skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the era (roughly 1998 to 2004) when IE was completely dominant. It sucked if you used an alternative web browser or a non-Windows operating system, which I believe was the point of Microsoft's behavior: protect and maintain the dominance of Windows and the Microsoft ecosystem in general at all costs. Many websites were written with just Internet Explorer for Windows in mind. If you used a different web browser, the web page often didn't render as intended. Even using Internet Explorer for Macintosh wasn't a workaround. Even worse were sites that used ActiveX controls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX). While there are ActiveX controls that are not Windows-dependent (ActiveX did run on some non-Windows platforms), in practice many of these controls were Windows-dependent. I remember back in 2005 not being able to use my Linux desktop to fill out an online college financial aid application because the site demanded I use Internet Explorer; I had to use a Windows machine to fill out the application.

Based on what I remember, there were a few factors that eroded Internet Explorer's dominance starting around 2005:

1. Greater awareness of the security problems Windows had during the mid-2000s, especially surrounding Internet Explorer and ActiveX. This encouraged web users to use alternative web browsers, and this encouraged web developers to drop ActiveX for other technologies.

2. The release of Mozilla Firefox in 2004. The browser had an excellent reputation for its speed and its support for the latest web standards (something I'll get to later), and it had tabbed browsing, which Internet Explorer lacked at the time.

3. The Web kept evolving while Internet Explorer's development essentially halted after IE 6 was released. There were new standards that web developers wanted to take advantage of. Firefox took advantage of them, but because IE's development essentially halted, IE 6 didn't take advantage of them. By the time Microsoft finally started work on IE 7 (it was released in 2006), Firefox already received significant mindshare, especially among tech-savvy users.

The latter half of the 2000s and the early years of the 2010s were a golden age for the Web. There was competition in the browser market: Firefox kept advancing, Opera was still popular, IE became competitive again, Safari was a nice browser for the Mac (and even had a Windows port at some point, though I don't know if it was ever popular), and Google released a nice, fast browser named Chrome that started gaining momentum. Web developers generally respected web standards and didn't engage in "Best viewed in X browser" shenanigans like during the Bad Old Days. It was a wonderful time.

Of course, over the 2010s, Chrome became the dominant web browser, Firefox lost momentum, Internet Explorer was replaced by a Chromium fork called Edge, and unfortunately we're starting to see "Best viewed in Chrome" websites and Google having outsized influence over Web standards. There's a new 800 pound gorilla in the jungle.
That's a them problem. 30 years ago we knew they'd be trouble if they ever adopted the web en masse and they (and the folks that prey on them) have proven that prediction right at every turn.
Heating vegetable oil up so it turns into a polymer creates carcinogens. Why cast iron pans have a non stick surface.
Email alias is the only reliable way. If I was writing an email spam service the first thing I would do is strip off everything after the plus sign.
>life-long support for a drug addict is going to be significantly more expensive than throwing them in jail for a few years

Citation needed, you might be underestimating how much it costs to jail someone.
If a drug user actually manages to get clean (which with proper support, most can) then the cost of support is basically checking up on them a couple of times a year. Meanwhile they can hold down a job and live a normal life.

That's as opposed to the significant costs of keeping someone in prison, which is significantly more than they would be earning if they were free.
Very informative article. I learned something and got a couple of laughs as a bonus:

In addition to the millions of hosts that an internet router has to arbitrate between, it also has its own IP addresses, which people rudely try to interact with all day long. When you ping a router, you're making that poor little 600MHz ARM chip find time to deal with your traffic, not the terabit-per-second monster that it's married to.

It has been my experience that easily 75% of people working networking jobs are operating in a state of absolute terror, trying to keep their head above water with problems they don't really understand at all.
I wonder if there is any quantum theory that can be applied to prediction markets. The act of observation can change a system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
Cleveland's only public hospital system, MetroHealth, recently had a scandal this reminds me of.

The board let the CEO set his own performance metrics and the bonus schedule. Then they also let him write his own performance review. Well wouldn't you know it turns out, according to his own criteria and self-evaluation, he was one of the best CEO's in the country!

Anyway. Elon just makes up his own criteria for hate speech. So of course "hate speech is at an all time low" under Elon.
> You have made it abundantly clear that you will harm others for profit ... Bankruptcy is an important and necessary part of a healthy market

You mean like Big Tobacco? They survived their lies and cover-ups, and are still around and doing well.
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It’s crazy to me, after I stopped being a teenager, to spend almost any time customizing my computer to this point. I used to tweak every screw but when I started working I did the bare minimum to get by and be productive.

Shoehorning things into what they don’t want to be is something I only do behind compensation.
Western Digital HDD capacity hits 28TB as Seagate looks to 30TB and beyond
Thank you for the feedback, I've adjusted the post to make this clearer.

Nuna's HQ is located SF but we are a hybrid and very remote friendly workforce. You must be located physically in the United States however to work.
Your unbacked assertion is disputed by the facts cited in the article. In the year after Oregon got rid of criminal penalities, drug overdoses increased significantly more compared to the US average and nearby states. So yes laws do in fact make a difference.
The API system prompt is weak and can easily be overriden by user instructions. There's something similar on ChatGPT, but a lot stronger than the system prompt.

I suspect GPT-3.5 is also just very heavily tuned davinci and such, to a level where it's much cheaper but also responds mechanically.
Just because a psychological trick works doesn’t mean you must use it.

Have some respect for your users, developers. ‘Cause you’re one of them.
This looks great, thanks!

EDIT: I ended up using UserLAnd, seemed a bit more highly rated, thanks again!
> But what I've seen in San Francisco has made me think differently. Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults. And no one willingly goes to get help or treatment.

The U.S. healthcare system is deeply broken, so it's tremendously difficult for someone who is poor and sick/mentally ill/addicted to drugs to regain control of their life. Irrespective of the legal status of hard drugs.
This "tell me a lot of information in many small chunks before I'll do anything for you" pattern is too obvious now. I notice and leave almost immediately.
I do this on gmail myself. I have my own domain and pay for gmail on it. I have a wildcard set to go to my mailbox and wildcard stuff gets sorted per usual. So for instance, if I buy something at target, I use/sign in w/ target@mydomain.com.

I know I should probably get off of gmail, but it's a really good service for my needs.

It's also reasonably priced and there's no limit for those email addresses since it just captures every email sent to my domain.

Downside is I can't send from those addresses but that's generally okay for me.
Ok I understand sorry. Ordinarily I would never reply to a hiring like that but he put it in a unique context of "here is a service I offer for a fixed price, here is the price" where he is obviously trying to get $15000 for two days of work if possible. Seemed like way overbilled and also not a normal hiring post. Anyway, sorry. I did post my own entry.
Should we lock up fireman who use pfas and all of our local governments that instruct and allow them to do so? Should we equivocate putting out apartment fires with murder?

The point I'm trying to make is that this scenario isn't as black and white as one might think. It's easy to be an absolutist about it when it's not your child burning to death.
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> CPU heat output is limited by the resistance of the semiconductors.

Technically true but not applicable... Super conducting CPUs already exist (at below room temp), and they don't use semiconductors. They don't have an exact transistor equivalent but use digital logic circuits such as Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) and rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ), which are comprised of Josephson Junctions [0] which are made from the same super conducting material. Relying on quantum effects of a gap between two conductors rather than specific material properties.

So while it is true that CMOS are limited by the resistance of both the conductor interconnects AND the semiconductors. Super conducting circuits only appear to need a conductor... There are other drawbacks, such as larger feature sizes due to the nature of super conducting materials, and QFP and RSFQ might be more complex? but this is potentially offset by huge advantages: zero resistance buys not only power efficiency and minimum heat generation (as required by landauer limit), but also allows circuits to be driven at a higher clock, so far demonstrated to 770GHz for one CPU [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/superconductor-logic-goes-lowpower
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> The shareholder both get to keep the winnings and can get wiped out. So they are the ones who set the bank policy.

But it's the depositors' money they're gambling with.

Suppose you can put a million dollars of your money in something that has a 10% chance of netting you 20 million dollars and a 90% chance of losing your million dollars plus 20 million dollars of the depositors' money. That now has a positive expected value for you even though it has a negative expected value overall and results in a 90% chance of triggering a 20 million dollar claim against the FDIC.

Meanwhile your counterparty is quite happy because you gave them 21 million dollars in exchange for a 10% chance to less than double "your" money.
Yes, and any spammer will do this anyways. This is the digital equivalent of spelling your name backwards for anonymity. I don’t know why people still suggest it.
>This won't replace metal layers in CPU for a really long time. Superconductors are hard enough to make, CPUs are absurdly hard to make, and the wins on power savings aren't very large. If people make superconducting chips, it will be ones where the superconductors do active switching, what is much farther away and can enable much faster CPUs too.

I would've thought the main wins would've been reduced heat generation. Like you said, power savings would be negligible. But at the data center scale I'd imagine that reduced heat would result in reduced air conditioning power costs. And potentially with thermal constraints removed, it would allow for more compact packaging per server as well.

Like you said though, I doubt it would happen any time soon.
There are much more effective ways to geo-engineer earths climate. Their problem is the politics that surround all the options. Sooner or later we won't have other options.
How to Build a Square-to-Sine Wave Converter Circuit (2016)
> life-long support for a drug addict is going to be significantly more expensive than throwing them in jail for a few years.

There are plenty of drugs in jails. Sticking someone in jail is a very expensive and unlikely to be effective way to treat their addiction.
I've been trying to order from non Amazon sites as a habit lately. A large percentage of them use the same platform, maybe it's Shopify?

During checkout, they have a checkbox asking if you also want to receive promotional emails. It's annoying that this is checked by default, but I can tolerate it to some degree since I still have the ability to opt out.

I always uncheck it. Always.

Almost without fail, I end up receiving marketing emails from these companies. (And not just followups from my purchase or even review requests, which would be bad enough.)

I never buy from those brands again.
"Wrong" doesn't make much sense here. The more inductive bias we think is appropriate which we try to shove into models, the worse they perform. There's also an awful lot of fabrication the brain does with sense data, rationales etc. all of this is to say we have no clue what makes us tick. This means there's absolutely no guarantee we would recognize a replication of "human"

Something different is not necessarily "wrong". a plane's flight is no less "true" than a bird. It's not flying the "wrong" way.

Trying to elevate our very poor and wrong understanding of "human" to be the same as "right" or "true" is very silly. Even Biology with its set of constraints does not always solve the same problem the same way. Who are you to dub one way "right" ? Makes no sense.
Wait, are you serious?
Yes please, this is the first thing I could think of trying to read OP’s post (which I couldn’t finish reading because it’s too straining)
> Or do you mean way back in 2023 in UAE where it’s completely legal for a husband to rape his wife and, if killed for “a good reason” (like being raped), her killer goes unpunished so long as her father acquits?

With all due respect, this sounds BS

> UAE and KSA are in fact making a lot of progress, but they are making progress against the direction you are holding on high. Even on the drug enforcement issue!

No they aren't, and their drug enforcement hasn't changed a bit, probably got stronger.
Low-cost additive turns concrete slabs into super-fast energy storage
"Rainbows End"

And for HN see especially "True Names":

> a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism, anarchism, and even hints about The Singularity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
People who do this kind of thing primarily do it for fun.
And now that tipping at ridiculous rates is effectively mandatory, they've priced themselves right out of the market.

Interestingly, there is a pattern here with most "sharing" services - far more than just rides: AirBNB and VRBO are now postively rapacious in their pricing. What was once decent pricing 5-6 years ago would now make Shylock blush with embarrassment...
Related:

Topic: square to sine wave converter (2020):

https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=12483...
Speaking of which I never fully understand the meaning of OP. It seems there’s a few semantic ranges there and people sometimes use OP standing for slightly different things.
I have an extension that lets me block websites from Google results.
Totoro is probably the best for your kids age. Ponyo and Kiki's Delivery Service might also be good around this age.

A lot of suggestions for Spirited Away, but I think you're going to need to wait a few years for your kids to appreciate and connect with it -- I'd say 7 or 8y/o. Around that same age, Castle in the Sky and Nausicaa become palatable too. A little after that you can probably introduce them to Porco Rosso and Howls Moving Castle -- they both touch on some war stuff that might be hard for young kids to understand.

Whatever you decide though, hold off on Princess Mononoke until they're older. That one to me is the most visually jarring one, and I'm glad I was as old as I was when I first saw it because a younger me would have definitely had a nightmare or two.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's completely true, everyone wants a reality that caters to them. The harsh reality of online business is that most consumers won't give a product the time of day before trying it for free unless it either comes highly recommended or they are compelled to use it by a higher power. So tactics such as these pay off better than what? the OP is suggesting.
There's a new take on gravitational potential energy storage with concrete block and a winch
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I hope this goes to trial. Elon has constantly redefined what X/ Twitter considers hate speech. Discovery around his capricious, ephemeral, views on what does/ doesn't count as hate speech are going to be wild.

I can't imagine a whole lot of brands are going to want to advertise on a platform guided by Elon's Principles of Hate Speech
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It's also a lot more difficult for cars to see you but we can pretend that the boogey man is after us.
If we're talking about groundwater contamination, then yes, the major contributor is firefighters and US Government facilities based on the numbers I've seen. It's not food packaging making it hundreds of feet underground and leaching out into rivers.

Scroll through these 180 pfas contamination Superfund sites and count how many are government facilities versus private companies.

https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/superfund-sites-...

If you want to get technical, this paper estimates the impact of different sources, Comparing airports and military sites to Major PFA industrial sites. There are ~350 PFA sources from airports and military, and 7 from industry (including 3M!).

The individual military and airports released more PFOS per SITE than industry.

The industrial sites are associated with about 5X the PFOA in the local water. However, we are still talking about 7 industrial sites vs 350 airports and military bases.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c07255
> For one, there will be a significant drop in fear mongering click baiting news

This will do no such thing. News from international orgs (just as capable, if not more, of clickbait and bias) will still be shown to Canadians.
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Inspired by a pun, I built this little app.

ChatGPT wrote ~80% of the code. You can read one of my conversations with ChatGPT as I was building here: https://chat.openai.com/share/7922df3a-0328-46e7-84ef-b38b9c...
I’m guessing you haven’t worked for many companies.
No, he is suggesting that the executives in charge during the production and sale of PFAS products already pocketed their salaries, bonuses, and wealth. It won't be clawed back.
> something a million times more expensive

Lanarkite and copper phosphide aren't expensive, other than the government controls on red phosphorous (because it can be used to make meth).
I believe the report was also directly submitted a few times before (not by me), but hadn't seen much visibility. Repost probably?
>Would some of the military be sympathetic to the rebellion?

Would the sympathetic military members be able to seize sufficient weapons to fight back? Doubt it.

Also you're suggesting a group of civilians armed with AR-15s would be able to fight back. If you believe some of the military has your back then you just undermined your own point that we need to be able to fight back with our assault rifles.

>Would the military turn their guns on their own citizens?

Militaries in the world have quite often turned guns on civilians before, I wouldn't put it past ours. Not at all. Especially since a lot of it's commanded over by far-right Christian Nationalists.

>Would the military be able to protect their family members from people with AR-15s?

The military members would be able to protect their own families, if you even knew who they were in the first place. Also it's a bit messed up you basically mentioned killing non-combatants as a tactic to be used in this hypothetical war.

>People hiding in trees and caves with rifles have defeated many superior forces… including our own… twice.

Uhhh I don't know about that. Vietnam was using a lot of WWII style tech. We got really advanced stuff now. We gave Ukraine our hand-me-downs nobody wanted anymore and they're absolutely dominating Russia which has more people and lots and lots of firearms.

Face it, you're obsessed with guns. That's cool, I kinda get it because I own a few myself. However it's taken over your brain. You brought this very specific thing up in a much more general conversation so you must be thinking about this A LOT.
I love that this is happening realtime in the open. I can just about follow the science, and it's so incredibly exciting to watch this unfold live
oooooh that's exactly what it is! thank you!
From what I've seen, the increases in LLM intelligence is not that type of smart. On the contrary, the better LLMs write in a more neutral and clear tone, a bit like a Wikipedia article.

Actually, Wikipedia articles are already sort-of a "distillation of the Internet" into a type of average. By having many people edit them, the individual personal quirks are smoothed out, leaving a type of average-of-humans result.

This reminds me of the "average faces" project about a decade ago where they blended photos of random people together. The results were often very attractive, because it's the small flaws that make normal people unattractive. The blending of many samples smooths out the flaws, resulting in a "perfect" but ordinary face. Not some post-human face, but a perfectly human face.

That's what I see LLMs doing: as smart as us, but no smarter. Great breadth certainly, but not greater depth.
Please point to a paper or document outlining your views on what constitutes hate speech
Buzzwords seem to generate a lot of curiosity, which can result in increased website traffic and user engagement.