skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is neat, but a) it strikes me that what's powerful about shell scripting is that it lets you easily wrangle multiple independent utilities that don't need to be contained within the shell stdlib (maybe I'm missing something but I didn't see any emphasis on that), and b) that embedding a language as a string inside another language is very rarely a good UX. I like that it's a really portable shell though. Shell portability is actually a pretty big problem.
I always like when small business complain that "payroll is the majority of our expenses", but when you look at the expenses it is something like:

Income: $100,000/month

Expenses: $50,000/month

Payroll:
Cashier: $290/month
Cashier: $290/month
Cashier: $290/month
Janitor: $290/month
Security: $290/month
Manager: $1,000/month
Owner: $45,000/month

"How can I keep my business afloat? We've already cut the staff down to the bare minimum and we're barely getting by!"
In two years time, no one will know what was created with AI, what was created by humans, or what was created by both.
It doesn't. Everything that's poorly 'synchronized' just dies out and the more effective organisms keep reproducing. This explains basically everything past the original question of how the original self-replicating chemical reaction started.
I prefer YAML on my Markdown front matter. It's more readable because of no brackets, quotes, or commas.
One issue here is that the game servers may be encumbered by 3rd party, proprietary licensed code.

The company can’t just give up functional source code if it’s built on top of some licensed tech.
I’ve been wondering about that given the constant stream of user generated content I’ve seen on social networks, so Gaza is so small that it can catch a roaming signal. Thats actually pretty amusing.

The article did point out a frustration I’ve also had with eSIM, about needing a connection to download and activate one.

How is the electricity handled? Just solar? thats enough for phones but I’m curious
Frozen and reheated white bread leads to lower blood sugar levels
Sure, and we have pretty good evidence of the mechanistic operation of the universe from quantum mechanics up, and we haven’t found any evidence of anything outside of that.

So, to date, a mechanistic view of the universe seems like one that is the most supported be evidence at the moment.

Have we ruled out meta-physics or some kind of duality? No, of course we haven’t. As long as there’s unknown physics, it’s a possibility.

But I think if you’re reasoning based on the evidence we’ve been able to collect to date, then you should absolutely favor a mechanistic universe to a dual universe.
Put a TOC on all your content that says “by using my content for AI you agree to pay X per image” and then send them a bill once you see it in an AI.
that’s precisely the point: the technical geniuses lack creativity to predict how things can go wrong in a thousand of different ways.
If it wasn't efficient, it is because some participants in the market (namely the animators) aren't choosing to maximize their economic utility by doing a different (higher paid) job.
This post is a bit confused. io_mode is an stdlib feature that changes some blocking stuff in the stdlib to use the stdlib's event loop. There's not such a thing for most libraries.

For typical libraries, functions and structs are provided, and to the extent that these functions call functions provided by the user, they are generic over the async-ness of those functions. That's how the language-level async feature works, for library code that doesn't specify that it is async and doesn't specify that it would like to use a specific non-async calling convention for calling the user's callbacks.
Seen some audio engines that do this too. You can come up with an elegant non-blocking lock free allocator and pass updates from the user thread out to system and reserve the memory, or you can just up front allocate everything that's needed.

If it's a fixed function synth, sometimes just allocating everything up front makes more sense.
I kind of understood Zettelkasten only after I implemented it with slip notes in analogue form. I had read How to Take Smart Notes, zettelkasten.de, watched several videos, etc., but I only got more confused. Then I read Antinet Zettelkasten, by Scott Scheper, implemented the system on paper, and finally I understood the system. Now I could go back to Obsidian and implement my Zettelkasten in Obsidian again in a way that would be much more straightforward than what I had tried the first time (and honestly, sometimes I think of doing that because of the convenience of digital). But I enjoy writing on paper and using my fountain pens.
That ambiguity is beneficial, they can simply say you did whatever they want to say with the VPN usage as a pretext.
Any AI art/video/photography/music/etc generator company who generates revenue needs to add watermarks to let the public know its AI generator. This should be forced via legislation in all countries.

If they don't then whatever social network or other services where things can shared/viewed by large groups to millions & are posted publicly need to be labeled "We can not verify veracity of this content."

I want a real internet ..this AI stuff is just triple fold increasing fake crap on the Internet and in turn / time our trust in it!
We have plenty of modern day selection pressure. Watch the first 2 minutes of Idiocracy.
If people are wondering about applications, giving blind people the opportunity to unlock their design visions in a CAD environment would be a good one.

About 2 decades ago, I visited an international school for the blind to talk about technology needs and this was at the top of their list. A lot of blind people would like to be engineers, but they lack the ability to use CAD to be competitive in industry.
Potential Microbiome Links to Skin Aging
> If we let AI take all the work from the people at the bottom

would you also make the same augument about industrial automation taking away the work of apprentices?
https://archive.md/Sr6Jb
It is almost impossible to take space.com seriously with the ad bombardment (to wit: a 4s looping gif declaring “natures adderall is taking over the internet” with a woman and her tincture, shoveling the snow out of her driveway almost instantly)
I really like your first post, because it highlights so many real fantastic wins, about how life is different & how the system really helps.

And I felt like we have had so many promises from various bits of software & professional teams about how they will heal and help us. But it hasn't planned out. The Mesos of the world, the OpenStacks of the world: they all have made similar claims to what you are saying, but something is so different this time. It's working. It's adding up.

Folks absolutely try to throw the "complexity" of it under the bus, but there's something incredibly simple about the pattern here of using apiserver to state your desires, and letting various controllers/operators work it all out, keep it going. It's a simple, repeatable pattern.

And the consistency of it all allows for systems like Helm to emerge. Not even great, but ok, adequate and demonstrating how portable the consistent platform of Kubernetes really is; it just works.

Something is different this time, even though so much sounds the same as previous dances around. It sounds complex, but many many people can get more onboard, the scope is more right sized to fit all the concerns, and the way that asking for things is just making a manifest is so much more accessible than before.

What is different this time? Why is this working this time? Why are there such more vibrant communities?
It's a supply/demand problem. There's an endless number of of people who want to be animators, but relatively few positions. So the pay is crap.

This further reduces the budget of productions so that all kinds of junk can be produced at rock bottom prices and still have a chance at making money.

And let's be honest, the vast vast majority of anime is utter crap.

If things were different however, anime might end up as a more hit-driven industry the way Hollywood productions (or heck even startups) are.
I know who JFK is— rad dude— but Wedge doesn’t ring a bell. I was in support though so my exposure to most of the dev crew was infrequent enough to make a lot of those memory recall threads pretty thin. I went to Dallas in 2006 to get the official Micromuse company training because we were basically still operating as Quallaby when I got hired. It was for… a week I think? Maybe two? Nice folks down there. Plus great barbecue for lunch and great tequila after work. Hard to argue with that.
Why not just say aoe2? We're not a tight knit crew
> I prefer YAML on my Markdown front matter. It's more readable because of no brackets, quotes, or commas.

YAML is full of pitfalls. I think the brackets/braces and quotes are worth giving up a small amount readability to eliminate the ambiguity.
> being a dissident blogger is practically a capital crime

Oh, for f*ck's sake.

Hacker News and unbridled exaggeration, name a better combination.

Look, I get that Singapore's leaders are especially litigious, and they are rightly criticised for it by a plurality of the population.

However, a defamation lawsuit is a far cry from a death sentence.

Somehow I get the feeling most commenters who criticise Singapore for its 'draconian authoritarian totalitarian xyz-itarian oligarchic police state laws' have never set foot in the place.
You are proposing an interesting thought experiment or hypothetical (“to what extent was the design team expecting a 10x longer lifetime?”). That’s worth pondering.

Furthermore, you are answering it with a “they must have known!”

I just don’t see how you can know this. (For context, I work at JPL and interact regularly with some of the Perseverance team, but nobody from the helicopter team, which was very small.)

Some context. The helicopter was originally quite controversial because it had no clear science rationale (mission science requirements did not imply a need for a helicopter). My understanding is that it was put on as a tech demo and (paraphrasing) cool thing. The lab director at the time was a proponent.

Of course it was a huge success.

Because of its precarious status, it was not designed to fly a lot. Planning flights takes a lot of resources, coordination with the rover takes resources, etc. Bandwidth, time, and people. My point is that the “plan” was kept small partly because these ancillary costs had to be kept down. This would hold even if the hardware could last forever. The tech demo must not get in the way of the prime science mission, which had already been planned.

The use of COTS components is another factor. The effects of radiation on microprocessors (in the Mars-surface or deep space environment) are not really well known, as a practical matter. There is just not much engineering experience with how bad it can get. So the longevity of the Snapdragon was (AFAIK) highly uncertain, not to mention whatever other COTS components were on it.

Hope this context is helpful.
Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
Like much of Graeber's output, it doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...
The eye evolved in much the same way, a bit at a time. It didn't just turn up one day.

As for the virus/placenta thing, I recall reading a similar thing about wasps, though I couldn't provide any citations, that the method by which a wasp stops the immune system of a host (such as a catepiller) from attacking its eggs/larvae is viral in origin, and remarkably similar in some ways to the way a mother's body doesn't attack an organism that in any other circumstances would read as a parasite.

Interesting stuff.
This looks very cool on the surface. There are a lot of systems out there with a mishmash of javascript and shell, those systems are stitched together in arbitrary ways, and it can often make them hard to debug and test. This looks like it'll make it easier to write and test those integrations, which is a win.

My main concern is that when things don't work as expected, the added layer of complexity will make it harder to figure out why. Hopefully there aren't too many rough edges.
German is conspicuously absent…
I don't think that necessarily applies. Over time movie stars tend to become their own products and movies sell because of their involvement. I just don't see the same thing happening with animators aside from the most prestigious.
Ask HN: Would we win in cyber warfare against humans from 30 years ago? 50?
What about 70 years ago?

Do we necessarily win in each case because of how much more powerful our tools and knowledge are, or do they win because of how much closer they are to the fundamentals and core of everything from the hardware to communication to encryption to constrained programming

Does this question even make sense or has the knowledge grown too much and changed too much for us to really know how to even communicate with systems from each of those eras, in the hypothetical case of trying cyber warfare against each of those groups, assuming somehow their internet was connected with ours and we were trying to "hack" and take over the entire system first to see which side is more dominant in computing.

Is it for us now as simple as telling ChatGPT "Hey ChatGPT, please connect to these couple of plugins and hack into this server setup that was common back in the 70s" and it would completely dominate any possible defense those older systems could have? What does this say about how far computing has come and how far humanity has come? That is a huge leap in power...great time to be in tech.
If all of the grocery stores collude to raise the price of milk, that’s inflation. It doesn’t matter if it was because of input costs or a desire to expand margins.

The popularity of Instacart has not grown enough to account for inflation. That’s just grasping at straws to blame people and bury your head in the sand.

I never use delivery services and my grocery prices have gone up 50%. There is more money chasing fewer goods. It’s simple supply and demand.

Only idiots get hung up arguing if middlemen are to blame for price increases. If supply was adequate, it wouldn’t be possible for grocery stores to raise prices.
Hello, this project can help you solve some problems, but the problems you have are far more complicated than we imagined, so there may not be a good solution for you.

https://github.com/Useful-open-source-project/Share-vpn-buil...

OpenVPN/WireGuard, a protocol similar to VPN, has been identified. What we use now is a proxy protocol. It is not probabilistically recognized by VPN protocol operators or firewalls. After all, they can also enter AI to help them improve their firewalls, so we We also have to find ways to resist or improve our agency agreement so that he is no longer afraid of the firewall.
$290/month? If those cashiers are working 100 hours a month they're making about a third of (US federal) minimum wage.
I'm going to admit being wrong about this after looking into it further. I saw a video of a Rivian's protection against a similar problem. I wasn't drawing the distinction of manually closing vs. automatically closing.

I will say that the automatically closing Tesla trunks I've seen won't crush someone if you get in its way. The video in question implies it would crush anything in the path of the hood when they actually found a very particular unprotected spot. But, Rivian for example does protect against this happening at that particular location, so it's still a fair criticism.
Damn, that's a shame. Why are these hardware companies too lazy to upstream?
That’s not covered by my liability insurance.
Felt rather unfortunately information light to me — lots of evidence that standards for adult ADHD are lacking, but not a lot of investigation into what those standards should look like.
/r/AskEconomics is a good start.

Later

Does this read snarky? I don't mean it that way; AskEconomics just doesn't seem to be a fan of Graeber, so if you're looking for critiques, that's a quick way to find some.
The majority of complaints I’ve seen have been of the sort “he says X is true and doesn’t even bother to consider that Y!”

… but he does. Like two paragraphs later. He states that specific criticism, and addresses it. Maybe not well! But that’s rarely the complaint.

I think the form of the book threw some folks who weren’t used to that sort of thing—a series of assertions and statements unbroken by digression, spanning one or more paragraphs, followed by paragraphs directly stating and addressing many criticisms a reader may have come up with.
Autotranslation of the back cover:

> "In a world where the boundaries between mental health and philosophy
issues are becoming increasingly blurred, Joël Kuiper takes us on a journey
compelling journey of discovery. 'And then for my fellow sufferers' is not just one
book; it is a mirror to the soul, a deep dive into the complexity of it
human consciousness.

> This story, colored by Kuiper's own struggles with bipolar disorder,
is a courageous exploration of the nature of consciousness, the illusion of free will,
and the foundations of our ethics. By weaving his personal story with
universal themes, Kuiper challenges us to ask our own existential questions
ask: Who are we? Why are we here?
Joël Kuiper uses his rich experiences as a prism to explore the riddles of...
explore human existence. Of the complex interactions between us
inner self and the external world to the influence of technology on our
perceptions and identities, no stone remains unturned in his search for
meaning.

> This book is an invitation to join a journey of self-discovery and...
introspection. It is an essential read for anyone interested
into the depths of the human mind and the eternal quest for self-knowledge and
understanding." said the AI.

> For us.
as an adult with ADHD (and a child who was diagnosed at 11) i dont understand the fascination by laypeople with confidential mental health treatment.

if kids can have ADHD surely adults can too. i feel that these types of critical pieces often embolden critics of mental health and i dont quite understand why these people feel so aggrieved by allowing people to participate fully in the modern world
> But this “simplistic” conception of the state is also the conception that fuels or articulates the anarchist critique of the state, from William Godwin to Mikhail Bakunin to Emma Goldman. As I argue in my book Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (2008), state power rests on violence and coercion; violence and coercion, to be defensible, require a moral justification; social contract theory and all other attempts in this regard are pathetically inadequate. Therefore, there should be no political state. In late Graeber, this looks simplistic and nonempirical. “The state” is a concept that falls apart under analysis and should be abandoned. Of course, that makes anti-statism just as senseless, for what is an anti-statist fighting against, really?

i can't say i follow this reading. conceptually dismantling the state doesn't put "anti-statists" out in the cold - rather it makes the "archists" all the more absurd

i found graber's writing to remain quite compatible with modern anarchist theory, which has not stood still since the 19th century, but has synthesized nihilism and anthropology with those historical traditions of communal libertarianism and insurrection.

and then the article mentions the corbyn thing and then just kind of... ends? i expected more.

the labour association was certainly disappointing for many folks but only a purist would believe it immediately implies some kind of fundamental conversion. and historically it is not unusual for anarchists to have some encounter with "politics" especially for some tactical reason.

he also supported the ypg, which is an armed organization dedicated to establishing a "monopoly on violence" over significant territory in their three-front war against turkey, isis, and the syrian arab army. certainly not quite comparable to an opposition party that isn't making policy or commanding british soldiers, but i've never seen anyone count the ypg against him as an anarchist, by reference to the dictionary.
As the expression goes, "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
Here's another sobering thought: you represent an unbroken chain from the universal common ancestor of successful reproduction going back billions of years and probably trillions of generations (given that many of those were as a single-celled organism). Every one of those generations a success.

So if you fail to reproduce you will break that billion year old chain of evolutionary success.

Here's another: you have 2 biological parents, (up to) 4 biological grandparents (go look at Cleopatra's family tree) and so on to an upper bound of 2^n ancestors for the n'th previous generation. At some point this number exceeds the number of organisms that were alive at that time so there are likely one or more individuals in the past who are direct ancestors to everybody.

A consequence of this is that if you go forwards in time ultimately your genetic line will either die out or you will be the direct ancestor of everybody given sufficient time.
Seconding the sibling, YAML may look nice but it's absolutely full of awful confusing behavior. If you don't like JSON for human-written stuff, see TOML or the like. I think JSON is great for serialization, it's so simple, but I agree we need something more readable like TOML for human-written data.

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...
They didn't give details but it might come across as rude to assume they didn't know anything. The guide is introduced as a director of engineering, IIRC. One rational and charitable interpretation based on that is that they know way more than you do.

Also, even without that introduction, I got the opposite impression. The lady seemed very knowledgeable and had that melding of professionalism, persona and super-smarts that is common is very high performers, in my experience.

Sure, it didn't cater to your exact technical expectations of what the video should have, but such an expectation could be considered somewhat narrow, and it may be difficult to argue that therefore it is without merit. Your point about it seeming to miss the point of its intended audience is well-taken but may result from an a super narrow understanding of the audience segment you mention, which is likely more diverse than suspected. Also, the context suggests it was designed as a mix of PR, marketing, and technical sneak peak / curio, which it seemed to achieve well.

Your self-awareness of how this could be the result of sexism or racism is commendable but by surfacing your awareness of it, it comes across as less likely to be the cause, so I'm going to assume it's some other reason for now! hahaha! :)

Overall your comment could come across as somewhat strident and narrowly focused dismissal of something, and someone, with lots of value! Perhaps you just missed that for whatever reason? That's ok! :)
I would also like to be able to revert from solution mode to problem mode, and didn’t find a good way to do that.
[3] sounds really interesting - do you have a link?
Was there something in the article that struck you as critical of mental health or aggrieved in some way? It seemed like a pretty reasonable take to me.
you are... definitely not a biologist, lol.
Correction:

test $1||exec sed -n '/^ *;;/p' "${0##*/}"

should be

test $1||exec sed -n '/^ *;;/p' "$0"
TV writers, or even the folks doing lighting and holding microphones don't gain prestige like movie stars do either, but they're in unions which allows them them get better wages.
Armatron! Wow I had one of those and totally forgot about it.
Anime characters are cats. https://i.redd.it/i6awe5ngp5cb1.jpg