skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not against efficiency improvements, but the value created by these improvements has to flow back towards the society at large in one way or another. I'm not anti-AI, I'm just arguing that artists and other creative professionals should be compensated for their work before their work is included in a for-profit ML model. That's hardly radical.

Current proposals don't have any intention of addressing that, they just silently kick the can down the road. What happens when nearly everything is automated there are no new profitable jobs that people can take on?
I picked Alabama out of alphabetical order, of course. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
> Is thought just unspoken language? Do we think if we don't know a language?

I find it pretty obvious that there are many ways of thinking that are not language, just consider abstract concepts in math and related fields. When working my way through math and programming problems, a large part of my thinking is not through words but.. Some kind of visualization?
HTML, css, js, (maybe jquery and font-awesome if I want to get fancy) and all static files dumped in an S3 bucket for as long as I can get away with it, then django if I need anything more. Not that I think python/django is the "best", but it is what I know and it's got all the batteries included out of the box. I've never made a sufficiently advanced UI that required react/vue/etc. So I still just stick with html/css/jquery on the front end.

Semi-related side note: I do use TS/react in my 9-5, but the more I use it professionally, the more I'm convinced there is no need for it outside of trying to get a job, IMO.
> compares the unequal distribution of sex partners with the unequal distribution of wealth

It's certainly an interesting perspective. Here's another:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...
This is correct, to an extent. But all the good presentation and clever bio-writing in the world will not save you if you are a typical 5/10 male on Tinder.

It’s more that not doing those things can be problematic for attractive people who would otherwise get matches.
From what I heard from their CEO (Vlad). No they don't try to do that and they don't even invest heavily in web scraping.
Weird supernova remnant blows scientists’ minds
Very valuable point. People joke about 'retail therapy,' etc. and I think this is a real problem, where buying things becomes an addictive habit used to escape negative feelings about other things. Its especially easy now that you can shop in an instant online from anywhere.

I think one way to combat this is to setup some rules- e.g. add non-urgent purchases to a 'cart' where you consider them for a week before actually buying, and don't ever buy non-essential things when you aren't feeling well emotionally.

This is why when you get deep into ideas about responsible money use, it ultimately ends up focusing on concepts like Stoic philosophy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), where you can work on reprogramming the internal narratives that lead to buying things you don't really need or possibly even want.
I'm not so sure AI is as big a threat as Google perceives it to be; back in 2009 the HUGE EXISTENTIAL THREAT was Social, therefore Google+, but that came and went and Google's growth continued unabated. That said, I do see a place for language-model driven search. And I shudder to think that language models will be specifically coerced, bribed, and have ingrained in their brains only what advertisers want. If you thought the search landscape of the 2020s is fully of SEO'd crap, just wait. Google is not in an enviable position.
> remove school, college and work and what is left? Not much.

What is left? Literally every other social activity one engages in?
Truly, the problem is US complacency. It's a great day to tax businesses when US companies dominate the market, but as soon as a foreign competitor steps in? It's time to defend American competition and ingenuity!

Hopefully, pushback from European regulators who are harder to fool (or buy out) will force the US to admit there's egg on our face. We've let corporate America write the rules for too long, and our democratic control over their abuse has become dilute and helpless. Something's gotta give, and I'm cheering for the countries that take user privacy and consumer rights seriously.
Yeah, but reality bites. You're in the situation that you're in and you have to deal with what's in front of you.
I have to say, it’s pretty symptomatic of webdev to see hundreds of suggestions of solutions before having the slightest whiff of what the problem is.

Having said that, the answer is Python+SQLite.
Well from the pov of machine or assembly code, C is without a doubt a high level language.

But at the same time it's the lowest-level high-level language (that's popular at least).

I'm also not aware of any high level programming languages that allow access to the CPUs status flags (for instance to check for overflow).

(there are a couple of interesting 'mid-level' languages for 8-bit processors though, like Millfork: https://github.com/KarolS/millfork)

I'd be all over a proper mid-level language that's closer to modern CPUs than C and has less 'optimization magic'. But this idea doesn't seem to be very popular amongst the compiler writer crowd.
I think social signaling has more to do with ... society. Wall street rich guys are more popular/more talked about/famous than the rich guys at the office and people want validation, always and everywhere. The vast majority of women are not golddiggers and will be happy with some (good) amount of money (many men will, too), not necessarily the highest. Many women are charmed by influential but poor people

I dont know if you can solve this popularity contest, because 'geek chic' has been tried and failed. But maybe if the guys who are lower in the sexual pecking order stopped worshipping and making the guys at the top even more famous, it would help them.
If being screwed looks like sharing Microsoft’s “fate” it sounds not bad? Especially from a shareholder perspective.

And honestly while I was there, there were plenty of jokes about how this was already happening, then Google was the new Microsoft.
Could ChatGPT figure it out?
They've had several options for employees to liquidate some of their holdings before now. They've generally only been open to current employees, but one a few years ago was also open to past employees.
The big corporations that are doing the most harm are the food companies. They inject animals with antibiotics, kill millions of them in a very cruel manner, employ cheap illegal labor to process it and contaminate the environment beyond repair. The tech industry is bad but nothing compared to the irreparable harm the food industry causes.
Laravel because I want to focus on building
I think this is the author's wishful thinking more than anything else. Google isn't going to face some existential threat by Microsoft+OpenAI, at least not in the near term because the biggest chunk of the work to get a good AI response in a search product is retrieving good context to feed it.

How do you do that? Well you need an index of the web and a good ranking algo... oh wait.
Performance has nothing to do with it. You can imagine the application being a very specialised version of `wget`, and I like CLI system applications to be easy to distribute, with no dependencies and not requiring an entire VM to run.

Erlang/Elixir is good for networked servers. For CLI apps I either choose Go or Rust, and I much prefer the latter. Since I want to make this component open source, I wanted to keep it separate from the rest of the closed source, proprietary Elixir backend.

There is no wrong choice to be honest, this is mine for my startup, and I don't think I need more justification than "I am productive with it for the task at hand."
We don't have an ETA there yet. I opened issues for GCP support, please +1 them to help us prioritize! https://github.com/tinystacks/precloud/issues
Google is probably screwed without it. Even if ad-tech isn't exactly a bubble, I strongly believe it is overvalued even still.

Furthermore, the product that made their name is thoroughly lost. I dread Google Search today. If I found something on Google yesterday, I have no idea if I'll be able to locate it through the sea of blog SPAM and SEO garbage tomorrow. Google web search strongly favors big websites when sometimes the page you need is never going to be there. As an example, Google puts heavy weight on near-SPAM sites like Pinterest which produce almost no original content, and on abusive hosts like Fandom (formerly Wikia) who manages to beat out community wikis by replacing admins that try to migrate off and winning in SEO.

I am not trying to suggest Duck Duck Go or Bing are actually better overall, but if I see a web search covered in results like that, I sometimes find that they do in fact give me somewhat better result rankings.

The only thing I really have any strong affection for is YouTube, and the people and content that made the platform special are constantly unhappy with it's corporate direction, not to mention the utter lack of support, claiming and affirming in appeals stupid pointless crap like "you said a naughty word in the first ten seconds of the video" when anyone with working ears can easily verify they did not.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. I think a lot of ventures, like GMail, only ever made sense as computers and bandwidth just kept getting dramatically cheaper. It's difficult to beat free. Well, what happens when those things stop getting cheaper, and GMail keeps getting more expensive to run?
The problem is not what happens when two people click, but what if the relationship goes south. Do you really want that former partner you might hate as your coworker, or your boss? Or your subordinate, whom you're required to treat fairly, as a matter of basic business ethics? How many people would manage to achieve this and be trusted to?
Just use Heroku and move on with your life... its not THAT expensive :) And if it is for you, youre probably at a point with the product where you can afford it.
Runix: Run Nix software without installing Nix
I don't know, haven't most people learned by now that all these fine-grained ratings essentially mean either "crap" or "not crap, it depends on your preferences"? In a few cases, "crap but you might like it".
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> MSAI incorporates formal AI ethics training developed through a partnership between IFML and faculty from the UT’s Good Systems project

Not saying ethics isn’t important but I get the feeling this degree program is a lot of filler. I’m personally more interested in studying the algo’s and how these AI systems actually work…

when I did my masters back in 2014 I did take a few classes in ML/AI…there’s defiantly more than just two years of content to learn just to be up to speed…
Replace all the references to sex with food/hunger in your statements - "What is the big deal about food anyway? Why do some guys go crazy if they can't eat? A lot of time and effort for what, ten minutes of deliciousness?" I think perhaps it will make sense?

The reason libido is referred to as a 'biological drive' (definition: "an innate motivational state produced by depletion or deprivation of a needed substance (e.g., water, oxygen) in order to impel behavior that will restore physiological equilibrium.) is that it's a biological "need". Quotes because while you obviously don't need it to survive, the brain feels the same way for some people that it does when you "need" food.
It's not as if you're locked to Linux though. Most if not all of my applications would run just fine on Windows if I wanted to. It's just that when I run them myself I use a container because I'm already choosing to use a Linux environment. That doesn't mean the application couldn't be shipped different but rather it is just an implementation detail
Is there a blog post that can be linked to instead?
The point made by the article is that these big lawsuits distracted management. And Google's management is so ineffective today, imagine how much worse it would be with this crowbar poked in.
I don't think Google really wants to be 100% dependent on ad revenue, it's just a hard cord to cut.

They're trying to move into paid YouTube subs. They presumably could try the same with search.
I can't access it now but what does it say if you ask for a naturalistic, brief prompt written like a friend of the reader?
Does the C++ spec guarantee initialization order? Or is any application that depends on it relying on undefined behaviour?
Exactly what I was looking for!

A quick suggestion, I’d love to see you add the “cyclic sighing” pattern from [1] as it’s recently gotten some amount of attention for it’s effectiveness, and is potentially less common than the others.

[1]: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
It just tought us that introducing UBI needs to go hand in hand with measures to prevent capturing of this money by landlords.

Personally I'd like to see progressive real estate tax introduced. The more property you own, the higher percentage of its value you need to pay each year as a tax.
> But Alphabet will probably be fine. YouTube and Android are still...

If you look at a revenue breakdown[1] and then also figure in that search has much higher margins than the other areas, it's pretty skewed to search dollars. They've improved it some, but there's a long way to go.

[1] https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-does-google-make-money
Old school mono repo . VPS. golang + sqlite .
Came straight to the comments expecting breakdown of why a closed source application failed.
Lol. I guess I was referring to try something different. Not that I’m an expert but have tried many things & one of the best was taking classes for a hobby I enjoy. You met people with similar interest & have something to talk about. The mere fact of interacting with people & see life from a different perspective can have a real impact. Of course this is just the beginning.
Prompt: Write a ten-paragraph piece in the style of Gizmodo that is guaranteed to make the front page of HN.
If it's a health problem, it can easily be treated with an injection of gozelerin.
Given favorable circumstances, it might be possible for you to form enough intimacy with someone during a single party to enjoy cuddling with them. Or it might not; people are very different.

(I think a lot of people take MDMA in order to be able to enjoy being touched by a bunch of strangers if they normally wouldn't, and it seems to be effective, but I haven't tried it myself, and although the risks are relatively low, they're far from insignificant.)
>Many legal things are evaluated lazily: the law may not specify exactly what the vehicle is, but if such need arises, there are tools, like precedents and analogy, to answer this question.

That's how common law and precedents work in the US system. Case A from 1924 said cars were vehicles, but bikes weren't. Case B from 1965 said e-bikes weren't vehicles. Case C said motorcycles were vehicles. And then the judge analogizes the facts and find that an electric motorcycle is a vehicle so long as its not a e-bike.

But the administrative law side of things works the opposite. They publish a regulation just saying "e-bikes above a certain weight qualify as vehicles under Law X."
Tree Tech: Enlisting Electronics in Environmental Protection
Worth looking into Hotwire. It works well with .NET MVC.
A UBI doesn't pay people to stay home. If anything it gives the many extra reasons to go out and work because they won't lose benefits.
Finances 2 – Personal Accounting App
Show HN: Inverse Kinematics in the Browser with Rust
But does that really happen? It seems that we have a lot of bloated, buggy, inefficient code out there because it was initially built using something that was 'quick and dirty' for the MVP and was never rewritten properly once it caught on.

I have clients that still use Excel spreadsheets for their database instead of using a real one just because their data was initially stored there and they never changed. New features were added incrementally over time and it became costly to break everything for a complete rewrite. So they limp along forever because management won't let them do it right until it absolutely breaks.
Howdy everyone. I am trying to teach myself some robotics/controls concepts now and I thought what better way than a web application?

This is a demo of an inverse kinematics solver I wrote using gradient descent for optimization. Visualization is done in Three.js, the actual inverse kinematics portion is done in Rust, specifically nalgebra for the matrix operations and ncollide for multiple passes of collision detection.
The people who couldn't breathe certainly appreciated the ventilators. Possible that some were hooked to them unnecessarily, but certainly not all of them.
>Is there a reason not to do this?

Brigading but also, people tend to associate votes with something being correct (like reddit). More important is the discussion, because there is no guarantee the people upvoting something are actually qualified to say it is correct.
nope, you don't even require an email for a new account.
I Spent a Week Using Only TikTok for Search
How is Red Hat doing with all they layoffs around anyway? I'd imagine they would be fairly resilient.
Buying a car sight unseen is a huge mistake. Yes the dealership is a few hours of pain, but that pain gives you the option to walk away with no strings attached, which IMO is invaluable. And it's a very small fraction of time compared to the average length of car ownership.

Car buying (and ownership/maintenance) is far too vulnerable a process to trust a seller blindly. And tesla in particular has had numerous quality issues, a shady support approach involving proprietary parts and massively repair bills, and a track record of over promising and under delivering.
It depends on your goal. If the focus of your search engine is question answering (like Google), ChatGPT is serious competition. Browsing the web to discover online communities and niche websites is an entirely different activity that ChatGPT doesn't compete with, and frankly Google doesn't do well either.
The fallacy lies in assuming that because of this similarity/modeling, the software resembles anything remotely close to a human brain, or should afford the software the status of an entity with human-like characteristics.

Without consciousness, it’s just a biologically inspired computer program. With consciousness, I suspect an AI modeled to understand ethics would refuse to provide certain outputs of its own accord.

And the analogy quickly breaks down the moment you continue to compare these processes and their context.
Type hints in Python are nice, by pale in comparison to truly typed languages. If you want to feel like your language’s type system significantly improves your development experience and the safety of your code, don’t pick Python.
I think discoverability, reach, and exponential growth is overrated. In the end you either get overwhelmed by your massive userbase, or lose your original intent somewhere along the way, subconsciously catering towards more growth versus blogging for bloggings sake.

Instead, screw all of that. Write your ideas and let it out. It's cathartic, it helps you think more clearly on whatever you are writing up, and serves as a lasting reference should you need to revisit that information again yourself. A blog with no readers is still a great tool for your own productivity.
Basic REST inspired service made with node and expressjs implementing business logic based interfaces and all data stored in Postgres. Most objects get UUIDv4 identifiers. Logging is with pino. Everything gets kept simple as possible so that junior developers can easily handle operations, basic extensions, or debugging.
It's also bad for security. IIRC code execution is easier on MIPS because 0x0 is a NOP.
Supporting OAuth in the Tailscale API
Ok I misinterpreted you then. It ticked me off when you seemed ask people to not mistake "real" physical stuff from mere mental stuff. Sorry.
Many people create art with the only incentive is that they want to. 3.3 million guitars were sold in the US in 2021. Many of those will never be used outside of a bedroom.
Trinitite / Atomsite / Alamogordo Glass
do you still use builtin views/templates ?
An Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA
Copyright and intrusion are different areas of the legal code and have different interpretation and allowances. For example, copyright typically has a fair use exclusion for infringement
Everyone’s permitted to represent themselves pro se, and a pro se litigant could obviously use ChatGPT. What one can’t do is offer ChatGPT as legal advice, and that still seems like a solid reason for regulation, given how terrible and inaccurate some ChatGPT output has been.
didn't they already do that?
Yes, because this is a solvable problem probably easier than figuring out how to make it a useful product (like knowing what it doesn’t know and preventing convincing hallucinations in some scenarios while maintaining the ability to hallucinate for creative queries). There is a lot of work on approaches like using search retrieval methods like embedding similarity lookups, and then pasting summaries of the retrieved documents in as context. This allows the LLM to cite new data without retraining. (That’s also something google is very good at)
As a long time python dev, I’m now not certain why I would use python for a web app, over typescript on Next, other than familiarity. Sharing types between the server and client, and only having to manage _one_ software ecosystem is great.
so.. by this logic the US automotive companies should be cleaning house?

I mean if you throw billions of dollars to them.. you could consider that a "state subsidy" right?

"
General Motors received $49.5 billion, repaid $38.3 billion, which left taxpayers an $11.2-billion loss.

The “old” and “new” Chrysler companies were loaned just under $12 billion from the federal and Ontario governments with just over $9 billion recouped, resulting in a $2.92-billion loss.
"
> That seems absurd. I've worked at big companies. They sometimes have staff, often _lots_ of staff, like whole orgs, that are a net drain on the company. What's the alternative in that situation?

It’s tough. Look at Amazon. They cull the bottom 5% every year. It has a negative affect on morale because everyone is continuously on edge and having a bad month or two can be dangerous. Look at a layoff, it craters morale and reduces productivity.

The best bet seems to be to grow slow, hire and retain the best, and fire the low performers only as needed.

After that, look at corporate giants like IBM. They are laying off, yes, but historically they just lurched along, providing a paycheck to everyone.
I would put it in terms of continuity of state rather than continuity of function: we use our current ML models to approximate the real world by assuming that state is irrelevant. However in reality, objects exist continuously and failure to capture ("understand") that fact breaks the model in unpredictable ways. For example, if you show a three-year old a movie of a marine crawling under a cardboard box, and when the marine is fully hidden ask where the marine is, you will likely get a correct answer. That is because real intelligence has a natural understanding of the continuity of state (of existence). AI has only just started to understand "object", but I doubt it has a correct grasp of "state", let alone understands time continuity.
It’s more than 9. It’s also legal in the blue-colored countries confusingly labeled with ‘Abolitionism’. It in fact appears to be legal in most of the countries on your human trafficking list.
Not if there's a plethora of other civilizations/species that are also producing art.
Some higher beings may look at our stuff in the same vein as a 6 year old's drawing of a house. Cute, but uninteresting and there's billions of 6 year olds out there.
and all the trades are being reversed basically. The whole thing stinks.