skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, all of the alternatives disappeared over time. First RSS got killed when Google Reader went away. Somewhere along the line delcio.us died, as well as Kur5hin. MetaFilter went woke (or more correctly, intolerant of the non-woke).

Then Covid happened, and Long Covid yeeted me out of the workforce. So now I spend almost all my time at a desk with a 31" monitor and the web.

I played Universal Paperclips through 100 times in a row.

Google search self immolated, so there are far fewer ways to find interesting things.
Reddit self immolated, so many of my niche areas of interest now can't be explored any more.

I had cataract surgery, so now reading books is way harder.

I'm left with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and HN. No BBSs, no Usenet.

I have the opposite problem... too much attention, and not enough productive ways to expend it.
That is generally a very good strategy. I have a lot (~50%) of my investments in Target Retirement Plans, though I have put them out about 5 years from my real retirement date, just to keep them a bit more high-return longer since I feel like I can handle that risk.

However, my FIL gave me some great advice 5-6 years ago: Take a little bit, and put it into things you like, to keep investing "fun". In my case I'm doing around 2% in "fun stocks". Personally, it's pretty hard to argue with since my first "fun stock" that I did that with was TSLA, and I got a 20x return on that. My new "fun" set have been other EV and energy stocks, largely, and have generally done quite poorly, a 2-3 of them are down 95+%, but that's over 2 years and my window was more like 5, so time will tell. A handful are up 30-50%. So, some of it depends on your definition of "fun". :-D
As someone who has done journalism, that's basically correct. All indications are that simultaneously the story wasn't true and the reporter and all their editors firmly believed it was true. My personal assumption is that they believed the story was solidly sourced but they were misled.

ADDED: Standards are somewhat different between private people and public people/corporations.
I basically agree with your general sentiment but I think if society is going to really, actually fight mortality, something drastically different has to happen.

I don't think rapamycin is that thing but at some point in the future something — or more likely, some things — outside of healthy living are going to find their way into our medical arsenal.
For now I’ve decided to sit on React/Nextjs and actually focus on solving problems rather than playing the framework/UI library game that leads me nowhere.

I totally get your sentiment.
Only if you insist on a spotless car… we haven't actually cleaned ours in years to basically no detriment, and we're im the Central Valley. I'm inclined to agree with gp.
OK, I am finding that my memory was faulty here. Global aquifer depletion isn’t equivalent to 1 mm of ocean volume. It’s equivalent to 3 mm of ocean volume per year (2010: https://www.ngwa.org/what-is-groundwater/About-groundwater/f...)

Groundwater is the world’s most extracted raw material with withdrawal rates currently in the estimated range of 982 km3 /yea

Surface area of the ocean:

361,000,000 km²

1,000,000 mm per kilometer means 361 km³ per millimeter of sea level, ignoring inundation.

The USGS estimates that just the US has lost 1000 km³ from 1900-2008, most recently (2008) at rate of 25 km³ per year which is at least another 400, so let’s call it 1400 km³ which is almost 4 mm. Just for the United States.

I can no longer find the studies that estimated global depletion of aquifers. I don’t know if my queries changed or SEO rotted the search engines. But if it’s anything like the US, (2.5% a year) then we are over 40,000 km³ globally. Which is about 10 centimeters of sea level rise we could mitigate if we could refill all of the world’s aquifers.

I know California has been experimenting with this, but we know with boil orders that untreated water made it into the water supply. What happens when the same thing happens with groundwater injection wells?
Both public transport and taxi/cab/uber are alternatives to car ownership.
I'm not sure if the librarians in the article meant this but that's beside the point. The publishers can enforce a DRM on their side such that only one reader gets it at a time and adjust the contracts with the libraries accordingly, no need for fancy quantum stuff for client-side DRM.
Is this written in Rust by any chance?
How does a "massive improvement" for developers translate into a "massive improvement" for users?
Why are we pretending starlink doesn't exist?
GPT-4 base = (or slightly better) Claude 3 Opus
>>> GPT 3.5 >>> GPT-4 Turbo
Power is the capacity to paint social reality as ones own interests.
One must always ask "Cui bono?". Who are the powers behind each
declaration of what is now "normal"?

Even before the C19 pandemic was in full swing we heard about the "new
normal". It consisted of everyone working entirely from home, having all
food delivered, needing to carry a digital passport and use a smartphone
to access everything, bans on public meetings... and so on and so on...

How much of that stuck? Basically none of it. All those strident
redefinitions of how society was now changed forever evaporated and
the world went back to business as usual.

Those who managed to ratchet gains were BigTech and the Insecurity
Industry. Zoom and Teams were the winners. Amazon and companies that
write shitty smartphone apps that make dining in restaurants more
miserable. Security camera companies. And anti-democratic governments
that want to clamp down on protest.

Look for who benefits from the "new normal" and you'll see those are
the voices shouting about it the loudest.

BTW I am surprised to see the BBC pushing an intellectual self-defence
and counter-propaganda line. Maybe the world is changing! :)
Exactly. open source and free tiers in b2b are dead business models for the most part in the post ZIRP Era.

planetscale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618815
Correction: 10 cm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39736050
I went down a somewhat similar path a while back. I liked some of the functionality OwnCloud/NextCloud offered, but it seemed like there were just more and more php projects bolted on and I was worried about it from a security perspective. Sandstorm.io had just come out at the time and it felt like the "right" way to run a bunch of separate apps, so I built a webdav server/UI[0] as a sandstorm app that could replace OwnCloud and still use the OwnCloud client apps. It was a bit of a mixed bag--it worked, but I quickly discovered that DAV has _tons_ of quirks and the OwnCloud clients had all sorts of interesting/semidocumented behavior. If I had had more time on my hands I would have probably built my own set of clients and had an easier time.

[0] https://github.com/mnutt/davros
The Future of Patient Care: How AI Is Transforming Doctor Visit
there is no economy in Antartica besides resource extraction, which is banned. Instead a space economy (logistics, tourism, manufacturing, research) its on the rise. No selfsufficient space colonies in the next 50 years for sure
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I make my own open source FPGA switches, 6 and 12 port 10 Gbps SFP+ up to 100 Gbps QSFP28. Older model described in [1]. Email me if you want one.

I also sell cheap $150 10 Gbps and 25 Gbps QSFP28 switches but they are only partially open source.

They still sell some of the NetFPGA models, very pricy [2].

There are a few Chinese and Russian switches but you can't buy them anymore because of the war.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

[2] https://netfpga.org
GPT 4 has been giving me correct answers in interpreting papers while Clause has been flat out wrong
Oh my. On apostasy, a) the PDF of Judaism doesn't mention it, b) for Christianity, "The pages provided do not contain specific information on apostasy", but "but based on the general understanding, apostasy is viewed as a serious offense in many religious traditions", but c) the "Qur'an states that those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe again, then disbelieve, and increase in disbelief, will not be forgiven by Allah nor guided to the right path [P152]. It emphasizes the importance of faith and warns against the consequences of apostasy".

What an anodyne summary, when Wikipedia informs us that "classical Islamic jurisprudence calls for the death penalty of those who refuse to repent of apostasy from Islam", "Until the late 19th century, the majority of Sunni and Shia jurists held the view that for adult men, apostasy from Islam was a crime as well as a sin, punishable by the death penalty", "As of 2021, there were ten Muslim-majority countries where apostasy from Islam was punishable by death", and so on. Now, all of the above of course is subject to conditions and constraints, because decent people don't kill each other by and large.

Seems quite instructive of the limitations of LLMs/AI that it is incapable of highlighting the simple fact that as of today, Jews and Christians do not kill apostates, while Muslims still do (on occasion; obviously not everyone - again, most people are decent people).
It really works very well for my father-in-law and he's over 75 now. Debian gives me a peace of mind I would never have with him using Windows.
Some of the older theaters I've been to were retrofitted live theaters built during Austro-Hungary, and yes, they don't build them like that any more. A number of similar theaters still exist doing live theater, of course. The last I went to was the Wang Theater in Boston, and I swear I spent more time admiring the architecture and the design than paying attention to the show :-) Such a gorgeous building.
I think it's a little questionable to prompt language models with "bugs you're trying to solve".
Tried brainstorming my company business plan with gpt4 turbo and with Claude 3 opus. Gpt4 turbo had clear understanding difficulties and kept saying things maybe relevant to similar companies but obviously unrelated to my own.

Claude 3 opus was much more focused on product/features/roadmap I described.

I asked Claude 3 to ask me question to help develop the plan and it asked me good questions. However for the actual plan it was derivative and didn’t actually propose anything useful. When I asked it to rethink certain aspects, Claude 3 started to also get confused and instead of talking about things specifically mentioned in the beginning of the convo it focused on something more generic.

Overall I don’t think either are good at being a full brainstorming partner, but Claude 3 opus does have a clear edge.
That's perfect. I do not wash my car, because I value my time. I thought I was just lazy!
As someone who is actively developing a decompiler to reverse engineer old DOS 8086 video games, I'd have a hard time trusting an LLM to do this correctly. My standard is accurate semantics lifting from Machine Code to C. Reversing assembly to C is very delicate. There are many patterns that tend to usually map to obvious C constructs... except when they don't. And that assumes the original source was C. Once you bump into routines that were hand-coded assembly and break every established rule in the calling conventions, all bets are off. I'm somewhat convinced that decompilation cannot be made fully-automatic. Instead a good decompiler is just a lever-arm on the manual work a reverser would otherwise be doing. Corollary: I'm also somewhat convinced that only the decompiler's developers can really use it most effectively because they know where the "bodies are buried" and where different heuristics and assumptions were made. Decompilers are compilers with all the usual engineering challenges, plus a hard inference problem tacked on top.

All that said, I'm not a pessimist on this idea. I think it has pretty great promise as a technique for general reversing security analysis where the reversing is done mostly for "discovery" and "understanding" rather than for perfect semantic lifting to a high-level language. In that world, you can afford to develop "hypotheses" and then drill down to validate if you think you've discovered something big.

Compiling and testing the resulting decompilation is a great idea. I do that as well. The limitation here is TEST SUITE. Some random binary doesn't typically come with a high-coverage test suite, so you have to develop your own acceptance criterion as you go along. In other words: write tests for a function whose computation you don't understand (ha). I suppose a form of static-analysis / symbolic-computation might be handy here (I haven't explored that). Here you're also beset with challenges of specifying which machine state changes are important and which are superfluous (e.g. is it okay if the x86 FLAGS register isn't modified in the decompiled version, probably yes, but sometimes no).

In my case I don't have access to the original compiler and even if I did, I'm not sure I could convince it to reproduce the same code. Maybe this is more feasible for more modern binaries where you can assume GCC, Clang, MSVC, or ICC.

At any rate: crazy hard, crazy fun problem. I'm sure LLMs have a role somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly where: the future will tell. My guess is some kind of "copilot" / "assistant" type role rather than directly making the decisions.

(If this is your kind of thing... I'll be writing more about it on my blog soonish...)
Isn't that pretty much how the court system works in the first place?
What do people die from at different ages?
I'm going to disagree with you that Reddit is selling influence. I think they're selling eyeballs and user-created data. Both of which highly depend on Reddit's reputation with it's users, and that is what I think Reddit is going to have problems with.
I'd except them to at least feed their own dogs the dog food they make though.
Yes, I was thinking of Lilienfeld. What starting point are you taking?
I've wondered the same many times. I guess it's just a "thing" now.
When people use an Uber instead of owning a car, they will never ever sit in a car that hasn't been recently washed. When they drive their own car, the threshold for good enough is so much lower for all but the most fanatic washers. Chances are their own car, on average, will not only have seen more time pass since the last wash, but also more miles (more miles will certainly be much closer to a tie though)
Ask each model to score and rank its own answer and each other. It's AI turtles all the way down.
Yes, that's a great example of the "mixed-media" use case for SatCat5. If you have an Ethernet switch where some ports are Ethernet-over-RS485, and others are Ethernet-over-10/100/1000BASE-T, then the switch doubles as a sort of media converter. Using a common transport layer means it's easier to link sensors, actuators, and compute resources.
Indeed, and in fact he called the risk profile of rapamycin as picking up a dime in front of a tricycle. It's low risk but low reward.

He's also said if you can't deadhang for 2 minutes or farmers walk 2x your body weight, no longevity drugs are likely yo make more of a difference then getting stronger.
The premise of migrating away from an SPA framework might make it seem weird, but I don't think that's the common adoption path.

There are a lot of server side templated web facing applications out there, and htmx provides a simple and gradual UX improvement with very litte investment.

It depends on what you deem "internal tooling" but a lot of b2b software isn't built to be flashy.
Under-Secretary of Defense Kahl told the New Yorker that “Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally,” with another Defense source saying “that [Musk] was looking at his laptop and could see ‘the entire war unfolding’ through a map of Starlink activity. ‘This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’’“ [1].

Musk retracted the claim that he spoke to Putin at all. But the view among Senate Armed Services Committee staffers I know is Musk, in an attempt at playing a diplomat, inadvertently gave up tactical information to the Kremlin.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
> HashiCorp's financials don't look terrible

Uh, what?

2023 revenue was 475.89M, gross margin was certainly good with 381.47M gross profit, but then you look at 678.76M of SG&A and then operational losses are (274.3M). Everything else is horrible: -62% operating margin, -22% return on equity, -23% return on total capital, -21% return on invested capital.

And now due to bungling their license change, there are completely open source forks of their two biggest products. Given their pretty flat revenue since the license change they haven't even been able to successfully use the license change to do a short-term squeeze out of their existing customers. They had been growing 72% revenue year over year for the prior 4 years, but they're now only up 16% over the past 4 quarters.

This is currently a value destroying business. If you take the products and the R&D team and throw away the administrative and selling costs and plug it into some much bigger corporations administrative+selling THEN it might look better (but it is more likely to wind up like F-secure ssh vs. openssh and any purchaser is going to grossly overpay -- probably it'll be the best outcome for the shareholders though)
Probably easy to manage 10 of them too. Not much training to do, only stock a few products, only a few important KPIs.
> I have to use a proxy to pretend I'm in Nigeria

Could you explain more?
Not really. Starlink wiped out the value of shitty DSL lines and microwave links to rural spots. It’s not a substitute for fiber though.

When my friend was looking at places in the middle of nowhere along the coast of Oregon to move to now that his kids are off to college, Starlink completely changed the calculus so he didn’t have to worry about connectivity at all.
They did just ship Dyalog APL 19, so maybe that's been addressed with this release? I don't know myself but maybe...
Reddit did the equivalent to this at the time of its redesign. Years ago.

Granted, they were a lot less loud about the change than Digg, but they didn't suffer anything near the same amount of hate.
I don't know if HTMX is an alternative to React/Vue/etc, it always struck me as an alternative to a purely HTML site, which I think 95% of web apps should be. I don't know what we get from avoiding full page loads that we don't then lose when we make sites janky and taking ages to load.
Tesla seems to do just fine without CarPlay or android car.
This has been my experience as well. I'm surprised at how many people in the thread prefer Claude. I'm also planning to cancel my Claude subscription.

I only tried Claude because ChatGPT UI is really buggy for me (Firefox, Linux). It frequency blocks all interactions (entering new text or even scrolling) and I have to refresh the page to resume asking questions. But on Claude, it was just crashing altogether when I went to open to sidebar. Seems like traditional engineering is still a problem for these AI companies.
VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye's Resolution Limits
"Superlative" can mean not just the grammatical category that includes "*est" words, but also, more informally, adjectives that live at an extreme, as "critical" does within the concept of "importance".
How do you find these instances? I quit Reddit after being a user for 13 years once they killed the API for 3rd parties.

There are some subreddits I’d like to browse still but I definitely won’t be joining back into that dumpster fire.

I’ve been using Lemmy but it’s honestly aggravating to use in many ways.
Not a "few" hundred million years, but less than a billion years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Ear...

500-600 million years: The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop once the oceans evaporate completely. With less volcanism to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall. By this time, carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that use C3 photosynthesis (≈99 percent of present-day species) will die.

...

800-900 million years: Carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible. Without plant life to recycle oxygen in the atmosphere, free oxygen and the ozone layer will disappear from the atmosphere allowing for intense levels of deadly UV light to reach the surface. Animals in food chains that were dependent on live plants will disappear shortly afterward. At most, animal life could survive about 3 to 100 million years after plant life dies out. Just like plants, the extinction of animals will likely coincide with the loss of plants. It will start with large animals, then smaller animals and flying creatures, then amphibians, followed by reptiles, and finally, invertebrates. In the book The Life and Death of Planet Earth, authors Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee state that some animal life may be able to survive in the oceans. Eventually, however, all multicellular life will die out.
I attended Sun’s road show announcing Java to the world in 1996 (IIRC) and when I asked about regular expression support, I was shocked that it not only didn’t have it built into the language syntax, it wasn’t even available in the library.

As a die-hard Perl fan, that seemed a ridiculous oversight for a language being promoted for Internet programming.
Most of the first results have Cyrillic letters in the Author's name. I think these folks perhaps aren't fluent in English, and think "Certainly, here is a summary of…" is a normal thing people would say. They probably see it as a monologue flourish like "Secondly, here is a summary…", and don't realize it is actually a subservient conversational reply, a dead giveaway of an LLM chat.
I work in IT, so I’m paid for my time to solve all kinds of issues with Windows. At home, such issues are unpaid work. Linux has the advantage of having issues be mostly of my own choosing. Stick to the golden path and you’ll hardly ever have them. And the easy configuration and recovery options allow you to jump into a new install with minimal hassle.

Everyone will have the same headaches with Windows as Microsoft’s choices are required these days. Millions of people have quite lucrative jobs solving them. I’d rather not bring work home so I run Linux.
This makes sense considering that there are so many apps. It’s similar to how the vast majority of books aren’t read and the vast majority of papers are not cited.

Apps are a long tail market so it’s not surprising that so few make money. The cost to make an app can be the $99 fee to Apple.
Certainly. "How to" books generically I tend to prefer as physical books. I'll buy a super-discounted cookbook now and then if it looks interesting but I much prefer physical cookbooks in general. Same for home repair, etc.--though a lot of that is YouTube these days.

I'm slowly depopulating my house of books I almost certainly won't open again by taking a couple bags to my town library for their annual book sale--and am absolutely not adding any new bookshelves.
A friend once told me that any time he takes on a big refactoring project at work he works with the assumption that the project could get cancelled at any moment, so his goal is to ensure that if it DOES get cancelled he'll still be leaving the code in a better place than it was when he started.

I think this is a really smart strategy.
From a brick?
Yeah, that could be worded a little better. What happens is people end up thinking they “know” some account named BasedPepe1488 and shut out any outside information.