skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how much of Burtynsky's work centers on the effects of human beings on each other and our world, I don't think it's fair to describe him as being indifferent to human suffering. Instead, I think he maintains an almost journalistic distance from it, and lets his work speak for itself.

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/the-anthropocene-pr...

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/in-the-wake-of-prog...

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/urban-m...
Unlike web scraping where spaghetti logic is required to follow abstracted JS links, archival of nostr events can be as simple as running a relay and mirroring blog content.[1][2] nostr does a lot of what NNTP did but with additional flexibility.

[1] https://logperiodic.com/rbsr.html#nostr

[2] https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/negentrop...
Say more, this is half a thought
Here's how CHATGPT describes itself:

Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and generate human language. Trained on vast amounts of text data, these models utilize deep learning techniques, particularly transformer architectures, to predict and produce coherent and contextually relevant text. They can perform a variety of tasks, including language translation, summarization, question answering, and content creation, by leveraging their ability to recognize patterns and relationships in language. LLMs, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, have become integral in both research and practical applications, demonstrating impressive capabilities in natural language processing and understanding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/health/marijuana-weed-ado...
- The identity trap: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712961/the-identity...

I really like "The identity trap" it's one of the few socio-political books that helps to make sense of a lot of the current social media landscape, and political landscape.
Sounds like a nightmare tbh. Half the fun is the actual coding (aka the journey). I guess if you want to be a prompt engineer that sounds like fun but it sucks all the art of programming out of it.
"Twice"?

After the first time my car tries to autosteer into a train, I am no longer using that function of the car. But then again I'm also not driving that fast around turns in the fog (assuming it isn't just a bad camera, and that is actually ad visibility), so I guess my risk calculus is different from this person.
The other end of the spectrum to moralizing is completely negating any personal agency over resource consumption that each of us has. And unlike for things like "flight shaming", there is an alternative here.

Also, quite often non-disposable objects feel much more pleasant to use: Cutlery, glasses vs. plastic cups etc., just to name a few, so promoting reusable products over single-use plastic crap is a win-win in my book.

I'd definitely add film cameras to that list.
The top ten percent of people in the richest state in the richest country in the world are in fact rich. I'm sure they have their own status games they play that make them feel inferior to one another (what other point is there to such games?), and yes, they are small fish compared to actual plutocrats, but I assure you that they will find some way to make things work, just like the people who live off fractions of their income do.
> His father having "a share in an emerald mine" doesn't mean Elon used his father's money for his business ventures, and it doesn't mean the share was substantial.

It doesn't, no. But it does mean that when he later claimed not to have anything to do with an emerald mine in apartheid SA, he was being knowingly fraudulent. And it takes no small effort to get articles taken down. If it weren't for the Internet Archive, there'd be no evidence he's lying when he says so.

In his own words [from 1 above, already linked]:

> This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”

Does that sound like something someone with an insubstantial share would do with their 15 year old? It's possible, I guess, and if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt on that you're welcome to. Seems naive though.

And the point wasn't that it got him his start, although it certainly didn't hurt. That's a strawman. The point was that Musk has denied having any part in an emerald mine since that interview to build his myth as an entirely self-made entrepreneur. Fraudulently.

> The idea that Musk has single-handedly held back public transportation is funny.

It sure is. Many people have had a part in driving America's infrastructure further into shambles, as they like things just as they are. Especially car makers. So hilarious.

However, if you read carefully over the thread so far, you'll see that no one actually made the claim that he "single-handedly" is responsible. Although, Musk himself seems happy to have had a part in it:

> As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.

- [from 2, also linked above]
Good call. I agree generally with GP, but they definitely did shift the goal posts :-)
Nice game, let him try another addictive toy: https://bubblespop.netlify.app
Alot of this really isnt new, Andrej Karpathy covered the principles here 8 years ago for CS231n at Stanford https://youtu.be/yCC09vCHzF8&t=1640
I use KeePassium Pro, which is a _fully native app_, instead of the hideous mess 1Password has turned into.
Or, as someone said a while back "if you process a million items a day, then one-in-a-million occurrences will happen about daily."
Oh, I am absolutely 100% mocking Apple's implementation. I have a house full of Apple gear, but that doesn't prevent me from shaking my head from time to time when I come across boneheaded stuff like this.
You're meeting your users where they're at. If half your visitors are using mobile and half are on desktop, then having two designs isn't 2x the work, it IS the work. Having only one means you're abandoning half your visitors and not doing your job fully.

And having both is not really 1.5x to 2x the work, in my experience. Maybe more like 25% to 30%. A lot of components and widgets can be reused, the typography and colors can be similar, and certain screens can keep their layout with just small tweaks.

Sure, maybe the initial design takes a bit longer since each screen needs several breakpoints. But that's only a small part of the overall design work anyway. Then on an ongoing basis, your previously established patterns (and components in code) can largely be reused with small tweaks, easily done with modern toolkits like Tailwind or MUI.

I don't think it's that big a deal. Web devs have been doing mobile designs for more than a decade now, and the tools have gotten better and better. Honestly, it's way less wasteful than Agile ceremonies or endless meetings. If you want to stay lean and cut cruft, take it from places that don't directly affect the user, not the one place where they actually use your product all day.
Perhaps a code review on her first few commits would be useful? Like, take an hour and sit in a conference room and have her walk through the changes and explain each one. You probably can't eliminate GPT all together, people will always find a way, but asking them to explain their thought process might give insight into how much they're leaning on it.
Each of us should be consistent in our actions and charitable in our interpretations, even if society at large is chaotic, inconsistent and sometimes quick to judge harshly.

That applies to universities as much as to your employer and to me personally.
That would be great, never going to happen.
That’s a bit of a moot point. The actual human beings forming the military backbone of the “Taliban” were all fighters trained by the Pakistani ISI (at the behest of and sponsored by the United States) in order to fight Soviets. The US distributed a lot of brainwashing material to Taliban madarsas etc.
i don’t see why any of the things you’re describing are criteria for thinking, it seems just arbitrarily picking things humans do and saying this is somehow constitutive to thought
The screenshot is illustrative/fake, from the next tweet in linked thread:

>although the above article is fake (hence my phrasing as a 'hypothetical' and the article being dated in the future in 2024!), it's feasible to build this as a weekend project at this point, so it won't remain fake for very long now!
Why limit it to sites that show content to children?
The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation
Given what we know about how people can end up radicalized in echo chambers with like-minded humans, auto-ensconcing outliers in an echo chamber of fake respondents agreeing with them sounds like a recipe for fomenting a lot of stochastic terrorism.
> midrange and high-end cars my friends typically drive

I take it they don't drive Lexuses.
I suspect that there's a risk of psychological harm when people are exposed to shadow banning. Having to constantly ask yourself "Am I real? Can other people see me?" is not healthy or normal behavior, but after being shadowbanned on a particular site you start having to do it constantly.
Two levels down and nobody has mentioned car tires, wat
What was it before now then?
Not unusual though? FWIW I use Windows since Win95 and never use the Windows or Menu key (I typically live in the terminal, but can't imagine navigating the start menu or context menues with the keyboard).
Depends on the logistics. If I were confident about the security, I wouldn't mind letting my GPU participate in a distributed effort to significantly improve an open source model. This should be a few dollars a month on my power bill, not dozens or hundreds of dollars, especially if I undervolt.

Now, I don't know of any distributed training technique that will make a significant impact on improving a model, and that security component is a big "if". But if something promising comes a long, I'd bet lots of people would be willing to donate some GPU time, especially if it were easy to set up.
Ah good to know. I guess I can’t fault the article for misinformation if Microsoft themselves can’t get it right.
I was afraid that the country would crash China-style in the future and this is confirming my fear.
But what is rarely addressed in this conversation is why the American people should be more scared of the Chinese government owning this type of service compared to an American billionaire who is widely regarded to have some sort of personality disorder and a drug problem? If these services are too powerful when abused and too opaque for us to even know they are being abused, then they all need to have much more stringent regulation on them and not just ban the foreign one.
How can any of these people have a net worth less than $50k? Surely they have a car or house. Two cars and they are already close to $50K. Any house in California will be a minimum of half a million and that's a burned down garage without plumbing.

EDIT: Looking through the data it includes physical assets such as personal residential property, automobiles, and airplanes.
You are so right about that!
i do in fact wear safety glasses when frying stuff and oil is splattering but you're right that most don't
Yes, I agree with that. But to play Devil's advocate, wouldn't that make social media more prone to government overreach and potential restrictions?
The answer is to just put in multiple levels of menus with seemingly-random redundancy! oh wait, they did that.
I agree with the conflict of interest, but the rest... not so much.

First, I don't agree that lobbying is a good thing, in general. It's made our democracy more of a plutocracy<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index>. Citizen's united in 2010 really hurt us here.

'When a nonprofit group pays for political activities, I could see why someone might refer to it all as "lobbying"'

--I think your confused here as trade groups are NOT non-profit groups. Non- profits can't do much lobbying<https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/lobbying>

Calling a Comcast lobbyist for information, is like me asking a car sales person, what car I should get. He will undoubtedly point to industry paid for studies that, for obvious reason's should be considered suspect at best

1. There are experts that aren't employed by companies or trade groups.
2. A success story for unbiased information has been the CBO. It's not perfect, but from everything I've read, it's done better than either party in it's predictions, overall. We should have more like it, for research, because that's what's needed and rely on other less biased experts.
That might be the case, but how and who determines how much is too much? I mean in the case of AI, let the market decide seems like the right answer.
> a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography

A protest to the tune of approximately $1 per photo. I love my 35mm SLR but shooting on it is extremely cost prohibitive. Digital photography doesn’t have to be inhumane, it’s more about the user than the technology.
Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you're watching them
You’re not
I believe it's just stock portfolios as net worth, but I could be wrong
More generally - monitor your own waste stream, and make changes to minimize how much plastic you're throwing out, or causing to be thrown out.
What's the keyboard you use from F-Droid. I've never found a decent replacement for Gboard and would absolutely love one
> where they run the ships aground at high tide.

Read an article about this years ago. It seems they had special pilots to do this. Like wetting the bed on purpose, trained ships captains had a very hard time intentionally running ships aground.
North Korean IT workers game U.S. companies' hiring practices
I’m a big fan of MWL’s tech books. (Can’t speak to his fiction as my brand of ADHD doesn’t really let me consume much fiction).

But I think he has struck a chord with the tech community on this one. Those of us that do sysadmin things, personally or professionally, are getting increasingly frustrated with getting pushed around by big tech. It’s nice to have a bit of a guide on how to grab back some of the infrastructure.
Low-karma users and users who have been explicitly flagged as problem children. You can ask to have the flag lifted (but I haven't, because it keeps me honest and focused ;) ).
Yeah the site feels like an e-shop from a decade ago. Every section scrolls in a different direction, with multiple different ways of representing the same information.
Counterpoint: HN is only good because it's moderated. The moderation is what distinguishes it from a chan board.
Even if a municipal ISP isn't trying to make money, deciding what infrastructure to run and how much of it needs data. "30% of all traffic is coming from Netflix" (which I think was true for a short while) is an input to the decision to install a Netflix CDN cache box closer to the end users.
It's more to point out how far the LLMs we have today are from anything that ought to be considered thoughts. They are far more mechanical than anything else
Indeed, it's not clear why the parent poster is talking about countries, when war crimes are crimes against people.

You don't need to bring the Ottoman empire back to reverse the expulsion of Palestinians from settlement areas.
I reckon this is only measuring the size of their stock portfolio.
IMO Shadow banning is consumer fraud and should be illegal. Deleting things is fine but lying about it is fraud.
Show HN: A free, web-based, no-login, receipt scanner and splitter – Lily Split
Not having an easy way to quickly and accurately divide receipts with my roommates was driving me nuts, so I made this side project. Let me know if you have feedback or suggestions!
Missing apps include Textedit, Journal, Xcode, Preview, Terminal, Font Book.
I can't stop myself from seeing whether the consecutive digits in phone numbers add up to 10 :)
From TFA: <<university’s IT department was angry that the company allowed students to connect their own Canvas API tokens to the app>>

Just a wild guess, but maybe the IT department gets charged an additional fee from Canvas based on the usage of API tokens?

Conflicts like these are always about money, one way or another.
And the ad for Google “shower cams” ;)
UPDATE: as a quick bandaid, I added a blue HELP button in the top right corner showing how to connect dots
HN post rank != importance or interest, rather something more akin to "discussion quality + recency". A highly polarizing post with lots of comments vs votes or lots of flags will tend to rank lower than a neutral post with mild votes and mild discussion via the algorithm. A lot of that depends on the presentation, if the post presents something more controversial it still tends to float to the top as long as it is thoughtful instead of inciteful.
> anti-trust reasons

Desktop computing is a dying platform, so it doesn't really matter.
A deep catalogue of protein-coding variation in 983,578 individuals
Pro audio users aren't using the play button on the keyboard (the space bar is the industry standard to toggle playback), nor using bluetooth headphones (way too much latency to do anything meaningful)
GitHub Copilot Gets Extensions
This student was, from TFA.
What does legal precedent have to do in an era of corrupt courts? Or, what if precedent was decided incorrectly initially? There are all kinds of ways whereby legal opinions shift over time. This isn't even analogous to the Bette case, where the song could be claimed to be "anchoring" one's perspective to the famous singer. So, I guess we'll see in the coming days. I'll have popcorn and this thread on speed dial.
The biggest problem isn't sizing or font sizes, most designs stretch and scale and deal fairly well with that like even if you kick it old-school and use tables.

The big problem is catering to different input methods. A mouse has far greater accuracy than a touch display. You can put two links mere pixels apart on a desktop interface and that is fine because a mouse is more than accurate enough. The smallest interactive element a keyboard-and-mouse user can hit is probably about the size of a single period in a font. There are other issues with doing that, I'm trying to highlight the sort of accuracy you have with a mouse. A mobile user could never hit such a small target.

On PC, you can enter text and show the full content of the website at the same time. You can search in the page with a keypress. You can open multiple web pages at the same time. That is not possible on mobile.
I tried reading Devereux's blog posts on Sparta but bounced off of them. Watching this I remember why. He's punching so hard against a popular image of Sparta as invincible warriors that he sometimes starts painting his own opposite-world parody of Sparta.

For example: After 19:40, not finding it enough to say that Thermopylae was maybe a one-off and that there are multiple examples of Sparta surrendering instead of fighting to the last man, he has to exaggerate:

> Spartans surrender all the time.

Still an informative interview, though.
FWIW I browse with show dead and most shadow banned accounts deserve it for their abrasive style and lack of substance. It sucks to be collateral damage though, I sympathize.
Users should have access to their own data. Whether it’s a university coursework app or anything else.

These students should be applauded. They are making studying easier. How are universities, of all places, so inept at making basic common sense decisions?
The `maybe_expr' meta pattern matching fallback mechanic is nice, and can surely help avoid a lot of boilerplate code while simultaneously encapsulating the logic in a structure which is easy to read and reason about. It's also not a thing in any other programming language I've learned- C, Java/Scala/C#/C++, Go, Javascript, Tcl, Bash(lol), PHP, Forth, ML, and so on.

I had to look up it's usage though, because I'm new to both Erlang/BEAM and Elixir.

https://chiroptical.dev/posts/2024-03-04-erlang-maybe_expr.h...
The special press was fancy! I used a hole punch (the type intended for punching small round holes in paper), and as long as you lined it up correctly it worked great.
Are you trolling or is this a serious position?

Should we roll back every traffic law, consumer protection, safety standard, science funding, civic policing, or national defense law ever written?
You're assuming this information has to be collected by the ISPs, but it's very easily collected by browser makers (via telemetry) or by CDN/sites themselves. If either end of the TLS connection is collecting the data, there won't be the issue that you described.
If you think about it, entire web infrastructure is buzzard and inefficient.

Sane design is to have some kind of bytecode for web code and some compact format instead of html. The waste of delivering this data and then executing js is enormous. And we need to pre-process and build websites and web apps before serving anyway!
Sadly I can still read this.
> but I feel like a jackass for talking to myself for god knows how long.

I'm the only one I know smart enough to appreciate my own wit. If I had realized you other people were reading my comments all along, it might've made me shy.
From the bottom of the page:

>This estimate does not include the value of the individual's primary residence, or any outstanding liabilities.
I'm wondering what it's going to take for people to realize that most of their online fora (present company included) aren't the great Greek philosophical salons of yore; they're bored people on the Internet trading quips for serotonin hits.

The amount of accurate information you find online is probably worse than what you find talking to people IRL, but we seem to insist on treating it as a truth source instead of a game people are playing with each other.
The time where an application is perfectly tailored to the machine you're using and everything is near perfect happened, but I think that ship has sailed.

That was the brief moment when the iPhone was the only smartphone to target and was 320x640. Or when the majority computer screens where 1080p at most and the browser would be on more than half the screen estate.

But for your bank for instance, if their UI is optimized for a 6" diagonal window, they'd probably expect you to adjust for that instead of them trying to be perfect on every screen combination that could happen on earth.

That's also how I see many support chat apps' choices of spawning a popup when running on a desktop, to reset any browser size the user was trying to use in the first place (users are still free to do whatever they want with the popup, but it's a good indication of what size it's supposed to be)
Methods for dissolving gold, silver and copper from recycled materials
Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
How many studies show no adverse effects, or even a single positive one?

Is it zero? ;)
I'm not opposed to "open algorithm requirements" on social media sites, but the chattering about them is starting to remind me of back when we thought real-name requirements might fix toxic behavior online, until YouTube and Facebook implemented them and found that, no, they absolutely do not: people will happily be despicable under their real names too. It seems to me like something people are desperately grasping for in the naive hope that there's a quick-and-easy fix to the endemic problems of human nature.

X/Twitter does now publish their algorithm, and it hasn't made it any less of a shithole.
I did not know about ECH, but that makes sense. Glad to hear there's a better solution getting real adoption.