skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue workers create indirect value, because what they do in the end is to execute the vision of the founder of the company. They would have created actual value for themselves if they would have had the vision and the grit to start a company.

What was invented in Sweden that is so groundbreaking they're the most innovative country on the planet?

Regarding technology, it happened in a country unencumbered by unions at every step. Yeah, the US sucks at a lot of things, but at least it's crazy bent on have unions everywhere.

I think that if you're good enough you have all the leverage that you need to be successful. You don't need to join an union for this.
So is Apple negotiating with some LLM mfr to integrate with realityOS ?
Hardly a realistic risk there.

Payment processors are really hard to sue unless they are directly involved in fraud. Which is why person to person payment processors like Venmo can operate.
I'm not sure what the hell you are talking about. It took like 5 years for someone from the dev team to acknowledge the first bug report [0].

Look at the attitude shown towards the constant request for implementation [1]:

> Got patch? Share. Gotn't? Just CC and be silent.

Really facinating thread... I read it every year to remind myself that my brother was born that year and now, 18 years later he's an adult so he's allowed to have beer and use a filepicker in GNOME

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154#c32
The tiger books have a couple of them, pick your flavour,

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/
Hmm that's not the SEC's logic though. Winery or Baseball cards have thier own intrinsic value and while their value can be pumped by promoters it does not depend only on that and they are not sold as an investment. You may decide to buy them as an investement but they are not Created for that purpose.
The same as I may invest in Property to profit in the future but the property is not a security becasue it has it's own intrinsic value and does not depend only on the promotion or market expectation or how the contructor company does afer I have bought the house.

There might be some parallels in Art and NFT but there the issue is completly different and is more of grey area of what you are actually bying than if it's an investment or not.
Laptop vs. Desktop for RonDB Development
Huh?

Have you ever lived through a recession before?

The have nots are the ones that suffer the worst.
He said to "stay the hell away" from ALL black people. No matter how they individually think, which qualifies as racism, if it is to be taken literally. Now he uses satire as well, but this seems to be his genuine opinion. (a comic the next days had the lines: "How is honesty working out for you? - to which Dilbert replies "Shut up")

And for context, the statement "it's ok to be white" is political charged, as it originally comes from white racist, so it is up for debate, how much this changed the poll.
Not to state the obvious but the fact that this commend is the most upvoted in this thread kind of proves one of the premises wrong.

It seems that a lot of people are for transparency (I certainly am) despite them not being too vocal about it.
Far from perfect? Have you seen the latest data?

We now know for example, that the risk of being hospitalised due to vaccine side effects is orders of magnitude more likely than that the vaccines will save you from being hospitalised with COVID.

In randomized control trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines here in the UK, we now know the risk of serious adverse effects from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines was 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated i.e. a ~1 in 800 change of serious adverse effects:

22-Sep-22 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

The UK government has now published its estimate of the number of people needed to vaccinate to prevent a COIVD-19 hospitalisation:

25-Jan-2023 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For example in the 20-29 year no-risk group, the number needed to vaccinate to prevent one hopitalisation is 168,200. To prevent one serious hospitalisation requiring oxygen or ventilation you would need to vaccinate 706,500.

In the UK data, there is litterally no group of people where the likelihood of being hospitalised with side effects is less than the liklihood of being hospitalised with COVID.

It was a disaster that has left us with a plague of "unexplained" excess deaths - a topic that no politician or mainstream journalist wants to touch with a barge pole.
The simplest way to improve is just to re-feed the whole conversation as a prompt.
It's not just a moral judgement.

The illegal sex industry is a big one, and if you have a scalable and available online platform that illegal transactions can be hidden from the authorities that is a problem.

It is a problem if your payment processor is taking payments for nonconsensual sex, rape and payments to have sex with children. Not just a moral panic issue.

Edit: seems like I have some views that are unpopular with the cowards who downvote comments without engaging in discussion.
GWAS of 1M subjects identifies Genetics of substance use disorders
The gene is PDE4B. This gene needs zinc and manganese as a cofactor to work.

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q07343/entry

I carry a rare polymorphism in this gene (rs4384209(A;A)) which is also linked to Bipolar Disorder (which I have). My family is also littered with addiction on my mother's side.

The gene controls the amount of Cyclic AMP in the cell.
It’s entirely consistent for AI-based development tools to only be useful to trained programmers and for those same AI tools to render the programming field as a whole much less tenable of a career.

In fact, the same sentence may be true if you replace AI tools with any technology that improves programmers’ productivity: advanced frameworks for example. The issue is that if programmer productivity shoots through the roof — if you need only one programmer to do the job of ten, or a hundred, or a thousand — then it can result in massive layoffs of programmers. It need not be the case that new technologies be accessible to non-programmers for this to happen.

The same thing is happening in other areas. My friend works in robotic welding. He programs robots to perform specific welds and then supervises them operating during the assembly of each truck chassis. As a single person, he’s doing the work of half a dozen journeyman welders. This amplification of his productivity by technology means his factory needs far fewer welders to get the same work done. It should come as no surprise, then, that older journeymen welders have been very vocal in expressing their hostility towards him throughout his career. “Learn to code” indeed.
And Xerox PARC, TI, Rational, Azul, Danny Hillis, and plenty others.
Why not SROs? They’re notorious for thin walls.
Silly, you don't malcount the actual votes, you brainwash the population and pervert the process until they vote the way you want them to, like in the advanced first world democracies.
I'm always uncomfortable when typing a password on a wireless keyboard.
Acropalypse: Windows Save File API is defective by design
It's all just specific instances of the post correspondence problem!!
I'll be redoing my bathroom this year. What are the chances that some company will begin making these tiles in quality ceramic?
This approach was part of their strategy:

>Then we started showing some results we knew to the bots - if they entered wrong numbers, we would stop accepting the results.
Furthermore documentation to learn to do XML by hand sucks a great deal. It’s admirable how beautiful the Gnome desktop have evolved which such a subpar developer experience. QML is light years ahead.
What is this novel?
Maybe check their existing Figma plugin (without AI) that already has 5K+ installs, and you should be able to see it yourself, and you'll see that this is much more than just a template generator. I'm also not a professional investor/VC but rather a founder myself, and sometimes do personal investments in startups from friends and share my excitement.
Thank you for your input, Bob.
Sorry to hear that! Unfortunately the new svg filter stuff requires hardware acceleration to work at any decent speed on a computer. I haven’t nailed down the exact reasons that make it available or not, but in general, integrated graphics don’t seem to handle it too well. The current public release should still work well for you if you check out dungeonmapdoodler.com/draw, and once I release these new changes, I plan to keep that older version available to use for people who can’t run this one on their computer
> Where is EU's iPhone? Or Android? Or Windows? Or Intel? Or AWS? Or Office365? Or Google? Or ChatGPT? Or Xbox? Or Steam? Or Netflix? Or Nvidia? Or Micron? Or AMD?

Some examples of Eu based tech would be: Nokia killed by MS, an US company. Skype. SAP. ARM, UiPath, Bitdefender.

But is true, we are unable to compete with US on tech. Part of the reasons is that we don't have good startup ecosystem and hubs, we don't have tech hubs, we don't have tech investors, our tech and entrepreneurship culture might be lacking. But another part is that big US tech companies are monopolies and they are trying to stifle the competition and succeeding at it.

Both EU bureaucrats and each country's politicians don't care. No one does a single thing to try to improve the EU tech ecosystem.
Can you explain that again differently? I didn’t understand that captcha point. It feels important though.
I think them not understanding Gaming as well as the Hacker News audience is expected. This is true of loads of fields; football presenters for example make statements about clubs that their fans find to be regularly incorrect, but then how can one person stay updated to the same level of detail for all clubs that a fan does for one club? This happens everywhere.
In CS GO you really get better with Practice.

I tried some Aim Practice Maps from the workshop. That helped improve my aim.
Don't get that opportunity during the actual game.

I used to play for 30-40 mins a day, that wasn't sufficient time in game to improve. Especially against players who are playing for the better part of a day.
I am skeptical that there is any profound scientific value in the term "parasocial interaction".

To judge from the origin of the term,[0] we are calling a "parasocial relationship" the phenomenon of mass conditioning of consumers by controlled media. There is enough clear evidence of a state's ability to affect public discourse by controlling entertainment (and news) media.[1]

Although people may be inclined to credulity or at least some basic level of cooperation, most people can see when they are being duped in a tangible way.

There are extreme cases, which the article calls, "extreme parasocial behaviour".

Other terms exist to describe a person who believes things that are not real, highly improbable, or hallucinatory. And in the marketplace, there is caveat emptor, the complete phrase being,

"Let a purchaser beware, for he ought not to be ignorant of the nature of the property which he is buying from another party."[2]

[0] > Evolution of the term
> Parasocial interaction was first described from the perspective of media and communication studies. In 1956, Horton and Wohl explored the different interactions between mass media users and media figures and determined the existence of a parasocial relationship (PSR), where the user acts as though they are involved in a typical social relationship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor
CSAM is not in violation of the first amendment because the supreme court decided that obscenity isn't protected speech. It isn't specifically that the first amendment only protects political speech, like with abortion, obscenity limitations - particularly related to children - are just something the court made up which no one really openly disagrees with (for obvious reasons).

In a way it shows that the first amendment isn't really all that absolute. Say something that enough powerful people find gross and they'll just make it out to be an unstated exception.
I just upgraded my laptop from Fedora 37 to 38 Beta and the transition was painless. I have done this since Fedora 35 and the upgrade process has been excellent, far better than on Windows and macOS in fact.

For me, Fedora has surpassed the macOS "out-of-the-box" experience, and I have seen how non-techies and older people "get" the UI much faster than both Windows and macOS.
This also seems like misrepresentation of the entire file picker saga. First of all, it is absolutely laughable that something as essential as a thumbnail file picker is missing for that long, literally decades. Several patches have been submitted by people "willing to put muh effort and money in it" and got rejected because superficial idiotic reasons. On the other hand vast amount of resources are put into widely unpopular changes like client side window decoration, removing configuration options, turning everything into a tablet UI or breaking font rendering. And the "massive strides towards simplifying its codebase" means nothing more than dropping backwards compatibility on a regular basis while making everything more bloated and resource demanding.

Maybe Gnome is a project to sabotage the FOSS desktop. Stranger conspiracies turned out to be true.
Personally I'd recommend: Don't use their software. Don't contribute to their ecosystem. Don't go to their conferences. Don't ever give them any money.
Not in some parts, as I understand.

And I think this is also targeted at pornography? I'm not sure where USA is in the pornography rankings, but I'm fairly sure it's nowhere near the bottom (sorry).

But the point is, even if it were all illegal, that's probably a matter for the police, not for private interests to deny an essential service 'just in case', or because 'we don't want to do business with those people'
, etc.
According to wikipedia, 9 of the 10 richest persons are white men from an upper-middle-class or upper class social background. Even people like Sergey Brin, Mukesh Ambani and Carlos Slim, while not born in the U.S. or Western Europe, have parents that were part of their countries' academic or business elite. Do you have any conception of how lucky you have to be to be born into such circumstances instead of being raised in the slums of Nairobi?

Simply put, if hard work would be the deciding factor, every 30-year old Nigerian woman toiling on her small farm while caring for several children would be richer than Jeff Bezos. Yes, hard work matters at the margin but the fact that the guy across the street is picking his food out of a dumpster while you order Uber Eats is mostly down to the the parents you are born to, the place and time you live in, random stuff like getting sick as a child and so on. Get over it, it doesn't mean that you have to feel bad about yourself but it does mean that you should not be an absolute ass to people less lucky than you are and respect demands for more solidarity with them.
It doesn't matter the context. Is it ok, or isn't it?

The correct response is "yes of course it is ok to be any race. Why wouldn't it be?".

It's quite reasonable to be cautious around anyone who equivocates on this question.
I’m pretty sure he’s aware of which country Copenhagen is in but was simply pointing out as an example a much harder large, complex project in a dense urban environment built in far less time.

The key thing to understand is that while other countries have some boondoggles, the United States does almost nothing else despite spending massive amounts of money. The Purple Line mentioned was ostensibly going to be cheaper due to a public-private partnership but that ended in delays and greater costs as those almost always do, and the same was true of a highway expansion Maryland was trying to do with an Australian partner, and just about every other major American road, rail, bridge, bus station, etc. project is similar. Even our bike lanes take ages to build for the relatively small amount of work.

I agree with the theory that much of this is due to hollowing out the civil service as a “cost savings” measure – these projects sound like what I’ve seen at large organizations where they want a software project without hiring developers so they bring in one consulting company to do the work, and after the first round of failures, a second to oversee the first. Even if everyone is actually acting in good faith it’s just inefficient when you have multiple parties and difficulties sharing or acting on institutional knowledge.
I read this just after commenting that I'd like to use such tiles for my new bathroom. So indeed it would be two different tiles.
I'm a Pixel device user currently. Tried GrapheneOS but in the end I found that I can't live without google services...
"Why should America pay for a meteor that's going to hit Russia?"
The medical community is pretty clueless with some things--as they puff their chest and act authoritative. Mental healthcare reminds me of 1500s dentistry right now. There are some successes here and there but mostly dangerous and a waste of money.

Try getting a bi-polar teenager to cooperate with treatment. Bonus points if you have a barely competent healthcare professional.
That ("_every_ money-making industry...") seems like a too strong statement and can be proven false by finding even a single counter-example.

gwd's claim (AFAICT) is that _specifically_ OpenAI, _for this specific decision_ is not driven by profit, which is a much weaker claim. One evidence against it would be sama coming out and saying "we are disabling codex due to profit concerns". Another one would be credible inside information from a top-level exec/researcher responsible for this subproduct to come out and say that as well.
What a scam by the ruling political party
More thoughts.

In fact I think that `class` and other constructs are some sort of compile-time macro. I suspect some syntactic idiosyncrasies are about making the language homoiconic.

Verse has effects, but not algebraic effects. The set of effects is finite and fixed, and there's no way to define arbitrary handlers. All effect processing happens in language constructs like if and for (which might be macros, so maybe there will still be some user-level support for handlers after all). Because it does not have a full blown effect system, concurrency and monadic composition had to be baked into the language, with an effect system these features could have been implemented in a library instead.

Notice how effects are negative types. They are a promise about what a function will not do, not an indication about what a function might do. This is the opposite of other languages with effects.

defer is not needed if you have linear types. I suspect they considered linear types too difficult for the average programmer, so they went with what they consider a good-enough solution.

The type system is probably very novel, I suspect it is the most interesting part of Verse but so far has not been explained or talked about at all. I suspect it might have some form of dependent types.
TikTok Congress Hearing
The context should be dated to 2020, not 2023
Edit: it was now corrected, no need to downvote

Great story! Looking forward to some follow up
> the culture that made those days happen

Literally one movie, that was an unexpected hit is your contender for better culture?

In 2001 the highest grossing movie was Harry potter, and right below lord of the rings was monsters inc and jurasic park.

In 2002 Lord of the rings, Harry potter, Spiderman

in 2003 lord of the rings, matrix,nemo and pirates of the caribean.

Like how is that any different to now when you have pirates, spiderman, some children disney movie and fantastic beats which is just more harry potter?

> the old skills are no longer there.

Dune had more practical effects than lord of the rings. In 2001 the TV golden age had not started. Shows like the sopranos and the wire where struggling to find an audience. Friends and CSI reigned. Nowadays House of the Dragon and Last of US two high quality shows, with good use of practical effects are doing better than comparable mediocre daytime tv.

Even blockbusters are in many ways better. Andor is a million times better than anything from the 2000s prequels.
> Salaries in Germany (and other European countries) are lower than in the US because German citizens receive a lot of benefits through government budgets that US citizens can only dream of. healthcare, essentially free higher education on a level easily comparable to most U.S. universities, better quality primary and secondary education, free or low cost (depending on the state) childcare from age 2-3, comparatively decent and relatively affordable public transport, pensions based on prior earnings that are (somewhat) adjusted for inflation, child benefits, elder/disabled care benefits, etc etc.

Still, if we add all those expenses with the wage, the total is still lower for a SWE in EU vs a SWE in US.
You seem to have no problem with the looks of it though, people don't want "trendy" but maybe just don't like a certain color or style at all. Also when did you come into possession of that bedroom set? Was it your first interior after moving out? A common theme is people wanting to decorate their place how they like it, if it's the first time. I suppose I could do with my parent's bedroom and living room decor NOW, after not living with it for over 15 years, but I surely didn't when I got my own first apartment. (If I had gotten the house including everything in it I would've probably not downright replaced everything, but mostly due to costs)
Yes, although I think it would hold even if it was known in advance.

Another key part is that some areas on earth would remain habitable / producing food. Rich (northern) nations could try some novel approaches to mitigate the effects on a local scale (greenhouse agriculture). Yet other nations could attempt to conquer/buy better placed weak/poor countries.
the two examples we hear are
- meteors with 100% certainty of hitting
- climate change

I'd like to hear opinions on other thing. would nations unite against alien invasion? a solar flare? killer robots?
Original captcha was built around transcribing text that ocr tools failed at

So I give you two words to transcribe to prove you are human. I know one of them and I want to know the other.
If they can cut payment services for this they can cut it for you.

Imagine if banks cut off access to MAGA, or the GOP, or scientology, or Greenpeace?

More regulation needed
> Yes, GPT-4 is not an AGI yet, but the research paper (OP) has a point.

How did you go from "human-level IQ with some super-human abilities" to "not an AGI"?
Who else had "Anathem" by Stephenson come to mind?
Why aren’t logical properties taking over everything?
Define nothing happening. I’ve made a lot of performance improvements to avoid redrawing anything that isn’t necessary, but it’s still drawing your mouse cursor constantly among other things, you wouldn’t expect any other drawing tool to drop to 0% cpu while open, would you? I absolutely agree it’s got some issues still, but I can’t just fully remove the draw loop cause then it’s not software any more, just a picture
“Proper” writing technique has the pen being right angled to the line, which puts the wrist below the line and avoids smudging. It’s pretty uncomfortable at first, but can be learned.
I like the complaints here. On the one hand, tracking every website visit and mouse click is good because it improves revenue due to better targeting of ads; but when a company does even less - just seeing if you show up - to get a return on an assent (office space) its all "yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!"