skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If `ls` changed its output format in any way (unless behind a flag) it'd break a heck of a lot of bash scripts.

The `jc` ("CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON") documentation[1] & parser[2] for `ls` also demonstrate that reliable & cross-platform parsing of even the current output can be non-trivial based on filenames encountered, flags used & host platform--which means there's probably a non-zero number of bash scripts that are already broken but they don't know it.

[1] https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls

[2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/blob/4cd721be8595db52b6...
Remember that Life has been around like 5 billion years - a continuous computation running on the most sophisticated computer in existence. I don't think we fully appreciate how special Life is, how special we are. It's likely that some manufacturing techniques will be best done, perhaps only done, by humans on Earth. There are many materials (organic ones) that are more abundant here than elsewhere - and in a more convenient location. The solar system is something like a vast desert; the Earth is like a great city. I would imagine that it will take a long time for space-based manufacturing to eclipse that of Earth, and perhaps it never will, for some things. Then of course there is the inherent interest in biological life - tourism, basically. It's hard to say because we don't really know what's possible out there. But I guarantee some products and services will remain economical to provide only on Earth in the long run. (I mean, if you posit magical nanotech then sure, we can't trade. But I think the future is more limited, and interesting, than that.)

Oh, another thing we can offer is 'reboot services' in the event of intense Solar activity. In return, maybe they can deflect an asteroid or comet for us. I think it will work out!
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The first rule of being an American overseas is you are not an American overseas.

You are a high priority target for robbery, kidnapping, extortion, scamming, murder, and a host of other things from the lovely locals you're mingling amongst. Stay to well lit areas, don't stay out late, don't follow anyone around, dress in a way that does not draw attention to yourself (better if you can get into local garb), and assume every single person is there to kill you. Limit your drinking, and if you do drink do so amongst expatriates and travel friends, and guard your drink at all times.

People do not like Americans. Many times their ill will has at least a logical foundation. While I certainly appreciate the state department attempting to manage image this isn't enough. Americans must be on the defense at all times. You must especially be defensive in non-western countries (where you are probably better off simply not going). While many people are easy going the mixture of zealous propaganda about Americans, and America's own negative image, will have you perceived as a target more often than a friend.
Okay, but you kind of totally ignored my second paragraph.
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Does EVERY desktop application really need to run on mobile? Some apps are just... call me crazy... desktop apps! (NOTE: "native vs. browser-based" is separate distinction from "desktop vs. mobile".)

That's not to say that there can't be mobile audio apps, or mobile whatever. I just think that's a separate app, and should be designed and written as a mobile app from conception.

I realize that a large cohort finds desktop applications uncool today, but I'm just so frustrated with the idea that serious and powerful desktop interfaces need to crippled in order to fit into a "mobile-first" (a.k.a. "lowest-common denominator") paradigm. For audio listening, that's fine. But for serious audio creation and editing? FUCK an iPhone, sheesh.
What do you use to block obnoxious YouTube channels?
Singaporean here. Singapore has always be a free port. Anyone can setup a business and legally import items. There are no such thing as “government-party-appointed resellers”.

Best to entirely disregard this anecdote.
Then showing up at their workplace is a direct threat to them as workers and their colleagues. And please stop conflating "peaceful protest of the contract signers" with "angry mob accosting children". Otherwise I will conflate "laptops from specific company" with "spyware-ridden laptops that pry into children's private lives and snoop on their conversations, selling that data to advertisers, future employers, and storing it indefinitely so it may be subpoena'd by the police".
I'd say that "screen time" is just a convenient categorization since, for the most part, kids are so drawn to addictive and arguably low-value content that once those things are off, there is no interest in the screen. I've given unlimited time to my kids for more learning-centric stuff, but they hardly use it.

I can tell you if my kids were coding, making music, reading, or otherwise engaged in something more productive with their screens, I'd absolutely whitelist those apps for much more time. But it is, sadly, more YT Kids shit, Roblox nonsense, etc.
Also with interesting timing, Vietnam is going to bump the U.S. up a level to a "comprehensive strategic partner" within their diplomatic framework: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/01/...
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Children don't get their own phones till they are ~16 and have more independence. They need them at some point, but too early is like giving a child crack.

We have a family flip phone that I can give out as needed when a child is going somewhere and we want to be able to contact them and vice versa.

Gabb wireless is also a good option.
a front end for a front end...
Wow, I feel old that someone can actually post this, but damn, is that illuminating.
How are these guys doing the top hole drills through the wall? In that demo, they have direct access to the top board. Is this for new construction or something? Are they removing drywall from the upper floor?
> Give America a thousand years and chances are that some people will end up speaking something completely unintelligible to others.

I wonder how much some simple tech by today’s standards will alter this course. Given media and mass communication it’s in our interests to reduce variation to increase our communication capabilities which hasn’t been the case for as long but I can see in the US anyways we’ve become more similar than we once were when we had stronger geographical anchors in our speech or culture.
What's embarrassing is choosing to reside in a country you are ashamed of.
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The JSON data is included with the HTML. I did write a program that will parse some of it, but even then they sometimes changed a few things and causing the program to not work.
Interesting, its almost like speculative execution on a CPU. A smaller model guesses the output of the larger model, and the larger model can effectively check and skip the correctly guessed part of the output.
I lived in Cali for most of my life, until I didn't, but still I needed to look up where in hell "Solano County" is.

The most notable city is Vacaville, so surely the entire area is an agrarian armpit. I'm not sure what manner of Utopia they're planning there, but whatever floats their boats.
LOL, by bad, I wanted to say hill instead. For reference, here is a recent photo: https://mcs.ed.cr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WhatsApp-Image-... . They had the swing in the hill (yes, now I know the difference) where now there is the second floor of the 3 stories building in the center. So if we jumped too far we end up more or less near the small yellow roofs that I think are a playground.

So no, it was a hill, not a cliff. Not being a native English speaker bites me again XD
I actually mostly agree with you! Ally has a formal meaning and usually means a mutual defense pact. I was using "ally" informally, to refer to countries that are roughly in the U.S. camp.
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I noticed most of these books have no reviews. When they do have reviews they have no text with thr review. I think we can do the most good here by just adding a one star review for each of this sellers books, with text, saying that it's AI garbage. I've done a few but I want to finish my paneer now.
My parents did something similar, limiting my computer usage to 1hr/day and they'd sometimes enforce it by confiscating the laptop from me etc..., I remember one day my dad went to do a call so I ran mimikatz on his PC and dumped the windows password. so I can use it whenever he's asleep/away.

Not my proudest moment but I used to do anything to get extra time on the computer, I work full time as a security engineer now.
Having lived and worked in a number of Asian countries, Singapore remains as one of the countries with very low levels of corruption.

I work for a FAANG in Singapore. The above statement about remote work and software work being not valued are not based on facts/reality. My manager is the least bothered if I come to work or WFH, as long as I delver results/work assigned.
Unlike Gmail, YouTube is a large public repository of media.

Pulling your email account from Gmail affects you. Pulling a video from YouTube affects potentially huge numbers of people.
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I've been using https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat previously, but this looks like a worthy alternative. Nice work, I'll have try this out :)
This reads as an absurdist take on travel, or one assuming the average American is blithely walking back and forth across the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. After extensive travel in many “non-Western” countries, I have essentially never felt like a target, or that I was in danger (except of perhaps being charged more than a local), and suggesting Americans avoid those countries reads, to me, as an absolutely mad-with-fear take on the world.
You are of course right. But probably they got VC cash and some guy said, do it in React bla bla whatever the cost…
Whoa. That escalated quickly.
I’m talking about how people feel where people protest outside their homes. When it’s at work they feel like they’re in some context where it’s appropriate and is related to their work, and they enjoy a certain amount of anonymity.

When people show at their homes and are protesting, it becomes deeply personal, and exposes their family who is not involved as targets.

Listen, I feel like you don’t get how people can feel intimidated by strangers protesting in front of their personal and individual home, their site of their sanctum and a private place of safety for them and their family. How in that context what would otherwise be protestors now feels like an angry mob. That’s ok you don’t, I guess, but I would suggest sitting back and thinking empathetically about the difference between our work milieu and our home milieu, and how you cross a line that divides these worlds when you protest their work at their home.

To your continued edits:

Please do conflate those. I am not in favor of the laptops or how they’re requisitioned. I’m saying don’t show up at peoples private homes to make your political points. It’s scary stuff that crosses a line. You might not see that, but I hope you can see how others might.
> is the company running the model themselves not already publishing all of that work and profiting from it?

no, because the model is transformative enough that it cannot be said to be a derivative works of the training set.

The model is in essence a form of distilled information, extracted from the training set. Information cannot be copyrighted - only expressions can.

Therefore, a model producer should have the right to use any pre-existing work, in the same way a person can, to study and internally memorize and extract information.

The reproduction of any of the training set data constitutes a copyright violation, but this is not done by the owner of the model, but by an end user of the model.
Yes, but to OP's point: this was patently obvious from the onset. Even here the comments at the time [1] pointed to all sorts of potential misuse, political or religious prosecution, dystopian cases of false positives, and that this would leave the door open to future government escalation beyond CSAM.

How could they not see that they would have a giant backlash on their hands? Did they overestimate their ability to get away with the "it's for our children" excuse this badly?"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741
I'm honestly shocked by the amount of restrictions some parents in this thread enforce.

I had unlimited access to a PC since I was about 10 (no Internet until I was 16). 3 years later I knew the operating system inside out because of course back in the day of DOS and Windows 95 stuff broke easily and I'd try to fix it. I'd just tinker with it endlessly, started to read books about computers and tried to find out how it all worked. I started coding when I was 14, just learned it on my own by having a book and with curiosity.

I never would have made it in this industry if it wasn't for spending endless hours with my computer for years before I had less and less time when I got older.

A few years ago my parents told me that the best thing they ever did for me is to buy me a computer. I agree.

I'm no genius by any means but every once in a while young hackers with incredible skills appear out of nowhere. I'm sure that all of them have a similar story to tell you.

I can get behind the idea of limiting social media and video time. But screen time in general - not so much.
Ah, thank you for the clarification! :)

I really did not read your statement carefully enough and I apologize for that.
Of course they learn by example, but show me the perfect parent? Do you want to doom your kids to all of your own failings? Kids also learn by seeing the flaws in their parents and having the parent explain how they got there and how not to repeat the mistakes.

He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.
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> What do we do next?

The next step will be the same stack except the browser engine will be running in """The Cloud""" and streamed to your consumption-only device like an OnLive/Stadia/PSNow game. Everything already has dedicated video-decoding hardware so it will probably be sold as better for battery life to rely on that instead of the unpredictable load of your own local OS and browser engine.
"it is certainly possible, albeit uninteresting, to come up with an unreasonable definition of "character" such there are more than 65536 of them".

They probably didn't foresee the "unreasonable" and "uninteresting" use of emojis.
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Would love to have a rule like no phones until 15 but our son has type 1 diabetes so he has had to have a phone since he was 2 and a half. I anticipate him texting us about his treatment as soon as he can write, especially during school so we are going to have to navigate appropriate use early.

This is also going to make it tricky having any rule for our younger daughter.
it's not that big a deal if you use a hosted wallet. There's quite a few options out there, like stacker.news or wallet of satoshi.
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I don’t know if they do or not, but like everyone else I assume they are. Seems like it would be a massive legal (and PR!) liability if it was discovered they weren’t.
Nah, they're super enticed by it. For the first two years of my kids life, we had no screens in the house that he ever saw. We had old Nokia brick phones, no TV, and we only used a computer when he was sleeping.

Regardless, the moment he saw an iPad in the library, he wanted to stare at it and fiddle with it for an hour. Even to the point of completing ignoring the model train set which he loves.
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You'd die before you reached the destination. Interstellar travel just isn't feasible on a human life expectancy and more importantly loss of bone density.
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> I have spent my whole career […], Lenat was light-years ahead of me […]

Lenat is on a short list of people I expected/hoped to meet at some point when context provided the practical reason.

He has been a hero to me for his creativity and fearlessness regarding his symbolic vision.

So sad I will never meet him, but my appreciation for him will never die.
I kinda wonder if you could find out when they first encountered the worst parts of the Internet. That's basically the main thing I worry about (my 5 year and 3 year old current have laptops, but we have eyes on the screens all the time so far)
I assumed the natural reactors might still be fissioning, but the Wikipedia page says this occurred about 1.7B years ago. They know they were reactors because the cite has a lower concentration of uranium-235 than expected and also reaction by-products.
I agree it's awesome, but I think we have WebAssembly more to thank than HTML. :-)
Can you share any resources on how you set this up exactly?
nostr has an early NIP that talks about publishing timestamp commitments to the bitcoin blockchain, using the open timestamp protocol
I love this. I believe it’s the only correct answer after reading and thinking hard about many.

The ability for young children to recognize hypocrisy is incredible, and the aptitude among teenagers to leverage hypocrisy to enable their own bad behaviour and use yours against you isn’t something worth contending with. You can only win by force, and your kids will resent the hell out of you for it. And for what? To look at your phone more?

Do any of us find ways to use our phones in worthwhile ways more than 15m in a day, truthfully? I sure as hell don’t. But I can sink a lot more time than that if I don’t think about what I’m doing.
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I built a very similar setup for my kids. Mine operates per-system, some are white listed with individual settings, and my oldest are on a blacklist only for problem sites.

Thanks for sharing.
You get rid of fsync and a few smiliar flags. Made my tests about 50% faster

https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/fsync/#:~:text=Setting%....