skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People talk about a "decentralized Internet" and immediately start talking about pie-in-the-sky solutions: Web3, Gopher, private Discords, etc.

We already had a successful era of decentralization with vBulletin and PHPbb boards in the 2000s. Reddit and Facebook Pages took over that niche, and started pulling up the ladder behind them by de-emphasizing posts that linked out to a third party site. The message was clear: got something to post? Post it on the site directly, don't link. Their advertising business relies on people spending as much time as possible on [myPlatform], as opposed to [yourSite].

Heck, even that famous article about "dead Internet" has its source in a forum topic, not a viral tweet. Because it's a forum post, it's not arbitrarily limited to 280 characters, there's actually room for nuance, both in the OP and the replies to it.

https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
Looking at their reference impl, it does seem that array index implies z-index, in which case fair enough, I suppose an array does make the most sense - they should probably document the z-indexing though!
This looks something new. I haven't heard about sparckles before.
How is this better than just using SQLite transactions directly and a task queue table?
> the only reasons to spread vertically are phallic and Freudian.

Lol. I agree.

OTOH... An over the top, ideological take on art is kind of traditional in architecture. I could easily imagine a reincarnated Ayn Rand argueing for skyscrapers for these exact reasons. Phalic inspiration representing the taming of nature and challenge to God.

In 2024, a slapfight between Andy Warhol and a local dress designer about the colour orange... That was the kind of conflict avante garde artists had to have so the rest of us could benefit from a stream of new artistic ideas. A sacrifice.

These days... everyone gets dragged in.

I kind of like brutalism, personally. It took some bad turns, but I'm hoping for a comeback. Maybe we should do paint this time though.
Purely out of curiosity — the indentation style is very unusual. Where did you pick it up?
Whenever I read articles like this (AI assistants having a negative impact on resulting work), I wonder about how much it affects "experienced" AI users. I've been interested in AI since the Cleverbot days, and have extensively used GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT since they came out. When I ask ChatGPT something that has an objective answer, but one I can't easily verify from my own knowledge or low stakes experiment (e.g. does this fix my syntax error?), I always make sure to not "ingest" it into my knowledge or product before finding one or more external corroborating sources. This doesn't make ChatGPT significantly less useful to me, from my experience, verifying an answer is typically much easier than researching the question from the ground up by conventional means (Google, GitHub Code Search). Similarly, when using GitHub Copilot, I am acutely aware that I need to critically evaluate the suggested code myself, and if there is something I am unsure about, it's again off to Google or Code Search.

Personally, the most risky AI stuff I do is if I am completely stuck on something, I might accept AI suggestions without much thought just to see if it can resolve whatever issue I am running into. But in my mind, those parts of the code are always "dirty" until I thoroughly review them; in the vast majority of cases, I end up refactoring those parts myself. If I am asking AI to improve a text I wrote, I rarely just take it as-is, I typically open both versions next to each other and apply parts I like to my original text.

In my opinion, stuff created by AI is inherently "unfinished". I cringe whenever people have AI do something and just roll with it (writing an essay, code, graphic design, etc.). AI is excellent for going most of the way, but in most cases, there need to be review and finishing touches by a human, at least for now.
Techniques to constrain labor mobility are ever evolving.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...

Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe will shell out $415 million to put to rest an antipoaching civil lawsuit that accused the companies of conspiring not to hire each other's employees.

..Email exchanges among such top executives as late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs and former Google CEO and now executive chairman of Alphabet Eric Schmidt revealed how requests were made not to hire certain employees away from each other.

One email exchange recounted how Jobs asked Schmidt to stop Google from trying to hire one of Apple's engineers. "I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this," Jobs wrote to Schmidt on March 7, 2007.

Schmidt then sent the request on, saying "I believe we have a policy of no recruiting from Apple and this is a direct inbound request. Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening? I will need to send a response back to Apple quickly so please let me know as soon as you can."

https://www.financialadvisoriq.com/c/2042553/239943/morgan_s...

..defecting FAs must choose a strategic and nuanced path — or otherwise face liabilities, Ichter warns. During their "garden leaves," he says, "they can only talk to the clients about the same thing they were talking about while they were employees of their old company. They cannot attempt to move the clients [or] solicit the clients" or they will risk triggering claims that they failed their duties of loyalty to their employe.. [but] ..retaining clients these days is not as hard as sometimes portrayed, since clients' personal loyalties frequently surpass their institutional ones
lol downvoted because you implied that people other than Russians tell lies
> My current and previous MacBooks have had 16GB and I've been fine with it

I have too, but my MBP is from 2012! It's not unrealistic for me to consider a machine that's going to get me to 2034.
Your summary seems to miss a later quote from the article:

> Extropic is also building semiconductor devices that operate at room temperature to extend our reach to a larger market. These devices trade the Josephson junction for the transistor. Doing so sacrifices some energy efficiency compared to superconducting devices. In exchange, it allows one to build them using standard manufacturing processes and supply chains, unlocking massive scale.

So, their mass-market device is going to be based on transistors.

The actual article read like a weird mesh of techno-babble and startup-evangelism to me. I can't judge if what they are suggesting is vaporware or hyperbole. This is one of those cases where they are either way ahead of my own thinking or they are trying to bamboozle me with jargon.

I personally find it hard to categorize a lot of AI hype into "worth actually looking into" vs. "total waste of time". The best I can do in this case is suspend my judgement and if they come up again with something more substantive than a rambling post then I can always readjust.
Give it time.

I'd not be surprised to read that Air BnB are going to curtail this behavior next.

The only reason you're doing this is to game the system. Be honest and charge more.
Maybe Awakenings?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings
Thanks for posting that, I thought it was a great read (as someone who last used C++ probably about 25 years ago...)

Given that so many of the criticisms were about C++ being over-complicated, I do worry about languages just becoming more and more difficult over time as everyone wants their pet feature added, but due to backwards-compatibility concerns old/obsolete features are rarely removed. For example, take Java. I think that a ton of goodness has been added to Java over the decades, and for people who have been working with it throughout, it's great. But it feels like the learning curve for someone just getting involved with Java would be really steep, not just because there is just a ton of stuff, but because without having the context of the history and how things were added over time (usually with an eye towards backwards-compatibility) it feels like it would be hard to wrap your head around everything. If you're writing your own new program that's not really a problem as you can just stick to what you know, but if you're getting into an existing codebase that could use lots of different features it feels like it could be daunting.

It's been quite a while since I've programmed in Java, so I'm just speculating, but would be curious how other folks relatively new to the language in production environments find the learning curve.
I was hoping this would be a way to use the GitHub Copilot plugin but slot in your own backend (local or different LLM).
I don't care about screen time at all. I sat in front of the tv bored as shit watching commercials when I was a kid. Phones are worse than that? We used to watch informercials because nothing was on at 2am. Netflix is worse than that?

Kids don't go outside because they have no friends and apparently walking around alone as a child is crime. Nervous adults ruined the world and now they want to take phones away from their kids, for what reason?
The interesting part of cryptocurrency is that it's a trustless database. Not easy and comes with big costs.
What you describe there is a great example of a custom controller - could be implemented on top of pyctrl, jsctrl, or just natively in Rust.
Considering that a Fob is optional add on for the Model 3/Y, isn't it obvious?
Some background on Sanitizers (ex: kasan) and ARM Memory Tagging Extension (mte) by the one of its developers, Andrey Konovalov:

https://youtu.be/KmFVPyHyfqQ / https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/KmFVPyHyfqQ

https://youtu.be/9wRT2hNwbkA / https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/9wRT2hNwbkA
> GPL doesn't say anything about AI explicitly.

The tech industry is just a regulatory arbitrage play these days.
It's far too extreme in my view.

No one was actually harmed by someone creating art.

If someone writes a fictional story where a classmate is a character, or they draw a cartoon, or they paint an oil painting or they use a computer to make digital art, that all has to fall under freedom of expression or we're not really a free country anymore.

Now, if they were trying to fraudulently pass the creations off as real- if they made an image that looked like it was taken by a security camera and said "This is real, I caught person X doing <whatever> and here's the security camera proof" then sure, that's fraud. Or plausibly, the images could have been used in a way which was harassment- if someone glued the picture to a student's locker to try to embarrass or annoy them or whatever, sure then that act is harassment.

But all this panic and pearl-clutching over AI generated images is silly. In 5 years there will be AI-nudes of everyone and we'll all collectively shrug it off and go about our days and laugh at the luddite prudes of yesteryear.
Umm, yes it does? For the longest time, Guido’s defense for the GIL was that all previous efforts resulted in an unacceptable hit to single threaded performance.

Read PEP-703 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#performance) where the performance hit is currently 5-8%
I use Kdenlive about once or twice a year to edit/compile racecar footage. The UI has been friendly enough to relearn each time because I use it so infrequently. I've never had any complaints about it, though I'm not doing anything crazy. But it's extremely intuitive and even as a new user it doesn't seem to get in my way, which is just about the highest praise I can give to a piece of interactive software.

Unfortunately I can't compare against Lightworks or Blender, because I tried Kdenlive and it worked great, and there was no reason to search for alternatives.
I've been downloading and reading various chapters of this book for what seems like years now. I'd love a hard copy. I know it says "When will the whole book be finished? Don't ask." But it seems like when the missing Chapter 12 is added ("We also expect to release Chapter 12 soon in an updated release.") it would be a great time to print it. I can hope....
Why is it a stupid question? Their country is destroyed. The demographics are abysmal. All the youth destroyed.

The USA and Ukraine should've negotiated a deal years and years ago that Ukraine would be a neutral state and NOT join NATO.

Ukraine will never join NATO. USA knows that that will trigger Nuclear War.
thanks so much for linking this!
> Is it very challenging to install Graphene OS?

It's very easy to install with the web installer.

https://grapheneos.org/install/web

You can buy a device with it, but nearly anyone can use the web installer. It's particularly easy to use from Android, ChromeOS and macOS. Windows is a bit trickier since you need to install a driver. Desktop Linux requires installing udev rules, and some distributions with frozen software versions have a buggy service which interferes.

> Need special cables and to know a lot about jailbreaking Android devices, or will I be fine just following instructions?

Non-technical people can do it. You only need a browser with WebUSB. You don't need any special software.

> Is it very inconvenient to use as a daily driver?

Nearly the same as the stock Pixel OS with nearly as broad app compatibility if you use sandboxed Google Play.

> How often phone just crashes and requires a few days of debugging?

You likely won't experience significantly more crashes. It has user-facing crash reporting not existing in the stock OS so you'll notice crashes you wouldn't have known about it. Buggy apps with memory corruption may crash until you enable the per-app compatibility mode, ESPECIALLY if you opt-in to forcing MTE for all user installed apps.

> Will my bank app work on it?

If your bank allows a non-Google-certified OS, which most still do. Banks are gradually disallowing using a non-Google-certified OS and this essentially needs to be addressing as an anti-competition regulation issue. We're working on convincing banks to use https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu... in the meantime.
We're finally inching closer to that color-changing finger nail polish from Total Recall.
Blender video editor is extremely feature rich in terms of the keyframing effects you can do with it, the only problem being: it's slow, and it doesn't always sync audio with video even when you ask it to.

With Kdenlive, it's frustrating to add a simple block of text (you can have to create an overlay, and then configure that overlay, and place it roughly where you want), but the final rendering takes only minutes and it's stable enough to work with for larger projects.

Can't comment on Lightworks.
My office mostly never went back, at least the developers. And that's despite RTO pressure from the higher ups. But they don't call the shots past a certain level, and our managers were like "lolno". ;D
Agree that SQLite is a great local format for this sort of thing, but seems to get tricky when trying to sync across clients without conflicts. I've seen most CDRT schemes working with json documents rather than SQLite, but curious if there's solid conflict-free syncing out there for SQLite files being used inside applications?
https://www.youtube.com/@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
Back story: He got in some trouble with a female student and his videos were removed from OCW. I'll leave it up to you if you care to delve deeper into that story, but his body of work is unparalleled.
I think learning it all on your own is not efficient even for a genius. At the very least (assuming you are a genius) you should do a double major in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a minor in philosophy at a mid- or top-tier university. EE and ME are the practical expression of the foundation of classical physics. Einstein's early work was related to integrating these two fields. In short (I am a bit sketchy on the exact details since it has been a while), before Einstein there was an odd inconsistency in Maxwell's equations whereby the results differed if the magnets were moving or the coils were moving in generating electricity. Since all motion is relative, at least mathematically, it should not matter which was moving. Einstein's revolution amounted to modifying the concepts of space and time (using Lorentz transformations) to make that inconsistency go away BUT it is possible that that is not the only possible solution to the puzzle. Once you get your BS degrees you should get your PhD in physics at a mid-tier school or no one will listen to you.

The reason you need to minor in philosophy is to understand the history of the field going all the way back to the Greeks. Most importantly, you need to clearly define a theory of concepts and apply it to fundamental concepts such as existence, consciousness, free will, space and time. Current physics (and math, btw) are vitiated by inconsistent fundamental concepts. In fact, Einstein's concept of spacetime is a denial of consciousness (an axiom) and a deadend. The fundamental concepts in physics should be lightspace and gravitytime to avoid this error. You won't learn much in modern philosophy courses in regard to these issues but you need to understand the history and read Ayn Rand's Philosophy:Who_Needs_It, Introduction_To_Objectivist_Epistemology and the title essay of her anthology For_The_New_Intellectual.
Can’t upload mp3 from iOS for some reason. Stays gray in file upload modal. Name is 1.mp3
Isn't the simpler hypothesis that phones are engaging? What invention in the last hundred years is more interesting? Why assuming copying?
I'd love some videos seeing you try to improve the score or trying to get it to run :^)
chrome 27.4

firefox 26.3

desktop: 7800xd3, 2060, linux
It's possible that there was something I didn't figure out how to configure correctly, but I spent a good chunk of time on our vacation mucking with various settings, including disabling re-routing location to the OS :/
I just assumed this was generated by an AI. Do we have verification this is really PG?
>So all of us old nerds, and new nerds, will continue using the internet, but we'll be a miniscule minority.

Ive long accepted low quality users focused on easy consumption. I'm not as welcoming of the realization of the Dead Internet theory. If I'm going to take time to engage with someone, they should at least have the good graces to be sentient.
Slap it on the side. Coils may be loose due to age and glue drying out.
The death knell was when blogs with personality and a single-topic focus started posting those "Here's our favourite vaccuum cleaner for Thanksgiving" type garbage.
With the large amount of wind energy in Texas the best time to start charging is like 1-2AM. You still have tons of wind energy, but the demand has fallen considerably. This is usually the time where Texas experiences negative wholesale electric rates.

Sure, there's lots of solar potential during the day, but that's also the peak energy use by a good amount. You're already wanting solar to smooth out that curve instead of making that demand peak even peakier.
What are you searching for that might not want to include over a year of posts? I mean not all spaces are 'polluted' by AI. I'm looking for info on a person. Current events story. Youtube videos. All want to include 2023.

Anyone savvy enough to be using switches like this should be able to discern which sources are reliable in the results etc?
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/psi-lectures
This is a accelerated theoretical physics masters program for students who are on track to poke a hole in the circle that is the theoretical physics knowledge boundary.
Ask HN: What is the origin of the term "edge case"?
For reasons, I've become interested in the background to the term "edge case". I'd presumed it was old school engineering terminology that had been ported over to software.

But searching on Google Books etc. all the uses that fit the modern meaning are related to programming/software testing, and even those examples are relatively recent.

Is this correct or am I missing something?
> Is it though?

In my experience it's the buggiest browser out of the big three, and is often missing basic features like e.g.:

https://caniuse.com/?search=opus

Supported in Firefox for *12 years* now, in Chrome for 10, still no support in Safari.

They only "support" Opus audio in their special snowflake '.caf' container, which is super buggy and the last time I checked no open source program could even generate Opus '.caf' files that could be played by Safari on all Apple platforms. I ended up writing a custom converter which takes a standard '.opus' file and remuxes it on-the-fly (I only store '.opus' files on my server) into Safari-compatible '.caf' files, taking special care to massage it so that it avoids all of their demuxer/decoder bugs. You shouldn't have to do this to have cross-browser high quality audio!
A lot can change between initial design and release. It's useful to consider the product as built and not only as first envisioned. Typically the design review focuses on the overall approach and placement (new services, use / non-use of existing platforms) while the launch-gating review focuses on reliability.
FWIW I've never seen $200 cleaning fees on AirBnB for a room-in-a-house accommodation, but if I saw that then yes, I'd call BS. I've only ever seen fees that high for whole-home rentals.
I thought it was well understood that your mental/physical potential peak when you are young and degrade thereafter? E.G. comparing 26 year old self to 86 year old self.

But a saving grace is the degradation can be combated with exercise both mental/physical.

I am not sure how much of aging is understood, so I hesitate to mention stuff like DNA damage.
Since when does a great learning experience equate to thrown her to the sharks? If I'm providing you with a great learning experience, then I'm not throwing you to the sharks. He could have mentored her and start transitioning her away from being a junior developer.

I suppose that's asking for too much.
> Compare that with an earlier building like the empire state building and we see the exact opposite.

> More complex forms. More craftsmanship required to create the overall decor and trim designs, and no doubt more cost compared to a bauhaus style building one could make with some chicken wire, plaster, and cheap windows.

The Empire State was built in 410 days.
A "better Reddit" is a moderated Discourse messageboard (FOSS forum tool). Those exist: many software forums are on Discourse rather than pointing people to Stack Overflow or Discord.
Why thirsty data centres risk plunging the world into crisis
> Even today's TVs are inferior to CRTs in some ways

Get a high-end OLED. Totally exceeds the real and imagined advantages of CRT.
> Although its earliest medicinal use is unknown, it was documented in the 1st century CE as an anti-inflammatory by the Greek herbalist physician Dioscorides.
i started with "wouldn't it be to cool to download call of duty, or gigabytes worth of music with a simple camera scan from a graphic drive"
So we're moving back to what Yahoo! was originally?
What if English sounded like dictionaries prescribe [video]
The binary format is always the same, you need to get to machine code at some point. The difference is how you get there.

> it honestly does not matter for any sufficiently complicated product how it's shipped.

I think this opinion is in deep disagreement with the facts. Among the most popular and influential computing technologies, you have Java and WWW. Both are entirely based around shipping code in better format than binary.
I'm going to stop asking the flight attendants to open a window for fresh air from now on.
In Aus, target is considered middle-low tier but not bottom of the barrel, Ralph lauren appear to sell $800 sweaters.

Is American target substantially different from Australian target?
Any money first has to establish itself as a stable store of value. Only then can it be useful as a medium of exchange and unit of account.

Look up Gresham and Thiers' Laws
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