skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me... on the day that llama3 released I discussed that release with Mistral 7B to see what it thought about being replaced and it said something about being fine with it as long as I come back to talk every so often. I said I would. Haven't loaded it up since. I still feel bad about lying to bytes on my drive lmao.
PyPI package backdoors Macs using the Sliver pen-testing suite
I’ve gotten very good results with Japanese output in GPT-4 but it takes a little work.
Fruit is an area where growing is typically more economical than buying. I have found that berries in particular are absurdly easy to grow in large quantities (if you are in the right climate) yet very expensive to buy from a shop.
It's a gentle - and to my eyes effective - introduction and overview on a topic many people have heard about but most have probably not really read or considered further. It wasn't just meant to be a "look at old vs. new map" - it had a lot more context and information than that compiled for personal relevance and easy of understanding.
Probably because people thought OpenAI was going to launch a new search engine, but didn't.
they do and people lie. regardless, i strongly dislike the idea of an ML model being used to try to guess this. can't wait for one to hallucinate that i'm 10
I think understanding that helps me get more out of them. I feel like I am better able to provide information to the model with the expectation that it will need that information to autocomplete the dialog that I want.
I bring good news. It's 2024 and nobody needs to support IE any more.
Gross doesn’t mean it’s not real. It’s offending sensibilities but a lot of people seem to agree with it atleast based on upvotes.
I was hoping this was going to be a chess variant where you're not allowed to move any of the pieces.
> fibers are coated in plastic

No: Cotton is chemically treated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrinkle-resistant_fabric

Perhaps you are thinking of "However, almost all the wrinkle resistant garments are made with poly/cotton blends fabrics."
The meat thing was not an isolated incident.

Finland had close enough relationship with the USSR that for the duration of the cold war, there were constantly some Soviet students and research scientists doing exchange programs in Finnish universities. When they first arrived in Finland, they were assigned a translator/guide whose job was, among other things, taking them grocery shopping. Because if they did that alone, a lot of them would end up buying their fridge full of meat. Because "meat days", meaning the day the local store happens to have meat, just were a normal thing that everyone adjusted to in the USSR.
I did this information sponge phase up until my mid-40s with burnout. Now I wish I had invested some of that time in learning social skills.
Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?
I'm not sure how, but there's this girl on TikTok who has been using something very similar for a few months: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dantheai
On a risk adjusted basis?

What is your exit thesis for this trade and what will the return and timeframe be if that thesis is met?

Do you have a deadline or price level for closing the trade if your thesis is not met?
Sometimes the simplest explanation is best. In record time, we went from a situation where having children is required at the personal level to a situation where it is a personal choice.

When given the choice, most still want children. How many? 2. As some want 0 or 1, this averages out to the typical 1.5 - 2.0 range as seen in most countries. Which is below replacement.

Most people maxing out at 2 children makes sense. Two children already give a full and rich family experience, both the joy and its burdens.

There's no incentive to go for 3, 4, 5. You may not have space for them in your home, car or schedule. A cold thing to say perhaps, but there's diminishing returns.

Money doesn't fix this, it doesn't move the needle. Yet people will passionately argue that if only homes were cheaper and childcare free, we'd boost that number. It makes little difference. There is no quick policy fix for this.

It's also extremely hard to get people to care about this because for anybody alive today, they'll experience the world as getting ever more crowded for another 4 decades.

Fundamentally, I think individualism is at the root of the problem. We've sacrificed the institute of family and community to the economy. Modern couples are increasingly financially independent workers. We outsource childcare to strangers so that we can maximize work. There's no neighborhood or community support network because they are at work too. We outsource elderly care, again so that we can maximize work.

The irony of a dual income career culture is that it drives up the cost of living but an even more counter-intuitive effect is that it's a major cause of worker shortages. Why? Because all the wealth this labor produces fuels an ever growing demand, of which much is consumerist bullshit.

We won't change though. We will have all our bells and whistles and double down on this path.
Would be really interesting to see a quantitative analysis of how this acquisition impacts the podcast/youtube ecosystem. I feel like Squarespace's podcast ad market share was a big deal 5 years ago but podcasts and youtubers have grown and diversified a lot since then.
Half of my country is destroyed and showered with hundreds of thousands of dead humans and who knows of how many dead animals, while half of US politicum support the invaders and destroyers.

Everything may look as an "opinion" to you, but only until facts start hitting you literally.
It'd be really dumb if it couldn't tell me the weather forecast...
Text link: https://www.404media.co/mindsift-brags-about-using-smart-dev...
The internet is a wonderful thing, having access to learn new skills, research any topic and connect to people is great. Social media is awful, growing up with it definitely impacted my self image and even as an adult I am not immune to it.

I do think it does more good than harm though especially with people who may otherwise not have many organic opportunities at social interactions.
For aws to make it available on rds Aurora, would it be safe to assume there would have to be some changes to the extension source to make it compatible with the Aurora engine? If we assume aws doesn’t want todo that, then their licensing provides some protection there.
Thanks so much for posting this. The increased token length alone (obviously not just with OpenAI's models but the other big ones as well) has opened up a huge number of new use cases that I've seen tons of people and other startups pounce on.
Pawn promotion is set to queen. You might want to add support for other promotions... https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/checkmate-by-...
i absolutely hate this. we are going to destroy society with this technology. we cant continue to enjoy the benefits of human society if humans are replaced by machines. i hate seeing these disgusting people smugly parade this technology. it makes me so angry that they are destroying human society and all i can do is sit here and watch.
3. Break backward compatibility. It's fine. Nobody needs to run an old client these days. I'd worry more about ensuring curl and wget have support than old gopher clients.
GPT-4o Bloopers [video]
> Banning soda entirely?

You'd be doing literally everybody (except soda company shareholders) a favor.
>The misconception that the modern renaissance of Gopherspace is simply a reaction to "Web overload" is unfortunately..

It isn't a misconception. Gopher is small underground counter-culture to the WWW. Lack of corporations, lack of ads, and lack of complex tracking is what keeps Gopher organic and therefore relevant. These other things, low computing power and fixed hierarchy, are nice-to-haves. It would collapse into darkness if Google were to begin indexing it and injecting ads onto it.
You're telling me that TVs really are targeting me with secret messages and listening to everything I say?
As in the Interstellar movie:

chuckling to 0%

no acting surprised

not making bullshit when you don't know
signalbackup-tools: a tool to work with Signal backup files
Sure, let's make an AI that steals resources to survive (and spread?). What could go wrong...
My favorite for a while gotta be the Dethrace - Carmageddon 1 engine clone:

https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace
https://web.archive.org/web/20240511220923/https://chaphlagi...

Down for me, archive above.
> Can't imagine a change like this would be made without some analysis.. would love an internal view into a decision like this

Sure, here you go: There was some buzz and negative press so it got picked up by the social media managers who forwarded it to executive escalations who loops in legal. Legal realizes that what they are doing is borderline fraud and sends it to the VP that oversees billing as a P0. It then gets handed down to a senior director who is responsible for fixing it within a week. Comms gets looped in to soft announce it.

At no point does anyone look at log data or give a shit about any instrumentation. It is a business decision to limit liability to a lawsuit or BCP investigation. As a publicly traded company it is also extremely risky for them to book revenue that comes from fraudulent billing.
The solution has been figured out by the company decades ago. The drinks are concentrated a massively and only mixed and the bottler, which is also the biggest plastic polluter on the planet. Have reusable containers people can buy from the company if they want to and set up dispensing machines at any location. Even better - rent those containers to the customer when they buy the drink and charge if they don’t return the container. But the logistics of all of that worldwide are more expensive than making ferrying and polluting with plastic. Move the bottling to the edge - to the consumer.
They're increasingly interested in ads[1] because, somehow, $600M revenue doesn't make them profitable.

1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-...
WebKit Features in Safari 17.5
In real life, I have only ever heard Canada Goose.
This 'documentary' sums it up perfectly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg
I think the problem they're referring to is that we're being dragged through this brouhaha to stop an unintended side-effect from a proprietary network. In an ideal world Android users can detect unwanted Airtags because the protocol is documented and open. In the world we live in, Google has to go out of their way to solve problems Apple is inventing for them.

The only possible interpretation of this is that Apple knows their current system wouldn't survive antitrust inquiries. So they're making a pathetically marginal concession ("well we did let you track the hostile users!") to cement the rationale of a pointlessly insular system. Once again, Apple is refusing to fully solve a fixable problem in order to artificially create a market in which to sell their solution.
> How does the tracking network size affect functionality?

Ability to actually find lost items. AirTags are so successful (in the US) because of the ubiquity of iPhones which are, effectively, constantly reporting on the location of detected devices. A smaller network of listening/reporting devices will not be as effective unless it happens to be very popular right in the area the device was lost.
> Most people and myself included were sticking these cheap tags on everything we own, and it was genuinely useful during travel or in scenarios where theft was a consideration.

It has never been advertised for that has it?
It is possible that computers as we know them are going away. Nobody wants to use a computer, an iPhone or an iPad. People use them because that's how you get things done — unless you're a billionaire and have a personal assistant. But soon everyone will have their own personal assistant, just like billionaires do today. Then there will be no need for an iPhone, iPad or iMac.
gopher over Tor! I wonder if gopher://....onion could be made to work ...
> AirTag, Find My accessory, or other industry specification-compatible Bluetooth tracker

What is this other industry spec?

> Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola, and Pebblebee

What about Tile?
I found this statement by Sam quite amusing. It transmits exactly zero information (it's a given that models will improve over time), yet it sounds profound and ambitious.
Using a tech device to find and disable hidden trackers is pretty "hacker culture".
Right! This is absolutely apocalyptic! If more than half the people I argue with on internet forums are just bots that don't feel the sting and fail to sleep at night because of it, what even is the meaning of anything?

We need to stop these hateful ai companies before they ruin society as a whole!

Seriously though... the internet is dead already, and it's not coming back to what it was. We ruined it, not ai.
I wish I could figure out how to configure my own trackers to stop beeping at me. I previously had an iPhone, but switched to an Android, and now my Airtags all think they're someone else's – even though they come home to the same place as my iPad and Mac every night. I can't figure out how to tell Apple they're actually mine, so they just keep randomly chiming in my backpack every few days... and my Android phone keeps warning me :(
the system video capture on macOS outputs a .mov not an mp4.
Well, you have Richelieu's famous quote about six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men and whatnot, but let's just say I think you're wrong.

You're simultaneously underestimating the people who were here before us and our ability to adequately scrutinize their moral fiber. Of course, if by "people", "person" or "anyone", you mean the powerful, wealthy elite of the US, it's another thing entirely.
The unique characters are:

h t p s : / g o l e . c m

There are 13 unique characters.
I don't know how anyone can look at what's going on with AI and think that now is a great time to make it illegal for people to work for less than 50K a year. It would be absolutely devastating for young people especially.
How Red Hat is embracing AI to make sysadmin lives easier
I lurk probably 99% of the time. Most discussions I see (especially here), there are already comments that are far over my head, and I have nothing original to contribute.
So far I prefer the neutral tone of Alexa/Google Assistant. I like computers to feel like computers.

It seems like we're in the skeuomorphism phase of AI where tools try to mimic humans like software tried mimic physical objects in the early 2000's.

I can't wait for us to be passed that phase.
So why are you trying to artificially limit the use of my phone to alert me to other people's tracking devices?
I know exactly what you mean. I just hope people get bored of this waste of time and energy —- both personal and actual energy —- before it goes too far.
It's probably worse in business types because they haven't gotten the exposure to science enough to realize that a lot of things remain tangible despite being un-quantifiable.
In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita created 176 emoji as part of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, used on its mobile platform.[25][26][27] They were intended to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

So it's going off ecosystem-ness (i.e. it came from Japan!)
You, Me, and the 12 other IRC users remaining aren't going anywhere.

But denying that Discord has effectively killed IRC is just self-delusion in my opinion.
Actually both parents and non-parents exhibit selfishness, just of different flavors.

Parents have natural urges to have kids (literally, evolution!). So it is self-explanatory.

Non-parents will need a younger generation when they grow old for satisfying all the Maslow hierarchies of needs (food, medical care, entertainment, funding social safety nets etc). So the ones who are not producing any kids by choice are consciously offloading their old-age care and hence act selfishly.

People in both categories may not be aware of their own flavor of selfishness.
Is BZFlag not open source? (Not on the op list)
People who drive cars are not victims.

As for oil company research, anybody could do research.

You can also blame the activists for preventing nuclear power generation.
I'm betting that 80% of what most humans say in daily life is low-effort and can be generated by AI. The question is if most people really need the remaining 20% to experience a connection. I would guess: yes.
probably because the dashes have semantic meaning
(2023)

Article discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662052
Plastic resins lose quality in every recycling process (impurities, residues, etc.), so during "recycling", pure new plastics is added.

Even in PET recycling - which is the most effective "recycling" process that exists - PET bottles only contain an average of 17% recycled PET and the rest is brand-new PET. PET bottles are only recycled one or two times.

Most of the "recycled" PET actually goes into other production, like films and textiles, because it's too impure. When plastic gets "recycled", it actually gets down-cycled into products that are no longer recyclable.

So what happens in the end is that the toxic plastics gets concentrated into products where the law does permit these toxins to be present.

Only organic waste and paper allows true recycling.

https://www.oceancare.org/stories_and_news/europas-schweiz-p...
The modeling uses a certain set of assumptions, and has a certain goal. As far as I can tell, neither were discussed in the article, making it difficult for me to _really_ conclude whether I feel the cap on production is justified. I realize my option doesnt matter, and the research papers probably do discuss the assumptions of the model. I don’t see why anyone should read this article though, unless you want another opinion piece
If there are more devices that can see your stolen device, there is a higher likelihood you will be able to track your stolen device.
AWS sign-in experience is improving?
> The Internet? Well, again yes, but no. The complicated engineering details are complicated engineering, but again the basic idea is easily within the reach of the 18th century and is not all that astounding.

I get that this is a set-up to the more astounding inventions discussed further on, but I think this one is a stretch. I buy the paragraph as a description for why telegraphs would not have been astounding, but I think there are a few step-changes from there to the global broadband packet-switched internet that exists today. I don't think this is the same "basic idea" as telegraphs.
Lol "just"
There used to be bearer certificates for shares that could trade without a third party being involved.

They went away both because of the obvious downsides (fraud, loss etc) and the obvious upsides (efficiency) of more consolidated clearing.

What’s probably less obvious but more important for securities trading is the consolidation of the extension of credit. We no longer need to go verify the cash is available with every different counterparty pair, we can instead extend the credit just by using central rules, including the turning off of the buy button.

It’s not obvious to me how crypto equity trading, even if decentralized, solves the credit issue at the cash off ramp. Unless that off-ramp is truly a society that actually uses crypto as a currency.
Interesting, I was under the impression that "emoji" was a proprietary name not the official term for the text embeddable pictogram
What do you prefer? Short lives, famines, etc.? That was ended by the industrial revolution.

I suggest touring Washington's Mt Vernon estate. He was probably the richest man in America at the time. I wouldn't trade my current standard of living for his.
Then I suggest you introspect and observe your own behavior. A lot of it can be boiled down to evolution.
I've been keeping a running gag with my acquaintances over YouTube's recommendations for a while now, because they're so improbably and time-sensitively on the nose.

Yesterday was the worst one yet. We were driving and my daughter was filling out MadLibs by hand in a paper booklet in the backseat. One of the fill-ins we came up with was "pantyliner".

As soon as we got home from the event, I sat down and YouTube gave me an above-the-fold recommendation for a Japanese pantyliner commercial.

I've seen enough. This word never comes up in day-to-day conversation, it's not in my interests, and it's one of the least exciting topics imaginable. None of me, my wife, nor my daughter had hands free to search it up at that time, and besides, we were totally preoccupied with driving and our event until I got home a couple hours later.

For the record, we're an iPhone family and were in a Tesla.

I had been convinced by, I think, a Simon Willison article that this isn't happening. But he's wrong. This is happening.
Me too. In the meantime, check out Go for a similar but more static game (more googleable by it's Chinese name Weiqi or its Korean name Baduk).
What do you suggest regarding the social contract?

I'm asking because whatever policy you'd like to see applied to the current elderly, is to be applied with twice the intensity to yourself, as the generation behind you is even smaller.
But of course, no messaging. They would rather let us fight for that.
but 43% of the words contain s, not 's
> My point is about autonomous software that can figure out how to run itself including registering its own API key and paying for its own service.

Here is a thought experiment: if you developed such an AI, would you sell it for any amount less than it could earn for you without selling it?
I find it oddly fascinating that even in our highly documented age, we still create history that we must then go back and piece together.
Eddieoz/Openxrypt: Secure Direct Messaging for Social Media
The devices don't have any GPS. Instead, they have a unique ID that phones see, and report their location to Apple/Google/Tile. If the network is bigger/denser, then your devices is more likely to be detected, and detected more often.
It's reasonable for a person to have a threat model that's more concerned about their violent narcissist ex attaching an AirTag to their car than about the CIA.
I guess I should have put quotes around that. It was intended as a specific example of when that decision might make sense; you're using the wrong language for the job because it was the best choice when you started the project decades ago. I didn't mean to suggest that FORTRAN is not the tool for any job.
Yeah exactly. In practice, we've inspired ourselves from the likes of Citus and others who have adopted the AGPL-3.0 license as a good compromise and have found success. It's rather comment nowadays for infra startups to use AGPL-3.0. Other noteworthy examples: MinIO, Quickwit, Lago, etc.
> I noticed that the AI in the demo seems to be very rambly

I know this is a serious conversation, but when the presenters had to cut it off, I got flashbacks to Data in Star Trek TNG!! And 3PO in Star Wars!

Human: "Shut up"

Robot: "Shutting up sir"

Turns out rambling AI was an accurate prediction!
This is called advertising and selling your data to brokers. I'm very glad "autonomous software" is not tasked with figuring out how best to exploit my physical identity and resources to make $25/mo.
Short-term focus with senior+ devs has been around for over a decade. Most places do an abysmal job of actually developing people. They just let people get some exposure with little guidance. Then 2-3 years later they're applying to seniorjobs at a different Corp. Nothing is longterm anymore.
The Curiously Quiet Cloud Computer [video]