skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much substance to the article, Dennis is feeling the pressure and is going to unleash all his powers to build something better / more capable than ChatGPT while remaining morally conflicted about the fact he might wipe out the species while building a commercial product.

He also gives us the usual plug that AI development is necessary and our lives will be fairly shit without it, so we have to keep going with it, no matter what.

How worried should you be? Hassabis says that no one really knows for sure that AI will become a major danger. But he is certain that if progress continues at its current pace, there isn’t much time to develop safeguards. “I can see the kinds of things we're building into the Gemini series right, and we have no reason to believe that they won't work,” he says.

Thanks Dennis?
I don’t think that they are, though that was my initial thought. I am seeing comments come back in waves. I think it’s from subreddits re-opening.
“Creating jobs” only makes sense if funding those jobs provide actual value that wouldn’t exist otherwise. You can “create jobs” by making people dig holes and fill them up, but you’re just wasting your population’s productive time - you would be better off by just giving those people money for nothing, some of them might just do something useful in the newly created free time.

I’d argue that pumping gas overall provides very low value.
Yes, they must be.

Alex said he built it over several years. And more so because it was high in the mountains.
What the humans like is responsiveness
"human readable Java" - that's a good one.

I kid, I kid.. Somewhat.
If you're going to cherrypick a single example to rebut the existence of an overarching trend in the UK, you could at least pick a state with an income tax. Or, perhaps, not beat the dead horse at all and talk about Britain.
Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel, and no other children.

Humans were created both before and after animals.

God created the Sun on the first and fourth days.

People fanwank their way out of these to have a book free of contradictions, but fanwank isn't scripture.
I get motion sick looking at the outside. The inside could barely stand looking at. Cool, but not for me, thanks.
oops. Forgot the link and too late to edit!

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17186303/
Why Work on Crypto
Earth: Let AI workflow change the way we work
The mission of AGI-UI (Artificial General Intelligence user interface) organization is to improve the human-computer collaboration experience of AGI in areas such as PC, Web, Mobile, XR, and robotics, allowing more people to create their own AGI interaction interfaces.

As the first open-source project of AGIUI, Earth is a browser extension currently supported on Chrome and Edge browsers. If you are interested, you can share our project on various platforms.
4GLTE/5G compatible microwave is needed!
(to be clear, I was never a Harvard College undergrad. I was a degree candidate in a Harvard Extension program before transferring, and I worked for Harvard for over two decades, one of them full-time.)
* All loans are priced based on the paper rental price, among other things. Pretty much no one buys commercial property with cash, so if the rent is lower the next purchaser won't be able to get as big of a loan, and the original landowner will be underwater.

* Posted rents are sticky, in that they are the basis of the negotiation for the next round of rents, and especially so for commercial real estate where leases are multiple years long and landlords often throw in renovation for leasees. Banks would prefer a space be empty rather than lower rent and then you have to negotiate from a lower base, and getting another tenant would mean having to rip out everything you put in for the current tenant at your own cost.

You see similar issues in multifamily where landlords would rather offer you "X free weeks" instead of lowering the actual rent by an equivalent amount.
I do note that BLUETOOTH_SCAN could be used for versions 12+. The link you provided is good, I'll also reference that as it also has details on strong assertion (android:usesPermissionFlags - neverForLocation).

> I suspect what's actually going on is that they're requesting that permission just so they can show your location inside an embedded map view.

Does the embedded map do some processing in the cloud first? Because the lat/lng is sent over the same API request that includes the battery voltages as well as the BLE address of your handset. I really think none of this is essential to a simple app that reads a battery voltage on your screen.
> Setting up A VPN is more complicated than a single webapp necessitates. I'd recommend using Cloudflare, with Cloudflare Access, and expose your VPS via a Cloudflare Tunnel. (You can use all of this for free.)

I would argue that setting up Tailscale is much less complicated than Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Tunnel.
I periodically deliver flowers for a florist in Weymouth. I've never had an attendant operate the pump there.
> How do you personally deal with fails?

When it comes to interviews, there are two types of fail:

1. The kind where I walk out saying to myself, "Yeah I couldn't answer those technical questions, so I probably don't deserve this job because I'm not ready yet".

2. The kind where I feel that I answered everything right. I realize that when it comes to those fails, there are so many factors out of my control that it's probably not my fault. Maybe one of the interviewers was having a bad day. Maybe they had one specific answer in mind and I didn't get, and I don't want to work with someone so inflexible anyway.

There are a thousand reasons that have little to do with you as to why you may not get a job. Just knowing that should make you feel better.
That's an issue with how Android handles these permissions. Apple's system is much more fine grained, and my understanding is that it also has the requirement that the app must function without the user granting any additional permissions, even if the functionality is limited/restricted. e.g. if you have an app that wants to scan for local wifi networks (eg, sonos) and you don't grant that permission, the rest of the app still has to work even though you now can't set up new speakers.
These problems are fixable. Use blind bidding, and ban spoofing by preventing order cancellation within a bucket. Too many orders? Set a per-client limit.

Most of this is improvable with software. As other commenters point out, the resistance is from incumbent trading institutions who have a lot invested in the status quo.
The thing is that large developers love restricting development because it limits competition.

If there is only a limited supply of land to build further on, it is much easier to corner said market of land and sit on it if the prices are not high enough for your liking. The cheapest development is the kind that larger developers do not bother with (one house to two or three on a single plot of land, rather than large complexes)
The Truth About Tonkin - Naval History Magazine (2008)
True. Alright, I think the reasons for us to stick with GPL are not as compelling as I first thought. I've updated my view. We will switch to AGPL. :)

On govs, unfortunately, but I still think it's a benefit: governments can simply use it without purchasing a commercial license or using GPL, under the Polyform Noncommercial. They can definitely purchase support, deployments, and customizations tho.
> And at least to me, not boring at all

I love Auth! It's always the key that unlocks everything else. Chances are that 50% of the "blocked" problems in your company can be solved if you know how their Auth works.

Plus, everyone thinks it's not worth their time to learn so you can be a superhero with just a few weeks of work.
> Name one that does that in a 6 hour time period.

Ice cream that somebody already said around up-thread is an example. So I guess you are not very open to them.

> Food out for 3 hours and 20 minutes is not going to be worse off than food out for 3 hours.

There is a lot of difference between 30 and 50 minutes. But yeah, if you compare it to a decade, it's irrelevant too.

> City traffic is caused by people driving cars. People drive cars to grocery stores.

People drive cars to go to work and school. But yeah, why talk about 95% of the problem when we can focus on solving the 0.2% of it.
Cool read the books looking forward to the show.
Microsoft CEO Nadella said last year goal is to reach $500B in sales by 2030
Sometimes emergencies happen. Having random IT systems do this means it is guaranteed to go wrong several times a year.
The Raster Tragedy[1] creates the impression that mangling font outlines to the extent that they’re utterly unrecognizable is the fundamental mode of operation of Windows font hinting.

Granted, it’s a miracle you can meaningfully render vector fonts at 96 dpi at all. I just wish a closer look at that miracle did not reveal countless eyeballs and writhing tentacles.

[1] http://rastertragedy.com/
A temporary workaround is to turn off Wi-Fi and the Cellular Data permission for the app. Once you know what it’s trying to reach, you can block it with an iOS firewall or something like NextDNS.
More importantly, sales tax is equally applied to foreign companies. I'm theoretically a fan of sales tax since it's very fair tax, but very unpopular for other reason (bad for economy). I think average people (no way to avoid tax) should support sales tax for fairness. Negative income tax for equality.
My experience, and analysis of it, bears striking similarities. Looking forward to your blog posts!
… You can have just as much fun at the TGI Friday's at your local strip mall as you can at the hippest restaurant…

Have you actually eaten at a TGIFridays? The food is awful. I suppose if the actual meal is completely secondary to your enjoyment of the experience, you might be right, but for me, eating out is as much for the food as the company.
YT style is well expressed. this social media style is click bait and rife of misunderstanding/misinformation.
I leave bluetooth off 100% of the time on my phones. It doesn't need file or network access to be used to track you. bluetooth beacons can be still log your device just by being in range, and that range can be anything from ~1 foot to tens of miles. Bluetooth is a privacy nightmare.
1- There's no comparing Macron and Mélenchon. Macron is not anywhere close regarding inflammatory discourse, and conflictualization of everything. Imagine if Macron had screamed "I AM THE REPUBLIC" on camera like Mélenchon did.

I'm sorry but if you can't at least admit this, there's nothing we can gain from this conversation.

2- Did you watch the video? It's clear that his idea of governing is "conquer[ing] power but also exercise it in a revolutionary manner!". If he's not talking about his understanding of democracy, then I don't know what he's talking about. In any case he's explicitly supporting using "revolution" and "conflictualization of everything" to "conquer power" and "exercise it in a revolutionary manner". If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

3- I'm sorry but I won't bother read stuff from LFI, they so often fail to be relevant, throwing nice-sounding ideas around, they don't care if they work, everything sounds so easy, "pay people more", "more money to education", "more money to health care", "lower retirement age", "more democracy", "more power to the people". All of that we can't have because of [some target group]. [some target group] are conspiring against "the people". Can't you see it's just a "nice" and empty ideology? It has a name: demagogy and populism.

4- I'm not surprised some powerful people support a demagogue. While it'll be bad for most people, opportunists can really profit from such a regime.

5- This quote is just there to remind you that LFI have it very easy, they point at "authoritarian" Macron, while they burn mannequins of him, threaten to behead him like Louis XVI, put his head on footballs, etc. They can do all that borderline stuff with no consequences. They just support these massive hate campaigns. Which is maybe ok? Because it's free-speech? I don't know, it sounds like hate speech to me. But in any case they have it soooooo easy, compared to any country with actual authoritarian leaders. It's easy being InSoUmIs in a free country. They are just highly privileged people, pretending to be oppressed and revolting against an imaginary "dictatorship". Can't you see that? It's so obvious to me.

Let me add a 6th point. The way Mélenchon blames Ukraine, apologizes Putin, his completely ridiculous stance just before the war started, saying that Russia would never invade and that it was all a big plot from US/NATO as always... He was soooooo wrong on that one, it's just embarrassing. He's wrong on so many things, but he just angrily moves forward, finding new enemies to denounce, new polemics to surf on, never acknowledging his spectacularly failed predictions. I simply can't understand for the life of me how can educated and honest people fall for such an obvious fraud.
> basic social mores that they and their neighbors agree upon.

> not allow them to go to school with all of the other kids with smartphones, not allow them to have any friends over with smartphones, not allow them to go to friends’ houses where the same measures aren’t taken

There's some dissonance here.

When I was a kid my parents (and my friends' parents) didn't let us stay up all night watching TV. And the TV had parental controls so we couldn't watch the restricted channels.

They generally supervised our computer usage and computer time. They weren't hovering over our shoulders but they regularly checked in so we knew they were around.

It's often obvious when kids are doing something they know they shouldn't because they either get real quiet or real loud.

Parents on HN often say it's socially damaging to not let kids have smartphones because the other kids have smartphones.

If smartphones are such a big issue (and not just for porn) then why don't parents get together at a PTA meeting and agree to only get their kids dumb phones?

They'd all save money and even if it's only most of the parents that agree then the social standing argument should matter less.

> What is my reasonable responsibility as a parent who doesn’t want my kids to drink vodka? Don’t leave it around, don’t buy it for them, don’t let them go to friends houses where the parents do either of the former. There’s a chance someone could sneak it onto a school bus, but it’s not always there just a tap away.

You know pornography has existed for ages right? The pre-internet movie trope of teenagers keeping dirty magazines under their mattress is a trope for a reason.

The general problem has always existed. In my opinion it's a matter of being involved in your kid's life, making sure they know they can talk to you, and most importantly about establishing trust with your kid.

If you have good reasons your kid shouldn't look at porn, and you explain them, and they understand those reasons, and they trust you, and you trust them then I think in most cases you're probably going to be ok.

Sure, that last "and they trust you and you trust them" bit will fail sometimes. But that's why parenting is hard. And the lessons learned from breaking that trust will be important lessons on how relationships work.

I stole money from my sister a few times and my dad eventually caught me. It was a pivotal learning experience on relationships and trust for me.

As an aside, with regards to the vokda bit. Here in Louisiana there was alcohol at most parties I went to in high school. It was almost absurdly available.

Afaik it's was sometimes (usually?) even legal. Teenagers aren't allowed to purchase alcohol but possession/consumption on private property (or with legal guardian approval) can be. [1]

[1] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/underage-drinking/state-...
Reddit seems to think that Starlink is already serving users via sat-to-sat optical links https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/xsupcn/laser_link...
Ditto, would like to understand this. Lineage OS has much greater device support than Graphene. If you don't install Play Services why would Google have a say?
This kind of generic emotionally-charged flamebait is appropriate for Reddit or the YouTube comment section, not Hacker News. There's no useful information in this comment, and it doesn't inform others or satisfy intellectual curiosity - it's just there to stoke up anger.
Nvidia's shares surged almost 200% on an AI boom. But will they stay there?
If you want food safety inspection results to be paywall-free, make your government do them.
I had forgotten this particular peculiarity of Oregon as the last 2 times I passed through, it was in an EV. Not that the EV transition is going to happen overnight, but one way or another, the future of gas station attendants is looking limited.
Thanks for the writeup. I had the opportunity to use StimulusJS at a recent opportunity and couldn't agree with it. I found several issues with the patterns it encourages, such as:

-magic variable transformed from props, lots of uncertainty between the HTML attributes I typed and the actual name of the JS variable
-have to now define these magic variables in typescript
-defining values and automatically converting strings / numbers magically seems hacky
- why does it ask to separate CSS classes into it's own special attribute and magic variable?

I feel like I'm speaking crazy when I see anyone recommend Stimulus and from my experience I'd much rather just use web components without shadow DOM. Seriously, EVERYTHING Stimulus does web components do 10x better and cleaner. They both try to do the same thing but the Stimulus approach honestly came across as a high school final project taken too far.
Do you think all 8+ million residents of NYC are trying to get rich? It’s not all investment bankers and engineers.
I should clarify that I didn’t mean to imply that he does not resonate with you personally, and meant to direct that at future readers curious about the subject but skeptical about a particular style of delivery.

And I agree, meditation and mindfulness are not some ultimate prescription, but a stepping stone.
I would definitely leave. Maybe for an intern that would be acceptable, otherwise red flag.
> the same input always gives the same hash value, so you can retrieve your item just fine

You’ll retrieve a bunch of items that hash to the same value, so not exactly. You can retrieve the set of items that have the same hash as your item just fine - which is not exactly the same.

> A hash _map_ is not a hash _function_.

This is more or less what I was getting at. I know hash functions aren’t bijective, but hashmaps are often used as if they are. I guess I’m not sure if LSHs refer to a family of functions or hashmaps, and I guess the word hashes often implies functions - my bad.
Definitely at the limits of my understanding here, but I don’t believe so. I believe the very high pressures simply force materials into more compact arrangements of bonds.
In the end it does not matter how Japan acquired the ability to build the bomb.

I just searched wikipedia, and it appears this ability is widely known and acknowledged. It even has a name: nuclear latency [1], the ability of a state to develop a nuke on a short notice, also known as the "Japan option". Wikipedia lists that these countries have this ability: Japan, Canada, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan. All these countries want to have friendly relations with the US, so presumably they would not build a nuke without first asking for permission. But if these relations were to go sour then we'd see a few new nuclear states.

Just today there was discussion here on Hacker News about Sweden pursuing more nuclear power towards its goal to decarbonize. Sweden is not a NATO member yet. Could they one day decide that a few nukes could be the best insurance against Russian aggression? Finland is a new NATO member, just like Poland. Both share an uncomfortably long border with Russia. Both have numerous nuclear power plants. Will they one day seek nukes? Or at least seek to acquire "the Japan option"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_latency
He is being evaluated and paid based on the quality of his electrical engineering output. If it's not good it's not entertaining for his particular niche.

But that is beside the point. Whether he is paid for "quality of his electrical engineering output" doesn't matter. He is paid for doing engineering, which means he is a professional.
I don't. I think adblocking is a form of petty theft. If something has too much ads, I don't use it or pay for the ad-free version. I pay for YouTube Premium.

Also adblocking does reduce some experiences. Some sites will tell you to disable it, and that's more irritating than the ad banners.

I had conversation with my daughter on how games used to have no ads but now they're chock full of ads, but TV has no ads now but up to a third of TV was ads when I was her age. I think there's a bit of nostalgia to ads, that some shows were designed for it. Even if it's those dodgy Evony ads. I can watch Futurama without ads today, but it feels like something's missing. Netflix shows drag out, maybe because it's missing the "grind" of ads?
If you haven't used it before, Timesketch [1] is excellent indexing and searching timeline data for forensics analysis.

MVT takes a (MACB) timeline of your phone backup file changes and other events - including your text message history.

Here is a simple script that I wrote converts it into a format compatible with Timesketch [2] so it's trivial to explore events from the phone, indexed and searchable by time, kind of what you would see in Kibana.

[1] https://timesketch.org/

[2] https://github.com/x1sec/mvt2timesketch
On iOS you can disable cellular data and it won't allow the app to connect to the Internet, and you can work on Wifi Assist to remove cellular data even on wifi

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-or-change-cellul....
'In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2].'
Because it's not always used for monitoring the main battery in a car. If you have a caravan, camper trailer, boat, etc with a battery in them then you often want to know what the charge is, but they don't have OBD2.

Why would a caravan, etc have a battery you ask? Inverters, lighting, fridges, USB chargers.. Lots of reasons.
If only they did something about the lies of traditional media. Media Watch only highlights the issues but does nothing about it.
It was a Cyanogen feature called "Privacy Guard" in later releases. The devs haven't clearly explained what happened but it was likely threats of losing access to Play services and the Play store. Play services is the poison pill Google uses to support invasive tracking and ad delivery and they won't abide any interference with it.
Back in 2010 when I was into Arduino I made a GPS/GSM Car Tracker with my Arduino Mega (ATMega 1280, an 8-Bit 16MHz MCU).

I did that by speaking AT serial to a Telit GM862-GPS module. I can’t find the actual CPU spec now but it contained a much more powerful CPU, I recall it being ARM but can’t find evidence of that now :) it also had a python interpreter.

Same energy.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/7917
Just surpassed 48 comments here tho :/