skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love that book. Such a powerful idea to phrase your predictions in terms of percentages rather than absolutes. Apparently the Super Bowl anecdote is controversial though? I.e. the conclusions to draw from that anecdote are very debatable.
Or the edge so, the pipped face is 1, then go over that edge for 2, keep going around for 3 and 4. If we consider that "going east" then 5 is on the north pole.
> In my ample spare time, I deep dive C programming and graphics.

Noice. Join the Handmade Network [0] and/or Handmade Cities [1]. You'll be in great company.

[0] https://handmade.network

[1] https://handmadecities.com
> However, (as far as I can tell) Go’s compiler does not utilizes simd

Can someone confirm this? Not even for straightforward copies?
Japan Hopes Electric Cars Were Just a Bad Dream
If this was necessary to solve a problem, why wouldn't the existing Internet access points simply solve the problems?

For example, why would Apple not add liveness detection to its devices, which users already trust with their biometric data?

One could imagine a Web standard that specifies minimum capabilities for user agents, which could then be implemented in a variety of ways. Apple might use an upgraded FaceID, for example.

That would have the added benefit of being able to verify liveness anywhere, anytime, unlike the Orbs.

World feels like a ZIRP phenomenon.
I think it looks really clean and polished but I just don’t see what value it provides. I can already do all this stuff with normal web or desktop apps. The UI also looks quite cumbersome, you’re literally managing a set of tabs inside a window manager inside a tab inside a window inside a window manager. And for what?
> > verify [that you are human] on the internet

IMO it's crucial that we keep in mind the policy/engineering differences between:

1. Prove you're a human and share your global permanent ID.

2. Prove you're probably human.

3. Prove that if you're a bot you're at least the high-quality kind that isn't part of an army and whose operators are likely to follow the rules.

In many cases #1 is overkill, difficult to engineer, has reams of nasty privacy implications, and requires a massive amount of bureaucracy for edge-cases.

Most websites are happy with #2 or even #3.

[Edit: Some prior musings in comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714245 , where someone also mentions Worldcoin.]
Thank you so much Peter. I'm eligible for naturalization after 5 years on a greencard. However, amidst the craziness of startup life I missed attending a court hearing for an improper left turn... for quite some time, 1.5 years now and counting. I'm just now sorting it out; the financial/license points penalties are not huge as it was a civil case. However I do at the moment have a suspended license and may even have a bench warrant. All of this will get sorted out: I am only concerned about whether this could impact my chances of a favorable naturalization decision. I have no other legal problems or history. If you could opine on this; and perhaps more generally for other's with similar concerns, I would be tremendously grateful.
Selling a thing comes with greater obligations than giving it away.

I am unwilling to accept those obligations, in most cases.

I am, however, perfectly happy to share some of the work that I do back into an ecosystem which I have benefited from. I also volunteer for organizations I care about, and I pick up litter in public parks. :)

I do not believe that I am being exploited. The Internet is and always has been built on open source -- and as bad as the Internet is, it would be worse if it didn't exist or if it was a proprietary network.

I think you're taking a real problem (funding of valuable work) and exploding it into an argument against open source, which just doesn't follow for me.

I do 100% support finding a way to monetarily compensate people who do valuable work and contribute it to the world. Theoretically. Practically, it gets messy real quickly and I don't see a good broad solution.
Their HQ is in the Western district of Texas. The court they are requiring people use is in the Northern district.
Playing devil's advocate: why is it important? Why do we need to know if an agent on the internet is human or robot?

Generally what we actually need to know is if a given agent is engaging in manipulative behavior, illegal activities, or otherwise causing harm to us or our customers. Those behaviors are often correlated with robot agents, which has allowed us to use "is this a robot" as an imperfect proxy for "is this agent up to no good". But for most use cases the humanity isn't actually what we're interested in, it's whether the agent is abusive.

In a world where we can't verify humanity as easily, maybe we just need to find different proxies for abuse detection?
>significant mental leap

not too significant, if you believe evil doesn't exist, especially to a new-corp-state-actor as big as fkn giigles
Castle of Illusion was great though
https://www.coolest-gadgets.com/streaming-devices-statistics...
Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight, officials wonder what's working
Did nobody here read the article? The author covered this:

> … to distort the result by 13 centuries the threads employed in the mending would have had to have been more numerous than the threads of the part to be mended

Furthermore, the samples were examined by two textile experts, and later by a lab that looked for trace fabrics that could have affected the radiocarbon dating, and they all confirmed that the sample was the original fabric.
> In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

Is that a wish, or a fact, or just plain wrong? You know that just because you want something to be true, it isn't necessarily, right?

I wouldn't trust somebody who cannot distinguish between wishful thinking and reality.
I agree with you, but I think this is most likely due to how relatively new open source C# is. I'd hazard that most C# being written is still done by enterprises/companies as closed source. I feel this will improve over time, as long as Microsoft continues down the road of being open, and doesn't pull back what they've been doing in the last few recent years.

Some of these features are provided by tools like Resharper, and I wonder if there isn't some kind of agreement (whether written or unspoken) where they don't step on each other's toes. To be honest, most documentation I have seen written in C# projects still makes me reach for the source code due to poor quality. Having lots of autocompleted tooling doesn't help when it comes to reading, only writing, in my experience.
> The person to whom I replied is self-motivated to terminate their addictive patterns.

Kind of. The captain of the ship is motivated, but the helmsman needs to get his shit together.
Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors for now
The inefficiency is bonkers but understandable. I could host this app for like ~$60/year, generously, with little to no devops work. It's painful to see the creator paying out of pocket for such a great project because the Vercel marketing introduced such massive inefficiencies to the ecosystem.

Even less when I pay for a dedicated machine running all of my hobby projects. Gratuitous Kamal 2 plug. Run your personal projects all on one machine.
> It’s also launching a new service called “Orb on Demand” (yes, it’s really called that) that will let people order Orbs “much like a pizza you would have delivered to your apartment

Great. I can't wait for captchas that requires me to pay someone to come to my home and scan my eyeballs. What a hellscape. Everyone involved should be embarrassed and shunned out of the society.

"Drink a Verification can to continue" crossed with the torment nexus. Fan-fucking-tastic.
I don't talk about your point because it's kinda irrelevant? Like it doesn't extend from "wealth is tied up in x" to "we should cartelize around x to push it above fundamental value."
> This definition of success is founded on power and control.

I don’t get how this follows from the quote you posted?

My interpretation is that successful people create durable, self sustaining institutions that deliver deeply meaningful benefits at scale.

I think that this interpretation is aligned with your nobler definitions. But your view of the purpose of government and religion may be more cynical than mine :)
Babyagi-2o: the simplest self-building general autonomous agent
If you want more effort and more risk, start with Ernest Chan's books:

https://epchan.com/

I would stick with the index funds myself.
A bunch of the Canadian banks too. TD Canada Trust I can personally confirm.
Now you are assuming that rigidly defined science is a useful category. I'm less sure about that. It's certainly not a universal category, as the concept does not even exist in many European languages. Instead of "science", they have something like "Wissenschaft". It has retained the original wider meaning, while English "science" has narrowed in scope. There can be subdivisions such as "naturvetenskap", but they are typically defined by the topic of study rather than the methods used.
Why is this still a problem within the dotnet world? Why aren't there a dozen popular application frameworks to choose from like there is for Java and most other languages?

In dotnet, it seems everyone uses the Microsoft "blessed" framework, until Microsoft does a full rewrite or loses interest - then everyone has to rewrite their stuff too.

There's no way Microsoft are the only ones capable of producing good library/framework ideas - so what gives?
> the old central gate keeping DBA team model

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I agree that ownership should be shared. On the other, app developers really don't consider their data structures as carefully in SQL as they do in-memory. It's odd. The right data structure matters more than a good algorithm since algorithms are easier to change. Once you settle on a list vs a set vs a queue, you're stuck once code is built around it.

The same is doubly true for the database schema. Lack of planning and knowledge of expected access patterns can turn an otherwise fast database to mud in no time flat. Once your data is in there, changing the schema is exponentially harder.

"I’m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it’s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful… I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
– Linus Torvalds (2006)

What is your database but a bunch of data structures and relationships? I get why the gatekeeping occurred. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. Far too many folks consider expertise in data stores to be optional as developers.
> fired so many people.

If there's no degradation, it should have been done long ago. Those salaries come out of musicians' pockets.
Why do you think a private company attempting to beat the competition would make any of their data publicly available for other companies to benefit?
Cui bono?

I just did some initial snooping, thinking the manufacturers of the product would be some French people with some backdoor connection with the ministry of agriculture, but as far as I can tell, it is provided by some seemingly unrelated German company.

Is this something that is distasteful, but needs to be done to prevent some group from picketing the installation of the wind turbines?
Given that it took C++ a similar amount of time to invent the string specific string_view I don't think it's as simple as you're making it out.

ReadOnlySpan is so powerful because it can be used generically and has implicit conversions that allow you to improve the speed of existing methods without breaking backwards compatibility.

It's well designed and that takes thought and time.
I find that making design decisions about the class/feature you’re writing or how data is going to flow through your little corner of the software scratches similar itch to “big picture” architecture. What sucks is standups, deadlines, constant having to give updates and being measured on output. Take all that away and programming is a _joy_
You stand in front of the Orb. The Orb scans your biometric data and stores it in Sam's Database (Sam says he doesn't own the database, something something blockchain good of humanity - but Sam doesn't "own" OpenAI either).

Once the Orb gathers enough people's biometrics, the Orb will become the gatekeeper for transactions. The Orb will verify your identity and humanity. Sam's Database will be more precise than your social security number, more secure than your bank login, internationally transcendent, and secured by the rigid and infallible laws of cryptocurrency. The history of crypto has shown us that ownership of tokens is a good and safe way to verify people's identities and uniqueness, and that fraud is basically impossible with these systems.

National governments will use Sam's Database to assign Universal Basic Income as AGI decimates the need for labor, shortly before they collapse and give way to the AI world government. Sam's database will contain the unique identifiers of every human, giving our benevolent AI overlord a head start on getting to know us all and making our lives richer and more wonderful than we could possibly dream, by [unspecified].

Prostrate yourself before the Orb. Give it your most ineffable data. Invest your money in Sam's database. He is a responsible steward.
Regardless, I think my "policing" of the title was entirely justified. Phrasing it this way, while arguably a normal use of English, is clearly intended to play into a fear-mongering frame. If I'm "turned into" a chatbot that connotes something happening to me, which in turn is used to justify the appeal to consent.

But it's nowhere established that the existence of an AI chatbot modeled on a person, somehow harms the modeled person. Instead, we just get to read about the moral outrage of various people quoted for the article. To the extent that any harm is demonstrated, it doesn't arise from the actual simulation, but from defamation of character due to inaccuracies in the simulation.

I was trying not to read the article exactly because the title and URL slug prepared me to expect more or less exactly what I saw there. Now I've had to read it just to justify my prejudice. Ugh.
Trello-601: Dedicated Markdown Editing View on Card Back
The trello I grew to love used markdown for card text. Atlassian has decided to switch this on desktop for their own WYSIWYG editor with all the usual problems, especially when pasting formatted text.

I've heard claims this is because they're using a new backend format internally - on which I call BS because markdown is still the default on mobile and so both to and from markdown must be in the codebase.

(Markdown editing on desktop still works just fine with browser extensions, again giving the lie to claims it no longer works because of backend stuff.
According to Wikipedia, about 54,000.
> 1-2 seconds

Something is wrong there, probably someone is screwing up form validation in their component framework or something, but IME that’s not a Blazor thing.
The market for fake eyes made on resin and plastic seems to have a brilliant future. Soon most of all 'certified 100% humans' talking on internet will be animatronic heads without a brain. Same as today
To be clear, I was quoting the author. Those aren't my opinions.
When Accenture has a huge offshore workforce to augment the H1Bs — they are still part of the problem, visa or not. H1B is tightly related to offshoring. They might have a few H1Bs with a client company, and then 50 or 100 offshore employees who are definitely not making $40 per hour. I personally trained Accenture employees who had a team in India doing the “real” work at far less than $40/hour. Most of Bangalore exists because of this business model.

The big “consulting” body shops are doing the labor equivalent of dumping. Dumping is a WTO violation, but seemingly doesn’t apply to labor.

My post isn’t about Indians. It’s about Indian companies that exploit the H1B system to create a pipeline to offshoring. I saw it with my own eyes.

“Average Indian household income is 152k” — the average Indian in the U.S. isn’t an H1B worker. This isn’t about Indians — this is about Indian “skilled labor” that’s filing a “shortage.” Indians are highly represented in many highly paid careers in the U.S. and the vast majority of Indians in the U.S. aren’t working “$40/hour” tech jobs.

And, a tariff on H1B (and offshore team) wages shouldn’t hurt H1Bs right? If there is actually a shortage, companies would be glad to fill the position. So how would that harm H1Bs? If a tariff on H1Bs results in fewer H1Bs, then clearly the shortage was a myth.

With Best Buy, I was in those meetings. The decision to hire Accenture had zero to do with any “shortage,” but it was to boost the company’s diminishing profits due to the impact of Covid on the retail space. So this argument that we need H1Bs and offshoring because of some “shortage” is a complete lie. If you fire your workers, then that’s the opposite of a shortage. You had a surplus of workers — otherwise why are we firing people?
I think all those targeted ad algorithms are effectively just really dumb. Whenever you look through the comments of a YT video criticizing a product/company you are almost guaranteed to find a dozen comments saying they got an ad from that company when the video started.

But then again, what are they supposed to do when practically every corner on the internet only mentions John Deere in a negative context.
Meta Spirit LM: Open multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech
It is genuinely kinda fascinating, because, lets face it, based on what we are seeing now, short of omega swan event ( black swan events seem too common lately ), it will actually be a problem that will need to be solved. I am just mildly annoyed that solution to prove I am human is to effectively give last parts of me that are.
Very interesting, and a welcome alternative to the tech-focused stuff that dominates here. Thanks for posting.
There is a free coursera course I am doing, where exactly this phenomenon is explained as diffuse vs focused thinking by neuroscientists.

Here is the link:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/
The article suggests json patch is idempotent, but it isn’t idempotent for array mutations. JSON merge patch on the other hand is fully idempotent (in the array case the array is replaced).
I think that we also needed a much larger training corpus than was available in the 1980s. Back then the largest textual data sets were orders of magnitude smaller.
> If the strong identity binding is OIDC then I disagree. It's convenient but no more evidence of identity than being able to unlock a private key.

Modulo the security of the OIDC provider, it's a very strong proof of identity. The world already assumes this in practice (via pervasive OAuth and OIDC in other contexts); all PEP 740 does is make the same assumption rather than trying to bolt strong identity onto PGP.

(I think there are good objections to OIDC, including the risk of centralization. But I've yet to see a better widely adopted system for publicly verifying identity claims.)

> This doesn't make sense unless the author key material was only ever published on the PyPI keyserver.

Is there any evidence that anybody is reconciling results from different PGP keyservers? I don't think anybody was doing this even at the peak of the SKS network.

(But even this assumes more sophistication than the average user is putting into verification: 99% of Python distribution installations aren't doing even hash-checking. Expecting that users will begin to do keyring curation isn't reasonable, and - critically - is not empirically supported by the last 2 decades of PGP support on PyPI.)

> What about checking for revocation?

PEP 740 assumes short-lived (~10 minute) signing certificates with ephemeral signing keys. Subscriber-level revocation hasn't scaled well for the Web PKI, so the underlying stack here (Sigstore) prefers limiting the scope of signing materials and enforcing transparency instead.
Where would you host this for $60 a year?
Blog post: https://ai.meta.com/blog/fair-news-segment-anything-2-1-meta...
this is incredibly unnerving of a comment, thank you.
So a crypto grift-scam-bandwagonchasher pivoting to an AI grift-scam-bandwagonchasher?
>Americans tend to see high crime rates

A small rise in crime is reported as a crime wave, because that grabs the attention of the older people that still consume news.

Or political hacks complain about high crime when it is down. Refuting this isn’t effective.
How do these developers use .Select() then?
>Something like World ID will eventually exist

It's called a national ID with an eID feature and I've been using it to verify my age when I order booze online for like a decade. It cost 5 bucks extra when I renewed my id the last time. What do I need an eyeball scanning orb and a crypto coin for something that every developed or for that matter half developed government invented in like 2010?
<< What is a solution that people can live with?

Dropping a good portion of digital life seems like a good start.
I'm also betting against - Meta alone will pass them within the year.
97% with a pihole and uBlock Origin Lite. 99% if I turn the filtering mode to "complete".
As a complete amateur I'd love a chess engine that can point out my mistakes, explain its own moves, and suggest better moves, in human terms. Like, this move would pin the white bishop. I don't know if this would be AI based or simply a search-based engine that scores in abstracted ways such as giving points for tactics like pins and forks, controlling the center, protecting the king, etc. (Typical chess search just scores based on piece and position and looks ahead farther than a human brain can handle.)
More than like because these opiates are so deadly you are basically wiping out whole huge populations of addicts. I hope rather than that we have government services working like they should and actually healing and saving lives.
I don’t think Spain can handle Florida anymore.
That’s just how the web used to work in 1901.
Oh that is interesting, I did not know something like that existed! Will take a look for sure :)

Thx
A minimum timing of an individual task is not a useful rate limit. I could schedule a bunch of tasks to happen far into the future but all at once for example.

Rate limits are implemented with e.g., token buckets which fill to a limit at a fixed rate. Timed tasks would then on run try to take a token, and if none is present wait for one. This would then be dutifully enforced regardless of the current state of scheduled tasks.

Only consideration for the timer itself would be to always add random jitter to avoid having peak loads coalesce.
If you click through to the app it requires an email and zip code to "register" and view the map. But it doesn't require actually receiving an email.
What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
I used to use this quite a bit after it was introduced, but CHM files are a bit unwieldy for documentation, at least for myself. Having integrated search is nice, but the windowed interface, and being tied to Windows (AFAIK, maybe there are readers for other operating systems) I believe will keep this project from being used. I always found it to be decent for more advanced developers, but felt there was something missing for more junior developers that needed documentation.
Best I’ve been able to do is around $22 a month on DO, would love to hear alternatives that are cheaper
I don’t remember the specific anecdotes too much, but the lessons make intuitive sense and feel useful.

The one that sticks to mind most is that a good decision can have a bad outcome and that a good outcome doesn’t always mean the decision was good.
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