skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now it is a shift from some kind of labor into nothing

I'm arguing that this is far from a certainty. If anything, it seems to be a creature of the AI companies' leadership's marketing.

> reason those people are in administrative jobs is because that's where the money is

This doesn't preclude there being other things there's money in. Just consider how much cheaper education becomes without administrative bloat.

> See Russian Roulette analogy above. It's survivorship bias warmed over.

What's the basis for casting technological revolutions as a game of Russian roulette? Of course your model will predict doom if you hard code that in.

> industrial revolution worked out for some parts of the world

I mean, sure. If you think the world would be better off had we never industrialized or invented agriculture, I guess there's a lot to be depressed about.

> not sure it isn't avoidable

The tech has military applications. It's not avoidable.

> as long as we aren't able to clean up our present day messes that we probably shouldn't be opening more Pandora's boxes unless we have a plan on how we're going to deal with the possible aftermath

You don't know what's in the box until you open it. We wouldn't have wind farms and solar panels (as efficient as they are) without computers. If we'd listened to the people who said we should stop digitising to save jobs we would be worse off vis-à-vis climate change.

> they have universal apathy regarding their future, between 'AI', climate change and various wars why study, why prepare for a world that's changing too fast to keep up with?

Where are these kids geographically? The brighter ones I know are brimming with optimism.

> unbounded optimism is likely to lead to some massive level of disappointment

By definition, right?

I'm not saying we won't be disappointed. But optimism with respect to technological revolutions tends to lead to a better place than fear and pessimism. Even if that better place has its disappointments.
The teaching standards at Harvard have been declining remarkably steadily for many years now.

https://www.chartr.co/stories/2023-12-08-2-grade-inflation-a...

Apparently teachers' standards have declined for themselves too. Some of that would be a result of being trained at Harvard, a vicious circle.
In lots of published papers there is some kind of call-out for the requirement of future research.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=more...

A sentence like that or a variation thereof is part of the 'dance' around funding.
We knew about this: some kinds of heating can affect all the molecules, but cooling generally only those colliding with the walls.
Is the economy bad? Seems fine to me. In general a “bad economy” seems entirely made up. It’s not like the money just disappears. I think it’s a concept invented to facilitate wealth transfers.
> Can you explain this more? Why are you so tied to ipv4?

For me, IPv4 doesn't break the privacy barrier, IPv6 blasts a huge hole straight into each and every household, office and IoT device on the planet. No, privacy fixes put into IPv6 do not work.
Haha wait. How do you scalp a product on pre-order that requires an in-person fitting. Seems such a roundabout way to a headache. It's easier just to let Apple's marketing funnel suck you in ahah
... and what was your answer?
For those who have said that text messages aren't encrypted, I'm pretty sure this is inaccurate. You can almost guarantee the big social media platforms used TLS encryption on all their data in transit. A quick and dirty packet capture confirmed this, no messages can be seen in plain text. Also, a quick test sending messages from an iPhone with the latest iOS through Burpsuite will cause the app to not work properly. Messages aren't sent or received, and we can see the logs in SSL fatal errors "certificate_unknown". This is even after the cert was installed as a Trusted Root CA. This seems to be evident of SSL pinning, also as expected. There are many variables here, way too many to account for, but I would probably rule out the "This was captured on Airport wifi". With this and the information from the other messages here, I'm personally going to lean towards it was an internal Snapchat flag that alerted law enforcement, or GCHQ has a Snowdenesque backdoor.
It's an interactive article, it does legit need JS
That doesn’t make them acceptable, just not objectionable enough to get legal action. Those concepts aren’t equivalent outside of a direct democracy and it’s very easy to find things which a majority of Americans do not approve of but which have persisted because they’re not make-or-break issues for many voters but there’s a industry committed to maintaining the status quo.
Women wearing heels in wildly inappropriate situations is pretty common media. The number of times I have seen some secret assassin, bodyguard, super hero archetype wearing impractical footwear seems to outnumber the times they are wearing an athletic shoe.
+1. I've run into this too, and ended up using set() to clarify.
Probably a bit of both. What the commenter is describing is a textbook social proof tactic. "Hey, I like free stuff and taxes make me feel like a bit of a doofus, just like that guy. And like that guy, I see myself as the clever sort of person that isn't fooled by fine print. That free Turbo Tax program sounds awfully useful and free for people like me!" And Intuit can also point to that commercial and say "how is this trying to disguise the proof?" and they'd be right. They're just also trying to make it feel free still by making it free for a relatable character.

Sounds hokey but that sort of shit has been the bread and butter of advertising since forever. A vanishingly small percentage of people are anywhere close to as rational as they think they are when buying things. Many of the most self-assuredly "skeptical, rational, well-researched consumer" types get totally snowed by the simplest marketing ideas because they're looking for sales bullshit they can empirically disprove, and most marketing is influencing people in a way that makes them think they came to the conclusion independently.
Heating and cooling are rarely nicely split up in time. While you're heating something it is also cooling and while you're cooling something it is also warming up. This usually limits your ability to heat something up or to cool it because at some point these two are in balance.
This scared me but they are only charging for public IPv4 which I never use.
I’ve had this happen on Google Maps multiple times. I don’t think this is unique to Apple.
Not when fishing for grants.
Those don't need to be separate systems, and keeping them in one system is often beneficial to see the evolution of the concept.

I'll frequently have an idea and toss it into a backlog ticket. Maybe just as a title to start. When a customer mentions that problem/feature, I can add that info in the backlog even if it doesn't immediately become a priority.

When the issue does become something worth working on, I'll usually add more details but the various evidence accumulated over 6 months of letting the item "bake" is invaluable.
Different diseases, different population sizes/densities, different world environment, different healthcare capabilities. I'm pretty sure there's no way to say with any confidence that had most people just been forced to get on with their lives, fatalities would have been X% worse (assuming an otherwise equivalent outbreak in 1997).
Full Mesh Transit Gateway topology across 10 regions
By watching solar mass ejections you can see how fast they leave those in transverse directions, and assuming those directed at us (whose speed we can't track by watching) go the same speed, we can measure how long they take to generate an aurora.
If they are going to use deepfakes, it better be entertaining or I am just going to swipe up.
Previously: "German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app"[0] (319 points, 4 days ago, 243 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046838
but all the thoughts about it in 1925 would have been way off to how it actually turned out
This channel is wonderful. The museum’s curator primary channel, Look Mum No Computer[1], is just as good!

1: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw
The last time I looked into this (which was a few years ago), ISPs were allocating blocks containing billions of IPv6 addresses to anyone who paid a nominal sum.

So that vast address space might not last as long as it would seem...
There are already laws against sexual abuse.
Is the idea that car collisions are accidental the point of the comment I replied to? No. Is it an insidious falsehood that normalises many preventable deaths? Yes.
Rare Earth Metals May Be Lurking in Your Junk Drawer
And measured light speed by watching Jupiter's moons coming around late.
Advantage: Not out of addresses.
I think this post convincingly argues that there exists a world (but not ours, due to path dependence) where IPv6 is a better design: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
Fractions are just division. When kids learn division, it's about splitting into equal groups.

Fractions are a bit different though - you're splitting a single thing into equal chunks. Hence, slices of pie.

Multiplying by 1/5 is really dividing by 5. Introduce that first. We already know how to do this. You split your 1/3 slice into 5 equal slices.

Do the same to the other 2/3 slices, count all the slices, and you have 15. Hence, 1/15.

As an aside, common core math is amazing. They gave my daughter a model for the distributive property that can be used to show how to do long multiplication.
While deployed, soldiers I know noticed hot water freezes faster than cold water. The Mpemba Effect, was later proven under some conditions (1)

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-experiment-sho...
They thought it would never catch up to them, they thought grade inflation didn’t matter because it was still hard to get in.
Thanks for your reply, but as far as I read the documentation, your solution relies on AWS. If so, manged vs self-hosted is not really an issue since you are already locked into AWS. If it works without AWS, then it makes sense.
The difference between multiple months/years of emergency savings and retirement savings is intent (and timeline).

I could afford to take months or years off, but I’d rather let that money grow in an interest-bearing account for decades and spend it later.
How dependent are they on SpaceX, really though? There are competitors that are capable of launching satellites into LEO, some them are getting closer to SpaceX pricing. There may be some design hurdles to make everything work, but I don't think SpaceX could really completely block them.
We never learn
Particle Physics Is Not in Crisis
Of course you're going to die on that hill, it's where we all live. Where else are you going to die?
Too many of us in the USA act like entitled brats. Easy for me to say as a car owner with my basic needs well-enough taken care of. Given my child has medical needs that make it even more important than the regular amount of importance having access to "freedom of the road" in a rural area, as much as I want to go without a car, a few things have to change first, like moving back to a city.

Perhaps most people have similar medical needs? We don't seem very healthy inn this country, on average. I wonder to what degree that's because we rely on such easy low-effort, high future-cost transportation?

Let's not be like the Wall-E humans.

Little by little, and gradually more,
People will walk to get to the store.

Little by little we'll steward the woods
To garden and forage and harvest our goods.
We don't know why the business was marked as closed. Maybe they had a sign up during the pandemic saying "closed until further notice".
I re-invented what turned out to be short division (no joke! I wouldn’t learn it had a name until I was in my late 20s) because I hated long division so much, same year we started doing long division in school (4th grade? 3rd? IDK).

Fits in about the same space as the original problem unless it’s printed so small that you have to rewrite it, and way less room for transcription errors. I also find it clearer but that may just be me (fwiw I’m “bad at math”—I find it incredibly boring and basically can’t follow proof- and equation/identity-based stuff, I have to turn it all into algorithmic thinking to have a prayer of understanding it; i.e. my opinion on the superiority of short division is that of a mathematical imbecile, so, grain of salt)

> I blame this on my Chemistry teacher - a class which I was also taking at the time - who spoke little English and had never taught in the United States until the year I landed in her class.

It doesn’t help that in chemistry, 1 + 1 may be 1. Or 3. :-)

[edit] short division:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_division

Under the “example” section, the little superscripts are what you write in by hand on the problem as you work it, at least as I did it. 9/4 in the hundreds place is 2 with 1 remainder, so write 2 up above as part of the solution and a 1 superscript next to the 5 in the problem itself (tens place), now that’s 15, divide that, 3 goes in the tens place of the solution, write the remainder (3) next to the digit in the ones place as a superscript and do it again, if you need to keep going just add a decimal point and zeroes as required.

Way faster than working long division, takes up less space, and less error prone (imo). What’s actually going on is clearer (again, imo)
How do you know it hasn't and isn't slowly making its way here? Universe is a big ol' boy.
Didn't make enough money off skins this year I guess. Good luck to those impacted.
Does ipv6 result in higher latencies? I could see larger addresses increasing latency, but then again I could also see a more efficient protocol resulting in lower net latency. I should probably read a book describing the differences.
I’m not saying that you can’t be at fault, or that the consequences of an collision aren't horrific.

I’m just using a colloquial term for people whose actions are neither intentional or malicious to make the point that you can be held responsible for damages you didn’t foresee or intend to cause.
Given that this was AWS doing what their top two competitors were already doing, and that for most people it’s smaller than the price hikes GCP customers have had last year and coming February 1st, I’m skeptical that anyone significant is going to make this the issue they leave over.
The ancients were misled by apparent size of stars, not realizing they were point sources spread out by atmospheric diffraction. Placed far enough away, they would have to be implausably big by that measurement.

So people promoting distant stars had a glaring contradiction they had to ignore. Lesson for modern theorizing.
Proteus Phenomenon
wait have FAANGs started that take home test BS?

That’s beyond dumb.

I really do feel people don’t understand the point of white board coding questions, and have constructed a whole new system of weird and unnecessary steps. I do not understand what a take home project is meant to accomplish other than filtering for people who have resources to give them free time.
No, https://privacytests.org/ is misleading, it shows only the results of the default browser settings - which absolutely nobody uses.

Worst part is, they don’t even mention this…
As it was explained to me, the worry was less about actual exploits and more to do with supporting various HTML features in the respective clients (Think Caniuse, but specifically for email).

Back when I was doing some work in this area, the Email Standards Project was trying to get most of the popular clients to update their rendering engines with this goal in mind. So far as I can tell, this work seems to have been inherited by the people behind the Email Markup Consortium.[1]

[1]: https://emailmarkup.org
CDC now encouraging doctors to consider more blood testing for forever chemicals
Microwaves target the resonant frequency of intermolecular hydrogen bonds and impart vibration. It's a very special mechanism that doesn't really lend itself to this sort of analogy.
LLMs were very much engineered... the exact results they yield are hard to determine since they're large statistical models, but I don't think that categorizes the LLMs themselves as a 'discovery' (like say Penicilin)
These are autoregressive models. When you have a new type of sequence where future elements are able to be predicted from previous parts of the sequence, but in a new kind of way than the models have seen before, it would make sense to finetune.

Admittedly, that's a pretty vague descriptor for how to decide what to do for a given data scenario, but it might be good enough as a rough heuristic. Now, whether knowledge addition falls under that, might be a question of taste (without experiments).
They've successfully managed to delay it for decades
Related:

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37116487 - Aug 2023 (306 comments)

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568766 - Dec 2020 (131 comments)

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686 - June 2019 (238 comments)
I have my own company and still won't mix personal emails in there. Keep em separate. Just for your own sanity but if that's not good enough you could be bought out and they'll want to take your domain.

Buy a personal domain for personal stuff and don't run a business off it.
Maybe not all that clear-cut?

"While the actual occurrence of the Mpemba effect is disputed"
That's more the mid-late 70s.

If you follow the long-wave (Kondratiev wave) theory of economics, the 70s was the beginning of the real "drop" while the 60s were still (relatively) boom times.

At the beginning of the downturn, there were large strike waves and dissent ... which were then, yes, broken, leading to the collapse of the socialist left wing in western countries (those parties calling themselves [or being called] socialist or social democratic now generally aren't and haven't been for a long while), and a brutal weakening of the organized labour movement.
That sure sounds like a lot. But "billions" is less than a /64. Try "sextillions" (/56) or "septillions" (/48). Of course, when the denominator is "undecillions", it becomes clear that this is actually a non-issue.
The way we understand history is limited to the mechanisms we have for recording it and reliving it. We experience history through imitation, parody, critique, imperfect recollection and the marketing and resale of cultural artifacts. Media can reduce ideas and people to stereotypes but it can also provide you with hours of raw documentary footage to wade through if you're willing.
Show HN: I made a script to scrape your Facebook group
Hey HN,

I'm a solopreneur and I scrape stuff.

I've had a lot of people ask me to do this, so I decided to build it!

Would love to know what you think of it!

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Same here, mortgage interest puts me over the threshold (and single)
Apple Business Connect

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/introducing-apple-bus...

>Apple today introduced Apple Business Connect, a free tool that allows businesses of all sizes to claim their location place cards and customize the way key information appears to more than a billion Apple users across Apple Maps, Messages, Wallet, Siri, and other apps.

https://businessconnect.apple.com/
I can attest to the energy for mailing things here in the PNW. We have to drive 10-15 minutes to a mailbox, and I'm lucky to have a stamp. Our mail-driver will only take mail in-person (not from the box) due to excessive mail theft.
They put it behind CF specifically in response to a DOS attack [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939559
Many of the results had error bars overlapping zero or were fairly close (see figure 1). For results like this, it's not too surprising that other researchers would detect a faint positive or a faint negative instead. That doesn't really undermine the usefulness research, though. After all, it's not that uncommon for studies to end up with small effects. When reading a paper with that magnitude of result, it's good to remember that different researcher decisions could nudge that range into statistical insignificance.

I also noticed most teams produced multiple models, so it seems like part of the variation could be down to that. For example, most teams produced at least one model per survey question. It could be that basically all models based on question one showed a negative AME and all models based on question six produce a positive AME, resulting in the models disagreeing but the teams basically agreeing. Presumably their analysis to identify particular decisions explaining the variance between models would have picked that out if it were down to something that simple.
The address space has very little effect in the real world. Other latencies far outweigh anything measurable by having slightly more bits in the address.

Eg: Sometimes IPv6 is faster due to routing differences.
Another user put it well that it's a _novel_ experience unlike anything else. To have a couple layers of your ego, bias, and preconceptions shed off for a few hours to see the world, yourself, your life, your thoughts, and everything else in a new lens that you may have forgotten how to see, while your mind runs on a overclock for a brief period with a little extra randomness/creativity. If you are a 'thinker', and able to get yourself over the 'hard drugs' concept, then you should try it if you have access and just see if you like what comes of it.

I like the metaphor of the mountain ski slope, where our minds have our regular thought patterns/trails that we are used to using and LSD is like a fresh load of snow that let's your mind explore and create new pathways in the slopes! This doesn't mean you will come out in 10 hours as a different person, but you will have had a new perspective and that's always enlightening in some way, however simple it may be.

Taking one tab of 100ug for me is never a full 'tripping' experience where I feel out of control and I think most people can try this and enjoy it without much to worry about. There's minimal mental and visual effects and at the peak for 1-2 hours or so you'll get a taste of what LSD is about. If you have a pleasurable experience then up the dose by 25ug every 4 months until 150 or so to get a better trip where things aren't out of control at the peaks but you have a good time. Then when you're comfortable you can do a yearly trip/meditation session out in nature, the shore, or a nice view. The mental state is really unlike anything else for me and being nonaddictive is so nice as I can just go a whole year without using it with no mental effort. Unlike where with weed where my brain equates it with a dopamine response and I'll get thoughts to go smoke even though I'm no regular user.

That's my 6 cents, hope it was useful to someone.
Yeah. While these specific professors or schools or research institutes may not see any immediate consequences, the general opinion of universities has been increasingly taking a beating. That's a dangerous thing in a place where there's an everpresent conservative drumbeat of anti-intellectualism in general and the liberal elites in their ivy towers. I'm not sure what the ultimate consequences will be for US universities might be if this course continues, but it won't be good.
It could but there have been some reports of lower latency, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7s25FSK0U

This is an area you want to measure carefully because some of the older reports about IPv6 being slower were artifacts of old hardware limitations or under-optimized software which are no longer relevant.
You can be tracked with either, but IPv6 is not functionally worse than IPv4 in that regard. You could argue that IPv6 is less anonymous than CGNAT, but CGNATs usually have to keep detailed logs, so that balances out.

All the tricks for anonymizing IPv4 (VPN, NAT, Tor, etc.) are equally feasible on IPv6.