skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read I-Also-Don't-Want-To-Be-Locked-Into-This-Ridiculous-Syntax-Nightmare, bash and sed and cut and the likes indeed are the first things which come to mind. I really feel kind of bad sometimes for once having spent time learning them, only to later find out there are many alternatives and nearly all of them have a shorter learning curve. Many of these tools also have zero discoverability as well, meaning you effectively get locked into learning their syntax. And then another one for the next tool. Whereas at least in PS you can try to use common words and tab completion and sometimes get there before having to reach to 'how do I x in y'.
Code doesn't cause money to change hands. Promises do. Customer-facing
MBAs keep that gravy train chugging until an exit event when code
might begin to matter.
They haven't, the park is still very popular, with kids, cyclists, runners, &c.

You just have a bunch of people saying "hey do you want something?" when you get in/out. There even is a petting zoo inside the park, it's far from a no man's land. In summer it's full of people sunbathing &c.

It's kind of an open secret that police allows them here so that they don't proliferate everywhere else. This open secret contract means they're also mostly harmless and police are patrolling around the park very often.

I live 500m away and ride by on a daily basis
Well Rust will replace C++ basically. It does C++'s use cases better than it.

It's not a Python replacement in any sense of the word.
My day would be better if my basic communications tools worked as expected, and I didn't have to wrangle it into doing shit all day long.
That's great information. Thank you. Why no link to a calculator that does all of this like I've asked for a few times now if the government's own doesn't do it correctly?

Like I mentioned, marginal tax rate comparisons are often flawed and not helpful. If you are correct about your marginal tax rate changing to 60%, it still only means 25k have 60% taken. It still sucks of course but your "tax bill" isn't going to be 60%.

Let's take your "disastrous" example of making one extra pound on top of 99,999 GBP.

Your Personal Allowance goes down by £1 for every £2 that your adjusted net income is above £100,000.

So if I make 100k exactly nothing changes at all. But let's call that an "off by one error". Let's say I earn 100,002. If I calculate this correctly - and I might not - then my allowance of 12,570 goes down to 12,569. So 1£ is now no longer tax free and I need to pay taxes on it. My additional 2£ of earnings are also subject to 40% tax. So I only get 1.2£ net from those.

So let's assume this does things correctly (unlike the government's own) https://www.uktaxcalculators.co.uk/ and input the numbers.

Ah yes, it seems to do it:

Gross Income: £100,000
Allowance: £12,570.00
Net income: £66,322.92
Average tax rate: ~33.6770%

Gross Income: £100,002
Allowance: £12,569.00
Net income: £66,323.67
Average tax rate: ~33.6776%

Difference in net income for 2£ extra gross: 0.75£ or slightly above 60% effective marginal tax so to speak. Looking at the average tax rate, there's hardly any difference at all.

Let's look at the other end:

Gross Income: £125,000
Allowance: £70.00
Net income: £75,640.66
Average tax rate: ~39.487%

I'd like to compare this to CAD again. Most expensive province of Quebec again. It's about 208,000 CAD.

Gross Income: 208,000
Net income: 122,953
Average tax rate: 40.89%
Marginal tax rate: 49.96%

So about 123k or about 73.8k£.

Do keep in mind of course that all of this is without taking into account various family or work situations in either case. Especially in said expensive province of Quebec, child care services are available in various ways like you describe for the UK. E.g. the 9$ per day day-care spots where the price also goes up with your income level, so the same kind of calculation you made for the UK could be made there. The more you earn, the more of your own money you have to use. In a province like Alberta, where your average tax for the above 208k is only around 33% you don't have day-care spots like that and will pay a lot more money for said services. Things like pension payments reduce your income before being input into this calculation. I.e. you could earn 250k CAD but put 42k into an RRSP and you'd end up back at the exact same calculation as above with 208k of taxable income.
I don't get your point. People should not hate tech because they have no choice? They don't hate tech because they have no choice?
I think for now, the data requirements to train a SOTA LLM are so extreme we don’t have the luxury of being picky with the training data. We are getting close to the point where there isn’t enough human written text in existence to continue scaling these models.

Model refinement seemingly has lower training requirements, putting it within the reach of smaller organizations or wealthy individuals. If you don’t like the refinement dataset it will likely be feasible to bootstrap your own off someone else’s LLM. See what Stanford did with Alpaca.
Tesla at least knows how to write software, and compensate for lack of buttons with decent defaults and automation. Legacy manufacturers still have no clue. They can't even let go of the "Start engine" button in their cars.

The rest of the industry just destroyed the value. VW probably listened to Munro to save $0.05 on a couple of springs and wires, and ruined the whole lineup with creaky plasticky fake non-buttons that feel cheap and are annoying to use.

VW managed to marry all of the downsides of touchscreens with all of the clutter and inflexibility of buttons.
The "system" is just the underlying nature, isn't it? Nature is not a pure meritocracy.

It's more efficient to accomplish work when you work with others, provided you complement each other, and it's easier to work with others if you know them well and can trust them.

Having to find new people frequently, learn who they are, what they are capable of, and if they are trustworthy instead of relying on your existing network is not efficient.

A political system in which these fundamental rules of nature are forcefully suppressed, e.g. a pure meritocracy, is a horrible system, in my view. Fortunately, if something is not efficient, it will be replaced by something efficient in the long run.
Syntax is the easiest thing to pick up about a new programming language. Semantics, idioms, etc take far more time, and in that sense, C# and Rust are very different.
My point is more that, in the way the law works out, what you get to protect is the part of an expression that is unique to you, which can include mashups, etc. My point being that this is perhaps distinct from novelty, as novelty isn't a requirement of copyright, just independent creation.

>Similar maybe. But for literally the same, I doubt it. People are getting already sued for having too much similarity.

Full stop yes. Independent creation of the same thing is not an issue in copyright law in the US. I do not speak about Euro copyright, as I'm merely a US atty. In US copyright law, a necessary element of infringement is access to the allegedly copied work - if access to the work is rebutted, then there is no copying and no infringement. The copyright stands.
Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time
Also known for his studies of quadrilateral meshes with equal edge lengths.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~alchern/projects/ChebyshevNets/

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Chebyshev_nets/
I don't see a problem either, but the fact of the matter is that the moon in that picture is much closer to generated than captured.
That's interesting, thanks for the link. I held out high hopes for pluggable KV in kubernetes for the longest time, but since that issue was closed WONTFIX I resigned my hopes

Heh, that kubebrain TODO is some "oh, really?"

* Guarantee consistence in critical cases

but I give them huge props for calling out Jepsen
My main beef with my brother laser is that if it runs out of paper it keeps the drum heater going seemly forever on the assumption that you are going to quickly replace the paper and finish the print job. My wife likes to print out a bunch of recipes and then not get them until a day later so I often find the equivalent of a toaster being left running for half a day sucking power when I come home.
Same reason they all hate blockchain and smart contracts, or many still believe that AI will be a net good for the world.

Groupthink.

I enjoy thinking and speaking based on fundamentals, regardless of what surface ideas people at large have. In fact, besides grounding me in facts and reality, it gives me a huge advantage as an entrepreneur, to be able to see possibilities people don’t.
Pessimistic point: there a lof of competent programmers out there. So, why not to choose someone that you liked or someone who ready to work long hours, under stress, for minimum salary?
Perhaps your reaction to the test is part of the test too. If you do it, you'll be evaluated on your technical performance, and if you refuse you've simply answered another question they might have about you, albeit a non-technical one. Completing the test might signal compliance, which might be exactly what they're filtering for.
I don't understand this - have you been (unsuccessfully) looking for a job since 2013?

If you've had jobs in between these applications, why are you applying for so many new jobs every year?
They may allow their customers to redistribute the patches and then decide to stop providing further updates to customers that use these rights. I can see this faq being still literally right. They just don't mention this fact.

But this last Q&A states between the lines that no, they wouldn't provide a free version for evaluation only because if they did, you could freely redistribute the patch since they can't impose you to keep it secret because of this very paragraph of the GPL you quote, and they don't want this because that would break their business model.

That's not proof they actually tell their customers they will stop providing them further updates if they redistribute the patch, but this only reinforces my belief they do. This is exactly how they manage to keep there code non-public.

The GPL doesn't and can't force the GRSecurity project to provide updates to their customers under any circumstances.

This faq does not lie and is technically correct, it just "forgets" to mention that customers are tied to such a contract.
If you don't mind answering, what was the nature of your attacks? Was it bandwidth exhaustion or layer-7 CPU exhaustion?
> Dadagrams is a variation of Scrabble I play with my Dad where we both play the same letters each turn.

It's also the "newspaper puzzle" version of Scrabble, that your Dad played when he was a child.
>> Basically you evaluate how much work and change went into something, to distinguish it from other works.

Copyright exemptions (fair use/fair dealing etc) are a million times more complex than that. There are times when one adds almost nothing yet will still get protection. Take political humor. A standard bit is just to point out something funny. Look at how often political comics (John oliver/stewart etc) just play a clip of some politician. No edits. No commentary. The clip speaks for itself. That is still protected speech. Understanding how the comic adds to the clip cannot be expressed in numbers.
That's sad, but this space is likely ready for consolidation...
I'd hope that every adult understands that unless you have any extra leverage in a situation you aren't going to get special treatment.

"I know that every other candidate for the job successfully did this exercise but I found it too difficult to even set up. Can you hire me over all of them?"

What do you think the company's response will be?
Watch a Plane Land on a Skyscraper Helipad
Thank you for mentioning this. I looked up her Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Dunham

Some points:

> Lena Dunham

> The Dunham family are cousins of the Tiffany family, prominent in the jewelry trade.

> Oberlin College Creative Writing (BA), 2008

> She has a younger sibling, Cyrus, a 2014 graduate of Brown University
Show HN: Exhibitor – Snappy and delightful React component workshop
Exhibitor, a snappy & delightful React component workshop, is GA. My aim is for Exhibitor to be an extremely fast, easy to use, and delightful tool for creating front-end component libraries.

One fun fact about Exhibitor is that it uses itself for it's own internal front-end component library, kind of like how some of Typescript is written in Typescript.

I'm the lead and sole developer for the project. Would be happy to answer any questions about it!

Wiki: https://github.com/samhuk/exhibitor/wiki

Demo: https://demo.exhibitor.dev/

Dev updates: https://samhuk.substack.com

Side-note: The demo is hosted on a free GCP nano instance at the moment because $$$. I can't guarantee it will hold up to much traffic. Apologies in advance if that happens!
> code and science should be separated from politics

I think almost no one agrees that it should be completely separate; there should be some distance, yes, but all these things do exist in the same reality and that can't always just be ignored. Should Linux also accept North-Korean patches for their ICBMs in mainline? Probably not. They can't prevent Linux from being used in them, but they also have no obligation to go our of their way to review, merge, and maintain the code for it.

There is a lot of grey area and you can argue about the specifics of various situations for ages, but there clearly is a point where politics and the intended purpose of patches do matter.
I like books that are actionable. Lots of books are inspirational but not that useful (e.g. crossing the chasm). I run a curriculum in my company which uses a few books I have read over the years.

emyth revisited (how to think about and structure an org)

getting to yes (negotiation)

influence the psychology of persuasion (negotiation)

spin selling (enterprise sales, supplanted by sandler)

You cant teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar (sandler sales)

5 dysfunctions of a team (one of the best leadership books)

first break all the rules (management)

accounting for dummies

purple cow (differentiation)

blue ocean strategy (differentiation)

traction (strategy/operations)

rocketfuel (strategy/operations)

for professional services:

managing the professional services firm

getting naked
They're literally no different than hot dog sellers tbh, kids probably don't even notice them.

This isn't skidrow with dozens of people injecting drugs 24/7 in the middle of the streets lol
> The reason was believed to be that once drug dealers were replaced by dispensaries with a legal obligation to check ID, far fewer teens were able to access it.

Replaced? In what way? I don't think they folded up their tents and went home, leaving the field to the dispensaries that checked ID. Dumbest thing I read today, and it's afternoon already.
> Are there any DAOs that do something that's NOT entirely about crypto things?

That will be difficult until crypto is improved to have the user friendliness to allow non-crypto-savvy people to use crypto services. Even the very act of 'getting a wallet' is a high bar to entry for the majority of the population, leaving aside 'connecting it to something' then using the still-complex crypto features like DAOs.
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
That's not a citation. That's a guy making things up.
Thank you for your anecdote, I thought it was a fun read. I am saddened that the most common response of many HNers is to turn every interesting story into a pessimistic lamentation of society. We need more glass-half-full people around here to balance things out.
Different teams have very different processes. The AI/Bing group is obviously much more "move fast and break things" than the OS group.
Usually, console development comes with heavy NDAs, which makes it really hard to do any sort of FOSS development for such targets. Bit sad. It's like you have to write a game successful on PC before you could reach out to Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo and then get access to a SDK. And whatever integration code you write, you cannot publish for others.
> Americans buy a lot of SUVs and they are all hatchbacks!

Hatchback / Hatch as a vehicle class doesn't mean "has a hatch on the back", as unintuitive as that may be. It's specifically a compact 5dr /car/. SUVs are not cars, they are trucks, crossovers are an abomination made by a Mini-Van and an SUV having a baby.

Compact 5DR cars are nearly non-existent in the US market.
It's "our" propaganda but still it is. We'll never learn all circumstances of this encounter and we are repeatedly balancing on the edge of Article 5.
I understand that we probably disagree about this, but I don't think AI poses risks that are even remotely in the ballpark of the risks of nukes. If my neighbor has a nuke, he can (accidentally or deliberately) take out everyone around him with ease. AI can't.
I test drove a model 3 last week - markedly better than the one I test drove last year.

Yeah, the yoke sucks... I'll opt for the wheel.

I tried out an audi EV yesterday - was not impressed, felt like I was driving on balloons.

Tesla flaming here is wild - I've already said I'm not really a fan I just want a car with solid drivetrain.
> "Do animals consent and understand?" -> "No, because they're animals."

Where is the circle?

> "Do prisoners consent to being imprisoned?" -> "No, because they're prisoners."

Is that circular reasoning too? Or is that simply the flat truth, whether you like it or not?

Where you go wrong is in assuming that seeking the consent of animals is a universal value that everybody else shares with you. But that is not true. The answer to "do animals consent to this" is "No, and so what?" The question you pose is only compelling to people who already share your values. To somebody who doesn't share your values, your argument is easily addressed and dismissed. The animals being eaten don't consent, and we don't care because they're animals.
Oh, I'm not saying that they shouldn't have released this. Of course they should. It's just creepy how often OpenSSH and OpenSSL security fixes happen just before we do a release.
Subscriptions are a toxic business model.
The number 4 (palm fingers) is very precise. You can't have 3 or 5. But you can have a variable number of stripes in tiger coat for example. It's difficult for AI to pickup that they need exactly 4.

The fingers themselves are also almost identical, but not really. If you learn a "platonic finger" it's not good enough, you should learn each finger individually. There is only so much you can spend on them, you got a million other things to learn. And the raters of the model are much more likely to penalize a bad face than some off details in a hand.
I love to write, and I've found the biggest inhibitor to me actually doing it is the desire to have it be highly polished and "perfect", especially if I'm posting it online. I end up writing nothing at all. There was a recent post on here with a similar sentiment as "Just Write", but I'm having trouble finding it.
Is the paper you cite current scientific consensus or just one voice in ongoing scientific discusion on the subject?
Thanks for sharing, very cool! There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of documentation on how to use it as a library, but looking at the code all seems to be nice and tidy, and it doesn't look too difficult to adapt to a use-case or two I have in mind.

Any plans to publish a release version to crates.io, or is it mainly intended as an internal tool for prefix.dev?
> Question: does one have to be more smart to learn and build stuff in rust than one has to be for something like C#?

Possibly - it requires an understanding of memory ownership and lifetimes which is something the GC in C# takes care of for you. It IS a bit of a burden and harder, but does have pay off for some domains where you want that level of control.

> Asking because everyone seems to be all in on rust but i'm fucking confused every time I start reading its docs and syntax.

Everybody has this the first couple times they attempt Rust. :.) It is different, but once you get over the straight up initial learning curve...it is pretty smooth sailing.

> Is it worth using rust for anything that isn't currently written in C? i.e. operating systems and compilers?

I think so, but I'm a bit biased as Rust is my primary and favorite language. I like the memory control it gives me as well as its functional like nature. Since it is also roughly the same speed as compiled C/C++ it can play nicely in some of those domains but with better memory safety.
This device had a 4 years of updates which is more than what a Pixel phone would get.
but if say I have a long shell script, or I have a long build job failed middle way, can it locate the relevant errors in the log?
I can run batch jobs in GKE. It looks like SLURM doesn't have a way to handle endpoints (IE, a port manager) so I agree, deployments will have to stay in something like k8s.
Not sure if "writing" is the easy part if.. say, you're trying to write a book.

Some of my favorite posts here are my most downvoted.

I write a lot in this HN comment box and post and then immediately delete. Probably my favorite.

But I've written a couple of books and that kind of writing, re-writing, editing and publishing is radically different from posting online.
MS has such a huge userbase that I'd wager any GUI feature that's accessible from the desktop has "masses" of users.
They can, but they won't be able to compete.

When photography replaced many of the uses of painting, some painting jobs were lost, but photography ones were gained. Now, many creative jobs will be done by computers, leaving the world less enjoyable for people who enjoy creating.

Sure, some people will continue to be creative, but look at what happened to art after photography: we got modern art, where people just piss on a canvas and sell it for millions based on the name of the artist alone, not the value of the art.

AI is progress in the same way nukes are progress: you have to get it or you'll be left in the dust. But is humanity better for it?
Google: windows ungroup taskbar icons

There is even a paid app for that (beyond free ones)! : D
Yes, I have seen it, but just a handful of times (single digits).
This just means that there is more demand for US workers. I'm pretty sure businesses aren't paying them that much more out of charity.
Honest question, if the only thing missing from being on equal footing with UE is a highly specific 3d mesh manipulation, why is there a question as to whether Rust can do GUIs and games in general. Are you operating on a completely proprietary stack or am I missing something about your comment?
If you document this in detail it could make a weird but interesting blog post
OH that's clever ! It is probably what they did to start the car and then leave.
Giving people take home tests or leet code challenges is a backwards hiring process. Why as a manager are you wasting your time and the candidate's time "discovering" if they can code when there's millions of developers who are actively working in the open on OSS platforms like GitHub?

I don't give tests, I don't give technical interviews. I scout amazing developers and try to convince them to join my team. Not only do you get top notch people like that (who very much appreciate not being "tested"), you also save a ton of time.

Your job as a manager is to proactively search for the best people possible to join your team, hire them and keep them as happy as humanly possible.
Parent specifically mentioned syntax so I specifically talked about it...
I was ok with using edge on my corporate laptop (mostly to not install more than the stock software) but that un-hidable discover button that just appeared is making me question my ok-ness. Maybe I'm just angry at the VP who made the decision to let that in that's paid more than I'll ever be. I want to get paid to make boneheaded decisions too.