skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, the narrative being spun here positions the social network as an entity as an impartial, disinterested actor that is simply facilitating conversations: this is not the case. All mainstream social media websites are (operated by) for-profit entities. They are selling access to human attention to advertisers to generate profit. Because of this, they are motivated to increase the amount of attention they have to sell; keep people in their app. And they have found via reliable experimentation by numerous social scientists that the most effective way is to keep users in a near-constant state of some combination of rage, indignation or disgust.

This poisons the entire well. I don't think the issue is that ~5% of the population is insane. I think the issue is social media has every reason in the world to find that 5% and give them the largest megaphone possible, up to and including TikTok's model of outright paying them for their insanity. The fact that the agent mediating all this intimacy as put by the author is inclined to do this, to shove the insane person in front of as many people as possible because they will readily cause reactions and further engagement with their product, makes it impossible to ignore them, nor to ignore the subsequent consequences of them being shoved in front of so many other people.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: social media cannot be a profit-driven industry. It simply cannot. The incentives for what makes a good, healthy, useful social media apparatus and the incentives that make it profitable to industry are two circles, with MAYBE 2% overlap in the middle on a good day.
> Amazon is just an online store and cloud provider, and the way it treats its low level workers is as close to slavery as the law permits it to be

I like your call for reason, but I think your Amazon statement is hyperbole. I’m weaning myself off Amazon, but Amazon employees aren’t anywhere close to slavery. It’s a hard job, but seems to compare really well to other competing warehouse or delivery or whatever jobs.

I feel like making inaccurate statements detracts from the core of our discussion, why is Amazon getting billions in subsidies?

I also think that these subsidies need to have a rate aspect. If a trillion dollar company gets $5B in subsidies that’s very different from a $5B company getting the same. Huge corps are huge and just by existing they are probably maximizing random subsidies so the complaint isn’t against the org, but against the governments that give them.
Usually means pirated and resold software
I use syncthing for this. But yeah it isnt ideal.
A business man, trying to influence government?? You don't say.

In all seriousness, the argument that one benefits from the current system but advocates for a different system is not acceptable is just wrong. We can't all be living in a cabin in the woods. We're allowed to have opinions
This is what you came up with after four days? That isn't even a response to what I asked and it's pretty far removed from light pollution being a real problem.
In addition, I feel like you build a sort of intuition after a while and detect when the conversation with the LLM has hit a dead end. When to stop and take a step back, think what it is you're trying to do and try to go down a different path. The LLM can even support with that, it's on the human to kick that off, at least at this point in time.
"Energy consumption has decoupled from population growth rates and economic growth." and no citations...

Every bit of human progress we make is through more energy usage. Are we reducing the rate we build infrastructure? Are we building and manufacturing fewer things? Have we reduced transportation of people, goods, and services? No, it always goes up.

How are we going to dig ourselves out from under the weight of oil? Building renewables. They require massive amounts of energy.

It's all energy. The more energy you can harness the more comfortable your life will be.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44095

https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/what-we-do/energy-supply/gl...
Interesting -- I just got my fourth covid vaccine, along with a flu shot, yesterday. I got two shots in 2021, one in 2022, and my fourth yesterday.
Vaccines are a godsend. Also, I have never had covid.
We need another tool that would optimise permutation of statements for least overlap in the resulting diagram.
I'm running Unifi cameras here outdoors just fine with 6 years of use and different generations (I get bored and need new toys)

The only one I've ever had fail is a 7 year old G3 Flex indoors.
But I see something that is essentially local labor, so investing government funds into that labor should produce more localized GDP effects.

And I fail to see how that should inflate the cost 2-5x over grid solar. Ok, 2x I can somewhat accept, I guess. But it's not like each house in existence is a complete random topological shape never seen before.

I feel there is some ... impedence ... in the home solar business that is holding it back. I think grid solar and home solar are two separate fronts attacking the same problem, but home solar makes home owners much more aware of efficiency as well. IMO there is policy failures in home solar currently.
Perhaps: add a time column with an artificially huge time range? This defines the grand total as an interval sum that happens to include all possible intervals.
I have used an e-ink phone for messaging and reading for a few years. It really helped with occasional headaches and the general eye strain.

Switching back to a regular OLED phone (because of OS/firmware security), I noticed eye strain again, after just a few days of use.

Usability in sunlight and battery endurance are real advantages I miss.

Waiting for a big manufacturer to design and market a secure eInk phone, targetting the people who prioritize messaging/reading/navigation over TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and the like.
You could just randomize the timestamp. adding +/- month or two to the UUIDv7 won't break the advantages all that much.
Alas they don't always get voted in, or even get involved in modern day politics.

That just leaves the attention seekers, and people with a burning agenda.

Saying that, what would make a good national politician and leader is probably quite a rare combination of traits.

Good understanding of politics (natch), law, history, economics and statistics (as well as possibly industry, marketing, PR, the money markets), and have a degree of personal charisma.

If the healthy ongoing survival of democracy needs that, we'd better get better at producing these people.
England (sorry Scotland, but there is a bit of a gap there) and the US try to solve this with their OXBRIDGE and Ivy League Universities - but recently the results have not been so good. Maybe the upcoming younger generation can surprise us all?
Gig workers are an easy target, in Brazil, in Ireland, in the UK, wherever.

Whether they are being attacked for their phone, for their bike, because racism, whatever. It doesn't change that they are an easy target. This is a gig worker problem, not a Brazil problem.
I am surprised they host the ISOs

https://crustywindo.ws/collection/

that seems illegal

cool website nonetheless
What would stop 80s computers from using encryption?
Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language
Unify Acquired by Mitel
How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship
I... think I agree. Thanks for your calm and reasonable response.

>If you don't mind supporting an aggressor and an invader as long as they are not invading or attacking you (...)

I do mind, but sadly I (my country) has to support someone and the US is (IMO) the "least bad" option. More about that later.

I'm not ashamed to say that I care about the war in Russia more than other wars for mostly selfish reasons [1]:

* It's much easier for me to connect and empathise with people from another European country then with people from a distant culture (irrational reason)

* It impacts me and my country much more directly (rational reason)

* Countries need allies. Unfortunately it's necessary to side with at least one superpower. And it's politically wise to overlook friendly superpower crimes while loudly criticising enemy's. To clarify: in my opinion US is the "least evil" option, and the Russian state is the most harmful - but I'm obviously biased here as an European.

>It just goes to show that Europeans/westerners don't care about Iraqis, and they care about Ukrainians

100%. Funny you mention that, I wanted to bring it up as an example for my previous paragraph and then noticed the second part of your message. I understand the frustration of all the victims of recent wars and aggressions who suffered the same and the world largely stood back (at best, loudly condemned the attack and the news cycle moved on). No point in gaslighting them that their suffering was less important or less significant then Ukrainians.

[1] Of course I won't say this publicly. It's easy to misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent my message as a support for Russian invasion or worse. No point in harming my future career by saying one word too much.
It's not THAT bad. I'd argue that if after watching a few tutorials on Youtube and playing a bit with the software, someone is not able to grasp the concepts, it's a strong indication that this person shouldn't be responsible the accounting of a small business.
alias and type redefinitions are conceptually the same. int and int_t are conceptually the same. I’m going to assume it’s my type, as defined in the signature of my method you’re calling. If you don’t adhere to the contract then the onus is on you. I’ll check existence, I’ll check conformity, but I won’t check that your string = my string.
This sounds like a completely arbitrarily invented argument against a technology that's perfectly useful in many scenarios.
OpenResty / Cloudflare, Caddy, IIS, etc.
Supply Chain Attack for Substrate.ink
Same old supply chain attacks break it all again. This time ink! smart contracts are in the scope.
That was never supposed to happen, and DevOps enthusiasts still think that's a joke. Unfortunately, at some places, that was the _only_ way to get higher-up people thinking about the culture.

Kind of like the idea of a scrum master, which was never supposed to be a role
The guy who sent the mob to the capital to start the whole conspiracy in action?? Are you being glib? Yeah, there's evidence. Maybe look in to the court documents for the 90+ felonies he's been charged with? Or idk, anything he has said about it? You have to be willfully sticking your head in the sand at this point or one of the cult members. Hope it's the former.
I'm pretty sure restfox (https://restfox.dev) was shared on HN before. Very similar to postman.

https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
Compression algorithms don't care about instrument counts, they care about the complexity of the signal. So there being a total of maybe hundreds of instruments doesn't matter, it's only about how many are playing at any given time. There might be a few dozen instruments playing at any given moment in a classical recording, but they're all highly tuned instruments with several of each one playing just about the exact same note.

Grungy rock music might only have a few instruments, but they're often purposefully highly distorted and have people pretty much screaming and shouting, leading to the actual sinal being closer to literally noise.

So the closer you are to literally noise, the less compressible your signal is.

Imagine a an image with a dozen sharp, clear, colorful squares. Now imagine a similar resolution image with only 5 colors, but they're different shapes and they're kind of fuzzy and they're really more like gradients instead of a pure color. Which is going to compress easier?
I think it's laziness: rather than solving a specific problem, it's much easier to pick from an infinity of other problems you can solve.
lol

iswydt
Ask HN / TypeScripters: How Choose JavaScript?
I see a lot of fierce feedback from the TypeScript community when someone decides to use JavaScript and not TypeScript on a project. I'm developing Nue JS frontend library and I'be been a target for several accusations due to my rationale on using JS here: https://nuejs.org/faq/#ts

So here's the question: can you help me with a list of the right/valid reasons to choose JavaScript so that the TypeScript community is pleased? This would help me a lot going forward.

Thank you!
Almost certainly this would negatively impact some engagement metric that is tied to someone’s sense of self worth, and this will not happen despite being clearly the best thing for the product.
It's perhaps embarrassing for a new startup to have a user ID of "10".

That's about the only problem I can discern.
Naw even that's too charitable. See the linked paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9

"circulating levels of multiple polyol sweeteners, especially erythritol, were associated with incident (3 year) risk for major adverse cardiovascular events"

Wow it's almost like people who are unhealthy know that they are unhealthy and that's why they attempt to reduce their calorie intake. The fact that unhealthy people are 2x as likely to have "adverse cardiovascular events" should not surprise anyone.

Articles like this keep trying to find causation where there's only correlation. Trying to control for confounding factors one at a time is a fool's errand: https://gwern.net/everything
This is wrong. You can set it up with the command line tool
which neither sends your key nor do you need an account.
Being cowards and downvoting me on a dead post without having the guts to state your opinion in trembling fear of outing yourself as corona-deniers in a sick society where this is actually acceptable, none the less, one can tell that this kind of opinion is really only held by the worst our species has to offer and their boot lickers.
What's the risk of collisions with your external ID in this scenario?
>That gives us a space of about 11 million code points.
About 170,000, or 15%, are currently defined. An additional 11% are reserved for private use. The rest, about 800,000 code points, are not allocated at the moment. They could become characters in the future.

1.1 million?
Already here in NYC, although the thieves are primarily after bikes and scooters instead of phones: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-delivery-workers.html
select * from shell; Use SQL to exec commands across hosts
Use SQL to run shell commands against any host - local or remote, Linux or Windows, through proxies & bastions. Aggregates results from multiple hosts.

Steampipe - https://steampipe.io

exec plugin - https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/exec

It's a Postgres FDW - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/ddl-foreign-data.html

Uses Terraform provisioner code - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources...

See also osquery, which runs on the host & has more structure - https://www.osquery.io/
Do you believe the audit was compromised as well?

https://ostif.org/the-veracrypt-audit-results/
How does Defold provide console support?
Gas clouds are made of light molecules that a plant would need a large mass to retain, perhaps. Consider how Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to retain He.
The development processes behind Cisco seem to be they do have some great R&D teams in the US, but they outsource the shit out of software development overseas and the quality of work is dubious.

Pepperidge farm remembers when Cisco's fix to a remote code execution CVE on routers was to check for the default `curl` user agent

https://web.archive.org/web/20201207153246/https://twitter.c...

Cisco did do a good job burying that in search results though, got to give them props, if it isn't stealing material from blackhat presenters by force physically, it's buying PR.
I think in obscure unprofitable fields that's already the case.
The headquarters have always been in Latvia and UK, what has changed is the owner.
You could also just pump the brine into evaporation fields and harvest sea salt.
What validation? "Postgres doesn’t care what you store in it as long as it has the correct length."
Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
Last part only if you don’t use the CLI.
strange. I quite like it
Biggest issues for me: Subscription based payments and (biggest issue) missing option to adjust the keyboard shortuts. So I have to adjust my workflow and muscle memory to the tool instead of the other way around.
For the rest it is a very nice looking client with a good amount of features (for my use case) and hats off to the developers.
Author of this article here

If you wanna check all my content, check https://sibelius.github.io/zettelkasten/

Thanks for the feedback
The article appears to build up though a chain of bad business and technical decisions to something "delightfully and poetically dysfunctional", but what that thing actually is stays frustratingly implicit and doesn't actually make sense to me.

As far as I can tell it's this: Their user management consisted of an excel sheet, but their billing was based on physical piles of filled out signup forms. A user cancelling their contract was implemented by (only) removing their physical from, but this was not communicated to the acquiring company, so they started billing customers who had cancelled.

But then how did they stop cancelled customers from using the service? How did they implement a user authentication mechanism in the first place? There must have been a software representation of user records somewhere in their system, which was kept up to date with cancellations. And the acquirer never learned about that, which would have just been a dub mistake, not exactly delightful or poetic.

Unless... they somehow managed to have the dialup system query the excel sheet directly and never stopped cancelled customers from using the service because they assumed those had switched to broadband anway and wouldn't want to use free dialup even if they could.

These would have been a much more interesting WTF than the mere existence of the Excel sheets and piles of physical forms, and I would expect them to be mentioned explicitly.

So... what gives?
Ask HN: How will a hardware company survive in 2023?
This tweet had me wondering[1], what is the goldilocks model for a lightly funded or bootstrapped hardware company in 2023?

I'm thinking about purpose built gadgets such as smart home tech, fitness accessories, etc.

The early 2010's model:
1. Get funded
2. Acquire users & scale
3. Support this hardware with companion software
4. Exit before server costs outweigh your hardware margin

This does not seem feasible in today's climate, however users still expect free software.

It seems like most hard-tech is coming from large companies with compute to spare or Chinese manufacturers with no consideration of software quality/security.

What is the long term and sustainable way to operate an indie(ish) hardware company?

[1]:https://twitter.com/HipCityReg/status/1707414839608463760/photo/1
What metrics count? Cars are worse for the environment and health, the infrastructure is more expensive, accidents are worse, they cost more, and they create tremendous opportunity costs by creating car centric cities. One could go on.

They are more practicable/convenient because the infrastructure is already in place. Also, in more rural areas there might never be an alternative. That is pretty much it.
Yup this isn't new. The pics were part of the original Snowden docs
To quote from the fine article

in Deuteronomy, it is written: “Six days you shall labor and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.”

I.e. you are already not supposed to do any form of work on Shabbat just based on the existing commandments. Naturally that includes work via email or IM.
The cloud isn't free though, neither is shopping on amazon. Private Email (protonmail) starts at... 4 dollars a month...
In light of this, are "technoserfs" who use and pay for the cloud (on not so cheap mobile phone, mind you) really the victims? Or are they just regular people who rate certain things as higher priority than others, and it is that hierarchy that displeases Mr Varoufakis so much.

For the rest of your point, everything (class, affluence, age, technology, etc...) changes social interaction, all the time, always.
I started just sitting there silent and waiting for them to finish and I've found it pretty successful in getting them to stop doing it.

Usually people use someone looking at their phone as an excuse to pull theirs out and start playing with it. Think refusing to do that yourself and just waiting for them to stop messing with it sends enough of a message.
Any time I need a Windows install, I go for one of the custom builds. Not from crustywindo.ws, but there's a lot of Windows modding forums out there with varying "distros".

(It bears noting if you need to trust your OS, you shouldn't be using Windows at all)
Hmm, so you can hear noises? Doesn’t seem much of a capsule to me! How is ventilation done? Is that noisy too?
I think about this whenever I'm spending money on my cat. Some of the highest smiles per dollar I can think of tbh.
Right. It seems like LLMs can be both a huge advantage for one-on-one instruction, but at the same time could just do many tasks for you.

Code generation AI systems will continue to get better rapidly.

They are not just language models anymore but now can include image input and output.

There will be systems trained (or context "trained") for software platforms that put a wide variety of task configurations within easy reach by translating to relatively small amounts of DSL code.

The next revolution may come from applying things like Monte Carlo search to concrete domains defined on the fly by LLMs. Or just a tight integration between implementation and testing within the platform and AI loop.

Also consider the programming ability increases when models are trained to be able to unroll state very accurately within their platform domains as part of the software design process.

Looking anywhere from a few months out to say five years, we should anticipate increasingly capable and more general AI programming systems.

Who knows how long it will take for these systems to be fully deployed in all areas. But beyond five years or so, it is kind of hard to imagine what the leading-edge capabilities of these types of systems might be.

Maybe no one will want to buy a particular computer game or application anymore. Instead, you buy an AI programmer that comes with a kit for configuring and even coding some custom parts of software specifically tailored for you.

Maybe the only thing that really sells at some point are AI asset streaming services which allow your existing AI swarms to on demand pull in new neural radiance models, behavior models, neural world state models, neural avatar models, domain experts, document drafters, etc.

These will be integrated with mixed reality. So you are looking at basically portable Holodeck providers. The commodification of all types of skills and knowledge, manifested in person on demand.
Thanks so much for a super helpful reply!