skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an ideal, and new, cheery CEOs may espouse and even practice this to an extent. But, then I have seen these same owners become cynical after 1 or 2 bad apple employees and the demeanor shifts.

Once a company grows beyond a certain threshold of employees, then the probability of having hired saboteurs increases.

This is where social safety nets could play an important role in incentivizing folks to not worry, thus reducing the likelihood that they attempt to sabotage a company on their way out.
Be more accountable.

If everyone could deliver from spec without hand holding, meetings would be unnecessary.
You're logging in so they know who you are, but you refuse to keep a cookie in your browser so they won't know who you are?

You know what the problem is, you just refuse to fix it.
They sure believed more than anyone else that it was worth it spending $10 billion + on "smart" speakers.
The first point is a bald-faced assertion with only anecdotal evidence, the second is a reduction to the absurd. It is absurd because if you uncritically accept the words of anything you read online, without, say, validating them with common sense, your own experience and knowledge, and so forth, the problem is with the reader, not the words.

You and the author of this article are making this false dichotomy where there is no middle ground between "usually incorrect" (which is hyperbolic nonsense and trivially falsified by five minutes of using it), and "always correct" (which even your straw "fanboys" have not done to my knowledge), and then using this dichotomy to set up another one to pretend that the only way to act on information read from a computer screen is either uncritical acceptance or presume that it's bullshit.

Neither of these models are accurate and neither of them have any relation to how people in the real world generally interact with information online or with ChatGPT.

Furthermore, your insistence on "labeling falsehoods" is not something we can do accurately anyways, let alone in the context of a language model which has no concept of truth or falsehood in the first place! You are asking for something completely unreasonable and I can't tell if you're doing it out of ignorance or bad faith.
We always have a surplus of officious busybodies who love to tell others how to spend their money. I mean you're not wrong, but most people don't want to listen to personal finance advice and only learn as a consequence of making their own mistakes.
Historians agree (based for example on studying human remains) that they were much healthier, amongst other things. Check out the book "Against the Grain" for example.
Visa/Mastercard don't lend money. Banks do.
> Would a generative model that can output both text and images of thinking brain scans be more convincing?

No, for the same reason why asking ChatGPT what it is thinking or feeling does not indicate that it actually thinks or feels that way. ChatGPT is a language model designed to generate outputs that mimic its training data, therefore it will learn to mimic the expression and communication of understanding that it does not itself feel.

This is why language models are so convincing when they hallucinate, because hallucinating is actually their default state, and the hallucinations just tend to line up with some of the facts contained in the training data, but not always. Therefore they can state falsehoods just as convincingly as they can state facts.

> I’m not saying you are incorrect, just pointing out that we’re not exactly sure what we are looking at in those brain scans anyway. Is a thought a mathematical calculation being run on a wet computer?

Thought is sort of an ongoing electrochemical chain reaction, though beyond that I indeed don't have much I can say for sure. It's certainly not a mathematical calculation, though it could possibly be simulated by one.

-Emily
Create photo, update trajectories, read trajectories into heatmap, delete over time
Well you generally can't do that in Europe. I normally have at least one months notice which I spend documenting and explaining stuff to the people who'll be taking over.

That being said, I got laid off this summer (US style no more need for your services, all access revoked) and it absolutely sucked.

Additionally, there's a lot of really pissed off Big Tech employees, and it's gonna be interesting to see what happens as a result of these (almost entirely unnecessary) layoffs.
To be fair, around a decade ago, Chrome wanted to add a Dart VM (Dartium) to which many vehemently protested, and I agree it would have been a bad move to have a browser essentially have its own language rather than JS, forcing other browsers to adopt it. From there though, we got a much better cross browser standards-based solution in the form of WASM, which is even more powerful since languages other than Dart could be used. This controversy is where I first saw the Dart hate, but it has grown into a nice language since, especially with Dart 3+ which introduces, records, patterns, and exhaustive pattern matching.
CV link doesn't work for me.
Amazon Q4 2022 Financials
I can vouch for crowdview as well. Discovered it a few weeks ago and it does a great job at cutting through the typical search bullshit when you want human responses
The all could still keep growing in this case, just not at a higher rate than inflation once it hits the cap
Another +1... Of all the non-google solutions I've tried Brave's has come the closest for my programming and non-programming searches alike. For the most part the only time I'm going to google is for specific things like local searches. And I'm using it via MS Edge, so don't need Brave.
There's a huge gap between regular consumer items and what you call productive capital.

For example, a land with a house is productive capital, because it insures you against rent hikes. A reliable car is productive capital, because it lets you commute to the job and insures you against switching to jobs with a worse commute.

But those things both cost so much more than you can (or should) put on a credit card, generally.
Oh yeah I do remember that. I can see how some of that stigma lingers.
I agree. The question then is how much the lenders are willing to settle for or whether it'll need to go through bankruptcy first.
Anyone looking to do this kind of thing, the macropy library makes it a fair bit easier: https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

You really do need to be modifying the AST and not just applying a regex to the source code text. This can be a challenge if you want to modify python syntax as you first need to get an AST you can modify, personally I recommend starting with the LARK library and modifying the python syntax grammer it includes.

https://lark-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/advanc...

I use similar techniques to transpile openscad code into a python AST in my "pySdfScad" project, while still theoretically getting the benefits of fancy tracebacks and debugging and the like. Probably should have gone with a simple parser instead, but what can you do.

I think they should have stopped at the "cursed way" and not the "truly cursed way", if they really wanted the syntax changes than having your own python parser like the LARK implementation I mention above is a must.
Is SSR still much better for seo?
> but it seems like the largest player in the market is trying to crush it in order to save the dollar.

The US dollar index is now stronger than it's been at any time pre-pandemic since 2002. If anything the Fed is most likely trying to do the opposite, weaken the very strong dollar, as it did in the early 2000s and 1980s.
> getting fired means getting deported

i wonder what percent of workers left are in that position?
My high school in a town-that-refused-to-admit-it-was-a-small-city had no course called "basic math". Compound interest was taught in exactly two classes: calculus and economics.

Economics was a de facto personal finance class, which was nice. It refused to admit that because "economics" looks better on a transcript than "personal finance". This meant it was a rarely taken elective for folks who wanted to look good to colleges.

Calculus was also an elective for folks who wanted to go to college, which was notoriously more difficult but more popular in spite of this. People not going to college weren't taking either one.

I believe grandparent that compound interest wasn't taught anywhere in a small public school. A lot of those schools don't even offer calculus.
Because people want power /money and sanity gets in the way.

Arguments often boil down to ”vote for me or the world ends”

An argument that doesn’t allow for any compromise.

Logical or not, honest or not. Sane or not. Science or not.

For many it’s all or nothing.
So it’s wind and solar and almost nothing else, regardless of consequences.

I fully believe if fusion somehow becomes real the green movements will turn against it.

Clean cheap and free energy is NOT the goal for them.
debit card requires you to have the full amount available at the time of payment. safe credit/charge card usage only requires that your monthly income exceeds your monthly expenses. most people get paid biweekly or monthly. if you have enough surplus income, you can just maintain a bigger buffer in your checking account to offset this, but it's nice to not need to.
Cool... this post reminds me of Fravia's "enemy tracking" essay from his pages of reverse engineering: https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/enemy.htm. If you've never browsed this site, prepare to enter the mother lode of rabbit holes...
Are they real cores or hyperthreads/SMT? I've found that hyperthreading doesn't really live up to the hype; if interactive software gets scheduled on the same physical core as a busy hyperthread, latency suffers. Meanwhile, Linux seems to do pretty well these days handling interactive workloads while a 32 core compilation goes on in the background.

SMT is a throughput thing, and I honestly turn it off on my workstation for that reason. It's great for cloud providers that want to charge you for a "vCPU" that can't use all of that core's features. Not amazing for a workstation where you want to chill out on YouTube while something CPU intensive happens in the background. (For a bazel C++ build, having SMT on, on a Threadripper 3970X, does increase performance by 15%. But at the cost of using ~100GB of RAM at peak! I have 128GB, so no big deal, but SMT can be pretty expensive. It's probably not worth it for most workloads. 32 cores builds my Go projects quickly enough, and if I have to build C++ code, well, I wait. ;)
Ideally this would be good, but it's bad advice today for anyone capable of paying off their balance monthly.

In the US, credit card companies charge 2.5% - 3% merchant fees on every swipe, and their agreements forbid merchants from passing these costs on to customers. The net result is that merchants raise their prices for everyone to cover the cost of the credit card fees. Essentially, even if you're paying in cash currency, you're still paying a sales tax to the credit card companies.

The only way you can avoid this tax is with a lucrative rewards card. Anything else you do -- pay by debit card, check, cash -- will result in you paying a sales tax to the credit card industry.
With all things, in order to be good at something, one must practice it. Being Google's first rodeo, it's not surprising that it's been executed in a less than stellar manner.
To be fair, looking at Kotlin would likely yield similar results, being mainly used for Android.
Right, the 30 day search API is still 100 request/mo for the sandbox and 500/mo for the bottom paid tier (which I think is $150/mo). Would love to hear more from you about this experience, whether in blog form or commentary. I use the filtered stream API a lot and the search API a bit.
That sort of depends. If the compute needs to happen regardless and now you add a layer of shipping data to and from the server, that could add even more latency and make for a worse experience.
My first contact with HTTP and HTML forms was an immediate throwback to my mainframe experience. The browser was like a supermodern 3270 terminal, getting screens from the server, sending data back, getting another screen and so on.

There were a number of products that allowed a web app to maintain a 3270 connection to the mainframe and render the terminal screens as an HTML form. Fascinating stuff.
Thanks for the link. It looks like the get the official data at 1m and decided to extrapolate, but those calculations don't make any sense. The inverse square law is only a good approximation when the source and the target are small (or other special configurations, for example when one of them is a sphere).
At what point is one expected to forego their basic needs (including dignity) to avoid debt?

Logically, this question must be answered with sincerity before blaming financial illiteracy.
Ask HN: Do you think Jesus was real?
Another nice video on the topic: https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g
Then it lets them crack down on anyone they find inconvenient.

Omnicriminalization is not a good thing for the rule of law, much less for opponents of the people in charge
I love to see work being done to improve Rust compile times. It’s one of the biggest barriers to adoption today, IMO.

Package management, one of Rust’s biggest strengths, is one of its biggest weaknesses here. It’s so easy to pull in another crate to do almost anything you want. How many of them are well-written, optimized, trustworthy, etc.? My guess is, not that many. That leads to applications that use them being bloated and inefficient. Hopefully, as the ecosystem matures, people will pay better attention to this.
I wonder if this approximates the rate of inflation.

Assuming spending behavior is relatively constant, then debt must grow equal and opposite to the declining value of the currency.

ex. your money gets you 20% less stuff now, so you have to spend ~20% more to maintain your standard.
> You are trying to time the market.

Maybe, but they said they're going into bonds here which seems like a pretty safe move at this point (unless you expect substantially higher interest rates from here - I think that's unlikely, more likely rates will plateau after a couple more Fed increases and stay there for a while).

I can get close to 4.8% on 26 week t-bills right now, do you think I can get that kind of return in the stock market (index funds) over the next 6 months? Maybe, but I'd rather go with the safer bet on t-bills here. (Sure, there's a non-zero possibility that the clowns in Washington will do something stupid that leads to a [likely short-term] default, but if that were to happen stocks and pretty much everything else would tank as well)
Digging into the Recent Azure Outage
> Good point about Wikipedia. In just a few years the image people had of Wikipedia changed from an untrustworthy joke (The Office had a joke about Michael Scott trusting Wikipedia) to one of the first places people went to get information.

> As an aside, it's interesting to see comments here bring up the potential unreliability of ChatGPT - and then say that people should go read Wikipedia instead.

On the other hand, Wikipedia's image changed largely due to the transparency behind its editorial processes- both the edit history and the discussions regarding editorial decisions are available in public. Are there pages where it's important to take the information presented with a grain of salt? Sure, but I have FAR more metadata available to help me discern how reliable the article may be.

And that's kinda the difference- having a way to figure out the source of the information. I was in high school when Wikipedia really took off, and although there were more than a few kids who got caught copying their essays from Wikipedia (and a few more who got chastised for the lesser sin of trying to cite it as a source), the vast majority of folks were perfectly capable of realizing that all you needed to do was scroll down to the list of citations and work from there.

With all that in mind, the contrast with ChatGPT should be pretty clear. You can ask it to explain a topic, and it'll probably do a decent job (or appear to do so) but the process by which it produced that output is extremely opaque. And (as has been noted in other threads) OpenAI hasn't been particularly forthcoming about how they influence its responses, which is pretty ironic considering their name.
fwiw, I have pretty bad teeth (~10K for crowns etc a few years ago).

And I switched to only brushing with an electric toothbrush before bed, and don't really floss and think I've only had one small cavity since then and the hygienist said my teeth looked quite good in general.

Worth noting that I have a good diet and rarely eat sugar beyond yogurt.
The most off the beaten path to AGI I heard through the grapevine is to not have artificial neural networks, as in algorithms involving matmul running on silicon, at all. But instead, going on the path of the laziest engineer is the best engineer, to rely on the fact that neurons, actual neurons from someone's brain, already "know" how to make efficient, good-enough, general learning architectures and therefore in order to obtain programmatic human-like intelligence one would 'simply'† have to implant them not in mice [1] but in an actual vat and 'simply' interface with the whatever a group of neurons can be called, a soma(?). Given this Brain-on-a-Chip architecture, we wouldn't have to stick GPUs in our cars to achieve self-driving, but even more wetware (and of course, ignore the occasional screams of dread as the wetware becomes aware of themselves and how condemned they are to an existence of left-right-accelerate-break).

It would have been interesting seeing someone like Carmack going in this direction, but from the little details he gave he seems less interested in cells and Kjeldahl flasks and more of the same type-a-type-a on the ol' QWERTY.

† 'simply' might involve multiple decades of research and Buffett knows how many billions

[1] Human neurons implanted in mice influence behavior, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05277-w
This is quite a gentle introduction to Diffusion models, from the YouTube channel Computerphile.

https://youtu.be/1CIpzeNxIhU
This is about following the law. Has nothing to do with offering money. Manager is a defined role with specific responsibilities and tasks.
Unfortunately, not really. We used to have some RWTH internal meetups, although that has been somewhat interrupted since Corona, and not really recovered afterwards.

Aachen has quite a few companies with activity on NLP or speech recognition, mostly due to my professor Hermann Ney. E.g. there is Apple, Amazon, Nuance, eBay. And lesser-known AppTek. And in Cologne, you have DeepL. In all those companies, you find many people from our group. And then, at the RWTH Aachen University, you have our NLP/speech group, and also the computer vision group.
I recently picked up Starting Point and Turning Point. I would recommend them to anyone interested in learning more about this topic.
I suggest you open your eyes to the reality of history instead of trying to defend an ideology which has cost more lives than the archetypical epitome of evil, Nazism. Read a few books, speak to survivors.

It is not only shameful to see how communists can strut their stuff where they would have been shunned had they been neo-nazis, it is dangerous as well. It can lead to more countries falling to starry-eyed revolutionaries leading to more suffering, deprivation and death. Yet even more, as if those which fell in the past were not proof enough of the failings of this ideology.
Basically, by those standards, ngnix is the most popular server side renderer ATM. It can beautifully render HTML and pretty much any file format. It can even render video files and with Ngnix plus, you get bit more server side rendering for vidoe files too.

Apache used to be a good server side renderer too but those were the old days.
> offering not enough money

This is not what would be illegal. Wage theft is actual theft in the sense that they knowingly have something (and even sometimes attempt to retain the something) which is legally not theirs. Yes, the worker should quit. Yes, the worker should go after what's owed them. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
If the banks seize Twitter, do they really have to own and operate it? They only need to be able to flip it for at least the value of the $13B liability it collateralized, plus whatever associated legal and tax costs. Twitter is probably not worth $44B anymore but supposing they can seize it before its users and assets and brand have all gone to zero, I imagine that there is someone somewhere who is willing to gamble $13B for the opportunity to own Twitter, pick up the pieces and try to restore their credibility and value prop, and try to take it public with at least a $20B valuation so they can cash out at a nice profit.
> most of us don't have to do that

The big questions are who still does, and how do we persuade them?
It should be enough to see how things are going now:
many thousands die because of the nationality of a peninsula.

Without me
I guess you're a backend dev watching all frontend framework shines with a jealous eyes. Keep watching :)

Those heavyweight framework exist for a reason, they're not born out of thin air. It's about your use case, you don't need it for other's use case.
Yeah, there is some truth to your D&D scaremongering analogy, tho I don't think anyone is calling for parents to lock arms and drive Satan out of the Apple Store.

I think there is a big difference in the devices and content of yesteryear and the magic phones filled with an unlimited library of today. Eventually the cartoons would end and we would emerge bleary-eyed into the daylight.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a quantitative difference in the life outcomes between kids who were given firm boundaries by their parents and kids whose parents just gave up and let them watch any old shit. We are running this experiment on live humans, so time will tell.
“A plain .html file” - This made me chuckle. :)
i started using firefox for spotify since i dont want to install the app and it would stop playing during potcasts after about ~1hour on chrome
What's up, Rohan! Nice to see you here.
I'll mark the "better tell Tim" about the HN article off my list. :)
That is productive capital. A car or your payment of rent for someone else's offer of transport to you is akin to say paying for a milling machine that creates widgets.
Yes. There's a separate queue for sites that need js rendering and it eats much more into your crawl budget. Best way to avoid it imo is to use something like Rendertron, which is made and recommended by Google.
Ask HN: What do you do when you are only getting interviews for senior position?
I recently experienced a layoff and have been looking for new opportunities. While I have received several interviews, they have primarily been for senior-level positions (I did not apply for these positions).

My initial work experience after college was at a company with a less structured engineering culture (I only found this out after leaving). My subsequent role posed a significant culture shock as the engineering practices were more advanced, leading to a challenging transition for me. Despite my efforts to develop my skills and improve, I was eventually laid off. Currently, with four years of professional experience, I am being considered for senior positions. However, I view myself as an intermediate developer who has room for improvement in my engineering practices.

I am facing a challenge in accurately presenting my skills and experience to potential employers. On one hand, if I present myself as an intermediate developer when interviewing for senior role, I risk losing the opportunity. On the other hand, if I accept a senior position, I am concerned that I may not be able to meet expectations. What do I do?
I 100% agree with that. Companies should be barred from doing stock buybacks or paying out dividends for some time if they do layoffs.