skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adrian Frutiger was a well-known type designer whose fonts were popular in the era being talked about. It makes sense but I agree that to me, this hyper-specificity and flexing of knowledge on specifics shows that it’s really about the person coining it wanting to plant their flag in the ground. To be ‘the person who coined that phrase everyone uses online’ and their justification for taking that role is “I know who Adrian Frutiger is.” It promotes the idea of singular figures defining (and policing) the definition of these terms rather than encouraging others to contribute and engage in a collective mess (which is how I prefer culture to operate.)
> Black American slaves did not earn wages.

Not usually, no.

>Their sentence was indefinite.

Or even infinite, as far as they were concerned.

>As soon as they stopped working, they were executed.

Whoa, hang on. I'm not a slavery apologist, but... are you sure? As in, routinely, not as a bizarre, rare event? Not events like lynchings, but just "well Old Tom here ain't producing anymore, time to string him up"?

I have read some of the work of actual slavery apologists, and one of the points often made is that laws prohibiting manumission of slaves were originally written in response to owners who would free their slaves when they were too old to do the work - and promptly dump them out with no money, no education, no place to live, and no skills beyond basic agricultural labor, to die. I could imagine that was an issue.

The wrongness of slavery is often talked about strictly in terms out of Uncle Tom's Cabin, though a point often made in early abolitionism was that the creation of an entire inheritable status of sub-citizens was evil in itself, regardless of how well or poorly the sub-citizens were treated. Also treated interestingly in Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker (which are not great books, but sure do give you some insight into Card's Mormonism), where the South remained royalist in the American Revolution. It certainly could have, if George III had better positioned his treatment of the colonies. The basic organization of the early South as an agricultural region centered on individual properties owned by some noble (who might or might not live there) and organized like medieval village life. Roads to get to neighbors were relatively unimportant, as water transport was the norm for both people and cargo. The entire coastal and tidewater area from the Sea Islands of Georgia to the Chesapeake worked like that, at least until colonists started trying to push past the limit of navigation (which made large plantations more difficult until you got south of the foothills of the Appalachians).
I'm aware. :)
Curious how much was spent on the migration? I skimmed but didn't see that number.

> Server Admins: When planning a transition to bare metal, many believe that hiring server administrators is a necessity. While their role is undeniably important, it’s worth noting that a substantial part of hardware maintenance is actually managed by the colocation facility. In the context of AWS, the expenses associated with employing AWS administrators often exceed those of Linux on-premises server administrators. This represents an additional cost-saving benefit when shifting to bare metal. With today’s servers being both efficient and reliable, the need for “management” has significantly decreased.

This feels like a "famous last words" moment. Next year there'll be 400k in "emergency Server Admin hire" budget allocated.
Ha, while I'd work for that salary, even half of it would almost double what I make as a sysadmin. I guess I work here for the mission. Plus I don't have to deal with cloud services except for when the external services go down. Our stuff keeps running though.
I would assume that include capital expenditure due to their ongoing need to launch new satellites.
I expect messages to disappear when I turn on disappearing messages and not when I don’t turn them on.

But yes, I agree it’s not the right choice for me and many others who want to have full ownership over our data, and they should make that clear in advance.
There actually are regular drug tests for professional chess.

The simple fact is that doing any kind of mindsport intensely over an extended period is very draining.
And carriage fees are not at all related to the cable companies refusal to adopt or accept OTT solutions. They could have still offered the same shit they offered coax but you know, over a web browser, without requiring you be on a home network from an ISP also your cable producer (Comcast), or on whatever device you want (Comcast, Charter) all to save the stupid extra box fees that they lost anyway.

People didn’t quit cable because of price. They did it because of price to perceived value. As has been shown with the current state of streaming services, it isn’t actually cheaper to cut the cord. But what you do get is a lot more flexibility.

Imagine if Comcast had offered its own YouTube TV style service in 2012 (something Intel tried to do in late 2013 before it was summarily canceled — I almost took a job on that team and dodged a bullet), rather than hoping against hope that cord cutting wouldn’t take off? You’d probably have a bunch of Comcast subscribers to this day who were satisfied that they could watch all their TV live and on demand whenever they wanted.
Commits tell a different story:

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/commit/8d8d8... (March 2023)

https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/commit/76c82a05cf82896... (August 2022)
There's several projects ongoing to store heat from district heating systems, for example in Västerås [1] and Linköping [2]

[1] https://www.malarenergi.se/om-malarenergi/framtidens-samhall...
[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/de-lagrar-varme-i-berg...
>Why are you trying to shame him here, where your post will be compost in a matter of hours, instead of opening an issue or two (phrased more diplomatically) in his github project, and post the link here?

the social effects on HN are stronger than Github issues; surely you must realize that.
Is this important?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-modular-reactors-nuscale
> NB possible "stochastic terrorism" not included; excess deaths due to fear of vaccination definitely not included.

Yeah, even counting official domestic terrorism deaths we're into much larger numbers.

But I get your perspective ... I guess I'm worried about the direction.
I’ve been tapping my foot ferociously since I was a kid and the most I’ve been “on” is caffeine. Lots of it, though, but the taping helps me even when I’m not drinking coffee.
I checked the source code in both projects and it seems that a fair amount of rework has happened already. They don’t really look alike beyond bits of structure and the basic layout.

This is exactly the intent of a MIT license. The only unfair aspect is that they seem to have removed the original license notice, which is a requirement.

Their project is MIT licensed too, so if you like what they’re doing you can play your Uno reverse card!
That's about senior-level compensation even among most companies in the Bay Area. Only the extreme outliers with good performance on the stock market can be said to be significantly higher in TC.

Edit: even then, TC is tied to how the stock market is doing, and not paid out by the company directly, so it only makes sense to compare with base wage plus benefits.
Hyundai is a top tier automaker. In the last decade they leapfrogged America manufacturers in build quality and are basically on par with Japanese manufacturers for quality. They caught a bad rap recently for the cheapness of their low end models and missing anti theft features but they were offering much more bang for your buck at the low end which is why they were popular
That's absolutely how they work if you bring a frivolous lawsuit you will end up with more trouble than you bargained for. There may be fines involved, you may have to pay the party that you sued, you may have to pay their costs for representation and so on.

A lawsuit that you lose is fine, one that is frivolous really isn't, in those cases even the attorneys may get sanctioned (by the judge, or, less commonly, by the bar to the point where if they keep it up they may end up being disbarred).
That's interesting! I wonder why the phone didn't automatically deregister when I disabled RCS, or why there wasn't at least an informative popup telling me this was necessary.
Yeah? Sounds pretty badass to me
The cost of a Costco membership is negligible compared to the cost of a car or even just the potential savings.
The English translation is basically very very sanitized. The Arabic original expression is just an explicit call for genocide.
This might work for some people, until Microsoft expands what you can't do with it, and/or introduces deliberate incompatibilities.
I would go with managed bare-metal, it's a step up from unmanaged bare metal cost wise but saves you on headaches from memory, storage, network, etc issues.
Especially given the low unemployment rate, laying somebody off seems quite risky, if it doesn’t work out you’ll have trouble hiring some replacement I guess.
Hopefully vendors start putting better fallback into their messaging clients when RCS isn't available.

It's been terrible for all the poor people I know who rarely have working data on their phones, but RCS enabled by default. They can't figure out why they're not sending or receiving any messages and I have to keep disabling it for them.
> But, does humanity really need an AI friend?

This reminds me of the Fredrick Pohl line "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

So I wonder what the traffic jam is going to look like given that the car seems to already be parked outside with the engine running.

Faster depopulation across the developed world? Probably, but maybe there's something even more important.

I'd put what the author describes into the category of "pleasure trip," which is what the car was mainly used for initially.

As infrastructure to support the car was built, it became a necessity. And that's what created the traffic jam: network effect. The suburb and the car fed on each other. You don't get a traffic jam worth talking about without a suburb and a network effect.

So I'm curious about the network effects something like an AI friend might have. What kinds of new infrastructure and new lifestyles will they enable/encourage? And how will this infrastructure fuel future demand?
I'm really a fan of Bertrand Russell, but this essay demonstrates a very common rebuke of life without an invisible guy in outerspace.

> How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as Man preserve his aspirations untarnished?

How did the idea that life has a "purpose" ever get started in the first place?

What a self-centered view of reality.

Maybe, if we just put into perspective the outrageous improbability of our existence in the first place, we'd be happy to just be here.

Not whining about "oh, the sun will burn out in 10B years and life will be over, like it never existed".

No wonder our violent primate species is so determined to wipe ourselves out before that happens? 8-)

Personally, I'm a big fan of suicide. Anyone who can't appreciate their existence here really should just off themselves. There are WAY too many monkeys anyway...
I suppose it isn't, but I bristle when I see someone tossing around statements like "close enough doesn't really exist". In my experience when statements like that start up, there are people involved that don't understand variation is a part of every real process. My point is that if you're going to get into safety critical systems, there is always going to be some amount of variation, and there is always a "close enough", as there is never an "exact" in real systems.
The bar for not getting dismissed is massively low.
If you want to increase your security, generate a random string for the "account" name.

If you are using a password manager, then this shouldn't be too difficult.

It can be a hassle when registering for something in person, though.
Hopefully the final push that I need to give up video games (or at least explore the options around running them on Linux more closely) and move to Linux on the desktop full time rather than just running it in WSL.
commits can be overwritten, what is actually reliable here is GitHub's "event stream"
Using both Hetzner and OVH for years and not a single problem be it technical or administrative. Does not men it never happens but this is just my experience
I got koboldcpp (https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp) running locally on my M1 mac with 16gb. Use the guides on http://4chan.org/g/ in the AI Chatbot Thread.

In the future, you will own and control access to your very own AI girlfriend running on your local machine, and you will be happy.

Think of all the millions of guys in China and elsewhere who, due to sex selective abortion, will never have a wife. They deserve to have their own Waifu running on their own computer that serves them alone, and not the interests of the state or some corporation.
It depends. Raising those neurotransmitters (dopamine > norepinephrine > serotonin) is a matter of balance.

If a person already has good levels and healthy receptors, and they suddenly raise them too much, it just makes people obsessive and actually not focus well on the important task at hand.

It's a double-edged sword, always with warnings and side-effects.
The last three vehicles I've bought, from three different Toyota dealerships, the options, color, etc. were negotiated completely over email, no phone calls or physical dealership visit. I always pay cash and I never trade in. At the end of the process, which wasn't excruciating, I asked for and received, in each case, a price fixed to the penny. In each case I quite brutally asserted, multiple times for each purchase, that if the price was even 1 penny more than the agreed on price stated in email, I was going to walk, even though I had to drive at least 100 miles in two cases. When I sat down at the dealer, I reasserted my guarantee that if the price was even 1 penny more, I was going to walk.

We still had to sit through videos and the standard sales pitches for the undercoat, etc. Can I shout now? Lasting an hour. For the last Prius they said well this particular vehicle has an optional security registration or some such that is installed in the car. I said remove it. Maybe two minutes of harrumphing about how I am exposing myself and I got quite acidic actually. Well whatever they actually did the price I wrote a check for was exactly what we had agreed to over email.

Now I don't actually care if what you like to do in your non-work time is to sit through car dealership sales pitches for nonsensical stuff, but I don't. And I want the option not to have to burn my time for this. It really is a wonder how normalized for many people it is to feel how pleasant it can be to sit through add on advertising while doing some sort of necessary activity where at the conclusion I'm going to write a check for tens of thousands of dollars. They're so helpful! Rather than what it is, which is time theft, condescendingly done.
Also being an uptime site surprised they didn't use the m7g instance type.

Would've saved another ~30% for minimal difference in performance.

For me this doesn't look like a sensible move especially since with AWS EKS you have a managed, highly-available, multi-AZ control plane.
I’m sure if the stack is simple enough it’s non trivial for most senior plus engineers to figure out the infrastructure.

I’ve definitely seen a lot of over engineered solutions in the chase of some ideals or promotions.
It's particularly terrifying when you think about how Facebook and others probably already have projects in the works to befriend children with AI. little kids who don't know the difference will become Weaponized with constant nudges towards whatever motives grant the corporate owners more power. The ability to persuade children is near infinite and we can observe in those who've grown up in cults/strict religious compounds that breaking that programming can be nearly impossible and leaves scars for the rest of your life.

The thing is, how do we outlaw this without also preventing children from using AI to learn at a faster rate than their teachers can give them. There's such incredible, paradigm shifting power for good. But you know the people who've made the evils of today are already working on the evils of tomorrow.
Only if you have ADHD.

If you don't, it's negatively impacting mental performance - but it's really good at helping you to deliver slightly subpar performance for grossly extended periods of time. (Common uses: Crisis situations where you cannot step away. Cramming for exams)

I suppose you could call this a different form of concentration, but AIUI it's more energy than concentration.
I remember fondly learning from tutorials how to make "glossy" buttons. The trick was to have gradients running against each other, with a sharp line in the middle. Now that I think about it, this aesthetic started already with MacOS X and Aqua. Everybody wanted to have the "liquid" style. MS only adopted it with Vista - XP's Luna was famously matte plastic "fisher price" style.
I’m including overhead in that number. FWIW I know many ICs earning over double that number, not even including overhead.
I had an out of touch cofounder a few years back, he had asked me why the coworking space’s hours were the way they were, before interjecting that companies were probably managing their servers up there at the those later hours

like, talk about decades removed! no, nobody has their servers in the coworking space anymore sir.

nice to see people attempting a holistic solution to hosting though. with containerization redeploying anywhere on anything shouldn't be hard.
Microsoft support 'cracks' Windows for customer after activation fails
I have held off donating to signal so far exactly because there is no clarity around this token, why it was even added to signal and who profited from that.
This is a great resource to learn more about the history of nuclear power

https://gordianknotbook.com/
A lot of people I know can't afford a data plan for their phones, so when RCS becomes enabled it just bounces all their incoming/outgoing messages and it is sometimes days or weeks before they realize.
Indeed. And it does of course needs to be offset to the cost of living.
>"This fiction remains that AWS requires no specialist expertise.
And your own computers require expertise so expensive and frightening that no sane company would host their own computers."

Each of these statements is utter BS

PS. Oopsy I just read their third paragraph ;)
I didn't say seL4 introduced capabilities. However, to my knowledge, seL4 was the first kernel to show that pervasive usage of capabilities is both feasible and beneficial.
Now THIS is something I can get behind. I'll have to experiment with this a bit, it looks pretty good.
> This is a toy project
That looks a lot like Aqua-era Mac OS X with a different skin

edit: clarity
Excellent news for those of us with resting bradycardia.
It's not a very good question: they still have aws compatibility as their fail over/backup (should be live but that's another matter...)

What's capex vs opex now? Thats 150k of depreciable assets, probably ones that will be available for use long after all the current staff depart.

Everyone forgets what WhatsApp did with few engineers and less hardware, there's probably more than enough room for them to grow, and they have space to increase capacity.

The cloud has a place, but candidly so does a Datacenter and ownership.
Brain requires 12x the amount of oxygen per cell as a muscle does. Brain is most expensive organ in body.
Probably not much at all. Thankfully they didn't shove it down user's throats - its kinda hidden behind a setting.
I guess if they did push it harder to users it may have generated more revenue, at the cost of users who won't put up with cryptocurrency rubbish.
Nuclear power "only" accounts for 29% of total production. Wind and especially offshore wind has huge potential to expand, but the government has taken an obstructionist stance towards that mode of power production. It doesn't make sense cutting wind subsidies amounting to a few billion while guaranteeing 400 billion to nuclear investments.
We need the energy in 15 years as well, maybe even more than we do today.

Renewables is just a fancy term for "energy whenever the sun shines or the wind blows". This is factually not always the case. We need energy that is available regardless. And that's where fossil fuel and nuclear excels. Fossil fuel's downside that it kills ~3 million people per year. Nuclear's downside that it scares (not kills) ~3 million people per year.
Wait, what? US as in the United States? That's simply not true. Even if we disregard that "legality in the US" is at best a moving target considering that federalism creates jurisdictional differences as a feature and therefore there are few things that are entirely outlawed in the US across the board everywhere, but considering that the most efficacious painkillers are also the most controlled, while deliriants that, prior to processing, extraction of active ingredients, and pairing with other psychoactive substances at minute doses, have little health benefits but great potential to create harm (thinking of belladonna and datura as a start), are legal to grow and aren't even subject to scheduling. Criminalization's link to health is effectively ret-conned and a poor ret-con at that. What turned Laudanum from something acceptable to give to babies to something of a moral hazard far worse than a health hazard was the same rationale that turned a nation of with no provision for immigration controls for the first hundred years of its existence into one where entire ethnicities, nationalities, and places of origin served as the basis for exclusion and continues to do so under the thinnest of guises: moral panics based in racism and perpetuated by those empowered and enriched via the propagation of such policies.

Lying about efficacy will do nothing but only bolster what was never a legitimate rationale to begin with. This is a country that failed to learn lessons from prohibition, that managed to kept the Mann Act on the books even though the legislative intent - that of the fear over 'miscegenation' was hardly a secret, a country where congress never bothered to even get rid of the chapter in the US Code that contained the Chinese Exclusion Act and therefore leaving the ugly legacy plain to see for all. Why lie about your cause when the truth that undergirds the reality is far uglier and far more disconcerting to begin with? And of course, for once, Oscar Wilde was wrong and the truth may not be pure but certainly simple: prohibitionist policies began in racism and are sustained by moral panics while protected by the state agencies that now benefit financially from its existence. All this has a paper trail, both online and in print, in the federal register, in the US Code, in congressional records and archives. If that's not enough to justify resistance, your real reasoning will still be more persuasive than having to make up something to justify a position against a line of thinking that has goalposts with wheels built in from the start.