skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally, somebody found a good use for the internet. Love the idea.

Edit: The only thing I'm missing is some pictures of real groundhogs.

> Includes enterprise-grade API for corporate use cases.

Lmao, brilliant.
> We'll get the job done without her, but it'll take us 5×? 10×? as long

But you accepted a salary that does not pay overtime and the trend is that people will work the overtime to meet the totally made up deadline. C suite doesn't care about Alice and is hoping cutting her loose will make everyone else work harder to keep their jobs. They normally do. Who's out of their mind in this scenario again?
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I think I can technically use the underlying model to do it, but never really tried it. Interesting...
All the stuff a human can do basically. Move through the world, plumb a toilet, have a conversation, paint a picture, dynamically update its own state (rather than just being a statically trained set of weights), set goals, strategize, have cognition and meta-cognition and so on.

ChatGPT is just a chatbot and still can't even reliable do a lot of logic, so we're pretty far away from having something resembling an AGI.

it's still a pretty open question how to integrate even one or two of the expert system like models that we have now that solve individual problems, let alone the hundreds if not thousands an individual human can tackle. And then we're not even yet at executive functions or self-awareness.
Wow great project. I tried it with a song and I kind of get what I expected. The results are more unique compared to other song search sites
I tried one of my own songs... I suppose it picked up that my stuff is a bit jazz-influenced, but it otherwise doesn't seem very similar. It tickles me that it thinks I'm similar to both Johnny Mathis and Willie Nelson, though. :)

https://maroofy.com/songs/899061474
> From his interviews it looks like he understands little about the technical details of ML, or about as much as anyone can learn in a few months

What makes you think that? He literally says he tries to understand things bottom up by knowing about every little detail that happens under the hood
148 out of 399 online shops screened used dark patterns
That’s so weird. I always thought AMD acquired Nvidia around 15 years ago.
Same in the USA. I still find those old cans when hiking.
As a Windows user who has to use MacOS at work there's nothing predictable about "Cmd or Ctrl?".

Habits, I guess.
That’s amazing. I’m only a Software engineer for a year now but I don’t think I would have managed to learn programming without college forcing me. I love programming but it took a while, and I know how lazy I am.
I don't think you can sue Netflix. The use agreement says you agree to arbitration. I'm sure they would make some argument that no one takes ad seriously, it wasn't delivered under oath and it's true for the overwhelming majority of customers so therefore the ad is "not appreciably false."
I never said you cannot cut them out of your life until they amend their behavior (tough love), but you very rarely likely to completely disown them 'not my brother', especially if they redeem their flaws. Nothing like that will ever play out with a work colleague.
That puts in perspective all the apocalyptic talk about the falling birth rate.
Thanks! <3

The current model does tend to do well with EDM, but got a new model in the works that should hopefully address a lot of the shortcomings of the current one!
Ask HN: Early Stage Founders – Do you attend networking events/dinners?
Does anyone attend these networking events or dinners they get invited to related to market they're targeting? We're pre-rev and working tireless on getting our v.2 product launched, we had one of our colleagues in the VC world introduce us to another VC in our related field who invited us to a dinner event where "apparently" it will have attendee's who are leaders in our target market & investors.

Should we sacrifice our building time to attend this or stick to building to prep for our launch?
Tell me then, how do you enforce the essence of a communist economic system, this being communal ownership of the means of production, without an authority to tell Mr. Smartpants who just invented a better mousetrap that he has to give it to the commune instead of producing it himself?

Nope, Communism is more than just an economic system. It is an ideology which strives to create a "better man" who can create a "better society" where human "vices" like greed and avarice no longer play a role. In this it closely resembles religious orders which strive to create the same through other means.

Capitalism is 'just an economic system' which can be implemented in many ways ranging from laissez-faire libertarian-style capitalism to state capitalism as practised in China. It does not come with the large ideological baggage Communism carries since it doesn't need to - leave people to their own devices and they'll end up doing something resembling a form of capitalism at a large scale while practising something resembling communism at a small - family and neighbourhood - scale. This model works fine since there is no ideological drive to force out the small-scale 'communism' in families and neighbourhoods whereas a communist society needs to do away with the large-scale capitalism. Communism and authoritarianism are indelibly linked.
I would rather SMS and phone numbers be deprecated. The technology is no longer fit for purpose. It's going to take decades before spoofing is actually fixed. Sim-swapping will exist as long as phone numbers keep being linked to financial accounts. The ephemeral nature of phone numbers is completely ignored by all institutions (this has been discussed on HN many times, it is a real problem homeless/disadvantaged people). And trying to receive calls/SMS while travelling is either annoying, expensive, or sometimes impossible. All of these problems are either partially or completely solved by other technologies. Email is better in every regard. SPF/DKIM solves virtually all spam/scam issues. My email account is a lot harder to take over. My email account is not ephemeral (although some are). I can send and receive emails from anywhere in the world, and my email address doesn't change depending on where I am in the world. Yet still I find myself having to constantly fiddle with my sim while travelling because virtually every institution I deal with wants to send me an OTP, in addition to a rising number of online accounts and apps (most recently BeReal and Artifact which only allow phone number signup).
I imagine this is a 10 year journey for him and he’s just getting started. Check back in 5 years.
Ya Apple Music can have some interesting duplicates in their catalog lol :/
The tech companies have no clothes
Everyone has reasons for being the way they are, but I don’t see why I should suffer assholes even if they’re the product of their circumstances? It feels like it would be a huge energy leech with no benefit. What am I not seeing?
Anyone noticed that cans have gotten thinner in the last 10 years? Seems like they actually made the process even better. Well, for them, not for me. I've had more punctured cans in the last 2 years than in the 10 years before that.
Care to explain? Give me an address that runs an anti-ad-blocker and I show you it won't work.
>People can find their own outlets if given the basic necessities and enough time.

This has not been my experience. People need something to do but not many people know that about themselves. It leads to a lot of... 'wasteful' behaviors, rather than enriching ones. I think it's going to be something that has to be taught to people, a skill like any other. Albiet a little more abstract than some.
I'm kind of confused on the question since you said "expansion tank". Which I guess is used because of a check valve - but that's if you put a check valve to the cold water back to the city, which isn't really part of a recirculation installation. A check valve for the recirculation should not need an expansion tank.

A heat pump water heater will not work well with this mixing valve - just pipe the hot water direct to where it's needed, don't mix it with cold. A heat pump doesn't really want to make very very hot water, unlike fuel heat. This valve is meant for you to heat the water extra extra hot, then mix it. It's used when you have a small tank, and a lot of usage. It wastes energy, but gives you more hot water.

It's just a bad idea to mix with a heat pump which much prefers lower water temperature.

And using this mixing valve with a recirculating pump can't possibly work. This valve adds cold water, but a recirculating valve circulates the same volume of water, and does not add any. There's simply no way that it can work - it's impossible. Do you get why?

Are you planning on having the recirculating pump always on, or do you prefer to press a button and wait a short time for the hot water? I ask because if you prefer the first type, you really want a dedicated return pipe for it. The second type can use the existing cold water pipe for return, but even then works much better with a dedicated return.

Without a dedicated return line you never have cold water, the cold water is always warm because when you turn on the cold water, some hot water flows via the pump, and to your faucet.

The expansion tank should be connected directly to the hot output of the heater before any mixing valves or recirculating stuff.
Should I be worried?
Ah just realized it doesn't work in Firefox. I think the autoscaling has kicked in, just results aren't appearing in Firefox.
Here's a transcript that seems fairly accurate to the video interview I saw contemporaneously: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/full-text-trump-co...

His own words: "you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too."

There are many good reasons to dislike Trump but you weaken them by association when you repeat the false accusations and misrepresentations.
Inequality is record high and growing, there's an ongoing political attack on LGBT people's (and especially trans people's) right to even exist, one of the US's two parties is straight-up fascist and has already attempted a coup, and not very much is being done about the growing climate disaster.

On many objective measures, we are doing well. On many others, things are getting dramatically worse, fast.
Changing fields is though for everyone, no matter how talented you are. There is a great chance he will fail. On the other hand, he meets all requirements that are needed to succeed.

Carmack has proven his extraordinary technical skills. I recommend following his Twitter. Sometimes he posts non-obvious technical stuff. I read some interviews and to me, he doesn't seem to be a person who is driven by gaining popularity.

I think this news is very optimistic, as yet another intelligent, talented and hard-working person is joining the field. Moreover, he is a household name, which may lead to benefits like popularization of the topic, gaining investors attention and so on.

I will keep my fingers crossed for him :).
Maybe not for you, I subscribe to brands I like.
Thanks, yeah I don't necessarily take it as "the word", but honestly, it's good to as you said, "gauge things", and there's a lot of human experience documented on Reddit ha
I think we should stop looking and start sending extremophiles to everywhere life could possibly take hold.
Sponsorship, open source, and the career dream
Nah. I regularly get downvoted for expressing unpopular (maybe too realistic, non-US or Valley centric) opinions or by being too ter-se in comments (only read HN on mobile, so catering to some sensitivities takes a back seat to hunt and peck typing).
FWiW I had one shot and entered "Tabaran"

Rather than get back anything "acoustically similar" it simply returned a list of other songs on the same album (several of which are far from being acoustically similar).

No drama, you're attempting to cover a lot of ground, but I'm guessing there was no actual fingerprint there for that work and no sense of other songs that sounded similar.

ADDENDUM: Okay, I had to select the song <doh> .. but still "something went wrong" - perhaps hugged to death or not found to process. No matter :-)
A friend of mine got laid off from Stanley: that's not an IT company. Same thing: after 12 years in, an email saying he's been fired, all his accesses have been cut off and he'd only be able to come once more to the office to pack his personal stuff.

Legally they could have asked him to work for x more weeks but they said they don't do that: concerns about fired people not performing well or even trying to sabotage something, steal documents, complain to co-workers, etc.

After 12 years in the EU he got a very nice package: I think one year full salary paid.

That accesses are cut off before or at the same time the email is sent is normal.

I know it feels brutal but that's how big companies roll.
Have you considered using a proper vector database, so you can scale it up and run in a cluster? I mean something like Qdrant.
Slush is crystalline.. amorphous ice is not.
I don't think this is really an example of Hyrum's law. Hyrum's law claims that even if you carefully document your contract, someone will rely on the observable behaviour rather than the documentation anyway.

But this is an example of a much weaker proposition: if you don't document your contract, then people will guess what the contract is and some of them will guess wrong.

(In fact in this case it seems it's more like "if you don't document your contract and your support staff sometimes say the behaviour is A, people will rely on the behaviour being A".)
Hey thanks for your feedback! :D
As are geologists who do “proper geology” research that aids the identification of underground oil wells. Yet it’s still relevant to point out where their funding comes from when it’s an oil company.
Also note that it's not clear if a larger bubble is better compression or worse.
For now... what happens when Google implodes after shooting themselves in the foot too many times? We're not that far from having a choice between Apple and Chinese smartphone makers. We do still have Samsung though, and they can fab their own silicon, so maybe they'll take over the Android ecosystem outside of China.
No joke. Honestly a revelation that they do exist
Yes, good point! It would have been more accurate for me to say “the compiler should always have a model of the flags during lowering.”
Is there a guide explaining how to build such a distributable binary?
A nice idea, but the size of three double decker buses??
Well, frankly, they are gone because the raise they get is less than competition will pay time right from the start at new job.

> So many times — easily multiple times per week if not per day — I am having to answer "ah, that system. Alice would know the answers, be able to guide you, is the resource you need … alas, she left/was laid off." We'll get the job done without her, but it'll take us 5×? 10×? as long.

I think that in particular is problem with knowledge transfer and retainment, sure, it will usually take longer for someone else to pick up but it should be documented enough (and cross-trained if needed) that it isn't x10. After all Alice might just be on long vacation instead of leaving the company and stuff shouldn't stall because one person takes a vacation.
Agree. It's quite the jump going from a user-centric website to a space launch company that is used by corporations and governments. Like, okay, I guess SpaceX is extremely accessible compared to other options in the space industry, but why would that have any bearing on how accessible the Twitter website is for you and me day-to-day?
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My digital logic course in college. Before that course I knew a bit about how computers worked, but after it I understood exactly how computers worked, and designed and implemented my own simple 4-bit processor. I built it from the ground up with logic gates. It had a huge effect on how I understood how electronics worked and enabled me to write my own NES game. The book and course material were lacking a bit, but the projects were great.
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He’s been going on about AI for at least a couple of years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530860 It’s certainly possible that he will have a novel idea, but I haven’t seen anything come out of it yet.

I’m sure Carmack’s mathematical ability exceeds that of the average game developer (and certainly my own), but the AI field isn’t short of math whizzes.
Better off using the integration method and if they miss they miss.

Or maybe you're not. But impossible to doge homing missiles doesn't feel very game like or realistic and works only against static targets.
I guess they could severely rate limit based on previously undisputed transactions. If it's a new account or an account with 5 undisputed payments over the last year, it should not be possible to send out 10.000 bills. They could also charge an increasing deposit 10 cents for the first 10 bills, 20 for the next 10 or an increasing percentage of the amount billed. They can refund it if the bill has been paid and not disputed. Should not deter any real user, but gets expensive for someone hoping for this 0.001% success rate.
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To stretch out the metaphor, asking a knowledgeable coworker could be "read from RAM", then documentation could be "read from disk"; or vice versa. But I find having someone to bounce questions off of easier than reading docs
This is possibly an existential moment for many of us, a feeling we have not had in a long while; Google, since probably 2007-ish has been 'unnassailable'. This could be shift in market conditions and internal cultural conditions, combined with exernal threats like ChatGPT ... I suggest they will linger on a very long while, but we could be in a 'new era' wherein there can be legit competition on a number of surrounding things because they just are not good enough anymore to do it all.
Anything you study for a few months you can become the world's leading expert on. It's a lesson I learned while doing my Ph. D. That's all it takes. After a few weeks, you get to the point where there are only a few others in the world that have read and are able to understand what you've read. A few months on, you are generating new ideas and insights. They might be wrong. But they won't be uninformed.

John Carmack did not start from zero. He already has a firm grasp on algorithms related to linear algebra. Basically machine learning is a whole bunch of matrix manipulation. He's been doing that for 3 decades. The rest is just absorbing concepts about how to apply linear algebra to ML. I'd say he's probably uniquely qualified to really absorb a lot of knowledge quickly on this. It's not about publishing papers, it's about reading and understanding the right papers. I have no doubt he can chew his way through lots of research material in a week or so.
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yep, the attitude towards layoffs isn't just dehumanising, it actively discourages company loyalty. It's clear that the company sees employment as a purely financial transaction, and all the complaining about "quiet quitting" will not stop that attitude being reflected back.
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Don't goog collect either way?

You get presented an ad:

- click and advertiser gets charged

- don't click and the ad word cost goes up so advertiser pays more to present the ad next time
(because click through rate went down)

I always thought it was an amazing scheme, collect both ways.

Or did I get it wrong? Was ages ago when I looked at it.

I don't click either...
Thanks! :)

Let's just say that setting up the backend systems involved a lot of tears & frustration lmfao
First up, this is just invalid in C++, because C++'s type system has a bunch of the foot guns removed from it.

In C this will probably work, but only because VLAs in C are broken by design - VLAs are not part of the type system, which means there is no actual required relationship between the size of the array - even when statically known as in your example - and the parameters to the function. So yes your example will print 3, but that's because it will print whatever you pass in for x. So I can equally do:

foo(500, &a);

and that's valid, and I would put money on not producing even a warning. Again because VLAs aren't part of the type system I could also do:

foo(5, malloc(1));

and that should work fine as well, because VLAs are again not real.

Moreover this is also kind of missing the point: I said there is no way to distinguish a pointer from an array allocation, and your example is not using a pointer or an array, it is using a pointer and an additional length value - and yes, the correct thing to do is to have a struct containing both of those, or probably better a struct with trailing storage. Either way the C or C++ type system does not distinguish between a pointer to an object, or a pointer to an array of N (including potentially 1) objects, and you, the programmer need to do this yourself without language support.
> Makes sense economically (although I'm a little sad to read it environmentally because the power usage difference should still be real).

Does fully loading 4 cores in one server save power over fully loading 2 cores in 2 servers? If you turn off the idle server, probably yes? If not, I'd have to see measurements, but I could imagine it going either way. Lower activity means less heat means lower voltage means less power per unit of work, maybe.

You're likely to get better performance out of the two servers though (which might not be great, because then you have a more variable product).
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The whole point was that the math didn't matter.
For C, Frama-C + Eva plug-in does essentially the same job as Astrée (with small differences of support for specific features) and is open-source and freely available.

(There is an experimental C++ front-end, but it is not ready for industrial size C++ that makes extensive use of the standard library)
If you are a frontend developer and working with Angular project and keen to know how to develop lightweight architecture.
FB works when you don't have a strong need to target specific keywords. If you do, there is really no substitute no matter how ugly the UI (maybe that's why it's ugly, too)
Too bad people who make progress don't ask for permission to try new things and they probably don't even care what anyone thinks. They are not limited by decades of dogma and rules of the game that experts would take for granted you can't break. If they fail, then well, no problem, at least they tried. If they succeed, then it's a win for all.
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