skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> BTW 7% is huge, odd that you would describe it as "only".

It depends on what you're doing and how optimized the baseline performance is. In my area (CRDTs) the baseline performance is terrible for a lot of these algorithms. Over about 18 months of work I've managed to improve on automerge's 2021 performance of ~5 minutes / 800MB of ram for one specific benchmark down to 4ms / 2MB. Thats 75000x faster. (Yjs in comparison takes ~1 second.)

Almost all of the performance improvement came from using more appropriate data structures and optimizing the fast-path. I couldn't find an off-the-shelf b-tree or skip list which did what I needed here. I ended up hand coding a b-tree for sequence data which run-length encodes items internally, and knows how to split and merge nodes when inserts happen. CRDTs also have a lot of fiddly computations when concurrent changes edit the same data, but users don't do that much in practice. Coding optimized fast paths for the 99% case got me another 10x performance improvement or so.

I'd take another 7% performance improvement on top of where I am, but this code is probably fast enough. I hear you that 7% is huge sometimes, and a smarter compiler is a better compiler. But 7% is a drop in the bucket for my work.
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Maybe the policy should be that whichever page is chosen should at least link back to the main PR source, so you're only one step away from getting there.

In this case the page links the PR prominently in the first line of copy, so that seems OK.
Does anyone know if this new model handles silence better? I was trying to use whisper for transcribing bursts of talking amid large spans of silence, but the frequency of hallucinations was too high.
Exchange rate fluctuation I think could be handled perfectly fine without price points but the price point "gravities" is a really good reason to use the system. Not sure why it should limit developers to that system but it certainly makes the system attractive/useful for many.
The world is on the cusp of robotic mining of the seafloor on a massive scale.

The International Seabed Authority is the organization formed to sell mining rights in international waters.

You know weapons manufacturers and oil/gas will be chomping at the bit to build hardware to support these operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Seabed_Authority

https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/01/worlds-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/deep-sea-mining.htm...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/seabed-mining-regul...
Cars are made of metal. Metallic paint is a lie that tells the truth.
Google makes more money than OpenAI, so I wouldn't say that.

Also, OpenAI is basically a subsidiary of Microsoft at this point.
It's ugly but many old people simply don't have anything to live for, their bodies have deteriorated to a point where they can only vegetate and on top of it are depressed, all their friends are gone, nothing ticks for them in this world anymore. Why extend the agony? That's one, there are not so old people terminally ill who would like to end their suffering. Why would they be denied that? I don't like to look at this through financial lens either but it's not too far from the truth.
Those error messages are random due to load or whatever other external factors. Some things do seem more likely to trigger them than others, but I've always been able to get the things that failed to work eventually.
> Hong Kong made it clear that the idea of increasing prosperity in China will not lead to it's liberalization, nor can China be relied upon to be bound by documents that are "historical documents that no longer have any practical significance."

This is a great point, it is underestimated I think in how what happened in Hong Kong impacted perceptions of China. Was the first clearcut example that once China was in they would not respect prior agreements (like around having 2 systems in Hong Kong) which led to a wake up call for what letting China have a big political role in your society would mean.
Translation from corporate-speak to english.
Netflix likely to offer multiple ad-supported tiers
Hams can apply for special call signs for special events. Lots of times it's groups or organized around special location.

I know there has been a movement to move QSL cards to completely digital. Maybe I'm old school but for over fifty years (in my case) getting a stack of QSL cards in the mailbox has always been a rush.

Why is it called QSL? In the early days of Morse telegraphy a set of Q codes evolved as a sort of short hand for commonly sent messages. Some of these are still used in ham radio such as QRM which means interference. Sorry I didn't get all that there was too much QRM from the Russian Buzzer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSL_card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
Nah. The tweakers I've known started using and then became homeless. It's hard to maintain a job and be a normal member of society while being addicted to meth
I briefly tried it and it was indeed very fast, but I couldn't get simple things for python. It would just keep adding import statements or try to continue writing my comment (even though I wanted the code that matches the comment).

Also I couldn't find any way to toggle alternative suggestions.
Can’t tell if this is a real question but it’s just slang. Very common usage in US.
> If you don't have better options, why not?

This is exactly my point. Our goal as a society should be to make sure that nobody's in a position where moving to Seattle and living in a tiny house stealing from a Walgreens is a better situation.

This is what I meant when I said: "That's the thing right, obviously this logic fails once you have a job, friends and some level of comfort. This is what we should actually be investing in."
I find it strange to see this sentiment... how far down the stack do you go before it stops being "configuration" to you?

Let's imagine building a video chat:

Are you going to build an OS from scratch?
Network protocols?
Encryption?
The rendering engine for it?
Compression algos?

Just how much of this do you consider "not configuration"? I think this all sounds very much like "old man yells at cloud" pining for a past that never actually existed.
Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?
>The US establishment descends from the earlier Angloamerican establishment format, which in turn descended from English aristocratic establishment of medieval ages.

No, not really.

>The French Revolution never having arrived in Britain

But it did happen in the US. In fact the French Revolution was inspired by the American Revolution.

>However the ancestral format and culture remained mostly the same

Interesting how you acknowledge the flaw in your argument and then simply do not address it.

>This behavior is specific to the Angloamerican establishment. And it is due to the aristocracy never having been destroyed or castrated.

You have offered no evidence for this claim, which is extraordinary considering that there never was an aristocracy in the US. Unless by "aristocracy" you simply mean that the rich hold power, in which case that has nothing to do with Britan and exists in almost all countries.
Canonical | Python Software Engineer | Remote (Asia-Pacific, ±4h from NZ time) | Full-time

Canonical is known for producing Ubuntu, but we have a lot of other roles. This one is for a Python dev with an eye for detail, helping develop the Python Operator Framework library that's used for writing "Juju charms" -- software that operates software.

Project page: https://github.com/canonical/operator/

Job page: https://canonical.com/careers/3033974
The stuff about dealing with journalists is pure bs... As soon as they find out that your project isn't funded by big VC, they ghost you. The role of the modern tech journalist isn't to bring attention to new/interesting technologies, they're an extension to the PR arm of big VCs. I've seen a tech journalist in the software development niche being reprimanded (they shut down their blog) shortly after they wrote an article covering one of my open source projects. In the closing article they said something like "I made a few bad decisions..." - It was crystal clear to me what they meant and I suspect they were covering too many indie projects.
> A bike without traditional components, defined entirely by its software…

{shudder}
I have two minds about this.

GPT talks with strong confidence about things, and often in ways where it’s not immediately obvious what is incorrect. That can be a bad thing if the user is unaware of it. Certainly don’t mainline advice from a statistical model into your health practices.

On the other hand, this could be an extremely powerful tool for exploration. If it is used to come up with possible issues for an expert to disprove, it could be helpful, depending on the signal to noise ratio.

Complicating this is the obscene costs of the American healthcare system, which I worry makes the human part of a potential human-in-the-loop system out of reach for many people.
Well, crap. Like I need yet another bad habit. Thanks?
Trikes with upfront single wheel are dangerous; I would any day take a bigger one that has two wheels upfront and is street legal in the EU to use in place of the car for longer trips. Health issues, many steep hills and the need to take highways rule e-bikes out completely. I'm in love with the Arcimoto Roadster which, high costs aside, sadly isn't street legal here.
What was the salary range?
> a.append(3)

Trick question it's a type error?
Bank card fraud exploded during the pandemic. Then came the bot hiring boom
"Has to be" is a stretch. By nagging the non-respondents you are introducing a bias that the first group of respondents were not exposed to. If you annoy a respondent, it's very reasonable to assume that can influence their responses (probably negatively).

Option D seems objectively better to me over Option A based on this bias.
The question is appropriate because it allows for further elaboration, even if a candidate isn't familiar with the call by assignment semantics of Python. It enables for a follow up discussion about differences between calls by value, calls by references, immutability and so on.
To add to that, some context: I really didn’t intend to start a gender thing - I would prefer us to focus on Molly’s awesomeness - but I live with people of various genders and these days “they” tends to be my default pronoun choice. I even started to refer to my cat and my wife as “they” despite them being cis gendered.

I will certainly apologise if I have offended Molly.
Google Maps has heavy monetization of location.
It's definitely not a bunch of humans masquerading as an AI. The response rate and length is too fast for some unique questions I've asked it.

Like try asking three random movie characters to roleplay a meeting, or think of some unique question. Occasionally it's slow, but it has given paragraphs of answers to unique questions in mere seconds, fast enough that a human couldn't produce.

I also don't really see a good motive for such deception.
> But if I did see an un-breaking egg, I feel like I would still need more convincing that it is actually moving backward in time.

It's not about just the egg ,but the whole universe moving backward in time, i think.
What kind of resources are you interested in? If it's about the 98 version of C++ I can recommend Lippman's C++ primer, 3rd edition (which is more suited from my point of view for the given purpose than later editions).
The Simple Art of Murder (1944)
It seems like every few minutes would be fast enough, but whatever. It's just weird that, given how important app store purchases are for Apple, they wouldn't just spend any amount of money to make the best possible system: do the currency conversion, snap to those behavioral psychology price points, round to the prettiest unit... the works. Wouldn't everything be on the table for the thing that makes so much money?

Heck, maybe they did do that, and this 900 price point system is actually the right way to do it. Doesn't seem like it, but maybe!
It sounds like a lot of people are encouraged by this work. I’m taken aback by the name, though. I looked around their site and couldn’t find an explanation.
Me:

> Hey I'm looking to know a little bit about that one town that is at the center of the state of Oregon...I can't remember the name.

ChatGPT:

> I'm sorry, but I'm not able to browse the internet to find information about a specific town in Oregon. I'm a large language model trained by OpenAI, so I can answer general questions based on my training data, but I don't have access to current information or the ability to browse the web. Is there something specific you would like to know about a town in Oregon? I'd be happy to help if I can.

I think this shows that it's not some omnipotent being and more a very clever deployment of a language model trained on a finite (but extremely large) training set.
How exactly does sexism (or lack thereof) signal confidence?

And on the word shit, there is a long tradition in various world cultures of curse words being named on bodily functions. But you are missing the obvious in that "curse" words are such because they were originally thought to bring a curse on the speaker or recipients from whatever god-entity they believe in. I suspect this is a manifestation of (ancient?) society's methods of trying to control the fuck out of everyone and it is a meme burned in our consciousness quite deeply at this point. But all that makes the entire notion of curse-words invalid; if their meaning is that which we attribute to them then they are meaningless and therefore harmless. But with morality unable to escape the shadow of primitive, ignorant times, they continue to be "taboo"
Please bear in mind that the site this is on appears to be a Russian propaganda machine. This story may have some validity to it - I haven't investigated yet - but a quick browse of the front page consists primarily of anti-ukraine conspiracy pages.
I just preceded the asterisks with a backslash.
14mph top speed? Aren't there plenty of e-trikes that reach Class 2 or Class 3 speeds?
http://web.archive.org/web/20221206231450/https://www.theatl...
Japan, Belgium to cooperate in chip production, development
Yep, same deal with AsyncDisplayKit and the classic "iOS can't handle our scale". Too many cooks. Move along, this isn't the library you're looking for
It could well be that 187K employees is a disadvantage, not just economically, but because every project has too many cooks in the kitchen so to say, and it has too much politics.
As a presales engineer, I worked with a winky sales rep for a year or two and absolutely picked up this winky habit.
New Avenues: The plat­forms of the last decade are done
It's not subsidizing though.

It would be subsidizing if the effect were that Americans pay more so that people in other countries pay less.

But the alternative to Americans paying more isn't the other people having to pay more, the alternative is the product not existing. (or, alternatively, the company making less profit).

There might be some cases where if the US market didn't exist, the price in another country would go up, but it would happen because a company wasn't able to sustain a lower price with the reduced quantity, and would therefore have to settle for selling less quantity at a higher price.
I may be wrong today, but I took a peek awhile back and Solana's top N validators -- enough to exert outright control over the network -- were operated by companies from within the same 2-3 VC portfolios, which struck me as a shockingly poor standard of "decentralization" for a network which apparently prides itself on that metric.

From a certain angle, it could almost look as if said VCs were trying to add legitimacy to their portfolio investments by colluding to make Solana seem busier and safer than it really is...
Jack Daniel’s Will Get Its Shot at SCOTUS Review Against Dog Toy Maker
It's a strong skill to know how to balance this.
Then the central bank sees that inflation is lower than they want and then lowers interest rates, solving that part of the problem.
I would love to do this for my local police scanner.
I used to think privacy was the way, but it's proving more and more impossible to do. I know think that this is the way, begin to generate fake data tons of it all the time, the best defense is a good offense, if we can decrease the signal to noise ratio sufficiently then they can no longer use it, and no I don't have any moral qualms with it because they started the war.

They are the ones who have caused only 1 in 30 emails I receive to be actually something I wanted or find use in. They are the ones who made it so I can no longer use a phone as a communication device within anyone I don't already know. They are the ones sending me random texts and losing my data all over the place, the only way to solve this is to burn back, the politicians won't help they're in bed with all these actors.

If you want a good place to start this add on https://adnauseam.io/ Ad Nasueam is a good place to start, it functions as an add blocker but it also launches a click on every single add that pops up anywhere. If anyone has any other false data generating sources it would be much appreciated.

We need to fight back.

EDIT:
Forgot another one http://trackmenot.io/ Track Me Not, it issues random queries to search engines to obsfucate data, when you combine it with adnaseum it is a pretty little counterintel tool.
> There are no linguists in the program.

I suppose intelligence actually resides in the culture, and we're like GPUs running it. Then both humans and AI have the same right to claim intelligence.

https://youtu.be/YfXc4OBDmnM?t=883
Having people do things without understanding what exactly they are doing is a good way to create a website with a very good ssl certificate and their private key available on the website itself… or similar issues.
Have you tried https://webcaptioner.com/ ?
Which you ideally can supplement with a high-deductible plan for catastrophic care.
F#. Wield the power of .NET with functional programming and beautiful syntax.
No, I’m saying: if it’s not worth saying, it’s worthy of Twitter and TikTok.
From the ChatGPT announcement post:

> ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as: (1) during RL training, there’s currently no source of truth; (2) training the model to be more cautious causes it to decline questions that it can answer correctly; and (3) supervised training misleads the model because the ideal answer depends on what the model knows, rather than what the human demonstrator knows.
I have a Rad City 4 and I love it. I commute on it often, it's powerful enough for San Francisco hills, the regen braking is excellent. I'm really happy with it.

This tricycle isn't for me but I get it, I think the niches that ebikes can fill are much bigger than we think they are
For families that frequent HN, wouldn't HSAs be the superior option since this demographic is more likely (for better or worse) to have higher discretionary income to weather the up-front HSA costs until hitting the family deductible limit, after which point incremental medical costs are (mostly) covered by the HSA plan?

I agree that HSA plans aren't great for families that have less discretionary cash on hand.
Did they just commit straight to the main branch?
If you start the function you're trying to write (just by writing `def` on a new line), you should usually be able to get it to start implementing it.

You can see alternate suggestions on VSCode by hitting Option + [. We don't currently support seeing alternate suggestions on JetBrains IDEs, but we're working on it!
> Do these plants not require tons of water?

If you’re referring to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, it’s downstream of water treatment plants and is effectively evaporating the water from the effluent stream [1], in other words it’s cooled by 100% recycled water. Probably a significant amount of the evaporated water returns to the local area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...
Nice, one hundred more settlements of this size and we can buy our parking meters back. You developers better found some more Ubers.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/5/26/23143356/ch...
Google has models that are at parity with or outperform OpenAIs models at most tasks, they just don’t bring them to market quickly or build their brand around them as strongly as OpenAI does.

See Imagen for example - https://imagen.research.google/

If Google is to be believed, this outperforms Dall-E - and I’ve heard from people that use it that in general, it does perform better than Dall-E.
> There has long been attempts at getting tools like Figma to produce assets that work with engineers.

How many engineers would prefer fumbling through Figma output instead of just writing it themselves?

I guess the answer to that depends on the quality of the Figma output, which is probably measured in maintainability?
This is my experience, too. I've mostly stopped responding to comments where people talk about how bad Amazon is. I've never experienced the horror stories despite being here longer than the average tenure and working in three separate orgs.

Balls may have been dropped by some people, but I always have recruiters pinging me relentlessly the day after I've done an interview so they can get back to the candidate within 5 business days.
this reads to me like a typical modern's response to an unfamiliarity with the feeling of actually being one of the alienated people who are attempting with varying degrees of success to find anything of substance.

but really I think that alienation is dealt with differently by each subject, with temporally near groups just chosing similar patterns based on environmental and cultural factors.

there isn't any "right" way to deal with it, just the ones were currently trying. maybe it's good, maybe it's unhealthy, maybe it's going to cause the death of society. either way, the earth still spins.
>owners renting out their condos doesn't turn it into an apartment building.

Apartment and condominium are not mutually exclusive. Condominium only refers to the way a building is owned, if most or all of the units in a condominium were rented out by their owners to 3rd parties you could reasonably call it a condominium apartment building.
> The whole point here is to solve disagreements by appeal to shared rules and procedures.

Rules and procedures are merely for civility. Not sure where you get your pejoratives, but partisanship is a very good thing. Things only get better when individuals disagree. Without adversity nothing would ever change, nothing would ever improve, and there would be no such thing as technology. Sometimes disagreements can only be solved by democracy where the majority rules, not like the current State where the constantly shrinking conservative minority has somehow turned that on its head.
It was also available since at least 2014 when animating with AIR (yes, Flash AS3), along w/ fine-grained control over what was uploaded to the GPU and when, through an API that deployed seamlessly to iOS and Android. There's no reason the nascent Flash mobile plugin wouldn't have supported this too, if it had gotten much past beta, since GPU leveraging was available from Flash in desktop browsers earlier than that.

Keeping the GPU context when switching mobile apps was always a challenge, though, and often the animation state would need to be rebuilt if the context was dropped. I'd assume that's still an issue something like Lottie needs to handle, whether it does so under the hood or not...
Unfortunately due to the 3rd party doctrine most of it is a distinction without a difference. Do I feel the same way about an advertiser knowing my whereabouts all the time as I do the FBI or even local PD? No. But because the latter can legally purchase the information from the former my intuition is potentially wrong.
How to Speak Honeybee