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Ask HN: Command Line Utility Rewrite in Go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThQPZVWScs
https://github.com/rantlabs/RANT

I created a command line utility / app I have written in Python. I want to rewrite the app in a language that gives me the ability to easily compile into a binary for Mac/Linux/Windows and I want increase the concurrency performance alot. Ideally I could have as many threads running as the server / host could handle (current limit with my python code is around 30 threads). I would love to be able to hundreds of threads or more.

Does anyone have good suggestions on what language I should try writing this in. I believe Go is likely the correct choice, but I am curious about Elixir.

Also if anyone is interested in helping rewrite this, would be happy for the help.

Thanks!
That seems very sensible to me, I hope other platforms follow this example
As another commenter noted, Nespresso is a B Corp [1] and a subsidiary of Nestlé, which isn't traditionally thought of as a particularly "good" company, to put it gently [2].

My opinion of the B Corp designation, which has been heavily colored by founding + running a nonprofit full-time, is that it's mostly a marketing tool, and otherwise doesn't carry much weight. A common context I come across them in is offering services to nonprofits (ex [3] [4]), which they seem to do at approximately market rates in most cases.

In some ways (but certainly not all), I think the 501c3 process/designation puts stronger guardrails in place to make sure an organization isn't doing anything particularly terrible, by 1) limiting the financial upside to doing "bad" things, 2) removing the tax-exempt status if the org deviates too far from their stated mission (filed in a 1023 with the IRS) or receives too much money from the wrong places, and 3) forcing a bit of transparency by publishing 990s (the nonprofit yearly tax filing).

[1] https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/nes...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversies_and_...

[3] https://www.wholewhale.com/

[4] https://www.fatbeehive.com/
> Better to just remove race all together, and e.g. require college admissions by law to be judged without knowing the applicants name or ethnicity.

Believe me, this has been considered and tried in various contexts. The problem is that in the end schools and companies find out that they don't achieve the "right" mix of ethnicities and genders and so it's back to square one.
> if we follow the meritocratic ideology that everyone has the same opportunities available to them, it would be a natural conclusion

It's a natural-sounding conclusion that has no evidentiary basis in reality. Different cultural and ethnic groups value and specialize in different things, which over generations make for significant differences in the average member of those groups.

This is one of the biggest fallacies when it comes to policies that incorporate preferences based on racial, gender, or whatever other demographic basis you can think of: that absent biases (or "structures of oppression" or what have you), each and every subsection of society will reflect the composition of the whole more or less perfectly.

Asians are 6.3% of the US population yet comprise only 0.1% of the NFL (literally a handful of players among 1500+ in the active roster). Is it because football racially discriminates against Asians? No, it's because Asians as a whole are not very interested in being professional football players. There's nothing that stops the odd individual of Asian descent from making it to the NFL.

Women are roughly half of the population yet comprise only 13% of taxicab drivers. Is there a taxicab union that's preventing women from joining? No, on the whole women aren't very interested in being taxicab drivers. There's nothing that stops the odd woman from being one, though.

So on and so forth for literally every slice of life you can think of; you will never find anything that reflects the demographics of the underlying society. Hell, even the demographics of the 50 states don't reflect the demographics of the country as a whole. Vermont is only 1.5% black, whereas Alabama is nearly 30% black. By that metric, Vermont would be 20x as discriminatory against black people, wouldn't it?
I wonder if it might actually be cheaper to use the panels to protect the tracking (and other) equipment, and just replace them.

If they're flat on top like this only the panels should be exposed, it's easy to see if they're broken, and apparently they're less than half the cost of the system.
Already discussed via https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermig... https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/23/bloonface-twitt...
Look up Blueground for longer month-to-month stays https://www.theblueground.com/

They contract direct with owners and the experience is much more streamlined. Otherwise we only do hotels. Airbnb is dead to me
That's poverty related, not race. Keeping fighting over the skin color instead of joining forces together against these money-addicted thugs.
California has been trying to overturn it's race-blind policy for some time. The original policy was instituted about the same time as everyone else's. The intent of overturning it, of course, is to then go further and institute a policy more like the one seen in this case.

It has been overturned at the referendum level every time.
WHO cancer agency set to warn on aspartame sweeteners
But a net designed to catch e.g. golf balls and larger will probably only block a few percent of the light.
To me - very simply put - merit doesn’t make much sense when one set of people didn’t get any of the opportunities the other set did. It’s like comparing height with one person standing atop a stool. The nuance here is to find the lost potential in marks and tests due to a lack of opportunity. Race is a crude proxy and it really doesn’t have to be based on just race. But it’d mean admins spend more time interviewing and verifying people’s background and make subjective decisions based on that.
Hasn't Musk's Autopilot killed more people than this sub?
This is just legal cover until such time as its possible to enforce no child exploitation imagery, no copyright stuff, etc.

It doesn't matter if they are able to enforce it, Valve can use this policy as cover if they ever get sued.

Don't overthink the motivation. They will not even have a bulletproof way to detect AI imagery as it evolves every single day as an arm's race and detection is a full-time job. Even a FAANG or a state actor would need to dedicate team(s) to detection technology and still have false negatives.

The same sorts of things already happen for example on YouTube and Twitch, where types of content are against TOS or copyright but enforcement is sporadic and selective, smaller operations often fly under the radar of enforcement, bigger creators who are netting the org sufficient revenue will likely be able to get away with more, etc, the automated tools for detection are flawed.
Posted this on the other thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2B
I read through this list before when I was talking to a conspiracy theorist about 5G. Radio frequencies are on this list. As are caffeic acid (found in coffee, wine, mint), aloe vera and pickled vegetables.

Wouldnt be too scared by its admission to this list
I don't think it's accurate to say that affirmative action programs are driven by racial animus. What's your evidence for saying so?
Strong disapprove. Artificially attempting to slow progress just creates a massive power disparity for those who do not care.
First, let's look at the two people in question:

> The #1 Real Estate Channel on YouTube with over 4 Million Monthly Views.

vs

> Chief Economist, SVP of Analytics @AirDNA, tracking performance and explaining trends in short-term rentals

Gerli is clearly incentivized by "shock value" content (he's a YouTuber) and Lane is incentivized by telling people the market is okay, however I'm inclined to believe Lane on this one. I've also used both AllTheRooms and AirDNA and AirDNA appears much more accurate (YMMV).

Second, lots of those Top 10 destinations are bachelor party destinations. Nashville, Austin, PHX/Scottsdale come to mind. These were once lucrative ABNB destinations ("8 bros in a shared house"), because large groups get better economics, easier communications/logistics, etc. So, it's no surprise with higher inventory of people chasing that demand that prices will eventually come down and settle.
We already have a mechanism for handling tourists - hotels.
AMD to Add ROCm Support on Select RDNA 3 GPUs This Fall
Good luck enforcing this. You can generate textures all day with no evidence that they were AI generated.
I briefly tried out tabNine, which was OK, but had a lot of suggestions that weren't quite right, so I stopped using it. Since then I haven't bothered to use anything else. I've read about the various tools, but I'm just not that interested in using them either.

I wouldn't worry about it. AI tools are trendy right now and are being hyped far beyond their actual usefulness. I've seen this before with other things. Eventually, things will calm down and AI tools will become stable and just another standard tool that will provide incremental improvements.

That will be the time to try them out and see if they are useful.

Typing code is not where the value of a software developer comes from: it's the thinking, the planning, the accumulated experience, and the communication with other people where the most value emerges. You will not hurt your programming career.

Way back when IDEs were the hot tool, some developers kept using the command line and vim. That choice did not hurt their careers: I've worked with such developers and they do just fine. IDEs make a lot of things easier, but they don't make the difference between success and failure.
Even if it did happen, it would immediately become useless. What's the old adage? Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.

Such a matrix would only become a goal for those wanting to get their kids into schools. I have no doubt at all, you'd get a cottage industry of counselors that would plan out how to best maximize your kids' privileged scores to get in.

Sell your house to a relative at X months before admissions, find an ancestor of Y race on our special website at Z months before submission, claim a disability of ABC and take a SAT/ACT/FGH test under that disability, etc. You'll have a score of III with Stanford, a score of JJJ with Harvard, and a score of LLL with your safety school. Yadda yadda yadda, and here's the percent chances for each school.

Hell, with AI and all this jazz, this won't even cost all that much and be the purview of the upper-middle class. You could likely just buy that service for under $100 by 2040.
Anything explicitly discriminatory that the government could have done something about and chose not to. We need to forget about "microaggressions" and deal with the macroaggressions. It's typical that white liberals have embarked on the project of detecting subtle clues to the slightest slights and condemning people for them, when they should just treat historical race-based abuse claims like any other compensation claim.

If you look at black people's family trees enough, you'll find plenty with specific inheritance claims against their white, slaver ancestors. Black people in America are the descendants of white rapists as well as imported slaves.
Sure but, e.g., sparklines can show me the shape of my 60 numbers[1] more effectively on a single line of 60 characters[2] than an ASCII bar chart which would be 60 lines (without binning).

[1] 27623 14272 22218 21267 19037 989 27116 32405 23261 27104 7793 9432 7776 28832 13521 10783 29261 32193 30367 20358 22611 2023 19607 9844 3516 6510 16533 8378 22986 17043 14628 13392 22799 23847 29212 23690 17779 17059 28211 26180 32061 22740 7911 12018 4508 9801 9578 15350 9554 15517 11112 405 22054 2743 26609 7843 713 10975 2830 1126

[2] http://rjp-hosted-files.s3.amazonaws.com/sparkline-demo.png
I have a ZeTime that I used on and off for a couple of years. Now it's just sitting on a shelf. It was fine for my purposes at the time, but ended up inheriting an Apple Watch that's a lot more polished. I don't see ever going back to the ZeTime.

If you are interested, I'll let you have it for the cost of postage.
Late edit: sharks.
I don't use ChatGPT written code, however excellent for rubber duck development where I'll describe the problem being as verbose as I like and then asking how to accomplish the task.

Usually it either confirms my initial assumptions or often enough shows a method I hadn't thought of.

Either way ultimately I still write the code.
I'm more than willing to empty my own trash and wash my own dishes if it means I'm staying in a multi-bedroom house/condo with ample space and amenities.

Staying for more than a few days in a hotel is depressing and claustrophobic.
It's a USA thing.
DLSS is trained on the games themselves no?
It sounds like they even looked into the specific AI the gamedev said they used:

> we reviewed [Game Name Here] and took our time to better understand the AI tech used to create it.

And offered a refund on the $100 app submission credit:

> App credits are usually non-refundable, but we’d like to make an exception here and offer you a refund. Please confirm and we’ll proceed.

Seems incredibly reasonable.
Equality has fallen out of vogue, the new hot term is equity.
Yes, and generations have passed, so that train has left the station, so to speak. Reparations are no longer an acceptable solution.
The word "possibly" does a lot of heavy lifting in having this make sense.
If that were always true, AA wouldn't be needed. OPs data could have just gotten into a different school where they don't discriminate.
OpenAI Sued over Alleged Data Theft for AI Dominance
yeah, i only hire plumbers and electricians that are remote.
How would you be able to know if something is AI generated if it's not outright stated in the product description?

"Yes, I intentionally designed the static image of this man to have 5 and a half fingers on one hand with a distorted logo on their t-shirt, please allow this game, Valve."

How can you prove that something is AI generated? Would creating graphics in Adobe's photoshop AI filler tool count as AI-generated content to Valve, or is Adobe's AI data-set using copyright-free graphics?

I wonder if this is Valve trying to also somewhat cater/attract artists on the platform, as I'm sure artists are against using AI under the guise it'd "steal their jobs/hamper creativity".
Seems entirely reasonable. Just because Stability (who seems to be crashing and burning) decided to try and do a Napster for image generation doesn’t mean everyone else should run into the lawsuit abyss alongside them.
Maybe he already got a job? So lets leave mechanical watches to unemployment?
in addition to this, in this scenario, it’s worth bearing in mind that they both should have achieved their dreams.
As far as I can tell, the last time the supreme court of the united states had a majority of members appointed by a democratic president was in 1969.
> just to join a lottery

I don't think he means a purely random lottery (at least I hope he doesn't). My son was a high achiever (valedictorian, top 1% SAT, honor society, etc. etc.) but still didn't get admitted to MIT because he was competing with 30,000 other similar high achievers for 1000 spots. That's where the lottery concept comes in - you have to compete to qualify for the lottery. It's already in place after all, they just try to make it less lottery-ish.
For university applications, why not strip any potential bias out of applications. An intermediary that removes any potential indicator, name, school, location.

Any historic disadvantage should be addressed at the source. Like if school grades are lower, that needs to be fixed at the school level. Otherwise it only helps the privileged few that are applying to college and not all who have been wronged, it'll be the case whereby the most underprivileged stay the most underprivileged.
The fees vary wildly, from reasonable to outrageous. Some cleaning fees I've seen are as much as $500. At the time I was looking, these were not shown by Airbnb until checkout. It was an awful experience.
Representation in the Senate.
And here I just thought it just tasted kind of off and gave me headaches.
So you’re in breach of contract and if it turns out later that you don’t own the copyright for what you’re distributing, valve get to plant that firmly on you.
I never understood why are people against standardized testing. I would rather fail test than be judged by someone then deemed not worthy.
Compare it to SpaceX where they’ll fly it unmanned until it explodes and then figure out the failure points for future models.

There’s no excuse with this. There’s no fuel or disposable parts so they could have run it a hundred times a day until it popped.
I would imagine simulator practice is a good amount different from executing the real thing when your adrenaline is kicking in and they have a full plane. They are professionals that executed a complex task gracefully to minimize the terror that their passengers experienced (they balanced on the back wheels for a long time to bleed off speed and the landing seemed more graceful than many with all landing gear that I've had). Why not give them some props instead of taking them for granted? Maybe the pilots weren't too worried, but I'm sure the passengers must have been pretty terrified.
And you can avoid even that minor boilerplate with the -n or -p flag. It even supports BEGIN and END like awk.
There is very clearly a line most people will understand between what DLSS does, and generating completely new art that mimic existing intellectual property.

No one is ever going to accuse DLSS of creating new art works containing some other legal entity's existing IP for example, its literally just a (very clever) upscaling of the original art. If it did, it would presumably render the game being upscaled almost unplayable as it would be changing the output to a state unrecognizable from the input frame.
I am glad the "portioning of blame" is done with humorous precision.

I'm actually surprised that doubling portion sizes only increases consumption by 50ish percent. I am totally a person that "eats what is on the plate."
Hotels give no chore lists, though, and I'm not expected to clean. Everyone expects cleaning to be included in the price.
I think there are two questions here, both of which are totally valid, difficult, and important.

One, how do you quantify "oppression" or "deservedness". My honest answer to that is I don't know. I wonder if a statistical model of demographics vs lifetime earnings can help, at a first estimation, by it wouldn't be simple at all and would probably be even more controversial than gerrymandering.

But the other side of the question: the "why" should we do this at all, I think there is a clearer answer for that. Because if we don't, power and wealth quickly entrenches and polarizes society. Those with existing privileges share them with their offspring, and in so doing create dynasties of power that are counterproductive to the dream of an equitable democracy (which isn't a dream everyone shares). Those dynasties can arise from race, but also class, family name, legacy admissions, etc. People aren't just blank slate individuals but also very much the product of their environments. I think the goal isn't to wash away individual performance but to give people the chance to actually discover, express, and utilize their individual ability despite handicaps of circumstance -- at its core, the basic idea is that there are people who are richly deserving of aid and recognition because they could be great, "if only" something. It's the "if only what" that isn't easy to agree on.

We don't want to exclude someone just because they had poor parents. Or because they're neurodivergent. Or white. In an ideal society there would just be ample opportunities for everyone. We don't live in such a society, so as long as there are limited resources and opportunities, we have to either fight over them or try to share them. I prefer the sharing model, but not everyone does.
The problem with that is that it assumes both that the people giving the score are good, unbiased actors who agree with your assessment of what is appropriate, and that bad actors will be unable to game the system.

Even in a well-designed system, both of those will be suspect.
It doesn't need to be 100%. It just needs to be a reasonable attempt. We all too often let perfect be the enemy of good. Impossible to enforce? That's not true. They did so right here.

Yes, people will work around it, and some will slip through the cracks. That doesn't mean it's a useless policy with no impact.
Statistics matter, anecdotes do not.
Sharing the model that Intercom use to measure LTV:CAC, Magic Number, Payback
Hey HN,

Bobby here, CEO and cofounder of Equals. Before Equals I ran Finance and Analytics at Intercom. I joined when it was 20 people and left when it was over 700.

I worked with 2 previous Intercom Finance folks to share how we modeled LTV:CAC, Magic Number, and payback periods. I know that sales-efficiency is under a fine microscope these days with everyone trying to preserve runway. So we wanted to share how we approached measuring the return on our sales spend in the hopes it could be helpful to others.

In the post there's a template you can use (it lives in Equals), a written walk through of the Intercom story, and a video walk through.

All of the numbers in the model are fake. But the structure is exactly the same as what we used at Intercom.

Hope it's useful.

Bobby
This doesn't seem to have anything really related to the AI-generation of the graphics--it's 100% about copyright. The statement from Valve even says that explicitly: if this user had owned the copyright to the training data, they would have been fine using the AI generated graphics and text.
Can anybody recommend good home air monitoring system with option for sending data to some type of local storage and solid local UI?

I don't like to use cloud for stuff like that, nor I need mobile access.
What I dislike about JavaScript
Bug Forces Intel to Halt Some Xeon Sapphire Rapids Shipments
For all we know, the game in question had images clearly aping some licensed characters. We don't know how stringent the policies are without clarification or examples of art found infringing. How did Valve know that the art was AI-generated? Did the developer tell them or include it in their marketing materials? It's basically just reading tea leaves without that information.
In terms of research, it's been roughly true since WWII. Persecution by the Nazis and the war drove the cream of the European scientific establishment to the US, and the US poured a large amount of government funding into science funding after the war. Things are changing, first because the European scientific community has recovered and also because scientific research has been taking off in Asia.
Why editorialize?

"Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore"

Your title changes the meaning- they didn't ban games afaict.

It's also a misleading post, as it's specifically GenAI where authors can't prove or don't have rights to content.

If you use ProcGen etc or have full rights to the data used, I can't imagine there would be any issues.
It's absurd because it's not really true.
There's apparently a bit of overlap between Title VI and Title VII. But will likely have a separate case

> “many of the thought processes and the basic legal principles” are the same, says Daniel Pyne III, an employment specialist at law firm Hopkins & Carley. If the court strikes down race-conscious admissions in education, “that is a strong hint that the same decision might be made” in employment cases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-06-22/suprem...