skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AV Herald article is also enlightening (hah)

https://avherald.com/h?article=50faa50b&opt=0
> have supplies for more than the population of Salt Lake City underground

Just to clarify, individual households will keep months of supplies which are often stored in the basement.
I felt the exact same. The mounting pain, seemingly leading up to needing to take extended medical leave, the feeling of helplessness where interacting with computers in any capacity was excruciating, and feeling... just utterly useless was terrible. Everything I do/am felt like it involved my hands. Talon took me out of that. It was difficult to learn while in pain (if anyone reading this has the spare cycles, I highly suggest learning before you need it), but it entirely freed me from that downward spiral. It's a kind of security that (temporary) health can't quite match – knowing that the accomodations for disability are there, and are really good. Being abled is a temporary state. (For example, I lose the use of my hands while I'm eating!)

There was a book I can't recall the name of, in which one of the characters (a human) is stranded on an alien planet. He agrees to a certain type of relationship with his alien benefactor, but doesn't understand the cultural implications of what he's agreeing to. His fingers are lengthened through a medical procedure, so long that he can't hold anything, can't work, can't ever exist on his own again – he exists now only as a thing of beauty, a token for the alien to show off. He spends his days in what I picture as a courtyard in a roman villa, to be shown off to guests. This confers social status on his owner because of the resources it takes to keep a helpless sapient being fed, clothed, and happy. (The last one is debatable.) It is seen as one of the most intimate types of relationships in this culture. I think about this a lot.
Sure but I rented a moving truck just fine - https://www.vanrentals.ie/.
Doesn't this sub-thread conflate intelligence with knowledge?
I hear that the M6 is likely to be the most powerful chip they’ve ever produced.
> The solution: create your own toolchain

No thanks. I have an actual job & customer needs to tend to. I am about 80% of the way through integrating with the OAI assistant API.

The real secret is to already have a viable business that AI can subsequently improve. Making AI the business is a joke of a model to me. You'd have an easier time pitching javascript frameworks in our shop.

Our current application of AI is a 1:1 mapping between an OAI assistant thread and the comment chain for a given GitHub issue. In this context of use, latency is absolutely not a problem. We can spend 10 minutes looking for an answer and it would still feel entirely natural from the perspective of our employees and customers.
I wouldn't say this with such broad strokes. I agree with your general sentiment that it would be better if we had 2.1 globally compared to the current situation. But many countries in Asia are bellow 2.1. Examples include Russia, China, Korea and Japan.
Let's finish the quote.

> the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community.

It doesn't strike me as crazy that a guy who was hanging out with Gödel and von Neumann all day [0] might think this way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Resident_schol...
I don't! I just saw that both were on sale, and DK2 was the one I grew up playing, so, I thought I'd give both a mention.
Yeah, I was being glib and dismissive if we get right down to it. I did roll my eyes at the article, imagining how a lot of people I know would react to it. But, I appreciate someone making a spirited, essentially rational attempt at laying out a case.
> but you don't need to lick the company boot while you're at it.

That’s hostile. It’s obnoxious as suggesting a difference of opinion is “Stockholm syndrome”. It the same as saying “I’m not being rude, but you’re an idiot”. Yeah, you’re being rude.
If you already have the gear, no need to not use it.
> Mac laptops' screens are ultra brittle

I'd be careful extending one anecdotal experience to an entire class of computers.

Given how much scrutiny Apple goes under, for example the heat-gate fiasco on new iPhones and the many other "gate" events they have endured, I think that if this was widespread we would have heard about it.

There were 26,000,000 macbooks and macs sold in 2022. You are using a sample size n=1 to extend to 26 million devices.

In my anecdotal experience. I have never had a screen die on me or known someone who has had it happen. My family all has macbooks and I have had them for ~15 years. I've purchased about 5 personally over that time, averaging about 3 years per device. I have owned 4 additional macbooks through company device programs. I have watched ~30ish macbooks go through the hands of various family members over the same time period. I have never seen a screen just die randomly. My sister is terribly rough on computers and phones and she destroys computers but has started buying Macbooks because they are the only ones that last with her. So she has an opposite experience.

That's not to say it doesn't happen. It is a tech product. I am sure it happened to you and has happened to others. But it isn't common. As ubiquitous as macbooks are, Apple would be under a lot of scrutiny if this happened to even 1% of their devices.
Concerns about increasing anabolic steroid use among amateur athletes
Great tips. I tried to do this with SVG icons in https://unstock.ai before a lot of people started creating text-to-vector solutions. You also have to keep evolving!
> most car USB ports are slow charging

TBH, in this day and age where it's difficult to replace batteries when they wear out, I strongly prefer slow-charging over fast-charging. Fast-charging wears out the batteries more quickly.
I'd say it would be impossible to fully know about every human on earth even if there were like 10,000 people total. The human brain has a certain capacity for maintaining relations, and once you cross the size of a small community/village it's basically all the same.

Are you really any more isolated from 8 billion people than you were from 7 billion?
TBF, is this not a result of being in competition with TikTok and Snap? I don't do social media but when I read about this issue I tend to think of those platforms first.

https://nowthisnews.com/news/tiktoks-bold-glamour-filter-fea...

My understanding is because of things like this Facebook and Instagram were losing interest in the teen market (ie. 'legacy' social media), so it doesn't surprise me that they decided to incorporate similar functionality.

I'm not saying Zuck is a saint here, but this is more of an issue with social media being a corrosive force in general... the modern version of big tobacco in a way.
Refer to the refresh rate on your screen and make it even slower. There is a such thing as candle meditation, so the flickering not always regarded as bad. It'll definitely tire your eyes due to them fatiguing, Ikea makes LED candles if you're interested and anudril firmware flashlights have candle mode too.
1. Used in on my desktop for approx 8 years but migrated away a year or two back when I ran into one too many things that doesn't work well for desktop experience. Now it's only running on my nas.

2. I still use it on my nas because I'm familiar with it, has good documentation and very stable, and first class zfs support.

3. OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD both look quite fun to mess with but not the greatest desktop experiences, so that's why I always used FreeBSD in the past. Now I keep using it because familiarity and I know it will do what I need for my nas (mainly serving files and virtualization).

4. The desktop experience. It's doable if you're willing to give up some features and spend a bunch of time configuring some other ones but I've got other stuff to do these days.

5. Mainly I'd miss the first class zfs support.
> Alternatively, they’re selling their product with an ad-supported tier.

This action is explicitly about responding to EU GDPR regulations by trying to claim that people who decline a subscription are freely giving consent to the processing which the subscription would stop. From the official rulings which have so far been made about other companies by a few DPAs, it’s highly doubtful that the prohibitively high price for this tier will qualify as a viable enough alternative to the no-fee option to treat people’s consent to the processing as freely given.

> This is annoying.

This is Meta engaging in outright dishonest subterfuge, because the law with which they’re trying to fake compliance through this subscription option is not limited to advertising in any way.

> Also, the overlap of people who would pay for privacy and are on Facebook is small.

Not in my estimation. Too many professional and social circumstances in too many countries require using Facebook, Instagram, and/or especially WhatsApp for most people to avoid them completely.

For those of us (including me) who have never so far signed up with them, there’s another problem: they don’t provide a way for me to exercise my GDPR rights without being a subscriber, even though I strongly expect that they control and process much data about me uploaded by friends and family who are their users, and by Facebook tracking on other sites. (For those HN readers who realize that I’m American: I currently reside in and am located in Germany, so yes I have GDPR rights.)
Oh hey, I'm credited in the article! However, that rustrepo website you linked is a really bad mirror of the actual GitHub repo: https://github.com/LoganDark/stackblur-iter

Please fix :)

AMA
Do these replacements for Entity Framework Core offer first class support for Migrations, or temporal tables...

Many of EF Core replacements do a handful of things well. And after that, it is a cliff.

And now point me to a graphql server that is as feature rich and performant as Hot Chocolate.

Simpler applications will not have complex needs that require feature rich libraries. But, beyond a certain level of complexity, you are on your own. And large orgs do create their own tooling and libraries. But, smaller orgs probably should stick to languages that offer large number of libraries to handle a vast number of problems. Anything else would be putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage.
US Air Force's new B-21 Raider "flying wing" bomber takes first flight
Not simply fusion power: exploding small fusion or fission bombs. I think some difficulties are to be expected with such a plan.
> "One way we explored approaching this was using puppeteer to automate opening websites in a web browser, taking a screenshot of the site, and traversing the HTML to find the img tags.

> We then used the location of the images as the output data and the screenshot of the webpage as the input data. And now we have exactly what we need — a source image and coordinates of where all the sub-images are to train this AI model."

I don't quite understand this part. How does this lead to a model that can generate code from a UI?
There is no way leds can give as natural lights as a glowing wire of Wolfram? I am still missing the glow of real light bulbs. The leds gotten better but they still look fake.
Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
Thanks for your reply. I'm curious to know if your views have changed in the years/decade(s) since. (I'm asking specifically because there appear to be a few logical flaws in some of the arguments in one of your blog posts from 2009, at the risk of going significantly off topic for this HN thread)
Apparently by a somewhat more objective measurement, the following emerge as most corrupt (ordered alphabetical, no relative sorting):

- Alabama
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- New York

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ranking-the-states-from...

Although problematically, most are measured as having strong anti-corruption laws, which would likely increase the number of convictions and journalist coverage of corruption (thus, stronger laws = more visible corruption).

Here's probably a more objective number: https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/Co... from https://pols.uic.edu/chicago-politics/anti-corruption-report...

Which produces this ordering per capita: (federal convictions only, in decreasing order, ignoring DC)

1. Louisiana
2. Illinois
3. Tennessee
4. New York
5. Pennsylvania
6. Virginia
7. Ohio
8. New Jersey
9. Georgia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/02/19/the-mo...
For the most part things these days are all "stuff on your screen is stuff running on your computer" or "stuff in this window is stuff running on that computer"

There are definitely ways of "this program/window is on that computer / that program/window is that computer" but getting to that point requires some effort, rather than it just being "the way everything works"

With windows, or macos, or even X on linux, the vast majority of things displayed on your screen are on the computer that's within 3 feet of you, other than if you're running a "remote desktop protocol" sort of session.
It is amazing how much internet bandwidth is wasted by stories like this... Expecting anything less that big tech favoring profits over EVERYTHING else is like expecting Sun not to rise tomorrow.

Yet somehow each of these stories always goes viral and everyone seems "stunned" like "how can this amazing human Zuck (the worst scum of the Earth as most other big tech CEOs are) do this!?? So surprising given his impeccable record as a decent human being who cares about the well-being of our children..."!!
Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable
> Why does the Navy not build 3 smaller modules and get even better scaling?

That's a good point.

Actually the Navy does build such smaller modules. The Navy uses 2 types of naval reactors, one for Virginia-class submarines, the S9G, which is very close to one NuScale module, and one for Ford-class carriers, the A1B, about 3 times larger.

Each Ford-class carrier uses 2 A1B reactors. Why not 6 S9G? I don't know. But then why not a single reactor twice as large as an A1B? I don't know either. It looks like there are some tradeoffs.

In any case, the fact that the Navy can build economically SMR-sized reactors is encouraging. Of course, the Navy can use technologies that are not available on the civilian market, for example their reactors use weapon-grade uranium. So it's not completely an apples-and-apples comparison.

Still, NuScale has produced more than one million pages of documentation to get their SMR design approved by the NRC. One can imagine they also put a lot of thinking in the economic viability of the project. One way or another they convinced a large engineering, procurement and construction company (Fluor Corp) to buy them.
How does it compare to Dungeons 4?
Ice age and retreating glaciers created holes. And those holes filled up by the melt water of the glaciers.

The fact that they are still full of water is due to them being replenished by precipitation more than they lose water. If they would lose more water then what flows into them we would be speaking about the "land of many bone dry holes" in the famous Finnish desert.
This discussion is a bit like the dropbox/rsync comment, M1 was a huge leap for the users, I am yet to see anyone upgrading to M1 and not amazed around me. It was a technological huge leap or not is not the important part here in my opinion.
Well, with Coreboot, you at least know the very first instructions executed by the x86 cores are under your control. That's all it can really do. Whatever else lurks beneath is really impossible for anyone to scrutinize without insane capital or insider knowledge.

Mitigating the risk of Intel ME is obviously something that is complicated. The "state of the art" so-to-speak is really just rendering it non-functional. This isn't strictly related to Coreboot; that said, Coreboot has a page about ME:

https://www.coreboot.org/Intel_Management_Engine

And in general, when you're running Coreboot, you're running significantly less privileged blackbox blobs (possibly none in some rare cases), and in general, the surface area of Coreboot is going to be dramatically tinier than any typical UEFI system firmware. So it's absolutely worth it in that regard.

There's never going to be a "perfect" option here with how complex things have gotten, but I think that you can at least say that Mullvad has taken almost any reasonable step, and perhaps a few steps that are beyond what many would consider reasonable, towards developing effective mitigation of the risks of rootkits, bootkits and malicious/unwanted vendor code running on their "diskless" architecture.

Of course, you still have to trust Mullvad. Trust is definitely a meaty human-y experience, and the cold rational part of our brain craves some kind of technically-bulletproof way to prove that it's truly safe, secure, and private, but that's just not possible. Best you can do is layer enough assurances on top of each-other in a way that at least some layers are completely independent of others for maintaining your operational security. Far easier said than done, and obviously how rigorously one approaches this will vary on paranoia.

At some point you have to pick your middle-ground I suppose.
People too young to know life before Google can probably not comprehend how deeply uninformed we were before Larry & Sergey made knowledge searchable.
It's a really vague ask and the article doesn't explain the specifics of what constitutes "plastic surgery filters." Are you no longer allowed to have pics with those Snapchat-esque glowing faces or big eyes? Is the detection system able to differentiate between a filter and actual plastic surgery? It's also a bit of a can of worms if Meta no longer allows certain modifications to images of people on its platform "for the sake of the children."

Let's not pretend like young people chasing sex and beauty is some brand new concept only concocted in the last 15 years by the evil developers at Facebook.
Any worse than the multiple crisis's we've already had ?
People understand that Apple just uses Pro to mean “better than the not pro version”.

We’ve had AirPods Pro and the iPhone Pro for years now, the days of the word pro meaning “for professionals” are long gone.
UBI. Tax the rich.

I'd vote to create a 10-50% tax on the morbidly rich, to be paid back to everyone in the world as UBI. 10% is the tithing rate, something that people understand. 50% represents civic duty, a moral responsibility to acknowledge society's role in maintaining the infrastructure that allows wealth creation. Or we could just tax them 100% for a while and.. nothing bad would happen. Which is hilariously tragic.

Of course billionaires want to pay 0% and fund effective altruism projects personally. That makes a big assumption though, that the rich know what needs to be fixed better than the poor. Which is nonsense from both religious and secular standpoints. Religious because all have equal dignity as conscious living beings. Secular because money is an arbitrary measure of fitness.

Billionaires are like children with little or no life experience outside of wealth acquisition. They're ultimate expressions of ego, with all soul stripped away, vying to become the emperor on Star Wars to live forever as the devil's right hand man. To put it lightly.

The opposite of a billionaire looks like Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Howard Zinn, John Lennon, Marianne Williamson, the list is long. Combatting billionaires outwardly like bullies is difficult. But combatting them inwardly by shifting our consciousness towards peace is viable.

Which looks like wokeism, progressism, leftism, socialism, communism, humanism, animism, pantheism, entertaining the idea of reincarnation.. all the bad words that billionaires hate on and spread sentiment against through propaganda. Again the list is long. But if we care about preventing the human race from being subjugated under the yoke of tech tyranny, they are good places to start.

There are meta levels to that. For example, Martin Luther King Jr advocated for labor as much as racial equality. Feminism defends human rights as well as gender equality. All the stuff they don't teach in schools is exactly the understanding needed to defeat the status quo.

I still hope that we find a way to transcend this suffering, even though I've seen no evidence of that happening so far in my lifetime. Sometimes I wonder if this is the revolution that will not be televised.

Like what would it take to really organize and roll out something like UBI through existing infrastructure, with philosophies borrowed from stuff like open source? And what force will the powers that be use to suppress that on all fronts? Once we view that world through that lens, the oppression becomes obvious and unmistakable as we watch all the capital in the world get siphoned into the corporate black holes of billionaires, so that it can't be used to, I dunno, give everyone all the food they need.

I wish I had the answers, but I have to get back to work to afford the crumbs of my existence.
Science fiction authors paint with a future-colored brush but every sci-fi work I've read or watched has been a reflection of the present. Consider steampunk where they change the palette to writing about a fictional past, but the themes and style remain the same.

The fiction writers didn't create the Torment Nexus. It's been here the whole time and TFA is blaming the child who told us the Emperor has no clothes.
My kid spilled some coffee on her 16G/512G M1. That killed it for all intents and purposes. Even Rossman repair was like "its going to cost more to fix than it's worth" although I wasn't there for the conversation so I don't know what all was damaged, but if they can't fix it, I probably can't either.

I'ved spilled a lot of things on my keyboards in the past, even killed one or two on laptops that way. In the past it was a few screws and the keyboard could be removed from the top panel and swapped, rarely was the replacement keyboard more than $50. Even recently on some cheap acer with the keyboard glued to the top of the case the entire case+keyboard was like $20 used from ebay.

So, macs = throwaway for me these days.
I loved this game when I was a teenager. A shame they made that money grab mobile version with predatory monetization. (It failed).
Yes. It focuses on the "evidence unsealed" instead.