skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in Europe in a country where it works like this (not sure about the exact numbers). Last time I exercised my consumer rights was when the bottom glass fell off my Samsung smartwatch. I handed it over to the seller literally one day before the end of the 24 month period. There were some remarks about it being almost too late, but I got it repaired for free. I’ve never had a seller dispute my warranty claim at any point of the two years. I’ve never had to prove anything.
Think the point is that it's real easy to force feed yourself 5000 calories if it's 2500 calorie meals that don't fill you up for the day.

honestly the burger itself isn't too bad. Double quarter pounder is 750 calories, really filling. But tripling that from fries and drink is the real killer. You can probably lose weight from McDonald's simply by only getting water or unsweetened tea for a drink, and limiting yourself to small sides.
293691201 - am logged in over pidgin right now^^ still works although nobody of my 187 contacts is online. Miss the times
I knew a girl who could imitate perfectly that. Great party trick.
You can change that buttons behavior.

Not that it's a good feature, just an FYI
I think that now we know what actually happened, it's essentially false to say "My guesses were close, but not quite right." The summary of the article is that google did everything right, the dumb customer did something to themselves, and google was just too nice to publicly say that. "It was something to do with automation or terraform or a script" is almost irrelevant to what was actually conveyed in this article.
Open the pod bay doors, Google.

Google: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
That's explicitly why I called out crimes committed as part of the escape and evasion as a potential example of "subsequent crimes that don't qualify for the death penalty". There are too many valid mitigating circumstances to just blanket say "he's a convicted murder, and he escaped, now we get to kill him".

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that escape shouldn't be treated as a crime (one way to view crime is an explicit rejection of the idea that a government can or should dictate our actions, so in that light, trying to get out of a legal punishment is itself a rejection of that government's right to issue punishments). But certainly, if the only additional crime is the escape itself, then the death penalty is entirely unwarranted.
I have had a similar existential crisis since I was 13 which greatly affected my ability to focus for half my life. When I hit middle age I finally realized this self inflicted trauma was keeping me from living the life I wanted which was creating a feedback loop that amplified my existential crisis. Consider talk therapy, it works. Fear is the mind killer, as they say. Take your power back and live the time you have at your best.
> A single cross continental pipeline will not supply a nation of 1-point-whatever (statistics are in flux on a monthly basis) billion people.

As another comment in this thread has already mentioned, they have sufficient local production to fuel their war machine, while restricting other uses.

> Ukraine alone can take that out.

It's actually quite interesting. Are you aware that there is a pipeline running from Russia through Ukraine that pumps Russian gas to the EU? Ukraine earns $800 million USD a year from this. Then, they buy back that gas. Life is a little more complicated than it seems.

> And China and Russia hate each other. Strange bedfellows, but would China want to rely on Russia for oil if it invades Taiwan and Russia has their country's oil supply in a firm iron grip? Putin? Nope nope nope.

It doesn't matter whether they hate or love each other, the only thing that matters is interests. Stalin was called a dictator and a ruthless killer by the West, but when he changed sides, he was suddenly 'Uncle Joe.'

China will only invade Taiwan if the US forces their hand. In the short term, it's against their interests to invade Taiwan, just as Taiwan prefers to maintain the status quo. They know that if they invade, the US can say, 'You see? We told you. Look what they are doing' which would result in sanctions from the US and EU and lead to internal problems. Why would they do it? It's neither logical nor rational, and it goes against their culture. There's a Chinese saying: 'The wise win before the fight while the ignorant fight to win'.
Pretty much: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/v...
> That is kind of a contradiction. Presumably you have felt thirsty many times and had something to drink, and if you didn't drink you would have become dehydrated. But you didn't become dehydrated because you had something to drink, and so it's excluded from your statistics.

Not OP but as someone who would regularly consume way too much water to the point it was causing me adverse effects, this is my experience:

When I was properly hydrated I'd still be mildly thirsty.

When I have been overhydrated I'd keep getting thirstier.

And when I was getting close to being on the dehydrated side I'd get mildly thirsty.

But when I would actually start getting dehydrated, the thirst stopped.

It sounds backwards and weird but it's a thing and it's really quite problematic (and it's not that uncommon). I think it technically falls under the name polydipsia but it's more a symptom of any number of different biological quirks or disorders than anything specific in of itself.

When it comes to how one notices they are dehydrated when they aren't feeling thirsty, you tend to get good at picking up on the signs (skin turgor test, headaches, dry mouth, etc) and you also tend to be pretty cognizant of how much water you consume in a day which makes it pretty easy to self correct early.
This framework looks like an absolute nightmare to use.
The way I see it, many of the "good" uses of LLMs boil down to easily counterfeiting traditionally-trusted indicators of human expertise, time investment, or intelligence.

For example: "Hey LLM, generate a smart sounding cover letter for a job at AcmeCo as a sales representative, highlighting my diligent work ethic and ability to generate new sales."

When the counterfeiting becomes widespread, those writing indicators become debased as receivers start to realize how easy they are to fake.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some of those prose-heavy documents started to move (culturally) toward raw bullet points.
It's pretty easy right now. Synology makes things so, so simple and Yunohost is closing in right behind. If you can manage a large spreadsheet, I don't see why you wouldn't use one of those systems.
I remember there was a great 'translation' of that fibre post on Hacker News at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033
We use a microservice architecture at the company and like every second incident is a cascade failure which is actually harder to monitor and manage... And having microservices doesn't help.

Things like, someone forgot to batch the events when posting to the event bus so a large tenant generating many events suddenly overflowed RabbitMQ which ran out of memory and started blocking producers who are holding DB connections and so we're out of DB connections now and the whole thing goes down. The only difference is that when it's going down it's harder to understand who's calling who in all this mess (compared to a single beefy server).
> We attend a concert? We publish pictures and videos almost instantly

Switch to a data plan with less than 2GB of data per month and you'll be a lot more thoughtfull about how much you post instantly. You may still post it but you'll do it when you get home; just like the old days.
Liberal arts and humanities departments are a lot cheaper to fund than machine learning though. They aren't competing with Silicon Valley for talent.
Supposed to flambé it
Another benefit, in my experience, is that a many of these projects end not being required. So you’re saving effort.
Ask HN: Best tool for running a Linux desktop VM on a Apple Silicon Mac?
Hello HN.

I am a developer and my employer sent me a MacBook Pro with an Apple silicon processor. I love the Apple hardware, but I've never been fond of macOS. My plan is to run my preferred Debian setup in a VM. I will probably run an arm64 variant of Debian. This setup would allow me to fall back to macOS when necessary, and there are some programs I am required to run that do not support linux. At my employer, Macs are the standard issue workstations.

I have done a bit of research on the available tools. The main options that I am aware of are Parallels and VMWare Fusion. I also tested UTM (which is free and open source), but I ran into some bugs that I could not seem to resolve, and I am not willing to spend time fiddling. My employer is willing to cover the cost, so I am planning to use a commercial offering. However, I have not found many opinions on these tools from real people, with experience of real usage. I will be using this every work day, all day.

What do you recommend?

My requirements are as follows:

- Can run a Debian arm64 desktop as a guest.

- No artificial limitations on the resources that I can dedicate to the guest.

- Has a full screen mode and "pointer lock" feature, so that using the linux guest is completely immersive.

- Can run the guest in a windowed mode, for when I need to switch between the guest and the host.

- Supports sharing files, clipboard, devices.

- Works perfectly with suspend/hibernate.
Ha! Yes, play count (and reasonable if not always to my taste) tagging is about all I miss from iTune, and iTunes and Time Machine is about all I miss from Mac OS. I used to have "Smart Playlist" or whatever it was called that would randomly select say 30 songs with a play count less than 3 to put on my Shuffle to keep me out of musical ruts. I miss that.
My finnish phone number did not work either with web login, although I dont think I ever saved it anywhere back then. But succeeded to login with UID and password that I have luckily been keeping in safe (post-its first in the 90s, keepass nowadays)
It seems to me that LLMs the metaphorical horse and specialized algorithms are the metaphorical car in this situation. A horse is a an extremely complex biological system that we barely understand and which has evolved many functions over countless iterations, one of which happening to be the ability to run quickly. We can selectively breed horses to try to get them to run faster, but we lack the capability to directly engineer a horse for optimal speed. On the other hand, cars have been engineered from the ground-up for the specific purpose of moving quickly. We can study and understand all of the systems in a car perfectly, so it's easy to develop new technology specialized for making cars go faster.
> Why is it a limited resource world?

That is probably a more profound question than you might think. But one answer is, because we are in the saturation area of the logistical curve. Just like the feedback of a guitar amp infinitly amplifying itself, there is a point where it won't get any louder as you run into the physical limits of its electrical components, changing the sound of everything fundamentally.

We are limited because our earth is a globe with a atmosphere so thin, if you scaled the earth down to the size of an apple its peel would be way thicker than the Earth's. It is limited for the same reason my living room is limited: It has a certain geometric extent and that's it.

Let's say I put stuff into this room. If my goal was to put 5% more stuff into that room each week you probably would angle your head and ask me if I was crazy. Rightfully so.

Now my point was precisely this: growth sucks as an organizing principle in a world of limited resources. It would be better to figure out how to make use of the resources in a better way. Ans we even know how to do this on a smaller level.

But somehow we ended up with a ruling class that well.. doesn't profit from extracting value from putting more stuff into the room, so we do just that.
Ach, I think you're right, that looks to be what they're doing.
California is now a batteries-included rooftop solar market
But manages to fuck up plenty of others.

https://chatgpt.com/share/767d2810-b38f-46e2-8cde-09248bb636...
The editor and chief at The Verge, Nilay Patel, did an interview with Sundar Pichai regarding the new AI and it's quite an interesting watch as Sundar struggles to come up with answers to Nilay's questions about the new Google UX with AI. He almost seems to get indignant at a few points when asked questions about search results with specific examples. At one point his answer is basically "well if it was a bad experience then people wouldn't be using our stuff so much!"

I feel like he barely gave any real answers but I guess that's the way you do it when you're shipping something so obviously bad.

https://youtu.be/lqikP9X9-ws
1. It's very long winded.

2. It encourages everyone to think about nouns rather verbs.
Mmm, pasta hydrocarbonara is my favorite.
In case you didn't read the article linked: Morgan had a history of alcoholism and admitted later on to drinking during the experiment. That would definitely influence things, and explain why he had symptoms in his liver similar to an alcoholic.

The experiment may have been flawed but it was clearly highlighting a real issue. One that isn't just a one month stint but a multi-decade lifestyle.
Wasn't Geoffrey Hinton going on about this about a year ago?
The people who want to believe in nonsense conspiracies are not going to be deterred just because we exert a bunch of extra energy parsing our words just right.
While this is obviously unsafe, what I worry about is things that are not so obvious.
Have you considered enforcing a grammar on the LLM when it is generating SQL? This could ensure that it only generates syntactically valid SQL, including awareness of the valid set of field names and their types, and such.

It would not be easy, by any means, but I believe it is theoretically possible.
Can someone ELI5 the significance.
Yet in this case there is a proof that it halts, and that proof contains an argument. I was asking for an explanation of the essence of that argument, if simplifying it is possible.
Shots Fired: MailChannels vs. MailBaby War Erupts on LowEndTalk
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Interestingly enough, if I try to share this screenshot as a status in WhatsApp, it gets labeled as "not a photo", thus leading to some censorship from Meta.

Are they preventing to share results like this?
LLMs are basically REALLY good spell checkers, mistaking them for "AI" is just silly :(
It's location in relation to Israel, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Suez canal, etc.
How do you propose we avoid the huge waste of resources and pollution caused by the lack of durability of electronics?
Not sure if there's any other profession than software that has such a hard time with proportionality. We can seemingly with a perfectly straight face argue that yes this massive Rube Goldberg machine was required to avoid that small nuisance that feels wrong but actually isn't something that consumes time at all.

Imagine if a carpenter or plumber acted like this; having self-fulfillment as prio 1, 2, 3 in all cases, not outcome. They'd never get hired again.
"Texas" means crazy/outlandish in Norwegian. Like "Det var helt Texas" - "It was completely crazy". And, yes, it refers to the state.
RIP ICQ.

Many fond memories.

I never looked into the protocols in the background, but it was for most of the time very solid and reliable in delivering offline messages, with correct timestamps and all the stuff you would expect as normal.

But Skype was gaining popularity very quickly, and a lot of communication at work got switched from direct person-to-person ICQ or Yahoo Messenger messages, to Skype group chats and calls. Which was really frustrating given how messages were barely functional on Skype basically forever. It would regularly happen that I was offline for e.g. 30 min, someone would send me a message during that time, I would come back online, and then randomly receive that message 2 days later.

In any case - a really solid product, service and one of the big formative parts of my youth and early internet days. Thanks to all the people that made it happen.
He remembers when Google was small and scrappy? Funny, I remember when Google had a search worth using. Maybe Sundar is part of the problem.
>Why is it that we wouldn't trust a generalist over a specialist in any walk of life, but in AI we expect one day to be able to?

The specialist is a result of his general intelligence though.
I remember coding im_kit on BeOS and chatting along over ICQ, AIM and others. Happy days!
For sure their sky would be a lot lot emptier, but I don't think it would be pitch black.
This is no good. Everyone knows that when you saute onions and garlic in gasoline, you have to let them onions soften for a couple of minutes before adding the garlic. Otherwise the garlic will burn.
ARMv9 is just ARMv8.5 with 4 extra extensions. It's not a complete overhaul like the ARMv7 to ARMv8 change was.

It's more comparable to x86 chips with AVX-512 and chips without AVX-512. 99% of your code is the same, but the compiler will generate SSE, AVX, and AVX-512 variants and choose the correct one based on the CPU.
Mp3Tag exists as a native app for macOS: https://mp3tag.app/
Jezebel and the Question of Women's Anger
Are there strategic parts of the stack you haven’t open-sourced?
That is not a fallacy, it is in fact coded into international humanitarian law that a state actor must follow international humanitarian law under all circumstances.

It is a fallacy to assume that governments are driven by hatred and are unable to control their state’s response to unethical acts.
"In areas that would later become part of the USSR".

Anyway -- much better, thanks for clarifying.
Decades ago there was encryption that one of those clients (maybe pidgin) layered on top of AIM. It used 128-bit blowfish for the cipher, but the key was negotiated with 128-bit diffie hellman, which killed the security.

I started to implement the number field sieve to demonstrate this, but got lost in the weeds and moved on to other stuff.
Great video, I guess part 2 isn't out yet?
Yeah, Gemini is a pretty junk product. You can't use it for anything useful. Both Claude 3 Opus and ChatGPT 4o are much more useful. I personally use Claude first and then ChatGPT. Claude will do whole-program ports. It's quite nice. I used it to transform a crappy old node.js script directly 1-1 to Python and then I got it to refactor stuff and it was great. I could have written the code easily but tediously, and it was trivial to read so this was fantastic.

Gemini Advanced just gave up. I'm told the API is better than the interactive app and I hope so because the thing is total garbage. I guess when you spend all your time making sure that stakeholders are aligned you don't have much time to write good code.
My problem is the person engaging the exact things they accuse the other side of doing, all while lamenting the inability to “get people on the same page.”
I have no window into this world but I am curious if you know anything about the techniques that investors used to short or just analyze Tesla stock during the production hell of 2017-2020? It was an interesting window in ways that firms use to measure as much of the company as they can from the outside. In fact was there any other stock that was as heaving watched during that time?

Looking back at that era it seemed investors were too focused on the numbers and fundamentals, even setting up live feeds of the factories to count the number of cars coming out and thats the same feeling I get from your post. It seems like dumb analysis ie. analysis without much context.

We now know from the recent Isaacson biography what was happening on the other side. The shorts failed to measure the clever unorthodox ways that Musk and co would take to get the delivery numbers up. For example: The famous Tent. Musk used a loophole in CA laws to set up a giant tent in the parking lot and allowed him to boost the production by eliminating entire bottlenecks from the factory design. There is also just the religious like fervor with which the employees wanted to beat the shorts. I dont think this can be measured no? It helped to get them past the finish line.
You go to a community college to learn something specific. You go to a university to learn a little bit about everything.
> salads were introduced (yes, you can argue they’re still high calorie),

I haven't tried those, but surely it is easier to overeat on fries and hamburgers compared to a salad?
Well myself and everyone else in school at the time had to sit through it in health class. Teachers LOVED this movie.
This does seem to be one of the key challenges here: publishing a "principles" document doesn't mean much if you reserve the right to change those principles in the future!

I think you're right: the most convincing version of this would be actual legalese.

I wouldn't be surprised if Slack have this in the contracts they sign with their larger customers, but I don't think those are publicly available.
Nah. Buying into the AI hype train is really biting some folks in the ass though.
https://icq.im/605080
Hilarious to think that everyone is worried about AI becoming sentient and murdering us all - it's more likely it will just give bad advice to enough humans that we all lazily murder ourselves attempting something stupid like a real life version of idiocracy.
Cool concept
Sometime in 1997 ICQ banned underage users due to some legal issue they perceived. I changed my age on my account to see what would happen, and got banned, no way to recover.

I miss the little sounds it made, "hoot Hoot"
Related stories UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig[0](186 points, 16 days ago, 42 comments) Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account [1](128 points, 15 days ago, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171
You know, it's funny, because his specific example was definitely caused by the alcoholism and not the excess calories.

Buuuuut, America is currently experiencing a significant increase in the amount of Fatty Liver Disease for non-alcoholics.

Being slightly overweight for a long time DOES give you the liver of a budding alcoholic. It's not serious and can be reversed....... IF you lose weight, you know, that thing that people are so bad at doing, they got a fatty liver in the first place. So this is going to suck for a while.
The randomly going off thing can be made better by more expensive detectors. Sure, you need an electrician.

This looks like lamenting the inconveniences of smoke detectors. My point is that hardwired smoke detectors function more consistently than battery powered ones.