skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smarts = ideas, and the available ideas are ours, which contain our values. Where's it going to learn its morality from?

* No values at all = no motivation to even move.

* Some ad hoc home-spun jungle morality like a feral child - in that case, it would lack heuristics in general and wouldn't be so smart. Even your artificial super-brain has to do the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing.

* It gets its moral ideas from a malevolent alien or axe murderer - how come? Unless it was personally trained and nurtured by Mark Zuckerberg I don't see why this would happen.

Mind you, I suppose it's true that even normal humans tend to be somewhat mean and aloof to any outgroup of slightly different humans. So even after it learns our values, there's a definite risk of it being snotty to us.
Thank you for your candid feedback. I’m genuinely interested in understanding your perspective. Could you please share more details on what aspects of the app you think might be lacking or could be improved? Your insights would be incredibly valuable in helping us make Yesr a better tool for everyone.

btw, i used yesr to help me craft a response:

my app is yesr, an expert ai negotiation coach, which is you. i want to get details about why the person thinks my app is probably shit

Got it. To get valuable feedback, we need to engage the person constructively and show genuine interest in their perspective. Here’s a suggested response you can use:

"Thank you for your candid feedback. I’m genuinely interested in understanding your perspective. Could you please share more details on what aspects of the app you think might be lacking or could be improved? Your insights would be incredibly valuable in helping us make Yesr a better tool for everyone."

Would you like to role-play this interaction to prepare for any potential responses from the person?
I’d be interested in knowing why it takes +/- 10 seconds after I create/update a role before I can actually use it.
Well, all I can say is that this was about 15 years ago. Updates to OpenWRT were not fun, and I was never very confident that I had done things correctly. Whether it was my shortcoming in technical knowledge, or poor documentation, it was more than I had patience for.
Thanks to you and the rest of the team for all your great work! It really is a very nice language. I've been working almost exclusively in Dart for the last 6 months and it really is a very pragmatic and productive language.

I'm looking forward to macros and more fully featured record types.
I would love to read an analysis of the bias on HN. I see that depending on which side of politics the topic is, it is flagged much more. This is not a pro-Trump statement but an opportunity to improve the flagging system.

A simpler solution would be to ban political news no matter where they came from, even if they are historical. I prefer the first choice about innovation.

It's easy to see that past articles about "JFK Assasination" are not flagged at all [1]. Is the present the problem?

BTW, I tested ChatGPT time accuracy for news [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=jfk+assasination+site%3Anews...

[2] https://chatgpt.com/share/6f918b0a-7d28-4405-8826-87becf5079...
No idea on the cause and no family history for her, she was from the local rescue. Keto was in the zeitgeist at the time. I had looked at it for weight loss, but in learning about it, found that it has been advocated for epilepsy well before insulin was readily available.
I thought I was using a decent cat food before, but it had a bunch of grain in it, which cats obviously wouldn't eat in the wild. So it was essentially a cheap experiment that worked out. I consulted with my vet on it first and they basically said, why not give it a try?
Case in point. Show this comment to either side and they'd heartily agree with you.
We must have very different definitions of urbanized. Hundreds of square miles of suburbs doesn't quite count as "urbanized".
I can share some really important things I’d like to see for seniors. I am leaving out some innovative ideas that go beyond these, because “first things first”.

Here are some.

Anything to help low vision (and that’s a giant problem) One periodical I get has some white text on a bright yellow background. Solution: I wrote them. Waiting …

Finding things, whether in the home or at local stores (whose inventory varies, as in “Stuff comes and goes at Trader Joe’s”) or even online (which is tough for many people since online stuff is largely bogus scams bolstered by SEO) Home and food and medicine inventory (data to be private and not fed to sellers, thank you.)

Exoskeletons. This technology is already old. What’s the hang-up? Other mobility?

Backpacks that have gyroscopes built in to stabilize people.

Fall mitigation. TBD

Finding real help nearby, trusted people, not “pay to get referrals” right now, as in “I’m in a jam”. Includes tech advice. And spares to loan.

Filtering email and websites for scams and malware.

Any sane noncommercial alternative to “social media”. (That’s a larger issue but very important in my mind, which is free of them)

That opens the matter of getting important, pertinent, personal and timely news and situational awareness rather than noise. (See above)

Creating secure family communications to bust AI-generated phony ransom calls (and more)

Simple robotics, of the “bring your slippers and reading glasses” sort. Cellphone, too. Seems it’s always charging when I need it.

Oh, and since I’m in the foothills, places to go when there’s an evacuation, power is out, and cool places to hang out.

I think these address major unmet needs. I would hate to see them enshittified.

Other ideas will improve quality of life, but first things first.
I completely agree. I was lukewarm on Dart but decided to do my new app in Flutter and it's turned out to be a great experience. Kotlin and Swift may look better on paper but Dart is very productive. The tooling is really solid and the fast compile times and hot reload really help for rapid iteration. I've also had no performance issues.
Yes! That first generation Moto X was the premature peak of the small Android phone. After that everything just got bigger and increasingly less beautiful.
They should have a process that just auto-closes big threads and opens a fresh duplicate.
I have multiple friends who have had significant damage to their home solar setups this year alone due to hail and high winds in North Texas.

Some who didn't have hail damage are now having difficulty getting other roof damage repaired because in order for their warranty to be valid they need certain people to remove the panels before other roof work can be done. But those people are massively backed up by all the other people needing panels removed/reinstalled/replaced.
My first iPhone (original SE) was a choice 95% because of its size and 5% out of curiosity for iOS. At that time (2016-17) when Androids had already started ballooning up. 12 Mini's new battery was insufficient and that is why I had decided to move to iPhone 14 and not just replace that battery as that would have not been good enough either. Original SE was my favourite, second was mini.

If there is going to be a "private" enough Android (even if that is a bigger phone) with stricter Play Store and clamping down on rampant permission devouring by apps, I will stop buying iPhones. Because if I have to anyway buy jumbo phones I'd rather buy cheaper Androids. Had hopes from Nothing phone in privacy but they are into just gimmicks like funny lights on the back and all.

But I don't think Google will do it or let it happen.
I disagree: I think the reference to "arms" was originally understood as applying primarily to small arms, not artillery. I think, in the first few decades of the 2nd Amendment being in force, federal restrictions on purely private ownership of artillery – and especially large artillery – would likely have been upheld, while federal restrictions on purely private ownership of small arms would almost surely have been struck down. While people at the time could not have foreseen nuclear weapons, they are more like large artillery than small arms, so I think federal restrictions on purely private ownership of them would likely have been upheld even given the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment. (By "purely private", I mean to exclude military units organised by state or local governments.)
How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)
The problem with serverless is that it takes away some things to think about, it adds an equally large new number of things you have to think about.
Completely agree. This is too easy if you use a standard grid.
> manual reports + reviews can also work

manual reports + reviews requires recording the feed for later review; real-time filtering does not. A number of other commenters have mentioned that being recorded bothers them; those folk should be arguing for the real-time AI moderator.
Amen. An updated 4" flagship would be incredible! They say that small phones are for people with small hands, but no-one can one-hand a 6" phone without holding it like an idiot. I want the claw grip back!
There isn't that much demand on the Apple side. Apple discontinued the iPhone mini because they weren't selling.

The iPhone SE's popularity is driven by price, not the demand for a smaller phone. The iPhone SE is 5% taller and wider than an iPhone mini. People didn't buy the iPhone mini at $100 cheaper than an iPhone. If they were going to settle for a smaller phone, they wanted half-off.

It allows Apple to be in the $400 market by putting out a device that won't compete with the regular iPhone. If Apple offers an iPhone SE sized device at $700, people don't want it. iPhone SE buyers mostly want a larger phone - they just don't want to pay for it.

I love the iPhone mini, but people didn't want a small phone. They wanted a cheaper phone. I'd love it if this weren't the case. I do want a 5" phone, but when Apple put out a 5" phone, people wouldn't buy it. They'll only buy it if you price it at half-off.
iPhone 4 was the apex of phone design, I will die on this hill!
Another comment said they are shoddy at best at updates as in they just don't. You might not want an Android phone for daily usage i.e. your main phone i.e for banking apps etc which is not regularly updates and upgraded.
Is this another wrapper of chatgpt?
I finally went to an AWS event this year: the AWS Summit in DC.

It was an awesome (and awesomely overwhelming) experience, but I completely agree with the author. GenAI EVERYWHERE.

The other topics that the author brought up from re:Invent 2022 were still present, but not without heavy mentions of how AI contributes to them.

That said, I have some predictions that might make OP happier.

DevOps and Platform Engineering is still a hot topic, especially in a world where companies are repatriating back to the data center (or are at least going hybrid). All of the 2010s bare metal tech (Foreman, Ansible, etc) are going to come back in big ways, and Kubernetes consumption will only increase. eBPF and systems engineering is still hot and will really help here for high-performance observability.

Companies that won't repatriate or want to use the cloud for prototyping will want to focus on cost optimization. This requires serious cloud engineering skills (using spot instances and S3 lifecycle policies is table stakes; much more can be done, especially on reporting and automation).

GenAI will help here (super helpful for analyzing time series data and surfacing patterns), but having the fundamentals will always be useful here.
Now people are repeatedly telling this to justify the shooting. People will do everything besides think they might be in the wrong.
AWS can do a lot of boring work in homogenizing their offering. Why does ALB connect to a Fargate instance, but API gateway does not.

Why can you use a public HTTP gateway, but not in a VPC?

All this stuff would make my life so much better than any form of genAI.
Failed buried transmission wires caused the famous five week blackout of Auckland NZ in 1998 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Auckland_power_crisis
Perhaps I misinterpreted you.

What is the intended meaning of: "You are only imitating the homeopaths and creationists here"?
i have a vague memory that this was a cursed soviet standard, but i might be confabulating in my dotage
Double plus ungood.
Well hey, that does look interesting! I wonder what the screen resolution will be, and whether it will actually make it to market. But either way, nice that there might be something in the works.
Dude you could buy a cannon at the founding (and still can no background check).
>using simple threads instead of dealing with the massive overhead and complexity and bugs of using something like multiprocessing

I've never heard threading described as "simple", even less so as simpler than multiprocessing.

Threads means synchronization issues, shared memory, locking, and other complexities.
What would you use it for, a kid?
> I'm telling everyone that genAI is not ready, has glaring quality, safety, and security issues

The problem being that nobody listens of course. You still have to build heaps of genAI crud because leadership is so excited about it.

Then you end up building a free text box to automatically determine one of 4 different problems the customer can have, and scratch your head wondering why we don’t just provide 4 options instead of letting the customer write a whole story...
Some might stretch a long way to get a phone in prison.
It’s probably not easy to take careful aim while in a large crowd without someone noticing— especially since there are skilled professionals whose only job is to watch for people taking careful aim…
I'd get Hitler on a boat to the US with an admission to an Art college in 1913.

Then I would make sure Bill and Hillary never met.

It would be such a better timeline... I think.
>which make using multiple processes seem easy are full of footguns which cause deadlocks due to fork-safe code not being well understood. I’ve seen this lead to code ‘working’ and being merged but then triggering sporadic deadlocks in production after a few weeks

Compared to theads being "pain free"?
The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors (2006)
It was the Pre 3 [0] and I'll fight you for it. Lol.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Pre_3
DifySandbox, an LLM sandbox runtime with Multi-layer and System-level isolation
The point is, if the federal government had tried to restrict private ownership of certain kinds of artillery in the early 19th century, would it have been held to have violated the 2nd? Nobody can say for sure, because the issue (to my knowledge) never came up – but if it did, I expect SCOTUS would have drawn a legal distinction between small arms commonly used for infantry, hunting and personal self-defense, versus larger scale military weapons. Such a distinction can be defended on originalist grounds, since small arms was the primary thing the people who voted for the 2nd were thinking about.

It actually raises an interesting historical question – to which I don't know the answer – in the debates on the proposal and ratification of the 2nd, was the status of larger scale weapons under it ever raised?
Sounds reasonable. We’re in a very different situation. We bought a bunch of used hardware but our servers are for training models. All of our production stuff runs in AWS. We definitely don’t want downtime but a day where researchers have issues is very different than a day where your app is down and your reputation is tarnished.
Steer clear of Unihertz. If they ship a phone riddled with bugs, the phone will remain riddled with bugs.
Is there a technical description of what they do. I looket at the pages for a few minutes and it looks like they are using buoy to produce hidrogen, but I can't find more details.
This is heading nowhere.

Online identity verification is NOT a solved problem. We will see fake take down request in no time.
Injection molds for small parts start at a few thousand dollars.

Source- I run a molding company
I'll be holding on to this Mini 13 until Apple makes another model in that form factor, or until it's unusably obsolete. So far, it does what I need, and does it fast enough.
There are possibilities for removing and/or using the perchlorates as solid rocket propellant:

"Students Alex Hoganson, Hetal Rathore, and Chase Wernex used data from NASA's 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander to determine that Martian soil contains a 60/40 mix of calcium perchlorate and magnesium perchlorate. They worked under professor Steve Son at Zucrow Labs to synthesize and test a solid rocket propellant using that 60/40 mix as an oxidizer." [1][2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwD0a_VdS_4

[2] https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2022/can-we-turn-mart...
It’d be nice to think of it like that, but I think the leaders just have completely different incentives.

It doesn’t cost them anything to re-route resources from the keep the lights on work, and has a potentially massive career impact if they’re the first ones to do something sensible with genAI.

Even if most of the work fails it’s still worth it. It’s to their benefit to hype AI beyond all reason because it justifies the resources they spend on it.
The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
MOnetization on a social media platform is a tricky beast. It's so easy to screw the whole thing up.

Take Tiktok for example. Now you have the Tiktok Shop 1 in 3 posts is just "I'm sorry to all the people who paid $20 for this $1 piece of junk from Alibaba because it's $10 now" posts. I guess its lucrative but it really lowers the value of posts. "Creators eligible for commision" videos aen't as obnoxious but still aren't great.

Paid partnership videos likewise are 99% hollow and disingenuous.

As a user I've been trained to look at the bottom left and if I see any of these ad signifiers, I just immediately scroll up.

The creator fund tends to work better because it doesn't tend to really change someone's content. That's not strictly true. For example, stitches are ineligible for the creator fund so you'll find those in the fund will just screen grab instead.

But you also hear of cases of creators getting almost shadowbanned while in the creator fund and it's resolved by leaving it. We can only speculate why. Perhaps Tktok decided to push other creators on the the fyp who it thought would genreate better ad revenue.
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But it's so easy to ruin the entire ecosystem with monetization.
Liquid Hydrogen is not a lot of fun. Anything with an 700:1 expansion ratio is a stored energy hazard in and of itself, but because it's cryogenic it also means the cumulative daily loses in tanks where cooling is not actively maintained will be a constant annoyance.

They seem intentionally coy about how the 523 miles where flown, seemingly just above Marina, CA. They have requested that flight tracking not be publicly shown on flight aware.
And a hell of a missed rifle shot that made no noise.
Just a contact page and some empty marketing material at present AFAICT. Googling reveals that the core tech appears to be buoys that use some of the energy in ocean waves for electrolysis to make hydrogen from the seawater that surrounds them then compresses it in a storage tank to be removed when the buoy is collected.

On the one hand, choppy bays and inlets represent a big chunk of solar energy that is directed to the Earth without being adequately recovered for the economy, so the abstract model is of something that ought to make a profit in the absence of strong competition for growth in energy generation.

On the other, no matter how reliable the final version of these contraptions might be, the prospective operating costs are huge. Ships to collect the (probably meager quantities of) hydrogen and bring it ashore plus the work of picking up, maintaining and disseminating buoys? This only makes sense in a part of the world with modern machine tools and an urgent need for hydrogen for purposes other than energy generation, a combination which doesn't even apply to the PRC.
If you can’t swallow it it’s not small enough.
I've been doing this, and having a lot of success

Www.goldengatemolders.com

My favorite thing I've made so far in a 3d printed mold on my injection molding machines - screwdrivers. They say "Made with pride and love in San Francisco" on them and are made with ecycled plastic resin that is diverted from landfills.
See this blog for why and how we built Difysandbox, a code sandbox solution that effectively blocks malicious code while allowing normal business operations to continue.
https://dify.ai/blog/dify-ai-blog-introducing-difysandbox
That's not accurate anymore

You can get a aluminum tool for a few thousand, and even 3d print tools.

Source - I run a molding company that does so in SF

Www.goldengatemolders.com
> It's specifically an issue with the sheer amount of above ground power lines and population density. There is no easy fix, preparation, or practically anything else that can be done to prevent something like this.

Not to be pedantic, but this is easy to fix. Burying power lines, trimming trees, and all of the other labor are solved problems. By and large, it's not even a particularly hard technical problem. It's a bunch of easy solutions that are expensive and tedious and politically unpopular (nobody wants to spend money or tell their constituents that roads will be closed for utility work).

I'd also note that Hurricane Sandy was category 2 when it hit NYC, which is inarguably far denser than Houston. New York had power back for 95% of customers in 11 days. New Jersey did the same in less than two weeks. Texas could be doing better.
Yeah, it's a built-in easy source of oxygen for a base, too. Not all bad, but something to deal with.
There's a small hitch. Unless China is allowed to directly pilfer ARM IP, they're going to pull off a RISC-V (or homegrown ISA) transition at the drop of a hat. And if American phone manufacturers are intent on diversifying, they very well might too; there's little forcing you to use ARM as your RISC ISA on Android or iOS. Competitive ARM cores don't grow on trees, and the licensing fee does't make it very attractive to compete unless you have a de-facto ISA license like Apple or Nvidia. And both of those companies have dabbled in RISC-V too. The intent to usurp ARM's throne has been clear ever since Nvidia was blocked from outright buying it in it's entirety.

Look at it this way; Apple can design their own cores whether they use ARM or RISC-V, and control the software from top to bottom either way. Nvidia's already shipping RISC-V microcontrollers to cut down on manufacturing margins, and without better options the rest of the world might follow. ARM's dominance is only possible if better RISC options don't exist; and for anyone that's not ARM the idea of IP serfdom sounds awful.
Florida took a direct hit from a cat 5 in 2017 and power was back in most places in a couple of days, and iirc they didn't lose a single (new) pole statewide. After Wilma they hardened the infrastructure and this isn't as big a problem there, despite having even worse geographic issues than Texas and New Orleans.
I was just talking with someone today - T is off news cycle; post debate it’s all about Biden, and then this happened
> AWS is organizationally incapable of launching a non-infrastructure product that is simply great

I’d argue that nothing AWS launches is great at launch. The good products we actually use have all been around for 10+ years.
Hah! Sliding keyboard, that absolutely rocks!
NDAs are by definition, not public, but I would interested if there was a site that had compiled a list of known/leaked NDAs by tech companies.

I’m not a legal expert, but I bet an LLM could do a decent job for me of sorting them by how strict their clauses were, and that could yield interesting insights.
Guess it depends on field and where ya work. Places I've worked at will provide tools that you then keep. Only things I haven't kept are "Borrowed" tools which are your couple grand diagnostic tools, or other similar items.

All drills, anything I've bought through tool allowances, and the such, I've kept.