skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, my bias leans the opposite direction. I benefit from AI risk hype.

I agree with everything you said and I think exaggerating capabilities and risks distracts society from doing that important work.
AI researchers also have a vested interest in saying their technology is safe.
Ah, yes the French, people historically known for good protests. If only that somehow related to the conversation at hand.
One's thoughts, communications, and reading habits are their private business. Behavior towards other users of public roads, not so much.
Can anyone recommend a few videos, papers, or books that "start at the beginning" for how quantum computing works--the physics parts like entanglement. I'm a computer scientist, so I'm good with the algorithm/programming aspects. Should I start with quantum annealing? Ideally I guess I'd like some pointers to good approachable resources on the ways qubits are made, maintained, written to and read from--start me off at the quantum version of the transistor. Thanks HN.
Or, more mundanely, automated customer support systems that just cannot handle lots of edge cases. And they'll have shut off all the "escalate to a human" paths since most of the mainstream paths work ok-ish.
> "The once-secret program — created after the 9/11 attacks and described by intelligence officials as crucial to stopping overseas hackers, spy services and terrorists — has long faced resistance by Democrats concerned that it could trample on Americans’ civil liberties."

I guess that's why the Democrat Obama opened up access to all NSA raw sigint data to every other federal law enforcement agency (all 16 of 'em) before leaving office. His final f you to American citizens as president (officially). Because he was soooooo concerned about trampling on citizen civil liberties... Right.

Give me a break... the article is obviously a leftist hit piece against the right.
Yet somehow Amazon is super popular in Germany.
Ask HN: Best non-crypto non-personal-home investment you ever made and why?
Investing is hard. What was a great investment you made in the past, and what led you to believe the investment would work out? Let's exclude crypto and personal homes, and probably self worth stuff (like school to change careers).

(Context: I've been reading biographies of local politicians and some of the issues that would have changed the value of commercial real estate in the city, and I was just curious what other sources of information people have found to generate successful investments)
from new T&C

For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s languageAI models and build *products* and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities. Or, if your business’s information appears on a website, we may index and display it on Google services.

https://policies.google.com/privacy/archive/20221215-2023070...
Achieving the goals of your team
> "Part of the solution may be to shield us from knowing that the computer is working to solve a problem. In reality, there is no reason why we need to look at an incomprehensible box with commands or a frozen computer. The computer could easily solve the problems without displaying this, while it provided a back-up version of the system for us, so that we could continue to work with our tasks undisturbed," says Kasper Hornbæk

Says the researcher who has no practical experience in development. While it's true that some OSes (I'm looking at you, Windows) and applications have less than stellar UIs, getting the entire stack (including hardware) to cooperate on a consistent basis is exceedingly difficult without NASA-level engineering. Given how many parts of a computer (again, both hardware and software) are churned out with an eye more towards profit than reliability, it's a miracle things work as well as they do.
I didn't ask GPT to describe any particular religion. My prompt was

"As a literary critic, describe how Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz is a religious figure."

The divine being contained within I would think would match Buddhism pretty well.

The reference to relics is too vague to pin down to any religion, there's probably lots of examples of it in lots of religions. If I had to defend it off the top if my head I'd compare the Ruby slippers to the "holy moly" herb Athena gives Odysseus to defend him from Circe.

If anything I think GPT went wrong saying strength is one of the virtues associated with the Lion. It would be much easier to focus on courage and say he needs to learn to be like a brave apostle who says things like "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me:"

My point wasn't that this essay was particularly good, necessarily, only that it was was good enough for undergraduate work.
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Why wouldn't everyone answer a million dollars?

How does this account for domain value changing over time, as you depend on it more?
Ada, Pascal and Oberon are all Wirth-languages (the latter two directly, and the former indirectly). So they're very similar, yes.

Simila is not and, beyond some ALGOL-descended similarities, is quite different from the other three.
> solar, improved batteries

Neither of those sounded as sexy (i.e hyped) to me a nuclear fusion and quantum computers.
I love how you jumped straight from "people weirdly into eugenics should be disavowed" to "dysgenics is desirable". That is the epitome of black-and-white thinking if I ever saw it.
Not scraping the public web is a competitive disadvantage, since OpenAI and others are definitely going to do it even if you don't. Unless there are new laws regulating it or some court setting a precedent under existing copyright laws, you can just expect all publicly viewable data online to be constantly training AI models.
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But the comparison is not fair.

Yes the electron microscope can image a lot of details "in parallel" but not all details from all angles, all internal microfractures. You can't easily measure all temperature gradients in all cubic nanometers of the material etc etc.

The simulation is slow because it works at that level and thus as a side effect will also give you that output.

Obviously if you don't need all that information you may find another route to arrive at the results you want
> ... <insert nefarious conspiracy here>

... retain customers and their money within bank accounts so they can lend it out and make money off of it.

Turns out it's not very nefarious, just normal profit motive. Banks make money with Zelle that they'd lose if you Venmo'd money to your fitness instructor who kept it in their Venmo rather than immediately depositing it into a regular checking account.

Do people actually have nefarious conspiracy theories about Zelle?
Do you happen to have a PDF of the course material which you could share? I will contact the course admin otherwise.

Yes, CIM is generating C and uses the available C compiler behind the scenes.
WTF. I spent 10 years in jail reading endlessly and only managed about 900 in total. And I had LITERALLY nothing else to do.
> Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425000/moderation-s...

> Starting the Prompt Design Site: A New Home in our Stack Exchange Neighborhood

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390463/starting-the...
Microsoft, at least, has not recalled workers at all.
Does Douglas Hofstadter?
As someone with a VR headset that supports all the games, those headsets are already sunk. Right now, gaming is all that exists in the VR world, because all headsets currently are horrendous for any other task other than gaming. I own a Quest Pro and have attempted to use it for work, but the poor resolution horrible passthrough make it quite uncomfortable to use. For games, it’s great.

I’ll be ordering a Vision Pro primarily to use as a display for my Mac, but also for development purposes. It is definitely a niche product at launch, but I think it’ll grow into the consumer space over time - it is really only niche because of the price tag.

Games will come, but gaming is the “easy” part of VR because you control the entire environment. AR interactions are what will make this into a viable computing platform that actually moves beyond the current 2D paradigm.
What an asinine thing to say and it exhibits your lack of willingness or ability or willingness to understand both AI and cryptocurrency.
> For me, it's consistency above all else.

Entirely this. I have a preferred style when I'm writing my own code. When I'm writing code for someone else, though, I will roll with whatever the house style is[1].

I just want consistency and predictability. Once I know the naming scheme, I should be able to take a really good guess as to what any given function or variable name is by knowing what they do, and vice versa.

[1] I consider it a red flag if a company doesn't have an established house style. It matters not what the style consists of, only that it exists and is mostly adhered to.
Hmm. It’s more like you want to hear the musician play first, but you don’t ask him to play something he is comfortable with to learn how skilled he is, nor do you ask him to play a known challenging piece of work. Instead you just start pulling out short “gotcha” songs with obscure key shifts and speed changes to test them. Like, sure a great musician will be able to handle it if they are a great musician, but it’s just annoying for the musician and there should be better ways to determine if they meet your expectations.
> Theory Z: The prime motivation for every single employee in every single organization is improving their own local working and living conditions.

That's the thesis of Culture of Narcissism (1979) by Christoper Lasch.
This is the case with most of these. Having big, popular, very profitable website is not enough. They are going to break them all. Good maybe if the VCs get annyoed it will finally allow for healthy ecosystem to emerge.
Zig does have some kind of interfaces, check [1].
I am interested to learn, how Traits in Rust and Interfaces in Go behave differently from this concept.

[1] https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings/blob/main/exercises/09...
Computer Speed Gains Erased by Modern Software
That wouldn't generally be considered to be a masters in any particular subject, though; I went to the University of Dublin (more commonly known as Trinity College Dublin) and am even, I suppose, eligible for the MA promotion (you have to apply, though; it's not automatic), but I never heard of anyone who'd done it claiming to have, well, a _proper_ masters.

> TBH I'm not sure why anyone would care about the difference between a BA and a masters. In the UK it's only an additional year of study even for a 'real' masters in most instances.

Yes, they probably shouldn't care about the difference, but the, er, technical truth is a pretty negative signal about the teller of technical truths. (As I say, I don't think it's really a technical truth; someone who'd done that could claim to have a masters, but not to have a masters in maths).
Things cost money to make

The better version are often legitimately more expensive to produce even ignoring all r&d cost etc, as they are made in smaller batches, using more specialized equipment or methods, use more expensive precursors, or any of a million other factors.

The reality is that even if patents were irrelevant, in the vast majority of cases the generic would still be the cheapest option simply due to basic economies of scale.

Really... I have to ask if you even considered the topic in any meaningful way... Right?
Web pages aren't laggy by design. It's a combination of using libraries which don't optimise it, not using tools to optimise it, and the lack of a well-engineered system.
Not all that useful but fun: you can implement swizzling with comptime
Author here. It's just a random number I picked to simplify the calculations.

But, yes, do find a new job if it's reality.
Why does it appear to have an awful default font?
It's absolutely non-obvious, I'm dead serious. As far as I've understood keeping up over the years, there's a credible argument from a respected academic in the QC community that quantum computing is impossible.
I thought most people recommend not to combine Krastorio with SE?
Whaaat I didn't know they owned AbeBooks. I love AbeBooks. I wonder how much of a cut they take from booksellers?
I was raised in the Church, and from what I remember it's... complicated. Like most everything involving the Vatican.

The Church definitely didn't use its voice to actively denounce the NSDAP. In retrospect it's obvious that it should have done so, but at the time it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the Nazis would lose the war - and wouldn't spread. The Church was protecting its ability to continue to exist. You also have to consider the context of the times; the Russians at the time were <20 years into their explicit campaign to stamp out religion in general and convert their nation to state atheism.

None of the above excuses the actions of the Church regarding Naziism, of course. I'm just sharing my understanding of why they behaved as they did at the time, based on my recollection of the catechism classes I took ~30 years ago.
If I'm understanding you correctly there seem to be two main points in here:

1) "It worked much better at first but now spam has invaded and it doesn't work as well"

and also

2) "It's still working enough because new things like TikTok are emerging from things other than some top-down mandate"

My response to the first is pretty short, like: if it didn't still work once big corporations and political actors, etc, noticed it, then it wasn't actually significantly different, just a new venue that was temporarily less crowded. And so the "new guard" is just the innovators in the Clayton Christensen sense who were able to win new markets with fairly traditional methods but without some new profound disintermediated relationship with their customers.

But the second one... to me this is really where it's much more "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and actually inherently a flawed, naive position.

People were never entirely at either extreme of "sheeple controlled by big corporations" or malcontent sarcastic "haha brands are dum and embarrassing themselves." New things emerged in non-top-down ways pre-internet too. But overall, before-and-after, big corporations that "win" then still usually get stuck in the same patterns that stuff like 66-95 predicts will go away: they have to please their investors, they have to please the media. The hold of the money people hasn't been broken by the internet.
Your project looks quite impressive as well, especially the extracted URLs to apply and the candidate profiles, didn't get that far yet :) Automating tedious work like data extraction and transformation is a great use case for LLMs.
It's important to realize that for banks IT is a cost center.

Sorry, that argument doesn't float in the overall scheme of things.

TOTP is easy to implement, more secure and costs less to operate than SMS verification --- which is widely supported by banks and in many cases is really nothing more than TOTP codes transmitted across the cell network.

If IT cost was really the issue, TOTP would likely be the universal default option.
Don't forget `WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN`! Still no idea what that does/did.

For those curious about WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN - it reduces compile time by not auto-including a number of windows headers: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091130-00/?p=15...
Yes, leetcode is nothing like what you do for a job as a coder.
Maybe I'm small brained but built in vector types align with heavily platform optimized libraries. Meaning you don't want this stuff implemented in the compilers front end. You want it handled in the compilers back end.
> Imagine you got rid of the Zelda skins and Zelda name, released it on Xbox. What would it get then?

You're right, but to be fair sort of 'reskin and re-rate' test would decimate the reviews of most sequels, remakes, adaptations, etc. Not just in video games, but movies, books, etc. Would Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy have been half as culturally relevant if it weren't standing on the shoulders of a very popular series of books?
The truth is thought control is real, which by any account is as old as civilization.

How might someone explain or deal with the entanglement of consciousness or occult collectives who navigate and influence the hyper-dimensionality of the mind?

A small subset of the populace are naturally more sensitive (as many as one sixth by some accounts) that some can hear the thoughts of others. The occult power heads spend decades, often under bleak circumstances conditioning their minds for Power. To travel and manipulate minds through consciousness by continuity of will.

Modern thought controls are far more advanced than anything in the past, and well regulated (if not by ordinary society’s refusal to believe, then by pyramid schemes of extortionists who do not want their powers explained.)

We are not alone in our own mind, and cultures of thought controllers have always existed, influencing (and competing for) conventional power.
I agree, but since we are effectively on an honor system for displaying valid, unobstructed plates and paying your tickets, more and more video-based accountability for driving behavior is a tax on conscientiousness that will make people feel like suckers and encourage them to defect.
Wow, thank you for the detail
The “Musk Bad” responses are 100% political.

He’s revealed his hand, in that he’s not a Blue Tribe member like most other tech CEOs.

So now, every member of the Blue Tribe hate him. They will attack him just as they attack anyone prominent from outside their own tribe.

Tribalism sucks. I wish people could rise above it.
> do see a lot of desire among MS, google, and AMZ to break nvidia's monopoly on gpu compute

They are all implementing XLA-compatible accelerators where the software is mostly opensource and the hardware is not.

> but I could easily see a group rallying behind AMD hardware

I strongly believe that ship has sailed and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. MS/Meta/Google/Amazon won't hitch their trailer to another platform that they don't control. They will invest more and more into custom silicon which offers one more way to do vendor lock-in while also giving them more control over pricing strategies.

Right now the issue is that they can't buy enough Nvidia GPUs to meet demand and Nvidia is itself forced to deal with TSMC.
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I am guessing Trevor Rainbolt would dominate this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt
> 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 feel similarly. I don’t want my grocery store or restaurant to understand me. I just want to buy a gallon of milk and don’t want to discuss my day with them. And I don’t want my order called out to my name. Just give me a number and I’ll listen for it.

I think the idea is that relationships make me spend more money. But I don’t want to spend more money on groceries. I want to spend as little as possible.

Also in this category is companies that want to wish me happy birthday or happy pride month or anything else related to what I want from them. I don’t need my water company to wish me happy new year, just provide water efficiently.
I understand the desire to make larger patches, but how do you effectively manage them in the review process? For super large commits in the past, I’ve had other engineers hop on a screen share to review the diff together and answer questions, but it feels inefficient.
Pervasive surveillance means that pedestrians do have a reason wear masks, glasses, etc.

Although it isn't enforced, its already illegal in most places to wear masks in public though. I've seen exceptions carved out for children (because of Halloween) and for people with doctor's notes, but not for cyclists
Interesting! By the title it seems a little more negative-valence than what I intended, but I will have to check that out. I appreciate the pointer!
I've been using Cloudhiker lately to replace the good old stumbleupon days and it does capture some of the magic of the old web. (not affiliated)
> They are were never going to be a unicorn and they will die trying.

Reddit are valued at ~5bn, which makes them a full-blown unicorn. But in 2023 the gap between a unicorn and an IPO-ready company can be huge.
Maybe create a stub project with all the above you like and check it into github.

When you start a new project, clone it and rename some bits and you should be set.