skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, when used alone, the term contractor generally means someone who works on construction sites: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_contractor

Indeed, that's what I thought the article was about, reading the title.
You should look at home price growth for California in the last 15 years, Irvine isn't even in the top. The Bay Area, parts of LA and San Diego lead the pack in price increases.

You might not be aware because you haven't looked for a home in the last 10 years?
This is my opinion as a professional content creator: of course, the boom is over, if by 'boom' you mean the frenzy generated on the internet. But, the ONLY reason why this is true is because nowadays the internet functions on trends. It was always true that people followed trends, but the difference between attention to any one trend between when it first becomes trendy and mere days later is far greater than it's ever been.

On the other hand, the economic and social impact of AI has only just begun. Now it will move more quietly to slowly integrate itself in society like a virus, making us more and more dependent on AI.

This integration will push us to becoming more like automatons, needing people less, and further concentrating the wealth of the world towards Silicon Valley, because it will create a worldwide addiction and dependency on something we never needed in the first place.
| But there is no lobby for the people of the country. So what ensues is a rat race

They want to keep you guys divided and distracted.
What we do know is that these self driving cars apparently have no way to get out of the way of emergency vehicles.

That's something that should be addressed.
Japanese, since Unicode is set up to display Japanese wrong (CJK unification - theoretically you can configure your application to display Chinese wrong instead, but no-one does that).
In this AI cycle, we are now currently at the late stage peak of inflated expectations in the Gartner hype cycle.

There is going to be a ton of losers with the incumbent big tech companies ending up as the winners.
If your program doesn't work, it's always your fault. Just like C.
I wonder how the numbers compare between countries when normalized for "distance/time required to reach another country".
You have a point.

I think Sept 1 being a Friday may also have something to do with the low ratio.

Lots of folks look forward to the weekend which might cause some to prioritize other job-related activities to wrap up the week, as opposed to posting freelancer openings on HN.

Maybe the ratio will recover a bit on Monday ..
AT&T's billing system (Telegence) is so convoluted, even their own staff can't tell you what your month to month charges will be, it's why they only give you an estimate when you sign up for a new line.
The idea of fixed-length characters was the mistake.
Unicode is fine.
Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
You're not wrong, but you're also getting the full story. "Contractor" often is the title used for bodyshops. However, there's also tons of freelancers and Consultants, and "Consultant" can be a much less negative thing than you're implying.

Many of the higher-end software engineers negotiate their own contracts, and in doing so act as "Consultants", because corporate standard contracts don't work for them. It's not usually about pay - FAANG has pay ranges that go up - But in the before times, it included things like WFH and additional allowances for time off.
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I like Sunvox for making music
> slowly integrate itself in society like a virus, making us more and more dependent on AI

so you could say the same for electricity. And yet i dont see you calling it a virus!

> needing people less

no, needing people to do less isn't the outcome. The same amount of people can now produce _even_ more. Just like having tractors pushed out farmers that used to hire lots of manual labour.

It's a good outcome in the long term. It sucks for those who get displaced - but the train of technological progress runs over tracks made of the bones of those it displaces. this has always been the case in history, and will continue to be until the day we reach post-scarcity.
This feels like it could have been much better achieved through contactless payment than a proprietary app. Moving from coins makes sense, moving off standards less so.
I am a contractor of sorts...at least, I don't have a regular job as a salaried employee. Compared to working 9-5, my hours are closer to part time hours and I get paid about a third of what I used to as a programmer....

Seems like I get paid less but...if you factor in all the additional time I USED to need getting ready for work, recovering from the 9-5 grind, commuting, I get paid about twice as much per hour as I used to.

Plus, the ability to work whenever I want, chill at home in bed if I want, do whatever the hell I want because the ONLY thing that matters is the final product, is worth its weight in gold. Besides, I stopped caring about making tons of money, and would rather use my young years for fun stuff.
If you're in the EU, Bunq's app works perfectly installed from Aurora Store on GrapheneOS without Google Play Services.
Worse. Only a tiny fraction of child abuse material cases actually get investigated due to lack of resources… this debate about scanning is an insane distraction.
Have lock smiths and people in prisons demonstrate how good/bad locks are.

Set up a rating system from say 0 to 100 where 0 is unlocked and anything that opens instantly using small hand tools is considered unlocked.

All locks get a rating of 5 until an official time is set. The videos are not shared but the current best time is published along with a statement from the manufacturer if they desire it.

A special tax for everyone to drive a vehicle that is considered unlocked as a permanent reminder and to pay for all of the above. While low at first, if there are few unlocked cars driving around the tax is higher.
Have you tried using apps like Revolut? Even if you can't link a credit card of your own you could find someone with an international credit card that will top up your account if you give them cash.

Though not sure you can even sign up with a Russian id
I pushed for the creation of that at Lyft and got it done. Sad to see us abandoning it.
"reduced-quality copy" was the wording in the whitepaper IIRC.

So the resolution most likely would've been the same, but the detail blurred so that the poor human agent wouldn't have to see actual CSAM, just enough to make a call whether it is or isn't a likely match.
It’s getting started. Serious use cases never have the glamour of hype. But I am starting to see generative AI cover more and more ground into business utility.

Saying it’s over is like saying that the internet is over after the dotcom bubble burst.

Nah. This is a revolutionizing foundational tech. Bigger than the internet even IMO. More like computerization of business, or the steam engine.
I think that the biggest missing "killer feature" for systems programming languages is the ability to treat stackless coroutines as just another "plain old data" struct. Here's a list of things I can do with structs that I can't do with C++ coroutines or Rust generator objects (much to my chagrin):

* Get their size/alignment at compile time

* Allocate them on the stack

* Allocate them in a memory region of my choosing

* Create a contiguous array of them

* Copy them

* Serialize/deserialize them

Imagine being able to save coroutines to your filesystem, reboot your machine, restart your program, and have it pick up where it left off. Or, migrating lots of actively running coroutines to another machine by serializing it and sending it over the network. Or creating a high-performance, high-concurrency event loop using a giant map of coroutine objects.
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As a mathematician, if there's one piece of advice I'd give people who need 1-2 math courses, it would be LEARN IT RIGHT. Pick up a rigorous textbook and read through it. Don't be lazy. I've spent decades reading many texts and papers. If you're smart, reading one real and thorough book will not take a lot of time.

And, truly understandng the subject will pay you back in spades. Don't go for fluff. Linear algebra isn't some Facebook post. Truly go through the book line by line and really understand it down to the nuts and bolts. Suffer a little.
The article starts with an asymmetric comparison of the survival of a single set of documents from 2,000 years ago and then lamenting the loss of some documents today. We don’t have all the songs 16 year olds wrote 2,000 years ago. But that is largely what was lost in the MySpace’s data loss. The truth is, we’ve lost the vast majority of what was created in every era and there is no reason to believe we are losing more today than 2,000 years ago or even 100 years ago.
Ah thanks - let's change to that above instead of https://isc.sans.edu/diary/0.
Only for Playstation consoles, but might have been one of the Twisted Metal games.
This is where digital money comes in. You can buy an anonymous card with digital money on it and you can buy it with cash money. Then you have your debit card.
I use it several times per week. It's a tool with its time and place, not a magical wand that will replace any effort and thinking.
I'm perplexed in what you think "full support" for a novel Unicode codepoint entails.

Most of the properties of a novel codepoint that matter, are attributes that the codepoint has defined within various Unicode-Consortium-defined data files. If your custom implementation of Unicode support already parses those data files, then a new codepoint is essentially "absorbed" automatically as soon as the new version of the Unicode data files are made available to your implementation.

Are you just complaining that new codepoints don't automatically receive glyphs in major fonts?

To that, I would say: who cares? As I just said upthread — character encoding is about semantics, not about rendering. A character doesn't have to be renderable to be useful! The character is still doing its job — "transmitting meaning into the future" — when it's showing up as a U+FFFD replacement character! Screen readers can still read it! Search engines can still index on it! People who want to know what the character was "meant to mean" can copy and paste it into a Unicode database website! It still sorts and pattern-matches correctly! And so forth.

Rendering the codepoint as a glyph — if it even makes sense to render it standalone as a glyph (for which some codepoints don't, e.g. the country-code characters that only have graphical representations in ligatured pairs) — can come at some arbitrary later point, when there's enough non-niche, non-academic, supply-side usage of the codepoint, that there arises real demand to see that codepoint rendered as something. Until then, just documenting the semantics as a codepoint and otherwise leaving it un-rendered, works fine for the needs of the anthropologists and archivists who "legibilize" existing proprietary-encoding-encoded texts through Unicode conversion.
At first, this site made me see red.

;)
"That said, I believe that selling access to the tool to the public already violates the copyright of the rights holders, even if it doesn’t produce similar works of art. The copyrighted works increased the value of the product (otherwise why would they use it?)."

So it is similar to how ISPs argue that they should get a cut of streaming services because they enable another product.

I think it is also relevant that more than half of the globe will just completely ignore any regulation and any artist in a country with regulation will just have to compete with ever more empowered artists using all ai has to offer.
Yes, it does. That is the definition of "legal tender". Usually there are some restrictions on the amount and the denominations, so you don't have to accept a truck full of 1 cent coins.
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You're doing exactly what I asked you not to do, perpetuating this pointless dispute. It's taking up a ridiculous number of cycles. If this keeps up, we'll ban the topic completely from HN.

My hypothesis is that if you guys stop responding defensively, the problem will simmer down and eventually go away. Stop focusing on criticism. Stop responding to it externally and stop reacting to it internally. Just ignore it. Work on your thing and keep your comments focused on what you've done.

If you want to do that, I'm willing to help you. But you have to actually do it. Responding like this is the opposite.
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At that point I'd wash my clothes in the sink/tub and hang to dry, techniques learned from my backpacking days.

Sometimes the traditional ways are best.
People DID get into a huge fuss and started building false positive generators in a huge wave. Like they were proving something or pwning apple.

Nobody read the bit about an actual human verifying results before any law enforcement would be called in.

And outsourcing checking is a huge industry even today[0]. How do you think the huge social media companies keep CSAM, gore etc out of their systems? They're not using Pied Piper's hotdog or not algorithm, that's for sure.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...

A snippet from the article:

> The video depicts a man being murdered. Someone is stabbing him, dozens of times, while he screams and begs for his life. Chloe’s job is to tell the room whether this post should be removed.
> so you could say the same for electricity. And yet i dont see you calling it a virus!

It is like a virus in a way.

> no, needing people to do less isn't the outcome. The same amount of people can now produce _even_ more. Just like having tractors pushed out farmers that used to hire lots of manual labour.

We have reached the point of diminishing returns when it comes to technological development. We do NOT need to produce more things more efficiently. That only leads to more resource usage, which this planet can no longer accommodate.

Instead, we need to concentrate on sustainability rather than productivity.

> It's a good outcome in the long term. It sucks for those who get displaced - but the train of technological progress runs over tracks made of the bones of those it displaces. this has always been the case in history, and will continue to be until the day we reach post-scarcity.

If we go down that route, we will use up too many resources. We should not aim for post-scarcity, but rather post-productivity. Technology is no longer making the world better, it's making it worse. If you live in a city, simply look out the window. We're destroying our planet all in the name of endless economic growth, which is only making us slaves to the technological machine.
some good writing there.
> If there are 5 encodings for the glyph 'a', how are you going to know which one to search for?

There are two possible cases and Unicode covers both of them.

For the case of IPA `ɑ`, it is a distinct character from `a` (which doubles as an IPA) so results containing `ɑ` will be ignored. But this is not far from I want, because `a` and `ɑ` are distinct in IPA and the search correctly distinguishes them. I would have to type `ɑ` to get the other results, but this is an irrelevant matter.

For the case of mathematical alphanumerics, they do normalize to normal counterparts in the compatibility mapping (i.e. NFKC or NFKD). The compatibility mapping disregards some minor differences and would be useful in this case. Of course I would like to narrow the search so that only mathematical alphanumerics match (or the inverse)---this is why Unicode defines multiple levels of comparison [1]. Assuming the default collation table, all mathematical alphanumerics are considered different from normal letters only at the level 3, while IPA `ɑ` is different at the level 1 (but sorts immediately after all `a`s).

[1] https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Multi_Level_Comparison

> After all, if I was writing algebra, I'd use the ASCII 'a' not the math glyph.

What I would type in TeX doesn't exactly relate to the actual encoding.
Completely agree. These foundational models are more akin to the invention of transistors or the internet than anything else. It's a little disheartening from a startup perspective to see already large "incumbents" in the form of Google, Open-AI but I think most of the value created, in the future, from generative AI, will not be captured by these players.
That was a great summary of the tech. Your height comment helps explain why my external mix setup didn’t produce as much snow as it did frost. I only had it about 8’ off the ground.

This coming winter I may try increasing the height of the mixer and positioning a fan underneath to help push the mix upward to give it more time to bind to the nucleus crystal.
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Yeah, it took a LONG time for .NET and C# to get out of the "Micro$oft Bad" -reputation.

But having done a good 15 years of Enterprise Java professionally and having moved to C# for the last half decade, there isn't enough money in my country's IT salaries for me to go back to Java. It's not just the language, it's the whole ecosystem that's icky compared to C#/.NET.
Indeed. We learned computer skills because we had to. Computers were a buggy mess. I still remember how big of an upgrade windows 98 felt like. That is no longer the case. We now have devices, apps, and services meant for the specific purpose of effort-free consumption.

I didn’t get my first smartphone until I got a job, but I really wish that my parents had never let me have a personal computer, in hindsight. It caused significantly more harm than it did good.
> in most cases human drivers will be in the car and can generally be cleared out with the use of a siren.

vs.

> Two autonomous Cruise vehicles and an empty San Francisco police vehicle were blocking the only exits from the scene

from the article (ie, humans at 50% of the danger of autonomous vehicles, having selected from an article that may be a hit piece on autonomous vehicles). The base rate for human-driven vehicles blocking ingresses and egresses is probably quite high.

I've seen ambulances with sirens blaring stuck in traffic. It just can't be that uncommon. Even before worrying about what madness the low-end of human drivers are capable of.
My theory is that he got addicted to Kerbal Space Program and spent as long as he could playing it until the editor told him finish the book without saying “delta-v” again.
I have a love-hate relationship with those kinds of restaurants. I hate having to look at the menu and order using my phone, but on the other hand, I love that I don't need to tip them (because there's no service being provided to me -- no, carrying my food over from the counter doesn't count).
> Though not sure you can even sign up with a Russian id

You definitely can't. You used to be able to sign up for Vivid, a similar app, with a Russian passport and by telling them that you live in Germany with no proof required, but I heard they cracked down on this since.
Cute, but the normal definition above is what I immediately thought of too. After I started reading the article, I thought it was using the word "pirate" as clickbait.
Interesting, I didn't know that.

But I read up on it and it sounds like Unicode is widely used in Japan and the issue is mainly academic when it comes to old texts. It also seems to have been mitigated with selectors:

> Since the Unihan standard encodes "abstract characters", not "glyphs", the graphical artifacts produced by Unicode have been considered temporary technical hurdles, and at most, cosmetic. However, again, particularly in Japan, due in part to the way in which Chinese characters were incorporated into Japanese writing systems historically, the inability to specify a particular variant was considered a significant obstacle to the use of Unicode in scholarly work. For example, the unification of "grass" (explained above), means that a historical text cannot be encoded so as to preserve its peculiar orthography. Instead, for example, the scholar would be required to locate the desired glyph in a specific typeface in order to convey the text as written, defeating the purpose of a unified character set. Unicode has responded to these needs by assigning variation selectors so that authors can select grapheme variations of particular ideographs (or even other characters).

From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
But we are losing more these days than 2000 years ago. And we save lots more as well. Think of how many billions people can write or paint now and can make photos. How many could write or paint then?
This is such a naive take. I’m using gpt4 daily for anything coding, sql, directions, text editing, research etc. It’s absolutely invaluable and if it was $1k a month I’d seriously consider getting it.

Computer just had their GUI moment again and we’re just getting started.
Does anyone like the third version of the "flip it" episode?

Yes, has more details in it, but does it really matter she spit the gum in the gutter?

I feel the first version, was just the right amount of information, just put in the wrong order.
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It’s just begun baby
How do you do QA on one-off items or reliably fact check books?
It should actually be within fair usage limits, as long as the content is truth and no damage is intended. The company might still threaten to sue if they know the threatened party can't afford to fight the suit.
My strategy as a professional writer is to take my near-final version and then simply have a goal of reducing it to at least 75% of the original. There are always superfluous words in a text which has not yet gone through a good reduction.
By this measure pretty much every common programming language is unimplementable and should be never advocated. People have implemented Unicode for decades. Only a few implemented "full" support (in some sense), but that's same for pretty much everything complex enough. Can you actually measure one meter [1] according to the International System of Units?

[1] Or one foot. I remind you that all current standardized definition of "foot" is based on the SI.
It takes a lot of effort to unravel such a huge mess. It's impossible to do cheap.

The corporate structure has more than 100 legal entities around the globe intentionally designed to obfuscate what's going on. So you need domain experts in each country along with experts on unraveling the structure.

In the end, for this particular company, it doesn't matter. The IRS has filed a claim for $30B+ in unpaid taxes. There's nothing left for creditors.
Also, the open source models are getting closer and closer to the (current) closed models.

Hopefully more and more tinkerers are going to fuel this fire even further, making it possible to run AI on-device with custom native chips.
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