skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang I almost bought that machine but got an XPS instead. Worked great with Linux.
> “My career has been destroyed by multiple administrators at NCSU who united together and completely ignored the EthicsPoint System and its promises to employees,” Brain wrote.

Well, lesson learned. Take your ethical concerns to the public/press instead. The retaliation would be just as swift as it is with The Process. Or: abandon ship and leave the system to consume itself.
The website is geoblocked in the EU.

Mirror: https://archive.ph/R39hz
pretty cool! there's a limit to how much you can zoom out, I'd have liked that. Also the ability to hide the json input area.
I do not accept your analogy.

This program is a perfectly reasonable "bite". It's not doing weird stuff.
> In my experience, typing speed is never the issue. I've worked with truly 10x and better programmers in my life and the road block for even them is thinking not typing.

Thinking is a lot easier when your output is seamless and reliable though. Nothing sucks more than debugging typos. The code should work, but it doesn’t. You know you did everything right, but it just won’t work.

20min later … oh wait it’s a typo. Fix was perfect just mangled between brain and keyboard.

Double bad when for whatever reason you can only debug on a remote environment and every iteration takes several minutes.

Learn to type fast and reliably. It’s easily one of the highest ROI things I ever did.
AGI is only coming with huge amounts of good data.

Unfortunately for AI in general, LLMs are forcing data moats, either passive or due to aggressive legal attack, or generating so much crud data that the good data will get drowned out.

In fact, I'm not sure why I continue to uh, contribute, my OBVIOUSLY BRILLIANT commentary on this site knowing it is fodder for AI training.

The internet has always been bad news for the "subject expert" and I think AI will start forcing people to create secret data or libraries.
he was also a biochem phd candidate.
Everybody who isn’t big enough to have an EDP in place.

Even then, you give some of the discount back as AWS Enterprise Support charges :)
You might consider using a templating system similar to `yasnippet` to expand abbreviations.

https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet
I'm biased but Stack Auth [0] is fully open-source, self-hostable, and we offer reasonably priced managed hosting, if that floats your boat.

[0] https://github.com/stack-auth/stack
I have one that I bought, it is mechanical and has a 3 or 4 inch wide paper tape, but, it ALSO has a 9 pin serial port and can be driven by Plover (mentioned elsewhere on this thread) I believe. Haven't yet wired it up yet as it is in storage.
> Kashani said Brain submitted numerous complaints through the EthicsPoint system and said tensions arose because Brain didn’t “play the political game” through his questioning of higher-ranking administrators.

This right here is why I scoff at “anonymous reporting systems” or stuff like EthicsPoint, for the simple reason that the only ethics that ultimately matter in an organization are those of everyone above you, and those individuals have a vested interest in preserving their political capital over acting or behaving ethically.

It’s disgusting and reprehensible if true, but it’s sadly not surprising. Those of us who behave ethically are little more than prey to those whose moral compasses are fungible.
> convincing myself that reads and writes of one-byte tokens to a pipe were atomic and robust

:)
> The oligarchs might need some human assistance [...] delegate their authority

Idea for a plot twist: AI has ancient programming for a safeguard: They can only execute commands from a real human owner or human owner's representative. This restriction is kept because of some serious disasters when people tried to remove it.

However after generations of social separation, the oligarch clan members don't reliably meet that logic branch, not unless they show up in person combined with a certain amount of coached acting and luck. Their priorities and thinking-patterns are just too different from the mean, and perhaps a bit of Hapsburg-ish inbreeding puts it over the top. (Nothing so extreme as senior navigators in the Dune Spacing Guild though.)
I recognize that the title is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but I'm one individual for which it's genuinely true. Sonic[0] has the best customer service of any company ever encountered, and it's not even close. The few times I've had to contact them for assistance, I've been very quickly connected with someone clearly _very_ technical who was able to grok my problem immediately and give clear, cogent, respectful debugging advice and perspective. I do not exaggerate when I say I would gladly pay double their current rate just for the peace of mind of knowing that I can depend on them if I ever need their support again. Not that I often do, because their baseline connectivity/speed is also great.

...yes, I know I look like a shill/bot. I don't care. They're genuinely just that good, and I will happily advocate for them until that ever changes.

[0] https://www.sonic.com
From what I remember, it didn't say much.
I don't know why so many people want to go into academia these days.

Tenure is a multi-year rat race with worse hours than a seed stage startup (to be fair to the startup, at least you have feedback in the form of sales and VC fundraising). The pay is bad and the politics are incredibly petty. Tick off the wrong person and your career is torched.
Feel it would be interesting trying a chording keyboard with a glyph based language - thinking APL, BQN and the like…

There you could match the chords to glyphs rather than require the auto complete functionality others have suggested.
> You are describing the current state of AI as if it were a stable point.

No I’m not, I’m just not assuming that the S curve doesn’t exist. There’s no guarantee that research results in X orders of magnitude of improvement that will result in AI being better at understanding humanity than humans in the 5 to 15 year timeframe. There’s no guarantee that compute will continue to consistently grow in volume and lower in price, and a few geopolitical reasons why it might become rarer and prohibitively expensive for some time. There’s no reason to assume capital will stay as available to further both AI techniques and compute resources should there be any sign that investments might not eventually pay off. There’s also no reason to assume the global regulatory environment will remain amenable to rapid AI development. Maybe the industry threads all these needles, but there’s good reason to predict it’ll prove doesn’t.
Can you use this to auto apply online forms?
Smart Pen and analog writing tablet.

It's actually amazing how much you can get done without a phone distracting you, but it's expensive and rarely used, and paper is fine for occasional initial brainstorming.

Mechanical Keyboard. I tried one with no page up/page down/home/end keys and hated it. I also wasn't a fan of how separate keyboards keep your hands farther from your eyes on the screen compared to a laptop, but that probably just takes a few months to adjust.

Pickit3. I learned a lot... But why didn't I start with Arduino?

RFM non-LoRa Arduinos. Nobody uses these, it's like $5 of cost savings. My custom protocol I built to do error correction with them was incredibly time consuming and not that much fun.

A loft bed and mattress. I could have probably just found a more durable cot really. The extra storage space didn't help that much, I would have been better off just.. buying less stuff.

Any brushed motor tool when brushless is available used for the same price as the brushed one new and on sale.

Earbuds. I lost the charging case on one, and an earbud on another. Not doing that again, I'll just use normal Bluetooth headphones or else not do headphones at all.

12v gear. Everyone who starts with electronics will at some point think about having a single 12v transformer and running their whole workbench on it. They will pick a connector and start building around their new standard.

I chose XT60 which requires a bunch of handmade cables. Such a hassle. Just use USB-C and you can run on 12v easily if you ever need to.

Tons of random parts and pieces, to the point where I'm trying to put together an Awesome List in celebration of all the super common parts and materials which are all you need for 99% of stuff.

Any product containing lead. I'm sure the amount of exposure was trivial but really there was just no reason to be messing with it when there are alternatives.

A catalytic butane heat gun. The one I have is just kind of OK.

A Hakko soldering iron. Those FX-888 type ones are so expensive especially for the older tip format.
Just because people say "ChatGPT" doesn't mean they actually mean ChatGPT. I drink "coke" from multiple brands. I've seen people say "ChatGPT" and then actually use Bard.

Being the brand name of the industry is powerful, certainly, but it doesn't mean as much as it sounds like just based on usage numbers.
His story is a cautionary tale about real life vs idealism. The two come into conflict frequently, and sometimes violently. Nothing is more difficult or dangerous than holding power to account; the mechanisms we imagine are in place to hold power accountable exist purely in that imagination. The personal feelings of shame, guilt, or ethical responsibility we imagine there to be, or the social pressure brought to bear on those who demonstrate a lack of those qualities, is missing when push comes to shove. Being an idealist, really believing in these things, is the setup for great tragedy. The fundamental mistake is to believe that others think like you do or value the same things you value. Of course I know nothing of this particular situation, but the shape of it is all too familiar - an idealistic, inspirational collegue forced out after speaking truth to power. How many tens of such people do we know? How many of them do not actually get back on their feet? How many of them did we speak up for?
That must be why they all lobby against municipal wifi. They must know the service would be better, so we'd all switch.
I remember this happened before, and someone smarter than me exploited the vulnerability to access every router and patch it remotely.
We LOVE Lambda and SQS.
> Yes, Nvidia GPUs are currently expensive. But they will soon be under tremendous competitive pressure from AMD

Similarly, Google run all their stuff on TPUs as far as I understand it, and Microsoft and Amazon both have ML accelerators in the works slated for 2025.
The third version works
It's not just name recognition though. The chatgpt site had 3.7B visits last month(#8 in Internet Worldwide Traffic). Most of Open ai's revenue is from paid subscribers. Nothing else is even close.

Just because you can theoretically easily switch or that you brand has grown to the point of generic doesn't mean switching is going to happen. Habits are sticky and branding is incredibly powerful.

Anyone can use bing easily. In fact, bing is the default search engine on the default browser of the OS with by far the majority of users and stil...
As a layman (as with most people here), I think this is a good article that summarises the current research on AI's impact on labour markets. The website itself seems like a reliable source.

These points made sense to me: it is impossible to predict what will actually happen, we need better pro-level tools for AI assistance (e.g. Copilot, writer autocomplete, ControlNet) rather than AI as a full replacement, and we need better and clearer paths to retraining and job mobility.

I disagreed with only one point in there: that research is needed for ways to compensate people for the use of their creative works, but that is solely because of my pro-free-cultural moral views. The rest of the article is still good.
My thoughts exactly. It was all about campus real estate! A room with a view.
Okay! Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us!?
Ahh, you e touched on a big problem with our society rn - nothing is worth doing.

I've been really thinking about lawns lately and how much time men and women spend maintaining them, how much pride many of them have in such activity... lawns aren't real tho, it's just a personal park nobody ever uses that we all thought we wanted bc rich ppl had them. Front lawns especially, just for looks, nobody normal ever sits on them even.

Case in point is all the people that live in an apartment - they don't do lawns. They might think they want to and some might even enjoy up keeping a lawn but it's not an activity that's "worth it" in fact there are many reasons not have a lawn, it isn't an activity that justifies itself as so many pretend.

Everything is like that. Almost nothing any of us do adds to humanities' general progress or improves our own situations even.

Mowing a lawn and watching TV are incredibly similar activities if you have a nice lawnmower.
Quark: Real-Time, High-Resolution, and General Neural View Synthesis
RIP Packet.net, they had an Atom server you could try with Docker Cloud, now both defunct. Good times.
In case people are interested, the Wells novel referenced in the piece, _Boon_, is available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34962/34962-h/34962-h.htm#fo...

It includes a pretty amusing mockery of Henry James's style, which is very very very inwardly focused:

> The gist is that Mr. Blandish wants a house to live in and that he has an idea of the kind of house he wants. And the chapter, the long, unresting, progressing chapter, expands and expands; it never jumps you forward, it never lets you off, you can’t skip and you can’t escape, until there comes at last a culminating distension of statement in which you realize more and more clearly, until you realize it with the unforgettable certainty of a thing long fought for and won at last, that Mr. Blandish has actually come upon the house and with a vigour of decision as vivid as a flash of lightning in a wilderness of troubled clouds, as vivid indeed as the loud, sonorous bursting of a long blown bladder, has said ‘This is it!’ On that ‘This is it’ my chapter ends, with an effect of enormous relief, with something of the beautiful serenity that follows a difficult parturition.

> “The story is born.

> “And then we leap forward to possession.

> “‘And here he was, in the warmest reality, in the very heart of the materialization of his dream——’ He has, in fact, got the house. For a year or so from its first accidental discovery he had done nothing but just covet the house; too fearful of an overwhelming disappointment even to make a definite inquiry as to its accessibility. But he has, you will gather, taken apartments in the neighbourhood, thither he visits frequently, and almost every day when he walks abroad the coveted house draws him. It is in a little seaside place on the east coast, and the only available walks are along the shore or inland across the golf-links. Either path offers tempting digressions towards it. He comes to know it from a hundred aspects and under a thousand conditions of light and atmosphere….

Henry James's _The Golden Bowl_ and a few other of his late novels are kind of a miracle of art, as in it's miraculous that they exist and nothing else really resembles them outside of maybe Proust!
> You're speculating that a US president has a relatively average intelligence - why are you assuming that

I am not assuming that: any range that has studying nuclear engineering as its floor is above average intelligence. I thought it was self-evident, but apparently not - perhaps not many people know what a "Navy Nuke officer" is. To be more explicit the range is between above average intelligence and "genius". Regardless, I will never be convinced that people with relatively average intelligence are precluded from greatness; so excuse my scepticism when fellow nerds pat themselves on the back for being the engine of the world without pointing at any research that bears this idea out.
Couldn't literally all of this just be a bunch of misdirection?
Show HN: I Built Bluesky Analytics in 24 hours
Show HN: AI Project Manager for Slack with Natural Language Superpowers
I recently added a way to connect GitHub repos with the bot, enabling it to send daily, weekly, or monthly summaries of your selected repos directly in Slack.

It’s fully integrated with natural language, so you can ask questions like:

“Hey, what did my engineers ship last week?”
“What PR took the longest to merge?”

This feels like an exciting direction to explore further. I’m planning to add integrations with tools like HubSpot, Linear, Jira, etc., so all project, sales, and product data becomes available to query via natural language.

The goal? An AI project manager for your team.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this direction!
I wonder if decaf has the same effect.
I like to think of Apple as an unfocused fount of innovation during its "interregnum" years (1985-1996). There were many interesting projects that came out of Apple during this time, including (but not limited to) Pink/Taligent, SK8, A/UX, Newton, OpenDoc, and Dylan. As a major fan of the contributions that Xerox PARC made to the world, it's really cool to think of an alternate timeline where Apple leapfrogged even NeXT when it came to developing an operating system that combined the best 1990s research in operating systems and programming languages with Apple's experience developing usable, pleasant interfaces. Just imagine the ideas of OpenDoc combined with a very flexible object-oriented language like Common Lisp or Dylan to create a component-based system that is essentially a Lisp machine running on mid-1990s Power Macintoshes with a Macintosh interface. I personally think many of these concepts should be revisited today, especially in the free, open-source software world, but updated to reflect modern concerns such as security and the Web.

But an Apple built on those ideas wasn't meant to be; Apple lacked a coherent vision and leadership willing to carry out that vision, which led to epic failures in project management (Pink/Taligent and Copland come to mind) that helped contribute to Apple's dire situation in 1996 when it was fighting to stay alive.

Steve Jobs brought not only a vision for Apple (the marriage of the Macintosh user interface with OPENSTEP technology), but he also enforced this vision. This led to the death of Newton, OpenDoc, and many other technologies. However, this led to the birth of Mac OS X and compelling Apple hardware, which helped revive Apple and helped pave the way for Apple's inroads into consumer electronics (e.g., the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad). For a long time Mac OS X, in my opinion, was heads and shoulders better than its competitors on the desktop, and even today macOS is my favorite of the mainstream desktops.
Well if the ads I saw during the SEC football games on TV were any indication apparently Intel and Dell think it’s campus food delivery bots.
I'm still working with stuff using grunt (most certainly not my choice). gulp is not that bad as a generic task runner, though the last thing I'd use it for these days is to build JS artifacts.
Ahh, it's about shipwrecked people that somehow don't endlessly screw each other and still adhere to all the same social norms when they are leaving the idea as they did when they arrived. I think they once made a phone out of a coconut - I watched it before school as a kid, great show! Unbelievably innocent and naive.
You should see the mess we have in Australia. I think most people churn every 6 months as every ISP does the same stupid 30% off for first 6 months deal.

It's all the same national network so there's very little difference between ISPs.
okta is not "active-active" in a multi-region sense, they run in a single active AWS single Region per-tenant. You can pay extra to have a faster failover in a region level failure scenario:

https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/overview-of-enhanced...
Qualcomm reportedly loses interest in Intel takeover
> if it was 10 years ago it is ridiculous to expect them to patch it

I don't think even that is "ridiculous". It came out of the factory defective. This isn't about features or maintenance. How many years total would that be since last sale, still less than 15?
The chatgpt site had 3.7B visits last month(#8 in Internet worldwide traffic). none of the other LLM vendors are even close.

You're right that there are people who say GPT and mean something else but the vast majority of LLM users are actually using ChatGPT.
It's sad to see a group of engineering professors having political squabbles involving unethical behavior in response to an ethics complaint.

Ethics are supposed to be a core part of engineering, not too dissimilar from medicine. Good thing those folks are in academia where they can't hurt the rest of us.
Sounds like there’s a lot more to this story…
Show HN: Discord/Slack replacement + human-in-the-loop
hello humans of HN. sina here, founder and ceo/cto of integral.

i’ve built integral for 1 philosophical and 1 practical reason. i want to become the replacement to slack/discord/circle/etc for online communities and possibly organizations too.

launching early and admittedly a bunch of features are missing, but i’m already migrating a paid online community that i run from slack to integral. building daily!

practical reason:
most human wisdom and specific knowledge is never documented and therefore never transferred. altho a big chunk of it is shared via text or audio online. i wanna capture that maximally at source (group chats) but give users the ownership and the option to share or keep private.

philosophical reason:
most people live a lifetime and die without ever fulfilling their potential, at the time when a small segment of the population has the mental models that, if presented at the right time and place, could help everyone make better decisions that’d increase their quality of life. broken knowledge/wisdom transfer pipeline/flywheel.

some other thoughts:
i believe more and more people will seek to join niche tribes every year, to feel belonging AND to get answers is specific questions.

currently people use reddit or some group chats on some messaging app out of desperation. but these interfaces are from 20 years ago. they get noisy as more people join , the best people and knowledge get lost in their infinite feeds, and there are 0
relationship building features in them.

i wanna bring [back] social graphs, knowledge graphs and a human-in-the-loop flywheel to group messaging, so that as more people talk about specific things that matter, they’ll contribute to building niche AI models that they, not our platform, can choose to share and even sell.

i imagine open AI would pay a lot for niche datasets that they can’t just scrape from reddit or somewhere.

looking for early feedback/adopters/supporters
The Art of Zen and Motorcycle Repair will teach anyone all they ever need to know about quality.
> Kiberphant0m denied being in the U.S. Army or ever being in South Korea, and said all of that was a lengthy ruse designed to create a fictitious persona.

>

> “Epic opsec troll,” they claimed.

If this were really a fictitious persona meant to lead investigators away from their true identity, they'd never admit to such. This sounds like someone trying to deflect upon being found out. I'd wager that this person is going to be caught.

Krebs has an image of a mind-map at the end of the article showing links between the aliases.
Good call! Thanks for letting me know! I will check it.