge" as in if you sat down for 4 hours thinking on the subject you'd probably get most of whats written here. So this has little impact on risk - anyone that would be a serious risk doesn't need this, so it's a neat read for the public instead.
I agree some MacPro users will be forced to move to workstation or server-grade PCs, but I am sure Apple knows that and they considered having integrated memory inconsequential for the majority of their users.

Also, remember, terabytes of RAM cost A LOT of money. The Dell I priced for comparison can go way higher than 192GB, but it’ll also cost you a lot more than 7K.
This definitely isn't "printing" in the original sense, just a serialization algorithm.
Where's your data to back up your claim?
This however is balanced by material quality. Rolls Royce can use more expensive alloys and premium leather that do not degrade as quickly and still have plenty of margin.

Corolla designers are highly constrained by cost.
https://grafana.github.io/grafonnet-lib/
It's designed to handle a one engine takeoff even when fully loaded, just in case an engine fails above V1.

Sure, it's not actually designed to go from standstill to V1 on a single engine, but it shouldn't have any problems. It's just going to increase the takeoff roll slightly (or decrease the maximum takeoff weight)
But no one publishes detailed data. Every time I hear anti Tesla/Elon chatter, Tesla is always being held to a higher standard than other companies.

FSD naming, nvidia call their Chauffeur, which is way more misleading to me. You have Blue Cruise which means nothing. Audi don’t call theirs anything and just talk about the features which I think is your preference. I don’t believe anyone has bought a Tesla not understanding exactly what FSD does and don’t do, are people being misled?
AMD Ryzen Pro CPUs have a memory encryption feature (SME): <https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-memory-guard-...>

It may require to have support from the motherboard.

EFI firmware has a var (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/) named MemoryOverwriteRequestControl that if set is supposed to instruct the firmware to overwrite memory on next boot. If you set it and if you can somehow trigger a reboot memory should not be recoverable.

You can also set init_on_free=1 in linux cmdline, the kernel will overwrite freed memory. If a reboot is physically interrupted or if the EFI firmware does not honor the var mentioned above, encryption keys and any other private data may have been freed.
"Also, that driver should be charged with negligence."

It's surprising this isn't the first (and maybe only) salient point. Autopilot is a slightly more capable cruise control. If a driver sets a car to drive 45 mph and then stops paying attention, who's at fault when the car hits something? The car was doing exactly what it was supposed to do.

(As pointed out from another commenter, the article is about Autopilot, not FSD.)
Nailed it!

Most posts here are from those who have never walked in a manager's shoes so only know what they see (or hear/read).

Think about it, minus a few exceptions, most managers are paid better than the engineers they manage. Now why would exec/sr mgmt. do pay more unless they are getting their money's value?
Whilst one has an efficient greener method of achieving consensus which one blockchain (Ethereum) switched from the wasteful proof-of-work to the greener proof-of-stake making that possible.

On the another hand after years of deep learning, there is still no viable efficient methods of training, fine tuning or inference without needing more data centers as the data and the AI model scales and its hype is currently contributing to the increased wastage of water and resources all for the sake of incinerating the planet to produce broken and hallucinating black-box AI models.

Being ‘useful’ isn’t an excuse for not finding greener efficient alternatives that significantly lower emissions rather than continuing to burn the planet over the new ‘hype’.
Note that AVIF is badly broken on the stable version of Gimp (2.10.34). Chroma is upscaled using NEAREST NEIGHBOR. Gimp does not do that when you load a JPEG or other lossy file which uses chroma subsampling.
Housing crisis is but one of many crises coming to a head in Sf: drug addiction, crime, breakdown of civil order, loss of public trust.
Oh and the commercial real estate crash that’s coming at the end of the summer which will hit even healthier downtowns.
Downtown SF is only going to get worse.
> The key thing they looked at (and still do look at) is the amplitude/travel distance of the bristle tips, and how that changes under load. It should stay strong under light load, but collapse under heavy load (so that when you mash the thing way too hard into your gums, power transfer stops and your gums don't get brutalized). It's a surprisingly delicate balance.

Isn't that what the pressure sensor is supposed to be for ?
it's not actually clear to me who mods the communities. I created a couple, but don't see any tools to do any moderation, and looking at the docs, it seems it's the instance mods who would do it, and low-level stuff (reporting, blocking) can be done by any user

I haven't investigated too thoroughly though. I really have no interest in investing that kind of time, which is a problem in growing a new place in and of itself
>False, India the largest democracy tops the list of Internet outages

I'm well aware, given I am indian lol. Notice how I said "Even during massive protests/terrorist attacks, nothing happens" in the said actual democracies? India doesn't follow that and shuts down internet on whim, during exams, protests, what have you.

India is hardly an 'actual democratic nation.' As an Indian, I would have thought I was making it clearer.

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In case that wasn't clear enough, here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36285784

>>lol India does the same thing. Hell they do it for 'protests' as well. Kashmir for the longest time had 2G/GPRS/EDGE mobile data service at best. Why? Because they could protest. They did the same for that farmers strike.

>>...funny what authoritarian governments use as a pretense to stay in power. How dare someone speak out against them and organize a protest. No, no internet for you.
I always thought the nightmare scenario was hydrogen powered cars. Keeping hydrogen contained while being rattled and banged every day would be a challenge in the best of scenarios, but some of these cars will end up being be 20 years old, with the absolute minimum spent of maintenance.

Now park 1000 of those cars in a multi story parking station, or under a block of housing units.
Similar event nearly occurred in 1986 Los Angeles:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-04-me-24546-...

I'm glad we have GPS now!

Even with GPS, stuff like this still happens: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-dreamlifter-wrong-airpor...
Without Scala, Clojure or Kotlin this probably would have not happened.
Well ... maybe it's not a "trope"?
The one book I’ve “quizzed” GPT4 on, it gave sufficiently good answers to convince someone they understood the book but actually missed almost everything salient about it.

Not super relevant but this was Henry George’s Progress & Poverty, so a pretty well-known book with fairly detailed arguments.
I’ll take the under on that.
I think you can play it on iOS via MS’s cloud game streaming service.

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play/games/microsoft-flight-simul...
That will be heavily industry-dependent. That kinds of consolidation gets you cartels like OPEC cutting production to keep the price of oil high, completely going around supply and demand.

I think it's overall better to accept some inefficiency vs that.
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Try to do any task on a computer and you'll find 95% of existing things suck and can be improved. You can sell these improvements. Don't worry about competition, that just means your idea has been validated. Make stuff you want to use yourself, that way even if you fail to sell to others, you're not at a complete loss. Plus you do not need to repeatedly iterate with a customer if you are the customer.
Managing people is the last thing I want to do professionally as a software developer. If I wanted to manage people, I would've gone that route a long time ago. Now sadly this is also the only way for me to "rank up" further in the company I've been working for the last 10 years. I guess I'm either stuck for now or I'll need to leave.
The company lost half of its value in six months, according to Elon Musk himself [1].

Anecdotally, due to Musk's support of extreme-right views (for example re-inviting Trump [2], supporting DeSantis [3], or protecting bullying [4]), many people have left in protest and so these views are over-represented on the site.

The word "decay" seems appropriate.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/elon-musk-twit...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/business/twitter-musk-trump-r...
[3] https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-...
[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-new-twitte...
Any guides you can recommend? Like I said, we're both just getting started! :)
To be clear, the strike isn't supposed to start until June 12th, which hasn't happened in North America yet. This headline seems to be jumping the gun a little as only a few subreddits went dark immediately.
> When capitalist logic was being used to justify Reddit going after hate speech, powerusers loved it.

So, being anti-hate-speech is a bad thing, to you?
oh, words cannot describe how stressful the crunch can be at basically any game studio that has deadlines. I've even seen a small indie team as well that had worked on a game for over 5 years and then committed to a release date months ahead of time (https://plasma.game), even though they had no employer to impose anything on them. Game development in general is just a huge mood.

So I agree, it would be nice to see something like Game Dev Tycoon, but not glossing as much over the nitty-gritty details that would keep someone up at night.
Yes, I’m in a bad mood and it probably came across a bit fatalistic.

> However, eventually something new is going to come out…

The thing is, human eyes and ears aren’t getting any better and computing performance seems to be plateauing. My guess is we have already reached the “good enough” point and I doubt we’ll get formats 3-4X as efficient in the future.
don’t even need reddit with an llm, I did some back of the napkin token math and you can fake a year of activity for a couple thousand dollars (varies by number of users and comment length of course) - hell, you can even make it look active in real-time and respond to real users - as long as you give it some guidance about commenting style (as in not the default gpt 8th grade essay style) it’s very hard to tell
These activities remind me a lot of playing SimCopter. Nothing quite beets the anxiety of getting shot at by some baddies in the city I built while trying to drop a rope ladder on a train. Great times.

Generally, I really appreciate them putting stuff like this in the game though. Even though I’ve played flight simulator since the early days, I’ve always had a hard time engaging because I don’t enjoy flying for flying’s sake. It’s also part of the reason why I prefer the Forza games or other arcade racers over pure simulators. Obviously I’m not cultured enough but then again, I’m also a very casual gamer.
Substack popups have a Continue Reading button that dismisses it...
But sometimes sites do die. Digg is a big example of this. It started with the top users like MrBabyMan posting against the site and then it quickly snowballed taking the whole site with it.

Doesn't always happens but it can happen and we can still hope.
> The vast majority of people who are visiting subreddits are doing so because they're actively seeking out the material being presented to them. These people are subscribers to the subreddits. Subreddits that "go dark" are not blocked for everyone. Their access is restricted ONLY for those who have not yet subscribed to the subreddit.

I don't believe this is true but I'm willing to test it out. I'll subscribe to a bunch of subreddits that intend to go dark and see what happens.
Mods don't just edit the css, they moderate. You can clearly see the difference a good mod team does. After the reddit blackout is over, check out the difference between /gaming and /AskHistorians. AskHistorian threads are often 90% deleted comments because people try commenting without posting any sources.

For smaller communities mods keep away trolls and spambots. They enforce custom rules that sub will have.

> Yes, and Reddit was successful long before the moderation tools that are being impacted by the API changes were created

Are you forgetting about Reddit Enhancement Suite? There is no mod that just uses the built-in reddit moderation. There hasn't been since the days when Reddit was a website only known to tech related college students.
The APA citation format may be used by people writing about LLMs though.
I think "high school chem teacher builds a drug empire that rivals Mexican cartels" is definitely a glorified macho-suburban fantasy elevated to an art form. In reality season 1 would have ended with Bryan Cranston's character dissolving in a vat of drain cleaner or buried out in the New Mexican desert missing his head and fingers. I mean, look at the drug addict that gets the most screen time in the show: he's the cofounder of the drug empire guiding the main character through the drug game like a methed out Master Miyagi.

Compare it with Snowfall: the main character's family has at least some history of drug dealing and he only succeeds because he discovers a cheap and ultra-addictive recipe for crack cocaine and because the CI-freaking-A is using him to fund the global war on communism. Recurring characters get killed off in dumb gang skirmishes all the time and the drug addict with the most screen time is literally a shell of her former self that can barely get through the day up until the latest season.

Or compare it with The Wire: all the people involved in the drug game are only in it because they have literally nothing else to live for except the glory of the game. Basically no one survives except the cops and Bubbles never really gets fully clean.