skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could still be related to rising salaries but not interest rates. Mass layoffs increases competition and lowers salaries overall irrespective of interest rates, having a lot of layoffs from multiple companies at the same time is a way for the company to save money. I don't know why people think companies that generally have millions or billions in the bank need to borrow money to pay salaries, I've never seen anyone provide evidence that these huge companies are doing that. I only see people parroting the interest rate line and blaming the Fed
Wow I didn't realise it was chatgpt. It's interesting how similar it is to corporate speak. I wonder where they trained that from. Sorry for being rude.
This is common in the "security" space.

i.e. Dunk on an ecosystem, promote your tool that somehow "makes it better", but ultimately doesn't help the problem.

Source: I work on a notable package manager where this happens regularly.
Guessing: GP did something, lost a copyright case in court, had to pay, didn't pay, and that's a "did not pay debts" entry in the Schufa database.
That places the goalposts outside of the field though. A decade ago what we are seeing today would have been SF, much less AI. And now that it's reality it isn't even AI anymore but just 'luxury autocomplete' in spite of the massive impact that is already having.

If we get to where you are pointing then we will have passed over a massive gap between today and then, and we're not necessarily that far away from that in time (but still in capabilities).

But likely if and when that time comes everybody that holds this kind of position will move to yet a higher level of attainment required before they'll call it truly intelligent.

So AGI vs AI may not really matter all that much: impact is what matters and impact we already have aplenty.
Its members and their knowledge lived on for another day, another chance.
Indeed. The US had capital controls: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/024/1975/001/arti... .. introduced by noted communist Lyndon B Johnson.
>in use by greater than 1,000,000 persons

...

>quantum communications

Bravo trying to squash a problem that will take decades to exist.
If they succeed in freezing AI development there will be no APIs like OpenAI is offering. It'll be all closed doors. Huge Benefit for those with access, rest of humanity basically plebs.
I've been installing Kauf brand smart-bulbs, which come pre-flashed with ESPHome for integration with Home Assistant. Some of my earlier bulbs failed, and I recently noticed that the founder of the company commented on the issue and said he specced a more robust capacitor after early failures: https://github.com/KaufHA/kauf-rgbww-bulbs/issues/31#issueco...

I haven't contacted them for replacements yet, but seeing their comment makes me much more likely to purchase them in the future, despite my early issues.
Not to minimize your efforts, but I get the impression you have looked for companies hiring for jobs, and sell yourself based on a list of technical skills.

I suggest focusing on business problems you can solve. A business may have a broken or slow web site, for example. They probably won't have a job opening specifically to fix that, but they still have the problem. Instead of calling around asking "Do you need another Python programmer?" ask "What problems would you like to get fixed that your staff don't have the skills or bandwidth to deal with?" No business ever had the requirement "I need 5,000 more lines of Javascript this month," so don't try to sell that to them.

Every company will hire (or contract) when someone comes along who can add value to the business.

This approach has worked for me many times. Reframing the gig-hunting process in terms of business value rather than my specific "skill set" made all the difference. Recruiters use databases full of yes-no and 0-5 rankings of keywords, they focus on moving interchangeable people around. They may also know about business problems their customers face but they make money putting bodies in chairs so don't expect too much out of them.

Think about the difference between someone knocking on your door asking if you need a person with a lawnmower for couple of hours, versus someone telling you they noticed your yard needs some care and they have the skill and tools to do it. You don't care about the brand of lawnmower they use. They identified a problem and offered a solution, one that doesn't require you make any decision beyond how much it will cost.
One of Julia's Achilles heels is standalone, ahead-of-time compilation. Technically this is already possible [1], [2], but there are quite a few limitations when doing this (e.g. "Hello world" is 150 MB [6]) and it's not an easy or natural process.

The immature AoT capabilities are a huge pain to deal with when writing large code packages or even when trying to make command line applications. Things have to be recompiled each time the Julia runtime is shut down. The current strategy in the community to get around this seems to be "keep the REPL alive as long as possible" [3][4][5], but this isn't a viable option for all use cases.

Until Julia has better AoT compilation support, it's going to be very difficult to develop large scale programs with it. Version 1.9 has better support for caching compiled code, but I really wish there were better options for AoT compiling small, static, standalone executables and libraries.

[1]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/

[2]: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl

[3]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-the-ion-command-line-f...

[4]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-slow-execution-t...

[5]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-slow-execution-t...

[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/ytegfk/size_of_a_hel...
The Bavarian police law, latest edition, comes to mind.
My 9 year old nephew today told me he wants to learn scratch. I don’t know where he heard that from but he was very specific about it. Wow.
I recommend listening to the podcast Is India Broken? - The Dangerous Equilibrium of Indian Society ft. Ashoka Mody [1]

[1] - https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/ashoka-mody-idea...
SEO spam and social media fake content are already pretty common, so there is definitely at least some harm
I guess my AmazingProject https://github.com/bryanrasmussen/AmazingProject that I made 97% as a joke when someone was running a code camp or whatever and a bunch of newbies where creating projects with the word Amazing in it would be grounds for punishment under a lot of regulatory regimes.
> One way or other, the cat is out of the bag and there is no going back.

As long as ChatGPT and GPT-4 is available as an API, the cat has been tethered by its owner and can be put back into the bag.

> This moment in time feels like early 2000s when Web 1.0 became real to masses and suddenly everyone had a use for web.

Where 90% of startups have just went out of business. Even if they are emerging, the big tech conglomerates will just out pace them before they could attempt to challenge them.

> We are at precipice of the next big technology cycle, and this is showing all the classical symptoms of incumbents fighting the inevitable disruption

They said that about FSD as well, IoT, etc. Yet none of that was trusted enough to 'take off'.

There is something in the way which separates the legitimate use-cases from the grifters and it is called 'Regulation and compliance', which eliminates the majority of short-term grifts just like the AI hype of LLMs on everything.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/03/24/growing-d...
Isn't it great that you can converge on the things you don't care and specialize on the things you're interested in, like speccing and customizing your toothbrush.
>> I wish they did reviews, but if half of the NPM packages are spam, that's still 172.000 legitimate NPM packages - per WEEK. That's not feasible to review.

It's also not feasible that many of then are good.

Maybe packages should sit in a "new" state until a few reputable (not going to define that) projects make use of them or in some way recommend them.
I have too. I have significantly more in my 11-year-old renovation that are still working. That's just the way statistics work.

A lot of this topic smells like typical geek snobbery. They're lights, folks. Cheap consumer products have always been cheap. Halogen bulbs suck too.
If I recall correctly, some of these "cease and desist" cases involved tricking people into sharing specific copyrighted material, then asking the internet providers to identify users who violated copyright, and sending them cease an desist letters together with an invoice (which seems to be peculiarity of the German legal system).

If people had stronger privacy, these sorts of things wouldn't work.
We live in a dangerous and scary world, give me more power and I will take away your fears. Don't take the bait.
I have every single light bulb in my house (and outside my house) as an LED RGB Alexa-addressible light, and I love it.

"Set all the lights to red" and every single bulb in my house and porch and walkway and garage etc, all turn red.

"Turn on/off all the light"

Set kitchen to firebrick...

Etc.

I LOVE IT.

During the day I rarely have any lights on at all - but at night I have precise control over every bulb in my house with alexa voice.

I initially would never have put alexa in my home, but now that I have it and all bulbs on it, as well as several alexa-fied power outlets, its just a very nice thing to have.

Im not too concerned over "lighting quality" - as I get exactly what I want.

The bulbs I bought were from Costco, where they had them on sale for $5 for a (2) pack. so I replaced all CFLs with RGB Wifi LEDs with alexa, and it was ~$70 to do the whole house (27) bulbs.

EDIT: Dimmability "Alexa Set Kitchen to 10%" --> I can dim or brighten all the lights at once "Alexa set house to 100%" etc...
close, but not quite - Niche is using the burrs out of the Mazzer Kony, the Robur's slightly smaller sibling. 63mm for the Niche/Kony vs either 71mm or 83mm depending on which Robur model.
Exactly. Attitude here seems to be kicking gift horse in the mouth.
And it's a matter of individual consumer priorities.

Some consumers will happily pay for business class seating on planes. Others will generally overlook inconvenience and less comfort if they can save $50.
Show HN: Telltail – Universal Clipboard for Text
Hi folks!

Telltail [1] lets you share clipboard between your devices. If you've used or ever known about Apple's Universal Clipboard, it is quite like that. It uses Tailscale [2] to achieve this.

I must tell you that setting it up requires you to have some familiarity with the terminal (which already comes installed on your computer).

I've written a blog post on how I came about working on it and the iterative process that went behind it. You can read the post here [3].

The instructions to install Telltail can be found here [4].

It is a personal project of mine and is not affiliated to or promoted by any org. Hopefully with discussions and contributions we could add support for more OSs.

[1]: https://github.com/ajitid/telltail-center

[2]: https://tailscale.com

[3]: https://hemarkable.com/prose/telltail

[4]: https://guide-on.gitbook.io/telltail
Yea I want to like this but I can't. This is one area where in a lot of ways we're lucky. Git is pretty standard tool across the board. Learn it once cry once? I would also add you can probably learn 90% of what you need to do on a day to day basis in a day or two. Sure there's more oddball stuff but sometimes it's easier to just do it the brute force way e.g. reset everything and manually change shit to how you want it.
A lot of that mass surveillance stuff deems from an inability or unwillingness of police forces to do human intelligence work.

It is much easier to cast a broad net and become a surveillance state than do traditional police leg work.

Аnd also, power is addictive, and investigators are not immune to this.
It certainly is possible to review them with an LLM.
Coding with GPT-4: An Introductory Guide
For those wondering why they've created yet another language, keep this in mind: Fortnite content is running code on possibly 100 remote clients simultaneously, and code often has state that needs to be synchronized across clients, which can often require rolling back the system to a specific previous state (which is a context FP languages tend to shine, because of the first class support for working with immutable data giving you easy snapshots of a system and resetting state)

It's a difficult problem to put it lightly, so as someone that dislikes new languages for only one tool, I consider this one of the cases where the benefits can outweigh the negatives

Interestingly this language has a concept of effect types that as far as I know has been only present in mostly research projects & a few general purpose languages like PureScript. Leaning on that to eliminate certain classes of bug from taking up your mental resources seems promising. Even in an ML I found myself wanting stricter guarantees about execution available while writing a PvP shooter for only a few clients, imagine 100! You can create DSLs to help with these things, but at that point I think it's asking to much for a beginner to learn both a new language and well enough to understand how DSLs can let you describe things with different semantics than you've already learned

I noticed they seem to have no mention of tagged enums/algebraic data types, which is unusual for a typed functional language, but there is an Optional type at least. I wonder if it has to do with the differences of their conditionals, which sound like they have far reaching implications, but I'm still not totally clear on how conditionals work in Verse
We have a few of those, they just aren't popular. Ocaml and F# both fit, as well as ocamlish langs like rescript, which is really underrated imo.

There's also racket, which I think people give too much credit to as a teaching language, but is genuinely good and lets you easily separate FP from immutability semantics which tend to get conflated in this conversation. Janet, same, but with a different approach to that. Clojure, which is very practical and enforces the kind of constraints that make you think in a functional way.

If I was teaching programming from scratch to a beginner without a specific end goal I'd likely use one of these. I have taught total beginners and have observed a moderately functional style is intuitive to them. Rarely see a totally new programmer bust out the for loop once you show them map, etc.

Unfortunately when I've taught programming before it was with the specific goal of web development so JS was the only real choice.
I thought the same thing and researched how NPM packages get deleted. They need to be manually deleted by the owner and the safeguards are all to protect dependents. There is no incentive to maintain or cleanup old npm packages you have published.

They really should have some kind of automated check to clean out packages that are years old, have no imports and no recent version changes. Especially when intuitive names are claimed by a 7 year old empty repo so you have to name your project rhino-edit or some bs.
C++ is sort of the opposite of BASIC, though.

I wrote the linked article because I wanted to explore dead easy programming environments for people who liked BASIC and VB, partly because 40 years ago, I liked BASIC myself.

C++ is the anti-BASIC. So are virtually all modern programming tools. Vast complex hard languages designed by professionals for professionals. Anything with braces in it wasn't designed for beginners.

Python is also very much a C-ish Unix-ish tool, too. It's just that Unix folks are so used to this that they don't notice.

What does % mean? Oh, well, it depends. Where?

How do you print a number? Oh, well, it depends. You can use %d but also %f but only if you want so many decimal places...

This is ugly crufty stuff, but if you're used to that and grew up with it, it's normal.

Python only looks easy and simple if you're used to C.
I believe OP is pointing out that the culture on HN uses a different phrasing than the article, not that it originated here.
None of the fromer Stasi agents got any job in Government, by virtue of being communists. Feel free to provide proof to the contrary. Most did go to private industry so.

Edit: In fact, post WW2 German intelligence started as "Organisation Gehlen", as in Gehlen, former head of Fremde Heere Ost of the Wehrmacht (none of the anti-Nazi Abwehr people). Quite an ibteresting choice, picking a Nazi intel officer that was wrong basically all the time to head the new German intelligence service. To be fair so, the Russians staffed the East German coubterparts with former Gestapo and Abwehr people as well.
>Trust me if you are struggling to make ends meet, you don’t have time for these kind of childish revenge.

sure but once you start making ends meet you might think, now I can take some time to screw over other people! It really depends how pissed off you are.

Although if you were really that pissed off I doubt this is the way you would go.
sounds like a sound argument, nonviolence isn't ignoring violence; You don't win a knife fight by declaring it a spirited debate; Darwin had a point; etc.
So a poster said

"Are there social media moderation laws? No? Then maybe start there."

with no further elaboration on what a "social media moderation law" should entail and how such a "social media moderation law" could effectively offer a solution and your take away was:

1) This was a serious proposal.

and

2) that 47 word post is an "excellent comment" that reflects what it looks like when a smart person attempts to solve a problem.
Who owns the cameras and what is their purpose?
Where anything they like means publishing a text prediction engine that is pretty good?
Depends. Most creepiness comes from the unknown, the things that might happen. But if you understand the country, know how things work and which real impact they have, the creepiness can disappear.
Is it time to open source SublimeText?
Why spend money on expensive Legos when you can buy any imaginable plastic toy for cheaper on AliExpress?
Mine lasted 3 years. (100w equivalent, 3 dim stages built in ("sceneswitch")).

Now I had some flickers in recent weeks but they went away again, not sure what had caused it.
3 year warranty instead of 10, but I've had a lot of problems with Philips LED Flicker-Free Dimmable BR30 Indoor Light Bulb. They consistently die and need to be replaced within a year or so. I replaced a couple under warranty but just gave up after the hassle involved. I've tried other brands without success and would love to know what a good reliable alternative would be.
> is out of print

I bought a copy sometime in the 90s, found in the remaindered section of a bookstore, cheap.

Fast forward a decade or so, a couple of house moves, and I can't find the book. So I order a copy from Amazon, still available new at that time.

Another decade or so later, I find my first copy. Then I discover they're worth like $300+ each!
I suspect even with AIs certain kinds of people will still enjoy creating by hand. Certain kinds of people won't, of course, and that's ok.
Seems like I cannot delete this non-"Show HN" post.

Here's the updated submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35373349
I looked at a couple comments. They are in fact copying Reddit comments to HN, and it seems to have been a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.
The e-waste issues of having to replace entire LED units every two to three years are worse than replacing an old fashioned bulb every decade.
Sure maybe having kids around might sometimes affect your productivity, but how is that any different than being in an open office?

Phone calls, people talking around you, movement everywhere, unwanted taps on your shoulder and a lot more.

Unless your job provides you with a closed office where you can actually focus on, it's pretty much the same as having kids around.

When I worked in an office I remember the most productive hour I had was right after I got there, because I arrived ~1h early (due to commuting BS) and was basically alone.

Once teammates arrive, it's chaos. No matter how good your headphones are, something will interrupt you at random times just like your kids. Except if you do have an office in your house, you can actually close the door and have uninterrupted time, even if it's in small chunks.
>If you’re lucky, the LED will have a CRI of 90 or higher

EU has banned incandescent lights years ago and the situation for LED buyers is much different here. My local drug store chain (Rossmann in Germany) sells 1000lm E27 bulbs under their own Rubin brand with CRI>97 for 4.99€. No flickering and available as 2700K or 4000K. My Opple Light Master 3 even reads CRI 100. So for me right now, it's just going to the drug store and buying a bulb, like before the ban.
In some parts of the US, the police have entered the war on drugs on the side of drugs. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-police-union...
> It has become very clear that WFH workers take extra time off at random intervals during a day

Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Bob Slydell: Great.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.

Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
How does BASIC being easy to use or not have anything to do with newer languages being easier to use?

Newer languages have the benefit of hindsight and rapidly improved technology. Better graphics, more power, fewer of the heavy limitations that came with early technology. Between the time that BASIC and Python first came out, we went from System/360 mainframes to Windows 3.0 on our home desktops. Obviously newer languages are going to be able to take advantage of this increased power and wider abilities of computers.

It should be plainly obvious to anyone who takes more than a second to think about it.
Unemployment assistance eligibility varies widely by state, OP should definitely look into that before taking any action if they want to seek that
The FTC has been begging the complain-for-profit sector to give it a formal path to regulate AI. The FTC's only enforcement hook in this area is that it can take action against companies that have unfair or deceptive trade practices. This is how the FTC began regulating privacy and security in the US, and it's been waiting to use it for AI.

It comes as no surprise that this complaint is from Mark Rotenberg, former head of EPIC. He's very well aware of the boundaries of the FTC's power, and this complaint effectively serves as a letter to the FTC from an expert about how the FTC can position itself to begin regulating AI.
Hey! I'm the author of this article. I wrote this because Nix has always felt like this huge intimidating topic to me. There's not a lot of great resources for beginners out there, so I decided to interview some Nix users to get a better idea of what Nix is and how it works.

One of the things I learned is that Nix users were just as excited about the ideas Nix represented as they were about the actual technology. Here's just one interviewee's take:

Here’s the key insight that Eelco Dolstra 1 had in his PhD thesis: we’re awful at labeling the software that we’re using in the programming community. The insight that Nix has is that we need to be more precise about the way we label our software.