skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Check out the constitutions of democracies founded after the United States. There’s a whole lot of influence.
That seems to be an absolute win to be honest.
Not sure how you think this is helping your case.

Maven Central people nuked the artifact that may have caused confusion, and if the owners try anything like that again, it's likely their domain will be banned from publishing.
It is not AGI I am worried about. It is 'good enough' AI.

I am doing some self introspection and trying to decide what I am going to do next. As at some point what I do is going to be wildly automated. We can cope or whine or complain about it. But at some point I need to pay the bills. So it needs to be something that is value add and decently difficult to automate. Software was that but not for long.

Now mix getting cheap fresh out of college kids with the ability to write decent software in hours instead of weeks. That is a lot of jobs that are going to go away. There is no 'right or wrong' about this. It is just simple economics of cost to produce is going to drop thru the floor. Because us old farts cost more, and not all of us are really good at this we just have been doing it for awhile. So I need to find out what is next for me.
Reminds me of the "discussion" assignments we were given in a couple college classes I was in. The idea was that students would write a top level response, then respond to someone else.

In reality, I would write my response, then come up with 2-3 sentences of reply that basically amounted to "I agree with that guy." It never really fostered the type of debate the professor was looking for, because most other students had the same approach, and nobody else cared enough to go back and read the replies to themselves.
Worth looking up the history of Activision for a less grand and more analogous example.
No worries. Thanks to Amazon Sidewalk you will not need to enter your WiFi password. The ads will be downloaded via your neighbor’s Alexa.
Is AGI a Bubble?
I just put a monitor and a survey to the site. Down the road I will have a redesign and maybe create a timeline, so I want people’s opinion on the subject, like where we are and where we will be in two years or so.

am thinking about rede
I don't know why people downvoted you.

Anyway, this article was here already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409076
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>> 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO

Really? I seriously doubt that 91% of people working for Amazon have ever done a single day of work from home. From drivers to warehouse workers, the vast majority of tasks within the Amazon sphere cannot be done via wifi. This is about the office-working elite of corporate Amazon. The actual company as a whole is very different and will continue regardless of how happy/unhappy the corporate office staff claim to be.
For paywalls, too?
A while back, I visited a facility that builds prefabricated houses. Using CAD, they can, and do, create large and architecturally complex one-off designs, something that would not be possible without knowing not only the final (as-constructed) design, but the intermediate states as the modules are constructed, moved to the site (including ensuring that they can be moved to the site), and assembled.

I don't suppose that everything works entirely according to plan, and of course there is no way that every future change request can be anticipated, let alone accommodated in advance, but for all practical purposes, this shows that if one is prepared to do what it takes, one can start the construction of a house knowing what you are going to get and with a detailed plan for getting there.

Computational technology has a particularly broad and active leading edge where unknowns are being tackled, but even so, most software development is nowhere near that edge.

The original point about houses is that with software, similar-seeming changes can have greatly differing costs, on account of what is hidden from the users' view, and I think the analogy works very well in making that point.
The land owning gentry ofc. People still mistakenly romanticize the French revolution being about the poor killing the rich by guillotine, when it was actually the rich nobility (land owning gentry) getting the royalty beheaded via the publics' uprising. Same with the Russian revolution that got the Romanovs killed and replaced by the Soviets.
I don't know how these contracts work in the US, but in the UK if you buy a leasehold apartment where you own the individual unit without having ownership of the building itself, there will be clause in the agreement that states if you fail to pay the maintenance fees or to keep the unit in good repair ownership can be reclaimed by the owner of the building.

There are no end of issues with leasehold properties, but there is at least a way out if you decide you can't deal with the maintenance fees attached. You'll probably end up with a terrible credit record for defaulting on your mortgage, but at least you can get out.
I thought that was the point.
I noticed that, too. It does seem 'odd'.
I don't work in Amazon nor I have any particular information about this (although I have friends working there) but isn't this the intention in most companies that implement RTO against employees' wishes? There's always some collateral damage when virtually irreplaceable people jump ship but this is definitely planned. It's a cheap way to get rid of headcount. It only works when most big companies agree to do it at roughly the same timeline, otherwise people will just switch companies - RTO is too big of a perk to ignore, specially if you have a family.
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Not Amazon: back in 2021 we were still completely remote, but for new candidates they insisted they be near an office location. A coworker complained that we were missing out on good candidates when our team was already remote, but I told him what was up - over time you get more people who are ok with the idea of being in an office, and then once you hit some critical mass, you just flip the switch and say "everyone back".

Which is, of course, what happened. On the other hand, the company never got good at the idea of "remote" work anyway, it was the same stuff you'd do in an office but over Zoom. IMO truly remote companies are not just a physical difference from in-office companies, there's a whole way of doing business shift as well.
> So it's not a very scientific approach,

Don't be fooled by my fancy words, we are not using a very scientific approach to pick the options, only some general tricks and hopping that 20 questions are enough to smooth any wrong design. (And a few review pass by different persons to find bad options.)

> more intuitive based on practice and what feels right while testing.

Yep, that's probably a good description of our approach too.
It sounds like you have never heard of the Stacked Diffs workflow.

Here is an overview: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stacked-diffs

It’s a perfectly reasonable preference to eschew this workflow, but definitely worth understanding the pros and cons.
I'm here with you for the downvotes.

This essay takes some interesting data from very specific (and unusual) projects and languages from a very specific (and unusual) culture and stridently extrapolates hard numeric values to all code without qualification.

> For example, based on the average vulnerability lifetimes, 5-year-old code has a 3.4x (using lifetimes from the study) to 7.4x (using lifetimes observed in Android and Chromium) lower vulnerability density than new code.

Given this conclusion, I can write a defect-filled chunk of C code and just let it marinate for 5 years offline in order for it become safe?

I'm pretty sure there are important data in this research and there is truth underneath what is being shared, but the unsupported confidence and overreach of the writing is too distracting for me.
Well, Apple being privacy-first concept is entirely in our heads. They are relatively more pro-privacy, but I wouldn't call them privacy-first, just like any other corporation. There is maybe a handful of such companies in the world, like Signal, Tuta or Proton.

Also let's not forget how corporations invent doublespeak and twist meanings. For example Apple may not resell private data but use it internally. Or it may use it internally only processed by scripts, and claim it is private because other human never saw it. Many other terminology manipulations can be invented if a stake is a few billions in cash.
When I was doing presentations for university projects as a student, I used your articles as references, very useful!
Are they willing to pay for a skyscraper at least? I find that a lot of people expect to pay for a shed and get a skyscraper that has no maintenance cost.
I agree. Usually your best people have an easier time finding new jobs and are the first to go. That will also work against future hiring when you no longer have the talent to draw in great people.
We need to build the GitHub of scientific data
Meta's big tease Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses
Previously, vid.:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650047
Thank you for your work. I used to have an old Canon which I flashed with Magic Lantern :-)
The code is from 2003.
Do people act ethically out of true morality or fear of consequences?
> ugly dumping ground for racist, misogynistic, and generally unpleasant ignorant discourse.

Cry me a river Dawson
I mean do businesses generally even consider employee happiness? I feel like they even get off on the browbeating sometimes.
“If we discover the holy grail in the unicorn meadow, you can’t have it”
Is a fine clause for MS. Hardly a rug pull.
I like this thinking because it's a true reflection of how things work. I strongly doubt any housebuilder goes back to the architect and says "can't do that, foundations bad." They'd explain what the problem is: maybe the design is rated to a certain weight/height, or what's in the ground composition that prevents the requested changes.

We should do the same in software engineering. What exactly in our design (e.g. that Perl script that's running half the operation that we need to investigate) is stopping us?
Are you saying that the American Revolution, which established the first modern constitutional republic, directly inspiring the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and rest of Atlantic Revolutions, famous for the "shot heard 'round the world", did not have any impact on the world?
Over 10 years ago (wow did time fly), I had a Rails-based site that could convert any YouTube channel to an RSS feed with audio streamed as MP3. This wouldn't be necessary today, but back then I couldn't afford an unlimited data plan, which is why I created this thing mostly for myself.

I demo'd it while being interviewed for a software role at an NPR station. They were impressed because my project added pre-roll audio to every clip and supported scrubbing, which are features they worked on for their site and app.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure that helped me get hired.
> I've also met a ton of people in jobs that could be trivially replaced

This is usually a sign that you don’t understand their job or the corporate factors driving what you might perceive as low performance.

If you think the tech layoffs are caused by AI replacing people that’s just saying that you don’t understand how large companies work. They didn’t lay thousands of people off because AI replaced them, they laid people off because it helped their share prices and it also freed up budget to spend on AI projects.
> Most companies I've dealt with would rather pay for commercial software and offload the risk onto the software company that use an Open Source project they view as risky in any way.

This seems less applicable when the company is using the software to offer it as that commercial cut-out.
You're accepting that the "con" was a con. For the con to be a con (consensual or otherwise) we have to believe that Conde Nast were willing to give up their majority stake without knowing that it would lead to the company being worth billions. If they didn't think giving up their majority stake would benefit them, why did they do it? The entire premise of the con is that Conde Nast were simultaneously too stupid to realise that there was a path to success for reddit but also willing to give up their majority stake based on the need to hire some people?
How to use Claude as a PRD compiler
> Ohanian is based in Florida, where he lives with his wife, former tennis player Serena Williams

Oh, that Ohanian. It's a small world.
This is great but not sure about the price. It upkeep so high for this to justify the cost ?

https://jointoucan.com/ does the similar but is free
Well yeah the peasants always do the actual fighting. But the impetus and leadership of the American Revolution was, I believe, mostly landed gentry.
but look at what they do not what they say
Some of the people here trying to make light of a potential US/Russia nuclear war under the logic that most of Russia's bombs probably don't work or that previously nuked cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now perfectly livable, thriving cities miss the forest for the trees in a very big way.

Even if only 1 or 2% of Russia's presumed arsenal of several thousand was functional enough to get through, and even if only half of those weren't knocked out before making their targeted impacts, you'd still be talking about at least dozens of nuclear bombs exploding on the western side of the world. Most of these would strike places inhabited by millions of people and enormously important amounts of critical infrastructure.

Add to that the arguably larger number of bombs working enough to be successfully launched by the U.S and its nuclear-armed allies in retaliation against Russia (and a greater percentage of them reaching their targets, because after seeing its military "perform" in Ukraine, I simply don't believe that Russia's anti-missile measures would be particularly effective).

With all of this combined you'd still be seeing an absolutely catastrophic global situation of human, social, political, economic and climatological destabilization. At least tens of millions would die immediately and at least tens of millions more would die in the months of war, further mutual attacks, radiation, regional nuclear fallout effects and global economic (think food distribution in particular) effects that would follow.

In no time at all, we'd be facing a whole new geopolitical and devastated economic landscape in which more people have died than in all the wars of history combined.

Even if this were not the utter Armageddon of a full blown nuclear war of thousands of raining missiles, it would still devastate the peace and better human trends of the planet as we know them today. Ultimately, it would then also be a humanitarian tragedy on a scale never before seen in modern world history.

That's nothing to disregard, and it's almost certainly something that would brutally damage the lives of every single person commenting here in some deeply personal, hard way, at the least.
If you haven't already I'd check out Zig. It does what you're describing if I am understanding correctly. There are some choices in that language I find annoying, but maybe you'll still enjoy it
Most such conflicts are not the haves vs the have-nots but the just-gots vs the already-hads -- new money vs. old money.

Most of the enlightenment-era revolutions in Europe were the newly minted mercantile rich overthrowing the old medieval rich and the Church of Rome. The US revolution was the colonial rich throwing off the yoke of the British crown and its taxes.
"Have the KPIs of my life failed to grow year over year?"
The Tor Project merges with Tails, a Linux-based portable OS focused on privacy
Ideogram v2 first take on the prompt:
https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/v_LgyXI1Q...

https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/V4RRDJZJS...

The carrots in the first image are kinda funny.

EDIT: Bonus Hacker News: https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/SW0B7y4jR...
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Hey Hacker News,

I’m excited to introduce AI Therapist Free, a project I have been working on for a while. Its aimed at providing free, instant, and judgment-free therapy sessions through an AI chatbot. With mental health being so vital, I wanted to create a resource where anyone can express their thoughts without barriers.

One of the important feature is all conversations are stored locally on the user’s device so no data is sent to servers, protecting your privacy.

Built with Next.js and Firebase. Of course, this tool is intended as a supplement to traditional therapy, not a full replacement.

You can also skip the homepage and head straight to the chatbot https://www.aitherapistfree.com/agent

I would love Your Feedback and suggestions, especially on user experience, accessibility, and any potential technical enhancements.
Your examples are strictly former colonies of Britain. This was not the case in Continental Europe where the British had no colonies.

By that logic Nazi Germany should also be credited for improving democracy around the world since its war with Britain, France, Netherlands and Belgium made them so weak post-WW2 that it allowed their former colonies to gain independence.
With 144 points, this story suddenly went from being ~#12 on the front page to now being #70, on page 3. If any journalists or regulators are reading this I recommend that possible astroturfing behavior (collusive downvoting (flagging)) be investigated, and I'm happy to cooperate with any investigation if contacted.
We went to a pitch once since we got like $100 or something. We had 0 intention of signing anything since we are of the opinion time shares at worst are a scam and at best just not for us. The sales guy was so pushy it was comical. I finally stopped him:

“I want to be clear, we aren’t buying this. We have 0 intent here”

He looked at me puzzled and said:

“Why would you waste an hour of your vacation? For $100? You’re just wasting your vacation for that?!”

Getting really upset and slightly personal. I had to respond

“We wanted to see how big a scam these really are and I can’t believe you find suckers that sign on”

He was pretty upset and said the front desk has our gift and huffed out.
You might actually be right
How odd. Since yesterday I've bin thinking about him, that he might become the greatest con man of the century. Something along the lines, that, once OpenAI has archived AGI, he will keep it to himself in the sense that it will only be able to do what he wants us to be able to do with it, and to shape it so that it benefits him and only him.

Then there's also the possibility that, if he starts to feel "not liked" by the population, that he'll go into full Elon Musk mode and use his power to become the greatest pal of Elon and Trump and use the tools to suppress what he doesn't like, as a retaliation for the lack of love. If you look at his interviews, he barely shows friendly emotions, as if he's got some empathy-problem.

It could become quite dangerous.
> He allegedly asked WP Engine to pay astronomical amounts of money to WordPress...

If we use the word “astronomical” to represent a percentage of profits, what word do we use to describe the profits?
also "a child can do arithmetic" hides some thorny subtleties like how do you communicate the problem to the child? how do you sufficiently motivate him to solve the problem? by what means does the child return the result? even pencil and paper requires significant skill to operate.
Here's the lesson I hope people learn from this: your employer is not your friend.

Why are they doing this now? Because they can. 2-3 years ago when it was a tight job market, Amazon (and every other tech company) was all about remote work. This started out of necessity (ie the pandemic) but it became a way to lure employees who had moved during the pandemic.

I think a lot of us deluded ourselves into thinking tech companies were different to any other employer. They are not. You are a cost they want to reduce. RTO will cause a few to quit and the rest to be more compliant. Those who quit are cheaper than a layoff.

When there's a layoff (or people quit), they aren't replaced. Why? Their work is redistributed to those who remain. It's more work done at no extra cost. At some point there is more hiring but that's part of the "natural" 5% layoff rate that is now a permanent feature of your employment.

It is all about suppressing wages and getting you to do more for the same or less money.
ICQ source code is here: https://github.com/mailru/icqdesktop.deprecated
There are some interesting issues with the old oyster system when handling certain routes that involve out of station interchanges.

Out of station interchanges effect make two sets of barriers behave like they’re part of the same physical station, allowing you to temporarily exit the system, re-enter, but only get charged once, as if you never exited the system at all.

On the old oyster system this plays very badly with how the system handles you tapping in and out at the same station, at the start and end of a single journey. The Oyster systems assumes that you’ve made two trips, and not tapped out one way, and not tapped in the other way, and thus charges you two maximum fairs. Normally this isn’t an issue, but with out-of-station interchanges, it’s possible for you make a journey, leave the station, re-enter the station 20-30mins later, for your return journey (say you went to pick something up, and then went straight home), get caught within the out-of-station interchange, which effectively connects your return journey with your outbound journey. On the Oyster system, the out-of-station interchange is implemented by the re-entry barrier basically updating your card so it looks like you never left the system at all, as a consequence, when you tap out at your home station, the tap-out barrier thinks you’ve made two trips without properly tapping in and out, and charges you two maximum fairs.

With the contactless system, every single tap in and out is recorded by the barriers in their backend system, and an end of day batch system then looks at all of your tap ins and outs, and computes your final fair. Because it can see every single tap, it’s capable of recognising that you made two legitimate journeys, that shouldn’t be linked to by the out of station interchange, and thus charge you two correct fairs. Unlike the Oyster system, which has to make fair charging decisions at each tap, and due to limited memory on the card, can’t accurately track every single tap, as a result it has to be more aggressive in it fair calculation approach, otherwise it would be trivial to exploit its limitations to defraud TfL.

Although even the Oyster system will try and correct these issues. There are batch jobs that run on all the uploaded tap data collected by the barriers themselves, and those jobs do their best to try and spot errors like this, and perform automatic refunds. But it harder to perform those refunds because somehow the system has to the get the data on to the physical Oyster card, which uploading the patch into the barriers the system thinks you’re likely to use, so your card can be patched on the tap there.
> DT is saying they had an agreement of interconnection for payment, Facebook stopped paying, a court said it has to keep paying, and Facebook decided to end the interconnection instead of continuing to pay.

This (and the DT article) seems to imply Meta stopped paying without ending the interconnect. That seems like a reasonable reason to want to be paid?
Boarding time is a factor, but traffic, road conditions (double parking and driving in the bus lane), and stop spacing are larger ones. Especially since OMNY and pre-purchased tickets for the SBS routes.