skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top priority is to create awareness IMHO. AI can only be as destructive as the users let it.

From my small sample size, it seems people believe in AI too much. Especially kids.
Its not the phone. Its the screen. It could have been in any form factor - it was in another, less usable, form factor. The portability just clinched it for billions and made the issue of the screen more pressing than ever.

The screen is the window to the matrix, our collective digital space.

That matrix is something incredibly powerful. We have not tamed it. We don't even have a theory of taming it. A psychological, political, economic framework that does not drift into toxic, rapacious abominations.

We need to learn to live this dual existence as individuals.

We need to learn to build sane digital communities.

Admitting we have a really serious problem is the first step.
that would probably work, but take much longer to melt initially and require more kneading of the bag
Man I remember having to monkey patch that library to do some caching of the exchange rates. Otherwise it would do dozens of requests for the same information exchange rate.
Chance to get equity instead?
Agreed. In my experience, arithmetic skills are not transferable to higher-level math skills and vice versa. Of course, someone can be skilled at both but I don't think you automatically become good at one because of the other.
It would be good if you would not repeat unsubstantiated rumors.

No credible allegation have brought forward against Stallman's behavior regarding women. It's all hearsay and we should avoid hearsay and rumors.
As a serious security person, this is why I use 999999 as my passcode
Well AI is here. We need to live with it. Change our economic systems to a socialist approach.
You being unfamiliar with a programming language doesn't make it an ugly mess.
Oh! I'd always imagined it was the combination of the recursive breakdown and the memoization together, but you're right it seems the DP part is just the recursive bit. Thanks for pointing this out.
> it simply raises awareness

I don't think it simply raises awareness - it's a biased statement. Personally, I don't think the advocated event is likely to happen. It feels a bit like the current trans panic in the US: you can 'raise awareness' of trans people doing this or that imagined bad thing, and then use that panic to push your own agenda. In OpenAI's case, they seem to push for having themselves be in control of AI, which goes counter to what, for example, the EU is pushing for.
When you learn Elixir, you basically also learn Erlang semantics, with only the syntactic details to work out later. Plus you get a few extra perks, like macros.
You are okay with developers losing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees because they altered the Rust logo?
There are five posts in the past 47 days that desperately try to draw attention to the fact that Rust has a community fork now called Crab. The last four accumulated almost no activity, but this one suddenly made it.
Also, Git had it since forever, and since GitHub's diff view isn't particularly convenient for browsing multi-commit PRs you usually review the changes using Git anyway.

That said, I'd ask the contributor to tidy up the branch first. It's kinda disrespecting to ask others to review branches in such state.
Seems like a brilliant way to choose your customers, actually. A great way to avoid Pareto rule type problems that suck away too much time. I could easily imagine that e.g. 200 "smart customers who need very little help" could be more profitable than 1000 who do, after a time v. money calculation.
We don’t really have a good solution, I guess that’s why we need more research into it

Companies might argue that giving them control might help but I don’t think most individuals working on it think that will work
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I thought that the rumours were that other people in the production of The Witcher show were not fans of Cavill trying to change the scripts?
Someone I know wanted to have a movable white rectangle on the screen to cover up things (for a presentation). They had a creative solution: open a “10h white background” video and used Firefox's picture-in-picture feature. Unfortunately, the recommendation algorithm picked up on this, and started recommending a bunch of similar videos...
The use of template code in a view model- Is there a way to push that out into its own template? Is there a reason why things are done this way?
The use of AI will of lead to 'cognitive de-skilling' - we are going to accept generated outputs the vast majority of the time, only ever overriding AI on topics where we have domain expertise.
Bridge builders shouldn't be getting the public to use their under-construction bridges
If the program always acted against subpostmasters, it would be a peculiar coincidence given how management acted there.
My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack
BEAM (ErlangVM).

This video explains it better than I can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE
I think there's truth to that. A screen's mere presence can distort focus and commands attention.
Name one open source programming language that has its trademark policies like Rust.
>please explain to me how Octocat is different from Clippit

* Octocat is the mascot of Github, while Clippit was not only not the mascot of MS Office, it wasn't even the only option of assistant, just the default one.

* Octocat is not a functional part of the UI. That is to say, you don't interact with it to do anything. It's just part of the Github logo and it shows up on certain screens, notably the 404 one. Clippit could be used as an additional interface for the application to accomplish tasks.

* Octocat isn't animated, Clippit was.

It seems to me that the only thing they have in common is that they're cartoon characters that appear somewhere on the interface of software products. You can complain about it on aesthetic grounds, but certainly not on UX grounds. It doesn't make Github any easier or harder to use.
I really thought there would be a statement detailing what the risks are but this seems more like a soundbite to be consumed on TV. Pretty disappointing.
I was coming here thinking the same thing. The important thing isn’t abstractions in general, it’s whether those abstractions are useful (defined here as reducing the cognitive load of a reader, but there’s probably dozens of other meaningful definitions of a “useful” abstraction). That can depend on a number of factors, e.g. the particular programming idioms, flavor, style, etc. of a team; the quality of documentation and onboarding of new engineers to a team; the specific task at hand, etc.
Can't take this seriously as long they still keep offering commercial AI services while improving the existing models they already have. (I'm not in favor of just stopping AI development and even if people claimed to stop, they probably wouldn't.)

It's like people carrying torches warning about the risks of fire.
Eurodollar Futures Contracts are now SOFR futures contracts
From the article -

"Taking LIBOR’s place is the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, or SOFR. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where almost all Eurodollar futures traded, will be converting Eurodollar futures contracts into SOFR contracts. There are roughly $5 trillion in Eurodollar futures still outstanding, or 5 million contracts worth about $1 million each — a number which should go down to zero this weekend, according to TD Securities senior U.S. rates strategist Gennadiy Goldberg."
A few weeks ago, I commented on an article about ChatGPT being good at roleplaying[1], and was prompted to write about my experience creating a team of bots on Slack.

It's been a lot of fun, and I'm convinced that it can be made into a platform, where you can set up bot personalities and add them to Slack or Discord for your own use. Not sure if there'd be any demand, but it'd be fun!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851913
Minerva's Den was one of the best expansions I've ever played, and it's a shame it's hidden as BioShock 2 DLC. (Since it's a fully standalone story with an entirely separate protagonist)

Selling it optionally as standalone DLC that you can launch separately (like Deus Ex: Human Revolution's "The Missing Link") would've been great. But it was released in a time where patch certification, clumsy digital stores, and "Games For Windows - LIVE" existed and standalone/cheap digital releases weren't common.
HBO uses Captcha to prevent bots stealing accounts by brute-forcing passwords/reused passwords from other sites.

In other words. It's not anti-piracy mechanism, it's protection against account stealing.
As a direct result of Stallman's uncompromising disinterest in what values people in the broader world actually wanted to engage with -- instead attempting to dictate his own moral views as a petty tyrant -- GNU _as a project_ hasn't been relevant to computing for decades.

When was the last time you booted up the Hurd kernel? I would be surprised if more than 10% of HN readers even know what that is. (Stallman actually summarily dismissed Hurd's lead developer when he dared to criticize the GFDL in public. https://lwn.net/Articles/59147/)

Stallman's abrasive and confrontational posturing is related to but distinct from his ideological goals. His rude posturing actually _damaged_ the chances of ever reaching those goals.

Even the GNU "copyleft" license -- the project's greatest success in terms of "actually impacting the world" -- has fallen more and more into disuse in favor of less restrictive licenses such as BSD and MIT.
> Sadly that's indeed how trademark law works - if you don't make even a token effort at enforcing your rights, they can become common names and effectively be lost.

Can they? Give me examples of such trademarks being lost.

Do make sure to check your examples. Maybe you heard say that Xerox lost their trademark. Nope, Xerox® is still a registered trademark of Xerox.

> That doesn't mean one should rabidly go after every single possible infringing use

If this protection is somehow mandatory, why not? How do I check whether I'm "protecting" a trademark enough? Maybe there's a meter somewhere? Is there a scale? What are the units of trademark protection? If there was such a rule, we'd have answers to these questions. There is no such rule.
My experience roaming on 4G in the US was much better than anything I've used in the UK - I understand if it costs more because the signal actually worked, you could use the internet in a moving vehicle, etc
It doesn't matter if this will eventually be a "real" fork or not, I don't see that as a meaningful criticism. However, a fork + thousands of stars is one of the more unique ways of a grass roots protest.
Ask HN: Remote PT US job for non-US front end dev with 2 YOE. Goal $44k+
Hey,

I find myself currently located in Argentina, and I'm not a citizen of the United States. However, my current goal is to secure a part-time job based in the US or find US-based clients for freelancing opportunities.

I have nearly 2 years of experience gained through a remote position with a company in my home country. I also have a university degree and have worked on some projects.

I’m experienced in front-end development with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Redux, Zustand, Figma, some 3D frameworks, and more. I’m also a fast learner and learning stuff in my free time.

My ultimate goal is to earn a minimum of 44k USD per year while working remotely, devoting 2-3 days a week (8 hours a day) to actual coding tasks. While I am more than willing to be available and responsive to messages throughout the week, my dedicated cording days would be, for example, Monday to Wednesday.

What’s the most effective and realistic approach to achieving this goal? Is it plausible for me, as a non-US citizen, to convince a US company to hire me as a remote developer? Alternatively, would freelancing be a more viable option?

If any of you have alternative suggestions on how I can reach an income of 44k+ USD annually while working part-time (20 hours per week), particularly with a focus on US-based job opportunities or US-based clients for freelancing, I would greatly appreciate your input.

I also managed rather a complex project and it was all good, so I think I have some good experience.

Thank you all in advance for your valuable advice and experiences
hCaptcha is garbage. Also, they use some blockchain/token stuff for no reason, at least the last time I looked.

edit: ah they seemed to have removed all traces of the token stuff from their website, except some small remains in the docs - https://docs.hcaptcha.com/faq/#what-is-one-hmt-worth . I guess they pivoted away, reasonably.
I remember reading that some Japanese electronics company, I want to say it might’ve been Panasonic, kept the TV wing of their business going for many years after it ceased to be profitable because they didn’t want to displace all the employees working in it.

Japan has problems with work culture (off the books overtime, obligation to go drinking with coworkers, etc) but the increased corporate loyalty towards employees isn’t one of them.
>"Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a way to simply keep your device on. “I keep this playing overnight so that my laptop doesn’t shutdown while downloading games,” one commenter wrote. “I have to keep this open on my phone because it’s broken and will not turn back on if it turns off,” another said.

>There are also a surprisingly large number of times when you might want your device on but the screen off. “I use this so I can have music open on another tab at night and have this open so the screen with the music on it wont shine so bright in my room,” one commenter wrote on a two-day-long video of a blank black screen. “I use this every night, put on a podcast and q this to come on next,” said another. “Unironically useful for avoiding screen burn in,” another wrote. “Big thanks <3.”"

This is a very interesting situation. Like the video of someone recording the MAX captchas with their phone instead of using the built in screen recording, my first reaction to these is "thee tech illiterate people! There is a _right_ way to do these things built into the OS!" But on reflection, if it works for them then it seems fine (I guess you could argue that it was using electricity or bandwidth). If anything it seems like a failure of the OS companies to make it clear that the OS can already do all these things.
So far the examples I've heard are: humans will ask AI to help humans solve human issues and the AI will say humans are the issue and therefore mystically destroy us somehow. Or, AI will be inherently interested in being the primary controller of earth and so destroy all humans. Or, AI will for reasons be inherently misaligned with human values. Andrej Karpathy Said it will fire nukes on us. Elon said pen is mightier than the sword and civil war is inevitable.
How do you make sure the one who step up won't become next FBI?
Come on! Cavill took a nice big pay check from Netflix and filmed 3 seasons of that show, fulfilling his contract like a pragmatic professional. I have no doubt that Cavill is a nice guy that cares about the things he claims to care about, but had he truly been 'pure' in the senes we are talking about he would have walked away a soon as he didn't get his way and not cared about his contract or future career.
At what point do we stop pretending that the west is capitalist and accept that it's some weird corporate-cabal-command-economy? The only thing which might stop this backroom regulatory capture is the EU since they're not in on it.
> It has exactly zero technical advantages over the original. It has not even the plan to add any improvements over the original… The plan is just to merge upstream.

Technical advantage is not the goal. Here is the actual reason they forked: https://crablang.org/

The Crab (or “CrabLang”) community fork was created as a lighthearted yet measured response to the growing concerns within the community about the influence of corporations and the restrictive trademark policy proposed by the foundation
Usually new features require modifications of old code, at least in my experience. If I came across as claiming it's likely for a feature to require 5k new lines of code, then I clearly communicated badly. But a feature coming with 5k lines of modified code, while rare, still happens several times a year in a large project in my experience.
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I think you're living in techno-fantasy land. "Deleting" people on a database achieves nothing. Look at how authoritarian governments actually work in the real world. An authoritarian government would simply arrest the leader of the opposition on made up charges, and then they would throw them in the jail. They don't have to go after everybody who disagrees with the government. They just go after a few of them, and this is more than enough to discourage the rest.
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I never said I thought an institution with similar powers to the FBI shouldn’t exist. I said that the FBI itself has proven itself beyond repair and control. So it should be disbanded. I can think of many ways it could be done better but for decades the same problems at the FBI have been occurring so the slate needs to be wiped clean.
It isn't that big at all, but when you maintain something you really don't want to maintain, you're over anything but the tiniest changes such as updating the copy. Ask me how I know. lol
Discord (and other non-indexable chats like Slack) is where conversations go to die and be hidden forever. FOSS and other "open" projects should be using something like Zulip, or even anything else, that can actually be indexed by Google and other search engines.

I'm a part of a few Discords, and questions are repeated over and over again, forever. People who answer the questions, get tired of answering the same thing and eventually stops helping people. In contrast, using Stack Overflow or anything else, people can search Google for answers and actually find it.
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good"
Might be a saying to reflect on for a bit.

Also aside from that he was an enormous asshole to people, which damaged his own goals, and is just wrong.
Yes you're absolutely right. But how would we know if they were indistinguishable from delusion unless we performed tests?

Anyway, let's leave it there.
Great point: we always think about physical posture, but need to watch our mental posture even more.
I've been teaching IT for 15 years and have always included a few slides about how the entirety of UI/UX is plainly kind of stupid (to the possible chagrin of others)

It can't decide whether it's science or fashion and kind of fails at both. Flat vs. poofy buttons is a fundamentally unserious debate, especially when there's no real barrier to letting the user choose (and not infantilizing them).

The "solution" is understanding that what we're talking about here is fundamentally "communication" and most of these things can be solved through semantic ways of defining these things, e.g. what HTML tries to do.
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Maybe you can try to find the same experience you had at your HFT job outside of your career? Can you work to find a group of people who you can work with to build something interesting per your own desires rather than a bossman's? Or do you need someone to set your constraints for the good times to happen?
> He doesnt seem to be liked by some of the more powerful, corporate entities in tech, probably because he pushes some agendas that are somewhat anti-their-profits

I don't think any of those corporate entities care about Stallman in the slightest.

At least 95% of the time you hear talk about him even in technical forums it's the "why is he still around" sort of controversy in various forms. You almost never hear about him doing something that could be described as positive leadership that could make any competition worry.

I highly doubt anybody at those powerful, corporate entities even keep track of what he's doing, let alone has any concerns for their profits because of him.

> I think this was behind the rather unsuccessful attempts to cancel him a few years ago, which cast a shadow over his reputation.

The attempts to get him out I think come mostly from the Free Software community itself who to a large extent wants a better and less embarrassing leadership.
The issue I take with these kind of "AI safety" organizations is that they focus on the wrong aspects of AI safety. Specifically, they run this narrative that AI will make us humans go extinct. This is not a real risk today. Real risks are more in the category of systemic racism and sexism, deep fakes, over reliance on AI etc.

But of course, "AI will humans extinct" is much sexier and collects clicks. Therefore, the real AI risks that are present today are underrepresented in mainstream media. But these people don't care about AI safety, they do whatever required to push their profile and companies.

A good person to follow on real AI safety is Emily M. Bender (professor of computer linguistics at University of Washington): https://mstdn.social/@emilymbender@dair-community.social
Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code? (2022)
It seems the policy might have become to spread fear among the the population which will reduce terrorism, which is of course silly.
SQLite isn't growing in popularity. It's been a darling of the developer community for the last decade or two.

If anything it has lost popularity as a number of modern embedded key value store have emerged.

I love SQLite, but chill out on the hyperbole.
A new feature can easily involve the kind of modifications that they are mentioning. It's pretty rare for a new feature to exclusively involve new code, in my experience. And when it needs modifications in a deep part of the stack, the new feature will easily spiral into small modifications to thousands of lines of code.
> Do they offer something else which is unusually attractive?

You can literally read the job description.

Answer:no.

Source: I've read the descriptions.

> Intrigued to learn more.

They are just companies. They either don't have money, or have money and want to lowball (it's good time to lowball).
Then it's time for domestic unrest in nations that attempt to enforce such laws. Oh wait, the rest of the world likes to disarm their populations.
Are you bothered by how they only stay alive for 60s or so before being killed? Or the somewhat difficult to estimate pricing?

I eventually just decided for those use cases I'd rather run a dedicated server. Pricing is easier, no lock in, and it doesn't die on me unexpectedly.
std::clamp ; I got it exactly wrong and would have introduced a bug if the compiled didn't tell me I was discarding the return value. I thought it updated the value I wanted clamped. It does not. Don't know why I thought that, but I did.

The function is entirely useless and pointless to call without using the returned value, and [[nodiscard]] pointed this out to me. Perfect.
Users of cloudflare-ish services (site owners) may see a joyful dashboard counter that expresses "we blocked 9000 nefarious attempts this month" instead.

Of course without the big fat asterisk of "actually, we have no idea what our false positive ratio is. So they could be 9000 prospective customers that we blocked."

And then the customer will think "oh wow good service, all those baddies blocked, better stay in the warm embrace of this service or who knows what will happen to my site".
The thing is, nothing is developed in a different direction here. The fork simply merges upstream changes, and has no current plans of revert introducing any technical differences. It's a spoon, not a fork.

I think it's an important aspect of free software that it can be forked. That doesn't me we need to celebrate all forks. Some are great. Some cause more harm than good. But most are simply irrelevant. This one appears to be in that last category.