skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
15,687 words in that article and none of them are wisdom or metaphysics. As long as we won't have a change in our metaphysics (assigning value and deriving meaning from 'having a job' and so on), and we still proud ourselves in being "jobs creators" [1], it's all for nothing, i.e., more shareholder value.

Because of our current metaphysics, instead of living in a world in which we just can't wait and go full throttle towards a future in which AIs take all the jobs, we fear and dread even the minor but very plausible day in which narrow AI will do the trivial task of driving autonomously all the vehicles on all the roads, because that would imply that 200+ millions of jobs will disappear as if they never were.

[1] "Last May, Samsung outlined a plan to pour more than $350 billion into its businesses and create tens of thousands of new jobs through 2026", https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/15/tech/korea-chips-investme...
The java equivalent of task is probably Future or CompletableFuture, which have been in java since 2012 / 2014. In terms of running them, Executors have been there since 2014.

(Obviously this would have been 1:1 with OS Threads)
All very reminiscent of Bronze Orientation Day! (Mitchell & Webb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ
I'm glad you asked. Maybe this is the page we should have shared in the first place: https://www.scriptable.run/why
People need money to live, and even wanting to make a lot of it seems fair enough.

Non competes don’t usually go down very well in these parts, so expecting someone to voluntarily step away from their area of expertise is a big ask.
OpenFisca – collaboratively model laws and regulations
There are a lot of places like this. If you've never seen office space, it's a great movie about this. And that was before the agilists took over our industry. They are not to blame for this. But you could say that kind of thing thrives in environments like that.

Of course not all places are like this. People self select to the type of jobs best suited to them. People with ambition don't tend to want to be hired in soulless environments that are obviously not getting much done. I kind of work my ass off because I like being engaged in doing something technically challenging. It's a way of life. And since technical skills are in demand, finding places to apply them is not an issue.

But there are a lot of people employed in what I would label vanity projects where the whole purpose of the project is to make those that initiated it look good. It's not about the outcome but about being associated with some grand initiative that obviously requires big budgets, a lot of smart looking people, expensive consultants. Big organizations are especially vulnerable to this. Part of the corporate rat race is making yourself look good. And a well proven strategy for that is hoarding a lot of resources for some ambitious sounding project. The bigger the better.

The more soul crushing the environment, the bigger the need for the powers that be in such organizations to assert themselves like this. That's why fintech projects are so boring and lucrative at the same time. Lots of money and thus lots of incentive for people to get some of that. Most of those projects are complete and utter bullshit. Very few banks manage to innovate anything and limit their creativity to how they do accounting. Which obviously went terribly wrong for SVB recently.

Otherwise it's just team after team going through the moves of reinventing wheels endlessly. And usually quite poorly. Most bank software is kind of awful. Government projects are even worse. And since they are so tedious to deal with, consultancies that deal with them, tend to squeeze hard.
Yup, HN loves to rail on banks like HSBC getting busted for money laundering. Well, this is the result - they come up with certain criteria (which is never divulged or else people could work around it) and if you hit it, boom, your account is closed.

It's the natural response to government attempts at clamping down on money laundering. Your individual value as a customer comes no where close to the financial hit from a massive money laundering scandal.
> Of course Chase will stop doing business with you.

Why cant the bank say we are closing your account because of X reason
TIL! This was worth it just to see (in the linked paper) the fascinating properties of Escher's fish
In Iain M Banks's Culture novels, the Minds seem to have an appropriate role in society. Gonna read up on them for some perspective on current developments.
> They could have sleepwalked into a $120B+ market cap
payments market dramatically shifted with emergence of Device Pay (Google/Apple Pay), I think an IPO would've distracted them - staying private for now makes sense, they can focus on differentiating factors.
as a web user, no thanks, I do not trust your peers or really you even. I trust cloudflare because they have earned that trust over decades.

as a web developer, no thanks, I do not want to trust my app’s speed to your profit incentive or margin.
Oh my, what are we about to do now?
You will own nothing and be a King in your own metaverse..
It's a dystopian economic view, you will become a sort of neo slave.
Mmh, are you also describing the American goverment? Remember drug for guns?
> - Support shiny thing -> it's not difficult, everyone can do it

This is not a truism, even though many managers see it like that. Dealing with someone else's mess is way harder than to deal with your own.
This has to be the most inspiring comment on HN ive ever seen. I must live to see this.
> Guess what - a college education is worth a great deal more to society and the individual that gets it than a TV of any size will ever be worth IMHO.

Indeed, but capitalism does not care about society, but rather is there to make the person selling you the TV even richer.
Perhaps you are making the case for public ownership of certain technologies. It's that, or live under the malignant rule of Amazoogle.
A good interface is one that allows the user to accurately assess the tradeoffs involved in using this program over some other solution.

In this vein any interface that requires you instantiate all kinds of library-specific structs just to call the relevant function, and conversely upon return, is hiding the actual surface area of the interaction boundary. This makes the aforementioned asessment harder.

This can of course be a justified tradeoff for intended use cases, and this is brings me to my point: An interface author must conscientiously and deliberately adapt the interface to intended use cases.

The user, on the other hand, cannot peer into the mind of the interface author and must measure the analogous intent and purpose of a given interface in the context of his particular requirements.

A good interface, then, is one which the author has designed and documented so that prospective users

(1) accurately determine its suitability to their specific use case,

and (2) are not suprised if and when they decide to make use of it.

Changing the intended use case by exposing or hiding configurability, inverting control or establishing «sane» defaults is a red herring. It has no bearing on the goodness of the interface. Goodness comes from wether configurabiliy, inversion or defaults are apparent to the user.

Edit: spelling/phrasing
Four things you should know about Rules as Code
Man, he can summarize a lot of content, such as youtube video not played he will first tell you the approximate content of the video, google search, will summarize your search content, combined with chatgpt If you are interested can try to experience this plug-in I developed, he is free
http://glarity.app/
Left: "We should enforce AI be biased in the right way."

Right: "AI is too biased against conservative views."

Worried consumers: "The junk level on the Internet will rise from 90% to 99.99%"

Venture capitalists: "We will make tons of money."

Business owners: "Soon I can fire more people."

Worried employees: "What if AI will replace me."

AI zealots: "AI will just help people do their jobs better and easier."

Government spokespeople: "Some jobs might be at danger but we are working hard to create new jobs."

HN commenters: "We should look more at philosophical implications of AI."

SEO spam farm owner: "Hurray!"

Gamers: "What if NVidia will make AI chips instead of GPUs?"

Stoicists: "We will survive in one way or another."
Why not open source the hardware design, BOM, software and dump it on GitHub?
I've seen many of these clever VR headsets do extra stuff that I don't care about, like allow you to look around a virtual cinema or see other virtual people who might want to virtually watch a movie with me or some nonsense.

I don't want any of that. As the adjacent commenter surmised, I just want a television strapped to my head. I don't want other tourists in my peripheral vision, or screaming babies in my ears.

Also ideally I'd like to be able to watch a movie with my head at any angle. As I understand it, some (most?) VR headsets will keep the movie screen in the same place, so if you recline your seat and your eyes are pointed more towards the ceiling, the headset allows you to look at the ceiling of the virtual room you're in. I don't want this.
You're right, support is difficult. But there's no "glory" in support. there's glory in making something new, everyone being amazed, world-is-changed-forever.

Of course that is pretty much 1% of the journey. Turning that light-bulb moment into an actual product, getting mass market adoption, finding the killer app, that's hard. And anonymous. Keeping customers happy is hard. But again, anonymous.

Are you more impressed with a CV that says "invented iphone" or one that says "worked on iphone 2 to make it better than iphone 1"? Or worse yet "accumulated customer feedback to improve iphone 1, worked with team developing iphone 2"?

So it's not just google (although magnified there.) It's everywhere. You remember who _invented_ the light-bulb, but you've no idea of the people who developed that into a product, with manufacturing, distribution, sales and developed bulb-connector-standards and so on.

In our business it's the same. Here's a new wizz-bang feature. 100% glory. Maintaining feature for the next 20 years, adapting to ever-changing world requirements, keeping customers happy, and using it - anyone can do that. (and nobody wants to - it's too much like hard work.)
The 3 cameras are prominent and expected on Teslas though? The reasoning seems sound.
Is 500g bag of cocaine in Colombia only 10 Euros?
GPT et al are piggybacking on human knowledge in a sense, by using the "predict the next word" method of encapsulating intelligence. But this method of learning imposes a ceiling on the level they can reach - that of the material they are able to train with. They can achieve extraordinary breadth of knowledge from the vast corpus of human written text, but in order to exceed human intelligence in "height", they will need to work directly with nature, as humans do. This, it seems to me, will be where some new ideas will be needed.
Anyone else remember that apple used this same angle to anti promote google glass.

I guess either it has basis in truth or people just repeat rhetoric.
Congrats mate, that's awesome! Did you create a separate AWS account for that to separate from the rest of your stack? How did you achieve isolation for each script? V8 isolates or dedicated Lambda per script? Any other challanges you ran into? We're really keen to learn from others doing similar things.
Because it's not a self-contained thing. Any cloud-device is integrated to back-end servers. Which at google means linked and locked into all kinds of internal things which are not open.
I don't think that's as universally agreed upon as you claim. I know of plenty of women who struggled to lose weight via diet and cardio, and then turned things round when they started eating high protein and lifting weights.

Diet + cardio with no strength work can put people into 'gotta make it through this famine' mode, where their metabolism slows right down to eke out the stores as long as possible.
I'll have to look for the source, but they did follow-up observations with a different instrument and detected phosphine again. In spite of the wide-spread scepticism, the observation appears to be real. The source of the phosphine can be debated, of course.
Sounds like this might be a start of a series of articles on HaD, hopefully they'll cover making a custom endpoint. Because that is also my impression that you need beefy fpga and possibly even proprietary ip cores to play with pcie, but it'd be cool to be proven wrong there
Many (most?) BitTorrent clients support web seeding[1] by a regular HTTP server.

A public registry could do web seeding, with bandwidth restrictions if needed, to ensure availability.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding
I am a programmer but I don't think every newsbit on HN has something to do with programming or CS at large.
Yesterday I tried to get ChatGPT to tabulate some general information and sort it. It failed in many ways (grouping, sorting, inconsistency in field nomenclature, failure to cite sources, etc.). If it can't tabulate data correctly, I'm sure as hell not putting it in charge of motion systems. It'll get there, but not soon.

I think that with few exceptions to make truly useful and cost effective robots we have to design them from scratch for specific applications. In order to do that we need to have a viable highly documented supply chain, well understood fabrication processes and the capacity to assemble the results. And in order to do that at any scale across society we probably need a service provider to deliver "robot-on-demand" - probably flatpacked, with assembly instructions, and open source maintenance and design documentation. This is non-trivial, not in the least because people can't articulate their requirements. Same as software. ChatGPT can help there, but it needs guidance.
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
Please don't post shallow dismissals
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
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I think a lot of HN readers would find Foundry VTT to be a good choice - one-off fee, self-hostable, very, very extensible.

I think it's worth pointing out that VTTs (Foundry, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, etc) don't tend to be good at actual map-making, since the program design and the target users are pretty different, and you're better off with other tools for that. Some of them export into a format that's easily importable into your VTT of choice, complete with walls and such, which helps getting started.
Wow, that looks amazing. It's a really comprehensive guide.

> This could have been a paper book but the Rust ecosystem evolves pretty quickly so an online guide that is constantly updated makes a bit more sense.

:-)

My question:

In which scenarios would you recommend to switch to Rust? When does it provide a clear advantage over Python?
This was a really fun game to make.

We've been playing scrabble together for years so it's nice I'm finally competent enough to code this online version.

I posted it on reddit and now over 1000 people are playing against my dad everyday haha.
Eh, I'm not someone who is easily impressed, but I'm going to say LLMs are transformative (ba-dum-dum-sheeeesh).

I use copilot, it definitely saves me time. At the moment just minor things, but there's no arguing, there's simply no doubt.

ChatGPT will transform forum comments. Soon human written messages like this one will be swamped by machine-assisted argue-bots. And sales-bots.

Other LLMs are doing images, which will be much the same. You can illustrate your book automatically, pretty much now. You can generate marketing images, now.

Everything creative will be affected. Music, books, movies.
> > For the first time in history, it’s become realistic to truly automate intellectual tasks. The leverage this provides is completely unprecedented.
>
> The essay also mentions how humans are still the best at manual labor, and how government can work with humans directing the AI as it runs things every more efficiently. It doesn't touch on which humans wield that leverage, naively assuming it'll be all of us in a cozy democracy.

Which wolves wielded leverage over the dog community, after humans determined that dogs were better suited to helping them achieve their goals?
Do they? Seems to me most people just put up with the piss because the spot is convenient.
Check out apprentice.io

The founder initially fell in love with Google Glass and went on to build an AR/VR startup around it.

They are life sciences focused, but I see no reason it couldn't fit your use case.
Came here to share the same One page dungeon generator, direct link https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon
I've seen a few adverts for the Nreal Air, and it does look interesting. For $380 though I'd like to try them once before buying (and I don't trust the impartiality of any YouTube review people). Do you know if it's possible to try them anywhere?
Even after this event they project this psychobabble. Amazing really.
Although, note that only prevents you from engaging in future wrong-doing with a company; you can still get in trouble if you participated in crimes -- or were aware of them -- during your time at a company, after you leave.
What a joy to parse!
The digestive systems of carnivorous plants
> @op the obvious question - what were you doing with the account?

Geez... Let's let the guy have some privacy. Whatever happened to presuming innocence?

If OP is in the wrong, no advice we give is going to get them out of it, but if they're in the right, we might be able to help them. Trying to find fault in OP seems pointless.
SQLite in the Cloud: The Future of Lightweight Databases
https://www.sec.gov/answers/form8k.htm
It's nice!

My only gripe is: any time you click away from the tab, when you click back to it it resets the screen (shuffles the pile and clears any letters you had placed)
Pip is a good alternative for numpy, it doesn't need conda. I think mkl is the same.
The way i think about the situation is:

1. Platform threads + blocking APIs = comfortable to use, does not scale to many connections

2. Platform threads + non-blocking APIs = painful to use, scales to many connections

3. Virtual threads + blocking APIs = comfortable to use, scales to many connections

So, at the moment, if you want to write software which scales to many connections (which not everybody needs to do, but some do), you have to suffer for it. With virtual threads, it will be a lot more pleasant.

As a concrete example, with non-blocking architecture, there is no way to have an InputStream or OutputStream which streams an arbitrarily large amount of data over the network without buffering it all. Because the contracts of those classes say that they block when there is no data or space available! If you look at the APIs of web servers based on non-blocking APIs (eg [1], [2]), they want you to read or write the whole body in one go, or maybe in chunks, which will be pushed to you if you're reading. You can only build a stream on top of that by buffering everything, or using another thread, which destroys the advantage of non-blocking architecture. There is loads of useful I/O machinery that is built on top of streams, like JSON parsers and generators, so your choice is either not using that, or accepting buffering or extra threads.

With virtual threads, you just use blocking I/O, servers and clients can expose streams for request and response bodies, and it's trivial to use any I/O machinery you like. It's also far easier to write your own.

[1] https://undertow.io/javadoc/1.3.x/io/undertow/io/Receiver.ht...

[2] https://undertow.io/javadoc/1.3.x/io/undertow/io/Sender.html
One solution would be to train the AI to generate notes to itself about sessions, so that rather than reviewing the entire actual transcript, it could review its own condensed summary.

EDIT: Another solution would be to store the session logs separately, and before each session use "fine-tuning training" to train it on your particular sessions; that could give it a "memory" as good as a typical therapist's memory.
All of it is a bit silly to trust companies with things like this when there are standard techniques which have stood the test of time and are *far* simpler - tar.zst.gpg or squash.gpg, luks-encrypted qemu images, etc.
Things done locally are just inherently better, because it's far simpler tech, and you actually know what's happening rather than just blindly trusting some sketchy company.
Sure! https://filetransfer.io/data-package/8hxKAiaH#link

I wasn't sure where to upload them, and that link is only good for 50 downloads. Can put them somewhere else if you know a better location that doesn't require signup.
Why do you work at whatever job you work at? If they said “we’ll keep everything else exactly the same, but starting Monday, we’ll only be paying you minimum wage”, would you change anything?

I like what I do; I like my colleagues; I’m proud of what our teams have accomplished, but I’m very clear that I work for money.
I had the exact same thoughts today regarding the science fiction material. Almost every single viewpoint I see on here is colored by that lens. I get there is good reason for that but on the other hand, very little is actually similar to the sci-fi material we read about. Yes there are parallels but if you look at it objectively, which isn't actually that easy sometimes, we actually do live in reality, not the movies. I really sympathize with your point that we have very little actual idea where it goes.
US Air Force MQ 9 camera footage: Russian Su 27 Black Sea intercept
Interesting. Thanks for the explanations. NYC has similar limitations but there are plenty of large breeds. Maybe the first bullet about weight limits is the key differentiator.
i cannot find an explanation of the TL & DL tiles
In Bolivia, maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_in_Bolivia
Yeah, it is double edge sword. I wonder what could be done to prevent payments from going to fraudulent account.
Hmm yes ok I just removed the refresh now.

The reason it was there is some days I opened the tab on my iphone and for some reason it still showed the yesterdays result rather than the new day's letters.

Will have a think of a better way to force the refresh of the letters on a new day.
lol, of course. I hadn't realised it is so long since I wrote any Haskell...
It's funny that everyone replies with "That language exists already.", and then proclaim it to be either: TypeScript, Python, Swift, Scala or F# etc.

Why is it funny? Because GPT-4 was probably trained on examples from all of those languages, and has produced an averaged mashup of languages: so everyone can find something which is similar in it, and then pattern-match it to a (rather mainstream) language that they use!