skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From context they are almost certainly referring to the city of Washington (DC), which is part of the northeast corridor described, and not the state of Washington, which is on the west coast.
Yes, and this has been a problem for years: back in the 2000s, Amazon was already flooded with print-on-demand "books" that basically consisted of Wikipedia articles.
And...?

Everyone has to unionize and endure all the bad that comes with that so a few people can be relieved of having to learn inter-personal communication?
I do fear that as climate change evolves and we get to face more severe consequences of that the democracies will turn to authoritarianism as there would no longer be a win-win game to play. Together with surveilance and deception tech this might cement and worsen conditions of the poor as their power to organise would diminish whereas they would be most affected by the worsening climate.

Thus one of the important problems in my opinion is a solution which could circumvent surveilance and deception tech and help people to organise more effectivelly. Personally I am interested in publically verifiable software independent remote voting systems.
Instead of "working" with Amazon to get one of these books removed (sounds super fun), here's a solution I could help an author implement: attach an NFT to each "official" book sold. Either at payment (for digital copies; might require marketplace buy-in) and/or via an NFC in the book binding. Use the token/NFC as a means of authentication, and a way connect with the author, other fans, etc.
I wouldn’t count on it. SQLite is unreasonably fast in ways you’d think it shouldn’t be.
I'm imagining politicians in a cigar-smoke filled room terrified of hippies on shrooms.
I haven’t tried to run the simulator, but I believe you should be able to run the HW driver with it - and get the frame buffer output. I imagine it’d take some work to get it working on a modern OS.

It’s the simulator that I suspect is derived from the RTL - hwsabsim.c is a good example…
That's sweet! How many tomato plants do you have to grow each year and how many are you feeding?
If Google supported JPEG XL in Google Photos, they wouldn't be able to sell as many storage upgrades.
https://www.grammarlookup.com/grammarly-alternatives/
The reason people usually only work at VFX companies for 9-16 months is because they have to underbid, bidding higher means no contracts, lays them off, then another studio springs up that them and their coworkers all go to and the cycle repeats.

Somebody is always going to bid lower, go bankrupt/ skeleton crew, and another studio springs up with idealism that there’s will be different.
Microsoft is testing a new Edge feature that captures screenshots of everything
Ultimately, the goal of all the systems is not really within the systems, but the applications.

And one of the reasons why we have such an excess of configuration - which includes general-purpose programmability itself - is because we're trying to late bind the entire application.

So the question of debugging is more one of "yes, we're going to replace a panoply of hand-written abstractions with an LLM-generated solution" than it is about the LLM working in an unknowable black-box paradigm. What you're getting is a way to retarget the domain and precision of the solution:

1. Act as an oracle that answers questions directly. This works fine if your goal is to restate the form of a simple dataset. But the black box effect becomes too large really quickly.

2. Assisted code generation. This can write algorithmic boilerplate for you. But it's still relying on the framing of an existing protocol - "in language X, do Y". We got past our amazement at the oracle but are still mostly looking at this step, where it still looks like a human organization is needed to write a software stack.

3. Assisted data model and protocol design. LLMs are protocol geniuses - if you tell it of a new language and its rules, and give it some examples and logical feedback, they will happily go up and down through the abstraction stack as necessary to restate things in that language. This lets you bound the kinds of solutions that the LLM could generate later by the logic of the defined interface. This also aids the human by enabling all solutions to be defined legibly.

Right now we tend to avoid original protocol design because it's human-expensive and so we end up with inertia towards standardized designs, but the LLM does not care. You could tell it to regenerate all the necessary dependencies for your application, and if the system fails "somewhere in the middle" you don't have to debug what it did in more than a cursory sense - you just regenerate the whole system with added precision and legibility until you've drilled down to the specifics. It can even generate documentation!

That is, in the future, protocol-level friction can be trivially overcome, which means the "early binding effect" of hardware and software platforms will evaporate. You just have the data. The data could be stored in an illegible form - but that's a general human-language issue, and not really about the incidental complexities of human-written software.
Thanks. Removed and reported them for abuse when Chrome asked. Also pasted the link in the Grammarly offboarding survey, letting them know why.
This is very cool. As someone interested in overlanding, is there somewhere you could point to where I could learn more? Specifically on the tech side of it. Thanks!
This is hilarious. I love that @8teAPi did this, hopefully it knocks some sense into people.
should be their new employee cult slogan

"who cares what we deliver as long as it gets there quickly"

not quite as snappy as "Customer Obsession", but more honest
> " there is no such distinction between "laws" and "theories"

Law: A simple relation of limited scope intended to describe a single phenomenon, for example Ohm's Law.

Theory: A description or narrative of how and why, which may include laws, data, observations, etc.
Free plan allows 1000 emails a month, which I'm using for personal server and script alerts.
I never liked Meet.

I was thinking of Bluejeans and Teams. GoToMeeting seems to have improved a lot, as well. WebEx is doing much better, but I have only used Bluejeans and Teams, in the last couple of years.
If you think reddit is genuine human content I have same bad news for you buddy.
> It's very difficult to make money writing books these days

That's been true as long as the printing press existed. I know many authors, and none of them make money worth spit.
Whether it is a net win for energy consumption entirely what you're using it for and how the entire power profile of the system looks, not just the CPU and not just at full power.

If it uses as much or more power when busy and you're just using it to push more frames in a video game, you're probably not going to singlehandedly bring about the next ice age. Same if the low utilization system power is similar and you spend most of the time messing around on the internet or editing code occasionally punctuated by a compile job, even if that does run faster.
I worked with Tom for almost 2 years. During that time and prior to me joining, he played an integral role on numerous projects at the startup we both worked at, including building out the initial prototypes and first versions, as well as leading them to production to the delight of hundreds of highly satisfied users.

Tom is a terrific coworker and person, and would be a great addition to any team looking for a senior/staff level engineer who can deliver results and lead projects, or complement an existing team of senior engineers.
The biggest problem IMHO is preventing AI research from killing all the people.

(In contrast, people's becoming enslaved is a much smaller risk because the kind of AI capable of enslaving people will probably also be able to create robots that are more reliable and efficient than people at whatever task the AI is contemplating enslaving people for.)
No it's not reductionist, it's the truth. Reductionist would be different, for example if it implied that change is impossible, or that voters will always stay the same, or that there is a guaranteed inevitability, etc...

Maybe your reading your own thoughts into someone else?
Tidal has been tried many times in small settings. A couple of observations:

- players in the 'tidal' renewable space are excellent at consuming subsidies, not so good at making (net) power

- tidal installations designed to work for a decade typically work for a few weeks, months at best without on site repairs or outright failure

- moving water carries momentum to the point that it is a very fine line between power extraction and equipment failure

- salt water under pressure is a hostile environment

Making a wind turbine with a nacelle a good 75 meters above the sea live under those conditions is already pretty hard. Doing the same with an immersed generator below the surface of the sea is extremely hard. I've yet to see a tidal energy installation that I found credible, and besides, the real movement in the tides is only a few hours per day at best. Yes, there is energy in the tides. Lots of it. But it's hard to harvest economically, and if it were the only option I'd say keep trying, but we have better and cheaper options already.
There's no pathology, it's just really really hard. Any single component not sleeping properly and keeping the CPU, buses or radios active immediately ruins the battery life for everyone.

Power saving is all about racing towards that sweet idle state where every chip is clocked down and nothing radiates.

Which means that good power saving requires full vetting of every process on the system and making sure they all cooperate or, at least, are forced to sleep.

Android needed years to get into that state and developers/hackers are still sour about the restrictions it puts on them to keep battery life in check.
Posting for a friend: he built a tape recorder as a youth growing up in post-WWII Germany (1949).

https://sites.google.com/site/randyelwin/home/projects/build...
No it’s not. I guarantee you I can jump damn near instantly to any tab or application window I want faster than you could turn your head. It’s like the difference between pushing your mouse a couple inches to carefully click some element, vs just using a shortcut. If people truly want to increase productivity, they would master these keyboard movements.

Also, the more monitors you have to look at, the slower your head movements will get. With a single monitor your head your eyes have very minimal movement. Consider how fast your eyes dart around on a small screen like a phone.
And if you can't afford the creatives, content becomes the product of the elite. We can't let that happen. Let the VFX and Gaming industries unionize.
>- No built-in page translate

It's an extension, look up Firefox Translate. It's even local-only. Or Google Translate for better results but less privacy.

This is the sort of thing that other people might consider "bloat"
Yes, but from what I've seen, many OO patterns in F# are actually a good deal more verbose than they are in C# (whereas the reverse is true for functional patterns). And writing procedural/imperative-style logic in F# feels like it's fighting against what the language was designed for.
It's amazing how many people aren't aware of this. This should be way more publicized. I was talking to a business partner a while back and mentioned I'm not using Amazon and they were shocked. When I listed all my reasons and this one came up, they didn't believe me and we stopped talking until they looked it up online and were convinced. They were using Amazon to order all supplements and it stopped then and there.
Paramount sells Simon and Schuster to private investment firm
I think this is the future of computers for people. they will open their phone and say "hey siri get this book or computer or car" and the browser will show them a bunch of made up products generated by an AI and they'll get the product drop shipped from china and it'll be a shitty counterfeit just like the $5 256GB USB drives.

But they won't know because when you look for reviews, the review websites will also be generated just for you, filled with AI-made reviews and users. The entire internet will just be a computer that guesses what you want and shows you its best guess as the truth. a little matrix-y.

Reading back I sound like T*d K but the next 100 years is going to be unimaginable in terms of what silicon is going to be able to do. It doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough most of the time. Like a mcdonalds drive thru.
won't that be a problem for high-traffic topics? Kafka latency is usually in single digit milliseconds. For a topic with high throughput, a typical java client instance can send thousands of messages per second. When the acknowledgement latency increases to 1000ms, then the producer client would need to have multiple threads to handle the blocking calls. Either producer will have to scale to multiple instances, or else risk crashing with out-of-memory errors.
I think the moral here is there is an unhealthy dash of sensationalism and propaganda that must be sifted away, if we actually want to take any worthwhile information out of this.

As the saying goes, the first casualty in war is truth.
It just feel wild to me that using something which would be in offices today would be so ridiculous as to not even be usable for text. The article has to take for granted that any display with a resolution below 4K is not sufficient for reading text. That's unsupportable.

I'm not arguing that 1440 or 4k isn't better than 1080. I'm not saying that monitors aren't cheaper than the Apple Vision Pro. I know that text on a screen in 1440p looks better than 1080p.

I'm just saying it seems more ridiculous to be like "the monitors that people use in offices all around the world today cannot be used as monitors, welcome to 1987 if you think so" because there exist alternatives that people would prefer to use.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

For goodness' sake, 61 percent of people running Steam have their resolution as 1080p.

I'm just saying it's uncharitable for the author to make it seem as if the resolution that a vast swath of people use in 2023 is so inadequate as to not be worth taking seriously. He's saying "Yes, they will “work” as a monitor if you are desperate and have nothing else, but having multiple terrible monitors is not a solution many people will want", and buried in that is the assumption that the majority of people are using "terrible" monitors that (sarcasm quotes) work. I don't think that's reasonable.
> > The first is that because of the nature of message queues, they're either empty or full.

> ... Wat?

I interpreted it as "they are either trending towards empty or full". The statement doesn't seem well thought through.

That might be true (either empty or full) most of the time (maybe) _if you squint_, but the entire point of the Message Queue is to provide buffering from the transient state (somewhere between empty and full) trending toward the empty state.
See also the Kurzgesagt video The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJwt9l-XhQ
And yet here you are, on a thoroughly Western website, enjoying free speech. Classic.
The price of a new processor readily embodies the energy used to create it (by a significant margin, because of all the other stuff that needs to be paid for by the price of the processor)

It's a very safe bet that, assuming you do significant work with the processor, that a modern processor will more than make up for its inefficiency.
At which point, I'd expect it to be a matter for the author to take it to court as opposed to expecting a bookstore to adjudicate it for them. Which is (sadly) going to be expensive for an individual unless a publisher is going to undertake the effort for them.
I think the danger is more on what you input to Chatgpt... but true is same for Grammerly as all text typed in the web is sent to them right?
Also, given its velocity, 'strike back' is totally the wrong phrase. 'Strike back' implies speed and/or alacrity, neither of which gnu/hurd possesses in any appreciable quantity.
> I expect better wages

Why?
> Debian no longer accepts 'init 0' as a command

I'm not sure where this affirmation comes from. Do you have "systemd-sysv" installed? What happens when you do run `init 0´?

init(1)[0] says:

For compatibility with SysV, if the binary is called as init and
is not the first process on the machine (PID is not 1), it will
execute telinit and pass all command line arguments unmodified.
That means init and telinit are mostly equivalent when invoked
from normal login sessions. See telinit(8) for more information.

telinit(8)[1]:

The following commands are understood:

0

Power-off the machine. This is translated into an activation
request for poweroff.target and is equivalent to systemctl
poweroff.

> ipconfig isn't a command anymore

are you sure you're not mixing up the Windows command ipconfig[2] with the still ubiquitous ifconfig[3]?
Even though it's considered deprecated in favor of iproute2's[4] "ip" command, I don't know any distro which has ceased making net-tools available, let alone unusable.

> systemd changed the whole subsystem from underneath me

I agree systemd has been pretty disruptive, but it has made me a lot more productive. Writing a unit file is dead simple, and it is capable of doing a lot of very interesting things. Hardening a unit is quite easy, for instance. You might already be aware of all that, but if not, I can drop some links on another reply.

Overall, from the one of your reply, I have the impression that you might be happier switching to a less opinionated distro like Void Linux or Gentoo. Something as curated as Ubuntu isn't a good fit for you.

0. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/init.1.html
1. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/telinit.8.html
2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/ipconfig
3. https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-tools/
4. https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (London – OR – San Francisco)
Musk to pay legal costs for users who get in trouble at work for their tweets
Your subject says "is it costing me users?", but your message says "how many people will be unable to access the site?".

These are two different things.

If your site is slow, it will cost you users. v6 has measurably better performance for websites, so not having it will cost you users. Those users will still be able to access your site though, they'll just choose not to because it's too slow for them.

The practical reality is that almost all client devices that are used for browsing the web will have some mechanism to reach legacy v4-only websites (but the mechanism might itself be a cause of poor performance...).

On the server side, v6-only servers (VPSs/containers/etc) are getting somewhat more common though, so if you're hosting something that's expected to be downloaded directly onto a server then please figure out v6 somehow.
Make sure to read the full article on this one, not just the beginning. I was initially rolling my eyes--yes, loosing data sucks, but all drives can die and there's such a thing as bad luck--but the issue really does appear to be larger than that.
>There used to be an answer to that: tariffs, and steep ones at that. Sadly, politicians 30-40 years ago started to embrace "free trade zones" in the hope of "cheaper prices" while ignoring the very real impact these would have on domestic employment.

How about we flip the proposition: why would everyone pay slightly higher prices for goods, so a minority (owners and employees of the factor that produces the goods) can benefit? Put this way it sounds a lot like crony capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
> Of course the actual entity posting the fraudulent books are probably overseas somewhere

Amazon is an international, but is certainly bound by the laws of the United States of America. At least the ones it can't buy itself out of.

"I didn't know" isn't an affirmative defense if your employees are on the record saying they know.
> The currency will fundamentally, potentially permanently, devalue in purchasing power in that context without external support.

Followed by

> Value is inherently, fundamentally, subjective.

Which is it? Does value exist in real terms or is it made up?

If I'll give you a beer for two of your UBI coins, and you'll give me a pound of barley for one of my UBI coins, then it really doesn't matter that there's a war on somewhere, nor does it matter what the "value" of our coins is in terms of some number, so long as they are issued to each of us at the same rate.

You only have to bother with establishing a correspondence with some allegedly valuable thing in the real world (gold, factories, whatever) if you want a globally consistent notion of value. A notion which, as you've explained, is a fiction, and which I'd argue, is a harmful one.
>I still use spinning rust as my primary back up --- arranged in a redundant array with offset manufacture dates.

You will still need to set up either BTRFS or ZFS to avoid silent Data corruption which is happening more often than most people know. And you have to set it up to scrub it from time to time. It isn't automatic.

Arguably the cheapest solution that hit the above bar would be Synology DS223J at $180, their newest entry model with BTRFS support ( on a fairly old Linux Kernel, I think it is 5.10 that will never get updated again in the life time of the product ). You will still need to buy 2 HDD in redundant RAID and set it up yourself. And it is quite bulky as well.

Hardly consumer friendly. And that is before 99.9999% on HN jumping on you, telling you need another backup for this NAS, or another off line, third location devices....

It is sad, not only just consumer. Judging by the number of comment here plenty in the tech industry simply uses an additional copy, or external SSD devices as backup. And I can understand why, but there simply isn't a simple, easy to use consumer solution that offer enough security for a reasonable price.

And I have been stating this for more than a decade already. Your Kids's video are worth a lot more than you can imagine. Tried explaining it to your wife some of those video are gone.
I tried using the safe stack, but it seemed like it wasn't up to date with the latest version of .NET. Is that normal? Or did I hit a weird edge case in the ecosystem? (Or was it a case of PEBKAC?)
I think people have a lower tolerance for this than that, and will just go back to relying on personal recommendations and other reliable forms of curation.
It does seem extremely elegant relative to the very tiny amount of resources a single cancer cell has to work with.

I'm not sure why there was so much talk about 'nanomachines' some years ago when there are literally millions of pre-existing examples that are so vastly more sophisticated.