skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very impressive work and I'm glad people are doing it. For any billionaire, funding it would be a no-brainer.

That said, it makes more salient for me the dichotomy between demos and reality. This demo looks very much like molecular biology does in the movies.

But what is it to look like something "in the movies"? I don't know exactly... All tools have overhead, no matter how cleverly designed. Maybe "the movies" is what you get when you ignore this overhead.

There's a clear phenomenon in looking back on old demos and concluding we must have taken a wrong turn because our systems are still not as good. This is true of Victor's own demos from a decade ago, and many well-known demos from decades earlier.

But rewatching a Victor demo earlier this year, which had blown my mind when I saw it live, it seemed full of a kind of naivety (and a bit of sleight of hand). Of course, he made clear it was only a demo. It was meant to inspire. But now I feel that's an easy excuse for not investigating what really advances our use of tools – and what holds it back.
Schools don't have to be racist in order to end legacy admissions and other non merit based practices. End them all.
> Isn't Facebook allowed to go, sorry, I don't like that price?

It really depends on the laws involved. If the government decides Facebook accepting certain terms is the cost of business, then Facebook doesn't get a say in it. Kind of like taxes. If you want to operate in a country, you're taxed accordingly. In general, you don't get to not pay a tax just because you don't want to.

Basically, if the law allows, they can. Reasonability doesn't have a lot to do with things at the upper levels of government.
You don’t. You request them from a RIR. Some charge yearly/allocation fee per-resource, but RIPE doesn’t. With RIPE you just pay the LIR fee, but IPv6 and ASN itself comes with no fees whatsoever.
I really love what you said, and this is why I did it too.

The journey is long and hard and there are a ton of bumps along the way to complain about. But the overall journey is worthwhile.

I think it is similar to marriage. If you meet someone who's been married for 50 years, and you ask them how it has been they will say it was wonderful and then immediately start telling you about all the tough times them and their partner went through. THey might tell you how hard it was when they both lost their jobs or when they almost broke up 10 years in, but they still love the other person and are happy to have had them.

To an outsider it feels like these aren't compelling reasons to get married, but the married person has other feelings that are hard to quantify like the joy of being next to their partner during the hard times, the ability to share in the joys of that new job, the ability to offload some of their stress, or even the joy of waking up next to them each morning. Those outweigh the shitty things, but the shitty things often get mentioned the most because they stand out.

I think the same thing is true for the PhD. It takes most people 3-7 years (averaging around 4.5) to get a PhD. This is a significant journey that will have ups and downs. You hear all the shitty things on here. But there are joys of learning something you truly love at a detail of focus that is not possible with any other degree. There is the joy of breaking new ground with research and the satisfaction of being the shoulders that future generations will stand on with their own research. The joy of having a paper published or the networking that you get to be a part of. The journey is worth it. It is unique for everyone and you are in control. Its a ~5 year journey that will inheritly have ups and downs. Do you need a PhD to succeed in life? Certainly not. But can it be one of the core pillars of your life if you choose to do it? 100% Yes.
Two big 'ole thumbs up for Kubesail and the Pibox! Been running mine since November of 2022 and it's great. As a complete novice I was able to self-host Jellyfin, Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Resilio Sync, and Flatnotes pretty much all in a few minutes. The Pibox is great, and the folks at Kubesail are wonderful.
Idk, if we could bring back the heritage minutes and the canadian house hippo, I'm all for it.
I'm not even remotely knowledgeable about this, but I'd assume saltwater would wreck plumbing. The connection in and out would probably be degraded much quicker. Then the water treatment plants would have to deal with dirty salt water, which is probably more difficult.

On top of that all the brine that people produce in their homes would have to be disposed of, and I'm sure many people would just end up flushing it down the drain. So the water treatment plant would have to deal with highly concentrated, contaminated saltwater.
Really? Twelve year old wants to buy a six pack and you say okay here you go kid.
Dedo something fishy. But accounts are created ages ago
what does Tab Container extention do that isn't in the default container tabs?
It's cedeing not seeding.
Perhaps you’re still learning to enjoy life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nahel_Merzouk

> His judicial file included 15 recorded incidents, including use of false license plates, driving without insurance, and for the sale and consumption of drugs.
That's really cool! Thanks for pointing this out.
The world has not picked a path at all. We are currently still dependent on ICE cars. And the BEV era will come and pass without ever seriously challenging that dependency.
My bad, I missed the IME part!
> And so, by restricting usage, Elon Musk is hoping to prevent its data from being pulled into LLMs. He wants to negotiate with AI companies and get paid for the content that they take.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66093324#:~:text=On%20Sa....
yes I also have that impression. If you consider the concrete objectives, this is a good announcement:

- they want to make benchmarking easier by using AI systems

- they want to automate red-teaming and safety-checking ("problematic behavior" i.e. cursing at customers)

- they want to automate the understanding of model outputs ("interpretability")

Notice how absolutely none of these things require "superintelligence" to exist to be useful? They're all just bog standard Good Things that you'd want for any class of automated system, i.e. a great customer service bot.

The superintelligence meme is tiring but we're getting cool things out of it I guess...
Sure, that's great. It's just a flag, a signal to look closer, that's all.
US oil and energy independence is reshaping the world dramatically.

The Saudis are no longer allies and are quickly becoming friends with the Iranians and the Chinese to shore up supply and demand.

The US only cares about middle east oil prices insofar as it goes to secure cheap energy for its allies. Now it looks to South America as its new partner. Manufacturing is moving to Latin America too. Mexico, in particular, is growing by leaps and bounds. Neighboring Texas is going to become a powerhouse of value added manufacturing.

It's a huge geopolitical shift that would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.
Is it there fault if you don't read? or it your fault?

Likewise... who's to blame if a rogue addon isn't responded too?

Same arguments get bundled about stuff for iOS and it's absolutely responsible for companies to be proactive about issues with stuff like automatic updates because failure to do is, in aggregate, is worse because of stuff like zero days.
Not your browser. Seems like there is no benefit to using Firefox.

Just use Brave.
I read the news every day without stressing out about it, and I did not have to go to therapy or whatever to be able to do so. I can't help but think that finding the news stressful is irrational. In the grand scheme of human suffering mainstream news is table stakes. Read about what life is like in North Korea, Afghanistan, Venezuela, or South Africa. When reading an article about US healthcare, think about what healthcare options are available to mothers in sub-Saharan Africa. When reading about the ending of Affirmative Action, remember that 70% of urban Chinese students are admitted to college, compared to only 5% of rural ones.

This isn't to say that finding the news stressful is some sort of moral failing. It's irrational, but humans are irrational. If reading the news stresses you out, then sure, don't read the news.
> But to get people on board, you can't just propose burning it all down, you need to point to a viable alternative.

This may be true for most people, I don't know. However, I personally am fully on board the "burn it all down" train and have been for a while.
This game is exactly like graduate school in a PhD program! Love it!
There's a weird implicit set of assumptions in this post.

They're taking for granted the fact that they'll create AI systems much smarter than humans.

They're taking for granted the fact that by default they wouldn't be able to control these systems.

They're saying the solution will be creating a new, separate team.

That feels weird, organizationally. Of all the unknowns about creating "much smarter than human" systems, safety seems like one that you might have to bake in through and through. Not spin off to the side with a separate team.

There's also some minor vibes of "lol creating superintelligence is super dangerous but hey it might as well be us that does it idk look how smart we are!" Or "we're taking the risks so seriously that we're gonna do it anyway."
Can you give a detailed account on specifics?
Man, i already intended to try Fly for my upcoming hosting needs. Ya'll keep making the pot sweeter, though.

I'm really curious to see how some of these SQLite toolings will work in the "dumb and simple app" case. Ie i'm writing an app that is focused on being local, single instance. Which i know is blasphemy to Fly, but it's my target audience - self hosting first and foremost.

I had planned on trying Fly through the lens of a DigitalOcean replacement. Notably something to manage the machine for me, but with similar cost and ease. In that realm, i wonder which of the numerous SQLite offerings Fly has will be useful to my single-instance-focused app backed by SQLite and Filesystem.

Some awesome tech from the Fly team regardless. Exciting times :)
The extinction risk from unaligned supterintelligent AGI is real, it's just often dismissed (imo) because it's outside the window of risks that are acceptable and high status to take seriously. People often have an initial knee-jerk negative reaction to it (for not crazy reasons, lots of stuff is often overhyped), but that doesn't make it wrong.

It's uncool to look like an alarmist nut, but sometimes there's no socially acceptable alarm and the risks are real: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

It's worth looking at the underlying arguments earnestly, you can with an initial skepticism but I was persuaded. Alignment is also been something MIRI and others have been worried about since as early as 2007 (maybe earlier?) so it's also a case of a called shot, not a recent reaction to hype/new LLM capability.

Others have also changed their mind when they looked, for example:

- https://twitter.com/repligate/status/1676507258954416128?s=2...

- Longer form: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kAmgdEjq2eYQkB5PP/douglas-ho...

For a longer podcast introduction to the ideas: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/116...
Swift creator also influenced though i don't remember where i heard or read that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
That's an interesting angle. My Father actually, by chance, owns a residential drywall and finishing business. The 'did the plumber show up' factor is key. Though I'm not sure why this couldn't be solved by having the subs of a builder agree to give basic job updates. How do residential customers feel about someone's camera watching their house?
Adware and spyware have a long history of silently installing browser extensions to collect more info. Is it really trusted?

Though this kind of thing will generally be removed by the extension block list, not merely blocked from working on some domains.
I'm really glad to see this complete solution drop. I've cobbling together sqlite point-in-time restores, automatic snapshots, and S3 backups with litestream and scripts for too long.

I've been bugging cloudflare to do this with D1+tunnels since D1 was announced and they constantly seemed confused what I was even talking about.
Twitter already reverted it this morning:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/twitter-silently-removes-l...
I also specified that this jellyfish is BIOLOGICAL immortal. If it were provided with a livable space indefinitely, it would live forever.
No.

USPS is technically incompetent. Like, wow. They're remarkably good at keeping decades-old trucks running and at deciphering handwritten, mis-addressed labels, but that's because they've kept people with those skills on staff ... and nearly nobody else.

USPS is already becoming an advertising company. "Marketing mail" is over 20% of revenue (FY 2022), but that doesn't include targeted (first class) ads nor resale (eg periodicals). And with the consistent push to "run it like a private business" (despite having both products and services effectively set by law), I can't see why they wouldn't scrape their email to generate revenue.

There are many options between the extremes of ad-supported and self-hosting. The private sector fills that need, so the government need not step in.
It's such a moot point now. But even when I was still on Reddit I wouldn't touch this sub, it was nothing but people spamming links to their own blogs.
There's been lots of such ideas floating (and patented). But no evacuation method that relies on a motorist having any device or app on them is feasible.
Sounds like you'd get a lot out of Event Storming (if you haven't looked in to it already)
We mow laws with robots. https://yard.bot
I’d rather an explanation why so many expensive shows suck.

Citadel is terrible. As though the show runners have no idea what makes a show like that good. Keep in mind that you’re asking people to suspend disbelief. Don’t continually challenge that disbelief. I tried the show, said meh, tried again and turned it off in disgust. Compare to John wick (same target) doesn’t have a great story, but they ask you to suspend disbelief once and then never challenge you again. It’s got character, pathos. Not magical fucking skis.

Rings of power sucked terribly. I remember being repeatedly amazed at how such a high production value show could grab me not at all. The first fight scene was mind blowing. And yet I didn’t care. The ship they sail in the (second?) episode. Gorgeous, wonderful, compelling. I remember thinking. You built this whole unique wooden ship, and actually learned to sail it just to convince me of the authenticity of the scene. Only to throw it away five min later. The story and dialogue? Utter crap. Don’t even get me started on the narration. Bro. Go back to your notes from your first creative writing class. A quarter of the way down the first page you’ll see something that says “Show, don’t tell.” You need to actually sit down and figure out what that means.

What to know how they get maximum bang for their buck? They need someone on each project (with veto rights) who actually knows how to tell a story.

The thing they’re lacking isn’t expensive, but it does take a bit of rigor and someone with the courage and power to say no.
I don't know about "traditional" systems, but I'm trying to create a modern time-share system for building web apps.

There's a work in progress at: https://gridwhale.com. (Warning: Still primitive and lots of bugs).

My manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@gridwhale/rise-of-the-hyperplatforms-d4a...
I understand how wet bulb temperature works just fine. You didn't need to write a snarky response to engage in this discussion.

Now include climate change raising the temperature and changing the length and severity of monsoon season, continued development raising the heat island effect.

It doesn't matter what the average wet bulb temperature over the entire coty over a long period of time. It matters what the peak wet bulb temperature is for significant number of vulnerable people. The wet bulb temperature only has to get very high once to kill a large swath of people.

I understand just fine the wet bulb temperature has been within safe levels for the vast majority of people so far. My concern is about the future.
Fly gives away a lot for free and yet is cheaper than most NewCloud alternatives. Their patient (and painful) investment in building atop CoLos (instead of BigCloud) will pay off in the long run, just like it did for Cloudflare. Not sure if Fly already builds their own hardware, though.
>I have always had my settings honored

They disabled the setting to enable XUL extensions.

They disabled a bunch of extensions I had installed on firefox android.
Cloudflare workers if you want JS/TS.
I was going to add a comment like "No Kidding!" or "Duh!" but if you click through to the article, it's a dude asking for a system which can represent more nuance in policy arguments. I completely agree and think it's worth the 90 seconds it takes to read. My opinion is a better title for this article would be "We Need Something Better Than The Two Party System."
Recent and related:

Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591247 - July 2023 (91 comments)
Shouldn't this void the arbitration clause and allow it to be heard in court?
bcantrill[1] is here. Does Oxide[2] count as a hardware startup?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcantrill

2. https://oxide.computer/
The confidence really came when I deployed my first few medium-to-large features to production. Positive user feedback, few errors in production and good measured performance made me proud of my work, that’s when I realized that I’m going to be just fine!
I think the problem is in the event of war how do you manage to securely transport a launch vehicle and its payload to South America?
Wasn't there some kind of issue with a leap second sending machines (Linux machines?) off the deep end years ago (and all about the same time)? Conceptually, if you're running a mix of OSs, then there's much less chance of something undiscovered wiping out your entire infrastructure.

There was a story I heard that when working on the avionics for one of their planes, Boeing mandated three separate CPU architectures, with the code developed by three different, isolated, teams, using three different toolsets (languages and runtimes) to minimize the risk of some Unknown Unknown commonality taking them all out. Dunno what actually happened. Could be completely folklore.
Why "security problem"? The wording is telling:

> ...for various reasons, including security concerns.

Security is just a red herring.

Who wins with this move? The cynic in me (who is usually annoyingly right) says Google. Mozilla loses even more trust from its users and Firefox now has a tool to disable ad blockers on websites of their biggest competitor^Wsponsor if they reach a suitable mutual agreement (read: G pays enough for it). Win-win for all the parties that have a say in this. Not users of course, but that's life.
Because it's a Goggle surveillance abomination?

I mean, you're serveer isn't walking into retail stores, so why would Goggle want to track that?

The primary purpose of android is a user data harvesting platform. I'm already dismissing large numbers of modern cars because of this.
There was once a married couple, Jan Davis and Mark Lee who both flew on STS-47, a 7 day mission to Spacelab in 1992.
Not saying sex did happen, but this would be the incident with the highest probability.
> “We’ve met both Google and Meta multiple times to better understand the concerns. We believe we have a path forward and we’re willing to continue talking with the platforms,” Rodriguez said. “We’re convinced what Google is asking at this moment can be done through regulations.”

This here is the most concerning part. The government is making shady back room deals with large corporations. If I had to guess the nature of the deals is "we won't enforce anything or make you pay anything if you agree to ensure that stories that paint the government in an unfavorable light don't stick around."

Even if that's not what the deal is like now that is what it is going to turn into.
Meta is not your local coffee shop.
In Rust (which is the async/await system mentioned in the article), futures don't start until they're polled, so doing the pattern you describe wouldn't even have the ordering part you mention (unless you wanted it to, in which case you could use something like Tokio's `spawn`).
We're working on this solution. Most housing projects have a semi-permanent dumpster, but GC's often have problems with people dumping in their houses' dumpsters, causing them to pay for more refills on their dumpster, which can get expensive.

Since we record motion on site, we typically catch the illegal dumpers, but it's hard to pick out from the many motion events that may occur on a construction site.
LiteFS author here. LiteFS works sorta like that. It provides read replicas on all your application servers so you can use it just like vanilla SQLite for queries.

Write transactions have to occur on the primary node but that's mostly because of latency. SQLite operates in serializable isolation so it only allows one transaction at a time. If you wanted to have all nodes write then you'd need to acquire a lock on one node and then update it and then release the lock. We actually allow this on LiteFS using something called "write forwarding" but it's pretty slow so I wouldn't suggest it for regular use.

We're adding an optional a query API over HTTP [1] soon as well. It's inspired by Turso's approach. That'll let you issue one or more queries in a batch over HTTP and they'll be run in a single transaction.

[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/issues/326
People are just trying to point out who the author is for those not familiar with him.
When I went looking into this feature I saw they're developing a negative permissions list for addons, so you can create exceptions for i.e ublock or dark reader or whatever for specific websites, disallowing them to access your data on that page.
No, just actually represent the situation accurately in what's supposed to be a good-faith discussion. Maybe provide any evidence of the claim you're making. It'd be appreciated.
Search for OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion). Not necessary to build wall, just a big enough pipe to collect cold water from the depth. Then a special contraption will yield pure water from evaporation. Can be done virtually everywhere there is a deep enough ocean.
Email me and tell me jgc@cloudflare.com
I would argue salary employees deserve more tracking since they are given more freedoms.
An hourly worker is paid hourly, and given tasks at a much smaller interval.. often by day and sometimes every few hours.
If you have quarterly goals for salary employees, they probably need more 'tracking' to make sure they are doing what you expect as time goes on.
BoomBot: Serverless Discord bot for fast music generation
That is even worse than thought.

> However this feature can be disabled, or otherwise overridden at this time by the end user when following the documentation[0].

Nefarious features 'enabled by default' is the standard of Firefox. What else have they switched on behind the user's back then?

> I highly recommend you use a minimum amount of extensions anyway. The OP’s extension is a good one from what I can tell but I really only use uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, and tab containers at this point. I guess whenever I use Gnome I end up having to use their extension too which is frustrating but a different story.

You might as well use Brave Browser at this point.