skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine someone asks you: "If I flip a fair coin 99 times and it comes up heads each time, what are the odds it comes up tails on the 100th toss?"

Do you say 50%, or do you dismiss their prior? At what point do you dismiss their prior or them, entirely? You don't have to dispute the mathematics, you just have to get bored with the impracticality of the question: it will never happen. Maybe they should flip that allegedly fair coin until it comes up heads (or tails) 99 times in a row and get back to us.

It's reasonable to ask what confounding factors are at play. It's reasonable to have a null hypoothesis.
Remember the joke that was ayojs?
More and more software which was previously small-proprietor / artisan / commons is now, and will become, essentially corporate property.
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Hq2 itself is about twice the size of the large HQ1 buildings (re:invent, Doppler) but it’s only one(ish) building. Amazon owns like 35% of Seattle downtown real estate
Changing from an open source license is a kind of tech product spin on enshitification.

Even if the product continues to get features and active development, like Oracle poured into MySQL after its acquisition, a database or framework going less open source is still a death knell.

The mainstream programmers will move on and use something else. Anything else. Who who has heard that the license can change would now pick it for a new project?
Damn, thanks! I've been saying this for a while. They're all references to pages, optionally with some state.
I don’t know about Denmark, but on the north side of the Sound, all construction contracts seem to go to chains of subcontractors fourteen levels deep, where minor details like workplace safety get lost around level five or so, and the fellows who get to do the actual work in the end are all from Elbonia and speak no Swedish.

Press release from the Work Environment Authority (2021, in Swedish, but Google Translate handles it nicely): https://www.av.se/press/farlig-arbetsmiljo-och-olaglig-arbet...
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Cloudflare workers use this in an interesting way as well. The capability is basically a function or an object with data and functions is returned from a call to a remote service. The functions are intercepted with proxy to call other services instead of local code.

The callee basically decides what kind of capabilities it provides to the caller with these functions, anything you're given, you have the right to call without any further auth preconditions. Those capabilities can then be delegated by returning them, wrapped or not, to other callers.
Well, it could build a sports facility for Ted Leonsis, and hope that that brings in jobs and dollars. But that didn't make it through the legislature.
Thanks for the detailed write up.

I don't have full notes for my last adventure into QEMU, but you are correct that it was mostly an issue with libvirt and getting graphics to render correctly.

> Well, given how long this post is, it certainly doesn't do anything to disprove the notion that Qemu is less accessible and intuitive to use for ordinary users than Virtualbox, that's for sure. And to be sure, I 100% agree and empathize with the fact that it is not, because it isn't.

That's really the rub, choosing to be an ordinary user. The older I get the less I choose to tinker with things that I'm not going to use very often. I like it when software just sets itself up and lets me get to work.
If you read the article, there isn't really any central planning. It's one of those "regulated monopolies" with only one (private) contractor. These kind of things always end poorly for the customers in my experience... Either go full free market or have it ran by the government.
>Its application last April said the company had hired 6,939 employees for qualifying jobs, out of 8,000 total positions in Arlington. Amazon’s report this year said it had filled 6,644 qualifying jobs and had 7,791 total employees assigned to HQ2.

>Virginia’s incentives for the company are supposed to reward its progress toward a goal of bringing 25,000 new jobs to Arlington by 2030. They are also structured to ensure that the company maintains those new jobs for at least five years.

They have 6 years to fill ~20,000 jobs. Seems pretty doable once they scale up hiring again.
Is there a reference for this claim?
"Only downside is that RNAi (and mRNA) are uncorrectable once introduced."
>You don't need a Kubernetes cluster for a little gas station business.

Chick-fil-a has a Kubernetes cluster at each location. Maybe its not so far fetched. Gas stations are all franchises of a major corp.

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il7Ww_AlhAg
I guess Jediluke -> Luke and Mark392 -> Mark. Not sure about KoolBear. Maybe a middle name or a different language like Bjorn.
I think this divide basically shows which part of making a product is harder? The R&D? Or the operational side of production and support?
I mean, it's not like NYC didn't give Amazon tax credits for their recent expansions in NYC. For example: https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/amazon-gets-1...

And it's not like Amazon has brought nearly as many jobs to NYC as they planned to with HQ2.

This isn't necessarily to say that the calculus was wrong here -- New York is perhaps uniquely a place that doesn't really need a huge influx of Amazon jobs. But I think a lot of people misunderstood the HQ2 process as like "this was a unique and rare situation in which a local government applied tax incentives to get a corporation to open a major facility there." It wasn't. That's very routine. What was unique and rare about the HQ2 process was how public it was.
i thought it was making fun of flat earthers? it's pretty amusing they have a good writeup on a very technical piece of very circular math if that is not the case.
Best example for a successful fork is gitea. It's so incredible what they have achieved since the fork from gogs
“It’s essential that the police and prosecutors are equipped with the training and tools required to rigorously enforce these laws in order to stop perpetrators from acting with impunity.”

We don't even have a tool that could reliably ID the subject of such a processed visual depiction.
>- we can send a beam of EM radiation, of little power (like a cellular signal), - to communicate with an object billions of miles away,

Meanwhile I can't get 5G reception a few miles from the tower. Another proof 5G is a scam by the illuminati and lizard people.
The Three Body Problem (Liu Cixin) for my best friend. It's some of the best sci-fi I read.

The Courange to Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga) to a friend that was struggling with social anxiety.
Yeah NYC doesn’t need to offer subsidies because it already has what Amazon wants, lots of highly educated young people who want to work in tech.

Most places don’t already have that (or at least not enough of it) and so it could make sense to offer short term subsidies in exchange for long term industry presence.
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There is a difference between fault and responsibility
In some sense they are the same thing, they are all stored in the Places database in a relatively uniform schema. In another sense they aren't, history is erased after a few months whereas losing bookmarks or tabs would be very bad. Firefox Mobile has this "inactive tabs" feature which is OK but I would never turn on the option to auto-close tabs.
Lazier than you think! You almost nerdsniped me into seeing how fast I could whip up a crawler but then I checked the search and found out it can find comments and use a custom date range.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1700092800&dateRange=custom&...
Money actually does buy happiness, despite what the wealthy would like you to believe.

It is very likely that yes, he would in fact be happier with an extra 20k a year.

You don't know he'd have a new mustang; that's just you projecting. He might put the extra 20k a year into savings for his kid's education - I know that feeling like I'm setting my kids up for future success makes me happy.
Yeah, as I was reading the OSO piece, it was obvious that a great many of the problems they are solving exist because of RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
With RBAC, changes to access trigger changes to the principal. For example, when a new employee is hired, there is often a complex and time-consuming administrative process of getting their roles and permissions set up for their position, and when they change positions, teams, or leave the company, access control changes must be propagated based on these events.

With something like Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), the authorization system controls access to objects by evaluating rules against the attributes of both subject (the entity requesting access) and object (the entity to be accessed).

This can adapt dynamically determine access based on situational aspects: i.e. in an emergency situation, a subject may be granted access when it would be denied under normal conditions. If you've ever been in a situation when there's a problem in production and the only person who can fix it is unavailable, or can't get access, ABAC can be programmed to allow, temporarily, a backup access path. See e.g. https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Attribute-Based-Access-Contro...
> skimping on hardware is kind of a bug not a feature.

I have to disagree here. Not for 20k, but if you could really build a robot arm out of basically a desk lamp, some servos and a camera and had some software to control it as precisely as this video claims it does, this would be a complete game changer. We'd probably see an explosion of attempts to automate all kind of everyday household tasks that are infeasible to automate cost-effectively today (folding laundry, cleaning up the room, cooking, etc)

Also, every self-respecting maker out there would probably try to build one :)

> And if we're focusing on the idea, it has existed since the 1950s and they were doing it relatively well then:

I don't quite understand how the video fits here. That's a manually operated robot arm. The point of Aloha is that it's fully controlled by software, right?
I agree. It has only been a few months since the split. I have noticed more and more uptake of OpenTofu amongst colleagues, and I've personally switched. The thing that makes the difference is what is running on people's laptops, because that's what people will eventually put into prod.
Playing devils advocate, that exploitative nightmare already exists elsewhere in the world. If a consenting adult wants to sell a kidney or lung, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
It's an interesting idea, to allow more natural entry as data entry is one of the highest friction parts of this. But from my perspective the examples used to show and sell this are very bad.

User: "Paella"

App: A huge set of undisplayed assumptions on ingredients and serving size resulting in a hilariously low estimate of calories compared to what any restaurant serving of Paella would hold along with the typical wordy generic AI text output that doesn't help anyone.

User: "Chicken Caesar Salad"

App: Same as above. Presumably someone eating a Caesar salad already knows what they ate and doesn't need to be told it has chicken and lettuce in it.

The exercise examples are "a rough estimate" and doesn't appear to include any user-specific data such as speed or heart rate.

Is it possible to show examples that would fit better with how a real user might use this. Is it capable of getting a good number for something like "qboba burrito bowl, white rice, black beans, chicken..." and so on? Can it remember things so a user could say "my usual burrito bowl"?

And can the inane and utterly useless AI text be turned off?
hi! I'm the author of the newsletter. I have run ads for this newsletter on one place (Garbage Day, a tech newsletter). In the last week Facebook has sent me 261 visitors. What're you talking about?
Did you read the linked submission?

It points out the curiosity that investors in Humane are influential in Time's decision of what to call a Best Invention of 2023.
Microsoft killed my favorite keyboard
After years of lurking, I had to finally create an account to post this. I remember when you and Drakona got married. Congrats again!

It’s been a long 15+ years since I was last active in the Descent community. I lost access to my ICQ account when my PlanetDescent email went away, and I no longer go by DCrazy online, in part to distance my adult self from the preteen I was then. But Descent (especially D3) is heavily responsible for me getting into software engineering, and I will always be grateful for those memories.
Statistically most people born into poverty stay there. Do you think most of them aren't trying? Conversely, do you thing most people born wealthy have to put as much effort into staying wealthy?

There are a number of systemic barriers, one of the big ones mentioned in this demonstration is education.

If we had equal baseline access to education, housing, healthcare, and food... then sure, if people stayed impoverished I might begin to agree with you.

We're not even close in our current state so "you're in control of your own life" is a completely ignorant argument.
I hope one day we realize businesses tend to care more about increasing profits than increasing jobs...and that sometimes the easiest way to increase profits is to decrease jobs.

I think we in society really need to evaluate this...maybe instead of forcing companies to create jobs, we can think of another way for humans to have money. Some humans make money not from working a job but from ownership, getting dividends from that. What if we could change the way we do or view ownership and people get dividends from that? Haha, maybe I'm just reinventing the stock market, but not all stocks give dividends.

Maybe instead of asking companies to create jobs, we should ask them to give more dividends?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts to this dilemma of us asking conpanies to create jobs and how that might make them less efficient.
>Generally my stance with these forks born from community drama is "wait and see."

They are generally a
good thing, save for the poor souls that will end up maintaining a project that was started with them while they were still active. The success of the fork doesn't matter so much as the direction it inevitably pulls the original project.

The io.js drama gave us a huge step forward with NPM once their hand was forced. Hopefully some good ideas come of this too.
The PNAS paper link to the PDF document.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317274121
That'd be ideal! Require expert testimonials and judges with Master's in CS and EE or better for any court sessions involving computers. Up to UK people though.
I saw that video (as everyone did) and I'm on the camp that Humane did not deserve that.

I would never get a (v1) Humane pin but, all things considered, is a somewhat decent product that had to go through it's mandatory share of R&D, product design, manufacturing, etc...

One thing is to provide a review like "you know these are the current limitations of the thing, etc..." another one is to just bash it like a spoiled child. Marques has spoken much more favorably of much worse performing products.

Anyway if you want the moralestapia's review of Humane, I think it opened up a new category of products and it's pretty decent for a first release. It doesn't give me any benefit over a regular smartphone right now, but I can definitely see hundreds of millions of these devices being worn by people (and dogs and whatnot) in the next decade (maybe not from Humane, who knows). I also really like the idea of "Ambient Computing", they did not create it but they embraced it, and that is quite nice.
> politicians (most prominently AOC) were dragged

The poor people living in public housing around LIC overwhelmingly favored the project which was going to bring new public spaces, upgrades to schools, and affordable housing. None of that got built and instead the new office lease happened in Hudson Yards where none of the poor LIC residents will benefit at all.

She similarly helped kill a redevelopment in Industry City that included a bunch of affordable housing and light manufacturing jobs. Those jobs didn't go somewhere else in the city.
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I don't run ads on social media for this newsletter. What're you talking about? Seriously, show me a screenshot of the ad.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317274121
Saying that problems are completely outside of someone's control or completely their own fault is a false dichotomy. Reality is usually somewhere in the middle, especially in studies like this one on teenagers. Everyone's situation is shaped by a mix of personal choices and the world around them. It's not just about blaming people or the system; it’s about seeing how both play a role. Voting is one way to make a difference, but it’s not the only way—people have a lot of ways to shape their lives.
A Psychologist Explains Four Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken [1]

[1] https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/9/24124973/psychologist-jay...

Short:

Number one is that negativity drives engagement. Number two, extremism drives engagement online. Number three, out-group animosity drives engagement online. And number four, moral, emotional language drives engagement online.

Negativity "clicks", for mostly "old brain" reasons.
You say things anonymously that you would never say real person to real person. Social media are a (mostly) no-consequence wide-open "mud" sling.

Anil Dash argues [2] that things can be better in not so wide-open communities.

And then there’s someone like Darius Kazemi, a computer programmer and community organizer who has been patiently toiling away building tools that let others build healthy, constructive, human-scale online communities — the sort that are full of acts of kindness and genuine connection, instead of incessant fights about hate speech. There’s been a huge uptick in interest in Darius’ work as networks like Twitter have fallen apart, and a new generation discovers the joys of an internet that’s as intimate and connected as a friendly neighborhood. And this hearkens back to that surprising, and delightful, discovery that often underpinned the internet of a generation ago — sometimes the entire platform you were using to talk to others was just being run by one, passionate person. We’re seeing the biggest return to that human-run, personal-scale web that we’ve witnessed since the turn of the millennium, with enough momentum that it’s likely that 2024 is the first year since then that many people have the experience of making a new connection or seeing something go viral on a platform that’s being run by a regular person instead of a commercial entity. It’s going to make a lot of new things possible.

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/inte...
I can appreciate that, but also they are recording and replaying motor signals from specific teleoperation demonstrations. Something that _was_ possible in the 1950s. You might say that it is challenging to replay demonstrations well on lower-quality hardware. And so there is academic value in trying to make it work on worse hardware, but it would not be my goto solution for real industry problems. E.g. this is not a route I would fund for a startup, for example.
> people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it

If it wasn't open-source it won't be as popular as it is in the first place, Redis is also using ton of open source software or libraries for free.

Not defending AWS/GCP/Azure, I actually got my software used when i was young by a large company for free (not even a mention- Still using it i think, 5M+ Play Store Downloads), but that is the spirit of open source
We won't be replaced by AI
Over the weekend, I got inspired and put together a landing page for a weekly roundup of the best freelance dev jobs out there.

I've spent a decade as an SWE and the last three years freelancing, so I've got a pretty good handle on what makes a gig worthwhile. Plus, I know the pain of how frustrating platforms like Upwork and LinkedIn can be when you're contract hunting.

I think the idea has some potential, what do you guys think?
The criminal offence refers to deepfakes of a real person without their consent. Actual people can be identified in this AI generated content, where the resemblance is close / beyond doubt.

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The harm:

Many people do not seem to understand the harm. Deepfakes are used for sexual pleasure, and used to degrade and dehumanize people resulting in victims getting traumatised. Victims often do not get enough support and the trauma may stay for a lifetime, and some victims may end their lives due to this.

These victims get sexually harassed, e.g. one woman is continuously being harassed after someone generated deepfakes of her and people recognised her from those images https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1c1pzjo/ai_gen...

In r/singularity thread this is discussed and unfortunately many people think it's okay. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1c5c8pp/uk_cri...

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Thoughtcrime:

It is worth to discuss the 'thoughtcrime' where the generated content is not shared and where the deepfaked person is not harassed. Quote from the article:

> The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it [..]

• Revenge Porn does not make it illegal to store pornographic content as long as there was consent. However, Revenge Porn prohibits sharing no longer consensual content.

• Sharing the generated content is not necessary in order to degrade, dehumanize and harass victims, thus still cause harm. On the other hand, if the deepfaked people are not harmed then it is a bit different, which may seem like a "thoughtcrime" and possibly may be.

• People cannot guarantee the data they store won't get leaked. Both Revenge Porn and Deepfakes have the same issue. However, in Revenge Porn it is easier to see who created the content and enforce the law, while in deepfakes harder.
It already is if you add it to the same market/category as platforms like OnlyFans and much of Twitch. AI or not, it comes down to the same concept with users paying for equally fake and meaningless parasocial interaction and associated pornography.
I thought about putting their actual names -- Michael, David, and Mark (even though Mark392 isn't really named Mark) -- but I thought it'd be funnier to just put their pilot names at first.
It is from 2021
How does that make any sense? 750M / 2500 is 300k. It's just better to do helicopter money - literally just drop money from the skies and I would bet that more would be generated in return.

Assuming that Gemini is right and Virginia keeps 5-6% of your taxable income, individuals should earn at least 5M just for break even. I don't understand this model - can someone help make sense?
The combination of multiple bad behavior strung together is really interesting. I imagined the author of each bad behavior was unaware of the other bad behaviors and was basically like "what's the worst they can do?"

I feel a lot of good exploits work this way where each small bad behavior can be leverages to magnify another.
I've never had this problem, so I have no personal experience or research to draw from. But my first thought is that if you're going to adjust the salary you pay according to the location of the employee, then perhaps you should specify the salary range in the listing as a percentage of median income?

So instead of saying "100-150k/yr", you could say something like "2-3 times the median income for the area where you live".
yeah agree.

I feel bad for Alex but it seemed like a pretty impressive percentage of people with very adverse childhoods ended up being happy. The graph didn't make it seem like his outcome was typical.

It also looked like the claimed racial disparity wasn't very pronounced?

Maybe the visualizations are just bad.