skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You complain that the bar keeps getting raised. Is there some good write up by someone who believes AGI is possible and how it might look like? I.e. what is your definition of the bar where you will say 'now, this is AGI'?
Parag is likely the first one getting the boot after the takeover is finished.
It doesn't help this kind of discussion to put everything under the "crypto" umbrella. There are good projects and bad ones.
Assumption of will is unfounded, scientifically speaking. Your entire argument is philosophical, not scientific. The subjective experience of free will is in no way unrefutable proof that will is required for intelligence.
> pretend other artistic movements and styles are also some type of socio-political movement

Pretend? It's literally in the first sentence of the wikipedia page:

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

"combination of lowlife and high tech" ... juxtaposed with societal collapse or decay

Citation: Thomas Michaud, "Science fiction and politics: Cyberpunk science fiction as political philosophy"

It does not get more political than that.
I'd like to see someone make the argument that current models aren't just combining a number of "tricks", similar to a trained animal. My dog can "sit", "stay" and "beg", all using the same model (its brain). Is the dog generally intelligent?
Meta “Creeps”

It’s like peeps, but more Facebook-y
I don't know about OP but I definitely don't feel envy toward these people. I try to imagine myself in their shoes and just can't imagine myself spewing the same garbage or being the same kind of chauvinistic dick about something like this.
There is a non-zero probability that Twitter's board is simply calling Musk's bluff.

Musk loves attention, but dumping his Tesla holdings to keep getting it may be too much for him.
If I just want a sense of progress of time, especially within an hour, an analog clock works just fine for me. It obviously is more work if I want an exact to the minute time for logging something, and then it must be converted.

On the other hand, analogue might probably slightly easier if I just want to get an to the nearest 15 minutes approximation of the time. If reading from an analogue clock, I'll probably say it is 3:30, but would say it is 3:27 if reading from the digital clock, as reading it exact is faster than rounding it. I have had people seem bemused by my telling them the precise time like that, but like, I'm not going to make more work for myself to make the time less precise to better match tradition.

But unlike some other people I know, I don't have much difficulty understanding the progress of time with a digital clock either. 13:54, and the equivalent clock face both give me equally good impression of how much time is left until until 14:00, and I feel no need to translate either into the other for that purpose.
i mean, when's that ever stopped this guy?
There's a real risk the deal doesn't close. The lower TSLA goes the further away that deal gets. I think keeping the hands on the wheel to me means staying the course - executing on roadmap and vision - until the money is in the bank.
What's wrong with firing someone on paternity leave? It's not like he was fired because he was on paternity leave.
The future of augmented reality is holographic projections into 3d space from a device in the room. Not screens strapped to faces
Show HN: I Built a Task Board for Makers
As crazy as it sounds, I really created my own task board because no one worked for me. There is just a huge gap between Jira (which is a mess) and something like Todoist (which is too simple).

So I build 7todos for myself. A task board to fill the gap. And over time a lot of people have joined and love it as well. One of my favorite feedback

"In my opinion, it does that better than all the other more comprehensive tools like DoneDone, Easynote, or Anywhere. Other tools may have more features or focus on teamwork, but when I work with them, I consistently feel like they slow me down. Not so with 7todos."

The kind of feedback you love to hear, especially as an indie maker

7todos aims to help you to get an overview of all workspaces and all your tasks across projects, and maybe it can also help you :)
I have used it while trying to contribute to a project but I found it not that easy to use and quite confusing
I could have made relatively decent chunk of money if I had just kept the little I had... But I'm really just too risk averse and believe in sanity that the things wouldn't actually go anywhere. Specially not to the 100x from point where I was.

Then again, I also think most tech stocks are just stupid. Especially Tesla, but thankfully I'm not either betting against them. Let's see if I'm proven correct in long run.
Twitter is an engineering for the sake of it company.

Pair that with their actual consumer product being a chaotic scattergun of failed sub-projects, terrible client UI relaunches and the apparent inability to ship anything meaningful given years of time and resources and frankly if I was a large enough investor I'd have been wanting wholesale firings and reorganisation years ago.
Downvoting for disagreement?

Anyway, it is about definition. For you communism appears to be about heritage. For me, it is about observed behavior. Communism means advocating for communistic world order.

Left Alliance is consistently voting pro-market, pro-EU, pro-globalization, anti-government etc., all of which are goals of the economic right, i.e. the opposite of communism.

Their former chair-woman (Suvi-Anne Siimes) even moved directly to become Director General of Pharma Industry Finland, and was promoting right-wing coalition party member in 2009 EU elections.

Sure, there still exists hard core left wing, even communist members within that party (taistolaiset).
Always copying, never leading.
So there's two options right - the first is that Parag is for some reason making big strategic decisions about the direction of the company despite the fact that we all know he'll be gone if the deal closes. Or he's making big strategic changes at the behest of the acquirers before the deal closes.

Neither of these things seem particularly kosher moves to make. The question is how to figure out which one it is.

It would seem weird for Parag to be following Musk's orders given how Musk has behaved. It also seems weird for Musk to already have the insight into the company to know specifically who to fire. There's not much advantage to making these changes now.

On the other hand, going rogue and making big strategic decisions about the company really has the potential to burn Parag's reputation for wherever he would move next.

I guess there's a third option - that Musk has expressed a specific view, Parag has a different view, but that they both think that this move is necessary anyway so just got on and did it.
I only care in so much as I might be able to get some graphics cards at MSRP soon.
we have been using ML to solve useful problems in biology for more than 3 decades. However, it was usually called "advanced statistics and probability on large data sets" because, to be honest, that's what most modern ML is.
Of course there are things you can legitimately be glad about crashing. CO2 emissions, crime rates, frequency of famines, etc. Whether you count the event in question among such blessings is a legitimate topic of debate.
Crypto and other speculative assets are reasonable investments when inflation and interest rates are low - this allows toleration of high risk profiles. When inflation/interest rates rise, theres generally a cash exodus to safer assets.

Monetary policy for the past decade has made it "reasonable" to take a much more risky portfolio stance, that situation has changed, and everyone is realizing it at about the same time.

And so we're seeing the paper tiger of crypto valuations - once the market situation changes such that crypto is too risky, everyone leaves and dumps what they have. It just took 10 years for people to learn that the hard way.
Firing while on paternity leave isn't really that bad as long as they give you severance to cover paternity leave plus some extra - which I'm guessing they did since severance packages for higher ups tend to be pretty good. (As compared to no severance or two weeks that many ICs get)
His next company knows that he will do the same for them.
Yes, I'm glad for the opportunity to buy more Bitcoin at this discounted price.
I hated job-hunting before I did hiring and managed people. I felt rejected each time I didn't get an offer.

Once I sat on the other side of the table, and saw how a /majority/ of qualified candidates were turned down, I didn't feel so bad when I was rejected. The key thing you *really, really, really* want to avoid is a bad hire. I've seen candidates rejected for the oddest reasons. It was definitely the right choice to do so.

In the kinds of companies I've worked for, if you're at all not sure about a candidate, the decision should be a no-hire.

I don't feel rejected any more. A good mental model is:

If you're qualified, you role a die. If the die comes up a 6, you're hired. If you role 1-5, you're not hired.

(The number of sides on the day varies by industry; I think 6-sided is about right for my industry in the current job market)
$4.6M Series Seed to defend open source from supply chain attacks
Why founders are the lifeblood of global tech ecosystems
Of course those peaks were a function of demand being high, so more people bought in then than at other times.
That's correct but depends on the context and the point still stands luckily. Two types of possesives and my example is like dative in a way.
He is going to get a severance package larger that most of us will make in our lifetimes. There's no reason to weep for him.
Command-option-shift-V in Safari. A real finger-twister.
I would actually prefer for it to continue seeing how many scammers pivoted to crypto.

I hadn't had a question from my mother about the legitimacy of the spam she's getting in months.

Also, from all this drama, a whole culture emerged:

https://youtu.be/5-h_-OuGMnE
Sorry but the US doesn't really seem to have a left politics. You seem (to me) to have two conservative-centrist parties in power, both with extremely neoliberal economics, and with slight differentiations on very emotional side shows like abortion and gun control.
I'm not clear on the logic here to be perfectly honest, even if I broadly agree that the real innovation with Bitcoin died when it was clear it would never be a currency.

But gold is also a commodity, and I don't think I've ever heard it called a pyramid scheme.
Highest praise. Your writings on HN and your mailing list were a contributor to my inspiration to work on this, and your perspective has been invaluable. I will reach out when time permits.
You are deluded if you think that. Even with DE's made with Mutter such as Budgie, the perf and smootness difference between the first and the second it's very noticeable.

I would like Gnome if it supported Guile as the scripting language (now Guile 3 has a Jit) as an alternative to GJS.
No. My point is governments will _repress_ people regardless of their surveillance capabilities. The Gestapo didn't need to monitor WhatsApp to detain disloyal citizens without trial. On the flip side, there are billion dollar corporations who exist solely to shit on the leaders of their countries as loudly as possible with no repercussions. I'm not saying surveillance is great and we just blindly accept it, but I am saying the cost of heightened surveillance is a lot lower than the HN crowd seem to think it is. When you're balancing the scale of public safety against increased surveillance it's not a simple equation.
If he was fired on paternity leave, the credited play is to say nothing. This is potentially a beautiful lawsuit and the last thing you want to do is lose ground on something you said on the internet.
Thanks for the insights :-)

To put that in context, I've been a (mostly happy) architect on all three major clouds for several years. The thing that "triggered" me to explore alternative options is GCP's continuing pricing increases across the board, and it's extremely bad pricing model for indie projects (that used to NOT be the case).

One thing to realize though is all of this is VERY relative - reliability etc. CAN be achieved by using proper primitives (Kubernetes etc.), but that comes at the cost of additional setup. That does however has its upsides too, meaning that these days pretty much everything under the sun can be done via K8s on bare metal, and migrated later somewhere else with relative ease.
There is a word for this, jealous.
These threads always have plenty of great suggestions of alternatives for just getting started or hobby development. What are people using for mid-range stuff? I want the features and ease of Heroku, without having to build it all ourselves on top of AWS directly. Something on the order of $1-5k/mo spend, more than a "hobby", but not enough to justify a devops team wearing pagers.
If he's fired now the current board can offer him a severance package that may not be on the table once Elon takes over. Might be a good thing, or strategic?
I’m not terribly worried about that scenario. I haven’t had my 1password breached — lots of bad things could happen if I did. I don’t own enough crypto to make this my biggest concern. I’d rather have a robust system that will hold it without failure, or in Coinbase’s case, bankruptcy.
Proof-of-work works fine with clean energy. You should direct your concerns at polluting forms of energy sources.
If those changes were planned before Musk's offer, wouldn't changing the plans to that "keeping the lights on and making sure everything stays stable until the deal closes" be opposite of operating without his influence?
These are fictional classification of fictional magic users anyway. Actually did she ever clarify what exactly a sorcerer is in her universe?

(In the D&D model her wizards seem to operate more like sorcerers, but of course D&D doesn't make the rules for everyone).
Solarpunk isn't about believing that social development will keep pace with technological development, it's about imagining what would happen if it did. Its politics are not a fairytale but a call to action to divert course. Cyberpunk says "the future is just gonna be awful" and explores just how awful it's going to be (which isn't rebellion, it's apathy), solarpunk says "imagine what the future could be like if we made it better". It's only a lullaby if you believe there's no hope for change.
You're right. I didn't word that very well. Human intelligence vs. AI will always have different qualities as long as one is biological vs. silicon based. I still think we'll be surprised how quickly AI can catches up to human performance on most tasks that comprise modern jobs.
There's no reason to think that change only comes from pain. There's also no reason to think that repeated boom and bust cycles are necessary and good. That would be a kind of Malthusian logic that has thankfully been abandoned when it comes to population studies -- it should not be accepted in economics either.
Your version of what happened seems extremely incomplete to me. Ukraine was basically fighting a war against Russia for 8 years already [1]... and that war started when the Russia-friendly government was removed by revolution (the demoted president fled to Russia after that) after which a very anti-Russian government was immediately instated with the whole objective of joining NATO and the EU, to Russia's dismay...

Not that just because of that Russia had the right to do what it was doing... but let's not forget everything that actually lead to the hostilities like you're simply doing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas
Yep, was going to post the same if someone hadn't already. This is the unix way. Small tools with narrow focus, strung together in pipelines.
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Unfortunately, cryptobros probably bought in early enough where they are unlikely to be punished. The people who are punished are those who were told that cryptocurrency is a good way to diversify your portfolio.
Sure, let me explain my way of thought. I think it’s time to get off of the bandwagon „it’s someone else’s computer”. Sure, internet services don’t live in the void and there’s always a server out there. Are the end of the day, three things in life are for certain: taxes, death, and there is a server.

However, with Cloudflare specifically, you write apps that deal with individual requests. You, as a dev, never ever get exposed to a server. This abstraction goes way further than even AWS Lambda goes. There are no local caches, no temp directories, no mucking around with a shutdown of a function. Every instance of an app deals with exactly one request.

That’s what I mean by „their serverless world”.
Could just be that Kayvon Beykpour got replaced by someone better at the job?

Baseball fans know of Wally Pipp, who was a solid first baseman for the Yankees for a decade or so. One day Pipp had a headache and was replaced in the lineup by a young Lou Gehrig, who turned out to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.

I have no idea if Jay Sullivan is a Lou Gehrig talent, but he's been doing the job while Beykpour is on paternity leave. If you're the CEO of Twitter and you believe the temp guy is doing a better job, why not make the change?
Funnily enough, M87* is bigger than Sgr A* by about the same factor than it is farther away (~2000x ?), and these effects mostly cancel out so the effective resolution of each is about the same. They chose to image M87* first because there is less dust/gas obstructing the view through intergalactic space to M87 than through the bulk of the milky way disk.
Sure, but Lego didn't have brown and black for POC. The training of expectations isn't exclusive, and more people consumed The Simpsons than Legos.
Wouldn’t most applications that support rich text input inherit it from the browser, the underlying framework for native apps and/or be implementing styling themselves already (i.e. code editors)? I’m trying to enumerate applications that I use and I’m struggling to come up with more than Google Sheets, where paste without formatting is a drop-down menu instead.
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I don't personally see utility in any technology coming out of the crypto space to be useful to our society long-term. Helium (the LoRaWAN routers) is interesting but mostly dead in the water because who uses LoRaWAN except for specialists who build their own mesh network? How are you defining "good"?
You can launch into any security context but merging multiple contexts under a single window is not supported. It has to do with Windows lacking session elevation for pipes but supporting it for window handles https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/Niksa.md...

If you want to get real hacky in the meantime you can run the ssh server service and have a short alias to ssh to localhost as a user but now you have that extra abstraction between to deal with.
I absolutely agree. I don't care what the work email is - even if it's "hey you're fired". You're making them work while he's on leave. The guy is tweeting all these bullshit, empty "my incredible journey" tweets for Twitter damage control.

Absolutely toxic workplace.
Without knowing details of the severance, non-compete clauses, etc., it is hard to read too much into this. It could be a giant favor, or a giant kick in the balls.
Sure - I meant more "in the spirit of...", re: fundamentally optimistic premises.
you say

> pure stupid luck

I say

> A bigger idiot
If what you say is a valid explanation, then the original question "I don't understand how this is Google's fault?" should be answered with "they should reduce the incentives for employees so that they won't burn themselves out trying to outdo themselves".

Yeah, it sounds like sarcasm but I think the logic above can be read both ways.
Growing up outside of the US, I feel kinda cringed when he said he was "INSANELY proud of our collective teams achieved". Such an interesting cultural difference.
Thanks! You anticipated my question:-)
Not entirely related, but I do not understand how someone could say this with a straight face https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1524787804743475201?s=21&t=...
Elon Musk's networth is a big mystery. Not because its private information (we all know Musk's holdings for the most part), but because in 2 or 3 months, the Fed will meet a few more times and may raise interest rates again.

TSLA's stock price may be $1000 by then, or it might be $500. If its $500, Musk may not have the physical money to finish this buyout offer, even if he wanted to.

This entire deal was made when Tesla was near $900 or thereabouts. But then the stock market started to change severely, the bond market changed severely, and now there's a lot of uncertainty if anyone really has enough money for everything to go through fine.

---------

Twitter's board has to keep both possibilities in mind. If Elon Musk's buyout offer fails (either due to Musk personally, or because of changing prices which rekt Musk's networth), Twitter will still need a plan for a Musk-free Twitter future.
Only tangentially related, but if you prefix the command with a space, it doesn't get recorded to history.

$ cd

$ echo "one"
one

$ echo "two"
two

$ echo "three"
three

$ history | tail -3
10089 cd
10090 echo "one"
10091 echo "three"

When you remember to do it, that is.
Fair, maybe I said that more broadly than I meant when you put it that way, but it's just embarrassing looking at half of these comments with people celebrating something like this. I don't even touch NFTs, but the lack of empathy in this thread is ugly.
If you're not willing to make any arguments of your own supporting your position, but expect links to speak for you, then you are not debating and your position remains unsupported.
importing a module is the most fustrating part of writing rust code next to writing a multiple-spawn tasks.

Can someone help me how to import a module in lib/m.rs from lib.rs ? I've never seen someone asked about it.
Depends on how you look at it. It could also be seen as desensitization,

to soften you up for acceptance of "there is no alternative" via shock doctrine.

Furthermore, also depending on how and where you look at it,

we've long overtaken the warnings of 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and following, at least partially.
I don't see a major difference between slack and twist tbh. At least as of now.

"A noise-free inbox surfaces just what's relevant to you." how do you do this specifically? I see just a gif where a person is marking stuff, but how do you do this? Every communication provides some version of this, how are you different?

Also crossed "lurk on" on the landing page sounds so weird why the war on lurkers?

I guess every tool for remote work is bound to become some copy of slack eventually as bosses want more communication and there are trust issues with remote work.

Async communication tools should be focused on building healthy boundaries between work, 10,000 different topics that an employee can be tagged in and a boss who needs progress reports all the time.

Making slack with cleaner UI is not enough imo.
Me too. Copy-pasting with formatting is almost always what I don't want.

It's even more of a disaster on a Mac, because the handling is MS Office is much worse than on Windows, and Outlook has about three total settings on its preference screen, so there's no way (I can tell) to change the default behavior.
I'm more glad that companies that were profiting from crypto are losing more than the consumers invested in it. I would prefer if crypto values slowly levelled off, fell, and stabilized. That way it would reflect what it can be: a stable but less convenient/spendable cash, which is where we are at.

If we get higher transaction throughput or less energy consumption with similar guarantees, the value should go up again to reflect that ability.