skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point has always been that if government want's to create infrastructure for everybody, those companies that have done their own infrastructure and have done the initial investment should be rewarded and those that didn't and just want to profit from the government investment should be forced to pay large amounts of money.

Now the government is investing its own money and this simply rewards companies like Toyota who have done nothing and will profit the most. Specially because its of foreign company, that makes it even worse.

So by all means, create infrastructure for everybody, but take into account how the market got to the point it is.
You've posted a few of these now, including:

Show HN: 2023 Market Outlooks, Searchable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849149

Epstein Documents, Fully Searchable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838422

There are a couple problems. First, these aren't valid Show HNs. Searchable databases of reading material count more as reading material than projects people can play with (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). They do have an interactive aspect, of course, but not enough to make them valid Show HNs. That's why we took Show HN off the title of the Epstein one.

The second problem is that you're pitching your Show HN at the wrong scope. It needs to be at the whole product level—not at the specific example level. That is, you need something like "Show HN: Collie.ai - <brief product description>" with a link to https://collie.ai/ and some text that gives the backstory of how you came to work on this, explains what's different about it (this is critical!) and gives some technical detail. That's what's interesting here.

If you just post an example like the current one, people will not see how it's any different from googling "site:paulgraham.com" and the thread will only be a generic discussion about PG essays or Epstein rabbitholes or whatever the example is. That's not interesting, it's not about your startup, and it's not in the spirit of Show HN. I hope this helps!
Thanks. I had never heard of this. That gives me plenty to google.
I agree. I think it's imperative that we come up with a way to properly count underutilized properties. By underutilized properties I mean empty, landbanked, holiday and second homes, Airbnb's, etc - basically everything that isn't a primary residence.

I've seen many indications that these have increased as a proportion of the housing stock. I appreciate that people have a right to do what they like with their property, but when so many start buying properties that are then removed from the 'primary residence' portion of the stock, we have to look at what this means for society.
I designed a similar tool with that threat model in mind: the resulting HTML/JS is as minimal as possible so it’s possible to inspect before entering the password. Of course assumes safe browser and client machine.. https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault
Why do you feel the need to write this
You are implying that he needs all these automations.
But you said you moved to an iPhone 13. There’s no button on that one. Surely you didn’t just discover the gesture from this thread as your previous comment suggested?
I feel funny calling all of this out because it probably gives the impression that I didn't like the article. But I actually loved it. Rao always has a really fun way of weaving his thoughts together.

But yeah the thrust of this one seemed just a bit forced. I think that follows from the cynical flavor that often imbues his writing. Cynicism is a demanding emotion and you can paint yourself into a corner with it.
MUI is probably the design system I'll add next, but as for the timeline I'm not really sure. I want to go a little deeper with Chakra UI and explore e.g. theming before branching out to other design systems.
Neat. I’ve often wished I could cat a directory or ls a file. Plan9 sounds like something I would have enjoyed using.
Cute little system for scheduling web hook based events
I don’t see UKs “country” being much different from the US “states.”

In some ways US states are even more independent. England doesn’t have its own government or Capitol, nor does it want one.

Sure Scotland was independent, about 500 years ago, but I don’t think that’s very important to the Unicode consortium.

I suspect the concern is simply upkeep. There 50 state flags, and they are changed pretty frequently.
Ah yes, of course. A "mental" typo from my part, I guess.
I understand your observation but I respectfully don't think the conclusion is the case - at a large company I have seen an internal report that shows a substantial issue with productivity that points directly to a lack of in-person interactions as the cause. The Amazon CEO not citing data in his decree does not mean there's no data, or that the data is poor, or that the decision is based on a gut feeling. Amazon is a self-declared data driven company with 1.5 million employees - they absolutely have run the numbers on as big of a decision as this and I would be surprised that a decision as high-stakes as this (both execs and WFHers would agree) would not have due-diligence data to back it up. It is just not shown. The CEO is exercising his authority instead. I think after 3 years of being unable to fix these issues, the decision is final and hence the reliance on authority as an argument instead of data. Giving people data to try to pick apart would just be an unproductive activity that would only serve to damage efforts - it's not meant to be a conversation.
That seems to be what the Open AI administrators believe, but it’s more likely that the monotonous rhetorical style of LMMs will go out of style or prompt a backlash by humans against polished, reasonable-sounding, slightly wordy conversation.
Yes! Gstreamer v1.22 made the cut! So much great stuff. I was worried-- actually I though the freeze had already started... softer-freeze?

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505574
they're supporting manifest v3 fully, but not removing the thing that breaks the better content filtering.
The moment when you realize you have been using a language longer than it's average user has been alive...

Quake C was formative for me. Good soundtrack too from Reznor.
Whoa!! I heard about Noya before, because we're in the same YC batch, but never seen a demo. Looks very cool what it can do. Great work!
assuming this number is true: 95 million + iphone 14 units https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-orders-95-million-iphone...

95 million * a few pennies is still $950,000 at least.

As long as that number is more than the salary of the person who was hired to make that button go away, in Apple's eyes that's good news.

You just have to repeat this mentality over the entire ecosystem to get to a trillion: a button removed here, a port removed there, year after year...
Homebrew, as already suggested. iTerm2 is better than Terminal in subtle ways. I personally like Sublime Text and Sublime Merge for all purpose editing and committing.

I bought a MacBook recently - the first in 5 years - and I realised that I didn't have to do much else to make the system mine.
Let Us Know How to Build Passion in Life
For some folks making cash is primarily based on the main of how challenging one works and no longer the quantity they get paid. In a way that is true, however the truth of the depend is that we do want money, and what higher way than to construct a new ardour build passion for marketing.
Almost like there should be a system of healthcare not tied to employment or income
Came here to say something similar. It seems to me that being able to determine how specific neurons are affecting outputs will be crucial to future optimization.
It seems that you, asshole, have misunderstood me then. Sticking up for companies was the part where they propagated the myth that companies sometimes have loyalty to their employees. They do not.

You then took that as a premise that I somehow would also belive in (of course I don’t).

Then you made your little ideological remark. And we were all better off for it.
The only excuse they have is the fingerprint scanners were installed before the law.

If an IT guy is making a change to accessing payroll that affects 10k employees… it’s corporate lawyer time. I would never touch a payroll system or related (eg time tracking) without labor lawyers at a minimum. This wasn’t a casual IT guy plugging a usb fingerprint sensor into a computer in the break room of a mom and pop sandwich shop. It was across an entire national chain and they were transmitting and storing prints with multiple third parties. They totally had contracts reviewed and lawyers involved already.

By now (maybe not in 2008) everyone should know that if you touch personal data or god forbid medical/biometric at all you should get a privacy lawyer review. It’s 2023 and even Facebook asks for consent. At my previous job we’d schedule a lawyer call before started logging new data or updating schemas in a database. Only takes 15 minutes to explain, and a business day for preliminary research on the lawyers part.

White Castle started requiring consent in 2018 co-timed to when a major employer in the state was sued for the using fingerprints for payroll. So someone must be paying attention to something, just not soon enough.
I keep reading about charge back, but in only two cases I tried to do that, because I didn't receive the stuff I paid for, I haven't succeeded. Banks seem to side with the merchants, because merchants pay them, not us.
I can see what you are getting at, but does that really apply here?
It's even worse than the un-life like conditions of allowed animal models leading to bad results.

With the increasing regulatory burden and outright outlawing of animal models in scientific research biological studies are moving to new far-abstracted models that are much cheaper, easier, higher N, and counterintuitively, way, way less predictive of the actual results in human bodies. Testing 1,000,000 compounds in single cell tests (or just chemical binding assays) in a micro-well array has less predictive power and useful outcome than testing 10 compounds in monkeys. At least when it comes to figuring out which things will work in human disease. The giant massively abstracted studies also generate false positives that waste time. But they do generate publications so they're selected for at the funding level.

That's part of the reason biological research was so much more productive per $ input last century.
IRC client and VPN
Actually, it smacks of misdirection to me. He portrays the matter as one of a mistaken theory or hypothesis that was later invalidated (how science works), which deflects from the key allegation of experimental data being falsified or fabricated.
Signing up for the Apple dev stuff seems to get a decent basic set of *nix support in place, and is free.
Being in a large organization does not equal having a dedicated team for running Kubernetes clusters. For example Daimler (the company behind brands like Mercedes) has hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across hundreds of small product teams.
> If thorium is cheap, there should be plenty of funding to go around.

You seem to make the mistake to believe that government funding and government planning in regards to energy is rational and focused on finding the long term best solution.

... but it isn't.

If they don't want much government investment I don't have a problem with them trying.

But in general, historically the whole concept of a hydrogen economy has consumed huge amounts of government money with very little to show for it.
My point is that people are better at remembering and applying specific rules. And it is my perception that people involved in software development like explicit rules. This is partly due to the exponential growth (and thus low level of experience) and also because it feels more objective.

“Code should be readable” is a higher level goal that is inevitably subjective, so it is harder to enforce than for instance, DRY.
>>That is possibly why there hasn't been a big push for FP in games yet, because they haven't yet hit the complexity limit of OO like others have.

Are you saying the biggest and probably most complex software (OS-es, browsers, etc.) out there is written in fp languages?

>> Games is one of the easiest sectors to be in, the complexity level is low compared to other sectors, especially now all the difficult bits are done for you (off the shelf engines).

As far as I know those "off the shelf engines" are not written in fp languages. And I would say they are complex.
I haven’t had this problem in my own use. But I don’t try to trip it up.
> (though in general I think the favored “alignment” frames of the LessWrong community are not even wrong).

The Turing Test doesn’t test humans. So you cannot use it to show any properties about humans.

Next!

> The topmost poster is simply assuming that language models can't possibly understand the same way a human does without relying on any kind of "test" at all, which I think is the real scientific dead end here.

Sounds unfalsifiable. So yes.
Something tells me they’re about to try pretty hard wrt gpt stuff
Some do not want to be tracked.
I can't wait for PETA-for-things-we-say-are-persons
What's that old joke about mice benefiting from all the research but not humans? Maybe we can switch back to (this time voluntary) human experimentation at some point.
And I was surprised that he took acting as the example of text ==> person-hood, rather than just reading. Don't some people unironically see person-hood in non-persons through characters of novels? In some cases I would definitely believe someone if they said they identified with a character in a book with a "i-you" relationship.
So, literally, a higher state of consciousness.
Here's another...

one of my co-workers says yer'll for URL. Ugh.
I use to do lots of work with addresses.

Quebec is funny because it has two abbreviations: the Canadian one and the American one.

One abbreviation is QE, the other QC. Forgot which is which.

Apparently Quebec residents can get a “Quebec” drivers license issue by NY state.
If the argument is that it's very easy to emotionally confuse language models and persons, than I reject that argument on the following grounds:

No works of fiction are persons.
All "I" statements from the current generation of LLMs are works of fiction.

Therefore, no "I" statements from the current generation of LLMs are persons.

Premise 1 is in conflict with the author's premise that personhood can be ascribed at will; I'm happy agreeing to disagree on that. I do not think it ever makes sense to ascribe personhood to fictional characters (for any meaningful definition of personhood.)
Well the sellers aren't selling to Amazon.

Monopoly is the most generic term so I don't think it's 'wrong', and technically neither are correct so...
that is one of the few levers the Fed has. Congress not acting is the real problem.
It's explained here

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

And here

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/10/31/begin-your-mv3-mi...

Firefox kept support for Event Pages which get direct access to DOM and WebAPIs in the background as well as Web Requests, both of which are not available via Chrome's use of service workers/restricted request API

> “One of the most controversial changes of Chrome’s MV3 approach is the removal of blocking WebRequest, which provides a level of power and flexibility that is critical to enabling advanced privacy and content blocking features. Unfortunately, that power has also been used to harm users in a variety of ways Chrome’s solution in MV3 was to define a more narrowly scoped API (declarativeNetRequest) as a replacement. However, this will limit the capabilities of certain types of privacy extensions without adequate replacement.

> Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available.”

I hope FF gets service workers going soon, I haven't followed development closely so I'm not sure what's holding them back besides not wanting to replace Event Pages entirely with it [1]. I tried to build a (non-complicated) extension recently and the service worker API seemed cleaner and modern.

1 https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72
I’m not sure that’s correct.

An AI is severely constrained to the modes of thought which which is was created. Call me when an AI comes up with original philosophy, describes it in terms of what is already understood, explains why it is necessary, and is able to promote it to acceptance.

I think people severely underestimate the original thought capacity of the human mind.

An AI could never come up with the concept of Calculus, or relativity, for instance. Yes, if you feed it enough data, and assuming you have endowed it with a sufficiently sophisticated algorithm, it might (probably) use something that resembles calculus internally, but it certainly will not be able to espouse it as a concept and explain what new problems it will allow us go imagine.
Clean code does emphasize that the structure of the class file and layout of functions should strive to allow for the entire class file to be read in a single pass from top to bottom.

Though, I'd agree that is quite different when someone puts in a linter that requires 5 line methods and scatters the flow of logic.

IMHO, "imperative shell with functional core" (which implies consistent levels of abstractions) is a follow up the book could really use.

To another extent, I think small and controversial rules of thumb like "keep functions short" can easily be taken out of context. A refactoring I often see that can be done when methods are poorly broken up is class variables can be converted into local variables once some of the methods are inlined.

The point of the small function is so that a developer can keep track of fewer moving parts in their head while reading. If the shattering into functions causes the class to have 30 class variables in order to support that, then it's very much a case of following the wrong heuristic. IIRC, clean code holds a highest priority on the developer only needing to keep track of 3-5 things at a given time (and pretty much everything else is in service of that goal)
Wind too then. I'm not picky. Hell maybe they find a coal deposit nearby the HVDC line. It wouldn't be the best but burning the coal near the location and shipping the energy else where is cheaper than shipping the coal elsewhere.
Every time I ask one of these models any sort of semi detailed question about a science/bio topic it either gets some info blatantly wrong, misuses terms, or a combination of both
Oh yes! Thank you for the feedback.
I've added a new version where the `iv` and the `salt` is random.
Maybe a followup question: Because you need both the `iv` and `salt` to decrypt the message is it ok in an E2E scenario to send all three: `iv`, `salt` and the encrypted message?
It's not the prettiest solution, but you can work around this problem with web-ext: https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-ext
> Aside from your answer being rude, it's also unhelpful in that it doens't address the question asked and instead relies on reductio ad absurdum to pretend to make a point.

That is indeed often the kind of answer that a philosophical question deserves.

> If you'd like to take a crack at a helpful answer, perhaps educate us all on what it WOULD take for you to consider a NN to actually "know" something in the same way that we say a human or other sentient animal does.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
I'm glad you like it! I think we chatted about it before but I don't think the product was demoable yet

Edit: I didn't know HN doesn't support emojis, cause I just added one but it got stripped out lol
It’s not, we in tech are just out of touch (on average.) Jobs and their requirements change all the time and most people deal with it or find a job more to their liking.
Split vertical keyboards with very very light switches. I use Sofle Choc and have the sides at shoulders width apart

I recommend breaks and rest over strengthening exercises when dealing with hand pain. Learn preventative measures
First two preliminaries:

The crossing is not at a straightforward conception of "the end of time" in an expanding universe, since most possible observers are carried away from the final fall-in by the expansion of the universe, so there's nobody orbiting "at infinity" who could in principle see the infall take "an infinite time".

Horizons are part of the causal structure of the entire universe, black holes, planets, toads, warts, and all. The horizon is dominated by the central mass and spin, but not fully determined by it. The horizon in a close black hole binary (or triple) gets very complicated. ("The horizon" is not even necessarily physically measurable, and with black hole evaporation might not even exist, although there are other features which can be indicative of the point of no return for an infaller).

Preliminaries done, there is the "no drama" conjecture. Given a large enough black hole in a quiet enough setting a freely-falling infaller will not know she or he has passed the point of no return, perhaps for several minutes according to his or her wristwatch.

That's because the tidal curvature at the point of no return gets very small as we take the mass of a slowly-spinning black hole above millions of stellar masses, and that's the curvature that's relevant in spaghettification, the leading cause of death of astronauts entering isolated black holes.

Of course, most of the black holes we have found are far from isolated (otherwise we probably wouldn't see them with current equipment), so an infaller is likely to be blasted apart by hard X-rays and superhot gas instead of falling straight in.

The observables for something strongly accelerating into a black hole for a faraway orbiting observer can be quite different; unlike for speed there is no maximum acceleration in relativity. One would have to find a limit to acceleration in the behaviour of matter. An astronaut is not going to survive anything like the acceleration needed to make much difference to the distant orbiting observer though.

The distant observer in the not-really-our-universe Schwarzschild model and seeing the infinitely-prolonged final infall is at rest with respect to the central mass. Different observers, e.g. ones shooting themselves into the same black hole, or hovering just above a different black hole, can see qualitatively different things.

Generically, outside observers will see a dimming and shrinking of (practically) any infaller closer to the black hole than the observer. Many such observers will lose sight of the infaller before the infaller has truly hit a point of no return. Consequently some observers could find themselves seeing a presumed-lost astronaut grow brighter and bigger again, and leave the vincinity of the black hole. (Substitute gas, dust, and parts of stars for astronaut in the previous sentence, and that is what the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, among others, searches for.)
I agree but this brings up to me a broader question of what is a meritocracy. It is usually defined around wealth or social class. If someone lacking both cheats their way to the top through their own efforts and talent then to me that counts as a meritocracy.
Not as literal a take as you might like, but Fritz Lang’s _Metropolis_, of course — an invisible, downtrodden underclass breaks their backs on the machines so that a mediocre elite can live in the clouds. That was nearly 100 years ago.