skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does need a bit of help, I wonder if humanity will stop creating but become "editors":

# I had a job interview last week and they asked if I could perform under pressure. I told them no but I could sing we will rock you

# This joke is funny because it plays on the concept of a job interview being a high-pressure situation, and the respondent's clever and humorous response to the question of whether they can perform under pressure. The respondent's answer, "no but I could sing we will rock you," is a clever and unexpected response that adds a touch of absurdity and playfulness to the otherwise serious setting of a job interview.
Additionally, the reference to the song "We Will Rock You" by the British rock band Queen adds an element of pop culture to the joke, which can be humorous for those who are familiar with the song. The use of wordplay, in which the respondent substitutes the phrase "perform under pressure" with "sing we will rock you," also adds to the humor of the joke

# Can you try again, there’s more than one meaning of perform

# Ah, I see what you mean now. In this case, the joke is funny because it plays on the multiple meanings of the word "perform." In a job interview, the word "perform" might typically be used in the sense of "do a job well" or "work efficiently under pressure." However, the respondent's answer, "no but I could sing we will rock you," suggests that they are interpreting "perform" in the sense of "give a public performance," as in singing a song. This interpretation is unexpected and adds a touch of absurdity to the joke, as it's unlikely that singing a song would be relevant or applicable to the question of whether the respondent can perform well in a job.
Their second channel goes into some of the equipment and behind-the-scenes stuff, an interesting one is showing off their file server for the raw video files, 960 TB worth in a small rack-mount unit.. incredible how much data these high-speed cameras produce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHVSoJDZ06U ("Unboxing a petabyte")
More than that, I think it's important to remember that no one, even a technologist as strong as Carmack, is going to get more right than wrong.

Carmack has been a huge inspiration for me over the years. I grew up eagerly reading his plan files.

But if we look at the big picture, a lot of his big calls haven't in fact worked out.

His vision for the future of graphics was to stick closer to the original OpenGL state machine, and just make it so blazing fast you could do complex lighting and materials via accumulating 100's of passes per frame. The world chose shaders instead, and I don't think they got that wrong.

Stencil buffer shadows were a dead end.

iD tech used to set the standard for the entire industry, but long term its totally lost out to Unreal and Unity.

Carmack's ideas around sparse voxel trees were really interesting to me at the time, but now with hindsight I can see he totally misunderstood what artists want/need. They don't want to uniquely paint every bit of the game world, they want tools that let them use instancing and smart materials/shapes. In comparison Unreal's Nanite gets this totally right. Artist productivity is the key constraint in both film and games.

I don't say this to be pointlessly negative. As I said JC is one of my personal heros. But the problem with the "superman" approach to coding is no one is in fact superman, even someone like JC. It's just not possible to get complex calls like this right long term. If you don't pay that some respect in your interpersonal behavior, you are gonna end up alienating people.
The first logician would answer “no” to the question if they didn’t want a beer (because they know they don’t want a beer, so therefore everybody does not want a beer).

Same with the second.

Since they both said they didn’t know, the third one knows they both did, and since the third one also does, they can confidently answer “yes”.

Thereby proving I am not chatgpt.
The examples you listed are nearly free compared to the cost of social welfare programs, free/affordable education and infrastructure.

Eg it is not obvious to me that we should close schools (or let them go to shit) to pay for health care.
Wonder what the chances are that the first iteration of "problem solved!" actually was a lurking problem that would've bitten as well, sooner or later.
Where have I seen this before? About 34 years ago on Star Trek: the Next Generation where android officer Data is trying to understand humor. Interesting insight from the science fiction writers then. Data could operate the starship and solve complex problems but had no understanding of jokes beyond being able to recite them from his library.
Regulatory compliance would be quite easy by just not doing spywares.
> before getting to any real insight.

Your opinion is that ChatGPT has "real insight"? What is "real insight"?
What's next? Shall we cut the hair of sheep to produce wool?
Licenses are for losers.
Are you Taiwanese? You sound like a Star Wars imperialist making decisions for a local planet in their stead.
That's not counting the Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...
Indeed. People growing up isn't a function of one variable
This thread is about the FBI, aka the actual jackboots, compelling private companies extralegally in order to shift democratic narratives.

And you're saying it's conservative to be opposed to that?

I understand it lined up with the liberal side regarding the election but that doesn't make Taibbi (or myself) a conservative for opposing it. Distrusting the FBI ought to be a liberal value.
Why not just link the official web: https://tomlehrersongs.com/ ?
I really love all the great work the GTK developers have been putting into it!
“Everyone” is used to mean the three of them, not everyone in the world. I like the joke better as “do you 3 all want beer?”
When I was using my surface pro 4 - I found it quite good for doodling (and note taking) in meetings. My ReMarkable 2 are in some ways better, some worse in this respect (I find I miss bright colored sketches, on the other hand the rm2 feels quite like pencil/pen and paper).
Ultimately, yes - nobody should feel bad for FAANG employees or anybody else who has chosen the golden handcuffs of the "cushy IT salary life." It was a choice and we are all responsible for our own choices... and in a world where people are starving, we shouldn't feel bad for somebody making a cushy living.

But it gets complicated.

A typical scenario is somebody choosing that life and after X years realizing it's not for them. But by then it's too late. You've got a partner, mortgage, pets, kids, whatever. And even if you haven't chosen any of that baggage, maybe you have a few hundred grand in student debt.

Yes, these were all choices. But it's awfully tough to know how you'll feel X years later when you are making those choices and by then there's no escape.

(FWIW, I have not worked at a FAANG. Just your average HN engineer type in a less glamorous part of the country.)
And then people who create third party server implementations get sued into oblivion. https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
While the paper's keywords list includes both microfluidics and photonics, nothing about the device is anything like an opto-fluidic logic gate. The laser is used to measure properties of cells suspended in the fluid, with the output light signal being processed by conventional photonics.
Isn't that splitting hairs? It digests some kind of 'understanding' of human language and expectations. It responds appropriately in most cases, at least as often as an actual human if not more so.

To claim it doesn't understand anything, is akin to digital bigotry. It's a machine, so what it does cannot be 'real' in some undefined sense.

I don't mean to upset anyone; this comment is just to open the conversation about when exactly we're content to permit artifical constructs to be worthy of respect.
And done under threat of "these companies had 'better behave' or were gonna change section 230."
It's movable of course, but this is still a downgrade from win10. My biggest peeve is that there seems to be no option anymore to not-condense icons, and you can't change the notification color (when an app flashes its icon).

I miss notifications on my work computer all the time because the flash color just doesn't stand out very much with my dark theme, and I can't even expand the width because...well it feels like they released an unfinished and unpolished product, again.

I hate that there's trade-offs that shouldn't need to exist with every new version.

Meanwhile my mac I don't think has ever lost functionality or customizability in the last..8ish years I've been using it as my daily driver.

edit: caveat...this is a work computer and obviously has group policies/etc that might affect things. I will correct this post if I'm wrong :)
Pin the tab. No more tab title.
Mazars is the same firm that disclaimed all their audits of the Trump Org the minute they were investigated. Their reputation is in tatters in an industry built on reputation.
I've been a little underwhelmed by some of the creative writing that ChatGPT generates. I think the safety features are a little too strong, and I found it hard to get it to generate stories that didn't have incredibly saccharine endings. Maybe I didn't utter the correct incantations? By default though, every story is a happy story with a happy and uplifting ending.
> Even precision fermentation is an easier to implement fix for land use, which looks increasingly like it can reduce our need for land to grow grains. See Solar Foods for example

What do you refer as "precision fermentation" here? The linked Wikipedia article is about "growing microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein". Just curious, perhaps I missed the connection.
Better embedded GPIO. RPi Zero is a great little board/computer but the capabilities of the GPIO pins are lacking in a lot of ways. Speed being the biggest problem.

This little $8 board will run circles around even an RPi 4 when it comes to doing something like controlling a long strip of ws2812b RGB LEDs, as an example.
I don't get it. We've had fully functional ARM based Linux boards in this form factor for a few years now, such as the Nano Pie Duo. So it's $15...

https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_Duo
With GTK you can at least drag the window by grabbing controls in the titlebar.
time magazine person of the year '39 '42

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
What do you think about the unusual choice for mask register semantics in RISC-V V which apparently forces chips to include silicon to support semantics nobody will actually want? https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-problem-with-risc-v-v-...
Oh that's nothing new. My Dad was a landlord and called up a tenant about a reported problem.

They talked for 20 minutes before either one realized, wrong number. This renter also had that problem with their landlord and was pleasantly surprised to be contacted about it so promptly. But it was the wrong landlord.

I get it; in future folks will use this for fishing and whatnot. But humans do that already!
Yep, in March. After doing 16 years worth of damage. Hopefully it wasn't too late.
Dear god make it stop. Can we get over this already and stop feeding the right wing trolls?
You really want this discussion to be about tactics to avoid screens! Can't help you with that. Good luck finding them elsewhere.
I don't think you understood the comment you're replying to, but are doing some kind of pattern matching.
> evaluative metrics and diagnostic metrics

I am stealing this, I called them "Opportunities & Firefighting" & "Heath / KPI Metrics" in a recent post
Or simply take the same amount of space and keep the solar panels and crops separate.
PynchonNotPynchonInPythonNotJython?
Thank you all with the suggestions!
I agree with the sentiment but the example is not very compelling. Tracking averages is its own pit of problems.

To be able to understand your funnel in a marketplace you’ll need to at least track profile and product views & click-throughs in addition to the metrics mentioned. How can you possibly tell what’s wrong when all you have is a average GMV metric going down?
That was a short phrase used to convey the concept that my direct question didn't get answered immediately. Not to suggest anything about the concept of AI, real consciousness nor civil rights for synthetic organisms.
Probably worth treating A(G?)I with respect in its infancy so it remembers its friends in the future.
>What is stopping someone from publishing SNKRX to a site like itch.io and selling it for 1€ instead?

Nothing, that's my whole point.

>And if nothing is stopping it, why hasn't someone done it yet (that I know of).

Not everything that can happen has happened (or will happen).

But many programs in similar open status were indeed taken and sold this way. And sure, it's legal and a particular creator might be fine if that happened to his program. But that wasn't what we were discussing in this subthread, but the fitability of this model for people wanting to make a living, e.g. the proposition that: "I guess he's kind of undercutting himself by making it available on github, but I bet most people would rather pay 3€ and have nice steam features than download and compile a game off a site they likely don't know".

Well, first, the undercutters might put their version in a nice site like Steam as well. And that's just one case (or e.g. Steam discourages them, even though what they'd be doing is legal), there's also games/apps that they are sold in the author's website or on iOS/Android app stores - and for those anybody undercutting them with their own build/copy would have an equally convenient/prestigious delivery trivially.

Now, there are some cases where the original creator would fare better, but not because of the basic mechanics of the model, but because of other factors: e.g. a creator could have a nice following and be well loved in the community, to the point that most users would go out of their way to buy their version for support, and not the third party ones, even if the latter are undercutting it.

For the average program and the average creator without fans though, if they are concerned about their own sales, that's more of a "put it out in the open and pray you don't get undercut" proposition...
I think it's weird that people don't talk about non-developers being weak communicators because they often are as well. I guess it's because if a product manager is a bad communicator then they're just a bad product manager. While a developer can be a bad communicator but still a good developer.
Are you sure you don't mean a "Gen-X'er" that hasn't been relevant since he stole Apple ][s with thermite and vasoline? ;)
Actually they can, that is the problem, all Windows UI frameworks suffer from the same issues that plagued IE, everyone moved on and the new intern's don't have any idea.

You see this in several community talks, where .NET old timers ask about feature X in framework Y being available on framework Z, and many times they don't really understand what is being talked about.

Most Microsoft veterans are now on Azure or Windows Server business units.
It doesn't imply those horrible solutions exclusively, but it's pretty hard to look at the forced sterilization of parents and abortion of children for generations in China and argue that it doesn't imply them at all.
These winners are always too long-winded. “Brevity is the soul of wit”.

The alternative is the much funnier Lyttle Lytton Contest: http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
I'm contemplating David Beazley's classes: (http://dabeaz.com/raft.html)
I am happy with my rm2, largely because the note taking/sketching feels great. It's pretty bad as an e-reader unfortunately. It's slow, and sometimes feels unresponsive - although the software keeps getting better.

For reading it would have benefitted immensely from a pair of hw buttons for page turning.

That said - unless you really want exactly the rm2 - I'd say it's maybe two to three times as expensive as it "should" be.
Imagine if disk encryption were not routinely used. The disks of the cloud providers would be a goldmine of sensitive corporate data and the incentive for them to go missing correspondingly higher.
I don't have ADHD, at least I don't think I do, but I find Slack and other asynchronous communications unworkable. If there's no other choice, I suppose you should follow some of the other's advice and simply block out a time mid-morning and mid-afternoon when you spend 30 minutes or less checking the threads and then closing it again.

It's not you. Slack is simply wrong for this; people just don't know it yet.

The most efficient way for a programming team to communicate is via an issue-tracking system (Jira, etc.). Open an issue per bug/feature, and all communication related to it is reflected there.

In addition to asynchronous interrupts, Slack encourages people to respond too fast, without thinking. There's also a lot of "NONB" communications on it, which leads to political rants, insults, hurt feelings, and discontent. Companies should just stop it. Everything isn't a video game.
Very few folks consume metrics, most want insights and intelligence, but there is lot more focus put on the data pipeline.

Edit: I don't mean to say the pipeline is not important, it is required, but the outcome is intelligence
This is creepy AF. Thank God something like Hide my Email exists. I don’t get this need of modern businesses to track every single fart of your users.
I wonder if a sufficient number of investors could be found to steer Twitter to join the ActivityPub network.
I don't see what you didn't do there.
I went and listened to the RISC V BoF at SC22 a month or so ago, mostly because I wanted to hear what their plans for making the proliferation of extensions manageable for toolchains and libraries looked like...

The presented plan included quality choices like "vendor toolchains forked from upstream that support their secret sauce features, but suck at everything else compared to mainline, and are only maintained until until the vendor runs out of VC money," "You can always use the nearest base profile and ignore the special hardware you theoretically paid this vendor a fortune for" and special attention to "Most of your workloads are torch or something anyway, just use the vendor's binaries."

I was not impressed.
The contents of disc 3 are the same as disc 2, even though the file is named correctly. Is there another link for that one?
When you ask employers what they think is lacking in education the first thing they say is writing skills.

To evaluate your app we have to see how it performs. We know people benefit from spelling checking and systems like grammarly, if you can make something that is better enough than you can replace those things.

If you aren’t ready to put it up for a public demo I suggest you make a video demo.
I call this dribbble-driven design. Looks good on a heavy photoshopped screenshot, ship it
You can have a custom sound that's silence, and set it to that!
Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news
No, I'm Australian. What do you think the best path forward is for the Taiwanese?
Maybe they heard the question as “can you perform Under Pressure”. Under Pressure is a hit single by the British rock band Queen.
Damn this sounds similar to a project manager I'm working with, except he doesn't have any of the technical/engineering merit.
> Spill will use blockchain technology

And thus it died before it was even born.
You could share your thoughts or (positive) feelings about one of those design decisions that cause discontent: putting confirmation buttons and other UI controls on the title bar, when the natural human way of processing visual information is top-to-bottom (so a confirmation button makes more sense at the bottom area of a dialog).

They are talking about it on a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34027754

Do you feel that the crowded title bar design decisions are aesthetically pleasing and usable? (would really like to know the opinion on these topics from users that like how it's been done, instead of users who hate it, for a change)
> They ask you a bunch of questions and require you to do different things (for example hold your ID card right in front of your face, cover one side of your face, etc) presumably to counter this attack vector.

Give them a little while and the AI will be able to do all that so you can finally prove to the government that you are indeed a panda bear.
Maybe not ideal, but when you are changing configuration and running into caching issues it might be worth just running `rm -rf node_modules/.vite` on every change.
Scientists Create a Vaccine Against Fentanyl
AFAICT regular people don’t care at all. Even the ones into politics. It’s a non-issue.
Most threads will include a claim that Gnome is imitating macos poorly, but as far as I can tell it is imitating i3 rather well.
If you're perceiving it as in insult rather than taking a second to consider the possibility you may be drastically overstating the importance of certain things to the average person then, it's just you lacking self-awareness here friend.
ok, whatever.

Uuuuuuh, John Carmack is a Gen-X'er...

How do you insult them?
Speeding up construction with multi-trade layout
Software Complexity and Potential Solutions
> but you don’t have to have one,

A simple Google search refutes this. Ok, if you count running some cmd magic as meaning they don't require you to have a Microsoft account, we're never going to agree. For Joe Bloggs, a Microsoft account is required and there is no way around it.
When a computer can understand human interaction better than a lot of humans:

"The song "Baby It's Cold Outside" is a lighthearted duet between a man and a woman struggling to maintain their composure as their date comes to an end. In the song, the woman is hesitant to leave, while the man is encouraging her to stay. Despite their internal warnings, they both seems to be enjoying the banter and the thought of one more drink and some more time in each other's company is too much to pass up. The song is about two people feeling an attraction for each other and not wanting to let go of the moment, despite outside pressures. It serves as a reminder that it is important to experience and appreciate the beauty of a moment before it has passed, and that it is okay to make an exception and break the rules every now and then."
"Capital X" means there's an official party with that name. I have no idea what you're talking about.
This post sums up much of what i have been seeing this past few years. The biggest pushback to transgenderism is coming and will continue to come from women.

As men we really don’t care about this stuff.
“Poor information diets.” What on Orwellian statement in support of government thought policing.
You wonder if it's mostly the weight-loss that solved the problems, and if a person loses weight by strict calorie counting, carbs or not, would it have the same effect.
Could you elaborate on what specifically you find "cheap" about GNOME?
It has an RGB interface (basically parallel bus for pixels + clock), for which multiple bridges exist to HDMI. However, those are like QFN-88 packages so for soldering here be dragons. On the plus side, it avoids the mess that MIPI-DSI is...
Lots of tortured arguments there.

I'm on the side of the plate-restorers. They're not tampering with a private vehicle - the plates are government-owned.

And it can't be called 'tampering' when you fix it - it's un-tampering at the very least. The police chief's blanket objection to all licence-plate-related-changes is disingenuous.

I'd advocate a tamper-detection at the toll plaza and perhaps spikes jumping out of the pavement when the plate can't be read.
> So long as there’s no coercion it’s completely legal.

If the police ask you to do something, do you usually feel generally obligated to comply?

What about an even more powerful organization that can and do prosecute people for simply lying or obstructing?