skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is similar, though I would personally attribute it at least partly to stupidity - on the one hand, in most cases when I have worked with someone crucial, they've been with the company longer than the people managing them, so the person or people making the firing decision don't really understand what's at stake. Or to put it another way, their cost-benefit is flawed, they know what it'd cost to keep the key employee, but they fail to imagine what it will cost to let them go.
The lack of empathy in general on online forums is incredible. I don’t think NH is any worse than other places but it would be nice if we could be a little better as it would lead to some more interesting and nuanced topics.

As a developer/manager i am not yet scared of AI because i have had to already correct multiple people this week who tried to use chatGPT to figure something out.

It’s actually pretty good but when it’s wrong it seems to be really wrong and when you don’t have the background to figure that out a ton of time is wasted. It’s just a better Stackoverflow at the end of the day imo.
People say this, but a whole bunch of rails gems still require sprockets to import their assets
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Be sure to watch the part in which Dave says that the device can't be used even as a stupid speaker because the aux analog input requires the user to sign up and activate their software (about 0:50). If there was a prize for engineering devices to be defective by design, Sonos should be awarded a nomination.
Education Picks Winners and Losers Early
>Compare this to, say, Amazon where Amazon's needs are prioritized over the customers'

I'm not sure that's the whole story. A critical point is that this is a B2B site. The people shopping here would tend to have a need in mind that can be solved by finding the exact right part that meets their specifications.

By comparison, the typical consumer shopping experience is much more one of discovery, not need-solution mnatching. Keep in mind the average HN user is not the typical shopper. You and I might like to "get in and get out" but so many consumer shoppers LOVE to go to a place like Target or HomeGoods and browse around aimlessly, window shop, discover, explore - and that indicates a far different type of UX than what B2B would look like. These shoppers value stimulus, sparks of ideas, reviews and testimonials, and all the other "cruft" that was removed from McMaster.com
impressive. and this is a hobby project.. amazing
Every time I hear the Shining theme I feel the room get cold. So powerful.

Same with A Clockwork Orange (Queen Mary's funeral theme).
>these "charities" can pay out to their owners from tax-exempt gains on the back-end.

Even if this were true, that back-end would be taxable, so who cares?

That said, why would this make sense from the donor perspective? Why would I want to donate $1M to a charity to avoid taxes, just so that it can pay me $1M which I would then have to pay taxes on again?
Challenging legally, and challenging philosophically. I would think an artist doing it for the art would embrace the fleeting nature of all things, including art. Some artists demonstrate this by creating temporary art, or even throwing their own art away after making it. The desire to make money from art is certainly reasonable, but accepting a world where all art styles are immediately mimicked, where art is trivialized and commoditized, and where there's no recognition to be had let alone money... that's going to be a tough philosophical pill to swallow.
> And yet, there is no significant migration from the US to the European social democratic countries.

The reverse is also true. There isn't really a huge migration from Sweden or Switzerland to the US.

> And yet, millions of people move to the US, which is a lot more difficult.

We live in a society and world where you're brainwashed since your birth into thinking that money is the most important thing in the world. Thus people that already make good money move to the other side of the world (say to Silicon Valley) because they will make much more money there.

Then they find they aren't necessarily living a better life, just that they can afford more things.

I've been in places and cultures where there isn't such an emphasis on money and material things, like in central asia, and I think people there live much happier lives than most of us in high income countries do.
What I've found is each iteration with ChatGPT is alright at fixing or adding to the existing code per my instruction but every iteration includes a significant chance of introducing a new bug or simply forgetting some piece of the existing code in the next iteration.
If you’re in data science related fields python is kind of a must. Ruby has most of the same libraries but not all of them.

Plus at a certain point the people you have to deal with only know python.
Just… astounded that the starting point for a discussion of e-commerce usability would ever be ‘let’s go gather some learnings from “a B2B site that recently made the top of HackerNews as the best e-commerce site”’

Are HN users even representative customers of McMaster Carr? Let alone of any other e-commerce site?
It's amazing how genetics has sort of started with one partly correct but very limited idea (simple SNP alleles generate phenotypes) and it's slowly coming up with terms to explain the obvious (from the perspective of a molecular biologist). The entire conceptualization of how genes make phenotypes needs to be updated.
That's his preferred narrative. The truth is that Elon Musk has been subject to negative attention for years because of market manipulation[0], abhorrent labour practices and safety record[1], and obsession with inserting himself into the limelight via poor behaviour[2] or over-promising things he can't deliver[3][4] — to name a few reasons why he's viewed unfavorably.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-219

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-ventilator-c...

[4] https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...
Dialogue with Cormac McCarthy About Science
> FAANG is the only place where you don’t need to be white to succeed.

I feel like this "only" is erroneous. While FAANG do have solid diversity policies in place to assume they're the only companies capable diversity in their hiring practices is offensive to everyone else.
- Changing lanes with someone in my blind spot just behind the B pillar

- someone changing lanes into me while cruising

- car tried to cut across from lane to my right to lane to my left. Got blocked from going to left lane and slammed brakes in front of me

- saw brake lights farther than I could in a snowstorm

It’s like having someone with 100% attention and 360 visibility watching your back at all times.
Maybe you should just recognize it's not your place to police how others express their sentiments?
> c) Embrace it. [...] My money is on c)

Agreed.

I think developers who don't will be rare in a few years time. Just like developers who primarily rely on assemblers (versus compilers) have basically become extinct. Like we sometimes, very rarely, need to inline some assembly, we will sometimes need to use the ol' gray matter to figure out a novel algorithm or something.

I believe that avoiding learning these tools could be a existential issue for your present-day job. You don't have to come to depend on them, or use them daily, but you do need to understand how best to use (and not use) them.
I felt like their response was pitch-perfect. There will be bugs, the unknown is how a company deals with it.
It would suffice to dissolve oxygen in river water on its way out. All the dead zones are at river outlets.

The hydrogen freed would need to be sequestered to burn later, because hydrogen is insoluble in water, and is a 200x greenhouse gas (when counting secondary effects).

There will be a hell of a lot of spare oxygen available to dissolve in water and flush to rivers, after we start producing green hydrogen.

But just bubbling regular air through should suffice to saturate it, no electrolysis needed. A big perforated plate, with water running over it and air pushed under, does the job without fuss.
I would hate this because I’m physically nowhere near any HNers I’d trust, and vanishingly few HNers at all.
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Do not shock your body or push to extremes. That might be potentially dangerous if you have a cardiovascular condition.

Start light: have your normal shower, then slowly make it colder gradually. Let it push you out of the comfort zone, yet of course stop before it feels hard on your body or heart or anything serious.

You might start with 10 seconds and gradually increase the time until you basically can stand 1 minute under cold water.

About "just cold" or "ice cold" and the faucet: the "coldest" setting changes wildly depending on where you live, but "really cold but not shocking your body" might be a good sweet spot. If you aren't living somewhere particularly cold, the coldest from the shower might not even reach that cold anyway.

Listen to your body and know your limits. Start slow and gradually make it "harder" as your body gets used to it by days and weeks.
What piece of technology do you use that wasn't pitched like this: Like product but differentiating feature.

Reach is the fundamental flaw from both operational and social standpoints. It makes the world worse.

We regulate heroin for the same reason. Although this argument makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I do believe all drugs should be legal and regulated. I'm not entirely sure which opinion will hold after I reconcile this conflict.
For Thanos, you can (mostly) just copy the blocks from the existing s3 bucket into Mimir's bucket. There's some cleanup prep around external labels, but nothing too difficult, and the process is well-documented. I just finished migrating a year of Thanos metrics into Mimir without issue.
Would Musk reinstate Elonjet if his tweets were delayed by 12 hours? Doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
I haven’t done the maths, but my gut (and maths degree, but mostly kerbal space program experience), says that even without an adequate heat shield, a significant plane change manoeuvre in LEO would take comparable delta V to slowing to the point where the spacecraft fuselage is sufficient shielding that the astronauts onboard won’t die on re-entry from the heat.

That being said, G-forces of such a steep descent would probably kill them instead.
Amazon agrees to change some business practices in EU settlement to avoid fine
Do you think you could have worded your reply differently?
Ask HN: An article that talked about how education destroys discipline?
I can't find it, I'm sure it's bookmarked. But the point was that going through formal school k12 is the worst thing that happens to you in terms of self control, discipline, and procrastination.

The idea went as follows:

People who thrive at "school" suck at doing things in the absence of environment of school, their whole life they are getting programmed to:

a) do things for an quick and clear reward

b) always be in extremely well defined rules (when semester starts you see how people obsess over edge cases and their impact on grade with a professor)

c) always do it for pleasing someone else and get their admiration (teachers, parents, peers, etc)

d) only be motivated by fear

In a way the better you adapt to that system the more 'slave' minded you become and only do what is asked, when rewarded, given clear instructions and a threat of leashes otherwise. Often Top students in HS end up mediocre at college and life.

Lack of motivation plagues them all life as they have no clear guidelines, external threats, or third person providing validation.

Also, they avoid failure like plague because their whole identity is built on them being the "brightest", you can't fail if you never try.

I have tried Googling 30 different ways, I wrote script to generate url with 8000+ bookmark links and google still couldn't find it. I used to be able to find it with Google, now it just can't, I knew G have been becoming unreliable, but this is first time that I can't find it even after trying for hours.

I say "they" but I see myself in it, and that's why I read that article again and again.
Scrolled the whole thread. I kind of expected 20 responses from people already working on this and got nothing.
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The problem is copyright laws , not the models (which are inevitable and impossible to stop anyway). The sketch of a mouse should not be protected more than the artistic style of any guy. IP laws are ancient concept and it s a mystery why people still cling to them so tightly
A few takes on this:

* College degree is just a proxy for people in dead end jobs. This could easily say "Men without yachts..." "Men without country club memberships..." "Men without genius IQs..." etc. "People with dead end jobs dropping out of work" would be a better title.

* This makes sense because these jobs are indeed more dead end than ever. You've been competing with offshoring/globalization for the last 30 years. Now you're also competing with AI/Automation.

* The status threat is also amplified as of late because earnings/wealth is increasingly the only status. It wasn't long ago that being physically strong held status in society. Or having a strong social network. We're pretty close to wealth-is-all-that-matters for social status now. The highest status people in society are dominated by social awkward, physically weak people with high earnings. Lots of this has to do with a decrease in violence (bar fights used to be common - now they're rare and end in court).

* Finally, status has adopted a capitalist winner-take-all dynamics thanks to dating apps and social media. It's now feast or famine in the dating world. Top 1% of men are getting like 50% of the attention from women on apps and even in the real world - women are less available because the guy at the bar is competing with the guy on bumble.
Maybe a really unintuitive system for ranking too? Like make it unclear why some posts are ranked higher than others, and why some are somehow greyed out even though there isn't an obvious way to downvote or report content. Also make it so you have to manually minimize the top reply in order to see the second most popular topline reply because there should be absolutely no limit to seeing the amount of subreplies.
Did macOS Ventura help this somehow?
I don't think it's crowded. Lay aside the legacy products - the old form factor M1 Air and 13inch Pro. You now have a very simple product line: Minimalist vs Maximalist and Small vs Big screen. The Airs will be thinner, have the basic M chips and 2 ports. The Pros will be thicker, have the juicy M chips, and have all the fancy ports. Nice market segmentation, simple differentiation. The only thing to do is wait 14 more years for them to kill off the legacy products.
Postgres and Tailscale – A database you can trust with a simple VPN
> It is rather simple: The tools don't matter.

Its hard to read past nonsense like this.
There's still a matter of taste that Dall-E can't provide. It will only spit out what you tell it to, and if you lack good taste, then you'll still produce something inferior
The usual argument is that between having macro and focusing on a strong type system, there are very few legitimate usecase for reflection left in Rust.
> It generates a somewhat less interesting version of elevator music.

This iteration does, but that's an artifact of how it's being generated: small spectograms that mutate without emotional direction (by which I mean we expect things like chord changes and intervals in melodies that we associate with emotional expressions - elevator music also stays in the neutral zone by design).

I expect with some further work, someone could add a layer on top of this that could translate emotional expressions into harmonic and melodic direction for the spectrogram generator. But maybe that would also require more training to get the spectrogram generator to reliably produce results that followed those directions?
Mhhh I always assumed school is the most delayed reward. 20 years to get a well paying job?
While we're at it, you can customize XFCE to look like macOS Big Sur:

https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=oQ8RWtD3MTQ

EDIT: there is an updated version of this procedure:

https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=uvvoJU69uNo
Pretty sure you don’t need a runtime to track runtime type info. What we think of as a “runtime” in GC languages is usually several distinct things (a scheduler, a GC, and maybe some other stuff in the case of Java/.Net).
trade restrictions exist for many other reasons than 'ownership': political reciprocity, agricultural security, product health and safety, national security, etc. When these types of products come through customs, it doesn't matter who owns them, they're prohibited because of the inherent qualities of the items themselves.
> People who have little opportunity for advancement being white and Christian does not mean that whites or Christianity is under threat.

As a resident HN Christian, I don't concur.

We've seen a number of Christian individuals & businesses recently taken to court/UCMJ action for refusing to do things that are contrary to their religious (Christian) beliefs, or for openly stating their beliefs [1] , [2] , [3] , [4]

The same protections afforded to observant jews and practicing muslims should also be afforded to Christians.

It is in the Constitution after all.

[1] https://thepoliticalinsider.com/colorado-baker-sued-again-th...

[2] https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/16/justice-thomass-opinion...

[3] https://www.christianpost.com/news/obamacare-and-the-catholi...

[4] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/air-force-cracking-down-on-c...
Shaq distances himself from crypto: ‘I was just a paid spokesperson’
>Germany was annihilated

rewarded by Marshall plan making it one of the wealthiest countries on the continent. Not many people know there was an alternative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan hopefully this one will be implemented after ru falls.
Even if they did take equity, I'm not sure that would be a problem. Charities and non-profits can make investments. For example, foundations have huge market investments.

The distinction is that the owners can never cash out and put the money in their pocket.

At most, they can take a salary with justification.
In my experience this is basically what Discord has become. Sure, there are a number of power-law distributed (because of course it's a power law -- if you don't get a power law you're doing it wrong) superservers, but most servers amount to a small handful of regular participants interacting around a "theme".
This year's UI/UX trends have been an absolute disaster. Many brands are now using some kind of an amalgamation of animations + on-scroll effects that transition into this linear 3D experience. Replit is a good example of this, even though what they are doing is quite tame to what I have seen.

Now, the crazy thing about this trend is that I honestly just close the page whenever I encounter it. And I am 100% positive that many other people do this, too. So, unless your brand has outstanding reputation and you were introduced to their service through word of mouth, a lot of these bombastic landing pages are left to rot by themselves.

And lastly, these pages are supposed to leave you feeling something, or at the very least - fire up a neuron or two in your brain because the experience is refreshing. I have not experienced that a single time. And I bookmark quite a lot of random pages I am inspired by from a design perspective.
The arithmetic a computer can do instantly is much more difficult to me that writing this sentence.
Point being: we can't compare human and computer skills.
As if I'm worried, I'm not because, if there is no government intervention to ruin things, even if I lose my job as a programmer society becomes richer and I can always move to do another thing while having access to cheaper goods

People should stop giving work all this meaning and also they should study economics so they chill.

Learn and chill.
What did use as training data?
The audio sounds a bit lossy, would it be possible to create high quality spectograms from music, downsample them, and use that as training data for a spectogram upscaler?

It might be the last step this AI needs to bring some extra clarity to the output.
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By “perfectly fine” they mean detecting duplicate image or document files on your local storage, which it’s still perfectly fine for, and a frequent mode of usage for these types of tools.

Not every tool needs to be completely resilient to an entire Internets’ worth of attacks.
> All we can say from these big trends is that we have no idea whether peer review helped, it might have hurt, it cost a ton, and the current state of the scientific literature is pretty abysmal. In this biz, we call this a total flop.

"We can't say anything about this, so it's clearly a total failure." lol Seems like the author wants this both ways.

Also, I don't know why they think replication would be more likely if we didn't have peer reviewers at all. Feels like a larger jump from "your study won't be reviewed" to "your study must be replicated" than from "your study is being reviewed" to "your study is being replicated".
As that one quote says, paraphrasing: when you get old you realize that nobody was thinking about you this whole time anyway.
why not use an image of the waveform as input?
The parent I'm responding to was interpreting "VR capable" as "top of the line" which is demonstrably false. You probably can't even get this scene in the first place, so it's kinda a moot point.
Don't know about the others, but at least YouTube also uses VP9, which is open and capable of being hardware decoded by most devices.
Where are all the new Macs?
ABI wise that is not true though. structs have struct ABI, even just a newtype struct around an integer will not use integer ABI unless annotated with #[repr(transparent)].
The paper is in their field of research?
Gregorian death metal folk also seems to have lacked seed tunes but the thing is just in its infancy so soon we'll be banging our tonsured heads to the folky beats of ...

...OK, need to create a band name generator to work in tandem with this thing. Let's see what one of its brethren in ML makes of it...

- "Echoes of the Past": This name plays on the idea of Gregorian chanting, which is often associated with the distant past, and combines it with the intense and aggressive sound of death metal.

- "The Order of the Black Chant": This name incorporates elements of both the religious connotations of Gregorian chanting and the dark, heavy sound of death metal, creating a sense of mystery and danger.

- "Foretold in Blood": This name evokes both the ancient, mystical nature of Gregorian chanting and the violent themes of death metal, creating a sense of ancient prophecy coming to pass.

- "Crypt of the Silent Choir": This name brings together the eerie, otherworldly sound of Gregorian chanting with the underground, underground feel of death metal, creating a sense of hidden secrets and forbidden knowledge.

"The Order of the Black Chant" it shall be.
Yes. A point release added an API to do this better and Apple has contributed a PR to OBS to make use of the new API:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30112595
Owed to my father's long interest in electronic music, I'm the thankful owner of several of the 1960s/1970s original print Walter Carlos-attributed vinyl records and a few of the 1980s Wendy Carlos-attributed ones. Switched-On Bach/Brandenburgs, Sonic Seasonings, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer etc. all played a large part in my discovery of electronic music as a child.
The sound of a Martian dust devil