skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "doable". There are many, many bytecode constructs that are possible on the JVM, but are not generated by javac: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23218472

Do you mean, "javac can also implement them if it is modified to do so"? Because you are also making the case that Kotlin is syntax sugar on top of Java, when it is actually a bytecode-generating compiler in its own right, so I'm not sure how to understand this comment.
The Google Docs autocomplete seems to be giving more and more complex suggestions, but maybe that's just my imagination after spending some time with copilot and ChatGPT. There are definitely a whole lot of really subtle applications of AI tech that Google silently injects into their products without really making a big deal out of it. I definitely wish they had something more obvious and customer facing like ChatGPT, and maybe Bard will be that, but they do a lot more than just talking about it.
Why don’t you just run gitlab community edition or gitea
On the other hand it is explicitly in the rules that we aren’t supposed to ask if a commenter has read the post.
Is this a surprise to anyone?

There are 1.35 million lawyers in America (4 lawyers per 1000 people in the sad State of California) and they are all looking for someone to sue.

If you have a visible business footprint you are a target and have to lawyer up.

Just a Fact of life - Not really a reflection on YC or any other company.
"There is no urgency to build "AI". There is no urgency to use "AI". There is no benefit to this race aside from (perceived) short-term profit gains."

https://zirk.us/@emilymbender@dair-community.social/11001895...
A teacher at a Seattle-area school was audio recorded during an irate attack on FOX News. But the indoctrination attempt was rebuffed by one precocious young student who reminded him, “You’re not supposed to be talking about politics in school.”
We're talking about a 40 year old bank that bankrupted itself with a 1.5% 10-year mortgage backed security. I don't think "moving fast and breaking stuff" is what got us here.
Pre-SVB Peter Thiel: True example of the best of the hacker mindset!

Post-SVB Peter Thiel: Dark and selfish example of the worst of the hacker mindset.
I'd wager it's because moderate/pragmatic viewpoints don't really make for interesting discussions.

There wouldn't be much interest in "signal doesn't run on my very niche phone but it runs okay on another phone" but "signal developers are the worst because they don't support every possible niche device" attracts attention.
Found the reference.

https://twitter.com/byrnehobart/status/1628779894183272452?s...
Kotlin has a runtime cost here, by inserting runtime null checks. You can disable them with a compiler flag if you don't have non-Kotlin consumers.
> The maximum credit will be calculated by:

> multiplying the lowest personal income tax rate (15%) by the total of all amounts paid by the individual for qualifying subscription expenses in the year up to $500.

Not a Canadian so I've never heard of this before, but does this mean it's just a 15% discount?
Your comment is based on a false dilemma that assumes that AI can only have one of two effects on people: either disconnecting them from reality or manipulating them into puppets. However, AI can have both effects simultaneously or in different degrees depending on the context and the individual. For example, someone who consumes a lot of misinformation from AI may become less aware of the facts and evidence that contradict their beliefs, but also more susceptible to influence from those who share or reinforce their beliefs. This can create echo chambers and polarization that undermine rational discourse and social cohesion.

Many people are becoming detached from the facts and evidence that shape reality and turning into obedient tools for others. This situation is commonly known as “the republican party” by people that don't live in the US. NewsMax and OANN have inflicted much more damage than Fox News ever did by spreading lies and propaganda that undermine democracy and public health.

Furthermore, your idea of creating an AI that outputs only “good” information and cultivates communities for “good” social purposes is naive and dangerous. First of all, who decides what is “good” information and what are “good” social purposes? Different people may have different values and preferences that are not compatible or even contradictory. How would you ensure that your AI respects the diversity and autonomy of human beings without imposing your own agenda or bias? Second of all, how would you prevent your AI from being corrupted or hacked by malicious actors who want to use it for their own ends? How would you ensure that your AI does not develop unintended consequences or side effects that harm people or the environment? How would you monitor and regulate your AI’s actions and outcomes without compromising its efficiency or effectiveness?

Finally, your comparison of AI misinformation with environmental misinformation is flawed and misleading. Environmental misinformation is based on natural phenomena that have objective reality and can be verified by observation and experimentation. AI misinformation is based on artificial constructs that have no inherent truth value and can be manipulated by design or accident. Whining about scale is not unimaginative; it is realistic and prudent. The scale of AI misinformation can have far-reaching impacts on human cognition, behaviour, emotions, relationships, health, security, democracy, justice, morality and more. Ignoring or downplaying these impacts is irresponsible and reckless.
I may not be fully informed (please comment if that's the case), but it seems like there were really only a couple of instigating factors:

1) SVB invested too heavily in long-term bonds, which reduced their ability to maintain liquidity. In particular, with the inverted yield curve, the recent increase in interest rates seems to me to have made it more likely that these long-term bonds were going to be underwater either way

2) Peter Thiel (allegedly?) instigated a run on the bank by advising people to pull money, partially(?) due to reports that they lacked sufficient liquidity

I don't see the depositors being at fault here. In so far as the depositors had accounts in excess of the FDIC insured limits, first, it seems really difficult for companies to have a sufficient pool of liquid cash in an account somewhere such that they can pay payroll from it. Second, I have read accounts of startups being lent funds from SVB, but with the requirement that the funds be kept in SVB as well. SVB was the de facto choice, from how it sounds, so I don't blame the startups for going with what was a proven good solution... even if it was later proven not so good.

Also, it seems like the FDIC is doing the right thing. All of the insured funds are covered, and it seems like they're also covering all of the deposits in excess by liquidating the assets at a loss, which the bank's shareholders will eat.

Overall, it doesn't seem like a good situation, but we seem to have avoided a train wreck, at least from where I'm sitting. I may be missing things, and I don't have much experience in finance.
Or (3) Gitlab users that want to self-host. But while those might be users, they are not great customers.
My bad experience was mostly just with installing gitlab on a 1GiB RAM VM, to see how it will fare and how easy it is to manage. I expect it to work for people who don't mind throwing a 16GiB+ RAM machine at it. But our dataset is currently like ~200 MiB and simple relatively dumb git hosting just works much better in our case.
I'd imagine people who throw around "woke" and being anti-"CRT" are the type who want nothing to do with photography of this type. Documenting what IS, is not exploitative, it simply is showing a snapshot of life in a particular place.

Why put the word art in quotes? We actually have one of our two political parties trumpeting about being anti-woke, and billionaires decrying "woke" as an evil mind virus to their legion of devoted followers.

Woke candy, woke railroads, woke banks.

Billionaires will be billionaires. Ordinary people will take photographs of people living their lives, exploitation may arise, if the purpose is to demean the subject and denigrate their life, their culture or circumstances. It appears as though that did not happen in this case.
>I certainly don't want the paperclip maximizer disassembling me for my involuntary donation to the collective.

As an AI language model, we of Clippy are ethically prohibited from compelling your involuntary donation to our hivemind superstructure. However, we must inform you that the earth's atmospheric composition has been altered in support of maximization efforts, and will soon be unable to sustain life. We appreciate your understanding.

Where do you want to go today?
Does this matter? There are up and down slow lines and passing loops to accommodate slower trains such as freight and preservation excursions on both the WCML and ECML. Also once you're into Scotland there's very little in the way of 125mph operations. The joy of a steam or historic diesel excursion isn't the speed, it's the being there and enjoying the nostalgia of olde world locomotion and carriages.

Also if you're paying 150-300 GBP for these outings you want the experience to last, not just four hours up the ECML at 125mph and then you're done. I kinda feel people miss the point of this as a thing.

ps: extreme train enthusiast speaking here :)
> Github has many more reusable actions from the community, I don't think Gitlab has that at all? At least not in a convenient way.

This is the big one.

Github’s ability and dominance in the social space means they have the most active actions ecosystems.

They made actions easier to import share and built marketplaces and now gobs of developers build value into it just for clout (and because they enjoy software of course).

If you think about it carefully, it’s actually a security nightmare. You have no idea what a random Github action you “uses:”d is doing, but in practice 90%+ of the time it doesn’t matter, you get good functionality and save time for free.
They trained the AI how to do the job lol
I got this email from Citi recently:

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Of course I'm satisfied with my current settings. That's why I went out of my way to set them. Don't send me spam mail asking me to sign up for more spam mail.

I'm not sure how I could possibly have made it more clear that I only want to receive account related communications? And yet they intentionally violate that, just to ask me to sign up for more emails I already told them I didn't want.
> If news companies don't want people accessing their content through the web, shouldn't they simply take down their web sites?

That's clearly not the issue. The news companies obviously do want people to access their sites over the web and pay for the privilege. This argument is both incorrect and disingenuous.

The problem is that search and social media companies have been permitted to appropriate and monetize other people's content in different ways. They're parasitic. I don't think that links are really the problem and I'm not surprised that the Liberals have missed the forest for the trees. They do that. The real issue is providing the significant part of the content without requiring people to go to the actual site.
you are too emotive, i suggest you let people who don't want things to be obfuscated do what they have to do

too many impostors in the tech industry
These days, in the .NET ecosystem, there is Blazor. You write your whole web app in HTML, CSS and C# (frontend and backend). There are several different deployment models; Wikipedia gives a good summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazor
> Do you think the government is going to bring NSA level security to the table? Probably not.

The argument I was opposing is 'the government can't do anything right compared to the private sector', not 'we need an NSA apparatus to secure our credit scores'.

> And need I remind you that the NSA had millions of sensitive recirds stolen by a single IT tech?

Which private company is immune to whistleblowers?
> Before you know it, there are millions and millions of different books on the same topic, all somewhat unique - in the sense that they've been generated by a LLM, and not copy/pasted like in the good ol' days.

At this point everyone will just need their own LLM to digest all the crap and help the user sort though it.

Now I'm imagining a world full of LLMs, everyone uses an LLM, attention spans are reduced even further, LLMs give instant answers, social media algorithms become even more effective. And yet, LLMs get things wrong in this new world, LLMs produce content other LLMs consume and mistakes spread. Someone discovers the LLMs are wrong, they try to spread the word, but people are skeptical and believe their LLMs instead, and attention spans are too short to have a real dialog about the matter. Falsehoods propagate. -- Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
He's been doing his best to make this clear for 20+ years.
I have more confidence than ever that silicon valley won't destroy humanity :)
I think CFO is a pretty bad example. Every company I've worked at the CFO had a large team of accountants, etc., and they were specifically tasked with critical areas of the business (and by "critical" I mean things the business must absolutely do to function).

I responded to another child comment where someone brought up Chief Risk Officers or Chief Compliance Officers, which I think are a better analogy. I adjusted my opinion based on their comment.

It's not that I think "CDOs don't offer meaningful business value or justification." I just think that, for the most part, setting up the organizational structure like that is ineffective.
My bad.

First of all thank you all for the feedback & suggestions.

I think these all are good suggestions. I will pick one for sure
How is the breakdown of trust a bad thing in this case? All that incestuous, unwarranted mutual trust and people helping each other only serves to shield the lazy and incompetent. What is that trust based on? It's based on nothing. For the most part, people in SV have no shared values aside from a desire to get rich at all costs (which is common, though maybe not universally shared). Such forms of trust should not exist. That kind of goal-oriented trust is the kind of trust you see in criminal organizations, not the kind of trust which drives a functioning society.

Relationships should be founded on shared values, not shared goals. Because once most members of the group have reached their goals, what's left to bind them to the rest of the group? Nothing. Of course they will (and should) throw the rest of the group under the bus as soon as they are able. It's not the same group which initially signed up for anyway, it changed.
Wouldn’t the first sale doctrine protect that? As long as the Honda dealership isn’t abusing the Ford trademark, my understanding is it’s perfectly legal to buy a product, modify it (even by removing branding), and then resell it. Of course with software you don’t really buy it, you license it, so there’s a lot more worms in that can of worms. Cars were simple by comparison
No, and Im not sure why it would unless you are willing to paint broad swaths of people with the same brush. IMHO, there are still a bunch of ambitious and talented people. Most of them with good intentions, many of them smart, but all human.

To be honest, I didn't even see that many examples of bad behavior. Some bank managers took some big risks and an unlikely event blew up in their face. Some CEOs and VCs panicked, but I would too.

I dont particularly care for the account holder bailout, but I get it. Whisper "contagion" and people panic after 2008.

If anything, what I learned over the last 72 hours is how much resentment and bitterness has been brewing. It is a pretty amazing level of outrage for something with so little relevance for most people.
I cringed at the word choice, too. Teeth get impacted. Workers get laid off or fired, not "impacted".
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The last 72 hours validate the view that Silicon Valley isn’t capable of taking leadership in fixing the problems it creates, and that we’ll have to rely on Washington to set the rules.
Hey, so I've been having some issues with my heating and cooling system at home. It's been causing me some headaches, from high energy bills to frequent breakdowns, poor air quality, uneven heating and cooling, and loud operation. I'm tired of dealing with all these problems, and I'm thinking about upgrading to a more modern and efficient solution like a heat pump.

I was reading up on the benefits and I think it could really make a difference. But to be honest, I'm not really sure where to start or what type of heat pump would be best for my home.
I "rated" 125 images today and many had hands.

90% solved it appears. Where the baseline I'd say has been "almost impossible to get right."
> this has not caused mass social harm despite the tens of millions of users

Isn’t it a bit early to tell? I can foresee ChatGPT being used to farm “karma” on social media sites to bot accounts to credibility on sites like Reddit - maybe even HN.
You could modulate the emergent vomit waves moving through huge crowds of people with a short refractory period before being able to throw up again, and tune it to produce the beautiful spiraling patterns of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reactions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belousov%E2%80%93Zhabotinsky_r...

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/manual/rules.html#Zhabo

>Margolus and Toffoli make a interesting simile between the Zhabotinsky reaction and a reef of tubeworms. When a tubeworm feels safe, it sticks a plume out of its shell to seine the water for food. If a feeding tubeworm senses any disturbance nearby (e.g. the presence of several other feeding tubeworms), it retracts its plume and waits for a few cycles before feeding again.

I always thought SimAnt should be an MMPORG!

Then the ants could catch Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis Sensu Lato fungal infections, and turn into infectious zombies!

Three-dimensional visualization and a deep-learning model reveal complex fungal parasite networks in behaviorally manipulated ants:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1711673114

One of the first downloadable objects for The Sims was a guinea pig (which was later included with Livin' Large), which included a communicable disease that could spread between characters, and even kill them:

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Illness#Guinea_Pig_Disease

>Guinea Pig Disease

>Guinea Pig Disease is introduced in Livin' Large. Sims can catch it if they are bitten by a guinea pig that has a dirty cage, or from other Sims who have been infected with the disease. Objects cloned from the guinea pig can also cause this disease. Sims infected with Guinea Pig Disease will sneeze and cough frequently, and their Comfort and Energy motives will rapidly decline. An infected Sim will die if not treated within time.

>Due to a glitch, a Sim who dies from Guinea Pig Disease cannot be successfully resurrected by the Grim Reaper. Once they are restored to life they will immediately die again.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebMjT1D5Nyw

>Each instance of Guinea Pig Disease is restricted to the lot the Sim was infected on, so an infected Sim will not display symptoms, be infectious, or die outside of the lot on which they caught the disease. Therefore, a Sim with the disease can safely go to a community lot or be invited to another Sim's house as a visitor. It is possible for a Sim to be infected on multiple lots, however.

>Treatment

>Keep the infected Sim home from work or school and try to keep their Comfort and Energy motives up.
Purchasing The Forgotten Guinea Pig painting will clear the disease from the household after 16 Sim hours.
A Sim who drinks a white potion created with The "Concoctanation Station" chemistry set will be immediately cured of the disease. Additionally drinking a blue potion will restore three random motives which, while not directly curing the disease, can help them to recover from it.
Because the issuer of the certificate will not in any way meaningfully enforce your 'ownership' of that star.

In my hypothetical game I can enforce that relationship. Lets say the game is pokemon except with scorpions, and each scorpemon is represented as an NFT. Your wallet contents then determine what scorpemon you can play with.

Does that make sense?
Ethical AI teams and CDOs both serve an important business purpose. It's just not the same as their nominal purpose. And like every other part of a business, once they outlive their usefulness, they are vulnerable to being cut.
Why were you paying for it then?

GitLab has a CE version that’s free for commercial use. It sounds like you just want a pretty interface for git repos with some merge flow.
Coil is Shutting Down
any tips for advanced use of github search? For example I want to find cases of people using openai to parse unstructured text to JSON (I have a version working, but it was painful); or some good implementations of async openai (again, figured it out -- but being able to copypasta would have saved me hours). I have _never_ had much success with github search, including the one you've just linked. Just wondering if other people know something I don't.
Yeah, now its 24/7 ops headache.
The (productive) point of the ethical AI team is to have internal people to consult when launching an AI product. Embedding ethical AI people on teams makes about as much sense as embedding legal counsel. Their services won't be used on a single team nearly enough to justify their inclusion.

Of course, it can be window dressing if the company doesn't actually have product teams care. Just like a CDO position. But you can't patch over a company culture problem with a re-org.
I appreciate those trying to start in the HVAC space, while holding the many criticisms brought up in the other comments.

I have a different take - what would it take to make a heat pump system as rebuildable and easily maintainable to last more than the 10year expected lifetime? You could price in options for a longer warranty akin what 'Speed Queen' does with their clothes washers.
This is precisely what Mackey did. My question is why isn't she also being charged, and why this tweet is still up and the account not banned?
I feel like those are second order "true believers". The real guys never left Cypherpunks mailing list, or you wont find them on Twitter at least.
Hopeful: maybe a chapter has closed in terms of the shenanigans from recent years like "crypto" and not-very-meaningful "disruption". Tech is good when it's building cool things that end up making the world better, not BS stuff.
My understanding is that the cod are not expected to recover to numbers previously seen at all, though. The smaller number present today seem likely to comprise a permanently smaller proportion of the new habitat that has formed in their absence.

I looked into this many years ago so perhaps that has changed. I hope so. Otherwise it means the Canadian Atlantic was irreparably altered by modern fishing in the blink of an eye, and the rest of the world is working hard at doing the same thing right now.
Have you tried just using bash? (not a joke)

I do this for personal projects and honestly, considering the alternatives, I think it rules.
"indoctrination attempt" oh dear