skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not normalize surveillance because you're "too cool" for it, when really, you're just too lazy and too unimaginative to care.

Don't ever cross a government official, wittingly or unwittingly. Don't ever get in their way, even just by being an accidental obstacle. I hope you never witness a crime by a public official or get framed for one yourself. If you do witness a crime, don't testify in court! Also, you'll do well to never hold any controversial opinion whatsoever. Especially don't express one or take a public position about one. Also, I hope you have nothing of value or do anything that could potentially embarrass yourself or someone you care about. Probably best to avoid any job or position of influence that might lead to bribery or blackmail. Overall, you should probably just sit life out. Probably don't even bother registering to vote, and definitely don't vote against corrupt officials!

The ways that privacy-obliterating surveillance alter our lives by inviting corruption in the power structure are endless.

Tell them no, hell no, and fuck-you. We don't need a reason to kick them the hell out of our lives.
IBM I and Z (each with a dizzying array of branding zigs and zags going back decades) are both pretty interesting technologically.

I has a fancy memory architecture, very smart disk controllers (essentially distributed intelligence, like an octopus), a virtual instruction set (that has been used multiple times to almost seamlessly jump huge under-the-hood processor changes), and historically a reliability record second to none (the old box in the wiring closet running for years upon years, completely untended). Z has even more toys, including some of the strongest clustering, partitioning, security found anywhere. Sysplex, LPARs, and RACF are all impressive, especially given how many decades ago they started. We won't even talk about the DBMS and transaction monitors, which are their own brand of crazy strong.

Those immersed in the higher-volume, standard microprocessor, Unix/Linux or Windows, cloud mainstream don't give "proprietary systems" much thought or respect. But we probably should. Those who knew the IBM I or Z, or the DEC VAX/VMS, HP MPE, Tandem NonStop, etc.—they were too expensive, too few in number, too quirky—but what they did well, they did outstandingly well in their purpose-focused, allopatrically speciated ways. Better in many cases that we can do today with the latest 2024 gear.
It was founded by some of the key people behind CPLEX (another solver, founded in 1987). In fact, one of the cofounders of Gurobi was a cofounder of CPLEX prior. They brought decades of knowledge with them.
Is fertility being conflated with birthrate / desire or ability to have kids? I do believe fertility is declining due to environmental factors (pesticides, seed oils, etc) and autism is spiking out of control ... but I also think that a lot of younger generations are just choosing not to have children.
> I guess you live in US.

I do!

> In my country (Turkiye) every commercial SMS sender needs your permission to send advertising SMS

Mine too! I report each violation to the FCC (the responsible governmental agency), but I still get lots of unsolicited SMS spam.

In fact, you'll note that SMS was the only one that broke my pattern and was "many" instead of "most".

SMS is the one medium where the rules are OK, but the enforcement is lacking.
They reference the "freelance economy". It seems like Upwork basically _is_ the freelance economy to me. And right now I am suddenly having trouble closing deals to get contracts on Upwork. I have never had so many interviews on there before without closing one.

It seems like a lot of people are not serious at all about their projects, at least as having more than $300 to spend, and the ones that are have a dozen qualified candidates.

Maybe my problem is just picking a desirable area (generative AI) and not having a big company in my background.

I am almost considering actually applying to one of these "AI girlfriend" projects or maybe even a blockchain project if it comes to that.

Anyway, is there really a viable alternative to Upwork? I assume the response here will just be that I am just supposed to message my best bud who works at Facebook or something.
Why does the global population need to grow? What is wrong with only having 9 billion people instead of 10 billion?
> try to displace as much human labor as possible

> stifling this is a benefit

I suppose this depends in part on how much value you place on keeping the world a laborious place for humans.

Reducing the need for labor will almost certainly lead to more beauty in the world. If we aren't seeking a world where humans are freed from menial labor and so have bandwidth to make art and music, what are we actually seeking?

Perhaps this needs to be defined first by the AI-luddites and then a more reasoned discussion can follow.
Before the 1990's but not anymore. The contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom (https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/) and a lot of papers showing benefits to avoiding blood loss in the first place have changed practices. We haven't eliminated the use of allogeneic blood transfusions but they're indicated a lot less than they used to be.
My sense is that you did not read the comment I was replying to, and overlooked both disclaimers in my reply:

>> "Just Pretend"-privacy

>> Or so I can tell myself.

I am perfectly aware of every fact you noted. Repeating those facts on HN educates no one, and does nothing whatever to address the question in the prior comment.
To clarify for myself… humans aren’t losing the physical capacity to reproduce? It’s that we aren’t reproducing as much due to choice/circumstance?
"example: phones off during day, on from 1am-5am then shut off again, no facebook browsing at all, etc."

So if one uses an old fashioned feature phone without internet then one automatically becomes a target.

Similarly, I have a smartphone but no Facebook account so I must be a target.

Well good luck to them I'm pretty boring.
I have no idea about the legal reality but it does feel interesting. Language models don't really "say" stuff, they predict array indicies probabilistically. In that kind of reductive view, it's the same as a classifier which afaik can be regulated (say against discrimination).

Otoh if you take the view that the sum of LLM predictions is a kind of speech at the instigation of the operator, maybe...

A lot of this should be moot. Whatever Llama or whatever predicts or says, it isn't dangerous. Regulating what an LLM can generate is like banning books. Regulating specific outcomes is a different story. If I make a chatbot that gives bad medical advice, I don't see any legal difference vs giving bad medic advice without the chatbot and that can be regulated and litigated accordingly. The "AI" angle is mostly just a trojan horse to try and exert more control in the name of defeating some boogeyman.
Is it? There's trade-offs of course with everything. There's certainly many aspects in which a medical practice only using pen and paper is worse. How about transferring records to other institutions? Or taking your work home with you? Do you want to lug boxes of records home which may get lost (HIPAA breach) so that you can finish up your notes at home? What about making copies for a patients right to access? What about auditing changes or access to the record to enforce data security, integrity, and compliance?

What's the timeline of evaluation of reducing the functioning of her practice? If it was just a recent change then I would expect growing pains. I have many close personal relationships with healthcare workers and when their electronic health record system is down, having to use pen and paper leads to drastically worse functioning within their job. So the same claim but in the opposite direction. The reality is doing something you're not used to is harder.
I’m so appreciative that virt-manager has a GUI that crafts and then lets you edit the XML directly. It really eased that beginner into competent stages of using the program for me.
>... with the telemetry from the vehicle, they can know exactly what happened.

The telemetry would be coming from Cruise, who is not a trustworthy source. This incident is a perfect example of why we shouldn't rely solely on telemetry - whether you believe they were just an innocent victim of bad internet connections or actively trying to downplay the dragging, it's clear they were not a wholly reliable source of information.
Our planet is seriously overpopulated (with humans), so this is good news.
They can’t walk out when routinely under threat of deportation via retaliation often with business town managers and sheriffs partnered with ICE
Zelle is a separate company that likely operates its SMS sending system separately from Wells Fargo.
Thank you for the details!
I could see how to choose dates, but I couldn't figure out how to choose times.
Just a remark about birth rate *85 method: the author isn't taking into account that women are having children later.

Sadly real fertility statistics are doomed to be late by 40 years, which is way too late, so we have to be satisfied by birthrate, but if I had to calculate the real fertility rate of a country, I would take the number of children per infertile women over 16 or something like that.

Its not political, I'm not saying anybody's right or wrong, I just wanted to geek on fertility statistics
I too evaluate and critique arguments not on their reasoning, but on their excitement factor.
Healthcare is just one piece of the puzzle. Birth rates are collapsing in countries with socialized healthcare as well.
I for one welcome our new childless overlords.
This is known as the absence of evidence is the evidence. It might work when you aren't subject to any laws but no court in North America should ever allow such a thing to be presented to anyone.
Still magnitudes better security practice than using any proprietary software or service.
It helps the economy, more people = more demand and bigger markets.
Now one might ask why the economy needs to grow.
Static type checking catches <1% of bugs. As a tool for verifying software correctness it's completely and totally in-effective.

The majority of bugs in code are about the behavior of the code rather than the typing. You require unit tests or some other more advanced technique.
But what is the outcome? Children in families where people are getting everything for free from the government. They will not be an active working class, because why should you work if government is giving everything for free?

But more affordable child care and more tax brakes for families with kids is a key.

These days having a kid is like going to prison: woman destroys career and burns savings.
Decentralized scientific computing on Golem Network
Cuz the economy
But not necessarily internet connectivity.
Agreed, per their video take.

Didn’t realize how limited the field of view and the color coverage was.

But all the popular reviewers are pretty skeptical. I think when another company offers a less ambitious VR headset they have given them a pass because the market target is more limited. Apple’s not getting a pass. It’s impressive but not magical and there are a lot of unoptimal design characteristics for a general purpose face mask computer.

The travel case is stupid and costly but necessary. Can you imagine buying the travel backpack that can hold it, and then unpacking everything in economy plus, and then having to store it away most of it for a flight, and then repack at landing? Even in business class it’d be conspicuous and bothersome and busy.
Shameless plug: I've built a tool that automatically generates certs and uploads to destinations. https://github.com/poundifdef/certmaster

It uses Lego under the hood to issue certs, and then has custom connectors to upload to destinations. Right now those are email (indeed, more humans handling certificates), sftp, and hetzner load balancers. I'm working on adding the ability for it to automatically renew and re-upload when certs are 30 days from expiration.
Everyone used to be able to afford it until states and corporations worked together to convince everyone that a mother's time is better spent in a corporation generating tax revenue & profits for shareholders so that she can take some of that money she earns to afford childcare & home services because she doesn't have the time to care for her children or maintain her home because she's working so that she can afford childcare & home services because she doesn't have the time to care for her children or maintain her home because she's working so that she can afford childcare & home services because she doesn't have the time to care for her children or maintain her home because she's working
> maintaining token controlled usage of these services is more anonymous than avoiding them, which is wild.

Very insightful, thanks. Still, seems a bit overkill, since I believe there are legitimate people out there who are not using any social media, etc.
I can’t help but to think about the Population Bomb hysteria. This time in reverse!
For racket do you use Dr racket or emacs?
How do you use Google Chat's new inline threading?
For the last 6 months Google has been "upgrading" Google Chat spaces to use inline threading instead of the previous system of grouping messages by topic (a feature we loved and a reason we moved from Twist). Our team is failing to find a workflow that works for two reasons:

1. It's not obvious what the main thread in a space should be. Should each message be a topic title/description, and all replies be inline? But you can still reply to a message without going inline... so how do you enforce consistency?

2. Inline replies get lost. The Home shortcut only shows one notification per space. To find all new inline replies in a space you have to scroll back through the space looking "X unread replies".
Cuz the old billionaires
It probably changed; a few years ago I remember using at least two or three of them without paying.
Sounds roughly equivalent to discussing how much more rewarding it is to walk 1000km than to drive it.

Yes, everybody knows you can get from A to B on foot. But for multiple reasons, and over and extended period of time, we developed other methods of doing so. That doesn't invalidate the experience of doing it on foot, but it does make the walk into a very conscious choice that probably isn't the one most people are going to make most of the time.
Though if we persistently assert that it is attributable to Reagan.......
Docker runs container as the user you tell it to. Same with nspawn. There's not much difference there in that respect.

Nspawn does seccomp-based filtering, similar to the usual systemd services.
Wonderfully written review. Happy to have read it and disappointed with some of the takeaways. I wish that there were more of a "mac-centric" approach taken for powerusers, rather than barreling forward with visionOS. Once their OS is truly consolidated I may have more use for this device.
We do not have a good way to run a society where elderly people substantially outnumber young people.

A shrinking population is not necessarily a problem. A rapidly shrinking population is.
Prompting Guide for Code Llama
> tail call elimination allows for the avoidance of building up intermediate stack frames and the associated calling costs of functions when doing things like composing functions, particularly when calling large chains of nested function calls.

This is more general than what tail-call-optimization can handle. This is true, but only in the context of recursive functions, and you don't actually save anything besides not needing to re-allocate the stackframes below your recursion point. Other optimizations such as inlining may perform some of this in the general case. Regardless, you get the same benefits by using `recur` in Clojure, it's just explicit, it still uses no extra stack space.

The downside is purely stylistic. It's functionally the same as if you did `(let recur () ...)` in Scheme.
Load testing for production-readiness – taking Grafbase for a spin
OK and ?
> Either it fulfills the promise and delivers full AGI, rendering all software devs obsolete. Or, its a dud, undermining the value proposition of automation.

It isn't binary. There is a LOT of territory between those two extremes.
Stripping the Web of Its Humanity
> it's not even possible to express such things in other static type systems

what do you mean? It seems relatively straightforward.
Actually, let's not mince words. SIM swap attacks are also enabled by literally criminal employees getting paid by other criminals for their access to the telco system.
What happened is that contempt culture solidified as one language became the top language. What happened is contempt culture solidified as pro-native-users came together over their disdain for the web.

The is a steady stream of js contempt on HN. I don't think it's representative of how actual devs think about JS. The contempt forever seems stuck at the shallowest stages, of assuming JSnis terrible & disparaging it out of hand, without making a single claim or contention.

Building on the web is not difficult & gets your experience in front of users fast. We've made better and better tools, while exploring a huge variety of app development styles.

I don't know what js did to so many of y'all. I've done web stuff across libcgi, perl, php, java, and yeah early js has some warts but it's like 98% the same as any other language would be (even if classes looked weird for the first decade). The npm package management ecosystem is vastly easier to use & understand than anything I'd seen before. It's unclear what about this language makes people so miserable, and it's not something I've seen in person in my professional career. But the contempt is on high display regularly in the comments.
I’m an old dad (by my standards, 41 with two toddlers), and this is the reason. It took me most of my young adult life to even get to a stable configuration where kids felt remotely possible. No regrets over here, but I have less energy than I did when I was 30!
Why should we care? We can supplement a new tax base with removal of the border. I won't fall for the nationalist trap that, "my people being born on soil is magically better than people from over seas". Its never made sense to me why we need more children. Additionally we probably need a degrowth mindset in general in order to combat over consumption, and man-made climate change.
Are you looking for confirmation of your lifestyle
here?

> I basically won the game

There are many ways to play this game, and I think it’s a bit early to declare yourself a winner if you haven’t even hit your deathbed.
I've been building https://heylangley.com as a solo side project for a little while now. The initial MVP took about 2 months, though I have not had much time to market it. It's pretty much identical to this. I also applied to YC for W23 and was rejected.

Not sure what else to say beyond this: if you have a project that you've been wanting to start, believe in yourself and build it!
What about people who seem to be able to do things on their own but when they ask for help they turn totally stupid?

Like I have a guy in my company who seems to handle some stuff well, but obviously for things where he lacks knowledge would often seek help. And then if you have him in a videocall, telling him how you think you would do he just turn into a robot that just type what you ask him to do with no sign of understanding what he is doing, like he put himself in cruise control mode.
I bought into the Eufy ecosystem on the same premise, but it's still internet connected, so all you really get is a pinky swear that they're not copying your data for their own purposes. Just because it's on-device doesn't mean it's not also elsewhere.

Anoth quote from the website:

> The HEPA bag is designed to hold about a week’s worth of debris with daily vacuuming and mopping. Replacement frequency will vary based on your usage.

The "membership" (ie. prepaid refills) is advertised at $180. The best-case scenario is you're trading the always-online smart appliance debacle for the overpriced ink cartridge debacle. Pick your poison.
Microsoft built both of them. Were they ripping off themselves?
This was a better argument when AI wasn't making art and music.

EDIT: For what it's worth, no I don't want people to have to do menial labor or whatnot. I just see no reason to expect AGI to make people's lives better if those people have nothing to economically contribute.
Birth rate decreases as income increases. The highest income earners have the lowest birth rates.
For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]

[1] https://wren.io/
> this thread is basically software developers blaming users for using their software wrong

I wouldn't say that, most devs who've worked with product requirements and users have seen issues with users wanting something inefficient or illogical, basically because they don't like change and/or don't understand why they are doing something.
Population declines in rich countries and increases in poor. Make world poor again and that will resolve the issue! /s
If you don't test the behavior of your code then it is wrong. Whether the code could in theory be compiled isn't a very good test case.

Static type checking has a measured bug catch rate of <1%. So the quality of any code where the programmer depends on static typing to verify correctness rather than unit tests is very very low.
It’s been pretty disingenuous of Apple to have all their marketing photos with the single strap, when the unanimous opinion is that strap doesn’t work at all for comfortability or longevity.

Similar to AirPods Max, they oddly chose heavy materials just for the sake of finish - rather than functionality. If they truly cared about the user experience of the actual software/hardware, they would have went with better materials.

In general, Vision Pro feels to me like another weird prototype showcase product, released years before they actually had a real viable solution
I mostly agree. If I were them, this acquisition would be to augment building a baseline of traffic and patterns of life so they can better identify anomalies in the future.
Can the reports just be reported by AI?
> It seems to me that the government accessing, even if by purchase, information of citizens without probable cause is a violation

The fourth amendment is a prohibition on UNREASONABLE searches and seizures. What possible definition of "reasonable" would exclude "legally purchased on the open market"? What other perfectly reasonable techniques would you deny to law enforcement? Should they not be able to look at someone's LinkedIn? Look up their address in a phone book?

No, the constitution isn't going to protect you from the government doing what everyone else can. If we want this stuff not to be available for sale, we should regulate it.
The wrong kind of productivity is too high. Too much consumer crap, much of it disposable. Not enough no-compromise blue sky R&D and research into physics fundamentals.