skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Matrix talk is very engaging and full of live demos and cool stuff (seamless failover of your chat to bluetooth low energy comms anyone?)
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/matrix20/
Yahoo to lay off 20% of staff by year end, beginning this week
Ah no nothing like that. And 10 is just a pithy way to say that they want people to stay a long time if they're good. And they did that by, each year, if they wanted you out, you got a very small bonus. If they wanted you to stay, you got a very large bonus. That's all I meant - they retain you by giving you many dollars via payroll.
Maybe that's the problem, that I never used my account. So I get whatever twitter is trying to recommend to me to get my feed started. And it's mostly shit.
Let me ask this directly. Is your wife watching over the kids while you get productive time?

If so, then that's not a luxury many people (including, you know, many wives) with small children have. Hence the comment that you originally replied to makes sense.
He's describing a general bias that absolutely exists, whether it's always accurate is unrelated.
Don't forget the Sabre Pyramid, one of the most influential tech innovations of the last two decades.
Couple that with monitoring the vast amount of ETW logging providers Windows gives you, and you'll see why. E.g.: the WinHTTP provider of who (PID) contacted where including URL, DNS ETW for lookups and who (PID), etc.
> aren't how compound interest is actually calculated.

Completely depends - package them in tranches to sell to secondary markets by the thousands - then you do exactly as I pointed out. Or if you're doing Monte Carlo futures projections modeled as compound interest and only need the value at a future time.... Or any of thousands of financial modeling needs....

If you're printing monthly bills for consumers then you round, but only at output, and only for viewable parts.

So you cannot claim things are not computed this way - it depends on the financial application you're working on,

>So yes, if you use fixed point you obviously get different results, but you won't get correct results according to what's required by accounting standards

Ha - which standard are these? Care to cite them? I've been through this space a long time, and every time someone tells me there is a standard and I ask them for it they soon realize there is no gold, single standard. There are zillions of acceptable choices. There are ones for consumers, ones for intrabank, interbank, fed to bank, loans, mortgagaes, taxes, and on and on. There is no "correct results according to what's required by accounting standards ".

Please cite your standards that apply to all these cases.

Have you worked in finance on numerical financial software?

>you round to a fixed point (e.g. whole cents) and that's it, that's the final truth

Having done numerical stuff, including finance for decades, you simply write the entire codebase in floating point, being sure to do proper analysis that things handle ranges correctly.

Then, and only for output, do you snap to desired observable precision. Never ever even once do you round something to make it look pretty, then jam it back into calculations.
Is cold calling still a thing people do? I would have assumed with all those "marketplace" websites out there now, that a company looking for IT consulting would just go and find them by themselves.
As a battery ages it's capacity decreases. That's noticeable in that it will carry a load for less time, and the voltage it can sustain decreases.

On most phones you realize that when an old phone goes from 15%, you do something CPU intensive and the phone dies seconds later.

So it's reasonable to lower the peak power use on older batteries to lengthen battery life and make it more stable. Generally battery life increases when you are gentle. Charge slowly (which results in lower temps), avoid charging over 90% or discharging below 10%, and decrease the peak loads.
I know people who have self euthanized by dehydration, and that does not match my experience.

Even if it is painful, it is still their right to choose.

Your opinions are also not reflected in medical studies and surveys of hospice nurses[1][2].

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp038115

https://www.annfammed.org/content/13/5/421.full
Anything like this for e.g. python? or other web apps?
My separate router allows me enable 2.4 G which many IOT devices need but keep my main router at 5 G only.
Using the razor, the most likely explanation is incompetence. Bing has always sucked in general.
It's call "Dollarization". We called it "Convertibility". In Brazil it was the "Real Plan". It has tried in many other countries. Each one is slightly different, so if you have a lot of popcorn you can try to read each one and understand the differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution

The main problem is that the government has a deficit of 5%. All the solutions to fix the deficit are unpopular, so they prefer to keep emitting money. (Now they are trying a few unpopular fixes, but not too much, just to keep the inflation not too high.)

If you switch to 100% external currency, after a few month the government will have no money.

They can pay you a part of the salary of $1000 with the external currency, after a few months they will have to pay $900 in external currency and $100 in IOU. Later pay $800 in external currency and $200 in IOU. ... [1] The problem is that people will be unhappy with the increase of IOU.

So it's easier to pay the full $1000 in IOU, and ensure that you can exchange the $1000 IOU to $1000 in external currency. OK, now it's $999 of external currency. Never mind, $998. What about $997? ...

[1] Actually, we tried something like it too! In the 1990 each province had a local money and they paid the local employees a part in the national money and a part in the local money, or perhaps all in the local money. Initially it was fine, but after some months you got a haircut of 30% if you need to send money to another province or buy fuel or some other items not produced localy.
I know for my part, I go out a lot over holidays because I’m back in my home town at the same time as a bunch of other people I don’t see that much and it’s a good opportunity to catch up. I suspect that this is pretty common, especially for folks that live somewhere other than where they grew up.
Assuming the US. In Germany, anything below 45ct/kWh [0] is considered cheap right now.

[0] Euro-cent, but the conversion is pretty much 1:1 right now anyway.
The invention of Radio, TV, Internet and Smartphone all have a property that they eventually reached even the most tech averse individuals. Crypto market is very limited as it requires technical (read nerdy) knowledge to do it right, or you will risk your money due to scam exchanges. But digital money is still a very good idea, Central Bank Digital Currency is a thing and I bet we will have you use in the future.

AI has the property that it can reach all the people around the world. From AI that teaches you a foreign languages to automated advisors that can e.g. recommend a diet based on your needs or even AI dating where instead of sweeping AI will do the match (I would pay for the last option).

The problem with AI is that there was already "AI winter": high expectation in the beginning, but nothing workable delivered in the end in the late 70s if I remember correctly. I hope it will not end up like this, this time.

I also don't see much potential in metaverse. For one we are crazed about healthy lifestyle and siting with glasses to walk though some virtual landscape makes no sense to me. It will only make you weak and tired. For the second the tech is not there yet, we may fool our sense of vision and hearing, but we cannot fool our sense of orientation, neither our muscles.
Mike is perhaps one the most impressive plane hackers I've seen. His creativity and transparency (he shows all the process!) are much appreciated. He inspired me to try and make some carbon fiber models for RC planes. By the second half of this year I plan to have built an RC delta wing, and use my programming knowledge to automate its flight path.

EDIT: To add to it, and even more remarkable: Mike has apparently got no formal education in engineering. His twin brother also wrote a book about the blessings and curses of ADHD, which both have.
They just asked ChatGPT to look /s
I find it funny people are still using these voice "assistants" despite the frequent frustration. Alexa gets it wrong more than half the time when people I know try to use it, but they seem to still want to believe.
Dozens of comments about Slack vs Teams and not one person realized it's only being used to cut their Zoom bill:

"We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing"
> The same exact thing happened to me last year. Before we moved, we checked with Comcast and the support agent told us they could provide service to our new home. Then after we moved, we called them to start service and they said we weren’t within the area.

I had a funny similar thing happen a long time ago, back when copper ADSL was “broadband”, and it was all the incumbent local telcos or resellers: Before a move, I contacted my local telco, who I was getting ADSL directly from and setup everything for the move, including confirming that service was available and, because of available service appointment windows, having it shutoff at my new place before the move and turned on at the new location.

When we got to the new place, telephone was up and ADSL wasn’t. Initially was told they would need to schedule a new service call, which they missed, and then when I called again was told service wasn’t available. In the meantime, given the service problems, I had already contacted one of the ADSL resellers, who said my address did have ADSL available, and was quoted a lower price than directly from the telco. Confronted the telco with this information, and they insisted that despite confirming multiple times in the past that the new address was in the service area, it was, in fact, too far from the central exchange for ADSL service. Switched to the reseller, and stayed with them for several years (and faster service tiers) before switching to another provider that had fiber available.
L1.25 perhaps ;-)

Point taken, and conceded in my original comment - the larger issues are, to suddenly add a bunch of high amperage loads at everyones parking space requires additional infrastructure - infrastructure we probably dont already have.
"Officies, especially the great ones (as in also very expensive) create an irrational emotional attachment "

I was responding to that part. Office create a rational connection in an irrational setting.

My grandfather and most of my great uncles were coal miners in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. They all talked about unions and striking in the mines. And they formed close bonds which made going on strike much easier as well as created a huge social bond when they where striking supplying each other with food and pirated coal.
On a side note - TeamBHP is my next forum after HN where I spend a good chunk of lesuire time.
Inflation adjusted wages aren't.
This is old. This is the reason why Google translate sucks. It can't tell the difference between what it translated from what a competent person translated.
I'll just say one thing regarding my own home network setup: go IPv6 only. Ditch IPv4, except for the necessary evil that is NAT64/DNS64. I refuse to network any device that does not support IPv6, and I refuse to use any app that chooses not to use the IPv6 addresses present.
My closest big city is 4 hrs drive away. I know lots of people in the UK who drive to places in France for vacation. I bet mainland Europeans do the same.

And then there is just range anxiety which is always gonna be there. I've driven from Scotland to East Anglia and it took long enough with the awful traffic, put a slow charge into that mix and it would have been a multi-day trip.

I just don't get why people are so ready to blinker themselves to some of this stuff. EVs are still in early adopter stage, IMO, but we are fast tracking whole nations into forcing them to be the only option. And they are just not fit for some people's usecases.
Many EVs are actually priced competitively for their specific segment. The issue is that there are 5-10 y/o used ICE cars that are obviously much cheaper, and EVs are generally short right now, so used prices are up.
The earliest mandate is California's, which takes effect 12 years from now and only applies to new cars sold. The poor generally do not buy new cars.

Other than the possibility of fuel price increases as time goes on (which, as a net exporter, the US has some amount of control over), how are electric vehicles making the wealth gap larger?

The poor are certainly priced out, but considering EVs currently have constraints and are expensive, what benefits would they bring outside of reducing externalities to the environment?
The larger boards will use mass produced construction and agriculture engines (I work for John Deere, so while I can't speak for the company I can tell marine engines are important enough of a market that we consider their needs when designing a new engine).

The largest ships get custom built engines.
I know we are typically against monopolies (pls don’t flame me) but why should we care if it’s not something that’s actually important like food/water/medicine?

I don’t see the sense when the government tries to break up a monopoly like Google for being too good at selling online ads, or likewise worrying about some company dominating augmented reality chips.

I’d be more interested in making sure that such technology is never required for basic living than about stopping companies from achieving it.
Conversely, I am not privileged just because I don’t have the same responsibilities as you.

If you can’t take a year off work because you have a mortgage, debts, and a family to feed, that’s a problem you need to solve. However, assuming that I’m privileged because I don’t have those things in nonsensical. I live out of a very cheap car and my expenses are virtually zero. That is not a privileged position.
Return for an Iphone 14 Pro or just Iphone 14. My partner did the same thing. If you don't want the big screen and fancy triple camera system, get the cheaper options. They will still be rocketship fast with long battery life and beautiful screens.
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]
What? If I’m morally against using force to prevent non-forceful speech, why would that not also be my legal position?
SIXTY GIGABYTES?

Holy moly that’s crazy.

That’s three full 64bit win10 installs!

It doesn’t even have the a/b partitions! Which is just as well at 60GB!
1Password is trying for zero passwords
What Is a Stealth Startup?
citation needed.

no shortage of threads here or reddit or elsewhere: "new guy got hired and they;re making 10k more than me and I've been here 5 years" and the like.

there is a reason jumping every 2-3 years gives a better raise than sitting in the same job.
just with more search terms censored, apparently
I think FastAI lesson 3 in "Practical Deep Learning for Coders", has one of the most intuitive buildups of gradient descent and loss that I've seen. * Lecture [1] Book Chapter [2]

It doesn't go into the math but I don't think that's a bad thing for beginners.

If you want mathematical, 3blue1brown has a great series of videos [3] on the topic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBOjCiFcuo&t=1932s

[2] https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/04_mnist_basi...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

* I've been messing around with this stuff since 2016 and have done a few different courses like the original Andrew Ng course and more.
This is actually terrifying because it’s basically Derren Brown on steroids.
I wish Tbird would become usable for me, but every time I try, it falls very very short in polish, in performance, and in capability.

Mac's native Mail program works super super well for me and my enormous corpus of mail, search is nearly instant, and it talks to IMAP and Exchange with ease. It's also reasonably easy to look at. I get some folks don't care for it, and I absolutely concede that the old saw about "the worst one, except for all the others" still applies, but for me, Tbird is just one of "all the others."
Never ever ever ever perform summation like that. You just added O(n) error instead of O(1) error.

This is why ad-hoc methods that people feel are ok based on untrained or not-carefully-studied analysis should not write production numerical code.

Just use floating point everywhere, and only output things snapped to whatever resolution you want (and even that is tricky). Otherwise all those fixed to float to fixed to float going on in your code are going to add all sorts of numerical problems - each loses information.
TIL reddit (probably including my posts and comments) is in ChatGPT's training set
> They just walk through the traffic jam (I saw this at the end of the tunnel leading to East Boston) and driver would wind down their windows.

Either someone would get hit by a car and the resulting lawsuit would end it, or the city/police would end it. While "it is done" as far as traffic vendors, it isn't done for very long for the forementioned reasons.
Sounds like prompt engineering will have strong overlaps with the legal field and hacker culture.
I assume autocorrelation was the first thing they tried - don't really need an AI
It’s not just Cessnas. Besides the normal wear and tear of a plane that’s potentially 40 years old, most of the single-engine planes at a flight school are going to see extra abuse from all the student pilots.
I think there should have been a poll for this question to quickly gauge.
1. When people were laid off?
A. Before Q4 2022
B. Q4 2022
C. Q1 2023
E. My job is fine
2. Were you able to find a job?
A. Yes
B. No
3. How long did it take to find job?
A. < 1 month
B. 1-3 months
C. 3-6 months
D. > 6 months
4. How many offers did you get?
A. 1
B. 2-3
C. 4+
OneProject: Humanity is capable of so much more
Qwant and Yahoo are powered by Bing as well.
Yep, I live in a small city and four restaurants / take aways that i visited have closed all blaming massively increased costs.

One of them was open since the 80's and two of the others for at least 12 years.
If you're fired, unemployment doesn't pay you anything. My company generally won't layoff and instead finds reasons to fire people.
I guess that doesn't matter much as long as it pushes customers who would have never otherwise used such things to do so at all.

in other words, for historical sites or places where aesthetic matters a lot, the conversation is "should we use these less efficient panels that fulfill our aesthetic requirements, or should we forego the use of solar all together?"
> Everyone in this thread is arguing about operating systems and their mobile OS preference... why?

It's like football game for geeks, it's not a big deal. It's fun as long as you don't take it too seriously.

On a more serious note, I prefer Apple's style of doing things and pray to the gods Android doesn't obliterate Apple's OS. Just last week I got my hands on a Amazon Fire TV, it was cool until the AirScreen app started not working for some reason and my blood started boiling with disgust towards Android and everything it stands for. I'm a huge "Just Works" enjoyer and Android's market share dominance scares me.
Ask HN: What's next for tech sector jobs?
I imagine that I'm not the only one doomscrolling through the list of layoffs and wondering who's next.

As far as I can tell, the situation stems from a few things:

1. the VC moneyhose drying;

2. rebalancing after over-hiring during quarantines;

3. investors pressuring companies, large and small, to increase benefit margins;

4. contagion, with B2B tech companies having difficulties finding clients / getting paid.

Alright, that's bad for many HN readers. This impacts ability to work remotely, salaries, H1B, and the difficulty to find a job at all.

Now, what's next? Do we have any reasons to believe that tech sector jobs will recover?
Or that this will snowball? And would a recovery take 3 months? 3 years? And what would it look like?
Are you going to volunteer to be the one to explain to my 60 and 70 year old relatives why they need to get all new cables for their phones?
I think this is a factor of putting one's self out there. I've had this happen on ML projects I've put out too, though being hyper-engaged in trying to thoughtfully respond to all (or as many as possible of) the comments section for me has seemed to lower negativity a bit just because it brings up the 'person-in-the-room' effect up to an online audience...at least, so I think! :D

I thought it was a great post and manky kudos to the author for putting themselves out like that! I really appreciated this and any work that does this kind of effort in onboarding people and giving people tools to understand something well really I think has some of the most long-term impact to the field.

Lowering barriers to entry, making resources accessible to all, and decreasing experimentation cycle time I think are some of the most critical components to making any progress at all in the field beyond a basic pittance. Imagine if everyone had easy access to, knowledge about, and rapid experimentation results in things like quantum mechanics, large-algorithm testing, painting arts, musical arts, etc. It would drive things so much further forward at an individual and field-based level so quickly. <3 :)))) :D :D ;D :D :D :))))))))
Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
Abstract:

Theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, is central to human social interactions, communication, empathy, self-consciousness, and morality. We administer classic false-belief tasks, widely used to test ToM in humans, to several language models, without any examples or pre-training.

Our results show that models published before 2022 show virtually no ability to solve ToM tasks. Yet, the January 2022 version of GPT-3 (davinci-002) solved 70% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of seven-year-old children. Moreover, its November 2022 version (davinci-003), solved 93% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of nine-year-old children.

These findings suggest that ToM-like ability (thus far considered to be uniquely human) may have spontaneously emerged as a byproduct of language models' improving language skills.
He's in a cheap area or something.

Instruction in a 172 is more like $250/hr at the nearest airport to me in Massachusetts, with the plane being at least $200/hr of that. The gotcha is I think they are modern 172s, which are probably more than $500k each to buy at this point.

I took lessons in the early 1990s and it was $125/hr in a 152 which was a much smaller less capable airplane. People are too heavy now, the 152 sized plane is no longer used as much because 2x 200lb adults will put it over it's max takeoff weight if the gas is topped off or something.

Everything about all of it is super wacked. The leaded fuel, the way people cling to old planes cause the new ones are so stratospherically expensive, the ancient technology because the manufacturers need so much money to get anything approved, etc..
Maybe it's from 'haute pink'?