skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just observing what seems to be an increasing volume of posts about Tesla and usually ones that debunk the hype or point out failings / problems.

I personally don’t care whether or not “Tesla isn’t Dominant” is seen as positive or negative or just a fact.

The article just had me thinking about the seeming trend.

I should use the hacker news api to build up some data and see if there really is a trend.
The original comment was that redshift was needed outside of Gnome or KDE, so I think the comment you're responding to is addressing that. It still seems like a legitimate gripe that it doesn't work for many other compositors, but I think the inclusion of KDE/Gnome here is a bit of an accidental goal post shift for the parent comment.
C++ is a sane defaults superset of C.
If you need to bypass Next.js, why use it at all?
Yikes. With all due respect, in my view, the self-righteousness of this comment dismisses the point it's trying to make. The 'retarded monkeys' comment really sells it...

> Most of her friends drag their fingers over images on tablets

I guess there's value in thinking your kids are better than other kids. I wonder if you have the same level of transparency involving animal kingdom references with your friends about how their kids use their devices.

But anyway, I don't believe the UX is the problem here. The idea is to 'limit' screen time and subsequently information consumption at the ready. Not sure how a command line interface is a solution better than say parental controls with app time limits, over an already existent UX that everyone is familiar with.

PS: Your book was on my reading list. Was.
The restaurant probably doesn't want the bad press associated with other customers getting cold/melted/soggy/etc food. Also, the restaurant may want to limit the amount of takeaway, as the venue may be small to accommodate too many carriers coming and going. Also, the courier may not like the route, maybe it takes too long (due to distance, but also traffic and other road conditions) and it's not worthwhile for them. The point is that you are just one piece of the equation and those apps are not necessarily telling you what you want, but telling you what they want.
Has anybody used these for stargazing and able to comment if they're suitable for it?
>it's hard to connect that to government censorship.

Mislabeling as misinfo either intentionally or unintentionally and marking links, tweets, and accounts for suppression just because they dont push a government's view is by definition "government censorship".

Concerning abc: A government that is bound by the 1st amend. should ultimately play no role in policing speech. It's not any more complicated than that.
They generally are, but if you say net 30 and set a % penalty for not paying in net 30 (common), when a multi-billion dollar corporation decides to do net 90 and won't pay the penalty, what are you going to do as a freelancer? Sue them? The amount of money you spend on legal fees would likely be multiples of the penalty fees. And it would delay payment further. Big corporations rely on this power imbalance.
I find the opposite to be true about junior/senior. junior programmers accepts all kinds of awful things because they assume there is a good reason. senior programmers are pretty deeply aware that the whole jenga pile is suspect.
The really beautiful part: I asked "what is the fastest sea mammal" twice, got orca once and sailfish the second time.

Isn't randomness fun?
Given you already have a few years of experience which is a bit more important than just a degree (IMO), I would not worry so much. "Computing" is not "IT support" (no one gets a degree in that) and those are good unis you mention, so why in the world would they be offering a silly degree in "IT support"? I have never heard of such a thing actually.

If the company (manager / HR people) you are interviewing with actually think like what you worry about, you do not want to be working there because that is a sign of a bad company that knows nothing of IT or respects developers. We are not mere plumbers (I am from the US and the UK attitude towards developers has been a bit annoying over the years, but it does seem to be changing). Although it'd be nice to be paid as much as plumbers...

My M.Sc. from Edinburgh was in "Informatics" because that is what they call Computer Science, and my M.Sc from UEA was in "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining" aka AI/Machine Learning. I would assume you will have to do a final-year project, so a line in your CV describing that ought to be enough to show you are a developer and not a help desk jockey. (along with your previous work experience)

But I wouldn't call it "Computer Science" though - if some jobsworth actually decides to validate the contents of your CV (they usually don't and you do have work experience), the renaming of the degree might influence their opinion of you etc... e.g. "did they actually go to ICL?"
I would just like to say thank you for this beautiful bit of software. I install it on all my computer's and have a portable copy for when I can't.

I don't know why but it seems to work very well with my dyslexic brain in a way other forms of note taking on a computer don't.

If I was a better programmer I'd definitely be contributing!
In Defence of NFTs
If e.g. the Lepin family can thrive in a socialist country, yes, they obviously are.
Ionic uses capacitor by default, you might know that one.
https://github.com/py2many/py2many/blob/main/doc/langspec.md

Reimplement a large enough, commonly used subset of python stdlib using this dialect and we may be in the business of writing cross platform apps (perhaps start with android and Ubuntu/Gnome)
Something completely different than hormones, but on drugs I've also found to have a very different outlook on life, situations, emotions, thoughts, relationships. While the recreational side of it was a lot of fun, it was also pretty confronting to better see how we're just a bunch of lizard brains controlled by our chemicals. On the other hand I think it's made me a little bit more forgiving and less judgemental about others, as there's not as much agency in our behaviour as we think.
Wouldn't the value of any stock not included in a fund be almost worthless or un-tradable? I am assuming that day trading is referring to the buy/selling of individual stocks by anyone other than a fund.
You’re right, I forgot downtown employers on that list. Cities operate the schools so workers have a place to drop off their kids during the workday.
Doctor prescribes ketamine to thousands online. It’s all legal
Would you say Code-era Hollywood was a shining example of free speech? After all, it was private organizations restricting what kinds of content and people were allowed participation, for the well-being of society.
I think the real problem is if there starts to be a reliance on the kindness of strangers and more people decide to dig deeper holes for themselves instead of pulling the pin.
Apparently it is pure research. The history books will say, "They did it because they could."
It is best to look at this from a procedural standpoint. If you make a specific claim against an individual, that individual has the ability to prove that they are harmed/affected by what you have done. Which means they have standing and the case is much less likely to be immediately dismissed. Additionally, that individual is able to defend themselves against the claims that you have made and would actually be able to present evidence in any proceedings.

Whereas accusing a group means no individual has a clear case that they have been harmed. And, there is generally no individual or organization from said group that is able to speak for it. Although there are indeed some organizations that exist for this purpose, like the ADL.

It is not so much that being non-specific makes defamation acceptable, but rather, being non specific makes it so much more difficult to go after the person.
I was part of the group that got up and left (not my ideal outcome, but I wasn't the boss.)
https://archive.vn/MZ57t
It's not Uber, in the sense that it does not have:

- Hailing via an app.

- Cost negotiated upfront.

- Reputation system.

Without that, there's no point.
As ChatGPT(s) might say, one could imagine multiple options, including "nothing to see here", yet "worthy of rebuttal".
I will add that certain SWE fields rely upon and interact heavily with DS and for anyone wanting to make the switch, this is a natural "in".

Any company with a rigorous approach to product development or even SRE will rely heavily on metrics. The ability to create, maintain, monitor, transform, understand and reason about those metrics is invaluable. To decide what to work on and the quantify your contribution, the ability to effectively run experiments is invaluable. This will naturally fit into a structured product management cycle.

This will be a way more natural fit than, say, "purer" software development (eg writing device drivers).

So much of successful software engineering is not just how to do something but deciding what to do (and not do).
You can definitely call yourself a professional software engineer in the US.
$41 per CASE, not per bag.
Others have pointed this out, but no one has actually done the math yet, so...

6000 "units" for $250,000 is $41/unit. At wholesale. For a product that retails for $16/bag.

It is just inconceivable that no one noticed this discrepancy. This is not a "grift" by the distributor, this is an elementary and obvious fuckup by the producer.

In fact, it's so elementary and obvious that it would not surprise me a bit if this whole thing turns out to be a publicity stunt that succeeded spectacularly well, at least for a little while, because once the cat is out of the bag all the people who bought that coffee will realize that they are the ones who got played.
This got a reasonable amount of attention, but it’s not particularly relevant. The example solutions would never be written in pure interpreted Python - you would import numpy and use the numeric functions from there, effectively using C rather than Python.
Ah, I was referring to general engineers, like chemical or mech engineers :)
I've studied at both universities, and would very much recommend Birmingham over Imperial.

The latter felt a lot more isolating and stressful. Partly because of having to live in London, with its expensive housing that will be far away from the main campus in South Kensington when you move out of student accommodation. Partly because the students there are perpetually stressed overworkers with terrible study-life balance. Partly because Imperial focuses only on science and technology courses, so attracts mostly a certain type of person that I personally would rather not be stuck in such a tedious monoculture with. And partly because of the gender imbalance which is also due to this, it felt exceptionally weird to be in a university that's so male-dominated.

If Birmingham offers what you want, I would choose that for all the opposite reasons of what I wrote above. It has a beautiful campus too, lots of open green space and lovely redbrick architecture.

Also don't worry about the exact name of your degree. Employers won't care.
would be nice of those chatbot teams to put in a backdoor we can use to bypass the first-line support scripts, like mashing # 0 * on a phone pad

"Please escalate" seems to work sometimes, but I'd be fine with "ENGAGE_LUCKY_MODE_777" or something
> But I wonder: wouldn't it be better if the developer has to specify how he wants to retrieve the information? In a regular programming language, typically people don't complain too much about this "missing feature" of a query optimizer.

Why not use a key–value store or just a file system, if you want to write everything yourself?
They’re still there, two desiccated corpses silently eyeing each other. At least neither lost the negotiation!
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." Possibly said by H. L. Mencken.

Also, "The fastest sea mammal is the sailfish, ... I am confident that the information I provided about the fastest sea mammal is accurate. The data on the speeds of different marine animals is widely available and has been widely studied and reported on by scientists and other experts."
This piece is not actually about the button, but about the image stabilization. It’s just part of an article series called “Button of the month”.
This is a very pessimistic argument, undermined by the fact that every single day, humans rewrite queries - in the supposedly declarative language SQL - to be identical but faster. I want a query planner that can be told to go away and try to do better with more resources. I don't know why this is unthinkable.
Oh, I'm sorry about that! Here's a friend link that should allow you to bypass any paywall (if you've already read a couple paywalled posts): https://zachary-thomas.medium.com/how-i-became-a-software-en...

Here's an earlier draft of the post on Quip: https://gstudent.quip.com/ILF1ABpvjsSh/Can-a-Data-Scientist-...
> So what are the police doing? Lancashire police say that in the past few months they have sent letters to 70 men who were believed to be spending an unusual amount of time with young girls. The letters warn the men that the girls are underage; the men are required to sign the letter, confirming they have received and read it.

Sternly worded letters, I hope.
smplayer is/started as a frontend for mplayer, but it looks like you can set it to use mpv as its backend.
On Reflection
Where do you see that? Constants are normally written with all caps and underscore while normal variables use camelcase. That's the convention most JS codebases use.
No one’s going to think you got a degree in IT Support. In my experience, employers don’t care about the specific name of your degree. As long as it included a good amount of computer science-related modules.
I've used this lib in a few MVPs and it was easy to use if you do things their way (which wasn't that big of a deal for an MVP).

> The functionality provided for credentials based authentication is intentionally limited to discourage use of passwords due to the inherent security risks associated with them and the additional complexity associated with supporting usernames and passwords.

I have to admit while as a dev I sympathize with this stance, as an end-user I really hate it. I pay for a pwd manager and feel much better about using a user+pwd combo. I get that oauth is more secure in general but somehow I feel uneasy to give access (even limited) to my personal gmail or github.
> But the exact lines of code you write are covered by copyright.

I believe it's "only if they are expressive" i.e. code that is pretty much what anyone would have written in that situation isn't copyrightable.

I think this is the part where we should be much stricter in applying the principle. Similar to "novel and non-obvious" in patent law, it's become diluted in favour of IP overreach.
Elon is a bigger and more public liar than people are used to. It seems hard to believe such big lies could be got away with, so are believed.

More usually, the biggest liars are more vague about what and when to expect any supposed benefit if you back them. Thus, "keep out illegals", "trickle-down prosperity", "keep brown-skinned people away". How these would be benefits, if delivered, is carefully not explained.
Me too. And one of my dreams is to see it ported to the web browser so I could use it self-hosted on my home network.
There is no defence of anything crypto, blockchain or NFTs.

It is all a scam. Please stop defending this ridiculous nonsense.
There are several FSD beta videos on Youtube (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbH9GVcaEYM&ab_channel=Dirty...) that suggest no intervention. I'm curious why you dont think FSD Beta can be smooth in a city setting.

Re. Andrej - looks like he might be coming back and his reason for leaving was based on his role being too managerial shrug https://electrek.co/2022/10/31/andrej-karpathy-coming-back-t....
early OSX being NeXTStep, not A/UX I would think.. all of this was very early days
A bit off-topic, but: while watching some very suspicious advertisement on this blog page I've noticed it's a HTTP connection. Please don't post HTTP links!
Court jurisprudence over time continues to favor more free speech rather than less. Even abominations like Schenck v. United States have been overturned with Brandenburg v. Ohio constraining the limitations to inciting imminent lawless action (e.g. intentionally trying to start a riot).
I also thought I was very good at a lot of different areas.

And then I started working at a company where there are actually people who are considered some of the best in the world in every conceivable area that I thought I was good at.

Every week there is an announcement about a new service or feature at AWS. For instance, my specialty is supposedly “serverless”. I didn’t know that Fargate (serverless Docker) supported Windows for over a year.

Even if you think more generically like front end development, there is always something new.
Have you looked at Nim? https://nim-lang.org/

or Zig? https://ziglang.org/

or D? https://dlang.org/
Such is human nature, any system when not sufficiently balanced and controlled leads to suffering and exploitation, there's nothing inherent to communist ideas that makes it any more prone to that.
There’s nothing at all magical, I’m not sure what you’re thinking is exactly. That’s actually a huge benefit of Tamagui over something like Tailwind for example. You just pass in props and use props just like normal.

If you’re talking about the styled() helper, that is something many React style libraries have standardized on from Emotion to Styled Components to Stitches. And actually it’s very important for an optimizing compiler because it limits you down to a statically analyzable subset that focuses just on styles. There’s no magic there either - React Native itself has a similar API with StyleSheet.create, except it won’t optimize even with a future compiler when you start nesting multiple things. That’s where styled() shines.
Yes -- one thing I struggle with is choosing whether to work on data engineering projects (which I know I'm good at and can provide immediate value) or challenging myself with more "traditional" full-stack engineering work where I can learn a lot.

Maybe a 60/40 mix is optimal
SFTP: A More Secure Successor to SCP
Of course, if you define "democracy" to mean absolute free speech, then countries without absolute free speech are not democratic, by definition. That's not exactly insightful.
> ChatGPT only reacts on that

Its output is tightly controlled to only provide "appropriate" information. This thread is discussing whether or not its bias on energy sources is due to those controls. You don't get to just presuppose that.

To your point about misinformation. The problem, fundamentally, is a difference in priority. Some people need pragmatic solutions now, other people look to the future and worry about consequences. Communication breaks down when we forget, or devalue, other people's priorities.

In this case, it seems that sustainability and decentralization are pitted against reliability and energy density. But what this really means is that some people are worried about the future, and some people need solutions now.

The problem is that neither side really remembers to say what their fundamental priorities are. And, more importantly, when those priorities aren't mentioned in discourse, facts become twisted - something that might be an unequivocal 'good' when viewed from the lens of one set of priorities could, in fact, be clearly harmful when viewed from another set of priorities. And then those twisted facts become misinformation, when viewed from opposing priorities.

Which is why, if you make claims like "I think it is just a factual reality that finding arguments to pretend that fossil fuels are superior to renewable is just more difficult, simply because fossil fuels are indeed problematic" without also clarifying your priorities in the matter, you're simply adding more misinformation to the pile.

(If you're wondering where I stand? Renewables are great - but don't legislate them before they're actually ready and able to take over completely from fossil fuels.)
That's what it ended up being, but they thought they landed a 250k contract to do 6,000 "units" and they were surprised when those units ended up being cases mid-way through production/ordering.

So, initially, they believed $41/bag....
Amazon is the most complex one, but people are already working on different aspects of it. I think it would need to be broken down to a decentralized protocol for the marketplace and another for fulfillment and logistics at a minimum.
How to come up with product ideas and how to test their viability quickly.
If you take all the words from Harry Potter and shuffle the words together in a random order, the output will be distinct but the work as a whole is probably still derivative. If you do that for 500 book series, you still haven't generated a new work, you've simply created a legal morass of derivative copyrights.

ChatGPT is just a really impressive word-blender. All of those "sufficiently distinct" snippets are in a meaningful sense recombinations of other copyrighted snippets it was trained on. When you're in a very sparse part of the space or have a single work that's present many times in training like fast inverse square root, the model may even replicate recognizable chunks of the training set. It could be that this is sufficiently transformative that the output is not derivative, but as I said it's not obvious to me.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31205072

(Edited to point to page 1.)
Why is there _any_ open source?

There are enough areas, libraries, whatnot, where it would be perfectly fine to share forth code.

I mean, look at device drivers for linux.

Doing this would really have helped the ecosystem, I suspect, because people would have tried to clean up their code a bit before throwing it on github, for instance. Not that examples that are on github today are all stellar.
Basically a bunch of people donated nearly $3Bn to Tesla so Tesla could track their data even more intrusively.

Nice.
I don't remember... but it's long enough ago that that doesn't mean anything. Virtually everyone I knew there left the company around 1996 as the raises weren't keeping up with the market. New hires were making more than everyone else.
Can you sue them? People pretend it’s impossible to sue a large company but that is absolutely false, even for a few thousand dollars.
> In the USA, however, freedom of speech is an absolute right.

No, its not, just as conflicting affirmative grants of government power are not absolute grants.

Were it an absolute right, there would be no such thing as defamation liability, for instance.

> There are some narrow limitations (Libel, Calls to Violence), however the legislature does not have the power to add limits without a constitutional amendment

That’s true in theory, but in practice whether an exception exists and what its boundary is not a question which is resolved until after a legislatige body (federal or state) creates a new prohibition, and it is challenged. So there are potentially infinite unknown limitations that exist, but merely haven’t been discovered because a legislature has not created a law which would require them. So legislatures can provide an opportunity for courts to discover new exceptions via normal legislation, even if they can’t create them.

And sometimes, courts discover new ones in areas previously thought settled, like the 1st Circuit “discovering” a broader defamation exception for private matters than was generally understood to exist: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2009/04/feder...
You’re already giving the customers net 30 by accepting credit cards. Offering BNPL/afterpay would be another way to do it.