skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels a bit like back in the day when we had to push back against folks claiming 5g is causing covid and other looney toon fantasies.

AI is not a human. It doesnt learn or get inspiration. It’s software that ingests data. There’s nothing human about it.

Even if it were, humans cant just steal tiny bits of other people’s work, reassemble it and call it something new. It would be like stealing a thousand paintings, cropping tiny bits out of each and making a “new” painting. It would still be made of stolen bits even if there are millions of such bits that mixed anew resemble none of the originals.
Related. Others?

Camus's New York Diary (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561948 - April 2023 (39 comments)

The philosopher who resisted despair - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34703027 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)

What Would Albert Camus Think About Software Development? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444597 - Sept 2021 (3 comments)

Albert Camus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698358 - April 2021 (2 comments)

Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25561816 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25413453 - Dec 2020 (32 comments)

For Camus, It Was Always Personal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576865 - Sept 2020 (23 comments)

What we can learn from Camus’s “The Plague” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657862 - March 2020 (87 comments)

“The Plague” – Albert Camus (1948) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626713 - March 2020 (2 comments)

The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22564898 - March 2020 (3 comments)

Wartime Albert Camus letter lays bare his Vichy-era anguish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962670 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20481171 - July 2019 (33 comments)

Albert Camus: A reconstructed conversation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14662261 - June 2017 (12 comments)

How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519782 - Jan 2017 (67 comments)

Paris from Camus’s Notebooks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13299051 - Jan 2017 (11 comments)

Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (1953) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229555 - Aug 2013 (26 comments)

Camus for Founders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5713709 - May 2013 (2 comments)
> They are very dated

The words "they", "are", "very" and "dated" are even older, so don't use them if you want to be hip.
if one is conscientious enough to report themselves be removed, they could also simply ignore the access
What if the refactoring makes the code harder to understand when looked at in isolation, but is necessary for the rest of the feature to work? Why submit it in a separate PR without the context of why it's necessary?
The OP was talking about startup roles. At that stage there is little revenue to speak of, and the salaries on offer are going to correspond to how much financing they were able to obtain.

VC funding of software startups in the US easily dwarves whatever is being offered in other parts of the world.
If by he you mean Molson, then you're right. He's an expert witness in the suite brought by CA against Amazon. There is no individual suite against him.
Sina Weibo, Tencent, and Baidu. I used to work for a company in the social/sso login space and those are the big 3 for China.
Well yeah of course it would be easier to send money without any KYC laws. That has nothing to do with crypto.
2009, not even 2011.
Agree with your statement.
Yes it would? Why do you think it wouldn't?
Firefox is competing with a product of the world’s largest advertising company, I’d tend to assume that, rather than technical merit, is where it fell behind.
When did Java get forked? The closest case I can think of is the Oracle/Google lawsuit, which 1. Oracle lost, and 2. wouldn't have even been a thing if Google had forked rather than reimplementing.
That's an interesting viewpoint, it parallels the outsized influence small parties exert in FPTP electoral systems (at least in functioning ones)
Yes.

https://youtu.be/8T6ClX-y2AE?t=1594
It's less keeping track of state is hard and more keeping state in a medium that isn't suitable for it (the DOM). The argument of too much state in a single view is nil by what applications are built nowadays (and also expected). Obviously it was already possible without the rise of declarative rendering frameworks but it made it more accessible to the majority of developers and thus raising the bar.

If you do however find the way markup and code is mixed feels distateful, I'd suggest to not look at any templating engine in the last 20 years because that's what most of them already did.
I think you're talking about the ME but I don't think the ME is responsible for "BIOS" flashing. I think it must be a separate microcontroller. This is kind of the point of the original blog post: don't go looking for "the microcontroller" because there isn't just one; there are many.
Approximately 70-80% of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture, primarily to promote faster growth or ensure animals survive until slaughter.

I wonder how big is the impact of residual antibiotics in meat and dairy on bacterial resistance.
Podcasts today are fundamentally different from podcasts of yesterday. Some of the old ones still exist, but for the most part the industry has been completely transformed. The word means something different now.

Podcasting started with a mix of radio drama and some really incredible radio journalism—a lost art. Podcasting transformed into parasocial background noise. Most top "podcasts" today are just people talking. It's like roundtable discussions with no script, no sound design and often no real production of any kind. As with reality TV, it turns out that's where the money was all along. If it doesn't cost anything to produce then you can create endless hours at zero marginal cost. Why people listen to this stuff I honestly have no idea, but they do.

There are still a few things I find worth listening to and I often find myself going back into the back catalogs of This American Life and Radiolab. But when you think about the "good stuff" you start to realize very quickly why there isn't much of it. Creating an engaging one hour long audio drama that really pulls you in is very expensive. It's hard to do that once, let along every week. It's expensive to produce, time intensive, and then you've got bandwidth costs on top of all of that. Some of the really iconic podcasts took months or even years to make, and they were almost always made at a break even or a loss.

Now you can record two people having some beers for two hours, monetize it, and post it same day. You can do it multiple times a week. Someone else will pay all the bandwidth costs and send you a check.
He's correcting your statement because the population "most" and "large majority" are drawn from is different. "Most people own a yacht" and "A large majority of billionaires own a yacht" are different statements, but not because of the semantic difference between "most" and "large majority".

Or, to put it another way, he's saying a lot of people (maybe even most people who accidentally get pregnant) cannot afford the monetary/time/etc costs to go to another state to get an abortion.
And now https://isdown.app/integrations/heroku?c=1685469931 is also down because they use Heroku and they did a deploy without realising they would go offline as a result :-)
I think most of crypto is a scam, but I can see the upside in a few things like ENS where a distributed consensus might be better than a centralized authority.

However, the tax implications are insane for me in Canada. I won't touch anything where I have to pay in crypto because it creates a huge burden when it comes to doing my taxes at the end of the year. How does crypto solve that? IMO, they've already been regulated to a place where they can't compete.

I also feel like proof of stake is literally the code-is-law version of "the rich get richer". If the injection point for newly minted ETH is the rich that already own the majority of the existing ETH, how is that any different than the government printing FIAT and the rich that already own the majority of the FIAT being the injection point? For me, it's all the same because I don't see how anything changes for me (besides more complex taxes).
There are very real costs to the national economy that result from killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of otherwise-capable working-age folks by knowingly getting them addicted to opioids and building the business infrastructure to expand that influence as wide as possible. Surely there is a law that can be interpreted to compensate for the effects that this campaign has wrought on society.
Fraunhofer provisions 100% fossil because your industry needs juice when there aint no wind or sun…
Came here (and used Fastmail for password recovery) to say just this. I actually forget what it’s like to sell advertising on my correspondence!
should we commend them for doing that or pull them down?
Temperatures over 40°C allready killed older people in Greece and elsewhere. Retirees in Switzerland filed a lawsuit at the highest european court.
Related. Others?

Purely Functional Data Structures in Elm – course lecture notes (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12145741 - July 2016 (15 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11056704 - Feb 2016 (42 comments)

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486481 - Nov 2015 (13 comments)

Okasaki: Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8327838 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7081191 - Jan 2014 (17 comments)

Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701396 - May 2013 (24 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983461 - Dec 2010 (2 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713594 - Sept 2010 (1 comment)

"Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okasaki [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138979 - Feb 2010 (12 comments)

Teaching, Playing, and Programming: Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112270 - Feb 2008 (2 comments)

Chris Okasaki's PhD thesis on purely functional data structures (pdf) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221 - April 2007 (1 comment)
The point is that crypto used to be able to do that, trivially. So it very much speaks to the question of whether crypto has any strengths versus other approaches to the same problems. It used to, and doesn't anymore.
You are correct - they frequently do not follow their style guides: https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-...
Guns can't make moral decisions
Inflexible like PV or wind? Or what do you mean exactly?
A few discussions:

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11056704 - Feb 2016 (42 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7081191 - Jan 2014 (17 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983461 - Dec 2010 (2 comments)

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713594 - Sept 2010 (1 comment)
Firebase (which I was part of). Dunno if you count it as an acquihire if the product survives but I am pretty sure we did what the big G hoped we would
Having their names on something so public is definitely an incentive for prestige and academic promotion.

Shilling for OpenAI & co is also not a bad way to get funding support.

I’m not accusing any non-affiliated academic listed of doing this but let’s not pretend there aren’t potentially perverse incentives influencing the decisions of academics, with respects to this specific letter and in general.

To help dissuade (healthy) skepticism it would be nice to see disclosure statements for these academics, at first glance many appear to have conflicts.
Is this ACID? getting so used to databases being the only true failsafe rollback systems, that programming business critical components in things like Java seems scary. We must need at least an event queue!

anyone got some insight? is this just a toy?
> none of us are significantly impacted, and certainly not compensated for these events

Speak for yourself. If my job insists on forcing me to be (1) awake, (2) sober, and (3) within cell reception I most certainly expect to be paid for those hours, since clearly that is not MY time.
It doesn't really matter much if she believed the technology worked or not (if she did, she was delusional for the very reasons you cite).

What mattered is that she told people things that she knew weren't true in order to extract investment money from them.
I don't think so, but you can ask Thunderbird if they are willing to earmark your donation for JMAP specifically:

> Who can I email directly with questions about giving?

> If you have a question about giving to Thunderbird, please contact us via this form. We will do our best to follow-up with you as soon as we can. If you need technical support, please head over to Thunderbird Support for assistance.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/

You can also try contacting the developer who offered to work on JMAP integration for pay:

> I can't commit to a project of this size however since I work freelancing and my availability is fluid. I am open to being sponsored/contracted in order to do this as part of my job.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322991#c23
Can someone help be understand "intuitively" why light is able to transmit so much more than electrons over a wire (is that even correct)? I guess this is a request for ELI5.

Is it because with light, you can basically cram infinite photons along a pipe and they can all travel without any effect on each other and the "medium" itself (of course, no medium)? Whereas with electrons in a wire, they start to interfere with each other, the harmonics / capacitance of the wire, and more? Or is there a natural minimum pulse length that electrons cannot go beyond in a wire?

And to get out all the bandwidth at the end (when using light), you just split out the wavelengths with as many narrow band filters as you need, then send that to a decoder that then turns it into the usual bottlenecked ethernet at your favorite router?
"avoiding laws" is not a "legitimate" use
Logan is one of the easiest. You just take the bus to the MBTA stop or the free silver line into Seaport. The convenient public transportation is the reason I rarely take cabs or rideshare to or from Logan.
I do not think "crossing swords" is necessarily something aggressive, it could have been debate. I am quiet the blockchain-believer and follow and read Molly's twitter. Yet I do not think she should be unopposed in her views, on the contrary I want her to be challenged, it just comes with making a name for yourself as being anything-skeptic.
Cop28 president’s team accused of Wikipedia ‘greenwashing’
Bless you lltag, you are all I ever needed.
> I've come to believe it's simply unlikely that market incentives will ever make housing more affordable. As far as I can tell, housing costs do not drop unless demand significantly drops

Just based on vibes yeah? Because the evidence, theory, and practice all suggest otherwise - Southern cities are building more and growing rent at much lower rates, numerous studies have confirmed the impact on rents from building new housing, and of course - there's just basic microeconomics.

> property taxes that increase with regional ownership volume or rental prices above standard deviation

These policies just raise rents.
The letter doesn't talk about economics though. It's specifically about extinction risk. Why did you sign it, if that isn't your concern?
That was an excellent episode, and actually what lead me to read The Fall and begin listening to Stephen regularly. That and he has a great name.

What I find so striking about The Fall is that while Clamence is overtly terrible, a lot of the threads weaving the fabric of who he is are clearly a part of my own (and I imagine of most readers as well). I may not be evil, but the way Camus illustrates such a hyperbolically disgusting person makes it unsettlingly easy to see features of yourself in the resulting image, no matter how small. I loved it.

West does seem to take a more reserved stance on characters, real or figurative. Perhaps he doesn’t want to put off listeners with too strong of an opinion.
Just a single data point: I'm an e-commerce seller. I sell on both Amazon and my own website. When I raise prices on Amazon to offset Amazon's fees, Amazon buries my listings and hides the buy button. To restore the listing, I have to reduce Amazon's price to match my site's or raise prices on my site to match Amazon.

It's not hard for them to find my website because I have to give it to them in the onboarding process to prove I'm authorized to sell my product.
AI.com, not OpenAI
Yeah RoR with those libraries are also moving towards the "as little JS as possible" approach as well.

Client-side logic makes sense in a vacuum, but then your crappy React app is in fact a distributed system, with all the complexity that entails. The radical idea of Liveview and similar efforts is that it's better just to return to basics and keep the logic on the server. It would be lunacy to try and build a distributed system with Javascript, yet that's the direction the SPA world is/was taking us.
I'm not sure what gave you the impression you articulate in your last sentence there. I haven't dismissed any science. I simply haven't seen enough of it to come to a conclusion. I was asking for more information and a lot of people, including you, have helped me learn more about the topic.
Yep... founder of IsDown here!

Really happy with this! At least we are still monitoring everything, and it will continue to send notifications...

I will receive a notification from IsDown when Heroku status page is updated :)
How I see it: computer science as an academic field is roughly split between theory and systems. The theory folks tend to evaluate progress through proofs. The systems folks tend to evaluate progress through experiments.
The best argument against direct democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Try it.
So that is a "no" on all furry mammals.

Also, the superintelligence doesn't just have to overcome obstacles better than we did, it needs to overcome the right obstacles to succeed with human extinction.
Not Every Study on Teen Depression and Social Media Is Bad. Only Most of Them
> predicted we’d all be dead by now

I don't think that's what people were predicting.

If I'm understanding your argument correctly, it's that people have been worrying/predicting issues with the climate for a while, but everything is currently fine?

If that's a correct understanding (and apologies if it's not), then here's my argument:

If someone told you that "50 years from now, there's going to be an earthquake in this exact spot; here's the data to back me up," it'd be kind of silly to say 25 years later "there's no earthquake. I don't see what all the fuss was about."
> Why is your default hypothesis that neural networks are analogous to human brains?

Because that seems to be the only way to justify ip theft used for turning ml models into viable products. If this assumption is invalid then so is everything else - thus they push for it in a desperate attempt to productise other people’s work for free.

If ai would “think” and “learn” then surely they wouldn't need ever increasing amounts of data. Yet they do, because their premise is incorrect.
And also born out necessity, given that many Intel and AMD boards can't be booted with a too new CPU if the BIOS doesn't know about it - not even for flashing a new BIOS - so you needed to borrow an old CPU just for the sake of upgrading the BIOS.
I can't help but feel we've moved to quickly from astonishment to disappointment.

Lots of people queueing up to pour cold water on generative AI when it's still something I have to pinch myself to remind myself it's actually real.

(And yeah. I'm not denying the drawbacks. It's functionally useless for many (or even most) proposed applications. But can we still pause for a moment to be impressed it actually exists?)
> Serious question, who funds their research? And do any of them ever plan to work or consult in industry?

Many of the academics at the top of this list are quite wealthy from direct employment, investing and consulting for big tech and venture-funded startups.
> the user asks for what's trending on pinterest, and ChatGPT (in my mockup) shows a little inline warning note with a warning icon that says: "My data is only accurate up to September 2021 and I am unable to access or search the internet for more recent information."

But that doesn't address the actual root cause of why ChatGPT is not reliable: that ChatGPT does not actually check anything. If you ask ChatGPT for what's trending on pinterest, not only does it not go check pinterest for what's trending now, it doesn't even go check its training data for pinterest posts to see what was trending as of the latest date in its training data. It just confabulates a response based on the word frequencies in its training data. It literally has no concept of "checking what it says", not even against its own data.
Are shadows really that annoying, I’m willing to bet that most of the gamers would just glance over these defects.
Is it effectively Databricks that is shutting down an infrastructure solution on short notice?

I'm not thinking about whatever legal technicalities could be debated by lawyers, but what real-world truth is.
Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
Masters of Doom has plenty of interpersonal drama in it as well. Hell, John Carmack and John Romero are the two main characters, and most of the other id Software early employees end up getting fired. I suggest you re-read Masters of Doom (or at least read this synopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom#Content ), also read Tomorrow^3, and you'll see the similarities.
What benefits does one get from using bit.io or other equivalents compared to the AWS built in Aurora? is their offering different and I'm just confused by the jargon?
Yeah, but don't you think its kind of absurd that his name rhymes with Samus from Metroid?
I live in a very transient city with very little tech industry, which also happens to be a city where half the population leaves every April/May through October/November.

Community has been hard, especially meeting new folks. There have been a few community tech events that have come and gone, and I've been lucky enough to meet a few friends through that.

I joined a gym 4 years ago, and a lot of my friends now I've met through that gym.
In my case, it was just sleeping for one night with some diodes or whatever attached to me. Was able to detect when it flared up, very easy diagnosis.

My dentist of all people was the one who ordered it, but you may be able to go through other docs (I assume you can).
That's a bummer, I really liked using bit.io for little experiments. That being said i never paid for it so i can't really complain.