skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your argument about 'central control of money supply' is exactly backwards. the problem with 'counterfeiters', if we look only at the facts and avoid the question-begging derogatory term, is that they can print money while providing nothing in return; that's exactly what a mint printing paper money does, as do other entities with central control of the money supply. so, far from avoiding counterfeiters, it officially licenses them. you could as well say that stand-your-ground laws help avoid murder because the killings they permit are not murder, since the law permits them

most states are unwilling to allow a foreign power to print unlimited amounts of the money they use, because this would represent a major concession of sovereignty. this ensures that almost no two countries use the same means of exchange

your argument about who has control has more merit. but you're overlooking structural differences; it's like saying that democracy moves control from the king to whoever is popular enough to get votes, or that freedom of speech moves control from the ministry of truth to whoever has enough money to run a printing press. the structural differences prevent cryptocurrency miners and exchanges like coinbase from simply inflating bitcoin into worthlessness the way my local currency has been inflated over the last year. the most extreme event we've seen along those lines was ethereum's controversial unwinding of the dao theft; nothing similar has ever happened in bitcoin, and probably nothing similar will happen in the future in ethereum or zcash

it is definitely true that russia could not have kept its reserves in bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency, because the market capitalization of bitcoin was far too small to provide 300 billion dollars of liquidity if it had to sell off those reserves. that is probably still true and may possibly remain true forever. but you can bet your life that every head of state who saw that confiscation is formulating a strategy to ensure it won't happen to them; that will have the opposite effect on financial integration from the one you want

i'm skeptical about your integration thesis, though, partly because it was very popular in 01914, and partly because of the limited repercussions from the usa's completely unprovoked invasion of iraq in 02003. (arguably the invasion of the ukraine is one of those repercussions, but that hardly seems like a major disincentive to future us presidents who find tempting countries to invade!)
That's why I said about them releasing science and evidence-based trusted information campaigns. Not about getting rid of the FDA entirely.

In the present information age, you don't need to give them such wide powers to avoid precisely what you're afraid about avoiding.
> I do believe that without a modern education, these people are not equipped to deal with modern vices. They've never taken a math class let alone learned enough probability to know that gambling is a losing bet. They've never had a nutrition class to learn that Coca Cola is disastrous to your health.

Talking about Americans???
(On the theme of fantastic fiction)

It's remarkably hard to find good translations of classic Chinese works such as The Investiture of the Gods, though there is

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-God...

China is having its best success with video games like Genshin Impact but I'd highly recommend the 2010 Three Kingdoms

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00

(you'd never see tough legendary warriors in western culture cry the way the heroes do in that show)

Also there is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film)

which is pretty good despite being packed with the same kind of fart jokes you'd expect in a Dreamworks movie.
Not only that, normalized by region, decade, astronomical configuration, etc.

If you read a few papers about metholodgy for identifying trends in global temperature it’s quite complex.
Indeed. But MREs, protein shakes, Huel etc. are also a product of industrialisation.

In this case, I could see potential value for a better iteration of this tech, making it a meal replacement shake rather than a candy bar.

There's too much interesting content for me to read it all, and I have a long commute. Right now I'm using that commute to learn German, and that is a good use of that time, but let's say I didn't need to because I hadn't moved country or I was already fluent: in this hypothetical, I'd gladly have a better AI than this(!) generate podcasts about the articles that I don't have time to read.

But the AI would need to be better than this one for that to be worthwhile — I just popped one of my own blog posts into it, and it was kinda OK-ish, but did make some stuff up. Now sure, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect was written with humans in mind, but that's a shared disappointment and not a reason to let this AI off that particular hook.
AI has a similar amount of value as bitcoin in its current form too. Guess I'm just jaded, but AI is broadly an arms race to nowhere and unlike bitcoin there is no value provided from past energy expenditure, the older models become useless after newer ones are published. This cycle will continue until money stops pouring into the market sector, we won't reach a true AGI in this cycle like some suggest, this is all purely fueled by hype.
You can usually see the cameras, and many places require that you notify people they're being recorded.
Not as long as you only define consciousness as the opposite of unconsciousness. /s
> LLMs are disturbingly capable of acting like they have emotions

But I want human teachers behaving truly human to students, not something that can act "disturbingly capable of emotions" or fake it. AGI is nowhere near this (and there's no good definition of what AGI is, anyway).

Again, the human component is an essential part of the teacher-student relationship. Teachers are not simply offloaders of knowledge. Just like I don't want parent-like robots nursing and raising children (raising humans and being raised by them is essential to the human experience), I don't want teacher-like robots "disturbingly capable" of acting as if they have emotions.

Think of it this way: a sociopath [1] is a human that can act as if they had cooperative/empathetic feelings towards other humans, when in reality acting callously in their own self-interest all the time. Would you want a sociopath teaching children? I wouldn't; whether the sociopath can pass knowledge well and can fake as if they had normal human emotions won't sway my opinion.

Real human connection is what makes us human. AIs are not human by definition. Therefore, AIs cannot replace humans in those situations where human connection matters. And we shouldn't want them to either, because otherwise what's the point of existence? Asimov's fictional planet of Solaria was a dystopia, not something to aspire to.

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[1] or the pop culture understanding of them, anyway. Let's not get caught up in definitions.
i guarantee you not everyone here has benevolent intent. for example, we know people from FB,TikTok,Snap,Twit...er,X are here.

what do you think everyone does?
> Rape is endemic throughout the prison industrial complex, protections for prisoners are nowhere good enough.

The most effective safeguarding measure against this for female prisoners is the segregation of inmates by sex.

SB132 has demolished this protection for women in Californian prisons and, as the linked articles discuss, we now see the awful and entirely avoidable consequences of this law, within just a few years of it being enacted. Exactly as women's rights advocates made legislators aware would happen in their unfortunately futile efforts to halt SB132 from being passed.
Some psycho is out there blaring Lou Bega mambo no 5... they must be stopped.
Old way was storing data in sessions or hidden html inputs. Both way worse than modern alternatives. You kinda sound like you have no idea what you are talking about. Having to render thousands of elements is not uncommon.
Five or six years ago my family started went through all the old recipes - from old newspapers, cookbooks, etc. that were in homes across my extended family. They then decided on which to keep, and printed a new cookbook from the compilation of these recipes.

Now if we find (or author) a recipe that we really like, we send it, with any additional annotations, to my parents so that they can include it in the next print edition. It's a relatively time-intensive and expensive process, but from this point forward we should be able to maintain our family's recipes in a physical, living document form.

Maybe we don't get the yellowed pages and flour from grandma's hands on the cover, but I think it's a good system.
> Yes but AFAIK, reality is "quantum" in the sense that something like the scale of Avogadro's number (N=10^23) quantum processes interact and average out to typical classical behavior. It's only in limited situations where the actual quantum mechanical nature pops up in the macro world, right? (eg Bose-Einstein condensate, the ultraviolet catastrophe, energy bands of semiconductors, emission spectra, etc).

This is not very clear at the moment. Of course, observations make it obvious that classical objects don't behave like quantum objects, and all quantum objects we know of are small, and all classical objects are big.

We even know of one mechanism that prevents certain quantum effects from influencing large systems - decoherence. Decoherence explains why, when a quantum system that is all in the same phase interacts with a large system where everything is out of phase, the various parts of the quantum system also quickly go out of phase, and thus can't constructively or destructively interfere with each other any more. This explains for example why, if you repeat the double-slit experiment with ping pong balls instead of atoms, or if you repeat it in a dense gas at high temperature, you won't see the interference patterns form.

However, we don't understand at a high level why it is that quantum experiments only have "a single result". Basically the schrodinger equation applied for the double slit experiment, even taking decoherence into account, still predicts that the particle-wave will move through both slits to some extent. And yet, with or without decoherence, we only ever see a single photon or tennis ball hit the screen, with some probability that can be deduced from the square of the amplitude of the Schrodinger function. And even worse, this single measurement outcome only happens if the quantum particle has hit a classical screen. If instead at the same distance we only have other quantum particles, then it can actually hit several of them, and change all of their positions and momenta. This despite the fact that, of course, even the classical wall itself is made of particles which should obey the same laws of quantum mechanics.
A) Security is always an afterthought at YC companies - I know from firsthand experience.

B) YC companies are risky to use, obviously we meme about people using IBM for "saftey", but there is an opposite side of that which is going with a seed stage company - it's very risky.

C) Even if you are a happy customer, if you are too niche they will typically abandon you. I've been on the decision making side for this, sometimes your early customers don't fit your new market, so you have to let them down slowly.
Safety Goggles for Alchemists
Ask HN: Why doesn't YC comply with GDPR?
I've noticed that YC sites (main website, Hacker News) don't seem to be GDPR compliant. For example, there are tracking cookies without consent dialogs, and no option to delete accounts on HN.

Given that YC supports startups operating globally, GDPR compliance seems like a basic expectation. Is there a particular reason for the lack of compliance? Could someone from YC clarify their stance on this?
You should probably encode large numbers as strings.
I'm working on a CI system with DSL instead of yaml configs.

The general premise is that most sufficiently advanced yaml configs begin to look like code - e.g. in Github Actions one could look at external Actions and shared workflows as dynamic libraries; workflows as public functions; jobs and steps as internal ones.

We have better languages than yaml-structure-as-a-code, and tools to help us write and test them quicker.
I really want to like it more, it could be interesting to drop in a textbook and get a dedicated series of podcasts about each chapter for example but the tone is so off-putting that I can't listen for more than a few minutes. Its pure cringe.
Interesting! What is it about, then?
Love that - thought about sharing your source for any of us interested in doing this in our city? Fund idea
I'm assuming the parent commenter hasn't worked in data/spark before either. The functional rabbit hole goes WAY deeper than even just cats et al, and Scala and spark themselves both encourage a fair amount of functional-style code on their own.
This is great! You mentioned this is your full time project. How do you make a living off it? I see mention of affiliate links and a call for donations. Is that how you monetize the site?
That is an absolutely brilliant way to visualize recipes.
I would think Charlotte more than Charlene
Can't win huh
Which coroutine gets resumed by a rendering component is determined by reconciliation. Rendered components themselves have no identity aside from the reconciler's algorithm for equality.

For me, this is the root of the problem. Or one of them anyway.

Hooks are keyed by execution order, but also the reconciler's opinion about component identity, which you can only control indirectly. Fortunately it usually does what you want. Unfortunately it's not all the time.

I feel like I do understand hooks, but it's not from reading the docs, and it's not from using them. I know this is not typical but doing those things didn't seem to illuminate much to me. I would still find them doing things I didn't want that I couldn't explain. It was only after reading the source that I feel like I understand the model. And personally, it's not one I would use by choice. I can do it if I'm required by a team I'm on. But for me, there's a mental overhead for "thinking in react". It's not a natural set of constraints for me.
This sounds like it could be really helpful at priming you on certain subjects! For example, if you’ve got a bunch of papers to read at work, you can generate a podcast from them and listen to it during your commute.
His girlfriend apparently did not ask for any money so she was a paid snitch though?
Reminds me of Wall-E.
That's a clever idea. I'm not in a position to try it right now, but would love to know if this works. I always use my AirPods + an external mic.

Also I haven't upgraded macOS to >= 13 yet on my personal laptop, so I can't use any of these apps.
> AOSP, Chromium, Firefox

All exploitative projects entirely funded and mostly operated by a monopoly found violating the law or awaiting judgment for such in almost every single first world jurisdiction.

Also neither AOSP nor Chromium are used in the real world in practice, over 99.99% of users use proprietary forks.

In other words, thank you for supporting my statement entirely.

> Linux desktop software

Yeah, definitely "not niche".
On the other hand, if you're looking for a side project, writing your own flag parsing library is a lot of fun! I've been sinking time into mine for a few years and it's always really satisfying to use in my CLIs
The objection is it’s extremely unlikely licenses are being followed and they seek to profit from good will of free software.
iCloud has changed in Sequoia: pinning and more
Randomness just introduces branch points into the linear flow of deterministic states. Since you do not control the branch points or create them, this does not give you free will.
Spark is written in scala and Scala is its first-class language - other languages suffer from either second-class APIs (Java) or suffer from codec/serde overhead (pyspark) (though pyspark actually also is missing a few APIs that scala has, as well).
I think cleverness simplifies what are arguably two different but somewhat related factors here.

An interest in a market/subject that has the potential for growth, and the ability to execute on said interest.

The first one probably has at least a bit of a luck element to it. If your interest ties into a hyped up technology or field (like with crypto a few years ago or AI recently) then opportunities for wealth open up left and right, while if your interests relate to something society/capitalism doesn't value as much, then you're out of luck. At least unless you can force yourself to change interests/passions.

You also need good timing, though you could make a good argument for that aspect being luck, skill or both.
> and yes airports outside the US. Less clean TSA like information from those sadly.

Yeah, my impression has been that the whole space is a mess. How great would it be to have an app that can tell me about departures at any given airport in the world, including gate information, boarding / last call, has the plane arrived yet in the first place[0], …

[0]: Very useful to estimate whether there will be a delay or not.
I think for many men this may be the only professional they engage whose job involves touching the body and doesn't presumptively involve pain. (Not everything a doctor does will hurt, but one wisely assumes anything a doctor does might. This does make a difference, I think.)

"Intimacy" is a word and concept much misunderstood in this culture as relating only to sex, but at root it has to do with the passage of social and personal boundaries; its root intima refers to the inside of something, and so "intimacy" more usefully describes a spectrum of closeness or a point thereupon.

In that frame, the work of a barber is very slightly more intimate than that of many professionals. I don't know whether it's for having helped create that context - nobody makes you sit down in the chair - in which folks feel a little easier about speaking of things they never ordinarily would. But if I wanted to explain the "barbershop effect" I think it's something I would want to investigate.
There's a difference between forking to make a OSS project better and forking to create a clone just for the sake of VC funding that doesn't trickle down back to the original code.

Even if it's allowable by the permissive license of the original code, it's not a net positive for OSS.
VSCode could shove the entire extension, third party binaries included, into a sandbox, Docker-style. And “give this extension Internet access” could be an option when you install it, with the default being “no”, and a bit warning if you want to override that default.

For all that the Docker ecosystem is somewhat of a mess, it seems more than adequate for this use case.
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates
Everything you say is pretty much on target, except the UI. I know my Sony camera, and every time I need to do a change in a setting, it's plainly horrible. Confusing naming, no feedback, sometimes you're thrown back to the main UI without explanation... and the bugs. For the longuest time the auto off was not working properly, which, on an hybrid camera leads to a very short battery life.

From what I've seen, it's not better on Canon and Nikon hardware.

They spent a lot of time refining the manual control, so it's very good and intuitive but then fails so bad at the electronic UI...
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics", Richard Feynman.

Quantum indeterminism is negative free will: if free will is based on random events then it's not free will.
I can no doubt see the value in this, even being a big skeptic of AI the ability for a computer to just pull up details from throughout the day or interject is genuinely a powerful idea (if it works in practice is another question).

However, I find it very frustrating that all of the tools that just record your mic or sell a pin or whatever never think about privacy. They seem to take the Google approach that the person who owns the device is allows to consent for everyone else around them (or any data they share with certain people) when that is not ok.

That is before talking about the major concern of people doing this at work without their company knowing, bringing it into a meeting and potentially leaking sensitive information.

I realize that unfortunately there is nothing that can be done at this point to stop this technology from being used by people, but I just wish the people that were making these tools thought about the fact that you are not asking for the consent of people around you.
Thanks :)

Ya working on it, Alibaba and Amazon's AI is stuck on our website, having to block them as just destroying us for no reason. Really frustrating.
> already trust it implicitly with all of my data

I don't think this is the case for most people in this scenario - at least in a general sense.

For a typical desktop editor sure, but for a mobile editor that goes through Google Drive I wouldn't expect it to have any access to any file in my Drive. And if it did, this could be trivially be used for many horrible things. Meaning, the "type" of data stored in Google Drive versus someone's Documents folder is very different.
Thanks, have a bunch of cool features coming out soon too!
I launched Screen Recorded (https://screenrecorded.com/en) a few days ago. It's a screen recorder that runs in your browser.

I intentionally made it a super easy choice if you need a quick screen recording by not having any accounts, making it free, not watermarking videos, etc.

I also recently added WebP support to Batch Compress (https://batchcompress.com/en), which is an image compressor that runs in the browser.
Author, here! Happy to answer any questions.
Ukraine did negotiate from 2014 to 2022 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Format). Everyone knows what it lead to. It is now clear that, unless backed by strong security guarantees like NATO membership or non-NATO allied status, these so-called “peace initiatives” would amount to national suicide for Ukraine. This is why Ukrainians reject them.
China and Brazil do not stand for peace. They are just on the other side.
Turns what into an easy form factor?

Some of this appears to be auto-summarization + read aloud, but the underlying question of "is there anything here at all" is worth asking.
Surprised this doesn't mention meticulous.ai, who seem to spam HN with "we're hiring!" each month but i've never heard of anybody using them, nor do LI show any new employees. Hey Gabriel, what's going on?
The beauty of forking/open source is the ability to contribute back to the original project or take over an abandoned project. In this case, the original project Continue.dev isn't abandoned and actually has more traction/commits than the PearAI fork. But what PearAI did not do is a traditional fork. They took the commit history, re-branded everything to PearAI, pushed it up to their own repo, and claimed that the contributors of VSCode & Continue were their own contributors on Twitter.

That's not the spirit of open source. I'm sure the authors of Continue.dev did not intend for their work to be used this way, even if the license is permissive of it.
There is a damn army of people doing this and I have no idea what they think they're contributing.

My personal conspiracy theory is it's ground work to set conditions for disinformation campaigns: the "I used an LLM/I used ChatGPT" people are there to make you look less critically at the other comments by giving a small queue that since they don't include those terms they just be more genuine.
DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models
This is almost as embarrassing as data centers in space getting funded. lol.