skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the internet was a gift economy, like burning man: people giving away things of value to all comers because if you don't do that maybe it's because you can't. the good parts of it still are"

But it feels like more and more are taken over by money from advertisement. It is allways a relieve to me, find a site in the old spirit.
No, you can not assume that movies aimed at a mass audience are documentaries. Theatrical movies are meant to entertain a high number of people in a set amount of time. So, it's no surprise that they are inaccurate. Made-up drama and character mashups are going to beat facts. If people want factual accuracy then you should stick to documentaries and history books. Theatrical movies will always be inaccurate and that's ok. I watch movies to be entertained.
> Remember COVID, the lockdowns, the suppression of dissent?

This occurred under Trump during his first attempt to "poke the establishment in the eye."

> How about the left that used to be opposed to war yet now seem to support continual escalation of the Ukraine conflict?

Because 1) we're bound by treaties to do so (we promised to protect them if they dismantled their nuclear arsenal, which they did). 2) The Ukraine is, according to pretty much everybody with knowledge on European politics, acting as the first line of defense against Russia. It's why so many European countries are also supporting the Ukraine.

> The danger of Russia is directly proportional to how much money can be made from it.

The danger of Russia is there's a dying megalomaniac with nuclear codes and a desire to conquer Europe no matter the cost to Russia.

> I’m not voting for the party that supported school closures, coerced “vaccinations,” and funding endless wars.

So, you're not voting for trump? Again, all of these happened under his watch as president, and many were backed up by his executive orders.

> anyone that has faced two assassination attempts

By his own party, by people who voted for him in the past.
> But if you have the Sahara-sized robotic solar farm and industrial complex to put it into practice, it makes a great doomsday weapon!

1) Can the other side just nuke most of it?

2) Isn't it cheaper to build a few thousand nukes instead of a Sahara-sized solar farm?
Unfortunately he also veto'd AB3048 which allowed consumers a direct way to opt-out of data sharing.

https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab...
Spotting and stopping the odd case where it’s gone haywire doesn’t mean ditching market pricing across the board. You can just fix (maybe even only temporarily!) the part that’s doing wacky, undesirable stuff.
The Apple Intelligence demos showed Apple is likely planning to use on-device models for ad targeting, and Google / Facebook will certainly respond. Small LLMs will help move unwanted computation onto user devices in order to circumvent existing data and privacy laws. And they will likely be much more effective since they’ll have more access and more data. This use case is just getting started, hence SB 1047 is so short-sighted. Smaller LLMs have dangers of their own.
Made my own company that provides services and consultations in drones, robotics, and even cybersecurity. Very slow business at this stage, if someone is in the same field or went through the same stage, any tips are welcome.
> “AI safety”, at least of the X-risk variety, is a non-issue.

i have no earthly idea why people feel so confident making statements like this.

at current rate of progress, you should have absolutely massive error bars for what capabilities will like in 3,5,10 years.
Just to state the obvious as it seems it’s necessary Islam is 1400 years old. Despite what the Saudi would like you to believe, there is no such thing as a one and only heterodoxy that everyone agrees about and people have widely different relationship with the faith.
> But is Plaid?

Or any of those budgeting apps that integrate with your bank account.
> Capital flooding into the residential real estate market hasn't exactly 'sploded the quantity of available housing.

No, because zoning (both in terms of timeline and build restrictions) is leading to artificial restriction of housing units. This, coupled with requirements for subpar financial returns due to large amounts of affordable housing requirements (again, due to lack of capacity) leads to increased housing costs.

> There are other mechanisms of financing housing than equity capital. (Loans, grants, tax deductions to mortgage holders, direct land grants as was the case with the Homestead Act, direct government construction (local, regional, state, federal), etc.)

And how, exactly are those paid for? By taxes. And this runs into the same issues as any public project in addition to the standard construction issues. This is why it took SF 1.2MM on average to build affordable housing (see: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/it-now-costs-more-tha...). Direct government construction is, in practice, unsuccessful.
Do you have examples of nature reserves where this is not allowed. Here there are always rules and they vary alot between the reserves, but mostly you are allowed to pick fruits. Digging, breaking sticks and collecting rocks is forbidden almost everywhere.

I ask because this would be an interesting data to have in Openstreetmap or Wikidata, so you can easily know what rules govern what nature reserve.
100%. I usually use it for prototyping new features.

Two examples...

1. Recently wanted to build a Chrome plugin and never built one before. Used o1-preview to build it all for me.

2. Wanted to build a visualization of the world with color-coded maps using D3. Again, hadn't used D3 much in the past... Claude basically wrote all the code for me and then I just had to make edits to fit my site/template.
The greatest wealth inequality is always in the bluest of cities. See New Haven, CT for dramatic examples.
do gov work and print money
https://github.com/polymonster/diig

A music digging app for record collectors, with instagram style feed for listening to new vinyl snippets
Reverse engineering my e-bike’s head unit and motor controller to build a custom head unit out of a Raspberry Pi with oled touch screen (head unit will also be used to control LED patterns on the bike).

Used a logic analyzer to work out the protocol between the head unit and the motor controller (uart at 9600) and used a ESP32 to man in the middle the protocol. Currently reverse engineering the meaning of the bytes in the packets sent between the units.

First attempt was taking apart the head unit and attaching a debugger to the exposed serial debug interface (Cortex M0) chip, but looks like the manufacturer had disabled flash reading by setting the flash security bit.
>Globalization is not at all designed to exploit inequalities, it is in fact the exact opposite. The purpose of globalization is to increase the efficiency of the global economy

That's the way they sell it, we agree about that.

>the effect that has is to minimize inequality.

So that's why we have worse than gilded age inequality?[0] Seems they haven't done too much of that despite their sales pitch. See trickle down economics.

>the 99%" are the primary benefactors of the improvements in quality of life that it has brought with it.

Not what the math says. I agree, in general starvation and what not are technically down. But shouldn't we have aspirations a little greater than "less people are starving to death in a world we drop?" I just don't see what evidence you have other than a correlation

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/wealth-inequality-billionai...
Unfortunately it relies on CGO for SQLite, which is a bummer
The current LLMs are just good at parroting, and even that is sometimes unbelievably bad.

We still have barely scratched the surface of how the brain truly works.

I will start worrying about AGI when that is completely figured out.
And if you hit a physical or health issue that takes that away, or dramatically reduces the amount of time you can spend on it?

This isn’t hypothetical; I have worked with people who’ve had to quit this form of work for the following reasons: Carpal tunnel that prevented using keyboard and mouse, brain injury, neck injury that made it impossible to sit at a computer (or desk), long Covid and “brain fog”. I imagine that vision impairment might lead to the same.

If any of these were to happen to me, would I still have my sense of self? Are we more than our love of technology?
> It is allways a relieve to me, find a site in the old spirit.

Here is the corresponding search engine for that: https://wiby.me
Syncthing + Raspberry Pi + Wireguard + Gitea = There's no "cloud"! It is just someone else's computer.
Yeah... it's easy to say JSON won't be an issue. It's difficult to switch from JSON when it turns out you were wrong.

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

Given how central this is going to be why would you skip the tiny bit of extra work needed to use a binary format?
I have my side project: https://www.vidwiz.ai

Think "Cursor, for videos"

Very crowded space, but it's been fun making it!
> and mandates audit requirements to prove that your models won't help people cause disasters

Audits cannot prove anything and they offer no value when planning for the future. They're purely a retrospective tool that offers insights into potential risk factors.

> and can be turned off.

I really wish legislators would operate inside reality instead of a Star Trek episode.
> Email platforms and clients should have servers in place to fetch logo images and cache them for their users; no direct correlation between users and requests in that case.

So, all email servers and clients should be rewritten to avoid user tracking. Got it.

This will never happen. If it came even close to happening, BIMI would magically and coincidentally grow a new user-tracking feature.
Sometimes I think that people who wreck their lives after winning the lottery are lesser beings than myself. And then, I read about bog butter, and realize that I'd totally blow a million dollars on a single piece of toast.
> The fact that a company can create one of the three riches men on the planet and have its employees who are the ones making that person’s wealth be on government assistance is absolute bullshit.

I agree here. Even during the feudal era, if you happened to be employed in the envoy of one of the world's richest trading fleets, you would be treated with far greater respect than an Amazon worker.
I just launched https://www.crowdwave.com a week ago, it spent 24 hours on the front page of HN.

Lots of people have visited but a launch on HN isn’t enough on its own. I’m trying to figure out how to get the word out to more people to kickstart it. The goal is for it to be a community that people return to as part of their daily online life. That’s not a programming problem so it’s hard (for me).
They didn't ruin a painting (they have all been behind glass), and no actual harm is caused by delaying sport events.

But you're saying that they should stop with the victimless crimes and start on the actual assaults already.
It's actually quite high. 10%+ in this meta-analysis, and 21% with some form of psychosis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880407/

If I were to guess, I would say that while many people may experience bouts of homelessness, the ones with schizophrenia are more likely to be persistently homeless.
Golang definitely inspires confidence. My employer also uses it. I like that it's defaults do a good job at mitigating supply chain risks.

https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/supply-chain-securit...

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/supply-chain-securit...
I would like to reflect on all the positive sentiments here. I have been using it for years and I rarely have to look at or think about it more than once every two months. Even when I do need to look at it, it's just to realize I filled some drive and that's why it's not synchronizing anymore.

I have no issues day-to-day and it's relatively easy to set up.
I haven't played with the zero trust encrypted folder syncing yet but I will eventually :p

I'm running it on Linux and Android but I started out with it on Windows.
Thanks for the reminder about this software. I don't think I've donated in a couple years now.
And he's responsible for SB132, which has been awful for women prisoners:

https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolfs-plaintiffs-desc...

https://womensliberationfront.org/news/new-report-shows-cali...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXI-z2n5Dwr0BePgBNjJO...
Some people are against that, even if only for purely pragmatic (as opposed to moral) reasons. This is another one of those "People who've never really known [otherwise] tend to make a lot of assumptions they're not equipped to recognize" things; being in a fortunate enough position to absorb the potential blowback of a lie is not unlike the privilege of being in a position to absorb the blowback to any other choice/decision that carries some risk that that seems minor to the average person but is potentially disastrous to someone who can't absorb it.

(And then there are moral reasons, too.)
lol at conflating "speeding" with "traffic stops".
Is part of the issue the concern that runaway ai computing would just happen outside of california?

There's another important county election in Sonoma happening about CAFOs where part of the issue is that you may get environmental progress locally, but just end up exporting the issue to another state with lax rules: https://www.kqed.org/news/12006460/the-sonoma-ballot-measure...
What is the point of having almost $5bn in endowments[0] if the school still has to chase after revenue like this, at the cost of its credibility and reputation?

[0] https://investments.caltech.edu/
The Raspberry Pi Foundation does not do a good upstream support. It is not very bad, but also not good. They should start adding support for their new chips in the upstream projects before they get into the market, like Intel does it for example. They could add support for some new IP cores, without reveling when and how it will be used later. When the product comes out the only add small patches linking the code together like device tree files.

It would also be good if they would release all the closed source firmware files needed for their devices under a redistributable license in the linux-firmware repository. For some time it was not allowed to redistribute the binary wifi firmware needed for the Raspberry Pi devices. This is needed for Linux distributions to package the binaries.

I hope they do this only because of lack of resources and not intentionally to lock people into their Linux distribution.
Dark side of a Hollywood basement
It’s useful to consider the rise of computer graphics and cgi. When you first see CGI, you might think that the software is useful for general simulations of physical systems. The reality is that it only provides a thin facsimile.

Real simulation software has always been separate from computer graphics.
There are far more than 17 capitalist countries which meet every criteria you've listed as an evil of Communism.
> I wanted sort of the opposite of this for opioids - work in the body, not the brain

That's already how some anti-diarrheals work like loperamide. And some anticonstipation drugs like oral naloxone and methylnaltrexone that work as peripheral or locally-acting antagonists
Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024
At least a portion of the DEI officer job decline was caused by major investors becoming intolerant of DEI. I don't personally have a causal link for the change in investor's minds, but it happened at about the same time that fighting against DEI became a republican policy.

And for what it's worth, DEI's environmental cousin - ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) - reporting for investors is still going quite strong.
This system works extremely well unless you have a LOT of small files (like 200-400k or more). Then, unfortunately, it stalls/breaks in very weird ways.

We had to move on and go with more manual synchronization methods like using robocopy and so forth.

It's unfortunate given how awesome SyncThing + SyncTrazor works on Windows Servers. But I cannot recommend it highly enough if you don't have a system with a huge number of individual files - it works very well.
Is "Master" a common way to describe a Master's degree? I don't recall encountering it that way before.

"The Master", "This Master", etc.
The Russian government is not inclined to prosecute Russian companies for breaking western laws which kind of aids this sort of thing, even if that wasn't their intention.
That's not true. The number type in JSON is an arbitrary sized number. You're thinking of JavaScript which is not the same thing.
> I can’t say that I did. I’d blame “being raised on the internet” as a consistent contributor to a lot of negatives in my life. Certainly, I picked up a lot of the rage from people in the IRC circles I ran with, and like a parrot exhibited it in my personal life. Beyond that, the general degradation of IRL social skills.

I had an experience far more in line with the article. I grew up in extreme poverty, incredible isolation and within a very abusive family. So abusive that a big chunk of my childhood was spent in dealing with courts and police with eventually an apprehended violence order being taken out on my behalf against my parents to try and bring an end to the abuse. Extracted from the abuse but not the isolation I was headed to a very dark place.

The interent was world changing for me once given access. It opened the door to another world, to the ability to socialise without stigma, learn and grow with people that in comparison to what I had experienced, were quite normal and well adjusted though of course, not perfect by any means.

My time on it as a youth opened the door to a world that would later become my ladder out of that life and the foundation of my success as an adult. A ladder I would never had access to without the internet. I credit it for effectively having saved my life. I would be in a very different place now were it not for that exposure and experience. Where most of the people I knew as a youth are today, which is not at all a pleasant place.

Todays internet is not the same I feel, and that is also not to say that it could not instead have been a detrimental place or experience for some even then. Perhaps if you have a more normal upbringing, one in which you do not face such extremes than it may only bring negatives instead of positives, but for many, it's a hatch to exposure of things you may otherwise never get to experience as others do.
Do It Your Way
one might stand up an open wifi AP with no connection to anything but a disk full of whatever media one cared to share.
I've had the intention of testing it out for YEARS and finally got around to it last week or so. Really pleasantly surprised how well the NAT punching / relay servers handle keeping machines synced.

I wish I had tried it all those years ago. I wish excluding directories was a little more intuitive and there was a good way to administer config's on a machine not local to me. Maybe over SSH, I'm still learning.
The future survival of humanity involves creating machines that have all of our knowledge and which can replicate themselves. We can't leave the planet but our robot children can. I just wish that I could see what they become.
And demanding that everyone else adopt this policy of radical individualist solipsism, built on a deliberate misunderstanding of what scientific consensus is. The net effect of which is basically indistinguishable from being contrarian for its own sake because to do otherwise is actually quite discomforting.
This snide dismissiveness around “sci-fi” scenarios, while capabilities continue to grow, seems incredibly naïve and foolish.

Many of you saying stuff like this were the same naysayers who have been terribly wrong about scaling for the last 6-8 years or people who only started paying attention in the last two years.
Kopia allows you to run scripts before and after a backup. It also allows you to redirect the base from where to read the files.

They Document it for the likes of FreeBSD, for Linux one would skip the mount step and just set the snapshot path to the magic .zfs directory.

https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/actions/#zfs-point-in-time-sn...
this is completely true, but they take up a very disproportionate amount of time and energy from social service providers, people who work in shelters, etc, and make all spaces for homeless people much more chaotic.

the crisis would look very different if it was just a mix of people dealing with drug addiction (but basically lucid and rational) and with poverty.
are you designing the UI for every service by hand, or doing it programmatically somehow?
It's the next in a pretty big set of evidence.

Similar study: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/05/veil-darkness-redu...

That one's particularly interesting because it had a rock-solid natural control; they looked at incidents one week before daylight savings through one week after. They saw an instant one-hour shift in police traffic stop patterns that quite simply cannot be explained away as "well black people drive worse".

> Rather than comparing the citations from speed cameras with the totality of all traffic stops made by police...

That's not what they did; they only counted speed citations in the study.
Binder was not even designed for Linux. The primary reason it is used is that (at the time) they wanted to abstract from Linux. "They" here is not Android/Google.

Binder also specifies a message format -- even if not fully, since the kernel is going to peek into your message for things like FDs, binder objects, etc. Or your userspace is going to need to "special treat" these fields somehow.

It competes in the same space as D-Bus no doubt. If the story of Android had been different, with the companies spinning off some years later, it may have very well ended up using Luna RPC (https://www.webosbrew.org/pages/luna-service-bus.html ) (which is practically indistinguishable from D-Bus, bar the JSON) or anything else, really.

> D-Bus, Varlink and other "IPC solutions" on top of sockets can not do those things.

WTF? Sure you can do on top of even pipes. Even XDR could...

"Synchronous" is a very loose word here if you mean to be interrupted in the middle of a RPC call, anyway.
CapnProto is kind of awful though. I had to use it for several years and the API is extremely unfriendly.
A toy compiler for analog quantum architectures.

Also, on my spare time, a tabletop role-playing game.
> however, I think the article would benefit from distinguishing this approach from a 'real' database. that is MVCC gets you a lot more concurrency because it spreads out the exclusionary state in both time and space.

I thought I already was going to be seen as being unfairly critical of the course-ness of the concurrency control.
Who cares though? There will be dozens more forks like this so let the best person win
who could've predicted this?
My primary project the past couple weeks has been applying the AI interpretability technique from Anthropic's famous paper this past summer (you know, the Golden Gate Claude one) to single-cell RNA-seq data. What works on one huge, inscrutible vector space ought to work on another, right? In either case, a fun way to keep in practice, both for comp bio and deep learning.

My side-project, in essence, the bash '&' operator for cases where the first process is already running. It took me months of searching before I could believe that this doesn't already exist, but there you go. I gave in to feature creep, of course, so it's a bit more than that now (I made a ncurses-based dashboard? Why??) but someday soon I'll make it public.