skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew a newspaper journalist in his late 30s / early 40s who became a developer, and by the time I met him he was a senior developer and highly respected in the team and business. He was working at a tech 'scaleup' who were valued at +£2bn and that had been around for c.10 years. I think given your a PM and already in tech, it shouldn't be a problem. I'd use the fact you were a PM to your advantage.
Would you recommend? Is it as good as the hype? I feel like it will be a long project.
We are excited to announce the first of many ROS (Robot Operating System) meetups in India!
The ROS community is a global network of individuals and organizations dedicated to the development and promotion of the ROS platform. ROS is an open source software framework that enables developers to easily build robot applications, and it has become a standard for robotics research and development.
Meetups like this are an important opportunity for the ROS community to come together, share knowledge and experiences, and collaborate on projects. They are also a great way for new users to learn about ROS and get involved in the community.

This will be a free open for all event half day event, which will include talks from industry and academia regarding open source contributions, research as well as how ROS is being used in industries. It will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the speakers.
We hope to see you all at the meetup in Pune.

Please register on the following link :
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We are announcing a call for talk submissions for this meetup. If you have a talk or presentation which meets any of the following criteria, reach out to us contact@accelerationrobotics.com
Ancient Stone Tools Thought to Be Made by Humans Crafted by Monkeys
Wow - even compared to other crap articles about this subject the last few weeks, this one was amazingly weak.

The 'journalist' quotes the "founder of the Fear Group, international property developers and investors" and the "chief executive of the Partnership for New York City" on the supposed reasons why people will be forced back to the office, before doing some fence-sitting about how remote work is both more productive and more satisfying for employees, as well as potentially saving companies money.

Not sure how many more of these ChatGPT-written articles about this subject we need to see?
Seems we are very close to perceptual perfection in display technology.
We hear about hugely successful small teams because they made it and became famous. We don't hear about all the small teams who either fail, or keep a small (yet self-sustaining) revenue without ever becoming hugely successful.

So listing examples proves that it's possible for a small team to achieve a huge success. It doesn't prove that a small team is more likely to achieve success than a bigger one.
IMO it was a strategic move to commoditize their complement. My impression during that era was that Scott McNealy saw Microsoft (whose strength was in software) as Sun Microsystems' (whose strength was in hardware) most important competitor and took steps to stem their influence. Java was one example of a giveaway intended to create a Sun-controlled moat to protect their business. The purchase of StarOffice and its open-sourcing as OpenOffice, which eventually begat LibreOffice, seemed to be an attempt to put a dent in Microsoft's MSOffice revenue.
Show HN: Track your life with GitHub-styled heat maps
I launched this a year ago when I just learned how to code. It's been a year – currently in my first tech job and remade the app with better tech.
> Today’s microsoft is forced to play nice.

And looking at the success of Visual Studio Code and GitHub, people actually fall for it.
>that enterprise software is not about software but about process,

True that ! NOTHING moves as slow as a B2B software contract, it can take 6+months and even sometimes years to go from proof-of-concept and golf-talks to actual first invoice being paid to you the provider.
Twitter had local outages in Australia, New Zealand and a global outage like a week ago?

People seem to forgot that we currently set-up data-centers to be very redundant and sort of self-healing. But if I read somewhere correctly Elon Musk also gave orders to start shutting down all redundant data-centers.
The bottleneck would be the number of workers on sites like mechanical turk available to create the datasets. Might take a few more years before amazon and facebook get enough third world countries to the point they can exploit their labour online to create daily training sets.
I blame: the currency and inflationary environment
It's not just how bright it can get, but also how specular highlights are retained. Instead of having a white blob of white blob, a screen with high peak brightness can show details in that white blob.

For example, clouds could be just white (low max brightness) vs. clouds could have details (high peak brightness). And this is especially important in how the HDR movie is graded (and which peak brightness it is targetting).

Vincent (HDTVTest) made a good video on the subject.
I somewhat agree. The issue though, at least for me, is that I can only "eyeball" somewhat reliably when I know what I'm looking at. So, when I eat something "new", meaning that I've never measured, all bets are off.

I'm thinking restaurant / takeout mostly. Because you never know what they put in the food. And the usual suspects of carbs and fat loaded with salt can easily throw you off if you don't pay attention.
In action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73kd6wsBq0
In the conclusion, the author thanks https://excalidraw.com/.
(which was the case for every C/C++ app especially UI)

"wasn't" ?

My early career was blighted by having to write cross-platform C++ apps. At the time, Java was utter bliss in comparison.
But that sounds like it could just be brute forced.
The thing is that "feature creep" is a symptom rather than cause.

"Feature creep" in a small company is a sign of flailing around trying to capture a market. Sometimes a whole new feature is developed under pressure from Sales to land a big whale client, or a desperate CEO who thinks runaway success is just that one key feature away.

In a big company feature creep may be the result of a corporate culture that doles out promotions and bonuses for building shiny new things rather than the boring work of maintaining old things. Google is a good example of this, only with entire new services rather than features.

Either way feature creep is symptomatic of deeper problems with a company, regardless of size.
St Wulfram's in Grantham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Wulfram%27s_Church,_Grantha...) is just a little shorter than St James, and still has its original chained library (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Trigge_Chained_Library), which has been claimed to be the oldest public library in the UK!
That's in the title. Was the title changed?
Not to mention that the nephilim may not have even been giants to begin with. They are ambiguous
Is that really so far fetched?

I would love to have my parents Force that on me.

Now I'm here, would like to learn and play music but I don't have much time and music feels like a steep mountain to even start.
Oh I freaking LOVED the farseer trilogy. It gets better and better until a big wow. I did a lot of the booker+booker internationals in previous years but found them too hit and miss (mostly miss) for my tastes and decidedly switched to classics. Curious how they end up for you, I havent read this. I'm a big fan of Le Guin though, have you read her masterpiece short story "The ones who walk away from Omelas'"?
then they would need to be paid salary right?
Agree. ChatGPT is often doing something that appears to be reasoning yet it claims not to be able to reason.
In addition to some people who were using it here, coworkers have been shitposting various performance review thoughts to each other using ChatGPT. It's a great bullshit generator in it's current condition. I think it can and will be improved.

The problem I see is the web being taken over by bots phishing, catfishing, trolling, stalking, doxing, etc. humans. For example, if I "offend" a bot or its PRNG decides, will it be able to construct a strategy such as deep fake you or your friend in deep fake porn and make it appear you were the culprit? We're a bit far off from general AI being let loose, but we're getting closer to losing control and the feedback cycle of tech amplifying itself into the technological singularity.
Best theory I've read about why large organizations suck:
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/kNANcHLNtJt5qeuSS

Warning: long.
The voices are better than expected. Something like this would be great for novels that would not otherwise get an audiobook.

But its nowhere close to the great pros - Robert Keating, Scott Brick, George Guidall don't just read but give the book and characters a personality. Our models are probably ten years away from that.
> it's interesting to consider that people also profit off of these "fads" by selling books and tools, resulting in a sort of perpetual motion machine.

The machine is called IT.
Video is by David Ackley (https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/#rh-is):

> I do research, development, and advocacy of robust-first and best-effort computing on indefinitely scalable computer architectures. As of August 2018 I am an emeritus professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. My academic degrees are from Tufts and Carnegie Mellon. Prior work has involved neural networks and machine learning, evolutionary algorithms and artificial life, and biological approaches to security, architecture, and models of computation.

Probably most notable around HN for his Movable Feast Machine, which has been posted here a few times: https://movablefeastmachine.org The goal of that is an indefinitely scalable computer architecture which is very, very robust.
> If you fall off a ship in the middle of the ocean you might survive and those survivors may have had strategies...

They quite likely do have strategies. People with successful strategies are vastly over-represented in pools of survivors. Hence the bias. The pool of survivors is skewed towards successful strategies, and does not represent the population of people who attempted the thing.

The bias would be noting that survivors used a range of clever strategies and then making tools available to support those strategies in an attempt to help people at sea. Survivorship bias is about noting that of course the survivors did things that worked, and to get better outcomes we need to focus on people using strategies that aren't represented when sampling from the pool of survivors.
GPUs are microprocessors that are specially designed to perform specific tasks. These units enable parallel processing of tasks and can be optimized to increase performance in artificial intelligence and deep learning processes.GPU is a powerful tool for speeding up a data pipeline with a deep neural network.
They were referring to the “idea of a libertarian free market”. Such an idea would not include limited liability for corporations protected by law.

The government might enforce observing contracts agreed upon by all parties, some of which may contain limited liability for individuals or organizations. But LLC in itself would not be a legal category intended to protect corporations.
Good article. Interesting finding at the very end:

>Although the proportion of disruptive research dropped significantly between 1945 and 2010, the number of highly disruptive studies has remained about the same.

So... maybe this is because having more people doing scientific research doesn't yield more breakthroughs. More people doing scientific research DOES yield more incremental achievements, as the study found, i.e. word frequency analysis showing more occurrences of "improve", "expand", "extend".
How many years are left on the patent?
Clearly, detailed long-term simulations of chaotic systems is impossible with any (non-quantum) turing machine with limited parallelism.

I think the argument in the article is rather the other way around, ie that intelligence DEPENDS on a kind of simulation to develop proper intelligence. For instance AlphaZero was able to "solve" chess, go, etc, because it could simulate the game state perfectly.

And, the "hard" part comes from the fact that perfect simulation is impossible (with or without AI).

For an AI that will never interact with the physical world, this makes some sense.

However, as I argued in my other response, while some kind of World Model (ref LeCun) may indeed be necessary for AGI, it doesn't need to be perfect. Predictive about essential aspects (those relevant for decisions and actions) is enough.

https://syncedreview.com/2017/02/25/yann-le-cun-predicting-u...
> each window gets the virtual real estate required without effectively making the "tiling" part of the tiling WM moot by maximizing every window.

The tiling part is just there to making your windows manageable without the mouse and in a predictable way. Out of my 5 preassigned workspaces, 3 are fullscreen windows, 1 is split in 2, and 1 is split in 3 usually.

When I want a new program running big, then I either 1) close and make space in some workspace I'm not using right now, 2) send it to one of the empty "non-preassigned" spaces, or 3) change the current space layout into "all windows fullscreen" temporarily (with the new window on front, obviously).
Perhaps Microsoft's internet strategy of the late 90s changed the trajectory, just as they intended after seeing the impending doom.
> Plenty of young and healthy people died of COVID.

The median age of death due to COVID-19 in the UK[1], as of January 2021, was 83. I haven't checked but there is little reason to think this has changed much.

From page 9 of Public Health England's Excess Weight and COVID-19 report[2] of July 2020:

> patients with COVID-19 living with overweight (BMI ≥25kg/m2) or obesity (BMI ≥30kg/m2), compared with patients with a healthy weight (BMI 20 to <25kg/m2) are more likely to be hospitalised if infected with COVID-19

A report came out at the end of the year titled Associations of Physical Inactivity and COVID-19 Outcomes Among Subgroups[3]:

> The ORs are striking. In the full sample, those who were consistently inactive were 191% more likely to be hospitalized and 391% more likely to die than those who were consistently active. Dose‒response effects were mostly present across sex, race/ethnicity, age category, BMI category, and history of cardiovascular disease and
hypertension, although the CIs sometimes included one. Although the odds were highest for patients in the always inactive category, every lower category of physical inactivity increased the odds of adverse COVID-19 outcomes.

We now have reams of data and analysis that backs this up again and again and again - some of which was even known in the first 6 months of the pandemic (which makes a lot of the official advice, like lockdowns and denying access to parks and gyms, negligent and reckless in my view). To associate COVID-19 mortality with youth and health is perverse, unless it's to say "it's very rare".

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excess-weight-and...

[3] https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(22)00526-8/ful...
The one where tech companies fire a bunch of people and are about to regret it because hiring is slow and costly. If they can't figure out what to do with their money then obviously they're not being taxed enough.
Actually used k8s for the first time ever to set-up a new product from scratch.
I would call it essentially an Autobahn whereas everything else was a dirt road.
Our team is just 3 people, and it took me just 1 week and 1 youtube video to setup a 100% availability load-balanced production env cluster with 5 node.js microservices, and it is working like a charm, rollout deployment takes 30-60 seconds and i can monitor it all at glance without leaving my terminal.
UPD: I was into your theory too before:)
Well, simple carbs (which includes sugar) are highly addictive, so I can't say I'm surprised. Your brain was trying to get you your fix by convincing you that you were starving. In contrast, if you were truly starving you'd eat anything -- including lettuce ; )

So, maybe you already tried that, but there's a psychological/addiction angle that's seldom explored when it comes to simple carbs and obesity.

That said, if there's a drug that you can take that'll numb those cravings down to a healthy level, there's nothing wrong with that.
Review of GitHub-related “Fackups” in 2022
What about remote workers crossing country boundaries? Stuff is a lot of fun already, especially in Europe.
> ChatGPT output is generally not similar enough to any _particular_ source document to establish the fact that it's derivative.

Isn't this exactly what a court case would be trying to clarify? If so wouldn't assuming this be begging the question?
How exactly is the T2 architecture "indefinitely" scalable? You're adding various computers next to each other, fine. You might also claim that you have some generic cellular automata that in the future would somehow correlate with a dynamically scales according to some computation. This doesn't provide generic compute for arbitrary problems and your limits are still based on the cellular automata running on classical computers. You can claim all you want about dynamically scaling computation that's implemented fundamentally via some cellular automata controller, it doesn't make it true.
Sure it does. Do engineers not compile their code locally constantly as a part of the process of writing it? Store deterministic hashes of expected binaries with signed commits in PRs. Then untrusted CI merely needs to generate and sign -matching- hashes and now we are good as long as the engineer and CI system are not compromised at the same time.
I think that depends entirely on the priorities and incentives driving the company.
This is informative and helpful. Thank you!
5%. Amazon is enormous.

A well-placed source mentioned AWS is marginally/unaffected.

For the past 3 years, megacorps have been hiring like money was free and OpEx doesn't matter.

The danger in downturns is over-contracting and destroying current and future capabilities.
I have a working EO 440 in my collection. Such an amazing and odd piece of history…
> Then CISC microprocessors became superscalar, and started executing more than one instruction per clock. Now RISC machines were behind in speed. So they had to become superscalar. That killed the simplicity. There was no longer any real point to pure RISC instruction sets.

I thought DEC Alpha was always ahead in speed. At least until it got bought and mostly abandoned by Compaq and then HP. Or is Alpha insufficiently RISC?
There is space for divine inspiration as a hypothesis in science. It fulfills the same role as a flat earth hypothesis. It's up to the weirdos to prove their insane leaps, not on us to disprove.
I'm guessing approximately 0% of "life coaches" have doctorates, pass exams,and go through licensing processes comparable to a clinical psychologist.
Is the drug a long-term solution either, though? Won't the users regain the weight after stopping the drug, exactly like people who stop dieting do?

The trick with all lifestyle changes is to start as small as possible. Don't try to overhaul your eating and exercising habits overnight, but instead start from something small like "buy some fresh fruits every time you buy groceries" or "go outside for a bit every day whatever time you feel like it".
I implemented the same for a class last year, goodness, wish I had these visualizations for when I was banging my head against the wall to max out the roofline.
Perhaps the glibc implementation could be simplified a bit, but by the sounds of things musl's version is not functionally equivalent, it only supports ASCII?
It's just being modest. A fair few humans do nothing else than generate text based on other text.
Most hackers would already know TANSTAFFL through Robert Heinlein's works?
> While whole sales pitch for Java was to write and compile once, and run reliably anywhere

which was never true, BTW

There are few things in the story that are simply corporations VS corporations and not good vs evil.

Sun wanted to completely control Java and they sued MS for not completely adhering to the standard they imposed. It wasn't simply a different implementation, it was a Windows only implementation, the fastest Java implementation on Windows plus some Windows only extension.

Which, honestly, wasn't that bad, considered that Java applications on Windows started to be a viable option almost 10 years later. Those who remember the first editions of Eclipse know what I mean. Many java programs were tied to specific OS implementations anyway, especially UI, Swing was always quite out of place on every platform.

Anyway, long story short, Sun sued MS for not respecting their standard, but then Sun almost killed Java because the development stagnated for a very long time, features were not coming, bugs weren't being resolved and they mostly made a big ball of corporate ready mud.

Their inability to handle the success made .Net a much more viable platform on Windows first and *nix much later, which otherwise would not exist.

Visual J++ was probably the best Java IDE at the time, probably second only to IBM Visual Age Java for OS/2, that was born for SmallTalk and had a lot of the SmallTalk vibes.
Agreed, both are pretty good. Especially the YouTube PWA runs just as good as the native app on my Android phone, up to the point where I often forget which one I'm currently using.
Welp, it seems I misremembered how it all fitted together.

It was a stressful time to be a non-MS user back then, so I blame Post-Microsoft-Stress-Disorder.
> It would be interesting to see a list of unsuccessful small teams as a point of reference

You can just go look at Steam indie games. Those are all small teams. They are mostly all failures.

The median small team on Steam generates $4,000 in lifetime revenue. 2/3rds never cross $10,000 in lifetime revenue. Only the top 10% even cross $200,000. Which is more like "barely paid salaries" rather than some kind of F-U money.

The number of small teams on indie games that come anywhere close to the success of big teams on AAA games is minuscule.
How does it prevent one to put caps manually? I too have disabled mose auto-things on my smartphone yet I use caps. It is not a technical proble, it is about decency and respect.
Agree to that point of view.
When times are good (new technology being invented / adopted / marketed) nobody asks tough questions: the corporate structure somehow orchestrates production, new goods or services are being created, value is added, everybody participating in a meaningful way in the bonanza is "happy".

These periods don't last too long: Technologies are tried but discarded, or are too easy to reproduce and lead to saturation, or competition reaches fierce levels etc.

In "stable" or lean times the corporate structure becomes a ruthless spreadsheet optimisation exercise that focuses on exploiting every possible arbitrage (e.g., tax regimes, employee loyalty, overseas labor cost differences etc) to maintain the monetary profitability projections. This leads to endless corporate restructurings, financial engineering and other zero or negative sum games.

The lifecycle of a human being, the social and emotional needs to belong, contribute, feel appreciated and helpful, to create value when young and able, in order to receive value when old and frail. These things are not part of the corporate structure contracts. Neither is in any sense a sustainable planet (but thats part of another rant).
The paper has a selection of images that convey the point much better than the article
If the file that were previously honored as consent to use the copyright material is subsequently ignored, wouldn't the content creators take the indexers to court for copyright infringement?
It's almost as if this hugely complex issue being summarised as "abortion - pro-life vs pro-choice" doesn't lead to a good outcome.