skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alot of commenters here talking about scaling a saas biz which they can ride to retirement but imo it's a shot not worth taking for the average person. Way easier to build a consulting practice or become skilled in a niche area of development. There's literally Fortran developers making 500k year taking odd contracts. I know a MongoDB sme who bills $300/hr to fix common scalability challenges and address technical debt. Yes it's not sexy and you won't be featured on product hunt, but you'll be rich and can retire young in decadence.
Crosswalks near High Schools tend to be rather bad as well; the other day I saw a teenager start crossing (walking, not running) when there were 3 seconds left on the countdown. Then one of her friends called out to her from behind while she was in the middle of a travel lane that, by this point, has a green light. She stops, turns, and has a good 15s of back-and-forth conversation before completing walking across the street.
China Fines Man over $144,000 After He Used a VPN
AI-Enabled SaaS vs. Moatless AI
What is worse about it?
Marx explained this quite well in his capitalist critiques (note: these are different than the communist manifesto). In analyzing Capitalism, Marx found that there's 4 primary types of alienation happening to the worker in a capitalist enterprise. This was expanded from Hegel's 3 types of alienation.

Alienation 1: From a worker's product.

Alienation 2: From the act of production

Alienation 3: From a worker's human nature

Alienation 4: From other workers

Wikipedia has a great intro writeup here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

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But, what is a "bullshit job"? It's a job where you cannot see what you do, cannot see its impact on the whole of production, cannot see how others fit in with what you do, and siloed so that you do work in exclusivity of others.

But there it is. Marx wrote about these problems, and there were starting to be these problems. Now, we have computation as its own force that serves to radically separate us from each other's contributions, so that *only* the management and owner class can see how things all go together.

And as to Alienation 4, we see this explicitly with "gig workers", being pitted against each other. There's only so much work, and gig companies figured out they could make workers compete with each other to who will accept the least money for a parcel of work, all the while giving up essential social obligations workers fought in blood to get (workers compensation, unemployment insurance, etc).

People believe they're in bullshit jobs because they have been removed as far as possible from what they and their colleagues do, as a control point by the ownership and managerial class.

In reality, almost all jobs are not bullshit.
It was in reply to:

> If push comes to shove they'll be fine and pressure to black box signal in the EU is unlikely to hold up if they can just move users to another app store.
Their reasoning for having it Play Store only is that Google does not require app developers to provide their signing keys/sign the APK themselves. Now this is no longer the case as Google changed their policies.

NOTE: F-Droid does not require app developers to share their keys, instead they build the application themselves and sign it with their keys -- something Signal is not a fan of.

tl;dr their rationale no longer applies.
rg111 has a good strategy here. For step 1, making a cats vs dogs classifier, the first lesson of the FastAI course will give you a path for doing this right away, and I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this course.

A sibling commenter mentions that certifications will do nothing for you. They're not exactly wrong, because what ultimately matters is that you can demonstrate your skills. Certifications and to a large extent even degrees mean very little; what matters is that you convince them you know how to do stuff. The best way to convince people you know how to do stuff is to be able to show a list of cool things you actually did. These courses and their certifications may not mean much on their own, but in the course of completing the courses you will develop skills and capabilities you can demonstrate and talk about in your resume and cover letter.
China's Oil and Gas Giant Sinopec Says Peak Oil Demand Already Happened in China
"...the Northwest hub will produce hydrogen exclusively from water via electrolysis, powered by hydroelectric dams and other low-carbon sources of energy."

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/oct/13/biden-administ...
> I assume the answer to that will be that there is no need to differentiate between them. And honestly, I agree with that

I disagree. The point is to reduce actual child abuse. The images are in a way only tangential. If an image is made with an AI with no actual child being abused, then it shouldn't be a crime.

In a way, it's better, because it will distract the crowd of people into this sort of stuff from activities that harm real people.
That would be these guys: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-federal-agents-charged...

Not this guy: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...
It's possible that people remember how much it sucked, but they also recognize that the UI sucks even more now.
The EU Says Mark Zuckerberg Has 24 Hours to Respond to Censorship Demands
> Plus he was honestly the type of manager that was better at talking than doing

Well yeah, who else would the media think to profile?

When the media profiles OpenAI, most of the coverage will be on the CEO, who is more of a 'serial entrepreneur' than an AI specialist.
Yeah, gpsjam.org can only show data where 1. aircraft are flying and broadcasting ADS-B, and 2. there's someone there to receive the messages (and send them to ADS-B Exchange). You can see a map of where ADS-B Exchange feeders are located here: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/
I can see there is a huge popularity of the anime One Piece. But do you not think watching One Piece is going to be a waste of time? I mean, it already has more than 1000 episodes. So instead of watching a single anime with lots of episodes, we can complete a number of anime like Death Note, FMAB, AOT, Tokyo Revengers, etc. In a nutshell, why watch One Piece when I can complete multiple anime in this time why do I give this amount of time for only one anime?

Read more on the link about this.....
Trying to open article, but Access forbidden.
Hebbian and predictive plasticity learns invariant object representations
Before your comment, my design could not do that. After your comment, I'll make sure it will.

As a build system, it can incorporate other build systems and run them natively. It only makes sense that it should do that for package managers as a package manager. So as long as you understand that most other build systems give you opaque binaries, I can make that happen.

But on the other hand, I think I can make your mutable environment idea work and cross-platform to. My design will require that the environments all be on the same disk because it will use hard links and a SQLite database, but those work on any platform.

But anyway, I also think I could set up mutable environments such that, as long as you only modify it through my tool, it could record those modifications and generate a file to recreate that environment elsewhere. That sounds like Nix, but again, my tool will use other build systems and package managers.

Is that what you want? Or did I read it wrong?
Lol, I was actually defending ads. Like ads are perfect for taking a break to grab snacks or use restroom. Also ads provide pretty good stopping point, we are not as much binge watching TV as when on Netflix. Even when you can forward ads, it still makes you get out of the show into the real world and you realize how much TV you have been watching.

Maybe Ad industry should promote these benefits, so people will hate ads less.
Jesus fuck.

This isn't a Latvian company, by chance, is it? Blink twice if yes.
A clarification: "[flagged]" means a certain amount of HN users clicked "flag" button, not that moderators banned a topic.
Because the conspiracies, especially pChinese government organ harvesting and uighur prosecution, were absolutely true...
Really great lessons in this video especially with applying decals. I've tried to learn how the factory does the manufacturing so that I could restore my various junk computers in the same way.

For decals I've seen this cool looking machine that uses some sort of flexible balloon like device to first pick up the design and then "stamp" it onto the material.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZFfcA8v88U

I wonder if there is a way to recreate this at home?

The method used by the presenter is actually really clever!

Also, thinkpads have this special "rubber like" feeling thats quite distinct among most laptops. You guys must know what I am talking about. It didn't really look like he recreated that. Would that even be possible?
Oh, so it's a swamp cooler, but one that pre-dries the air passively?

It could work, in some climates. But yeah, the cost and rate you need to replace the desiccant is the critical factor. In my experience, most commercial users don't want to screw with their AC systems more than once a year, and want it to "just work" without bothering with 'unnecessary' things like preventative maintenance.

If it needs replacement on the order of once a month or more, then I doubt this will go anywhere.
When I buy a laptop, one of the things I'm looking for is that it doesn't have an integrated camera at all. It's happened sometimes that I can't find one, then I cover the camera with tape.
Quantum computation explained in a consice and compressed way
Who is "we"? Why would the wealthy keep the poor alive? Just look at all the people dying in tents on the sidewalk in any major US city.
Correct. Sorry.

That's why I have four ways to try to make money.
I would also like to live in a world where it is easy for end-users and distros to theme apps. But with current technologies and cultural expectations this results in an untenable testing and support burden on app developers.

We could shift cultural expectations so that distro maintainers become the first tier of support for all app issues in their distro, and escalate issues to app developers if and only if they've confirmed that the issue is distro-agnostic. That would be sustainable for app developers but could be a heavy burden for small distro teams.

> This is a HARD problem, but that isn't an excuse to not face it.

Agreed, I just don't think it's the responsibility of app developers to solve.
Tax vehicles is one big advantage. Your take home as an employee on $500K is only $250K a year, whereas you can defer income in a business and pay 20% tax.
The FBI et al are very good at surveillance. I doubt anyone close enough to SBF to be part of a criminal conspiracy would be unknown to the FBI or not under surveillance at this point.
ARR doesn't seem to be super important for VC funded companies as long as someone will pay a lot of money for the company and everyone can cash out.
It didn't work for me either.
True. I was grasping at straws for the right word. Thank you.

The Greek/Latin/<jargon> structure should be standard or taught in schools in some capacity.

Basic programming concepts are popular, useful and should probably be taught as a sub category of English... given that programming is supposed to be a language, and pull its roots (somewhat) from English or "natural language".

Society would produce higher quality code if the basic concepts were considered as a literacy requirement for children.
This makes no sense to you precisely because you think that mathematics is (only) a language. It's not. A language is invented; mathematics is discovered. In the US it's not called a science, but for all intents and purposes it indeed is.
Rare 'ring of fire' eclipse will cross the US on Saturday
This is a good analogy to make, but I'd add that in this analogy, the majority of land has oil underneath it, and the majority of that oil can be reached without capital for exploration.

Fintech, bio, etc. are exceptions, but generally if you have a large TAM, you can still choose to take VC funding or not (you bootstrap at the risk of someone else taking funding to grow more quickly and capture the market).
As of 2023-10-13T11:17:57-0400, registry, api, and build are marked as Major Outage.
ARIN NRPM 4.10 has special provisions for getting new IPv6 only ASNs under an org with no IPv6 addresses an IPv4 block to facilitate your IPv6 only network via NAT64 as well as hosting core services like DNS dual stacked (which you probably would do if getting your own ASN :)).

In regards to peering the Vultr VPS option allows dirt cheap VPSs to peer so I'd recommend checking them out first.

Question to the crowd: what's a cheap good way to get a peer for full tables? Vultr is restrictive on that, sensibly so, but it was nice/fun having my own looking glass. I used to have it with a $150/m quarter rack Colo but after my home internet went 5 gig symmetrical it seemed like a massive waste to maintain a remote Colo so I dropped that.
My beef with gmail is that it completely destroys mimetypes. Everything that gmail postgres contributors send (from the web interface) seems to always be application/octet-stream, which is really annoying for configuring my email client.

https://git.sr.ht/~tristan957/dotfiles/tree/master/item/aerc...
This is actually one of the things I love about my Mini Cooper; they have cool physical toggle switches that feel like you're in a cockpit instead of the all-digital interfaces that feel like a coffee bar.
I, too, clicked through thinking this was about LoRaWAN (despite context clues)
Not computers or math in general, but there are plenty of safety measures and legislation around things using computers and math such as heavy equipment, weapons, cars, medical devices. Not because math itself is dangerous. And not for AI yet, but I see no reason there shouldn't be.
But that's the point. If you think they are "different types of data" you are confusing yourself. It's all just bits representing floating-point values.

If they're ints you can trivially make them floating-point using routines that have existed since those data formats were invented. If they're discrete values you can encode them in ways that make them legible to the models. One of the more recent interesting developments was token embeddings, admittedly, but again this is just an example of taking slightly more abstract representations and turning them into bits representing floating-point values, which has been an established paradigm known as one of the pillars of "feature engineering" since the beginning of the ML field. One-hot encoding is just a special case of token embeddings.

It's amazing that humans figured out how to store data in useful ways, not that models can "figure out" what to do with things they are already capable of ingesting and processing.
Back in the day they called it a world war
No, it doesn't dehumidify your house. That's where the efficiency comes from. Cooling and dehumidification usually come together, but this lets you have cooling without dehumidification which is more efficient. No comment on desirability.
> Healthcare costs have no relation with how many people can get coverage.

Sure they do - even in "civilised societies".

Let's say your government is willing to spend 10% of its budget on healthcare. Well, if healthcare costs twice as much, then the citizens get half as much healthcare.

And, in practice, isn't that how it works out? Basic care is available to everyone. If you need the heart surgery or the expensive cancer treatment, well, there's a long wait list, because they aren't paying for very many of those each month, so get in line.

So, yes. The regulations also mean that some people die because society can't afford the healthcare. (Or at least doesn't afford the healthcare.)
If you want substitute in 'joy' for 'sales'. Its a figure of speech. What is the joys pitch of this language? It looks like a beginner friendly version of Java.

Im all for the idea of optimising for developers fun and joy but im not picking up the sales pitch either
Former Silicon Valley lawyer here. It would be very difficult for a VC to win such a case, and it would almost certainly not be worth it for them given the amount of damages at issue.

It would also hurt their reputation by making it seem like they got duped by some founder.
"Low Level Programming University" a.k.a. Peaking Beneath the OS
For personal stuff, the biggest expense it's time. Everything else--in the early days--can probably be founded with a handful of dollars a month. That would be hosting expenses and a domain name. And hosting can probably be tackled without payment too.

If you have to spend more than that I would question if you are trying to do too much too soon.
Yes its more about Venture funding than YC specifically.
I can't grasp all the motives of those people preaching "safety training" and "alignment problem." But I suppose it is greed and a will to manipulate the public and effectively the market after all. To decrease biases in LLMs, one should clean up the datasets from these biases. Is it not enough to know that those biases and "dangerous" information in LLMs are simply what is scraped from the internet?

There is no way any LLM can do something dangerous on their own. Even with the huge effort of an evil human mind, they will not be better than a Google search (just a little bit faster).

IMHO, the brainwashing of the LLM after the training aka "safety training", is absolutely useless garbage idea. With the method in the article or without, you can get out of the model whatever you want.
How do you get the news articles? A web scraper or some API?
How is it not fraud to initially represent to investors that you plan to scale to the moon while planning all along to later say that you decided it wasn't going to work out?
> if the consensus of the whole academic field of post-quantum cryptography doesn't count for anything

This is precisely not what I'm saying (and isn't what's happening here). What I'm saying is that given the evidence presented about NIST repeatedly changing evaluation methods, incorrectly calculating the strength of the Kyber, and refusing to clarify any of the above, it really looks like NIST had an outcome that they wanted to reach and took the actions necessary to reach that outcome. It's also really weird to say "it's not enough that almost every participant in the competition agrees that it was well conducted" in response to the lead designers of one of the two primary algorithms saying that the competition wasn't well conducted. With a competition like this, you do expect some people to think that the decision criteria weren't quite the right ones or something like that, but here there's a very clear accusation that NIST either just lied about the security of Kyber or messed it up and refused to correct it when it was pointed out to them.
We’re considering how we can express “directory private/public” exports in Notion’s codebase. One idea is to consider file names starting with _ as “private” eg smyFeature/_internalClass.ts could be imported by other files in myFeature/ but not by anything in yourFeature/. But doing file level granularity would encourage barrel modules without the _ to re-export stuff publicly, eg myFeature/public.ts.

These numbers show a good reason to go with a different strategy that allows per-export public/private instead, so consumers only pay for what they actually get!
Linear regression. Right away!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1349453230762196992
> because it will distract the crowd of people into this sort of stuff from activities that harm real people.

This is actually the main point in dispute, and almost everyone arguing one side or the other on this topic seems to assume one side or the other on this point and argue from there, rather than seeking to support their position on the fundamental disputed fact question.

Which results in the most of the debate being people talking past each other based on conflicting assumptions of fact.
It's not super clear from the article how this achieves such a drastic reduction in energy use. It seems that maybe they are not accounting for energy used to dry out the desiccant at night; in that case the 60% figure might make sense during the cooling cycle only.

The opening blurb also makes no sense to me; as it is AC units already suck moisture out of the air. Ask anyone who had a clog in an AC drain line :-)
Is it possible that your own bias towards AI makes you somewhat blind to the scale of garbage AI tools being shoved in people's faces daily?
A bit of a nitpick on the language on the homepage:

The description of the Fibonacci example seems incorrect, but I might be misunderstanding something about the language.

> A fib evaluation function was defined using recursion.

> The result of the function call was assigned to a variable named "result" and format the output using fmt.printf

import fmt

fn fib(int n):int {
if n <= 1 {
return n
}
return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
}

fmt.printf('fib result is %d', fib(30))

No variable named "result" is ever defined, right? Maybe the description is outdated from a time when an intermediate variable was present.
I'm the creator of the Nature programming language, and I'm incredibly thrilled to see my project featured on the front page of Hacker News. I've been developing this project in my spare time; initially, I focused on building the compiler back-end, which is something I'm deeply passionate about. That alone took me roughly 3 years of part-time effort. Only in the past year have I started to design and implement the front-end of the programming language.

I'm not one to give up halfway, and even though breaking into the programming language market is exceedingly difficult, I'm still committed to investing my enthusiasm and time into making this work.

The first goal for Nature right now is to reach a minimum viable product stage. The second goal is to "stand on the shoulders of giants"(go/rust). The third goal is to incorporate more innovative ideas and possibilities.

Even if Nature doesn't gain a user base, I will still use it to build interesting things.
I write and sell software that uses a genetic algorithm to optimize seating layouts for weddings and event, but I have so far resisted using the dreaded "AI" anywhere on my site.

At this point anything with an 'if' statement in it is "AI" as far as marketing people are concerned.
“…it's nice to be able to manipulate multiple things at once.”

Particularly if one thing affects another in a ripple-effect or chain reaction. It is great to be able to adjust at least two values at once. Keeps you from going back-and-forth adjusting in ever smaller increments to get to the settings you want.
5 years later I bought a car that, from the dealer, could play MP3s burned on CDs. The shuffle mode was terrible though; if you had enough songs, it would loop the order and not play every individual track.
Why can you _only_ choose your imports one level deep?

With rust at least, don't just pull crates off crates.io. Use a locally managed registry and only allow crates you've mirrored to be pulled. If that crate has a dependency then you need to pull that dep as well. It seems like a lot of work (because it is) but this is how you validate supply chains.

I'm honestly a bit upset that years before Log4shell I never tried to make a software repackaging company. At least within the DoD sphere being able to source libraries / software from a US vender is a big plus. I think enough that I could've basically just provided Review as a Service where I "sell" OSS software as a US Company and then use that money to review & develop those OSS software.