skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos might disagree about the "low reward."

“I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two -- because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. ... [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It's impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, 'Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,' [or] 'I love Amazon; I just wish you'd deliver a little more slowly.' Impossible. And so the effort we put into those things, spinning those things up, we know the energy we put into it today will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”
As a pretty experienced python dev who has never worked professionally with Django / Flask or Numpy, I have a hard time finding job postings without those seemingly hard requirements.
There are biannual spikes because of people applying to YC. (We use the same account system for HN and other YC offerings.) As far as I know, that's what this is.
How Many Exoplanets Can You Visit in Quanta’s New Math Game?
Float-Parsing Benchmark: Regular Visual Studio, ClangCL and Linux GCC
By allowing everyone to register on their app to their own servers? Mastodon is now prioritizing large servers with open registration in joinmastodon.org for this same reason. They re-ordered the servers some weeks ago so that open registration servers come first.

I don't think the signup needs to be complicated.
Sorry if it sounds too cynical, but that's probably the intended effect of a rewrite from what the team knows into Python: staffing changes. A bunch of the (expensive) old guard will leave and they can be replaced with cheap grads, who all know Python.

Better luck with the next one!
I pretty much went through the same. It’s funny, I was reading your article and from about the middle of it, I had the word „enlightenment“ in mind.
i can't use Microsoft Windows for health reasons. my mental health is severely affected every time i am forced to use Windows. MacOS is not much better though. it used to be ok, but it has gotten much worse lately.
The American Revolution was bankrolled by interested parties in Europe. That doesn't make its ideals and achievements less valid.
Edit: Here's the pinout of the Swarm modem:

https://i.imgur.com/VQvDrEa.png

Here's the pinout of a mini PCIe card:

https://i.imgur.com/YJIyJ86.png

And here's the pinout of mini PCIe/mSATA (numbered from bottom to top, which makes it slightly more challenging to compare):

https://i.imgur.com/7yL3FW4.png

The ground connections all line up, and the 3.0 to 5.0V input, 1000 mA rated VDD on the Swarm is connected to 3V3. The Swarm UART is connected to REFCLK+ and REFCLK- on the PCIe bus, and the GPIO drives LED_WWAN. Should be no problem!

I suppose that it would be really cool if they provided an I2C/2-wire/SMB communication interface on pins 30 and 32 so hypothetically you could connect it to a computer.
> The model in question posed for nude pictures in Playboy...

This is the problem. You're implying it's okay because she asked for it, when the unlicensed reproduction of Disney IP would be treated very differently.
Top Apple Supplier Plans Major India Expansion
I don’t get this idea. When someone says they haven’t had sex - it usually isn’t indicating they only want unattached sex. It usually is shorthand for saying, “I haven’t had sex and I’d like to experience that with someone I have an emotional bond with. I’d also like to be loved and cared for and desired by someone that I feel similar to.”

We just say, “I haven’t had sex” because it’s shorthand and isn’t as emotionally taxing to the audience.
needless to go on theology grounds to argue against unborn killing. you don't need to accept any particular theology to come to the conclusion.

btw it is sorted in a list not because of any argumentation structure.

i don't think (and don't see what indicated it to you) that there are only these 2 options in terms of worship targets. but phrasing the other option the "only" "right" one, paints me an intolerant blind-faithed, which i reject.
No need to create environment when the neurons can be stimulated directly. This scene from Pacific Rim Uprising movie freaked me out.

Dr. Newt (Charlie Day) heads home after a tough day at the office to his wife 'Alice'. Turns out, 'Alice' just happens to be a massive Kaiju brain in a tank. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIDTUYSIkcs
Not ignoring it. I think that's going to get worse too. Look at Egypt's resource issues, etc.
In the most-detailed example of such initiatives described in the article, the steps taken in Oxford include ALPR-camera-triggered automated fines for driving on certain roadways at certain times of certain days to those "without a permit" (who is eligible for the special permits, how eligibility is determined, etc. is not discussed) and actual blocking of other streets using bollards (and heavy planters and other obstacles).

Pointing out that the authorities implementing such schemes are attempting to reduce individual freedom of movement and action is factual, not a conspiracy theory.
I follow him on youtube as I just started 3D printing. Amazing that he's completed and build all those designs. He also just launched a board game that he managed to get stocked in Barnes & Noble
Ignoring the question of the ethics of the original place the image was published, which is a long and many sided discussion that no one is going to “win” any time soon, there is a second issue: the ethics of using an unlicensed image. This may also be a grey area (some arguing “information wants to be free” overrides such matters), but legally the “ethics” are far more black and white.

Though I think these comments are getting far too bogged down on the ethics and legality of using the Lena image, and ignoring the fact that Morten's new image & related post is (at least mainly) intended as a bit of fun, poking at just these sorts of discussions.
The folks who dunnit successfully are probably not reading your question though.
Legally speaking is it a good idea to download these models this way?
Popup ad with 15 second delay was too annoying. Didn't read the article.
Gonna be interesting to see if Facebook tries to tell people they can't use this because it's stolen (when it was presumably built using data taken without permission.)
Isn't it the opposite. Oil found somewhere -> countries get really interested at invading. Finland found nickel in Petsamo in the thirties...
Emacs lost the editor wars ~15 years ago.

Use an IDE, you filthy barbarians. There is no substitute for a real IDE when it comes to seamless transition between writing code with full autocomplete support and using the debugger to step through and examine the behavior of that code. And yes, God damn it, you need a debugger. You need edit and continue. You really need structured editing and it's a crime that this isn't available for every programming language, everywhere, in 2023. Modern IDEs give you all these things except for maybe the last in a smooth integrated fashion, and this has been the case for decades now. Using anything else when this is available is like breaking your legs in preparation for the 50m dash. For God's sake, Visual Studio got you 90% of the way to a Lisp machine type dev experience. In the early 2000s, for C++ and other languages people actually use. And Unix weenies still insisted on their stone-knives-and-bearskins tooling, to all our collective detriment.

For languages without robust IDE support, Visual Studio Code will get you most of the way there with the click of a button. Releasing VSCode support including LSP for your language is now table stakes if you want to introduce a new language people will actually use.
Distillation would be the ideal way (especially because it also has efficiency gains), but as far as I know distillation for LLMs is kinda unproven.

Honestly though, even if you just finetune it, which you will want anyway for any serious commercial application, it's essentially impossible to determine the origin.
I think the point is it's hypocritical to say "this photo of a woman has been in use for 40 years, it's an example or how women are left out of the industry". It makes some unsubstantiated assumptions, chiefly: "men are more likely to want to look at a woman's photo than a woman is".

Take a look at any popular female "influencer" Instagram account's follower list and let me know if thats backed up by the facts (hint: it isn't. Not by a long shot.)

(Some) women want to look at (some) women. (Some) men want to look at (some) women. (Some) women want to look at (some) men. (Some) men want to look at (some) men.

The answer is clearly to have both men and women in the sample data. Not exclude people based on their gender.

If there was a direct quote from the model themself calling for the end of the use of the photo that'd be one thing, but based on what I've seen here it doesn't exist.
While it's based on C, a large chunk of the content is simply a great introduction to number representations in other bases such as binary and hexadecimal etc. Fundamental knowledge and very well explained, and a few insights I've not seen before.
Anyone getting married, buying a house or having children enters into a long contract, often at a relatively young age. Are those unwise? (It's arguably the case today, I suppose)
Good thing ive had decades of real relationships and sex.

Knew the net would probably squash print and privacy the first minute i logged into aol.

Who knew it would breed a generation of robot loving losers?
I dig a bit but not found how the percentage is from. Is it F(#LoC, #download, #repo, #active-in-past-x-year) something? What's the calculation here?
> Do these people also believe in a single continent called “Eurasia”?

It's the traditional six-continent model (America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica), which according to https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continente is the model taught in school in many places, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, and all over Latin America. So no, "these people" (which includes nearly all of America outside the USA and Canada) have learned about Europe and Asia as two separate continents.
You frame it like its a bad thing when it very much isn't; the Iranian people deserve to be freed of the current tyranny under which they struggle. A more western-aligned Iran would be best for its people and for the entire Middle East. It also doesn't negate the brave efforts of the people there protesting the regime.
Even great satirists can’t come up with the stuff she says unironically. Wow.
git subrepo is what I chose to include a "core" library of functionality in a number of repositories.
Works fairly well, the main thing is that git treats all the files in the subrepo the same as any other files, so no surprises.
If it only takes a simple sentence to set you off. You should be careful how much you’re reading into peoples language. The worlds not filled with facists in disguise. Look at people that way and you’ll see it everywhere. It will drive you mad.
I love it here stop by next time you are around.
I do wonder how it will fit car~ in my current directory^Wgarage.
No, I'm willing to bet the CO2 cost of the cards is also way higher than the electricity. Those things are built on the global supply chain, with materials potentially making multiple thousands of kms journeys between each step.
Worst-Paying College Majors
I sometimes think about what Python would be like if it were written today, with the hindsight of the last thirty years.

Immutability would be the default, but mutability would be allowed, marked in some concise way so that it was easy to calculate things using imperative-style loops. Pervasive use of immutable instances would make it impossible for libraries to rely on mutating objects a la SQLAlchemy.

The language would be statically type-checked, with optional type annotations and magic support for duck typing (magic because I don't know how that would work.) The type system would prioritize helpful, legible feedback, and it would not support powerful type-level programming, to keep the ecosystem accessible to beginners.

It would still have a REPL, but not everything allowed in the REPL would be allowed when running code from a file.

There would be a strong module system that deterred libraries from relying on global state.

Support for at least one fairly accessible concurrency paradigm would be built in.

I suspect that the error system would be exception-based, so that beginners and busy people could write happy path code without being nagged to handle error values and without worrying that errors could be invisibly suppressed, but there might be another way.
Even after a 44% bump, the salaries for COBOL positions aren't impressive compared to other specialties. And that's before the quality-of-life question.
COBOL is easy. JCL is the hard part.
> Why isn't Perl as popular as Python?

I don't think there is a single reason, but it sure didn't help that the community self-destructed by trying to make an entirely new language after version 5 and still call it Perl. It took a lot of years to resolve that nonsense, and in the meantime many people moved on.

It also does not help that Perl is a creative language, useful but very much open to many different interpretations. Hiring a perl guy and expecting them to read someone else's code is a crapshoot. The upside to Python's strong cultural opinions on coding style makes it easier for one developer to pick up someone else's code.

> Imagine that the boom in ML/AI didn't happen - would Python be #1 language right now?

Probably not. But it wouldn't be perl, either. Javascript most likely. But the core usage of python for scripting was never predicated on ML popularity, so it would still be a pretty commonly used language. and javascript has many annoying warts too, so I think plenty of people would still choose to write django apps instead of node, whether ML existed or not.
It's not really. There is no conspiracy about closing roads to make them into pedestrian areas. No one claims fining someone for driving through a park would be a "conspiracy"...
The longer I live, the more I subscribe to this view. My uncle was a trucker. He lived a weird life full crazy adventures and he loved it. Yes, it did bring pain, loneliness and eventual breakup of his family unit, but I always found him in high spirits. Bad things happen, but he was able to shrug those off partially because he knew what he was doing let him enjoy life a lot more despite being somewhat unstable.
Underpants Gnomes, Outcomes, and Intermittent Reinforcement
My compliance brain says no, but the fact that models get trained with data they obtain without explicit permission makes says that finders keepers would be the relevant case law.
Ouch, yes, I was thinking of SMP, not SMT.

TIL that there is a general name.
That class of thinking is exactly what she should have considered, though I'd have phrased it more generally: "These photos will not be under my control, therefore they could show up anywhere at anytime in the future, and there's potentially nothing I can do about it."
Got fired without warning from my first real programming job. It was probably personality differences with the company owner, but it did teach me that I am not built to work collaboratively on software.

Became a school bus driver. Quit when the school district was asking me to drive in an unsafe way. (Too fast for my experience level.)

Tried to become a helicopter pilot. The FAA grounded me for life.

Now trying to start a software business with software I wrote alone from scratch. It would be a professional services business, not selling the software, which will be FOSS.

I have a few backup plans if that fails. For example, I've already written a book when I was a teen, but didn't like it, so I deleted it. I'm trying to write another now.

I can only do this because my wife has a job. Thank goodness for her and her patience.
There are tools/technologies to make creating certain types of prototypes fast and cheap. I don't think you can generalize that to physical goods broadly. If I want to experiment with new battery designs, I'm not doing that at no cost in an afternoon.
The author is known to blog his notes using FreeBSD as a daily driver for things other than just damn fast HTTPS video streaming and ZFS file or block storage.
> this is less about ethics and more about one person’s potential regret over a business transaction.

Why do you believe this, and do you have any evidence to support this claim? Are you not aware of the history of this image?

“Retiring Lena as an image used in coding goes beyond copyright, consent or ethics. It is a required step to help women feel more welcome in tech.” https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-time-to-retire-...

I don’t believe that Lena herself has expressed regret over the business transaction, nor was she even bothered much by the use of the image in tech. I believe I read that Playboy considered action on copyright grounds, but decided not to pursue them. You can verify these things via many sources, the link above contains several, as well as the Wikipedia article on this image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism

This is neither about Lena’s choices nor is it about protecting her dignity. It’s about our choices and protecting our dignity.
It used to make no sense to me how people would put so much effort into things like this that don’t matter. Yes, the photo is originally from Playboy, but most people don’t even know that because it’s cropped. It’s just a picture of a woman’s face.

This and things like renaming master to main I now see as examples of the foot-in-the-door strategy[1]. Get people and teams to agree to a small request like changing their test image, and then they will be more likely to go along with big changes later, because they have publicly expressed support for diversity goals and they have a psychological need to remain consistent in their actions (avoid cognitive dissonance)

[1] https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/...
Have gone through the exercise, I know this is false.

Not everything can be pushed into numpy, and you can still be left with lots of loops in python.
This new picture is in conversation with the older one, acknowledging its legacy while also making a statement. Is there anything about the new picture that is souless, beige, featureless or boring?
This is art, not invention. A great number of these have already been mostly invented by others already. This is about an artist going through the creative process. The work is part of that process.
I knew Iran was diverse, but those were some incredibly beautiful photographs. Thank you for sharing.
You don't need to defend the government. In the sham-democracy, you have as little control over their actions as the government of china
Did you watch the video? She said that she would like to retire from having her picture used in this way.
As well as old loading instantly, it doesn't have pop ups that block access which is surprisingly common on the Reddit website.
> the cost to build physical prototypes has effectively fallen to 0.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. The cost to build prototypes of soft plastic objects in unusual shapes has significantly diminished. The cost to build electronic prototypes has decreased only marginally, mechatronics, robotics and most types of actuation are still a big boys club etc.
I'm thinking more of a smart fridge, or car app, or some other crap. I'm 99% sure a lot of them will stop going through the painful iOS process and just give you a QR code for their app
Yeah, but only by adding a clutch or something to prevent the drag when the motor is coasting. I'm a little confused by this, I thought the motor would turn into a generator in that situation.
'Chief Product Officer'

Um, yes? Isn't that the point? C-Level execs rake in money.

This isn't really a surprise to me.
Ah. Thanks! Good to know. Only cost me a couple downvotes. Lol.
This is not true. They were widely welcomed, including by many many people who quickly became disillusioned and/or left.
They should automatically get applied on the healthcare.gov site or your states local version. They only apply to the silver level plans, which is why the GGP post talking only about bronze and gold plans quoted such high numbers. Those plans completely skip the subsidies.

That's why the websites ask you your income levels.

It also affects your max out of pocket expenses for the year (total limit of deductibles and copays before insurance has to cover it all)
I've moved from the private sector (consumer tech) to government research (contractor who works with many FFRDCs).

The cultural shift is, frankly, seismic.

The problems are no less important or impactful, but the timescale we're working on is years or even decades, so much of the all-out, balls-to-the wall constant stress you find in the startup/scaleup/consumer tech sphere is not there.

I still get to do impactful work, that I find more interesting at a consumer tech job. I took a ~10% pay cut (I'm not a SWE, so YMMV considerably on the size of pay cut you might take), but I'm super happy with the choice I made.

There are tons of federal research labs and opportunities out there hurting for software talent if you enjoy the practice but not the culture of most consumer software shops.
> having von-Neumann architecture instead of Harvard one.

I think you got that backwards. Von Neumann is mainstream and a few MCUs use Harvard architecture.
Mastodon’s UX with regards to following people on other servers seems to be really broken. Is there a simple ”browse to profile, click ”follow”’ experience on any client?

All mastodon clients I have seen involved logging in to the foreign server and/or copy/pasting handles. If this can just solve that it already removes critical friction.
A Year of Scaling to a Multi-Hundred Person Engineering Organization at Pleo
Eh, I type basic operations in Spolight or Google, whichever is lying on my screen!
Ha, this is fascinating. Seems like a leadership failure as someone should have got them into one room and forced to come up with a shared engineering vision.
People who sell photos of their bodies should be allowed to make ethical arguments or have opinions outside the narrow confines of their contracts. Even if those pictures are naked pictures.
California reservoir levels: Charts show water supply across the state
I didn't want to say it... ;-)

Nevertheless I think it's good that we have developments like these, so we can use different software on hardware than expected/enforced by the manufacturer.
Likewise "W1A 1AA" would get to the BBC's London Broadcasting House.
The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
Send a Weekly Summary Email
I think your mom could tell the difference between Lena's picture and Pornhub's front page.
ChatGPT wrote a new beer style recipe. These Denver breweries are making it
The ARM64 ISA does not have 20+ years of evolution as it was announced in 2011. It’s essentially a brand new ISA and has cast off almost all of the legacy of previous Arm ISAs.
Some very interesting advent of code contributions written in Rust, available on github, use bitwise operations. Shout out to Tim Visee! https://github.com/timvisee/advent-of-code-2021/blob/master/...
This sounds like a total win. You studied what you wanted, didn't completely wipe out your finances, and successfully re-opened a door you thought may have been permanently closed. I view self actualization as a far more important component of a life well-lived than your savings balance.
Ya Cobol is the future!