skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No he means “being poor isn’t an excuse for being asshole”.

Just like keying your neighbor car because he could afford nice one is not acceptable whatever you feel like.
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Evangelicals are not Puritans, nor is there a theological ancestry from modern evangelical christianity to Puritanism.
It's kinda hilarious that current way of "limiting" AI is just a bunch of sentences telling it nicely what to not do.
Such an amazing read!
How do you define "consistent"? Consistent with what? Because at the moment it looks like it's using completely other terminology than the VCS I am used to.
I would sell it first to the Mossad and after to Microsoft...
I suggest using your professional network and making new contacts. Word of mouth and referrals works better than going through recruiters. And expand to the larger US market.

I have freelanced for about 15 years, US companies only (they pay better). I have some free (no ads or subscriptions) articles on my site typicalprogrammer.com you may find helpful.
You're correct, though I think part of the reason there's more cybercrime from distant countries is the lack of consequences.

I will add that this mentality does not exactly build up their societies to fix the problem. When I moved from Africa to the first world, the high level of trust and conscientious behaviour by everybody blew my mind.

My point being that wholesome behaviour and net worth are linked in a virtuous cycle.
I totally agree. I have some minor attention deficit issues, but working closely with others really lights a fire under my ass and I experience zero distractions.

I also agree that there's something distinct about working when someone is directly watching you, versus working without direct observation (e.g. over Zoom). Perhaps this is why I'm far more productive working remotely from coffeeshops than I am from home.
In his "Make good art" speech [1] Neil Gaiman mentions a third axis in the good-bad/nice-jerk graph, namely, "delivers the work on time".

I'm not sure how good it would work for software development, but the comic book world has plenty of successful artists like that - their art is okay at best, but they have plenty of work because they reliably hit their deadlines.

Assuming your worker is not entirely terrible, I always thought this made for a reasonable tie breaker.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/make-good-art-by-neil-...
Last I read, compassionate tit for tat is the best. Tit for tat, but forgive and offer compassion occasionally to stop mutually destructive loops.
Having cash and having means to spend that cash online while living in a random country are two very different things.

It's easy to get a Visa/Mastercard in the US. It gets a bit trickier in some EU countries. Then the further from the west you go, the more complicated it gets, all the way down to impossible if you live in a place that the US isn't on friendly terms with (like Iran or Russia).

If you auto-assume everyone can pay any amount online (even if it's a refundable $1 for verification purposes), you're gonna cut off access to a lot of people unintentionally, while only raising the bar a little bit for spammers.
We're dealing with a trade-off between quantity of life and quality of life.

The absolute best thing anybody can do for the environment is to not have kids. That'd save vastly more emissions and resource consumption than buying green-tech-for-the-rich such as EVs and heat pumps.
Which is great if one is racing but not so much for long distance riding or riding for the joy of it. Most riders are not racing at any level where it makes a difference. A well made steel frame is a joy to ride. They are incredibly comfortable and track exceptionally well, unlike stiff frames.
Yeah, I definitely like to see AI companies getting hit with their own medicine. The main problem isn't even "automated plagiarism": the pre-generative era was chock full of AI companies more or less stealing datasets. Clearview AI, for example, trained up its facial recognition technology on your Facebook photos, without asking for and without getting permission.

On the other hand, I genuinely hope copyright never "catches up", because...

1. It is a morally bankrupt system that does not adequately defend the interests of artists. Most artists do not own their own work; publishers demand copyright assignment or extremely broad exclusive licenses as a condition of publication. The bullies know to ask for all their lunch money, not just a couple bucks for themselves. Furthermore, copyright binds noncommercial actors the same as it does commercial ones, which means unconscionably large damage awards for just downloading a couple of songs.

2. The suggested ways to alter copyright to stop AI training would require dramatic expansions of copyright scope. Under current law, the only argument for the AI itself being infringing would be if it memorized training data. You would need to create a new ownership right in artistic styles or techniques. This would inflict unconscionable amounts of psychic and legal damage on all future creators: existing artists would be protected against AI, but no new art could be legally made unless it religiously hewed towards styles already in the public domain. We know this because music companies have already made their domain of copyright effectively work this way[0], and the result is endless bullshit lawsuits on people who write songs that merely "feel" too similar (e.g. Blurred Lines)

3. AI will still be capable of plagiarism. Most plagiarists are not just hoping the AI regurgitates training data, they are actively putting other people's work into the model to be modified. A lot of attention is paid to the sourcing of training data, because it's a weak spot. If we take the training data away then, presumably, there's no generative AI. However, people are working on licensed datasets and training AIs on them. Adobe has Firefly[1], hell even I've tried my hand at training from scratch on public domain images. Such models will still be perfectly capable of doing img2img or being finetuned and thus copying what you tell it to.

If we specifically want to regulate AI, then we need to pass laws that regulate AI, rather than just giving the music labels, movie studios, and book publishers even more power.

[0] Specifically through sampling rights and thin copyright.

[1] I do not consider Adobe Firefly to be ethical: they are training the AI on Adobe Stock images, and they claim this to be licensed because they updated the Adobe Stock agreement to have a license in it. Dropping a contractual roofie into stock photographers' drinks does not an ethical AI make.
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The time for curated package repositories has come. The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval is sorely needed across many languages.
Restricting access to nuclear weapons is feasible, because of how hard they are to make on a larger scale, and even then it's very difficult. They are significant projects for entire nation states to undertake.

Training a LLM is something random companies with some cash and servers are doing.

So the outcome of "pretty much only we have nukes" is an option. I don't think that's a realistic proposal for AI. Given that, is the outcome of "more trustworthy people stop, others continue" a good one?
Public healthcare does not pass their "nonrival and nonexcludable" test...
Previous discussion, 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746921

What changed meanwhile:

* Rebranding: https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/rebrand-usertrack-is-now-uxwizz
* 24 new versions with improvements and new features were released: https://docs.uxwizz.com/changelog
* I started working full-time on it

What could have gone better:

* I still suck at sales/marketing. Most clients love the product, but I struggle reaching enough new clients.

What are the upcoming plans:

* Release v5.0.0 which includes multi-database server support (the data for each domain can be stored in a separate database, be it on the same MySQL server or not)
* Focus a bit more on marketing/sales (maybe find a partner or work with affiliate marketers), as the product is definitely already provides a lot of value (even though I love working on improving it).
* Do some quality of life improvements, mostly updating the dashboard UI to latest MaterialUI version and improving the UX of some elements (like the date picker). Once that is done, there will be several new features implemented: graph annotations, funnels, goals and newsletter reports.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
AGI (any reasonable definition of it) is not happening in our lifetime.

We have a few very specialised "AI"s and still struggle since 30 years and trillions of USD investment to even just let an AI drive a car (in all conditions not just when everything is easy).

The step from ChatGPT to an real AGI is much bigger then the step from going to the moon to colonising other planets that are lightyears away.

Both AGI and colonising other planets lightyears away will not happen in our lifetime.
Google only has a fraction of the training data. OpenAI had a huge head start and has been collecting training data for years now. ChatGPT is also wildly popular which has given them tons more training data. It's estimated that ChatGPT gained over 100 million users in the first two months alone, and may have over 13 million active users daily.

The logs on ShareGPT are merely a drop in the bucket.
If the end result is a webpage, it's more like frontpage.
A History of Army Information Operations
For me I meant coming up with a name that semantically describes this area of the HTML, that I haven't already used.
Show HN: Extending ChatGPT with a memory for few shot prompting
Ait is a technical exploration of an idea relating to incorporating long-term memory in applications using large language model (LLM).

Ait generates a new context for every user query. That context is built by finding prior query-response pairs (experiences) which are related to the current query. The experiences are selected by traversing a tree of related experiences to build a set of candidates experiences, and then keeping those experiences most similar to the current query.
The fact that PHP projects can run for many years is one of the most awesome strengths of this technology. But at the same time, outdated versions of PHP with unsupported frameworks and libraries cause a lot of problems for product owners. Your system may still work but have some issues preventing it from adding new features and scaling. Still, the main challenge of modernization is to update without harming the current product, which may lead to losing customers and money. I would like to share our approach to modernizing legacy applications to help you tackle this task in the most efficient way.
You're missing the point. If even Singapore, where the problem of opiates being imported should be way easier to solve; if even they can't actually fix their problem and get that number to zero, what hope does the US have of fixing the problem? The US would end up spending trillions on border control and not actually fix the problem either, with less than nothing to show for it - several orders of magnitude increase in cost and wait times aren't going to be good for business or the county, and would end up costing us more money in lost business on top of the money spent on pointless expensive border upgrades, like a wall thats easily defeated.
I closed all of my social media 2 years ago. I believe it's making me (and I see everybody) mentally sick. Just using it for our tech company.
I'm not really a fan of direct open censorship of the US like this so I wouldn't personally support that over a ban either. My main point is just the US can simply act under the principle of trade reciprocity by saying if you don't allow our corporations (including news) operate within your country without undue interference, your corporations don't get to operate in ours. "Undue interference" would be defined by the US (or jointly by the US and China through some negotiation), but it wouldn't be just China that decides since well this is US legislation we're talking about that.

Nothing there would go against the principles of free trade or even free speech really. China would be free to open up if they want to engage in those activities. But if China didn't want that, then it wouldn't mean that the US is somehow acting rashly or wrong by reciprocating economically.
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>Why do we write 5+5 and not five plus five?

Because tradition is a very hard stuff to get rid of. Just like clocks with needles, with 12 sections.

If you assume addition as implicit juxtaposition syntactic operator ⁙⁙ or ⬠⬠ is also damn efficient to represent five plus five (/faɪv.plʌs.faɪv/ in IPA).

In Ruby:

class Fixnum alias_method :plus, :+;end
five=5
five.plus five

Multiple letter "five" is a single symbol, just as the multiple pixel 5 glyph.

Now, there is some convenience in having scripturally short symbols when you do your math with paper and pencil, for example posing some additions in column. But that’s all there is to it, pencil convenience.

A concept is a single semantic idea whatever the length of the symbol used to refer to that concept.
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Yes, I view keeping the lights on generally different from continuous improvement and new development. The api is not accidentally online still, so it would be reductive to say zero people are in charge and aware of it being online and available.
Thank you!

It's a great idea. For now, you can run "gut explain <command>" to get the git equivalent.
But it would be better to really show what's going on.
I like that you worked on this but the git cli is already easy to use to be productive.

I use the same 5 commands over and over and am happy with that. And Ive met so many people where that’s the only cli command they use and they are non-dev, non-tech savvy people who learn their commands and go about their business.

Keep working on this, but I think highlighting other, more important features will help you connect with users. Easy to use doesn’t make it easy for me to distinguish your tool from other ways to use git.
Hooray. That'll pay for one developer for one month.

[insert mandatory "dependency" xkcd here]
We will tell you how the NFT marketplace is designed and operates. Buying and storing NFTs, the ability to make payments in cryptocurrencies, decentralized interaction of people, security of transactions, and data storage – all these main features of NFT marketplace development will also be revealed in this article. You will also learn how to create your own NFT marketplace.
No one in my contact list is hiring. Just a lot of wasted time setting up calls to be told they have no spots available atm. Oh well.

I have also connected with the agency that represents you after you have mentioned it to me on a similar post ages ago, and of course they give preference to their current client list first (understandable) before looking into prospective ones like myself. I hope this is a relationship that might pay off in the long term.

But right now I literally have gone through all the contacts I have made in the past 10 years, and the only opportunity I have now is cold calling and fighting it out on Upwork, which ain't fun.
What? Nearly every time I search a package name in Google, I'm trying to get to the npm page. And I want to find the matching npm page so I can click from there to the associated GitHub, since it's the most trustworthy way to know I'm browsing the source of that specific package.
Those are rookie numbers, Bloomberg. Gotta pump those numbers up.
That's probably where the reputation part would come in - fair enough.
Still, a large wealthy company might consider creating an "unaffiliated" front company to act on their behalf. For example, take out a legit open source competitor by having the front publish a mediocre bogus project with very similar name. Or paying a small fee to bundle malware into a legit FOSS.

So, similar to Twitter's blue check mark - Yes, asking a "small fee" adds friction, but it's not an obstacle to the wealthy.
This has gotten better. Last time I tried playing hellcats on the emulator, it wouldn't run. Now it runs perfectly!
Has there been any research done into quantifying the economic value of open source projects like curl?

Or even open source projects in general?
What advantages specifically would a blockchain have? Where does the existing solution, of using a fast database and trusting someone's private key, fall short?
It’s not totally obsolete but for 99% use cases nowadays there are faster ways to achieve the same goals than hand writing assembly. I predict that the same will happen with AI-assisted programming.
President Nixon (1969-1974) was working on an economic plan to handle the massive wave of people that would be unemployed because of automation... then changed course at the last minute for reasons that are still being debated.

Like many issues, failure to follow through back then is catching up with us.
I have a $14,000 Suzuki kei car from 2016 which came with that 360 parking view, so the technology itself isn't expensive or really that exclusive.

This was my first car after getting my driver's license so I'm afraid I'll never be able to park in a car without it...
This got a laugh out of me even though it is sad how true it is.
This seems oversimplistic to say the least. Matlab is used over Fortran as a lot of scientific and numeric work doesn't need to be as fast as Fortran, so having something much easier and faster to develop in with a REPL and data inspector and top tier graphics and GUI building...etc is worth the performance cost as the overall time (including developer) time is much lower in a lot of cases. I've worked with a lot of brilliant academics and national labs folks and they all mostly use Python, Matlab, or Julia for their work. I doubt a single one of them can't learn Fortran. Indeed, some use it when needed on super computers after they've built a prototype in Matlab. Remember, there was a time when scientists thought anyone who needed to use Fortran over Assembly or Assembly over manually configuring the computer were just too dumb/spoiled.

Tldr: Fortran, C/C++, Matlab, Python, Julia are all great and serve different roles with pros and cons.
Disallowing automated publishing would prevent CI/CD scenarios.

The spammers are creating large amounts of one-off accounts on external login providers like Microsoft Account. I’m sure those have some sort of CAPTCHA.
> if the NPM package wasn't in the results but its Github repo or homepage was you're still getting the results you wanted

Or you're getting a GitHub page with a similar name, or worse, a malicious GitHub page that instructs you to download the npm package you're looking for from a typo squatted version of it.
Airc (AI and IRC)
Without the open source community there would be no YC so i'm glad that at least some companies show courage.
Or 1/20 of a developer for 20 months.

Does a mature tool like curl really need a 100% full time employee? I don’t think so—that’s about 180 hours of development work per month. What updates does curl need to justify that amount of work, in perpetuity?
Reminds me of semiconductor "shortage" where companies simply saw rising profits and decided this limited supply is the way forward. For example try buying any cheap small FPGA from mayor players. Xilinx (sorry, AMD) simply says Spartan 6 is not officially EOL, we just wont make them anymore in volume so forget $4 chips its $40 now :)
Thankfully times are starting to change, with places like http://boulder.care prescribing Subutex as an easier rung to reach while climbing the ladder on addressing opiate use disorder (OUD).
On a well-made steel crossbike or touring bike, rough roads and dirt roads are a downright joyful experience.
Xanax (alprazolam) is already legal with a prescription. It is frequently prescribed for insomnia and other sleep disorders. But patients often sell some of their pills on the black market, and now drug cartels are manufacturing counterfeit Xanax pills which replace the active ingredient with fentanyl. Xanax itself has some pretty severe side effects so there would be a lot of resistance to making it available OTC.
Anecdotally it really seems like this should be true.

Cities in mostly ethnically homogeneous states tend to still have things of value that might draw people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. I'm in Nashville Tennessee and there are far more people of Asian or middle Eastern descent here in the city than there are in the surrounding rural areas, due to the universities and the job opportunities which draw people from out of state.
Im assuming the polygons dont change to often so you can amortize the construction of the quadtree. Depending on your world view the implementation is trivial since Shapely, a dependency they already likely have, has an implementation of it.
This guy governments. How it's done =(
> This isn’t just about semantics

It really is. What people mean is "it's for the public good". Write it like that and the premise for the article is gone.

EDIT: I want to add that this looks to me like a fallacy that is very common in mathematical circles: appropriate a term that is in common use, give it a formal definition that works for your theory, and then go back to the public and tell them they're using the term wrong.
What you say about senior people/leadership is pretty accurate, although I'm not sure that the directness is their 'true' comms style. My experience with people at that level is that it's really hard to tell what their true communication style is and they may not have one because they've spent their whole life switching their style to fit the room.

I'd say the difference between a lower-class direct communication style and an upper-class one is that the upper-class can speak indirectly, they choose not to. Whereas the lower-class is gatekept out of such things absent some other influence (institutions, formerly well off family members, etc.) So the professional class uses the register to determine the difference between the guy who's wearing jeans because he grew up in hick country and doesn't own any 'nice' clothes and the guy who's wearing jeans because he's so important he doesn't need to follow the rules.

This is also why there's a lot of friction between the professional classes and engineering. Engineering has status and yet a great deal of them are intractable and refuse to adapt, which reads as "you're beneath me because the rules apply to you but not to me". (Of course the engineers are just like 'the rules are stupid and arbitrary' because class distinctions don't matter a ton to them/us in comparison. Like if there were rules about what language to use depending on your height compared to the other person's. Who cares?) I'd say this happened because techies developed a culture of their own before being subsumed into the dominant socio-economic apparatus.

There are some other differences between lower-class and upper-class direct speech, mostly in diction. I'm very good at code-switching and one of my favorite things to do is find a group of good professional progressives and then call their diversity bluff by deliberately switching from a professional register to a working-class/poor one and watch them try to deal with the cognitive dissonance. It's great fun.

It's also something to watch because as you've noted, those in high places speak differently depending on their opinion of you. It's a good way to figure out what they think of you and it can be really interesting to see what flips them from "this person is a peon/useful for their interchangable ability(abilities) I need at this point" to "this person is unique enough/has enough connections/etc. to be worth cultivating in the future."