skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be "virtual tape" over S3 API over whatever technology AWS uses for glacier over physical tape.

They physical tapes, if any, would be many layers down.
"The paper dimension standard used in essentially all countries using the metric system, specified in the metric system, and with constants chosen to fit nicely with that system" is a bit long.

An A0 sheet has an area of 1m².

For the ratio in general, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_2
It works, but it's worse than a tag-based allow-list.

With tags you don't need to shell or sftp in to move things around.

You never have to wonder which library something is in ("wait, did I put Star Wars in the kids' library...?") which, admittedly, matters more for some Jellyfin clients than others (the natural way to browse in the web UI or on Roku is by library—the natural way to browse on my 3rd party tvOS client is by type, which browses across libraries, i.e. movie, TV, et c., so it matters less on there).

Since it's easier to make changes, you can swap material in and out on a whim, from any device with a web browser.
If you can think of a single individual who can demonstrate knowledge on the fly with the same accuracy and breadth as ChatGPT, I think most of us would agree in calling them “incredibly smart.”
SQL.lite
Possibly. Can you explain?
> The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.

I'd argue that Google incentivized the web to change in a way in order to better exploit/profit from Google, and that's led to a net negative experience for Google users (who then leave, causing problems for Google).
No, I was just obsessed with how he did it, so I swallowed every piece of info I could've until it was clear. It was manufactured, which is the best approach.
I don't have any credentials really. If I had to be jealous I would be jealous of Carmacks work in id and oculus.

I am definitely irritated by the fact that he is able to pull 20M in funding. He has been giving interviews left right and center. We are upvoting Altman, sam Harris,Carmack but nobody cares about the actual AI researchers, all academics, who have brought about the Deep learning revolution.

Your comments about academic bubbles and researchers gives you away. All of the revolutions in AI have been brought about by the academics inside bubbles you are jeering at. The biggest example of academic inside a bubble is Geoff Hinton.

We have to sit here and listen to word salads from
Carmack, Altman (Ilya - who doesn't get interviewed is the actual researcher behind chatgpt), Sam Harris etc, who have very little insights making bold AGI predictions.

I asked to learn about all the algorithms Carmack invented in computer graphics, but haven't heard back. But looks like he has a good grasp on solving AGI by 2030 according to himself. After all, he is a really great programmer.
So AMD is a luxury brand now?
An Attack on the Speculative Vectorization: Leakage from Higher Dimensional Spe
Protecting Cache States Against Both Speculative Execution Attacks and Side-Cha
Specwands: An Efficient Priority-Based Scheduler Against Speculation Contention
SSO-Monitor: Fully-Automatic Large-Scale Landscape, Security, & Privacy Analyse
Fake Tags Are a Real Problem
2FA mule:

https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
Cultures can have multiple lucky numbers!
I know, for quite a while I got quite a bit of income from them, good old day of Mac Sharewares :-)
The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments
What are the odds of landing help desk job without any tech credentials? Making it past the resume automated culling I mean.
No relation to Skimmington Harbordough?
Of course you can. But you can justify horrible decisions with any axiom. It’s not like this is a worse approach than others.

Is there some rule set you’re aware of that if you follow, horrible decisions cannot be justified?
Amazon: There is too much content, please try a different website

Google is a company that provides various services for people to use. These services include searching for images, maps, playing games, and watching YouTube videos. They also have a news section, Gmail for emails, Drive for storage, and a web history. Additionally, Google provides advertising and business solutions. Finally, they also have a privacy policy and terms of service that people must agree to in order to use their services.

Facebook is a website that allows you to connect with friends and people around the world. You can create a profile, log in, send messages, and play games. You can also create a page for a celebrity, brand, or business. There are lots of languages to choose from and lots of other features like Watch, Places, Marketplace, Meta Pay, and more. There are also lots of ways to stay safe and protect your privacy.

Twitter is a website that allows people to share short messages, called tweets, with other people. You can also follow people so that you can see their tweets. Twitter has a help center, terms of service, privacy policy, cookie policy, and an imprint for people to read. If something goes wrong, you can try again.

bing.com: This website is about a winter carnival that takes place in Quebec City, Canada. People in Quebec City enjoy winter activities such as snow sculptures, sleigh races, and more during the carnival. They also get to admire the beautiful Château Frontenac hotel, which towers over the city's historic old town. The website also encourages people to make Bing their homepage so they can experience beauty everyday and never miss a moment.

I think Microsoft and OpenAI need to have a word :D
You should try blocking thier newsletter email address
My side project is provisioning infrastructure by starting with a fresh, local VM, provisioning it with Ansible, and copying it to disk to allow it to be booted on bare metal for further use.

Packer, Terraform, Pulumi, and Docker for infrastructure.

Proxmox as the provisioned hypervisor.

HashiCorp Vault (machine facing) and Bitwarden (user/me facing) for secrets management.

Various Ansible playbooks for local orchestration and host provisioning.

Cost is one time hardware + development time. It’s amazing what tools are available for free these days.
>Important to know that most "normies" that consume home automation have a tech representative who deals with their setup.

I wouldn't have assumed that; I was more thinking the "got some Hue bulbs for Christmas and someone pointed them to HA" kind of thing. Thanks for pointing it out.
yep -- held off on textbooks for this reason.
Show HN: Product Requirement Docs Using AI
As a product manager, I have always wished to automate some of the repetitive tasks. With GPT-3 & ChatGPT being so accessible, I created this app which creates a Product requirement doc.

It generates PRD following Lenny's Rachitsky template - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1541V32QgSwyCFWxtiMIThn-6...

Do try it out and let me know your feedback :)
Does anyone else have issue with having to provide a phone number to access it?

I signed up, verified email, and then was told I needed to verify with phone. This means, to me, (lest I read their TOS) that they are associating any queries I make with my identity.

I can't wait for this tech to go open source and local on devices.
My PE teacher locked me in a closet and had the other boys beat me because I was bad at cricket. This was in around 1990 ish.

This was a comprehensive school in the north west, working class area.

The corruption ran deep.

When I told my parents they didn’t believe me and said I was exaggerating.

He was a bully who lots of kids hated.

He ended up with cancer and there was a whole fundraiser for him etc which I refused to contribute to which was a bit petty.

And then as Mark Twain didn’t say ‘I’ve never wished death upon someone but I have read some obituaries with more pleasure than others!’
Replace Create React App Recommendation with Vite by T3dotgg · Pull Request
Yup. When I worked in the defense industry, even as an unlicensed engineer, I was bound by threat of prosecution to report a wide category of violations. Per our agreement with the US DoD, even workplace injuries which could impact our readiness fell under this definition. Now that I'm over in the finance space, if I ever notice anything suggesting a financial crime, I am required by law to report it.
Not American, but giving one of your country's credit cards to someone too poor to pay for vital car repairs is just throwing them into the street with extra steps. What that person needs is public aid that gets them out of the hole.
startpage.com and ddg. Both work great. Takes a bit of getting used to, since it's less personalised, but I've not missed it since.

Using it for years already
Yes, for the most part Studio Ghibli's art is insanely beautiful.
No, because I don't think that there is any "God" for there to be messengers from in the first place.
I used to TA an intro philosophy course designed for STEM types based on Aristotle’s Physics and etc., and lemme tell you the students ate that shit up.

Kinda had to gently remind them that the physics they knew wouldn’t help them with ontological problems like “what is an object?” but once they got over that hurdle everything was pretty much fine.
For me, it's that I generally default to public for professionally-related things. But every once in a great while I want to comment on something that is obviously about my present or a past employer if you know who I am. I could certainly just not do that but, given as I did, I didn't want it to be under my regular identity.
Cosigning security as a stable job, but also noting that security at the vast majority of companies is tremendously boring. Usually, it means you're a SOCII check-box checker. Pays well though and, like the parent says, it's only becoming more important.
This is very true. I'd pay for a metadata-only / playlist service that works with Spotify/Tidal/Apple/local music.

And don't allow free-text tags. Instead you give a list of available tags - the lowest number needed to describe most tracks. I mean, let people add their own if they want, but you should ignore those while training the model.

I actually think that instead of trying to tag some specific mood (eg "happy") some sounds be a sliding scale between two opposites:

happy<-------|--->sad

Instrument tags are easier to understand. Give a list of instruments (or instrument types, because the user might not know precisely which woodwind or percussion instrument it is) with checkboxes beside each.

Some users will be experts because they play woodwind. Let those users apply to become experts, pass a test, "identify the instrument", and if they pass, give them half price subscription as long as they moderate X tunes per week.
They should actually focus on things that have the biggest impact on climate change, and that's certainly not Meat production, but Oil and gas.

Stop chasing that most visible way to fight climate change rather than the most effective one.
Don't believe in it.
Yes, if you set the bar low enough - everything is easy and can be learnt in a month.
IMO after the first section the headings in the post are misleading:
- A functor is "not a functor" because not all endofunctors on Hask can be written as Haskell Functors.
- A monad is "not a monad" because you can implement a monad without satisfying all the monad laws.

I don't think either of these statements _really_ evidence the claims the headings make. Good post though, I always find that it's useful to think about the subtleties between mathematical objects and their implementation.
> If everybody lied all the time, we wouldn't have a functioning society.

This is true. But I don’t think anyone makes the point that someone should lie all the time. Especially not that everyone should lie all the time.

I think that there’s an ethical argument for lieing for some greater purpose (eg, a spy working for the Underground Railroad).
> There is a universal social contract not to lie.

The entire concept of “white lies” existing would indicate that it’s not nearly that universal.
Judging by the Twitter and Facebook cases I've learned the purpose of asking for this phone number for security purposes is actually for advertising.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...
It might be dumb, but it probably can still write better than most of the students in a college English class.

In other words, it takes an astounding amount of hubris to believe humans will remain universally smarter than this LLM or its successors.

If anything, I think we are reaching a point where humanity will be put in its place by AGI. We are not that impressive as a species, and we sure as hell are not special.
That only work in an import statement, not when you run the code directly.
JuliaCon 2022: What makes a programming language successful?
As events since have shown, "next week" was far too optimistic. Quite a lot of things are already reported as no longer functional. Once again, Twitter is going to change over a weekend. The same cycle of boilerplate and patently bogus responses and non-responses is happening to the API users as happened to the 3rd-party app developers.

* https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383
Stylometry is probably mostly useful if you have a small number of suspects with a decent-sized public corpus that you want to match against a book/set of blog posts etc. Even then it's just going to be statistical.
https://archive.ph/2022.12.12-105719/https://www.theatlantic...
Am I being unethical when I tell the medicare supplemental insurance salesman from India that I am only 22 years old (while hoping to be taken off their list of potential customers) when he asks me my age?
No. My boss rewrote my job description to fit the new type of position and then my position was changed. He convinced me it was my path to promotion. I suppose that was true - I was promoted again. This time I was given a 1k raise, but I was taking on the additional duties of a manager that quit. So double the work for another 1k a year.
I mean this is what you have to do to access variables from an async block:

let block = || {
let my_a = a.clone();
let my_b = b.clone();
let my_c = c.clone();
async move {
// use my_a, my_b, my_c
let value = ...

Ok<success::Type, error::Type>(value)
}
}

And you can't use `if let ... && let ...` (two lets for one if) because it doesn't desugar correctly.

And error handling and backtraces are a beautiful mess. Your signatures look like `Result<..., Box<dyn std::error::Error>>` unless you use `anyhow::Result` but then half the stuff implements std::error::Error but not Into<anyhow::Error> and you can't add the silly trait impl because of language limitations so you have to map_err everywhere.

It's not just "oh throw a box around it and you're good". It's ideas that were introduced to the language when there was lots of steam ultimately not making it to a fully polished state (maybe Moz layoffs are partly to blame IDK). Anyway I love Rust and we use it in production and have been for years, but I think there's still quite a bit to polish.
By valuable, do you mean what is actually valuable to building a project, or do you mean marketable in the job market?

If you mean actually valuable, I think the most valuable skill in the future might be the same as it is today: being good at considering the tradeoffs to different technology choices and design decisions and putting it in context with how you actually solve specific business problems intelligently. The best Java developer in the world is not as valuable if he doesn't understand business at all and doesn't question and even push back on the requirements and spec he's given once in a while and come up with some simpler ways to solve problems other than sitting down and churning out the thousands of lines of code he's told to.

If by actually marketable, in a 5 year timeframe, something like Blockchain programming might end up being in very high demand. As interesting as all of these AI things are, I wouldn't trust them for anything except toys for quite a long time. In 5 years, I'd think centralized digital currencies might emerge, banks might use some form of crypto for lots of transactions between themselves, oracles might be more mature and smart contracts might be established in some business domains, etc. The amount of money that might be secured by crypto in the future could be significantly more than it is today.
Appreciate the upthread perspectives from you both.

One thought that came to mind is that these are, in some sense, concentric frameworks that rely on each other: a society’s values, a political economy’s priorities and affordances, and how business is conducted.

Gut level, I feel that the social and political pieces circumscribe how business can viably be run. So, I can see a (perhaps very presently-rooted) perspective that we should strive to uphold and/or fight for certain goals and outcomes on the higher levels, but that pragmatically running a business within the existing (functioning, even if dysfunctional) framework may not allow the same opportunities as trying to evolve the sociopolitical.

Going further out on a limb, the higher levels evolve more slowly — often intergenerationally - and that makes it hard to see (or remember) which rules interact with which kinds of trade-offs.
Maybe try to actually prepare your kids for these moments instead of trying to restrict them so hard. Teach them how to use a computer for real, instead of sitting them down at a hyper-restricted one for an hour a week.

Would you let your kids get a driver's license without teaching them the rules of road safety? Would you let your kids cook without telling them the stove is hot and will hurt them? Do your kids know not to let random people in the house?

Or do you just helicopter them so they never experience danger?
The article links to this EA community post on 'interpersonal harm' in the community, which I found interesting.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NbkxLDECvdGuB95gW/...

One item caught my eye:
>>There are also cases where I find a report to be alarming and would like to take action, but the person reporting does not want it known that they spoke up. In these cases, sometimes there’s very little that can be done without breaking their confidentiality.

Yikes. That would not meet reporting standards at most organizations I've been a part of. There are a lot of hard lessons behind requiring mandatory investigation of credible claims.
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34636910 .
Ironically that was one of the aims of public school education. They educated the officers and managers of the Empire who had to fend for themselves among "the natives" with a limited number of men and resources.
> would result in an increase to compensation far beyond what is reasonable

Its a negotiation. The union asking for the highest number it can get is what its supposed to do.
>> Every company is different in how it does business so every accounting system is a bespoke solution

Who benefits from these bespoke solutions? Can you give a example of how one company would do its books vs another and why it would be beneficial?

>> accountants don't just track the numbers, they also validate them

What information do they use to validate numbers? Why is it not possible for today's AI to do it?
On hackernews most of the complaints I see about unions are people who've had direct experience with unions.

My experience with unions was they were shady, jobs were given out based on nepotism, work was given out solely based on seniority and most work you did for them involved kickbacks.
In one of his novels Cory Doctorow talks about his bad guys doing astroturfing with persona management software to help them track who said what to whom.

As the advertising and tracking arms race escalates, I wonder if there’s a burgeoning industry for personal persona management. So you can isolate your private life from your public life/lives.
Try asking your account manager to get you into a Google Workspaces account you can't verify the challenge questions to and don't have admin access to, even though it's literally linked to the domain that you own and control in GCP. They just send you to support and support can't help you. They don't need our business apparently.
How is that different than an average human? Wanna take odds on which one appears to be smarter on average?
I hate that I can't trust Amazon any more.

Now I have to double check what I paid for my last order and then look on camelcamelcamel.com to get a price history to see if anything fishy is going on. (Sometimes I see prices are jacked up temporarily).
No, I checked for that multiple times as I was around when that happened. It was an ad served up directly by Google that lead to a phishing website and phone numbers on it. His filter bubble is very different from mine, and it's clear that the peddlers of malware and scams use ad targeting to hit the elderly with ads that try to take advantage of them. This is a major downside of ad targeting: they're more effective for both good and bad purposes.

Ads really should be less ephemeral than they are. Sometimes I see an ad I'm interested in but miss it before clicking a link at which point it's gone after hitting the back button. Similarly, if an ad is for a scam, there needs to be a way to go back, find it, and then flag it.
That entirely depends on who you’re interacting with and the context of that interaction.

Your best friend? I would hope you feel comfortable enough sharing your RL identity or deeper secrets.

A random company you interact with? Why would it matter, let alone be one of the most important things?
>Jan. 1st 2020 was more than three years ago.
January 1st 2020 was 3 years, 1 month, and 2 days ago. Apologies for rounding. However, that really just pushes (albeit insignificantly) further against the claim that we have experienced 50% inflation over 2-3 years.

>Prices are absolutely not up only 15% vs. 2020, which was the claim I was responding to. That's so wildly wrong it's in piss-on-my-leg-and-tell-me-it's-raining territory.

On average (across America and across many different goods), they are. Prices may be different in your area or for what you buy (e.g. specific brands, stores, etc.).

>But those are cooking staples... sure, you can reduce use to save money, but you can also switch to an all rice and beans diet to save money. It's not like if specifically pork, say, had gone up—sub beef, sub chicken, whatever, cool, not a big deal. Butter and eggs, though?

The overall inflation across the average basket of food that American consumers buy over one year was 10%. That figure accounts for the fact that people buy staple goods more than other goods. It also assumes zero substitution (e.g. no change in number of eggs bought).

Inflation simply cannot fully explain an 18.5% increase in CC debt for the average American.

Perhaps it explains it for you/would explain it for you if you had increased CC debt. But, in that case, you are not representative of the average American.
I expect that a double tier system will emerge where those who can afford it, will be serviced by humans and the rest by AI.

With the current quality of AI that is. In some distant future, the price structure may get reversed.
Is there a CLA? Do I have to waive ownership of my contributions for my code to be merged? If yes then it's not a community project. Domain ownership has little to do with it. Look at who owns github.com :)
good to know. will make sure to never give cloudflare a dime.
I tend to just not invent "rules" out of thin air.

In absence of this supposed "rule", where "Something can not be immoral if it is the best of a series of bad options", you'd need to actually consider whether a decision is immoral. The rule shortcuts that and lets you say "well, there's no other option, so I must be in the clear morally here", which would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.