skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own bit of cynicism is that regulating the negative impacts of technology on workforce segments in the US is a non-starter if you approach it from the technology-end of the issue rather than the social safety net end. Most of these automation waves that plunged entire employment categories and large metropolitan areas into oblivion were a net gain for the economy even if it was concentrated at the top. I think the government will temporarily socialize the costs of the corporate profit with stimulus payments, extended unemployment benefits, and any other thing they can do to hold people over until there's a comparatively small risk of triggering real social change. Then they just blame it on the individuals.
> I send money across borders to friends an organizations via blockchain.

And that transaction is completely public, and can be traced back to both of you.
There's liability in having access to some random crap, even if you don't intentionally use it.

If something goes wrong, someone accesses or modifies something that they shouldn't have, you having access is going to be at _best_ confusing to everyone. At worst the cops or lawyers will come calling. Sure you'll _probably_ be able to talk them down, but does that sound like fun?

Or what if someone breaks in to _your_ account and accesses that way? Untangling that mess will not be a good time.
If I draw a picture of a fantasy-world bedroom, it might not be very detailed or well-shaped, because I am emphatically not a professional illustrator. But I can tell you what every single object is supposed to be, why I thought it belonged in a fantasy-world bedroom, and why I put it in its particular spot in that bedroom.
On the topic of 800 numbers with words, there used to be a satellite TV service called Primestar and they advertised their number as 1-800-PRIMESTAR, which is too long, man. I think I've seen this elsewhere since but the memory of this particular one sticks out.

Excess numbers are ignored, so it's the same as dialing 1-800-PRIMEST. Confusing!
>“You can truly own your IP through the whole thing,” Bayne said, highlighting the advantages that Web3 brings to filmmaking. “Your community can be involved through every step, and you don't necessarily need the studios.”

i get you have to have types with very active imaginations to evangelize and get a new thing created, but sometimes, that imagination is just so fanciful that it has the same odds as a snow ball in certain locations. it also makes the speaker just sound completely out of touch and delusional. that comment makes me think someone is quite enamored with the sound of their own voice
Which is why Lyft does that annoying 59-second countdown until you can see your driver's details and actual wait time, so you have a sunk cost to discourage you from switching to Uber when the actual wait time is longer than promised.
Maybe Samus is supposed to be pronounced Saméw?
I mean, if you feel it's worth figuring this out you totally can, Rust's source code really does successfully download and just build so you can tinker with it, I patched it some weeks back to improve the diagnostics you get for type errors where e.g. you wrote 'X' (a 21-bit integer representing the Unicode Latin capital X) but you ought to have written b'X' (an 8-bit unsigned byte representing the ASCII code for X) - yes numerically those values are identical but Rust correctly does not consider that to mean they're the same type - and it was like an hour's work to build Rust and first figure out where to attempt my changes.

You can submit a PR and after a robot puts it in a pile to be looked at, actual humans will ask you about your proposed change, they can ask other robots to check whether it works OK on the huge piles of real world Rust out there, and so on.
The email address can be user-friendly, but card can also include an unique code similar to product serial numbers, that is redeemed with the first message.

E.g. „Max Mustermann“ <ABCD-1234-XYZW|max@musterfirma.de> is a valid email address with unique code part.
Similarly, it's frustrating for many of us in crypto that things like the SBF/FTX meltdown is counted as a failure of crypto, when it was just a centralized traditional platform.

It's hard for me to have too much sympathy for people that were parking a large amount of money at that place and trusting them with it. Who cares what "promises" they were making?
In my opinion? GTK on Wayland under WebGPU. You laugh now...
I'm going to add another vote for volunteering. A lot of people only think of food kitchens and political campaigns when it comes to volunteering, but as a cyclist I've made a lot (if not a majority) of my friends while volunteering at events like trail building days, or by helping to set up or tear down for races or other cycling events.
1 - I host a game night once a week. We play Magic the Gathering. Though the group is quite small now (4-6 people) it was quite large pre-pandemic (~20 people). I just asked around at work and the neighborhood if anyone was interested and just sent out a text every week to those who said they were interested.

2 - Monthly board game night. Very similar to #1, but I mention it because it's much less formal. There's a small group of neighbors in my little neighborhood. Once a month or so one of us will text the group and say "Who's up to board games? I can do Wed or Thurs". Usually have 3-5 people actually show up so far. But it's been fun.

3 - "Knit Night". My wife recently joined a group of people who like to do more ... traditional style crafting. Mostly crocheting and knitting. Though there's a little bit of quilting. And sometimes people show up and draw. One time one person did a stained glass kit. But they just get together every other week, take turns hosting.

4 - Band. My wife joined a local for-adults band. A former band-instructor from a local highschool formed it. They do performances in the community 4 or 5 times a year. Apparently these kinds of bands are pretty common. Probably could ask a local conductor at a highschool, middle school, or community college if they know of one locally.
Can you recommend any comedy podcasts? I tried a few improv podcasts which had reasonably good reviews but for my taste, the quality was anywhere between "mildly entertaining" and "I'd rather snack on a big ol' bowl of fire-damaged roof shingles"
Are all the hooks on the site made by ui.dev?

It'd be great if each hook linked to the Github code for that hook, as the first thing I thought of was (a) what is the hook doing, and (b) is it easier to adapt my existing hook and reduce the number of dependencies I have to track?
Maybe these people have good intentions and are just being naive

They might not be getting paid, but that doesn’t mean they are not being influenced

AI at this point is pretty much completely open, all the papers, math and science behind it are public

Soon, people will have advanced AI running locally on their phones and watches

So unless they scrub the Internet, start censoring this stuff, and pretty much ban computers, there is absolutely no way to stop AI nor any potentially bad actors from using it

The biggest issues that we should be addressing regarding AI are the potential jobs losses and increased inequality at local and global scale

But of course, the people who usually make these decisions are the ones that benefit the most from inequality, so
Your use-case is breaking money transfer laws. Just like every other use-case, it is far less expensive to break money transfer laws with a centralized ledger. When you make blockchain money transfer comply with regulations, it becomes more expensive than legal money transfer using centralized ledger.

When regulation kicks in (and it will — no government wants its citizens to be fleeced by rogue nations like DPRK and Russia), are there really any legitimate use-cases?
That makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
You may be interested in this book.

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It may seem overnight if you weren't following it, but I've followed AI progress for a long time now. I was reading the Facebook bAbI test paper in 2015:

https://research.facebook.com/downloads/babi/

There's been a lot of progress since then, but it's also nearly 10 years later. Progress isn't actually instant or overnight. It's just that OpenAI spent a ton of money to scale it up then stuck an accessible chat interface on top of tech that was previously being mostly ignored.
what's interesting is at the library of congress it looks like it's using the wayback machine (similar ui), but the internet archive has excluded it from their results. also, the library of congress version is not very complete. it only goes back a few pages, and most of the specific announcement pages (all?) don't work.
skip the drink?
> Expect to see a smarter AI-powered Alexa available for a subscription that gives better answers and has more skills.

Umm, no. If I owned these devices (which I don't, because it's spyware), I'd push for the ability to plug in my model of choice (e.g., Alexa, ChatGPT, BARD, my own model).

Because Alexa lives in the Cloud, this should not impact the hardware I don't believe. Firmware updates can happen regardless of my voice-assistant of choice.

Smaller models can be stored locally on device, or accessible via a skill. Larger models can be stored in the cloud, just like Alexa. However, I don't think that a personal voice assistant language model requires cloud. Unless of course Amazon removed the on-device memory. If they did, then that decision essentially rendered 100 million devices e-waste, as they are surveillance bricks without the "subscription service" Amazon will require owners to purchase.

Yikes, what a mess.
You would think that students at such a "prestigious" institution would understand that freedom of speech does not equal freedom from consequences.
I don't think it's being sold that way.

It's a very complicated subject with several meta-conversations, and things being the way they are, a lot of people need to project arguments onto "They"

Here, we see a misinterpretation: its not "it's going to replace profession wholesale", it's a simple causal chain "hey you do 30% more work with GPT" => well then you need ~30% less workers => affect employment.

And we can run out a centithread of chastising any number of groups under the sun of maximalist claims, ex. from here, directly spin into "well _some_ people argue for complete replacement of artists", spin that into AGI doomers, etc.
can send private transactions on ZK rollups
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https://spillways.finance/

https://mystiko.network/

https://cyclone.xyz/

https://www.privacypools.com/
Meditation. I got into it by accident when I taught English overseas. Some of the best friends I've had came from it, especially on retreats.

Also if you make the community, you grow a community more. This happened when I became a teacher. I don't do it as much nowadays, though. You could equally have a solid community by organizing events, creating groups or some type of thing online like-minded people can find you by as a beacon of sorts.

So, if possible, finding groups that align with deeply held values you have is a good sign or activities you deeply enjoy. It's probably good if it's something outside of tech unless that's something you mainly 100% care about.
Sure, of course.

I wanted to show that Molly White doesn’t seem to be open to a discussion about the broader issues, and her blog is certainly very one-sided, which I actually appreciate (I love one sided stuff, because it tends to go out of its way to find the best arguments for its side, as long as you balance it with the other side). We are in a unique position to share our experience with her.

We spent years quietly building open technology to help people around the world stop relying on centralized entities which clearly is a problem.

We have been seeking out and engaging well-known people in substantive discussions around issues that really matter,
— sociopolitical, economic, regulatory — etc.

There are tons of people around the world who engage with us. They would like to see things solved. Both on the left and the right. Here are just a few:

David Harvey
Noam Chomsky
Patri Friedman
Robert Murphy
Sarah Hanks
Richard Heart
The original inventors of
Freenet
Kademlia DHT
Ripple
etc.

And then there is the anti-Web3 crowd who downvotes anything with the slightest positivity toward Web3 being useful or needed.

This crowd loves someone like Molly White to highlight everything wrong. I was inviting Molly White to come and have a real conversation about real issues, that I highlighted. She refused.

I see the same in, say, rabid democrats vs republicans, left vs right, with their and purity tests and shouting down of opposing views. I respect when the people who speak for them are willing to come and engage in a real discussion, and explore ideas. A few people, like Molly, would rather not.

For years, we have been rather welcoming and eager to find out the pitfalls and responsible solutions. I wish AI shops were like that. But on HN, there are a ton of activists who want to bury anything that is in favor of Web3 even slightly. They do it silently and avoid discussion. And if AI is criticized, they downvote that too.

The activists in the HN ”overton window” these days seem to think that there are no people that n tech working on real Web3 and Web5 projects outside their bubble. They will be proven wrong in 2024 but these trends on HN seems to drown out real substance.
Hasn't this area of law been pretty much static for 100+ years?

Surely this exact case has happened before? It's gotta be pretty common for a company to be wildly profitable for a while, then suddenly bankrupt, and some owners have extracted all the profits in the meantime.
They should try telling fossil fuel companies to not release "cook the Earth"-grade CO2 into the atmosphere. We've got an emergency here.
Embarrassing / dumb q, but how do you actually get to talking with them in a meaningful way? I can imagine with repeats, it's easier to build up rapport, but I don't think I've ever hit it off so strongly with someone at a coffee shop that we exchange info after one interaction (mine here aren't super social fwiw)
If super means "surpassing normal human intelligence" then, YES. Take a look at the table in this article. If a human did that, was fluent in every language and coded in every language, we'd say they were superhuman, no?

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
whoa, cool to see https://sqwok.im mentioned. There were some issues with posting from firefox on linux but according to the author they resolved in latest os upgrade.
Isn’t this the plot to Back to the Future?
One side has truth and scientific consensus on its side, as well the prosperity of the human race, and the LIVES of billions of individuals on the line.

The other side to extend corporate subsidies and fossil fuel company profits for another generation and get themselves a nice fat retirement cushion from lobbyist contributions.

Comparing their tactics for influence misses the forest for the trees.
The history of humanity is replete with examples of the slightly more technologically advanced group decimating their competition. The default position should be that uneven advantage is extremely dangerous to those disadvantaged. This idea that an intelligence significantly greater than our own is benign just doesn't pass the smell test.

From the tech perspective: higher order objectives are insidious. While we may assume a narrow misalignment in received vs intended objective of a higher order nature, this misalignment can result in very divergent first-order behavior. Misalignment in behavior is by its nature destructive of value. The question is how much destruction of value can we expect? The machine may intentionally act in destructive ways as it goes about carrying out its slightly misaligned higher order objective-guided behavior. Of course we will have first-order rules that constrain its behavior. But again, slight misalignment in first-order rule descriptions are avenues for exploitation. If we cannot be sure we have zero exploitable rules, we must assume a superintelligence will find such loopholes and exploit them to maximum effect.

Human history since we started using technology has been a lesson on the outcome of an intelligent entity aimed at realizing an objective. Loopholes are just resources to be exploited. The destruction of the environment and other humans is just the inevitable outcome of slight misalignment of an intelligent optimizer.

If this argument is right, the only thing standing between us and destruction is the AGI having reached its objective before it eats the world. That is, there will always be some value lost in any significant execution of an AGI agent due to misalignment. Can we prove that the ratio of value created to value lost due to misalignment is always above some suitable threshold? Until we do, x-risk should be the default assumption.
For me, the implosion of Gimlet Media was really the signal for the end of the era.

They had a handful of amazing and popular shows. They used the success to plow money and resources into kickstarting other shows. But the other shows were never as good or successful. Eventually you had enough people bitter and resentful about the continued success of the golden gooses that they all ran the company into the ground together.

The barriers of entry to podcasting are too low so it's hard to rise above the noise. First mover advantage and network effects are/were everything.
A bacterium that can metabolize plastic, which is notoriously difficult to recycle, could be a biodegrading symbiote as well as a pathogen.
Oh it would, because many people would lose their home.

And price discovery is already completely fucked, banks would never give out 30 year fixed rate loans if the fed wasn't buying them all up.

If we had all ARM loans then the problem would be unfucking itself right now as the fed raised rates. Instead past mortgages are insulated from the market....unless the market is in the mortgagee's favor, in which they refinance.

This is why things are so bad right now. Especially when you factor in the rise of remote work for white collar workers (read: homeowners). There is no reason for them to ever give up their 2% rate. Hence inventory is in the dirt.
> The early days of the dotcom space were filled with carnage of a type which makes crypto look pretty normal.

Carnage, yes. I ran "downside.com" back then. (It's still up, but I stopped updating it around 2006.). In the first dot-com boom, everybody went public. So you could track their numbers from SEC filings. I just took their cash flow numbers and computed when the cash would run out as the "death date". That was surprisingly accurate.

But not as many out and out scams as in crypto. Most of the original dot-coms actually did something real. It might not have been profitable, but there was some utility. You could order from Webvan and the stuff would show up.
Thanks. Oh, I misunderstood you ;-) and thought you were talking about Brave. I stopped using Firefox quite a while ago and settled on Brave. Some config is needed but it works (very) well for me.
Also see ECMAScript vs JavaScript.
Warhammer 40k.
> The idea that sophisticated investors have been putting their money into USD and need crypto people to explain inflation to them is ridiculous.

"Sophisticated investors" never had access to an asset whose supply was predictable (resistant to debasement), but also decentralized and permissionless to participate in. "Sophisticated investors" should probably know their monetary history, including why gold evolved as a world standard until Bretton Woods. And the types of money societies used before that.

> It is equally ridiculous that crypto people think that having a fixed supply of something makes it valuable. Oceanfront property in Miami is also limited, but crypto people are not pumping that because they are not invested in Miami oceanfront property.

Not sure what you mean, the lead up to 2008 was a pretty interesting time for real estate developers, why would crypto people be talking about condos?
The trademark conflicted with the policies of the Debian repositories. Debian is very picky about what goes in the standard repositories.
First they need to get massive email providers to offer JMAP support, and then get clients to support it. Surely this is simply too big a ship to steer.

Google is not going to support this, and isn't that >50% of the market?
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> Some Helm charts: https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts

For the record though, they're not enough to run neon today[0] - this has been a "problem" since neon was announced here[1].

[0]: https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts/issues/35#issue-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31540691
Crypto sure seems like a monolith, albeit one with a dedicated force of apologists.
I don’t think comparing the timelines of vastly different technologies like this is helpful.

Prior to the web, in the 1960s/1970s we had packet-switching networks, such as ARPANET which were the basis of modern computer networking.

The original ARPANET (precursor to the internet)was just used to connect computers at research institutions. I.e it wasn’t used by that many people relatively speaking.

It took another 20 years for the web to come along and more for it gain widespread adoption.

Is Bitcoin, a very low level protocol, more analogous to ARPANET or the web? Even if you dislike crypto, is this comparison really helpful?

All technology is built on the shoulders of previous giants. Building a secure, scalable, sufficiently decentralized distributed computer system is hard. I.e it’s going to take a long ass time. Hence I’m not surprised at how far we have come since BTC was released.
I see their smart app control plan 100% in the corporate space. For the home user space I wonder how many will just "opt-out to desktop mode" like they've been doing with every other option until this point.
Having a fixed supply does make something more valuable compared to a non-fixed supply. This has kind of been the story of the housing crisis in much of the Western world where NIMBYism and restrictive zoning have reduced the supply of housing in many desireable markets well below demand for housing. Canada has it much worse than the US as Canada has something like close to 50% of it's population in the GVA and the GTA which are both in the top 100 most unaffordable cities in the world on most lists (although on some lists Vancouver is only 103rd). Toronto prices will hopefully come down a little with EHON which seems to be an extremely good piece of legislation to allow gentle density.

Having a fixed supply doesn't make something intrinsically valuable. But restricting the supply absolutely does increase price when demand exists.
Maybe don't live in a country with third-world healthcare, then.
> Any system where this kind of transfer makes sense and is willing to allow this kind of trade already has it

No it doesn’t have it. That was the whole point. The examples you gave had to each build their own in-house bespoke infrastructure for this functionality. With blockchains it already exists, it’s secure and any new app or user can start using it right away.
I think it's great to have a repo of all the hooks, but I wonder if implementing each from scratch is the right approach. For example, there is an exceptional useDebounce package [0] that handles many more cases than the simplified one on UseHooks, and I think it could be even more useful to highlight exceptional work that has already been done and maintained in the community rather than in-housing everything. I also think there is more potential in that approach to further React as a whole as the community converges on agreed-upon utilities that become so integral to the way people write and discuss code they make it into the core library.

[0] https://github.com/xnimorz/use-debounce