skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Well in this case the young people in question have, on a generational level, inherited worse circumstances than their parents.

At no point in history has the world been less violent and more accommodating for marginalized people. Or are you implying that is the problem?

Otherwise, I suspect you're just alluding to the high housing prices caused by every young person wanting to move to the same 5 cities and driving up prices? I mean, the US is big and housing is cheap in plenty of places. Starter homes used to be a thing.
Green card job postings do this because it is a requirement to advertise the opening. So you tailor the job description specifically for the person you already employ on a immigrant visa.
Back when I had my own HPC company, we often consulted on RFP specs for customers building clusters. After a while we started building our own clusters. A well known large/prestigious university on the East Coast US called us to help with the RFP, and bid. We did.

We found out later that they simply wanted help with the RFP. They never took our bid seriously. Small company with a great rep, they preferred dealing with the large companies with meh reps.

Another one ... a university somewhere here in Michigan, an alma mater of mine in fact, did something akin to this, but used another vendor as its stalking horse. We constructed our bid aggressively, and submitted.

Later that month, while on vacation with the family in Florida, the purchasing agent called me up. She wanted me to teach the other companies how to do what we did (much higher density, far better performance, etc.) I asked why. She said they liked our solution. They just didn't want to buy from us.

We'd won the RFP. But lost the business.

Of course, we declined teaching our competitors. They (the university) were unhappy with that, and didn't understand why we wouldn't do this for them.

I was then, and still am somewhat, blown away by the complete lack of understanding of how businesses actually work, on the part of the RFP folks, the purchasing agents, etc.

Another time, I had a university call us up asking for a bid for something. I asked if they had a preferred vendor (all do). She said yes, but state law said they need at least 3 bids before they can purchase. I asked if our bid would be taken seriously. She said no.

Yeah. I've shared some of these anecdotes with others in this industry, and we all nod our heads. All of us have run into this before. Some of the stories are far more outrageous than mine.

An interesting tangent: I currently work for a company whose RFP we won ~14 years ago for storage, but was rejected by the person who was my first boss here, as we (the company back then) were too small. That's happened multiple times throughout my career. Even though our solution was demonstrably superior in all technical and financial aspects, we "lost".

Can be disheartening.
Reposting a comment I left here [1] after realising it will be totally
eclipsed by this thread.

This "defence of" post [1] is absolutely cringe-worthy, both in the
poverty of its arguments and shameless apologetics. The arguments
basically say, for each terrible, insecure and dehumanising act X:

1) Don't worry about us doing X because soon everyone will be doing X.

2) Everyone can safely do X because some people are already doing X.

3) We'll all definitely get very rich from doing X but don't worry,
maybe some other people can get rich doing X2, X3, X4 too.

4) Please just ignore that X provokes visceral horror from everyone
who encounters it. The association with dystopia is
likely caused by those silly science fiction authors.

5) Don't worry about X creating a dystopian hell, because it will
preserve privacy (hint: privacy is not the only
dimension of human dignity and is barely relevant in
this case anyway)

6) The track record of the team making X is unquestionable. They are
already ball-deep in other projects of questionable merit to
society. The masterminds of X are not interested in extracting
profits from the project, they will have more than enough raw power
from controlling them.

They basically admit the whole thing is a scam to get people to accept
the dystopian bait - proof of person-hood - "The Worldcoin coin only
needs to retain value as an incentive to get people signed up".

I guess the problem, from a simple philosophers point of view is that
nobody who actually is a person needs or wants to prove that they are,
because that self-evidently constitutes what a person is.

But there are two other matters.

One is that the very definition of "proof of person-hood" implies
non-person-hood. That's the road that leads to the ovens at Belsen.

The other point is that the only excuse you'd ever have for a "proof
of person-hood" would be in a world where humans were so disconnected
and disempowered that they'd have to compete within systems with AIs
designed to be indistinguishable from people. And guess who is
building those?

Seriously, understand what iatrogenic means, and why a company that
wants to "change the world for the better" [2] by making the poison
and the antidote should worry you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30935213
[2] Anand Giridharadas. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Hi

You might want to check out sap
https://www.sap.com/about/careers/your-career/autism-at-work...
The tooling around Fortran is very similar to C. The debuggers are the same, you can typically use ctags of some sort for navigating between subroutines etc. across all files, and then you can add in a compiler-editor integration that checks for syntax errors at every save.

There are also a couple of Fortran REPLs out there, the most promising is probably LFortran which is only in alpha stage of development but has Jupyter integration and will be the next cool thing I think.
My dude, who is ashamed of open source repo?
I don’t think your link is an example of minimal let alone professional design…
Hi there,

We're adding that feature shortly! We think having the ability to see notifications on-device is key.
Yep. I cannot advise. In Texas education is not considered enough. But this sounds ridiculously too far the other way. The book “The Myth of Merit” comes to mind.
I use typed languages not for a quantitative ROI. I use them to make programming not a huge pain in the ass.
There are so many excellent, thought-provoking comments in this thread, but yours caught me especially. Something that came to mind immediately upon reading the release was the potential for this technology to transform literature, adding AI generated imagery to turn any novel into a visual novel as a premium way to experience the story, something akin to composing D-Box seat response to a modern movie. I was imagining telling the cyberpunk future story you were elaborating, which is really compelling, in such a way and couldn't help but smile.
I'd avoid using the repeated phrase 'the best' as it's hard (/impossible) to qualify practically or in terms of comparative metrics. I'm sure what you've done is very good, but I'd be very wary of claims of it being 'the best'.
I've given very long presentations to VPs about the same thing you summed up in one sentence. Well done. I may steal that for future presentations...
Many plants older than dinosaurs face extinction
Obviously the pandemic made this a bit harder But book stores and other offline spaces are key for socialization.

I think more and more people are getting disenchanted with what social media does, it's just not a replacement for going to a concert or something and actually seeing real people.

I'm actually pretty optimistic, I think within 10 years or so social media is going to play itself out and people are going to start interacting with each other again. I had to stop using social media, including online dating, because it was very mentally damaging for me.

As for books, it's great to own something tangible that can't be remotely deleted or altered in the future. My e reader, back when it worked was very cool, but there was a sense that you're just renting these books.

With a physical book, even if someone finds it offensive in the future, it's not possible for it to be remotely destroyed with a few clicks of a mouse. And if you don't believe me, ebooks are revised and remotely updated all the time. Questionable content, can be silently removed.
Earth could benefit from mass SSPL adoption. It's only (computer) science if it's verifiable and reproducible. To this end, free software is the way to go.
So…what did you do to get to $2mm ARR? Because there’s no way you just put up a site and people started signing up for your product. It doesn’t work like that.
It's entirely possible that there were multiple rationales/retcons at various stages, maybe in serial or parallel; we could all be right. My 'been there' is also from ~1986 (AT&T 3b2, 300 baud acoustically coupled to an AAA-30). That said, the idea of / immutability and /usr variability was highly valued for its systems encapsulation properties for many decades, regardless of how we got there. As others in this thread have indicated, it's still considered valuable for that reason in space-constrained and security-critical domains (e.g. IOT).
This is going to be mostly a rant on OpenAI's "safer than thou" approach to safety, but let me start with that I think this technology I think is really cool, amazing, powerful stuff. Dall-E (and Dall-E 2) is an incredible advance over GANs, and no doubt will have many positive applications. It's simply brilliant. I am someone who has been interested in and has followed the progress of ML generated images for nearly a decade. Almost unimaginable progress has been made in the last five years in this field.

Now the rant:

I think if OpenAI genuinely cared about the ethical consequences of the technology, they would realise that any algorithm they release will be replicated in implementation by other people within some short period of time (a year or two). At that point, the cat is out of the bag and there is nothing they can do to prevent abuse. So really all they are doing is delaying abuse, and in no way stopping it.

I think their strong "safety" stance has three functions:

1. Legal protection
2. PR
3. Keeping their researchers' consciences clear

I think number 3 is dangerous because researchers are put under the false belief that their technology can or will be made safe. This way they can continue to harness bright minds that no doubt have ethical leanings to create things that they otherwise wouldn't have.

I think OpenAI are trying to have the cake and eat it too. They are accelerating the development of potentially very destructive algorithms (and profiting from it in the process!), while trying to absolve themselves of the responsibility. Putting bandaids on a tumour is not going to matter in the long run. I'm not necessarily saying that these algorithms will be widely destructive, but they certainly have the potential to be.

The safety approach of OpenAI ultimately boils down to gatekeeping compute power. This is just gatekeeping via capital. Anyone with sufficient money can replicate their models easily and bypass every single one of their safety constraints. Basically they are only preventing poor bad actors, and only for a limited time at that.

These models cannot be made safe as long as they are replicable.

To produce scientific research requires making your results replicable.

Therefore, there is no ability to develop abusable technology in a safe way. As a researcher, you will have blood on your hands if things go wrong.

If you choose to continue research knowing this, that is your decision. But don't pretend that you can make the algorithms safer by sanitizing models.
It’s funny, this is exactly what weev went to jail for doing to AT&T. Apparently it’s okay if you increment a number in every HTTP response, but not if you do it in the request!
Happy to hear that. It did, at one point -- I am quite certain of this -- but that was years ago.

I think it was in the transition between now and vercel. Back then, `now` had some sort of requirement where it only worked automatically if the folder had a package.json file. A plain index.html file required configuration. Delighted to see that this is no longer the case.

I'll give `vc` a shot.

The pricing issues stemmed from the fact that I use updown.io to monitor my domains. Since it pings them every 15 minutes or so, and since vercel spins up servers on demand, that means I was paying for essentially 24/7 service, which was an unwelcome bill over what I signed up for. Customer support gave a 50% refund, which I appreciated, and I've downgraded to a free account ever since.
> it puts a lot of burden on ecommerce/online stores to 1) Determine where the customer is from 2) Have a database of sales taxes for all states. But it can be done, I am sure.

Of course it can be done, because they are already doing it in the final checkout. They just need to reveal the number earlier in the process. If they have to ask for a location to do that, just say so --- e.g. "We need your zip code to show you the final price including tax"
I'm really digging what I'm reading so far.

if (optional_foo) |foo| {
doSomethingWithFoo(foo);
}

..could be flow sensitive with optional_foo being non-? inside the block like some languages have done.

Well the In-depth Overview ticks all my boxes giving Zig worth a deeper look:

> Zig 0.5.0 introduced async functions. This feature has no dependency on a host operating system or even heap-allocated memory. That means async functions are available for the freestanding target.

> Zig infers whether a function is async, and allows async/await on non-async functions, which means that Zig libraries are agnostic of blocking vs async I/O. Zig avoids function colors.

> The Zig Standard Library implements an event loop that multiplexes async functions onto a thread pool for M:N concurrency. Multithreading safety and race detection are areas of active research.
I don't think this is dishonesty - it's auteur mentality. In Intel's view, AMD was a second-source vendor that went rogue, and gets to free-ride on their patents because Intel couldn't be arsed to extend x86 to 64-bit. If they had their way, they'd own the x86 ISA interface and all their competition would be incompatible architectures that you have to recompile for. Crippling AMD processors with their C compiler wasn't dishonest, it was DRM to protect their """intellectual property"""[0].

Gelsinger was the head designer on the 486, so he was around during the time when Intel was obsessed with keeping competition out of their ISA and probably has a case of auteur mentality, too.

[0] In case you couldn't tell, I really hate this word. The underlying concepts are, at best, necessary evils.
I'm 40 and have a mortgage and a family, changing course is not easy. I've sent out hundreds of emails I got two interviews, both going nowhere. I went to do a startup with a friend with the hope of making something and then growing into a different role. But we haven't made much money and I'm still stuck in development.
What an interesting but odd article. It seems to flounder at so many seemly obvious questions.

>However, it is economically nonsensical for a consumer to buy a commodity in the market if a qualitatively identical ‘product’ is freely available to him in the domestic sphere.

Clearly sex with a prostitute is not the same as sex with a lover. How does Marxist thought deal with the pricing of a good like a painting? Are they all worth the time put into them?

> if the sexual acts are the same, what is the difference which compels men to pay for sex which they could feasibly access through personal, private relationships?

This glaringly ignores transaction costs and availability on demand. If a man only wants sex, there is an enormous cost to obtain it via private relationships.
> For example, this article didn't even mention China or India once. If you are going to screech about carbon and not even mention the two biggest producers of atmospheric carbon then it's not a serious discussion - at all.

Let's talk about China and India. These are the only ways they can keep their carbon emissions from going up:

1. China and India stop economic growth, remain poor - Easy for us in the West to say as we live in large houses, drive SUVs to the Starbucks drivethru. Difficult for them to accept because they're just trying to get enough food, clean water, and medical care.

2. Invent clean technologies that can replace fossil fuels 100% in every application. Rich countries pay the full cost (maybe adjusted for India and China's historic emissions contributions) for immediate rollout in every developing country.

3. Do neither and wait for the inevitable riots and wars to break out.

What option is the best one?
There is no such thing as "minding your own business" on public roads. You had better be minding everyone's business.
Cash App is notifying 8.2M U.S. customers of a data breach
That's a great suggestion!

We'll work on creating a FAQ to better outline the usage of the product.

Was there anything that you were hoping to see?
In my experience it's the opposite. I personally know this has happened for probably over 100 positions, and that's not based on rumors but something I witnessed. And I saw that across a half dozen organizations ranging from 100-10,000 employees.

So "almost never" is almost certainly wrong. My sample size is small, but it's big enough that when it happens 100% of the time it suggests it's the norm.

Your assumption that organizations are efficient might be wrong. I'm basing my judgment on observation and you're basing it on theory.
I tend to use TextMate on Mac or SublimeText on other platforms. Fortran also is usually very close to C, and most standard debuggers like ten or lldb (even when LLVM had no Fortran front-end) can be used without problems. It’s a bit barebones compared to recent IDEs, sure. What I would like in particular is better refactoring and static analysis tools (though the lack of the latter is mitigated by the strong type system and some very good compilers like NAG). There is no real equivalent to RStudio or Matlab.
You are thinking fallaciously in terms of absolutes. Any shelter is better than nothing against a tornado breaking your bones with thrown debris or outright impailing you with a 2x4. A shelter which would suffer only minor damage indirectly but would collapse on a direct hit is superior to nothing.
What was the ARR progression in those 7 years (ie what was ARR in year 1, 3, 5)
Very impressive. I'm a big fan of companies like this. It looks like you have built a good product, did the right things, didn't fall into the traps, and now have a nice size stable business. Congrats on your success!
I do not like reading or writing manifest yamls so have been looking for something like this. The documentation looks pretty thorough too...

Excited to try this out!
I'm incredible surprised how "mean" my 2004 computer were. P4 at 2.66GHz, 512MB RAM, a 128MB GeForce4 MX 440, and a CRT display that runs 1024x768 at 85Hz. The amount of hours of CS 1.6 and CS:S were really big on that machine :-)
Wow, thanks for putting together that data!

I'm not surprised to see Germany, UK, Norway, Sweden, and Netherlands all be similar, since (I assume) they're all using the North Sea.
I am surprised to see Germany's output is so similar to Italy, Portugal, and Greece. It does look like there's a decent separation between places I expect to use the Mediterranean vs. those I'd expect to use the North Sea, but yeah, we likely need a lot of excess capacity, a lot of storage, or a lot of not-wind-or-solar. (Or I guess a lot of flexibility on energy usage.)
Who is Andre Cronje? And, does him leaving crypto matter?
I guess the only thing you can do is avoid those places. Last time I checked Wave were on a hiring spree.
Noob question: why can't you aggregate 4 pixel values to emulate a single, 4x-larger pixel?
40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know
It was mainly intended to be a "cute" example of the latter.

Technically if you were doing this in Node, you would need at least a package.json and would have to configure your TS/JSX transpile, etc...
That wouldn't affect embeds, which is where a lot of abuse would likely come from.
> In the case of RFPs, think of it like you’re buying a logo. You want this nice logo on your website, in case studies, in press releases and in CEO powerpoint decks. What is this logo worth to you?

This is actually the opposite of true for big companies. Some companies let you use their logo, but most enterprise agreements will prohibit this explicitly. If you see a logo on a website, unless it’s associated with a formal case study or testimonial, it’s probably just an indicator that one person on the domain signed up at one point. If the logo later is removed and replaced with a different company, it’s usually because they’ve signed a contract or been C&D’d and can’t show it anymore.
thank you sir! Appreciate your support
> Putin, in a bout of insanity, through all that out of the window.

How exactly? You just explained it yourself very well; These trade relations even held trough the worst of the Cold War.

Just like Germany kept its trade relations with the US going while that invaded and bombed half the Middle East.

The only side that switched behavior here, throwing all established rules out of the window, is Germany and the US, by making Ukraine this "ultimate lynchpin" everybody shall pick a side over, and those who don't pick the "right" one shall be considered with the enemy.

These are very much 1:1 the same overtones the US bullied the international community with, thus tolerating American imperialist ambitions, on the other side of the planet, even those have resulted in some of the worst global damage since WWII.
Why not become a product owner, manager, technical sales, consultant, software architect, solution architect, technical evangelist, PM or some other dev adjacent role? I'm dev adjacent and 1/3 of my coworkers are ex-devs.
> Coding in λ-2D is somewhat like playing Minecraft or Factorio, but it's even better because I can call it research.

I love the honesty in this sentence so much.
Yeah I get that when I pick up a pizza at the store (rather than having it delivered). The system asks for a tip amount, which I decline. It's there because the system also handles tips for the delivery orders, and there is no separate flow for paying for a carry-out order.

I always tip, generously, for delivered food or table service. But I don't tip for an employee to simply hand me a carry-out order.
What is your understanding of your agreement with them?
I think that probably says more about the tech companies than anything else.
I believe in a Free Software. At the same time I do not believe at the Free Software.

Without a way to pay for work of developers no software can be good enough. So in a way I do not believe in a FS. But I believe that we need to find a way to a Free Software, and that it can be found.
> It's like the person who built this has no idea why the Girl with a Pearl Earing is good art.

The people didn't program Dall E how to make art. They taught it to recognize patterns and create something by extrapolating from the patterns, all on its own. So the AI isn't a projection of what they think is good art, it's projecting what it thinks is good art, based on a prompt.
The output is its best effort of a feeling, even if the feeling had to be inputted by a living person. So it's still art that's as good as the feeling that it came from-fleeting feelings being lower quality than those that required more time and thought
The reason that hasn't happened is because `#!` is a kernel level thing, but the `PATH` env is a userspace thing. I suspect even adding env parsing to the kernel would not be viewed as a favorable change…
> This sounds like all the parents who've had one baby that slept well and spend the rest of their lives telling other parents what worked for them.

This sounds like quite the opposite:

> The takeaway? Don't stress over all the things you are not doing but focus on the few you are doing right.