skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I empathize that it appears the case it's not an optimal allocation, but to say you know it's a misallocation leans overly simplistic.

I empathize that it appears the case that the market has some emergent properties that allow it to optimize allocation, but to say you know its an optimal allocation leans overly simplistic.

"I think investing in a venture that will do <X> seems like a good idea" may, indeed, have some connection to an at least pareto optimal resource allocation.

"I will offer your $X in N months for <X>" might also play a useful role in resource allocation.

"I will buy this 3rd derivative instrument that reflects guesswork about guesswork about preferences and hold it for 3 hours" is just the financial service industry fucking us over.
I think he’s saying that Google did not tell them. Banned with no reason or recourse.
I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the linked sources, though. Similar to the authored pieces, I don't assume energy is 'wasted' on a perceived goal, but that actual waste is produced (e.g. mining devices are discarded quite frequently) as well as waste energy due to protocol implementation inefficiencies and infrastructural limitations (i.e. many compute cycles for little gain).

Both can be accounted for: would you not rather see a version where these issues are accounted for? PoS is a sure way forward, but there are still many legacy chains around that do not benefit from this [0].

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
Somebody described his brand of atheism as essentially an Anglican heresy, since he shares most of the same moral and sociocultural views, as well as the same burning desire to bring people “out of the dark and into the light”. He just happens to disagree on the theology.
You don't click a button, you touch it with your fingers in a mechanical motion physicality putting your thoughts down, the letters and words, there is no learning-related conceptual "surely", just the fact that it's less efficient to do and redo, which in the poorly designed lecture situations can force you to stop and think instead of doing dumb transcribing
You'd do a better job convincing me if twitter/X/whatever was actually doing better than before Elon took it over.

Also, everything you explained in your second paragraph I've rarely seen first hand, except maybe the techno-elitism. That I saw more with hubris, especially around "changing the world" with solutions looking for problems like blockchain.

As for the rest? If anything I usually saw the opposite, outside of larger companies where people formed varying clubs/support groups, etc. Every time I saw something in the news about it, it was usually a small group within the company agitating via the media and the fringe ideas were just as often top down from people link Musk, Thiel, etc.

One thing I think we'll mostly agree on is that things have changed, but more so via the standard corporate suffocating pressure to "fall in line". How we perceive that pressure is going to depend on where individuals are slapped down (which can hit people across the political and social spectrum). If anything, it's probably more a sign of how the industry has matured. A great example is Google, which has become a product manager driven company. No longer will some (group) of engineers create gmail/maps/whatever on their 20% time; products are top-down driven with revenue targets that if they're not met are canned.
“It was good”, addresses the post-creation impact of the something vs. nothing (decision, instance, etc.), but it doesn’t answer the question of why there is something vs. nothing, which is asking about the origins of existence and isn’t concerned with the impact.

I don’t mean to ask "God, why do you exist?" because “Why is there something instead of nothing?” encompasses that possibility without necessitating it.
Hey Devs

So, I've been digging into this Image Watermarking thing, and I've put together a list of some really cool Image Watermarking APIs and who provides them. I took into account stuff like how how customization they provide, the kind of support they offer, input and output formats, and more. (By the way, even though I'm part of one of these providers, I did my best to stay neutral :)

Now, these recommendations are based on my own research and what I've seen. Are there any plugins that do the same thing? Have you ever tried out any other providers? I'd love to hear about your experiences with them.
> Of course, before the heat-death of the universe entropy-reducing systems will break down, but that's not an interesting observation.

Excuse the snark, but it's exactly as interesting as saying that some living systems are immortal until they're no longer immortal. If a protocell or a virus stops being alive (if we grant that it's alive) when it falls into a fire then it's not immortal just because it has no metabolism.

>Once started, their schedule (when they will deplete themselves, collapse, etc) is known and predictable, thus not alive.

Actually, no. For example, a star could hypothetically fall into another much larger than it and prolong its life, if we were to say that it lives. The only reason it's predictable is because a star can't move on its own to hunt weaker stars, and because (at least at this time in the history of the universe) stars are far enough apart that they rarely fall into each other. If that was a common occurrence it would be much more difficult to predict how long until a star burns out.
The act of me giving him credit or not doing it has already been determined.
The cops in concert with some city employees are running a protection racket.

But I think it's a bit more like a crime family or maybe a corrupt political machine than it is like a gang.

If businesses want to hire security, they should. But it shouldn't be a requirement of having a business. It comes off like the boss of the crime family telling you "I just want to get my beak wet". Like they're shaking down the small businesses.

And it's hard to argue that they aren't.
I’m already thinking about this as our next big expense after college. It’s no secret wealthy parent often buy their kids houses or apartments next to the university if they can afford it as well that’s been happening for ages
Apple announces entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C charging
Ordinarily I'd agree, e.g. within a company or team, I would not accept this kind of tone, it's not how peers communicate

But it's also not Torvald's job to tutor here or be a mentor. He has limited time in the day. And the company doing the proposal here is Google. They probably should have come in with a more-better-finished product.

The consequences to design errors in kernel syscalls are rather intense.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot.
malloc can use mmap (aside from s/brk) - it's impossible these days to sandbox any more complex program and not allow mmap (arguments can be limited though to only a subset of flags).
you could try pilot frixion that uses ink that you can erase with rubber end of the pen because the ink is heat-sensitive.
there are bunch off settlement fees that go to the government in the US also.
I never knew how to square this with stories about Feynman’s sexual predation. Were these two distinct phases of his life?
Must’ve missed that one.
> I am baffled how we went from a liberal "free" democracy to this ersatz of a totalitarian regime

> How come we end up here again? Why can't the powers that be just leave the people to live their lives in peace without being snooped on by the surveillance apparatus?

You need to read more anarchist/communist literature that explains the situation as it has always been: the presence of a State, as an entity, implies that the population has never been in control. The State has always been. Yes, sure, sometimes the State gives a facade of openness, but it's always been a facade.

Whatever the "free" era we think happened, that era was still definitely not free for a part of the population: marginalized people, non-obedient people, people with an identity considered deviant, .... It wasn't "free", it was just "free for me"
That is a start but won’t help as it is common knowledge that police often move a county over and get hired for another department after getting fired. What would actually help us is they were personally sued and handed a bill for $50,000 paid by their own money.
But maybe the dataset for said language is just too small to produce correct content at all, and that's why ChatGPT is bad, not because "ChatGPT is thinking in English".
Except when it default to answering in English, ChatGPT sounds like french when I talk to it in french.

The bigger the dataset, the best is it's capabilities, training it exclusively with a language don't mean it will be better at this language.
Then we should make it our responsibility to ensure the general public can do these things and refuse to support companies that try to make it more difficult.
I think "bad people" is relative here though. The incentive structure is entirely misaligned. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, agents' best strategy for the highest possible payout is trying to close as many deals as possible, not taking the extra time to find each person the ideal perfect fit house (volume over value-add quality). It sounds like you found an agent who went the extra mile to get your business, which is great for you! But I suspect that there are other, less buyer-friendly agents out there out-earning your agent because they just drop the "difficult" customers and work with the easiest-to-close folks to get more overall commission.

Given that, my personal strategy when buying was to just do as much of the legwork as possible myself, rather than risk leaving due diligence to somebody whose financial incentives are not aligned with my own. My agent essentially ended up mostly relegated to docusign-forwarding duties.
And believe it or not, that decision was shaped by your environment as well. Which is why most people give credit when credit is due.

It can also be a self-reinforcing behavior, as giving credit can also in turn benefit you later.

Again, just because everything is predetermined doesn't mean there aren't complex dynamics in motion, ones which greatly influence behavior and the chances of making a decision. Understanding these dynamics can also influence how you behave in the future.

Edit:

It seems that I am saying "if you kick a raccoon, it will run away". And you are saying "whether I kick the raccoon or not has already been determined".

In this case, my analysis is helpful/useful while yours isn't. My analysis can influence your future behavior (e.g. if you run into a menacing raccoon in the future, it will increase the chances that you will be able to defend yourself properly), especially if you didn't know this before, while your analysis probably doesn't affect behavior (except to promote apathy perhaps, which is likely even detrimental).

[ Disclaimer: I know nothing about raccoons, it was just an example ]

It doesn't mean you are wrong, it's just that saying "everything is predetermined" is not a useful way of looking at the world. It's like saying "white paint is white", which is not very surprising.

Strictly speaking, it's not even quite correct: quantum mechanics tells us that, even though the universe has (deterministic) physical laws, it also behaves randomly at a fundamental level. However, that does not change the fact that we don't have free will (since we have zero control over the randomness).

But it's conceivable that some of our decisions might be affected by quantum randomness (this is even obvious in some contrived, but realistic Schrödinger's-cat-like scenarios).
> The panels are less efficient when it is hot, so at summer Denmark is the right place.

Panels are less efficient when hot (which is a problem), but they are even less efficient when the sun is low on the horizon, which is the case even in summer in Denmark, and when there are clouds. These a reason why the most efficient plants aren't actually in Denmark but in Arizona…

> with good results 9 months a year

Nothing in your link allows assessing how good the results are supposed to be. The fact that, without any quantitative elements, you assume the results presented here to be “good” tells a lot about your confirmation bias.
That sounds more like legislated administrative burden and nothing to do with consumer protection. A law to protect consumers can be developed without all the burdens. (why do you need a declaration?, you're either compliant or you're not.)
I'm a marketer, although there are a lot of "must-haves", I'd say the one I keep coming back to is "The Ultimate Sales Machine" by Chet Holmes

For those interested in other books for marketing, I compiled a list here (most even have book summaries already for convenience):
https://share.justbeepit.com/screenshot/647f77b9b37c52001425...
Mostly not a lack of will but much more local and urgent priorities than figuring out SSH and PGP, like jobs and chores for example.
> At this point the thing holding ChatGPT back from universally-accepted "AGI" label is its few remaining sub-human skillsets

How do we know there are a few remaining ones to reach AGI and not zillions? How do we know adding “memory” is sufficient for it to acquire them?

I think the answers to those questions are “we don’t have the faintest idea” and “we know it won’t be enough”.

As to the latter, one thing LLMs cannot do that we think is essential for human intelligence is to think logically. They can regurgitate logic from memory, but they can’t come up with correct original ideas, unless by accident.
You have to scroll far past the accusations of racism and outrage to reach the story here:

> Here’s how the off-duty work program works: Some businesses — like large nightclubs — are required by the city to have security, which until 2020, sometimes had to be off-duty Minneapolis police officers.

Nightclubs often are required to have security beacuse they are a nuisance to the surrounding area and the taxpayer shouldn't be picking up the tab because you decided to overserve your customers. The off duty cop requirement is the only odd part here in my view and that appears to be gone now.
I think in this case the "how" became the "why". Because it is now easy.
Citing slow Starship reviews, SpaceX urges FAA to double licensing staff
Not at all. I don't want that responsibility.
Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or an experienced professional – Measuring productivity is essential for anyone who wants to optimize their operations and improve profitability.
It's a significant damper on social mobility, which is generally tied to many positive aspects of society.
errno is thread safe (and thread local).
Is this post talking about hosted wordpress? Because it makes no sense at all otherwise (and even then…)
Wordpress is fully customizable. Why would you need a plugin to make a menu sticky?
Either I am missing something here or this OP was trying to much with its Star Trek references to actually understand how Wordpress works
Many people look at things like the Stasi and think - the problem with it was who was in charge, not that it existed.

We’re the good guys so it would be a good thing. Not a bad thing.

The problem is, they’re almost always the absolute worst to deal with, as almost any evil is excusable when done ‘for the right reasons’ or when ‘we’re the good guys’, where selfish evil at least sometimes takes a break or feels bad. And selfish evil is usually more predictable.

It’s a constant struggle. The underlying need for some to control others, to know what others are doing at all times (and the corresponding elements of control and manipulation) has always lived in every group.

How a group does is more about what it does with it, and how it directs it/reins it in (and acknowledges it), rather than its lack of existence.
Stupidity is an attribute every student is allowed to pronounce freely, but these students managed to make their stupidity dangerous to other people.
> Among those young homebuyers, 23% used a cash gift from family members and 21% used inheritance money for their down payment.

Be curious to know "how much" money was given. I think our family gave us $5K or so. I assume some people get much more and some get 0. My sister was given a 0 interest loan from my parents, maybe around $50K or so.
Thanks for point them out, I hadn't heard of them. Are you sure that these two are typical of the people that OP was writing about though?
"Netflix effect" is back as studios license old shows to competitors again
The problem with this angle is that Bandcamp also has discovery features through which you may have found a different (or maybe an overlapping) 8 artists too. There's a good chance they would not be the same, and there's a argument that it might feel more difficult (Spotify appears to work VERY hard at getting better at prediction, Bandcamp is more like human curation, which is to say less reliable but also occasionally more serendipitous).
> How come we end up here again?

Through failure of instinct. Seeing government agents open your letters, copy their contents, then re-seal them to send them on their way, or tap your phone and listen attentively with headphones, provokes an immediate, instinctive, visceral reaction. There's no need to construct elaborate scenarios how an ordinary law-abiding citizen could fall afoul of his government to make them see the threat.

But change those human spies into innocuous databases and convenient phones, and you lose the benefit of instinct.
I hear about help getting down payments and people buying with <20% down payments etc all the time.. but as a non-trustafarian, financially literate person with a normal non-tech job.. the down payment seems to be the easiest part. The monthly payment and interest expense is the hardest one (especially since it means committing to maintaining your career or better for the next 30 years, or otherwise hoping there isn't a housing downturn). Can anyone explain the perspective I'm missing?
Agreed not everyone has side projects. But being asked to build something of your own interest in about half a day seems like a good alternative.
How dare she live in a house she's been in her whole life when the government knows what's best!
This is exactly the point i was trying to make and why i opened my comment with "default configuration environment".

I'm also not going to respond to a non-expert's plea for information with unnecessary minutiae like the differences between LM, NT, and NTLM hashes or the differences between NTLMv1/v2 and NetNTLM. My ommissions were intentional because i'm trying to make my comment approachable.

In a default, non-hardened Windows environment, NTLM is a nightmare.
Yes, it can be secured.
No, it is not straightforward.
Homes are reduced to like-buckets at some point by necessity, but they are absolutely not treated like commodities.

If we did, you'd have to have a huge margin - something like 20-30%, or even more, to account for risk.

You're upset you pay like, 6-8% in fees now when selling your home? Well...
AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
whoa, SFA on the front page of HN. two worlds of mine colliding.

this organization is part of the center for the study of southern culture. a humanities-based academic discipline that a lot of tech folks might think is worthless.
Do you mean this?

https://www.jameshardie.com/products/hardieplank-lap-siding

I don't see how this adds structural support.
JWST specs were set in stone in the late 90s. Having a 65 GB drive and 10mbps internet connection back then would have been god-like.
I think Craig is someone who knows very clearly how power works, and that true evil is systematic and does not appreciate the limelight, yet he bravely persists.
How to Fix the Internet
>He has limited time in the day

So he spends it dunking on a proposal with snarky prose instead of a concise review without bashing the person trying to contribute. How efficient.
I find "dynamic during runtime + static during development" to be a highly potent combination because it largely prevents dumb programming mistakes and enables rich IDE hints while still allowing for enough magic to build beautiful interfaces.

While they are usually a great benefit and easy enough to so, sometimes getting types just right can be more of an effort than it's worth - it's beautiful that in those cases you can still go "fuck it, I know what I'm doing".

Best of both worlds, really.
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
I think you meant: de jure -> de iure
Swedish indie artist releases AI music video [YouTube]
The term describes externally-observable behaviour rather than falsely positing the existence of LLM internal mind-states.
"as for your comprehension ability, that's debatable"

This comes across as rude, especially in response to someone that did not themselves say anything warranting a rude response. You can disagree and make your point without doing this. I'm pointing it out because you genuinely may not be aware and I want to give the benefit of doubt (something I myself too often do not do online).
What we have here are competing over-generalizations.

There are many sculpture-like artifacts from prehistoric sites. In most cases, we have no proof that they are sculptures, just strong evidence, and there's a long tail of increasingly vaguely sculpture-like forms where no strong conclusions should be drawn.

The existence of this tail does not invalidate the strong conclusions about the clearly artificial sculptures, and the analogous conclusion follows for RagnarD's main point about the fossil record.
if true Mad Max style anarchy starts.

and at the same time criticizing the

Childish reductionism?
Fair enough. It is indeed true that living things seek to maintain their entropy low.
It's great that you quickly notify candidates if they aren't a fit! Wish more people did that.

But....

>Bring a side project, show us how it works.

What do you do if someone doesn't have a side project (or want their side project to be reviewed by someone they don't know)?

Some people code to live, not live to code.
What do you propose we do instead?
I think because keyboards on Android etc. suggest an emoji by default based on the last word, and people seem to think it "softens" a sentence, especially when mentioning something embarrassing, like sex.
This is exactly correct. We have seen “market maturity” which basically means “tech companies are now run on modern management theory” and that theory, frankly, is wrong.

Open doors, frank discussions, flat hierarchy, hacking culture, planning at the edge, and personal relationships all took a dive. Performance plans, recruiters, mid-level managers, central planning and product management overuse exploded.

Somewhere around 2014-2017 working in a tech company started to be indistinguishable from working in any other Enterprise.

Now a lot of that seems to be the result of all the pioneers leaving the industry and the settlers arriving. There was a point around 2012-13 where Ivy League grads stopped going to McKinsey and started going to the valley, and they brought all their management theory with them.
US cybercops urge admins to patch amid ongoing Confluence chaos
The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them. Thats the only way we're going to get rid of corrupts cops like this.
Most engineers aren’t good either. See Sturgeon’s Law. :P
Microsoft-affiliated research finds flaws in GPT-4
We have tabulation machines and hand verification, both cross checked, where I'm from. No systematic issues, obviously attempts at localised fraud but this has been caught. More fraud in postal voting.