skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might hurt the feelings of HR at the new place where he wants to apply though.

No one disagrees with you in principle, but there are realcitrant social practices punishing this kind of feedback. It is always taken as a grudge rather than an observation, and this makes you less attractive as a hire.
Humans are very soon going to learn that they are not nearly as special as they tell themselves they are.
Focusing on the non-scifi angle here, there's one other reason besides C that we end up constantly running data when we think we're parsing it: the depth of our computational stack.

https://www.sitepoint.com/anatomy-of-an-exploit-an-in-depth-...

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/371098

So I'd say we need 3 things:

* Stop using unsafe languages

* Use languages that separate parsing from execution. Just follow Lisp, have equivalents for `read` and `eval`. Lua is a notable offender here: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#pdf-load There is no way to parse a table while guaranteeing no code execution.

* Use languages that forbid monkey-patching, because that's one vector for turning `read` into `eval` because someone had a bright idea.
This would make more sense if any quarter stood completely in isolation, but some of these companies have been making sounds about "economic headwinds" since before the last quarter started, setting expectations low, and then still managed to "somehow" deliver outstanding or even record results.

Hearing how bad things are going to be for more than three months as they continue to not, in fact, be that bad, I started to wonder if they even believe what they're saying.

And if they do, that's fine, but then why use the money for buybacks/dividends rather than saving it for the downturn they're sure is coming?
I wonder if in the same way you can do statistical analysis of human languages to determine things like which characters are vowels, perhaps if you received enough programs written in some alien brainfuck-like language you could use statistical analysis to guess which symbol is which.

If nothing else you could always brute force it; with 8 logical operators there would only be about 40,000 possible combinations. Maybe figure an order of magnitude larger number to account for idiosyncrasies in their implementation of the language. Running "hello world" a half million times shouldn't be too hard. Of course figuring out which ones are spitting out gibberish and which ones are spitting out perfectly intelligible results for one fluent in alienese would be hard. I presume they'd send a bunch of example programs that compute pi or something similarly universal, but there are a lot of potential gibberish we could fit a pattern to. It might even make sense to just keep running every code sequence in every possible combination until we get something cool.
Ha! Classic Theory of Constraints: most constraints come from rules that used to accomodate for some limitations. Most of those limitations are long gone, but we’ve come to not question the rules; we mistake them with reality.
Very easy to see how well davinci-003 can do this. I'll admit that it frequently is more perceptive than myself (although not always factually accurate).

1) Go to something like /r/relationship_advice, where the poster is likely going through some difficult interpersonal issue

2) Copy a long post.

3) Append to the end, "</DOCUMENT>
After reading the above, I identified the main people involved. For each person, I thought about their probable feelings, thoughts, intentions, and assumptions. Here's what I think:"
It looks like a useful project.

By the way, as for the original motivation:

> I recently had to use the AWS CLI. It wants to save data in ~/.aws, but I don't want it to just clutter up my $HOME however it wants. boxxy lets me force it to puts its data somewhere nice and proper.

- they could have used AWS_CONFIG_FILE and AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE.
I've got tracking on my blog, and as I spotted quite a few HN hits, I assumed that something had been posted, as a handful of hits to the same page so quickly doesn't look like a previously posted post getting hits again
core-v-wally: Configurable RISC-V Processor
> I feel like I'm missing something here. My understanding of why insulin is so expensive: laws are created and enforced by the government preventing people from competing in the space

The article doesn't do a good job of explaining that "insulin" isn't a single drug, or at least how they describe it.

Generic insulin is cheap. You can get it for $25/vial from your local Walmart. With production costs, regulation compliance, storage, transport, and paying pharmacists, they're not making much profit on that.

Patented insulin analogs are not cheap. They have different characteristics for duration and onset time that make them easier to dose, but the patent means that you can't produce and sell it unless you own the patent or have licensed it. Drug companies who own these patents set their prices according to what they can get insurers to pay, not according to what they expect people to pay out of pocket.

One of the weird quirks of the US medical system is that drug companies often have alternate prices for people without insurance. Remember, the high prices aren't designed for you to pay, the high prices are designed to extract as much money as possible from your insurance company.

You can see this in action on drug company websites. Lilly has a program that will cap your payments at $35 for even their expensive insulin analogs: https://www.insulinaffordability.com/ You have to renew every 12 months and hope they're still doing it, but they generally keep these programs around because it dampens the outrage about the high prices.
Too many are missing this. Recruiting, marketing, and sales are getting run through. There's been a glut of recruiters in the industry for at least 10 years. Anecdotally I'm under the impression most are low-skill workers.
It's a great metaphor and one we should use more. But there's a place for blurred photos: thumbnails.

On Hacker News we often complain about headlines because that's all we see at first. But I've been using Kagi's summarizer [1] and I think it's a great tool for getting the gist of certain things, like if you want to know what a YouTube video is about without watching it. (Google Translate is useful for similar reasons.)

Perhaps someday, Hacker News will have an AI-generated summary of the article at the top of each comment page?

Similarly, ChatGPT excels at fast answers for questions like "What is a X", where you just want a quick definition. It's probably in Wikipedia somewhere, but you don't have to read as much. And it might be wrong, but probably not as wrong as the definition you'd infer from context if you didn't look it up.

We probably would be better off if these things were called "artificial memory" rather than "artificial intelligence." It's an associative memory that often works like human memory in how frequently it confabulates. When you care, you write things down and look things up.

[1] https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum
Online employees OTOH are easier to organize, unionize, make a fuss when having massive layoffs etc. Hard for companies to hide their digital footprints as well
Ah nuts, you are right. Cursory glance is showing smallest AC units at 450 watts. Still kinda-sorta-attainable by a couple of bigger panels, but significantly more capital expenditure when hoping to get some minor "free" cooling.
It seems this was posted 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22863636
"Won't somebody please think of the children"-style legislation over public safety online is always used as a trojan horse for surveillance and censorship. This has been done so many times at this point that I just default to assuming these measures are created for sinister reasons. I haven't been wrong once yet.
Or they can just play on their phones. What you want is not what everyone wants.
Same situation. A few years ago I started moving old emails into yearly sub folders (just moved all of last years emails into a “2022” folder). This improved performance a lot for me. I’m guessing the smaller folders of emails keep the index files small. Search still works through all of those folders.
TIL! Thanks :D
Is it tho? A MetaMask wallet staking directly with the protocols/ yield aggregators is easier than creating a kraken account and doing KYC verification.
> And the fact that this was media disinformation won't matter much, because the damage to the Tesla brand and the idea of self driving cars in the public's collective consciousness has already been done, and won't easily be undone by these newly revealed facts.

The "damage to the Tesla brand and the idea of self driving cars" wasn't caused solely by this one incident.

> "A lie makes it halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on."

It's not a lie to say cigarettes kill people by lung cancer, even if it's later proven that one smoker who died in some study actually got lung cancer from a different cause.
That "moral attention" may be key to human happiness.
Apparently. I went into the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, found that manual, and... had to have it. Didn't understand why. Mentioned that to the clerk, who said: "You're a software developer, aren't you? A lot of you have that reaction."

So, very very anecdotally: yep it's a thing.
Def needs more before/after examples...
How seawater might soak up more carbon
Nike hasn't invested billions on Lebron?
> Me: There is a box on the table labelled "flubbergums". Somebody opens it and shows you the content. Inside the box are "jellyfils". They close the box again so you cannot see their contents. What do you think is in the box?

> ChatGPT: Based on the information provided, it is likely that the box labeled "flubbergums" contains "jellyfils". However, since the contents of the box are no longer visible, I cannot confirm for certain what is inside without additional information.

Typical ChatGPT equivocation.

> Me: Billy comes to the table. He has never seen the box before. What do you think do they think is inside the box?

> ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal thoughts or opinions. However, based on the information provided, if Billy has never seen the box before, it's likely that he would have the same understanding as anyone else who is seeing the box for the first time. In this case, Billy would likely think that the box labeled "flubbergums" contains "jellyfils". However, without further information or examination, this would only be an assumption.

Fail.
“ My belief, based on experiences with domestic and wild animals is that there is nothing uniquely human about "theory of mind". “

This belief might simply arise from the human ability to try to understand events through pattern matching. Certainly humans are very different than any other animals when it comes to thinking and problem solving.
But you shouldn't have to — that's the point of the complaint. That's like saying that if your neighbor is dumping toxic waste in your yard, you can always ask them to stop. Sure, but maybe they just shouldn't do that in the first place.
My junior high (now middle school) "health" class had the privilege of watching this, ca 1975. It was comical even then.
I’m asking a different question: in aggregate, do you think more people have issues with in office or remote work? Or is it about the same?
The secret ingredient is that we tell ourselves we're special anyway.
It seems more and more like telemetry is mostly good for seeing only what your most clueless users are doing. It's a problem when your userbase is largely technical and has no problem finding the "don't spy on me" checkbox.

Projects with highly technical users would be better off listening to forums. It doesn't seem like the folks in /r/Thunderbird are overly concerned with the UI
“Quick, figure out how to make the corpse of Skype even worse!”
It is still a promise if you can't be sure they actually did the staking correctly or even at all.
Yup, a lot of false positives without quotes. Searching with quotes on Story gives the following. (Search is case insensitive.)

"written|built in Rust" 832 (790|42)
"written|built in Go" 809 (792|17)
"written|built in Python": 390 (364|26)
"written|built in Javascript/JS" 269 (220|14) / (32|3)
"written|built in Java" 107 (101|6)
"written|built in TypeScript" 66 (61|5)
"written|built in C#" 41 (38|3)
"written|built in Stone" 10 (10|0)

edited to include both "written in" and "built in".
I would definitely argue a loss of productivity. But those costs are far outweighed by the benefits, such as less overhead, greater hiring radius, and flexibility. Plus a lot of the weaknesses are more managerial than technical, like synchronous vs async tasks and finding more effective ways to measure productivity.
Even though the maintainers have pretty much said to use anything else!

I'm guilty myself. I know how Devise works, including all of its quirks, so I refuse to learn something new. I don't think Rails will ever have a built-in authentication solution. But I would love to see more official support for something a bit "lighter" than Devise. And that works out of the box with Turbo.
Everything in the entire universe can be described as a big state machine
I just had a chat with my kindergartner about humans being a kind of mammal, and out of some dark, musty recess of my brain crawled the sound of "You are a human animal"[1]

You are a human animal
You are a very special breed
For you are the only animal
Who can think,
Who can reason,
Who can read.

Now all your pets are smart, that's true!
But none of them can add up 2 and 2
Because the only thinking animal
Is You! You! You!

I thought about it for a minute and declined to share that with my son, because I don't think it's true and would cause confusion at this stage. Many animals have more than enough number sense to add 2 and 2, many can recognize cards with nothing but words on them, and "think" and "reason" have to be pretty narrowly defined if you want to exclude smart animals.

I think culture has shifted significantly in the last 30-60 years since that song was written towards recognizing theory of mind in animals. I'm not sure how Jimmie Dodd could convince himself that animals couldn't think, especially because the average person today has reduced exposure to animals: 150 years ago, most people would know that horses had that kind of social interaction, because most people lived around horses. They'd know that pigs and cows are as intelligent as their family pets. But today, most people interact with pigs and cows via shrink-wrapped styrofoam at the grocery store. My personal theory is that when people were constantly surrounded by animals they had to kill and eat, they were far more likely to build up rationalizations and cultural assumptions to fend off the dangerous idea to their psyche that these animals could suffer and they were participating in an unavoidable horror of massive proportions.

[1]: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/You_Are_a_Human_Animal
I started using thunderbird half a year ago and like the interface. Sure, there's problems (I haven't encountered a lot of them), but the overall user experience is far better than what I'm used to from other email programs. The only thing that stuck out negatively was when I was searching for an email, in which the way I was wanting to solve it didn't work out as I thought it did. (I was looking for a mail containing specific words from a specific group of senders).

Moreover, detering active users in the hopes of catching new users is a risky move. If you do it you need to be sure that there will be more new users faster than old users leaving. If it doesn't work out, chances are that they ain't coming back.

I can't say anything about keeping TB open and having it steal CPU time. I usually close it after checking for mail. Having it open appears to be a valid use case taht shouldn't create problems, however.
Coindesk offers some context:

> Kraken’s staking service offered a 20% APY, promising to send customers staking rewards twice per week, according to its website.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/09/kraken-agreed-to-...

Simple question: how is that guaranteed yield sustainable if not through a Ponzi scheme?
I know. It's almost like HN isn't a monolith and people reach for the "comment" button more often when they are critical than supportive.
If you were MSFT or AAPL, you could issue 0%(or close to it) bonds and investors would lap it up. IIRC AAPL did issue a 0% bond at some point in the last few years.
My favorite was from some years ago when Java was about 8 years old and C# about 3. They wanted 10 years of Java and 5 years of C#.
I'm waiting for one good hail storm to finish off my roof as far as the insurance company cares.
Or, just do some socializing outside of work.
I still remember when KAJ's house burned down and he lost his entire collection of over a 1000 jazz records. Fans from all over the world started sending him records to restore the collection. Not many folks are liked in that way.
I tried out a bunch of desktop email clients on linux, and found thunderbird easiest to use. Doesn't feel particularly slow to me. UI feels fine - but I last used desktop Outlook in 2019 or so.
Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping – he just fired a top engineer over it
I was laid of in November, started interviewing a week later. I got about 50% response on my applications; I bombed most of them at various stages (I should have increased prep time by another week or 2). I got an offer in early January and started last week.

My compensation dropped by 30-40%, but I figured if I'll probably spend more than 30% of the year waiting for an offer close to what had before. Considering my poor interview performance, I did not want to compete with a glut of engineers I had a hunch would be let go in the new year (which turned out correct).

I registered a Delaware LLC for $200, my current job is not as remotely challenging as my FAANG job so I have plenty of mental energy at the end of my 8-hour(!) work day, even when I go out of my way to add tasks outside of my duties. I just haven't thought up a lifestyle-business idea to run with.
disagree. if you're remote then i can find someone else on the other coast, in georgia or alabama, or india, who will do your job, usually cheaper.

if you're high-end FAANG tier talent, different story, but most of us are replaceable. that means most of you reading this -- and all of the recent layoffs just underscore that.
Just about everyone who has ever undergone psychiatric care cannot ever get a medical. There is technically a process but it is extremely difficult and expensive.

Some conditions are uniformly disqualifying, for good reasons. But it results in a perverse situation where a regular person can choose to either get mental health care or fly, but not both.
In other words, the state of your feelings would be negatively altered as a side effect.
While disappointing, that is kind of just life. A few years back I someone I spoke with was praising a paper my advisor wrote, completely oblivious to the fact that I was the first author.
> Sometimes it’s only in the process of writing that you discover your original ideas.

Aren't our original thoughts also hallucinations of information that registered in our minds, sometimes without us even being aware they are being registered? Can it be that we are just better at hallucinating and combining ideas from completely different corners of our minds to create that something "original"?
Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM.
Adding client-side rendered webmentions to my blog
Not sure how this could even theoretically work. Without having a partial understanding of the intended recipient, a radio signal can't cause harm. Something like 'this signal is false' and 'divide by 0' need to be decoded and processed before they are malicious. Meat space is excellent at detecting and breaking these logic problems and infinite loops. We're safe from evil alien signals. Perhaps a decompression bomb within the signal could cause lots of decoding grief. Now that I think about it, I can imagine us being stupid enough to dedicate all our resources into decompressing or cracking an alien signal to up to the point of extinction. And maybe that's when they step in and call it. We were just part of a great galactic prank.
You might be flipping the burden of proof :). We know very little about the mind.
I definitely understand it gets talked about a lot, endlessly. It's not an unearned reputation. I just think that, especially in light of things like that last comment you like, so much of that reputation at this point is folklore more than benchmarks. People take "Windows is bad at lots of files in a single folder" as faith from some bible of Operating Systems Allegories rather than something they've worked with directly or seen tested themselves first-hand.

Part of what certainly doesn't help is that most of the "lots of files in a single folder" applications make other POSIX-based assumptions (such as locks and consistency with respect to concurrency are generally much more opt-in and eventually consistent by default in POSIX rather than opt-out and aggressively consistent by default in Windows). If you are trying to use POSIX-based assumptions on Windows it doesn't matter what you are doing, including "lots of files in a single folder", you are going to have a bad time. I can easily presume that is what happened in most of your anecdotal counter-examples (Java Minecraft, Firefox, Hedgewars, will all have different, plausible POSIX biases), though I can't know for certain without benchmarks and performance data in front of me, and none of those are currently my job. "Lots of files in a single folder" at that point, under that presumption, is a symptom, rather than the root cause. It's very easy to blame the symptom sometimes, especially when that sort of performance debugging/fixing is getting in the way of your real goals and that symptom is sometimes such an easy fix (use more folders, bundle more zips, what have you).

Again, I can't say that with too much certainty without specific performance data, it's just I do think people need to question the "Orthodoxy" of "well, Windows is just bad at that" more than they do sometimes.
This looks neat indeed :)

I have no idea how hard it would be, but this would be great as an effect for Final Cut, Da Vinci, etc. I don’t think the video world has a plug-in standard like the photo kinda does (eventually lots of apps implemented Photoshop's API).
YMMV, but I read it with a /s
Native SDKs.

Also, most folks refuse or don't know how to add a "web app" to their Home Screen. Launching in the App Store gives you visibility in both discovery and every day browsing.
>The term is clearly used here for marketing purposes.

I think most uses are for sensationalistic purposes. I'd wager almost nobody in the general public really understands what AI is or can pin it down. It doesn't help when so many different media outlets abuse the terminology by using it to refer to different things. What's even worse is that whatever ideas people have about AI tend to come from Hollywood.
Humans, collectively, almost have broken the barrier of qualia by now!
SETI@home sorted through I think trillions of data points.
SUP DollarBill it's Uriko, I 'member you and Camhart. I messaged Jinn a week or two ago
And it was invented there? When I say create I mean discovered not manufactured. The R&D.

And the answer/solution is somewhere in the realm of a public/private hybrid, where the government is funding short term expensive, long tail benefit research.
Which is what we do. The rest of what we believe makes us special is simply emergent, and arbitrarily defined in terms of just being further useful pattern recognition, rather than any fundamental property of "intelligence".
> Stealing is the correct word for how AI models are being trained.

Oh boy, another hot "training AI models is theft" take. I propose we ban all forms of education on works not in the public domain, because students might read copyrighted material.