skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) You can either have a good welfare state or a lot of illegal immigrants. It is not possible to have both.
2) That’s Sci-Fi and not an action item.
3) That’s government overreach with all the nice unintended consequences they usually come with.

Conclusion: Fix the illegal immigration problem or good luck winning any election after the chicken have come home.
SDN-Based Secure Common Emergency Service for Railway and Road
GoT was the best written nerd series until it ran out of best written novel to crib from, at which point it rapidly degenerated. The opinions both that most of it was good, and that the end was bad, are universal, including from people that never read the books - framing this as 'the nerd police' basing a decision on nostalgia is pretty dishonest. The show's scriptwriters just weren't good at plot and depended on it already having been written.
Central New York here...I was in a basement and missed it :/
I would expect that both of these things are outside the main thrust of training data for these models. It seems unfair to ask it two very specific/niche tasks, then when it fails, then saying AI cannot do anything useful. I suspect if the tasks were aligned with its training data, we would see better outcomes.
From Paris to Berlin — Creating Circuit-Breakers in Kotlin
You are making an awful lot of assumptions. I said parents typically must approve their child’s activities. I assume the 10 year old girl you mentioned was given the green light by her parents.
Who is assigning tasks to this person? Do they not notice that they aren’t being completed? I assume you and your other co-workers aren’t covering for them by doing their work as well as your own. If your work is being delayed because you need their work, let your management know. If this is stressing you, ask for a reassignment and give your reasons.
I'm skeptical that AI will automate away any truly valuable labor, but even assuming it will - what do you think is different this time compared to say, the Industrial Revolution?

That period rapid saw automation and reduction of cost of many, many peoples' livelihoods, but society is unarguably better for it. Eventually people were freed up to do higher-order work.
Look, I just have a lot going on right now, Tucker. It's not easy being on HN and at the helm of a large project.
NewsCast — Using Sagas with Choreography and Orchestration Patterns — A Java 17 / Kotlin example
I was also surprised by that bit about adding more services:

> We're not afraid to bring in additional containers when it makes sense

That is one of the last things I'm thinking about when I choose a media organization and streaming app, and if I do think about it, having more containers is a red flag more than something that sets my mind at ease, because of that added complexity. I experienced this with Photoprism when I wanted to customize it a bit, because I then had to figure out the roles of the containers and which containers did and did not need the customization bits I was adding, etc..
*thanks :)
Because it's a great programming language, not sure about Mono, but .NET 8+ is now cross-platform (has been since sometime in 2016 actually), so I personally am choosing C# for some of my projects lately as a result.

C# is just a nice all-around language and the runtime is really nice.

By comparison every time I have to look at Java I just want to run away as quickly as possible. All the resources Oracle has, and instead of investing them into making Java a viable platform they shut down the one project that was giving Java an edge in Desktop Development (JavaFX) and basically leave Java in this weird limbo state its in.

It took Java forever to implement lambdas meanwhile C# had them in since .NET 3.5? (2007?)

Microsoft on the other hand, made all of .NET MIT licensed. Even if they change the license 10 years from now, you can pick any of the rich versions prior to use where the license was in fact MIT.
Star Trek requires a (nearly) post-scarcity world. In an AI driven future compute will be the new hot scarcity. It just so happens that those with the means to get the most compute are also the ones with the most wealth already.
They are making more valuable/liveable land.

Land itself is cheap as dirt.

Level land in Wyoming for $350/acre (so $70/house at median lot size). [1]

(Does it lack transportation, utilities, stores, schools, and jobs? Yes. Because those make land valuable.)

[1] https://www.land.com/property/80-acres-in-Sweetwater-County-...
The cited article is speculating on what the Fourth Dimension is. I'm just pointing out that there is already an accepted answer to that.

Nothing to stop others discussing the alternatives.
Engineering managers and their managers are not all technical enough to know if RubyGems is vulnerable, but nonetheless are often technical enough to know that RubyGems is used by them. I'm not posing a hypothetical here, I've already seen management asking similar questions.
Why would you start with the de facto denomination instead of with a higher one? Tired of carrying bricks of 1000 shilling notes? Here’s a 20k shilling note so you can carry ten instead of a brick.
Code. Every day.

When you solve something tricky, you just basically released that as open source and trained ChatGPT 2030 how to do it without you.
Staggering levels of wealth inequality
You're right, but in today's github if you want to stand out you need this kind of readme or an existing community. To be fair, the important features are in bold and the philosophy/why another browser is handwritten.
It's worse than that. Instead of "nobody" it was conservative slow moving vendor locked clients that could convince you to keep selling at those prices ("look at the margins!") instead of focusing on alternatives. I remember $5,000+ PCs being considered "cheap" workstations when those clients finally migrated.
We kept our A2000 viable longer by adding the CPU board with the 030 chip. We went from 7MHz to somewhere around 40MHz or whatever. It meant that my Lightwave render went from 24 hours per frame to a few hours per frame.
Curious how Smalltalk fits in.
A local news site was critical of Facebook–then Meta banned all their links
You're missing the years of reputation Jia built so that he'd be given the benefit of the doubt. I don't think anyone would have been too suspicious.
STD doesn't really count as Star Trek though.
Number 15 will bog you!
> I told a friend I was making a joke project, then explained it. She said she wasn’t sure when to laugh. I’m not so sure either.

Don't sell yourself short. There's a botnet C&C client project here!

OK the UI is a bit funny. :)
what. IS! the deal. .. WITH..? that. SPEAKING CADENCE?!
'At scale' numpy is often faster and safer than your other choices because CUDA is pretty much a magic sauce for your numerical programming needs.
I get a feeling of incongruity about the term. I think it's because prompts aren't a "system". At least as far as I understand it.
It’s very difficult for the propagandists in Israel to paint themselves as the victims here. Yet they will try
Trying to post this article to Facebook, it was rejected with the error "Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can't be edited."

Replies to Meta's PR hack Andy Stone show the same thing: https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1776006461929238780
The jedi thing in general is such a great metaphor for the human experience when it comes to the intersection of capacity, morality and power that I expect it'll outlive a lot of other stories.
Satire: An article in response to the xz Utils exploit
This is a satirical piece I wrote in response to the xz Utils backdoor discovered a few days ago.

It's also an interesting thought experiment. What sort of products in the future could be compromised by such an exploit?

If you love or hate the piece, please comment! Or don't. I'm needy, but not THAT needy.
But not on a pre-booted system!
Ah yes, like people saying "back in my day" and not even giving a precise date, smh.
> The article doesn't mention the reason for the fall: less good but cheaper competitors

The article has this: ''As Bob Bishop took the reigns of SGI, things looked dark. AMD announced their 64 bit architecture in October, PC graphics had made massive strides while remaining significantly less expensive than SGI’s offerings, NT was proving to be a solid and less expensive competitor to UNIX, Linux was eating away at traditional UNIX market segments, and Itanium still hadn’t launched.''

I can agree with almost all of that statement but I object to the ''NT was proving to be a solid and less expensive competitor to UNIX'' part as mostly false in any mixed OS environment over which I'd ever been admin.
I have lived in California for something like 33 of my 36 years. I have actually felt a grand total of 3 earthquakes in my entire life. Even out here, quakes big enough to shift the wall decorations across a large portion of the state are vanishingly rare.
A Periodic Table of Primes
After being frustrated for many years by the rising cost of college, I've internally decided to flip the questions.

- Why would college tuition decrease?

- What's actually stopping the elite schools from doubling their tuition in a single year?

- What forces would actually cause colleges to lower their tuition?

It's unfortunately really hard to find good answers here IMO with the layout of the current "market conditions" for colleges that we've setup in America.
I wish I had kept my Fortran 78 code from 1981/82 to see if I could get it to run on this. It was a Jovial programming language source code formatter. Not exactly what you should use Fortran for, but that's the only choice I had.
Please no. 0 chance I want my phone to be controlled by some enterprise device management crap.

Employers should provide a dedicated 2fa device (maybe a phone) if the employee wants but I can't think of the security case for employers to need to control / remote wipe the 2fa device since they could lock the account it is providing access to.
i'll never forget my 1st time coming into a high end Flame suite. it was so exciting.. i don't think i could have been more excited if you'd told me i was stepping into the worlds first time machine
Are you intentionally being pedantic? The point doesn't have anything to do with whether decimals are used or if conversions are direct. The point is that a 4.8 earthquake can feel different given numerous factors. The Mercalli scale attempts to capture the surface-level disruption, rather than the inherent force at the site of the quake as the Richter scale does.

Depth IS relevant to how an earthquake feels (as opposed to your assertion it isn't)--even the usgs publishes depth information. If you go back to the stack overflow link you posted, you can clearly see that a lower magnitude earthquake can be much more damaging.

The point is, richter measurement doesn't tell the whole story, and yes, you could say that a 4.8 would feel like a 6.0, even if we don't have a good way beyond the mercalli scale of discussing that. That's because the original output energy is only partially relevant to how someone experiences a seismic event.

tl;dr: your pedantic assertion that there's no conversion between the two is correct. your assertion that depth doesn't matter for feeling quakes is incorrect.
Our organization is using Office365.

Either by accident, or just defaults getting increasingly more tight, Outlook won't connect to the account unless I allow it to be a device administrator.

On my personal phone, that's a hard no. So I'm using the PWA for the occasions I NEED to check email.

But a TOTP app of my choice, implementing a standard RFC protocol? I think that's okay, on the condition that it does not mean my phone is in scope for any regulations the company is mandated to adhere to.
Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
I totally feel it the same way! Amazing tech but not the HUMAN REPLACER it’s advertised
It's sort of like trading with chunks of gold, the value of the chunk of gold is what you can purchase, but in this case it's specially printed paper which can be traded for a value of a little more than it costs to make specially printed paper
For another take at trying to understand the 4th dimension - https://4dtoys.com ( 4D toys - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685858 592 points | 110 comments)
but how can you prove that your picture of a cat was used in LLM?

if you owned a franchise called "Chicken Brothers" with a the logo of two chickens standing side by side with arms crossed proudly then do you have claim over all derivatives including the spanish name generated by LLM?

i just dont think its straight forward, the main complaint should be payout for license used during training but its tough to prove unless someone at OpenAI dumps the AWS cloudwatch logs
I guess citizen's united & regulatory capture would be the KraGle.
" .. Someone on death row is to understand that they have committed a deep wrong. If they are incapable of that self-realization, then punishment—especially death—loses much of its raison d'etre.

The other purpose of a public trial is to affirm to our polity that justice is being served. This also helps victims and their families get closure and move on from the incident. Seeing an AI sentenced for its crimes does meet this purpose.

"

I don't see how. The purpose of punishment is to prevent other actors from committing similar crimes. If the AI cannot feel pain how would that prevent any other AI from committing similar actions?

What does it mean for "victims and their families get closure"? It means they won't be seeking revenge/punishment any more and thus will feel better.

But will it make them feel better if an AI program is (somehow) punished? Only if we can convince them that punishing the AI will cause the AI pain. So how would we punish an AI in a way that makes it feel pain?
The article is about how the "It's a Wonderful Life" George Baily model is not the reality of banking and money. It seems to be more about teaching what is really going on and holding banks and government more accountable rather than new developing new concepts.
#3 is impossible because you are talking about lot of value and lot of motivations. If we stop, as example, China is not going to stop, etc. This is like the arm race, no one will stop developing and whoever limit itself, will lose big at the end
#1 is tough one. Two issues, human need to be busy with something. While not needing to work seems great, but long term it makes us depressed, drug addict, and we lose our skill and become weaker and dumb. Second issue is whoever pays you, can tell you what to do or not. A huge wellfare system moves power from people to state, and can kill democracy. However,in limited version is generally better than starving people. #2 seems to be a decent option

So some version of #1 and #2?
Not quite.

Scientists: we got something we can't explain. let's make something up for which we have no evidence other than there's stuff we can't explain. We'll keep pondering whether we can figure out how to detect what we just made up because we got nothing so far.

Theologian: we got something we can't explain. let's make something up for which we have no evidence other than there's stuff we can't explain.

Me: both have faith in their models
> If you cannot empathize you're unqualified to be a software engineer and should pack up your stuff.

You've got "software engineer" and "HR lady" mixed up.

Being able to code makes you qualified to be a software engineer; empathy is for all those other people whose brain doesn't have to remember what prvalues are and have enough room for social shit.

Just because MBAs drilled into everyone's heads that fewer people should be able to do more stuff to justify lower staff counts doesn't make it true.
This sounds like a difference between ussr proper and the more broader “eastern block”, as I haven’t seen a single dial on those things in a whole country. The fact you even meter those per-apartment makes me believe even more.

The further western you go from the epicenter of this shitshow, the more amenities those things get
That's just something the game does. I don't know why. But it shows you the little ticks in the stat bar that it rounds down to.
I wonder how much multimodal LLMs are changing the game for blind developers. I imagine if used the right way it could be a huge productivity booster.
Why does the tech circle share the "bros think x jobs will go due to AI" crap instead of "well researched report states x jobs lost to AI till date" stories?
As a user, you don't really need to care about the number of containers since everything is managed by docker-compose or k8s (soon).
The advantages of having more containers is that you can have specialized softwares. For example, the search system is based on meilisearch which makes it way better than what could have been done by just using postgres/sqlite.
It also makes distribution or replication built-in (for example, to have a transcoder on a remote computer), jellyfin/plex does not support this natively and users have written their own remote transcoder for that.
but many chatgpt users are not using Google as much instead relying on LLMs + RAG

ChatGPT is the new search engine and provides far more value to the end user than Google.

The issue seems to be people want a payout from OpenAI...but its non-profit
I have been led to believe that the training data is "all of the internet". These things are not marketed as "AI for programmers" or "AI for email-writers" they are positioned as "AI".

> It seems unfair to ask it two very specific/niche tasks, then when it fails, then saying AI cannot do anything useful.

Read my post again. Those are just the things I tried yesterday. I have been giving ChatGPT an honest go since it was publicly released and other than some simple programming tasks and generating verbose text in various styles where factual errors don't matter I haven't found a use for it yet.
Quit taking your dog for 7 hour long walks and write some code, man! :^)
Phoenix Channels
Does anything the employer require need MDM? If so then yes, in fact they need to provide the phone in that case. Otherwise no IMHO.
> It's really complicated, and commodity markets are a gross oversimplification of how it works. Trying to model it would be a nightmare.

But now your argument is "it's complicated and there's no way to know" which isn't a strong claim that the status quo is to the advantage of the customer.

Meanwhile the portion of the fee that doesn't go directly to the cardholder is a deadweight economic loss, which, in general, is only to the advantage of the parasite extracting it and to the disadvantage of everyone else.

Notice also that the most likely alternative to "it actually harms even the 2% cash back customer" is "it's barely better than breakeven to even the 2% cash back customer and harms everybody else." Which is hardly a reason to keep it.

> If interchange fees were 0 then you would still pay the other fees, which do not go to the credit card company.

Ah, but that's the issue. You wouldn't. Because the rewards programs are a monopolistic practice.

Suppose I want to start a competing payments network and my sales pitch is I charge low fees. I'm only charging 0.05%, and provide free code that does the basic thing Stripe does, and keep the costs down by using anti-fraud tech the existing networks don't care to invest in because they're shifting the cost of fraud to the merchants and payment processors. The merchants are immediately on board if I can get cardholders. But the cardholders won't use it because no rewards programs.

Take away the rewards programs and now the network with the lowest processing costs will be the most widely accepted, and then customers want those cards because they're more widely accepted and otherwise indistinguishable.
In the past I believe this was so that if the phone was lost it could be remote wiped for security.

I agree that's a hard no for personal devices though.
My impression is that in all these rulings, the humans doing the filings go out of their way to claim that the author was the AI or machine or animal ("machine" thereafter), or the owner of the patent or copyright is the machine, or the plaintiff in a copyright court filing is the machine. With usually the human acting on behalf of the machine, or the machine transfering their copyright to the human, etc. They have an agenda which is NOT about generating art mechanically. It's more about "machine personhood light" - perhaps as a first step to full machine personhood.

These people are not trying to "copyright AI-generated stuff", they are trying to make a legal person of the machine. And the copyright office or the courts are not ready to go there - certainly not for a BS copyright claim. In this 2022 ruling, the human further goes out of their way to provide a note saying they didn't have anything to do with it! - they just want to own the copyright on the "work of authorship of the machine".

So anyway, I don't think any of these rulings preclude a human clicking five times in a generative AI tool (basically just logging in and saving one image they choose out of a dozen - perhaps even saying "I will claim the first image" before logging in) and then filing for copyright protection - as long they they claim human authorship. That is, none of these rulings seem to demand significant human intervention in the use of a tool, as long it is filed with the human as the author and copyright owner and financially impacted entity (for a court filing). And this would be consistent with the art world view that art is whatever the (self-described) artist says is art. That is, anyone can call themselves an artist, and then by definition if they say they created something and that this something is art then it's art. And they certainly don't need to do any of the manual work themselves - that's what assistants, contractors, dumb luck etc are there for.

It's possible that there will be eventually some ruling that "more human intervention" is needed but I haven't seen that. There has been mention of "element of human creativity needed" but - as far as I can tell - not in a clean case where there wasn't some other agenda or shenanigans going on.
The 68k CPU lineup at the heart of the Amiga was competitive well into the 90's; the Amiga had run out of juice by 1989. The Amiga was only as good as the custom chips. If Commodore kept investing in R&D for the custom chips, they would have at least remained competitive.
It's amazing how the highest rates of inflation are in the industries that are most affected by government intervention (housing, education, healthcare)
Every consulting company brings up AI as the end all solution now and we have to redirect the conversation back to what they were brought in to do. It's annoying.
> Companies gravitate towards cheap, and maximally efficient labor… currently the best way to achieve that if you’re a US business is to outsource it oversees, ergo India and customer support.

Who do restaurants still have waiters/waitresses if you can just order the food on the tablet at the table? Probably because some research shows the average person going out to eat is probably a certain age and wants the "human experience" and might "undersell" (not get upsold) if they just order themselves. Might get frustrated and order less.
Staggering levels of debt funding backed by the inability to bankrupt one's way out of it.
Looks good. I went to the demo page and clicked on a few movies and scrubbed through at random. Everything worked flawlessly.

I'm curious to know about scaling. How many users does a server (and of what kind) support? What's backing your demo page and how many users would overload it?
Execs are as subjugated by the times as the rest of us are, they surely pass part of that burden, but only part. They are still affected all the same.

It's great to have a scapegoat for all manner of issues as AI has been categorised as, though!