skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SAC, WAG, etc. are all labor unions similar to the one Bandcamp just created. Don't be confused by the name.

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As for the other examples, what I like about tech is that anyone can join the industry. I think the way attorneys and doctors have set up their profession works for them but it really makes it hard for anyone who didn't choose the golden path to join.
Comments from LWN about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/926330/
But what do the remaining two philosophers think?
Can’t speak for Chicago, but this is most likely the case.

As someone who has first hand experience with transit agencies, the tech infrastructure is unfortunately not to the level it should be.

That said, google isn’t always the easiest to communicate with when trying to fix such issues.
An inkjet printer is what works for me.

Just like olden time, prints are the end state of my digital picture pipeline.

A side effect is that making pictures is a different experience now. What is interesting on a screen is different from what is interesting as a physical object.

For perspective, I usually print small at 4x6. It is faster, easier, takes less space.

More importantly it is less precious about things.

Good luck.
I think there's risk in trades like any business, but the world will always need plumbers, electricians, etc. Someone will always find the market price for when people are willing to pay to not have to interact with sewage or potentially get shocked.
Tiktoken-node – OpenAI's tiktoken but with node bindings
I wfh almost all the time. I could find another remote job, but I don't feel like it. My life is full of interests: I love reading, writing, exercising, making long phone calls, foreign languages (I am currently learning Japanese). And I make very good money.
One drawback of this whole situation is that it will be difficult to return to a normal job once this honeymoon ends. But giving the current situation up would be like giving up love because I might one day get hurt.
I asked GPT-4 for you:

"An "Electron wrapper" refers to a software application created using Electron, a popular open-source framework. Electron allows developers to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

An Electron wrapper essentially "wraps" a web application inside a native desktop application, making it possible to run the web application as a standalone program on various operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is particularly useful for developers who want to create desktop applications without having to write separate code for each platform. Instead, they can use their existing web application code and package it with Electron to create a desktop application that works across multiple platforms."
I was a huge fan of Scrabble growing up. I like how simple this is and would probably be fun playing with my mom daily for a bit (similar to Wordle).

I like your game for what it is, but anchoring it to Scrabble confused me a bit when I first played. It was missing a couple of keys aspects for me:

1) Bingo bonus (+50 for using all of your tiles)

2) Optimizing your tileset so that future turns have a better chance for a bingo.

Also, minor nit: the colors for the letter multipliers (purple and red) in your game also confused me because in Scrabble the red x3 is a word multiplier and not a letter multiplier. You could consider using light blue and dark blue if you want to align to the traditional game.
That's a sensible way to look at it.
"Until the flaws in the Soviet model manifested in ugly ways"

Hm, I know that for a long time western intellectuals were looking with dreamy eyes towards russia, but for those really looking, the ugly side was showing very quickly. With the crushing of the Kronstadt rebellion etc.

But I am not aware of any european countries leaning towards the soviet model in any way.
The 4GB model is 7B, AFAIK. It’s just quantized down to 4 bits instead of 16.
Great news. Tech industry in general needs more unions. Slowly but surely getting there…
This joke has nothing to do with the barber paradox. I gave a plethora of versions, and don't feel like installing a Bing app. I'm curious about its response to the first form of the question (philosopher vs. fortune teller, negated question); but if (as another poster mentions) the bot maintains information through a session, I'd ask you to clear the session if that's possible, or for somebody else to try it without priming.
Memex is a secure archiving tool that offers a user interface similar to Git's
> Twitch was at the center of the Hogwarts Legacy game controversy because people were mad that certain streamers were playing a game because something something JK Rowling is an "anti trans TERF."

And most ignored that BS. Twitch has a very loud radical left community, but I think it's also far smaller than they appear. Most people are just somewhere in the middle, with a bit more left leaning for natural reasons. After all, most people on the platform are quite young.

> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

Cons were already a deathtrap before the pandemia. The After-Con-Flu was not just a running joke. Taking the chance and making sure that your lifehood stays healthy, seems more pragmatic than leftist to me.
Short answer is we nationalized commercial banking, over a weekend and without a vote. I agree it was the best thing to do. But there will be consequences, politically and financially.

The surprising part is, if we were willing to do this, why not just revise the Fed's discount window rules? They discount from market value. Why not change that to face value for Treasuries?
> No sensical person is concerned with the interest rate on savings, it is nearly zero and effectively negative

This might have been true for the past ten years or more, it's not true now. You can easily find savings accounts now which offer over 3%, and it's going up as the fed continues to raise rates.

This still might not be the best investment when you consider the high inflation, but it's great for emergency fund type accounts that need low risk, high liquidity.
This is what happened and would happen again. It is much better to say that you are busy with some vague project or initiative and actually taking a nap.
I’m not exhausted at all.

Unlike the NFT craze, there’s actually something here haha I can use it right now and do it
I agree. AIs tool should not be open source but the organization behind it should definitely be a non-profit that's created for the public good and it's run as such. It can't be a for profit entity that's focused on making a buck.
The irony of calling an actual fascist regime to fight "corporate fascism" is nothing but delicious.
Killing Free Software with Kindness (2009)
I spent some hours on Amazon and AliExpress looking at cheap (under 100 bucks) air quality devices, and all I found was junk that made up figures for most "measures", if you read carefully the buyer reviews.

I suppose the cheap & good device does not exist, but the junk seems to be selling fairly well. The demand is there, but not the product, and this press release seems another way of cashing in ...
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With the WideVu 3D holographic display, businesses and organizations can create unforgettable experiences that leave a lasting impression on their audience. Discover the future of visual technology with the WideVu 3D holographic display.
> What’s the delta though

For the Treasuries, this is known but not public. For the MBS, a theoretical value is known but not public. (The federal government has to sell these securities. It doesn't make sense to announce the holdings so they can be front run.)
> We’ve included diagrams, illustrations, challenges, and over 600 new interactive examples.

600! It's hard for the competition to keep up with that.
I used to use a few of those programs you mentioned. I moved on to other programs that solved my needs in better ways.

They could have stopped changing React. And people would have moved on to other things.
how much can you buy one for or build one for?
Token Smuggling. I learned a new term today.

So many of these exploits feature meta analysis, role playing or simulation. Given how intelligent it is in so many areas I’m a bit surprised it’s vulnerable to these kinds of tricks.

Then again, maybe it’s somehow aware that humans are susceptible to these tricks too and is just trying to predict how a human might respond.
I’m not sure what the last line says. Doesn’t the top 99% do better than the rest? I think you are making the common HN argument that it is “ableist” to think doing art should require any kind of skill or something. I don’t really agree that the AI is so good but let’s say it is, if that’s the case why do you think anyone will afford a computer to use the AI or even a house in which to type or say all these magic prompts?
In my experience as someone who has worked with dozens of new Ruby developers, I think the ability to create expressive DSLs was a significant net positive. It was much more likely to be a source of excitement than something that turned newcomers off. I don't think DSLs are or were a problem for Ruby (nor do I think they count as "abusing syntax").
The issues are good to know about but

> Their source for everything is, basically, everything. They are trained on a huge corpus of text data and every output depends on that entire training.

Bing chat is explicitly taking in extra data. It's a distinctly different setup from chatgpt.
2.5t of Uranium oxide concentrate represents 60 gallons in volume, so a 1.43 barrel. Even with some insulation, that is not a huge volume given the uranium oxide density.
Sure, with UBI. Otherwise not so much.
You speak of competition, but the logical end goal here is a handful of companies in control of something that automates large quantities of the current knowledge economy in a way never yet before seen, in a capitalist society already struggling to deal with vast wealth disparity; handing unprecedented power to a handful of people who have already proven they have no regard for the common person.

I don’t agree that there is a historical precedent for the kind of situation this could put the world.

It may all be moot as I doubt the technology will advance to the level we are discussing, but in that scenario I would like you to be correct, but strongly doubt it. We shall see I guess.
Even the default example of "Hello, how are you?" from English to French yields an awfully wrong result ("Hello, what is your experience?")...

I wouldn't trust them for anything else.

The other models are not better, here's the text generation output from "I enjoy walking my cute dog":

> I enjoy walking with my cute dog, I have been going to the park, and I just happened to like walking with my cute dog. I like to play with the dog.
My dog (Hannah) has been on my way home since December and when she came home she told me to go out and stay back. I told her that she had been too busy. I had to start working and had to go outside and go see myself again.

It could be just an algorithm that generates random sentences that it wouldn't make less sense.
The analogy breaks down quite quickly because the political/philosophical foundations are so different. One, the French President isn't removed via a vote of no confidence. Two, hopefully you would call votes of no-confidence until the gov't does reflect what the majority wants. That's the foundation of democracy... Three, this proviso was created specifically to overcome the delinquency brought on by multiple govt's in quick succession.
HTSQL is a comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases
Dan wrote an answer today about classes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35188669
As I write this you've been moderated into the grey zone.

I think that means that a lot of people think that RTR is super important and you are wrong. But you can't be wrong because you didn't make a statement. You asked a question. And it is an important question. People assume your position on the question just because you asked it. This is a serious mistake.

RTR fans cannot solve the problem until they can unravel the answers to this question.

One obvious answer to the question is that there are very few alternatives to JD. How do we solve that? Well, lots and lots of money. How do we come up with lots of money?

Um.. sell an alternative to JD? Ok, not practical on day one. Sell an alternative to Kubota? Hmmm... difficult. But that's probably where it needs to start. So, raise a lot of money to build an alternative to Kubota? Hmm.. if only there was some place where somebody could go where they gave away many millions of money to risky startups.

I don't have millions of money, but I have approached a few efforts I hoped could go somewhere. No luck so far. The opportunity is there for the right somebody to run with. Perhaps starting with riding mowers could lead to something. It might take longer, but sooner started sooner done.
Starlink V2 Satellites in Trouble
>even though I understand this is absolutely not the goal of creating one.

Not necessarily. All a union is is a way of collectively negotiating. Whether those terms include stipulations about the way creators are treated is up to the union's members.
>Lossless is actually the appropriate test

Could you elaborate on why that is. It seems very non-obvious to me.

In the realm of vision, after a certain point you would just be trying to compress noise that has nothing to do with the content of image/video.
> GPT is only possible because it's been trained on the work humans have learned to do and then put out in the world.

Which really makes you wonder if F/OSS was a good idea in the first place.
Total US bank deposits are just shy $18 trillion:

<https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DPSACBW027SBOG>

Total US currency in circulation is ... just over $2 trillion (December 2021):

<https://www.uscurrency.gov/life-cycle/data/circulation>

Bank deposits are not all financial wealth, though they're a substantial share of it. Even given that, the facts, from the US Federal Reserve (it runs both FRED and currency.gov), are that there is nearly ten times the amount of financial wealth in bank deposits as there are green pieces of paper representing that wealth.

Federal Reserve Notes are currency used for some forms of financial transactions. They are not equivalent to the total amount of financial wealth, most of which is noted in accounts of various types.

You might also want to familiarise yourself with the various measures of money supply (spoiler: it's not little green men, erm, pieces of paper):

<https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12845.htm>
Indian launch sites are pretty close to the equator however, and shipping even secret military payloads to India for launching is feasible. Since there's already sharing of some sensitive military secrets between New Delhi and Moscow.

If it was 10x the cost per kg then maybe Russia would look into alternative systems, but I imagine 2x or 3x the market rate would secure an unlimited number of launch slots.

So there's no point to launching from a plane.
Or you don't understand the needs or the technology because of your stubbornness and ignorance.

That's why I look down upon engineers with your mindset. I won't generalize all backend engineers as you did to frontend though.

I've met many who get it but of course prefer the peacefulness of controlling the execution environment and the limited state of a server.

Btw imo backend is boring because the reasons above, frontend has a lot more going on. As a full stack engineer I'd say frontend is much much harder, and that's why you have all the tech trying to make it easier to scale and maintain. That's not to say backend doesn't have it's own difficulties. It all depends what you are making too. A website is easy, a complex app is much more difficult.
grumble grumble just when I needed to get some stuff done. I guess I'll just go outside for a bit.
So tell me Johnny, why did you leave Amazon?

My boss told me to go back to office, and I said no f'ing way--fire me! And they did.

Probably not a great conversation to have on your next interview.
The statement from the side responsible for this video is remarkable:

- "Unfortunately, the agency did not provide those needs, which we are lacking amid the embargo on the [Eastern] Libyan Army," Mahjoub said. He claimed that as a result, security personnel were stationed further away to ensure they were not dangerously close to the hazardous material."

- "Mahjoub said the missing drums were recovered near the borders with Chad. He suggested that they were stolen by Chadian forces who mistook them for ammunition or weapons, then abandoned them when they realized the drums were of little use."

- "A video shared with the statement showed what appeared to be a security personnel counting the purportedly retrieved drums. Except, 18 drums were counted, rather than the 10 mentioned both by the IAEA and Mahjoub."

https://www.dw.com/en/libya-eastern-army-claims-tons-of-miss... ("Libya eastern army claims tons of missing uranium recovered")
It is a situation that psychologically does not suit everyone. Many people fear being "found out" or think they are stealing from their employer. I must say that for a short time I harbored such thoughts, but now I think I have nothing to be ashamed of. I offer my expertise and competence, and they pay me for that.
> They could have stopped changing React. And people would have moved on to other things.

God I wish!
GPT 4 code sucks.

It can write you a function/method/script if you give it an outline of what you need but it's awful at anything remotely complex and everything it spits out needs to be understood by somebody so it can be checked.

It can save a developer time but it only replaces people in that one person can be more productive which is absolutely nothing new.

The reason for that is because it's not AI, it's ML. It doesn't understand anything.
Or it means the CEO wants to buy a yacht.

Either way if you think it's such a strong signal about company's prospects, go ahead and short companies whose CEO are selling the stock.

CEO stock sale is public information. Disclosing those sales is mandated by FCC.

You have no excuse for not being very rich.

Alternatively, CEOs are selling stock for variety of reasons and you can't make judgements about the company with confidence greater than 50%. And lower confidence is basically a random coin toss.
I’m pro union and I’m in the tech industry, but it is tone deaf when members of best paid and most well treated of industries speak as if they are oppressed. It kind of makes a mockery of the plight of the actual working class.
Momentum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know only the bare basics of NLP and AI but isn't Google basically just a specialized case of LLM? Translate and Search work on the same principle that all you need to do is regression analysis on a huge pile of human behavior. Early search engines worked so hard to try to understand content and user intent and got thumped by a comparatively naive heuristic and a giant pile of data.
Is this renewal automatic? Having to go recertify with docker once a year for my tiny open source project that we happen to have an image for is literally infinity percent more hassle than I would like to deal with.
conformal prediction
Simple, but folks moved on from Backbone-like UI libraries for good reasons.
The machine is not an artist, but it is a generator of artistic expression.
It’s not fair? It’s not fair that should need to learn something? This is really a sad state. HN seems to be becoming a pretty sad group.
Will it though? Do we have any emerging industries re-using datacenter heat from Bitcoin mining operations?
Most of these violating companies don't care about lawsuits, the big ones could probably bankrupt anyone trying to sue them by dragging things out and the small ones just make a product, fold the company and start a new one.

I found the latest Conservancy lawsuit interesting, they are suing as a third-party beneficiary of the GPL (ie as a recipient of GPL code), not as a copyright holder. They are suing solely for compliance, not for damages. Hopefully they get back their costs too though.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
No, it means you're smart enough to know what risk is.
What is more, there is already a quite popular, and beloved in the Ruby community, project named Sidekiq - https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq.
https://scastie.scala-lang.org/monksy/oHy8eviuTYeHCj0B8qSCJw...

Could be improved as a collect.. but that was a first pass. [Did take some go overs to fix a few typos]
Which words?
Yep, and I do.

That's my point.

I don't write typescript, but it has done wonders for the jsdoc ecosystem.
They just turned years of expenditure into years of income. Those people who have to work for an income will have it taxed. So.... yes.
This is a lie. Look at the 10K yourself. It shows the fair market value of AFS securities. Sure, it shows the purchase price for hold too maturity securities, but right God damn next to it it shows the fair market value and losses too. Silicon Valley Bank reported 15 billion in unrealized losses on there hold to maturity portfolio. They also clearly documented the different durations of those securities, and their annual interest yield.

The idea that this was somehow hidden needs to die. People knew they were vulnerable to a run not due to some shady rumor Network, but because they reported exactly what they were doing plain as day.

They were making low but positive interest profit on those assets. They simply locked up too much money in a long-term investment to withstand a coordinated Bank Run. This was a real mistake, but it is not at all about secret accounting.

Anyone who can do simple arithmetic could determine that they were at risk in a bank run from their published documents. Most of the world simply did not care because they did not think the Run would happen
This has been really the most productive use of it for me. But I'm so cheap I've been stopping myself more and more and just spending an extra minute googling to save the cent. Even if its just literally penny pinching, its also helping the environment! Is the velocity I get an answer worth the cycles? I'm not so sure these days, but its been interesting reflecting on this.

Definitely excited for the inevitable reports comparing the killowats spent cumulatively to get an answer through google vs openai. How many blogs visited does it take to spend the same amount of energy getting the answer from a model?
But the human still exists.

(You compute your carbon footprint per minute by adding up all the things you do in a large period of time and dividing by the duration. This chatgpt footprint should be added to the numerator, it doesn't replace the whole thing)
YMMV but I've been a happy Flickr customer for over a decade. They haven't modernized much so the site looks and feels old, but their pricing is very fair and there are still a lot of folks on it.

I have considered selfhosting myself, but it's a lot of work and features like "auto upload from my phone" and "privacy guard for pictures of my kids, but make login-free links for grandparents" are very nontrivial.