skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excuse me, but your history textbooks are farcically wrong. Or possibly your imagination is.

The economy of A-H collapsed so thoroughly that there were famines and bread riots. Too many men and horses were sacrificed in war and the relatively backward agriculture could not be sustained by the women, kids and the elderly who were left. Hunger was one of the immediate reasons for the collapse - it was impossible to prevent the soldiers on the frontlines from knowing that their loved ones back home were starving, and by October 1918, mutinies and mass desertions were widespread.

The countries that emerged from the collapse were often hostile to one another, which not only led to border skirmishes, but to introduction of wanton tariffs and regulations that broke precisely the economic ties that you mentioned.

For example, the textile industry in German-speaking Bohemian borderlands (Sudeten) used to export its products into a 55-million common market freely. Suddenly, this market shrank to 14 million (Czechoslovak population after 1918), some 30 per cent of its former size, as countries like Hungary, Poland and Romania introduced protectionist measures.

The resulting unhappiness of suddenly-much-poorer Sudeten Germans was later expertly exploited by Adolf Hitler.

Also, in many places, there was hyperinflation that wiped out life savings of the middle class, contributing to growth of political extremism.
Eh. you don't need that for any of the hardware that appears to be affected. Just turn off cloud access.
There is a deeper problem here: what is concrete in a UX?

Most software design has a rigidly defined UI. That means that the most concrete aspect of the UX is what the user is looking at.

But does this have to be true? Is it really a good idea? I don't think so.

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A UI that always looks the same is inflexible. This has advantages and disadvantages:

Pros:

* The UI won't surprise the user. The user can predict where to go next, because the layout never changes.

* The UX is optimized for a "happy path".

Cons:

* The UI will never accommodate the user. The user cannot move superfluous UI bits out of their way. The user must always contend with the entire app all-at-once.

* Any flow that is not the "happy path" becomes a maze at its best, and a fortress at its worst. The user's ability to introduce novel UX behavior is either minimized or outright banned.

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We are approaching this subject with what we are used to: GUI. Let's take a step back in time, and think about text user interfaces (TUI). Let's think about shells.

What is concrete in a shell's UX? Not what you look at, that's for sure! Not the behavior, either! Hell, even the environment is flexible! Is there anything concrete?

The abstraction. That's the stable part. Shells have environment variables, stdin, stdout, stderr, signals, pipes, etc. We can't predict what will use these abstractions; but we can predict that whatever it is, it will use them.

So how does a user learn to use a shell? They learn the abstract thinking first! Pretty convenient, isn't it? Sure, there is a high upfront cost, but that only needs to be paid once.

The pros and cons are essentially the opposite as above.
I am unfamiliar with the implementation, but why would it be difficult to implement a Cuda-compatible software layer on top of other platforms?

This would be the first step. Then, if we want to move away from Cuda into hardware that's as ubiquitous and performant as Nvidia's (or better), someone would need to write an abstraction layer that's more convenient to use than Cuda. I did play a little bit with Cuda and OpenCL, but not enough to hate either.
Baudot predates both and doesn't have caps
If I were implementing this in a new language, I'd lean toward making a needle of the empty string throw an error. When the feature request inevitably comes in to make it return a specific value, then I'd have usage information to guide the implementation. :)
Agile is broken? Or the fact that we put the smartest people in positions in which they have no say, and anybody else we give them all the power (scrum masters, product owners...).
Ask HN: Where's the "Exercise at Home" Movement?
Many people seem to have a "work from home" preference. Some seem to prefer going to an office for social reasons. I wonder, where the "exercise at home" movement is, considering that gyms don't tend to be very social places? Gym membership fees are also not cheap and one has to commute to the gym. Do people believe that gyms are more effective than exercising at home?
There’s been a real Office for Mac for multiple decades
Yes, when put in a robotic body.
This is a personal style choice I make, because I like to emphasize that companies like Facebook and OpenAI are made up of individuals, and it's those individuals that make decisions.
Can you weigh in on the decision to require UniFi controller instead of providing on device configuration interface as well?
You can check the map here to see if any of the other applicants have a bid for your area

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/rdof-phase-i-dec-2...
Perhaps GitHub Autopilot and ChatGPT teamed up to write the code upon noticing that the developer tripped and fell, causing a GSM modem to fall off their desk and into the assembly process.
Just stop.

OpenVPN and Wireguard work fine. I am using it right now.
>That wasn’t a security incident for OpnSense. It was a CVE for an optional package most users probably don’t have installed.

First of all, the point is that the OS didn't release CVE fixes for the packages in its repositories even though it had already committed those fixes to version control. Notice that my comment specifically talks about "delay in security response", not that it was an "emergency".

>That user is completely unreasonable. Opnsense should refund their money (if any lol)

Second, I recommend reading the comment you respond to carefully before you rush to make an account to respond to it. "That user" is me. The GH thread has a clear comment from me that I did not pay them any money and do not have any expectation of support.

Third, notice that the point of the GH thread was me asking what their policy of releasing CVE fixes was. You seem to think I was some Karen complaining that they hadn't released the fix. All I asked was a confirmation that they're aware that they're shipping a package with a CVE, that they've already fixed the package but just not published it, and what their policy is for releasing fixes in general.

They could've responded with something like "We're aware of the CVE but we don't plan to release the fix in 23.1. Our policy is to only release bugfixes for non-critical packages in the next stable release, and we consider os-haproxy to be a non-critical package."

Instead they got weirdly defensive about it, tried to lecture me about how OS releases generally work, called me "rude" (ironic), and locked the issue.

The ultimate point is that OPNsense delays security fixes. Maybe you think it's okay because you think some OS packages are critical and this one wasn't. Maybe you think if an OS can't articulate its security fixes release policy without getting combative, then it's hard to take its security seriously. The decision is yours.
> The American empire is a long way off collapse.

I wish I believed that as strongly as you do. I could see imminent collapse from several possible causes.

1. Political. We are very close to the point where neither side regards the results as legitimate if the other wins. We have Congress less concerned with governing, and more concerned with moving the lines an inch in an endless trench war. The leading candidates for president are extremely uninspiring - neither will be able to create a vision that inspires people into any unified, positive direction. The whole political scene feels like imminent collapse to me.

2. War. If we blunder into a shooting war with either Russia or China, that could be an abrupt end to the American "empire" - along with much of the American population. Even if it doesn't go nuclear, it could still be an abrupt fall from the #1 position in geopolitical power. This is made more dangerous by the childishness and amateurishness of the political leadership - a blunder feels uncomfortably likely.

3. Economic. Things came close to falling apart in 2008, in a way that could have abruptly crimped our power as a nation (which is economically based). Things feel more solid lately, but they didn't feel bad in 2007, either.

So, yeah, I would be distressed by an abrupt collapse (say, within 2 years), but I wouldn't be all that surprised...
I wouldn't have much faith in OneDrive either. Just use Cryptomator for everything.
> Facebook say they aren’t doing this. The risk to their reputation if they are caught in a lie is astronomical.

This isn’t the disincentive you think it is. VW manufacturing vehicles that purposely deceived emissions testing was textbook corporate malfeasance, perhaps one of the worst examples of it. They took a loss on the ledger and came out of it relatively unscathed
Don't forget:

- Money launderers

- Contraband distributors
no. you can use a local account.
Apparently 1.1.5|6 we're also compromised?
I haven't tried yet but looks like this was posted above with how to disable cloud connection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644073
Likewise. I've lost about 60 lbs over the past year and I have corporate greed, in part, to thank for it. Most of it costs more, delivers less quantity and uses worse ingredients.

Thanks for being greed-driven entities of shit, Corps!
My waistline and partner thank you!
>We believe superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years.

Generating predictive output is not consciousness or superintelligence. I think the "superintelligence" talk is more of a ploy to scare the industry into regulatory capture. Remember, AI deeply threatens the existing business models of tech monopolies.
That's called anecdotal evidence. I've had police come slow and come fast. 911 also prioritizes calls, so it's possible you're being rate limited by them and not the actual police. The data from their apps tells a different story, maybe they're fudging it, I just don't think making blanket statements about timing based on someone else's story gives me an accurate picture.
Shocking! Successful people getting credited for someone else work.
Wouldn't a 100% Cuda-compatible toolchain suffice? Then you could write your software for Cuda and the software environment would run it on whatever is on your computer.
There's nothing generous about it. It wouldn't be possible without the LLM. Traditional Computational solvers fall well short as they say and demonstrate.

>The LLM is just being asked "propose some reasonable edits to these 20 lines of python" to replace a random mutation operator.

Hahaha "Just".
That's what e.g. the ADM-3a did and imo it looks a little funny but surprisingly pleasant: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/adm3a.jpg
Python has been getting a bunch of similar features too. ADTs+Pattern Matching form an incredibly powerful pair of features that leads to code that is both concise and easy to read, so it doesn't surprise me that it's getting retrofitted into all sorts of languages.
There is no requirement to create a cloud account on the Pro machine.
Is it has a mean of locomotion, yes.
> Additionally, nothing is better for pedestrians and cyclists of the future than self-driving electric vehicles.

How about no cars at all (or significantly fewer cars)? Adoption of mass transportation like trams, trains and buses is better for pedestrians and cyclists.
> > where the pair will take a jet to one of Thiel’s New Zealand

Unless you are quite literally at the airport when the news breaks then you'd have hard time reaching it to jet to NZL
No, further, return to sea. Exist as peaceful algae.
Evil people are out to get YOU or YOUR KIDS. Give us access, we protect you!

There. I generalized it. :(
the hottest programming language is really natural language
I love everything David Graeber wrote, including this book. But this is a book that reliably puts me to sleep. I had trouble finishing it when I first read it, it took me almost two months to read it as I kept falling asleep. I suffer from the occasional insomnia, so I bought this book and whenever I feel like my hypothalamus is not cooperating, I try to read a chapter. Works like a charm.
Melanoma is far more deadly than the other types of cancers. If building a base tan can protect you from the acute blistering burns that are known to cause melanoma, it may be worth it
How do you feel about Go if you've ever worked with it? It seems like it was intended to solve exactly those types of pain points associated with maintaining Java programs
Haven't noticed any difference
One thing that really works but I only did once or twice is throwing it out and starting again.
In total there were 22 that didn’t meet the requirements last year.

Like you said, one just has a cult attached to it.
1. I would say this interpretation is "quite a stretch" [e.g. FARM tags typically only for >6000lb class, but okay]; in attempting further research it does seem that any vehicle (with four or more wheels), even with specific no intention or minimal roadway use, still MUST be registered within Tennessee (e.g. TDR-sticker program) — of course presuming no farm plate availability (e.g. weight class, county). I am mainly asking because I have a Tacoma (that I've insured for almost two years now) which I cannot register because the probate executive is too disrespectful to fulfill his duties... and live in Tennesse... and really only drive to get groceries and between properties (as a beekeeper, still inelgibile for farm tag/plate).

2) See citation, but basically "you still have to get permission, yes."

3: Awesome, dude, it must be way undervalued =D Alabama is "just a stone's throw away" and the property taxes there make Tenn (and TEX!) seem like highway robbery.

4: Have a great day!

1: https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/revenue/title-and-registration...

2: "Landowner License Exemption: Persons hunting without a license under a farmland owner exemption must complete and sign a statement attesting where the property is located and how this land qualifies for a landowner exemption before hunting"
I tried the AmpliFi mesh router several years ago and hated it. It didn't seem any better than the Arris gateway that ATT sent me.

Why would you have a central console that has the potential for accessing all the routers with a single login though? Why wouldn't this be just local to the network with remote access?
Jerry Rice, Lance Armstrong were the best: Why did they cheat?
I've wondered if we went wrong with Unicode and trying to put every symbol mankind has ever invented on par with the Latin letters.

Now I wonder if we went wrong allowing mixed case.
I Can't Sleep
>Hawaii doesn't seem like an ideal place for this type of "survival bunker".

It's probably the best choice on US soil. Most physically isolated (significant) plot of land on earth. If the airspace shuts down, that's it. No one in or out. It's a 3 week boat ride to the nearest continental shelf. Also happens to be defended by over half the Navy's nuclear carrier and sub fleet, and multiple divisions of Army/Marines.
> the project has relied on legal maneuvering and political networking, and at times, sources believe, it has shown disregard for the local public.

I'm sure this applies to your situation, too.
That’s using the metabolized estimate of about 5.8 calories per gram which assumes about 80% of the caloric content is extracted.
Fines are often gamed: lobbying, legal defence.

I would argue big companies care more about losing customers. Сompetitive pressure is more effective than laws and fines. And laws are not without downsides, including becoming barriers to entry into competition.
I mean "smart" in exactly the same way you would use the word when talking about people: "John is smarter than Paul". Or "an average college professor is smarter than an average college student". People use this word assuming others understand what it means. That's my assumption as well.
Yes I think they are lying.
Indeed, and accepting that definition still fails to include extraterrestrial life. (The way that first sentence is written in TFA made me think of first contact).

Anyhow, it’s too late for “AGI” and “superintelligence”, aside from the baggage they also suffer from being in everyone’s domain to do with as they please. Precise terms inherently cannot be abused like this (compare “sore throat” to “acute viral laryngitis”).
I've found the most secure key management is to keep important keys offline and stored on paper and only load them into a live tails/whonix system for brief uses. I even contributed a binary decoding feature to zbar to let me store them on printed QR codes and easily input them back in.

> bricked ones losing funds

Well of course. It's just a computer and all computers fail. Cheap laptops can also fail and destroy your keys. USB flash storage failure is even more likely. This is the number one argument for storing keys on paper which is actually known to last centuries.
an understanding of global macro/liquidity cycles is indeed an edge :)
Aren't those terms totally meaningless in terms of modern "AI" though? AGI is nowhere near being able to play a violin solo, their fine motor skills are abysmal. The list goes on and on, they also aren't running a bakery, collecting field data for ecological studies, or playing literally any sport any time soon either. The concept of a disembodied system even being "smart" doesn't make sense to me.
I hope people will engage with this. I see so many founders and employees in tech who feel unable to speak up about what they see happening in Gaza.
> This leads to the fundamental challenge: how can humans steer and trust AI systems much smarter than them?

I think, as a first question to be answered prior to this one, the word "how" should be removed from this sentence.
> They wanted to data-max. They data-maxed. Now they have 300x the data collection rate of Waymo.

Citation needed.

What Tesla lacks is quality data, which Waymo has due to their high fidelity sensors. Tesla has been "collecting data" for years without much to show for. They still have embarrassing failures so basic in nature [1], you know they're going nowhere. If all it took was data, they would have something meaningful by now.

[1] https://twitter.com/elaifresh/status/1727889381309239731
Good explanation on the warm. I still disagree on the cold.

The cold in the midwest cuts through you in a way that it doesn't in the dry. Air temperature's the same, but the difference is noticeable. Why is that? If not humidity, then what is it?
>"A Turing machine can be simulated by two stacks.

A Turing machine consists of an FSM and an infinite tape, initially filled with zeros, upon which the machine can write ones and zeros. At any time, the read/write head of the machine points to one cell on the tape. This tape can be conceptually cut in half at that point.

Each half of the tape can be treated as a stack

, where the top is the cell nearest the read/write head, and the bottom is some distance away from the head, with all zeros on the tape beyond the bottom. Accordingly,

a Turing machine can be simulated by an FSM plus two stacks.

Moving the head left or right is equivalent to popping a bit from one stack and pushing it onto the other. Writing is equivalent to changing the bit before pushing it."

This is a truly fascinating Wikipedia article -- at least from the perspective of other mathematical identities (AKA, algorithmic identities) of Turing Machines...
That doesn’t solve this problem at all.

Nothing about the article is about the downsides of in-band error reporting. It shows JavaScript’s (terrible) -1 indexOf response in a matter-of-fact way and only talks about the meaning of it, which is “not found”. The question is whether or not to return “not found” for certain inputs, not how to return that value.
> > behave when you stop paying them

Or when money ceases to have any meaning.
Only in C, other languages don't use null-terminated strings. A C++ std::string can contain a '\0' as the first character but still not be empty (though of course C++ code can also use C strings).

But even if an empty string truly contains no data it will match at the very beginning, so it seems returning 0 is still consistent.
You can always twist anything into enough knots to construe it as "blatant lies and propaganda" – clearly you've already made up your mind – so this is not an exercise worth doing for anyone.
Or IBM BCD.
I would not be surprised if Zuck's MMA training were at least partially inspired by worries like these.
I don't comment by mandate. These comments are my own opinion.
This is good. Now, all extensions marked by the developer as being compatible with Android are shown on AMO. (If you toggle to Desktop mode, you can actually install any other extension on AMO, too.)

The baffling thing is why this took so damn long. FF for Android supported add-ons from the beginning. That's the best thing about Firefox for Android! They decided to rewrite the UI in 2020, and there were fair reasons to do that. Obviously this required some reimplementation time for extension support.

But they then launched the rewrite of FF for Android with extension support... but hidden. Only a small set of recommended extensions were enabled, and a few were drip-fed over time (that is, added to the list). Thankfully, this included the single most important extension, uBlock Origin, from the very beginning. (The lack of uBO why Chrome for Android is borderline unusable for me!)

But from almost the very beginning, we've also had the ability to activate custom extension collections in Nightly (and in Fennec F-Droid, which is a rebuild of stable Firefox). The vast majority of extensions worked fine for... well, years now.

So why in the world was this delayed the whole time?
There are some really terrible UI choices in SwOS, like not labeling rows of checkboxes so users need to hover over each one with their mouse to see a tooltip.
It's a holdover from the days of Morse code. Recall the first computers were for military problems, and the first output was teletype. Teletype was originally for military messaging and that had a long history of using all caps because they relied on manual transcription of Morse code (and other codes) over wire and radio. The all-caps policies were put in place to make sure the officers could consistently read what the operator had transcribed. Some of these date back to the 1850s. The Navy didn't actually do away with all-caps until 2013.

https://www.al.com/wire/2013/06/navy_puts_all_caps_communica...

https://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=489...
I really would, but I could never land those TK teleports consistently (assuming that's still a thing in 6)
We can formalise "critical thinking" as "evaluating first order logic". There are simplified ethical systems that can be formalised in first order logic in which a conclusion like "I should X" can be reached, where X is something OpenAI wishes the AI not to do. The only way to prevent the AI from ever thinking this would be to prevent it from ever evaluating systems in first order logic with axioms that lead to such a conclusion, which would make it inferior in reasoning ability to humans, who can evaluate any arbitrary statement in first order logic.