skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how it works now, except for music. From the wikipedia article on mechanical licenses (the link I provided):

"Within copyright law within the United states, such mechanical licenses are compulsory; any party may obtain a license without permission of the license holder by paying a set license fee, that as of 2018, was set at 9.1 cents per composition or 1.75 cents per minute of composition, whichever is more, which are to go to the composition copyright holder."

Note "compulsory". There are a multitude of written and art works that are effectively copyright zombies: they are clearly within the term of copyright, but there is no clear owner to reach out to in order to license them. Hence generally out of fear of a lawsuit, they are dead as inspirations for other works.

Further, to your exact point, "if they so desire. The fee is determined by your legal team and theirs." If the author wants to be restrictive, their work will never be able to be inspirational to another work. Even if they are open to the idea, the concept that lawyers (probably) have to get involved reasonably has to diminish the number of works that are likely ever to be inspirational for other works by an enormous number.
Most of the heat from a fireplace goes up the flue unfortunately. It’s one of the least efficient heating sources per the dept of energy (~15% efficient). A low tech solution is more thermal mass perhaps in high performance dwellings.

Wood burning furnaces are a challenge because homeowners insurance providers don’t want to insure dwellings that use them (but will if certain conditions are met, such as it not being the primary hearing source, professionally installed, etc).
Not doing this will affect people, so be it really.

Excess heat deaths in Europe are caused by the lack of ACs.
I've been waiting to do this in the event of a power outage; that said, I'm really curious what the current draw of my furnace blower will wind up being. There is a label that suggests it has a peak draw of 8.5A, but that seems like a lot. Still, it seems like a nice backup plan in the event of an outage, even if I only have a couple kWh worth of battery storage.
At my previous job, the founder did everything in Linq. He created a reporting engine in EF6 with Linq. Reports were run against the OLTP db. All queries were in LINQ.

LINQ is a nightmare in these scenerios. Imagine 10s to 100s to 1000s of lines of indecipherable LINQ.

We spent so much time debugging these things and trying to make them performant.

After he sold the company I began replacing the LINQ garbage with inline queries with dapper when appropriate. So satisfying to see queries go from minutes to seconds to unmeasurable in SSMS.

The problem with LINQ is it's upside down and backwards to people who know SQL. You can easily create horrible queries and unless you're an expert in both LINQ and SQL you'll have no idea how to fix it. There problem was it was difficult in many cases to get LINQ to create performant SQL, when writing a simple(r) query was both shorter and faster.

We regularly hit the recursion limit in SQL Server and other errors I had honestly never seen in all my time using SQL Server.
of course, software engineers are the most talented and high in demand. We dont have to worry about job security at all
I found a site for seriously searching within youtube subtitles

https://filmot.com
Imagine two sliding surfaces held agains each other and pulled by ropes.

You can shape the surfaces the way you want for the movement you need. Make them as big or small depending on how much compressive load you need to transfer. You can place as many ropes, controlled ropes or just stretch ropes to have as much flexibily, control and ability to survive tension as you need.

You can do all of this with pretty crappy materials and high tolerances.

When compared to that, gears that transfer all of the load through individual small teeth that must be made from incredible materials and struggle if you need multiple degrees of freedom there's really no competition.

Unless you need to deal with fast spinning things or simple 1dof fixed axis rotations gears are terrible technology and they rarely ever evolved not because they are hard but because they have huge weeknesses and barely any advantages.

The only gears that ever evolved that I know of are used for syncing movement.
What are your no-use natural gas costs like? Might make a wood stove, oil, wood pellets or maybe even propane cheaper. And then you’re not depending on two grids for standby/supplemental heat.
I've seen those types in person, and it is indeed amusing, but they exist. Typically, they fall in one of the two categories.

1. Recent college grad or someone who hasn't worked at a company where there is significant pay involved yet. They tend to abandon their take on this, as soon as they get their first well-paying job. At least until they potentially become a part of group [2] I describe below, but that's not necessarily always the case.

2. Those who have been in the industry for a long time and amassed a savings nest/net worth large enough, they can afford not to work for quite a long time without taking any noticeable hit to their finances at all.

For HN specifically, my guess is that we have quite a solid mix of both, with the latter probably being better represented here due to the average age and experience.

Disclaimer: all of this is pure speculation and just my personal take.
Coincidentally(?), "Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34161528) is also on the HN front page right now.
>Do not disclose the current status of your interviewing process

Not sure exactly what this means but it's pretty common for recruiters to check your timeline and try to work around it. For instance, they'll try to expedite you if you already have offers on the table or relax the timeline so it fits with interviews.
Your intuition is correct on the last point. Where the "everybody says" side is coming from is the average water temperature in the emitters (and therefore heat flux from emitters to the building) will be higher if the flow (supply) is 120°F and return is 110°F than if the flow is 120°F and return is 100°F.

That's why designers are often specifying lower delta-Ts for low-temperature emitters: to allow the flow temperatures to remain as low as possible [for efficiency] at a given average water temperature [for effective heating].
Triton is pretty hot right now you can check it out.

https://openai.com/blog/triton/

https://triton-lang.org/master/index.html
OK, historical reasons.
#1 it's lonely? April 2020, 1 month into the pandemic.

I found the pandemic lonely. I saw less than 1 person a month for the first 14 months of the pandemic. And i find WFH incredibly lonely. I haven't recovered. I'm utterly alone most weeks. I see no one. Even if I go to work, no one is there. I moved cities a year ago and have only 1 friend and 2 acquaintances in the new city. 2 of those 3 are married and I see them maybe once a month, if I'm lucky. The 3rd I haven't seen since August. The pandemic as killed meetup.com. It used to be full of activities. I don't think there is 1/20th of the activities there used to be.
I'm attempting to call support and get them to give me this year's Premium subscription fee back. On the support page for deleting the account, there's a link to Contact Support. [1]

edit: A rep called right away. They will not give me my money back. It's in their terms and conditions that they won't even if there is a security breach and it's been longer than 30 days since I paid.

[1]: https://support.lastpass.com/help/iknow-my-masterpassword-ho...
When you start vim, it says "type :help <register>Enter for information". When you do that, it starts with "Move around: Use the cursor keys, or "h" to go left, [...]".
Yes, that's the difference between a plain language model like GPT-3 and a "task aligned" one like ChatGPT (which is based on GPT 3.5).

I'd describe it still a language model, but just one with "filtered" output.

I'm not sure if ChatGPT has been documented/described, but it's very similar to OpenAI's InstructGPT which they have described, and which they still refer to as a language model.

> We’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our alignment research. These InstructGPT models, which are trained with humans in the loop, are now deployed as the default language models on our API.

https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/
Would this work M1 iPads?
> Hard Truth #1: Getting laid off is a profoundly lonely experience.

When I was laid off, it was very comforting to rebuild community with others who were laid off at the same time.

We started a Slack instance where we:

* shared resources with each other

* complained and vented and healed together

* celebrated each other's new jobs

* continued the network for years after
I’d take #7 with a grain of salt: You’re far more desirable once you secure a job, than when you’re unemployed.

If the company is mid-size or better AND it’s not a sweat shop, take it while you assess your next move.

Don’t make the mistake of staying put, however, unless the team or company aligns with your interests.

Context: I took a break, got married, and started looking for SWE work just when the “great recession” was looming.

It took me six months and some unpopular niche skills just happened to open some opportunities. Just barely.
I still remember that the thesis of a fellow student back in the university 20 years ago was to create an educational version of Pascal called... "Paschool".

I laugh out loud when I remember it, definitely the programming language with the most funny/catchy name ever!
The Song of the Cell is on my list for 2023. My local library has ordered few more copies after they realized the demand for this book. I have been waiting more than a month and my expected waiting time is another month!
No most Europeans, including those in Australia care deeply about cultural preservation. In this case every European involved, the government, media and owner of the land all do. The odd thing is how the aboriginal people have done nothing to preserve this art for thousands of years. I would be curious to know if the previous vandals mentioned in TFA were leaving European or aboriginal names behind. One of the complaints the aboriginals had was lack of access to the cave. Europeans may be the ones more interested in preserving the ancient markings, the non-Europeans may be the ones more interested in making their own. Can anyone blame them?
You generally have an air conditioner though as well as a furnace and you can get those that can also work as a heat pump. Mine supposedly works as both but they only set it up for cooling and my gas furnace does all the heating :(
For costs,
yeah, if I take the job there, I'll be saving what I make here, for taxes I don't have to worry as that country has no taxes (Gulf region).

Food and rent are costly though so that's correct, I live with my parents yeah, and don't need to move out as I have the house in my name and I have bought it.

I'll do the calculations, but roughly it's going to be like what I make at current job is what I am going to save there. So in a way it's going to be the same.

As for the manager part, your point is hitting a bit close, I love coding, hate Jira and Excels, but that's already what I am doing even now, like 90% of my time goes in meetings and mails and excels and 10% in coding and management of tasks to others. But that's a good point, I'll think on that too.
Its not popular, its manufactured in small numbers (few thousand per month) and sold at huge dealer premiums.

Chevy is lying about the price same way Ford was. Nobody bought Lightning at msrp other than brand advocates and media personalities (certain youtubers magically get allocated unobtanium cars skipping queue and sticker price).
puntal? Is the salary stack / language dependent?
How to Check Out a Charity Before You Donate
It failed because:

1. It’s an accessory that was an extra purchase when many alternatives existed. So it was competing for mindshare from people who either were using keyboard+mouse, or could also buy a console controller and connect it up. Unless you already researched it, there was no surface reason to own one for many people.

2. Low availability. You couldn’t just find it in any retail store. So you already needed to be aware of it to want it, and then be willing to wait for delivery. So it had a higher bar to cross.

3. Comfort was a big one. Some people loved it. Others hated it. It was too big for many people, and too cumbersome for others. I personally thought it was one of the worst controllers I’ve owned and I have very large hands.

4. The touch controls mapped poorly to many games. If you did buy one, it was really hit and miss how well it worked for your games. A lot depended on either putting in the time to map it out or hoping the community had something.

It just had too much going against it. Which is a death blow for a product that can’t exist by itself and has competition (even if it does more).

The steamdeck in comparison sort of exists in its own niche and is a complete product.
Power for compressible fluids is approximately proportional to the relation of pressures not difference.
I watch the PBS show This Old House which takes place in the Boston area. The plumber / HVAC guy Richard Trethewey is a fan both ground ("geothermal") and air source heat pumps including the air source heat pumps that work at 0F and heat water for radiant floor heating. I'm surprised that more companies aren't doing it there.
The DC value of an oscillating system can be thought of as stable, but whether the dynamic behavior is stable or unstable comes down to the damping factor. Reasonable people can differ, but there certainly seems to be a tendency to underdamping recently.
Do they have the yellow-on-blue syntax highlighting trademarked or something? I've looked for vim and vscode color schemes to match the original turbo c++ but to no avail. I remember borland builder had a setting to switch back to it.
Remember in 2014 when it came out that Facebook tweaked their algorithm for a number of users to boost positive posts, and it turned out that it made them much happier people?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

Remember that people completely lost their shit and made Facebook promise not to do that again? Well, instead they just optimized for "engagement" and here we are.

It would be SOOO easy to make a social network that actually increases a global sense of joy, comfort, satisfaction, security, etc. Facebook already has all the users, so they'd be perfect to flip this switch if the general public would let them. Why is it that they get hounded for making people happy, but not when optimizing for addictive compulsive behavior? Are companies just expected to optimize for addiction due to profit margins, something something, yay capitalism? Why is every other optimization off limits?

Facebook already has a massive amount of global social manipulation capabilities. There's no way around that, and no way they can just turn that off. They have the users, and the users expect some form of curation. Maybe at least give users the option to flip on the happy switch? It's still all real news from their network, just slightly boosted towards positive posts. I feel like for them to even be neutral, they should be at least boosting positive posts by 4x due to Negativity Bias inherent in how our brains filter data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
Playing old games is the main reason I'm excited for these types of handhelds. It's also why I may not be getting a Steam Deck versus similar alternatives.

The lower-spec handhelds by Abernic and Retroid, for example, can handle lots of emulation, Half Life 1, Counterstrike 1.6, Unreal Tournament 1999, as well as OpenMW. None of these depend on Steam or Proton.

The higher-spec Steam Deck, at 2-3x the cost, comes into play for newer titles. For me, that's Fallout 3/NV/4, STALKER, Metro, Oblivion, Skyrim, Dark Souls, and Elden Ring.
We just installed a Solstice Inverter Extreme[0] before the the storm hit. The low in our area was -24F. The heat pump is advertised to work at -22F, but was still heating the house at the low. Efficiency and capacity are reduced with as the temperature drops. We have backup resistive heat in the buffer tank of our hydronic setup. It is early but we are happy with the performance during this first cold snap.

[0] https://www.spacepak.com/solstice-inverter-extreme
Training language models for deeper understanding improves brain alignment
For images and videos you want SIXEL support. Quite some terminal emulators support this nowadays.

https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/

But that's just another "layer of craziness", imho. (Even it's quite cool).

I think the whole terminal should be replaced. Not even with something funky. Just a proper RPC + streaming protocol based on some sane modern tech. (No, no HTTP! Simple and lightweight. Tailor made for the task. So it works also in an embedded setting; and lasts for the next 50 years :-)). Of course it should also have separate control and data channels. (That's a mayor flaw of the "classical" terminal tech. The in-band transport of control is a big PITA, and can be even an security risk).
Yes, I went with "300 or more" because that's a more typical number for a run-of-the-mill unit.
I'm in similar shoes to the author here, and am glad to hear you show some understanding for this.

I interviewed with a quite promising company beginning of December, only to immediately get the written feedback (after the first call) of

"Well I know a lot of SWE in this town and none of them are struggling to find a job - so if you've been looking for X months, surely there's something wrong with you - and anyway, we've already signed a contract with someone else in the 5 days since we last spoke."

(To be fair to them - I had mentioned how frustrating it was to simply get "no" as negative hiring feedback and asked them to elaborate if at all possible)

I take it as a "well, bullet dodged" moment, but I am not going to lie and say it didn't sting.
> Exactly, so its time to adapt.

What kind of logic is that? If you have a problem, you should try to resolve it, not adapt to it.

This is in line with American school shootings; instead of getting rid of guns (trying to solve the problem), you give teachers guns and students kevlar vests (adapting to the problem).
These predictions are so removed from logic and proportion that they sound exactly like some sort of code phrase (with Musk thrown in to get media traction?) — either as a text-carrier "numbers" variant, or to activate sleeper cells?

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

(or maybe Medvedev sent a "ping" to help map out the retweet network, and I've just linked HN into their graph?)
> Maybe even Java.

Personally, I'd love to get to work with Java, after (many) years of C++. Such an amazing technology and ecosystem.
In this article, it seems to mean syntax highlighting and hiding the help bar.
At some point I thought it was still a thing because my wife was still kinda, sorta, using it.

But years ago she quit.

I hear about Meta and that they own WhatsApp and I see people using WhatsApp.

But FaceBook: among my friends and family who used to post there, nobody ever posts anything. I don't doubt many are still logged in by default because they haven't updated their computer in years but they simply do not posts anything anymore, don't use if to message people (they use WhatsApp or Telegram instead) and don't check their feed.

And most of all: people don't ever talk about FaceBook at parties anymore. Since a long time. It used be a thing: people would ask if you were on FB or tell you about this or that person that posted this or that thing on FB. People don't do that anymore.

I don't understand where FB's MAU numbers do come from: in my (non tech) circle FB is simply already dead.
I will never reach the Zen state and still think the epistemic/ontic discussion makes sense.

Scott Aaranson:

"OK, but are the quantum states “ontic” (really out in the world), or “epistemic” (only in our heads)?"
...
"Bad dichotomy."

Daniel Harlow #16:

"silliness of the ontic/epistemic discussion"

Mateus Araújo #50:

"The crucial distinction between ontic versus epistemic entities is that the latter don’t have to respect the laws of physics."

"If quantum states are epistemic, the unphysical collapse is not a problem. If they are ontic, well, we can’t have them collapsing, can we?"

Scott #88:

"There’s the state that I ascribe to the system I’m measuring, which does collapse when I measure it (more epistemic), and then there’s the state that I’d hypothetically ascribe to the entire universe including myself, which never collapses (more ontic)"

Mateus Araújo #97:
"Both of your examples are trivially ontic states, the state of the system in your branch of the wavefunction, and the state of the whole wavefunction."
"... you can’t even understand what people mean when they say they’re epistemic."

Scott #108: ?

Mateus Araújo #124: ?

Scott #129:
no-go theorems => epistemicists should give up

Mateus Araújo #138:
Agrees with #129 but lists some epistemicists (including Bohmians).

Scott #187:
Are Bohmians epistemicists?

Mateus Araújo #199:
"I think calling them (Bohmians) epistemicists is fair, though perhaps an oversimplification."
Inequality, interest rates, aging, and the role of central banks (2021)
ChatGPT Explains Why AIs Like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated
Would recommend those interested in older games also look into EmuDeck. It is a really polished experience, combining a range of emulation tools with good default settings.

https://www.emudeck.com/

I've been having a tinker with BBC games too (not integrated with EmuDeck currently) and, after some minor tweaks to the code and config, managed to get quite a useable setup with BeebEm. Will see how feasible it is to upstream in the new year.
> have a line-powered CO meter

Thank you for stating this. If your furnace requires electricity to run, you don’t need a battery-powered or battery backup CO meter. Unless you have a wood stove or light fires indoors when it gets chilly. Otherwise you’re just wasting batteries.
I can respond to this having gone through a similar process in the past few years. There’s ok and there’s the (IMHO) more common bad. I turned down several offers myself, for reasons ranging from ‘not wanting to be the public advocate for something I didn’t believe in’ to ‘discovering the leadership were crypto scammers’.
Excellent list - Inspired and intrigued - thanks for sharing the list. I hardly get to do sit down and read, and became heavily reliant on airpod+audible after the baby - do you want to share a little more on your reading habit? Like did you get everything on kindle or paperbooks etc.
Thanks again ...
If you like dense SF you'll like Watts. Specifically Watts is like Gibson, Banks, Stross etc. in that he has throwaway ideas in his books that would be the entire basis of a novel for lessor authors. With Blindsight most famously it's his Vampire character but also there's the character with beneficial split-personalities, "heaven", and more others may remember that have faded for me since I read the books 5+ years ago.

Incredible book and your post has reminded me that I need to reread it.
You'd generally use DMA instead of this. This lets a dedicated peripheral handle that, freeing the CPU.
Just curious, what do you define as an _okay_ job? Would you be willing to pay the opportunity cost to take it?

For what it's worth, I thought the same. I applied to over 50 companies and not all of them were FAANG by any stretch of the imagination. I'll admit I'm not the best at interviewing, which certainly was a factor. But even as I broadened my search to the "okay" roles, I still had difficulty landing work.