skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you maybe getting ahead of yourself. It’s one thing for AI to produce art that roughly aligns with a prompt, which is as you well know right now what it is capable of. It’s another to fulfill the exact vision of what a person wants. That requires a much higher level and more detailed and more intuitive understanding of what the expectations are and what the vision of the director is. AI is not capable of that level of understanding yet, as far as I know. I suspect it might turn out like the issues we are encountering with self-driving. Autonomous vehicles may be able to deal with 99% of all driving situations right now but that last 1% is the killer. That last 1% is the reason self-driving isn’t good enough. Furthermore, while the first 99% may have taken only 20% of the total time to adoption to solve, I suspect that last 1% may take the remaining 80% before self-driving gains widespread adoption. Just as it could be many years before we can fully rely on self-driving technology to cart us around, it could be many years before AI really starts to supplant human artists, before prompt engineering becomes enough of a precise art to no longer need people who can exactly translate a vision into a visual work.

Of course, feel free to print out this comment, hang it on the wall and throw darts at it in a much fewer number of years when my prediction turns out to be totally wrong. It's really just based on an intuition.
What? do you think non-citizens don't pay taxes?

Non-citizens pay at least the same taxes as citizens, I recall there being some write offs that were only applicable to citizens so it's possible that non-citizens pay more in some cases.

Obviously non-citizens also pay the same sales taxes as citizens.

The only difference is you don't get a say in how your tax dollars are used. So much for "no taxation without representation".

Oh, and have to budget time for "random" delays at airports.
Won't someone think of the poor politicians?
It's not nearly as complex as you're making it out to be. Palin was the spoiler candidate in Alaska. If Palin hadn't run, Begich would have won. Additionally, if Palin > Begich > Peltola voters had "dishonestly" voted Begich > Palin > Peltola, Begich would have won and those voters would have gotten a better outcome for themselves. By honestly ranking their preferences, they threw away their say in the outcome.

Now don't get me wrong, as a Democrat there is a part of me that is happy Peltola won, but this was clearly a pretty messed up outcome given that Begich was the condorcet winner and that Alaska is a very red state. Republicans are right to be upset about the way this election played out.

Now obviously FPTP also has the possibility of spoiler candidates, but at least in that case it's pretty easy to understand the situations in which you might be throwing away your vote. Do you think most of those Palin voters had any idea that they could have elected Begich by voting strategically? Complex, opaque voting systems like this are super bad for democracy IMO.
> -- that is, our nominally democratic government, a "power structure" which you have arbitrarily equated with a collection of private corporations --

Are you responding to me or someone else?

> Your characterization of my argument is specious and straw-man-esque.

Your argument was to effectively transfer local zoning power from local government to Federal government because as you put it, it’s a national issue. True in a way, but the solution isn’t constructive, and you had no policy proposals to accompany this transfer. The one you propose here about limiting foreign ownership of domestic property by citizens from authoritarian countries (PRC, KSA just to name a couple) is something I’m actually on board with.

However, perhaps you think my characterization was inaccurate and uncharitable, so could you clarify the following for me:

>> Housing policy in major economic zones in the US is a national issue, and should be treated as such.

What does treating it as a National issue entail? A broad reading of this is direct Federal intervention into municipal policy which would be a direct power transfer. Could you narrow it down for clarity with actual policy proposals to convey a better understanding of what exactly you have in mind?
It's all three. Biden is a consummate politician.

From talking with friends, Biden isn't terribly popular with the segment of Democratic voters for which marijuana and student loans are top priority. He managed to make progress on the student loans recently, but efforts on drug reform have stalled.
Federal charge means it either (a) happened in land under federal jurisdiction (borders, national parks, military bases, etc.), or (b) involved interstate commerce/transportation.

Something being a felony has no relevance to whether it's a federal charge. You can have misdemeanor federal charges, as well as felony state charges.
i did, 6h stream at 1Mbit with 1000 viewers would be 108$. i can have 3 powerful VPSs with 2Gbit unlimited bandwidth in OVH. so far it seems there is no service that makes financial sense :(
IMO podcasts without transcriptions shouldn't be allowed, period.
They exist to point out that there isn't only one way to define someone as staff engineer. If you don't write them out, then companies degrade into only allowing one type of archetype to get promoted, which discounts other ways of doing things, leading to a less efficient company. You see it at google in 2018: https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/ and today with the LPA (Launch, Promote, Abandon) cycle : https://nextbigwhat.com/the-lpa-cycle-at-google-launch-promo...

What do people complain about at FB that they can't seem to get done there that seems really obvious that you should? You'll find similar issues. Maybe not like google, but unique to FB.
Meanwhile I'm here completely able to build basically anything from source but for some reason unable to understand docker at all.
How does any of that make Spirit a good business?

Lots of companies provide valuable services, yet are crappy businesses from a FCF standpoint.
Is surgery often a last resort, done when less invasive things have been ruled out or cannot be used? Yes. Is the human body the most complex “machinery” that we know, demanding our utmost respect? Is the brain the most delicate part of the body? Probably, yes.(?) Is brain surgery in turn a very delicate procedure that should be approached with a thousand-fold more caution than mere tinkering on human artifacts, such as programming? Yes.

It’s like you have gone out of your way to prove the opposite point of what you were ostensibly trying to prove.
> No more do students have to set up their own envs.

That straight up sounds dystopian though. Speaking as someone who makes software for Linux machines, I'd really hate to hire someone that doesn't know how to play around with the OS side of things.

Handing someone a pre-built dev environment and playing god with them sounds like a great way to get stupid programmers who can't architect.
It does set the stage for states to issue similar pardons. Although red states are unlikely to do so, I believe it will have second-order effects that do pressure red states.

A large part of The War On Drugs was the top-down messaging villainizing possession and use of cannabis, and that same power is now being used in the opposite direction to some extent. Combine that with an aging baby boomer generation, and you have youth growing up in red states today who are much less likely to believe that folks should be put in jail for possession.

Next the purple states will adopt similar language and policy, then the idea of criminalization well become an outside/extremist/fringe policy and – my prediction – finally within a decade or two even many red states will be decriminalizing cannabis as well.
Distributors see their months of supply of inventory getting too large so they then reduce their orders to bring it back down. Inventory doesn't only mean stuff on warehouse shelves can also be scheduled deliveries of product.

If I have a 12 month recurring order for 100k/month and 50k in stock. But now selling 75k/month you can see unsold inventory is going to pile up quickly.
on the other hand I think of this title (and the story behind the title):

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004OA6KIS
Jack Dorsey has lost his mind, frankly. He is just not in touch with interesting things anymore.
I don't know... Obviously anecdata, but I'm from an area notorious for poor education standards, and civics and history were focused on very heavily there.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that civics and history aren't going to stick any better than any other subject until critical thinking has first been taught.
IIRC scores actually went down for a while, as some schools/states were mandating or heavily encouraging students to take the SAT. That made the test-taking pool less self-selective, so it now includes more students who are less prepared for the test.
On the 'cloud' (really our own cluster) we use at work most of the nodes have 16 cores and 128gb of memory, its a much beefier system than what is available locally.
Simple question: by explicitly deciding to censor the hunter biden story, did twitter and facebook prevent americans from learning data that may have changed their vote? The Mueller investigation and its results were widely reported on and disseminated by all media, so it's not equivalent at all. Americans can and did make up their mind regarding that issue.
True, but this will help the tens of thousands of people who have been affected by this that live in Washington, D.C., and provides some precedent for Governors to do the same across the country.

https://twitter.com/EthanSCorey/status/1578126905269780488
One thing that this will do is accelerate the move to domestic solar in the UK. With a battery it's pretty viable already, throw in the possibility of 0 power it becomes pretty compelling - if you have the cash.
I love VR, but it is terrible for things like watching movies. Imagine sitting on your couch and putting on a movie. How often do you do that? If it is more often than 'once in a while', are you actually sitting and watching it intently the entire timee? Are you eating, or drinking anything, or petting your cat or dog, or snuggling on the couch with your SO or kids? You can't do that with a VR headset on because you can't see anything else at all. If you grab for a glass you have to switch to pass-through mode and back again, or take off the headset. You also can't do anything but look at the screen.

It isn't really something that people want to do.

Exceptions of course would be to do it with someone remotely, like a friend or a family member -- it is a good way to potentially 'hang out' with people who aren't physically there. But the same caveats apply.
https://archive.ph/rWPgp
Silicon Valley's problems derive from the incredible income inequalities which derives in part by 1) land use decisions (which include artificially low taxes (ie. prop-13)).

Problems are caused by the rich and established of SV desiring exclusive enclaves of single family homes and not wanting any normal income earning renters to live near them.

People that move elsewhere and maintain this attitude will simply induce the same problems again.
These archetypes seem like they should have different job titles except for maybe Solver. Additionally, what differentiates a Staff Engineer who's a Team Lead archetype from someone that's a TeamLead?

Overloading the Staff Engineer title with these archetypes is going to lead to identity confusion in the job hunting landscape.

If you're searching for Staff Engineer positions by title, now you need to figure out if your personal archetype matches what they're looking for. You might be able to get it from the posting, but maybe not.

This also confuses salary bands. You might have some really effective management type Staff Engineers making loads of cash because they're management, but someone who's just a Solver might be on the far lower end of pay because they aren't management. These examples might be reversed if the Solver is able to solve really hard technical problems.
I agree with the sentiment but its a bit misplaced here. The energy industry in the UK is still heavily regulated and the government do intervene a lot. The main thrust of this has been to push renewables and nuclear to combat climate change. And the response of National Grid has been to plan for that. For example in planning connections for offshore wind, building interconnectors and incentivising backup capacity. They have a good record in maintaining supply and are well funded.

The trouble is that much of our backup depended on gas and interconnectors. Gas has been effected by the war. The interconnector capacity by French nuclear problems. Those nuclear problems have exasperated gas supply problems.

There are steps the government could have taken. In hindsight maybe we should have kept more coal stations available. And gas storage should have been maintained. And we definitely should have built out more onshore wind. But I don't think the system is mismanaged. And we are probably better placed than much of mainland Europe for this winter. We did build some massive offshore windfarms.
> after years of hearing that the test is biased towards white / Anglo / native-English speakers raised in Western culture.

Media bias/lies. It's similar for the GRE, many people coming in from China score extremely high on the English portion even though they do not speak English properly. I learned to stop listening to these divisive media outlets that have a clear agenda to tear down the fabric of society.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see his name on HN. He had a table at NYCC this week and people have been leaving him gifts and messages. It's so sad.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeZt8yNWIAE0HEZ?format=jpg&name=...

Edit: Photo Credit to @Leah617
If podcasts were information-dense, they'd be useless (for me) because it would be way to easy to miss important points.
I had the joy of dealing with some endpoint software like this in an organization that had mandated password changes every 30 days. Very predictably, people set recurring "change your password" reminders for the 1st of the month and the organization lost an entire day of productivity each month as they locked themselves out of their accounts en masse. So the beginning of the month was always a panicked, all-hands-on-deck day for the help desk as people were waiting on hold for hours to get their account unlocked.
I want the politicians on my side thinking about how to get their party members elected.
Because there are major societal losses incurred by preventing development. I see no reason why governments should enable locals to enjoy the benefits of high property values and low density while externalizing the costs of that behavior onto others.
i thought this was interesting because:

1) cluster munitions are really effective for maiming and killing children -- b/c children are physically smaller, so I guess their bodies can't withstand shrapnel as well as adult bodies can, and cluster munitions are outlawed by a lot of countries (not the US or Russia, apparently), and

2) the US said Russia is not really allowed to use nukes, because they're too big or something, but these particular newfangled Himars bombs the US is giving to Ukraine can devastate 'huge' areas (i lost 'huge' in the original post). so, i'm curious what the rules are for how big Russian bombs are allowed to be. and, are those rules different for different participants?
I don't think it's outlandish to think that "recovered memories" are most commonly false. Given everything we know about memory that should be the null hypothesis.

Has anyone ever even demonstrated that it is possible to "recover" memories?
There's a lot of math here, but what stands out for me is very simple. If you're going to play the lottery, play numbers that have the lowest odds of others playing them too. So any cute sequences, valid dates and so on are right out. You have the same chance of winning with truly random, weird numbers. But you increase your odds of not having to share.
The problem is that because of underinvestment, or the wrong kinds of it, increasingly stringent standards without the advances in productivity or pedagogy means that every year gets closer to teaching to the test.
IDK, I think this is getting overstated.

Don't forget - there's very typically a runtime environment available that's a lot closer to the user... their browser.

The edge, as a place to run code, is a bit of a tweener... farther from the user than the browser, farther from the data than the database environment.

If the data the edge needs is also on or near the edge, you can really start to do something with it. But that means your data is distributed. You want to have a really solid plan on how your edge data is kept valid.

That's not so hard with static assets but edge processing on static assets seems like a relatively narrow case, because it needs to make more sense than pre-computing all the cases and just having a more static files.

Edge processing on dynamic data is pretty interesting, but having coherent distributed dynamic data tends to be app specific and hard to get right and keep right. There are certainly cases, but I don't think they usually tend to comprise the whole app. I think it will usually be a partial solution and add a bunch of complexity, so apps will want to use it sparingly, where it's really needed.

I think this will be more of a tool in the toolbox, not the general future of the web.
> we could always mandate euphoric drugs 24/7...

or a Buy Now button
We were house shopping 5 years ago this month a lost a couple potential houses to unseen offers hours after going on the market. Most recently I have seen neighbors buying for 10% or more over asking.

I am in Burlington and everything from Mebane toward RTP has just been crazy prices and moving crazy fast. I am very glad I got in when I did. I worked in Chapel Hill for a couple years and could commute on the back roads but going in to Cary or RTP would be at least an hour for me.
I'm objecting to the statement that they're equivalent if you forbid ties.

This is only true when you have as many candidates as score slots.
The mistake is that on municipal and land use issues it's a two axis political system.

It's not left/right, it's also urbanist/conservationist.

You will find those on both the left and right that for various ideological reasons end up at the same point of wanting to obstruct new housing creation.
In my experience, it would become "You're not allowed to deviate from the standard environment" lol.
Compilers optimizing based on UB: normal

Acting in a crash-predictable way on UB: abuse

A strange world this be.
Is covid more like the flu or smallpox? Do the respective vaccines prevent the disease? Is this difference important to the discussion?

Is it selfish to force your ideas on others, whatever they might be? probably
Um, being an immigrated legal permanent resident does not give you any representation. The problem of taxation without representation is not that immigration is hard, it's that you are taxed, and you have no representation.

You can be a temporary (think H1s, student visas, etc) resident, a provisional permanent resident (essentially it's what lets you be a resident for the extended period it takes to approve a green card in which your original work permit might expire), or a permanent resident (i.e. a green card), and in all those cases you pay at minimum the same taxes as citizens.
You mean a fully locked down device that allows no tinkering at all. Then they graduate to college and they're again suggested to use a fully locked down environment with no tinkering at all.
> I think it is probably worth a lot of taxpayer money to get that off the streets.

That AT4 is a single-shot disposable weapon, cannot be reloaded, and is not reusable.
When the police start knocking on my door inviting me to have tea because of something I posted on twitter I'll take your comment seriously(https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/10/translation-spilling-t...).

Our free speech and privacy protections are not only stronger than China's, they're arguably stronger than Europe's too. There are some trade offs of course since Europe has GDPR and the right to be forgotten.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...

The reason China's situation is worse is because Europeans and Americans can and do protest this. It is not normalized and accepted. If you feel that America goes too far in how it exports its perceived brand of authoritarian, you should know that China is just getting started: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/3/report-detai...
Non-citizens can't be prosecuted for treason.

I don't think. Ok, this isn't that big of a benefit.
False. It's easier to buy a home, get a loan, and travel through airports (also less stressful).
There's overlap of both progressives and NIMBYS and conservatives and NIMBYS.

Just as there are progressive YIMBYS and "conservative" (usually labelled "market urbanist") YIMBYS.

The left/right axis is inadequate to describe the dynamics of municipal politics. You need a second urbanist/conservationist axis to describe support or opposition for housing development.
> But, to me, this application says...

To me, it says that a kid had ambition, intelligence, determination, and conscientiousness, but to each his own.
This is a feature, not a bug.

The point of ranking is not to have your vote redistributed many times, but rather for your #1 preference to go to your preferred candidate.

If your preferred candidate does not win, your vote gets a second chance (or more!) to get counted.

In the case your describing here, the only way that C wins, is that he gets more votes than A or B.
Yahoo/Google/Microsoft syndrome: the tendency to arbitrarily cancel projects without warning, usually after an acquisition is made.
Sacrificing public health systems and educational programs in order to enforce the largest military empire in human history might also have something to do with it.
Depends on the role of management in the company. At some companies there is a bright line where managers are expected to _not_ participate directly in the technical discussion of how to solve problems.

So say, in such an organization, two teams each with a Staff Engineer are taking different and conflicting approaches, and neither Staff has been able to pursuade the other to their side? Often in this scenario it's extremely valuable to have a technically capable third-party mediator to help bring the two together.
WhatsApp was a small unprofitable firm before they got bought for $18bn
I've seen 10x engineers. They do exist. However I've never seen them in isolation. It's more like teams of 10x engineers. I've seen teams of people who just get 10x more work done than equivalent teams elsewhere, usually because they consist of a bunch of amazing engineers and are enabled by management to get things done.
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