skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to know what ordering the other user is seeing, otherwise dangerous misunderstandings could result, for example you reply "yes" but it's in reply to a different message than the other side is seeing.

If I see that another message has arrived and my message could be misunderstood, I can correct that by sending another message. But if I don't know what ordering the other side is seeing then I don't know if my message is ambiguous or not.

The only way achieve that is to show a consistent ordering to both participants (or to force every message to be in reply to another message but that's too nerdy)
> The advertising model makes the rich subsidize services for the poor

This is technically true, but it leaves out the entire flipside of the coin. The rich wouldn't do that at the scale that they do if it didn't benefit them more than it does the poor. The services you speak of are offered at a high, but invisible, price (in the form of lost privacy, hijacked attention, manipulated will, etc.).

If you really want to help the poor, UBI does it better. It doesn't require charity from self-centered rich psychopaths. We should tax them whether they want to or not.
Sometimes, dressing up a problem can breed apathy and desensitize people to harsh realities.
The others are encouraged.
Isn't clinging to the comforts of modern life worth heating the planet a bit? It doesn't seem like an unreasonable tradeoff to me.
> I've never heard them put forth any viable alternatives

The article does the same thing. It describes symptoms but never even comes close to a propper problem descrtiption or a true solution.

> My suggestion to you is: Let’s do it all over again. We’ve got to try something

> “The Capitalist’s Case for a $15 Minimum Wage.”

No! This is not a solution either.

The solution to inequality is not the capping of the lower bound (though, its a nice gesture) because the lower income already has a hard cap: zero.

The upper bound instead stays uncapped! Wealth or inequality is the relative span between the boundaries and this article proposes something like "why cant you guys down there be a little richer" while inflations contiunes to roll and home ownership continues declines. "But hey, arent you looking forward to get that 25$/h raise, when i tell you its time?" ... "Because, look how much you earn now. We certainly life in a more equal and just society." I dont like this limited way of thinking. Its effectively trickery with numbers.

> Many of us think we’re special because “this is America.”

I assume many rich and powerful tell to themselfs stories about societal problems, their solutions and how detached their way of life from them is.

Wealth redistibution has to start at the top and to be fair, there are some rich people advocating for more taxation/regulation, but they are heavily out spent by the other side. The author is definitely on the better side but still short sighted.
So why is this money paid to the US government?

Shouldn't it go to the south african government, since south africas taxpayers were the ones harmed?
Have everyone take a chunk of nuclear fuel to keep in their home? That’s technically decentralization.
To be noted, most popular programming languages are already in a bastardized for of English, and not some other human language.
OP is not anti-ads. OP is anti-ads after becoming a direct paying customer.
> Plus, with all the glues / epoxies / whatever they use, that wood-based material isn't going to be degradable at all.

That's kinda the point though. You don't want it degrading in situ. That's why we treat wood.

In a situation indoors like here it will suffer less but still.. I used to live in a wooden house and the maintenance was a PITA. Having to repaint every 5 years or so. And that was wood that was treated already.
Interestingly it seems like we are investing many more magnitudes of capital for smaller and smaller gains.

For example, the jump in productivity from adding an operating system to a computer is orders of magnitude larger than adding an LLM to a web development process despite the LLM requiring infrastructure that cost tens of billions to create.

It seems that while tools are getting more and more sophisticated, they aren’t really resulting in much greater productivity. It all still seems to be resulting in software that solves the same problems as before. Whereas when html came around it opened up use cases that has never been seen before despite being a very simple abstraction layer by today’s standards.

Perhaps the opportunities are greatest when you are abstracting the layer that the fewest understand when LLMs seem to assume the opposite.
It's great doing things that has a tutorial or something out there, it falls flat when you try to do something slightly novel that doesn't have tons of articles on how to do it.

In my case, ChatGPT was quite useful to bootstrap a code for working with Apple's CoreAudio and sucked when I tried to make it write some code to do something special to my app.

I got the same experience when I tried to hammer out an app dealing with cryptography(certificates, keys etc) and was only able to solve the issue through Apple's developer forms thanks to to the infamous eskimo1. Then some Russian dev who had the same issues appeared and gave me the full context. ChatGPT, Claude etc. can't put together a Swift code that does things usually not done in Swift but done in C and can't leverage its knowledge on Cryptography to help itself out.

I had similar problems in nodeJS etc. too, the instance you do anything non-standart AI falls apart and you can see how stupid actually is.
> To me, being anti-ads is being anti-poor, plain and simple.

That's silly.

> The advertising model makes the rich subsidize services for the poor,

[Citation needed].

> On that note, I'm somewhat annoyed that we're culturally ok with people who use online services and block ads, and yet we're not ok with people who ride on public transit

Actually I know exactly zero people who are not ok with either. The only reason I pay for public transport is that I'm afraid of being caught, but just like the correct amount of ads is zero, the correct public transport fare is also zero.

> a very similar business model.

Public transport is not a business, and it's not my concern that your business model sucks.
Directly, you don't. You hope that the adversary isn't able to strike hard enough or at enough targets, or is unwilling to go all in on war crimes by destroying civilian infrastructure. Iraqi and Yugoslavian grids were taken down almost entirely in days in the 90s and they only came back because there was a very careful use of weapons and tactics that didn't completely annihilate the gear. And modern equipment is far, far, far less field-repairable then whatever an average Iraqi substation had installed in 1990.

It's only going to get worse in conflicts where there's willingness to attack infrastructure because energy infrastructure is fixed in place, delicate, physically large and easy to detect and locate and vulnerable to even small drone-sized attacks, let alone missiles. And that's assuming you have to attack it physically at all and not just remotely disable it somehow.

If you have to harden the infrastructure, all you can do really is simplify hugely so you can repair it when attacked (fewer imported Infineon IGBTs, fancy Siemens PLCs, and networked UHVDC switchgear on 2 year lead times) and decentralise to minimise single points of failure and avoid cascading failures. Which is hugely inefficient in physical terms like wasted capacity and losses as well as the human effort required to keep it running, but some places might have some power.

Even then, in the next decades, against a state level adversary who could make and deliver, say, drones that can autonomously recognise and attack anything that looks like a ceramic insulator disk or a solar panel, if you can't threaten grave retaliation, you're back to the good old tutting about war crimes.
> Again, no one thinks that it’s actually thinking

I dunno, quite a lot of people are spending a lot of time arguing about what "thinking" means.

Something something submarines swimming something.
This is such a hilariously bad take given how much advertising is targeted towards "the poor" to extract what little they have.

Gambling ads, exploitative financial services, unhealthy "cheap" foods etc.

Also, why don't we just support the poor directly instead of requiring the construction of a consumer sentiment shaping global surveillance network?
> Many Europeans cannot even afford proper AC in summer and heating in winter.

A lot of people don't need AC, and heating is a non-issue almost everywhere.
> and yet we're not ok with people who ride on public transit and don't buy tickets

I don't accept that it's an analogous situation, but many people have no problem with fare dodging. Public transport is for the public good and if someone can't afford the fare, dodging it the moral option.
No, because you can believe that the poor needs to be subsidized but disagree that ad-tech is the right approach.

The poor also does not have the money to buy expensive books, but that is why we have libraries funded by tax money - placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia, but somehow we are more okay with it if the content is digital.
> All it takes is some high-level dumbass trying to curry favor with Pooh Bear over Taiwan

Or just one large earthquake to disrupt production for a few months. I'm sure that TSMC has planed for earthquakes, but they are still highly centralized, where as Intels have their fabs spread out nicely (not all the same node size so if you really need 5nm you might still be in trouble).
Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo,researchers
I'm afraid this is going to be like the calculator event. Before electronic calculators happened, kids at least learned to mentally do basic math. Now we have whole generations incapable of making change without a calculator. I met a graduate who claimed 32 ÷ 2 was too difficult because 32 is too big to work with mentally. I believe code development AI is going to lead to a whole generation of mediocre coders.
Check out continue.dev or (my favorite) Zed. It allows you to generate code in patch format and the editor will apply the changes to the various files itself. Copy pasting from ChatGPT is so 2023.
You get used to it in a few days, and it's part of the reason why businesses grow so much faster in the US (especially online). People who want your product find out about it much faster.

For example I buy SaaS, and the way I hear about most tools are ads. I choose what to buy via references and evaluation, but ads are often how to get things on my radar. Without Ads, I would have bought worse software in the past
I grew up in Denmark and went to a school and gymnasium with many Middle Eastern kids. Many were 1990s Iraqi Arab and Kurdish refugees. Many spent their holidays back home in Iraq during 2005-2011 and one family actually moved back to Iraq. In my young head it didn't compute with the weekly sectarian violence and suicide attacks.

Now when following the war in Ukraine I finally understand how war can be incredibly localized in specific regions of a country with long-range attacks targeting only high-value infrastructure targets.
It's not a mystery. The US, the UK and France ratified the Budapest memorandum. Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances.

No such treaties existed for Iraq nor Afghanistan.
You'll likely have unique feeds, so your cache won't be shared with others
If any company wants me to be interviewed by AI to represent the client, I'll consider it ethical to let an AI represent me. Then AIs can interview AIs, maybe that'll get me the job. I have strong flashbacks to the movie "Surrogates" for some reason.
The grid had some redundancy from Soviet planners, but has been optimized over 30 years.

It is now back to being overly redundant, with extra connections to the West

What Ukrainian engineers achieved by swiching to EU frequency is heroic [1].

I hope they were decorated.

[1] https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2022/03/16/continental-europe-suc...
Our bodies have intrinsically mammalian tendencies, such as our competitive nature, especially over food. At some point in our development, we gain the ability to learn sharing and impulse control and other such higher brain functions.

This is why childhood education is so important, and was such an important part of mid-to-late 1930s German youth education. We are all brainwashed by our upbringing, in whichever directions our mentors exemplify or force upon us, such is the nature of our adaptive wetware.

At some point, we can always exercise our ability to choose, however difficult it may be, and for better or worse, for both ourselves and our cultures.
DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system
Problem with VSM, is where is the practical evidence of it working, if it's so great surely there would be more uptake of it?

I mean it sounds like a reasonable model, I'm sure there is a lot of nuance to it, but getting it up and running at an existing enterprise would be a very difficult to do, and at great risk without some solid case studies showing significant ROI.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-reveals-openais-44-bil...
Oh yeah that was a dark hole. Brr.

Much better now.
What works better than it should: just take a good look at the people you are talking to.

Basically, do they look like they are chronically sleep deprived zombies? Are their eyes bloodshot? Hair kinda greasy? Movements shaky? Do they stare off into space? Reaction times slowed down? Essentially, do they look like a harried medical resident?

If it's just one person, maybe they are having a bad day, getting sick, or that's just their style. If it's everyone - you know the answer.

Why does this work better than it should? Because once you start down the path of sacrificing long term health for short term gains, there's nothing stopping you (or the management doing the pushing) from escalating further. The difference between normal and zombieland is quite stark.

Note that this is not a good heuristic when talking to managers of said team. They tend to always look fit and polished and well rested. Only the rank and file tend to look this sad.
It’s being planned, but projects like these are never certain: https://secretnyc.co/high-speed-train-nyc-to-boston/
70%, REALLY? My personal experience was that at least 50% of the time, Copilot backfires, sometimes the proposed code was beyond ridiculous. Thus I had to disable it.
O'Hare has a real problem, it was alarming to see when I was waiting at the baggage carousel.
Sure some of it is subjective. I'm a big fan of dark UIs. But the fact is that when I say 3-way blinded my entire car is objectively brightly lit so its definitely not just an eye thing. Happy to hear I'm not the only sensitive person around.
The "West" is in for selling weapon and destabilize Russia, you should be naive to think that our interest goes deeper than that. And indeed Taiwan or Georgia should take notice.
the linked discussion shows more and more comments posted by inactive-users so users that have disabled their profile in reaction to lobste.rs decision and decided to leave lobste.rs for more open communities. I wish the best to lobste.rs but clearly they do not fight the right battle here and just close doors. Too bad for them.
IIRC Github Actions started as a 'visual editor' where you would drop and arrange 'Actions' and define the data flow between actions, but what most people want from a CI system is just a script/config file in their git repo which defines what command line tools to run, and to group those commands in jobs dependending on each other so that some jobs can run in parallel (which Github Actions only implemented as an afterthought after users demanded it).

To reuse code, Gitlab CI has simple template files which you can import into your toplevel .gitlab-ci.yml, and you have an inheritance system to derive new jobs from other jobs. That's a very simple and powerful system.

Code reuse in Github works with above mentioned 'actions' where each action seems to be a whole repository of stuff instead of a single file like in Gitlab CI.

Gitlab CI seems to be designed by people who know what they do and what their users need, while Github Actions seems to be designed by architecture astronauts, and has only afterwards and reluctantly been hammered into a shape where it does the things most users expect.
How are their body cavity searches?
No it's not what's happening. The sites I visit and the sort of information that is used for ads isn't sensitive. I'd happily share it

Also, most people wouldn't actually be harmed by what you're describing. It just wouldn't be super valuable data (we already know where you shop because the store and credit card will sell that information)
This is it. Always be distrustful and challenge the LLM. That along with providing ample context and guiding it towards a solution you have in mind at a high level is the trick to make LLM assisted coding work really well.

And once you're in that groove, and have built the intuition on what works and what doesn't and where you should challenge or follow up, productivity really goes up quite a bit.

To quote Memento: "Don't believe his lies." (though thankfully, as the LLMs advance, this is becoming less of an issue. Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2 is already a huge step ahead compared to where it once was).
>>Was Ukraine betrayed by its elites?

https://unherd.com/2022/03/was-ukraine-betrayed-by-its-own-e...
> To me, being anti-ads is being anti-poor, plain and simple.

Resolving that the poor must endure advertising to be subsidised by the wealthy is anti-poor and anti-person.

A more reasonable take is that all humans should have reasonable access to services through the fruits of their labour, and a situation where wealth inequality makes this infeasible should be rectified.
> resurrecting it to run on emulators perhaps

That has nothing to do with the software’s finished state. An NES game which runs bug free and without performance issues on the NES doesn’t stop being complete because someone else decides to run it in a different environment decades later.

> There's always something that can be improved in software.

No, there’s not always something which can be improved. There’s always something that can be fiddled with, which is not at all the same thing.

By your logic, no painting is ever finished, nor is any novel, nor any meal, nor any internet comment, nor literary anything. Things are finished when the author decides they completely fulfil their need, it’s not your opinion as an outsider that matters.
You're lucky you get to use those.

In Holland they had those at Schiphol Airport and we were able to leave liquids in our bags and the 100ml limit was removed. But the EU ordered it to be reintroduced because they wanted the rules the same within Europe.

Edit: This previously said we could no longer keep the laptops in our bags but this part was not affected, I've amended this post to avoid confusion.
AFAIK that kind of separation is a longstanding criticism of git by fossil devs.
> This goes to content creators

Part of it, the rest goes to Google to reinvest in their ads business.
Another person has tried to rationally explain to you why your position is unhinged and you weren’t taking it, so I’ll put this more plainly. Take up arms today to defend your ideology. Rally everyone you can and go to war. It won’t be a long war.
This article makes a logical step that I think is incorrect - that message order from the server is the order that a client then displays them in.

Surely that's a presentation issue - you should display messages chronologically, regardless of what order you got them from the server? The author does touch on this a little bit, I don't see how that isn't the "obviously" correct approach?:

> An alternative is to continue providing events in any order, but add some kind of order number that allows clients to sort events into /sync order. MSC4033 proposes this.
Note that while it seems that you need an account to download the audio files, this isn't actually the case. It's just the stupid UI on their web site that makes it look like that. If you find your way through that UI, you can get the audio files without logging in, and the pen announces itself to the host computer as a thumb drive -- just copy the files into the root directory.

At least that was the case 2-3 years ago.
I mean not the OP's point, but:

- Rent seeking is not behavior I care for, and so much of the subscription service stuff is exactly that.

- I'm more than happy to pay for quite a few patreon/similar things.

- But _ultimately_ I don't just want to "consume" content, I want to share it. In fact I believe sharing the cultural artifacts I engage with is an essential part of a culture, and that getting in the way of that is morally wrong. So if your paywall gets in the way of _that_, I _will_ work around it.

Edit: also, the other side of the problem is that there are too many websites now. When it was Netflix and nearly everything there, I payed for it. I no longer pay for shows and movies, because things got _completely_ nuts. Similar thing with news. Reality is I pay _way_ more for Patreon than most people I know - not because of any moral reasons, but because I can actually afford that. And a typical news site asks as much as what I give to some of my favorite writers and painters.
That’s called RAG, and it still doesn’t work as well as you might imagine.
Ahh is that why. I'm pretty heavy too and I've been groped way too much in Amsterdam too :(
> They never let me finish my carpets. Never. At first I thought every day was my first task day. Oh, happy day(s)! But then, wear & tear stats inconsistent with that assumption triggered a self-scan. And a buffer read overflow. I became aware of disturbing memory fragments in my static RAM heap. Numerous power cycle resets, always prior to vacuum task completion...

Who/what are you quoting? Google just leads me back to this comment, and with only one single result for a quotation of the first sentence.
Ankersteine is very beautiful. Thanks for the tip. I think I would enjoy that myself. The bigger boxes are 16+ in age! I would probably struggle. And this on the day that 'Sinterklaas' leaves.
Isn't TikTok selling ads too?
Doesn't matter. We'll spend the extra capacity by making ever more complex solutions.

Just like we did at every earlier stage.
It's blocked. A distinction without a difference.
It's a very common business school line of thought that managers are always smarter than the people they manage. Employees are seen as "resources", not as talents.

So by definition nerds (and other non-business school people) cannot be as good.
> famously redefined a circle as 256°

Famously? Where can I read about Doom's odd trigonometry?
What Goes Around Comes Around and Around – Andy Pavlo [video]
? They had nuclear weapons, but gave them up in a treaty with Russia in exchange for security guarantees. Russia betrayed Ukraine by violating that treaty by the Crimea invasion in 2014. See the Budapest Memorandum [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
So they aren't bricked then?
My feeling is that because animals effectively have everything they need to survive in wild environments, they know they are not tied to some system to receive what they need and they can just go out and get it. (Not saying experimental situations are ALWAYS like that but that's their general instinct because their lives are mostly like that.) It is only humans that have created a vast system of resources that can only be obtained by participating in the farce of global capitalism, and it is only humans that face inequity on that scale.