skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how did people live before ACs were invented? can't imagine

They lived simpler lives with less mental work that required concentration.

Lee Kuan Yew, the man credited with transforming Singapore into a modern, developed country, is quoted as saying:

"Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
There is more flexibility on routes over the middle of a trip than near the departure or arrival constraint. Flight over large bodies of water tends to be away from the arrival or departure airport.

Going 100 miles out of your way for weather at a point that's 100 miles from the airport is a big diversion. Going 100 miles laterally out of your way at the midpoint of a 2500nm trip is about an 8 nm deviation (4nm out and 4nm back).
Neither the Gaza Ministry of Health, nor the armed wing of Hamas have released the number of combatant casualties, leaving the IDF's number as the only estimate available. If that estimate is incorrect, they could and should challenge it by putting forth their own.

The source you provided says "for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians". This is clearly an upper bound, and makes no claim about how close to this they actually come.

In the same way, I might offer my customers an SLA of two nines in their contract, but never drop below three in practice. Part of effective planning is describing the worst case scenario, but that doesn't imply it will actually happen.
If you're making such a major change to the infrastructure, replace the roads with train tracks, and the cars with electric trains. It'll be cheaper and safer.

Cars that can only be driven by computers in controlled conditions defeat most of the point of having cars (i.e., mobility for people unable to use public transport).
Sometimes you win and if the bank ignores you, you can show up with a deputy and seize bank equipment from a branch.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...
> Soo `a-b` and `a - b` are both potentially valid and different?

You shouldn't be able to start a name with a hyphen, so `a -b` and `a - b` can be both valid.

But I mostly just came to acknowledge your fitting username ;)
at least on iOS you can permanently delete the music app (permanently meaning system updates won't restore it)
Python requests 2.32.0 (2024-05-20) breaks Docker-py
This was discussed yesterday a bit also,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40416629

I don’t fully understand the last sentence in this article, is this guy going to be punished for being a fraud or is that not how it works?
Technically Apple sent their serial number to you.

Either way you can prevent this by selecting "Don't Send" when you first set up your Mac
I use JumpCut. I still don't want my stuff on one machine erased via the other unless i specifically connect them via vnc.
Sunsetting Section 230 will hurt internet users and big tech.
Wait does viewport `width=device-width, initial-scale=1` prevent pinch-zoom?

I thought it just set the initial zoom with initial scale, but didn't prevent zooming in further? But I don't pinch zoom websites much, and maybe I haven't tested my own in a while... googling the usual sources are not clarifying to me the interaction of all these things according to standard.
Which empty, Taiwan-sized island did you have in mind?
Why Is There an AI Hype?
The article states “ Turbulence is most commonly caused by aircraft flying through cloud but there is also "clear air" turbulence which is not visible on a jet's weather radar nor is it possible to predict.”

So are we just avoiding the storms? Or are “clear air” turbulence situations decreasing?
Already do, it's fantastic
Fundamentally, the tension is between the universal laws of mathematics on which encryption is based and the politicians and police who don't understand them.

This quote from the article brings that into stark relief: "we do not accept that there need be a binary choice between cyber security or privacy on the one hand and public safety on the other. Absolutism on either side is not helpful"

Clearly, Europol misunderstands the fundamental, mathematically binary, nature of encryption as man-made "absolutism" that could be dispelled with just enough laws and warrants and wiretaps.
> ―it is as if the vastness of their perspective somehow opens onto the longer view of things.

I got some odd feeling of talasaphobia from seeing them, maybe that's just me. I'm also curious how much money India makes in their part for the deconstruction of theses.

> You may quote extracts from the website with attribution to www.edwardburtynsky.com
I thought that the aircraft had LiDAR on the front of them as a way to avoid incoming turbulence. I could be wrong.
Oh yes, one of my favourites
OS level bugs always exist. What I was referring to, was privacy and trust.
Reading the notes it appears it was implemented by Michał Muskała who also implemented Jason (and seems it is faster too)
Maybe so but I don't like applying labels to people and their complex positions.

They're stasi-fans? Why bother listening to them?
> They're not responsible for the giant evil megacorp that employs them.

Of course they are! People aren't magically born hired to some giant company... they choose to--hell: they even fight to!--work there because they like making more money than they could at another job, in no small part as these jobs involve doing some evil things that extract more value from the world.

> They all got told what the software was supposed to do and they tried to make the software to do what it was supposed to do, because that's what their job is.

First off: who is telling them? Microsoft isn't some AI: it can't tell anyone what to do as it has no agency of its own... people had to make every single decision and take every single action that you are attributing to "Microsoft". They can't "all" be told what the software is supposed to do: someone--often someone low in the org chart, fascinatingly, but this sometimes could actually be someone high up--had to come up with the idea and do the telling.

Second: no... just because "that's your job" isn't an excuse to just do whatever your boss wants you to do, even when you disagree with it; that is a ridiculous level of blame shifting. If you don't want to be held responsible and you somehow can't quit then you should at least be helping in protest of whatever you are finding yourself doing.

> The user isn't allowed to truly say "no, never"...

I mean, why not? Well, because someone, somewhere--a person, with a name, whether they were high or low in the ranks--decided it was more profitable to take agency from users, and then a scant handful of other people were willing to go along with that decision in exchange for everyone being paid their share of the spoils.

(BTW: I would totally accept an argument that this button is a silly example to care deeply about. I'm not attached to the example myself: I was replying to someone else who cared about this and so am adopting this frame. There are much much worse decisions being made by Apple and Google these days.)
Neither the Gaza Ministry of Health, nor the armed wing of Hamas have released the number of combatant casualties, leaving the IDF's number as the only estimate available. If that estimate is incorrect, they could and should challenge it by putting forth their own.
Wyoming
The shared session cursors with location flags kinda surprised me
>Of course, in 1984

Kind of funny to hear people refer to 1984 these days. We're so far past it now, and we did it to ourselves; giving up location data for maps (and mobile phone function for that matter), a Ring doorbell on every front door, participation in social media, etc.

But somehow it's all OK, because it's corporations instead of the government (a blurry line itself) on the other end.
Same problem BDS has. Quite a few products from Palestine are shipped through Israel and with that get an Israeli flag. But I guess those Palestinians are supposed to suffer too since the collaborate with the arch enemy anyway.

There is extremism in Israel and it is on the rise due to constant conflicts and there is also room to criticise Israel for. But recent times have shown that a lot of grievances are purely idiotic in the worst possible way. Also self-centered and actually not helpful for Palestinians at all. This attempt to exclude Israeli academicians really fits into this picture.

But sure, why think about something constructive and be helpful to the situation if you also can just vent your misdirected emotional needs.
The corrupted politicians by and large have the money already and have it through things like rent and capital gains, not salary. Paying more as a salary enables more average people to leave their current jobs to take part in politics.
The only leak I can imagine impacting this would be a giant dump of politician’s personal communications and they are exempt from encryption bans in this particular bill.
The article explains how Ashton Kutcher backed non-profit "Thorn" was a cornerstone of the Chat Control bill that was to be passed a few years back ; it also explains how Palantir pushed for the bill behind the scenes and how at least one former FBI agent and other members of non-EU security agencies participated in meetings to kickstart that new version of the bill.
The Screwing of the Average Man
I just recently picked up a 110 Minolta scuba camera at an estate sale. I haven't been able to find any 110 film cartridges around me, so I'll probably put in an order at B&H.
Wasn't the main guy's job writing personal letters to his clients' friends and lovers? It seemed like a world where no one was connecting with each other anymore.
Is there any type of consumer camera equipment which hasn't experienced a (real or astroturfed) nostalgia-based "comeback"?
It doesn't, it CAN do it. In the same way you can use curl in iTerm to call OpenAI servers. But if you don't do it, it won't do it on its own.
I installed XFCE desktop on Manjaro (I believe) on my grandma's computer that I bought second-hand a couple years ago for about $60 (i5 6th gen, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD). There have been zero issues. Windows was a nightmare because it was constantly breaking or needing an update and Macs would be wasted money in this case. The usage is pretty light: downloading and sharing photos from a camera, YouTube, email, news, some light spreadsheet accounting, and that's about it. Neither of my grandparents are tech-savvy (my grandpa still uses a feature) and yet they both learned all, that they need, in the afternoon I installed the computer. Zero regrets going for XFCE (or anything that can be stripped down just to the features they need) and buying a cheap computer. Going Windows → Manjaro/XFCE reduced tech support calls to me from 1–2× a month to once per year.
Linux is the king for devops work. MacOS is great for professional use, especially if you're in a creative field.

Windows, is good for gaming I guess but I like my *nix and privacy better than games.
Quote from the article:

> Stefan Hector, a representative of the Swedish Police Authority, said that “a society cannot accept that criminals today have a space to communicate safely in order to commit serious crimes.”[0] A week later, it was revealed that the Swedish police had been infiltrated and were leaking information to criminals.[1]

[0] https://polisen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/nationell/2024/april/eur...

[1] https://www.svd.se/a/8qwGbx/granskning-poliser-lacker-till-g...
The audio track on load that has no obvious way to stop playing prevents me from reading this content. Please don't do that.
but some are more equal than others
> that's more of "having no sense of other people's privacy" (and hubris) than general scamminess.

It’s both.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427454
Ongoing attempted starvation of 2.4 million captive population and creation of conditions for famine. Attempted destruction of all means of civilized life for the entire population. I don't think there's been anything like that anytime since ICC was established. Pretty egregious.
Heck, have Xi invade that island instead
He fired them because they were expensive and provide only long term benefits, and he wants desperately to shore up Tesla’s finances right this second to secure his $50b payday.
That makes sense then! I hadn't realises this about iterm since I've never used it- it seems like a blurring of the lines between shell and terminal that I wouldn't want, but maybe I'm not the target user.
I didn’t read it as anti-bail-reform at all. She included the part about bail reform working but unfortunately Deborah wasn’t one of them.
they really put ai in my iterm
Weird, highly distracting arrow things darting around the page. I gave up trying to read it after a few paragraphs.
Robert Kennedy Jr had to make his own political party in some states to get on the ballot. I'd assume the average person in many areas could create their own party with a stack of paperwork. Then track down local laws that define what would be considered a politician, my guess would be something like actively running for an office or being named as a party's candidate or political leader.
That's not necessary at all, even FORTRAN managed to parse

DO 10 I = 1.100

as

DO10I = 1.1

and

DO 10 I = 1,100

as the beginning of a loop ;)
Only if Taiwans government surrenders without a fight. Which seems unlikely.

This isn’t a problem worth worrying about. Hell, given how easily it’d be to detect preparations for an invasion with any chance of success I don’t think worrying about an invasion at all is worth it.

A blockade could be worth worrying about though. The people I know in Taiwan don’t worry much about an invasion, but some of them worry about a blockade. If China can pull that off they could perhaps make Taiwans government give up without a fight. Taiwan depends on imports for food.

Then again I suspect USA would call Chinas bluff and break the blockade by escorting critical shipments to/from the island.
Curious, where do you learn about the latest prompt strategies?
Why do you perceive wearing a seatbelt on a flight and minimising time out of a seat as such a high cost/inconvenience? I hear this line of thought a lot, particularly nowadays around masking to avoid COVID, and I’m always intrigued by this idea that avoiding this tiny act that barely impacts you is somehow sticking a big middle finger up to fear
I'll be the first to admit that I held conflicting views:

For one, I never thought someone could die from turbulence (besides a medical condition such as heart risk).

At the same time, I'm sure certain falls/impacts are quite lethal even in very short distances.

Yet, i dont understand how turbulence makes a plane fall 6000 ft in 3min, unless the automated (turbulence?) avoidance system engaged and caused the injury in the 1st place. Yet, at the same time, the rate of descent may have been necessary to keep control of the plane.

So many questions
Instead of just walking around, drink lots of water and then go to the bathroom, and rinse and repeat (it also works if you don't enjoy your job office).
> "So I started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling," 28-year-old student Dzafran Azmir said.

> "Some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it, they hit the places where lights and masks are and broke straight through it."

That's why I try to keep my seatbelt on at all times, ever since I went through some rough turbulences on my way to Dubai (layover)
This is a firewall issue, not a software issue. If your auditor think you shouldn't call OpenAI servers, they should ask the network team to set firewall rules in place.
That isn't the title of the page and a great illustration of why we should always speak in percentage points or real numbers. "Shark attacks increase by 300%" (from one to four) is a textbook example of a tabloid headline.
No it is not. Comparing the current surveillance capitalism with the Stasi is a trivialization of the former.
That's the debatable bit, isn't it. I will keep repeating that I really don't see a difference between this and someone reading a bunch of books/articles/blog posts/tech notes/etc etc and becoming a profficient writer themselves, even though they paid exactly 0 money to any of these or even asked for permission. So what's the difference? The fact that AI can do it faster?
For low risk boilerplate it helps me a lot, I know what I want and it doesn't take any mental toll validating if the generated code is correct.

Anything else with more complex logic I don't get much gain, having to read and understand the nuances of the generated logic is more taxing on my mind than just writing it myself, got tired of having to correct hallucinations most of the time.
"Addressing the issue of a cover-up, he said better wording was "hiding the truth"."

Hmm. Seems no better to me.
The previous chatgpt voice mode uses text to speech, and has different voices than the OpenAI API. Seemed weird to me too.
The debate is framed as privacy vs security.

Really it’s internal threat security vs external threat security.

Measures to reduce personal security also reduce the security of the traditional armed forces.

1) The armed forces use most of the same networking software and hardware as civilians. They also rely on the same protocols.

2) In a total war scenario, like Ukraine, civilian communication infrastructure becomes military communication infrastructure. See soldiers relying on phones for communication and apps to aim artillery.

3) The vulnerabilities that get built into civilian communications are obvious cyber warfare targets.

The framing of privacy vs security tricks the traditional armed forces into thinking that they have the same interests as the NSA.
At some point, on comments like this, my mind starts editing the contents to "if I stick my head in the sand it'll all go away".
On Atari ST, Neochrome was such an awesome pixel art editor. I spent countless hours designing fonts pixel by pixel using it.
If you’re suggesting “the US” is one monolithic entity, then no.
The weather radar is tuned to detect water vapour. No water vapour no way to detect the wind/turbulence
For medical reasons thank you very much
So now we know that they tried to license from Scarlett Johansson directly but didn't reach agreeable terms. Sam has a lot of plates spinning, other plates are much more important but of course they should have done better from the start, and I'm sure they know it. It's not the best possible voice. Personally I really like a few from the 110 in the VCTK corpus from University of Edinburgh. They're used in a few places, I assume there are no license issues, and they could hire and re-record the best anyway with more emotion samples. It's funny they have a set list of voices rather than a space of voices that people can choose from.
> I am confident that authorities (and insurance companies), will want to apportion blame.

In general this isn't how airline investigations actually work. They instead use the concept of "just cause" meaning that the assumption is that the system failed, and that any mistake is the child of many parents, none whom are at fault on their own. This is why flying is so safe, no one in the entire system is afraid to report failures or mistakes because the assumption is to get better, not to punish why something is bad.

There may be a single final failure but why did was the system set up to allow that to happen at all in the first place is the question. In this case there will certainly be investigations at every level from the flight crew and cabin crew training, to their sleep schedule, to the forecasts, to the flight path planning, to the policies around passengers moving around the cabin, to even how the plane was balanced on passenger and cargo loading. There's going to be a combination of factors no doubt, but no one's going to get fired (some individuals may resign or retire from the stress of handling such a situation, which no one would fault them for). Singapore just got voted the #1 airline in the world, they will take this as seriously as if the entire plane went down.

These findings will then be applied to every major airline and aircraft in the world so that it never happens again. With a few very public recent incidents, any specific type of airline accident tends to happen only once.
It's called United Nations Organization. Although it hasn't been fully implemented. It was planned to have nuclear weapon monopoly and strong joint military forces to stop any aggression. Why didn't that happen? Because it's the US that gained the benefits out of both world wars. And its allies aren't allies but minions. Remember what happened to Charles de Gaulle?

Also note that no one has ever declared a war legally since WW II. Because of the UN and international conventions.

I'd also add that it's not entirely correct to consider countries equal top level actors in the historical process now and in the past. Nowadays so called political nations are technically subjects of international right, of course. But, for instance, in pre-Westphalian world that wasn't the case and these days there is plenty of evidence of transnational actors' influence. For example, Vatican dates back to that era I mentioned. And also who owns most the land in Europe? And how come these von Something German nazis avoided The Nuremberg Trials and ended up as board members in big industrial companies?

So no, the world doesn't need a hegemon in your sense. Taking into account the paralysis of the UN since 1991 it's more likely there will be another take on the ruins that.
How will you ensure the content created for a game is free from copyright violations? Or is that up to the user to determine?
>Road damage is a function of the power of 4[1] generally.

Per axle. So for instance, if you're comparing an 18-wheeler to a 4-wheel car you have to compare (truck-weight/9)^4 to (car-weight/2)^4. Or ((truck-weight/9)/)car-weight/2))^4

So if a bus was an 18-wheeler, it would be about 16x the wear units, /32 passengers brings it to half.

It doesn't make a difference for the bus you linked, since it's also a 4-wheeler like cars, but if we cared we could add more axles to buses.

But, why don't we do that already? Apparently...

1) regulations don't require it

2) we sort of already do; some buses have rear wheel bogies that have 4 wheels of which 2 are kept raised at lighter weights. Which is basically all the time because regulations don't require it.

3) more wheels reduces fuel efficiency (and costs more money), obviously

4) wheels take up space and reduce passenger capacity, which make the bus less efficient if you don't care about road wear

5) buses have a much more consistent weight load than trucks, since ~30 passengers would be only 3 tonnes of difference.

I'm wildly out of my depth on buses/trucks here, so if a mechanic could chime in on bus/truck weight distribution and wheels that'd be great.
Why the 'Tock' of a Pickleball Is So Annoying
I know, I know…

But let me dream on: Tasmania could work. It has 500k people and 25k sqm. Taiwan has 25 million people on 36k sqm.
https://www.wsj.com/science/why-the-tock-of-a-pickleball-is-...
> if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being.

This isn’t even close to the most unethical thing he has done. This is peanuts compared to the Worldcoin scam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427454
There's a novel by Michael Crichton that starts with a very similar plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airframe_(novel)