skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pumpjack is what goes up and down, not an oil Derrick. Pumpjacks are usually not that tall, rarely taller than a big tree. They also don’t have flares.

But yeah wouldn’t want to live by that either.
I was looking for this before when writing my reply to show as an example but forgot the name of the project, thanks!
Damn singularity accelerating timelines and meme-cycling.
"Profit" is just the difference between what people are willing to pay for a service and the full cost of what it takes to provide that service (which itself is defined as how much the different suppliers could be making doing other stuff). Business owners are rewarded for shifting resources away from activities that consumers don't value highly (as evidenced by their willingness to pay for them) to ones that they do. If you feel that businesses are focusing on the wrong things, spend your money differently.
>Maybe the correct action is to see that how the Early Bronze Age worked has so little effect on your life, no testable hypothesis to confirm one way or the other, that it doesn't matter which one you believe, or if you believe both (even if they are contradictory, that's a thing humans can do).

This is a great point, and I'd suggest it is worth taking even further. Even for things that have moderate or substantial impact on your life, holding space for the possibility that multiple competing/overlapping explanations could be true can be an extremely valuable (if cognitively expensive) skill.
No Christians I know would agree to doing this - Drugs? No.

There are a lot of Christians out there. I suggest not trying generalize them based on the relatively insignificant number you know.
I worked in oil/gas for a long time. In addition to "windmills are killing all the birds", here are a few of the top green energy lies I've heard:

1. Solar panels are toxic, require more energy to produce than they generate, and can't be recycled.

2. EV's are worse for the environment than ICE vehicles.

3. Lithium mining is worse than oil/gas drilling.

4. Solar/wind prices are skyrocketing and everyone is abandoning solar/wind.

5. Solar/wind can't work because they're too intermittent.

6. Climate change isn't real OR climate change is real but natural and unstoppable OR climate change is helpful to the planet (these opposing beliefs are often repeated back to back)
>There are plenty of home users with 5Ghz only networks

really? is this a configuration that some ISPs are shipping in their routers, or how is this happening? i've never heard of anybody with a 5GHz only home network.
Sometimes.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm
> While sources at the company said the layoffs would be significant and as high as 20% — or reductions that would see Pixar’s team of 1,300 dropped to less than 1,000 over the coming months — Pixar says those numbers are too high. Rather, the studio said the number of impacted employees is still being determined due to factors like production schedules and staffing for future greenlit films.

There is an "or" betwen that, as there is no definitive source, they said that one source said the layoffs would be up to 20% and another source said, that Pixar's team would drop below 1000. But Pixar denies, that the layoffs are this high.
The concept of "Safety Critical" is something that I wish more software developers and engineers would have exposure to
I would not be shocked at all if Palantir sold to Myanmar.

Also there is 0 chance of conviction. Also I think you are unfamiliar of Peter Theil and his beliefs, I would recommend some research there (hint: he wouldn't care).
I went down a youtube rabbit hole about aircraft investigations once. One think I am still surprised by is the (in my opinion) bad UX of some errors. For example: It can be really easy to not notice a change from normal to alternate or direct law, if there are multiple problems going on at once.
I love my FOPEAS counters! I got them for free in exchange for my honest review. I haven't assembled them yet, but my cat loves to sit on the box. 5 stars!
Throwing one more - https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/
> It is not a mistake where Boeing is doing nefarious cost cutting and needs to hide it or has made a huge engineering mistake affecting all the aircraft.

Is this sarcasm? If not you really need to read the notes from the MAX 7 crash investigation, starting here [0]. That is exactly what Boeing did. MCAS was a hack to fix a plane badly designed to save costs. They rushed to release, ignored incomplete testing, hide information from the FAA, buried MCAS inside another features notes and forced engineers to say that only computer based training was needed for pilots for the new MAX planes despite big differences, all to save themselves and airlines costs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_certification
An even darker take, if some renegade member of an advanced alien race does decide to spend a lot of resources on exploring the universe, and gains the means to do so, the other members of their species may very well plug them into a simulation while they are sleeping and make them think they are exploring the cosmos.

Unless a species is completely post scarcity, there is a strong ethical argument to be made that this is the correct thing to do, versus spending a lot of resources on "mere exploration",
Hey, folks. I'm running down my checklist before a long trip. I'm preparing by downloading language and API docs in case I want to do some development in the air and figured I'd share this great tool. It allows for easy offline documentation access for a lot of languages and APIs. I'm hoping to brush up on some Zig and maybe do something fun with Vulkan. Happy new year!
Correct

However it's usually the laziest/more indifferent people that will use AI for product descriptions and won't care for such techniques
Overall it seems that the best way is to use some provider like Proton or use PGP locally.
Everything else seems to be insecure. And if not know than with a press release in near/future time saying that country X or Y is making it like other countries did already.

So it's all about encryption.
As an embedded engineer, I also wish wifi chipsets didn't suck so much

Back when I was working on homekit smart products, we would test our products against a huge swath of wifi routers, including apple's.

There was a handful of conformity tests we'd run, including Bonjour, DHCP, arp, etc.

I don't think a single router passed every test, including Apple's.

So our wifi stack was pretty good, but we also had to watch out for all these corner cases of different vendors and how they don't behave to spec.

Its been about 6 years since I was full time in wifi, and I hope we've progressed, but I doubt it
Batteries have proven extremely resistant to the scaling of solar panels. I would love to be wrong about this, but overwhelmingly people with an agenda just kind of hand-wave past grid scale energy storage problems that we have generations of evidence against being easily or cheaply solvable.

The thing about this plan that I love though, is that who cares if the desal plant runs at night? Desalination can take all of the power you can feed it and then some, and if it shuts off after sundown, who cares? Stop filling your freshwater reservoir until morning, at which point you just run flat out all over again.
A doubt - isn't the antennae an important part of any Wifi router? Are they too standardised now, with multiple options, and as easy to use as plug-and-play with such boards?
And pay no attention to the fact that the seller is registered in China and sells everything from furniture to underwear, UV lamps, and I kid you not, "effective butt lifting massage cream".
https://www.amazon.com/Sorry-generate-response-request-Blue/...

Another with an interesting detail: "Introducing the incredible 'Sorry but I can't generate a response to that request.' software! Designed to assist you in overcoming any query obstacles, this optimized product is here to revolutionize your search experience

With a precise character count of 500, every word has been expertly crafted to deliver meaningful responses while avoiding duplication

Say goodbye to frustrating dead ends and trademark restrictions

Upgrade to 'Sorry but I can't generate a response to that request.' for seamless navigation through any query!"
The problem is who is willing to do this?

If you go into such a bootcamp as a fresh grad, you basically pigeonhole yourself into working in that niche forever. You would have a massive setback when switching jobs compared to taking a bogstandard Java job or whatever.
Give me something that isn't based on protobufs at wire / request level. CBOR with CDDL for a fully standards based approach that can work at any size of the stack
Getting the real world onto holographic displays like virtual and augmented reality headsets.

These research directions are all possible foundations for holographic video codecs, basically. Which is exciting!
My favorite so far, the entire product description is chef's kiss: https://www.amazon.com/haillusty-Apologize-fulfill-violates-...
There are others.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNNBQYXC/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMFDNP7D/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFWNXYC7/

The product descriptions are pretty obviously AI too, saying a lot without saying anything:

* Versatile and Practical: 1 is a product that offers multiple uses, making it suitable for various tasks and ensuring for your money.

* Durable Construction: Crafted with sturdy materials, 1 is built to withstand daily wear and tear, providing-lasting performance and reliability.

* Easy to Use: With its user-friendly design, 1 is effortless to operate, allowing you to complete tasks without any hassle or complications.

* Enhanced Efficiency: Featuring advanced technology, 1 ensures efficient performance, saving you and effort while delivering exceptional results.

* Ergonomic Design: 1 is thoughtfully designed to prioritize comfort during use, minimizing fatigue and promoting a comfortable working experience.
I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter.

Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.
> “This breach is just another way for Beijing to target any Apple user it perceives to be an opponent. The time to act is now, and Apple must be held accountable for failing to safeguard its users against such blatant security breaches.” (Marco Rubio, Florida Senator)

Holy shit the amount of hyperbole is staggering. "Any Apple user", so Beijing can just "target" Joe Nobody in Bumfuck, Idaho's iPhone if they perceive him to be an opponent? But the guy making the accusation is from Florida, so...

>Chinese authorities claim they exploited the vulnerabilities by collecting some of the basic identifying information that must be transferred between two Apple devices when they use AirDrop — data including device names, email addresses and phone numbers.

Yep, this is bad, but not really a zero day vulnerability. It lets someone who is in range when you're airdropping stuff in public to see your basic info.

Not really a worrying case in normal use, but Chinese dissidents have a very specific use-case for transferring stuff P2P without going through the government monitored network.
There was a lot of suspect advice on the TLS and SSH pages. I did a pass a couple of years ago, updating the recommendation to EC keys if possible and RSA otherwise, with links to relevant academic sources.
The difference is, a junior employee knows that killing prod is bad. An LLM doesn't know anything.
this is generally true, of taking any sort of animal or agricultural product across a border.

heck, sometimes you encounter this in a domestic situation (e.g. Hawaii and the mainland US). It keeps diseases contained and is also meant to prevent animal trafficking.
> explain how you would apply the rules in the license to the facts of iOS distribution to reach the conclusion that distribution on iOS is a per se violation?

That's analysis is exactly backwards, and I cited the specific text in the license that calls it out. You can't distributed copyrighted works without permission, period.

Apple can't ship my code, whether it be directly or in a Play Store app, unless I let them. The LGPL specifies the terms of that permission. They're clearly in violation, since I can't download a Play Store app and modify it.

Again, we all agree to ignore this. But it's true nonetheless.
Disregarding the title, you'd have to be a fool to spend $325 on that cabinet.
I guess it's because !TEXT does a prefix search for TEXT in the history and TEXT can't contain spaces
Yes, in the 1980s/1990s Macs were favored by artists and musicians because there were a lot of programs for them that were Mac exclusive. These days the attraction is more that Macs can be treated as basically UNIX workstations that IT is happier with than allowing users their own Linux boxes because it is easier for them to lock them down.
It's not entirely removed from objective reality. Firstly, there is no such thing as objective reality for humans. Secondly, the principles that underpin this scenario are highly active in the world today. Things like specialization, efficiency, division of labor, etc.

Not too long ago my neighbor cleaned the carburetor on my lawn mower, and I fixed his router config in exchange. He would have had to spend tons of time figuring out how to do it himself, but it took me 5 minutes. I could have cleaned my own carburetor, but he already had the cleaner and had freshly done one, so it took him 5 minutes but would have taken me 30 minutes plus a trip to the store. The same principles from the example are at play here.

And whether Person B can get enough protein from coconuts is entirely irrelevant. All that matters in this scenario is that Person B was concerned about it and wanted to trade.
Probably no real human in the loop. This is a bot scrapping Chinese retailers and automatically creating several Amazon "sellers", with descriptions generated from whatever photos the retailer page had. The products are likely shipped either from China or bought in bulk and kept in a subcontracted storage somewhere in USA. It doesn't matter is 90% of the "sellers" end being flagged and deleted, they can create thousands more and eventually someone will buy their crap.

This pollutes the marketplace to the point where I gave up trying to find any real product on it, but Amazon actually encourages this behavior. They automatically label and classify "products" in their store because the titles, descriptions and tags from Chinese resellers are abysmal and discoverability would be impossible otherwise.
The value prop is close enough to Linux but also supports MDM.

The cult of hating on Mac is more virulent, lots of whining about iToddlers and Satania from Gabriel DropOut memes.
I would hope that your experience has at least decreased the time between "first hearing about wierdness" and "realizing you accidnetally dropped prod". It's why pay generally increases with experience :D.
Skepticism is warranted. The track record of "Oh, we don't have to change our incredibly wasteful and unsustainable ways after all, technology will fix things!" has been... poor.
I agree they don't have to Nazis.

> Do you want to prevent those people from speaking?

Nobody is prevented from speaking. It's never been easier in the history of the world to get your message out. But again, nobody is required to have a forum to speak and I'm not required to give that forum directly or indirectly. I can also use my speech to convince others to not provide that forum.

> spamming their employers

That's harassment. Harassment is already bad on it's own it doesn't have to be mixed into this. But outside of harassment if an employer doesn't want to associate with someone because of their speech, they're free to do that.
No, not at all. People can be held accountable for the decisions they make. You can have a relationship of trust between people. LLMs do not have these properties.
Being a pro means you can fix anything you break - preferably before anyone noticies
How many thousands?

You realize that nearly 4 million homes are sold per month in the US, right?
With that in mind, would there be any negative effects to slowly giving Boeing the cold shoulder?
> the cult persona seems to be a somewhat dated analysis

iPhones and other iDevices are more accessible. It used to be a certain cohort could afford such devices and the rest had to buy 'Peasant Android' devices. But you can get iPhones refurbished in good condition from many vendors, and at a good discount. Caveat: they're not brand new, but they are very close.
presumably because its long, and droll. kills any action, and drives out those who are easily bored.

but really it's more like having the cast & credits shown, like the intro to game of thrones
No reviews so far. Weird.
Correct! We've always included spousal signatures on 83(b) elections. I would say the vast majority (if not all) forms I've seen from good law firms have explicit places for the spouse to sign.
The problem we face is being a culture of many specialists, with few generalists. Generalists are capable of managing a wide range of information and have the ability to transfer skills and knowledge between domains.

You don't have to model an entire system in your head to understand the dynamics. That's a specialist, systematic point of view.

The technology will only help if we change the culture and change how we educate and incentivize the next generation of humans.
Your posts are my favorite thing about Hacker News, both because of the things you're saying and the way you're saying them; please don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I agree that's what he's saying, and I'm saying that is not demolishing the opponent's position. Scott is going up to a castle, talking to the walls until he thinks they should collapse, then when they don't collapse he's declaring victory by "making the walls look idiotic" and telling people he "demolished the castle walls".

If you haven't actually convinced your opponent, and you haven't changed their mind, and you haven't understood their true objections, and you haven't presented a convincing enough case for your position for them (arguing in good faith) to accept, you haven't won, there's an underwater-iceburg chunk still missing.

Like, if I claim 2 is the largest possible number, and show you 1+1, and you say "1+1 is coherent and logical and fits together ... I can't place the flaw but something's not right and I still don't believe you", I can't go around reasonably telling people I demolished you with my proof that 2 is the biggest number and you look idiotic for not believing me.
It's very likely Europe version numbers are 1 below US in that case as yeah in the US it's the V4 for 1000v.
[Cleveland, at least we're not Detroit!]
idk I do think it's worth pointing out sometimes that the ways these models mess up are very similar to the ways that humans mess up. It's funny you can almost always look at an obvious failure of an LLM and think of an equivalent way that a human might make the same (or a similar) mistake. It doesn't make the failure any less of a failure, but it is thought-provoking and worthwhile to point it out.

Obviously this particular case is not the failure of the LLM but the failure of the spammer who tried to use it.
>We can easily publicly fund over-sight committees to oversee these industries instead of relying on SROs who take tax-payer money and are in the perfect financial and power position to do some really corrupt and immoral things.

Easily, really? Why is the default position that industry players are corrupt and immoral, but the government overseers will act independently and altruistically and have no financial stake in the outcome? That doesn't jibe with my experience. People in government seem to do some of the most immoral acts out there.
...and also requires uranium mining and risks nuclear weapons proliferation. I prefer solar and wind.
It’s “<apology>-brown” and the item appears black but is listed as brown. It’s possible that they are using GPT to translate from another language. I think I’ve read about listings for other pieces of furniture inadvertently offending people by using the Spanish word for “black” due to similar mixups.
silly fail or genius viral marketing scheme?
YouTube also has to pay for people to make content.
I did not claim that being laid off for those Citi employees would go unnoticed. Their standard of living would drop, but they would not have to live in a tent. There are many towns with low cost of housing. If those are too expensive to buy, one can rent (and probably should anyway, just to figure out the new area). The ratio of median house price to median household income today is a little higher than, say, the average over the last 50 years, but it is not 5 times higher.

There is indeed plenty of housing scattered around the flyover counties. For sure, it is less pleasant than in a rich suburban town. Those small towns do not have walkable downtowns or many cafes and eating out means a basic diner (they do not have good restaurants and entertainment precisely because affluent families moved to metros). You are very unlikely to resell it later for a massive profit. But the basics (water, sewer, electricity, groceries) are there and one can certainly live there if laid off and not envisioning good prospects for the next few years. My 2c.
> A group of Germany-based researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, who first discovered the flaws in 2019, told CNN Thursday they had confirmation Apple received their original report at the time but that the company appears not to have acted on the findings. The same group published a proposed fix for the issue in 2021, but Apple appears not to have implemented it, the researchers said.

>One of the researchers, Milan Stute, shared an email with CNN showing a representative of Apple’s product security team acknowledging the researchers’ report in 2019
> I just tried to use atuin... I have to login, but I don't want to

It didn't ask me to login...

> I tried to run a search locally... but I have to run a PostgreSQL server

PostgreSQL is for the server? You don't need a server. It uses sqlite, verifiable by running

$ sqlite3 ~/.local/share/atuin/history.db
$ SELECT * FROM history LIMIT 10;

Did you actually try it? I don't know where you got all this from.
Also, generally speaking, self regulation involves a third party, like an impartial industry wide organization or a competitor.

Inspecting the self is a bit bonkers.
I dunno; I think that in a case where you can see photos of a guy holding up a blown-off plane door that fell on (or next to? I don't recall the exact details) his house, video of the incident as it happened is just the icing on the cake.