skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn how drug research organizations are saving time to train their AI models by gaining access to pools of patient data that were unattainable before using confidential computing with Vikas Bhatia (Microsoft) and Mary Beth Chalk (BeeKeeperAI), tomorrow at OC3. https://www.oc3.dev/registration
You could say the old meaning of gay is quite...gay
We are going to hear a lot more of this kind of behavior from super talented and experienced people.

But for the less experienced, AI is a starting point. And depending on the kind of person you are, the kind of upbringing you have, and the kind of education you got, you will be motivated to edit and improve what the AI gives you.

The other thing I think this will help improve upon are those idiots and scumbags who give commands that are not very well thought out and then yell at talented people for not following instruction because they filled in the blanks with their own ideas. Giving it to an AI will show ridiculous their commands were. (sorry, end rant)
The Law of Diminishing Returns: Doing More with Less
Why would they have any more compared to any other industry?
And when you want to create/edit/delete/import custom prompts? AI is a commodity now and a great UX drives adoption.
It matters to the business manufacturing the cameras a lot. I worked PM at a smallish PTZ camera manufacturer in Minnesota and we chased certification from MS, Zoom, and Google for YEARs. Constant moving of goal posts, straight up ignoring us because our volumes were somewhat low because we focused on high end education and live event cameras, and continual changes to the standard we were developing against was common. These companies used the certification to get access to data, keep their experience a walled garden, and disadvantage anyone who didn't play ball with the big soft client owners.

We lost a lot of business because the people specing projects would require certification. It was a no brainer for them because then you would not need to worry about compatibility. Execs of course got on the Teams bandwagon and wanted it for the same reason. I feel this kind of walled garden stunts innovation and prevents smaller manufacturers from entering markets which will lead to a handful of companies controlling exactly what happens in tech behind meetings. Not the end of the world when good enough rains supreme. I just personally enjoyed when meeting USB specs were the only hurdle we had to worry about.

Out of the business now. But figured I would share since I was on the receiving end of this anticompetitive marketing nonsense.
Yes, 1000%. Especially when it comes to AI. Meta has an excellent team of ML engineers, many of whom are in exceptionally high demand right now. If I were a ML engineer at Facebook, _especially_ if I was working remotely, I'd be sending out a ton of applications right now. I bet they end up getting an easier, more meaningful, higher paying job.

I'm an AI research engineer who was recently laid off and this was my experience.
No, in many cases it's a much slower agonizing death. But you might get a gold watch at the end!
https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/how-many-nfts-are-act...

66.44% of NFTs are HTTP (centralised servers) and only 23.81% are on IPFS even when taking into account the gateways
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107033
Reminds me of the google april fools prank in 2009 where they announced gmail would be able to read and respond to emails for you.

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/gmail_autopilot
You’re mistaking the difference between two ends of the world. I have lived and worked in both.

In the US a Lyft/Uber driver owns their vehicle, has an app they can log in and out of any moment they like. The license and registration is checked, the car is regularly inspected. (There are schemes where you can lease out the car but that is another subject). The driver has a chunk of their income taken by Uber/Lyft and they have to pay for fuel and other expenses. Everything is insured. The money isn’t great but it’s your business whether you are “free” doing it. I have done this.

In Poland, the car will often be owned by someone who owns a fleet. The account in the app will be fake. The immigrant driver will be working under another name for the “fleet” owner, and the car will (often) be an uninspected beater. Doing the whole Uber thing was also entirely illegal until a certain point (I don’t know where this is now). So who knows what kinds of corrupt slave relationships were/are going on there. I have not done this, but I live in a Polish city with one of those LG factories.

Factories and how shitty those are is a irrelevant to the topic of this thread.
> Technology has reached this point a long time ago.

Your sources and mine must differ. As far as I know, renewable energy sources cannot yet guarantee a steady energy flow, to source big industry, when it's cloudy and not windy for a week.

I hope we'll get there soon, I really hope.
The grandparent is clearly not talking about people fresh out of boot camp or doing basic web dev. The job market for junior devs has been cold for ages, with thousands people applying even for low-paying positions.

As much as people like to think that developers are just cogs on wheels, companies still want experienced devs (experienced senior and above), and they are still difficult to hire.
If you sincerely believe that you’re a shining star being dragged down by your co-workers, get a new job. A software engineer who sincerely cares about the impact of their work on the customer is very valuable and you’ll find happy, positive, kind co-workers at lots of companies who will value you every single day. Don’t waste your life being miserable surrounded by people who drag you down.
In that case I honestly hope that you have luck with this diet. But keep in mind that millions of people in the 90's would have used health reasons as the reason they are cutting out animal fats and switching to margarine. It's hard to tell what's a harmful diet fad until it's over.
It's in the second-chance pool, https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
If you know someone who plays Minecraft on their Switch, or on their phone, or on their tablet, or on their Xbox, or if they play it on their Windows PC and were therefore railroaded into getting the Bedrock Edition, you can't play with them from Linux or macOS. You need a Windows PC with Bedrock Edition to play with them. Minecraft is a perfect example of Microsoft taking a cross platform game and using their power to turn previously well supported non-Microsoft platforms into second class citizens.
According to Gizmodo, Meta put $13.6 billion dollars into “Reality Labs” (VR) in 2022. Simply eye-watering. It’s almost half of Iceland’s GDP.
> I think the auto light settings on the camera need the Windows software too

Ew! That also means the light is software controlled rather than inherently tied to the camera being powered on. You want those on the same circuit so it's physically impossible for some malicious software to turn on the camera without the light!
I worked at a company where the VPs loved to write long company wide emails. One time HR wrote "Why working at <insert this company name> is great Part 1". (If you write part 1 and part 2 corporate emails you're already doing email wrong.) They did a layoff between the time Part 1 was sent and Part 2 was sent. The scale of absurdity was difficult to measure with that one.

I was so happy when that company got acquired and the new company CEO showed up and announced that first level managers and below were all safe from layoffs, everyone above that was on a case by case basis, and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around".

He was so right. Scored a lot of points there, never heard an executive of a large company say that so bluntly before.
> Arguably, Unix pathnames are more discoverable than arbitrary Docs links. But the idea is the same, isn't it?

The discoverability is a pretty key difference. If google had a feature that allowed you to enumerate all edit links in their system, then those links would effectively br world writeable.

> I would say that Google Workspaces' implementation of "Anyone with the Link" authorization was never intended to depend on secrecy (or obscurity or what have-you).

If that was true, the link would just use a document ID, the use of a cryptographic hash does imply some intention that these files won't simply be world writeable and that access is intended to be controlled by sharing of the link.

In the specific case, the people using the feature failed to do either. They didn't treat the file as world writeable and they didn't treat the link like a secret. If they had done either, that would have helped.
Interesting hypothesis. If it is true, what does it say about social networks like FB if in-person networks provide better trust building than online ones.
yep - it is the culture that determines this. Ive worked at full remote companies that took time to mentor juniors and it worked fine
This actually sounds more like a "Mechanics' Lien" type of situation, as opposed to some kind of political intrigue.
> The one exception to that is JavaScript, where NaNs pop up significantly more than in most other languages - parseInt() will return a NaN if you give it an invalid number, most other languages a function called “parseInt” wouldn’t return floating point.

Ahh, every time this conversation about how SQL Nulls violate reflexive property of equality, people are like "so do NaNs" and I'm wondering "who are these people who are dealing with NaNs all the time?".

I'm mostly a back-end and DevOps guy, so I don't write that much JS. I didn't know that JS used NaN the way other languages would use Null or exceptions for numerical operations.

...

Also that's terrible.
Please don't use the checkout, why should corporations worth billions and tens of billions (I guess that's what Walmart is worth) get to outsource some of their work onto their clients?
I don't think anyone gets funded to do this kind of out of the box research anymore. Companies expect immediate results and a strict following of agile processes. If you're not tightly iterating a granular week by week towards a very specific task they don't want you around.
I don't know that catch-up is entirely fair.

My understanding is that Google has always been ahead (at least until recently) - but the difference is that one of their competitors ships.

OpenAI has a bias to action. DeepMind has a bias to grand-challenge stunts. Google has a bias to perpetual validation.
> he predicted [this ...] he predicted [that ...]

Don't say "predicted":

> The problem with saying that Engelbart "invented hypertext", or "invented video conferencing", is that you are attempting to make sense of the past using references to the present. [...] Almost any time you interpret the past as "the present, but cruder", you end up missing the point. But in the case of Engelbart, you miss the point in spectacular fashion. [...] If you truly want to understand NLS, you have to forget today. Forget everything you think you know about computers. Forget that you think you know what a computer is. Go back to 1962. And then read his intent.

<http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/>

Previously:

- A few words on Doug Engelbart <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988615>

- A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17194456>
There's nothing better at diluting empathy and care for humans, not to mention creating evil, than diluting responsibility.
Thanks for sharing. It's really quick with responses. At least compared to couple of other frontend projects for chatgpt/OpenAI API clients I've used in the past few days.
then you download 1xdeveloper's extension :)

though i just copy and paste the bookmarklet and change the prompt
+1 to this. Our small company hired our first full-time junior dev last year. They’ve been a fantastic addition to the team. We have also been doing 100% remote for over a decade, so our existing processes helped I imagine, too. But I’ve got another data point that a junior dev can certainly thrive doing 100% remote work.
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They can be as clean as they want (and sure, many people have probably worked a lot to achieve that), but in the end, the oil will become CO2 and our problem will become worse.
> no agency with a financial incentive to support the individual drivers

There is a massive political operation trying to represent drivers. They just didn't bother asking the drivers what they want, they made assumptions for them. That's why we have this multi-year string of bills, propositions and lawsuits.
True, but once you fulfill all the requirements, it's just about slow bureaucracy, the same it is for everything.

It isn't what could be described as malevolence, see those US green card policies that make the processing time for some cases take decades.
Basics of Olympiad Inequalities (2008) [Samin Riasat] [pdf]
That post you link seems skeptical about her three start ups due to her being a political science major. But if you look at her LinkedIn account they appear to be actual start ups, just not tech focused. But it seems like the type of skill set that I would look for in a product manager.

People who go out and make things happen are rare. Regardless of major.
Fortunately for middle and line managers, the vaunted 1:1 hasn't been automated yet, nor does it scale, so the technology doesn't allow managers to have more than, say, 60 direct report effectively. Meeting with each of them for 1 hour every other week only leaves 20 hours every other week for work that isn't a 1:1. I think middle management will be safe for a little while longer.
Maybe evil is mothballing technology that could benefit society because of potential impacts to your ad business.
If insurance company had assessed the risk as 0.2% the premium would have been miniscule. But they still didn't pay it, or the risk was not 0.2%?
It’s almost like the economic system which all these companies are based in demands profit over improving the lives of people…

Weird.
Good to hear that is now a feature in Ventura, better late than never... The enraging experience I had that prompted my complaint happened on Monterey.
Managers write novels because employees complain about lack of transparency and communication. I promise you no manager wants to write some novel about how layoffs are good for company, but they just or they get skewered for not communicating.
It's a shame that the screencast has no sound. I was curious about what it would sound like. I could try it myself via the netlify app but I don't feel very comfortable sharing my API key somewhere...
> he (Zuck) does not trust his employees unless he can see them.

You know that's not true. Facebook has offices around the world. No single person can "see" 80,000 people in any meaningful way.
Right, but look at your original comment?

> What about keeping hardware I/O thin, and handling "quality, reliability, and interoperability" at driver level?

Almost all operating systems come with a generic, PnP driver, that can handle most things with a meh-OK level compatibility. For example, the Windows 11 generic driver for Intel graphics causes a black bar on the bottom of my 4K screen until I install the official, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink, Intel driver for my device; but it's serviceable.

I would dream of a world where everything was handled by firmware in-device, so that we wouldn't almost ever need anything more than the basic PnP drivers that come with the OS (even though we are nowhere near that yet). You are asking why we can't go back to having customized drivers for everything. If we could have generic drivers for everything, making new operating systems for hardware would be so much easier, and we wouldn't need to fork the kernel a bajillion times for everything. Niche operating systems like FreeBSD, Haiku OS, Redox, ReactOS - they would also become so much more usable considering they'll never have the manpower to write a proper driver for every device.

On top of that... drivers rarely survive operating system refactoring. Linux doesn't have a stable driver interface at all between versions - so it's either get your drivers upstream past nitpicking and sometimes political maintainers - or keep your proprietary fork up-to-date until you get bored because you've got a new product out this year (story of almost every cheap Raspberry Pi clone board). Windows has a stable driver interface... but they still change it every few releases (Vista was a big one, 10/11 are going in on DCH), and you can't use your Windows XP drivers on Windows 11 [Note]. Firmware-on-device means that if your driver doesn't get maintained or updated, you aren't SOL.

[Note] This is also why... "what's with hospitals still using Windows XP?" Well, their software only runs on Windows XP, and often, the drivers only run on Windows XP; so even if the software could run on Windows 11, it couldn't talk to the medical device, which could cost... tens of thousands to replace.
https://www.evergreenenergy.co.uk/heat-pump-guides/how-long-...

I don't see why a heat pump wouldn't run for a long time. I imagine many people want to replace old heat pumps because newer ones are more efficient.

But otherwise this is quite old and widely available tech, it should be possible to replace individual components that break down.
And the good middle manager (yes, they exist ! and yes, they are useful !) thinks "the not very useful part of my job can be automated, yay more time for the actually interesting/useful thing !"
They can’t speak over all the cooling noise coming from the GPU farm.
Exploration vs. Exploitation (2016)
why, its canada, outside could be cold and snowy
and while it seem crowded, we cannot tell for sure

yes i read the articles that said, when chicken are put in very tight place or in areas where they are too crowded, i that they can start to behave aggressive towards each other

that being said, how can we tell if this is too crowded for chickens?
I like Macs, but was pretty surprised the first time a package needed xcode, and I saw the size needed to download (several GB)
The irony with statements like these is that they are themselves ad-hoc ethical statements.

Whatever "reasonable middle ground" you find, you'd have to make logically sound ethical arguments. This is what these people do for a living, and they are very well trained in those matters.

As programmers and engineers we are also trained in logic, use it every day. But that typically pales in comparison of what philosophers do. They deal with much richer logical systems and can precisely apply them to statements and arguments.

When applied to ethics, they typically end up with much more radical conclusions that we are dealing with here. In fact the resulting initiatives are already softened compromises and a "reasonable middle ground" before it even clashes with policy making.
That sounds disgusting.

I would note that nobody is forcing anyone to eat like this. Perhaps the root problem is one of self-control and health awareness. Also see: smoking.
Since we are now at the stage where it's difficult to distinguish well reasoned human discourse from that generated by AI, I think that deeply linked citation systems in the form of knowledge graphs will grow in importance. Otherwise it will be too easy for AI generated discourse to begin referencing itself, introducing biases and clinging to blatant falsehoods without an easy way to discover their origin and fix the problems
Did Zuck use ChatGTP to write the letter? It sounds so soulless...
Facebook-owner Meta to cut 10k staff
SFSQL does have a rules API not implemented in our Hosted Offering. We have plans to enable it.
You have to be joking?

My wife and I both work full time and have a toddler. You can cook soup, prep ingredients before hand, use a slow cooker. You can meal prep. You can cook more, so there is left overs, I could go on and on. If there is a will, it is easy to eat mostly home cooked meals.
There was duration risk, but this risk was amplified because newly issued bonds made up a huge percentage of the bank's holdings. This was because of the massive amount of stimulus during the pandemic.
I asked chatgpt how common false springs are in the U.S.

> False springs are not uncommon in the United States, and their frequency and severity can vary depending on the region and weather patterns. In general, false springs are more common in areas with a continental climate, where there can be large temperature fluctuations in the spring.

According to a study by the USA National Phenology Network, false springs occur on average once every three years in the United States, with the highest frequency in the Midwest and the lowest in the southern and western regions. However, the frequency of false springs can vary greatly from year to year, and some regions may experience multiple false springs in a single season.

False springs can have significant impacts on agriculture, particularly on fruit crops such as peaches, cherries, and apples, which are vulnerable to frost damage during early growth stages. In recent years, false springs have become more frequent and severe due to climate change, leading to increased risks for farmers and gardeners who rely on healthy plants for their livelihoods.
Ideas are meaningless, execution is everything.
> you can't understand that you're probably larping thinking its culture

We’ve been telling others their culture isn’t real for about as long as we’ve been inventing ethnicities.
A flip-side from the consumer perspective.

The company who installed the windows in our house operated this way. They have a network of contractors for installs.

The contractor that showed up was accompanied by their general contractor who managed the relationship with the window company and customer.

The general contractor came with business cards, was friendly, and kicked off a 15 minute conversation where we walked around the house and made a list of everything they could help with later down the road.

The lead for them wasn’t the window install, it was follow up business once they built a relationship. The window install was an ad for them.
You mean to tell me that my joke that I should get the item for free when it doesn't ring up; you mean to tell me I'm not hilarious and that the cashier's heard it before?
If you are convinced it's the best thing for you please vote him to be king.
The issues is the safety folks keep making the trolly logic run over the ethics folks, and the ethics folks keep pointing out an ethical safety AI person would prioritize sacrificing themselves.
Ask HN: Can Google Play store no longer be disabled?
Like many of you, my bank requires me to install a phone app to access my account. I must do this thru the google play store
(other libre app stores are not supported).

My workaround is to disable google play store after the banking app is installed.

Today this stopped working. My banking app locks me out unless google play store is actively running. I've had to
reinstall the app and go thru security checks twice today to get my banking app to work.

I am now resigned to having google play store running constantly on my phone, monitoring my apps and providing helpful advice.

After all, we can't live without our bank accounts.... wait, maybe I could sign up to google pay instead...

Have others noticed this change in the Android security API which means the monitoring app _must_ be running at all times?
Somebody else will make it sound empathetic /s
Most successful businesses aren’t based on new ideas. All the big tech companies copied existing businesses, they just did it better.
TikTok's highly unlikely to get banned, and if it was then 10 new replacements would pop up overnight. Facebook isn't anything like TikTok and likely never could be. Instagram might get close but even then its not the same thing.

Also the display ad market is only useful if you've got people to advertise to. The more Facebook continues to turn into 'social networking for boomers' the less and less they'll make.