skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day, people need to change their habits and consume less (or differently - i.e. paper straws [1]) and the government needs to regulate companies and their pollution - which means we need to vote. If you aren’t willing to change your personal habits, or if you think it’s hopeless, you’re just going to never see change. You don’t have to wait until private jet flights are banned to take action.

[1] I really don’t get the paper straw thing. They’re fine today and they’re going to improve over time.
Good job you put /s there as I was just about to eat it.
All coded in Rust or (better yet) new javascript framework.
Try being disabled. They look at you and think "easy target! Vulnerable person! Most likely lonely!"
Various OpenPGP clients have this feature as well, such as OpenKeychain.

OpenGPG, the the most commonly used implemention of OpenPGP, doesn't have QR codes because it's meant to be a cli and a library.

With an open standard different clients will have different client facing features.
It might be my security hat speaking, but I see it as insecure, regardless of who is man in the middling the connection.

I'm not a tinfoil hat, but security can't hang it's hat on the kindness of strangers.
Nah, they just realize that the sort of rank ideological hatred they're gonna get from the sort of people posting here isn't representative of the software industry as a whole let alone the wider world.

The iPhone is a bastion of remote attestation. You can't just rock up and download apps from the iPhone app store using a convenient API, it's restricted so only the iPhone itself can do it. Do Apple engineers hesitate to use their real names? No, because nobody cares and heck HN threads often fill up with praise over the fact that you can't even install apps outside the app store, let alone download apps from it and emulate them on a PC.

Games consoles are fully based on remote attestation. You can't connect a PC to the Xbox or PS gaming networks because they do RA to keep you out. Do the engineers who work on games consoles have to go into hiding? No, because nobody cares. HN never discusses it because it works and lots of gamers, especially the casual ones, prefer it.

Fact is that users like this tech because it solves problems that they'd otherwise have. The web lacks it and therefore has to rely on user hostile stuff like CAPTCHAs, phone codes, magic JavaScripts and social network logins which people hate, so they switch to native apps instead. And devs hate dealing with all the automated abuse they get, so that pushes them towards app-only services too.
And how exactly does fighting, or by now rather mitigating, climate change require a pre-industrial society?
It seems to me the problem isn't the consumer; it's not the fault of individual selfishness and ignorance. The way the system operates demands this self-destructive consumption continues unabated.

The question I think we should consider is, if giving up these habits is so critical to saving humanity, why are they so cheap? The problem is fundamental to the system, there is no way to dig ourselves out of this hole.
I've come across lots of DIY tips, knots that I can now tie and Photoshop techniques. The algo now knows that I'll watch these.
The flip side is that when people get used to consuming content in 30 second blipverts, they become unable to maintain attention through a 10 second break in the action.

I see this written so frequently. Is there any studies to back up this claim? Please forgive me: Normally, I abhor the "citation please" type of response, but this claim is misleading to me. It just sounds like grumpy old person complaining about speed of the world and young(er) people.

Example: I tried Googling for "does consuming short content make it harder to focus on longer content?". None of the content is scientific research, just a bunch of blowhards writing "it's never been worse" blog posts.
> pre-industrial society

Nobody's talking about that. Your position will get us there.
The Saudis are making a billion dollars a day from oil [1], the personal wealth of the dictator clan is estimated at 1.4 trillion dollars [2] and the real value is likely significantly higher than that, especially if you include assets owned nominally by the government or national companies, but factually under clan control.

So yes, this is absolutely pocket money, particularly if it makes sure that they can't be toppled from the money spigot or that their neighborhood gets destabilized in a second Arabian Spring again. Smaller Qatar spent four times than that on the World Cup infrastructure that was nothing more than a couple weeks worth of sports whitewashing.

We can't apply Western values of "worth it" to people who can sink billions of dollars on a whim in European soccer clubs just because they can.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/saudi-ara...

[2] https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/saudi-royal-familys-dol...

[3] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/influence-game-...
Down voting is a normal thing on HN, even mentioned in the guidelines...
Yeah, my Kagi list of content farms / SO clones which are completely dropped from all results keeps growing. On the other hand, searching just SO from Kagi still seems to give decent results.
I’ve been rubber ducking things since 1999. Kinda like LLM’s “think step by step”.
> As long as a device can be repaired by the owner as much as practical and allows aftermarket operating systems or software to be installed on it, I don't see why a company should have unlimited liability for something they sold.

Unfortunately, most people cannot support devices themselves, even though many of us here can. I do believe a company should have unlimited liability for something they made: why not? At least for 15 years. Most electronics break then so the company should have the responsibility of recycling it should the consumer send back a broken one.

This would reduce the environmental impact of electronic devices and make developing new technology less profitable, which is a good thing.
And the rest of the comments are brigading in denial.

One guy did a "fuck you I got mine" saying that owning an air conditioner makes all of this okay. There are people still in such denial, and they are working together to brigade any mention of a list of hot topics they've been taught on.

We are in the misinformation age.
The Sahara. Famous breadbasket and feeder of billions.
Anyone can have an SEO position wherever they like at the low, low cost of $45Bn
So basically like drifting the car but in 3D
It’s LLMs/ChatGPT, they were chugging along before that. I haven’t used it much unless gpt doesn’t give me results
The projection and MLP layers don't compare all embedding pairs like attention does, so they can't distinguish between contexts where delimiters are low- vs high-importance. The projection layer mixes the multi-heads in the same way always, and the same MLP is applied to every input.
I think, it is rather people not wanting to sacrifice their profits who convince others that their comfort is at stake, that block every meaningful move at at least mitigating climate change...
I'm not jealous of your risk tolerance, that you're willing to bet our world on the on the chance of some magic technical solution appearing.

Imagination is after all, all in your head.
people need to start thinking about what to do with Královec, Czech's new baltic sea port, when Russia collapses later this year
Minor correction: Cooper Lake added bf16. IEEE half-float fp16 only came in Sapphire Rapids (I am currently adding support for it in Highway).
It's a global problem. Time of Europe will come soon enough.
hnrss.org (https://hnrss.github.io/) provides a JSON feed version for every feed, just append .jsonfeed to any endpoint.

known (https://withknown.com/) also provides JSON feeds

micro.blog (https://micro.blog/) does as well

wordpress also has plugins available that generate JSON feeds
"Jochi Khasar, the Khan’s brother, was known far and wide for his ability to hit his targets from more than nine hundred alda, a traditional Mongolian unit of measurement equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of two outstretched arms."

Hrrm 900 Alda is somewhere in the ballpark between approximately 1440 meters and 1620 meters.

That seems a bit far.

https://chat.openai.com/share/983ebd1b-58a7-43b1-8c06-cf6a25... (code interpreter)
Google do that all the time simply because they dislike your opinions or even your fact based arguments.
so the drones in the war of humanity vs machines will be human (incels?) who fight for their "spouses"
Come on, conspiracy theories are fun. It's fun to engage in thought experiments about what could be going on behind the scenes and even more fun to throw them out there to see what other people think.

The original guy didn't even say he 100% believed it as fact. It's just a thought experiment
You're not alone in that preference.

Having company doesn't mean that preference isn't selfish and short-sighted though.

Here are some of the planetary costs of the industrial revolution:

> The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate

> 7% of all species on Earth may have been lost already

> only around 3% of the planet's terrestrial surface is ecologically and faunally intact

> roughly one million species face extinction within decades as the result of human actions

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

If you believe Sky Daddy only cares about humans, or that we out-value all other life on the planet because we invented rocketry and antibiotics, then I guess this is all fine. But I don't, and I'm not alone either.

Just as we can have capitalism without poverty, we can have industry without apocalypse. It'll upset some extraordinarily wealthy fossil fuel people, but they're the ones who put us in this mess.
We are on to something, I just feel it!
> Nuclear chain reactions were first theorized to exist a decade before the first bomb dropped.

Yes, and they were very worried about igniting the entire atmosphere in a chain reaction when they built the first nuclear bomb, and they only proceeded when they showed that that was very unlikely.

> We can deal with the implications of dangerous AI if and when it becomes a problem.

Can we though? What calculation is this based on?
For april fools' day, on my first job as a troublesome ~16-year-old administering our university lab's firewall (academia was a different land when it comes to trust), I set up some automatic network-wide substring replacement filters for incoming HTTP responses to replace `<body` with something like `<body style="transform: rotate(0.1deg);"`. This was in the time before HTTPS was ubiquitous, so it worked on most websites.

Unfortunately, it broke some pages that lab users needed for school. I later learned one colleague wasn't able to complete a homework assignment because of my prank.
Details from an ID card are less invasive that this crap.
Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride [video]
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a course/eBook about scraping and automation?
Hi, I’m a pretty experienced scraper/automator and I was thinking about sharing my knowledge. I originally thought about writing a blog, but I'm not sure that would be the best format to transmit everything I know. Maybe I'll do both.

There would first be a quick introduction to the legacy ways of scraping(i.e GET request+parser), why they’re often not enough today and when can they be still used.

Then I’d delve into more advanced techniques, I usually try to find the cheapest/free solutions to the problems I’m solving but I’ll also compare paid options:

-how to make your scrapers/bots as stealthy as possible

-everything you need to know about fingerprinting

-how to bypass datadome, cloudfare, captchas…

-how to scale to millions of requests

-how to make your own free rotating proxies

-how to do automation on mobile apps and desktops

-how to reverse engineer APIs on the web or mobile

-every tips and tricks I know to scrape better

I may add a section on GPT/LLM, either about how to fasten the development of a scrapers or about how to make self healing scrapers.

Is this a topic that would interest a lot of you?

Would some of you be ready to pay a small amount for an ebook/courses on those subjects?

Thanks
Once the API is there it can be used for forbidding ad blockers.
All towards the end of the alphabet
Give me a break. Science has also saved far more lives than astrology ever has or ever will.
On the one hand, we have digital watches.

On the other hand, we may be about to bring about our own extinction and I'm willing to bet squid will be around no matter how much surface warming and sea level rise there is.

Squid could well be the pinboard to our delicious ...
Auto Scaling in a distributed SQL database
Just happened to read about pneumatic tubes around the world in The Victorian Internet. Even though pneumatic tubes were invented after the telegraph, they didn't suffer the same congestion issues as the telegraph (because you could send messages in bulk, I guess?). And unlike how telegram were charged by-the-word, pneumatic tube messages were charged a fixed price. The book focused more on the Paris pneumatic tube network than the Berlin one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet

https://parisianfields.com/2018/05/20/les-petits-bleus/
I remember when the news came out that AOL was going to connect/gateway to the internet at large.

There was a concerned expectation that there would be a distinct drop in the quality of USENET posts. They did not disappoint.
https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/trademarked-colors/
Meanwhile as a "people" I have to sit here and watch MS, Google, Tesla and god knows who else buy and run as many GPUs as possible and run them at maximum capacity while I'm being told to sit back and stop eating meat, not use my A/C and all the rest of it.

As a people I have to watch the Amazon being chopped down and burned and coal usage being at an all time high, while methane is spewed out by leaking coal seam plants and some how it's something I'm doing wrong?

Imagine how people in Africa feel about all this...we worry about AI wiping out humanity but we're doing a pretty good job ourselves....
Only an HNer would so boldly and unironically contradict Peter Shor. Infinite dimensions aren't needed for any real interaction because the number of particles are bounded, and the precision of any real measurement is itself necessarily bounded, ergo infinite Hilbert spaces simply aren't relevant for any actual measurement. They are as unreal as a Turing machine's infinite tape, which is why quantum computers provide only polynomial speedup over Turing machines.
>* If you're objecting to the goals of the proposal [1], it'd serve you better to outline which goals are objectionable and why. Mozilla folks did a good job at articulating that in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...

Well, you asked for it, so here goes. WEI (IIUC) requires (at least the proposal claims such a thing) "attestation" of my devices in order to ensure that advertisements (and the sites they are displayed on) are actually viewed by humans and not bots engaged in gaming the ad system and 3rd party content creation.

The proposal would require me to give (without choice or recompense) data, CPU cycles, network bandwidth and, most importantly some portion of my privacy to accomplish such "attestation."

Without allowing such intrusions on my private property (i.e., my devices), the proposal as it stands, could (and with wide adoption, would) block me from accessing sites of my choosing. And that's antithetical to the idea of the open internet.

I provide a bit more detail in this comment[0] in a different discussion[1] of this proposal, wherein I detail that these are issues between advertisers and Google that have absolutely nothing to do with me.

Why should I be required to donate CPU cycles, storage, bandwidth and give up some privacy so a multi-hundred billion dollar corporation can better serve its customers (again, neither of whom I have any sort of business relationship with) and improve its financial performance?

Perhaps you could enlighten me on what benefit WEI has for anyone other than Google or its customers (that'd be advertisers)?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860125

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857032
This is not planned obsolescence tho, this is just "well, we don't sell it anymore so we don't support it". Someone have to pay for the ongoing support. I think the most that should be required from manufacturer is opening up the boot (so alternatives can be EASILY installed), and ship drivers with permissive license.
> I still don’t understand why the Video Toaster succeeded on the Amiga and why the software and add on cards didn’t make a successful jump onto PCs and Macs.

Well eventually the PCs replaced the Amiga and the Unix workstations for all the video effects.

But back when the Amiga came out (1985), and then five years later Video Toaster (1990), PCs were still running... DOS. And Apple was still mostly selling monochrome Mac computers (I've got a Macintosh Classic at home which came out in late 1990 and it's still got a monochrome screen).

And 1990 is when it came out: developers had to start working on it before 1990. PCs were simply, back then, complete turds?

I was there and fully remember moving from my Amiga to a 386 PC. This fells like taking a step backwards of several years.

The Amiga was a machine way ahead of its time for its price.

I don't see how that'd have worked before Windows NT (1993) or Windows 95 (1995). As I remember it it's only half a decade later, around 1996, when 3DS Max came out, that people began to take the PC half-seriously for this kind of stuff.
Is the computation graph derived from Rust code directly? Or does the user need to do the graph building?
Twitter's rebrand to X could also be a nightmare because it's fucking dumb.
What we know about LLMs
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I have spent years using discord, slack and teams now so the migration to element as a client was definitely a welcome change. I like the idea of not having my companys historical communication tied directly to a single vendor and being able to host my own local server (and have options of which).

Not surprised governments are taking a look at it, the encryption and usability
seem like a good fit and don't require them to rely on google/microsoft/salesforce for chatting.
I expect, at the minimum:

- a rust port

- an emacs port

:-)
Something not mentioned is Explorer (https://hexdocs.pm/explorer/Explorer.html) which is a very nice dataframe library backed by Rusts Polars https://www.pola.rs/ with great integrations for Livebook https://livebook.dev/.
> It's not going to take off.

It already did: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

It will be a slow descent for reddit, but if you take the "rule" of social media that splits content creators/active participants/lurkers as 1/9/90%, and if we assume that a substantial amount of the 1% is moving away from reddit, then it stands to reason that the other 99% will end up following the creators.

Yeah, network effects are still at play, but there is already a critical mass of people on Lemmy that want it to work. I find myself posting a lot more than I ever did on reddit (or even here) because I look at it as tending a garden.
We have no idea if whatsapp really implements it, and if it does but also adds a bunch of side channels for the NSA.
I'd mostly wear it as a badge of honor so long as you were sincere in your message, it mostly means you went against the grain. In other words, you participated and ruffled some feathers...good for you.
I'm using Graphene, but with the default Google captive portal settings. While yes, I am technically leaking my current public IP to Google servers, what does it actually tell them apart from the IP?

It's a generic user agent I believe and there's billions of (simple) HTTP requests hitting that endpoint. If you're using a stock Android (or even worse, like Samsung) it's the Play services and unkillable vendor background apps you should be worried about.

I'd argue it's a lot more conspicuous to network operators if you're using non-standard captive URLs.
Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph (2007)
There are a lot of laptops with soldered RAM.
If scientists observed people shovelling dirt into a large hole, and predicted that over time the hole would fill should people keep shovelling dirt into it, we wouldn't be seeing the same kinds of mental gymnastics as we do when scientists predict that pumping greenhouse gasses into to the sky causes things to get warmer.
The correct answer is obviously the first one. I come to StackOverflow because I want to learn some piece of information about some specific technology, not to be lectured by someone who thinks they know better than me about what I should or shouldn’t be doing (and who is virtually always wrong).
Sadly it went into a skip in around 1999 by which time I was on Macs.
My biggest problem with github issues is similar to the problems with SO:

Bots closing issues because someone doesn't spam the page. Closing as duplicate of (non related bug). A slew of random solutions that are only tangentially related and don't really solve the problem.
So you wouldn’t recommend it because it’s different than Python?
I remember going along to a VAX/VMS System Administration workshop. Another bloke and I did a prank where we substituted text of the text editor that would produce blinking "Working" if it got busy. We substituted "or" with "an". The workshop coordinator caught us because we forgot to do something I can't remember and a login was tied to the change in the executable.

Happy System Administrator's Day!
But what if an AI needs that training data in the future, huh?? :)
Very happy to hear! Thank you for your feedback, I will experiment with a different placement for the button, as well as a smaller size.

Any other suggestions?
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It makes sense if you know your content isn't nice for humans (e.g. full of ads and tracking stuff) but you want it to rank high anyway.
The framing would work just as well if we substituted for Google a certain not-exactly-friendly-with-the-U.S. regime that also happens to produce a shitload of smartphones. Whatever we don't want them to be able to do to our smartphones, we don't want Google to be able to do, either.
I remember turning on the modem bank of an ISP I helped build back in the day, with great anticipation to learn what the newcomers to the Internet were going to be doing with that amazingly fast new T1 line I'd slaved to get installed, only to discover after 3 weeks of logging that 95% of that fast connection was just being used to download porn, from our USENET server.

Things haven't changed much since then.