skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one hits home literally. American poll worker data stored on Chinese servers by an East Lansing company. Told a friend that I feel like I'm in the middle of a spy novel.

Even though I've spent thirty years in the founder and developer circles in East Lansing I know no one from this company. Although they were quite successful at getting money from local and state economic development agencies their people never engaged in the local tech community to my knowledge.

It's also the first time that I know that tiny little Okemos where I attended high school was mentioned in a story in the old grey lady.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/technology/election-softw...
I try to use voicemail. The reason it doesn't work is that although my phone has 128Gb of storage, for some reason my provider's voicemail system can only store like 10 seconds of audio before it runs out of space and asks me to delete messages. My landline's answering machine is like this too.

Apparently there's a special kind of memory just for recording telephone messages and it's as precious as a diamond.
The question then becomes, how much does a portable airlock weigh versus a new satellite? What's the value of the airlock at the end of the mission? You're in the wrong orbit to send it somewhere else, you can't carry it back attached, and if you get clever and make an inflatable one to try to keep it small, how do you deflate such a thing?
I don't think this is the primary factor. As another commenter mentioned, Politico does indeed have a low incidence of the word "neoliberalism". Not all of Politico's contributors are involved in academic international relations, so this isn't an explanation. It might be that Politico is biased in favor of the worldview promulgated by academic international relations, but this is back to my point---news sources are biased, and this bias constrains the acceptable range of debate. (Please note that I am not personally making a judgment call as to whether or not this is good or bad. Just making an observation and answering the original question.)
GPT-3 quality models for $450k
Prior discussions (when macOS was presumed at fault):

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095608 (83 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096540 (102 comments)
"The reason CEOs are smarter than everyone else is because they talk to other CEOs".

Seems a bit circular to me.
Do you have data/URL on this that you can share please?
> This tool's great grandchild is never going to take a rough idea for a movie and churn out a blockbuster film.

What about the tool's nth child though? I think saying it will never do it is a bit much, given what we know about human ingenuity and economic incentives.
>They should be charged with espionage and executed like the Rosenbergs.

Ah, cool, jumping to conclusions and wishing death upon people instead of waiting to see how this plays out. Don't confuse this with me saying that espionage isn't possible here, I'm just saying - cool your jets and breathe before pulling any triggers. Yikes.
Every company is different, but my preference is to break into teams by domain/network boundary. In this case sharing libraries is extremely rare. Teams could easily be on different tech stacks.

Edit: my experience is mostly between seed - series B startups. If you're Google, then of course you're going to have a ton of internal libraries. But I'd put it in the same category as open source.
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Greetings,

I have been working as a Full-stack engineer with a good focus on front-end.

- I have built, architected, managed development story MVP projects. led projects and team to add more functionalities on internal and main products on mobile and web-apps.

- I have experience working with remote teams for more than 3 years now. This includes clients from Canada, USA, Netherlands, Australia. I have built their Android/iOS app with React-Native, and hospatility management job portal, respectively. Have experience building back-end micro-services with Node-express, Python, Django, GraphQL & Apollo client on front-end with React and Typescript. I maintained the component repo as a separate library to support the main app.

- I've worked with a startup from initial phases to build audio-video conferencing web app using Agora's SDK for WebRTC and RTM channels with React.js, Redux, Google Firebase with Node.js, Express.js on backend micro-services with MySQL. I have also led a support tool project here.

- I can also join an existing team temporarily to give a short-term boost, perhaps helping with a challenging project or co-ordinating a larger initiative across teams. This can include a training/mentoring element if you need to upskill quickly.

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Are you genuinely asking for advice on what to do? It seems like your options are embrace the new tech, find a niche where you can outcompete it, or find a new way to support yourself that you like better. HN can't tell you which of those to choose.

Personally I think there's a good chance you're overestimating the the extent to which your day-to-day job will actually change by incorporating AI. Machine learning was supposed to take over data science years ago, but data scientists are in more demand than ever, and their work often doesn't involve too much actual machine learning.
Yes but you have the right to inspect the logs on your own server. The distinction here is using a privacy-invading thing like Google Analytics that /profits/ off data is different than a visual log of server traffic. Whether you decide to abuse the fact that you're logging requests or not is on you. State it in your privacy policy that you're not abusing such collection and make that clear.
I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow

"District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."
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One role of tests is documentation. If you have a large number of examples of how to use an API you know they keep working. Any code snippet used for documentation should have a corresponding test because otherwise the docs will probably break someday. It’s the best case for ‘literate programming’ that there is.
This is so hard to fathom from my viewpoint. In the US, it seems, every large company has a software R&D department that has been writing Java for 30 years. I exaggerate, but I wonder: do you not have bank chains, grocery chains, major construction firms, accounting and payroll, or energy and water utilities?

I would think, also, given the trade embargo, you'd have to write and maintain (somewhere within your borders) all the software which an American company might buy off-the-shelf.
This is probably the biggest achievement of AI to date. I'm surprised DeepMind isn't playing the game of financial markets yet.
> Consumers can register at DMA's consumer website: www.DMAchoice.org for a processing fee of $4 for a period of ten years. Registering online is the fastest way to see results. DMAchoice offers consumers a simple, step-by-step process that enables them to decide what mail they do and do not want.

I'm going to start a business that delivers several one ton concrete blocks directly in front of the front doors of the offices of firms associated with the DMA. They can opt out for 40 thousand dollars or simply spend a few dozen hours with a pickaxe and wheelbarrow to dispose of the blocks when they arrive unasked for.
Artists which use AI and become more efficient will drive up supply of art and decrease its price. Additionally, some people who need art might just skip the artist entirely now, leading to less demand. This means some artists may no longer be able to make a living. As in, they're effectively replaced.
> Both sides would either devolve into unlivable hellscapes

One side would devolve into an unlivable hellscape. The other side would devolve into the 1890s-1910s or so, without access to modern imported goods.

Nobody would "win". It's obviously a horrible scenario. But one side would definitely lose.

> It can't happen without something freakish happening

Nations collapse from political schism all the time. We just have short memories.
Ugh, my first pair was defective and I managed to get them replaced under warranty at the last moment. I felt super fortunate, but the replacements (now out of warranty) are having different issues. They’re more functional which is nice I guess, but still very obnoxious.

It’s a shame because when they work well, I love them. By far the best earbuds I’ve ever owned — when they work.
I have basically the same experience doing cljs dev that I do with clj dev, when it comes to being REPL-driven.

I know that the setup for cljs is a bit more involved and things will break sometimes (putting a browser in the loop will do that). I have dev tools open ... but I use it less and less, between hot-reloading and a data browser (portal or reveal) hooked up to the clojurescript repl I only use dev-tools stuff occasionally (the network tab is still very important of course).

It does sound like you are missing something, I'd try out one of the shadow-cljs example projects or walkthroughs to see what an example setup includes as features to see what you might be missing.
NYU professor fired after students who got low grades complained about him
My experience with university is that one can easily get at least a B+ if one attends every class, completes every assignment, and attends every tutorial to ensure they understand most, if not every, basic concept. So, I never understood why students could complain that a class is too hard, especially for classes as fundamental and structured as organic chemistry. I'm sorry to break to the snowflakes, but Organic Chemistry is easy. Can't we just tough up? Or as my professor used to tell me when I was trying to explain to him that I got B+ for my complex analysis course because that class "was too hard": math is math. Don't look for excuses.
Numbers don't add up. There is a reason you have to pay 200K to great engineers in USA vs say 80-k100K in India (which is like the top 1% of salary there and only the best get it). So yea, it is Capitalism 101.
Thanks! This clarification helps! Are there any standard privacy policies one can import into their website? I am looking for something along the lines of standard open source licenses. Thanks to a wide range of open source licenses available, we don't have to invent our own while publishing open source code. Anything like that for privacy policy?
Storing a human readable format is a amateurish practice with immense performance and resource costs. It conflates the storage format with the visualization/processing format.

In basically every case you should store/log a dense binary dump of your varying data and a ID that uniquely identifies the data format. Then, when a human wants to read the log, you do a post-processing step in your debug environment that formats the data in a human readable way.

This moves string formatting off of the target and prevents the frankly outrageous amount of redundant string duplication when storing human readable logs. It also avoids a roundtrip through stringly-typed logs and allows for efficient binary parsing of your logged data in their natural data format instead of doing brittle string parsing.

It is frankly challenging to come up with even a single case where you should not do it this way as long as your tooling is mature enough to manage the separated encoding/decoding pipeline. Even if it is not, you could always just run the post-processing step on all your new raw logs and store that afterwards as your “official logs” which still gives you the performance advantages on your production systems while being no worse than any existing scheme.
It probably depends upon you.

Is AI a tool or a trap?

Can it make some of your jobs iterate more quickly and weed out the cruft or heavy lifting?

Or is it only something that gets in your way of production?

It is up to you.
The universe is so big, and so many things to look at, I find it hard to believe we couldn't productively use 100 Hubbles.
> Is this howto useful? I think it is. Cause if you have device broken in some way and you want to get it replaced you can just run it and hope for replacement instead of repair.

Not nice.
I wanted to do a certificate authority in space that you could connect to as it passed overhead and get certs and signatures from it.

This wouldn't be a profitable enterprise.
Service providers always want full control of the user experience and bots get in the way of that. We know this, but very often, that's not in the interests of the users at all.

Hence why there are legitimate reasons to write bots snd continue the arms race - otherwise, we'll pretty soon end up in a world where YouTube's business model of "subscribe to premium so you we'll stop interrupting the videos when you minimize the app" will be the standard mode of operation.
That's a very comforting thought for when my Mac is idling at 80c and I have to join a video conference.
SMS 2FA is basically the same as TOTP against phishing. It is worse in that you can be hit with sim-swapping. Phishing is many orders of magnitude more common than sim-swapping. There is a real difference between these two options, but it is wildly overemphasized online. The gap between SMS/TOTP and a Yubikey or equivalent is way larger.
Even with my careless error, the statement in question is still a sweeping generalization.

> As of 2021

This is a tough number to track down, and you've limited the count by "active," in 2021, but the number is rapidly increasing. According to the FIFA Database as of a few moments ago, there are 1771 chess grandmasters.[1]

24/1771 < 1.4%

> In my opinion, that is a serious problem.

Even assuming 1.8% of chess grandmasters are cheaters, this means that 98.2% of them are not. If you tested a 98.2% of a perfect score on a test, would you really think your grade was a serious problem? If you had the chance to retake the test for a replacement score, either better or worse, would you?

[1] https://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml?idcode=&name=&title...
I don't know if this is some sort of convention or just a lot of coincidences but it seems when it is an urgent call, everyone calls twice. And they leave voicemail on the second call. This includes stuff like people running late, calls from daycare, etc.

For non-urgent matters like payments, they call once and leave a voicemail.
For private property it's easy and inexpensive to just install your own L2 charging. Even if you rent, it probably wouldn't be too hard to convince your landlord to let you pay for an L2 charger install if they already offer you private parking.

I was thinking more about street parking and parking lots, though, since that's an area with a the less immediately obvious solution.

I'm sure it differs between principalities, but in many places the city/government controls the area immediately beside the street and if they were onboard it would be feasible to install streetside chargers early everywhere.

Privately owned parking lots couldn't be forced to do so without legislation, but it's inexpensive and adding a few into the mix could add to their revenue streams.
For non-elastic writes this might be sufficient (I have no clue as to performance of AWS S3 for this kind of use case) - but supposedly[0] there's some elastic read capacity. As far as I know that's not possible with standard CH at all, and may be where some secret sauce is.

I can vaguely imagine how you'd build such a thing, you'd spin up new instances that knows your write-primary's sharding/partitioning scheme - heck you could even approximate it with slightly-augmented clickhouse-clients doing the S3 pulls directly and no real additional "server" - but as far as I know there's no way out of the box.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081658
Until you want to know which query is slow, which metrics won't tell you.

Being able to do "where query_time_ms > 5000" and then seeing the query has made some of my systems incredibly debuggable¹.

Or just finding a failing request with "where response_code = 500". Yeah, I can "grep 500", but you would be shocked at how often those characters occur by happenstance in logs "grep ' 500 '" is a bit closer but … you're just dancing around a solution engineered to do the job: structured logs.

¹and then finding out someone drew a rather large bounding box that managed to be centered precisely between and encapsulate both Philly & NYC. This kills the DB.
I'm not sure this meets the OP's requirements, but this is what I was going to recommend as well.

I've used mdBook exclusively since moving off GitBook in 2019 when they dropped their OS/local project and highly recommend it for how easy it is to setup and use.
Musk had cancelled his Sept 28 deposition bc of “Covid exposure risk”
I think the author is largely setting up a strawman. He's alluding to various structured notetaking methodologies (presumably, elaborate wikis, zettels, concept maps, etc.) but then says those methodologies are fine if you're doing detailed, real research work. But honestly, isn't that the only type of person who uses these things? Who would spend all this time building a giant structured notebase just for bits of information of personal interest, with no real application in mind? Most people would lose patience quickly.
I fully support this action, but I also think county bureaucrats and elected officials who allowed this software to be used despite clearly having no ability to audit it, should also be held accountable.
It was that originally, and then it was subverted. An attempt to reestablish the original intent will most likely be subverted again. Good intentions are irrelevant.
It's 1972, the microprocessor has been invented, and these guys are saying "what the world needs is much bigger mainframes. Much, much bigger."

You owe it to yourself to read the paper by Way, Ives, Mealy and Farmer in Joule, "Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition". Or at least look at the pictures.

1. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00410-X
that's by dollar value not calories. california produces a lot of fancy water-intensive stuff. flyover country produces mass nutrition.
Much much better. Mostly because you have to write about 1/10th the number of tests to get the same level of assurance.

Also there's a standard command for running tests in Rust but not Python.
The more developed the artistic taste, the lower one's opinion of other tastes.
There can be a saturation a point where that becomes true, but I can’t see how that’s possible upfront.

Virtually all of the national and global manufacturing and logistics is fossil fuel driven.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done but unchecked and without care our industries will take shortcuts and warp good intentions (like ethanol).
I think this is a great move, but like every FOSS project I am interested what the finding situation will look like, both short and long term.

(One guesses they have software dev jobs and will have some % of time dedicated to that).
It (http://www.pollchief.com/) appears to do quite a bit more than just payroll, quite a bit of it fairly specialized.
Advisable is shutting down – here’s where we went wrong and why
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Does the US need Apple?
There might be more subtlety than is immediately obvious.

It is implied that SQLite is not run properly because it is not responsive to many of its users. User contributors will be sorely disappointed.

There is an assertion that SQLite is behind the times. It has a laser focus on reliability, which hold back features desired by some.

The article disregards the TH3 testing compliance, and asserts that forks are inevitable, which is not true. TH3 is a moat around SQLite that dissuades such attempts, and ignoring this fact also likely invokes umbrage.

There is also a mention of the code of conduct that SQLite has chosen. It does not inspire universal admiration.

The article wants the following, and some are unlikely to ever appear upstream:

1. We would like to use io_uring and asynchronous interfaces

2. We would like to provide replication hooks for distributed systems

3. We would like to allow for WASM-based user-defined functions
Human language is inexact and context sensitive. This means the precise meaning of words in communications is unique to the time, place, and members of the communication.

Because of this, there will never be a 100% reliable "text prompt to AI image" generator. Someone will have to get to know the AI and figure out how to make it do what is wanted, or modify it to get what is wanted.

Kinda the same way Google and other information repositories have not made researcher's jobs obsolete.
With sufficiently parallel hardware, you can do an entire mat4 * mat4 multiplication in 3 cycles. First do all 64 multiplications in parallel, then do 32 adds, then 16 adds to get the final answer.

For operations in GF(2) where they claim a result, a multiply is just an AND gate and an add is an XOR gate. So the fully parallel hardware version is 64 AND gates and 48 XOR gates, with a total gate delay of 3. This is a trivial amount of hardware and could easily be an instruction in some alternate universe where it was useful.
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That would require a critical mass of customers to accept some standard ‘good’ call and deny all ‘not good’ calls. Which with all the chaos right now, good luck without some kind of central action at least as strong as that required to kill the spammers normally.
You could probably wrap Scoop packages into a Wine environment with Nix fairly easily, since all the packages in their main repos are well-behaved, portable, and install non-interactively.
I've heard it at pycon and at the local python user's group. I've seen it on blogs for years.
in my previous/previous/previous career I was heavily involved with various states election systems (juicily enough starting in hanging chads Florida). The field is full of tiny little outfits AND huge consultancies (Accenture in my personal example) doing stuff. The quality varies tremendously from amazing to amazingly atrocious. When I did all this work the cloud was not yet a big thing so no servers were provisioned in anything other than well known data centers, but it's you get what you pay for. Since it's secretaries of state paying for some, and then tons of random counties paying for some others, these are not incredibly lucrative contracts, and it does attract just random small software firms.
I'm sure most autodidacts can appreciate this, but I can't help but consider:

He is paid to teach - is he performing that role effectively if his students aren't learning?
For humans the inspiration can be something else than the medium to use. Watching reality can provide inspiration for creating a video. And I'm pretty sure that's wher most inspiration comes from. It cannot for AI. Of course in a world where everything exists AI doesn't need inspiration from other sources.
In my family, text communication is difficult for the elderly and/or English as a second language people.