skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the recommendation. Looking forward to read it!

> in a culture that confuses the mechanism of liberation (the car) with liberation itself,

It's essentially reification. I often think modernity is fully characterized by it. The inability to divorce aspirational visions from its material implementation. It's essentially the disappearance of imagination. We no longer can imagine because we are tethered to a material anchors. This is why something like a flying car can be imagined, but not something vague like virtuous personal mobility. The first is tangible, the latter is a diffuse constellation of technologies, mindset, systems, behaviors.

Pulling down that threat, (just going down the rabbit hole here), but this process has been playing out for 150 years now. Commoditization of everything. Making tangible the wealth of human experience. If it cannot be made as a marketable object, it cannot exist, cannot be imagined.
Salience Bias: How to Become Unforgettable
Nope, this is just how it is in Amazon. Other FAANGs tend to have a better spread of engineering experience.
Root cause has always been the high turnover. Once you have enough experience and the AMZN name under your belt, most devs chose to jump ship to somewhere saner.
Oh, it's worse. You also have to have your books in good enough shape for the bank, and submit them regularly. It's like doing taxes twice. Having your books in good shape is a good idea for many other reasons, but it's one more thing.

Better than bankruptcy, though, and it's often better than accepting VC terms.
We didn't have pigeon overpopulation, but the birds were still problematic due to their behaviour. (The shortage of available nesting space massively contributed.) It was like with Canada geese in America, even without overpopulation - if the habitat is suitable they come and shit everywhere. Worse when a pair leads goslings.
There are many optimizations that a compiler can perform without relying on the optimization level to determine how to pervert your program that day. If different optimization levels produce different results that is bad thing, something to be avoided, not encouraged.

If it is really necessary to generate random code when some anomalous situation is encountered, that should be a special option to enable dangerous non-deterministic if-you-made-a-mistake-we-will-delete-parts-of-your-program type behavior. I wouldn't consider that optimization though, more like disabling all your compiler's safety features.
I think a lot of folks in US over-romanticize those "feel freer" authoritarian countries.
In some cases like this it might be better but I don't think systematic cases of: "inconvenient" people disappearing, being at complete mercy of local oligarch/overlord, inability to leave your country are such rampant in US as in those countries.
Usually people who write something like this never lived in an authoritarian country as a local but were there on a 2 weeks trip or heard it from someone who was on a trip or someone who moved to US (why moving if it is such a great place to live?).
Eh, my 'nades would get ya
Somewhat related article: Why wasn't the Windows 95 shell prototyped on Windows NT?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120102-00/?p=87....
Is there a reason AI can't filter the AI produced content?
There was a thread the other day where someone claimed to reject applications without cover letters. Although I'm just assuming they were in tech based on them posting here.
The alternative would be China-style surveillance state, and be cool with it? Nice
Google has the next move as Microsoft embraces OpenAI buzz
PuTTY on my Win98 VM crashes OpenSSH
Play it little by little when you do have time. Play whichever game captures your intrigue the most. Don't waste time on deciding which one to play.
Apple Dropping Product Design Chief Role, Team to Report to COO Jeff Williams
In general, the role of senior dev is to break down projects into pieces understandable and achievable by juniors.

It helps get them experience and it helps you from having to do literally everything, because it isn’t particularly easy to hire more senior devs.
Not the point of this thread. Popular vote has nothing to do with how responsive or attentive a government is to voter's interests. You vote for a candidate as a whole, but there are likely still issues you disagree with. Voters' interests are largely unaddressed or ignored altogether.
Blackouts and soaring prices: Pakistan’s economy is on the brink
This draws a false dichotomy between "people use X" and "nobody uses X." There's actually a sliding scale of how many people use X. When a thing is illegal, fewer people will use it and the people who do use it will be at risk. If we thing a thing is important and that people should be able to use it, it's bad if that thing is illegal. There's a reason why people fought so hard decriminalize gay sex—not because laws against gay sex made it impossible, but because those laws were nevertheless really bad for gay people.
What were the "the Erlang days?"
I don't think so. I rarely lift weights but I do just fine in judo, largely because judo largely replaces it.
Do you know this for sure? How big is their company?
Interesting. I do wonder though if the environment is actually safer, or if kids in urban areas just stay inside more. (Aware of threats, the homeless, etc) I never lived in an urban area as a child, but can tell you that I was allowed to (and did) roam freely in the rural areas, the woods, etc.
CS:GO is pretty great and still very active
I see it making a similar progression as ads on radio and tv, homogenized mass media, paid product placements in shows. These AI generated content platforms are perfect for ads and social media propaganda. Mass customization.

I share the same hope but have doubts that as a society we'll have the collective critical thinking skills to disconnect from the AI overlords. We've already had the US and US inspired Brazilian coup attempts fueld by social media placements and it's only going to get more fine tuned and effective.

What can I do as an individual?
One path is to simplify and declutter my digital life. How else to cope?
What an obnoxious title and article. AI has been part of the Hollywood pipeline for a while, they have always been using bleeding edge technology, sometimes AI-assisted.
My bright idea was to find 48v lightbulbs and run everything off power over ethernet. Mainly because POE switches are pretty easy to get, and the switch interface usually works much better than the bullshit cloud only interface that usually comes with "smart" lights.

I never actually did it. But still think it would work.
That, while is an important issue, is not the most important issue brought out by this article.

Life is uncertain, and adults are called to choices weigh risk and opportunities. And there is an epidemic of teenagers and young adults right now, cycling in and out of mental health facilities. There are otherwise healthy kids who are afraid of doing normal things by themselves. They go to learn to “adult” in college, but really, they never have the opportunity to make their own choices and learn from their own successes and failures. And that comes about from a society and legal framework that values “safety” to beyond a reasonable point that is healthy for people.

These laws and the way they are interpreted has shifted dramatically over the past decade or so. And it has a lot to do with how our society views this. Seeing this as only about parental rights misses the point, and in my view, short-sighted.
Most Ancient Indian battlefield depictions featured war elephants. Of course, it wasn't called India then and they were multiple warring princely states under dynastic rule.

The Tamil phrase ரத, கஜ, துரக, பதாதிகள் refers to Chariots, Elephants, Cavalry, Infantry respectively and is used in several fictional descriptions of antique battlefields. The historical fiction novel, Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki (written in mid 20th century) about the Chola dynasty (circa 3rd century BCE to 13th century CE) has this exact phrase appearing in Volume 1, Chapter 19.

> காத தூரத்துக்குக் காததூரம் ரணகளம் பரவியிருந்தது. ரத, கஜ, துரக, பதாதிகள் என்னும் நாலுவகைப் படைகளும் போரில் ஈடுபட்டிருந்தன

(trans: The bloody battlefield was spread out over four square miles. Chariots, Elephants, Cavalry, Infantry--all four forces were fighting the battle)

In Tamil classical literature, there is a verse form called பரணி (Parani). The literal meaning of this verse form is:

> ஆனை ஆயிரம் அமரிடை வென்ற மானவனுக்கு வகுப்பது பரணி.(இலக்.வி. 839)

i.e., A song in praise of a warrior who fought and won a thousand elephants in battle.

There is a 12th century poem titled கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி (Kalinga's Parani/Verse) written by செயங்கொண்டார் (Jeyamkondaar). It was customary to give the name of the defeated as the title of the verse. This one was the defeat of the Kalinga ruler Anantavarman by the Chola king Kulothunka Chola. Hence the name.

This poem also mentions war elephants.

References:

கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி: https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/62z

ரத கஜ துரக பதாதிகள்: https://ta.wiktionary.org/s/twc
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See discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622788
Big company wallet :)
The same culture way is playing out all over the world, especially in Europe.
havent you answered your own question? what do you mean by "how far"? there is no objective criteria here
I hope Austria will make a similar change. Children born before 1983 only acquired citizenship if their father was Austrian or they were born out of wedlock to a single mother. When they changed the law in 1983 it was not made retroactive - so many half Austrian children are left with no legal connection to the country.
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Predictable and totally unsurprising. [0] [1]

No service is 100% free forever. It is time for third-party developers to pay for the Twitter API.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397302

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386745
Not nearly everyone. Plenty of people follow ethical codes.
We keep bleach in our emergency supplies for the same reason. You need a high degree of dilution, which also implies a single gallon bottle of bleach can purify a very large amount of water (something like 10k galleons).
China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire
Maybe people finally adhere to the requests of those bumper stickers plastered on the side of local music venues for the last few decades... "Drum machines have no soul" "Support local music"
For web-scale crawls, it's almost prohibitively expensive. For niche search engines, it's definitely doable.
I think you missed the point that he/she means AI TV and AI Twitch, not Human TV and Human Twitch, or whatever you want to call it. The point is that the content will be 24/7 AI-generated
Exactly how I feel. I'm especially worry about trust in historical facts. Renowned and trustworthy institutions, even as they may have their own biases, may not have such an easy time competing against tons of generated AI content..
SEC WhatsApp Probe Expands to Phones of Hedge Fund Employees
Inclusive Naming: language recommendation lists by tiers
AI-Generated Technical Documents
> Very technologically cool, but I'd much rather inject the new functionality into the source code. From there it can it make its way through the unit tests, integration tests, deployment, health/readiness checks, and if all that passes then I'll allow it to be called.

Generally, you do make the changes in source code, compile it, do all your pre-flight checks, and then hotload it. Honestly, sometimes the pre-flight check is just 'does it compile', but that's philisophical; you can put whatever process in place you want. But from my experience, it's much nicer to upgrade in place than start new, move traffic, drain old (not always in exactly that order). Sometimes, it's not realistic to avoid starting new and moving traffic, but it's nice when you can.

Most people aren't patching the VM bytecode by hand (to my knowledge).
Again, the C standard came later, and in many cases the standard is about consistency across platforms where there's plenty of useful behaviors of specific platforms that you want to take advantage of. And that the modern practice of optimizing compliers emitting nasal demons gets in the way of.
You can't teun those LLM models locally though, would upload all of this data to the cloud? Along with all of its legal liabilities?

Also snowden has already given enough, the man has kids now, he doesn't praise or attack Russia for a reason, because he know he can't partial to it, and he knows he has no other place to stay in.
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I'm sure you know this, but for others.. QNX is of course the OS that led to the Blackberry under RIM.

RIM also had patents on elliptical curve cryptography that turned out to be more valuable than anything else they could make.

It was so much money that it distorted the company towards IP rent-seeking instead of making good new stuff. So of course they focused on piracy with QNX instead of just getting it into everything.

It's very much like the thing where Google keeps trying to make new products and cancels them because they aren't as profitable as the advertising business.

Weirdly, QNX is my daily bread and butter. It's the leading OS for building controls and I'm logged into four QNX-based systems at different buildings this very second. One of the niches they managed to hold onto.
Sure, let's make everyone to walk around naked. Let's also make sure, that everyone knows what is going on in your life, where you and your loved ones live, what they buy, how much money they make, what they say, ....... Your argument is ridiculous.
> UNIX as a whole, and C in particular weren't any kind of well-designed projects. They are awful inside and out. Their staying power isn't due to the goodness of the design or their remarkable performance. They are with us because of the network effect.

Can you explain why Algol-68 and PL/I didn't generate any network effects?

C may have survived for over 50 years because of network effects. But it didn't get in the position to have network effects by being "awful inside and out*. It got in the position to have network effects by being considerably better than the existing alternatives. (Better for actually writing programs, not better in any theoretical CS kind of way.)
I would love to hear more about this if you're willing! Java shops (In my experience) have been the most unlikely to switch shops there are. Some questions:

What pain were you feeling?

Who came up with the idea/proposal to switch and how did they deliver it?

Was it hard to get people on board?

How difficult was it for people to learn Elixir?

Did people take to it quickly and/or were there people who had a hard time?

How long did the transition take to complete?
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Weird. My experience has always been that headphones are more effective at producing precise 3D sound than speakers. And intuitively, it seems like they should, because they can feed each ear with exactly the sound that ear should hear.

That said it does require that the game has good 3D sound generation, which isn't trivial, especially differentiating front and back which requires accounting for the shape of the human ear.
> Imagine they were able to shit out entirely AI generated shows and slowly phase out real media because it's just too costly

I mean, its easy to imagine, because its the same effect that drove the reality TV displacing scripted content trend.
And my point is, for those working on this system, it appears to be very difficult for them to see the difference between "trying to search for truth" and "a rule written by a system that just parrots t he most pleasing thing back to us" because it is a venn diagram that completely overlaps, since they think that they are "trying to search for truth" and haven't considered that they might be wrong, because everyone they work with sees the world the same way they do. They are never challenged, until the platforms get exposed to the public.

This is essentially the same situation as people who have never left their state, or their home country. Many things they take for granted and that they consider to be "basic human nature" actually end up being very cultural and very uncommon once one starts traveling outside one's home country. But you are completely unaware of these situations because they never get challenged when you live in a culture that instantiated itself in you as you grew up.
"I don’t think any U.S. police are legally allowed"

Hahah, good one.
Is this true? I used headphones all throughout my CS days. Stereo sound in headphones was enough to give a competitive advantage.
You could call it: "AI Kessler syndrome".

The internet becomes so full of hallucinating AI output that it becomes impossible to train the model.
You're right, and it has a better signal to noise ratio than the internet in general, even when you factor in the Wayback Machine! Here's to curated knowledge!
May not be terrible that something pushes Google and others to re-think how to bubble up actually good content.
Ah, yes, the APC was the best way to die in cs_siege
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I am saying blanket "believe <anything>" is absurd and I do see your point; there isn't much difference.
They've already hired another developer to work on the game with them.

I doubt they have any grander plans than continuing to work on DF, its their life's work after all.
fy_iceworld was my favorite from 1.6. I recall nothing could touch it with regard to rapid, repeatable chaos. I've probably put 500 hours into that one map alone.

You will find an almost identical structure in virtually every Call of Duty multiplayer experience - One big room with 4 "cubes" in it that players fight around, with various degrees of partial cover scattered throughout.
You only need about a drop per liter or so, it's basically the same as city tap water, it doesn't appear to have a effect on Nalgene or smart water bottles, I don't own a bladder but it would probably be fine. It's only good for bacteria (and viruses but if you are worried about those id pack all your water in), parasites can survive bleach so you have to be careful what water source you use. I prefer the Sawyer filter but it's fine for a backup. The old school ultralight guys use it as a primary, you don't need a secondary because you can't really break bleach.
>Anyone who is really into something illegal will use something alternative anyway.

That's the hard part, IMO.

Imagine that we really got that "decentralized system that cannot be controlled" going and everyone is using it. Everyone, including those who is into illegal things. And they don't get caught.

Now the government starts to push their "this decentralized shit is doing more harm than good" agenda. Whatever their motivation is, it would be easy to sway public opinion against surveillance-free communications, because the harm is real, not hypothetical, like it is now.
His dad wasn't and isn't a "liberal", certainly not in the sense you are implicating here.
I made this comment on a post that got flagged for reasons I don't understand. I don't want to feel like I wasted my time so I'm re-commenting here:

I was watching "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis for the second time. In his segment on Eliza, an early example of a chat bot, I realized that Curtis makes a mistake in his interpretation of Eliza. For Curtis it's narcissism that makes Eliza attractive. Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often.

But when an interview with the creator Joseph Weizenbaum is shown starting at 01hr:22min, he never says that. He relates how his secretary took to it, and even though she knew it was a primitive computer program, she wanted some privacy while she used it. Weizenbaum was puzzled by that, but then the secretary (or possibly another woman) says Eliza doesn't judge me and it doesn't try to have sex with me.

What jumped out at me was that Weizenbaum's secretary was using Eliza as a thinking tool to clarify her thoughts. Most high school graduates in America don't learn critical thinking skills as far as I can tell. Eliza is a useful tool because it encourages critical thinking and second order thinking by asking questions and reflecting back answers and asking questions in another way. The secretary didn't want to use Eliza because she was a narcissist, she wanted to talk through some sensitive issues with what she knew was a dumb program so she could try and resolve them.

That's how I feel about ChatGPT so far. It's a great thinking tool. Someone to bounce ideas around with. Of course, I know it's a dumb computer program and it makes mistakes, but it's still a cool new tool to have in the toolbox.

HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y

Eliza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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Meanwhile all of the best players in the world are using 240hz monitors…
I don't have much knowledge around AI, but from what I can tell, it's dependent on inputs from across the web right? If so, then as the use of ChatGPT grows, it'll slowly get consumed back into the model. With enough iterations, it will start to veer more and more away from recognizable human speech/thought, like a recursive game of telephone.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding how ML works, which very well may be true.
>it's not going to be fun

Depends on how you define "fun". Just a few days ago this russian guy defended GPT written diploma and now we have a shitshow going on. Really fun to watch.

https://twitter.com/biblikz/status/1620451262822252544

PS: well, the diploma was not written entirely by GPT, but nevertheless...
I wouldn't go that far. Those people are usually still in the top ~5%; just looking for any advantage.
It was in the beta days. You could camp the long tunnel on dust and every AWP shot to the terrorist feet as they came down the tunnel (before they could even see you) was an instant kill. It was 'fixed' so you had to hit them in the head for a headshot instant kill.
From TFA

> Generally, section 174 expenditures escape the application of being classified as “start-up costs” under section 195, which generally requires expenditures that qualify as an expenditure under section 162 to be capitalized and recovered over 15 years once the taxpayer begins their business.

Startup costs are things paid to start the business. Once the business is up and running you are “carrying-on” even if you’re not making money. It’s unfortunate that we use the word startup colloquially to mean non-profitable company, because thats not what it means in the IRC.
In short, as long as our perception is based on biological and imperfect systems, these slight differences will exist.

It's only weird if you overthink it though.

If I say 'can everybody see in the dark equally well?', or 'can everyone read at a distance equally well', rather than 'does everyone see the same 'red' as me', I think you'd be much more comfortable with saying 'no'. And yet it's essentially the same question: when exposed to the same stimulus, are people's perceptions the same?

I am partially colourblind. I can tell which colour a red light is, my red t-shirt is. I'd never say that a strawberry looks green. And yet, darker shades I struggle to differentiate between red, green, and brown in a way others don't. So fundamentally, my perception of red must be different to that of a normally-sighted person.

Don't lose sleep over it. The answer is 'no, everyone sees their own, unique version of the world, but it doesn't really matter'.
I’ve heard this take before and it makes no sense to me. Areas don’t dictate anything. It’s people. Why should it matter where the people live? As it stands, people who live in smaller states have more say in national politics than people who live in bigger states.
classic regulatory capture, thanks Trump!