skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Help me spread the word, or at least play with a free toy
I am an entrepreneur trying to get a movement going to really start using this tech at big corporations to keep them out of trouble. I am guessing the conversation in here is a little more abstract than my usual day-to-day (although I am a reformed mathematician) but I wanted to introduce myself nonetheless.

If anybody is interested we maintain a software library, implemented in Python, that is designed to let relatively everyday people (software engineers, data scientists, etc.) use these privacy-enhancing techniques in a familiar interface without a rocket science course. If you go to the GitHub page I link below there is a Binder server where you can play with it right now via a Jupyter notebook over the web with basically no work or commitment.

https://github.com/capnion/ghostpii_client

I also put a ton of content out on LinkedIn, mostly oriented towards why businesses should adopt these things, what to do with them, and how they relate to other trends.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-c-mueller-phd-0272a6108/

I would greatly appreciate engagement of any kind: test-drivers, early-adopters, complainers, design feedback, likes, reshares, stars, emails. I am a true believer trying to this tech out where it can do some good and I need to spread the word.
I just use Firefox with unblock for general browsing. Chrome if I'm trying to buy something and I need the page not to break.
>Predicting the probability of water spontaneously combusting, while interesting, provides much less food.

Unless you can make a prediction that water will combust in low energy conditions, in which you can use this combusting water to generate excess power. Then use that power to compress nitrogen into ammonia, and then use that product as fertilizer.

The British show Connections went over how completely different things sometimes 'connect' and bring fruitful new ideas.

The problem space of reality has emergent behaviors that are not (easily?) predictable. Sometimes you have to iterate large portions of it.
Evolutionary Psychology for the Tyro
I’ve been at Meta for a few years and would say similar - I’m pretty sure that at any company with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees, you are going to get some horror stories - but in general it used to be an amazing place to work (ranked #1 on glassdoor for several years for good reason), but now… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If stories (which launched, surprisingly, in 2016) and reels are the only wins we can point to in all of Meta’s platforms for this experience-first-monetization-later approach, can we really say it’s a proven success?

Given what’s happened to the Facebook user base in the past ~five years, it feels like Instagram and WhatsApp are still thriving despite Meta’s strategy, not because of it.
Because a library in a programming language would be madly inconvenient? I can't see something like this being pleasant to use:

document(
paragraph("blah blah blah"),
math("sum_(i=1)^n i = (n (n+1))/2"),
paragraph("foo bar")
)

Also, I'd imagine being a DSL and having a dedicated compiler is what let's Typst have such great incremental compilation (it's actually instant).
No, in this scenario, the MCC will generally give a misleadingly higher value to the larger machine, since it takes into account the higher number of true negatives. In this scenario, this makes it a bad metric.

Obviously, a 100% perfect segmentation would of course register as perfect in both, but in practice one rarely deals with such perfect predictions.

In general, there is no metric that is universally "better" in all scenarios. One is expected to choose the metric that best suits the particular goal one wishes to validate against.
It seems to me that the 0.5% false positive rate makes this unusable for practical purposes (since that would mean that 1 in 200 passengers gets on the wrong bus). How big would the sign need to be to have no false positives?
So it's essentially two H100's in a trenchcoat? (plus a sprinkling of "latest")
Honestly, I don't think giving 21m to DragonflyBSD would be a good idea, not sure how the project could adapt back to a shoestring budget after the money runs out.

I would not be against giving them a few 100Ks so that they could get one or two full time developers however.

(joke (but also food for thoughts): alternatively, just "safe" invest the 21M. At 3% interest rate, that 630k per year, enough for ~2 to 10 developers depending on the geo. An OSS project can do a lot of things with this kind of budget).
Just like math is used as academic gatekeeping? (An insane argument that many have made.)
You need to take a screenshot, save it, crop it and then resave over the same file.

I mean it's bad, but... who does that?

EDIT: It also happens if you take a completely different screenshot and just save over (overwrite) another (bigger) image. That's worse, but still not that common IMHO.
Is Adguard better than Pihole? I always thought that adguard were baddies, but maybe I’m conlflating them with another product…
I find these boring af. Complaints about Google's history of killing products are the most predictable reaction to any Google news on HN and it's been like that for a long time. They often make these threads tedious to read and it's not exactly what makes HN interesting. Complaints about geographic restrictions are not quite as common, but just as tedious and I wish people writing these comments would consider that maybe they don't have the full picture and there might be reasons why a company does something that on the surface looks counter-productive. Like legal implications that might vary by country, or whatever. Then write about that instead.
Correct, it was discontinued awhile ago, sadly. I loved that project.
Most implementations are a weekend project for a programmer and a lot of real resources go into selling a for loop to count $thing; there’s little net new tech to it

Everything else about startups is hype generation, roleplay, resource waste to enable all of it…

It all reminds me of those dudes on TV in the 80s screaming about the latest Sony VCR, and Lay-Z-Boy; it’s all gaming my agency and attention.

After 23 years in CE/SWE and a bit more than that in our society, I don’t hate startups; I find our culture to be monopolized by repetitive, shallow sales pitches as if we’re above doing real work to support biology; we just externalize the mess to keep coddling suburban kids who are now grown up running startups.

Girgori Perelman is more of a role model to me than any startup founder and VC will ever be.

“Oh but we’re fixing these other things in society…” yeah it’s all trade offs. We’re making tons of other problems due to it.

There’s evidence in neuroscience teens brains switch off to mom, seek new ideas, experience. IMO it’s immoral to foist on next generation deference to elders contracts and value store. I don’t care any of those vain old men with their dubious success story I wasn’t there to verify claim to be rich. I want to define my own value store, not fellate someone else’s figurative identity.

As far as we know, humans are unique in the universe. Does not make humans important to it. Like past story of religion perpetuating story of nation state pride is just as empty, vacuous, and entitled.

Startups suck as a result of our society having caretaking of elder nostalgia and belief, sacrifice such that it is, is to be celebrated by everyone that comes after. It’s just gross group think.
We should have followed the path of the Wirthian language and Ada. I think part of the reason it wasn't followed is because Pascal wasn't as good as C, but Pascal was intended as a teaching language, not a real world language. Modula-2 was intended as a real world language but it was too late. There was a while in the 80's when Ada was more popular than C++ but only because of the DoD. The DoD, NASA and air traffic control systems still use Ada.
As I put in a child reply, that delay should be fixed.

But if you can't get past the double-enter, then I understand.

I think there was some work to fix that, I'll check up on it. Thanks for the reminder
Ask HN: Do VCs introduce risk and instability into the general economy?
By funding the inorganic growth of yet-to-be proven businesses with the intent of taking them to scale, ideally to the public, does venture capital introduce systemic risk? Some of these companies have disrupted and dominated markets due to venture subsidies, not sound and profitable business models. Are VCs socializing the risk to the public?
> there were messages broadcast across SIPR about troops being shot in the back during training and operations by their counterparts. I served with a Gunny that was awarded a Bronze Star with a V because when his counterpart patrol was ambushed all of the ANA ran and left them to fight off a strong contingent by themselves.

> rather than doing the arduous work of freeing Afghanis. [...] but I suspect this was out of fear and coercion knowing that they were not ready

Did they want to be free at all?

To me it sounds completely alien. A regime that abducts and coerce people into fighting for them should be fought tooth and nail by the population.
When you join a small firm, you are joining the firm.

When you join a large firm, you are joining the team.

I asked a US Marine who he was loyal to, and he said his unit. Not his country or the military.

The same happens at schools and universities: you might know your classmates on your course, but you don't know all the people at a university.

Same goes if you're a sports fan. You might be a supporter, but your experience depends a lot on who you're sat with. Ultras, those kinds of hardcore groups are rarely huge mobs.
That's probably because the FBI has a history of making up excuses to get search warrants for journalist and activist's homes. The reasons the FBI gives for getting a search warrant have about as much connection to real life as the daily horoscope.
Definitely sad as this is a site that has been around and is/was an important early website.

However I don't really think it's much of a loss for photography. DPreview was always pushing the whole equipment acquisition as the goal part of photography that always seems so weird. They would regularly talk about how you needed some new camera and willfully ignore alteration to your technique that got better results without needing the new equipment. Their forums and comments were always ultra dramatic and controversial with all kinds of brand bashing & cheerleading and other stuff that had little to do with photography.

I think it was OK at first as all the tech was new, as time went on it became more and more counterproductive.

I actually think smartphones getting people off the train of ever fancier cameras every few years actually helped photography due to:

- Better UI

- don't need to relearn a new camera constantly

- Always have the phone, so everyone got more practice

- Forced use of prime lenses made more people start moving around to frame their photos

- People started to forget about the tool and just use it

I'm still holding a pretty high value amount of camera gear, probably higher value than any other hobby I have. But it doesn't get used as much, and I"m constantly thinking of selling it off. I guess a lot of that being a result of no longer really caring about the specific types of photos the expensive camera gear facilitates.
Clubhouse from the beginning was just a bunch of vapid hot air about how cool Clubhouse was, without any substantive backing behind the supposed coolness except for all the VC-backed users constantly saying how cool it was.

When Clubhouse finally opened up to a wider audience of people who weren't being incentivized to use it, new users churned out almost immediately because it wasn't actually very cool at all.

Basically, the story of Clubhouse was the story of Google Glass.
There were/are airdrop farmers doing that in the crypto space

Airdrops can be very lucrative (5, 6 figures with market depth supported by VCs allowing easy conversion to cash)
Thank you. I must find the equivalent zsh command.
Nah, it definitely has a fixed cutoff. This is a bullshit hallucination
Thank you for all your efforts!
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time
Hello everyone,
I read this interesting article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x) on the decrease of the disruptive impact of science over time. This surprised me at first given the number of startups and predictions that are made about the future. I find that it raises important questions about how we can accelerate progress and innovation. I look forward to your thoughts.
This whole saga has been funny to someone in Sweden... Here it is 1-3 month lay off time, eg you need to find out in advance and your employer needs to find out in advance if you leave. For full time hires. There is 6month probation.

Expecting a company to do good when it does not have to is madness.
I think many people would disagree with this assessment. It's akin to saying that the only thing that matters in a job is "compensation", and everything else is useless. While some people hold this view, many others like to be treated nicely in other ways: good working facilities, nice colleagues, fun perks, etc.

Same thing about getting laid off: it's never nice to lose your job, but even if the severance is good it's not nice to have your employer suddenly behave like an asshole, and that they think that your work is so worthless that it isn't necessary for you to wrap anything up.
What’s interesting to me is how this only works because of prior art.

BUT, when prior art will be AI-assisted if not 99% generated art, from a pool of prior human art ever so slowly diminishing… where is this going?

For one, "art" can only lessen in value. Perhaps physical art will grow in value as digital art’s "made by without AI" tag becomes unprovable and meaningless.

I think it’s bad. Whomever provides these tools is not refilling the pool of prior human art, only muddying it up. Therefore everything will converge. It was quite obvious already the way eg. most webapps nowadays have the same boring design… but this is worse.

But I don’t know it must be the inevitable evolution, perhaps this is how we will end our differences… as human’s "collective mind" becomes more and more evident.
Unsurprisingly, exactly the same pricing as OpenAI. So what ends up the benefits? I'm currently using GPT-4 for hacking around, and love it if I could get faster response times, would make the use case I'm hacking on a lot more attractive. If I use Microsofts API, would it be any faster compared to OpenAI?
(Disclaimer: I was a software engineering intern at Google during the summers of 2013 and 2014.)

In the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s, Google felt like the dream place to work. Yes, a lot has been said about the perks and the generous pay, but another thing that made Google appealing was its cutting edge projects. I was a huge fan of Google Inbox (sadly long discontinued). As a graduate student researching storage systems and who enjoyed reading the MapReduce, BigTable, and Spanner papers, being able to work on Spanner as an intern was a dream come true. I also loved all of the internal support I received as a developer, from the amazing internal infrastructure to the various internal tutorials. I never felt siloed off from the rest of the company, compared to other employers I've had. It was an amazing place to work and I'd rank it as my second-best work experience (my best being eight months I spent at Fujitsu Laboratories in Kawasaki, Japan where I worked in a storage lab on an SSD cache....that was a downright magical experience), though granted as an intern I was shielded from the performance review process and on-calls, so I can't comment about these things.

I would love to work for a team similar to the teams I worked on during my internships at Google, as well as the general feeling of 2013-14 Google. However, I'm under the impression that Google's culture started changing a lot during the Alphabet reorganization and the rise of Sundar Pichai as CEO. I don't know if there's a place in the Valley these days that captures the feel of pre-Alphabet Google; it seems to me that the Valley itself has changed a lot (and for the worse) since roughly 2015, but that's another discussion for another time.
Yeah, I can't argue with that.
A YouTuber focused on AI made a quick video comparing the results to Bing/GPT4 which is pretty good:

https://youtu.be/9ll_pth4Sss
I've been using uBo since the start. Went to use the web without it and it was like using the web naked. It didn't feel right.
Depends on impact and depends how easily you can get a full time job.

I hate to be the one to break it to you but a lot of places aren’t hiring like they used to.

So crunch the numbers, can you support yourself if it’s going to take 8+ months of hiring rounds? Can your business be put on maintenance and still produce income or is it full hands on? List goes on and only you know the numbers required to make a decision.

Good luck, tough times all around.
> They will have less wealth

Somebody gets to pay for this:

https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/federal-spending-per...

and it's gonna be you and me.
You got it backwards. People want to export to the US in exchange for dollars only if dollars are worth something. If the dollar won't hold its value well enough people will find other markets and hold other currencies.
‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’ (2017)
I recently setup something simple, but I've been falling in love with it - `goto`. Not as in the funny programming thing, with the even funnier `comefrom` variant in intercal, but as a simple shell script.

My issue is that at work, I tend to work with a lot of projects and repos, and I work a whole lot in a couple repos. And honestly, even if its short, typing `cd ~/Pro<tab>/an<tab>/main_<tab>` becomes old after 2000 times or more. And then there are ~80 - 90 repos in ~/Projects/terraform, and a couple dozen legacy repos in ~/Projects/chef, a dozen different config repos in ~/Projects/config, an automatically rotating scratchpad in ~/Stuff, ... I don't know if it's a messy workstation, or I'm just dealing with a boatload of stuff.

That's why I wrote goto. goto works in 2ish phases. The first phase just uses fzf -1 to give me a selection of the broad strokes I tend to navigate to. In case there is a prettier way to make fzf give me a static list of choices, let me know. It's basically:

DESTINATION=$( echo "ansible\nterraform\nchef\nconfigs\n..." | fzf -1 "$1" )

This way I can either launch goto to get a list of 6-7 things I can select with arrows, by typing, or I can just be like `goto tf` and it directly selects `terraform`.

After that, it's a big switch-case selecting where to `cd` to, as well as possibly doing some normal init things. `ansible` as a destination for example just CDs and that's it.

`terraform` on the other hand does a bit more:

case terraform)
DESTINATION2=$( ls ~/Projects/terraform | fzf -1 "$2" )
cd "$DESTINATION2"
git pull --rebase
# more stuff
;;

This way I can either say `goto`, select `terraform`, select a project and get moved there. Or I go `goto terraform` and type `prj2 foo` and usually fzf gives me the right thing, or I can be like `goto tf 'p2 fo'` and it drops me into the right place. Or something like `goto config infra-logaggregation` (or rather, `goto c ilg`). Or `goto stuff ticket-id` to get into some older scratchpad.

I'll just have to consider if I want to stick with ohmyzshs alias of g == git, which I don't really use much. Then I could achieve the entirely readable `g c ilg` to go where I need to, hah.

All of this is then wrapped into an alias, which basically aliases `goto` to be `source ~/goto`.

IDK, thanks for listening to my TED-talk on how to use fzf to juggle way too many hats at once. It's just saved me a lot of keystrokes getting around and mashing incomprehensible spells into the shell so coworkers are confused is always fun.
> The jury’s out on that — TechCrunch can’t independently confirm those claims. But for what it’s worth, the open source Dragonfly, which reached version 1.0 this week, already has some uptake — and investment.

Its not open source, the BSL is not an open source license, rather a source available one.
Well yeah, why would I keep an uncropped version around? It seemed safer to save over the one I didn't want.

Edit: I guess I don't usially save before cropping a screenshot. But it's not something I really thought about before either.
It probably costs less to have drive through ATMs with braille, because they can reuse the braille signage from the non-drive through ATMs.
Sweet! Good timing. Be in touch soon to get you access.
One of the researchers mentioned by another commenter has termed this "strategic misrepresentation":

The first theory Flyvbjerg embraced is called “strategic misrepresentation.” Which is essentially a fancy way of saying that you lie in order to get what you want.

>FLYVBJERG: We’d actually interviewed planners who said that they did this deliberately, that they actually were incentivized to misrepresent the business cases for the projects in their benefit-cost analysis. And they wanted their projects to look good on paper, to increase their chances of getting funded and getting approval for their projects. And they said, “We do this by underestimating the cost and overestimating the benefits, because that gives us a nice high benefit-cost ratio so that we actually get chosen.[1]

I've experience this, but I also think it may depend on the unique culture of individual organizations. Of course, it's likely just one of many factors that ultimately lead to poor planning. The podcast in [1] covers some of them and it's a good listen for anyone interested in public work projects.

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/heres-why-all-your-projects...
> I think there are actually many such points at which teams/companies change significantly. Going from 2 to 3, or 4 to 5 people can feel like a paradigm shift. Team communication often becomes too complex once the team grows beyond 8.

We are struggling to get beyond 10 right now. Every time we hire a new person it feels like resetting the entire org chart. The communication thing is 100% on target. At 8 people it felt manageable. Once we got to 10 it was like someone flipped a goddamn switch somewhere. We added a small management layer but this comes at a cost (i.e. we probably need 15+ to justify it fully).
Generative AI for Enterprises
Gotcha! In that case, we do not yet support an end-to-end experience for this, but would be willing to prioritize building it for clients if we get strong demand.
I use fzf for all of my searching needs, especially on Mac where the default search is hot garbage.
At least they keep the stones rolling, down the hill that is.
Interesting. Do you think regular employees don't have employment contracts?
They aren't credible anymore. Not since this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/media/rape-uva-r...
I don't know about lumber, but for groceries, I know the goods can be sold up to a year before delivery. So while you might have some of the dynamics you mention, that changes the responsiveness a fair bit.
FWIW, I have billed myself as a PostgreSQL expert and did general technology consulting for a long while; I started using PostgreSQL back like... 25 years ago? I also was using SQL Server and like DBase or FoxPro something back around then (while consulting with a friend--while we were in high school--for some local companies that were excited about the idea of this newfangled Internet thing they were hearing about).
Apple is Next.
uBo is great, but can sometimes break sites who ask you to 'disable your AD blocker to view this page'. That's rare though, but it does happen.