skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet is pure information, pure virtual space (well it's also computers, hard drives, and wiring, but that's not what people mean when they talk about The Internet).

Hyperreality deals with the simulation of the real (both classical/physical simulation as well as idea and mental-model simulation), so much so that the real eventually becomes less important than the simulation itself. At some point the symbols of the simulation begin to take on a life of their own (think of brand logos, the Nike swoosh, the apple with a bite taken out). The symbols begin to have their own meanings apart from reality, welcome to the realm of the hyperreal.

The word "girl" is not a real girl, it's meant to "capture" or "represent" what a girl is in communication. We attempt to capture "real girlness" in the words we use and the mental models we build. Over time usage of the word gets perverted, it no longer "accurately" captures the essence of what a girl is, it is a distortion of the real. The word, which started out representing reality, becomes untethered from reality, and starts to take on a life of its own.

Eventually you leave behind all pretense of reality, and the word/symbol has it's own inherent meaning that only makes sense in context of the hyperreal. This article only really seems to make sense if you live more in the world of hyperreal symbols, and are less concerned about the real world that the words once represented.

A lot of this is due the Enlightenment, as we now live in an "Age of Reason" which is absolutely obsessed with simulation -- everything must be captured, categorized, analyzed, broken down, understood, only to eventually be integrated and manipulated in our mental models (simulations).

In many ways The Internet is (or has the potential to become) home for the absolute hyperreal. All that matters to the internet is the relationship between symbols. Are you aligned with the right symbols, brands, products, politics, lifestyles, etc.? Endless bites of "simulated false realities" designed for mental consumption. We yearn for the real, the authentic, while living in an increasingly hyperreal world starving of any underlying meaning.

What's more important; The Real, or The Internet's captured and increasingly perverted version of "The Real"?

I am unconcerned with the hyperreal when what it claims to represent is untethered from the real world. To some it's deathly serious. I've found my mental health is better staying focused on things that are more real.

If you find these ideas compelling I suggest you read up more on it [1]. The book Simulacra and Simulation is a wonderful starting place, really opened my eyes [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
What a bizarre thought. Fortunately nearly everybody and every country disagrees with you.

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

* Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

* Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Except when you've paid for it? Then it's your data. This is not rocket science.
> I can't imagine nobody cares about so many developers being unhappy.

I use GitHub every day and I don't have a problem with this change, I also didn't really notice it.

As usual with design changes, for the sub-set of loud people there's a massive chunk of people who don't care about it and might even like it.
For real. Hopefully won't be long until there's a similar case against Apple

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/justice-department-...
When the encoding relies on differentiating between lowercase and capitalized characters, you’re hitting a high level of ambiguity. Hexadecimal UUIDs don’t have this problem.
Highlights from the Comments on Last Week's Model Cities Post
The main thing I'm getting out of this conversation is that X-Files had an awful lot of really good writers. Those three episodes you listed had three different writers.

You somehow neglected to mention Home, which had two other writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(The_X-Files)

But I think Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is the greatest of them all.
Let's Stop Oil

Letzte Generation
> The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything.

This is in general a myth. If you look at millennials or gen-z, ownership at their age isn't any different from the boomer generation. And it's still the best time to be born in.

We can all agree that climate change is a problem to be solved, but "the old" can remember plenty of doomsday scenarios that never happened, including past predictions that global warming would destroy the world by year 2000.

In the meantime, activists that prevent people from going to work, or that destroy property, are just jerks IMO.
Even in the IE4 days, Microsoft was still very much "we'll only do as much web as necessary, but we can't lose our Windows fort... how can we sabotage this effort?". They were in full-on EEE mode[1] then and wanted to subvert, not join, the web. JScript, ActiveX, ClickOnce, IE's idiosyncracies, etc. were all Microsoft's own efforts to get around the webification of everything. They lost, not just because of Google but also Netscape, Mozilla/Phoenix, eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, Match, MapQuest, etc. Nobody wanted to build desktop apps anymore once they could effortlessly reach everyone via the web without having to be a Microsoft vassal.

Even ASP and IIS etc. insisted on having its own stack -- superior in some ways, but way less compatible and more expensive. Again their own doing. Free/cheap won out, I guess :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

(edit: how the heck do you actually properly make hyperlinks on HN? I always struggle with this)
Does this help see what's wrong with UUIDs in URLs? A GitHub issue URL in a parallel universe:

https://github.com/a73ba12d-1d8b-2516-3aee-4b15e563a835/e16957bf-7d7f-41f1-97f4-98c93a6c3540/issues/4e4e9133-bcdb-45b9-8dfe-9e951846e3c6
I fail to see how these statements are dissimilar with regard to specific examples.

> I would argue that just being under constant surveillance is, itself, a harm.

> There are many benefits to society from effective advertising.

It's not difficult for me to imagine abuses that could possibly occur given constant surveillance similar to how it's not difficult for me to imagine benefits that could possibly arise with targeted advertising.

But since we're not imagining and are instead providing examples: what are some actual benefits to targeted advertising? What benefit(s) should I expect to see from this targeting and where can I go to see this benefit?
Whatever your overall requirements are, if you've already decided on a relational DB to solve them, you probably want bigserial PKs in said DB. The DBMS is optimized for that (as I've noticed in Postgres), and you don't gain anything by using UUIDs instead there. UUID in a secondary col or elsewhere in your system, that's fine.

If you have to look up by UUID from outside and have no foreign keys, UUID PKs can be faster. But that's the classic use case for a non-relational DB.
Since the summer months see the highest traffic on the Autobahn due to school holidays and vacation, this might actually be a clever solution to store surplus "green energy" into car batteries instead of letting it go to waste ;)
> > It's worth looking up Stephanie Aston of New Zealand, who just died at age 33; she apparently had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Several doctors told her she was faking her juvenile arthritis etc.

You don't die from EDS, unless it's the vascular type, and even then it's not the EDS but the catastrophic rupture of an artery (abdomen or aortic which has weak collagen due to EDS) that causes the death.

With a prevalence of 1 in 50,000-200,000 you can't fault the doctors for not seeing it or just branding it as very unlikely, of course the accusation of faking an illness should not be tolerated.
It had warts, and I'm vaguely tempted to make another, cleaner, attempt at it with the assorted lessons learned - I don't work there any more and the parent company has ditched all the code, and so while I can't release that code, writing a new version from scratch wouldn't compete with anything they do. Not top of my list at the moment, though.
I lived in America for two years and everything was automated
But you can write Swift code that can be called from objc, right? Could you write a wrapper/shim in Swift for "object c" that you'd then call using the method outlined in the article?
In cities, yes. On highway travel, also yes, but it can be influenced.

This effort is better spent on a carbon tax that directly funds rebates for electric vehicles and charger installations.
I've been told that an ancestor of mine was escorted to jail when our king was passing by his city and sent back home when the king was gone. That was the 19th century.
They can but that's generally not the problem. You aren't getting paid while you're in jail, so those payments are likely to bounce (Americans often live paycheck to paycheck).
A gas station company might know how to make money selling gas, but they might not be very experienced with making money on EV charging, and they often don't want to partner with a car company whose goal is to sell cars rather than make money on charging.
No, as far as I know, they did not specifically post time & day & intent of any crimes. They were known activists, and using a very controversial law, were preventatively taken into custody in the lead up of Germany's largest automotive expo.

The bar you must jump to be able to do this to some one is state law, and differs by state. The bar in Bavara is, arguably, lower than in some other states by my (uneducated in the laws, so not very relevant) reading.

For example in many German states, it requires a crime to be imminent. In Bavaria this is not the case.
> Us mortal developers who can only put lines below one another

At least my spaghetti code goes into one direction only...
Th author is suggesting we will start to see specially built servers that are optimized for AI inference. There's no reason these can't use special CPUs that utilize odd instructions. If inference does turn out to be optimized differently from training I think it's unlikely that we won't see a whole ecosystem surrounding it with specially built "inference" cpus and the like.
You're going to really be shocked when you learn what percentage physical retailers "extract" from their platform.
I think this person was referring to the process of transferring that stored energy into thermal energy which drives pistons to generate mechanical energy and move the car.
It's a bit similar to Texas.
There is a lot of backlash in the UK and Australia. I remember reading that watching a Premier league football (soccer) game you would see 3000+ gambling related images. (Note a soccer game is not interrupted for commercial breaks except during the halfs so this is ads around the pitch, ads on the shirts, graphics, etc.)

Also there are concerns around gambling addiction (like the addict who stole $700,000 from our bus company) and also match fixing (with scandals in both NBA and college basketball in living memory.)
Traffic deaths
I haven't done the numbers, but there's also Russia's invasion of Ukraine to consider, and the shift from natural gas to coal triggered by that.

Germany's shutdown of their nuclear generating capacity, and their dependence on Russian natural gas was a major factor in the invasion, and hence Germany's necessity to shift back to coal.
I do!

Let's put it this way - at the end of 1999, the top 10 companies were Yahoo! ($110bn)| Amazon ($27bn) | Yahoo! Japan ($25bn) | eBay ($17bn) | Infosapce/Blucora ($10bn) | Lycos ($8bn) | Priceline ($7bn) | eTrade ($7bn) | Monster.com ($6bn) | CNET ($4bn)

Pets.com made a lot of noise in the media, but peaked at a $400mn valuation.

Yahoo! exited in 2015 for $5bn plus about $40bn of Alibaba stock (bad but not awful)

Amazon is the real driver as it went from $27bn to $1,500bn today, a 56x return and a 20% IRR (it's nice when your #2 position does that).

Yahoo! Japan went from $25bn to $32bn.

eBay was $17bn, combined eBay and PYPL are $100bn.

Priceline was $7bn and is now $113bn.

eTrade was bought by Morgan Stanley for $13bn in 2020.

Lycos was acquired by a Spanish telecom in 2000 for $13bn.

The rest of the Top 10 were basically zeroes, but going down the list you also get Expedia ($1bn to $15bn).

And keep in mind this is buying at basically the peak.

The key is you actually had to listen to the wisdom of the market and not try to play in the penny stocks, which still largely holds true today.
Who should look at that? The tons of engineers and architects employeed by gas station operators? I have the hunch they will do that.
How long does it actually take you to charge? I'm picturing the gas stations around here and even with a supercharger I'm not sure I'd want to just sit at a gas station for 15 minutes, even if there was room on these small-footprint locations to park several cars for an indefinite amount of time.

I don't have any better ideas, mind you; maybe small local parks should have to have charging infra if they have parking spots. Great place for the family to just get out of the car and stretch their legs for a while.
This is just false, plain and simple. I’ll just take one of your statements and refute it, because the other parts are so broad and generalizing that you’ll just come around and make other shit up:

The share of part-time employment in Germany was 7.4% of all employment contracts in 2021. Nothing significant changed since then. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Qualit...
Build a detector which can differentiate from normal traffic and a "scan" like this.

Wire up an RPI to a motor which reorients a 2.4ghz parabolic dish, first discovering the direction and elevation which best picks up the signal from the "scanner". Then, engage the old microwave emitter you've hooked up to the dish.

You will like as not fry their equipment. Bonus: the attacker may never have children.
That's... not how that works. I take it you're probably more of a frontend person than a backend person by this comment. In the backend world, you usually can't fully and completely replace old systems, you can only replace parts of systems while maintaining full backwards compatibility. The most critical systems in the world -- healthcare, transportation, military, and banking -- all run on mainframes still, for the most part. This is isn't a coincidence. When these systems get migrated, any issues, including issues of backwards compatibility cause people to /DIE/. This isn't an issue of a button being two pixels to the left after you bump frontend platform revs, these systems are relied on for the lives and livelihood of millions of people, every single day.

I am totally with you wishing these systems were more modern, having worked with them extensively, but I'm also realistic about the prospect. If every major airline regulator in the world worked on upgrading their ATC systems to something modern by 2023 standards, and everything went perfectly, we could expect to no longer need backwards compatibility with the old system sometime in 2050, and that's /very/ optimistic. These systems are basically why IBM is still in business, frankly.
thanks a lot for mentioning pawk, it really looks like what I had in mind
Sounds like someone in the German government has a lot of money invested in the EV industry then, eh?

I constantly hear about Germany forcing private industry to change. It sounds like absolute hell to live there. If there's a demand for EV charging and gas stations don't adapt, they'll simply go bankrupt and be replaced by a newer, more forward-focused fuel company. Regulation is necessary, but an industry shouldn't be forced by government to adopt specific products, the industry should perform market research, determine demand, and then decide to put out a product or not.
Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time
The company I freelance as a developer for recently lost the main on-call developer and now I've become the person available 24/7 if anything happens. It rarely does, but it's still a bit of a burden on me to always have that in the back of my head. I've been on-call in this way for about three months now.

I charge by the hour. I am thinking of charging the client $1000/month in addition to my billable hours for my 24/7 availability.

One more thing to consider: I am the _only_ developer. The bus factor here is 1. If they lose me, they are going to be in serious trouble to keep their business running long-term. I mention this because I want to make sure I'm not extorting them (i.e. "pay me more money or I'm leaving and you're screwed") and also so it doesn't _appear_ that I'm extorting them.

My questions:

* Is $1,000/month a reasonable amount to bill for 24/7 on-call availability?

* Does this seem like extortion to you? If so, how can I make it less so? I don't want to extort my client, I just want to be paid for this considerable burden that's been added to my life and that often doesn't take up many billable hours.

Thanks!

P.S. I'm in the USA
And dealers

And distributors

And sales reps

And ...
I don't know much German, so I can't read the original article.

It would be helpful to know if by "they might otherwise engage in climate protests," the people in question had planned to just say things but otherwise stay out of the way, or if rather the people in question had made public their plans to break laws (like blocking traffic, which many climate protesters have been doing lately). In the one case there is no crime, and governments shouldn't be detaining people just in case they commit a crime later. In the other case, even if someone isn't a terrorist, planning on breaking the law is itself a crime, and it's not "preventative detention."
A person who is in jail awaiting trial for attempting to overthrow the government of the United States is not a "political prisoner".
Some bills can't be autopaid either easily or at all, particularly utility bills. For those that can be autopaid, many people don't have them on autopay because of potential disruptions when living paycheck-to-paycheck. If you have to choose between food and rent, you better not have the rent on autopay, or you've accidentally made your choice.
Only until recently the Russians were our only ride to the ISS. The US didn't even have a shuttle program...

The US itself still doesn't have a working program, thankfully SpaceX can do it.

The Russians could probably go to the moon again, but there's no real point to.
Sometimes they work, sure but for systems that complex it's far too easy to do much worse than better.
> This is word for word talking points of the recent NM gov gun deceleration.

I was interested and tried to google that word for word, only thing that showed up was this thread. So it isn't word for word the same.
You didn’t pay for the right to own those movies, you paid a small fee for a license to consume their data within the bounds of the contract they laid out.

No one here is trying to outlaw Copyright, which is the mechanism that lets companies do as OP says; limit you from downloading their data.

Data sovereignty is not at all related to streaming movies or music and this comment confuses people who are curious to what the effort really is about.
ICE cars can be made reliable and cheap to maintain. Toyota, old GM products, ect.

They don't make them reliable.. I wonder why?.
Prima: CMake building system and C interface available
Top "programming" languages should not include SQL. No one uses it to do programming, we use it to read/write to a data store. If it's included, Excel/google-sheet should be included ahead of it and would be the #1 programming language. Typescript is a programming language, but should be grouped with JS in lists like this.
There's no realistically plausible solution I've ever heard of, that is, ones that don't require millions of years of setup and entire stars worth of energy production. But that's with our current understanding of physics. While our current models seem nearly perfect and therefore nearly complete, there was a time they thought that about Newtonian physics. Perhaps some detail we need to understand dark matter or dark energy could spring the whole field wide open again.
Well, if the primary is known not to be in a good state, you might as well fail over and hope that the issue was a fried disk or a cosmic bit flip or something.

The real safety feature is the 4 hour lead time before manual processing becomes necessary.

One of the key safety controls in aviation is “if this breaks for any reason, what do we do”, not so much “how do we stop this breaking in the first place”.
I very often wish I'd never gotten into coding and either done (ladder logic as opposed to custom embedded hardware and software) industrial controls or journalism...
Thank you for the information. One follow up question:

> They were known activists

Does "activist" hear mean they'd previously engaged in illegal activity, i.e. blocking roadways or similar "protests"?
No doubt-- my surprise was more about the subject matter. I've only ever seen scattered theories about the "girl code" put forth by MRAs.
There's some value in putting a flag in the ground. Even if most of those people there were in the symbolic camp, a lot of their critiques of neural networks as they existed were well-founded and were really only proved obviously _wrong_ after many many rounds of moore's law.
> I'm referring to the maximum length of detention under the German law being used (if I'm reading things right).

It's not a German law but a state law. Some states only allow 4 days, Berlin only 2 days: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterbindungsgewahrsam

Of course it's Baravia which allows the (by far) longest detention with two months.
>Unless you think that there is some fundamental reason why LLMs will never be able to play chess competently, and I doubt there is, then it seems that we could with the right prompts implement some sort of chess AI using an LLM.

You can play a good game of chess (or poker for that matter) with GPT.

https://twitter.com/kenshinsamurai9/status/16625105325852917...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12466

There's also some work going on in the eleuther ai discord training LLMs specifically for chess to see how they shape up. They're using the pythia models. so far:

Pythia 70M, est ELO 1050

Pythia 160M, est ELO 1370
Economy of scale is actually inverted with 0 days. The more you use it the higher the risk it's detected and fixed so value and scale are inversely proportional.
The emulator in Ghidra is really cool. I’ve been improving my Wasm processor module to support better emulation, and I’ve made use of their comprehensive specification tests to validate the implementation.

One thing that I run into a fair bit is the tension between keeping the decompiler output sane vs. implementing every nuance of a particular instruction. Trying to emulate every quirk turns into very complex P-code, which can clutter up the decompiled output. One strategy is to use custom operations (pcodeops) plus an emulator helper, but this makes the operation totally opaque to the decompiler, so it’s not suitable for common instructions.

In general though it’s super cool to have this kind of functionality available. It will be awesome if Ghidra can someday be a powerful tool for dynamic reverse engineering, not just static reversing.
Now you’re catching on
Probably many more, but this one statistic was the one mentioned. And if that's the size of it then it is already very impressive. Phonograph, Radio, TV, Computers and Mobile telephony for instance took much, much longer to reach similar numbers.
The blockings of roads by the Last Generation are those „corner cases“, because of how they are executed: without a warning a road in front of you is closed and you are stuck. It would be easier to understand if they had left an emergency lane and gave a notice in advance.