skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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That might be the way to bet but casually mentioning a lawyer once worked for me on a used car warranty claim. I didn't make any threats, I just said "my mechanic says X and my lawyer says Y" and they said we'll call you back, which they did in ten minutes and said I was covered after all.
Yes, I guess there could be some intention behind that, presumably some security precautions, but still: the fact that you can see $ in the globalThis (as a non-enumerable prop), and that globalThis you see from inside the timeout-ed function is strictly equal to globalThis seen directly from the console, that makes it somewhat spooky.

console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(globalThis, '$'))
// {writable: true, enumerable: true, configurable: true, value: f}
globalThis.globalThat = globalThis
globalThat.$ === globalThis.$
// true
setTimeout(()=>console.log(globalThis.globalThat === globalThis))
// true
setTimeout(()=>console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(globalThis, '$')))
// undefined (!)
$ = $
setTimeout(()=>console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(globalThis, '$')))
// { writable: true, enumerable: true, configurable: true, value: f}

And it (`setTimeout(()=>{console.log(typeof $==="function")},0)`) works in Firefox. (Interestingly, you cannot get $'s descriptor in there, but you have it always available in timeout.)
That's gotta be the most inefficient way to start a microblog at effectively elonmusk.com
Is it entitled to want to live in the city you were born in and grew up in?
It seems insane that you need campus security guards at all oO
I'll do you better.

AI could largely already fill the role and fulfill all responsibilities at expected level of any C suite or management only position better right now than it could a software or operational position.

Their position is fundamentally easier to do for an AI compared to operational and labor roles. They are given data and output a decision or course of action. But since they largely aren't the ones implementing said action plan it's perfectly suitable for an AI.

C suites and execs are going to do all they can to ever avoid mentioning this though.
Yes, you can't directly look at the source code (unless you pick companies that open source a lot). But I was more thinking of trying to develop some proxy metrics that you can measure; the most common being asking the right questions in the interview. But you can also try to look for other tells.
Isnt xml preferred in fix and not json?
You don't need to have interactions with Sam "about it" to have a vested interest in burying this story, which is exactly what you have allowed to happen.
Soon there's going to be a fuckload of money in pretending to clean up AI generated code while secretly deleting it and starting again.
It's not really surprising, but the article seems to conflate raves with nightclubs, with numerous remarks about the cost of being out at a club all night and paying for things like expensive bottle service.

Raves are not clubs, and historically have never done that well in club environments. People who are really into staying up all night dancing to techno music aren't buying expensive alcoholic drinks, they're buying cheap water to stay hydrated. Many (though by no means all) take drugs, but generally that means one dose of a drug like MDMA at the beginning of the evening. Psychedelic drugs like LSD are also associated with the rave scene but are less compatible with a nightclub environment (bars, security, overgrown disco lights). People are more likely to consume psychedelics at an outdoor party or a warehouse space.

In my view what has killed raves was the declining availability of cheap accessible commercial spaces, police/administrative hostility to informal economic activity, and overcommercialization, which has tended to select for the shittiest music/DJs.
Flock Safety hired a sitting California mayor. Now he's suing Flock
https://www.reddit.com/r/indianajones/comments/1hwce4a/india...
Hey, if they target PowerPC I could run it on my eMac!
Links at the top of the page (demo) don’t work on iPhone
Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
? that is so ridiculous that it almost triggers my BS detector
Where I was we had a self-service system as well that the university was very proud of. It's just that a lot of the things you could do on there would create a task for a human on the backend instead of having the computer just do it.
Seat belts and vaccines are life saving items. They are approximately a trillion times more important than video games are and ever will be. They do not even belong in the same sentence.

Even those important life saving items have contraindications. They are well studied. We know their benefits. We know their risks. We know how to balance the two. Professionals do it every day. Most people voluntarily choose to use these items after the facts are explained. Forgoing their use doesn't stop your life either.

We know virtually nothing about anticheat systems. Their benefits, if any, are likely exaggerated to increase profits. Their costs and risks are "explained" in some annoying legalese document that pretty much nobody reads. You're forced to accept this nonsense. You can't play the game otherwise, might as well click next.

Their function is to take over your computer in order to control and limit what you can do with it. That's an affront to the user. Accepting this costs users part of their dignity. We can only hope that they will have lots of fun with their game afterwards. Otherwise their sacrifice will have been for nothing.
Your disclaimer made it seem like you are the founder of M5. Luckily the context in the second sentence made it a bit more clear.
For anyone interested: it's an extraordinarily simple protocol (it predates complexity in protocols), consisting of key=value pairs, where the keys are all numbers (look up "fix tag dictionary" for 100 different decoder rings), everything's in text, and, IIRC, all the KVPs are separated by ASCII 01h (SOH), which by convention is written with the pipe filter. That's it, that's the protocol.

A real-world FIX gateway will demand a BodyLength tag, so you have to compute your message length, and it'll want SenderCompID and TargetCompID ("from" and "to", respectively). So it's like, well, that much more complicated.

The complexity in these systems will all be the semantics given to the messages and the zillion fields your vendor/partner supports.
I didn't expect you to, I only asked if you did.

Plenty of people read the twitter files years ago... when they came out.

There's literally plenty of examples of exactly what the other poster was talking about.

Considering all the political triangulation you are relying on to make your point, I find it odd that you leave out that, ultimately, Taibbi and Musk fell out because of the twitter files, because Taibbi wouldn't say what Musk wanted him to say about them. Because they are by and large innocuous.

Now, on the other hand, "no" is a perfectly fine answer to which you seem to refuse to be willing to say, even when it is true, and instead you just go and link to summaries of things and pass that off as being informed, but you're not even skimming.

Like, there's no need for you to have posted that you have "no idea" how the other poster came to their conclusion based upon you only having skimmed a general summary, and then making assumptions about what you think it wouldn't contain based upon your perception of wikipedia's politics. That was your decision, not mine. So don't act like I'm imposing anything on you. You are playing detective when others are just conversing. At least do your research if you want to play officer.
> If you want Facebook to die, stop using it.

None of us have any power. Most people will continue using it.
dang, I knew I shouldn't be drinking water while checking out the link. Almost caused water damage to my laptop
It was a Japanese company, Nikken, that did the copying.

Interesting Huawei would hire a Japanese company to design their headquarters.

If they were a true government backed organization, I would think they would have hired a local design company.
Why do people think costs can get passed on? They can't be. Pricing is about supply elasticity and demand elasticity. Sometimes you just need to eat costs because of the competition.
It's been like 10 years for me but all the systems I worked with just use the classic ASCII format; the last thing you'd want to do is inflate the messages with XML or JSON. Has that changed?
I have been getting a lot of captchas trying to use stack overflow this past year, I am guessing stack overflow is trying to prevent crawlers at the expense of regular users?
Understanding GPT a Bit Better (2023)
The human brain can run on up to 70% ketones overall (this is not only safe, but it appears to have additional therapeutic benefits) and your body can synthesize glucose in your liver and kidneys from fats and proteins though gluconeogenesis to supply the remaining parts of your brain that can't metabolize betahydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone.
Zuck was in a video stating exactly this:

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mis...
So fun is proportional to the extent to which the punch bowl has been spiked? Seriously asking.
Apparently Mr Ginsberg was a friend to young men. And not in a good way:

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/allen-ginsberg-pedophilia...
> If you want Facebook to die, stop using it.

I don't use facebook and somehow facebook hasn't died yet. In fact, facebook is happy to create an account/profile for me since I refuse to and they populate it with data about me collected from anyone who mentions me on their platforms, as well as by scraping data posted to the web elsewhere and by buying up my information from data brokers. I said "No" to facebook, and facebook said "You don't get a choice".

There's no reason to think that if people stopped using facebook it would go away. Facebook has already demonstrated that they're willing to populate their site with shadow profiles and fake AI accounts to keep up the appearance of being filled with active users even as their real user count continues to decline. The AI they're using to make bots was (at least in part) trained on things I wrote, or were written about me, on sites other than facebook. When young people started leaving facebook for instagram facebook just bought instagram to keep them.

There is simply no way to for users to vote with their feet/wallet here. The best we can hope for is that advertisers will notice that AI bots viewing ads won't increase sales, finally get tired of all the other ad/click fraud going on and stop using the platform. Maybe then facebook will die, but even in that case I wouldn't hold my breath. Facebook will just keep trying to expand into other areas like healthcare, education, and shopping
> so their customers get distracted from the fact that they are paying $500+ per user per month for a shitty web UI on top of 4 database tables.

Oof, I felt that cut in my bones and I was only a customer.
2$ per interactions (negotiable to 1$) btw
At least he'll learn this valuable lesson pretty young. It was fairly devastating to me by the time I learned it well into my 30's.
I lived through another major wildfire in SoCal and the organization that provided the best support was the California Community Foundation: https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/953510055

I’d wait until the smoke settles (because the CCF focuses on less well-off communities than Altadena or the Palisades) but donating to their wildfire relief efforts does a lot of good regardless. They frequently give grants to the local organizations running the evacuation shelters.
So young.. It's sad
As someone who had analogous experiences, I find this take highly uncharitable. It’s easy to say what the most financially advisable course of action should be, it is a totally different matter when something which you had committed personal pride into being exploited like that puts you in the kind of emotional rut which is further exacerbated by being keenly aware that you are sabotaging your financial interests by sulking. It takes a significant amount of courage to acknowledge how much the emotional toll had gotten in your way, knowing full well of how people might deride your sulking as self-sabotage.
Mine was actually a question as well. My thought was because of nano second accuracy, json won't be preferred. XML causes no issues here just the bloat.
Same. I guess those who weren't laid off have to work harder to make up for the reduced work capacity and to give credibility to their managers' narrative that efficiency has improved by x%. This doesn't mean that all the work they do adds any value to the economy. A lot of bullshit jobs are VERY demanding.

A game of whac-a-mole can keep people REALLY busy too. You can measure that they're hitting more moles per minute and call that 'increased productivity', but whether or not hitting moles with a hammer is useful is a separate question.

Also, there are questions of short term gains vs long term gains. It's relatively easy to trade away long term gains to obtain short term gains. The incentive structure of our system is predicated on it.
If that's actually what your lawyer says, then there's nothing wrong with that, but if you don't have a lawyer and they call your bluff, you're worse off than before you ran your mouth. So it's not really too much different than me telling about that one time I was in Vegas and I rolled a seven.
Insider cool points. TBH I find it sad to be doing this at great expense but not putting any effort into making something accessible for younger generations.
Yes, you don't mention a lawyer, casually or otherwise. What you do is keep a paper trail, and optionally 'casually' notify the other party of said paper trail collection.
I’ve been saying over the last year to our marketing team that we should put some effort into better understanding how AI reads and understands our website copy and email copy so we can optimize there.
> the flagging behavior looked normal to me

I believe it, I think it's clear tensions are high on these topics.

I appreciate what you do to keep us all in check so please forgive any offense my teasing caused.
https://www.fixtrading.org/standards/json-online/#issues-for...
I guess so.
To my understanding, all the efforts to get people of Facebook/IG and others have failed, so people stopped preaching that. So we either have to get people addicted to something else (like TikTok but with even more dopamine hits) or keep complaining about it.

Anyone who wanted to get out has already done so. Others are stuck or have to use it for various reasons.
I'm old enough to remember when Dreamforce was "The Largest Internet of Things Conference".
I use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft 365. It is free and can load and save DOCX files. Plus I use LibreOffice in GNU/Linux so it is cross-platform and compatible.
If you can fire half of the people at a big company, you could also erase half the small startups with no impact as well.
ill.Gates (Dylan's) videos are super super inspirational. I'd recommend anyone reading this thread with interest check out producerdojo vids on youtube for a taste. Dylan really contextualises a lot of growth mindset and psychological/motivational tactics and spits a tonne of real talk. - and best of all - its not generic advice - its directed squarely at production!
Wow, the spin from pcgamer. It's a reactive processor & screen, it senses and responds to things.. like a Tamagotchi (were they 1990s cyberprisons?). You can import the character and choose the AI system that backs it. Seems niche.
I don't think that applies for students who are not paid by the university?
No it isn't, the original post is "Learning Synths", not "Learning Synthesis". It actually is a tutorial on how you might go about programming an acid patch (or a bass, or a wind instrument, or whatever).
Good lawyers don't send letters automatically. They help the client whether that's involved the media, etc.
Often though the competition is facing the same pressure. Or there is no competition.

My trainer at the gym introduced me to

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10245460B2/en?oq=1024546...

which sells for about $250 (worth it if you really use it.) My first instinct is that this product ought to be available for $25 on Temu if there wasn't a patent but I know from experience that if I talked to folks at TRX they'd have a good explanation of why my number is low. (e.g. TRX is in a position to pass costs on)
first of all, it's not P=NP - it would be NC=NP. If you nitpick, then at least do it right

and secondly, when "normal bloody people" talk about parallelizing, we don't mean exponential speedup - we mean using 4 cores in hopes of getting 3x time shrinking

and cube'n'conquer does exactly that - and have been the standard tool in SAT solving for forever
There isn't a better topic for tech CEOs to focus on, it's pathetic for the world.
45 years :(

The article says illness, but which illness?
> Honest question in good faith: For those that use the reductionist argument of global warming / climate change for every natural disaster, what do they expect to happen if we hypothetically cut all greenhouse gas production to zero? Some kind of climate stasis Garden of Eden scenario?

I think it's more innocent than that and that your characterization is a strawman. Climate change is real and scary. This type of fire might not be abnormal in LA on generational timescales but it is the kind of thing we would expect to see as a consequence of climate change. So even if this type of fire would have happened anyway it is a real manifestation of a real thing people are rightly concerned about. It's also possible that climate change (and/or the politicization of climate change!) made this fire worse.
Unless I'm missing something, there's also been no innovation in their product at all. A company can only coast for so long.
If shareholders want to replace the people with AI, it would be easier and more profitable to go top-down instead of bottom-up.
Howl was the poem that spurred inspired a generation:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
As an alum, you may have much more influence than you might expect. President Cauce (who's contact information is prominently displayed on the UW website) may be unaware that alumni are not pleased with this.
That's a great idea. I'd love to see if it works.

I've wondered whether it would be possible to design a motorcycle with a surface that's non-reflective to radar because of it's shape or texture, like how stealth planes work.

EDIT: I realized the super black paint is probably the worst thing you could do for your own safety on a motorcycle, but that's besides the point...
I'm guessing your intended subtext is something like: "eliminating jobs isn't bad or permanent since new kinds of jobs may be created elsewhere", but I don't think this satire/analogy works well.

Historically speaking farmers didn't buy much food to start with, since they already had it or traded locally with their neighbors. It was everybody else (e.g. city artisans) who bought food, and they have kept buying it because all humans need to eat regardless of where--or whether--they are employed.

Since bayarearefugee is talking about a scenario where the "dream is ubiquitously realized", that implies any new future job-categories are also eliminated. No jobs for repairing the foreman-bots that direct the repair-bots.
Its literally impossible to create an online social media platform that wont degenerate into a cesspool. Neil Postman essentially said as much in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. The very nature of the medium makes it impossible.
You have a vested interest to protect Sam Altman and sure enough this story is not allowed on the front page. This site has many forms of censorship built in, yet you always act with plausible deniability, blaming "the users" or worse yet "the algorithm" (as if that's not fully in your control). I hope you know that most people aren't buying it.
The company will pay the price for it eventually but workers will pay the price right away.
The investors are the capitalists. The C suite negotiator is petit bourgeoisie.
I was kinda with you in a cynical way until you pulled in AI/ChatGPT. Not helpful.
This is less about Marxist/capitalist and more about a change in regulation in the US that makes R&D expenses (dev headcount) amortized over five years (for taxes) versus sales being a straight-up expense. This one is going to be good for the stock price, and the AI Agent angle is a marketing masterpiece.
> Sure, but it's either true or it's not. If they fall for the hype, the company will pay the price for it eventually.

Sure, but I don't care about these companies - I care about my career and the opportunities available to me in the next 1-5 years. If these opportunities are tainted by false claims about AI capabilities - that is a huge problem to me. It is irrelevant to me whether the company eventually suffers for it, because that doesn't reimburse my "damages" (if they exist).

I agree with you though, and to be clear I absolutely do not believe this is anything but marketing hype - If anyone was actually doing what they claimed we'd be seeing evidence of it. I have yet, to this day, to see any evidence of such claims. If you say "30% productivity" without saying how you measured that and the methods you used, I can instantly call BS and rest easy at night. Lots of similar claims seem the same way.

"outstanding claims require outstanding evidence" or something like that.
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Smart ring with a tiny camera lets users point and click to control home devices
I ran face-first into this effect at a successful startup where I started as employee number 9.

When everyone can sit around one big table, you don't have to consciously polish your "brand" all the time -- most people have direct experience with you and base their opinions on that. You do good work and you will have a good reputation. If you have a conflict with someone who is a jackass or have a project that fails to launch, people know enough about the context to judge pretty fairly.

When there are hundreds of people on the engineering team, especially in a remote-heavy workforce, most people don't have direct experience with you and can only base their opinion of you on what they hear from others, i.e. your reputation. This goes for peers as much as leadership.

You have to be aware of how an org changes over time, and how things that were once not important are now essential skills for success.. and decide if any new essentials are skills that you are interested in developing.
Sorry for the unrelated comment.

It seems that I saw "AI" when I glance "A" in the title, I'm like a LLM trained by news in recently years...
The real truth is that there's a lot of 1) excess (development) capacity, 2) and not enough market opportunities where software brings incremental revenue.

AI is being blamed for layoffs and hiring freezes but the reality is that selling software is not as profitable for companies.
Because even if you "win", you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you. If you loose, you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you. So the lawyer wins either way.
Really? Nah. What does a 63 year old healthy single woman look like? What about a 63 year old woman who had four kids? What about a 63 year old woman who beat stage IV metastatic melanoma?[1] A "healthy" 63 year old person is going to look mighty different depending on the curves life threw them.

So is it not overly legislative to bind a person's health choices to their looks when you don't have the whole story?

I can look at her (and listen to her) and see healthy mind behind a body that has done decades of hard work. I hope that you can too someday.

[1] http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SurvivingIncurableCancer.as...