skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A CLI written in Go language that writes git commit messages for you using ChatGPT AI (gpt-3.5-turbo model) and automatically installs a git prepare-commit-msg hook.
Ha. So many words instead of "for the money".
That was a pretty wild five seconds. I wish I could have seen it.

Does anyone know the source of the video, or the reason this particular camera is pointed at the sky?
They should consider moving to ARM, maybe whatever SiPearl or Fujitsu are currently cooking up.

They probably have a mountain of intrinsics written, but it doesn't seem like AMD or Intel are going to replicate the Xeon Phi again.
You should edit, but that's not my puppet to control, I only use this one.

So yeah, you've built a ton of shit nobody wanted as a product, been there, done that. You've convinced me fly doesn't fit business, we're done.
> they have little if any noticeable impact on my daily life

I mean, all of those modern technologies actually affect a large fraction of everything you do when you're not in front of a screen... (Maybe such technology has existed in a similar form your whole life, though, so you don't notice, but over a longer timespan we are are talking about the majority of modern society).
> That was never up for a vote. Show me where the UN was asked to vote on whether they condemn NATO for this conflict, or blame NATO or anything of the sort.

Exactly. You claim that BILLIONS of people are blaming NATO, yet even Russia hasn't put forward a draft resolution with such allegations, because it would gain no support and would only humiliate Russia further by demonstrating how isolated they are.

> I’m pretty sure Russia would not want this organization to surround it with missiles.

What missiles, where?
What's the most approachable hardware that'll run the 65B?

A Mac with 96G of memory will still set you back $6000.
No one forced my friends or people I pass by to use any of the products provided tech companies.

Hell, most of my friends don't care about privacy or being tracked online, or having their information shared amongst other entities.

How many other devs here have had conversations with others about Net Neutrality (back in the day) or Privacy/Security and had people pat you on the head and said okay but let's move on? I recall people just not giving a shit when I talked about the ideal of Diaspora. Or choosing Open Source products that gravitate towards being transparent about what is actually being put into the software, including the type of telemetry being recorded.

If I sound jaded, it's because I am. The community chooses what it chooses. At some point the onus is on us, even if it means abstaining (hence why I stopped using Facebook over a decade ago).
I am not certain, but I recall he said it was something to do with settlement of foreign exchange transactions.
> Previous machines only replaced humans at tasks that are tedious and boring

This is a common misunderstanding. Industrialization and automation metamorphosed work from what could be described as "holistic and artisanal" to what could be described as "a living hell of tedium". Before machinery, a person made an item from materials to finished product. With machines that automate tasks and apply power, a person now performs a fraction of a task repeatedly until they're numb in body and spirit.

This also made people more replaceable, as no single person "owns" a process, they just perform an easily-taught segment of it, assisting a machine with the fuzzy / procedural glue parts.

GPT does not exhibit intellect, nor does it have agency. It is very good with language manipulation, so good in fact that it appears to have reasoning powers - but all that is are echoes of all the reasoning that went into writing all the things that were consumed in its training corpus.

One final note -- the "nobody has to work" thing will not happen. Like any other technological improvement, GPT will be used by those who have to further exploit those who have not. To this point, you're right to dread it. For a long while now we (the "laptop class") have owned our means of production, and have enjoyed a relatively good existence. Now we stand on the threshold of an age where again a massive technological change will leave power in the hands of those with capital.
Thanks for this comment. This highlight the crux of the issue. Banks should have something like "banking neutrality" where they'll bank anyone and any money until a court order says otherwise.

It's funny most people accept this situation which can significantly abused by lots of parties (See: Operation Choke Point as an example). But if you live in a small village, and there is only one bank branch, the banker there not liking you means you being unbanked for no reason.
Court of Versailles vs. the Wild West
Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline
> When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur.

by 2017 Shark Tank was eight years old and Gwyneth Paltrow was a judge on apple’s short lived startup show that flopped. I really don’t know how much more obvious it could be that the trend had already jumped the shark in 2017.
Do you have evidence about that? Don't you think so many people being terminally online affects the way they act towards others?

Personally, I believe it does. It's even ironic to me that your comment was downvoted, like, why? Is this really how we think about the world nowadays? Dislike/like. No discussion.

Anyways, I have to say Hackers News has been the source of well spent evenings with this nice community, so there's at least one data point there that these changes in culture weren't caused by tech.
You mean S.2155? The legislation that Barney Frank supported?
Open sourcing the trailing edge stuff is a great way to keep people behind you.
Yes, but almost every wrap or burrito you buy at a restaurant are using wraps much larger than that. Perhaps I'm jaded living in southern California and having burritos the size of small logs.
Not sure what you're getting at but 400 mph is 0.178816 km/s. Off by two orders of magnitude from 11 km/s.

I am sure everyone has seen a shooting star. Planes don't move like shooting starts or whatever is in this vide.

I think it's safe to conclude that this is not a plane nor a meteor.
For instance, does the old oil need to be drained before filling new oil?

Does the car need to be checked for leaks?

At the end of filling in new oil, how much oil should be in the car? How much left over?
Star Wars Rogue One had used Unreal for final render of a couple of shots. However it was more a proof-of-concept then a better worflow or anything.

Edit: I worked on this, Adding reference video from GDC https://youtu.be/pnigQTOig8k?t=510
If I understand the intro correctly, the "size" they're referring to is the growth rate of a sequence, where the sequence is counting the dimensions of certain subsets of bounded denominator modular forms.

Let BDMF = bounded denominator modular form.
They show congruence BDMFs grow at least N^3, but all BDMFs grow at most N^3*log(N). (The latter bound is the hard part of the proof.) To get the contradiction, they show a hypothetical noncongruence BDMF example would imply additional counterexamples that (just barely) get over the N^3*log(N) bound.
Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to absorb rural neighbors
Being the world's largest, most developed, economy (we're number 1) brings some unwelcome truths;

The only direction is down. Obviously you can't be the best at everything, for ever, so inevitably by some measures you're "not number 1". For folks raised on "we're the best country on earth" all their lives, this is hard to hear. Health care? Annual leave? Education? Construction? Infrastructure? The US has the best in the world (we must have, we're the best at everything).

Unfortunately when wishful thinking and reality collide, reality tends to fall away. If we just think it, if we just say it often enough, it'll become true.

Ironically it is exactly the "we're the best at everything" that prevents improvement. You can't improve the best, and most importantly you can't learn from other places, thereby implying you're not the best. Can't learn from the Japenese health system because, by definition, that's inferior.

Of course the US _does_ have the best health, education, whatever, as long as you add the phrase "for rich people" to every claim. And since all Americans are either currently rich, or rich-in-waiting, that means it's the best for everyone.
> "We are now happy to make clear that none of the above was true," the FT wrote.

Why are they happy?
These are rookie numbers!

Tom Scott has a video about bonds that are being serviced continuously for more than 370 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs
Isaac Chotiner has a reputation for totally destroying the people he interviews, something he does by letting the subjects hang themselves. I often wonder why anyone agrees to be interviewed by him. That said, Barney Frank managed to hold his own against Chotiner, perhaps better than any other interview subject I've seen.
Sam Bankman-Fried said to have taken $2.2B from FTX entities
If it could, this oversight group would not stop it.
They are being used left and right. Want to penalize a European bank? Pull some some fine in the $x00 millions out of thin air. The way the laws are structured, it's almost guaranteed that they broke some law somehow. Don't like this dude/girl? Ban them from banking for no reason because your ToS allows you to and make it hell for them to recover their money.

Someone did it not too far ago in Canada.
Tech has definitely lost some of its shine, but I wonder if we’re assigning too much weight to the opinions of a relatively small number of loud mouth bullies on Twitter.
‘The Era of Urban Supremacy Is Over’
I believe the issue is that the options of early employees are expiring. And that sounded like it’s actually a lot more difficult to solve for a private large corporation than it sounds
> Or more cynically, "Industrial Society and Its Future".

I always see myself calling the unabomber crazy, but then I remember he was a mathematician which studied in the MIT and he was probably much smarter than I could ever dream of being. "The Industrial society and it's consequences was a disaster for the human race" is something that passes through my mind somewhat often, sometimes jokingly, sometimes not. Maybe he did have a point.

edit: He studied at Harvard, not the MIT, memory failed me there. I don't condone any of his actions (i.e. bombing people).
Mmm... Why are you so sure? Do you know how invasive the exploits were/are?

I mean it could be related to government contracts, and unwillingness to participate. But the timing of some of the shifts coincides with "discovery" of some of the ongoing vulnerabilities at the time.
I'm glad I got used to wearing a literal poo poo hat (https://99porings.com/revo-classic/guides/firstjob/acolyte/b...). Default glamor/skin is never ugly enough.
Ask HN: How long does it take for you to release your open source project?
I love to build pet projects because it is where I can use anything I want in various ways that I cannot try in my main job. Most of the time, I want to publish them as open source projects, but I haven't published any of them. There are too many reasons that make me unconfident to publish them: a lack of documentation because I used all my time on coding, worries about whether my approach is the best practice, concerns about performance because I have not done stress tests, and so on.

So, I want to collect statistics on how long it takes for you to release an open-source project from the time you have an idea to the time you announce it on the internet. Then maybe I can plan for myself better.
Thank you so much, guys.
Transpiled code… way back in the day we had Fortran machine converted to Ada. While it worked it was unreadable and not maintainable. Adatran we called it.
Hopefully they do better now.. but from you experience it is the same.
Right, but "It happened before us" isn't a valid defense if we keep enabling it. JFC.
took me a while to decode the fact that Codon is (AFAIK) just a Python-to-native compiler. and an incomplete/non-conformant one to boot. The title and OA was written in a breathless, but murky style

"Oh... a native compiler. That cheats by not really honoring Python. Got it."
I can easily believe you never hurt anyone doing this, as conditions that lead to an accident are rare and often predictable. For example, you probably never answered a text while going through a roundabout, but restricted it to straight sections of road with a clear view ahead and no nearby cars. This increased you risk, but from an extremely small base.
A certain quote by Willie Sutton comes to mind...
Yeah I think this is the right take. The current generation iPhone SoC is on a 5nm process. The Arizona fab will do 5nm initially. Apple has recently purchased TSMC's entire upcoming 3nm production and plans to use it for the next gen iPhone and MacBook.

While the actually assembly is done mostly in China, Apple is already assembling a small number of iPhones in India and working on ramping up production there as well as looking at Vietnam.

In the unlikely event that China storms Taiwan and seizes the foundries or something, at this point the outcome for Apple would be that they would just delay the next iPhone and use another 5nm SoC in it. Most consumers would be oblivious.

Big deal, the world's richest company would suffer some delays, some junkies who are addicted to always buying the newest phone would cry a lot, overall no one would care that much. TSMC would get 3nm up and running outside of Taiwan sooner or later, and/or other fabs would catch up. I don't think it would lead to as much of a meltdown as people have been saying. (The subsequent world war on the other hand...)

Edit: Looks like the latest iPhone 14 Pro is actually on 4nm, not 5nm, but unless China invades like tomorrow I don't think this really changes the equation much.
The world is much better than it used to be, you’re just more aware of all the present evil because the evidence is so much easy to gather, disseminate, and search for.

Nobody was aware of the extent of police criminality before everyone had a camera in their pocket, as just one example.
I loved watching the movie, Into the Inferno, by Werner Herzog. Netflix carries it. Very very fascinating!
It didn't sound like the FT was privy to this at the time?
50k qps on consul or system wide?
> The pandemic and dispersion of tech talent. SF used to be a mecca of tech talent: events, dinners, summits, etc that brought optimistic entrepreneurs together

This is a good thing, because people were under the mistaken impression that tech talent in SF was uniquely special or good. My theory is that the money and, more vaguely, the inspiration, of the region was infectious to those that were able to come and work there. A sort of mild self-selection but also a privilege open to only a few.

Meanwhile the rest of the world is stuffed full of people who are just as capable of making it at any "cut throat" startup, or starting such companies on their own, but don't live in such an environment where they can make the kinds of connections they need to make to get funding, or aren't getting a huge salary that lets the live comfortably while building personal projects, or the other things that make silicon valley such a hub for this sort of thing.

Hopefully now those effects disperse across the world and we get access to all the wildly different kinds of ideas all across the world. Maybe it'll mean less uber for x, CRM for y, CMS for z type products.
i guess i was wrong then

thanks
It looks like a Selectric to me, too. I worked for several years in the early 1980s in a university office equipped with Selectrics. Nothing in the examples shown looks as though it couldn’t have been done with a Selectric and some careful planning and execution.

When typing documents like the ones shown, the typist would count characters and plan the centering and alignment of columns in advance. I can remember marking up manuscripts with pencil before starting to type on a clean piece of paper. If you made mistakes that couldn't be corrected with whiteout or correction tape, you typed the page again.

I took some mathematics classes from Paul Halmos at UC Santa Barbara in the late 1970s. He and his wife invited a group of students to their home for dinner, and his secretary joined us as well. I remember her saying that she enjoyed the challenge of typing mathematical manuscripts even though she didn’t understand the math.
I've been tempted to turn them into museum style art showing the evolution of devices over the years.
Is 200k a Year Good? [What the Data Says]
$5k and two weeks included what? A lot more goes into proper design and deployment than some code you run somewhere.

But most devs don't do more than gpt is doing I have to admit.
When you drive after using alcohol, you are drunk the entire trip. When you text and drive, you are distracted for five seconds. This is scientists seeking headlines, not a rational risk assessment.

You can tell from accident statistics that risk has not actually gone up as much as if every driver had started drinking alcohol in 2008.
So is this a kind of result akin to the prime number theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem) where you have things that are asymptotically guaranteed to be/remain very close to one another?
I mean... what tech do people interact with most? Consumer fucking tech.

Someone said it better below

"You know why people hate the tech industry? Because they've wedged themselves into everything, and made it suck more, in pursuit of glorious advertising profits."
I would be very interested to see a citation on the troll rate.
Your incorrect assertions about the current state of play was what turned this from a bit of a hypothesis to “open source always wins” delusion.
i use venv this way. i download and compile specific python versions and install them in a non-system dir with all the other versions. then just run the specific binary to create a venv and it seems to work as expected.
Branson's Virgin Orbit to pause ops, furlough nearly all employees
One of my fave videos is of the Russian guy who keeps driving and pulls his visor down like nothing happened even while a meteor near-misses: https://youtu.be/5bicUPQHcw4
When the revolving door goes wrong
I don't get that from what they state.

Quote:
"The engine for recognizing the moon was built based on a variety of moon shapes and details, from full through to crescent moons, and is based on images taken from our view from the Earth."

This says the engine was built from that training, and later on they state that the engine is applied to multiple pictures your camera takes. Where specifically in the article does it say that images not from your camera are applied to your final image? An engine is a process, not necessarily a set of images applied to your images.

It is a processing method, the mechanics of which were ironed out processing other images.
You've got a time traveling machine, and you give someone XeTeX of all things! That's a cruel joke.
You should read The Phoenix Project to understand that "have dozens of high-priority projects to deliver in the next 30 days" is a consequence of poor management, not a given even for large organizations.
Stories can be true. But I could just as easily say that a rise in unfettered capitalism led to a loss of public good research combined with regulatory capture and large corporations pushing against any research that disagreed with them. Then there was the rise of corporate media which further eroded public inquiry to ensure that the large corporations could maintain their control over narratives. This control by the corporate media necessarily required that the viewers be trained to follow directions rather than promoting curiosity.

What I said above is true also, but does not say anything about religion. So how can you say that the reason for loss of rationality is caused by the group you mention, rather than the expansion of capitalism as I have mentioned?

My point is that we can say something that is definitely true but that does not prove it is the primary cause. Proving something is the primary cause in a complex system is extremely difficult.
> Otherwise, what's to stop them from maliciously charging then filing disputes over and over again?

You stop selling to them. You don’t need to ban their account to do that.
> I like streaming shows and music, but even the net benefits of streaming are dubious...

And you can only pull "Yeah, I know you liked that show, but it wasn't as profitable as we hoped, so we're not renewing it for another season!" so many times before people get irritated.

> ...since people are much more content to sit on ass instead of engaging each other and enjoying each other's company.

I've been trying to aggressively create opportunities for people to interact in person, usually around a firepit, and it's far, far better than any amount of hours spent in front of screens.
It’s been fun playing with an online DM that has been stretching and upping his game. When he pulled out Dungeon Alchemist especially we were super impressed.

I’ve stopped playing video games for the most part as the impact and sense of wonder just isn’t there for me the same way it is when I play D&D with my online compatriots. We’re even meeting up later this year! It’s been a fantastic experience.

On the topic of D&D tabletop becoming more advanced, Stable Diffusion now has models that can be used to take a simple Donjon map and make it more detailed and add a theme and colorize it. Type a theme like “in hell”, use the model, and use Controlnet’s edge detection. Boom, mostly automated D&D maps that look pretty dang good for a DM.

A few more steps and you’ll be able to automate most of the process, provided interesting NPCs and everything in a self contained adventure that the DM can then tweak.
These sorts of posts are genuinely comical!

>When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur.

… to you. It was cool to you to (categorically) be a tech entrepreneur. I think it is possible that “tech entrepreneur” as a monolithic “cool” category only ever existed inside the minds of that same group.

>Why Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now?

Again… I think it’s possible that the author’s perception has shifted, and as such their perception of humanity has shifted with it.

I have a few questions for anybody here that feels like SVB/other recent events has unveiled some sort of new or previously hidden disdain for self-described tech entrepreneurs.

1. When was the first time you heard the term “tech bro”?

2. The TV show Silicon Valley was developed a decade ago by Mike Judge (the creator of the wildly popular comedy King of the Hill) and aired its first episode not long after. Who was the intended audience?

Was it:
A. People that the show was about

B. A much larger group of people that had already found tech “culture” to be comical or absurd in their own life experience regardless of their involvement in the industry

(It’s B)
Well of course it likes Python, it is Python.
The point of legislation like this isn't to support good actors who were going to make good choices regardless, it's to limit what bad actors will do when left to their own devices.

If everyone did the right thing on their own then we wouldn't need laws to prevent wage theft, or false advertising, or people dumping toxic chemicals in rivers people might drink out of, or murder.
So given Stripe’s record so far of never wanting to go public, what’s the incentive to buy into this funding round?