skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should exclude ML generated images in the submission requirements.
So ... what would you add? :-)
A distinction with no difference.

Flash used to run on every standard browser.

Now it doesn't exist.
I'm pretty sure Asimov called it with his exploration of the "3 rules." OpenAI will try to fix this... but the moment this thing has a gun, it's gonna shoot people to watch them bleed.
> inapplicable search results

Inapplicable to whom?

> product search is the ultimate advertising opportunity

To me, this is what lends confidence to the idea that the results are hardly "inapplicable". The results may be quite applicable from Amazon's perspective.

This is just a guess, but it seems unlikely that all Amazon cares about is returning the exact perfect set of results that lead you directly to what you're intending to purchase. They may know that showing seemingly random results increases impulse sales of high profit items they have in local "get it today" warehouses. Or they know that people who search for the thing you searched for are n times more likely to buy Product X impulsively, but only if they show it to you on the first Monday morning of the month.

Or maybe they've lost their minds, and have tried to optimize and maximize profits from their recommendations that they're blind to much simpler approaches.
Once something is released, there's general access given for that particular software/hw but it still needs to be requested. In a weird way, it creates some internal excitement on "secret" releases but obviously makes development much more difficult.
Would a simple example of this be something like,

> In a traditional "merge" algorithm, the second comparison depends on the output of the first, so it can't be done at the same time. So it might make sense to merge "from the left" and merge "from the right" at the same time because those things can be done in parallel when both arrays have length > 1.

?
it is like a sitcom.
Having a single source of income is becoming more and more problematic in current times. If you are married you have at least two sources of income, that may be the biggest _economic_ advantage of the marriage. Those layoffs make me realise why so many people are interested in FIRE movement and passive income. Either you have savings (but fiat currency discourages that) or some source of extra cash flow (be it minimum that allows you to survive) or you are at the mercy of current economy climate (be it FED printing or FED tightening or stock market frenzy). Maybe the universal basic income will be come the solution to this problem in the future?

With more automation and unstable world economy we will probably see more layoffs. Entire industries may go extinct.

Yes I am on more pessimistic side, but the last decade was great for software engineers and as the Bible says after 7 good years there may be 7 bad years coming.
Depends on the complexity of the page. A lot of sites with heavier JS and SPAs eat a lot of memory which can cause problems for users of the many laptops out there with 4/8GB of RAM, as well as many smartphone users who have 2GB of RAM or less. In the case of the latter visiting a heavy website can be enough to prompt the OS to kill some other app to make memory available, which means in that situation one's site is in direct competition with other things the user may be needing more than the site.
Human slaves were often considered to be less than human or, at the very least, not deserving of basic rights that other humans enjoyed, as part of the moral and ethical frameworks that supported the practice. I think we might see the same shift in dominant ideology if we do have “true” AGI. I’m sure I could be convinced that an intelligence that develops and grows over a number of years begins to have a right to exist and a right to freedom of expression and movement.
This made me follow the link to https://fly.io/blog/ipv6-wireguard-peering/ and I think you have a copy-pasto:

> Our WireGuard mesh sees IPv6 addresses that look like fdaa:host:host::/48 but the rest of our system sees fdaa:net:net::48.

That was probably mean to be net:host -> host:net
FWIW in 2016 I was at an ML team at Apple that had been shipping production neural networks on-device for a while already. At the everyone used an assortment of random tools (Theano, Torch, Caffe). I worked on an internal tool that originally started as a Theano fork but was closer to a modern-day Tensorflow XLA (and has since been axed in favor of Tensorflow for most teams).
Ask HN: Should Hacker News add Sort-By-Controversial comment sorting?
Would you use Sort-By-Controversial comment sorting?

Context: Interesting & creative comments get pushed down on Hackernews due to popularity-based sorting. Reddit offers sort-by-controversial which highlights more creative & stimulating comments. I would like to see that applied to Hackernews threads.

Is it worth asking the team to add this feature?
So just cache it and then have it be processed once every minute or whatever.
yeah it's like doing CPR on a healthy person (profitable company). of course it works! but is it necessary?
All right, but apart from the astronauts, the rocket launches, the deep space probes, the Mars orbiter and Spacelab, what have the Europeans ever done for us in space?
It's trained to say it doesn't have information to recent data, such as today's weather.

But for questions that aren't based on recent data, it should still be able to say "i don't know" or "that question doesn't make sense" in the case of Luke Skywalker's problem with tribbles for example.

Edit: I do realize we're criticizing a computer program for not understanding the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars. Strange world we live in.
I took the offer to them and got a nice raise, but not to $700k. :) In part because the offers weren't comparable. Finance is usually a modest base and a huge bonus, Netflix is straight cash.

> I've heard about the culture of fear at Netflix - was this your experience as well?

At first yes. But you quickly realize that in most cases only the underperformers were let go. In cases where good performers were let go, it was usually by a bad manager, and then that manager would get let go and they would sometimes even offer the other person their job back (but they usually already had another one).

> Who decides whether you are a top performer or not - only the manager, or the peers as well?

You manager has final and single say on both hiring and firing. But they always ask for input from others as a matter of course.

> Do they use stack ranking?

Absolutely not. Stack ranking is the opposite of what Netflix believes. They operate on the assumption that if everyone were stacked ranked, everyone would be in top rank. Stack ranking is evil and a terrible way to run a company if you use it for determining compensation or firing.

> How is the performance deduced, e.g. by nbr of commits? Thanks!

Haha no, no metrics like that. It's much more holistic. Are you getting good work done, are you making a positive difference. Managers are pretty in tune with the work getting done. Most come from engineering backgrounds and at least understand the work being done by those that report to them. They also can see all the feedback in the annual feedback session. It becomes pretty obvious who is not performing.
For months my Chrome (on Windows) just stopped showing new tabs when there are so many that they are supposed to scroll.

Bug is known, but I haven't seen a solution even though it's not recent.

Reinstalling doesn't help. Disabling extensions doesn't help. Same thing on another computer with same google account logged in.
I'm interested in seeing a comparison with blitsort. Like glidesort, it's stable, adaptive, and can be configured to use constant auxiliary memory.
Outside of the context of avoiding overtime payments, job title inflation is definitely used to help attract and retain employees. A few decades ago, a director level position was a manager of managers, and usually one of the key decision makers at a firm. Nowadays, you have many people with "director" in their job title who are team leads or senior individual contributors. It's not even really a problem. In fact, it's great to have a nice title and makes people feel important. It's more about adjusting your expectations of what someone's job title is vs what they actually do day to day.
>> they should have stopped posting about growth and revenue milestones much earlier, as there is little benefit to them.

Well sure, if that's why you were posting. You could ask the same question about being a nice person "What's in it for me?"

But if the goal is to pay to forward in thanks for the help you got along the way, this argument doesn't hold water.
You have to be pretty desperate to mine raw copper by hand.

Is anyone looking at the social factors that would drive someone to do this? What support network could be developed to help these folks out of such extreme poverty that you are willing to make something like this your business plan.
> Especially about things like programming, physics, math

I routinely find ChatGPT giving me completely made-up APIs and incorrect explanations when it come to programming. And I haven't found it much better with math. Sorry, I don't buy it. Maybe it's good at training pilots, and if so great, but it's wrong enough for me that it's hard to trust in general.
We're humans, not computers. We don't have the same problem of discerning intent like AI would.

It's pretty obvious when someone is communicating nothing but positive things about a product, or nothing but negative things about another competing product. Sometimes it's more subtle... but seriously, if you read enough comments you will locate the ones that are obviously shilling or astroturfing. They won't talk about many topics (or no other topic) except the item or company they're promoting.

It's really hard to make a bot or corporate account appear, sound and feel like a genuine human writing about their experiences. Particularly on a platform like reddit where people speak rather freely about products and ruthlessly call out astroturfing accounts.

With all that said - perhaps some people have better BS detectors than others. I like to think mine is rather accurate most of the time.
Couple years ago I bought a camera from Amazon. What arrived what a beat up, very used camera in a box that was falling apart with parts missing. I returned it (thankfully that part was easy, but what a waste of time). Left a review saying they are shipping used stuff in place of new and that review was also blocked.

So yes, the reviews don't mean anything since they remove everything they don't like people to know.
And yet PayPal offers one-time login codes over SMS which bypasses both your password and your authenticator, and it can’t be disabled.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Managing-Account/How-do-...
So? You need a computer to run any code at all. I bought a used Mac for very cheap last year, the first Apple product I've owned in ~35 years of working in and around the computer industry. I don't feel ripped off.
"That is simply not true, with television you also had the panic of "brain rot" but at least you could still trust public television networks with not showing dubious content."

No you couldn't. TV has always been used for nefarious purposes, especially political.
Depends what you're building. If it's a dashboard app gated behind a user login, sure, have it be a static HTML file. SEO is irrelevant and you wouldn't be server rendering anything anyway.

If it's a public site and you want people to find it (ie SEO) you really should be server rendering and caching on a CDN.
How is "do the best you can possibly do" not (a) a rule and (b) not moral?
The number of times I’ve heard someone say that some academic topic was not helpful and they were right is close to zero. It’s a pretty good heuristic to not adopt that attitude.
You can use GPT-3, same brains but no filters
No? They designed the law to require overtime wages be paid. They left a threshold in the law to permit existing conventions of non-hourly-measured "manager" positions, presumably because changing how those are administered was felt to be too disruptive.

And sure, all rules can be gamed, so right at the threshold we see nonsense like this. But to argue that this was the intent is ridiculous. The law wasn't for these employees at the threshold, it was for the folks farther down the org chart. And it quite clearly works as intended for them, since they're being paid overtime.
'Metaframework' is a term for frameworks that wraps React or Vue or similar. Next.js, Nuxt, Gatsby, etc. I think Astro is considered a metaframework too.

They're sometimes called stuff like "a React framework", depending on whether the speaker considers React a library or a framework.
Google Testing Its Own AI Chatbot Answer to ChatGPT
My knowledge is a decade old, so they very well may be using tape now, but were not originally.

At announcement time Glacier was using super dense racks of hard disks but only powering a subset of them. This led to some tape-like behaviors, like your restore request might take a long time to process because your data was likely stored on disks that weren't powered on and you'd need to wait for them to come online.
Or a torrent.
> If it's any consolation, it sounds like the list is at least three years old by now.

In my experience when it comes to learning technical subjects from a position of relative total ignorance, it's the older resources that are the easiest to bootstrap knowledge from. Then you basically work your way forward through the newer texts, like an accelerated replay of a domain's progress.

I think it's kind of obvious that this would be the case when you think about it. Just like how history textbooks can't keep growing in size to give all past events an equal treatment, nor can technical references as a domain matures.

You're forced to toss out stuff deemed least relevant to today, and in technical domains that's often stuff you've just started assuming as understood by the reader... where early editions of a new space would have prioritized getting the reader up to speed in something totally novel to the world.
YouTube Contractors Lead First Strike in Google History
Thanks so much for posting this. We just watched it with great pleasure.
I agree. Its like Jay Leno asking kids geography questions and televising 5 wrong answers.
Do you have that reciprocity with every corporation you engage with?

I bet not. They all hide behind personas.
Sounds like a manager that is afraid of confrontation.
A brain dump has a history, and we ascribe meaning to the past. As mentioned the thread here has mentioned forced prison labor as a form of socially acceptable slavery, and society could convince itself that a given brain dump deserves its fate, even that it is a form of atonement.

Artifical life on the other hand is presumably "pure at birth".

Of course it's not that easy. You could discuss whether individual instances have unique sets of human rights, and value potential futures over pasts.
Another datum: The person behind the robot that posts a picture of a possum every hour to Twitter has said:

"Hi All, I regret to announce you all that this bot will stop working on 9th of February (Next week) due to new Twitter's API policy. I have no intention on paying Twitter for basic API usage."

"You can continue to follow the bot on Mastodon: https://botsin.space/@possumeveryhour "

Recent events, including the freezing of API-accessed Twitter accounts in Japan that Anglophone news services didn't catch, and the disabling of Movetodon about half a day later, indicate that things will be happening sooner than the 9th.

* https://mastodonapp.uk/@networker_365/109799045552029402
Tech bros gonna tech bro. This is the nerd equivalent of highschool football team.
It appears they accepted changes to make it easier for third-party projects based on Chromium to enable extensions, implying they are actively choosing not to enable it on Chromium or Chrome.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=107471...
I didn't say that everyone who wants to set limits on development of natural areas is an extremist; but if you listen to some of the rhetoric from some real extremists who want to limit all development to zero and tear out existing infrastructure (like Glen Canyon Dam) in order to restore everything to its original state then you know it is not just a straw man.
Does it rely on OpenAI under the hood?
I am truly amazed at how fast and good it is at summarizing videos, it is (or will be) definitely an amazing tool for the Kagi search engine. I guess they have trained/finetuned a specific model to summarize video transcripts, since the content is delivered so differently.
I know I'm running with the off-topic comment, but I like to point that out whenever possible. Companies know that if they just change their name, they lose any bad connotations they had with the previous name.

Comcast changed the name of its Internet service to "Comcast Xfinity" for a few years, then silently dropped the "Comcast" at one point.

Spectrum is also Charter, and Altria is Phillip Morris. It's crappy that it actually works most of the time, so I like to point it out to try to counteract that.
> Incorrect.

Why did you ask the question if you thought you already knew the answer? By definition, savings are being saved. Investments are being invested. If you think that savings and investments are synonymous then you are wrong. According to https://www.marketwatch.com/picks/heres-exactly-how-much-ame... the median American has accumulated a measly $6,400 in their decade before retirement. Money they will then need to use when they are retired and without income. And that is in one of the richest countries in the world. So it is correct to talk about borrowers and savers as permanent classes.

Right now, profits are record high while real salaries are shrinking due to inflation (i.e. due to massively raised prices). You have to be a fool not to be able to connect the dots.
It's very unlikely that you'll be able to read modern tape from closet in 50 years. Tape requires very precise temperature and humidity for storage. Otherwise all bets are off.
I think we're moving back towards a 90s version of the web again. No search, just a list of hand curated sites of people who's opinions we trust. The only thing is now these will be likes specs of gold drowning in a sea of shit.
I see the page, not sure if you have something blocking your connection, or the CDN near you is faulty.
It is saying you can be a customer service rep, and if you work overtime you are owed overtime pay.

But they can "promote" you to customer service rep manager, raise your pay by a bit (but lower than your overtime pay would be), and have you continue to do the exact same job (maybe with some token manager duties thrown in) for the same or even more hours and not need to pay overtime.

Was that the intention of the law? Idk - given the priorities of the people who make laws maybe it is.
What does a "hard" landing look like and will things return to the way they were?
I'm not affiliated with either group and have no stake in this, but I figured I'd mention there's also a GoFundMe for the strikers. I won't link it directly because that may look like I'm pandering which isn't my intention. I just know there's a lot of support around here for unions in tech and it'd be a good way to put-money-where-mouth-is.
Interesting. I don't have multiple accounts.
Good for you. In other UI frameworks I don't have to buy their specific hardware just to develop for them.
Modernes C++ & Scott Meyers' 'Effective Modern C++' are excellent.
> Investors are pulling their hair out because Apple only made $117 billion. Is anyone really going to miss that $4 billion? You'll hear investors and talking heads calling for corrective layoffs when in reality nothing needs to be done. They are still ridiculously profitable and will continue to be.

I feel like this is hitting on something that hasn't been given enough attention: what happens when a company doesn't meet Wall St. "predictions". The consensus view (at least in the mainstream media) appears to be that this means that the company has "under-performed" and thus should be punished. But... why? Maybe the Wall St analysts were the ones not performing well enough? Where is the accountability in the other direction?
Is this a evil plan to get AWS and Azure to use more electricity than the blockchain?
Given the outcry/backlash over Dall-E/ChatGPT (what is "real art", etc.) and how much of our society is permeated by a search for authenticity (perceived) already, I wonder if you're right. We might decide "artifical" lifeforms are a lower class than "evolved in nature". For many religions this could be a natural take - made by God vs. folly of man, etc.
looks like it to me

cfor(setv(i, 0), i < 10, i += 1) {
print(i)
}
Encountering someone who knows you is one of the big risks for people working undercover. Read "You're Stepping on my Cloak and Dagger", by Roger Hall.
Why? It's the same standard you need to apply to anything else.
Hahaha I’ve received this reply twice in a fortnight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482179
I recently started working in finance at a F500 company and the number of vice presidents is astounding. People doing data entry are vice presidents. What's really interesting is there are 5 - 10 CIOs as well
In part 1, they say, "I wanted it to look like a regular for-loop from C as much as possible."

The AST method seems to require you to write "with _for" instead of "for".

The method in part 3 allows you to write "for", which is closer.

So presumably it's better because it gets closer to the objective, although at quite a cost of course.
You realise of course that in the alternative universe in which this was not the case, you'd be unable to make this statement.

That is generalisable to all global catastrophic risk: by virtue of the fact that they can occur once, and once only, means that we're effectively living in the survivorship-bias universe in which they did not occur.

That thought's only recently occurred to me, though Richard Posner wrote of it.

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/109712403433781694>

By definition, all but the last doomsday prediction is false. Yet it does not follow, as many seem to think, that all doomsday predictions must be false; what follow is only that all such predictions but one are false.

-Richard A. Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response, p. 13.

<https://archive.org/details/catastropheriskr00posn/page/13/m...>
This is really cool. Do you have an API? :)
I'm really curious about the offline piece. If you're at a conference or bar and someone asks your name, what do you say?
There's something on-brand about a software engineer seeing a problem, and spending a great deal of time fleshing out his solution to the problem, even asking manufacturers to reach out to him, yet missing the easily-findable fact that thermostatic valves are a thing. At the end he concedes that someone else must have already tried his idea but doesn't quite get to the idea that someone else probably found an even better solution.
I agree. People like to know they're appreciated. This is a new way to let them know they're appreciated. Nothing inherently sinister about it unless you're opposed to the idea of private companies doing positive things