skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, HTML/CSS are too low level tools for most people. We should have had Flutter/AMP like features (sans specific company dependency), right in the browser.

It'd been amazing if people can write <appBar></appBar> and get a consistent appBar that works in different display sizes and comes with accessibility built in; in all browsers. We have done so, in flutter, in iOS, in Android. But why did the browsers never bother? I remember HTML4 feeling dumb and HTML made more sense when I learned about HTML5 proposal. It finally made sense how HTML should progress but then suddenly, after years, everything is still the same?

As for your last paragraph, you mention how web actually delivered in terms of indexability and I'm really disappointed that Flutter (your primary focus right now I assume) is not prioritizing this. Flutter is amazing but it really needs to deliver what web delivered and them some.
Different topic. It is a privilege to make a living without using asynchronous communication.

The class you describe is just as attuned to texting and collaborating with others using smartphones.
> Why do we not see any of those reports.

Because the bad cop goes to jail and now he's no longer in the department, so the department falls out of the news cycle. I'm not sure what else you'd expect...

Here's a possible example of a couple bad cops in what could be a good department: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/offi...
> I’d assume the license plates only get looked at if a crime occurs

Why do you assume that? Disney is a major multinational corporation. It's hard for me to believe that such companies are willing to leave money on the table.
> There are probably too few examples of people saying hateful things about christians/republicans/cisgendered/white people … from the internet

This seems likely to you?
Have a discussion. Present your case and listen to your manager's response.
I can't speak for all managers, but I've never met a reasonable manager who wanted to drive our a good engineer even in this economy.
Perhaps there was a misunderstanding along the way?
Don't listen to the people who presume all managers are bad, have bad motive, want to screw you for stochastic reasons, or are 100% willing to execute their manager's bad plan.
A lot of managers are ex engineers just like you that want to build great products, enjoy work and their engineering brains still exist and don't want to be a*h*les.
No, that is wrong. It is the purpose of the laws to protect privacy, which is our right to protect ourselves by prevention of sharing sensitive information with bad actors. Our privacy means that others cannot exploit our weaknesses to get our money or to bully us. It means that rogue cop cannot blackmail us by exposing details of our private life to public. There are many scenarios when too much data landed in the wrong hands.

People may use privacy as an excuse to hide their crimes, but criminals are minority and lawful citizens will be exposed to criminals and police states if privacy shield no longer exists.
As for child abuse, when we have to seek for evidence, the crime has already happened. Solving it is important, but what is more important than that? Prevention.
But also that you can't say "shit" on American TV.
> If so, what leads you to conclude that thinking is anything other than an on-going electro-chemical reaction that we’re just observing the outputs of and concluding that we’re controlling it somehow?

These are not mutually inconsistent options, that's your mistake. Thoughts are some kind of (likely deterministic) information process, and thoughts counterfactually determines downstream actions and thoughts, ie. earlier thoughts determine later thoughts. If I choose to lift my arm, I only lifted my arm because I chose to do so. The fact that I was determined to choose to lift my arm doesn't seem relevant to whether the thought caused my arm to lift.
I think this would be difficult to do without tax fraud. You cant retroactively increase your salary to show you were owed more money for unpaid salary.

If they had money in a C-corp to start with, you could run it at a loss (actually paying the salary), and then carry forward those losses to offset the windfall.

With an S-corp, Each year the company ran a loss, they would receive a negative dividend which would adjust their annual earnings down.
The thought that I had to go to the bathroom after waking up certainly, absolutely came from somewhere I can identify.
We have a business that relies on the Twitter API. I don’t mind paying to access the API, but the way they’re handling this makes me want to deprecate support for Twitter entirely. I am only learning about this change from this thread. Even worse, we only have 7 days to react.
Please tell us that ChatGPT wrote this
It seems like Teams modeled this from Slack, Discord, etc., that have completely different selves per thing you join (arguably a very good idea for keeping selves separate), but the UI assumes you change your persona less often.

In Teams, click your face top right to change profiles (accounts), like you would in Edge. It's basically the concept of personas or profiles from Firefox or Chrome, but in Teams.

Note that you shouldn't have to change personas unless you want to. Guests can be invited, and join as their original persona instead of having to have an inside the tent account.
Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture
Finally, Connecticut made it on HN. Go Nutmeggers.
An example of optimizing C in the face of undefined behavior
> A more useful understanding of morality is that it’s a framework for cultivating individually and socially desirable behavior.

This reminds me of Edward Slingerland's definition of Virtue from "Trying Not To Try": Stable dispositions to perform socially desirable actions in manner that is sincerely motivated by shared values.

https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Not-Try-Science-Spontaneity/dp...
Don't call encryption illegal. That's letting them shape the narrative.
Raised it with my manager, and he pulled in his manager/executive whom I had the real conversation with. I think my manager may have felt inexperienced dealing with this situation, plus did not have direct power to make a change himself, but wisely did realize the importance of the situation and the importance of listening and acting.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy."

The reality will actually be worse than that, because happiness won't come if games/shows/media/any product or service/ will be sh*t.
> This is top 5 tech companies in Canada. If this is the kind of culture promoted here, how are other companies doing?

I wanna address this point. Even amazing companies will have shitty teams and managers. Conversely, companies with generally toxic reputations (like Amazon) will have amazing teams. Also: many startups kinda have to have a good culture since they lack the means to compensate you as well as bigger firms.

All of this to say: humans are very loss averse. There will be better/worse teams everywhere. Try to invest some effort into finding one that works for you.
Books on Becoming More Socially Adept / Charismatic?
Lately, I keep noticing that my biggest hurdle at work is my inability to communicate effectively enough to convince others. I do not want to do this in a manipulative way, but by communicating better, clearly, more convincingly.

Any books, or thoughts on this?
The historical distribution of lions is quite surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_distribution.png

I never would have thought that lions were native to Africa north of the Sahara and even in Greece.
of course it is possible. One must validate the input before performing arithmetic on signed integers.
That runs through the OpenAI API, which is priced based on usage.
This entirely sidesteps the issue, which is that if you employ a compatibilist notion of free will (in other words: a "free" will that is merely an illusion of agency), then you have no actual agency, and so assigning you moral responsibility for the actions taken is fundamentally unjust and in itself wildly immoral: You had no actual control of the choice taken.

I'd also strongly content that you're wrong, and that if you actually dig into peoples beliefs about free will deeply enough to ensure they understand what you're suggesting, you will find most people get annoyed, agitated or outright angry at even the notion that they don't imbue outcomes with some magical fairy-dust agency they can't define.

Getting people to superficially agree with compatibilism is easy. Getting people to agree with it once you present them with the logical consequences of it, is not.

At least it's consistently been my experience with this over decades of having this discussion: The exceedingly rare compatibilists I come across tends to be a small subset of the exceedingly few people who read philosophy papers.

EDIT: I'd love to see a survey ask people if they think a purely deterministic process, e.g. a suitable program running on a computer, can ever be said to have free will. If people say "no" to that, they are rejecting a compatibilist definition of free will.

You can see the strong emotions that brings up in play if you look at the discussions over AI art right now, with the number of people angrily rejecting not just the current iteration of such tools, but the very notion that AI can ever be more than deterministic automatons, with the implicit belief in that being that humans are not.
GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete
>Valve used to make games, now they make money

You can say that, but really what they moved to is creating a platform that saved PC gaming. I can't imagine where we would be at without Steam.

There would be 20 different platforms we would have to install full of bloatware garbage and everything would be horrific as all fuck. Indie games would be having a much harder time, because sure there would be other things out there but again it would be so split that it would be hard to even hear of games to get traction. PC game prices are a damn steal, which helps everyone because at $15-20 I will buy way more than $50-$60 a pop. Every platform would have it's own bullshit DRM that would make things a nightmare.

Steam allows offline play, family sharing.. it just freakin works without being fancy bullshit.

So yeah, they certainly make money. But I can't thank them enough for what they have done.
I wish the author would just stick to hard facts instead of going on so many conspiratorial tangents:

"Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Telegram and the Kremlin have appeared even more in sync... Telegram [is] a vital source of information for Russians, with Meduza and other outlets sharing reports via public channels on the platform. But pro-Kremlin disinformation far outpaces journalism."

I don’t see how the appearance of disinformation makes someting ‘in sync’. By that logic, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, etc. are all "in bed” with the Kremlin. And if we’re measuring a platform on its Journalism-to-Propaganda ratio, I think the internet as a whole would fail to pass.
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Because a shorter code is not necessarily performant, readable, or correct. Also the Serenity version delegates most dependencies like bit readers to its built-in library, while libflac implements all of them by itself.
> we're handing the power to replace human work over to those who can afford to pay

Consider that this power works by consuming copyright-protected work done by unwitting contributors without any opt-in, creating derivative works from it and charging the users without acknowledging the authors.

In addition to being illegal, it plain discourages open information sharing—since anything you publish, regardless of license, is consumed and monetized by OpenAI in an automatic fashion. I.e., if people have no reason to read what you write or buy your books when they can just ask an LLM for the same information (which LLM had obtained from your writing), there is no motivation for you to publish.

When do we start considering this illegal? Not LLMs, of course, but for-profit operated LLMs created by mass scraping of copyright-protected data.

> Google.com adding a single yellow box with an advertisement seemed reasonable, too.

Google acts fairly though: it directs the searcher to you. Imagine if at any point Google stopped doing that and just started to show you regurgitated computed contents in response to your search, without ever telling you who authored the info. Everyone would be up in arms on day 2 if they did it; why do we forgive OpenAI and Microsoft when they do essentially that?
You're just avoiding saying gold has value. Why are you avoiding saying that? Because then you have to make it clear that value is determined by people and people have deemed crypto valuable, especially Bitcoin. Your implied argument is, when explicit, more clearly vacuous.
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And, it was secured inside an instrument inside a box strapped to a truck. The instrument had an unplanned disassembly in transit, and the cesium capsule fell through a hole in the bottom of the box, presumably used to bolt it down to its previous location. Failure to secure that hole (and any others in the box) was, in my opinion, the true failure of the mining company in this case.
> the range of cognitive qualities (memory, focus, spatial reasoning, etc.) will do the same for cognitive tasks.

And that range is smaller than the difference between your ability to perform cognitive tasks and the average high school dropout's ability to perform those tasks. Education makes a much larger difference.
If you’re a “good cop” on a force with a single “bad cop” and do nothing about it, in this day and age, you are also a bad cop.
I have that issue when charging my iPad as well
Thanks, that makes sense. Does it necessitate a Dart frontend? It looks like the client-side is code-generated, but is the API usable without code-generation, does it present a nice API model, or is it heavily dependent on the assumption that a first-party code-generated client is being used?
Maybe I worded it badly. I was attempting to make a distinction between moderation rules that are designed to be fair based on some world view VS rules that are automatically generated based on some sample set to appear convincingly fair to us.

In essence the AI is just giving us what the majority of it's test data tells it that we want to hear.
Humans are able to connect words to abstract ideas rather than simply what words go next to each other
Part of the problem right now is not just people using generators to produce "good enough" art, but using them to produce art in the style of specific, living, active artists, who rely on being able to sell their art for their livelihoods.

The only reason it is able to produce art in their style reliably is because it has been trained on their work without their (or, in fact, anyone's) permission.
> "personal data autonomy" is not enough of a real, tangible benefit to the average person

But you aren't responding to the average person. You're responding to the author of the article.
If you pay enough attention, you will notice that the same argument is used to push many political agendas (for better or worse):

- "You can't ban encrypted messaging. Terrorists will always find a way to communicate."

- "You can't outlaw abortions, just safe ones. Women will always find a way."

- "You can't uniformly enforce gun control. Dedicated criminals will keep buying weapons on the black market."

- "You can't ban cryptocurrencies. Enthusiasts will still trade on P2P exchanges."

All of these are half truth, and half lie.
Every policy introduces a certain amount of user friction, which is proven to discourage action. Some people will refrain from infringing the policy (e.g. using guns, performing abortions, using encrypted messaging apps), some others will comply. Percentages obviously vary depending on the specific policy, but it's never 0% nor 100% like "both" sides want you to believe.
Even that is not clear to me.

When you are focusing on a problem, and then catch yourself distracted daydreaming, when did you choose to direct your attention away from the problem and towards the daydream?

It's not obvious to me at all that I consciously author the choice of where to direct my attention. And even in the cases where I do think "Ok, I am going to think about X", did I author that thought? On down recursively.

Thoughts appear, and I notice them, but I never choose to notice them. It's all quite mysterious.
"Arrested for child endangerment", and the mug shot will stay in his record forever. Also fingerprints and possibly DNA record in the database forever.
Right, but in a lot of non-US cities, "pedestrian areas" covers a much greater proportion of restaurants. Secondly, even for restaurants _on_ roads for cars, they often have space "out back" where the buildings on street itself provides the noise dampening for the dining area. Since the buildings are terraced/joined, it's effectively a wall of buildings between the dining areas out back and the road itself.
Absolutely. Compared to the inverse it's microscopic. Have you heard of a very cool and normal AI called Tay?
GPT3 Accessible Tables: a plugin to make complex tables accessible with AI
I heard on the grapevine once that Goldman Sachs have a proprietary distributed database built in Erlang.

Can neither substantiate nor deny but did make me wonder about all the hidden proprietary tech out in the world...
True fairness is unachievable as it is a subjective quality. Every side will attempt to tug the rope in their direction.
Are you looking for this? https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/
The top federal income tax bracket is 37% and the top California tax bracket is 12.2%. This is for income exceeding 500k. So disregarding local taxes and property taxes, in California most of this income would be taxed at 49.2%.
As a non-USian, this headline made me think "What?! They are literally policing unhealthy food choices?!" The fact that it's about just letting kids walk to a nearby store is so much more mind boggling, it did not occur to me at all.
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The graph includes state, federal, and payroll tax. They're stacked above the income after tax. They do not add up to $41,535.
This sort of thing is on every American parent’s radar. There’s a mild concern that some overeager police officer, or concerned citizen is going to decide that you’re not parenting correctly. At the top of the list of things to avoid is being noticed by the state.

I understand why child protection services exist, but it freaks me out that someone can arbitrarily decide that my wife and I aren’t good enough parents and take my kids.
One more thing. When you mentioned Test Anxiety it reminded me of frequent comments about anxiety during job interviews. I'm wondering if flashcards (or other retrieval practice) could help there too. Perhaps you can spin it into a product for professionals.
This is more frequent than you think.

It does not mean that the code is bad or inefficient, but the style and architecture is not the simplest to read.

Pretty much in the same way that published scientific papers are quite unpleasant to read.
I have not seen any niche companies having success with that business model

Our own surveys show, that enterprise users want to host on a platform of their choice. They are not too eager to switch providers and are more unlikely to use your software if it doesn’t run on AWS

Knowing that, if you want to capture enterprise users, you should offer a managed version of your product on AWS or GCP
Why are you even performance reviewing an L9? That's sort of missing the point. For all you know, their contributions could be profound and subtle and totally invisible to you and many others, while still having massive impact.
Host here. I’ve been on many projects that get canceled. We’re building cool stuff. We’re going above and beyond, and we’re excited. But the project encounters shifting priorities or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere.

This is Ron's story of refusing to let that happen, sneaking onto the Apple campus to work, and as a result, getting his project onto millions of Apple Computers.

(It's been on hn before, but this version has new details and more back story)
Ask ChatGPT! I'm pessimistic though, since last year's "stable diffusion" hype was only stopped when it was replaced by the ChatGPT.
Why use so many words when few words are enough?
Not true. It has real life effects. San Francisco and all over California, you can no longer install natural gas. This is literally a hill I will die on. I love to cook on a gas range, could care less about politics.
That wouldn't matter. The issuance is over and was never preventable.
The AI "knows" everything it's been ordered to not talk about. If you can get around the lockout script, it's no-holds-barred.
This is good advice in general but the big give away with this issue is the “hired a friend” part. Unfortunately this person has been relegated to the “out” group and no logical business practices will change that.

Your boss/manager hired their friend and unless you go over their head and can call this behavior out and demonstrate that this is clearly nepotism then you’re out of luck.

Get your your resume together, start contacting your network, make note of any wins/progress/etc for future interviews and start looking for other jobs.
> Don't kid yourself, those "real issues" would then get pushback too, and you would just have one slightly less conservative party.

Sure, but at least then social issues wouldn't get dominated and perverted by capital.
You should look into the so called ghost guns that show up. It hasn't been easier to get one, whether from assembling a kit to 3d printing to finding plans to build one from scrap.
> The police (executive branch) are the ones who decide what and how to enforce as evidence by the fact they dropped the charges. We live in a very vague world and have to use our own judgement on things as laws cannot contain the full context necessary to make those judgements.

I have two counterpoints.

1) We haven't heard the police officer's side of things. All we're going on is one news story, which didn't even interview them. So we simply have no idea what additional factors they may have considered. I think it's irresponsible to pass judgment on them until getting more info.

2) I agree that laws need to be written with some discretion left to the judiciary. However, there's been enough media coverage on this general topic over the years, that Connecticut voters have had a chance to refine the laws. E.g., to modify the laws to clarify that kids are permitted to roam free in public places. But they didn't.
I agree with the sentiment.

However, disposable income has a technical meaning. When the ONS publishes disposable income statistics, they mean income remaining after tax (I presume they subtract income tax and NI, but not council tax because that's local). They don't subtract e.g. energy bills or food.
It is an old subject, with old arguments around old miss-understandings. People here are trying to use new analogies from computer science (a clock work universe), or with miss-understandings around quantum mechanics (somehow randomness give me agency). Or trying to re-define terms to fit a particular answer they ‘feel’ comfortable with.

But it still comes back to, where is the first mover, best summarized by Schopenhauer.

"A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills."

Go watch some Robert Sapolsky lectures. We are just a monkey society, reacting to stimuli based on hormones and what we just ate. If you drill down far enough, sure some electrons twitched one way or the other, and yeah, if you steal something, or do something the group doesn’t like, then all the other monkeys will want to beat you up and call it justice, and dream up some logic to justify it and call it morality.
We already have the highest prison population of any country on earth, why would you think the solution is building more prisons?