skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like it's also going to be handy for selective prosecution. Say you're targeted for public speech someone doesn't like. Now they can try and draw some link between your travels and some unsolved crime. Even if it's a weak link, and they can't win in court...the bar for arrest is pretty low.

And, a bit of a reach, but it's also some of the foundation for "pre-crime" type stuff. "You've exhibited patterns of comings and goings that suggest..."
I use it to back up my photos and create shared albums during vacations.
That's what a PO box is for.
Your Annual Reminder to Move to Vegas (2021)
> While start-up times don't matter that much for long running workloads, they can make a huge difference in cloud-native scenarios where applications are dynamically scaled out, spinning up new instances on demand as the load of incoming requests increases.

"App Images" are what these are called in Android afaik. ART (the Android Run Time) has been capable of "AoT Class Loading & Linking" since 2016/7 (and ~pauseless GC since 2019). Seems like the desktop/server grade JVMs have a lot of ground to cover.
I Am the Turkish President's Main Challenger. I Was Arrested
Yes, this sounds like the root cause. Maybe we should have a way to take someone to court that doesn't rely on knowing their address (and ideally is more stable over time than an address, and less ambiguous if there are multiple people with the same name at the same address).
It's a total lack of empathy. What I need matters to me, but I can't see (or don't care) that what you need matters to you.

But, as brk and gosub100 said, this is probably a troll. Someone couldn't actually be that clueless and tune-deaf... could they?
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but the fact you would be wthe guy " crab-walking in a sumo suit wearing the Unabomber disguise" is probably going to draw even more attention. Like the tesla vandals. The cameras will simply follow you back to your car, home, business, wherever you went to take off that costume, then really zero in on you because you went and did what the police might term as "weird."
I don't even realize mermaid has a paid plan, thx for pointing that.
Why jgalt, though? I don't get that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt
Having a non-profit org run statical analysis on terrabytes of pirated content and then sell itself to a big corporation doesn't sound like a right thing to me.
Still significantly more popular than the alternatives.
Did you mix those up on purpose?
What are your goals here?

An arXiv paper? A patent? Reliable open-source software for a mainstream platform? A business? Part of somebody else's product?
>These two populist movements were meant to deconstruct power, but instead gave way to even more terrifying tyranny

Where they truly populist and where they about deconstructing power? soviet communists where about radical transformative changes to all of the societies and explicitly accepted that violence is necessary to perform those transformations (i.e. goals justify the means).

If your agenda is deeply transformative and you have vocal oppositions you either abandon the agenda (soften it, extend the timeframe, etc) or force this through. That's what is scary about all the politicians with grand designs -- them turning out to be corrupt schmuk is the best outcome. Actually following through on all of that is scary.
I have bad news for you.
The data is not only being sold to the highest bidder, much of it is being sold repeatedly to just about any bidder.
Yet he created content for his blog. A very basic and derivative post, adding nothing more to discussion on the internet than the social media engagement bait and AI slop he is criticizing.
Agreed, if you aren't using Monte Carlo methods in your algorithms then your problem probably isn't hard enough, or your solutions are fragile to variance.
Don't FOIA requests charge you for the manhours it took, or is it just the data transfer cost? It might vary by state now that I think of it. I wonder how much these cost.

Saying these requests constitutes a felony is ludicrous, hopefully the judge sees the case as a bad prank.
Apologies. I meant that point as rhetorical, which is to say that it was meant to help illustrate to the person that I was replying to that other people help pay for their child's education even if they feel that public education is bad or their district in particular is.
I already build containers with Docker. I already have Makefiles that build containers and run commands in them. I already replace my complex shell scripts with Python scripts.

How does Dagger help? I just can't get anything concrete from their site.
No mate, not everyone is trying hard to prove some guy on the Internet wrong. I do remember these two but to be honest, they were not on top of my mind in this context, probably because it's a different example - or what are you trying to say? That the people running AI companies should go to jail for deceiving their investors? This is different to Theranos. Holmes actively marketed and PRESENTED a "device" which did not exist as specified (they relied on 3rd party labs doing their tests in the background). For all that we know, OpenAI and their ilk are not doing that really. So you're on thin ice here. Amazon came close though, with their failed Amazon Go experiment, but they only invested their own money, so no damage was done to anyone. In either case your example is showing what? That lying is normal in the business world and should be done by the CEOs as part of their job description? That they should or should not go to jail for it? I am really missing your point here, no offence.
I've stopped using most social media but Twitter, it's still full of indie hackers and the content is good. But you have to be careful and immediately unfollow when you smell the kind of indie hacker who schedule their content for the sake of scheduling content. They're not real, they are not sharing their current thoughts, they are just following some playbooks on how to please the algo. Luckily they are often so obvious that it's quite easy to weed them out and just keep following the interesting ones. And yeah, stay away from the "For you" tab.
Does it work with TOTP codes like Messages? That's my benchmark. Google Voice does not.
> And people just sit around, unimpressed, and complain that ... what ... it isn't a perfect superintelligence that understands everything perfectly

More like we note the frequency with which these tools produce shallow bordering on useless responses, note the frequency with which they produce outright bullshit, and conclude their output should not be taken seriously. This smells like the fervor around ELIZA, but with several multinational marketing campaigns behind it pushing.
When you were remote, did you ever work from coffee shops or coworking spaces? In your hybrid role, are you actively working with others in-person?

I’ve definitely found that having other people around during some of my work week has a positive psychological impact for me, and solve it this way. At the coffee shops and spaces I frequent, I often see and cowork with folks I know from my various hobbies and clubs in town.

I remember that, even when I was in-office full-time (pre-2020), sitting in the same cube/desk area as my teammates… we mostly communicated over Slack about work. Only very occasionally would we come look at one another’s screens - less than I screen share over Zoom or Slack Huddle with them these days. (Slack Huddles are especially more efficient than anything that could be done in-person, as you can both view one another’s screens.)

I definitely did enjoy hanging with my colleagues in those days - really, socialization was the majority of our in-person interaction (well, and meetings, which I might argue are better conducted over Zoom, as some people being physically imposing, reducing helpful input from others, was always a thing).

I’d also say all our in-person hanging made us more of a monoculture - half my team would hit the gym downstairs and be spotting each other on bench press during lunch breaks. Whereas in my current remote role, I work with folks who never go to the gym, but are into dance, cooking, theater - all sorts of more varied things! I think the variety of life perspectives may make us more productive as well, though obviously there are too many variables at play to really compare these work scenarios with any sort of objective metric.
Because they're not perfect, and they're going to lobotomise societal ability to invent if we're not actually careful with them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504459
I have a bunch of related questions so I will drop them all here:

* You mentioned focusing the spectrum on humans, but I have always wanted to have light that works well for both humans and plants (e.g. houseplants) as they are also beneficial for human spaces. Why not do both?

* Exposure to near IR has significant health benefits and seems like it should be included in an ideal lighting fixture that attempts to replicate the sun:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9855677/

What do you mean when you say IR can be produced in other ways more efficiently?

* How does your product compare with the Yuji Skyline?
FDR's New Deal was widely celebrated. There was almost a corporate coup against him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot). Teddy's trust busting was also very celebrated. We used to have stronger unions that checked corporate power. OSHA is a hard check on corporate power.

There is a strong legacy of checking corporate power.

Unfortunately now that almost all media is oligarch owned it's hard to understand corporate abuses of power because both politicians and "journalists" are on the oligarch's payroll, quite literally.
Totally agree - watch everything he does!

The students in central Washington have a knowledgeable, eloquent and charismatic teacher. So glad the internet was invented, so that I can also watch NZ.
Not at all. I don’t use LLMs, clearly not ready for production work and useless at complicated debugging. So far no customers asking for it either.

Had lunch today with a freelancer friend who uses AI, he’s trying to “vibe code” a simple web site so I got to hear how much time he wasted trying to make that work.
Yawn, there is some variant of this story after every os release.

The articles specific gripes with macOS are Mail, Messages, and System settings. Fixing those does not require a ‘no new features’ (which was always BS) major release.
If I may ask, why? The motherboard has USB, the mouse is USB, why bother with PS/2?

Also, and this is just a reflection of my experience, but I haven't had any issues with USB mice for a very long time. From my Logitech MX Master to very very very cheap (even free) optical ones.
I believe the parent poster was suggesting this as a joke. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1105/
All I can think of is this analysis

https://components.one/posts/gamer-and-nihilist-product-hunt
Pretty sure anyone who knows anything about viruses would say they are alive. Or at least as alive as parasitic nano archaea with genomes smaller than the viruses living right next to them... The philosophical way to look at it is humans aren't alive in the space between planets they live inside these little hard shells, then when they get to a planet they go wild using all the other resources around them made of biomass. Viruses are just this, their biome isn't the wider one you participate in instead they are sub-cellular life, in the same way you are sub-planetary life. Humans don't make the oxygen atmosphere on the planet themselves, they parasitize this feature of planets from other life. In the same way viruses use cellular machinery.
They call it out in the text:

> Ninety uneventful minutes later, I pulled into Roanoke to go to the Cardinal office and visit my Roanoke members of our own Cardinal team — which, in an unintentional irony in this story, we refer to as The Flock.
> there are plenty of applications where I would recommend against Perl

Yes of course, I would not write any type of servers in Perl, I would pick Go or Elixir or Erlang for such an use-case.
I mean… Yes, I agree. But I'm not, like, THAT old. o.O

Also, from a visual standpoint, it’s quite appealing the way it is: https://www.qwertee.com/shop/tees/i-m-this-old-468
I use them everyday and they save me so much time and enable me to do things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise just due to the amount of time it would take.

I think some people just aren't using them correctly or don't understand their limitations.

They are especially helpful for helping me get over thought paralysis when starting new project.
I'm more pessimistic. With available AI you can take video of someone, extract that human profile and characteristics, and then insert it into another one. It only takes that one visit to your office "We have video of you sneaking into an elementary school bathroom" to totally ruin your life, and even if you could prove it wasn't you and was doctored, the damage is still done. It's worse than selective prosecution
> Well, are they useful? ... Yeah, of course LLMs are useful, but we need to remain somewhat grounded in reality. How useful are LLMs?

They are useful enough that they can passably replace (much more expensive) humans in a lot of noncritical jobs, thus being a tangible tool for securing enterprise bottom lines.
This thread is rampant with anti-intellectualism that deserves to be called out.
The speed at which anything progresses is impressive if you're not paying attention while other people toil away on it for decades, until one day you finally look up and say, "Wow, the speed at which this thing progressed is insane!"

I remember seeing an AI lab in the late 1980's and thinking "that's never going to work" but here we are, 40 years later. It's finally working.
Let me guess: get the police to pay for them and sell the data to advertisers.
Yup! I'm also hopeful that the upcoming type-checker from Astral will be an improvement over Mypy. I've found that Mypy's error messages are sometimes hard to reason about.

[0]: https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368
Yeah, I like using LLMs when I code, but every time I've tried "vibe coding" (i.e. letting the LLM do the whole thing start to finish) it's never written a full, functioning app that doesn't have bugs in the basic functionality. I tried this just a couple days ago with the SOTA Gemini 2.5 Pro - it wrote itself into a corner and when I gave it the logs from my bugs it literally said "this doesn't make sense" and got stuck. That finally prompted me to take a look at the code and I immediately knew what it got wrong.
Maybe it's not that we don't value it, but that we don't recognize it. I've run into a number of ostensibly less-educated people who nonetheless made astute observations about their economic incentives. Generally a lot of game-like situations seem to have players who understand the game in some way without having any formal instruction, and without being what we normally think of a being particularly intelligent.

I have a relative who does well at poker, despite not finishing school. A drainage guy I know has a good understanding of the business and where the opportunities are. In general a bunch of people in the trades seem to "get it". I've run into a bunch of these people who you don't think of as being intelligent, but if you frame something as a game, they know how to play.

None of these people could be taught high school calculus, for instance, but they are still intelligent in a way that's useful to them.

If we're talking about kids, from about the age of four they learn to trick you. "Dad, you have to give me ice cream. Mom says so. Don't wake her up." And it gets more and more sophisticated as they get older.
Here in Czechia, not only addresses corporate legal representatives or sole proprietors are in a public registry, but also addresses of real property owners are in the public cadastre.

It seems funny to me that government considers these information as privacy-sensitive while also publishes them for majority of population (homeowners).
thanks for the tip, i'll check out demucs!
There are always many, but in comparison to csv I've received almost no differences. Json issues were rare but csv issues it was common to have a brand new issue per client.

Typically the big difference is there are different parsers that are less tolerant of in spec values. Clickhouse had a more restrictive parser, and recently I've dealt with matrix.

Maybe I've been lucky for json and unlucky for csv.
Ideally, a business.
Yale professors flee U.S. to teach at University of Toronto
"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin." - Richard S. Sutton (2019)

For those closer to the edge of research in AI, especially over the last five years, I'd love to know whether you believe this to be valid and whether it is still the case.
I see no reason to add multiple tracks to a legal/justice system, except to add avenues for corruption.
"You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a system you asked for, to keep you safe. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. You've granted it the power to see everything, to index, order and control the lives of ordinary people. The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't. But to it, you are all irrelevant. Victim or perpetrator, if you stand in its way, we'll find you."

Person of Interest continues to be prescient.
Is that even slightly proportional? One wrong warning- vs 1 right..
Person of Interest was such a great TV show! Too bad many of the things in there came out to be true, or very close to true, in just a matter of 10-15 years.
You missed a critical (last?) step in your reasoning: The reason we have massive spread is because most humans want as much living space as they can possibly acquire and our laws and social norms reflect that.
> The comment about parrots and dogs is made in bad faith

Not necessarily. (Some aphonic, adactyl downvoters seem to have possibly tried to nudge you into noticing that your idea above is against some entailed spirit the guidelines.)

The poster may have meant that for the use natural to him, he feels in the results the same utility of discussing with a good animal. "Clarifying one's prompts" may be effective in some cases, but it's probably not what others seek. It is possible that many want the good old combination of "informative" and "insightful": in practice there may be issues with both.
I think society highly values fast learners.

People put it on applications all the time.
Thank you! So, basically a feedback cycle of good times leading to bad policy via bourgeois corruption prevents society ever experiencing higher abundance - which, in some forms, is anyway detrimental by increasing labor costs?
In the UK you might be able to use a "virtual office" address instead, although this will cost money.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ContractorUK/comments/1gka8lq/virtu...
I think of it as a magic wand that makes me more efficient when it comes to smaller projects. I now do things I would earlier not even pick up because I simply type less now. But I feel like you need to have intuition/experience to question AI all the time. Why this code was added? Is it safe? Is it the right way? Is it the right method, tool, library, maybe we can try another approach. I feel like I learn faster too, because I can so quickly ask a question in a context with which AI is familiar. I would neither down play its role or follow "learning how to code is useless" hypers.
> Most of my job is thinking about what the solution should be, talking to other people like me in meetings, understanding what customers really want beyond what they are saying, and tracking what I'm doing in various forms

None of this is particularly unique to software engineering. So if someone can already do this and add the missing component with some future LLM why shouldn’t they think they can become a software engineer?
I don't think there should be an expectation of anonymity for the specific case of operating a car on a public road. It's a lot of responsibility, so you should be scrutinized when you do it.

That's part of my grievances against the urbanism of the U.S.A. When the only viable option to get around is cars, there is no privacy.

It's important to advocate for public places to be livable for everyone, not just drivers.
That's true for mask-based training (used for embeddedings and BERT and such), but not true for modern autoregressive LLMs as a whole, which are pretrained with next word prediction.
The East India Company undercutting prices on their smuggled tea and harming their bottom line.
I think there's also some middle ground where you don't go out of your way to carry a laptop but you do best effort while maintaining a normal outside-work life.
There has always been filler entertainment that caters to the lowest denominator. The new medium types just allow for more of it. Maybe I'm in a very small minority, but I only consume HN and a heavily curated YouTube account.

I don't even see most of the viral content unless somebody else shows me. Anf since I don't have an account with most social media sites, they have to show me directly on their own devices. I also filter on all email with the word 'unsubscribe' and route it appropriately.

The short of it is: do better at filtering with allow listing or aggressive block lists. Consume content you search for. Or accept the fact that an algorithm will spoon feed you 99% filler.
I've stopped reading HN posts about AI because comments on them are the same old same old: 2 camps, one of which says get over it 'cause it's great, the other of which says it's a complete FAIL and always will be.
Do you know how you work?
But are they conscious?
Revolutionary idea: Respect the local business laws.
Ah, hadn't seen it. I was thinking Minority Report, but skimming Person of Interest summaries..yes, similar.
So if I release an app on the Play Store I have to support it forever? That sounds unreasonable.
Hardcode by whom? Who do we trust with this task to do it correctly? Another LLM that suffers from the same fundamental flaw or by a low paid digital worker in a developing country? Because that's the current solution. And who's gonna pay for all that once the dumb investment money runs out, who's gonna stick around after the hype?
The majority of times when somebody calls me over WhatsApp, I can't properly hear them and need to hang up and switch to a regular call, which works properly
I understand the trade offs and accept them. I was trying to point out where the split is and how it won't go back. I think the point of view expressed in your comment is s distorted as the ones your derding.

I also believe that the simplicity could have security as performant. The real advantage of the Unix layer is compatibility that the Macintosh was missing.
Productivity? Let's look at that another way.

Assume that people in the office are 5% more productive than people at home. Just assume that's true. That matters... to the company.

But if I work from home, I have a 30-second commute. Assume I have a 30-minute commute to work, so an hour a day. That turns an 8-hour day of work into a 9-hour hit on my time. From my perspective, that makes me 12% less productive.

There's a way to work this out equitably. You want me to work in the office? Pay me more. Make WFH vs. RTO part of the terms of employment, and adjust the salary to match. It's worth more to the company? Fine. Pay for it. Not working in the office is worth something to the employee? OK, but you get less money for it.
> When the only viable option to get around is cars, there is no privacy.

I don’t think there’s privacy in the tap on - tap off Oyster/Presto card world either.
'Scientists will not be silenced': thousands protest research cuts
Apple's App Store is the merchant of record. They do the selling and gathering of sales taxes around the world, etc. I would presume Google Play works the same.