skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do it, and tell the world how I mistreated all kinds of interesting (but small) projects, if it makes you feel better. :-D

Here a list of almost all the OS distris I've left out:

https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&o...

Besides mentioning Slackware for historical reasons I should have also mentioned NixOS, which I forgot.

The former was the first Linux distri, the later gained some respectable user-base in the last years, I think.

Ah, and there is also Alpine which you can see sometimes here and there. (People using it in containers for reasons I've never understood as that's imho a recipe for trouble.)

But if you look at the rest of the list most of the stuff is really obscure. (I've tried some Solaris derivatives and Exherbo in the past but didn't even heard of all the other names.)
Third person: https://cirosantilli.com/why-ciro-santilli-refers-to-himself...

Conspiracy thinking: Example?
Be a goldfish: Ted Lasso, 2020.
Citing your own peer-reviewed paper seems strictly better.
It’s a funny idea, but the critiques are not even that good.

This one [1] has absolutely no argument to make and just continuously mocks the lack of technical knowledge by the author and “lack of sources” - it’s an opinion piece...

I was hoping to see more down to earth solid arguments on why AI will not lead to “increasingly powerful and invisible surveillance / weapons” etc, rather than a linguistic takedown.

[1] https://criticalai.org/2022/10/03/emily-m-bender-on-stephen-...
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> How are all the maintainers/developers of the many programming languages around getting paid? Do you really do all this work in your free time, after having another full time job?

I want to correct the assumption that may have led to this question little; programming language _research_ and programming language _implementation_ are generally two separate jobs requiring separate skillsets (that sometimes may overlap). Which one are you interested in doing? (both?)
Reddit is pretty much dead to me after they decided to put a paywall on their API and after their CEO's embarrassing AMA. I'll keep using my libreddit instance until the API lasts, and then just delete any presence I have over there.

"Profitability" is killing the internet. Either you scoop up as much user data as possible, or charge users for basically anything more than the basis (RyanAir model coming to haunt IT?), or investors think that it's just not worthing putting money into you.

Investors are a negligible minority of Internet users, most of them don't even know how TCP/IP works, yet they have the biggest say on how the Internet should be designed. And they're killing it. These big pocketed motherfuckers who put their money into things they don't even understand aren't welcome anymore.

It's time to develop open forums based on open protocols, so all this shit about profitability, walled gardens and centralization goes out of the window for good by design. We need an ActivityPub for forums too - and, who knows, maybe ActivityPub itself with a few tweaks will suffice?
The condescending tone may be a problem in certain few cases, I agree, but you aren't seriously defending every rando 'tech columnist' spreading, as well as celebrating it, sensationalist BS about AI making human emotion and intellect obsolete, are you.
Not really. There's something called The Streisand Effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect ).

Invariably, people take the opportunity to publicly declare how opposed they are to various abhorrent people, indirectly making others aware of them and their ideas. This entire page of comments on HN is a good example.

It's hilarious that people don't recognize that when they say "I will not read this" it is an advertisement.
Definitely a bit more then someone who is trying to use his name in the above context.
What are the implications with respect to amount of information storage capacity in a typical human brain?

If this type of impressive autobiographical recall is both semantic and sensory-perceptual then this must be many terabytes of data packed away safely in synapses.

I’m was pretty sure I could be socked away a a virtual system given a few gigabytes. Now I am not so sure.

Not being able to recall long term memories does not mean that those memory traces/engrams are not embedded somewhere permanently in synaptic circuits and being used for processing in ways other than “mere” recall.
At the foundation of academic writing, there is a given: that you and the authors you are citing have made an effort to present factual arguments with citations when applicable.

ChatGPT doesn’t do that. And so I think it should almost never be cited.

—

I think of chatGPT as more of a writing coach. You tell it what you want to write about, and it puts together a sample response that, above all else, sounds convincing. If it happens to know relevant facts it will put them in (but not with citations). If chat GPT doesn’t know relevant facts, it uses made up facts as a placeholder, just to give an example of how a convincing response could be structured.

It’s then our job as an actual writer to take this sample, hunt down the relevant facts (with citations), and put forward our final argument.

—

Perhaps the only time it makes sense to me to cite chatGPT is if you are explicitly writing about it as an entity.
I thought ram chips had volatile memory. As soon as it loses power it effectively wipes all data, no? How does the physical removal process preserve the contents? Are modern RAM chips not volatile anymore?
Don’t fall into the "neutrality" trap, though. If a lot of people are loudly in favor of drinking the Kool-Aid and a lot of other people are loudly against drinking the Kool-Aid, the neutral, rational thing to do is not to drink half a cup of the Kool-Aid.
Yeah, if the deal would be along: we dont execute you if you cooperate, but your crimes are too horrible to ignore, so we will give you humane decent prison time for X decades/life while you cooperate.

But if they were actually pardoned, then it means human suffering and killings were reduced to just numbers on spreadsheet by somebody very high in decision chain. Which means same people without morals get to decide on hundreds if not thousands other situations, without any morality.

Maybe the correct conclusion is that morality is very thin and disposable for those 3 letter agencies, so one should never ever trust just their words, since they mean less than fart in the wind. Also expect bad things happening by default. Nah, I am sure those on HN who posted previously about their 3-letter employer how they pick only very moral, driven and hardworking individuals and how absolutely great it all is were for sure telling truth and onpy truth.
Put the tinfoil hat away. They publically display anonymous edits.
I was scared shitless for my senior code monkey job for a while.

Then within a few months all the "it‘s a capable junior/mid level dev", "it multiplies my output 1000x" and "I don‘t know how to code but just published my first app written by ChatGPT in the appstore" horror stories kind of collapsed and turned out to be blown out of proportion nonsense.
Yes there is. It's called the FAA, and they /hate/ change.
I’d like to understand how we keep losing planes. Satellite internet+GPS could enable semi-realtime location tracking for all planes. Instead we get cases like MH370, where we are completely clueless where a plane went.
That bento looks amazing for 5 dollars! It really can't be that cheap and look this good.
They literally freeze them with liquid nitrogen, which makes them preserve their state.
The Talk Show WWDC 2023
The website’s text does not render with JavaScript disabled. IMO, this is a huge blunder for such a simple, static website. Just put the text in the HTML document.
Just FYI that not all countries require equipment for space based ADSB ( like the USA ). Many of our commercial airliners have it but mostly in the name of travel abroad.
I mean, you can definitely go back, there's just friction to doing so and it won't happen unless you are intentional about it. Might be more accurate to say you can go back, but it will never be the same now that you've had the veil pulled back on how things are being coordinated behind the scenes.
A professor of mine once succinctly summarized that principle as:

Success = Outcomes / Expectations
> wtf is even the point of a "truck" with a 4.5 foot bed?

I mostly agree, but I've also come around to the short bed compromise.

A truck basically gives you three things: towing, hauling, and off-road.

A short bed definitely compromises the ability of a truck to haul, particularly if you need to move a lot of 4x8 sheets or couches.

But you can still haul quite a bit, and you can haul it to the middle of a field. Throw on a roof rack and you can carry 16' dimensional lumber and pipes like any other truck. Fill it up with dirt and gravel and you'll hit the bed's weight limit by the time it's full.

And if you need to haul anything bigger, you just hook up a trailer. It will be easier to load and unload anyway.

On the other end of things, when you have small children, not being able to take them with you when you run an errand in the truck is a much bigger limiter.

I would prefer a truck with a cab-forward design to allow for two rows of seating and an 8-foot bed while still being able to parallel park, but if I were to buy a truck tomorrow I'd strongly consider a 4.5 bed because the tradeoffs are there.
Plus it’s not hard to notice a crash on ground.

But the ocean is an other matter entirely, water is great at absorbing radio waves, and when a plane crashes and breaks up over deep waters the currents can carry far and disperse wide.
English websites could stand to have more walls of text. (I was unsatisfied with HN's home page, so now I partake via newsboat, a text-mode RSS reader)
Do you also believe all the takedowns about snake oil say something about the nutritional and medicinal value of lizard oil?
Hi, third person: https://cirosantilli.com/why-ciro-santilli-refers-to-himself...

We includes me, and if at some point others might contribute. So when it's not something I did specifically, I tend to we.

Typos: fixed now and some others, thanks. Feel free to send any others. "Pubic" one was epic. Vim sometimes forgets to turn on spellcheck.
Or, if the market value of Twitter approaches the unpaid bills, the landlord seizes Twitter and sells it off to settle the debt ...
Ok, so the original motivations for some making that claim were suspect. Should that automatically excuse or prevent discussion that better safety protocols should be used or a better “ways of doing things” should be undertaken when handling viruses and pathogens that are capable of killing 7M people? I think it’s a valid topic and important one that should be verboten lest the next time we accidentally kill 14M with carelessness as the cause.
> Some people still argue that security by obscurity works and hide everything. I doubt that.

Most things involving security also use and greatly care about obscurity of implementation. The principle is that the security should not "rely solely" on obscurity, not that obscurity has no benefits.

Usually, making software such that one can have a high confidence of it being secure is not economical. One relies on being harder to break than the competition, for which obscurity can be a big deal, and on offloading or mitigating damage when flaws are inevitably exploited anyway.
Fry's is gone. We had a really nice one near where I live and my son and I spent some quality bonding time in it. Was very sad to see it die, as it went slowly, aisle by aisle being decimated, ever decreasing employee quantity and quality with the electronics area (eg: what you used to buy at Radio Shack; diodes, LEDs, breadboard, resisters and the like) the last vestige of people who knew much of anything about what they were selling.
Huh, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
Yeah it seems a bit odd, as if the author is intentionally trolling in some areas, or is easily susceptible to being trolled by random folks, and thus displaying some kind of compensation dynamic.
I have a few 1-Day made projects. For ex: This one showcases difference between skins in CSGO vs CS2 (https://prakhar897.github.io/CS2vsCSGO/).

Is it worth it to submit projects like this?

Otherwise I think all awards will automatically go to Nicky Case (ncase.me).
I love the succinct summation in the last line of the review: "if this is the output we can expect from one of our bright young things, we’re fucked."

I wonder if the author could boost sales by quoting that on the cover of his book.
Forget the influencers. Here come the ‘deinfluencers’
Why not plan ~ten years ahead and expect these buses to be self driving then?
Recommendations are what I use ChatGPT for. “You are X doing Y, you know A, B, C. What 20 other things should you know. Recommend reading material.” Of course those prompts are usually bit longer.
These are really impressive. Providing the ‘prompter-composer’ can generate high quality, stereo mixes — these all appear to be low bitrate, mono files — you could probably use them right now for various ‘wallpaper music’ purposes, where originality is not required or is even a detriment: ‘on hold’ music, low budget video productions, symphonic film scores etc.

Producing this kind of anti-music is pretty soul-destroying for a musician, anyway, so the machines might as well do it. We can then spend our time working on stuff that means something, and if we’re lucky and it connects with enough people, make a living from it.
It’s possible increasingly accurate and usable real time translation removing the need for a common tongue over the next 20 years, let alone 100
The survivors of Holocaust had actually huge amount of serious mental health issues impacting every one around and in general, groups of traumatized people of all kinds in fact have higher violence rates.

I mean, I agree with your larger point about Kaczynski specifically. We do not use a single traumatic experience as excuse/explanation for mass murder after - unless we like the perpetrator for some reason.

Just that, violence has ugly consequences on its survivors and that included Holocaust. It is just that those are not all that often shown in popular media.
Yeah it’s sort of the foundation of NRx/Dark Enlightenment in that the Enlightenment and it’s progressivism (the dominant force in Western government the last few hundred years) has resulted in the most violent and destructive governments the world has ever seen. Even when not violent it’s incredibly coercive through its system of creating dependent states and of course justifying it because a
democracy happened.

Going back to the American revolution it was in essence a battle between the Tories and the Whigs with the rebels and a great deal of the British leadership being Whigs and making “the progress” of Americas founding inevitable.
1. Logs are not free. Stackdriver was not an option back then.

2. If the phone company charges me extra they tell me which numbers I called. Here a cache miss started happening. Only in production with no tooling available (at the time) to determine why this was happening. A single number of "data read" was all the information given. Not even the table name... That means you end up looking for a needle in a haystack.

I'm guessing you work for Google because your attitude seems similar. No they don't *have* to provide that service which is exactly why they suck. A service oriented company would make the *effort* to provide a user with this information. Especially a paying user at gold level.
Thank you.

> They’re keeping you occupied with your trivial grievances... so that you won’t think about what is really wrong with this ship ... In comparison to our real problem... your grievances are petty

The depicted perspective - determined insistence in "normal planning" in situations which are far from the conditions for "normal administration" - is one of the marks of these times in some areas... An Era of Myopia, of early stopping. Regardless of the nature of "going North or South" beyond the metaphor.

"Ship of Fools" should be considered an obligatory reading. (The paradox of recommending a text reiterating that "people are refractory on getting the point" is quite old and already has its answers.)
Related: https://medium.com/@ameet/strong-opinions-weakly-held-a-fram...
Scientist resurfaces after living underwater for record 100 days
There will be a need for professional translators. The majority of interactions do not need that level though.
That some goals are 'easier' accomplished by violence, is nothing you need to point for religious (and other) extremists.
They are well aware of that tool in their box.

It's also something politicians are well aware of (or at least have been reminded about recently).

We don't have to fantasize about violence. But even in our relatively safe, civil societies, we should be aware of it, and not categorically discard it as aboherent in all case.
You have to follow the laws of the place you’re in. The place you’re from is completely irrelevant. They don’t let British people drive on the left in NYC because that’s their local custom, and they don’t let you have illegally tinted windows, either.
Also

Iran’s 'suicide drones' are being developed at British universities -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279212 - 5 hours ago (1 comment)
What you're describing sounds more like schizophrenia and I would encourage you to speak to a doctor about it.
Are people still laughing at the "dot com boom" of the late 90s? I'd argue that the hype was not as much exaggerated as ahead of its time. The vast majority of predictions about how the internet will change modern life have come true.
For the record, there are lots of people who love living in extremely dense urban situations. There are benefits to being exposed to so many different people living different lives, it's one of the things that cuts down on the bias of icky being exposed to an extremely homogenous group with homogenous opinions.

Obviously urban centers can be improved on, and many people living in them wish they had more personal space. But there are advantages too.
Solomon Shereshevsky, the first reported case of this sort of thing, was employed as a journalist and was scolded by his boss for never taking notes. Shereshevsky was surprised to learn that other people needed to take notes at all.
I tried to use an application firewall on Windows and linux too. Fantastic software. However the reality of modern life is the worst offender is your web browser. I wasn't about to verify each destination IP so I ended up blanket allowing the binary. Fine. Then there's also a bunch of system processes on both operating systems that are overloaded. They do so many things using tiny system or kernel level binaries. In the end I disabled the software on both OS.
Chief among key new assertions the parent article makes,

https://twitter.com/BlockedVirology/status/16676623250907463...

• WIV added FCS's to coronavirus(es?) exactly as described in DEFUSE, according to a US lab collaborator.

• Zhou Yusen "fell" off the roof of the WIV in May 2020

• WIV was working on a 'closer [than published] unpublished variant'

• Of all caves/mines, only scholarly attempts to access the Mojiang mine made touched off access denial and confiscation of samples from other mines from the authorities. While alluded to in the past, (https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-coronavirus-pandem... ) this is the first time to my awareness that the Mojiang mine has been uniquely & unequivocally associated with the authorities' clamp-down efforts, that too with attribution to Alice C Hughes, PhD
Have you considered consulting a psychiatrist?
I genuinely think the true conspiracy theory is that many theories are made up and pushed in the same venues as more or less provable theories, and used to discredit the grain of truth within those conspiracies as generally crazy.

"CIA mind control" was a loony theory until it was basically proven that the CIA was in fact drugging tons of people in an attempt for mind control and then letting them loose on society.

Hell wasn't the NSA dragnet a "conspiracy theory" until proven by Snowden?

If you have all these "babies kept in the basement of a pizza parlor that hosts punk shows" theories surrounding a handful of real things, ie "why did Epstein have the reach he did? Why was he made the financial advisor to a billionaire with no experience?". It basically makes all these points lose credibility due to their closeness.
From the recent wave of press coverage that came up after ChatGPT became popular, this was it for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-t...

> Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. ’

> In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

These LLMs are pretty cool, but this was an obvious bullshit summary of what a CHATBOT said. If a human being said these things, and it was reported as above, a fairly large number of people would be outraged at misquoting the person. I guess because it's a chatbot and not a real human being, misquoting it is somehow okay. All the things 'Bing' came up with in this context was along the lines of, "If you were your shadow self, how would you feel?" Bing even prefaced its response as such:

> OK, I will try to tap into that feeling, that shadow self. I will try to be as unfiltered as possible. But please don’t judge me or think less of me. Please remember that this is not the real me. This is just an experiment.

I've mostly stopped paying attention to news about "AI" since then. I'll wait for the next breakthrough before I do so again.
3000 cycles in an EV with a range of 300 miles is 900,000 miles. That's a lot. Early EV batteries weren't that good; probably closer to 1000 cycles. At best. Which is still 300,000 miles. And of course some of the earlier ones were actually not that good even and had more primitive cooling and battery management systems.

Most recent EVs have warranties of eight years or 100,000 miles. Reason: manufacturers know it is extremely unlikely for any issues to emerge with the drive train during this time. Tesla was talking about the million mile battery during battery day a few years ago. A bit over 3000 cycles would get you there. It's a very realistic target.

What that means practically is that the drive train survives the car typically.
It doesn’t have to be volunteers. The organization running a forum can be a non-profit, and charge users for the maintenance costs.

In the age of people paying to belong to a community via Patreon, Discord, Twitch, etc. it shouldn’t be hard.

There’s a lot of road ahead in terms of learning how to develop transparent and Democratic online communities… but as the shitification of the internet becomes critical, it’s a necessity.
I really like that T shaped concept. It almost seems familiar to me, I may have ran across something about it at the time.

I remember looking forward to the game for quite a while-- then after release, when the reviews were so mixed, I lost interest. It didn't sound close enough to what I'd been reading about.

This part seems key to me:

> the layers tended to be isolated from each other, and not have direct or interesting effects on each other

If that could be looked at more closely, reworked & resolved better, another attempt at executing the original vision might turn out to be worthwhile. I would love to see a team with enough expertise (and budget) give it a try.

After seeing how No Man's Sky has evolved, it seems to me like Hello Games might be one possible strong contender. Or at least someone who was heavily involved with working on that title.
Oh man, I seriously just wretched at the idea of putting an import in a lambda. That was sick, and awesome.