skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s the alternative?

Funny you should mention it; one of the election posters in Alexanderplatz is for the Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung ("Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research") — a single-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine to reverse the aging process.

I can't vote here, but if I could, this is appealing.

(I might still not actually vote for them, it depends on the details of the voting system and single-issue parties like this in the UK seem to attract people that don't play well with others).

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Another solution is one I mention in half the threads around here on the topic "are AI companies evil copyright pirates?", where my comments revolve around asserting that any AI good enough to be economically disruptive is necessarily also good enough to be the kind of thing that a government can take ownership over in order to supply the means of production that enables a sustainable UBI alternative to the current economic paradigm.
Gyms, cloud storage, restaurant buffets, insurance all follow this business model. If everyone paying into it actually expected to extract their entire money's worth of value the whole industry would collapse.
The exception that proves the rule. It would have been more accurate for OP to have said we haven't tried prosecuting and imprisoning CEOs, etc, with the same vigor we apply to street crime.

Every great once in a while, yes, we actually prosecute the hell out of a few executives. But it's hardly commonplace.
that one is near the surface and consists of clay deposits so extraction and refining should be much easier than many other deposits, such as in Australia.
I'm not your investment, ace. You're mine.

Well, you would be, if it weren't for a thousand cuts like this in the past.
people aren't thought experiments in ancap-economics textbooks.

irrational behaviour is core to not only people but pretty much every lifeform on the planet.
it puts the concentration of power into fewer individuals hands, which makes me nervous.

The gov is slow b/c it requires sign off from hundreds of people. (For example, congress approving NASA's budget).

As a private entity, maybe 20 or 50 people are required to approve or reject missions. This lets them move faster, but if a certain CEO doesn't want to provide services for a war, they can mess with the contract.
The funny thing is that if this ever happened, it would be on official HP cartridges that were the subject of a supply chain attack or insider threat. And yes, the even better part is that there is zero technical reason why this needs to be the case, the cartridges themselves should be dumb except for possibly a toner level sensor that is just a simple analog device. The threat vector only exists because HP is trying to squeeze the customer.
Iran's Missile Attack on Pakistan Was Meant to Send a Message to the Region
What Is Nightshade
What makes something extraordinary?
> Unless there's more too it,

There is definitely more to it. We're hearing the story from one side, and there are many good reasons why the parties on the other side wouldn't share all of their context. Honestly, as I was reading it, I was thinking that it was both conceivable this was a gross miscarriage of justice and an outright failing of the police forces, it's also entirely possible that the guy is as guilty as sin and they're just having trouble putting a case together (which is common when dealing with online fraud).

Keep in mind the police forces might arrest someone, but it's the prosecutors that make the decision about whether to bring charges. The prosecutors could have vacated the charge entirely, but chose not to. There's a lot of possible explanations for why they didn't, but that part of it isn't the RCMP's responsibility.
No, I "thought differently" and got a Meta Quest 3 a few months ago.
You can get an overview of "Shop Class as Soulcraft" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280379
But that was kind of bad luck in timing.

They started shutting down nuclear, to make switch to wind/solar, before Russia invaded. (or at least being very trusting of Russian supply, so that is error in hindsight).

You could make argument that the switch to wind/solar should have been more gradual, or with more ability to roll back. But don't think it is a good argument to not switch to wind/solar. Just about how to do it.
this whole thing is fake news. no reputable news sources mentions any names or their employers. only the Mercury News and the Mountain View Voice mention that two bodies were found in Los Altos on the 16 (before the YouTube layoffs).
Absolutely. Another example: people are routinely sent to jail based on highly sensitive field drug tests which have significant rates of false positives.
> This is subtly but crucially importantly different from 'AI with very general training'.

I am not being as precise on the Internet as I would be if this was a paper perhaps, and for that I apologize :-)

However, just reading the top comment chain on this story, and other discussions elsewhere, I think there is a lot of cross-talk where AGI is being confused for sapient AI. I don't get the sense that there is a definition as generally accepted as we would like.
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Since he didn't graft, the fruit from the trees he planted would have mostly been unpleasant to eat. But still fit to ferment alcohol from, or feed to livestock.
makes a lot of sense in the Southwest where the land can't be used productively for much else. They should create some programs to incentivize some of the farmers in California and other states to put up solar on their land so they stop consuming so much water as well
Try canceling your Amazon Prime. Every order now, I have to be careful not to re-activate Prime, with all the dark patterns.

I also have to keep switching the shipping method on an order page, from the paid option, to the free (non-Prime) option. And there's a long spinner (sometimes ~15 seconds) to punish me when I click the radio button. (In the past, they've also hidden a default trial of Prime in the shipping option radio buttons, so that's another reason to check that.)

(If only Walmart.com, Target.com, Walgreens.com, etc. would close the gap to even current Amazon, we'd have better options and less trashiness. Anecdotally seems like Amazon -- either from the top, or from individuals juicing their metrics -- are taking advantage of Amazon's enviable competence and position, and cashing out excess goodwill.)
The earliest DRM I can remember are those sites that blocked you from selecting text or right-clicking.
App passwords still work. There's no need to be hyperbolic.
Just chiming in to say I've had a Linux system for years with Nvidia gpus and I've never had an issue with it
I love your passion!

When I was CTO of a software startup, I wrote a blog post reviewing various books about engineering and software teams, neatly organized into six sections. The three sections that you might find interesting, each featuring a few relevant books:

- Debugging dysfunctional product cultures: https://amontalenti.com/2020/11/28/definitive-reading-list#d...

- The psychology of deep work: https://amontalenti.com/2020/11/28/definitive-reading-list#p...

- Programmer mindset and philosophy: https://amontalenti.com/2020/11/28/definitive-reading-list#p...
I canceled my Instant Ink subscription last month $5/month at $60 a year is worth going to costco and picking up a Cannon Laser printer for $200.
Also check out https://www.getvmtek.com for something very polished. We just released a huge update a few days ago.
Because a person who doesn't watch Netflix for a month gets no value from their money, so not charging them is a clear win with no downsides.

Netflix doesn't get as much money, but since they didn't provide any service, I fail to see why that's a problem.

The only reasonable price for 0 work is 0€. For anything more it gets complicated.
Heart attack, indoors, after waiting outside in -22F for ~20 minutes, and less than 45 minutes after returning inside.

Claims of insufficient "warming packs" for employees. Claims management prevented employees from warming in their automobiles.

GoFund me https://www.gofundme.com/f/paulo-bezerra $17k so far. 50 year old man, with baby & spouse.
If people wanted to drive a golf cart they’d buy a golf cart.
800Gbps via OSFP and QSFP-DD are already a thing. Multiple vendors have NICs and switches for that.
https://archive.is/2024.01.19-151832/https://www.haaretz.com...
Right. I think a charitable reading of the post is something like, "it probably takes a mind superior to a human's in order to willfully develop a human-rivaling AGI".

There's a lot of ground to cover between AI as increasingly elaborate magic 8-ball toys and a real human-rivaling AGI. That is, one capable of observing an environment, identifying goals and problems, planning, acting, and reacting. In these much longer (stateful) cognitive chains, there are more opportunities for pathological failure modes and less opportunity for a toy user to charitably excuse the misbehavior.

This is not some kind of dualist metaphysical argument about the possibility of AGI in the abstract. Merely a doubt that we can blindly scale up the complexity of a synthetic mind to meet or surpass our own. Consider that we still can't even begin to understand our own minds in enough detail to reliably predict, repair, or augment them.

I am outside this field and so may have too much of a layman's perspective. But it seems to me that contemporary AGI believers conflate training and evolution. That nature did it in eons doesn't argue that we can do it in practical product development cycles, unless we can simulate these evolutionary processes to follow a similar search in a compressed time scale.

As a crude analogy, I think todays LLM products are a bit like horoscope generators. Clever arrangements of words that attract a charitable or gullible reader. But AGI use cases are more like wanting a life partner who will understand and willingly assist ones efforts.
The name is still an owned thing. It will go through the mill and come out someplace else in a new (possibly lesser) incarnation someplace else sometime, as long as someone with enough money thinks it has enough value. These things take a long time to fade away, like old soldiers, the Roman Empire, Dodge Brothers automobiles, Interwoven socks, and Sarah Lee cakes.
So I guess they sell printers at or below cost? In which case one could argue HP is dumping its products. Illegal in some countries.
This literally doesn’t mean anything
They say naming is one of the hard problems of computer science, but there's not much concrete work addressing it.

I'd recommend Elements of Clojure[0].

Don't be fooled by the title, it's not really about Clojure, it just uses Clojure as an illustration as it discusses a very subtle general problem. From the website:

> The first chapter, Names, explains why names define the structure of our software, and how to judge whether a name is any good.

> The second chapter, Idioms, provides specific, syntactic advice for writing Clojure which is clean and readable.

> The third chapter, Indirection, looks at how code can be made simpler and more robust through separation.

> The final chapter, Composition, explores how the constituent pieces of our code can be combined into an effective whole.

I find it a thoughtful and considerate overview of an area that everybody has some implicit knowledge of, and something that leads to a more abstract concept of quality.

[0]https://elementsofclojure.com/
Any laser printer will be significantly more reliable because toner doesn't dry out. People are very happy with Brother laser printers, but I deal with HP enterprise laser printers at work and they basically Just Work vs the nightmare consumer grade inkjets that are always clogging and breaking down
Part of it is that app passwords are locked once used - you can't move them to a new user agent is my understanding.
It's the other way around, most of the big universities charge international students through the nose to subsidise domestic students.
Police incompetence has a way of being disproportionately common depending on your race. Knowing definitively that is what is happening here without a lot more context is difficult, but it's entirely possible this is textbook racism.
They have been. But in the old times such behavior would quickly get you labelled as a village slut and become avoided by most people.

But in the social media age companies need such people to generate content that drives engagement, and serves a a conduit for ads. This creates incentives for such destructive behavior, and forces such people into others' attention spans, reinforcing the loop.
Maybe they shouldn't sell printers under cost and ink at a 98% profit per sale...

I would buy ink cartridges from the vendors if they were not twice as expensive and utilizing sleezy tactics like lying about being empty.
Depends on your day to day I guess. My partner is a med student and goes through about a ream or two of paper per semester.
HP is a shadow of how great it was. HP was an engineer company, producing products for engineers. Their measure tools were top notch. Now, it's all gone to Digilent. Their line of reverse polish notation HP series of calculators... long gone. While the HP Prime is somewhat OK, it's a POS compared to the HP48 quality level (I dont care that you integrated Erable-like inside).

HP will be gone, like Digital is.
There are plenty of people who have frequent printing needs, even if they're not using it for work. For instance, my wife homeschools, so she prints a lot of worksheets and such. My son plays piano, and he likes to print out sheet music. And I find myself, more often than I'd like, having to print out forms and sign them, because the company or organization hasn't figured out electronic signatures yet.

But perhaps the bigger feedback I'd offer in response to your comment is that just because something doesn't apply to you or your situation doesn't mean that it's not relevant to other people.
I'm looking out for HP by not buying their product and preventing them from making a bad investment in me.

If enough other people do the same, they'll be rich, right?
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In terms of the RCMP and their aggressive behaviour. It makes perfect sense. First Nations people have not been treated well by the RCMP or LE for a very long time in Canada... This still persists to this day, systematic discrimination and all that stuff.
The xbox was sold at a loss, that was an investment.

Convince me they sell those printers at a loss.
Don’t most modern cars, even ICE cars, both slow-down-to and speed-up-to the speed designated by cruise control? I know my Subaru does, and my old Audi did, and both of the two Ford Escapes I drive for work do.
Is there a modern easy GUI that allows snapshots without reaching for QEMU?
My wife is often printing stuff. Even though is mainly content that would be fine as a PDF on her phone or tablet, one of which is always with her. TBF I do occasionally also print things but little enough that I'd be fine going to the library to do it.
I use my brakes sparingly myself. I think many forget there is something between pushing the gas and hitting the brake, and that is foot off both, especially on highways you can really control your speed with wind resistance. I also like to downshift on steep grades when going downhill, and I downshift when traffic gets backed up common on NYC highways.
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My first "my own purchase" PC was a 486sx. So as a _line_, "the 486" wasn't guaranteed to have an FPU.
Reference checks and employment verification are different things.

Reference check is done after the interviews, you ask the candidate for references (past managers and coworkers) and call them up. That takes a fair amount of other people's time, so it only makes sense to do it after you're fairly certain you want to make an offer.

Employment verification is simply getting a statement from past employers that this person worked there from date to date and held these titles. That's quick and easy.
> People often assume that if someone has the "right set of beliefs" (whatever that "right set" is) that they're also a good person.

IIUC, there are a few aspects of Christian theology that muddy this issue a bit. I'm probably a bit wrong, so I'd be grateful for any corrections:

1) Christians believe in progressive sanctification. I.e., the Holy Spirit works, over time, to make Christians more like Jesus. So you really should expect true Christians, on average, to gradually become better people.

2) Not everyone professing to be a Christian truly is [0].

As an agnostic, those issues have frustrated my efforts to decide if Christianity generally true.

[0] https://www.openbible.info/topics/fake_christians
Yes.

It's easy to screw up permissions, or to mis-code a request, and then cause misdirected attention and a violation of rights.
Does anyone have experience running ceph in a home lab? Last time I looked into it, there were quite significant hardware requirements.
> Disaster recovery for millions of digital records is much easier, make a copy on a different disk and give it to someone to hold. Repeat once a decade.

Who is this "someone", though?

There's no long term, passive, digital storage solution available for the average person. Records that used to survive on a regular basis no longer do so in digital form.
In How to Build Impossible Things, Ellison tells the story of his unconventional education in the world of architecture and design, and how he learned the satisfaction and joy that comes from doing something well for a long time.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447751/how-to-build-impossib...

Enjoyable, not a philosophy of engineering but philosophy with engineering.
There's a Brother HL-3170CDW behind me. I bought a $48 5-pack of toner (1 each of the colors, 2 blacks) in October. The last such back I bought got me about 2000 pages. For toner, then, my ongoing expense is about $0.024 per page.
If you are wondering, yes, every year a handful of French people get hospitalized from eating bad cheese. Usually E. Coli contamination.
i print so many D&D supplies. The printer lives in the basement though, not on my desk.
Never thought about it actively but I will never ever consider a HP product again.

I think the minimum a company should do is to show some kind of minimum respect to a potential customer.
You forgot to mention that the only reason people buy Apple products in the first place is because of marketing. If the sheeple ever wake up, Apple is doomed.

Or so I've been hearing for, what, the last decade or more?
That's not quite what's annoying me. Maybe the more bothersome thing is that some number of people in here have been regularly downvoting people who have done nothing worse than posting factually correct information.

Almost as if people were trying to use HN's voting system as an ersatz referendum on their preferred big data packages rather than as a way to self-moderate the quality of the discussion.

We're supposed to be a crowd that favors mature discussions about technical topics. We can do better.
My Brother laser printer sits in a corner unobtrusively (not on my desk). I don’t print enough these days to warrant the convenience it but the toner lasts forever and not needing to make a trip to print is really nice. I’m sure there are people who use inkjets for printing photographs or have lots of paper copies they need to make for whatever reason. Statistically, ~45% of Americans own a printer [1].

Be careful when you extrapolate your own personal habits onto broader market trends.

HP by itself still brings in $18B per year in printer revenue [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1247076/consumer-electron...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274447/hewlett-packards-...
I build an app for this some time ago: https://hyperdeck.io

It uses markdown with extensions. There’re also a lot of alternative markdown based slide generators on GitHub. Most use JavaScript though and I wanted something native
That's cool that you've found a system that works to avoid the abuse, but it's still abusive.
> So it isn’t like opening the immigration floodgates is a magic bullet.

It is not painless, but, for all intents an purposes, it is magic. Chemotherapy. Right now it really sucks, but, bar an actual (as far as I can tell) unforeseeable miracle, it is the only thing that is going to keep your system alive in a few years,

Either you do the chemo now, or you are going to have a really bad time later. Right this second you might not feel the cancer, while the drug hits you hard. But are people really that confused about what it is going to happen if they refuse?

The west can obviously always hope for wars to rage on, to at least have people at the then open door. Fingers crossed. But People will not be so super excited to leave Africa in, oh I don't know, 10 years or so. Living conditions are improving and people are actually not that excited about leaving a country, if everything is pretty okay in that country.

Of course you are right, that does not make it easy and it could have been a lot simpler. That would have required foresight. Not our forte. Alas.
Yes, this is one other slice of the pie that gives a more accurate picture of what it is looking at.

The struggles of autism are significant, and while people on the spectrum make excellent researchers/engineers and such, many absolutely struggle in their personal life.

Being rather autistic myself, I understand this struggle very, very well. This is a struggle of many of my autistic friends too, unfortunately, though most have income sources in a non-normal manner that is better suited to their autism.

There is a lot of nuance go this issue for sure, and I appreciate your points here.
GeoCities/Angelfire sites looked like this at least until 2004 when blogs took off. As CMS architecture was a lot more complicated than static HTML/CSS, people stopped customizing their sites and just went with default themes.

That was the magic of early Internet. No themes, no frameworks, just whatever you could do with HTML.
Personal blogs are where tech news happens
I got a but ranty there. To get back on topic, lithium isn't a one-time cost. Batteries wear out and have to be replaced. If we assume the batteries would outlive the average vehicle, we're committing to vehicles having an expected life of say 10 years. Meaning every 10 years it has to be destroyed, recycled, and replaced.

I have a 1988 pickup that still runs great. I don't drive it regularly as my hybrid is much better on fuel, but the damage done from producing that truck was paid for decades ago and I'd be shocked if the cost of a tank or two of gas per month comes anywhere near the ecological impact of a producing a new, electric F-150 that is marginally useful for towing or hauling (my only reason for needing a pickup).
Don't discount the millions of years of evolution to provide the "blank slate" human learner with perceptual systems, physics-based reasoning, and motor systems ready to be fine-tuned for this slightly different variant of goal-forming, planning, and locomotion.
I wonder if they could put some energy dense industry out there so they don't have to transmit it.
Autopay is amazing if you're careful with it.

I have a bank account that all incoming money goes into and another that's just for autopay. I transfer the sum of the costs of my recurring expenses into the autopay account from the incoming account, and that's it. Literally set it and forget it. This combined with using Privacy disposable cards for 90% of these transactions and setting hard spend limits on them has allowed me to never look at a bill.

I _used to_ have autopay deduct from a single account. Yeah, that's scary as hell and has caused heaps of problems. Not doing that again.