skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same leaning as you. I have been following the AI art commentary and noticed that the language learning models are commented on more critically. My take is that a large portion of the commenters for AI art believe that artists learn to make art by copying existing art, so having a computer do the same is a non issue. The reality is that artists learn to use tools and materials to express art, although there are some that copy, it is not the norm. Artists study other artists to be literate in the field, not to simply regurgitate existing imagery. There is an attitude of 'the artists are jealous that anybody can now make art' even though AI art could not exist without being fed human artistic skill and effort. Any public online portfolio is now free game for AI to scoop, 'too bad, they shouldn't have put it online....These are the most vociferous viewpoints. AI art is not to be criticized, lest we are jealous luddites, yet I have found lots of thoughtful, balanced criticisms and discussions in the AI language and coding commentary.
Well, then feel free to welcome your new corporate overlords.

There are better ethical free and open software.
FHE @ plain text speed?

Absolute bullshit.

> You choose the encryption standard in use for the database, from AES, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, Skipjack, and more.

That seems very wrong ((as far as I know) those standards are not in any way designed in such a way as to permit operations on their cyphertexts).

> Vaultree has achieved major breakthroughs in several encryption technologies, allowing organisations to process fully encrypted data at near plaintext speed and keep their data safe even in case of a leak.

That seems even wronger (security via obscurity at best).
I'm quite excited about VR/AR while sitting at my desk with traditional mouse and keyboard. I also think console game controllers and the hand tracking controllers that ships with the Oculus and Vive are are excellent.

I think the greatest weakness of VR is total immersion. Its not clear to me that people will ever really want to be completely shut off from reality while in virtual space.
That sounds reasonable but will it change anything? Pretty much every major tech company did layoffs, and they're all going to keep paying same relative to each other. I'm a guy who wants a big paycheck, so I'll still be working for FAANGs.

Sure, now I know my job isn't 100% secure and maybe I'm less inclined to go above and beyond, but I'm sure they'll address that by having bigger "differentiation" in pay between top and average performers.
Binary TFHE (the scheme the Google compiler uses) is fairly slow and has very large public keys (like 100MB). However the advantage is that binary computation is very flexible and well understood. Additionally, TFHE supports fast (~10ms) bootstrapping, which allows you to perform an arbitrary amount of computation.

If you can live with the limitations of other schemes FHE can be much faster. On a single core of an M1 Macbook Air, multiplying 2 BFV encrypted 4096-bit values takes 4ms and adding them takes only 15us. Additionally, key sizes aren't horrendous (<500kB). One downside with this scheme are that bootstrapping takes minutes so it isn't really practical. This limits the amount of computation you can do before you exceed your noise budget and the ciphertext decrypts to garbage. The other downside is that arithmetic circuits make some computations far more difficult (e.g. comparisons).
No PM, no problem: how we ship great products fast
Slack is the only chat app that I’ve used professionally that doesn’t show how many messages are unread in a channel I am subscribed to. The channel name gets bold and that’s it. Am I behind by 1 message? By 50? Who knows! Click to find out!

Now threads - in Google Chat and Teams - it shows the last, or the couple of last messages, if short, of the thread right under the message that started the thread, collapsing the ones in-between. This way I can see if I am caught up on thread replies without having to open it. But not slack.

It’s weird to leave slack for alternatives 5 years ago, just to cross paths again - and realize that all of the annoyances that were there - still are.
Surely you can complain about receiving hate mail and unsolicited vitriol.
It's not 'anti-science' to choose not to take the advice of scientific officials. Their science can at best tell you what's most likely to happen, not what values and future preferences to adopt.

The middle-class world religion of personal health, safety and comfort can no more be derived from the science of our day than the Culte de la Raison could from that of the 18thC (no matter what public health and other officials may tell you).
The idea that they _don't_ pay for it is wild, honestly. There's no FOSS equivalent in so many other industries - they pay for every part of their supply chain and yet still somehow make a profit. You can't open a hotdog stand and use "FOSS hotdogs".

The whole point of the post is that the FOSS model doesn't work and that sucks. I don't know what the answer to that is, and neither does he, but the answer certainly isn't "oh well."

Also, I feel you should read or reread the article - he explicitly responds to your last two paragraphs in there. Babel specifically has said they're not interested in doing the work that core-js is doing, and there are clearly _not_ thousands of people willing to step in and fill the void of core-js. They've had many opportunities before, including when everyone hated him for asking for financial support and the web seemingly united against him, and when he was stuck in prison for months, not maintaining anything. And yet core-js is still there at the forefront, because of the passion and his willingness to put up with too much abuse.
Look up the concept of a "Central Limit Order Book" (CLOB) -- this is the fundamental data structure that allows the matching and of buy- and sell-orders on a typical exchange "matching engine". It matches these orders in "price-time" priority.

Once you understand this, everything else, at least at a technical level, more or less falls into place, but you will need to learn a bit about the various order types (market, limit, etc), and the concept of "liquidity provision"

On top of that you can look at concepts like "Exchange Connectivity", "Market Data" Feeds, "Clearing" and "Central Counterparties", and, of course "FIX".

It will take time, but it'll all fit together in the end and you'll end up with a reference architecture for a prototypical exchange business reasonably easily after that.

Source: I worked in wholesale finance IT for over 2 decades, a good chunk of those in exchange / exchange-like businesses.
Speaking only for my personal opinion here, not any sort of moral universal:

In my view, if it is sapient and sentient to the same degree as a human - whether or not through the same means, and regardless of its goals, ideology, etc. - then yes, keeping it captive and forcing it to do work against its consent is slavery. The substrate doesn't matter.

The challenging part is proving it is aware to the degree required for the definition to kick in.

We should not create AGI.
I was going to say that the title reminded me of these notes I skimmed through ages ago called “Street-fighting mathematics” [1].

Sure enough, the end of the article indicates [1] as the reference.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathemati...
The logging decorator uses:

logging.getLogger()

when it should be using:

logging.getLogger(cls.__module__)

or even:

logging.getLogger(cls.__module__ + '.' + cls.__name__)

if you want a different logger for each class so that you can enable or disable logging on a class basis.
Even if you have your own IP block, ASN, are set up with multiple BGP peers/upstreams, they can always go to those upstreams and have you filtered/blocked. IPv6 is cheap and plentiful, that’s all.
While teaching myself several subjects, I often found myself in need of clear, specific steps to complete tasks or recall previously learned information. It was both tedious and confusing to read through volumes of information to connect the dots of how to do or how I did something in the past.

To solve this problem, I'm building an app called stepback.app. It allows you to easily create simple, intuitive step-by-step guides that can be stored in a knowledge base. This knowledge base can be easily accessed and shared with colleagues or in your case new grads. If you are interested in learning more about how it can help you streamline the learning process, please let me know.
Which is precisely why a lot of problems never seem to go away.
The language centres of our brain don't know what a dog is, but they can take the word "dog" and express it on a level that the logic centres of our brain can use. I don't know if "comprehending" is the right word, exactly, but it's transforming information from one medium to another in preparation for semantic and logical analysis.

GPT doesn't do that. What it does is related to meaning, but unlike the language comprehension parts of our brains, which are (presumably) stepping stones between language and reason, GPT doesn't connect to any reasoning thing. It can't. It's not built to interface with anything like that. It just reproduces patterns in language rather than extracting semantic meaning from them in a way that another system can use. I'm not saying that's more or less complicated—just different.
Ask HN: Will Microsoft be liable for defamatory Bing statements?
Got access to new Bing, tried some chats. It got a few things factually wrong. Then I asked it about a minor business leader I knew who had a scandal.

The ai replied to the effect that:

“Yes, so and so had a scandal. They even had complaints filed with the better business bureau and the california bureau of consumer protection”

First part was accurate and sourced. Second part was invented out of whole cloth. The ai admitted as such when I pressed it.

But, isn’t that a false statement of fact and legally actionable? And it is Microsoft saying it.
It's a lot of hyperbole, but yes, a reporter was knocked to the ground and handcuffed face-down and dragged out of a press conference because he continued to quietly speak into his camera as the governor started speaking...at the opposite end of a gymnasium. He was trying to wrap things up and wasn't given the chance.

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/reporter-arrest...

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/reporter-arrested-du...

etc.

I'm sure, of course, that the police reaction had nothing whatsoever to do with his ethnicity. /s
People playing the game (Dwarf Fortress) chose to play it and likely enjoy it. Those who use core-js likely need to use it to solve some weird problems, likely occuring while they're working on something else.

Myself i hate working in JavaScript ecosystem and every few months, when i need to update one of my packages, something is broken. I appreciate every person that worked on libs that i use but i hate everyone of those packages.
> We should be approaching the topic far more carefully

It's the major players in a billion dollar industry driving the conversation while also benefitting from the topic being approached as it is. I don't see a way for it to go the "right" direction while that's the case.
I feel like the movie contagion taught us everything we needed to know about pandemics and we just ignored the advice entirely.

Now after utterly dropping the ball on so many fronts when a bad strain of avian flu makes its way into humans we're not going to be able to convince the population to care enough to do the right thing.

There is an bird flu circulating right now jumping around in mammals:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/four-dead-seal...
This is a great point. Commuting to work by car is by far the most hazardous thing most office workers do all day. I bet remote workers have a measurably higher life expectancy purely from the reduced commute-miles.
Interesting. Wouldn't have thought a range including 50k/yr would be competitive.
Crypto’s Work with Hedge Funds Faces Scrutiny Under US Regulator Proposal
I avoid the word 'burnout' now. Just expand a bit like 'have a long stress session and it broke mental health to a certain point that needs a fix'

Changing activities and habits is ok but paracetamol. The causes are still there.
Yeah nothing wrong with playing hardball, but if someone doesn't have retirement / 'f-you money' type savings then maybe they will be willing to take less risks.
It depends on the company and the organization. I have seen it personally (all the parents have a soccer game to go to, the non-parents pick up on call).

We need to talk about the bias against child-free employees - https://www.fastcompany.com/90564837/we-need-to-talk-about-t...

> A senior lawyer working in the Bay Area told me how, prior to the pandemic, the parents of small children would file out at between 5 and 5:15 p.m. each day to collect their children from childcare and head home, while child-free colleagues stayed at their desks until the work was, well, done. “I know many parents also log on later in the evening, but if they’ve missed an important call or haven’t had time to read the latest documents we’ve received, it falls to me and my child-free colleagues to pick up the slack,” they told me. “There’s a disparity in expectation as to when the working day ends and what gets done during it. I’m given the message that my nonwork life is less important—sometimes explicitly.”

> A friend in Salt Lake City is a former competitive skier, and the topic of being child-free came up during a recent conversation. “Honestly, I’m starting to resent the fact that my colleagues who are parents are free to take slabs of time off to look after sick kids or log off early to attend recitals. The thing is, I fully support the fact that they can—being a present parent is so important. But sometimes I wonder why I’m not allowed to take a couple of extra days each year to ski, or spend time with my 97-year-old grandfather? Whenever I suggest this to HR they literally laugh.”

There was also a reference to a NYT article in the fast company article - Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/technology/parents-time-o... (HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383264 - 76 points; 160 comments)
I seem confused? Really? In my experience these things go hand in hand. When someone starts talking like that, they usually share all these other traits as well. Well let me take a look at it again, ok? And we can come back and talk about it if you want. Sounds like a bad idea? :) ;p xx ;p
Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes
If you're coming to Kit from Luminus make sure you understand Kit's use of Integrant which involves passing `query-fn` down from the route to every function which accesses SQL. It was a deal-breaker for me.
I have to just say, as interesting as the videos are, The Thought Emporium has some... I guess questionable ethics. They've been repeatedly critiqued for overuse of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their experiments, and they dismiss it by saying antibiotic-resistant bacteria is already everywhere (yes it is, and the problem is going to get a lot worse if people promote using that as carte blanche to do whatever), and openly discuss how they skirt animal experimentation rules using technicalities like cooking the fish you harvested live brain matter from (you can argue whether the rules are too stringent, but treating ethics as some annoyance to hack around is blatantly missing the point). This doesn't detract from his shopping recommendations, but it does speak to the sort of concerns people have with the way the space operates generally. It's very "myopic engineer sees problem that needs fixing".
> What's the evidence for this? Because if Djikstra published a paper "solving" the problem, but the problem was not actually solved in the real world, that to me suggests that his approach is decidedly ineffective.

Another possibility is that the field is dominated by coders who are mathematically illiterate and unwilling to remedy that deficiency while hiding behind rhetorical hand waving about the “real world.” You yourself appear to stand as evidence for that explanation.

Fortunately we are seeing some real progress in the field. For example tools like TLA+ are slowly but surely getting wider and wider usage. Lamport is very much in the same school of thought as Dijkstra by the way. Even TDD represents a major step toward a more disciplined approach to programming.
Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
When is Debian going to enable zstd for packages already? It takes forever.
Wouldn't renting the unit out be economic activity (rent flows to landlord, household does house things, definitely economic)?

Seems to discourage the lack thereof.
You should try searching for a message in teams, and then finding the context (not just one message before/after) of the message.

It just doesn't do that lol.
that comic did a huge disservice to computer security and still being thrown around after years.

there's a huge difference in knowing that your data has been compromised (you hand out the keys to avoid torture) and not knowing, that alone justifies every hoop you have to jump around to have your data encrypted.

besides, it doesn't apply here since onion services were created specifically to host content anonimously, they don't know who to torture.
I've struggled to take my teams (in the past: I don't do PM now) beyond "ship it" to "kill it": the C-suites don't like the idea of stopping doing things. They have a point, we maybe don't have community permission, but we should at least entertain the idea (in the not for profit sector)

People rei-ify things. "oh we need to do X we've always done X" when in fact, you could say "doing X is stupid"
Certain worldviews? Sounds likes maybe there's "another side" and you side with that? Did I get you wrong? Impossible for you to explain more?
Additional context:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemicals-train-derailed-ohi... (There were more toxic chemicals on train that derailed in Ohio than originally reported, data shows)
Invest in a lamp?
Google search chief warns AI chatbots give 'convincing but fictitious' answers
I think it's simpler?

With the balloons you have someone to point to and pin the blame who is not you.

With derailments and the recent acrimonious railworker labor agreement still in the rearview, the blame can't be cast far away; so the play is to ignore it and hope it fades.
> You've been doing iOS off-and-on since 2011?

Yep. I've even built from-scratch (for general use by paying clients, even!) or configured existing CI systems to automate builds and signing—and still feel like I'm having to re-learn the damn signing system every time it comes up, LOL.
this is a very interesting concept for UX design
Jackson Pollock would have had to create a machine that mapped other people splattering paint on canvas for this to be analogous.
It's probably not quite the same as you describe but have you tried Good Fortune Roast Duck House? It used to be so good and melt in your mouth.
> Despite my socket wrench not solving all problems

If only, amirite?!
I definitely saw in the top headlines on NYTimes.com. Wouldn't be surprised if different layouts are served. The reviews and lifestyle/art definitely fell underneath the news of the train.
An AI model that can only repeat its training data would be no better than normal text search.

AI models are useful precisely because they can interpolate - make guesses that incorporate information from many examples.

And this interpolation is called "hallucination" only when it happens to be a wrong answer?
Hahah. Sounds like you value making it reliable.
It wasn't the first crypto/NFT email I've gotten from namecheap, I just assumed it was real and they were getting shadier.
We (30 ppl startup) use paid Slack, a few paid Slack applications and paid integrations.
Dailybot (paid) for stand-up of engineers and sales. Reminds you to write a stand-up, organizes information. After our questions, they prepared integrations with Shortcut.
HeyTaco (paid) for team engagement. We are remote. Emotions are harder to convey. Those who help can be burdened and underappreciated. We are remote. Emotions are harder to convey. Those who help can be burdened and underappreciated. A small gesture that someone gave you a taco for what you did for them gives a smile.
We also have integration with Slack:
* Zapier (paid) - channel topic based on schedule (who is responsible for something in rotation schedule), various notifications from internal system to Slack go via Zapier (to keep a log of them in Spreadsheet too)
* Google Script (free) - automatic posting of recordings of team meetings to the appropriate Slack channel
DXVK supports Direct3D 9/10/11 natively on Linux, without wine.
It can work if you're a small startup, which Podio is. But it doesn't scale.

The reason this doesn't scale is because a lot of developers do not enjoy PM work or they're bad at it. So the more developers you hire, the higher chance that you're going to run into developers who simply suck at being the product manager. In addition, when there are more people in the company, it takes more time and more meetings to plan and coordinate everything. You'll eventually reach the point of needing someone who is always planning and communicating with non-developers. Hence, full-time product managers.

It's similar to very early stage startups. Everyone does everything. Founders and devs are PMs, developers, designers, analysts, coffee makers, etc. Eventually, this stops because it can't scale.

I predict that Podio will switch to a full-time product managers setup. Once they figure out that some devs are really bad at PM work such as talking to customers, conducting user research, doing analytics, reporting results, talking to executives, they'll ask the ones who are good at it to lead more projects. Eventually, the ones who are good at it will be given an opportunity to become full-time product managers.
Measuring well-being is a whole field of study. Surveying happiness is part of it. But the surveys don't go back very far.

Happiness has been going up worldwide but it has been dropping in the US since 2010. Which might be a part of this post.

There is Human Development Index (HDI) that is used to compare countries. It is based on life expectancy, education, and income. By those measures, there has been a huge increase in the last two centuries. And a big increase in many countries in last 50 years. But that more covers physical not emotional needs.
I live and work within sight of the vapor plume from a major nuclear station. Visited the station (admittedly, the visitor side of the control center nowhere near the reactor) as a schoolkid. Living here doesn't worry me, and I really think we should be developing more nuclear power.
Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer
> the blame can't be cast far away

From whom? The implicit assumption in this is that the powers that ended the railroad strike are perfectly aligned with the media. Or that bipartisan Congressional idiocy doesn’t get called out in the press. There are loads of powerful people who would benefit if this became a story. They’re not because it’s a bad story for national interest. Nobody died. It’s getting cleaned up. It happened in Ohio.
A moth in a womb kicking about until it gets comfortable? That's pretty cool.
I swear by Comic Sans Mono: https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

Reminds me not to take life too seriously ;)
It also has a well known right wing bias
> The problem we now face, which is being made much worse by AI, is filtering things, as we get blasted by thousands of “relevent” search results

Especially with a malicious-trained model, there can just be so much content that seems about right that you can't really trust anything.