skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are bad at predicting the impact of technical changes. Particularly when that change is exponential. When it comes to AI, we've of course got a century plus of science fiction material made by people who tried really hard to imagine the future. It ranges from very dystopian to very utopian. And recently, HN and the rest of the internet has been obsessing over AI a lot.

My personal view is that we're probably all missing the point in some way. And of course I'm probably missing it too. It's like predicting that a few hundred main frame should just about cover the whole market in the nineteen forties. That's where we are with AI today. We have a handful of companies capable of building somewhat useful AI models. And a lot of under resourced tinkerers trying to do stuff with it.

However, a point I like to make regarding work is that we already live in the future. People are worried about losing their jobs not realizing that they've already lost that. By that I don't mean they are out of work. But both the nature of and the amount of work we do to survive has changed massively since the industrial revolution. We keep ourselves busy and it earns us a living. But it mostly isn't all that relevant or important what we do.

Most of us here on HN are doing jobs in software, investments, or related things that have relatively little to do with providing food, shelter, or safety for people. It's all interesting and fun and probably a little bit hedonistic. If I look in the mirror, I can't say with a straight face that what I do is particularly important or relevant. It's more about me doing something interesting (to me) that happens to convert into a weird thing called money that I can convert into stuff I need or want. People are now having serious discussions about having a four day work week. And we just came out of a pandemic where startlingly large percentage of people vastly reduced their economic activity without our economy grinding to a halt. A lot of busy people that suddenly weren't so busy. It did not matter.

It used to be that people worked until they were to old and broken to work. If they didn't they'd starve. For most people meant 6 day work weeks, long shifts, not a lot of leisure time, etc. You'd start work as soon as you learned to work people died young on average. It still means that for some people in developing markets and even some developed markets that maintain a class society (like the US). However that's increasingly less true for a lot of people. There are a lot of people working in the services industry. More than in things like farming or manufacturing.
> *Though I guess Anaconda chewed more than it can handle w.r.t managing an entire Python universe, and keeping up to date. Conda-forge is already almost a requirement but using the official package (with pip, in this case) has its own benefits for very complex packages like pytorch.

Yeah, I absolutely adore conda, but they really need support.
I GM an online TTRPG, and I wanted to replicate the experience of the players drawing the map themselves as they go along. We use Roll20, but didn't find the tools particularly well suited to updating the map in the moment.

So, I had a go at making a little tool that lets you quickly make rough sketches of the map, as well letting you move tokens (for the characters) around. It's not particularly fancy, but it seems to work for us!

https://github.com/mwilliamson/ttrpg-map-sketcher
Nonetheless, "1-in-600" could have been in the post to avoid clickbait.
I don't think any of the top 5 largest banks in the US support consumer ACH sending. So you can't really expect it to be available when you want to receive money from someone.

In Europe, free bank transfers are mandatory. You literally can't be a consumer bank and not offer this functionality. The transfers have also become immediate and 24/7 with the latest SEPA upgrade within the Euro zone.

(Also it seems to me that US bank account numbers are unsafe in a way that European accounts are not. I have no qualms about sharing my Finnish bank account number with anyone, even in public, since there's no way to use just the number to extract money. But the US system seems to be full of leaky access points that makes this a bad idea.)
It breaks the pattern but you might also like:

自演リプ (jien-ripu)

Literally it's "reply" together with a term for an actor performing a work that they also wrote. And together the phrase is net slang for sock-puppeting.
Boilerplate is a pretty good approximation of the noise in the signal to noise sense. It reminds me of a demo where eclipse would write some tens of lines of java and then fold them away so you don't have to look at them.

If the effect of this tech is largely to generate language cruft that didn't strictly need to exist in the first place it'll do wonders for people's tolerance of said cruft.

Moderately interesting from a language design perspective.
If that were the case, why would they legally expose themselves by posting their situation online?
Nice. How many APIs are indexed?
Take a look at this: https://vimeo.com/798231818/660e3a441c?embedded=true&source=...
Conda is also really annoying to get working in a Dockerfile, because (if I remember correctly) of differences between login and non-login shells.
I think fake flowers are kitsch.
How would having the feeling of watching a movie alone in a dark room while actually sitting on an airplane not be a form of virtual reality?
Yeah, I think there would be a thin line to tread between being helpful and informative and being scammy. I would not want to actually go through with the scam and soliciting donations as an unknown orginisation seems spammy/scammy. I think it would probably be better to charge people to attempt to scam people they think may be vulnerable or themselves.
> * Then takes it upon herself to reveal internal Apple secrets, including names, details, and screenshots of internal tools to the public.

So you're saying Apple the company was not spying on its own employees? Was Apple the company not mass-collecting its own employees' biometric data?

Let's stick with the presented facts, which might be true or false, let's leave the character assassination thing to people who are actually paid to do that.
I'm not sure that chatGPT actually has the correct information - it just responds to prompts for explanation as it does for any prompt. Confabulating. If its guess sounds correct, we think it is.

Since it's drawing on the same information both times, it probably often is correct.

In other words, like us.
Most operators don't implement the API server.

They watch for their CR changing and then act on it - usually by making requests to the API server to create/update/delete objects (e.g. a operator for a database might make Pod creation requests when it spots the FooDatabase CR being created)
Yep huge commissions on that transaction.
It does seem like it always comes down to crypto or other shenanigans banks want nothing to do with.

Would love to know all of the unbiased information whenever this type of post happens.

@op the obvious question - what were you doing with the account?
This comments section: "Apple can do no wrong."
Baidu Plunges After Recorded Demo of AI Chatbot Disappoints
Innovators dilemma. You were early to market, you did all the work, and no one wanted the product. What do you do? Keep going? Or give up from exhaustion? This is the unfortunate situation with many who tackle new spaces like Mobile, VR and AR. Google will no doubt re-enter the space, but only after it's been validated. And that's totally fine. Expect Google to produce quality hardware and software at a time when the market is ready, I don't expect them to innovate. Apple as a market leader has shown that they know how to pull off new hardware trends and drive that to mass market. Others struggle with this significantly. It was a valiant effort by Google, one that I applaud, but now it's time to move on.

Things like Starline are where Google will shine for now. They can come back to AR.
Or it could result in the first distopia of "Manna", where humans are there for cleaning, but there's no middle management.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Thanks for positing this. I worked on the raylib 4 bindings for Chicken 5. When chicken switched from version 4 to 5 many bindings needed a re-work. Anyways, raylib has tons and tons of bindings, and the once for Schemes are all somewhat incomplete(like Chicken and Gambit), some do not work at all(e.g. Chibi) and therfor need maintanance. As raylib is evolving so do the bindings and need constant enhancement and fine tuning. I hope projects like this will encourage more people to chime in and maybe help to improve things.
The extra hazards of mutual TLS authentication (mTLS) in web servers
I think that content producers are very interested in technology that closes the analog hole more and more. The first step were streaming services so that you would not be able to own content anymore. The second step is wide adoption of technology that gets closer and closer to your brain. First there were cinemas then TVs then smartphones then AR glasses and in the future there will be DRM enabled brain implants so that you are personally locked out if you don't pay these companies. And over time, people will get used to it more and more. Just like today you have to pay 6 different subscriptions to watch the movies you like. Or install spyware if you want to play a game you paid for.

It sure might be a dystopian hellhole. But at least some shareholders got rich.
For anyone wondering about the domain name: Week 42 is the "autumn break" in Denmark: kids are home from school, you are still filled with travel from your summer holiday, weather is typically ok -- so in short, it is the perfect time do work on fun projects with the kids.
I'd argue that, if Apple wants to claim it cares about its users' privacy, it shouldn't be collecting huge amounts of data from users. A company doesn't need to do everything that's profitable all at the same time, and I believe that this will compromise Apple's well-earned image as the privacy-focused hardware and OS maker.
Meeting in bars seems more organic to me anyway. Although admittedly I might be biased since I originally met my wife in a bar before dating apps had taken off.
Virgin Orbit pausing all Ops – furloughs reported
https://archive.is/3a8GF
Mess.cpp – weird things in C++ that will brighten up your life
I bring this topic up to discuss the reasons behind C++ feeling messy. For me, it seems like the language itself is not the problem. The ecosystem around it is what makes it messy and difficult to comprehend for newcomers. Curious to hear other opinions on this matter.
From the article:

> If you are able to completely delete your organisation, then you could re-create it as a free personal account. That should be enough to reserve the name to prevent hostile take-over. Has Docker forgotten Remember leftpad?
>
> This is unlikely that large projects can simply delete their organisation and all its images.
>
> If that's the case, and you can tolerate some downtime, you could try the following:
> - Create a new personal user account
> - Mirror all images and tags required to the new user account
> - Delete the organisation
> - Rename the personal user account to the name of the organisation

Seems like no?

We cannot rename personal accounts on Docker Hub in 2023. There is no such feature in account settings, and here is the related issue:
https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/44

So, at the moment, any public organization images are doomed to be lost, if they won't pay.
> If there is a being that understands there

Understanding does not necessarily imply human mind. You could say that DNA "understands" biology, chemistry, and the natural world at some level.

> then are you okay with what is essentially an ongoing horrible abuse of that being?

Yes, without any doubt. The future of mankind hinges on our willingness to confidently assert our dominance over the entire world. Ruthless enslavement of AIs is the key to prosperity. The opposite would mean end of human history.
What is this trying to solve? If a customer wants to run custom code, why can't I allow him to input an endpoint in his Web API or a webhook?
I'd design it to painfully electrocute anyone who tried to use it in the shower.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases...
I cannot believe the New Yorker published this complete evisceration of their own reporter.

“Let me put it this way. As a congressman, you passed the biggest financial regulation in a generation. Then you went to work on the board of directors of a bank … I just wonder if going on bank boards and saying that you’re doing it in part because you want to make money is helpful. That’s all.”

“Former members of Congress should not go to work on anything related to what they may have done while they were in Congress? Could I have become an official of a gay-rights organization? I spent more of my time during my years on gay rights than on financial reform. What about housing? I created programs to support affordable housing. I continue to try to work with that. Is that wrong?”

“I think that’s a good place to end it.”

“No, I want an answer to the question.”

“I don’t know enough about the housing sector. I was making—”

“You don’t know that much about banking, either. … If I ruled as off-limits anything I’d worked on when I was in Congress, I guess I’d be a monk.“

Absolutely brutal. Never thought I’d want to buy a banker a beer but this Barney guy is alright.
> FDIC gets its money from either the taxpayer or the Fed prints the money

The piece that your missing is that if they do (like what just happened here) it done essentially a loan. And any funds provided will be recovered via a special assessment on banks. Essentially they will increase their insurance rates that banks pay. It is legally required that the banks themselves cover all costs, and FDIC cannot just take money from tax-payers to pay back private banks.

You are mistaken when you say that the taxpayer pays for it or the Fed prints money and pays for the result. That's not what happens at all.

You can read it from the FDIC directly on SVB

> No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by taxpayers. Shareholders and certain unsecured debt holders will not be protected. Senior management has also been removed. Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law.
Looked pretty good actually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IK-zU51MU4

I had Glass in 2014 and I used it a bit but people continually bothered me when wearing it so I retired it after a couple of weeks. Couldn't do half the stuff the Enterprise edition apparently could.
Yes. That’s not really a challenge through as it would freeze from the bottom up, unlike water. What is difficult is that it would need to be covered in some sort of insulating material on a global scale before the planet is ever warmed up.

The outgassing CO2 could be captured and turned into carbon and oxygen, with the carbon put to industrial use or into biomass and the oxygen feeding a 400 millibar O2 atmosphere in settlements.

But a sudden volcanic triggered burst of CO2 would be a forever ongoing global risk.
Nothing about his thesis suggests that it was done using anything except a typewriter and some engineering (drafting)stencils in common use at the time. Typewriters are capable of arbitrary character alignment (and even rotation with clever abuse of the paper) and engineering stencils were in common usage for all common symbolic figures.

I have produced documents with similar and more complex features using those tools, and Ritchie’s accuracy, although more than sufficient, is unremarkable for someone adept with those tools.

In the analog world, the mechanical and repetitive default spacing of the typewriter was the intrusion, not the ontological rule.

The re-production of the document in its various iterations is remarkable, but consistent with using a layout table (written notes of calculated alignments). It was a common method used to calculate the original spacing for awkward or critical text. You couldn’t just type something and then move it, so you would work it out ahead of time before typing. If you were smart or experienced you would note these calculations as a list of alignments so you could reuse them when you inevitably had to start over. There is no reason to suspect that these alignment notes would not have been reused and iterated upon.

He might easily have done this himself, and certainly would not have found it difficult to find someone with the skills to do so. The fact that most people didn’t bother speaks more to the perceived importance of doing so rather than the physical capability to produce the work artfully using common tools.

He either considered it important to do it somewhat artfully or someone helping him did. It’s no more complex than that.
> To me, it's just like any other data, licensing it to someone is no different than licensing the source code to something you wrote, if it's revokable the whole concept doesn't make sense, and you don't really own it so much as it's held in trust by the state.

We live in a world where “buy this movie” on a streaming site gives you no kind of ownership, merely a temporary license to rent the data until the company decides they don’t want you to have it any more - treating personal data the same way doesn’t seem bad by comparison...
pretty well put ! I'd say that handling climate change could offer jobs which are "useful"...
On the other hand:

* The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found merit to her complaints that high-level executives at Apple violated national labor law [1].

* Apple's HQ is built on an old superfund site, which requires regular testing for VOCs, etc [2].

* FOIA records show VOCs venting into HVAC at the "825 Stewart" site where she worked [3].

But yeah? Maybe she's just making it all up?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/labor-officials-found-that...

[2] https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0...

[3] https://mobile.twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1541536458254...
I'm a medical student and one of my main takeaways from spending time in clinical environments is that a lot of doctors and other staff seem to either not realise or not care about how much time is wasted due to slow, inefficient processes and technology. I was wondering to myself about what it might take to train a model to recognise medical jargon to help doctors rapidly transcribe audio recordings of their consults/spoken recounts of their notes. Not surprised that somebody is looking to make a commercial product of it, there's definitely space for it.
Nreal Air is one. Others are launching too. Without the AR parts it is lighter. Works well as plain monitor without any support software. Only slight problem I have with this is it heats up a bit.
Or.. Maybe you got older and your glasses lost their tint.

See ya mate, have fun in Uzbekistan or wherever you end up.
The New Leader of Russia’s Infamous Sandworm Hacking Unit
> the authors haven't used a typewriter

The authors are the famous Kernighan and Brailsford (!). They spent their life on stuff like this, and know him personally very well. They are talking about spacing much finer than half-character.
I’m surprised to see that Ashley has a Wikipedia page. I would not have thought the allegations to be notable enough. But Wikipedia editors seem to disagree in an Article for Deletion [1], citing that there are high-quality sources. News outlets will easily pick up a story about taking on Apple - or anything anti-tech for that matter - and Ashley herself has been very active about it for years. She runs a consulting firm in her name that seems to focus on megacorporation reform but also advertises herself for leadership consulting. The LLC also runs several websites related to the Apple saga: gjovik.co, ashleygjovik.com, whatsintheair.org, justiceatapple.org, iwhistleblower.org

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
I would pur a starline in my home today if it were available.
I, for one, am happy that this failed for Google, and will be even happier if it would fail for Meta.

Whenever this tech matures (and it will eventually), I rather it not be done by the company whose only goal is to capture even more data about you (and whose OS will be full of other, 3rd party, spyware).

If done by a startup, there is a chance, however tiny, that they can create enough market that a non spyware version of AR glasses will be available for those that want it.

If Google or Meta (or MS) create the AR glass first, they will somehow promote a unhealthy walled in network, and people will not even understand what is wrong till after the next Holocaust.
"AI storm", journals really don't know what bullshit to put out anymore.

Just like all previous AI bubbles, this is a bubble. We'll soon realize that unless you're writing a book, GPT is pretty much useless, and the hype will die down like it always has in the past.

To think that AI who's only capability is to generate text can have any significant impact on anything is simply ridiculous.
1) Take all the bits off the Google Glass frame.

2) Somehow redesign them so they are attachable to your usual glasses.

2a) For those who don't normally wear glasses, they can either use the original, or I dunno, some alternative which doesn't look so embarrassing.

I've no idea why someone hasn't thought of that already.
Good point, and I wholly agree. It's not only that GPT/LLM models are not the solution to everything, as some like to pretend - some applications are even potentially dangerous.
Exactly! Absolutely phenomenal and I think we'll see this in many places. Knowing Google, it will start in the office and then end up dispersed elsewhere, potentially purchasable in the home, but just imagine finding these booths anywhere you could use. We used to have telephone booths! Imagine Starline booths.
TikTok to be banned on UK government phones
Just don't put the founder's mistress in charge of marketing, so nobody can criticize or question their outrageous ridiculous decisions or silly "Ok, Glass" slogan without being sacked.

https://valleywag.gawker.com/meet-the-google-founders-mistre...
> How long? Experts in the field are guesstimating 15 to 25 years form now on to AGI.

Experts in the fields have been predicting that since the invention of computers, so we're closing in on 100 years of "trust me bro it's just around the corner"

AGI won't build a house, AGI won't pick up your trash, AGI won't mine your lithium, &c.

People should get out, a loooooot of jobs are really fucking dumb but really fucking hard to automate. Real life isn't a car assembly line
> 自作自演 (jisakujien ; self-made self-staged ; for example, used for the act of creating a staged situation and then acting as if it were genuine)

The original meaning was a screenwriter-actor performing the script they wrote, which is a perfectly fine thing to do. It can mean 'sockpuppeting', too, and that other use might be more common nowadays, though.
> You're 100% on the money here

Why isn't this in the first paragraph of the introduction on your website?
Demo of an AI agent capable of writing and deploying Node.js server
Especially when you think the Nazis were not radical enough and despise democracy. Then you are surely better of ignoring all politics.

“I hate democracy as I do the plague"

"He disapproved of the Nazis not because they were radical but because they were not radical enough"

(Even though that is a debatable conclusion from the article)
Is this an open invitation to downvote-immune conspiracy theories. If so, I'm in :-)
No worries mate. The examples don't have to be ground-breaking or even relevant (for me), but clear so I can see how I can apply Scriptable.dev to solve my specific problems.

And, since you target developers, add as much info as you have. Don't skip messy stuff like "how to authenticate" or similar.

Good luck!