skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "multiple messages of increasing complexity" concept was one of the proposals. The simpler stages are usually written out in as many languages as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

Another proposal was to leave no marker at all. (Or to bury the first marker.) There's an argument that anything special on the surface will only make people curious about the site.
Third option not discussed: have the military leverage its existing nuclear reactor competency to build a fleet of nationalized nuclear power generation stations. I'm not saying that they should tile the island with submarine-scale reactors, I'm saying that their supply chain for building those knows how to build nuclear power stations.

The only thing which makes this prospect expensive, is the lack of political will to make it not expensive. So find the political will.
I mean... If housing is available, why would you want to live in crowded conditions?

Housing per family (household) is also near the all-time high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15tRv
Of course there's an analogy. A guy kills a whole lot of other guys and is still killing more - is it okay to kill him so he stops killing more?

For example is it okay to kill Hitler halfway through the Holocaust, or are we normally obliged to wait to tbe end and then put him to a fair trial?
> as a neutral observer

your post certainly doesn't sound like it

> the oppression started decades ago as a security measure to regain a stalemate after excessive bombings from proudly hateful genocidal jihadists

you need to update your history; the oppression started in 1948 (late 1947, really)
Work that is its own reward is a hobby.
Work that is rewarded by a paycheck is a job.
There are other types of works too: chores, responsibilities, being a good neighbour...

All of these can be hard work, All of these can be taxing, all of these can be intrinsically fun and rewarding.

I wish people would stop conflating work with just employment.
Man, had to deal with DORA just recently.. This kind of service is a life saver.
Indeed. Very clarifying.

I would just posit that they do make a distinction between workflows and agents
I do remember a sci fi short story with this plot but can't remember the name. It poked fun at a lot of sci fi tropes.

An away team discovers a big glowing orb that attempts communication and soon after this communication members of the team die due to an unknown cause. They then go to huge efforts and great risk to interact with the big glowing orb (the bulk of the story). Then after many deaths when they finally study the retrieved big glowing orb under controlled conditions back at base they realise it's a fairly simple machine trying to communicate the equivalent of 'stay away'. It was a warning sign, the same as a skull and crossbones. The real danger was the area around it.
For reference, I think we get around 60-65c/kWh here...

I sometimes hangout on /r/homelab, and people are talking about their 600-700W homelab setup. That would cost about 300-350$/month here.
> No, they didn't. Their methodology didn't adjust for things like highway vs city street miles, although it did adjust for city and state.

Doesn't Waymo only drive in the city? And damage/injury is much greater on highways? If so that pretty much makes the study worthless.
By "at the same time" do you mean that the execution starts at exactly the same time on two adjacent cores, or do you mean that they might as well be in the same queue and done sequentially?

What do you mean by "tightly interleaving"? It sounds like a technical term of some importance but when I web search it seems people are saying it means that the order of execution or data access is arbitrary, which you can let the built-in preemptive multitasking or a queue with a worker pool figure out for you.

In the alternatives you have in mind, how good is the monitoring, observability and IPC tooling? What's their hardware clustering story? I've done IPC in POSIX and that was absolutely dreadful so I hope you're working with something better than that at least.
So did they give those people permanent residency in Hong Kong, or did they just demolish their homes and tell them to fuck off back to the totalitarian dictatorship they escaped?
For "integrated" stuff, their stance is "UI Must Work". Tracing down the requirements, here:

https://design.home-assistant.io/#concepts/home
https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration_yaml_index
https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/blob/master/adr/0010-integration-configuration.md

...usually there's YAML kicking around the backend, but for normal usage, normal users, the goal is to be able to configure all (most) things via UI.

I've had to drop to YAML to configure (eg) writing stats to indexdb/graphana vs. sqlite (or something), or maybe to drop in or update an API_KEY or non-standard host/port, but 99% of the time the config is baroque, but usable via the web-app.
There's no condescension.

The key point that you seem to be missing is that asking for an example of specifically predicting this behavior" is (to borrow from cousin commenters) is like asking for examples specifically predicting that an LLM might output text reflecting Santa delivering presents to Bermuda, or a vigalante vampire that only victimizes people who jaywalk.

The whole idea is that all it does -- and all it will ever do -- is generate the text you set it up it to generate with your prompts. It's impossible for anyone to have specifically called out each input that might be thrown at it, but innumerable comments explaining how (in the autocompleter paradigm) it implies the outputs are simply vacuous when taken at face value as they can be made to produce any fantasy a user or researcher prefigures into their prompts/design. Surely, you've been reading those comments for years now, already, and see how they would apply to all "research" of the kind done in this paper.
I could not agree with you more.

I am replying to you from my third mac. I got it less than a year ago and it is the first Mac I have used since 2010 or so. Sure I am getting used to it but it does surprise me how different some things are from my typical XFCE/Win10 environments. I know unintuitive is the wrong word but at least for my own intuition, it is unintuitive.
> Doesn't this go against the ethics of reporting such extreme events, which empower people with mental health issues to "copy cat" in order to seek attention and gain social status?[0]

These ethics are completely disregarded by the media when reporting on e.g. school shootings. They do not factor in whatsoever.
Were we supposed to speed-run 'Idiocracy'?
> initial response to Oct7 was justified but not complete destruction of Gaza

agreed but it's pretty clear now that the complete destruction of Gaza was the plan all along
Yep! Same repo, lots of changes. Since we were on HN in 2023, we've:

- Rewrote Nomad from scratch with our own in-house workflow engine

- Launched Rivet Actors and isolate runtime

- Overhauled our OSS experience to make self-hosting easier

- Rewrote frontend from scratch with shadcn to be like the cool kids

- Replaced Nebula with mTLS

- Completely stripped out Redis for non-caching use cases

We've also opened up the platform to non-gaming use cases.
Yeah the "network costs" bit should probably have a caveat about how they are a natural monopoly and are absolutely rinsing the UK for profits.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/20/unite-union...

"Supplier costs and margins" probably should take a fair bit of the blame too.

When Thatcher privatised the UK energy industry to make it "competitive", they basically created an entire complex web of middlemen. The systems they use to communicate is enormously complicated, still kind of stuck in the 90s (think CSV over FTP), and would be basically unnecessary if it were just one company.

Ok in fairness electricity makes more sense to privatise than water or railways - at least you can choose where to buy your electricity from, within reason.
I agree! It’s still not an easy sell though.
The Pope needed something for his ceiling.
Scientists issue urgent warning after discovering impact of IV treatments
That'd be GBP 0.48-0.52
> Having an extended family all living together is another.

Collectivism has clear benefits but comes at a steep price: the need to establish and enforce group norms. The nuclear family seems like a compromise in this space, a revealed preference.

I mean, I would probably be happy living like an Orca in a matrilineal family group but, then again, I've always gotten along with my Mom. What about the people who haven't? Or who only started to once they moved out? Those people would be faced with living in a disharmonious environment or leaving to a world hostile to individuals.
Every browser information leak that can contribute to fingerprinting needs to be plainly considered a security vulnerability in need of fixing/mitigation, period. This class of vulnerabilities has continued to get a huge pass, only being taken seriously by projects like TOR browser and then still only the convenient fixes getting backported.

I do realize this is a tall ask, as many of these vulnerabilities arise from standards promulgated by the surveillance industry itself (chiefly Google, of course), and so are not easily mitigated. For example font lists and ask-to-use-microphone are straightforward to fix for general web browsing, whereas the fix for browser viewport size requires some kind of thoughtful design that subsumes the old model.

In general I'd say that browsers (or at least their operating modes) need to start differentiating into different things for the open [season] web versus app runtimes, so that vulnerability mitigations can be stronger for the open [season] web and sidestep complaints that it disrupts legitimate apps. Of course the two modes need to be indistinguishable by websites, lest every two-bit xitter-summarizing "news" site insists that it's some special snowflake needing app functionality to run its surveillance code.

Also since I'm apparently writing my Christmas list, we desperately need widespread privacy laws in the US. If you want a "value add" feature of your product to be shoving ads in people's faces, fine - people at least get immediate and actionable feedback from that. But persistent tracking supported by pervasive surveillance is completely at odds with individual liberty. And taking away the largest consumer surveillance market would mean much less being invested in new ways to attack users.
Amazon does sort of decide in a way that works for this analogy. If you search for a basic computer component, like a keyboard, one of the first 2-3 results is usually Amazon Basics brand. We all know that people tend to click on the first few links way more often than bottom of the page or second page. It's 100% anticompetitive to self-serve in that way.

Spotify is a different type of situation given the mode of consumption, but there is absolutely an argument to be made that we shouldn't, as a matter of ideology, allow distributors to also be producers.
Yes, but properly typing your JS objects can still be quite hard
I'm not talking about Java 21 when referring to that data, I was refuting your baseless claim that I don't work in Java. I don't think you even bothered to actually read or comprehend my comment.

The data there clearly shows that the ecosystem has as many users running a modern version. Which directly counters your assertion that everyone is just running 8.
The cynic in me supposes that's because they have backdoor access to LastPass and not to bitwarden. Actually, LastPass keeps getting hacked so I just about expect it to be the case.
And how exactly would adding more of the most expensive way to generate power help reduce costs?

See: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/may/24/...
poetry vs pip does very little for compilation-related install failures. Most likely the difference is whether you are getting a binary package or not, and conda's repository may have a binary package that pypi does not (but also vice-versa: nowadays pypi has decent binary packages, previously conda gained a lot of popularity because it had them while pypi generally did not, especially on windows). But the main badness comes from mixing them in the same environment (or mixing pypi packages with linux distribution packages, i.e. pip installing outside of a virtual environment).

(I do agree pip is still pretty lackluster, but the proposed replacements don't really get to the heart of the problem and seem to lack staying power. I'm in 'wait and see' mode on most of them)
I think that's a bit of color on that, since those homes weren't worth $0 until PG&E caused a fire that burnt them down by neglecting required maintenance.
> Agents can be used for open-ended problems where it’s difficult or impossible to predict the required number of steps, and where you can’t hardcode a fixed path. The LLM will potentially operate for many turns, and you must have some level of trust in its decision-making. Agents' autonomy makes them ideal for scaling tasks in trusted environments.

The questions then become:

1. When can you (i.e. a person who wants to build systems with them) trust them to make decisions on their own?

2. What type of trusted environments are we talking about? (Sandboxing?)

So, that all requires more thought -- perhaps by some folks who hang out at this site. :)

I suspect that someone will come up with a "real-world" application at a non-tech-first enterprise company and let us know.
I sometimes catch myself thinking about whether it’s worth collecting wood by the road to burn as a way to heat the house.
All that matters is price?

I'm sitting here looking at a Samsung OLED that has lost bonding on it's panel (horizontal stripes).
The result is that that corporation is forever blacklisted.
Re: changing batteries.

- To change a battery, you need to not only see the notification but also be physically proximal to the device and have a fresh battery available. It can take some time to meet all these conditions and sometimes you simply forget.

- A single air tag only needs the battery replaced roughly every six months. However, the rate of replacements increases as you are managing more air tags. It's easy to be replacing a battery every few weeks.

- Replacement fatigue is a thing. At some point, we just get lazy.

I keep my BBQ on my front patio, directly in front of my battery-powered Ring camera. The battery on that camera needs to be recharged and replaced every two months. I try to get to it as quickly as I can - ideally during the low-battery state and before the battery dies completely. One time, however, I got lazy/forgot. Two days after the battery died, my BBQ was stolen.

Re: antitheft device

You're right. Apple markets AirTags for recovering lost items, not stolen ones. Nevertheless, they can be very effective for recovering stolen items. My local police department will aid in recovering stolen property. If the item has an AirTag that pings a location, an officer will investigate. In the case of my BBQ, the officer was willing to look for it same-day but, alas, I did not have an AirTag on it.

This product actually helps as it effectively hides the air tag. This makes it less likely that a thief would find and discard the airtag. They'd only be looking for it if their iPhone notifies them and, even then, they may not be able to discriminate which item contains the tag. Best case scenario: they discard the entire stolen unit, keeping the air tag with it.
...because houses are made of cardboard and use electricity for heating.
That's extremely vague. What kind of requests? Scale to 100M requests a day with any budget for infrastructure? Or is just choosing naive autoscaling without considering costs not ok? Are the requests evenly spread out throughout the day?

What do you mean "no room for error"? Every networked application has errors. Do you mean that the application should never throw an error? Or that errors should always be retried an infinite number of times? Or that requests should not get dropped and should be guaranteed to me handled? And how do you guarantee that? It is quite impossible to have an application that serves 100M requests a day from real users and have 0 errors or dropped packets.
How dare you attempt to sully the honor of my beloved Power Mac 9500, or take an implicit shot at my Performa 638CD — which was not even 4 digits, but 3 digits and 2 letters. You need to check your wiring, friend, or dial up your SoftRAM.
Right and middle click on links behaves like a left click on the website.
Maybe they haven't advertised the job anywhere.
Keep in mind the 9500 (and 9600) and 8500 were at or near the top of the line and relatively easy to figure out. If that and the 7000 had been the only things Apple shipped, fine. The problem was the 4000/5000/6000 range, and Performa vs Quadra/Centris/Whatever. It was a complete and total mess.

Your Fred also clearly had a weird sense of "less buggy." At that time, Windows was essentially a GUI atop an extended version of MS-DOS. Look up any contemporary serious review and you'll find complaints about stability. Compare to OS/2.
In a way it's subsidizing people in the country side.
without commenting on the rest of it, i can share anecdotally that i currently have 3 dead airtags that i have been procrastinating updating the batteries on
None of those tribes have ever managed to accomplish much. I doubt that's a coincidence.
My brain inadvertently changed the title to My Perl Half Life
I used an 8500 as my personal machine for way too long. With a Sonnet G3 upgrade and maxed out RAM, it stayed viable for way longer than it should have.
Let's End Toxic Productivity
yep you're now pretty much at state-of-the-art
I liked Meta's Llama license. It's very general, but we know it's for particular companies in particular regions...

Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

https://www.llama.com/llama3/license/
Blue Ocean Strategy (2004)
If you parse e.g. a json file containing a scalar to an R object, that scalar will be represented as a length-1 vector. I get what you’re saying, but “it doesn’t let you access scalars” would suggest to me that it can’t parse or represent values that are defined elsewhere as scalars at all.
Building Better AI Agents
I was commenting on the sentiment of sitting back and relaxing watching your neighbors struggle. I don't think revenue relates to it
> confidently claiming that all linux users switched to Mac

I did not say that. I did not say anything resembling that. It's an absurd claim.

What I said was:

«All the professionals evangelising Linux in the 20th century have moved to Macs now»

Which followed, and was in the context of, the sentence:

«reading other people's writing about it and where possible talking to them.»

In other words: the professional Linux advocates -- that means, the people who were advocating and recommending Linux to non-Linux users –- that I read and knew and sometimes have talked to -- switched.

Not people in the Linux biz talking to other people in the biz.

People like author Charlie Stross, who is occasionally cstross on here, who for years wrote the Linux column in the UK edition of Computer Shopper and was as such perhaps the most visible UK tech journalist writing about and recommending Linux.

Or Neal Stephenson, author of the seminal "In the Beginning was the Command Line", which if you have not read recently you need to.

Here's a free copy.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

Mac users now.

Context is important and must be considered. You apparently did not.

> and how Mac is the be-all end-all of computers.

I didn't say that either.

It's got a damned good case to be the most sophisticated general-purpose desktop/laptop there's ever been, though, and it's held that place pretty much the entire century so far.

Tastes differ. Not everyone likes it. That's fine. I am not saying everyone should.

But I'm saying that if you read the widest possible range of OS and UI discussion and debate, there is a fairly clear consensus that what was Mac OS X and is now macOS is, while flawed, about the best there is.
Because you wouldn't ask it deeply private questions in front of your mom, for instance
You're describing the majority of my extended family. Some of whom are well educated and tech illiterate.
> This post mentions intent once

Intent is something that will be proved if the any of the war criminals in this conflict (on either side) ever face justice. The relevant authorities have been pretty clear there is adequate evidence of intent to issue arrest warrants.

MSF care less about the label, and more about convicinging the international community to force Isreal into a ceasefire so they can do their job and save lives. It is unsurprising that MSF doesn't discuss intent, since it is the practical actions that concern them here, not the motivation behind them.
IMO some of the confusion is in conflating execution with the natural properties of a program. Concurrency is the property of a program or algorithm, and this property allows you to execute the program with partial or complete re-ordering (which is the peak of what some people call embarrassingly parallel). How you wish to execute on this property is up to you.
I'm not sure where you've got this idea from. Even "new builds" in the UK, with there questionable building methods (which you may be referring to?) are mostly insulation and incredibly efficient to heat.
I’m also imagining the police telling you that you can do something that is actually illegal, and then you get prosecuted for it. “The cops said it was ok” may not be an adequate defense.
Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art
For the longest time, I've been interested in the idea that the personal data we have logged across platforms can "paint" a pretty clear picture of who we are. And, as individuals, this will reveal fun and maybe sharable stories about us.

So I made this app, Day by Data, to connect with and visualize your personal data like step count, music listening habits, and more into tiny visualizations and data art right on your iPhone.

The launch version has a few year-in-steps breakdowns and a few Spotify data-visualizations.

Over time, the goal is to make more data sources available to connect and empower users to learn from their personal data stored across these platforms. Think data about the food we eat, places we travel, or shows we watch.

Data accessibility and cleanliness is the hardest part, but I'm always open to different sources and visualization types.

Let me know what you think and if there are certain data sets you'd like to see visualized!
You have a good point. We should fund government positions more so they can pay people better. Then the government orgs would have better talent and produce better output that would benefit everyone, since these are charities.
I wonder if the same kind of thing is at play when I ask my Google Home Mini to play a song (on Spotify) and it plays a version by a cover band instead of the real thing, despite my stating the song and band name.

For example, I'll say: "OK Google, Play 'Hey Jude' by 'The Beatles'". Sometimes I'll get that song. But many others I'll get "Hey Jude" by a Beatles tribute band... I wouldn't be surprised if the version by the tribute band is cheaper to play.