skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is not fine print

definition of fine print: inconspicuous details or conditions printed in an agreement or contract, especially ones that may prove unfavorable

definition of inconspicuous: not clearly visible or attracting attention; not conspicuous.

You can note that you had to click on the "Terms" link to get to those...

> I don't get how this is an "undue burden"

If you have to read 20 paragraphs of text for every digital movie purchase, it is considered an undue burden to me. You can calculate the amount of reading time that would take. I'm not going to.

I'm not going to argue with you anymore as I feel I'm wasting my time but in short I don't want to live in a dystopia where companies start foisting time wasting tasks on me until I give in and accept their unfavorable terms on everything.
3) can just be rephrased to mean continuous novelty-seeking or stimulation chasing. The way it was worded in the post does seem a little dramatic.
Concrete Mathematics is basically an expanded version of the mathematical content of Volume 1, apparently. Not that it’s a doddle either.
Worth to mention, at least in google services you are allowed to (at least up to last time I checked) download such file and from there o werds is yours as in the traditional sense, you are allowed to write it to a DVD or back it up on whichever way you prefer, and as loong as you preserve proof of purchase you are more than fine
How to choose a Sentence Transformer for vector search
Why is seeking peace and reducing nuclear risk considered bizarre??
> A code of conduct that covers all the bases of the gold standard for such things, the Contributor Covenant

It's amazing to me the hubris of people who believe that a set of community guidelines that are less than a decade old are superior to a set of community guidelines that have successfully guided a set of communities for more than 1000 years.
Musk plans to go ahead with original price of $54.20 a share for Twitter
Sqlite works. I strongly suggest other projects adopting their code of conduct. Seems to deliver awesome results.
Matter Arrives Bringing a More Interoperable, Simple & Secure Internet of Things
>>Let us see how Elon turn Twitter into a good or bad product

He doesn't need to do anything to turn it into a bad product - its already cesspool.

Real question is will he be able to make it better?
Alright, then if they manage to handle properly this tunneling current in order to get clean on/off, they still will be able to shrink the current transistor feature size... which is actually huge if we don't think about the marketing "Xnm lie", unless another limiting factor hits.

In the silicon crystal lattice, without considering "doping", the atomic valence lenght is 2.35 angstrom or 0.254 nm, and unit lenght 5.44 angstrom or 0.544 nm.

So a feature of 7nm is hardly 14 silicon crystal lattice units. With doping, I wonder if it will be ever required to have a better pitch to have something to work with silicon, unless near "atomic perfect" doping in near "atomic perfect" silicon crystals can still be used for on/off gates.

It makes me pessimistic on the amount of remaining transistor shrink steps. "2nm" maybe "1nm" then you would need to assemble atom per atom perfect lattices frozen in time.
The Soviet Onion
QA never meshed well with me. Their job seemed to be gaining context on what I was working on and then testing it for me, but if they caught a bug it was on me. QA catching something was treated as a negative reflection on the dev, so we still exhaustively tested everything before it got too QA, which made them seem pretty redundant.
That's a good point, how the DNC can behave just like a nation state threat actor.

For those interested in how Share Blue spun up some of it's troll farming, here is a great write-up:

https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/
FWIW, here's a side-ways mention of Knuth's bounty, from http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html

> So I sat down with him and proofread the pages as they came out of the typewriter. It seemed that he was composing and typing as fast as I could read. By morning the manual was done. Years later when don's first book came but, he told me that if I would proofread it for him that he would pay me a dollar for every error that I found, including typographical errors. I took the offer as a great personal compliment at the time, but I think that he probably made that a standing-offer to anyone.

also from earlier in that essay:

> don claimed that he could write the compiler and a language manual all by himself during his three and a half month summer vacation. He said that he would do it for $5000. Our Fortran compiler required a card reader, card punch. line printer and automatic floating point. Don said that he would not need the card reader or card punch, but he wanted a magnetic tape unit and paper tape. I asked Gerard Guyod how Brad could have been suckered into paying this college kid $5000 to write something that had to be a piece of junk if he was only going to spend three and a half months on it. Gerard whispered his response to me. He said "We think that he already has it written. He probably did it in his spare time while working in the computer center at Case Institute." I still wasn't entirely satisfied with that answer because I was a college graduate whose first job was for 5325 per month and I had just changed jobs and was making $525 per month. Besides that it was taking mortal human beings 25 man-years to write compilers: not three and a half man-months. I thought that Brad had taker leave of his senses.
Surely there are other treatments for ADHD beyond the simple pharmaceutical cures, and it would be salutary to diagnose people so they can try those strategies and get the help they need.
Yes - like Java. And yet people learn it.
Similar discussion a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675201

This thread by myself contains a BigQuery to reproduce the data + a chart of Who is Hiring posts over time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675750

Here's a new chart of up-to-date data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13yGlJzFpVzZ-WNHAOsdo...
Would you be willing to share your coping mechanisms? Or is there a way I could reach out and ask?
You're conflating two different arguments: not using modern tools, and not accepting outside contributions. It's certainly possible that limiting contributions to a set of trusted contributors helps things move smoothly.

However it's not clear at all that using old tools has the same effect.
Do you have data for the past 12 months rather than only October? That way, we can observe how gradual (or not) the curve was.

All data in CSV format would be ideal if someone has it to share via gist or such.
Everything you need to know about the ethics of the homeopathic industry can be gleaned from the 2016 poisoning of babies by homeopathic teething drugs: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/fda-confirms-toxicit...

> After investigating reports that more than 400 babies were sickened and 10 died in connection with homeopathic teething products, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Friday that it had indeed found elevated levels of the toxic substance, belladonna, in the products.

> The National Center for Homeopathy, which has ties with Hyland’s, slammed the FDA, calling the agency’s warnings “arbitrary and capricious.” In an “action alert,” the organization went on to suggest that warning was prompted by “groups interested in seeing homeopathy destroyed” and led to “fear mongering” by the media.
Use the TV App on macOS. Just go into the list view and right-click on a movie (or multiple) and then you can download it. I let the TV app do all its own folder/library management. I've just configured the library to be on my external drive instead of my internal drive (you can do this from the TV app preferences).

Note that this doesn't remove the DRM or anything like that. This is simply storing a local copy of the iTunes-protected video on your Mac. But if the movie isn't available to stream anymore or your internet is down, you can use Home Sharing on the AppleTV to connect to your Mac and stream the downloaded version.
Is there seasonality? Like hiring slows down into the end of the year, is my guess. In which case, can you get 10-15 years of HN posts? Then you would need to adjust by user base as well..

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICNSA << in fact, Jobless Claims are typically seasonally adjusted. Non-seasonal adjustment indicates claims spike around start/end of the year. The idea being, all else equal, if same amount of people get hired/fired every month, but supply of jobs dips, then claims go up...

Conclusion: not enough data points.
Hope that they will extend this regulation to not just mobile phones, tablets and cameras but also to electric razors, hair care appliances, toothbrushes, home appliances, etc ... considering that many big EU corporations manufacture those products, maybe the likelihood is low ?
The most use I've gotten out of it was when I had it on my bookshelf in my Zoom background while TAing a class I think. One of the head TAs recognized it and asked if I had actually read it, and I told him I managed to read through volume 1 once and not solve many of the problems, which took about 3 months reading ~10 pgs/day. He was still impressed, and I think it helped me get the head TA role after he graduated, as he nominated me for it.

In terms of actual programming use, not much, but I still haven't read the other volumes yet.
This is a cool app, although a CLI seems like a better interface than a macOS app, unless, of course, you plan to have a richer UI later.
"Embedded systems" is probably the space where this happens the most and it's a super super broad category. Everything with a microcontroller in it is running someone's code.

For example, a quick google search of "how many microcontrollers in a car?" gives 50 as a common answer. For every system that people think about as a computer (entertainment, engine controller, airbags) there are another 10 systems that are also tiny computers that we kind of expect to mostly work together just about perfectly, forever.

Feels pretty obscure and somewhat important, but maybe not incredibly obscure and really important. :/
canonical link is https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-arrives/ but it's stuck in an endless redirect loop currently.
Thanks for the responses, I really appreciate the help. My only background with ML is playing with LSTMs and simple sequence-to-sequence models back before transformers, and the last few days I've been trying to deep dive as much as I can into the "state-of-the-art". I dislike treating the technology as a magical black box...
Ah OK that makes sense, because I can't see any way you'd fit builtin functions like string matching/transformation in ~3600 minus ~1000 lines, and I think a bunch of those are part of the SQL standard.

The numbers could be misleading because the 5% of failing tests could be a large part or most of the core language (window functions?), while the 95% are some combinatorial tests that happen to take the exact same code path in an unoptimized engine

i.e. with 4.2 million tests for 2600 lines, it seems like you're going to have a lot of duplicate coverage, even accounting for state space explosion
Society and legislators should only forbid harmful action. Not doing something helpful is very different than doing something hurtful.

Compelling helpful action leads to all kinds of absurd conclusions.

For example, that we should we compel doctors to work more hours because anytime they spend at home is to the detriment of their patients.
> The government and politicians makes and mandates decisions that are detrimental to society.

Thats a RELIGIOUS statement. The government and politicans are elected by their people. They take decisions that were mandated by their people. If the people mandate something, that's that.

In Anglosphere, where FPTP system prevents the people's will from being reflected in actual politics may be causing such an environment in which what the politicians do and what the people want have little to do with each other. And it does seem to be so.

But in any country with proportional representation, its as it should be: Its the democratic will of the people that something happens.

"The people" does not need to have 'competition'. The people are, well, the society. Proposing that they need 'competition' or their power to be curbed is reactionary.
Because his version of "seeking peace" suspiciously lines up with exactly what Russia is asking for.
> sells a bottle of sugar pills with a custom label printed on it. Let people enter whatever symptom they have that’s bothering them and get a placebo bottle of sugar pills for it.

Bandler and Grinder wanted to try that back in the 70's or 80's, but the FDA wouldn't go for it.

They were going to include a booklet that listed how effective placebos were for various ailments, all based on scientific studies. If the placebo was only ~%50 effective you just take twice as many...
With a population both declining and aging, the supply of labor decreases faster than demand for it
This code of conduct is there to prime the foundation for the takeover of by outsiders. With for profit companies, they can just buy the company. For non-profits, outsiders takeover by instituting DEI and then find something that they can make a big deal out of, or outright lie to get the founders kicked out and take over the organization.
It may be the least subjective but it’s also the least technically/physically probable even if someone were a 10x developer.

The gambit is that a mediocre programmer would take 10x as long to write the same code as the hypothetical 10x dev. But that’s not what a mediocre or even average dev does: they solve the problem in an entirely different (and, for purposes of this argument, less optimal) manner in some spam of time that may or may not be longer than a qualified hacker or a theoretical 10x dev. Almost all CS problems have multiple solutions, so you’re not likely to find one where there is only one solution and it takes one guy x and the other guy 10x as long.
A friend of mine recently graduated from college with some amount of debt.

He put up a "lemonade and tequila" stand outside of his home, with an "out of stock" sign under "tequila." It was silly and a bit childish.

Some time later he received a notice from the state that he was selling liquor without a license. His hearing is next month.
Every time I read statements like this, I wonder if the authors would really approve of eliminating building codes in earthquake and hurricane zones, in the name of regulatory freedom and improved market effeciencies...

It's almost as if they feel the need to state their ideology upfront as a means of presenting their bona fides to the outlet's owner, regardless of the practical nature of the issue.

In the case of Fuller's geodesic domes, well, one might argue that developing robust building codes for such domes would be a problem that might even prevent their standardized development across the country (i.e. how strong do the interties need to be, do they need to model their resistance to hurricane-force winds, etc.) - but the alternative would be a lot of collapsed homes after typical natural disasters strike, which would sour the market on the the model for years to come.
there are more than a few cops sitting in jail right now that would disagree with your blanket statement.
TCO will be far higher than traditional fills. This won't eliminate any positions, you'll still need people to handle the orders, load the hoppers, etc. You'll have people just standing around (best case) or fighting with the machine half the time (more likely).

In all but the highest volume setting, this is a waste of money. That doesn't describe your neighborhood Walgreens. I'm confident that if you follow the money on this project, a board member of Walgreens owns part of the robotics company or is affiliated with a VC firm that's backing it. There's no way this isn't straight corporate legalized theft.

Feel free to follow up with me in 5 years when everyone's totally forgot about this farce.
Gasoline is immediately verifiable as being effective or not. The problem with homeopathic medicine is that people can't tell whether it works or not. Placebo is a hell of a drug.

Nearly every market where the quality or efficacy of the product isn't readily verifiable by the purchaser is a hotbed for scams and snake oil.
Yes! I think this is the right approach. Using kubernetes is going to be much safer on the long term, because most software projects die and kubernetes isn't going to die soon. It is also much more used and probably a lot more stable.
For a while, some of the cheezier ISPs were inserting ads. One of the justifications for using HTTPS everywhere was to stop that. Have the proxy people given up?
I use stylish to apply my own (quick and easy) dark mode to hckr news:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body { background-color: #444; color: #ccc; }
.entries a:hover { background-color: #666; }
.c00 { color: #ccc; }
a:link, .c00 a:link { color: #ddd; }
textarea { background-color: #555; color: #ddd; }
.pagetop { color: #ddd; }
.pagetop a { color: #eee !important; }
#hnmain > tbody:first-child > tr:first-child td { background-color: #630; }
}
I agree.

The reason I was asking is because the OP did not appear to be using any other AWS resources.
I'm pretty sure that rated lifetime is for correct insertion, yeah. USB-C has a thicker cross-section and the rounded ends definitely help with correct insertion to reduce the likelihood of whomping on the socket when you plug it in.
The Indian middle class makes about the same(and often more) money than their European counterparts, I agree. But the Indian middle class is a much smaller part of the population, and the working class in particularly Western Europe has a much, much, much higher standard of living than the working class in India.
Yes, we don't have a direct democracy (although you can vote for parties advocating it), but it's a lot more than you get with Apple. You don't get a vote on anything. "Voting with your wallet" isn't a vote at all. You can just choose to leave, but Apple makes it every difficult.
My wife came home with a homeopathic treatment once, from CVS specifically because of this reason. The "homeopathy" label was not particularly prominent and didn't raise any alarm bells because she didn't know what homeopathy was.
do you have a link to this law?
Off Topic: I did a double take and thought I had opened the article in a Private Window in Firefox. But no, that's the Collabora logo!
USB-PD is mandated in this directive! The EU press release specifically states any device will be able to charge at the same speed if cable/charger support it. See https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220930IP...
Years ago I used Heroku but I've moved everything to Dokku running on Linode with no issues. Dokku is basically the same thing.
Well, third quarter in the row — now it is finally a recession, or what?
DeCSS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
Why? I see no reason why it shouldn't go public domain. If anything it might be possible wash some of the stain of Mickey Mouse.
Why are you assuming that measurement is the link between quantum mechanics and the real world? Quantum mechanics doesn't need to be linked to the real world, it is the real world.

That quote is simply wrong when it says that MWI "restricts consciousness to one world". As a simple matter of calculation, you can work out what MWI predicts a complex agent will report as its experience. Here for complex agent I want you to picture a computer program recording events and accumulating statistics, not a person, just because it makes the thinking clearer. Anyways, the prediction is that the recordings will be consistent with a classical type view, for lack of a better word, as opposed to a superposition of experiences. Even if the computer program was in fact run in superposition and interacted with superposed objects.

But this is not surprising, because we already know that all the interpretations of quantum mechanics give the same predictions. So of course many worlds is not going to disagree with collapse type theories on what people say they experience. Because it is mathematically equivalent to the others. Observationally indistinguishable.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
Article raises 2 questions for me.

1) How can you write this whole article without saying "Kythe"?

2) How exactly can github search be as bad as it is? With all of Microsoft behind it, you'd think it would be a lot better than it is.
I'm the developer of OpenArt. We launched the platform last month and got lots of interest from the Hacker News community. We are now doubling down on building a community dedicated to generative AI. You can now create with DALLE 2 on our platform (we are partnering with OpenAI) and participate in AI art challenges (https://openart.ai/challenges). Winners can win more credits for creations.
Who is hiring vs. wants to be hired (top-level) post count disparity could be a fun one to track.
Excellent introduction, thanks.
"We urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students' learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole," the petition read.

Sure, let's give everyone a participation certificate so that nobody has to feel bad. It's not like people will die if doctors don't understand the chemistry of the drugs they are applying /s