skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> street kids are going to pull these off people at a phenomenal rate, leaving people with just unhappy memories alongside a battery pack swimming somewhere inside their jumper.

I can't believe I didn't think of this.

Imagine a dev conference for these things... The first headline would be "Humane AI Pin Developers Cleaned Out". A group of bad actors could (would) just run down a line/through a room and snatch these one after the other with nothing more than a weak magnet slowing them down.

Yes they can be locked down but even with Apple and Google-level measures implemented over the years phones still get stolen to be sent to China (or wherever) and parted out for pennies on the dollar for the thief. There's also the usual problem of a lot of this being opportunity/impulse crime and a lot of criminals are just going to think "I don't know what that is, looks expensive", grab it, and see what they can get for it later.

This is probably the best example of the "Silicon Valley elites in their bubble disconnected from the real world" tropes that are always floating around.
> Most of my time here I feel vaguely gross about how nice everything is.

Tell me more about this.
If you want both sides in one book: The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
As TFA says, people _are being forced_ to adopt Wayland. You yourself are saying that "you outsource your concerns to the distro maintainers, and some are choosing Wayland", which effectively implies that you are being forced to use Wayland.

I am also forced to support Wayland if I want to make Linux desktop software. Which means (again) the next application or game I would make is likely going to target Win32 only instead of Linux since it changes way too damn frequently for no reason. The argument "if you complain about Wayland, just improve X11!" goes both ways. The "shiny new thing" chasers are forcing me extra work to maintain my own software, and I am also not paid to do it.
They should eliminate the license altogether and get out of the business of deciding who can practice law.

Professional licensing is generally a scam that allows people in a trade to control competition among other things. Under color of government it’s given the veneer of “protecting the public” but in reality it’s protectionist and also used to punish people who don’t think or act like the licensing organization prefers.
I have a kind of off-topic NASM story. I think I was using it circa 2004 for a class, and was taking another class that required us to find 10 exploitable security holes in existing software. (This was DJB's "Unix Security Holes" class. Best class I ever took.) NASM was the first place I looked (my thought process was, it takes untrusted input and it's written in C), and indeed I found one: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2005/msg00...

Incidentally, the other holes I found for that class were various XSS vulnerabilities in our course registration software. The administration was furious with me (I didn't exploit them, only proved that they existed), and banned me from using any computers at the University. DJB stuck up for me, though, and the vendor sent me a new iPod as a thank you. It was pretty stressful for a first-year student in 2004 though.

My parents really didn't want me being involved in any security-related fields, so I ended up not really touching it again. My take these days is that security is a subset of correctness; design for security, and make sure you implement it correctly, just like you do for any other feature. I also write a LOT of fuzz tests ;) But yeah, NASM was the beginning and end of my software security career, which I still find kind of amusing.
Never thought I'd have a reason to post this on HN. Don't skip the comment section.

https://youtu.be/U_gLDF2dGLY
Gnome Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
It looks like the OLED version is replacing the LCD one for the 512/1TB models. It's just the specific colourway that's limited.

I'm in a similar boat - I'm gonna keep my LCD 512GB Steam Deck.
As someone with a degree in physics, who's mother is a math teacher and helped build a state level math curriculum, it's hard to convey how much I hate Common Core as a parent. My son mercifully avoided it entirely by being too far ahead and then hopping out of state during the worst of it. But my daughter took it with both barrels between the eyes. Teachers who don't get it blaming students who ask their parents who try to explain and get told, by everyone, they don't understand. Batshit crazy conceptual jumps (If you have 17 triangles and divide them into 3 equal groups, how many sides are in the remainder?). And then moving out of the California school districts, the new district didn't recognize those courses at all, so when she aced precalc and they didn't have enough kids to take calc, they had her take ... algebra 2. WTF?

Then when she went to back to California for college, they made her take precalc AGAIN! Can you demolish someone's motivation any more? Fuck common core and the entire privileged shitshow of East Coast math professor elites that came up with this crap.
Why do you not move YC into a more immigration friendly country?
Any word when it'll be released outside the US?
Show HN: Quick Lookup selected text using ChatGPT in Chrome
Made this (using Gpt-4) a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147938 and now its on store. Been helping me a lot lately mainly to understand words and things here on HN. Also using this to summarize the text I don't want to read myself.

The one on store is a bit out of date. If you get it from Github, it can resubmit text, sort prompts, and displays multiple popups in a cleaner way.

Also tested "gpt-4-1106-preview" for development of this extension itself. It is faster and worse than gpt-4. GPT-4 is the only model that returned correct code most of the times. 1106 says something sensible than moves on to doing something else.
I had the same experience as a contractor for IBM.

Real IBMers got all kinds of stuff. We had to pay full price for the GR meal.
Just a handful of (binary or more) attributes such as that one are enough to tell apart a user from thousands of others.
Doesn't that same argument apply to cookie consent popups?

Yes! I would have much preferred the EU to make PSAs explaining how to disable cookies in browsers rather than inflicting popups on billions of users.
We absolutely do not agree about the positive impact of the unabomber, no.
I mention ammonia in my comment. I think we agree.
It's OK if Your Code is Just Good Enough
Stuff where the point is to be a human.

This in turn may or may not be sufficient for work once the issues with bioprinting and/or tissue/organ culture get solved and someone prints/grows a brainless body, connects its organic lower nervous system to a silicon chip, and has the higher functions all performed by an AI on that chip.

And by "someone" I mainly mean The Thought Emporium given they're already trying to do exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZGq8Tah0k&t=28s
For E2 visa:

1. Do they look at whether you paid taxes on the income you invested (how stringent are the requirements for source of investments)?

2. What is the minimum viable investment these days? Could they approve an investment of $50k-$100k for a software business?

3. Can the money your company earned count towards investment or does it all have to be personal income of the founder?
Why not? GDPR isn't flawless, but im sure happy it exists
This will absolutely be a commercial failure. I don't harbor any ill will to anybody in the company, and I wish them the best, but a voice interface in public is a complete non-starter. What is the use-case for this device for which a comparably-priced smartphone isn't better...much better? The only real distinguishing feature this thing has over a smartphone is projection, and even that doesn't seem too difficult to tack onto future models.

Once the AI Pin replies with a "sorry, couldn't get that" a few times, people will give up on it and reach for their phones. I could see it finding some success in the accessibility market, but outside of niche applications, I don't think this thing sticks around.
Tied to your IP, which makes it collection of personal information. Meaning you need to consent to it and they are not allowed to do it unless it's strictly necessary in order to deliver the service, bill you and so on.

They can choose not to provide the service unless you pay.

They can also choose not to provide the service to unregistered users and give out free daily watches as a part of their marketing campaign. Then you enter a simple contract by opening an account and agreeing to their terms.

Terms which can include data collection, but it has to be possible to opt-out from it without losing access to the service.
I wouldn't have noticed without the disclaimer, but it's quite poorly written, in a glossy, vapid sense. It bounces between personal comments and sweeping, overwrought generalizations.

> This is the democratization of design at its core – a shift from an exclusive club of skilled builders to a universal playground where anyone with a passion for LEGO can partake in the creation process. In this vein, the intersection of AI and LEGO is not just a meeting of technology and toy but a union of futures and pasts, of pixels and plastic – a synergy that promises to craft not just models, but bridges between ages, cultures, and the myriad dimensions of human creativity

is just a polished turd of a paragraph
wow: "Rue de l'Uranium"
Now to work out how to watch it in the UK. Oh the irony!
'mistook'

Tip: When the robot's make an offer you can't refuse, don't refuse it.
In the article, your libertarian non-fascist, is actively calling for the implementation of the 'light fascism' of FDR to allow the state to get things done.

Presumably without all the bits that make it 'light'. It's pretty far from a standard libertarian opinion (unless you believe in the "libertarian to fascism" pipeline: https://thomas-perrett97.medium.com/from-hayek-to-hitler-an-...).
no paywall
https://web.archive.org/web/20231026105511/https://www.nytim...
Completely unrelated, but this reminds me of a French bank that was amazed that they had so many customers that were farmers. Like almost all of them, despite being a bank present everywhere.

It took them years to realize that part of the creation of a new account was the question about your work. Since the employees of the bank did not want to bother customers with these silly questions, they were picking the first one - agriculteur (farmer).

You get the stats you deserve.
No one is forcing employers into performative hysterics, it's a reactionary choice by the corporate legal community. MSFT was guilty of what they were accused of. If they don't misclassify workers, they won't lose such a suit.
Then by your logic no company ever invents anything.
It can’t go down with probably hundred levels of subcontractors. 80 of them are paid to manage their project plans and couple do actual job. I assume, that the real pay for the job done is a small fraction of the overall cost. Heck the solar panel 6 kW installation on the house near by took few weeks and there were 5 companies involved.
Why should companies be required to offer content to people for free?
I would imagine there's an upper limit to how many trees could be planted, and they might use more space. That won't really work if carbon emissions are an ongoing concern. But by all means let's do as much as we can. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/examining-the-viability-o...
Looks badly enough for me to believe it
create milestones. bound the scope.

if you don’t set and defend a finish line, you will never reach it.

you can always make additional finish lines.
Deserts all have way more humidity than you could ever need for your hydrogen production. Extracting hydrogen from atmospheric water vapor is a win because it is cleaner than ground water, and has already been vaporized.
Textured vegetable contractor
Had literally the exact same issue with my spouse, but without the luck of finding an insurance person who cared. At the end of the day, it wasn't worth the $200 to continue fighting it (had already invested ~5 hours into phone calls back and forth between the clinic and insurance company).

Infuriating to say the least.
But, but, AI is just a tool!!! No, it's not. If something else is making decisions for you, you're the tool.
Yeah that stood out to me, would need ~60 almonds to have that much protein.

A screen would be useful for showing the details of how it misestimated the almond count, and let you adjust them.
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GitHub Actions down due to missing workflow action
> 675 hours sounds low - I would have expected 1 year of experience

Doing the unit conversion for everyone else: that's 17 versus 48 workweeks, assuming 40 hours/week in both cases.
Capsule: Secure cross-app embedded wallets
I used Google Bard today.

Is that somehow not operationalized?
> why is it immature for Rust to ship a toolchain and package manager through a sidechannel, but not Haskell?

Haskell also feels less mature to me than C, with fewer POSIX functions being readily available, but as mentioned above, with Haskell (in my experience; the experiences indeed seem to differ) it is "one or two dependencies have to be pulled from Hackage across multiple projects and system versions", while in Rust it is rather "I failed to pull common logging and argument parsing dependencies on a single up-to-date stable system, and apparently one is supposed to install and update its compiler, package manager, and libraries separately from the rest of the system". Though some use ghcup or Stack, which also aim working without a system package manager, but at least a system package manager is a viable option.
I lived in Hickory Hills for a while as a kid. We'd ride our bikes all the way out to Red Gate on a Saturday morning. No super powers here either.
How do you propose testing real world ethics in a controlled environment?
Random thoughts:

This is a zero win situation. Customers do not want telemetry on their system, so they tell Microsoft not to monitor user behavior. If Microsoft asks customers why they did something unexpected (like close OneDrive), people get upset that they are being surveyed. They do use focus-groups to get an idea of what users want, but I believe that the feedback is too course grained (low expertise and low sample size) and can be expensive to run.

Linux/Opensource seems to approach this differently, they provide you with multiple solutions and you try to figure out which one suits you best. However the community backlash (or the effort needed) for changing something can be high, so many projects tend to be conservative. The project stagnates and then gets forked, by someone who wants the change (scratching an itch). However, this leads to a lack of cohesion which can make the software burdensome to use.
I was under the false impression they have hash that was created by playing the ad and got that back to confirm the ad ran somehow.

I'm not familiar with tbh because the idea of working on ad software and SEO seem like the most boring possibly ethically dubious jobs.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody" (1981) <-- Gates claims he never said this: https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...

"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC" (1984)

"I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years" (1994)

"Today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway" (1995)

"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed" (1995)

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities" (1998)

Under oath: "I don't recall" 6x, "I don't remember" 14x, "I don't know" 22x (1998)

"[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time" (2004)
More like annihilating it!
This preview is a step to make it less fragmented (as it drops one of the implementations in favor of another, existing one).
This is a forever problem. It’s difficult to judge the competency or skill of a professional without also being a professional in the same space. Word of mouth is the usual solution.

Another approach is to pick a few lawyers (read things they’ve written, online reviews, etc.) then do intro calls and pick the one who clicks best. Do a couple of low stakes projects with them to feel out their competency.

I’ll note that it can be worthwhile to match the professional to the task. No reason to pay top dollar to a specialist if all you need is some common boilerplate that any lawyer can do. You’ll also need to line up separate commercial and criminal lawyers.
Honestly, if they did the one thing that com badges did, it would have at least one feature I would say, "oh, that's nice"
This is panglossian nonsense.

More people may, in the magical thinking of Diversity Über Alles, find more solutions (just don't expect it out of the Baltimore MD USA public school pupils).

However, it is not magical to believe that more people cause more problems once "me/us first" ethics dominate since we can see that in many multi-cultural slums already.
I'm still using uMatrix. I don't really understand why uMatrix was abandoned, its UI is miles ahead what uBlock Origin offers.
Oh is there some kind of OneDrive API to help me "determine path locations" per Microsoft's preferences also?
>I see GPT and similar LLMs as basically like managing an over-eager intern. Have you ever tried to do that?

So? Assuming you're right, GPT-3 was not at the level of intern. GPT-2 could not even write coherent text.

I bet you didn't expect any of those developments either.

It's interesting how much people struggle to look forward. I guess we never needed to for nearly all of our evolutionary history. Like very few people genuinely think they'll be replaced right before they are.

Your argument basically boils down to "I have a hunch language models will stop improving".

Your hunch is unfounded, backed by nothing except vague assertions that "surely this time" these goals won't be reached.

Assertions that many people parroted just a few years ago and have continued to be proven wrong.

The text is data. Gradient descent and prediction will strive the model the data. The data will be modelled. That's really all there is to it.
> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn.

“Porn addiction” seems largely to be an evangelical Christian shame mechanism more than (and possibly instead of) an actual phenomenon.
Very cool! Check out this software and games archive: http://qbasic.de/
Cookie consent popups are not mandated by the GDPR (the EU privacy law), they’re just a stupid (and often infringing) reaction to it.

The GDPR disallows tracking without consent, but more in the spirit of “don’t track” than “get consent”. It also specifies that conditions should be clear, and that not granting consent (or withdrawing it) should be as simple as granting it. It even specifies that sites that request private information from kids should be clearer, because they need to understand what they’re accepting even if their guardians will provide the consent.
Between SD cards and M.2 drive upgrades being pretty painless, you can start small and upgrade.
>Today Now

The actress who played one of the two morning-show anchors went back to her original career as a pilot, presumably because it's a more reliable paycheck. I presume that she wouldn't have done that had The Onion continued with its videos, which indeed were amazing a decade ago.
If we're talking about base OS install then its a different story. Which options do they choose as default for all users? Are you suggesting that Microsoft create an OOTB setup perfectly custom tailored to this one tiny niche requirement to compile Python whatever?

Even on Linux the OOTB setup is useless for my development. I always need to `apt install` all the compilers, frameworks, libraries, SDK's, utilities, etc, before its usable.
Exactly! But if it’s energy density hasn’t increased since the middle age it’s probably only good enough to support middle age lifestyle.
For movies it is seven types:

1. Man vs Man.

2. Man vs Dog.

3. Dog vs Zombie.

4. James Bond.

5. Stories of Kings and Lords.

6. Women Over 50 Finding Themselves After Divorce.

7. Car Commercial.
I'd wager they've had a "useful" impact, in that they've done a lot to coerce/manipulate users into allowing tracking cookies. :\
No, I haven't tried the NVidia or AMD version.

When I tried it (about a month ago) I was able to connect easily enough, but then the Steam interface went away for some reason and I was left staring at my (remote) desktop. I restarted Steam and started a game but the controller lag was noticeable and the framerate seemed low. It looked like a VNC connection. After about 30 minutes I gave up and started to look at Steam Decks and other very small computers.
It started as a reaction to a market distortion during/after WWII. There was a government-imposed salary cap during the war (Stabilization Act of 1942), so private companies had to get creative to attract talent. One thing that stuck was offering additional health insurance to employees. The rest is history.

Further reading: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-obamaca...
>I don't think we can classify all variable reward systems as gambling.

That's true. thank you for your perspective
I would put my bet on LDTR and TR. They are read and written with different instructions but they are 16 bit and closely related to segment registers (they index into the GDT).
We use Nango for https://fillout.com and it's been a great addition to our tech stack. Has made it much faster to add new integrations without having to navigate OAuth docs each time
Nobody is forced. Just like with systemd, there's plenty of distros that still don't use it if that's your thing. Today, they're mostly niche distros for people that just cannot adapt...

You can choose not to support Wayland in your app if you want. As market-share grows, your available reach will shrink. That's the same as with anything...

There's good reasons Wayland is being adopted in major distros - and it's not "the shiny" like you asserted.

> the next application or game I would make is likely going to target Win32 only instead of Linux since it changes way too damn frequently for no reason

That's ridiculous. We're talking about one major change in 20 years and you're acting like it changes every few months. Your game won't even exist in 20 years, so it doesn't matter. Nor do you have to even care about what protocol/compositor/lib is being used unless you're doing something strange - the engine will take care of that for you and probably make it a checkbox.
And just to bring back nostalgia -- https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE
First sentence was really surprising to me (Aussie), until you mentioned later that you're a Saffa. My in-laws took years to adjust after emigrating.

To put things in perspective, it's common over here for people selling things on Facebook/Gumtree to just leave the item outside and have the buyer slide the cash under the doormat. It's less secure but way more convenient, since you don't need to be home to complete the transaction.

I've left tools and other semi-valuables in my unsecured carport, in clear sight from the street, on a main road, for years now and they've never gone missing.

My sister in law lost her iPhone in a public bathroom and got it back simply by calling it and working out a time and location to meet up with the person who found it.

These aren't just freak anecdotes, by the way, they're the norm.

You should really consider coming over here. We need more Saffas in Australia!