skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article is missing the point that the technology of a solution is different from its intrinsic motivations.

PageRank could have been fine if the intrinsic motivations were to educate, enlighten, and help people.

Just because a search technology is wrapped up to look like a personalized AI doesn't mean it is immune to the same intrinsic motivations.

Who is to say that Google won't release a 'Personalized Search AI' that is free for the user and it continues to follow the same motivations that their PageRank solution does.

I think custom AI's tuned for each person will be the defining technical foundation for the next few decades, but I'm extremely concerned that the fundamental business drivers that compete for sales, view time, and divisiveness will not be resolved.

Nothing will stop an authoritarian government, an ad driven company, an entertainment company, or a political research company from giving out 'free' personal AI's.

If the history of the Internet has anything to teach us then it is this:

The free ones will always be more successful than the paid ones.
So your advice is their purpose is to find god.

Just say that instead of some rant about being offended next time, mkay?

Saying as someone with no purpose and no God and apparently no morality.
It's sorta useful for illicit goods and as payment for decrypting people's computers which they hadn't consented to being encrypted.
Good proxy for the promise and reality of crypto though - you need to interact with some shitty PayPal crypto platform and they charge you charge 1.8% for the luxury of doing so.
How fast can it go backwards?
Former frontend performance guy here – "Cumulative Layout Shift" is the measure of this jank, and yes, it is the absolute worst.

Conversely, it's hard to overstate how magical sites become when you get that down to 0. Once stuff stops shifting, users are effectively fooled into believing that sites are finished loading. Sites just feel fast, even if things are still happening. It's sadly hard to get there, and very easily worsens.
Yep! Got a piece of tooling leather, roughed up the steel with sandpaper, and affixed it with gorilla glue two part epoxy. If you go that route, make sure you clean the steel with soap -- my first attempt started to delaminate after a few months, I think because I didn't do that. After the epoxy cured I cut it to size and burnished the edges with a cheap wooden burnisher and some beeswax.

I used a piece of undyed vegetable-tanned leather that I treated with neatsfoot oil and left in the sun for a few days. The oil takes it from pale pink to an ugly, mottled liver color, but as it rests in the sun it develops that warm, rich tan. (This is sort of off-topic but that board was my first time "finishing" leather myself, and I like the look and feel of it so much that I've done it for all my leather projects since.)
The replacement of Gas Lamps has been going on for a long time now.

There is a book that was written by H. V. Morton called "Ghosts Of London"(published in 1939) that mentioned the gas lamps being replaced.

This article is from 2014 and mentions both that book and the fact that there was still 1500 gas lamps in London.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848038/The-magical...
Depends on a webcam app/hw. If it allows for an equivalent of in-person “protocols”^, sure. Looking at someone, negotiating attention, proximal subchats, etc. But still, imagine a meeting in a restaurant and everyone is peering into their laptops to just see me echoing around.

Anticiating the next question, yes, I find in-person bandwidth (usually, as in popular software) superior to webcam.

^ This could be done in non-VR apps too, but convincing IMs to make UI for that is even less real than creating VR glasses.
As an amateur it sounds a bit like copyright with a lien or caveat attached. They legally own it now, but can't legally use it since it was rejected and not paid for. It's not as clear cut as if I personally ripped BFG Division to put in my indie game.
For job seekers who come across this, here's a link to the relevant submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
When talking about GitHub stars and money, it's important to understand the other side of the equation.

A useful free and open source project garners GitHub stars and general recognition because it is useful, but also because it is free. The stars are the social compensation in this case. The free nature of the software is essential to that relationship.
Using a Ioannidis paper to back Bhattacharya. The perfect crankception.
Question:

- Anyone having any issues with charging their iPad Pro 11/12 <<gen>> after upgrading to 16.1?
"'I f---ed up,' Bankman-Fried told investors on the call, according to people with knowledge of the conversation. He said he would be 'incredibly, unbelievably grateful' if investors could help."

Christ almighty. 8 BILLION dollar shortfall? Weren't they saying just a couple days ago that there were no liquidity problems whatsoever? This is beyond embarrassment, it seems downright illegal.
And here I was feeling impressed with myself for implementing the Nand2Tetris VM translator in ~2k of python... wow. Respect for the elders!
Long-term capital gains?
The common meaning of imperative means you tell a computer something step by step. If a config file does that, it's imperative.

Declarative in practice usually means that an intelligent solver works backwards from a description of a final state

Make a file is imperative. There should be a file here is delarative.

Making a file may fail depending on implementation if it already exists. "This file should exist" likely will not because it will do whatever is needed, including nothing, to ensure constraints are met.

The best configuration file in my opinion, though, is to keep it trivial, and just have one factory config with very few options.

Need to log in and think you need to set a username and password? Linux has that already, lots of apps use the user accounts instead of their own nonsense layer or even directly use SSH as their transport.

Need to enable optional modules? Can you just make them enable and disable themselves on demand?

Network settings? I hope there's at least the option to just discover everything automatically.
> What's your metric for screwing up? Is it short, medium, or long term? Should short term goals/profits be the only goal of a company?

As a worker my metric is first and foremost about the worker. A company screws up if it fails to bring profits to the workers. Laying off 11,000 workers certainly falls under a big screw up by that metric. I know companies—such as charity/non-profits exists who have humanitarian goals, or even amusement, as their goals, however I don’t see Facebook there.

But we live in a capitalist society and most companies’ goals are profits for their shareholders. Facebook seems to have screwed that goal up as well. And instead of letting the person who lead the company into this failure pay the price of failing, they take it down on the workers... This seems quite unfair, and is even illegal in many (most?) countries.
I really tried to use Podman, but I kept running into issues trying to get a rootless deployment on RHEL that used a protected port (53) and it gave me so much trouble that I uninstalled Podman and installed Docker.

Maybe I can try again, but it was frustrating enough to turn me away for a while.
My ipad pro 2021 is charging fine after update.
> But the reality is that VR is not the future, people just don't want it. Nobody wants to live their entire waking / working life in a VR headset.

This keeps getting repeated but aside from "it's not the status quo", I see little evidence for it. I'm sure nobody wanted to spend their entire waking and working life sitting in front of a computer screen back when PCs came out and yet here we are...

In the off chance that VR does work out, Meta's going to be a huge benefactor.
I mean, ultimately government == a handful of legislators plus the executive and judicial branches. If you're suggesting we could avoid this by having the right people in office, you are right. But the founders of our government also clearly stated that if men were angels, they wouldn't even need to be governed, and if the government were run by angels, it wouldn't need to be limited, nor would it need checks and balances. We've forgotten this lesson over and over as our government continues to grow and remove checks against its power.
Now the 3 days is beneficial to banks since whichever bank is holding the funds can claim the interest due on it.
A reserves report is not an audit
I met him through a common low-level interest. As said, I didn't even know, nor actually care, what he was working. Our correspondence was purely a hobby project thing, until he asked whether I would be interested in a topic-adjacent internship.

If you're dreading enterprise software, kernel engineering is (usually at least) definitely pretty far from that. I would say you have to have a knack for it, since among other things you'll be dealing with problems that, for "higher level" engineering, are usually already solved on some lower layers, and also because debugging is often an exercise in creativity and knowing (and learning, ad-hoc) a meticulous amount of details. Being passionate about that certainly helps. But absolutely try it out for yourself, maybe it's your cup of tea and you just didn't know it yet.
Even with 'perfect' glasses, batteries, networking and tracking, you're still faced with the problem that the virtual world is populated by intangible apparitions while real-world obstacles remain very tangible. And conceptually, none of the solutions to those problems are ever going to become cheap or convenient, because they're problems with basic physics.
There is always employee turnover in business, this is normal and employees are never guaranteed lifetime employment or the CEO quits too, that's silly. Standard part of all contracts with US companies is an at will clause stating that employees can be terminated at will without reason except for an illegal one. The people losing their jobs should thank Zuck for the time he did employ them, the chance he took on them, and also for the generous severance packages he's giving them during a general economic downturn.
I'm noticing a pattern, burning down religious establishments ends up being a waste of valuable gasoline that the ideological thugs will later need to keep the lights on.
Get a burner phone number.
> So as long as you can make that part of the frame repairable, I feel like it could be manageable.

It also has to be impossible for failure of the hinges to lead to damage of the electronic components. I've lost multiple laptops to hinges twisting in ways that they shouldn't have and fracturing the motherboard or keyboard, and that's in a form factor that gets much less abuse than glasses.
seems really expensive... there must be a better way
I've used it, it's fine I guess, nothing super outstanding. I don't want to be that guy on HN, but the way they market themselves as being some revolution in browsing while simply wrapping Chrome like others like Vivaldi (which also has a lot of customization), Edge, Opera etc is not that interesting. It's even less so when I would lose adblocking due to Manifest v3 because, really, how long will these browser makers continue keeping a fork around before eventually giving up?

A true browser revolution would be something written from scratch like the recent SerenityOS one. Of course, the average person won't use it, but that's what it would take to truly be revolutionary. In the meantime I'll continue using Firefox.
If it ever dies here’s a project to consider: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/07/ios-developer-tur...
Very funny but also true.
And then on the other extreme you have something like substack in, which writing political rants easily earns $50-100k/year in recurring donations even if you are not that famous. It's hard to get people to donate open source projects.
I don't know where you live, but 800 euro/day is not a standard rate for avg programmers in many parts of Europe. Is most probably half or sometimes less than that.
Vuln research - source and binary. Team meetings once a week and... nothing else.
These are all in-chip emulators, not real SID chips.
Code.

I'm a B+ engineer and admire the hell out of brilliant minds who seemingly know all the things naturally. I'm not a great student, takes me a while to learn things, but that's life. I always need more knowledge!

I had a dream gone nightmare when I was between jobs. Recruiter person told me "Ok we'll give you everything you asked for, except... you won't be an engineer." Ahhh!

It massages parts of my brain that are nearly untouched in daily life.
React guys don't get 1k a day as a contractor come on.

https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/react-jobs?contract=True

In the UK the rate is between 400 and 600 (450/650 euro) and is one of the market that pays the most in Europe. Many other countries are offer half that amount for a "react" guy
Its accurate that storing crypto is hard for a lot of people

Its also accurate that I don’t care about that and I’m never one of the people pushing for “mainstream adoption”. The alpha exists while it is hard. The Venture Capital exists to bring capital to a place where it is hard. Most of the platforms are financial services. Traditional finance has many obscure financial services that mainstream never directly interacts with and its the same here. In both, there are nuances in having access. You need special hardware and special accounts to be a merchant or payment processor, you need special permission and infrastructure to trade credit default swaps, you have to jump through many hoops to self-custody any paper-claim to an asset. These arent games for mainstream. If you want to jump through those hoops you can.
here's a direct app store link, if anyone wants to try the iPhone app immediately: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64...

congratulations to liuliu on the launch!
note that this is the second round in the last few months, so Redfin is really at more like 30% down.
Or just take a look at all of the academics who have lost their jobs for saying unpopular things in the last few years. You don't have to go back to McCarthy, it's right here now.
That sounds pretty fascinating. I wonder though, with all the dangers inherent in AGI, what makes it still personally worthwhile to work on for you?
100% agreed with this. It's not clear to me why you need my contacts. My mental model of the software is "put my todos onto a calendar". Maybe that's wrong? But if not you need read access to my todos, and read access to see slots on my calendar that are booked (you don't need details of those appts and you don't need delete access).

Downloaded the app and got to the Oauth Google Cal part of onboarding and bailed. Sad, too, because I already timeblock daily using paper. This seems like an easy buy for me if it does what it says on the tin. But not with a perms model like that.
The controversy was bigger than an academic freedom issue. But the talk was mainly concerned wit Stanford's behavior in reaction to the controversy and academic freedom implications. This is indeed a "policy" guy who brings everything around to the decision-making process and what it should be doing.
The link should be to TheVerge article, not the SlashDot summary.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23449382/microsoft-direct...
Based on the wording and the table of contents I'm pretty sure lawyers were involved in at least reviewing this open letter. A final ditch effort before the real expenses begin.
The working/retired population ratio also matters; supporting your family might also make you less productive as a worker. (Speaking heartlessly and capitalistically.)
Hmmm, my ipad keeps crashing and redownloading the sd_v1.4_f16.ckpt file.
At the moment Qemu using podman machine as that allowed for faster iteration. I work on some of this enablement as part of the CRC team. We have a fully working driver for the virtualization framework, with virtiofs support. We would to integrate this, though at the moment essential EFI support is only available in macOS 13. You can try CRC with the podman preset (!) to test this. It would not be exactly the same as podman machine will run a different setup process instead, it does allow you to see the performance. If you need help, just ping me. Gladly will help
https://browser.kagi.com/updates/orion-release-notes.html
> and the reason is that they are being actively investigated or banned almost everywhere.

That's not an indication of anything wrong with Binance. A more plausible explanation is that the laws are too oppressive "almost everywhere".
Y'know, this letter makes a lot of sense to me. It's an awfully large bet to make, though. If the bet fails, they might as well just become a dividend paying company, because they admit that they don't really have many growth opportunities otherwise.
The vast majority of electrical engineers in the US are not PEs. I think they’re still engineers.

Disclaimer: I’m an EE as well as a programmer.
>if a PR is broken, revert a simpler commit and just fix that

I guess it differs between "library development" and "service development".

When you're developing a service, what's in `main` is constantly being tested under the production/customer load. So reverting the known bad PR is a faster fix. And the bug is affecting your customers, so you fix fast and cleanup later.

Typically in industry if a PR is broken you revert the whole thing as fast as possible. But most projects in industry are services.

However when you're developing a library you'll probably release via tags. So if bad code makes it into `main`, it's not a huge deal, and it might be clearer to just revert the one (child) commit of the PR. Because there's no time crunch, no bug in prod, nothing affecting customers.

>but craft the commits in the PR instead.

The problem with not enforcing squashing is trust. Think about the worst dev on your team:

Given that trust, are they gonna split their PR into useful commits? Fuck no. they're gonna merge into `main` a bunch of commits saying "fix typo lol xd" and "lol I suck".

If you give them the power to not just make 1 commit per PR, but N commits per PR, are they going to fill up your team's history with crap? Absolutely they will.

Squashing is a useful gatekeep in that way, to prevent one person from screwing over everybody else and making it harder to `blame` to rootcause a critical outage.
I'd rather have wealth inequality, which is natural, especially in a world where even the poorest have only gotten richer over time, than have enforced wealth equity, which has resulted in near universal poverty nearly everywhere it's been implemented. People calling for enforced wealth equity don't have the moral high ground. They're in the moral caves and pits!

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial...

"The seeds of the financial crisis were planted during years of rock-bottom interest rates and loose lending standards that fueled a housing price bubble in the U.S. and elsewhere.

It began, as usual, with good intentions. Faced with the bursting of the dot-com bubble, a series of corporate accounting scandals, and the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate from 6.5% in May 2000 to 1% in June 2003.
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The aim was to boost the economy by making money available to businesses and consumers at bargain rates.
e result was an upward spiral in home prices as borrowers took advantage of the low mortgage rates.
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Even subprime borrowers, those with poor or no credit history, were able to realize the dream of buying a home.
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The repeated story of our government's behavior in the financial sector is:

1) act with supposedly good intentions

2) Mess everything up

3) Blame the mess on someone else and call for more government action to clean things up.
That'll be barnacles and lack of maint. Seawater is a fluid with a mass of more than 1 Kg per 10cm^3. I have customers that worry about hull shapes etc. Increase the coeff. of friction a small amount has a massive effect. Can't remember exactly now but I think friction is proportional to the square of ... something.

The difference here is that these little beasties magically make a ship run slowly. I would bet real money that their invention was to cover up late delivery or whatever. Basically, an excuse that no land lubber of the time could possibly refute.
But Rocket Lab does do stuff in NZ (which is a lot closer than the US for example). I figured you were open to a move :).

Anyways, all the best.
Ask HN: Is There Anything I Can Do to Save My Gmail?
I get at least 10 political emails a day now, and they haven’t stopped with the end of the election.

Since Gmail doesn’t block them anymore, do you have any strategy for me to stop them or should I just abandon the address I’ve had for 15 years?
Those here talking about what the author is saying is actually a 10x engineer are missing that he's criticizing the meme of a 10x engineer [0] over an actually 10x more productive engineer.

In a way, it's more of a joke article responding to a joke meme that has some good points over actually being a fully serious article criticizing actual 10x more productive engineers.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/10x-engineer
Depth Maps for Stable Diffusion WebUI
No offense to you but I think part of the human experience is to miss out on connections then feel the joy and excitement when you do actually meet again and catch up.

i talk with friends in other states daily on discord and it doesnt hold a candle to how much more fun we have when we get together.

i see value in brief moments for VR experience but beyond those it just seems half asses and tacky
I count 21 occurances with 12%+ rise and 19 with 12%+ drop
Known Costs, Unknowable Benefits
Who would have thought civil exchanges about an issue was possible on the internet. And that too on Twitter!

Well done to you and the Thunderbird Twitter manager, along with the Thunderbird team that took action on trying to rectify the mistakes they made with their past release.
TypeScript Enums Are Terrible. Here's Why. [video]
I just tried it works beautifully!
I suggest defaulting to lower resolution 384 X 384 since it will speed up.
But market believes it is.
Well said. Crypto is nobody's business. And when people lose their assets, it's still nobody's business.
Can it do anything faster than a traditional supercomputer yet?
CZ is playing 4D chess. FTX goes down and customers flee to Binance. Why pay for something that will be free? Or pay pennies on pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy court where nobody will be bidding except maybe with a 10-foot pole.
Binance already knew that there was a hole there. They had just triggered the bank run by calling it out. The attempt to bail out FTX later was only for saving face and maybe also because they freaked out but couldn't stop it at that point.
I don't know what Android does… some kind of Java but not Java, right?

In that case it's much less expressive, so developers simply can't do the unsafe/specialized code in the first place. Which means they can't write in C or assembly.

Bitcode was a specific Apple feature that used LLVM's compiler IL and might have promised extra portability, but it didn't really work out and was removed this year. ("LLVM" stands for "low level virtual machine" which is funny because it isn't low level and isn't a virtual machine.)
Though curiously not 'roof', despite all being Germanically rooted.
> it can also be an argument for instrumenting your runtime environment

Aren't JITs already self-instrumenting? What would you instrument that the JIT is not already keeping track of?
Stock prices are the market's estimate of the company's long running prospects.

Management has a fiduciary duty to shareholders. Stock price isn't everything, but it's still prima facie evidence of what shareholders want.
As moderator of Reddit, now I question myself why I am doing it for free.
The question is how many people though. We aren't talking about 2-3 B people in this case..