skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot believe that Netflix would even consider having two SWEs, both at level 5, one of whom is making $90,000/year and the other of whom is making $900,000 per year. That's actually preposterous.

Data (e.g. Glassdoor, levels.fyi) shows that the salary ranges are actually pretty tight.
I don't know anything about poly relationships, but it seems that if a couple with kids are unhappy in their relationship, and adding another adult fixes their relationship issues, then it would be a positive thing for the kids as well. Ie, kids shouldn't automatically rule out poly relationships. Though I'd agree, having kids with a person outside the marriage could be legally a mess. Then again, single people have kids all the time and have to deal with the messy details of that.
> Though, in fairness, an unbiased model would probably end up alienating closer to 100% of people instead of any particular half of them.

Why?
It does not use what's often called "HD maps". It uses vision + NNs to guess the lanes (even if they aren't visible), with some help of regular map data, but vision takes priority.
Yes, flatbuffers are fantastic. Let me know if you have any specific questions; happy to respond.
So if I write a nasty note on a paper Airplane and throw it at you, might the manufacturer of the paper and pen get in trouble? ‘No, that’s absurd.’ Fine, what about an unpleasant email? Should an email provider auto screen potentially harmful messages?

None of this seems very logically consistent and just seems to stem from a desire to fix a problem (people being nasty to each other) in the most heavy handed and legally clumsy way imaginable.
First, if you think this is a good idea, please go watch James Mickens' USENIX Security '18-Q keynote speech: "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

It's brief, entertaining, and grounding.

- - - -

The ultimate question is What is good?. That question is an open-ended intelligence test.

See "Measuring the intelligence of an idealized
mechanical knowing agent" https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEMTI-2.pdf

"Intuitive Ordinal Notations": https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(In case it's not clear the connection is that figuring out the "best" course of action requires a similar kind of infinite or at least unbounded intelligence as the ION task.)
Sure, but abolishing all alcohol because of possible consequences of too much alcohol is hard to sell. Even when talking about people getting really pissed, I would bet that more often than not nothing too bad happens to their environment.
This comment is long past editing deadline but since most replies seem to have misinterpreted me, I must have worded it very badly, so will clarify:

Basic tutorials for Python newbies use wsgi. Copying & pasting from SO without understanding the code you're copying will inadvertently net you a wsgi setup. FastAPI requires wsgi.

I wasn't stating that everyone deploying Python has a depth of knowledge of wsgi - I was enquiring as to whether there's some other alternative system people pervasively use for Python web apps, as I assumed everyone was on wsgi (whether they're aware of it or not).

TL;DR: by "learning what wsgi is" I just meant "deploying it" not "understanding it in depth"
I think after 2015 they were crap until the M1s which seem to be quite good so far
I'm not sure why "Heat pumps are great for climate control" went to "ducts are dead".

I live in Florida, we've used Heat Pumps for as long as I can remember. We also have central air handlers with blowers and ducts to distribute the conditioned air. Mini-splits can _also_ be ducted mini-splits. According to my HVAC geek friend, mini-splits are pretty terrible about humidity control (an important thing in Florida). For proper humidity control you'd ideally have a dedicated set of dehumidification ducts (powered by a central dehumidifier) as well. Mix in an ERV and you have the ability to build a fairly air-tight house with _controlled_ ventilation and very efficient conditioning of the air in the house.
we at croit.io use PXE boot into RAM for more than 6 years on all our worldwide storage deployments.

It provides so many benefits and eases the server management greatly.
No disks doesn't mean you can't retrieve data. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gzVVjW4yY).
"Got the IP despite Tor" might just be user error, visited the site once with Tor disabled, or logged into the same account elsewhere with both their clear IP and their Tor browser. The exact same thing that happened to Silk Road.
You can, but it's incredibly painful. Yes, it is crazy.
It already has one
Any Elon or Tesla related topic on hackernews is such a cesspool these days. Any support of him even with actual true statements is downvoted. Somehow the technologist board has become the least friendly to actual technological innovation. Any statements like the one I just made will get countered with attacks on his person.

He's clearly responsible for more innovation across multiple sectors than anyone alive. Maybe he's an asshole too, but no one get's the same level of scrutiny.

How about this article from 2018 suggesting GM will have a wheelless car in 2019? https://www.wired.com/story/gm-cruise-self-driving-car-launc...

Nobody cares to follow up and hate on Mary Barra everytime there's an AV or EV conversation. It's absurd
This future is not new. AFAIK it is being proposed since 2011 https://stackoverflow.com/a/4705840/1820778
Just a heads-up to others in the comments here that have not read the article, none of those are quotes from the article.
> clear indications the stalker is actively planning to do harm.

You might be interested in the "cannibal cop" case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Valle

Where, exactly, is the line crossed between "this guy is talking shit" and "this guy is actively planning to do harm?"

(I don't know where I even stand on that case. The ramifications of every alternate outcome is equally unsettling.)
There's definitely a link with esophageal cancer, and imo that's being blurred and handwaved into a generalized cancer risk.
Once the planet runs our of such resources to consume and we are forced to stop.
What are you talking about lol. The whole point of Tesla has always been able to achieve scale so they can sell mass market cars.
>It’s a minimum $1500 to get a window replaced around here with a quality modern replacement

FYI, you can usually replace just the double-paned glass insert in those for a small fraction of that cost.
The article says

> A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.

Completely faking capabilities would be much worse than using multiple tries, though I can't find a transcript of the full deposition and so I'm not sure the deposition backs up that claim.
> While with cigarettes, almost universally people will tell you that their initial usage is terrible, they can't stand it.

Sounds like beer.
> Was Steve Jobs lying when he showed a barely-working iPhone prototype on stage for the first time?

If Apple never delivered the features that he demo’d and went on to sell the phone for $650 with the promise of those features existing, then yes.
Yes. A good day for you to hear the announcement :)
It used to be pretty common (in the late 1980s) to run Sun workstations without hard disks, all booting off an NFS server. But then disks got cheap... I always set up a boot server hosting a bunch of BSD/Linux images so I could install an OS remotely (to a local disk) without running around with a CD or USB stick.
Same with hallucinogenics. Sexy media didn’t create demand for these products/resources.
Static typing was a nightmare (by modern standards) in the 1990s. Dynamic scripting languages were such a breath of fresh air that we were willing to pay the steep performance penalties without hardly a thought. Sort of like the saying "deleted code is debugged code", code that you actually write always performs better than the code you didn't write because it was too soul-sucking.

But static typing languages, library stacks, and environments have come a long way in the last 30 years. Now I prefer even to "prototype" in static languages because the crossover to when they start providing me net benefit is around a week or so into my development process.

I will not claim one is completely better than the other, but the balance is a lot more even than I would say it was ~20 years ago.
I don't think you can say an AI trained using RLHF - such as ChatGPT is - is really "simply reflecting the data it was trained on". ChatGPT was first trained on a load of data, then it was updated to act in specific ways based on feedback from humans who "nudged" it the way they wanted it to go.
It depends on how your projects/team is funded. I’ve been on teams where a shutdown had a pretty immediate impact (people had to be shuffled around to other projects in the short term). I’ve also been on teams that get all their funding at the start of fiscal, so a shutdown doesn’t impact them until they need to be funded again.
> So I should live forever!

No but you probably get to die from something else and hopefully much later.
Various flavours of diskless booting have been there since decades.

Simple example - thin client that boots off readonly NFS and just mounts user dir when they log in. Or one step further and have image with remote desktop software and nothing else.

More complex one - storage server that boots over network so you don't have to manage any OS install on disks and can use full capacity of drives for storage
I'm not sure this is really true, you get huge nicotine buzzes at first, though too much can make you feel nauseous.
You could configure your editor to run something like

git commit --allow-empty --allow-empty-message -a

everytime you save or the editor auto saves.

Then again, if commit messages are pointless, then why bother using version control rather than automatic backups?
We're using puma and set the RUBYOPT=--yjit in a systemd environment variable for our puma service.

The performance impact of enabling yjit was quite obvious in our charts. Another giveaway that it's properly enabled is the servers will use consume more memory.
I was frustrated by this back in covid when data was almost never linked. I resolved that it was probably a weird market effect where the data collectors have to be funded by those willing to buy access to it (i.e. news publishers not readers), and editors were in place to ensure integrity in its reporting. And maybe readers can still make phone calls and go to libraries to find the data instead of finding it on the internet for free.
Under US law it is totally legal for artists to make collages out of copyrighted works. But in order to sell a collage it has to be sufficiently transformative. There is some case law to help determine that threshold.
It's good a lot more to do with the history of litigation in the US, and politicians putting a sign on something as a way to appease people who want proper regulation. A vague unhelpful label or a plaque is cheaper than an audit.
It is panning out, it's just not all robots, gigapress is a thing.
I thought we already had docs showing that the govt runs a ton of tor nodes.
1. Are they easier to use than JSON?

2. Is it just putting strings into a big array?

3. Do you have an examples of them being used?
doubtful it was as a NASA employee (i.e. US Govt). It was probably as a contractor. I believe (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) that NASA employees are on the GS schedule, as GS-15 step 10 in the DC area, only gets ~176K (after cost of area increase). i.e. a very senior (but not executive) manager with many years at that level.

The value of working at a national lab (vs say a military one) as an employee is that when one works at a military lab as an employee, one is a govt employee and on the GS schedule (which makes it hard for them to compete). When one works for a "national lab", one is an employee of the lab which is under contract with the US govt, but they are not paid according to the GS schedule.
The "safe and effective" slogan was dangerous misinformation.

More utter nonsense.

The doc have been published in a book: see War Room Pfizer Documents.

That doesn't turn up any book, but it does result in a ton of links to conspiracy theorist and propagandists Naomi Wolf and Steve Bannon.

source

If you actually cared in the least, you could find it astonishingly easily. However, you're only interested in peddling conspiracy theory nonsense. You don't exist in reality, so there's no point in trying to communicate with you.
> Why is it "sad to see" potentially fraudulent goings-on brought to light?

Good question, to be honest, I have no idea since that's not what I said.
I've been using https://www.val.town to follow people on HN. Val Town had a Show HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343122. So far it definitely seems like a positive. But I could do a lot better with finding people.

I tend to think of HN as 3 overlapping communities: startups, programming and other random stuff. Lately I care only about the latter 2.
Net Theft Revisited
It's amazing how much The Net got right—it even came out the same year as the first phishing scam.

For a deeper look into the movie and its echoes today, check out this week's blog post.
Oh crap - I missed that. Thanks! added now.

If there's a better URL, we can change it again. I just don't think year-in-review laundry lists make for very good discussion, because inevitably they produce generic referendum-style threads about the company or project.
I've not really encountered any situations where I've needed to do anything like this yet (still learning), but, I found this example, where there's an existing function, and someone alters the body of the function to create a new function. My guess is that there's various ways of doing this type of stuff: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220198

Edit: a macro example, which I think may be the more common route of doing this type of stuff? https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/common-lisp-macros-by-ex...
It could be referring to the the underpinnings of how these things are used.

Use race as a dimension for something and that ends up as a value in a vector that packs a human into a discreet set of pigeonholes. Then take many of those and stack them and you've got a matrix ready for things like principal component analysis or CNN training.

You might say "oh come on, that hasn't been done since WWII by IBM" and you'd be wrong. It still happens today with things like calculating insurance premiums and approving bank loans. And your response might be "no way, nobody records someone's race" and while that might be technically correct, we frequently harvest things like income and interest in products that are highly correlated with spacefic races (some innocuous others much less innocuous). This can be harvested through cookies in websites like facebook or they can be self reported income on credit card applications.

You can disagree that it's the same as saying "matrix multiplication is racist" but that is just a boiled down way of saying "we are very good at hiding racism in our algorithms and then acting super surprised when someone points them out and our defense is that we just did some math."
This isn't about content! There is a real world, and a virtual one. The virtual one is a mere imitation of the real one. We weren't born to live inside a machine.
This is interesting context. I'd say a fine of $125,000 - because that is the lowest fine I can find in a brief DDG search of fines levied for materially misleading investors.
I don’t know about the current M1 CPU, but my last work computer was a 2015 MBP and the fan was always on. Plugging a monitor enabled the dedicated GPU. So I had to keep it plugged so it does not crawl to a stop due to throttling. Being in tropical weather did not help either. The battery bulged within one year. And the one I replaced it was deteriorating fast. My current mac mini has much better thermal and I bought an MBA for light and mobile uses.
I mean, didn't it do exactly that? Just only once?
Well it makes it trivial to throw a display up on the big screen (either share screen or second display) if you have a mac or idevice. Of course if you can't operate it it's the opposite of trivial.

The worst case is someone from IT uses their own iphone to set it up, then leaves the company. I'm not sure you can even reset to factory settings without talking to the device.
Imagine they went on to sell that prototype with the implication it would soon do what the demo showed. And it still wasn't doing what it was supposed to 7 years later
take the money you pay yearly for prime, and set it into a "shipping budget"

each time you need to buy something online, find it on the manufacturer's site or some other direct distributor, pay the shipping costs, and deduct that cost from the 'shipping fund' if the item is actually available on amazon (not a knockoff or replacement)

after a year, you may be surprised (i was)
> they cannot actually lie about how tall the food is

Anyone that's eaten a big mac and seen a commercial for one knows they clearly do lie about how tall the food is.

I presume what you meant here is that they're not supposed to lie about how tall the food is. Clearly the can and do. Actual McDonalds hamburgers are the saddest looking flat soggy salt biscuits ever to be called a hamburger. Their commercials show nothing of the sort, get real.
India’s Semiconductor Scam
You're not wrong, though here's one underlying reason why it's playing out this way:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...

Excerpt:

"In the past century, the American conception of work has shifted from jobs to careers to callings—from necessity to status to meaning. In an agrarian or early-manufacturing economy, where tens of millions of people perform similar routinized tasks, there are no delusions about the higher purpose of, say, planting corn or screwing bolts: It’s just a job."
1986, my (China born) girlfriend-now-wife was over the moon to discover she could have as much milk as she wanted. In her experience it was reserved for kids and not something available to adults.
Nonsense. I used to be a professional Ruby developer and that is nowhere close to the truth. While I prefer static typing it is not hard at all to code in Ruby once you have learned the basics and I almost never used IRB other than when I was a beginner.
Much like life itself, which is effectively a carcinogen.

The longer you are exposed to being alive, the more likely you are to get some type of cancer.
>Being responsible for a system that feeds anyone (let alone a child) who looks at images of self harm or suicide more of the same deserves to be in jail.

But that's what I want? I'm looking at it in the first place for a reason.
In fact I am not aware of any restriction on what the house of commons can vote with a simple majority. On one hand it's the longuest continuously functioning democracy, so it deserves some credit. On the other hand it's a terribly dangerous system.
Oh, I am well aware that governments have all kinds of unjust laws. I know some ex-Panthers who were on the business end of COINTELPRO. But they were open about what they were doing, and publicly articulated a compelling case for their cause - which was censored. Not to mention they weren’t actually breaking any laws.

Similarly, the public performance of civil disobedience was an integral part what MLK was doing with his civil disobedience.

Again I am not saying that the US government is always right. Just the person who is using Tor to hide illegal activity should not receive the benefit of the doubt.

And the “US” part of my comment is key here. There is a big qualitative difference between the US government and the N Korea government.
> "As a thought experiment, I think it’s interesting to consider how one might justify photographing or photocopying original works using a similar line of thinking."

Especially if the camera or photocopier has a distortion in it. Do Smartphone filters evade copyright? Does printing a digital photograph of a painting using a dot matrix printer evade copyright?

These aren't entirely new questions. https://huckleberryfineart.com/exploring-the-debate-over-and...
What would possibly make the M1 MBP preferable to the new one?
I was sedated, but it was literally a sedative. I was not put under. The only discomfort I had was a pain when they were taking a bend. Because I wasn't put under I was able to tell the nurse what was going on and she work her hands around my guts to ease the scope in making the turn. No problem. They even had to do a biopsy - and I didn't feel a thing.
UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks
These are the forms that the OPM leaked some years ago, BTW. So there's that risk also.
How is that fun?
Gitter is going fully native Matrix in Feb. 2023
You’re right, I blame commenting while taking care of a sick kid. Thanks!
I hope studying the effects of the things we ingest and publicizing the results never ends, I agree.

> There is a sector of the economy that lives off banning and regulating things

The economy can't ban anything, what are you referring to here? In fact, nothing is being regulated or banned here.
without paywall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/abandoned-mines-store-enough-...
X is the key to success in the automotive industry, where X equals the trait in which Tesla has the best market position right now
When you do precedence like this in recdesc, you will get functions like parse_prec_1, parse_prec_2 and so forth. If you generalize this function body, and pass along a "current precedence", then generalize the precedences for each operator into a table, you have just reinvented Pratt Parsing.
Yeah, we're talking mg/kg of acetaldehyde for apples. You would end up with perhaps 12 grams of acetaldehyde in your system from a single standard drink (probably about 0.85 grams acetaldehyde/gram ethanol). It's like comparing the radiation dose of a banana to a stroll through the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Selecting the right RISC-V core
Who cares about power density? They are designed to lower $/kwh not kg/kwh.
My new job a week ago: –What macbook pro model do you want? 16 or 13? 16 please.

Today, they announce m2 pro models hehe
Small teams can't have any dead weight people or internal limitations.

My problem is often perfectionism gets in the way of shipping where I'll spend too much time on minutia. At work, coworkers are more liberal in tech debt accumulation because there's a drive to ship maximum impact that can be quantified.
Javascript can't be compared with PHP, javascript is the only scripting language that all browsers understand except wasm.
And there are multiple interpreters that may work different or have not all features avail.

PHP is used on servers that can run many different languages.
Additional there is only one php interpreter that is widely used (yes there was hhvm and some others ), that means you can rely on all features of this version.
If you are using android phone, check Loop Habit Tracker, which is FOSS and available on F-Droid (and Google-Play, too). It is beautiful (imho) and I've been using it for years already. You can export/backup data easily, but I never cared enough to process it any further. After some initial on and off's I am really using it for keeping quite a lot of stuff like supplements, treadmill, meditation, exercise, some do's (like morning walk) and dont's (like white bread). At this point I use it with fun, systematically, not rigidly.

Edit, added link:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.isoron.uhabits/
There's a later edition Software Tools in Pascal which had some improvements. (According to the preface iirc. I didn't read that one since I found the earlier book first.)