skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Sriram Krishnan, John Carmack was at
> I'm always taken aback by this fascination and heroification with John Carmack (or similar figures) on HN. I love Doom and Quake too, but that doesn't qualify him any more than any other random senior engineer to work on something totally different.

Facebook's highest engineering level and achieved the top possible rating of "redefines expectations" for his level three years in a row. They had to create a new tier for him. Nobody else has ever reached that level. He replaced a "hundred person team" and maybe was better than that team.

I have no inside insight to the matter, but this seems like something beyond a "random senior engineer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXbSOiqnQxQ&t=711s
Urban areas also had roughly 50% infant and childhood mortality until recently.
Tesla Model Y gains full access to $7,500 EV tax credit with new $80k limit
I've been using my own version of this for a while - it's excellent when you are driving and don't want to have Siri yell at you for asking it something it needs web results for.
I was actually literally thinking about that as I worked on my solo project. This is like a coworker I can ask questions of and bounce ideas off of. It actually gives some insightful ideas. I was working on a file rotation scheme and it suggested naming the files uuid_<time in ms>_<resolution number> with the intent that resolution conflicts won’t need to be walked very often if ever optimizing the common case of file.0, file.1, etc. This isn’t like earth shattering or something I wouldn’t have thought of on my own, but it was something I would have a convo about and someone would suggest it and I would pause and consider and find value in it. This is beyond a reference material discussion, this is bouncing architectural ideas off of someone who knows their shit but occasionally hallucinates. That’s generally what I look for in coworkers and employees anyways.

Note: I’m aware UUIDs can contain the time but the intent was the UUID was invariant in the process and it would move to another file once it got to a certain size.
> No, not with strictly sticking to the standard and not use any trickery. HTML was not designed to do any kind of calculation. That's why javascript came later.

I thought you would go here, and I understand where you are coming from: Declarative language != file format and declarative is not a paradigm like functional, procedural, object-oriented.

Every useful declarative language allows for some level of computation. Take a template language - YAML + some template tags. Aside allowing variable substitution, every time, the language grows a way to make those substitutions more useful, so you get things like:

{{ variable_containing_a_date + interval(days=1) }}

Back to functional, oo, procedural: some declarative languages import a paradigm.

Back to the script tag:

Even though it was added after the original spec, <script> is part of the standard for HTML and is one of the reasons it pushed many other formats to the side and the web won. I would submit that HTML+JavaScript is the platform, not just HMTL. One can write declarative code in an imperative language, and the reverse is true.

I do really appreciate you thinking on this, but I think we're best to use the existing definition and example of declarative languages, and not just banish declarative to static file formats.
I think you misunderstood the GP: there is debt, but it's owned by banks, not by VISA and MasterCard. They just provide the payment network.
Yep, most people are hyperbolic discounters. Cash Today is worth 10x more than Cash even from a month now. So, 20% APR doesn't faze them
The song being https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ ?

It surely reminded me of that one!
An explanation is not necessarily an excuse.
Will GPT-3 tell you when it doesn't have an answer, or does it always fabricate some type of non-empty response?

Edit:

I just asked "What problem did Luke Skywalker have with tribbles?"

Answer: Luke Skywalker had a problem with tribbles because they would constantly try to escape from his lightsaber...
Living in America is expensive, wages are relatively low, and long labor fights result in financial devastation that might take years to recover from despite some of the gains being virtually negligible in terms of real impact on the wallets of employees. There are many people, especially of boomer age, who are still haunted by long-term strikes. Strikes have more of an effect when they're against smaller companies. Huge conglomerates like Shell and Exxon don't care. They can afford to wait them out.
Rusty Shackleford, pleased to meet ya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okN4P2l1QCk&t=45s
The freatest fight ever lifht
You can read LYAH and go build a project. You may have to also read Haddocks but LYAH equips you to understand them and okay type tetris.

You can definitely read LYAH and read the scotty and postgresql-simple docs and be on your way. You may also want to reference the GHC manual.
Agreed.

https://example.com/app might be a SPA and https://example.com/profile might be server rendered and https://example.com/blog might be a static site. And that's great!

Pick the right tool for the job :)
I guess it's useful to drive away curiosity from laymen but how does it stop corporate knowing me by crosschecking multiple docs? For example the banks for sure need my real name and id and phone number, all other services need those too.
Ask Elon to ask him.
That's a really big if.
Also virtual memory backed by physical memory, virtual credit card numbers for a real credit card, and virtual desktops displayed on real desktops.
"Better to burn out than fade away"
--Neil Young
> “I know, I know... we kinda have to humor him on this."

I’m sorry… what? Why did they feel the need to placate a junior at all, let alone with a leap-frog promotion? In what way was a junior engineer not replaceable? Was he someone’s cousin or something?
I'm a Cloud/DevOps eng, and feel like DevOps is at least somewhat vulnerable to AI/automation. I think "architect" types may be safe, but all of the hands-on knowledge about wiring up different systems seems to be ripe for automation. My guess is in 10 years time, DevOps is just absorbed into backend engineering at most companies.
They have been launching things into space for about 45 years.
A browser search shortcut for:

site:reddit.com OR site:news.ycombinator.com %s
This reminds me of Taleb’s story about how he says he’s a limo driver at cocktail parties.

He chose this to be boring but plausible and move the conversation on.

To me it seems like if you dodge the topic of employment some people will get curious and dig in. If you say what you do, they might be curious and nothing is more boring to me than talking about my job to “normies.”

I think there’s a concept of digitally hiding through being normal. Evading Google leaves a black hole around your activity. Making a digital “Bob” who just does boring, normal stuff creates an ad profile that no one cares about.
It depends on what your original amount of money is. I'd rather work my ass off and be abused than be broke and afraid I can't provide for my family.

I'd go from 30k to 100k regardless of work conditions, but not from 350k to 700k.
Do the banks directly transfer to one another? I'm genuinely naive on this topic. I don't even get the value add of visa at that point.
The existence of those opposites does not justify a general case though, i.e. those limited exceptions are by definition limited.
Yes the settlement happens almost instantly even for international transactions. It’s the bank that allows the transaction or not; not the payment network.
Banksy is represented by the world's top gallerists. You think they don't know who they're doing business with?
The future is not to stick to a single religion but to apply one's brains when architecting solution as it all depends on multiple factors and there are no silver bullets in this universe.
Extending Python with AI: Semantic APIs
Can you?

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/faqs/
> Snowmobile does not support data export.
The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything. After all, you make really good arguments.

EA appeals to exactly that kind of really-smart-person who is perfectly capable of convincing themselves that they're always right about everything. And from there, you can justify all kinds of terrible things.

Once that happens, it can easily spiral out from there. People who know perfectly well they're misbehaving will claim that they aren't, using the same arguments. It won't hold water, but now we're swamped, and the entire thing crumbles.

I'd love to believe in effective altruism. I already know that my money is more effective in the hands of a food bank than giving people food myself. I'd love to think that could scale. It would be great to have smarter, better-informed people vetting things. But I don't have any reason to trust them -- in part because I know too many of the type of people who get involved and aren't trustworthy.
So there are others!

I've also ever used Chrome and I never will. Also never used IE either. Netscape was way better.

I actually found a copy of the Firefox 1.0.14 (I think) installer when going through an old hard drive a few months ago. That was a cool little discovery.
> Without a portal that could direct millions of people to find my app, I probably would have made tens of dollars.

Good point. Another often unappreciated point is that it's way easier to convince people to give their credit card to Apple than it is to convince them to give it to some random web site. Especially if they've already given their credit card to Apple, as many of them have.
> Ironic to impose a non-European language for this contest.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, that's grand.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English has 5+ million L1 speakers)
Nagios (via email alerts) with fine-tuned Host parenting and Service dependencies.
There are very few sites I would even remotely trust to give my number to. For starters, sites get hacked all the time and sim-swappers use this information to decide what numbers to steal assuming the site has something that converts to real currency or provides some additional information that can be used to access financial data or providers the attacker with a way to anonymize further crimes. This is partially the fault of the passive-aggressive lazy wireless industry and legislation around portable numbers.

If it's a brick and mortar business that is local to me and I can walk in if there is an issue with my phone then I might consider it. Even then I disable web access to anything financial if it's an option with that business. The local grocery store for example has my Skype-In number and that forwards to my cell. There are a limited number of businesses that will send SMS to Skype however since it is VoIP and is rife with abuse. I am less concerned with attackers learning my Skype number.

So if your business officially supported sending SMS to a VoIP number and officially stated that so I did not have to be worried some day your business would cut me off when it decided to not support Skype-In then I would probably use it. If an actual cell is required I would not likely participate but I am a bit jaded after seeing everything that can and will go wrong on the internet. I will not install a websites application on my phone.
That’s a concise summary, thank you!
yep -- retention is ghastly rn :p
> If you need to check the answers with your FAA Pilot Handbook, wouldn't it be simpler just to read the FAA Pilot Handbook?

No, absolutely not. It's much easier to verify a couple specific pieces of information that you're unsure of then go hunting through a large corpus of information trying to pick out the bits that are specific to what you want.

I've used ChatGPT across lots of different areas and I find it incredibly useful. I'm not blindly trusting what it spits out, but it's pretty simple to verify what it's saying. While I definitely do have concerns about the impacts of ChatGPT on a societal level, and what will happen when so much computer-generated content can flood the Internet, but, at a personal level, the complaint that ChatGPT "bullshits with confidence" is not really that much of a problem for what I use it for.

Edit: To give a specific, real-world example, there was a post recently about using ChatGPT to replace a SQL Analyst. Now, ChatGPT definitely will and did churn out wrong answers, but it was incredibly useful to use as a starting point for some complex queries. When it fails, it tended to fail in pretty obvious ways, and to the complaint that it can fail in more subtle ways that look correct, I've certainly dealt with tons of human-generated queries that had the same issues. Are those all useless?
Ask HN: How to avoid being scammed when applying for a fully remote role
I work in a fully remote company and I'm very happy there (not looking to move at all). But having seen so many ChatGPT articles got me thinking "nothing would have really stopped my current job from being a very sophisticated scam".

I know this is the best protection, the fact that creating a perfectly fake company is difficult but not impossible at all.

Most official info like company name/number can just belong to another company, you can register a domain with let's encrypt, you can even have a decent recruitment process.

Smaller companies tend to have almost no official social presence (I have worked for a couple with very little).

At some point they need to ask for money or something and then you will definitely know you have been scammed but by then you might have given notice in your old place and the damage would have been done. They would have also got hold of a lot of private sensitive info like passport numbers, etc.

What I would do if I find myself in the market again is to ask to see a demo of the application/product (this is something I would encourage people to do regardless). If they are going to go to the extent of creating a real app that is not obviously some templated stuff then it must be almost certainly real.

What else could be a good strategy to avoid being scammed while looking for fully remote roles?
It could have worked with a trusted, open broker. I'm sure there could be a compatible sustainability model. I feel like a lot of potential trust was broken by the likes of Facebook and Google.
> (A few years ago all extensions were enabled on Firefox on Android, but a few didn't work so they decided to limit it to a very short list of allowed ones. And then they let that list stagnate for years. Kind of a dick move IMO.)

After years of negative user feedback, Mozilla finally enabled custom add-on collections in Firefox Beta for Android last October, which allows any add-on from addons.mozilla.org to be installed again. (Firefox Nightly for Android recieved this option in 2020, but the nightly channel was not stable enough for my daily use.)

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...

Last December, Mozilla announced their intent to fully support WebExtensions on Android with work starting this year.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/12/15/new-extensions-av...
Completely agree.

For me the biggest advantage is eliminating the need to learn, debug, and maintain components on an additional frontend framework (Angular/React/Vue).

I just built a rough toy project [0] that was my first time with FastAPI and HTMX and it was fun and fast.

[0] https://www.truebuy.com/ (like rotten tomatoes for product reviews but just for TVs right now)
That’s actually fascinating. Were there many experiments done in it back in the 00’s?

I’m just trying to imagine the things you could do with it back then. 2007 had relatively fast gpus for the time, but certainly nothing compared to today. Yet it’d certainly be enough for MNIST training, which makes me wonder what else could be done.
cool little interaction -- thank you for your feedback.
Judge asks ChatGPT for advice on child’s medical rights
Great stuff. Now, if they can just have a globally shared (at least per $USER!), content-addressible target/ directory, two of my complaints with Cargo would be fixed nicely...
It's never impossible, but in e.g. a hostage situation, this may result in a lot more innocent deaths.

I suppose a better question would be, why do you feel that in this particular situation - a murderer on rampage - you still feel that it is "deeply evil" to kill them in such a way that they "have no way to see it coming", to the point where you'd prefer other people to risk lives to do it in some other way?
That's not what capital means. The bus ticket is an everyday expense that doesn't bring you anything by itself long term, you stop owning it as soon as you use it. Otherwise food would be capital too and the word would become useless.
>Yes, savings are "intrinsically less moral" as savings are money not being used.

Incorrect. Savings (i.e. bank deposits, financial instruments of various degrees of risk, from GICs to junk bonds) are very much being used, they are lent to other entities. Few people "save" by stuffing pieces of paper or gold coins under a mattress.

>And since wealth accumulates itself the more savings the more income inequality.

The logical error here is to think of savers and borrowers as permanent classes. In fact most people's life trajectory starts out as them borrowing more (for education, house, etc) and gradually transitions into them saving more (for retirement, inheritance). You need a healthy mix of borrowers and savers in a healthy economy. They help each other by participating on the opposite ends of a transaction from which they both benefit (i.e. not zero sum).

And, as an aside, wealth/income inequality is not somehow intrinsically negative, like for example poverty would be. Poor or middle-class people in a rich but very unequal society may very well be much better off than poor or middle-class people in a poor but more equal one.

>It is intrinsically immoral that the wealth controlled by two dozen Western families is larger than the wealth of three billion people.

It is not.

Let's say there's a policy which raises the standard of living (or amount of wealth) of the bottom 3 billion people by 1.2x, but raises the amount of wealth of the top two dozen dastardly Western families by 1.3x. This increases wealth inequality, and yet it is intrinsically moral to pursue this policy.
Note that according to Scrum-in-theory the managers shouldn't even be at the daily standup. The entire purpose is coordination between the developers. You say "I am working on X" so that people who know or do something relevant to X are reminded to tell you about it (after the standup). Also, once in a while two people accidentally start working on the same thing (maybe the first one forgets to assign the ticket to themselves), and at the standup this becomes obvious.

However, Scrum-in-practice is usually something quite different.
Flying Garbage Bin: The Future of Waste Management?
The context from the GP is relevant, my reply was to say no don't accuse laziness and ignorance, I do use FireFox as my daily browser, I did test with FireFox, I wanted my page to be equally good and I couldn't achieve that. The effort of rewriting to get 'great' responsiveness in Edge got 'sub-par' in FireFox - and it's not because I didn't bother trying.

Your last paragraph is probably true in general, and true specifically for me because the Windows server I was using had Edge and didn't have Chrome or FireFox.
I’m envisioning a bifurcation of reality where some people live in an entirely fact based world (or as close an approximation to fact based as a human can objectively reach, aka the observable, knowable universe) and some live in a complete fabrication, a fantasy version carefully crafted by AIs. Now add Augmented Reality to the mix, and it’s a dystopian nightmare.

And I don’t think the US political left will be immune to it as much as they may think. While I agree that older Americans on the right are highly susceptible to misinformation, and media literacy is dismal among that demographic, younger people are also prone to it. Just look at all the unhinged utter nonsense that is wildly popular on TikTok.

The ability of ML models to authoritatively spout bullshit will make gish gallops worse than they are now. It will also make echo chambers even worse, as digital alternate realities will further divide people. I mean, who wants to engage with those who completely rejects that the sky is objectively blue, or that 2 + 2 = 4? Well now they’ll have articulate, authoritative responses with works cited explaining why the sky is red, actually.

Who needs Big Brother when people choose the method of their own subjugation eagerly and with dessert?
yea they basically just say things that sound plausible
Someday maybe they can switch the embedding shells to not draw but instantiate the native controls. That'll be really game changer.

This attempt to draw every single control is too much effort with apparent inconsistencies.
Would you change your rules if your kids showed interest in developing actual computer skills? My parents had rules similar to yours and wouldn't budge, and it effectively killed a decade of potential programming experience. I still resent them for it to a point, but I realize they were just ignorant and thought learning to program was equivalent to playing, because I was at the age they thought I was supposed to be playing.

Just... try to avoid making your kids be something they're not, in general.
The interesting feature here is they were taking unrefined copper from an old copper mine that was abandoned in 1895. Obviously illegal, but a lot more enterprising than breaking into a house and stealing the wires and pipes
China’s New 100 MPH Train Runs on Hydrogen
You are correct people on the internet would have argued with them. I should have been clearer. His employees at Twitter, the bankers, the minority shareholders of Twitter and the advertisers would have all accepted his claim that "bots have been defeated enough".
One day, tech companies are going to re-learn the value of training up talent, with increasing compensation to match skill so they don't jump ship. Of course talent pools dry up when every company expects people to be trained by other companies.
I feel so much more comfortable when someone cold calls me with a thick Indian accent and tells me his name is John (or Mike) before trying to sell me an extended car warranty or life insurance!
> A utilitarian world view, which not everybody shares.

you make it sound like it's not a complete or consistent system, but it's just a worldview where only some people have the attribute of being in the right, unfortunately an attribute not everybody shares.
>If you read the conversation threads, you can pretty easily pick out astroturfing.

How do you know that?
I would never trust YouTube with children. It would probably get heavily moderated and I wouldn't second guess blocking it in an instant.

it's a source of extremely low quality content, powered by a mostly evil corporation
It seems to be less about the pH, per se, but about the effect that those particular chemicals have on the stomach. Some of them cause the stomach to produce more acidity. It may not even be the acidic chemicals themselves, but other coffee molecules that are extracted in roughly the same temperature/pressure regime.

The mechanisms are hard to trace, since there are so many chemicals involved and the actual production of stomach acid so complicated. But you know what the doctor will say when you tell them that it hurts when you go like that.
i appreciate the heads up

what platform are you using
I don’t think OP made that claim. “Bad” can be determined holistically with morals and utility and other factors.

For example, I think it’s moral to portray a false persona to avoid invasion of privacy.

Not to mention that most people project some level of falseness just in day to day operations. For example replying “I’m fine, how are you?” Whenever asked.