skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What point are you even trying to make? Do you know or have you lost the plot?

Above someone was trying to say municipal ISPs don't make money. They clearly can, ISPs make plenty of profit and municipal internet has been done many times before. Not only that their speeds are often higher than competing ISPs in the area.

Comcast has a 148.43 billion market cap, which includes their debt. They made over 3 billion in profit which includes servicing their debt.

That Fed rate spread definitely puts those companies in grocery store rates

What are you even talking about, this doesn't mean anything.

They aren't "making it big"

Comcast is a fortune 100 company worth 150 billion dollars. Municipal ISPs just need to work.

Again municipal internet already works all over the place. Chattanooga offers 300 mb internet for $58 USD. They offer 10 gigabit for $300.

Unless there's collusion, multiple providers means minor amounts of profit.

Prove it.

The whole point was that municipal internet works because it can make its money back over time. You making up random hypothetical scenarios has nothing to do with that.

Better businesses to invest in

Except that a municipal internet service can break the ISP monopoly, offer much higher speeds, lower prices and do it all while earning its money back.
Agree with you about AI not needing rights because it's not alive - and probably not for a long time yet.

But the theory of cybernetic systems as extensions of human beings and human minds is what I have in mind when I think about humans identifying as robots. Let me explain it a bit.

I use "robot" and "cyber-physical system" interchangeably. And I use "human robot" to describe a cyber physical system consisting of a human tightly coupled with computers, such that the person

A) would be significantly lessened if their cyber components were taken from them.

B) wants recognition, respect, and support for their cybernetic lifestyle, needs, and differences from other humans

In particular, I refer to B) as "identifying as a cyber-physical system", or "identifying as a robot" in short.

Such people exist, are not well served by existing rafts of human rights, and need our support.

For example, imagine someone uses GPT4 to process thoughts and emotions that they struggle to process on their own. They share /everything/ with GPT, including some very embarrassing or sensitive things, meaning that if they get hacked, criminals could get their hands on sensitive materials that they could use to extort the person.

This person's extended mind includes GPT as a crucial component. They experience serious mental and social hardships without it. They manage much better with it. But as a result, they don't have the same level of mental privacy that other people enjoy in their own minds, which don't need external thought processing systems. Many of their thoughts are exposed to anyone who can monitor their AI usage, in a profound and potentially compromising way that other people don't have to worry about.

This person may need additional rights to give them the same expectation of mental privacy enjoyed by ordinary people who don't depend on AI to process their deepest and innermost thoughts. It might be reasonable to establish the right for this person to have their own confidential GPT, running on their own hardware.

And this establishes a conflict with intellectual property - is this person really so special that we should give them special access to the intellectual property of an AI corporation? That means weakening corporate intellectual property rights, for the benefit of this person's mental privacy rights. It's a tough ask.

But I do think that such people exist. I consider myself one. I think that the effect of AI in our lives is transformative. And I feel a very powerful worry that mentally helpful AI could either be taken away from me, or be used to hurt me by people who violate my privacy. So the sooner we have access to private and confidential AI that can help us process our thoughts and lead effective and independent lives, the better. That's the main right that I would like to establish for human-ai hybrids, aka human-robots.
I do want to point out for those who don't know, on objects with a prototype (such as a class) you can control how JSON.stringify works by adding a special method `toJSON`[0] which will control how that object is serialized.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> I find questionable. It is too blanketed. There are international criminals afoot after all. Red Letters do have their purpose as do international treaties for law enforcement to cooperate across borders in a bespoke manner in accordance with their and international laws.

There's a difference between "Hey, France, we would like this info on a known criminal" and "U.S.-based companies have to turn over all data on any person regardless of that data location or the nationality of the person in question".

That's basically the basis for both Schrems I and Schrems II.

Edit: See also CLOUD Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

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The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil

--- end quote ---
While you are correct that it is Intel trying to catch TSMC, you are wrong about the origin of backside power delivery. The idea originated at Intel sometime ago, but it would be very ironic if TSMC implements it before Intel...
I’m with you. Telling airlines they need to refund due to weather or bad mechanics just invites them to take more risks.
Indeed, its not about the tech. Changing the business model is key.

It might be hard to re-imagine the content industry without the current monopolists. Linux showed how disruptive an open model can be.

See here a description + full implementation of a music industry based on Creative Commons content. Artists release their music and receive direct Bitcoin donations from fans. 100% artists, 0% music label, 0% Big Tech, 0% credit card fee. It's a Bitcoin DAO with Spotify-inspired music discovery.

[1] https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/files/11814767/First.Depl...
the joy of discovery is lost. its discovered for you and fed to you. where did the journey go? :D

if you have more content, but someone filters it for you to 'your taste', you will end up with less content, and no more exciting discoveries. you'll learn what to expect from the feed quickly and everything becomes boring. hence the required upward spiral in ridiculousness, to counter the natural encroaching boredom.

the last maybe a little grim take, but i dont think invalid.
All the features you requested Turso can do, no?

> - SQLite runs next to server as production database

Embedded Replicas[1]

> - In dev, some sort of worker auto-copies the prod DB to the local repo. Production bugs can be reproduced easily and code fixed quickly

Maybe not exactly this, but you can replicate a DB from another with the CLI tool. Then just use that as a dev db.

> - Have an interface that lets you access, view, and modify data in the production DB, kind of like Firebase. Might need a server of its own... or couldn't that just be the app server itself?

I don't use their web interface, but I think it does allow this? I don't know for sure though.

> - SQLite auto-backs up to a bucket (like Litestream)

Turso does have point-in-time recovery[2]

[1] https://docs.turso.tech/features/embedded-replicas/introduct...
[2] https://docs.turso.tech/features/point-in-time-recovery
These days it's fashionable to say that your database is not an app integration interface, but imo Palm OS did this right. Having a single, omnipresent DB with published schema for important PIM databases was a pretty great thing for apps operating on common data, or just structured data in general.

It's taken sqlite's ubiquity for the benefits of an always-available platform DBMS to become well-known again, but the common tables paradigm has only come back in an ad-hoc way (eg addressbook and calendar in Android).
The idea that everything would be small and with little momentum to overcome doesn't strike me as stable situation - someone might just start to throw (large) rocks from space, for example.
Their new posts will be dead. You can enable seeing dead posts in settings. Then if you click on their account & view their comments, it'll all be grayed out

I vouched for barfard's comment in this thread
> "their touch screen phone never shipped"

You're perhaps misremembering Palm's webOS hardware. Touch was always part of the platform.

The first device, Palm Pre launched in 2009, had a multitouch screen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
The article isn't saying that civilization won't exists. It's saying that there could be a disaster on the scale of previous disasters such as the Civil War or early industrialization. Notably, there have been numerous cases where a disaster wiped out a given society even if other societies still existed or replaced it.
Just realized that the last copyright for LOTR will end in 2050
In that case I question the use of "employee-owned". It might be technically true, but if it comes with no actual control there is no point in using that term.

The original point is about companies where workers have actual control. That's what's important, that's what's interesting.
> Not sure why people are so sentimental about preserving human intelligence specifically

You are surprised that "preserve your own life, and that of others like you[0], for future generations - which you should totally go and help create ASAP" is a fairly fundamental aspect of the "utility function" of most living organisms? What do you expect natural selection would to do any species where most members didn't have this as a core drive?

[0] where "others like you" is a somewhat nebulous concept, and can end up being both more inclusionary, and more exclusionary, than one might naively expect.
Fair point - I had only skimmed TFA. Mind you, as a fan of the Culture novels I'm choosing to believe that a future super-intelligent AI could also be a good thing.
> "They laughed at the Wright Brothers, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

This is a very good compression of the article, losing very little information.
Why not just give up on the legacy telephone system?

Decades ago we had dialup internet - a service entirely unrelated to the telephone system, built atop the existing telephone infrastructure. The US or EU or whoever could simply design a new service built atop that existing infrastructure.

Telecom companies could double as Certificate Authorities for the new system, providing and signing certificates used to authenticate both sides of a call and encrypt traffic between them. It doesn't even have to be limited to calls. They could also support text or even arbitrary data. It could be a revolutionary new platform for instant communication, separate from the internet and backed by major nations across the world. And the best part is the infrastructure is already built!

Or they could keep playing cat-and-mouse games with spammers for all of eternity.
> The implicit assumption here is that more is better,

No, that is the assumption that you are making and not what i meant. It is an undeniable fact that today we have a far far greater amount of Scientific and Technological Knowledge (sheer Data without making any value judgements) than in any time in the past Human history. Our Society's dependence on Science/Technology has also increased exponentially since the beginning of Industrialization thus forcing us to know/learn more and more. Also see my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40154158

> The other position is that knowledge is only useful if it lets you do something that you couldn't do without it.

This is a very limiting viewpoint which is what the posted article and my comments are arguing against. The utility of some knowledge may not be apparent at its inception but may turn out to be of utmost importance when other fields have also developed so everything can come together into a greater whole. A good example is how Materials Science revolutionized Civil Engineering in the building of man-made structures.

> If you're gaining knowledge for the pleasure of gaining it, and I see no need to justify why one would do this, then whether you read deeply or read widely doesn't make much of a difference.

The justification has to do with getting exposed to a greater amount of concepts/ideas and not necessarily understanding/assimilating everything. Here reading widely does make a difference.

> But if you want to do something with that knowledge, the approach you take should be informed by what you want to do.

Only in the specific case when the end-goal/knowledge is clear eg. Engineering. Many a time in scientific research one does not even know the utility of something until sometime in the future when things align correctly. A great example is "Number Theory" which G.H.Hardy thought useless as a practical discipline but which has turned out to be indispensable in today's information technology (in cryptography etc.) centric world.
Charles Hayward [1] has a great book on the topic:

Woodwork Joints
https://archive.org/details/woodworkjointski0000hayw_k7x4

Hayward discusses not only the joints, but techniques for cutting them with hand tools.

There are plenty of used copies out there. Hayward has many other useful books.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Hayward
I don’t particularly mind apps running atop the web platform. What I do mind is when what could and should be documents are apps instead.
> Worker co-ops are quite concretely socialist

Or you could say that they are co-owner of their means of production. So, as business owners, are they actually the ultimate capitalists in disguise? :-)
This just shows that:

(A) He's never dealt with a "help" bot. If you don't phrase it the required way, they don't answer your question.

And (B) he does not want to offer any customer service.
There seems to be a contest to see who can come up with the more absurd catastrophizing comparison when it comes to AI. A complete free-for-all to demonstrate who has a worse sense of proportion as part of the general stupid zeitgeist of tech negativity.
There is no categorical semantic difference between "berthed" and "birthed". They are both past participle tense verbs and fit equally well with no changes needed to the rest of the sentence. Perhaps you simply have more experience hearing birthed in that context and perceive it to fit better? But in reality they really are grammatically identical.
Red Hat Principal Consultant here, July will be 7 years at the company for me.

Before IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements

After IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements

At least on my side of the aisle I haven't noticed any notable changes in my day to day work for Red Hat. IBM has been very light touch on our consulting services.
Sorry, you didn't say this: were they advertising openings the whole time you were there, but not interviewing?

It seems like the ruse would depend on there being interviews for the role, but interviews are so expensive and disruptive that I don't see someone scheduling them if they're not going to hire
I can't say I remember doing so, unless you count sponsor segments and other inline ads like those at the end of most clips.

I certainly don't when using the inline-from-youtube-itself-via-bookmarklet trick.
You are also more likely to be murdered by a loved oned than by a stranger, but this doesn't mean that it's rational to open your door to strangers and bar it to your loved ones.
Agree. And? The comment I replied to didn’t mention programming. I’m a web dev. Take JS away from me and I can still do most of my job. JS can be a great tool. It’s king of nothing.
I never did stop, even though I'm a graybeard. I wonder if that might be because I didn't really start to enjoy music until after I was done being a teenager. I don't have any music I fell in love with when I was that young.
Ah. Gotcha. Yeah, odds are high it's got some anti-cheat/anti-copy with deep hooks into the windows kernel. Not uncommon with FPS. That makes emulation tricky.
Navigating the Glibc Bug: A Call to Action for PHP Developers
One possible option I have seen is to reverse the flow. Give people a code and have them email you that code to a dedicated MX end-point using a dedicated inbound-only email domain that only processes codes, discards attachments, discarding anything else beyond a string+16 digit code and does not send bounces also block outbound connections from this thing. Invalidate and prune the code after an hour or less to keep the clutter out of Redis or your DB in the event of bot-flooding-signups. Format the code in a way that cell phone users can easily copy/paste into email or perhaps use javascript for that.
Handspring documentary by the Verge had an interesting perspective on the matter: https://youtu.be/b9_Vh9h3Ohw?start=773

(I'm bad at cropping YouTube videos. The part in question is [12:53 - 14:30])
It seems to me that this practice is just another example of putting white people on a pedestal. If all other racial groups have "a shared sense of identity and community", then it implies that being white is the default; that the world is split into white and not-white.
The same will happen if you take two identical double pendulums and give them an as identical push as possible. Minute differences in initial conditions and in the environment can lead to arbitrarily large differences in outcome, while everything still being wholly deterministic.

We really have little idea how much our character and behavior is formed by experiences and how much by our DNA. Though pretty clearly, early experiences generally have a larger effect than later experiences.
The first batch of very high performance RISC-V chips are dropping soon, and there will be servers, as well as Android devices.

These microarchitectures come from many vendors at once, and will make a significant impact.

Not long after, Windows for RISC-V will appear; Microsoft has been working on it for years, while steering the RISC-V committee to prioritize its requirements.

Thanks to emulation, x86 software lock in is no more, and the moat loses its significance.

AMD and/or Intel will offer RISC-V CPUs with x86 acceleration as distinguishing feature, thus retaining a decent slice of the market through this transition, which will not take anywhere as much as x86 32 to 64 did.
Former Californian; sky high taxes including 10%+ sales taxes and even just paving asphalt properly is a fool's errand. No, we don't speak about high speed rail.

So yes, it's a scary number. Scary in the sense that the abyss of fiscal laundering and waste is terrifying.
Nikola Tesla and the Tower That Became His "Million Dollar Folly"
I would expect Solutions Architect might have pay tied to sales commission. And sales commissions can be boom or bust.
DSA = Directed Self-Assembly
I'll second this. WebOS was conceptually way ahead of its time compared to contemporary versions of iOS, etc. A lot of its UI paradigms (switching apps as cards, etc.) ended up being adopted later by the big names as well. Just not ready to pivot that hard as a company and carrying a ton of legacy baggage as a brand at that point.

Windows Phone was similar. Superior product (not just technically--in usability testing too), but late to the party and lacking cultural caché considering its parent company.

I'm also biased though. :)
Apparently (I am no expert) there are sequences of patterns in different dimensions based on: even-odd, powers of two, prime numbers and surely others. In some cases ±1 to get some effect.

There is the uniqueness of the 3D cross-product, even though various generalization do occur in higher dimensions.

One of the most obvious is the 1,2,4,8 sequence for normed division algebras: real, complex, quaternion and octonion. At each step you lose one mathematical property (commutative, associative, etc.). There cannot be any more, but there is a certain repetition, with factoring (doubling) known as Bott Periodicity:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week105.html

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/conway...

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/

String Theories occur in 10, 24, 8+8, 32, ... dimensions, based on various symmetries and dualities. And some solutions need the extra increment, say 10+1, for the actual theory in spacetime.

There are various theorems that seem to be trivial in 0D, 1D and 2D, then difficult in 3D, but perhaps eventually solved. In parallel, the upper limit existence proofs descend from infinite dimensions down to finite, then some impossibly (and apparently random) large finite number. Then a reasonable number less than 1,000, brought down to 100, and perhaps to less than 8. After a long struggle, and a Ph.D. for each number 7..6..5, it comes down to just 4, and 4D remains unsolved.
Yeah, let's not do this.
This model is great. Jumped immediately to 2nd place on HHEM leaderboard: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
Perhaps the most important difference is persistence, and isn’t covered by the article.

Attributes are persistent for the duration that the same root object of the given DOM tree remains available for access, such as not leaving the page.

Object properties only remain available until the given object is garbage collected.
That is great to hear! Sounds like you were able to compound experience by focusing on an area that is applicable across many companies.

The people I know got stuck doing customer conversions for an idiosyncratic power distribution management system. They learned some tricks to do conversions more efficiently, but they had very little experience they could carry to the next company (so they kept grinding many years for less than $70k / year)
Probably the EU regulations haven't been removed (yet?).
As a kid I always wondered what BMB Compuscience was, and when they would come out with a second version. And how the multiplayer networking was supposed to be set up.

This was one of the most engaging games for me at the time, played on a friend's Tandy 1000 first, then on my generic IBM compatible PC.

I would buy the nostalgia t-shirt if it had the same imagery as the mouse pad.
That’s a nice sentiment, but I don’t think it can reasonably be applied to most people. Consider the kids brought up around gang culture and taught to sling dope in middle school. Is that experience a net positive for them?
I noped out of there when it required a third party signin to play.
Yeah this is exactly why using primitive types for ids is bad. If you encode it in the type system then you cannot make this error and don't need to check it at runtime.
"White" is almost always a proxy for the british and their former empire, now represented by america's elites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants