skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk's AI turns on him
I joined shortly after it was apparent that Twitter was turning into 4chan. Bit of a ghost town at first, but in the last few months it turned into a perfectly suitable replacement for what Twitter used to be.

Then after the election I deleted all my social media accounts. I'm taking the next 2 years as a mental health break. I decided staying on top of which political out groups are being shat upon on a daily basis wasn't worth the the mental toll it was taking. I'll see you at the polls in 2 years.
I don’t think that is a material distinction.

It sounds like it began with a playful challenge to recreate a bug in computer rendering in the physical world. And it looks like they created the building blocks a laser-based logic gate without traditional photodiodes.
Seems like many people disagree, but at least a few of us know this is correct. More people will learn the same lessons eventually, though not likely enough people to stop history from repeating.
My grief with debuggers is due to C++ and template code (usually STL) and optimizations zeroing out values. I wish it had better training wheels to say "nope that's STL library code, you probably don't want to step any deeper". That's largely a criticism of C++ itself, though. But yes for this reason I prefer printfs despite 20 years in the game.
I disagree with your distinction on the environments but understand your argument. Production for VM to me is "on the road when a customer is using your product as intended". Using the same artifact for those different environments isn't the same as "running that in production".
GPG is an ancient bit of tech with numerous problems:

* An extremely complex, byzantine packet format with security problems of its own.

* Decades of backwards compatibility, which also harms security.

* Extreme unfriendliness towards automation.

* Way too many features.

* Encouragement of bad security practices like extremely long lived keys.

* Moribund and flawed ecosystem.

Lots of cryptographers agree that PGP has outlived its usefulness and it's time to put it out of its misery.

And really there's little need for GPG when package signing can be done more reliably and with less work without it.

I was a fan of PGP since the early days, but I agree that at this point it's best to abandon it.
I did this too... As a Covid project I took what I used to do live on a class whiteboard and wrote it up. The second one went from a workshop talk I used to give that kept getting developed more and more. Key for me was keeping to topics and content that won't need to be updated frequently.
Figuring out the "Why Now" question: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Now-Timing-Makes-Products/dp/B0CY...
Figuring out your startups unit economics: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJVV8RJ/
It seems as if a win. However Alex Jones can just spin up another website and platform. It's the Internet, not a sandwich shop
Yeah, suddenly 16k tokens is just 16kb of ASCII instead of ~6kwords
Is there a robust library for good quality cables somewhere? I remember a few blog posts that did larger tear downs, but I’d love to just be able to go to a site that has validated cables and know with some confidence “this is a real TB5 cable”
Always thought it was kind of cool how Feynman writes about, when learning calculus and maths as a younger student, would create and use his own symbols for things and how it worked well for him. But kind of realized if he was going to enter the scientific community would need to conform to the standardized notation/symbols for equations etc.
They do mention them in their press releases, they’re featured during accessibility day and they’re occasionally in ads too. I’m not sure what more noise would be relevant for these features.
For those looking for the travel time map:

https://www.rome2rio.com/blog/2016/01/08/time-flies-accordin...
That is not going to be permitted by the judge or other bidders
Hey thanks! The error is in the config file. Will fix this.
Great paper. Don't know how I managed to miss it.
WordPress Engine and Trademarks
What is hard? He can spin up a new YouTube channel in a day
The only useful part is the Rolodex of past co-workers and bosses to message when you’re looking for a job or looking for someone to hire. As long as they don’t ruin that, it can’t get worse than it already is, because nothing else about it matters.
Watch Bluesky's explosive user growth in real time
there are public exploits to patch secure enclave code for some of the checkra1n devices. pongoOS uses the blackbird exploit on some models to remove a check that disables access to user data if the SEPOS boot code determines the phone has been DFU booted by checking the hardware TRNG state. https://github.com/checkra1n/PongoOS/blob/master/src/drivers...
For something slow moving like a quadcopter drone munition it might be viable but it seems like you'd not get good signal until it was too late to maneuver if it were in something fast moving like a guided bomb or cruise missile flying down.

Also the probability that power is still functioning long into a conflict is pretty low so it may only really be useful for early strikes.
I’d really recommend muting the words “Twitter”, “the bad place” and “the other place” - really makes your feed better
I just logged in again, I have 0 following and 0 followers and this is what I see [0], straight up political content, even on the Following tab, for some reason. I simply don't care to see political content right when I log in, and this phenomenon shows me that it has the exact same problems as Twitter, people posting ragebait to get engagement, just on the opposite of the spectrum.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/XHmidRt
> When I joined it, just as when I joined Mastodon, most of what I saw was just anti-Twitter and anti-Musk content

Was this during one of the major outflow events from Twitter? If so, hardly surprising; most new arrivals would have just left Twitter and would be irritated about the whole situation. Over the last week I've noticed a good deal of that sort of content in my Discover tab, but it's largely eased off now (yesterday was probably peak leaving-Twitter day, until the next stupid Musk thing happens; today is the day that the new TOS goes into effect).
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/judge-onion-infowars-h...
Unfortunately communism "...then was replaced by a <insert ruling class> after masses were sufficiently bamboozled by a strong leader" seems to be the kinetic outcome for every attempt at nation-scale communism.
I first got involved with the Internet in the early 90's (summer of 1991, I think), right when Gopher was taking off, but before the WWW. Times were so much simpler.
>In the hypothetical case that an EV's battery needs to be replaced, yes that will be a very expensive repair

Interesting, I would have never seen this as an issue. 100+ hears ago, "Gas" stations would just replace battery pack and charge the ones taken out for the next customer. It was a rather easy job using some kind of crane.

I would have thought the new EVs would have easy access to the batteries. I do remember seeing somewhere there was/is a push to make battery replacement standard and easier. And have one standard battery pack across all models.
Guy I know n days ago:

> I let AI write the parsing and hoooo boy do I regret it.

He's kindly fixed the server 500's now though xD
Those who do not study the RFCs are doomed to reimplement them.
> I really can’t imagine a better steward.

You're probably right. But here's my alternates list:

- The Simpsons writing team

- Jimmy Kimmel (maybe)

- Conan O'Brien

- Stephen Colbert

- a deep fake of Alex Jones, scripted by a bunch of giggling 6th grade boys
Bluesky aka "this time it's different". I found my home in the Fediverse.
Just posted another comment, I have 0 following and followers and I see political content as soon as I log in: https://imgur.com/a/XHmidRt
The initial definition of a meme by Richard Dawkins (believe it or not) says precisely this.

> "conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation".
He bans journalists and others who criticise him. Why do you think he is committed to free speech, rather than speech he likes?
There were many many times I'd start writing a bash script, but then switch it to a PHP script. I've done this so many times that now I just start writing in PHP.
If this was part of the offering: “we can recognise requests and delegate them to appropriate systems,” I’d understand and be somewhat impressed but the marketing hype is missing this out.

Most likely because they want people to think the system is better than it is for hype purposes.

I should temper my level of impressed with only if it’s doing this dynamically . Hardcoding recognition of chess moves isn’t exactly a difficult trick to pull given there’s like 3 standard formats…
Some can, some can't. A degree is no guarantee that the person is able to perform at a high level, and the lack of a degree is no guarantee that they can't.

But none of that is relevant to my point, which is largely linguistic. If a person is doing a thing, then they are "a person who is doing the thing."

If a person is engineering, then they're an engineer by definition. That's not saying they're a good or bad engineer, just that's what they're doing.

There is a role for certifications, of course! But those certifications are intended to mark a lower boundary of ability, nothing more. Rather than overloading "engineer" to indicate that a person has a certification, I'd advocate calling them something like a "certified engineer". That would be correct and accurate, and wouldn't exclude a whole lot of great defacto engineers.
The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence
In fairness, that's a bad argument because this same process also gives us cancer.

I'd instead point out that while "perfect" isn't possible, we can relatively simply design the system to have an error rate such that there's less than a 1e-12 chance of an error occurring anywhere in the universe even if you did turn the entire mass of the universe into probes.

I'd counter that with the point that people are very bad at accounting for all the possible ways that systems can fail, and that while it's easy to create an error correction code that good, the actual failure rate of the system as a whole is likely to be much, much worse.
Implying that is how people use X? Continually creating new burner accounts, not giving "the algorithm" what it needs to provide what they really want to see? Seems unlikely.

I suspect those who complain it is a "right wing" echo chamber are using longstanding accounts and actually engaging with "right wing" content, which trains "the algorithm" of their preference to see more of the same. Anecdotally, those I know who complain of "right wing" echo chambers are also the first people to gorge on "right wing" media to see what "they" are up to.
Kaput: The End of the German Miracle
Microsoft was not and is not involved in any way with this work. If you look at the announcements, you'll observe that a different, large, soulless megacorporation that is one of Microsoft's primary competitors funded it.

If you're going to cast aspersions about hidden motives, you might as well cast them at the right entity.
Ah, ok. The wikipedia paged linked translates it to "Overman" or "Super man" in the first line, so I assumed that was the english terminology
This was a while ago during their private beta, perhaps 6 months ago? Regardless, this is what I see on my Following tab when I just logged in now, even though I have no following or followers: https://imgur.com/a/XHmidRt
In my case it's basically everything since I work in java, jackson's object mapper can easily get stuck or deserialise something incorrectly if the class hasn't been annotated correctly. So it's simpler for me to pull up the debugger and I can see the "actual" data thats making up my object, it also lets me run "queries" against anything of interest (i.e. computed fields).

The default toString method I've found to be useless almost every time I wanted to inspect an object in our codebase since it just prints the type + "id" for the object
I've reported deepfake scam ads of famous people for months and Google does nothing. It's also not uncommon to see adwords links to phishing sites pretending to be banks above the legitimate bank link, and those ads seem to stay up indefinitely. Very disappointing to see they choose money over ethics.
Switching Away from Pocket
Expat Taxes Are Too Complicated
I think that's the point - high school is a microcosm of OPs ideas and it is not something we want to scale up.
The wary/weary mixup is so strange to me, especially because it seems relatively new (last 5-10 years at most).
A Theory of Equilibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance
I wrote a commandline app that takes a youtube URL (or path to any audio or video file that ffmpeg can read) and converts it into a transcript using the Whisper model and then optionally translates or summarizes it using OpenAI. It's been incredibly useful for chewing through my youtube backlog, but it might also be hugely useful for the deaf or hearing-impaired. It uses Nix to manage dependencies, although I got clever about making that not necessary (I don't like forcing Nix on people until they're ready for it)

https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber

This is mainly useful for single-speaker videos that are conveying information.

Most other solutions out there that claim to do this only download the closed-captioning and summarize that, but MANY YouTubes do not have a good closed-captioning track, in which case my method still works. (Note: Aiming for Linux/Mac compatibility but have only tested it on Mac so far)

I next want to convert it into a simple web service and/or perhaps Docker image to democratize this out to everyone. (I don't know if I'd be able to afford to host since the CPU/GPU cost for running Whisper on spoken audio is not insignificant, but it should work fine on anyone's local machine assuming they have the hardware for it.)

I also want to add speaker identification (something called "diarization"), possibly by going to WhisperX or other solutions out there, which would make this more useful for multi-party conversation audio.

In other news, I'm looking for contract work (I'm just doing side projects like the above to keep myself busy and, ideally, useful). My last job was Director of Engineering for a startup, but due to having a toddler I wish to remain work-flexible for the time being. https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermarreck/
That's a very good point. Also, those balloons are not edible. Do not chew or swallow.
At least in embedded, often the tools suck.

Some ancient version of NetBeans leaking ram like a sieve until it brings down the machine, or a decade old version of Eclipse that can't pull in a newer CDT, running on a fork of OpenOCD with nothing customized for the CPU architecture running dog slow.

Sadly, it can be faster to reserve a GPIO, bitbang a TX-only UART, and get on with it.
Thanks, lol. I actually looked up the spelling of the word when I was writing the article (it was spelled correctly in the first line) but then proceeded to misspell it for the title (:
That’s… what I said, yes.
Having a morning meeting is pretty normal
MySQL Enshitification by Oracle Continues
This is true. The trouble is, I don't see anything preventing it having all the same problems.
I actually like Mastodon because it feels a bit more like the old internet. I'm thinking maybe onboarding friction is a feature not a bug.
My job title is "software engineer".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115683
For me it’s not only the chess. Chats get more chatty, but knowledge and fact-wise - it’s a sad comedy. Yes, you get a buddy to talk with, but he is talking pure nonsense.
I guess this would be a good start, it would allow instances for smaller companies.

Another thing would be to mix daily active users and monthly active users. For example in the ratio 1:10 (100 DAUs or 10 MAUs). Just cap the DAU counter for a user at 10 logins per month.

It's really hard to predict how often users are going to log in. So if you have a company with 50 people, you know 50 MAUs are enough. But will 500 DAUs be enough? You just don't know that in advance. The DAUs can also grow a lot even if MAUs stay the same, if your product becomes better and is used more often in the company. Really hard to tell the customer at a later stage that Zitadel is now more expensive, because people log in more often. The DAU/API limit is also an incentive to cache authentication/2FA longer and compromise on security.

Maybe remove a few enterprise features for the cheaper plans like SAML or restrict branding. But please keep passwordless/2FA, for me those features were the main reason to try Zitadel, that's one of the features where Zitadel shines over auth0.
If I was sold a product that can generically solve problems I’d feel a bit ripped off if I’m told after purchase that I need to build my own problem solver and way to recognise it…
Yes losing state is a killer
Although it’s strongly left-leaning at the moment it’s not exclusively that. I’ve seen some conversations where the “bubbles” (as you say) crossed, which would have exploded on both Twitter and Mastodon. Being able to cut out people when they start screaming and being abusive definitely helps to maintain a more chill atmosphere.
Global Tel Link to Pay $3M for Freezing, Draining Accounts of Jailed People
Under-26yo crowd here who was late to stand up every in person day this week to confirm this tracks
I don't think I even paid them more per hour. The problem was that all the other companies only want to hire full time programmers, so I was able to hire them by offering a job with fewer hours.

Also, they complained that their previous job was super stressful because the sales people kept making promises to customers that were really hard to keep ("of course we'll implement this in two weeks") and so they were constantly scrambling to meet impossible deadlines.
> The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
I think that we should all put this nonsense down and:

Just

Go

Outside
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> Do you mean that you have to enter the SIM PIN when your phone reboots?

Yes.

I can cancel the popup and then still use the rest of the phone, but when I do that I have no cellular network access until I unlock the SIM itself.

For the avoidance of confusion, the SIM PIN is independent of the phone PIN.
If I was sold a general AI problem solving system, I’d feel ripped off if I learned that I needed to build my own problem solver and hook it up after I’d paid my money…
I'm sorry about all that.

Hearing about Sandy Hook truthers, and seeing the outcome of the recent US elections, has really shaken my assumptions about how typical people think and process information.

I don't assume that I'm immune from this, or that I'm my not in some media bubble. But it's saddening regardless.
Don't spend 400 hours customizing your favorite blogging software then 0 hours blogging. :)

(I use Jekyll -> netlify. I only use Jekyll because I used it once 10 years ago. I literally write posts in Github directly and commit to master because blogging should be informal and F the haters)
At a distance works great, my friend (not deaf, but works in a school) taught her kids BSL (also not deaf) and recounted the story of how she was able to bollock the kids once in public across a hall.

She also had no trouble ordering a drink from her boyfriend (not deaf) who was standing at the bar some way away in a crowded pub.

Sign languages are indeed quite useful.

The article seemed a bit straw man and whining, as well as recycling old ideas, such as letting groups isolate themselves from others, but I confess I was too bored to finish reading.
I totally agree with going directly to company websites.
Shameless plug but I maintain a gopher client for iOS/macOS/visionOS: https://web.navan.dev/iGopherBrowser/
built something like this around 10 years ago, went viral for a while, it didn't last long.
Stop giving me a mix of locations that aren't even used correctly and just put the dot file/directory in my home directory.

Thanks in advance.
Personally, I enjoyed old!Twitter, and am glad that there are two (or charitably three, but I don't really _get_ Threads) viable replacements. No need for you to use it, naturally, but I'm glad it's there.
Please apply! We would love to have you as a beta tester!
Yeah, ditto. "1M people" seems great but it turns out that you don't really want people who joined due to the result of an election.
I think they did that in "Bootstrap/". It is kind of confusing because the files have a .c extension. Amazing amount of work though.
Drinking and right turns are unethical if they’re negligent. They’re not unethical if they’re not negligent. The government is trying to reduce negligence by enacting preventative measures to stop ALL right turns and ALL drinking in certain contexts that are more likely to yield negligence, or where the negligence world be particularly harmful, but that doesn’t change whether or not the behavior itself is negligent.

You might consider disregarding the government’s preventative measures unethical, and doing those things might be the way someone disregards the governments protective guidelines, but that doesn’t make those actions unethical any more than governments explicitly legalizing something makes it ethical.

To use a clearer example, the ethicality of abortion— regardless of what you think of it— is not changed by its legal status. You might consider violating the law unethical, so breaking abortion laws would constitute the same ethical violation as underage drinking, but those laws don’t change the ethics of abortion itself. People who consider it unethical still consider it unethical where it’s legal, and those that consider it ethical still consider it ethical where it’s not legal.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118970
Off-topic: I really hate this design trend for dev-related products where everything is dark mode and very low constrast. It's terrible for reading the content of the page.
He bans journalists?
Interestingly enough, none of those things are required for a country. That said, a 1-member local branch of the disney fan club might have all 3, and we wouldn't consider it to be a country.

Having a majority of countries recognize you as a country is pretty much all that's required, if that.
> This is extremely simple. Israel openly and proudly kills Iranian scientists, at least 5 were killed in last decades, precisely for the reason of their scientific work.

Engineers, for their engineering work.
It adds _friction_ to the process, though. Never underestimate the laziness of annoying internet people.
How would you police what is a scam vs not practically? In the wrong hands, a malicious actor could forward a narrative
There's a song about this: 'When The War Came' by The Decemberists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHOiQ2uniU
How does that work with apple trees and such?

My understanding is you could have a fantastic apple seed, grow it into a fantastic tree with fantastic fruit, but then the next generation grown from its seeds might be nearly inedible. And that all the delicious fruit we eat comes from grafted trees as a result of this.

Also, more generally, lots of trees are huge, so presumably you aren’t growing them in a cave or mine shaft. How is that handled?