skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the immortality talk around the topic. I am not an expert and this is not an informed argument, but intuitively feels this whole ”anti-ageing by chemical cocktails” cannot be sustainable forever. There must be a price for injecting increasing quantities of proteins to the body to turn back the clock. Imagine a headline from 1893 about discovery of meth: ”Japanese scientists invent an injection that cures humans from the need to sleep”. It turns out there is a price for messing with the system.

So I do not believe any immortality of the human body by these synthetic interventions is possible. Kicking the can down the road certainly and would be nice to live healthy longer.
pixo é arte
>I do see worker dislocation in certain sectors…

Which was my point. Knowledge workers (and the types of people who gravitate to knowledge work careers) will be dislocated and what work remains may not be as rewarding both financially and personally to these kind of people. People of course adapt, but would that person sitting on the autism spectrum who can thrive and make exceptional income as a SWE be able to adapt to a less cerebral career? Will there be mentally rewarding work for those displaced? Those are real concerns and a possible butterfly effect of AI.

My hope for my grandchildren is to pursue careers that can weather the automation and AI storm. Becoming a plumber might be literally shit work, but it’s one trade that is AI and automation proof for many years to come.
I really improved my lifestyle (exercise, diet, etc.) once I realized that right now, living longer has whatever the opposite of diminishing returns is. Each year that I live doesn't just give another year, it also gives me whatever additional time that life extension technology comes up with that year. It's plausible that the value of some extra year is infinite, because that's when we get to the point of immortality. I hate running, but given that math I feel compelled to get up and put on my running shoes.
I lived there. The adverts were making the city ugly. It was a massive improvement when we got rid of them.
That's why actors are celebrities spending millions on drugs while game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job
It's funny because arguably you achieve less safety routing your traffic through someone else's servers.
it depends on a lot of questions:

- Where are you, the degree of abuse of power from network
carriers wrt. things which change when users use VPN hugely differ.

- Who are you the degree of risk you are exposed to where VPNs can help
can differ a lot.

- What do you do, e.g. if you do stream you probably want to keep your pace of
of living private and in turn a VPN can noticeable reduce the risk.

- Which VPN do yo use, some are pretty bad, some outright malicious, many soso,
some focus more on the "private network" part and might not provide the same
degree of privacy for some use-cases. Also some come with additional security
features, e.g. preventing connections to known malicious servers and sides (which
also can be abused by whoever provides that features, so not always a plus).

- What do you even mean with "safe".

All in all I would say depending on the country you are if you are a "typical non technical user" the answer rang anywhere from "yes, quite a bit" to "no it makes no relevant difference".
Agree, São Paulo is as bad as most 3rd world big cities.

But one less problem is one less problem, even if it isn't a big one. You get better when you eliminate problems.
I think they were planning to support the first generation fairly long-term, so you probably don't want to wait for a Steam Deck 2.

I think I've seen people that can't get their hands on it through "official" means get their own by arranging a delivery through someone else on Reddit for instance. I don't know if you'd be comfortable with that solution though.

EDIT: they are planning to support the Steam Deck long-term, but they said nothing about the first generation -- my bad[1].

[1]: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamdeck/images/pres...
You can play switch games on the Deck but I wouldn't call it a Switch competitor. The Switch is targeted at family gaming with colorful multiplayer games and inoffensive titles.

The Deck is just a handheld console. It's a successor to the PSP more than it's a competitor to anything else. The fact it's implemented as a laptop with a weird keyboard makes it very flexible, so things like emulation become easily available without having to resort to hacking your console or jumping through dev mode hoops.

The Deck is great for use in circumstances where you can't get behind a full desktop, like in public transport, or when you just want a quick session without having to boot/update/log in/load/save/quit/shut down. The sleep/resume functionality is very good, so quick five minute bursts in games that would otherwise take half an hour to load are suddenly a possibility.

It works for gaming on the couch, in bed, in public, anywhere but at your desk, really. I suppose you could also use it as a desktop computer if you attach it to a USB C dock, but I don't think that's the primary intention of the device.

If you're content with your desktop gaming experience and don't see yourself gaming anywhere else, the Deck is probably just not for you.
Well, that really speaks to your worldview and your ideas on the meaning and purpose of life. Why is that a problem?

Is the purpose of life hedonic consumption, where there seems to be no other point than racking up a high score? Is there something more?
Nah it's not, it makes it look abandoned like you said; they should put in some color, art, character, etc. But not graffitti art, while I don't hate it, I'm sure there's good alternatives to spruce up a city.
The use case mentioned for http is: you have edge services that need to be able to query a db and http might be the only open way to communicate. Exactly why you run on the edge or use sqlite is actually off topic. I mean I run User Mode Linux in production because it was just easier than the alternative when we first developed it.
Luckily there is something in between "ugly advertisements" and "no advertisements at all"
How AI Influences What You See on Facebook and Instagram
Most people I know in their 60s would way rather be in their 60s than dead
I have both, I default to the Steam Deck for most things - but use the Ally for incompatible games, alternative launchers, and Gamepass.
I live in Norway and got one - you just need a delivery address. I used a friend’s; but there are forwarding services as well
Do believe that a human learning from a book is fundamentally different than training a model off of it, and thus should be regulated differently?
What? No, I follow people tweeting in public. I almost never tweet, but when I do it’s public as well.

To be honest I don’t know what you meant on your comment. Was it a mix of tautology with true Scotsman? You have to follow outraged people to say you are properly on Twitter thus if you are properly on Twitter the outrage is unavoidable?
We can’t really legislate what is art and what isn’t. The previous government wanted to make Brazilian art “heroic” and we all know how it ended.
Wouldn’t AWS collect the same metadata on your traffic “to deliver a better service, fight abuse and etc”?

Genuine question, I don’t know. I feel like they are better than any ISP, but still monitor traffic on their networks.
Especially as you are more and more at risk of wrongful convictions based on (erroneous) big data and stupid laws. Nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide only works with a perfect system which dont exist outside of fairy tales.

Also dont think those are contradicting concerns. Be careful with what you trust which ISP or VPN provider with. Thinking you are good with just going with either category instead of the other is a recipe for disaster.

Also worth mentioning that to lock your ISP properly out, take a look at hardware firewalls with whitelists and properly chosen signatures for the vpn tunnel. Especially if they are forcing a router into your home network.
I find the articles take on the quality of wood used for framing to be strange. They talk about how Europe does it (kiln dried), but they don't mention how it's done here in the US. It seems that the author is suggesting that houses here in the US are built primarily out of green wood (i.e. wood that hasn't been air or kiln dried).

I also think that the author needs to come to Florida and look at new home construction. The vast majority of new SFH homes being built are concrete block due to various factors (hurricanes, termites, etc).
Advertising is not definitely a problem to begin with, though. Advertising helps with a robust commercial industry and generates revenue for municipalities. Can it be done wrong? Of course. Nuance is lost on folks I suppose.
I am very positive about that.

Thr name change didn't do much. They are still colloquially known as Facebook. And meta also this bad vibe because of the failed metaverse.

It is smart they choose IG to use for this. It has a different user base. More around communities and interests, and less toxic?
Just look at what we let them get away with now.

I’m sure a lot of people would defend the arrangement. “Of course Elon Musk can have inmortality and you don’t. He’s a genius”.
I think logical and incremental next step is the whole brain connectome of business analysts at bank of america technology division.
Did this arrangement work out for everyone?
Lots of baseball players used to do this.
My AI generated novel via automuse is better: https://xena.greedo.xeserv.us/books/network-stranded.html
You could probably RMA it for the hot pixel to get that fixed
They didn't use the ferret to clean it. Just to put a string through it so that they could pull a more traditional cleaning solution through.
I think as this technology gets cheaper and better, another, more insidious application is using it to overwhelm support channels.

Fake or false alarm 911 calls are a problem today. Imagine someone "attacking" the 911 system by spamming it with fake calls.

Or calling up / spamming/ etc. help lines for e.g. returning defective merchandise, clogging up support agents and costing money.

Spamming your local coffee shop because one morning you felt they were rude. Leaving 1 star reviews everywhere, but over time, so it's harder to detect.

Placing tons of orders and cancelling them before being charged, hopefully leading to wasted effort.

We may need a CloudFlare for everything, also powered by the same technology
The iOS UI has to determine intent from touch input, so as more gesture-based controls have been added, the OS needs to figure out what you're trying to do. Tap. Tap and drag. Scroll. Slide. Whatever. If your intent is one action, but your inputs don't match the actual requirement for what you want to do, you get bizarre behavior.

For the flashlight in particular, the button inside the control center can do a few different things—including closing the control center entirely—if you fumble the tap even slightly with an upward push of the thumb. With the Lock Screen, a sliding motion of any kind will just not turn the light on if your slide doesn't begin and end inside of the UI element that you're entirely obscuring the view of with your enormous fingers. You can accidentally open the Lock Screen customizer. It's even possible to get haptic feedback from the lockscreen flashlight button without actually turning it on.

While I don't have any of these problems, I am familiar with them and have observed others struggle. There are accessibility settings that are designed to help (repeated input filters and such) but they all slow the UI down and somehow make it more confusing because the phone is just more likely to do nothing rather than the wrong thing.
Because they can, because this is how natural selection works, because this is the soul essence of the capitalism, because cartels and monopoly is what they want to become at the end of the day to squeeze even more money and suppress any concurrency in the process (nothing personal for them it is just a survival strategy). The better question is why are they allowed to be like that? The short answer is money. The politicians are cheap to buy these days. The longer answer - no body gives a fck beside those wich are loosing money. Most of the population does not even understand what exactly they are loosing. Take an IBM for example, they are known to kill any concurrency for decades already. Nobody gives a fck.
"animal models" is a fairly standard phrase in research: When people research depression, alzheimers, cancer, etc., they generally start with mice and work their way up through monkeys before coming to human trials. For many conditions there's specific "lines" of mice that have been bred or even genetically modified to exhibit those conditions in a reliable or extreme way. Depression is particularly challenging since you can't ask an animal how it's feeling, and frankly nearly all animals used in laboratories are understimulated, removed from their natural habitat, and probably a little "depressed". (see e.g. the "rat park" studies (https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-tea...) that showed that rats were much less likely to self-administer cocaine if they were in an environment that let them have a more enjoyable/fulfilling/natural life otherwise.)

So anyway "animal models" just means "an animal mice/rats/monkeys/etc. that we have decided has enough of the same symptoms of the human disease that we can use it to study treatments of that disease", and it's fairly common for something to work in mice but fail in monkeys, or even to work in both mice and monkeys but not work or have very undesirable side-effects in humans. (side note: one of the least discussed things in pharma is how they source the first humans for trialling a new treatment, which does carry non-trivial risk to the human "guinea pigs" - it's generally people who are poor and desperate.)
The idea, that the public, in violent surges, could reject the most outrageous violations of the almende, it seems to be to alien to comprehend for some market liberals. The beast of burden just has to take it and thats the end of the story.
Ask HN: SendGrid keeps rejecting me for a new account. Any advice?
Greetings!

I'm working on a new side project that involves sending emails to registered users. I've used SendGrid at work at generally had a very good experience with their product. But when I tried signing up for a new SendGrid account, my account got suspended almost immediately (didn't even complete the signup process).

I tried again with some slightly different information (still all accurate), and still got suspended, but also got an email from SendGrid Support asking for info about myself and my business. I sent them the answers back. The next day I got a response saying that I was still rejected and they (Support) couldn't tell me why. Here's the email...

Hello Chris,

Thanks for reaching out.

Twilio SendGrid leverages many different vetting techniques and as such, we will not be able to activate your account.

Our system does not provide myself or other members of Support with details regarding decisions made in the sign-up process.
As such, we are not able to provide any more information to you.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Best Regards,

Twilio Consumer Trust Team

I get that SendGrid must be in a constant battle with spammers and I appreciate that they don't want to disclose too much about their vetting process. Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there anything I should try to get past their vetting?

Thanks!
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I could see a combination is eye tracking + alt tab to work for vr
I didn't see a single reference to AI in the article, so what does AGI have to do with anything?
"But based on the 400m orebody results, do you have any suggestion for how much phosphate this "rock" might contain at reasonable mining depths based on todays technology?"

Odds are they found a massive body of apatite. If so, huge amounts of phosphates.
Indeed!

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The Transistor Cliff
Because of supply chain issues
Your use of highscool makes me think you're american, because you don't seem to understand the concept of kids going to school on their own. It doesn't matter if the school has the number to the parents if the kid is taking a 30 minute bus ride, or a 30 minute bicycle ride, to and from school themselves.
When I was young and optimistic, I was doing a bunch of side IT jobs. At one, a local insurance company needed to replace their Windows NT server. Instead of going with Windows 2000, I talked them into me setting up a RedHat Linux server running Samba. I had a few hiccups as the workstations weren't actually connected to a domain originally, but I eventually got them all going with AD login, roaming profiles, tape backups, etc. The big selling point was the open source nature, free updates forever.

Less than six months later, Redhat announced that the were going to discontinue RedHat Linux and start releasing their new RedHat Enteprise Linux. This left me rather angry and embarrassed. It was definitely a turning point in my understanding of FOSS. It also made me a lifelong Debian/Debian derivative user.

I've supported RHEL professionally, even getting RHCEs in it. RedHat has also contributed a lot to the open source community. But I've certainly never forgot that first pivot, so I'm not surprised with their recent decisions regarding RHEL's source code.
I used to experience a very similar problem [1]. They say NNs are bad at counting. But at least your picture has kind of a single piece of bananas, my problem remained unsolved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32875215
yt-dlp will give it to you.
> sure it's not like several banks have collapsed or anything...

That's too bad for the shareholders of the banks but it doesn't matter for anyone else.
Yes, but the etymology is easily googled and would reveal that that suggestion is not correct: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telemarketing#Etymology
Two points in response. Then I'm done. You can have the last word if you want it (and if you're still reading this, this long after the initial post.)

First, "such a project seemed hopelessly large for our resources: much simpler and smaller tools were called for." This actually is what I was arguing - you could do things (like write or port an OS) with a much smaller group, which opened doors that were closed by more "advanced" tools/languages. The barriers to entry were lower, so lot more people were able to do a lot more things. There was massive value in that.

Second, it's not like the legislature made it illegal to work on all these other approaches. They were abandoned because the people working on them abandoned them. Nobody put a gun to their head.

This kind of goes back to the first point. C opened a lot of doors. Research stopped in some directions, because new areas opened up that people found more interesting.

In fact, this whole thing has a bit of a flavor of the elites mourning because the common people can now read and write, and are deciding what they're going to read and write, and it's not what the elites think they should. You (and the people you quote) are the elites that the people left behind. You think that yours is the right path; but the people disagree, and they don't care what you think.

(The point about hardware from 1958 being less than a PDP11 I will concede.)
Please read what Purtanism is, before you start talking about it. E.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans

(short version - puritanism was a movement that orignated on the British Isles, and spread to the US from there. It never ever made it to Poland).

As for the original issue - once it's visibly obvious that you're over 18, nobody asks you to produce your ID. The only exceptions are automated (self-service) tills.
Rich Text Editing Is a Layouting Problem
So pleased with my steam deck.

So far I have played a bunch of old classics I brought 10 years or so ago which worked flawlessly, now playing “Return to Monkey Island”.

I cannot spend time sitting at a PC playing games these days with kids around, being able to pick it up and put it down on demand is frankly amazing. It is the best thing I’ve owned for years.
Every generation has trouble dealing with the changes in the younger generation. Imposing luddite behavior us just dumb.

I speak as a father of teenagers.

Better they learn responsible use than have it imposed.
They definitely can and do collect the traffic. But most ISPs actively sell your data to marketers. I don’t think AWS does that.
I am using the version you can install via `brew install sourcegraph`, though they seem to have abandoned it to make people install Cody (which requires an account even for local use). I will probably use the Brew version for as long as it works. The major pain point is that it seems to have a timeout for repo discovery at 5s, so you can't just clone all of your GH starred repos and search them this way.

P.S. Started a discussion regarding the Homebrew package, but pretty sure it's canned: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/discussions/54589
Parallel invention, missing attribution or same person?

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1675393593953878016

Utilitarians: what's stopping you from spinning up a 1M H100 cluster and putting these fruit flies in an infinite state of orgasmic bliss?
It's the same for mssql.

A bunch of inserts in a single transaction is generally fast and unproblematic. Though if you have weird clustered indexes and a lot of concurrency you might run the risk of frequent deadlocks.
Love it.

One feature that doesn't get mentioned or appreciated enough is the perfect sleep capability. I have 2 young kids and busy work/family life so I struggle to dedicate gaming time. I might get 20min or I might get interrupted in 30s after I sit down. No problem! You hit the power button and it sleeps instantly, and whenever you have time next you seamlessly and perfectly pick up where you were. This removal of overhead for booting and loading the game makes a massive difference for people like myself.

Otherwise, its interface is great and gets out of the way. There is any number of awesome games available and I've found I've played games I might not have on pc anyway. And a lot of games have seamless cloud saves too - for example I'm playing witcher 3 now and I can play here and there during the day on steam deck and then if I have time for a bigger session I pick it up on pc.

Games I've enjoyed on it include outer wilds (CANNOT recommend that one enough!), steam world dig 2, Dex, into the breach, backbone, and a lot of others.

Edit / p.s.: for me it's size is a plus btw. With Kishi+phone, Nintendo ds and even Nintendo switch, my fingers tingle and wrists hurt after a while. The wider and more natural spacing / angle of the larger steam deck means I can play with no such ergonomic issues.
If I were a telemarketer, I'd object to the improper use of "fornicate" which implies the sex is extra-marital.