skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NDAs/ data protection for one. I'm not against people having multiple jobs, but some jobs have access to confidential/proprietary data that employers have a legitimate interest in protecting.
Does seem to be happening more often, recently. E.g. "We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around" (Tim Gurner) and "People who worked remotely during the pandemic didn’t work as hard – regardless of what th ey told you.” (Stephen Schwarzman)
> It seems very much that this approach is winning over "side-loading"

But it's a shame. I hate app stores, personally. Not just on smartphones, but everywhere else they've been popping up.
Except for people who profited from the rise and cashed their profits on a foreign land, nope, crypto is not really good to avoid taxes. That and you eventually need to bridge with the traditional monetary system and suddenly crypto is worse than most alternatives out there. The thing is, crypto exchanges somehow are not banks and thus are not "technically" subject to CRS. This is kind of a CRS for crypto exchanges.

In reality, these laws are made to control money flows and not to improve taxation (the big corporations still avoid taxes and rich people still use expensive lawyers to nullify their tax bill). This will make the business environment for the average person worse. Which, surprise, might push people to actually use crypto as a medium of value transfer instead of speculation. Just hang in there and watch.
“And anyway most people like to be employed” is exactly the kind of room temperature iq take I would expect from someone who is equating ai putting people out of work with the rise of the equine glue industry without seeming to have any appreciation for the horrific reality they are alluding to. It’s amazing to me that people who are supposed to have foresight to navigate their companies have so little imagination.
Oh wow, I thought I'd seen them all, but somehow I missed this one. Thanks for sharing, I think that's my favourite too now!
That’s actually an interesting thought… on earth, such a redirection of the exhaust gas wouldn’t mean much, since the resulting turbulence would cause the surrounding air to get caught up in the wake of the exhaust anyway (making everything around it disturbed), but with no atmosphere? The result would look a lot different. I still think the footprints would be affected because the exhaust deflection is not perfect or complete, but it’s interesting to think about the idea of exhaust traveling thousands of miles per hour just a few feet above the lunar surface while the surface itself remains undisturbed.
This just in: company working on next version of popular product
It's probably the single most high-profile example of the dangers of social media addiction in history. Guy fell in a deep social media hole around that time and in a few short years it's completely destroyed his reputation and seems to be affecting his personal mental health pretty massively.
I know it's not intentional, but I like the misspelling.
Ask HN: Maintaining a searchable work diary/agenda
Suggestions for maintaining a work-related agenda/diary? In the old days I used a Filofax (remember those!). New days, the equivalent would be I guess a bullet journal notebook sort of thing. What about an electronic version? I am mainly on MacOS. Day One app? Agenda app? emacs orgmode? Just plain text files in my own directory structure? I don't need a system/app that allows multiple users or collaboration, this would be just for my own benefit. Would be interested in hearing from people who actually have something going.
History's Worst Software Error (2022) [video]
>This is an innocent misrepresentation of Blender's development history. While nothing you've said is false, Blender has been open source for more than 2 decades. It began that portion of its life as something of a mess, with a truly Byzantine user interface that made even trivial tasks troublesome, and lacking a vast majority of the features it's now known for. [...] That's what separates it from most open source projects: not that it started as a commercial product,

I think your minimization of its original commercial nature with additional facts about the UI is also an innocent misrepresentation.

Even though the 2003 Blender didn't have the optimal UI, what the commercial investment did for Blender was put enough value into software such that it had a headstart and momentum for subsequent investment from corporate donors/sponsors and volunteers to create the later UI overhauls. The substantial €4.5M business investment set the stage for the later developments. That it happened 20 years ago isn't the key. What's key is the financial investment to help motivate 20 additional years of work.

Compare that to the open-source development of Octave (a MATLAB alternative) where the developer is lacking money and is looking for employment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

Observers can say Octave is not as polished as MATLAB. But a similar hypothetical investment of €4.5M of 20 years ago might have helped give it the "Matthew Effect" like Blender got. That the hypothetical Octave v2023 has a revamped UI compared to Octave v2003 would not remove all the causal effects of that hypothetical investment.
>That’s a material deficiency, that even an autistic employee is expected to fix.

Incorrect. Most countries with protections for disabled employees NEVER expect the employee to be the one fixing the problem.

Wheelchair employees don't have to build ramps, you must do it for them.
The financing of an offworld base is still very much unknown.

Even with a high volume and relatively low cost launch vehicle, the actual offworld base will be hugely expensive, and no commercial enterprise can realistically expect to make a return for their investors.

A government needs to step up with the rationale that it will eventually form a tax-producing colony - but a huge investment will need to be put in till it gets there.
I really wish people would stop making these claims with only a passing knowledge of the issue. SpaceX’s Starlink in particular has done a good job of addressing these problems because they chose to deploy their constellation at very low altitudes (400-600km) where failures (or debris from collisions, to some extent) quickly deorbit due to atmospheric drag. Their original competitor OneWeb chose a higher orbit, 1000-1200km, to get by with fewer satellites. At those altitudes, the satellites stay in orbit for centuries unless actively deorbited.

Kessler Syndrome is a real risk at higher orbits like 1000km and above. But not at the lower altitudes. Kessler Syndrome is an exponential effect, so if the losses (due to atmospheric drag) are higher than the gain (debris generation due to collisions), then you do not get the exponentially growing debris problem. It’s not even possible.

Although it should be pointed that even at higher orbits and even if you’re technically in the exponentially growing regime, this growth would occur very slowly, not minutes or hours. Think months or years. And it’d take something like an active war with mass deployment of anti-satellite weaponry to trigger that kind of thing.

In fact, most debris problems nowadays ARE caused by debris from anti satellite tests (as well as collisions with old Russian derelict satellites or explosions of upper stages not properly deorbited).

But we also have demonstration missions for deorbiting derelict satellites to prevent the production of additional debris even at these higher orbits.

But sorry to say, none of these problems are due to Elon Musk.
Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux
Not really. Sure you can refer to them, but the first lawyer who shows up will point out the others were no shows and the judge won't pay much attention to results.
What the heck, I signed up for an account at the advice of the article just so someone else can't register and looks like they automatically signed me up for a digital checking account. I never wanted this
The reason HAL went nuts (given in 2010) is that they asked him to compartmentalize his data, but still be as helpful as possible:

> Dr. Chandra discovers that HAL's crisis was caused by a programming contradiction: he was constructed for "the accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment", yet his orders, directly from Dr. Heywood Floyd at the National Council on Astronautics, required him to keep the discovery of the Monolith TMA-1 a secret for reasons of national security. -- Wikipedia.

Just saying.
My M1 MacBook Pros keyboard and trackpad quit working after almost exactly one year. Apple now wants 600 to fix the issue. This is the closest I've come to considering abandoning Apple but I don't know what to switch to.
That feels very formulaic, which is I guess par for the course for behemoth corporations.

If it were me, I would try and frame it like "this is an attempt to be a bit more 'real-world' where we've received some initial direction on what the results are supposed to look like from management, but don't consider any of it set in stone and I'm happy to talk you through it as if we were working together...". IDK the exact verbiage, but something that gets people in that mindset without straight up telling them "this is meant to be ambiguous, wink wink".
I use self-checkouts whenever possible because most cashiers don't like the job and probably want to interact with as few people as possible, so I'm hopefully making their life a little bit better. Also, I can check that the prices are correct instead of being socially pressured into paying and leaving as fast as possible.
Why is there a Vitamin K but no Vitamin F?
It does work but it’s much slower, when we are discussing code it’s started trying to execute it, which has failed every single time so far (not because the code is wrong but due to operational issues like timeouts), very annoying
Also had the "There was an error generating a response" message once, but a retry solved that. It's extremely slow for me right now though. Quite frustrating to use.
> Global warming (incorrect): We wasted some fraction of human time and resources implementing carbon capture that wasn't necessary. Minor economic hit

No, it's not at all a "minor economic" hit with the measures that are being proposed. It is a huge reduction in standard of living for everybody in first world countries, and forcing those who currently don't enjoy a first world standard of living to stay in poverty.

Of course, you could avoid this by building nuclear power plants instead of the draconian carbon reduction/elimination measures that are being proposed. Then we could have the best of both worlds. But no climate change alarmists are proposing that. Why not?

> Global warming (correct): We prevented the collapse of the planet's climate and the ensuing death of most living creatures.

No actual scientific predictions make this claim. It is hype and FUD.

> AI will take our jobs (incorrect): We wasted time unnecessarily preparing for a paradigm shift in employment that never happened. Universal basic income was implemented which led to a small positive/negative change in worldwide economic productivity.

If you think UBI will just be a "small" change, I have some oceanfront property in Tibet I'd like to sell you.

> AI will take our jobs (correct): UBI was never implemented. A feedback loop emerged where almost all wealth siphoned quickly to a few individuals. The reward mechanism that incentivized the general population to work broke, and hasty attempts by the government to implement a "fair" system of resource distribution among the now "economically worthless" population failed and led to mass supply chain failure, worldwide mental instability, and societal collapse.

The consequences you describe here are actually consequences of UBI, not "AI".

The potential negative consequences of "AI" are negative consequences of particular humans using AI as a tool to prey on everyone else--just as such humans have always used whatever tools they can to prey on everyone else. The solution to the problem is not to ban the tool (even if that were possible--you can't ban knowledge). It's to stop letting a few humans prey on everyone else. And the best way to do that is to decentralize power and stop thinking that governments can solve problems. Governments are actually an even better tool than "AI" for some humans to use to prey on everyone else.
Ain’t nobody have time for that.
Yes, I’ve seen this happen to me multiple times. And Dalle outputs are lower resolution now
When studying fine art, a tutor of mine talked about "things that look like art", by which she meant the work that artists produce when they're just engaging with surface appearances rather than fully engaging with the process. I've been using GitHub Copilot for a while and find that it produces output that looks like working code but, aside from the occasional glaring mistake, it often has subtle mistakes sprinkled throughout it too. The plausibility is a serious issue, and means that I spend about as much time checking through the code for mistakes as I'd take to actually write it, but without the satisfaction that comes from writing my own code.

I dunno, maybe LLMs will get good enough eventually, but at the moment it feels plausible to me that there's some kind of an upper limit caused by its very nature of working from a collection of previous code. I guess we'll see...
First 3 Falcon launches failed. Now Falcon launches at an annualized rate of roughly 100 times per year and is the most reliable launch vehicle ever made in terms of numbers of consecutive successful launches. Let’s see how Starship’s 4th launch goes.
Nepal is a small country bordering on a behemoth (China) that has a fairly authoritarian autocratic government that is asserting itself in multiple territorial disputes with other neighbors. It's wedged between India and China. It is correct for Nepal to have geopolitical concerns about the future. Nepal is the kind of landlocked country (e.g. Poland or Ukraine in Europe) that tends to become the unwitting victims.
Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with high reflectivity
With global warming - a clear and present danger, the only realistic immediate and effective solution is to stop digging up fossil fuels and burning them. However almost all the world's economy is predicated on precisely that, so it is a big ask.

With AI - a nebulous threat based on not much more than some 21st century parlor tricks, it is quite reasonable to 'cross that bridge when we reach it' (which may be never).
I feel like people completely miss the meditative/"Zennness" of drying paint
What is necrolog, a blog for dead SaaS?
I didn't go after anything. I tried to address what looked like a misunderstanding.

Dude, dragonwriter said that what you were talking about seems like a specific thing the courts have applied to some areas and not to others.

Your reply seems to ignore the content of that post on the justification that the use of the word "theory" to refer to something that "the courts have ruled on" is such a glaring contradiction as to render the rest of the post irrelevant. If that reply was doing something else and I have misinterpreted, what was it?

Your mode of interaction here is obnoxious enough that I might abandon this thread.
I use “chatGPT” (really bing chat which is openAI under the hood as I understand) more than anyone on my team but it is very rarely for code.

I most often use it for summarizing/searching through dense documentation, creating quick prototypes, “given X,Y,Z symptoms and this confusing error message, can you give me a list of possible causes?” (basically searches Stack Overflow far better than I can).

Anyway basically the same as I was using google when google was actually good. sometimes I will forget some obscure syntax and ask it how to do something, but not super often. I’m convinced using it solely to generate code is a mistake unless it’s tedious boilerplate stuff.
Snapchat and NYX launch new beauty filter that's also a stealth shopping tool
Having been a trader, regular guest on coding and Protracker parties, yep those were the days.

I guess shadertoy and similar are where the Demoscene spirit lives on.
HN lunch challenge: Many here have noted one should be able to do this with far fewer total states by ignoring the order of the moves and focusing only on what the next board state needs to be. Who can generate the smallest working HTML file first? Preferably with how they generated the HTML too.
Assistive tech isn’t just screen readers. But yeah, Blender specifically is a visual design tool, I’ll give you that.
Sounds like a number of recent disasters too, no?
Well it's live, so you can throw a YouTube URL into it right now and get an auto generated article from GPT-3.5 in about 15 seconds. The items on the site right now are myself / others using it. Depends on the video length, but each generated article costs about $0.005 in API usage.

Edit: Ah just understood your question (coffee just kicked in). Yes, they're precomputed from when others used it. I save the generated articles in markdown format and sort by most recently generated.
I was going to ask if all Blender developers were in Europe but was able to answer my own question from https://www.blender.org/development/top-27-committers-2022/

It does appear that the majority of top contributors are from European countries but overall pretty diverse: China, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Egypt are represented as well.

That said, if I revised my comment to say two developer salaries per month, or 3, 4, etc. it is still impressive in my view.
Why should a community limit their potential and ambition because another can’t seem to figure it out? This is like the crabs in a bucket thing. There’s no need to solve every social issue before progressing to high tech things.

We would do well to ignore the cynical and misanthropic who contribute nothing but complaints about how the capable people should serve their personal interests first.
I remember doing this back when I was 11 or 12. Very nostalgic. I wish I could find the short novel I wrote back then but it seems like I purged all my files.
This is an opinion piece based heavily on quotes from Sixt - a company interested in car sharing.
I thought OpenAI said fine tuning and not bigger models were the future?

Side note: Wonder if Twitter will be filled with graphs of the motivation crowd’s interpretation.

Tiny circle = GPT4
Huge circle = GPT5
This seems a bit premature. The announcement page isn't up yet and the download link still points to 3.6
yeah, I wasn't referring to agism or anything like that. Just that they had been there a while, got complacent with the code base or the style of programming. That's all. It can take an entire mind shift to understand what's going on when all you've been building is administrative portals and internal sites.
Just to be clear, MonoGame has existed and been open source for a really long time now, and it's a mostly compatible successor to Microsoft's XNA; it's more of a platform abstraction library than a game engine, although it fills a really sweet spot between using engine and starting from scratch, IMO.

There's also FNA, which is more focused on being an accurate reimplementation of the original XNA on top of exclusively OSS libraries and open APIs, although you can use it to make new games as well. Some games have actually used both to target different platforms in the past, as MonoGame is arguably buggier.
> Altadena gives you country living

I grew up about a mile from the rose bowl, and spent many years in sierra madre. I would definitely not call this area country living. I do miss the smell of the chaparral though.
This doesn't seem to encompass stablecoins that are fully-collateralized, as many claim to be (which is disputable in a lot of cases).

Getting money from users for a token on which you pay no interest and getting the full interest yourself does seem like a good business, it's just not one that would attract customers that have better options.
Sanctioned Russian banks distribute their apps as self-updating apks. It's much, MUCH worse with iOS — Tinkoff tried publishing an innocuous-looking app that turns into their usual bank app after you open a "secret" deeplink for example.

Two things are problematic, though: 1) app stores got normalized as a way to distribute apps to the point of people being afraid to sideload, and 2) the fact that you can't distribute an iOS app without Apple's permission is utterly bonkers.
Back story as explained by Elon in an interview with Lex Friedman:

The government's environmental assessment was bonkers. They were required to do things like assess the risk of a booster landing on a shark or whale in the middle of the ocean. They were also required to assess if the sound of the rocket would harm the breeding behavior of the seal population. To do this they had to chase down a seal, strap it down to a board with headphones and study if the sound of rocket engine were emotionally distressing to the animal.
Clearly they should not have passed linear algebra without this understanding, and you're free to fail then if they didn't personally manage to correct for it by the end of the term.
Eyjafjallajökull was a special case, it was not an oceanic blast, but a blast under a glacier. Fjallajökull means "glacier mountain". The blast flash-melted several tones of ice, which caused the lava to cool rapidly forming the ash cloud. If my memory serves, the glacier was in the caldera itself.

But the effect would be very similar. The water would vaporize and create an aerosol of ash.
> Especially for those outside of the US who don't share the American obsession with relentlessly protecting everyone from the very idea of sexuality, whether they want that protection or not.

The first step would be to not have mobile telecom device OSes run by American advertising and media companies.

Unfortunately mobile Linux is limited to ultra-small vendors liek Purism and Pinephone.
Clearly you haven’t tried Apple Silicon laptops
Working 2 jobs ≠ leaking confidential data between them.
You could cut costs a lot if you used robots rather than humans to build things. I'm not sure how the Tesla bot is coming along but you never know.
Can we not link to AI grifters on Twitter and instead use the original source?

https://www.ft.com/content/dd9ba2f6-f509-42f0-8e97-4271c7b84...

https://archive.ph/r1O38
I've always considered the human ability to abstract things away - the capacity to say "this is like that" - as a kind of data compression mechanism. Instead of memorizing everything, we remember the first few things of that kind that we encountered, and then the differences between them and everything else that's sort of like them. The core memories being the root, and the differences being steps along the path of a trie -- both space and time efficient in storage and retrieval.

I think the addition of medium-term memory to an LLM system would mean an individualization / giving that system instance the means to become unique from its common starting point. We can already consider the context window as a short-term memory of sorts, but it's lobotomized every time. Having a persistent medium-term memory window (eg, via collecting summaries / tries of abstraction "keyframes" + diffs) would begin to pose some serious questions. If a mechanism was further developed to persist these medium-term data summaries into "long term memory" (adjusting weights and parameters), we would have continuous learning.

It's pretty wild stuff.
As long as there's no conflict of interest between the companies, what's the issue? How is this any different from someone taking a job at all of those companies sequentially?
If you can get it to stop parroting clauses about how "as an AI model" it can't give advice or just spewing a list of steps to achieve something - I have found it to be a pretty good search engine for obscure things about a technology or language and for searching for something that would otherwise require a specific query that google is unhelpful searching for.