skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, at appropriate levels. I worked in several regulated financial institutions. Every year it was part of compliance training to be reminded that if you notice, for instance, money laundering or financial fraud, you can be personally liable and go to jail.

This isn't a new concept at all. Professional engineers have similar levels of risk if they breach ethics, though I don't know if it's criminal or just self regulatory and civil.
You can verify it’s accuracy. The metaphor of “con artist” is a poor one. It has no adversarial interest. A con artist does. Furthermore, con stands for confidence. A con artist manipulates confidence. Gpt and other language models are “what it says on the tin.”

Not understanding the fallibility of LLM is not the fault of the technology. It’s the user’s fault.

Not at all like a con artist. More like a tool that can be dangerous in the hands of the uneducated. That is a very large set of human tools, from nuclear reaction to pharmaceuticals to the automobile. Perhaps we just need “drivers ed” for large language models.
I agree. Maybe not for the same reasons:

FF has awesome privacy tools and extensions. I use it because I can configure it to be extremely pendantic about a lot of stuff.

For example, my setup requires me to whitelist each and every JS external script I ran to. The NoScript extension provides me granularity to choose whether fetch requests are allowed, fonts are loaded, etc. It remembers my choices and provides a quick UI for making these decisions.

For normal, non-paranoid users, I would recommend Chrome though. Not exactly because it is better, but because some pages will only work properly on it (due to lack of testing by the page authors, this is not FF fault)
Ask HN: What will be the most valuable technology skills in future?
Young person, a bit lost, struggling to get anywhere. Not really qualified for any work or able to afford degree. Had to drop out of college and have a year long unexplainable work gap after mental health decline. Have a generalized knowledge in tech from linux use, tinkering with networks and have a programming admiration but no idea how to translate this to a marketable skill set.

If you were in early 20s and had 6months to a year to try and get on track. what would you focus on? IT, programming, cloud, what is the optimal vehicle and will be valuable in 5 years? Is IT or programming safer bet?
Inflation is 50% vs. 2006

Only 15% vs. 2020

This is an 18.5% jump in debt in a period where prices rose about 6.5%. It does not make sense to say that this is explained by inflation.
Per the article, they just took the fortune 1,000 companies and look at the ones that laid off during the 2008 crash versus the ones that didn't.
As always with a security discussion, it's about threat model.

Preventing a random internet person from tying a particular nym to you is easy. Fooling a bunch of people is harder, but doable. Being a top-tier youtuber would probably be effectively impossible.

And if your concern is nation states, well... good luck with anything.
I'm using flutter_rust_bridge, it works pretty well. However, I do like Dart due to a few features it has, like code generation so that I can build my own language features if I want to, I use that pretty extensively.
we still use Wikipedia because of convenience and not reliability, so I'm not sure what your point is. Humans will choose convenience over basically any other quality. See: kcups. Doesn't mean kcups are a net win for the world
I suppose you haven't been reading the normal press.
Tangential: In the early 2000s, WD40 dramatically changed their can design in an effort to thwart product counterfeiters. I remember at the time reading that WD40 was the single most counterfeited product in the world.

https://www.packworld.com/design/materials-containers/news/1...
Go can easily cross compile and has lots of OS level abstractions. I would use web tech for any frontend, run a server and embed the necessary files in that binary.

Go can be just a few MB onto the low 10s
>rerendering the entire DOM

No, just rerendering the viewport that was affected by the model. I have no need to re-render headers, footers, menus, etc.

>DOM itself has state

No. The viewport has no state. It's just a transformation on the model. And I don't place any event listeners in my viewport DOM.

> every time the user presses a key or moves their mouse

Of course not - and I wouldn't expect an application to be updating the model on key presses.
Wasn't it 10m users last month? That's insane if true
Many people have a hard time believing these folks when they introduce themselves:

https://www.facebook.com/a.m.Jain.meenambakam/posts/for-othe...

Or these guys to get elected:

https://www.ranker.com/list/funny-politician-names/nathandav...
> crypto trading tools developer, on high frequency trading using C++

Not a job a lot of people want to do, even if it pays well.
You could learn jujitsu with a training partner and a sufficiently advanced virtual instructor, not being able to position students directly is a downside but not a dealbreaker.
No. Unless the apolitical version is a paid option.

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Between the tech layoffs and ChatGPT enjoyers of dogshit think pieces are eating good.
Why is that scary? Some insurers refuse to insure all vehicles in entire states. Some insurers refuse to insure expensive brands. Some won't insure you if you drive your car to work. Some don't insure cars.
I'm not sure how it compares or works with Tab Stash, but I have used Tree Style Tabs[0] for years and couldn't live without it.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Nostr: A social network for the decentralized era
It's a demo app so I had to restrict the max meeting duration to prevent abuse :')

If you deploy your own version you'd be able to remove the restriction: http://vercel.fyi/mux
But airplanes don't fly by flapping their wings.
Consumer delinquencies link should be this one?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS

Looks like a fairly low rate, but growing quite fast.
The law in Michigan (and I think New York and other states are similar) is retailers must allow returns of up to 250 containers, but can choose to accept no more than that. I think the reason is to prevent people from buying uncrushed scrap cans from neighboring states without a deposit system, and returning them in a state that does have one.

The other big annoyance in Michigan is retailers only have to accept returns for the drinks they sell. So you have to keep track of what store a container came from, because if only that one store sells it, only that one store will accept its return.

A lot of times if the machine doesn't take a few of the containers, I will just give up and throw them away, because the stores don't provide recycling bins which is even more frustrating. Or, people will just leave the cans they couldn't return on top of the machines in case anyone else wants to try tracking down where they can return it.

Also, the law says any retailer must accept returns, but in reality only supermarkets with the money for the machines do. Smaller stores like gas stations generally don't.
I have a simple canary for ChatGPT correctness that I ask every time it's updated: "What can you tell me about Ice Cold In Alex?" / "Who did Sylvia Syms play?"

I'm not expecting it to get the answer right (I don't think it has that information) but I'm hoping it'll eventually just admit it doesn't know instead of making up something plausible ("Sister Margaret Parker" last time I tried).

As long as it doesn't know what it doesn't know, I'm inclined to think of it as a super-advanced Markov chain. Useful, impressive, but still basically a statistical trick.
"Legacy" is meaningless in the contect you've used it.

C++ has wide use, and will continue to have huge use, for both old, current, and new codebases, in tons of areas, from systems, finance, and OS, to scientific and games.
It's acidic. So hard on the stomach, especially if you're not consuming anything else. Try an antacid with it and see if that helps make you feel not as bad. If so, then discontinue coffee.
200k for the salary part might be the highest salary they offer.

Often bonuses can be >100% of the salary. Bonuses vary based on firm performance. The advice is typically "Live within your salary, don't let your lifestyle creep up to demand your full total compensation". HR typically emphasizes that the bonus is not guaranteed (unless you negotiate a guaranteed bonus for some number of years [1-2] after hiring).

Also, salaries/TC have gone up in the last 10 years.
I suppose it does raise the bar somewhat, but there are many websites that sell access to phone numbers that specifically work on major services like Google for as low as 10 cents per text.
I've noticed the number of places that let you use ephemeral accounts has really dwindled. Spam, marketing, LE, and I am sure other reasons have it so persistent accounts are more common. So creating a persona is probably the easiest way to be somewhat anonymous online but it's getting harder to create unlinked accounts (using new phone numbers and unlinked to your other accounts) and when it crosses into the real world like with shipping products it gets weird. Your mailman might think a stranger is living with you.
tbh I got the long pauses when I put in a "platform" startup I worked for where the running joke in the [shared] office space was "so what do you this week?", which happens to have particularly waffly landing page copy, so the long pause before silently giving up felt appropriate

but it's not understanding anything else either, so definitely the HN hug of death
If they pay double, then you just need to suffer for at least 2 years to break-even and get 2 years of vacation.
yeah. this policy is regressive . no doubt. but people who do have cash are getting more "free money" every month and allot of it. they seem to be spending it into the economy right now. luxury items are created by everyday people.
Just to counter a possible bias of people pointing out only weird results: I looked for podcasts like "conversations with tyler" and got other podcasts produced by the mercatus center, other podcasts about economics, other wide-ranging podcasts. Nothing weird, at least among those I recognized. I added "lunar society" and I discovered a podcast about design called 99% Invisible, which looks interesting.
Being bored (it's not something someone else can do to you) is a reflect of your own and ability to find something interesting in the world around you.

It's very childish to assume people have a responsibility to entertain you...
I'm working an audio hosting SaaS and relying on Workers to stream and cache audio.

What can I do to prevent this from happening to me and my users?

This would be disastrous for my company.
> Look, I'm not saying C++ will go away.

No one is saying that . C++ will obviously never go away, the same way that APL will never go away. But what is questioned here is whether it will actually be a _relevant_ skill in future times to come.

To simply say "it will be yet another tool!" is just a value-less assertion.

> But shunning any conversation about PL advancements because alternatives have them and C++ doesn't is immature and unproductive.

Who is doing that, either?

My personal opinion is that the language who eventually becomes most relevant will be the one with the _fewest_ PL advancements, and that will be a sad thing, but is life as usual. Or what was popularly considered a PL advancement last decade will just be seen as a side step in the next. Again, the usual...
A new crypto threat to government launches 'DarkFi'
Quora's Poe AI – First Look
Sorry, Louisiana made the title too long for HN, tried keeping it as close to the source title as possible per HN guidelines.
I don't know if I agree with the premise. Most people I meet and interact with are very interesting. The article seems to be talking about why people don't tend to be flashy. That's a very different thing than boring.
From ChatGPT, although personally I think this list is bit old but should be at the 60% mark at the very least
Deep Learning:

AlexNet (2012)
VGGNet (2014)
ResNet (2015)
GoogleNet (2015)
Transformer (2017)
Reinforcement Learning:

Q-Learning (Watkins & Dayan, 1992)
SARSA (R. S. Sutton & Barto, 1998)
DQN (Mnih et al., 2013)
A3C (Mnih et al., 2016)
PPO (Schulman et al., 2017)
Natural Language Processing:

Word2Vec (Mikolov et al., 2013)
GLUE (Wang et al., 2018)
ELMo (Peters et al., 2018)
GPT (Radford et al., 2018)
BERT (Devlin et al., 2019)
I used to run Autosummarized HN, which would summarize Twitter submissions as something along the way of: „Twitter has detected that JavaScript is disabled in the browser, and asks the user to enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser.”

Example: https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/previously/2023-01-...
Third shift high school is the stuff of nightmares.
How is google going to know where to send the check? And who negotiates the rate? We aren't talking about people uploading content to google search. We're talking about information google might take from other people's sites.
I had an idea for a funny little startup once: “Adopt an alter ego”

Essentially a marketplace where you can buy and sell prebuilt identities - complete with associated, aged, and populated social media accounts, email accounts, pictures, websites, etc.

I just like the idea of being different people online.
They're both in the VC phase and are getting more enterprise clients, so I wouldn't take their current revenues prima facie.
Sometimes I wonder if Mitchell Baker and the product team are paid by Google to destroy their own browser.
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well, but for pretty much every field.

I have yet to see a single instance of this with any query that requires even a modicum of expertise. I have asked it a lot of questions about my field. I have asked it to summarize and paraphrase and ELI5 all kinds of shit. Everything it produces is either inane or a regurgitation of the input just with verbs and prepositions changed.

I would like to see a nice example, input and output, of this. I really would.
Yeah, the most depressing part of my job is when I have to calculate the SLO metrics for our directors. The first pass of stuff we control is always way within SLO. Then we have to subtract stuff where some third party messes up, or like the request doesn't even get to our service and it always puts us in the red.
My grandma taught me this ages ago. I still use this technique when I'm forced to drink bad coffee.
Well, web designing does blur the lines. You can easily create a website that is both desktop and mobile friendly by implementing responsive design. Translating that to a native experience seems to be the problem
I think it's just them giving computing power to an AI research company. The investment was made by Google Cloud.

If they were doubting their own current AI capabilities, they could do a lot more than throwing a minutes worth of income at a company.
Freckle Student Dashboard
Since the API was released, guaranteed. No place is safe.
You're downloading specific packages either way, which can potentially be tracked, regardless of whether you're downloading metadata for all packages or just one.

Edit: A thought occurs to me. Cargo downloads metadata from crates.io but clones the package repo from GitHub/etc. So unless I'm missing something, downloading specific metadata instead of all metadata allows for crates.io to track your specific packages in addition to GitHub.
People would give me strange looks upon mentioning salt to lower bitterness of coffee, a chip would do the trick. " Rim a Cocktail Glass with Salt—It's an Easy Way to Elevate Your Drink. This classic technique adds flavor and finesse to your favorite cocktails, especially a margarita"
It all depends on your threat model at the end of the day. I could create a blog and social media accounts in a few hours and, unless I do something stupid, it's going to be pretty hard for Joe Random on the Internet to figure out who I am.

But if I start writing things that catch the attention of the FBI? They'll figure things out quick enough.
It's banned for me, I literally cannot open en.wikipedia.org, and I am getting a similar error I get for other "banned" websites. (like Deutsch Welle, for instance https://twitter.com/HamidMirPAK/status/1621566287125020672)

I think they have moved from degraded to outright blocked
That's great to hear! When I get the chance, I'll update the article to note that custom context menus are actually supported now.
The plan AFAIK is to make it the default everywhere but they are just rolling out each platform in some kind of prioritised order.
Is it possible to run Python on it? I guess network I/O is a limitation due to the browser environment?
> ... setting out to learn C++ in 2023 is a major career limiting factor.

No it is not.

> Let's be clear, learning C++ in 2023 is like migration to Russia/China/Cuba

No it is not.

> you give away all your reasonable freedoms & funs to submit yourself to the mercy of a close group of "elites" who try so damn hard to dictate your life & work.

No you do not. It is not a slavery operation.

Learning C/C++ now is a good foundation as to why things like Rust and Zig are popular. Understanding the underlying mechanics is good. To say it's a major career limiting factor is hyperbole at best.
In March 2021 there were 150 thousand Flutter apps in Google Play store.

In May 2022 - 500 thousand.

See: https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-app-examples

Today: I'm too lazy but you can google for more up-to-date stats.

"nobody" is gigantically wrong.

Flutter is extremely popular in mobile.

Web and desktop support is behind but it'll improve and popularity of Flutter on desktop and web will grow too.
is it objectively better than google?
How many times does Project Veritas need to be caught with deliberately misleading videos before they're not worth talking about? Like, there's a lot of Bayesians here... what is the prior for Project Veritas breaking a huge story?
Depends on your definition of "dire." Perhaps some companies have Finance departments that believe they're in a dire situation when they have less than six months runway if all revenue stopped. I don't know what they factor in to the decision other than they believe their costs are too high given the current economic conditions.

It's kind of like me having plenty of money, right now, to afford Netflix but cancelling it anyway because I feel $14/mo or whatever the price is still too much for the value it delivers in the current year, and generally worried that I might need that $14 in a year (multiplied out across a bunch of other services or habits I engage in). I'd rather save my money now, as I've decided the situation is dire or could easily become dire. Am I actually cruel and obligated to keep my Netflix subscription (gotta make sure Netflix employees make a living) because I am not, at this moment, in what others perceive to be a "dire" situation?
No, Firefox just flat out has some worse JavaScript performance and bugs/incompatibility with other browsers.

I’ve been/am currently burned by Firefox’s pretty poor IndexedDB support and performance. IDBObjectStore.getAll() fails with a cryptic exception if you store too much in IndexedDB (iirc 256mb is the limit), whereas Chrome and Safari have no problem with it. It also has terrible performance - about 4x slower than Chrome, with Safari having the best performance.
Yeah it was an attempt to fix JS before JS improved a lot in recent years, and before TS took off.
Ask HN: What is the tech stack of your side project?
And much does it cost you to run your side project?
Okay this gives me something to go on, thanks!
Hope we get one for every 'BIG' out there.
> Qt vs WxWidgets all over again.

Not sure how to interpret. Pro Qt or pro wx? I'm assuming the latter.

But I don't even agree. Qt is/can lay claim to native as much as anything else on desktop Linux/BSD. The quality of the Windows emulation has always been excellent as far as I'm concerned, at it's been pretty goodish on Mac.

But I've never seen a perfect cross platform library that targets Mac.

wxWindows may use system drawing at the low level, but those that have been in this for years know what's up: it's just an unholy messy quasi-MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) looking thing - the model is inherently MS Windows from 1994. This is not magically going to work well as a Cocoa app just because it uses NSViews under the hood. And although the simple controls may use the OS, all the complex ones have tons of internal design. Like this is optimizing the wrong thing - as a normal person I probably care more about the look and feel of the tree view, whereas only the weirdos on here are going to get bent out of shape that some button text is a few pixels off - getting both right is nice, but only hitting the last one is pointless.

I've never seen a nontrivial wxWindows app that would fool anyone on MacOS. Qt can get much closer if you work at it a bit.
So in practice I would say you can do better with Qt for the major desktop targets.

These are all compromises. And native hardly means anything these days. Yes Windows has what has been retconned as WinForms, but otherwise, the UI LnF of Mac OS is a constantly moving target and Windows has never been as consistent as people seem to believe. Linux/Desktop Unix - lol.
"Amazon's logistics network has improved constantly. The shopping experience is getting better, not worse."

WHAT???? Prime no longer delivers in 2-3 days. The reviews are junk, the search words are gamed, the production information metadata is junk, the quality is terrible, the search results are all placed/gamed.

Things I have to do on Amazon's site that I didn't have to once upon a time:

1) immediately go to the second or third page of results to eliminate paid placement

2) immediately filter reviews by 4 star reviews to eliminate fake ads

3) cross-search the product on other sites to get a sense of legitimacy of the source

4) very carefully examine the photos of it and similar products from the company to gauge a sense of how legitimate their engineering is overall

It's exhausting. I only use Amazon for weirdo products now, but Walmart and NewEgg are steadily eating into their selection advantage. For any tech product I 100% prefer to order from NewEgg over Amazon, even if it is slower and slightly cheaper.

You know what Amazon is good for? Find the bare minimum engineering on products, and then try to find the slightly better engineered ones elsewhere for comparison. Amazon has the scrape-the-barrel quality, then you can see why the products at Walmart or Target are worth it or not.

Even then, I know they are a horrible company to their employees, predatory, arrogant, etc.

If anyone thinks Amazon represents some vanguard of good online retail, they are astroturfing or have no real historical basis of understanding.

Any logistics improvements of the last 5 years have been to expand their monopoly and "shareholder value". Delivery is worse now. Their abuse of delivery workers means you can't get a package reliably delivered in an urban area, they don't have time for delivery instructions.

"The missing chair is for the Customer". Yeah uh no.
I disagree. Education boosts IQ scores by 1-5 points [1], where 1 standard deviation from the mean IQ score is +/-15 points. The spread on cognitive abilities is clearly broader than education can cover.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29911926/
Yeah I'm not sure how meticulously one can possibly describe "put the bourbon in a glass."