skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite machines were the Tektronix / Xerox printers. Solid ink, amazing prints.

No driver needed. If a person wanted to, they could ftp a postscript file to the printer.

The machines took an anon connection. From there, simply using the put command resulted in pages coming out of the printer.

How a postscript, or encapsulated postscript file was up to the user.

Handwritten files to print fractals were fun too.

"Why is the printer taking so long?", lol
> Somewhere I read when you think about the universe it is like "The Universe thinking about itself.".

This reminds me of this quote from Jill Tarter of SETI, particularly the last sentence:

“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans? Whether we’re born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

source: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_tarter_join_the_seti_search (@ 3:02)

(I copied this nearly verbatim from another comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061363)
The two are not even remotely comparable. Your comment is not thoughtful.
US Commerce Secretary Concerned About New Huawei Chip
there are people here that can tell the stories better of course. MarcA was building the browser with other grad students and whomever, and they ultimately formed a company called Netscape. That product was called Netscape Navigator, and sold to consumers in a commercial software box, like a big book, similar to Adobe Photoshop and dozens of other huge programs in that day ("shrink wrap software").

Through the 1990s many Usenet users talked about ads on the Internet via usenet lists, everyone knew about AOL and their business model. The opinion among most coders in public was that ads on the Internet would "ruin it." Public surveillance on the scale that is common now, was a topic from comic books. etc
Plus the wars they had to name a few: Balkan, WWI, Spanish Civil War, WWII. Add to that a few dozen other smaller wars. Quite a mess and quite impressive to overcome in such a short time and not hate each other.
I can see your viewpoint, but at the same time, if there's nothing of the original training material in the output, what exactly is being stolen and resold?

I guess I'm saying that I can see how you got to that position, but I'm not sure your conclusion makes sense. The production of the model involves widespread use of IP - much of it questionably obtained - but you cannot go back to the original IP from the output.
>Mandela did not get it while imprisoned and while the US and the UK were tacit supporters of the Apartheid regime

True

>Maria Ressa seems anti-Duterte, and pro-US if I read correctly

Duterte is/was a Trump style figure in a country that houses U.S military bases. If Pakistan counts then the Philippines must count as well.
731 AD, Champa (modern day Vietnam) princeling Nandivarman becomes the Pallava Emperor and is crowned at Kanchipuram, modern day Tamil Nadu, India.

TBF, I remember this only because I have been reading D Dennis Hudson’s work.
What makes you say this? There are plenty of examples to the contrary. Airlines, cars, gas stations, shoes, beer, bikes, browsers, power tools, pizzas, etc.

Sure, there are plenty of duopolies out there, but there are also plenty of monopolies. That doesn't mean they're inevitable.
IN this case, he was renting an accessory dwelling ("granny flat"). I don't generally find this problematic - it's putting an otherwise unused piece of land (the owner's back yard) to economic use. The problem in this case was the ADU was not properly permitted - the owner shouldn't be surprised this caused problems.
// while Europe able to create a higher quality of life for a higher fraction of its population.

As a dual eu / us citizen that's not my observation. What do you base this on? An average American feels wealthier than an average European to me even comparing to just western Europe.
The Voleon Group, Berkeley, CA

https://voleon.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voleon_Group
>In October the finance ministry, in its annual report on the issue, estimated that in 2018 immigrants from non-Western countries and their descendants drained from public finances a net 31bn kroner ($4.9bn), some 1.4% of GDP. Immigrants from Western countries, by contrast, contributed a net 7bn kroner (see chart).

https://archive.ph/TSsQa#selection-1021.77-1025.92

So yes, it has downsides... The downside of not working at all. (In this comment, I am separating Western and non-Western immigrants, since you mentioned xenophobes)
> Middle income America has cheaper housing, food and durables with higher wages than middle income in Western Europe.

Is food really cheaper? That's not what I heard but I don't know.

But that's a weird take. Quality of life is not entirely dominated by your purchase power if you have enough to sustain life. What about having time for culture, friends, family, quality of the environment, safety, access to healthcare etc. The only exception may be housing.

Some cities here (in europe) have an absolutely incredible quality of life and I would never factor in the price of groceries because it doesn't matter. Everyone in the middle class can afford groceries. Housing maybe, in some cities it's a real issue, but I personally don't care as much because I don't really need an abundant apartment so I always find something. I want beautiful cafes just around the corner, vibrant, active culture from fine art to independent, small artists and beautiful parks and buildings.

I would never trade it for a big car and a big house in some suburb.

A friend of mine is working 32h a week and I am starting to think that he has figured out how to really improve his quality of live. On a programmers wage you're still middle class, you just earn so much. And he's travelling so much, meeting friends, getting into hobbies or just enjoying a really nice coffee in a cafe, taking in the beautiful autumn lights, while everyone else is working that you're always a but envious.
I did that baking-the-motherboard last-resort trick on a Mac Mini three years ago. https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1245730555846635520

Reallyt didn't think it would work. And when it acctually did, I was sure it would only be a temporary solution. Much to my surprise, it's still going strong today (mostly used as an Octoprint server for my 3d printer.)
I'd like to point out that it has been shown that text models can be trained on purely synthetic data and perform at or above the level of models trained on human derived data. This works because you can use an LLM judge the quality of a particular generated sample which allows you to automate the process of picking high quality generations. It won't be long before this is done with generative art as well, a multi-modal model could be used to curate the output of some CC0 derived model and build up a much larger training set for a new model. You could also procedurally create data for training by generating images based on 3D scenes with various shaders applied to give them the look of different art styles. You could also use neural style transfer instead of or in addition to a shader to add more styles of images. You could use the multi-modal model to judge these images as well, selecting only the best. With that, you essentially have a fully automated pipeline for producing any size training set you want 100% synthetic except for the base 3D assets, shaders and example style images which you could source CC0 or buy license to.
For the author, he misses an important point that except sometimes (and rare case) for a few core libs and functionality, majority zero-days and zero-clicks are based on new features and their integration into current OS iteration. Software revisions begets new security events. Patching software bugs/loophoples is not like treating cancer - something that has existed always and keeps popping up. It is new software added to old stack and made to gell with it. That 'gluing' process churns up new security issues.

If the phone is physically okay and you depend on few core functionalities, then it is perfectly okay to keep using it for majority of (non-critical) tasks. Most bugs in the system & features of old iOS are limited to that old OS anyway - and most likely addressed. If some advanced utility are going to be involved e.g. work communications, some security protocols, I'll perhaps work with a device which still gets critical updates at the least.

I have a iPhone 8 which I use just to Facetime my MIL and receive her iMessages (I am on Pixels since 2019). I can't foresee a old patched- often iOS with a older no-frills Facetime version to have a major risks. For these tasks, I don't see it necessary to get a new iphone.
Computers still only have three mainstream input devices, keyboard, mouse and gamepad after 60-80 years

I'd try and bring the addition inputs a smart phone has to computers, like touch.

I know there are programable keyboards and many other things. But no one has cracked it yet.

It's a cool project as is. Just an idea if you were thinking of iterating forward.
> WTF does "breaking up Google" actually mean?

Well for one, the ad business could be separated into the auction system and the use of the auction system on their different services.
It is nonsensical to declare human rights under the umbrella of a religion. Human Rights by their definition apply to all humans no matter which, if any, religion they might have chosen to follow. A group of muslims does not get to unilaterally declare the basic rights of every human. The UN is the place to do that and they did. The Cairo Declaration is the reactionary attempt by some muslim countries to deny some basic human rights to their own people. It's a perverse twisting of the original idea.
I agree with you - this is a "law hack" and should be seen as a good thing. It shows a loophole in the system and directs attention towards it so that it can be fixed. There's no system like responsible disclosure in law.
Quality of life isn't the same as wealth though.
Considering the history of nuclear subs bumping into each other, the answer to how close they can get without being detected is clearly 'just before they touch'.
I don't understand why this was downvoted. It is a very reasonable position. For perspective, I have family members that are California landlords and have been screwed by tenants and California laws.
Is anyone familiar with Microsoft Entra Verified Id? I only learned about it this week. Seem to be something along those lines.
Yes, I elaborated in a side-comment, your feeling is likely correct, but still Europe may be able to better translate wealth into quality of life.
We agree. The dissonance peaks when the tenant refuses access to fix problems.
yup, this is what people that moved there were telling me. you get used to it.
> Fear of IP battles like those w/ authors suing OpenAI? I guess I can understand wanting the dust to settle on some of those issues.

That is the exact reason they have claimed.
Which is the opposite to how it should be.
I don't agree that Arafat was fighting any less than Narges Mohammadi when he got the Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't get the prize for surrendering (neither did Mandela but he got the prize after he had already won).
I mean yeah sure but DHH does seem to enjoy the controversy a bit. Either that or he’s really good at unintentionally courting it.
> Europe can (and does to some degree) solve this issue the same way we do here in Canada: high immigration rates.

> It has downsides […]

The main downside you have to counter is building enough housing, which Canada is not.

The federal government (AFAICT) sets immigration targets/numbers without consulting the provinces and municipalities to see what they can handle. The US (pop. 330M) brings in 1M immigrants in the last few years, while in Canada (pop. 40M):

> In 2022, Canada welcomed 437,180 immigrants and the number of non-permanent residents increased by a net 607,782 people. Both figures are the highest levels on record and reflect "higher immigration targets and a record-breaking year for the processing of immigration applications," StatsCan said.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-record-population-grow...
"The Nobel Prize For Doing Nothing In The Face Of An Oppressor And Calling That Peace" has far too many candidates for them to be able to pick a winner.
Define difficult?

Take France for instance, 10% of people living in France in 2021 were immigrants (born in another country). Net Migration is in the 100-200k range per year.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/03/30/one-in-1...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/686137/net-migration-fra...
" has more bandwidth, lower latency, and consumes less power than the equivalent "

Any data points for the above?

Is it worth the ability to not replace them?

If so look forward to a marketplace of Framework laptops where you can easily sell your old model, and buy a new one.
The point is pessimistic off hand dismissals without thinking about it deeper than the surface level because there’s current day examples. Not someone posting a bad comment because they merely threw a couple things together.
Anecdotally I’ve found the people I’ve worked with from EU countries tend to be well-educated and highly effective. If US work culture is about quantity, theirs is quality. I think that is a sustainable posture that will continue to bear fruit.
One of the main reasons I didn't buy a new Macbook pro.
Yeah, you were absolutely right! Not sure why the link was altered while I copied it.
https://archive.ph/ZRIeD
This looks great :-) However reading the How it works section, it states:

"Each form needs an email address to be set for completed forms to be sent to when they’re submitted"

So... erm is an email Inbox needed for integration? - how very 1990!

In addition to email, for use by developers in other UK GOV departments - surely HTTP PUT of an XML or JSON document to a user nominated URL (with provided auth token) would have been trivial to achieve?
Contributing to public finances isn't the only thing for which we need people, it's not even the most important thing. We are going to need a lot of people to care for the elderly, people working in construction, etc. Which particular group then does the much higher paying jobs that contribute more taxes is less relevant.
It's not like we're going to have any choice in the matter. Vast regions of the world are quickly becoming uninhabitable both because of climate change and of the damage done during colonialism and its political consequences. We can either choose to open the doors willingly or they are going to be blown open. I personally think it would be more ethical and pracical to open them now, but I seem to be in the minority.
>Worth stating is that these companies are also a significant source of unwanted volatility.

Unwanted for people holding S&P over a short timeframe, maybe, but volatility is absolutely necessary for a healthy economy. Volatility in the market represents uncertainty, and new business models and technologies bring uncertainty. A market with continuous low volatility is a market in which everything is very predictable, and hence no big innovations are happening (because it's always hard to predict how/whether big innovations will work out, so such things entail volatility).
Or turn around again. Zoom out far enough and maybe there's a view where the pulsar is comparably no more that a lit sparkler.

Note: This isn't an argument for god or whatever. Just thinking on scales where our "laughing in the rain" is a nightmare for ants.
Is it really unfair if such a small number of people are employed by big tech? https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-... How many people actually benefit from these companies? How much do statistics of tech workers vs everybody else differ?
I can pretty trivially generate something using a LLM that I doubt was in the training set or has ever been written down by humans. Do you have reason to believe that's not the case?
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, MATLAB, Java, Javascript, Bash scripts, SQL, git, GNU/Linux

Résumé/CV: https://carlobar.github.io/resume/resume.pdf

Email: carlobar@gmail.com

Have done research mainly in topics related to cyber security and smart grids. Hold a PhD in Computer Science and a Master in Electrical Engineering
Will workers hired as Remote all be laid off in next wave?
Apple, Meta, Amazon, and now even LinkedIn have asked workers to come back into the office. They’ve all made passing comments that they will continue to support remote workers, but from my perspective the writing is ultimately on the wall. Meta has even implemented limits on how often these workers hired as remote are allowed to come into the office, but have not divulged the reason for doing so. Given that many of these companies began hiring and marking certain employees with designated offices as far back as 2 years ago, would signify this has been a long tail deliberate plan.

What are the odds (0-100%) that these permanently remote workers will be heavily targeted in the next large wave of layoffs?
Those frameworks (Remix, Next, etc) give you like 5% of what you get with Rails or Laravel. There’s no point of comparison.
I remember trying to play the game as a kid and being too young to understand the answers to any of the questions. I'd just relaunch the game and try again until I got the questions correct through random guessing.
It is, I pay for social security, must not fear for my life, you pay for private security, fearing for your life caged in a gated community. On paper you are more wealthy but in the real world you are poorer in every aspect of life that matters.
The idea behind ember-data [2] is that the models and their relationships are defined on the frontend side, which implies that the models are the single source of truth for both the frontend and the backend, including the APIs themselves. Ember adheres to json api specification, but there is lots of adapters for other database query languageds and/or storage types [1]

As I said in my previous post, it's a framework based on conventions, so it'd a batteries-included approach to both frontend and backend.

[1] https://emberobserver.com/categories/ember-data-adapters

[2] https://guides.emberjs.com/release/models/
A phone won’t match of course but it comes surprisingly close for “scanning” documents and sending them to your insurer or whoever wants them. It’s able to remove noise, crop to the page edges, and deskew the whole image.
Windsor crossbow case: What are the dangers of AI
Sure, but there is a limit. I had a whole queue of (techy/hacker) friends that wanted to go (and had gone previous years, so they know what it's like, some of them I met there, they aren't just random people), but the hackerspace has such a queue times a hundred members. They can't give it to everyone, and I don't quite get why not just everyone gets equal chances in the open sale.

Having core contributors, angels, (previous) speakers, yeah sure. But the people at a random space? Doesn't seem very specific
Isn't the credit card on file with AirBNB?
Thanks for this, I remember playing the first on my dad's compaq 286 green screen laptop when I was 9 or 10, tried to get the directory listing properly formatted on screen - sure you can guess what came next...
Yes, the birth of Christ, I forget how many years before? /s
Why? The whole point of accepting refugees is that they're running away from a horrible situation from where they came from (persecution, war, famine, genocide, uninhabitable weather, you get the gist) and accepting them is saving their lives. They are, in theory, the ones most in need.

Of course there are people just looking for better economic opportunities, and people who target specific Western countries to be a refugee in (e.g. Pakistanis that show up in Germany - if they were really fleeing from a critical situation they would stop in the first place that is calm and safe, not continue the journey to a richer country), but they aren't really refugees in the actual sense of the word.
I bought a Brother HL 2130 in 2011. It's a cheap monochrome laser printer-only.
I works well under Linux, Windows, MacOS. Toner cartridges last forever, drum lasts even more forever, I never had any problem with it, and it still works like a champ.

So a big big +1 for Brother laser printers !
We did about 7-8 hackathons in our first couple of years giving us roughly 1k signups. These definitely became more engaged than the normal signed up users
I don't think we can complain that there were retries over different human-readable seeds to make an appearance of "verifiably at random" design if the chosen human-readable seeds just haven't been published at all.

And if the argument is that the publishing of human-readable seeds was unnecessary because the retries of the procedure could have been performed until some exploit was possible, why even define and publish these definitions? Was it an error? Or something else?
Manufacturers in general seem to be a safer source for refurb gear even if you're not going to get a "killer deal." However, I still personally tend to question the economy of buying something that has two or three years shorter support life out of the gate--unless you routinely trade-in anyway and then you have to run the numbers on the trade-in value.
> Anecdotally I’ve found the people I’ve worked with from EU countries tend to be well-educated and highly effective. If US work culture is about quantity, theirs is quality. I think that is a sustainable posture that will continue to bear fruit.

As an American, I have found this to be true as well. It is more about the corporate culture in America - which basically lazily attempts to quantify engineering. This leads to an amazing amount of chaos in American companies.

E.g. there is a new fad about counting # of commits as a measure of productivity in many American companies. Guess what is getting produced ever since engineers have discovered this.
And? I prefer this over Slack having six different ways to log in, having access to my email address to spam me, and then still not letting me see which servers I belong to in aggregate.
> "There is only very few places in the world (1 where I know of, by chance) that actually study, what is peace"

Where would that be?
>Yes, of course, with the asterisk that the allowable non-cash expenses for a rental property are pretty high

For instance? Do you get to deduct your whole mortgage or something?
An interpreter is just a compiler that executes the code instead of storing it in a file.
What makes it worse is that it _completely_ misses the point.

Humanities is _interesting_ to many people.
> Europe can (and does to some degree) solve this issue the same way we do here in Canada: high immigration rates.

That worked great in the XX century, but the supply of potential immigrants from countries with a high(90%+) literacy rate is dwindling due to fertility rates falling below replacement in source countries. As it stands most such people currently reside in South East Asia.

This is not a viable strategy for the next 20 years, let alone 50 years.