skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess, if the authentication / DRM server hasn't shut down long ago then, the certificates will have long expired. (BTW, what about a deep space DRM server for that purpose, somewhere around Jupiter? You can't run an asteroid miner without proper subscriptions to enable specific features!) ;-)
This focuses on the argument that some hyper-sophisticated future LLM will not discover the secrets of the universe on its own. That's plausible, but beside the point when it comes to the potential dangers of A.I. Not all future A.I.s will be LLMs. Understanding the universe isn't the only way to pose an existential threat.

This is an old discussion with much deeper insights already available than I can parrot here, but one obvious counter just to this argument is that even an LLM can be an existential threat, depending what it can convince you it knows.
Maybe. When Netflix tried that, Comcast tried to charge them for peering.
There absolutely were complains, you weren't at the right place to listen
And when you change the mass of the train the height of levitation changes.
I wish we’d see more adoption of alternatives, but I work in non-tech enterprise where it’s not even called “spreadsheets” but rather “excels”.

I’m not sure the value is really there in the office platform if it wasn’t because it’s what every new hire is used to. This is very anecdotal but I’m really not a very good consumer of IT, to the point where I often stun people with my profession because I really suck at using digital devices for most things, and I never had a hard time using one of the office alternatives. The tie in with Teams and OneDrive/Sharepoint is nice and all, but it’s also often sort of terrible.

I don’t expect things to change though.
More probably it's neither, this is a low effort, industry funded, sales-tailored research, of the kind that assured that cigarettes don't cause cancer because the tobacco industry funded them...
The thing is … these days you’re often spending more like $45 a month, and it’s on the way up.
I believe it is currently only available to people whose $10/mo subscriptions had not renewed before the end of May.
> they'll vanish into the ether.

Not as long as piracy is a thing they won't. It will just be illegal to own them.
Uber Finally Arrived at a Long-Elusive Destination – Profitability
That’s pretty much someone in 1900 going, “so what happens when yer fancy electricity runs out? I’ve got candles for days!”
I think it's safe to say that we should disregard any substack/medium posts, especially when it comes to AI.
I’ve personally come to the conclusion that the vast majority of sci-fi is sci-fantasy for the simple reason that I can’t convince myself fleshy humans have any meaningful place in the exploratory parts of the future. Novels featuring human crews of spaceships doing more than maintenance, let alone humans in combat scenarios are increasingly laughable. It’s 2023 and humans on crewed SpaceX flights already don’t do anything. Humans 100 years from now will be even less necessary, not more.

Any sci-fi recommendations where the fleshy meat bags are mostly useless? I enjoyed the earlier Murderbot novels, thought the Bobiverse was interesting, and have already read all the Culture and Polity universe books.
Doing nothing is itself a risk. Better to think of it as risk in every direction, all we can do is use what we know from science to choose our exit from the roundabout.
I hopped on the comment on peak oil because it was something that I had not heard in long time and I remember the discussion being so out of left field that an alternative idea was never brought up - and it was done under a capitalistic economic model based on supply and demand. I’m not saying we should look at all predictions as potentially wrong. I personally believe in reducing consumption especially along the food chain like a reduction in meat and other animal products as well as ensuring seafood is done sustainably.
> In seriousness though, I've come across decently plausible information in the past that suggests that the volatile chemicals given off by natural wood has calming effects.

That could be true, def can't be harmful. So I hoped people would lean towards natural aromas after reading. Like opening the window to the garden, more flowers in the garden, etc.
Statistically speaking in the US Bob doesn't live in a flat or rowhouse.
Makes sense, payroll are usually the last people to find out when somebody's salary has changed :) Which databases have you used for it? Any tips?
Actually the article here is one of those options - https://substrate.tools/

I don't know how integrating this into an environment where you already have tons of AWS accounts would go but it's interesting. Thankfully I only have to make new accounts when we greenfield a service and that's maybe a yearly thing.
Drone Attacks Cause Disquiet in Russia
Write it in x86 and I promise it'll work in 50 years.
My takeaway from the article was that "too busy" really means "spending too much time on things that don't actually matter." Or perhaps more concretely, being too inefficient with your time.
Which repo was it pulled from? If EPEL they are known to lag behind for many packages. If not EPEL then I don't know. An alternative or work-around would be to pull it from their site directly [1] with the downside not being an rpm.

[1] - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.0.1/lin...
Any conflicts of interest with coffee companies?
I think you're largely right, but IMO the difference between what happens online and what happens offline is that you have to look people in the eye offline and you may encounter them randomly in person. There's a moderating function that generally (not always) keeps the heat down.

Same for pile-ons. I'm not so naive to think that they never happen offline, but there's a higher cost to doing them than there is when all you have to do is write 140 characters to dunk on someone you won't even remember in two weeks.
Growing up biomass is a good way to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere. You can build or make product from the biomass, or even just throw it into a deep ocean trench.
Spot tricks and hidden disclosures within privacy policies
Then it's literally not a "physical release". It's just fan accessories/memorabilia.

There is no difference between that and a tshirt
> Sometimes I wonder why things like vigilanteism and other bad behaviors were so prevalent in the past,

For vigilanteism it seems simple to me: it was the original counterforce against anti-social sociopathic and predatory behavior such as murder - predating law enforcement, predating law, predating humanity. Even animals arguably engage in "vigilanteism" when retaliating against another pack's attack, or when pack leaders are overly cruel and tyranical. The deterence of "don't hurt us - or we'll hurt you".

We rightfully look down on vigilanteism now as it tends to short circuit things like the due process of an assumed-to-be effective, functional, and ethical legal system... but those are some pretty big assumptions, and I have several bridges to sell you if you think they're always true, or if you think everyone agrees on which legal systems rise to that level. Vigilanteism is merely the default form of "justice" that we sometimes rise above, given the right circumstances.

Circumstances which are often lacking online.
Everything NASA does is public so if you looked for it I'm sure you could find the spec.
I personally DO think it should be illegal for another human’s identifying features to be present in a digital photo without their consent, especially if it is shared online & doubly so if any money is made on it (including advertising)
Or because the funding came from espresso product manufacturers?
The people highlighted in this article are living paycheck to paycheck, they do not have enough eggs to necessitate multiple baskets.

The issue here is that once again a shitty mega-bank has prevented them from accessing the little money they do have at a time where they need it. The amounts here are literally a pittance to these institutions, and they _could_ make these people whole immediately with little to no impact on their bottom line, but their systems and bureaucracy are so bloated and inefficient that it takes days to weeks to fix it.

For people like you and me, that is frustrating and inconvenient and worthy of a twitter rant, but ultimately not a big deal. For the vulnerable in our society, this is potentially life altering, and it is mind boggling that these institutions can continue to get away with treating people like this with practically zero consequences.
I’m disappointed at how much value some place in the +1 count on a proprietary code forge that the writer suggests not even taking charge & having your own dedicated page & embedding call-to-actions in the UI itself. I can’t blame them for wanting to market so hard & in this fashion (tho not big on the join-the-Discord callout at the end), but I don’t like how much value folks are putting into a metric that’s both easy to game & part of the keep-you-on-the-platform social media scheme that Microsoft GitHub has a lot of developers trapped in.
This essay really hits me wrong. Perhaps its because I am a human and not simply a "unit of production". Also the "personal playing to win strategy" immediately reminds me of the parody program "refuse to lose" from the film "Little Miss Sunshine".

I am a 58 year-old man with a family. Today I'm giving the eulogy at my Uncle's memorial. In the last weeks of his life I was one of his principal care givers in home hospice. I've been helping my daughter through one of the most challenging times of her life. My wife just broke her wrist and severely injured her back and had trauma surgery two days ago. The FBI keeps showing up at my door looking for an interview (my brother is a fugitive on the most wanted list). In my view, part of being a man is supporting those around you with strength and love. I haven't seen Barbie or Oppenheimer, I've had to temporarily set aside my FAA training for work. I've been too busy supporting my family during a challenging time. I'm at full capacity.

One thing I've refused to stop doing is working out - so I get up at 5:30 to make sure I can have the time to do so. This is part of my personal care routine that means the most for my mental health as well as my physical health.

Its entirely possible my personal strategy sucks. However I think this essay sucks.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is quite well known and exactly what's described here. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I've seen this pattern a lot in IT (in particular here on HN) - "discovering" new patterns/models (main case being Lean Development). Many times people even write about how they've found that their pattern/model can be generalized into other fields. Funny thing is that management and MBA people are often quite despised here. I think it might be because how new the industry is (and how fast it's grown - majority of software devs have not a lot of experience compared to most other industries)

But hey, even this phenomena isn't new (aka I'm just guilty of it myself). See "New Wine in Old Bottles").
Which encrypted payload?
I kind of wish that some billionaire would just get mad, buy reddit, and run it into the ground. The world would be a much better place

Or better yet, round the redditors up and send them to Siberia
He provided zero evidence against it.

He showed that more loved languages are likely to be newer. That is consistent with them being loved more because they're more likely to be used on greenfield projects. But it's equally consistent with newer languages being better languages.

I think it would be difficult to argue that newer languages are not usually better than old ones. They wouldn't be adopted if they weren't!
It's just a hypothesis, but I think it's plausible!
Yep they should definitely review their procedures so this doesn’t happen again
thank you Bram. feeling humbled today. rest in peace.
Your message is undecipherable. I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Particularly "license" badges, which just repeat information already elsewhere on the main repo page.
That is some next level rip-off. A box of goodies of the level that you'd get for free at a convention. I hope nobody buys those.
It can easily be faked, using a technique that would destroy the poster's career. It's one thing to not do something to the letter, and another to commit blatant fraud. Most career academics would not burn their career for the lulz.
Batteries get noticeably hot when charging and discharging. I wonder how significant this effect will be for the concrete and if it will have a meaningful impact on its effective lifespan.
I agree with you that its gonna get worse before it gets worse. I'm here mostly to enjoy the continual moderation (flagged and dead) of posters who point out the inevitable, predicted violence that climate changes' pressures are going to force out of our already imbalanced, fractured and well armed society (speaking as an American.)

Its the silencing of the alarm bells across the commercialized internet, and I think it means that when shit suddenly goes south you're gonna have this clueless middle asking "how did this ever happen?!"

It seems a bit pointless, yet it is motivating none the less to try to answer that question when its asked by folks. Starting with, because you live in a bubble that was more interested in selling you things than the scary and unfortunate truth.
The way I like to think about this is Rick Altman's Sementic/Syntactic approach to genre. (a short summary here: https://introfilmgenres.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/the-semanti... )
Basically there are stock elements like space, lasers, aliens, etc. and there are thematic elements like themes of futurism, exploration, paradoxes, what is live? (these are just the ones I came up with off the top of my head) and just because a work has one of these doesn't make it part of that genre. Apollo 13 is set (largely) in space but I don't think people would call it science fiction. Star Wars is set in space but I have seen it argued thematically it is a western.

(I think in the book Film/Genre Altman added a third category but I don't remember it and thought the book was pretty confusing compared to the initial article he wrote.)
i don't think we know much about what the active ingredients are in coffee. we only know caffeine. but i'd bet this is only one among many.
The Expanse is very much space opera. Don't get me wrong: I love the show. But the only real difference between it and Star Trek (science-wise) is that The Expanse has zero-gravity. It still has the inertialess movement common in space opera.
Reminds me of something similar in Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
True, but I'd expect for a chip like that you'd do what the parallella did, or what we do with CPU + GPU and pair it with a chip with a smaller number of higher powered cores. E.g. the Parallella had 2x ARM cores along with the 16x Epiphany cores.
Why is it so complicated to fill all the boulevards with trees that will, in the future, provide a thick canopy?
Laser weapons as such would be "hard" sci-fi precisely because we have working prototypes.

Basically:
hard sci-fi: we have concepts and understand how to apply them, but it may not be practical (e.g. Orion drive)
soft sci-fi: we have concepts but no idea how to apply them (e.g. antimatter power plants)
science fantasy: anything goes, technobabble as a veeneer for lack of science

But yes, writing convincing science fiction is hard.
Nonsense, they have a ton of shared infrastructure. I can buy tickets without caring which operator it is. Why can't I get a refund in the same way?
ET Jaynes has a book "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science". It's a nice book, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it.
It is illegal to record anyone without their consent in places where there is an expectation of privacy.

A shower may fall under that provided you have not been given notice that recording will take place. But people can takes photos of you at the gym working out and post thek online for others to laugh at.

If your apartment manager tells you they are filming or a sign is visible at the gym they can film you.

Connecting to the internet and requesting a resource means you are in public.
If you tell them that they could simply decide to never sell anything to you again, including support contracts for the upcoming year.

I can guarantee that will hurt you more than it hurts them.
The more I read and think about where it will lead, the more I fear it'll go to some kind of digital control with varying degrees of freedom in different countries.
Liberal democracies are not the norm in history and for the longest time freedom was achieved by high cost of enforcement. You can do what you want on your farm because no one can see/track what you do there. (The downside is that there are no centralized services available too...)

If people are easily influenced (on mass) and cost to influence them is low enough, the voting system can be gained and the only real mechanism to remove bad government would cease to exist.

I hope I'm wrong, but as Romans knew:
“Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.”

Now technologies can make this cheap and efficient and the system will change to a worse one, when you don't need so much cooperation from the govern, since you can control them much more efficiently.

Uygur digital control is a telling warning...
seems like dang is using emacs ...
I cant believe they had the gall to write his obit in emacs!

RIP VIM
And less privacy!
Can an adventure game engage your emotions? – devlog video
It's an anonymous video.
dating apps have reduced dating to a marketplace. The view that promiscuity is ok or even encouraged only exacerbates things
I don't necessarily disagree. However, I do think that people spend a lot of time on things that don't actually matter that much in the grand scheme.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be doing tickets that have been assigned to them or whatever, but I am saying that if people took 30 minutes to step back and look at the big picture objectives more often - or if their managers spent more time clearly communicating such things - they'd stop wasting a lot of time on things that seem important in the very myopic context of the task they just completed.
Each app/env has a pipeline that will trigger a tf apply in its directory w/ its assumed AWS role and deploy an env after someone gives it a manual approval after looking at the terraform apply/plan output. So it will start at /terrafrom/app1/staging then once healthchecks succeed another manual approval job for /terraform/app1/production will wait to be approved to depoy.

For our EKS apps we do helm rollouts, but most of our services are on ECS so it's mostly just updating a task definition and forcing a redeployment of containers.

Each EKS cluster is set up exactly the same aside from the usual things like vpc and ips and things of that nature that switch between them. They all get a set of "base" apps like log chutes and cert manager and all that as soon as they're deployed.

Our app environments don't communicate with one another at all. The only relationship between them is our IAM accounts in our security account can assume access into them as admin/etc.
That train has long left the station. The modern state has outsourced all kinds of policing, surveillance, propaganda, and other functions to corporations.
Show HN: Shapetoy – an application to combine shapes or create shape animations
Yeah, I think they're even more minimalist. It's an interesting design space, but hard to see it taking off, especially with few developers comfortable with thinking about the kind of minimalism required to take advantage.of these kinds of chips.
That could be. In the end 90% still buys Apple.

HN people generally think of themselves as smart folks but frankly when it comes to voting (with their feet) they behave pretty much like average people.
I wonder if there's a service that could be created here, using AI to create sterile/whitewashed ghost accounts, and flood them all over social media, etc., for people so that the real, human identity is pushed down on the search results.

For sure against TOS, but I'm not sure that I personally care.
Too bad the atomic energy commission is so tight lipped about proliferating reactor designs. The third world could have been powered with atomic energy by the 1980s if we didnt subscribe to cold war us vs them thinking (which our top brass continues to subscribe to even if the general populace hasn’t given a shit about the cold war since before Vietnam).
That comment must be sarcasm

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

(Make sure to check the linked articles in the 'See also' section)
Web traffic (https). Think of an “anonymized” attestation token in the same place as SNI.
I’m not sure about that. Some of the ASP web forms frontends that I build something like 13 years ago are still being happily consumed today.

The only thing enterprise really cares about is money, and IT getting in the way, in any way, is costing money. Web fronts have been instrumental in cutting down the hate on enterprise applications in any org that I’ve worked with over the years. You’d see something with a great WPF frontend score a 3/10 and something with a shitty Vue frontend score 9/10 because it just worked, was never slow and “never needed to be updated”.
The biggest travesty of Google+'s "real name policy" was that it wasn't a real name policy at all; it was a "no unusual name policy". Some people who used their real name got blocked because their name was unusual, while people using a normal but fake name were left alone.

The only way to enforce a real name policy is to require legal ID, but that opens people up to identity theft.

You'd basically have to have an official government-issued internet identity that you can use to log into other sites, which is fine under a benevolent government, but not in a dictatorship.
It's just unreasonable to suggest people not visit their friends within the same metro area
There are parts that should be read, but when you only need a reference a good lookup tool is invaluable:

https://github.com/skeeto/x86-lookup
Another reason why doing “something” is not always the right thing to do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
Smarter people are better at rationalizing away their bad behavior, though.

You need certain cognitive capacity in order to engage in sophistry.
It depends... some users have their own custom notification systems. Many business control their PR here strictly.

But in general.. yes.
I lived in Adliswil, a couple streets away from him. When I learned about the fact that this Legend lives just nearby, I was like a child before Christmas, planning to meet up with him and thanking him for vim.

I never did. I hope I would have. :-(

RIP, mr Moolenar.

:q
If the distinction that we're after is Science Fiction vs Science Fantasy, then I think it should focus less on how the science is handled (since that appears in both labels anyhow) and more on whether the Fiction is Fantasy.

The soul of scifi, science aside, is that it's a commentary on the present. 1984 feels like sci-fi despite not really having much to do with the science that appears in it because its a cautionary tale about where we're going if we don't change our ways.

So yes it's about whether elements of the story are connected to reality somehow, but I don't think the relevant elements are the scientific ones.
Where in Western society do we consider an embarrassing act the same as an illegal act that may also be embarrassing?

My reaction to someone smoking is going to be "gross". My reaction to someone getting a DUI is going far, far beyond that, despite how embarrassing it is for the individual who received the DUI.
For some reason, this reminded me of the Bansky quote:

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”