skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this highlights the core failure with all these voice-driven UIs: you have absolutely no idea what is possible and what isn't. Discoverability is zero, which makes big changes like this even more disruptive.

I've already decided that I'm done with Google's smart assistant stuff in any case. I have a Google Home with a screen in my kitchen and the most-used feature (aside from just existing as a photo frame) was an integration with a really useful shopping list app called AnyList. It certainly wasn't complex, we'd say "Hey Google, add <x> to the shopping list" and it would do it. But it was very useful: I'd have something in my hands I just pulled from the fridge (e.g. milk) and be able to add it to the list without interrupting what I'm doing. If it had to wait until I was done for me to pull out my phone I'd inevitably forget.

Then one day Google decided to disable that integration. Now the only shopping list you can add to is one Google provides (which naturally has way fewer features than AnyList). They've never provided even the remotest defense for why they've removed it, it's very obviously to lock us into the Google ecosystem. So our Google Home is now a glorified photo frame that plays music from time to time (and even then prioritizes cover versions and YouTube videos over actual songs, presumably because $$$)
> When the GPL 3 added the anti-TiVo clause, it really should have also added AGPL’s anti-google clauses at the same time.

They tried that, everyone balked. You know how Linus Torvalds rejected GPLv3 for Linux specifically because anti-TiVo[0] would be "changing the deal"? Imagine that times a thousand.

Furthermore, AGPL is only an anti-Google license specifically because Google is as internally afraid of it as Microsoft is of GPL. You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example. Furthermore, the Affero clause is only appropriate for web applications - ideally ones in dynamic languages that execute from source that remains on disk. Slapping it on all GPL software would be really, really dangerous. I've heard of people using AGPL on Ethernet PHYs - how the fuck do you offer source code to every packet that crosses an Ethernet switch?

If you really want a license clause that would absolutely decimate any corporate freeloading behavior, you want OpenWatcom's anti-private-forks clause[1]. It does everything AGPL tries to do, with fewer legal loopholes. But good luck getting that past RMS. The problem with supra-GPL copylefts is that anything that is legally watertight to a corporation is also going to impinge on a lot of freedoms we enjoy. Remember: the whole point of the GPL is to reject copyright, and that specifically means lots of corporate freeloading, because the whole point of copyright is to stop corporate freeloading.

[0] From what I've heard, the anti-TiVo clause in GPLv3 is actually less strict than the FSF advertised, at least relative to how TiVo used Linux. I can't find the original article I heard this in, though!

[1] Specifically, the OpenWatcom license requires distribution of source code whenever you use a modified version of the software.
Why would you want to stand next to either?

They are not exactly located in urban areas...
Rubes gonna rube, and ChatGPT means shillbots will be more effective than ever, even on places like HN.
He can "feel the AGI".
Do you have another source? The URL goes to an article "Deinfluencers Gain Brand Partnerships" which isn't about Amazon.
For 99.9% of use cases, "Finally! Good Riddance!"

For 0.1% of use cases, "Oh Sh*t!"
The 1880's boardgame Invasion included the channel tunnel as an optional rule for experienced players, adding another attack vector for the player trying to invade South-West England. As I understand it part of the reason for creating the game was to show how dangerous it would be to have the tunnel. It fits in time with the examples in the article of worries about the tunnel's military use?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26597/invasion

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/3510336/invasion
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Chases service is fine but their savings interest rates are laughable. At least Citi's is 4.35% right now vs 0.01% for Chase.
> Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before?

What does that even mean? When has human knowledge ever gotten "swamped" by the capability of creating newer content?
It's mislieading to use "politically acceptable" like "quick to deploy". What's "politically acceptable" is something we shape with every word we say and which differs accross countries.

Speaking of countries, I could reduce this answer to one word, which refutes every single point you make: France.
The entire "it kills birds" feels like such a canard, to me. I don't understand to whom this kind of appeal is directed. It seems to me that the primary interests at stake are 1) the myriad financial interests in the extraction, distribution, and consumption of petroleum-based energy products, and 2) the negative impact on the environment of these same activities.

So let's just have that discussion, on those terms?

I cannot believe that someone like Donald Trump, for example, actually gives a shit about birds, and that that is what informs his opposition to the use of wind turbines. It seems unlikely, although possible, that that argument would persuade others of a like mind? And there have been other, similarly pitiful positions advanced, such as that an increase in the use of solar and wind power increases our exposure to UV radiation and skin cancer, from the sun?

I just don't understand why these arguments are made, and to whom. I cannot imagine that either 1) they would convince anyone who cares about the debate, or 2) that the population of people who WOULD be convinced by such arguments, would amount to much - either in the size of the population or the force of their support.
There are a bunch of different orders you can get knighted in, the British Empire is just one of them, for example the fictional James Bond has a CMG, (Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George), and the actor Daniel Craig who played him also has a CMG, although unlike Bond he has not turned down a KCMG (Bond turns down the knighthood because it makes you more of a public figure which is undesirable for an active secret agent whereas it's no problem for an actor).

The Order of St Michael & St George is also famous because it's how the "Yes, Minister" joke works: CMG stands for "Call Me God". And KCMG for "Kindly Call Me God" / What does GCMG stand for? / "God Calls Me God".

She was not yet "forced" to give it up, although that is likely the end result. These honours are notionally bestowed by the Monarch (so these days, Charlie) under advice, so a committee will decide that yup, Paula clearly shouldn't have this honour, take it away, and Charlie will sign the appropriate paperwork. What she's done so far is write asking that it be taken away, which is almost nothing.
Ask HN: Why is HN not categorizing submitted items?
It would be extremely helpful to have some basic categories: tech, economy, world news etc. on the homepage that you can filter by.
I got laid off this week.

Plan on switching the mortgage over to interest payment only for 6 months to help cash stretch.

Legislation came in the UK to help with this last year. It's called the "Mortgage Charter"
Also that already means "force" for a lot of commands, including two of the ones you mentioned.
> Very few people care about that.

While it may be true that the absolute number of people involved is small compared to the wider tech industry, long-term code reproducibility is critically important for engineering-heavy industries with long-lived, high consequence physical assets. Think aerospace, nuclear, petrochemical, electrical, and other civil infrastructure. If something in the environment changes and you need to re-analyze the performance of that asset to ensure safety & reliability under the new conditions, the first thing you do is re-run the benchmark cases to verify the answers didn't change from the last time you ran it. If they did, it throws your entire basis for design into question unless you can conclusively resolve the inconsistency.
If efficiency is the metric you're going for, move the people and do nothing. It's probably what will happen eventually anyway.
You can also right click on the date (next to the username), that is a proper link which has the open in new tab option.
> surely tracking stock and cash in tills should be really simple?

You'd think so, except they wanted a custom system built at incredible expense.
The A380 might have been a market mistake, but that's very different from a safety failure. I've never heard anyone say the A380 was an unsafe plane, just uneconomical.
Lobbyist are not in power, our elected officials are. I think parent id specifically asking for our elected officials to stop pandering to lobbyists along with a whole other flow of bad behaviors.
1) Just how much space do you think a decent LLM takes up? "lol" indeed.

2) This is 2024. Phones aren't limited to 128K any more. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can be configured with up to 1 TB of storage.

(no personal connection to this app... I just get tired of people on here gratuitously crapping on interesting stuff that other people have made)
All anyone can do is try to use that research in their own work, and see if their work supports findings from prior work. Sometimes it doesn’t, I am not sure if that means someone lied on purpose. It’s possible they were bad at interpreting the results, or they made bad assumptions. I think poor research standards are the main reason for the reproducibility crises, and not people lying on purpose.

Typically bad research assumptions or implementations are rooted out during peer review, but it’s an imperfect process.

I do think there needs to be a dedicated non-profit and neutral organization solely responsible for reproducing scientific results for all fields, and assigning a reproducibility score to research finding. This could become an entire field by itself, and would have its own complications, but the reproducibility crises does exist and needs a solution.
Is there a way to know how much to care? We do all sorts of things that displace species, so having some way of contextualizing and weighting the harm against the benefit would be helpful.
It's worse than that - there was evidence that Fujitsu could remotely affect the different branch computers with at least one person seeing it happen before their eyes and the Post Office absolutely denied that it was possible or had ever been possible.
No targeting means they aren't keeping a dossier on my movements around the web. I don't want that, and I don't care what it does to the quality of ads I see. Besides, I'm sure my ad-blocker is up to the task.
I am, I'm sorry for completely losing track of where I was.
I think it used to, but recently it has been bad.
https://archive.ph/1c4eS
I am not trying to sound flippant, but layoffs happen, and especially at companies that are not doing well (and Citigroup is not managing money well) they are normal.

Then, those working at Citigroup are likely to get some form of severance. While I do not know the exact composition of the layoffs I suspect that many of those are well paid and have comfortable cushion. Furthermore, US economy is still chugging along and the unemployment is low by historical standards, so a significant portion of those laid off will likely find another job. They can also downsize and/or move to an area with lower cost of living.

None of this is pleasant, but it is not the end of the world. My 2c.
ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind
Your argument is the point I am making. He didn't know he thought it was impossible.
Scheme is in recent standards (since R6RS) divided in two: a core language, suitable for reasoning about, and a full language, aimed at expressing economically the kind of solutions software engineers come up with. The full language is meant to be expressed in terms of the core language.

This seems analogous to the two-language approach you describe for Algol 68. Are you aware of recent developments in Scheme? Your description of it characterises it as a ball-and-chain for Algol 68.
People care a lot about wildlife in many contexts, while ignoring factory farming.
In my case I haven’t been able to manage indoor only but I’m sure others are able to.
Sure, Change Jobs (2009)
SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide [video]
And when your procedures are lenient and reviews are so frivolous that everyone knows that your planes routinely crash.
Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking
Here is 'Meditations' in musical format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1Sr1kfIL4

It's like lofi hip hop beats with the text being read over the top. I love it.
> You have ostensibly "user friendly" distros like Ubuntu, that still, in 2024, refuse to implement the standard ctrl+v for paste and add a modern cursor to their terminal.

The user-friendly distros - correctly - aim to solve this by making terminal use optional, not by taking on the nigh-impossible task of completely changing how input works in the terminal.

> The OS is kept artificially difficult to use, just because it's maintainers get off on knowing it's cryptic interface language.

Also, that's not the reason. It's not some superiority complex or fetish, it's that the existing terminal paradigm is really good for what it's good for and there's no point in sacrificing the existing user-base in order to try and appeal to a wider audience who will never use it anyways.
Sourcehut is big enough that Cloudfare is neither cheap nor free, I think there was a discussion about this in another post.

Nor is it a good thing that Cloudfare has keys to half of the internet.
Does this have an LLM built in? Or is it just a distilled diffusion model?
That sounds optimal. The game is the game.
The warmest year on record globally
Infectious Generosity. Chris Anderson [video]
> If you're running a complex modern site and decide to do away with cookie banners, you generally need to pair this with browser automation that crawls your site and verifies that you (and your dependencies) are in fact not setting any cookies.

Correction: any cookies which are not technically required for the basic operation of the site (such as a shopping cart ID).
I like this TED Talk. I will highlight:

17:42. What can we do?
- Look at someone. Make eye contact with someone who feels invisible.
- Or go online and find someone who's doing something that's positive, amplify them.
- Or invite a group of friends to dinner and dream together about what you might do in your community.
- Or listen to Sara Lomelin's TED Talk and join a giving circle.
- Or just figure out some way of sharing this idea of infectious generosity however you might.

Now I will ask you all. What can we do? It could be interesting to develop specific ideas for people interested in entrepreneurship and tech or just for HN.
He meant to say "This board is popular with software engineers", which is way it's straightforward (and often, correct) to assume that posters are software engineers.
Microsoft and Google are pretty similar IMO, since both have: a browser, a search engine, an operating system, have or have tried to have a phone, both do some amount of hardware, and both also have cloud platform offerings.
That's true, I guess I should have expressed that slightly differently - my point was that the only capability you can't get from "just" a smart switch irrespective of your choice of bulbs is changing colour.

But also, smart bulbs with a dumb dimmer is the worst combination, so if upgrading somewhere, if it has dimmer switches that's an extra reason to replace the switch too, irrespective of whether you also replace the bulbs...
Why would you need unique IPs for this? This entire setup can work perfectly fine with a single public IP address if needed.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQksc1-5Zoc

imagine living with that 12 hours a day. like a drop of water hitting your forehead every few seconds. forever.
I'd never switch from Steam to GOG, because I really enjoy Steam's Remote Play feature.
I hope that's the case where in the location where you are typing from. Unfortunately, it's not the case in places where I have family and friends. Some examples are in cities in Portugal, England, Spain, Germany, etc. In fact, in the past couple of days, I have found to have unrelated people I know about who are desperately looking for a place, separate cases but similar stories in London and Lisbon.
I appreciate that this was written by someone new to atomics and memory ordering semantics. But it presents itself as authoritative despite having some mistakes. So I am not super keen on that.

Just for example, right off the bat:

> Atomics are simply operations or instructions that cannot be split by the compiler or the CPU or re-ordered in any way.

C++ atomics can in fact be reordered by the compiler or CPU, depending on ordering semantics. Acquire loads cannot be reordered after subsequent program-order loads or stores. But they can be reordered before previous program-order operations. Similarly, release stores cannot be reordered before prior program-order operations, but can be reordered after subsequent program-order operations. Relaxed atomic operations can be reordered arbitrarily (other than with accesses to the same object).
Cats are a scapegoat to deflect the incalculable damage done to wildlife by humans themselves, their industries and habitat expansion.
Plus customer facing employees aren't just the people in the branches, there's a massive volume of phone/email/etc support any large credit card issuer receives on a daily basis.
The prosecution case was that he provided a piece of the puzzle. I have no reason to believe it was a crucial piece.

I was reading his blog while all this was going on. Despite my curiosity, I was unable to get any clues about who the letter-women were. But I'm not Scottish, I'm not involved with the Scottish National Party, and I don't hang around with SNP politicians (or any politicians).

Perhaps someone who mixed in those circles could have found clues; I understand that several Sottish journalists published pieces from which a knowledgeable reader could deduce who was being referred to. But I believe Murray was pretty scrupulous in avoiding violating the judge's order.

I think it's obvious he was persecuted for his trenchant support of Alex Salmond.
I don't follow. A "corporation" is just an entity that's filed articles of incorporation with the appropriate government office. You can have a single person that owns a corporation or LLC. (Source: I own an LLC.)
I'm no AI expert, I don't have a lot of domain knowledge but what irks me about reading through this entire blog post is the idea that we are hinging on a definition of AGI that apparently accounts for 95% (!) of "economically valuable work" while basically not talking _at all_ about the trades. No mention of construction, manual labour, mechanics, welders, painters, nothing!

Is the author trying to say that all that work falls into the 5% left over after you replace the stock brokers, programmers, artists, etc.?

I understand no offence is meant, but this feels extremely naive. At best the work programmers do is in the minority of "economical valuable" work that we strongly rely on for our world economies to keep chugging along.

Quick and dirty searches show that some 12% of employed people are in healthcare in the USA, 9% in leisure and hospitality, and 2% in education. 23% of people in the USA are employed in economically valuable work that is very personal, and very difficult for technology to fully replace.

Sorry if I'm rambling, I think I just did not enjoy the complete lack of mention of blue-collar workers here. I don't think I'm yet in the camp betting on AGI coming out of the woodworks in the next few decades.
> These blanket statements on Hackernews are so frustrating to read.
> Please understand that every environment, company, and project is different.
> RO desal splits the incoming ~3% salinity stream into two halves, one fresh and one ~6% salinity. This concentrated brine is fed to adjacent brine processing facilities (ideally in both countries) that exploit the region’s abundant solar and geothermal energy to extract potentially millions of tonnes of lithium, sodium, magnesium, chloride, and other metals found in sea water. The resulting depleted brine is piped back to the ocean where it is thoroughly mixed with sea water and discharged.

Casey's proposing we mine the brine for useful minerals. You're right he's glossing over details, but a citation addressing the economics of brine disposal with his proposed processing would add more to the discussion.
Assuming that was true - wouldn't it be much easier to simply remove their exit nodes, making Tor intolerably slow, let the users leave for alternatives like VPNs, and then just buy up some VPN providers through shell companies?

After all, with a VPN you get to see source and destination IPs, username, e-mail, payment information, and maybe they even download your connection tool and run it as root.
See also Windows setting menus. People see this as a flaw, but I much prefer that to breaking existing functionality for the sake of a redesign. Make a new interface for simple usecases, but keep the old one around just in case.
It'll just be even more empty fluff.
Unemployment still pretty low. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...

The environment is much less forgiving of management mistakes, but someone's layoffs can also be a competitor's hiring opportunity.
Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising.

I think the original quote is:

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

(source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/)

which is very close to article’s paraphrase
I believe it is possible.
It's right there talking to birds sent to spy on us.
"by virtue of its impenetrability, "filters out" people with bad taste."

Is that because they pretend to like it when no sane person would, or just that they don't like it. The former appeals to me greatly.
Yeah, lazy imprecision on my part. A function in my .bashrc .
This is a fantastic, simple explanation of subnetting and CIDR notation. Well done.
There were a whole bunch of layoffs a year ago too and people like you were saying the same thing, and you were wrong. At least wait for the monthly job numbers before you launch into the same tired spiel about the lying media.
Look, if at judge warns me that I have published information that may be used to identify an person who's identify is under legal order and I continue and repeatedly publish further information that may be used to identify the person what do you expect to happen?
One makes money selling software and one makes money selling ads.
I think Britt is in the right here calling out Cloudflare for doing a layoff dressed up as performance management. It's a super scummy move.

On the flip side I worry for Britt that you can't record people in California without their consent and now she might get sued.
I'm out of the loop on the latest and greatest web technologies:

if I'm a shopping cart website, how do I keep track of you as a user/session enough to identify you and pair you to the contents of your cart on my backend without a cookie?

Cramming a sessionId into localStorage/sessionStorage seems kind of like the same thing? Am I missing somehting?
The article says as much but I think this is fantastic anyways.
Shift+click or Ctrl+click works if someone doesn't have a middle button (I forget the exact combo bc it's just in muscle memory from daily use)
I'm not very tied to any of my emails. I recently did a painstaking digital purge so, switching everything over would be very easy for me.