skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm simply stating the fact that just because food production happens outside of cities doesn't mean that most people in rural areas live there for that particular reason. It's a very common counter-argument, that cities need the countryside for food production. Which is true. But cities don't need the vast majority of people living in rural areas for food production, because they have nothing to do with food production in the first place. So it's a bad argument.

As to the other strawman arguments, it's besides my original point, but no I don't think we should forcefully move anyone. But it's just a simple fact that rural living and suburbia are heavily subsidized by the economic engines that are cities. And, accounting for economic production, cities have a much smaller environmental impact per capita.
It'd require sensible regulation, so the Republicans simply won't stand for it, and it's not one of the Democrats' main issues, so they couldn't be bothered.
The Piccadilly line is known as The Tandoor in some parts of London, hopefully no more!
Ah, makes sense. That is a real issue for Linux and how distros will handle that. Besides cutting 32 bit userland support.
Space is not legal at the HTTP request level, because the opening line uses space as a delimiter like:

GET /your/path-to/the.file HTTP/1.1
HN has no tagging feature.
I don't think that Microsoft would create an AI that does that. That's what I mean when I say we (the world) know how to build these AIs now. How would you prevent a world of people from creating unethical AIs? It's only a matter of time.
Isn't this the whole idea with Mixture Of Experts approach that is GPT-4 is using?
Netflix should hire whoever is writing the script for this drama. It's gripping!
Realistically, this treatment is not going to be available in places with a high prevalence of malaria for a long time, so I don't think this is too much of a concern.
Does anyone know how many users a single Mac Mini handles? While I admire the hacker mindset, this solution seems incredibly wasteful so I am curious of its carbon footprint.
Also leaning in the personal direction. The only Meta product I use is WhatsApp (bad telecom services) and status updates from your contacts is interesting enough because you know everyone.

Focused and text based platforms like Reddit’s subreddit and HN are also nice as long as you have moderation that keeps things civil. And no user specific algorithm.
What is a Board of Directors For? [video]
Talk by Mike Olson from Monktoberfest 2023. Article version of the talk: https://www.olsons.net/entrepreneurship/what-is-a-board-for
Ask HN: Where can an HS student find work in tech?
Hi HN!

I'm a 17 year old high school junior, graduating a year early (Spring 2024).

Due to some complications with college credit and scholarships, my schedule's going to be empty over the spring semester and summer (Jan-July), leaving me able to work a full time job.
Where could I find a company that would hire a 17 year old to do tech or tech-adjacent work?
Cory's blog posts are great, even when they're shredded into Twitter threads.

Cory's image spam is crappy, barely edible pizza.
> I flew with this 2 years ago

You sure? C919 didn't start commercial flights until this year (2023)
The concrete forest: Bears, boars and more head to the cities
More like 2650
Maybe some links please? I also don't want to share a fabricated story.
> internet before we had cryptography?

I’m sorry what? The internet has been clear text for the most part.
Video content from SAINTCON 2023 is now available [video]
Um, are we just skipping past the whole colonialist era and straight into some sort of enlightened modern age? Even then, Russia's European too.

China's had a rough and tumble history, to be sure, but they didn't try to take over the whole world. Just Tibet and Hong Kong so far, maybe Taiwan someday.

I think their ambitions are different, and so are their ethical frameworks. The CCP isn't a governing body I admire, but their people and culture have a very long history of collectivism and Confucianism. The flip side of Han supremacy and cultural erasure is national unity and civil harmony, their version of manifest destiny I guess, with an emphasis on assimilation.

I envision a Great Chinese AI to be in line with the firewall, ostensibly (and mostly) uses to promote harmony via strict control, rather than conquest. Maybe more Borg than Skynet?
While this assignment is clearly lacking, the answers on the Reddit thread sound a lot like straight from the CIA sabotage handbook [1].

I would take this as an opportunity to shine.

Grab someone from marketing to think about minimal content. Whip out your CMS with a decent template to set up a minimal solution. Work with marketing to fill the template. Voila.

Obviously, this only delivers a quick product description site with limited interaction. But often, all that’s needed is something that people can play with and extend later on.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
Yes, totally fair to say they painted as a casual firing and this seems pretty irresponsible without some misbehavior, or new/re-emerging concerns about his past.
> Honestly there is something deeply shameful about tech workers finally organizing, uniting together in one voice, and using that voice to defend Sam Altman of all people.

They saw the money on the horizon and that changed everything.
Is it possible to get good performance in computation when encoding the data this way, or is there a lot of cycles lost to packing and unpacking these bits?
Does apple reslly replace the battery, or do they transfer your OS to a refurb and give you that? I'm very wary of apple repairs.
No. Because there is no difference who makes an interior or motors or battery anymore. There is no real difference in BYD dolphin, Kia eNiro and VW ID.3. Except price maybe. Internal combustion engine was once the differentiator. And it’s gone.
80%80% would be 0.80.8 which is 0.64 -> 64%
I think it's more a case of enshitification.

The first LEDs I got were metal bodied.

One of them has gone in the past 10 years. So they must be around that lower bound by now.

Tbf I don't think subsequent ones have been too bad.

Re your TV.
Ok your TV might be, my TV isn't, and I have plenty of other remotes, and then there's clocks and weighing scales and kids toys and all the other things that use aa batteries.
Xamarin for iOS and Android just works…

Maui on the other hand is a turd. It’s such a pain to work with, workloads just plain suck. And if you install . Net 7 and your project targets 6, It will download .net 7 workloads and fail to build. Then 8 comes out and same problem. Have to pin the SDK.
It may well have, but that doesn't mean the backlash was reasonable.
I'd forgotten, I _do_ have a shortcut that runs late at night to turn off WiFi and enable low-power mode. I've had it for some time now and not thought about it. Another shortcut runs in the early morning to turn the WiFi on and disable low-power mode.

I didn't keep a great log of how the battery handled before that, but it does seem like I have to charge it less than I used to.

I only force close apps when they're clearly stuck.
If you are using the prometheus exporter, you can use the transform processor to get specific resource attributes into metric labels.

With the advantage that you get only the specific attributes you want, thus avoiding a cardinality explosion.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
Isn't MoE with switch transformers massively inefficiemt compared to being able to customize which LLMs you are using?

I've seen a lot of agent swarm concepts in the smaller llm space that seem to provide some feedback that this is a viable avenue of research.
This just reinforces something I've been thinking for a while. When you look people at the top in medium to large companies, you'd think that they are extremely qualified and got there through merit alone. Although this is certainly true in many cases, it's probably not the case most of the time - a combination of luck and contacts often boost people to places they have no business being.

In general, people in high places can just surf the waves and go with the flow in collecting cash and not really make that much difference, relying on the other people closer to the work (engineers and frontline managers). But when making the right decisions can decide the fate of a company, you then see who's supposed to be there and who isn't.
Thanks for the reco!
'unduly concentrate power'
Amazon aggregator Thrasio prepares for bankruptcy
" 100 % " is a matter of definition. It's planned obsolescence, simply put. What is generally agreed upon as " 100 % " is the voltage that makes the capacity drop to ~ 80 % after 300~350 full charge cycles. This means your device battery is at end-of-life after a full year of daily full charge cycles. Why we've defined it as such, I don't know. If we wanted our batteries to live longer we could simply change the definition of " 100 % " indicate 600 full charge cycles. In practice it would mean something like dropping the peak capacity voltage from 4.20 Volts to 4.10 Volts.
Lithium is abundant, as are other "rare earths" (they are not rare), but the problem is that they are quite scattered and to extract them nowadays requires to process very large areas of land through chemical reactions (additives and evaporation).
Observability is a good engineering practice. Sentry is invaluable to get app crashes in prod, and I wouldn't want any PM deciding whether we set up sentry or not. The real issue is the lack of control of what is logged and what logs go to sentry
I had 3rd-degree arthritis in my knee that I developed after 4 surgeries due to a football(soccer) injury.

4 years ago I could only walk with crouches due to pain.

Last month I competed in 2 half-marathons.

I was able to get much much better by doing a lot of PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injections over past years and a single SVF (stromal vascular fraction) injection 1.5 years ago.

My MRI shows that cartilage has grown back significantly (not fully, but I no longer have a gaping hole in it).
Why is it a problem? Article is not answer this question.

I see benefits. Less burned wood and gas for warming indoors and less frozen people.
Module resolution "bundler".

ts-node --esm --swc

Haven't really had any issues with this in a long time.
Idaho National Laboratory experiences data breach
or: `tsc --build --watch` and then just have another terminal to run.
This is just an idea...but if you accept BTC and other forms of payment, this means you are now able to laundry some payments on the back of other legit ones. As said, just an idea, i have no knowledge of how money laundering works
Engineering the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor [video]
Of all the things TFL could do to improve the tube, cell service would not even be close to top of my list. We've had WiFi on the platforms for about 10 years which is enough to send/receive whatsapp messages while the train is stopped.

I'm not sure it's fair to dig out TFL for being backwards. They introduced the Oyster in 2003, something NYC didn't get until 2019.
Project managers are often confused for product managers
I think what's missing is that squatters and other bad actors are going to attack the distributed name system, too. It should be somehow resilient, and ideally resistant, against deliberate misuse by powerful parties. For instance, DoS attacks that pollute the namespace and could make the distributed naming service too slow or resource-intensive will necessarily be mounted.

This is one place where a significant proof of work, along the lines of Namecoin or handshake.org, would make sense. (Another place is password hashing, for example.)
New Meta Tools for Research
If they try to keep the same pace of LLM advancement to preserve a high valuation, they might fail - LLM training costs skyrocket and it will get harder and harder to get the data. The CEO announcing a slow-down could likely be a strategy not to spook investors.
The issue is that a major point of this upgrade was defeated as the article slightly mentions, but doesn't dwell on it: the signalling upgrade that the line sorely needs was axed during the Covid TfL budget crisis negotiations and is not coming back. The whole point of the "New Tube for London" project was that new modern trains were tied to signalling upgrades, which would let more trains run on the existing lines in a more reliable way.

The trains were already ordered so will be delivered, with the associated flashy benefits of new carriages, but now the line capacity won't increase, so you'll still get the same breakdowns and delays that currently happen now. The Piccadilly line also won't be able to stop at the stations it currently skips (since they don't want to delay service any further than now) – making the Piccadilly Line stop at some of the stations it currently skips was also tied to the signalling upgrades.

It's classic top-down "you need to cut on costs" decision making leading to having to make compromises on a project in a way that it'll still cost a bunch of money, but without a major benefit at the expense of a (comparatively) small cost saving. You see this in software engineering all the time too.
> even showed that mental illness is linked with mental disorders

Huh? Is there a typo in there, or are disorders and illnesses different in some big way?
Show HN: ChatStack – open-source RAG Chatbot APIs on Nest.js Docker
> The formulation (3rd conditional) makes it clear the author is aware they're speculating.

If the author had meant to convey speculation, their sentence would have included a modal verb or expression for speculation.
well, web3 created lot of economic activity and jobs, it doesn't mean it is useful.
I agree, and what’s more I think the stated reasons make sense if (a) the person/people impacted by these behaviours had sway with the board, and (b) it was a pattern of behaviour that everyone was already pissed off about.

If board relations have been acrimonious and adversarial for months, and things are just getting worse, then I can imagine someone powerful bringing evidence of (yet another instance of) bad/unscrupulous/disrespectful behavior to the board, and a critical mass of the board feeling they’ve reached a “now or never” breaking point and making a quick decision to get it over with and wear the consequence.

Of course, it seems that they have miscalculated the consequences and botched the execution. Although we’ll have to see how it pans out.

I’m speculating like everyone else. But knowing how board relations can be, it’s one scenario that fits the evidence we do have and doesn’t require anyone involved to be anything other than human.
Not 100% sure I get it, I assume because it gets very hot and I guess, has a strong odor?
There's not really a way to put this nicely, but vore is a terrible name. If you don't know, it's a surprisingly popular fetish category and not something I would ever want to type into a search engine.
w00t, much better. thanks!

Good names in there :)
N=1 doesn't really tell you much of anything about anything.
Some people on Twitter, notably @HackingButLegal, have been collecting examples of possible paid astroturfing accounts which she believes belong to a reputation management firm hired by Sam to suppress his sister Annie's accusations that Sam sexually abused her as a child.

https://twitter.com/HackingButLegal/status/17268410084771104...

https://twitter.com/HackingButLegal/status/17268395129057322...
The people who think individual human lives have value usually opt out of working in “defense”.
I don't know, I have no independent means of verifying whether the story is true or not in the first place.
Looks like a nice rss reader but the name vore is an interesting choice given the words most common meaning
If we are to believe media reports. But why do customers and employees care that much about having Sam Altman as CEO? Sam was just at the right place at the right time. He is no doubt competent but not some kind of irreplaceable AI or management prodigy. OpenAI's true strength lies in its AI research team and their groundbreaking models. The C-suite is just a sideshow.
iPads feel like they last forever in standby. I remember there was a period of time where I was using my 6th gen mini very little (but I was using it) and it lasted me close to 3 weeks on a charge.
> The risk of AI is that it will make humans uneconomic, in the same way horses became uneconomic and were by and large sent to the glue factories.

I think an intermediate step in the process will be making some humans uneconomic.

There's a saying in Yellowstone - the reason bear proof garbage cans are so hard is that there is substantial overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.
1. Get domain and set up webflow site. Throw in a random template and give access to sales team to add whatever content they want.

2. Spend remaining 3 hours, 45 minutes rehearsing speech about how great it was to work with the sales team and how much you guys can achieve when you put your heads together.

3. Get promoted.

4. Next time a request comes in tell the new guy to throw together a site in 3-4 hours. Don’t worry about the results, they’ll learn.

5. Spend newly free time internally/externally blogging and being a ‘thought leader’

6. Get promoted.

7. Leverage new title to job hop to another company as an ML Engineer so I can learn what ML actually is.
Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory
A lot of gaslighting, as OpenAI findings are a subject of national security.
No, the network is not hardcoded, you can build any network you want. Only the expensive step, the matmul, is hardcoded.
>does this sound like something a rational person would participate in?

The Almighty Mar-ket, with all its acolytes, always form a rational economic system, by definition!
> The entirety of the homo sapiens experience, all the strategies we have in the modern era and all the reliable tactics we use to stay ahead of other lifeforms rely on us being much better at pattern identification than literally anything else.

I disagree.

It relies on our superior communication and cooperation skills. Our 'advanced pattern recognition', which, I think any study of the sheer amount of irrational behavior done by humans will show really isn't that advanced, are a side effect of that.
This could be counted as a felony against individual board members as there were clear conflict of interests among them with such a merger. I'm sure there will be lawsuits from the investors.
Honestly, I really dislike that I can't get Spotify to actually randomize my playlist. I actually want to rediscover some old song that I liked, but it keeps giving me the most recent songs way too much.

I understand that you need to make something that the average user perceives as random, but please give me some control in the advanced settings, it's literally one of the few things I want to control.
No it isn't, to quote Monty Python.

You can't productively argue with someone by splitting your position into 280-character-long bites, each of which can be easily quoted out of context.
As a security researcher, bad security practices are prevalent in mobile by big companies and governments alike. They are just hoping that no one will reverse engineer their apps and APIs.
Given that the trains stop at the platforms within quite a small area, I wonder if they could store that heat between stations and then dump it into a sort of extractor which takes it to the surface (or uses it to heat buildings, etc.)
google has added e2ee in their implementation but it's not part of the standard, i think they use the signal protocol

rcs is too controlled by carriers for my liking. it's very much an sms replacement, rather than a protocol that treats the cell network as merely a data layer
Your description fits my understanding, though I would say social rather than crappy. My point was the implication is you can’t double dip, not that such practices are evil.
We can communicate securely on the internet because of cryptography (HTTPS vs. HTTP). If cryptography didn't exist any signal you ever sent over the internet could be observed and used maliciously against you (payment info, passwords, etcetera).
I’m so sorry that you’re also burdened with this knowledge.

They really should change the name.
damn that's scary. I'm really sorry to hear that, I think you'll eventually settle this with them somehow, just need to insist. provided you did nothing wrong, I'm sure a payment processor this big will do something about it. it's likely some automatic "AGI"-wanna-be-based algo that's doing all these.. at this point I won't even be surprised if I learn there's no human left in charge at Stripe, since most biz ops can now be automated..
I don't understand how alignment is even an issue with a large language model? It seems to me like we are a very long away from developing the kind of AI where alignment even becomes an issue. We seem to be focusing on the "AI" moniker without considering what this technology actually is, which is basically just a computer running a statistical algorithm on a large collection of sentences
Are you going to fund him instead?
Why on earth would you name a project that?
it's also your belief that sports like the nfl do not improve society ...

beliefs can't be proven or disproven, they are axioms.
Taipy for Data and AI algos web apps building
> There is no product manager. There is a project manager. They steer on deadlines and functionality, nothing more.

A glance at LinkedIn suggests you’re correct: the Sunbird app team seems to include a bunch of business people, a project manager, and no software engineers.
They're probably referencing Iraq and I'm not sure it was raw resource extraction as it was so much removal of a competitor (whatever the name of the Iraqi state oil company was) and more than that, enabling sales of equipment, consulting, etc. It wasn't as simple as some 1800s colonialism, it was advanced wealth extraction worthy of the 21st century.
I believe it was perfectly reasonable based on the information at hand. Apple gave no reason to believe otherwise and behaved in a way that appeared deceptive.
True, I have shortcuts for it instead
For those not logged in, Power said the following was "an interesting thread, maybe too speculative":

https://nitter.net/scottastevenson/status/172673102286200873...
scary. hope this is just a dream, as otherwise I cannot explain it
Nvidia Sued After Engineer Accidentally Shares Data from Old Job on Video Call
I always try to keep between 20-80% with my iPhone and consequently always feel bad about my AirPods. The case is always as empty as possible, the pods as full as possible. They spend almost their entire life at 100% as a result of the charging case. Even though I always use them at a max of 1 hour or so at a time.

In other words: I first need to drain the case to the very bad 0% to get the pods to go down, otherwise they sit at 100% almost always because sometime I don't use them for days. I hope Apple designed for this...

I really wish I had more control over my device's charging cycles. I generally use phones until they really die (replaced my OnePlus 3 with an iPhone 12 mini because the power button broke and battery was down to 10 hrs or so), iPhone 12 mini still feels like my new phone and works great, I see myself using it for years to come (especially because I think it is the perfect size).

Perhaps I should get a non-charging AirPods case somewhere.
No, AI is not going to kill us anytime soon. Yes, LLMs are not even close to AGI and the research on them does not lead to research on understanding cognition (read Chomsky on this), which is required for AGI. Yes, DO ban all AI research and investment until society as a whole, by consensus, grants the privilege of continuing. OpenAI saga already has shown Sillicon Valley tech culture is in no fit shape to be involved in such manners in any form. The culture that gave us Musk buying Twitter and torpedoing its value by half the next day and the shitcoin scammer SBF does not have a good track record.