skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The totalizing environment is a huge boon, rather than a downside. The utility of tooling is directly tied to how predictable the entire architecture of your application is. If, at the highest level, your projects always consist of a random hodgepodge of services written in a variety of flavor-of-the-week programming languages, 100% of your top-level tooling will need to be custom built for your project. In contrast, if all of your projects consist of "Erlang" or maybe "Erlang+a database", then suddenly you can create tooling that works on any project. For example, Observer lets you look at the entire process tree of your application, for any Erlang application. If your entire project is an Erlang application, you now have complete visibility into your entire application's current state. It's practically magic.

That was my biggest point, but you posted a long comment with a few other disagreeable points, too:

1. re:Conway's Law : Just write the code in Erlang (read: Elixir in this day and age) to begin with. Rewriting large applications in new languages is rarely worth it anyways, that's not a failure of the better language you want to switch to, it's a failure of the poor choice of language you started with.

2. re: But it's not on the cutting edge anymore: And yet it is. Erlang and Elixir are the only languages in anything remotely resembling widespread use to not have an utterly pathological concurrency story. Async-Await is an awkward crutch to shoehorn concurrency into languages that were never designed to support it, Go and its goroutines entirely misses the point of the exercise and simultaneously encourages you to write mutable state and punishes you for doing so, and the Actor model libraries for other languages are just half-baked, bug-ridden implementations of a small fraction of Erlang.
The way it works is you get the transcript that Google provides and you ship that to GPT-3 and ask it to summarize? Cool tool.
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People liking their genitals licked is older than the 1980s, and isn't going away.
I remember back in the 90s lots of these purity tests circulated on AOL and elsewhere on the 'net.

I thknk there was at least a "geek purity test" and a "programmer purity test".. and maybe a "UNIX purity test"? Not sure. They were all quite funny though (at least my younger self thought so)
> Don't get me started on the API.

At least it's not the GCP API. Had to use that for some compliance automation once and still have nightmares about it.
This is a legitimate concern, but there's a business to be built here.

I could see some sort of popup or embed that the actual company can put on their site that can only be validated via DNS. Then, users can look for that and have it validate the company by having the service email the user from the authentic domain, via that popup's backend. If the popup can't validate that the email sent via the vendor is from the validated domain, it rejects it and sends a warning back to the buyer that the site isn't authentic. The business being to mitigate spoof attempts on the behalf of sellers and building trust with customers.

Make it simple enough for any seller to use and you incentivize sales by being a "BlorgTron Validated Seller."

All of these problems have solutions, they just (likely) don't exist yet. We're effectively entering a "financial industrial revolution," and just like back then, new solutions will be required to move forward. That doesn't make Bitcoin bad, it just needs the missing services layered on top (identical to the existing banking system).
Keeping a complete search history on your device and making it available to every future version of Google Maps software to do whatever it wants seems kinda bad if you don't trust Google?

Then again, you upload any address you use to Google anyway, where it could in theory be recorded server side, so I guess we're trusting that Google won't break some of their promises regardless.
I can't help but agree fully. Its worse on telephones where they might be doing NLP, but they cannot understand and parse accents and dialects. I remember my late grandmother trying to call AT&T a couple of years ago (just before COVID), and the robot would ask: "What can I help you with?" and then could not understand how she pronounced "pay my bill" because she said "PAY mah BEEEEEL".

But just hitting 0 did nothing, so after 5 minutes of her repeating "PAY mah BEEEEL" over and over, I took the phone from her and did it. From then on she would have to have other people pay her bill over the phone.

Doing this to a much more complex user interface and providing me no clue what I'm supposed to ask for something I have no way of knowing that I don't know it is a dystopian future I'm glad my grandmother won't have to endure.
You're literally the one who made the analogy of "open source" to trademarks, and now you're trying to shoot down my explanation of why your analogy doesn't work by saying trademark status is irrelevant... Good grief.
I remember discovering that if you let the demo screen progress to where your ship is captured, you can then control the new ship! You basically got 20-30s of free Galaga haha. The catch was the demo still tried to run, so it would yank you around some while you tried to play.
All three of these are (obviously) mainstream positions in SF.

But actually fixing these issues and participating in the political process is harder than talking about it on HN.

> that would get me canceled in 2023.

Is this what the snowflakes call not getting elected now?
Sounds like a somewhat less dystopian (and more realistic ?) riff on the paperclip-loving AI ?
> Assuming we go in a perfectly straight line (trains can't do this) and no stops

I looked it up out of curiosity. To travel the length of Japan's bullet train network, which goes most of the length of the country, it takes 3 trains and 31 stops, for a total of just under 12 hours. A flight between the same locations is just over 3 and a half hours.

For those who want to look it up, these figures are for Kagoshima-Chuo Station to Shin-Hakodate Hokuto Station.

I can see how the train would be come out ahead for shorter distances, but I think this kind of trip is more reasonable of a comparison with the distance of flights that many Americans are taking.
On a similar angle, does anyone use this tech to automate "saved you a click" answers to clickbait headlines?

i.e. "You won't believe which beloved celebrity just died" and it just tells you the vital info.
I reckon Dune fans find all sorts of deeper meaning in the hit B-52s song "Private Idaho".
False. Sometimes, it IS "just about the sex."

Here we go: The time Rhode Island "accidentally" legalized prostitution for a number of years, and then made it illegal again, and the correlations to public health that seemed to result from this:

https://whyy.org/articles/prostitution-decriminalized-rhode-...

Scroll down to the section "Researchers take notice" if you are low on time.

They used surrounding states as a control. They tried hard to account for the consequences, but that pesky 40% drop in gonorrhea and 30% drop in rapes (!) just wouldn't go away (and also doesn't fit the feminist narrative that rape is "only about power", i.e., it IS "about sex", at least sometimes)

Sometimes, you don't need "genuine human acceptance." Sometimes, the only thing that will clear your head is that you just need to fuck. At least for some portion of men (and possibly, just to be inclusive here, women).
Yeah, you have that perfectly backwards. "Might is right" implies the most powerful entity has 'the right' to do what it wants on the basis of the ability to assert it. That it cannot be bound or constrained by rules / laws. And all other conflicts also reduce to "which entity is more powerful". So, by the time you go down the entity list from most to least powerful, there is no room for rule of law to bind any given actor.

And hence it is anarchy.
I've got plans to build my own "open music API" that'll make whatever service you use just an adaptor that Rad can tap into. At the moment Radiant is very embedded in Spotify's API ecosystem due to a few key features none of the other services has.

Longer term thing sadly as this is very much my side deal but it'll get there.

Probably make that new API and dataset OSS as I want other devs to build cool stuff without being at the mercy of the streaming services.
There are lots of other strange sounding proteins in biology, e.g Dickkopf (DKK), which is german for 'thick head', because increased Dickkopf-1 makes large heads in a certain tadpole species. There are also toll-like receptors ('toll' being german for 'yay'), because their discoverer, Nobel laurate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, was very excited when she found them.
The Peculiar Nature of Black Hole Birth Kicks
> If you have to stack rank employees, then that's at least a valid piece of data, a relative comparison.

It's hard to project the multivariate impact of any employee onto an ordered line. I don't consider the result "a valid piece of data".

Imagine stack ranking a soccer team and then removing one of the players. You need to score goals and the goalkeeper doesn't score any goals, so...
Society doesn't need to change just because you don't like this specific sub-genre of joke. Romantic partnership, and subsequent occasional annoyance with said partner, is an almost universally shared human experience.
The original Vice article[1] makes no such claim. I'm assuming you drew that conclusion from the following quote:

> Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them. "Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed, so it is critical we have a solution that does not depend on the previous owner approving,” Bumstead said.

But if you check his website[1], the terms of sale make it clear that devices are intended for resale:

> Although RDKL, Inc., always attempts to erase hard drives and remove personal data before a device is sold to another party, RDKL, Inc., cannot guarantee that all traces of the seller's identity have been permanently removed, and it is therefore the seller's responsibility to remove personal data from a device before selling it to RDKL, Inc.

Why would he pay for devices that he would be contractually obligated to destroy, at his own expense?

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgybq7/apple-macbook-activat...

[2] https://www.rdklinc.com/sell-terms
Proportional representation trades one set of problems for another, though.

If you look at the journey from citizen opinion to passed bill, there's a reconciliation process, where those opinions are sorted and filtered to consensus and final vote.

Without proportional representation, more of that process happens earlier. More responsibility given to voters to burden some of that compromise process. When people complain about "lesser of two evils" when thinking of candidates in primaries, or doing calculus on who has a better chance in the general election, that's an expression of that process.

With proportional representation, voters have less of that burden, and have a better chance of electing someone that is closer to exactly what they want. But the burden doesn't go away - instead, that burden increases in the deliberative body itself. More factions and more division in the House.

I'm not trying to represent one approach as better or worse - just saying it's a trade-off, and it isn't the case that proportional representation is "better". From the citizen voter's perspective, maybe, but from the citizen that cares about the final outcome via House bills, it's not so clear.
Ah great, I always wanted to do something similar. Will check it out.
Yes, the other guys above have already responded that this way I want to increase the likelihood of repetition. If you do the summary for free, at least there's a chance someone else will need it.

It's a hypothesis and on my current traffic I can't say it's worked. Maybe I'll change the limits when I have more data.
No, I'm not suggesting that. 1920s is merely when the current paradigm began, and ChatGPT is not ushering a new one.
“millions”, huh? I see hyperbole like this and I just skip the article and move on.
I had signed a contract at hire saying I would sign the separation agreement when I left.

I didn't have any issue with the agreement I had already made. I just wasn't willing to change it as I was voluntarily leaving and they weren't offering me anything to change the terms.

I'm not even 100% sure I would have noticed it except that my new employer required disclosure of any restrictions I had, so I disclosed the 12-month non-recruit from the previous company. It was fresh to mind.

The two companies are in the same general industry, but do not compete with each other.
It can be a struggle, for sure. Personally, I am driven (for some unknown reason that seems bigger than potential income) to create new things, and am swamped (plagued?) by dozens of new ideas every week. Not just in tech, but also in art, writing, music and more. I'll be the first to admit, I've had plenty of stinkers, and on occasion it took someone I trusted to be bluntly honest with me before I would give up on an idea. For an embarrassing, personal example of this, see nubbers.com, which made exactly THREE sales over 3+ years before I finally shut it down. Although my friends and family still use the product - for free, of course.

But I guess in the end, it comes down to what you believe. Do YOU think it's a good idea? Are you willing to fight for it? If your answer is "yes", then keep going. Ask yourself what you would do if someone cloned your product overnight and started selling it... what would you do to make your original product or idea better and compete against them? How would you reposition and regroup to fend off this tedious interloper? Or would you just throw in the towel? Ask yourself if you might be able do some guerilla marketing. Take a group of your friends to pertinent trade shows, all of you wearing shirts emblazoned with your website or product name, just wandering around. Make business cards with special offers and leave them in random office building restrooms (or bars or clubs or whatever makes sense for your product). Find a related product with whom you can partner and ride each other's coattails. Hire some social influencers to mention your brand. Create giveaways and contests. Yada^3.

If you believe in it, don't give up and do what it takes!
Enshittification is a good word for it. The funny thing is that the history seems to be always repeating itself, will it continue repeating with another app ?
Ask HN: How to Define the Singularity?
I know there are differences of opinion on this, but I’d like to keep an open mind about dramatic, immanent changes to human society (because it is a risk worth considering).

My concern is that we move the goal posts so rapidly that “beating the Turing Test” is now meh.

How might we define the singularity in a meaningful manner so that we can have useful discussions about it? What metrics should we attend to?

I have the same, overlapping questions about AGI. I’d give 50% odds within 5 years — but I’d need a clear cut way to win or lose that bet.
Sure, some people need it, I was just responding to:

> I'm still appalled at how people can manage to gather the courage to utter they don't need math.

When... well, the vast majority of people really don't. They promptly forget almost everything back to about 6th grade math, shortly after finishing formal education, because they truly never need it, so that knowledge and those skills quickly rust.

If these people in-fact could make great use of it, such that it's "appalling" that they don't think they need it, then that's probably what school should focus on teaching, at least for non-math-majors. Laser-focus on application in everyday life. Especially in k-12. If it's actually useful and people are being forced to spend hundreds to thousands of hours learning junior high, high school, and college math, but then losing most of it because they never see any use for it, that's a tremendous failing of curriculum that should be addressed as directly as possible. If such a program wouldn't succeed because it's actually true that most people don't really need most of that math for anything, then we ought not be "appalled" at their correctly assessing that truth.
And yet “average” people buy and sell MacBooks every day without imagining, let alone experiencing those problems.

It is only thieves and ideologues who actually experience any difficulty. And while I’m all for righteous purity, I am also happy knowing that the thief who stole my MacBook from Spaces coworking in San Jose (do not ever use Spaces!) will get nothing for the risk they took, and/or that a buyer taking a too good to be true deal will get a brick.

Yes, I like this world better than the free-open-insecure alternative.
I wouldn't worry about it. In most large organizations, decisions about who to lay off are made by small committees of senior executives and HR managers. They don't know or care about planned vacation time, it mainly comes down to financial issues plus (maybe) your rating on your last annual performance review. Your director probably won't even be consulted due to the risk of leaks.
Recovery mode is still relatively easy, it's DFU mode that has been vastly complicated. It seems the timing has to be just right since it took me about 30 minutes of trying to get my 12 in DFU mode due to something that wasn't going away from a regular recovery mode ipsw restore.
Nostalgia! Others have covered it, but I really miss how various cheats or special items seemed to be word of mouth rather than a YouTube video with 5 million views. Usually the word of mouth was pretty vague too, which created more mystery. “There’s a way to do X I’ve seen it” with few further details.

I remember this floating around about Mike Tyson’s Punch Out ways to beat specific fighters easily, and another for Final Fantasy 2 (US) about a special rare drop item on the moon.
Google's layoffs have decimated its best and brightest open-source teams.
When you're on your deathbed are you going to look back and think "gee golly, I'm really glad I worked those 7 extra days and got laid off anyway" or "that vacation I spent with <name> was the best time of my life, especially when we <whatever>"

Life is for living, you're working this job so you can go on vacation, if you don't go you may as well already be dead.
My first thought was "surely the hacker purity test predates that" ... and then I did a little bit of searching. The Hacker Purity Test is from '89... http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html

But it turns out that the Rice Purity Test will be celebrating its 100th anniversary next year. https://lhsepic.com/6806/opinion/3_op_ricepuritypranavm/

> The Rice Purity Test is a survey first administered by Rice University in 1924. The test asks 100 yes-or-no questions to output a numerical score, with 100 being the “most pure” and 0 being completely “impure.” The first test was given only to women in order for Rice to gauge how risqué their female population was. It often resulted in shaming: women with scores below 70 were often viewed as immoral, whereas those with scores above 90 were seen as uptight. The test has since become popular worldwide, despite retaining its most fundamental problem: it reduces test-takers’ complex experiences to a single numerical value.
Sure I can. Some podcasts are already posted on youtube. If I see a demand for it, I'll do it, of course.
> Uses AWS console in dark mode?

I'm sorry, there's a dark mode for the console!?
To be fair I don't think much has changed in the sword swallowing world since it's apparent inception in 2000BC.
I tend to agree, but that's not really one of the options on the table for this particular discussion.
That is a pretty hyperbolic statement, but I found that e.g. Brent's rootfinding algorithm on wikipedia was not good and looped rather than exiting when using an error tolerance of EPS (blowing up in the maxiteration check), while finding a more battlehardened implementation and copying the algorithm worked much better. I never did the work to determine exactly where the bugs were in the algorithm in the wikipedia page though.
I think of driving as near constantly dealing with people. They're around you the whole time, more or less aggressive, skilled and less skilled, and more or less caring about their own life while operating their own deadly machine.

Traffic is like riding the train but everyone's got a gun pointed at each other
This could be gradually changed if they said "100 meters, about a football field", so people started to visualize metric units naturally.
This looks interesting too, though no OTP out-of-the-box: https://docs.rs/axiom/latest/axiom/
Odd coincidence considering the video that's going to be released in a few hours.
The tone of the post is pretty off putting. It reads as a "look how smart I am!" article - the author doesn't even pretend to be modest.
> Apple isn’t an advertising company. It’s a hardware company that also does software.

They could be a noodle shop. The distinction isn’t relevant to the point: they are shoving ads in our faces, from their own apps from their own OSs. Always pushing you to the subscriptions. Everything Cook does indicates it will only get worse.
To me the real amazing thing about Erlang is more the fact that these patterns based on queues and messages and supervisors scale so well. They are easy to implement on a small, single node application. You can compose them. You don't need to complete reauthor your calls to start distributing them and fanning out responsibility across your nodes because you've been doing RPCs from the start. A multi-node application is not that much more difficult to reasonable than a single-node application
I think you do have to have an idea of which soccer player is more valuable than another though, because when salary negotiations come you may have to pick which one you can keep.

And you certainly have to know which is your best goalkeeper out of your goalkeepers, for example, because that's the guy who you want starting

Hopefully you have coaches who know a little more about the game then to negatively evaluate a goalkeeper for not scoring goals
>Our appliances are built on an assembly line out of discrete modules hooked together.

Once.

Taking apart all the snap-together cosmetic stuff without breaking anything to get to the thing you need to replace can often be a toss up.
Sorry, at what point did anyone suggest that turning the MacBook into a bomb is right or justified.
I'm sure the person who actually sent me the form was some low-level functionary. All I did was say the equivalent of, "Hey, this isn't the right form," and he went back to his supervisors and got the right one.

I sincerely don't think there was malice involved, certainly not at his level, so I just treated it like that.
Amazing to watch the trends skyrocket after 2018 when the media started turning against China.

I suppose it's possible that all of those people are deeply clued into the details of Xi's increasing authoritarianism, but it seems more likely that we're just thinking what we're told to think.
All of this is speculative, so I can't really say you're wrong, but I find your assumption that the airline wouldn't lie very odd. Businesses lie pretty much constantly as a matter of standard operating procedure. My personal assumption is that when a business tells you that something like this can't be done, they really just mean that they won't do it. I mean it's not like they couldn't track down the bag if they chose to devote the resources to it. I'd basically say that for businesses it is basically _always_ just a question of balancing costs.

Anyway like I said all of this is speculative. But I find it interesting that you and I have such diametrically opposed viewpoints when it comes to this.
You probably already know this but, do what you feel comfortable of doing.