skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the stance that regulation slows innovation and adoption, and that unregulated adoption yields public understanding is exceedingly naive, especially for technically sophisticated products.

Imagine if, e.g. drugs testing and manufacture was subject to no regulations. As a consumer, if you can be aware that some chemicals are very powerful and useful, but you can't be sure that any specific product has the chemicals it says it has, that it was produced in a way that ensures a consistent product, or that it was tested for safety, or what the evidence is that it's effective against a particular condition. Even if wide adoption of drugs from a range of producers occurs, does the public really understand what they're taking, and whether it's safe? Should the burden be on them to vet every medication on the market? Or is appropriate to have some regulation to ensure medications have have their active ingredients in the amounts stated, and are produced with high quality assurance, and are actually shown to be effective? Oh, no, says a pharma industry PR person. "Doing anything that limits the adoption or encourages the underground development of bioactive chemicals is a mistake. Regulating it in this way will push it underground and make it harder to track and harder for the public to understand and prepare for."

If a team of PhDs can spend weeks trying to explain "why did the model do Y in response to X?" or figure out "can we stop it from doing Z?", expecting "wide adoption" to force "public education" to be sufficient to defuse all harms such that no regulation whatsoever is necessary is ... beyond optimistic.
25 years researching how rocket exhaust lifts soil
I apologize that I can’t read all threads and responses, but this sounds like Altman and OpenAI have realized they have a viable path to capture most of the AÍ market value and now they’re pulling the ladder behind them.
> The impact is the same regardless of event.

It isn’t though. Eminent domain increases property values. Pandemics and terrorism decrease it.

> So, given a standard tech business, you buy what you need for positions that cannot be performed remotely and estimated space for those workers that desire to work at that location hopefully in a location close to where these workers live (which is likely not in a typical downtown city location).

This is divorced from the reality I live in. My city developed a business district complete with housing and entertainment near downtown. That area is dead now and the city is understandably concerned. It wasn’t a bad idea before but now it hasn’t worked out. But I can’t blame the businesses who invested. They seem to have made all the right decisions. It wasn’t clearly a mistake pre-pandemic. In fact it was all very progressive and forward-looking.
Junior developers are junior. There are many skills they don't have. Being able to parse writing in a certain style is one of those skills. Should they find another profession if they don't instantly know how to rebase things in git, or how to track down a bug?
The margins on that must be incredible. An ice cube tray plus some foam packing material, for $40. Didn't even bother to encase the foam in a blow-molded shell like a cooler.
Yes, but OP goes overboard by expanding the metaphor to include forks, knives, napkins, and barbecue sauce.
This is besides the main point, I really wish "Open AI" renamed themselves to "Opaque AI" or something else.

Their twisted use of the term "open" is a continued disrespect to all those people who are tirelessly working in the true spirit of open source.
TranscribeMe is my favourite (https://transcribeme.app); it transcribes voice notes from WhatsApp and Telegram.
Not only that, if you have a long voice note, the bot summarizes it with an AI. You can also add ChatGPT to those message apps
Worst timing! Just had an incident and had to deploy a hotfix. Pushes weren't working and I thought I was going crazy.

Who would have thought software could be such an adrenaline rush. Move over Alex Honnold!
There is an excellet pinball museum in Budapest where you can play original restored machines all night for an entry fee.
If everybody became a robot and there's no need for chairs, then to whom is the technical debt supposed to be paid?

If there are still fleshbags who need chair, the one created 20 years ago, if properly cared for, works just fine.

Now, if I used a piece of rotten wood for one leg, because I couldn't bet bothered to go fetch a new plank, this is debt that will need to be paid in the form of putting additional work to fix said leg later.
Hey you sound like me. I grew up similarly to you. What you experienced is called childhood emotional neglect. It's basically the absence of emotional connection with your parents. As in you did not get your emotional needs met by your parents.

There are a bunch of books on it now but the first was Running on Empty by Dr. Jonice Webb. She describes it well. Someone here on HN recommended it a few weeks ago and I read it. And low and behold I identify with it completely and it explains a lot of my life. And now I am working to break that cycle with my kids and wife first and eventually my parents if possible. It's been a lot of hard work.
I've been building my own pinball machine from scratch on and off for the last several years. What I love about pinball design is that it combines so many disciplines: woodworking, metalworking, CAD, electronics, low level & high level software, game design, storytelling, blinking lights, and competitive fast action play.

I've got some old photos of my build progress here: https://jherrman.com/gravity-pinball-public-build-log
On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)
Whatever happened to caveat emptor?

From NYtimes 2015 [1]

> Some consider the Autonomy acquisition to be the worst corporate deal ever.

> Just how bad is confirmed by the latest revelations from a shareholders’ suit over the deal: Mr. Apotheker didn’t even read the due diligence report on Autonomy that H.P. commissioned from KPMG, the giant accounting firm. Nor did Raymond J. Lane, the board chairman, or any other member of the board, according to a report prepared by the law firm Proskauer Rose, which was hired to represent H.P.’s independent directors.

> Had they read even the executive summary, they would have discovered numerous warnings — enough to have prevented the deal in the first place, or at least to have led them to renegotiate it.

> “For the C.E.O. not to have read it, for an acquisition this size, is highly disturbing,” said Charles M. Elson, director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware and co-author of “The Art of M&A Due Diligence.” “And the entire board should have at least read the executive summary.”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/business/leo-apotheker-ma...
Exactly, there are so many amazing dataflow engines, stream processors, and databases out there. We are not competing with those.

We are trying to "compile away" all of the data plumbing code you have to write to integrate those systems into your application, so that it becomes easier to use them.

MySQL support in DataSQRL is definitely on the short-list.
An archive link for the original article that goes in depth, just in case you didn't find it. I noticed it's been removed from the wayback machine.

https://archive.is/vNsfH
The difference in real world performance between web servers written in things like Python or Ruby to those written in Go, C# or even lower-level languages like Rust would indicate that's an over-estimation of how much IO dominates total runtime, even if it is by far the slowest part.
I read the commenter's point to be that eventually the private enforcers will go to LE to try and get them arrested. I won't opine on who the Atlanta PD is more likely to side with in that scenario.
Just wait until you hear about literally everything ever

Or a lot of modern medicine right now. Lots of useful drugs are discovered totally by accident: "Oh look, my patient took this for foot sores and it turns out it helps his hair loss", and then the drug gets used forever more, despite having really no idea at all why it should work. We don't even really know how paracetamol works.
Chicago Gaming just announced a non-remake, Pulp Fiction. The designer and programmer are veterans from the Williams days (Mark Ritchie and George Petro)

https://www.chicago-gaming.com/coinop/pulp-fiction

The old System 11 look and feel...is kind of neat.
QuickJS has a custom unicode library for this reason.
It’s not illegal to have coins that at some point in the past were mixed. In fact I suspect that most bitcoins can be traced back to a mixer if you go back.
This is a recently imagined, ret-conned definition of what it is, complete with bias, to serve the purposes of the right wing. The definition, if there is to be one, should include that it isn't consistent across time or across political/cultural boundaries. I recommend people don't use the term with any seriousness, and I often ignore people who do. Address the specific ideas you associate with it instead, if you want to have a meaningful discussion.
Yeah, I used Deno to build a simple URL switch case utility in late 2021 to handle sending different URLs to different browsers, and that was ~56MB compiled at the time. I don't know if it's changed in the base size since then, but if bun is resulting in 90MB binaries (as reported here), then Deno may yield a significant reduction in size (if it hasn't gotten much worse in that time).
Seems like an incentive to see a technically-unlicensed, but qualified provider and call it "professional coaching" or the like.
If you stop progress in AI in US other countries will go ahead in that field. US cannot loss and give lead in AI to other countries. Instead it is better to focus on minimization of the harm by AI in other ways. For example, if the fake information is the problem instead it is better to focus on the education of the people about fake information and how to identify it.
The most realistic game of pinball physics-wise for me is Zaccaria. Its selection is of uneven quality. I recommend sticking to the historical solid state and electro mechanical tables, over the deluxe or remakes. My favorite table is probably Farfalla. VR mode is quite immersive. It has a free time limited mode for any table, and tables are quite cheap on sale.
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:53 PM
@fbi.gov> wrote:
Hello Twitter contacts,
FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy.

Looks to me like ToS violation tips, not YOU MUST CENSOR

edit: if you think the FBI wasting their resources helping Twitter identify terms of service violations is "government censorship" we will never see eye to eye on this issue. It was unusual, but definitely not a constitutional crisis.
Did not have the time to watch the recording yet, but was there any discussion about protecting the copyright of the creators of the sources used to train the models? Or do I need to call my friends in the music industry to finally have it addressed? :-)
it does have specs, dialyzer and gradient for type checking, so there is hope...
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From reading the Ars review, it certainly looks to me like you get the massive battery improvements without upgrading the chassis ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-framework-lap... ).

Is that not your understanding?

Edit: The marketplace also has replacement speaker parts, like https://frame.work/products/speaker-kit?v=FRANBXFG03 ) - I'm now even more confused about how your older chassis is holding you back.
Roko's Basilisk will have a special layer of hell just for Sam Altman and his decision to name his company OpenAI
From what I can see of where his interests are, and his attention span...does he really WANT to deal with reliability/uptime/systems engineering? Seems like a poor fit (AFAIK, the businesses that do well have Gwynne Shotwells at the helm who are good at milking him for selective insights, then insulating the staff from his worse impulses...not really a great fit for the DNA of a cloud services company)
We _are_ being conservative. As the article mentions, these kind of projects have been proposed and studied for half a century now, and despite all the predicted benefits we haven’t event built a single one!
> The point of elected representatives is to represent the views of their constituents, not to obtain special advantages for their constituents.

The views of their constituents are probably in favor of special advantages for their constituents, so the one may imply the other.

I mean, some elected representatives may represent constituencies consisting primarily of altruistic angels, but that is…not the norm.
The optimization libraries in SciPy are surprisingly bad. I've found Mystic to be a great alternative.

https://github.com/uqfoundation/mystic
Indeed; this article is about what we might refer to in Britain as 'car clamping'.
Generally speaking... DateTime/TimeStamp fields between databases are in general treated differently either in practice or purpose much of the time. When migrating from one database to another, this is almost always an issue.
I think it's more like culture carries language with it. Along with other things, but language is one of the more recognizable ones.
Coreboot, please!
The average american commutes 55 minutes each day. Assuming they work 8 hours per day, the time saved not commuting alone is roughly an 11% raise that a company can give for free. This is before one considers the real costs of commuting (fuel, wear & tear, tolls, etc) and the potential savings from lifestyle changes (living in a more affordable area, convenient access to home ammenities during working hours, etc).

On the company side, either more employees can be hired while keeping the same office space or a smaller, less expensive space can be rented. With employee commutes being less of a factor, offices can be located closer to customers or in less expensive areas depending on the business needs. Likewise the geographic area from which employees can be hired significantly increases (even if not fully remote, a several hour drive or even a flight might be acceptable if they're only coming into the office on special occasions). You even get ethically dubious perks like getting people to work when they otherwise would have called out of the office, and offloading some of the costs of operating an office onto your employees.

It takes effort and capital to set up all the infrastructure necessary for remote work, it might take a while to realize the full benefits of remote work (moving to a lower cost location is not-trivial), and of course some jobs simply can't be done remotely. But once you already have gone remote, there's no logical business case for returning to the office. You are spending more money to be in an objectively worse position, possibly literally. Companies that choose to engage in this irrational behavior will lose employees and market share to competitors who better take advantage of the opportunity.
Sounds like they're the prototype for a new company. WhatsApp ran rings around competitors with a small team using Erlang; can you do a better job than the company that rejected it?
Did he bring his Dreamwindow?

https://twitter.com/next_on_now/status/1653837352198873090?s...
When talking about recency, how about the dodo or great auk?
As someone who makes games this strikes me as nuts. I can easily see players enjoying their 90-minutes and leaving satisfied, why pay for more? We know from achievements and other data very few players reach a game's ending. I wager this will just encourage more sampling of games without ultimately buying a copy.

Additionally, creating a compelling 90-minute demo _on top of the game itself_ is daunting! I recently-ish created a ~30-minute demo[1] and it nearly killed me and my colleagues...

[1]: Shameless plug https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446350/You_Will_Die_Here...
On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017)
But also, and more relevantly here, git is designed to be usable entirely offline. And if you do need to have some connection with remotes, git allows you to do so extremely sporadically if your network connectivity, or remote availability, is limited.
Really interesting, also diff-based, and 3.5 years in development.

On the homepage I read "An in-memory, distributed, and open-source document graph database". Do you know whether the whole database, including all documents, needs to be in memory, and what happens when the datasets exceed available memory space? Or is it perhaps in-memory per document, one-by-one?

Do you have to create diffs manually with terminusdb (CLI example below from https://terminusdb.com/products/terminusdb/), or can they be detected automatically from, e.g., SQL database tables or files in a folder, similarly to Git monitoring a working directory and committing changes based on its contents?

# Add more philosophers to new branch
echo '{ "name": "Plato" }' | terminusdb doc insert admin/philosophers/local/branch/changes
echo '{ "name": "Aristotle" }' | terminusdb doc insert admin/philosophers/local/branch/changes

# Look at the difference between branches
terminusdb diff admin/philosophers --before-commit main --after-commit changes | jq

# Apply the differences to main
terminusdb apply admin/philosophers --before-commit main --after-commit changes
And here I thought that the days of encryption being classified under ITAR were over for decades. Apparently I was wrong, or Apple insists on over-compliance...
I've gotten excellent results using an aquarium pump in a cooler. Essentially making a tiny Clinebell ice maker in your freezer. If you position it right and use the right amount of power, you get zero cloudiness at any point in the block. Best sample I was able to make (the second slide is more impressive, not sure why I didn't post that first): https://www.instagram.com/p/BfRgI71B1h7/?hl=en

Major hassle though. And is the aquarium pump food safe? Probably better to go with the directional freezing method.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure Camper English mentions this somewhere in his archives - he's tried every single method as far as I can tell. He is the godfather of clear ice.
https://archive.ph/JyJ7L
This would be so damn useful! I really hope this happens.
Honestly, I've always been too wary of playing 2.0001 hours and losing access. I like this system much better.
Isn't that what most databases do under the covers anyway?
> Corruption is a kind of decay that afflicts institutions.

It can be, but often its often the project of a substantial subset of the people creating institutions, so its misleading and romanticizing the past to view it as “decay”.
> Is your CAD software simulating the increase in temperature as the coil fires frequently throughout a game, with the ensuing changes in coil strength and rubber resilience?

Yes. That's a basic feature a professional CAE package. And the materials library includes a few hundred different rubber compounds and metals to model with as well.

Modern CAD is amazing. Back when I worked in the industry, we'd have customers whose simulations for jet turbine engines match the the sensor readings on the prototype almost exactly.
Yeah, we need to generate a lot of green hydrogen anyway, to decarbonise fertilizer, steel production, aviation fuel and a bunch of other stuff (Ideally we'd force fossil fuel producers, the number one users of hydrogen today, to replace their hydrogen with green hydrogen as part of the process of kick starting this).

And in that world, using some of your stored hydrogen or ammonia as emergy reserve makes sense, though you'd want to avoid actually using it too much as if you do then you'd probably have been better spending the money on more generation and/or batteries.
At least AI has legitimate, actual use cases.
And still JSON is less of a pain than XML... ;-)
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation

The Unix Programming Environment

LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

Computer Lib/Dream Machines

Papert: Mindstorms
Is this true? Is Microsoft actually making such invasive changes? Does Microsoft even use teams?
As long it's clear that this is fiction, how would something like this be more damaging than a series like The Man in the High Castle, or other sci-fi that imagines an alternate universe? I think it's a nifty technique that allows us to viscerally imagine and live out our parallel universes.
How is this much different than players refunding the game within the 2 hour window? (the current policy)
whats a traditional machine? it sounds a lot better than the system76 i had prior to it
They would enable 10x more people if they allowed to use their assistant with 3rd party language recognition service that supports languages remaining 60% of worlds population...
> Saturn's system currently hosts three of these groupings — the Inuit group, the Gallic group and the densely populated Norse group, all of which take their names from different mythologies.

> All of the newfound moons of Saturn fall into one of these three currently existing groupings. Three of the new moons belong to the Inuit group, but the majority fit in the Norse group.

TIL Saturn's moons are named after various human groups.
Photobucket (remember them!) kept hundreds and hundreds of photos in my account with them despite complete inactivity for over a decade.

I simply forgot the account existed, and remembered one day to find a ton of amazing decade old photos.

There’s something to be said for doing things that earn your company respect from consumers. Had photobucket deleted my decade old photos because I didn’t log in frequently enough, I’d be pissed and wouldn’t use them in the future. If a small photo storage company can afford to keep customer photos for decade+ with no login, I hope Google can store some text emails for at least 5 years.

Re: the jail/health issue, making sure Google doesn’t delete my account would (literally) be the last thing on my todo list if I were on my way to prison or a coma.
With the long-standing Steam refund policy being no questions asked in first two hours play/two weeks of buying the game, the piracy step hasn't really been necessary (assuming your motivations are genuinely just compatibility checking...)? The refund policy is still more generous than this 90min demo window.

If it doesn't work, just legitimately get 100% of your money back.
I was just saying it's kind of ironic that pre-acquisition GitHub inspired confidence, and Microsoft-owned GitHub has been more "move fast and break things."

I also don't just mean outages like this... it's clear that Microsoft GitHub has been cramming a bunch of new stuff into the UI and not really treating it with care. I notice very amateur UI bugs, misalignment, bad spacing, overlapping elements, etc. all the time now. It was clear that old GitHub passed through a professional designer's eye quite carefully (or maybe just a developer with extreme attention to detail).
Very good point: if things changed drastically they could change drastically.
Reduction In Force. Layoffs.
SVB’s Cayman Islands branch funds seized by FDIC
You support JDBC, so JDBC->MySQL Protocol->Noria should work for some definition.

My one minor nit is the creation of a new language. How does ChatGPT4 handle in reading it or writing it? It is possible to teach it a new language inside the prompt but you run out of context window.

I am not being glib, but I mapped out pretty much this exact product. The crux of your success will be in the schema discovery and versioning your schema, data and flows in a way that be tractably upgraded and downgraded.
Reduction In Force, aka fired / laid off / made redundant.