skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he was truly operating in good faith and also believed what he's saying, you'd think that he'd do a better job of articulating his ideas rather than sort of looking like a conspiracy nut. Speaking intelligently goes a long way to helping convince people.
Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230528215550/https://cryptofor...

Okay, well this is not what I initially suspected, it's a program to allow people with crypto to donate to volunteers who are going out on the streets and offering food and care packages to the homeless. This seems good.

For some additional discussion context I looked up the platform from the Oakland Homeless Advocacy Working Group:

https://www.shelteroak.org/hawg.html

I wanted to provide a summary but I realize I am late and need to head out. Taking a quick look, it seems that the latter group is focused more on legal measures to legalize encampments and work on supportive infrastructure and city-provided resources for these groups. I am sure that a combination of direct volunteer support and broader legal efforts can go hand in hand in supporting people without traditional housing.
No, being conservative isn't a protected class under law, sexual orientation is.
Don't flatter yourself. Nothing happened in 2020 that hasn't happened a lot worse, a lot more times before in America. If anything, the police were surprisingly ineffectual at protecting the owners' interests. I'll step out and burn a flag all day long in the street. They ain't gonna arrest me.

I've seen the police publicly flog random people on the street in Vietnam just for being in their way. What a wonderfully just, equitable socialist paradise.

Go check out and live in a country where the police actually control people and get back to me.
Keep in mind the $44B number was a joke offer he was forced to pay out. He knew it wasn’t worth as much, but he fucked around and found out.

According to NASDAQ, pre-purchase it was around $13B. And Elon claims it’s at $20B. So supposedly he has improved the net worth, but yes obviously he’s still $20B in the hole.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/what-is-twitters-net-worth
Would that lead to a worse experience? It would certainly cut down on spammy, AI generated content. I already fund many of the creators I watch through Patreon or other means so I suspect it wouldn't change much for me.
I am a mathematician and would love to mechanize my proofs. The issue is that systems like Coq construct proofs in a radically different way than how we were trained. I've struggled with Coq even with a somewhat more than a passing knowledge of the system; I used Coq's underlying language Gallina to write interpreters, which were then processed into OCaml while studying in graduate school. At the same time, I can barely turn out a basic proof in Coq.

What would help dramatically for me and others that work in applied math are proofs that cover the material in something like Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin. These are proofs that cover basic real analysis and topics like continuity, differentiation, and integration. It would also help to see basic linear algebra proofs such as that all real symmetric matrices have a real eigendecomposition. Now, these may exist and it's been a couple of years since I've looked. If anyone has a link to them, I'd be extraordinary grateful.
Why Did Victorians Take Creepy Headless Portraits?
Azure OpenAI Service updated models
Stop paying them anything. Get everyone you can to stop paying them anything.

The transphobic fiasco with bud light made it pretty clear that boycotts WORK, if only we had the balls to do them, and maybe endure minuscule """suffering""" to continue them.
Show HN: Use Google Sheets to do realtime feature flagging
Feature flags are useful tools to manage rollouts, perform experimentation, and much more. There's lots of companies doing serious stuff in this space, eg LaunchDarkly, Split, Optimizely, etc; two of my previous employers rolled their own experimentation platforms with tons of staffing.

However, I needed something way simpler and ideally free. So -- why not use Google Sheets as the backend? You can control who has access to read/edit flag values, there's audit history, it's incredibly simple to use. I intend to use this in production for a while, there's almost certainly a scale at which it won't make sense, but that'll be a problem for a different time.
Its good when the industry rewards its enthusiasts :)
Every year there's billions of dollars a year in wage theft. The economic cost of just minimum wage violations is about the same as the economic cost of shoplifting, and that's only one type of wage theft.

Surely as an advocate of strong law enforcement, you want wage theft to be criminalized (it's often a civil law, not criminal), with equally stiff penalties, yes? That would be kinda neat - your boss steals $50 of your pay and the police are right there to toss that thief in jail for a month. You boss wouldn't dare illegally split your tips with other staff then!

As an observation, stopping wage theft against people earning minimum wage might even mean they can afford to buy things instead of stealing them.

> A. What are you going to do? Let them shoplift whenever they like?

The world is not all-or-nothing.

For one, the store can hire its own guards instead of using a tax-subsidized police force.

For another, you know that stores plan for and can afford some shrinkage, right? Many stores added self-checkout and mobile checkout despite knowing that shoplifting rates for them are higher than having a cashier.

Should we follow your proposal and use more police to enforce protection against shoplifting, surely many store owners will gladly fire more cashiers.

> Stores also close when shoplifting gets too extreme

Which is rare. "Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers don’t back it up" https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifti... which also points out that Walgreens backtracked on its claims that it closed five San Francisco stores in 2021 due to organized shoplifting.

It also gives some reasons for why a company might make false claims in the first place.

> with strong external community programs to help people avoid feeling the need to shoplift,

Which programs were you thinking of? If it involves significantly higher taxes on the wealth, including a global wealth tax, resulting in a livable social safety net, then that will likely help reduce shoplifting by a lot.

But some people regard that as too high of a cost.

I don't want to be at the point where we have to decide if Jean Valjean should deserve five years of prison for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family.
It's not just hosting a video though, it's going to multiple stream channels hosted by other people and having millions of people watch on-demand. YouTube is insanely huge, and there is no comparison. If all social media bans RFK, he might as well retire.
Well if you narrowly define AI to be ChatGPT and other generative LLMs, I think I agree so some extent. Unlike blockchain they do have use cases but it remains to be seen if those use cases can justify the money being thrown at them. How much is code completion really worth?

However, I disagree insofar as the outcome truly depends on an unknown technology. Blockchain was never going to revolutionize finance or any of its other grand claims. At best (and that’s if it worked), it would be a new database type that all of the existing financial systems would plug into. It was a libertarian pipe dream, naive about how the world actually works.

For any AI application, the world is different. If we simply replace AI with “automated system” we can see why. Pretty much every company would like to replace their workers with machines. And maybe machines can do things that humans would never be able to do (for example, search the entire internet for a very specific topic).
Race is a social construct, yes, but we are in fact living in the society of this construct. So I guess I am not quite sure what your point is?
Delighted to see they accept decent crypto options, like Algorand, Monero and Nano (and Banano). Props!
This ain’t it
Issues Connecting to Fastmail
What shoe materials are good at generating static electricity and which shoe materials are poor?
The trick is to use alcohol on tick, not on yourself.

Joking aside I think alcohol was supposed to be just for disinfecting and some people took it wrong way ?
“Patterns Fool Ya”: Math Parody of “Hallelujah”
Just more nightmare fuel about ticks. Thanks for that, researchers!

But more info is also needed -- is this only to positive, or negative static charge? or both? If you're walking with your furry cat it's ok, but not if you've got a glass hiking pole?
Great job to the team! Hurl is growing rapidly!

One question if someone knows: while testing an endpoint, authentication is always needed.

Having written the authentication in 1 file, how can I import this file at the beginning of every other file that requires authentication and the associated token?
Yes, both. Basically, I learned early that I needed a backup power supply. I have a couple that power my computer, monitors, and the internet router. For the network, that one is really tricky. In that, you're screwed. I've only had this happen once and then I needed to manually sell all my positions. Luckily, I didn't lose any money.
Were you there, when pop-ups were a thing? Like, you opened a site, and there was this new window loaded? Ads has not got that much more obnoxious. For real.

It is mainly that the internets have become 'real life' instead of some hidden away tech thing for us. We can't be deprived alone anymore without society falling down in pieces around us ...
Anyone know how to stop sites from saying, "It looks like you're using an adblocker... blah blah blah"
I love the elite controller, best gaming peripheral I’ve owned. Melts into the hand and has back paddles
we already created a dumb system of rules driven by profit maximizing entities called corporations that is exhausting the planet as we speak and we can’t seem to be able to control it, despite our survival depending on it. So no.
Fortunately SLIB and SLEB are still in our future. I hope they don't need to resort to SLYB, much less SLOEB and the like.
It's longer when you translate it into French.
What I specifically meant is that the "type" property can impact runtime evaluation as per the spec, however it's implied to be used specifically for impacting runtime evaluation based on a file's type. Say I have a module in a language that transpiles to JavaScript based off of the "type" property. In Bun, I would not be able to use any functions exported by it as a macro because the "type" property is being used for defining the module as a macro. That's the specific issue I have.
Seriously? Is that just language semantics or does it actually make sense to apply this definition of (fluid) water being dry? Also, doesn't water touch itself and is thus wet too?
I agree that CJS needs to go, and the sooner the better. However it's slightly irritating hearing this presented on the Deno blog. Deno is no better when it comes to causing issues for library authors who want to provide cross runtime compatible ESM modules. They bundle their own fork of TS which lags behind TS stable, no support for important things like `typeVersions`, no way to test your library with newer (or older) TS versions. You're better off authoring ESM libraries for Node then telling Deno users to use `npm:` imports.
Nitter is not operational.
Pay close attention and note that Smith is talking about individuals-as- butchers, brewers, and bakers.

Not multinational conglomerate monopolist meat-packing, alcohol, and shelf-stable baked goods manufacturers.

As individuals, Smith's artisans would have faced ample competition both within a community and from others nearby if they attempted to strong-arm customers or degrade products (though there was plenty of both going on, as attested by food-quality and food-purity laws dating back to Hammurabi). They lacked any appreciable ability to lock in more than a very localised monopoly absent armed force or coercion, though those too were abundantly evident (see: America's Colonies and the British East India Company, both of which Smith also writes of).
and RHEL has paid, by-the-vendors-themselves support options.

unless you're going to have an entire org full of Linux SMEs -- and most businesses aren't going to do that, they're not software companies -- then you need a support option.

Debian ain't got that, and Canonical is something of a basketcase.
Median price for a beta Black Lotus in 1994 was ~$15 via Scry Magazine. A lightly played beta Black Lotus currently goes for ~$45,000. Alpha ranges from 150k-1m+ based on grading.

So 300,000%+ ROI
> You open your delivery app of choice, spend 5 minutes and $20 maybe ordering a pizza...

Reaction: Five minutes futzing with the stupid app? I guess I'll stick with my "always call 'em" rule for ordering pizza. Bonus - if they're too shorthanded to make my pie in a reasonable time, then it's pretty likely that either they're too shorthanded to answer the phone, or the person who picks up will be honest about their order backlog.
This looks like a great tool to put in charge of regularly testing your site performance in a dashboard or incorporating into CI somehow.

Has anyone done anything like this as, say, a Github Action, in a workflow? I see that there is this https://github.com/marketplace/actions/install-hurl-cross-pl... but I'm not sure how it would look in such a use case- a "performance test" stage perhaps? with logging over time to some other service?
I might consider paying for premium if this wasn’t Google we’re talking about, which I imagine is tracking your viewing habits in their profile of you so they can serve targeted ads on other sites that use Google Ads.
GNOME started down their current path through a combination of Easel (started by the people who designed the Macintosh) designing nautilus and icon sets and trying to get the desktop to be more cohesive and Sun pushing hard on accessibility which also meant making things clear and consistent. Those influences were boiled down into the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines which all apps are supposed to follow.

The easiest way to make things clear and consistent is to have less things, the idea is you have a clean base then figure out how to add the things people are still wanting the most. If you had whole development teams working on these things then that would work (see macOS) but without that people implement the simplest parts and avoid the rest due to it not being fun, not having an agreed design for them, the design being too contentious, or just a lack of time.
You need to use water wetter to get wet water

https://www.redlineoil.com/waterwetter
https://infinite.tcgplayer.com/article/A-History-of-the-Pric...

Looks like it floats around a 20% to 35% APR depending on the years.
Musi on iOS [0] is a fantastic YouTube client which removes ads. The trick, albeit slightly inconvenient, is to copy/paste the exact YT title you wish to view. The search functionality isn’t that good. Some things live like streams don’t work however this has never been an issue for me.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musi-simple-music-streaming/id...
The competitive pressures described in the article aren't specific to AI: any technology which can give wealth or power will be used in risky or unethical ways by companies, countries, organisations in general. For a specific example, humanity already developed a technology which can erase the human race - nuclear weapons.

"Natural selection" could affect AI in a specific way if AIs started self-reproducing, AND if there was some mechanism similar to how the reproductive success of living organisms promotes the diffusion of genes which contribute to that success. But what would be the equivalent of "reproductive success" for computer programs?
Yes absolutely. The insight for me is that the perception itself is totally unreal. One minute I felt one way, now I feel another. Well, which is real? Since I can perceive reality in two ways then they can't both be real. Maybe neither are, but the panic perception is underpinned by all this adrenaline and stress, so it's a much more artificial or contingent state. You never experience this when you're relaxed and in a state of homeostasis. It's just a warped perception, your mind plays tricks when you're tired and certainly when it's anxious.
I think you would still end up with races, they'd just move around. IEX's "speed bump" was just marketing and didn't really matter to actual HFTs.

Plus, some of it is unavoidable if you don't have a single unified exchange. Where there's latency, there's inefficiencies, and where there's inefficiency, there's profit to be made. And competition among exchanges is healthy for the ecosystem, so I don't think we'd want to consolidate.

And lastly, HFT has consolidated so much that I don't think it's worth worrying about. Virtu literally switched sides and make most of their money on order execution. Industry-wide, HFT revenues are down like 80% over the last 5-8 years. Between wholesaling/PFOF taking non-toxic order flow off the lit exchanges, and banks finally wising up on not being pants-on-head about their order execution, it's literally just sharks in the pool now, there's not even any water.
The ESM-only packages like node-fetch are such a pain to work with in Node in a CommonJs project.

I think this forced ESM is causing a lot vulnerabilities in code base due to the pain converting projects to ESM is. I am busy enough to try to get tests pass for some new version of a package that got ESM-only.

Wished they would publish cjs and esm for packages that target Node. Fine you go ESM-only for browser only packages.
Neeva gives up on consumer search, goes all in on AI and enterprise
Jesus. I remember when they had gone up to a couple hundred bucks and thought that was crazy.
Just want to point out with 260 working days in the year:

1.005^260 = 366%

and

1.01^260 = 1329%

In case anyone sees "0.5%" _daily_ and thinks low risk.
Mosquitoes are super awful already and turn what would be an 8/10 outdoor experience into a 5/10.

We seriously need to find a way to get rid of biting insects on a grand scale.
Bite the Wax Tadpole
Having different tastes is fine. It doesn't mean the author is "envious" somehow because they don't like the same thing you do.
And of course it's not 22 minutes of content and 8 minutes of ads, it's 1 minute of ads played 8 times, because that's more effective at brainwashing you than not buying up all the ad space to prevent anyone else from getting your attention.

And then the ads are designed to be seen one time, so when they get repetitive you start noticing things that you wouldn't care about after one showing but will drive you insane after you see it for the 50th time in a row. An actor flubbed their line and they didn't fix it, a laugh sounds a little awkward, a sound is out of place, all sorts of things that pique your subconscious and you can't tune out.

How many of you can sing an advertising jingle from your childhood decades later? That is clearly a crime against humanity.
I wonder how does wizards of the coast adds this card into a packs in a double blind sort of way. Otherwise there would be internal collusion/fraud to self deal.
Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
Higher margins due to vertical integration and high volumes like Aplle, and maybe ads and kickbacks from preinstalled apps like Netflix and Microsoft?
"Zombie company" is a weird way to describe a profitable company. How many people are going to say "You know what, this solves my problem really well but I am scared they're not going to solve future problems?" Especially in the sector that Red Hat are in, a world where there is a famous quote of "No one gets fired for buying IBM".

IBM/Red Hat are not in the cycle where they create new products and create value that way, they're in the business of buying things and increasing their market share that way. And have been for quite some time.
(disclaimer: music theory clueless)

If it's using a pentatonic scale, why is the number of tones not a multiple of 5 (there are 16) ?
Huh, thanks to the article, I learned that SLOB's maintainer was Mercurial's creator, Olivia Mackall. I'm in awe of these people who are involved in more than one gigantic project in their lifetime.
Where does one water begin and another end? Seems to me any appreciable amount of water is touching other water.

I'm not sure you've thought this through.
I would have never thought to phrase bit-shuffling as deinterleaving, which makes so much more sense to my not-professionally-computer-related eyes and mind.

Realistically though, how likely would a GCC/clang be to emit these instructions when I'm working on some lookup tables, assuming I permit it to use them (e.g. via `-march=native` on a machine that supports the extension)? My gut feeling would be that unless I specifically make sure to structure my code to be as close to the semantics of the instructions as possible, these instructions would never ever be emitted. Or has the world of compiler optimizers advanced enough that rewriting that is commonplace now?
I mean, I'm suggesting that the laptop is running a LLM. Not too likely, but maybe this is, say, six years in the future and it's a workstation laptop with a beefy NVidia GPU and also networks have become even more efficient, so you can fit a dangerous amount of agency into 32GB of VRAM.
Not OP but thanks for the recommendation !
> "the fundamental gatekeeping that still persists in the market"

This person just called me a gatekeeper when just our definitions of what an AI Engineer is different... all while discussing the ambiguities of the term "AI Engineer".

Well, that's the internet for you!

My intentions were never of gatekeeping, our definitions of the term are wildly different. I laid the beginning part of a roadmap for a person who wants to solve problems that exist in the real world with Deep Learning- by choosing how to structure data, training models with existing architectures (and optimizers, loss functions, activation functions, and so on) and creating new ones from scratch- and to deploy them to solve the problem in the physical space.

Although, I have not spent hours on what the term "AI Engineer" should mean, it is not prompt engineering to me. If there is a consensus in future on the term meaning prompt engineering, then I will not give any advice on that, because I don't know much. Neither will I fight the definition.

My definition, still is the person who develops new kinds of microwaves as opposed to the author's whose definition is that of a cook who uses the microwave, by creating new recipes and dishes. That's fine, but didn't liked being called a gatekeeper.