skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also pinkwashing, for nominal support of the LGBTQ community or breast cancer awareness (sometimes literally just putting pink on a product). But in either case it is superficial.
Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
Some companies already do a credit check on you during hiring, even if you're not handling money. It's already here and three private companies get all the say. It also disproportionately affects low earners, who are also more likely to have bad credit due to the nature of the cycle of poverty.
> ...it soon becomes a race to climb the corporate ladder or die...

Oh man, i'm at the dying stage (metaphorically). I made the mistake long ago of moving to management, and have regretted it for years. But, its somewhat weird for me in that any and all of my direct reports throughout all of my decades actually love me as a technical leader...they all really like working for me, stated that they're the most productive in their lives working with me, havce felt happy coming to work, yada, yada, etc. But man, do i ever hate being management. So, over the years i thought that maybe what gives me happiness is not coding, but maybe solving problems in other ways...so i pivoted to project manager and product manager roles. Nope! While product manager roles come closest for me to get intellectual fulfillment, there's nothing more satsifying to me than coding and managing complex systems. So, then i tried coding again on the side...but unfortunately the languiages and systems that i love to play with (python and linux) are not the ones that tend to be used by the corporate companies that i jhave been employed at. So, i tried getting jobs at smaller firms...and honestly its really hit or miss. Either its some startup that i have no clue if they will survive (and hey i have bills to pay, dont have time to play games)...or its a small business where the senior leaders don't respect the value of what technology brings to an org., etc. Of course, i can always quit my jobs, and start at the bottom again, and code for peanuts...and if i get hit by a layoff, i'm not so proud that i won;t do what i must for my family...but, wow, i wish i can go back to an IC role that is more coding and managing complex systems, and less people management...for someone like my age (pushing 50).
A real-time based AI writing tool
As part of my AI adventure, I wanted to share my recent project I'm working on, Cowriter- an AI writing tool that is based on real-time data! I know all the writing tools out there, but none are good enough, IMO. So I just created the ultimate writing tool by myself. All you need to do is enter your text and write your ideas, enable the real-time data feature, and the editor will do the rest. Cowriter can write essays, outlines, blogs and so much more! And the best part - you can access updated information, which keeps all your writing up to date (NOT like other writing tools)! Feel free to use it, and would love to know your thoughts and feedback
I didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463321

My first instinct was it was related to tech.

When i heard about it at first i thought maybe it had something to do with MobileCoin… maybe someone lost a lot of money or was afraid to lose market share.

Then when I commented I was really trying to figure out the mechanics of how it went down if it really were a robbery.
> There is a huge "trad" blow up on tiktok

this is happening in the US too

the "tradwife" trend is ... kind of refreshing. I was really confused to meet one in real life last month, I couldn't tell that she was being serious, I thought she was being a caricature of what she thought I wanted to hear. Like always steering the conversation towards things involving cooking, sewing, in the most contrived ways.
Isn't the entire field of medical science just a list of things we've managed to do for the body that evolution failed to manage over the course of billennia?
Well, it is not useful, then.
From what I can remember, this is a rumor, not something Google "announced".

From the beginning of the article:

> The Google unit, (...) is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding.

I'm sure that there are discussions about the strategy, the expected growth and revenue and what to do if these targets aren't met. It totally makes sense to reduce the rate of investments to mitigate risks if the results aren't what was expected, but this doesn't mean "shutting down" Cloud.

From the article:

> The group even talked about—and eventually dismissed—the idea of leaving the market entirely,

Seriously, Google could even decide to leave the Cloud business eventually, branching it off the rest of the company. But "shutting it down" wouldn't suddenly happen because a spreadsheet shows that Azure has more market shares than Google.
Volvo is owned by Geely
We have no glyph for \/\, with glyph we have it could be:
| V N W or 1 V N W,
but with unique glyphs: | /| X| |X|
You can try the decorator ai_fn in marvin https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin
>It’s not really an improvement until the tech is available to all product producers.

Sorry, that's not true at all. When they ship a couple hundred million phones a year its an impactful improvement regardless of where else the tech goes. Having said that, don't you think these recycling contractors are using that knowledge for other customers?

Is it really that hard to say that its great that such a large vendor is working so hard at these goals, good on them? There are plenty of things to criticize about Apple, but these changes represent real corporate goals and serious investment.
I would happily give up gasoline, meat, etc. to live significantly longer. I think if everyone had to give it up, we'd see an even bigger push for good alternatives as well.
> Now, obviously that is not valid Java syntax and javac will fail on that, but could/would it be possible to just build an intermediate tool that'll expand this into Java (or whatever other language) so that you don't need to even see the expanded code in your editor, like the same way you don't need to see bytecode?

One step before this (AI as a pre processor that generates source code which is then validated by tests and committed without even review) I think is possible.

Cutting edge LLM apps utilize multiple LLMs to perform validation, task decomposition, etc. it’s not a stretch that a future application can take your pseudo code / spec, maybe ask you some clarifying questions, generate a bunch of code and test cases, maybe even launch a beta stage and prompt you to validate it.

As others have mentioned, LLMs are nondeterministic and can do the wrong thing on a given run. This is in contrast to a traditional program that is either buggy or bug free. OTOH another LLM can be trained to validate, and to debug.

There’s a lot of work to do before LLM apps are considered reliable enough to do their job without intense supervision.
I mean when the person who made the "literally baby machines" comment, they did qualify it was from a biological (explicitly) and social ("a critical asset in the development of the human race") perspective, they later said that reproduction was probably the most important goal of human life[1], so I think people are properly conflating these statements...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35548367
What you call an "opinion" is baselessly blaming Germany for the debt crisis of Greece.

The topic is not coal, the topic is nuclear. You suddenly started talking about coal, claiming that Germany wants to reduce its own nuclear power plants in order to use more of its own coal. Makes zero sense since the nuclear plants were inside the country, not outside so it doesn't make sense to pretend that Germany is pushing its own product at the expense of someone else. And it is factually wrong, since Germany is also moving aways from coals until 2030.

I'm not downvoting you because I can't even do this, since HN does not permit to downvote replies. But if I could I would have done so since you make wild claims without providing even a shred of evidence or a source.
Death is a feature not a bug
I've been in some analog situations. Heck, even recently a woman whom I've known from work a few years back emailed me with some nice words, a will to reconnect and her number, and I haven't even replied to her.

On another hand, I feel a bit like the blog post, in that I'm not extra motivated into trying this, maybe also a bit worried to break somebody's heart (this includes, potentially, mine), or to be stuck in a situation I don't really like for too long. If I think through that deeply I'm not sure I even find that much upside. Anyway I really like his wording, it speaks to me quite a bit.
Why not use the builtin E2EE backups? https://faq.whatsapp.com/490592613091019
While the 25.91-inch rainfall total recorded in Fort Lauderdale is still preliminary, if it gets confirmed, it will be the greatest 24-hour precipitation total recorded in the state. Currently, the record stands at 23.28 inches, which was reported in Key West on Nov. 11, 1980.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/state-of-emerg...

so this seems like a record regardless of month
Eventually RISC-V will put them out of business but until that time comes, everyone is free to try to convince people otherwise.
Citing murder rates (and ignoring other crimes) is one of the preferred tactics of people who want to say that big cities have low crime rates.

Police in big cities go after big crimes like murders, but tend to ignore "lesser" crimes, so as a result, gangsters and other career criminals stick to those lesser crimes, and generally do a lot more of them.
That was about as fun to read as Blindsight by Peter Watts.
ControlNet v1.1
> People don't feel safe walking around and you can't just dismiss that. It's their "lived experience".

Hmmm. This is kind of an interesting question. If people are safe, but don't feel safe, is it the city government's responsibility to fix that?
> If you want those people to like you, you have to be relaxed and confident, which means you have to genuinely enjoy and be good at the thing.

I would say you should enjoy doing the thing, but you don't have to be even a little good at it.
Statistically, it was always more likely someone he knew.
I don't see anything that prevents them from feeding your emails into an LLM.

I do see:

"We use data to build better services"

"We restrict access to personal information to Google employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it."
Yep, and when we sort cities by population density, it's a good bit higher than 37th. SF has plenty of problems, but apparently violent crime isn't the most noteworthy of them.
Ouch, then the $1999 Varjo (which doesn’t include controllers or base stations) only goes up to 35 PPD. Thank you for jogging my memory
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_ageing. It seems that there's only slight or negative evolutionary pressure against ageing.
See, this sounds interesting to me, but the discoverability for me is still dire years down the line, even using the same YT account. Never been impressed with the recommendation algorithm, despite thumbing videos accordingly, doing the whole "not interested" thing and ticking which box as to why.
I guess that’s just an opinion?

I’ve spent time with friends and relatives who were 80+, many of whom told me them were tired of life and ready for “something new”, they had good lives but had enough.

Sure if they had younger bodies they might feel differently but most were quite able bodied and just felt it was time.

Perhaps you should be careful what you wish for ?
Wow, I occasionally open Youtube in a private browser window, and am invariably disgusted by the hot garbage that it recommends. When I opened your link just now, the video recommendations were incomparably better. Do you know if Invidious does any curation or is it just that their average user is so much more discerning in their consumption?
In the scenario you're describing, what would let whatsapp know it actually shouldn't register that new device in the public key repository ?

Either whatsapp knows the phone is hacking the account to a new number / device, in which case it should simply disable it, or it doesn't and then it will treat it exactly like a normal one.
Interesting because pol II drives RNA transcription so not involved in replicating the DNA itself. Does pol II have a direct negative effect on DNA then or is it indirect or both?
Hacker News as a whole has essentially never been pro free software or freedom.

It's a forum for the discussion of profitable endeavour first and foremost. Mac discussion is as common as Linux. There's a pervasive bias against cryptocurrency, not only the scams but the basic principle of freedom from regulation. "Intellectual property" isn't a joke here, it's generally respected.

I could go on, but my main point is that this is predominantly a capitalist forum, not an anarchist one. Principles take a back seat to pragmatism here, the FSF is the opposite of that.
It depends on if you have a more communal or individualistic outlook. We are always roughly the same age, but the individuals in the group have to age and die.
> 'baseless' is perfectly right; there's no basis for it.

No. The issue is: how can you tell that? Do you have top-secret clearance to see what this "OG" guy saw? Do these Washington Post reporters?

"Baseless" means it has no foundation at all, not that it has a foundation inaccessible to you. It's impossible for us to reasonably distinguish between those two with this guy. There's a serious possibility he had access to scandalous secrets due to his position and security clearance.
My business partner (an extrovert, where I'm an introvert) put it this way: if you don't ask, the answer is always "no".
Yes! Finally I have more time to spend in meetings!
Some animals age very, very little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

Among them the Naked Mole Rat, a mammal.

So it looks like evolution can do it. But it usually doesn't.
Let me translate the second mechanic's advice into our language: "Have you tried turning it on and off again?"

How much of your clients' time (and therefore money) would you spend chasing down a bug in software with an unknown root cause, which never appears as long as operations schedules a restart every couple of days? Software engineers are all too happy to dive into those rabbit holes, but that's because we don't usually have to look working stiffs in the eye and hand them the bill for our services.

That's likely not an incompetent or lazy mechanic. It's an honest one who doesn't believe they can solve your problem at a price you'd accept.

The first mechanic, on the other hand, I'm a lot more suspicious of. Did they bother testing the battery before replacing it?
I’d love to hear your detailed critique of that article
Don't give up on cash, no matter how inconvenient you think it is. Fiercely defend its continued existence.

It's a last line of defense against financial tyranny, where an institute with the push of a button can confiscate, block/ban the money of millions. Can't do that with cash, you have to go home by home.

I've read that about 60% of the world's population lives in an authoritarian regime, and for the rest it's quite unsure if your rights and freedoms will last forever. So the risk is hardly a conspiracy theory.
I don't think my 13 year old nephew could've stated it any better. Thanks for your enlightening contributions during this thread.
The shrinking role of semaphores in the Linux kernel
I agree that it is a hard problem -- which is why I said it was lazy to implement the simplest form of the solution that is so deficient and just pretend that all is well. It is basically trying to solve problems in software that is in actuality a people / management problem.

Of course, there are conflicting requirements or external factors that come into play. If the product will fail (or you will get fined or thrown in jail or whatever) if someone enters a bad word, then after taking enough reasonable precautions to not have false positives then at least warn the user ahead of time. For example in a web forum app, you could pop up an error on submit, with the censor-substitution that it would apply, and have a selection box that the user can check to indicate that this is a false positive. The message then gets held for moderator review (or goes through by default with the censor marks, until moderator review it). If it is a business app, then part of the popup message could include a link to corporate policy that says a false claim of a false positive is subject to employee discipline or whatever.

I just don't like when it blindly cuts out a persons name without any warning to the user, because the censor characters imply that the message submitter actually entered a cuss word that they didn't (i.e., it is a false accusation bordering on libel).
ChatGPT made me a python script for automating pasting results, as well as most other tasks related to this project.

I already had a discord bot I wrote by hand before for downloading the images.

I thought of the project in the morning while my kid was getting ready for school and had it running jobs before we were out the door, worked a little before I left for work, and and a little more after work, and it was done before dinner time.

ChatGPT is incredible.
You say all that but nonetheless most people fall into two categories.
> I'm kind of surprised by your defensiveness about this.

I'm not defending anything (I called them clueless!), I was stating the actual scope of what we're talking about. It's true that subcommittees compose the whole organization, but at the same time, what happened was that the whole organization was judged as if it were the small subcommittee. The rush to condemn Stanford as a whole is what I'm critiquing.

> I'd expect if someone stops by your office with a problem, you'd give them at least a few minutes of your time to help.

And when your day ends up filled with spell checking documents when you have a Ph.D. in English, maybe you might rethink that open door policy.
The comments on that tweet are sickening. And people will say with a straight face that there are no more race problems in this country except wokeism.
I thought the reason was that someone had looked at CCTV footage of the event, and saw someone who looked homeless. Of course, most of us software engineers proudly go for the "clean homeless" look.
I don't think that's true or else there'd never be anyone eating red meat or drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes or choosing television over exercise.

Burning gasoline is known to give off pollutants that shorten our lives today but millions of peopole choose driving over health every day.
Yeah, Karabiner seems to be unmatched in terms of customization for power users. The main problem with straight key remapping is that you have to deal with the application layer having different keybindings for the same actions, even when you have the appropriate keys swapped. Same for navigating the OS if you're interested in duplicating Windows navigation functions in Mac ( Command+E to open Finder, Command+S for Spotlight Search, Ctrl+Shft+Esc to open Activity Monitor )

I spent a long time creating a giant karabiner config file for myself, but recently an MDM update at my work broke the virtual keyboard driver that Karabiner requires. I haven't figured out a way to install it. I may have to go begging to IT.
The point is that their "release stage" marking was always fantasy land. Yes, I would be pissed if they had shut down GMail after 4 years, regardless of whether it was marked "Beta", because by that point it had a ton of users and clearly a ton of investment.

A big problem is that nobody believes their designations anyway. GMail was in beta for years when it was obviously a mature product, while "Of course we're investing a ton in Stadia..." only to shut it down a couple months later.
It seems a bit like caricature to me to be honest, but I think there is a deep desire among a large part of the population to have normal gender roles and relationships.
Some technical experts at GCHQ have publicly suggested using "ghost users" (a kind of server-forced MITM) as a way to wiretap encrypted messaging [0]. The proposal is slightly different from a traditional two-party MITM, since it involves adding additional users to group chats, but the basic idea is similar: legally compel messaging operators (e.g., WhatsApp) to participate in wiretapping. Presumably there are other clandestine agencies who might try to do something similar by illegally compromising service providers.

Key transparency makes standard MITM much more detectable, and so it will significantly dissuade agencies and private actors from investing in those capabilities. It obviously doesn't solve all problems (governments will still be able to hack, and hypothetically even to mandate client changes that break the disable transparency) it removes a piece of low-hanging fruit and signals to governments that it isn't worth trying to exploit protocol weaknesses.

[0] https://www.lawfareblog.com/principles-more-informed-excepti...
Maybe some people would agree with you if you brought along some arguments.
Cool post! I really don't want to know how much time I've spent configuring Emacs over the last 12 years :P The explosion of great Emacs Lisp packages over the last few years has absolutely made it difficult to avoid forever playing around with Emacs.
Thanks! Glad you liked it. Symptoms and indications --> diangosis is a bit more challenging. When we talked to some doctors, they always said that seeing the patient directly is very important. Perhaps a system like this could be a good complementary tool, or a better solution can be built on top of it.
Fire Sundar.

The guy just rides on the wave of money that search brings in. Otherwise it's just failed project after failed project. Google has this stupid process where they spin up a new idea, cripple the launch, cripple support, cripple maintenance, and then kill the project for lack of success a year later leaving the few suckers who held out with faith in them high and dry.

For me personally, Allo was the final straw. I did the footwork of getting people to switch to it, had some mild success, and then google pulled the rug making me look like an idiot.
> Evolution has had billions of years to do it, and for whatever reason the conclusion is that either it's not possible, or the cost is not worth it. I don't think we are smarter than evolution, in this regard.

I think the reason this isn't a pretty solid argument for its infeasibility is that evolution optimizes for different things than we might choose to.
ChatGPT: Italian SA to lift temporary limitation if OpenAI implements measures
Would love a demo that doesn't require a sign-up, even if it's 100% free!

edit: maybe it's better to link https://cowriter.org/about instead of the homepage, which instantly redirects to /login
Personally I have a very different set goals and values than the "selfish gene".
I would recommend just never going on Twitter, for any reason. People are less racist on 4chan these days.