skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suggested large player was Facebook and Facebook posts. Which trustworthy independent sources of authenticity do we have for that?
I do not think those you mention reach inside their walled garden?
I don't think many people understand that when you "buy" a movie or book on Amazon lets say, you're just buying a license to that product and it can be taken away at any time.

I sometimes worry what will happen to my library on Steam if I ever get falsely banned. I have a lot more than $100 of content there.
> Welcome to Universal Paperclips|

Universe: 49 / Sim Level: 5
Paperclips: 183,735,416
Make Paperclip

When it first came out I ran through it exactly 100 times before I accidentally clicked out of it with the "reject" option. About 6 months ago, that cookie had expired and I ran through it a few more(54) times
Show HN: Pensieve, an app for taking photographic notes
First independent measurement of zero resistance in LK-99
Ask HN: How do I get employee opportunities as a long term contractor?
For various reasons I've done a lot of contracting over the last 10 years. In the beginning it was because I needed to work remote and contract jobs were most available.

But this had to led to a resume of jobs lasting three months to two years, with lots of sub-year engagements.

This makes me appear to be either a job hopper or someone with performance issues, when in reality this is the nature of the beast with contracting and the fact that I've made a long career of contracting actually means I'm capable of jumping into new stacks and succeeding.

Contracting has its benefits but now in a remote friendly world I'd like to have opportunities in employee roles.
Biplanes have twice the number of wingtip vortices, so lots more drag. I suspect the reason biplanes existed in the first place was due to materials constraints. We didn't know how to make the wings strong and light enough to be very long, so kept them short and added a second set. This caused both more lift and drag. The drag was compensated for by running the engine harder (or using more powerful ones).

We now have sufficient materials knowledge that we don't have a problem making wings long enough to lift the plane. We're instead working on reducing the drag, so we can make engines work less hard.
Say goodbye to all your “Sign in with Apple” accounts
Somewhat relevant, Yann LeCun insisted the research should be open sourced. At least in an academic sense.

He touches on it briefly in this podcast episode: https://www.therobotbrains.ai/who-is-yann-lecun
I bought donated for this book yesterday - I am looking forward to getting the book.

My comment yesterday on Mastodon:

@pluralistic I just listened to the 8 minute audio teaser, signed up for libro.fm, and joined your kickstarter. I feel like I am trapped in Apple’s walled garden, but I am at least looking for a window to open!
Before technology, Bob could skip 3 towns over and change his name to Rick.
I clicked on this after my brain told me that PBR stands for policy-based routing
This chart is always useful.[1] It shows what people in the US are actually doing. Making stuff, total, is under 14% of the workforce. That's agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and construction. 14%. The federal government is tiny, 1.4%. State and local governments are larger, and that's mostly teachers and cops.

Many pointless jobs could be ended by taxing zero-sum activity. That includes most advertising and about half of finance. Finance in the US has doubled in size since the 1960s. Despite this, managed funds, as a class, under perform index funds.

So, yes, there are a lot of pointless jobs. Where does that leave us?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
Not really news is it?

From two years ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/bp-esg-outlook-s...

> BP’s ESG performance and outlook are bolstered by an ambitious net-zero emissions target from its operated upstream production by 2050, complemented by a tenfold surge in green spending, 50 gigawatts of renewable-power generation by 2030 and a 40% decline in oil and gas volume. Ecological metrics are favorable, with significant improvement in the 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, as BP’s safety and spill records are in-line with or above peer averages. BP’s board is among the most gender-diverse, and it has an investor-friendly governance structure and best-in-class ESG disclosures.

So BP, noted exploder of oil rigs in the ocean, gets a boost to their ESG rating by, among other things, promising to do some shit 30 years from now (a promise doubtlessly worth less than the paper it was written on), and hiring more women. What do either of those have to do with BP's actual emissions impact?

ESG exists to rehabilitate the reputations of companies like this.
Thanks for that link! We've been heavily inspired by the work out of TU Berlin on Scotty (https://tu-berlin-dima.github.io/scotty-window-processor/) but exciting to see more work on this problem. Our efficient window handling is a big area of improvement over what Flink is able to do right now.

For Yep, Flink has to do this themselves because they multiplex. My sense is that when Flink was originally designed in ~2012 Linux didn't support large numbers of TCP connections well (and memory was more of an issue), so they built a network stack that multiplexes many logical streams on top of a single TCP connection.

My (not terribly informed) opinion is that TCP behaviors and semantics are not necessarily optimal for these systems and you get benefits from allowing your systems' scheduler to control prioritization rather than handing it off the kernel.

There are also a new class of datacenter-oriented protocols like Homa (https://homa-transport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOMA/overvi...) that I think are pretty interesting to solve this class of problems.
Moxi the Robot: Delivering Meds and Stealing Hearts
Leaders largely fail to put work in perspective and lend meaning to it IMO.
More and more of our global economy is centered around compute. While it seems like oil and fossil fuel use will decline with the advent of other forms of energy production in the near future, computer chips are becoming prominent in global strategic thinking and military planning.

How is this different from maximizing paperclips? It's the same thing, just with a much more direct basis for instrumental convergence!
Yes, much of the dataset was simply copied and pasted from the inputs/outputs of other chatbots.
Fascinating comment thread.

We need more humans.
I second the FastAPI. But always I choose Django and if you throw HTMX in the mix not even Rails come close to what it can build.
I find it hilarious the kind of conspiracy theories people lob at BlackRock and Vanguard.

BlackRock maybe I can maybe understand, but Vanguard is like the most straightforward boring investment company in the world. It's literally a shareholder co-op for passive investment funds. People have no idea what they are talking about.
> I've also noticed sales are there to bullshit their way to getting somebody who isn't sure to buy something you're selling.

This is true to the same degree that "engineering are there to take something that works and reinvent it in a shitty flavour-of-the-month framework that guarantees them extra work by breaking every day"

Sure, some of them make their entire living from doing that, some of them aren't above doing that when it'll work for them, but most of them do other things.

Also companies employ salespeople because (i) not everybody in the world knows every product they could ever want to buy exists and (ii) most people outside HN don't assume that nobody could ever answer their "does the product do this" questions (never mind make a useful suggestion of something they hadn't considered) or want to figure it out from first principles by reading the tech specs.
A while ago there was this VR program called JanusVR where rooms were specified using custom HTML tags (https://janusxr.org/docs/build/introtojml/index.html)

Links are represented as portals, and unlike in VRChat you can just walk straight through them like in the Portal games - allowing one to "walk through the web": https://youtu.be/jYQtAcQddRg?t=48

Now, language models can generate HTML, and I feel this may be an opportunity to revive it again. To generate VRChat rooms, you have to learn Unity, which is heavy and has a steep learning curve. But if you can go from a text description to HTML, then you just need a text file!

It's a great alternative to the walled gardens
Not the worst move
Random thoughts ahead. You have been warned.

In 1987 I visited Soviet Estonia. Seeking gifts to take back to the USA, I bought a bunch of bottle openers. They were simple and robust. Stamped metal. And (get this) with the price stamped right in the metal.

See the benefits ? No arbitrage/speculation: the price is fixed, and dirt cheap. No marketing costs: that right there is going to bring down the price. No R&D bureau to finance: it's a piece of cheap stamped metal. No pilferage: who in their right mind is going to risk their job stealing cheap stamped metal bottle openers ?

Translate this kind of product idea to an OECD economy. The existence of a cheap stamped metal bottle opener does not preclude the existence of fancy bottle openers, just as the existence of cheap mass-produced coffee mugs does not preclude the existence of hand-thrown hand-painted cat-themed ceramic coffee mugs. But "universal goods" (let's call them that) are made & distributed basically at cost.

Similarly, how about machines that dispense nutritious biscuits for free, if you insert your ID ? Nobody says they have to taste good, but they'd keep ya going. Maybe like in Repo Man: he opens the fridge and takes out a can labeled FOOD.
Spreading the load a wing must lift along the wing is an important way to be able to make a lighter wing, owing to the fact that part of its load is now distributed along where the lift is being generated.
This is awesome news. I have been trying to tinker with getting Ubuntu working on both an older Intel Mac and my M1, but it’s an almighty pain in the ass hardware-wise. And I ran across more than one person who felt it necessary to point out that me buying an Apple computer was what the problem was. Like, really? That’s a real effective way to win people over.
This is why I have switched to services like Bandcamp, Gog, etc. At least I can take the content with me.
Interesting, I and all of my neighbors disagree. Thankfully the whole conversation has nothing to do with one person.
The fact you believe, rightly or wrongly, that meta is ahead of google on ai explains why meta would open source this. It’s a good reputation to maintain.
12 years ago I was interviewing for a job and I was surprised that it didn't include any coding bits, only a few light technical questions on the first interview.

When I asked for this I was told they had looked at my GH account and that it was clear that I had the skills they needed. That was nice.

Something similar happened on the job after that.

But in the last two gigs I had to do a coding exercise and I was a bit disappointed that my GH didn't seem to have an effect.

The difference? In the last two jobs the companies were big organisations, with a clear interviewing process, and the technical interview was on hands of almost random engineers that could even not be part of the team I was joining.

When I have been involved in the process, I always look for public open source code. So far I have never had a candidate with an active GH account.

Personally, I have been happier working with the people that cared about these things.
Queens or the Bronx in NYC. They're big city but full of real, working class people and immigrants. Parts of Brooklyn are good too (but also parts of Brooklyn are just as bad and worse than DC). Definitely not Manhattan, lol--it's DC attitude and costs but everyone works for banks and finance instead of the government.
George Hotz thinks so
https://youtu.be/dNrTrx42DGQ?t=9226

https://www.instagram.com/georgehotz/
But shouldn't the "free market" correct for this? If most people are putting their money into ESG but there isn't a real underlying performance difference, that creates an arbitrage opportunity for people willing to invest in non-ESG?

Sadly, I can already hear the right-wing rebuttal: "the market isn't truly free because of the (bankers) running blackrock! we need govt intervention to ban ESG, then the market will be truly free!"
In the video, it says above 110K and not below, I got confused as well. I will add that a lot of people are deleting retweeting this. May be there is something more to it.
From my understanding, the 'wiring' of an Autistic person's brain is pretty much the same as that of the neurotypical person. Of course, it should be noted that Autism is not one thing, but a constellation of possible ways of thinking. For example, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a trait common in Autistic people, but also a percentage of neurotypicals is not how the brain is wired, but a more complex mechanism that has not fully been understood.

What I am trying to say is the analogy of wiring is wrong. Our brains are not static, like the wiring in the walls of a house. New connections are formed all of the time, old connections are forgotten. Perhaps we should be more inspired by mycelium connections then wires. Research might open up new ways of thinking, for Autistics and Neurotypicals alike. Imagine, thinking like a child.
How rigorous is your understanding of human sexuality though? It's a very politically charged topic to compare it to, and we don't, scientifically, understand it. Where we're discovering that there's a gut-brain connection that works in ways we don't understand yet, is it hardware wiring or is it the firmware?
The ads you see aren't for you. Companies selling devices to reduce cramps bid to get to your eyeball because you (poorly) fit some demographic they want to reach.

The companies you are interested in - well, they already reach your wallet just fine without banner ads.

What gets me is what happens when you try to get a hotel, a plane ticket, a rental car, an emergency plumber, a tow truck or a ride somewhere.
Google is running on "publicly available data", not "licensed data"
Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?
If so, which one?
Things on the internet are proofread? That's news to me.
As you note, the politicization of it makes it difficult to point out the flaws without people assuming you like hate the environment or something. The problem is, like any score, it's easily gamed. That's how we get companies like ExxonMobil having great ESG scores.

The Atlantic had a great article about it:

"When you invest in an ESG fund, you may think you’re buying into a highly curated selection of positive-outlier companies. In reality, it will often look similar to an ordinary market-wide index fund. The 10 biggest holdings in the S&P 500 ESG index include Big Tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet; big banks such as JPMorgan Chase; and, incredibly, ExxonMobil."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/esg-woke-i...
Yes, KVM works (but only to run ARM VMs).
Interesting how the reception seem to be different this time around compared to when they were called Pynecone. At least that is my recollection. I follow this project with interest, I don't understand all that "you shouldn't do x with y". Each to their own requirements, its great to have a choice.
ESG is a waste of time, I can't wait until this fad dies down.
Just seems like programming will be joining the ranks of most tools. There will always be craftsmen, there will always be professionals, and then there will be the guy bolting together ice chests and garbage disposals to make margarita mixers on his patio or the kid with a duct tape exhaust rig on his Honda Civic.

I guess, to your point, it's only trouble if the margarita mixer guy is put in charge of something that matters? :D

(might be a bad example, I've known some fine engineers and mechanics that are absolutely margarita mixer guy, but hopefully my point is taken lol)
The argument of the piece is that the silver line corridor is tightly integrated with the city of DC. I lived in Clarendon and tons of people lived there and commuted into the city. People live there because DC is a great city with filled with interesting work that doesn't exist anywhere outside of the capital.

Every city has gotten more expensive, but DC gotten more expensive much slower than NYC or SF. High rises and strip malls are tolerable if you live on a metro line with easy access to downtown neighborhoods. And building high rises is much preferable to a city where working- or middle-class people can never own a home.
Shame as one of many aspects of cultural norms was my core point.

What are Japanese ashamed of vs US Midwesterners vs. US Californians, vs. their religiosity, individualism, collectivism, etc.

(edit: typo)
So people should just find false meaning in bullshit jobs?
I think Meta did a very good job with Llama2, i was skeptical at first with all that talk about 'safe AI'. Their Llama-2 base model is not censored in any way, and it's not fine-tuned as well. It's the pure raw base model, i did some tests as soon as it released and i was surprised with how far i could go (i actually didn't get any warning whatsoever with any of my prompts). The Llama-2-chat model is fine-tuned for chat and censored.

The fact that they provided us the raw model, so we could fine-tune on our own without the hassle of trying to 'uncensor' a botched model, is a really great example on how it should be done: give the user choices! Instead, you just have to fine-tune it for chat and other purposes.

The Llama-2-chat fine-tune is very censored, none of my jailbreaks worked, except for this one[1], and it is a great option for production.

The overall quality of the models (i tested the 7b version) has improved a lot, and for the ones interested, it can role-play better than any model i have seen out there with no fine-tune.

1: https://github.com/llm-attacks/llm-attacks/
I have never encountered this personally, but helped a few. There could be variations of what to expect, in response to your question. YMMV:

* If using the Web UI, it will be locked & probably will remain in some catatonic state, until Apple restores or purges its contents. The ID will not be reissued to anyone else, so it is a safe assumption no one will get any email, notes or photos that belonged to you. Apple support page will still be available in many cases (and probably the only thing) when you try logging-in

* On your device, syncing will stop. Local content will remain. Shared albums might disappear or seem broken i.e thumbnails will be visible but suspended account will not be able to fetch data. App purchases will stay but updates will probably be infeasible. iCloud dependent document access will definitely be broken.
> Your opinion is fact but mine is opinion?

No. Opinions are opinions, and facts are facts. Mixing them up is a type error.

It is not an "opinion" that if someone were claiming that there is widespread agreement of a distinction between "Open Source" and "open-source" (or "open source") then that is untrue—because that's how facts work: they are either true or they are untrue.

It's my opinion, on the other hand, that you guys are willfully dishonest and just kind of scummy, and so it is also my opinion that neither I nor any company I work at now or in the future should ever do business with you.
In my fantasy world, RLHF algorithms become efficient enough to run locally such that I can indicate my own preferences and tune models on them.
If you enjoy this, definitely check out Antimatter Dimensions. https://ivark.github.io/
Job Satisfaction Research (2014)
Apple telling someone that their account has been disabled due to fraudulent patterns and then asking them to create a new Apple ID is another level of incompetence from that organization.
That is one very moving story. Canada is such a mixture of beauty and ugliness. I've lived within a very short distance of a native Canadian group and got to know several of them, their stories would break your heart. It will never leave me how they don't expect their situation to improve at all because they simply don't believe any more that Canadians see them as an inconvenience that they'd love to see die out. Just their existence is a permanent reminder that all isn't well in Canada and that reminder results in the weirdest forms of retribution against people that have done absolutely nothing wrong. Note that this is happening in the present, not the past.
I think the social ramifications of car dependence are overlooked. US loves its freedom but in many ways cars make people much less free by taking away their free time, money, social interaction, physical activity, etc. It's incredible how expensive car infrastructure is, which increases taxes to an often unsustainable level (and poorer people not living in the sprawl of single family homes end up subsidizing). Paving everything looks disgusting and is bad for the environment and economy. Not to mention minimum parking laws' contribution to the housing crisis, or the trauma caused by ~40,000 deaths per year due to cars (not to mention all the other injuries). It's not hard to see why this sort of lifestyle could damage your health.

I hope we can get more deep dives on this topic as you mentioned because there are millions of people that would use viable alternatives. These would carry over to QOL improvements for everyone else too.
I really appreciate your time discussing this. It's helped me understand a different viewpoint, and I hope you have got as much out of it as I have, which is a lot!
As I understand it, this is strong evidence of this being a novel new superconductor, but not at room temperature.

That's still TBD but hasn't been replicated by anyone reputable yet.
Is push/pop really not available as a Cloud Service?
We are looking for a message queuing system that ensures the sequential processing of messages based on their row numbers.

This seems like a foundational part of computing - but we seem unable to find it.

Here's what we mean.

PUSH/POP: Adding and removing items from a list is common in code (push/pop). These methods typically ensure every item is processed once-and-only-once ("exactly once processing") and in-order (ordinality).

Finding this as a cloud service has seemed elusive.

GOOGLE: We were told by Google reps that Pub/Sub can guarantee items from a list are emitted in order and once-and-only-once but cannot guarantee that the items you added to the list were added in the order you expected. (The internet can be slow - or drop an item - and the order can be lost.)

APACHE: Kafka, as we were also told, cannot guarantee exactly once processing with ordinality.

The result is that both seemed to be partially implemented push/pop capability.

Does any such Cloud Message Queuing service exist? Or is this simply something we will have to write ourselves?

This seems so basic and fundamental to queue processing that we are surprised if it doesn't exist.

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Example Background

Let’s say I have five messages labeled with row numbers one through five, but they may arrive at the message queue out of order. For example, a message with row number 3 might arrive before the one with row number 2. The message queue should forward the messages to the service in ascending order based on their row numbers. Additionally, if there is a delay or error causing a row number to be missing, we want the queue to pause processing until the missing message arrives before sending the subsequent messages to the service. Is there really no suitable message queuing system for this requirement?
At the time when I was using FreeBSD as my daily driver, a major portion of the contributions in FreeBSD came from corporations too.
Or is the past endlessly rehashed with AI generated content?