skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep saying that it's difficult to address, but it's such a gross gross deep & harmful iniquity. Trying to keep absurd promises that could never be satisfied going as long as possible, and leaving the rest of civilization out to dry to do it, needs to face the reckoning it inevitiably smashes us all upon sooner. Do it now. This may be "legal" but it's deeply immoral & unjust & it's perpetuation de-legtimizes the idea of government rather than preserves it.

These promises of rights were vastly out of proportion. They were granted at no charge. We should have no compunction about saying no, now, while there is still some water left in the west & not just after it's gone & these folk again are left with nothing or radically reduced water. Letting the crisis overcome us & being afraid to rescind that-which-was-never-available is cowardly, invites true disaster.
In the UK we have the tax free allowances, but we start to lose them as we earn more. For instance, around £100k in earnings they start to tax your personal allowance so you are effectively taxed at 60%. You then move into 45% tax and then start to lose pension allowances at £250k.

First world problems, but these are all cliffs where it makes sense to keep your income down. Losing 20% off the top line will reduce your income by closer to 10% if my math is correct.

We have a problem in the UK with higher earners dropping out of the workforce partly because of the tax incentives. I personally choose not to work as an employee in the UK because I would be paying more than 50% in tax.
I think you mean plywood, not particle board. Very different things. Particle board is crap.

You can also construct with hardwoods in a way that prevents warping and cupping, like using rift sawn cuts and orthogonal grain joiniery. It’s not some secret, this is taught in woodworking 101.

I’ve built a lot of my own furniture with hardwoods and none of it has warped in a decade.
Indeed I had missed the fact that it was dev oriented. My bad.
+10

That’s common sense, otherwise we’re just not taking real-world problems into consideration.
My guess is it's related to the higher transistor count. The M1 for example has 16B transistors compared to the 5800U with 10.7B.
As I understand it, the actual processing part of most chips nowadays is fairly bespoke, with a decoder sitting on top. I doubt decode can make up that large a portion of a chips power consumption (probably negligible next to the rest of the chip?), so other improvements can make up for the difference.
Common sense is a dumb term because it tends to mean whatever the person invoking it considers good.

Having worked as a programmer since 1999, I can say that these things were not part of the processes and ideas when I started, at the places I worked. Interpret that any way you want.

I like agile/ scrum/ whatever and what I mean when I invoke those terms, is the list enumerated above.

I dislike the bullshit derivative terms, however. The burn-down charts, estimation poker, story points and all that. (Sure - the poker might trigger a thorough discussion about controversial estimations, so I guess I'll allow it.)

I also really dislike the concept of the daily standup for non-juniors.
Three Pages a Day
I found this to be a pretty expansive answer to this question: https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...
there is always a balance or tradeoff between convienence and security. If you maximize security, you will have a piece of software nobody wants to use unless there is a gun pointing at their head. Not that security is unimportant but please also keep user experience in mind when you design security.
Not sure if you mean this as an excuse? Because it isn't.
If great success to you is that they put the M1 and M2 in a tower, I don't know what to tell you. Intel, AMD, and the x86 industrial complex don't care in the slightest what instruction set your Mac runs
I think the key difference is that bisect refers to slicing something into equally sized parts. This is sometimes the case (see eg. git bisect) but bifurcating the problem space would be the more general term.
C’mon, do you really think the researchers here would say “well, he did send her a few DMs over TikTok before he got predatory so that makes him an acquaintance, not a stranger”?

No, the entire exchange from the first time he saw one of her videos and followed her would be part of the predation, ergo a stranger predator.
1993 (Unicode 1.1), according to a quick search
Yes they were really crowing about MI250X adoption and touting the upcoming MI300
Tangentially about web-based generative AIs as products, I sense an opportunity to innovate around the pain of their non-determinism, perhaps an enhancement to Web Browser "History" functionality.

Q: Is this general usability issue being discussed more, due to the growth of new product teams working with generative AIs?

Some discussion: I am drawn to wonder if there is an innate value to include permalinks (or semi-permanent) ... to save each query's results. Or perhaps do something better which I've not thought of yet.

The issue in more detail, (I'm naive on the subject so forgive the redundancy:) Results aren't highly deterministic - randomness and date-sensitive models seem to generate, probabilistically, different results for the same query. Especially for Generative AI products that exist as webapps, where hitting 'reload' could provide inferior results and simultaneously eliminates superior prior results.

Non-determinism is a 'surprise' quality which can enhance and degrade the value of a generative AI tool, in my experience when using this category of tools. It's fun (endorphin rush) to spin the Roulette wheel and query again. And it's painful when the prior results ranked More Useful in one's mind.

Ideally for usability's sake, these products would include some affordance to the user, to manage that endorphin / pain cycle.

[Note, A complication, here with PHIND being the context. PHIND's HTML renderer itself is being iterated on .. this is a product-launch after all. So, results also look different not for data/algorithm reasons.]

This could be realized as a web-browser feature - an enhanced History. The current "History" model of browsers is a trivial response to the REQUEST/RESPONSE HTTP mode. The HTTP spec (last time i read it was in 2005) leaned towards everything-is-deterministic except for time.

Example: I input this query https://phind.com/search?q=linq+query+to+filter+every+other+... and it listed one code snippet. I re-queried and received a different snippet. Honestly, I like both results. As of this moment I'm writing, I can only generate one of the two results.
> If we accept that Rust is indeed more difficult to learn than comparable systems programming languages

I do accept this, and I try to be honest about it when I'm shilling Rust :) But at the same time, I think it's worth pointing out that what we mean by "learn" can really depend on context. The subjective experience of learning a language looks something like "getting my homework done and turned in for a grade". And in that sense, for sure, learning Rust is harder than learning C. (I won't make a claim about C++.) But what percentage of people who have "learned" C can actually write UB-free C with any reliability? For the folks who really can write UB-free C, how many years did it take you to get to that point?
If you’re not using Chrome, then obviously you’re not the target demographic for Chrome extensions.
Isn't that the solution they came up with in Dune? The Butlerian Jihad?
A fast growing birch tree would be amazing. Baltic birch is an incredible material, I have two torsion box workbenches made of it.
Play Your Cardz Right – Project Zomboid
Fwiw I work right by the spheres and walk by multiple times a day and things are generally bustling. Restaurants and food trucks have lines at lunch time, buses are crowded, etc. and there’s been a clear trend over the past year. Try grabbing a salad at evergreens at 12:30 on a weekday if you don’t believe me.

So imo this theory doesn’t pass the smell test.
Intermation
I'm not even crazy about the original manifesto.
Let the Butlerian Jihad commence!
> you could live off of one salary and downsize / live frugally

I mean, sure, I do now, but I'm single and have no kids, and I make a tech industry salary.

Just some back of the envelope calculations suggests it's pretty damn impossible to raise kids on one salary now.
Thank you! I already gave up and just ssh to the server, but thanks for your comment. At least I figured out how the forwarding works.
> If you incorporated feedback along the way, then you did not do Waterfall.

Waterfall incorporates feedback. You must be thinking of something else.
Ask HN: What are your experiences/suggestions for a high-end silent setup?
Hello everyone,

I'm currently preparing a high-end, silent setup and would love to hear your advice and suggestions. I'm planning on using DDR5 7000 and an Intel i9 13900, to prep myself for the coming years. My Surface Book is a great example of a silent multi-core setup, even with a GTX 1060, so that's the level of silence I'm aiming for. Its in the whispering noise range so about 20-30 db.

I'm debating with myself if liquid cooling would be the way to go, but as far as I understand Fans can be better regulated and thus more silent?

The room where I'll be setting up the new build is climate-controlled, so I'm considering a larger and insulated case to help with sound dampening.
So, I'm turning to you guys for your insights and recommendations and most of all experience.

What components have you found to work best for a high-end, silent setup?

What are some ways to optimize a build for quietness?

Have you build an insulation chamber and did it catch fire?

Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

PS: I know that the most silent option would be to put the computer into another room, but that sadly not an option as there are no adjacent rooms. I could dedicate part of the room as a "serve room", but insulating that I am even more worried of suffacating the poor thing.
Generally you see this in the lower class chips that aren’t overclocked to within an inch of instability. It’s not uncommon to see a chip that uses 200w to perform 10% worse at 100w, or 20% worse at 70w.

I can’t be bothered to chase down an actual comparison, but usually you’ll see something along those lines if you compare the benchmarks for the top tier chip with a slightly lower tier 65w equivalent.
You sure? 7900 is probably better value but the 4090 outperforms it by at least 20% in games.
Bloop (YC S21) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer to Work on OSS AI Code Search
Hi HN,

You can join our team of ML, backend (Rust) and frontend (TS, React) engineers and work at the intersection of AI and developer tools.

Using our product, you can ask questions about large codebases in natural language, just like you'd talk to ChatGPT. You can also find code, paths and identifiers using regex and navigate defs/refs using precise code navigation. The project is open source (https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop) and is built from the ground up in Rust and Typescript.

Some highlights from the stack you’ll be working with:

- We ship a Tauri based desktop client, a new Rust based alternative to Electron. By indexing local repos, we bring code search to everyone’s desktop.

- We’re using a new vector search engine qdrant, written in you guessed it - Rust. This powers our low latency semantic retrieval.

- We’re one of the earliest production projects to ship with Anthropic AI’s Claude.

We’re looking for someone experienced, and we’d expect this to be apparent through:

- Creativity, obsession with visual detail and consistency

- Respect for team and process

- A wide comfort zone

- Passion for the craft, eg: mentorship, Open Source contribution or speaking at events

You’ll work predominantly on the frontend, which is deployed to both the desktop and cloud versions of bloop. Our current stack is React, Typescript and Tauri.

We’re an international remote-first team of 7 with offices in London. Preference will be given to those on GMT+/-3 as we’re not an entirely async company and this leaves the necessary overlap to collaborate. We get together about three times per year in-person to hang out.

We just raised $7m from top funds, namely LocalGlobe, Khosla and Sands Capital as well as leaders in the field like Hamel Husain who led GitHub's code search team. We also host one of the largest meetups on the subject, AI4Code London (https://ai4code-london.github.io/).

If you'd like to explore working with us, please reach out to me at louis [at] bloop [dot] ai with "HN Frontend Engineer" in the subject line and a note about why this is exciting and a link to your portfolio or linkedin/resume.
Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories
Both funny and interesting at the same time. Very nice work!
Wow. Deans are much more computer and tech savvy than students. AI is the way of the future, and the deans are embracing the new technology.

It's like cursive writing is not taught any more. Because things move on in technology.

AI is the way of the future. We should all take full advantage of it in any circustance.
We've banned that account. But since you've added a comment about HN, I want to say: it's unrealistic to expect such comments not to appear on any large, open internet forum. As anyone can create an account and post anything, anything that exists in society is going to show up here. All we can do is react once it does.
Many competitors and community recipes.
Interestingly different kind of experiment.

Wasn't its first effort sweeter than you requested, or did I get confused?
The conservation aspect is interesting... and not exactly forced.

https://calricenews.org/2021/09/01/flooding-opportunities-dr...

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1019488080

However, there are other questionable crops that are being grown in California and exported.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...

> In 2021, nearly 20% of alfalfa produced in the west was shipped abroad, according to analysis of United States Department of Agriculture data. Nationwide, alfalfa exports reached a record high last year, driven by strong demand from China. Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are among other top importers.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-...

> We make this business extremely profitable for them by selling them 3.4 million acre-feet (1 acre foot =325,851 gallons) of water every year for $35 to $60 per acre-foot. The water you get for your house costs you $800 per acre-foot today, and it could be double that in 10 years' time. You could supply the water needs of 40 million people with that 3.4 million acre-feet.

> ...

> Alfalfa is used to feed farm animals like pigs and cows. But we export 70% of what we grow in California to Japan and China. The Japanese raise Kobe beef with it and send it back to us for $200 per pound. The Chinese use it to raise pigs to meet their rapidly expanding demand for pork as they become more affluent and eat more meat.

> Why don’t they grow their own alfalfa? Because they are short of water and it is so much cheaper to buy ours. In fact, alfalfa has become an instrument for exporting subsidized water.

And while its from 2014, still applicable - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989

> "A hundred billion gallons of water per year is being exported in the form of alfalfa from California," argues Professor Robert Glennon from Arizona College of Law.

> "It's a huge amount. It's enough for a year's supply for a million families - it's a lot of water, particularly when you're looking at the dreadful drought throughout the south-west."
Kanji were also simplified but not necessarily the same way as simplified Chinese. Simplified Chinese also sometimes uses 'old' characters.

So sometimes modern Japanese is actually similar to simplified Chinese, sometimes it is similar to traditional Chinese, and sometimes it is unique. There is no simple 'fork'.

For instance, 円 (yen) is simplified Japanese and uniquely Japanese. It used to be same as traditional Chinese 圓. In Chinese it was separately simplified twice to its current form 元. So when you see prices in 円 in Japan and 元 in China it's actually the same original character simplified differently.

Interestingly, traditional Chinese 國 was simplified by reusing an old character and is now 国 both in Japanese and simplified Chinese but not in traditional Chinese.

Why not.
I absolutely need a cloud to blow on it from time to time!1 jk, great sim!
This is about housewares and design, if people are curious.
As the leaves begin to change color and the weather gets cooler, it's time to start thinking about fall fashion. For men, this season is all about layering. A stylish blazer over a sweater, paired with dark denim or corduroy pants, is a classic look. For women, oversized sweaters and jackets are on-trend, especially when paired with high-waisted jeans or leather leggings. Adding a touch of plaid or animal print to any outfit can also give it a fall twist. Don't forget about accessories like scarves and boots, which are essential for staying warm and fashionable. Whether you prefer bold or neutral colors, there are plenty of options for fall fashion that will make you look and feel great.
I'm wondering about the study ... I'm a complete novice so might get things wrong, yet the participant description has not much information (e.g. average, std of the age, gender etc.). N is also just given in the abstract.

Also the study does not mention how the experimental setup was:
"Subjects were administered a comprehensive psychometric battery of fluid and crystallized intelligence tasks,"

There can be substantial differences, just on how the experimental setup was administered (e.g. potential ordering effects between the tests) and when the scans were done.

Does anybody know if that's a standard procedure to determine "general intelligence"? Sounds vague to me.
I wonder if people are spending because they feel desperate or are having a kind of PTSD reaction to the pandemic. The money they got from the government has run out, credit card debt is reaching record highs once again, yet people keep spending. Maybe they still feel traumatized and are spending to make themselves feel better with new stuff. Maybe they just got used to overriding their budgets when certain types of spending seemed essential during the pandemic (storing more groceries meant fewer exposures for example). If so, raising interest rates is going to have zero effect on this kind of spending, though running out of credit could bring it to a halt (and likely trigger new problems). People keep saying there is a growing mental health crisis and maybe this is part of it.
Can you explain your thoughts? I remember there being some concern about the health impacts of seed oils, but I'm not finding anything conclusive. This article seems to cover quite a few arguments:

https://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/do-seed-oils-...
> it's entirely possible for a union to negotiate for personal offices instead of open spaces, for TDD, for proper Agile instead of Scrum, or anything else its members care about.

And this is why you can’t move your own table or plug in a power strip at tradeshows. The unions have a detailed contract about who does what when.

Imagine the work rules around scrum and agile, created by a committee of passionate union organizers negotiating with hostile managers. And imagine there is nothing you can do about them but hope your views prevail at the next union election.
>The future is RISC-V

I hope this never comes to pass, because a RISC-V future is a Chinese future.

A Chinese future will not be kind to western ideals that most of us hold dear.
> I'm not sure what "this context" refers to.

HN, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
As I wrote, I created it on my own. I'm the one that conceptualized the logo in great detail, but he did the actual design work according to my specifications. I would never be able to do the actual design, it's not in my wheelhouse. But the concept was mine.

If you have a crisp solid idea that you can explain in great detail, just about any graphic artist will do.

That's really the key to outsourcing anything. You have to have a crystal clear idea and the ability to communicate it.

It doesn't only pertain to logos. It's everything. You can't really ask for ideas that they have - it'll never be yours, never have your own originality.

I thought a lot about my logo - I didn't do it in 15 minutes. I kept rolling it around in my mind until it came to full fruition. It took about a month for the concept to really work itself out. I google searched on terms for graphic images that were similar to my ideas and saw other graphics that gave me ideas. I put my own twist on it. But I was able to send the guy about 8 different examples from other graphics but told him how it would be different. Mine was completely different from the ones that I searched for the terms on Google, but they gave the "flavor" of what I wanted, plus I added words as to what I wanted and what would be different. I love my logo.
Interesting.

I asked it to write an essay on a subject I'm interested in, and an authority on. The essay, without citation, quoted whole sentences from both me, and wikipedia, verbatim. This seems like a bad thing. Certainly you can't use articles it writes if you don't know if it's plagiarizing.
In my experience, if the management, processes and teams aren’t trusted then it can turn into unwelcome micromanagement.

Engaging with people, who have different motivations and reasons for being in a job, and stripping away often unhelpful implied titles of rockstar programmer to QA robot, can help everyone to see the big picture and in turn to see how their contributions, their cogs, fit into that picture.

Production-line programming can be left to new automated systems, whilst we can embrace and capitalize on people exercising their intellect for productive, feedback-oriented work.
Prompt framing?
Prompt optimization?
Spending $100K on AWS because of the feelgood of 2 day Prime delivery for unrelated products seems like a cancellation that needed doing anyway.
I've experienced this problem once on Windows when I've installed a free VPN and noticed that the list of permissions lacks some obvious points.
The private business in question will suddenly find enough time to fix the repeating problems, in that case, eliminating the need for overtime.
Yeah, exactly - what can't be enacted under the commerce clause. Everything impacts commerce, growing wheat on your own land for your own use impacts commerce. It's not legitimate. Once that door was opened, it went from enumerated power to anything not prohibited.
In the real world, we should start by replacing UDP first
Oh look, you named 4 areas where ARM development has already peaked. Hyperscalers are already looking to evolve from ARM in the near future, just look at how much attention Ventana got at RISC-V Summit. M1/M2 are Apple ecosystem specific phenomenon that haven't inspired any copycat products. Ampere has been a massive disappointment to everyone in the industry, see the fact that Nuvia had their entire business dead-to-rights pre-acquisition. ARM simply isnt at the cutting edge of the semiconductor industry anymore. Just because Apple and Qualcomm use it to great effect doesn't mean ARM is making any major innovative strides relative to the competition.
I’ve worked on the building of major resorts that many people in this thread have probably been to. I’ve seen this done well before, and I’m happy to compare credentials if that’s the route you want to go. Then we can see who LOLs.
What's that saying? Ah, found it:

"Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security."

If you maximize security, so that there is poor convenience/usability, people will find usability workarounds which compromise security.