skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're all chiming in here, I thought the story was about coping with pressures and life, and uses the puppeteer as a stand-in for multiple, nebulous "whats" or "whos".

I think most of us can relate to somebody in our life who leaves either for school, or work, or for some reason is out of our lives for an extended period. I think it's also reasonably common when those same people come back and are changed, for lack of a better phrase. It may be that you, the reader, are that person who came back changed.

For whatever reason, the person is now different in a positive, or at least socially-acceptable, way; however, the other shoe is bound to drop. In this case, it was Michelle and the concept in their world of Puppets and Puppeteers.

But really, you can insert anything you want into Michelle's spot. Drugs, relationships, and religion are often the most common factors in these stories. Just as common is loss of one of those three (parent passes, kicked the meth habit, etc). It can also be something like an aggressive alternative medicine group with strong pressure to conform to the in-group. It could also be something more openly malicious, such as getting into a racial superiority group, a cult, or a conspiracy theory group.

In the end, it is something, or someone, or some group, that allows the changed person to be themselves, or express some other part or their personality. It may even be that this is a change the person wanted, such as being less violent or having more patience.

It also brings up an interesting question, in this framing. How are the outcomes different between using mind altering drugs, joining a cult, and letting a manipulative person guide ones actions? One could argue intent, where manipulation is putting the person in a place to go back to the manipulator, but one could argue the same about drugs, or the alt-medicine group, or any of the other types of things listed above.

When it's all said and done, I thought it was about how people outside of the changed person react to learning about the source of the change. Sometimes it's a positive reaction, but sometimes all anyone wants is the status quo.
Noise reduction is probably the most relevant but I suspect there’s plenty of minor benefits like a smoother airflow reducing turbulence.

I seriously doubt it’s actually worth it, but you might be able to do VTOL without V-22 Osprey style rotating blades or similar compromise. Instead using internal ductwork and redirected airflow.
It's a tricky area. There are strong reasons why systems like this tend to use dark patterns and it is your own call what you think is appropriate. Also making a system like this really work as opposed to pretend to work means effort put into email deliverability and things like that that other people can't really do for you.

I read this in 1999

https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

and came to the conclusion that the basic need for a "web framework" was a system of authentication that did what most commercial sites do: let people create new self-service accounts with email verification and all of that. That was the essence of the tcl-based framework that Phil Greenspun was pushing but I didn't like tcl, so I wrote something in PHP that was meant to integrate with 'best-of-breed' PHP applications (install the authentication system, then modify various applications to use your authentication not then) as opposed to the "PHPNuke" approach which was popular in the industry which was "install some portal which had worst-of-breed implementations of most of the functionality you think you need".

What I found baffling was that nobody cared about authentication frameworks until they became something that worked "as a service" about 10 years later which is silly for so many reasons, not the least that a company that offers a service like that is going to either run out of money and shut down the service or get aqui-hired and shut down the service.
You want a Sonos SL or Ikea Symfonisk (Sonos sw/hw in Ikea design). Great products, no mic, Airplay 2 support, massive group pairing and the same room detection tuning Apple bragged about in the Homepod via the App on a phone instead of mics. (Sonos holds the patent on it and famously made no claims about Apple stealing it while asking Google and Amazon to pay licenses, aka: Apple Ponied up.)
That little nubbin was the ONLY usable onboard pointing tech for SO LONG! I think things have changed enough now that younger people may not remember, but holy COW did Windows laptop trackpads suck BADLY for a very, very long time. They were so unusable that pretty much every road warrior I knew on a Win machine carried a mouse. At one point, a colleague who had forgotten his mouse took a cab from the hotel to Best Buy to buy another one.

I was stunned and teased him for being a hothouse flower or whatever. "Wouldn't you do the same thing?"

"Of course not. My trackpad is fine!" (then as now, I was on a Mac)

"Impossible! All trackpads suck!"

"Well, try mine." He did. He was stunned. Then I tried his, and holy shit I was enraged on his behalf.
Start with tests, use the debugger to explore different "execution paths", try to have a small goal (minor modification), and work towards that.
A friend or your second cousin is not quite the same as your parent is it? Maybe you need to strawman less
I would bet at least one of them involves dropping explosives on Russian soldiers.
Hi! I'm the Chief RevenueCat Shill, aka CEO.

We launched on HN back in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610735), were in YC that same year, and have since helped 20k apps power their subscriptions and in-app purchases.

I held back from releasing something like this for years as I didn't quite think we had the capacity to do it well, but we've reached that point now and I think we've released some aggregate stats on subscription consumer mobile apps the prior to this were only available inside Apple or Google.
You can distinguish people by their gait, so it may be plausible that measurements of gross movements can pick a person out.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925574/
It is reasonable in that a plausible story would follow, instead of a fantasy.
hitting the gym tends to up testosterone which makes one more likely to take opportunities to start conversations. A lot of men don't take all the opportunities they have, 'just hit the gym' is helpful in those cases.
Increasing entropy in a system can be avoided with an external energy source.
Exactly. Also, what constitutes "toxic" and shouldn't AI output be "toxic" if the user intentionally requests it?
This gamingonlinux thread https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/bluetooth-support-for-... seems to have the details of getting it working on Linux, it looks like it depends on some udev rules, both the ones from the FAQ ( https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/13067284?visit_id=6...) and some apparently-varying-by-distro defaults.
I agree and the code itself is awesome also.

Around 30 years ago I was really into Prolog but recently I have tried getting back into it and I am having a rough go at it. I still have the old Art of Prolog book, so that might be a good reentry point.
Nothing funny about it, it’s called leverage, and realistically it’s not always a bad thing. The note up above about it not being slavery because it’s voluntary is really important. If someone is entering into an agreement willingly, that’s pretty good evidence at least (if not proof) that they expect or perceive it to be a mutually beneficial transaction. This can be the case regardless of some 3rd party’s (and especially a rich westerner’s) gut reaction that the wage is crazy low.
That's why many vendors randomize MAC addresses, at least where and when possible.
"But these days the human cost is just another cost" - this is where I think you, "key_stroker", and the GP, "brookst", might agree on something, in my opinion.

If someone agrees with your premise that "these days the human cost is just another cost", then it seems logical that a newspaper editor/author will shape the headline about economic suffering, instead of mental suffering.

By adding more information to the headline about "$2 per hour", it might make the discussion more confusing by much of the comments discussing the economic part. BUT, a clickbait-y title might increase the reach of the article.
It’s hard to generate efficient code ahead-of-time because the compiler doesn’t know what the types of values will be, so it has to emit very general code that can cope with all possibilities at the expense of performance. A just-in-time compiler has access to this type information because it’s executing at runtime, so it’s able to generate more efficient code which only works in the more specific situation that is actually happening right then.

See Natalie [0] for a work-in-progress Ruby compiler which works ahead of time. It’s a super cool project but it’s just for fun [1] so I don’t believe it’s trying to compete on performance.

[0] https://natalie-lang.org/

[1] https://justforfunnoreally.dev/
Directing someone to commit a crime is still a crime. OpenAI most likely has criminal liability in this instance and the FBI should open an investigation if they haven't already.
I implemented it for ANTLR (which is LL(*), so not fully recursive descent, but top-down) but never got around to shepherding the patches through.

https://github.com/dberlin/antlr4ts/blob/incremental/Increme... is an intro.

The commits on that branch should give you some idea.

I have regular non-TS ANTLR4 support somewhere too.

I'm happy to chat about it elsewhere as well, drop me a line at my email.
I'd pay into a crowdfund to train a low-memory language model that can swear. Bonus points if you call it GPTCarlin.

But I see why "serious business" investors will want to avoid anything controversial. It is their business to suck life out of everything.
Cheap offsite backups. I know AWS and BB are the bees knees. But when I read the terms they. Have so many escape clauses built in. My bosses already had a poor experience with our backup provider simply deleting our backup set over a missed payment. Although there are better services they are quite shy about doing it again.
> In my mind it is stupid (and poor marketing) that the linux community is not crushing Apple with cheap, fast laptops.

That is not how the economics of laptops work.

Most people don't want a Linux laptop. Call it inertia, but it is a fact that most people buy Windows laptops.

Most of the premium market consumers prefer Apple.

And most people who prefer Linux aren't paying a premium right now.

So you have three sets that do not overlap, and there is nothing the community can do about that in the short to medium term, anyway.
An open source lib where I can type up some text configuration, hook it up to a sql database, and get a nice looking generated form (for internal surveys in my case).
Messina Denaro: How Italy caught ‘most wanted’ mafia boss after 30 years
Sama also has a tragic founder story https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/24/samasource-ceo-leila-janah...
I'm 100% in favor of open borders. However, what can OpenAI do about that?
Possibly because it was also used by Andre LaMothe's original Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus book?
So Siri is mediocre at best, we also probably agree. Lots of things to complain about… how Siri works inconsistently across devices, punts most queries to a web search, etc.

I appreciate that they aren’t overbuilding Siri though. Alexa (which recent experienced an unfortunate gutting vis layoffs) was amazons attempt to build a consumer ecosystem, which meant a lot of crappy features no one uses (notifications?). Siri feels like it definitively lives on that device and is just a fancy hands-free control. No extraneous feature creep in an attempt to build out a platform. Apple resisted a lot of opportunities to grow Siri while Alexa et al dramatically increased headcount and features, and it seems that voice assistants never really caught on as a general purpose tool. I imagine smarthome/weather/music still dominates all queries by a huge margin.

I still don’t know why anyone would buy a $300 HomePod. As the owner of two original HomePods, they’re fine. This one looks like it has less speakers in it, but I assume it sounds comparably good. If you want good sound I assume you’d be buying a Sonos or something more versatile, but this is an equal but apple-loving choice. The real pro is that it sounds like it has a removable cable.

I still want a screen-based apple smart speaker. Smart speaker+clock is a sweet spot in terms of usability, and the Google home I’ve been loving. It gets you some richer visual for that 1% of queries that benefit, and a glanceable clock for the rest of the time. I can’t imagine apple making a UI that is one-off though. Hopefully the iPad goes the way of the pixel tablet
I also love how a creator can respond to a comment with another video and you are able to read the comment and click it in the new video to go back to the original comment and video they are responding to. Same with stiches and duets.
I guess it gives anyone on a visa a lot of time to find something new
The scale of benefits generally looks like:

Average US worker << Average EU worker < US Big Tech Worker
If you're a 4 you have to target other 4s. I guess one problem is a lot of 4s decide to hold out for 7s and if they can't land one they say they will be forever alone.
I don't know about other platforms but .webp is very well supported on Linux. I've got .webp files showing up just fine from Emacs and picture viewers and ImageMagick's tools do support .webp just fine.

Lossless WEBP is smaller than optimized/crushed PNG files.

And I'd say that's quite a feat, which may explain the complexity of the format.

So WEBP may be complicated but if my OS supports it by default, where's the problem? It's not as if I needed to write another encoder/decoder myself.
Similar theme.

https://thefederalist.com/2016/05/18/beyonces-use-of-sweatsh...
“Play the hand you’re dealt”
I associate concatenative languages with stack languages, which means that the postfix syntax is obvious. But as the sibling comment mentioned, that doesn't necessarily need to be the case.
> These workers were subjected to the most vile and graphic depictions of sexual abuse content imaginable for next to nothing.

Let’s imagine an alternative timeline where OpenAI pays $200/hr for this service.

At that price point is it still exploitive?

Is it ever appropriate or ethical to ask humans to voluntarily subject themselves to traumatic experiences in exchange for compensation?

I’m still processing my own thoughts on this topic so I’m curious to learn about other viewpoints.
> once that expires, through the public exchanges that are guaranteed to cover their existing condition. Thanks ACA.

The ACA just states that insurers can't refuse a customer who wants to purchase a plan just because they have a preexisting condition. It doesn't actually require that the plan cover treatment for said condition.

In many states - including wealthier deep blue states - the marketplace plan options are actually quite terrible.
> Plugging a monitor enabled the dedicated GPU

Is this still true if the lid is closed?
I have 3 full size gen 1 HomePods in my house (and 5 minis), and the full size HomePods are the absolute best audio quality I've ever come across. Especially when stereo paired. My paired two are in my music studio with baffler panels on the wall behind them and also paired to an Apple TV. For listening to music it's up there with an audiophile setup costing hundreds of thousands, for watching movies on the Apple TV it hands down beats the 7.1 full surround system I have in the living room. I was gutted (and baffled) when they discontinued them.

Also worth saying that the HomePod Mini audio quality is appalling and barely useful for anything other than podcasts.
I agree with you that the exercise example is a little soft, but my sense is it was meant to be one of many, and you might inadvertently be supporting their argument a bit.

There's probably some term for this phenomenon in formal logic or argument, and if there isn't, there probably should be, but...

It seems to me often with these kinds of things you can always say "if you want X enough, you can find a way," and that's logically true, but in practice the effort involved or the threading of the needle is exactly the problem. People have lives, and maybe taking the bus isn't feasible because you're working two jobs, have kids, and literally don't have the time without jeopardizing those things. It's some kind of logical trap, where you can provide all these examples of things to do, in some imaginary context where nothing else in life matters, or where success comes by making exactly the correct sequence of N steps of complicated decisions that is extremely implausible once uncertainty and normal levels of human error are taken into account.

The authors also basically provided an example of the neighborhood not being walkable and then you offer walking around the neighborhood as a solution. I bring this up not to be antagonistic or hostile to you, but I think this is part of what they're talking about: someone has X obstacles, and then in the course of getting advice, those obstacles are ignored in part or in whole. Even if it's unintended, it creates a loss of credibility on the part of the person giving advice (whether or not that credibility loss is warranted or not): "if you're ignoring my problem X, do you really understand my situation? And if not, can I trust that what you're saying will work out?" Then they might even ignore good advice, which then makes the problem worse.

I agree that you can still lose weight if by no other means than not eating as much, and I'm deeply skeptical of someone's inability to lose weight in the absence of some kind of internal physiological limitation. But as someone who's sympathetic to where you're coming from, I kind of read your comment and felt like you were just kind of illustrating the author's points. At what point at a population level do we start recognizing that these systemic factors are in fact causing problems for individuals, and that individuals cannot just bootstrap their way out of it completely? In the same way that you can come up with a complicated series of excuses for a person, you can also do the opposite, whatever that is termed -- you can come up with a complicated series of explanations of how they are culpable by not doing exactly the right series of things that would never be even discussed about a whole other subgroup of society.

I guess it seems to me that dismissing "obsessing on the fact that it's easier for someone else," and asking them instead to obsess about their own situation, is basically the thing the authors are talking about.
Never "down" from last job, but interviewed with 3 companies, got 3 offers, and after a lot of thought, picked the worst salary out of 3, still it was a little better than what I was doing before.
Chose shorter commute, and many small things that I preferred, more "humane" management, etc.

I was on parental leave when interviewing, and of course me becoming a dad made me pick this one over the other ones where I'd prolly have stressed a lot, worked extra for bonuses that don't exist where I ended up, etc.

I don't regret it, except when it's time to negociate a raise and I think about the amount I could be earning. Doesn't last long, I can still switch later if I really need the money, I'm still receiving very positive mails from those I declined, they're actively looking for new hires even recently.
Database States
Extend this logic to remote work and your salary should scale strictly with where you're living. Living in Ohio but working for a bay area startup? Expect to get paid a "good salary locally". Why not, right?
"Dear god."

"There's more."

"NO."
The difference is Microsoft doesn't have to be so generous.
Wow, impressive. At last, something _new_ and _better_ in the field.
Basically sockets add size, weight, and mechanical failure points (they can vibrate loose, you need an access panel, etc.). Since most people never use them over the life of the system it’s basically a bet that the RAM will fail less frequently than those other things, which is probably true but frustrating if you’re in the unlucky group.
Microsoft net income 2022: ~$70B. Why force pay cuts or fire workers when you have roughly $300k of net income per employee to work with?
Make that part of your purchase criteria if it matters to you.
I quit a $2m job to dick around with board games
Johns Hopkins APL is also a good option. Closer to a large cities than many of the Labs with the same type of work and benefits. Also lots of opportunity for subsidized graduate degrees from JHU if interested. Similar things to say about MIT Lincoln Lab or CMU Software Engineering Institute.

All of the Labs or these DoD Research centers typically require Security Clearances so that means you need to be a US Citizen and have a squeaky clean background and it also precludes things like using Cannabis.
A licensing system. That's actually why I ended up building my current business 7 years ago.

So you've found a problem -- now build a solution. :)
With $1.5B bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great
Show HN: One Click Tourist Visa Applications
Hi HN! I am curious for your feedback on whether a one click tourist visa application service is something you would use! Is the messaging and communication clear on the page? Feedback and discussion more than welcome.
Nope > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/breaking-rsa-...
Catalytic metals trace elements, that recombine those gases. Or else the hydrogen tunnels through all things, turning them brittle..

I sometimes wonder, how those secret sauces can remain so secret. After all, you have to order them in rather large batches every week, month, year..
It's somehow managing to get worse in this area. You were once able to say "not this version" and it would try a different version of the same song. Now it just replies "I found some results on the web, but I can't show them here".

(This is especially infuriating when it does it on CarPlay)
Probably everyone with roles that aren't part of the core business is outsourced. Am argument could be made that outsourcing is actually worth for the workers than earning less than highly skilled labor, but being a FTE and maybe get opportunity to grow.
They still have a role in explaining the material and answering questions, but it's not their job to motivate students to study their subject.
They outsource low paying jobs like "building their hardware" to other companies. I bet OpenAI content raters are also managed by a vendor, but even if not, the difference is smoke and mirrors.
FY23 Q3 is until end of March, FY24 Q1 starts in July for some companies.
Bad analogies are bad analogies. You can still have two systems in parallel instead of requiring a single tool to do the job.
Depends how you define average.

Statistically, the average US workers has a much higher purchasing power than the average EU worker.

Unless by average you meant poor people or workers on minimum wage in which case you'd be correct, but that's in no way average anymore.
Companies have externalities (environmental, societal etc) from their operations, and someone pays for them.

You can close your eyes and cheer about profitability, but the bill is coming anyway.
The real value of the original HomePods IMHO was the quasi-omnidirectional radiation pattern. If you have an unusual room configuration, such as an open concept dining area and kitchen and need to locate the speakers medially, they outperform anything you can buy at a reasonable price, especially with the reduce bass setting turned on. It's really quite surprising to hear. But in a typical listening room configuration I wouldn't agree that they sound better than a pair of good studio monitors.