skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What America’s protectionist turn means for the world
Language models predate Google by 10+ years. I found references dating as far as 1987.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22language+model%22+&h...
So I guess we can remove the "Open" in OpenAI then?
It seems TRON was pretty advanced in fact, I've found this demo of it:

https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=1505
App Translocation (2016)
so, how about a scraping detector for writer's sites that instead of shutting down the scraper (prompting a war) outputs crap text that lowers the quality of the AI.

Then in a year everyone will be complaining all ChatGPT reads like Dan Brown.
VSCode, Minecraft, Teams.

They have renewed their grip on several audiences.
Well, yes, to some degree this does affect localization in the US for software that was originally built in Japan. However, given that the Japanese character sets are more demanding than US character sets, it would usually mean that software made in JP is easier to port to US, and not the other way around. Emoji for example came from Japanese mobile phones ("e" pronounced "ay" means picture, and "moji" means letter)
Saying “AFP and Russia Today” is like saying “Encyclopedia Britannia and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Which information is coming from where?
I feel it's helpful to distinguish between "applications" and the "services" that make up those applications.

- application name: not descriptive unless you are 100% sure scope will not change over time (e.g. a specific report mandated by a regulator); exception to the rule: I actually like using initialisms because they start off descriptive but then over time people use the initialisms exclusively and its almost like you invented a non-descriptive word without the initial confusion

- service names: start with a monolith that is just the application name (or suffix "Core"), only split into other services once you have a good reason, and scope is clear, and then give it a descriptive name
If you want to improve your cognitive function and you drink alcohol, stop drinking. I stopped 8 years ago and felt more mentally alert within a few weeks.
Why metric lathes don't use a threading dial
When you only care about how something looks and plays but care nothing about how it happens under the hood you can end up with some really ugly code. I am not claiming this doesn't happen in the west either but in general when I got a glimpse of Japanese game code it was 'ugly' compared to western even if it technically was great (fun, performant etc)
Not necessarily on all organs though, there are still some all mechanical ones that are alive and well!
Because Combat Mission is an actual video game analogue of Squad Leader/Advanced Squad Leader instead of a video game version of pushing chits around and rolling dice.

Also, there are several clones of ASL that are published by various wargaming publishers such as Slitherine: Lock'n'Load Tactical, etc.
This is true but irrelevant to the parent's question -- in the article, it's made clear that Google's requests are happening over HTTP, which is the most obvious reason why robots.txt should be respected.
Weird that people assume someone who was never convicted must be a guilty "monster." I believe in innocent until proven guilty.
The articles mentions "security" once. SDR adds securing the RF attack surface to the table.

https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2019ams/materials/HAX...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786...
For the interview at my current job they didn't even ask for a resume/CV they just had the interviewers take a look at my Linkedin and asked if there was anything not represented on there I wanted them to know about. I barely use Linkedin and aside from the major milestones my page is pretty sparse. I agree it's advisable for the younger crowd to have something for potential employers to take a look at.
Ask HN: Where to get help with a hardware idea?
I’m a developer with an idea for a new type of personal device. However, my expertise is firmly on the software side.

Part of this device will involve at best some novel industrial engineering and at worst a new type of material being invented. (An analogy might be the Corning gorilla glass used in makijg the first iPhone touchscreen)

How should I go about finding someone to help me prototype the device, or understand if it’s even possible to make?

I’ve done Google scholar searches and some other limited investigations but that’s about as far as I can get on my own.

This person or firm could be a cofounder or early employee if it proves a viable idea. I just don’t know where to even start.

Any advice most appreciated.
10B is what this article says

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10...

Also mentions a profit distribution, where MS would get the majority of profit until its investment is paid back
> Are they? I've read several lengthy threads by now and haven't seen such stance being proposed.

Yes, they are. Use CTRL+F to find out. People here are arguing this can be interpreted to impact even games that are unrelated to D&D mechanics or setting. People are freaking out in a sense that would seem disproportionate if this only affected Paizo.

Also, please read the open letter mentioned in the link.

Of course, feel free to argue with them (either the commenters here or with the authors of the letter) if you want, but please not with me: I'm the one asking questions, not offering explanations.
Hey, I always tried to avoid leveraging my memory when doing tasks.

It's fine to hold no more than 2 levels of call stack in your head. Most devs have a very hard time tracking more than a couple of variables.

What I can tell you: write lots of notes. Break the problem in smaller ones and take notes about the problem itself. You don't need to "hold" anything in memory, write it down.
At around 40 my interest in actually writing code declined sharply. That was after doing it for 30 years, and after it hadn’t really been challenging for quite some time. At the same time, my interest in the “big picture” increased at least as much.

I found that I was much more interested in how the work impacted customers, how we could work more effectively as a team, building relationships across the company I am at, etc.

At 48 I switched from programming to managing. It was a good move for me. I don’t love managing the way I once loved programming, but I periodically reassess and realize that although it’s fun to take a day and write some code here and there, I would be pretty miserable if I were to go back to it full time. I would constantly have to find ways to motivate myself to get anything done.

I do still take those days sometimes and write code for our product, but keep myself off the critical path at all times.

Management may or may not be for you, but it’s something you may want to consider. I wish I had moved over sooner.

As an aside, I had read in my twenties about a theory that claimed something happens physically in our brains as we age that explains this phenomenon of greater interest in the big picture and less interest in detail-oriented work but I have never gone back and tried to confirm or learn more about that theory.
Chatgpt please tldr this article:

This article describes how Japan's economy and the software industry evolved from the post-WWII years to the present day. It explains how the Zaibatsu, large corporate groups that dominated the economy before WWII, were dismantled by the American occupation forces and replaced by the Keiretsu, weaker but familiar forms of the Zaibatsu. It highlights how the Keiretsu focused on the domestic market, rather than expanding globally and developing a software industry, during the 1980s and 1990s. This had a negative impact on innovation and caused Japan to fall behind in software development. The article then goes on to explain how cloud computing and smartphones have enabled Japan's software developers to start their own companies, rather than working for large corporations, thus creating a more vibrant startup ecosystem. It also suggests that Japan's software industry still has a long way to go to catch up with other countries, but there are positive signs of progress in certain areas.
> Should Government run farms and give you food for free?

The government do provide assistance for food for those in need, and they are right to.

> Should government build homes and issue them to people?

Local governments in most developed countries build homes and issue them to the needy. And I believe this is correct.

You've obviously deployed exaggeration to try to make these things sound ridiculous ("...completely under the governments control..." and "...live like they were a parent or nanny...") but really none of this is controversial, they're pretty common, mainstream beliefs.

I believe that a government should work to better the lives of the citizens it governs. This includes things like providing education, healthcare, road and rail infrastructure among other things you probably wouldn't like. I am quite sure we have incompatible views as to what government should be and that we both believe the other's vision of an "ideal" country would actually be a dystopia. However some of the happiest, healthiest and best-educated countries operate pretty close to my ideal.
It's not that it's dismissive (though the corn thing was a bit much) so much as that it's probably wrong. CME is mostly a tech company, and they do a lot of stuff.
Network effects dictate that value concentrates in the most popular chains. The top few will always dominate.
The cause of this could be many things, but one thing is for sure: worrying about it only makes it worse.

My advice would be to visit your doctor, asks for a general round of blood tests to check everything is okay, B12, liver function, cholesterol, kidneys, etc. Do the lot. If they show something isn't normal then you can focus on dealing with it, but just as importantly, if the results don't show anything you can rule out your physical health as the problem and focus on other potential causes.

I'd place a small wager on learning you have a clean bill of health helping you get out of this slump, or could go a long way to getting your mojo back.

Best of luck!
It's not like someone is building a highway and I'm saying "just like Hitler!". This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Although I suppose we could also say "just like Vogue!" (or whichever fashion magazine is most guilty of photoshopping people).
Use chat gpt :) and get blood work done.
I tried numerous different ones, my issue is that my email address is apparently already taken...
Had this, on a generic Ubuntu Linux workstation. evrouter to watch for a specific HID device "keypress" and remap onto a hotkey, KDE Plasma to have that hotkey trigger a screen unlock script, another script to lock the workstation if the HID device goes missing from USB tree. Nothing special (or secure - the whole setup hinged on the specific device ID, and would have worked with any other device of the same type), but a bit hairy.
I think the difference is speed and throughput. When a human digests writing or artwork, even to produce derivative work, it's on the scale of hours, if not days. In the time that a human can produce 1 replica, an AI can produce thousands of works and deliver them to an audience of millions. And through the sheer network effect of the internet, it'll be impossible to remove any of these works, as they'll be replicated and reposted over and over again.
If my task for an entire 2 week period was to write a blog post explaining part of an API I worked on, I'd be fine with that. I'd also be fine with interacting sporadically on public issues. But I try and make it crystal clear that if they want me to start regularly interacting with customers, I'm not their guy, and I'll never be their guy; it's not remotely my core-competency, it takes me way more effort and energy to try and maintain consistent feedback loops with people than it would for someone else. I'm also not paraphrasing, that's exactly what I say.

My productivity is lowest when I'm dealing with many async interactions, such as iterating during code review, unless I have extremely good systems to make that a brainless task.

I also only use social media for shitposting or talking to actual friends, I'm not a sales communicator.
> Now if they named it after a good character from a story everyone knows

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
>>such as incentivizing the proliferation of that same social problem so that solving it can turn a profit. It's just business!

The ironic thing is we see this more with government than business. Social programs almost always NEVER solve the social problem they just manage it.

This is to ensure a voting base is dependent on the government and gives the political class levers to pull to ensure their control and domination.

Government does not want to fix problems, they want to manage them
Tablets replaced computers for the most part. They are just a good bit smaller than we expected and have the capability to do phone calls.

Mobile is a much bigger market than Desktop these days.
Dismayed to find out this is untrue. Only Elon can clean up the bot and spam infected mess that Google has created, as proved by his Twitter takeover. Too many googlers, too. Elon could have made Google vastly more profitable.
Don’t hesitate to change your work style to include more quick notes and simple diagrams scribbled down to keep your mental stack at a minimum. This helps a lot, it’s maybe unnatural at first to get used to but it helps to keep your mind more focused and calm.
Exactly. Being descriptive is how you get a service that does something completely unrelated to its name, later on. Or worse, you end up with 2 services with similar names that do similar things, and users aren’t sure why there are 2, but just know which one they like.
Reading the parent in the most favorable light:
"Attention is all you need" can be seen as a fundamental paper for the current LLM generation, which indeed came out of google brain..
Maybe robots.txt IS the robots.txt for AI.

If you want to be indexed then maybe also being used in training data isn't entirely unfair. There has to be some cost involved otherwise it will become a casual default which I could argue incurs a cost to everyone else.
Thank you for your kind help, I appreciate it!
Without further context, "his child was in an accident" suggests a child of ~1-12/16/18. (Younger than ~1 and we should say "baby".)

"His son was in an accident" could equally refer to an adult.
Sundar Pichai is easily one of the least visionary big tech CEOs
They hired thousands of engineers but had the worst SDKs & APIs in crypto-space.

That's when I sold.
The difference is that humans have a finite work output. 50 shades of grey starts out as Twilight fanfic, but was released as a novel years after Twilight was. Twilight isn't harmed by the existence of 50 Shades.

AI on the other hand can produce books all day every day, hundreds of them nonstop. The minute your book is released it can be fed into a model and have 1000 similar books out within days. It won't matter if yours is better, it'll be drowning in a sea of duplicates.
Amazon to widely launch 'Buy with Prime', says offering improved merchant sales
The maximum time you can be away from a suitable landing spot depends on the ETOPS certification (or 60 minutes if you don't have one). The certification is specific to the type of plane and operator.

A modern 777 at most airlines for example has an ETOPS rating of 180 minutes.

That's 180 minutes of flying with a failed engine. So you have to take into account whether you can maintain altitude on 1 engine. Most of the time you can't, you'll be flying lower. Which means slower speed, so the calculation is 180 minutes at that speed.
Problem is that you'll have to support and maintain a brittle, over-engineered mess and then find creative ways to further over-engineer otherwise-simple solutions to create busywork for yourself and others.
Nice! I like it! Thank you for the suggestion!
Leave cutesy and or funny names for instances of software, not the software itself. You can have a complicated java program with dozens of classes and high levels of abstraction all named with the usual 'boring' names, and run an instance of that class an have it called r2d2, ultron, or "An Eridean named Rocky". That antropomorphizes the program, which leads to higher acceptance and easier internal communications.
There's so much to unpack beyond these surface-level statistics, though. Like how there's some evidence that the health risks associated with increased BMI are partially an artifact of weight loss diets being really bad for your health, plus selection bias. People with lower BMIs are significantly less likely to attempt these health-destroying weight loss diets in the first place. Which would then imply that an approach to the issue that focuses primarily on how to get people who are already fat to lose weight, rather than as a prevention-focused public health initiative, may be doing more harm than good.

Or how lumping the overweight and obese groups together is a great example of lying with statistics by gerrymandering the BMI quantiles that seem to be healthiest together with those that have the poorest health outcomes, and away from a group that was arbitrarily defined the better part of two centuries ago based on one person's aesthetic standards rather than any health indicators, most of which weren't even known at the time. In other words, it's the crux of a pervasive piece of statistical circular reasoning.

And the moralizing statements like "normalization of the increasing status quo" that politicize the issue, thereby making it harder to have a nuanced, thoughtful discussion about the topic, and instead push it toward always being yet another pea shooting contest between the "personal responsibility" and "fat positivitiy" caucuses. Which only serves to drown out any attempt to really contend with the full magnitude of the nuances and unknowns that surround this issue.
I recently got an Anbernic RG351V, a really fun little handheld retro console.

This is the first thing that made me really interesting in purchasing the Pico-8 emulator, which is supported on the console. However, I don't see a way to download the "cart" for this game so that I could play it on my handheld.

I might just be missing something about the Pico-8 ecosystem. I'd be happy to pay the $2 for the download if that would get me a copy of the cart. Anyone know if I'm barking up the right tree?
Stem Projector from Kano
Yeah, and transaction volume hasn't changed either

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day#....
Whenever you get stuck, try copying and pasting chunks of the code into ChatGPT and pretend it’s another expert developer and just ask the questions you have or ask it to do the thing you’re trying to do. Break it up into smaller chunks so it fits nicely in the context window, and take advantage of the multiple messages for follow up and clarification. If the generated code gives an error, simply paste the error message in as the next message in the conversation.

Also try using GitHub Copilot in the unfinished project with all the relevant files loaded into the current project. Then try writing code comments explaining what the following function does. Basically, try supplementing your own human intellect with the machine intelligence. It’s already unbelievably good and is going to get so much better in the next 1-2 years, and then you will already have a head start on how to leverage it to the maximum extent. Good luck!
> See Android, Youtube, Instagram, Tesla

All of the examples grew by 100x after being bought. Which of the Microsoft's acquisition grew by even 10x? Which of them even achieved breakeven in term of money spent?
That would be fitting, because, at least in North America, neither has any meaningful ecological role outside of being livestock. If anything, it's ecologically problematic to make honeybees even more competitive against native pollinators. Let the Paenibacillus do its work!
I would not consider me as much of an authority to give advice, but here are my highly personal take. I believe that this is more about focus and the ability to do a task with high intention. Also, I stopped active professional programming quite a while back, and hence this is me, a developer turned designer turned business person talking.

In my twenties, I can churn out things pretty much non-stop. I think I was trying to "prove it" and I could clock extras in the evening and weekends to move ahead. I could do something repeatedly until it was better than the last. I also tend to take on other people's tasks a lot.

In my thirties, I was still shuffling, not just me and my task but many other people too. I loved the messiness of deadlines, the near-misses, taking on new things, and being in the front of the battle, fighting in it and not flying over it.

I have now hit my forties; I realize I like to take time but do it right the first or second time. I also want to selectively do things with an outsized return on my time invested.

In short, I would have liked a Gatling gun in my younger days, but now I want precise sharpshooters. I'm of the opinion that it is OK to slow down, breathe, and take more targeted precision strikes.
DeepMind, and by extension AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaStar, AlphaCode.

Google Brain, and by extension the Transformer model (~which is the T in GPT~ my bad, it's Generative PreTraining, not General Purpose Transformer), and TensorFlow.

Waymo, which is rolling out robotaxis in a few places.

Not sure which department or subsidiary is responsible for their TPUs, the Sycamore 53-qbit quantum processor, or LaMDA.
It was always "Open" for business and just a generic prefix to slap onto things.
Wow. And I'm unhappy with laptops that require more than 60W USB-C PD.
I get your point, but if your code was already publicly available, then other humans could already take your original idea by reading your code and effectively passing them as their own, it's true that AI makes this process faster and more automatic
* Quitting daily/consistent Marijuana smoking. It's a wonderful substance but consistent usage will absolutely affect your sleep and leave you groggy the next day.

* Weight lifting 5 times a week.

* Paul Stamets microdose stack (3 days on, 2 days off).

* Big mushroom trip once a month to reset preconceived notions, negative patterns.

* While Product and Project management set silly deadlines, I still work at my daily pace and forget they exist. If we miss the deadline so what? Hitting it doesn't affect if I keep my job or not (large corporation).
> Microsoft has taken the descriptive naming style all the way down to products

May be more on the "Developer Products" side, but this is exactly how I feel about PowerShell cmdlets... Did PowerShell's developer team dislike Linux's software/package/scripting ecosystem so much that they had to make two-word long capitalized command names a good practice?
Apple could be almost considered a direct influence from Xerox Parc. SGI then went on to spinout Nvidia and ArtX(bought by ATI/AMD) amongst others.
> I want a derivative version of the GPL that says "this code or its output cannot be used as training data for machine learning, or any other artificial intelligence, unless explicitly authorized in writing by the copyright owners."

I'm not sure how such a license would work, but I've written a license that does the next best thing: defines things in such a way that it's clear that the output of a machine learning algorithm is also subject to the license.

The license is at [1], and I have a whole set at [2].

Disclaimer: Do NOT use these licenses yet. They haven't been checked by a lawyer. I'm trying to build the funds to do so.

[1]: https://yzena.com/yzena-viral-license/

[2]: https://yzena.com/licenses/