skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not the target audience, but OK:

“They” are a bunch of corrupted intelligence officials and powerful/influential people who got corrupted somewhere along the way, but started morphing into a totalitarian cabal around when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The unipolar “team America” world was always an illusion, the Cold War just shifted underground and distributed.

This has intensified recently, as you can tell with Argentinians picking an ancap maniac, and the deep state in the US throwing the whole freakin library at Trump.

Add to that all sorts of other schemes and plots that you can probably guess at, if you’re honest with yourself.

The conflict is almost over, they have lost. The Chinese economy is teetering over the abyss. Trump starts his counterattack on the US establishment 8/21. Enjoy the show.
I feel like they are sometimes already doing that, I had multiple CAPTCHAs where I thought I miss clicked, but got through anyways.
I don't think it would make sense. Dedicated lanes still need to close or have construction sometimes, and you still have to get out of the dedicated lane at some point and drive to your final destination. It wouldn't solve any problem, it would just make drivers even more complacent and unlikely to act when their car gets out of the dedicated lane and crashes into something.

Bike lanes make sense because bikes can't go as fast as cars and are unprotected in the event of a collision. Bus lanes make sense because buses have dedicated predictable routes, and efficient bus lanes increase the number of people that can get around.
My point was that apps that put dot files in $HOME are following a convention. You can argue that XDG is better or that it's worse, but you can't accuse the app developers of ignoring conventions in general. It's not like OpenSSH creates its own dirs in / or something.
A single boiler/dual circuit design also works well for cappucinos. They are cheaper than dual boilers and heat up quicker.

The tradeoff is less consistent temperature from shot to shot, but if you are diluting your coffee with milk anyway...
> until we train bots to do this

This is trivial.
>The Grayzone is one of the best outlets there is

You just describe yourself with this statement, not The Grayzone.
What I personally used most? Browsers, IE 5.5 and Netscape. My coworkers? Probably whatever version of Photoshop was current back then.

I wouldn't call that particularly weird.
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Staggered implementation? I still had a home page yesterday but it's gone this morning.
>Plus there is an opportunity for all the cars to learn the same lesson at once and forever.

I dont believe thay every car maker will not try to invent their own models
Same club as the people who coin inspect element viewers as hackers
My favorite street view easter egg:

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6547428,-120.5744037,3a,75y,...

Technically, not actually street view I don't think, but the blue circle does show up on Google Maps if you drag the little yellow guy in search of imagery.
The best solution would be to simply take Firefox off the market in France should this happen. If France wants browsers to work through the government, they can fund it, build it, and make laws to force people to use it.
Bots can do credit card transactions today, generate selfies that would fool automated detection (unless you are having humans in the loop, in which case they can easily generate them cheaper than they are to verify and ddos you that way), and pretend to be friends once 5 real people have vouched for them. Having an older gmail is going to do a good job making sure only the millenials and their botnets get in today, but also plenty of real customers in most domains will be blocked.

All of these might work today just because they aren’t widely used yet. Once they are and are understood they’ll be cracked.

The government oauth is maybe the most interesting; it probably just kicks the can to a government site which is going to have all the same problems, but could potentially benefit from a secure national id. But now the government has a database of all the sites you are logging into; forget privacy of library records, that’s a massive loss to the 4th amendment in practice. No need for prism or other NSA exploit nonsense when sites are literally pinging a government server to verify citizen network activity.
To that point, when I do the picture captcha (Select the crosswalks type question), I always click a square I know is not valid and then de-select it. Adds some "human-ness" to the interaction and I never get a 2nd challenge that way. Will that be the future? Look for behavior that is too perfect?
I have a Mazzer Mini grinder that's pretty old and I suspect it is the weak link in the chain (paired with Rocket espresso machine). Is there an easy way to tell if the grinder is doing its job well, e.g., some reliable way to examine the grain size?
Got a used Delonghi Magnifica Start
In Defense of Mountaineering Guidebooks
A bunch of news sites try that, but every link to them on HN (an Internet tech community you'd think would have a lot of people especially sympathetic to merit-based monetization of digital content) quickly gets a comment with a piracy link.
Not sure but it drives me crazy when I have to knowingly miscategorize something because it thinks a motorcycle is a bicycle and vice versa.
> I just wish everyone learned number theory and geometry and algebra and physics and and and...

When people ask why do CS Majors learn so much maths? "They won't be using it for programming!"

Maths teaches the CS major how to think. Sometimes things are not A->B and are very abstract like math problems.
> using 90% renewables using the existing plants for the last hard 10%

Solar and wind cannot be used in this role and at this scale due to their massive variability
Inria for sure would love that /s...

The week after Guix-HPC users see their Hydras blocked, the goverment it's fucked over by a call from "a big boss" from corpos relying on reproducible scientific materials and the guy who did that "great idea" fired in the spot to save up some asses (and Euros).
`.deb` was there basically from the start -- it was already in v1.0, AFAIK.

APT didn't appear until Debian 2.1 "Slink" in 1999.
"Well-regulated in the 18th century tended to be something like well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined...It didn't mean 'regulation' in the sense that we use it now...It means the militia was in an effective shape to fight...In other words, it didn't mean the state was controlling the militia in a certain way, but rather that the militia was prepared to do its duty."

This is from https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/news/CNN_Aug_1...
I agree, but in the context of the original complaint — not respecting user and operating system locations — following XDG is anti-user.

I prefer `~/.config`, but it’s not where such configurations go on the Mac (and there are multiple applications that do it differently).
>What ChatGPT produces under normal use is not more similar to the NYT source than any other article on the same topic.

ChatGPT is doing what a smart student does when he copies the homework, he combines a few sources and changes some wording. Technically there is no creativity, it is interpolating it's inputs and there is some randomness thrown in.

We also know that ChatGPT put some filters to filter out copyrighted outputs after they were caught that the AI actually memorizes paragraphs of text word by word.
Pardon an old curmudgeon: I'm sure this improves on SWIG in myriad ways, but how, exactly?
And conversion back into mechanical energy to push the car forward :|
> even though it's wrong

Which part is wrong? Except that we need more than 1-2 weeks worth of storage to rely on solar/wind as anything more than occasional addition.
How Rippling used Spot instances to save and scale CI/CD
I'm all for public transport, and I don't think this will happen but...

Because driverless cars are safer, faster and more efficient.
breaking: AI is better than humans at appearing human when completing CAPTCHAs
The poster above was making two claims that I responded to: 1, that apa writing their configs in dot files under $HOME is "breaking community standards", and 2, that there is never a good reason to do so.
Current and near-future grid cannot handle such a balance of renewables, especially hydro takes a lot of beating when the water level goes up and down constantly.
> As someone from India, this is false. How is the US responsible for China claiming Indian territory?

Firstly, India is not in east asia. My comment was specificially on east asia. But even here we are indirectly involved due to britain using india to invade china. Funnily enough, it's called an 'expedition' rather than a failed invasion. As the 'successor' of the british empire, we are now the principal 'free tibet' agitators.

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

Also, india claims chinese territory ( once again as a legacy of the british invasion of china from india ). Frankly, india and china have the same enemy. They should really be working together, not against each other.

> Do you forget that during WW2, US supported mainland China with aid?

We supported the 'nationalists' who were fighting the 'communists'. Guess which one is mainland china and which one is taiwan.

> Without US opening up its market, mainland China wouldn't have developed so fast.

You have it backwards again. Why do you repeat the same thing in so many threads? Are you part of a pr group or something? Just so strange. It's not the US that opened its market. It was china who opened its market to the US. This is basic history. Not just in the 1970s, but also in the 1800s as well. And it's not just china that advanced, it's the US that advanced as well. Crazy how a country can advance if the US isn't trying to destabilize or invade it. Huh? One can only imagine what india, iran, much of africa, south america, etc could be if we'd disappear or simply stop undermining or destroying these regions.

> Also, Taiwanese people are not puppets.

The people aren't but the elite are. They are our worthless puppets.

> Shouldn't and couldn't. The US accepts a one-China policy. So the other way could also happen.

They can and should. Not only that, they should broaden it into a racial or regional issue. White supremacy got east asia colonized, oppressed and nuked. Maybe turn the tables on us.

> The difference is slavery. Taiwan is not going against CCP in defense of slavery.

The civil war wasn't about slavery either. The north had slave states - maryland, delaware, missouri, kentucky, west virginia.

'The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the U.S., contrary to a common misconception; it applied in the ten states that were still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, but it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slaveholding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) or in parts of Virginia and Louisiana that were no longer in rebellion.'

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

But your point is moot since the supreme court declared secession to be illegal. We, in the US, legally do not believe in self-determination by a group of people.

Stop getting your 'history' from propaganda. My advice, go look it up and dig just one layer deeper and you'll realize most 'history' is nonsense.
We absolutely do not have bike lanes all over the US, most cities are barely getting started adding them
“Developable” value is undeveloped land value. Land would have very little value if it couldn’t be developed.

(Leaving out the case of land with natural resources to mine, or otherwise enjoy or extract, but little or no development potential.)

Developing land, by adding utility infrastructure, building structures, adding building amenities and aesthetic improvements, landscaping etc, all require new sunk costs, which then also increase taxes.

So the return on that property investment will have to cover not only its own cost, but the increase in taxes they create.

It is essentially buying something (development), then being asked to rent it forever (the tax on the increased property value).

A pure land tax would not tax property improvements directly, and so would make development much easier to pay for itself.

While making holding undeveloped land much more expensive (given total taxes across all real estate remain the same, with a higher land only tax, and zero tax on the property development).
> It’s not hard to imagine a new type of safety cone that has an explicit sign for autonomous vehicles to stop far far away.

Car companies will never build in failsafes like that, it would be too easy for anyone to put up those signs anywhere. Cars and streets are made for human drivers, there is no way around it and no alternative to making your car AI as good as human drivers. If you can't do that, you can make a much simpler train "AI" and put it on tracks. We did that in the 60s.
Our Debian Linode was created May 2013 and is still going strong, keeping up with upgrades/updates. It's been amazing for stability.
I consider myself a feminist and I strongly recommend the book. It was my therapist that recommended it to me. The term "nice guy" has been co-opted to mean something different (though related) in the meme world.
The GP post was talking about directly editing HTML, so I was assuming they weren’t using a component framework. That’s the context I’m replying to.

We can agree to disagree about readability though, I have a lot of trouble groking long class=“…” strings.
Reminds me of the 3Blue1Brown video about Wordle, and then it's followup video. I guess that's kind of a spoiler, but still worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg
I still have an anonymous SFTP server. Bots would find it and not know what to do with it as they only how to exploit shell access. I was hoping they would upload interesting exploits but many years later, still nothing. Bots would upload to FTP assuming it was also available over HTTPS. Nowadays I use it as one of many learning tools to see how many bots I can cause to get stuck since SSH does not encrypt the initial client/server negotiation which includes a version banner.
One way to get deterministic output is to use integer/fixed point math. Quantised models already do that for matrix multiplication, but things like softmax may still be implemented using some floating point math. It's possible to replace that, just takes a bit of extra work and is probably slower than using the GPU's native float ops.
Or really, proof-of-work based CAPTCHAs. I think inevitably that's the world we're eventually stuck in
There are operating system processes in place to help keep `~/Library/Caches` smaller (or at least somewhat constrained). They are not there for `~/.cache`.
That reminds me: what ever happened to Shazam live lyrics?

You used to be able to Shazam the middle of a song, and it would start displaying the lyrics in real time. Apple even demoed it in a keynote. I haven’t seen that feature in a while.
The point of autonomous vehicles is to not have to totally reshape the world before being able to accommodate them. But small shifts like adjusting signs to also be easily read by autonomous vehicles aren't that crazy.

It'd just be done such that new signage is made to be easily readable, so that over time, as old stuff is replaced, the signage becomes more readable for machines.

This sort of thing can also benefit regular vehicles.
So it's just the TOR browser with TOR disabled? Thing is, you could do that anyway. It did take setting a couple environment variables, no GUI method, but easy enough to do. Unclear what value Mullvad's version provides. Feels like a promotional thing.
This is one variant of "the great filter" theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
> this cost several millions to redeploy the (one-line) fix to actually check the weight from the sensor was less than the threshold

Well maybe this is the other, compounding problem. Engineering complex machines with such a high cost of bugfix deployment seems like a big issue. It's funny that as an industry we now know how to safely deploy software updates to hundreds of millions of phones, with security checks, signed firmwares, etc, but doing that on applications with a super high unit price tag seems out of reach...

Or maybe, a few millions is like only a thousand hours of flying in jet fuel costs alone, not a big deal...
I expect than in 3 years at this rate, most people will just be accessing LLMs via AWS. Many use GPT through Azure now. ChatGPT could have as many clones as Flappy Bird.
Infrastructure components should still be written in code but composing multiple components (network, infra, database) is often a Byzantine maze of different tooling/language choices (terraform/pulumi/crossplane) and multiple pull requests.

If you shift to an application developers perspective, and zoom out a level most medium/large org still require interaction with multiple teams to spin up an application. Testing and deploying this stack end to end is expensive and time consuming.

I’m not sure what the optimal solution looks like, but certainly open to tools that force us to think more about building interfaces around infra components and wire it together without navigating PRs in a dozen different repos. PR should be the process to create a new version of a component, but not an API for users requesting an instance of that component.
This is going to create a mess and make the internet probably suck a lot more.

I don't have any solutions or ideas to float. Just painful acceptance that nice things are going to break.
15kms at 80km/s

So, for a quarter of a second or less it was touching the ground and almost double the height of Everest (8.8kms).
The complete solution is a trusted 3rd party that verifies you in person. In most countries that would be the government. In the US it could a private entity like banks.

Then websites site rate limit each authenticated person.
The longest fantasy series ever written. Take all Stephen King books, throw in the entire Harry Potter series, and it's still shorter than the Wandering Inn.

I just gave up on the series after book 4. I felt the original main character wasn't getting enough screen time, and didn't really like the newer characters as much.
I have the exact same issue at my office. Do anyone has a solution to that. I'd appreciate it greatly.
Thanks
We're from different memeplexes, but both of our assumptions are equally unearned.

But if we're talking about a second industrial revolution it won't be like the first one, because:

- There will be more carbon in the air, hence more wood to chop and burn

- There will books lying around describing how to leapfrog many steps

I don't think it'd take 10000 years again to restore civilization the second time around.
yeah at that size it's going to be a huge-ass almost literally earth-shattering explosion no matter the composition...
I always thought that's what captchas evolved into anyways. Human-reinforced training for AI image recognition.
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Driverless car from Cruise. Headlines every day about autonomous driving mishaps from Tesla & Cruise, seemingly never from Waymo.

Does this hurt or help Waymo? They're being painted with the same brush, but perhaps they can leverage that into regulatory capture. When the inevitable regulations come along they'll likely be set to "difficult, but achievable". Which at this point feels like "Waymo pass, Tesla & Cruise fail".
How should it work, every browser has to download a list with forbidden sites from the french government first? Like a public open "bad sites" list?
Doing something like that takes massive public investments in changing our roads and infrastructure. Given that this money will come from the public, I would argue that it should be spent on publicly accessible tools and services, like enhanced public transit. I do not want to spend public money to build public infrastructure for the gain of massive private companies' experiments.
Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Performing Optimally After 32 Days in Human Body
Debian installs perfectly on my Thinkpad x61, and works great out of the box. (x)Ubuntu's installer won't even boot on this hardware.
> Or "turn on your webcam and say/do stuff"

Probably <1 year away from beating automated detection of this reliably and 2-3 in fooling humans a high % of the time economically. I was at siggraph recently where I think I saw a whole room of papers of people’s approaches to doing just this problem of photorealistic faces saying arbitrary things.
Hilariously all this is doing is ensuring the future of big tech being the only ones allowed to make or distribute a browser.
I can’t speak to that generally, but in my anecdotal experience in 22 years in the US Military (in IT for most of that):

I dealt with one case that was completely horrific, and two minor. The horrific case involves the PRODUCTION of CP using other service members children via the spouses daycare, then distribution from our network. The other two were relatively simple storage/redistribution via workstations.

It happens, but from my viewpoint if it’s that rare it must be extremely rare elsewhere if your statement is true.
When the researcher claimed that 5g may accelerate the development of drug resistant microbes I decided I could safely dismiss them. If someone has some proposed mechanism I might reconsider, but that seems very unlikely to me. Drug resistance is expensive for cells so they only do it if they have to. RF isn’t going to lead them to spontaneously develop a trait and the rate of mutation is already optimized, speeding it up isn’t going to lead to super viruses because evolution already has all the tools it needs to speed up mutations if beneficial. He also seemed very focused on the number of individuals antennas associated with 5g which is clearly the wrong metric
I minored in Undergrad. I thought the program would be easy because the credit hours required was lower compared to other similar program's requirements. Boy was I wrong. When I took metaphysics the reading list in the syllabus was roughly as large as your average English Lit. course, but I probably spent twice as much time on that 300-level three hour class as I ever spent on any other similar class. I pride myself in my reading comprehension skills. Even today I typically only have to read the majority of things once before understanding it. I think I re-read everything in that class at least twice if not more depending on the philosopher.
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The first time I used `shutdown` on
Linux console I wondered why it caused every other terminal to print something and then waited 60 seconds. Then I realized you could run it over ssh, on a remote server
Arthur unveils Bench, an open-source AI model evaluator
AI startup Arthur today introduced Arthur Bench, an open-source evaluation tool for comparing large language models (LLMs), prompts, and hyperparameters for generative text models. This open-source tool will enable businesses to evaluate how different LLMs will perform in real-world scenarios so they can make informed, data-driven decisions when integrating the latest AI technologies into their operations.
E.g.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/much-storage-needed-solar-wind-p...

"Graham says that the CSIRO modelling showed that at very high levels of wind and solar, a maximum of half a day’s average demand was needed for storage. In some areas of the grid, only around three hours might be needed."

Or:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...

The amount of short term storage to get a grid between 80-95% running on solar/wind is measured in hours.

Electrolyzing and storing hydrogen in an underground cavern can buffer the rest and be stored easily for years if necessary.