skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I travelled to Argentina around this time and, plane ticket aside, I used Bitcoins for everything. I bought BTC from localbitcoins, travelled there, paid for my stay and some meals in BTC (there was a website that showed restaurants and cafes that accepted it) and exchanged BTC for ARS for the rest of expenses from someone whom I met via localbitcoins there (could be you!).

This was peak crypto actually. It was useful, peer-to-peer, actually allowed people to opt out of the monetary system, it felt like a community, there was this sense of excitement.

Then all the crypto ICO pump and dumpers with frog avatars came and it was over.
You could ask the opposite question as well:

"Please list businesses whose success depends on frothy, bullish market conditions"

Most companies can be successful even in down markets. See basically all S&P 500 companies. Yes their stock price might be down and they may be laying people off to save money, but those are all legitimate and successful businesses by most measures.
I use the same but it didn't work very well on this site. It took a long time, and the background remained semi-transparent black after it finished.
yes, there is definitely something in it. Bubbles happen when things become “over-invested” above their true value.
hanaryy
Was this site ever compromised? I used to flip BTC on here back in 2013 when coinbase would front me up to 20BTC before my ACH even settled.

I had a repeat customer who got his bitcoin stolen and thought I did it. I tried to explain the blockchain to him and how I clearly sent it but it wasn't getting through to him. He sent me a few death threats but never heard from him after that.

Another guy bought around 20BTC from me cause he was convinced someone in Florida was gonna sell him bitcoin miners which were really tough to get at the time. I told him it was probably a scam and he should fly out instead of blindly sending the money first. He didn't listen and about 30min after we met he called me back and said the guy wasn't answering the phone anymore.

I concluded pretty early on that bitcoin was not a viable currency.
What do you call these people? Republicans/Democrats.
Good point, you can have both at-least and at-most once semantics.
Or actively work to dismantle systems of oppression so at least future generations aren't suffering from the abuse of said society.

What's your take on how to approach a sick society?
> [...] so they won't be able to hire people in high COL areas at all.

You say it like it's a bad thing. If they can hire people for relatively cheap purely from low COL areas, and make the company work, they should totally go for that. That's the whole reason behind having offices in even cheaper areas like Vietnam, instead of just the American Midwest.

Of course, if you can't actually run your business purely on people from low COL areas, that means there must be something the people from the high COL areas bring to the table that's worth it for your business. And that's proves the original commenter's point that the company should pay you according what value you bring to the company.
OTOH, for a long while, a fresh install of XP with a public IP would be 'owned' within minutes. Not sure telemetry solves* this though.

// * Always at least XP SP2
I can say with a higher degree of confidence that you haven't actually used CoPilot daily for any respectably sized project.
Actually it is [1] [2]

[1] Synonyms of artificial has "faked" : https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/artificial

[2] Synonyms of fake has "artificial": https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/fake
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems illegal on its face. Just from a tax perspective for the government, I feel like people would immediately start trying to game it for taxes.
We had this question in another thread so I will copy paste the answer :)

Yes! We're currently targeting an end-user UI for v0.5. My crystal ball is imperfect with regards to timing, so don't hold me to it... but I would imagine that this will probably come out sometime in the summer.

https://github.com/openziti/zrok/issues/221

And I would imagine some sort of mobile-first interface would happen after that.
> you simply repeating what you said before doesn't give it extra credibility

it's not about credibility.

repetita iuvant.
Fake meat is still a form of deception; it's something that's not meat pretending to be meat. If lab grown meat gets good enough to be indistinguishable from "real" meat, then it would no longer be fake, it would just be artificial.
100% agree.

I have a content website with some tables that I compiled from carefully scouring forums, taking my own measurements, and from people emailing me new info.

Well, Google just displays my tables in the search results, so no one needs to visit my site. This may be great for a user, but it's a real disincentive to create content if Google is just going to scrape it and display it.

Last time I looked, my site ranked #1 for the searches above, but a user would have to scroll through 3 screens worth of whatever else is on a search results page now to get to my link.
Have you been around people who say "fake meat?" Every time I've heard it, it was said derisively and implied fraudulent meat.
you mentioned you moved almost entirely from the AI / data science "scene." Where did you move to?
How the Germans during their Afrika campaign discovered this bacterium to treat dysentery, which was killing more soldiers then the British troops did.
great - and then you have to pay NYC taxes. Probably something you want to avoid, unless you actually live there.
I mostly agree.

> All else being equal, the only reason to hire a distant programmer is to pay them less.

Yes. To give some example where not everything else is equal:

There can be benefits from covering more timezones, or benefits from covering different jurisdictions (and tax regimes).
It’s the usual AI boom and bust cycles. The term is just too good to let go for marketers. It’s instantly evocative for the general public.

Just wait for it to underdeliver. Investors will get scared and we will be back to calling it machine learning.
How is it safer than any offline app?
> Refusing to pay you more is their way of telling you they don't believe you can get something better than what they offer where you are which is legitimate.

Except when they collude to drive down wages or pay for laws to make it harder for workers to organize keeping them weak. Also "where you are" has been made irrelevant for many workers because they can get employment anywhere without going anywhere. That means what's really being said is that they don't believe you can get something better than what they offer anywhere.
From the page:

> When you view your PhotoStructure library’s home page, you’ll see a random selection, or “sampling,” of images from your library. When you click When, you don’t see all photos in reverse-chronological order, but instead, a random “sample” of images from every year. Click on a year, and you’ll see a random sampling from each month.

This is... just horrendously bad
Everyone in crypto I knew were using them, and then just stopped. The lesson is:

Know Your Customers, Localbitcoins.
The fact that i can use this tool as a source of inspiration, or a first opinion on any kind of problem on earth is totally incredible. Now whenever i'm stuck on a problem, chatgpt has become an option.

And this happens in the artistic world as well with the other branch of NN : "mood boards" can now be generated from prompts infinitely.

I don't understand how some engineers still fail to see that a threshold was passed.
As much as I’m sick of AI products, I’m even more sick of the “ChatGPT is bullshit” argument.
Fish shell search and suggestions are awesome, and not comparable to what readline gives you. I don't know how it does that, but the shell understands the concept of files, commands in PATH, and CWD. So depending on the directory you are in, after typing "vim " you will get different suggestions (completable by right arrow). Somehow it knows what I mean 80% of the time.
This is something any crypto-bro would have told you in 2017.
Artifical means "not human" in this context for me, but I understand "Intelligence" as the abiltiy to actual reason about something based on things you learned and/or experienced, and these "AI" tools don't do this at all.

But defining "intelligence" is a philosopical question that doesn't necessarily have one answer for everything and everyone.
> GPT-3 it's good at generative writing

made up bullshit

> summarization

except you can't possibly know the output has any relation whatsoever to the text being summarized

> information search and extraction

except you can't possibly know the output has any relation whatsoever to the information being extracted

people still fall for this crap?
I love this! I've been thinking of making one bookmarkley to overlay the webpage and show me the options for other bookmarklets but haven't gotten around to it yet.
If bullshit jobs are so common, does that mean capitalism isn't actually all that ruthless? Why are companies putting up with them?

(I know that in eg France is basically impossible to fire people, so I can see why they might have lots of bullshit jobs.)
I think I'd rather have a gunless transaction altogether :D
There’s plenty of virtual office / forwarding address services, but claiming you live at one when you don’t for a pay gain risks (1) fraud against your employer; and (2) tax fraud (if eg in a different city / state / country).
Sick of hype? Yes. Excited about the future of AI? Also yes.
Is that supposed to be an argument against it?
There is a legend about the first Nizam of Hyderabad. Here is Narendra Luther's version:

"When the Nizam was returning to the Deccan, on one of his hunting expeditions, he lost his way. Thirsty and hungry, he approached a hermit for succour. All that the saint could offer him was dry, baked bread called kulcha, and plain water. The exhausted noble had his fill. The hermit counted the remaining loaves in his basket and said, My son, you have eaten seven loaves. Your family will rule for seven generations. God bless you."

The last actual ruling Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, was parsimonious in his personal life and spent on public works instead. Sadly he could not quell the violent terrorist movement of the Razakars during the convulsions of Indian independence, and this led to both murders by the Razakars and a violent blowback from the Hindu majority, the government inquiries on the scale of the massacres are still classified to this day.

His grandson Mukarram Jah was the opposite and dilapidated his inheritance.
Cypro-Minoan Unicode Chart [pdf]
I too feel overwhelmed by this sudden rush towards *GPT. The content generated by AI is slowly erasing the line between the creative content and computer generated content. I remember last year when so many people earning or trying to earn by creating art forms to sell as NFT. Once Dall-E landed, then the originality quotient of any creative content is lost. Likewise, ChatGPT is going to erase the originality in text content. Once internet is mixed with AI generated content, then there is no going back. We can't find what's real work, what's AI generated.
AI for actual applications, where mistakes are costly, is becoming an idiot marker. As "crypto" for projects other than non-decentralized finance or "smart" contracts, has already become. FOMO is great on this though, so every major investor/consultant is no starting to to tell you to get shitcoin.

AGI could be ML driven, most likely it is not.
Neuronal nets are still AI tech. Even Bayesian inference is weakly AI tech.

The public always misuses words. Words change to match that meaning.
Nushell is great for simple tasks. i.e.

ls **/data.json | each {|it| mv $it.name $"(dirname $it.name)/data.yml" }

Will be much more complex in bash

find -name "data.json" | xargs -i bash -c "mv \"{}\" \"\$(dirname '{}')/data.yml\""

Note the escaped quotes and dollar signs in bash. It is really difficult to get them right.

In Nutshell we are actually using "functions" (supported syntax-wise) to do the job, so it will be much more simpler.

---

A more complex example from my recent code:

ls $"(which npm.ps1 | get 0.path | path dirname)/*.ps1" | each {|it| get name | path basename }
| each {|script_file| $"alias ($script_file | str replace ".ps1" "") = powershell.exe ($script_file)" }
| str join "\n" | save --force ~/.config/nushell/env-generated.nu

Will be something like this in bash,

find "$(dirname "$(which npm.ps1)")/" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ps1" | sed -r "s/^.*\/([^\/]+)\.ps1/alias \1 = powershell.exe \1.ps1/g" >> "$NU_CONFIG_FILE"

Although the bash one is shorter, it takes me 10x more time to write and test. I initially tried to write it with xrgs but given up due to the complexity involved.

I think Nushell is more readable and easy to write for me.
I'm a middle-of-the-road midwesterner.

Why I possibly want to watch a parade of spoiled famous people run to a podium to preach their uniform political opinions to viewers?
To answer the author's remark about the name, while it's true that marathons are long, paced races, the term Hackathon probably comes from Dance-a-thon which is an overnight dance party to see who's still standing in the morning. See also music marathon, movie marathon, telethon.
This is a sign that you should spend less time on your computer and go out a bit more.
A german book by Precht/Welzer argues it's the other way.

The media became a power by itsself and it's the media which influences the government.

And they analyze how the media synchronized itself on certain topics (especially Ukraine war).

https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/richard-david-precht-hara...
I don't know if it matters but I have a limited company and am an employee of said company, which means I deal with taxes on my own and can perform work for (almost) any company in the world - I just invoice them like any supplier. Maybe this is the future? Though some companies would rather you were their employee I suppose.
This is/was typical in Argentina. The reason is, in 2011 official prices and prices on controlled goods (like meat, bread, flour, water) was artificially pegged to $1 = ARS$3. But in reality the peso was much cheaper; this was a way to disburse the country's US Dollar reserve to the patrons of the ruling class. It had been done many times before at different currency pegs, while the government printed more money, each time resulting in hyperinflation. It's a form of theft from the working class who can't easily access foreign currency, siphoning the wealth to the rich who can do so.

In any event, Argentines prefer strongly to have dollars, to the point where in 2011-2014 or so you could rent an apartment for perhaps 50% the going rate if you paid in hundred dollar American bills (but only the new ones, with the big Franklin). These could simply not be obtained in Argentina anymore. Back in 2002 or so, you could get $100 bills out of an ATM (maximum $200 per day). But in 2011 you either had to be paid directly by the government at the official rate (i.e. triple your salary for 20% of your wages) or you could take a boat to Uruguay and pull out $500 a day. The third way was using Bitcoin and trading with local Argentines on Localbitcoins.com, who would give you the normal US dollar rate for the bitcoins you were selling.
I'm not sure what your point is?

Making remote work and pay for productivity more common and accepted, would help that kid. That's good!
> lately upgraded their gallery, but it is still slow. It generates thumbnails on-the-fly

generating thumbnails on the fly doesn't have to be slow. It can be slow and often is as most implementation would rely on something like image magick or similar tool but you can get several order of magnitude faster if you go deeper.

I've spent a lot more time than I would dare to admit on that exact topic while working on my OSS project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash) and I figured you could build tailored tool in C that rely on say libjeg and leverage very low level tricks like DCT scaling to do things much faster. Typically in Filestash creating a thumbnail takes about 15ms for a picture taken from my camera and it doesn't make a raspberry pi to break a sweat.
Presumably neom's initials (check his profile), which would be shown beside the prompt.
I used to find noise annoying in the pre-covid days, but I could cope with it.

Then I worked remotely, and while the silence was deafening for the first week or so, I grew to love it, and the focus it gives me.

Now I am back in the office some days a week, and it is worse than ever, in part as I've tasted what working in silence does for me. But mainly as non in post-covid times everyone takes their meetings at their desks.

Sitting near me today was a team of 5 people all on a call together from their desks, as one person was remote.

In the old days they would have grabbed a meeting room to run that call, but now everyone does it from their desks.

The noise is so annoying, and makes my remote days all the sweeter. Wearing noise cancelling headphones all day hurts my ears and head, plus gives me sweaty ears - which leads to more wax which leads to increased tinnitus for me. As someone with ADHD, tinnitus can really mess with my day.
You can't fix this with technology. If the government declares having money as illegal the only solution is to change the government. Otherwise these technical loopholes only help that government in the first place. Lack of laundering controls is how Russian dirty money create nice global lifestyle for Putin's henchmen and friends. If they were truly locked in, one would think twice before joining that gang.

> because any money they have might be "criminal"

Non-criminal money would be a minuscule percentage of the total because, the same way you use to change $500 for the lulz would be used in an organized way to move millions extracted with violence and theft by Russian government and other criminals.
Why not both? I use starship and fzf with a fish shell.

Fzf is a great productivity boost, especially because it integrates with everything so well. Starship is... nice and flashy, but I don't think it actually improves my productivity a lot. The biggest feature for me is giving me the current git branch, and I used to do it with my fish theme. I mean it's nice to know what version of Python I have currently, it's just not a killer feature.
For what it's worth, I did try this out. Downloaded the little Bing desktop enforcement app and everything. Also on the phone. Signed in on both.
Returned to the 'access' faster page. Nope, just same old 'Do this process to get it faster!'. So it was completely pointless. Unless they mean, jump the queue, and it's in a couple days? But it doesn't _say_ that really. So I dislike this little thing they pulled here. It could be biased too, as I was recently reading about this: Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers are Essential to the Internet and How Operating Systems Are Holding Them Back. https://research.mozilla.org/files/2022/10/Mozilla-Five-Wall...
I agree with you completely. I work in the field and I think your sentiment is way more common amongst people who know about the technology, vs the fair weather fans who have all jumped on the hype bandwagon recently. I actually posted the same thing (that it's no different than Eliza) a month or so ago, and got at least one hilarious dismissal, like the "I bet you make widgets" person that replied to you.
I recall a chance to meet someone and buy BC at about a dollar that I dismissed as shady
It's an example, but the general gist of that sentence could definitely come up in conversation.
I'm thinking of cases such as colleagues selling as "ML" something they were then forced to admit as "we use SQL to pick out instances of this specific behaviour we knew was happening". Embarrassing all round.

As folks that work in tech we can tell the difference between stuff that's got some form of depth to it in "proper" AI: ML, DL, AGI as you suggest, vs the over-hyped basic computation stuff. And the selling of the latter as the former can rankle.
So stop evangelizing about stuff you haven’t used. Understanding code is easier than writing it from the scratch. That’s why code review doesn’t take as much time as writing code and you still need to prove your code works, even if you wrote it yourself.
Singularity, my man. You’re tired. But theme world isn’t.
This is so true.
Torvalds wrote git in shell.
You can do great things.

Provided...

a) agreed, RTFM, (man bash is not long)
b) you dont try to do things shells shouldn't do.
c) for things you shouldn't do, you write a clean stable cli interface in some other language.

Often you can do c) in bash temporarily and port only if/when it gets complicated.
(That's what git did)
Landfill (and nuclear power) are the two things you can champion to be a climate change denier and support fossil fuels while not saying the stuff that makes you sound like a total loon out loud.

Oh I'm not attacking renewables and recycling, I'm just championing those sadly overlooked technologies the dumb green hippies have ignored! Don't listen to them, they're all stupid and communist. They can't do maths and science and are probably female. They can't handle the manly truth about climate change like me.

Except they've not been ignored. Landfill is at the bottom of the waste hierarchy because it's not as good as the other options. Nuclear isn't going to make up the majority of energy production because it's not as good as solar and wind. There are lots of scientific papers that go into this in mind numbing depth.

I know the fossil-funded "news" and "politics" organisations you follow told you this was all a hoax and a conspiracy, but turns out, they were lying to you. At some point you're going to have to deal with that and face reality rather than spiral further into conspiracy land.
I meant Kinshasa, godamit.

I also cited the wrong capital, so I was wrong. But I meant what I said!!
This may be a detail that only investigators know and hasn’t been made public.
The Art of Designing a Dangerous-Looking Playground
They use a rand() function as part of the input. I don’t think they have a source of true randomness they use, but it’s random enough for any practical purpose.
There were 150,000 non-distinct symbols in the discovered letters that had to be individually mapped out.
> Pretty rich stuff coming from a dude who presides over a studio that's basically pumped out nothing but reboots, sequels and schlock for the last decade.

Which studio? I thought Diller was mostly into matchmaking / travel agent / other websites.
Wow, it's been 5 years since Docker moved to using the Hyperkit hypervisor.

But anyway prior to that it used VirtualBox (on Mac) if I remember correctly, which is a full virtualisation environment.
https://archive.ph/jwSd6
it is not about what they 'can' bear, it's about what they are willing to bear - it is not the same thing - the company can decide what they are willing to bear, and the employee can decide what they are willing to work for. Doesn't sound like a problem that needs fixing.
I use Powershell as standard shell on WSL (Linux on Windows)
Everything is the same as Windows
> Github CoPilot? Great, now I have to perform the most mentally taxing part of developing software, namely understanding other people's code (or my own from 6 months ago...) while writing new code. I'm beyond thrilled ...

I think there's an argument to be made that AI is being used here to help you tackle the more trivial tasks so you have more time to focus on the more important, and challenging tasks. Albeit I recognise GitHub CoPilot is legally questionable.

But yes, I agree with your overall point that AI has still not been able to 'think' like a human but rather can only still pretend to think like a human, and history has shown that users are often fooled by this.
Replies will still post from the reply page, but the reply page itself won't load.
> Formal verification / theorem proving

You could use your sabatical to learn F*, Agda or similar.

Easy to then transition to a nice, slow moving and meaningful engineering position.