skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Maybe 5 years ago that was true, but I have very affordable Comcast home internet that is 1.2gb - and it's only expected to get faster. I know very few people who don't have gigabit these days. Between Cable and Fiber it's cheap and regularly available.

The market is undeserving the everyday consumer.

It's why there are multiple YouTube channels dedicated to reviewing Chinese no-name 2.5gb switches from AliExpress. The big names have just turned to blind eye to pump out the same outdated devices they've been pumping out for years.
I use the PaperWM spoon, a port of the Gnome thing.

It does not make sense to me to use a "normal" tilling wm that automatically messes up windows' dimensions without asking me

I just need the windows to be automatically put side by side:

[1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon

[2] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Money flow into poor communities of course works. Relatively little money required on global scale. And they probably were given to the organization in some sort of a grant.

What happens if you do this in a major economy using it as the source of money? We know what would happen if a bunch of money were printed. What if it was taken out of taxes and crapton of government programs were cancelled? Especially long term.
Cynical view emerging here; Most elites don't lose during inflation.

The small creators are the ones facing financial pressure and difficult decisions... and that's when you snap up their products.
Isn’t it ironic that fear of AI directly caused the massive explosion in AI development? Not once, not twice, but three times. (Maybe four if you still count musk as a significant player, though Twitter might prove to be the caltrop that breaks him)

This is why you never listen to the argument “if I don’t, build it someone else will”.
That argument advanced AI research by decades.
Progress requires dedication efforts from brilliant people. Don’t be the brilliant person bringing something into the world that you think shouldn’t exist. Certainly don’t fund something that shouldn’t exist.

Now that ai is here DON’T weaponize it. Don’t listen to the “someone else will” argument. If you are clever enough to create a weapon, you’re wise enough not to misuse it. But the last step of creation is relinquishing control. And I assure you this world is full of people who misuse weapons.
We need a Mozilla-type organization that is a nonprofit and focuses on open-source computing tools and apps. Operating system, file managers, galleries, email clients, the works.

The sad reality is that Mozilla once did all these things, but lack of funding meant that many efforts were eventually discontinued. As great as Mozilla is, they too are effectively 'captured' due to their reliance on Google funding. Firefox is the only browser that doesn't support installing PWAs, which is unbelievable, and almost certainly a move made to please Google.
There are some nice tidbits in the article:

> The study also showed that participants' education and familiarity with large language models (LLMs) did not significantly predict their success in detecting AI.

Also, humans only score 61%, and the best chat gpt prompt gets 41% (but 49% in the graph?).

I’m definitely having trouble distinguishing between content farm crap written by humans and chatgpt output. They’re usually of comparable accuracy.

I’d be curious to see an extended study where they had a dozen human participants or so, and got statistically significant percentages for each individual. Is the worst human below 41%? Is the best close to 100%?
Agreed, the headline is massively misleading. Journalism at its finest
There is - it’s called the X10 Home Automation system. It’s archaic technology from the 1970s and it doesn’t do power monitoring, but you sure can turn devices on and off.

EDIT: it seems the KNX standard is a more modern system that supports Powerline as well as other communication methods, although it seems to mostly be for business use.
I had a related thought which is that there's some bistability involved maybe. That is, even if there's not hard boundaries and exceptions can be found to any rule, in aggregate systems tend to behave as one or the other roughly speaking.

Another problem is our sample size is relatively small — it seems difficult to come to a definition of life when we don't know if it exists elsewhere in the universe, and if so, what that looks like. In some ways asking "how would we know we've found life elsewhere" might be the most useful approach. But we have no way to confirm or confirm our expectations at this point.
>kitklarenberg.substack.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
My background is non white child of poor immigrants to the US from a country that used to be ruled by the UK. I just found it unbelievable that anyone would associate a font with “elitism” and “colonialism”. And my family prioritizes going to museums, even in London, where many of my family live even though that is in the country that oppressed them.

I have heard elders complain about the proliferation of the English language itself to be a cause for decline in fluency of the native language, but I can almost guarantee no one has ever thought about the influences of a font. I mean there are actual fish to fry here, starting with legislation, monetary consequences, property rights…I do not see how fonts moves the needle at all, except patting oneself on their back.
Good talk, worth watch.

15 rockets!
ChatGPT transcribing event screenshots into Google Calendar links
Local postmasters have an amazing degree of autonomy by the standards of other industries. This is one person being a jerk and doubling down on a mistake, most likely.

Doing bulk mail, long ago; I tangled with the postmaster at our post office over the details of the presort to qualify for "bulk" discounts. Their book said one thing; the postmaster hadn't read the book in a recent decade, and said something else. So we sorted the way the postmaster wanted. They were (and afaik still are) the arbiter of "what this office accepts."

My wife is a rural carrier; she's out doing "amazon" today. Their office takes out anything they have on Sunday, not just Amazon packages, because "it'll be there Monday if we don't and it's gotta go out sometime." I do not know how they do the accounting for that, Amazon's Sunday deliveries are supposed to be a special, voluntary overtime thing. Mixing regular mail into that has got to cause some irregularities.
Pre iPhone 2003
Haptic Device
> As I’ve said in other comments: “can” translates to “won’t” in cryptographic contexts. Gossip does not matter if it doesn’t have controls behind it.

Yes, so you... code the client to check for the presence of multiple signatures (in the F-Droid case where the F-Droid service knows about the original author signature) or ship the URLs for two of the independent actors in the default configuration (in the GNU Guix case)? This does not seem like a hard problem.

> Could you provide an example scenario?

Whatever person or company runs the box that builds Homebrew packages tampers with that box.

Maybe Microsoft gets a National Security Letter, or has a tenant isolation bug. Or I dunno, the last time I seriously worked with Homebrew they were running Jenkins on a Mac Mini in some random colo facility, and the maintainers definitely had root on that thing.
> Under Chinese law, blacklisted defaulters are blocked from a range of economic activities, including purchasing aeroplane tickets and making payments through mobile apps such as Alipay and WeChat Pay [...]

> “I thought my son was going to starve since I didn’t have any cash at hand and all my daily purchases were made through WeChat,” [...]

According to the article, this is happening to about 1% of China's population.

Techno-facism is bad, you guys. Non-monopolistic markets are good.
They just licensed openai, they haven’t innovated on anything
Simple Mobile makes apps like file managers and image galleries. Just how much work is required to maintain this besides keeping the file access API up to date? Not sure if that's even had any breaking changes on Android in the past several years.
He is not the owner of OpenAI so it can be considered harmful to the company if there was a better chip maker or deal available but he chose the one he has a personal take in.

It would be very hard to prove that choosing company A over company B was a knowingly worse choice for OpenAI though.
Chronic stress, reduced physical activity is quite related to technologies too
Like a literal check, or a proverbial check where his illiquid assets serve as collateral to a bank who writes the check?
>Not terribly interesting

>you have removed any semblance of moral consideration from the equation. And that, I think, few will accept

>what benefit is this article if it is simply one machine communicating to another

Are these arguments? What point are you making here?

>the experience each person has of living testifies against such a view. There is more to life, and to /our/ lives, than mere engineered material.

Why can't whatever experience of living you have be confined strictly within the bounds of
materialism?
You're absolutely right, everyone living there would be living in what's essentially a really terrible company town. One where your boss has direct control over your oxygen supply.

I'm really not sure why anyone thinks space colonies are a good idea
Neat, but I think it’s a bit gross to use the same cable for a catheter that you used in an oil well.
It is insane because this alienates the demographics that appreciate everything you are denouncing here: European history, art, culture, colonialism, civilizational accomplishment etc. Everything that created the very art housed withing the museums.

Even if one is not apart of this heritage, this should be respected as the foundation of the art itself.
> For example, commuting, cleaning or cooking routines, for some, may provide precious moments of comfort and calm

What a remarkable idea! I cannot imagine what that experience would be like, though seeing it called out that way makes me realize I must have always been encountering people with such inclinations, and simply failing to understand their choices.
I worked on a project where I used a Google framework that used bazel and it was a terrible experience, even though in the end I made it work. My first approach was to integrate the framework somehow into the build process I was used to (Makefiles, cmake etc), but then quickly found out this was going to be nearly impossible due to the way bazel works, so in the end I had to use bazel to build my project and to be able to add the framework as a dependency. I still had to hack into the framework bazel tree here and there. I lost a lot of time learning the quirks of bazel and in the end it contributed absolutely nothing and instead of bazel, cmake could have been used, a solution most people are familiar with. I think Googlers are generally on some kind of quest where they need to prove how smart they are by inventing all kinds of quirky weird new kind of "wheels" instead of using existing wheels to build a car, which causes problems for people who do not work at Google but are somehow forced to use Google's solutions. I am wondering if Googlers are aware of the fact that by using/inventing these kind of solutions their skill set becomes so specific they can't leave Google anymore.
Can I.. vote against this? Death has historically been the only equalizer and return to the mean that has saved us from Tyrants and excessive concentration of power and control.

I'm fine with having the life expectancy that I have, am I the only one?
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As a VC, isn't "Somebody wants to buy our stuff, we just need money to deliver on it" the ideal pitch?

The alternative was that OpenAI prepaid for these chips, and took on a lot of risk. From Altman's position, he's personally taking on risk instead of having OpenAI (and its investors) take it on.
Escaping Software Disenchantment
Discussion about fashion and trends aside, A lot of it driven by a desire to make the branding easy to reproduce across web formats. I wonder if that’s an indictment of the web…
Genuine question, with no malfeasance:

How successful have precious iterations of the XPrize been? IIRC, there was (is?) one for landing a rover on Mars and another for cleaning up the ocean.

Have those companies yielded tangible benefits or even spurred innovations in their respective fields?
Both hardware and software are reviewed by third party audit
Sorry, this is my personal pet peeve: Your using two definitions of math. Let’s call them proper math and using math. Proper math consists solely of tautologies; statements that are always true. Using math is when you make use of these tautologies.

Computers don’t do proper math, they use math. For example: We usually try to remove all tautologies from our programs.

A system of rules is not math. We can sometimes use math to analyze such a system though. For example: Law is a system of rules that’s definitely not math.
or enshittificated
This company operates in the same waters are Taboola and Outbrain so 'fishy' would be an understatement.
It's a law more like Conway's Law than U.S. Law. Call it "The law of diffused corporate responsibilities".

And it doesn't mean the most profitable option will be picked, but it does ensure that easy money is not left on the table, while lots of other money is set on fire in pursuit of the personal interests of director level managers.
While we are plugging ci tools, I enjoyed buildkite at my last gig
Biometrics are not used as a password with worldcoin. It's used to issue what is essentially a private key.
Maybe. But the designer only presents ideas / concepts. Final sign-off on generic comes from the founder(s) or someone higher up the tree.
The main usage is to be able share and reuse code in a very simple way. The code lives in a monorepo, and that means you won't need to extract shared code into external installable libraries. You just pick-and-choose the code needed for each microservice or app. The tooling is useful for visualization, deployment and when adding new "bricks" with templating.
Not everything is an indictment of the web.
Love, Peace and Rock 'n' Roll on Gorky Street [pdf]
High CPU usage of ChatGPT when not in use
Could you link to tweet?
*proto-dank-sharting
There are probably some economic downsides, but it’s far, far less than what you’d see based on looking at the raw spending.

If most of the money is going to modernise the US military while freeing up old stock to send to Ukraine, that’s arguably money that would eventually have to have been spent anyway.

Windows do need to be replaced eventually. If you’re replacing an unbroken window a few years before it would’ve been strictly necessary, the cost associated with that early replacement isn’t very high.

Considering how attractive US military exports are becoming, I’m not convinced that the spending is a net negative for the US economy in the long term.
I saw the 1991 Xmas gig at Brixton Academy with Joe. They played a few Clash songs (London Calling, I Fought The Law, Brand New Cadillac, IIRC). I'm sad to say ... I did not see Shane.

(if they) ...stick (him) in a box ... and shove (him) in the ground ... (I'm sure he'll) stick (his) head back out and shout "we'll have another round"
The idea of UBI, to me at least, is a mind-blowing one. It’s a shame something like this doesn’t exist on a large scale already. I know I’m probably missing something important here, but can someone outline any good reasons, if any, that it hasn’t been implemented yet?
That article was a proper who's who of the 2010s AI buildup. A lot of names in there that weren't on my radar.
I wonder how many gigawatts / terawatts a cable would need to carry before you can fit gunship patrols into the budget.
The classic Control Panel allows everyone to add an icon to it. Most of those additions are quite pointless, like the Mail icon, which belongs to Microsoft Outlook and opens a configuration window you can easily access from within Outlook itself. The modern settings UIs are not extensible like this, nor should they be.
But since he owns them, he can do whatever he wants with them? Unless you're arguing he's forming a trust / cartel, which I don't think is the issue being debated here
Prompted by this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38508145

That is to say, it was never black and white even back then, as it seldom is.

There is also a documentary by Terje Toomitsu about these Soviet hippies who, expectedly, were also oppressed by the intelligence services. Toomitsu also did a TED talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_A97fC4PBk&t=6s

I am not sure how solid the history writing on this topic is, but I bet the Finnish public broadcaster played a significant role.
That's ignoring an anthrophenic argument and the finiteness of the observable universe. The probability for life to evolve on any given planet may be 10^-100. But because we obviously observe the planet where life happened to evolve, we cannot tell whether the probability is 10^-100 or 1/10.

That would mean that it would most likely only happen once in the observable universe, and the next instance may be many universe distances away. That would make us alone, even if we assume that the universe is infinite.
Nice article. I go next to that area all the time (there is a cluster of good South Asian grocery stores on the opposite side of Conduit from the Hole, plus the Hole is on the way to the beach or airport), but had never taken a walk through there. I always assumed all the broken down trucks and RVs belonged to a scrap yard - I did not realize they were simply abandoned and that there are people living in those RVs!
gbit speeds are usually good enough for the majority of applications. even your 6e ap will not archive more than a gbit in most real world scenarios (not testing).

the tables turn slowly, but the mass market for 10gig is just not here yet besides all-10gig soho switches beeing available for some time now.

major point: 10gig uses vastly more power than 1gig, making integration (esp. in laptops) challenging.

other point: ids/dpi at 10gig line speed is challenging, requiring a powerful cpu on the router and flawless integration.
I mean it's a letter of intent from 2018 when OpenAI was barely even known, and he owns at most 5% of the chip startup, so probably not
Oldest Cymbal Maker Crafted Cymbals for the Beatles Armies and Sultans [video]
I've wondered for years how far you could get just checking perplexity. English -> internal rep, and x-> internal rep. Then mapping between the internal reps such that English -> another language has low perplexity. That is, a sensible sentence in English should result in a sensible sentence in another language.
They're overlapping communities with some common descent and interaction. Saying these are changing names for the same thing is just wrong.
Isn’t one of the main selling points of WASM it’s runtime performance? I’d be surprised if there was interest in a JIT compiler for it.
Jql: A JSON Query Language CLI Tool
For transparency the below is entirely from GPT-4. All successful except for the Google Lunar XPRIZE. It's notable that these prizes ranged from $7M (Ocean Discovery XPRIZE) to $30M (Lunar XPRIZE), so the stakes have really gone up for this one.

Ansari XPRIZE (2004): Aimed at private spaceflight, won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures' SpaceShipOne, demonstrating private manned spaceflight.

Progressive Automotive XPRIZE (2010): Focused on energy-efficient cars. Edison2’s Very Light Car won in the Mainstream Class, and Li-ion Motors’ Wave II and X-Tracer Team Switzerland’s E-Tracer won in the Alternative classes.

Google Lunar XPRIZE (Not Won): Targeted private teams to land a rover on the moon. Although the prize expired in 2018 without a winner, several teams continued their lunar missions.

Global Learning XPRIZE (2019): Sought solutions for children to teach themselves reading, writing, and arithmetic. The prize was jointly awarded to Kitkit School and onebillion, both developing child-friendly learning applications.

Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE (2014): Focused on health sensing technologies. The DMI team won for their invention of a lab-quality blood testing platform.

Carbon XPRIZE (2021): Aimed at converting CO2 emissions into valuable products. Two teams, CarbonCure Technologies and UCLA CarbonBuilt, won, demonstrating concrete production methods using CO2.

Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE (2019): Aimed at advancing deep-sea technologies. The GEBCO-NF Alumni team won, developing autonomous ocean mapping technology.
My understanding, perhaps flawed, is that row security policies add predicates to the SQL, which then encounters the query planner like any other. Is this not the case?
Both the X10 and powerline are large and expensive devices because they require a big transformer to interface with the power line, any device like that is going to be more expensive than a ZigBee device.
I am both profoundly fearful of death and also incredibly excited to see what's coming, so I'm rooting for success here.
I used a funny poem I read in a obscure book. Gpt may have sent it.

Lordgivemeplentymybellyisemptysixinchesbelowthetablelorsbepraisedmybellyisraisedsixinchesabovethetable

ChatGPT 3.5 segments it perfectly

"Lord give me plenty,
My belly is empty,
Six inches below the table.
Lord be praised,
My belly is raised,
Six inches above the table."
Jetbrains is among the very few companies I’ll trust for the time being
Jenkins works...

No it dosen't or maybe it does for java which I don't care about.

The ui looks like from the 90s.

Finding anything in bigger projects/companies is impossible... I have browser bookmarks to find anything.

The log view is annoying at best.

I have nothing good to say about jenkins, it feels like it is stuck in the 2000s and refuses to change.
They make this sound like there is some abandoned city within New York City.
I accidentally drove into this area while trying to find the McDonald's(on Linden BLVD) in the area without using a GPS.

The street suddenly ran downhill, there was water accumulating at the end of a dead end block and the houses there looked a bit like they needed some work on done.
It was only later on here I found out what this area was called.
Here's Erik Spiekermann on the Johnson & Johnson logo change:

"I’m so fed up with marketing people running projects without acknowledging that we designers might have an idea or two about what communicates and what doesn’t. They’ve been told by tech guys and lazy designers that things have to be simplified to work on screens. This is knowledge from the 90s and not true anymore. Risk and guts have been replaced by bullshit “narratives” invented by people who’ve never taken a risk in their lives.

This is the blandification of our world, where fun has to be taken out of the equation because it cannot be quantified. No consumer cares about a company’s internal reorganization, they want to like a brand. When all brands are beige, the beigest one will not win but will be forgotten.

The enshittification of our world is run by people who read spreadsheets in bed and look at their smartphones to tell the weather instead of sticking their heads out of the window.

Sometimes I’m glad I’m old and don’t have to take orders from gutless employed managers anymore. My best clients were those I could argue with. It wasn’t about winning or being right, it was about doing the best work.

Thank you Audi, Deutsche Bahn, BVG, Bosch, Ottobock, The Economist …"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38508049

Great post, I can see why HN is taking it down after all the "Russian propaganda" meme magic we've read on this site over the last few years.