skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[old man smiles at arguments/rants he’s read and heard over last 60 years]

9/11/2001 was 22 years ago

8T/22 years means 360B/year USD

The US military expenses covers basically the global military security needs of all of the Americas and de facto a large percentage of Western Europe/EU, ASEAN, etc.. Let’s just say 1 Billion people who haven’t experienced major World War level conflict against their territory or against their civilians since 9/11 (or, for that matter, since WWII). The bill for US citizens for that over the last 22 years has been roughly $360/yr, USD. (There have been armed conflicts in the period and much suffering as a result. But there hasn’t been real worldwide suffering…World War level suffering.)

Imagine a US family in 1943. Someone offers to bring their loved ones home that very day from the moronic European/Asian conflicts safe and sound. Will cost them, say, $100/yr head tax (could call it Security as a Subscription but what an absurd acronym that would make). $100 was a lot of money in 1943, but a guarantee of no orphans, no widows, no funerals, no rations, no torture, no struggles, no threats to the Four Freedoms. Every single family in the US in 1943 would have taken that offer. And they would, and do, take that offer every year up to the present. And it has worked (for the most part). Certainly for the Americas, EU, Japan, British Commonwealth, ASEAN,…

Now imagine making the offer to those in concentration camps in 1943. Those conscripted to serve the Nazis or the Imperial Japanese empire. Those in occupied territories. They’d be lining up in droves to pay (instead of lining up to be fed starvation rations, be gassed, be forced to work in factories until they died, etc.). They’d die for the opportunity (instead of, you know, just dying).

Today’s “the West’s” military-industrial complex isn’t a perfect system and if the Department of State screws up the results are often haphazard and cruel. (Yeah, I know, let’s blame the State department.) But attempts at global political perfection haven’t succeeded in the modern era. One time they called it The War to End All Wars. Or was it the Glorious Communist Global Revolution (cf. pogroms, gulags, Mao’s great famine, Cultural Revolution, anything re: Cambodia, etc.). Sounds like a great objective to have, but when it fails in implementation, it fails catastrophically…only slightly better than the World War option, but without the psychopolitical cleansing that comes with deep trauma that does finally end.

And let’s not bring up what nuclear technologies bring to a future World War party. Really, let’s not. Weapons of policy, not of war.

From a historical perspective, it’s quite the deal the developed world has gotten in the 21st Century for their $8T. (Didn’t read the article, I assume this was their conclusion.)
You're painting a picture as though they've all switched. Thats not accurate, still plenty of indiehackers hacking away. Only a small percent successfully, but thats always been the case.
Really enjoying the writeup, thanks so much.
Modern Inuit are descended from Thule culture, which spreads into the Arctic around 1100 CE. It's not clear when kayaks first develop; the oldest clear reference to one I can find involves a toy kayak dated to ~500CE in an Alaskan culture that probably influenced the Inuit.
You've been able to use vscode on ChromeOS for several years: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/12/03/chromebook-ge...

I've used it a lot - works great.
So that's what they're going to do with the fruits of their repeated hiring posts on here?
This was written by an llm?
what a wimpy whiner
They murdered the Leetcode interview, so they must be good at everything else /s
Its funny - all this doubt and suspicion of the NSA but then you end your post about how NSA has been saving our asses. Maybe they aren't so bad afterall? /s
I mean, speaking as a desktop Linux user myself I don't really know what this would add to any desktop experience. I struggle to sympathize with your problem points too:

> Enter LLM, our digital troubleshooter, translating ancient tech runes into actionable solutions

> What if AI could intuitively bridge the gap, offering command prompts or even executing tasks?

Both of these applications are neat, but require zero kernel-level (or even OS-level) integration. Neither are Linux-exclusive applications either.

> Package conflicts are the bane of seamless operations. An AI-powered system could preemptively reconcile these

No, no, a thousand times no.

Have you ever handled package-management at scale? Your absolute worst-enemy is non-determinism. If you rely on an AI to resolve things procedurally, I guarantee your dependency management will only get worse.

> envisage an AI that discerns your tasks. Setting up a server? It's there, guiding, not just with steps, but also with context-driven insights.

It's a cool idea, but "setting up a server" is such a vague and broad field that it's hard to imagine AI even being a useful wizard for it. Similarly, asking ChatGPT to "set up a robot" isn't really going to yield any useful results.

> AI can seamlessly integrate patches, ensuring compatibility

See: notes on packaging

All-in-all I find it hard to take this suggestion seriously. Adoption of AI is not what's holding desktop Linux back, and there are no relevant vendors who would see this as a meaningful call-to-action. Furthermore, Linux doesn't even need to be involved in this discussion in the first place; all of your AI functionality should ideally exist in userspace. There shouldn't be any real work needed to adapt Linux for an AI-first future.
In a true time of war, and not an "overseas contingency operation," the government tells the private corporations what to do. Packard (a car company in Detroit) built Merlin aircraft engines in WWII.
Man they sure have fun at Google.co.jp
But another being said something about your momma.
But then the "close signal" is in practical terms not encrypted at all: You close a connection by not sending data for 30 seconds. That's a signal that's plainly visible to network intermediaries. So then why not eliminate one risk of bad middlebox heuristics and expose the actual flag?
How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing?
Didn’t the whole GNU think come about because RMS was pissed off at the locked down printer? Or is that urban legend?
No. A JIT requires marking pages of runtime-generated data as executable. It’s an attacker’s dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIT_spraying

The entire compiler and language-runtime using a JIT becomes an attack surface. Securing Javascript is hard enough.
Some real life traditional taxi services used to offer pre-agreed fixed fairs. But many of them were regulated away.
You could probably just look up data on mental illness and/or pathological lying? Most people will say "I don't really know the details of that" rather than write you an essay of seemingly plausible but completely made up nonsense. Not all people, sure, but most.
GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability
Drivers have a car. So they could have used a bigger device. Eg a laptop, or something with a touch screen.

Or a voice connection with an operator.
You won't casually breach the GFW. I would treat any advice posted publicly on the internet about how to breach the GFW as probably-malicious. They are better at networking than you are.
The primary issues are peripheral and application support. So many things just don't work on linux out of the box. As a long time linux user, I left for these reasons, got tired of wasting so many hours to make the basics work. ChromeOS and MacOS are much better and just work. I don't ever see myself going back to linux as my primary OS, I certainly would not encourage non-technical people to try it with ChromeOS being available and a better choice. It's basically linux under the hood if that makes you feel any better, but without the pain that linux desktops are
Static HTML forums have existed for almost as long as the internet itself has. There is no shortage of online forums software, free or paid. The main advantage Discord has is it requires nothing beyond a few mouse clicks to setup.
Speaking frankly, this seems like a misread to me. Ascribing an author's intent to the output of a program they wrote is not the same as believing they manually performed the actions of the program.
Full title 23 too long: GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training

(I am Jack's utter lack of surprise.)
I know what you mean, but. Human spoken and written Languge very clearly _does_ something. It facilitates information exchange across time and space, catalyzing cultural evolution.
To further build off your rabbit hole, this is also why 2.4ghz long range wifi connections (like via a yagi antenna) is also problematic. Foliage fucks with your range. Also why central air conditioners and wet walls create wifi shadows.
I think you're confusing artist with something specific like sculptor or painter.

Some of the work people put into getting Stable Diffusion to create the results they want takes plenty of time and skill. But event then I would say that putting in time and skill is not strictly required to make art.

You can absolutely be an artist using generative AI, but you of course wouldn't be a painter if you use generative AI.

In this example you can be an application developer but still not a programmer.
I'm talking about personal data. Piracy is rarely a concern here.

(And btw, piracy only makes the data less valuable, because you lose the ability to sell it to someone who already has it. Not because the game or movie etc would become less enjoyable.)
But they've done the opposite, dropped the headline and just kept the picture. When you can only advertise your content through the picture, you get YouTube thumbnails, not HN.
Ask HN: How to contribute to open source data stores?
I've been a software engineer for 15 years, mostly java and scala. I tried reaching out to the datastax/cassandra folks a few times in my career and didn't receive any guidance on how to start helping out. I've done some small contributions with the hadoop ecosystem, but it's mostly mature/slowly moving these days.

I've wanted to contribute to questDb, but it just seemed a little daunting. is there any easier way to start contributing (not documentation/testing) in the java db community? I'm happy at my job and not looking to use this as a foot in the door, I would simply like to be more involved in something interesting and low latency related in the java community. (also open to other projects!)
I use KDE plasma without any customization and I find it perfect. What "tinkering" is required according to you ? I even found the defaults super powerful. I got a notification on my NVMe having a failure, and I wouldn't have thought of this if it didn't show it to me.
guys decided to buy bonds with nearly 0 interest rate and now surprised they lose value when rate is 5% and inflation 10%..
It'll make it easier to trust if you have your own index of documents. That's why I built this: https://mitta.us/

There still exists a problem that users need to run and manage their own indexes, at times.
> It's clearly intended to offend and get a reaction - that's the main goal. Whether it's done by actual racists is secondary.

No, you're completely off the mark here. It's done because they feel these things deep down and can't talk about them with people in real life to avoid being ostracized by what few friends they have left (or maybe they're super popular, I don't know). Yes, perhaps the _absolute_ most extreme things that are said there are not serious. However, the least extreme sentiments there (which would be considered extremely offensive in polite society) are 100% genuine.

Don't you think doing it for a joke would have gotten old by now? No one really talks about 4chan and no one goes there that doesn't already know what to expect. Ergo, no one is really shocked by any of these things anymore.

Again, I know this is a hard pill to swallow and I can see that you're trying really hard to avoid it but most of the racist sentiments on 4chan are genuine.
Some things require an ink signature. That’s probably 50% of the tiny amount of printing I do.
Isn't this what matrix.org is trying to achieve?
Dropped it exactly 6 months after (and before) April Fool's day. Bravo.
it was so annoying to suffer the fools who loudly complained about tesla roadblocking a universal charger while ignoring the fact that NACS was way better than the alternatives
On that topic, this is a very common misconception about how that proof works. Multiplying all the primes and adding one does not have to be a prime (just try 2 x 3 x … x 13 + 1) - the point is it’s not divisible by any of the supposedly finite number of primes, so it must have some other prime divisor.
The story is a good one, because it represents a certain web/tech era for sure.... but why is this trailer soundtrack all dramatic, "Dateline", music? The DHH evolution/controversy/polarizing character is part of it sure (the later part moreso?) but as a tech story is it really the central theme this doc is going on? Based on the music and end scene one would think so. Kinda off-putting?
Relatively to infinity, it’s small.
Sir this is a Wendy’s.
It’s real. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt
> Harassment, defamation, concrete incitements to violence and credible threats of violence which meet well-defined legal standards are already illegal with both civil and criminal penalties.

There has to be a will to prosecute. This is nowhere near being followed in each instance where it should.

> Failure to anticipate the shoe being on the other foot one day is extremely short-sighted, regardless of your political views.

I tend to think your comment is basically suffering from the logical error of a false equivalence. The "other side" in this isn't acting with the desire to extinguish and murder.
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> It doesn't help that the US government has had to sell a lot of its bonds lately, i.e. the debt is going up quickly. That too is tied to things like inflation, as well as the war in Ukraine.

Sure, in absolute terms the debt is going up quickly as it has for the past couple decades. But, in relative terms over that period, the current rate of increase is pretty average. Also, I’m honestly curious what you’re referring to with the specific inclusion of the Ukraine war. Its effect on the rate of increase in the US debt is virtually nothing.
I wonder if building a faraday cage around it would do anything.
> Unfortunately, there is nothing Delta and other Airlines could have done to prevent this from happening.

You posit that the necessary information was not available to Delta, at least not immediately, due to outsourced engine maintenance. Why can't Delta require their contractor (which wasn't the supplier, AOG) to check that documentation meets requirements? Why can't Delta check the documentation themselves once it is available, prior to the engines needing later service as in this case?
Evidence of a lacking in free speech isn't an argument for more regulated speech.
I want to be clear that I was talking about checking the encryption of the very first packet, which isn't secret yet.

Once keys are already established I don't see any particularly reliable test for a single packet, but as you say the connection ids are accessible so if they're in the right place in both directions then that looks good for discovering a QUIC flow.
Opera has a dedicated gaming browsing, Opera GX, yes.

Vivaldi's schtick is that they have every setting and feature that you want and quite a few that you don't. Tab stacks, pinned tabs, split screen, mouse gestures, notes, a full mail client, an RSS reader, ad blocker, custom themes, all built into the browser. And just a ton of customizability. You can control the position and show/hide every UI element (vertical tabs is amazing if you've never tried it), you can create "command chains" (a set of commands which fire in sequence on a keyboard shortcut), and if that's not enough, you can install CSS and JS mods for arbitrary functionality.

But this is just on desktop, just about none of those features exist on mobile right now.
You seem to be convinced I'm scared of something and in some sort of denial. However, I did say "I don't think there's anything especially magical or sacred about conscience and the human brain (or the brain of other animals, for that matter), and I'm sure it must be possible to arrive at different forms of intelligence starting with the "inanimate" building blocks of hardware and software". I just don't see that in LLMs, or at least not in the ChatGPT version I've interacted with.

I very much respect Hofstadter and the fact that he changed his opinion on GPT (I'm based on what you're saying, I have not read the links you provided yet). I'm not sure that means he changed his core beliefs though, even if he said so. At least, my understanding and interpretation of his work is that we're not the only substrate that can develop "strange loops", and that this is not limited only to organic substrates/living beings. He may have changed his view in GPT, but if he was true to his words, he must have always been open to software being able to develop a being.

I very much think AGI is possible, but:

- I don't think it will happen through LLMs, or at least not through LLMs alone, and

- I don't think it will be human-like. In fact, I expect it will feel very alien to us, and we'll feel very alien to them too. Mostly because we're not brains in jars. We eat, sleep, get laid, feel pain, etc., and all of that feeds back into the loop to make us what we are.
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Consider standby power consumption though if you aren't going to manually turn it on and off. The old printers may be very expensive in that regard.
By not lasting very long I mean I’ve seen 3 die between 2-3 years of heavy use. I have heard they last longer with moderate use, but that suggests a lifetime page limit.

Honestly, I don’t have high quality sources which is why I was interested in the first place.
I took a course at the university of Buffalo in the early 80s about pre-roman examples of Pythagorean geometry in henge monuments and early structures. Basically the class was watching slide shows of the professors vacations across Europe and his photos of old ruins. Then he'd show us a line drawing of the structure and pick out what at times seemed random points that created 3-4-5 triangles. He'd exclaim 'see? They knew about the Pythagorean theorem before Pythagoras!' Our only graded assignment was to write a paper where we "discovered" a similar example. I picked a picture of some random ancient church and "found" the right triangle in it's foundation. I got an A. Definitely just an "observation" no theorum involved.
Sometimes I print out code docs and other software things to trick my brain into a different perspective. Being able to touch the information on an object in space is useful to me. Not buried next to other distractions on a computer. Helps me focus on the task at hand.

I also sketch out code on pen/paper sometimes for similar reason.
We can’t actually prove much at all about the universe beyond that it exists (cogito ergo sum). Basically everything else is talking about some model and not the actual universe. The map still isn’t the territory no matter how much we might wish it were.
Scientists unlock the secrets of a sixth basic flavor
> I just wish the keyboards were more developer friendly. Give me F keys!

At the same time, I applaud them finally getting rid of Caps Lock and replacing it with a general utility feature (search)
Don't most of the competitors have like hundreds of thousands to millions of hours of driving?
It doesn't really matter how it came to be or who was involved. The point is there are two options now and there is no sign of that changing any time soon. And this affects almost everyone, not just developers. Smartphones are ubiquitous in North America and Europe, and just about everyone uses them to access the web via a browser.
How can we fix the problem without the money printer ?

There’s so much debt, individuals, corporations and governments are all deep in debt.

We can just pretend the debt does not exist (restructuring) but that’s pretty much the same as printing that amount of money, just done in a different way.

The only non-printer way is to get some sort of exponential productivity gain.

Maybe if we get the absolutely best case for AI that could give the productivity gains we need. Obviously assuming the benefits of AI are shared in an equitable way.
Of course.

Such cheap attacks don't have to be tolerated and it's perfectly fair to point them out for what they are.

I didn't seek out a random comment to take a potshot at - you directly replied to me with a comment that contains nothing but a mean-spirited dig.
KiwiFarms is about the only example, it curated some opposition fierce enough to harass any domain registrar into dropping them. The host had to go through the trouble of operating their own domain registrar and hoping that the number registrars were obscure/large enough to ignore complaints.

Here's an interview [0], Mr Moon also says he would have lost interest in hosting the project if it wasn't for the unlimited challenges posed by the haters. A lesson in the ways that what you resist, persists.

[0] https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-107-how-the-inter...
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We just launched our property discovery tool that showcases a gentrification heatmap we built to anticipate future gentrification. We help real estate investors find cash-flowing properties and understand appreciation potential.

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I felt like the blog post got cut off. It felt like it was leading up to some statement, as they outlined how a small curved universe would be identified through patterns etc etc, even link a paper they wrote on it…… then…… nothing. Did I miss something crucial in the reading?

Edit:

Reading the paper they found correlations indicative of a non flat space but could be explained by other factors and noise. So it wasn’t conclusive but left open the door for curved space and a small universe.
That’s the thing, I don’t think busy beaver numbers are undecidable. Every TM with n states will or won’t halt, and there isn’t any reason to think we can’t prove whether it halts or not.

Every proof for undecidability use hypothetical TM constructions with a logical property and a trick. Busy beaver numbers are concrete.
An llm walking me through plumbing doesn't make me a trade professional. Still useful though
Vivaldi's target users are power-users who want every feature imaginable. They're not adding new features to browser for "growth", they're adding new features to the browser because their founding philosophy is that software should be as flexible and powerful as possible.
Ask HN: Bad Results from Vector Search?
Hi, I'm building an RAG system with OpenAI embeddings and the ChatGPT api.

I chunked all the documents into 400-800 character chunks, vectorized them all, and put them in a vector database.

The results are pretty bad--the surfaced document chunks kind-of-but-not-really match up with the query.

I'm getting much better results from simple keyword searches (using meilisearch).

Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to use a fine-tuned model like BERT? Is this technology vastly overhyped?