skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arms procurement costs are very hard to pin down due to the cost of R&D and the cost of logistical packages. The same system can "cost" X but also 3X, 4X or sometimes even more if all of the real costs are properly included.

Also, US strategic rocket weapons (ICBMs) are actually not the best in their class, as a result of post-soviet partial denuclearization. Many aren't even MIRV. This doesn't apply to submarines and bombers, those are top notch. Especially bombers, many decades ahead.
My guess, this has been thrashed to death already and work with this content will result in capturing only the die hard enthusiasts and not be a wide ranging success.

Movie Studios, imo are failing, even my kids have started saying there's nothing new. Time to stop thrashing ideas and start creating new ones again.

But then again, I'm probably wrong...
When it comes to C/C++ I am a total noob lol. I am mostly trying to learn it on my own right now since those two languages have mad staying power, so I was trying to write a text editor in ncurses
End of the day, to make it work you will need to be an amazing networker and you will need to be very credible.

You want to be at the point where people at the board level know and respect you. When they see problems in their companies you want them to be recommending bringing you in to help.
PortEx – Java library to analyse Portable Executable files
The quality of the article is sonewhat telegraphed by the way it messes up even the name of the (currently most publicly populat) LLM it references in the first sentence, blending the names of two different OpenAI products.

Which, I suppose, even if the specific facts and arguments in it are wrong does support the headline thesis; every commentary outlet feeling so desperate to say something about it, even if it means rushing hot garbage out the door, is certainly indicative of something of a “tulip mania” moment.
full title "Java library to analyse Portable Executable files with a special focus on malware analysis and PE malformation robustness"
I'd probably start with a rewatch of Hamilton:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Duel_Commandments
Here’s one area where Europe is nice.
In general I'm not mad, the learning curve of both combined was a lot and beat me down, and the rp-hal library is still beta and ironing out its kinks. I experienced a lot of frustration (and still do) around USB HID implementations. Simple things I thought would be given, eg sharing an rp-hal I2C bus was made tedious by rust's ownership rules.

I think the matter of embedded programming being difficult was just exacerbated by this. I'm just a hobbyist in the embedded world, and I really find it fun and interesting, but as a hobbyist I only have limited time to be working on my project and I want something to show for my time, besides rustc messages about my unsafe code.
I've also been working on a hobbyist rust embedded project and happened to pick the esp to do it on! Shoot me an email if you'd be interested in comparing notes - I've had a few frustrations but I feel like I'm getting into the groove of productivity. Email is my username at gmail :)
>That doesn't mean these kinds of systems can't be better and even more useful in 1-2 years.

It's also faulty to assume that improvements will happen linearly. We had a self-driving car mania in 2013-2017 with billions poured into it and people just forgot about it.

Also consider that if easy linear improvements were possible, they would've delayed launching it. AI (software in general?) seems to be the kind of thing where once R&D hits the exponential difficulty wall, they make it generally available.
In India, Google search for a pretty specific string, "<nearest hospital's name> ambulance phone number," showed up a bunch of scammy ads. In our distraught state (an elderly relative had just had a fall), we accidentally called the top ad which turned out to be a scam ambulance service.

A beat up van showed up, without any EMT, a sketchy stretcher without straps, and no tracks or fasteners to hold it down inside the van. We were outraged and asked them to leave immediately. They demanded money to leave, and left only when we threatened to call the police on them.

We realized our mistake and scrolled down to the actual results and called the reputed local hospital which sent a properly equipped legit ambulance. Thankfully it was a simple fracture and the lost time did not lead to dangerous complications. But this could have been fatal if the emergency was more serious.

When I returned to the US, I tried searching for ambulances, and Google conspicuously avoids showing ads and suggests calling 9-1-1.
"According to Jewish dietary laws, a hot dog is not considered a sandwich because it does not include two slices of bread."
To me, tulip mania implies "people are going crazy over it when they shouldn't (because tulips didn't really have much value in hindsight)" and I don't know if I'd agree with that. I pay $20/mo for ChatGPT. I find myself using it every day. I have long conversations with it. It's basically "Google/blogspam summarizer that you can dive into with context". I feel it allows you to go deep.
The GP said "it skews very Silicon Valley" and you seemed to think they meant "left-wing", but I think of SV and HN as kind of..right-wing, in a word. Calling HN "left-wing" seems just staggeringly bizarre to me. As dang has pointed out a thousand times, HN seems to each user the opposite of what they are.
"Do not think of a pink elephant"
As someone in the field, I can absolutely vouch that stakeholders generally want the issues raised swept under the rug, and junior folks often don’t even consider these issues. So I absolutely agree with the authors recommendation that each of the points raised should should be assumed to be an issue unless specifically addressed by the developers.

It's not that we can’t do this stuff, it’s just that doing better than a human is amazingly hard, and a lot of Good Decisions are AGI-hard (or harder, since philosophers through history still struggle at it). Solving it well at scale might be fundamentally expensive.

If a sales person tells you “just trust me our algo is great,” the burden of proof is on them to demonstrate that they’ve addressed these issues.
Straight-up fraud that will never be prosecuted.

AGs and DAs don't care about small-scale scams and ripoffs and cheats, generally aren't equipped to investigate them, and if the party committing fraud is in another country are likely to throw up their hands and say "not in my jurisdiction."

This will stop with tough legislation and penalties that force Google to give up a percentage of its annual revenue. It will never happen in the United States.
Privacy-focused web analytics that is not basic
> And when we cried, it's because we were flamed hard

Wow, it sounds SO great.

> What's the draw on Tiktok really?

TikTok is an amazing "curiosity catalyst". Most videos last 30 seconds. You can learn and discover a lot in not that much time. The short format makes it enough to become interested in tons of subjects and be able to search more later. I honestly feel like TikTok brought me my creativity back.

It's also way more "feel good" than other social networks for some reason. That's the perfect place for people to share their stories because they don't "get flamed hard". But maybe that's just because Gen Z is more respectful of difference and TikTok will become increasingly worse as boomers get on board, I don't know.
When I lived in a rural area I ate hundreds of raw eggs from backyard chickens without issue (though I'd always rinse the shell before cracking). They typically have orange yolks and are rich in flavor so they taste great whisked in a glass with hot or Worcestershire sauce, at the bottom of a beer, in bourbon flips and whiskey sours, on steak tartare, etc. I was always under the impression that the Salmonella thing was mostly a myth, but I'll be sure to do some additional research before resuming this practice.
I'm talking about stereotypes here. The _stereotype_ is that gay men are effeminate. I'm sure we both understand that gay men are all unique and have an infinite range of behaviour and action, but think about how many sitcoms have a "guy's guy" doing something traditionally coded feminine, and his buddies all start to get creeped out about him, to audience laughter. Go back far enough, and they'll probably outright even say, "Dude. Gay." (Early South Park, for an example, was rife with this.)
It's not so much being propped up, as at achieving better efficiencies. Leveraging the larger organizations compute resources and ads technology makes Youtube more valuable than a stand alone company would be, for example.
Someone might confuse it with the Gluon Gun as well: https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gluon_Gun
Financial crime watchdog adds South Africa, Nigeria to 'grey list'
Rust Coreutils: Fixing Low-Hanging Performance Fruit
Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?
Moving to emojis is the next step. See huggingface.co
The current state of the first 10 results on a google search is quite sorry. It's 5 irrelevant ads and 5 SEO-autogenerated sites (probably using GPT3 in the first place). Try it with any kind of IT-problem or IT-product review question. No amount of AI is going to summarize that load of crap into anything better. This is googles problem. The underlying abstraction of knowledge is going to change - knowledge has to be built and served while severely filtering away "noise" up to 90%. Maybe their traditional algos can do this, maybe it requires GPT+++, but it is broken as it is now and has been for more than a year.
Domain knowledge, e.g. somebody who doesn’t understand programming is actively harmful as a programming lead. At that point they should just cut their pay and call themselves what they are: a secretary
They couldn't even get the name right. Called it "ChatGPT-3".

Saying that it doesn't understand words is ridiculous.
(The interesting thing about something like this is that metaphysically it's perfectly cromulent. The efficacy of the guru comes form the faith of the disciple.)
There were slow motion moments in that trilogy, like Aragorn's dramatic reappearance at Helm's Deep after they thought he was dead.
You could replace Google with Amazon and the same thing is happening there with fake reviews and product takedowns.
Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
Yes, and don't forget the non-stop epic music so you don't forget you are watching something epic
As an African, I still wonder why London/England isn't on this list, given that they are the money laundering capital of the world.
I think the full name of the common format is gif89a
I'm curious if you've read David Graeber's "Debt" and if so what were your thoughts? If not, I think you'd find his analysis interesting. It's an analysis that draws a very clear line between the idea of money and things that are valuable. For example, a primate trading sex for food wouldn't be an instance of using money in this framework. I also think you'd enjoy his exploration into the usage of currency as the means to, as you say, pay soldiers.

I think he references much older examples of doing so than the 1700s, such as Roman soldiers being paid in coin, but you might be talking about indications of credit (the early American dollar as an example). This also though has apparently been used for millennia, there's evidence of such in ancient sumeria.

> Local and state governments promoting what you call socialism can potentially benefit as the enormous tax on human productivity extracted by large federal governments using fiat to fund their militaries and other forms of oppression and violence will be freed up.

I'd like to understand better what you mean by this. Are you saying that a reduced usage of usd because people are buying good with Bitcoin (or "paper" issues of credit backed by Bitcoin and tracked by whatever cryptocurrency people call bank ledgers, considering the slow Bitcoin block write speed), will result in a real devaluation in the USD and thus a lesser ability for the USA to do imperialism and police brutality? This is a fascinating and unique argument and I'd like to hear more.
> but it’s pretty clear that it would be extremely difficult to compete with YouTube if every user has to pay the actual unit costs to upload, convert, and play videos.

That's on the user side, though. Like AWS and Azure, chances are GCP/Google's internal hardware division bills internal teams similarly to external customers (especially as Sundar continues to demand cost cuts). Of course users themselves can't go and make their own website and experience the same economies of scale that only big companies can achieve, but if competitors come in (like ByteDance) there's nothing stopping them from stealing marketshare from YouTube if they invest in some colocated servers in key markets.
Just like driving cars were "just around the corner", I highly doubt 1-2 years will fix the issues, that "last x%" is exponentially more difficult.
Anyone who wants to spank their children is rather perverted, of course: We all know what it means when an adult spanks an adult.
Meanwhile, the books sit on my bookcase safe from the hands of studio executives and tell the same story every time.
>we now (almost) have the technology to build personal assistants that actually work

Siri doesn't need AI to be useful - it really just needs this $2t company to invest in some basic usability around a set of prompts that people could actually use.

Yesterday's ridiculous Siri failure: "hey siri, set alert volume to 25%" Siri: "media volume set to 25%"
That is not bad AI, that is a total failure of UX and it makes it clear that Apple has simply failed to invest resources into making Siri useful.
Because my target isn't bare metal? I've done embedded for decades and it has been quite a while since I used something that didn't have an rtos or linux of some flavor on it other than a uc. An armv7 is so much more powerful than the stuff I started out using it almost seems silly to worry about stripping out the os, but even if I wanted to the bsp for the hardware is integrated with the linux install.

All that said... I may not need anything out of glibc for this project so it is probably worth trying without it. I'm calling into c based bsp methods that do depend on glibc but they will be fine. So thanks!
The same points could be made from anything new.

Prob it is a copy and paste from when gun powder was discovered.
As I pointed out in my other reply [1], this is a poll asking women if they think they have been discriminated against - it's measuring perceptions of discrimination. It's not measuring discrimination.

If I poll orchestra members and a lot more men say the face discrimination in hiring, but when I conduct blind auditions men do even worse what does that tell me? Or tells me that their perceptions of discrimination are out of line with the reality of discrimination.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912299
Oh yeah there's definitely a lot of noise. I have a niche that is very SEO'd on LinkedIn (Haskell), so that helps. I do just ignore people inquiring about generic software jobs though. But every so often a Haskell company finds me and then I keep in touch.
As a blockchain security guy, it's really easy to spot the occasional North Korean heists on Ethereum. The big tells are:

1. They hack computers not code. Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code.

2. They immediately exfiltrate the stolen money back to the real world via bazillions of mule accounts that are already standing by. In contrast to the "normal" hacker who attempts to obfuscate and hide funds on-chain, and slip away with some at a far future date.

Here's a writeup from a company after the big 600 million dollar NK hack.

https://roninblockchain.substack.com/p/back-to-building-roni...
> But flatpak has it sandboxed so the worst you could do is maybe steal my Spotify session token

You are cherry-picking the spotify session token while many other applications have valuable personal data.

Also sandboxing is also implemented by the OS. It is not an advantage of flatpak.
Yes, I’m sure that’s so but not quite sure of how that implies anticompetitiveness.

If a YT competitor built a search feature that they thought was so good they spun up a search engine product, does that make them anticompetitive?

Every competitor has to implement their own solutions to these problems. Or, don’t? Search isn’t a barrier to entry. You could launch a video service without a search feature. If you can leverage something from your existing assets, that’s not anticompetitive. It’s like a lawn mowing service starting a Christmas light hanging service because they already possess the truck and most of the tools and labor resources. It’s the definition of being competitive. They may be able to offer lower prices to consumers because they get to use their assets during middle of winter when grass isn’t growing.

Or, and this is key to the bundled conglomerate argument, offer a service that wouldn’t otherwise be feasible (because the cost would be higher than what customers would pay.) In this case, bundling of the service is a net positive to consumers.
Signing Commits on Gitpod with 1Password
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I think you're confusing wanting someone to do something for you for free and for billions of people with something that can give you good enough 80% of the time and also make money while doing it.
We live in a world where Cisco had both an iPhone[1] and iOS[2] before Apple did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS
Scrum annoyed me, so I tried to understand it better
Anti-trust wouldn't apply here because there is very little stopping someone from creating a video hosting company and doing fine. Plenty of alternatives exist as well here, Tiktok, Vimeo, Twitch, Patreon all to varying degrees of scale.

Where I would try to nail Google/Youtube for with anti-trust is the merging of Music and TV/Movies into Youtube as well as the reliance of Google ads on Youtube. Both of those are incredibly annoying to deal with as a competitor and give Google the ability to corner the market on multiple fronts. Roku has highlighted this themselves, Google leveraging Youtube to make brand deals that other competitors cannot.
Maybe give Toit (toitlang.org) a try.

We have been working on it for a few years now, and it gets more and more complete. Recently Espressif started contributing as well (and added Toit to their esp-idf installer).

Some selling points of Toit:

* modern language

* very fast execution for a dynamic language. (more than 10x faster than micropython)

* consistent libraries.
My last 4 roles came out of recruiters on LinkedIn reaching out.

Having detailed job descriptions with rich detail as to what you did and a good number of connections in the industry you’re looking in is what drives the algo
This is an utopia and the definition of utopia is that this is not a problem. This might be because this surveillance is benevolent. Another way could be that everybody has the tools to do this surveillance themselves in a beneficial way for everybody.

That's utopia for you (shrugs).
Well, sure, if you were a wild human. But what if you were one raised on the alien's human factory farm. Maybe they had a taste for human babies (like humans do for cow babies), or human fois gras ... But I guess there's not much you could do other than stoic acceptance.
Held up? As in what, stood the test of time?

Daggerfall and Morrowind are old games I still play. They don't make games with such depth nowadays.
So about ten years before their last guillotine execution.
If people wanted unique project names, they wouldn’t choose dictionary nouns/verbs. By your rules, gluonhq shoulda chose a different name because The Real Gluon is an OpenWRT project. Come on, just let people name stuff.
JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification
>implies some kind of gain in human knowledge

I find that a strange take. Almost all scientific advancement ends in one thing. Another set of unanswered questions. Quite often we gain more knowledge, but know less because we realize there are thousands more questions we should have been asking.

For example, theory of mind being observed out of just processing language is a big arrow that we may have been thinking about many things wrong in the past and open new avenues for 'scientific' tests that give us answers.
I would give up my neural lace for a well made Culture adaptation, but I do worry that any adaption wouldn't do much justice to the politics in the book except in the most shallow way possible. Still, though, a dose of utopianism would be nice.
To be clear, my central point is that people cannot differentiate between the exceedingly low risks with cost and real risks that should be addressed.

I'll speak to your points on the medical area because it's the area that I'm most passionate about and think I'm the most informed. I'm not talking about medical checklist s. I'm talking about increased licensure. An example would be pushes to increase the academic training of nurses. Nurses with four-year degrees marginally better outcomes than nurses with two-year degrees. At face value that sounds like people will get better care. What's not discussed is that this means nurses are more expensive so hospitals have less nurses. Another example is mini drugs that are over-the-counter in most countries require a prescription in the US. At face value this sounds safer as it allegedly reduces misuse. However, it adds hundreds of dollars in cost for a doctor's visit to get a $5 pill, and means many people that need it won't get it.

I certainly agree that governmental gridlock and dysfunction exist. However, that alone doesn't explain why large infrastructure projects like rail cost $5 to 10x more in the US when they do make it through the process. Infrastructure projects have vastly higher headcount then even in the EU. You have paid professionals whose job it is to make sure that Builders don't step on endangered animals. This obsession with preventing the risk ignores the fact that it would be both cheaper and better for the animals assume some will die and spend part of the money you would be paying to prevent that on actually helping them.
So what is Labour's position on this? Aren't they demanding the exact same thing using slightly different rhetoric?

The only principled parliamentary opposition to undermining encryption that I'm aware of has been coming from David Davis, conservative MP and arch-brexiteer [1].

Maybe there are others like him, but this is by no means a polarising issue in British politics.

[1] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-12-05/debates/E15...
I would define a "problem" as anything that prevents a human being from having a long, fulfilling life with minimal suffering. Perhaps we could extend this further with immortality, but I'll leave that aside.

But if we consider that definition, then yes, there are many problems. They range from anything from physical to psychological needs. To feeling valued by society. To feeling fulfilled in relationships. All are "problems" IMO.

Because human beings exist in a social context, many of these problems boil down to a social contract between the individual and society. And discussions around the evolving nature of that contract in a way to minimize suffering is essential. With various philosophical problems like whether one groups increased suffering is OK if it minimizes average suffering.

For example, is it OK that we minimize the suffering of many in the near term by producing carbon? Knowing there may be longer term issues and externalities?

Is a war that will cause short term suffering OK if it liberates a group of people and may cause a decrease in longer term suffering?