skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this kind of response some times, but I don't agree with it. If you're being tongue in cheek, then I'm missing it, but if you're serious, then this is precisely why many managers are bad.

It also runs counter to my experience. I don't think people deliberately promote people who are incompetent in order to "get them out of the way". People are smarter than that, as it only pushes bad people into management.

If we want better managers, then we should move heaven and earth to get the best people who understand the needs of both technical and organizational constraints and who can communicate and coordinate effectively.
This looks promising. If it ends up as Rust without the line noise, I’m 100% on board.
That's what I'm getting at, putting Wi-Fi on this list and then coming to this conclusion doesn't make any sense.
Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2B fine over EU-US data transfers
This is Hacker News. How do I turn an "e" printer into the equivalent non-"e" printer?
I feel like it established some pretty common elements in sci-fi (eg, the violence channel) and was the first time I saw on film concepts from Huxley’s Brave New World.

It’s a low budget movie and I think it’s ok to be a single note film. But that note was really unique on 1971 and seems rote because it’s sort of baked into the “consumerist hedonist dystopia” that’s very common now.
There isn't a word in English that expresses the meaning I'm trying to convey. The point is that if a student hires someone to do their homework for them, that is considered "cheating" while if an employer does the same thing it isn't. If you have a suggestion for a better word to describe what the student is doing that captures the negative connotation associated with "cheating", I'm all ears.
Nice article, but highly editorialized title, not sure what is intuitive about it.
The problem is real, though. Drugs with overt recreational effects very frequently distract the patient from the therapeutic effect in unproductive ways. The recreational effects generally disappear quickly as tolerance develops, which can give patients the false impression that the medication “stopped working”.

A common example would be ADHD stimulants, where the early stimulating and mood-boosting effects disappear over time while the concentration-enhancing effects mostly remain. This leads a lot of patients to assume the medication isn’t working because it doesn’t feel like those first few doses, which can lead to discontinuation or abuse.

Ketamine has a similar story arc. The antidepressant effect doesn’t require full blown dissociation, but so many headlines and fame-seeking authors have hyped it as “psychedelic medicine” that some patients assume it isn’t working until they disassociate/hallucinate. This can create a sort of nocebo effect where patients may actually be improving but they think they’re not because they didn’t have the wild hallucinations they read about in some exaggerated internet article.
c'mon HN, don't flag this. it's a perspective piece about being a trans developer in a harsh political landscape. we upvote and discuss this stuff quite often.
An order of magnitude is not similarly sized. Neither size is worth complaining over though.
> In both cases, you were paying for a recurring delivery of a physical product...

This is precisely where the analogy falls down. https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/instant-ink/plans.html

Each plan talks about paying for x pages per month. It's pretty clear you're not paying for recurring delivery of a product; if you only print a few pages a year, you may never need a second delivery, ever.
You become a lead by being employed as an IC in an organization large enough to have leads (so, not where you are now). Having made that move, just exhibit behavior that leads to your bosses deciding that you'd make a good (or at least...the least worst) lead. Then wait a bit.
Possibly worth a watch just for the old style computer equipment the scientists interact with:

Spoiler warning: https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=70
I think a better way to frame this is “Is it possible to use the rule of law across national boundaries?” Clearly the answer is currently a qualified “yes”: Laws, treaties, etc do exist and are commonly used. The areas that are addressed are clearly not uniform, nor can we rely on all nations to participate, and the enforcement of laws across national boundaries are extremely tricky and currently limited. However, that should not stop us as a planet from trying to improve global cooperation through the law, rather we should look at it as “more work to do”.
That's roughly how many atmospheric nuclear tests were performed.

What "world consequences" would there be? Are you talking about the effect on the Russian population and country and subsequent political economic and social upheaval from the result of Russia deciding to make a nuclear attack that backfires on itself, and also brings a retaliatory strike upon itself (which would be far more devastating than the malfunctioning nukes in the first place),? I agree would have pretty significant global consequences.

The global environmental effects of the nuclear exchange itself wouldn't be all that significant though would it? Might slow down global warming for a couple of years which could be nice.
> I don’t compliment coworkers cars any longer.

It's unfortunate, but for you to feel guilty and to stop this seems unreasonable. There are myriad of traps I can imagine you'd be afraid of falling into. Like, "Oh I want lunch and I fancy some fried chicken. Oh wait if I invite [black colleague] will they be offended at the suggestion to go for that food?"

Communication goes through filters, as this cheap graphic shows, and I don't think it's something you can fix on your side:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
I'm grateful that the author managed to take it even this far!
Exactly. Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin. The bigger the models the less obvious the bias becomes but is still there. Gebru did good work quantifying that but google shut it down.

And it's sad that many of the comments here are reactionary and hostile towards Gebru. Why is the community here so bad? I thought it's supposed to be full of smart people with computers?
Russia (Putin) got mad because Ukraine threatened to turn into a functioning democracy. That was a massive threat to Putin because people at home might get ideas - ideas like "maybe that could work here, too".
I share your understanding but when the article does not even mention that possibility, a link text seems to be an odd place to make such a claim.
Do these vim tutor web apps provide any advantage over learning with the real Vim with the vimtutor command?

Do learners not worry that the web apps might not emulate Vim accurately and the inaccuracies might make you pick up bad habits at best or learn outright wrong keybindings at worst?

I mean if you are going to use Vim, you will probably run `vim` sometime. You might well run `vimtutor`. It's a simple command. It's free. It's available with Vim. The whole tutorial is less than 1000 lines long.
> The Americans are considering to ban TikTok, do you want EU to adopt the same approach and ban TikTok along with Meta and the rest?

Yes, of course.
What specifically in the "don't say gay" law are you against?
Isn't this kind of exactly what the EU is showing us, that a global power isn't needed if countries actually set requirements and regulations.
There has been a lack of desire from law makers worldwide to protect consumer data even though it's very obvious that it should be a fundamental right to control who gets to know your personal information and worse, whether they can sell it.

What I believe is happening here is the EU is setting a new standard that the US and UK and others will have to follow if they want to do business in the EU, unless they invest millions in infrastructure and staff.

I believe the same happens in the US, one state such as California will make progressive law changes that force companies to just apply the same standards across other states as it's less legal and regulatory burden, so effectively one state can actually change the system for everyone, no global super government required.
Looking at what the US has sent to Ukraine, though, nearly all of it has been second tier equipment that was nearing retirement/replacement due to either being close to time expiring or because it was nearing obsolescence. The same is true for other countries. Even the F-16s being mentioned at the moment will be recently retired ones, not aircraft drawn from front line fleets. Javelins are one of the only front line systems, and not that much of a profit maker for the military industrial complex given the relatively low per unit price and according to reports it was the oldest in the inventory that were sent.

The Raytheons and Boeings of the world would much rather the US be buying big ticket items like ships, fighter aircraft, and AMRAAMs than lower margin items like Javelins and 155mm artillery ammunition.

Military systems go through a constant cycle of acquisition, usage, upgrades, retirement, and replacement. Some systems, like big aircraft with relatively undemanding flight and usage profiles, can be kept operational and upgraded for a long time. Others, like missiles, have shorter lifetimes and are less worth refurbishing and upgrading after a point. A certain proportion of what the US has donated was going to have to be retired, disposed of, and replaced in the next few years anyway.
Well, yes, if UK is passing a law it is absolutely going to reduce privacy and rights.
Having amnesia (forgetting whether they had a trip and whether they were in the treatment group) would probably be better than anesthesia induced unconsciousness. Though I don't know whether short term amnesia can be easily induced.
Your first point sounds a lot like the Schwarzschild Proton conjecture by Nassim Haramein, don't know if you were aware of it. Alas, I need to point out that it is basically considered pseudoscience!
As long as you know the implications, you don't need to know how the values are stored.

You may say it's easier to know how they are stored, then you can derive the implications anytime you need them. Maybe that works for you, but most people who I know that got this wrong do actually know how FP values are stored, they are just drawing the wrong conclusions. So better focus on the implications, cause it's those that matter.

I already expressed this in the GP comment, and it's a little shocking to see all the replies that didn't actually pick up on that.
I see it more as scratching an itch.
> Then why this singular focus on ketamine and psychedelics all the sudden? If it has many different causes why focus on activating a single serotonin receptor?

Because it does work really well for a lot of people for whom other things don't work really well. Why would that be controversial?
V-lang doesn't have GC, and how it compares to it?
Enjoyed that!
What if it was email password? Would you prefer that?
I know doctors that refer to alzheimers as type-3 diabetes. Their gut instinct long ago was that it was indirectly related to insulin regulation. I don't remember exactly how much more (its a large factor), but being overweight and/or having type 2 diabetes makes it much more likely to get alzheimers.
Programmer at Microsoft (still) for 27 years here. The pressure to "grow your career" (usually by moving into management) was and is ever-present. I've never been managed out, but have had numerous conversations with managers over the years along the lines of "look, I just love to write code and work with other people who love to write code too." I consider success to be defined by me in the feelings I derive from the work I do, the simplicity of the code I write, and the knowledge that its valuable in solving problems that my employer wants to see solved. Yet, the culture seems to still be fixated on measuring success by steady progression of increasing levels or changing titles. Whatever... it's for each of us, corporate ladder climbers included, to define what success means for ourselves and how to go about achieving it, I suppose.
I guess that's going to be in my implied "Did you do your homework stack" along with googling that I expect of coworkers before they ask me (and I ask them) questions
> Others will return what's called a "null pointer", a special pointer that will crash your program if you try to read or write the memory it points to.

This is not strictly true, it depends on the environment you're using. Some older operating systems and some modern embedded systems have memory mapped at the zero address.
If I'm living under a dictatorship, at least I can try to escape and move to a better place. If a global government becomes tyrannical, where do we go?

Such an idea is centuries away in the best case scenario.
You've not heard of rapid charging? Or even Level 2 charging? For $300 you can charge at 7kW at home, so that's 28 miles per hour. At rapid chargers you can charge at 300kW and easily get 1000 miles per hour
No, it’s explicitly payment to print a certain number of pages a month using a leased ink cartridge.

They likely don’t bother reclaiming them because it would cost more than they’re worth.
> Is it because on HN, people are after dev tools, not studying tools?

Pretty much. It's mostly the wrong audience.

HN is interested in things that are either aimed at a technical audience, or where you can show some really unique way of building something so that even if the end product isn't relevant to a technical audience, that the process used to build it was.

There'll always be exceptions, but that's the general rule I've observed. And most of the exceptions are things where there's some other aspect of the product that makes it interesting to HN or some aspect of how it was built that makes it interesting to HN, or where the target audience happens to overlap with HN type users to a high degree.

I looked at the show HN in your history and I would've skipped over it and not read it. If it was a technical blog post about how you solved something that was both interesting to me and seemed novel, then I might've clicked. (But if you had that information buried inside something that seemed like "just" a product for learning, I wouldn't have clicked)

Try product hunt, twitter, tiktok, and other places.
Yeah this is just an ad. If there were at least a couple pictures the link could be of some value, but honestly this submission doesn't belong on HN and should be flagged.
This is cool, but why the google botnet only login?
Word to the wise: stay away from reporting benchmarks against establish langs until your language is further along. It's often misleading when you see that your toy language is faster to compile / run than established languages, because what you'll find is that as your language grows and becomes more complete, your timings will times will go up.
"The Forbin Project" is available for free on Archive.org. There are also a couple of deliciously cheesy soviet SF movies from the 70s that are worth watching, like Solaris by Tarkovsky :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-4KydP92ss
that whole section, imo, could use a refactor until the language is more complete. established languages don't do that, and your language isn't complete, so until you can knock those other languages off their pedestals you should keep it light and objective with the comparisons.
World’s first house made with nappy-blended concrete
Similar idea:

> Discussing the letters in the passphrase is not the same as revealing it or discussing it. For N from 1 to the length of the word, write a random word that starts with the nth letter of the passphrase.
My favorite example is reactive armour of 1945.

When Russian tanks entered German towns in 1945 they had been greeted with Panzerfaust... So the Russian tankist started welding spring beds to their armour making Panzerfaust useless in city warfare.
Barcelona: Metro line L4 to be prepared for fully automated operation
> This is precisely where the analogy falls down.

No it doesn't. The reason you're paying is for the ink to be delivered, even if pricing is only indirectly related to that.

> if you only print a few pages a year, you may never need a second delivery, ever.

This isn't true because the cartridges dry out and clog up if you don't use them enough.
Reminds me of the SimCity texture pack which made it look like outer space (or maybe it was SC2000).

It did nothing but replace the graphics, but it blew my mind.
What about MotionEye on OrangePi Zero? You can install Armbian on OrangePi Zero board and then install `motioneye`.

I have used this script to install it on my board: https://gist.github.com/dzianisv/b299785c9ec697b78ad2f4bed53...
Really interesting point, looking back it holds true for me as well. My last two bosses were single dudes with no partner, family or even dog and their management style was impersonal and difficult. It was like working for an AI trained on the most popular management books.
You are suggesting two approaches, one (or even both) of which are not feasible.

The problem with protecting everyone's data equally (and the point of why EU courts are rejecting the current regime) is that national laws override company intent. If a US company is served a national interest letter, they are giving up the data and keeping mum about it, or someone is potentially going to jail. And nobody will go to jail to protect the data of a user of a free (or a $8/mo, whatever) service.

This happens similarly in other countries - China, obviously; UK has a similar "national interest" rule; I don't know about the EU but I wouldn't be surprised if their spies and law authorities have also codified access on an as-needed basis for themselves. It's all the other kids that must be kept out of the personal data sandbox.

Avoiding collecting the data in the first place is far more robust against this sort of government behavior. There are organized government efforts to mandate centralized data collection and facilitate access anyway (e.g. UK's attempts to ban end-to-end encryption), so we'll see if that approach holds.
It used to be like that until 2019 when iPadOS was introduced.
Facebook being banned in the EU has no justifiable bearing on NATO obligations. NATO is not a trade agreement.
Project Ring Is a Hand-Worn AI System That Perceives the World
There are give or take 400 submissions per hour. The vast majority of that receives 1 or 2 points. They never make it our of the new submissions bin. That you projects don't receive attention is no slight on you, it's just that percentagewise almost nothing makes it to the front page.

A repost once in a while, appears to be acceptable though.

Here are some statistics:
http://readcodelearn.com/notes/when-to-post-to-hn.html
Yup, just got a variant this morning:

Subject: "Company_Name Expired: Set for dissolution"

Body: "Hello My_Name, Your business registration DEADLINE has EXPIRED as of 04/01/2023. Your business, Company_Name, has an Annual... It's OK, we're here to help. Registrar agency is a business advocate..."

It is absolute BS as I know that I recently updated everything. Not sure if it is a click-thru-to-install-malware scam or phishing to sell me services I do not need, but I'm not finding out.

I also get a LOT of official-looking emails from service providers that want to "help" keep my US Govt SAM (Services Award Management) database registration up to date, when I just need to wade through some govt forms and tick a few boxes...

I'm used to ignoring this carp, but if you are new to business ownership, it might seem right on a day you are rushed and tired. So beware out there...
The fact that it allows basically any parent to sue to the teacher for mentioning basically anything involving sexual orientation, the fact that it doesn't really define what is disallowed, the fact that it was extended all the way until twelfth grade, the fact that there's little repercussions for a parent lying or embellishing.

ETA:

Oh, also, because it's basically predicated on a homophobic conspiracy about gay people all being out to groom your children.
It's probably the future you want. But fact is, most of peoples emails, documents, browser history, travel history, bookmarks, contacts, etc., already live in the cloud. People are obviously not concerned with it, so I would say the future of LLM's is in the cloud using all of the cloud data.
Very cool. The performance is what it is because the everything is being treated as nodes in an html document. There is a lot of overhead in making that work.

Does anyone have a link to examples of the inverse? Like, "2d, html-style text documents, but implemented entirely in canvas".
The demo is very impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34I8JRRzDE
How does typing help with determining relevant code paths?
Large models are indeed dangerous, because they threaten to concentrate power in the hands of a small number of tech companies with the resources to do the training, and because, once those models exist, they devalue human labor.

Some technologies are leveling. It may be debatable, but I've heard it argued that the musket was one of these. The musket was cheap. It rendered expensive mounted plate-armored aristocratic warriors obsolete. Down came the whole feudal hierarchy necessary to keep those horses fed.

These AI models are the opposite. They do not spread power around; they centralize it. They increase dependence.

So in many ways she's right.

What I would like to ask, though, is -- instead of deepening the intersectional cuts that were used to dismember Occupy, what can a technologist do to both reduce centralization and increase solidarity? Is it possible to have a broad-based populism that isn't particularist? What technologies could be in its arsenal?

Possibly AI (which is really compression) can be part of this if it enables offline, disconnected "compressed Internet"s to exist off-the-grid, like solar panels?

How do we reduce dependence on the platforms? The different ethnic factions wouldn't fight each other if they were more self-sufficient. If they weren't made to compete with each other for access to a small number of economic chokepoints. How do we destroy the chokepoints? "Fuck your Suez, your Panama -- we have airplanes."
Isn't this a forum founded by a venture capitalist/startup guy? I don't understand why you have an issue with someone charging money for something they made.
> Sometimes things that are worth doing are hard.

I said that in my comment already, if for you, it's not worth doing it, don't do it. The unwritten assumption is that you should do it if it's worth it to you, even if it's hard.
If this is localStorage then it is hardly persistent. A cleanup of the browser will zing all the data without a warning.
Again, poor quality or slow on conventional hardware.

The first of your examples was generated on a desktop computer with 2080 Ti and even then still glaring uncanny hands. We don't know how long it took but I think the reason for the hands is that it's too slow to generate a dozen of these in hopes that hands would come out right.

The other one I can see done on any laptop in a few minutes, but it's more primitive and just a monochrome sketch. I skip over obvious issues e.g. with shape of glasses.

For both examples you don't need any specialized tools or watermarking to notice this stuff.

Maybe you see what I mean why indie homegrown AI is not such a big deal ;) Sure there are people who will invest in hardware but those people will are not and for now won't be mainstream enough to matter. Especially if it will be licensed, most people don't like to violate laws. Most people will just use chatgpt or dall-e.
Russia is so low on armor it’s putting artillery and naval guns on old vehicles