skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My interpretation is this is an implementation of the interface, basically wrapping WinHttp for existing code that uses curl.

So security vulnerabilities in curl are not necessarily present here, since the two implementations would have matching forward declarations but little in common in terms of implementation.
You can say that fine. It's a reason I'm keen on self driving tech. Which usually on HN leads to a conversation along the lines of it'll never work, Musk is a fraud... but Waymo actually works... and round in circles.

On a more immediate time frame, road engineering can work really well which is why deaths are like 5x lower in places like Holland. Put bends and obstacles in the road and drivers will either have to pay attention or hit them.
I'm a manager and have been forced to apply similar PIP process to my team and it is truly horrible when the folks are forcefully put in the lowest performance just to satisfy the projected yearly budget. The 2-3 month improvement process is hogwash and hardly anyone survives it, PIP means they're 90% going to be axed.
The steering wheel hid the spike though. You need to see it.
'Disruptive' science more likely from teams who work in the same place
I use linuxbrew at work which uses relatively old SLES 12 machines with some odd configs. I find the nix portable solutions don't work because the kernel is too old to support the needed sandbox features. I do have a coworker who got NIX working in his account, but it was non-trivial, and still had issues.

Still, several homebrew packages need some tweaking, but that is straightforward.
Time to start a new side project: isittheendoftheyearyet.com
Just make it Excel themed!
In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying
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I am worried that we (collective west) are in the process of basically automating ourselves - as in the service industry of creative and software and finance etc

but all the physical stuff will still need to he done - by other countries that can do it much better thsn us.
Yes, a while ago... I hate it
I am missing what the author thinks the "right" kind of AI is.

Clearly AI can be used for creative purposes, and technology has indeed disrupted memory and attention span.

It will however be the way forward so it might be better to envision a future in which AI is used positively and work towards that instead.
Maddy Mail Server
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?
Wait, you two are not actually talking about using SIMD instructions in a LISP implementation when working with several lists simultaneously, but about actual road transportation and vehicles instead?
Meta's Threads to Launch in Europe in App's Biggest Expansion Since Debut
The EU Commission has taken a similar position: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23961096/adobe-figma-acq...

the European Commission reached the preliminary conclusion on Friday that if the deal goes ahead, it may “significantly reduce competition in the global markets” for the supply of interactive product design tools, vector editing tools, and raster editing tools.
> Imagine a world where everything is “AI generated”, everything including books, songs, music, movies, etc. One can imagine the irony in humans consuming and enjoying such content - the very same humans who have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and even artificial intelligence itself!

When seen from the collective of humanity, I understand this vision and the emotion that comes out of it.

But it's a stretch to see humanity collectively here. Only a small elite have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and AI. Most of humanity is used to either endulge or suffer the products of the creators. And the creators of these things are not one homogeneous group either.

Yeah, we will be entertained by AI. Just like the food we're eating is highly processed, the air we're breathing is made by machines, and the world we see is carefully curated, segmented and engineered. And a large majority will not care.

"Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece."
"Can you?" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAHbm7G2R0
If I was to try to steel man an argument for why acquisitions like this are good it would be that a lot of startups like Figma only exist because acquisitions are common and therefore offers early investors an exit on their investment that isn't 1-2 decades in the future.

If we got rid of M&A in tech there would significantly less investment and much less innovation, which I think you could argue is bad for the ecosystem as a whole and the end consumer of these products – even if individual acquisitions are often not great when viewed independently.

Or to look at it another way, big tech basically outsources their R&D to startups and the successful projects (companies) are then acquired. And this goes both ways given the goal of a lot startups is to be acquired.
I was about to link your thread but didn't find it. There was even an earlier one if you input 500 times "a".
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> I still wonder about what happened to all the people that went through that process. How did it impact their life? I think it leads to a lot of mental-health issues.

IMO this is a key issue with this system. The company evidently only cares about the employee as long as they're employees, and can dispose them and forget about them, like they'd dispose any other leftover resource.

But evidently said people are still around. If every company adopted a system like this, in theory it'd be great for the economy. It's capitalism, and you're getting rid of the people who sell you the least effective labour in an easily scalable way.

In practice, all these companies are pumping out a lot of stress, and it's thus no surprise the USA is notoriously burdened by mental health issues when compared to other high-income countries [1].

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2....
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Dies Aged 100
Hard crashes Chrome for me (all windows instantly disappear on pressing 'LAUNCH GAME') - Chrome beta (120.0.6099.35) on Wayland (not using X) on Ubuntu 23.04. I wasn't expecting it to work due to Wayland, but the crash was impressive!
It is important to content through a supply-demand lens before estimating the impact of AI on the field of content generation. If audiences don't like AI content, they will turn to human beings. What will become important is the distinction.

> Imagine a world where everything is “AI generated”, everything including books, songs, music, movies, etc

While I do not doubt that there will be takers for this, it is already evident that machine-generated content lacks soul, meaning or rhythm. It is always the human behind the AI that makes the difference.

Personal case but my brain already zones out when I can tell that content is AI-made. I find myself paying more attention to human articles - written with imperfections and unique voice - than to ChatGPT-made sludge (truthfully, few users of ChatGPT know how to make the output 'human' -- it's not as hard as it seems).

Perhaps imperceptible now, but later, we will start to see audiences reject AI content in lieu of genuine humanity. It is the musician playing a complicated piece live in a concert that garners the most serious fans, not the machine-generated track you can get so many of on YouTube. Content is partly influenced by the "spectacle" of its creation.

A big part of the new internet will lie in how "AI-generated" badges affect perception. A more likely middle path is that it will take less to make more - and large studios may downsize. But smaller creators who can make stuff audiences like - that is not going to be disrupted in the current paradigm.

The algorithms that already dictate how content is manufactured, viewed and consumed will have a much bigger role than the tool used to make content.
The "scheme" as a general HR tool was designed to work like this, was likelky deployed successfully like this. Then someone (I am just going to assume they had a Harvard MBA) realised that it could also be used to save on costly dismissals.

Redundancies are / have gone the same direction as well.
> you can basically deploy stuff to your own Xbox by just signing few things online

Is this true? I've been wanting to be able to develop my own console stuff for a long time, but the hoops have seemed insurmountable so far. Can I really deploy my own stuff to Xbox without having to pay huge fees and have calls with a sales team?

For publishing to some store, that's fine, but just for development I just wanna be able to get a build running without too much red tape, otherwise it's not fun and therefore not worth it.
> demonstrates how far we are in our "late stage capitalism" and economic slaves, not free, not by half.

I'm not sure what earlier periods of history you're comparing it to that were utopian in comparison but I am fairly certain they were pretty limited in range both geographically and temporally.
> In no countries do companies want to spend staff time and effort and risk lability by giving tailored feedback to people they won't hire anyway.

Actually, it's not that hard. Provided you have had a discussion with your team on why not to hire the candate, it's easy to send them a short summary without revealing too much information.

I should clarify, I don't mean this for every candidate. Just for those who have gotten pretty far into the process.
Comprehensive, good-looking, Web-based Common Lisp Spec
But it doesn't interleave? You get a sequence of pairs.
B2B with sole proprietorship of that employee.
So stepping back from the unreliable narrator of a person living through this with ptsd:

-person is suffering mental health issues due to strain of job.

-persons performance drops rapidly without warning as a result.

-boss takes workload off them without putting them on a pip process, to give them time to work through their issues.

-person quits right after stocks vest which upsets boss who put extra effort into helping them

-person gives interview to justify their behaviour
> Only a small elite have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and AI.

This isn't true at all. Anyone can sing, anyone can doodle, anyone can create. Just because the mass-media media is dominated by a small group of the commercially successful does not limit creativity to commercial success.
Oh dear... this is the literally the same argument the luddites made, and it did not end well! We laugh at luddites to this day!

> They protested against manufacturers who used machines in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They're All Pretty Stupid
Well, I've got a couple things lined up for this weekend and since I'm almost certain I will end up executing them... hmmm.
Microsoft has massive conflict of interest. Just because they don't dominate making the games yet, doesn't mean that this wasn't a bad thing.
> There are no "real concrete problems" that Elno could "go back to"

Well, there’s the other two companies he’s CEO of…
This person has no problem with "AI", this person has a problem with capitalism.
I haven't worked there, but I've seen salary reports online between 1.5k-2k euros for a senior, after taxes, per month.
Do MiGs and Suchois run on KolibiOS?
The extra complexity spreads out the load. All of the things that often fail in an engine are less likely to when the engine only operates for a limited duty cycle, for extended durations, and for a fixed optimal load. You have the more robust motor system smooth over all of the transients. So while there are more single point failures the system might be overall more reliable.

If simplicity was the only way to make something reliable we would have rickshaws rather than cars.
What a weird take. Is it really so hard to put yourself in their shoes?

If my country was being attacked and America gave us weapons to fight back I'd also say "god bless America" even though I don't believe in god and I'm very aware of all attrocities America has committed in wars across the globe(and still does). Is that so hard to imagine?

>>Not very different from Russia to me.

Did you think about this sentence for more than 2 seconds before you typed it?
Sports also has rules. Can't pick up the ball and run across the pitch in association football. Can't use an anti-material rifle to knock the bails of the wickets in cricket. Can't respond to the Tennison Gambit in Chess with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ

One of the economic rules in certain countries is "we like competition, don't thwart it".
UID mapping?
Imagine this was a rough sell to the politicians.

"If it is worth doing next year; it was worth doing 50 years ago. If it was not worth doing 50 years ago, how is it worth doing today?"

I can't wait for someone to find a manhole cover with a "launched by the Des Moines IA Rocketry Club" sign on it, up there somewhere.
shift-up/down
gpt-4 is not foundational, it's rlhf tuned. also I didn't find the actual gpt-4 model revision, so yeah. sloppy all around.
Ask HN: Moving from a non-technical role to a technical one
I have a PhD in computer science (formal verification/multiagent systems/logic/games), and since finishing, I've been working as a non-technical consultant (think lots of PowerPoint and Excel) in a non-technical field for the past year or so.

My technical itch is not being scratched in my current role and I want to move to a career that's more research-/software-based.

1) Is anyone aware of any firms that do formal-methods-like activities and is hiring out of the UK?

2) Has anyone got experience making a shift from a non-technical to a technical role? I'm concerned that my lack of relevant technical experience/past roles/internships may mean I don't stand a chance.
I read through the article expecting this, but... if this is the case, it doesn't feel like they tried very hard?

> I wasn't put on Pivot. My manager wanted to work with me a little bit to see if I was going to commit to the job. So they sat me down and said I could go on Pivot and leave right away, or they would work with me.

> ...

> I played along, and I'm good at playing along when I have to be. So then the money is in my account. That next day, I called my manager and I told them I was resigning.

They let him stay long enough to find a new job and for his options to vest, and then he quit.
Z8400 series (still manufactured) are 1500nm process.
I maintain Blackslate it is tech journal where we publish articles and news about Open source, AI, ML, Blockchain, Cloud, Mobile and other latest technologies.

https://www.blackslate.io/articles

Currently I am not making $500 but over the period of time there is a potential to make.
Now ask yourself, how much of the pollution comes from cars? and does all the pollution comes from tailpipe emissions?

There is more pollution from breaks and tires than tailpipes. And EVs still use those.

Then, if gas lawn equipment like a mower or leaf blower pollutes more than several cars, then how much do you think the machines use in mining, agriculture, wood industry, etc. pollute?

More than 90% of the pollution comes from that equipment. None of those use a catalytic converter.

So even if you replace every car with an EV, the net pollution reduction will be marginal.
As an autist myself, I’ve never acted like Musk. My autistic family and friends have not either. Musk may be autistic but he is also extremely narcissistic and egotistical, that much should be clear. Let’s maybe focus on that instead of autism causing his bad behavior.
> How do you scroll the preview window with keyboard ?

alias pf="fzf --preview='less {}' --bind shift-up:preview-page-up,shift-down:preview-page-down"

That will let you run `pf` to preview files in less and lets you use shift + arrow keys to scroll the preview window. No dependencies are needed except for fzf. If you want to use ripgrep with fzf you can set FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND to run rg such as `export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="rg ..."` where ... are your preferred rg flags. This full setup is in my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.

I've made a video and blog post about it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/customize-fzf-ctrl-t-binding-...

I also made https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-fzf-to-preview-text-fil... which covers how to modify fzf's built in CTRL+t shortcut to allow for previews too. CTRL+t is a hotkey driven way to fuzzy match a list of files.
I have more, but these are my favs.
> Another thing is that trying to take away creative jobs from humans and giving it to robots while the menial ones (like data entry, manual labor, household work, etc.) are still being done by humans is an insult to humanity itself.

I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon. LLMs may be able to somewhat compete with people who are average at these creative tasks, but those are not the people whose work most people consume. We listen to music and read books by people who are very good at creating music/writing, and I don't see LLMs competing with those people. And even if they were able to compete, they'd still miss the "human" element - eg., I'm probably not going to a concert if there are no humans performing.

AI will expand to be able to do more boring, menial tasks. Writers and musicians (and other creative people) will probably be amongst the last who loose their jobs to AI.
That's debatable. High res simple graphics vs low res pixel art.

It's certainly a much more complex game:

- multiple castles with different layouts (not sure if that's exposed in this port)

- positional damage: hitting a cannon or one of the stores destroys them, hitting the weather vane removes the ability to determine wind speed, hitting the king ends the game

- an economy: you use up powder and cannonballs and need to buy resources

- a builder aspect: you can rebuild destroyed walls and other structures and build mine shafts for an initial investment but continuous returns
it now uses bing to perform searches. so i think he is probably correct to assume that it did that. it would show up as „performing search with bing“ in the chat history.
Discussions:

"Ripgrep – A new command line search tool" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12564442 (740 points | Sept 23, 2016 | 209 comments) - there are discussions related to speed too

"Ripgrep is faster (2016)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941319 (98 points | Sept 8, 2018 | 40 comments)
It's also worth considering metaphors that don't cause confusion because of e.g. conflict with other computing concepts that use the same terms, but fall short of their analog.

I'm surprised drag and drop hasn't been improved, especially since the proliferation of touch devices.

The idea behind drag and drop is that you should be able to grab something like in real life, but the way it's implemented in almost every system is lacking. In real life, I can grab something, start to move it, notice that something else needs to be shifted around, put the first thing down, focus my attention on the second thing and deal with it, then pick the first thing back up and complete my original goal from where I left off. It doesn't work like this on the desktop. If you notice midway through your journey from source to destination that the destination isn't actually ready for the drop, your dragged item goes flying back to the source and the whole thing is canceled. You have to then prepare the destination, return to the source, start dragging it again, and then release it to complete the drop. The modality of dragging leads to anxiety. It's worse on touchpads, because I fear accidental releases and running out of space in the direction my finger is traveling.

I want drag and drop to be completed by an independent mouse click, not on release. You start dragging. That should create an icon of roughly the same size as a desktop icon. If you release it anywhere it'll stay in that position, allowing you to shuffle through windows, sidebars, etc. When you know your destination is in a state that's ready to receive the dropped item, you pick it back up, bring it to its intended drop point, release it from the cursor, and complete the drop with an additional tap/click to actually "approve" it, i.e. "send" it to the destination—otherwise it stays sitting around waiting for you to e.g. pick it back up again, dismiss it, etc. This would also afford programmers the ability to add context menus to drag and drop items, which would lead to people (users and programmers) better modeling them in a truer object-oriented way.
I had never thought of it that way, but you're right— firing is immediate but employees always feel the obligation to stick around for two weeks.

It tends to be a weird two weeks too. If you know you're quitting you're usually already preparing for it prior— taking less responsibility, finding who to hand projects to, etc. In my experience at times it's just two uncomfortable weeks of showing up and doing nothing.
Hi HN, I played this game a lot in school over here in Ukraine and was surprised that there is almost no coverage [1] of it in English. So, I built this tiny website where one can read the rules and play the game online. There is also an optional game mode that is impossible IRL on paper (with the "fog of war").

The game is usually known as "virus wars", but I didn't feel like registering a domain name with the word "virus" in it, so Paper Tactics it is:)

[1] https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/viruswars is the only English source I know, there is also a Wikipedia article in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_der_Viren
Unless he's saying it can actually comprehend, then it's still just more accurate predictions. Wake me at the singularity.
When I interviewed at IBM in Germany in the late 00s I was rejected and got crystal clear feedback on why - and that is a big American company in Germany.
Call for Proposals (CFP)

Article link: https://2024.pycon.sk/en/cfp.html
Show HN: Turn Emoji into Artwork via AI
Given that anyone can still doodle, sing and create, even in the vicinity of generative AI, makes me think the author was thinking of mass media when he wrote the piece.
About the job offers: at Cisco they have (or had) only 6 months to fill a "req", i.e. the permission to hire someone. If not filled by then the req got taken away.

So what you do is, you find someone, then open the req, then wait a while and hire the person you already selected.

Internal hiring websites are for show only.
Ibis – the portable Python dataframe library
You continue to argue we should believe Musk. But you don't address his history of lies. Why should I believe a liar, even if he's a "logical thinker".

> You seem to have some really weird semantical thing ...

The semantics of what exactly is Russia and what is Ukraine turns out to be quite relevant in general to these issues.
The KrakenSDR is certainly toeing the line.
And to this day there is a mysterious 'bin' user on Linux systems that no one seems to use or know the purpose of.

I wonder if another UNIX at some point added such a user in order to reserve '/usr/bin'...
Garden of AI – Towards a Generally Intelligent Agent
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Yes, basically. I disagree strongly with that Kissinger was anything of a balanced man, and I think it took too long for him to die, the world would have been a better place without him, and so on.

But I still think it's valuable for people who don't share that view, to make their own opinions public, as we all get richer by having multiple and sometimes opposing views out there.