skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well. Lately, I've been feeling a bit paranoid. But anyway, let's keep it simple. I don't know if you've noticed, but the internet has really become a kind of giant fog, developing a sort of consciousness as if it automatically answers questions posed or diverts you from certain ideas, no matter your political stance. We're all affected by this problem, and I think it comes from one single source: Artificial Intelligence.

Recently, whether on Twitter, Reddit, or the internet in general (articles), everything seems to be managed by AI, or at least that's the impression I've had for the past three days. I've started tracking these bots, and it's genuinely horrifying. Most of the bots I've encountered are extremely sophisticated (interests, jokes, personal projects everything a human could do). It's extremely difficult to say with certainty whether the person you're talking to is an AI. The only noticeable difference, in my opinion, lies in imagery, which might be the only way to catch these bots. But even then, imagery is now almost perfect. Only errors in the background with the help of Photoshop can determine if you're talking to AIs. But even then, I'm asking myself different questions. Am I overreacting? Is this really possible?
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My algorithm was starting to feed off its own content, and I came across this video:link URL
After watching this video, I realized that I'm not the only one making these discoveries, but even Rainbow pill are affected by this plague.

I need your help, guys. I've never been a genius, just an electrician, but I really feel like I'm going crazy, not being able to determine who is human anymore.

Operation Turing's Gambit is about assessing the situation. We need to figure out what’s really going on because we all know the internet isn’t the same anymore. Thanks, anon,robot, furry , Alpha , sigma , femboy , black pill and all of u
I might agree with your wife. :P

Nishiki uses an offshoot of Calrose rice, which is okay but popular Japanese rice is often Koshihikari or Yumipurika: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishiki_rice (do click the link for SICK web art on a random wikipedia page)

If you can find some https://umamimart.com/products/tamaki-haiga-rice is one of my favs.

Or as someone commented below the rice from The Rice Factory is solid if you are looking for a treat: https://trf-ny.com/collections/rice

I currently have 3 varieties from TRF in my cupboard :D
Back at zynamics, we used to sell PDF Dissector:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110902114238/http://www.zynami...

We never got around to open sourcing it, so I'm happy to see that there is work being done in this space.

Congrats to seekbytes for releasing this!
I've been "at the same job" for almost 15 years but the company been sold three times, fully bankrupt once, almost broke many times, grown to over 500 staff, layoffs to less than ten, IPO'd/re-privatized, etc

Anyway I haven't interviewed in a while!
Ask HN: Employee subscription tracking – what do you use?
As the number of employees grows, how do you/your company keep track of all the subscriptions your staff has (Google, Slack, Hubspot, Expensify, etc etc).

How do you ensure that when an employee leaves you don't accidentally keep paying for a service?

Any tool/service recommendation is appreciated! Thanks!
What do you think is more likely, every other human and probably most animals experience consciousness in much the same way that you do, or you are unique and special and your consciousness is much more lucid than everyone else?

I have always been so puzzled by the line of thinking you present here. It is clear that everyone else responds to pain in much the same way, everyone else responds to lack of food, water, social interaction, love, etc In much the same way, etc. The differences are at the fringes and your examples of sleep deprivation and caffeine consumption only serve to reinforce that : doesn't matter how much coffee I drink or how little sleep I have, its going to hurt if my bones are broken just like it would for you.

I think this line of thinking is a cute little thought experiment but it really falls apart quickly - if we operated like we didn't know if other people were conscious to the same degree we were, then we would behave abhorrently. And largely, we don't. So even you if intellectually will posit that you are the only truly conscious person, or that maybe even you are not conscious, you do not actually behave this way in practice. Obviously
For the record, and whatever worth - it is the (it seems, serious) conviction of here folks (and I concur) that the NSA is at least a reader of these threads.-

PS. So, hi!
Dear Me, This Isn't What Life Is Like
What made you think that? The changelog lists recent changes: https://community.amazingmarvin.com/changelog
Glad to hear you like Rerun and thanks for the suggestions!

> A little worrying for me that rerun seems getting more complicated and verbose and API changes frequently.

We'll unfortunately continue to change some APIs over the next few releases. We're working towards stabilizing the format soon and want to make sure it's in a form that will last.

Do you have any examples of changes you found to be more complicated? We've been trying to maintain the approach of providing a very simple high level API but then exposing more lower level APIs over time for more power and/or control. Would love to learn where we could be doing better there.

> The whole vizualization code can clutter algorithm/code that is begin debugged.

This is a bummer to hear for sure. One of the motivating experiences behind starting Rerun was how much system bloat home grown debugging and visualization infrastructure can bring. Any chance you could share examples that are less clean than ideal? (either here, discord, github or dm on any platform is fine)
great question

tangentially related but Grand Theft Auto speedrunners often point the camera behind them while driving so cars don't spawn "behind" them (aka in front of the car)
Sure, divide and conquer is the prerequisite to allow the non-working-class to exploit actual labor.

I say human dignity is non-negotiable. So there should be a legal minimum wage which is automatically adjusted to the living prices of wherever the person you hire is expected to work.

If you are unable (or worse: unwilling) to pay people enough to survive of your work, you are irresponsible and a leech on society that should be out of business anyways.

I understand that some have been brain-washed into believing that leveraging your education, inherited wealth or position of power to exploit others is a sign of being smart or some sort other conclusion that coincidentally justifies the desirable outcome — but that doesn't change the self serving nature of anybody discussing for that kind of exploitation. And as markets have shown to suck at respecting any externalities, be it nature, culture, the rights of future generations or human dignity, they have to be regulated to do so.

If your business is unable to survive that, it wasn't for the benefit of society anyways.
The 5800X3D isn't even 2,5 years old, of course an upgrade isn't worth its money. To put it into perspective: If you considered upgrading from a RTX3070 to a RTX4070, the RTX4070 wouldn't even have been released. (Time span between them was longer than 2.5 years.)
Obviously, no human has any experience, nor any expertise, on whether there was enough time.

So the argument pretty much turns into "my feelings" vs. Occam's Razor.
I did the opposite - since college I've job hopped quite a bit between startups, SMBs, and the smaller end of public companies. Salary varied from ~100k to ~190k. Got laid off last year which I do attribute to being one of the newer employees.

I do feel like I would be in a better place if I had stuck around longer in some of these positions, but it's hard to tell at the time! Each change was to a better and higher paying job. I do feel like I got a good perspective on the industry but I hear about people who were my peers getting into management, getting into staff or distinguished engineer positions, assume they are having all their options vested, and they are probably ahead of me financially.

My understanding is that to make "real money" i.e. what a manager at a car dealership makes, or 300k+, the reliable paths are either getting hired at the google/netflix/openai/apple type companies, getting into management pretty much anywhere (check BLS.gov. Average salaries for managers even in older industries are above what a staff engineer at e.g. Pagerduty or Onesignal probably gets), or getting a good amount of stock options at a low cost basis and eventually getting to cash them out.

This does not answer your question exactly but to that point I would say hop on linkedin and talk to some recruiters, keeping your skeptical hat on for everything they say. A good manager of someone who's been productive for 8-10 years is not going to be surprised or annoyed that they try and see what the market is.

One last point, tech is especially sensitive to the fluctuations of interest rates. We are all subject to the whims of Jerome and depending on what he does in the coming months, the market for engineering talent may look much different next spring than it does now.
Computers have always been sort of magical for me, but the magic isn't in how it works, but that it is an infinitely malleable canvas.

I've been writing a Gregorian chant typesetter, and it's sort of magical to resize the window and watch the notes flow onto the next line. (Barring bugs; those break the enchantment)
true, most computers don't run windows though.

anyways, the type of packet does not really matter.
Nope. I follow a very simple rule: you should be earning, learning, or leaving.
i self host fressrss, and use reeder on ios and the browser elsewhere.
I think blocking porn is a lot easier than blocking subtle misinformation based on half-truths, e.g. "Trump said he wants to be dictator".

I also think the scale is different between FB and SO, and SO has a much narrower definition of "on topic", as well.
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There’s research reports from those halcyon days of nazi forums conducting attacks on Jewish communities / social groups. Heck, stormfront was famous even then.

Plus - nothing was at the scale of Facebook or social media during those halcyon days.

Do you think platforms WANTED to invest in manpower dependent labor?

Platforms started moderating because things got bad.
I'm running it right now, and haven't yet seen a single resulting artwork, but looking at the examples, I immediately hate the typical UI hotspots, like the top left (or top right) corner, toolbars on the left and such. I'd process the captured mouse coordinates and add a steady rotation to them (when the mouse is in motion), thus turning the art into a more abstract square (or circle, if you wish) form. Somewhat like the polar coordinates graphs, some of which are really cool.
I would agree that Tamaki Haiga is up there with imported Japanese rice. I think calrose and it's offshoots are less delicious options.
> If the full time wage can't result in a decent living (housing, food, medical expenses, clothes, feed and clothe a kid or two, and put away a little on the side) then it clearly is too little.

I have seen this meme repeated a lot, e.g. any full time job should automatically provide for a LOT of shit that used to require 2 incomes, or a stay-at-home mom to take care of it.

Now the goalposts have moved to provide for food and housing and for "a kid or two".

Do you have any evidence that our societal productivity has advanced so far that we can simply pay this "living wage" to everyone working 2000 hours a year, regardless of their profession?
It depends what stage in your career you are in, generally. Job hopping early on is a good way to raise your salary and get a wide range of experience. For more senior positions, where your projects are measured in months to years instead of sprints, staying longer is a good thing (imo). But either way, a decade is longer than I have stayed in any place - and had both regret for leaving a former employer _and_ regret for not having done so sooner. No silver bullet answer to that question :)
Not knowing your altimeter is connected to your transponder, and that you provide the altitude along with your squawk to the atc screens is a pretty glaring wtf.
> E.g. the claim that all ISPs simultaneously voluntarily decided to throttle Youtube to reduce foreign traffic

> The information that all ISPs voluntarily decided to throttle Youtube is implausible

> Also the information about mobile connection not being throttled

Why are you trying to build a strawman? That's not what I said. I've said "google kept abusing backbone networks" (e.g. IEXPs), which obviously means it's a matter of the Main Radiofrequency Centre, since it involves nation-wide infrastructure - not some "ISP volunteering".

And I’ve never said that “mobile connection is not being throttled”. In fact, I am stating exactly the opposite, pointing out that traffic shaping is an inherent feature for a mobile ISP. In contrast to broadband, where no one bothered with deep traffic manipulation before, so an ad-hoc throttling solution (yes, typically simply reusing existing law enforcement integrations) works like shit.

> This is not true. The connections to googlevideo are throttled by government-operated DPI, not by ISPs. You can verify this by sending following request from a Russian residential or mobile IP address to a Russian hosting provider Selectel:

One does not need a synthetic test such as yours. One can simply try playing a video from the same browser, switching connection between broadband connected Wi-Fi and a mobile hotspot and notice that broadband doesn’t seem to be working properly, but mobile actually works, even if it’s not Full HD. How come? Does your hypothesis regarding “not by ISPs, but by government-issued DPIs” explain the variance in ISPs behavior? No, it doesn’t. Just as it doesn’t explain why “blocked” YT seems to be “blocked” completely different from your typical weed growers forum. It works differently from how you imagine it.

> Why would they throttle the speed to allow their competitors to lure away their clients?

Speaking of which, apparently some broadband ISPs are now trying to implement throttling properly to give them an edge over the competition: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6919868
Same. My main laptop came with 11 and won't regrade.

My desktop at home and “spare” laptop (the one that goes with me where it might get (more) damaged or lost, so I don't want to take the newer/expensive one) are both still running 11. Laptop2 keeps nagging me to “upgrade” but the desktop isn't even compatible (wrong sort of TPM?). They'll be getting the Linux treatment next year, as might the one that is currently on 11.

Though I suspect the life will get extended, like happened to XP when small-factor low-spec laptops (and to a lesser extent tablets, though few of those ran Windows or pure Linux, usually Android instead) were popular, there was no way Vista would run on them, and 8 wasn't ready enough for release. With the number of Win10 installs out there that might move to Linux, or be binned and replaced by an Apple device, it might not make sense for them to allow it to EOL without a sudden uptick in Win11 adoption. They'll need to keep supporting 10 for some large commercial and government clients anyway.
OpenAI has become the new vaporware announcer. No memory, no advanced voice, no SearchGPT.

GPT-4o is a dumbed-down version of GPT-4, GPT-4o mini is even more useless. Might be good for the API, but in ChatGPT?

GPT-4 is from 14. March 2023, since then nothing has improved.
We have two facts to contradict this.

1. Being a viable sustainable business is a requirement for some of SpaceX's NASA and the Space Force's contracts. NASA & the Space Force have access to SpaceX's books and SpaceX has passed these audits.

2. SpaceX has very obviously been spending many billions to build Starlink and Starship and to pay >14,000 employess. SpaceX has not raised significant money for over 18 months, nor have previous raises been enough to cover their fairly obvious expenditures. That money is coming from somewhere, and process of elimination says "profits".
RSS Guard
Did not expect an earnest argument for a cosmological teleology on HN today, thank you.

I would just say its a whole lot of trouble to get humans to do something they aren't even doing!
Which source states that more than a few minutes will be necessary, once the adequate continental system (storage: including V2G and similar ways such as Powerwalls) will be in place?

> the efficiency is beyond terrible

... when used in transportation. Green hydrogen produced then stored nearby a turbine or fuel cell acting as backup for the grid efficiency is similar to fossil fuels' or nuclear (about .3 to .4).

> That's why no country on earth is managing with those.

No, that's because all this (especially industrial renewable sources, really soaring in the 2000's) is too new, this is a work in progress starting with production: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
Linux has different performance schedulers you can choose that can dramatically change performance dependant on workloads. It's very possible the CPU is being too smart for its own good and the way Windows is lining stuff up it's not executing branches or something like that.

This is just shooting from the hip, but there is a ton of different stuff going on in both the OS and the CPU around this.
I think I saw a YouTube video of a guy in a chamber simulating what happens. Basically you have less than 30s before you enter a state of delirium in which it doesn't seem important to put your mask on, so then you die.

That's why they tell you in safety briefings to always put your own mask on before helping others.
Agreed. In that, Dragon is a better design overall. At least they can see what went wrong with the propulsion pods after the craft lands. To do that for Starliner would require an EVA and do things to the craft it was definitely not designed to do.

If a faulty pod could be detached, the sane EVA would be to close the docking hatch, depressurise the capsule, open its side hatch, detach the pod and put it inside the capsule in a way it wouldn't bang on everything (it'd still contaminate everything with its remaining propellants), close the hatch and let it come back to Earth with the remaining functioning propulsion pods.

Quite an adventure.
Honestly not sure why these aren't. Surely there are no observable differences at such tiny scale and using human cells just makes you a target of wrath.
Katran: A high performance layer 4 load balancer
Yes, the numbers in the ecosystem will shift. Some to zero. That's an ecosystem adapting. Is it good?
https://github.com/picoe/Eto

- OS X: MonoMac or net6.0-
- Linux: GTK+
- Windows: Windows Forms (using GDI or Direct2D) or WPF

Gtk

- Gtk3: https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp
- Gtk4: https://github.com/gircore/gir.core
https://archive.is/H1wYg
Chinese payment platforms are the closest to a light middle man, but this might just be VC subsidizing things. Cash has its own expense of course, you need a middleman regardless, even if it’s just your local bank branch taking daily merchant cash deposits.
That you cannot upgrade and are locked in to a single vendor that allows you to lease games from them. Not that.
How does it make it more complicated?

In my view, you’re moving the potential for failure to a different place (the constructor), rather than changing some fundamental property or introducing new complexity.

Is it handling the construction of these types you find complicated? And is it simply not worth the guarantees?
I'm quite surprised the majority of people are fine with drinking that stuff. Not just because it noticeably changes the taste of beverages but because it's covered in chemicals and people are fine with it mixing together with their beverage.

Our rinse aid is disabled on our dishwasher.
Some of our customers use https://www.spendesk.com/en/solutions/ If a card fails or an unapproved charge (e.g. price increase) doesn't work then their automated emails are pretty confusing for us, the service provider. But seems to work fine for them. (We're too small of a company to use such a solution ourselves)
(You know what? Great point, actually ...)
As someone actually in this space, does the "rental" concept give you any concerns about the quality of research this can support? Like, if the previous customer's use of the organoids will have stateful impacts that impact what you observe? It strikes me that with conventional computers in the cloud we have pretty straight-forward assurances that each customer gets the instance in a fresh state.
Show HN: Multiple Concurrent Timers on Wear OS – MultiTimerPro
After grabbing a Pixel Watch I realized these watches still have the same (stupid) limitation as the previous Galaxy Watches with Tizen: You cannot start multiple timers simultaneously... So I developed an App which does exactly that, it allows you to start multiple timers concurrently! You can save predefined timers with icons, colors and names and thus gives you quick access to your powernap timer while running the tea timer in parallel!
SQLite: Strict Tables
This project shares so many foundational computing ideals this represents the best aspects of “the many eyes surfacing not just bugs but assumptions”.

I’m actually more interested in developing from the riscV branch.

Thinking about computers in the 100 year time frame I decided that processing “local” symbols is better than more sophisticated processes. The risc-V direct access to symbol development is where I want to start defining my “local” symbols.

The hope is that this line of thought will reduce the number of abstraction layers between the user and their environment.

CHERI having these concepts defined for risc-v creates a foundation for local processing
Of symbols with a “good computing seal of integrity. I also see it as leading to less re-invention which should help progress.
The real answer is that we are super over indexed on service jobs. The only work our economy provides at a scale sufficient to support a population with various levels of skill and ability is service work, and businesses in that space are famously difficult to run profitably.
Then you've won the lottery, for now. Congratulations!

It will be more difficult for you to find your next job because your position slowly morphs around you rather than what the industry is looking for. You should have a much higher emergency fund than normal for that case - you will have to retrain on your own dime when you decide to move on (or the company decides it's time for you to move on against your will, or the company changes to a culture you hate.)

You will likely need to take a step back in your career at that point, but you've already had the job for a decade and the difference between 8 and 16 years is the same at this point. That, and this is the worst tech job market since 2008, maybe 2001.
Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from buttface to wankpuffin (2022)
I stayed for about a decade but moved out of engineering to PM and then to technical marketing, it was a mixed feeling. One one hand being for so long at the same company did not help me financially that much on the other hand changing jobs into totally new domains was not as difficult if I would have jumped companies.
I assure you the public details we see are not the ones the DoD would consider interesting.