skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, it seemed bad but the consensus in the mid 20th century was that cigarettes were good for you. You can watch Tour De France videos of bicyclists smoking while biking because it was supposed to provide energy.

And the fact that the dangers were known to some, but yet society widely considered tobacco safe and even good for you, does not help the idea that the dangers would be obvious. If we continue the analogy, it's very possible people 50 years from now will be pointing to this paper to show that the dangers of cellphone radiation was known in the early 2020s, even though society and the scientific community broadly haven't accepted these dangers.
Big Tech at work with french admninistration insiders.
What if someone could? What if rainman could
I agree. Monopolies muddy the waters though.
I’m wildly speculating, but it seems that projects like llama.cpp are bringing SOTA models closer to the desktop. It’s only a matter of time before browsers embed a small LLM for various purposes, providing access to this local model via a JavaScript API that allows clients like Gmail to perform tasks on data locally. Apple would be strongly incentivized to do this, given their value proposition of user privacy.
> Government policy ideals from a small handful of European men in the 18th century may be noble but I value more the documented modern observable effects of policies than their inspiration and goals.

The proof is in the pudding, the American system of political tolerance has an excellent track record and leads to better outcomes in the long run.
that's not true? it you follow the "for you" feed you'll get shit Twitter "thinks" you'll like - ie shit that'll get youre attention
Maybe hijacking your post, sorry about that, but has anyone already read „House of Leaves“? What are you impressions?

Seems like a heavy read and I was wondering what to expect.
It would be exploding for the duration, but at that size you just can’t get through much of the asteroid before it touches the ground.
I've noticed gmail search has gotten significantly worse. Maybe my inbox corpus is becoming too large or google may be dedicating less server resources to search, but the frequency of failed inbox searches has significantly increased over the past year. (Failed as in I try to search for an email I know exists, but can't find it)

Looks like my inbox is at 250,000 emails. Wonder if search degrades with inbox size. (Same with drive?)
Any particular reason for the cryptic, two letter file name instead of something descriptive?
I agree. Every hiring process will have false negatives. Pointing out every one doesn’t invalidate the effectiveness of the process
Eh, for the majority of cases, software engineering is more like plumbing than like R&D. There are exceptions, like building a new DB, or similar. But if the tools you need to solve the problem are postgres + Django + react, there shouldn't really be that much hidden complexity for you to uncover.
What you're actually describing there is how Mastodon works. Twitter has been "algorithmic" for the longest time now and will show you whatever it thinks you should see.
Most/all of the capacitors (which are mostly piezoelectric), the inductors, any ferrite beads, and of course thermal expansion. I'd also bet that liquid crystals change pressure when they rotate, but idk.
I misread the parent.

I originally read it as it's easy to clone twitter.

My response is it's easy enough to build a micro-blogging platform/service. it's all the other shit like moderation, regulatory/legal compliance, making a profit, keeping advertisers happy, etc that's hard.
It is the 21st century. For more than a hundred years, fusion has been twenty years away. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.
I really respect Ives as a great product designer but not a great UI designer in my opinion. iOS 6 Skeuomorphism was taken to the extreme so that iOS 7 felt like a breathe of fresh air. Now everything just feels bland.
Yes. Education should be and is free. Anybody who wants it otherwise is morally confused. The universities restrict education, to extract economic value from the essential human experience of learning. It’s a trillion dollar industry built on restricting access to what should be and is free, knowledge. It’s a way of sorting workers into classes. It’s all it can ever be until the money is removed.
oh whatever, says "The New Yorker" that would like to keep making $12 a print issue and whatever crazy amount they charge for online. Come to us! not them. you need us to feel connected.
I used some pretty beefy boxes for industrial systems in the 80's and what struck me about them - and of the PCs of that era - is that they were all built to last for decades. Modern stuff is built to last for a couple of years at best in most cases, with some rare exceptions. Flimsy cases, plastic instead of steel. Unserviceable, non-standard and proprietary instead of standardized and repairable. Miniaturized as much as possible instead of open frame. And finally, undocumented versus documented right down to the component level and the software source code.

From a longevity perspective that stuff absolutely rocks, much like I'd much rather have a car from the 90's than one built today. The 90's one will outlive me, the one built today will need at least one replacement.
Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka. A technologist who helped the US federal government for several years looks backs and describes all the problems with government adopting digital interfaces in a way that actually helps users. Also a commentary on how the waterfall model of governance, where grandiose legislation is passed, without taking feedback from those implementing it, leads to accretion of convoluted regulations and horrible user experiences for the most disadvantaged of us.
OK some of these are so embarrassing that I'd expect developers worth their salt should just leave the organization producing these applications. I'd easily be able to tell my kids that the reason we don't have food on the table is because dad's manager is an idiot who forces me to help write patents for obvious prior art
Discovery is a feature we look for in social media platforms. Twitter offers discovery in the form of an optional more open feed. Twitters discovery feature is worse for these users now than it was before. They now feel less compelled to use the product.

1+1=2.
Had it actually succeeded and become the defacto UI language, it has a lot of nice properties that make it well suited for optimizations.

Javascript is a hard language to optimize and the current javascript engines have gone to heroic efforts to get there. Dart took what made javascript hard to optimize and removed it (mostly removing dynamism around types, you can't just add/remove random fields and functions to an object).

Dart was (at least initially) designed by some of the engineers behind V8 specifically for the purpose of "let's make something that can be fast without a 10 MLoC super JIT".

The other nice thing about dart is it was entirely boring. If you know Java/C# you know Dart. There weren't a whole lot of weird surprises around what "this" is, how `var` scoping works, or wrapping your mind around prototype inheritance. It was just pretty plain OO programming.

That "boring" nature of dart makes it easy to maintain and to write nice IDEs around.

Even today, Typescript has some neat things but by god do I hate it when devs make an uber complex macros impossible for my IDE to grok. (littering the code with red squiggles). All because they've done a bit too much Haskell. When the type signature spans multiple lines because "any" was too lose, but they did want to support anything which could be turned into a string, was undefined, could be null, could be a number, and also stuff that has a method `foo` that can be invoked on easter.
ChatGPT has a liberal bias, research on AI’s political responses shows
My girlfriend had a poorly aimed egg thrown at her late at night in Marseille on a kebab run for wearing a short skirt in a Muslim neighborhood. Seems pretty rough to me!
Not mentioning Mastodon (not even just to disparage it as not being worth further remarks) makes the article look blinkered.

Threads is related to and interoperates with Mastodon; so Mastodon is relevant to an article in which Threads is the main topic.
Linkt to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-023-01097-2
No. A few months after the takeover I blocked Twitter at the DNS level for my house. I went back into the office for work one day and in some down time, I went to Twitter while it wasn't DNS blocked. It's a ghost town. I miss the old Twitter, but that's clearly never coming back.
Sadly, it's the old 'if it bleeds, it leads' meme. People are attracted to extremes (good or bad) and if something is boring and middle-of-the-road, they ignore it. SLow, iterative, steady progress is boring to most people. They want dramatic breakthroughs.

Most of the public can't grasp the mathematics of compounding change.
This is a small amount, but it is not negligible.

If we really wanted to tackle green house gas emissions for climate change we should ban cruise ships, as they are equivalent to 1 million cars each [1]. Then heavily investigate and possibly prosecute large companies in a plethora of sectors.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday...
selling the solution to a problem they created
> However, the 2024 NDAA (passed in July 2023)...

There is no such thing.

There is a proposed House bill, H.R. 2670, which has passed the House.

There is a proposed Senate bill, S. 2226, which passed the Senate.

Neither has passed into law (though it looks like the House bill, as amended by the Senate, will likely become the final version).

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As it turns out, the provision exists in both versions of the bill. It's also mostly a nothingburger.

The Undetectable Firearms Act is in effect now and has been in effect for my entire adult life. The last extension was in December 2013 for ten years (P.L. 113-57, 137 Stat. 656). The NRA did not oppose it; it was not debated.

Since it has continuously been extended without controversy, this provision of the proposed NDAA would simply make it permanent.
So the domain model has already been made explicit and is implemented for you? All the design choices have been removed from you? You don’t have to do any actual software engineering - just extending business logic? That’s nice.

Your trivialization of the complexity is laughable.

The tools are "standard". The data models aren’t.

It's like plumbing alright. With random, unknown substances in the pipes.
Why would an AI tell you that your java app uses too much CO2? What am I missing?
That sounds interesting. Are you thinking about a comment system build into RSS?

I am interested in potential future RSS capabilities. Would you mind a chat about that? If so, please drop me an email, see profile.
Of course I can, and do, avoid Google.

That's an individual solution. I'm interested in a world that's as good as possible not only for me, but for the other people too. Most people around still use Google. They might find this new feature useful and start using it, and possibly suffer this bias. Not only they may get manipulated individually, but it can have broader consequences, even to those avoiding the feature. If Facebook can influence which president get elected in a country, it will also affect people avoiding facebook (sometime for this very reason).

Avoiding stuff for oneself is a first step but it's hardly a solution, these big corporations have a non negligible effect on the world, still with you as a member.

We'll have to start to raise awareness around these things, in addition to all the subjects on which we already need awareness.

But same old same old I guess, Google already puts you in a bubble, just even more concerning I guess. It was manipulating us, now it's another, new, potential manipulation angle.
Google has always introduced biases by virtue of ranking your results and deciding which content to surface.

This was always the case.
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Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142065
Tesla Didn’t Fix Autopilot After Fatal Crash, Engineers Say
https://archive.li/o5uTY
The title is very misleading
Depends. Most of the current coal deposits were from before fungi and bacteria evolved the ability to digest lignins and similar compounds. Now that they can do that, no more (or at least much less) coal deposits are being created.
I think this highly depends on what is being rated. Non-durable consumer goods, sure, there is very little assurance that what you're getting now is even what you would have gotten ten years ago. Processes and inputs both change. A previously reputable brand might have been purchased by private equity and enshittified on purpose.

On the other hand, if you're reading reviews of Moby Dick, I don't think the perceived quality or relevance of the writing is going to change much on the scale of decades. Maybe it starts to get archaic at some point, but people still get a lot out of reading Homer. If it's something like Principia Mathematica, that might honestly be timeless as long as human-like creatures exist who can read and understand math and physics.
Sure. Both of us work in Tech industry. We know our jobs are not going to be there forever. So we started looking at different side hustles and line of business. Started affiliate marketing but got nowhere (it was very hard for us to write articles).

SaaS company matched our background as tech worker (little we know just a small portion of running a company is tech).
Mozilla Seeks New Leader for Its Movement-Building Arm
I think the fact Google curiously ignored all the security problems raised by the WebGPU API suggests they are closer to trying to offload the GPU inference part of this to end users than people think.

Build as much of the model as you can in the cloud, run inference locally and push results back is probably the cost optimal way to run this stuff at scale.
New AP guidelines lay the groundwork for AI-assisted newsrooms
Better yet: you'll need a license to compile code.
Inflation Reduction Act impacts on the economics of hydrogen and liquid fuels
That's why "dense rock" setting was used. Imagine if they had selected "solid iron". I don't know what settings are available for the calculator used, but "loose bunch of rocks" would probably fall apart in the atmo, dense rock would hold together until impact, and solid iron would just keep burrowing further
Seeing as I cannot control all the software I have on my computers, I just gave up.
Everything in $HOME that I care about is in ~/my. $HOME itself is anarchic, and that's okay with me. I have better things to do than micromanage this.
@bonoboTP:

This is a bit late now and you'll probably not see it, but it occurred to me that we are talking about different things, throughout. When you're talking about progress, you mean neural nets now work better than before in classifying images, recognising speech, translating text, etc. What I mean on the other hand is progress towards artificial intelligence. I don't have any difficulty accepting that image classifiers work better now than 20 years ago (although see my comments about why) and we perhaps don't necessarily need science to understand this.

What we do need science to understand is whether that kind of progress is progress towards artificial intelligence. And I would very much like to say that that is irrelevant because personally I don't care much about creating artificial intelligence, but a) that's the name of the field and b) many people in machine learning seem convinced that artificial intelligence is what they are trying to build (see e.g. how "the AI" became a common way to refer to neural net systems in recent years, even appearing in scholarly articles by people who should really know better, but, unfortunately, don't seem to). In other words, is progress in classification at all connected to progress towards artificial intelligence? That one is a scientific question.

The problem of course is that we have plenty of metrics to measure the performance of classifiers, but no good tests to detect the presence of anything like intelligence. I've thought of writing a paper to propose some but every time I'm like, nah, that's not what I'm working on, let someone else do it.
Things like Sidebury affect your window width and hence your fingerprint, Tor Browser is extremely careful with these. You might not be in the market for a privacy focused browser.
It's a bit odd that media are on the one hand prohibiting the use of their old material for training. But at the same time would like to use the bots to write their articles quicker.
I have heard that TikTok algorithm is great as long as you give it a bit time to learn your preferences. I don't think I would be able to survive that process, for exact same reason - it serves absolute dumb garbage, in hundreds.
> Did you not find the keyboard-style integration limiting regarding integration in your app

We didn't. We were able to use regular <input> fields and handle input in all the ways we already knew how to support well. It had the added benefit that manual testing during development could also be done with the keyboard which meant we didn't need to give engineers any specialised hardware most of the time.

The flexibility also helped when we ran certain processes in the warehouse in different ways. We (engineering) learnt a while after we had put the system into action that sometimes people in the warehouse weren't using a phone with an attached or built-in scanner, but were sometimes using a Chromebook with a scanning gun. They'd use this for various bulk processing, or supervisors would use this because they worked mostly in the non-mobile tools or needed the productivity of a bigger screen and laptop over a phone.

I guess the overall thing here though was that we just never thought about barcode scanning because it never came up as an issue[^1].

> I have some experience with Zebra TCx devices ... but they're quite expensive. Many companies...BYOD... Also some companies ... rely on external partners ... where you don't know what kind of device they'll use.

This is a fair point. We didn't BYOD because these devices were in constant use in a busy warehouse and personal phones wouldn't have cut it in terms of reliability, but for more occasional use I get it. External partners BYOD'ing also makes sense.

I think we had some Zebra TCx devices, or if not something very similar. They were pricey, but for extensive usage at our scale, probably not far off price competitive with your pricing. We also only had a few for a specialised use-case, mostly we used cheaper devices without the built-in scanners, and laptop/desktop hardware when mobility wasn't as important.

> Regarding the pricing...

Good FAQ answers on that one. That's my concerns addressed there! Enterprise pricing for offline support makes sense. Periodic reporting also sounds reasonable.

[^1]: Except... that time someone left a barcode scanner with the trigger depressed on a desk once and because we made an API call on a scan, it brought down the site and database. Thankfully a quick fix and some protections and rate limiting solved it from ever causing an issue again, but a funny issue.
An Earth-originating civilization would have left our species bereft of the natural resources to industrialize with.

Coal was only made once. Maybe if abiotic theory of petroleum is true, you get that back over immense timescales, but you don't get a second shot at coal. Without coal, you can't even do metallurgy at scale. Is there some gotcha that I'm missing?
After the Modern Data Stack: Welcome Back, Data Platforms
I don't have right to healthcare, education, water, food, or anything else essential to survival yet I'm suppose to care about wacko's "right" to print murdersticks in their home with no supervision?
The best advice I ever got regarding Spinoza's Ethics was to read it backwards, and focus on the corollaries (and notes at the end of sections).

If you start the Ethics at the end you find a great introduction to reading Spinoza:

> But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

It's from this I also derive my belief that if you find Spinoza "approachable" then you probably haven't spent enough time with Spinoza.
Yeah, I'd like to see a really good microtransactions implementation.

Including some way to keep that from marginalizing people in the current very inequitable capitalist environment.

A non-technical challenge is that you'd need someone to lead this in good faith, and they'd need both principles and clout. The first 5 candidates I thought of just now seemed much better candidates in the past, than currently.
> which rewards attention

Hence my thought that this is a quirk of human nature. We give attention to the wrong things.

All ad-based media suffers from this problem. Twitter’s algorithm is but a reflection of our revealed preferences. It doesn’t care what we say we want, only what we show we want with our actions.
Normalise each person's reviews to make 3/5 their average.

Take notice when people do not leave a review who normally do (hello AirBNB! this is the metric you want!), it often indicates something has gone quite wrong.
And Google Cloud Platform
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FYI: news from April

Bunch of discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421034
As if people needed even more encouragement to be too lazy to read? Awful feature, this is bad for society.
Life can be delish, with a sunny disposish!
M. Kaleo Manuel, the official who refused to release water in Maui
What's preventing Pulumi from making a license change in the future?
And this is worse.
The sceptical case on generative AI
Torpedoes typically have an inertial switch which disarms them if they turn 180 degrees, so they don't accidentally hit their source. When a torpedo accidentally arms and activates on board a submarine (hot running) the emergency procedure is to immediately turn the sub around 180 degrees to disarm the torpedo.
If you use a misleading headline, then that is not my problem. I skimmed the article as the New Yorker is an overly verbose rag read by sesquipedalian obsessed pseudo-intellectuals.

Actually, YOU have just made an excellent point unintentionally, not everyone has the time or desire to read a long article. IF you prefer more longform content, then you can go to any number of platforms which specialize in that.

Twitter is what it always was, a quick take or bite-size morsel of information.
Kagi has been doing this already for quite a while, well before google (see Kagi Universal Summarizer) with no info linked to your profile [0]

[0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/faqs.html#i-have-...

For the record I am a happy user, not affiliated.
I read the one-star reviews and ask "do these people sound like they're complaining about the product itself, or something else?" (For example, if you're buying books that somebody could conceivably be assigned in school, you'll see one-star reviews that are really reviews of a class they didn't like pretending to be a review of a book.)
The "misinformation" that is blocked might be just of a type that is politically convenient to be blocked for those people.
Tabs are objectively better than spaces
Fair. Books probably are a bit more evergreen on the reviews. Though, I am guessing that is highly variable on the genre? The Steam approach would probably still work rather well. No need to delete old reviews, but having recent ones can still be good to see.