skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference in the 100k-1m range was a lot smaller than I expected, given the tone of the post.

Guessing the way retirement works in the US is a large part of the difference in net worth and millionaire calculations.

Either way, lots of the difference is sure to be among the elderly (they’re who have any net worth of note, the actually-rich excepted) and you need a whole lot more money in your private accounts to have a comfortable retirement in the US than in the EU.
I’m sure some processes and procedures were updated on that day and the next.
While not yet flagged, this submission how now been removed from the HN front page where it reached #6. It's the responsibility of this site to keep this story from being censored.
Did you mean "why doesn't the government allow every citizen to register a set of public keys for identification purposes"?

The citizens obviously wouldn't want the government generating their private keys. Because then it wouldn't be a private key any more.
Rolls-Royce Achieves Controlled Hydrogen Burn
Accessing Leipzig from the major population centers in the Northwest of Germany is a major annoyance, though. The train connections to Leipzig basically only work for people in the southeast, bavaria or berlin. For everyone else, Hamburg is much more convenient to reach.
An article(with pictures) on the petroglyphs:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9273-native-americans...

I'd be skeptical too
It does allow installation of webextensions. Unfortunately, they are extremely buggy on iOS. I was pretty disappointed when uBlock Origin installed successfully but didn't do anything. Once the webextension support is stabilized, Orion can be a serious alternative to Safari.
YC can definitely also flag stories. This was just removed from the front page even though it wasn't flagged. They need to keep this alive if they want any shred of credibility.
ChatGPT as Muse, Not Oracle
A couple of things stand out from the stories you mentioned. I should say first of all that I do sympathize and when I was starting out I definitely did do similar stuff to what you mentioned.

1)

Whenever a new framework is introduced this usually requires broad consent, clear scope, and agreement on committing to this new direction, doubly so when it's introducing a new language. Do you embark on working on these projects without discussing what you'll be doing?

If I was managing a RoR project and someone went off for a week or two and came back with projects written in Prolog I'd be livid. Who's going to maintain that? Why wasn't this discussed?

Have you even considered code reviews? How are you going to have useful code reviews if no one else knows the language and _knows it well_?

I understand writing one-time use tools in whatever language you want if you're the only one who's going to be using it, but otherwise, it makes the most sense to stick to the team's strengths when in a commercial project.

2)

It took me time to come to terms with the fact that not everybody working professionally in software is passionate about tech/software/languages. Some people just view it as a dayjob and prefer to stick to the known, well-trodden paths rather than exploring the field (an old boss would often make the distinction between dayjobbers and technologists aka people that are in love with tech).

Often great is the enemy of good enough and the most important part of working professionally in dev, for the vast majority of cases, is hitting the mvp and ensuring maintainability. Sometimes the time investment is better used elsewhere.

Channel your passion towards your personal projects and/or open source projects, not at work (unless the environment is conducive to that).

Now, startups are a wonderful place for mixing passion with work and a big exception to the above, usually there's a lot of room for experimenting and coming up with clever/complex/out-of-the-box solutions to problems.
It’s interesting to think, when a company starts to vertically integrate, how deep do you go?

Seems like OpenAI is exploring its own devices/OS as well, which makes sense to me, but it’s a vertical integration bet. This seems to be another big bet, but they could benefit from having their own optimized chips regardless of whether the device/OS bet wins out.

Extremely exciting times for OpenAI!
I've never touched Rust, but I can see the complaint -- if I have to write my code in a special way so that its state can be marshalled across threads to redistribute load in a way that I do not need and will make the actual end-to-end latency of a single request actually slower in cases where I've got oodles of CPU head-room, I would find that infuriating.

I could see this approach making sense in a platform where transferrable state was the default and is rarely broken, but it doesn't sound like that's the case in Rust?

edit: I'm curious, what's the ergonomics like for this? Is it just "oh, your code won't compile if you don't add this magic incantation to say it has `Send`?" Or is it "your code will fail in intermittent, hard-to-debug ways as state gets mangled during work-steals if you don't do this right"?
Thanks for clarifying that you were only putting up a facade of being unbiased.
There's a manual for Dune II in there too. I miss having manuals for videogames.
Given the relative clunkiness of commercial timestamping services, https://opentimestamps.org/ seems fairly useful to me.
how long did it take you?
If people keep paying them even though it doesn’t work right then why would they fix it?
> But their catalogue is incredible.

I'm an Apple Music user but honestly there was not a single time where something was not available there. Even the tools for artists (Like https://cdbaby.com) usually just cross-upload to all the services.
If you have a chained hash of the data in the linked list, yes!
Being told what to think and treated as if we're children is one of the complaints that people have about the corporate media. For a site claiming to be an independent media entity, Emanuel Maiberg's article ought to provide a link or some better proof of this story to let people see exactly what was said and interpret the details for themselves. As it is, this piece looks more like outrage-clickbait crossed with a splash of political activism. My 2 cents.
All of their actual links point to Mastodon, so I think someone just used the wrong logo. There doesn't seem to be any actual confusion.
Yeah, a post from 2 hours ago with no comments and 5 points is on the frontpage but not this. Strange.
Even worse, then?
Yeah, raises hand.

Even though I take all care to differenciate environments, always cross check, we had to live drop a table while on a meeting, and due to ongoing conversation the wrong window was selected, and multitasking ended up causing a major distraction.
Except it disconnects from the Wi-Fi when running, and only re-connects afterwards to send the notification about completion! A total cop-out...
Get this, you can also use Photoshop to make offensive memes!
I dunno man. Every generation thinks they have the answers and that their ancestors were fools.
It was flagged for a short while but someone probably vouched for it (another feature you get after a certain karma). The existing flags probably adds a downweight to it.
rm -rf vv\ *
Cool that you have a working backup, but restores are what counts. And they’re not instantaneous in almost all cases. So asking before certain destructive actions is still a good practice.
I think it that case if you went through the whole book like that a judge would argue that you are infringing because you can recover the whole book like that.

But if you went by and grabbed the very first sentence from each chapter that's is sufficiently in the clear. Especially when you are doing something transformative with it. Like for example analysing what makes for an effective opening sentence.

With copyright you always get to ugly slippery slope arguments, Tom Scott has a great video on it.

But if you cannot extract something the replaces the original work you should be already in the clear. I'm pretty sure Cole's Notes don't need the original author's permission to print and they are arguably a substitute for reading the original work. I've skimmed through entire series by reading the individual episode summaries on Wikipedia. These are in the clear.

The fact that a machine speeds up a human process does not change legality.
The morals and ethics of this are fascinating.

Eg. from society’s point of view of supporting young couples for starting families, the ai would recommend one set of obvious recommendations based on sociological data.

On the other hand, from a hedonistic point of view of maximizing short term dopamine, it should recommend completely different behavior.

It could probably screen the user up front on what the goals of the dating are. Eg. Orgasm versus long term relationship.
The attitude is mine, I"ve been a spotify subscriber for almost a decade now, and it's the corpus of music that keeps me there, not the apps/interface and certainly not the exclusive podcasts.

Spotify knows this, and also knows they only license the corpus and get squeezed on it so they do these experiments to try and find some way to get users to pay for something they actually own (recommendation engine, exclusive podcasts etc) and as a user it's just endlessly annoying.
> tweaks to DES (which later turned out to be defence against differential cryptanalysis)

The NSA's mission has changed, in the sense of its real priorities for securing comms vs. spying on them. They were clearly different at the time of creation of DES vs. at the Snowden leaks, so I wouldn't take that episode as too much evidence of helpful intent in the 90s.
It was on the front-page but they pulled it. It was #6, it even started getting tweeted about:

https://twitter.com/betterhn20/status/1710296708939170170
Hey! I’ve been working on this for 2-3 weeks.
Any time you can drive things with data there's a good opportunity.

For instance, if you have a functional testing suite that can be run with, say, a series of commands in JSON... you can tell GPT what it can do and ask it to write out scripts in that format.

In general if you think you want a DSL you might be able to get away with JSON and GPT instead, using GPT prompts as your DSL and some simpler imperative system run off GPT-generated JSON. (GPT can translate the JSON back to English too, so it's not just one way)

If there's any story elements in your game you can generate them with GPT, again probably resulting in JSON. You shouldn't defer the entire plot to GPT, but it can fill out lots of details and make the environment richer.

If you have autonomous entities in your game (as simple as any kind of enemy) you could both brainstorm behaviors and personalities and then turn that into code, making the enemies more eclectic.
It's more like "how did the public respond when the extra tax was reduced from 180% of the total amount".

(the above rates are lower than previous rate!)
That's because most focus on what I was supposed to be indoctrinated by: Jonathan's journey and ascension.

Nobody expected I would fall in love with Fletcher, read the book as a long prologue to Fletcher's part, and make his words the hymn to my liberation: "No limits, Jonathan?".
And if not, you're excluded.

I mean, maybe that's a good thing, but certainly not what makes me interested in CCC at all.
We've been unable to distinguish fact from fiction for a while. I'm not clear what difference deepfakes will make.

The fake here was not subtle. It was not trying to nudge people away from a position. It said baldly "This candidate is a criminal and nobody should even consider voting for them."

In a system with any decency, the opponent should say "That is categorically false and I condemn whoever made this fake. The election is about the legitimate differences between us, but my opponent is a good person. They'd be a good in the office. I would be better, and you should vote for me, but not because you've been fed lies."

Instead we've spent decades reducing every election to an existential crisis. At least in the US -- I can't speak to other countries. Differences in policy or managerial style are ignored in favor of "they are trying to destroy the country".

Which is aggravatingly self-fulfilling. Once you've decided that your opponents are enemies of the state, it justifies every response, including unethical or even illegal ones.

Deepfakes exacerbate that, but they seem like the inevitable consequence of a population who was carefully prepared to believe outright, transparent lies. You're right that AI will addle democracy further, but only because we were already addled.

There are much subtler ways to use deepfakes to persuade rather than harass. But it sounds like we'll never get to those, since people are perfectly willing to accept the crude ones.
Maybe we are posting with green accounts because of the content of the OP?
>The paradox is that every device I use interrupts me non-stop with modal dialogs ad nauseam.

Pop-up warnings that are too common are a problem itself. People get so used to accepting them immediately that they stop serving their purpose and just become an annoyance. With one exception: they can prevent misclicks.
No - a TON of things naturally fluoresce when excited by external photons. The size range of proteins is great for that. Proteins that produce light through phosphorescence are a completely different thing and shouldn’t be hand waved into the same category. Some exception could be made for molecules like gfp, etc.
At no point have you made a coherent reply to anything that I’ve said. You haven’t explained your position. You haven’t explained what you’re arguing against. And I have not one clue what you could possibly mean by “people whom you consider as less-than." And I don’t care to know, because you’re off in la la land fighting the good fight against demons that exist only in your dreams. I’m trying to snap you out of it. Far from being on a high horse or playing mods’ deputy, I was trying to look out for you as one community member to another.

You are speaking to someone who has been active in this community since day two of its public launch, back when it was called startup news. Normally I don’t appeal to authority, but I’m hoping that whatever delusion you’re under will be dispelled by the realization. When you say I’m not operating in good faith, not only is that mistaken, but it’s plainly mistaken. You can ask any of the hundreds of people I’ve engaged with over the years whether I have ever once done what you seem convinced I’m doing here.

Since self preservation doesn’t seem to rank highly on your priority list, I urge you to chill out before you get to know the mods a lot better than you currently do. Because my instincts are screaming “this person is on a collision course with the mods, and they’ll be busting out the paddle sooner or later." Just because they don’t notice you breaking the rules doesn’t mean diddly-squat. It just means they’re not omniscient, and if you keep rolling the dice like this you’re going to hit snake eyes sooner or later.

I’m going to sleep. I have a newborn to care for. I’ve tried to help you as much as I can. I genuinely wish you the best of luck, and I hope you’ll stop going around poisoning otherwise interesting conversations with baseless accusations. It’s a huge distraction, an emotional drain, and does a lot more harm than whatever you think I was doing above.

It’s fine to disagree with someone. Running around calling them a sassy dick three times in a row isn’t disagreeing. One tip to avoid such comments is to wait until you feel curious about something rather than fulminating. It works for me at least.

Thanks for inspiring me to use Sassy Dick as my porn name if I ever get into the industry though.
YouTube music is fine (and comes with YouTube premium for free - or the other way around, depending on how you think about it).
It would seem that way, but I’ve known many people who have had 7- and 8-figure year-end bonuses. The key is that it’s not a one-time thing, it’s a repeated game with many players who share information. If a firm gets a reputation for underpaying its star performers, it won’t ever again get good talent, and it will die.
> Also Iran in 1953 had a prime Minister Mosaddegh, who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil.

Iranian oil was nationalized; in 1951 the National Iranian Oil Company took control, and retained it even after Mossadegh’s ouster (even up to today).

> The UK (and US) sought the support of right-wing mullahs, then overthrew the prime minister and replaced him with a dictator.

First, by this point in time Mossadegh had dissolved parliament and was ruling by fiat based on a rigged plebiscite (he claimed that 99.9% of Iranians had voted to give him control of the country[1]). Second, he wasn’t replaced with a dictator. The Shah had been in power since the Soviet Union and the U.K. had forced his father to abdicate over a decade before, and had been in a power struggle with the Majlis for quite some time by that point.

> Eventually even the right-wing clerics and bazaari grew tired of foreign interference and threw the western powers out.

The Shah was (mostly) friendly with the West, but he was hardly a puppet. He was the one who got OPEC to double their prices during the 1973 oil crisis, which hit the West pretty hard. Here's how PBS put it[2]:

> The final blow came in December when the Shah of Iran, ostensibly a U.S. ally, took advantage of American impotence and persuaded the rest of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to more than double the price of a barrel of oil from $5.11 to $11.65.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/04/archives/mossadegh-gets-9...
[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2012/06...
Very nostalgic to see the recent DEC/digital talk on HN lately. My first job out of college I wrote C++ on OpenVMS (originally on Alpha).

I remember when we had to port to OpenVMS Itanium. Biggest pita was floating point conversion. Alpha used VAX float while Itanium used the IEEE standard.

I laughed the first time I saw the exit code "%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels".

I still to this day own a copy of "Writing real programs in DCL". Looks like a collectors item, hahaha!

I also somewhat miss the mainframe development. We had a fantastic (albeit homegrown) build system and architecture (thin client, thick server - all C++) that was hugely enabling. Was super slick and easy to build, you could easily create previews for product people to run and test. Really tight development loops... loved it.
EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer
A very simple cross platform podcast listening app that maintains good playlists
This is the reason I left Spotify for Apple Music
You’re lost in the weeds. I know that’s the point it’s why the whole song on the radio thought experiment got brought up. The question was, if an AI model trains on public radio waves, and hears a copyrighted song, is that infringement? My position is no, it’s not because the radio station had a license to broadcast that song on the radio.

Similar, if all the books used to train a model are available in the library, so long as someone rents the books, then they can be used to train a model.

The question was directed at you. I don’t know why you’re repeating it back to me like I didn't know what I was asking…
Android as well, and DeX is a thing.

Maybe spend some time with Android tablets.
As a result lots of people around you do own them, which increases the chance you'll see one used some day. Which is an example of having low quality of life.
At least on mobile I struggle to find anything in the app collection, it just seems like all the icons look the same, particularly on iOS where instead of the same gear everybody else has for settings I keep wanting to skip that thing that looks like a movie poster for The Golden Compass.

On the other hand, I just type "1" into safari and it autocompletes the URL for my RSS reader, I type "n" and It autocomples Hacker News. It's so much easier that figuring out which one of 5 stylized "N"s or 3 stylized "H"s is the one I want.

(I don't know what it is but on the desktop I find icons easy to scan, yet I still find pressing the Windows key and typing 1-3 letters is almost always faster than any other way of finding applications)

The thundering herd seems to think the mobile home screen is valuable real estate but I am aggressive to delete apps not only because they are 95% "crapps" but also to make it easy to find the two or three that really are valuable. (e.g. Why do I need a Walgreens app when there is a perfectly good Walgreens web site?)
The peace prize is awarded in Norway.
We had DECstations. They were great systems for the day. Only a few years later, they were overtaken in speed and price by (IIRC) 486 systems with Linux; I think those were cheaper than the tape cartridge unit on which we got the system updates. DEC never recovered.
I've wondered why microsoft hasn't done this already.

The $oftware boys already have a full explainer about why $aa$ is the best thing since open source, so why shouldn't Microsoft jump on board too?

C'mon SaaS devs, tell me again about value add and how you love paying monthly for the software you use...
Streaming JSON from OpenAI. Why and how to overcome difficulties
Just curious, even if we known the origin plaintext becomes known and we can prove it's correct, this doesn't compromise the security of those curves, correct?

I'm showing my age here, but as someone that lived through and had to mitigate the results of the md5 disater, I'm all for a variety of [verified] cryptographic algorithms being available. I think having edwards curves, NIST curves, or others is healthy for the ecosystem.
The image in links 2-3 doesn't load for me. Is there an archived copy somewhere?
What Happened to Kevin Hale?
He tweeted something about some AI startup tricking him in some way on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/mymorristribe/status/1698219418877325436

And then shortly after, deleted his account. I've been a big fan of Kevin. Hoping he's ok.
They removed the ability to pin playlist shortcuts to the Android home screen. They did it without any warning or reasoning. On their forums, a number of people express the desire for that feature to be back. That triggered an automatic notification saying " this idea is getting traction someone will take a look at it! ". And yet.

After 9 years of being a paying customer, I switched to youtube music.
> They honestly can't write an Andoid app to save their life.

How could it be? They make an intelligence test with 5 seconds to solve linear systems!
The first thing I do when I open the Spotify app on my iPhone is do a hard close of said app because God forbid I want an up-to-date list of recently updated podcasts. I understand trying to keep things in cache but for things that require frequent updates that should be the default yet there isn't even a swipe down to refresh function.

The podcast ads also break the player like 30% of the time, resulting in another hard close.

In CarPlay occasionally there is an issue where clicking on one podcast episode in new episodes section results in playing the item below it, resulting in another hard close.

The desktop app doesn't have many issues but they did make a change to playlists a couple of months ago where some useless sidebar comes out from the right when you play a song.

I ended up abandoning them for podcasts all together about a month ago.

Too many people working there making changes to things that aren't broken for the sake of making changes. Not a single thing they have done in the last ~4 years has been positive.
I still haven't seen one good reason to upgrade from windows 10.