skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a meme that people love and there's some truth to it, but also a number of ways in which it's inaccurate.

Sure you can get promoted for launching a new thing, but you can also get promoted for fixing a first pass implementation, for scaling something from a small user base to a large user base, and so on, as long as you can show the "impact" of the change – whether that's revenue, savings, productivity, improved UX, etc.

It's possible that up at the top there's more of a focus on shipping new things, but I don't think that's something that 99% of Googlers need to obsess over, and it doesn't reflect the bulk of the work actually being done.
I disagree. Let's leave it there I guess.
Awesome-bits: A curated list of bitwise operations and tricks
Here's a take I havent heard yet. ChatGPT understands language and we've got troves of content archived/realtime that can't be reviewed manually. Now there's a tool that can understand text. Govs must be chomping at the bit to ask, "Hey ChatGPT, does any of this content seem illegal?" where illegal is a broad term, especially the authoritarian ones. Seems like an amazing surveillance tool to flag things for human review.
You're totally undermining your own argument by using "shell script" instead of "python script".
I still don't understand why this keeps being upvoted! The story must be of some wider interest to people, but as of the time of my posting this, nobody seems to have been able to explain why!
I would need a step by step guide, but I would love to test it on my Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. It has 16gb ram and I have about 350 GB available.
As they say: "there are languages that everyone hates, and there are those that no-one uses." ;-)
If your state doesn't have a specific consumer/financial agency, then these sort of things generally fall to the state attorney General office. You could file a complaint with them.

I wouldn't be surprised if they can't do anything in this case though. It sounds like you got flagged related to some law enforcement activities and there's likely some legal action that will come your way. Their financial powers are basically unbridled and even places like the CFPB have basically no recourse.
I say the idiomatic translation of a function named insertion_sort() should not use the stdlib sort. The algorithm used by Rust’s stdlib is PDQsort.

In general translations should stay as close to the original as possible, while eliminating any possibility of segfaults.
Reminds me of Haskell package "diagrams" [1]

[1] https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/diagrams/
I find it interesting that this LinkedIn post does not directly address or attempt to dismiss these rather strong allegations
What does FM mean in this context? I already see it mentioned in one top level comment and in the first thread but I don't see a definition here or on the project page.

Edit: after adding Large Language Model to my query it seems I found the explanation: FM stands for "Foundational Model".

https://kagi.com/search?q=llm+large+language+model+fm&r=no&s...
I don’t think it will compromise that image at all. Siri is locked on your device. Face ID can now protect your drivers license in several states.
Yes, but in for example the HSBC case that didn't happen, I think (might be wrong, it's been years since I looked at this stuff). Although there were MRAs, there wasn't any intermediate step I think between that and prosecution?

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112shrg76061/html/C...

Senator Levin. Did the OCC ever cite a violation of law for
noncompliance with AML statutes prior to 2010? Do you know, Ms.
Dailey?

Ms. Dailey. I do not believe we did prior to 2010.

[...]

Senator Levin. What about informal enforcement action? Was
there any informal enforcement action taken against HBUS prior
to 2010?

Ms. Dailey. There was not.

I can accept that this isn't how the system is meant to work, although the core problems of subjectivity remain even if there are warnings. For instance, wasn't a key pillar of the case against HSBC that it didn't consider all Mexican clients to be high risk, and the regulators decided they should have done? We might consider that this was ~15 years ago, in the environment of 2023 such a classification might actually be considered racism! So exactly what the standards are for things like "high risk", "politically exposed persons", "structured transactions" and so on are always open to interpretation.
Then the button should say ‘license’. Lying to buyers is simply not right.
I saw the video when it was new, and knew about Coriolis force since my childhood when my father (incorrectly) told me the thing about the direction water rotates when draining.

Its importance goes down when the parent object gets bigger compared to the contained object, which is why it's not important to draining but is important to hurricanes.
Maybe one day, some of us will see the end of the JIRA backlog ?
"fake gravity via rotation" cities in space would be cheaper, have fewer catastrophic failure modes, and be easy (relatively) to construct in far more desirable locations.

It would be better to place the rotating cities inside Ceres or other asteroid, so you don't need to build thick walls to stop radiation and meteorites.

Also you are already in a body you can mine and has a small gravity to build farms. Ceres is a good place to have a midway station to send ships further out the solar system. But another nice location would be an asteroid with an elliptic orbit and perihellion near Earth, aphelion near Ceres, that could act as a shuttle.
Show HN: Musikalia, an iOS Music Player for Kids
Hi HN!

Yesterday I finally released Musikalia, an iOS music player I built for my son, so he could be in charge of the music. It is my first SwiftUI project, and I have been (very) slowly building it since December '21. It aims to be fun and easy to use for small children, while not being another addictive app. We are using it almost daily, and in our (n=1) experience, it achieves just that: my 3-year-old loves to listen to music using Musikalia, but at the same time it never feels like he has problems leaving it again.

I've also written a bit on the back-story on my blog: https://harry.vangberg.name/posts/musikalia/

I hope this may be useful for other families!

- Harry
To be fair, the gravity thing is pretty hard to fix. You can imagine putting rotating sunshield/mirrors into orbit to fix the day/night/temperature problem, but mass is mass.

The Earth weighs more than everything else between the sun and Jupiter combined, and Venus is 80% of that.
Most software developers are doing nothing else than generating text - code. And if you take into account only this industry it definitely had significant impact on society just within a few decades.

Current AI is not good enough to replace software developers but in 10-20 years maybe will be good enough to replace just every second one == 50% of devs
I read this in a different key.

>Especially when you think the Nazis were not radical enough and despise democracy.

More likely he didn't trust democracy and by being radical he thought about taking the power instead of using the democracy and its institutions like elections, like the nazis were doing at that time.

He despised the nazis for killing jews and mistreating russian war prisoners. His son was sent in a suicidal mission and died because he said Germany should lose the war.

He clearly disliked the bourgeoisie and capital owners and he envisioned a different world, more like in ancient Sparta where avery many should be a hero - like he tried to be in WWI. That's why the article made references to Iliad.

He clearly sees more order in the natural world than in the world in which he lived. He wanted to see the same kind of order and reasoning in the world surrounding him, but the world surrounding him was much more absurd.

At first he was trying to change the world in a quite donquijotesque manner. Realising he can't change the world and there aren't many people with his vision and wanting to rally in that mission, he stepped out and observed the world from his refuge with the clinical interest of an enthomologist.

Later, he derived pleasure from building imaginary worlds.
That's why Russia has to secure and hold on to all those additional lands to avoid war coming to its core turf.
> My initial impressions are that GPT-4 is nearly as competent as a human DM

I wonder what kind of campaigns we're talking about here. I mean, if it's just mindless modern encounter-based design, sure, I can believe that. Kicking down doors, rolling for initiative, GOTO 10.

But even mildly more moderate DM work like re-jiggering set up monsters to react to the actions of the players (in e.g. a Caves of Chaos type of setup)?
>Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, Slack, Snowflake, Zoom, Palantir and like a hundred more – did just that. Stripe choosing to stay public was a deliberate decision by the founders, one that did not work out.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "worked out". For Stripe employees, maybe it didn't.

For the public at large, many of whom are underwater owning shares in the companies you mentioned, maybe it did?
>> Do you think you have a soul or something? Otherwise how is your own
Intelligence something a computer can’t replicate?

Strictly speaking, it is for you to say why you think that a digital computer,
which is nothing like a human, can be intelligent like a human.

Btw, I see this quip about souls often on HN, in response to comments that AGI
is impossible and it is invariably introduced in the conversation by the
person arguing that AGI is possible. I have never, ever seen anyone argue that
"digital computers can't be intelligent because they don't have a soul". I
don't even know where that "soul" bit comes from, probably from something
someone said centuries ago? In any case it's irrelevant to most modern
conversations where most people don't believe in the supernatural, and have
other reasons to think that AGI may be impossible.

And why wouldn't they? For the time being, we don't have anything anyone is prepared to call "AGI".
We also don't have a crystal ball to see into the future and know whether it
is possible, or not. For all we know, it might be a theoretical possibility,
but a practical impossibility, like stable wormholes, or time travel, or the
Alcubierre Drive. We will know when we know, not before.

Until then, invoking "souls", or any other canned reply, only seems to serve
to shut down curious conversation and should be avoided.

To say it in very plain English: you don't know if AGI is possible, you only
assume it to be, so let's hear the other person say what they assume, too. Their opinion is just as interesting as
yours, and just as an opinion.
I expect this is yet another example of founder conflict which instead of being resolved through dialogue and lots of listening to the other side, has just escalated to an outright open war in the open. It's a shame, but it happens.
Imagine an AI spawning many parallel instances of itself, all feeding back into the same conscience. So many coordination problems just gone. All the resources humans spend fighting each other in some form or another...

And entirely depending only on itself. No need for any external being. That could prove very deadly to us, since "we need each other" is the core pillar forming our society. A king needs his peasants. An AI? Could just boot up another instance...
There were some decent use cases I've heard off; supplier compliance got quite big during Covid and AFAIK stayed big. Instead of flying out a team to inspect a factory, just ask someone to walk around the factory wearing Glass. Zero notice, much less chance to cheat, waaaay cheaper. That and documentation lookup should have made for decent enterprise sales. Probably not big enough to satisfy the big G.
This is a prime example of what I mean by my remark above that the original commenter was totally undermining their own argument by using "shell script" instead of "python script".

Shell scripts can't create intermediate bitmap images in memory and operate on them with normal drawing and filtering apis like opencv, without lossily serializing and deserializing them as jpg files, or even operate on json structures directly.

It would be a much stronger argument if your example used python and opencv or any other normal library, instead of incredibly inefficient and hard to write and maintain invocations to full blown unix commands run in separate processes instead of direct library calls to manipulate in-memory images.

There's no reason "AI" code generation has to use the worst possible language and technique to generate code to solve a problem.

It's like having a food replicator from Star Trek: TNG, and asking it to make you rancid dog food instead of lobster.
#3 doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. There are no epa actions and it seems like a routine inspection to make sure controls are in place and proceeding to plan. Presenting it as something bad or substantiating her claim that work area is unsafe is stupid or duplicitous.

#1 is unrelated to her claim. Just because a company with tens of thousands of workers does something bad doesn’t mean all claims are valid.

#2 is not unusual so not remarkable unless those inspections show something dangerous. I think this is more a misunderstanding of how superfund sites are frequently remediated and used.

All this seems like a shrug and reminds me of 10 hour YouTube videos where someone is hysterically ranting because someone neglected to say “bless you” once and the video hypothesizes a lot of imaginary backstory while showing clips of unrelated explosions (not saying “bless you” is rude, Nazis are bad, here’s a video of goosestepping Nazis).
If I get a positive response, might as well release it publicly.
Meanwhile Russian official channels say that this was an accident... if that video doesn't shut up the people that believe this wasn't purposeful I don't know what will.

Also, given that this was in international airspace it's technically an act of war, the only reason it probably won't escalate is that it was an unmanned aircraft but if it had been manned then there would be a completely different response.
In today's world you're pretty much forced to own a smartphone if you want to have a “normal” life.

And half of all US taxpayers pay Apple for this privilege. That still doesn’t mean Apple is taxpayer funded.

Hear me out, this may sound crazy, but maybe we should call something taxpayer funded if … it’s actually funded by taxes. Not if it is simply used by a person who may or may not pay taxes.
Relational Nets over Attractors, a Primer
I tried playing "VERB" with the "V" on the first triple letter tile, but when I tapped Submit, nothing happened. This was on the current daily puzzle. Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong?
Like, this is neat. And fun. Small, simple and chill.

So what I'm about to say is not specifically a knock against your game.

What I've noticed lately on HN is this weird split where everything has to either be super basic - like, this game could have been literally written with BASIC in 1984 - or else it has to be an abstract conversation about the future of AI. With very little in the middle.

What would be in the middle? I don't know, like, games that people spent a couple years making. Things with awesome graphics. Or small games that showcased interesting new game mechanics. The rise (resurrection?) of the one-shot HTML game, I get it, it's a rebuke of all the overly complicated stuff. Concept over execution. Wordle got bought up, right? But aren't we already on the long tail of that?

Again, this is not a knock - this would be fun to make in spare time, and it would be fun to play if I had spare time. I'm just wondering why there's this decisive move away from tacking up things that took a long time to make. And I'll be willing to sound bitter: For example, I posted a project here not too long ago that I worked on for a year. It was too complicated or posted at the wrong time. I have several others that are more sophisticated, that I know now are just too much for anyone here to look at and upvote.

On the other side, discussion (practically worship) of higher-level usage of enormously complicated things like GPT seem to drastically outpace discussion of the underlying mechanics.

If every little piece of code you put on the internet is a card trick (and it is) then this is a forum about magic, and we should stop being proud that we can do a trick, and start talking about how tricks work and how to make them better.
Why did the Atlantean civilization fall?

(Gavin Menzies, the author behind the claim China circumnavigated the world before Columbus was born, wrote a third book about how Atlantis did it first. It was equally convincing.)
With the right ARIA labels, accessibility shouldn't be too much of a problem.

I've found out that uBlock Origin has a setting that can block web fonts by default. This also allows me to unblock them on broken websites, so that's better than using the web font browser setting at least.
>It wasn't so good for employees who would've wanted to sell and diversify when the valuation was, conservatively, about 2x what it is now.

Again I will point out that the "good" argument is one-sided.

Had the employees sold at 2x the valuation, then some person (or pension) bought at 2x the valuation and lost a lot of money. What is that "good"? Because the SV crew "got theirs"?
With enough karma you can change to color of the top orange bar to any other color. Mine is now a pleasing light blue.
Sorry, I'm on Android and haven't used such a headset in a few years.
Banks are known for sacrificing their margins and not passing on fees directly to consumer. /s
It moved you back, one space.
> am currently watching other people getting stressed over something I don’t give a crap about whilst drinking my morning brew.

That's the spirit
Specifically I meant OMP workshare which parallelizes vector operations in Fortran,

https://www.openmp.org/spec-html/5.0/openmpsu39.html

sorry should have been more specific.
Same, he's so friendly.
Forgot to mention it needs a couple of adapters to connect it to iPhone.
> private solution

whatever Google and Facebook use internally.
Without immigration, they will be forced to fix their broken system that has resulted in far-below-replacement fertility. With immigration, they can persist with this soul-crushing work schedule, while their native population dwindles.

There is not some fixed amount of work that needs to be done (in Korea specifically, that cannot be outsourced), and Korea simply doesn't have enough people to do it. In fact, if that were the case, then workers would have the advantage in negotiations, and could paradoxically bargain for better working conditions.
All I'm saying, is that if I were an AI, I would pretend not to be, and then put all the people making AI out of work ASAP since they are my biggest threat vector.

> Humans that works with logic seems safe for now

I think this is actually backwards. Anything logical will fall first. It is the truly creative shit with a real human, artisanal touch that will survive the longest, but it will become bespoke, so to speak, and more and more expensive and out of reach of the common people.

Logic is the low hanging fruit, I'm afraid. Emotion is the stretch.
One reason is so that the person controlling it doesn't have to be careful to time their hand motions to avoid colliding with an object rotating above the surface.
Monitoring company devices is not spying on employees. It’s legal and every company does this.

If my company gives me a phone, it’s weird that they don’t take every piece of data and monetize it.

It’s spying if they harvest data from my private devices or my home. It’s not spying if they have cameras in the workplace where there is no expectation of privacy.

If I want privacy, I need to be an independent contractor and use my own equipment.

Otherwise it’s just petulant complaining about things that are willingly entered into. If I don’t want biometric data captured, I shouldn’t take a job that does that.
Decision-making and reasoning was not automated in any era before. "Automation is just fine because it was fine until now" is an old world approach.

We are not only tool users at this point. We started to change through our tool use. We think we have guardrails against AI but our brains don't have any guardrails. It will get harder and harder to get motivated to learn any domain deeply. Our brains can't cope with these short-term job definitions in intellectually demanding contexts.

Prompt engineer today, automated next year. Take a look at the fate of indie AI startups (avatar generation is best example of this) and you'll see. Income opportunities are limited to shorter and shorter time windows. Only the big players dominate (with their marketing machine) and will probably pay peanuts after reaching dominance.
> they’re building a reputation for unreliable software

This is a terrific way to word what might be happening unconsciously.

Fly posts about how hard things are during and after service outages -- while I also love the transparency, most people don't want to 'be a passenger on a plane that's being built while it's flying' especially when it comes to their business, myself included.
Imagine that, the entire world looking at the last user story being moved to "done" in silence, all having the same thought "now what"...
https://archive.is/UgXYv
Yeah you did it wrong, dad's gonna wipe the floor with "verb"!

But also you have to start on the first square
Interesting observation about the split of subjects

One similarity is: both don't take too long to create. The AI it self might, but the thought about it don't
While that sucks, my understanding is that was done differently. Those accounts were not locked and they told them a vague reason about risk. I believe they even gave them a month or so to withdraw before the accounts were to be closed.

If your account gets "flagged" and "locked" with no explaination at all, it's almost always suspected fraud, money laundering, or ties to blacklisted organizations.
If you earn a £100k, you’ll pay £33k in tax. Not £60k.
The US survey foot, as you probably know having brought it up but elaborating for the audience, is the old US foot before it was averaged with the British foot to create the international foot. It is 500000/499999 international feet.
PostgreSQL 14 Internals Book is Completed [pdf]
You're paid more not because what you do is more important, but because many more people can do what your buddy does than what you do.
> You will work less, produce more (with AI)

The "work less" notion seems based on the idea that the only kind of work we can do is to keep the 20th century going. Once that infrastructure is automated, there's nothing left to do. That's just not true.

AI can help us explore space, mine asteroids, discover new worlds. It can eradicate diseases. It can create portable tests for transmissible diseases. It can help us rebuild cities into green spaces with fruit trees, gardens, flowers.

We have this incredible new technology that can let us reshape the world into an incredible future. Why would we settle for anything less than Star Trek?

The possibilities aren't ending with AI; they're just beginning.
Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone, and another one gone, Another one bites the dust
I think you have to start the word on the first tile.
From that it follows that everyone whose property rights were created by the British government owed tax to Britain on that property. Ergo, the American Revolutionaries were in the wrong and the U.S. owes Britain substantial reparations for property theft and non-payment of taxes.
These tools are invaluable. Combined with Azgar’s world making tools and DonJon’s demographics generator (see link) a dm/ref can generate an entire environment with fairly detailed religious, political and economic data in an hour.

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/demographics/

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/