skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the sequel to "You better learn calculus because you won't always have a calculator in your pocket." Well I already had a calculator on my Casio watch and now I have access to an AI supercomputer my pocket. Check mate Ms. Levenstein, joke's on you.

>It's sometimes a struggle to get them to think for themselves!

Was it any easier/better before ChatGPT? In my generation MTV and DOOM was to blame for kids being unable to think for themselves. Before that, rock metal was to blame for perverting the youth.
That is a somewhat different scenario as the battle over marijuana laws would boil down to a state's rights issue. Many states have claimed authority over deciding whether marijuana is legal, effectively claiming that the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction on the issue.
> I would say that is young people have different, and IMO lower, expectations.

This is obviously true, despite young people and old people who want to argue against all reason that nothing of significance has changed. If you don’t want to be perceived as old/cranky there’s huge pressure to lower your own expectations, stop pointing out problems, to actively make excuses for problems and to shout down anyone else.

I’m not even sure what to point out as evidence here since it’s so ubiquitous, but for a simple example.. surfing the internet is a hilarious anachronistic metaphor since it implies a free and frictionless experience that takes you anywhere. We browse fewer sites owned by fewer companies, using way more effort and tactics to dodge all kinds of thirsty and user hostile bullshit, even before we discuss things like AI slop and misinformation. It’s not surfing as much as lurching horribly, like riding on a bike uphill with square wheels.

We also pay for more things that in the end we own less of. Sure you can still hack your phone to act like the unrestricted computing device that it actually is, you can spend a bunch of effort ripping the drm off the ebooks, audiobooks, and music that you “own”. But it’s a constant time and energy suck that you eventually get tired of revisiting. Despite or perhaps because of AI, even autocomplete on my phone is worse than it was 5 years ago (apparently it prefers “Horta” as the complete for “hier” instead of “hierarchy”, presumably because brand names have been weighted more than English? Good thing we’ve advanced beyond simple dictionaries, hurray for progress?)

Realistic techno optimism is kind of predicated on things gradually improving instead of on steady decline. Anyway, the decline wouldn’t be so irritating if we could at least agree to curb this whole “same as it ever was!” commentary.. it’s naive and not enlightened. We can’t begin to fix problems that we won’t acknowledge.
>Or are you saying it's also institutional inertia and it's just a matter of time for them to end up the same?

Exactly. Britain has lost its industry long ago, while Germany did not. The situation right now is different, but I do not believe the trajectory is.

Especially when it comes to software, even the largest corporations in Germany just outsource to India. And justifying hiring people for 2x/3x//4x the cost at "home" becomes increasingly hard.
Bambu Lab have been quite explicit about this. Their consumer-grade printers rely on a cloud service; for people who want or need printing over a private LAN, they offer the X1E.

https://store.bambulab.com/products/x1e
Yep, look at RISC-V, the most promising hardware is from the USA. It is not yet on the latest silicon process, but with the latest GPU, I guess we could run the latest games, until the game devs recompile and QA a bit their games (obviously on elf/linux)
EU drone regulations ban autonomous drones from being flown. This made me stop work on them, this is not a mindset problem. It's actually a corruption problem as Google wanted to sell their software to coordinate drone flights and the EU people were "persuaded" to enact regulations to make this happen.
Do pardons extend to companies? That could be a really unintended consequence of the whole "companies are people" precedent.
Is that feed linked anywhere? I discovered this before and am subscribed to a couple of those feeds but I add new ones rarely enough that I always need to look up how to build the URL.
I know nothing about LLM training, but do you mean there is a solution to the issue of LLMs gaslighting each other? Sure this is a proven way of getting training data, but you can not get theorems and axioms right by generating different versions of them.
Camera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software?
Personally I'd prefer it if good quality healthcare were cheaply available to all without having to be bottleneck on expensive-and-time-consuming-to-train human labour, even if it did mean that the 0.5% of the population that are doctors might end up working differently (and not necessarily for less -- it's not as though the industrial revolution has impoverished society).
I dont think we know the actual range of motives for shutdown. Oracle may have forced it, for instance.
I spent a decade in a low-wage country and the number of people who were "glad" to spend even half that much time there -- paid handsomely! -- could probably be counted on one hand. Virtually the only people who stay longer than 3-5 years are ones who end up founding their own businesses there.

Raising children away from your native culture isn't the deal breaker you imply. There are international schools (though, with eye-watering fees) and expat enclaves in most places I've been.

But very few (effectively zero, though I did come across a handful of exceptions) companies treat these employees the same way as the ones back in the home country. If you don't rotate back to HQ in ~3 years then you're in a career dead-end. So you've got this situation where you need people who are ultra-ambitious -- willing to throw away all their existing social networks to go work in a foreign country for years on end! -- but that means those same people aren't going to want to stay past their expiration date. And companies know that, too. A lot of them make it an explicit part of the deal. I met one high-level guy (regional CTO I think?) at Coca-Cola who was Indian and the deal with corporate was he'd do 3-years in a low-income country (not India) but then he'd get transferred to the US. Met some people in the oil industry who had similar deals. Do 2 years in Vietnam then you get to go to Malaysia or whatever.
I'm somewhat bucking this trend as a hardware engineer in London, a few comments:

> Geographical Constraints: Unlike lucrative software jobs, hardware engineering demands physical presence.

Not completely true. Our engineers take hardware home, and I have a mini-lab at home for developing hardware. If COVID2.0 kicked off tomorrow, we would be robust against this.

> Venture Capital: European VCs, mostly bullish on fintech and SaaS, remain wary of hardware. Result? A feedback loop of underinvestment and missed opportunities.

Extremely true. I cannot overstate how wary of hardware investors are. As with software, you have two types of hardware: research-based and engineering-based. Engineering-based hardware is actually quite low risk if the risks are well understood.

> Innovation Stagnation: We're not just losing salary differences; we're missing out on the next ARM or Tesla.

100%. Even when the UK accidentally creates the likes of ARM, it always fails to stop it being purchased by other Countries.

> False. London is around the same as NYC and more expensive than most parts of California and definitely Texas. This also ignores:

I'll put some numbers to it. If you want a house share (one bedroom, shared common rooms and utilities), at a £1600 budget you will struggle to find somewhere. On a £25k salary, losing £5k to pension, etc, your ENTIRE salary goes on accommodation. If you are one of those pesky eating humans who sometimes requires clothes, travels to work, etc, it's literally impossible.

> "UK's small market limits growth."

In any situation you have to realise the opportunity. As the article points out, the hardware engineers are 25%-50% of their US counterparts at the same quality.

> Your next unicorn isn't code. It's cobalt and circuits. Back the tangible.

It's actually a mixture of the two. Software and hardware working in tangent. The barrier to entry with software is very low, it's difficult to compete there. The barrier to entry to hardware is higher due to time and costs, you can work there and have less concern about competitors.

The profit margins are also far higher, as there is a tangible thing, there is a greater perception of value. You buy <Software> and it takes a year to develop. You spend another year writing <Update>, people expect to get it for free, despite the same resources being applied. When you buy <Hardware>, the next iteration which is a year of <Update> can be sold at full price, and people will pay it.
Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
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would be keen to hear why I'd use this rather than github pages?
Climate gains should be graded exclusively by either temperature measured or greenhouse gas level in the atmosphere, also measured. Not by any "estimated" metric.

It would be very easy to do. Measure CO2 average over year 2022, then over year 2023, and save difference. Then measure average in 2024, and compare difference to a previous one. If it s higher then humans get an F or 1/5 mark. If it lower, then the mark will be a bit better, depending on our actual, real performance in climate change.
But no, food is incredibly cheap.

Its true i can't eat steak 4 nights a week as god intended but we manage to scratch cook 3 meals a day for 2 people for £70 a week, £85 with a wine pairing.

If you want to forgo eight different vegetables and four different proteins im sure you can do it for less.

I know too many people complaining "food is expensive" when all they live off is gas mark 6 / 25 mins beige rubbish.
Until china is not able to produce state-of-the-art EUV photolitographers, they will be "grounded" to produce old silicon process chips.
This is very interesting anecdote because it resonates with something that a friend of mine said when I pressured him to explain which regulations exactly are causing him problems in EU.

As it turns out, he also complained about excessive documentation he needs to get public funds for his project.

So both of you are actually complaining about accessing public funds and not actually doing private investment or starting a private company with private funds.

this is not what most of the Americans do and this is not what they mean by startups or business. Mostly.
I understand, but what if I want to use the enums the way they are used in C, as a label for a number, probably as a way to encode some type or another. Sum types of literal numbers are not very practical here because the labels should be part of the API.
> so if I can make ChatGPT output copyrighted material then Open AI should pay me correct?

If by "make" you mean you're coaxing it into outputting your work, it'd be difficult to allege damages. If you show it's regurgitating your registered work to normal users, and it's not covered by fair use factors (e.g: it's outputting a significant portion of your work, in a non-transformative manner, and this is negatively impacting the market for that work), then you'd have a good case to bring.

> Or you will claim that this is rare, a mistake and we should forgive OpenAI

Rarity will affect damages, but they wouldn't be off the hook if such a situation does happen. To my knowledge no safe harbor applies here, given it's their own bot and not human users.
That doesn't change the fact that the president has instructed the DoJ to not enforce a federal law passed legally by Congress.
> Paper was, which is black on white.

check

> Early computers had "dark" color schemes because the resolution was so low and pixels "bled" brightness

this
When someone can't accept that other people value different things than they do, and that person also has uncommon values, they will spend a lot of time upset that everyone is wrong. They'll look for something that explains why everyone is choosing to be stupid and evil, and they'll try to find that comfort in the worldview that made them upset in the first place, retreating ever further from the chance to get real answers.

When people with that kind of worldview roll their eyes at empathy, or scoff at any need to see beyond their own opinions[0], they are all but guaranteed to seal themselves inside.

FOSS, decentralized, et al. attract a lot of people with those worldviews, and that story is the story of them failing with consumers over and over and over, doubling down on what failed every time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114882
Polling every hour is excessive and will get you temp-blocked on some sites.

It really depends on you but IMO for most feeds polling once a day is plenty.
Trying and doing takes a minute for him, fixing it is a long process with consequence on all others mostly.

All those opportunist-narcissist shit-stirrers out there rely on the prudent and consequently slow self fixing mechanisms of societies (beyond the dumb and lazy childish masses vegetate below these figures and so looking up to them) like viruses on the delayed adaptation of the immune system. The host that feed them may easily die this way? Not their problem!! They have their shine and rule moment and they do not have much of miserable and futile life left anyway, f*ck others!
The difference after today is that you will at least know who is making the decisions.

Previously you had a mentally unfit president with decisions made by VP/Jill Biden/The Cabinet/Bureaucrats/Who Knows?
The solution to the problem would reveal their identities :)

Just in case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation#Hermi...

More seriously..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_(linguistics)

And its derivatives in CS

Etc
Encryption at Rest with SQLAlchemy
I absolutely love this, and love it even more because of the Nix integration. Fantastic job.
Can you explain how your link supports your argument?

The conservatives ran austerity-based policies for the last 14 years. Is your argument that they did not have a choice?
I literally just came back from a month in Poland, and UK food prices in supermarkets are just as low if not lower. Certainly Aldi prices easily beat Polish supermarket prices on nearly everything, maybe with the exception of baked goods.

Don't get me wrong - M&S and Sainsburys are very expensive places to shop. But I don't see the quality at Morrisons or Asda or yes, even Aldi as being any worse and the prices are very low. Go to France or Germany and try to compare, I can bet that for your average buyer groceries will be cheaper.
I tried to sell original products from companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk, ESET, McAfee, and others, establishing partnerships with each of them. I soon realized there was an opportunity to sell products at much lower prices than the market. I did it, but I discovered that people weren’t attracted to low prices. They seem to feel more secure with higher prices, as if expensive items are associated with higher quality, and cheap items are seen as suspicious.

In the end, I decided to abandon that business model and focus solely on businesses. However, now I’m considering the possibility of revisiting that idea, but in the form of a blog, monetizing through Bitcoin payments. Currently, I am fully focused on automation, so the idea would lean more towards a blog/e-commerce approach.

In my original proposal, I didn’t offer subscription-based products like Office 365, but I did offer antivirus software, which has always been subscription-based.
> When else in history were markets global?

Right, so the fundamental issue is that we are living in a globalized world, which reduces any room for nuance and imposes an uniform and homogenized culture, top-down policy-making, and a totalitarian approach by the ruling class.

Thing is, this would still be our reality regardless of the economic system. Globalism would be a problem even if the Soviet Union had won the cold war.

We would still be subjected to uniform culture, top-down policy-making and totalitarianism.

The people would still be acting by their own personal interests.

People would still favor short term benefits over long term prosperity.

So, again: what does Capitalism has to do with it?
If they are not listening to you, then I guess you did a great job then ;)
Let me tell you, back in my day ...
A lot of readers (intentionally?) get this wrong though and show entries as new/unread if there are changes to the content.

Of course a lot of feeds also get this wrong and change the GUIDs for existing entries once in a while which results in strictly compliant readers showing you the entire feed history as new. Really annoying.
We do: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
Immigration isn't a democrat issue. From where I sit both parties are actually pretty well aligned on that one.

Obama was surprisingly tough on immigration. ICE was doing raids at the time, I remember hearing about raids at the industrial chicken farms not far from where I live. Obama was also working heavily with Mexico to stop immigration at Mexico's southern border.

Illegal immigration is going to be an unsolvable problems regardless of party, as long as we have the incentive of welfare programs that make it financially lucrative just to physically be in the country. I'm not arguing to get rid of those programs, but the incentives are there to come illegally and there's just no feasible way to secure such a large border with land, air, and sea travel.
This is so tedious. Is HN going to be 4 years of this witless Trump Derangement Syndrome?
> cryptographic enclaves are at best an analgesic and sedative

Cryptographic enclaves let you securely use passwords that are otherwise very easy to break.

For example, a random 4-digit pin can be broken in seconds, minutes at most, even with really strong PKDF functions.

With a cryptographic enclave that destroys your key after 10 unsuccessful attempts, attackers only have a 0.1% chance of breaking that PIN. This is an acceptable security level for many users.

In theory, better security than that is possible by using a complex passphrase. In practice, the passphrase ends up being "exampleDotOrgWinter25!", which is still very easy to brute force.

For many users, that random 4-digit PIN plus an enclave will end up being more secure than the long and complex password.
>Although it does not explicitly say that these companies are guilty of a crime,

That's one reason why it isn't a Bill of Attainder.

I know you think you've found a silver bullet here but you haven't.

Here's one article explaining in detail why the argument you're putting forth is flawed -- https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/is-the-tiktok-bill...
This seems like such a contrived scenario. If the police want your info, they just request it from all the tech companies. If they want something on your laptop, they will just arrest you and have you unlock it.

They aren't action movie style disassembling your laptop and installing a key logger on the keyboard ribbon cable. They would need a custom one for every laptop and you could hardly fit something with wireless capabilities in there. When the $5 wrench works fine.
North Korea was the rich, industrialized half of the country, South Korea was poorer and extensively damaged by the Korean War. The fact that the South is now 10x richer and way better on any measurable metric tells you all you need to know about how well Juche and the Kims are working for the North.
This is interesting, can you give a bit more details maybe? Which regulations are not allowing you to do what? I wasn’t able to find the ban, is it maybe more about safety and privacy requirements rather than outright ban?
I'm a Python developer, and use a bunch of types day-to-day, I haven't used TS aside from intermittent curiousity.

Curious what aspects TS has that Python doesn't? (or that Python doesn't do as well)
I assumed this was in relation to the Trump and Melania meme coins, but that doesn't explain the bunkers.

> The schemes drew in almost two thirds of the country's population with the promise of sure financial returns, revealing the profound financial illiteracy and the lax regulatory environment in post-communist Albania.
Everything you asked for has existed for like decades..
Do you think the USSR and China (around the great leap forward time) were less controlling?
> Oh yeah and my folks gave me the impression growing up that Albania was scary as hell back then.

My best friend for a while in elementary school was a girl from an Albanian refugee family. Even she, an eight-year old, had only scary things to tell about Albania, mostly told to her by her parents and grandparents I guess.
Well, I dunno. I have a 17 year old in his last year of high school. After the initial novelty wore off, I don't think ChatGpt is used much anymore, not by him at least.

- You can hardly use the writing in an essay, as it is replete with listicles. You'd have to completely rewrite the stuff anyway. Moreover, he know he'll be tested on this stuff, and yeah that does seem to have an impact.

- Even using ChatGpt for explaining stuff is hardly used. For sure, I use it much much more often than he does. Also here it seems that it is hardly worth it, as the ChatGpt answer will differ too much from what is expected on the test. He much prefers to study with last years' tests--and the accepted answers-- than to use ChatGpt.
I don't believe in 100% figure. There is likely some 10% that is too lazy to figure it out and do minimal work themselves.
One thing I'm missing in the comments here is that enums are a very early TypeScript feature. They were in there nearly from the start, when the project was still trying to find clarity on its goals and principles.

Since then:

- TypeScript added string literals and unions, eg `type Status = "Active" | "Inactive"`

- TypeScript added `as const`, eg `const Status = { Active: 0, Inactive: 1 } as const`

- TypeScript adopted a stance that features should only generate runtime code when it's on a standards track

Enums made some sense back when TS didn't have any of these. They don't really make a lot of sense now. I think they're effectively deprecated, to the point that I wonder why they don't document them as deprecated.
Even if it is recipes and chemistry it's the format that's the issue, it still fries your dopamine and lowers your attention span.
No, you were not banned, your permission to post publicly was restricted because for the past three years you've been insulting, spreading lies and refusing to cooperate with other members of the community who actually want to change things and improve ROS. You're the one who is taking this personally because you claim Open Robotics is going after you. You've broken the code of conduct numerous times. The fact that you're incapable of any introspection and realizing that other people in that same thread are criticizing ROS in a civilized way and who are also proposing alternatives to ROS' build system, while you're just adding noise and whining about being personally targeted, makes Ryan's decision to restrict your permission to post publicly even more reasonable.
This is really not a UK-only thing, it's a thing everywhere.

The US has some defense jobs that pay well (but are immoral IMO), and there are some gambling-machine related jobs that pay well, but otherwise engineering pays really poorly.

I used to work as an embedded engineer in Slovenia, in the automotive industry, and wanted to potentially move to Germany or Austria or Switzerland to do something similar. After interviewing with some really prominent companies, household names if you will, and seeing their offers - I bushed up on my CS and switched to finance.
FUD! Name a single AI scraper that fetches RSS but not HTML.