skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a competitive chess player in my youth and am currently ~2300 on Lichess. Here are key aspects of any training regimen:

* Tactics - I did thousands of tactics puzzles using a program called CT-ART while under a time limit. I would have to complete 25 puzzles within 5 minutes while making 0 mistakes. If I made a mistake I would have to start from the beginning.

* Core positional concepts - Understanding pawn structure (double pawns, isolated pawns, passed pawns, pawn majorities, etc.), control of central squares, open files, king safety, and so on.

* Endgames - Many players neglect endgames. Master the basics: common rook-and-pawn and pawn-only endgames, how to checkmate with 2 bishops and bishop + knight, etc. Read Silman's Complete Endgame Course, Basic Chess Endings, and Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (for advanced players) to improve your endgame play.

* Openings - Many people have mentioned learning openings, but it is generally a mistake for beginners and intermediate players to focus on this aspect of their game. It is not especially useful for a ~1000-rated OTB player to learn 15+ moves of theory in the King's Indian Defense only to end up in a position where there are slightly better according to theory but have no understanding of their position. It is better to center your opening repertoire around easy-to-learn openings and focus on improving other aspects of your game until you are strong enough to handle positions outside of opening theory.
I'm very interested in security vulnerabilities and clever hacks. Because of that I thought I'd be good in a security role. Then I discovered that defending against security problems is awful.

The biggest security weaknesses are people. Employee get socially engineered or phished. Management doesn't take security seriously so they put only a tiny budget toward security. Lazy sysadmins don't keep their systems patched. Software developers can't be bothered to learn how to write secure software, and this is mostly because their bosses don't incentivize them to. Security vendors often hype up their snake oil products. Good security protocols and technologies aren't adopted because people don't want to change.

Dealing with these human problems is awful, demoralizing, and generally unsolvable.
Love that these job postings are describing specific, concrete things the applicant would work on.
Average US new car price for a vehicle sold at the end of the year was $48,681. I guess everyone is living in luxury now? (That's maybe kinda true)
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-sets-reco...
Thanks, once I got back to my home network it worked (same browser). So definitely looks ISP-related.
If alien contact were made on the international space station - humanities representatives would be from certain countries that represent nations on earth, and broadly, the scientific community. It is not a perfect representation by any means, but it is far from the worst imaginable.

If sentient agi contact is made by Open AI, Sam represents humanity.
Was that specific to the BBB industrial? That's a really unfortunate bug.

I agree, about the "nothing is perfect", though. The lesson when you do stuff in embedded really is "Trust nothing."
Can't agree that the improvements since the 70s have been marginal. The internet is one of the greatest quality of life improvements humanity has ever created, especially relative to its cost.
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I'm a largely-self taught Full-Stack developer with a focus on the Front-End/Design side of things. I've got ~6 years experience professionally programming. At my last position I went from Developer => Tech Lead in about a year and before I left was leading 5/6 teams without failure to deliver. Knowledgeable in 508 compliance and architecting entire projects/Working within departments to solve issues. I'm the kind of developer who asks a lot of questions to as many people as necessary to get the job done.
Definitely not an average American. Someone who learned to do math (proofs, application) and got fairly good at it.
> I find it curious that HN so casually uses FAANG pay as the benchmark.

And even more mysteriously, treat working at FAANG as a de-facto career goal.
The leading edge of Gen Z has taken to concepts like quiet quitting, but they still seem to have tied their personal lives to their jobs, often having few physical world friends outside of the workplace and still falling for the "we're a family" line, even if now they want to play to part of kid who doesn't take out the trash if their allowance isn't high enough (which it might not be). Doubt that's healthy and seems a lot like the recreation of a dysfunctional family.
Software engineers in this country are perpetually on the brink of extinction. 20 years ago people would discourage you from the career because all the jobs were going to India. 10 years ago there were supposedly too many CS graduates and there could never be enough demand to sustain them. Today everyone is convinced that the AI takeover is just around the corner. I'm not panicking just yet.
CLM and the VC-Backed Contract Time Bomb
Last year the output was poor. The year before then, GPT essentially couldn't write code at all...

You're not wrong about its quality right now, but let's look at the slope as well.
I believe sitting in front of a screen all day is as damaging to your health as smoking.
Automatically Testing for Auth Vulns at Scale
*If you are lucky enough to be able to afford preventative healthcare, something which couldn't possibly be offered to said person unless they can afford it
OpenAI isn't as open as it used to be, but they still publish papers.

The open-source Hadoop was based on Google papers on MapReduce and Google File System.

GPT-J and GPT-NeoX are open source models based on OpenAI publications around GPT-3.
I personally think that mental health in teens is deteriorating because western society throws teenagers into adulthood and forces adult decision-making choices upon them with nearly constant propaganda. Look at all the shit that's happening at school where kids are advised not tell their parents about certain, sometimes even life-altering, decisions they're struggling with. The social media aspect of it adds fuel to the fire by further isolating every teen and allowing them to wallow in their fears and sadness by putting them into bubbles of same-thinkers.

A few years back when political derangement was seemingly at its peak, my 14-year-old cousins were feverously arguing politics and social issues with adults at family functions. It was astounding to me, not because I was shocked that they had an opinion on any of it, but because they wasted their precious youth on stupid adult issues when they have their entire adulthood ahead of them to worry about it. This is an incredible weight to bare for adults, let alone children.
I think this is great, but I think a valuable question is often overlooked:

“What is/will be the quality of life for most centenarians?”
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It is utter bs.
Dangerously Good Product Managers
It’s telling that you have products absolutely jam packed full of telemetry, yet their “community support” forums will have years old threads with hundreds of replies about specific unresolved bugs and small tweak requests that go completely ignored despite getting bumped weekly.
This sounds like such an awesome project!

"Bridge Simulators, like Thorium Nova, are cooperative live-action role-playing games set in space. Players act out the roles of a spaceship bridge crew, such as communications officer, navigator, or captain. They work together to complete a set of mission objectives.

Thorium Nova adds a flight director, who sits behind the scenes to act as a game master, controlling what happens inside the simulation, acting out the roles of aliens the crew encounters, and guiding the crew through the storyline.

Many bridge simulators, like Artemis or Empty Epsilon, focus only on arcade action. Thorium Nova attempts to bridge the gap by offering rich stories in a dynamic environment, while staying simple enough for anyone to enjoy among friends in their living room."
That is, if we stop putting them on a diet of highly processed food and refined sugar and find a way to reduce their stress levels.
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Résumé/CV: I have neural network experience going back to the 1980s (DARPA NN advisory committee, commercial product, backprop model for SAIC/FAA bomb detection system). Managed a high performance deep learning team at Capital One. I have 50+ US patents, and I have written 20+ books on AI related topics.

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Show HN: Fine-tune generative models in 1 line of code
Hey HN, excited to release Blueprint into public beta. Blueprint is a general fine-tuning and model serving API built for developers. Fine-tuning models is an extremely powerful way to improve performance on a specific task without needing to collect prohibitively large amounts of data. With Blueprint you can kick off fine-tuning jobs for various open source models like Stable Diffusion and soon Flan-T5 using a Python SDK.

We'll also deploy your fine-tuned models onto serverless GPUs so that you aren't paying for idle GPU time. We scale the models up when you need to serve requests and have put a ton of engineering work into faster cold starts. We'll also autoscale replicas of your model if your model is receiving a lot of traffic.

Give it a shot — every new account gets a few hours of GPU credits. For support and feedback, join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/9pcXqWgB3g
The first is really blocked on the second & third.

Taking a train to New York or Chicago is fantastic. If you've never used their transit systems before it may take a bit to get used to them, but you can step off the train and go about your business. When I have Amtrak points to burn, I love taking a "day trip" to Chicago, a thousand miles away. I can arrive at 10am and leave at 9pm, and run out of time before I run out of things to do.

If you take the train into a smaller city, you better hope there is a car rental on whatever bus loop they have.
Using spaced repetition is not the same as replacing all other learning methods with spaced repetition.

Just because spaced repetition isn't good for everything doesn't mean it shouldn't be used for what it is good at. It's good for remembering the specifics of things that you have already learned and understood.
The US is huge and the stat I shared was US wide. Pay is going to be a big regional. There's a ton of data at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472111.htm

There are lots of companies out there that pay low wages compared to others. And they do a lot to make their people feel like they only deserve that amount. Happens across so many fields. I'm sure it happens for electricians and other skilled trades.
I agree that the main reason these things aren't repaired is that a new bike costs less than a couple of spare parts and labor.

But I seriously doubt that the weird size pedal assembly is something else than bog standard Fauber crank. Those things are still made and I can't imagine how a custom part would be cheaper to manufacture.
This highlights a critical issue with public transit (in US cities I have lived in) - they only optimized/work for work commutes, if they work at all.

There's alot more to life than commuting to and from work, and public transit needs to account for that.
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Historically I've worked with Clojure 1.7, Java 8/Maven 3, Adobe Flex 4/Air, iOS 4, C, PHP 5 and VB 6. I'm strong in Algorithms and Data Structures applied broadly, having built a streaming SQL engine for an analytics product as well as a chart library for the front end. My DevOps are solid, having worked with tools like Ansible, Docker and K8s and in five-nines reliable B2B SaaS environments.

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If you prevent all the security threats, nobody notices, and the bosses wonder why they even pay you. If a security issue gets through, the bosses wonder why they even pay you.
> What has changed since the 1970s is a greater proportion of productivity improvement has gone to capital vs labour.

The evidence just doesn't support this. There are analyses that purport to, but they look at wages rather than total compensation (including benefits)
If a US citizen has a habit of depositing just under $10,000 dollars in their bank account they'll get charged with "structuring" for intentional avoidance of the regulatory rules. These 49% ownerships are the stock equivalent of structuring and should be prosecuted even more heavily.
Why are you splitting hairs? If you're choosing between the two you've lost.
Not if they kill themselves in despair first!
Generally, yes.

This particular FBI director spent most of his time in private practice, representing foreign gas and oil interests. The closest he came to law enforcement is resigning over illegal surveillance.
E5 and the “Illusion of knowledge”.
We are all going to live much longer.
No, the trolley problem is actually a good parallel to real ethical dilemmas, where through action or inaction, some smaller amount of harm is inflicted on innocent people, to prevent a larger amount of harm on other innocent people.

Most people's moral compasses, when questioned, will point to the belief that the optimal amount of this kind of harm in society to be non-zero.
Learning to do things right and learning what things to not touch isn't that hard.

If you limit yourself to simple work like replacing outlets, switches, and hardwired lamps, that's most of the likely electrical work for an existing house. Call a profesional for new circuits and maybe for replacing breakers; IMHO, it's a scary box, but the work is straight forward, so I'll replace breakers, but I would (and have) definitely call out for a breaker box replacement.
Some major use cases would be real time (and discreet) language translation, maps displayed directly on the world, and holographic video calling.

Real time and discreet language translation is a killer feature IMO. It could overlay native text on foreign text (think signs, menus, etc.) and also display native language text in real time as someone speaks in a foreign language. In a perfect world it would be like cyberpunk 2077 where it also locates the speaker in space and places the text next to their head / audio source.
There is a great quote from Terence Parr, creator of the ANTLR parser generator:

Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?

See https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Automation-DSL/
Qualcomm fabs on Samsung and TSMC. Unlike Apple who put all their eggs in one basket, TSMC, Qualcomm always used multiple fabs -- usually rotate between releases -- to produce their chips. Qualcomm also was one of SMIC's largest customers before they were blacklisted.
It does get cheaper. The problem is your needs grow in lock step with the growth in CPU & memory.

The $5 linode instance is both way cheaper in real terms and way more powerful than the $5 linode instance 10 years ago.

1 modern vCPU, 1GB of modern RAM, 25GB modern SSD would be enough to host a large website 10-20 years ago. Now, its basically useless because of software bloat.
Could we please normalize 4DWW -- whoever is posting this thread, just include 4DWW as a tag that someone can add - it's the future of work.

Four Day Work Week - please.
Interesting that no one talks about the elephant in the room - why are technologies for supposed public standards patentable in the first place?

IMO, all standards that are mandated to be used by a government or a regulatory agency should be patent and royalty free and accessible by everyone, alone to have a healthy competition space instead of (effectively) a Qualcomm monopoly on the vendor side.
Or maybe Senet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet
For sure. But they could focus their work on more useful pursuits.
It could be an indicator that people are less able to cope, and there is some really good causal evidence that social media causes anxiety in young girls.
There are a variety of genres that work well in VR, but I think developers are very much still figuring out the platform. A few things to check out that are not shooters:

Physics based combat: Blade and Sorcery, Gorn, Barbaria, Bonelab

Diorama: Ghost Giant, Moss, A fisherman’s tale, Demeo

Arena duels: try Blaston, which is free

Sports simulators: Eleven Table Tennis, Thrill of the Fight, Walkabout Mini Golf

Puzzle/walking simulator: Red Matter, the last clockwinder

Art: Gravity Sketch(free), Vermillion , Kingspray, Virtuoso

Maps: Wooorld

Weird: Tea for God (free) a really great example of how devs are inventing something new given the odd constraints of VR
No, you can not. But Bloom's taxonomy is hierarchical, so covering the first two rungs is very important and necessary for the steps after that. Spaced repetition systems allow you to make sure those bases are covered in an optimal way.
Cat's Cradle! Always surprises me that it doesn't have an adaptation yet.
Unless of course there's a another global scale war fought by rival superpowers on multiple fronts. But the odds of that happening in the next decade are pretty low, right? Right?...
I think it's better than most people at arithmetic problems if they have to solve by hand.

Perhaps if the prompt included "double-check your answer", just like math teachers tell students, the correct answer rate would be higher?
Pension age will need to increase. This will not go without major societal issues.
Remember, all it takes is a blockade, not even an invasion, of Taiwan and new computing projects are on indefinite hold. And we will start de-computerizing industries out of necessity. It could be that quick.
Where do people advocate for stealing from Walmart?
“Havana Syndrome” not caused by foreign adversary review finds
"Fun" fact: There is another common internal service at Microsoft called Cosmos, and it is also a database.

So now there is Cosmos, Cosmos DB, and Kosmos.
I don't think it has much to do with material abundance or status consumption as much as it is simply inequality. The productivity vs. real wage gap[1] that began in the early 1970s is well documented. Productivity gains since then have been largely captured by shareholders rather than workers. Quality of life is relative. While a poor person today may personally have more material abundance than a King in the 1300s or a middle class clerk in the early 1800s, their quality of life is still worse because it is measured relative to everyone else today.

1: https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
> what do you call the two midterms, the final, the reading, the lecture, and the worksheets?

Haphazard spaced repetition.
If I was being cynical I'd say that this is just an article designed to get clicks by confirming people's biases.

To anyone who disagrees with me, ask yourself. What is the most important thing in your life? I can with certainty say that it doesn't have a "price" associated with it.

If you can comprehend that then you can accept the premise that life can get worse as material conditions improve, especially when the marginal utility of those increasing material conditions is already low. Are touchscreens really a 10x improvement in quality of life when penicillin has been invented?
The success of this approach hinges on the assumption that no one else is doing it. However, even those who quietly quit still rely on others to provide the goods and services they desire. There is a concern that this could lead to a snowball effect and result in food scarcity and famine, but the timeline for such an outcome is uncertain.

In terms of adding extra items to improve their happiness, it appears that this strategy is generally ineffective. Despite their efforts, the quiet quitters I met do not appear to be any happier
Artificial Meetings: The possible merits of a terrible idea
Guides on running macOS VMs always seem to involve downloading some EFI build with opaque origins. Is there a safer option?
Both the UC and CUNY system were famously tuition free until things like this started happening:

1960: The Master Plan for Higher Education in California maintains that tuition at University of California and state colleges should be free, but that fees are necessary to help cover non-instructional costs. “The two governing boards reaffirm the long established principle that state colleges and the University of California shall be free to all residents of the state.”

1966: Ronald Reagan assumed office of Governor of California and changed the course of the state’s higher education system. In his eight years, he cut state funding for college and universities and laid the foundation for a tuition-based system.

According to a New York Times article from 1982, during his eight years as governor, “Reagan fought hard in the legislature to impose tuition at four-year colleges. He lost the battle to lobbyists for the university, … However, the Legislature agreed to increase student registration fees.”

[0]https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/what-happened-to-ca...
And will have to work until 85
We are going to greatly miss pick'n'pull and other salvage yards when they are gone. Countless families keep their older vehicles running by salvaging parts at weekends so they can get to work on Monday and keep a roof over their head.
Will a 5 year old ever have a single bite of food that doesn't contain plastic?
Kudos to you for the correct use of "decimate".
There were so many recessions before 2008.
You are a time travelling sleeper agent who is sent back to stop an apocalypse but gets confused and thinks the activation message is telling you to help and facilitate the evil corporation which is going to destroy the world