skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit out of context. My point is that the article's results should be mapped against hate crime statistics to illuminate a possible rationale for the bias.

I'm not taking a position on whether this bias should inform the results of ChatGPT. I have opinions on the topic, but they are not strongly held.

(Rereading my comment I see why it appears I'm taking a side here. When I said "it makes sense to..." I meant that "[if the intent of OpenAI's moderation was to align moderation strength with statistics then it would] make sense to...")
Hmm it loads wav files for sound effects - is the file size savings minimal at that length?
OP might consider asking their manager rather than guessing.

"Hey, there seem to be a lot of juniors. How do you want me to approach this?"
the only time I ever had issues playing MP3s was on an old overclocked 486
I think you are wrong here and right.

There is no conspiracy, it has all already happened.

Maybe not on a global scope, but have you heard of the "stasi"?

Any political party can conspire to enforce something against the voter base that is not represented, pretty much any time.

The saying "knowledge is power" and 1984 and such havent been there for no reason.

People have written conspiracy theories about rfid chips, they have been ridiculous and what could these have given away other than location data and body temperature?
Meanwhile, everyone has a mobile phone and a pc and smart devices which are phoning home sending the data to be sold to the highest bidder.

There have been terrible people in power on this planet and their paths should be full of obstacles.

Ask the people who suffered under pinochet, stasi and countless african dictators.

Better to not hand anyone the full infrastructure for absolute power and control if it can be prevented.

Nuclear codes and production secrets are not visible on youtube, and I think medical data, bank accounts, browsing history and docs on pcs should not be subject to preemptive surveillance.

If there are issues with child pornography, we have police forces for that, by all means, go for them.

If there is a terrorist problem, we have armies to sort them out, by all means, go for it.
Aw man… I'm really not looking forward to getting out of my comfort zone of just running the current Ubuntu LTS on all my machines. Not that I fear other distributions, but I'm just at a loss at figuring out how to get the combination of broadly supported (also by Steam and Proton on my desktop rig), just working out of the box, and minimal fuss.

The writing has been on the wall a while though, with snap making some tools borderline unusable until you install a non-snap version.
Accurate positional audio from a stereo source is far from easy.
Not really.

The people he is talking about are holding themselves out as authorities on what makes a billion dollar company succeed or fail, despite their never having been there. Musk has multiple huge companies that he built from the ground up.

The people talking out their ass riducule themselves. This guy is just pointing that fact out.
> I'm not sure if there's a way to tone down the bitterness

The bitterness is the whole point. It’s an acquired tasted, just like beer. Once you get used to it, you understand how it makes your meal as a whole feel less greasy and less cloying.

If your really want, you can tone down the bitterness by lightly dry-frying the bitter gourd slices.

The stir-fry with scrambled eggs is a home classic, Cantonese cooks can usually make it.

Black fermented soybeans is often added to the stir-fry with beef slices.

Bitter gourd can also be used to cook soup, with pork bones and soybeans.

It can also be hollowed out, filled with seasoned minced pork, and then steamed as a type of dim sum.
> They sorta already do this via Rosetta..

Across Apple, to continue making x86 machines alongside ARM, is going to need a lot more than just the Rosetta software layer.

Rosetta doesn't help hardware design, R&D expenditures for this tiny handful of x86 machines OP is proposing Apple keep in the lineup. Those R&D expenses for just x86 development work are much harder to justify when its just the Mac Pro that benefits, not the entire computer line, too.
The funny thing is that made news very profitable. Local and national newspeople were widely admired figures in the community. Local news in particular is a cesspit of pretty people talking about weather calamity, PR placements and whomever got shot today.

Eliminating the fairness doctrine opened the door for garbage content. That’s why Rush Limbaugh building off the fringe last night trucker talk show schtick became a force on hundreds of radio stations with millions of listeners in a time slot once dedicated to a half hour news segment and old ladies talking about knitting.

Rush created the mold for editorial that sounded like news. He had a real talent for entertaining commentary and good production value. His copycats had less talent and went more extreme, once they hit the bottom for broadcast, guys like Alex Jones took to the internet.
They are absolutely continuing to work with the UI team (who, as far as I understand, are just modders doing a bunch of discounted/free design while Tarn still does the coding). Getting the Steam version working with adventure mode is what they're working on now.

(Their new developer seems to be more of an old-school low-level hacker working on performance and systems.)
How did it come that SATA HDD use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?
The primary problem with asbestos is breathing the asbestos dust which causes scarring of the lungs. Step 1 of asbestos mitigation is to wet it so it doesn't fill the air with asbestos dust.

Sinking the ship in the ocean prevents the asbestos from crumbling into dust.

Ref: https://www.fs.usda.gov/eng/toolbox/haz/haz07b.htm
Good response. Definitely had a different experience down in rural Tennessee. Lived in several different towns but always had access to the woods through some mechanism (friends house, neighbors land, etc) never had more than a half acre ourselves but sure spent most of my free time outside. I appreciate your point, but obviously, we are both just spewing anecdotes, which still makes me wonder which environment outside of the home is actually safer.
You had to tweak a lot of settings with EAX to make it sound decent, but you could also configure it so you could hear extreme distances, giving you quite the advantage. I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer card because of that. I had a huge config file that set all sorts of network settings, and even bound PgUp/Dn to cycle through various ex_interp values.. lol
That's also what you see at underfunded startups.
Gadflies play a critical role in the ecosystem! :)
A lot of people I talk to about this seem to dislike the idea.

As a centrist, I love it, I think it would go a long way towards building more trust in news institutions, if they made a strong commitment to trying their best to present multiple viewpoints on an event and doing their best to not introduce bias into it.
There's a great fork of LibreOffice called NeoOffice that makes the app feel more native to macOS.
https://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
As a Gen-Xer, I can assure you capitalism was a dirty word for longer than that.

But that dislike has thus far had zero apparent effect on the complete domination of capitalism and corporatism over the public sphere.

Instead, what we largely see is huge capitalistic corporations draping themselves in an anti-capitalist aesthetic which consumers seem perfectly happy to accept. Every time you go to the store and buy a jar of "homestyle" marinara sauce or order a bo-ho wall hippie-esque wall decoration off Amazon that was made in a factory in China, you are demonstrating anti-capitalist style but profoundly capitalistic values.
>And in general, there are two ways to go. The first is to accept the fact that many senior engineering and most staff engineering gigs are more about this kind of mentorship approach than actually doing work. And basically accept that the prime "getting shit done" years of your career are done and you will mostly be working in this new way now.

100% and this is far from being a FAANG thing (never mind that FAANG doesn't even exist anymore). My experience is mostly in startup and PE based companies and it's like that there as well. The majority of my managers have been non-technical, corporate continues to shrink the management layer to "save money" (line managers with 20+ engineers), support roles like project managers in many places have been eliminated, and managers seem to spend the majority of their day dealing with comms so organizing and managing the doing aspects of doing work have fallen to me as a Principal, Staff, Lead engineer. My role these days seems to be to come in and bring organization to chaos, mentor / teach engineering (not how to code but how to be a professional engineer), be a tie breaker on big technical decisions, and set the vision and direction for my teams. Most folks I know who wanted to stay doers topped out a Senior or Engineer II and chose to stay there.

This is also likely to just increase or accelerate as the baby boomer generation (the largest working generation ever) who occupies a lot of leadership roles these days start to retire and leave a huge gap in qualified and ready candidates to fill the void. There just aren't enough of us so I expect we will see more and more folks press ganged into leadership that never really wanted that.
The comment you replied is saying that Leftists are not represented by unhinged people on twitter. Your response is a simpsons quote. I rest my case.
> we all know that's not what people use it for.

I'll volunteer myself as an exception to "we all know". I've never thought that downvoting was meant to be used to express disagreement, and I rarely see it being used this way. But I do sometimes see a chain of comments where at least one commenter is clearly misreading / misunderstanding their conversation partner, and getting downvoted for this might feel like getting downvoted for disagreement.
Cs 1.6 and surfs/kz/easyblocks/hns <3
Stating this as an observation in general really needs a caveat of "and absolutely no clamoring by users for something otherwise is heeded".

Producers rent seek. More at 11
TLDR: Everything I don't like now will be cringe in the future.
Me, I find the obsession with the cringe concept pretty cringe-y. Also, "culture" between 2000 and whenever the west collapses.
Fuuuuunnnnnn
it is impossible to have journalism without an agenda.
A few constitutions explicitly defend democracy, so you cannot modify the constitution to remove the democratic system. Germany is the most famous example (because, you know, Hitler).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenched_clause#Germany
"people are claiming" is in reality a narrow subset of people... like very few.
That looks like a pretty politically lopsided lineup to me.
I've, further, got some strong suspicions that a look at history and whatever limited and noisy data are available, is more likely to support the notion that our kind of gun laws are at least as much a risk to the maintenance of liberal democracy, as a protector of it. Yet, that's a common justification for why we mustn't question the 2nd. AFAIK they've contributed at least as often to imposing oppression as to resisting oppression, on the local scale in the US. Then there's revolutions in other countries, where they seem at least as often to aid overthrowing a democracy as to play a pivotal role in defending it (though, from what I can tell, they hardly matter in either case—foreign aid and gaining the support of elements of the military are usually far, far more effective in actually forcing an outcome).

That's in addition to the hard-to-quantify harm to freedom from having to worry about terrified, trigger-happy cops.

Got half a mind to research it and write a book about whatever I find....
ChatGPT is cool and all, but this breathless hype is starting to feel like “blockchain will take over everything” hype from a few years back. Shiny new toy hype.
yeah but that's an extra click and a page load to get into the comment to flag it, so unless it's particularly egregious I'll usually just downvote and move on with my life. Which I think is the right design.
> OP said that his role is senior developer. Developer. Not a manager. Not a team lead. But someone who wants to write code, preferably together with other experienced developers, and by doing so, enjoy the process of learning and understanding technology at a deeper level. Why, then, would one expect his responsibility to be motivating juniors, giving them work, or raising them to be leaders?

It sounds like you and the OP want to be "just" an engineer (mid level ), which is a terminal level at these companies. You can stay there your entire career, make the maximum salary for that band, and continue to focus mostly on writing code.

Wanting the higher pay and title, but none of the responsibility isn't realistic. You have misunderstood what the senior / staff role is, not the company. The expectation is you lead, mentor, and do less coding.

Alternatively, become very, very deep at a niche field, like high performance computing, and go work for a trading firm if your goal is the same salary while focusing on writing code. Few others will pay you 500k+ to solve common distributed system problems and producing CRUD apps.
>Could you though?

Highly unlikely in one election cycle. The parties control both houses, the presidency, the states and the locals almost completely.

Step one is stop voting for incumbents and seriously consider voting out incumbents unless they are really, really good; exceptional. The longer someone stays in power, the more power they get, the more deals they make, the less accountable they feel. It's good to get fresh blood and a fresh outlook every term too. Really the bottom line is we expect change, but we keep voting the same people in and those people serve for decades. It's almost an insanity.

Once the existing political parties are weakened by turnover, you can start placing third party people in there. Now is a good time too, the mainstream media's credibility is on it's heels and has less influence over elections than traditionally.
Asking questions is helpful.

Knowing when it's fine to let them go with a 80% perfect plan
The ANSI C committee certainly did not break this. UB always meant that ANSI C simply did not define what happens in this specific case. This could mean "whatever the CPU does" or "whatever the compiler decides". What caused problems then was that compilers started to aggressively exploit UB for optimization (and customers probably asked for such optimizations) treating programs with UB as invalid. When this went to far and caused problems, compiler vendors then blamed the user and the standard. But obviously it is completely at the compiler developer's discretion what the compiler does, so customers should just push back and request changes.
>The answer is education.

This is the stock answer used for deflection in way too many scenarios. We've seen how it doesn't work.

The complete lack of an enforced ethics code in our field is the biggest blight on our combined contribution to society.
I don't know if it is because you were in a different area than I, or if it was because you grew up 20 years after I did (based on your Civ 4 comment. I was playing a lot of Ultima 3 in my day.) But my growing up in a rural area, small town in central MA, I spend almost all of my time outside, often in the woods. Nobody was going to shoot me for trespassing, as all us kids knew all the local farmers and land owners. We went to church with them, and we all pitched in at harvest times to help on the farms and make a few bucks to spend at the local general store, which we got to by riding our bikes through trails we'd made in the woods. And traffic on the roads was always pretty light, so we never much worried about getting hit.
Source was a complete mess. It took years of updates before that game was playable competitively -- it never truly was. The half-life 2 engine was a disaster, and most players didn't have the hardware to run those games well at the time. That's what made 1.6 so wonderful - you could run it on single core Pentium 4 processor and literally anything better. For 10 years, it had the best gameplay and a huge playerbase, with entry level system requirements. Many people I knew didn't move to CSS, because getting a $1000 PC was out of the cards - most of us were kids.

In 2007, DirectTV killed the North American professional CS scene by pushing CS:Source into their televised CGS league. The top pro players all left the 1.6 scene for 30-40k/yr contracts to play in CGS (a no brainer)... most of them openly hated the game while playing in this league too. The 1.6 scene in the US was still large and active, but never the same. Teams in Europe, Asia, Brazil & elsewhere continued to play 1.6. After CGS folded in 2008, global competition sort died off and many of he top NA players retired. There weren't many NA 1.6 players good enough to keep up with European pro teams after about 2010.

Imo, CS was an incredible scene from like 2000-2008. CSGO has enjoyed a great run from like 2013-2018?. It's definitely lost steam from the battle royal shooters (PUBG & Fortnite), and now Valorant infringing on it's player base. Valve hasn't really been very active in its own competitive scene, which may also be hurting.
"Not everyone has the freedom to make a martyr of themselves."

True, but without knowledge that saying no is an option, those people effectively don't have a choice, and you end up with few people volunteering to stand up.

"More precisely, if you're perceived as being aggressive it's a problem."

Also true, but with today's technology it's fairly easy to document the interaction. If the official's account is a lie, then you've got them. If it's not an outright lie, you have a record for an object 3rd party to rule on (although there are plenty of bad judges too).
> But as soon as the charges got to the department, they dropped it.

So?

> The police department did nothing egregiously wrong.

Insofar as the officers, as agents of the department, were trained and supervised in such a way that they did something egregiously wrong in the conduct of their duties, the police department did, in fact, due something equally wrong.

> It is the individual police officers that I would like to see be liable here.

Then you should favor suing the responsible department because, given QI, you need a clearly established right for their to be personal liability, and the only way to get there is to sue someone to clearly establish the right. Which can't be the individuals, because QI.

(Even without QI, you should favor suing the deoartment, because individual officers can be disposable and replaced with people selected and trained for the same tendencies, but department leadership and policies that keeping turning into a liability hole for the local government are more likely to trigger more significant changes.)
Which then is a true democracy according to you?
Going to give this a try! Interested in code-informed documentation hinting.
>And one time the plebs got one over on the financial class (the GME thing) they literally "shut it down".

That's not what happened. Robinhood (and a couple others) weren't prepared for a stock with no fundamentals to be bought by everyone, so they didn't have the collateral for it that was required.
FWIW I run Mint which is ubuntu-ish, and Steam and proton don't really give me any trouble.
This is what I was curious about. Presumably ATC wasn't calling out vectors, they were doing it through their own navigation. So did ATC basically give them free movement within a certain box and certain altitude? It looks like they did the moves at about 10,000 feet.
>Assange clearly was selective about release of information and timed his releases to affect political outcomes, which discredited him in my eyes

The Guardian also timed the release of the Snowden leaks, what do you think about that? They were very careful about how they did it, and dripped it out to keep it in the headlines because they, as a newspaper, knew how the headlines worked. They were also selective.

Also, what are you challenging when you say he is "discredited" in your eyes? Surely not the veracity of the information, which isn't impacted by the timing of its release.
I’m annoyed by the way this is written. The topic is super interesting but the author tried to hard to be funny and being a non-native reader it’s difficult to determine if certain words are technical jargon or trying to be funny.
> Assange clearly was selective about release of information

So did the rest of the American media, starting with the Biden laptop fiasco. I don't see anyone from news orgs being under arrest and not charged for the past 10 years.
I've been using Rust + WGPU using the Vulkan backend for some chemistry visualization and simulation. Working on using Vulkan compute shaders as well. Good experience overall, but it was tough to piece together the engine from the examples and Rust docs. Would have been untenable without a third-party tutorial.

Maybe one of the direct Vulkan wrappers would be a better bet? Eg Ash. Seems like the article took a different approach; tough to understand without knowledge about Mesa. (I hadn't heard of it)
Until a few days ago, I cared. My New Year's resolution was to join the HN10Karma club. I achieved it early. It turns out to be very anticlimactic.

As I mostly-jokingly told real-world friends who tolerate me despite my working in "tech": my goal was to gain entrance to the inner circle of techbros, and destroy them from within. Did I say that aloud?

Two annoying things about HN karma:

* A streak of no-upvotes that seems like you wasted your time typing all those things. Though that's useful feedback, it's still annoying. I could use such annoyances in additional aspects of life.

* Downvotes when you're pretty sure it's just some people being cruddy. Sometimes accompanied by reply comments that remove all trace of doubt.
US law serves only one thing. Profit. It doesn't matter if it's food safety or criminal justice. You'll find horrible laws everywhere and when you ask why, then the answer will be that they make somebody some money.
It's definitely cultural but I think you are overstating things a bit. That is commonly how 1:1s are approached in the US but still many places will be different.
A tiny service that helps select the right designs based on user feedback
Super lightweight and easy to use: no registration, just drop your images and get back a link. Give it to your customers or colleagues - they will see every option and will be able to vote. And you will see which of the visuals wins.
Not even a little bit. There are many comments I've made that have been ratioed, and that's fine. Not everything I utter will find broad agreement or be correct. I think being willing to engage in interesting conversation carries some element of risk, and if you are unwilling to take that risk you will suffer a bland and uninteresting life.
IME anything that's not Reddit-esque banter, trolling, etc. is never really 'unpopular' so much as it is controversial - comments that I notice get downvoted usually go back up too; then down again; where it ends up is perhaps more a function of where it happens to be when interest in the thread waned.

I don't 'care about' it as a score, but I do pay attention to it as an indicator that maybe there's some reply/discussion going on and I should check /threads. It's also a slightly scary proxy for time sunk into HN, I suppose!
This is part a larger “fear” of mine. We never get to actual singularity because along the way AI is either good enough or we mislabel it to thinking we’ve reached the singularity when we haven’t. Or some other allure/consequence that isn’t immanently itself destructive (accidentally creating hostile Skynet is possible but outside this fear, this fear is more insidious). We think may we have the desire to reach AI singularity but I’m not convinced. We’re too selfish.