skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't see the big deal. He's the new CEO and appears to be setting the tone, informing people of one of his first efforts. Stating it publicly seems uncontroversial for a business with publicly-traded stock.

I also don't see it as some veiled attempt to act like he's trying to empathize with every aspect of the workers' lives. Not that a lot of people are suggesting this, but some are, and it seems like an incorrect impulse to assume that. As the new CEO, he wants to see the operating conditions of their stores, where they make most of their money. Seems like a decent idea to me, and is presumably different from what the previous CEO was doing.
I saw a car in a parking garage last week with writing on the back window in soap:

JUST MARRIED
SEND US SOME LOVE
CASHAPP: xxxxxxxxx
Population is expanding in many US cities faster than they are building houses. With houses we need to build schools, stores, parks, offices, and a long list of other things that an expanding population will use more of.

Old infrastructure wears out, and often it fails to meet modern standards and should be replaced (ex old houses often cannot be insulated to modern standards, old bridges we now realize were not built strong enough). Many have for various reasons concluded that some of what we have built in the past was a mistake and so we should tear some things down to replace with something else. (ex replace highways with mass transit)

While we don't need to build or rebuild everything we did in the past, there is still a lot of things that if we would build our life would be better.
This reminds me of Brazilian banks which have introduced "Street Mode" to secure your banking app while out of the home:

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/nubank-wil...
alias gc='git commit -v'

alias gc!='git commit -v --amend'
Right, and part of the "value" that Accenture brings is that it knows how to operate in these areas. It will send US-based managers to work with the foreign dev teams to, ahem, ensure productivity on projects where it matters (on many projects e.g. government contracts the output doesn't really matter), it knows the local bribes and customs companies need to follow to operate in the area.
If I recall (previously-submitted article - https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2023/03/21/aperiodic-monotile/ ), the shape has to be flipped upside down some fraction of the time. So you'd either need two tile shapes for a real bathroom, or your tiles would be a compromise between "both faces are easily cleaned" and "both faces stick firmly to the mortar".
The consulting playbook for these companies is bring in a rockstar team at or below cost for an initial project. Blow the client's mind with velocity and quality, then scope out of a bunch of follow on work using the highest margin, cheapest offshore resources they can find.
I did not know that Nigerians used Hacker News :-D Most people I encounter on this site are oyinbos.
The vast share price growth since the rebrand and Cash App launch seems like a legitimate target if the app is in fact bullshit.

They're not saying the company is worthless, they're saying it's overvalued currently because most of its current share price is a result specifically of Cash App.

Their proposed actual valuation is quite a long way from zero and entirely consistent with them thinking the other products are at least somewhat solid.

(the title on here could probably do with editing, but that's a separate matter)
Its still using this thread lmao
Yeah, some of them have been hilarious.
Maybe. China also wasn't supposed to have access to US TikTok data but they do. What makes you so sure that they would obey some new privacy law? As much as I'd like better privacy laws, why should US tech giants be punished for what TikTok is doing?
Or you just use the web interface, not the API.
Lmao it still takes you here
I mean, they could do it. But it would be wildly unpopular among that demo.
Things were better.
Re 2: Or, if you have been looking at "traveling and staying in luxury hotels" from afar, dreaming of the day you can do it, and you get the money where you can, and you find out that it's kind of nice, but not nearly as wonderful as you expected it to be, then maybe you're miserable, because your dream let you down and you don't have anything to replace it with.
That's the problem, when you cash out, you don't get the net amount listed in the app. You get a penny or sometimes even more than 1 penny less. The amount you get corresponds with the real net amount number that they've applied different rules to which is only available in your account export, only available through their website.
Once when I was working our incoming phone support a tech accidentally added our CEO's office number to the round robin system for incoming support calls.

CEO fielded 4 calls before he figured out what happened. No idea if he solved the problems or not.

I kinda dreamt since that day that any product managers would work some time taking support calls for their products and it'd be a better world because they'd realise all the issues we've been raising about their product are real.... But instead we were just lowly support folks who didn't know about product development and they continued to be "agile"
I thought it was a known fact that CashApp had minimal KYC verification (and subsequent massive problems of fraud)
It makes sense as an incentive.

It just results in very silly situations where the library buys the terrible copies and just happen to also have information on how the DRM works and which programs can bypass it and since libraries exist to provide information, if someone asks for it, of course you tell them. Same way as there tend to be copiers that are out of sight (and camera) range. At least a couple of libraries I worked for had information by the copiers on exactly how much of a book you could copy before it was considered copyright infringement, thus informing people that they could copy the books.

It's very kayfabe-esque.

You're right that it's a fundamental values mismatch. Personally, I'm an extremist who would crash every F500 company to prevent another Library of Alexandria. Knowledge > money.
Hope they make him clean the toilets
Cowntdown until either Numberphile or Matt Parker does a video on this.
starting now
Mmm. The original comment asked for "Pascal-style enums". Those are different from C enums: they are incompatible with integers and other enums, they don't support arithmetic operations (you have to use succ()/pred() built-ins) and they contain precisely the named values (calling e.g. succ() one too many times is supposed to be a runtime-detected range error). Plus, enums being ordinal types, you could use them as array indices in type definitions, like "array[Kind] of real" (so effectively, enum range checks and array boundary checks implemented by the same mechanism).

So that's what I went with, because I actually liked Pascal-style enums but thought they could be somewhat improved, so what you've read is my ideas (Go is surprisingly close to Oberon and both lack enums).
> There will be no viable robotics applications that harness the serious power of GPTs in any meaningful way.

That's a weird prediction to make, considering that PaLM-E does exactly that: https://palm-e.github.io/
This happened to a friend of mine in Atlanta.

Someone tried to sell her a rock at a traffic light. When she wouldn't buy it, they used it to smash her rear driver's side window and grab whatever they could from inside the car.
> GNOME Circle is a fantastic collection of apps that are developed as part of the GNOME Project. Since GNOME 43 was released, ten new apps have joined:

> Zap, Boatswain, Emblem, Lorem, Workbench, Komikku, Chess Clock, Eyedropper, Elastic, Clairvoyant

I think I probably understand just what three of those do (Eyedropper, Lorem and Chess Clock), the rest seems indecipherable by name only. Is it really that impossible to come up with creative yet understandable names?
These are all non-episodic TV shows which have yet to conclude. I reserve judgement until they have concluded as to whether the writing will hold up. For the vast majority of these shows, writing is great for a few seasons, then nosedives because they can't figure out how to conclude it or the plot becomes an ever expanding fractal of loose ends.

The reason for this is simple. Due to the nature of how studios are run now, you gotta keep making the popular stuff until it ceases to be. Even if it was better to just leave it at one or two seasons. Everything has to be renewed to make evn more money and to offset the endless treadmill of cancelled-after-one-season garbage that Netflix and HBO etc are pumping out.

I love Succession, but I hope this 4th season is the last one.

EDIT: named the wrong season.
This is in line with how I was taught how to use React years ago. I'm surprised so many people are angry with these new docs. React has been such a productivity boon for us and every time I have to work in Angular, I'm reminded of how unnecessarily complicated it is for a frontend framework.

Many useEffects can be replaced with event handlers and calculated constant variables
Why would TikTok follow them? How can we actually enforce that?
In India, apps like Google Pay (which runs on UPI platform) require you to first unlock the app using your screen lock method and then also require entry of a pin to confirm any kind of money transfer.
Little Snitch Mini seems to be almost a demo for Little Snitch, which you can buy outright with a license up front. So buy that for your employees.
> Hindenberg is accusing Block of committing fraud.

I don't think so unless I missed a big accusation?

They're accusing Block of enabling fraud, and when Block can no longer enable fraud -- say due to higher regulatory oversight -- it'll lose much of its appeal and customer base, which has already dropped significantly post pandemic.
I think semantics is important :(

In my experience, most arguments are the result of people not agreeing on what a word means.
Great essay by Yegge as always.

I have worked in the search space for a long time. And cherry picked examples of obvious wins, some NLP thing being smart, are _rife_. You get worked up about that one time something spooky/incredible happened and think the world is changing/ending.

What I would like to see is an actual, independent, reproducible study of productivity gains on specific tasks. I've not seen this yet. I'm curious if anything is out there?
OpenAI's latest LLMs like GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT) and GPT-4 are probably the only American technologies that are still competitive against European and Chinese/Russian alternatives.

Maybe there is a White House phone call behind OpenAI's "safety" concerns.
The ratio of skilled : unskilled jobs. As well as the general decline in what constitutes a skilled job.
I want a yard. Well, I want to live someplace with a yard, and I have one. A place with a pool, and room for my dogs to run. I live "in town" but I have a yard. I don't want to live in a dense urban area. Some do, but I'll bet they tend to be younger and don't have kids or have younger ones. People want space. How about we make roads and cars cheaper instead of demonizing owning actual land? That's why suburbs are popular, why they'll stay popular, no matter how much strongtowns.com tries to push something else.
Such a forum might make the users' metadata part of the post, public to all. IP addr etc. No need for "National Security" to call and ask for a poster's information when it's already there, and that removes one of their favorite quiet intimidation tricks.

Still suspect you'd have someone using the law as a tool to remove the platform the first time they had an issue with one of your users. "someone said something bad there once, nuke it from orbit" has a longer tradition than the concept of nukes... or orbits.
That mix is fire.
You jest but Language Models already increased writer and coder productivity by up to 50%, before GPT-4 dropped. Once we learn to use GPT-4 correctly we will quadruple human productivity. This could cut the number of jobs needed by 75% or it could grow the economy by 300%.
> I don't think you have anyone to blame

It’s a negligent move for sure, but a crime is still a crime.

Having someone steal your money without your consent is still theft and they are still the perpetrator of the crime.

The victim-blaming mentality on the internet is wild. Being negligent or naive doesn’t shift 100% of the blame to the victim when a crime occurs.
> based on off-the-shelf components, would they no longer be a fraud?

Yes. Also, they’d have to re-state their past user numbers and pay fines, both of which would reduce their valuation.
But that's only half the story.

The other half is that they used nearly free money provided by the US central bank, routed through VC firms, and engaged in anti-competitive predatory pricing.

The pricing issue is stark and impossible to miss. I produce events for a living and I'm in a different city every week. The cost of an uber ride now is invariably 2-3x higher than it was a few years ago at minimum sometimes 5-10x higher.

I remember tooling around Chicago and getting fares that were like $2.17 and $3.22 a couple years ago. Any fares within downtown Brooklyn were $8, period, often discounted via a promo to $4-5. Now they're routinely $25, maybe $15-18 on a slow day.

That's where all the VC money went, and it simply wasn't possible to compete with that unless you had access to all that free money too, which local business didn't.
> I too rarely eat on the road crossing the USA, because I actually have standards for what I eat. There's nothing but junk food peddled at American travel stops.

Keep an eye out for truck stop signs that have Punjabi written on them. There are tons of Punjabi Dhabas catering to truck drivers all over the US. No white table cloths, but it's a quality authentic meal.
Apple stock is the 2nd most valuable asset in the world (#1 is gold)
Yep. This whole argument hinges on the fact that the word “runner” in this context happens to be used almost exclusively to refer to humans. Rephrase it even slightly and it falls apart. We do say “cars can move faster than humans.” Likewise we do say “machines can lift weights better than a human,” but we don’t say “machines are better weightlifters” because that particular word “weightlifter” is coincidentally only used to refer to humans.
It's ambiguous; you might have meant only that this was why you were amused, rather than why they named it so.

Clarity is hard in text; I have a few threads where someone carefully explains to me the joke or observation that I just made :D
> (As a side-note, it feels weird to me that they used a free academic archive to store their technical report, even though it cannot go through peer review or be accepted in any academic publication.)

I find this to be particularly egregious. Such an obvious false front is a red flag to me.
Well, that's ok. Well-done CGI should be "invisible". I don't really care if the set is a set in the physical world or in a computer for as long as it looks good and doesn't fall into the uncanny valley.
Absolutely! And that's what leaders should be doing.
Locking devices is the wrong step, but deploying nation-scale firewalls to block content you happen to find objectionable, isn't?

If you want to block porn in your own home, there's plenty of consumer gear out there that allows you to do just that. Why do you want to voluntarily expand power of the government to moderate content that you're allowed to access?
I highly doubt they've replaced internal functions with AI. They're probably just firing a bunch of people, and telling anyone left that they'll have to pick up the slack and to be thankful for still having a job.
What role would the SEC have? First amendment demands the freedom to publish whatever truthful information you want and there’s no restriction on profiting from “outside” information.

If allegations in the report are false, the traders face legal liability. If they’re true but the market disagrees with the impact, they’ll lose money on the trades.

What specific thing should the SEC be policing here?
GPU’s coming in hot at #3. Zizzling like a grill.
Walking and running are modes of movement. A car can move.

Focusing on the "how" feels like you'd arrive at "a calculator isn't as good at calculating as a human, because it doesn't do it the same way, it doesn't have a brain".
I would imagine OpenAI already has more interactions than that.
In that case they would be banned under the new law, the same way any other company would.
Some of that is also due to Electron for better or worse. Slack, VSCode and so on.
so this is very similar to the Acropalypse vulnerability recently published about Google Pixel Pro phones?

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...
Why do you say that?

gnome 2,X was great. My recollection was that almost everyone hated gnome 3
Why would they simply shut down instead of capturing some portion of their expected future revenue with a sale?
It's not just word play.

Cars go faster than humans can by themselves, under some specific conditions.

Cars go slower than humans, or rather cannot go at all, under other specific conditions. Two weeks ago my wife ran 30 miles on trails in southern Texas. A car could not have traversed any of the distance she travelled on, because a car cannot run.

Cars make it easier for people to move themselves and stuff when there are appropriate roads to travel on. They have enhanced our abilities to do this, but they cannot run.

You're squashing the meaning out words by trying to suggest that "running" is somehow equivalent to "any other method of a person moving from A to B". But that's not true.

We can acknowledge the greater ease of cars for moving people and stuff without squashing the meaning out of words.

Finally, even the notion that cars are "better" at moving people and stuff needs careful examination. Thus far I have said "make it easier" because I am aware that by a certain set of metrics (related to energy use, material use, impact on the environment) cars are actually worse most of the time.
Research into systemically important infrastructure cannot be damned because that infrastructure isn't public. It's a cheap moralizing argument to say "pfff, this was predictable". Maybe so, but there isn't an alternative. Much like research on Twitter. Once these companies start to drift into providing what become broadscale social utilities and public services it doesn't matter that they're private. There are(/should be) obligations that come with that.

You can't handwave and say go do your research on some micro-niche open source project that's way behind the SOTA and has nowhere near the same reach. That's not what "best practice" means here.
The upcoming Succession season is the 4th one and HBO as well as the show runners have confirmed that it will be the last and conclude.
A few differences compared to other commercial iPhone-based capture techniques:

- Whole-clip solve instead of noisy frame-by-frame streaming
- Automatically generating a face model to calibrate the rig
- Solving from raw sensor data instead of Apple ARKit pose data

VFX studios typically develop proprietary solutions a few years in advance, so it can be hard to say what is truly "new and different."
The states attorney for Maryland in Baltimore lost her re-election bid because she refused to prosecute kids running a racket on the busiest streets.

A guy did exactly what you said, and they snapped his wipers off his truck. He parked highly upset, and stepped out with a bat to confront the kids. One of them pulled out a handgun and shot the dude down right in rush hour traffic.

She lost her job, and the city started enforcing a no squeege ban.
How can it access the clipboard?
It's not just thumbnails. In ~2015 Matthias Clasen of Redhat removed the ability to chose between filename-entry and path-bar mode in the gsettings org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser location-mode. This meant it was no longer possible to open a File->Open dialog in a Gtk3 using program and paste or type a file path (like, /home/user/somefile.txt) into the File->Open window. Instead only the mouse-using bubble buttons 'path-bar' mode is available. When you attempt to paste a file path into the file->open dialog you get an error, "The folder contents could not be displayed.\nOperation not suported". (ref: http://erewhon.superkuh.com/gtkfilechooserwidget-paste-fail....)

When hundreds of people asked about this bug he said,

>It is a private gtk setting, you don't really have any business tweaking it. It may disappear at any point. (ref: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788700)

and all attempts to get them to fix the bug since have failed. I continue to ask in #gtk on IRC at least once every year. Gtk3 is permanently frozen broken and the same bug actually still exists in Gtk4. If you open a file->open dialog and just paste a file path you get an error. I have attempted to re-write the relevant sections of gtkfilechooserwidget.c myself, just for my machines, but I have only succeeded in allowing typing/pasting in File->Open dialogs the first time they're activated in a program. Never the subsequent activation.

Index: gtk+-3.24.5/gtk/gtkfilechooserwidget.c
===================================================================
--- gtk+-3.24.5.orig/gtk/gtkfilechooserwidget.c
+++ gtk+-3.24.5/gtk/gtkfilechooserwidget.c
@@ -8607,8 +8607,8 @@ gtk_file_chooser_widget_init (GtkFileCho
priv->load_state = LOAD_EMPTY;
priv->reload_state = RELOAD_EMPTY;
priv->pending_select_files = NULL;
- priv->location_mode = LOCATION_MODE_PATH_BAR;
- priv->operation_mode = OPERATION_MODE_BROWSE;
+ priv->location_mode = LOCATION_MODE_FILENAME_ENTRY;
+ priv->operation_mode = OPERATION_MODE_ENTER_LOCATION;
priv->sort_column = MODEL_COL_NAME;
priv->sort_order = GTK_SORT_ASCENDING;
priv->recent_manager = gtk_recent_manager_get_default ();

I've talked to Gtk4 users on #gtk IRC and apparently this bug still exists in Gtk4. When they refuse to fix things like this you have to wonder who they're making Gtk for. Business users of IBM/Redhat's who's employees use a mouse for everything, I guess. And yes, I know gtkfilechooserwidget.c is spaghetti and it's hard to change anything without breaking something someone else wants. But this is core functionality. It should not be ignored. Especially not for an entire decade.
>Because someone programmed them to do it. 100%.

It is this thinking of the past that will get large numbers of us in trouble with our future machines.
"I think you're enjoying these convolutions"

If nothing works, try ad hominem arguments. It is still an argument, but a very weak (the weakest?) one.

"You are wrong because it's you" has the same problems as "The things I think are ok, are ok, and the things I think are bad, are bad", it doesn't try to be universal and revolves around oneself. Also these kind of arguments have the tendency to lead to an echo chamber with no progress on understanding.

PS: You might be right, I've studied Philosophical Computer Science, but it doesn't strengthen your argument. It's like saying "You're wrong because you wear a blue hat, when I wear a blue hat".
ChatGPT ? /s