skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lookup tables can be slower. Do not assume that memory is fast. Even if the table is small and fits in cache, it will still be displacing other useful things from the cache. If you can have a small sequence of fast instructions using only registers and no branches, that's very likely to be faster -if not much faster- than lookup tables. Just one L1 cache miss could take much longer to resolve than computing this particular sequence of instructions.
Rivian has decent specs and looks nice, but lack of end-user maintenance shops concerns me. Warranties are worthless if the vendor goes bankrupt.
> The main issue with lots of trades in the US is the onerous licensing requirements: 4 years of experience under a licensed electrician before you get a license. In most parts of the developed world, vocational training was/is seen as a lesser field despite trades absolutely making bank these days.

In Germany, you need a Meister (=Master) title (not the academic degree) to start your own electrician business. Usually, after the apprenticeship which is 3.5 years you need at least another 3 years... so Germany has even stricter requirements.

> Also, technology has evolved in lots of trades making work a lot easier than it used to be: Wago connectors and a variety of push-fittings for electricians, PEX for plumbers and so on.

Technology maybe, but it has also become way more complex. Smart lights, smart HVAC systems, smart plumbing, energy savings requirements... planning an energy-efficient home requires insane amounts of knowledge these days, and you need to plan energy-efficient because no one will buy a house without top notch efficiency.
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In fact, it's something the US Air Force figured out after spending substantial time and resources.

That is to say: There is no such thing as the Average Man.

Make something that will generally fit most people, but then also add enough customization features so each man can tune it to his liking. There is a reason car seats and steering columns are adjustable.
You can do this without the opportunity cost of an apprenticeship.
We will develop web of trust [1]. I assign weighted(!) trust to my friends, they assign to their friends. Small world [2]. This also fixes fake reviews, dependencies security, politics and whole lot of other things.

The idea is too good not to happen. I repeat it from time to time on HN. I'm currently not in the position to implement it (not sure if I ever will be, it is hard). I just hope it's created in some decentralized form before some corpo does it. When controlled by single entity it is useless.

1. http://comboy.pl/wot.html (not really worth your time, long time ago too verbose, but feel free)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
I don't think it's really a matter of these jobs being looked down on, at least any more.

These types of jobs require a long-term commitment that doesn't exist in other fields. If you go through the work to become an electrician, that's probably going to be what you do. You also need to moderately intelligent to do electrician work, and its hard on your body.

My personal opinion is that a lot of people with the aptitude for the trades look at white collar work, see that its easier on your body and has more career flexibility and choose the obvious choice.

I looked into a carpentry program when I was younger and went and got my Masters instead because I do semi-dangerous hobbies like skiing. If I break my leg skiing and I do carpentry, i don't work or make money. If I break my leg in my current career, I'd probably just take my computer upstairs.
That is short sighted, the short term will be about providing consumer surplus to build a customer base but the eventual reality will be what current always connected computing is.
It originally meant "based on your own beliefs," usually in the context of sticking to your guns despite unpopularity. Which is/was the cool thing to express on 4chan.
>> If they're gonna be for profit, I feel this is really important.

Just out of curiosity, are you trying to say that these people are Effective Altruists, and for that "genuinely good humans", and so, if they're making money, it's for a good cause?

Apologies if my guess is off. I'm not very au fait with EA, but I'm trying to get more er, more au fait.
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I asked bing for you(r friend) and it was generally encouraging. Apprenticeships take four years, you need a HS diploma etc etc. It had a good insight about joining a union as a first step to help find an apprenticeship though. I think I heard that long ago from a human electrician.

bing > consider joining a union or a professional group that can offer you guidance and support during your apprenticeship journey. Some examples are International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC), and Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)

Anyway cant you(r friend) work both angles until something takes off? Apply to some unions / apprenticeships and dev jobs? Let the universe decide?

Personally I think its a great idea. I wish I'd thought of it during my last job search.
You know who doesn't do this? Every hotel chain that ever existed.
> when expanding an alliance in a time of peace

Why did countries join NATO in peacetime?

https://i.imgur.com/3RGVziu.jpg
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1.9% per year?
I've often though that it's this mental state that results in so much resistance to talk of unionizing in software.

Electricians have no such qualms.
With my products, I've found that what people like is more pleasant to hear, but what people don't like is much more useful.
At least VW seems to have given up on that plan. The ID.3 is only getting more and more expensive when it was planned to get cheaper. They plan to raise ICE prices even more though.
Thoughtworks lays off around 500 employees amid ongoing slowdown
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she ended up staying there an hour longer than myself because she was talking to some other woman with young children

I wonder how long it will be before someone hooks up ChatGPT to something that creates avatars in virtual worlds. I bet someone clever person on HN is already working on that problem.

Unfortunately, it will probably only be used for a customer service chatbot in VR.
> So what has changed since the 1950s?

Trajectory of how well off average American will be in x years?
I am more or less in your boat but the average passenger vehicle is now selling for almost $50K. That would be more than twice what I've ever paid for a new vehicle (which is 15 years old, but still!). I'm not sure the EVs are that uncompetitive compared to the current options.
To learn usability testing you'll probably want to jump straight to "Rocket Surgery Made Easy", by the same author of "Don't make me think"

Steve Krug is a former colleague and brilliant guy, but at this stage learning how to test and hear from your users in practice is time 10x better spent than just learning the theory.
Acceleration of global sea level rise past 1.8°C warming, says study
> Even then, the amount of credentialism is extremely high for anything besides the lowest rung of dev jobs.

Biggest mistake I made was not going to school and buying into the “you don’t need a degree” stuff. While technically true, it feels extremely limiting when you want to venture outside that “lowest rung”.
So dark colored cars are also dangerous then?
What about the risk of burning your house down?
You also need to consider the building standards and general condition of buildings in your local area. This can vary between states/countries and some might be more enjoyable than others.
Assuming the plug-in Toyota is a RAV4 Prime? Those were impossible to find over COVID and dealers were asking close to six figures for them.
I think if you leave a product in a steady state, then you can keep a web service running for quite a while. The problem is when you want to add new features, which is a much higher risk activity.
This is the opposite of what every coach I’ve spoken to says. Rather: Do tactics, study basic endgames.

Of course conventional wisdom isn’t always right, but that is the conventional wisdom.

Correct play in longer TCs translate much better to blitz than vice versa.
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>Poor "science" exists in any discipline.

No True Scotsman fallacy.

>Look at these articles and tell me how many named studies are in gender studies, for instance.

It has an entire "social science" section. Google "replication crisis gender studies" for articles covering this.

>I don't really think you'll find bigger critics of the academy in other fields either.

Anecdotal non sequitur.

>These disciplines also don't classify themselves as "sciences" either as you would have it.

I didn't classify them as science, I copied a quote from the linked Wikipedia page above. They're poorly attempting to hop on the social/political science bandwagon but there's a problem. Grievance studies are not science to begin with. They're not an academic discipline at all. It's an activist community masquerading as an academic discipline.
It was mentioned in the HN thread when Digital Ocean laid people off a couple of weeks ago.
No disagreement on the $$$, but I have no issues with trickle charging at home on an external power outlet. My frequent driving is really just daycare drop-off/pick-ups and into the office once or twice a week. The office has L2 charging so I can get a solid few hours to top things off, but I very rarely stop at an L3 charger... and on those rare occasions, I'll know ahead of time, so I can run into the grocery store that hosts the Electrify America station in their parking lot and there's no time lost.

So as long as L1 trickle charging is available at home or work, this can be a non-issue for many driving habits.
I think this functionality is not available on the app, only on the browser version. The browser version runs great on mobile, though.
I like this feature they are working on

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10554

as I'd say the most obvious limitation of today's transformers is the limited attention window. If you want ChatGPT to do a good job of summarizing a topic based on the literature the obvious thing is to feed a bunch of articles into it and ask it to summarize (how can you cite a paper you didn't read?) and that requires looking at maybe 400,000 - 4,000,000 tokens.

Similarly there is a place for a word embedding, a sentence embedding, a paragraph embedding, a chapter embedding, a book embedding, etc. but these have to be scalable and obviously the book embedding is bigger but I ought to be able to turn a query into a sentence embedding and somehow match it against larger document embeddings.
Nice list. I wonder how the spend can be prioritized. Decades of foreign adventuring is costly and no longer exciting.
> Alright, how about this: the capital of Australia is fucking Canberra. Boom, there you fucking go.

Would of been impressive if it read out a recent article from the NY Times, rather than a 200 year old geography fact...
Concerning VT100 and WordStar: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.cpm/c/kz9vwodu8M8

Were you using the Osborne-specific version or the "retail" version of WordStar, BTW?
I don't bother to report bugs because I know I'm just speaking to /dev/null.

If you want to ship high quality software, listen to your customers and make it clear their words really matter.

No, telemetry does not count; that only reinforces I'm speaking to /dev/null.
A battery would help here to handle the surge. At least that's how I've got it setup on my boat, where my inverters supplement the limited 30A "service" by pulling from the battery when the load goes above 30A.
Instead of working for a large corporation. Try working for small to mid size companies where you get to wear many hats and interact with many departments. This can be exciting and may open to other opportunities.

Other option is to go self-employed contract roles where you can set hours and bill rates. You can opt to work part-time and full-time based on your work-life balance and simultaneously fulfil your entrepreneurial impulses.
Yeah, I read that too somewhere and dread the release day. After seeing Rings of Power and Wheel of Time (but especially ROP) my expectations for new fantasy TV is at absolute zero.
There's a reason the role is often referred to as the Chief Sacrificial Officer...
The idea that someone could be locked in or out of a car during a software update is deeply disturbing. What if one party is a child and the other an adult? We all know that software updates don't always complete correctly or on time.

This also seems like an exploit that could be used to lock someone in or out of their car.
I just checked my profile and show-dead was already enabled.

This is just a guess but I would assume if someone submits a site that would auto-flag [dead] then it might not show the submitter in the event they are a bot, thus not letting the bot know they submitted a dead link.

To know for sure it would be best to email dang.
Under https://lichess.org/training on the left side pane there is a "Puzzle Themes" link (takes you to https://lichess.org/training/themes).
So it doesn't predict the next word? It still sounds like it predicts the next word.
It wasn't about the tradeoffs that the Windows Terminal team "can not make" - it was about alternative optimizations and performance concerns that they arrogantly refused to consider as being possible, and which ought to have been considered if they were being properly competent.

Engineering tradeoffs are real. But hiding behind them every time when it can be pointed out that they don't actually apply - and when demonstrated with concrete evidence - is another thing altogether.
I have been using Unity a long time and in general appreciate it, despite it's many many quirks and rough edges.

That said I'm extremely excited to see an open source alternative that looks to have a very active community around it and that looks to be doing great things!

If blender has taught me anything, it's that having a fantastic free and open source tool in a sea of commercial offerings benefits everyone.

The paid offerings are forced to up their game, the consumer benefits with more competitive pricing and those that can't afford to buy tools have a great product at their disposal in which to learn and create.
The phrase “home computer” does not appear in the blog post. Where are you seeing this? Did they edit the post or did the URL for this story change?
This is like saying you can make billions as a software developer, when in reality you’re talking about a startup founder with a software business.
Are electrician apprenticeship spots going unfilled?

If so, are they so poorly structured that they discourage applicants?
it's amazing how we never learn. Things that Perl and CPAN and Linux distros figured out decades ago are constant issues today. It wasn't that long ago that NPM didn't even have checksums. CPAN runs unit tests on install. I can't imagine how slow that would be with npm.

Package signing is, well... I suppose that's another lesson from the '90s people will learn about soon enough. With a web of trust as broad as python or npm you'll just have everyone running around with signing keys and "trusting" any key they come across because none of it is built on personal relationships. When Archlinux asks me to confirm adding package keys, what am I going to do? Say no? I don't know these people, but I want my shit to work.
Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ
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$5? That's tad expensive in most of world. It's often better to use free tiers (https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev) or $1 / $2 VPS (https://lowendbox.com/)
Both of themes movies center around fraud. Surely you can find something else?
The release announcement blog post with all the information is at https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-sets-sail/.

It might make more sense to use that link instead.
TLDR Addendum for people like me who aren't immediately familiar with these terms

High

- Distributed practice: Implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time

- Practice testing: Self-testing or taking practice tests over to-be-learned material

Moderate

- Elaborative interrogation: Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true

- Interleaved practice: Implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that mixes different kinds of material, within a single study session

- Self-explanation: Explaining how new information is related to known information, or explaining steps taken during problem solving

Low

- Highlighting: Marking potentially important portions of to-be-learned materials while reading

- Imagery use for text learning: Attempting to form mental images of text materials while reading or listening

- Rereading: Restudying text material again after an initial reading

- Summarization: Writing summaries (of various lengths) of to-be-learned texts

- The keyword mnemonic: Using keywords and mental imagery to associate verbal materials
I know Moore's Law isn't a thing anymore, but conventional wisdom has always been that hosting prices should go _down_ over time, due to compute, memory, and storage getting denser and cheaper, plus competition in the marketplace. This seems to not be happening anymore, except for cloud providers switching to ARM64.

Hosting providers typically make _some_ profit marking these up somewhat at deployment time, to pay for all of the surrounding infrastructure like real estate, power, racks, networking, personnel, etc. But their cash cows are customers who buy a certain plan at a certain price and then stay on those plans for years and years. Even if there are newer, cheaper plans that would work just fine, it may not be worth the time and cost of migrating. ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it.")

I once worked at a hosting provider and noted that we had a handful of truly aged VPS hosts that kept losing RAID disks and the occasional power supply. They were running a newer version of cPanel but almost everything was close to a decade old. I noted that we could replace all of these with one beefier box that would take up 1/10th the space and power but the exact words of the owner were, "Why would we replace those? They paid for themselves in the first year and are almost pure profit at this point. We won't decommission those until they die completely or customers stop paying for them."