skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilarious. And I'm assuming that a declaration like:

"Eg I had a class that really critically analyzed native American cultures. Today the class would be considered racist, it would have to a priori be an admiration of those cultures, rather than a critical analysis."

...that makes rather extreme ad-hoc statements about modern academia without citing even a shred of their own or someone else's experience is chock-full of critical thinking skills and a great way to conduct debate?

Definitely the product of an education via Internet Corner Bubble Forum where you can randomly make up controversial statements that get upvoted by like-minded people and expect to not be called out on them.

> "Emotional temper tantrum - check."

"You're hysterical for giving my Kleenex-thin argument the short shrift it deserves!"
> On the other hand, people working in agriculture have become much more effective, which lead to much fewer people working in agriculture, maybe because people need to eat as much calories per day as they did 100 years ago.

Except population exploded also, and the only reason we could support such a population has been thanks to advances in agriculture (it could be argued that's not a good thing, as the larger population is helping fuck our planet up in other ways, but that's for a different thread). So there has been an increased demand for food.

However, there's only so much arable land on this planet. The planet is finite in size. So when basically the entire planet is already being farmed, you can't really add more farmers, so further efficiency is just leading to less farmers.

Software is not so finite. It technically is, as we only have so many servers or whatever, but we're nowhere near the upper limits of what all we can handle or the appetite for software that companies have (which seems about infinite). Additionally, we have a habit of rebuilding and replacing software every few years, so even if we reach capacity limits, there's still demand for new software to replace the old, or working on new features for existing software.

So it's a bit different of a situation and not really comparable.
Hey now, before the pandemic, you could get as many Pi4s as you wanted. And if you were ok with the 2GB and/or 4GB version, they were usually selling at less than MSRP.

At the Microcenter near me, they kept stacks of them in a cabinet near the cash registers, and would offer them up at a discount when checking out.
I don't read it like that. I interpret it as people just really liking Linux.
Credit Suisse says no . beggars can be choosers
"It Just Works" was Apple's value proposition for a long time. Now that's on shakier ground, and other operating systems are catching up on stability to the point where the vastly superior cost:performance of non-Apple hardware increasingly wins out. Linux and Windows OEMs are also catching up on style with options available that don't compromise on repairability.
> I said it then and I will say it now. If your managers could specify what they need in a manner that no-code tools, or now AI, can generate the code they want, they will have to be extremely exact in their language. So exact in fact that they will need to specify a program in a click and drag interface, or in human language.

I think it’s more probable that managers get replaced by AI first.
It's foremost a naming problem, FixedBufferAllocator doesn't hint that it is actually is a bit of a weird mix of a bump and stack allocator (IMHO if it would be a bump allocator it shouldn't have a free function at all, and for a stack allocator the free function should probably be called pop).

However both doesn't match Zig's expected alloc/free allocator interface, which is an interesting design challenge on its own.
I’ve had great fun playing with (an excellent implementation of) Basic on a Colour Maximite. Highly recommended to those who would like to run Basic on the bare metal.

https://micromite.org/product-category/maximites/colour-maxi...
Are you comparing the treatment of a huge international bank that has a reputation for being more... reckless about regulations to how afroamericans experience systemic racism? Lmfao what? Even if we agree with that ridiculous premise, can you show me any example or a statistic showing that the US targets european banks more than it does those in US?

Is the EU international bullies too for fining american big tech? Poor google!
We already don’t understand the AIs inner workings exactly. If those algorithms keep getting optimized then maybe we’ll just have black boxes of “neurons” that somehow does the thing. Machine code could be just used to run the GPU instance
> You're assuming that the AI is even generating anything that will make sense to a human.

Why wouldn't it? It's trained on code generated by humans and already generates code that is more readable than the output of many humans me included.
Also Cassandra, RocksDB, zstd, Open Compute and probably a bunch I'm forgetting. Meta has one of the most stellar open source contributions of any company.
Cockburn's story is not the full story.

Assange is not charged only for doing journalism, such as revealing secret information. Assange is also charged for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, and conspiring to do so.

Journalists rightfully defend Assange only in the the first type of charges, but not in the second type. He should go to US and face charges. Assange stopped being journalist at some point and started actively participating in crimes not covered by journalist ethics.
If you like these topics, you will enjoy "Thoth's pill - an Animated history of writing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdO3IP0Pro8
When I moved to the Bay Area a decade ago, I went to DNA just assuming that it was going to be that Hacker (movie)-esque space _all the time_. Like, I just pictured that in my head many many years ago and never bothered to actually correct it, until I got there.

Delicious pizza @ DNA Lounge!
I assume you're not arguing this but crypto isn't really a solution for this problem.

Regardless, I think given the wild west of crime and fraud a world without banking surveillance would allow I don't think that's a great plan, and I doubt legitimate banks would be for it either given the legal grief they would be constantly in, assuming that you still believe that assets should be able to be seized or frozen in case of identified illegal activity, and if not a bank now needs to be comfortable knowing it's enabling human trafficking and terrorism.

Why should a bank be willing to do business with you if they can't identify you?
Even if this... "Everyone is so quick to argue that no machine could possible do their job. It’s cope." ...is not totally right today, it looks like LLMs can improve quickly, and that there are a lot of currently human tasks it will automate with just incremental improvements, if improvement is even needed.
Contributing to Gccrs: A Guide
They're not laughing at the word, they're laughing at the notion that he has become depressed by being an "Apple user".
> If you are hell-bent on using FixedBufferAllocator only and you want to avoid copies, there is a way. Using two buffers (and separate allocators backed by them), it is possible to keep swapping between them after every iteration.

I found this bit lovely: the author has independently reinvented the core idea of semispace copying garbage collectors (see eg https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/12/10/a-simple-semi-space...).
This is far from the doomsday argument, but maybe it's the "AI can do everything that has significant economic value today" argument.
I would be surprised, that almost certainly would involve nationalisation, or the SNB approving the sale of Switzerland’s second largest bank to a foreign buyer. Though I could see it being split up and maybe the IB going abroad.
> “I would guess that the way people would evaluate whether you trust me and want to work at this company in whether we are succeeding in making progress toward the overall stated goals,” Zuckerberg said, according to the Post. “I think a lot of this is about the results we are able to deliver.”

Great answer for shareholders.

Not the answer employees are looking for when trying to understand if their job will continue to exist. Especially when front-line engineers don’t have as much control over whether or not their project succeeds in the market as the execs and product people do.
> and no one can delete anything because you have no idea what it'll break.

This is a problem with GraphQL, but you can monitor if anyone is requesting that data.

Major benefit with GraphQL is you can ask for the data you need and just the data you need. So you don't have 30 different API endpoints that really return the same data, just smaller chucks. Or maybe you just need the IDs... etc.

GraphQL is also efficient here, not executing the code for the data you don't need - which is really useful.

It depends if you're in that situation or not, or what parts of your domain are in those situations.

I don't think "GraphQL everywhere" is sane.
I presume he also wasn't literally sparring with employees.
I am however, not using IOS.
The word "depressed" has multiple meanings only one of which refers to clinical depression.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/depression
The theory of spreading Life Beyond Earth has obstacles that I've never seen it adequately approach.

It suffers from worldwide popularized optimism to which it early succumbs without a proper fight. That it doesn't have to, much like other nationalistic fictions, indicates its low possibility. It is a theory that claims legitimacy without ever stepping into the ring. Which is the proper positioning for meatbags that can't take the pummeling of the infinite gorilla of space. Or more precisely, who can't physically survive the trauma of being separated from their Mother(Earth).

People get all of the space travel that they require from the next Chris Pine Star Trek film. That's psychologically enough for the world. The gap between now and survivable manned travel to Mars is so large that no one can see the opposite shore. An educated wager might be that this is because it doesn't exist. But again, one has to abandon addiction to popular optimism to start down the road of analyzing why. Start with the simple factor of our circadian rhythm that is inseparably tied to the Earth's clock that is uniquely a product of the relationship of this specific Earth to our specific Sun. Don't include how the Earth's gravity or magnetic field may play parts, as that's too advanced as of yet. Before we would get to lethal space radiation, we have to figure out how to survive even in otherwise perfectly safe synthetic conditions. It's unclear to the point that we haven't started the discussion.

I want to meet the man who is going to have the vaccine, ahead of time and before a truly apocalyptic pandemic, for space infections picked up from space-victims of space-colonialism by the eternal oppressors of Earth (hard to accomplish that much oppression in infinite space but ok) .

The Universe has plenty to say about both hat sizes and sex.
Don't your sessions expire? How do you authenticate to the endpoints?
Indirect prompt injection is gonna be WILD
For longer life, I store my super/ca glue in a jar with some desiccant packs. Some people store it in the refrigerator.
Yeah, I lost all my friends and family too, now just ads and terrible news.

/s
Whether or not a company is bankrupt is not and should not be decided by the shareholders. If it was decided by them they would obviously never declare it bankrupt.

The mechanism for "getting paid with a snickers bar" is just a streamlined but still fair version of a restructuring bankruptcy. In a bankruptcy all of the equity gets wiped out and the shareholders no longer have a say in the matters. Morally because they failed to run the company, but also because they positioned themselves to take the greatest gains, and thus should be exposed to absorb the greatest losses. It's not so much specific to any country as it is to the very idea of capitalism / being a shareholder.

The fact that a banking regulator gets involved and orders this or that does not necessarily change the fundamental way in which things would happen to another non-bank corporation. Equity would get wiped out, sometimes together with the least secured credit - see "fulcrum security".
Show HN: See” a Terminal File Opener
Hi HN,

This is a tool I wrote to associate file extensions with the command to render those files in the terminal.

Think of "see" as terminal equivalent of double clicking an file in the desktop. You keep a mapping of extension on to commands.

This may feel like a solved problem, but a straw poll on Twitter indicated that there was nothing that worked quite like this. This solution feels like how I would expect things to work. There are comparisons with existing alternatives (that I know of) in the README.

I don't know what direction this tool will go. If there is interest, I might develop it a little further (although it feels like something that should have a super-minimal set of features). It was under a day's work, so I wouldn't feel too bad if ends up being a tool that only I use.
I totally don’t see that. If you showed me AWS and modern machines and Go and React in 2008 I would certainly see that yeah there was some incremental progress but by no means would my mind be blown. Not much has changed. We still write clients and servers and use http and most of the same languages are still popular but slightly updated. Databases are essentially the same.. how good phones are would probably be the most exciting thing apart from GPT.

Or typescript! I was writing actionscript 3 in 2008 which is essentially the same spec
ML would have been fine without torch, we would have just used tensorflow instead.
Apple Silicon includes an under-utilized Neural Engine, hopefully we'll learn more about their local-first, privacy oriented AI plans at WWDC, https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
But Sam Altman saying those things doesn't mean anything. Telling the world that their AI is too powerful and needs to be closed to be safe is a marketing trick, this "I'm scared about how good our product is!" is also just a marketing trick. He cried wolf about GPT-2, cried wolf about GPT-3, and now about GPT-4. Maybe it is great and the wolf is here now, but people stop listen to this sort of person quick.
> But at least you can close the lid on a Macbook ...

Macs have the same issue, but you can turn off the feature that causes it.
Here's the thing, though, Assange and WikiLeaks are complicated figures who have done good and evil things. They are fair targets for criticism, and it's genuinely ok for someone to draw the conclusion that, "given the criticism, I cannot support them".

Yes, a deliberate smear campaign exists, but also these are institutions with complex histories. You cannot simply call anyone critical of them "gullible".
They also brought PHP into the 21st century (as best they could) through competition via hphp.
I don't think he has a bad vision for the future but he may be too early, which amounts to a failure either way.
Having to install xcode to compile C code?
Perhaps large language models will change the world, but it will be the open variant that people can run on their own machines, not some corporate API.
For even more relevant perspective, the Market Cap one year ago was 30bln.
Given that they went from 30 to 8 in one year, is it suprising that they go from 8 to 1 in one month?
> not sure how crypto money in browser would be a net benefit for anyone

When USD comes crashing down, not everyone has access to gold.

If there's one thing worse than absurd volatility, it's hyperinflation.
What changed five years ago, that Microsoft suddenly became so active again?

I mostly forgot about them for almost two decades. From around 2002 to 2018, I did not use any of their products or services. And in my interactions with other indie makers, I heard about them less and less.

I remember reading Paul Graham's "Microsoft is Dead" in 2007 (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html) and was jokingly thinking "Micro who?".

Then in 2018 they suddenly bought GitHub. And were back on the radar of every developer I know. With Azure, they became a bigger and bigger datacenter player. Then last year they made huge waves again, this time with Github CoPilot. Then this year, they were the first to put AI into a popular search engine. Before Google! And now they might become the first to put a crypto wallet into a popular browser.

Microsoft is 48 years old, but 2/3 of their market cap has been created in the last 5 years.
the problem is most of the evidence for that second charge is significantly lacking. most of it has already been proven fake (as shown by the article)
Hi, I think the idea is interesting, but if I can provide feedback as to why "HN does not seem to care": I think that beyond the novelty, most people are not interested to engage with AI-generated content.

There is a strong difference between AI-enhanced or AI-supported content on one side, (e.g. my own startup edits videos with AI, but the original subject is a human talking) versus full AI-generated content.

I wrote a novella with GPT-3 and experienced it firsthand : it's kind of cool that the tools enable you to generate something so easily ; but it's unsurprising that other people don't want to read/consume it.

So this brings out another question - what is a constructive direction you could take this project, so that it creates content people are deeply interested to consume?
I'm not talking about going down 50% for a year or two and then rebounding when the Fed re-juices the markets with liquidity, I'm talking about grinding down over a couple of decades to something like -75% and staying there, and this would have huge implications beyond just where buyers & sellers can transact.
> It takes drastically less programming effort to create programs than it did 50 years ago.

I got a feeling programmer efficiency peaked in the 90s with VB or Pascal desktop GUI apps.

There is so much bloat demanded to create a minimal product now.
While it may seem like Mark Zuckerberg's responses are out of touch, many employees do understand the situation.

Every major tech company (except Apple) is doing the same because they overhired to an incredible extent.

Mind you, these companies were already bloated before the pandameic hiring, partly because of a strategy to drain talent from the startups ecosystem.
"how can I make this about how I hate the US?"
This always gives the strongest option for bonding two materials. But what if I want an ok-ish bonding but care more about the toxicity?
One of the consistent refrains that I see on these threads is that AI is going to replace someone else’s job.

It’s almost never going to replace our jobs, because when we test it against ours we can quickly see gaps and flaws, or worse, its overconfident yet incorrect answers.

But when we apply a surface level understanding of someone else’s job to a surface level investigation of AI’s ability to do that job, we keep coming back to the same answer: it’s here! It’s ready!

Meanwhile, if you go ask those other people, they’ll show you a ton of very good reasons why AI isn’t ready to replace their jobs, things I never knew they had to do or understand. And I bet a few of them will tell me that they heard it can write code.
I recently used parallel to write a 1TB data file for testing using all cores

seq 0 10000 | parallel dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/foo/input bs=10M count=10 seek={}0
That number is based on its Friday closing price of total shares outstanding times the market price of a common share.

Such offer by itself would probably be enough to drive the share price given where things seems to be headed.
The original story is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/16/zuckerb...
See also https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-...
Why does a desktop OS need to be consistent with a 5" touchscreen phone?
Their repetition of and use of the term 'Year of Efficiency' always feels like branding that'd come out of chinese government.
Loss of your top performers trust (and creativity/productivity) is cited why layoffs cost more than they save

> short-term cost savings provided by a layoff are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation

1 - https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about...
The CDC is not a credible source on any topics relating to SARS-CoV-2 but in particular masks. They've been churning out junk science on the subject ever since the initial outbreak.

"Consistent mask wearing in high-risk areas such as households" just lol, yeah let me wear a mask over my face 24/7 forever so I can maybe catch SARS-CoV-2 six months later than I otherwise would have.
I bought my pi 4 at launch in 2020 before the shortages and scalping, it was $49 IIRC. There is no Intel NUC that's only 50 bucks. And I like that the pi is aarch64 architecture as I am developing for that architecture.
A small conversation with McKinsey can go a long way in terms of influencing public policy.
> It's more like, "OK, so let's walk through what we'll need to do, to make it work."

Socratic Software development is the way to go.
Amongst other things, it would provide for powering installations on the dark side of the moon where there is no solar power.
You’re just looking at assets. Don’t forget liabilities.
Shattering the Illusion of Unexploitable Data Using Diffusion Models
Yes, I’m sure the web wouldn’t have progressed without yet another framework.
And they are an engineer lead instead of wall street lead company, supposedly with an eye on long term value creation over short term stock movements (though possibly Zuckerberg has just capitulated) with its metaverse bet, i.e. the thing that engineers claim all software companies should be. And yet, I think no other software company gets the scorn Meta gets from engineers on the interwebs, it's hilarious.
A pity the reviewer doesn't get it to work.

The reviewer falls into the same trap as others regarding repair equipment like this; they think it's too complicated and durable and want to compare it to their hobbyist equipment. They're forgetting that the official equipment is meant to be used thousands of times, by minimally trained and overworked staff, with the least amount of damages. Hence the whole setup for each phone model have a special phone cradle, that has an RFID chip that sets up the recommended heating temperature and time, because the tech is going to put the phone into the heater and then walk away to do something else, and doesn't want to come back to a damaged mess like if they used the "cheap" hobby heating plate for too hot or too long.

One of YouTube comments is like "whoa, it costs $100 for each new heating plate, what a ripoff" which is absurd when you amortize that cost over the hundreds of phones it will service and how much each screen costs.
Switzerland Weighs Full or Partial Credit Suisse Nationalization
> What about a swiss bank buying another swiss bank involves the US here?

Fed reserve swap line. Are you really involved? Kind of basics here. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-national-bank-m...
What’s wrong with other people agreeing? Maybe they like Linux too. Also, why does it matter to you if people have a different opinion?
it should generally have the long term effect of making a slightly lower ranked school better ranked in the long term because all the smart rejects go there.