skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Payment is either broken or a scam. Unsure. It gives what looks like a stripe error. Payment processor is on a Somalian domain and the contact page links to a Nigerian twitter account. Payment company claims to be Belgian. Both this site and the payment site domains have private whois info. Very suspect.
Most databases are still kinda crap. Either it's hard to scale them or maintain them, hard to know the right way to use them, or they strip out useful functionality for the sake of simplicity, forcing reinventing the wheel. We haven't got much actually novel design since like 2006. There's some people trying to bolt on top of/around/under existing databases for backwards compatibility or to avoid reinventing, but not really much actual novel design for a whole database.

Computer Science research seems to either be fully academic, where research into practical solutions doesn't happen, or it's limited to private companies trying to solve one business problem. Very little actual advancement of the state of the art, or solving of long standing limitations.
A 10-year effort to officially end the Iraq War
On the software level the monoliths are going strong, but I guess you could make the argument on the hardware level? IBM system Z revenue is half what it was two decades ago, and every new system is designed to achieve scale and uptime by using multiple smallish servers, instead of one giant earthquake-safe mainframe with hotswappable processors.
Quick update here: Vultr is still ignoring us, and Cloudflare said to one of my clients: "some IPv6 traffic from Vultr was being dropped by a DDoS mitigation system as we were receiving malicious traffic from Vultr. The issue has since been resolved, and updown should be reporting availability correctly now."

So this confirms what I suggested above, I suppose they choose not to respond with an HTML page here because it would generate too much traffic, and maybe it was a lower level TCP attack.

This also probably explains why Vultr doesn't want to answer me if they were "responsible" for the DDoS attack that got them blocked.
Hi Chuck, you mention hardware innovations but it's largely well-recognized that the deprecation of cross-platform GPU APIs is the main reason the mac is not known for gaming, and has nothing to do with whether or not it has a powerful hardware. It has, in fact, some of the most impressive innovations in recent memory, including unified memory and more.

The Mac Studio is one of the most powerful desktops currently on the market, and its integrated GPU competes quite well against many discrete GPUs. It's your comment and subsequent argument about gaming that is ultimately irrelevant on the topic of whether or not it is "powerful".

btw big fan of walker, texas ranger. Please do more like that one.
Caution. Language models do not know what is salient to a human. They also have a strong bias toward information that they have seen frequently. Research will contain a larger amount of new information and it's that new information which is most valuable to us, but least relevant according to the models.
The article states that this is not the first time this warning has been issued. Last such issue was in September - and there have been more such warnings before that.
Not to be a downer, but while I think in theory this sounds interesting, and treating frontend and backend differences as a DAG that is compiled for the different environments seems cool, I'm skeptical that it would actually be productive in a large application.

One thing I'd be particularly concerned about is debugging. One of the things that's on the roadmap is "developer experience", and I don't see any particular debug docs or helpers, so it tells me that if there is a bug somewhere debugging it is going to be a pain, even more so because I won't easily be able to see whether the problem is my client or server code as they live together and are compiled into separate things. As a critique the fact that developer experience is on the roadmap rather than thought about from the beginning is a little off-putting, but maybe that's not what was meant here.

Another thing that gives me hesitation is that I can't see how I would extend the setup to support offline capable applications. This is increasingly becoming a big thing for web+desktop apps, does this easily support that?

Lastly, the docs seem to point to use a homegrown DOM library, rather than one of the major players. How easily would this work with a library like Reagent, Helix, or UIx?
So, after yesterday's article on vacuum baloons, would this be a candidate for the hull material?
Part of the problem is they hired way too many non-programmers. Became like construction work with one guy working and 4 planning around.
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> This will probably be a very hard adjustment for many in terms of salary, tech stack, benefits, work hours, culture

Work hours? I would think that _work hours_ would be a particularly _easy_ adjustment going from Big Tech to a bank; those are normally 9-5.
I think it'd be hard to argue that something that's no even in orbit is not in a country's airspace.
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Hopefully you two can see the "useful confusion" here (a phrase that just popped in my head). Maybe it is rooted in misunderstanding. Or maybe it is rooted in some deeper unsurfaced underlying ideas.

For one, I'd like to see us two learn from each other (demonstrating some awareness of ambiguity and theory of mind) rather than proceed on the current course, zinging each other. (Note: I'm not saying I'm any better, in general. It is mostly because I'm a third-party here that I see it.)

In particular, my understanding of emergence can be stated as follows. While emergent behavior can theoretically be predicted from the underlying system, it is practically infeasible to measure precisely enough to do so. Therefore, for practical purposes, there is an "predictive gap" between the lower-level system laws and the higher-level behavior.
Is there a fork running it on Apple's Neural Engine?
Yes, drug discovery can become much easier if you don't have to show the drugs work and are safe. Any old chemical can be called a drug in that case; you don't even have to laboriously search through the exponentially vast space of possible chemicals for the winners.

Snake oil, anyone?
Ah yes, the real problem with people selling assets they lie about being backed with dollars is the dollar itself.

And if it turns out they lied about keeping dollars to back the coins and actually spent them all on coke and hookers, the real blame for the failure will lie with the regulators telling them to stop
Agree. Also, from what I've gathered, she's relatively junior, in that she only recently completed her PhD and is a postdoc now (thus, I suspect, the "Dr" in the handle?). Which is a good thing! You're getting the perspective, energy, excitement, and focus of someone actually "on the ground" and still pumped about their field.

One of the take aways I've got from what I've seen of academia (whether this applies to Sabine or not) is that you'd be surprised how disconnected a senior academic is from the current state of their field. Not that they're ignorant of the latest findings (though, again, you'd be surprised how little time they have actually read papers unless they have to), but they're often not doing actual research at all, not reading the latest papers as widely as a good postdoc would be, and see the field through older often outdated (though sometimes still valuable) lenses, and can be very distracted by their other responsibilities. A young excited researcher is genuinely looking out for the future of their field, and, IMO, I think you can see that Dr Becky
This feels relevant.

https://blog.johndowning.ca/2013/12/getting-screwed-by-publi...
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Give at least one source, I've never heard of anything like it.
I disagree. If science means anything it means the same to a trained professional as a literate layperson.

The idea that twelve ordinarily competent people sequestered and doing nothing but studying the science for months would be more likely to come to the wrong conclusion than people whose careers depend on a specific outcome is not science. If science is an impenetrable language available only to a designated elite, then it's just religion with weirder cosmology.
> And in the event of a potential UA victory the use of tactical nuclear weapons from RU seem likely

The consensus military opinion I've read on this is that tactical nukes aren't very useful militarily; troops in the field are too dispersed. If there's a hardened target, then yes, otherwise not great.

They then have to be weighed against the costs of crossing that Rubicon.

> why they're suddenly so worried about these spy drones

I think this is largely because of opposition screeching.
Yes, this is the way. Datasheets and application notes will tell you nearly everything you need to know. If you don’t understand why something is done or how something works, look it up at that point. Starting from fundamentals is going to be a much slower path than just following manufacturer examples.
Spoken like somebody who can't do risk assesment.

> Stocks, bonds, rental houses, etc are actually all pretty unreliable looking to a new entrant

I mean .. yes, there are ways you can lose your money with these. "The value of your money may go down as well as up". It probably is reasonable for a new entrant to be extremely cautious, especially if people are marketing a "scheme" at them.

> the backer of the USD is insolvent

Objectively false.

> and clearly not going to pay back their debts in real terms.

This doesn't matter and doesn't stop people buying T-bills.

Tip for extremely cautious retail investors: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp ; the nearest you'll get to "guaranteed never to lose money".

> There is a Russia-China-Iran axis forming that would be quite happy to see the dollar become less important in world trade.

And I'd like a pony. China and some also-rans aren't going to dislodge the dollar if the Euro can't, especially as two out of the three are sanctioned off world trade and the remaining one has to do most of its trade .. with the US. In dollars. And has a nonexportable currency.
Definitely. https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rule...
For this there are polyfills.
Is it wrong to assume that the two are not wholly unrelated activities?
At what altitude are you not allowed to shoot things down? If no such line exists, what’s stopping governments from shooting each others’ satellites tit-for-tat?
It's cool and very China. Not everything is min-maxing
Tech behind Super Bowl 2023 halftime show
Now that they are venture funded, Bitwarden will try to restrict competition as much as they can. It's a familiar playbook. I wouldn't be surprised if Bitwarden has applied pressure behind the scenes on Vaultwarden to move in this direction, since the AGPLv3 license will make competition less likely (and VW shortsightedly even says as much). They're learning from Chrome/Chromium and others.
I mean, isn't that kind of the problem? The technology of yesteryear was orders of magnitude slower and less resourceful, but today many tasks take orders of magnitude more time and resources for not even close to an order of magnitude more utility.
I'm not sure "your honour, it's so obvious that we're scammers that we can tell as many lies as we like and do whatever we like with people's money" has a particularly high success rate as a legal defence...
In these places where bottled water is the norm, do you have to specify what brand you want? Like if they ask what you want to drink and you answer "I'll just have water", is that an incomplete response?
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34750782
Mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book
> The scary part for me is when they stop letting you reset the bot’s memory of you. Or when the bots start sharing your “profile” across different bots. You know, to serve you better.

I've stopped using ChatGPT for now for that reason (given Microsoft is involved).

A lot of Cassandras were dismissed years ago when Facebook surveillance widgets started appearing and we would get downvoted to a pale shade of gray. The mistake then was voicing concerns on forums instead of recognizing it as social matter and having that discussion at the policy and legal levels. Let's skip the decade of beguilement and jump to the policy and legal fronts on this. Do not wait, act now.
Some additional context in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34754632
> Recently we have seen profitable companies drop workers for no reason other than to appease activist investors. Now sure, this is their prerogative

I blame stock buybacks. Reminder that theyy were illegal untill recently.

And they perform no legitimate function other than being unregulated, tax-evading dividends.

> But in the United States, capital expenditures aren’t accelerating. Instead, new cash is being used to reduce the number of equities available, thus artificially driving up their value. That practice has been exploding. It’s an irresistible temptation, partly because everyone is doing it. Nobody wants to be left out. And the cash is just sitting there, idle, because it’s a rare C suite that has continued to invest in new, creative growth rather than pick the low-hanging fruit of easy money to be made through financial maneuvers. It was a good thing that companies receiving stimulus money to stay in operation during the Covid-19 shutdown have been banned from using it for stock buybacks. But it’s too little too late.
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What does the cost structure look like? It's not the tokens, is it the KYC?
Well there's 'Amazon', the market it provides. But there's also Amazon itself. Amazon itself doesn't really have competition. Therefore there's no insentive for it to clean up it's listings, protect consumers from bad actors or generally help consumers in anyway. If Amazon had to actually compete to attract customers to its platform then it would improve the experience.

Your own example proves the point. Flea markets might be cheap to run for the owner, but would people go there by choice if there were a superior alternative?
Russia isn’t going to go nuclear unless Ukrainian forces start heading towards Moscow. They would sure like you to think that they would, though.
Russia managed to free Viktor Bout in trade for Brittney Griner. It stands to reason then that more US citizens are a handy asset to have for trading.
No,they are not. Especially since op mentioned most popular games having ~10k concurrent users.

The added costs are studios running MMOs, and those aren't insane either. People hosted their own servers since the beginning of the net.

The odd runaway hit MMO shells out more but also makes a ton more. Even then we see companies cheap out and make us sit through server queues.

Live services these days amount to little more than checking license to play, loot-boxes, battlepass, etc.

And yet because of those evil cash-grabs I can only play the game a few years even for single player games.

Live services have become a worse dlc, as we knew it would in tge beginning.
that's why I show up to my olympic weightlifting club, and music shows, and acroyoga jams regularly.

I do like my co-workers. A lot. But if seeing them in the office was my only social life I'd die. I can't speak for everyone, but personally the time/effort invested into forming meaningful relations by regularly showing up to places where I can engage with others who have similar interests (oly lifting, music, acroyoga) has probably been the best thing I've done for myself.

And being able to work remotely greatly facilitates that.
I would suppose their pricing model is not competitive.
Discussion was here:

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

I think this assertion and the various sentiment around it is nonsensical and partly demonstrates why "they" were actively moderating as they attempted to have a rational discussion about a topic with human beings online.

Some of the moderator decisions were stupid; many were not ("You can stick your telemetry where the sun doesn't shine" is no doubt sincere but it's not LKML I suppose); much of it seems to have been attempting to keep stuff organized and not-repetitive.
> Most experts agree the conflict in UA will pick up again in the spring. And in the event of a potential UA victory the use of tactical nuclear weapons from RU seem likely.

It doesn’t seem likely to me, I haven’t really heard that opinion from foreign policy experts on Hoover or the Economist etc. Of course anything is possible but it’s hard to see what would be gained.
Why do you believe this was a widespread problem?
>There have been studies which put the average age of successful founders in their mid-40s.

There have also been statistics which put the average percentage of succesful founders among attempted founders at 0.0001% (number pull out of my ass, but the gist is: most startups fail).

So, this is not as reassuring as it sounds, as it amounts to something like:

"You might be fired at mid-40s under an IT sector that discriminates against hiring older developers, but don't worry: you can always start your own startup with odds of it succeeding not that different to winning the lottery".
That was Rackspace: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/06/rackspace-ransomware-data-...
> It really isn't as impossible as it sounds to go debt-free, especially with a high paying tech job many here likely have.

I don't disagree, but it's something you would need to be proactive about, and as you say there has been little incentive to do it, both from a cultural perspective and from the perspective of monetary policy.

I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems unfair to expect people to be debt free in a society which so often requires and incentives debt. I struggle to blame a 20 year old tech worker for going to college and taking on debt, or buying a home with debt while interest rates were low. When the majority of the population are in debt perhaps it's not the fault of the people, but the incentives of the system.

As a society if we don't want people taking on debt we shouldn't encourage it, and if we do encourage it then we should probably be compassionate for those in debt where they were acting reasonably.
Being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34767096
…is not the only RSS reader in the world and there's no reason you should've been upset for more than a day before getting NetNewsWire.
It's important to note that the author is a well-known effective altruist who firmly believes that AI catastrophe _is_ coming and tweets about this quite a bit. Quite honestly, I find it odd (or perhaps telling) that Vox just provides a platform for EA to report on EA-related topics with only minor disclaimers that the author is, in fact, a well-known EA.
The theoretical resolution of the film itself isn’t the limiting factor, as I explained above. It’s things like camera shake and focusing precision. (Even if your focusing judgment is perfect - which it isn’t - you are going to move the rear standard to at least some extent when you insert the film holder; film holders and cameras are calibrated with a margin of error; and sheet film does not lie perfectly flat.)

I read so many posts online extolling the theoretical resolution of large format film, but these are almost never accompanied by actual comparison shots. I really think you might change you perspective on this if you tried using a 4x5 camera in realistic conditions (which it seems you have not?)

You can google for real world comparisons of 4x5 film and high res digital backs. There are very few such comparisons actually made, for all the confident pronouncements one can read in forums. Even 5-10 years ago, the resolution advantages of 4x5 were marginal at best in comparison to 50MP digital sensors.
I'm not sure. It is impossible to theorize what Russia would do in the wake of that kind loss, nor is it possible to theorize the conditions that would trigger the use of nuclear weapons and in what way. The last time nuclear weapons was used was in a very different situation, and with radically different technology, and thus with radically different policies.

As with the build up to the invasion in late 2021, I think we would see much more happening before something as serious as that occurs; it is difficult to truly hide your intentions in today's world with the technology we have.
Care to elaborate? I'm no physicist but the video seemed rational? What is your issue with her arguments?
What is this article really saying? I see nothing but vague and generalized concerns, but what about exactly? I'm not saying there aren't any problems that LMs could bring about, I'm saying this article doesn't even bother to mention any, let alone dive into some.
Some truly impressive quality of life improvements!
This article from The Register [1] has a good general overview, and it leads you to the GitHub discussion [2]. Searching for "bad faith" and "conduct" in that thread yields some results, but not strong enough for me to agree with the poster. There are hidden comments too, but not enough nor eloquent enough (IMHO) to support the claims of bad faith.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programmin...

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
Yeah, it is perfectly possible, I just don't think it is very nice. Neither for parsing nor for human reading.

If I need a file or network message to represent a handful of object types with a bunch of relations that form a graph, I prefer XML (or JSON).
That seems plausible to me, at least in some cases. I don't know the full picture in other companies, but in the case of Meta/Facebook, the company actually asked managers to transition to individual contributor jobs.
I actually love both Sabine and Dr Becky. I think they both do a great job with different styles.
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This is cold war 101. Some of y'all just too young to remember.
In case anyone is curious, it seems "RRSP" stands for "registered retirement savings plan", a type of financial account specific to Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_retirement_savings_...
That's retail price, no company is paying those
They go off and invent the future.
I suspect we're seeing more and more of these issues due to corner cutting in various industries. Air travel has already been a tight margin industry and take at look at all the air related issues we've seen recently, from FAA systems down to mass cancelations due to infrastructure to the recent runway conflicts and accidents we've seen.

Speaking from anecdotal experience, over the years this constant push for more complex and efficient work from individuals has lead to me cutting more corners than I ever wanted to and producing more questionable products and services in the name of efficiency. Hiring contract workers for some household work I've done seems to be a lot of the same as well.

I think we as a society need to come to the realization that growth demands can't always be met by piling more costs and work on people. Much of that rock has been squeezed dry, we need to start looking and managing expectations based on growth from new innovative process changes, technology, or shifts in cultural expectations as far as growth goes, at least that's my opinion for whatever it's worth.
> The primary con of academia is almost certainly having to live far from family.

It depends on your family.
"Last cohorts of pc users" besides the entire business world.