skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is also such a clown, with clownesque statements and witnesses. I particularily like this one (from the judgement):

"Dr Wright’s remaining witnesses of fact

Ms DeMorgan is Dr Wright’s youngest sister. She gave evidence that Dr Wright was interested in Japanese culture and sometimes used nicknames for himself. Her evidence was to the effect that, when she was 16, she and some of her school friends encountered in the local park someone dressed in black as a ninja with a Samurai sword, and this person turned out to be her brother, Craig Wright."
AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee
> They are structured and run like a tech company but imo they don’t produce a tech product.

This kind of comment could kill their stock :P

Uber said they were going to produce self-driving cars, so technically they are a failed tech company, which is now just a company. I am surprised they didn't get crushed by a competitor that didn't waste their capital on worthless stuff. So much for capitalism working. Uber should have gone bankrupt.

There is just no way that their database is actually technologically novel. Uber just doesn't have the expertise.
Landlords that take cash still exist.

So I'm told.
The article links to [1] which says

> Nearly half of the 80,000 calls received daily by BT operators in the UK do not involve requests for help.

I would never have estimated such a high quote of unnecessary emergency calls.

And that‘s a fun fact

> Experts chose 999 rather than 111 for technical reasons. In pre-optical fibre days telegraph wires rubbed together in the wind and transmitted the equivalent of a 111 call

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090302014433/http://www.btplc....
One problem you'll find is that manifests are not completely public, and the mass of each item on the manifest isn't typically published either. We're left with estimates of individual satellites, and aggregate estimates based on rocket payload capacities.
Seems like something from darknet.
This is the bit resonated with me the most: "One of the main bits of feedback I've seen from people online is that iTerm2 having AI involved at all is enough to get them to want to switch away to another terminal emulator. They've cited the reason as exhaustion due to overexposure to AI hype."

I have paid accounts with both OpenAI and Anthropic, so I'm not anti-AI in general, and I understand that it is opt-in, and requires your own API key to get it working. But it's the hype exhaustion that gets me. I really don't want AI in my terminal, just one keystroke away from sending some slop to a remote server. And just knowing that my terminal is capable of that is enough to turn me away.
Am I the only one with a whole heap of mixed feelings on someone doing something asked by someone incarcerated who is meant to be being punished for murdering his wife?
And if you're at home buying age housing deflation would be a gift. Unfortunately for buyers it's not something we'll likely see again for a while.
ISO8061 or RFC3339 are the only correct date formats; though if for some forsaken reason your ledger starts accounts on the right hand page and treats the left as part of a prior record, then placing the least frequently changing part of the date to the edge of the page is good as a primitive index.

https://xkcd.com/1179/

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/522251/whats-the-differe...
Looks really good!

How do you create funnels without cookies? In other words, how do you track sessions?
I suppose as a "verified employee" at the company. You could do your own investigation prior to filing the appropriate paperwork. But that would often result in its own paper trail getting generated and leading back to you anyways.

Honestly, the risks here outweigh the benefits. Not sure why anybody would do this in the first place.

"6 figure job with stable income" vs "one time payment of $100 from rando on the internet"

It's a no brainer.

Honestly smells like a sting operation to me.
Eh. I was the CISO at a HIPAA-covered healthcare company, and I have no problem with the way iTerm handles this. Nothing gets sent from your terminal, other than what you type into the separate AI prompt window. You have to manually enter your ChatGPT key. You have to manually choose to open the AI prompt.

I see this as not substantially different from a programmer having a browser tab open where they could type questions and get answers, just more convenient. If I didn't want my coworkers doing that at all, I'd push out a device policy adding a firewall block for OpenAI's API servers and then not worry about it at all.
I found this video to be the most well researched, cited, and coherent explanation of what must have happened. Amazing the scrutiny which can be applied by the global community on such singular events.
Strong vote for using Fusion 360 from me. All of the OSS CAD apps I've tried have had terrible UI/UX. FreeSCAD nightmares still haunt.
Lots of companies do not want to deal with the cleanup of capital-intensive projects that have outlived their usefulness. For example, windmills for power. Now governments are starting to require bonds for disassembly and removal before approving these items for construction. I am not an economist but this seems like a reasonable light regulation solution to me. And since ships have to come from somewhere, maybe the right place to assess these is with the shipbuilders. Them the financial responsibility of the last owner is only to get the ship to its agreed on decommissioning location rather than having to pay the breaker or just abandon it.
Yeah sure theoretically, but by all accounts they were using off the shelf wifi adapters, not using SDRs to make a quasi synthetic aperture radar to pinpoint the exact location of each transmitter. Moreover even if you had the exact position (eg. <1m) of each transmitter, it's unclear what they'd do with them.
The reason asking an employee is the only way to get an account unblocked is because it solves the most difficult part of the process: verifying the user is who they say they are. When internal employees fill out that form, you're agreeing SEVERAL times that you are 100% sure you know the person and they aren't compromised.

This service throws all of that out the window.
10+ years that would be horrific. I was reading couple of years. The update was also only for iPhone X upwards which would mean the pictures must have been from the cloud.

Is there a source for the claim?
I'm sure there's a pessimistic, but realistic answer to all these questions. What is your point?
> 1. A terminal shouldn't be able to ask some resource on the internet what to type and auto-execute it.

Every Linux shell can do that, regardless of your terminal emulator, and arguably that's by design:

curl https://givemesomecoolshellcommands.com | sh

What iTerm can do is essentially just some GUI sugar around that capability.

If you don't like it, just don't do it :)
I get a "the request was blocked" error.
If there were a way for me to type a question and get just the command line back by searching on Google, yeah, I'd like that too. But that's not how Google works. ChatGPT can give me exactly what I want.
Increased risk of flight turbulence due to climate change (2017)
What we really need is Smart AI…
I think the only consumer electronics we had in our family before 1991 was a small black and white TV that went through a dozen repairs and occasionally required a hard kick to function properly.
I'm a former foster parent and I think we are likely to cure cancer long before we resolve childhood trauma.
Hence my request for obfuscation or using a privately hosted model. :)
From TFA: "... and if you can see the sky, you're good to go."

And if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops. Anyone that has used a SPOT or InReach satellite device knows it doesn't take much tree cover to make a satellite connection difficult or impossible. As just one example, there are plenty of places on Cougar Mountain near Issaquah, WA that have a dandy cell connection, but it would take minutes (possibly many) to get a satellite message sent. And that's using a low-bandwidth text message, not a voice call.

Also TFA: "Aviation and maritime people know this, which is why they use satellites." You know what you don't see a lot of when you're boating or flying a plane? Trees and cell towers. Perhaps there's another reason, El Reg.
NYT obit https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-...
> It is mostly when deflation is coupled with an asset bubble

Isn't it usually? Such as the housing price deflation of 2008-2011.
No, but I might like iterm to have integrated support for various commands, shortcuts, aliases, etc. This is, IMHO, a very natural extension of that. I would prefer even less friction, as for any command I don't know by heart, asking ChatGPT in natural language is the most efficient way to get the commands and arguments I want, usually the very first time. Again IMHO, in the near term future, "great terminal" and "first class LLM support" will go hand in hand for most (but of course, not all) users.
"Bug" or "working as intended"?
you don't wanna forget wezterm which has a nice lua scripting language that allows you to do tons of fun stuff, and is otherwise super-minimal as well. Also happens to run everywhere including Windows and BSD.
I find this disingenuous. You explain how you verify that the employees work for big tech on your FAQ. It would be trivial for companies of this size to go backwards.

I’m sure your motives were good, but I’d urge you to think this through.
C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89
I just ran a test on a ~4 second hires screen recording in Gifski and GIF Brewery 3 (which is what I've been using for years).

Gifski took 11 seconds, and GIF Brewery took 59. Both apps set to maximum quality, 50fps, no resizing. The Gifski version is a little bigger at 5.5mb vs 4.2mb but also looks a bit better.

I embed short screen recording GIFs into GitLab/GitHub several times a week as it's just a better user experience vs real video files on those platforms. I'm definitely switching tools! I wish I had known about this sooner.
https://www.gog.com/en/games?developers=turcan-research-syst...

I guess with a LLM you could make interacting with the game a bit more interesting than what a 1989 text-parser could handle.
I appreciate the sentiment. But we both know that plans change. Especially in the software world and even more so in the startup business.

Also, "no plans" doesn't really mean much. "I guarantee" is a lot more meaningful.
Separately (assuming US): would you actually find it surprising there would exist a subset of hackers unimpressed with the R and D parade to the point that they abstain?
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432688
It's not correct, but at least not unexpectedly so
We need 166 bits to address each atom on Earth uniquely. We won't need to go beyond that until we are interplanetary.
> most of the structural and irrigation components of these systems can be reused for multiple years (10-15+), reducing the long-term cost and environmental impacts.

great except then:

> Soil-less substrates in pots or bags can be replaced year to year, eliminating the need for crop rotation and fumigation.

ouch thats expensive, at least on the garage scale.

I'm having some success with composting substrate and recycling it back into a pile with fresh material. Not great success, further iterations should improve technique.

Most of the stuff they tested would be valued in many context after even a couple seasons of use; would make a great garden till in enrichment, etc.
Nothing's perfect. I've personally found macOS much more solid than Windows.
Why does the emulator have to do this? Can’t it be a plug-in for bash/zsh/whatnot? Those already support tab completion. It could even be a cli:

prompt “command that you want it to generate”. Then inspect it and run it. If you are feeling very lucky type “$(prompt “command you want to run”)” and poof it executes. Why does this need to be in one of the most privileged apps on my machine?
By that analogy information flowing in a regular IC is also photons.
2 cents: many core changes from Link Branch are coming to v1 of Freecad thanks to Ondsel (a commercialized version of Freecad)

Also UX of Ondsel is much better and close to the Link Branch version by Real Thunder.

It's important to mention that Freecad doesn't support master sketches at the moment. So you'll need to create many smaller sketches based on geometry or parameters to make a complex part
Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-...
UN suspends Rafah aid distribution and warns US pier may fail
Caveat from article:

> For pragmatic reasons, it is best to split your data into 1 file per concept and combine concept files at runtime.
Right but what's the point? If the belt is on very loose, you give your body a chance to gain momentum, which will be redirected when the seat belt catches you, which would lead to serious injury.

The belt doesn't need to be on tight, but it should be relatively snug.

It's just one of those things that is trivial to do, with a very, very low probability to save you from injury, but costs nothing, so why not...
> The privacy is marketing.
That makes 0 sense. If that were the case all their privacy efforts would simply be words in marketing / advertising, vs built into every single product and service they offer from the ground up. In the short term, there jobs would be 100% easier and more lucrative to not focus so much on privacy. Easier development, easier not having to fight back the government, and when data gets sold/compromised, they could just say that happens in all other companies (not focused on privacy), so they are no different. Instead they go to ungodly amounts to make it core to their company. That doesn't mean they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. There business isn't based on advertising (like Google and Facebook) fortunately, so in the long terms their pro-consumer privacy rights, brings them in more money so they are able to still meet their fiscal obligations after a publicly traded company. Facebook and Google's business are built around advertising and selling customer data, so for them, privacy is much more about marketing since making it core would counter their entire current business model. Of course even with them, it's not just marketing, since privacy is fiscally beneficial just to far less extent.
White Dwarves are probably the only non-mainline stars in the Universe we know a lot about. Neutron Stars and Black Holes are a lot more of a mystery because of our trouble reconciling Gravity and the Standard Model. This makes White Dwarves a lot more predictable than their more massive cousins. So we can actually simulate a lot of what they do.

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

However, in this case, we can observe the star slowly getting dimmer which is a pattern that has occurred in the past, a year before the star was about to do something. The process only takes about 100 years with a possible indicator a year in advance of the event.
Do you vet the client side of the transaction as well?
> iTerm2 is the world's most popular terminal emulator

Is iTerm2 really that popular? I used it in the past but then I found the stock mac terminal.app works just fine.

And I'm a pretty extensive terminal monkey.. just don't want to install more apps unless there's a significant benefit.

The AI feature in this instance is interesting but not quite compelling enough to risk sacrificing my currently very snappy and responsive CLI experience.
> you will never be able to fix it.

I don't know about the article's studio specifically, but regarding AI game engines, I'm mostly worried you won't be able to make engine edits, or the engine will only be able to make an extremely narrow subset of games, or exiting the WYSIWYG/SaaS means starting over from scratch. If the engine targets a specific genre, it could cause a flood of low effort garbage. Some genres are already flooded because the easier game engines have tutorials and asset packs for them.
I will say that the FreeCAD weekly builds have made massive strides; I believe the toponaming fix is in the latest mainline weekly now and Ondsel have been contributing great work back from their branch as well.

I’ve been playing around with the weekly version and using the OpenDark theme. It looks pretty slick.

It seems like a really exciting time for open-source CAD (hopefully!).
These new laptops are half the price of macbooks with the same ram and storage
I guessed the cause of the problem (well, "leading period") from the description, but that's because I've experienced a lot of pain in my life...
Doubleplusgood! 100% uncrimethink.
Technically yes, you are right, in practice it's a pain because of GPL's restrictions.
If we use your hosted version, what will the pricing be when it's out of beta.

I always think these services should basically be like 2x cost of underlying S3 or whatever storage you're using, but they end up being like 100x+
Please add…

Emergency Room staff willing to get you looked at faster because you think you are “really sick”

Building inspectors willing to sign off on your home house wiring because you’ve “done it for years and it’s fine”

Burning Man ticketing because you swear your internet was fine but died at noon on the sale day.

Dang because your downvoted comment was just misunderstood and deserves more upvotes.

/s
I recall a video from Paul Beckwith mentioned a survey of climate researchers believed on average we're headed to around +3C by 2100, but some believed it could be +5C or more. I suspect we're headed for a near hypercane somewhere in the world by 2050 because too many models were too conservative and there is not nearly enough uniform urgency and leadership to drive net zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8IGNJS4JIs
> has enough maturity to recognize that human nature is part of nature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT allowed to scrape other sites via prompts?
The fact that I can give ChatGPT any URL and extract html content from it feels like a big TOS breach for most sites. Am I misunderstanding something about the legality of scraping? Aren't developers discouraged from scraping like this in the first place for for-profit projects?
a plain text file is the oldest idea for storing knowledge. see unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
So they're embedding bossware in the os now.

I need to start asking if I will need to use a windows computer for work on interviews and end it there if the answer is positive.
Exponential growth. 640k is obviously not enough. Nor is double that. Or double that. Or double that. But keep doubling long enough, and eventually the length of time before you need to do it again will be considerable.

We might be there. And 128 bits is a lot of bits. You know what bit width you need to represent twice as many states as a 64 bit value?

That's right, a 65 bit value.
Probably on the backlog. Mozilla had one today waiting 25 years, haha.
Some sites even hijack the gesture to disable it, which is super frustrating.
I posit that treating economic cycles as something that needs to be cured is itself a harmful idea.

the stressors actually strengthen which is why I brought up Taleb.
"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

in any case, I doubt there is any proof that I could offer that would be enough to change your mind. you already know what you want to believe, so this is just online pugilism.

be well !
In nature help isn’t freely available. Private property is the default, a crow picks up a stick and it’s theirs. Ants defend their nests etc. Plants will break out chemical warfare to defend themselves. Walk into a lion’s den asking for help and your going to get eaten.

So what food do you expect to be freely available?

Anyway a voluntary exchange doesn’t mean equal leverage for all parties. I’m not going to negotiate a windows license with Microsoft it’s take it or leave it. Which is the hart of a voluntary exchange, either party can walk away without one party forcing their will on the other.
A house in California that's more a million dollars is less expensive then you think.
Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning
From the Computer History Museum homepage:

> REMEMBERING CHM COFOUNDER GORDON BELL

> CHM is saddened to share the news that Museum cofounder and Fellow Gordon Bell passed away on May 17, 2024. Bell was a prominent American electrical engineer and computer scientist who made a tremendous impact on the world of computing—from handheld devices to supercomputers. Bell is in the pantheon of brilliant computer designers that includes Seymour Cray and Gene Amdahl.

> Beyond his groundbreaking engineering contributions, Bell has been a major force in preserving and presenting the history of computing to millions of visitors and explaining its impact on the world around us. With his then-wife, Gwen, and DEC cofounder Ken Olsen, he started The Computer Museum in Boston, which later became the Computer History Museum. Bell was a generous longtime donor and active member of the Board of Trustees. He will be missed by all.
These days any time I ask an AI to fix something, it starts over from scratch and some random detail falls off the back of the prompt truck.
It was what I thought of when you said "stick out" - because I never see it, and it catches my attention each time.

(Your regions may vary!)
I would argue it’s far less evil for mass murder atrocities to be well documented as compared to the contrary and be silent or unknown to the outside world.
> an option to send all commands to the cloud for processing.

iTerm doesn't have that. It has a separate pop-up window where you can type questions and get answers.

If it had a feature like you describe, I'd be there with my pitchfork. Thankfully, it doesn't.
The bug was originally filed against Netscape Navigator per this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431738
I am reading Uber report: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001543151/bbb206f... and my understanding is that they are profitable in timeframe since IPO(, 2020+, meaning revenue is about or larger than R&D, Sales and infra), but they have some large "other expenses" entry, I speculate it could be some acquisition.
Yeah, @ChrisArchitect, you're often a bit overzealous about marking things as dupe. I hope that you weren't the one who flagged this off the front page, either, because this deserves to be seen and was making a lot more progress than the previous discussions before it suddenly fell off.

EDIT: I appreciate your attempt to clean up your comment in response to feedback, but your top link currently is the same as your bottom link, and even if it were correct it still only has either 2 or 1 comment depending on which of the two submissions by that title you meant to link to. That is well within the range of non-uptake that deserves a second chance.
The bug was actually filed just over 24 years ago, and BugZilla rounded up. And back then it was Mozilla before it was Firefox
If AI works well enough that just a vague prompt leads it to spit out a professional, compelling and creative game with assets, VO, music, coherent level and production design, and everything else that goes into successful modern games... companies are going to own that and keep that on lockdown, because it's essentially a free money machine.

You won't have a "game making AI" that isn't already owned by big media companies, crippled and handicapped, and expensive as hell. You won't legally be allowed to compete against them. ChatGPT is never going to do that. That isn't how capitalism works.
One of the things the game is trying to communicate is that this isn’t possible :)
I wanted RTL support (e.g. Arabic) with the new update and got this instead :(