skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing a government body virtue-signal by putting up a flag is not the same as the actual lives that queer people live, which varies WILDLY from the norm thus making it counter cultural.

In fact, many queer people force themselves out of the community by living within the norm to feel more acceptance from the majority (counter-counter culture).

Your perception is also very obviously specific to where you live on this planet.
And today's physicists will say that's a perfectly adequate approximation in your local frame of reference far below the speed of light.

SQL describes WHAT data you want returned. A functional language describes HOW you retrieve that data.

SQL is a declarative DSL for set theory and data transformation. Also precisely why both OO and FP languages fail so miserably with database mapping libraries; the so-called impedance mismatch.

Declares this set joined with that set in this way, and then grab a subset where a condition is true, grouping them according to certain criteria, and putting them in order. All this despite partially being in memory, partly stored on disk, and indexing/performance being orthogonal to the syntax of the query language.

Show me a functional language for some data on disk, some in memory, with varying levels of indexing, and where accessing the information doesn't have any impact on the transformation API.
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
Mental overhead matters much more than performance overhead to most applications. The whole plot of JS is that it’s easy enough to work with that it overpowers any performance limitations. Svelte invents a completely new execution model for JS which adds overhead.
> Your resume tells a story. What story does yours tell?

This is actually a huge problem for me right now, and I’m not sure how to solve it.

My resume tells a very boring story that I feel discounts me. It just say boring companies, boring projects, boring tech.

There’s all sorts of things I’ve done and worked on. In both my professional career and as a hobbyist I’ve hacked around with stuff, learned interesting skills that have helped solved all sorts of odd problems, picked up a lot of knowledge about different software and it’s internal workings, but it was tangential to my job at best and would feel out of place in a resume, but it’s a lot of stuff over the years.

I’ve experimented with putting some of my open source contributions in there (partly to fill space since I don’t have any education to add). To be honest, it feels like embellishment, given how small it was in reality, but it is something that looks impressive on paper. Unfortunately, it’s just not very relevant to the sort of work done in my professional career and at best it’s gotten me a jaded “that’s interesting” during a final round of interviews. More recently though, I’m just not getting any interviews.
Ask HN: How to get into Robotics?
After ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and co. I'm kind of convinced that the next big thing will be robotics.

I know it's a huge field. To be honest I'm interested in robotic control, not the hardware.

So what do you think, what might be a good start? Let's say with a good background in python/c++ and math.

My ideas so far
- buy some robot hardware. Maybe lego and play with it
- try to get into a robotics company. There are not many and as far as I can tell most of them work in the industry space.
- try to enter a research group in an university. Not sure if they would accept me. It's about 10y ago I studied
- something else... like starting a comoany. But without domain knowledge it doesn't make much sense

So maybe you guys have some ideas? Actually kind of surprised that there are still so few robotic jobs and companies. Guess it is harder then I think...
Also, doesn’t it raise questions about what Mozart was doing at a crazy young age? Was he practicing piano before he could read? Walk?

How many things does your toddler practice?
D&D is apparently very hard to write about. This writer somehow does it.

I hate, with a burning hate, original AD&D's insanely complex, contradictory, obviously-never-playtested rules that even the authors often couldn't explain in the Dragon Magazine later on.

Fun game though.
> Why would they want it? I'm surprised they offer anything.

I was thinking the same thing as I read, and wondering if the trade-in price was just a token to get a customer to turn the machine into e-waste, but later on the article notes Apple sells similar refurbished machines for tens of thousands of dollars, a fact that I verified:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/G0ZKMLL/A/Refurbished-Mac...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230201183646/https://www.apple...

This kind of has the feel of a unscrupulous car salesman low-balling a trade-in to take advantage of a customer.
It depends on the field, but I don't think access to papers is such a big deal anymore. Preprints and open access mandates have become popular enough that relevant papers are usually available for free through legitimate channels. When I'm working from home, I rarely bother starting a VPN to access a paper, because it's usually not worth the effort.

A bigger issue that affects independent researchers (and academics who are the only ones working on some topic in their department) is the social context of doing research. Even if you are a big name in your field, your ideas are probably not that special, and neither is your ability to execute them. For most researchers, the real value comes from having regular discussions with other experts.
I wasn't alive so I'm just going off casual web searches, but most people seem to credit this 1969 book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_a_Counter_Cultur.... It was not the literal first usage, but the word was definitely not widely known before the 60s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=counterculture.... But I said literally and it wasn't literally true, so my bad.
This. If it's not ARM System Ready, you will be stuck with some outdated kernels provided by the vendor. Unfortunately, it seems that most SBC are no certified.
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You can use the website directly or go to customer service at the park
They'll currently give me about $500 for my iPhone 13. That's pretty reasonable.

Is it a bit lower than I could get via a private sale? Yes, but it's a lot more convenient, and they're not gonna scam me on Facebook Marketplace.
"We’ll begin to invite people from the waitlist and will broaden availability beyond the United States soon. Join the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/WGCzGxkA16EZekdM6"

From their discord server...
On ebay I see price point for the 2019 model from 6k to 10k in CAD.
Thing is, that 90% of the range is going to mean that you and I pick a different range from "hottest" to "coldest", right?

So it wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to fit a couple of setscrews, possibly accessible by popping the knob off, to set the "low" and "high" stops for the thermostat in the shower valve, right?

You'd think, eh...?
It’s a colloquialism about trade-offs and not meant to be taken so literally.

Again, autonomy is another aspect that you may need to consider as part of that tradeoff. If you want to maximize autonomy, great, but it’s unlikely you’ll also maximize pay (as a general rule).

Most jobs are like this, I don’t see why academia should be any different. I also don’t think it’s coincidence that pay in academia has stagnated as the number of PhDs ballon.
This is very expensive to run. I bet they’re not going to have particularly high margins with this. Each response probably costs them several cents.
Funny how they don't think the ultra high purchase price was disrespectful to the customer. I guess that's cognitive dissonance at work.

Edit: why disagree?
I think that is a very dangerous hole those academicians have dug themselves into. And not even healthy for themselves as they're surely always on the look out for the bogeyman?

I agree, natural aptitude absolutely is a thing. I'm somewhat smart, but maths does not come readily to me no matter what I try. And don't even get me started on music - which I have brute-forced myself into being barely able to play.
Non-invasive method for assessing burn injuries
You're also creating your own subjective reality. The poster made the claim that the dominant views on 4chan regarding Ukraine and vaccines may be viewed positively in the future, not the disturbing imagery.
Most man pages give good PostScript output with "man -t". I like reading those on screen or occasionally printing manuals I refer to frequently. The main problem I've run into in recent years are man pages that use ASCII art but don't wrap that in explicit roff requests for a fixed-width font, making the result mostly unreadable outside the terminal.
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I wonder if it would make sense to re-train an AI like ChatGPT on a large internal code base and then ask it to write new modules in the style of existing modules. If the code it produces is only 30% correct, it would still save a ridiculous amount of time.
I’ve completely given up on web recipes, and only use YouTube ones now. Most of the good recipes have a comment that has a condensed version of ingredients and instructions.
Very aggressive screening at the outset, with all the submissions in an easy to read list.

At my last job, we would ignore every single submission that didn't have a cover letter. If the cover letter has even the slightest red flag; for example if it doesn't mention anything specific about the company, then onto the next one. The next step would be an equally aggressive phone screen.

It's ruthless and you might miss out on some great candidates, but the time wasted by interviewing the wrong people is a killer.
Give that most brute forcing is probably going to be done with wordlists and various permutations, I found this site to be interesting for estimating real password strength: https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/
Ain’t that the thing about pricing? I’d be ok with a Lamborghini costing $60k. But I’m not going to pay >$100k. Others will though.
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I've always took notes because I cannot remember anything in detail after a weekend.

Taking notes doesn't have to be painful, for me it's just one `diary` command away and it will open/create the appropriate note file in my favorite editor:

I've also packaged it as a pip package for distribution: https://github.com/Aperocky/diarycli
I think a $52k desktop computer would be an unusual configuration from any manufacturer.
Declarative: giving your order to the waiter and having the food returned to you fully prepared.

SQL: describing the subsets of related data you want and not caring if that data is on disk, in memory, indexed, located on another server, or calculated on the fly. The engine (wait staff and cooks) figure out the "how" and return what you've ordered/queried.

Ergo SQL is a declarative language.
I am old enough to remember the hippies and related counterculture(s). (I was very young.) This is something to keep in mind: the counterculture then was a place where people made a living. And the cost of living was cheap. You could raise kids on an organic farm, sell in the local alternative stores, have a live show on pirate radio. And pay your modest bills. Health insurance and college tuition was cheap. Jeez -- in California even the UC system was free! The hippies were the pot growers back then and all of Humboldt was one big counter culture. There were lots of niche markets and vendors who could sell to them and pay their rent.

A big part of what has happened is a huge rise in basic bills (rent, health insurance, tuition) and that has forced the counterculture people to make more money. It's an economic transformation and it has narrowed our culture in many ways. Smell the desperation.

Part of that, in turn, is the slow death of the American working class. This is a much harsher society economically. That is why you step over bodies in San Francisco's Tenderloin. It wasn't like that when I moved here (early 80's).
This is such a known situation that HBO's Silicon Valley did a whole bit on it in the show. Be thankful you've managed to avoid it in your 9 years in the valley!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/silicon-valley-episode-christ...
Hey all,

I work at discord and specifically have been tracking this issue. We recently released support for AV1 hardware encoding for go live streams. However, the process of probing the GPU for what codecs it supports has triggered a latent nvidia driver bug. We are releasing a workaround some time today, and nvidia is releasing a driver update to address this issue as well.

Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.
> $2,500/mo to host a static site is ludicrous.

But it's not to host a static site, it's one click CD, multiple environments, global CDN, and a few more things. I'm not going to say how mu h it is worth, but if you just want a static site with a domain you can do it for free/sub $10 on many many providers.
Pretty much all trade-in prices offered by any company are way lower than what you'd get on eBay.

Whoever was setting the prices probably just set a sane low value on the basis that nobody was going to be trading this thing in so who cares?
The problem is that they don't want headlines saying "ChatGPT taught me to be the next Timothy McVeigh" or whatever. It's not moral or political activism any more than the vaguely Episcopalian churches sitcom characters go to are propaganda for the Church of England.
Job interview home assignments in LLM era?
I’ve been using home coding assignments to assess candidates for SW and ML positions. I use custom assignments that mainly test candidate ability to come up with solutions and and write good software to implement them. As LLMs are everywhere it becomes very easy to come up with ideas, write code, improve code, etc. Personally I see it as a powerful tool to supercharge develop abilities. But as for skills assessment it is unclear to me how to cope with it. Ban? Allow?

WDYT?
Yeah. It was a very promising tool. Creator is unresponsive.
In my experience, more often than not the "homeless" kids waving the gay flag are glossing over unrelated behavioral issues on their own part.

> It's still legal in some states to claim panic when killing a gay or trans person, just because they're gay/trans and it shocked you into killing them.

The idea that deceiving someone into having sex with you is considered "shocking" and not "rape" astounds me. You can't induce arousal in someone, lure them into a position of vulnerability and spring surprises on them in the dark-- unless you're trying to become a martyr and add to the body count.

We already had to outlaw "pozzing" since the gays couldn't be bothered to disclose minor things like positive HIV status to unsuspecting partners. Now we're supposed to be cool with "stealthing"/"surprise sex" from the trans? It seems there is a pathological dishonesty at play here.

The laws should be changed-- LGBTs should be held more accountable for deceiving others. Murder has never been an acceptable response to fraud, so that needs to change too. This is not an example of sympathetic behavior on either side. I don't understand why you even brought it up.
Great spot; I like the sheep ;-)

And the spot also shows very vividly how our administration works. The counter displayed in the middle shows how the budget flows through, in millions of CHF.
It's almost useless for writing fiction. The AI clearly has some idea of how, but any time anything even slightly less than perfectly-G-rated happens in the story, it hits the filters.

Actually, it's even more restrictive than that implies. You can't so much as have two siblings quarrel without the AI insisting on turning it into a moral. Right then and there, immediately, never mind the concept of "Stories longer than a single page".
> I think the moral of the story is that you shouldn't be paying $50k for a machine that can do essentially the same stuff as a machine that costs 10x less. You didn't get screwed on the trade-in, you got screwed on the purchase.

Not if you want/need to run MacOS.

Also that machine appears to have a proprietary accelerator card that a cursory google leads me to believe has no clear substitute: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-equivalent-hardware-of-a-....

Lots of companies (and sometimes people) pay up the nose for hardware, because their software has a dependency on it. See all the weird "new model" mainframes that just run an emulator on Intel chips (e.g. Unisys Dorado 8590 https://www.unisys.com/siteassets/collateral/pi-sheet/pi-200...).
> this doesn't seem to be accurate

It is pretty accurate here, case #3 is significantly (almost two times) slower than case #1.
That is insane. Why is there no other developer-first payment service like Stripe?
I'm not sure exactly the distinction that you're trying to make. I see GitHub's use of "fork" as a specific application of the broader meaning of "fork", not an invention of a new and distinct concept. Just as putting "wheels" onto a steam engine can produce a new type of vehicle but doesn't change the concept of "wheels", GitHub's use of "fork" doesn't fundamentally change the broader concept of "fork".
So maybe this is because I wasn't raised in the US or in what would be described as the suburbs but why isn't Rap / Urban culture considered counterculture?

Just because a lot of acts have been turned mainstream and whitewashed doesn't mean they don't represent a radical departure from the status quo. And this isn't just in the US, in latin america you have reggaeton, in UK you have Grime and the rest of EU also have their own underground street culture marked by Violence, Crime, Drugs, Sex, and social issues which is very similar to Rock and Punk from back in the day.

Just like previous movements they are born from a sense of resentment and ostracism from "normal" society and a lot of the music tell tales that are often ignored had they not been made into a catchy tune that kids around the world listen to.

The highest grossing tour of 2022 was Bad Bunny's world tour [1] beating out well established acts and pretty much all his songs are in Spanish which is very surprising considering you see a lot of bilingual artists on the list.

[1]https://news.pollstar.com/2022/12/12/2022-year-end-biz-analy...
It's $0.02 per 1k tokens for text-davinci-003.
Is it possible to say nothing about a trans co-workers transition then? If Jessica is now Kevin, what's the difference between that and Jacob going "nah call me Jake"? Is it just that you can't call Kevin he/him pronouns? Can you call Kevin as Kevin?
The extra employee effort would save in this case maybe a million? Maybe that's not much money in some circles to think about
> again "get lucky by being in close proximity to someone who knows this stuff" is not a repeatable strategy.

Of course it is. Everywhere has highly social people you can watch and learn from.

My apologies. I really only try to have rational conversations on the Internet, particularly in places like Hacker News. I do not know you or how best to empathize with you. Everybody is very different. After years of trying, I've learned to let go of the need. Your examples of resources are interesting. Had you led with those first instead of attacking my capacity for empathy, I would have understood better what you meant by skills.

I wish you a pleasant Wednesday.
I have a lot of time studying first amendment cases in particular. If you're going to dismiss me, please at least make a counter argument.
I tried following Taleb on Twitter a few times. He's either 10x smarter than I or a raving lunatic - can't decide which
Can't wait for the official API.

In the meantime, we discovered a "stealth model" which is being used by some YC companies that ChatGPT uses under the hood. I just updated the chatgpt NPM package to use this stealth model w/ the official OpenAI completions API: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-api
> Should the penalty for upsetting a judge be life minus the 10 years you were already looking at?

By that logic, if you're looking at life and upset the judge, you should be let go?

> This just tells me the justice system is fucked.

It's not. It's based on the moral that people who made a mistake and regret it (or at least plea to change) are less bad than people who did something wrong and continue to refuse to even accept it being something wrong. You can also frame it as them being 'closer' to living a good life and therefore needing less punishment to get them to actually be good, though technically punishments also have the secondary effects of determent and protecting society.
Discord optimizes streaming your gameplay by injecting DLLs into your game when you go to stream it (I discovered this, and the setting to disable it, after trying to figure out how the hell Puzzle Pirates could crash due to being streamed). I would be very. Very, very surprised to learn a website could do that. Hell, any streaming of whatever separate application you're running seems like it shouldn't be possible from a website.
> These are vulnerable people that the app users are taking advantage of and trying to manipulate into an intimate relationship.

Of course. Men should just stay alone, unless they are hyper attractive. Because _attempting_ to get to know other people is "manipulation into intimate relationship".

I guess they're cheating because they don't know their place? Predatory behavior, lol.
Barely anyone would notice.