skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having seen people argue about this here before, my guess is you're going to get one of three recommendations. Zoho (https://zoho.com), Fastmail (https://fastmail.com, Proton (https://proton.me)
Poll: Is ChatGPT AGI? (Artificial General Intelligence)
If you have used ChatGPT, does it meet your standards for AGI? (Artificial General Intelligence)
Not sure or no opinion
I haven't used ChatGPT
That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives.

Could have been a neat personal story, "hey you know I wrote the ending text to Minecraft?" Instead, it's this.
I find this very disappointing - to me one of the main points of EA is trying to maximise proven effectiveness & minimising unnecessary overheads. Where is the evidence that hosting so many in-person conferences is much more effective than a rare large in-person conference + many "mini-conferences" online?

There are still many organisations that seem to be doing excellent work aligned with the EA ethos. The Life You Can Save, GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators are still updating their charity reviews. I hope the brand damage doesn't reduce their donations!
so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was

If he said that in an e-mail, doesn't that constitute a written agreement to transfer copyright to Mojang?
The fingerprinting doesn't happen by magic, your device analyses your photos and sends the results to Apple for control and Apple alert the authorities once enough matches happen because once enough matches happen your photos are decrypted for human inspection.

Inconsequential implementation details. Your device still acts as a snitch for whatever the authorities are looking for. Today looking for CSAM match tomorrow can be environmentalism, abortion, meat products etc - depending on how the politics evolve.
I found it the opposite. I felt touched, it was very human and raw and real.

It's not an essay about a problem, it's an essay about experiencing a problem. The former can be solved with a lawyer, the latter with... Well nothing really. It's an experience.
That's funny, all of the freelancers I know do it full-time.

I started freelancing part-time when my full-time employer started losing money and laying people off. I had a friend who ran a web design company, he would hear from his customers how they needed web programming, so he sent that work to me. He introduced me to another design firm that had even more clients who needed help. From there it kind of snowballed. By the time I quit my f/t job I had replaced my income with freelance work.

You don't have to freelance full-time, 40 hrs/week. You need to work enough at a good rate to get the income you want. If you were making $100k at a full-time job that's about $50/hr. If you can get $100/hr freelancing you can either work 40 hrs/week and make $200k, or work 20 hrs/week and make $100k.

My advice: Get some customers first. Concentrate on establishing long-term relationships. That will mean doing some not-so-fun work and maybe expanding your range, learning the business domain, doing a little extra for the customer. Try to keep non-billable time to a minimum. Don't spend a lot of time/money on stuff like incorporating, fancy web site, business cards, complicated banking, accounting, lawyers. The biggest non-billable time suck for a lot of freelancers is finding and bidding on jobs. The less churn you have with your customers the less of that gig-hunting you have to do. You want to build a good base of steady customers who will refer you to other customers. Ideally you get your customers on monthly retainers, which turns you into a predictable fixed monthly cost instead of an unpredictable account payable.

Remember that as a self-employed freelancer you have to pay all of your Social Security, Medicare, and health insurance, so factor that in when determining your rate.

In the freelancing articles on my web site (typicalprogrammer.com) I suggest charging for specific tasks and deliverables, not big vague fixed-fee projects, not hourly. That doesn't always work, it depends on the customer and the task. You should have a target rate in mind, of course. If you want to make $100/hr and your customer needs a task done you estimate how long you think it will take and multiply by your rate to get a fixed fee for that deliverable. Then stick to that. Estimating large software projects challenges even the most experienced programmers and managers, but with some experience you should be able to estimate well-defined tasks that take less than around 40 hours. That also keeps you from getting in the position of your customer owing you a lot of money, or you owing them a lot (because you took a 50% deposit up front on a $20k project and you can't deliver, or you client refuses to pay the remainder). I vary my exposure based on my experience and trust with the customer, but for a new customer I would not want to get more than $2,000 to $4,000 in the hole, so I will break their tasks down into small measurable deliverables I can bill for.
I am pretty sure a grateful Ukraine is gonna hook us up with neon
> hopefully Microsoft doesn’t go after this guy

Let’s not spread FUD, what would they go after for this guy and why?
Indeed. There's a nice example from yesterday where someone asked about whether anyone is planning to update ParallelDataTransfer.jl because it's so old (last update August 2018) that it doesn't have any of the modern package development features that became standard post v1.0. But I was like, that doesn't mean it's not working... Julia is stable. And indeed if you run it, it still passes tests on Julia v1.8, more than 4 years later. That's a testimony of just how stable post-v1.0 has been. And mind you, this is a library of tooling for distributed computing, so it's touching that is considered a deeper feature. Source: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discontinuation-of-paralle...
How long before we get replicators?
The KGB was active in supporting leftwing extremists in the 70s such as Red Army Faction. Guess who was one of the KGB officers in contact with RAF in the late 80s? That's right, none other than Putin.

The modern FSB nurtures contacts on both far left and far right, a long with folks like Tulsi Gabbard.

I think the big lesson for modern Russian active measures is that you can only get so far with leftist intellectuals and intelligencia before they push back (see George Orwell). The militaristic, chauvinistic, and overwhelmingly rural conservatives are a lot easier to ring in nowadays since so many of them have been economically displaced by globalization and alienated by the abandonment of tradition.
You’re calling out FB here but they’re one of the few to have rolled out similar backup encryption for WhatsApp messages and that was quite a while ago at this point.

I think FB really wants data about your behavior but based on what they’re been doing with chat security I don’t get a sense they want to or need be able to read through peoples chat history to get that.
Euro NCAP doesn’t assess FSD safety, which was the reason they discontinued radar. If they’ve now decided they need radar, it means they lied in their blog post. They wouldn’t need it again if they thought it was safe without one.

They sure made profits though.
> Toy model of AdS wormhole

It's even less than that. The duality between SYK_4 (SYK with four-fermion interactions) and AdS_2 (2D AdS spacetime) is only (conjectured to be) true at infinite N (where N is the number of fermions) and at the conformal limit (ie. the limit where temperature goes to zero). What they did is a N=7 simulation of a (sparse SYK) Hamiltonian "learned" (a much better word would have been "fitted") from a N=10 dense SYK at various (finite) temperatures. Neither 7 nor 10 is large enough to test this limit.

Now the actual quantum simulation they performed is that they constructed a thermal field double (and this allows them to make the connection with a "wormhole" because the two side of the TFD are basically the left and right quadrant of the Penrose diagram) and evolved it with the "learned" sparse SYK plus some shockwave operator $e^{i\mu V}$. The actual construction of the quantum gates is due to that Jafferis-Gao wormhole teleportaion paper. The supplementary material has some useful information (I find the actual Nature paper to be quite thin on technical details). It is indeed an interesting quantum simulation, in the sense that it demonstrated that the Google quantum computer behaves the way one expects a QC to behave.

Now does this experiment actually tell us anything about quantum gravity? No, and in this sense it is a publicity stunt. My reading of the Nature paper is that the actual paper is about 20% science (mostly due to Google's hardware) and about 80% salesmanship, which is really what you need in order to survive in academia.

> our dS space

To clarify this, our universe is asymptotically a dS spacetime in the distant future where matter and radiation density become zero and the universe becomes dominated by vacuum energy (and this is necessarily a conjecture based on current theory and cosmological observations, because nobody can live this long to see that day). It's not literally a dS spacetime right now.
These aren't photographs. Skin color was often used for artistic purposes and to impart symbolic meaning. Egyptians in particular were conventionally depicted with reddish or yellowish skin to indicate life or vitality, with light blue or white highlights to showcase lighting and contours.
Note that Morris is not really the founder perse, as he was recruited by Taiwan government officials for developing indigenous semiconductor industry. Same thing as many Chinese Americans were recruited by Chinese government.
Celebrities' Bored Apes Are Hilariously Worthless Now
Regenerative farming builds soil, capturing carbon, improving water retention. It costs a bit more than conventional farming, in the short-medium term.
And, in fact, Mastodon supports RSS
Ask HN: Whisper Transcription API?
Do you know of a transcription API that uses Whisper on the backend?

For those who don't own a GPU, or want to implement transcription without having to deal with parallelizing CPUs and such.

Ideally, it should support both transcribing files and streaming. And it should allow me to select which Whisper model to use.

I know about whisper.cpp [1]. Am looking for an off-site API so I don't have to deal with the backend myself.

Thanks!
The book How Children Succeed may be good for anyone interested in more about executive function and character education.
Funnily enough, when I read:

> I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. I am not “involved.” My books are not “engaged.”

...I wondered whether, were he writing in 2022, he would have written "My books are not woke"?
I want to live in a place where overthrowing the government isn't illegal.

Sometimes governments go wrong, and when that happens I want the citizens to be able to get rid of them and start afresh.

And with modern governments having access to a lot of weaponry, it would really be better if that happened peacefully.
Do you have years of medical & diagnostic coding experience along with medical training to properly interpret pricing data for a multitude of procedures with wide ranging scenarios? You're not going to Target to buy Cheerios here.

Pricing transparency is a band-aid on the gaping wound that is US healthcare. More numbers to consider that may or may not apply based on your insurance policy & other factors. Let's also add some middle-men to aggregate and "find the best price".
Psychology researchers are taking a serious look at “cumshots”
The number of times I've been told I don't believe my beliefs because they don't make rational economic sense is innumerable.

I'm happy when my tax rate goes up. This apparently really bothers people. (Me being happy about it.)
Perhaps I should clarify the above. I just meant that social media amplifies opinions that might actually be a minority rather than a majority. It's not a great measure of reality, and "the system" in ths real world still vastly favours men despite online discourse.

Some examples of the net not being representative of the majority: if you asked the internet if Trump was going to win presidency, or if Britain would leave the EU, the resounding opinion was absolutely not.
And that's the pinnacle of what anyone would want out of life?
what an honest and rare stance.
This sounds like any other tool or instrument that requires practice to render good results. SD is magic, but it's not a miracle. It still requires work and understanding to get good results. It's just a different kind of work than we're used to doing. Don't expect it read your mind. It's still a computer.

As a client, if I hire an illustrator to commission a specific image I'm not just hiring them for their technical ability to render images. The best illustrators are going to have a broad and deep awareness of all styles, modes of presentation, and compositional techniques. They're going to use all of their experience and knowledge to interpret what my needs are and deliver on that. That's not a trivial thing to do.

Even the best contractors have to deal with clients who don't know how to ask for what they want. The "I'll know it when I see it" type of client. As the "client" in this situation, you need to know how to ask for what you want in a way that your illustrator can interpret.
Yeah. Miley is actually a pretty good rock vocalist that got pigeonholed into pop and had a rebellious stage to break out of it.
premature abstraction is a very common anti-pattern
Law degrees are another racket. There are too many people in the US with JDs. Only 23% are using them productively.

Physics and mathematics are other economic dead-ends.

If you want a steady career become an MD: plastic surgeon, cardiologist, anesthesiologist, perfusionist (doesn't necessarily require becoming an MD), or endocrinologist.

Most PhDs have a net negative lifetime earnings opportunity cost.

Biotech, data science, AI/ML are also good bets. What's not a safe bet is generic "programmer" likely to be automated out of a job and salaries are likely to crash when there's an oversupply of lower-skilled talent. Most programming will become trivial or eliminated by automation, as is already beginning to happen with AI code completion.
You clearly don't know how war works. If you send your newly acquired equipment straight to the front lines, with troops who have not trained on that equipment and an army that does not have the logistics to support the equipment, then you will quickly find all that shiny new equipment being used as target practice by your enemy.

Here is a pretty good article debunking your mis-info: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/8/2115258/-Author-of...

And here is the money quote:

"Ohman’s nonprofit collects and distributes non-lethal aid such as night vision goggles, body armor, helmets, and commercial drones through unofficial networks developed by his organization. His quote was based on his own experience at the time: His organization was dealing with damaged roads, collapsed bridges, Russian drones and artillery strikes, and other obstacles. Most importantly, Ohman wasn’t in a position to know about official channels used to deliver military aid to Ukrainian troops at the front lines, and we have seen plenty of evidence that HIMARS and other long-range artillery are being utilized quite effectively."

So yes, at one point (8 weeks) into the war, only 30% of material for one particular nonprofit was making its way to the "frontlines". That particular nonprofit was an independent organization and had no knowledge about official US military aid. And no, their equipment wasn't getting stolen and sold off to crime gangs. It was sitting in warehouses waiting to be deployed.
Yeah the pollution angle actually makes sense to me with my layman's knowledge of agriculture. Though with water specifically I wonder if Mexican (tap?) water being unsafe for humans to drink translates to the water they use for crops being less safe than American crop water.

This piqued my interest on Mexican agriculture though and I found this relatively recent gem... US lobbyists trying to get the US government to bully Mexico into having less stringent food safety measures.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/16/revealed-mo...
not if it's backdoored. end-to-end doesn't mean it's actually secure. there's 0% chance that there isn't some apple-owned backdoor, key escrow system, or other scheme. "end-to-end" means nobody has the keys and nobody can read the data except for the end user. And of course apple (via super-duper security backup key, non acknowledged). And the 5 eye's TLAs. And so on.

I wouldn't trust any of these guys for a millisecond.
When will emscripten output java byte code?

Just because something existed before something else doesn't mean a competitor can't spring up and have more momentum. It feels like the JVM is massively falling behind and it loses out massively on things like memory efficiency.
How can you call asking for nothing entitlement?
>who is purchasing art

Mostly money launderers, I've heard.

>we won't be killed off by AGI because humans don't have malicious intent

I wouldn't say malice is necessary. It's just economics. Humans are lazy, inefficient GI that farts. The only reason the global economy feeds 8 billion of us is that we are the best, cheapest (and only) GI.
The author missed the primary tenet of life: figure out what you want.

If you yourself don’t know what you want how do you think other people will know, let alone make it happen somehow?
I don’t understand. The simple formula is provided, all they’re expected to do is to

- figure out what parameters should look like

- detect edge cases (e.g. division by zero when a==0 or sqrt of negative value)

- and discuss its usage (how to return 0, 1, 2 roots and how you signal it to the caller so it’s convenient)

And this is not a silent-wait quiz. When they seem confused I ask directly what it would return if `a` is zero. Or tell that a, b and c are parameters to such equation.

Anyway, maybe it’s sort of a TIL moment and I should stick more to fizzbuzz with periods changed or to string reversal.

But I feel confused about it as hell.
Accidentally quadratic godoc struct rendering
I think your [2] is actually defending DePalma, or at least refuting a particular objection to Dakotaraptor, which appears to be one of his finds. Am I reading it wrong?
Are you sure about that?

I know if at least one case where it has...
I mean how do they do it? In terms of the technology/ fingerprinting approach.
Indeed. Though for Julia, the issue is that there is a way to locally disable correctness checking (`@inbounds`) that some developers have gone too far with. But there is also a global way of turning it off (`julia --check-bounds=yes). This is at least a better position than say something like the Python ecosystem where there are global correctness overrides that can be disabled in a way that effects every single library (https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...). Julia needs to improve this more, as I posted in detail two features that would go a long way to improve this, but singling out Julia seems to really miss the context of where these features are derived from and how it relates to other languages.
I appreciate you finding me this link, but I have MAJOR issues with the explanation.

It basically say that yes, it will take an infinite amount of time, but because the mass is able to arrive at the black hole before it becomes a black hole, it can first arrive at the black hole, and then after that the event horizon will grow to encompass the new mass.

I'm sorry, but that's just ..... I don't even know how to respond. The mass arriving and the black hole changing mass happen at the exact same time, as the mass arrives, the time dilation of the pending black hole increases, and the mass never actually arrives. These things don't happen sequentially, they happen simultaneously.
> people who otherwise seem to have tinfoil hats claiming that it’s not needed because Tor provides enough protection

I've been on the side of advocating for it, but the other side isn't making an obviously ridiculous argument. The onion protocol itself negotiates an end-to-end cryptographic session, authenticated by the onion site's public key, between the onion site and the end user. There's not cleartext traffic sent between a Tor exit node and the onion site or anything!

My argument in favor of TLS to onion sites was that, at least as of onion protocol v2, the cryptographic session was not itself TLS, and its security and threat model hadn't been as extensively reviewed as those of TLS. So it might turn out that there was something suboptimal there that the rendezvous server could then use to perform a sophisticated cryptographic attack.

I don't know if this is still true of onion protocol v3 or if the client-to-onion-site session is now also based on TLS.
An interesting thing is that C418 (Daniel Rosenfeld) did not sign away all his rights. That is why Minecraft: Volume Alpha and Minecraft: Volume Beta are copyright C418 on Spotify, whereas the later albums are copyright Microsoft Studios Music - and it's also why all new music to Minecraft is made by people other than Daniel Rosenfeld.

So it seems Julian should have been able to get a similar deal. I bet Jakob had no power to actually go through with the threat of taking out the end poem - Notch would have intervened if it came to that.
Either Russia takes over, and then there's going to be a price hike for having been anti-Russian. Or Ukraine somehow survives, and then they have to rebuild ... leading to a price hike.

They may be grateful, but they will also make us pay through the nose.
Yeah, seriously. You didn't create Minecraft you wrote a poem that shows up in the credits. Notch wasn't your friend he found you through a recommendation on Twitter and contracted some content. 20k for something less intelligible than Kubla Khan seems pretty fair to me. Be happy your acid trip is preserved forever in one of the most successful games in history. And get over yourself.
Nine Signs He's Terrible and You Should Dump Him
I think its really interesting to hear about experiences outside of the US.

One of my very first memories about computers is watching my dad play single player Quake 1 in his home office. I think that was around 2001 when I was 6y old.

I got my own seperate PC several years later, 2006. We didnt't have Internet connection until 2011 so until then I used all of my pocket money to buy blank CD-R and DVD-R towers and filled them with software and media at local library computers. On one summer school break I drove over 1000km between the library and my home.

During that time I managed to mess around with building games and got introduced to Linux and PHP programming.

After 2011 the internet at home was limited to mobile 2G EDGE speeds (~20kb/s) because during that time 3G was not a thing on Estonian countryside where I lived.