skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh there's no way they're gonna use the camera or microphone. I assume they'd be trying to associate in-app behaviours to emotions. e.g. times you're opening the app, perhaps types of messages you're sending in their in-app messenger, maybe they'll seed you different types of videos in your feed and see which ones you're engaging with at the moment (the user is happy cause they stuck around for the cute puppy video. The user is angry because they watched and commented on a video about how JK Rowling eats puppies. etc etc)

Though none of this stuff really has to be directly tied to emotions. As long as they can link up user behavior to which ads are working, that's all that matters. If they're really calling it "emotion tracking" it's probably just a cute sales pitch to sell to advertisers.
> Good luck with purity.

Most of your counter example needs integration tests to test properly anyhow - not really a good point.

If you can give up encapsulation (which IMO isn't actually that useful in practice) and in return, your program becomes 95% functional, that seems like a really good tradeoff.
Hollow Knight was a two person masterpiece. Or maybe three including the musician?
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Is it really an elephant in the room?

Every time I’ve had a (luckily mild!) issue they’ve suggested lifestyle changes.
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But all of these models are learned from code written by humans. We've nowhere near enough "training data" to be able to generate all the software needed moving forward.
We go through this with reports we publish based on surveys sometimes.

There's one report we publish around November and we give it a title that includes the following year for the same reason. (The report body clearly spells out when the survey was in the field but we want the title to reflect when most people will actually read the report.)
> Hard to inspect but very possible test.

Probably, but is testing to the necessary level of correctness more or less effort than writing the code ourselves?
Similar work (with the same example) from last year: https://mahis.life/clip-fields
I use my company-provided M1 Pro MBP for mobile dev (Xcode, Android Studio) and battery life and heat are both great for that use case. Very rarely run Docker, but when I have it's seemed more resource hungry than anything else running.
Yes, DigitalOcean, who laid me off last week along with the entire writing/editing team for DO Community tutorials, also laid off some engineers, including most of the infra engineers, from what I heard. Not sure how they can get along without infra. Sheesh.

I think ChatGPT and the like is going to increase the efficiency of software engineers at all level, possibly obviating the need for entry-level coders.
Steamdb says

Terraria: 40-100M units sold

Hollow knight: 8-20M for just sold

Rimwirld: 4-9M units sold.
I'm sorry, but I just do NOT believe your implied claim, that you have personally verified all the scientific facts you believe in.
Tom from Myspace did it before Zuckerberg.
It's like you reached into my mind and transcribed my thoughts directly.
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Re >> "At what point does the belief that things will get better with more data fed into the same algorithm become a religious creed?"

Oh, ye of little faith! It is heresy to criticize our new religion! ~Some AI consulting firm or AI "thought-leader" probably.

Edit: I'm sure there are some useful use-cases, but I'm not an unquestioning devout adherent. That said, I should probably learn more about it just so I can intelligently defend the use-cases in which it doesn't make sense.
Tiktok ads are so easy to skip I barely notice them.
> Now that my frame “people in the past were dumb” was broken, suddenly hundreds of unanswered questions entered my mind.

> Most importantly, I started to wonder “what’s up with all these gods people used to believe in?”

I mean, a lot of people still believe in gods. I don't think you necessarily have to think people in the past were dumber than they are now, or had different cognitive needs than they do now, to explain gods.

(Jesus really was a mushroom though)
I have done professional work with HIV, not in the last 4 years but I doubt much has changed.

You’re repeatedly ignoring data showing you are wrong and in this case dangerously wrong. Read the damn paper I linked or any of several others which show the same thing. HAART is good but not perfect.
We did shift-sleep for the early weeks for all three kids (all ours were sleeping through the night by 3ish months, so it was never that long we had to do it, though) and I can't imagine doing it any other way. Couples who both get up for every event out of some apparent sense of either solidarity or resentment are just baffling to me. WTF, so you're both constantly running on like zero REM sleep? Jesus, that's like doing it on hard mode for no good reason.

The way we did it, we both got about six uninterrupted hours every week night, so it really wasn't that bad. Then alternate sleep-in days on the weekend, and you even get one really good 8+ (hell, sometimes 10 or more) hour sleep per week. Could have maintained that schedule much longer than we had to, really was totally manageable, if not exactly fun.
I had a PHP script that did this for a while — I would write the post itself by hand, then put it into a database; the PHP script would regenerate the site locally and take care of things like nav links; then I would rsync the static output to the web server. Once I figure out how to get it all running on the latest OS X again I'll use it again; I'm a big fan of this kind of setup. I'm sorry that I don't have specific tools to recommend for it.
> It's the way of the future.

For some use cases, sure. We go through painstaking efforts to ensure things like correctness, consistency, and idempotency for a reason though. Most things we want to be deterministic, and when something's not deterministic we freak out and fix it ASAP (including waking people up in the middle of the night to do so)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34496097
I’m not sure I manage to follow the author correctly, but to me it seems that by “mock” they strictly refer to external mocking libraries, in the sense of JS’s `testdouble` [1] or Java’s `Mockito` [2]. The static fake object as returned by `LoginClient.createNull().getUserInfo(...)` appears to be a “Nullable” for them.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/testdouble

[2] https://site.mockito.org/
I'm not sure who was advocating for North Korea making nuclear weapons in this exchange.
Just do what Brian Armstrong did. It seemed to work out pretty well for him.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664
> instead of staying at the injection site.

We've known that forever. There's been studies done with luciferase to see where the mRNA triggers protein production in small animals.

We know that a big portion of the activity is in the liver, distant from the IM injection site (a lot of the activity is at the site, too).

e.g.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624045/

"When mRNA-LNPs were injected intramuscularly and intratracheally, similar to intravenous and intraperitoneal deliveries, a large portion of the luciferase activity was detectable in the liver, demonstrating systemic spread of the nanoparticles."
Attorneys: associates, junior partners, senior partners, managing partners, named partners. Does not look like flat structure to me.
Where in Europe? Do you have any jobs going?
Thanks!

I took a look at a few of these, and some of them are maybe just strange bugs.

E.g. the Adobe PDF spec embeds almost everything including most versions of Myriad, just not those two you mention. Similarly the Apple Guidelines embed Palatino Roman and Standard (as TrueType), just not Bold (as Type 1).

The Media Kit one does just not embed anything though (no Avant Garde), so that's clearly intentional.

It does make me wonder if technical documentation intended for a specific platform would sometimes try to save space by not embedding fonts standard not to PDF but to the platform. E.g. Avant Garde has shipped with Macs for a very long time. Still, what a terrible idea.

But fascinating to see documents with these problems in the wild, first time I've ever come across it. Thanks for taking the time!
There was a game in the 90s called Quarantine which was about driving a taxi in a post-apocalyptic city. It’s sort of what you are suggesting in that your had to pick people up and drop them off while bandits try to kill you. That game has stuck in my brain and I always wish someone would remake it while being careful to match the grungey cyberpunk aesthetic.
We have working with an S3 backend in the upcoming features, agree it's essential.
I can run Windows or Linux on any computer for decades if I want to, and I have. Software is not the issue. The issue is that Macs are artificially limited by hardware, not the software that they run, although macOS deprecation can be a limitation. Computers generally become obsolete because of hardware limitations, and Macs have had had limitations imposed by soldered components like memory for more than a decade, now.
I might disagree here on some points.

Most Apple users aren’t power users, and they will run their computer to the ground or close too. I have entourage still using their 8-year-old iMac daily.

For power users that buy Apple, they tend to keep it for a few years, but they don’t throw it away. They resell it, and Apple laptops keep their value well over time. So it’s lifespan is extended, and the new owner didn’t buy a new laptop. And we’re back into my first point.

I have family/friend to whom I sold/gave Apple computers, and they’re still using them even on 10-year-old laptops (MBA core i5, MBP core i5).

So yes, you’re right, but it’s not all in absolutism.
I usually sleep 9h from 3 to 12.

But, when I was on a conference last year, where I had to get up early for events for a whole week, my rythm changed and I slept from 12 to 9.

This kept going on for two weeks or so, then I was back to my old schedule.
Plenty of people do multi day fasts on a regular basis. I know several people that do 10 day fasts every quarter. It is totally safe unless you are dramatically underweight to begin with.
TIPS have a real return of around 1.5% right now
I like Macbook hardware, but I left because MacOS is only getting worse. It's not hard to sympathize with others who feel the same. Nevermind the downward spiral of design trends and wasted screen space, Apple has made no efforts to improve MacOS as a compatible dev platform. UNIX certification means very little when the most popular open source software is broken out-of-box on your OS, and your hardware vendor actively avoids implementing open APIs like Vulkan. There's no point for me to buy a laptop that Apple owns.

For many people, it's less about the hardware and more about telling Apple to fuck off. I'm among the latter, getting kicked off MacOS when Apple made the overnight decision to depreciate 32-bit software. Onwards to greener pastures, I suppose.
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Mocks, especially spies, couple your tests to the implementation of the system under test. This leads to a very common code smell in tests: Fragile Test. The problem is that instead of being concerned only with behaviour, the test are knowing something about the implementation details of the SUT (dependencies are an implementation detail that consumers ought to be unaware of).

One of the major benefits of automated tests is that they can provide a safety net that allows you to refactor with less risk of breaking behaviour. If tests get in your way of refactoring, because changing the implementation details of your SUT cause your tests to start failing, then the tests have failed at being a tool to facilitate refactoring.
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If there are any Marijuana Testing Labs in Ohio, bring them a sample of water...

Almost all weed testing labs have these machines in them. SPECIFICALLY for toxic chemical (pesticide) contaminants testing. I'd bet any testing lab in Ohio would do this for free.
More recent for me was Factorio. I had to remove it from my Steam library entirely because I'd lose days per week otherwise.
It doesn't quite manage the google logo https://imgur.com/69t6bfK
It is weird that this doesn't exist. The algorithm is pretty simple and there are libraries for it, but I couldn't find a generic command-line tool that shows one after hashing any file.

This might be a cool contribution to coreutils (which contains the `sha256sum`, `sha1sum`, `md5sum`, ... programs)
My F-150 2013 is exactly that. Anything since 2013 is a touch screen for everything as opposed to a small display screen with physical buttons for everything.

You might just need to find an older used model that is in good condition.
- Minecraft was solo in the early days

- Dwarf Fortress

- Stardew Valley

- going way back, Tetris
Of course, ChatGPT can only respond about things already created, it cannot create new things. This would be AGI territory.
>the eye never sees itself.

A mirror: allow me to introduce myself.
I love that late 1930s idea. It feels like something that someone could make incremental progress on, too -- mock out the economic sim aspects in a text interface, and chew off the graphics when you're ready to tackle that.
How do they create more ewaste though? Like many others report my experience is that apple products routinely last multiple times longer than other tech.

I only just last week retired a MacBook bought in 2013, and it still worked just fine. Now someone else bought it and is using it.

Things like PCs and android phones usually have some combination of cheap materials, bloat/crap ware or poorly designed software stacks that don’t age well.

I used to own PCs, buy android phones, etc and the difference in longevity is incredible.
MQTT is usually the go to protocol for IOT devices. You can do MQTT over WebSockets to help prevent issues using odd ports on home networks etc.
> I felt like it? I'm not telling you what to do here, I'm just telling you my experience.

Also, it was news to me that the screen and trackpad are so easily replaceable/upgradeable, that there's such a community around it.

It's your comment that isn't adding anything.
I have had similar experiences. Are night owls perhaps just people who have a hard time putting down interests?
I wonder how all the nontechnical people using nightscout got by during this transition. Hopefully they're all doing okay and found another solution.
Again, expat relocation support is something companies do the world over. It was pioneered in Hong Kong and Singapore to assist European professionals.

It's rather silly to poffer caste privilege as an explanation just because the individuals in question happened to be Indian.
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MTG got to where she is because she was willing to parrot Qanon bullshit to gain the position.

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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-24/a-q...
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Your network is going to help you with this 10x as much as random matching would. I doubt random matching is even very successful, compared to organically finding a partner.

Ask around, see what people in your network know about folks who are building new things. They may even have ideas about folks who would build something if the right partner were to help them.
Never understood the need for meditation retreats. The only purpose of gathering would be to meet and converse with other people. Not to sit and listen to them breathe.
There's been works like 'McMindfulness' written about this, along with framings warning of practices of 'escapism meditation'
The article is vague, but OpenType CFF fonts remain supported. These are Type 1 outlines in an OpenType container. Type 1 fonts should be 1:1 convertible to OpenType CFF, techincally. The hitch for commerical users is that fonts often have ridiculously restrictive licensing forbidding this rewrapping.
They use the word mock several times to explain stubbing. I think they mean stubbing is a type of mocking not an independent approach. They even use a mocking library to create stubs in the Google article.
I have worked with a few such "strong personalities" and while I agree they can be slow on receiving criticism, I disagree that one should therefore resign to more forceful communication.

There are many alternative avenues in a professional setting when presented with an opportunity to argue, even if you're being blocked by a superior.

The crucial thing to remember is you cannot ensure your "social workaround" will work, but you can always ensure you act professionally. Whether that impacts the sprint is a matter of circumstance, but mild, cheery professionalism always improves the workplace culture.
> TikTok, when will you finally learn?

No. Users, when will you finally learn?
For other examples, see http://luc.devroye.org/randomizedfonts.html.

Amongst other things, assuming what that page says is true, only Type 3 fonts support that (randomizing glyphs at render time), not Type 1.
> But there are plenty of cancers that can and do occur in ones reproductive years, that start without pain.

So? The incidence of these cancers is insufficient to impact reproductive fitness in our species. At no point did I claim that all damaging processes must produce pain, I only claimed that all pain originates from evolutionary pressures indicating high chance of damage that does impact fitness. That also does not mean that presence of pain is always directly indicative of damage, because biology is messy and precision has a cost to fitness.

> At least you agree computation (a process) is not the important thing, but particles (matter).

Nope, not what I'm saying at all. The particles are a computation in a simulation, so the information content of the computation is what matters.

> Wow, now you're making a circular argument. Whats a “faithful” simulation of a human? How would we know it is “faithful”? What form would that even take?

A faithful simulation is clearly a simulation that contains all of the information content of a human and replicates the mathematical relationships that govern the operation of a human's mind. Since a human is a bounded volume, it contains finite information per the Bekenstein Bound, and is thus amenable to simulation, unless you are asserting some kind of non-physical dualism.

It seems clear that you don't yet grasp the argument being made so maybe you should reserve judgment, like calling the argument "circular", until you do properly grasp it.

> Let’s say ChatGPT becomes “sufficiently” advanced, and is hooked up to a sensor that records the temperature of the sun. Would it feel the heat?

It wouldn't feel heat in the same way that humans feel heat because its sensor and information processing is not mathematically equivalent to human information processing and sensory systems. That does not mean it wouldn't feel something like its own version of heat. A whole lot of vagueness hides behind your "sufficiently advanced".

If ChatGPT v10.0 did reproduce the mathematical relationships underlying human information processing and sensory systems, then yes, it would feel heat in precisely the same way as humans do.
Some other reasons to pick a 20 year old:

- They are willing to work long hours and sacrifice the life they mostly don't have yet for a 1% chance of success.

- They haven't figured out that the risk preference of someone diversified across 100 startups is incompatible with theirs, and they won't push back as much against moon-or-bust strategies.

- They have the highest fluid to crystalized intelligence ratios of their life, giving them an advantage competing in novel areas where there is no preexisting knowledge, like enterprise sales. ;)
Haha yeah. This is the Jedi meme.
Yup.

One of the foundational studies supporting SSRIs involved a model of "depression" which was regularly delivering electric shocks to mice. So SSRIs provide statistically significant improvements for mice being mildly tortured.

To be fair, this is probably a good model of what lots of people on SSRIs actually have as a life experience.

"Chemical imbalance", my ass.
A reasonable question. My answer is a lot of state in computing is digital. e.g. off, booting, loaded, running, paused, error. While this isn't an insurmountable hurdle, I would suggest the floating point arch of present AI would benefit from incorporating more discrete state.

Similarly, I don't whether AI weights are computed all in virtual parallel, but if they are computing every node simultaneously that will be less efficient than the Neumann model in which a Program Counter (PC) acts like a "cursor" hopping arund and iterating states of the discrete code model at points throughout it. E.g. a video game with a controller and various sprites will have objects that update at various rates and the player moves with different code underwater than in the air, than on land, so different parts of the model would execute.
There is a 0.1% chance they will tell you.
I think we call those "fakes", and reserve mocks for those tests that count the number of times a function was called, yielding "change detector tests".

Personally, I find it best to not be too concerned about the terminology, and make sure your test doubles get the data that the code under test needs to the place that needs it. The more real code you can involve in integration tests, the better; only look at replacing real code with test doubles if there is a performance or reliability downside. Databases have never hit that performance/reliability downside for me; network services do.
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