skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For those who are directly affected by these changes, you will receive a calendar invitation within the next hour

Is it just me or does this suck a lot? Thousands of people unsure about their fate, refreshing their calendar, checking for... the lack of an invite? So much added stress and anxiety.

Surely they could send two versions of the email, specifying to each person if they are affected or not.
I’m the clone scene FPGA is synonymous with quality and accuracy, regardless of whether that’s true or not.
Obesity with low muscle mass is sedentary obesity. It's the worst kind but also the most common form - the "dad bod" type of big-gut-big-arms is a smaller chunk of the pie than the "walmart power scooter" type.

It's all horrible, I'm convinced it's microplastics, and we need to get oral GLP-1 drugs ASAP.
There's a great book called "Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (But Maybe Not Venture Capitalists)" by Basil Peters on this topic. The other option is, of course, to bootstrap instead of taking investment, which allows you to focus on revenue and building a great product for your customers rather than "getting the next round of investment".
Unfortunately, it redirects to a new page with no direct opt out.
You have to send an email and manually request an opt out.
Geees well when you put it like that you make it sound pretty bad
They should burn it.
backlinks, or "see also"
I've just installed the iOS app, so can't tell if it actually works and how well. But when it asks you to connect, there's a link at the bottom of the screen saying "self-hosting options" which asks for "API Server base URL", "web server url" and "text-to-speech url".
Russia follows China in suspending Japanese seafood imports
Same way
> Way back in 2014 or whatever it was I was really questioning the decision Fog Creek made to spin out Trello and Stack Overflow. It seemed to only benefit investors and I wondered how the companies could diversify their income streams with such fixed-niche products.

I was at Fog Creek (FC) while some of these decisions were made. There are a few missing pieces here that may help it make more sense.

The model was for FC to act as an incubator and fund other projects on the backs of FogBugz and Kiln. I'm more familiar with Trello, but with SO I'm sure the idea was the same: when you take VC, you are committing to a very specific model: burn cash on getting as large as possible.

The goal with Fog Creek was to _not do that_. So, rather than having FC take funding, Trello was spun out and raised as it's own entity.

FC employees received equity (in lieu of profit sharing) in these products.

The last product to come out of FC was the result of a few competing teams working on different projects. Glitch (nee Hyperdev) was.. not a great idea, with not a great team on it.

A leadership change shortly after the focus on Glitch led to (more-or-less) the complete collapse and acquihire of it by Fastly.

> Even though Trello was acquired, I feel like Fog Creek the company and all of its products have suffered the worst fates possible from this decision.

I guess it depends on your measure. FC employees made money. I regret what FC was turned into at the end.
I see an argument in this thread for laissez faire capitalism; its political ramifications are entirely relevant to the state of universal health care in the United States. The economy is interconnected -- the mathematical concept of orthogonality is rarely appropriate when describing broad economic complexities. But perhaps you should simply suggest that a health care discussion here is off-topic?
The article suggests they really didn't make any ml based approach where they take in huge numbers of case mates to train a system, so I think it can't be used to say anything about that f that approach works.
AI in most consumer facing applications so far just proves to me how lazy / unimaginative the masses are, and how easy it is to build something for the LCD. It is kind of sad and disappointing, and I personally find it such a waste of mental resources building such things.

So much potential in productivity and other spaces.
99% of conversations on Internet are pseudoscientific.

Think here we are just 'conceptualizing', 'spit-balling', 'blue-sky-discussion', 'wondering out loud', 'hypothesizing'. etc...
I'm not OP, but Tailwind ships a binary you can use (by bundling up a JS runtime): https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
I didn't mean that technology is artificial but that instead of having genuine reasons for technology to exist (like fire to cook, light up the night, etc.) we invent pointless reasons to use technology that ultimately harms us.
I agree. My daughter and son-in-law — intelligent people, both attorneys — however, do not seem to have given this any thought and have plastered pictures of my now seven-year-old grandson all over the internet since the day he was born, most recently last Friday, a series from his 2nd-grade class's show day.

I have never said a word about this and never will because having nearly died on the hill of offering advice to them on other things that blew up in my face and nearly caused them to stop speaking to me, I just don't want to revisit those episodes.

Irony: my daughter doesn't take photos of my grandson playing soccer and baseball etc. because she doesn't think it's right to post pictures of other children online without their parents' consent.
Some thoughts.

I should give this topic some time to brew an answer, but at some point we ought to ask ourselves, why don't we have such a thing?

If we were to construct this database, should it not be on the level of the Human Genome Project, but open sourced? Should it not be more fundamental to have this easily transmitted database, maybe even Unified Design, than Defense Budgets and the Billions that must've gone into the Antarctic GitHub vault? Ideally, the platform of world-wide human ownership of this project should have been initialized and set up for us to complete by, like, I dunno the U.N. or like funded by all Governments and Corporations as a good faith initiative?

Tangentially, let's also suppose that we are not alone in the Cosmos is probable enough to merit effort to enter the next phase of simply sending a Clarke-like DNA/Planet position plaque? Should we not prove our evolution and broadcast this supposed database into space in a loop? The Ascension Beacon?

The excellent comment @speedghost got me thinking about the human interface with AI from a different perspective. Why is the AI public focus on language models, but not knowledge models, how to think about thinking. Is that not "the trick"? Could Humanity not use this itself to better learn to learn? How to categorize, or order, knowledge about knowledge (metadata) is "thetadata" (thinking data)?

Thoughts about a potential Human Knowledge Database. Wikipedia is a mess and is not fit for this purpose in many ways, but the main one is contains sparse info on how to do anything. If the goal is to make the database the most efficient (small size) as it can be, and Unified Design, for all Humanity, we might need some kind of new "motion illustration" format that consists of pictures that are flat files but can be post-sequenced, to create a "movie" with the lowest possible file size, and using vector graphics only? Brainstorming.

That makes me think the database should be some sort of flat file database that is also indexed, and that index can be easily Human parsed or DB software parsed. Quite a feat for 100GB. That is not my lane, maybe it already exists.

I'm holding out hoping there is literally one person out there who already has the seed for this, maybe even already has a project going.
> Whatever happened to the interest in static site generators a few years back?

I'm still interested... I forked the pug templating language in order to write my own tools since the existing ones didn't do what I want. Have been working on it on my free time.
Everyone I’ve met lately is the same, not the hacker type, doesn’t enjoy learning why - just bare minimum to get largest reward.

I guess it works
I find the usage of the .envrc files better because it allows for more than just git config. I use it for loading all manner of org-specific information. I'm sure there's a way to configure the ssh keys using this approach as well, but I've yet to take the time to figure it out.
Your sense of love sounds like hell.

> you cannot love a chatbot no matter how clever

People fall in love with inanimate buildings, I'm pretty sure a chatbot is going to be much easier than that, especially as the technology gets better. (Also people are already trying to put these into bodies.)

> ...What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly...

Suffering doesn't make things more valuable, it is a horrible cost, and if you can't value things without suffering well that is your psychological problem to fix on your own.
How is Clear Linux so insanely fast?
> What happened to Asmovian visions of the future, or Roddenbury inspired visions of cooperative societies?

The global elite decided in the 90s that History had ended, and the Liberal Democracies of the West won through the domination of their perfect ideology. The eternal status quo had been reached. "Having a vision" means "rocking the boat", which is forbidden in a time of certain prosperity (for the elite, at least).
You should ask your normie office worker friends about how much they're using ChatGPT in their day-to-day work. It is being used by just about everyone all the time now. Soon, everyone will need to have at least some skills that an "AI Engineer" has.
I was just suggesting something like this to a friend yesterday! (Neither of us know enough to do it or know if it's a good idea.)

However, I do think the context length is one of the top improvements that would make LLMs much more useful.
> such as therapy

Shipping an LLM-driven chatbot as a revolutionary therapy tool would be even more dystopian than this.
it seems that your peers flagged this and not the platform.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28456793
No, actually, China did a limited incursion into Vietnam a couple of years after the US left. It didn't work out well for the Chinese.
Going Vertical: Gate All Around, 3D DRAM, 3D NAND – Kokusai Electric IPO
I think the people coming out of those cushy corporate jobs are in for a big shock.

What you're saying is completely untrue where I live (Australia). My sister in HR earns more than me. My cousin who is a truck driver can save more money than me due to lower cost of living in rural areas and access to cheap real estate (which is not an option for me as a software dev)... My dad boasts about my truck driver cousin's achievements (as he has been able to buy his own house) and he rightly thinks I've been a gullible fool for having chosen software development as a career. I was a top dev. Now out of work for a few months. I worked for a company backed by Y Combinator. I was an early employee on a $4 billion market cap cryptocurrency project. I'm also a top percentile open source developer with thousands of stars. It's all worthless.

No no. I think you're the one who should be embarrassed. After what I've been through, I have no shame nor pride left to feel such emotions.
Yes, websites and front ends will now evaporate because we have AI. /s
If this does happen, I wouldn't be surprised if someone would start selling dirt cheap "printer upgrade boxes" in the form of small Linux computers with two ethernet ports (or maybe a USB port and an ethernet port, and a WiFi access point especially for the printer) that just run Samba. If the printer is directly attached to the box, they wouldn't even introduce severe security vulnerabilities.

Hell, this could be sold as some kind of firewall solution with a $3/mo "enterprise" subscription. Someone can make money with this!
I tried contributing all of my $40 worth of Brave BAT currency (earned from ads) via contribution button in Brave. However it seems I can not as i'm treated with the following message: "This creator is unable to receive contributions from Gemini"
Signal patched WebP weeks ago.
It sounds like you're guessing here...
Schools do this all the time on their facebook pages, you can opt out but most parents are totally unaware
You could, and should in the future, easily rephrase your comment to "In the article it says the person recording did quit within 24 hours." This way you preserve the essence of your comment without violating community rules. This would also be kind, extending the benefit of the doubt to others, and avoid tangents, like this one, about the basic rules.
You can spend less than a whole bitcoin, just like you can spend less than a whole dollar.
Intel Launches 14th-Gen Raptor Lake Refresh: 6 GHz Core i9-14900K, i7-14700K
Unfortunately, you will never win this game unless you go full "dark mode" and route your traffic through various VPN's, use anonymous browsing tools for every session, only use a rooted non-standard Android/iPhone, never use any kind of location services ever, etc.

If you want to have a standard iPhone/Samsung device, like using Google Maps, or use social media in any form on your devices, you've lost. They know everything about you and attempting to keep your data secure from them is a moot point.

That being said, I still use things like ad blockers, private email (non-Gmail), and prefer iPhone over Android, but I'm just picking my poison really. It's game over, these ad people largely already won.

You can make it a little bit harder for them to generate a model of you, but it will still eventually happen even if you have zero contact since all your friends/family will give them enough info to reconstruct you into their system.

Heck, even your credit card is snitching on you. Taking your kids for ice cream and leaving your phone at home does nothing, they still know where you went.
The big issue with bots is that they are almost never good enough to beat a moderately skilled and muscle-memoried human player. People who try to use them to learn don't end up being any better than a n00b, as it were.
They should be ordered to pay 45% of the company. Hand over the shares. If shareholders lose ownership, then they'll start to pay attention to how the company is run.
> My feeling is that the trend is largely reversing

not at linkedin it ain't
> momentarily some candid voices admitted that all this digi-crap does not help an iota with our quality of life
User behavior was completely inverse, consumption for everything tech went through the roof. H/w for WFH and home schooling, Netflix++ for entertainment, everything ecommerce.

Everything follows hype cycle. It is just that tech is moving so fast that you see new cycles every 5 years. But apart from crypto, everything has delivered.
But all these companies doing layoffs have like 50 billion dollars in cash sitting in their treasuries. Are they routinely borrowing money at the multi-year timescale? My only thought is that they figure they can make more with low-risk investments than they can hiring employees. That CD will always yield 5%; who knows what hiring another person for the Foo team will yield.
I don’t understand how redundancies can be carried out respectfully. Redundancies suck. Someone will always be on the list that didn’t expect to be and quite honestly shouldn’t be.

People will say they know the right answer and some aspect that helps them would’ve been considered (tenure, peer feedback, # of commits). It always sucks no matter what.
Lol you're living up to your username I guess.

I mean that's a fairly profound thing to say, but in reality single-trunk trees with 4000 years of rings are very, very rare. There's a list of them on Wikipedia, there are like a handful over 4000 years.

So yeah their life time can be up to that level, but it's so rare that your profound analogy kinda becomes humorous.
I see. I thought it was only on FaceTime because the fix was to enter the camera settings from there. I know facetime ships with the OS but that settings really should be accessible from the normal settings applet
> I also witnessed MasterCard falter when entering a consumer market they had not played in before. Very ugly.

not sure if this is what you're thinking of, but it's been crazy to think of all the payment-processor systems the CC networks have launched that have tried and failed to compete with paypal. I swear every 3-4 years we have some new thing from mastercard or visa, they do a bunch of promos at newegg/etc where you can get $10/$20 off if you sign up for an account/etc, and then after the promo funding dries up they just wither away to dust. I swear this has happened at least 3-4 times now.
I meant my first claim to be that it is charity to the question that it was written to reflect against the headline. Even with what comes in the article. Which, frankly, doesn't change much?

Indeed, the core claim at the start of the article is "The features that led to these vulnerabilities, along with several others, were added to let C programmers continue to believe they were programming in a low-level language, when this hasn't been the case for decades." But, no they weren't. They were added to allow the CPUs to maintain resource utilization while executing code that they are taking a probabilistic stab at.

There is some odd appeal to GPU programming, ignoring that the main reason GPU programming can do what they do, is because it is a foregone assumption that you will have to do the same operation across the entire visible scene.

So, back to the question at hand, what is this "lower level language" that is being talked about? Best I can see from this article, it is "c" but with vectors and no aliasing? And many more core instructions? I know of basically no languages that make it clear that sqrt could be a CPU level instruction. And that one is somewhat trivial to name. It wasn't too long ago that we saw discussion of popcnt instruction. Is that a "primitive" part of any non-assembly language?

It is a neat assumption to challenge, that C may be limiting what we can do. But, with how often the C and C with inline assembly dominate most any performance category, it is a steep hill to climb to show that that is what is limiting us.

I also find the closing remarks about how "There is a common myth in software development that parallel programming is hard" to be kind of flippantly insulting. Would be like claiming any sport is easy because "look, you can teach grade school kids to play." Especially as I have seen plenty of bugs in actor-model languages to know it is no panacea. I agree it is easy to specify parallel activities. It gets a lot harder as you start adding in all of the deadlines and other work handoffs that are necessary for fast execution. Again, sports make a good example. Hitting a ball is easy. Running cross court to return a fast shot from an opponent is, essentially, the same thing. Far far harder, though.
Same as it always was:

> He had a PhD in AI from MIT. Just to contextualize what that means in Silicon Valley, an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7643902
The problem isn't the people asking questions, there will always be an infinite number of those.

It's the moderation scaring away the people who answer questions. Just because they haven't shooed away everyone doesn't mean they haven't had an impact.

I know that I no longer browse relevant SO topics "for fun" anymore.
My literal first thought was that at the very least, someone had already collated SciHub. I would consider that maybe the most essential piece of the database.

Your LLaMa2 suggestion was very thought provoking and meritorious, there might be some path forward with something like that, even if for some neutral knowledge steward AI to be the Interface of the Database.

AIDBI?
I worry about my future as a programmer/techie. Are the good times over?
The biggest problem with SO is that it is self-conflicting in its mission. It wants high-quality answers, it wants to avoid duplicates, it wants to be wiki-like or even something that can replace official docs/man page. All those are good and noble goals, but you cannot have that and at the same time be novice-user friendly. Wikipedia has the same issue to a certain extent, but SO is much worse because it's a Q&A site, and yet because of the above goals it in effect prevents novices from asking questions because of duplicate, because they don't know what to ask (since they are novice), etc. If they want to be truly useful to question askers, perhaps there should be some spin off part of SO where people can ask question freely to their heart's content but somehow doesn't affect the main site's quality...
Looks cool! Reminds me of that lady replicant from Bladerunner 2049 watching the protagonist through her glasses while getting a manicure.
The location data in sensorvault is indexed by sensor ID, not google account ID, thus the name. Originally, the purpose of the database was to improve WiFi geolocation, as a replacement for skyhook 3rd party service to Google.
This is pretty cool.

I'm curious, what are people's opinions about the pro/cons of maintaining multiple GitHub identities like this?

Personally, I have never found it necessary to do this, but about 1/3 to ½ of the people I work with usually have "-companyname" in their usernames, so it appears semi-popular.

What I do is just add my work email as a secondary to my GitHub account and configure the work laptop to use that email, and I generate a new RSA key and add it to my one account. Then I also set up the notifications to use that work email as the notification email for things in that organization

My "Pros" list for doing it this way:

* Simple to configure my git/ssh settings - just add the SSH key on my work laptop to my normal GitHub account

* Easy for someone to identify and even reach me if they were to see a commit in GitHub. For instance, if they know I wrote something they might want to hire me again later to update it.

* I "Sign in with GitHub" to things like developer tools (like Codesandbox, for instance), I get to easily keep control of that account even when I change jobs.

"Cons" I can think of:

* Technically a malicious actor in (or who has compromised) corporate IT could impersonate me by stealing my key from my work-owned computer, cloning my private Github repos, and could introduce changes into other repos I have access to. So I assume if I had high-level access to important OSS projects, this would be a danger for targeted hacking. (Obviously since I can remove the keys at the end of an engagement, I can at least limit my exposure to just current clients/employers.)

Is there anything else that makes you prefer to use a company-specific identity?
Grand new futures have to take baby steps and actually be used along the way to get to something incredible. I don't think it's right to completely write off things like this since they are testing and proving grounds. For example, in this case a virtual influence, however vapid that might seem, can prove out more of the "digital cloning" type tech that will allow for you and your likeness to talk to your quadruple great grandkids and leave some of your essence behind, or have an AI that is far more realistic then anything today that someone interacts with daily for any number of things (which Asimov has in many stories). It isn't a black and white "this is good" or "this is bad" use of tech.