skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moved away 5 years ago. I've been back to visit 1-2 times every year since. Over the last year or so it felt that things have massively deteriorated. I guess that's the only feeling you can get when you have no electricity most of the day.
I was hoping this was going to be "OpenAI people used ChatGPT to write their authentication code" ;)
Google Maps has arguably gotten worse. Many times businesses that don't pay to be listed either won't show up on the map/in search or at best show up basically last. I also live in the Bay Area and sometimes I feel like the GPS routes it chooses are to avoid certain areas even though they'd surely be quicker. For instance sometimes it insists on me taking 101 around Palo Alto/MTV when traffic is just yellowish but other routes are totally clear, and 101 ends up becoming nearly stop and go when the other routes are basically still clear.

I will say google maps is superb for traveling in Japan, though.
Is there a thing for a uniform API across multiple cloud service providers? Is that even a good idea?
I like this video from minutephysics to get an intuitive sense for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM

It addresses a different question (Why is the Solar System Flat?) but it touches on the question of why things spin when they clump together from gravity.

An answer through the lens of my own understanding: it's just more difficult NOT to have angular momentum.

If you have a lot of particles falling toward each other due to gravity, imagine how difficult it would be to set it up such that all of them fall straight into their collective center of mass. They'd have to be in a precise, orderly configuration (e.g. equally spaced apart on a unit sphere). Note that each particle affects each other particle -- if any one particle gets too close to another, their gravitational interaction will cause them to move toward each other, and add an angular component to their motion with respect to the center of mass.

There are so much more disorderly configurations that will result in the particles moving with at least SOME angular momentum about their center of mass. Vector sum them all together, and it'd again be difficult for that sum -- the total angular momentum -- to be zero; they'd have to cancel each other out exactly, and there's just way more configurations where that isn't the case.

That's why it's simply much more likely for anything made out of particles in space to be spinning than not.

Additionally, as they fall toward the center of mass, the radius lowers, too, which means to conserve angular momentum you'll see their angular velocities increase. Helps make it more subjectively noticeable to us that everything is spinning.
I remember watching some BBC documentary on the ANC and South Africa a while back, and there was a clip where some reporter in a news conference asked some minister how he could afford some multi-million dollar house on an official salary of 100k (or whatever). This minister's answer was a classic... "Why don't you just go mind your own business!".

Corruption seems like it's become endemic, and with it the infrastructure, economy, etc.
I have used your site before for conversion and appreciated having everything in one place. Thanks!
The old Mac used Handle so that it could move memory around as pressure mounted.

In “some” ways, it’s a bit like a smart pointer as it’s a hook to allow the underlying system to “do things” in a hidden way.
The entire thesis of TFA is that human psychological traits on societal scales are not prepared to handle an arena of discourse where that's true, that people will either be duped or completely check out of discourse per se, not limited to online social media.

You hold the opposite position. Why?
I think it is. I also think this is what OpenAI did. They’ve carefully crafted the data.

I don’t think they have an ensemble of 8 models. First, this is not elegant. Second, I don’t see how this could be compatible with the streaming output.

I’d guess that GPT4 is around 200B parameters, and it’s trained on a dataset made with love, that goes from Lorem Ipsum to a doctorate degree. Love is all you need ;)
> It's a matter of pride and honor for me.

That's certainly on you, and to each his own (a freedom we once swore to defend, right?), but this 10-year, 2-tour vet wouldn't dare deny the privilege to the lowest ranking prior junior enlisted desk jockey who served a single term and never once deployed, or even some civilian poser who has yet to internalize the core value of integrity.

The mission requires service of all forms; surely the preservation of pride and honor isn't predicated on taking a bullet or losing a limb or surrendering 20+ years of adult life for country.

> The 10% off everything in store? Yea I'll use that one though but I sure as hell feel weird doing it!

Why? Lowe's rakes in a handsome 33% gross margins and billions in net profit every year[1]. In exchange for extending a mere 10% retail discount to 6.7% minority class, the company receives the intangible benefit of community association, positive PR, and share of a growing homeowner customer base (thanks in large part to the VA) with recurring needs...in other words, it's a calculated business decision and marketing expense, not charity.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/60667/00000606672300...
Fuck IBM, and fuck the spineless leaders at Red Hat betraying their founding principles
I tried to confirm this with 3D printing filaments. Amazon is somehow cheaper than everywhere I looked.
This looks cool! Is it possible to feed the output of one cell into the input of the next? That would really unlock the value of a tool like this for me.
> Sure it says 2-day shipping on the store page, but counting my past orders, 6/10 were delayed delivery, usually taking 5 days.

When I signed up the guarantee (if not then?) was three days. At first it was good for small town Canada. But then the bottom fell out. But now something may say ship time a week or two but the thing arrives four days later. They're all over the place. One may think incompetence but it's benefiting me.

The other thing I hate it Prime Video more than once I've been two episodes from the end of a show and suddenly the show access is pulled. But oh look you can rent or buy it now for more $$$ on top of your subscription.
Yes there is. They use Auth0 for authentication, so they would have to pour some effort in for this to not be possible. Just go to the login page and select "Forgot your password?" and reset it that way.
Odd usage of the term "South African native"? He's just simply South African.

Either way - he's spot on, this entire country has been crumbling since the mid 90's and the only thing keeping it from becoming another Zimbabwe or Somalia is the sheer momentum of the invested capital and the stubbornness of the productive individuals here. Many of which simply emigrate year after year, making the problem worse as the ratio of unproductive to productive grows greatly.

I've been watching it first hand since I moved here almost 2 decades ago. Unfortunately it's a very nice country, so much potential for year-round farming, so much solar, enterprising and self-sufficient populace, rich culture, etc, so it's sad to watch it become this way.
Not the case here at all. While mining is important to the overall GDP in the country, the major cause here is 99% due to corruption and underinvestment in infrastructure.
You have to pay RedHat to use its software. Only giving source code to paying customers doesn’t violate the GPL because of this. You only have to release sources to the users of your software.

RedHat has been giving them away to everyone; but they are not legally obligated to do so
I had a coworker who fled South Africa for the Netherlands 5+ years ago. I remember being surprised when he said it was the violence he was fleeing.
I canceled my SiriusXM sub a couple months after the merger. I was an XM subscriber that was "merged in" and when the merger finished, one of the big reasons why I was an XM subscriber (no talking DJ's on the channels I listened to) vanished and suddenly all the old channels I listened to had talking DJ's everywhere.

I had to wait a couple months to cancel because of a weird clause requiring some amount of "sub time" before one could get a pro-rata refund in the agreement.

Cancellation had to be by phone, and the SiriusXM person went so far as to offer a full year of free service to keep me on board. She was quite shocked when I told her, no, not even a free year will keep me as a subscriber. I also asked her to be sure to tell her managers that the reason why they lost a sub was adding talking DJ's to channels that previously had none.

I switched to a commercial free, DJ free mp3 player for my commute, and eventually the "mp3 player" was replaced by my cell phone.
The most frustrating thing about decline like this is that we aren’t even allowed to ask the questions that would set us on a path to figuring it out.

The Overton Window[0] is set in such a way to perfectly ensure that the decline continues.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
In general, I think it gets actively worse - there may well be exceptions. And I'm less concerned about open core built on things like Apache projects where open source project is not controlled by a single vendor (or shouldn't be) but vendors can add proprietary things or expand out from the core project. But generally I am hesitant about SVOC.
A DNS based ad blocker specifically. Some adblockers might still download the content but then don't present it.
That is not what I said, and not what I meant.

Person A writes a comment. Person B responds. A's desire to remove their comment does not give them the right to delete or damage B's comment. "Difficult" has nothing to do with it. The problem is that you have to consider B's rights here, not just A's.
Yeah, but compared to their modules, it’s enormous. It would be a huge part of my case. And for the functionality it provides, it doesn’t really need to be that big. It has a great interface and it’s beautiful, but eurorack modules tend to pack their functionality into a tighter package. And I could imagine that if they put their minds to it, they could create smaller, more tightly focused modules than the semi-modular instruments that they tend to create.
> Pretty sure this is how the human brain works

How we thought it works in the 1960's yes.
Some programmers prefer rubber ducky to colleges for similar reasons and it works for them.

Assuming people have time to listen, would they be better coders if they explained their problems to human instead? Maybe. But maybe not for them necessarily. E.g. low self-esteem and assuming every criticism is attack on them, human interactions are something expensive to them etc.

It's not a new pattern though. Especially after reading some biographies of famous scientists.

You can't escape that most brains are wired in a way that we are miserable without human connection, but you also can't escape the fact that some people brains are wired differently than others.

Long story short, I don't agree with them but I wouldn't judge them either.
That these points are somehow relevant for "unit cohesion" is entirely yours to demonstrate.

But after these ad hominem attacks I'm not actually in a mood to discuss this any further with you. If you cannot make a cogent argument and have to descend to such derogatory accusations, I'll rather leave this conversation.

Have fun in the mud.
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
This seems like something that is reasonably easy to define and fairly tight in scope. Embarrassing question: what would be the first step to proposing such legislation?
> “I decided to shout fire,” he told a packed lecture hall. “I don’t know what to do about it or which way to run.”

Is it really that much of a threat to humanity?

Here is how we can save humanity:

1. Every AI researcher must be rounded up and locked in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives.

2. NVidia, AMD, Apple, Google and other companies making GPU/TPU should be immediately seized.

3. Samsung, Intel, and TSMC fabs must be destroyed worldwide

If AI is really the threat that these people are saying it is - an existential threat, these actions are the only reasonable response.

Then again, maybe these people warning are actually engaging in hyperbole and don't actually really believe it is as bad as they say.
Because the scammers are typically outside the country, so good luck actually getting them arrested. Even if you do get them arrested in their own country, the grease known as money is often very good at getting the gears of corruption to turn; they'll be out in 24 hours or less.
Interesting. Does all of this "chicken" have the same DNA? Is there a Genesis chicken from which all of this meat is derived?
Even if Flutter existed, it would absolutely not have been an obviously smart move by Slack to DOUBLE their engineering workload by picking it instead of Electron while still having to develop a web based version. For what result? The app would most likely not be noticeably faster, if anything, just because the engineering effort that went into optimizing Slack performance would have been dilapidated in re-implementing and maintaining Slack in another toolkit.
Yeah those look like him.

Those are some very complicated trailers and he’s charging the same or less than simpler ones.
you forgot to finish with "as a previously convicted monopolist"
I'm mentally trying to wrap my head around someone having a great grandfather that served in the Civil War. That's incredible! Thank you.
Injinji is the best I've tried so far
"Overheated" and "chilled" aren't antonyms here, at least not in the sense I think you're using them.

Overheated: the discourse has too much anger or vitriol, or is too personal and emotionally charged.

Chilled: people have given up on discoursing at all.

If this is what you mean, I don't think we want less discourse as a solution to bad discourse. We want to maintain but temper the discourse.
Algorithms wove our pseudo-realities into super plazas of connectedness and mimetic conflict,

AI however can create raw strands of pseudo-reality, a previously human-specific ability.

The arms race shifts from "i'm more human than you!" to "i'm human, really!"
"The fundamental question is obvious: was this first recognized interstellar object from 2014 manufactured by a technological civilization?"

wat?
Can we get the headline changed to not omit critical context present in the Axios headline that the "proof" is being claimed by lawyers suing Microsoft?
> Instead they are reasonably pricing out-of-patent hardware designs which the original manufacturers are apparently vastly overcharging for decades after they have recouped their R&D costs.

That's fine but they do stuff like this:

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0E2V

https://www.arturia.com/products/keystep/overview

Where it is just a copied thing near 1:1 of product currently being sold, changed just enough to not be sued for making exact copy

And not just big companies but smaller modular ones like this:

https://synthanatomy.com/2023/05/behringer-abacus-a-ripoff-o...

Tho to be fair original maths is based on some old Buchla modules.

I have nothing against resurrecting stuff out of production or produced so long patent expired (they had their chance) but near-copy of current stuff is a bit much.
I mean, you could say the same about drugs. I don't think people spend their money rationally, there is piss-poor folk spending money on booze and unhealthy diets.
Yep, and Apple maps doesn't do the most annoying thing that Google/Waze do.. show me an Ad when I'm stopped which prevents me from looking at the map and getting my bearings while I'm stopped and it's actually safe to do so.

Apple used to get some things boneheadedly wrong and it's hard to go back to an App that's done that but it has gotten really good, and the UX has been vastly better than the Google products for a long time. Much more legible at dashboard distance, much more clear, not showing popup POI locations based on advertising that you aren't interested in, voice directions are much better, etc..

It feels like both Waze and Google Maps have stood still for the last 10 years, at least if you're using them on the iPhone.
(2018)

Previous discussions:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332638 (80 comments)

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26676625 (88 comments)
or starting a campaign to convince others to adopt your ways!
It confusing because one part of the wife/life pair makes no grammatical or logical sense, as shown below.

>I can't speak about your (wife), but in my (wife), people who say this are the people who personally enjoy taking advantage of my nature, and my "overly considerate behavior" is only pointed out when someone else seems to be getting benefit at the expense of my (wife); i.e it's a statement of selfishness.

err, what?
Biggest current US cash-by-mail trader on LocalMonero arrested by feds June 9th
Neutron, Proton, DeepMind, PolyD, Wing, X32, and the BCR series

The official line now is they're moving on from clones into original designs.

The real problem with Behringer is the low cost and not-a-trophy accessibility. No one complains about UDO's JP6 knock off or Groove's 3RD Wave, even though they're very close clones with a few added features.

Perhaps because they're reassuringly expensive trophy products, while Behringer's aren't.
I think it's primarily West Coast US, and it's the culture of the area to be passive aggressive versus direct. It's unfortunately had a huge impact on current tech corporate culture as a result of where the industry is located.
Tbh, I think everybody should brush up on signs of strokes, how to do basic cpr, stop bleeding and so on, every once in a while.
Ah okay, thank for the that :)

I sort-of assumed that for big purchases it would be a big procedure, as you've stated.

I had it in my mind, there'd be like a lower threshold (i.e. licenses for one or two things), which would go under the radar and just be purchased when someone requested it (or end of year "budget needs to be spend" - you know, that sort of old school "budget per department - spend it or you lose it" sort of thing.) :D

This also went with the idea that the "3 x CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription
Service Period" would be a small purchase - though of course, I don't _really_ have any idea what this means - could be a massive 24x7 support with 3 Rocky Linux support staff on-call - who knows :)

> That, and ROCKY can probably now have a NASA logo on their website under "customers", which adds a bunch of credibility to the project, honestly, whether it's necessarily deserved or not based on 3 desktops.

This on the other hand is verry interesting!! Thanks for pointing this out :)

Edit: sorry, I misread your comment :( Thought you said their logo _was_ on the Rocky site :P
I had their MP-201 and that thing was stunning
A few years ago RedHat limited access to the detailed (broken out) kernel patch set they use, to RHEL customers, and only publish the combined blob for anyone else. It was discussed if a RHEL entitlement holder would then be able to share that out, however that would cause the RHEL subscription to then be invalidated as that was against the subscription contract.
Perhaps not so obvious.
Yea to me what the prior commentor suggests is nothing more than deception/lying through a form of omission...

If the message isn't clear then they don't hear it, with the only reason you don't so that you can say you said something when shtf all while ignoring that your indirect statement effectively ensured the continuation of the problems...

Blunt honesty is the only way to effectively and efficiently run an enterprise.

We really need to address this culture of Feeling Over Facts...
I'm reminded of that one Club Penguin meme

> nine one one what is your emergency

> what do you mean youre being murdered

> thats illegal people cant do that
Wow, windows defender just let's a random exe access other programs files without a prompt or anything. Gotta be backwards compatible at all costs!
Personally I can think of nothing that would frustrate me more than having to navigate an automated phone system in an emergency.

“Help, my friend got hit by a car!”

“As an AI language model, I am not able to help with blunt force trauma…”
As someone who managed to successfully cancel Prime, and then tried to purchase an item on amazon.com, it took me over a minute to figure out how to not accidentally sign up for Prime membership when trying to checkout.

There was only one place I could click that would allow me to advance to the next screen (simple text), the text was super small placed below a giant image, and my cursor didn't change to indicate that it was clickable, e.g., https://imgur.com/a/VNlU9L9.

Additionally, I received my package in the same amount of time as Prime said it would take. Which leaves the question, what is the benefit of Prime membership? It's not free shipping, it's not free grocery delivery, it's not Music or Video, it's not discount prices on Amazon retail website, and it is most certainly not any assurance of authentic goods.

Prime is snake oil.

After enduring the 10+ page questionnaire on why I was cancelling Prime, the only way to cancel my Prime membership, it is clear no one took the answers to the questions seriously.

This lawsuit is long overdue.
> I’m working on a startup that’s training LLMs to be authentic so they can simulate human affection and it’s actually working really well!

I actually think this is the wrong approach. You should simulate furry affection. Roleplay is the new cuddle.

(but unironically cries in every open-source LLM being bad at it)
> what would be the first step to proposing such legislation?

Several large donations to the re-election funds of various congress critters.
Yeah, may be confusing out of context. This is what he wants to do: "If IM1 were of technological origin, we can then study the technologies embedded in its relic."
No expert, but as I have read and understand, theres a catch. Theranos promised all kinds of tests drawing minimal blood, and they performed the tests using commercial equipment but with less blood than what these equipment is meant to use. So the results were not actually solid.
I have no idea. But this article goes into some of the other signals. The more signals you have, the more you can uniquely identify a device. It also goes into how GDPR covers this (but you would then depend on the government enforcing compliance to legislation)

https://cheq.ai/blog/what-is-browser-fingerprinting/
You said

>My point - every organization should assume worst actors possible. "No way anyone would scam sick people" is just projecting your own moral standards onto others who have no reason to share them, and that attitude may even make them more vulnerable as targets.

Which is something he never said or suggested, and not any moral projecting he did at all.
On that note, is there a reason why class action lawsuits pay the affected constituents a paltry amount?
Yes, most people are not skeptics at all.

Most people believe what they are told at face value.

I stop just short of Feynman questioning the dentist on the evidence for brushing one's teeth. That there is potentially this ritual that goes around the globe as the sun rises of people pointlessly scrubbing their teeth.

Of course, with such a high % of people addicted in a clinical sense to the group think and propaganda engine of social media that is not how most people are going to think or even be capable of thinking.

If Feynman was more popular youtube would ban that video for dentistry misinformation even when the point of the video is to view things from a different perspective.