skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure, I get that. But also, are any big tech CEOs decent human beings? It's hard to participate in tech at all with that strict of a moral code.
No one is forcing you to use a dependency. Write the code yourself just like you would in another language. Or vendor the dependency and re-write/delete/whatever the code you don't like.
You can't post content critical of some HN darlings without being flagged by their fans
Clojure has a really nice `juxt` function for that, which I have an implementation of in my `.guile` file.

(define (juxt . fns)
(lambda args
(map (lambda (fn) (apply fn args)) fns)))
> Some of the "cutting-edge PL features" I want are things like function effects

That's probably the least convincing of your examples. My understanding is that effects systems can get complicated fast, and there's no consensus yet on what a good general purpose implementation should look like, never mind a specific implementation for Rust.
My technical website never got me a permanent position, but did get me several interesting contract jobs over the years. That isn't a blog, though, so there's little in the way of narrative. It's mostly a collection of the source code to various projects I've done.
"How much can I poison the well of public opinion about my high paying client and get away with it."
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. A dealership isn’t just a place of purchase. They facilitate test drives, let people shop around for different makes and models, do trade ins. A lot of people want to see what they’re paying for before dropping 5 figures on a single purchase.
How to Steal an Election – Climate Town [video]
And the other 50% are debates about the absolute magnitude of an effect or where a classification threshold gets set.
Could a class action suit be the solution?

I've no idea if it could be valid when it comes to OpenAI, but it does seem to be a general concept designed to counter wrongdoers who take a little value from a lot of people?
Yeah, it's the same. The timeshare association can reclaim the timeshare, but again, if it's worth approximately -$2,000, why would the timeshare association reclaim that unless it absolutely has to?
Vision LLM is really remarkable

Had a project that involved describing and cataloging over 20,000 images.

Traditional method using real people would take months and crap load of money (the descriptions have to be customer-readable)

OpenAI’s vision API does it for cents per image. Must have spent under $200 for the whole thing
Nobody really knows what Earth will look like once AGI arrives. It could be anything from extinction, through some Cyberpunk corporate dystopia (like you seem to think) to some kind of Techno-Socialist utopia.

One thing it's not likely to be, is a neo-classical capitalist system based on the value of human labor.
Does Kia have a bug bounty like Tesla does? Tesla paid out 200k and a Tesla a few months ago.
a little late to reply, but perhaps you see this. does it not make impression to you that lots of these articles on AI that get published are very childish. not in the math sense, but in the rasoning sense. besides, most of them are anything but interdisciplinary. I've almost never encountred prompt engineers who actually tried to delve into what GPTs do, and then these CoT guys, they don't know a thing about predicat logic, yet try to invent it anew.

On your comment reg. banning tokens/terms we are on the same page. We can agree all of this is very immature, and many of the peoples also, including this lot of chinese kids who seem to put out one paper per our. You see, the original seq2seq paper is 8 pages, topic included. Can you imagine? But Sutskever was ot a child back then, he was already deep into this all. We can easily state/assume the LLM business is in its infancy. It may easily stay there for a century until everyone levels up.
x2, where did that come from?
in the 70s and the 80s hacking got its start the first legal case of hacking happend in 1981 and in 1986 the supreme court made the computer abuse act.

I belive we as a commuinty were not doing anything. We as the people ahould make license for hacking. I belived we learned a lot and learned how to provent that form happending
This looks like a very simple mindmap, but more annoying to use because of the big elements. Some automated positioning seems very necessary here. Additionally, what about proper mindmap/diagram-features and notes?

If you take a look at https://obsidian.md/canvas you will see that they have things like colored groups and different element-types. And their community-extensions have many more improvements for the canvas. Just focusing on navigation seems wasted. A good focus on mixing code, documentation and notes might be a more worthy goal, I think.

Anyway, as this is forked from VS Code, does this also support normal vscode-extensions and other features like workspaces? And does it receive updates from the original, or is it fixed to the initial forked VS Code-version?
Yeah hope for some transparency here
A lot of devs are just having the assumption that managers are useless fakers that bring nothing.

It's not an assumption. It's reasoned inference obtained through extensive observation.

And it's not "managers" in general, of course. Just the ones who have no idea how to operate other than through Scrum.

But my point is that it is just physically impossible to not deviate if you don't get feedback.

It's not that no one wants "feedback". Rather, the perception has emerged that the rituals of Scrum are a pretty lousy (and basically counterproductive) way of delivering that feedback.

because of this disease, I need to take my pill every morning,

Except it turns out the "pill" in this case is a quack cure, basically. That's why people are resistant to taking it.
Guggul, a GLP-1 agonist via farnesoid receptor X antagonism, has been used as an Ayurvedic broad-spectrum cure for millennia. It's part of triphala too..
It would make it different. I don't remember having to buy any licence to use S3, or CloudSpanner.
There is more money on the side of it being legal than on the side of it being illegal.
It's too soon for the legal system to have done anything. Court cases take years. It's going to be 5 or 10 years before we find out whether the legal system actually allows this or not.
Scam Altman strikes again!
As others already mentioned, the real space is already full of all sorts of advertisements. I personally can't wait for an AR uBlock.
Wordpress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk
Jeepers! That is horrific.
Should be renamed to NonOpenAI,or MoneyMattersAI
What about non-GNU Linux? Is kernel or userland impacted?
Are you meaning to tell me that the whole nonprofit thing was just a shtick to get people to think that this generation of SV "founders" was going to save the world, for real this time guys?

I'm shocked. Shocked!

I better stock up on ways of disrupting computational machinery and communications from a distance. They'll build SkyNet if it means more value for shareholders.
Did you have humans verify OpenAI’s descriptions were accurate?
> Then I spent 2 weeks trying to do the same thing in rust… Eventually I gave up.

In my experience, that kind of difference boils down to a combination of three things.

- Comparing apples and oranges. For example, Box makes pinning trivial (you can just move in and out of Pin no problem), but oftentimes people new to Rust try to prematurely optimise and eliminate a single pointer lookup. If that's the case, were you really writing the same thing in JS and in Rust?

- An extension to the previous point, the behaviour is usually different. What would happen in your JS implementation if two streams were awaited concurrently, one received a message, and the other had to be cancelled? What if one threw an exception? In Rust, you're forced to think about those things from the start. In JS, you're coding the happy path.

- Trying to reproduce the exact same architecture even if it's awkward of inefficient. For example, it's really really easy to use a stream wrapper [1] to produce a stream from a channel, but then the architecture gets very different.

> Again I needed to produce an async stream, and thats impossible using async fn

I strongly recommend a channel instead. There's also async_stream [2], but channels are simpler and cleaner.

Over two years of writing embedded, web, and CLI rust I didn't have to write a raw future once.

[1] https://docs.rs/tokio-stream/latest/tokio_stream/wrappers/in...

[2] https://docs.rs/async-stream/latest/async_stream/
Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can't Save Them
TIL

https://www.quora.com/What-is-divorce-rape
That's true. I'm a huge fan of the `std` lib. I also appreciate that it is even compatible with NodeJS projects, so I can use those helper functions in "legacy" projects as well.
Also pretty common in Sicily.
I'm 6'4" and decently fit, but I wouldn't go around calling other men stupid clowns.

I worked in car sales for a decade and a decent 10%+ of salespeople IMO would get aggressive to your face over that.

Or do you only say that to the non criminal looking ones?
I think the positive charge is delocalized over those two carbon atoms. If there is some enhanced electron density between them, that would be a bond.
Super-closed-source-for-maximum-profit-AI lost an employee? I hope she enters into a fruitful combative relationship with her former employer.
I believe that on the newer Android versions (eg, 14), you have to confirm the update once and then the app/store that tried to update that app can do it automatically from then on.
This article quotes a post-doc researcher:

"In terms of sentience, they are at a very close level or closer than we think toward us."

That's different than intelligence though, right? Or are they two sides of the same coin? Can you have a very intelligent but low sentience or stupid but high sentience animal?
"thanks to a simple website bug AND TELEMATICS HARDWARE in the vehicles that had absolutely no relevance to their ability to get from point A to point B"
might as well do the full list:

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/rob...

cloudflare have a button for this:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
If you consider Tor to be unsafe, then it would make sense that you would think Tails would also be unsafe.

Is your evidence that Tor is insecure anecdotal, or have you found something?
Value vs Morality. Only time will tell who wins.
I really enjoy the mix of scientific, practical and personal notes on your blog.
...and if you extend the "building" phase to multiple generations or even centuries it's even more prevalent. You get a very organic & dynamic environment that many would say is a slum, but is an accurate representation of most of the software I've seen.

Maybe the guy who designed that church had a clear idea of what it would look like when finished, but i doesn't look like that today!
Yeah, but a computer isn't using such algorithms to do addition. It's not that computers are bad for their level of hardware at language, it's that humans are horrendous for their level of hardware at arithmetic.
we already have lots of AI. this is about having plagiarization machines or not.
> If the problem is devs having to wait too long for PRs to be reviewed, breaking tasks up in to smaller diffs should exacerbate the problem, wouldn't it?

I find small diffs to be much easier to review and as a result I review them much practically as soon as they are posted. And I'm less likely to miss something.
Are you should making those jobs more efficient is the right goal? David Graeber may have disagreed, or at least agreed that the most efficient action is to remove those jobs altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

I'm not sure "doing bullshit busywork more efficiently" leads to better ends; it might just lead to more bullshit busywork.
I went to a timeshare presentation once, fully with the mindset of saying no. It was scary how, at certain points, I started to actually open up to it. But I just kept to my script, saying no, even when they pressed. At the end of the day I don’t need to convince them they need to convince me.

At some point it was done and I got my discounted theme park tickets or whatever.

But I can easily see how the high pressure sales process works on people. They have a bag full of manipulative tricks.
OP mentioned later in the thread that MacOS is supposedly impacted as well, so if its some underlying system I'd imagine de-GNU'd Linux is affected also.
Org mode. Excellent to manage my personal knowledge, finances, tasks and appointments.

All in plain text, with the advantages that this brings to the table.
Genuinely curious because I have no idea how any of this works...

Would the founding documents actually count as proof of a lie? I feel like the defense could easily make the argument that the documents accurately represented their intent at the time, but as time went on they found that it made more sense to change.

It seems like, if the founding documents were to be proof of a lie, you'd have to have corresponding proof that the documents were intentionally written to mislead people.
I agree, and one thing that makes me skeptical is that for it to be effective, the fish being punched would presumably have to understand that the octopus wants it to act in a certain way - i.e., the hypothesis seems to imply that the fish has a theory of mind with respect to the octopus. Similarly, it seems to imply that the octopus has a theory of mind about the fish - it believes that the fish will understand why the octopus is punching it.

I'm not saying that this is impossible, but it is a very big claim. Furthermore, it is not clear from the video that the punching has the outcome implied by this hypothesis. It seems at least as plausible, at least from the video alone, that the octopus is just keeping the fish away from stealing an anticipated meal.
Can we stop connecting cars to the internet now?
yeah, split with Microsoft.
And funnily enough they were working on smart glasses when they were acquired by Google
Not the same thing. AVP uses passthrough video, which is subject to the same field of view as the virtual content. These glasses are actually glasses, so the real world has an "unlimited" field of view -- only virtual content exists in the 70 degree FoV.

You can emulate this on the Vision Pro by removing the light seal entirely. It makes a dramatic difference, but also makes it impossible to use virtual environments or any immersive experiences.
Crossover creatives
I've watched this show, and the process - and results - look an awful lot like software development projects. Just replace the owner with a c-suite executive.
That's just pure copium. Sure, google's tactics helped speed things along but remember that Firefox was originally able to gain marketshare against a browser that didn't even need to pull those tricks because it was already preinstalled on every PC.
At least they're giving up trying to maintain the pretense of being anything other than profit-seeking.
Yes. We used those bombs for evil beyond our comprehension.

I encourage all Americans to further research Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our propaganda has told us our war crimes were completely justified, but a more neutral historical analysis reveals this isn't the case.
ClosedAI or PrivateAI
I don't think that's a good example. People with Alzheimer's have, to put it simply, damaged memory, but not complete lack of. We're talking about a situation where a person wouldn't be even conscious of being a human/person unless they were told so as part of the current context window. Right ?
NowClosedAI
It is not. But you can remove some letter like 'i' for example.
Cyber Nomad's Radio Arsenal – Take a Complete Laboratory Anywhere You Go
Ehh, there's a lot of space between "desperately in need" and "wanting to seize billions in equity".
The response to that is, "Can't you?"
So you don't see any problem in yourself? Only in other people?
In many SV denizens' heads, they're one in the same.

Which is why we need to reopen more asylums and bring back involuntary commitment.
Apple Removes 'Parasitic' Streaming App 'Musi' Following Persistent Complaints
I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden in the shade.
Difficult to see how these two stories aren't related.

OpenAI has been one of the most insane business stories in years. I can't wait to read a full book about it that isn't written by either Walter Isaacson or Michael Lewis.
How do you explain all of the constant unflagged criticism of OpenAI and Sam Altman throughout nearly every OpenAI thread? I mean, look around at all of the comments here...
Amazon is going to experience a brain drain and loss of productivity. There are obvious consequences for these sort of ham-handed decisions.
> We already greatly distrust f*n mobiles which eavesdrop on everyone's conversation

Yet every single person carries one.
It would be great to have examples with I/O and timers/sleeps, since this is what people will likely use the library for. Also, communication between tasks.

I tried getting into C++ coroutines in the past and I was put off because of the complexity and the lack of an I/O system that was understandable by a human being.
Show HN: WannaDare – Player-vs-Player Betting Site for Skill-Based Mini-Games
Ok... your point? That is also awful and bad.
Everyone has legal standing to sue at any time for anything.

Whether the case is any good is another matter.
I wonder why it is that "octopuses" just kind of sounds wrong?

Is it the repeated "s" at the end? But we have no problem saying "buses" or "rebuses".

Is it something to do with the plural of "fish" just being "fish"? But we have no problem making whales and dolphins plural with an -s.

Is it that "-puses" sounds slightly vulgar, like we're talking about multiple female genitalia?

I genuinely don't know. All I know is that "octopuses" just sounds wrong for some reason I can't put my finger on. And that "octopii" somehow "feels" much better, even if everything about it is logically wrong.

I'll still say "octopuses", but I know I always want to say "octopii" instead. (And spell it that way too, because "octopi" feels like it would rhyme with "canopy".)
Do you really need a first-class-editor for working directly from the canvas? Wouldn't it be enough to use the canvas just for navigation and show a rendered picture of the code, but open a separate editor (maybe side by side?) for the real work?
Well, I hope the blow to the reputation was worth it. Regardless of what is claimed to have happened behind the scenes, the very public meltdown is what's going to live on. It's already sowing doubt internally, where I work, about recommending WordPress in general going forward.
Disable macOS 15 Sequoia annoying screencapture nags
I wrote this as a simple way to block and manage the annoying monthly nags that pop up when apps request screen capture permissions on macOS 15. I'm talking about messages like

"Foo" is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio. This will allow Foo to record your screen and system audio, including personal or sensitive information that may be visible or audible.
Scalable Server SQLite Apps
Mods, probably
Desire to digitally block out the scenery feels like a good litmus test for whether one is living in a dystopian hellscape.
Sure. Since AI is closed now, they will try 'OpenAGI'.
WannaDare was born from the idea of removing the traditional "house" from gambling and betting, creating a platform where players face off directly against each other. In most betting scenarios, the house always holds an edge, stacking the odds in its favor. I wanted to flip that narrative, offering a space where your skills, not the house's algorithms, determine the outcome.

WannaDare is a player-vs-player platform where you can challenge friends or strangers in quick, fun, skill-based mini-games. Instead of competing against a faceless entity, you're testing your abilities against real people, with real money on the line. Games like Snake, Tower Stack, and Whac A Mole put a fresh spin on friendly competition, adding a layer of excitement by letting you wager real stakes.

At its core, WannaDare is about leveling the playing field. There’s no algorithm or house advantage—just you, your opponent, and your skills.
This is the most concise and accurate description of this company I have read, lol.
> For any with eyes to see, Harvard's graduation rate should be a mark not of pride but of shame: an elite so confident in its own ability to pick winners and losers that it requires them to prove nothing at all once present, yet so determinedly exclusive as to turn away all but a tiny fraction of those who would test themselves against it.

I feel like I've heard this argument before and a common rebuttal is the fact that one year at Harvard costs $82,866 - or Or $331,464 for a 4-year degree (albeit before financial aid) [1].

Is the point here that Harvard should increase its attrition rate?

I think that is a weak argument considering the comparison they set up with the SEALs and the military. Yes, SEAL training is hard and it has a high attrition rate, but to go to SEAL training you must first be in the Navy. If you don't make the cut you go back to the regular Navy - which means you still have a job, housing, medical benefits, etc. (Also, when you get out you get the GI Bill).

There is no "Navy" to fall back on if you fail out of Harvard; just a potentially crushing amount of student debt.

I agree that elite universities should strive to be elite, but I just don't follow the logic of that particular part of this piece.

[1] https://registrar.fas.harvard.edu/tuition-and-fees
Fuck “just”. When someone says “just”, all I hear is “I have no fucking clue”.

Just is a bitch mother that seeks to handwave away any potential problems.

If it’s just that, I’ll gladly step aside and let you do it. But if you then tell me you can’t do it, then you better sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen when I tell you something is more complicated than you think.
> I think you’d be surprised by how much code has a transitive unsafe somewhere in the call chain. For example, RefCell and Mutex would need unsafe and I think you’d agree those are “safe constructs” that you would want available to “utility” code that should haven’t filesystem access. So now you have to go and reenable constructs that use unsafe that should be allowed anyway. It’s a massively difficult undertaking.

RefCell and Mutex have safe wrappers. If you stick to the safe APIs of those types, it should be impossible to read / write to arbitrary memory.

I think we just don't want untrusted code itself using unsafe. We could easily allow a way to whitelist trusted crates, even when they appear deep in the call tree. This would also be useful for things like tokio, and maybe pin_project and others.
> we all actually love ads, because they fund most of the content we consume on the internet.

No, we "all" definitely do not love the ad model that has infected the web.

> Ads have made the internet as we know it today possible.

True, but I don't think that's a compliment.
“We call this Pure O2. This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures, so …”
> OBVIOUSLY blatantly uncompetitive

Lightning was/is the most blatantly money grabbing technology ever.

The reason Apple stuck to lightning is not because they liked the design, or because it was superior (it wasn't). It's because you have to license the connector to use it. Every single lightning cable sold, whether it be from Apple or not, Apple made a pretty penny.

Running such a racket at the expense of consumers is bad. Someone had to step in, because it was becoming increasingly obvious Apple had 0 intention of ramping down the money grubbing.
Saw someone on HN call it NopenAI
His bunker kinda tells me all I need to know.