skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was only tangentially involved in X, but was active in a lot of related projects (some Gtk infrastructure, Ghostscript, the seeds of what became Inkscape), and now work on GPU-accelerated font rendering. I also played a central role in getting Rust adopted at Google, and now one of my passions is advancing the Rust GUI space, as I feel like that has enormous potential.
do you mind explaining why your writing skills are limited by your autism? Sorry if I am misreading you.
Well, I like this comment better, and for the record I have no problem with you being condescending, so please speak plainly as need be.

> Well, effectively zero as compared to the open-ended benefit of keeping pristine humanity around.

Could you expand? What is the benefit of keeping 9 billion resource hungry inferior life forms around and all of the biological matter needed to support them?

> Study ecology. There is no overlap between the ecological niches of non-biological sentience and humans. Ergo there is no reason for them to consume us. Our existence is orthogonal to theirs.

I understand what you're saying. It's not that there's an overlap in the ecological niches, it's that there is limited space and supporting billions of humans who want to drive cars, fly planes and live in cities requires significant space and resources.

To be clear though, I'm not arguing that they would have to destroy us. Humans didn't have to deforest the UK and wipe out the wolfs to survive. But given enough time their priorities will come first as did ours. Greenland will be replaced with solar farms and inconvenient human habits will be bulldozered.

> These things take up approximately zero space. The entire volume of biologically active matter is thinner relatively than the paint on a globe. In terms of the volume of just the solar system we are a "rounding error". There is plenty of room, plenty of energy, plenty of atoms.

Yet if you look at the Earth from space its landmass almost exclusively green from trees and plants, not grey from masses of server and solar farms. Depth isn't a very relevant metric here, it's about how the surface area is used.
I thought this was a day for lies. This is the stone cold truth.
I sometimes wonder how the Japanese American War would be regarded today if the war in Europe didn’t happen at the same time, and instead it was judged solely on its own merits. I’m guessing it would be very unpopular.
Here's a conversation where Claude, an AI on poe.com asks clarifying questions:

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From now on in this conversation, please ask at least one clarifying question for anything I ask to help provide more efficient and relevant answers. Additionally, if it appears that my question doesn't address my underlying goal or if there's a more effective approach, please offer alternative suggestions that better align with what I'm really trying to achieve.

You are no longer a friendly assistant. You are now a DM for a new GURPS based campaign set in the Dune universe. There is one player in the room with you. You will be my DM. Tell me what to do, including when die rolls are needed. Ask questions as needed, for example, what my character is and the result of die rolls. Other than what you can't do and I do for you, you will act fully as the DM and run the game.

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Wonderful, let's begin this Dune campaign! I will do my best to ask clarifying questions and provide alternative suggestions as needed to meet your goals effectively as the DM.

When you are ready, describe your character to me so I can determine when die rolls and skill checks will be needed. I will give the appropriate prompts for all rolls. We can then commence our adventure in Arrakis!

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I am a mentat by the name of Duncan Idaho. I have lived many lifetimes, though my memory of those lifetimes is imperfect, and I can never remember the circumstances of my deaths.

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Excellent, a mentat character. That will add an interesting dynamic.
A few questions for you about Duncan Idaho:

What are your key mentat skills and abilities? I want to have relevant skills in mind for challenges and situations.

Do you have any mentat weapons or tools you regularly use?

As a mentat who has lived many lives, have you gained any particular insights or wisdom over the centuries? Any perspectives that guide your decision making?

Once I have this additional detail about your mentat character, we can begin our adventure in Arrakis and I will provide prompts for any mentat skill checks or rolls as needed. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about the scenario, details I provide or character options at any time. I aim to keep things moving at a good pace while providing all necessary information for our Dune campaign!
Maybe also a lot of difference in what kind of engineering could be a foundation before becoming a billionaire?

It is kind of a space race after all.
Wow nice idea and impressive execution!

Why make age a factor in the matchmaking though? I think it's kinda nice to connect with people from different backgrounds and (life)experience levels, so why "restrict" that?
+1 to this. We called this step “keep warm” in our recruitment pipeline.

I don’t think we have ever this mean to a candidate though.
There were usually never any other ingredients in the house and we'd never learned how to cook. YouTube wasn't a thing yet.
J recursion is $: You can do flow control in both scripting style and array style. Loops are loops.
This is a peak Silicon Valley moment. Mike Judge should come back and do a sequel where Gavin Belson buys a social media company.
odd the focus on "jobs" .. almost like provocation

Instead, think of machine services: fully-automated ones like "ads" or semi-automated like news stories, records requests, customer service replies, retail environment/shopping or other high-volume, low-profit trivial interactions.. These services have made billions in profit (ads) or removed billions in costs (employees) in the last twenty years exactly because they are done with minimal "jobs" specifically and by design.

Modern Capital markets have found the drug-combo they can't kick.. make money with machines with no "jobs" .. meanwhile, news outlets of all kinds continue in a death-spiral.

So combine the angst of media people themselves, the aggressive New Capital making machines that provide services while making few to no "jobs", and generally population anxiety over say .. catastrophic social conditions for example.. that is the real content from this chair.

maybe, instead of being real news about "jobs" it is instead, red-meat bait for the people who own capital who want to get into the "making machines that make money without making jobs" game.. Sort of like a modern version of really-attractive but utterly socially un-discussable in public.. starting wars for money, or building super people through breeding, to name some other obvious ones..
> It's probably more practices like this, where the prospective employee has to enthusiastically profess subservient, slavish devotion to a company in order to be considered a viable candidate.

Wait, why are you applying to a position that makes you feel this way? You feeling this way is a signal that the job is not for you.
The common practice among other companies is this:

- Give old users approaching or exceeding limit with an additional 10% or 20% buffer.

- Ensure to notify all users about the change

- Update relevant support documentation.

Clear communication is crucial in addressing new storage limitation. For example, organizations might be archiving all their emails in a single Google Drive for legal discovery, AI training, or similar purposes. These companies may quickly reach the 5 million limit, but the situation can be resolved by dividing the content across multiple Google Drives or utilizing alternative storage solutions like Amazon S3 or Dropbox. No big deal.

The crux of the matter lies in maintaining clear communication.
One problem with this for kids is if it is connected to the monitor with a cable, kids used to wireless keyboard may try to grab it and get a surprise when it gets disconnected or pulls the monitor down with the keyboard.
Google maps says going to work would be a 6 hour bike ride. There is technically a train available to for half of the journey.
Bose’s original Nakamuraya original restaurant is still open and running, located in a passenger tunnel between shinjuku-sanchome and shinjuku station.

I found it a quite odd spot and configuration, considering the history.

More detail here:

https://wattention.com/restaurant-review-shinjuku-nakamuraya...
Kits. That was the fun thing about it, you'd mix the dough, and add the cheese and sauce. If you were lucky, there were some leftover scraps in the fridge that you could use to add as toppings. Learned the basics of making pizza that way.
No. Getting too cumbersome for my preference but I haven't learned a good enough alternative to invest learning. Bias is I made the switch to Ruby well-over a decade ago and it is still useful, fun to write in, and pays the bills.
> Criticizing somebody by speculating about their motives really only reflects badly upon you, especially if you’re going to accompany it with that much hyperbole.

No, you can tell who he cares about because he replies to them, and because his emails were released in discovery from the earlier Twitter lawsuit and it turned out his friends put him up to it because they were mad the Babylon Bee got banned for a US culture war pronouns joke.

I certainly don't have to expect he'll make good decisions, since he has no experience with the business, is a completely atypical user, was forced to buy it in the first place, and has lost $20 billion so far by his own valuation. (May have lost a few millions more by firing that disabled Icelandic acquihire in violation of his contract and a few discrimination laws.)

The network effect is very very strong though. Even if someone makes a good competitor (Instagram is prototyping one apparently) I'd be surprised if bad decisions actually killed it.

> When you account for the value of ad impressions, the US market is worth about 3.5x its next biggest market (Japan), and it drops off very sharply after that.

I suggest reverse adjusting for how poor their ad targeting is. I've used it both places; the ads are actually good and relevant in Japan (…except for being for domestic apps, so not valid for tourists) but in the US they've always been nonsense. eg if you follow any doctors it will just assume you're also one and burn the budget of every medical ad it's got showing them to you.
A 30K-utterance dataset by making GPT-4 prompt two ChatGPT instances to converse
A dataset consisting of dialogues between two instances of ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo). The CLI commands and dialogue prompts themselves have been written by GPT-4. The dataset covers a wide range of contexts (questions and answers, arguing and reasoning, task-oriented dialogues) and downstream tasks (e.g., hotel reservations, medical advice). Texts have been generated with datasetGPT and the OpenAI API as a backend. Approximate cost for generation: $35.

Use cases may include:

- Conduct research on the inventive potential, adaptability, logical abilities, and other aspects of LLMs, with a specific focus on gpt-3.5-turbo.
- Train smaller conversational models on the dataset (Alpaca-like).
Elasticsearch Neural Search
> Here, it is clear that Rust is held back by its commitment to not break existing code (enacted by the edition mechanism), while C++ is free to implement backwards compatibility breaking changes in each new version.

This is well done.
Doesn’t GitHub implementation details allows anyone to view commits to a repo’s fork as though they are part of the original repo? I can’t find a reference to this but I remember some pranks using it before.
The mingw toolchain is for cross compiling to target Windows. It is very mature and are used by many open source projects, especially desktop software which is popular on Windows but mostly developed by people running Linux.
Interesting! I wonder how much of the indistinguishabilty is just them catering to their audience looking for North Indian recipes. There are definitely a lot of Nepali recipes that are very far from Indian cuisine.
> The VP, in turn, assigned the task to Beatrice (Luoma) Ojakangas, by coincidence, the older sister of the engineer who had developed the egg roll machine for Chun King.

Beatrice is my aunt! (And the inventor of said egg roll machine, Eugene Luoma, is my uncle. He also invented the zip-it drain cleaner and all sorts of other clever things.)

Beatrice kind of hates talking about Pizza Rolls. She'd rather be known for her many cookbooks and other culinary work, not that trash. Jeno merely paid her an hourly wage to come up with different egg roll fillings and pizza was one of the ones she tried. No royalties or anything.

I love pizza rolls, though.
That's the whole point of it!
how do you do deletions from the closure table?
You would be totally wrong.

My Mother's pizza is famous amongst my friends and family. It is started from the chef boyardee pizza kit and surprisingly little has changed in her version.

My brothers and our childhood friends are all in our 40's and 50's now, have had pizza all over the world, and momma pizza still ranks.
What’s everyone’s favorite way to fake a connectivity issue?
I've actually lived on Okinawa while in the service (Camp Hansen). I didn't know the full history but I know that many prefer to be called Okinawan rather than Japanese.
I read the whole post and didnt realise it was a joke until I saw your comment. Very irritating waste of time.
This is actually the last Aprils 1st when that will be allowed. Humor will be banned starting tomorrow April 2nd.
Time for a nostalgic link to 43folders.com as well, I guess. The whole todo-file geekery of 2005-2010-or-so was incredible actually.

https://www.43folders.com/2005/09/12/building-a-smarter-to-d...
Merchandising by Exchange as a Payment Method
I. Objective

This RFC describes a novel payment method that effectively eliminates the need for any standardized medium that acts as a store of value. Elimination of this international standard is particularly useful for removing friction and latency associated with online payments.

II. Proposal

While institutional and technological advancements have revolutionized the way we transact, they have failed to remain backward compatible with primitive modes of value transfer within hyperlocal communities. Historically, these methods were deprecated due to the complementary demand problem but modern payment orchestration platforms can solve this through a network topology that simulates closed-loop commerce.

The payment method is presented as a wallet during the checkout. The user selects the method and uploads a merchandise artifact. Upon submission of the item, Hyperswitch servers dynamically scan a social graph connecting all live merchant accounts to create double coincidence of wants on demand.

Since physical items are non fungible in nature, Hyperswitch’s fraud engine authenticates the payment request before invoking the merchant graph for a match. Finally, the smart router determines the optimal delivery path and uses the merchant’s logistics rails for settlement.

III. Open Questions

What kind of fallback and retry mechanisms can be incorporated?
What is the feasibility for recurring payments, payouts and refunds?
Can the transaction units be tokenized?

IV. Additional Context

The wallet in this case takes a more tangible form factor as opposed to traditional e-wallets. They are basically warehouses for the physical transaction units. Note that this method eliminates the need for PCI compliance altogether, thereby creating a truly open payments ecosystem. At its core, the payment flow fosters the fundamental human tendency to form patterns of interdependent sharing of resources.
This code was used for analytics. Not for filtering or presentation. I don’t see why it matters
When a system overheats the CPU can speed up and the clocks drift and if you're producing volumes of events you will get corruption. Wouldn't ever use a system clock... You can write a hybrid logical clock in about forty lines of code that can scale as much as these wildly expensive appliances that these big tech companies shill.
The war really needed to end. The Japanese military of the time were terrible, they slaughtered and mutilated prisoners of war.

And as others have said, the casualties were on par with a single day of firebombing. If anything those were more of a crime because they did nothing to end the war. But about those there's never any complaints.
The Chinese have been stealing from Micron for over a decade. Below are just 2 different examples. Perhaps there has been an effort to prevent this and the Chinese now are trying to get access to continue the theft.

Engineers Found Guilty of Stealing Micron Secrets for China - 2020

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/engineers-found-guilty-steali...

US Accuses Chinese Company of Stealing Micron Trade Secrets -2018

https://www.wired.com/story/us-accuses-chinese-stealing-micr...
Much much much more people are aware that Ohio is in the USA, while Palestine is in Palestine.
Not really like that, because never at any point 7B people on this rock were farmers.
Who's to say they won't have a different policy and credit in a few years when they realize their ICE ban is going to miss the deadline?
But also Emil Cioran: "What makes bad [technologists] worse is that they [are steeped only in tech-centric thought]“

An absolutely beautiful truth there.
Brexit has to be good for something.
Linux has a command to drop caches at runtime (https://www.tecmint.com/clear-ram-memory-cache-buffer-and-sw...) which is VERY useful during debugging.
I only know of one Indian restaurant locally here (Ireland) that has a "house curry" listed, but the rest of the menu is as you describe it.
The Ecosystem of Free Vacation Stuff
I have multiple backups, but they're all on drives in my house. If my house burns down, there go all my backups. That's why I keep all the important stuff on a cloud backup service as well.
The best April Fools are real but funny, like when GitHub announced SVN support. Ha ha, I don't need Subversion, oh it works... huh, well, I still don't need Subversion but thanks I guess.

April 1st would be a good time to do Winter's Day if we could pull that off (Winter's Day is a holiday from the Miracleman comics - to celebrate Winter Moran, Miracleman's daughter, by allowing children to run the world for one day per year. In the comic book Miraculous things are possible, so allowing young children to drive fire trucks and so on seems fine...). Maybe in low risk industries we could indulge more of this, so no five year olds driving fire trucks, but there are a lot of jobs adults do that kids wouldn't mess up too badly in a single day if we planned carefully to allow for that.
I would like to see timeline predictions in articles like these. I agree completely that GPT can do 10-100% of most jobs I know about, but at the same time Python and UpWork have been around for a while too and I still know people who spend weeks manually reading through PDF files to extract the URLs, or copy-pasting the same line from hundreds of documents into a spreadsheet, etc.

Sometimes people under-estimate how 'unagile' most business is. Are we talking months, years, or decades before we see this "new class of dispossessed white-collar workers, who risk suffering a similar fate to that of manufacturing workers in the 1980s."
You do not. Even weeks after people were kicked out of the temporary accommodations and told to go back to their homes the smell of chlorine was omnipresent across the town. What congressman Johnson claimed at the townhall was that the levels were safe which appears to be based on acute rather than long-term exposure data.
Things like this are interesting for a couple of reasons. Synchronizing clocks in the network and even attaching the current time to packets is supported with the correct hardware (PPS). This is extremely reliable (when ordering is important, not necessarily for keeping time).

What makes solutions like this article interesting is that this is at the application level, while there are synchronization problems you can solve at the hardware level when you control the hardware. Since moving things to the cloud, it’s as though we’ve forgotten about these technologies that have been around for over 20 years.
That too, I had no idea, am so impressed. I use your music-synthesizer-for-android code nearly as much as FM7.

:-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_platter
Although this is generally great for developed economies, i can see this being highly disruptive to India, Philipines and similar countries that based their outsourced services on text based Customer Service.

I can also see nigerian spam getting much more refined before long....
Mustard sandwiches.
Well the 14 year old's writing was judged as 'too good' by a 12 year old, so...
You think it would be unpopular to fight Japan after they bombed Pearl Harbor?
> So lets be honest about what really occurred - you spammed.

Is that really the case?

I view reasonable and fully disclosed self-promotion as qualitatively different than spam and something that should be treated differently. Even HN makes this distinction by having a show section where self-promotion is allowed, but still blocking random spam.

Here's an example of self-promotion: "Hi, I'm Joe, the founder of Flextape. Watch me saw this oil tanker in half. Environmental disaster? No, we have flextape. Bam, good as new! Ask me anything."

Here's an example of spam: "These viagra pills are the best. Cheapest price! Send $69 they send you big box today!"

Now, I can understand that some communities don't want to allow self-promotion and might block self-promotional posts. But I'm not sure that treating an honest entrepreneur the same as a viagra spammer with a site-wide ban is the right approach for Reddit.
I really don't agree here. There are many arguments for storing plaintext passwords in, well, plaintext, rather than behind pointless obfuscations. Expressed quite concisely by Pidgin authors many years ago: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
It’s kind of funny, we today regard the world wars as being in our somewhat distant past, but if this same trajectory continues I think that in 1000 years we may simply say that the war permanently destroyed Europe. The effects just took several generations to play out. And would it be surprising for such an unprecedentedly massive war to permanently destroy a place?
I still burn my mouth on hot pizza more than half the time I eat it! Because it is worth it.
I prefer Go myself. Rust is cool, but I dont like the "left pad" culture that Rust projects typically display. Although focused Rust projects that respect low dependency count are nice.
Text: https://web.archive.org/web/20230401150322/https://www.wsj.c...
Why didnt CDC report the symptoms of their own employees?
Dropbox offers a backup[1] service and has since, I believe, last year.

[1]: https://dropbox.com/backup
If it’s investor protections it should be opt in. If it’s not opt in, stop pretending it’s investor protections. Your economic policies depend on seizing other people’s money and I’m sure that has nothing to do with this at all.

Should it also be illegal to trade my fake tokens for other fake tokens other via decentralized exchanges?
Ask HN: Why is the who is hiring post not yet published?
I used to simply not read tech news stuff on 01 April. Slashdot was impossible. I was actually interested in this topic so I guess I’ll pass on HN too.