skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can see the downvotes but no idea why. Would you care to explain?

I dunno, but this has been taught in PM since PM. I remember learning it in the 90s and it still holds true. If you want it fast and a large scope, you have to throw bodies and planning at it, costing money. If you want it cheap with a big scope, you have to wait for that small team to finish it (time). If you want it fast and cheap, you have to limit your scope.

Time/Cost/Scope, pick 2. Perhaps people are taking issue with quality vs scope, but quality is a part of scope for certain.

https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/triple-constraint-projec...
It's even a bit disturbing to see this confusion in a presumably tech forum. If we started eating our own propaganda...
> Heck, most “performers” say… it’s absolutely merciless to them

Sounds like work in general, really. Most people wills say that their work is merciless, yet the "top 1%" will tell you a completely different story. I expect Reid can be considered a "top 1%"-er.
> But the fact remains that a lot of people still believe.

But also, a lot of people still believe in professional wrestling. Are pro wrestlers ripping people off?

Were pro wrestlers ripping people off worse in the '80s and earlier, when they tried really hard to maintain kayfabe, including denying the existence of kayfabe?

If you pay money to psychics and they tell you the sorts of things you paid them to tell you, is it really different from pro wrestlers or stage magicians? Or should that be "psychics", "wrestlers" or "magicians"?
as I understand it, euro-sceptic means wanting to leave the EU. I'm thinking that if you want someone to vote down unreasonable laws, then you should vote for who seems the most reasonable
I hate these things. I shop at Walgreens because it is the only grocery store for several miles, and they have these on all the coolers. They have never once accurately shown what is actually in the coolers. All it does is tease the hell out of you by showing products on the shelves that aren't there when you open the door. And you have to open the door and let the hot air in just to see what is actually in there.
I thought laughter was a sign of nervousness? Crazy way to pass judgement on somebody IMO
This is amazing!

I grew up in Coyoacán and until now I had to imagine a Venice like city
surrounded by volcanoes. I imagined closely to reconstruction here.

I am grateful.
You whiffed on the context of the quote.

Reid isn't suggesting porn, the medium, will be left behind (just the opposite, really). She wants to make sure that porn, the people who make up the industry, are able to reap the benefits of AI. She wants to make sure at the very least that some unaffiliated AI project isn't just stealing these people's work, names, likenesses, etc., and selling it.
Ah, good idea! For those who are curious, here is the completed set of links.

https://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/flash/Gallery2Responses2.fl...
https://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/flash/Gallery7Responses2.fl...
https://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/flash/Gallery9Responses2.fl...

The videos are densely packed with great insight from many different points of view. I'm very happy I was able to watch them.
Has the market spoken? I agree that it's largely true but I am not aware of anyone selling software with an emphasis on performance. It's always been about new, shiny features. You can't really say the market decided if one half of the equation isn't even on the market
> The reason it is acceptable in most cases is that the barrier to entry is low and there are few consequences of things going wrong

Then it is acceptable. You're making a moral value judgement because it's not up to your personal standards, but that's not relevant for whether or not the software accomplishes what it set out to do.

> At any rate, I would not call the software industry "productive".

This is indefensible, given that basically the entire world runs on software these days. Again, I think you're making some sort of subjective value judgement about the perceived "quality" of the software, while ignoring what it has enabled.
To me chat bots preparing people is like GTA preparing people for the real world.
In English, things that are orange are often called red. Particularly, but not limited to, hair.
As a software guy I make far more than average. Yet in this past year I have looked at and rejected buying for my hobbies many $$$ worth of toys because I cannot afford it. Well I could, but my family vacation took priority (this could be considered part of the hobby budget). Most years the total cost of things I want for my hobbies exceeds my annual pre-tax income, but this year made an effort to not look and I still came close.

At least as someone who makes a lot of money I have plenty of good food and a dry roof over my head. However that doesn't mean I have infinite money in the hobby budget.
I find it funny that all the Porsche guys try to find interchangeable parts with VW. Makes sense there is probably overlap between the manufacturing. I do the same thing with my old cars.
It's really not different than any other athletic pursuit.
My first computers didn't do anything well. You would reboot the entire machine to load a game from a floppy disk which took forever. If that game crashed you'd have to start all over again.

My current computer boots in seconds.

In my experience it seems a good deal of bloat has to do with resiliency. Most desktop applications don't completely crash the entire system when they contain a memory access bug. They just crash. That doesn't come for free.

Let's say you want to go outside and cross the street. In order to do that you need to put on your shoes and lace them up so that you don't trip and fall. You do this and while crossing the street one day you fall and discover that your lace came untied. In order to prevent this next time you decide you will look down after every step to make sure your shoes are still tied.

This is how a lot of modern software works: we check if our shoes are still tied.

One way to fight against this, I suspect, is that we have to think more clearly about correctness. Back when Multics and Unix were being developed under the same roof at Bell Labs the Multics folks were wringing their hands over error recovery: the kernel had several "rings" and handlers could be registered... but there were always edge cases. Unix on the other hand? Just let it crash. Since then there has been a lot of research and development into how to formally specify systems using precise, checkable proofs. I think there are certain kinds of performance gains we can only make when we don't have to keep checking if our shoes are tied and those can only come from languages and tools that let us formalize our programs.

This is not my idea, it's from Conal Elliot who's awesome and smart [0].

The other source of bloat is the kitchen-sink effect. Writing software is time consuming. Most businesses don't want their developers writing low level drivers and optimizing memory usage. They want to get a product in front of consumers and get paid because the business might not even be in business in 9 months if you don't start shipping and making revenue. Fortunately there are a great number of kitchen-sink software frameworks and stacks of libraries for most development tasks... which include more code and resources than your application will use... but again, convenience and speed dominate. The average phone in 2018 had something like 4GB of RAM and ~32GB of HDD space. If your app used up a gig of working memory and took up a gig of space but you got it out in a few months by hiring JS developers who knew react native for less than what it would cost to hire Swift/ObjC developers to write the perfect app from scratch? We know what most businesses will choose.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6rY5Mvx84E&list=PLOvRW_utVP...
Amazon enables passwordless passkeys on iOS and the web
That really only works with zero interest rates. Otherwise, if you figure 10% growth and 20% capital gains, you're paying 2% tax on assets. It wouldn't make sense to take out a 5% loan to avoid a 2% tax (or for the wealthy, but not ultra wealthy, 1.5%)
The entire point of the article is about taxing the wealth of extremely rich people rather than income because the wealth is structured to not generate taxable income.

I think there are two considerations here: (1) fairness, (2) good economic policy.

It's certainly not fair to have such a large proportion of power concentrated in such a minuscule number of people.

It's hard to see how it's a good economic policy either. We want there to be capital available to be invested in further economic activities (I think we do, anyway; there are people who would debate that). But we don't want -- and certainly don't need -- so much of it in so few hands. A wealth tax is a way to drain some of that away.
Uh, my experience is that the opened CSV file will get all converted - dates formats changed, trailing zeroes trimmed, umlauts broken, you name it. So "better" means at maximum "less shitty".
Cleaning up steel, cement and chemicals is tough – and doable
What does it mean to "work with AI" in the context of the future or even near future? A symbolic job of checking it's outputs?

Even if AI doesn't take your job, it almost certainly will take most of the value it has. I don't need a $175k dev when I can use a model and a $60k dev to do the same thing. Or on the graphics side, artists are a dime a dozen, I don't need the cream of the crop if they are just gonna be fixing up mangled AI hands.
Be open to the fact that people watch content of sex workers of all ages, genders sizes, and levels of attraction. What is 'prime' for you, might not be someone else's cup of tea.
Hello me! I've now taken to putting these projects on a subdomain of my primary consulting domain. I did the math and it saves me like $4k/ye
I think it has to do with working off of an SD card. My onedrive (with documents, desktop, pictures, video) are file on demand on sd. I am 80% sure that is the case.
Couldn't make it past the second paragraph. There may be some good points, but it's impossible to read this without picturing an angry, sneering, political-TV guy with spit flying. I guess it's a good performance but really hard to parse.
The entire point of the US system at birth was for excise taxes to exist. You can make them astronomical on luxury items and keep them minimal or nonexistent on food, etc. to achieve a progressive outcome.

I spit on 16A. The US was designed not to have any direct tax, including federal income tax, unless it passed the apportionment test.
Agree. CNC aluminum or wood, even acrylic, even for just the front face, would be a lot nicer too.
> Toyota may actually be late to the game

For passenger BEVs, maybe. For many reasons, none of them related to batteries.

For batteries? No way. Demand far exceeds supply. Every battery made for the next 10 years will be bought by some one.

Battery technology is mapped out for 10-15 years. Every battery startup (cathodes, anodes, minerals, process, etc, etc) has a general plan to "skate to where the puck will be", and hopefully get there before competitors. Any one starting a gigafactory today knows what kind of batteries they'll be making (at scale) in 5 years and what their market share will be.

The trick is being profitable. And Toyota has a pretty good chance. Mostly because they have access to (cheaper) capital. And maybe because they can lean on their long relationships with Panasonic and the like.
What about focusing on Firefox?

Otherwise just pack, go join some NGO and help making the world a better place instead.
Genuinely curious, why does it matter if a relationship is real if the person is happy and mentally healthy? Is a chatbot that talks like a genuinely real person that bad of a thing? (assuming it doesn't tell you go to kill yourself for example)
The reason why Canada imposed visa requirements on some EU countries:

> Canada imposed the visa on the two countries as well as the Czech Republic to stop an influx of bogus refugee claimants among ethnic Roma applicants.

> The Czech visa requirement ended last year, but Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said at the time the Romanian and Bulgarian ones would remain because of continued concerns over human smuggling and organized criminal gangs.

* https://macleans.ca/news/canada/visa-obstacle-looms-as-harpe...

Starting in 2025 Canadians will need to get an ETIAS:

> From 2025, Canadians will need to register with ETIAS to enter the Schengen Area, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania without a visa.

* https://www.etias.ca

The verbiage that ETIAS "is not a visa" is strong:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Travel_Information_an...
Regarding companies requiring very specific requirements: I wonder if those are real adverts, or just ones invented by HR for PR purposes?
5M for the ROI (of which approx 3M have driving licenses). Potentially 7 years of data exposed, though only if they were silly enough to get their car towed...
People say this but i actually don’t think chatbots can provide tools to help form real relationships until they model the kind of behaviors that fundamentally make it hard to form relationships. Chatbots need to be unavailable at inopportune times, have moods that are affected by more than just the person talking to them, take their time in forgiving slights, etc.

Even therapists consider it valuable to therapy that you don’t get to talk to your therapist 24/7. The ability to sit with your issues independently is important— just as important is the ability to not freak out when a friend doesn’t text you back asap.
C++ is huge and highly interconnected. No matter whether you like it or dislike it, and how experienced you are with software development, you either invest years into becoming good at it, or stay away from C++ jobs.
It’s finally come to a close. I found a job through a referral via family member. I have to move somewhere I really don’t want to move, and may not even be able to hold done the job for long, but screw it.

I’m just hoping I can find a way out of the industry before it’s too late.
There's a billboard for one of the clubs in town that has a tag line of "unlicensed therapists". Seeing how a lot of therapy is just letting someone vent/talk, I'm kind of okay with the FSA idea. There's plenty of other therapy chatBots already out there. <Insert talk about guardrails>
I suppose there's the option of playing dumb if you don't like them.

Cashier (the only one left that's not a robot): Did you find everything you want?

Me: I went into the aisle where the pop was, but couldn't find any. I saw plenty of TVs though.

Cashier: We don't sell any TVs.

Me: I don't care. I wanted pop, not TVs.
I think we need to start treating indiscriminate internet commenting as a mental illness.

That is: You state that we should treat extreme wealth hoarding as a mental illness. Well, who are you? A mental health expert? Someone with input to the diagnostic manual? Do you actually have a basis for why we should take your opinion seriously? Or are you just some random person pontificating on the net, the same as I would be if I seriously proposed my first paragraph?

Then you advocate, not just treating it as mental illness, but committing them. Why? To protect the world from them. Um, not all fortunes come from malfeasance and exploitation. Save your outrage for the outrageous actions, not for the mere financial success. (Who did Warren Buffet exploit? What malfeasance did he do?)

But you have given us no reason to agree with your overheated characterization of the rich, let alone to agree with your proposed solution.
You probably spent time in northern Europe (Scandinavia, in all likelihood)
Well, typically for porn, the idea is “if you can’t join’em, beat’em.”
Don't forget Russia/Iran/China, who can't wait to pay/hack their way into this system.
Unsafety.

My blog post about C has a blurb about how I'm really writing in a partially memory-safe portable dialect.

I have bounds checks, structured concurrency (to mitigate use-after-free and double-frees), and a bunch of other stuff.
They're mostly independent components, controlled by software, talking over a shared bus to other components. It's already bad and has been for some time.
What happens if they are forced to sell stock in companies they founded and control, and after the sale they no longer have a controlling interest?
> the income is just passed through to individual owners and shareholders who pay tax on their individual income

What is the corollary to "socialize risk, privatize reward" which has to with the cost of taxes being passed along to a level at which tax avoidance costs more than the tax?

Maybe it would be "Inverse-Gulliver," where the Liliputians all live to lift Gulliver instead of tie him down.
It blows my mind that the behavior in spreadsheet software is not what I would expect:

* NEVER modify the text I type into a cell.

* Parse, interpret, format the cell according to the "data type" that's detected or chosen by the user

* In the grid, display the data according to the interpretation above

* In the formula textbox, show me exactly what I typed in, unmodified.
isn't this kind of like celebrating someone for being a landlord
It's all double taxed though,and so it is terrible. Not only does the Corp have to pay on profits, but any way in which those profits are distributed are then once again taxed. It is a fool's system. Corrupt to the core by gov welfare queens.
Heh, that is probably the exception that proves the rule!
Shut up and take my money. Run for presidency, be the manager of the whole internet, hell even start a cult. I'm all in.
I work in digital signage. We don't do these, but we do have other products aimed at retail.

Most of these displays are powered by run of the mill Windows machines. Often they are just standard off the shelf hardware, which when packed in an enclosed space with other electronics, and wrapped with cardboard, doesn't last too long. Even the screens are often just standard bigbox store TVs, although some manufactures do make displays specifically for digital signage (for 10x the price).

We have our own hardware running a custom Linux distro, and it's designed to operate in these sorts of environments. However not all accessories are. Right now we are trying to figure out what to do with a camera which is only designed to operate in environments under 50c where we keep having hardware failures.

The budget for installations like this most likely comes from the marketing department. So instead of paying for print ads with no idea how well they convert, the money is spent on digital signage which can at least track basic data like the number of impressions. Unfortunately in this case, it's probably treated like a win as they get more analytics data than they did before (impressions, door opens, open time).
Now waiting for the catch here because this sounds too good to be true.
Starship can be comparable to CERN in space exploration. While CERN builds the tip-of-the-spear accelerator - the modern incarnation of a roughly 100 years old technology (i.e., engineering, even though there's plenty of science in CERN), the Starship promises (and Falcons to a degree already demonstrate) to qualitatively change the traffic to space.

That is, we'll have the ability to do science in space in much less restrictive environment, from technical, organizational, financial standpoint. We still haven't studied large centrifuges and their effects on health. We could afford much better space telescopes much cheaper. We could significantly advance material science - how materials behave under different gravity levels. We will be able to launch interplanetary unmanned probes with vastly superior capabilities. Even help with climate crisis on Earth. Spaceship will likely be far less wasteful, even per launch, and per kilogram on LEO it's going to be less wasteful by a decimal order or two of magnitude - e.g. around 30 times. Starship can be enabler of exactly that, fundamentally new science, coming from significantly improved tools - not only in capabilities, but also in availability.

For example, SpaceX could be paid to launch a telescope with a bigger mirror than JWST, which will be owned and operated by a science-focused organization, without concerns about will SpaceX share anything or not.

Yes, rockets produce CO2 today, even though comparing to other industries - like intercontinental aviation - the amounts are rather small. Yes, planned Starship launch rates will significantly increase that. We can work on this, while also having benefits of a quite more advanced LEO delivery system. It would be sad, to say the least, to have this significant engineering achievement closed down just out of fear of assumed drawbacks.
Developing spatial awareness, speed-reading skills, hand-eye coordination, and lots of practice distinguishing fantasy from reality?
I had a business a decade ago where our competitor hired someone to consistently email PayPal and tell them we were actually selling CSAM. PayPal had to act every time by immediately blocking our account and putting us out of business for a week while they checked and saw that we were not in fact selling anything untoward.

If you're an asshole there are many methods online to really screw with your competitors :(
As someone from and in North America, we don't usually refer to multi-layered thin glass as "thick" glass, we call it "double pane" or something similar.

Particularly since it's much lighter than an actual, single glass pane of equal thickness, which is the point here: the weight wouldn't be an issue, and even if it was, the screen is far, far heavier than better insulation.
Yeah I'm sure everyone of those click was accidental.
I think the core difference is that as a teen we see people reject tech and assume that it's the tech itself being rejected. That there is some underlying progress being shunned.

As an adult I realize that the tech is a layer of gloss and glamour on actively making the world worse than I knew it could be. I didn't have that perspective as a teen because as a teen I hadn't known the world.
Those porn-tuned Llama/Mistral finetunes are the finest non-pornographic storytelling AIs I have seen.

They also seems to be driving "research" in stuff like merging methods, model "grafting," and llm evaluation. Some examples:

https://rentry.co/ayumi_erp_rating

https://huggingface.co/NeverSleep/Mistral-11B-OmniMix-bf16

https://huggingface.co/Sao10K/Euryale-1.3-L2-70B

And for what its worth, HuggingFace does not seem to care. The model repo isn't mostly porn like CivitAI, but they seem to be OK with a significant amount of it.
Agreed. Obituaries are one occasion that I'd prefer The Register fully reign in their irreverent style, and play it totally straight.

The article body looks fine to me; only the headline sounded odd, to my US ears.
This is a false choice.

Demand software with features and performs efficiently.

If anything, the last several years in the software industry have proven hordes of mediocre developers really isn't a substitute for understanding how computers work.

The phenomena we're seeing now is VC money has dried up for all but those focused on efficiency, and the rats are scrambling to run to the other side of the ship before it sinks.
It doesn't translate well either, logging off implies you're performing an act.