skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no evidence of "exploitation" here. Somebody is employing Nigerians to do a boring job. What's wrong with that? It probably counts as a decent job over there. Probably more fun (and ethical) than working at a call centre.

Actually, thinking about it, it's probably not even that boring.
> studying cancer as a “dissociative identity disorder” of cell groups,

> finding that ant colonies succumb to “visual illusions”

> had created biobots from frog skin cells

> and then created human biobots from lung tissue that can heal damaged neurons.

Oh man, the entire article is a train wreck. Theranos level. I don't even know how to start.

I wouldn't advise to put your money on this. Not without a lot of safety measures.
No they are not!

Who is "Everyone"?

Generalisations are not real people
Well I frequently see people freaking out that people are only being paid X in Y underdeveloped country! Completely glossing over the fact cost of living is 10x less.
I do my taxes on paper because the paid products want to charge you more if you have self-emploment income. I have done my own Schedule C and self-employment taxes. It's not bad. A single-owner LLC is a "pass through" entity as far as the IRS is concerned. It's just another source of self-employment income.

I use the spreadsheet from https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home to help.

The first year there was some anxiety as to whether I was doing it right, but I've never gotten any notices about errors for that so I assume it's all good....
Networked microservices and console utilities (though one could argue C# is the better option for this now thanks to ASP.NET Core, Spectre.Console and ConsoleAppFramework).

Do not use it for FFI or systems programming as it has godawful FFI overhead. Do not use it for high-performance data processing either - if you need high level language for that, use C# instead which offers rich SIMD capabilities.

Generally speaking, Go has pretty bad relationship with performance ceiling due to weak compiler and lack of true zero-cost abstractions.

It's on the other side of spectrum of compiler capability when compared to GCC, LLVM, .NET and OpenJDK.
Come on, we all know “human intelligence” is defined as “qualifying for a boat loan”.

https://morbotron.com/caption/S02E14/267783
Let's face it, Gainax was only an empty shell of its former glory. Most of the "important" people left for Khara and Trigger and Gainax has done nothing of importance for more than ten years or so?

Also, financial troubles is probably the most Gainax thing possible
I guess Gainax finally got its own Gainax Ending.
They really are good as well. I insure my car and the DVLA knows about it. I MOT my car and the DVLA knows about it. Then I hop online and pay £0 to tax my car as it is a low emission vehicle.

I used to have to collect all my certificates and physically present them at the PO, but not any more.
https://sdf.org/store/
Because it is «loop[ed] into a critical revision of its contents»...

That a full world model is there is the preliminary condition. So, first you have to establish that an LLM actually draws a world model in its inner structure.

Then you have to refine that world model, and be able to refine its intentionally spawned branches (e.g. "Imagine scenario X"...). If the iteration of the refining is successful, you achieved the goal.

The point is implementing critical thinking; that the initial world model is flawed is the known starting point: at the beginning, it only knows it has "heard" a lot of information.
Clearing the air: the hidden wonders of indoor plants (2023)
/48 is netmask of ffff:ffff:ffff:0:0:0:0:0. `sipcalc` can help with this.

$ sipcalc ::/48
-[ipv6 : ::/48] - 0

[IPV6 INFO]
Expanded Address - 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
Compressed address - ::
Subnet prefix (masked) - 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/48
Address ID (masked) - 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/48
Prefix address - ffff:ffff:ffff:0:0:0:0:0
Prefix length - 48
Address type - Reserved
Comment - Unspecified
Network range - 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 -
0000:0000:0000:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff

I remember how this works because of the IPv4 examples that I have baked into my head, e.g. 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.1.0/24. Clearly the first 24 bits must be 1 for that last one to make any sense.

I recently found a case where an "inverted" netmask makes sense - when you want to allow access through a firewall to a given IPv6 host (with auto-config address) regardless of the network that your provider has assigned.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n0vaXHxRGHHSQc4PD0tV...

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Serious Eats has articles before the recipe that are usually full of technical information from the development of the recipe.

Sometimes there's a bit of the "touching personal story" but I'm a lot more used to seeing failures and tests in the before-recipe section there. As a random example, check out this page on poached chicken:

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-poach-chicken-recipe-8641...
As a counterexample, English speakers in India use the word “revert” in email a lot more often than Americans do, because there it can mean “reply”, as in “I will revert with that information later today.” I would think that is a much more frequently expressed concept than any of the other meanings of “revert”, so Indian English (at least Indian business email English) is going to have a higher frequency of “revert” than American English.

Not that this exact phenomenon applies to “delve”, but it shows how word frequencies can vary across cultures regardless of “grade level”.
C# Dev Kit is not only recommended by Microsoft, but developed by and for them.

It still has a serious license footgun built-in, Oracle-style.
Yea I really like the quote the OP references, but it's not clear to me who is playing the role of the "ministry of plenty"? The author? The fed? And what stats referenced in the article are they accusing of having been retroactively revised (aside from the common minor adjustments that trail headline news by ~1month, which would already be included in the stats this article references).
LDTs can only be carried out in a CLIA laboratory which you're unlikely to be able to operate out of your garage. I mean you could but there are a bunch of staffing and accreditation requirements that would make that very difficult and expensive.
If you believe LLMs will result in agi consciousness, interestingly, you also believe there exists an (large) excel sheet that is conscious.
I think if you know to search the keywords "inverse kinematics" and a bit of JS, this problem isn't too difficult, although I did bungle the signs in a few places. Someone (more dedicated than I) could also work out the trig from scratch if they didn't have that keyword.

Here's a solution: https://editor.p5js.org/jwlarocque/sketches/5tCufh3nw
> Rising home values are a zero-sum game. It makes people look wealthier on paper, but there's nothing good that comes from gains in housing prices.

This is oversimplifying. A rise in housing prices should lead the more construction of more housing, if costs stay relatively the same, and indeed the inflation in housing prices has grown far faster than the cost of labor or building materials. We have a zero-sum game because supply is restricted instead of allowing the market to respond by producing more housing. Sometimes this is due to NIMBYism, sometimes just legacy zoning practices. China has the opposite problem right now because their central planning built too much housing. But there's nothing special about housing that makes it a zero-sum game. For sure, land is basically a zero-sum game (you could blast apart mountains or build artificial islands, but that's not usually financially feasible), but most countries have large apartment towers that expand the amount of housing available despite the zero-sum game for land.

And America has so much land compared to most countries. It's not even funny. It's just mostly wasted.
Those screenshots are really helpful. I hope this improves people’s understanding of their taxes.

There are so many posts on /r/personalfinance where people claim they “paid $0 on taxes this year”. What they typically mean is that they owed nothing when they filed a return, or received a refund.

They still paid taxes, it was simply taken out of their paycheques and paid in full by year end.
I live in South America and I've never seen such products locked up in a supermarket.

Usually it's just liquor and cigarettes if there's anything locked up at all.
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make
What is the distribution bottleneck that keeps artists from self organising?
At Oxide, we have embedded projects with 100% Rust. We still have the kernel use an MPU (not even an MMU!) to protect each task's memory.

Defense in depth is good.
Yes. Feeling is believing, but I don't know how policy makers should handle it when so much of how people feel is dependent on if their "team" is in the White House: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/partisan-politics-and-consumer-sen...
Only somewhat related: I've been using a variant of the following LLM prompt, obtained from Raycast Prompt Explorer[1], to get summaries of YouTube videos before I watch them.

I use it with Raycast and the Raycast browser extension, but it's easily adapted for other AI browser extensions, as well as scripts and other launchers.

It's helped cut out a lot of cruft.

--BEGIN-PROMPT--

Create a summary of a YouTube video using its transcript. You will use the following template:

"""

## Summary

{Multiple sentences summarising the YouTube video}

## Notes

{Bullet points that summarize the key points or important moments from the video’s transcript with explanations}

## Quotes

{Extract the best sentences from the transcript in a list}

"""

Transcript: {browser-tab}

--END-PROMPT--

1. https://prompts.ray.so/
Maybe. Dunno. Depends a lot on so many things. I mean, I'm excited about doing another startup after this one using everything I've learned about how I actually want to be spending my time and what kinds of users/customers/people I want to be interacting with everyday.
I use VSCode for everything. It's fast enough to take the place of a simple lightweight editor if you already have it running all day.

I have not used the Vim bindings but I hear people like them.
A wrong diagnosis may be more harmful than you realize - if they are wrong (and they often are) it can lead to death/permanent disability.
> At some point, you have to just admit that as a business you have certain costs that you have to pay to operate.

Alternatively, you could take Apple's example and charge people an arbitrary amount for the privilege of accessing your business and leave the certainty of certain costs for the shmucks.
What time frame are you calling "during the pandemic" here? The period of high inflation started sometime in the second half of 2021, which is what I usually think of as the beginning of the post-pandemic period. That is, I think the inflation happened after the pandemic (though I believe because of the pandemic and the response to it).

I believe your grocery bill went up that much during the period of inflation, though it's a bit higher than the aggregate inflation data nationwide, it's not too far off.

But that doesn't tell us anything about how quickly prices are rising now, which is what "inflation" is.

Saying "prices are higher now than they were in the past" is not the same as saying "inflation is high right now". And both statements are entirely meaningless without defining the time period being discussed.

We could have massive deflation month to month, and it would still be the case that prices are many times higher than they were in the 50s. It's just an apples to oranges comparison that provides no insight.

Inflation is typically reported on either by looking at the previous 12 months, or by looking at the previous month and "annualizing" it (calculating what the result would be of 12 repetitions of that month's rate).

But clearly people's anchoring on price levels is not all that well aligned with that. I'm also still anchored on what I think things should cost based on what they cost "before the pandemic".

But eventually we'll all get used to the new price levels, and our kids will laugh about how there used to be a whole "dollar menu" at fast food restaurants, just like we laugh about the idea of "nickel and dime stores" and only paying "two bits" (which is a quarter, for some reason) for a shave and a haircut.

But the question of how long this period of getting used to new price levels requires, and why, is fascinating, and I'd like to read a good book about it :)

(Edit to add: I ignored the house and childcare price aspects of this, and I fundamentally agree that it's the "one of these things is not like the others" that explains a lot of the dissatisfaction that people - especially younger people and people with young kids - are feeling.)
> Globle

Similar to Globle is Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
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i found that garbage influencers get more views talking hours about useless things in other hand a smart and hark worker contributors of popular frameworks+libraries+languages get less views while trying to add value to tech community just whyyyyyyy
Nothing in the preceding comment remotely resembles any proposal for municipal broadband. Even if a municipal government were doing the work he assigns to "the community", that work consists of maintaining a system of conduit within which other parties can run their own fiber lines connected to their own networks, and wouldn't at all imply that the municipality would own or operate any of the physical network infrastructure, nor operate ISP services.

And there's no necessity that role of "the community" be handed off to a municipal government, either. People can and do solve complex coordination problems without relying on political authority all the time -- "the community" could easily be a non-profit organization, a mutual owned by local residents, or just a series of reciprocal agreements to maintain the baseline infrastructure needed for other parties to run cables, without any municipal government being involved.

The idea that any non-trivial coordination problem can only be solved by centralized political authority is one of the principal drivers of corruption and stagnation in modern society, and is itself one of the main causes of competitive markets degenerating into monopolies or oligopolies.
I sometimes wonder what cognitive effect higher CO2 has on alertness.

If you work in a room with CO2 level of 300, or 200ppb would you be more alert?

Would you be healthier?
If they really felt that way they would do away with payroll witholding and make everyone pay their taxes with quarterly estimated payments.

They don't because witholding is easier for everyone and everyone would hate having to write a check to the IRS every few months.
At some point, one realizes a project is in maintenance mode, and most of the issues should be handled by IT tech support.

Better to find something more entertaining to do with your time... than get jettisoned with a product lifecycle.

After a few years, everyone burns out eventually. =)
If you type "metamask" or "trust wallet" into Twitter/X
If you make a comment containing the words "Metamask" or "trust wallet" into twitter/X you will get a huge chain of spam replies and likes. It is pretty hilarious how Elon has not fixed the problem, but it has gotten worse. It's hilarious how the scammers always use the word "kindly". Stealing my money is not kind, is it.
> The technology remains the enabler, the responsible remains the human actor.

That's an awful lot like "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Some tech people just want to keep building, consequences be damned. Mentally shifting the responsibility one step further down the road is just a way for them to dodge responsibility.

It's worth remembering the developer is also "human actor." He's still responsible if he builds a dangerous technology, and leaves it for someone else to push the button.
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George Washington was "openly" in the British colonial forces (and for that matter Robert E. Lee was in the Union army, and Mao Zedong was in the RoC revolutionary army).

I knew dozens of people in my computer security career who'd "openly" been in technical branches of the (mostly US) military, or done classified work for defense contractors, or in a few cases who had worked for outright spy agencies (on what I do not know). Maybe a handful of them might have still been not-openly working for those agencies; most almost certainly were not.

Many of them were still obviously sympathetic to those agencies' agendas. That did not necessarily extend to helping them out in any way (although sometimes it definitely did). A few sure seemed exactly the opposite, and if they were in deep cover, they probably could have served that goal better by just keeping their mouths shut. In a few cases they helped to build organizational or technical structures that clearly would have made it harder for anybody, including the agencies they'd previously worked for, to subvert their new employers' security guarantees.

So, 35+ years ago, at 16, Kaspersky took what was probably the only technical education opportunity available to him in Soviet Russia(TM). At maybe 20, he took what was probably the only job available to him. Going by that same Wikipedia article, apparently within a year or two, he moved to private industry (such as it was in that place and time). That included getting an early release from military service (not sure how that interacted with the dissolution of the USSR, which happened at more or less the same time).

That's par for the course.

It is very, very hard to find a person or company in that space that's squeaky clean, has no conflicts of interest, and/or has no ties at all with any government or government agency you might be afraid of.

If it's a large company (bigger than Kaspersky), and has been around a while, there's a real chance that it's released products with all kinds of weird back doors, with and/or without the knowledge of its executive management. Maybe even back doors for multiple competing actors. And at the same time it may release many more products that don't have them.

I don't think Kaspersky (the man) is some kind of revolutionary, nor do I think Kaspersky (the company) is going to openly defy the Russian government. I also don't think that their trustworthiness couldn't change at any given time. I do think that they're at least averagely "good". And I think that they get way more than their share of paranoia, with tons of people just assuming that they've "always" done things with their products that, frankly, they couldn't realistically have gotten away with doing.
More job positions in a region that desperately needs jobs is a good thing.
Yes, but how do you know what it really is? Plenty of legit generics have been found to be complete bunk,(1) let alone gray market ED drugs. Other generics have high levels of cancer causing contaminates. Eg TMAO in metformin, chantix, ranitidine, and more. 2

You can also buy these things as research chemical but same question as above.

Always remember, made in USA is likely a misdirection. You buy this stuff in bulk off of Alibaba like sites, buy some made in USA containers, repackage it in the USA and now you can claim the whole thing is “made in USA.”

Some of these places will list chemical analysis of their drugs but who knows what they tested what they send? Also, when did they test, who tested it? Etc. would love to hear if anyone has figured this out.

Just some quick references off the top of my head,

1 - bottle of lies, book or Ted talk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=si2M93gZy1E&pp=ygU5Ym90dGxlIG9...

2-valisure, commercial entity that tests for contaminants. https://www.valisure.com/ Also labadoor, consumerlab.com and others

3- John Abramson did an interesting Rogan interview a while back
Report them to the privacy regulator in your country using the conversation as evidence.
iTerm2, Brave Browser for privacy and no ads, Sublime Text.
I have quite a few ideas for web sites or web apps but JavaScript syntax and HTML/CSS web modelling is turning me off so I wonder would this be feasible for simple experimental web app/s? I also explored Golang which also has easy to pick up syntax as Python and it is also easy to build web apps with it so I kinda dunno where to start.
TL;DR: Publicly facing profiles, with an opt-out instead of an opt-in, was a footgun moment.
You might want to look up reviews made by "The Linux Experiment" (https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos), Nick is using Tuxedo devices daily.
> I do my taxes on paper

If you haven't, check out the Free Fillable Forms from the IRS. It's basically the same as the paper forms, but you don't have to shuffle actual paper around and you can just submit it online.
It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry.

Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wonder if this will ever be solved.

I remember way back in the day where it felt like Triplebyte might finally figure that one out, but it unfortunately never happened.
> An LLM could be trained to fake curiosity in same way that ELIZA did

Or, let’s be real, the way a lot of people do.
I think thats possible but also I felt it dismissive when I read it. Much like the seemingly frustrated post about simmering and not having a degree definition of simmer, your grandmother likely spent a lot of time developing skill and knowledge not in a linear fashion like you do in a class room but in a self apprenticed fashion, like you do at work.

Watching, trying, failing, trying again and taking many mental notes, some written notes but written not for a stranger to simply pick up and do, but for someone who is in the flow of learning.

The reason it likely doesn't feel the same is the time, effort, and knowledge. Purely focused on this process of making. Most of us now have split time, fractured against a lot of things.

I say this as someone who has watched her grandmother cook, her mother cook, and now finds her own time quickly diminishing. Making all of the items from scratch seems like an impossible feat given the limited amount of time and access to all the right goods.