skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is to make it a 1-sided marketplace. Uber's entire business model is focused around squeezing vendors - now they think they can squeeze Google if Google becomes their vendor instead of a bunch of independent contractors who are legally inhibited from collective bargaining? Uber has no idea how to be successful when the seller side of their marketplace is organized and plays hardball at the negotiating table.
Ask HN: Am I the only one seeing GitHub all messed up in mobile?
At least in Brave mobile, GitHub looks really bad in all pages.

Am I the only one?
thanks for the comment, i'm happy you like it!
I posted a comment a while back about this same phenomenon, which I can't for the life of me find now, but it was quoting some data from media posts about job cuts in the tech industry. The overarching theme was that the "tech worker layoffs" almost never featured actual, STEM degree educated, feature making, bug fixing, engineering focused, individual contributors. The layoffs impacted Sales, Marketing, Product, HR, and Manager roles. Despite this, media outlets continued to make it out as if engineers and scientists were the ones being primarily impacted. They were doing it by hiding the actual jobs roles of those being interviewed deep into the article, in a short one-liner. There was never good data to suggest who those being most effected really were.

I don't understand the reasoning behind it beyond blatant ignorance, or perhaps that they have a dislike for silicon valley types and get satisfaction out of demeaning the job role in some way by making engineers out to be as "easily dispensable" as everyone else. It's bizarre. I guess, whatever generates the most clicks.
If another company solves self driving after Waymo, they can still enter the market. I would usually give new, cheaper competitors a try. Who wouldn't?

Uber is kind of an exception, i don't use their services because i consider them scum.
…and what happens when the fine is unpaid?
> why is OpenAI pushing for regulation so much?

To raise legal and regulatory barriers to entry for competitors. They regulations they are pushing for are the sort that will enshrine their business model into law, locking out newcomers to the technology.
Not sure if it's reasonable, but a very simple answer is to get your kid a feature phone, if the intent is to be able to stay in touch/emergency contact (we let our kids bike to middle school and it was nice to be in touch). We didn't get them smart phones until high school.

Though if my kids are any indication, it's still 50/50 - one is on tiktok/snapchat/insta constantly, and the other could care less.
Fair enough. I wonder if this is a supply-chain security thing or a step towards eventually building the phones in the US.
apologies for that. Let me check with my co-founder. It will be there. Would be great to know your thoughts about our GUI for editing and embeddings + joining and splitting chunks, as well as filtering out punctuations and stop-words with one word. You can have a look on it in the /embedditor repo or in our web embedditor. ai.
At the end of the day music theory is prescriptive, not predictive. That's poorly taught in high school education, and it's not limited to the arts.

I think people go into a music theory course and want it to be like math or physics where you can plug and chug to get an answer (where the answer is "good" music) - but that's not really what's going on. The tools that music theory gives you are those to understand how a piece of music has been constructed, and if you want to apply that to creating new music you can try using those structures in your own work. It's still up to you (or really, your audience) to decide if it's "good."
It's also illegal to partake in cigarettes in certain areas, even for adults. Cigarette packaging and location is also regulated. It's not like adults have unfettered access to things that harm them. It's illegal to drink and drive. In some places, it's illegal to drink in public, or it's illegal to sell alcohol beyond certain time periods. I'm not saying that these things are right, but that if we're going to compare social media to harmful substances we shouldn't misrepresent the access to harmful substances adults actually have.
You're technically, and also pointlessly, correct.
I wouldn't call it a step backwards, but if you can put it in the database you shouldn't have been considering microservices in the first place.
Im curious why they aren’t touching Tenor and Google. Isn’t that constellation basically the same?
>I'm sorry to sound negative...

You don't sound negative to me but, rather, accurate and factual.

I am no physicist but rather a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist (38 years until 2015).

The only physics I know I learned in 1966-1967 Physics 1a/2a/3a at UCLA, which was the easier physics sequence for non-physics majors who planned to go on to medical school or graduate study in other scientific disciplines.

I made up the word "Quantations" for my book to describe a compendium of quotations I'd been gathering since I was in college in the 1960s (indeed, I actually used yellowed cuttings from newspapers and magazines I'd gotten in the habit of keeping in file folders back then) that in large part centered around quantum physics.

I included many of my own thoughts, "pseudo-philosophical fluff" being a perfect description and one I'm going to use in the future, BTW.

Since my teenage years the mystery of quantum physics and its related tangents and intersections with so-called "reality" has been of much interest to me.

The philosophical explorations and musings of Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Bohr, and their peers and successors continue to offer glimpses of other possible ways of viewing the universe and being.

"BS" is a fair way to describe non-mathematical, non-quantitative attempts to render quantum mechanics into everyday language.

As Richard Feynman remarked in 1964 in The Messenger Lectures at MIT, "... I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."

I actually crossed paths with Richard Feynman in 1980 when I was an anesthesiology resident at UCLA Medical Center: he was about to undergo surgery for removal of a cancerous abdominal mass and I happened to be standing in a corridor as he was wheeled into the operating room.

He died in 1989 at age 69 of sequelae of that cancer.
Candle Light Simulator
Isolating them from their peers can be just as mentally devastating. I don't think there is a good solution to this.
Bailing out Too-Big-To-Fail banks which privatise profits and socialise losses on increasingly abstract / difficult to understand financial instruments springs to mind.
Winning a settlement doesn't automatically get you the money. It just gives you legal rights when trying to collect -- you still have to actually collect, which can be difficult and time-consuming.

Do we know if MS actually paid this settlement, and if so, on what schedule?
It's somewhat silly to read about animation using a static doc. My preferred intro to quaternions in the context of motion is the pair of articles at https://acko.net/tag/quaternions/. They were critical helping me learn quaternions for computer graphics. I also recommend https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ as a primer if you aren't comfortable with regular complex numbers.
I’m not sure if I understand this correctly, but, this basically seems to be a CA, with SSO-type of proof of identity, short lived certificates and transparency logs?

How an OIDC identity is obtained and secured is not treated. It brings useful organization to PKI, but the problem remains. You have to delegate trust to identity providers: Google, GitHub, etc.

Keybase was interesting, but the project seems semi-dead.
Yes, but those other groups aren't likely to be able to make such a plan. An AGI might be, though it's less certain that it'll feel a need to tell you.

So you're going to start worrying at the very last possible second, when it's far too late to do anything to stop it?
Does anyone have any good resources that cover the implementation of wasm as a plug-in system on either a backend or frotend? Just curious to deep dive on this. Could be a video or in-depth article.
"We can forget stuff" and "I believe I just forgot that" are very different things.

One is a general statement of fact, the other implies introspection of one's own individual cognitive processes. I have yet to see evidence that the latter is actually possible.
> Where does the user specify the cryptographic key to sign a package before uploading?

With Sigstore, they perform an OIDC flow against an identity provider: that results in a verifiable identity credential, which is then bound to a short-lived (~15m) signing key that produces the signatures. That signing key is simultaneously attested through a traditional X.509 PKI (it gets a certificate, that certificate is uploaded to an append-only transparency log, etc.).

So: in the normal flow, the user never directly specifies the cryptographic key -- the scheme ensures that they have a strong, ephemeral one generated for them on the spot (and only on their client device, in RAM). That key gets bound to their long-lived identity, so verifiers don't need to know which key they're verifying; they only need to determine whether they trust the identity itself (which can be an email address, a GitHub repository, etc.).
I don't think they're worse. I also don't think they're much better. Microsoft remains Microsoft.
>>more is better, right?

yes. always.
Oh I'm definitely being sarcastic.....I am endlessly fascinated by the mental hoops (the various caveats they will inject into their articulation of "democracy") people will jump through to continue believing that their country "is" democratic.

I appreciate that this is a very complicated space that requires flexibility, compromise, etc, my complaint is that we tend to pretend (often extremely enthusiastically) that the situation is actually simple.

If something is good, I don't think it should require continual lying, deceit, and delusion to prop it up in the minds of the population.
Learning to code is not enough
Thanks for these questions, taking each in turn:

> The process for creating and revising the contracts is modeled after an open-source software project Which Open Source Project? Could you link it please?

We didn't model it after a particular open-source project. Rather, we tried to take lessons learned from open-source software projects in general and apply those lessons to the creation and maintenance of the standard contracts.

> What do you mean by Open Source Contracts? Do you mean community edits & maintains contract templates?

There's a few elements of what we mean by this:
- The contracts are released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. It shares a lot of principals and goals with the OSI licenses for software (eg Apache and GPL) but is built for things other than software
- Yes, the community edits and creates the agreements. The community members are largely attorneys rather than software developers, and you can see a list of some of the most active members here: https://commonpaper.com/committee/
- We have an amazing attorney on our team who is analogous to the maintainer of an open-source project. She solicits and collects feedback from the community and makes the final decision about what does and doesn't get into any particular release.

>Do you have APIs to integrate?

Yes, and you can see the docs here: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs

>Do you have your own way of signing contracts or use third party tools like DocuSign?

We embed Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) within our product for this step
As Adam Smith (author of the "The Wealth of Nations" (1776)) wrote, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” The same is often true when businessmen talk to politicians.

That is a cynical take, which I cannot prove true, but I think it is part of the answer.
We're also privileged to be closer to understanding the systems and solutions. That makes it easier for us to view the massive amount of issues with the ecosystem as not the core of the cryptocurrency "craze".

Now imagine you're not a techie, that has no idea what's what? The propaganda concept of "rotten herring", that mars the whole, will take effect on the whole cryptocurrency concept.

For laypeople cryptocurrency is as much a mystery with it's own gatekeepers, as fiat money systems. Engineers becoming the gatekeepers, are definitely more open an excited about it... but to others swapping a banker to an anonymous engineer is not much of an upgrade.

So many gatekeepers have failed in providing essential protections that old gatekeepers still provide.

Crypto made fraud and mismanagement obvious and grandiose, even though the exact same happens with traditional financial system.

Technology can't catch on just because "there are some great projects"
https://archive.is/WZB2y
It would only work if the elephants were completely disciplined and ignored injury, death of friends, and noise. But they could take down all but thick walls, and they can absorb a lot of bullets / almost unlimited arrows. They wouldn't have battlefield medicine (no hands) and their population does not grow very fast.

Pre-gunpowder humanity would be toast.
Filter is couple square millimeters of thin material. If they are still on water then it’s few big crates of filters for all year’s production.
At one company I worked at, most of our tech/finance staff was male. When we interviewed for a junior data science position, we had one female candidate who many would consider to be very attractive. Most or all of the other interviewees were male.

That became a matter of some consideration, because there were arguments that she would be too disruptive within the office because of her age, appearance, and gender.

What's fascinating is that the "right" answer was not clear here. Should we consider those factors, effectively making her personal characteristics a negative, or should we continue with the knowledge that she would likely get too much attention (some of which she might find uncomfortable)?

In the end, we chose a male candidate who seemed to be a better fit based on skills and academic focus. But had it been an equal match based on background alone, I think we still would have chosen the man.

FWIW, I was providing only analysis of the candidates based on their in-person interview performance primarily related to general problem solving, so I did not affect the selection based on those personal factors.
If there's any guarantee (or reasonable reliance) on these facts I guess? But seems like this could be weaseled out of ...
4 years ago: Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw

>Who’s in control? Nobody.

This falls in with Meditations On Moloch.
i usually don’t use LSP myself most of the time, it’s just a heuristic.

in $current_year, LSP is considered an important part of a language’s ecosystem.

if there are glaring issues with it, something is seriously wrong- maybe the language itself has performance issues, or tiny userbase, etc.
2005, https://github.com/pypi/legacy/commit/600f9383f8e7e0a2e60860...
Thanks for the comment! Yes it is a bit of a provocative title hahaha. i don't believe my library can be compared to random-js, since the goals of each are very different. random-js wants to provide the "engine" that replaces Math.random. I want to provide a library of utilities that are engine-agnostic. you can pull in random-js and use their engines to power aimless.js, as an example.
20 years ago I was in college and worked as a bank teller. Because of the PATRIOT Act, we had a new mandate to check a person's ID before letting them deposit a check. I would get so irritated that all the "old people" would gripe every time because "I've been banking here my whole life and have never had to show my ID to deposit my paycheck!"

Sadly, it didn't occur to me at the time that they had a really good point.
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I don’t think GP’s point was that you have to use an LSP server to write serious projects. Rather, the quality of LSP support is rapidly becoming a good proxy for the overall state of tooling for a language (and, arguably, good tooling is a good indicator of suitability for large projects)

That out of the way, I would suggest that you do give LSP a try. The beauty of LSP is that it doesn’t care what editor you’re using, so you can just use lsp-mode and get going.
Is there a way to play this on Mac today?
Because:

1. Open source AI research is a threat to O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com's business [0] and they cannot win the race to zero if the participants (Stability, Apple, etc) are already at the finish line.

2. Scapegoating 'AI safety' and spreading doomsday tales to governments so that they can wipe out open source AI models and setup 'licensed' and 'compliant' AI models (whilst O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com open sources their own compliant LLM) [1]. ie regulatory capture.

3. Promoting Worldcoin crypto snake-oil as an 'antidote' against everything getting faked by AI to 'verify' human eyeballs once their doomsday tales becomes true. [2]

Sources:

[0] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-readies-new-open-s...

[2] https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...
Stac sued MS and won. But, Microsoft counter-sued Stac for reverse engineering MS software-- Microsoft's claim was that the features used to implement Stacker were undocumented by Microsoft, and only used internally by Microsoft. Microsoft won this suit. And, ultimately "invested in" Stac and paid some royalties as the ultimate settlement.

The "funny" thing was that Microsoft was claiming that it documented everything and that competitors could make equivalent competing products to their own on their platforms to the court in the anti-trust case that was around the same time.

MS management and their company were and are sleazy and ruthless to a fault.
As a thought experiment: if USD were to fail, yet other world currencies stayed afloat, why would anybody holding non-custodial crypto flock to a dying currency? It’s not entirely unreasonable to predict that “crypto” might outlast a central currency, given the ease at which it can span geographic and state borders.
If they kept GTalk they would have a chat app.
Looks cool but someone needs to step up and provide translations to other languages if they seek additional interest from others.
> I hope the tech bubble deflates permanently and allows salaries across professions to normalize so that there is more balance in society.

Yeah but normalisation usually involves deflating people's pay instead of increasing that of "Doctor? Teacher? Nurse? Public defender? Chef?". A very odd wish to be honest.
The Mpc live is a full DAW in a box (with speakers too!) though. At first glance this seems more like a portable drum loop machine.
>Yes, but: A similar lawsuit filed early last year against Take Two Interactive over microtransactions was sent to arbitration last October in a partial win for the game-maker.

Honest question: what am I to make of the fact that binding arbitration is a for-profit business, and that the accused are their clients?
This is the understandable part of researcher and grad student abuse and the sense I get talking to people is that they do indeed enter the field expecting to duck in on weekends to tend to experiments, and expecting not to be well compensated.

The part that doesn't fit is their PIs being continuously abusive, or, worse, destructive: the PI's goals are ostensibly those of a supposed startup founder, to drive a team to the redline to get something delivered in an unreasonably short period of time, fair enough. But PIs deliberately fuck things up, disrupt experiments, chase team members out of the lab for no apparent reason, berate team members to the point where they can't be productive.

The culture is much more reminiscent of a 1980s fine dining restaurant kitchen than of a startup. The chef paid his dues, and if having a pot half-filled with hot stock thrown at his head was something he had to deal with, by god, so will his line cooks and stages.
Or even more in-your-face:

Encode bits as spanish words. Enumerate 2^8 words in the dictionary and just use them.
Science is hard, viciously competitive, and deeply cruel in all ways in order for some to win. Cheating, plagiarism, racism, sexual harassment, theft of ideas, publishing spam, .... Everything is in play in this game.

Calling it "culture" and laying some "blame" is a convenient "we're the worst off subset of victims; it's not us, it's them" perspective but it will neither solve the problem nor address the actual condition--science is not a utopian island that is separate from big business economics, university branding and wealth, nor from geopolitics.

Scientists have not figured out how to organize as well as any of those entities and will continue to be subjugated to their game and their system. When that is solved, the tools that abusers within the scientific community use against each other are more easily addressed.

Perhaps in the meantime we can pass some more laws that that make it seem like we care, but the existing regulations that make racism/ageism/sexism/abuse illegal are not currently effective. But to be clear: we don't care. We fought as hard as we could to win at that game and we raise our kids to try to win at that game. MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cal, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, <insert your personal alma mater for which you have pride in its research capabilities>: you wanted to get in; maybe you did; you will desire for your kids to get in; they probably won't. The patents and rights of science and research are in the hands of someone who is not doing the work.
What audio interface were you using?
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I find them really badly telegraphed on where you need to turn. They have these transparent walls with arrows that are kind of non-obvious, and sometimes you have to turn at the wall itself, and sometimes the wall is further back from where the road ends and you need to actually turn. I've never had this issue with any other tracks in the game except for the Tour ones, but I'll constantly be driving along and just run into a wall because I didn't know I was supposed to turn.

It's even worse if you're playing split-screen multiplayer with 3 or 4 people and your screen is 1/4 of the TV that's on the other side of the room. It's probably not an issue in Tour where you've got a high-res screen right up close to your face, but it doesn't work on a home console.
I'd rather have a city builder that doesn't involve starting a utopia from scratch, I want to show up to an existing rural area and industrialize it, convert an unwalkable nightmare dominated by highways into a medium density sprawl, etc.