skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital advertising is the scam. The entire market of it is premised on serving (views which are then corroborated by the same seller) with no independent insight, audits, etc....

I sold 1000 views per second....and guess what it was a real bargain for you....I didn't charge the max for those views because they were not worth it.....no one clicked your stuff yet, but we served the content!!! don't worry, we will retarget those people until they click (how much left to spend?)

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oh boy! You got 5% ROI!! profitable!!! (in our platform based on our calcs ahaha)

(how much was the cost per unit? oh
...200% strange....)
What is a NOC agent?

National occupation classification? Network operations centre?
Suggestion for next time:
- Record previous answer
- Show "recent queries" after the search

A lot of visitors just want to see what kind of answers does this service give and don't care about specific website. They would happily look at earlier saved query which is much cheaper for you to produce.

Also if you run out of credits again, your site won't be completely useless.
USA Is So Litigious
Is it a lie to choose a name to go by at different times? Why should you always have to use the name your parents gave you. Some people are even better known by their nom de plume than their real name, from Mark Twain to Lenin.

In many cases the law even protects the right for artists to use a pseudonym under artist's moral rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
> animal labor

The context uses human-like/human-level a lot, but I agree what level and type of intelligence commands human respect is tricky business.

> forced prison labor

Would be interesting if we found ways to convince ourselves the AIs had it coming.

Generally speaking, slavery has been morally acceptable and popular before, and I will also not be surprised if we return to those ways.
Tech is interesting in that it’s one profession that’s trying to automate itself out of a job.

I think automated emails for layoffs are par for the course; we don’t complain about tools like AWS that have automated whole swaths of stuff we used to have to do and manage ourselves…

Automated firing is just inevitable
You're mixing up two different things here. There is no reward for R&D under this rule change. If anything it penalizes R&D, especially in the case of speculative ventures (startups, new product development, and so forth).

The R&D tax credit is different from the deductibility of R&D expenses under Sec. 174. The deductibility of those expenses is what's at issue here. They were previously deductible, but are no longer deductible as of January 1st 2022, regardless of whether the taxpayer chooses to take the R&D tax credit or not. This is a change passed by Congress as part of the 2017 TCJA that went into effect in 2022. It is not the IRS's decision, though it is my understanding that they have some rule making authority about the specifics of the implementation.

Because of this, you are incorrect that the two scenarios you outline compute the same as of 2022. You are correct that they did compute the same before 2022, but they compute very differently now. Scenario 2 now requires that the software business amortize any costs associated with developing new software (engineer salaries, etc.) over 5 years, rather than deducting them in the same year they are spent. This increases the business's immediate tax liability while it develops the software, and also increases its tax liability in any other years that it creates new (and probably also improved) software.
It's open source the way Chrome is open source: the source is there, but the development is ~100% by Google
Same here. Would be nice to get an Apple salary...
launching chatHR.exe
Well it seems there are 11K open issues and 66K closed issues in their github page.

So maybe some issues got fixed at least?
> how much interactivity there is on the page

Yes, and also how much interactivity is better served by a thick browser-based client than by a round-trip to the datacenter. In practice, many Web applications we encounter daily have relatively low interactivity (where something like Google Maps or the Spotify Web player score as "high"). And then they are implemented using thick frameworks that are frequently slower than a round-trip to a server for re-rendering the entire page was even as far back as 10 or 20 years ago.

Your extreme examples, plus applications like Figma, are absolutely places where I would expect to see thick client-side Javascript. However, most Web applications that we encounter frequently are more like e-commerce, blogs, recipe websites, brochureware sites, landing pages and the like that absolutely are primarily about presenting information. Using thick browser clients is a sub-optimization for most of those Web uses.
Being dependant on a reliable internet connection sucks, especially when travelling. SSR just won't work for mobile.
With offline first, the client is the lowest latency server possible.
Yes you should sync too. Offline first, not offline only
I wouldn't say there was no real benefit and only risk to being an "open startup". Sharing what you're doing and how it works is a marketing strategy, pure and simple. Up until recently, it was a low effort, high reward marketing channel to sell to other founders. Now with ruthless competition and the ease of cloning a service, it is becoming low value and even risky.
Will the AIs own the computers?
It’s not being an Open Startup that kills your chances. If you have an insurrmountable business advantage (it’s who you know, not what you know) and you keep the how-to details of your solution hidden behind a generic description where the solution is really hard to pull off well, being open only helps you. Firstly, by using idiots who would steal your idea to create buzz in the market for you as they pitch their silly me-too, and secondly by inspiring confidence and showing lack of insecurity, with clarity and transparency. I mean you can’t rely on NDAs anyway. Why act in fear unless what you’re doing is just run of the mill and you have no particular advantage.

I also argue that there is no net advantage to Apple's secrecy. If they had openly talked about the M1 (Apple Silicon) when they were working on it they would have just had more mindshare and the whole Apple ecosystem could have been preparing for it. By staying silent until they released it, it bought them nothing other than the element of surprise, which is like when little children don't want you to see what they're working on, in case you would take over their creative process, and instead want to surprise you with their brilliance.

I very much doubt that secrecy in the absence of insecurity has any value.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for the help.
Stable pensions are gone, that's why so much hustle everywhere: ranging from drop shipping to becoming slum lords through BRRRR investing.
This one was also good: https://kk.org/streetuse/jazz-on-bones-xray-sound-recor-1/
This is quite a bit better than all of the other attempts at building AI summarizers I've seen. One thing that's really nice about it is that it seems to pick out surprising or unique information, rather than just trying to provide the most general abstraction or summary of the article. My team has a journal club where we go through ML papers, and I feel like this will be a good tool to familiarize myself with academic papers before going into the details.
Which has zero ecosystem and just reinventing the wheel.
If Amazon had a "Prime Plus" or something that would allow me to find and order non-third-party-seller, accurately described, quality products with a robust no bullshit "whatever the cost, will go above and beyond fixing any problems in the rare event they occur" attitude, I'd be very interested.

I also wouldn't mind a marketplace that is well known to be hit or miss. When I place an order on alibaba or bangood, I know exactly the risks I'm taking. That risk, weirdly, almost makes it entertaining. "Is it going to be the ball bearings I ordered, or a pair of Crocs shoe knockoffs, or a beef jerky? Place your bets!"
Work smarter, not harder :)
I was wondering whether this is still the same company. I remember getting cheques from Kagi and German bank employees eying them suspiciously.
Scientists created a weird new type of ice that is almost as dense as water
The deontologist believes lying is against the universal maxim. If everybody lied all the time, we wouldn't have a functioning society.

The virtue ethicist believes it is bad to be in a habit to lie because being predisposed to lying is opposed to the virtue of the truth. We've all known people who lie by habit and they are unpleasant and vicious to be around. I don't know if most virtue ethicists (who don't also fall into the natural lawyer camp, below) would say it is per se bad to lie, but most would say it is vicious.

The natural lawyer believes that speech has as its natural end telling the truth and therefore it is contra naturam to lie. See the almost-impossibly-extended discussion here, for that: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09469a.htm

For all of these groups, there has variously been admitted something like an "equivocal statement"---a statement which has some interpretation that is technically true, but not the interpretation that the speaker knows will be taken by the listener as a falsehood. For example, my friend invites me out on Friday and rather than saying I'd rather be at home, I say, "I have something going on that night." He takes it to mean that I have other plans, but I don't. But technically, breathing is "something going on" so I haven't lied. (Whether your social relationships will stand your doing this is another matter ;))

I'm personally fall in something like the virtue ethicist camp, but I do believe sometimes, in justice, a lie must be said, and not all of those situations can be covered by an equivocation.
Something radically changed for me 7-10 days ago, wherein certain non-spam but clearly not-inbox-worthy emails are now consistently hitting the Inbox, often with the "Important according to Google magic" flag set.

Examples: A clearly promotional email from a manufacturer announcing new products, a special offer from a hotel I stayed at once 7 years ago, every single breaking news email from the Seattle Times.

FWIW, I'm not seeing proper spam by the old-school definition breaching the Inbox (Viagra, replica Rolex, et al). I guess that's good.

Still feels like something significant broke very recently, but tbh I'd already lost faith in Gmail's classification after seeing how many genuine emails end up in Spam the last 3-5 years. It's particularly painful to watch in light of how far other applications of ML have advanced since ole' Gmail was state-of-the-art. In other words: shouldn't Google (disclosure: my former employer) be much, much better at this?
> Users do not necessarily care if the application looks pixel perfect

They do care. They just don't know the words "pixel perfect".

However, everything is an improvement over the standard state of corporate UIs
When I was an 11 year old, I got a job working for a local swim club. I'd go to the property, open the gate, and clean the grounds and take out the trash. They figured since I wasn't technically old enough to work, they could pay me $2.30 an hour when $4.25 was the minimum wage at the time. I adjusted my recorded hours versus worked hours accordingly. Given that there were no cameras on premises, the timesheets were manual, and I was always there alone, I never had an issue.
Companies do layoffs when things are bad.

"makes no difference" != "ended up in the same place"
I have a suspicion that the "volunteer-mods" on the big Reddits, like the Wikipedia admins, are infiltrated by people paid by interested parties to represent their interests on those popular web sites. In the case of Wikipedia, I recall a story about how one of their admins was a woman in Canada who was a former British intelligence agent with whatever the British equivalent of the CIA is called. If governments and NGOs can infiltrate Wikipedia to do things that are specifically against its rules, they can infiltrate Reddit and probably have.

Most people are too busy to have the time to be an online moderator and those who have the time typically don't have the political skills to get appointed as a moderator of a large online community. That's why the best way to hire a good mod for your online community is to make it a paid position and to randomly monitor them for evidence of bias and/or abuse of power.
Mechanical counter pressure suits pls!
Sundar Pichai strikes again!
AGI will be AI which can improve it's own code after N iterations where N will be blurry.
> We are looking for an EVA suit design presented in A3 format, with an accompanying text of up to 400 words explaining how your design represents European identity.

What is this European Identity? I was under the impression this was a technical contest but I suppose they will simply customize the branding on the American made and engineered EVA suits?

> Proposals have to be submitted in English

Ironic to impose a non-European language for this contest.
You certainly have to validate the output but I am pretty sure not too far in the future AI will be able to do a better job than humans.
Typo in my text, can't correct it now. But you can simultaneously log into multiple Google accounts by putting each into a different container. These containers are mapped onto tabs. So in one tab, one Gmail account, in another tab, another Gmail account. And it's not just Gmail it's anything that you might want multiple accounts in (eg: AWS)

The containerise extension is the cherry on top. Once you've set up your containers, it can recognise URL patterns so you can set up bookmarks for each Gmail account and they'll automatically open in the correct container, already logged in.
Oh cool, thanks for sharing!
> That's how all recessions start.

Most recessions are preceded by several months in which unemployment is rising significantly from the relative low. Its probably the most reliable recession predictor (visually, looking at a graph, the oscillations between the closely-spaced 1980 & 1981 recessions seems to be the only case of a recession not having that signal, and there are very few cases of a clear multimonth rise after the (usually shortly post-recession) recession-associated peak that do not signal another recession.
The thing that went wrong with front-end frameworks imho was that instead of being what was promised: you could update UI elements with NO NEED to contact the server at all, only posting back when something needed persisting, instead it became an excuse that every action on the front-end needed to call an API or 3 so we've ended up with over-complicated apps that instead of not relying on the backend are relying on it more than ever.

Any little glitch, slowdown or unavailability is affecting you not only once on page load but potentially with every single interaction. To make it worse, a lot of backend interactions are not made interactively or synchronously where the user might expect to wait a little while, they are made in the background causing all manner of edge cases that make apps somewhere from very slow to virtually unuseable.

I guess it's that old adage that people will make use of whatever you offer them, even if they go too far.
a lot of bad info for dictator and pig putin
>Free will is no more an illusion than the qualia of red. If what you think is outside your control, then who is the "you" that is not in control? Where is it?

If you can't choose to swap the color red to blue, then what makes you think you have any other choice with other things in your mind?
I think if a 9 to 11 year old doesn't understand that there's a web browser already, and how it differs from the YouTube app, you've failed to teach your kids vital information, and are putting them at risk. You're leaving them defenseless under the guise of keeping them safe. You shouldn't have given them a tablet in the first place until they understand basic things like that.

Ultimately, as you have learned, your child will circumvent your restrictions. You could go ahead and teach them how to be safe, or you could let them fall unprepared into monster-infested waters.
I was quoting "Measure of a Man" :-)

"Lena" is a bit of different case because it's not AGI. Probably ripe for the "forced prison labor" suggested by your sibling as the moral cop-out. Imagine being sentenced to being a cloud VM image!
Did you use that 700K offer for increasing the salary at Netflix?

I've heard about the culture of fear at Netflix - was this your experience as well? Who decides whether you are a top performer or not - only the manager, or the peers as well? Do they use stack ranking? How is the performance deduced, e.g. by nbr of commits? Thanks!
This is funny, I was confused in a different way, as I typically check the URLs to make sure I'm not getting scammed, and I have not noticed an influx whatsoever.

Then I read this and realized I have not seen those google search ads in years unless I'm setting up a new machine. I always found the 8 ads before results to be absolutely evil and now its causing real damage.
I've been very disappointed with the direction of Flutter recently, but I still do stand by it and will always choose it over the GatsreminextstroJS framework for VuengulembereactelteJS.

Why are 3D, game engines, and WASM more important than good JSON serialization, improved runtime safety (removing "late"), multi-window support, extension structs, webview support, exhaustive maps, and other core issues?

I really don't understand these priorities.
Last I checked you can’t even have enums with payloads/ associated values.

Garbage language
What’s worse, too much hype, or the non-believers?

Well the OpenAI hype squad is racking up personal fortunes from their work in a finding deal that is pretty clearly over-valued. Especially versus what Deepmind sold for [1].

While perhaps both sides are not being honest, YC’s own sama is clearly profiting excessively over the hubub. He’s clearly proving to be a symbol of the faction of YC that rakes in money through arbitrage not prolonged value.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/26/google-deepmind/
Using Copilot with Python Apps
Most? I guess it depends, I almost exclusively use YAML because I find it easier (mainly because I can copy & paste), but almost every time I could also use the UI.
Nothing special; they’re just interfaces for managing internal data.
If you’re after growth, go for those roles. Be clear on what you need as a development plan and any support. Perhaps be honest on your gaps so they know and have those developed as you grow.
Not to mention that calling a 19-year-old "manager" and maybe giving them a different color uniform shirt is a good way to get that 19-year-old more engaged in the job, that doesn't involve any extra expense on the employer's part.
This is one of my favorite features of 1Password (no affiliation, but I've used them for 10+ years and am a fan). They have an identity section that you can use to store all kinds of personas securely and even use the information to autocomplete forms. With the ability to add custom fields, you can easily store more than just the standard metadata like name, dob, etc.
Telling you a fake location would likely be an indication of a lack of trust, in you.

Have you never told a lie? Should I trust the answer if it is “no?”
It's a tool whose flaw is that sometimes it secretly does the exact opposite of what you're trying to do with it in a way that's only detectable if you didn't already need it.

It's like Babelfish, but for monoglots.
Why wouldn't you do both? And if your sales department is maxed out by chasing the big contracts so much so that they don't have time to onboard someone spending 50k a year, get more sales people.
Try Profile Switcher for Firefox, which provides a Chrome-like interface for managing and switching between profiles in Firefox.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
Then flag or ignore them?

For me, the interesting story here isn't so much who got what record in a 42 year old arcade game but rather how frighteningly easy it remains to intimidate people over bogus nonsense by abusing the legal system. If rich weirdos suing for defamation over ancient video game scores doesn't motivate more adoption of anti-SLAPP statutes, I don't know what will.
Part of the reason why enslaved populations were considered to not be "on par" was often specifically about consciousness, intelligence, and capacity to feel, although sometimes this was expressed in roundabout terms such as "having no soul". For example, splitting families was justified on the basis that those mothers don't "actually" suffer as much as their owner would do in equivalent circumstances.

To be clear, I'm not claiming that the AIs that we have today are anywhere near the level where this is a real concern. But for something that can actually replace a human worker for a complex end-to-end task, that question will be much murkier. At some point we will inevitably cross the threshold where we will no longer be able to pretend that it does not apply without introducing metaphysical concepts such as "soul" to force a distinction.
> More importantly, it was a Google language that they could mold for their own needs, not so possible if it's an outside language like TypeScript. For example, early on, they asked the Dart team to create an AOT compiler since Apple does not allow JITted code apparently (not sure how React Native gets around this then), or maybe it didn't back then, and the Dart team was able to do it successfully for the Flutter team. Try asking the TypeScript team to do the same, it's next to impossible.

Replace TypeScript with Java above.
was asked and very tempted to create a map of my school back in the day, but awareness of the ramifications stopped that from happening. additionally, the powers-that-be were very incompetent, especially in regards to judging these kinds of situations
Touché There is a range to “break”. You may be correct.
It in the absence of insecurity, it preserves security.
I have read a LOT of sci-fi, including loads of Asimov.
None of his characters are proven historical characters like Jesus. What most people find hard to believe is his claim to be God, his death, resurrection, ascension etc. I'm saying that I do believe those. Saying that all of that is fiction... I really find that hard to believe.

That said, although many would love a long discussion / argument about it here. For personal reasons I am not going to say more here today than I already have.
I think JSF was ahead of its time.

I'm working on a server side framework and someone told me it reminded them of Java Server Faces. I think the approach works really well and latency is low enough when you can deploy apps all over the world. Also they didn't have HTTP2 or websockets back then... What I'm doing is basically a clone of Preact, but server side Ruby, streaming DOM-patches to the browser...
Unsure how it's "chasing" when people call you. I'm more than a 'warm lead' at that point. I'm calling you wanting to buy your product. And yeah, I know not everyone who calls wants to buy immediately - some are just tire kickers or getting a quote. But... again... it's not 'chasing'. It's not even 'selling' so much as 'order taking', imo.
There really is nothing greater than an completely idiotic idea implemented with pure genius - this was immense reading and I learnt a lot!