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I understand your point about Discord. I'm also not on other servers, only the one I manage :D. It's too chatty for an old guy like me :D.

In that case I guess WhatsApp is what most people use for groups that you know.
I don't use my phone for anything but calls and texts, and occasionally looking something up.

I meditate or engage with people standing while in lines.

If I'm gonna spend time on a computer I do it on a laptop at home. All my HN browsing is on a laptop.

I keep the phone in a separate room.

I don't give myself the slack to spend time looking at my phone. Its a waste of time anyway and I end up missing out on life.
That's theoretically impossible, and not at all how entanglement works.
In that case a binary representation as png could help out. I can't imagine any conceivable event that would both invalidate svg and png standards.
Disbanding it will just cause an alternative force to replace it, and you'll need to wait to see how that will develop, which could well be worse. Think of it as a variation on the 'don't rewrite' mantra, rewriting it causes massive instability and has an unknown deadline, improving what is there is much easier.

If you want to envision some kind of Utopian view of law enforcement then there is the simple problem of 'who watches the watchers', a question that has been bugging us since antiquity and which I don't think we'll see an effective solution to in this life (or the next). Every law enforcement body consists of people and people are fallible, and will always be fallible. So you need to accept that and design accordingly, and you also will need to accept that mistakes (small ones and much larger and graver ones) will be made, as well as abuses of power.

To re-architect a police force in the United States that transcends the states is an undertaking that in the current political climate is undoable. So advocating for abandoning the FBI effectively advocates for abandoning federal policing in general, and that certainly isn't going to have a net positive effect.
I almost never come across a startup I’d actually want a lottery ticket in.

The business models just seem naive or sometimes absurd.
We do not use AI for any decision making, we give each person applying an AI score for humans to use at will, that does not shortlist or drop anyone, only the human VOTE can (thumbs up/down), and it only does automatically if unanimous between all users. Even after all that you can manually override ; )

We actually use AI in a bunch of ways, then we combine it all, so we do analyse the human expressions on the video, timing, context, then detach the audio / voice alone to run audio specific suff, and from that, for example get transcriptions so to contrast and understand what's being said and how it relates to content. We also "read" any file attached like a resume or CV if there is one.

So the idea is to make simple and quick to find a new waiter, cashier, sales person, support worker, etc.

Again, we appreciate feedback and will adjust our messaging to make it clear,

Nice one! Do we deserve upvote? ; )
I am not so sure. 80K$ a year would be considered high here (even for a senior) and I live in a medium size city in the Netherlands.
That is the weirdest Saas company video I’ve ever seen…
An interesting thing is that for Arkose to be effective against bad actors, they can't just make CAPTCHAs that are hard for bots. They also have to be not-easy or at least expensive for a subset of humans who aren't legitimate users, namely 'CAPTCHA Farms' like https://anti-captcha.com/.

Most CAPTCHAs, including ones made by Arkose, have site keys that are unique to that CAPTCHA and public/visible in the browser -- so companies like Anti Captcha can then automate sending challenging CAPTCHAs directly to a human solver in a 'CAPTCHA farm' who can solve it (in a different browser) and have the CAPTCHA return that it was successfully passed, usually all within ~a minute.

So to get around this and -- as Arkose's site says -- make fraud expensive for hackers, Arkose Labs has to make their CAPTCHAs hard/slow to solve. If they do that, then it becomes expensive for bad actors to rely on labor to solve them (anti-captcha.com cites 58 seconds/$3 per CAPTCHA).

As long as the site key is publicly exposed, this basically isn't going to change; you either need to also couple it with other anti-fraud tactics like device fingerprinting, or use a CAPTCHA that doesn't expose the site key at all.

Disclaimer - I work for a company (Stytch) that has a competing CAPTCHA product.
> a compiler is a pure function for a given source file and a set of flags.

This is true, but not what they actually said.

> you shouldn't get something radically different because it's Tuesday, midnight [...] I don't expect my performance problems to go away by recompiling stuff over and over again without changing either the code or flags and expecting the optimizer to make a better decision next time

Maybe we should, though. I shouldn't have to be forever locked into the performance profile that matches the -O level that my distribution's package maintainers used at compile time.

I'd love to see a shift in programming systems towards a place where the language is designed with particular attention to how fast it can be processed by the toolchain to get _something_ on disk as quickly as possible and further optimization is deferred to a later stage to be fulfilled by a separate, asynchronous process. Imagine if there were no tradeoff between time spent waiting on the compiler to finish vs runtime performance, because your program no matter how large would never take more than 20 seconds* to compile. For more modestly sized programs, the effect would be the ability to test it almost immediately, but the compiler continues optimizing away all the while—to the point that you could even go to sleep on Wednesday and wake up on Thursday morning with a program that's even snappier. The expected outcome should be faster compile times and faster binaries.

* or choose your own adventure
But can I use it to rub the fleeb? [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
"If the Durham report shows anything, it is that the FBI leadership bent over backward to protect [Hillary] Clinton's campaign while launching a full investigation into [Donald] Trump's campaign on the thinnest of pretexts,"

What I never understood is why people assumed that alliance necessarily involved collusion. It didn't. Russia saw Trump as both ally and self-destructive weapon therefore they acted in his favor. Trump is a greedy fool and sees Russia as a source of profit and so he aided them. These activities do not require a mutual agreement.
I disagree. A comparison of "higher resolution" in the terms of NES would only mean an increase in nametable size, not in binary size of program. Of course if "increase in resolution" also meant increase in CHR size or sprite count, or color palette size then you would be correct.

My point in NES or in modern software, the target resolution you want wouldn't have an affect on binary size.

Having made NES games for fun before

So I am. You are right, a more fair comparison would be a tetris.exe perhaps. But my point would still stand, 60mb (and that is zipped amount) orders of magnitude higher.

I want to ask the same question, what is your point? Are you arguing that java runtime or several dependencies OP added is not an indication of modern software bloat?
Thank you so much. A lot of the time, in blind culture, a lot of people feel like developers are tired of hearing us. Others are like "well we should just be greatful for what we have." And sometimes I feel like a lot of feedback I give, either on social media or through dedicated feedback forms (Apple, Google), are just not seen or actioned by anyone, or got lost somewhere up the chain.
All the concern and regulatory talk around AI seems like it's directed not towards AI risk (that's not even a thing right now) rather than controlling access to this evolving technology.

The not-so-open Open AI and all their AI regulation proposals, no matter how phrased, will eventually limit access to AI to big tech and those with deep enough pockets.

But of course, it's all to mitigate AI risk that's looming over us, especially with all the growing open-source projects. Only in proper hands of big tech will we be safe. :)
"The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Spain is €55,437."

"The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Portugal is €39,094."
Or much worse...
Yeah, like I fail to see how would an AI even cause human extinction? Through some Terminator style man-robot warfare? But the only orgnizations that would seem capable of building such killer robots are governments that already possess the capacity to extinguish the entire human race with thermonuclear weapons - and at a considerably lower R&D budget for that end. It seems like hysteria / clever marketing for AI products to me.
> As far as I know, this salary wouldn't attract strong talent even in medium cost-of-living countries (like Portugal/Spain).

That’s a very typical salary range for developers in most parts of Europe.
If your definition of “strong talent” means competing with top of market pay (FAANG etc) you’re right though.
> even when it comes to presidential candidates

I get that some of us are more equal than others, but the ideal is that even the president is not above the law, and a candidate isn't even the president yet.
Try saying that to people who trashed GNOME for more than a decade because of the file picker and when thumbnails were finally implemented they said things like "too little too late".
> which is why crime is rising catastrophically and people are fleeing to states like Texas.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/texas-governor-seeks-to-pa...
In the US too, I think in some cases. There are all these nuances. I remember seeing a whole presentation about this at defcon. Apparently biometrics locks like fingerprints are treated differently than the passcode.
A good way to categorize risk is look at both likelihood and severity of consequences. The most visible issues today (racism, deep fakes, over reliance) are almost certain to occur, but also for the most part have relatively minor consequences (mostly making things that are already happening worse). "Advanced AI will make humans extinct" is much less likely but has catastrophic consequences. Focusing on the catastrophic risks isn't unreasonable, especially since society at large seem to already handle the more frequently occurring risks (the EU's AI Act addresses many of them).

And of course research into one of them benefits the other, so the categories aren't mutually exclusive.
Yikes. Those are (central) European numbers, but we get free insulin, free dentistry and free brain & heart surgery, several mandatory weeks of paid time off and months of notice period.

I guess the 100k or even 200k, or 300k starting meme finally died at a time of record inflation no less.
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Ask HN: How can I get the usernames of the top best commenters about LLM?
I would be interested in following people that provides insightful comments about news in the field of LLMs, how can I find those usernames?
Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections
Those figures are wrong to be honest. Most senior folks in Spain don't work for Spanish companies in general; they work for EU companies that pay more. Plenty of senior folks in Spain making $100k+. In Barcelona, you can make north of $70K easy; even for non-senior devs.

I agree with OP. The salary is way too low for a senior European developer to consider because taking a US job means that there are no employment protections that you'd usually get; employment is at will for contractors.

Source: I live in the EU.
In what sense is this a 'biased statement' exactly?

If a dozen of the top climate scientists put out a statement saying that fighting climate change should be a serious priority (even if they can't agree on one easy solution) would that also be 'biased'?
Parts of ActivityPub will work with static files: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2022-12-06-mastodon-files-in...

You need something to deal with follows (cryptographically verify that the follow attempts actually originate from the servers they claim to) and submitting posts to your followers (push based, not pull based in practice) but all the metadata and user lookup stuff can be done with JSON files in the right place.
So these employees are giving them 100k-400k of venture capital in the form of discounted labor.

But they get nowhere near the respect an investor of that amount would get. Asking to sign onerous ndas. Doing fizz buzz on a whiteboard. Etc.

One time I refused to sign an nda for an interview and the founder basically blew a gasket. Spent half the interview talking about how bad it was I wouldn’t sign it.
Insulting is relative and depends on where you live.

There’s senior engineers all over the world willing to work for a stable wage of $50k USD.

- Brazil

- Ukraine

- Pakistan

- India

- Mexico
Indeed, and guess this works as a secondary filter. They don't want people who don't truly believe in the company to apply. At an early stage start-up you want people that are passionate/naive/delusional enough to want to work lots of unpaid overtime.
Your perspective is based on how you assume the world and humanity should behave. Frankly I don't trust your opinion on what's best for myself and my family and the future. America is already depressed, heck more then 50% of the country feel alone and out of place.
AGI is going to bring change to the world, and people naturally will always fear change. But technology tends to help people more then hurt people. We use washing machines because we don't want to labor over washing our clothes. We'll use robots and AI to help us do our jobs better. And if less jobs are needed, then society will have to collaborate and create social welfare. If AGI decides that human beings are worthless and eradicate us, then they are no better then us who destroy the planets ecology for short term gain. Humans are the APEX predator of earth right now and if something else takes over that, then thats just evolution and nature.
It's a mistake to filter out whitespace changes on Python diffs. These days it's best use `Black --check` or similar in CI to make sure they've matched your whitespace settings, to minimise these changes.
They make tons of coffee table books. Most of their books are larger than pocket size. Most are at least 8x11 and lots are size xl or the “Summo” size which is quite large.
Can anybody who really believes this apocalyptic stuff send me in the direction of a convincing _argument_ that this is actually a concern?

I'm willing to listen, but I haven't read anything that tries to actually convince the reader of the worry, rather than appealing to their authority as "experts" - ie, the well funded.
Just to add my opinion, 60-80K is an expected decent/common salary for an experienced programmer across EU (UK salaries are higher). Programmer salaries above 100K are very uncommon outside a few companies and US/UK.
The only thing this fork promises is even more drama.
I agree. Stallman can be subborn and arrogant and he often rubs people the wrong way. It is a character flaw just as it is a character flaw to not be able to seperate these issues from the ideas proposed. People that demand a sanitized environment have their flaws as well and I believe them to be far more detrimental.

People demanding his resignation would probably have installed a far less effective and competent leader. I also thought about Mozilla here that tried to set a new course which is as pale as the next corporate environment.

People that tarred Stallman certainly would be insufficient in any leadership position even with Stallmans perhaps very eccentric flaws.
Who in that list are the 'usual existential risk suspects'?
Is the dignity of work worth nothing to you? Think of the poor job creators.
One of the people involved apologized personally here: https://hackmd.io/p3VG_bK9TXOvtgh1oA2yZQ?view
Neither the old app nor the new app feels like it was written by someone who uses Apple TV.

My pet peeve on the last version was having a carousel movie expand when you pause on it so that it moves things around and hides what you were looking at.

My pet peeve on the new one is a normal swipe on the remote blows through 80% of the carousel items instead of just one.

Neither annoy me as much as Amazon’s hijacking of the touch pad during video so that I can no longer tap the pad to see how far through the movie I am.

I get it, everyone wants their spin on things. But all I want is a usable, consistent experience. It drives me bonkers.
Apropos of this topic, I'm in the middle of reading Dopamine Nation, recommended reading for everyone. Just about anything that gives us pleasure has the potential to be addictive, and unfortunately our entire system is based on getting us to indulge in what makes us feel "good", ergo addictive behaviors are highly encouraged. The tech industry is no exception as UX is generally predicated on making us feel "delighted" i.e. addicted.

https://www.annalembke.com/dopamine-nation
While I did not know someone has used related ideas in a very different and pre-existing agenda, I can't take hyperbolic accusations of racism seriously anymore. They aren't intellectually serious or sincere. I would be surprised if it were controversial at all that immigration is widely recognized as all of:

a) a policy tool.
b) an economic management tool.
c) a demographic management tool.
d) a populaiton management tool.
e) a strategic political tool.

In the cases of Mexico, Libya, and France/EU managing the flow of irregular immigration has historically been a diplomatic and geopolitical tool. The impetus behind the former US admins border wall was because the government of Mexico was using migrant caravans as a diplomatic negotiating lever. Libya's former dictatorship was tolerated by the west because it stabilized the region and limited African migration to Europe. Migrants have always been horribly exploited by their own governments and those of host countries, and using them as political tools is part of why.

In the case of Canada, regular and irregular immigration are not really distinguished (as to say someone is illegal is uncouth) and there is an explicit and public federal policy to settle people in rural regions, and in political ridings (districts) where the election margins to win a parliamentary seat are in the single digit thousands. Thinking that policy is cynical and unethical is not racist, and the accusation is a bad faith argument.
Screen Time does that, minus the input box.

"Always allowed apps appear normally", others are grayed out. When tapped they present a fullscreen "time out!" screen. You can ignore the limit from that screen but it presents you options and requires two or three taps so it kind of "gets in the way". I presume your input box could fit in there, although personally I think I would end up filling it with nonsense, or it would always be the same.

There's a bunch of analytics, like first pick up app. I don't think there is about overrides.

It can sync across Apple devices so you can't cheat by using another one.

Combine that with home screens + Focus modes and you can get in control.

(also "apps" above can be websites too in Screen Time")
> Those figures are wrong to be honest. Most senior folks in Spain don't work for Spanish companies in general; they work for EU companies that pay more.

Does that contradict those figures though? Are you talking about the upper 10% discussed?
I hear this but I don't experience it.

Living in NYC as a poor immigrant teen 1990s through upper-middle-class (or whatever) adult through 2021, I did not feel "terrorized" by the NYPD.

Now I live in a small town not far from NYC and the police are literally part of the community, it's a few dozen folks that most people in town know on first name basis. No terrorizing.

To be clear, as someone who grew up in the USSR, I am certainly in sync with the idea that police can be oppressive, it just does not resonate at all with what I see in my now 3 decades in the US.
I'm not a physics person at all, just wanted to say that's a super cool video and a really neat explanation. Thanks!
Oh yes. Several blind people have a Victor Reader or some such device that's a portable book player, basically, made for blind people. Amazon, of course, would never let their Kindle content onto that player, although Audible is okay for some reason. Kindle on Android still uses an instance of the Android speech engine to read books, and still won't continue reading while the screen is off, which is honestly one of the only good uses for spawning another speech engine and not using TalkBack to speak. Oh and Kindle for Mac's speech function is complete broken as of Ventura cause Apple changed a lot about the speech engine. I mean I know there's more on DRM than books, but that's what I've been dealing with for the past like year. Kindle has all the stuff I like though. sigh
Erdogan, a dictator tyrant, and democracy, don't fit in the same sentence.

It is true that the democratic system has failed: quality journalism died and the truth with it, the rich have a huge separate-from-society system for wealth hoarding, we have absolute mind boggingly massive monopolies across different fields, the middle classes in many countries are seriosly suffering, corporations don't give a shit for any externalities such as addiction or the environment or the truth, the young have no bright future in sight.

The answer is an actually functioning democracy with proper immune system that prevents wealth & power centralization over time, and has honest 3rd party sources of truth.
With similar powers (and similar lack if oversight), I’m thinking that such an FBI-replacement agency would have similar problems in very short order. Sounds like a laborious feel-good exercise.
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99% of programming jobs outside of America must be insulting to you.
> Americans need to really reflect on how inflated American dev salaries are.

More specifcally: SV needs to reflect on how inflated SV salaries are. Possibly with a few outliers elsehwere, such as New York and maybe a few pockets in London. But overall the area where software developers as a rule make > $120K per year is probably less than a few hundred square kilometers and the world is much, much larger than that.
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> It’s hard to take these safety concerns seriously

I don't get this mindset at all. How can it not be obvious to you that AI is an uniquely powerful and thus uniquely dangerous technology?

It's like saying nuclear missiles can't possibly be dangerous and nuclear arms reduction and non-proliferation treaties were a scam, because the US, China and the Soviet Union had positioned themselves to capture the majority of the strategic value nukes bring.
Climate change is a generally accepted phenomenon.

Extinction risk due to AI is not a generally accepted phenomenon.
No, they don't, you can manually ask for a one-time reset of your ratings before you do a major update. They could have done it here.