skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if the technology will get there, but I can see AR being much more useful. I don’t want to cut myself off from the outside world, but I’d love to be able to put on a pair of glasses that allow me to use a giant monitor without needing an actual monitor. Or a home theater. For me, something as simple (though it’s probably technically complex) as a high resolution screen coupled with AirPods for watching movies would be a killer app. And if I could use those same glasses to work or bs on the internet (on a plane, in a cafe, on a bus), I’d be all in… and I’m willing to bet everyone else would be as well.

I suspect this is what Apple is trying to do.
I agree on a technical level, but for many people, the skills demonstrated by these AI models are signs of intelligence. I can understand why they would think that. With everything being "AI" some people may see the technology behind Alexa being the same as the Art Generation. They judge it based on what it's able to do, not how it works. Knowing the difference in the math and architecture doesn't make a difference in that situation. A computer "does AI" independently, after learning on training data, and so they could reasonably argue it has shown basic specialized intelligence.

AGI isn't defined as strictly as it needs to be. The current test, as well as the article, qualify strong AI as being or superseding "human level". Every single category, the AGI is being contrasted with the skills of a human. I am arguing that for some people, the current state of weak AI is useful enough that it could be mistaken for the first steps of strong AI.
> 1 step forward, 3 steps back

What are the steps back?

They're slow but they're improving. And they don't need to reach their original lofty goal.

> "Why?" - It's unsustainable

Sorry, the "Why" was directed at the level of scientific achievement you claim they need.
I think it will only ever attract right wingers. Maybe they consider that a feature.
You don't need to be so passive aggressive, especially if you are soliciting for advise. That attitude won't get you anywhere, whether it is China or Europe.

I know well enough of 996. There are different companies and positions in Chinese companies. Yea, if you are low level staff you are doomed to 996, but talented people are treated in a different way.
Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing new features today
Ask HN: Have you stopped reading most news?
I say “most” because you’re reading this on HN.

I haven’t had FB for over 6 years and I don’t use Twitter. I primarily find the internet to be a distraction these days and considering just phasing out news all together for weeks at a time. Has anyone done something similar?

In the past people have been harsh to call me ill informed for not being up to date on all things media, but to what end does this actually benefit the individual? My argument is that it’s mostly a detriment given the state of the world.

For those that have experimented with “going dark” in a sense, how was it, what did you do and what’s a good balance?
Its insanely dangerous. Really just neigh-criminally stupid.

Any little lip in the siding on the wall could have caused him to flip or twirl about or get speared or launched his engine all over the place. The walls are designed to keep people safe, including the fans. They are fantastically well engineered and made. But, if he had caught the wall wrong and was catapulted into the stands, he may have killed a lot of people, let alone the danger to other drivers, let alone to himself. The various safety systems, of which the wall was but one, aren't made for that move and could very easily have been compromised in very bad ways.

I mean, it was awesome to watch, just incredibly cool. I'm glad it worked for him, he's in the history books for that move for sure. I can totally see NASCAR evolving to utilize that move in the future.

But he put many lives at more risk than anyone was expecting in such a kinetic sport.
How does it get cancelled out? Take this example: Company A has $1M revenue from creating services or products. Then my company B invoices company A for $250K. GDP is $1.25M. I do not report who I billed to the government who compiles GDP. So I don't see how they can not include my services as part of GDP.
Yeah, that video is fantastic. I wonder if the higher costs will place more of an emphasis on running chips at power levels that will gives better longevity. We can effectively halve operating cost and double lifetime of chips by reducing their power levels 20%. Seems plausible if we don't have technological obsolescence to force depreciation.
I'm not so much frustrated by a lack of salary ranges in ads as I am about two things:

1. Waiting to figure out salary until the final interview.

2. No mention of CoL adjustments.

I don't know what employers expect to gain. Cynically people think that it's because employees are terrible negotiators. Maybe that's true. I always ask the top of the salary range based on other salary postings and let them explain to me why they have to work me down. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it's a CoL adjustment or other non-sense and I don't complete the paperwork.

I'm not convinced that posting salary ranges will make pay more balanced. It's nice to see but I think what people want is a hard number - you will definitely make $X if you work here. Unfortunately, it's typically not that simple. At my company we have pay bands by seniority, and pay bands inside those pay bands (to provide for raises, etc - merit pay).

This system works. What people should be doing in my opinion is talking about their salary. Force your employers to justify salaries. This is how I got a raise after I figured out I was paid 20k less than the new guy.

However, I'm not sure people are ready to hear "you're bottom barrel" to a response on why your salary is at the lowest band. Unfortunately, humans are creatures that compare and you won't be able to guilt your employer into paying you more if you are actually just simply bad at your job. I think discussing salaries openly will help the merit worthy engineers get what they should be getting. It will, necessarily, cause a LOT of hurt feelings however because a lot more people think they are more merit-worthy than they are. Whether it's worth it to protect people's delicate sensibilities can only be figured out by doing it. Discuss your salaries!
Thanks.

>I think there is some considerable signal/energy overhead to communicating between chips.

I tried looking for some info on this but couldn't find any. Do you have any source I could read on this?
You weren't, so your post didn't make sense - as it was off topic.
Is your domain expertise in college admissions, data science, or a combination? You assuming this model should try and undo some effects of historical racism, but that isn't the engineers' job to decide. If that's the intended behavior, I understand that the difficulties involved are beyond my experience, and I would leave it to the data scientists. That's not what I think the goal of college admissions should be, and our government is making a decision on that now.

> The best way to do this is to use that cost function to optimize your parameters.
> I thought I've adequately demonstrated why this is much easier said than done.

I understand how this works, but that's specifically what I don't want, for race (or other data that serves no purpose but to indicate the race, like name) to be part of the training data. Those inputs are manually selected at some level.
> so a "language model" cannot realistically hope to reproduce the entire gamut of human thinking

That assumes that a "language model" actually restricts itself to "language" as the term is used by the linguists. I strongly expect the boundaries won't match exactly, although I have no particular hunch (much less strong argument) that they will disagree enough in the right ways to make bigyikes' suspicions correct.
>they are getting beaten up by competitors

Sure?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407857
You have to (at least!) account for concurrent edit & access. I remember the hellscape that was emailing files like ProjectPlan_v6_beambotEdits_latest.xls to team members.
But there certainly were Scandinavian explorers, conquerors, and mercenaries. And these pushed into non-Scandinavian territories across Europe in a way that reshaped the political landscape at the time. For example, the Normans set up kingdoms in England, France, and even Sicily, and were an important player in Byzantine politics. Other Scandinavian conquerors helped establish dynasties in Ukraine and the area around the Black Sea. I'm not saying it wasn't complex, but there does seem that there was genuine phenomenon of Scandinavian raids and conquest in the late first millennium separate from the expected local raids between neighboring peoples.
> If I commit a felony in the US as a US citizen I forfeit my right to vote.

Many hold the opinion, as do I, that a felon serving their time and then being left unable to vote is a violation of their civil rights.

> If I sell a copyright I've forfeited the right to monopolize that work.

You haven't forfeighted anything. You've sold a commodity. That's not the same thing.

> Nevertheless, you have the right to free speech, just not a platform. The government hasn't made it illegal for Kiwifarms to have a website, it's just that nobody wants to be a part of hosting or distributing it. That's literally the right of free association at work.

A platform is a privilege (e.g. a VPS), but they do have a right to common carrier infrastructure. The author talks about their ISP dropping them, which ISPs in the U.S. are considered common carriers (not sure about Paris). A common carrier cannot discriminate on it's clientele short of direct government action regarding criminal or national security issues. Neither of those is the case with KiwiFarms. Distasteful? Sure, but not criminal.
Right, and usefulness (however defined - hauls cargo, go fast, fuel efficient, looks sexy) determined demand which influences market prices (assuming supply isn’t overly restricted).

So market price tends to be a pretty good proxy for usefulness.

People who complain about GDP as a measure are usually just complaining about things they don’t like that go into GDP like pointless (to them) consumer goods.
It's copy and paste -

"Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in the world

Show image caption"

Code -

<h1 id="paragraph-30476-title" class="hero__title hero__title--small"> Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in the world</h1>

....

<span class="visually-hidden">Show image caption</span>

I don't think a bot would pull the span in as well.

Not changed by mods (yet) - https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
I have dogs, a SO, and a workout routine. Those keep me grounded. I still put a ton of time and thought into work but I don’t let those times bleed into everything else.

Sounds like you have a bit of burnout? Perhaps some stoic books might help. Ryan Holiday has some nice ones.
I agree, my first impression was confusion over why they are making such a big deal out of a simple color palette.

I could be wrong, but it looks like they modified a website template which was originally meant for advertising a service or product, which could explain why it feels a bit strange and overwrought.

Also, I feel like [Base16](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) is a better approach to the problem, by providing a framework rather than a single palette.

Regarding Discord, considering that everybody and their grandmother has a discord these days, I suppose having one for a color theme is not so surprising. There used to be IRC channels for everything, after all. It's a shame that Discord has gained so much traction, being a proprietary walled garden. That's a topic for another day, though.

edit: also just realized, if my theory about them using a template is correct, the "Join the growing X community" page with discord/slack widgets is probably also just part of that template.
I think this is the wrong way to characterize this change. What changed isn't the attitudes of individual students, but rather the demographics of the students themselves. In the ages past most people did not go to college, and most jobs did not require a degree, so only those who could afford to (upper class) went, and for those people, getting a job simply isn't that big of a concern.
it already exists
Google Walks Away from Digg Deal (2008)
Or just use openssl, then there's no need to install Go and all its dependencies. Which Google will probably discontinue anyway.
No practice or healthcare system accepts anyone else's records. There is supposedly a way for the patient to release records and have them sent around, but none of the doctors I've asked will accept that sort of nonsense. It's "NIH" for healthcare - if they didn't generate the record, they don't want it.

While in the hospital, the phlebotomists came after me for routine lab work at hospital prices. I declined and then I had a conversation with the nurse about releasing my labs from June to them. On script, she said "Mmm, 4 months is kinda old! We'd rather do our own!" so I filled out the ROI anyway, and curiously nobody offered to draw my blood again.
> The core technology is pretty much set in stone already. I wonder when software development finally reached stability like this where there is no major advancement left anymore.

Software people have embraced what I like to call the "useless side-grade."

Once there's no major advancement left anymore, people will sell random differences as major advancements, and we'll churn by rewriting everything in the next new framework, forever.
The context seems to be he replied to Hillary with a conspiracy theory source that previously claimed she was replaced by a body double after 9/11 and other crazy stuff. Not sure where that is making things better.
Alpine linux seems to be doing fine without systemd.
Lenses, and going from lenses to optics more generally. You start with what looks like a bad reinvention of "dot notation" to deal with updates on nested records, but then as you generalise, it turns into a deep well to draw from. You get an incredibly powerful toolkit to query/summarise/transform/rewrite data structures, and it's the only library I know where compositionality is _enhanced_ by _exposing_ its inner workings:

Here is SPJ giving a talk on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-QwBL9Dia0
Google pauses enforcement of Play Store billing requirement in India
Don't chips at stock power levels with reasonable cooling have extremely high resilience for at least 5 years? Most datacenters have no more than a 4 year refresh cycle for servers based on power and space efficiency optimizations.

For example, der8auer did a test [1] with chips like the 5800X with high overclock and high voltage with stress tests for over 4000 hours and came essentially to the conclusion that the chips are likely to endure for at least 5 years under rather extreme conditions. Likely much longer under normal circumstances. The number of systems he's testing isn't statistically significant like you might get by trying this sort of thing at datacenter scale, but it is fairly illustrative.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAww0c2m-ks
No kidding, almost 30 years later and windows still finds a way to make my work computer run like crap.

Looking at a flame graph 60 levels deep demonstrates the problem pretty well I think.
You might like Godin’s “how I write” advice better, although he’s also maddeningly brief if you’re looking for a prosaic how-to manual. His is the opposite of Taleb’s as he thinks of writing like breathing and talking and his only question is what is the best thing he can write that day, not whether he will do it.
I try to avoid framing things this way as a (former) archaeologist. Most human activities are possible in theory. If we don't limit our consideration to "things that are plausible given x, y, and z", the discussion either explodes with combinatorial possibilities or more commonly, we allow our imaginations to take flights of fancy towards the things we find interesting. The latter can be totally fine, but it's rarely (if ever) truth-seeking.

As an aside, these sorts of "mysterious inland viking runes" are a common tale in the US. I've heard of similar claims from Washington, most of the Northeast, Minnesota, Georgia, and even Arizona.
I got a business license in 1984. Microsoft abused independent contractor arrangements but not everybody did.

I worked primarily on an operating system which supported key-value stores as native file objects (DEC VMS/RMS).

I worked on business apps in VAX BASIC. Actually, I spent a fair amount of time abusing compiler pragmas so that I could e.g. do memory management in VAX BASIC. One of my long-term client was the guy who invented the report wizard. Literally. The prototypical cockroach company, at one point he travelled around the country in his van helping people install his software so that they'd try it out. There wasn't much in the way of advertising for software, recommendations were largely word of mouth.

I helped write SCADA systems in VAX Pascal. I wrote a DECNet worm; no it didn't escape. I'm probably (at least one of) the reason(s) that DEC implemented high water marking in RMS.

I did LIMS in HyperCard. Very primitive by today's standards. Things like ELISA notebooks. Makes me wonder why with the CI/CD fetish these days there is no GUI for building web GUIs: why are people writing code the old way? (I have more than opinions about this, and I know of one high quality GUI for writing web GUIs.)

There wasn't "open source" as we know it. As a contractor I developed a doctrine of "tools of the trade" because there aren't many good ways to write e.g. string compare.

My first ever CGI was written in DCL, the VAX VMS command line language.

About a third of my work was firm bid. Contracts were generally reasonable, clear, and written to keep the parties out of court.
Yep, literally every company that ever buys another company look to streamline it. In every single case where they say 'no layoffs planned,' just means they are waiting until they actually own the company and do the research to decide when layoffs will be.
Gruber is absolutely right on this. I wish Apple would listen.

> even before this recent change was how often (always?) the top search result was an ad in the App Store - even if I specifically spelled out the exact

Ads have simply ruined search on the App Store. It is a terrible and, dare I say, -un-Apple-like, user experience.
I blame smartphones, not globalization for losing touch with local culture/people.

It's very different travel experience, if you have translator in the phone and navigation and don't need to rely on locals as in older days, I'm glad I experienced traveling prior smartphones went mainstream, I'd have much less stories to tell if I had contemporary smartphone.
I don’t disagree that the racing itself could be more exciting in that scenario, but without the human element, I just don’t think people would stay interested
I’m glad you pointed out that Reddit gets a free pass. Aside from the fact that r/TheDonald flourished there, r/all regularly shows videos of people dying and men smacking women (r/pussypassdenied). There’s also a weird, self-congratulatory sense of community that leads to mob politics and pile ons in a way distinct from Facebook and Twitter. I think it means something that people identify as redditors, and not, say, as tweeters.
You are absolutely right. The benefits you are talking about are applicable to on-site employees, which is something he would not get without relocation to EU. Relocation to EU will make his cost of living going up with very uncertain future.
masto not masta
It doesn't reduce the actual code complexity at all, in my experience. You don't have to deal with configuration, which is nice (though modern frameworks and tools are simplifying that more and more), and you don't have as many dependencies, which can be a positive thing.

But your actual code - where you spend the bulk of your time in medium to large projects - is not going to be made simpler by avoiding dependencies, especially build tools. The app I work on at my job (which is a very average one in many ways) would be a nightmare of complexity without our frameworks and build tools.

There can be this purity mindset that arises around the raw web. It can be fun to indulge for personal projects, and raw web technologies can even be the right approach for some projects. But don't let the siren's song of purity blind you to the messy reality of real tradeoffs.
Part of me thinks the future is a better HID. Everyone's trying to invent AR for the workplace but we have so much work left on the table due to the baud rate of -hands- being the limiting factor in the interaction with our tools.
Penguin Random House?

They mean Bertelsmann
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann
There's surely a low cost version.
It's more about reducing complexity than the build time I'd say. I work in C++ too, and a couple seconds of compile and run isn't the end of the world.

I don't personally have to deal with browser differences because I stick to subsets of CSS / JS that are 98%+ supported. If all your polyfills just compile down to minimal compatible JS anyway, then maybe those language features aren't that crucial. Always try to solve the problem without the new feature - almost every time I've tried this I find I get a simpler, more maintainable result without it, e.g. simple callbacks instead of promises (sacrilege), var instead of const/let (your poor namespaces), the word “function" instead of an arrow, etc. Those are probably close enough to supported to start using now, though not sure I care. Template literals might be nice, sounds like support is close.

Re: typescript, even coming from the C world, I don't personally find type safety to be a deal breaker. I work on some large python codebases - dynamic typing makes a lot of things much easier and more concise, in exchange for not catching some errors during compile. It's a tradeoff.

Avoiding all this build nonsense does make it harder to use some libraries that come out of the crazy modern node / javascript world, but in general most good ones have release builds, and I find a bit of healthy distance from the technical tail-chasing of that ecosystem is good for productivity.
I'm hoping that over the coming decade we get better defenses. Improved vaccines, treatments, and a greater understanding of the virus could prevent a lot of that harm. It hasn't been long enough to see what the long term consequences of infections or even our vaccines and current treatments will be for that matter, but I'll stay up to date on vaccines and continue taking sensible precautions against catching or spreading the virus. It's the best I can do to help my odds given what we know currently.
When I started my new role with my employer, I did this using a browser extension and a really neat time-tracker app. I forwarded every day's tracking data to my mentor and so he was able to see with a really fine grain what I was working on, and how long each task took me in a given day.

Our apps security policy put the kibosh on that and I had to destroy my account once I realized it would not be feasible to keep it going forward.

My employer is really conservative about allowing 3rd-party apps, which is great for security, and puts us in a veritable Stone Age of productivity.