skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think you don't have it.

I don't? Germany in the 1800s did not have copyright protection, and it was boom time for them.

Musicians make tons of money from live performances. CDs serve as advertisements for their live concerts.

Wealthy people love to buy original paintings for $$$$ when the images of them are free all over the intertoobs.

Academics don't make much of anything from books. The books serve to boost their professional reputations, which they turn into money.

Celebrity authors make money by being celebrities.

The free software industry is thriving.

Patronage is not a bad system. I don't know why you think it is. Just look at all the incredible medieval art resulting from it.
I’d also recommend having a look at some of those 15~18 question online adhd tests, if you’re suddenly relating a lot to some/many of those that’s a decent indicator too.
High speed X-ray video: jumping beans, wind-up toys and more
HN is a little bit more “filtered” place: on Reddit and Twitter there are enough people who hate him just for the sake of hatred. He is Russian - they call him “fascist”. He has a road accident - they are intentionally omitting a little detail that a victim was crawling the road at night.

I didn't know about the memes and Twitter jokes. Even after that post, people still try to blame him.

I’m pretty sure this situation will convince some developers to instantly stop maintaining their OSS projects - and the world deserves it.

I would understand some criticism or not politely worded bug reports (especially from young users), but hatred... All of this filth... Today I’ve been disappointed in developers a lot.

I really wish Denis to stop maintaining core-js and find a real job. Haters will get what they were fighting for, his family will get the money.
It is big data all over again. Supposedly with so much data we can know everything. But there was no way of knowing if that data was any good. Garbage in garbage out.
If the example of journalists is anything to go by, soon both journalists and bloggers will produce content using exclusively AI.
I (along with the rest of the D community) give away the D language compiler & tools for free.

If that ain't skin in the game, I don't know what is.
Extreme earners are not extremely smart
Your math relies on a fundamental misunderstanding.

Assuming the Bay Area won't construct a significant number of new homes we only need to look at existing homes. The rule only covers new installations, which will be mostly people replacing broken systems and a few upgrades. How much more will it cost to replace your furnace when it has to be electric compared to when you could replace with gas?

That turns out to be the wrong question too, though. Per Angie's list the averages heat pump install costs $1,514 less than the averages gas furnace install [1]. Gas vs electric boilers costs around the same, so let's say the savings from the heat pump install and the loss from needing to upgrade your electrical system even out and the unit replacements cost about the same.

But you lose money on the routine operating costs. A rough estimate [2] based on Bay Area Dec 2022 energy prices [3] estimates that a 60,000 btu gas furnace would cost $579 less annually to operate than an analogous 5 ton heat pump with a good HSPF rating (10).

Is this a crazy amount to spend every year per household on saving that many people?

(Interestingly the the Bay Area spends around the same on cops per household[4], but there's no good data on how many lives that saves.)

Edit: Even if you disagree that the replacement costs about the same, remember to divide the delta by the 10-15 year lifespan of the unit so that your cost and lives saved are in the same unit.

[1] https://www.angi.com/articles/how-much-does-heat-pump-cost.h...
[2] https://www.angi.com/articles/how-much-does-it-cost-install-...
[2] https://www.pickhvac.com/hvac/furnace-vs-heat-pump-cost/
[3] https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp...
[4] SF + San Jose + Oakland police, not counting state troopers, was 1.079B in 2021 per https://cities.bythenumbers.sco.ca.gov/#!/year/2021/operatin...
Design implies some kind of planning. I think it's a result of different companies making decisions that optimize for the short term.
Depends on which stack you're picking on Windows side, just like there are two major APIs on iOS and Android, three on macOS,...

The last useful Gtk in comparison with what is there on Windows was version 3, they even killed their designer for version 4, and version 5 roadmap was recently announced at FOSDEM.
Yep, I checked how many pages I need to read if I want to finish in a year with my printed Bible edition. Then just kept chugging along the canon.
Thanks (and Dylan18607). So to continue assuming, the number of wires specified is just the input/output, and the add.cc has more intermediate "wires"?
I agree a lot of this sounds like ad(h)d. It’s odd how undiagnosed it can be. There was another ask HN thread with the OP having major ad(h)d symptoms, to me (I’m lso adhd) it’s almost painfully obvious there’s executive function issues.
See here for a couple of comparisons with 8x10 with differing results:

https://luminous-landscape.com/iq180-vs-8x10/

https://petapixel.com/2020/03/19/8x10-film-vs-150mp-digital-...

Given these results on 8x10, it seems highly unlikely to me that 4x5 film could offer any significant advantage over a 150MP digital sensor in practice.
>innocuous thing is facism

>disparaging comments about the amish

Why?
Headphones do not handle off axis weight well. The headband would just fall off, unless they have so much clamp force they make your jaw hurt instead
Laptops are the new desktops, Windows is quite alive.
> To start using beta@1 you need to upgrade alpha@1 to alpha@2 that depends on gamma@2. What's the problem with that?

The problem is the team maintaining alpha does not want to upgrade to gamma@2 because it's an extra burden for them, and they don't have an immediate need.

The debate is not about teams owning separate services, it's about teams owning libraries.
Whenever I‘m trying a different font, it doesn’t last for long. Not only does Iosevka support all kind of variations (as in: there’s a style for everyone), it‘s also very narrow. I always find it odd when looking at different fonts taking up 1.5 times the horizontal space, especially in terminals.

I‘m using a mixture of SS10 and SS05.
Really? What effect would no copyright have on broadway shows, which are live performances? I expect no effect at all.

After all, musicians perform Beethoven all the time. Somehow, that works.
Remember the GaoGaiGar episode where they got Chinese robots who turned out to be evil because they'd been programmed by communists?
Could it be that extreme smartness at some point will start to hinder extreme earning?
> I think software updating itself is sort of a windows mentality.

Yes it's definitely a mentality of "the apps are separate from the OS" at least, which is basically every OS except Linux/Unixes with central package managers. Even on a Debian or Ubuntu system, I'd be using dozens of non-packaged applications though (Be they locally compiled from github, or flatpacks or whatever).
My bet is on digital currency. Your wallet will be able to send and receive from other wallets locally. Not like crypto. No distributed ledger. You will make transactions locally. You can't just alter your balances though because they are encrypted. Not sure how you get data in or out without keys though. FHE will be a part of such currency though.
There’s always more work to be done. Doesn’t mean it’s worth doing.
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours – Wikibooks, open books for an open world
At least that's how he frames it
No idea lol! Though it says it works on all 32 bytes in parallel regardless of input size. I imagine ignoring the bits that don't change would be some sort of security vulnerability? You could probably work out some timing attack or entropy reduction otherwise? They state it should take the same duration regardless of the length of the input string or how much needs to be capitalized (all branches are executed even though many are discarded)
> If you delete intellectual property value, what do you expect to happen?

Ever noticed the boom in free software?
> I wonder who might benefit?

The shareholders, for whose purpose the business exists, are the ones who will benefit, and they deserve to.

Don't forget that most of the employees are also shareholders and most of them make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the stock.

It sucks that people get laid off, but a large portion of the employees were lucky to be hired in the first place, because of the crazy growth that was enabled and rewarded by the market in the last few years. They made a lot of money and now they have to look for work again. It's not like laying off factory workers.
I mean, they all have sound :-)

That's a good point—it has synchronized sound, not just a vaguely-connected soundtrack, though it's not properly a "talkie", either. I was thinking more of the form, pacing, and presentation, though (I did, shamefully, get The Great Dictator entirely wrong by classing it as a silent, as another poster pointed out)
I strongly disagree with that. The speed at which a human brain can output junk is non-zero but it is a lot lower than that which an AI can do. The fact that both eventually use the same transport mechanism doesn't really matter, the fact that we're talking about many orders of magnitude in difference of output speed is the thing that is relevant. A sufficiently large jump in quantity is a jump in quality! See also: spam.

And no matter what the quality of the author's writing that in particular is a valid point and even if the rest of the article detracts from that point through its quality that doesn't mean that you should reject the whole thing out of hand, but rather that it pays off to sift through the mess to see what stands and what doesn't, a bit like that HN appeal to use the principle of charity.

And if you do decide to reject an article out of hand then you might as well not comment on it. Because then effectively you too are guilty of what the author rails against.
An opinionated list of resources for learning Haskell
Texas’ Swimming Holes Are Drying Up
> Hiring standards must have fallen if they added people so rapidly

I have been hearing this about Meta / FB for the last 10 years. This line of thinking is overly simplistic. If a company like FB wants to ramp up hiring, they have many tools at their disposal. Hiring bar isn't the only tool, or even a very important one. Things they can do:

1. They can really jack up the compensation package and signing bonuses
2. Open offices in places where they didn't have any presence
3. Open up to remote work
4. Allow flexible hours
5. Increase retention through outstanding perks and benefits
6. Scale hiring efforts - expand the recruiting org, train more employees to conduct interview, reward employees for referrals and conduct interviews
7. Expand outreach into communities from where we historically didn't get much applicants

Meta tried everything above, and possibly more. Hiring bar doesn't matter when you have boatload of money.
What gatekeepers are there with open source?

I don't recall asking anybody for permission to develop the D programming language and give it away for free.
Thanks for assuming I wouldn't know the basics of the philosophical questions I was asking, but I do. Also the phrase 'there is no who only thoughts without subject' does nothing to explain my subjective experience. It's not simple or obvious and I have been wondering and reading on it for decades. A couple of throw away lines won't enlighten me.
If the parent is talking about who I'm pretty sure they are talking about (Bridgewater Associates) it's absolutely not just about investigating production bugs for them. It's about finding the truth of a given situation and working to improve the processes and understanding that led to the problem. You can find out more about the philosophy behind this by reading Ray Dalio's Principles, the published version of which is close enough to the version that everyone at Bridgewater gets a copy of when they walk in the door and is treated as almost a bible[1]. In particular read up about the 5-step process which is what they are talking about here unless I have completely misread.

I didn't work for Bridgewater but I spent some time working at Bridgewater (for a vendor).

Edit to add: Bridgewater's diagnosis process typically goes waaaaaaaay deeper than your standard 5-whys. Like the difference between the doctor just taking your blood pressure and the full physical where they put on the rubber gloves.

[1] Like literally. People will quote principles to you by number if they think you have violated some of them.
Obviously, I'm not :)
Is there more information on how the website was developed? I can't find out with which content management system or framework the website was implemented. I am interested in that now.
A Lost World: On Travis Zadeh’s “Wonders and Rarities”
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

Looks like a naive statement to me, not defamatory.
Use the native Linux file system instead of /mnt/c and it’s basically native, as it should be, since it’s a hyperv vm under the hood.
- It is like combination of forums and Chat , every messages needs a topic

- Topic can be organized easily and smart

- Full markdown + Topic + Back referencing topics so you can use it creatively , a a chatroom + knowledgeable system.

- Well architect , well documented , all architecture decisions are documented , code is very readable and modifiable (i modified it to make it work like a realtime project management system and we ditched odoo , jira ) .

Here is what zulip with topics look like :

https://imgur.com/a/D0JINo1

Here is how we modified and patched it to become a realtime
project management system.

https://imgur.com/a/9hM0gwy

https://imgur.com/a/LB2teYl

https://imgur.com/YOWDNg7
> Artificial intelligence might end the world. More likely, it will crush our ability to make sense of the world—and so will crush our ability to act in it.

Don't worry. It is just a recurrent hype. In 30 years it will come again.

Today the only use for "AI" seems to be deep fakes and the spread of dissinformation.
How has the Database Engineering team faring? Looks like RocksDB is still being updated regularly which is a good sign.
I blame people like the author for the coming world war (technically we're already in it but it's not massive yet).

They just regurgitate narratives without ever having an original thought and they don't understand they're lead to war step by step.

Then, once the war reaches their country they will wonder how all of this could have happened.

It seems humans never learn.
As a man I can't run around naked without being a public disturbance (at least in my country) a woman however can. So this seems to be just fair /s
If we disregard a small command line utility and look at a larger software package, so that it already does network connections (or won't function) then the key thing is TRUST. That can be achieved by organizational transparency, open protocols, open source. It's hard and slow to build and easy to tear down. But if you use the software, you trust the provider.

The simplest argument for this is: if you don't trust the provider then why on earth would you trust that the "no" actually means no!? The compromised or evil organization would send your data anyway. And if they are really evil they wouldn't do it as part of the telemetry they'd just exfiltrate it in whatever way necessary. That's why I think the telemetry thing is a much smaller issue than it seems when it comes to privacy. It's already blind faith.
> He muttered to himself that hence that proves grasshoppers use their legs to hear

Not quite, but the location of the grasshoppers hearing organ is actually quite close to the legs!
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Modern medical care, sanitation, and fantastic dietary options seem pretty great, sure would suck a lot to miss out on those.

Stuff like the internet is what I would call a mixed bag. I think we really underestimate how incredible it is to be able to look up how to do anything, fix anything, learn anything pretty much in a few clicks. Yet the para-social stuff is the new cigarettes. Pro-Ana and Incel communities being rather extreme examples of this where men and women are getting severely depressed over 5 pounds or a few millimeters of chin where they proceed to talk eachother into starving to death or getting limb lengthening surgery and well if they’re doing it you have to do it too if you want to keep up…
What even is the finish line?
Ehhh, it's not quite that cut-and-dry. Hormones are a fuck

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia
Reenable Azure Function if it has been disabled due to exceeding the quota limit
That's a good point about use cases.

In my usage of ChatGPT, in areas I'm very knowledgable. I've mostly received answers that were stylistically excellent, creatively plausable and maybe even transcendent. The boilerplate around the answer tends to keep the answers grounded, though.

In areas where I have some experience but not much theoretical knowledge, after multiple exploratory questions, I better understand the topic and feel ok adjusting my behavior appropriately.

I haven't relied on it in areas where I am ignorant or naive e.g. knitting, discriminatory housing policy or the economy in Sudan. Since I have no priors in those areas, I may not feel strongly about the results whether they are profound or hallucinatory or benign.

I also haven't used it for fact checking or discovery.
I think MPGe should absolute be far better promotes. Strong agreement.

But, at the same time, I think the much better efficiency also cloaks a very real issue about what energy costs, which seems like a huge problem. It just seems inexcusable that energy from the pump, likely at best drilled for, piped, shipped, refined, piped again, trucked to stations, and then pumped to your car should be way cheaper than local renewables.

But often, gas is way cheaper per unit of energy, and that seems wrong. According to https://gasprices.aaa.com/ the average gas price in the US is $3.416/gallon. The EPA declares that a gallon of gas is equal to 33.7 kWh. So gas is available right now at 0.10136$/kWh equivalent.

I can't be too outraged, because turning gas to electricity has a very significant loss, where-as what you get from an electric charger may well end up being 90%+ efficient in converting to motive power; that's those MPGe's kicking in. But it still feels maddeningly wild. Why is such an inefficient & far-off, refinement-intensive & crude source of power so much cheaper (for so many) than the power-grid, which has such higher generation efficiency even with fuels, and has such altogether mild distribution losses? How can we scale up renewables faster, in a way that brings prices down? And gas prices have remained absurdly mild for so long.
shareholders benefit when a company streamlines its operations. seeing as most meta employees are shareholders, they would benefit. a company cannot grow infinitely. any temporary bump in share price will only matter and sustain if the cuts actually help the company. getting laid off is hard, no doubt, but as long as the severance packages are fair I don't see any ethical issue here.
In conclusion, Asia is a land of contrasts.
Hook up gigs and then just get them to do the work, or what do you mean?
>Spices are plant parts.

That made me think, are there animal-derived spices? Obviously there are some mushroom ones (truffle salt), but animal? Maybe some insect?
Wow, I'm usually patient through slow "reveal" videos but I was surprised to feel disgust at how slow the pacing of that video is within 5 seconds. The very first non-black half second where it just showed the outline subconsciously triggered something that made me realize that this video is going to have terrible pacing.
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Thanks.
Shes done a few underpaid gigs and volunteering gigs.
Also done some bartering gigs.
How do you progress from there?
The AI apocalypse has already come for LinkedIn. I swear people are using ChatGPT to churn out posts now. Not that there was much worth saving there in the first place (it's a perfectly good chat app for recruiting with an awkward Facebook feed attached) but it is weird to see people debase themselves so.
It’s a good question but my sense is that database engineering is pretty damn critical for Meta.
It's the nature of most types of volunteering work. If you sign up to be the conductor of your local choir, you have the same thing. People start expecting you to do stuff. If you're going to be in that role, as ploxiln says, you need to be OK with that part of it. You have to be OK with the thanklessness of the task, and you have to seek your rewards elsewhere. Still, I feel very sorry for zloirock, and I hope that he gets some kind of compensation for his work, at least enough to get his life back together.
Episodes 35 and 36. Thanks for admitting you haven't actually watched GaoGaiGar, by the way.

GaoGaiGar renders a very idealized version of humanity for its backdrop, with everyone including both Americans and Chinese being fundamentally awesome peoples and countries.

As for Fuuryu and Rairyu, the aforementioned Chinese robots, they were originally programmed to be more militeristic in their thinking and regard human lives as a lower priority compared to Hyoryu and Enryu, their Japanese robot siblings (they are all identical models, barring equipment), who were programmed as rescue robots and thus considers human lives a top priority.

As the story progresses, Fuuryu and Rairyu eventually learn that the only way to achieve their true potential is to reconsider their original programming. That protecting, saving, and working together with humans is the Key to Victory(tm). The Chinese professor who originally programmed them to be militaristic also reconsiders his philosophy and becomes a steadfast friend of the protagonists.

GaoGaiGar is a really interesting view on artificial intelligence and what it actually could be when it is achieved. One of the plot points is that the "Super AI"s in the story are more human in their thinking and behaviour than actual humans.
Before Vulkan, if you wanted to do graphics debugging like step-through on pixel shaders, your options were Direct3D + PIX or, if you had access to them, game console dev tools. Maybe Apple had something?

Obviously, lots of games only had an OpenGL backend. So those devs simply didn't have access to those tools. It's the one outlier API with bad tooling.