skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the age, I am actually one of you. But as an experiment, list the devices at home that are "high tech attention grabbing nightmares", and those that aren't.

You are going to find the attention grabbers really fast of course, that's the idea, but if you are like me, the list is relatively short.
Smartphone, PC, and that's about it, you may have a TV and a couple of device with annoyingly bright blue LEDs, but now the things that aren't: toaster, coffee machine, kettle, washing machine, dryer, fridge, various tools, hairdryer, etc... These things are not so different from how they were 40 years ago in terms of attention grabbing. In fact, many have improved by being less noisy. Oh, and I don't have that bright red alarm clock radio anymore.
We flew to the moon several times for half that money xD
Some of these changes, if continued and expanded, will likely have long-term negative effects on the US's position in science. I have my issues with NIH but to fix NIH requires subtlety. This seems more designed to "punish those liberal researchers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_one%27s_nose_to_sp...
11 is an even-digit palindrome and is a prime number
Unfortunately, a good chunk of people who voted for him really didn't pay much attention beyond him promising to lower prices. But this is the electorate we have - a lot of them just can't be bothered with much detail as attention spans are short these days.
Which MSU?
Sure, but then the answer to my original question of who pays for it is the taxpayer. It isn't free, the cost is just subsidized by the public rather than paid by the student.

I'm not even saying that's a bad thing, if most people want it that way I don't see the problem. But it isn't free.
I did this with a manual 35mm camera. You can purchase rolls of infrared sensitive film. You must make a focus adjustment when shooting infra red. Most manual camera focus rings have a second focus index mark, since infrared light focus converges slightly differently than natural light. See:

https://www.35mmc.com/30/03/2023/focus-adjustment-and-other-...
Mostly because I'm not a paying user. I use local LLMs for easier stuff, so not often I need to reach to ChatGPT.

Besides, I guess I want to have some control over the search, like which sites to visit. Sometimes the search might retur something tangential, but interesting for example.
Data in this case is on the side of wealth and power. You're also wrong about it being an inanimate object for two reasons. Reason A: Data is not an object but a pattern of objects or attributes of object(s) wherein the arrangement forms symbols according to a standard or protocol. Reason B: Data is quite animated when moving e.g. in response to searches or otherwise (re)-transmitted.
rss feeds and substack
Yup, these numbers are high, but just check out decades of wage theft and you realize it's only legal to steal from the poor.
Maybe this IS the demoscene of today? I saw more insanely beautiful computer generated pictures in the last couple years than I saw in previous 10, AI or no AI.
Could the Summerville Ghost Lantern Be an Earthquake Light?
If a short-term-thinking decision-maker has a KPI for low vulnerabilities, they'd rather take the chance of a massive compromise of the company, than to have vulnerabilities reported and definitely hurt their bonus/promotion?
AI is good if you use it wisely. There were reports years ago about using AI in SoCal to detect wild fires, but in the end we see insurance companies using AI to withdraw from areas of high fire risk. Quite competent AI, isn't it?
Oddly enough, a big help for me has been not using an adblocker for sites like Youtube. I can only watch so much before I just become enraged by the sheer number of ads in a 20 minute video that I just rage quit the app.
India Set to Accept 18,000 Citizens From U.S.
>raw computing power grows by 10^6 every ~25 years

That is really not true anymore unless there will be a new technology that can do much better than silicon electronics. Doesn't mean that were safe, but it's not that clear.

Edit: to expand, a single transistor is made of a pretty pedestrian number of atoms these days. The gate pitch of TSMC "3 nm" is about 40 nm (not all of which is transistor) and silicon atoms are about 0.2 nm apart. So you have, let's say, 30^3 / 0.2^3 ~= 3 million atoms in a transistor. There is no room for another 10^6 improvement because a transistor with just a few atoms probably wouldn't work, the thermal noise would dominate it. Paraphrasing the famous Feynman quote, there isn't much room at the botton anymore, now.
Well, if you want some really odd stuff, the anarchist texts "Desert" and "Against His-Tory, Against Leviathan" both point... in a way.

James Scott will, by contrast, sound a bit more moderate. "Two Cheers for Anarchism" and "Seeing Like a State" are interesting (to me) texts.

But really, I'd suggest more direct volunteering. I am gonna go do the 10:30p-2:30a shift at my local warming shelter tonight. Food Not Bombs has a lot of jerks in it, but a lot of those same folks are really helping people who need help.

Doing that kind of direct work can teach you a lot, I think. More than reading, at least. You have to approach it as if you know little about the world, though.
Thank you so much! The story behind the laptop was quite interesting — my friends and I were going to an athletics event far away, and he brought up the idea that I should make a laptop for my senior project as a joke (our school offers 1 free class for a "project", graciously funded by the school). I said "hell yeah." That's pretty much how this came to be, college didn't play much of a role imho. And best of luck studying physics!
Presumably authoritarian regimes only execute/imprison/exile dissidents if they think it's necessary to eliminate opposition. An authoritarian regime which does not think there's much of a threat to opposition probably wouldn't bother.
True.

I didn't really think about (linked) lists much, only (flat) arrays, but maybe that's possible already with files laid out like:

/head
/next/head
/next/next/head
... etc

or whatever.

I'm not saying its _ergonomic_, mind you. I'd like my file viewer to lay out the list flat, for example. There might be technical limitains with the length of the file path. Etc.
I keep on thinking maybe it's time to move somewhere else. I'm a first generation American, so I'd just be doing what my parents did before me. The problem is, I have no idea what country I would move to.
TBF, we're only on day 2. (I am 90% certain it won't come to that, but there's a 10% queasiness left that hasn't been ameliorated by the haphazard approach untethered from legality that we've seen so far)
I would recommend talking to Monkeybrains they should be familiar with the law, I don't think landlords in San Francsico are allowed to limit isp choice https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/san-francisco-...
"Build times reduced", "no more @tailwind directives", "No more js configuration", "Designed for the modern web".

To me, this screams "CSS now can do everything we used to do ourselves, but let's keep pretending that we are still needed somehow"
> Does no one on HN believe in this anymore?

No.

I mean, I had some faith in these things 15 years ago, when I was young and naive, and my heroes were too. But I've seen nearly all those heroes turn to the dark side. There's only so much faith you can have.
As the kids say, this is correct. It's very good. If you have never read anything like it before, it could be mind-blowing.

Her later work like Engineering a Safer World (available as a free pdf if you poke around on the MIT Press website) is merely good.
> let those without the means to guarantee their well-being just die off then

History has some entertaining responses to previous holders of such viewpoints.
Elison is a only self-made man I prefer
If someone clicks on "click here to update your password" in a phishing email, are they choosing what actually happens, or what they thought would happen? Even if they should have known, and could have known, I think it's objectively true that they didn't.
Very amateurish AI. I'd be embarrassed to release this. Plus, Kevin O'Leary is involved with this project so you have to wonder ...
From what I read, the Ulbricht pardon was part of a deal at the Libertarian National Convention. So it's just business as usual.

Broken clocks and all that. I entirely agree that he may have a potential muder conviction on his case, but they instead threw the book at him for a much lesser crime for a way too large sentence. Especially if we compare it to the War on Drugs.
It's scary to think that Trump seems to actually believe right wing media's black and white propaganda. The end point of this kind of anti-intellectual, anti-urban movement is something like Pol Pot's killing fields.
So cut 15 levels of management. Budget cuts to match. Carry on.
You forgot: Engineering is requesting this. So no.
Do you have an argument that would be persuasive to someone who doesn't believe that representative democracy is fundamentally flawed or somehow inoperative in the US?
The North American Numbering Plan specifically reserves numbers to forbid that (to the extent that the DTMF for 1 is actually handled differently by the line discipline, or at least was 20 years ago)
Because for some people, this is not a scientific peer-reviewed discussion, but rather typical conversation normal people have over dinner table with gut feelings and limited information. Just assume that "I believe", "in my opinion", "AFAIK" are implied for statements like above.
Your CPU has an MMU in order to (among other things) let the OS prevent mutable global state.
Are we going to do away with accessibility as well as going back to segregation>
*23% of American people voted for this.
I can't get Sonic because apparently they don't have permits to operate in the underground conduits in my neighborhood. For some reason, AT&T has that. It's frustrating to say the least.
I feel called out. But yeah, that seems to be on point.
That must not have been a very good doctor. If the man is on brink of cardiac arrest he should be in the hospital. He can do a simple Ultra fast CT scan to see the atherosclerosis impeding blood flow, or even an exercise treadmill test will give you some hints of it.

I believe the modern understanding of the cholesterol theory of heart disease is that it's not simply LDL that is the problem, but instead small dense LDL. SD ldl can be measured directly of course, but you can kind of get a sense of whether you're likely to have it based on having triglycerides over 115, and the high triglycerides are in turn usually caused by lots of sugar or simple carbs in your diet. Something a person on a carnivore diet won't probably have
Speaking as a former Google Fiber software engineer, I'm honestly surprised this is still around.

In 2017, basically all the Google Fiber software teams went on hiatus (mine included). I can't speak to the timing or rationale but my theory is that the Google leadership couldn't decide if the future of Internet was wired or wireless and a huge investment in wired may be invalidated if the future Internet was wired so rather than guessing wrong, the leadership simply decided to definitely lose by mothballing the whole thing.

At that time, several proposed cities were put on hiatus, some of which had already hired local people. In 2019, Google Fiber exited Louisville, KY, paying penalties for doing so [1]. That really seemed like the end.

I also speculated that Google had tried or was trying to sell the whole thing. I do wonder if the resurrection it seems to have undergone is simply a result of the inability to find a buyer. I have no information to suggest that one way or the other.

There were missteps along the way. A big example was the TV software that was originally an acquisition, SageTV [2]. Somebody decided it would be a good idea to completely rewrite this Java app into Web technologies on an embedded Chrome instance on a memory-limited embedded CPU in a set-top box. Originally planned to take 6 months, it took (IIRC) 3.5+ years.

But that didn't actually matter at all in the grand scheme of things because the biggest problem and the biggest cost was physical network infrastructure. It is incredibly expensive and most of the issues are hyperlocal (eg soil conditions, city ordinances) as well as decades of lobbying by ISPs of state and local governments to create barriers against competition.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/googl...
This is surgery with a butter knife. It's going to cause a lot of unnecessary disruption and pain which could have been avoided with a more nuanced approach. What we are seeing with this and some of the new administration's other initiatives, is the abandonment of US soft power in the world.
I'm an Internet Addict
Every 4 years, American voters get to choose between garbage and trash.
It's the same level as saying "tech companies stole from the populace". Which is ethically correct but legally wrong. I guess that's the distinction GP wants to make.
Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
That error didn't happen with me. Can you please provide a screenshot?
> from past work, like the MUREX Ethernet Switch

Just looked it up... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40694254 for those who want a direct link.

Jesus. Wish I had had even a fraction your talent at that age. Most impressive.
The link you cited literally explains how they tried to get around this restriction by setting it up as an autonomous non-profit (that was US-based).

Additionally, it was required to register as a foreign agent before shutting down...

This rather proves my point
Trump spent a huge amount of his time during the election disavowing Project 2025. Did people vote for a change in government? Yes, but they didn’t vote for this this theocratic authoritarian bullshit.
I would go even further. Around 170 people die everyday in car accidents. If 1 person died because of an accident caused by a self driving car they would be banned.
Learn the difference between socialism and communism before you spout lies and propaganda.
Huh, I like the way you phrased that: "abandonment of US soft power in the world". But I think there is also punitive aspect: they are intentionally "punishing" the people at NIH they perceive as being liberal and favoring other countries.
Ah yes, the cloud where we all happily share compute resources without any restrictions to avoid stomping on each others toes.
> If you trust the election results, and I generally do because I have no proof otherwise, then the American people voted for this.

No, if you trust the election results, it's a legitimate election by defined process and there are no grounds to contest it.

But "The American people voted for this" is a distinct, strong, affirmative statement that doesn't hold.

The people that voted for this are the people that voted for it, and even among the people who voted for the incoming administration (who only represent a third or so of eligible American voters and an even smaller share of American people), this isn't what many of them were voting for.
well you're not wrong. That attempted Trump assassination was a few inches away from being in the same books as John Wilkes Booth, instead of being talked about for less than a week and then forgotten. Sentences would have been night and day.
History says almost all society was corrputed and previous 50 to 80 years are slight exception. People with power prefer to give power to selected people selected by their personal preference.
Have you read the various AirBnb related subreddits?
I can think of two reasons why it wouldn't

(benign) peak-to-average problem - I'll go ahead and just assume that defcon attendees use a lot more internet bandwidth than the average Vegas-goer, so during defcon the network is overwhelmed, but the rest of the year the capacity is adequate. Upgrading the links to satisfy the peak (defcon) traffic load costs the casinos significant money, but gives minuscule benefit since the rest of the year they only need to support the much lower average load.

(malign) the casinos don't actually want you to have good internet because they don't want you staying in your room internetting - they want you down on the floor gambling. Other non-gambling amenities (shows, restaurants, etc.) are mostly time limited - you only spend so much time eating, and shows are only a couple hours each - and can be a differentiator that draws people to a specific casino (because of specific food/entertainment preferences). Those people then spend the rest of the day gambling at that casino.

"Better" internet it's actually a negative differentiator - people who want to spend all their time infinite-scrolling will gamble less, so casinos don't want to attract them in the first place.
That's rural life. I'm downtown in one a big Canadian city, and the best I can get is 400 down and 10 up for ~100$/month. You're getting better up than me, and I'm literally at the core of a major city.
It’s akin to the “Kim Jung Un made 18 holes in one” level of fib
I agree with your criticisms of the justice system except that your proposed solutions haven't worked anywhere. Yes the plea practice is abusive and coercive. It has to be because otherwise suspects would exercise their right to a trial, which they can't have. Anything you do to make going to trial more attractive for defendants will result in the backlog increasing or charges getting dropped en masse.

The laws on the books today hardly get enforced. Ross Ulbricht is one of the very few people to go to prison for crypto-related crimes. You probably agree that many people involved with crypto deserve to see the inside of a courtroom, but they won't. So not only is the justice system not capable of processing the people currently in jail (despite copious plea coercion) the justice system has almost completely given up on persecuting many crimes (e.g. fraud), presumably for lack of manpower.

All countries struggle with this resource problem. We want to give everybody a fair trial but we can't. Some countries force pleas on people. Other countries rush trials. Other countries still beat confessions out of people. Different 'solutions' to the same fundamental problem. Unless fair trials get cheap there is no way out.
> We have data of incidents

Those are recreational boating accidents. They are completely unrelated to the discussion at hand (which is commercial fishing accidents).

> Now do before 2018 when the NCFSAC didn't exist...

> It's simply returning to the status quo of 6 years ago.

It's not though. Before it was called the NCFSAC, it was the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Advisory Committee (CFIVSAC). That committee existed back to 2010 at least.

If you are interested in what they actually do, you probably want to go here: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/NCFSAC/

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And I'm not sure exactly what argument you are trying to make. It's not Chesterton's fence to do something new. It is Chesterton's fence to get rid of something without planning for something to replace it's role. It's not a complicated concept. Chesterton's fence is about removing something without understanding why it was there and planning properly for after it's gone.
> It started in 2010. How much longer should we wait for your prediction to come true?

Google has already actively started soliciting outside investors to spin off Google Fiber. Don't hold your breath. Nothing escapes the Google Graveyard, its gravitational mass is simply too large.

"GFiber has already hired an investment bank to start the process of selling equity in the company, according to a source close to Alphabet's efforts. The future goal is for GFiber to be independent from Alphabet, the source said on condition of anonymity."

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alphabet-is-s...
This is basically irrelevant now that better ISAs like RISC-V have a fixed instruction length (2 or 4 bytes) so the fancy algorithm here isn't necessary.
I mean, it's pretty clear they want to sue Fauci and more. Attacking dedicated public servants working for the health of the country is going to have serious negative effects.
The carnivore diet on the face of it looks suspicious. No one that tried it thinking “this is totally legit” worried about what doctors are saying.
Not really - entrapment is narrower.

If someone comes to you and offers you a fictional job to illegally move a lot of drugs for cash and you agree - that's not entrapment, you agreed of your own accord. That the whole thing was a fake setup is not materially relevant.

If you first refuse, and then the undercover officer says "if you don't do this we'll come after you and kill your family" and then you agree under duress - that's entrapment.

It has to be something that's compelling you to do something you would not have done otherwise. Presenting you with the option to make a bad choice is not itself enough because had the situation been real you would have done it.

On one hand I'm sympathetic to Ross in that I can empathize with his youthful ideals and ego that drove the marketplace, but I also think he genuinely would have authorized that person be killed had it been real and people are in prison for a lot less. His market was also a lot more than drugs iirc.

I find his supporters downplaying the assassination bit irritating - I suspect they do it because they know it's the least defensible bit and they can argue it on technicality. I think it'd be better if they just accepted it.

I also think he's very unlikely to commit another crime now that he's out, but still - a lot of people are in prison for a lot less.
I know this is all semantics, but my State made weed legal a while ago. So the justification for smoking weed -> Jail is a whole lot higher.
I would not consider it operator error. Hitting backspace and re-typing the mode? That should be as obvious a change for that kind of thing as shifting between 1st and 4th gear.
It would probably be more reasonable to adjust for US GDP. That would put $2 billion back then at around the same as $250 billion today. So only about 2x off.
I like a quote from Stephen Dubner when he closes his episodes of Freakonomics podcast:

> "Take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else, too."

I'm on HN. I work at a Series-C YC startup. I previously worked at another VC-back SV startup. I've even tried numerous startups of my own. But I'm also a part of a broader community of Americans and I want all Americans (and all people, if possible) to do well.

It's really simple; I'm human first.
Doesn't it seem a tiny wee bit like a hyperbole?
- https://garymarcus.substack.com/

- https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute weekly Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
To answer the q above, this is what we have, too.
This kind of hype is nutso. Look I use LLMs every day all day but they are assistants. They aren’t inventors or prognosticators. They cannot predict how the market will react to a product or idea. They cannot and will never be able to construct anything new outside of their training data. They’ll always need humans in the loop to come up with new interesting things and those humans will be the ones doing most of the actual work.

The people that push this stuff are crazy on their own fumes.

It sounds so transparently full of hype I really don’t know how people take them seriously.
The scientific establishment has had 2 major crises recently - the replication crisis, and the totally insane unscientific and politicized handling of COVID.

Additionally there is undeniably a lot of waste, nepotism / back scratching, and completely ludicrous funded social “science”.

While what’s happening now may wind up bad, I have seen very little push from the establishment itself to do anything to restore public faith in the current system. Trump is the executioner, but the conviction was handed down before he came around.

@dang why is this flagged?
that's no more helpful in answering the question that saying "the internet"