skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly CRUD, and the stack is very boring: Rails/Hotwire/Bootstrap, about 10k lines (we have apps for the staff on the ground, agents and agencies that we partner with, and some other stuff in there). The tricky part of handling the bookings is that on any given day we have a limited number of horses and multiple types of rides: 3 trails at 10AM, 1 trail at 3PM. A few times a month we'll max out the horses and not have availability for a given time. We can burst horsepower if we need to and accommodate bigger groups if we're hitting capacity and suspect load will maintain its current HPH. (that was a stretch; I tried)

We also track what horses have been used and how much so that we're not riding them into the ground — the people on the ground have an app I built in Framework7 to manage everything; they love it and Framework7 is very fun once you get rolling.

We ask for a 20% deposit to "hold [your] horses" and to prevent no-shows; the rest is transacted at the ranch (though we make the option to pay in full available if you email us). Our cancellation policy extremely flexible and though we say 24 hours on the site, we've never not refunded someone.
The GömböC: a shape that shouldn't exist
I'm not sure if that argument is any good, since everything you say holds equally well with every pyramid scheme in history.
If anyone interested I stumbled on this https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/site-files... "Rosaceae family intergeneric hybrids" which covers a number including those mentioned here, plus hawthorn, medlar and rowan mashups
Alternatively (in particular for subclassing), it can always be worked around with an intermediate object. For example:

Constructor(A a, B b) { … }

Constructor(C c, D d)
{
// A and B can be derived from C and D, and
// we want to forward to the (A, B) constructor,
// so we use an intermediate object to do the
// conversion and provide A and B:

this(new Intermediate(c, d));
}

private Constructor(Intermediate x)
{
this(x.a, x.b);
}

Of course, with the JEP this will become much simpler.
The team page made me laugh out loud :D
Demis has had this tone for many years.
Don't most of the "nigerian-prince" type scams involve some kind of back-and-forth?
Meanwhile I long for the days where this was Google's focus. I want a better index of the web and I want the search engine to give me the tools to filter out the garbage I don't want. The fact that this isn't a feature tells you everything you need to know about Google's real priority: it's not us, it's the advertisers.
"Many practical cases of NN outputting copyright-infriging content there are"

I have seen very few practical cases of generative models such as copilot and even less of a stable diffusion of reproducing original copyrighted works in exact detail, and the few that I did encounter were instructed torturously to do so, which strikes me as highly contrived.
Though the Ultima Underworld maps were made out of a 2D grid, the rendering was done using texture-mapped polygons - and not just that but they even used dithering for more light variations. While pretty much all objects were rendered as 2D sprites, there were a few 3D polygonal objects too.

Wolf3D has a much more limited renderer - only walls are rendered, no lighting (the shaded side for walls is actually different textures) and the viewport is fixed at the middle of the walls for example. On the other hand Wolf3D was much faster and responsive and had a larger render window than UU.

UU itself was not open sourced, however System Shock 1 which is based on the same engine was[0][1].

[0] https://github.com/NightDive-Studio/shockmac

[1] https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock
https://seniormindset.com/ – book and workshop helping people with the shift in mindset that goes into being a senior [software] engineer.

You can tldr my philosophy as “business results trump technical excellence”

No MRR but made about $40k in sales last year. Biggest challenge is figuring out how to turn that into stable revenue. Biggest opportunity is that unlike my previous (technical) infoproducts, this one doesn’t expire in 6 months.
> Although I lean towards you on this, we don't have a definition good enough to test against, so we can't tell if it is or isn't.

I don't think a definition of consciousness is possible in any objective sense, as consciousness is by definition, a subjective experience.

A more useful question is why ask if LLMs are conscious?

ex:

1. Are you trying to decide whether shutting them off is ethical?

2. Are you trying to figure out how to manipulate them to ask your questions correctly?

3. Are you trying to answer whether they can replicate anything a human can do?

When the contextual question that prompts the word "consciousness" is defined, we can make progress in determining whether something is "conscious".

For example, if it's a question of ethics, then you follow up by defining your ethical framework.
Teach it ... phenomenology[1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck
Could expand on the rolls off phrasing you just used, if you don't mind?

I have a decent amount of experience with digital audio is why I ask.
It's definitely my favorite fun fact. I'm grow up in the city but I spent a few summer days on a horse growing up. One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months.
probably? are we just making stuff up now just to prove a point?
One of my favorite works of fantasy is the Malazan Book of the Fallen which was written by an archeologist and it very much shows. I doubt there’s another series in which the word “potsherds” appears more frequently.
Haven’t been laid off but I see it coming in the next few months. I do DBA/performance tuning on MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server (and recently Cockroach). Being remote in Australia makes it hard to get another job so I’m thinking to learn a trade and exit tech as a career.

Recently I got into using mono.Cecil to rewrite c# assemblies (specifically assemblies created by IKVM). I haven’t had a personal project in years but this has definitely reignited a spark, so I’m going to try for a remote software engineering job first.
Not to belabor the point, but if I understand the book correctly Paul did things this way because he believed it was the right thing to do and it was the best fit for him and his personality. Relating this way to employees allowed him to live with himself and humanized the business. So the increased productivity was a happy coincidence of his insistence on positive human interaction being a foundational element of business operations. He never really expected to be successful or anything like the great success which unfolded. The entire business was basically winging it in order to make money because he had trouble following more common paths.
It does, although some devices (Samsung?) will force you back to the default homescreen with every reboot.

Other devices force you back to the default homescreen whenever you activate the google assistant via long pressing the home button, and you can't disable it.

Luckily both behaviours seem to be a minority.
It's not an analogy because it doesn't analogize "learning" which is the thing that's being used as a defense. It hides any criticism of learning by implying that it's the same learning that humans do. That's not an analogy, it's just bullshit. It's bullshit word salad. A really tiny salad, here.
Open University: Top down design from pseudocode to Pascal (1984) [video]
Ok, this is the reality:

From a business perspective

- Businesses act on behalf of their shareholders. They want to give them tranquility and "peace of mind"

- They (big corporations) want their "power" back, meaning, lower wages, return to office, etc.

- They (big corp) are colluding with the Feds to mitigate inflation.

Do we have to like this? Absolutely no.

Do we have any choice?
It depends. As a collective we have some sort of bargaining chip and we could try to win the war on WFH. We could also don't put our money on those same companies. Let them know they need customers/consumers and those come by strengthening the middle class.

Starting a layoff wave will just get people to stop paying for non essential things (streaming, fast food, etc), creating even more layoffs and the cycle repeats until the economy crash.

I'm all for responsible and sustainable capitalism.

The "let the market sort itself out" premise is just plain stupid and dangerous since the ultimate goal of allowing that will be to bring feudalism back. Big corporations having all things and we just work to live.
previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086227
The mass shooting tracker (https://massshootingtracker.site/) has just turned 10 years old, with a total of 5174 shootings where four or more people are shot in a single spree since 1 Jan 2013.
I guess the future is RF blocking walls. Might even be a good thing since It'll allow for less congested airwaves for yourself.
"Republicans" or "Republican Party" works - we don't need a synonym. If we really want to talk about views independent of the party, then let's characterize each view individually rather than as a group.

What doesn't make sense is taking a group of positions that were conservative in the 70's, carrying them into the current day after society has changed significantly, and then talking about them as if they still represent a slowing of change rather than a radical departure.
Old Vintage Computing Research: Bringing TLS to the Magic Cap DataRover
dead internet theory: https://dailyfreepress.com/2021/10/21/the-dead-internet-theo...
> But why are we to believe these societies were "egalitarian"?

I haven't read this book, but my understanding is this is usually ascertained from looking at burial grounds, and building remains. Lack of distinction between high status and low status burials is indicative of a society with less stratification. Lack of specialized ceremonial and ruling buildings another.

In the case of the Cucuteni-Tripolye civilization & associated cultures in Ukraine & the Danube, though, my understanding is that there really aren't many graveyards or human remains because they didn't bury their dead, at least not in graveyards. Not until the Yamnaya culture (Indo-Europeans) intruded/conquered/took-over/became-dominant later on. So, I dunno.

But in that culture the lack of palatial buildings and so on does imply the lack of a kingship system. Plus they didn't build walls around their settlements, and there's few artifacts that imply weaponry until much later.
I think this change would make it harder to explain why a program was rejected, even though it would allow a programmer more flexibility.

It's easier to just say "this() must ALWAYS be called first in constructor" and everybody understands... than to try and say "you can call this() after other statements, but not in a try block and not if those statements reference the instance under construction" which will certainly allow you to do more interesting things, but also be more confusing.
I have used a combination of C4 and arc42 for a number of projects and it is working well for us.
On the price point, the original iPhone retailed for $499USD which in inflation adjusted dollars today would be $714USD. The Quest 2 is significantly cheaper than that as a standalone device. The Quest Pro is much more expensive but is targeted at businesses, watch Zuck's intro of it if you doubt that. The biggest barrier is that for really good performance on any headset you need to tether to a gaming PC. That's a lot more cost and complication for non-technical people. That said, the hardware is there and capable of delivering outstanding visuals and inside out tracking. The compute and networking are lagging behind, we really need a small, user friendly and powerful device that anyone can go buy, plug in and then connect their VR headset to with 0 frustration. That would free up headsets to only worry about the displays and tracking.

I don't think the future of VR is portable. I have an aversion to lumping AR in with it since they are fundamentally different. If it makes it easier, VR is desktop, AR is mobile. Similar but not at all the same. The way I envision the future of VR is that it does for your physical experiences what computers and the internet did for your paperwork and documents. Thinking about VR as a cellphone is the wrong mental model, it's not a peripheral that exists in your physical environment. It is a replacement for your physical environment or more congenially, it is another physical environment to which you can travel in addition to the places you currently go to.
UBI can replace (at least partially) social security and related programs like SSI and unemployment insurance. It can maybe entirely replace SNAP and TANF. UBI would need higher taxes which for most people would likely end up being a wash or net gain.

The nice thing about UBI being automatic and not means tested is it means anybody can lose their job or quit and immediately start receiving benefits. Rather than what we have now where it’s stressful and bureaucratic to get benefits, and once you are on benefits you are faced with a welfare cliff.
Memory constraints. BASIC will run in 4 to 8 Kbyte (4000 to 8000) ROM. That budget was for editor, SAVE/LOAD,interpreter and overhead functions. The goal is to make the interpreter fast!

And, these were pre-IBM PC systems. (apple, radio shack 8 bit systems, many others).
> Isn’t having the decision decided by majority vote the least partisan thing you can do by definition?

If one party believes something to be an individual right and another party believes it to be a matter for collective/state decision, then no.

(Not that the Democratic party fully sees abortion as an individual right of the mother - after all, the Roe v. Wade decision did not really consider it as such, nor did it legitimize abortion throughout the pregnancy term; and the Democratic party generally supports Roe v. Wade. It has also not tried to put the matter into federal legislation for the 40-odd years between Roe and Dobbs.)
Maybe the Amish were right after all.
"Jamming" is legal in as much as any device that operates in the ISM[0] bands must accept interference - so in the 2.4GHz example, microwave ovens, baby monitors, TV relays, remote door monitors, wireless alarm systems etc., all operate in the same band and will interfere with WiFi that is close by (since they use a different modulation).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band
I did know that. That's why I never gamble outside of the USA. I got screwed on Blackjack in the Caribbean once. Never again.
I always feel part of the confusion with Banach-Tarski is that lots of words don't use their "natural definitions", which makes the proof more surprising. People (not this article) often talking about "cutting" a sphere, which is really misleading.

This result is, in many ways, quite similar to the idea I can "cut" the integers into the odd integers and even integers (but with many more fine details).

This is still a nice article, which explains the actual result well.
Sure. Absolutely but there were some benefits to its simple model that are still attractive for a corporate env.

https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs...

One of my fav rants on this subject.
> I'm concerned about a future where we spend our time jacked into an AI-generated universe that is almost -- but not quite -- consistent and sensical. A dreamscape that becomes a nightmare.

Recommended new book: "Feed", by M.T. Anderson. That's the plot. It's not like "the Matrix". It's way too much like Facebook.
It's baffling because it's being done by people who would otherwise insist on technical correctness and rebut any argument otherwise with "well, how do humans think?"
Played around for a bit. Definitely a cool tool. Wish I had an M1 though. Taking me quite a bit to generate and fans running at full blast. Haha
I don't disagree with the thread that the headlines about the survey are bad and generalize ludicrously about a huge group of people with totally unrelated cultures.

My point is that when you allude to the academic success of Asian American families, you are discussing exactly the cohort that thread complains is overindexed in the study. The study (and the thread) support my argument, and gravely undermine yours.

Hitting children is not a good way to improve academic outcomes. All the evidence we have right now suggests that, at best, it does nothing; at worst, it damages children and leads to markedly worse outcomes.
Sure, the super class can call unknown methods in subclasses in its constructor, but the subclass has knowledge of the super class, so the subclass should fail to compile if it overrides a super class method that access instance variables before they’re initialized.
Unless you're wanting people to save the images on the landing page, please optimize the images. WebP and only as big as they need to be rendered.

If I go to a service designed around images and it's taking 5 seconds on a SOLID fiber connection to fully download, it doesn't give me confidence that I'm going to get a fast experience in the rest of your site (even if it's not directly related).
It was meant to be sarcastic. Sting performing a private concert in Davos is the farthest possible thing from a company picnic.
Well back in the day… I did my Basic programming on a real Teletype Terminal (not an TTY screen) connected via an acoustic coupler running at 300 baud to a Honeywell timesharing system and saved/loaded programs via punch paper tape on the mid 70s.
Thanks! We get a lot of compliments on the copy. I wanted to reflect that we are indeed a Mexican horse ranch without the site being incredibly boring. There's only so many cool things you can show/say before you realize that horses aren't really all that interesting on the internet.
Well at least someone in this chain of information is dyslexic.
Well, not in the last 80 years at least.
Very cool, I don't think most folks realize how much this would help reduce favoritism and nepotism in the workplace.
Lining the exterior walls doesn't sound all that hard for a new build. Just lay the RF blocking sheet down before the drywall. People love those RF blocking wallets that have dubious value, a "privacy wall" upgrade from builders would probably sell well.
Nothing really to show visually but I make about that passively selling/trading high end watches. More a hobby than anything just to wear them but some easy cash.
I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com

Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews.

Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.
It cost RAM to have a screen editor. A line editing routine is compact, saves a lot of bytes over making something that can scroll, copy-paste etc. The point of a built-in BASIC was that it was complete as-is and could run programs instantly. Thus while many languages for microcomputers used a batch compilation model and could do away with bookkeeping, BASIC was always slimmed to hit a nice small size and leave more room for user code.
wow, talk about being this wrong, and with this minority of an opinion lol

dude it’s real. and it’s good. and you’re terrible.
"Meat interferes with photons" must be among the least-surprising research outcomes of all time.
Tesla’s Price Cuts Are Roiling the Car Market
Ask HN: Has anyone written a fiction novel? Share your experience
> how can we be sure that LLMs or image generators or any other AI don't have the feeling of an instantaneous now

I don’t think I had seen anyone yet suggesting that image generators could have feelings.
But the question was not whether we would be here.

What's to say that in the absence of the K-T event, some dominant dinosaur species wouldn't have eventually evolved their intelligence to our level? Perhaps even earlier?

It's not like the K-T event is a prerequisite for "general" intelligence, is it?

Perhaps in such an alternative universe where the K-T event didn't happen you'd be a dinosaur posting on Dinohacker News right now.
https://www.escape-team.com - a printable escape game. It currently makes about $600 on iOS and $400 on Google Play, all through the $1.99 IAPs.

I do not do any advertising for it, but as it is played in groups, it nicely advertises itself.
Holy smokes! What a massive time sink it was :) Brilliant little gems, absolutely brilliant.
Well Internally it was reported a couple weeks after ChatGPT's announcement and release that google has a "Code Red" meeting about it, and at that time it was reported that ChatGPT was significantly better than what Google had.

Now it is known how accurate that was, or if even internally to Google they communicate well enough to know that all teams are doing or capable of.

>>Also my opinion, but I would argue that AlphaFold is much more impressive and significant for humanity than chatGPT.

I think that is short sighted and biased. That is in some ways comparing Vaccine technology to social media, and I would be hard pressed to say what was more "significant for humanity"
Other assumption is that every small statue is a religious idol with ritualistic meaning.
Reptime?
From episode one it was a telenovela with more nudity, wigs, and CGI.
There was one good scene between Cersei and her husband, though.
Back before shares were liquid assets a shareholder often was required to put money back in the company when it hit a rough patch or lose their shares.
Sounds weak. I wouldn’t call that person a team lead or a lead dev.

Agile doesn’t take much effort if you know what you’re doing. It’s just a card wall, standups and a planning meeting. This is not hard for a good lead dev. If you think it’s hard, you probably aren’t a good lead dev, or you don’t know how to do it right, which is the same thing.
It was very recent actually, around 2018 is about the time we were getting in the Russian stuff. I saw alot of very interesting antique items from various government agencies in the three years I was there, plus all the brand new and still usable equipment the government throws away due to the "use it or lose it" budget policy. Lots of waste.
https://archive.md/ZL0As
The Shopify layoff memo (https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team) has a pretty interesting graph of exactly this effect. Basically a huge leap in e-commerce adoption with a subsequent dip right back to where the pre-pandemic trend line was heading. It’s not hard numbers I suppose, but it was at least the reason shopify gave when explaining their layoffs.
https://sre.rs - DevOps course (Udemy) for smaller teams and individuals
I was expecting Rihanna or Gizeh, not Zizek ans the Berghain, and I love every bit of the surprise!

Congratulations!
It's also described in the US army field survival manual
> even judges might soon become AI models

Can an AI model properly weigh the effect of a not-yet adjudicated new law on current laws and proceedings? And at least as important, if AI becomes the default judge, with human judges reserved for adjudicating the effects of new laws, then how would those human judges gain the experience necessary to properly adjudicate new laws?
As the author points out that Banach-Tarski theorem is an example of hard-to-accept result that comes out of the easy-to-accept axiom of choice.

There is a popular quote that related to this:

> The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice

Axiom of choice, the well-ordering principle and Zorn's lemma are equivalent statements (any one proves the other two). But each has a very different "believability" feel to it.
Over-hiring was an instance of social contagion, too!!