skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worldcoin talks about UBI which based on what Sam has said in the past I would take them at their word on. But beyond UBI what WorldCoin is going for is identity.

In the nonblockchain world your identity is your Country ID, Passport, etc.

In the blockchain world none of that stuff exists and people get uncomfortable when you start asking for it.

This leaves a situation where a person is often just represented by a wallet. Well as you may know a person can make dozens or hundreds of wallets.

This problem leads to all kinds of weird tricks that crypto projects get up to when trying to verify 1 wallet 1 person. For example in the idea of 1 person 1 vote on a project or for something like an airdrop early in a project where people on a discord get free crypto for being early adopters but you don't want one person registering with many wallets.

Today that might look verification based on a phone number associated with discord or something. Real flimsy stuff.

Worldcoin bases it on retina, which I admit creeps me out as well even if it's just a hash. But I can see what they're getting at. The need is there, maybe there is a better way.

I used to work at crypto startup and we ran into this exact problem.
Ask HN: Shared Database Anti(?)-Pattern
Hi, looks like another team is interested in one of our tables, they're planning to just read, so it will be 100% read-only queries (probably from replica).

I'm curious, how popular/acceptable/hopeless such pattern is?

I understand that giving someone read access to the database isn't free (we cannot change schema easily, we cannot change DB, etc) but at the same time, we don't need to create a dummy HTTP-service to just do simple queries (and spend more time on unmarshal-marshal stuff).

Let's assume I'm asking about Postgres but will be very happy to hear stories or thoughts about other DBs (relational, nosql, graph, wide-column, analytical, inmem, etc) and are there any difference in sharing them practically or architectural.

Thank you.
I feel compelled to mention the charity Give Directly which is actually operating charitable UBI in some countries. I think they are very worthy of donations, and their programs are directly relevant to this discussion.

You could look at their operational overhead, but I don’t think it’s high enough to justify the assertion that global UBI would be impossible. But I also think the concept of a global UBI, beautiful though it is, skips out some evolutionary steps that are necessary. It’s entirely possible that a better end state is that each nation implements it’s own UBI program. And that is definitely doable with non-crypto.
>Funding is getting tight. If you're not profitable or don't have a plan to be soon, it will be tough.

Funding is NOT tight -- it just doesn't last forever and investors eventually want returns.

With Fast, they raised $130m, had 400 employees, a run rate of $10m a month and made a whopping $600k in revenue. The staggering level of incompetence from every single person not just on that executive team, but of the firms who invested in Fast, is something we haven't seen in years.

Friday seems to be quite different. They did $2.3m in seed based on Crunchbase and that was in 2020 and never managed to find product market fit. That's a completely different problem than simply not being profitable.
> There is no "ladder" to being a customer service agent. Experience doesn't scale your value to the company.

Yeah, this is wrong. I have a good friend who developed his understanding of the customer in that role, and leveraged it to become, gradually, a director. He was good, and he was recognized, and he was promoted.
I'm running one on my TV right now through Kodi
Operation Unified Protector in Libya was not a NATO operation? Huh? It was completely a NATO operation.

(I could tangent into Russia...)
> We live in a world where exceeding this particular "limit" by 60% is not only safe, it's common.

It's funny how there are so many road accidents caused by people with this very same attitude. Since it isn't their poor driving that's at fault, obviously, what do suggest is?
"HN is very anti-crypto"

Minor correction: "HN is full of people who understand the actual math and implementation of blockchain technologies, business models being tested, and have seen more than a few 'revolutionary' technologies come and go. This knowledge puts them miles ahead of lay people's understanding."
The best way for one to stop being boring is to not write a post about how one must stop being boring. The best way to stop being boring is to write a post about all the interesting and exciting things there are that have nothing (or very little) to do with one's self.
This is what I ended up doing, and even though the majority of the notes I take aren't things I'll need to return to -- they're more about processing in the moment -- just consistently using an iPad to capture into apple notes has scratched the itch in my brain that I might need to look back at something someday, and it's well worth it.

I also am pleased that I can use it to scan any piece of paper I'm given straight into a note and that same scan will pop up when I search for it.
"Invested" in "inner work". Indie, maker, optimizer. Maybe it is just a different kinds of people thing but I think we shouldn't use business jargon language, with all the implicit values and associations that come along with it, to define, of all things, our fundamental mindset and relationship to ourselves. Don't frame yourself that way. Don't become another tool or asset to be burned up like so much VC cash in the making of something ultimately trivial. That language has a purpose but is not good for the soul. Sorry for the rant.
Yes, that's definitely an issue with my company. We serve a pretty small niche and provide services to a few well funded competitors, I've gotten a few acquisition offers that would have really hurt my other customers if the deal went through.

Since it's a core feature but not a differentiator for their businesses I'd love to just make all of it open source and charge all of them to keep maintaining it but there's not an easy way to do that currently without devaluating it.
Hey there, I'm the founder. Happy to answer any questions people have. This was a decision I didn't take lightly.
> to me it never stops feeling like an ongoing project when you try to live your entire life in it.

and that's the fascinating thing about it. What the OP called a 'living program' Smalltalk people called 'human-computer symbiosis'. Software as a fully transparent, introspective, organic thing you can directly interact with and change even as it runs.

There's actually very few software like it, and if anything philosophically more and more software tends towards the static unix "one tool one job" mantra.
I was one of the poor bastards playing Half-Life 2 on a Voodoo 3 around that time... stuttered like crazy, required setting everything as low as possible and then some with console commands... ran at an admirable ~20fps, but I was used to worse on my n64, so I just sucked it up lol.

Looking at some screenshots, it didn't look all that bad...
https://imgur.com/a/cwBHywJ
What is the license of this project? Before looking at the code I usually want to know that in case I wanted to reuse or contribute. I didn’t find a LICENSE file or any note. Does anyone know?
I gotta be missing something here, because wasn’t “teaching a three year old to paint” (where the three year old is DALLE) the original objective in the first place? So if we’ve reduced the problem to that, it seems we’re back where we started. What’s the difference?
Ask HN: Share your personal site
It was fun reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929345 to see people linking, debating, and critiquing/admiring each other's sites. So what's yours?
Fox News viewers paid $15/hour to watch CNN changed their views after 30 days
Strange headline, considering I only said it might be ready for inclusion this year, and saying I tried to get it accepted before is a bit of a stretch. I've talked about upstreaming on the list, but decided - not yet. It's still under heavy active development.

I think the last time I talked about upstreaming on the list was before I added snapshots. Snapshots was the last big feature on my roadmap, but for the longest time I hadn't tackled it because for the longest time some of the algorithmic issues with extents looked unsolvable (many ideas were sketched out in notebooks only to be ultimately discarded).

Then Dave Chinner prodded me again about snapshots after I'd finished reflink, and I realized when I finished reworking handling of extents to be entirely above the proper btree & transaction layer, the extents & snapshots issues that previously looked unsolvable became almost irrelevant. Hooray! But then I had to implement snapshots, which took another year :)

So snapshots is done, and I'm really happy with how it turned out - there's a lot to be said for the slow and incremental way of doing development, of not tackling hard problems until the right time. They're fast and scalable - I've gotten up to a million snapshots in a test VM. There's some things I need to go back and fix - the code that tears down snapshots in the page cache is sucky - but I'll get to it.

Right now, I'm focusing on scalability stuff (just finished an allocator rewrite, and backpointers are right around the corner, which will address copygc scalability), and fixing everything that my current users complain about. And hardening. And debugability. Lots of that.

I'm just not in a rush to upstream before it's _rock solid_ and ready for the masses. It'll get there :)
I’ve seen this book/method highly recommended:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205913.When_Panic_Attack...

One point it makes is that avoidance actually increases anxiety about a thing.
Thank you. Just trying to do the right thing given the circumstances.
Charles Darwin's notebooks have been returned
This is ridiculous. Society doesn’t require surveillance.
By seeing this response as unavoidable, you’re turning out into a dichotomy.
Be careful with thinking that deep work, expanding your mind, culture,
emotional and spiritual literacy, philosophical, psychological and
political understanding will make you better.

You will become different. Whatever measures by which you discern
'better' before, will be irrelevant, almost laughable to the person
you become. And beware too that growth can itself become a
preoccupation.

If you have goals like be more productive, make more money, change the
world, be more liked... then prepare yourself for at least the
possibility that you will, in the course of real growth, end up
rejecting those things as silly.

edit: accidentally posted as reply to wrong comment
To be fair, their Pricing page tells that you aren't getting anything except buzzwords and the requirement to but more buzzwords:

https://www.airship.com/app-experience-platform/pricing/

> AXP ENTERPRISE

> Starts at $25k/Annually

> 100k + MAUs

> Powerful App Experiences

> Mobile Data Hub

> Customer Journey Optimization

> Success Packages

> Deep Mobile Expertise

> * Overage rates apply

> * Success Package required – prices may vary

More charitably, I think Airship was useful before Android / iOS built their feature into the platform natively.
Okay, but all this app does is add a middle man, and that's just going to slow things down. If the city is ignoring complaints and fatalities, why would they pay more attention to this app?

As much as I dislike the survelience aspects, police operated red-light and speed cameras are already a thing. An app isn't going to fix the problem that your police don't care.
I don't think the Guardian article supports your assertion that "several actors confirm it". It mentions that Kohl made a similar statement, not that Kohl was an "actor" in terms of the original "promise" or that he confirmed it was made.
OK, it makes me optimistic to hear you characterize yourself that way, and it would be wonderful if you are able to make a difference (acting locally).
Variational Autoencoders Simply Explained
Happened to randomly stumble on their launch post/Show HN [0] from two years ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22502308
Synthetic-fuel startup just got $75M from Porsche
> Would Russia has gone on a saber-rattling course, starting in '08, had NATO not gone eastwards?

Yes. Reestablising soviet empire was Putins life long project from the moment he gained significant power. Vibes of it are easy enough to notice in his speeches predating '08

Those are not words of a man in fear. Those are the words of a man with a dream.
None of this is true. It’s not a legal problem.

Every single time OpenAI comes out with something, they dress it up as a huge threat, either to society or to themselves. Everyone falls for it. Then someone else comes along, quietly replicates it, and poof! No threat! Isn’t it incredible how that works?

There are already a bunch of dalle replicas, including ones hosted openly and uncensored by huggingface. They’re not facing huge legal or PR problems, and they’re not out of business.
I'm at https://maxleiter.com, built with next.js for server-side generation but with javascript removed in the final bundle so it comes in at ~13KB cold cache. At risk of being mocked for my definition of minimalism, I tried to keep it fairly minimalist and simple while having a modern web aesthetic.
Not that it's impossible to hide the provenance of an image, but it is explicitly forbidden in the TOS of DALL-E to sell the images as NFTs or otherwise.
Randall Munroe should quit now. Soon anybody will be able to create XKCD-type comics.
HN: Tech companies should take more time to work through the psychological and social impacts of their tech decisions.

Also HN: Why does it take them so long to implement this, it's just a simple technical decision?
I'd love to hear your response to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30933873
Doesn't seem to work on my iPad unfortunately.
Hey, I'm the founder. We worked really hard to not position ourselves as a task management tool, but instead, a tool that integrates with existing systems.

Task management is extremely competitive and we didn't want to play in the space. With that being said, we viewed our job as an interface to "glue" the work together, no matter the source.
I haven't got time to write a better comment, but stopping past to say that I've found Vertical Development the most helpful conceptual framework for my own growth and for making sense of others.

As a mental model, it has applications from very basic to extremely rich and complex.

I've worked as an eng/manager/executive coach and keep discovering new insights.

I always enjoy discussing it more if you're interested
I built, all on my own, a dual-platform multi-app on-demand push notification service around the same time.

I can assure you, Urban Airship was not providing "absolutely nothing". If they hadn't been so expensive, we'd have used them and it would have saved me a shitload of time. Open-source support for push at the time was rudimentary (I assume that's gotten better? I haven't looked at it in about a decade) and in any case, doing it at any scale and even somewhat-good reliability involved a lot of work and dragging in tons of extra services (at least, a database and some kind of message queue service, unless you wanted to write those yourself)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-interactive_zero-knowledge...
MLB gives OK to electronic pitch calling
> Please explain which part of my site isn't just the content, presented pleasantly?

I'm not the person you asked, so forgive my jumping in here, but I feel I have a helpful answer.

Design serves function. The function of a website with text is to be read. Your site's design is hard and unpleasant to read. Here's what made it difficult for me to parse and read your page:

1. The title looked like a banner offering a newsletter or cookie preferences. I ignored it. My eyes jumped to the subheadings "router" and "template". It took me too long to discern what I was reading. At first I thought it was a list of blog posts titled "router" and "template".

2. The white, thin text on black background was difficult to read. My astigmatism makes dark on light a strong preference for me. Light on dark can be okay if the font has enough weight to minimize deformation of the letter forms. Here you chose a very thin font.

3. The ragged left edge of each paragraph is harder to scan. The return sweep took longer. It is also reminiscent of poetry which felt out of place.

4. The bright background lines drew my eye in a downward on the right and upward on the left, further making the return sweep less comfortable. It is brighter than the text and nagging at my peripheral vision.

5. The text in the comment box was too low contrast to be comfortable.

6. The right menu was invisible to me until I was critically looking over the design.

It was very stylistic and striking. Aesthetically good. But these design choices are at odds with the functionality of reading, at least for me.
I don't think it's about the edit button itself, literally.

The fact that a tweet is immutable is likely an assumption running deep inside twitter's system. For a large enough system, I could totally see implementing something like this taking months, just from the cross-team overhead or schema migrations
I missed the first time this post got on HN front page, but my main takeway is same comment from jiofih (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630241):

>> the project needed to be (almost) re-created from scratch

>> the build system, Docker/docker-compose, continuous integration, authentication, internationalization, etc

>> created a wiki, migrated the code to a monorepo, created/cleaned up the backlog, etc.

>> created a story map, devised a roadmap, and clarified the scope of the MVP

>> replaced Angular Material by Tailwind, created our own theme, refactored the data model

> This is why. A year went by and no product work was done, none of this was necessary. The very first thing that should have been built is a MVP, that main screen that was only tackled 9 months in. Strongly recommend studying “The Lean Startup” and learning how to be stoic about tech. That’s how people deliver working products in three months.

in addition to that, the author mentions, still in a Startup/MVP context:

"The focus on took care of release automation, created the production infrastructure (switched to Kubernetes)", "The NoSQL database was making us lose a ton of time".

None of this should matter at MVP stage!
It'd be pretty hard to litigate against a non-existent company.
Apologies for an open-ended question but: does anyone know if there is a term for something like Turing-completeness within AI, where a certain level of intelligence can simulate any other type of intelligence like our brains do?

For example, using DeMorgan's theorem, we can build any logic circuit out of all NAND or NOR gates:

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/boolean/demorgan.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOR_logic

Dall-E 2's level of associative comprehension is so far beyond the old psychology bots in the console pretending to be people, that I can't help but wonder if it's reached a level where it can make any association.

For example, I went to an AI talk about 5 years ago where the guy said that any of a dozen algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor, K-Means Clustering, Simulated Annealing, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, etc can all be adapted to any use case. They just have different strengths and weaknesses. At that time, all that really mattered was how the data was prepared.

I guess fundamentally my question is, when will AGI start to become prevalent, rather than these special-purpose tools like GPT-3 and Dall-E 2? Personally I give it less than 10 years of actual work, maybe less. I just mean that to me, Dall-E 2 is already orders of magnitude more complex than what's required to run a basic automaton to free humans from labor. So how can we adapt these AI experiments to get real work done?
The VC model requires continuous unicorns with clean exits in a sea of misses to be able to hit the typical 30% IRR they promise to pension funds, endowments, Bill Gates and Co, etc. Lifestyle businesses are actively avoided for this reason.

It's one if the reasons I avoid working for bootstrapped startups or startups with no-name VCs.
The EU had, as pointless as it was, anti dumping tariffs on solar modules. Such tariffs can be used to protect domestic non-poluters against their foreign competition.
A random joining a channel and exclaiming victory over a raid does not make Nick or CalyxOS guilty of anything. This looks more like subterfuge from the GrapheneOS side to place blame on Calyx.

CalyxOS is a victim of bullying here. I have seen both sides discuss and I have never seen Nick or cdesai tell the community to attack GrapheneOS.

Look at the new HN accounts and how strcat (Daniel Micay) responds in this thread. It is unprofessional at best, malevolent at worse.
Yes.

A power president would be able to put in unqualified judges.

Considering there was recently a president putting in unqualified judges, while the prior president couldn't put in any judges, that is a difference in their power
I'm not saying that's what they did. I'm saying it's functionally equivalent.
same for me. I opened the demo playground and couldn't figure out what to do with the blank screen. It is very confusing as a new user.
(this is a guess, I don't work at twitter)

December: VP approves initiative

January: PM assigned for initial research, weekly iterations on a product spec defining what considerations need to be accounted for

February: Engineering lead assigned and starts to scope out technical implications on various datastores, weekly meeting with teams affected to see what's possible/what implications will be

March: Engineering team established/actual work starts

April: Proof of concept ready, comms start
Patents are generally not written by engineers. They are written by patent attorneys / outside consultants. The engineers have a few conversations with the attorneys, and share technical material (in this case, something specific about cache coherence). The attorneys/consultants then generate a hundred pages of patent-ese scaffolding.

The plagiarized content:

1. Is not what is being patented here.

2. Is not created by Intel engineers (or likely even Intel employees). They're busy designing chips.
> except for titles where the launcher you bought it on launches another launcher

That's just comedy. I know this happens for a lot of Ubisoft games in my Steam library. I guess they want to keep the cake and eat it to. Exposure on Steam, walled garden in Connect.

I'll definitely check out Playnite. Thanks for the tip!
If the US becomes more isolationist NATO becomes a bit meaningless since NATO is basically the US guaranteeing everyone. And that is looking to happen even with Biden. The next president will almost certainly be an America First republican that will be more friendly to Russia than to western Europe.

Western Europe from now on needs to defend itself.
I am considering it. I have a fiduciary duty to try to fetch a fair value for the assets, but if no one wants the codebase, I'd consider opening it up. Still TBD as I just announced this a couple days ago :)
You mentioned in your post that your primary reason for shutting down was that you didn't find sufficient evidence that your product/service was meeting the needs of your users. Was there also pressure from investors to shut down due to this lack of evidence, or was this a personal decision made based on your principles?

Thank you for your consideration.
Umm, if everything was built around the idea that tweets were immutable, yeah I could imagine it's quite a bit of work to change things. Immutable and mutable data can be treated _very_ differently in systems bigger than the little toys you make for fun.