skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The political climate is just an obfuscation. The electorate perceives the change to be too costly* and the climate risks to be too remote to justify this cost

This is true but it’s really important to remember that’s not some historical accident but the result of decades of anti-science messaging and political campaigning by the fossil fuel industry after their internal scientists confirmed the problem was significant. In the absence of that huge amount of distortion most people would have an accurate understanding of the risks. We should remember those companies in the same light as the tobacco companies, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, etc.

Unfortunately as we can see even in a relatively educated community like HN there are a lot of people willing to parrot that propaganda because the alternative is not just making lifestyle changes but now also having to admit that they have been repeating falsehoods for a long time.
Was that a Cult of the Dead Cow release, by any chance?
xargs doesn't have to wait, you can specify the number of items to include in a single sub-command and it'll batch things as they come in. For instance:

ds@swann3:~# (for x in {1..100}; do sleep 0.1s; echo $x >&2; echo $x; done) | xargs -L5 echo
1
2
3
4
5
1 2 3 4 5
6
7
8
9
10
6 7 8 9 10
11
12
[... and so on ...]

If the xargs call uses -I then --max-lines=1 is implied anyway.

If you replace echo with something that sleeps you'll see that the pipe doesn't stall waiting on xargs so the process producing the list can keep pushing new items to it as they are found:

ds@swann3:~# (for x in {1..100}; do sleep 0.1s; echo $x >&2; echo $x; done) | xargs --max-lines=5 ./echosleepecho
1
2
3
4
5
starting 1 2 3 4 5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
done 1 2 3 4 5
starting 6 7 8 9 10
15
16
17
18
19
[... and so on until ...]
98
99
100
done 46 47 48 49 50
sleeping for 51 52 53 54 55
done 51 52 53 54 55
sleeping for 56 57 58 59 60
[... and so on until xarg's stdin is exhausted]

And you can stop the calls made by xargs being sequential too for more parallelism with the --max-procs option (or use parallel instead of xargs):

ds@swann3:~# (for x in {1..100}; do sleep 0.1s; echo $x >&2; echo $x; done) | xargs --max-lines=3 --max-procs=10 ./echosleepecho
1
2
3
sleeping for 1 2 3
4
5
6
sleeping for 4 5 6
7
8
9
sleeping for 7 8 9
10
11
12
sleeping for 10 11 12
done 1 2 3
13
14
15
sleeping for 13 14 15
done 4 5 6
16
[... and so on ...]

(I adjusted max-lines in that last example because my current timings made things line up in a manner that made the effect less obvious, adjusting the timings would have been equally valid, in a less artificial example like calling curl to get many resources timings will of course be less regular, perhaps these examples can be improved by randomising the sleeps)

I'm not sure what you would do about error handling in all this though, more experimentation necessary there before I'd ever do this in production!
Our dialup used to disconnect every 2 hours by design. wget and wvdial were the only alternative to mail-ordering CDs
I'm (obviously) not sure if this is related, but I know my brain has its own ideas about utility: I can easily recall the names of all seven castaways, and many actor's names in general, but I have to write down the names of people I worked with for two years so I can recall them later.

And I can feel this messed-up sense of utility: even though I know in the abstract that real people's names are far more important, my brain experiences noticeable pleasure upon recalling pointless minutiae that it just doesn't for many more useful things. Hello, forty digits of pi, good-bye, python co-routines -- which I read about two days ago and now realize I need to read about again.
That’s a rarity. Wikipedia sometimes has IPA pronunciations and even – once in a blue moon – audio snippets that I trust far more when I don’t know the language.

YouTube has content farms that produce 30s clips for “how to pronounce <any word under the sun>”. YT used to be a good option before the content farms took over, now I hear some ridiculous pronunciations just for the sake of the clicks and the ad views and can’t recommend it any more.
The specific case in point is holiday travel, though. You can't fix that with urban planning.
Thanks! I'll take a look at the specifics tomorrow.
For additional context, Polish words are always pronounced with emphasis on the second-to-last syllable.

So `HO-doof`.
AI Risks: what should you be concerned about?
It’s not that it’s confusing, discord straight up does not work. Invite links go bad with no warning or indication to the user, just a “please try again”. Search does not work for large communities, or for recently posted messages. It’s just a huge regression from existing forms of communication.
> your Subaru is probably hackable, all these things run Linux under the hood,

Years ago I would have said “much more likely to be QNX since a car always has a RTOS.” These days it’s likely Android Automotive, which has a massive share now. Note: despite the name it has nothing to do with “Android Auto.”

Overall, hacking on a car, even infotainment, seems very difficult. They really don’t want you to have any control over it.
Can you explain briefly why nobody wants to live in East Germany? Is it a holdover from the before the wall came down?

I'd assumed, perhaps wrongly, things were more unified by now given the age.
I am an avid fan of the i3 way of managing windows but I unfortunately encountered some serious bugs last time I tried Sway. I have used it in the past and even contributed a few patches but it seems that for many people's use cases it is not mature enough yet.
This is precisely what a senior does for a junior: review their code. Not just for it's ability to run, but what resources it uses, which resources can be trusted, and what other resources are available. That's what makes the experience novel: it's a junior that knows all the languages, all the services, all the idioms, but who has zero judgement about whether to use them.
My guess is the big players hope is to steal an enough content and then build a self training LLM based off synthetic content (rehashed original works) before the theft part matters. Not sure how close they are to achieving but this seems to be a common SV gamble.

Steal or do something shady, raise enough money / power so by the time your noticed, you have the money to win in the courts.

You already see the propaganda about “none of this should
matter because the cure for cancer is on the way courtesy of AI.” I mean maybe it it but it smells fishy to me.
I'm the ops guy on a small dev team, and I run a sort of hybrid setup for prod that does involve me working on hardware in a colo sometimes, though fairly rarely (I'd love to spend about half my time hauling servers around and cabling stuff so that I'm not stuck at a desk all day, but that's not the way it is).

The whole point of my job is to enable developers to deliver code that provides customers value. On that level I actually embrace the common "condescensions" (so-to-speak) that I'm tech support for developers or a YAML wrangler.

I actually had an experience recently where a developer asked to make some changes to our infrastructure. I pretty much developed our container orchestration system (based on Docker Swarm rather than Kubernetes - a choice our architect made that I've come to appreciate), so I walked him through how my IaC works, told him what he needed to change and then reviewed his pull request and applied the changes. I guess we're on a devops journey now if I want to put it in corpo-tech speak.

Anyway, I suppose a lot of IT departments/guys get lost in creating their "perfect" unassailable systems and forget that the big picture is that the job is to enable customers; most directly are likely to be the developers or other internal employees, but ultimately the end customer who's handing you money to solve their problems.
I am worried that Chat-GPT productivity levels will become the new norm and when it doesn’t give you what you need you will be underperforming at work.
All types of human cells are much larger than Candida, up to several orders of magnitude. If the effect that destroys the cell is indeed some kind of stretching, it would make sense if the titanium surface doesn't have an effect on humans cells.
I'm feeling something similar now. I'm doing freelance work about 20 hours a week making my previous income level. So far each project has ended because the company wants me to go full time with them. The challenge hasn't been finding work, it's been keeping it part-time free lance or quitting.
That... wasn't what the GP post was about?
Search on Youtube for videos by Sam Vaknin. He explained this by what is called a 'zimbo'. An entity that looks like a human, walks like a human, talks like a human, but is essentially devoid of human-ness. The one and only way to determine the difference is trusting your gut, it 'feels' wrong. Sam Vaknin uses the term 'zimbo' (derived from zombie, I guess) to explain relationships with cluster B disordered people, but I think it can be used one-on-one on ChatGPT. Utter non-sense with a lot of conviction sometimes.

TLDR: trust your gut feeling.
The Wannsee conference would be my choice for the date the final solution (gas chambers and exterminatiom camps and sich, the holocaust of bullets started right away) became official policy. Obviouspy all the back room decision have already been met by then, the Wannsee Conference being more of a working level implementation meeting.
There are a lot of agencies out there with diverse business models attached.

We charge like a low-to-mid-range US developer but only employ high-range Latin American devs. We invest heavily in those devs and their training. They get paid handsomely, our clients get top-notch work at a bargain, and we handle all the bullshit of international management and payments.

We're not all evil.
What does this even matter? Seriously. Consumers aren't the architects of consumer capitalism. They aren't the ones who decided that economic growth must continue forever, in part by the middle class “consumers” who have to spend most of their money on commodities that ideally last so short that they will eventually have to buy the same thing again. Imagine if most people could buy all their appliances and get their needs met within a few years by things that are of good quality (which means more second-hand resale). Imagine if society was built for mass transit instead of (especially in America) urban sprawl, which would mean that far fewer families would need 1–2 cars. (And the US road network was designed top-down: you don't build a car-dependent society based on consumer actions.)

But that would be bad for the economy: less money in circulation, less growth.

If consumers (as citizens) got mad because “people's home insurance suddenly jumped up 1000%“. Then they would do protests... so what? Protests can change things but it's a very low form of power.
Children who cross the border illegally are also breaking the law. A law that every country on the planet has. The punitive familial separation was absolutely atrocious and I hope people go to prison for it, but it’s nowhere close to “my son said something mean about POTUS on the internet, now I’m being detained.”
Pwn2Own contest offers $1M in cash and prizes for hacking cars
Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia
Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
I think when people compete to have the snarkiest take on a personality in a social context, it qualifies as low key cloutchasing.
Boom's supersonic jet moves toward debut flight
I wouldn't be a programmer today if it wasn't for the relative openness and accessibility of Windows 98. It let me into the system files without flinching, and I learnt so much just from changing things just to see what happened.

Modern security is necessary for everything being always connected, but it does bolt the doors on curiosity.
I just got twenty acres of land in a place that gets over 100F in the summer now.

I spent some time there last month and it's unlivable when it's that hot. You have to have some way to mitigate the heat or you'll pretty much just die. It's literally harder to think when it's that hot.

I'm going to build big stone walls three meters thick and ten meters tall to keep out fire and regulate temps. It will be like the Forestiere Underground Gardens[1]. The "Grow Bio-intensive"[2] folks say you can grow a complete diet for an adult in five acres. So, yeah, basically I'm going to build a "climate fortress" and stockpile emergency supplies to give to people when/if uh emergencies happen.

I don't know what most people are going to do. Frankly, the situation is starting to look pretty sketchy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens

[2] http://growbiointensive.org/
Ortholinear is what you are referring to and it is absolutely worth it to learn. Staggered keyboards don’t make sense anymore - the originally reason keys were staggered was because the bars could not physically overlap - and it is far more natural to type only moving each finger along two axis
Laws. And the lawsuits that arise when such theft is discovered.
You normally only see ARM when you cut a big check too, they sell IP that others get fab’d
Weirdly, this article appears to have large sections just copy/pasted from Wikipedia. That or someone updated the wiki entry to match the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hod%C3%B3w
I'd argue ingress is even easier with Docker Compose. As for operators, it depends, but e.g. database operators are not really necessary on a single node cluster as you don't have discrepancies between nodes.
Polish is almost completely phonetic. You can put any polish word there and 99.99% of the time it will read it correctly.
The Little-Known Land Fraud That Changed American History
Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, but why wouldn't bidirectional parsing work in Rust?
Perhaps, but I also think there's elements of the film making of The Matrix that also impacted the way that action movies were shot and planned. There's a lot of scenes that seem less cool when you probably saw the Simpsons or Community parody of them before you ever saw The Matrix. That's stuff that was visionary craft at the time, but is now just so much a part of the fabric of the culture that it doesn't elicit the same impression.
Just wondering, are you trying it with GPT-3.5 or GPT-4? Better to use GPT-4 API version since the web version’s quality was controversial. When you feel quality is subpar you should try to use the best one first.
To whatever extent you want to misuse the term, America has more of a caste system than China.
Maybe they didn't feed it enough linguistical data for japanese, but they surely did for code.
StackOverflow is a bad example, because you see the context, and this is what is definitely missing from ChatGPT. On SO, you see the votes for this answer, you see the date, you see the comments, you see the user who posted it etc. etc. When I check answers on SO, I immediately check at the date, because sometimes it makes the answer invalid, which you can't do on ChatGPT since it's a complete black box. I prefer other tools like Phind or Bing that attempt to show the sources of what they're saying, but it's still a lot of things to process.
I've had success. Started as a freelancer. Moved to a me + contractor model. Now have 30 employees in 6 countries. On target to hit ~$2M in revenue this year.

I love it. I started my career as a super nerdy systems programmer. Now I get to jump between client work, sales & marketing, finance & strategy, and—my absolute favorite part—coaching and supporting the amazing technical professionals we have on our team, helping them become the best version of themselves as they can.

My email is in my bio if you want to chat.
I kind of work in this field and this isn't necessarily a new idea (micro structures killing bacteria). I remember being pitched on a tech called Sharklet that was proposed for hospital curtains. This was likely 10-13 years ago and it was a "nano-structure" killing mechanism.
Windows/386 (a version of Windows 2.0) had preemptive multitasking in 1987.
> The idea that some inexperienced people are shipping software using this tool is insane to me.

I really think you're trying to compare apples and oranges, in multiple ways. For one, we can test the software by running it, which is a pretty different problem from asking language questions, with a much slower ability to verify correctness (based on what you describe and what I imagine).

I'm not saying your experience is invalid. In my own adventures, the equivalent of what you did was my writing some incomplete bash in an existing script, wandered off to another part of the code. I then came back to that incomplete snippet, and though it was some unfamiliar syntax someone else had written (vim even highlighted it like it was special!). Naturally I went and asked ChatGPT what that snippet did, and wasted 15 minutes trying to corroborate it before checking the git history or something and realizing my own error.
I'm also a little weirded out by her "zeal" about this issue, given the claimed context of being a high school essay competition winner. The line about what kind of porn she thinks adults are imagining when she chats to them about this issue stuck out to me. Is this 16 year old also a seasoned anti-porn campaigner? Does her helicopter-mom know about that as well?

Also, despite one of the main points being that modern porn has descended into violent abuse, and not like grandpa's old porn, she also takes the time to attack OnlyFans.

> Meanwhile, models and female entrepreneurs—women who little girls look up to—are flocking to OnlyFans to sell naked photos of themselves.

I'll take her word for it as I'm not familiar with OnlyFans content, but if it is "naked photos of themselves" isn't that the "good" kind of porn that the old folks are imagining, possibly even better than the old kind since they're self-employed?

So it's more of a slippery slope kind of argument she's making?
And the holocaust by bullets pre dates operation Barbarossa. Turned murdering millions of people requires more sophisticated logistics than your average, run of the mill genocide as all tjose done before. Hence Wannsee, the final solution, the extermination camps (of which Auschwitz wasn't one initially). The goal was clear from before the war started so, the means were somewhat less well defined.

Edit: As a supply chain and logistics guy myself, the logistics of the holocaust seem to be the only historical occurance the Germans got wartime logistics right. Eichmann was a really good supply chain guy, running a tremendously efficient operation from, and beware the following will be incredible cynical now, sourcing (getting jews concentrated in ghettos) with close collaboration of local suppliers (the SS, Gestapo and local authorities ranging from French police to the various collaborators in the east) over transportation (including Eichmann himself working on details like damaged passanger rail cars to keep his prime carrier, the Reichsbahn, happy) to the classification of people arriving in incredibly well run extermination factories in the occupied East. It is that efficiency, applied at murdering innocent people for a deprived ideology, that makes the holocaust stand out from all other genocides in history. And that was the main, if not even the only goal, of the Nazis behind WW2.
You appear to be assuming that the 'schematics', even if they were provided by the manufacturer, describe the actual product in your hands, which is probably the source of confusion.

They don't, at least not for modern products of some intricacy.

Going back to the example of Apple's glass trackpad, there's a decent chance that literally every Macbook ever sold with it has a unique trackpad, because some transistor(s) were slightly off, due to manufacturing tolerances, requiring slightly different resistor(s) to compensate, etc..., and so on.

And there are hundreds of components just in the trackpad.

So even in the literal sense of examining it under various microscopes and so on, I think it's pretty fair to say that it's secret enough for it to be very very difficult to recreate.

But this all seems like arguing at windmills, because in practice, Apple's shareholders, board, management, employees, suppliers, customers, and competitors behave as if it was a trade secret. Which is more then sufficient for all practical purposes most HN readers are concerned with.
But they are not doing that. They are destroying the habitat YOU depend on. They have the resources to build another one. Elysium.
Hi Adam,

It came as a surprise to us to see these posts from you but we wanted to apologize for any inconvenience you might have faced and clarify a few points raised in your posts.

Every conference and event that is a for-profit venture works on different business models. Our conference are based on the pillars of networking, learning and recognition. I do understand that you were not impressed but as you have mentioned yourself, we do have a vast majority of attendees who actually thanked us for their experience at the conference. We would have appreciated had you raised your concerns directly with us at the venue or afterwards as customer satisfaction is of paramount importance for us.

The agenda that you have shared in your post was the old one, the updated one with the Show Stopper session was updated on the website on May 24th. We also wanted to share a recording of the showstopper session (that actually happened after lunch between 4pm and 4:50pm) held by a very impactful visually impaired speaker that a lot of people found interesting and inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tqbAwCFZ8

We are committed to improving our conference with every passing edition and would like to extend you a free delegate pass for our next event in Las Vegas for you to come attend and share your feedback. We will be in touch with you for the same.
I haven't gone in a long time but I used to like buying DVDs at Bookoff. Its a japanese second hand shop but they had a good selection of English language dvds and cds. It looks like they only have locations in Southern California and New York.
Reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/975461863436713992

(That account has many more tweets like that where the sexes are swapped around from the usual expectation, it really shows up the everyday sexism that most people just take for granted.)
I'm pretty happy with mine, looks like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/p282ee... I like how the thumb buttons splay across the way you rotate the thumb, so you don't need to stretch/contract the thumb, which is awkward.

What do you like about your Glove80 thumb cluster?
That's generally the case with most museums. Only a fraction have physical displays.

The idea is that the "stuff" is archived or stored properly which is much less of a burden. When it's desirable to do so public displays of it can be created.
YouTube is not the problem here: its way of handling copyright claims, no matter how much you dislike it, is the only reason it survived this far.

Would it be nice if they added a 'monetize, but don't penalize the uploader, since this is really not something we care about that deeply' option for content owners? Sure.

But the real solution is in copyright law reform, specifically in mandatory licensing. If, say, what a content owner can charge for a license to certain content is, like, 20% of their total revenue for that particular content over the past 5 years, that would solve an awful lot of problems. Plus, make cross-provider access to certain other content a lot more convenient for consumers.
It's indeed miraculous how Wget got this right
The last few polio survivors: Last of the iron lungs (2017) [video]
It sounds so implausible that it may as well be a pro-ukraine piece published on the BBC.
Disabling internet access only prevents exfiltration. Ransomware, for instance, wouldn't need to access the internet at all if it used hard-coded public keys to encrypt content.