skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of companies would pay actual money for some semblance of supply-chain security. Hosted, verified, certified Python dependencies. This is how Red Hat made all their money in Linux. Something like "use our vetted and secure pypi instead of the free-for-all full of typo squaters and package takeovers that the public pypi.org offers."

Starting with some nice developer tooling and going from there doesn't seem crazy at all.
When your boss is an app
I’m just coming at this from a consumer point of view. I want the SEC to be effective so when I invest in some new commodity or security then I know that it at least legal and I won’t lose all my money due to the government declaring it not.
You should email dang. I didn't bother to review your comment history, but if your new comments are avoiding whatever got you shadow banned, he'll probably give you another chance. Skipping that step, there's a very good chance your new account would get auto-shadowbanned as well.
You simply need the system to train itself on its own interactions, like how search engines improve results by counting clicks.
Please add "(1993)" to the title. [DONE]

The OP was written by Vernor Vinge, the mathematician/computer-scientist-turned-science-fiction-writer who first popularized the term "singularity."[a]

Abstract: "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented."

As you read the rest, keep in mind that Vinge wrote it 30 years ago, well before large AI models like GPT-4 were even remotely possible.

Along the same vein, I'd also recommend reading Hans Moravec's books, "Mind Children" (1988) and "Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind" (1998). Looking at those books with the benefit of hindsight, Moravec was right about a lot of things.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
... which makes it even more interesting.
Not only what they wrote, but what they regretted to be published.
Well, it was written in 1993…
https://archive.ph/uTkBj
They already account for planes and existing satellites; we have solutions for this, they simply need refinement and deployment.

(... and that's before we consider that cheap launch infrastructure means we can also address the problem by launching telescopes, which would put high-quality imagery completely unobstructed by atmosphere in the hands of far more astronomers than can touch that tech today).
do people enjoy working this way? wasting time verbalizing your thoughts, stating the obvious, wordsmithing to get the thing to "understand" what you _actually_ want?
>nor should the bug fixer.

Is a maintenance contract on a capital asset not capex?
>the secondary order effects will last longer than primary and are very hard to quantify.

Yep, scientists already suggest it would disrupt rainfall in the 3rd world. Ironically the same nations that will be the worst hit from global warming regardless. What will India's reaction be when their monsoon rains fail because of the unilateral actions of another country? It's not a good idea to destabilize a nuclear armed nation.
It's believable for the kinds of organizations that the poster clearly works for.
“Not wittingly”

https://apnews.com/article/business-33a88feb083ea35515de3c73...
Sorry, wasn't trying to preach, just wanted to share my thoughts and experiences incase it was helpful.
Did you happen to spot the copyright date?
For those facing a paywall: https://archive.is/Mrvvg
Work started when web apps were still new and web platform was not as mature it is today. The ui is the smaller part of the project, ps compatibility was much harder to achieve and is rare to find. Guess you're right this is not obvious and might be unimportant for many potential users. However it is large part of what makes the app stand out and I think constitutes its value.

Call it naive, but I guess putting stuff up somewhere and spread the word in a forum could have worked then. Users are pickier today as markets are more saturated and even free stuff is expected to work flawlessly.

Work on the project has been and is mostly fun, having a rather boring day job, roaming free, reverse engineering, analyzing how image filters work is something I enjoy doing no matter how many users there are. Nevertheless it could be more fun doing more of what I like doing so I'm asking if it is possible to make more out of it. Thank you for your advice on looking for the right people - this is one key for sure.
A VC raise gives the team cash to work on this full-time, that's great news.

What worries me is what possible possible path can exist that gives VC-returns that is not at odds with customer happiness? Customers being Python developers.
It's not "more likely" to make us angry. It's a goddamn certitude.
Not really. Because at the end some annoyed pimp called Upgrayedd tunnels there through time. Presumably to pursue an upgrade for his revenue stream.

Fuck yeah!
I wish there was a linux app as intuitive as Mac os's stock pdf viewer/editor, it's as good as it gets when it comes to signing and reorganising documents
I disagree about the speed. I don't have a problem with pyflake, but running `time ruff -s .` in a project with 1,236 Python files took 78ms. At that speed, it could re-check the file I'm working on in an editor after every keystroke with no noticeable latency. It's not just a little bit faster. It's freakishly, ridiculously, gone-plaid faster.

Edit: for comparison, flake8 took 8.19s and found approximately the same number of issues. pyflakes took 4.49s and found fewer.
I understand the arguments for it, and maybe even on net it’s beneficial because it prevents other bad things from happening, but the amount of byzantine dysfunction that’s downstream of the United States Senate Filibuster rule is really something to behold.
I’d assume the same way they determine the state to apply sales tax for, by the customer and not the company.
Social workers seem to give advice.
IRS also looks like it can advise you as to what you need to do to avoid further action against you.

It’s not as if no one can ever get advise from the government bodies.
> we have solutions for this, they simply need refinement and deployment.

As I understand it, it's not quite as simple as that when the number of satellites gets large.

> that's before we consider that cheap launch infrastructure means we can also address the problem by launching telescopes

The cost of the launch is not the largest part of the cost of having space telescopes.
Who has far bigger budgets nowadays?

>So Musk is either a better manager(getting more done with equal talent) or better at finding talent that Boeing and Blue Origin reject.

Or his choices turned out to be better out of poor luck.
Survivorship bias.

Maybe would talk the same about Bezos if some engineers would have chosen Blue Origin over SpaceX or if NASA had chosen Blue Origin over SpaceX
> Sometimes I wish I had a searchable full text index of articles I found interesting but didn't see value in bookmarking

I hope you won't mind this reply that isn't related to the topic, but this part of your comment stood out to me.

The way I get around this is by just saving the bits of articles I find interesting for later full-text search, and on the side I make topic-specific feeds of what I'm saving available via RSS for others to subscribe to.[1]

This paradigm shift from saving/bookmarking entire articles to saving highlights has worked really well for me, maybe it could work for you?

[1]: https://notado.app/feeds/jado - I run the service my highlights and feeds are hosted on, but if you're not interested in a subscription service that does this I don't think it's particularly difficult to spin up something yourself over a weekend or two
Elon Musk changes CBC’s label to ‘69% government funded’
Agreed. That OneDrive thingy my company foolishly employs is making the file ""manager"" only bigger, not better.

One of my favourite is how it overrules me in renaming a file. Half way into renaming it decides I will not rename it and just clears my editing, or exits editing mode. Refreshes or something, ruining what I do along the way. Renaming files is a hit or miss thing, unpridictable. Something pretty essential thing solved pretty well more than half a century ago, managed to be ruined by MS.
Are you looking to become a customer?
Speed is a problem for linters. If I spend 200ms of CI time instead of say 5minutes that’s a real difference in toil and CI spend

Ruff has an LSP too so it integrates well with editors unlike flake8 and similar which only work on save — and are really slow
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How closely did you read the line items?

In the example given they received a revenue that covers the entire cost of the software. The problem is that they then used that revenue for payroll which would be fine previously as if you make $X and pay $X in payroll then you pay ($X - $X) 0 in taxes and there isn't a cash flow problem.

To stick with the apples-oranges lathe example. Imagine GM got a loan of $1M for the lathe and they can only depreciate 1/5 the cost of the lathe. So come tax time, GM has to pay taxes on their 800K of "profit" since they can't fully count the cost of the lathe against the loan.
I am very critical of the LLM hype, but the threat to stackoverflow is evident. Like stackoverflow, I never write code verbatim that comes from even GPT4. I frequently find issues in the output, as the code I write is generally very context-specific. However, I find the back-and-forth with interesting tidbits of info dropped here-and-there amounts to something like rubber duck debugging on steroids.
That's a very good point. We love to talk about speed in dev tools, probably because it's an easy metric to track, but usability and good features are really the key points for making a tool that people want to use and keep using. Too many open source projects neglect the product angle in favor of the technical.
I'm disappointed the flake8 community hasn't prioritized performance and has led to python linting being much less widely utilized. I'm looking forward to tools like ruff giving much faster and more usable linting.
Yes, it used OpenAI embeddings and numpy to find cosine similarity
You have a theory that certain speech causes violence. Well there's no evidence of the alleged "tweets -> violence pipeline". If anything it goes the other way: as the amount of speech increases, there seems to be less and less violence.

That aside, I find it interesting that you're honing in on JK Rowling. If speech really does cause violence, then lots of speech is causing violence, including speech with which you agree. It seems notable, then, that you're going after speech with which you disagree. Makes me think the whole "speech causes violence" argument is a ploy to attack speech you dislike.
Then how do humans do it? Our knowledge relies heavily on sending the output of humans to the input of humans (verbal communication, books, self-thought, etc). At one point total human knowledge was little more than "some berries are bad" but through this recursive process arrived at the rich garden of information we have today.
Congrats Charlie! Excited to see you launch and I wish you the best. Ruff is awesome and y'all are doing great work.
Top-left graphic is Conway's Game of Life. Activates when you hit the Konami code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code)
> Permission Model

Is this an afterthought from Deno or has been in the works?
I worked with an ex-DEC guy up in Nashua NH, and even he knew that DEC screwed up big time by being too engineering driven. The NIH was so strong there that they made their own in-wall receptacles (probably apocryphal).

Bob apparently hired Bricklin (the visicalc guy) at DEC. Hi bob if you're out there!
I see issues with going full on kubernetes-as-controlplane due to how operators do reconciliation. The represented resources are more or less eventually consistent which present challenges if you have workflows that need explicit orchestration and strong requirements for certain dependencies to be met before progressing. If the logic for a particular operator (quality varies here) doesn't handle missing pre-reqs or downstream resources being in a weird state gracefully you end up having to chase down tons of events and logs that are distributed across many components with no real way to quickly and effectively pinpoint where things went sideways (this comes with experience for most human cluster operators but most application developers are not going to know you need to go check the logs of these 5 controllers and check the status of their attendant custom resources to see what needs unwedging)

I understand Flux has some capabilities to pause or perform incremental deployment until certain dependencies are met, which is a step in the right direction.
Or just use the regular Internet but conquer the entire world first to make sure nobody can tell you what to do with it.
> nuclear reactor 100x the power of today's largest

You would need some sort of a Navy to guard this against sabotage.
From what I remember they check in at a few intervals after the suggestion is made and use string matching to check how much of the Copilot-written code remains.
I did not, I noticed a comment from the poster of the article using the same sort of language in the article and mistakenly concluded they were the author (new account, and this is their only submission). I don't think that takes away from my analysis, just makes it stronger since it adds context. The 90's was rife with this sort of technoculture apocalypse fear mongering, so I'm even more willing to shelve this with the CCRU's work.
Elon Musk wants to develop TruthGPT, “a maximum truth-seeking AI”
Ask HN: Looking for a place where people explore the limits of AI and ChatGPT
I would assume there are places in the web where people share extremely interesting things they discovered when playing with the latest LLMs. I am interested in unorthodox ideas for applications or prompt engineering. Is there any forum or online community which focusses on such things?
I always think it’s funny what people think other people will notice.

Two professional software engineers, married and making $300k and raising 3 kids are extremely likely to notice an extra $2.5k in taxes.

I remember making $25k and talking with my coworker making $60k saying how all their financial needs must be met because they make so much money.

Perspectives vary, but beware thinking that no one cares about money.
The value of paying Tailscale is

- You don't have to maintain the infra yourself. It is maintained by system experts, vs the necessity to learn such knowledge yourself

- You are going to get features earlier, as Tailscale is the leading implementation, and Headscale is trying to maintain compatibility

- You have a promise of a certain level of support depending on your plan, rather than relying on an open source community with no responsibility to provide support

It feels like Tailscale isn't trying to gatekeep the technology, they are trying to sell all the things that simplify/provide value for people who would like to use the technology.
That doesn't work in this situation. What percentage of windows users "bought the product"? Someone else bought it and put it on the computer without any user input. It's like buying a house and finding out that it has a coin-operated lock on the front door when you try to move in.
> Would you tax where the person was physically located when they purchased, so vendors have to get customer geolocations at time of purchase?

Huh? These are online purchases that have a delivery address for physical deliveries, and a billing address as well in case it's digital goods or services.

Nobody needs to geolocate anything. And yes, most online sales tax across the country is precisely determined by the customer's address. California appears to be an exception here.

There's nothing meaningfully less accurate about the customer's location. If anything, it's far more meaningful and consistent, since I might make a purchase from a company based in Delaware, using their website hosted in Virginia, and half the order is shipped from a warehouse in Pennsylvania, while the other half is shipped from a warehouse in New Jersey. Consumers are much more "locatable" than corporations.
A ton of people I know self-medicate their ADHD symptoms with all kinds of drugs (mostly pot and alcohol, but some also regular prescription pills), simply because access to therapists is far from being a given, much less getting access to a therapist specializing in adult ADHD/autism.
That does seem like a likely option. Discussions on issues alongside the actual working (and not working) code.
All of these gross advertising decisions baked into the operating system disgust me. Not to mention all the tracking they probably do to you on top of it.

The best solution I've found is Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. It feels like an alternate timeline where Microsoft didn't dive headfirst into manipulative advertising practices. None of those pointless bloatware apps, no blatant advertising loitered across the OS.

I don't want tabloid trash baked into my start menu. It would be one thing if we were actually allowed to curate and choose the news, but it's all selected for us. It feels like they're trying to manipulate the way people think with decisions like that.
Seems like a big deal but have not heard it come up til now? Maybe cause tax season?
It's truly possible that all the people studying it are wrong, that it's a coincidence that this temperature increase is happening right as we starting adding a whole bunch of stuff into the atmosphere that can be experimentally demonstrated to heat up the atmosphere, that some natural effect we aren't aware of is causing the sudden shift. But it seems unlikely enough that we shouldn't bet the planet on it. As far as we know through observation and experimentation, we have created this mess, and until we get strong evidence that says otherwise we should keep working under that assumption.
> SR Ekot, which has been labeled “publicly funded media,” [..] CBC said Monday that it would pause its activities on Twitter after it was labeled as “government-funded” because it “undermines the accuracy and professionalism” of its journalists’ work

"Has been labeled"? Well AP, you're journalists, why don't you do your job and tell us - are those labels accurate?

This is a common tactic, presenting inconvenient but easily verifiable facts as mere allegations, and the journalist doesn't take the 10 seconds it would take to confirm* them on wikipedia.

*For CBC and Sweden public radio. In contrast, NPR only gets about ~4% of its funding from the government, so labeling it govt. funded is stretching it.
Rektide's comment about data corruption is troubling, but perhaps they have fixed those. I wonder has RethinkDB been Jepsen tested recently? 2.2.3 was tested, seems ok, latest version is 2.4.x https://jepsen.io/analyses/rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfiguration
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I have discussed it at length as well. I haven't visited Vancouver proper yet though, and now that I guess I'm used to being taxed like this i've adjusted myself accordingly.

I'm honestly more worried about Oregon (and the Portland area specifically) becoming even more regressive with taxation. I think I'm kinda at my acceptable limit before I just move to Vancouver out of sheer protest.

The amount of money we pay to the state is mind boggling, and yet you see lack of investment everywhere you turn around. I was hoping, perhaps naively, that Portland would be like a better kept San Fransisco, but I was very wrong.
No, because people fundamentally don't want to do this.

The plan exists now. Downsize your lifestyle drastically and move closer to the downtown of a major-ish city.

But you suggest that to anyone and it's a litany of excuses for why this just won't work for them. The truth is that either they can't or they won't. And for the vast majority of people it's just that they won't.
https://scroll.in/latest/972341/two-firs-filed-against-altne...
In fact, a pretty significant driver of bad IETF security standardization is hatred of ASN.1. Dislike of X.509 is like 95%+ of the motivation for DNSSEC.
No tax is fair.
They're all involuntary transactions.

The US is the textbook experiment which proves that even minarchy (a minimal government) can't work.

All form of governments, no matter how small, tend to grow into huge socialist monsters (the usa is the largest employer in the world, second only to China, maybe).

Even if that very first government was founded on not collecting very little taxes for this very reason.
This is an important addendum, since the poster is also in here using the same language as the article. I mistakenly concluded they had written this at first.
That will happen whether you do this or not.
Yes, it's depth
Anyway it makes no sense to go back for a Masters. By the time you're done a semester or two a machine will have taken your next career.
> I get if you’re a scrappy startup growth hacking taking ethical shortcuts.

Nope.

Scrappy startup or established corporation, it doesn't matter. Taking ethical shortcuts makes you a Bad Guy.
I don't really look at it the same way, though.

From my point of view, finding the path of least resistance does require some kind of "knowing", but taking every path doesn't take some kind of "knowing".

The electrons just push. Like you can push something across a surface with varied friction. Or you can try to walk down paths with different amounts of obstructions. And when they get through faster, they make room for more faster.

Why resistance exists and varies is a valid question, but it's not one that everyone will have. Some people need that explanation, but some people just need "It takes every path with equal vigor."

So the original comment was an answer to the question. Not the answer everyone needs, but a valid answer for many people.

Also a nice comparison is how lightning does actually find a single path, because the current flow makes the air it touches more conductive in an aggressive feedback loop.
Yes, you can a ton more code that you have to check over with a fine toothed comb in much less time! Is that a win?
I am confused. Apple made an agreement with a City. Both parties seem to benefit from the arrangement. I am not sure I see anything illegal here.

The Japanese "hometown tax" sounds rather intriguing though. I think it would be difficult to implement efficiently in the U.S. but I think it's a great idea none the less to help smaller towns with limited growth potential. Though I think work-from-home + cheaper cost of living will make small towns quite promising to live in today.

Imagine being able to have small farm for the price of a house in the city + city income. Easily do a bit of farming in the morning, remote work during day, finish up anything else the farm needs for the day, and you're set for a pretty nice life in my opinion.
I don't understand how sweetheart deals between cities or even states and companies are remotely legal under the Equal Protection Clause.
That's a shame to hear. Seems software support is also an issue (I guess as it often is with mobile hardware).
Putting this in quotes might have helped with the downvotes
That’s an interesting point. It’s hard for me to find data on the extra danger that may exist for other drivers.

As it stands now, there’s not much you can do about what other drivers drive but driving a huge SUV seems to improve your survival chances.
How America arms gangs and cartels
Show HN: Nutty – Simple Plaintext Storage
I'm excited to announce the v1.0.0 release of Nutty, a paste server that allows you to quickly store and share text files. Nutty also comes with a simple client script that encrypts all files with PGP before sending them to the server, ensuring that your data is always secure.