skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something to be said for practicing how you play? If your real world builds are going to be on VPS’s with noisy neighbors (or indeed local machines with noisy users), I’d prefer a system that was built to optimize for that to one that works fantastically when there is 0 contention but falls on its face otherwise.
> At least crypto is trying to fix this problem

It is not. It is pretending to do that. But every single person still in crypto is there mostly for speculation, get rich quick schemes. Or they are holding bags that they hope will go back to a previous value.

The oracle problem has not been solved. Without it, crypto is just an interesting distributed algorithm. But it is not a revolution.
An alternative, much simpler explanation is that people downvote comments which they don't think are fitting for HN or don't provoke good discussion. I don't care about the ruling, but I do think some of the comments here are more fitting for Reddit than HN. In general though, I don't get taking issue with comment votes, it's just random internet points on a screen.
Pixel 6 on AT&T, I don't think I've ever had this experience.

Phone calls sound much better than my previous carrier (some cheap mvno) and things generally Just Work.

Only complaint is that it's missing some things I hadn't realized were not stock Android, such as per-app volume control. I just might switch back to LG after this one dies, though the battery seems to be holding up much better so who knows.
It won't be long before "Quora says I can melt eggs" turns into "Google's top result says millions of fish drown in oceans each year" or somesuch.
> In a way, it's comforting to know that newspapers back in the 1950's were as susceptible to BS as modern day newspapers.

fixed it.
Active noise cancelling that allows some sounds through (speech, horns, other vehicles) could work, no?
Spoken like a Bitcoin maxi.
Agreed. For all it's problems, ensuring that researchers are also teachers is something that academia got right.
It’s also possible that there’s a hardware failure that is making the power button erroneously report button presses, leading to the Emergency SOS. This happened to me on a Pixel 3, which resulted in repeated calls to 911 with no user input.

* Can’t power it off for the night, because the flaky power button turns it back on.

* Can’t pull the SIM card, because emergency calls don’t require a SIM card to connect.

* Can’t consistently use the “slide to cancel” option, as the phone was also trying to initialize the camera at the same time. (IIRC,
3 button presses for the camera, 5 button presses for SOS. The flaky power button managed to trigger SOS while the camera was still initializing the GUI, so the camera GUI took focus.)

* Can’t access the settings, because the flaky power button either turns the phone off, opens the camera, or sends an SOS faster than I could search the settings.

This all started at about 10 PM. So, instead of going to sleep, I needed to spend the next two hours baby-sitting my phone as it mostly was repeatedly rebooting, with occasional calls to 911, until the battery finally died.
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So in order to prevent hypothetical misinformation, it is imperative to maintain the right to demand that accurate information not be spread?
> we’re moving towards a world where the digital economy is massive, global, and deeply embedded in livelihoods.

True.

> That world does require new tools to ascertain ownership of digital assets (since a lot of people will make their living through creating/selling these assets) and paying for digital assets (global commerce requires global and open payment systems).

... Why?

The only things crypto has been truly innovative in paying for is illicit pornography and drugs. And like, the second one I don't have issue with, but the solution there is not to create an entire secondary financial system that burns down rain forests to execute transactions. The solution is to decriminalize drugs and use the existing financial system to pay for them.

And even the owning/selling of digital assets point rests upon a single chain ending up the "winner" of this strange competition they've been holding for decades. Okay, so you "own" this piece of art on the Ethereum network. What if someone contends they own it on the Tezos chain, or any one of the hundreds if not thousands of other ones? Or more fun still, what if someone just mints another of the thing you own on the same chain? Nobody is stopping them.

> At least crypto is trying to fix this problem

No it's not. It's a casino pretending to be a bank and telling you poker chips are money. Step outside said casino and try to buy a hot dog, and you'll realize the problems quite quickly.
> Learning is part of the job.

I don't know what to say. For example, I recently designed some webpage or made some prototype app using X framework in Y language. Do you consider that I learnt something?

I don't know, I feel like that isn't learning. I just made the thing work because I read some stuff, processed information and did some hit and trial.

Compared that to something like "ah hah!" moments; those are extremely rare at work. It only happens at debugging. The reason why I am stating it is because I have forgotten a lot of these things. What stuck with me are the basics and foundations and it took years to be reinforced.

I doubt you will find a job where you get to learn in a proper way.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195527
U2F is FIDO1 though, everyone is switching to FIDO2/WebAuthn/Passkeys.
>Having drivers for my hardware broken/corrupted because Windows thinks it knows better, is another.

Never had that happen though. Ever. WHQL drivers in Windows repos are usually bulletproof which is why they're usually a bit older. It's only when you go and manually install other non-WHQL drivers, that you might run into issues from the lack of testing.

Not saying it couldn't have ever happened to you or anyone else an account of the millions of permutations of possible hardware combinations, but in my experience I never had driver issues from auto-updates since Windows 7 on a variety of desktops and laptops.
You don't even need SteamOS to use proton. I have played one game on my Windows partition in the last 5 years. Now I assume games will work on my Linux computer until proven differently instead of the other way around.
It's 1.8 trillion parameters vs. 7 billion, I think this was pretty obvious
I think that’s referring to one this week:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/24/one-police-officer-...

And Zociste in 2009
Back then? Sure! CounterStrike was also massively popular here, both in "cybercafés" and in offices for after hours gaming.
Of course, and it's obviously easier to configure a single recursive resolver to prefer encryption wherever possible than it is to try to configure each client (or in the case of DoH, each program) to do opportunistic encryption.

The point is that these requests don't go to my ISP's DNS servers.

And for the other people who're making up unrealistic scenarios such as the ISP trying to MITM all DNS, not just queries they answer, there are many forms of tunneling that can be used such as VPNs. It's still easier to do one solution for the whole network than individual solutions for each client (or each application, for DoH).
You're trying to muddy the waters here by saying each side is as bad as the other, but it's really not the case. Vucic is a tinpot wannabe dictator who is trying to rustle up a provocation to prop up his support at home.
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Highway does seem like the obvious choice for a C++ SIMD abstraction layer!
> neutral metric of relevance

Organic search? Corrupted by SEO, so not neutral. The advertiser's ability or willingness to pay, is at least something of relevance? It reveals at least someone has the product you want, and possibly a deal.
LLVM by the way happened in a good deal because Stallman refused to have GCC dump the AST. This created an area where LLVM could provide extremely valuable functionality which GCC just refused to offer at all.

And with that sort of maneuver, GNU lost exactly what made their stuff popular in the first place: that they provided better tools than what commercial Unix used to come with.
We’re fine with maintaining “moats” around the companies capable of producing nuclear reactions aren’t we?

“The technology is transformative therefore we cannot entertain the idea of regulation” seems obviously backwards to me.
>People complaining about how unsafe this is need to take a long look at how utterly useless LLAMA2

I am likely to complain or at least be uncomfortable with this and I don't see how your example makes a difference, silly as it might be.
Flexbox zombies is also great!
The Android user experience is a carbon copy of the iOS experience, with slightly different colors and differently sharp edges around the controls.

Want to see something that's not only name different? Try Palm OS. Try WinCE. Try Symbian. Not necessarily saying they are better (there is a reason why they are dead). But it will nicely illustrate that the difference between Android and iOS is very similar to DVD+R and DVD-R - the underlying code is different, but in practice they are barely distinguishable from each other. (Except for the non-existent OS support, gigabytes of bloatware, overeager process killer, etc)
“The technology is transformative when good, pretty much equivalent to pencils when bad!”
OpenCollective = for Laundering Consulting Money?
I get that, but physical media is still a pain in the ass to manage.

I too have ripped physical media in the past for my own convenience. These days, I just use a third party torrenting service ;) (I do try to have legal access to the given media first)

If there was a way to purchase data outright (or the rights to it) that wasn't copyable (sort of like a bitcoin or ethereum token for a single copy of some data, stored on some kind of shared ledger... which I believe is what the "contracts" crypto idea was about, except hasn't really taken off yet), this advantage of physical media would go away. (It would still have other advantages, though, such as anonymity, make-your-own-tuned-rip, zero dependence on outside services such as contract authentication ledgers, etc.)

I am historically a data hoarder and old system emulation enthusiast, these are obviously legal gray areas
I love the part about "Stack ranking can encourage antisocial behavior, and have deleterious effects upon group outcomes, citing Microsoft, Enron, and Amazon's experience.[10]" when MSFT and Amazon definitely did not stop doing that at all.
That may be the selling point of Windows 12. Because fuck you, that’s why!
Hey, maybe the white dude feels icky about the master/slave thing. Maybe it's not about the opinions of black people but words we want in common usage in our societies.
They clearly had more time on their hands than students today. Makes for a compelling case for overloading the curriculum with knowledge and work.
I tried the above method, but I didn't see any change in Windows update.

What seemed to work for me was a group policy (requires local admin, and probably the non-'home' version of win10):

gpedit > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Windows Update for Business > Select the target Feature Update version

Then, set "product version" to 'Windows 10', and "Target Version" to '22H2' (or whatever you want).

Seems to work; after that, the Windows Update pane will say "Some of these settings are managed by your organization", and (for me, so far, at least) there isn't any more browbeating for Win11 installation.
This doesn't really address the core of the problem which is why people often wish to delist, defamation and intentionally inaccurate or misleading information. Anyone can go and make a website right now that claims that someone else is a child predator or a terrorist or what have you. Mix the fake information in with some real facts and plausible glue and you have your standard fake news level content. Should there be no way to get rid of such content aimed at you online?

As a tangential side note, why shouldn't people have the right to be killed? Assisted suicide is legal in many countries for people who are e.g. battling a painful disease with no hope for a cure or improvement with modern medicine.
> "I tried installing this program by downloading and running it from AwesomeSoft.co.uk.com.to and it complains libraries are missing! This OS sucks, why isnt there just an installer?

The Linux model would never scale to the vast quantity of existing Windows software.

Instead of the Python foundation creating one universal Linux Python installer, you have each major Linux distribution needing a package manager for Python. Good luck if you use some obscure software.

In a way, containers are exactly what Windows installers are - one self-contained universal way of running a piece of software, packaged by the creator.
We'll bring it back as an RCS-reliant chat app and then waste half our time mocking Apple for it.
I tried to use my old pixel 3 recently as a hotspot. Blows my mind how it’s been broken for a while (according to online) and won’t ever be fixed since there’s no more software support. I ended up buying a used iPhone SE instead.
I think we need some LLM that is trained with CCP censorship that suggest you how great leader Xi is and how you suppose to work for glory of The Country and tell you how many social credits you lost or earned on each request.

Might be then people behind LLMs in Meta and OpenAI will see how laughtable and awful this childish censorship is.
> How the world lost trust in science

Mandating COVID vaccines or your life is on halt, fired from your job, can’t buy even groceries in some countries, other scientists/doctors have their licenses revoked to say otherwise, among others, all of that in the very early stages of a research that nobody knew the outcome of, that’s how you crush trust in any system, regardless of whether what you did is actually good or not, similar to when you have an uprising against a dictatorship.

>How to rebuild it

The first step to rebuild any “trust” is admitting that what you did was wrong, say we fucked up under the pressure of the good (trying to save lives) or bad (big pharma) and we did this and that, and these are the next steps. If you never do this, never expect any “trust” to be restored. It is really that simple. And making the science approach clearly defined and not following the mainstream political narrative or whoever is funding that research. A bad apple will spoil the rest of the good ones. A lot of people were ok to have flu vaccine before the pandemic, they stopped taking it after (anecdotal, but I used to see long waiting lines at the college to take the flu shot. After, barely anyone). A lot of people believed in doing good for the environment, they are not so much eager after the pandemic. So definitely a lot of efforts should be taken to rebuild the credibility of science, not trust. You trust and have faith in God and religions, science is not.
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Indeed, there is a difference.

It appears to me that, as brutal as it is to stab a man for exposing himself and dispersing his bodily fluids (not obviously sterile if he frequents brothels), it is far more uncivilized what we do: enslave children and exploit them until they drop like flies so we have the minerals necessary to upgrade our phone and greenwash our souls.

I mean are we seriously comparing the stabbing of a man who sexually exploits women, to the slow and painful death of a child that mines cobalt for our phones and EVs?
Now do America. I know - a lot of Silicon Valley business models are built on scraping and utilizing and selling personal data - but people should have control over that data and they should have the right to say no.
Features. Small map, limited tech tree.
If you can show me how I can raze a city to the ground with LLM generated abuse material I will agree with you.
I don't have a fancy GPU :(

I do however have a dual xeon with 64GB of ram. Will that work for this?
There's video footage of it. Google it yourself.
You seem to be assuming that just because someone wants to be "forgotten" they've done something wrong.

There is a vast number of situations where someone might want to be forgotten because someone else has done / is doing something wrong towards them.
The wallet UX is horrible. There will always be a portion of people who will download and run malicious software or enter sensitive data into obvious scams. However the entire wallet security model makes it too easy for malicious sites to drain wallets. Other chains have innovated by creating contract specific key pairs and the GIANT RED WARNINGS you'd expect when creating a key pair with permission to transfer assets.

I'm not sure that the expensive transactions in ETH are something entrenched interests are willing to do away with.
Auto-enabling telemetry after each update seems already fitting to a gaslight definition.

Not letting me to delay updates is just another level of disrespect. What if I am writing DVD at that time or doing something else without ability to stop and continue? If your parents don't use bitcoins on that Arch setup while sitting on Internets with no router - they don't need to do system update that often.
Before we make idealizing comparisons between "barbaric pasts" and seemingly enlightened presents (the "arrogance of the present" in which we assume that whatever we do now is knowledgable, good, just, right, at the end point of progess), let's remember that today's "medications" were largely chance discoveries, where the "chance" consisted of the recognition that they would calm patients and make them more manageable - and in this light, they were praised, in their time, as "chemical lobotomy".

Joanna Moncrieff makes this explicit in her book, "The Bitterest Pills". Also elaborated on here: https://www.psycovery.com/images/Postpsychiatrys-challenge-O...

We're still doing the same thing, just without knives (and, as the comment noted, often also WITH knives).
Yeah, I think that's the majority of the grunt work done by junior consultants.

I don't doubt that if the high level decision agreed upon is "more layoffs because AI" and they were asked for a 60 page report to justify it that ChatGPT would help inordinately in fleshing it out with something that sounds fairly plausible.
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Yes, I ran into the same problem and this "fixed" it. The issue doesn't come from the feature itself but from the fact that the lower end model uses "Virtual proximity sensing" instead of a real proximity sensor which is often faulty. It sucks that Samsung chooses to cut costs in these places.
The problem with both (as much as I want it too) is that it reduces security because the chance of a false positive (falsely identifying you as the owner) for either/or is always higher than the chance for a false positive for each individually
This would have been a very desirable move if we were collectively at Windows 7 still.

You want me to pay to go to windows 8 or beyond? And you promise not to download the 9 GB installer in the "background" on my slow rural correction if I don't pay? Ha ha ha ha ha ha, hard no!
Company sells sharp knifes. Think
of the children.
One day soon, when we can no longer grow enough food due to soil erosion, and mass migration to northern Europe & the US will make today's migration problems look like nothing. I'm sure that shells investors will be happy that shell decided to focus on their core competencies.
Screw every other implication, right? Shareholder value uber alles
When you take the SIM out of an iPhone (or turn off your eSIM), it displays “SOS” instead of a carrier ID.
If I recall correctly, New York City is at sea level. It is more prone to flood. No amount of drainage is really going to magically make this not an issue.
Why the caveat? Isn't the Pixel hardware designed and sold by Google as well?
How's that boot taste?

Contacting emergency services is the one thing a phone must not fail at.

We mandated legacy telecos to maintain switching offices with a weeks worth of battery power so landlines could work in a natural disaster.

Google is a trillion dollar company if you want to get their attention you have to effect them on the order of millions of dollars.
I thought it was actually worse than that, that he wanted it to be harder to integrate with so that proprietary software couldn't easily hook in.
Kosova is also genitive form in Serbian/Croatian (sa s(j)evernog Kosova - from northern Kosovo). And Bojan is a Serbian name.
I will say I have had plenty of similar issues across my iPhone devices. For a variety of reasons these phones fail to make calls. Drop calls or can’t dial 911. I suspect voice calling itself has become network deprioritized or still has trouble selecting between calling tech.

I worked on dialer for pixel and and am deeply familiar with these problems. Voice call tech is easily one of those mostly worthlessly convoluted spaces in mobile. That being said while I was there we put a huge priority on emergency calling — however the exec overseeing the space often complained about how hard dialer was and bemoaned all the required work because it never helped her promotions.
He keeps the sorted frequency count. It doesn't have to be the top 10. You can query arbitrary k.
Of Marvel movies. Take that level of praise however you like.
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> hen, if you get targeted by a license holder the burden is passed to the people that told you they had the license.

Well, not really. The contract you propose will merely give this guy the right to sue his client. He'll still directly owe the moeny to the person making the copyright claim, because that's how liability works.
That's everything but random.

Maybe in US it's legal, but I prefer Europe to stay a safe continent with as few firearms as possible.
respectfully, the same would make video games and movies and fox news dangerous.
If you have a hard time understanding what type of rigor thinking guided this; one on-the-fly "theory" from Freeman is offered by the wiki article on lobotomy[0]:

Walter Freeman coined the term "surgically induced childhood" and used it constantly to refer to the results of lobotomy. The operation left people with an "infantile personality"; a period of maturation would then, according to Freeman, lead to recovery. In an unpublished memoir, he described how the "personality of the patient was changed in some way in the hope of rendering him more amenable to the social pressures under which he is supposed to exist." He described one 29-year-old woman as being, following lobotomy, a "smiling, lazy and satisfactory patient with the personality of an oyster" who could not remember Freeman's name and endlessly poured coffee from an empty pot. When her parents had difficulty dealing with her behaviour, Freeman advised a system of rewards (ice cream) and punishment (smacks).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Makes you wonder what was going on in Dumb Woman's Ln, Rye TN31 6AD (near Cock Marling)?
The trust with scientists was broken as soon as they started spouting government propaganda that ran completely contradictory to science. At best, they carried the governments, water, and used inaccurate science to suppress speech and punish anyone who disagrees.

Scientists have done tremendous damage to public confidence.
Im on my 3rd pixel and will not be purchasing another one after learning this (and a a few other issues with the direction the line has been taking)