skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really isn't a lot of multi-country advertising in Europe. You're going to run into bigger problems than showing correct VAT rates - language being probably the most obvious one, but also different regulatory requirements for things like mandatory warnings, watershed rules, etc.

In practice, advertising is always going to need to be adapted for every European market.
>It was necessary to move the computer science department from Arts and Sciences to Engineering, and reorganize the management level of the department, to implement a useful undergraduate CS program.

Why was it necessary? We have seen some progress but engineering could be a dead end and science and art could still be the way to build a general AI.
And now they'll finally fix it, as they have no other choice. You can thank MS for that.
I always hear about selling data. What is all this data worth? If I had an etsy shop or a chess site, do companies want to buy this data? and for how much and for what? Credit-score modelling?
This was quite slow and never worked for 100K rows 20 columns. Any work on improving performance ?
Sure, it's obviously possible. If it weren't there would never be new actors on the scene.

But the number of times I've heard directors and such tell stories about how they wrote a line for a non-speaking part as a favor to the actor in the role, solely to allow them to get their SAG card, is disturbing.

It's indicative of a high degree of gatekeeping.
Ask HN: How can I set a hard limit in my AWS account
I'm wondering if anyone has found a good way to set a hard limit in AWS.
Most sources say that it is not possible [1], and the AWS documentation only shows you how to set alarms and budgets [2].
Is there anyone who has tips and/or tricks on how to prevent overnight disasters that leave you in debt because some serverless function has been consuming too much time/cpu, or spammers found a way to fill up your S3 bucket or databases?

There should be a way to stop all your resources when you reach a certain billing limit, no?

[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/aws-billing-limits/
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/control-your-costs-free-tier-budgets/
I had to go check and see if that was a basecamp product, style looked very similar on first glance
Edward Avedisian, a Clarinetist, Gave Away More Than $125M
> I've seen plenty of cheaters, they were the worst students

In other words, you haven't seen the "cheaters" who were among the best students.

"cheaters" in quotes because it's not clear to me that people using freely available resources when doing homework are really cheaters. If an instructor wants to do a closed-book exam, they can do just that.
Well, as far as I know, that is an special case of an essay.
And this you can test onsite.

The kind of essays I had to write in schools were more about nice sounding words and less the content. CheatGPT can produce nice sounding words, so I am hoping that the focus will move towards rewarding content.
Ericsson to Cut 1,400 Jobs as Orders Slow
I had some people visit from London and after seeing my average 2 bedroom apartment in Australia, acted like I must be some kind of multi billionaire. Uh, no, this is what the average person here can afford.

I can’t imagine how bad the standard of living in the Uk has got.
It's not about the actual impact of the words or anything like that. It's mostly tribal signaling - the current victors of the culture war desecrate their enemies cultural milieu. Rewording books, tearing down statues, demonizing past heroes, etc.

People will come up with other justifications (it causes harm, it's wrong, it's not inclusive) for why they're doing the above, but as all morals are ultimately relative (and thus their reasons are relative), it's just a means to an end.
> and the culture might turn away from harping on white privilege all the time

I agree this is interesting to watch. Minorities have more voice in the culture as the demographics change, and some in the majority want to push back. Identify politics is toxic, no matter where it comes from. Too many media organizations and politicians (on both sides of the aisle) want to take advantage of people's fears.
can you really patent AI?

Also seems like AI innovation is moving faster any patent system could help.
I like your four day interval - was the reason you choose this to not spam people?
Yeah, I think that is a totally reasonable set of feelings to have. The recent wave of layoffs seems to be about something very different than P&L. I thought this McSweeney's piece portrayed it well: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...

> There’s no easy way to say this: I have made the difficult decision to lay off over six thousand of you. In the past two years, we have achieved huge wins together. But unfortunately, the macroeconomic environment has shifted in ways none of us could have foreseen, from an economy in which I did feel like paying you, to one in which I’d rather not.
> "the old men shouting at clouds" (ahem... I mean "old people shouting at clouds" xd)?

Unless there was an earlier reference, this was from The Simpsons, where Grandpa Simpson was the subject. In this case "old man" would be correct and doesn't need to be de-gendered.

To the more general point, society and culture changes and (hopefully) progresses and improves. While this is uncomfortable for those of us who learned our societal norms a generation or two ago, and need to change our habits, I think it is an inherent feature of a healthy society. Thus it will be an ongoing issue, and is perhaps made even more prominent by today's faster and wider communications channels.

Thus while on a specific issue (Dahl's books in this case), there is no absolute right or wrong, there is moral relativity where everyone's starting point is different. Society as a whole, hopefully made up of reasonable voices, will work out the answer. Which of course, can change again over time.
I think you should add [video] to the title
This isn’t too different from requiring students to write essays. No one actually needs another essay about Shakespeare or whatever, and ChatGPT could do it for you, but the point of the exercise is to learn to write. It’s the process, not the product that matters.
My perspective here is viewing essays as a pedagogical tool - currently when we design a process (course/module/lecture/other content) for people to learn something, essays are one option that can be used when the intended activity is for the learner to study something and reflect on it for some time in order to achieve the desired learning outcome (and there's all kinds of pedagogical theory to judge when this is useful and when something else would be more effective instead). It's a means to an end, and that end is effective learning of something we've decided to be worth learning.

In this case, the main point of an essay is effectively as a "proof of work" token, to use a cryptocurrency analogy - and just as with cryptocurrencies, if some shortcut is found that allows faking that "proof of work" then the whole process starts to become shaky. In this case we don't really want to abandon that core work done by the learner (since in some cases we have good reasons to prefer that particular type of work) but this rises a need to some alternative to essays that would achieve a similar result but not be as vulnerable to fakes.

But regarding your initial point - IMHO if at some point we decide that people don't need to learn mental skills such as analysis of concepts because an AI can do all of that better, that certainly might be possible at some point, but at that point the whole notion of "why study stuff" disappears as well; I'd say that we stop needing to train people for that when we stop needing to train people, period; when the whole notion of studying any mental skill becomes as irrelevant as studying chess is now, and we can simply shut down higher education as such. And we (and our discussion) are not yet at this point, for now we still do care how to train people to do all of that.
The Harrier, Osprey and the carrier variant of F-35 are real world aircraft that point the thrust vector at the ground for takeoff and landing, then rotate it to the back for forward flight.
yes, it's hard, I just lost 2 hours and still haven't figured out level 1
One strategy is to just always be blogging about problems you are working on, the audience being you three years from now when you forgot the context and have to solve the problem again. Best case, you now have an interesting blog related to something you have expertise in, worst case, you have a highly useful "lab notebook" for yourself you can always parse. "problems" could be things from work or from your hobbies.
If we were to colonize Mars, (better) Ceres, or another star we would need some kind of manufacturing technology such that a tiny population (say 10,000 people) could manufacture absolutely everything to reproduce civilization.

Eric Drexler was working for Gerard K. O’Neill on space colonies when he came to the conclusion that such manufacturing technology was necessary and he then started working on molecular assemblers. At least one of the two routes that he considered seems non-viable today, but I can’t believe there isn’t some kind of macromolecular system similar to the DNA-RNA-protein system that is better performing. Or for that matter some other path to self-reproduction is possible.

Such a system would be quite useful to an AI that wanted to outlive humanity.

There are many things that will push people to develop advanced manufacturing such as deglobalization, decarbonization, space industrialization, etc.
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A lot of time is saved by chatGPT. But we need to get better at testing and debugging.
>HN's tendency to GPT whenever exposed to something it doesn't know about is driving me nuts today. :-)

today? checks created date.

I mean, lol, this place was basically blasting anyone who dared say GPT Bing was going to be less than the revolution of our lifetimes. Right before it went off the rails.
So really we are just recreating windows auth
i feel like there's a difference between the author themselves doing the rewriting (which i'm fine with, because you're essentially just publishing a new edition of your book), and someone else who just happens to own the IP doing the rewriting (which i'm a bit uncomfortable with, regardless of what exactly is being changed).

it's like if a painter adds something to an already-completed artwork that they had painted and then describes the result as a refined version of the painting (fine), vs when someone who just happens to have bought the painting adds something and then argues that the resulting painting is now the "official" version of the painting, while still naming the original painter as the creator (not fine).
I haven’t been following the news lately but early on in the war it was obvious to me that the U.S. media was at least minimizing reports of Ukranian casualties, and possibly inflating those of Russia. This is “expected” since we are aligned with the former
Pretty much every single fable and tale out there have been rewritten to suit modern tastes.

The Sleeping Beauty is raped in her sleep, Little Red Hood fills up the wolf with stones after it has been cut in half to rescue her grandmother, and Cinderella has a confusing relationship with incest.
I'm pointing out that it's inconsistent.
I have started inputting a custom amount. Recently, I've noticed some places keeping the machine out of my hands and flat out asking, "what should I do here?"

It's way over the top aggressive now.
> At the end of the day, voting on proposals is not a terribly effective nor scalable form of democratic governance.

What isn't effective enough? What do you envision going better?
I have that exact card, this maybe the nudge where I remove windows from the computer and try out linux gaming (and local GPT)
The whole point of Roald Dahl's children's books is to be enjoyed by children, not middle aged (small c) conservatives. These aren't works of Great Western Art(tm), but works of fun and whimsy meant to entertain and delight. I want a world where as many children as possible can continue read and fall in love with and be inspired by Dahl's stories and ideas. Losing that would be far worse than any imagined loss these minor changed might bring.
Alpine is great, and I have nothing bad to say about it. I'm curious though: what sharp corners have you found with apt? I've been a Debian user for 20 years and I've never had any problems relating to apt/dpkg.
You seem confident that it won't get worse, but it's only as good as its training data. Which is the internet. What happens when the internet is filled with generic Gen1 output? I'm doubtful copy averages can ever lead to anything other than increasing mediocrity.
There are almost 200k IP in that file. Would it not cause a performance issue for your OS to have that many routes to lookup ? Even if it is still way better than using iptable.
The ship in the article is a Ro-Ro car carrier. No cranes required so the optimal vessel to start with.
I would agree with dusted about encoding the state of the game, but if you don't want that you don't need to pay 50 bucks a month for something that simple.

6-12 bucks will get you a more than powerful VPS, and Amazon S3 will be pretty cheap for this and allow you to set a policy that all storage expires after n-days, which will prevent this for exploding too much.

S3 is expensive for storage, but you are dealing with data at the kilobyte level, where it does not matter.
Communication as a critical business skill
OpenGL already has a client/server model (i remember a friend of mine once showing me running some OpenGL stuff from his SGI to his Linux machine... or the other way around, it has been years :-P) and i can't think of anything in WebGL that couldn't work in the same way (though i only used WebGL very little). Sending commands and data over a file handle fits this fine.

Note sure about WebGPU though.
hah, I just did. hint: it was the url :)
It doesn't matter if that's how a barber typically works. Your average consumer doesn't and shouldn't have to understand how every business they frequent works behind the scenes. I shouldn't need a degree in economics just to get a freakin' hair cut.
20% is fine for a haircut. It's perfectly acceptable.
All this tells us that whiteboard interviews are here to stay.
Sure, but once it becomes commercially useful in creative works that will likely change.
Exactly. At points during a pairing interview when I get asks for more details on requirements, I'll make sure to reply with something like, "Which do you think is better for the user?" It turns out most developers have a pretty good sense for this, even if they're not used to being able to use it.
the water cycle. more important than ever.
With Obsidian and an add-on you can output html pretty quickly (even with some CSS I believe)

So from writing to publishing is a short flow.
There is a need for security that is not addressed: install WP and some few plugins and your site will be hacked automatically.
There's a big difference. Adaptations are new works based on the original. The original work is still available to enjoy or critique in its original form.

However, these new editions are effectively replacing the old ones. I don't so much mind them rewriting the books so long as the originals continue to be published. However, I don't expect that will be the case. Eventually, anyone going to a bookshop to buy one of Dahl's books will struggle to find the original version. That's a real shame, I think.
If some places need to change their interview practices, I think it means they've been doing it wrong all this time. You ask them to write some code, then to explain and justify it. Whether or not it has been mostly written by an LLM really shouldn't matter... (leaving aside edge cases preventing to use some tools)
So what? You haven't proposed a viable alternative. None of those examples are relevant.
It's 10x harder because you are doing something counter-cultural and pro-social. The global economic system is structured to prevent you from doing precisely that.

The systems and processes for running a psychopathic corporation are laid out like the Netflix Paved Path for anyone who wants to play the game of "get as much as you can." This path will push you to build the most exploitative thing there is possible in order create maximum returns for capital (even if that becomes you). The end result is what you see: GE, Exxon, Amazon, Wal-Mart, BP Google, etc... an organization with no long term goal other than making money for investors. Is that your definition of "Working out over the long term?"

How about we build a real strong community where we're all owners and we have a say in how the process works, we share in the wins and the losses and don't screw anyone over ever. It's possible, yet somehow all of my fellow geniuses - despite all our ingeniousness - can't unpack this super simple problem that cooperatives around the world have been solving forever. Oh sorry, a few anecdotes about some failed ones and some old hippies that fight yet retain amazingly robust communities, means it will never work.

The systems and processes for "share everything from the beginning" - while working within the economic system that exists today - that's severely underdeveloped and needs thousands of former-capitalists like you and me to start putting the work in to change it.

Or you can build yet another private dictatorship cause it's "easier" for you.
Norfolk Southern eliminated key maintenance role in derailment area, union says
I don’t know where you’ve worked but you can choose to not let your employer deduct anything. Normally it’s done automatically to ensure that you don’t get it with an unaffordable tax bill at the end of the year.
You’re missing the point. The people that would apply would happily pay the increased tax rate because their annual income is going to be <20k euros and they’ll receive far more in benefits.
Exploring Rare Centurion History from the Co-Founder [video]
> If I were a teacher...

You'd be wondering how the heck you get out of a profession where pay is stagnant, the backlog of problems has been growing for a long time, and the minimization of resources to deal with has been in the wrong direction for a long time. You'd join the league of "you can never go wrong hiring another administrator" or exit for some related parlayable field in industry and throw your hands in the air with a "somebody else's unsolvable problem" disgruntled attitude.
There's a wide difference between hyping something you believe has value, and hyping something you _know_ doesn't.
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Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives
> Apparently, it's not even something students feel they need to hide.

Why would you feel the need to hide it? It's a tool, it's not like the library, other professors, your friends, Sourcegraph or StackOverflow is cheating. Trying to argue why GPT is cheating is just going to devolve into "you can have outside help, as long as it isn't too good for some arbitrary line.
good point - gdpr.
That's quite a universal statement.
Yep. I read a blog post once about how the Marvel Cinematic Universe ought to be the shared collective "mythology" of American society the way ancient Greek myths (Zeus, Hera, etc) existed. But, it can't be, it never can be, it never will be, because of copyright. No one gets to publish their own stories about Iron Man and Captain America.

Regardless of your opinions about the MCU and whether you actually feel this is part of your culture or whether you'd like it to be, I think this point is very salient. We're deprived of a collective mythos because of IP law.
Sorry just s*** posting. But yes, is ChatGPT the v1 of talking to the Internet or was that Siri?
One of the funniest onf these "Beat it to death with the PC stick" re-writes was when the Enid Blyton Famous Five books were dragged into the 21st century with "Famous 5 on the case" [0] featuring the children of the original Famous Five.

This featured such mind-boggling concepts as:

>Jo Misra (short for Jyothi, a Hindi word meaning light.) She is a 12-year-old daughter of George Kirrin, and like her mother before her is a tomboy...

Given that everyone who ever read the Famous five realised in later life that "George[ina]" Kirrin was obviously going to grow up er... "not that interested in men", shall we say?... the fact she had a mixed-race daughter with an Indian bloke, is quite a surprise.

Ironically, the original books have now leap-frogged the excerable rewrite in PC box-ticking, as the original George character can now be viewed as being a very early positvely portrayed "trans" character:

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“I say! Are you Georgina?”

The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy’s. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father’s.

“No,” she said. “I’m not Georgina.”

“Oh!” said Anne, in surprise. “Then who are you?”

“I’m George,” said the girl. “I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won’t be. I don’t like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You’re to call me George. Then I’ll speak to you. But I shan’t if you don’t.”

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[From "Five on a Treasure Island"]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_5:_On_the_Case
Wasn’t that also the auto_ptr/uniq_ptr transition too? Not that only one change like that means you’re wrong, or course, just testing my recollection since I’m obviously a bit off in my timelines.
With the general shift to remote-first, it's a lot more difficult to verify that your whiteboarder isn't ChatGPT-ing just off-screen.
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I certainly wouldn't patronise a publisher who saw fit to put any such warning in one of Roald Dahl's books.
Tech isn't particularly complicated from a legal perspective especially in this case. Regardless of whatever algorithms or infrastructure being used to power it, Twitter and Google function mostly as media companies. Section 230 was put together in a completely different political and economic environment than what we have today--granting tech firms powers they would've unlikely been able to secure at any other time. If they lose the case it won't be because the Supreme Court doesn't "understand".
Exactly.

It's sad because (despite being mostly on the left) I used to read the Spectator, in a "hear the other side, challenge your own point if view" way. And it was good. Decent pragmatic right leaning people. Then in the run up to Brexit it just sort of fell apart. Out was anyone with facts or reasons. In were pre-canned talking points, appeals to emotion and bare faced lies.
It will probably never be considered, but there is nothing that requires "recommendation algorithms" to be the exclusive domain of Big Tech. Internet users can run such algorithms client-side on subsets of downloaded data, having no need for Big Tech's massive scale requirements. Unlike Big Tech, such users are not trying to surveil the internet use of others for advertising purposes. They are usually just searching for information.