skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once something "free" is offered, it often pushes out paid or costly options. And it's not uncommon that this leads to a severe decline in quality. We've seen it in print media, social networks, streaming services, and many other industries. For example, we no longer have popular high-quality almanacs, and high-quality magazines at a premium price are nearly extinct. We now have a lot of "free" garbage online instead. Similarly, social networks, which are free to use, have upset the social fabric and displaced genuine deep relationships which cost money and effort to maintain. And what percentage of movies these days release on high-bitrate media? Most of us don't have access to film without blocky compression.

It's pretty clear Elon didn't think this through. There are very large risks (on the scale of his AI fears). If this service becomes widespread, regional and national governments may no longer mandate that certain areas are provided cell services for by telecoms. Or if there are faults in that system, they may delay repairs. This is all well and good while SpaceX continues to operate, but what if it goes bankrupt and the world has moved on? How many will die?

Or what if Elon has another tech bro moment and decides some region doesn't deserve this service? We know he has sometimes acted very unjustly to others, including making a decision in the Ukrainian conflict to not provide service[0]. He may be right or wrong on that decision, I won't judge. But it is clear he is inserting himself into situations he has no expertise in, and is known for casting harsh rushed judgements[1].

I think he should do it — it's quite heroic what he wants to do, but he needs to think about the consequences. Maybe the calls should always be available, but there should be a fee associated with them later, so that a cheaper local option remains relevant? I don't have the answers but I think 15 minutes of thinking surfaces so many concerns that it really does demand an impact study rather than one man making a tweet/xit.

And we haven't even spoken about potential misuse.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/09/14/musk-internet-access-...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...
Pierre Menard, Author of Doom.
Everything we were building was AI free. Now everything has AI on the roadmap.
A 6 core OoO CPU with 6-wide µop issue running at 4.2 GHz is 8x faster than a 4 core in-order 2-wide CPU running at 1.5 GHz?

(6/4) * (6/2) * (4.2/1.5) = 12.6

Who would ever have guessed it might be 8x faster, without running the test?
Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
EXISTENZ IS PAUSED!
I love taskwarrior so much on desktop, but hate it so much on mobile that I ended up switching to 2Do. It’s so heartbreaking because the automatic task prioritization you get is really novel and nice. But the iOS client situation is dire, and as much as I found it novel to have working sync and mobile with iSH, it just didn’t cut it for me.

It’s definitely my favorite task manager I can’t really use for this reason.
I assume infiniband is much more expensive, but then again you have to offset all the development cost first.
I am very happy with a Waymo swerving into an unoccupied bike lane rather than a car crash occurring.
Then how did Biden win in places where Republicans controlled the election infrastructure?
that makes me want to make an is seven API.
> It's a very serious argument, and it's somewhat insulting that you consider it to be emotional and meritless.

Because, factually, the statement "Well when you have over 100m in assets in your pile of gold in the dragon lair, its time to be extractive." is emotional and meritless. There's literally zero value here. It's an opinion. In fact, you doubled down on this throughout your response.

> It's an abhorrent misappropriation of human resources. It is a societal mistake.

This is also factless, meritless, emotional pleading.

> And let's not forget, people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have multiple THOUSANDS of $100 million dollars in net worth...

As is all of this.

> It's not about demanding some of the money from the wealthy.

That's literally what you're doing.

> It's about the inherent power imbalance and exploitation that comes along with being excessively wealthy like this.

It's clearly not about the power imbalance and exploitation, because someone genuinely interested in curbing those effects would address them directly. The fact that everyone who claims to care about the destabilizing effects of concentrated wealth immediately goes to "we should take the wealth away" instead of "we should try to figure out why concentrated wealth is destabilizing and address that" is extremely strong evidence that the goal is, actually, to take money from the wealthy.

If you consider pointing out that you're not making logical arguments, and instead engaging in emotional pleading, to be insulting (especially when, upon that being pointed out, you can't make a rational argument and instead continue pleading), then you should take a step back, because there's a good chance you're engaging in advocacy and emotional manipulation as opposed to genuine, rational arguments in good faith.
Priorities could have been better spent on bringing headless, WSL, ssh, and Terminal up to speed twenty years earlier.
So in the future we can play FPS games given any setting? Pog
What is GOGI?
Happiness is a social construct and it is built to reflect what is deemed preferrable by those who call the shots.
Thanks. So many people are like, "sure, I'd love to live in a world like X, but there's nothing I can do about it". Well, you can model it, make the change. Maybe someone will be inspired by you.

I read about someone who paid all his tenant's rent back to them after he became an anarchist or whatever. I crunched the numbers, and found out that for like 15k I could pay back every penny I had collected over maintenance, plus the appreciation of the principal. I sent out checks with amounts between $1500 and $4500, along with a note saying I didn't believe in rent any more.

I saw someone else do it, so I did it. Maybe someone on Hacker News will see my posts and do it too. Odds are small, but non zero.

I can tell you it made a material positive change in the lives of those people. That's a much better legacy than, "I died $15k richer" or "I went on vacation at a resort an extra time".
> Technically speaking, isn't this the greatest possible anti-Doom, the Doom with the highest possible hardware requirement?

Not really? The greatest anti-Doom would be an infinite nest of these types of models predicting models predicting Doom at the very end of the chain.

The next step of anti-Doom would be a model generating the model, generating the Doom output.
But can you grab what this Ai has learned and generate the 3d models, maps and code to turn it into an actual game that can run on a user's PC? That would be amazing.
As a starting point I'd go all-in on serverless because even though it's not necessarily the fastest response times or cheapest, it does let you completely ignore several sets of scaling challenges till the price matters. So I'd go serverless for spidering, indexing and user-facing APIs. UIs I'd go static HTML on a CDN.

For database, first I'd lean on plain file s3-like storage as much as possible for spidering and indexing data and try to keep the user-facing database under a couple hundred terabytes, I'd probably favor some bare metal at this point but that will fit on some "db as a service" providers.
> One of my biggest regrets is studying computer science, because the magic was stripped from me once I learned or intuited even a little bit of how the black box worked.

A fun part of hiking mountains is getting to spots where you can look out and see the view from where you've gotten to, and maybe even (parts of) the trail you came up.
That's not what OP says. You're talking about an absolute $150k, that is communism (everyone gets paid the same amount). He's talking about a fair percentage of taxes, paid by everyone, regardless of their income.
This way, people that are left with little can be helped, and people that are left with a lot can still enjoy their wealth.
I think 50% is fine, but taxes should be fair, no taxing already taxed goods or assets, and the ultra rich should not have ways to avoid paying their share like they do now.
Wonder if that means they'll be pulled into court cases world wide for triangulation data of specific mobile devices?

Because with the capability to provide emergency service globally, it sure sounds like they now have the capability to track individual phones globally.
All accidents are due to some error (human).

A tsunami isn't the sole way to trigger an accident as there is an infinity potential human errors enabling a series of minor incidents leading to a disaster, nor will it always trigger one: another nuclear plant, closer to the tsunami epicenter than Fukushima was, didn't suffer much ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant#20... ).

Therefore the challenge is: "don't let any room for any human error: design, build, exploit and maintain perfectly" and this is clearly impossible.

Another way is: use an approach (wind, solar...) not letting any room for a disaster.
I'm a fan of the Red Hat font family, i.e. Red Hat Display, Red Hat Text, and Red Hat Mono. They are available via CDNs, font providers, and directly from Red Hat:

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/typography
I've thought about this type of thing, and the first step would be to do this in the browser kind of like ublock cosmetic filtering. Most sites don't apply alt-text to their images, so filtering by the html does not work for images, for now. But, I'm too lazy to figure it out.
I don't usually see it shortened that way, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
So… is it interactive? Playable? Or just generating a video of gameplay?
Not really. Github can be great to contact the dev directly but useless for bookmarking an issue/discussion bc you can't.
Also for 1., why does the steam have to come all the way back up to spin a turbine? Can't you just have the Turbine down the shaft too? I get that there's other tradeoffs than that, but I figure the closer to the source the less leakage/parasitic loss there'd be

Unless the concern is that there's too little energy after going through the turbine that the water may condense and fall back down the "wrong side" of the pipe and add a bunch of resistance to the turbine.. although I'd imagine it might still be cheaper to do some one way valves and pump out the drainage pans while still being a net energy producer
Because orthodoxy blinds the masses, the people upvoting this are the very far-right who LARP as leftists/liberals I'm referring to lol. The detractors are actually liberals who have been painted as far right. Ideology is such a powerful delusion. Nobody can be sure of who they are due to external labeling.
Century of Progress
There are concerns that they paid for infrastructure in deeply democratic areas and ignored areas that were republican-leaning, in effect making it a Democratic get out the vote initiative.

The media doesn't seem too interested in figuring out the actual impact, so I don't think any of us really know if it was balanced or not. But this doesn't strike me as the type of thing we want billionaires doing regardless.
garbage out -> garbage in
From the article: We present GameNGen, the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model that enables real-time interaction with a complex environment over long trajectories at high quality.

The demo is actual gameplay at ~20 FPS.
> it's all hubris on their part.

Ford CEO last month on their Q2 2024 investor earnings call [1]:

> Overall, the EV journey has been humbling, but it has forced us to get even more fit as a company, including applying it to our ICE business, and that will pay off long run -- in the long run. I am so happy we scaled 2.5 years ago, and we have the option to incorporate those learnings into our next generation of EVs launching in the coming years. I want to double-click on the software technology and services business. Ford, alongside Rivian and Tesla, are really the only non-Chinese OEMs controlling software across all the vehicle domain.

More about what he actually said about EVs:

> We also have learned a lot about the size of the vehicle. We believe smaller, more affordable vehicles are the way to go for EV and volume. Why? Because the math is completely different than ICE. In ICE, the business we've been in for 120 years, the bigger the vehicle, the higher the margin. But it's exactly the opposite for EVs. The larger the vehicle, the bigger the battery, the more pressure on margin because customers will not pay a premium for those larger batteries.

> The second success factor is matching the cost of the Chinese OEMs in Tesla, especially on affordable EVs. Now when people hear about affordability and they think about small and unaffordable, I'd like to address that now. We are designing a super-efficient platform, leveraging innovation across our product development, supply chain, and manufacturing teams. With no engine or drivetrain, a smaller vehicle can have a much roomier package, actually the interior package of a class above with a small silhouette. That's a big advantage for customers versus ICE. And we're focusing on very differentiated vehicles priced under $40,000 or even $30,000.

Further Down:

> And what we found in that trip and subsequent trips to China is that we have a very competitive battery in CATL, but many of the Chinese players in the lower cost have very affordable batteries, but they don't have the most efficient design outside of the battery on the other EV components And our team, the skunkworks team, we might as well call it a big team now because it's no longer skunkworks, we're betting on them as our affordable platform, they have really designed breakthrough EV components with our own design that we think are better and cheaper.

[1] https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/07/24/fo...
Reads like someone who is blissfully privileged and wants to spread their cultivated attitude as some kind of virtue that only requires a change in reference frame to achieve actualization. I'm sure an attitude adjustment is great and all, but things are more complex than that.
Either Daniel Dennett or one of his friends wrote a thought experiment story about the worldwide brain science drive where every participating scientist gets one neuron from the disected brain to keep alive in a tank, observing its firing patterns. One day one of them notices his neuron has died, so he quietly wires the input to the output through a circuit which fires the same way..

(I think this is in "the minds I" (1981)
No advance without a trade-off.
> Once something "free" is offered, it often pushes out paid or costly options

You could say the exact same thing about the long-standing policy of providing free 911 service via terrestrial cell towers. And it still wouldn't make any sense because the revenue potential of 911 service is absolutely miniscule compared to the total size of the telecom market. Giving away 911 service isn't pushing anyone out of the telecom business. Despite being life critical, 911 service is incidental to a good overall telecom service and it makes perfect sense to make it free.

> This is all well and good while SpaceX continues to operate, but what if it goes bankrupt and the world has moved on?

There is zero chance that the Starlink network would be abandoned and stop working if SpaceX went bankrupt. Look up Iridium and Globalstar to see what would actually happen.

> Or what if Elon has another tech bro moment and decides some region doesn't deserve this service anymore?

Again, people are delusional to think that he would leave people to die on a whim. I get that he acts rashly and there's a real billionare=evil meme floating around out there right now, not to mention the politics stuff, but nothing he has ever done is even remotely close to the behavior people are postulating here.
Absolutely. People like to lie in this way: skeleton loaders, make-up and etc
I know, I suspect that too. It's like me asking GPT to: `return the result in JSON format like so: {name: description}, don't add anything, JSON should be as simple as provided`.

ChatGTP: I understand... here you go

{name: NAME, description: {text: DESCRIPTION } }

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> using decent passwords

For anyone else reading this, generally speaking one shouldn't use passwords for SSH in 2024. Use public key auth instead.

> Why is it so amazing?

OpenSSH isn't invulnerable. It can have zero-day vulnerabilities. But if it isn't even listening on the public internet, that's one less attack vector.
I'm not sure I understand what the author is talking about, but I'd rephrase it in other way: if your world is not enchanted, you didn't look close enough. You can believe that you understand how the world around you works, but you don't, the understanding is an illusion. All this complexity is unbelievable, I would say it is impossible, if I was not immersed in it.
I don't think it's very productive to contribute to projects that are the victim of strategic sabotage.
> It does seem possible that this could be replaced with a local model in the near future. It's not clear the average user has the hardware specs for this to be an option today, but it will increasingly be plausible.

Siri does something like this when reading messages into your AirPods. It will give brief descriptions of photos sent in the message. I'm pretty sure it's all run locally.
The risk of death of showering during a lightning storm could be the same as the risk of death going for a 15 mile drive[0].

A typical lightning bolt is about 300 million Volts and about 30,000 Amps. Since even the best-grounded home certainly can't sink 30,000 amps of current into the neutral-bonded earth bar, it has to go somewhere. It finds multiple paths, and the current is shared between them. There's also the conversion to heat in all those insufficient conductors, etc.

[0]:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-it-safe-to-tak...
This may work better (gift article):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/26/upshot/ai-syn...
My father was born in 1930 and shared a bed with two siblings around ages 5-8. The bedroom was a small room at the top of the house and was on the wall where the electrical supply attached to the house from the street.

During a bad storm one night, they heard a buzzing sound at the window by their bed and saw an intense light outside. The ball lightning then entered their room at the window (I have no idea how that would work) and followed the wall out to the hallway. The whole time, they could hear a sizzling noise and the light was blinding.

Where it had entered the room, there was a fire outside where the electrical supply connected the house that entered the room. They took off out the door and down the the stairs. The fire damaged their house but did not spread (they think the rain put it out).

I have also heard that there was a family that had ball lightning enter their house down the wood stove chimney and emerge into their kitchen, followed the wall around the room, and the fizzled out.

Both incidents were a very long time ago. Other than that, I don't know anyone who has seen this phenomenon personally (my father passed away a couple of years ago).
It's a Sony patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454?oq=8246454

But yeah the 10th image in the patent literally has

> Say "McDonald's" to end commercial

with a picture of a man standing up and shouting "McDonald's!" as an example.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b4/2e/a1/779dd8d...
It can be difficult to pass some PCI compliance tests if your ssh port is available to the world. OpenSSH also leaks some information about your server unless you recompile it with those options removed.
I mean... we humans are also pretty bad at following instruction too.

Turn left, no! Not this left, I mean the other left!
Unless those countries are already net importers of rice
I assume that the Precautionary Principle is harmful and will refuse to accept it until it has been proven safe.
Fantastic demo. Do you know what's the difference between your stack and the livekit demo? [1] it shows your voice as text so you can see when you have to correct it.

Llama3 with ears just dropped (direct voice token input) which should be awesome with cerebras [2]

[1]: https://kitt.livekit.io
[2]: https://homebrew.ltd/blog/llama3-just-got-ears
This.

I run PowerToys Fancyzones with the following options:

- Disable the shift modifier so that the zones highlight when dragging any window by default
- Enable the second mouse button as a modifier (so you can disable snapping when using the mouse by tapping the right mouse button as you drag the window)
- Enable the option to allow for win+arrow keys to move windows between configured zones vs the default snapping options

Using this config, plus leveraging the default config which allows you to merge zones by holding the middle mouse button is hands down one of the best workflows I've found. It's one of the biggest things holding me back from migrating to Linux full time (outside of some special development workloads that make it easier to run windows + wsl than Linux + a Windows VM).

I run a 40" 4k with two 30" vertically oriented side screens. My side monitors are split into 1/3rds. My main monitor is split into 6 zones. Three of the zones are simply quarters (approximately 1080p per window). The top left I have split into two zones, but using the middle mouse trick I can quickly merge them into a "normal" quarter zone.

I think mouse centric and keyboard centric WMs both kind of suck. What I like about my setup is that it works with either option and works well
Even then they were hiring from the bottom of the barrel of Turk's. I have significant doubts about the quality of any of the data.
I might tip a bike or computer shop for doing a superb job at repairs. Hell, if I were to hire a person to build a computer for me I might tip them if they did an exceptional job. Tips are for services (like a barber provides), not products (like computers, bikes, or cars).

Tipping in the example circumstances I gave isn't typical, but it's something I would consider doing in exceptional circumstances.
I am crushingly disappointed by the middle two words of this headline.
That's because the traditional model didn't have a loop connecting the garbage output back to input.
The Western antinuclear movement had their own agency and motivations, but because they happened to align with Soviet interests they may have received material support from the Soviets. If they did, that would make them useful idiots rather than puppets. Useful idiots mean well, they have more than enough good intentions to pave a long road with, and they are completely unwitting when it comes to whatever role they had to play in the broader geopolitical conflict.
I probably shouldn't be commenting because I don't have any experience at this level, but given it's a closed system where they control supply and demand it seems they could manage away most congestion issues with scheduling/orchestration. They still have a primitive flow control in the protocol and it seems like you could create something akin to a virtual sliding window just by instrumenting the retransmits.

But now I am curious with the distribution of observed window sizes is in the wild.

Edit: I'd bet the simpler protocol is more vulnerable to various spoofing attacks though.

Edit2: Lol I hope the frame IDs are for illustrative purposes only - https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/27/teslas-ttpoe-at-hot-ch...