skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should say $100k was a terribly bad choice of salary, for either $USD or "$plausible other economy" -the key point came across I think. Your decision to move on would be made even harder by the IRS: you have a very long tail of consequence for your 401k/roth, property, and even just income: they want to know worldwide income for a long, long time. I almost took a gig in the US from Australia and realized I'd drop out of lifetime rating in the Australian private health insurance model, I'd lose payment to australian superannuation and the US versions I made would not be considered tax friendly income, unless I spent a lot of time and money with an accountant. I decided against the move for other reasons but financial complexity paid it's part.

Having said that, I got stung by 49c in the doller on my British USS Pension transfer in (I'm 63) for the lump sum. Sometimes, you just can't win.
Part of me thinks this is just incompetence. People put in charge to "change" things without knowing what the thing is or does and just randomly mashing buttons.
LoC per hour seems to me like a terrible metric.
> The obvious downside to this is that hardening code becomes a potential large amount of effort/overhead that could normally be concealed behind binaries and proprietary code.

This is not a downside, it's a benefit.

Suppose an adversarial country eventually gets access to the proprietary code. Do you want members of the public to have found and patched any obvious vulnerabilities before this point? Yes you do.
> executives, directors and managerial staff think the opposite

The entire reason they hire us is to let them know if what they think makes sense. No one is ideologically opposed to AI generated code. It comes with lots of negatives and caveats that make relying on it costly in ways we can easily show to any executives, directors, etc. who care about the technical feasibility of their feelings.
It's hard to be a feudal lord with bows and arrows when the civilization next door has cannons and covets your resources.

I thought they'd care because if they are working so hard to sieze control, you'd think they'd want to hold on to it.
Possibly all the gays are going to gay specific apps like grindr
Show HN: Gan.ai – AI Avatars: Text to Video with Lipsync
> They think turning on the air conditioner will ruin them financially

Literally laughed out loud at this, it’s so accurate.
They still needed Telco support and Telco's have adopted the technology, Apple has only just adopted the technology late last year, taking them approximately 4+ years since it was supported.

Yes Apple provided an improved messaging service before there was one via iMessage, however they have failed in allowing their service to integrate with the rest of the industry that is looking to support an improved open standard that would allow for a better experience between different mobile operating systems.

The original point you commented on was about Apple not integrating with other platforms.

As I said, I'm an Apple guy but Apple should've implemented RCS as soon as the telco's supported it.
>In my tears of working

Sometimes typos are eerily appropriate ;)

(I almost typed "errily"...)
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A kitchen knife is a tool. It can be used as a weapon.

A car is a tool. It can be used as a weapon.

Even water and air can be used as a weapon if you try hard enough. There is probably nothing on this planet that couldn't be used as a weapon.

That said, I do not think AI weapons are a reasonable thing to build for any war, for any country, for any reason - even if the enemy has them.
Honestly, this is exactly how Silicon Valley operates. Uber broke the laws until they could fix the laws (in their favor). AirBnB did the exact same thing. Meta knew their platform was causing damage to children and teenagers, and they gave zero fucks.

Move fast and break things...
the irony of Andreesen now being one of those now gloating over its destruction
It's not like they're above lying, why do they even care to update this?
> So long as Facebook remains available to everyone

This is not a given even today. Creating a new Facebook account involves a ton of scrutiny, you need to upload an ID, and until your account is older and established it’s likely that anything you do can get auto-scanned by some spam bot and get you banned for using some keyword, even in private chats.

I don’t have a Facebook account but I needed to create one a few years back to use my oculus quest (this is before they finally came to their senses and separated the accounts) and I had a lot of trouble convincing FB that I was a real human.
The weird spanner in the works is that while people may be unhappy, they are unhappy because of things they believe that aren't true. Covid response in the US wasn't that bad; global warming really is causing the floods and fires and hurricanes and the EVs really are helping, as would methane emissions rules and so on; if people think the bi-coastal elites are looking down on them (and they are), like so what; that's not a serious problem. If the wealthy don't pay enough taxes, the middle class will be harmed. Making sure black folks and other historically disadvantaged groups do better will raise the quality of life for all of us; if we don't encourage the successful migration and acculturation of people from around the world, our population will decline and our economy will decline. If we don't invest in science, we will loose power and knowledge to those that do. The entitled white folks that teased all the kids that were good at math and science in the 1970s etc. might wish it weren't so, but it is so.

But they now believe that movie actors are drinking the blood of babies and that China somehow rigged up the increase in CO2 as a way to confound us. They think scientists are mostly lying.

It's not clear from an information theoretic perspective how to restore stability to the US system.

Maybe once they've killed a million immigrants, I'm sorry had excess mortality in the camps in the hot SW and in Cuba, and things all around them are worse for their own children and families, they will repent and embrace truth, justice and the American way. One can hope.
If the don't divest ownership, then what? (The ban)
> Maybe they think politicizing the whole executive branch is a little distasteful, but in the eyes of literally millions of Americans, it's a means to a well-justified and long-awaited end.

This is a very tight and succinct summary of many conversations I’ve had with conservative family and acquaintances.

> I don't know why you're being downvoted.

The votes on my comment are going up and down like a yo-yo.

I’m pretty sure it’s because I used the term “regular people”, and I used it in quotes. I get the sense that some people are reading more into that phrase than I intended.
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Its honestly pretty dang good now. I can bootstrap Zig from C in about 3-5 minutes, and then use the self-hosted stage3 compiler to compile Zig very quickly (under 1 minute iirc) Once the cache kicks in, its even faster. I guess my overall gauge on this is the impression I get. Zig build times never annoy me and I never think about it... especially compared to clang, gcc and Rust.
it would be a dumb move. any scientist who moves on a whim so easily to chase money is more likely to not be doing good science.
I realize it's not a complete or immediate solution, but I wonder how much buses and trains would help. I think about this, in a town with a regional airport, ~ 100 miles from a couple of "hub" airports. Flying to the hub is often slower than driving when all things are considered, and with the risk of delays. A bus or train could work a lot better if the locations of the stations were coordinated, and if there was a coordinated system for handling baggage. And, if the ticketing were consolidated. The bus is never delayed by weather.
Claude represents some sort of inflection point or phase change. With all the noise, Claude Sonnet is by far the most impressive model since gpt4.
As Sir Ian Jacob said, the Allies won World War II because "our German scientists were better than their German scientists." Brain drain is a real problem for fascist countries.
“Grownups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
US loss, Europe's win. Same thing with the trade wars and other Trumpian policies. Short term gains to look strong but long term just degrades US soft power and decades of ally building.
They'll support anything nearly forever if that's what their big support contracts want, but unfortunately their interests won't always align with yours...
Where else would they learn how to handle that kind of environment?
an interesting way of competing with facebook, I like it
It tracks, actually. Men tend to pick a sexual orientation and be disgusted by the other sexual orientation[0]. Women are a lot more hetero- (and homo-) flexible.

[0] It works both ways! A guy once told me and my wife that we made a cute couple despite how disgusting heterosexuality really was. And I was like... okay, thanks?
I’d love to know as well. The OpenAI models refuse to stay on task for me, gradually ignoring instructions to do whatever it wants.
Like the old Mencken quote:

`Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.`
Why on earth would a for profit company refuse a potential line of profit?

They already dumped "do no evil" many years ago and they are now all in on fuck the poor and fuck the rest: I'm making profits and all is fine.

Google makes money and they don't appear to care how - its all about the money.
One important point to understand the speed at which these actions are happening..

As the deadline for the current tax breaks draws near, there is increasing urgency around the administration push to extend and potentially expand these benefits, particularly for billionaires ;-)

Despite having the political upper hand through control of both the House and the Senate, there is a significant obstacle: The massive federal deficit.

To make these tax cuts feasible, the administration would need to offset the cost by cutting government spending. Unfortunately, much of that spending goes toward social programs, meaning millions of Americans who rely on government support could be adversely affected.

It's a shame the needed tax raises are not in discussion.
What makes you think CS grads would be good candidates for a high stress job that requires excellent communication skills?
> Can Dating apps be fixed?

> What I meant by "fixed", is an app where:

> It is possible for someone to reach out to anyone and get an answer, and discussion can be interesting from the start (at least as much as in real life)

> Your looks, how you behave, the tone of your voice,... reflect what you look like in real life

> It is easier to meet new people than attending local events

> I don't think it can

Well, as long as the metrics app builders are optimizing for are "retention" and "monetization", like this post obsesses over, and the people building the apps continue to refer to women as "girls", like they've never had a relationship with an adult woman, then I agree, dating apps are going to continue their process of enshittification.
Even if you don't touch a dime of it, "had $X million in funds under management" is good for your next job. In business better to be the CEO of an ailing billion dollar business and drive it into the ground than actually do a good job managing a firm 1/10th the size.
Turing did continue working for GCHQ after the war, which may have simply had Delilah delayed in favour of the main computer project. (We can see others working on similar things, like Claude Shannon, so the idea wasn't entirely abandoned).

However, in 1952 Turing was convicted of being gay and that meant he lost his security clearance. His name became anathema, and a lot of his projects were immediately buried or forgotten.
Can confirm this.

I’ve also configured my jj to use the goland/intellij terminal command for diff viewing and conflict resolution, so I can still use the (imo great) visual tooling built into JetBrains IDEs.
>I care that they have no constitutional authority.

Opinion article that at least explains some of the authority that DOGE may have. DOGE is operating under U.S. Digital Service which was started by Obama, not congress, with a mission to assist other government services with technology, and may have authority via OMB and the president if the affected departs resist.

Nice to finally get some details, instead of rank speculation on all sides.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5126111-department-government-ef...
Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.
It may do depending in context, but that's not the point and in fact is widely recognized as a ad hominem argument and fallacious by definition.

Most emotionally mature people would stop arguing after something like that.
I suspect the vast majority is in the DoD, which, strangely, isn't the target here.
By the time there is any actual mass recognition of what is happening, nevermind any attempt to intervene, it will be far too late.

There was a successful coup and the USA as such has fallen, now presumably on the route to failing.
You can and should be upset. No reason to become complacent, that's a path to accelerated destruction.
This is a good type of feature. I've been super happy that WhatsApp finally added events recently, it's made seeing who will be coming to an event or not so much easier. Them adding polls a while back had already improved that a bunch, but this is even better, since it sends reminders and so on.

Of course Apple could use this to do vendor lock in (only apple users can create invites), but since anyone can join them I don't see it as a large issue.
From what I gather, life for most of these "regular people" in Germany was still very much in the tolerable range until well into WWII.

This was a very weird realization and one that left me pretty sad.

Edit to clarify: I also mean no condescension toward "regular people".
Oh, you're right, I didn't read it in my head like that.
Equal parts fascinating and dystopian.

I'm even more convinced now that online dating has reached a local optima, but eventually someone is going to find a solution that is less shallow and predatory and blow it out of the water.
We have Putin at home, he spent the past weekend making populist noises about annexing his neighbours over bullshit pretenses.

I'm sure this sounds like a big nothingburger from the perspective of, you know, people he isn't threatening.

How can you excuse that behaviour? How can you think someone like that can be trusted with any weapons? How naive and morally bankrupt do you have to be to build a gun for that kind of person, and think that it won't be used irresponsibly?
This is the case for boycotts, so a for-profit company loses when they make immoral decisions that destroy the brand and impact the bottom line.
inter species competition is really ramping up, I wonder if the Europeans will continue to survive this century
Has anyone noticed that the histograms have some spikes and valleys that are probably artifacts?

My guess is that there's some rounding or floating point shannanigans going on.

Yes this is what I have to contribute to the conversation, I cannot speak to the dating dynamics as I am an unexpert on that subject
Don't worry, the purely regulatory (according to Elon) barriers to FSD will soon be deleted by some SpaceX intern.
Sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of how current AI systems work. There is no "understanding" or "consciousness" present in LLMs such as ChatGPT. There is only an enormous database of text culled from the internet and other sources, and very clever algorithms to predict the most probable next word or syllable (token). This does a good job of giving the illusion that there's intelligence guiding the conversation, but it's really only a very sophisticated electronic parrot.

The good news is that this capability can be very useful in spotting patterns in large amounts of seemingly random data. But it would be a big mistake to assume that this indicates anything more than dumb search and retrieval.
Why not start with an organization that failed an audit 8 different times, the Pentagon. while its budget bloating every term. I highly doubt it will be touched.
Hmm ok so it doesn't actually work :(

Even if it worked with 3rd party apps, at that point why not install something like Signal.
I'm convinced that these people and in particular Jarvin read Snow Crash and want to make it reality.

Video with similar content, shows them actually talking about their ideas and plans: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
That's similar to getting votes on HN, it's mostly about appearing near the top of the comments, and that has mostly to so with getting in relatively early.

You also need to be reasonably good at commenting (ie, don't be ugly).
Here.

https://mrsdash.ca/product/mrs-dash-original-blend/

I just noticed that this is Mrs Dash in Canada (where I’m from). Curious why the US version is different?

Edit: check other flavors on the US site other than original blend, like tomato basil. They all have 10mg potassium.
> forced to NOT include

== "not being allowed to include"

i.e. a restriction on free speech with more worrying implications than "injecting dumb politics"
Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.
The US is not under any kind of credible threat and in fact is the aggressor across the globe and perpetrator of crimes against humanity at scale. This is not a recent phenomena and has been going on as long as this country has existed.
As a bi person who's currently a man, but considering transition, I can't help but wonder if maybe all the bi guys are just... picking up and leaving to become bi gals :P
It means all nations can agree to not unleash AI based weapons on the world. Sadly I don't see this happening.
It’s possible to join FaceTime calls from a web browser.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109364

I’m not defending Apple and don’t really want to get into a discussion into how limited this FaceTime over the web is and whatnot, I do think it could and should be done better. I’m just making a specific suggestion which may ease up your burden with those friends and family.
```sh

sweet@nadeko ~ $ mkcd test

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ zig init

info: created build.zig

info: created build.zig.zon

info: created src/main.zig

info: created src/root.zig

info: see `zig build --help` for a menu of options

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 5.08s user 0.58s system 119% cpu 4.745 total

# cached

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 0.01s user 0.03s system 132% cpu 0.026 total

# after rewriting the main function to call a function that takes a pointer to another function

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 0.02s user 0.03s system 136% cpu 0.032 total

```
I'm on OpenAI Tier 3 but still no o3-mini
Just an FYI to others. In the OpenAI documentation at https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits?tier=tie... it looks like once you are on Tier 3 or higher, then you can get access to o3-mini.

However, it looks like only select users are granted access and access is given in batches (see https://community.openai.com/t/usage-tier-3-access-denied-to...). Just something to consider.
"Turns out that when you taint good programs like disease monitoring by putting them in a bag with all the color revolution funding and censorship and shaking it really hard, people want to burn the shit bag instead of picking out the good bits."
- https://x.com/MrKapitalist/status/1886670873618473325

Check this $459 million opaque grant to [Redacted] in Nepal: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_LOGNPL001COM_9543...
This paper may be interesting to some of you:

Discretization of continuous input spaces in the hippocampal autoencoder

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14600
Location: Fortaleza, CE, Brazil;

Remote: yes;

Relocate: yes;

Technologies: Angular, Vue, Springboot, Quarkus, JPA, Hibernate, MyBatis, Python, Jasper, JUnit, Docker, SQL, Postgres and I know a few about Phoenix framework;

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I mentioned this on previous discussion recently, but I use jj for all my projects on github! It's really useful for my sort of workflow: chains of commits with easily-editable history. If you make a change back in time, you edit the previous commit (which puts you in a state similar to git's detached head), and any edits you make there are automatically carried forward (rebased) onto descendants. It feels way more natural, especially for newer users.

The killer feature that I love the most is a small one, but it's that commit messages can be made ahead of time rather than after-the-fact. So I can sit down at my desk, say

jj new -m "Work on XYZ feature"

then edit my code in the editor. When I'm finished, I move on to the next commit:

jj new -m "Working on UVW feature"

No more "oh no I accidentally started touching code and forgot to commit my work, so now I have to manually split two git commits;" it's a small way that the tooling encourages you to be intentional about your engineering philosophy.

The fact that jj snapshots the working tree on every command is a mixed blessing. It's nice and fast and so I do prefer it, but there have been times that I've been bit by accidentally adding my python virtualenv into repository history. Luckily it's easy to undo.

jj log ./venv # see which change added it
jj edit change-id
echo venv >> .gitignore
rm -r ./venv # or jj file untrack ./venv
jj edit whichever-change-you-were-on