skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
having a monopoloy is good business. as long as you don't rest your laurels. all the big tech companies - microsoft, apple, google etc are monopolies in their own particular niches.
as econ 101 says - perfect competition drives profits to zero.
the thing that kills europe tech ecosystem is complacency. there's plenty enough smart people.
> Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in...

The front-end is jQuery and plain CSS or Bootstrap; and if JavaScript is not available then it falls back to complete server-side rendering, else it is hybrid server-client rendering.

> maybe not so bad for APIs though.

According to the creators of Wt, though you can write APIs, it is not yet architecturally optimised for REST API development.
Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech
Its not necessarily that the function depends on something 'very unpure', its if it depends on anything which is non-primitive that is created or assigned within the component fn body.

window.location returns a Location object which is not a primitive, and so it will trigger exhaustive deps if it is being used by way of a reference inside the component render function (assigned to a variable), since it could theoretically be a different object reference on subsequent renders.

Since the linter can't necessarily tell if the reference has changed out from under it on subsequent renders due to the fact that it could be mutably changed, it marks it as a necessary dep.
But, see, until there is clearer guidance, cryptocurrencies don't get to just have a free ride (the way they have all too much up till now). You don't just get to say, "Well, gee, looks like no one is certain which of these agencies gets to regulate us; I guess that means we can do whatever we want and no one can stop us!"

Each agency is going to make a good-faith judgement as to whether they have jurisdiction, and if that means 2 or more agencies start telling you what you have to do...well, maybe you shouldn't have leaped with both feet into a brand-new area where the regulations were unclear just because you thought you could make a quick buck, hmm?
missing from the fixes to Files is the ability to scroll :( do you have a directory with more than 10 files in it? buckle up.
You mean the same article that said this:

>Construction companies, which have given millions of dollars in campaign donations in recent years, have increased their projected costs by up to 50 percent when bidding for work from the M.T.A., contractors say.
...
Consulting firms, which have hired away scores of M.T.A. employees, have persuaded the authority to spend an unusual amount on design and management, statistics indicate.

or this:

>"Worker wages and labor conditions are determined through negotiations between the unions and the companies, none of whom have any incentive to control costs."

All they say is that the reason starts with the number of people employed. If you continued reading past that point, they talk about other non-union incentives that drive up costs, like:

>Critics pointed out that construction companies actually have an incentive to maximize costs — they earn a percentage of the project’s costs as profit, so the higher the cost, the bigger their profit.

They also talk about the "soft costs" of NYC construction, like:

>The project plan called for the hiring of 500 consultants from a dozen different companies

And of course bureaucracy:

>Officials have added to the soft costs by struggling to coordinate between vendors, taking a long time to approve plans, insisting on extravagant station designs and changing their minds midway through projects.

So while we can probably agree that unions are part of the problem, it's disingenuous to act like they are the whole problem.
What I said at the outset was,

> Considering that we don’t know how the brain works so well, and we don’t understand why LLMs work so well, simply on the basis of their output I think the safest assumption is that these models do indeed have agency, or at least the capability of agency.

These systems can already interact with others, it’s not moving the goalposts, it’s common knowledge. Anyone with access to the APIs can make it happen. Or are you now claiming we are just talking about one specific LLM and not LLMs generally?

Anyway this discussion is fruitless, I’m out.
The same religious people pushing this law claim that books acknowledging the existence of queer people is pornographic. Forgive me for my cynicism but I think this is less about pornography and more about providing a legal framework for Christians to censor information about queer identities, reproductive healthcare, and things of that nature.
It was when it was relevant. ARM right now is in shambles and outside of the EU, but for the majority of time the company existed it was in the EU.
What's fun about LTT is he will unfold the hack into a YouTube video about security, thus making money off of a very real problem. I can already hear the introduction:

I thought I was safe. I had strong vaulted passwords, two factor, and a good idea about my threats. So what did I do wrong? Let me tell you right after I tell you about NordVPN!
There's a key word missing from the headline. This refers to a January 2021 report which concluded that perfluorobutane sulfonic acid was not toxic enough to require regulation. They didn't follow their own standard peer review process, and they're trying to rectify that.
I will remember this and quote this one, it's brilliantly on point.
It already did a pretty good job of embarrassing them, social media is full of Bard failure screenshots. It couldn't even write a Javascript function to add two numbers.
Sorry missed your comment! You can rent cameras or also look for videographers around your region for a fun project. You'd be surprised how many people like to participate by simply offering to pay for the food and drinks.
If you work as self-employed or through your own limited company, you can put the camera equipment as expenses.
For the sound is a bit more tricky as you need someone to capture the sound, mix it correctly, etc.
Yes, it's DRM. Both "normal" e-book lending and CDL use the same DRM and to be honest it's the only use of DRM that I don't object to.

Controlled digital lending however gets rid of the publisher's license to make loans (where the library pays per checkout or for a fixed amount of time); instead, the library buys the hardcopy book, prepares a self-made ebook version, and pinky-promises that they will abide by the 1 copy-1 loan rule so that they can claim fair use.

It's certainly dubious, but it's not out of this world either. And what's even more dubious, are the publishers' attempts at eroding the first-sale doctrine.

(Adobe Digital Editions is a fairly trivial DRM to bypass by the way—I won't even say crack because on macOS the private key used to be hidden in plain sight in DER format—but it seems to be okay for publishers to use it when they make money out of loans. So the weakness of the DRM is not the issue).
... so, same difference? I mean, even with his full quote, the outcome is ultimately the same - humans are gone.

>... “the danger isn’t that a new alien entity will speak through our technology and take over and destroy us. To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially.”
HTML and CSS are maybe the best UI creation combo if you only ever care about visual aesthetic design.

Any other aspects of what UI design is supposed to be about, ergonomics, usability, consistency, accessibility, internationalization is total crap in HTML/CSS. What is the taborder of your custom HTML/CSS datepicker? What will happen when I press <Esc> on your custom css popup? What is the keyboard shortcut to highlight that form field or to open that hamburger menu? How will my screenreader pronounce that hamburger symbol? Will it be the same for the next great HTML/CSS creation? Will the date format follow my locale?

HTML/CSS is great only if you are the strictly visual aesthetics kind of "designer" who only care about reproducing their napkin drawings and photoshop mockups. For all the other things one would ask of a proper UI, HTML/CSS is either useless or actively detrimental.
This ship has sailed when Gab creator was cut-off from all payment systems.

People widely applauded Visa et. al move, as this Gab guy is a horrible person that ends each message with dreaded "Jesus is King" quotation. So "the people" was happy.

Now people learn the hard lesson, one day your opinion, business, etc. might irritate the powers that be and you'll be crashed, as those who you helped to crash before.

Let's this be the lesson for everyone.
I'm not American. Be careful about jumping to conclusions.

Some people have no kids. Some people have lots. Does it really matter?
You are correct about AI not being inherently some spooky dangerous thing.

However, human beings will treat it like it is, so you will experience non-sensical happenings like “your new credit score, brought to you by AI”. When you dispute this, the credit score company will shrug and say “you’ll have to speak the AI directly to make a claim, it is objective”. Meanwhile the AI isn’t that much better than ChatGPT now
I think the point he's trying to make is that AI does not have an independent Will. It lacks desires and the ability to operate in opposition to its programming. This makes it no different from any other tool we use to enhance our abilities.

Whether or not you can predict a tool's output is irrelevant. I can't predict the output of a random number generator, but that doesn't make it sentient.
> I don't have a clear idea of what they even do. IT consulting firm?

They do do some IT consulting, among other things, but the vast majority of their workforce is providing cheap sales & support staff to FAANG companies - these companies are famous for having well-remunerated staff, with generous benefits, hired through protracted interview processes. In reality most people actually working on their products are hired cheaply through vendors like Accenture and Cognizant.
RJ Reynolds is a tobacco company.

EDIT: Never mind. I see that the previous poster had confused the two and linked to the consumer products company, not the tobacco company.
The same way it made it into production on POSIX?

O_TRUNC is not default:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat.2.html
Parent's response is a classical, common response, when no other arguments exist in defense.

Cries of racism and unfairness, without even that documented or reasons pointed to.

The truth is, the Chinese government has its hands in everything, with direct control over corporate entities, and the use of force, including torture of relatives, death, if you do not comply.

Nothing critical or malleable should be trusted from China, while the current government rules as it does.
Lack of employees is almost never the limiting factor at these firms.

It’s always the amount of work available
>I think the argument is more that they only work from past inputs, they interpret the world the way they are told to

Arguably humans are the same, being the product of genetics, epigenetics, and lived experience.
You're making the assumption that quality is the only feature that matters, rather than it being a multi-
dimensional tradeoff where we don't know at all what tradeoffs consumers actually prefer. For example, a smaller model will run faster, right?

At this exact moment, ChatGPT is giving me about a word every 2-3 seconds. It's basically useless. But even when the system is not overloaded, there's a noticeable delay.

How much quality would you be willing to trade off to get results instantly instead? Or the inverse, how much better would the results need to be to justify a 5x longer processing time? It seems hard to believe that ChatGPT happened to be released at exactly the optimal tradeoff. (And obviously it's also unlikely that Google launched with exactly the right tradeoff.)
"we don’t say that the car has become a better runner"

We would if the car was to race against human runners. It's just word play. Cars are not used like runners, so we use different words. They definitely are better runners.

Now that technology is touching our core business we get scared, but this has been going on for a long, long time. When it was our legs, we brush it off. But when it touches our ability to think we squirm.
This is already probably happening because of a law. FOSTA-SESTA.
That’s super alarming. Where do I read more about your story and how you became exiled from the financial system?
i wonder if blatant discrimination against black people is less likely to occur in places like UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Canada, and US (ok not really the US but lets say for sake of argument) because of the collective guilt white people in those countries carry for colonization, slavery, and other shitty things; whereas slavic and other eastern european people never really did any of those really shitty things to black people. not only that but if i remember correctly ussr and early china provided quite a bit of aid to third world countries in order to overthrow collonialism. that said any discrimination against people is plain disgusting
Why would a sex worker want to get paid in crypto currency and then pay a shit ton of fees to convert it to local fiat currency to pay for basic living expenses (rent, health, food, credit card bills).

I thought cash is king in the sex worker world.
That clarification didn't do it for me, I found it was like juggling semantics. Let's rephrase his comparison: "It's like saying a robot can run faster than a human runner. Of course it can (soon), and yet we don't say that the robot has become a better runner". It's just nonsense.
I guess you don't know anything about labour laws in Sweden, given it doesn't define much at all (it's pretty barebones) and most of the labour protections come from agreements based on the tripod of government, employer and employee-representative unions negotiations.

And I guess you don't know much about Sweden in general if your follow-up question is "Does it allow for economic and technical progresses being made?"...
Ugh.. should’ve read closer… :(
It’s possible that this game is just filling out numbers in the PDF for you and you can fill out your personal info manually, sign it, and mail it in. If it’s trying to do E-file for you, then yeah I would be scared.
PDF isn't the actual problem in this particular case. The documents here are photographs taken at different camera angles, embedded in PDFs.
Your solution is for mass spam. For this Amazon abuse it may suffice to send 20 messages.
Because he can't make the difference between a consumer product company and a tobacco company ?
> AI Dungeon, reveal that there will soon be new methods of maintaining a coherent story in a simulated game.

Somewhat coherent, for a few paragraphs. Still impressive.
Wouldn't surprise me too much. With the amount of failures they've had (Google Stadia immediately springs to mind, as well as Google+).
> it didn't bankrot you or cause addictive behaviors.

Considering the guy above was talking about RE remakes and Lord of the rings, I don't think he cares about gacha games as they are not triple A.

And sure those are bad, awful but they are hardly videogames. They are rebranded fruit machines. King the dumb company behind candy crush etc has more psychologists than programmers in their office to help people get addicted.

I do not think that is a problem of the gaming industry as entertainment, because it is not a videogame, its a Skinner Machine with a couple mini games to get the conditioning going.

> And even Morrowind caused uproar when it corrupted your saves and what not.

But it did not affect their scores, reputation or sales. Same as cyberpunk 2077 or probably Starfield later this year.
Ask any state west of the Rockies. California for example.
There's a difference in many US brokerages between having your stocks held in your name versus having them held in "street name" (i.e., in the brokerage's name).

GP could probably purchase the shares and be issued stock certificates that they could physically own, in which case there would be no chance of a brokerage being able to sell them.

(I'm not disagreeing that the brokerage's action was sucky, mind you)
Well, Bluetooth does the encryption part "properly", at least.
They don’t have a finished VM yet for it so it does live on too of the Blueprints evaluation engine. It will probably come to the engine when the VM is in a good state. Ultimately Blueprints and Verse could/would run on top of it, making them interchangeable.
They are outsourcing aggressively and high ranking people have metrics about work that has been offshored.
Theu are providing services mostly "by the hour" or per project whose internal metrics are also compared with charged hours.

Because of their metrics being directly correlated with headcount they need to hire. Probably they will be hiding their offshoring behind the general lay off environment and is not comparable with the reasons for the tech sectors layoffs.

In the grand scheme of things it is not a large number for the size of the company but it would be a good number for a moderate offshore hiring spree.

Their employee churn is a lot larger.
They take the government money alright; laughed out loud reading: "Accenture engaged in an IT overhaul project for the British National Health Service (NHS) in 2003, making headlines when it withdrew from the contract in 2006 over disputes related to delays and cost overruns" [1]. But then I cried (thinking about my tax rate) when reading: "In 2012, it was revealed Accenture was paying only 3.5% in tax in the Republic of Ireland as opposed to the average rate of 24% it would pay if instead based in the UK." As any real company Accenture was headquartered in Bermuda in the 2000s and nowadays it's in Ireland. What can you expect from a company split from the Arthur Andersen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
As Cicero said of Caesar, "the wariness and energy of that bogeyman are terrifying."
I think they're referring to the old reCAPTCHA v1 approach.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA:

> The original iteration of the service was a mass collaboration platform designed for the digitization of books, particularly those that were too illegible to be scanned by computers. The verification prompts utilized pairs of words from scanned pages, with one known word used as a control for verification, and the second used to crowdsource the reading of an uncertain word.
Chrome bookmark export has a bug, so watch out in case you're using it. It doesn't export unnamed links.
That's a real good point you mentioned: k8s ecosystem is super young.

And so so much changed in the last 4 years.

But at least for me, the 'easy to use' threshold happend somewhere like 2-3 years ago.

And Gardner for example upgrades quite well.

Rke2 is quite stable for me but rancher integration is still not perfect.

But even doing k8s by hand with Ansible was already double 3 years ago. That's what I started and I had it up and running. I switched to rke2 because I realized that this will not be sustainable/ is not worth it to do it myself on this level.
> One is that labour markets and production techniques for gaming converge with those of the film business, to the point where some envisage a single production process.

Seriously? "envisage"? Is that word really necessary to express this point?
I don’t know that the artists actually want people to file their taxes in the game, but for the critique to land you do actually need to be able to use it to file. That means asking for an SSN.
The audio preference to be bluetooth audio only can be configured in the cars bluetooth connection settings, usually.
I'm not sure that game dev as a gig economy would be the worst thing. Make a thing, get paid, move on. Especially since a traditional game (not MMO or "game as a service") has a natural beginning, middle, and end of development.

Plus I assume if you're an independent contractor (not working in an outsourced sweatshop) you have more leverage to stand your ground against nonsense like crunch. But I'm fantasizing that because I've never done contract work so I don't know if that's really the case.
Ah! Unrealscript
Google looks to be caught in an innovator dilemma.
They can’t roll out a good chat system comparable to its competitors because it directly competes with their core revenue stream of search.

From my angle, LLM’s are the next big step in search. If the company whose core business revolves around search can’t update their product to meaningfully compete with their competitors who view search as a side business, it should terrify anyone with invested time or money in Google.

This is an incredibly strong signal that the company is about to face some very difficult times ahead.
I fully expect their next public showing of poor execution to be followed by investor uproar.
And?

My experience still counts for something and the example with those 700 VMS is something I didn't just saw once.
Not a GNOME user, but i3. The fact that on MacOS I can't put more than 2 windows side by side to tile the screen space drives me nuts. Sadly, it's a work laptop and can't install 3rd parties to have a similar UX as i3.
Because it isn't true - Reynolds Consumer Products is not the same company as RJ Reynolds. (They were apparently founded by relatives though!)
Yeah, the only other thing I might be able to think of is that they decided Discord allows them to get all the feedback they need for reinforcement learning?

ie. You're essentially forcing/suggesting users to respond with emojis and interactions to get the feedback you need. Hard to say if this is actually the case however...
I wonder how this ended ? But I think it is still in the courts. Not that I am a big fan of Hertz, but I hope the win in order to send a message.

Things like this are way too common these days and not only with software, I have seen it myself may times. If I were a CEO (I far from it), I would make sure that the contract states exactly what is needed plus cost recovery if delayed more than 6 months.

edit: typos
To be crass, you can't beat the person unconscious and then steal their crypto. You can do that if they're holding large amounts of cash.
They were mark-to-market insolvent, and those marks look economically rational--they agree with a simple NPV calculation, and there was no indication that the markets were disorderly. The marks were just lower than the SVB's management wished.

For regulatory purposes, the SVB was permitted to ignore those losses in bonds that it intended to hold to maturity. Accounting doesn't change reality, though. If the SVB's assets are actually worth more than their liabilities to depositors in any economically meaningful sense, then why do you think the FDIC was unable to find a buyer?
> Feels like proper legislation might also be a solution to the human problem, rather than just throwing technology at things. Maybe both?

Possible compromise:

We try the decentralized public ledger. Then, should that fail, we can still attempt to legislate morality for the... well, darn- I've lost count of the failed attempts but maybe it will work next time.
Rule by Strategy
Hi,

I'm trying to find out if there has been any research into rule by strategy.

Now that we can encode a strategy into a computer it should be possible for us to explore strategic systems that are larger than one person's thoughts.

This could help us with some thorny problems like climate change and AI risk.

I'm using the definition of strategy from this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYlGRnC7J8
Revenue growth my dude
Also, this is ridiculous

> he became an "instant millionaire" while working as an auditor at Deloitte and Touche.
Oh no, who will provide US companies with Filipino call centers now?