skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I just picked the Prius because I posted stats about it <somewhere, maybe HN?> a few months back and got railed because "the Trans Am is cooler, man!" so I had the stats handy.

So your point is that the author's proposed enshitification has been recent and brief? I'll happily concede that cars getting larger and heavier is a blight, but that's been going on (in the U.S.) for at least twenty years, while many of the other points the author makes (and which I am dubious of) are just in the past 5 years or so. As one example, I'll happily take the pain of pairing over bluetooth over having to plug in to USB any day, and let's not even start comparing that to e.g. the cassette-simulator connectors of thirty years ago. :-)
The burden of proof lies on them that claim it’s a “real” science.
Yeah people are frightened that their bullshit gets called out.

The article shows the famously debunked "gimbal" video. The rotation of the object is a result of the tracking camera getting close to a robot singularity. What was the unidentified object? The twin engine exhaust of another aircraft.

>People have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky for millennia. While it is easy to dismiss them as hallucinations or flights of fancy, it is much harder to ignore photographs and videos from reputable sources.

The recordings make it even easier to debunk. We have had more cameras than ever and yet we have less evidence of aliens than ever. The "best" evidence is always a video of photo of such a poor quality that anything could be interpreted into it.
Where would you be if your ancestors didn’t sign their lineage up for the trip?
Technology Connections’ video on dishwashers will change your life.

https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04

Ever since I switched to powdered detergent and started throwing a pinch of powder in the bottom of the tub in addition to filling up the main dispenser halfway, I have not had a single dish come out with a piece of food on it.

I also recommend disabling any “auto” features of dishwasher has.

The only caveat to this video: don’t fill up the detergent dispenser all the way with powder, go about halfway. He corrects this mistake in his follow-up video, which I also recommend.
Great album, BTW, one of my favorite. You can kinda hear this cultural moment in the music itself: Some of the sounds they use are rather primitive by modern standards. But other parts are really complex and nuanced.

So you get some sense of a transition of digital technology from novelty into mainstream.

You also get a cyberpunk vibe, a lot of it is dark and harsh, but at the same time organic and beautiful. It's not as abstract like Autechre's music, this is definitely about humans, but in a weird environment.
I interpreted “filtered out” to mean that they weren’t making it from childhood to college due to any of a number of factors, not necessarily that they applied and were rejected.
And microservices and nanorepositories solve this issue I assume
About an hour drive from Reykjavík, Iceland.
I mean, they're going to find out anyways when you don't reply
Seconded. My partner and I got rid of our cars years ago. The other day I overheard someone at work talking about their monthly lease for their two cars, and the lease alone (to say nothing of gas, repairs, insurance) was more than our rent. Cars are a money bonfire, and it's worth moving to even the most expensive city if it lets you get away with not owning them.
I've read books on APL, J, and K and have played around a bit with all of them for some toy problems. I've also used Python's Numpy & Pandas at work.

The APL/J/K and Python + Library philosophies for programming are super different and if this doesn't make sense to you, I'd recommend downloading Dyalog (it's free to play around with) and go through some tutorials and see if you still feel the same way.

Yes it's all programming like how rice and french fries are both food. They're both awesome too. With Python you have a general purpose language that lets you build up a matrix in a manner you're used to. You've then got an object you call methods on to delete columns or update an entry or whatever. With APL, you've got what is like a hyper optimized DSL for doing that. I'm a lot more proficient with the Python option and it's both popular and free, so it's probably the only option I'll ever have to use at work. Using the APL/J/K options are a ton of fun and I think I could get hyper efficient with them as well given the time. Using the APL is so alien compared to what I'm used to though. The idioms (e.g. ohh you want to do that...just use an outer product which is these two characters combined) are just so different than how I'd typically think about solving the problem (e.g. I'd use a nested couple of for loops or whatever). It really does change the way you think.

Off topic: I work with a lot of extremely large sparse matrices though (like 40,000 x 40,000 with most being 0s), so I'm not sure if APL is as optimized here and as a result it's also easier to stick to Python.
This sounds like early industrialization in England. The way they approach their workers. It's awful and ridiculous that Facebook don't want to pay them 2.2$. Corporations are really necessarily evil. The depersonalization of people which came with these big structures generally is making most of the problems. People usually are not psychos when dealing with people. Usually.
At least the Books app on Apple iOS/macOS will manage and read plain old epubs and PDFs without issue, even if you’ve already bought DRM’d books from Apple’s store.

It’s really only big name e-ink readers other than Kobo that have this issue.
There's also `guix shell` which can be used in shebang position. Example from the Guix manual:

#!/usr/bin/env -S guix shell python python-numpy -- python3
import numpy
print("This is numpy", numpy.version.version)

It also works with manifest files specifying more complex environments.
Similar old copying technology, I remember in school we had one teacher who insisted on using a spirit duplicator he’d kept. It was pretty awful quality, but kept him happy. He could write out a test then hand crank off 20 copies in a minute or two. All in beautifully faded purple ink and smelling like spirits.

The school had plenty of proper photocopiers, this was early to mid 90s. He just liked his old machine from the 60s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator
I am no longer permitted to post images to my Facebook feed. I am also experiencing glitches with Messenger. I am not sure why, but I can't expect Support to be of any help here.

Back in 2015, I participated in a genuine knighting ceremony, and it was re-enacted for photo opportunities. So there I was, on my knees receiving a sword to my shoulders from a knight in full regalia. Of course I eagerly posted the photo to Facebook and it was immediately rejected, I assume by AI only, because it was "male pornography". Yeah, I suppose I could see how the confusion arises there.

Unfortunately the false-positives of Trust & Safety can be a real hindrance to those of us who have genuine moments to share with others.
They say they're going to put out a 1 watt version, that will open things up a little more. I've seen home servers (consumer hardware) that never consume more than ~20 watts. Not sure the price of these hypothetical future batteries but that could be very useful. If nothing else, it can offset electricity costs a little.
I actually have, but with the caveat that you have to know how to place the dishes in the thing such that they don't block the flow of water. Not a burden once you know how to do it, but might initially take some time to figure it out, if just looking at the thing doesn't make it obvious.
Where did he dismiss people problems ?

If someone want to do something enough, he should be compelled to seek help to overcome his limitations. Comment like your encourages learned helplessness, which to me is a lot more dangerous than what he said !
No it doesn’t. One ship from Asia could be split up and resorted as part of this with some of it gojng on to New Orleans some to Newark some to Miami and so on.
In the year 3000 a schoolboy will find it hard to distinguish between a progressive and their jesuit/quaker antecedents.
It is a definition used within org behavioral research in general (accepted).

Culture = What Is (problem solving capabilities) + What the group desires

Also, nothing autocratic about it, since the group is self-selected. Each group/biz has to define some central themes to function properly.

(I'm the author)
I just want it to be sufficient to drop into some ESP32 boards, to make a place-and-forget LORA meshnet.

1 watt might be enough if they can deliver on that claim.
Vehicular gas infrastructure is near 100 years of development and still has some edge cases.

EV charging infrastructure is at about 10 years.
>They sent 80 million spams in a year; that's more than the number of humans (including infants) in their target market.

These messages weren't completely unsolicited. The people who had received them had opted-in to receive marketing messages, but the opt-in wasn't clear about exactly what type of messages would be sent and so the consent was deemed invalid. 80 million messages is a lot, but it's a perfectly reasonable total for a large company with millions of customers.

>but before issuing a fine, the ICO will write several times, explaining the problem and suggesting remedies. To get fined at all, HelloFresh must have ignored these letters.

This is simply untrue. The ICO has fined numerous organisations for a one-off breach - in one case, for using CC instead of BCC when sending a single email to 105 people. The ICO stated in their penalty notice that HelloFresh had fully cooperated with the investigation; failure to cooperate is an aggravating factor, but it is absolutely not a prerequisite for a fine.

https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/mpns/4018736/mpn-...
The extra time for Panama is waiting for your slot, not the time it takes to drive the boat there.
Have you ever tried to run mod_security? You sound like you've never been in the trenches.
Why should you care how someone labels you?

Often people do that to coerce others into behaviour that is not in the victim best interest.

If something doesn't feel right to you, just quit or call it an exit.
But still a cost that doesn’t currently exist. If the cost of transit goes too high, many companies will take the long route
Lavacam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqudj0x0POA
Google Created a New AI, AMIE Is Better at Medical Diagnostics Than Physicians
That kitty and Calibre come from the same brain is a marvel of the open source world.
Cudos for having Andreas malm at the front of the git repo ! :)
Costco also has market power to force better prices from its suppliers as well as decades of relationships with them and industry writ large. I’ve heard they’re employing someone to build lettuce growing capacity near certain logistics points. It was someones pet project to grow lettuce locally that costco picked up. If the free market is let to function, they should eventually be able to eat the lunch of the competition.

I bet they did something similar with eggs.
Unfortunately the current premiere of Alberta is going to use this to justify going even more "all-in" on oil.
I use BetterDisplay with my Samsung 4k monitor because macOS display control sucks if its not their displays...
Uncool to whom? Everyone I know who has even two kids wants one, and anyone with more than three already has one or is miserable constantly taking both vehicles everywhere. The waitlist on a Toyota Sienna is well over a year long. 1-year old models sell above new MSRP because you can get one today with 10k miles on it vs. putting your name on a list and waiting.

And they're not cheap by any stretch. A base model Sienna is almost $40k. That's more than a year's income for 25% of households[0]. The Platinum starts at $15k more than that.

[0] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...
I am surprised by the cognitive dissonance these people exhibit. On one hand they confidently claim that humans are stochastic parrots, on the other hand they claim they dont know how humans learn and think. They claim ai is intelligent but dont know how to define intelligence.

Right not with a high degree of confidence we can state that they are taking what’s not theirs, apply software to it, and resell it.

Everything else is their defence of said process, gaslighting people and spreading schizoid fear to obfuscate it.
Amazing.

Do you know if Telkom offered ISDN around ‘95 thru to ‘01?

My parents had “two lines” back then so we could always have access to the Internet, even while talking on the phone. I recall, vaguely, using dial up but we may have had an ISDN line. In part, because my Dad wanted to order LaserDiscs from the US while my Mom was chatting away to family.
Yeah but Twitch is so big it would never pay retail rates to any cloud service, even given the rates for the bulkiest users. And because it's Amazon owned it's not a question of going to AWS but how much they'd negotiate. So on paper Twitch can lose them money but Amazon makes money through AWS.

YouTube is break even and imagine how much content is uploaded and stored there per second, forever. Twitch VODs are deleted after 2 months. Most streamers don't even get any viewers. Those that get viewers get people paying real money on top of ad spam. The numbers don't really add up like how Amazon often pays $0 in tax.
You can do it on a GNU/Linux phone though (sent from my Librem 5).
Whenever you want to. Let's flip that around: how much of your finite life are you obligated to commit to something you don't want to be doing anymore? On your deathbed, is it a good outcome for you to say "I hated every moment of it, but at least I didn't quit!" Not in my book.
I Built a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Security Newsfeed
Do you remember which book it was you read?
If possible, could you provide any of those learning paths?
All Kindles I had (the latest is paperwhite from 2020 or so) mounted on USB as mass storage and supported pdf. They also supported epub since 2014 at least.
My recently acquired Bosch dishwasher does a fine job.
Why is there anything downstream? I mean, it shouldn't be the case because then the water which could be used for the channel locks, is wasted being sent there. If there is anything going downstream from the lake indeed, solution is even simpler - close it off with a dam - but i don't think it's the case. I can't see anything on the map that is being fed from the lake apart from channel locks.

And river that feeds the lake is of course, not artificial - Chagres river - but nothing is gonna happen to it.
With the amount of outsourcing and immigration these days, judgements on employment tenure are only getting more harsh
> at some point you must understand the inherent absurdity of living in an increasingly-inhospitable desert climate

As opposed to where, exactly?

The entire northern half of the United States can’t grow for shit because its summer growing season is a barely a few months long and the winters are inhospitable to everything except a winter squash or two. The center is a giant dust bowl because they tried to grow more than they could support. The East barely has any arable land without catastrophically deforesting the area.

That leaves the South which is either desert on the Western half or even more inhospitable swamp on the Eastern half. If the desert were really so bad, it wouldn’t be able to produce half the produce in the country plus extra for international export.
I used ISDL, a related technology based on ISDN operating at the same bandwidth, for a few years in Colorado in the early 2000's. It was the only thing better than dialup at the time. The ISP was Megapath Networks. Still have the Efficient 5871 IDSL modem somewhere.

Always on, static IP address. It was easily the most reliable service I have ever used, then or since. The latency was astonishingly low as well. But 128Kbps wasn't adequate and I moved on when I could.
Exactly. Total energy in the atmosphere should worry everyone. Instead they think the effects are purely a net heat gain.
Corporations are not evil. They just don't care at all about e.g. human suffering or destruction of environment they cause to maximize return on capital. From human perspective they are amoral or chaotic neutral. Like Cthulhu.
> I've seen RSS styling before but it does feel like an oddity. I think I'm so used to the code view that when I see a styled feed page, it makes me wonder if I'm on the real URL. But at least the page does explain itself.

Indeed, that was my greatest concern for adding a stylesheet to the RSS on my website. I tried to solve it by including a screenshot of the source tree :)

On my website, the RSS is announced through metadata only on the news page. Per the “Exposed RSS” statement, it should be linked from all pages? I wonder whether it really makes sense for someone to subscribe to a page without even checking it out on such a cursory level as to find the news page, though?
Probably, but X-rays may not be easy to block from a miniaturized device, as spy devices tend to be.
This kind of stuff is why I use a downloader for my manga, and then host it all on a Kavita instance on my homelab, with a cloudflare tunnel for external access.
Spends all this money to listen to the highest quality vinyl crackle.

Builds his own speaker cabinets with no thought of acoustics.

Spends thousands trying to get “clean” power.

Doesn’t treat his room.

Classic audiophile.

Few 00$ on acoustic foam, some good room EQ (there is software to do this for you) and some non chinesium speakers is all you need.
We have just one kid on the way and would already buy a minivan if they weren't so hard to get. The waitlist on a Sienna is well over a year long. We have friends who put their names on the list in Q1 2022 and are still waiting "another 4 or 5 months."
DoorDash and others have known about these for years. At this point there’s no way they aren’t complicit.

These ghost kitchens bloat up the list of restaurants for user choice probably making people think more food is available.
> If you are not terrified, you are not paying attention.

Not everyone is terrified by calamity or existential threat.
You have a very high bar for measuring a 'bad' economy. That sounds like a serious depression, the kind that are associated with civil unrest.
Looks interesting.

> The call to hello.Greet looks like a regular method call

That’s a departure from how components interact in boq — an internal and widely used production platform that has _some_ of the features from the paper. There component interfaces _are_ RPC interfaces (e.g., Stubby / gRPC + protocol buffers), and interaction between them is possible exclusively through the component interfaces. Hence it’s very explicit at the call site that an RPC is being made (which could happen to execute locally with all the standard RPC functionality — context and deadline propagation, etc.).

RPCs looking like regular method calls sound a bit scary (easy to miss in code reviews); I wonder if enforced naming conventions + IDE + code review tool support would be enough.

Edit: it seems to require to pass a context object, so the readers won't confuse it with a local call (from https://serviceweaver.dev/):

sum, err := adder.Add(ctx, 1, 2)

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Also, the paper claims that most benefits come from a non-versioned serialization format:

> Most of the performance benefits of our prototype come from its use of a custom serialization format designed for non-versioned data exchange [...]

However, I don’t understand why local RPC calls have to serialize protocol buffer messages — can’t they already pass them as-is to the local handler?

(disclaimer: a googler, no internal knowledge on ServiceWeaver)
I totally agree, I have had two recent Sony Android TVs and they have been great!
Targeting senescent cells for cognitive health
Beat me to it and thank you!
At the very least discord doesn't make threads which get lost in the channel like slack. But both suffer without tools like telegram which automatically catalogs all links, files, images, etc into tabs. But at the end of the day a chat system isn't meant to be documentation. It's meant to be chat. If you and me talk in the hallway, we wouldn't then tell a colleague oh yeah we figured it out in the hallway don't worry. We would try and document it somehow so that it's useful later.
It's funny people saying hard to index. A fixed format like hypercard or Pdf is easier to index than angular and react. I assume google must be using some kind of headless chrome to index modern webpages.
I've been hesitant to submit removal requests due to requirement of uploading a picture of your ID. How can I trust these shady companies won't use this irresponsibly?
The lava has reached the edge of the town.

A man was lost in a crack in the town a few days ago, falling into the crack, then into a hole leading to a larger chamber underneath. The chamber had water in it experiencing tidal flow. His body was not recovered. If magma erupts into such cracks it could cause steam explosions (phreatic or phreatomagmatic eruptions).
The good news is we haven’t forgotten all the lessons learned, many of which will be applicable.
> the bad things you can generate with AI and so little about all the good

Generative AI and detection/classification are very different. The bad news of the last few months are almost exclusively about generative AI. Your good example is a detection AI.
When to allow yourself to quit, or when you can quit without being labeled a quitter by people who matter to you? Either way, I don’t think the answer lies with me or my peers on the internet.

My opinion you’re in the right track in thinking about objective criteria level of effort, results) and timelines. I also agree that being honest with yourself about the effort bit is super important - building a unicorn can’t be done in half measures.

Edit: Typo.
And every big company can decrypt your tls web traffic with their special CA keys.
Update from this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDBgjgEtnU
ChatGPT's FarmVille Moment
The purpose of the dockerfile and the ALL CAPS convention always reminds me of old JCL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language
My folks and I moved to a town outside Naples in 2000 and had a 128kbs symmetric ISDN. I remember it being fantastic. A huge upgrade from our 56k in the states at time of nascent Napster and online gaming.
(Looks at antitrust enforcement over the last 50 years)

... yeah, no one has the guts.
All of the modern http performabce optimizations require https.
Well, MIT--or probably more precisely individual MIT faculty members and other staff--can do more or less what they want to within reason without woryying about making money..

The MOOC bubble on the other hand (including edX to a certain degree) was both a novelty and depended on rethinking educational economics to a fair degree, which included credentials actually meaning something and that never really happened. The people taking MOOCs mostly weren't those not well-served by traditional higher ed; it was people who already had a Masters degree or two.
Notes on Nothing (2023)
Time well spent.
“A problem that can be easily avoided is not a huge problem” is the point the post you are replying to makes.
Yes. In its best, it's like using chickensoup to cure Ebola.

In its much more common worse, it's green-washing business-as-usual.
Document Re-ranking using LLMs from Google Research [video]
One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
The democracy / government needing to work to fix (or even just improve) things seems like a constraint at the moment, atleast in the USA. I hope things change for the better but it's hard to see a path towards that.
Why do the deletion services at the end charge monthly/annual fees?

Don't you just need to submit deletion requests once?
Ask HN: State of CD/CI Wrt AI? Anyone Using a GPT to Control Ops/SRE/CI Tasks?
E.g. any control over things like AWS/AWS-CLI - or [whatever] infra deployment/ops workflows one may have?

Or AI IDS/monitoring... etc?