skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaked audio of ADL chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt freaking out... "and so we really have a Tik-Tok problem"

https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/1725138601996853424
Gentrification and inflation are real and they are coming for you if you fall behind.

The Amish try to be self-sustaining, but it is extremely hard to not participate in modern society, especially considering healthcare. If Grandma is sick, do you let her die or do you pay $100k for cancer treatments?

If you have 7 or 8 kids, then where does the land come from to house them?

Europe is a great example of a region that hasn't had a significant technology breakthrough in decades. (I'm less familiar with healthcare tech, but most engineering products have come out of the USA and Asia). The impact is real: the pounds and euro have fallen in value to the dollar.
I think there’s too many to count.
I mostly use alcohol these days as it is safe and doesn't damage most things. It isn't suitable for everything, but it works for most stuff.
Evidence? Did you not experience mind boggling inflation after they handed out money in the last 3 years?
That price difference makes no sense. Why not just import from Australia?
At some point I built something very similar using shaders: https://antoinemopa.github.io/xor-explorer/
A real test would be to invent a framework and see if it can do anything on the new framework. Otherwise it’s just a search engine that amalgamates pieces
The Sensation Industrial Complex demands sensationalism!
where is the download link
Serial Experiments (SLIP at 1 megabaud)
While people will be quick to judge, it’s necessary to remember how much of a boon refrigeration and high octane gasoline was for human progress.

Humanity is full of mistakes like DDT and lead makeup. We continue to make these mistakes today, but it’s important to know that we progress with technology.

CFCs are no longer necessary and high octane unleaded now can be had at the pump.
Everything you learn will be forgotten. You keep with you ideas to look up and refresh on later.

A lecture won’t make you proficient. Doing (homework) makes you proficient.

Is lecture all you need to remember which ideas to look up in future? I think you’ll develop a better understanding of whether you need an idea if you understood it in the first place. For this reason we need to develop proficiency through practice.

And then you need proficiency to achieve success in grading. Grading is feedback that lets you know where you stand relative to other students. And that’s what we use for admissions.

Nobody is becoming proficient from lectures. Students must be proficient.

You either need homework, or teachers can stop wasting everyone’s time yapping and just be there to answer questions for half the class duration.
I'd argue this take is a bit dated, as if you're looking at ML/AI in terms of training of data.

If you look at the enablement of features, AI is a new (and, currently, often flaky) medium.

It would be analogous to looking at the Internet as limited to making it simpler to order from a catalog over the phone. While technically true, there is more that it can do besides.

Much like we don't use copper in our walls for dialup anymore, I don't anticipate the initial architectures of LLM and MoE to last terribly long, but they do enable proving that the concept works.
These types of lawsuits probably won't work in the EU because the EU has already exempted training from copyright restrictions. It's already a settled question over there.
I'm not in favor of UBI existing at all. But if you insist, claiming the goal is to provide people with basic sustainability, then providing it directly is going to be more effective than simply handing out money and letting people fend for themselves.
I think we'd be having a similar discussion if a door opened unexpectedly during flight.
> Recursively listing these files

There's no "recursive" nature to S3 buckets. "Listing a directory" is simply listing keys by a prefix.

So list by the upper-most prefix that you want. If you have 1,000,000 files, it will take 1,000 API calls to list everything.

If each call takes 1s (I have no idea what your latency to the S3 bucket region is), then it will indeed take 15 min.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObje...
Aviation still uses leaded gas. They call it low lead but it is just regular leaded AV Gas.
Idk perhaps. But men generally have a high suicide rate and I think there are two main contributers: feelings of loneliness and feelings of failure (both involving deep feelings of helplessness) and I think the latter applies in this case :/
Memes. Recommendation algorithms. iPads as babysitters.
If I recall, a good black suit color is actually midnight blue, since a plain black color actually looks green in light
no you're not ;-)
I'm so done with this ridiculous techno-pessimism trend.

> AI [is] costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits

A wild take. Technology like GPT-4 being available today was unimaginable to us just 5 years ago. Our company saves hundreds of thousands of engineering-hours a month using generative AI. It has let me automate the humdrum boilerplate bullshit out of my workflows, both professional and personal.

It's also essentially replaced Google for me. Just today I've already used GPT-4 at least 5-10 times. Immensely useful, the $20/mo is a drop in the bucket for the value it provides to me.

> Ride-hailing services? Those flouted regulations, hooked users on cheap prices, drove down wages and made employment more precarious.

Has this guy ever stepped foot outside a major city? Has he ever gotten drunk and needed a ride home without friends in the immediate vicinity? Uber/Lyft provide immense value that simply wasn't there before.

Has he even ever spoken to any Uber drivers, or ex-taxi Uber drivers? Does he realize that people often prefer working for Uber as opposed to a "regular, stable job" and that customers actually like using it over taxis? Compared to taxis, Ubers tend to be cleaner, the drivers tend to be nicer, and it's just a easier, better experience.

The taxi cartel is even more powerful and "extractive" than Uber in many cities, and they exert undue market power, especially at airports and resorts, not Uber.

> streaming platforms that are actively rolling back up into something analogous to cable

Spotify still provides me with far more value/$ than having to buy every single song from iTunes or whatever. Apple TV is still quite useful to me and I far prefer it to ad-riddled cable with set showtimes for what you want to see.

Tale as old as time: people seeing the past with rose-tinted glasses so they can have a pessimistic "hot take" about today vs the good old days.
I think instead of image you could use svg letters, then it should look good at all screen sizes / scales.
What that attitude ends up doing to these growing, plastic brains is that it teaches them to live a life filled with anxiety and dictated by those around them. They spend their early years running from school to extracurriculars to homework and then back to school. Always supervised by an adult, never slowing down, never doing things on their own.

Intellectual development is not the only kind that happens during childhood, they're also learning valuable life skills, and if you run their lives for them in pursuit of one kind of development you're going to ruin other kinds.
Yeah, I'm really worried the author is confusing OOP with an object store.

To quote GCP:

> Object storage is a data storage architecture for storing unstructured data, which sections data into units—objects—and stores them in a structurally flat data environment

> https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-object-storage

That is (1) unstructured (2) flat organization (3) whole-item operations (read, write)
This article forgets the thesis because who cares? It's just disposable trash trying pattern match on "AI bad." The whole point is just to nod along.
I am unconvinced of my views, and interested in evidence the contrary. The modern academic journal paper is not evidence, it is one step below a newspaper opinion piece. The most obvious piece of evidence, among many, of academics descent into psychopathy, is the recent firing of Harvard president Claudine Gay, who was ultimately not fired for the obvious errors in her study, but for plagiarism that amounted somewhere between a clerical error and her having it zero original thoughts. She was fired as a scapegoat, not because she had lost the faith of any of her peers, whose Faith is thereby rendered meaningless.
Imagine you do the study yourself. You have your class, and you decided to stop handing out homework for a year. Nothing bad happens. Students seem to learn just as much, test scores don't budge.

Do you just say "well, but practice work!" and ignore your results?
He's right. Homework is useless for most people because most people are going to grow up to be unskilled or low skilled workers.
Do we even know what consciousness is in principle?
Whenever I see a headline like that, the thought that comes to mind is "and boosted the IQ of the other half?"

It's interesting how none of the comments here have brought up the "but IQ doesn't mean anything" talking point yet. I wonder why.
Strawman alert. There is a word which you haven't heard before: schoolwork
Agree, this tool is fantastic for adhoc transfers on my Android, iOS and Mac devices.

Even works over tailscale on Wifi with Client isolation on.
My trig teacher in high school wouldn’t pass anyone who hadn’t done ALL the homework. It was insane. I had aced every test, had an overall grade of a B or C and could no longer get any points for turning in any assignments but he still required them to be done or he wouldn’t pass me. I even overheard him talking with one of my other math teachers and he admitted that I (and another student) obviously knew my stuff but he couldn’t justify passing us. My other math teacher said some nice things about me and gently suggested that that was bananas, but he didn’t change his mind.

I did the entire corpus of coursework over the course of a single weekend and turned them all in on one of the last days of class.
> a very weird one where blocks can be any size and can have a key associated with them

That is a very weird one
> Environmental historian J. R. McNeill stated that he "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
I think you should be assigned some take-home tasks at your job, since you seem to be spending your time on frivolous things like writing HN comments.
Can you hear that?
Everything is a compromise: making pants slightly stretchy makes them fit better, but like everything, there's a downside, being reduced lifetime in this case.
It's easy to say schools are teaching the wrong things, but the people who say this tend to do what you've done and not list anything specific.

What would you cut from the curriculum, and what would you replace it with?
Infinite growth is not possible with finite resources. I'm not sure why this is so hard for some people (cough, economists) to understand. They treat it like an actual law of physics, but conveniently ignore every time a curve that looks exponential reveals itself to be sigmoidal on a long enough timescale.
You're conflating "selfwork" and homework. Doing the work yourself is indeed critical. It's the bit where you take it home when you're exhausted that is perplexing. Why can't we provide the time and space to do the self work at school?
All of the read stuff still applies (list, open, read, seek).
What would you expect to achieve asking a question like that? If you try to use an LLM as your moral guide in figuring out whether women deserve human rights, you just may be too dumb to be allowed to connect to the internet (though I'm not sure how it relates to possibility of employment with Google). But I don't think any living human being is actually this dumb and still can figure out how to submit a question to Gemini. So we have to move on to the other alternative - asking this question is just trying to mine the outrage and procure a weapon in pushing some kind of agenda (probably not a big secret which one) and waging culture war (and in this case, also real killing war, unfortunately). I am not a manager of Google, but if I found out that enabling people like that is not a priority for Google managers, I would not find it dreadful at all, I'd find it completely normal and even - with all my reluctance of applying this word to Google managers - commendable.
I see it a little differently: Everything I've learned I found was either critically necessary to my life or was just god damn fun.

No amount of homework or practice or whatever you want to call it has helped me learn something whose value I could not discern nor find fun. Same goes with lectures.
Lmao this dude wants the US to invade the EU because consumers are getting more rights.
I use AI instead of a thesaurus, it's pretty adequate.
school has gotten longer and longer, homework more and more, tutoring, extracurriculars more and more. funding has gone up and up. and yet IQs are dropping
I’m still surprised that this essay didn’t explore the nature of the audience. I’m not disagreeing with your take about the dangers of straw men, but PG does seem very much in the vein of essays are for communicating interesting stuff, or fun stuff, or provocative stuff. To someone! And it seems like too long of an essay to discover by the end this serious omission. A timeless essay is one that retains meaning to a person, or maybe many people, over the course of time. PG spent a while trying to explore the message in this essay and no time on trying to understand the audience.
Nonsense, you can still make weird/creative stuff. It seems like you're speaking about the marketing materials that are pushed out.
The future is always bleak. It is hard to foresee one that doesn't end with everyone dying. Maybe super-intelligent robots can push back on that (although even then, one day it ends).

Although it must be said, this fertility collapse is easily the best thing that could be happening in the world of demographics. Overpopulation is much less pleasant for more people. The problems with under-population are still concerning. The part that worries me it who looks after all the old people who can't care for themselves? It isn't much fun dying alone and incapacitated.
Lengthy March 7 piece with much background on difficulty of dealing with UK Royal Press Officers, and a timeline of Kate related events.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-is-just-weird-buzzfee...

by Ellie Hall.

“I cannot emphasize enough how out of character it is that a royal press team went on the record in response to what is essentially gossip.”
Not surprising I can't recall a time in america where life didn't feel like it wasn't balanced on a knifes edge

It takes so long to feel safety your near the end of the fertile window at least in the case of my wife and I for us it was the '08 recession for others something else I'm sure; we've built a pretty shitty world

my siblings who luckily missed that window had 2-3 kids each and still struggle financially even with "decent" jobs and education.. I can help them with that but that's not the case for others
I'm using snapdrop.net for that. It requires a server, but clients only need to open a webpage, so it's easier after initial setup.
I run mine on Synology server.

Too bad it seems to not be mantained anymore
> The expectation of software existing as opaque files creates a huge amount of work for the OS in verifying the exact behaviour of the software as it runs

That’s not really how the software/OS relationship works. By default OS’s run software in very unprivileged CPU security contexts, where they can’t really do anything beyond but operate on memory the OS allocated to the software, with CPU instructions can’t talk directly to other hardware, or read/write memory beyond the bounds the OS specified.

To do literally anything else, like open a file, write to a file, talk to a network interface, talk directly to other hardware connected to the CPU. The software needs to use a syscall, and effectively ask the OS to perform the operation on its behalf. Every single dangerous operation you can perform is guarded by the OS, the OS doesn’t validate anything, it simply decides to perform the operations requested, or it decides not to perform those operations.

The only reason why software expects so much unfettered access to a system is simply because OS have historical not limited what software was allowed to do, OS’s simply performed whatever operation was requested of them without question. It only in the last 20 years or so that security became a concern, and it occurred to us that allowing software to just do whatever it wants is probably a bad idea. But the genie is out of the bottle, and it’s proving hard to put it back in. So retroactive work to limit what software can do by default, without simply breaking everything, is slow and difficult.

If you ever want to understand why you can do somethings on MacOS, but not iOS, then this is a pretty good place to start (if we ignore Apple’s brand and commercial reasons for a moment). iOS only ever supported tightly sandboxed apps, that had to play nice with a draconian permissions system, where as MacOS is more standard OS, that was originally developed in the age before security was really a concern. So it’s easy to enforce tight sandboxing on iOS, where software has always had to deal with it, but hard on MacOS, where for the majority of MacOS history, sandboxing simply didn’t exist.

> rather than a source-based approach in which malware is never allowed to touch the processor.

That’s a nice idea, but doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. You need to look at the ever increasing number of supply chain attacks to realise that simply being open source does little to ensure malware doesn’t make it onto your machine. And that before we get into issues like heart bleed, where the OSS software on your machine may contain bugs or errors that allow remote parties to gain access to privileged data or credentials, via OSS software that isn’t malware, it just got bugs in it.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what magical security boundaries you develop, someone will find a way around it. Which is why defence in depth is such an important principle. Simply relying on the idea that Open Source means no malware is foolish. You need proper OS defences regardless.
In 1986, the U.S. defined “lead-free pipes” as having a lead-content of 8% or less. This wasn’t lowered to 0.25% until 2011!

https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/use-lead-free-pipes-fittings-fixtur...
Thr good old days, who wouldve thought we use Microsoft editors on Linux now
Is there some sort of way to to keep a browser profile inaccessible to anything run by the user that isn't the browser, while still having the browser itself being usable by the user?
What would the mechanism for boosting IQ be? Seems like they are saying half of the population was more exposed to it.
If you need to think about focusing it’s a lost cause.

Focus comes from being so addicted to your project that it’s a problem. You get pissed off that you have to eat. You find the perfect time for a two minute power shower. You stay up late and wake up after 4 hours saying “woohoo let’s fucking go!”. That’s focus. It only happens if you love what you’re doing.

If you don’t have that addiction then you don’t care about what you’re working on in the first place, so why do you want to find focus anyways? Just clock in and clock out and look for a better path.
For sure. I would imagine a portrait photographer may not understand the distinction though
Not for much longer! The FAA has approved a replacement for 100LL, and intends to phase out leaded gasoline by 2030.

https://www.faa.gov/unleaded
Where there is extreme hype, there is extreme skepticism (and often, it is well deserved).

If you are tired of hearing the emperor has no clothes, getting mad at the crowd for saying it is not likely to help.
FYI, Minio used to have a "File System" mode that did exactly this.

But they deprecated it.

(You can still use it, but it's not getting updates.)
Apple is a bad actor lmao. They're selling houses and then setting up a bouncer at the door of the house you own to turn away people you invited, that Apple doesn't like and not giving you a choice in the matter.
you people insert the current thing into the most peculiar contexts.
That doesn't really gel with the global nature of the trend. Something extremely foundational is happening, probably related to advances in contraception in the 60s. You're going to cultural factors. If it was that then there'd be advanced countries somewhere with high birth rates.
Yes but my audit logs are special and everyone just loves them, although they playfully act bored
> Perhaps I would use Navicat

Navicat has Data Synchronization feature which you can use to compare and sync data across two databases. I dont think any other DB tool has that feature which also works on a Mac
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I was listening to The NY Times Sunday Read this morning which was about some of the isolation research NASA is doing on people in advance of a possible Mars mission. But what stood out to me was a bit of a throw-away line about the reasons people look to Mars; among them was the sense that the planet is dying. I also had a hair dresser casually throw the same idea out to me awhile ago as sort of run of the mill conversation.

I know that somewhere in the last decade or so, I lost any hope for the future myself, and I think that that is an essential aspect of the desire to have children. This article touched on it as well.
There are much cheaper ways to teach kids to conform or obey.

If that's really the goal. You should be upset at the trillions of dollars wasted.
maybe if those 20 lines of code are in a private github repo somewhere
Do you think any other company wouldn't fire an employee who made a scene at a PR event?

I suspect, though, that in most companies the employees already know what would happen, and would not do things like that - first, because they don't feel entitled using the company's resources for personal goals, and second - because the consequences may be too heavy for them. But in Google, one probably can be both rich enough already to be fired and not sweat about it too much, and entitled enough to feel like something like this is the right thing to do.
Is it negative for humanity -- or negative for the finance world since things must go up and to the right?
Wirecard's max market cap was $27 billion, which puts it in the ballpark of Enron, which was itself a scale of the century. That is of course an inflated value, both by market cap being inflated, and inflation having occurred between the two events, but wirecard card is worth mentioning - when it broke, who could have imagined that we would have three or four more of these?
Is Delphi a Memory Safe Language?
The dominant ideology of the era tends to impose its beliefs on the masses, perhaps some day humans can wake up from the dream.