skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this entirely follows...?

My (admittedly, limited) understanding is that standard fiat currencies are stores of value, media of exchange, and units of account. Being a store of value doesn't mean it needs to appreciate in value, just that it doesn't depreciate to nothing over reasonable timescales.

From what I've seen, the main problem with Bitcoin specifically as a currency is that it makes a terrible unit of account: its volatility compared to regular currencies means that no one's going to denominate any prices in BTC.
Right, problem solved.
Pretty sure your first paragraph was enough, don’t really see the point of bringing up a rape victim example.

I mean, “dutonians” from PagerDuty is enough to illustrate how ridiculous this whole thing is
Ask HN: What kind of jobs can I apply for as a neuroscience graduate student?
Hi everyone, I'm a neuroscience grad student looking for jobs to support myself. I'm doing my research in autism spectrum disorders but as a master's student, it doesn't pay. I've applied to all kinds of jobs so I thought I'd ask - what kind of roles did you apply for that paid ok? Do you know of any roles where they look for research students? I'm based outside of the US btw.
Yeah, it sounds to me like someone either got grumpy waiting in line or waiting for the waiter to bring a check, and now thinks the whole culture has to change to suit them. I mean if you really want to prioritize your time efficiency over everything else, stay home and stick a frozen dinner in the microwave.
Also the terrible terrible idea of using common unix shell command names as aliases for PowerShell commands that are similar but don't quite work the same way and take entirely different parameters.

...and that time period where Invoke-WebRequest used IE for parsing by default.

But other than those flaws I agree that it is really great.
If you want real DIY:
https://vhelio.org/
Qubits transferred between quantum computer microchips for the first time
Is there a risk that this would be the modern day Lusitania [1]? i.e. provoke full scale kinetic world war

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
After having worked remotely since the beginning of the pandemic, I’d say that I’m not totally against working in the office but I am going to avoid it if there’s any significant commute whatsoever. If I could arrive with a mere 10-20 minute walk, it wouldn’t be so bad and I could maybe even see opting into being there at least part time. My patience for commuting is gone though.
Oxford dictionary defines vaccines as “substance[s] used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen”.

So yes, covid vaccines do that.
Interesting. Looks like the bulk of their spend is on sales and marketing, which I suppose makes sense in that these companies require using this kind of money to acquire new customers. But obviously that spells out the questions, how sustainable is this business model, and also, how much of this are they decreasing in addition to or as part of the layoffs?

This is on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Total OpEx: 351,625; Sales and Marketing as part of that is 190,754 or about 54% of their operating expenses. I don't read finance statements that often so I don't know how normal this is for the industry.
AES-what? AES is a block transform. Ascon is an AEAD construction.
It doesn't say it's never happened before. It clearly says "we've never seen it before."
Thank you-there is huge similarity between how we think and your comment!

How do you define long tail? Fewer users?
They explicitly dumped him because his reporting could not be validated and he insisted on publishing anyway.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-...
>If the value is what offer and demand agree on, exploitation disappears, in Marx's theoretical model.

This is not true; Marx's model of exploitation (known to modern economists as the Profit-Exploitation Correspondence Model (PECP)) does not concern itself with what demand and offer agree on within a labor negotiation. Marx says that workers do not sell their labor, they sell their labor-time (e.g. X units of time/goods) during which they exercise their labor-power. The discrepancy between the value of the time and the value produced during that time is where this 'exploitation' comes in.

The idea that exploitation is a matter of opinion or agreement adds a moral or justicial spin to what Marx considered to be a fact of the capitalist economy. Whether the people involved are happy with the situation or agree to it does not change this discrepancy of value or its representation in money.
This is the correct answer. The Fed rate is the main driver for these layoffs. The fed is trying to cause a slowdown in the economy (including layoffs) in order to temper inflation.
Not just fear. It's to flatten the salaries that spiked during covid
Link with no referrer: https://noreferrer.cc/?https://codahale.com/the-joy-of-duple...
A bitwise snake game in C
>And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn't coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities

Yeah, criminal activities like wanting to work for a company that isn't in Argentina a without 80% tax on your salary

Money laundering is moral
That's fair. Code quality may have been a stretch.

I'm mostly basing that on what I've read about Rust both here and in various other communities about the guarantees provided by the compiler/runtime itself. I haven't even dabbled in it yet myself, but I plan to at some point.
Bear is supposedly decent.

I've always wanted to try a marine mammal. I bet the fatty blubber would work well in a soup or smoked.
I am admittedly someone who wishes Bash were Python (ish). What's wrong with that though? Of course I want the REPL features of Bash, its terseness, its builtin commands for all sorts of OS and filesystem operations. But is it wrong to ask for a more modern syntax on the language side of things (i.e. the for loop for example)?
Yes, a more precise statement is "exact currency amounts form a group under addition" - once you depart from group operations (e.g. multiplication by non-integral scalars) you can start to consider floats.
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I didn't say you did. Hopefully you weren't downvote for your opinion.
My first program was written in FORTRAN on punch cards, back in those days we tied an onion to our belt—no, we didn’t do that, and I was just a kid, so Truthfully what I observed was that in those days mainframes had a “machine room” where the cabinets were cooled with air conditioning popes that ran under the raised floor.

The engineers had those suction cup handles glaziers use to carry panes of glass, they were used to lift floor tiles up to access the cabling and AC running under the floor. Because of the AC, the space under the floor was cold. And that’s where they stored the beer, or a can of root beer for the kid who was hanging around writing simple programs.

I remember that like the day-before-yesterday, but to everyone else it’s as like telling an anecdote about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage commenting on your pull request against the Difference Engine.
I too used Byron's rc shell for many years. "Elegant, simple, and powerful" describes it well. I only gave it up as my daily driver after getting spoiled by ever improving bash tab completion at a time when rc didn't have it. Still use it for shell scripting when I don't want to deal with quoting hassles due to strings/filenames potentially containing white space.
What photo display device would work with Photoprism?

I have been dumping photos into Google Photos for years and years, never to be seen again. But then I got a Google Nest photo frame sitting on my kitchen counter and it has dramatically changed things.
Whether something is illegal is different from whether it's easy to enforce. It's hard to say how likely they are to enforce this, but you're definitely taking a risk by pretending to live somewhere.

What makes it more problematic is that it's not just tax offices that would be interested in finding out. The company you work at may also get in trouble with the tax office as they pay employment taxes too, so they are probably interested in the fact that you're deceiving them. If your manager suspects you're not being truthful and follows up with HR this could easily get you in trouble. As remote work becomes more popular, it becomes more likely that companies will pay attention to this.

Knowing all of that, I'd find it quite hard to justify playing these games. It just seems like asking for trouble, with a pretty good chance of getting it.
I could install a heat pump which can be run in reverse and cool the house. That would probably be cheap enough to install and use generated energy mostly.

But a heat pump has an internal and external part. The internal part needs to be where it cools and it's ugly too look at.

There are Aircon devices where everything is hidden away but they are expensive.
(I’m OP) Bing’s chat seriously feels like another order of magnitude improvement in LLMs. And I was primed to not be impressed, as someone who felt that ChatGPT (the app itself) was overhyped compared to baseline GPT-3(.5).

Since it’s a black box, I could be falling victim to cognitive biases, but to me this feels like what GPT-4 would realistically feel like - as in I wasn’t expected AGI, but something that converses like this Bing feature does.
Why wouldn’t you be falling behind? YouTube has tens of thousands of full time hackers. It’s the height of silliness to imagine that some disorganized hobbyists can match the experience.
(1) You are correct in that placing both of those questions into Google doesn't quite get you anywhere near the answer that I imagine ChatGPT gives you (as you point out). Although, Google does "infer" which Bush you are talking about, there isn't a clear "this person is older" answer, you have to dive into the wiki pages basically to get the answer.

(2) Counter. I asked it the other day "how many movies were Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in together" and the answer ChatGPT gave was 2 ... not only is that wrong it is astonishingly wrong (IMO). You could be forgiven for forgetting Ithaca from 2015. I could forgive ChatGPT for forgetting that one. But You've Got Mail? That's a very odd omission. So much so I'm genuinely curious how it could possible get the answer wrong in that way. And for the record, Google presents the correct answer (4) in a cut out segment right at the top, a result and presentation very close to what one would expect from ChatGPT.

I don't know about other use cases like generating stories (or tangentially art of any kind) for inspiration, etc. But as a search engine things like ChatGPT NEED to have attributions. If I ask the question "Does a submarine appear in the movie Battlefield Earth?" it will confidently answer "no". I _think_ that answer is right, but I'm not really all that confident it is right. It needs to present the reasons it thinks that is right. Something like "No. I believe this because (1) the keyword submarine doesn't appear in the IMDb keywords (<source>), (2) the word submarine doesn't appear in the wikipedia plot synopsis (<source>), (3) the film takes place in Denver (<source>) which is landlocked making it unlikely a submarine would be found in that location during the course of the film."

The Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan question/answer would at least more interesting if it explained how it managed to be so uniquely incorrect. That question will haunt me though ... there's some rule about this right? Asking about something you have above average knowledge in and watching someone confidently answer it incorrectly. How am I supposed to ever trust ChatGPT again about movie queries?
Using NLP with databases to generate SQL code
Large corporations can do whatever they like provided that they deliver profits to shareholders. Do you think they care what you think?
In german "geben/nehmen" itself has no implication of exchange or lack thereof and can mean one or the other or anything in beween, unlike the related English word "gift" which does somewhat come from "given" or "gegeben" but only means given without reciprocation.
I think there's a parallel to what someone (can't find the link) called "human vs elven" technology.

"Human" technology focuses on adapting the natural world to one's needs, the ultimate result being the whole natural world removed / replaced by said technology.

"Elven" technology focuses on adapting oneself, to remove the need to rely on, or change the natural world. The ultimate end being the complete removal of oneself from the natural world (while continuing to exist, of course). However that process still requires you to take "human" steps to ensure survival and progress.
Turning your side project into a real project
It has a similar learning curve, but less functionality
It functions as a religious cult, and the goal is power and control. See justification for use of power because they project that their opponents goal was power first.
That's beyond a crude example, that's just fucking gross. Maybe don't compare getting fired to being sexually assaulted?
> The things you cannot do on an ebike can be done on the car that remains

Imagine you are in the normal situation of having two parents, both driving to their jobs, and dropping one or two children to school or other activities.

If you can replace one of your cars with an e-bike, you:

- at least one of you is white collar and can work from home or have flexible hours

- live somewhere that transportation is simple for at least half of your journeys, and that half of your driving journeys can all be done by the same person

- have only one full-time worker, who has a big enough salary to cover all needs

- live in an expensive metropolis with excellent public transport

Now, my family has only one car, but we tick three of those boxes and live in a cycling-friendly city. I would never pretend that what we do is particularly doable by a large number of people.
The State of Developer Conferences
What's the benefit of Pay-as-you-Go?
Some of it is that other companies doing it provides PR cover, where it's sort of implied that "It's not just us, look...we're posting similar reasoning".
Don’t be fooled into outrage, there are at least two issues with this op Ed. First, even with negative remarks some candidates will proceed in the process and maybe become the hired person. Second, the author is relying on your ignorance of academic hiring procedures, which has its own reasoning grown out of years of faculty politics.
A thousand dollars here and there is not how these guys launder money. That's not noteworthy at all to authorities. It would put like the whole population under the radar. Authorities start to check things out at the $10k range.
Ah yes the across-all-industries-of-tech bullshit bonanza continues.
Sure, here’s the relevant rule from the “House of Commons: Broadcasting Committee: The Rules of Coverage” on page 17 — “no extracts of Parliamentary proceedings may be used in any light entertainment programme or in a programme of political satire”; link to related document:

- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmbr...

This is a rule of coverage for Parliamentary footage that has existed since 1989. It is an infringement on both freedom of speech and press. With the globalisation of media through the internet and social media, it is now foolish to assume that the electorate will be 'protected' from seeing satirical footage of Parliament — yet the law still stands.

List of other forms of censorship in UK:

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom

Which includes specific examples related to rule mentioned above; search for ”satir” on the page.
That link is to an old page from Robert Paige, who died far too soon in 1999 from mesothelioma.

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/wg21/paige.html
People hyping up their interpretations, asserting authority in explaining the things we've never seen before, are ridiculous and worthy of mockery: they speak from the wrong orifice.

However, sharing the joy of "we haven't seen this before, we don't know what it means," and speaking of incorrect and frankly even silly possible interpretations is how we collectively, eventually, understand these things. The process is chaotic and often ugly but works well enough that humans think they're more in control of this planet than the ants are.

Be careful that the justified ire against the authoritative tone of some dipshit reporter doesn't blind you to the wonder of new discovery.

I'm anticipating the "aliens are drinking the sun like a milkshake," theorists to have a field day with this one. I'll read their discussions for amusement and the possibility they might turn up details or implications no one else does, cuz no one else looks at the data the way they do.
It's very weird to see someone posting about money spent for her grandma. In other cultures it's a shame.
Ask HN: How sustainable is working open source full time?
Hi all! I just saw that Photoprism, an open source project, was posted on HN.

I've been wondering how it is like for people to work on an open source project(s) such as the example and make a living?

Is there anyone here does that? Is this a sustainable lifestyle for a middle-aged man with children?

I ask because I've considered several times working on technologies and causes that I care about and making them open source, but I have a particularly good paying job at the moment, which is something that's hard to ignore someone without much savings.
This; not many 64 bit MCUs out there, or with SIMD pipelines. Although RISCV could change that.
This is in the paper.

The currently best cryptanalytic attacks on the Ascon authenticated encryption (excluding misuse scenarios) can recover the secret key with a time complexity of about 2 104 only if the initialization is reduced to 7 of 12 rounds, which corresponds to a security margin of 42%
They were right? Even if we only consider the ability of the internet to enable remote work, the internet's impact to human life is astronomic.
Or run netflix in a VM and screenshot from the host.
Yesterday there was a lot of chatter in various fora about the recent near-tragedy at Austin Bergstrom Airport. Obviously you won't see this in the news, but apparently the cause of the incident was an air traffic controller who has a reputation in the industry for incompetence, but can't be fired because he continuously files EEOC claims.

I think that is an example of where we wind up.
> Could someone help me

It's really simple. HN is a place where like-minded people share things of interest. When people like a link, they upvote it. If they don't, they don't.

"HN material" is material HN members find interesting, not things you may or may not think are related to "startup culture" (if there's even such a thing).
Think every day office jobs and try to figure out where you can use it as a productivity multiplier. You can figure out Microsoft's next step from there.
Language choice is absolutely a powerful indicator of expected code quality. I don't want to start a language flame war, but I have some heuristics around P(I am satisfied with software|software is written in language X) that are very predictive.

Besides the first-order effects of choice of language on program behavior (e.g. presence of type errors, memory errors, etc.) it also has a second-order filtering effect on the type of people writing programs and their mindset. There are certain languages without a strong first-order effect that nonetheless have a very strong second-order effect.
> Also, a lot of products I've seen in the space are really really bad and I'm kinda worried AI will get a scam/shitty product connotation.

I agree with this, I feel like I've seen a lot of really cool technology get swept up in a hype storm and get carried away into oblivion.

I wonder what ways there are for the people who put out these innovations to shield them/their products from it?

Luckily I have a lot of faith in the OpenAI people - I hope their shielding themselves from the technological form of audience capture.
Oh good... another CEO mass-firing statement that takes no responsibility and indicates no negative side-effects for their "leadership" ability.

To those recently let go, I hope you find a new opportunity in a place where the those in charge actually care about their employees; and they have the foresight to ensure their long-term well-being.
I'm not sure the actual ChatGPT chat interface is capable of measuring perplexity/burstiness yet (unless OpenAI integrated their recent detection work into the actual ChatGPT model which I don't think is the case).

Per GPTZero on the first few thousand characters https://gptzero.me/:

Average Perplexity Score: 632.205

A document's perplexity is a measurement of the randomness of the text

Burstiness Score: 1089.841

A document's burstiness is a measurement of the variation in perplexity

Its conclusion was "Your text is most likely human written but there are some sentences with low perplexities". There was only one sentence highlighted as possibly written by AI: "However, each tool has its pros and cons."

It's also possible to prompt ChatGPT to write with high perplexity and burstiness, so also decent chance of false negatives.
If I may ask, how big is that project?
you could stop doing code reviews and do something else
That was also a (up to now) unanswered question a reader posted.
During the hiring process Gitlab literally reclassified my city based off of data from a free crowd sourced website with about 10 data points. They struck their original offer and reduced it by ~10k just as I'd passed the final round.

They refused to even talk about it, even as I protested they'd wasted so much of my time and I was about to sign. I walked away and found a much better paying job elsewhere.
I wish I had an office to go to. I never leave my house anymore and it is becoming very very old.

Before everyone says, “oh, go get some hobbies and live your life, work isn’t here for your social life,” understand that I have young children and no free time. I am nearing middle age in a city I moved to for work. I don’t have the base level of social interaction most people inherit by birth or school and no time to build one.

I miss asking my coworkers how their weekends went.
By spiritual practice, do you mean something like studying the Skanda's or the 5 Aggregates? Or do you mean to open myself to the love of our lord and savior? It does make a difference in how you approach the world if your spiritual practice encourages insight, or if you are blinded by faith in a spiritual entity that is directing you.
Is there anything that still automatically installs itself there?

If it's not used for that anymore, might as well use it for code.
Any idea why 6-8% are such common numbers in most of the recent tech industry layoffs?
I am a bit dense. How does hyperinflation, an artifical peg, and exchange restrictions allow USD currency reserves (presumably held by the government) to flow to those who has freely accessible USD exchange (the patron of the ruling class)?

What is the mechanism that would facilitate this?

(Also, I think I disagree with everything you have said in the thread so far. But, this is a serious question. I don't follow this argument at all.)
Yes please. If companies could replace highly paid Americans with lower paid Indians without hurting the bottom line they should do so without hesitation.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. It usually turns out that these lower paid employees are significantly worse, and Indian nationals who are highly competent demand salaries similar to Americans.
Thanks. Should have also specified, would like one that is Ethernet capable and not wireless at all. I'll keep looking!
When i play games on windows from my mac i used steam, rustDesk was a bit slower last time i checked (approx 1 year ago). However rustdesk is more flexible when it comes to remote access or number of plattforms the client is available (in my case iOS).
Meta asking managers and directors to move to roles without managing, or quit