skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All that reminds me a bit of "blockchain" career hype cycle which is now fading

We'll see what the job prospects hold in this field, but it holds no comparison with blockchain hype. People aren't claiming (yet?) that AI art and dialogue will free us from the Shackles Of The Oppresionist Financial Regime, with an anonymous manifesto to stir our dreams of revolution.

No -- people are excited about this new AI art and dialogue because it is mind-blowing, magical, inspiring, and wonderful in itself.

I can't wait to see where it goes.
They have injury rates well above other warehouses

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/study-amazon-workers-suffer-...
You really want to feel depressed? Look up Unusual Whales [1], a day trading app focusing on investment flows in the markets who does an annual report on insider trading by US officials, including Congress and SCOTUS. Even went so far as to create a congressional ETF. The focus is US pols, but no reason to suspect other jurisdictions are any better.

There's a reason both parties put a HUUGE emphasis on culture war - it distracts us from their true crimes that just happen to transcend party lines.

[1] https://unusualwhales.com/politics
I find it really surprising and sad that even on HN ppl are just as dumb and biased when it comes to their political views. You are NOT this or that party. Sometimes your side or your heroes or whatever you want to called them fuck up - they are humans. If you don’t hold them to account on this - what’s the point…

Just looking at the comments - it’s pretty obvious that ppl didn’t bother to read the entire thing, talk out of their ass based on what they’ve heard at some point in the past and don’t want to actually debate.

They want to just echo their voice, stay in the amplification room and bicker and argue.

Like what’s the point of even sharing this data if we are not gonna go through it?!? What’s the point of not saying okay let’s see what’s actually here? We are supposed to be engineers and ppl of science- we should accept that if new data is presented it’s our soft obligation to examine it and change our theories and hypothesis to comply with or reconcile the newly observed data.

To me the lesson is that most likely I do the same so I need to pay more attention internally when it comes to something I care about.

If ppl are offended by my comment - don’t be that wasn’t my intention. I just hold everyone on HN to a much higher standard than the general public.
Erm, WASM works just fine on iOS Safari since a very long time now? I can't remember when I dropped the asm.js fallback for my WASM stuff, maybe around 2017/18? And unlike Chrome, the switch from asm.js to WASM actually made a massive performance difference on Safari, because the Safari team never bothered to add special support for asm.js.
My point is that it’s within the same order of magnitude and does a lot more. I bet if the gov committed to ordering 1500 of them the price could come down

A b21 can be used everyday too?
But it was though, the laptop had its chain of custody broken, evidence of tampering was later found and most of the emails on it couldn't be verified. No criminal activity by the Bidens was ever found. It should be impossible to look at this objectively and conclude that this wasn't a carefully timed misinformation campaign.

It drives me mad that the right somehow turned this into a persuasive argument to people.
The thing is that calling something free and then asking for something in exchange can trigger someone on autistic spectrum, where likely there is an overrepresentation of on HN.
If one speaks Spanish the app is not well named.
> Debian is another option too, and is used heavily in industry unlike Mint

RHEL is probably also used more in the industry than Mint, that doesn't mean you should prefer it as desktop OS. Debian is solid, no question, but its derivatives became successful for a reason.
Just a comment .. looking at salary in tech is silly. Lets ignore benefits which are likely impossible to quantify. Most tech workers in hi-fi companies and roles get stock (even I don't understand how to properly value but big diff if publicly traded or not). The other massive component is bonuses. I've seen numbers from 10-30% and am sure there are more. The next thing is hiring bonus. Final thing I am aware of is long-term retention bonuses. It is complicated for a reason .. if you just ask me for my salary that will likely be half of what these other factors provide.

Cost-of-living in your area, Years of experience and Education are also key factors to balance.
They also commit a form of fraud that Amazon seems disinterested in fixing: they’ll take a listing with thousands of good reviews and comments and completely swap out the product.

I once tried to buy a pulse oximeter and all the reviews for the most popular one were about replacement bike tires.
The the Pokémon game, it's insane. I played it for hours once.
The potential for this thing to be used for social media manipulation is terrifying: https://i.imgur.com/dGzZRTb.png
> All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes

Bigly constitutional
You raise a good point about due diligence. They probably did as much as possible, but remember that they were investing in a private company that was committing massive fraud. It is hard to know if a company is lying to you when you are doing due diligence without direct access to internal materials. Also, for FTX, 75m USD was a tiny investment, so the amount of access granted for due diligence was probably very limited. I guess the sale was done with a 50ish page powerpoint presentation, and a few meetings with the C-suite. Some part of investing in private companies is always a gamble.

If we consider publicly listed companies that require annual audits by external professionals: Look how many people were taken surprise by Germany's largest start-up: Wirecard. It took years for highly skilled investigative journalists to expose the extent of fraud. Yes, you can be cynical about professional auditers, but they were also subject to an impressive level of deceit. When Dan Mccrum from FT was getting very close, I still thought it might be their Asian ops were a fraud, but EU ops OK. I was dead wrong -- the whole thing was a fraud.
The US government has a history of going after people that say no to them or that they don't like, yes. Qwest is a great example
You can but I don’t think it’s possible to without at least some blame by association. Even if I didn’t support the invasion of Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan, I am still culpable as an American, and as a benefiter of American government policies (in general).
> Even ten years ago this would have been a difficult career switch without a serious (graduate school level) investment in the very specialized mathematical background of deep learning models

Isn't it the case that a big chunk of the AI that became popular 10 years ago (via Norvig, Thrun, Ng) is no longer relevant today (except as background)?
Try to change your DNS servers. You'll be able to access any DNS blocked site. (e.g: thepiratebay)
You said their proxies, which is not providing an easy to identify method. No one is going to do this in russia on a kermlin computer. They will let their boys do that.
did anyone else just waste half an hour on Panda Love?
At your suggestion, I did the Google search. I did not find an 'overwhelming consensus'. There are some sellers who are motivated to allow it for complex reasons (public perception, value of sell-out crowds which allow TV broadcast of sporting events and ancillary sales. e.g). The fancy term 'allocative efficiency' which is econ-speak for 'we should always sell to the highest bidder' is described as a positive outcome of scalping. Personally I find that nauseating, and of no real value to (original) providers (sellers) such as entertainers. There are first-person interviews of entertainers distressed by the way scalping impacts their fans.
If you ask for restaurant suggestions (after some coaxing), it'll make (some) of those up too. Sometimes it DOES give you great suggestions though!
Well, we all know what Hunter Biden's genitals look like now. So there's that I guess.

I suppose Musk is saving the real bombshell for... later?
Up for me, maybe ISP dependant.
> so HN wants Twitter moderation and censorship but a country censoring videos and text books is a big no no.

Yes, that's actually very sensible.
Same append to the learning channel now know as TLC. Not much to learn from "my life with 300kg" or "Dr pimpel popper".
That’s such a ridiculous over exaggeration of the situation in New Zealand.

Frankly it’s disappointing the amount of people on HN posting knee jerk reactions about this article who also have no idea about New Zealand’s politics. Worsened by the irony that they are themselves living in countries with greater censorship than New Zealand (and at least New Zealand is transparent about such matters. Which is more than can be said for Britain or America).
Well, I didn't take your comment to be dismissive about the work that goes into the product. My point was more about the ecological impact of high technology manufacturing in general. Which is something that I suspect to not be included in the item price.
I don't use habit trackers because:
- lack of analytics / visualization
- privacy concerns
- too lazy to input data manually

Apple's ecosystem actually comes the closest to solving these but it's a lot of $$$
I’m pretty sure first amendment does not apply to corporations and their services. The test I normally ask ppl to perform is this. If you think there is some sort of fallacy in it happy to discuss it

Can I kick you out of my hours if I disagree with your view?

Can I kick you out of my bar if I disagree with your views?

Can I kick you out of my platform if I disagree with you?
As for Linux, https://www.linux-magazine.com/ - they also have special editions, some of them quite interesting, some less so.
I love this idea, I think it’s going to make Monday easier. I wonder how much this is two types of people and how much it’s two ways of working that different people got used to.
Really good podcast and Kara has always been a treasure. Her takes on Musk now are hilarious now too!
Yeah, glad someone else sees it.

There is a value proposition in having a synchronized desktop across every environment (phone, tablet, desktop, etc.) but this project doesn’t remotely capture what that would entail —- a wasm-based OS with a webgpu frontend, all locally computed. All synchronization / any data leaving would be encrypted locally with a key shared among local systems via a QR code, and the option to self-host the entire stack would be readily available.

The encryption + self-hosting is bare minimum as a business, not the least of which is because it adds credibility to the entire system. Open source is also a requirement to verify nothing nefarious is going on.

With that in place, it might be reasonable to have a cloud offering that is paid so most users wouldn’t need to self host.

Systems should also be able to replicate data locally so if cloud access is ever shut down, they can continue functioning without much issue.

I could build all that (and have built that + more, so it comes from experience) in a ~month — how is it that this project is getting funded, after lacking any of that after years?

My guess? It is cheap & looks usable, and for some reason gained massive popularity, so it will dupe people into freely sharing their data which can be mined and monetized. Apologies if this isn’t the intention of the original creators, but that is what investors will use this for. If I am wrong, I recommend they implement what I suggested.
I've had bad luck with PopOS, but it defniitely has one of the most reasonable and user friendly configurations out of the box.
eyeOS was quite mature, it's just that just like Puter it was a terrible idea
The part you are citing is obvious lie anyway, plenty of mobiks have zero prior military training. ru were grabbing people off the street, schools, setup ambushes in apartment building lobbies, its all on video.

Here students kidnapped/mobilized straight from school: https://twitter.com/mediazzzona/status/1572907342496251904
That's a meaningless buzzword designed to prevent the difficult debate on where to draw the line. But when it comes down to it Elon Musk does agree that there is a line, and that there are rules for speech that the platform does not want to carry. See Kanye West.

And you can be 100% sure that the buzzword will carry 0 weight when the platforms moat is in danger.
Ofcom letter on restrictions on internet services for “designated persons” [pdf]
What I don't understand is why they all go full classic OS demo, with always the same suite of basic apps (note, paint, photo...)

Why not build (complex but specific) SaaS applications that just leverage OS designs paradigms on the frontend (taskbar, windows, notifications, desktop, icons..) inside the same tab?

What if the OS-like apps were open plugins that will augment that SaaS?

[edit] here is an example: Imagine an alternative OS-like interface to HN that is plugin-based. You can add themes, or apps like messaging between HN users (in different windows), keyword-based and comment replies notification (a la Action Center)...

it is like HNES [1] on steroids.

[1] https://github.com/etcet/HNES
So far I haven't seen anyone mention the big deal here, that Starshield is offering to take over ANY satellites communications entirely using lasers. A customer no longer has to include a radio system on their satellite (unless that is the whole point of the satellite), just a small laser and gimbal. This seems like a major savings in weight and power. Send your satellite up and join the existing network and you get communication to your other satellites in orbit (via laser), to the ground (via RF), and to aircraft (via RF), worldwide. All of it point-to-point which makes it very difficult to interrupt or intercept. This is a space internet, an internet for things in space, though only open to wealthy customers who can afford to launch things into orbit. I quote:

INTEROPERABILITY

Starlink's inter-satellite laser communications terminal, which is the only communications laser operating at scale in orbit today, can be integrated onto partner satellites to enable incorporation into the Starshield network.

End quote.

Depending on how large the weight and power savings are this could cause a proliferation of satellites. It may require satellites to be in an orbit near that of the Starlink satellites, or maybe not. Depends on what angle range the laser gimbals cover. I would guess each Starlink satellite with lasers already has multiple lasers plus backup lasers, so dedicating the spare ones to providing communication for other satellites might be easy. The laser/gimbals may already be time shared to spread wear evenly and make sure they are working.
We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
No, but it provides some control. They will stock out if everyone suddenly uses their entire quota (they aren't reservations) but by limiting the quotas that they issue they can reduce the impact of single actors or large swings of smaller actors on availability.

Basically it improves the predictability of resource usages by limiting outlier spikes.
i dont understand why people speak about these sites. they won't get taken down if you dont post on social media about them
Wow… what a varied work life and experience.

You should write more about this… I’d read your blog or watch your YouTube channel.

And yes what a shame about Afghanistan, still don’t fully get why they didn’t fight back, despite all that training.
so having api limits limits your speech? thats a funny argument to make
It seems my poor VM was hugged to death! I just resized it to hopefully sustain the load.
Google Messages starts testing end-to-end encryption for RCS group texts
You certainly don't have to be famous but if you start a B2B you SHOULD talk to customers! If it's consumer, no need to ever put your name out there.

As someone else said, all the "famous" CEOs at startups are DOING WORK to get themselves that famous. May not look like it, but it is intentional. It rarely just happens. And it is mostly for vanity.
Seems like you have a larger pool of potential customers so i'll take this as a well time ad.
Nothing about free prep sessions or guidance to actually help folks, might lead to a better ad consider the response here.

Just a thought, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Roci out.
Yes, forced updates are just insane. It forces an unknown schedule on the users for no reason. Implying the tiniest, most meaningless update is more important than anything the user might do with their computer.
No he's made a few mistakes. Yes the political tribalism you describe is in play. But also there's the brutal layoffs, ridiculous work demands, withheld severance, and botched feature rollouts.

All have had negative impact on Musk's personal brand. Viewpoints regarding worker (mis)treatment depend on people's beliefs about classism, which doesn't map cleanly onto political tribalism. The botched features get flak because many people are just like Elon and (wrongly) think they could run Twitter better than everyone else.
I'm a moderate

Democrat ... authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas

both sides suck

This is a great expression of what is commonly described as a South Park republican. That is, someone who believes they live in a political space between republicans and democrats which does not actually exist. The fundamental emotion is cynicism, which manifests as active hostility towards any notion of empathy for any other dimension of society, and ultimately distills down to status-quo-ism.

Of course cynicism is non-falsifiable, and there is no coherent notion of a moderate or independent in American politics, because there exists no coherent political position between democratic and republican policy. Anyone claiming to exist in this middle space is in practice a republican, just without the conviction that's typical to that party's base.
It’s against the rules to post non-consensual nudes on Twitter.
LastPass are very good at deleting their security incidents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15756044
> Org/Page Search not working here fwi.

I think it was because the server was overloaded due to it being on the front page. It seems to be working for me now (you need to enter at least two characters for suggestions to appear).

As for the rest, I just collected some IP ranges on the internet. The might include foreign service firms or not, it wasn't feasible to check them manually. If you know about any IP range though I'll be glad to merge it into the repo.
Yes, indeed. It should be working fine now, though.
There are several countries in Western Europe where there are such laws, and it never means that.
Q: Write a passage in the style of the Book of Job describing Job's experience as God asks him to temporarily assume the role of moderator of Hacker News while dang is on vacation.

A: In the land of Ycombinator, there was a man named Job, who was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. And God, in his wisdom, saw fit to bestow upon Job the great honor of moderating Hacker News while dang was on vacation.

But Job soon discovered that this honor was in fact a great tribulation, for the users of Hacker News were unruly and contentious, and they would not be swayed from their opinions. They fought with one another, hurling insults and curses, and they would not heed Job's calls for civility and reason.

And Job was greatly troubled, for he could not control the chaos that ensued. He was inundated with reports of offensive posts and comments, and he was forced to spend countless hours wading through the mire of the forums, trying to restore order.

But the users would not be silenced, and they continued to rail against Job and his moderation. They accused him of bias and favoritism, and they accused him of being too strict or too lenient. They even accused him of being a puppet of dang himself, and they mocked him for his inability to control the forums.

And Job was greatly distressed, and he cried out to God, "Why have you given me this burden? Why have you made me suffer this affliction? Why do you not intervene and restore order to these forums?"

But God did not answer, and Job was left to suffer in silence, enduring the scorn and abuse of the Hacker News users. He was forced to endure their insults and their anger, and he was forced to moderate the forums in a way that was fair and just.

Eventually, God saw fit to end Job's trial and dang returned from vacation. Job was able to step down from his role as moderator, but he had learned much from the experience. He had been tested and had proven himself worthy of the trust that God had placed in him. And for that, he was grateful.
One repo is better because you can basically include the entire change set in 1 PR / gitref.

Downside is it requires you come up with a structure and a bit of discipline to maintain coherence.

If you use codeowners and your CI can include other files, then most of the downsides go away, besides the repo size itself.

Multirepo is a bit easier to understand per item. You can have one single CI file, and don't need codeowners, but you move a lot of burden to test, deploy and run.

If your SCM supports codeowners and CI supports includes, I'd stick closer to mono-repos, and only break out things when it's helpful a D you obviously wouldn't change together.

Think services rather than micro.
ChatGPT has responded to a lot of my requests with an answer along the lines of "I don't have information about that" or "It's impossible to answer that without more information, which I can't get."

Sometimes, starting a new session will get it to give an actual answer. Sometimes asking for an estimate or approximation works.
Those strongest programmers you mention are clearly multiclassing minmax D&D players :D

(… love the D&D analogy. But very much agree with its meaning too!)
Do Khanna is the only one going for First amendment
This is a great example that mirrors my experience with these language models so far-- Totally intelligible, syntactically correct, on topic, and utterly devoid of any real content. An extremely fancy lorem ipsum that can trick your mind into believing it has read something that was written.

I have some friends who really got into AI dungeon, but I was not able to get past the fact that the model essentially seemed to either just restate the prompts I had given it, or respond with such generic and empty words that it reminded me much more of reading 'corporate speak' rather than a real continuation off what it was given.
It's pretty fast. On an 8GB M2 MacBook Air, it produces more than 2 images per minute using the default settings.

E.g., it's about 20x as fast as InvokeAI, which doesn't have an FP16 option that works on a Mac.
A small, hopeless way around this as a buyer: buy from EU Amazon sites (UK/DE/IT). You still have review number jacking (as Amazon shows aggregated numbers) but reviews in the local language will be honest, the markets are too small for chinese vendors to care. Ordering by "new" will tell you if the currently sold product is good, or if it had been swapped.
If you're not technical enough to have a junk email address then you probably aren't technical enough to learn SQL tricks.
Bokeh is physics, for smaller objects it's easier to reach some DoF even with f/4-6. On the 1st example the bokeh is, subjectively, very far from the SLR level, displaying a lot of onion rings and generally busy texture. For portraiture and street photography fast primes will still produce much more pleasing results. For now. I agree that we are certainly getting somewhere with the phone cameras, but I'm not sure where the ceiling is.