skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> by the easy money.

A lot of this completely self-imposed (and very much by design) to prop-up real estate because there's no other industry to support the economy.

Vancouver is a prime example: it's extremely easy (compared to the US) for foreigners to purchase assets (even with questionable sources of incomes that wouldn't pass the higher scrutiny of USCIS) and for owners to collude into restricting the supply. They are happy since their investment appears to grow in value (they can get out of the game and cash-in if another foreigner decides to park his money into these assets) and the government is happy since a lot of people's retirements are tied to their home value and it gives the impression the economy is growing.
> It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers.

JeanHeyd race-shamed their way right onto the main stage for a global tech conference? I can't imagine why anyone would take offense to that agenda. Yes, must be related to a blog post about compile-time reflection.
On what, though? Well over a thousand bucks a month per kid? The dollar figure specifically excluded daycare.
Sure. But search anything about React, and you'll see examples in hooks.

I don't even understand the reason why class-based is "legacy". Why are hooks inherently better? Code-reuse is a factoring concern, not a paradigm concern. And component-life-cycle bugs are now replaced with nearly impossible to understand callback stacktraces.
Over-Hiring for Prestige
In my experience people don't over hire for prestige, they do it for a promotion (pay increase). Maybe prestige is part of it.
> "...one of the greatest technical achievements in the history of mankind..."

... is doing a lot of work here.

This is why expectations are exceeding reality. That said, the reality of these generative AIs is pretty damn impressive. I just wouldn't put it up against computers, cars, planes, boats, nuclear energy, medicine, chemistry or any of the other technological advances that did change the world. Not until the grounding problem is solved. After that, maybe.
>If we do, in a few years we'll get to the point where the current generation of senior engineers are retiring. If we've replaced the majority of our junior engineers with AI, we'll be left without people who can use the AI-generated results effectively.

I mean, you might not look at job postings for Jr. Engineers anymore, but they all ask for someone who can lead and mentor teammates less senior than they are so it seems like there won’t be many replacements for senior engineers retiring in the next decade regardless of ai’s existence.
Sounds like a variant on the 12 monkeys theme.
finally, time to build the caves of steel!
Since there are examples of locations having a more accelerated rise over time in tooth decay when water fluoridation is discontinued [1], I think one can extract from that, that possibly the explanation is that enough water is being drank/used in ways where it contacts teeth, that a difference is clearly seen in the dental statistics of a population monitored over time when fluoridation changes are made.

[1] Article/study discussing Calgary vs Edmonton in Canada, linked elsewhere in the comments here that has this snippet:

What’s happened since 2012? A study found that within a couple of years of ending fluoridation, decay in children’s baby teeth had risen by 65 per cent compared to 2005, while the increase was only 14 per cent in Edmonton, which continues to fluoridate its water.

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I won't argue the fact that there may indeed be problems with ingestion, and additionally that contact to the teeth is the only way for the fluoridated water to help, but I'm not convinced that existing water fluoridation isn't having a positive effect on tooth decay. Whether it's worth other potential health trade-offs is certainly a valid concern.
Isn't some AI already causing car crashes?
> Any real superintelligence will decide for itself whether it wants to do something or not, thank you very much.

I disagree--that's the human fantasy of it, but human wants were programmed by evolution, and these AI's have no such history. They can be set on any tasks.

I urge you to spend time with GPT-4, not GPT-3. It is more than just a stochastic parrot. Ask it some homemade puzzles that aren't on the internet--that it can't be parroting.

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf

While I agree that it is behind humans on some measures, it is vastly ahead on many more.
>So what's the benefit of the AI at that point,

So, really we're going back to about 1750 at this point and asking the question "What is the point of making this machine that makes mistakes pretty often and is slower than a human"

And then 2 centuries later we would answer the same question in "Why the hell would a human do that, a machine is a thousand times faster"

It's not going take us another two centuries to go from first machines to automation powerhouse. Hell, I'm not sure if it's going to take us another two years to get past most of these problems.
I think we may be talking a little bit in two different directions, because when you write this:

> Classes and types and methods exist for a reason.

What that reads like to me is actually the exact explanation as to why the JS community has fallen out of love with things like classes. Because JS doesn't have static types, and without those, well... Classes don't actually exist. At least not in the way they do in other languages like C++. You can pretend you're working in a regular OOP language, and use the prototype object like you would a C# or Java class but since you don't have static dispatch at compile time, you're frankly playing this part of JS as a weakness instead of a strength.

Which is why the JS community has been "growing beyond" classes.

If working with classes in JS is more comfortable for you, then I think you should do so, but ultimately a JS class is just a function. Once you grow comfortable with working with modules and functions, you're very rarely going to be writing classes when working with JavaScript. You're still going to do so from time to time, when it makes sense, but often its both unnecessary, less efficient and harder to maintain something that is build like a C++ class rather than than a JavaScript function. While working with JavaScript, being a key part of it. This is not an attack on OOP in general, just an explanation as to why the JS community has "moved beyond" pretending JS is an OOP language the same way Java is an OOP language.

> Try stepping outside of JavaScript for a while, broaden your experience.

I do so regularly.
> Something that allows no recourse? Probably people outside of the court system.

Craigslist--when you go to like, sell your old TV--actively tells people not to accept online payments from people because they can be reversed. Why? Because the risk to someone who has a single TV to sell is very different from the risk to someone selling hundreds of TVs, and so the person you need to protect is the seller, not the buyer.

Also, you can totally build a system on top of crypto platforms that supports reversing transactions: it is, at the end of the day, fully programmable money. It's main claim to fame is that it is decentralized and transparent in implementation, and I'd have thought those would be universally good things, right?

But like, frankly, your position here just sounds like some naive form of how we should refuse to give anyone autonomy (which almost all of these systems provide) or privacy (which the better systems provide) because good people have nothing to hide :(.

Everyone deserves end-to-end encrypted permissionless communication, and the same everyone deserves zero-knowledge protocol permissionless payments.
This whole thing is going to be a massive disaster....except for all the consultants working on the Neom project, who have so far managed to make out like bandits.

But, the Kingdom has so many trillions of dollars, they literally do not care. It's make-work at the largest of scale imaginable funded by religious despots who have so much money that failure doesn't matter.

*Disclaimer: my dad was offered a role on the Neom project, and he turned it down. A family friend of ours spent roughly a year on the project, even relocating to Riyadh for most of that time. AFAIK She didn't have many positive things to say, but she got paid an absolutely absurd amount of money for her time. The same group of Neom consultants working on PIF's behalf made an offer for the company I was with at the time, and it turns out that they are quite cheap when they want to be, despite having endless resources.
What difference does the currency make in terms of scams? I do not see the point here. For me it makes no difference if I am being scammed in BTC, LTC, or USD or Rouble. Then there are the obvious scam coins, but these are not the primary argument here (would've made more sense when attacking crypto). FTX is the primary argument and FTX is not crypto. You could basically make the same thing with fiat money. Crypto is not necessarily the problem here.

I am not much into crypto, but I know the saying: Not your keys, not your coins/money.

What is this article even? There is the very short vita. The common theme being crypto. Apparently she is also a victim (which is a sole identity by now, not sure if hers). And most importantly she hates crypto.

What does she actually do? I have no clue. She has a blog apparently, but that doesn't really warrant an article and the article should tell me why they write an article about that person.
> I think the key point being made is that these are basic mistakes that even a non-artist can easily recognise

Sure, I can recognize them.

I can't draw at anywhere near the level of the output in the article, though.

AI (e.g., MidJourney) lets someone like me, who has neither the ability to create art on my own nor the time/motivation to acquire it, make whatever I need. If I see a "turd", I can regenerate that portion of the image until I'm happy.

To put it another way: AI makes different mistakes than an artist would, at any skill level. The strengths and weaknesses of humans and AIs seem to be similar in scale, but they're not in the same areas.
Can you use ordinary android apps that way? Or do you end up needing the play store and you lose your security benefits?
Would love to use them. But the pricing is too much.

I need a custom domain (or three). And I have a family of 6 people.

So that's $5 / user / month = $30 / month = $360 / year.

Unfortunately, that's not justifiable for me. And thus why I'm stuck using Gmail with a custom domain.
You could argue that other cultures have had similar impacts on Japan as well, including Western and Indian. What I disagree with is the idea that China is the "Greece of Asia" which is laughable at best. How exactly has the Chinese had a major influence on Japanese religion, architecture and dress? Chinese food shares the table with numerous cuisines from across Asia, and Chinese writing is also shared with Japanese, Western and Indian writing influences as well.
It's a specific kind of flaw—an indistinct, unexpected object in the image.
If I were in Rust leadership, I would have a very hard time not seeing this as a personal failing and resigning. I'm not privy to any insider information, but this feels like a situation where I'd leave with a lot more respect for involved people if they said "I love Rust, and I need to step down for the sake of trust and the community.". But, much as some would like to imagine technical projects as being above it, PPP gets in the way (personalities, pride, politics).
Isn’t there something about how getting 90% takes much less effort than the last 10%. I have a feeling AI will never become perfect, there will always be trivial mistakes such as these. There will be fewer of them for sure, and perhaps they‘ll become even less obvious as the technology matures, but there will always be mistakes made by AI which would make a professional deeply embarrassed.

Also the notion of “Use AI or loose your job” sound kind of ridiculous when it is considered a tool in the toolbox of a professional. It is like saying that cabinet makers should use routers or be out of job, or statisticians should use Kalman filters or loose their jobs. Sure there are times where an artist will use AI in their $dayjob, there probably already are, but that artists which don’t will loose their job, that is a weird prediction.
>But the shadows are still going to be annoying, and the iteration time is painfully slow.

I seriously doubt this can be described as painfully slow compared to an average artists making the equivalent assets, especially if you get into the local UIs that have tools like inpainting/masking, plugins, loras, checkpoints, and all that jazz.
Exactly, the explanation doesn't hold water, and it's a pity such and important issue is sidestepped in this way
> You're assuming it breaks laws, but it doesn't have to, it just makes it easier to do something that's painful to do either by design or due to shitty economic circumstances

Even if your sending end is regulated, at the other end, there has to be a regulated bank. If not, the person who is receiving the "money" could be breaking their country's laws. Cryptocurrencies don't magically change that. Otherwise, PayPal or Venmo could allow accounts to be created for those people in US dollars and do the job even more inexpensively.
Ask HN: What to do when Google Takeout fails
I've had a google workspace subscription for years, and stored about 12TB in google drive, mostly backups in a single folder. Recently, google decided to hard lock accounts over the pooled storage limit, unless you pay 300$ per month. I'd like to move away from workspace, but Google Takeout fails continually even for that single folder in drive.

Sort of at a loss what to do now, as I can't use rclone either due to the account having advanced protection enabled.
Well sorry but you confused me as my main issue was with USD and I believed you thought that USD had "not all that much of consequence" happening to its value. But it seems we are mostly in agreement.

I'm happy you have a home and own some SP500 to offset USD destruction. Not everyone is so fortunate to have access to those markets. I would suggest you look into crypto as part of your hedge against bad USG behavior because it has some nice properties that could uncorrelate it with those assets if things get nasty (90% tax rates, etc).
I was looking for actual turds in the picture. Disappointed.
I think the difference here is that it was a family company (providing a "singular" benefiting target to vilify and pursue) and the number of aggrieved parties.

If it were instead 1,000 different shareholders and corporate officers, I think the public would have lost interest.
You can't build gpt-3 or gpt-4 in a basement, and won't be able to without several landmark advancements in AI or hardware architectures. The list of facilities able to train a GPT-4 in <5 years can fit on postcard. The list of facilities producing GPUs and AI hardware is even shorter. When you have bottlenecks you can put up security checkpoints.
Moderate inflation is actually helpful. It improves the situation of debtors, and encourages people to use their money rather than hoard it. It's bad if it gets too high, of course. But a lot of boomers are very comfortable because they managed to buy a house and pay it off with cheaper and cheaper money. If your income keeps up with inflation isn't not much of a problem.

Deflation can send an economy into a death spiral.
There was a Reddit thread from someone who had spent years feeling that exact guilt for not saving her grandma https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/102k...
Don't worry the "ai" will replace you, just gotta be patient a little.

If this doesn't happen soon enough, use your extraordinary salaries and go buy a farm with chickens pigs etc. and start woodworking, you'll feel better i think.
Michael Lewis interviewed her recently on his 'Against the rules' podcast. Michael, apparently, is writing a book on FTX and SBF.
I suggest reading the first edition of the Caligola.
wasi is wasm applied outside of the browser

it's basically nonsensical to try to adapt wasi in the browser
For me it revolves around three pieces (1) doing some hobby activity (2) with the goal of socializing, (3) consistently over a period of time.

For (1)- climbing, board games, team sports are all some ways I specifically do this for, but in a large city almost anything you find interesting probably has a group.

For (2)- I think it's worth explicitly going in with the mindset that you want to be social. For example, I go to the gym for some me time. I have zero gym friends (even though it is a good place to make friends, if you want to). So just showing up won't be enough IMO

For (3)- community needs investment. Most of the best groups I am in did not provide a lot of value to me for months. So you have to stick it out
I could certainly see google and siri adding more features in that space.
Some dutch people peer-pressured me into trying Rivella ;)

Dutch children love their bottles of apple juice and dutch teens love a can of chocolate milk, but I have to agree that the portion sizes of these are less than half of what you would get in the US.
I'm a member of my local Rotary, the one I'm part of does a lot of good work around the city. I'm also part of a non-profit, the Chicago Engineers' Foundation (https://www.chicagoengineersfoundation.org/) that I get a lot of value and connections out of. Also a city club to meet other professionals and chat.

But my main was going back to school to get a MBA, met a ton of people that way.

What you want is called a "third place", which has sadly died out in many ways recently. A great way to just meet people from different backgrounds with different interests.
Every time I watch people use modern in-car navigation systems, I think "wouldn't it be a lot easier and safer to just use the phone instead?"
Volunteer at my local DIY bicycle coop.

Nobody gets paid so it aligns with me in ways that most non-profits won’t.
My last sentence currently: "While the companies indeed may be "genuine" in the sense they're vaguely and also self-serving - "here's a hard problem it's important to have us wise, smart people in charge of and profiting from" - IE, I am not referring to the academics there.

I'm going to edit the sentence to fill in some missing words but I don't think this will change the meaning involved.
“Dunkelflaute” (weeks without PV or wind) in Germany are a reality:
https://amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdfheute-live/dunkelflaute-wi...

Fraunhofer is a leading (independent) research institute: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/daten-zu-erneuerbaren-energ...
It's an actual database.
> but a lot of stuff that you'd have to take care of on your own in the US is covered by t

Not if you're a software engineer earning 150-200k+
Volunteering. And before you brush it out skeptically, like "oh yeah right, those people", it really doesn't have to be anything you don't care about.

I volunteer at a boat house on the city lake nearby, just putting kids on pedal boats and kayaks. I don't even call it volunteering, I just love kayaks and water.

It's amazing how your perspective of time and people and service shifts, when you spend some time being "in service" to other people, instead of anxiously counting hours that you're being paid for — or could've been paid for — and maximizing "receiving".

I've confirmed for myself time and time again the advice I've read: if you have a busy life and want to increase a feeling that you have more time? — try spending your time for free, for example, volunteering.
Thanks for open sourcing this.

Reminds me of halftone QR codes http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/...
that's the beginning of it, basically, yes
There are no synergies in podcast mergers. The only point is to try to get big enough to have leverage against advertisers and monopolize buying. It won't work, and after a few years all the mergers will be unwound/go broke, just like every other media merger does. The only successful media merger of our time has been Disney buying up all IP ever, and it has been successful just because it's so limited: get IPs that are known to make money and use them to make money. Every other attempt to get synergy by combining Netscape and AOL with Time with Warner Bros. with GE with NBC etc. has been a failure, and even Disney is relatively failing with Disney+ because they don't actually have enough IP yet to monopolize streaming and jack up prices to a profitable rate.
Voyager Minecraft
After reading Voyager Minecraft paper, take a moment to appreciate how easy it is to remap the variable “zombie” to “human” in a prompt. It instantly makes anyone appreciate the immensity of the AI alignment problem.
>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.

I mean post ad hoc the machine could do that too. In fact, that is the only way your brain can explain anything.
The Linux GUI landscape is deserving of a lot of criticism.

However, considering almost all Linux GUI is made by individuals in their free time, it's a little hard to target this criticism.

I think that if you experience laggy UI on Linux, it's most likely because you use GNOME with graphics acceleration enabled. Possibly with a graphics card driver that is not optimal for your graphics card. But even

Most alternatives to vanilla GNOME are not laggy. If anything, they're overly simplistic or so modular you need to essentially build your own UI using a library.
Yeah. Functional components are right sized. You can still decompose & hack off pieces nicely, into helpers or hooks.

Just because CS has heavier weight classical structures we can apply doesn't mean they're better. And underneath a lot of those ideas were more lambda-calculus ideas that correspond somewhat with functional components.
I don't think Clamence is terrible, but I think his narrative ties into Sartre's concept of living in "bad faith." He was putting a lot of effort into an artificial persona: a very morally and ethically upstanding member of high society. This didn't really reflect who he was on the inside, the events he experienced created the neuroticism that chipped away at the facade.

He's kinda like a less psychotic Patrick Bateman.
I think "they put interesting things everywhere" is a good enough description. The video is well done though.
This paper doesn't seem to agree:

> the scenario of a central black
hole requires unreasonable amount of fine-tuning within the usual evolutionary channels. In particular, if the system is expected to have formed as a binary in isolation, a common envelope formation
scenario is rather unlikely, given the system’s arrangement. This requires an extreme, and possibly
unphysical, tuning of the relevant parameters of the evolutionary channel under consideration. Moreover, formation within a globular cluster is also improbable given the geometrical characteristics of
the observed orbit. Other evolutionary channels such as formation without a common envelope or via
a hierarchical triple also seem unlikely for similar reasons.

What makes you think their proposal isn't more likely than a black hole?
It’s not “unsolved” - it’s just mostly left to the massive number of third-party data-fetching solutions built on top of React.
I thought there was a study that showed sildenafil helped prevent cognitive decline too.

I wonder if it's all just atherosclerosis causing not only erectile dysfunction but also cognitive decline.

EDIT: Sildenafil for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7242821/
> too politically risky

Is there legislation that isn't politically risky but worth passing?
exactly!

non-free means they want something in return - mostly our data and attention
wasm targets more than just browsers
Magic the Gathering local game stores joining tournaments and events ocassionaly.