skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This lowers GDP

Disasters often increase GDP, because money spent repairing damaged stuff moves thru the economy. Of course that doesn't mean this spending is productive or really is making the economy grow. Just one of the reasons GDP, as any other metric, has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I think they mean the general societal reaction and not the corporate news articles surrounding it
Even if its 1% its still worth it. You already have billing set up, you already have 2 different tiers of ads.

Its like saying most BMW drivers won't buy the top of the line model with all the options. They won't, doesn't mean its not worth offering it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Armor
Maybe that's true for Kharkiv, but entire portions of other cities like Bakhmut were entirely leveled, and the bits that remain standing will need to be demolished. No person could live there.
Some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
The timing is interesting, this happened within 48 hours of the largest US Healthcare CEO being assasinated, the same firm the hacker got a 22 million ransomware payment from when he hacked their subsidiary CHANGE containing 100+million Americans SSNs

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/unitedhealth-change-health...
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what if I want the same space? that's the assumption
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So annoying when the proles don't vote the way they're told
Exactly. The hard part is getting the enriched fuel. And that's only because bigger nations than you will make sure that you don't get that.

Baisc nuclear weapons aren't rocket science anymore.
Relatedly, if you have a decently sized writing sample on the Internet, LLMs can do this to you at scale: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/doPbyzPgKdjedohud/the-case-f...
The justice system of 27 US states would disagree.
It allows you to write a little code in languages that you are not familiar with. However, it is nothing like actually internalizing a language.
Sounds like lots of work and a lot of new bugs for no real value.
In a country of law, the law determines what a wrongful killing is, not a mob and not a line gunman.

This is a wrongful killing, guaranteed.
> Running Google Play Services in the background can cause performance issues

I can't find the original source, but I remember there being a comparison between iOS and Android when it comes to background check-ins with either Google or Apple and on Android it was much much higher than iOS.
Perhaps unix isn't for you?
Am I the only one who's getting annoyed of seeing LLMs be marketed as competent search engines? That's not what they've been designed for, and they have been repeatedly bad at that.
That sounds like a lot of work. I much prefer to read a book about the stuff I currently don't know or consult a reference. Or use snippets.
That is remarkable. I wish the article could be more detailed. I'd be fascinated to read more about their thinking. (They may well not have issued a more detailed document yet.)

I don't know anything about Romanian courts. I'm not even sure if the US Supreme Court would have that authority. Our Court basically has the authority that it takes and we let it take, since the Constitution is incredibly vague about what the court really does, but I can't imagine it canceling elections unless the vote-counting process itself became suspect.

In the US, a foreign disinformation campaign is just plain legal. We may not like it, but people will insist on their right to vote on whatever basis they want. About the only limit is that you can't literally buy votes, and even that isn't so sure any more.
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Boston to Portland, OR? The city discussed in the article?

It's 3000 miles! I would personally love to live in a world where you can go 200mph on a train and do it in 15 hours but I wouldn't call it easy.
Yes, I see what you mean about the comments elsewhere on this thread/page. For what it's worth, I was only trying to avoid going off-topic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regarding providers overcharging, the following article by Atul Gawande (from 15 years ago!) had a big impact on me -- it agrees with you:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conun... / https://archive.ph/g8zXl
They don't bomb residential buildings in areas with civilians present. The 'residential areas' they are fighting against are positions taken up by Ukranian soldiers. The Russians are happy to go block by block with artillery to remove the opposing soldiers, they're not targeting civilians.
You’re saying the company’s product has no value because another company by the same guy produced no value. That is the literal definition of guilt by association: you are judging the chatgpt produced based on the worldcoin product’s value.

As a customer, I don’t care about the people. I’m not interested in either argument by authority (if Altman says it’s good it must be good) or ad hominem (that Altman guy is a jerk, nothing he does can have value).

The actual product. Have you tried it? With an open mind?
There are people in here defending ads while I'm over here in the Bill Hicks camp.
but people already subscribe to ad free subscriptions at places like ars Technica, nebula, what have you. clearly it can be done and balanced, so why claim it's impossible or no one would buy it anyway?
It doesn't need to happen on device, just upstream of storage (and as close to the source as possible to minimise transport overheads). Most of the OTel collectors are good at this, but IMO Grafana Alloy is particularly neat.

This works for when you cannot change the log source too (e.g. third party component or even legacy hardware that may be syslog only).
Kremlin vs Capitol Hill. It’s not the coin flip you want us to think it is.

With that being said, I’m still a big fan of Kagi.
I have no issue paying for the content, but I don't want to have to give over all of my personal data to do it. I want to be able to have an experience analogous to walking into 7-11 and buying a newspaper with cash. I'm tired of everyone everywhere thinking they are entitled to my personal info because I am a consumer of their product.
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AI is a potential silver bullet since it can address the "essential complexity" that Fred Books said regular programming improvements couldn't address. It may not yet have caused an "order of magnitude" improvement in overall software development but it has caused that improvement in certain areas, and that will spread over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
It is prudent to be skeptical of the "western elite apparatus", but it is positively insane to consider the Russian apparatus preferable. I understand why some people dislike their government and country, but I don't understand why doing so makes them blind to the even more egregious failings of other states.
Russians prey on civilians using FPV drones[1]. They clearly see their target. Then they publish video with strikes on civilians in Russian Telegram channels and have fun. With ballistic missiles they have a lot of fun.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-blMESNanA
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Shameful, I will not be renewing my subscription if they don't change this.
I am soooo grateful for this post. After years and years of words and one-off measurements, this is the first time I have seen clear measuring of the key metrics, specifically for someone considering the 'fast twitch shooter' (counterstrike et al) use case. To sum:

- the satellite handoff period is 15 seconds
- you cycle through the three nearest satellites
- on the farthest one, inside the 15 second stable connection window, latency is 40 - 55ms
- on the middle one latency is 30 - 45ms
- on the closest one latency is 20 - 35ms
- the moment of handoff between satellites is a 70 - 100ms latency spike
- more importantly it is a near guaranteed moment of ~10% packet loss

so my takeaway here is "it will mostly seem fine but you will stutter-lag every 15 seconds". given that not every 15 seconds will be an active moment of 'twitch off' shooting the engine will probably smooth over most of them without you noticing.

this could probably be used in subtle ways the same as laghacking already is. like if you knew some packet loss was coming and you knew how your engine handled it you could do things like time jumps around corners so you appear to teleport. or if the engine is very conservative then you could at least know "don't push that corner right now, wait 2 seconds for the handoff, then go".

edit: side note, thinking about the zoom use case, and this would be kindof awful? imagine dropping a syllable every 15 seconds in a conversation.
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days_since_problem compresses better if you have long streams of '0'.
One thing that LLM can do besides generate code is explain complex code too. So that is inherently an upskilling feature.
Subscriber count is not a measure of quality or importance of the service category. Hacker news is less popular than TMZ or the DailyMail, but it is not a lower quality news website.
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Saves the trip to stackoverflow, or provides many valid links to stackoverflow (SO) as a comment or chat answer. So it is not that bad, when comparing it to reading SO directly.

But yes, you often get stuck, with the genAI looping in its proposals.
I really thought you were pulling a prank and would line to this: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
it doesn't change the fact that google of today is worse than google of 10-15 years ago.
Watched a documentary on one of the first people producing the lab grown diamonds for rings (jewelry) and he ended up needing to go to China where they were already doing the process for drilling and sandpaper type applications. His process was to add flaws of the right type as to make it almost impossible to tell the difference between lab and non-lab diamonds. From what I can tell from it, about half of diamonds being sold as non-lab are actually lab. When we purchased lab was not big yet so guessing its non-lab (not that it matters other than might have over paid). If we (I) were to do it today would just do lab and be done with it as to ensure did not overpay and end up getting lab anyway. From what I can tell no one can tell the difference other than tiny (id markings/ flaws) that can be faked.

I know there are sellers that claim to know the provenance of the diamonds (can trace them back to the mine), but that would be the best place to introduce them into the chain. For every truck that goes out half could come from another truck and half from the ground.
This type of work was used to find Satoshi at least once. This is the one I remember:

https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam...
I just moved to Kagi last month. Here’s my experience:

Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google. I realise how much I missed the shopping search of Google. Google map is still irreplaceable. Google search has better UX, I particularly missed the favicon that identified the site next to URL.

Image search is also way inferior
Don't you think that it would be better to get rid of usernames in UI? They only provide unique data for fingerprinting and do almost nothing useful on a single-user system. Wouldn't it be better to simply have a default name like "primary user" or "main user" for the first user and skip one step in installation process? Also it frees you from typing a username on login for a single-user system.
My perspective is "tech startup" that reaches the front page of HackerNews on a weekly basis.

There are plenty of billion dollar companies that make users pay for something that has always been free (note taking apps just off the top of my head).
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There are three uses of the word "drop," all of which are correct.

The latter-day meaning of "drop" is an abomination.
Is this a 'do not track' extension
Realy impressive, we have places (north sweden) after the last storm that took 7 days to restore power.
It’s almost like colloquial human language != math. Everyone understands what he means
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Ok, now do cancer deaths and other health issues from coal plants run in countries that have shut down their nuclear plants.
Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs
It's a non issue if you don't live in Russia. Also not a coin flip. If you are outside of Russia using Russian based services is objectively better.
> Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google

This is fair. On the other elements, I’ve found Kagi to be superior. In particular, having shopping results separated from recommendations (and summarising them with quick answers). As for favicons, uprank or even anchor your favourite domains [1]. That’s what the favicon was proxying.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
Power grid operators around the world are used to storms taking out their local grid all the time. Some storms are worse than others, but the world has gotten good are repairing damage fast. Ukraine is drawing on that experience for a lot.

Substations are hard only because of quantity. Every power operator has experienced a substation having a catastrophic failure so they keep spares of the big parts on hand so they can restore power in hours when that happens. The only difference here is normally they are doing a few of these per year (and most of that is planned end of life replacements not sudden catastrophic failure) not a few per day. Manufactures of substations have had to scale up their production to meet Ukraine's needs and this is the real hard part. The rest is just normal overtime (that has been going on for several years now), and thus the normal overtime fatigue.
Without oxygen, any decay is going to be incredibly slow. They're still pulling usable timber from trees that sank in rivers after being cut in the southeastern US 200 years ago. It's not cheap, but if you want some real old-growth oak, it's a viable source. And that's not a completely anaerobic environment.
I was amused at the time that, in one of the Nolan Batman films, Bruce and Fox have a discussion about some changes to the Batsuit that improved mobility but reduced protection around these same lines.
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If you claim for the past three years that it will happen any day now, then I won't believe you about the next three years. Simple as that.
But spaces are allowed in filenames since 80s, didn't software had enough time to adapt?
My understanding is that the problems of NYC -> Boston high speed rail are purely political, and basically come down to CT resistance to change

The current track alignment is not conducive to high speed travel, and CT as a state has no interest in supporting a new alignment that is conducive because they would likely get _negative_ value out of it: as it stands, Acela trains pretty much all stop in New Haven and Stamford: why wouldn't they?

If you go with a high speed link that aims to speed up Boston <> New York travel, it's more likely that you have trains that skip those stops, because additional stops are much more expensive for HSR from a speeding up and slowing down perspective, from a percentage of time added to trip perspective, and for an inefficient alignment perspective.

In my view this is kind of a microcosm of the political problems of the geographically small states of the north east: states like CT/RI/DE especially have very narrow and niche concerns but because of their geographical position have effective veto power over regionally important things like "how expensive are the tolls to drive between New York and DC?" and "can you have HSR between new york and boston?"
Can Ukraine strike Russian hospitals then? They have lot of military personnel, thousands of soldiers.
There is a setting to turn on the favicon somewhere
I'm guessing personal jet packs aren't a replacement yet?
It is true that I separate art from artist. Mostly because otherwise there would be very little art to enjoy.

You don’t sound like you’re very familiar with the chatgpt product. They have about 10m customers paying $20/month. I’m one of them, and I honestly get way more than $200/month value from it.

Perhaps I’m “mentally ill”, but I’d ask you to do some introspection and see if leaping to that characterization is really the best way to explain people who get value where you see none.
Added: /s
I don't know why I never thought of this technique. Nice little resource.

Goes to show why actually knowing SQL will always beat using generalized ORMs.
yes

related tidbits:
* UHC only acquired CHANGE 2-3 years ago hoping for AI gold. data is sometimes nuclear waste, eh?
* unconfirmed by me if CHANGE was UHC vendor prior to acquision but seems likely
* Biden DOJ blocked the
acquisition since it gave UHC access to competitor info managed by CHANGE, then later caved
* some CHANGE server didnt have MFA but was "supposed to" ... but theres probably more not disclosed
* it's widely (unusual for a hack) reported UHC did pay the hacker 22 million ransomware. maybe our kids numbers were saved but nobody actually saying that
* The hacker claiming responsibility for the hack was arrested in russia just now (see krebs blog). Within 72hrs of the assasination. No way thats a coincidence. Havent seen that angle reported yet though. Surely some strings being pulled or heat applied somewhere...
Oh, interesting. What was the meaning of the offsets?
I've been a photographer for years and it's the first time I've heard most of these. Crop vs no-crop, who debates that? Raw vs jpg? DSLRs allow you to store both simultaneously.

As for lenses, it all depends on what works for you. A zoom used to be my go-to for the longest time, but nowadays I much prefer the prime (a Sigma DG Art). It also depends on what you're taking photos of. Shoot a lot of wildlife and a zoom is your best friend. Shoot a lot of architecture and a prime with excellent distortion correction is far better than most zooms. I just happen to shoot more architecture nowadays, so the prime is what I pack. It's all about using the right tool for the subject.
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A little detail that slipped mention is the fact that later plate armor were made to resist bullets and that fire arms and melee weapons co-existed for quite a long time on the battle field. With a dynamics between better firearms, worsening armor economics and ergonomics as an equation.

As seen on modern EOD technicians vs infantry there's clearly still ergo-economics at play on how to armor combatants.

I'm not sure I would say armor is fully solved yet
So in the future I may not be able to even type the name of another user? Admins and other users not being able to type usernames sounds very bad.

And I say that as someone whose native language has more letters than English.
what is wrong with using it for "some part" as long as they are balancing it out with other sources? there is no such thing as a search engine that isn't biased or compromised at this point, so pulling from many sources that have different biases sounds fine to me.
The biggest contradiction to consider is that the photographer has an emotional context from when they took the photo, that a random viewer does not.

This is at the heart of why so many people overestimate the impact of their photos. They remember being at the Tetons, awake cold and alive at dawn, taking the picture (for example). Or they remember a particular photo session with a model, perhaps someone they knew.

The photographer remembers the moment. But the viewer gets only what is inside the frame of the image.

The crucial thing is that it is totally OK to take pictures for yourself! You don’t need to blow some random person’s mind in order to truly enjoy photography. I think sometimes that gets lost, especially with beginners.

Often people are inspired to take up photography because they loved some images they saw. But delivering that impact to a broad audience is super hard to do. It requires a far more analytical and self-critical approach than most people want to sustain in a hobby.
That's the purpose that all abstractions strive to achieve, but most of them fall short - and become leaky...
It is not, it is a realistic profile generator, you can generate for example 800 fake french female profiles. After you download or copy datas as JSON : location, picture, name, email, phones ...
And after if your goal is to make bots, i assume you could with this datas
And if my mom had balls she would be my dad, but that's not the case. IFs of the past don't change the present situation.
sometime ago i have bookmarked (from HN? can't remember) a wardley mapping illustrated over some part of IBM's life . Maybe it will be of interest to someone:

https://juliusgamanyi.com/2020/06/25/wardley-maps-illustrate...

p.s. it would be interesting to see such a map applied to common software things (languages, notions, paradigms, domains(?), etc) of recent 10-20-50 years.. and how they moved in time, e.g. snapshot each 10 years.

And, how the notion of software engineer & all related roles evolved..
The fake news situation, like all (well, most at least) failures of the free market are solvable with regulations. I don't think any rational person would disagree that it should be illegal to deliberately spread misinformation and lies. We banned selling cigarettes to minors, we banned drugs, we (theoretically) banned monopolies, and we should be able to ban fake news.

But it is currently a political weapon being wielded by a political party. I don't expect that problem will be solved any time soon, but it's not fair to blame that on capitalism. Politicians ruin everything no matter what economic system they're in.

> Why should you want some MBA's life to be easy? So that it's feasible to keep producing what you actually want.

But I don't want ad supported journalism!
Not necessarily. In my experience, getting the right person to prepare a company for an IPO or a sale is hard. Most buyers will do due diligence and besides 'slashing costs' and 'growing the company', there is a skill set for getting governance and compliance practices in place and as well as leading the roadshow for the sale which has some similarities to raising private capital. For instance, if you don't already have explicit policies for workplace safety and environmental practices (e.g. what do you recycle, water usage, etc), you will usually need to put these in place. (We invested in manufacturing and these were extremely important to us). If you are located in multiple jurisdictions, you need to be ready to demonstrate that you are in compliance with local regulations and pass the equivalent of "integration tests", prove you are in compliance across multiple jurisdictions where their rules may differ or seem to conflict. The CEO knows what needs to get done and has the rolodex to get the people to help the company get these things done for a sale because he has done this several times before and understands the things that can go wrong.
> its the free market working as intended.

As is the verge’s pricing and ad strategy, you think they didn’t expect some churn by making a pricing change? The author is free to shout it from their soapbox but chances are the verge already expected some of this sentiment and is totally ok with a “ok losing these customers” approach
TLDR: All AI lab companies train on the pile (which contains data from opensubtitleS)
> non issue if you don't live in Russia

You really think the CIA has no use for non-American rubes?
Zero-based regulation made Idaho the least regulated state in the US
Humans trained on human output also build death cults and other harms. And humans believe that nonsense.

I’m not sure “can produce good outputs, can produce terrible outputs” is a good way to differentiate humans and LLMs.
works for me.(sent from South Dakota)
The article presents no evidence that the election was fraudulent.