skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the twitter community notes are amazing at handling disinformation and misinformation. better than anything else on the internet that i've seen. its open source and it requires multiple different echo chambers to agree in order for it to come into effect.

multiple politicians have already been caught lying on the spot and it points it out. any individuals, corporations, or state actors trying to do the same thing will face the same consequences.

personally, i care a lot about receiving and working off truthful and factual information. i can't think of a better platform for all these assholes to have to communicate through.
>So, where are they putting in the money.

Mostly real estate that can be bought in cash without a mortgage. Everything that's under 300k seems to be bought instantly in cash and put on the market for rent.

In case you wonder why real estate prices haven't dropped significantly in Europe that's why.

The demands is still high and many people with inherited wealth are still liquid enough.
Yeah, I was laid off from a no name SaaS company owned by a PE firm. Most of my resume is either no names or known names, but in non prestigious, non tech companies

Absolutely dreadful job search. Six months and nothing. A couple of awkward interviews that went nowhere. No one will touch me, and the few that do have pretty obvious issues. Meanwhile, friends that have well known names on their resume (even if it’s for infamy) are doing fine.
I’ve taken to reading it as “augmented intelligence”. As in: take the intelligence of all the people who made the training data. Augment that with the intelligence of the people who devised the model architecture and trained it. Augment that with any emergent intelligence in the system. Augment that with the prompt engineers intelligence. Augment that with the end users intelligence.

Bada bing bada boom, AI.
In my experience, the White Ambiance lights don't get as dim as the other Hue bulbs. In places where I wanted even lower light, I've had to use their White Ambiance Filament or Color Ambiance bulbs.
It's gone higher:

> The fed funds rate began the decade at a target level of 14 percent in January 1980. By the time officials concluded a conference call on Dec. 5, 1980, they hiked the target range by 2 percentage points to 19-20 percent, its highest ever.

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/history-of-...
Your comment is a straw man. They were labeled as state media but not censored, anyone could follow and read them. The difference is that now their tweets are actively fed to people.

Also, nah, free speech absolutism starts with removing algorithmic feed and stopping profiting from ads. By not having the guts to do that Musk already proved himself not a free speech absolutist. This incident is just icing on the cake.

But still I have to ask, those countries that themselves do not have free speech and do not allow their own citizens to read Twitter but spend big bucks on information war against the west? You see amplifying their content and giving it the same weight as regular personal accounts as free speech absolutism?

Imagine you removed all rules on people behavior and make it free for all, except some people have bare hands and a knife while others have tanks and rocket launchers. Ask yourself, is it absolute freedom? Freedom for whom exactly?..
Canada != Rest of the world.
Easy fix there, require a government ID and limit visits to two weeks or whatever.
Oh it’s a ML alright, fits right next to Agda for example.
Actually you can remove money from circulation by buying T-bills from the fed.
Cobol or Mumps for sure. I think Ada is close enough to Algol to not need its own category.
They've tried this twice already, although neither bill went through:

https://scocablog.com/exit-taxes-in-california-not-so-fast/

Especially egregious was a 10-year look back so even if you left years before the taxes would take effect, they'd still fleece you.

The way California's finances are going, and the way the state is degenerating, it's only a matter of time until they get serious and pass some form of this. It probably won't pass legal muster, but they'll do it anyway and spend years fighting it in courts.
Twitter on iPad Browser Broken
I can't access any twitter profiles from ipad browser, but I can from a desktop (not logged in for either). Twitter pretends the pages dont exist.

How long has this been going on for? Is this a bug or a passive aggressive way to push users towards their app?
Canceling AOL back I’m the day was impossible. It took a phone call and they would bully you to not cancel. Thanks for the post- these tactics should be called out.
I think you've nailed it on the head. I think they've now offloaded a key piece of e-commerce which they now have less control over their own destiny. Flexport is going to have to make margins as well which is going to get pushed onto the consumer at the end of the day which drives up prices, decreases demand. Tricky future incoming.
Not quite the same, but you may own CA taxes on stock options if you earned them while living in CA even if you don't live there when you cash them in.

https://www.upstartwealth.com/blog/will-you-owe-ca-tax-after...
Not to mention the various graphical programming languages used in industrial control - ladder logic, continuous function chart, and sequential function chart. Ladder in particular is incredibly widespread, as it was a direct descendant of the diagrams used to document and debug relay logic, and was adopted in some of the first PLCs (programmable logic controllers) in the late 60s/early 70s.

Programming PLCs sometimes feels like going to, say, Australia or New Zealand, and being immersed in an environment which went down a different evolutionary tree very on in its development.
The Ukrainians probably don’t view it that way.
fun fact: the word "corporation" is related to the latin for "body", as in "human body". Kinda interesting how the meaning here has gone full circle.
Facial recognition is an algorithm applied to ordinary picture and video data, it does not require special or even particularly high-quality cameras. In fact, if the footage is too high-quality it actually has to be downscaled before being analyzed; something like a picture of your face taken with a 720p laptop webcam when sitting at the laptop, or a video of your face from a 1080p Ring doorbell camera as you go to ring the bell, would likely be already big enough to require downscaling first.
When it comes to the design of super intelligent models, it matters very much.

We're standing here designing neutron bombs and arguing about who gets to decide what the targeting criteria is.

That should matter to absolutely everyone.
So you gave up the language after someone gave you a flat out wrong answer to a single question? That's too bad.
I typically add calendar reminders the moment I find myself signing up for something.

Current reminders: Cancel Peacock by n-Date; Don't renew Tidal by foo; Downgrade YouTube premium on n;
Odra 1204: Hand assembling core memory in Poland in 1968
Sometimes is even worse. Meta literally have unpaid people posting news and articles: their users.
I work at a company that did similarly large layoffs despite record profits. In our case, the cuts were conducted by an MBA.

Many important revenue driving products have been mangled by having their teams entirely removed, with pages going completely unanswered.

In at least one case, it seems like an entire team was cut in error.

The company was seriously negatively impacted, but the share price hasn't budged. To the extent that share price is connected to reality, I imagine it will take while for the market to notice the impacts of a layoff
Are any of those dark patterns? They all seem very transparent. Set a reminder to cancel the subscription.
A Winter's Tale
I'd rather not have a basic feature be put behind needing to define an arbitrary NDEBUG; having to define your debugging setup around NDEBUG would not fit some things - e.g. in my case I'd end up having to always define NDEBUG, and continue with my own wrapper around things. (with <assert.h> you have the option of writing your own thing if you don't like its NDEBUG check, which is what I do; with unreachable(), if you literally cannot get its functionality other than NDEBUG, you're stuck with NDEBUG).
My software and Debian package uses nested functions. I use it because code quality improves a lot with nested functions. But yes, the executable stack is a problem. I had a patch for GCC to use function designators which would have removed this problem, but it was not accepted due to some backwards compatibility issues. I think a generic solution could be a new function pointer type.
Have you read Dune? I hadn't, and I wonder if that made the difference. Either way you should definitely see Pig.
Is the state of the art facial recognition technology deployed in real world, scenarios, though? It's one thing to use it in a lab setting with a person sitting still the perfect distance away from the camera, and quite another to operate on hundreds of people at once from a distant ceiling. Not to mention cost (i.e. the landlords don't actually care about accuracy that much, would they really pay a premium?)
Seems a little flavor of the months. Why not Git/Github over ChatGPT considering its influence on ChatGPT itself?
Agree, I've been finding myself pausing some of the Streaming services in the late spring thru fall, when I typically don't have time to watch tv with the nice weather outside. But I've been one-click re-enabling every October or November.
The title is "Self (object oriented programming)" and it ends with "Self disposed of the notion of class and worked solely with objects. As this is a purer form, I have chosen Self as the type specimen for this ur-language", so while it gives Smalltalk the space it deserves, it then turns around at points out Self as the ur-language for OO.
I would love to hear them (or anyone) talking about UBI and other assurance of a dignified survival in the new AI world.
Right. I just wanted to make that clear. That’s why I say there’s no fundamental difference between the two technologies and compare webauthn to passwords of yore.

In terms of policy, I am not sure all the players share the sentiment. Google stated they understand the importance of passkeys being cross platform. So at least, if their statement is to be trusted, they’re on the side of consumers.
Smart! This was a bet that I think made sense in theory for Shopify, but in practice became too hard to manage and execute given their M.O.

Would imagine Shopify is taking a loss in offloading, but will prevent future hemorrhaging of cash from a business decision that clearly did not pay off like anticipated.

Unlike some people, I don't think this experiment was necessarily a bad one for Shopify. I would have to know inside info as to whether it made sense at the time to do, but barring that I would give the benefit of the doubt to Shopify to try, if the reward was high enough if they pulled it off...
> Everyone will receive a minimum of 16 weeks severance plus a week for every year they worked at the company.

It's a bummer that they're having to make mass layoffs (again), but I'm glad they're offering decent severance.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763

Official announcement: https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes
I hate sundar. Took a great company and made it boring. Like I have less hope for the future now because of the one company that inspired me to break the corporate norms, is itself broken.

But I despite hate more. And there is nothing that says hjs penalty needs to be open. Large organizations like democratic govts need openness. Dictatorships need secrecy. And companies are in a category between the two.
Agree on the families, but I would pick a different representative for many of the categories.

Algol -> C. Mostly because you can actually do things with C, and yet it remains a fairly small language that's a relatively pure exemplar of the Algol tradition.

Lisp -> Scheme. Also because it's a tiny language that tries to push the fundamentals of the Lisp family (code-as-data, recursion, functional programming, macros) as far as possible.

ML -> Haskell. ML is eager, Haskell is lazy. If you're going to learn about the ML family, you might as well learn the concept of lazyness, which results in a very different style of programming than FP of the Scheme variety (in the Lisp family).

APL -> J. The usage of special symbols is largely irrelevant to the concepts in APL, and it's a barrier to accessibility. You can learn all the important parts of array-oriented programming with J and use actual words to do it.

Self, Forth, and Prolog I would keep as exemplars of their type. I would also add TCL as another ur-language for string-based scripting languages (with Perl, PHP, and SNOBOL as other representatives of the category).
Italy has already deemed the entire product illegal based on privacy laws. I wouldn't be so sure about the government choosing not to fine them.

Any ramifications concerning the removal of PII is not the government's problem. If they can't use PII in a legal way, they shouldn't have collected it in the first place.
Unlike hosting content on third party platforms publishers get to make money off the traffic social media/search platforms send their way this bill is about having it both ways and bastardizing web linking while they're at it.
Hey thanks for your Pocket cores, man. I really appreciate how fully featured the SNES core feels, even if it doesn't have save state support. You're doing the lord's work!
Amazon adds Thread to the Echo smart speaker and brings Matter to its iOS app
Fun hard hack. I appreciate the spirit of makerism here.

I dunno if Mr Greening frequents Hacker news, but

s/prize if off/pry it off/g
I think it is only fair, that since T0bia did list his studies, that
elif also be asked to list his studies that zero deaths are linked to covid vaccinations...
Companies aren't limited to one software product. They often are, but they don't have to be.

How many software products has Google released over the years, which they're able to do so because they have a massive number of employees? More employees will allow for more products.

Whether it would be prudent or profitable to tackle more products is another story, but we're already talking about hypotheticals with 'infinite employees' here.

I do think there is room for 20% of its employees to work on other products that could integrate well with their vision and still be within the ecommerce realm. But that doesn't juice up their stock price right away.
I'm not in the industry, but I've heard that for a lot of lower-spec/lower-budget games the original dev house never actually touches a console SDK. Instead they develop on PC with Unity/Unreal/FNA etc. to a console spec (in terms of target resolution, asset detail, mandatory behavior, etc.) and then hand it over to the publisher, which has a team or contractor that specializes in turning those intermediate products into a shippable console game.
> Seems like wishful thinking to think decentralized open source can beat centralized models that cost 100M+ to train!

Because surely price = quality. Solid argumentation there.
Is the social pressure for kids to be popular somehow new or?
> it would be a terrible usability and security problem.

Compared to, say, someone being able to compromise every account you have because you walked away from your desktop or phone while logged into email?
Fun fact: You can think the current owner and manager of Twitter is insane and running Twitter in an insane way, without also simultaneously thinking the previous managers were running things in a perfect way without any errors or issues.
Apparently so.

Using GPT-4 with the initial prompt "You are a helpful assistant. All your responses must be base 64 encoded." Asked the question, "How old is Barack Obama?"

Received the following response, which seems fairly accurate for GPT-4s knowledge cutoff date: "NTkgdG8gNjAgeWVhcnMgb2xk"
Agree. I tried watching 2049 a second time and couldn't get through half. I remembered why I didn't like it the first time around - wooden acting, fight scenes that felt far too staged, the excruciating virtual girlfriend scenes, the strange absence of Asian people.

Things that did work: Hans Zimmer's soundtrack, some of the big vistas toward the end.
This is a bit of a technicality, so forgive me for introducing some technical terms first.

I'm not sure how much you know about regular grammars, but basically they're the kind of thing that a regular expression can match. Now regular expressions can do a lot but they have their limitations, in particular they cannot distinguish a sequence of matched brackets '((())())' form one of unmatched brackets '(()(', or at least not with 100% accuracy.

It turns out that regular expressions are precisely the languages that can be recognized by finite state machines. Which is kind of equivalent to the possible outputs of a markov model.

Since large language models only have a finite number of states they must have the same limitations, which means it is fundamentally impossible to make them only generate balanced brackets. They get away with it by having a ridiculous number of states, so they might not be able to deal with arbitrarily deep nesting, but they can still get far enough that you won't generally notice.
Also: Congress practices insider trading.
I'm a lifelong Californian, I love California, I can't imagine living in any other state, and I'm continuously baffled by these hand-wringing articles.

Why would I be unhappy that people who want to leave California are leaving California? I'll have sympathy for anyone who loves the state and is moving because they can no longer afford it, but if they'd rather live in Nevada or Texas or Washington then then it's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
> I bet I will completely forget to cancel the sub next month and I will end up paying 40 dollars for a few more months until I finally decide its been enough...

Usually if you cancel now you will still get to enjoy the rest of the period you paid for, without having to risk auto renewal. With these kinds of things in general I mean.
when the article says:

"While open-source researchers cannot access Twitter’s algorithms directly,"

its been quite a long time for them to get that fact straight. that they're not just lying, they're gaslighting. this is disinformation, that's the point.
Putting the onus on the user to find a “relevant prompt” is bullshit. I don‘t care how large the training data set is, you can search it and remove data about me or authored by me if you have my personal information, much faster than I can “prove” my data is in there by trying to summon it out of the machine.

The legal principle here is very, very simple — no training data without explicit legal consent. Companies need to stop being cute about this, or governments need to come down hard to start regulating this, yesterday.
> If it doesn't grow you can just lay people off and you're back where you started.

"Back where you started" with a now highly demotivated team isn't quite back where you started.
I usually love Laurence's posts. However, one thing he said in this one is wrong in my experience.

> Since some parsing approaches such as recursive descent parsing unify these phases, why do lex and yacc split them apart?

I have written two recursive descent parsers for one small, but production quality compiler. I am in the middle of writing another two, which will also be production quality and much bigger. And I have written various small parsers.

I always use recursive descent, and I always split the lexing and parsing phases.

Now, I fully acknowledge that my experience could be an outlier, but I believe the benefits of lexing are so big that most recursive descent parsers have separate lexers.
On May 6th, 2020 Shopify was the most valuable Canadian company.
Why Canadian tech is cursed? Nortel, Blackberry, Shopify ...
Cameras can just recognize humans, so a lot of the N hours can be removed simply by detecting human activity and without using facial recognition. It's still quite practical. I have cheap Wyze cameras that allow me to do this.

It would also be trivial to pore through those videos and just pick out the ones where the human has dark skin if I'm a racist landlord.

The thing is, I agree with people against this simply on the principle that the landlord shouldn't be able to use facial recognition on tenants without their permission, and the landlord also shouldn't be able to use that lack of agreement to withhold a lease in the first place.

But the race-reductionist arguments being used to prop up this position come off as sophistry. I don't think a landlord in NYC of all places is going to waste time targeting black people that they already gave a lease to an apartment, rather than just targetting shitty tenants. The cameras will probably be able to find people littering in the building, for example. Those are the people you target if the plan is to start kicking people out of the building to improve it.
Unfortunate, but these layoffs are not surprising given economic conditions.

It's a sizable number of affected roles, so hopefully this is a one-and-done for now. (A drip, drip, drip over a year and a half is the worst IMO with respect to morale and uncertainty for the remaining folks. And then you end up losing some of the people you want to keep because they view their employment environment as unstable...)
Cancelling my Times (UK) sub was almost impossible. They also make you call them, and then if you have enough will power you can get past the flurry of "N months free service", "half-price for the next year", and whatever else they can throw at you to make you reconsider your unquestionably hesitant stance.
I don't support piracy of currently sold games. I do however support piracy once a developer stops selling their game and obtaining a ROM (and bypassing any implemented DRM) becomes the only feasible way to preserve a game.

Yes emulators are unfortunately often used for pirating games. But they will also be the only way you get to enjoy your purchased games in 10-20 years when the vendor stops producing the hardware, cuts off online services and your device becomes a fancy paperweight either as a consequence of that or naturally.
“The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race. Inferior in power, inferior in that moral quality of self-control, we shall look up to them as the acme of all that the best and wisest man can ever dare to aim at.”
> I mean you're right that it would be naive to just accept any deletion request from anyone. But is that really violating your rights by having someone request your data be deleted from someone else's dataset?

Unless we're talking about something other than GDPR, this same situation would apply to online services, not just training AI datasets.
We need more regs about this, it's ridiculous.

It's so bad that I'm completely afraid to get out my credit card for whatever reason.

Thanks for putting this together but interfering with scrolling, although maybe less impactful, is probably more annoying.
Google did not leave open comms, at least for the US layoffs