skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does sort of beg the question though: how do you draw things that don't exist?

Everything (or, almost everything) I personally care about drawing is sci-fi or fantasy, and sort of the whole point of it is that it doesn't actually exist, and therefore I can "see" in a physical sense only my own drawings or those by other artists.
Just imagine if this had been done in the 90s, we’d be stuck on VGA cables for all video and wouldn’t have hi-def TV. Strict regulation causes ossification.
I'm on the DevOps/SRE side, but from my experience moving close to my wife's family (on her dad's side) has been wonderful. Though there aren't phenomenal prospects for onsight jobs in this area, I've been working remote with decent pay considering the cost of living in the area. Having grandparents for the kids to visit, not to mention cousins to play with, is far more rewarding to me than the ideal job. of course there are multiple factors, such as Do you like your spouse's family? Or do you think your family would be more or less beneficial for the kids/you/your spouse?

in short, my family isn't yours. But giving up the opportunity provided by popular cities was good for me in the end.
I got an error with your online form :'(
>How can a BNPL firm compete with apple offering the same service at no extra charge? Just the disappearance of easy money has crashed their valuations already.

Not really relevant to your point as a whole, but about BNPL. In Mexico basically any credit card worth having offers BNPL. Typically the agreed solution is just to charge interest to the merchant. Stripe Mexico has it: https://stripe.com/mx/pricing/local-payment-methods (see meses sin intereses), for an example of the fees involved.

In addition to this there are some institutions (like American Express) that offer BNPL at no charge for the merchant (other than the interchange fee).

No consumer pays interest in this scheme (it's in the name: meses sin intereses, months without interest), well, as long as they don't miss a payment (they charge interest then). So at least for this industry I don't think Apple is major threat. Surely BNPL firms can figure something like this out for the US. I think Mexico is not unique in this scheme.
> It still takes me maybe 50-100 applications before I find the right job every time I go searching.

To get some data points with others' experience, how long does the period of submitting 50–100 applications take? How about time between first contact to hire? (That is, for a given company you've ended up working for, how long between submitting your application to that company and receiving an offer?)
Contrarily, if they were able to pass that standard quickly, it would stand to reason that they could also pass a USB-C standard quickly.

USB-C becoming standardized for phones will not slow the advancement of USB specs, and if the physical form factor becomes a constraint somehow, they will devise a better one and will standardize it likewise, even if consumer model phones can't ship with them from day 0.

A great example of this is EV charging connectors. The Tesla spec was superior until recently, but because the EU has mandated CCS, as communication/payment has been implemented within the standard, European cars find themselves with a universal plug and a universal charging network that can be unilaterally improved.

Meanwhile in the US we now have 2 charging networks on 2 standards, and no real path to unification.
Ok ok, it's probably not thaaaat hard technically, but it's a fair amount of work :) I haven't looked into it at all yet. Once I start doing so, I will probably reach out to you. Need a few days off before taking this on though as publishing a new release is always exhausting.
Interesting thought. A small correction, from the AGI perspective, its intentions are pure and good. All beings are value function maximizers. The choice of the value function however...

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law" -- Solzhenitsyn
I'm in a similar spot and have an ancient, dumb plasma TV on its last legs. I've poured HOURS into researching a replacement dumb TV that is reasonably cost effective and available. It's way too hard. I can get commercial displays from Samsung that are about 50% more expensive than consumer grade and about 4 years behind in picture/quality but that's about it.
"Nathan Sheets, global chief economist for Citigroup, called the chance of a significant stagflation outbreak in the U.S. “remote,” in a recent client note."

Famous last words...
> would be interesting to dive deeper is how containers create new ecosystems. This is true particularly in deep waters, where most lost stuff is reclaimed by the ocean, eventually becoming home for fish, and habitats where there was none.

But look at the bright side. Seriously, while somewhat true that life is always amazing, I would expect, environmentally speaking, the sheer numbers of lost containers sitting on the bottom of the ocean is probably a net bad rather than a net good. Would be more interesting, though depressing, to see just what bad and how much bad, and how much of the ocean floor is left that isn't covered in containers.
Gonna need a little more than "could help" to fund this with my taxes.
these benefits need to stop being tied to employers.
Perhaps the “problem” being solved is overcoming the logical resistance to politicians dictating technical decision?
To be clear this isn't a competition. The reason cyclists ride on the sidewalk is because they don't have their own space and don't feel safe on the roads. You yourself just said you've had many near-fatal accidents over the past ten years. I'm all for making it safer for cyclists in bike lanes or on roads because riding on sidewalks is dangerous for everyone.

Based on my own observations I don't think cyclists always appreciate the risk to pedestrians. Cyclists can wear protective gear, are more maneuverable and can choose to bike only when healthy. Pedestrians might wear only a t-shirt and shorts and can have any number of invisible health problems. People die or end up in the hospital from simple falls, now imagine having a bad hip and being slammed in the back by an adult going fast on a bike and being thrown into traffic or head-first into a parked car, bench, pole or some random junk on the ground. Instead of arguing over whether being hit by a car on a bike is more/less dangerous on average than being hit by a bike as a pedestrian, I hope we instead can agree that either type of accident has a very real risk of serious harm or death, and better infrastructure for bikes would reduce both types of accidents.

I acknowledge it's very difficult to bike safely on the sidewalk. You need to assume you'll have to dismount and walk around every pedestrian. The exception is if the pedestrian clearly sees you, moves aside and signals you forward. If you can't or won't constantly dismount, you're putting other people at risk. That's just how it is. Dinging a bell or shouting "passing!" two seconds before reaching a pedestrian who is in the middle of the sidewalk, who might be wearing headphones, is not sufficient. Unfortunately a lot of cyclists put other people at risk instead of finding alternative transportation. I'm not saying you personally ride unsafely, of course.
Entropy can be considered on a per-byte or per message basis, and it seems that people who are talking about data at rest (compressed pictures, archives, etc) almost always talk about the per-message numbers. I don't think I've ever seen Kolmogorov complexity applied to a bitstream. It's always been per message.

In which case entropy is exactly conserved, unless the encoding is lossy.
If there are no severe restrictions or limitations on what Linux applications under Rosetta can do, that makes WINE a great possibility, at the least.
since you mentioned Kubernetes...

> It would be nice if there was a separate state reconciliation system that one could adapt to use with Cue or Dhall or any other frontend

this exactly was thinking behind https://carvel.dev/kapp for Kubernetes (i'm one of the maintainers). it makes a point to not know how you decided to generate your Kubernetes config -- just takes it as input.

> In particular the ability to import other files as semantic hashes seems like a great feature.

it's an interesting feature but seems like it should be unnecessary given that config can be easily checked into git (your own and its dependencies).
Nuts. There goes my catalytic converter "recycling" business.
> This isn't the case in the US, either.

I was paraphrasing Gilens and Page, from the linked research article. In their words, they found that "economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence".

If there has been subsequent research which contradicts their findings, I would be happy to read it.
Heh, I haven't even heard of any of those alternatives! Thanks for the list.
Not interested in video, text or it didn't happen.

I run transactional systems, concurrent oltp performance or it didn't happen.

We have hugely diverse sets of interrelated applications and systems build either against the primary data set, down stream datalake/bi/cubes systems. Integration and compatibility or it didn't happen.

We run Cloud or Linux systems. Platform support or it didn't happen.

Some of us run databases that are decades old.. it needs to have been happening for at least 5 years and/or be being shipped by a major vendor or it didn't happen.

See also: must have 10 years experience in technologies that have existed for 5.

New tech is hard, data is important and we're busy, in an industry with many many new shiny things.

Neither nice nor fair, sorry.
Considering that we have no way of knowing if we ourselves actually have physical bodies or not, I feel like this is a big claim.
Let's be real, it isn't a perk, it is a marketable asset for insurance companies to make more money.

A lot of dental insurance falls under a similar category. It is often more expensive to pay for the insurance than it is to pay out of pocket. But then you wonder about what happens if something really bad occurs? Well, a lot of the dental insurance policies (especially for smaller companies) have yearly maximum limits. You're still paying out of pocket.
> … method is the basic unit…

Are you explaining what a Smalltalk browser is like?

https://files.mtstatic.com/site_7337/32007/0?Expires=1654646...
It's why the das keyboard with blank key caps was my favorite I've ever owned. It forced me to actually touch-type, rather than touch type the common keys and look for the rest.
Exactly.

The baseline assumption in modern neurology is that meaning, for living things, is derived from their physical experience of the world. In short that no paper definition can ever substitute for experiencing first-hand what the "effect" of something is, what it does to you or to the world and what that entails for your body, your life. That is what "knowing" and "meaning" ultimately are.

These experiences are the basis for associations in our constant cognitive (and emotional, instinctive, sensory, symbolic, etc) modelling of the world. Associations beget complexity (dimensionality, modalities) of the model. Hence, "finely tuned" or "high definition" i.e. ever more "advanced" intelligences.

Given the overall crudeness and extreme simplicity of a CPU (or any man-made machine) compared to any living organism, I'm actually willing to bet that should CPU-based AI's "feel" something, it's on the order of 1/100th of what a shrimp feels, and they'd develop real-world intelligence at that level. Infinitely smarter than a potato, yet infinitely dumber than a fish. You don't run ape software on amoeba hardware.
Different states have different requirements for gasoline and that seems to work just fine. Gas in California has higher ethanol content than most states. Oregon requires that someone else pump your gas. All the states have different taxes on gasoline. Yet you can gas up in one state and drive to another without issue.
Yowks! Bullet dodged.

I do remember a lot of companies had to include little adapters in the EU. So it'd be like lighting to some weird urb. Was this to the USB mini spec or Mico USB? I just ignored them and used the chargers and cables apple provided or my usb-a chargers
Canada would like to talk to you about car parts and being a preferential region for that as well (Ontario, think Windsor i.e. right across from Detroit - not that Detroit's car manufacturing is going strong or anything like that but still).

Growing food in California should be re-thought if you ask me, given the prolonged drought conditions. At some point shipping water to California just doesn't make sense any longer. Instead of shipping the water to California, grow the food where the water is, even if the yields aren't as high. Like you said, a single crop failure in California can wipe out near 100% of the US' food production for certain fruits and vegetables or at least a very very sizable portion of it.
...or Tsuoy as the Katakana reads!
> E.g x = 5, y = 6, x+y does work in many languages. (Untyped languages, or languages with type inference.)
> It is an unambiguous command, and many languages would just do what you say

It isn't so unambiguous when you use x = 230 and y = 30 for example...
You are a software engineer. Learning and picking up new things should be your bread and butter. No major tech company test for "framework" knowledge over fundamentals. If you know how http and network requests work, how state and architecture are handled on server and client side, then all frameworks are the same. Frameworks are just abstractions on top of the basics.
How can people hold on onto their birth certificate? The infrastructure is already in place for that, so the problem is that they didn’t understand that that piece of paper was worth money.

Handing over a monopoly bill will have the same fate. You can’t keep it in your wallet and it can be lost easily.

Either way this is a ridiculous project and would probably best be served by the concept of “gift card” instead, given your explanation.
From my anecdotal experience with a few Googlers: many will micro-optimize expenses this small. I think (hope) they enjoy it.
I don't think you should be too worried about specific technologies or frameworks. If you are strong in Web Development, Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc. then picking up React or Angular or Vue or whatever shouldn't be a lot of trouble. You have over 10 years of experience, so leverage that.

Most of my work experience has been in Java, Javascript, and Python. I took a Ruby job, and there was a small ramp up period but its not insurmountable.

Experience shipping production code should be teaching you many skills and thought processes that mean the actual specific tool shouldn't matter much.
I read somewhere this is all tied to some arcane reasoning from the depression era. Does anyone know it's history?
I changed the link, it displayed in English for me. The relevant quote is: “objective requirements […] are met only if the consumer is […] provided with updates for the usual period of the product's use and service life. The update obligation may regularly exceed the applicable warranty period.”

The courts will have to decide what “the usual period of the product's use and service life” means exactly, but certainly longer than the six months you originally mentioned.
In trying to figure out why Haskell hasn't been widely adopted, I think it's very hard to disentangle legitimate criticisms of the language (unpredictable performance, overcomplicated and bizarre APIs, etc.) from the simple fact that learning it with an imperative background is like starting from scratch, even for experienced programmers. This is true even if you look at the base language, without involving Template Haskell or any of the weird language extensions.

Ultimately, asking programmers to relearn how to be programmers (or, more relevantly, asking businesses to accept that overhead and/or a vastly reduced hiring pool) is just too large of an ask for whatever marginal gain you might expect from using a "superior" programming language.

To be clear, I learned Haskell for fun and got to what I'd consider an intermediate level of expertise. It was an incredibly enriching experience, and gave me a new perspective on programming in general. But it was hard, and the rabbit hole just keeps going---sure, you can juggle monads in your sleep, but are you proficient with the `lens` library? No? Well, I can recommend you a pile of textbooks that might help.
I think a lot of Googlers can't even count this low.
My favorite part is the pictures of it on the website.

"Hold your corporeal money next to other real things, like pizza and gameboy cartridges and magic the gathering cards. This is a real thing. That you can own. Like this baguette, or this tamagotchi."
License is not the same as trademark, and most licenses do not grant trademark. You can distribute but you have to do it under a different name or brand (should upstream choose to enforce). All the people downvoting need to take a class on how IP laws work.

C.f. Iceweasel
I have reported maybe 20 bugs to distros, I don’t remember a single one receiving any attention before they auto close for being old. Reporting to upstream almost always gets some kind of response and usually a resolution. Fedora was packaging a 5 year old version of LMMS because for some reason upstream decided to label the last 5 years of updates as RC versions despite them being vastly more stable and feature filled than the last "stable". I reported a few of the bugs found in this old LMMS on the redhat bug tracker and no one responded. Upstream had fixed these long ago.

These days I think distros should ship only the core OS components and let tools like flatpak give you user level apps direct from the source. I largely don't care about having the absolute latest version of Gnome or systemd. But I very much do care that all of my applications, especially internet connected ones are. I stopped using distro packaged telegram binaries because it would take a month before they got updated and in that time I'd have to use my phone to view all the unsupported messages sent.
>Their Windows binary comes up clean on VirusTotal. Running on Linux under strace is squeaky clean. There should be a rule against fud like this from anons

I'm not anonymous. Someone very purposefully tied my legal name to this nym when I signed the anti-Stallman petition.

I've had two accounts (Reddit, and Twitter) shut down very purposefully as retaliation for reporting extremely serious felonies.

There should be a rule that if I can prove someone's abusive gaslighting causes me to overshare, the person who purposefully distorted the truth is responsible for anything I purchase to return to a positive emotional state.

I am one of the strongest allies of open source on the planet.

It's not my fault if folks who use it for evil have conspired against me, then literally shot themselves when they realized I'll just go back to pounding espresso and posting twice as hard within less than 24 hours of their soul exiting their body.

Folks from the so called "free speech" community cannot handle truly free expression, they just want to hear their own talking points repeated.
I absolutely agree. You can, and better than humans. Not only better for any one sense, but also more senses than humans have.

But that isn't what Isinlor was talking about. They said "moving electrons around" within the normal CPU circuitry as if that was the same as actuators controlling the external world. It's not.
Maybe the embodiment criteria is required, but personally I don’t think so.

re: “Visual language AI that is completely digital is not AGI”:

I think what is required is interaction with people. I think that interaction can be online conversations with millions of people, each with a separate human-specific context in addition to global knowledge. This is really just the Turing Test but so-called up to millions of people with conversations that might span several years, changing world conditions, etc.

A cost function could be continued engagement with people. AGIs that are not interesting are not AGIs and fail.
I've taken some breaks as well. Since COVID I have personally recorded at least 1,000 job applications, 800 in the last year alone, with ~30 interviews. Got burned out last fall, and trying to get back into a rhythm of 5 per day. But I also get a lot of recruiter emails anyway and a lot of choices there too. Sometimes it can get overwhelming.
In my neck of the woods, riding on the sidewalk is a violation of the traffic code.

(However, I've not been able to find where the document makes the necessary exception for small children on toddler bikes.)
I think this is the real perk -- I remember in ~2008 that sadly, a googler's family had to take advantage of this when they passed. It stood out as the company really taking care of the team. I have no clue if they still do this today but it was certainly a wow moment.
Or just basically anywhere but "always in China"

We are at systemic risk from our reliance on China.
For me, 6-12 months.
The lack of keyboard navigation support usually also indicates issues for accessibility...
That's ... exactly what happened?

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_type-c_cable_pow...

(for an older example without cable ratings: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb-if_logo_usage_gu...)

It's just that no one cares.

Some vendors now let the USB-IF compliance test most products (Amazon Basics, Apple), but no consumer cares. Even amongst the ones which do certify their product, no one uses the logo.
Wag the dog - don't like these raises everyone is asking for so let's start a rumor about a recession...
This may differ in other countries or may have changed in the twenty years since, but after a decade consulting on research projects that paid $30k, I was suddenly contractor to a big national ISP making three times that. Yes, we went a little nuts with buying things, we were young, etc. What I didn't expect was the tax bill! Taxman wanted nearly half!

As a LLC, your personal tax is only on what you pay yourself, your corporation pays way less on the rest.

There are formalities of course, AGM, official seal etc, but in a one-person LLC, these are mostly a joke.
Well yeah, COVID and money-printing set that in motion a while ago...but things might have been on the way back to normal if a war hadn't further disrupted supply chains. Or maybe not, we'll never really know.
They suggest "Writing your own" after they suggest the formats you mention and they clearly do not recommend it if anything else works for you:

> If for some reason a key-value configuration format doesn’t meet your needs, and you can’t use a scripting language due to performance or size constraints, then it might be appropriate to write your own configuration format. But if you find yourself in this scenario, think long and hard before making a choice that will not only require you to write and maintain a parser but also require your users to become familiar with yet another configuration format.
Mostly automatic Go dependency updates with GitHub Actions
Render is the new Heroku. I'd look at them, also maybe Fly.io for a bit lower-level approach, as solid alternatives to Heroku. Generally cheaper as well.
Don't forget instant vesting of all unvested equity. That one is huge.
It's (very likely) cheaper for the company to offer a fixed benefit than it is to pay that amount directly as compensation.

I certainly don't mind that people I work with and their families are getting dental care instead of me getting a modest annual raise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United...

I've always heard it attributed to WWII era wage controls. You couldn't compete on salary so you had to come up with other benefits to tie to your job.