skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some are surprised that anyone would make this point, either the title or the research.

It might be a response to the many, many claims in articles that neural networks work like the brain. Even using terms like neurons and synapses. With those claims getting widespread, people also start building theories on top of them that make AI’s more like humans. Then, we won’t need humans or they’ll be extinct or something.

Many of us whom are tired of that are both countering it and just using different terms for each where possible. So, I’m calling the AI’s models, saying model training instead of learning, and finding and acting on patterns in data. Even laypeople seem to understand these terms with less confusion about them being just like brains.
> There is no privacy on macOS, nor any other proprietary system.

Which is to say, every system in actual widespread use. All such CPUs, GPUs, storage devices, displays, etc. run closed microcode and firmware. It'd be funny if it wasn't so profoundly sad.

And even if they didn't, the silicon design is again, closed. And even if it wasn't closed, it's some fab out somewhere that manufactures it into a product for you. What are you gonna do, buy an electron microscope, etch/blast it layer by layer, and inspect it all the way through? You'll have nothing by the end. The synchrotron option isn't exactly compelling either.
I use an adblocker and also Reddit Enhancement Suite and have subbed to probably 40 subreddits. Except a very few of those (like /r/politics), they're all niche enough to mostly avoid the bot plague. As long as I'm logged in, my experience is pretty dang good, relatively speaking (compared to the default view).
Storing Times for Human Events
mkwii is so much better than most modern games it’s criminal (literally in this case I guess, badum tss)
Every Studio
Ah, but can it remove the painters tape I have across the lens at all times because I read about f*ckery like this?
> To everyone blaming consumers: I encourage you to take a solution driven mindset here. Consumers won't change. There's far too many people, some of which don't care about the environment.

Sorry, but this is absolutely not true.
I routinely travel between Liverpool and Zürich, you can take a guess which one looks like a pristine modern city and which one looks like a junkyard/dump.
Let me tell you, it's not just because there are more bins in one of those cities.
That the USSR was committing crimes against humanity were already known prior to Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. Lend-Lease with the USSR formally began in 1941, but knowledge of Stalin's show trials, Gulag, the Holodomor, the partitioning of Poland, and the Winter War all preceded America's entrance into WWII.
Certainly we must be missing some factor from this analysis
FWIW, modern Macbooks also hardware disable the mic when the lid is closed.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/...
How do you handle the NTSC video output? Or are your consoles new enough to output composite video or VGA?
I mostly agree that there are assumptions built into IP law that may not be true. Are there good examples of history where a society that didn't have some similar system out-innovated one that did? Are there good parallels today?
At the same time we're at a point where synthesizing your voice is getting more trivial everyday, you need only a few seconds of it and you can be made to say whatever someone wants.
> it seems like it doesn't get alot of love from really anyone outside China

What makes you say that? The number of blogs created using it? Something else?

> why not?

There are hundreds of static site generators out there (https://jamstack.org/generators/). It's inevitable that many of them are getting lost in the mix.

What does Hexo have to differentiate it from, say, Jekyll or Hugo or Eleventy? What would the value proposition for switching to Hexo be compared to other SSGs? And how has the developer behind Hexo been promoting it?
You can watch network traffic for data leaving the device. Trust but verify.
Last I checked most manufacturers have a limited time warranty on pretty much all appliances, especially short on low end appliances; after that you are on your own. So I don’t see your point here? The router can still route, but you know have a much bigger chance of it “failing” by being hacked. Equally so your refrigerator compressor can die easily after 5 years and the manufacturer won’t have to pay you a cent or try to repair it. You are truly on your own after the warranty
Depending on what you consider Emacs to be, it is either unlikely to be replaced, has already been replaced, or the concept makes no sense.

Emacs is an interactive Lisp environment that just so happens to have everything you need for a programmable text editor. Text editors are a dime a dozen, and Emacs is far from the only programmable one (although I'm not aware of any with the degree of programmability that Emacs offers). You can find alternatives for pretty much all of Emacs' functions, but you'll have a hard time finding it all in one place.

People have been talking about replacing Emacs itself with another interactive Lisp platform for decades (generally based on Scheme or Common Lisp), but it hasn't happened. I doubt it will. As cool an idea as Lem or Climacs or whatever are, they haven't attracted the user and developer base needed to even begin to approach Emacs' level.

And by and large, Emacs users don't care. We're a small enough group these days that no one is likely to target us with serious malware. We blindly trust Elpa and Melpa and the people who commit code there, and so far it hasn't been a problem. Complacent? Certainly, but that's human nature.
I'm not serious about video meetings, but that doesn't mean I never have to take them.
Kindness? Compassion? Empathy? We would be a species of sociopaths without those, unable to coexist even in a little herd. No wonder how deep those traits are baked into the mammal brain, they are great for collective survival.

We cannot comfort the departed, but we would likely confort someone close instead.
while I'm not a big fan of US hegemony, I think it is preferable to most (all?) other contenders to the title of global hegemon. And I don't think a multi-polar world is any better, it'd just lead to more global instability.
A subject also tackled in the (oft HN recommended) https://qntm.org/ra
Floss Weekly – Elixir and Nerves
Several Electron apps and 1000+ Chrome tabs. (just guessing)
Publishing in January and Impact on Citations
> There is no privacy on macOS, nor any other proprietary system.

Nor is there on any free system for which you didn't make every hardware component yourself, as well as audit the executable of the compiler with which you compiled every executable. (You did self-compile everything, hopefully?)
Honestly, I'd like to see something more along the lines of the copyright lasts the lifetime of the author unless it gets sold.

Once it gets sold it immediately starts a shot clock of exactly 20 years.

Though honestly anything would be better than what we have now.
Yeah but you could have a shell script that does

rm -rf /foo/bar

and in theory it could reduce it to

rm -rf /

The passes are very heuristic, so that doesn't seem like something you can rule out.

(and I actually want to run it on shell scripts! )
it's also useful when power is cut, for example in case of natural disaster (I just saw today a video on Waffle House, where their disaster playbook mentioned just that)
> I've also seen entire threads get "replayed". Bots will post highly upvoted comments from the last time a link was posted etc.

This is so surreal until you realize it is happening. You kinda know you have seen it before but not really since other comments are different.

Ye Reddit is syntethic nowadays. Some niche subs are OK with strict rules on content.

But the loose ones are too much karma farm and bots to bother.

It wouldn't suprise me of there are like 100 people doing most of the posting with alt accounts and semiautomated workflow. Both as commercial shills and political manipulation.
Assuming Hanlon's razor it's a Chesterton's fence situation you just see a LED that indicates the camera is on. Assuming they ask the question at all they think it's just to remind you your still streaming/in a meeting. Then someone asks any of the following questions:

Can we use it to indicate additional information?

Can we make it standard with the other LEDs?

Can we dim it so it's more pleasant to use at night or make it a customisable colour?

I'm sure plenty of other questions take you down the same path and you've just destroyed one of the LEDs most useful functions.
Wasn't arguing that it's difficult, just that it's needed (and that I'm not expecting it to be done in practice. Because the indicator LED on my laptop doesn't do it either, despite being enterprise grade).
(Repeating for n-th time:) I like the idea of exponential cost of IP protection.

First 10 or so years the protection is free. Then, on the first year of paid protection, you pay $10. On the second, $20. On the tenth, $10,240. On the sixteenth, $655,360. The year you miss a payment the protection ceases.

If your IP is immensely valuable and is bringing you gobs of money, you can continue paying and keep your monopoly. But the case of keeping reams of stuff under the lock "just in case" would be largely eliminated. Anything that's not a cash cow currently being milked and paid for would get released to the public domain.

On top of that, the federal budget would receive some extra money, but only from those who is making money, and not the small guy who just has published an indie game on Steam.
Your Mac is a network endpoint. It can easily be hacked after apple stops putting out security patches of your EOL’d air on your EOL’d d-link router
This has been possible for decades, lots of mischief was done by teenagers using different RAT tools like BackOrfice, SubSeven etc back in the day...
>If you wanted a scream you could just make one yourself.

I would personally find it really difficult to produce a scream that replicated the sound of abject terror produced by the whistle.
I remember a very cool similar thing from Google Digital Wellbeing Experiments called unlock clock https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalwel...
what do I do when my congressman doesn't care, and I can't find q candidate to vote for who promises to change it?

it's not like we have a lot of agency in elections
yeah it's a pretty wild book. disagree that it's not worth discussing, however
It’s even dumber than that because the people that do assurance work don’t rely solely on source even when it’s available.

Reversing the software is table stakes for assurance work already so suggesting source is a requirement just doesn’t match reality.
Getting tired of these samey sort of 'look what a revolution Bluesky is' posts. Yes, it's doing well. A boom. A recent boom. But I also anecdotally am not seeing huge swathes of engagement or migration depending on niche. It was like that when the whole Mastodon exodus happened a few years ago also - both in the numerous excitement posts, and the niche-specific migration. Let's just see where it goes. The thoughtpieces are endless and lack any real insight or substantive data.
sure, if you're looking for something that can perfectly replicate what Emacs does, then you'll never find an alternative... Every alternative has obvious shortcomings, at least on first glance, that you have to get used to.

I have never used Emacs (other than briefly starting it up in the 90s, waiting 5 minutes for it to load on my old 386, just to be completely overwhelmed and closing it again) but I have used other tools that I replaced (sometimes multiple times) over the years. And it has never been "smooth". The first few days are full of compromises until you get into a mode of working "with" the new software instead of "against" it. Then it usually begins to make sense and after a week or two you've in business
That was true previously as well. The most substantial difference between Jack and Musk is that the former was better at maintaining a professional demeanor. His biases were no fewer, his tenure at Twitter was markedly more censorious, but he was better at presenting himself. This seems to be the main distinguishing feature of American liberalism as opposed to conservatism. The point about misinformation is another place this can be seen. There's a lot of misinformation from both mainstream political camps in the US, but liberal misinformation is more dressed-up whereas conservative misinformation is downright clownish--Alex Jones being a good example.
The root of all trust is eventually some human, or group of humans. See "Reflections on Trusting Trust." At least so far, Apple has convinced me that they are both willing and competent enough to maintain that trust.
It is much better enjoyed in a desktop.

Love the butterfly!!!

Kudos for experimenting not just with AI but with webdesign. The hover preview is really neat too.

keep it up!
Common mode noise filtering is either going to be purely inductive or need a Y-cap. No other way around it.
More effective than trying to get permanent marker ink to block light getting through the lens.
It’s been tried. There’s International Sign Language (ISL) and it’s about as successful as Esperanto. I’ve mostly heard it’s used a little at large Deaf meet ups and conferences.

American Sign Language (ASL) is often the second sign language non-Americans learn as it has a some international presence.

But ultimately sign language users are no more likely to decide on and widely adopt a universal language than spoken language users.
If it says 'for a limited time', then wouldn't tying itmto the lifetime of the author be unconstitutional? Because strictly speaking it's impossible to predict whether an author's life will end.
framemeister, ossc and rgb mods
yeah, this has been big, also the custom labellers for moderation. Sub'n to a couple does wonders.
It's an extremely common practice in enterprise IT, literally nobody gives a shit.
Gamers are once again let down by the shameless ignorance and dishonesty of games journalists:

> More importantly, this also ignores the fact that libraries already lend out digital versions of more traditional media like books and movies to everyday people for what can only be described as recreational purposes.

What this ignores is that libraries are not allowed to digitize in-copyright print books (or physical films) and then distribute these digital copies. This is what the Internet Archive got in trouble for. Emulating old games is not that different.

Maybe the laws should be changed. But pretending that there's one set of rules for books and then a higher scrutiny for games is utterly backwards. Game publishers want the protections afforded to books and movies; it is archivists and emulators who want a double standard because of the unique technical challenges around old games. I am sympathetic to this position[1]. But I am not sympathetic to what has felt like 20 years of smarmy, dishonest games journalism around copyright. Too many journalists are completely in the tank for emulation, and they intentionally mislead readers with useless articles like this. It drives me crazy.

[1] Although note the dishonest conflation of "games publishers" and "game copyright holders." Game journalists simply ignore that small indie devs also want copyright protection, focusing on Nintendo and Playstation for naked political reasons.
Memory can get eaten up pretty quickly between IDEs, containers, and other dev tools. I have had a combination of a fairly small C++ application, clion, and a container use up more than 32GB when combined with my typical applications.
It could be something very simple, such as requiring less USB hub complexity for a camera that can be woken up via a command on the USB bus instead of needing to connect/disconnect the USB power rails (wired in parallel with the LED) to it.

Somebody here has also mentioned Apple using the camera for brightness and maybe color temperature measurement, for which they wouldn't want to enable the LED (or it would effectively always be on).

That doesn't automatically make that a good tradeoff, of course; I'd appreciate such a construction.
if they ban recreational use, would I need a prescription for medicinal use?
To summarize, sanctions did not work. They did not and could not stop the war.

Well it's pretty clear the sanctions were never intended, by themselves, to stop the war. But it's not like the Western nations really had any other choice.

Fundamentally, sanctions are more about framing -- making it clear to Russia's regime that it simply won't be possible to continue doing "business with usual" with the West after it crossed the line that did.

I agree with you that Western pre-war policy was largely a failure, and certain things should have been done differently. But now that Russia's regime took the action that it did --- it must be opposed, and in any case not simply "greenlighted". Which a refusal to impose sanctions (or substantially help Ukraine in its defense) would have amounted to.
Problem here, almost none of the the Lend Lease shipments arrived until after the Battle of Kursk, and they weren't enough to prop up the USSR like you claim above.

Had Hitler not gone forward with Operation Barbarossa, the entire outcome would have been differently.

Note that attack was on the Soviet Union was on 22 June 1941, long after most of the 'friendly dictatorships across Eurasia' were already established.

While US policies did cause lots of problems, the power for the US to prevent those happening is greatly overstated above.

There are several good books by Mark Harrison and others who explain while it may have shortened the war and help speed the recovery of their economy a tiny amount, it was a drop in the bucket.

As history shows, shorting the war was in the US's interests.

We forget that the US was an active participant in the Russian Civil War, and war-weariness from WWI was one of the reasons we lost that war, along with several after WWII.

The above also ignores the interwar politics like how the Irreconcilables blocked the US joining the League of Nations or the Neutrality Acts that were passed due to isolationism and non-interventionism.

While there were valid concerns that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh and almost certainly played into Hitlers ability to rise to power, isolationism and non-interventionism of the US didn't help.

The US recognizing the USSR in 1933 was during the depression, and during a period of Japanese expansionism, and far more complicated than some form of appeasement as suggested above.

The popular cultural myths are really just propaganda, the Lend Lease wasn't as large or as meaningful as is claimed.
People always say this when you criticize the show. At the end of the day it’s a television show; I’m sure much of it is based on truth, but ultimately it’s a written piece of art, not a documentary.
Was a study really necessary for this?

Do "AI" fanbois really think LLMs work like a biological brain?

This only reinforces the old maxim: Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity
What exactly was censored?
ahoy!!! never expected to see any of my posts on hn D:

for the first point it was purposely not written on the beam as otherwise there would be no post!

an original draft of did talk more in depth about replies but it just got convoluted and too long!! maybe I'll try to restore something to this end

granted on the runtime and genserver point (though technically it's just a process that receives messages, nothing so formal as a genserver itself)
Bananas, cross-platform, P2P screen sharing with multiple cursors
I'm not an svelte(kit) or electronjs expert by any means and have sinned a lot when it comes to best-practices regarding svelte(kit) and electronjs, but it's fascinating how quick you can build something beautiful like this with both these tools!

We have pair programming sessions quite often (fully remote) and what I mostly hate is when I want to show something and have to go like this:

"Right there at the top left, below this text header in red. No, not there, a little bit more to the top. No, almost.."

I know there are some tools out there which advertise to solve this, but then they are either paid (with money or your data), then there are servers involved where my data flows through and then they usually don't work well on linux, mac and windows.

So I built Bananas.

Fell free to test it out and open PRs!
When “Getting Real” was released, I was a university student, and the book had a profound impact on my approach to development. I highly recommend that everyone read it.
You may be thinking of Tony Finch, dot@dotat.at.
Personally I don't print too many things made by other people. The whole point of a 3D printer is infinitly custom parts (within constraints).

So my process is usually running into a problem around the house and printing something to fix it. Or something I wished worked slightly differently and printing something to change it.

For example, I had drawer inserts that kept sliding back when I opened and closed the drawer, I printed a spacer to take up that room. My partner wants to feed his aquarium nori but I hate getting my fingers wet, so I printed a hanger for nori. My tea cabinet was disorganized so I designed a tesselated holder specifically design for the tins I use.

None of this is usually useful to other people, none of these came from other people. Let your printer set you free
At least half of your comment is wrong as the latest model MBP has an ambient light sensor, a camera, and an LED, I'm looking at them.

Maybe the Air?
You basically have to moderate it yourself if you ever want to browse /all or whatever the front page is. You have to filter a bunch of different criteria, basically anything that looks like its meant to farm engagement or outrage.

Anything remotely political

any of the meme reposting subreddits

any aita related subreddit

any subreddit that limits replies to subreddit members aka circlejerk and hivemind subs

any user with excessive karma/year that isn't making OC like a comic/ artist or something

any new user that posts anything related to the things above

that cuts out at least 50% of what you see on the front page, still not great but probably better than any other alternative for what you are looking for.
Mammals tend to become aggressive around puberty, so there should be a way to tamper with his endocrine system to impede maturity and mental development. Humankind has done horrible genetic experiments with wolves, why not start with big cats?
> quality,

All LLMs are actually converging to about the same LLM, since they are trained on the same Internet/book/average-human-knowledge.

> habit

Habit matter for things people don't pay for. If a person pays, they'll go out of their way to get something for less. Microsoft's big thing is making sure end users never pay for Windows.

> integration,

Not going to matter. Every "AI application" is basically just a prompt and users can make their own prompts.

> hardware investment,

OpenAI doesn't even have a hardware investment, just a deal to use MS Azure. Other AI companies can and will just a cloud too.

> their interface,

Every LLM has the same interface. A chat window.

> their brand"

As above, brand matters for either habit (which again, only matters when thing cheap or free), social signaling (which a LLM choice won't give you) or actual differences in quality (which LLMs don't have).
> (I'm looking into using Helia so that users are also contributing nodes in the network)

I had to look that term up <https://github.com/ipfs/helia#readme> but while sniffing around in their <https://github.com/ipfs/helia/wiki/Projects-using-Helia> I was reminded of https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb#readme which seems like it may be much less rolling your own parts