skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, missed this as we're in meetings this week. So to answer your question.

We use zeroMQ to move data around so to get it into a python script is very easy for us. We "were" going to create a dash/plotly app to consume the data stream and create a trading augmentation tool as we find dash a pleasure to work with. We also find that it's very well supported using videos so not even we ( non web developers) can mess it up. We adhere to the Tufte approach to graphical representation of complex data sets and python allows us to take a minimalist approach to doing that.

We are also discussing the implementation of async components in a python specific hosting company that seems to address the same market as GENIE. That would give us the GUI approach should we chose to use it. We have experienced some problems with streaming data into Stipple but I would expect that they will provide a MWE that we can modify. I have high hopes for the GENIE team, they seem like excellent people.

All that said we are progressing out Carbon discussions with various people. In Chicago we are very lucky that we have a deep pool of people skilled at kernel latency avoidance, this helps us consider what we can expect from Carbon and if there are any advantages to what we want to achieve.

I hope this answers your question.
Prompt Injection Detector
The five trillion finger discount.
It's incredibly stupid of them to participate in this interview/article.

They probably could've operated under-the-radar for a while but now they have a target on their backs. The FBI, IRS, etc. can make their lives a living hell.

As an aside, IMO, the real criminals here are the municipalities and private companies that engage in this public nuisance.
Mark Z would have a leg up on A.I. had he not designed and developed on php
The refunds are not due to dissatisfaction, it's because they can. The act is closer to piracy than an angry customer.

Hot Take Edit: It's gamer Karens requesting the refunds. "I had information available to me that said the game time was under 2 hours but I bought it anyways and now I'm severely disappointed that the game was under 2 hours long and I deserve a refund!"
From what other comments have said they also seem to give refunds outside of that if you have a good explanation (“questions asked” I guess)
Probably not, because this wasn't such a major thing pre 00s - people believed more in the future.

Of course, there also was a better future to believe in, instead of dwindling middle class, and increased insecurity, depression and loneliness.
Why aren't LLM apps taking over Conversational AI
Hey guys, I’m conducting customer discovery interviews with folks familiar with LLM apps and conversational AI. The thesis is that LLM apps will replace existing conversational AI, but these apps are not massively deployed yet. We’re looking to understand the barriers to massively deploying LLM apps and the overall experience developers have deploying LLM apps. I’d love to chat and pick your brain to understand this problem better! If you have 15-20 minutes to chat please schedule with me soon: https://calendly.com/muaz-cerevox/cerevox-chat
> I don't know, it makes sense to me the way the IRS does it. If I get a massive windfall and the IRS didn't send me information about it, then I would be able to just not file it because I would know they don't know about it. Not so if I don't know what they know.

Ideally the IRS would tell you what they think is accurate and you'd submit amendments for anything that's not accurate. That's no different than the current arrangement since you already need to report all income, it just eliminates the extra cost and effort for the majority of Americans that don't receive windfalls.
In principle Minsky Machines are very similar to abacus algorithms. They do seem in the reach of ancient mathematics.

Reducing them to FRACTRAN requires dealing with some VERY big numbers for not a lot of benefit. You’re probably dealing with those on an abacus anyway…
Nah, we had those already. Gacha games and looter shooters with lootboxes.
I have a quest. It’s not a secret. But it’s still $400 more than FREE isn’t it.

Even $20 a month is a lot more manageable than a $400 up front + games

And chat GPT actually saves you time and money. It’s not just a bit of fun
Why don’t you try shaking your fist at your computer instead of wasting everyone’s time in this thread. Touch grass
Certain providers like Telgorithm have built automations and relationships in the industry to expedite the TCR registration and Campaign vetting process, you can read about it here: https://www.telgorithm.com/news/avoid-a2p-10dlc-registration...
>They're still terrible at logical reasoning.

2 years ago a machine that understands natural language and is capable of any arbitrary, free-form logic or problem solving was pure science fiction. I'm baffled by this kind of dismissal tbh.

>but LLMs are never going to go into a recursive loop of self-improvement

never is a long time.
Also, the thinkpad keyboards have arrow keys can actually be pressed.

I'd say the up and down keys are the two most used keys on my keyboard.

My 11 year old mechanical keyboard just had its first switch failure a month ago, unsurprisingly on the up arrow key.

If someone releases a proper keyboard module for the framework 16 by mid-december, then I'll be getting a 16', otherwise I'll probably going with a thinkpad.
Particularly funny that they have "Steal of the Day" deals: https://www.propertyroom.com/s/prsoddsteals2023.
But we all have a microwave… because ultimately they are really useful
Users who want to game the system by adding a credit card to their Steam account, purchasing the game, finishing it in <2 hours, asking for a refund and waiting to get their money back already have a much easier option – piracy.

On the other hand treating your customers with respect and letting them try what they are buying ultimately increases sales and works out in everyone's benefit.
Move to git and email. Like Linus intended.
"Burying" Personal Voice halfway down a press release, in the second item, is so typically Apple.

> Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.

That's a monumental software feature to deliver on a consumer device, with massive potential, but there it is, as just another dot point
Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
Thank god he said it because when he said it it's probably not true.
Apparently there's only 3 languages in Australia/New Zealand, and they're all sign languages.

No mention of the 200+ endangered languages in Australia, or even Maori in NZ, where it is an official language.

Might be a better site when the data is properly populated.
Right--a gradual deflation with absolutely no consequences for the grifters.
I work as a programmer for a Fortune 100 company that everyone on the planet has heard of. I have heard nothing from any other developers about using AI. The programmers are not talking about it, the company is not talking about it. I don't know if we are behind the times or if this isn't as big a thing as you are making it out to be.
An alternative to repaying debt is inflating it away, which is what we've been doing.
An answer stolen from here [1]:

Erlang is fault tolerant with the following things in mind:

- Erlang knows that errors WILL happen, and things will break, so instead of guarding against errors, Erlang lets you have strong tools to minimize impact of errors and recover from them as they happen.

- Erlang encourages you to program for success case, and crash if anything goes wrong without trying to recover partially broken data. The idea behind this is that partially incorrect data may propagate further in your system and may get written to database, and thus presents risk to your system. Better to get rid of it early and only keep fully correct data.

- Process isolation in Erlang helps with minimizing impact of partially wrong data when it appears and then leads to process crash. System cleans up the crashed code and its memory but keeps working as a whole.

- Supervision and restart strategies help keep your system fully functional if parts of it crashed by restarting vital parts of your system and bringing them back into service. If something goes very wrong such that restarts happen too much, the system is considered broken beyond repair and thus is shut down.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3760881/how-is-erlang-fa...
>At some point, the problem may no longer exist, or you may not be able to continue to make a profit. That's OK! You can pivot, or move on to another business.

Does your landlord take pivots as currency?

Anyway, I agree but for people complaining about layoffs. At some point, your job may no longer exist, or you may not be able to continue to take a salary. That's OK! You can pivot, or move on to another career.
If I'm not mistaken, it recognises voices already? At least once I had it tell me it didn't recognize my voice and couldn't do a thing I requested.
Ask HN: Is there a privacy-focused social login identity provider?
I run several websites that manage user accounts. I generally default to an email-based login flow. I'd love to improve UX for my users by integrating with social login SSO, but I don't want to encourage my them to sell out (more of) their privacy to Google/Facebook/Apple/etc.

Are there any Open ID Connect IdPs that are known to respect user privacy?
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"We have no MOAT, so let's make it an Oligopoly through lobbying."
We also could call every rock in its rings a moon

So what?

This is more of an article about the “shift and stack” method than a semantical distinction of zero relevance.
This is an awesome post, thank you for taking the time to type it up. You nailed where my tastes lie, so I'm really excited to put some time in on the tables you recommended. Theater of Magic and Attack from Mars are both at my local spot, so I'll definitely pump a few bucks into those the next time I'm there.

This is like when you find someone else who digs the same three unrelated albums because they get the common thing you like about all of them. Thanks again for the recommendations!
Great to see another option in the space! Good luck!
Is it possible for the US to take on bigger and bigger debt because it has a huge national defense budget?

I have often heard that household/consumer debt cannot and should not be treated the same way as the debt a government holds. But it is still something to be concerned about because Argentina printed a lot of money to pay off debts I believe and that devalued their currency a lot.
The article talks about a website charging $50+ per key. That's a sweet markup consider a quick online search shows a locksmith that will cut keys in bulk to whatever bitting for $3/key.
MS have put it in Bing. Google will catch up and put it in google search.

I will happily pay whatever OpenAI charge to not have ads

It’s just too useful not to

Midjourney is the same. Saves soooooooo much time. It pays for itself for the month in a day
“ Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.”

The screenshot seems to show that you need to speak 150 sentences.
How is it that LLMs launder consciousness but don't launder ownership?

The author's main point seems to be that bits are colored[1], and that the process of LLM training doesn't "bleach models". In other words, ownership persists through training in a way that generated text mixes ownership rather than creating a new, ownable, artifact.

They also seem to have (extrapolating the theme) a concept of "smelly" bits. "They can also communicate with a person in a way that resembles actual conversation." ie: words have a "conscious"[smelly] category imbued upon them if they were generated by human or "unconscious"[unscented] if computer generated them.

This evokes a sense that "while they use words and form sentences like conscious people, they can't hold a conversation." Furthermore, this seems to be stated as an ontological fact, rather than say a derived and grounded in behavior such as, "They aren't currently capable of holding conversation because the output distribution doesn't match output distributions of human conversations."

These two views, that models don't bleach but they preserve smell, are fundamentally incompatible and diametrically opposed. How is it that color[ownership] persists through model training, but smell[consciousness] does not? We don't know - the author doesn't say. Jim just states both as fact without grounding either in rationale or justification.

Sure, we can take them as axiomatic, but then what's the point of the article then? There's a reoccurring disappointment in property/consciousness articles from tech-types who write on ownership and consciousness really aren't adding anything creative to the conversation. This is an extremely basic critique of the piece that the author should have thought through before hitting the publish button.

1. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> I don't think it will ever be paid down.

Governments worldwide have debt payment problems. EU countries are starting to raise retirement age because they can't pay the promised pensions. They need a great reset and war will be an excuse.

At least USA controls it's currency and can simply coin money.
The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
AFAIK all the cheap-ish (< $500) headsets either have awful specs, run android, or come bundled with spyware (or all of the above). Unless I missed a big product launch lately.

It's not a secret, more just that tech people don't want what's for sale.
> Easy for them to say that (and make initial arrest), but hard to see how any of it sticks if you don't take the boot.

Criminal trespass and property damage don’t require taking anything, and I assume the theft by taking is of the lawfully-seized vehicle, not the boot.
I've been mulling a Crowdfunding project for a while to make a product I have in mind. It is not a big product, not something 'everyone needs', and it doesn't have enough utility or audience to sustain a company around it. I want to make it, and I want to distribute it, but I don't want to operate a business and I don't want to simply give away the thing I made.

I want an ephemeral business - something that will last long enough that I can make my thing and be done. But I don't want all the overhead of creating a company just to do the darn thing.
Using Mustache instead of Jinja for a Python package is a choice
There is no problem, there has never been a problem, and there never will be a problem.

It has always without exceptions been a moral panic encouraged and nurtured by established interests to support their urge for more and more control.
The big thing that makes HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and even Gemini hard to implement is TLS. I theory, HTTP/2 don't require it, but in practice, it does.

You need to implement a variety of ciphers, manage certificates with expiration dates, etc... And if you wanted to implement all that yourself, people will yell at you for doing your own crypto. So yeah, you need a library. But not just that. You need a way to update your certificates, so you can't have a package (or even a single executable) that you can just run and have a server that serves static pages. You could make a self-signed certificate that lasts a thousand years, but good luck getting it accepted.
I'm not sure what I said was literally true. The Galilean moons and Saturn's Triton certainly. But a bunch of others in the 60s I could probably have named (I think Jupiter was up to about a dozen by then and Saturn maybe nine) given I was pretty into space/astronomy. Forget about Uranus and Neptune at that point and pretty sure Charon hadn't been discovered since Pluto was a hazy spot. Knew Mars obviously.
This works great until it doesn’t. Interest rates are rising and debt isn’t as cheap as it was. At some point it will be unsustainable but we just don’t know when. I fear that we will push the limits on this until it’s too late.
Cancer has a fairly high incident rate in the general public, so anecdotes about people getting cancer due to industrial solvents is often suspect. Most observations can be explained by a combination of base rates, and social determinants of health.
1. Not everyone and their dog was getting into tech; there was a lot of low-hanging fruit, and a lot lower bar for what was considered "impressive."

2. The bar for impressive is now "insanely complex."

3. The tools were shittier, but more flexible, and you sucked it up and learned to deal. Now? The majority of our tools are overengineered in all the wrong places, because their contributors wanted to build something "impressive" (using today's standards) -- rather than useful and practical.

We had jQuery (a library) and PHP (a language modeled after the hit Microsoft classic, Minesweeper), and that was enough. Now you need React/Vue/whatever framework to build an "impressive" website (because you'll look like a clown if your website isn't as "polished" as your competitors -- who are also using newfangled frameworks)

It was easier to build shit back then, because the standards and expectations were saner.
He’s a cunt, op
I think the point being made here is that it may be worth walling off the agriculture industry specifically due to a country’s desire to maintain food security. A worldwide clothing shortage is not as big of a concern, which may be a reason you don’t see the same strategy applied there.

Edit: actually my mistake, that point was made in a separate thread. I think my point still stands though.
I'm seeing a lot of posts by people who obviously haven't read the full transcript given they specifically discuss regulatory capture and the need to ensure small companies can still do AI development.

See 2:09:40 in https://www.youtube.com/live/iqVxOZuqiSg
Abolish Inherited Wealth (2020)
Boy, I don't know.

VR really isn't positioned to disrupt entire industries while companies are already figuring out how to replace people with LLMs.
Somehow all the non programmers are in full force telling actual coders how their job is changing
I've never been interested in the automated matching aspect of HR but this piece has me inspired to attempt the challenge.

To add a point, my favorite reason to use recruiters, is having them do the negotiation process for me.

High quality post as usual.
It wouldn't need to be a global, it could be mounted on String for example... And one doesn't necessarily prevent the other.

String.fromUint8Array: (input: Uint8Array, encoding: string): String;

Would be a fine, simple addition where it probably should be. Maybe calling the default for UInt8Array "String.fromBinary" instead.
Most anti-piracy software is undistinguishable from malware. In addition to that I've never got malware in years of occasional pirate playing. I might as well pay to support the devs and still play the cracked version at this point.
Its already normal if you expand your social circle.
Sending this to my senator would just notify her of what company she should reach out to for a campaign contribution.
Pretty much all businesses used to be basically ephemeral until about 150 years ago. The whole idea of a business that is intended to run perpetually just didn't exist in the West, and anything that ran long was tied to a family that plied a trade. Businesses were also a lot easier to understand: a corporation might run a ship or a mine, and go out of business (still having made everyone a lot richer) when the captain of the ship retires or the mine dries up. In fact, the way we value businesses today still somewhat applies that model.

Most attempts at perpetual businesses today fail after less than 100 years, too, so it looks like we haven't figured out how to actually make a perpetual business - aside from a few notable examples like Zildjian (the cymbal company). Most of the success stories here are businesses with modest ambitions under the tight control of a single family.

I think you could argue that the idea that a business has to be a long-lasting perpetual enterprise comes from an increase in the power of business managers, at the expense of both investors and employees. These long-lasting businesses give managers a chance to build empires and personally enrich themselves without worrying about anything so pedestrian as figuring out when to return cash to shareholders ("they can have a tiny dividend if they whine too much, but don't get in the way of the expansion of my empire").
Seems like a simplification of their 2-hour refund policy. On one hand it's good to not have to bother with credit card transactions and refunds at all. On the other this seems to be opt-in from the developer's side (at least for now).
There are more of us that read and shake our heads with you than these cretins who want to tear down - on a tech news site of all places. Don’t be dismayed, and there are more of us with you than against you.
> you end up boxing your values to place into collections rather than letting the compiler monomorphize it.

you know that Go has interfaces right? and I dont just mean the "any" interface. you can write your own interface similar to io.Reader and others, then add types that implement that interface, then no type matching is needed.

> non-generic legacy cruft

AKA normal, fine code. generic code is not some magic pixie dust that makes bad code into good code. plenty of awful bloated slow generic code around as well.
Like all "rights" in Europe, they are only rights when it's politically convenient.
Technically, a layoff could be temporary, and that was once upon a time the meaning of the term. RIF signals that it's permanent.
Right so the most effective way to influence your politician is to disrupt their life, because they belittle their constituents' existence every day, by completely ignoring them and often working directly against their interests, unless they can further their own political goals.

In places like the usa I don't think politicians should expect privacy or peace. They have so much power compared to the citizen and they so rarely further the interests of the general population in good faith.

Given how they treat you, it's best to abandon politeness (which only helps them further belittle your meaninglessness in their decision making) and put a crowd in front of their house, accost them at restaurants, and find other ways of reminding them how accessible and functionally answerable they are to the people they're supposed to serve.
How are politicians going to absorb an economic shrinkage? What percentage of total personal net worth is owned by federal politicians in the US? Maybe it's higher than I would have guessed, but there are only 537 federally elected offices and no federally elected billionaires.

I see some numbers thrown around that the total net worth of congress is $2-3 billion. That's only $9.00 per American at the upper end. Even a complete personal bankruptcy of all of them wouldn't have measurable economic effect on its own.
The normalization of ephemeral businesses would be harmful in at least one respect -- customers wouldn't be able to know who they're doing business with and avoid the ones that they would prefer to avoid.
Apologies for misunderstanding the intention of your comment. That does make sense.
> ask google maps for directions and then drive somewhere else

Alright that was pretty funny.

For the rest of it, if all you’re going to do is be mad about making the same (unsupported) “the only correct action is that which minimizes dEnvironment/dt” (aka “native=good, introduced=bad”) claim as everyone else, why bother commenting at all?
I've been doing programming for 30+ years and having a hard time seeing how AI will help me.

I have templates and scaffolds for most of my reptitive work already. I feel that I'm good enough with SQL that it would take me longer to prompt an AI to write a query than it would for me to just write it.

I am open to the possibility that I'm old and set in my ways but it's been a long time since the act of writing the code has been the bottleneck in my work.