skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once GPT-4/chatGPT reaches a certain tipping point for disruption, and public sentiment turns from curiosity to fear, the resulting backlash and scrutiny could be on the level of Microsoft's antitrust case in the 1990s.

amongst the soon-to-be-permanently unemployed middle class there are going to be a few crazy people

once/if they realise what these companies are working towards: their employees will require 24/7 security...

I'm not sure this is a future that any of us want (bar some executives)?
It really is, yes. I can't go into a lot of detail on the "why" because it's not open source and the product team would murder me...but I highly encourage folks to try it for themselves. Nothing else convinced me until I did it for myself. :)
You didn't read the article, because it has nothing to do with business users. The team responsible for maintaining the Twitter API is down to zero engineers. This is the product that brought in $400M ARR.
My grandfather got me a lesson in Logo when I was <10 on his apple ii. It was before I understood the concept of degrees, so I really struggled with it. That said, it is part of what made me into a software engineer today.
Musk is perhaps the least partisan public figure I know of; everyone on the left seems to assume he's a right winger because he doesn't subscribe to left-wing orthodoxy, so he must be one of the Bad Other Guys.

TBH it seems clear to me that he is a closeted libertarian who can't safely express his views in full without alienating huge segments of his mostly-red autoworker base or his mostly-blue techworker base.

It's a difficult tightrope to walk in the current ongoing partisan culture brawl.
> given time, lies are easy to spot.

Really? Maybe small lies. But not bigger ones.

"The election was rigged" is a binary statement that should be resolvable. In 2022[1], when asked about the 2020 US election, more than 25% of US citizens polled thought it was rigged. More than 55% thought it was not. (Some were unsure). Certainly it's not "easy to spot" lies in that basic example.

[1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/axios-january-6-revis...
The difference is, at the office it's part of your job, at home it is not. Helping your teammates is part of your job, helping your wife is not. And I bet you don't clock out to make a quick 5-minute break to help your wife 10 times a day ;)
That wasn't real communism.
> in ordinary use the chips and phosphors inside will run at high temperatures and degrade much more quickly. This effect will be even more pronounced with enclosed fixtures (like ceiling lights) that have little to no ventilation.

So, if I want bulbs that are less likely to fail, would it help to always buy enclosure-rated ones, even for applications where they're not going to be enclosed? It seems like that could be a way to get the safety margin that manufacturers aren't bothering with.

> unlikely to try to exercise their warranty

I'm in this exact situation now, and it's because of the hassle. You must take the bulbs back to the store. There are various issues like waiting in line, and I haven't done it. I bought name-brand bulbs thinking they'd be good, but now I'm unhappy because the guarantee process is such a bother.

I wonder if a company could make a viable product by differentiating in this area. Make a truly no-cost, no-hassle return process. Allow me to print a pre-paid shipping label and just drop it in the mail. No in-person store visits, waiting on hold for customer support, etc. And really push this in marketing. Maybe even put some kind of hour meter on the bulbs as a visible sign that I am buying the one brand of LED bulb that takes reliability seriously. People might pay more just to be spared from the headache of LED bulbs that fail a lot.
Also would like to know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA
My 4 year old made his first program using Scratch Jr.

What was this program?

He made a story where cats jump up and down 25 times and then walk away. He recorded sound effects for the cats that repeated as the cats jump.

It’s simple but offers so much more of a creative outlet than games/educational apps aimed at his age group.
Greenwald has gone pretty nuts on his own since then.

Unpopular opinion here: I think Snowden rightfully got people to pay more attention to cryptography, and that's good, but I always thought there was something about his story that didn't add up. Defecting to Moscow is shitty, too, especially considering what happened later.
> Had enough of Android? Replace it with a barely working unsecure ecosystems linux distro with effectively 0 adaption. Oh and youll still need an Android Phone for you messengers, bank accounts, ...

FTFY
This is exactly it. I of course have a web browser on my laptop. If I'm running errand, going to the grocery store, or going for a walk, I have never had a need for it other than wanting to satisfy some random curiosity. Not having a web browser on my phone for the last 4-5 months, I haven't run into any issues. If I'm simply bored, I have koreader installed which is synced to my ereader at home. If I do have that random curiosity pop up, I'll take a note and research it later.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-doomer
I’ve never had a problem with my Phillips Hue bulbs and I’ve owned the same 4 bulbs for 5 years now. I’ve got them scheduled to start brightening at sunset, change to a warmer colour closer to bed time, then start dimming and warming up before bed time.

If I want to feel more awake I ask Siri to change the colours of the bulbs to white. If I went to go to bed earlier I ask Siri for the colour tan and to dim the lights by 30%.

At this point I can’t imagine not having control over the colour or brightness of my lights. These things are essential for a good sleep.
From manufacturing consent to manufacturing reality
Hey I don't want to pay for your thing. You should make it free and also give me the source code.
True, but it's quite possible that people who cook illegal drugs for money often don't care because they get paid by the distributor. At the end of the day, they're just trying to make a living like the rest of us, and they usually don't have to care about what happens to their users because its outside of their feedback loop.

An analog to the tech industry would be the universal frustration with end user data collection vs its continuing proliferation.

Most of us don't like the lack of privacy online and how much data companies capture, and many if not most of us work at companies that aren't capturing end user data. But many if not most of us, do make tools that are sold to companies who do capture an insane amount of user data. Ultimately, we still are often paid, at least indirectly, through privacy-violating user data collection because it's an extremely common web monetization model.

I'd be willing to bet that there more than a few Facebook engineers on this forum who unironically complain about the lack of privacy on the web. But what pays their salaries?
It usually comes down to the brand, factors you can't be aware of like component choice, and the light fixture itself. A lot of LED edison socket lights die quickly in recessed lighting or other tight fixtures because the heat is death to them. Manufacturers build the worst technically functional capacitors into the power supplies with a low temperature rating, meaning they really can't handle anything above ambient.

This is also the same industry and the same players that were perfectly fine with agreeing to not improve incandescent light past 1000 lifetime hours, illegally. I have no doubt that there is a tacit agreement not to make good lighting, as that would extremely disrupt the industry.
Again, do it first, then talk. Everything you're saying is pure theory, which holds no substance here. Do it, then talk.
More like, how not to buy a business.

Elon basically started with the Private Equity leveraged buyout playbook - borrow money to buy a business, then assign that business the debt used to buy it.

But it’s unclear how he’s going to do part 2, which is to either suck enough value out of it to recoup the purchase price before it fails completely, or turn it around and make it more valuable than when he bought it.

Right now Twitter needs to drastically increase its revenue and decrease its expenses just to service the new debt load. Hence Elon firing everyone and trying to charge more for every little thing.

It’s amazing that Twitter was more or less self-sustaining prior to this, and now it’s not.
I am in top 10% earners in the world and I would love for more work to be still automated. I would simply ride a bike more, feast, dance and play and tons of other stuff like create own virtual worlds etc. Currently it’s hard to find to coordinate for these activities as work occupies lots of time.

If from this advancement we will be able to get 4 day work week and 4 day weekend it will be huge thing.
Lightbulbs are a bad form factor. I have some lights without bulbs and no issue. Meanwhile the halogen emulating LEDs break all the time.
Maybe we should scold those that do nothing rather than those who do something. 10k from all the companies the size of Bloomberg that use curl would be plenty.
I find Scratch so confusing. So many menu options, drop downs , select here click here. Very frustrating experience. I don't think my child (8 years old) learns coding from it.
I'm trying to find away to introduce him to Basic. But he looses interest once he sees just lines. Scratch is flashy and things can be moved and clicked which is what the kids are used now, but I just don't see any educational or fun value added.
Sorry about the late reply I was up to my neck in money flaundering activities.
Is there anything decent in the middle? Somewhere between one dollar bulbs and eighteen dollar bulbs?
but that's working on work stuff, not personal stuff. You could make the 'but not my work' argument, but that's disingenuous I think.
I always find myself coming back to ST for "powerful text editor" needs. It works, it does what I need. I was able to use it for a long time before paying for it. Not sure why it needs to be explicitly compared to VSCode and treated with the same expectations.
Painfully broad generalisation
Hi US people, european here.

The EU forbid terribly inefficient light around a decade ago. Yes, we had plenty of debates. Yes, people were concerned about all kinds of things. Most of them were entirely made up, some were exaggerated out of proportion.

I can say that we still have lights, the debate mostly vanished and no, it's not blue everywhere.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reparations-could-cost-c...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-are-the-next-steps-...

It seems like it's happening to me..
> Generally it is not a litmus test for a person's libertarian-ness

Well sure, if you define "libertarian" as "hypocritical bro who wants the government to not touch his own personal things but feel free to go nuts on women, minorities, bailing out huge banks I make use of with taxpayer money", the abortion issue is not much of a litmus test.

Otherwise calling abortion a "contentious" issue for dictionary-definition libertarianism, that's something libertarians would think to make themselves feel better about supporting the most intrusive government overreach imaginable.
Yes. But also the fuel used was also very difficult to light (consequence of it's design requirements), so at least as a fire hazard, it was probably relatively well controlled.

Uh health risks... shrug. The pilot is wearing most of a space suit. Who knows whats up with the ground crew though.
Package managers have a hard enough time managing packages. Imagine them having to manage payments...
Why? It's a perfectly good functional programming language... https://gist.github.com/pjlsergeant/50a3d086d9513612cb397a13...
I was on vacation recently on an island that has a mix of people who stay in resorts and drink, people who do adventury type stuff and are active, and cruise people who are dropped off from a giant one and spend the day walking around.

This last category waddle around and breathe heavily like they walk once or twice a year. Their walk is so strange, from behind they wave their arms like a paddle in water.

We often talk about obesity as some sort of thing that happens to people. I really wish willpower and individual will could come back as a value in American society. We don't have to go back to the 80s. But we need to start holding individuals accountable, it will make them feel more like they have control.

I commute multiple times a week and I also didn't commute at all for a while. I stayed fit because I do a variety of exercises, I do it like a quota of What Must Be Done, and I've married obligation with fun (which means picking and choosing). Sometimes I eat too much so I'll eat less the next day. Most days I skip breakfast because I know my body doesn't need 2500 calories a day.

It's an individual choice, not A Thing That Happens To people.
let's also not forget maximizing shareholder value, if only for a brief beautiful moment.
People have a terrible tendency as well to blame the bulb when it's just overheating in a really bad fixture.
Again they chose to release their product as open source. These are the consequences.
Yes, I definitely didn't think about this issue.

Secret detection seems hard.
Maybe "gut save" should inform the user which file will be committed to prevent committing a credentials file, but it's probably not the right solution.
I must look into that.
If you don't already, I recommend roasting your own beans. I never got good consistent results from store bought beans, but now I roast (which is surprisingly easy) I can achieve great results. Store coffee beans are usually way over-roasted for my taste.
They could migrate deleted ones to "Trashcan", a new npm repo where you could go to find something that may have been inadvertently swept out with the real garbage. Then you could appeal somehow to have those packages readmitted to the main repo?
Yes. Philips has and Waveform have pretty decent midrange bulbs. Ketra has really, really high quality stuff.
I don't think there's no value in making observations of human psychology. I was arguing that RCT does not address the epstemological problem, since the subjects observe the outcomes.

I don't think that there are no properties to observe about humans, but simply doing science isn't sufficient. You need to add in some math. Game theory and computer science come to mind as disciplines which are also not science which can be used to reason that an observation might be invariant with respect to repeated observation. Experiment alone is not sufficient to establish this.
You don't need an Android phone for messengers.

Just get Beeper and a Linux Matrix Client and you can communicate with iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp users without having an Android phone

My bank account works in the Browser
> Git alternative command line interfaces just make no sense

Couldn't you say the same for wrappers around an API ?
So basically it's just bunch of extra work for everyone while also functioning as voter supression just like in US?

Seems like Germans do a good tradeoff.
If you're that executively dysfunctional to the point where it's affecting your career, then it's time to escalate the problem beyond what your immediate manager can provide (but do talk to them about this), and find a mental health professional that can help. everybody has their off days but if those days turn into months and then days and then years, it might be burnout, at which point you'll still want a mental health professional to help guide you through the troubles but it could be something else. like ADHD.
Mo-99 production reaches non-proliferation milestone
I have a lot of dimmers in my house because they were there. It's nice to turn the hall lights down at night when I'm the last one awake (but not if they get too flickery; older dimmers built for incandescent don't always work with dimmable leds), and very nice when watching or starting a movie, etc.

But, dimmable bulbs are also an indicator of quality. Someone cared enough to make sure it worked in that situation, so there's evidence that someone was caring during the design.
No. I'm happy paying for the software that I spend most of my time in. The claim in the article that Sublime is "overshadowed" by VSCode simply doesn't ring true to any regular Sublime user, especially if they can type faster than VSCode can render to screen, which is basically everyone.
I don't think it's as simple as that - we have higher level languages that protect us from trivial security issues like buffer overruns, but that's a net good. There is no advantage we would gain in security from rolling that back.

Instead, it gives us exposure to a new set of higher level security problems, that over time we will need to develop higher level primitives to navigate. We would still have these problems with lower level languages, we'd just be too overwhelmed with smaller issues to properly address them
This just in, web indexing company scrapes web for data.
I read a lot of the other comments here before yours and they all seemed to describe a reality very different from my own experience. Then I saw yours and it suddenly makes sense. I am also in the Europe, most other commenters seem to be from the US.

Here I find it is very easy to find good LED bulbs with the strength and color profile of my choice and I have used LED in all rooms of my house for the last 10+ years without any failing so far.
Yes, have to think about how to tax exactly.

Other way would be to slowly increase business taxes for everyone instead of only the ones who automate, to incentivise everyone to automate or perish.

How would you put automation in the hands of the people?
This is excellent advice. I must admit I have reverted to marketing myself as a code monkey lately because I haven't been able to get my foot through the door as an actual consultant selling solutions.

I have started a few long term relationships with clients by just basically asking them "what do you need fixed? Is there any way I can make your business more efficient?" but it's not the type of approach that works if your only remaining avenue is cold-calling and sending resumes.

This is certainly a fault of mine, I should have invested more in my "brand" to have the clients come to me organically (through my website or Twitter account) rather than having to knock at their door asking for a job.
I agree with most of your points but

> every developer having access to production databases, including people hired yesterday

Do you expect new developers to have a wait period before being able to access sensitive materials? That seems like a recipe for disaster, you’re openly saying “I don’t trust you” at the start of your relationship with someone, when it’s the most volatile.

I’m almost positive that doing it will just cause your new devs to resent their new bosses from day 1.
Would this system need new electrical wiring ?
Actively working on it. I've not noticed any performance problems even with the large model (though the plan was always to run the speech recognition on a GPU - your use case may differ). It seems to be doing fairly well even with slightly noisy inputs, and certainly has better bang/$ than other non-API solutions that service my native language.

While true real-time would definitely be nice, I can approximate it well enough with various audio slicing techniques.
I don't know, I remember people talking about calling them chalkboards instead of blackboards in the UK 25 years ago, back when it was "political correctness gone mad". We don't have green chalkboards at all in the UK. They're all black.
In theory, sure. But it reality, 20-30 minutes. Especially if you have non-developers as part of the standup. The first few minutes are eaten up by pleasantries.
No, it's the complete opposite: the fact that Twitter has laid off 80% of its staff and is still operating has encouraged execs at other tech companies to push staff cuts. Vanity Fair wrote an article about this yesterday.[0]

I do think there are long term-issues with laying off that many employees, but clearly the "if you fire all these engineers the service is going to collapse and stop working" doomsaying was unfounded.

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/big-tech-layoffs-202...
Some other patterns that don't have quite as much, but still 100% spam results:

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=zip-mp3-a-lbum

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=do-wnload-available

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=file-alb-um-zip
> no blue at all

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35373754
Show HN: Five steps to build NSA-Level app access control
Clearly, captcha only works in the same budget category. If that spam “business” endures hiring humans, it will easily swallow small fees too.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I don't have any home automation stuff, but good to know this exists.
For those that don't know, Jacob Devlin was the lead engineer and first publisher of the widely popular BERT model architecture, and initial bert-base models released by Google.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Jacob-Devlin/39172707
Well seeing that I was “conceived” around September of 1973 and I first “open sourced” code by submitting it via ftp to the Mac archive site in 1993, I am almost sure that is not the case.
You can get a digital copy of the book easily

https://www.google.com/search?q=Sled+Driver+pdf
Congress gets to decide what reciprocity states must have. Driver's Licenses are one of those. Every US state must accept every other US state's licenses.

Congress did not decide that concealed carry had reciprocity.

The entire "legalizing gay marriage" argument was if states had to be forced to accept same-sex marriages from other states where it was legal.
Have you ever lived an entire family on $18k/year? What you want to do with your money is completely moot.
Thank you! Reading WFH threads always contradicts my lived experience. I am happy to hear that someone else has the same problem and I am not alone.
“The Navy told us that a Chinese satellite turned and headed on a different route to photograph that plane.”

I can only assume that China publish their targeting on some Twitter account? What ludicrous statement.
I'd imagine learning at least a little Python alongside Scratch would be more optimal than Scratch alone. It's like bilingual education, it has great benefits although individuals may gravitate towards a preferred option. Perhaps it's a bit like comparing Minecraft to Factorio:

https://www.idtech.com/blog/scratch-vs-python

Looking around, it also seems possible to set up your own Scratch server, which is comparable to setting up a Minecraft server, then you could use Python to pound away via the Scratch API (which is otherwise disallowed by the Scratch team on the public Scratch servers, reasonably enough). That might be a good project for older kids (teenagers).
Congressional Democrats and Republicans coalesce around calls to regulate AI
I would rather use Andrei Pangin's async-profiler than doing something custom with jstack.
Rate limiting, spam filters, easy ways to report, 2FA requirements, etc.

Many package managers are on this path too.

https://github.blog/2022-07-26-introducing-even-more-securit...
You said it's "more than half" of the negativity, not "an extra bit."

> This does not mean there isn't also an extra bit of anti-Musk/Trump stuff piled on top (in Musk's case the stuff about him inheriting an Emerald mine and lying about his child dying in his arms

I guess you're implying the emerald mine stuff is false? Or are you saying it's not a big deal? And re: the child dying in his arms, the media is quoting his wife, who said he's lying. Are they to just ignore a story like that?
Because Google manages the .dev TLD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

It's their TLD, they do whatever they want.