skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this reflective attitude is actually part of the root cause of how we got into this mess. Google was able to bootstrap off the entire "open internet" and "information wants to be free" mindset, without ever really solving the dilemma of "information wants to be free, but time, electricity and bandwidth isn't". Or "information wants to be free, but what if someone wants to make a living synthesizing and peddling new information?".

Instead we ended up with all of our costs being hidden away and borne through advertisement, or other indirect forms of bundling. No ordinary person knows the value or cost of what their interacting with in these "free interactions", or even the value of their interactions. This gives all of the incentives and cover required for fresh bullshit to happen.

I'd actually argue that despite all the downsides of paywalls, paywalls are at least in principle up front with what's happening. Incentives and costs are clear.

In other words, I'd argue that Google (especially) has managed to doubly exploit our love of "free". Obviously the ordinary person loves free, but Google was also able to for a long time to also coast off and exploit enormous amounts of good-will amongst the professional developer ranks by aligning itself with "information wants to be free".
To quote our pediatrician: "do you believe in UFOs? That's roughly in the same ballpark in terms of connection with reality".

This part of the reply to my SO's question about this. Later he explained that it's mainly drunk/high people who suffocate their children like that.

You only need a sufficiently wide bed and separate covers for the parents - that's it.
So here's an example where it came in useful to have back documents:

I recently purchased a house. As part of the process, I needed to apply for a mortgage. The bank wanted a statement from my employer about my income from them, along with my last 2 complete years tax documents.

The bank had an inquiry. My employer had said my salary + bonus was X, but in the first of these two years, my tax documents said my income from my employer that year was 2.5X. The extra 1.5X was due to the employer being bought out and some change of control terms in the RSUs causing immediate payout of what would normally have been paid out over 4 years. Since I kept the documents of the RSU terms and the payslips, I could provide these to the bank to clear the matter up.

Notably, had I not kept my own copy of these documents, I could not have gone back to my employer for new copies. Due to the change of control, they had changed payroll vendors, and had eventually terminated the contract with the old vendor, so I could not have gotten a payslip from 1.5 years ago. Similarly, in the move to the new owner's HR system, the company had lost many of their records of agreements with employee's, including contracts etc., so it's not clear they would still have the terms of the RSUs, especially since the change of control payout rendered this a "completed" transaction. And later events made it clear that they did not have, e.g. a copy of my employment contract.

Similarly, if I ever had had a dispute over the terms of those contracts - if I hadn't kept a copy of the contract, and the company definitely hadn't kept theirs, any dispute would have been my word against theirs.
I can’t think of any scenario described in the post that Venmo wouldn’t handle.

One person is the admin of the collective or company bank account, and repays people as needed using Venmo.

If all of that has to be free - no transaction fees, etc - then there is no business there to build. I wonder if revenue wasn’t also a problem for this startup.
No. I'm not complaining either way. This is a summary of this thread:

Cloudflare: Hey guys, we have a solution for telling humans and bots apart!

Commenter: Your solution sucks!

Me: What would you recommend?

Commenter: Why don't you recommend something?

etc etc.
I've been working in a similar environment, and once a month (or more) someone comes to me with a crash they don't understand. It usually takes a couple of days to debug (since the easy bugs don't make it to me), and every single one is some kind of undefined behavior (temporary lifetime confusion, dangling reference, callbacks modifying containers during caller iteration, ...)
You are technically correct
> Can't achieve your "AGI" without that.

Can I ask, what makes you so confident on that? For all I know (which is admittably not much), current AI may be going to a direction completely orthogonal to achieving AGI.
Newsweek decided this was pornography, even though purchased by public schools

https://www.newsweek.com/senator-reads-aloud-pornographic-bo...
> A Washington Post analysis of federal data found that vehicles guided by Autopilot have been involved in more than 700 crashes, at least 19 of them fatal, since its introduction in 2014

19 fatalities in 8 years... less than 2.5 fatalities per year compared to 42,795 automobile crash fatalities in just 2022 in the USA. Has the WaPo or anyone analysed the break up of those fatalities to see what's causing them and what can be done easily to prevent at least 3 fatalies per year, since that seems to be the bar for going to the effort for such deep and painstaking analysis in the article?

Or would that not get enough clicks(including on HN) to warrant a story even if it eventually leads to saving way more lives?
Do growth mindset interventions impact students' academic achievement?
Guess I should buy a treadmill
Seems pretty universal throughout history, and no different with even China themselves. If a country feels threatened, they retaliate/seek to block it.

Our PM asked for an inquiry into the origins of covid, and China banned our beef, wine, barley, and coal imports.

There was no inquiry. Seems China won that one.
I think it's a mistake to call the game shallow, there's a deep 9-year struggle for political dominance, for example, that links up to many different game systems. If you take the time to talk with time-served veterans it's astonishing what depths are present in the game.
This is why he decided to be a body builder > actor > politician of course, makes perfect sense (people usually profess the beliefs their actions contradict the most)
I tend to agree, monogamy is a kink.
Legality doesn't preclude abuse potential. Plenty of people abuse legal things like alcohol every day.
Rule 34 has enough evidence behind it to be considered a natural law at this point
This is a fair point. I think there were also product people in the rif that might’ve been able to push back on the notion of incinerating the Twitter brand.
I grew up in the 80s and it’s hard to overstate how dominant Arnold was back then. Every little boy wanted to be Commando or Conan.

I also remember when he was governor (I live in cali). Those years I remember less fondly. He was not very good imo but it’s impressive nonetheless that he achieved that milestone.

Once in a lifetime phenomenon. I’m really enjoying this new more thoughtful and reflective era he’s having.

EDIT: moved some words around for clarity.
Custom built monitoring on top of CloudWatch logs: we subscribe to the log groups and parse the logs.

Errors are reported in dedicated slack channels

The “MVP” was built in 1 week after we were faced with an outrageous bill from an observability vendor and decided to give a shot at implementing it ourselves.

In total I’d say that we invested 2 additional weeks of man-hour to get to where we are today.

It has worked extremely well for us and has needed little maintenance (granted we pay AWS to not have to do that maintenance)
Elon is literally the ultimate target user for "Pay-for-attention" schemes. He literally spent $44 Billion Dollars to drive attention to himself.
Love this look and feel. Nicely done.

Are the text fields meant to press (move and lose shadow) when they have content?

Whereas the option button group doesn't press.

Sorry, I don't have any ideas for making the feel part more consistent.

(For I only have the design sense of stale bread. Which is why I marvel when design people like you do this kind of work.)
Wow. They must have been using a potent toxin for homeopathy to cause anything at all.
Crypto does have utility, but there's only room for one: bitcoin.

Everything else is just a me-too derivative that can add nothing except the possibility of central control (like the "digital dollar").

The ability to instantly transmit the hardest asset known to man (harder than gold, in the sense of inflation resistance) does have utility, regardless of what critics say.

It has downsides too: the ability to be lost or stolen if custody is sloppy, energy use, and many others. But the balance between its utility and its limitations is something that enough holders recognize that it maintains a value above $26k for now.

The US debt recently increased by the entire market cap of bitcoin ($275 billion [1]) in a single day.

That doesn't guarantee anything, but in the old days when the global reserve currency started to become frankly inflationary, there was no easy recourse - you could only jump to the next best national fiat (which could have the same problems or worse), or gold (with all of its limitations). Now, due to bitcoin, an alternative exists.

People on HN are smarter than me, and they all seem to hate bitcoin with passion, but I haven't yet understood why. I think it might be harder to recognize its value when it's part of your implicit cultural background: the dollar is money. We lack the perspective of our great grandparents, who lived through the great depression, and understand that the dollar has no intrinsic value, either. Once that epiphany is reached by the masses, the appreciation in bitcoin value could come quickly.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fw...
The article is missing a point. The author says he underestimated the impact on crypto. But he was completely right - after so many years crypto and the blockchain didn't really find its place.

But he underestimated the get-rich-quick mentality. That's what made crypto big. Everyone wanted to be a part of it. And naturally, this type of mentality is filled with fraudsters.
Low cost Raspberry Pi based portable gunshot locator
Cheap Raspberry Pi based Sound Localizer. It was initially just going to be a sound recorder but then I discovered that by adding a GPS to it I can make the system time accurate within less than a microsecond of error. Then after hearing some unexplained local explosions I thought of sound localization. Then I discovered bio-acoustic research and the whole world of wild life preservation and wildlabs.net.

5x months later, this pops out. Installs and configures completely with just one command including partitioning changes. And sound localizes with just one command from a docker image on docker.io.

Total cost, less than 100 euros.

Now I would like to encourage the community to develop the next step towards an anti-poaching solution. Specifically, automatic gunshot event start time locator runnable on a raspberry pi, towards an automated anti-poaching solution.
Society to survive over the long term, requires reproduction. Based on your knowledge, what is the reproduction rate of poly's?
My comment about 5% 30 year Treasury bonds being more attractive than mid tier office buildings financed at 8% was referring to someone making a current investment decision.

The refinancing of $1.5T in CRE before 2025 is going to be a bloodbath for regional banks, hopefully we don’t have multiple SVB situations as a result.

For anyone unfamiliar with CRE financing, a typical loan might have a term of 5-10 years and an amortization schedule of 20-30 years. A lot of loans that were taken out when the prime rate was 0-2% are now going to have to be refinanced when the prime rate is 5.25% and occupancy rates have dropped, meaning the building is worth less than it was previously and also the monthly payments are higher as a result of the higher interest rates. Lots of building owners are going to walk away and the banks will have to repossess and resell a bunch of CRE.
That's due to trademark restrictions. The Gentoo community regularly builds Firefox from scratch, it's not the slowest package to build.
For all but the most dedicated pedants, those terms are synonymous.
Bun is not yet ready, sure, for small applications or server or hello world, it might works well, but for production, Nodejs is still on top between these two.
What is the difference between Brave taking Venture and Mozilla being subsidized by the ultimate enemy of privacy, Google?

Mozilla has defunded Firefox, allows for no way to directly donate to Firefox development, and now writes activist blogs.
> For my part, I’m happy to see polyamory becoming more mainstream

Extremely bleak. The /redscarepod people, for all their minuses, are more than correct on this. I don't see any way out of this for the West, at least not in the short term.
While not what you're addressing, yes skirts and underride bars save lives:

2011: https://youtu.be/bT3G-kcKN70

2013: https://youtu.be/C3MPKLy9qHU

2018: https://youtu.be/WamlGVhGUYs
There is still worse:

> Sometimes this devolves into me talking about wave/particle duality as a crucial metaphor for getting through a rebase intact [...]

Wave particle duality as a crucial metaphor for a functionality of Git?!

This is nonsense.
Ideological commitment to abstractions that repeatedly fail to provide desired outcomes is giving way to practical experimentations which are at least attempts to diversify from these failed approaches. US state intervention via subsidies to support transition to NEV and in-shoring manufacturing should be applauded, regardless of whether it conforms to ideology. It does not matter if the cat is white or black so long as it catches mice, so they say
SAL annotations in MSVC do this, don’t they? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/understan...

And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen similar stuff for clang.
Nice, congrats! What are the specs of the old server?
I don't think I do. To a large degree, GPT does write better.
I don’t think there’s been any indication that anyone is trying to figure out how to reopen Living Computers.

Likely some other philanthropist would need to buy it and fund it in order for it to reopen.

Paul Allen’s sister seems to have little interest in continuing to fund his smaller philanthropies / interests after his death (Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum: closed 2020, sold 2022, reopened by new owner; Cinerama: closed 2020, sold 2023, reopening planned by new owner; Living Computers: closed 2020, no public updates)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34831880
By that standard, everyone is a sinner.
nobody is denying that pandas is powerful. But their syntax and API uses very inconsistent and hard to reconcile patterns. It's painful because it's hard to memorize and most everything has to be looked up
The US were for a long time. But now it’s China. Although they already are the biggest producer of green energy world wide. They produce more green energy than all other countries combined. I don’t know if their strategy will drastically reduce their carbon emissions soon, for now they are still rising. In Europe and the US they are going down a while already (also because we moved a lot of our industry to china).
Can you share if the approach is more GOFAI or more neural network-type stuff? Just curious, and I understand if you can't say much, of course.
As a chronic fidgeter (practically drumming with my legs at times), I wonder how much of a difference that makes.

Also glad to be working in VR which makes me get up out of my chair a lot for testing.
You need more than 2 or 3 decals per window — there should be 2" or less of vertical space and 4" or less of horizontal space between markings (the 2" x 4" rule).
>A 0.01 - 1% failure rate and people will become very pissed off at the system, making it politically untenable

I'm quite sure I don't live in a society where something (even greatly) inconveniencing a mere 0.1% of the public makes it politically untenable, and I'm very nearly as sure that you don't either.
Most people don't care about others' lives. Engineers are no different. It takes regulators to keep them from killing people, not an oath.
Clearly we need a kisrhombille-tessellation based fleuron building system.
if augmented reality glasses continue like they are, this could be very possible in the near future. an infinite array of displays as you lay down. a virtual keyboard might take some time to get used to though
For a C++ or similar project I would recommend fetching and building the depended-on repos using CMake's ExternalProject feature, with patches that your version in your main repo. I would never recommend submodules.
Pharmaceuticals is a pretty capital intensive industry. Who's providing the capital? The government? Moreover, who's providing oversight? Congress? Given how dysfunctional the government is right now, and the tendency of government programs to turn into jobs/pork barrel programs (eg. F35), I'm skeptical that it's going to work out better.
Ok. Why do you think GPT isn't doing that? or is different?

It might be calculating the next word, because you can only write one word at a time, but you can't say that the current next word isn't influenced by a few words ahead. Don't think the current understanding of what LLM's do internally can rule that out.
The Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
[dupe]

Two weeks old news with multiple threads?
It was a Ryzen 3900X with 128 GB RAM and a mix of NAS drives and a few enterprise SSDs, so this is a bit of a step up :D
So it looks like you have no clue really why an employer would pay? Maybe when things become tight you would consider selling some user data? Or we can just trust you 100% as you are a solid guy?
Yeah I have read that too. You may be mixing up with chaitins incompleteness though partly. As far as I can tell it has the same quality as busy beaver numbers: for a given axiomatic system there is a limit. Therefore no system can compute the entire series (aka digits in omega)… yet again what people don’t ever seem to recognize (and I don’t know why not) is that with more powerful formal systems we could in theory calculate arbitrarily many digits of omega.
I have several honeypots on different services (some of them mimics industrial automation systems like SCADA), and the majority of these attacks are coming from China, followed by the US and then the Netherlands.
archive from when it was up: https://archive.ph/kmhqs
> Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels in many cases.

At 1pm when sun is shining. For the rest of the time you need to run backup ... on fossil fuels. This is the main reason why Germany is unlikely to decarbonize in a near future.
beliefs control acts.

otherwise you're <insert name of belief>, in name only.

mercy and justice are apprioriate outcomes for breaking the rules, not just 'yolo whatever i believe so everything is permitted'.
In the country applying export sanctions, what companies draw short-term benefits? Usually most commercial actors would rather be able to export anything anywhere.
I'm surprised how many people have issues with Turnstile. I've never had one, and I use GrapheneOS + VPN / Linux + VPN. All Firefox.
> I’ll also apologize if this post is a bit chaotic.

Loved this, didn’t find it chaotic at all.

Not sure if I missed it, but how are you planning on moving data from the old to the new storage? Do you have any concerns with corruption at that stage (validation)?
Yes, and? There is regulation around these materials. That's what regulation is for: to make amoral corporations cause less collateral damage. (Decent regulation can even, I hear, allow moral corporations to not be competed out of existence.)
Why would you think it'd be amazing? You can achieve vastly more acting openly than you can by acting secretly. The US overtly and openly rallying anti-government protesters, encouraging them to overthrow their government, right in front of said government, was just a ridiculous power play. It's going to not only help embolden the existing protesters, but bring every single person with an inkling of anti-government sentiment out of the wood work because "this might be it!" And well, it was "it."

The only reason the CIA exists (in terms of ops, and not intelligence) is for secrecy. The "problem" is that in Ukraine there's zero debate as to whether the democratic government was fairly elected - they were. And we, the country that runs around raving about the sanctity of democracy, were working to overthrow them. It's really not a good look, even less so when we started doing it openly (if only because now I can simply point to videos showing it clear as day), and one of the endless examples of how you create people like me.
BigDevSoon – Coding Projects with AI and Gamification
> I'd actually argue that despite all the downsides of paywalls, paywalls are at least in principle up front with what's happening. Incentives and costs are clear.

There are also working people behind the articles we read that have to put food on the table, how are they to be remunerated?
You'd think but you'd be wrong. Oracle isn't nearly as oppressive as people on the outside are desperate to believe.
This is nifty, but seems to lack to one thing that keeps me coming back to DEVONthink: a learning classifier.

With DT, say you’ve scanned or saved 20 docs to your inbox and you want to sort them to their long-term homes. DT will suggest folders based on how closely the new file matches the contents of those folders. It has the UI equivalent of “this looks like 2023 state taxes. Is it? This looks like kid #2’s school stuff. Is it? This looks like the older dog’s veterinarian records. Is it?”

That’s so, so nice.

Lately, as an experiment, I’ve been playing with organizing my docs with Johnny Decimal, then using the Hazel app to sort known docs with fixed structures (think bank statements and the like) into the right folders. My ScanSnap scanner’s software does OCR, so by the time docs land in the inbox folder, they’re ready for automated processing. It’s working pretty well so far, and I may stick with it.

But if I were to go back to an app, it would be DEVONthink or something with most of its features. That classifier is too darn nice, plus its smart rules, plus its scriptability, plus multi-device sync, plus Markdown notes with wiki links to stored docs, plus a thousand other niceties.
For YouTubers you are guilty until you prove innocent. It is funny that there are different rules for creators on platforms and platforms themselves. Imagine if google was not to be able to monetize anything until it proves innocence.
I believe though a significant part of our mind is very much like an LLM. Not all of it of course.
Any solution is a nice solution depending on your frame of reference. There is no such thing as objectively good or bad without defining the acceptable and unacceptable effects.
> Has it? In question here is Autopilot and not FSD Beta

Per Musk himself[1]: “The data is unequivocal that Autopilot is safer than human driving by a significant margin”

Also Musk famously overrepresented in a promotional video[2]

The worst part about this is that I think Elon genuinely believes that this is correct. And that is a huge problem that creates complacency. He is already benefitting from convincing some portion of the public of this view.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-19/elon-musk...
What are you implying by this comment?
> People on HN are smarter than me, and they all seem to hate bitcoin with passion, but I haven't yet understood why

"Hate" is a strong word, but I dislike Bitcoin because so much of its value doesn't come from utility, but from speculation. People rarely buy Bitcoin to actually use it, but instead because they hope/expect the price will go up. And that's what leads to cases like SBF.

> and understand that the dollar has no intrinsic value, either.

You need US dollars to pay US taxes and buy/sell into the world's largest consumer market. That's why there's a strong demand for dollars.