skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can pay hundreds of people to mow my lawn using scissors, and they will be employed as landscapers. Or I can pay one guy with a lawnmower.

When you argument is to take the extreme, you must understand that it is bullshit, right?
Exactly. They're biological. They're genetically human. If they were robots the VK test in the first film would have been a quick x-ray to see if the subject is made out of metal.
That’s why it’s a good idea as-is (with a minimum $ amount): you don’t need any of those things.
Even with the best programmers and safety measures in the world NASA still had to update the space shuttle.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature...
I feel it depends on a lot of factors, such as how senior your ICs are, how interlinked their tasks are, how complex the domain is, how large the project is, what the rate of attrition is, how complex the organization’s established procedures are…

An organization that has nothing but fairly senior researchers working on separate projects might need little management. An organization with lots of more junior engineers working on something like a rocket (where every part depends on every other part) might need more overhead.
My experience is that in big companies people stick just as much to the rules (or "processes") as any LLM would. You wouldn't want to know how often sensible and straightforward requests get obstructed because "there's no process for that".
...Wait, so you thought there was ever a point when "good for Facebook" == "good for society"?

IMO "bad for Facebook" ~= "good for society" has always been true.

It's not a "sad place to be as community", they are a corp and their bait-and-switch was expected ever since they got created, at least from the people who don't idolize corporations that is. It was extremely obvious they'll position themselves as helpful, pull tons of people in, and will then start to make use of all that precious data.

It would boggle my mind if somebody was actually surprised by this.
BTW there is also a novel from the 80s called “blade runner”. Don’t read it: it’s really terrible.

Also it has nothing at all to do with androids or anything. IIRC it’s something to do with illegal surgery, or transplants perhaps, but I remember it being so terrible that I don’t even want to go find the book and see.

Whereas Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is subtle and divine — one of PKD’s best and always worth a reread.
Isn't that less about Flash the browser plugin and more about Flash the application/IDE? If there were a fantastic accessible authoring experience for Canvas/SVG content then it could be much like the glory days of Flash.
There's https://store.nfcring.com/products/omni, but chip it uses isn't the best, plenty of applets can't be installed on it.

There are payment rings a plenty though, for just using them instead of contactless credit cards.
They may exist for a while but when push comes to shove, they will be eliminated. The government is the one with the real problem - there are bureaucrats who gladly do nothing all day every day, or even actively harm industry, and they can never be fired and exist as barnacles.
Sad that this is happening and sad that it had to come to online shaming to make changes happen.
Great article. This movie was so good - I was so bummed when it did not perform well at the box office. But when I saw it, I knew it was a modern sci-fi classic. I also agree with the (controversial?) take that Blade Runner 2049 is better than the original movie.
Unemployed disenfranchised highly intelligent highly motivated people is going to be very different than a bunch of unemployed McDonald’s workers. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens if nothing else.
> What're the workers gonna do? Protest? Strike?

They're going to work for other firms, who have also simultaneously laid off staff. They will accept lower wages. Salaries will be permanently anchored lower, improving the cost structure of US software across the industry.

It's an effective coordinated move by firms against labor.

Interesting side effect here is that in order for staff to avoid a layoff, the benchmark is not whether they produce output in excess of the risk-free return -- it's whether their worth is greater than the long-term benefit of paying each new hire 30% less.
Calling J6 a protest feels like a stretch at best and intentionally disingenuous at worst
Research Twitter – where everybody knows your name
And if anyone wants to get into PKD, I highly recommend the following books:

* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

* Ubik

* The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

* A Scanner Darkly

* VALIS (but probably not until you've read some of his others, and also read a bit about his life, because it's pseudo-autobiographical)

I just finished reading a biography of him called "Divine Invasions" (not to be confused with his book "The Divine Invasion", which is roughly a sequel to VALIS), which I recommend as well. PKD was an utterly brilliant, fascinating, and sadly broken man.
I understand the lottery but it makes no sense to have people pay money that they lose even if they lose the lottery.
One thing I like about using keepassxc is that it has a cli tool built in so I get the best of both worlds https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_command_line...
YouTube puts out the video files without ads without requirement payments before providing them. If you have a problem with that, don't host on youtube. Don't complain when people do things you don't like on their own computer.

> By not watching the video you would be voting for your interests.

I don't browse YouTube and only watch anything from there when it is either linked in a community I participate in or spammed in search results. I am not going to exclude myself from discussion or submit myself to psychological manipulation to take part in it. If you don't want people watching your shit for free then be hones about it and put a price tag on it. And for the second case I usually don't want a video in the first place but only one small bit of information which is where TFA comes in.

> By watching the video with adblock and etc. you are just "stealing" content and trying to excuse yourself for it by wishing it was something it isn't.

Seethe harder. By engaging in advertising-based business models you are making the world a worse place.

> Your hypothetical successful "hobbiest for the sake of fun" would either not enter the partner program and let Youtube keep all of the ad revenue they will run anyway, or enter the partner program and disable monetization and abuse Youtube for content hosting without delivering anything back to them.

Ideally they wouln't hose on YouTube at all but if they must (which they might for visibility) then choosing the second option is the morally right thing to do.

And in case you still don't get it, read this quote:

> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

> You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

> Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

> You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

– Banksy
Musk's other companies are "government funded" in some way --- Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company.

The fact that Tesla stock was used to finance the Twitter buyout must mean that Twitter is government funded as well.
Well, by going forwards, I mean practically by the way :)

So here is where I don't even know then why it's being pursued so aggressively, especially in a business context.

There is absolutely no way that Google or Microsoft can just put an ultra-intelligent "AGI" on the internet for hire with a credit card, to start with. It would likely be an existential threat to their own business, people, and or civilization.

So yeah, even for a business like Microsoft, there is a limit to how good you can let this thing get before it actually destroys their own business or worse.

Then, how would it work from a national security standpoint? Would it not just immediately provoke a war if America got an AGI first and China finds out? Even if someone started leaking rumors the Pentagon has an AI war general with an IQ of 900, that could possible make things escalate immediately?
It’s just you.
I don't find that the process of making a technology mature is the same as it's mass adoption as the hyped new thing.

If anything, the latter leads to the opposite: tons of immature technologies, hyped to high heaven, used by tons of developers who don't know any better, and then discarded as a new shiny thing comes along. Discarded both by users, and their limited-attention-span creators.
The ownership of Pokemon is an interesting little rabbit hole in general. The property technically isn't owned by Game Freak or Nintendo. Its instead owned by a holding company called quite literally "The Pokemon Company inc."

TPCi is owned in equal parts by Nintendo, Game Freak and somehow the manufacturers of the card game, Creatures Inc.

So you'd think Nintendo owns 33% of the Pokemon IP through TCPi, except they also have a significant amount of stock (not a majority of shares) in Game Freak. The exact amount isn't known but the result is that Nintendo most likely controls TCPi entirely.

Also, just to head it off - the anime (the other most popular Pokemon product after the video games and card games) is made by Studio OLM (which also did the 1997 Berserk adaptation as well as a truckload of other anime based on Japanese video games) and they have no controlling stake in TCPi whatsoever.
Hey, I just found your LinkedIn Profile and noticed that we studied at the same university - even the same degree! I've send you a request on LinkedIn, so maybe we could connect and have a chat?

Have a great day!
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It’s amazing what throwing a ton of computers at problem gives you.

In the 80s-90s, Shannon’s predict the next token idea gave us spell check.

In 2000-2010 it gave us Siri & Google Home.

In 2020 it gave us ChatGPT.
> Reaganomics has had 35 years. Maybe we need a new vision for our society.

Because some highly paid people lost their jobs we need a new vision for society? Sure, it sucks to be laid off but you talk as if there's mass unemployment and droves of people suddenly living in squalor. Don't be so dramatic.
Especially when there's Go, Rust, etc. these days. There is so much legacy with C++ the language that it's pretty easy do do stuff subtly wrong if you're not rigidly careful and adhering to a style guide that forces you to only use the safer bits.
Here is more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/02/amnesty-intern...

And pictures have been removed:
> “We have removed the images from social media posts, as we don’t want the criticism for the use of AI-generated images to distract from the core message in support of the victims and their calls for justice in Colombia,” Erika Guevara Rosas, director for Americas at Amnesty, said.
Am I the only one persistently mistaking the Framework logo for an ugly flower instead of a screw head?
> The whole thing in the Blade Runner world is that you can't tell the difference between a human and a replicant with a physical examination.

You can, but only through a very intrusive bone marrow analysis. It's mentioned (in either the movie or the novel) that they were hours into an autopsy before they realized it was a replicant.

VK is the alternative when you don't want to subject a suspect to dangerous and intrusive surgery.
> “It would be simple for a trained android or human to fake the test just like a polygraph”

This seems like a massive assumption about how the android brain works.

In contemporary terms, it’s like asking: “Surely you can ask ChatGPT to only tell the truth? It’s a computer, it can’t lie.” — when the reality is that it’s exactly the opposite (it’s a computer which only knows how to lie and most of the time it happens to be exactly right).
I assumed they were trying to be nice to users who hate having “supergamer” already taken so they just let everyone who wants “supergamer” use it and tack on some numbers.

Seems like a short term solution to seemingly make users happy but really leads to pain in the long run.

I think this helps initially with 3rd gen services like discord where they don’t want to turn off users who can’t get a “good handle.”

That and lots of discord users were just using it for small gaming groups so why should I need a globally unique id if I just want to talk to 8 friends playing counter strike?

Of course, this sucks in the long run due to confusion around who is doing what when discord wants you to use it as a twitter competitor. And they are more established to inconvenience users to change their handles to unique.
How can a corporation be furious? After reading the article, they don't say anything about the company or people inside the company being furious. The closest thing I could find is that a Meta spokesperson said they plan to fight it vigorously and expect to win.

Maybe the headline should be "Meta opposed to proposed FTC ban on monetizing youth data".
On the contrary it is useful to distill an idea into its essence in order to make a point. This is a logical argument, and is the same technique any teacher uses when trying to begin with base principles.

It’s tough when you have no counter argument, which is why you resort to arguing against the method rather than thinking of something intelligent.
That’s the difference between AI in cars and AI for business processes. L5 must be >99.99% right. Business processes have a much lower bar.

Even moderate accuracy is sufficient to have a dramatic impact on all sorts of jobs whose only function is maintaining business processes, and it can be done gradually. Eventually, you’ll have 2 workers doing the job of 10.
Agreed, all these people who make it seem that companies need to be some duty to employee everyone clearly hasn't seen how this has failed in many social leaning states.

Don't like how they do it? Create your own company and run it how you want.... We live in a world where you can do that.
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Since there is bound to be a lot of Facebook bashing I’ll point out that they occasionally do some good. In the case of software they can be good stewards of FOSS.

I listened to this CoRecursive episode about the history of Zstandard compression algorithm and how FB allowed the author, Yann Collet, to fully open source it while other companies wanted to keep it proprietary.

https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/

This doesn’t justify or make up for the wrongs that happen because of the social network but the company, and the reasons they want to work there, can be more nuanced.
Whatever you do, do not Google “switch prod.keys” because that would return hundreds of websites where you could download them.
I think I also don't understand signals. I expected something like signals/slots but this is something different. I read the example a few times to see if I was missing something, but I don't understand how this idiom fits into the larger picture of writing a component. What problem does it solve?
Well, it was probably the middle of the night.
3+ billion is a damn expensive "side quest"...
>Honestly not sure what the big deal is - if you have a doorman recognizing your face and letting you in vs a camera doing the same thing seems pretty much like the same thing to me

One difference is in the automation of recording your movements (and those of your friends) and giving easy instant access to it. I could not care less for a conscierge writing it down on a paper notebook.

Another difference is that most buildings don't have a doorman to begin with.
>>> The best case for not disclosing Crow’s tuition payments would be to argue the gifts were to Martin, not Thomas, experts said. But that argument was far-fetched, experts said, because minor children rarely pay their own tuition. Typically, the legal guardian is responsible for the child’s education.

Well those experts should consider another profession because this is nonsense. Typically legal guardians are responsible for all a child's expenses. Therefore by this logic it's impossible to give a child a gift.
I guess you didn't read the paper or other comments. This process requires the mega LLMs for training, so you need one of those first
Not for some people.
I don't know why my opinion is so out of the mainstream but I really think it's good that people's information is used vs not used... I think it's a great boon for ads to become more relevant instead of less relevant. Wasting time looking at ads that aren't for me sucks, it's much better if they could actually improve my life. Literally think making children have less relevant ads is doing them harm.
Angular did have it, it is called RxJS.
straw man analogy. yes, if your end goal is something crazy and unthinkable like functional society with less crime and full of happy, mentally healthy non stressed people. only then keeping people employed even if in some cases it is not the most ruthlessly financially effective thing to do can be desirable
I actually 100% agree with this comment, except the "only being done to maintain appearances" part. A blunt instrument is better than no instrument. By raising interest rates, the fed is reducing average inflation by cooling the market across the board (though unfortunately with very little direct effect on the primary driver of energy consumption, which is very inelastic). Without cooling the economy a bit, normal inflation plus the supply side drivers could lead to hyperinflation, and/or stagflation.

Supply chain issues won't sort themselves out for 3-4 years, possibly more - it can take at least that long to get a new domestic semiconductor chip fab or solar panel factory from the idea stage to full capacity. And if you are a business, the level of uncertainty as to what 4 years from now will look like makes a huge investment like that less than desirable. (Source: I work for businesses in these spaces).

Businesses just aren't as nimble as we were led to believe, and it's going to be a bumpy few decades in all likelihood, assuming China stays on the path of no-dissent nationalism and the U.S. stays on the path of re-industrialization.

In the long run, we need to transition the energy grid to electric/renewables/storage as fast as possible to get off of the fossil fuel roller coaster that has caused every major inflationary event. In the medium-term, we need to reduce impediments to building physical things in our country, so that businesses can respond more quickly to increases in prices by increasing supply.
Streamlining architecture documentation with C4 and diagrams-as-code
I love the VALIS trilogy and like to recommend Radio Free Albemuth as an intro book to new PKD readers.

It’s basically a rewrite of the trilogy in a single, short novel.
Cringe, haven’t seen a single Open Source come even close to the ability of Bard, let alone ChatGPT. Seems like wishful thinking to think decentralized open source can beat centralized models that cost 100M+ to train!
I agree with you here. Many people might find it useful but this is something better suited for C++ which is full of nebulous typing features.
This shouldn't be downvoted because it's 100% true. I also wonder why this submission was flagged? At first they just took it off the front page but I guess that was too suspicious so they "flagged" it later. There are plenty of other Reid Hoffman and Epstein stories on here. HN and Hoffman have many investments together so it doesn't surprise me, but it does show where the owners of this site fall.
Lol… it will have to be the slowest of slow news cycles before wasteful corporate IT gets any press. To the average person it’s information about paint drying.
It was a long time before pocket watches had the accuracy to notice this.
You should pitch your local college on giving a master class in sarcasm
> The scene is meant to be accepted symbolically, not literally.

This is key. The purpose of the scene is to establish within 30 seconds what K's relationship is to the agency he works for, and by some extension, to the rest of the society he lives in. And the scene is brilliantly effective at accomplishing that task.
You forgot Snap.
This post is about the disappearance of local news - if there isn’t any other news to read, you’re stuck with the FUD is my point.
Yeah, if it has meaning, it's a bit too bleak for my taste.

It feels a little bit like how the "camp" Batman got dirty and gritty in the later movies. If "gritty" is the first order derivative, Bladerunner 2049 took the gritty of Bladerunner and went for the second-order derivative, fatalistic.
> And the coward government is afraid of having to deal with that.

Uuuh??? They are the ones talking about taking away citizenship from people (with dual citizenship I hope, otherwise it's against human rights), exactly to be able to deport even swedish citizens.

At this point becoming a citizen would become completely meaningless.

And they got voted in power, so I guess they have support from the majority of people.
It's ~$1.5 chip that's comparable with other ~$1.5 ARM chips (~$1 for chip, let's say $0.5 for 512kB NOR FLASH)

In fact if you want more than say 250kB of RAM, currently the cheapest alternative on Mouser is ~$5 (STM32F730V8T6TR). And that will have less flash!

Yes, it is not a replacement for ESP32 but it isn't supposed to, it is placed squarely between arduino and ESP32 power-wise
Since GCC 13 made the first page, it’s worth pointing out that 13 marks *-solaris2.11.3 obsolete and the backend will be removed entirely in 14. In order to get it in 13, you need to build GCC with --enable-obsolete. It’s always hard to judge who may still use or need this, but just throwing it out there.

edit: Sorry, didn't mean to say 11.4 was obsolete. If you know of 11.3 machines that still exist, upgrade them!
Ads are not “relevant,” or not. They are effective or not.

Generally effective means manipulative. Screening children from this seems quite beneficial at first glance.
Why the downvote? This comment is spot on. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional. To see Toby’s give in to investors wholly saddens me.

When Bezos was still at the helm of Amazon in the 2000s, the investors demanded a profit (and a dividend?). Not giving in, he kept reinvesting any earnings back in the business for years to come.

The current flavour of capitalism is more heavily tuned for profits over other parameters such as employee satisfaction and morale.

Still, seeing the same response across all companies in every industry is bizarre. This gives more credence to the big-three-index-funds-control-most-companies theory[1].

[1] Hidden power of the Big Three? Passive index funds, re-concentration of corporate ownership, and new financial risk https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-politic...