skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Surveillance capitalism" companies should be charged with stalking: their goal is to collect all info on all people, placed, and things. And they ought to be charged as accomplices to anyone using their datasets to facilitate criminal activity. I know... it's an unpopular and unrealistic opinion.
Corporation have capital and can shoulder risk. To the degree that medium to long term insights have value their access to capital ads value.
This is why I use Next.js for everything I do, even if I don't need SSR. All of this is set up, with options, when creating a new project.

I've also looked into asp.net lately, and it seems to have just as many moving parts, only difference is that most of it is first party.
I did work in Smalltalk in the university and I must say that in practice it was horrible to work with.

It was very common to have the image corrupted -- imagine that you by mistake add a bug to your code. Now the live version you're dealing with is just unworkable and you have to find the last version that worked (because in practice the code you add is live with the code of your whole system in just a single place, so, anything bad you did affected not only your target env it also affected your dev env).

-- version control was basically saving the whole image and no, you didn't have a way to diff 2 different images.

I think that the current state where you edit text files and run your code based on those (and which you can sanely version control) and edit with a separate IDE is a much saner approach.
Google has sucked as a company from the very beginning. Not necessarily the technology, but the founders and the culture.

How many of you remember back in 2005 or so, when the first lawsuit for delisting was brought against Google by a small business owner? The Google attorney showed up with a complete history of this person's searches and proceeded to demean him in court.

Probably not many of you, because Google buried the story. Today it can't be found (I can't anyway). It was written about in a highly critical book of Google a few years later.

Think Reddit's API story is bad? Google did the same thing back in 2010-2012, slowly tightening the clamps on anyone monitoring them to put them out of business. My company was saved by a call from a famous billionaire to Matt Cuts, after which our little problem promptly disappeared.
Please refer to the section just above, in the "Tokens" section. Emphasis is mine:

> Tokenization is the process Stripe uses to collect sensitive card or bank account details, or personally identifiable information (PII), directly from your customers in a secure manner. A token representing this information is returned to your server to use. You should use our recommended payments integrations to perform this process client-side. This ensures that no sensitive card data touches your server, and allows your integration to operate in a PCI-compliant way.

> If you cannot use client-side tokenization, you can also create tokens using the API with either your publishable or secret API key. Keep in mind that if your integration uses this method, you are responsible for any PCI compliance that may be required, and you must keep your secret API key safe. Unlike with client-side tokenization, your customer's information is not sent directly to Stripe, so we cannot determine how it is handled or stored.

So in summary, yes, you can integrate with Stripe in such a way that you send them the card details... but then your business will need to be PCI compliant to the level of a PSP which, believe me, is damn hard. If you suspect that a merchant may go through the trouble of becoming PCI compliant only for the sake of being able to get customers card numbers for possible future malicious use, or do it in such a shoddy way that a malicious employee will be able to steal card numbers, you might as well just stop trusting online card payments in absolutely all cases, including Apple Pay.
Also see Fermat's Library: https://fermatslibrary.com
Well, but you still don't know if any of those persona are correct. It's great that you can talk to it, but ultimately you have to make the final judgement call, as it will bullshit you, and it can be much better at bullshitting than most humans.
It actually helps people. The only negative thing here is that Google makes money from it.
At least they integrated more automation so that many titles from Amazon's catalogs appear on Goodreads quite soon without manual work. So a lot of the recent stuff in the main languages at least often doesn't need to be added manually anymore.

It's crazy how much Goodreads relies on unpaid "librarian" contributions to keep their data in check. One problem with allowing the general population to add titles to the database is that the chance of getting malformed entries that will require manual fix ups (from these volunteers) later on is pretty high.

> I just checked back - that was a month ago, and I even made a forum post about the book that it be added, but nope, book's not there...it seems nobody has even looked at the post.

Volunteer librarians + zero dev support means that, if you really want to see the addition, you should bump your post daily or so until by chance it catches the eye of somebody...
You’re usually prohibited by the PSP from gathering or storing the CC details directly. You’ll notice you often don’t give the merchant the details directly.

Some large merchants do take the details directly, but they typically have to go through all the PCI compliance hoops and maintain that.

There are exceptions, but most of the time the merchant does not see your credit card details.
That's not how to review something from the past. Everything in these days "was weird". Because of mere chronology, your neural networks were trained to a completely different understanding of normalcy (as in not-weird) which your article doesn't address.
Here is a simplified daily edition: https://passwordgame.org
Everywhere??

That’s exactly the hype talk that’s going to burst this bubble.

Here’s tech’s dirty little secret. Despite all the screams about automation and universal basic income… the exact numbers where job replacement would show are in the labor productivity numbers. If GDP stays flat or grows while the number of jobs is reduced… bingo… you’d see that number climb.

Productivity has actually stayed flat or gone down over the last 15 years. Despite the fact that we’ve had trillion dollar corporate behemoths now. Despite that fact that we’re enabling a surveillance state Orwell couldn’t imagines. Despite the polarization we see. And teen anxiety going through the roof along teen/pre-teen suicides.

When you said AI (and in my view tech in general) are everywhere, I’m guessing this wasn’t what you meant…
> OTP stands for "Open Telecom Platform."

I don't think it stands for anything anymore, officially.
> real outcomes in life are often the product of the expectations placed on you

Quote from the following article:

“But the gap between optimism and reality is far greater for white teachers and white students than for other teachers and black students, meaning white teachers' high expectations of white students could be giving them an edge.

Finally, the study looked at whether teacher expectations matter. And the study found that they do. White or black, students with similar preparation are more likely to graduate from college if their high school teachers believe that they will. This is why teacher expectations, and any racial bias, matter so much, the authors say.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/24/study-finds-h...
Bikeshedding is prevalent in every popular area of human study, because it's easy to talk and write about. It's not representative of what matters to those who get the job done.
Why is it sad? I truly don’t get it, people on HN will say they are somewhat libertarian, pro decentralization, anti corporate oligopolies, but then use their dying breath to say “crypto has no use case”. Yet while AI took nearly 70 years to find its footing, in just 10 years crypto (currencies) has already found inroads into many areas as a nascent technology that has massive potential to solve some of our biggest problems.

I truly think it’s one of those cases where the “wrong/dumb” people jumped onto it (alongside scammers) and so it became poisoned to the right/smart ones. But we should be way better than that! Is it really so hard for people to separate good from bad?

It absolutely bowls me over to see this lack of ability to discuss it carefully around here so consistently. So many potential amazing conversations totally shunted by the absolute need to turn it tribal.
It would be interesting (better?) if it was a market in which homes with these thermostats could set prices at which they are willing to reduce energy use.
One outcome of no longer allowing unlimited public access to tweets is that it will become very difficult to cache or archive them.

(And Twitter won't want to allow caches or archives since if course they could be used to get around read rate limits)

To the extent that tweets (does Twitter not call them that anymore?) are an important part of the public record, including being able to verify whether someone really did tweet a certain thing at a certain time, this is a little bit scary.

And just generally for our ability to preserve historical record, already threatened by the digital world, and apparently getting worse instead of better.
Microsoft Teams will now hide any evidence of your potty mouth
Self experimentation, but default to "Lindy" nutrition. Look at things that have stood the test of time and allowed humans to flourish rather than die off. Focus on traditional diets, fast (don't eat 3 meals with snacks between - humans did not evolve to have that kind of caloric input, look at the obesity epidemic).
> IMHO, it's because organizations don't really value diversity in the ordinary sense of the term.

It's not just about organizations though. Whenever I hear ordinary tech workers, non-managers, just talking informally about underrepresented groups, they rarely mention older people. It's a forgotten group (kind of like GenX in general LOL).

I should say, I don't want to pit underrepresented groups against each other. As far as I've seen, various forms of discrimination go hand-in-hand. I once heard a prominent businesswomen say that the most sexist workplaces she's seen were also the most ageist.
Why are Cloudflare Workers limited to languages that compile to Wasm? Can't they use a container of some sort to isolate the code? Many languages can be compiled to Wasm but many times is quirky.
100% of people writing databases also know how fsync() and msync() work. I interpreted this thread as being targeted at a wider audience.
Correct.

It's one of those extremely-common-in-the-US-military-almost-no-usage-outside-it type things apparently, like behoove or tack (hyphen) or diggit (multi-tool), which I'll keep in mind in the future.
> but it's obviously not a passing fad

Citation needed.

I put it in the same bucket as deep CNNs - very good for specific tasks, but ultimately their lasting impact will be something trivial and faily non-world-changing like being able to search your photo collection in a slightly more clever way.
Borrow it if you'll need it once. Buy it if you need it again. It helps to have friends who also have specialized tools. After 5 years, I had a specialized tool given back to me. It had been passed around among friends. I needed it for a job so I bought it, but won't likely need it again for several years. After I got the tool back, it was loaned back out within a week. It's a benefit of being part of a community. Make friends, swap tools and services.
No, you need to go back and read it again. According to her story, it said:

“ HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.
I’m a master at the first two, but since there was no mention of programming stuff and the responsibilities section was so design-centric, I figured my jQuery proficiency and capacity to self-teach would suffice.”

The entire job description read like a UI/UX designer with a minimal understanding of JavaScript.

Her point is that if they wanted a software engineer then they should have hired one. She isn’t trying to be one.
>The fact some people still are is not an excuse for rasism in the opposite direction. Those things don't cancel out.

What if being amoral now causes a more moral society in the future? What if unfairly forcing equality now creates actual unforced equality in the future?
all of it coheres to consciousness, we know what it's like to be a human, but I think it'd be hubris to think we've cracked the code and made a blueprint of anything other than a word calculator
Proton Pass – Protecting your passwords and online identity
The low tier public university I went to explicitly stated that if you were a member of certain races the SAT requirements were reduced by ~200 points. They may be less blatant about it now, but from what I've heard affirmative action is still widely practiced. That's why you hear about white kids pretending to be other races(see Elizabeth Warren), but never the other way around.
All you can get in a survey like this is anecdotes and opinions. This may be sufficient for your purposes - here's my story:-)

My sister is not technically minded. She has used chatgpt to create a request for permit for a backyard deck to city Hall, a letter to her boss requesting attendance to a conference, and her performance reviews.

Another non techie and I use chatgpt to help us learn French and music theory.

My mother in law uses it to create funny rhyming stories for kids.

Meanwhile the techie friends of mine are... Completely ignoring it. My two best friends are vmware senior architect and a Java developer / tech manager, and I've been urging them for months to try it.

So I personally live in a completely opposite situation to that which you describe :-). Techie are skeptical of the toy, and endlessly discuss it's limitations and impact. Non Techies are just using it as a tool.
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Big mixed bag for me:

* All the techies I know have heard about and used it, and most have a healthy dose of skepticism paired with some optimism that it can be used to help solve some previously hard to solve problems. This alone, I think, makes it clear that LLM has staying power in a way that blockchain did not: obvious use cases.

* The normies in my life run the whole spectrum from "never heard of it" to "use it at least sometimes." One interesting subset are the folks who have heard a LOT about it but haven't used it. My lawyer said he had already attended panel discussions about the ethical implications of AI usage in law. I asked if he had USED ChatGPT and he said no; I had to direct him to the URL and walk him through signing up so he could see it for himself. And he's pretty tech-saavy as non-techies go.

Burying the lede, now. Here is my unpopular opinion: there is an outsized "wow factor" when you specifically use ChatGPT because of the fact that it outputs the text seemingly in real-time. It makes it look like it's thinking/talking and viscerally our minds are blown. Bing and Bard generate the response in the background and output it all at once like a search result, doesn't hit the same way.
i will share mine https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Btc is a genuine intranational and international currency in the developing world. It is more trustworthy than many sovereign currencies. The fx applications of btc alone are enough to grant it legitimacy and fx is a the biggest of all the markets. In a de-dollarizing world btc is a genuine factor.

The stable coins are an issue but stable coins aren't a necessity for btc transactions, they're a utility for traders. Btc's biggest danger is its price volatility. As it increases in value and market cap it will become more valuable to large players who will in turn be motivated to protect its integrity.
Why did they wait so long? No decent ML support makes their consumer cards so much less attractive, it's crazy
> Changing from licence version 3 to licence version 4 is none of these. It might be satisfying, or perhaps rewarding for the people directly involved.

who are you to say how someone else should feel?

It’s like someone not familiar with coding saying why should software engineers feel excited for releasing something? It’s literally just text you typed. Wow, boring.

Your other examples are literally just your opinion, which is fine. Understand others do not feel the same way necessarily.
Will double check both systems I have access to, thanks.
For me, it’s already a jetliner in the context of coding assist. It’s correct more often than top hits provided by a top search engine (and any coworker), and it is a very enjoyable user experience (no ads and SEO garbage to filter out). I’d say the wright brothers version was something like BERT or earlier GPTs.
Having worked with hot loading for a long time, and now working without, even if you bring up new nodes, migrate services, destroy old nodes, it just takes so much longer, and you have to spend so much more time dealing with the multiple versions at once problem.

Especially if you have state in your service. Shutting down servers with active clients is disruptive, and moving clients immediately is difficult. Simple HTTP request/response is easier, but a lot depends on your load balancing.
> he even entertained a thought to undermine the authority of one of the most important bodies in the democratic system by saying " this is not a normal court".

If you think that is bad, wait until you find out what the previous guy did.

Here is the problem we are in.

We are playing a game of Monopoly (or some other game, like Ticket to Ride). I go first. I get 100 turns, free. You get to sit there and wait. Finally, you say, hey, that's not fair, and I go okay, and now I let you go. But when I do, you play by different rules, and it takes another 100 turns for you to finally convince me to let you play by the same rules.

Now, we go to turn 201, and you look at a board that I control and I say to you "you can't complain, it's equal now".

So, the point of all this is: how do we move past that? How do we improve the situation for you? How do we make it equitable? That's the question, and the answer for some was affirmative action.

And to be clear, nowhere did I ever see a case where a white person was denied a college because their spot was taken up by a minority. Every one of those schools had other ways of letting students in that ignored academic merit (such as Legacies).

The flip side of the coin is believing our country should not fix the mistakes of its past. Bad things happened, and we should not strive to repair the damage.

Of course, the final belief is that our country didn't do anything wrong, but then at that point, our conversation is over as I have no desire to engage with things that believe that.
Did it disrupt the whole industry? Only the payment part of it, no?
File this one under good intentions gone wrong: I can see now the complaints to HR about someone dropping f-bombs in meetings except that the transcripts won't show that. Hopefully this is an optional or there's the possibility for HR to pull an unredacted transcript.
No, there's plenty of criticism or skepticism of AI models from within the techie sphere.

An echo chamber would mean everyone having the same opinions, and that's not the case here, at least speaking to tech people broadly.
This keeps happening in these discussions, instead of discussing LLMs, people want to skip to discussing this other, totally speculative, thing. It's like people are already bored with this new technology and have nothing to say about it, so they talk about this other thing that isn't boring yet.
But they do. Commercial locations like malls already have power available, so it's not a large-scale infrastructure project, but a matter of digging a cable and hooking up a box.
Do they also use assembler in HFT?
if you need speed ups like that, don't program in either.

I strongly doubt any production C# code is significantly faster than its JAVA counterpart.
Clippy is back as a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for Windows 11
> Offhand, I can't think of any 'park and ride' style Car <> Transit (train or not) interface in the USA that _does_ charge anything to park there.

Many of the lots at train stations in the Chicago suburbs charge fees to park for the day, usually a couple bucks, and there are annual parking passes that you have to wait years to get at some of the stations (I think Naperville is a 5+ year waiting list at this point).

However, all of the park n'rides for buses in the suburbs, at least those that I'm aware of, have free parking. And at least in my experience there's usually enough parking spaces for everyone who's taking a bus.

But the train system is much more desirable than the bus system here, so the demand for parking there is much higher. I live in a suburb that's like 25 minutes from all train stations, so I take the bus from a park n'ride just a few minutes from me, when it's on time it's pretty great, but it's not super reliable...I had to wait an hour at the bus stop downtown last Friday before my bus showed up (with another one for the same route directly behind it, they got that backed up) and once I was on it took an extra 30 minutes just to drive down one street in downtown Chicago, the traffic was so bad.

EDIT: While double-checking a few things, I discovered that Naperville is getting rid of its parking permits this fall and going to daily fees only[1].

[1]: https://www.naperville.il.us/about-naperville/transportation...
I guess my objection - besides the tedious style - isn't that it's incorrect, but that it's _bad_.

I find it deeply unnerving when corporations act like people. I don't want to have a "conversation" with a company if it means they've used surveillance to stalk and harass me across the internet so they can build a data profile of me and my habits. I don't want my life controlled by ruthless monopolies with happy human faces.

The result is not corporations that are more human, it's people that are less human. There is a straight line from Cluetrain to OnlyFans fleshmarkets. It worked, and it sucks.
> Experienced with Object Oriented JavaScript and modern JavaScript libraries such as Ember, Backbone, or Angular.

There's no version of a person who meets this requirement that cannot fizzbuzz. They put engineer in the title of the position.

"UX Engineer" is a completely reasonable title for someone who uses Javascript, HTML, and CSS to build web frontends. That person is absolutely a programmer, and absolutely must be able to fizzbuzz (and much, much more).
I feel it is likely to scale better than the alternatives, as it is a recursively hierarchical model of a recursively hierarchical problem. It would break if people are committing broken things, but then you have a different and more fundamental problem.
This is just the start of adding it in. They are adding the foundational things and then will be incrementally fleshing it out.
Just One Single History – combine the advantages of monorepos with multirepos
> After Twitch got big, they added livestreams, which didn’t go anywhere. After Discord got big, they added chat

I never heard of twitch as a non-streaming site and discord as a non-chat website.