skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an early shock that happens when you interact with a deep learning model and it is convincingly human in a profound way.

And I admit, it is quite profound that a model is capable of outputting the above. It is objectively exciting. We are in a new era.

But, I think it is safe to say that these models are still not sentient. The model is trained to be highly plausible. To do so, it must try to contain the entire dataset into a model that will fit in the video memory of a GPU (16-80GB).

In order to do so, it will learn common statistics _between_ data points and make strategic "guesses" instead.

I think this bares resemblance to my instincts about how humans probably deal with language (to a degree). But it just doesn't cover all the other parts of cognition. There is no "self awareness" mechanism, it just seems to because it was explicitly trained on text written by, well, humans. There is no "planning" subsystem, meaning it needs a human operator to even initiate it in useful ways. it is not able to "passively think" when it isn't running. It has a very small memory of a few thousand tokens - this deeply inhibits the ability to plan for long time horizons.It also cannot bootstrap itself into awareness, as its weights are unchanged in response to a given prompt.

But it's fascinating, nonetheless.
Exactly the problem the 2nd guy had
You mock leftists as having futile aspirations, thanks to your tax dodging abilities. But we do have progressive taxation as a rather strongly entrenched policy in the United States and most of the rest of the world, so in that sense, you are the one with a futile task ahead of you, in your aspiration to eliminate it. Good luck!
I think it's worth mentioning the Cynefin model here [1]. Both approaches can work, getting requirements up front can be the right approach for a well-know domain, but often times it's better to treat requirements analysis as a discovery that is ongoing during development.

For the latter case, classic project management simply leads to failure and it needs iterative development with tight feedback loops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
Norms are defined by how well they stand the test of time. For example, marriage is a pretty good norm that has demonstrated value to spouses, children and surrounding society over centuries. Critical theory is a questionable norm because it has not demonstrated long term value to a single society or organization where it was adopted. This does not mean that all established ideas are good and all new ideas are bad. At the other extreme, completely unchangeable norms such as Sharia Law or US constitution (unchangeable in practice giving current political climate) get in the way of reasonable innovation and adaptation to changing circumstances. Still, it should be easy to challenge or ignore newly minted norms, while ones that stood the test of time should be difficult to change, change should be gradual if it happens and reversals of changes that do not seem to work out should be commonplace. One way a change can happen is intentional communities that do not impose their experiments on others. If the ideas are viable, communities will grow and eventually achieve social dominance. If not, only people who volunteered for the experiment are harmed.
They're mainly a fancy butcher shop, and I assume they have positive profit margins on the rest of the products.
Without networking support (not even sockets), not being ported to ARM is the least of the tasks.
Auuthor here. Will update.
Show HN: Paynager – A Payment Manager application that displays analytics
I built this app to mainly help users manage their budgets and reduce unnecessary spending by keeping track of their transactions. I would love to here your feedback and develop this product further
If you used a prepaid card in a different jurisdiction (and that didn’t verify names), anyone coming after you would need warrants from two countries or to have breached two systems.
It is basically their marketing budget. You could at the same time ask how any advertising turns into profit.

Normal retail stores do this all the time. Sell something relatively cheap on a small loss to get you through the door and hope to make it up when you buy something else while you are there.
People being scared that there's a recession is what causes the recession
In my experience, they are the test double of last resort.

I used them to verify behavior, not outcome (as that's what expectations do), e.g., did I really call this method only once?
Sure, but it’s not definitive evidence.
What would you recommend for someone who thinks the math part is interesting (and yes I know in normal game project Unity or Unreal Engine would handle it), but isn't that interested in in promoting their indie project?
Robot clarinet player and scientific results (2008)
https://mrjamesbell.com is my blog.

It’s the first personal website I’ve ever felt happy about. Every so often I’ll get inspired and write a post but I have quite a few ideas in draft.
it's not that simple. people get mad not because some religious rules are not being followed, but because they got offended. being offended is dependent on the perceived intention of the offendant. so they must impose their religious rules on everybody to create a safe space for their ego.
You can actually use a desktop with i3 as the window manager and use the existing settings menu if you prefer. Not every desktop supports this but for example kde does.
My path was to join a mobile game company and work server side. There is plenty of need for vanilla REST APIs, content management systems, build pipelines, devops, admin panel development, billing systems, and other code required to run the game. I've also seen demand for technical artists who write plug-ins for Unity and other tools that help 3d artists. Whatever path you use to get in, it's pretty easy from there to move around to other areas and companies.
> Is there an i3 command to (a) leap to another window from a selection and (b) leap back and forth between the window you came from and the window you just chose?

Not for windows as far as I know, but for workspaces, yes: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#back_and_forth https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#workspace_auto_back_and...
Nationality & tax laws are two different though, in the case of the USA, intertwined things.

One can be born abroad to a US citizen and not be eligible for US citizenship; Keanu Reves is a great example of that.[1] However, that child would be considered a "US Person" by the IRS and subject to US taxes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves
Geneva Steel in Utah County was constructed for World War II steel production, but fortunately has been closed and its site remediated for a couple of decades now.
External systems dependencies are better handled with stubs and fakes than mocks, in my experience.
I think many people in this thread are making the mistake of ignoring evolutionary factors in system engineering. If a system doesn't need to adopt or change, lots of things can be much more efficient, easier and simpler, likely the order of 10x~100x. But you gotta appreciate that we're all paid because we need to swap wheels on running trains (or even engines in flying airplanes). A large fraction of demand for redundancy, introspection, abstraction and generalization comes from this.

Why do we want to apply ML at the cost of a significant fleet cost increase? Because it can make the overall system consistently perform against external changes via generalization, thus the system can evolve more cheaply. Why do we want to implement a complex logging layer although it doesn't bring direct gains on system performance? Because you need to inspect the system to understand its behavior and find out where it needs to change. The list can go on and I can give you hundreds of reasons why we need all these apparently unnecessary complexities and overheads can be important for systems' longevity.

I don't deny the existence of accidental complexities (probably Twitter can become 2~3x simpler and cheaper given sufficient eng resource and time), but in many cases you probably won't be able to confidently say if some overheads are accidental or essential since system engineering is essentially a highly predictive/speculative activity. To make this happen, you gotta have a precise understanding of how the system "currently works" to make a good bet rather than re-imagination of the system with your own wish list of how the system "should work". There's a certain value on the latter option, but it's usually more constructive to build an alternative rather than complaining about the existing system. This post is great since the author actually tried to build something to prove its possibility, this knowledge could turn out to be valuable for other Twitter alternatives later on.
It would be less racist if software engineers instead disliked Japanese things? I eat sushi, but I don't think it makes me an expert in Japanese culture. I don't think it's racist to like good food.
I think I'm second on the four-person list of "numbers to call when production goes down", so I'm hopeful that's all the plans I need.
it always bugs me how people are quoting Bill Gates on every issue, what are his qualifications to say something about crpto? or covid? or any other thing? a celebrity is not a scientist in every field. What about quoting Shakira on those issues?
FWIW my opinion of hashtags (relatively new to Twitter) is that they’re only used by brands and mostly cringe people
Sounds totally off-the-shelf.

I have a basic LAMP server running on a 4-core VM on a laptop. I just threw ApacheBench at it (not the fastest benchmarking tool, either -- it eats up 1 core all by itself), and it handles 1200 req/s TLS with no keepalive, and 3400 req/s with keepalive. This stuff scales linearly with core count, so I wouldn't be surprised to see much higher numbers in real servers.
I paid for it before even using it. So I disagree that you not wanting to justifies claiming it’s a bad business model
>Definitely check out Regolith Linux.

I was a BIG fan of Regolith, super sensible defaults and smooth onboarding experience.
But with the V2 it seems the config is now split in 100's of files (ok not 100 but more than one). I loved the fact that with original i3(Regolith) I had to back up 1 file for my i3.
I now moved to Manjaro-i3. Been happy so far.
Not really: Samsung had its own, LG, Sony, etc. As proved by the existence of this monster: https://www.ebay.it/itm/362002853418

> So, you can still put an adapter on the end.

So you have changed your problem from finding one of N charger to finding one of N(N-1) adapters, assuming someone actually built and sold for example a Samsung-to-LG adapter. Not a great improvement.
No one is claiming that 100% of our final energy should come from biomass.

In France, the research institute Negawatt has computed numbers when using biomass to fill the gaps when solar panel and wind turbines are not producing electricity. They show we could replace nuclear power only by using current farming wastes (no need to allocate more area to bio fuel). (But they also assume a serious reduction of our current electricity usage)
Goodbye Heroku Free Plan
Rip my cute lil web app
Mercury, which is Prolog inspired, is actually a very interesting underrated language!

I think languages need to lean harder in the direction of doing more with functions than just evaluating them. Unification is one example, but you can imagine more.
I think he was talking about how hashtags are implemented.
Stack Overflow happens to go down fair maintenance a fair bit. Now, it’s not really a service that might need reliability like Twitter does*, but it’s important to keep in mind.

*Some engineers may disagree
To remove that 'lens flare' (technically an internal reflection) you'll actually need _more_ processing done to the photo.

The only way to remove it fully would be with more expensive lens coatings and probably the removal of the outer lens cover.
A mildly depressing life calendar
Fiat currencies are backed by that countries economy.

No one had faith in the Zimbabwean economy hence hyperinflation when they printed money.

The world has faith in the US economy hence the US can do quantitative easing and the worst that happens is ~7% inflation (also caused by the worst supply chain problems in history, a global pandemic and a major European war).

Note that Bitcoin has lost more value than the US dollar.
Unions are basically a compromise between a monopolized labor force and the monopolizer. Given that the administration employs the officers, the union is usually seen as unavoidable; however, you have to wonder if the solution might be to go the other way.

You might sever the connection between the police force and the administration and reduce the size of departments down to the level of details and make them all much more directly accountable to the judiciary and the population they police. In larger areas the details can offer support and oversight in a way they are currently unable to.

There are tons of things a prevalent and inexpensive internet connectivity was supposed to drastically improve. This should be one of them, to remove the need for severe top down military style policing that intersects with administrative politics.
Google is paying Mozilla $450 million a year to be the default search on Firefox. How well can you compete against that?
Actually game graphics people are hard to find but no one is going to hire into that role with no experience.

That said, you can leverage your normal tech chops to get a foot in the door. Games do need backend and database people, etc.
Similar story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469658
> Why couldn't ad-free gmail and search be a $20 addon to your internet plan?

A lot of ISPs include email. and it is usually terrible.
“Between 500 and 1000 each year” in the whole UK?! BBC journalism continuing at its very best.
> most of the time I have to input "inurl:reddit.com"

"site:reddit.com" should only include hostnames ending with "reddit.com", not URLs including "reddit.com" anywhere. Not sure if this still works though - haven't used Google Search for a few years now and I'm reading (even outside HN[1]) that it's getting worse.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20230107072330/https://www.ft.com...
I worked in gamedev for 20 years. In retrospect, I could have made a lot more money selling ads for cat pictures. But, enjoyed the chaos of being at the intersection of art, tech, design and commercialization.

My advice to everyone wanting to enter gamedev is the same as for everyone wanting to start a startup: Be realistic about failure. It’s a high risk, high reward business with tons of uncertainty. It’s easy and common to be so enthusiastic about working hard to succeed against impossible odds that failure become a “Voldemort” term that shall not be spoken..

But, if you are realistic about the fact that “risk” includes the possibility of failure, you can be realistic about what failure means and what you plan to do when it occurs. If failure means your family will literally be homeless and starving, don’t take that risk! If it means your dreams don’t come true and you’ll have to go back to some boring desk job… Well that’s a bummer. But, it’s not anything to be afraid of.

Be sure to have enough money in the bank to pay the bills if you suddenly, unexpectedly have no job and need to find another. Be a coworker who people want to work with again because people who leave your company before you are how you land your job at the next company.
With respect, the technology is meaningless.

If you are Ansel Adams, you can take a fantastic phot with anything. A garbage camera will just place more limitations on you, which may make you work harder, but that's it.

If you are Joe Shmoe, then the best camera in the world will not make you take pictures like Ansel Adams. No technological solution can fix that gap.

This problem will not be fixed in my lifetime or yours. Not until we can take the entire genius that made Ansel Adams who he was, can this problem be fixed.

At which point, you're no longer taking the pictures, but instead the virtual Ansel Adams is doing so.

Now, between those two extremes, having more intelligence built into the device will help for certain types of pictures that you might want to take. And as the years go by, more and more technological advances will be incorporated, so there will be a wider and wider variety of pictures at which you have a decent chance of being able to take decent pictures.

But phones will only eat the market from the bottom up, and slowly at that. It will take more and more effort for phones to be able to eat that next layer above where they are today. It will happen, but it will take more and more time, and more and more money. And in the meanwhile, higher end cameras are going to continue to be made that will extend the upper reach of what cameras can do. It's a constantly moving target.

Today, I think phones have mostly eliminated the lower portion of the point-and-shoot market. But not all of it. It's going to be a while before the point-and-shoot market is completely eliminated. And much longer than that for the higher end cameras.
"The catalyst is made of indium gallium nitride nanostructures, grown onto a silicon surface."

World gallium production is 400 tons a year. World indum production is 70 tons a year.

How did "cheap" get into this?
Not just a lie, but false advertising, which is a federal offense in and of itself.
What is it that you like about gamedev? Indie development is very different from AAA gamedev for example. There are also many disciplines within gamedev, each with their core responsibilities and day to day tasks.
If they were trying to be deep and say something "profound"about Japan maybe you'd have a point. This article is just surface level stuff. "Look at this fancy Japanese food."
It ran about break even until very recently.
Wallet voting doesn't change patent or copyrights. Doesn't change political influence, and certainly doesn't change the market. That's a lie made up so people think they have some control of big essential corps. Microsoft, or Apple or any other big names are essential services. They will do whatever they want, and you have to buy it eventually. The decisions are made by execs whom don't associate with consumers like you or I. Any time Apple makes a change, it's not because they read feedback. It's because of the whims of big wigs at apple.

And apple hands down makes the best tech. By being born you're in the game, and to compete you need what the other guy is competing with.
Not sure it's the same? Parkinson talks about purposefully (whether conscious or not) generating increased work whereas I thought induced demand was mostly harvesting latent demand.

But I'm neither an economist nor traffic engineer --tell me more!
What this says is that investors in these companies, the ownership in general, are lax and inactive - passive that is. Because every dollar an 'excess' management person puts in their pocket technically should have gone into an investor's pocket. It's kind of interesting because this is exactly the kind of management that 'passive' investing would seem to encourage. No one is putting money in their Vanguard IRA and then demanding that Vanguard harass CEOs to trim down their bloated management, but perhaps this is what the numbers would suggest should be happening. Perhaps passive investing eventually goes away, due to the costs associated with these bloated, tumorous corporate structures, and then only people who are actually getting returns on their money are those that pay attention.
hm, probably not the right term for it, but the workspace display in the pager does not show empty workspaces. so if I have windows open in workspaces 1, 3 and 7 e.g. they would be indistinguishable from windows open in workspaces 1, 2 and 3. xmonad does this right, it has all available workspaces displayed in the pager at all times.
It’s like looking into a crystal ball that changes as you twist it.

On one end, yes, progressive taxation is the goal of laws at the high level.

But on the other, the implementation of such a policy is impossible, so if you have 3 degrees of separation between the goal and individuals trying to act in their own self interest, the folly becomes obvious.

Human behavior is unchanging, and so is the nature of those in power. The elite leftists will pass any amount of nonsense policies but will violate it themselves at will and protect their own elites.

I can’t really explain it other than you need to view the system properly and shake the crystal ball.

Put yourself in my shoes - pay millions in taxes, or pay a firm $100k and sign a bunch of documents to save millions in taxes. I’m not a sucker.
Not every commercial software is multi-million (or billion) business. There are perfectly fine niche markets where less than 5 developers produce a viable product. Qt company does not seem to care about them and probably the only safe choice is not to touch Qt. Which is a pity because they used to have good software. (Haven't used it for many years because my employers can't afford the lawyers.)
I’d love to write Rust code for embedded systems.
People with ADHD don’t get “high” on Adderall taking therapeutic dosages in the Milligrams. They take it to turn the noise down in their head so they can focus and be productive.

The comparison to meth “addicts” is absurd. People with ADHD are not taking Grams of prescribed amphetamine pills to get high like some one blasting their brain with a bag of street meth with the intent of feeling euphoria.
Other countries provide repatriation services too, for their citizens.

Somehow the UK does it without subjecting all British citizens worldwide to UK taxes.

I read once that UK repatriation was funded as part of the passport fee, but can't verify it. In any case, if this were the justification for the policy, it might be good to know how much it costs the US vs. what extra revenue the US generate from this taxation, and the number of non-resident/non-passport holding Americans are also covered by this repatriation.
This is what wikipedia says. It doesn’t sound particularly uncommon.

“During seasonal epidemics, it is estimated that about 80% of otherwise healthy people who have a cough or sore throat have the flu.”
I miss my pebble :(

Also Fitbit, nest.
> The shim works fine already, why fix what isn't broken?

If it works fine, why not import it into the project?

> Alternately, Wayland implementations could add (limited) support for userspace drivers but why bother with this when we already know it's an inferior solution that should eventually be replaced with a kernel API anyway?

FreeBSD and OpenBSD are slowly doing exactly that. But DRM, GEM, etc, aren't just any generic API, they're a constantly evolving blob of Linux-oriented calls and data structures. Though at the end of the day this is probably the most defensible aspect of it. And an important distinction here is that the drivers issue pertains to Weston, whereas the kqueue issue applies to libwayland, the ostensibly environment agnostic library which implements the Wayland protocol (libwayland and the Wayland protocol are basically one and the same as the protocol is basically an old-school RPC mechanism inextricable from the implementation as a practical matter).

But none of this need be debated if we just dropped the pretense that Wayland or the Wayland community cared about anything other than Linux. Wayland is simpler than X less because it's better designed and more because it redefined the problem. Network transparency? Not Wayland's problem. Portable across OS and driver environments? Not Wayland's problem. Input device management? Not Wayland's prob^W^W^W....
I don’t believe Twitter ever got around to rolling out HTTP/3 to their clients.
We've never had issues finding artists, much of the bulk work is outsourced anyway.

Cloud infrastructure/devops, data analytics, backend code, data storage all need people especially in mobile games.
The return.