skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Countries like India are so far ahead of the US in terms of digital transactions and it's a ridiculous game changer.

India has eliminated something like a 2-4% drag on its economy by making digital money transfers and transactions almost completely free, while all US transactions pay a tax on the credit and debit cards they use.

Someone with the equivalent of Venmo on their phone, can transfer money instantly, securely, and freely, to someone else with the equivalent of Zelle on their phone, even if the receiver doesn't have Venmo. Or to someone's bank account, or your vegetable vendor, or to make payments through a variety of applications.

The removal of a physical dollar is a real concern. You know what would help to prevent that from happening? Protesting against any efforts to eliminate a physical dollar. Protesting alternatives that are genuinely beneficial because they may slippery slope their way into eliminating cash only serves to make it easier to eliminate cash.

All that happens is that a whole bunch of people will complain about the creation of a digital dollar, because of their slippery slope fallacy about it leading to the elimination of physical cash, but what people will see is that the digital dollar was implemented, and none of the concerns came true, and serve to discredit these people.

So when the government actually tries to eliminate physical cash, all the people basing their protests on a slippery slope fallacy have lost credibility and the number of credible voices protesting the actual problem of the elimination of the physical dollar is much reduced.
>SRAM is affected, which is why SRAM arrays should always use SECDED ECC.

How many SRAM arrays exist in electronics we use every day that don't have, at minimum an error detection and reset mechanism? What about hardware registers that aren't structured as 2D arrays, how often are those protected? Things like buses and counters are at least somewhat vulnerable too.
What's next? humans.txt ?
Thanks for that resource. On doing a bit of digging, it seems that Elster's more recent `Ulysses Unbound` expands on the themes of `Ulysses and the Sirens` and might be a better first read. Are you familiar with it?
Bingo. After about a decade of tech workers thinking we were part of some global aristocracy just because we could afford payments on a Tesla and could (briefly) get multiple job offers from companies... The minute we get into a bear market, suddenly we're all César Chávez, fighting for the working class. How the turn tables!
"but the lesson I got, sadly, was that you really can not trust anyone to not corrupt and try to control you. "

Even if this would be absolutely true, it would not undermine democracy. It just would proof the need to have build in mechanisms to keep the people in power in check. Exactly because you cannot trust people 100%. And mechanisms like this exist and are in place, but I agree, they should be improved.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is not the byte stream as seen by the ethernet port or Wifi/Cellular antenna.

So it's quite a misleading title if the reader takes 'byte by byte' literally.
Don't be shy, bring it back, you're ahead of the curve!
The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation
Oh, my god. Google is SO lost that the guy is demonstrating a "Project Tailwind". TAILWIND.

When you google for project tailwind you obviously get results for Tailwind (the css framework).

Did just GOOGLE FORGOT HOW TO DO SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION?!?

(sorry for the capslock, but I'm lost)

I feel that this comment might bother some people. But the idea that the company will demonstrate on stage a project and fail at choosing a proper googable name, when this company is google itself it's just mindboggling.
Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum
Indeed, it is far from clear that, even if an individual can leverage the productivity gains, that individual can generate revenue from what they're doing.
I can confirm this. If I happen to contradict some cynical comment, 5 minutes and I'm at minus-something. Then the positives start to build back up. Always. There could be some psychological explanation to this, why the quick reaction is negative and the better thought-of positive?
Not only is he(Tom Jenkinson / Squarepusher) an amazing composer he's up there for being an incredible and innovative bassist. Not sure if he's "underrated" but I feel as a bass player alone he's special.
> That doesn’t negate the fact that hip-hop is a lyrical artform, with the emcee being the star since the 1980s.

I don’t think this is true. Instrumentals in hip-hop are largely first class citizens. Lyrics are at the forefront, yes, but consider that rappers are judged more on their technical ability to navigate the beats they choose.

It’s the only genre where artists are regularly deemed unworthy of their own instrumentals.

The author’s example is ironically the best example of this. It’s N.Y State of Mind by Nas (regarded as one of the best beat selectors of all time), on Illmatic (one of the best hip-hop albums of all time), and produced by DJ Premier (one of the best producers of all time).
Stack ranking was commonplace and common knowledge when I worked there. Managers would submit rankings and the relative rankings would be "merged" up to skip/skip2 level. Well, maybe not "putting them on a stack" explicitly, but submitting a list of where folks fell on the bell curve...
Yeah, that's what people tell me, though the Jane Street interview is pretty tough; I've interviewed with them three times, and also been declined three times...so maybe I'm disproving my own point here.
Do you have physical brightness buttons? Do you have any more gradual transition hacks?

Our 2-yr old doesn't have access to phones at all -- except perhaps when he grabs one that's lying around; but then he expects it taken from him. But he's so taken with TV that we plan screen time in reverse: start at dinner time and subtract how much time we want him to be there. Our whole approach to tantrums is having something else lined up rather than just shutting things off and leaving a void. I'm fascinated by your methods.
I had to check the article to understand how it is notable for a 4chan user to also be a business owner.

They're using "owned" in leet speak sense, infiltrated security.
Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off?

I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deeply awful it would be for a breadwinner with a home and kids. Even for people I work with that I don't particularly like, I wouldn't want to put them in that situation.

Like a lot of Americans I've been experiencing a lot of envy for the more socialist European companies where maybe people have less to gain, but they also have less to lose. All I really want is a comfortable life for me and my family. I'd like the same for everyone else.
> Most I/O topics after 2013 revolved around marginal improvements on a lot of things, like individual Android features and apps. And naturally, when there is so little to talk about, corporate speak fills the void.

I don't understand how a corporate culture that's so focused on shipping new projects at the expense of maintenance, manages to ship so few new projects.
Can’t believe I have to state this explicitly, but I am on Hacker News, after all-- scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

It is absolutely reasonable to ask people to reconsider their prejudices. Your line of thought does nothing but reinforce people’s existing biases without leaving room for the nuance of social context. Racists misuse statistics all the time to justify their awfulness. Consider whether you’re really different from any of those people. Or do I just need to get to know you more?
I see your Kenny G (in fact I was Ctrl-F searching for his name) and raise you Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute.
Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia

As near as I can tell, he started from "Take over the government" and surfed his way there by reading (and stoking populist energy)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xscsu_QGbLg
One person was willing to pay a lot more: https://www.essentiallysports.com/esports-news-mrbeast-recal...

I was initially horrified when I read it first but then realised it would be like someone with $100k paying out $25 for a birthday present.
I wish someone would engineer some fast-growing crabs to make crab farming more viable.
tbh, I kinda blame the media for this. At some point the media decided that I/O was Google's competitor to Apple's consumer keynotes, and so it was forced to become that in order to avoid weeks of "Google disappoints at I/O" headlines.
At this point, all the good content has been sucked into LLM training sets. Other than a need to keep up with current events, there's no point in crawling more of the web to get training data.

There's a downside to dumping vast amounts of crap content into an LLM training set. The training method has no notion of data quality.
The MSI leak comments like https://sizeof.cat/post/leak-intel-private-keys-msi-firmware... mentioned the bootguard keys maybe have been common to other manufacturers: "It is assumed that the keys for downloading the guard are not limited to compromising MSI products and can also be used to attack equipment from other manufacturers using Intel’s 11th, 12th and 13th generation processors (for example, Intel, Lenovo and Supermicro boards are mentioned)"
Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet, would argue (and I tend to agree) that the telegraph system was the first social network:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet

I especially liked Chapter 8, "Love over the Wires".
This was one of the things that came up when Amazon bought MGM because MGM pre-Amazon takeover had one of the most-used "rescreening" programs of all the (former) major studios. As soon as the Amazon purchase completed, Amazon shut down a lot of MGM film distribution, including just about all of its rescreening efforts. Amazon only just announced (presumably at shareholder pressure) building a new film distributor and starting to move the large MGM back-catalog back out beyond the Prime fences.

Similarly, when Disney bought what used to be 20th Century Fox, they immediately changed the economics of their classic rescreening programs (as Disney's "Vault" procedures have always been anti-rescreening). That was said to have directly led to breaks in long runs of Rocky Horror Picture Show specifically as Disney's price changes made it tougher to keep it running in some cities that had previously run it regularly for decades. (Of course, that timing was around 2020 so in most cases that wasn't the only excuse to break such traditional people gatherings.)

(ETA snark: it's almost like copyright terms are too long and rent seeking too easy on cinema classics.)
Don't forget the inhaling part

>It has been estimated that a pound (454 grams) of plutonium inhaled as plutonium oxide dust could give cancer to two million people
Again yes, but that's not the point. The point is you can't do that with any other energy source.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890784
That sucks, a terrible situation.

On an objective note, stage 4 cancer and 70% chance of failure...sounds like it was mostly a death sentence from the start.
Ask HN: How to Respond to request for demo
Hi,

My friends and I have been working on a side, but passionate, project using LLM. Recently, a well-known consulting company has contacted us asking for a demo session and details about the underlying system/model. Initially, I was confused because the product is already available (free trial), so not sure how to present a demo. Otoh, the system/model may be our secret sauce.

How should I prepare a demo presentation? Just screen share and use our app/web? I have never gotten this type of 'cold call', so I'm both flattered and lost. Is the presentation meant to be more of a pitch deck?

PS: Sorry for not describing more about our project! Thought this company may be looking at HN as well.
Throw in a small cafe, local pub, and corner store, and that looks like a really nice little spot. Give it 30-50 years and people will have painted them different colors, and it won’t look like a retirement home
Why would anyone do this?
I guess the good part that in ai.txt you can talk to AI. So if you want you can tell it to not crawl or make other agreements with it, just in plain english. What a time to be alive.
Yeah. If people get access to It. In the meantime, OpenAI is hoarding GPUS for the next iteration while happily collecting 20 dollars from users and loads of free work from free users.
working for me with ublock origin enabled
Will this approach ever be usable with other Jupyter langauges? Like, do you have an API for another language to tell you what the code dependency graph is? Or is Python a fundamental assumption here?
There's a small remote island community in New England that I visited once. I was told that the person with the most political sway on the island is the plumber. It was explained to me succinctly: You don't need a plumber often, but when you need a plumber, you need a plumber!.
When was its height? Even with stock packages at Apple I was getting closer to $250-$300k/year total comp. This would have been September 2018 until March 2021...
Speaking of which, does anybody know a good freestanding C library that doesn't use dynamic allocation for the Hayes AT protocol?
I'm sorry, you don't have enough reputation points to keep your job. This job is already performed in another thread (that's 8 years old but totally not out of date).

I also have an irrelevant pedantic objection to your job that I will couch in sneering dismissals of your question and fake brags about my credentials, but please make sure to upvote this answer on your way out of the building.
I do have favorite instrumentalists, but yeah this is pretty accurate. I will listen to whatever people like George Lever, Mike Dean, Nolly, etc. are involved with.
"Sign in".

This seems to be the future - search engines that require sign-in.
If, say, Sundar was only offered a $100M package instead of a $226M package, where would he go that would pay him more than $100M? There's no other person out there who would do the job for $100M?

An issue would be that Sundar is plugged into Google and knows all the ins and outs and has the relationships that an outsider would take some time to learn/form, but on the same hand, Sundar going out into the wide world is then lacking those same things at his new company, meaning new companies might be as hesitant to hire him as Google would be to hire a new outsider CEO.
I think this is a good question. Screenshots are hard on HN, but I could write up a blog post about it all once I have a demo of the game.

I've been using ChatGPT and GPT-4 since they came out, so I'm pretty aware of their limitations. You can't build an entire project in a single project. GPT loses the context at one point.

With that in mind, break down the project into chunks and make each one a conversation. For me, that was:

1. Initial Setup

2. Add a randomly generated tilemap

3. Character Creation and Placement

4. Movement

5. Turn-based execution

6. Fog of War

7. Enemy Monsters

Each one of these is a separate thread. They start with:

> You are an expert game developer using Phaser 3 and TypeScript. You are going to help me create a game similar to Pixel Dungeon using those technologies.

I then copy in relevant code and design decisions we already made so it has the context. If it gets the answer totally wrong, I'll stop the generation and rephrase the question to keep things clean.

Lastly, I'll frequently ask it to talk about design first saying something like:

> We are going to start with the world map and dungeon generation to start. We'll add a character sprite and movement next. What's the best way to do tilemap generation and store the data? Don't write any code, just give me high level suggestions and your recommendation.

This lets me explore the problem space first, decide on an approach, and then execute it. I'll also ask for library suggestions to help with approaches, and I'm generally surprised by the suggestions. Like all software, once you know the design, the pattern, the goal, and have good tools to help you achieve it... the coding isn't all that hard.
Because a small team can’t create a unicorn tomorrow, anymore.
Not merely the point of copyright, but also the basis for copyright in the USA.

Specifically all forms of intellectual property in the USA trace back to Article I Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution. Which gives Congress the power, "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
It says in the wiki entry that Switzerland does not extradite citizens unless they consent to it. She is probably already not able to leave Switzerland due to her US indictment.
We try to allow the Unicode ranges that are closer to text and disallow the ones that are closer to candy.
PaLM 2 paper: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf
You now that, I know that, everyone knows that. And yet, google stresses it everytime, like the company is anxious that people is looking for OpenAI and not google.
> As a Svelte compiler developer, debugging without a build step greatly simplifies compiler development. Previously, debugging was complicated by the fact that we had to debug using the build step.
In addition, using JSDoc does not affect compiler’s development safety because the type is almost equivalent to TS.

> Of course, Svelte developers (not compiler developers) will still be provided type definition files as now, so there will be no change for Svelte developers in terms of typing.

Someone who maintains the JS debugger for VS Code added this (in response to a Svelte developers saying they couldn't use a faster compiler due to debugging difficulty):

> It's an aside from the main PR, but I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. This should not exclude the ability to use alternative TS compilers--in fact, the js debugger itself is built with esbuild. The debugger should also handle runtime transpilers (like tsx) just fine.
So my chosen option before was to just plug my earbuds or car aux into my phone.

Now my choices are:

- AirPods, which I don't want to shell out more money for and deal with charging/caring for them, but otherwise they'd be the best option.

- Non-AirPod BT headphones. I have nice Bose ones from work. These lack Apple's extensions to improve pairing and headset (mic) mode. In headset mode, the earphone quality drops to like worse than early 2000s cellphone. Standard pairing is annoying. It's a bit annoying having to charge them. I also don't want to shell out more money for earbuds (the headphones aren't so portable).

- Dongles, which I tried. Turns out they don't work with inlined mics, don't work with older iPhones (so I can't leave them on a shared car aux), are fragile, and are really easy to lose. Can't charge while using one either, but that's nbd. My car seats ate two and the last one broke. It also just feels stupid having to use these.

- Old iPhone. I kept my 6 until it broke. I still have a spare 5, no longer usable with AT&T, which I use to play music in the car.

Yeah I want to listen to music on my phone, but they've made it sufficiently annoying that I don't anymore. It's a clear regression.
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

When Google was a startup and even a decade in they managed to treat everyone the same.

Today this has went backwards like everything else Google it seems.
To be fair to Uber and AirBnB, they did introduce some genuinely novel innovations. But the business model does heavily rely on the non-technological aspects for their competitive advantage.
I'm so bored with these comments. Companies care more about profits than people - can we put it on a banner somewhere so we all get over it?
Still not supported in my country
Kudos on shipping! Is the 3D Metaball implementation extant? I wouldn't mind trying to implement Deep / Differentiable / Neural Marching Cubes on the GPU.

I had a 3D Metaball demo in browser ~2009 (ActiveX/DirectX.NET/IE). But it was very far from smooth 60fps ;)
Similar to how I did not experience the late 70's but gained a fondness for it by watching "Taxi" and listening to Television.
Google’s new Perspectives search helps you find actual human information online
They don’t prevent you from using aftermarket chargers. They just display a warning, which can be disabled in the BIOS.
I know I need something like this
I mean, this is just MS copying everyone else. There is no "real" recession. It's basically a loosely coordinated capital strike to counteract post-pandemic wage growth. Jay will keep raising rates until those wages stop climbing, and companies are taking the hint.

If anything MS is smarter for waiting for all of their competitors to cut first. As others pointed out, they have tons of cash and really don't have to cut at all, so they get a leg up on their competitors by waiting.
Call your legislators and regulators if so desired, they've got the means to turn the screws.

Can always file an antitrust complaint as well:

US: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

EU: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...
Someone said they are the first Instagram band and I kind of giggled. Had I not started playing guitar there is no way I would have heard of them.
VB.net is a second class citizen in the new .Net ecosystem (.Net Core/5/6/7)

"Microsoft: 'We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as a Language'"
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/03/12/vb-in-n...

MS is actively trying to get people to switch to C# for .Net
Right, jaded cynics are much better entertainment.
Shameless plug: I created promptr to help with this.

https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr

Edit: this PR has some examples of what’s possible https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr/pull/38
Not technically, but practically.
Yep! I answered on another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35891575

I might expand on this in a blog post.
> it is at least theoretically treated much more seriously.

My impression from reading HN, where the topic came up numerous times over the years, was that that is not so. See the link I presented as example, I saw a lot such stories, right here in the discussions, but also in some articles. Not just the US, I also remember similar anecdotes about management preventing punishment from Canada even when a professor initially tried to do something.

If it is not representative I apologize, I go by what I read mostly here, and it was a lot over the years.

There certainly seems to be an official stance against cheating, e.g. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=201609211...

It's just that I saw so many stories from or about educators who tried and it went like in that link I included, especially when many students were caught.

"Why Professors Don’t Do More to Stop Students Who Cheat" - https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-professors-dont-do-mor...

> Some who have tried say that administrators, fearful of lawsuits, don’t back them up

> “In the majority of cases of trivial cheating, I think most professors turn a blind eye,” says Donald L. McCabe, the associate provost for campus development at Rutgers University at Newark, who has studied the issue. “The number who do nothing is very small, but the number who do very little is very large.”