skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't work. You're effectively saying that if I create an army and simply steal from you, that is capitalism because its my own private army. It violates many tenets of capitalism. Buyers and sellers must act voluntarily and enslavement against the will of the slaves, certainly seems to violate this.

That said, even if you simply view the slaves as property with no agency of their own, my original point was more that you can't compare the net worth of the slaves against the slave owners in terms of value created.
It depends on what you charge your customers. But with higher commitments come lower costs. We will be dropping our cost down to .007 per GB when we hit a higher tier, but we can't do that commitment quite yet.
Is the difference made up by federal funding now then? (I don't know as much about federal school funding but it doesn't seem to scale by the number of students.)
The thing that worries me about the gap and short bursts of employment is me getting filtered out before I even get to speak to a human being. But I don't think there's any way of getting around that short of lying, which is something I'm absolutely unwilling to do.

Thanks for your response!
> Next major version comes in several years until then you get deprecate warnings, (...)

AKA churn. Breakage is not OK.

PHP breaking every couple of years and showering you with deprecation warnings doesn't fix that.

It's like saying: "In a month I will punch your face, you better make sure to wear a helmet!". Just because you said that doesn't make punching people's faces OK.

There are languages and tools that don't break within that time frame and there are languages and tools that _never_ break.

There are also better ways of breaking changes: If you do break then give me a canonical, reliable, automatic upgrade path that also rewrites vendored dependencies.

> (...) if you can't fix problems that will occur in 2-3 years you should think about your software development skills.

It's not that we can't fix them. It's that we have better things to do but _must_ fix them.

Many of those changes are not critical or security related. They are just changes for the sake of change without consideration for stability. Everyone hop into the hype and churn train!

The baseline expectation is that my fundamental tools are backwards compatible and stable. People also have dependencies, transitive dependencies and so on. Dependency management is already hard enough without breakage.

Without stability there must be some _major_ advantage that we cannot get anywhere else. Stability ensures that fundamental libraries and tools can be _done_ outside of voluntary optimization and extension. It means you don't have fix code in multiple places and multiple projects without a compelling reason.

That's what I was getting at.

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Note: There are good things about PHP and parts of it's ecosystem that I'm not talking about in this comment. This is a rant based on unnecessarily inflicted pain.
If they are legitimate services/blogs, they'll probably honor the unsubscribe link.
I mean, if we're being honest about where most sexual assaults/molestations happen: A school, a church, a trusted adult's home, a relative's summer cabin.

Everyone wants to talk about creeps in vans, it's the creep you know that's going to diddle your kid, statistically speaking, about 9 out of 10 times.

IDK that TikTok is making the problem worse, parents just have a lot of nightmares about how badly everyone wants to fuck their babies.
Gross profit doesn't include dev salaries, marketing or fixed costs such as offices. You're using the wrong metric.
It wasn't that long ago that buyers wanted racial segregation too: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten...

That's one of many reasons that a lot of the better reforms we're seeing are at the state level, where it's easier to do the right thing and where politicians are less beholden to a few local loudmouths.
Static analysis creates proofs, which is fundamentally different from tests. Merely testing AI output will always be inferior on principle than proving code to be correct. One would have expected AI to be better than humans at proving code correct (instead of just testing it for certain inputs), but LLMs currently fall short of that.
That may be so (I think so, myself), but there's no arguing with his prowess.

He was annoyed at his options for configuration management, so he took a couple of weeks off, and wrote Git[0].

Now, that kind of skill doesn't come in a Cracker Jack box...

[0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an...
I had Apple quote me $900 to replace a failed screen (no visible damage, but no image either) and tell me that they weren't sure it would even work because of "liquid damage" to the mainboard. I can assure you that the computer never got wet. I bought a replacement screen from ifixit for less than half the price and installed it myself in an hour.
This article expresses a narrow poisonous perspective on a hugely diverse society.

Is there any other place in the world so well known for its open-mindedness and varieties of social expression? Nowhere comes to my mind.

This work is narrow ideology not social commentary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests - French people are angry as well and they called themselves "yellow vests", both literally and figuratively, to get noticed. By people like you who don't seem notice.
We seem to be going through a similar phase which reinforcement learning went through at the peak of its hype. Test on literally anything and everything and see how far you can run with it. Next up, chatGPT plays League of Legends.
I just make up a story and take time off. There are so many unpredictable ways work gets delayed no matter what deadlines are set. So don't worry abt the deadlines.

Most ppl don't know what they are doing or how to do it well, when it comes to dealing with other ppls mental health issues. And many make things worse with their "good intentions". So don't involve them unless they are good friends, or there is evidence they know what they are doing.
Getting published and marketed to the extent that people actually read your book
This is a very interesting combination of technologies. Thank you again for explaining how they work! I tend to prefer open-source solutions for my own work, but I can see this being highly useful and valuable for many businesses.
Sure, we should all make an effort to be diplomatic and not unnecessarily negative. But you're making a huge assumption: that the "smartest person in the room" is wrong. That's a nice, convenient, simple world where you can just ignore people that you disagree with by a-priori assuming they're wrong. Sorry to burst your bubble: sometimes (often?), these people are right.

People with decades of experience are often integrating thousands of lessons they've learned, in order to satisfy hundreds of individual constraints as best as they can. Consider the "Thinking Fast and Slow" anecdote about the fire chief who orders everyone out of the building, despite nothing obvious being wrong, because they have a gut feeling. If there's a culture of "Who made you the boss? Look at this guy, acting like he's the smartest guy in the room. If you're so smart, you should be able to explain to me why you believe we should all leave the building. All voices deserve to be heard. Sometimes the best ideas can come from ..." then everyone dies.

Look, I know we hate it when that arrogant sportsman is actually good at his sport. It's a bruising to our ego when the senior developer seemingly arrogantly insists on some standard or some change that isn't immediately obvious to you, and she doesn't immediately have the time to explain to you the 600 reasons why. She's probably a hell of a lot more critical of the idea than you are! She's already thought of, and worked through, every single objection you're raising, plus 100 more, and still decided this was the way to go. Yes, mentoring is important, and she probably does spend a lot of time doing that. (Maybe you're not willing to listen?) But not every moment has to be a healthy-debate all-ideas-welcome teaching moment. Sometimes you just fucking listen to the smartest guy in the room before the building collapses.
Rust is literally C++’s RAII made into a compiler-checked concept.
I always find formalized metacognitive tools like this very interesting. Having ingrained "memory items" that can be called on as if they were instinctual requires a huge training investment, and for highly dangerous situations the tradeoff of time spent to value is much clearer than for, say, software engineers. That said, having the right metacognitive tools deeply embedded in one's thought pattern might still be very valuable for those of us that fly desks rather than jets!
One prompt I've found to help "reason" like a human is to tell it to "use common sense" in the prompt

I posted a comment about ChatGPT and it's responses in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34870086
Removing parking minimums does not mean "do not build parking". It means "build what the market demands". If there's huge demand in the future, it'll get built.
Competitive programming gives you some good intuition on these types of things. N of around 100000 is where you stop looking for O(n^2) algorithms, but the key there is you only have single-digit-seconds for your solution to run.

Which is just to say: yeah, machines can chew through _a lot_ of crap, especially if it's not something a user has to wait for and you can do it over-night or something.
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violenc...

I think it's time for a good think and a lie down.
A book is more than 5 short paragraphs of synopsis, especially good books that are worth re-reading. Ideas are cheap and sketching a framework is the easiest part in building something. Fleshing out the details is a task that currently available LLMs aren't yet capable of doing.

Dune can be summarized in similar lengths too, but that's not what made the series a popular sci-fi universe.
Over the last few weeks I've seen a handful of submissions about "the 15-minute city" on Hacker News, but it's always had the additional mention of conspiracy theorists in the title. Is anyone able to explain why that is?
In my personal believe I don't think speech recognition, at least based on any human model is solvable, at best we can get 'as good as an average set of humans that speak the language'

People mumble crap all the time to other humans and need to repeat what they say with proper enunciation.

People have hearing problems, which would correlate to microphone quality/placement issues when dealing with computer systems.

Then there are issues where people say one thing incorrectly, but the person following/listening to the directions knows the procedure and does the correct thing. If you asked the speaker what they said again, they'd say they said the 'correct' thing in the first place.

And this is something that I've done before as an example.

Me: "Click the X button to start the process"

Person writing the notes: "Click the Y button to start the process"

Person writing the notes: You meant click the Y button right.

Me: Yea, that's what I said.

Oops, its when we get in things like this that we run into the unsolvable speech recognition issues because we don't generally understand our own error bars on what we say. The speech quality between a public speaker and the average joe I'm sure has a very wide range.
A good starting point would be the pretty broad research on circadian rhythms if you want to know more.
Your comment is exactly why they shouldn't listen to players. The loud minority is seldom representative and often wants short-sighted stuff based on emotions rather than long-term analysis. Blindly implementing whatever the pitchforks on reddit demand is a sure way of killing your game.
Idk, how is the rich minority forcing the rest of humanity to slave away dusk till dawn to buy them superyachts and private islands?

By being the ones in position of authority of course. It doesn't take more than one or two examples for the rest of the world to copy something verbatim out of practical conformist reasons.
It's not tax reasons. It is because they can pretend the building is worth X as long as they have tenants paying that rate and regardless of the vacancies, but as soon as they lease out at X`<<X they have to mark the value of the building down which upsets all of their financing. They are, in a loose sense, Wile E. Coyote just before he looks down.
In medical jargon, wouldn't those be "signs"? I thought "symptoms" specifically refer to the qualia of the disease as experienced by the patient (e.g. pain, "feeling of ____", etc.)
> looking at 2019

this is cherry picking a bit as the UK has been consistently in the top 20 countries in the world for health as a portion of GDP.

and this percentage of gdp spent on health has been going up for 40 years now:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...
Langchain is a fantastic library to use but also educate yourself on the dark art of prompt engineering.
Because I've heard the discussions at town hall and seen the actual figures. In fact that was just a very contentious vote to rezone some residential land for light industry (like distribution centers) primarily for the financial reasons.
Simply set "Config mode" to "Advanced" search for the "Editor" section and configure everything as needed.
Copyright may be a great tool for artists and software coders to collect rent off their creations, but it's not the only way for them to get paid. Patronage and commissions have supported artists since time immemorial. I'm sure companies will still need those people to code/write/film/edit/design/build their products and internal projects. And SaaS business models enable continued rent-seeking even if copyright vanishes overnight.

> Copyright law makes all of the open source licenses possible. Without it, open source languishes and often fails.

Eh, BSD, MIT and to a large extent LGPL are pretty close to "do whatever you want" and they're used by popular projects. And I see open source differently: It is a protest against copyright rent-seeking, by using copyright itself to ensure the code will not be locked up in copyright rent-seeking. So the very existence of open source software is a proof by contradiction that useful software will continue to exist even if copyright rent-seeking is abolished.

Yes, if we abolished copyright some commercial software development would probably cease. But not a whole lot. And we might see a resurgence in open source software, which would actually be aligned with the user's interests instead of working against them at every turn.

Artists and the audiovisual content market would probably see more turbulence, but consider the current situation. Piracy already enables people, in practice, to get whatever they want for free. Yet in spite of this, many people still paid for streaming services. Now that content is fragmenting and fees are going up, piracy is seeing a resurgence. In other words: Piracy is a service problem, and it is still possible to build a profitable business model when competing with free.

If we could reform copyright to a more reasonable e.g. 10y term and include mandatory FRAND licensing of all audiovisual content after 1y, then I'd feel much better about it. But a corporate-rigged system of effectively perpetual rents on all the cultural output of the past century is antithetical to the ostensible purpose of copyright itself "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". At this point, we might well be better off without it.

Fuck copyright.
I asked it to write the first chapter...

It came back with 550 words, all perfectly OK and pretty much cogent, but it would suck as a chapter of an actual book.

Generally, it had at least two fatal flaws:

(1) it was all cliche. I don't really mind cliche stuff for my walking-the-dogs audiobooks, but it can't be all cliche. There needs to be something in there.

(2) it didn't delve into any details. E.g. there was an important planet, unexpectedly under attack, and a space battle for it. But nothing about why it was important and the space battle was over in a sentence or so. I prompted for more detail on these and got some, but again, it was purely cliche and contained no interesting details.

Also, there was literally nothing following from the dynamic the premise suggests.

With a bunch of prompting I think I could get it to write the book, but I think it would be purely cliche and bland, except possibly where I did some heavy lifting.
'Early afternoon classes linked to poor middle aged professor delivery.'

I was an extreme night owl down to my late 20's. Having kids forced me to change. It took 7 years. Since my 40's, have me teach an 8am class and it will be 3x as goed as a 2pm.
And then even after all the non-residential space being eaten up, more than half of Queens (the parts after the subway ends) is single family suburban homes akin to Long Island or Staten Island. Really throws the population density off for the city, throws the density off even for Queens itself -- the western part near manhattan is dense, especially compared to most of LA.
Agreed with all of that. I would add BDDs and such in there, as great breakthroughs. In a very real sense, they are essentially moving how the computer builds up logical circuits into a data structure. (That is, I'm asserting that the math unit on a computer is closer to a BDD than it is any other data structure in computer science.)

But, even outside of advanced modeling, I'm always amazed at how much effort we go through to not reduce our problems to the computation that we want them to be. Instead of seeing our programs as tools to translate from a high level model to a low level one, we seem to want that low level model to be completely implicit and not visible in what we build.

Even code I have seen that uses solvers, there is rarely a good separation of "convert this problem specification into a SAT problem" with a corresponding "convert this SAT solution into the problem specification."

I /think/ this is where programs that do focus on text seem to have a win. You have a "how to convert this text to a SAT problem", "how to convert this text to a problem specification", and "how to convert this solution to a problem specification." Stabilize what those text representations are, and you get to spend a ton of effort at each section without immediate impact on the other areas.
I use a YubiKey as well as iOS everywhere I use WebAuthn (currently only for 2FA).

The only sites I don’t are the ones which don’t support more than 1 key.

I haven’t come across any websites that restrict it to just iOS. I’m not even sure it would be easy (without fingerprinting), because the browser usually handles verification (and gives options for security key and iOS).
it is an opinion piece?
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

See tables 3 and 4.

Moderna does seem to have an effect in the direction you name; the Pfizer vaccine seems to have a lower risk than infection in all categories. Overall, the myocarditis risk is lower with vaccination than infection with both Moderna and Pfizer, but it may not be in some subpopulations with Moderna.
Can you run your stuff on port 80/443 like this?
World Day of Social Justice
SO has an additional problem the article's author doesn't get to: high-voted answers that at the time were relevant and correct, but are not relevant now due to time passing and Microsoft aligning Windows to fit their current direction. I reckon this problem exists for other technologies that change with time, too.
Since when does gross profit not include salaries of employees that contribute directly to the product? Is that normal?
For tech talent, it's easy to only spend 25hrs a week working and the rest on a startup idea with no loss of satisfaction. People in tech are paid well.

But this is a study of 700,000 people in multiple countries. I assume that 'working' to them is more of a "I can't pay the bills this month if I don't work overtime" kind of thing.

I can see how survival fears would put a damper on working less.
Played almost every BR game since DAY-Z and I gotta say, they are almost always more interesting that the straight ffa, team dm, or almost any of the capture, defend, or whatever weird unreal things have existed.

The combination of randomness and asymmetry with a focus on fairly tight gunplay makes losing painful and winning very fun.
>allow anyone living in a home in the area to run a corner store, bistro, dance studio, hair salon, or other (non-industrial) businesses they like out of their house, with no need to apply for a zoning permit.

This strikes me as the low hanging fruit when it comes to making cities more walkable.
Testing Raspberry Pi's New Debug Probe
Either we have different definitions of psychotic break or you're a pretty high outlier. I don't know anyone from my bipolar support group who had a psychotic break before puberty. Most of them haven't had one.

I had bipolar symptoms at age 5 and severe depression at 9, but didn't have a break until I was 26.
AppleCare+ does cross-ship in many situations
> We may need to wait a generation until people who have grown up in this world and can filter feed on the information can create/disseminate narrative adapted to the new rate of information flow and yet somehow true to reality.

I'm not so optimistic. Remember when when people thought gen z and gen alpha would be "digital natives?" They were supposed to be tech savvy but a good chunk of them can't use a search engine, or a word processor. A teacher I know says that each year the kids just get stupider and stupider, they sit around all day on social media and their brains haven't developed or something.
I have a 2006 Mac Pro with a 32bit efi. Apple released an, I think, 8800GT gpu in the 2008 model and explicitly prevented it from being used in the 2006 mac. I don't remember exactly when, but I think by 2010 the 2006 Mac Pro was EOL and "couldn't run" the next major version of OSX. I think they blamed the 32bit EFI. There was a fairly easy workaround for this so I was able to keep installing updates for quite some time.

The old macbooks with the coreDuo CPUs, only lasted a few years before a next major osx release dropped 32bit cpu support.

I have a 2011 15" macbook pro that Apple ended the life of around 2015 or 2016, I believe, by discontinuing the GPU drivers in next major osx release.

How many releases do you think before x86 is dropped completely from OSX?
I do, although not all the time - I'm taking a break at the moment by going down to just my day job. I was getting rather close to burn out working 12+ hour days a few months ago (day job + consulting on the side).
I'm a bit of both, which is effectively the same thing.

If I'm sleeping later, I prefer to work late, at least until 3am. However, my most natural awakening happens by 5am. From there, I can work for 3-4 hours in silence until it begins to warm up outside.

I don't do well with either too little sleep or an irregular sleep schedule, and I don't like sleeping around other people's schedules. Which, with a partner and a very bossy cat, I don't have much hope of overcoming.
Who cares? Their roadmap has looked the same for 20 years: release the same game again, with slight adjustments to gameplay, new "story", better graphics... And also new ridiculous engine bugs, more invasive anticheat, and more premium DLC crap on top of the rising price.

Activision only succeeds due to size and inertia. Big budgets, lots of artists, name recognition.

I like when obscure or indie gaming stuff shows up on this site, because there's usually something interesting to learn about it or discuss around it. Call of Duty number 30 and its set of completely uninspired additions are not the least bit interesting.