skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean... a blunt and coffee in the morning hits the spot
That was the crass money-making part of it, but a lot of nerds earnestly believe(d) that cryptocurrencies would have massive world-changing consequences. I think it's increasingly obvious that there's little rational or empirical basis for such belief.

With AI, the biggest claims I see are overwhelmingly from people who are not doing cutting-edge work in the field, who have no real foundation for a belief that these AIs will continue to improve at a dramatic rate. Because to really change the world, they do need to get a lot better.
I recall when Steam introduced their bans for cheating in games. They have it timed so that do it in batches of 6 month period effectively allowing cheats to operate with impunity for a certain amount of time -- this period is crucial to create ambiguity about which cheats work and and which don't.

When the ban hammer drops there is a lot of upset people screaming in to forums that they were banned but didn't cheat! This reminds me of that. The entire thing is working as intended and there will inevitably be upset people who were just gaming the system before hand.
That's what is so irksome about it.

At some point in the pandemic I remember Amazon talking about how people in certain urban areas would be getting faster service and almost immediately afterward they would promise to deliver in two days but it would really be two weeks.

Now AMZN usually claims I can get Prime shipping in 5 days and they seem to do that.

What's funny about it is that every other retailer has sped up their shipping in the past two years, frequently I get free or low-cost one-day shipping from retailers like Adorama, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. Lately I have been buying vintage electronics on Ebay and I find I get packages from Japan, China and the UK faster than I get them from the AMZN warehouse that is a four hour drive away.

My hunch is that if you have a Cheesecake Factory in your town you get 2-day or better shipping with Prime, if you don't you get something worse. If you have 2-day shipping you might decide to buy something online than at a bricks and mortar store. If you have to wait 5 days it is not hard at all to make a trip to a store. Bigger urban areas have a lot of competition for shopping, I think the shopping just sucks in a town like Ithaca and AMZN figures they don't need to try very hard.

I am not renewing Prime this year because it just isn't worth it.
If I were to restart my career, this is likely the field I'd pursue. I read The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee last year and just became enraptured in the possibilities.

I'm wondering if there's anything I can contribute to that field as someone with general programming capabilities.
That’s most interesting aspect to me is that 100s of thousands of people were all likely aware of the developments in the field, but few actually knew what was coming down the road in the near future. It’s these types of gaps I find the most interesting when looking at technologies like this.
Web3 Engineer’s Manifesto
The problem with using any where you don't care about the type is that someone can come along and make unchecked assumptions about what type it actually is. Unknown is spicier as it'll prevent developers from assuming it's a string or object or something.
I have my CV in Latex, I am an academic and an important part of the CV is the publications list. With Latex I can export my publications from Zotero (where I keep them updated) or just have a bibtex file and include (and link!) them in my CV. If you are not an academic, then I don't really see the advantage of using Latex vs, say, Word.
The privatize the digital scanning part is the issue. It’ll just be another thing for some company to charge for. Just deliver the damn mail and stop trying to turn jails and prisons into a profit center.
Locked iphones are easy to resell for their parts but you get pennies on the dollars. Last time I checked (long time ago), you could get the latest gen top tier model in perfect condition on ebay for less than 100$ with a blacklisted IMEI (they work but can't use cell network). For a fully locked phone, I doubt the thief would get more than 10% of the original value. They might not throw it in the trash, but they also won't go out of their way to try to steal the one you have in your pocket.
Yup, God of War, or Son of Dad depending on which version you're playing.
> What is BS?

HR measuring employee productivity and surgically laying off non-productive empmployes, boosting the morale of top performers. /s
I agree that your info refutes that it was fentanyl. This report:
https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/FCJEI/Programs/SLP/Documents/Fu...

mentions a similar incident that was initially thought to be fentanyl but turned out to be synthetic cannabinoid.

It's also questionable how often this is actually occurring versus the claims / justifications:

"In Florida, for example, of the 3.1 million contraband items that entered the prison system from January 2019 to April 2021, only about 1 percent came in through mail."

source: https://www.vera.org/news/more-and-more-prisons-are-banning-...
All cards run through payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, which is why they all have a PAN, CVV, etc. The distinction between credit and debit really just depends on the source of the funds backing the card: either a line of credit, or a bank account that is debited. The allocation of the transaction fee is also usually different, but that tends to be transparent to the customer (and sometimes the merchant).
I don't know, it's an opinion.
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic have unwanted side effect: facial aging
We'll have to agree to disagree. I believe someone coming in contact with second hand smoke is a victim of circumstance, but someone doing the actual smoking did so on their own free will.
this is exactly what I needed, thanks!
What mail?
New pterosaur species with hundreds of tiny hooked teeth discovered
I think they should put it in the water in my country.
Here, you expect obj to have a property called "value", so I'd say you do care about the type of obj. A valid type would be obj: { value: blah }
Many people consider porn fundamentally immoral, not to mention most porn has connection to sex trafficking.
Is this a creature comfort wrapper for reveal,js?
You used your session to show her cool stuff on the internet?
PG was a little ambiguous about this. He said "So I asked: What would I have said?" It is not clear whether he asked himself or ChatGPT.
Yeah I can't open any channels.
The React framework has a framework called framework?
I'm mostly surprised that anybody gets any mail any more.
A Mutant Plant with a Counting Disability
That's why, in spite of being on the Internet since 1994, I haven't ever really self-hosted anything. At every point, it looked like too much hassle and too much expense.

In this case, I've identified a couple of hard target outcomes which pertain to accessing documents, backing up photos in a way that I understand and trust, and a couple of other minor things, and it appears to me that those specific targets are in reach at a non-crazy price.

But I agree, it's very intimidating to even contemplate, hence my coming to get the thoughts of this community on what's the best way.
> shareholders are stealing 90% of the value

I think you are very close to the central point of this debate. Whose value is it to begin with? Current cultural norms point to 100% of the value belonging to shareholders and them deciding how much of that to share with employees and execs in form of salaries, bonuses and stocks. If the employees are not happy with a proposal, then they are happy to go find more generous shareholders.

In that light, I don't think it is stealing.
The failure to realize that the API doesn’t exist and therefore the code won’t work in practice, however, is a major lack of insight and understanding.
Awesome reply. That makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
A lot of these units have small issues that would prevent unlocking. Like a keyboard issue or an LCD issue. Guaranteed to end up in the trash under this setup.
Indeed, over the decades, the field moved from static weak typing (with a few languages being strong) to dynamic weak typing to strong typing with type inference.

C has not benefited from any of this progress.
Humans, in my experience, have even more reasons to be flawed than the AI. Yes, the AI can be incorrect, but humans can be misled in what they believe the same way, and have the added problems of ego and misaligned incentives. Heck, in this very thread we have one human calling out another for being incorrect about whether or not an AI was correct. Locating sources of reliable truth is an unsolved problem AFAIK.
Are we the Vogons?
That's nice, but having recently used some of the websites they make for the USA government, they shouldn't ever be an option.24 hours after you register, your account may work, but it keeps getting stuck in various places in the sign in process, and the pages are all carrying the oracle logo. Complete shit
I can see why on the surface this may seem like a good idea: reduce contraband.

On the other hand it may just increase the take of corrupt prison officials.
I wouldn't call it ad-free, but it is free from overt ads.
I like typelit.io as I can read books at the same time
Fair 'nuff, but creating any kind of text content is a big fat pain, on most mobile devices. I'm not sure how much site design can help. This site is about as good as you'll get, there.
I'm working as a gameplay programmer for a small indie game studio (20 people, 6 of them programmers). The project is a strategy game.

* I love the people -- I enjoy working with creative folks (artists, designers). As for programmers, everyone who worked in gamedev for 5+ years is batshit insane in their own way, so they're fun to be around, too.

* The project is exciting, and no one will do it if we don't. I'd absolutely LOVE to play the game we're making.

* I'm somewhat irreplaceable due to the nature of small teams working on big projects in a developing country. People with comparable experience prefer moving to Sweden or US for reasons I don't quite understand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* The salary is good for where I live. Nothing outrageous, but I can get a house, a car, and would still have some money to spare.

* 100% full remote

* I'm a bit overqualified. In other words, at the exchange of ~20% lower salary, I get the extra time to do things my way, or even slack off half the day if I feel like it.

There is one single reason I'm considering moving (to even less developed place), and it's that I'm concerned the complete lack of stress in my day-to-day life will turn me into a weakling, and when bad things come (and they always do), I won't be ready.
I'll definitely take a look!
Rikers specifically has a reputation for this

> [A] guard-turned-federal cooperator described how he struck a deal with [an] inmate, who allegedly sold drugs to hundreds of his fellow inmates

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-how-rikers...
How to Make Your First 90 Days in a New Tech Job Count
I just finished that book, it was really good. I can't wait to read The Song of the Cell.
From the first result I skimmed through searching Mounjaro, I would assume GP meant switching away from metformin to Mounjaro :

"...Mounjaro can be used on its own in patients who cannot take metformin (another diabetes medicine)..."
Biden just signed a bill to reduce the cost of Prison phone calls by a significant amount [1]. Here's more details on how excessive the charges were. https://harvardpolitics.com/jail-phone-calls/ . Is your argument that because the Democrats haven't tackled the issue with privatization of mail and/or haven't spoken out about it they don't care? Maybe they will, maybe not, at least they have done something.

All the sponsors of this bill are Democrats or independent. To be fair it was approved by voice vote so some number of Republicans might have been ok with it? (I'm not sure how that works)[2]

[1]"Biden signs a bill to fight expensive prison phone call costs."
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146370950/prison-phone-call-...

[2]https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1372341
>>Hmmm, this one seems Ok / good idea?

Did you read the article? It explicitly says several other US states have already done this, and it hasn't reduced the prevelance of drugs in the system. So I really don't see why this is a "good idea"?

>>inmates don't have a right to privacy, for good reasons.

They do though. It's severely limited, but it exists. Article also mentions this, if you read it?
Tangential, but it is so funny to me that “TFA” has become a totally polite and normal way to refer to the linked article on this site. Expanding that acronym would really change the tone!
I would be cautious; we all know what the majority of people in the field of "Selling NFTs" said a year ago - and they were obviously proven right.
I do find it hilarious that almost every day you read about a new shiny CSS / JS framework here on HN, all the while HN itself is using tables for layout. Hell, some pages don't have design at all (login page)! Maybe worse really is better.
IMO it's analogous to adaptive cruise control on cars. It's very useful in certain specific circumstances, and genuinely helpful. But not yet necessary or transformative unless you live in LA/sit in traffic for a living.

People are claiming to use it to write code, I'm curious how sophisticated said code is. Sure it might take out of some of the grunt work, like an ultra-sophisticated find-and-replace, but you still have to review all the changes it makes and correct any mistakes so the only thing it really saves is the typing. There's no way you could ask it to write code for a sophisticated architecture without extensive training on said architecture, and I'm not sure how you would even train it for that (can it parse design documents? Diagrams?)

The "Look, AI is replacing creative work first, the thing we thought was most immune to AI!" narrative annoys me. IMO it's just yet another factor revealing how little people value "creative" work. There's a reason relatively simplistic Marvel movies make the big bucks and the erudite starving author/artist is a meme. The market does not appreciate creativity for its own sake, and never has. No one cares about the reincarnation of William Shakespeare if he' s using all his talent to write blogspam. No one cares about Monet's ghost's DeviantArt anime titty drawings. People care about creativity because it's a requirement to produce something new and useful, that use can be pragmatic or symbolic, but if it's neither no one cares and the AI-generated equivalent is good enough.

You want to see AI-proof creativity (at least currently available AI)? Look at any luxury automobile interior. Look at any sophisticated software/hardware architecture. Look at an aircraft carrier or any other item where there aren't millions of samples to train on. That's not to say AI couldn't contribute to the tools that make these things, but no one working on the above is losing their job to AI any time soon. It's just taking out some of the low-hanging creative fruit. Maybe it's the start of an all-consuming revolution, or maybe this is as far as it goes. Only time will tell, but I've seen enough false revolutions (self-driving cars, AI advertising, crypto) to not buy in until I see hard data of it doing something more than writing convincing youtube intros and being used to cheat on high school essays. If the tools turn out to produce genuine value, then I'll learn how to use them to maximum effect at my job. Nothing to get wound up about either way.
I think there are a few blind spots, or weak areas in her arguments, but in general I’m in sympathy with this piece. Surely more now than I would have been a year or two ago, due to the steady decline in the quality of journalism. For example, I used to check the NY Times a couple of times each day; now I might think to take a glance there once or twice a week.

Her final point is spot-on: read source documents, not the imperfectly digested products of poorly educated journalists. The internet makes this far easier than in olden times, and makes, or should make, most of journalism obsolete.
what paper is this referring to, sorry?
And the thing does not learn, it does not save the good answers somewhere nor does it discard the bad ones.

I have asked it to generate some mac os compatible vba code, oh dear, that "macro" never worked so far.
I don't think they meant "trouble" as in "they'll be in trouble with the restaurant for not tipping." I read it as "I'll be in (financial) trouble because I'll run out of money sooner than I expected" which would be a concern of mine as well in their shoes.
it doesn't happen all the time. for Google, this is the first time they've ever done a large set of layoffs in their 25 year history.
Now they have a financial incentive to talk directly with to the most recent owner, and people besides the owner have a lot less incentive.
I don’t actually think half the country supports all the things you said. Some people are for harsher sentences, sure, but if they had the option of a compromise where the sentences were slightly longer but the conditions much better I suspect they might accept such a compromise.
Some of the VR movies are getting quite good. First the newer generation headsets- 2K, 90+ fps, cableless- no longer induce nausea. Second, movie makers are becoming versant with the strengths and limits of this media.

One I saw in December called Container, I felt I was in the room with various scenes of realistic 3D people.
Hi, Idiot here.

How can I reliably find "Frontiers of Knowledge"? Especially in fields I'm not savvy in?
> Every discussion on AI take the example of ChatGPT and its inherent flaws but AI-generated content doesn't have to be dull and low quality.

To get away from that we'd have to dramatically change our approach. The LLMs we have are trained on as much content as possible and essentially average out the style of their training data. What it writes reads like a B-grade high school essay because that is what you get when you average all the writing on the internet.

It's not obvious to me that a creative approach that boils down to "pick the most likely next word given the context so far" can avoid sounding bland.
I've been browsing Reddit using Reddit is Fun on android and it's a delight to use.
My answer was mildly tongue in cheek, and I see where you’re going.

On the other hand, one of the other posters asked “to generate a parallax effect in Qt/QML. It simply used a QML Elemened with the name Parallax”. Is this an insight, or is this answering “yes, I could” to “could you pass me the salt?”. Maybe the line between the two is a fine one, and I didn’t realize that yet.

In general, it feels like copying part of the question (“write parallax code”) in the answer is the easy part of the task…
400 years of timelines from 1606 to 2005
> As much as people may not like theft, it is less of a social ill than waste is.

That's... a take. It sounds like you don't personally believe in property rights, and therefore think solving global poverty (an intractable problem that has never had a meaningful solution in all of human history) is a better way to solve theft than just addressing theft directly. The weird thing is people steal even when they aren't experiencing poverty.

Theft is an unalloyed social ill, and the only examples of theft that can be remotely justified are contrived examples of theft under oppression of basic survival needs, which is not the context, socially or otherwise, of the places where iPhones and laptops are being stolen, so not really relevant. Theft is wrong. Theft is social ill that has far-reaching consequences and many second and third order effects in society. Ending theft is a good thing, and is more than worth the trade-off of the minimal additional waste (considering aluminum is very recyclable).
hmm, I found that I didn't really like this course but I'll look through it again
Nothing really wrong with working on a porn site, but I might hesitate to bring it up with my family members.
A lot depends on the complexity of your application.

There are some simple React applications where you can keep the state near the top of the application and let it percolate into the components via props. (Like my app for controlling my smart speakers.) In a case like that framework can be part of the problem as much as a solution.

When you've got complex state all over the place and an update to component A's data can cause component B and C to update and particularly if the app is dynamic so you don't know when you're writing it exactly what will cause what to update than you really need a framework.
Slack conversations are messed up for workplace teams everywhere
It is not, it is just more and more attack on Modi whenever some critical elections are impending. I'd claim that India has never been more democratic. Every side is free to not just talk but shout on top of their lungs, Indian judicial system still works, journalist and media (despite being absolute junk and corrupt) still function on their own. Now, there are incidences here and there, but these are exceptions not the rule and my claim is that by and large India is most democratic country. Given true democratic nature of India, whoever didn't like these exceptions (from either side of political fence), cry foul loudest. Whoever controls media better, appears to be having majority voice.

Indian politics is different than other countries, even within South Asia, I'd say. It was dominated by one single political party (Indian National Congress or INC) headed by a single family. In fact, it is funny that English media blames Modi to be authoritarian, who is duly elected both by people and within his party, compares to INC which is actually autocratic (It's always one Nehru family which is head of party and has first right to be PM if in power). However, since 2014, INC been uprooted with Modi's rise. While INC believed in status-quo approach (hence, no progress of India since 1947 until 2000s and was considered to be extremely corrupt), Modi completely turned political game over. Almost 45% of India voted for Modi's party, BJP in last election (total 800million voters). He has exceptional work ethics, both opponents and supporters admire his integrity and dedication towards serving India (Modi calls himself prime servant instead of prime minister). People on ground can see changes his party has ushered, like transportation infrastructure, digitization, focus on cleanliness and environment and much more. Sure, Modi is also head-strong may be even adamant. But given what India's state was with respect to corruption and rotten state affairs, probably this attitude was needed to bring the change. I'm glad that given mass support he enjoys and adamancy he has, Modi is not the authoritarian, some Indian elites claim to be and uses his power for development of India.
The atmosphere is 5 times heavier than all water combined

Not sure where you got that. As far as I can see from most online sources, the Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5 x 10^18 kg, but the oceans weigh about 1.3 x 10^21 kg.

It makes sense that the atmosphere weighs less than the oceans if you think about it. The weight of air at sea level is about the same as 10 meters of water. The oceans cover most of the earth, and average a depth of a lot more than 10 meters.
There's the incentive of "I'm confident that all my private data isn't on this machine any more", which I think matters.
What sorts of things are you using it (successfully) for? I've gotten it to write a script or two for me, but it feels like usually I have to type out so much context (or domain/business knowledge) that it doesn't end up saving much effort.