skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You utilize power as a group via coordinated action targeting pressure points and leverage. Understanding how the system you want to influence actually works is a prerequisite surprisingly often omitted.

"Counteracting" individual groups as you propose is a nonsensical approach. It is reactive and at best a second order addendum.

How you read from my comment I was making any assumptions about these groups is your secret alone.
I don’t know if you’ve over qualified to the point you can’t lose (“shitty”), or if this[0] counts. I thought Peter Buck (of R.E.M., most associated w Rickenbacker) might have worked w a Sears guitar too (he might have, but I couldn’t find a reference), but he apparently used a Sears Silvertone amp as a regular piece of his gear[1]. Is buying from a Sears catalog good enough to qualify as “use any tool”?

This is also glossing over the garbage and hand-me-down crap that many grow up with on their way to becoming experts.

[0] https://www.guitarworld.com/features/pro-guitar-players-who-...

[1] https://equipboard.com/pros/peter-buck
The ecology isn't collapsing either.
What a load of woo.

https://groovyhistory.com/amazing-randi-uri-geller-tonight-s...
The Apple Health app does this already. Everything in HealthKit is e2e encrypted.
I replaced it myself, perfectly happy with results. Cost me $20.
Totally makes sense. It needs to be sold exactly like a vehicle.

They probably only want serious people trying these things. And by serious I mean people with the money to spend and intent to buy it.

My first thought when I saw this was how will this work in an Apple store with every Tom, Dick and Mary with at most $100 bucks in their bank account and a bunch of soon to be maxed out credit cards trying this thing but knowing full well that they cannot afford it and will probably not buy it.

It would be a waste of time for Apple store employees to demo this thing for people who are thousands of dollars away from being able to afford it.

By making it appointment only they can reduce the pool of people who would waste their time.

And no, I'm not trying to be a snob, in fact, I am one of these people who could never afford this thing. They'd have to sell it at $500 for it to be in my price range.

I was just thinking about the logistics.
I said "prevent the ultra rich from getting even richer", and you understood "murder tens of millions of people for the cause".

That escalated quickly. I would be tempted to say that you completely, absolutely hallucinated the meaning of my words, but then... well English isn't my first language, so maybe that's on me.
They tried it, but did they keep doing it? i.e. did it work in practice, for real-world work-flows? Was the ROI there, so allocating budget was a no-brainer? I think, if it did, it would have taken over by now.

To me, the question is whether Apple has actually made this work.
Hah, I have to use old.reddit.com for that link. I presume devops is set to nsfw.
The point of the USD as a trading currency lies in its virtually indestructible value combined with malleability. If two countries trade in USD, no party will have a surprise later on.

If two countries trade, for example, in Yuan, and China decides not to buy foreign Yuan in exchange for the other local currency anymore, the value is lost (or at least harder to realize and probably incurring heavy losses).

I'm no economist, but that's my understanding. From this PoV it makes sense to make deals in a gold-backed currency as a replacement for USD. Not sure how they want to get enough gold from to really back it up. Could be possible, didn't research that, but seems of by one or two orders of magnitude.
Re: point 1 -

1. Widespread surveillance camera emplacements, especially in large cities and over highways.

2. Widespread and explicit/implicit use of facial recognition software in conjunction with said camera systems.
QED: "You Need a Stronger Body, Not a Better Bike"

https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/you-need-a-stronger-body-...
Maximus: "Are You Not Entertained? Are You Not Entertained? Is This Not Why You Are Here?"
I could maybe see saying the weight of some celebrity or other mutually-known person could actually cause anchoring, but yeah, that was a joke.
> Are they really insterested in telling us the truth or are they just saying/doing whatever is needed to protect their interests?

regardless of that, shouldn't you also truly believe on "let North Koreans travel freely"?
Judging by the reaction in this thread, I feel like it might noticeably lower the noise floor on the moderation queue!
> It doesn't depend on whether you have location enabled

It's even better: the location can be enabled through a network initiated request. This is because A-GPS works "both ways". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS#SUPL : SUPL Position Calculation Function (SPCF) lets the client or the server ask for the client’s location.

As part of the FCC’s updated 911 requirements, where cell phones (with no set location) are required to be routed to the correct 911 center, aGPS was developed to not only help GPS get a faster TTFF (time to first fix), but to transmit location data to the carrier (and to anyone else who can intercept the data)

> If all of this bothers you, contact your state legislators

If you don't like that and want a quick fix, on android devices check /data/vendor/agps_supl/agps_profiles_conf2.xml for ni_request="true": this is the Network-Induced Location Request functionality, where the network asks for the GPS position. Change that to false.

Personally, I believe 911 AGPS is of limited use: if I'm unconscious and can't dial, the phone 911 AGPS working won't do me any good. If I'm conscious and I can dial, I can also open a map app.

Still, if you want to keep the 911 stuff, just change reject_non911_nilr_enable="false" to true (because yes, by default, everything goes - 911 or not)

There's also lpp_enable="true" (LTE Positioning Protocol, yet another method by which cellular providers can pinpoint your location via aGP
S), imsi_enable="true" (which transmit a unique identifier along with the AGPS request!)

Check also /data/vendor/agps_supl/agps_profiles_conf2_prv.xml

Or even better: don't use a phone. I have a 5G/LTE module in my laptop when I need internet connectivity: it's turned off the rest of the time (rfkill block wwan). You can also disable the power to this M2 port (saving battery if you care about that)
Fun game! Song guessing party game. Easy to use interface, very nice. I was playing alone and too busy guessing to notice, do you include points? Making points and status really flamboyant could be fun. Really celebrating winners and lightly shaming losers could add some zest. Win items and awards? But anyways, bad luck this didnt get any traction at first. It is the slight iteration on those daily guessing games everyone’s comfortable with, which could become popular.
The second part of my comment argues that there are cheap guitars, but maybe the era of shitty guitars is over.
Why not simply target the advertising of the job at traditionally black universities, publications, and social networks? Why all the ai mumbo jumbo to filter resumes from a general marketing strategy?
At least it'll be at all (most?) of their US stores. I drove halfway across the country to NYC to get Google Glass. At least me and a couple friends turned it into a fun vacation.
This is some blatant rhetoric. I cannot help but to call this out when I see it.

> rank among the leading products in their categories by nearly any measure, from consumer satisfaction to performance benchmarks.

When you say it generically like this, it has no meaning. Among? Top 50%

You could say this about any company. Its marketing jargon from the best in the world at marketing.

This is no different than when they plaster 'Security' and 'Privacy' in their ads, yet have worse security than Android(if we use pegasus and zerodium for security) and have been known to hand over data(PRISM, data in Russian and chinese data centers).

It has little to no meaning, but it sounds really positive when you say words like 'rank among' and 'nearly any measure'

Let me pull up single and multithreaded bench marks. "Oh not that measure". "Well it was among, top 36.6 percentile".
This is a story where our hero is the heir to an ancient tradition of seeking immortality, where the most vile creatures in the universe are afraid of him because he thinks death sucks, and who spends the entire ending trying to heal a cryogenically frozen person and bring immortality to the masses.

It's not "easy to miss". The author beats you 'bout the head with his ideology. It's heavy-handed even for something explicitly didactic.
I intentionally flag posts sometimes.

I think a free-form text input for reason would be nice. No one even has to read the reason most of the time.

Providing a reason for flagging serves multiple purposes:

- makes it so that you don’t accidentally flag something when you don’t mean to

- discourages overly aggressive flagging

- in some cases the reason for flagging might be more subtle. So casual review of flagged posts by mods might miss the subtle reason it is being flagged by people. If we explicitly state the reason, it can help mods see why a post is being flagged by people in such situations
The 2010 result is a proof that all cubes can be solved in 20 or fewer moves in the "half-turn metric". TFA is using "brute-force" differently: how to solve a Rubik's Cube without special knowledge about the cube, aside from how its sides turn.
I had 10, all of which were accidental. It's so easy to accidentally hit flag with this UI
The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash
And probably sooner.
Yes, but no.

The proposition isn’t doing X instead of Y.

Regardless of adding bike paths etc., this should be addressed.
More than you could imagine. Climatology is unique in that records can be "broken" by lower temperatures than previous records.

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/16/will-the-real-hottest...
This story cites as its source a Benzinga article which cites as its source a "Russia Today" article.

Basically, Russia and China (with Brazil, South Africa, and India) are said to be "set to introduce a new currency backed by gold, Russian English news channel RT reported." But that's not entirely true, according to India's third-largest newspaper:

"India seems to be the only country that has not shown interest in the plans to launch a new currency. India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar in a press conference held on Monday, 3rd July, 2023 said that India has no plans for a BRICS currency. He declared a month before the summit that India might back out from creating the new currency."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/truth-lies-and-pol...
Bruce Springsteen has used the same 'bitza' guitar which he bought in 1973 for almost the entirety of his career.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-spri...
When I was getting back into recording music I went looking for how other people have their home studios set up. I quickly found http://www.reddit.com/r/musicbattlestations, but people there often hadn't done the basics that would help the most like acoustic treatment, and yet had rooms full of equipment. Whenever someone asked to hear what they'd made it'd be "I'm working on something now..."

At first I was confused but then I realised, their main hobby isn't making music, IT'S COLLECTING TOOLS.
Pros can, in some cases, get to just buy the good stuff without having to agonize over cost. Pro sports photographers are all shooting the best cameras and lenses; when your income depends on the equipment, it can be self defeating to try to thread the needle of cost and performance. Just buy the $4k camera and $4k lens instead of experimenting with low grade stuff and risking a shoot.

There’s nuance to be sure, but at a basic level an amateur has no income offsetting the cost while the pro does.
Show HN: Violet – TUI front end for Vagrant
I'm pleased to introduce Violet, a TUI program written in Go to act as a thin front end to Vagrant[1]. Vagrant is a popular tool used to bring Virtual Machines (VMs) and Docker containers up and down. Violet will give you a global view of the Vagrant environments you have installed and allow you to perform basic Vagrant commands on them, like `up` and `ssh`.

This idea came about because I've seen developers (that struggle with command line and virtualization workflows in general) struggle with setting up and using Vagrant projects. A small UI in front of the Vagrant data could help users in the beginning with the most common tasks.

The project seems to be in a stable place so I wanted to share it. I have a mediocre grasp of Go and even worse understanding of UI/UX, so if you have opinions, please share!

[1]: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/intro
If it's any consolation, the page doesn't show flagged submissions that ended up being removed, so you're likely only going to see stuff you've accidentally flagged.

Flagging could do with a confirmation prompt perhaps.
Reminds me of when an intern told me 'php sucks'. I asked him 'why?'

No response.

Me and another senior giggled.

To him, a programming language was part of his identity. To me, it was just another tool.
the list clearly includes actions from long ago, so this data was recorded, just not visible to the account holder

in that sense, it is somehow a benefit, to see more of what is tracked behind the scenes. It seems obvious that these simple values are easily used make profiles of profiles, in aggregate.
In instruments, going for the absolute cheapest one is almost a recipe for disaster. I don't know about violins, but I had piano classes a decade ago and now I'm with clarinet classes. In both cases, the cheapest option would have push me away from the instrument. In pianos, the cheap electric ones are very crappy, usually don't have the full key range, the weight of the keys is non-existent, and sometimes even the size is wrong, not to mention the sound. For clarinets, you can find ones for less than 100 dollars on Amazon, but they sound like crap, the keyboard is fairly bad and they fight you when you want to make a decent sound. If you buy one of these, the most likely outcome is that learning is so hard and unrewarding that you end up abandoning it after a few months.

Usually the best idea is to start out with the entry level range of established brands. I'm not up to date on pianos, but for clarinets that's $500 minimum. Yes, it's more expensive, but if you have at least a basic commitment to learning it's going to pay off. The other option if you aren't sure is getting a loaned or rental instrument, but please don't buy cheapo instruments because that's just throwing money down the toilet.
1200p used to be fine on a laptop, and OLED might be nice but idk much about how well they do these days yet, but 2.8k is a no-brainer, which I guess would be the equivalent to the bottom-tier Air. I've had a 2560x1600 screen on my 13" for 10 years at this point, it's tough to see how that's a compelling thing to look at for any period of time.
I believe it is 50 years in the US. I can't find it on mobile, but I remember reading an article a while back about some simple "john was here" on some anasazi petroglyph that hadn't been removed because it was from the late 1800s or early 1900s and was considered historic.

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/how-to-list-a-...
Reading the comments it appears that my dad always did the Ian Knot, tried to teach me, but I misunderstood and all this time was just crisscrossing the two loops instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654268
I was going to say exactly this. There are many talented engineers for whom compensation is not their primary motivation.

Working on interesting problems, working in specific domains or working for a mission-based company trying to make the world a little better are all strong motivators.

I suppose the overall pool of available candidates is smaller, but I don’t think the pool of candidates with strong skills is necessarily smaller.

Once you find purpose in your work life, that becomes a compensation all on its own.
> Am I completely missing the idea? I don't think trust in LLMs is all that different from trust in code typically is. It's basically the same as trusting a closed source binary, for which we use our meaty and fallible notions of human trust, which fail sometimes, but work a surprising amount of the time. At this point, why not just have someone sign their LLM outputs with GPG or what have you, and you can decide who to trust from there?

This has been my problem with LLMs from day one. Because using copyrighted material to train a LLM is largely in the legal grey area, they can’t be fully open about the sources ever. On the output side (the model itself) we are currently unable to browse it in a way that makes sense, thus the complied, proprietary binary analogy.

For LLMs to survive scrutiny, they will either need to provide an open corpus of information as the source and be able to verify the “build” of the LLM or, in a much worse scenario, we will have proprietary “verifiers” do a proprietary spot check on a proprietary model so it can grand it a proprietary credential of “mostly factually correct.” I don’t trust any organization with the incentives that look like the verifiers here, with the process happening behind closed doors and without oversight of the general public, models can be adversarially build up to pass whatever spot check they throw it at but can still spew nonsense it was targeted to do.
Ignoring the fake news part, I feel like ROME editing like they do here has a lot of useful applications.
Stuff that! I have crocs, they're sturdy, reliable, and easy to slip on and off. Can even get designs that are more suited for "business" attire.
> You’re so right! It was an absolute disaster for us. Never do it!!!!!

You're still unprofitable after 13 years though, aren't you? Growth is prompted by skyrocketing sales costs.

Does any VC funded company ever ends up not losing money?
https://vaclavkosar.com/
Mostly on machine learning research
Martin-Marrieta?
At some point I keep meaning to learn Ian's secure knot:

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

But I can never quite get round to doing it. I just double knot my shoes and that seems to be sufficient.
Customers of VC-funded companies take note: none of these outcomes are good for you.

When you have a choice between being a long-term customer of a VC-funded company vs a self-funded business, think about long-term incentives and don't follow the rich and shiny.

Disclaimer: I run a self-funded SaaS business and sometimes explain why I never wanted VC funding and why a LARGE BUSINESS is not necessarily better for customers.
I imagine not a lot.

I know I don’t have to.
Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one accidentally flagging submissions! I had about 20 on my list going back to 2011 and only 1-2 were legitimately flag-worthy. Far fewer comments, only 4, and of those only 1 was by error. However my account can still flag submissions, but I noticed recently I don’t have the ability to flag comments for whatever reason.
Yeah, how did the NYT fall for that? Geller was shown to be a fraud decades ago.

If you want to bend spoons as a magic trick, there are at least ten YouTube videos on how to do it.
It also worked with the TV show and recorded VHS's. I think the TV connection worked via the closed captioning somehow. Would be interesting to get more under-the-hood technical details.

(Also, has anyone made a ChatGPT-powered talking doll yet?)
It wasn't clear. If he meant data structures then say data structures. If he meant something different or broader by 'data model' then I don't know what that was.

I value plain, simple code and equally plain, simple writing. I am becoming dismayed at the trend towards fancy labels on basic things. A while back someone talked about 'affordances' in C# which sent me into a tailspin because I thought there was some significant area of the language I'd never encountered. Turns out he just meant attributes and methods.
> We all share the same anatomy and the levers that are your arms perform the same way.

No, there's a huge amount of difference between individuals. Anatomical differences, differences in experience, differences is response to training stimulus, differences in pain perception, etc.

> but bending your back to lift weight weight vs using your legs is improper

Strongly disagree. See any strongman lifting atlas stones [1]. See stiff leg deadlifts.

Also, why is it improper? Who decided that?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju2nRDBa3o0
It's a sterile discussion. So far all the AI tools that I've seen aimed at reproducing the output faster, which may be correct, but not at contextually processing the incomplete input which is usually a mess.

When you realize that software mastery is mostly thinking about that input, it doesn't matter if the tool for the output is your own written code, an AI prompt, a Google search, or a StackOverflow snippet.
look at Adam Savage's Tested youtube channel, in which he makes videos surrounded by a vast mountain of tools, many of which he made or customized himself.

While I don't dispute Mr. Savage's acumen, I wonder what the number and complexity of his tools would look like if he worked in private, instead of the glare of internet fandom.
GPT-4 Code Interpreter model is much better than GPT4
Ask HN: Where Is AI AutoCAD?
I have been wanting AI AutoCAD for a long time and I don't see any programs working on this.

When will we have this?
this reads like a supply chain of a drug cartel
Devils advocate:

"So the data isnt owned by the host company, its owned by the support company which is a child of the parent company. We are selling that child company to Amazon/FB/Google."

Google didn't buy nest because they were IOT fans.
I have a t420 in my drawer I've been considering doing this with. Years ago before it was old I used to dual boot it with mint and the power management wasn't great. How's your experience been? mind you that was with original spinning drive. what spec SSD did you install? sorry for all the questions.
This promises to be an interesting wrinkle in the history of "Fair Use" law.

Art has some amount of originality/distinctive quality.

One surmises that AI is going to need to inject some entropy to avoid crossing a vague "Fair Use" line, for a useless internet lawyer opinion.
Presumably non-US spies are also spying on US people using US companies. (Not necessarily the same companies.)

As harmful as the OPM hack presumably was for US national security, countless US companies have been collectively assembling comparable-and-more intimate profiles of everyone, and an ongoing basis.

Want to map out social networks (in the original sense of the term)? Know who to focus on and target? Know what an individual's weaknesses are, for neutralizing, compromising, or more subtly manipulating? Automate personalized mass influence operations?

Good news to adversaries: half of the national technology infrastructure is built upon trying to construct that existential vulnerability, and sell it.

(Just trying to frame a pervasive industry/societal problem in a different way, in case that helps to understand it better.)
I tied them exactly the same way until just now, and am also right-handed. The author's statistics may be incorrect. Also, this is going to take some time to adjust.
I love that we're still finding new stuff about the universe all the time. I've watched every episode of How the Universe Works multiple times. I get super excited for a new season to find out all the new things scientists have learned.
Then you slowly bleed nice people as they switch to company that went for money and now is able to pay better.

If you expect company to reject money in order to stay nice, you should be ready to do the same personally. Otherwise it will not work.