skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s another type of internet junk that is more insidious than the obvious spam and AI filler content: It’s the ragebait and karma farming that happens on social media.

The weird part about ragebait content is that most of it doesn’t have an obvious monetary benefit to the posters. The goal appears to be generating as many upvotes and engagement as possible. There might be some secondary monetary goal such as building a following to sell to them later (Instagram, TikTok) or to build an account’s reputation to use it in spam operations later (Reddit, Twitter). However, I think a lot of people just post the content for the thrill of getting a lot of upvotes and seeing people worked up.

Try checking the front page of Reddit while logged out (to see the default subs). It’s a wild place that describes an alternate reality in which the worst possible outcomes are the norm. During COVID, everyone was going to die. After the vaccine, the talk was about everyone getting evicted and the “homeless wave” that was coming. Now that inflation is a topic, there are daily posts about how masses of people are going to starve to death because nobody can afford food.

A couple days ago one of the top posts on Reddit was a photo of 30 pills and nothing more than a title claiming it costs $12,000. Thousands of angry comments followed, demanding riots in the street and revolutions and talking about people dying. Buried in the comments was a single thread where someone actually looked up the price of the pills: It was $34, not $12,000. The manufacturer also has a program where people who can’t afford it can get the pills for free. It didn’t stop the post from staying on top Reddit for a day and convincing countless numbers of people of a complete lie.

This content seems to appeal to people who enjoy being outraged and don’t mind an exaggerated lie as long as it is in furtherance of a narrative they believe. People will look at that outrage thread and say it’s okay because America does have a drug price problem even if that story was a complete fabrication. This is the root problem: Too many people like the ragebait, the karma farming posts, and soon, the infinite AI generated content coming to feed them exactly the outrage they want to read every day.
Wow, POV-Ray, what a blast from the past. I thought it might be fun to see how fast a scene renders today vs. back in the 90s with my Pentium-75, but apparently they've decided to integrate Boost so it takes forever to compile.

Edit: My old scripts are no longer compatible. :(

Edit2: The -MV option is your friend. :)

Yeah, modern machines are fast.
Trace Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0.126 seconds)

I seem to recall this render taking a couple of minutes on my old machine.
You should remember that in December 2023 it was revealed that the "Apple Silicon" CPUs have some undocumented testing features, which have unbelievably remained enabled in the Apple devices for many years until being notified by the bug finders, instead of being disabled at the end of production.

Using the undocumented but accessible control registers, all the memory protections of the Apple devices could be bypassed. Using this hardware backdoor, together with some software bugs in the Apple system libraries and applications, for many years, until the end of 2023, it has been possible to remotely take complete control of any iPhone, with access to its storage and control of the camera and microphone, in such a way that it was almost impossible for the owner to discover this (the backdoor bugs have been discovered only as a consequence of analyzing some suspicious Internet traffic of some iPhones that were monitored by external firewalls).

It is hard to explain such a trivial security error as not disabling a testing backdoor after production, for a company that has claimed publicly for so long that they take the security of their customers very seriously and that has provided a lot of security theater features, like a separate undocumented security processor, while failing to observe the most elementary security rules.

It is possible that the backdoor was intentional, either inserted with the knowledge of the management at the request of some TLA, or by a rogue Apple employee who was a mole of such a TLA, but these alternative explanations are even worse for Apple than the explanation based on negligence.
And of course it's possible that some categories of restaurants just become less attractive to consumers over time.
What would you say to people claiming that Australia is falling into authoritarianism?
Norway already had a developed, functional economy before discovering oil, so it didn't fall into the resource curse. In contrast, any developing country that discovers a valuable resource will almost always devolve into corruption and, at worst, conflict because their weak institutions can easily be corrupted by internal and external parties. A case study is my country (Nigeria), a notoriously corrupt oil-dependent cratered economy.

I'm honestly happy for Norway to find more resources. Any country that demonstrates responsible use of resources for internal development deserves more..this includes most of Western and Northern Europe plus the US and Canada.
we can treat them like we used to treat humans, at least until they become sentient. if this makes you uncomfortable i'm with you
Does webauthn have a protocol for username / password retrieval ? It would be nice to have a usb security token that is backward compatible with username + password login.
Oh good, we better make sure we tie our bank accounts to SMS
Would people be willing to pay for a gmail plugin that takes a stab at combatting ai email spam? something like Mailman [1] but with an LLM layer for detecting AI slop?

[1]: https://mailmanhq.com/
Unbrickable for the RP2040 itself, but most SPI flash chips (including ones on the RP Pico) have permanently lockable regions. You can lock them open though.
I think it's saying that firmware updates are not persistent. You have to apply them every time at boot time. So if it boots once, it will boot every time. If you ever get bad firmware, you just rollback or roll further forward in your boot media.
Correct, the term is a misnomer.

The Wikipedia page on "rare" earths is very interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
No need for that tone
This confusion came from me not thinking too long before writing. My work makes use of feature flags so we incrementally merge features all the time, internally (and can do it quickly). But its still “shipped.”
https://hof.povray.org/images/mcintoshhdri3.jpg
Check out the StopTheMadness extension. It offers a large number of features, one of which is automatically fast-forwarding YouTube ads

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-19.html
A Phone for a Better Life
All resources are limited!
Windows with multiple displays makes me tear my hair out, no matter what you do to the settings. I try to use Playnite on my TV in extended display mode and it is the most maddening thing.
That chip has over 10x less RAM and only 60k flash. It has only one core and that core is clocked at half the speeds compared to both the RP2040 cores.

And it cost six bucks from US distributors. I can buy a single RP2040 chip from Digikey for 70 cents. Even if you add another dollar for flash memory, you are still far better off.
I don't think that family member should be taught to treat this as a burden. Make them treat it as a professional work that has to be done or in absense of that, "teach" some other family member to take the torch.

I have a family member who I have been slowly teaching about tech. Not the how to run a server but the ideas and sometimes the specifics of something.

Most of the time they I force them to "figure it themselves" which has taught them more than tutorials ever could.
Migrate to gkg.net with your domains, transfer them asap
They'll have to fight their way through Finland which has a history of not working out for them.
Is this like the nerd version of “when you see it”? I can’t seem to see a third flash.
This is cool but the miniaturization and integration of the optics doesn’t result in a functioning printer. You still need the bath of resin and the printer. The headline is like saying you’d have a coin sized printer if you only focus on an inkjet head.
This feature doesn't exist. The Tesla home charger can share current with other Tesla chargers on the same branch. It can't share current with an electric water heater or some other non-Tesla load
Even dealing with point of sale and customer support issues becomes a lot easier when they know you're a few taps on your phone away from reversing a transaction. Make it clear that it's something you're very comfortable with, routine even, not a bother at all, and almost like you're doing them a favor by handling it on your end. They won't see it that way, of course, but it gives you all the leverage in the negotiation without it getting ugly.

Try it next time someone says their point of sale policy only lets them offer you store credit or an exchange. Say, oh that's fine, my credit card lets me reverse the transaction if I couldn't resolve the matter with the store, so I'll just do that. The very next response will be a miraculous change in the store's policy.
"We have never run out of a single resource."

https://x.com/naval/status/1800363450180522313
It's been getting bad for awhile, top search results are normally pay walled... less content from individual blogs. Facebook is a complete walled garden it's content isn't even indexed. Facebook, reddit, discord, etc have almost completely killed special interest forums.

Now there is a small chance AI generated content could get more content available not behind paywalls, with more small and micro publishers. But getting rid of the factually inaccuracies and hallucinations would be a huge task, that google doesn't seem to be capable of, at least their recent blunders suggest.
The more I think about it the more I agree with you. I don't know why I initially felt unsettled but now that I'm thinking we might be able to actually detect if it happened (through advanced genomics techniques), I am starting to warm up to the theory.

There's even a fun tie-in with stoned ape theory (which I don't endorse, but is a fun theory). In one version of the theory, humans eat magic mushrooms and become conscious or develop higher thought. In the ISM version, magic mushroom spores - or the genes that make them psychoactive - were seeded from the ISM three million years ago, leading to the evolution of homo erectus and homo sapiens.

This is a fun theory because it would be easy to falsify with a an experiment showing that magic mushrooms evolved their hallucinatory properties much longer than 3 million years ago. But note that you'd have to do so xenogenomic theory, to control for the possibility that the material came in from the ism itself as much older than 3 million years. Such material would show terrestrial genomic age metrics, which could make us think magic mushrooms evolved long ago on the earth, when in fact it evolved in another biosphere.

Anyways, you're right! This IS making me feel more connected to the universe!
Irssi – a modular text mode chat client
Motor oil in your food.
What leads you to feel this way?

They are anti right to repair & they have their walled garden on their mobile devices. Their vertically integrated model also leads to unusually high prices. This website in particular would also directly feel the pain of Apple killing apps to implement themselves later, the greedy apple store cut and also not allowing use of hardware features that Apples themselves can use. Consumers feel this indirectly (higher prices, less competition).

Also, don't get it twisted, Apple is still collecting all of your data, even if you ask them not to [0].

0 - https://mashable.com/article/apple-data-privacy-collection-l...
> The way it was explained to me is that the power company actually sent a signal through the power supply which would trigger our snowmaking system to shut itself off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Frequency_an...

> Modern alternating-current grids use precise frequency control as an out-of-band signal to coordinate generators connected the network. The practice arose because the frequency of a mechanical generator varies with the input force and output load experienced. Excess load withdraws rotational energy from the generator shaft, reducing the frequency of the generated current; excess force deposits rotational energy, increasing frequency. Automatic generation control (AGC) maintains scheduled frequency and interchange power flows by adjusting the generator governor to counteract frequency changes, typically within several decaseconds.

If there's more demand on the grid, the generators have to work harder (slower) to generate the power and this shows up as a drop in the frequency of the grid. In New Zealand, that is 50 Hz. https://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Wholesale/Datasets/FrequencyKeepi...

If the frequency drops a bit, it is then an indication for generators to kick on or load to be shed. If the frequency goes above the 50 Hz frequency, it becomes a sign that the price that power is being bought at is lower and so more expensive / dirty power generation should be throttled back or shut down (and batteries should recharge rather than discharge and pumped storage reservoirs should pump rather than generate https://www.energy-storage.news/new-zealand-considers-invest... )

On the other side of it, you can see the frequency changes back with the Texas blackout - https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-envi...

Those changes are less than 1% of the frequency, but that's all that's needed to signal information between the generators and demand.
The garbage is the point. Musk and like ilk don't hate the "cathedral," so called, because they believe it steers the public discourse; they only hate when they can't feel like they're the ones doing the steering.
Job applications should be included in the "slop" pile.

The hiring process needs a revamp - and needs to pivot to recorded applications quickly.
In my mind I went through the train of thought: "is this something related to Xbox? Ah no, it said the three game consoles, wait, did they support X [the window system]?? Ah, no... It's Twitter".

A stupid rebrand continues to be stupid...
I think there is potential, but at the moment it's

1. RAG your data
2. Magic
3. Agent business logic
4. $$$

where step 2 is very unclear.

Also agent architecture what is it? A basic FSM which in essence is a bunch of business logic/rules with LLM API calls, how do you make this reliable for transactions.

I've yet to see a decent example of a business process replaced which isn't a question answer scenario i.e. call centre type role.
The black and white OLED display will be nice! The refresh rates seemed pretty aggressive compared to other E Ink devices I have used. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use the one I have as they haven't implemented the ability to change APN settings.
I don’t have data to back it up but I think both the number of people moving and the frequency of moves has increased substantially in the past couple of decades.

Some of this is undoubtedly going where opportunities exist; my graduating high school class (late 00s) for example all moved away from the area I grew up in simply because there’s nothing out there except for a handful of dead end minimum wage jobs, with prospects declining further as time goes on. The prior two generations by comparison largely stayed put, with moves being very local in nature and mostly driven by finding suitable housing (e.g. apartment became too small for family or keeping rent down).

I also believe that people who’ve had to move around a lot for career are more likely to continue to move regularly because they’ve grown accustomed to not having deep roots anywhere which the resulting reset less of a big deal, which multiplies the impact of needing to move for work opportunities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646137
I thought the headline was talking about the X Window System, like "Wait, did they actually run Linux and X?"
Well said. It’s the same with news. When something big happens in the world, there is an explosion of communication about it on the internet. You can absorb the event from countless sources. So what value is any one news outlet’s coverage? It’s not worth much. The media outlets used to be able to monetize a captive audience, i.e. people living in a certain locale would have a few newspapers and television channels to choose from. Now anyone, anywhere, can go online and absorb news from all of the posting and aggregating and reprocessing and commenting going on. It’s almost impossible to sell into that.

The value of generic / impersonal content is rapidly approaching zero. The only thing that still has value is a particular creator of interest posting their next video — like your favorite YouTube channel, you’ll watch that.

It seems like the only way to succeed in this new environment is to be a real human person who builds a following / cult of personality around themselves and their content with its signature that is unique to them. It’s something like ‘releasing content that is personally signed’ where the person’s signature has value to a certain audience. The audience is ‘captive’ because they can’t get that ‘personal signature’ anywhere else. Even AI can’t deepfake it, because the perceived value of it is specifically that it is coming from a particular real human person.
If this RPi main chip costs $0.70, why does the finished product currently cost $93.00 (RPi 5)? They're quite expensive nowadays, I miss when you could purchase them for ~$30.00.

Meanwhile, Expressif chips are literally everywhere and becoming ever more ubiquitous.

Edit: Thanks friends for the correction. It is cool you can still buy an RPi Pico for $13.00 :)
No one has even come closer to ensuring quality and avoiding fake information given by LLMs. No one even knows if its possible to do.
indeed, Rust can be fast, if you know what you're doing. this indeed means not making unnecessary allocations, but in my opinion, it also means... using byte-based indices instead of insisting on char-based indices, ie. Version 0, which OP so quickly dismissed.

using char-based indices means you have to convert back to byte-based indices, a linear time operation, every time you want to do much of anything with them. this is a silly performance loss, since you probably got those char-based indices by iterating over the string in the first place: you're doing redundant work, which could be avoided by using char_indices() in your initial iteration and keeping those byte-based indices for later manipulation. this is why that iterator exists, really.

you might ask: "but then if I do +1 to get the index of the next character, it might fall in the middle of a multibyte character and the substringing will panic!" yes, you will need to use char::len_utf8 or char_indices to offset your indices (forwards or backwards: CharIndices is a DoubleEndedIterator!). but this is less work than adding one... and then recounting characters from the beginning.

and importantly, +1 isn't even really appropriate to do with char-based indices either. there are many "characters" in the user-perceived sense of the word that are made up of multiple chars, and while cutting in the middle of one won't panic, it also won't give the user-friendly cutting you're expecting. just try your code with a flag emoji and see what happens: you'll split it into two weird "residual" characters.

if you care about that in your specific application, the solution is to iterate on an even bigger unit than chars: (extended) grapheme clusters, or EGCs. and because EGC segmentation is quite a bit more demanding than simple char-based iteration, using EGC-based numerical indices (which I believe Swift does by default?) is an even bigger waste of CPU time. in my opinion, you need to fully let go of the assumption that characters can be given consecutive numerical indices in a performant way, and once again, use byte-based indices along with the appropriate EGC-aware methods for acquiring and offsetting them.
As far as electric motors are concerned we might want to consider using rare-earth-free motors. Example:

https://advancedelectricmachines.com/ssrd/

This one also uses aluminium rather than copper wiring which has advantages when recycling apparently because any copper content that remains with recycled steel makes it less durable.
The trickster side of me, makes me think you should have made very ... sensual sounds as they groped you.

Yes bad idea, but funny idea too.
> ragebait content

You raise a good and valid point. Methinks we need not just one more neologism, but an entire bestiary of internet content.-
Is there any documentation that this happened?

I ask because this is one of the most common myths in Economics.
It’s for their competitors who have pushed a narrative that Apple was caught “flat-footed”. Well there is actually a line of LLM and cloud infrastructure at iPhone scale. This is not merely 2 years of work. They push the privacy because it’s expected of them.

Gemini could claim privacy but I think people would assume that if true, it would make it less effective.
I still call it Twitter because 100% folks will know what I mean.

X ... even if they know what X is, it's too short and people mishear it / misunderstand it.
Reminds me of the numerous lawsuits filed against Maxxam for dramatically increasing harvesting of redwood forests in Northern California.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-03-fi-59990...
I remember finding Quora when it was good. It was a literal godsend, actually interesting and meaningful questions and answers. Basically what the internet was advertised as (information interchange). Sadly it only lasted like 6 months.
These tools, and subsequently their unethical parent companies, will be air gapped by length from my research.
US politicians stopped valuing actual capitalism and stopped supporting anti-trust actions, accelerated by the SCOTUS Citizens United decision essentially equating money to free speech and allowing effectively unlimited corporate political donations.

Since then, there has been no downside to becoming an effective monopoly, so why make a better product?

Theil and his followers are exploiting a weakness in the system. If they can take all the money, why should they give a flip about anyone else in the system that supports their lifestyle? After all, it may take until they are dead for it to collapse.
"Stop trying to make X happen" - everyone
good. anything that reduces the West's dependence on CRINK nations is wise (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.) The 4 we have higher than normal risk of war with, or at least total boycott/embargo.
Does it blank all the fake videos in your YouTube home page? There used to be ads separate. Then they started putting one in the upper left corner that pretended to be a real video, with some clickbait title. Now (today?) they have them sprinkled all over, like maybe 15% of all the thumbnails are now ads.

I'm leaving that platform. They've taken shittification to new heights.
The RP2040 is not what the RPi 5 uses.
> I think such a feature needs to be integrated into the browser.

It certainly helps/simplifies the problem, but I imagine in most cases a builtin image stitcher inside the screenshot tool could also work in great majority of cases. Infact I would expect someone have done that already..
The initial installation and setup of robots won't be cheap. But the ongoing costs will be vastly cheaper than paying per hour for human labor.
Didn't we have this headline for Sweden like a year ago? Same deposit?
> "Human made" is going to be the premium brand keyword of 2030.

I think it will be a niche. People are overindexing on how much they like things done with “soul” when they cant even define it

fungible consciousness concept adds funny spices to food too