MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siliconc0w | 2025-05-19 02:55:39+00:00
For Junior, problem is already triaged/scoped, low criticality, solutions to this kind of problem are provided but may need judgement or extension to identify the best approach. Design and implementation should be based on requirements gathering from immediate known stakeholders. May need low-level supervision/guidance.

For mid-level, they are capable doing more of the problem triaging/classification and can handle vaguer, larger scoped problems. They can identify the correct stakeholders to engage with and, ideally, influence. Can identify the most likely best approach amongst a set of possible approaches. Guidance is high level- like a weekly or bi-weekly 1:1. Better design taste as far as how to measure outcomes or rollout changes safely.

For senior you're ideally solving classes of problems rather than specific problems. You're charting a longer term roadmap that generates work and exerts influence amongst number of teams to drive long-term business outcomes. You are mentoring juniors/mid-levels so they're setup for success and have the right work at the right level of guidance at the right time to grow in their careers.
by mhitza | 2025-05-19 02:55:48+00:00
None of the current solutions support this. Only if you fallback to X11 forwarding, but then it's not going to be seamless because it requires setup on guests.

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, this was my conclusion last year when researching again this space (since we're talking about virtualization support, thanks again RedHat for deprecating SPICE /s).

I've read that it's possible in Windows' RDP, but haven't found a Linux client/server setup that supports that.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-05-19 02:57:33+00:00
It comes down to how much is your time worth. If you're a developer making $100K+ a year, a $1,000 over a decade is nothing if it increases your productivity 2-3X compared to your collegues, which considering the fact that some of my colleagues store their notes in Windows Notepad is a complete underestimation.
by p_ing | 2025-05-19 03:00:08+00:00
Even P2/P3/AMD K6-2 mostly had a need for a bunch of addin cards. Video, sound, NIC at a minimum. Maybe a modem or MPEG-2 decoder card or TV tuner.

Take a look at one of the best boards of the era — ASUS P2B. All of the above would be needed.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-19 03:00:18+00:00
That is because a woman’s cost of having a child is roughly the same across all cultures.

Not just the biological costs and risks of pregnancy/childbirth/breastfeeding/infant rearing, but the financial cost that forces most to give up independence and have to rely on and compromise with someone else.

If I was a woman, I could see having one kid, maybe two kids. Having 3 kids? Absolutely out of the question. I would never expect anyone to do what I saw my wife do (relatively uncomplicated pregnancies with secure finances) 3 or more times.

And that is generally what you see, very few women having 3+ kids, and most with 0, 1, or 2. The large proportion of 0s and 1s really drags the TFR down to below replacement rate.
by yuye | 2025-05-19 03:02:59+00:00
Same in the Taipei Metro system. Stations often have facilities(like toilets, stores and lockers) within the paid area. However, getting in and out at the same station charges you the base cost: NT$20 (About US$0.66).

For example: You'd explain to the staff that you want to use the toilets, and they'll hand you a plastic NFC token coin, limited to enter and exit at the same station. You use that to enter the paid area, go to the toilet, then deposit the coin in a special slot to exit.

>Gate guards usually hand you a slip that explains the situation at the other gate or when leaving again.

That was done in the past, but it's quite nice that they just hand you a token now.

Alternatively, train stations in the Netherlands have done away with fees for entering and exiting the same station altogether. Toilets within stations often charge a €0,70 fee, though.
by endtime | 2025-05-19 03:03:36+00:00
We just had blinds installed from ublockout.com (hope it's not against the rules to link this - I have zero affiliation with them other than being a recent customer). The price was reasonable and they do the job. By far the biggest sources of light in my bedroom now are leakage under doors and various small LEDs (not enough to bother me, but of course there are ways to tackle that too).
by brig90 | 2025-05-19 03:04:18+00:00
Great question — and something I've been thinking about. I stripped suffixes mostly to normalize some of the repeated endings (aiin, dy, etc.) that felt like filler, but you’re totally right that preserving them might preserve structure I lost.

Clustering by sentence or page would be interesting too — I haven't gone that far yet, but it’d be fascinating to see if there’s consistency across visual/media sections. Appreciate the insight!
by eyelidlessness | 2025-05-19 03:04:51+00:00
I think they’re talking about something slightly different, and they allude to it by saying the useful complex types on the happy path become less useful when something goes wrong.

What I believe they’re encountering is that type errors—as in mistaken use of APIs, which are otherwise good when used correctly—become harder to understand with such complex types. This is a frequent challenge with TypeScript mapped and conditional types, and it’s absolutely just as likely with good APIs as bad ones. It’s possible to improve on the error case experience, but that requires being aware of/sensitive to the problem, and then knowing how to apply somewhat unintuitive types to address it.

For instance, take this common form of conditional type:

type CollectionValue<T> = T extends Collection<infer U> ? U : never;

The never case can cause a lot of confusion, especially at a distance where CollectionValue may be invoked indirectly. It can often be a lot easier to understand why a type error occurs by producing another incompatible type in the same position:

type CollectionValue<T> = T extends Collection<infer U> ? U : 'Expected a Collection';

(I’ve used somewhat simplistic examples, because I’m typing this on my phone. But hopefully the idea is clear enough for this discussion!)
by credit_guy | 2025-05-19 03:05:57+00:00
Nuclear war may happen. I am giving more than a 50% chance that some form of nuclear weapon use in war will happen in my lifetime. But there are so many ways this could happen, from just a resumption of underground testing, to atmospheric testing, to dropping a bomb on an uninhabited island of the adversary, to detonating a bomb in space, to detonating a bomb inside your own territory while it's being overrun by the adversary, to detonating a bomb undersea with plausible deniability, and all the way to wiping out one city, or lots of cities. Nuclear war does not mean automatically end of civilization. Russia would like you to believe so, so they can prepare for all contingencies, but we don't.
by abathologist | 2025-05-19 03:07:01+00:00
As a matter of fact, I don't think its true that

> if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

But I also think that this claim is (1) practically impossible to prove and (2) a claim we morally ought to attempt to disprove.
by brig90 | 2025-05-19 03:07:44+00:00
Honestly, I had never even heard of the manuscript before this weekend. I’ve been looking for interesting ways to strengthen my understanding of NLPs, and thought: 1) maybe this would be a good fit, and 2) maybe it hadn’t been approached in quite this way before?

That second part wasn’t super important though — this was more about learning and experimenting than trying to break new ground. Really appreciate the kind words, and hopefully it sparks someone to take it even further.
by rossy | 2025-05-19 03:10:15+00:00
> Art is something that cannot be generated like synthetic text so it will have to be nearly forever powered by human artists or else you will continue to end up with artifacting.

The rise of GPT slop is making it increasingly clear to me that this distinction doesn't exist, and it's just an under-appreciation of the skill that goes into good writing. That thing where LLMs generate overly-wordy mealy-mouthed text is just what bad writing looks like: the writing equivalent of a bad drawing. Subtle inaccuracies and ill-fitting metaphors are just the text version of visual artifacts.

Not to diminish the plight of art and artists, but it's the same as the plight of writers and writing. Writers are also having their copyrighted works used against their will to destroy their own industry. LLMs also need big human-written datasets to keep the magic running, that are drying up as they get poisoned by their own output.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-19 03:10:15+00:00
Price discrimination is a subject covered in introductory level microeconomics courses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

Bottom line is collect more money from those able and willing to pay you more, and collect less from those less able and willing to pay you, as long as it is above the cost of goods sold.

At some national parks or attractions in poorer countries, they will ask to see your passport and collect more money if you are from a richer country.
by baobun | 2025-05-19 03:16:51+00:00
Altman measures "achievement of AGI" in purely economic terms. Nothing to do with "consciousness" or "intelligence". Once global revenue tied to it hits x00M$ (or xB$ if they want to keep pushing and "adjust for inflation"), we have "AGI". So here it's entirely out of context.

I think on the latest numbers they just need 25% returns on the big US center to get there.
by CoolCold | 2025-05-19 03:18:01+00:00
IO bound, how you define that? From my perspective, modern consumer grade SSDs/NVMes producing 7GB/s-8GB/s (yep, Giga Byte per second) for reads gives me 1/7-1/8 of second to load that data in RAM the rest of the 1 second is for CPU.
by SuperShibe | 2025-05-19 03:18:34+00:00
>try to find events around may 30

>click "See more events" 2 times

>still only see events til may 23

>click "See more events" once again

>page starts lagging, nothing happens

>try to click "See more events" again

>more events suddenly load

>get clickjacked onto some random guys LinkedIn

this could be a simple html table for the entire year 2025 and be both more performant and more comfortable to use
by _blk | 2025-05-19 03:18:50+00:00
Haha, good one. So in California you can say whatever neonazi shizz you like and buy Hitler's books because of the 1st ammendent but you can't have an 88 on your state issued vanity license plate (what about randomly issued ones?) But in Germany where all that is forbidden by law you have the short form of the hitler salute on a whole city's plates. Looks like no one died from those in German so can we just reinstate the 1st on license plates California and save a few millions in review costs? It's not like things were fast at the DMV anyways..
by mmooss | 2025-05-19 03:20:03+00:00
> I think you have 2 issues with content based systems: you have ambiguity (in archiving and retrieval) and you have to use mental effort to resolve that ambiguity.

True, but .......

Full-text search solves many problems. And hyperlinks enable knowledge to be in multiple places at once and even remain normalized (i.e., it can be in other locations by reference). If your kb has an efficient 'include' functionality, it's even easier.

Most importantly, if you are using your kb well (by my definition [0]), you record high-quality knowledge that you've already engaged deeply with. If you can't solve the content ambiguity issue easily, it's just a sign that you haven't engaged and don't know it well enough.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025080
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-19 03:20:41+00:00
A very large percentage aren't there to uphold some notion of academic integrity. They're there to hand over wads of cash and do whatever else they need to do to get the credentials that they need to get some particular job (or rather, any white-collar job these day). Many of them don't care about the subject - only a small subset of students actually end up in the fields they study - even in STEM, many will go to finance if they can. The ones at the higher levels looking for that golden job stand to lose lifetime millions in earning (and for some, a green card) if they don't do well. The ones just looking for any job just need to scrape through. They don't come from the academic system, they won't stay there, they don't respect it or even want to be there and have no relationship with the institution or its staff other than a begrudging financial one and an adversarial educational one.

Universities for their part were handed a poisoned chalice by governments demanding Shiny Modern Economy things like "50% of people should have degrees". Comply, and make scads of cash by gradually selling off credibility over decades. Refuse and be crushed into obscurity by those who take the deal (and by the way, all these vocational schools are universities now).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-19 03:21:14+00:00
> How did research on the solar event find a layer deposited in what is undoubtedly surface not upper atmosphere?

FTFA: "Solar particle storms can greatly enhance the normal production of cosmogenic isotopes like radiocarbon (14C) in the atmosphere by galactic cosmic rays. Such enhanced production, preserved in annual tree rings, serves as a clear cosmic timestamp making possible absolute dating of tree samples."
by chrisweekly | 2025-05-19 03:21:16+00:00
Yes! Keep it simple. Start w/ a daily note. Write stuff as you go. Extract from DN into a dedicated (transcluded) note when you reach the point where you're later searching for it across more than a couple DNs, or if you're confident that's going to happen. By default, I recommend a strong bias towards simplicity, w/ chronological, low-friction entries. "Where does it go" becomes moot if you are in your Daily Note: just write it here, now, and optionally extract it later only if/when doing so provides obvious benefit.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-05-19 03:22:04+00:00
None of those. As we're seeing in Ukraine, the new drone wars are all about tiny commercial/consumer drones being repurposed as weapons in huge numbers [0].

Obviously, everyone scoffed at this when reports first came out. How can a $250 consumer drone take out a multi-million-dollar modern tank?

Yet here we are. Neither side are fielding tanks any more because they're vulnerable to drones, and therefore obsolete [1] (caveat: we haven't seen the end of this cycle of development and response, so it's possible that tanks work out how to defend against drones and continue being relevant. I suspect it's more likely that tanks go the way of cavalry. Machine guns were the answer to cavalry. Tanks are an answer to machine guns. Drones are the answer to tanks. The answer to drones won't be better tanks).

The Ukraine war is not a naval war, so we're not seeing the same rapid development of new naval military doctrine. But if a naval war kicked off, it's reasonable to expect the same rapid adoption of new technology would play out, with the same results. Large, expensive, weapon systems (in Ukraine tanks, in naval war ships) are vulnerable to massed attacks by smaller, cheaper, weapons using new tech that we haven't used like this before.

[0]https://theaircurrent.com/ukraine-special-report/ukraine-dro...

[1] https://www.army-technology.com/features/mbts-vs-drones-are-...
by Gibbon1 | 2025-05-19 03:22:52+00:00
My school all the labs were group projects. So it's not one project it's all of them. Guy in our group didn't do any work at all. Just up and refused.

He thought he thought he could get away with that because it was his last semester and he had been accepted into the masters program at Stanford. We talked to the professor and the professor kicked him out of the class.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-19 03:25:39+00:00
For the sake of preventing perverse incentives, I would encourage you to just make this claim in discussions of BeOS or perhaps early Windows, and not when Bill's philanthropy comes up.

Otherwise other billionaires will think: "If I get into philanthropy, people will take it as an opportunity to publicize un-flattering facts about me."
by chrismorgan | 2025-05-19 03:25:54+00:00
> Even more recent translations seem to retain significant similarity in a lot of "famous" texts

Probably the best example of that is John 3:16, the best-known verse in the entire Bible: almost everyone understands it incorrectly, and the significant majority of current translations have knowingly rendered it incorrectly. KJV: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, &c.”. Trouble is, you can read that English word “so” in two main and quite different senses:

1. Thus, in this way. “For this is how God loved the world: he gave⸺” This is the sense the KJV meant. The “, that” would become just “: ” in modern English.

2. To a significant extent, of high magnitude. “For because of God’s exceeding love, he gave⸺” This is how modern readers will almost always read the sentence, even if the comma before the word “that” then doesn’t really fit.

The first sense is unambiguously the correct meaning of the Greek word Οὕτως, by itself and in that context, and I imagine it is how people read the KJV four hundred years ago. But the English language has shifted.

As far as I can tell, newer translations don’t tend to want to invite trouble (look at all the kerfuffle over the RSV’s rendition of Isaiah 7:14!) and so decide to keep the traditional English interpretation. Sure, it’s not quite what the text actually says, but what it means isn’t wrong, and there’s not a huge gap between “this is how God showed his love⸺” and “God’s love was so extreme that⸺” in reality.

And so they end up mostly going for something like “For God so loved the world that he gave⸺” (a mite worse in my opinion: the removal of the comma precludes the first sense). Some go all in on being wrong with “For God loved the world so much that he gave⸺”.

I’m genuinely surprised at how few have insisted on translating it correctly, given how widely I understand the problem is understood among translators. In <https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/jn3.16>: CSB, GW, HCSB, ISV, LEB, MOUNCE, NOG, NET, NLT, VOICE. MSG is perhaps the most interesting, artfully blending the two senses.
by david927 | 2025-05-19 03:25:59+00:00
You'll love it. It will change your life in an amazing way.

Tips? Nothing concrete. Be open. Everything will change; let it. What you thought is true and indisputable will be called into question; let it. Find new truths. Bruce Lee said, "Be water." Be water. Allow it to change you and it will, permanently, in the best way possible.

When I was 26, I moved from California to Europe and never looked back. Easily one of the best decisions of my life. Have fun. You won't regret it.

Oh and when they ask you, "Who do you support?" (and they will!) it means which football (soccer) team do you back, and the answer is Liverpool.

P.S. If you have any concrete questions, my email is in my profile.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-19 03:28:25+00:00
I don't mean this as a slight against you but it's incredible how much code it takes to write a browser that barely works. I've always thought it would be fun to write a browser in erlang/elixir due to its fault tolerance (a memory from the early days when browsers would constantly crash), but browsers are so outrageously complex with such intense performance requirements the thought of even creating a repo sickens me. I mean it looks like you guys have 100+ files, with half of the files being ~500+ lines of code.

Incredible work and dedication
by xenadu02 | 2025-05-19 03:28:42+00:00
Biophotons (or ultra weak photon emission) has been known about for decades. Various reactive oxidative molecules release light when coming down from an excited state. Some enzymatic activity is also known to produce light.

The big question has been just how much useful information can be derived from that light? It is difficult to tease out signal from noise and the human body is far from transparent at those frequencies so it's not like you could use it for imaging.

Since breathing stops and various oxidation reactions thus also slow or stop it makes sense the emitted light would decrease.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-19 03:28:53+00:00
In my experience, the majority of the fraud is legal.

Charging the DoD $400 for a toilet seat is an absolute fraud --- but perfectly legal if they agree to pay it.

Replacing perfectly functional equipment just in order to use up this year's budget and avoid cuts for next year is a common fraud that occurs at all levels of government --- done without breaking any laws.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-19 03:30:09+00:00
We should also ask ourselves: assuming AGI (far exceeding human capabilities in every field of intellect) will emerge in near-future, could turn against humanity, look for ways to wipe us out and/or plunge our society in total chaos (or send us on a self-destruct path), what could humanity do to prevent such scenarios?

I doubt this would happen. But can we rule it out 100%? We've become dependent on technology + networked systems to a high degree. If that's messed with (large-scale, worldwide, many different systems simultaneously or in short order), can we still 'unplug'? (those AGI systems, or ourselves - take your pick)

For the naysayers: some possibilities:

# AGI systems co-operating. Or taking over other systems to further their goals.

# Discovering ways to erase (or corrupt / subtly modify) most data stored in datacenters, and most backups too.

# Exploiting 0-days to do similar bad stuff to PC's, smartphones, etc. Remember most such devices are always-connected these days & employ automatic updates.

# Mess with critical infrastructure like power grids, logistics chains, public transport / flight control systems, etc. Or plunge stock markets into chaos.

# Develop a deadly biological weapon, have that synthesized somewhere, and cause it to be released.

# Mess with social media & news networks, to send humans into mass hysteria (or blissfully unaware what's about to hit them).

Granted, such a "rise of the machines" scenario sounds pretty wild. But "99.999% certain this won't happen", doesn't cut it imho. A 100% safety guarantee is needed here.
by chmod775 | 2025-05-19 03:30:14+00:00
There's never been a time in the history of mankind when there was greater abundance than now, but we suddenly cannot afford children anymore? Maybe we ought to task scientists with figuring out what precious secret to raising children mankind forgot when we were too preoccupied with discovering fire and electricity. Hopefully they left us some carving in a deer antler that will give us insight into their superior budgeting skills.

I'm sorry, but that's absolute nonsense.
by jaredklewis | 2025-05-19 03:30:20+00:00
> How would swapping interest bearing money for non interest bearing money cause inflation?

The way that basically all economists think it works: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-mon...

Those rich people and organizations invest in stuff like businesses and real estate. The businesses spend money on things (including labor) driving up costs. Rent and land costs get more expensive too
by Guestmodinfo | 2025-05-19 03:30:21+00:00
Can you please make one for India or any place where Indians or other third world countries with large populations can find work too. I'm sure you can serve up this as a premium service in India with some 40 companies and ppl will be happy to pay you an yearly subscription of 1000 rupees (slightly more than 10$) for 50 searches
by DamonHD | 2025-05-19 03:30:24+00:00
Whereabouts in London? I am at the south-western edge.

Make use of the huge amounts of green space that London has.

Make use of the nightlife in London.

Make use of the huge number of in-person events in London.

I am contactable via my profile if you'd like a more detailed discussion, and/or to meet for beer, coffee, etc.