skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that US political culture has changed a lot recently. The 2020 murder of George Floyd saw massive protests, on a scale not seen a generation ago. Now, look for example to the recent pro-Palestinian protests at MIT -- MIT is not the sort of place where I would have pictured political turmoil in the past.

The labor union movement is seeing a resurgence, and check out the /r/antiwork subreddit -- lots of people are pissed off at "the system", letting it show, and winning at least some victories.

Tech-wise, ChatGPT is probably the most significant piece of new technology to emerge in my lifetime, with the most profound implications. It's very possible that most of us will be critically relying on AI in our daily lives within ten years. It's at least plausible, if far from certain, that the emergence of AI in various forms could prove to be the most profound change in human history. If 80% of jobs no longer need humans to do them.....

The culture of the tech industry has also changed a lot, from what I can tell as an outsider. I used to be much more optimistic. Recently I feel like the industry has reoriented itself around commandeering my attention and shoving ads down my throat, and I want no part of this.

Overall I think we live in a time of anxiety and malaise, with potential huge changes on the horizon, whether for good or ill. We live in interesting times.
The screenshot could be more clear by highlighting 'file' and 'Translate PlusCal Algoritm'. This could be useful in skimming the documentation, but i think this could be a case of where text would be the clearer option.
Since the viewer is on GitHub, I’ll take it for a spin.

Are you accepting pull requests?
Technology that isn’t as advanced as AI is already impacting hiring decisions. When you submit your resume, most ATS systems rank you by a score
Are these commercially usable? I believe not but I'd better ask
So Many Ideas, So Little Time
Amazing. Thank you Microsoft.
This is a scary trend. I'm no psychologist but it seems like going backwards.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/france-is-50-y...

An lot of my scepsis comes from seeing how Freud's theories are still applied very dogmatically in France. One terrible example from the article above is autistic children being taken away from autistic mothers, since autism, according to these psychoanalysts, is caused by the lack of maternal emotional warmth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
> If the stock pays 0 dividends then the only value it can have must be that of finding a greater fool to sell it to.

A share is what it says, a 1/x stake in ownership of the company.

What are you actually saying?, that a share in tesla has no value because no dividents?
Six years ago I made this chrome extension[1] to see random photos from my Google Photos account in my new browser tabs. I had all these old photos but never an occasion to look at them, and it brought back a lot of surprising and fun memories. I recently ported it to Firefox for myself and it's bringing me joy again!

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photos-new-tab/fplj...
Finding ways to make rich people richer will always make solid business sense unfortunately.
Googlers probably?
This is an interesting collection of material. You'd probably get more traction if you resubmit using "Show HN: Contentlist - A database of startup resources" or something similar. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If they did they'd look nice and run on time.
Do IBM Mainframes that can fail over to a second CPU running synchronously with the first count?
Some day you’ll realise that “could conceptually understand this” is a wildly different beast to “should invest the time and energy to understand this.” There are too many layers to too many different systems to understand everything that currently exists, let alone keep up with every new development. Like it or not, the age of universal experts is over. We all must pick our battles.
On and off for a year, with more time allocated since June. Yes I am in California.
It's not as if those recessions were partly the result of quant software making poor decisions.
They might accomplish more by hacking banks in Cyprus and putting the data out there.
> Where are the moon bases? Supersonic jets? Asteroid mines? Self driving cars?

First three are purely hardware problems, among other things (like profitability). But asking where are the self driving cars in 2023 is a bit disingenuous. Yes, we don't have Level 5 autonomy accessible by everyone for the general public, but we already have Waymo and other cars already driving on public streets, and we do have Tesla with their FSD that some people are using for 90+% of their daily commutes. So yeah, it took longer then some people anticipated (and will still take a bit longer until these systems are widely deployed, bulletproof and affordable), but we're definitely getting there.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying, so I will try to be more clear:

I was describing myself as an observer and participant in different waves of AI tech. I was not admitting to being wrong, rather, just someone who was lucky enough to be a small part of AI.

What I don’t know right now: if AI will help solve difficult societal/energy/medical/scientific problems and propel humanity into a better future (I bet on this outcome) or that the AI-doomers are correct (not my view).

I try to absorb the AI dangers arguments and keep an open mind. Good resources: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-undivided-attenti... and I also think that privacy advocates (see books Surveillance Capitalism, and Privacy is Power) are useful in deciding what we should and shouldn’t do with AI.
What you fear is certainly a possibility.

There was a story a while back about a society where ever more jobs are done by AI, eventually including the police. In such a situation (and in the story) it would be cheap enough to keep all the unemployed people housed and fed with all that automation; in the story the people have no freedom, the robots keep them from going too far from their free apartment. That could totally happen, even in our various current governments in the real world, leaders can be very divorced from the lives of those at the bottom — "let them eat cake" may not have really come from Marie Antoinette, but the cliché exists for a reason.

I didn't like the twist for the final chapter where the lead character was rescued by a Deus Ex Machina in the form of winning a surprise two-person ticket to a fully automated UBI trust fund based in Australia, but my problem was with the tonal shift of the story rather than plausibility given the prior world building. Likewise in reality, while the cliché "a rising tide lifts all boats" is often wrong because of the metaphorical equivalent of many not being maintained in a seaworthy state, technological advances do change the lives of even the poorest. My 18 month old iPhone SE can run some Stable Diffusion models locally, in addition to being a near-real-time audio and visual translator, a route finder, and having some limited healthcare functions. The wealth will concentrate unless governments take special care to prevent that, but it takes active malice (which can and does happen) to prevent many of the benefits from reaching even the worst-off.
On the contrary - don’t you think the message this sends will make things better re other chemical products? Either the manufacturers themselves will find better versions of dangerous chemicals or the users will wake up.
This entire space has devolved into a false dichotomy between "the singularity is near" and "Third AI Winter is coming" in the popular press. Meanwhile, I'm getting paid to build domain specific chatbots for large companies and couldn't care less about "AGI".
> Where do you think the term daily grind comes from. People used to grind their wheat everyday and then use it for cooking/baking.

I’m confused. Are you trying to refute their statement? Or just throwing out a tangential information?
> Eliezer himself didn’t believe that staggering advances in AI were going to happen the way they did, by pure scaling of neural networks.

I'd say its more than just scaling, only the smallest forms run on a modern phone, slowly, with caveats.

Its far beyond anything reasonable. I still find it weird that there are probably multiple datacenters worth of compute just generating text.
Or do I…
Nothing wrong about keeping a monolith if it doesn't get in the way.

At my clients, the typical case is that the "product" consist of an assembly of services where some have been written and some bought so being able to span homogenous access controlls over them is a nice feature of JWTs/OIDC :-)
I think City of Text thing is onto something, and reminds me immediately of memory palace[1] method.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
HLE, which is a subset of TSX, is (was?) supported by glibc [1]. Not sure if it is enabled by default. If it is, pretty much every multithreaded linux process would be affected.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Elision-T...
> that did not impact an average citizen

There has never been a revolution in which elites were removed where the average person didn’t suffer horribly. That transformation necessitates value destruction. That destruction must be allocated away from the new elites, which by definition places the burden on the average.
I was expecting some malicious code like "knock 3 times on this door to enter, otherwise the door locks for good". No. Instead it was "if you're geographically parked at our competitor's lat/long then we'll brick the train".

There's ways to add back doors and other fun easter eggs in code, but wow they picked a really cumbersome and obvious method of exploitation.
Google for PLC programming environment.
Remarkable that every single individual noted in this interesting read was Jewish. Roth, Zweig, Freud, Kafka. Where there no non Jews in this multi-ethnic empire that reflected and wrote? Interestingly, the polarity of pre demise critical discontent and post demise nostalgist reflection is characteristically Jewish.
Depends on your job - new construction shouldn't have anything to do with asbestos at all, but if you work on/demolish old buildings you might.

The only reason asbestos is becoming less and less deadly is that we banned it decades ago.
I built aiplanet.com where numerous beginners accessed free AI learning resources provided by a diverse group of contributors (primarily experienced AI practitioners). Building on the common advice, here are some insights to consider, given your existing context:

- AI/ML is diverse, with data scientists specializing in different areas. I know AI experts who have still not delved into LLMs; they have their specific focus areas. AI/ML skills encompass a wide range of topics, and data scientists often have specific focus areas. Continuous exploration and reading are crucial. Resources like paperswithcode.com are valuable for discovering new research areas and domains.

- While time-consuming, Kaggle offers exposure to robust modeling and validation skills. These skills are critical, though they are only a fraction of what's needed for real-world projects. It's beneficial to expand beyond these skills. This being said, it does give bragging rights. I've seen company founders, like those at H20.ai, often highlight their Kaggle Grandmasters.

- My current role is at Pathway.com. Over 80% hold of my colleagues PhDs, and our CTO has co-authored with folks like Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (I find that cool actually :)). But this environment may reflect my bias towards academic research. This being I said, I believe that strong foundational understanding is essential and also valued, especially when tackling complex challenges.

- Active participation in forums and communities related to the frameworks you use is highly recommended, like TensorFlow User Groups. At Pathway.com, we welcome those interested in stream data processing to our community. Engaging in these forums offers the chance to receive support from the original creators and leading community members. Other notable communities include DataTalks.Club and MLOps.Community.
Weird it was pretty much turn key here. Maybe that was the early days when it was in beta?
excellent idea!

and use `deno compile` to ship it as a self contained binary
> replace "pure C89" with "C89 compatible"

Not even English has the "purity" that you subliminally presuppose in your (entirely unnecessary) assertions. See e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pure?utm_campaign.... And not a single one of your arguments had to do with "language purity"; instead you nit-picked about naming and features you miss; so what? But hey, it's open source: impress the world with your own version of the library.
I get what you mean but for the context of the situation/story it was amusing. That's 172 companies wanting my info not so much showing me an add or the site would be unreadable. A TV channel advertisement doesn't track me.
Out of interest, I just pasted a package.json into ChatGPT and asked if any dependencies were deprecated or no longer maintained. The results looked promising, but there seems to be a cap on the time it can spend browsing. So perhaps it could be done in chunks, or maybe the API version doesn't have the same restriction (I haven't tried it).

I also tried prompting to ask if any dependencies have been eclipsed by more popular libraries, which seemed to produce results.

Might be worth experimenting to see if it can take some grunt work out of it. Or an automated report as a CI stage. Hmm.
> OKRs promise to help improve that impossible process.

You mean like Google devs who kill projects faster than they roll them out
but the whole point is that they are effectively used as full time workers but not given the benefit, security or basic dignity.

most gig workers don't have the luxury to do this as a part time side job. it's their main source of income as you already said.

and allowing companies to exploit people because they're immigrants is not good for anyone in the labour market.

this is a win. those VC douchebags can get f*ked.
Why would you need it? All you need is one machine capable enough that it will run it's own alphafold-3 to correctly predict the sequence of an appropriately deadly virus, pay some lab to synthesize it and release it to the atmosphere. Or create a dead man switch to do so, at which point you have to start treating it as north korea, sooner or later it will build the capabilities it needs and release it anyway.
These games are all lovely and full of charm, beautiful art and whimsical animation. Highly recommend if you like point and click puzzle adventures (which I fear may be a dying genre)
Construct Xbox support progress, and a call to console makers
> But intelligence needs to be applied

I think this is an almost universal caveat.

> OKRs turn measures into something like a sport

No, I don't think that's true. People might do that, but they also do that to things that aren't OKRs. It's great to critique OKRs, but not by comparing them to a hypothetical perfect world.
> Because its unlikely that the girl would have had access to an IRIX box

She's related to Hammond, who owns an island. I'm sure he could get her an old box and some manuals to play with, if not outright a state of the art system.

> As a filesystem browser it was not useful. Someone with Unix system experience would prefer a 2D browser, which IRIX also had.

But isn't that exactly the sort of thing a clever kid with access to fancy stuff would mess around with?

> We only used the 3D browser for our demo setup for visitors.

Which would perfectly explain why it popped up on the production systems. To make it look fancier for Hammond/any investors/the people visiting in the movie.
Book indeed a slog, audiobook enjoyable. Side-quel, Echopraxia even more sloggy, took multiple attempts to audiobook. Still enjoyable and worth the effort, one of my more favoured scifi works. But also one of those titles where you're also fine reading a synposis and entries on tvtropes. Would make a fun movie.
i suppose one alternative for flexible companies is to reincorporate in another jurisdiction. i'm not going to jump ship yet as i think this might end up like the SVB debacle, where everyone gets spooked and 'takes steps to mitigate', but then ends up saved at the last minute.

i actually am in favor of this law strangely enough (see my comment from 39 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38148161) as if you read it it's quite rational and brings software into line with other industries. what i'm hoping is they end up assessing it with a revenue test where it only applies to large enterprises (100M and above). i should be safe for a little while at least hahaha! :)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388 (Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses, 227 comments)
Back in the early 1970s, Boulder, Colorado, had a referendum on restricting housing starts. It was pitched as an environmental thing, and it probably got help from the students at the University of Colorado. The referendum passed with absolutely massive turnout--precincts ran out of ballots.
In response to some of the comments here, I've just (11.45 GMT) tweaked the 'AI' to give even greater weight than before to corner and edge positions, which might make it a little stronger.
I'm intimately familiar with PLC programming, yes, you can do it the 1980's way but there are also plenty of environments that allow for modern version control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=version+control+plc+programm...

You'd have to be pretty daft to do this kind of development today and not take advantage of version control and even the most visual versions of these systems eventually output (text) files. You may not be able to do an easy line-by-line comparison but you will have a commit log with helpful messages.

Look for 'engage in anti-competitive behavior' in the log message ;)
Indeed, but trusting there is only one cause and it is always on user will is just abusive.
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe
Sure… imagine, for example, health insurance companies employing proprietary ML models to decide if you’re covered, or for-profit prisons using ML models to decide if someone will be a recidivist. Or governments or law enforcement or private corporations or simply rogue free speech absolutist billionaires using image recognition and ML models to decide which pixels represent a combat age male?

The AI we’ve got right now is an absolutely horrifying force multiplier for anyone with wealth and a sufficiently perverse incentive.
All things in context. In this case, it’s a luxury good with a ready alternative.
If you're interested in AI but dislike Python you can join the Anti Python AI club here: https://github.com/Fileforma/AntiPython-AI-Club

We work together to build AI models in our favorite programming languages.
The Textual project has a lot of screenshots in its documentation. These screenshots are built with the docs, so they are always up to date.

https://textual.textualize.io/
My point is that a surprising number of hiring/layoff decisions are essentially made based on recessions which _never actually happen_. Possibly the most spectacular in recent years was in early 2020, when a bunch of tech companies laid off their recruitment staff in prep for the recession which was surely coming... That didn't generally work out well for them.
Powerbase: Guide to networks of power, lobbying, and PR activities
Making any group of people richer is good business sense as long as those riches doesn't come from you, since then you can take a share of that. That include unions taking a share of worker salaries in order to make those workers make a bigger salary.
I think there is a genuine widespread problem across the west. A come down from the highs of fast economic growth, world dominance, high hopes of "the end of history" etc.

Central London actually feels very good to me when I go there. I think there is a lot of who you are and where you are involved too, and when you compare it to.
Starting a Side Project: A small poem
ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person
Well, I mean, if you're willing to stretch the definition to beyond breaking, sure, but we don't have anything that the average person in the street would think of as a self-driving car. Anyone claiming a self-driving car today is a bit high on their own marketing, and there's no clear route to getting beyond that point.
I decided early on that wasting my one existence trying to solve a problem that seemed unsolvable wasn't what I wanted to do, especially given the stakes (it's very easy to reason yourself into working 14 hour days if you think it means saving the world is 0.001% more likely). However, I never found a satisfying argument against the default outcome being doom.

The closest I ever came to a "solution" is to target the economic forces which lead to people researching and innovating on AI. I eventually found fine-based bounties to be an unusually potent weapon, not only here, but against all kinds of possible grey- and black-urn technologies. I wrote up my thoughts very briefly about a year ago, and they still live at https://andrew-quinn.me/ai-bounties/, but I suspect the argument is fundamentally flawed in a way I as a non-academic don't have time to suss out.

So I find myself in a strange place: Live my life mostly as normal, with a good chunk of my finances in low cost index funds, just in case the exponential starts shooting up - and just in case we don't all perish soon afterwards. C'est la vie.
They showed really really cool features and never delivered.

It could have had a huge pull effect.

Imagine being able to play were your streamer is or were a YouTube video is showing you something.

Create a snapshot and share your game state.

Perfect for tutorials, demos, indepth videos.

Then pivot to more.

We talk about Google after all!!! Unreal engine could have enabled it by default, unity too.
> They’re banning a product which is causing deaths

According to the link in the grandparent comment, I think it was the production process that they didn't want the expense of enforcing safety standards on. Not the end product itself. Hence the comment about banning an industry.
Down below there is a link to an article by tptacek that says that these random session tokens are the simplest and most secure and you should use them if you are able to (which is true in a lot more cases than they are used)

https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
I came to the same conclusion.

Year ago I was cleaning my flat after renovation, there was lots of dust settled everywhere and my first thought was - how do I protect my lungs? There were many one-time-use face masks in hardware store, but those masks did not look like good enough- mainly because of lack of filter. So I bought slightly more expensive aparatus with proper filters. Yet, trademen who were doing the work did not care, they were not wearing anything to prevent dust from being inhaled. I felt so bad for them that I was vacuuming whole place each evening when they were gone (including walls), so at least they would start with no dust... Still, I was wondering how much of their future suffer will be because I was not asking them to protect themselves...
This looks cool.

FYI, the "Setup" link under "Zero Config" on the home page is broken.

"Start Here" on the docs doesn't really show you how to get it installed/setup (which is what I was expecting). Same for "Get Started" on the home page.

Also, I couldn't find a link from the docs to the home page so I eventually just edited the URL.
https://archive.ph/VbogH
"Hoarding cash" caused by deflation is actually good thing, because it encourages frugal living. Current inflationary policies result in companies trying to sell people all kinds of useless crap, thus wasting natural resources and human effort.

Sure, in deflationary environment overall GDP growth would be much slower, but it will also be more sustainable in the long run, without big boom-bust cycles.