skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s pretty easy to set the Synology to upload to a cloud provider for a folder or file share. It has alerts and all sorts.
I have never met an AI that doesn't have the dictionary built in. If you want to play phonies check Woogles.
I like this. It’s a bit cheeky but the point still lands. Even if you have the greatest startup idea, there are myriad ways it can fail, many of which are totally outside a founder’s control.

Fail early, fail often still seems to be the best wisdom.
> desirable dogs get snapped up immediately

.. by those "breed rescue" groups, which exist by fostering and adopting out shelter dogs which would get adopted anyway. They show up at the shelter first thing in the morning and take any of "their" breed.
>By the same logic we'd criminalize pissing in public places

Is public urination not a crime? One that gets you on a sex offender registry?
Yeah that's the one I have (more or less) and it's great. No complaints.
Virgin Orbit pauses all operations
Why is that unlikely? I'd love one.
First impressions matter and the fact that so many Rust crates are pre-1.0.0 is hindering Rust adoption in game projects that tend to be multi-year efforts. Game devs need stable APIs to develop against.
Impromptu – Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI by Reid Hoffman
>Most environmental action being taken out seems to be exclusively acts of religious-like penance. I think people's metric for whether or not we're doing something about the environment is "does this make day-to-day life harder than it was before?"

It stands to reason that if it made people’s day to day life easier, people would likely already be doing it.

>Only useless solutions that let college-educated Westerners pat themselves on the back like paper straws, plastic bag bans, complaining about gas stoves, etc.

1. The average westerner pollutes significantly more than the average person in a developing country.

2. All of those “useless” solutions are really just low hanging fruit that doesn’t really cause all that much disruption to day to day life.

If not having plastic bags, straws, and gas stoves really causes that much distress, then you’re really living a life with very few problems.
> I want a nice, small, AWD, electric car, not a shitty crossover.

Perhaps the most common EV on the road is that. Though I suppose everyone has their own version of the 'small' goalposts.
The ID.3 GTX will be dual motor:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/id3/355043/new-2023...
Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner – Analyze Any URL Safely
I wish there were a way to flag my own sites as illegal for use in training LLMs and other AI systems.

If there is such a way, someone please let me know.
Not sure what the purpose of the question is.

If you don't want to do the take home test, tell the company just that. You aren't going to hurt anyone's feelings. You don't have to be overly polite about it or think of excuses. No one there is going to care.

They will just move on and hire someone else. You can move on and apply somewhere else. That's all.
FWIW, one of the stranger results of legalization is the number of 60+ conservatives who just get mega-stoned on the reg.
The computer was always designed to be a computational machine. It didn't just appear and then someone thought "what could I actually use this for?"

Also the Internet came out of DARPA which was a method of sharing data between geographically remote military facilities. It wasn't like they wired up devices and thought "what could we use this for?".
Waze isn't from the UK, but it still exists 10 years after being acquired by Google.
I heard a great quip about the way people misreason about AI capabilities.

Announcement: "AI can play chess!"

Public: "People can play chess. And AI can play chess. People can also X. Therefore AI can also X."

... Ignoring the underlying nature of the chess problem and how it was different than other problems' structures.

Hands are the same.

You can image-bash together faces from examples and get something mostly-right simply through pattern copying.

You cannot do the same with hands, because rendering them plausibly requires at least intuition and approximation of inverse kinematics -- something the recent set of image generative AI didn't include.

Which isn't to say it can't, simply that the "hands problem" is unlike "the face problem."
Just say no. I won’t participate in interview activities that don’t involve employees spending an equal amount of time with me or paying me an hourly rate. I’m also not bothered about seeming polite when someone tells me to spend several hours of my time doing their test. The request is inconsiderate itself.
sure but it'd be penny-wise, pound foolish to hamper environmental research by eliminating the use of plastic components in research equipment. A few pieces of research equipment that are nominally retrieved are not going to be a major source of contamination no matter how you slice it. Dealing with environmental release of plastics is a major concern, but absolutism in this weird and focused domain accomplishes nothing useful and serves as a distraction from real solutions.
I have an 1/8 mile driveway with a curve on a slant that terrifies all the delivery drivers. I’ve always owned an FF car with great snow tires (used to be Hakka R’s, now Blizzaks) and I never get in trouble. (Rear end slides, but who cares?)

People are always getting stuck w/ AWD cars with all-weather tires and we pull them out with our tractor.

The weight distribution of EVs is different so I don’t know how they handle. I haven’t pulled one out yet.
VW ID.3 GTX is going to be AWD: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/id3/355043/new-2023...
For electric vehicles it's not that much more complex compared to traditional ICE vehicles.
way way back when I was in art classes, the hardest part for me was hair. everything else for me would look acceptable slightly better than a 5 year old, but the hair was never better than stick figure at best. i remember trying to draw a portrait of Robert Smith from the Cure. the hair, ugh
Sure, but most (if not all?) of us have language in our customer agreements that Microsoft doesn't have rights to just start browsing our OneDrive libraries and Exchange inboxes without a support contract explicitly authorizing access for support purposes. Just like, sure, I technically have access to a bunch of PHI at my workplace - but touching it without a valid reason is a one-way ticket to the unemployment line.

But unlike Microsoft's other services, AI needs data to train on - are they going to be content just sourcing this from the internet at large or have we finally hit an inflection point where they try to get business and enterprise customers to give access in exchange for these features? That's a big no-no to anyone in a field that deals with sensitive information, and in most all cases an equally big no-no to anyone in a company that wants to keep things confidential.
I typically don't do "take home tests" anymore. I explain that in the past they have occupied a lot of my time and even when successful, usually things didn't work out. I point them to some of my recent foss work in return (with full git commit logs).

I would probably make an exception if they offered to pay me even a token per hour (or even donate the hourly to a charity - it's about incentives not money). I have made an exception when it was literally a 20 min code challenge for a promising lead.

On one hand, this does frequently stop things moving forward. On the other hand I never felt like I missed out.

One company I sent them my usual polite decline and got back an angry rant from the CEO! I responded with "Well, give me your product for free for 8 hours or so and I'll give you my time for free for the same length." He did not respond after that.

This is probably bad advice for very new engineers where a code sample can help differentiate you a lot, but I wish more senior+ engineers would refuse these dumb tests.
My advice: if you take 3 hours just to set up a virtual environment for our take home test, save yourself the embarrassment and cancel your interview.
We don't have anything close to evidence of a causal relationship.
If rsync is used before the backup is uploaded/archived you can set the flags to do the things you want.
Well, doesn't pre-1.0.0 indicate that the engine is not stable in itself? No reason to provide stable APIs or a post-1.0.0 if you know there is a lot of changes to be done.
The key isn't that the "AI" writes the whole darn thing. It's a "get-out-of-writers-block-free" pass. I've successfully used chatGPT for exactly this process. I'm writing something — unique, by me! — and I want to link a few thoughts together in a succinct way. I outline what I want and ask the AI to generate some plausible prose.

I almost never use the prose word-for-word, but goodness is it helpful.
The current golf starts at €26k. They have optimized it for decades and have a smooth running factory/supply chain.

I also don't see how the equivalent EV could be cheaper by 2025.
Couple of points, that stood out:
1. In door gas stoves aren’t banned. Which would arguably have more impact on human health.

2. This happened right when many Bay Area and Californian residents are in blackout, some are for days.

3. It’s not conditional on readiness of the grid to support the load increase.

4. Cost slides shows underestimated numbers.
Let's try "chinese girl making heart with fingers --v 5", a prompt I had used before under v4. Result: https://i.imgur.com/jPgBqsX.png

In image 1, the subject appears to be missing a digit on each hand.

In image 2, the missing digits issue expands, combined with what appears to be a merging of the thumbs.

Image 3 introduces a supernumerary digit on each hand, and has extra "parts" disappear into and out of other fingers.

Image 4... isn't right in a number of ways, but still seems to have fewer than the expected number of digits.

I don't think these results are any better than the v4 model was, but decide for yourself. This is what I got with the same prompt using -v 4 on March 1. https://i.imgur.com/hQA2K7m.png I ended up just taking a photo of my daughter and blurring the background.
> now we'll have to wonder whether Manager X is even paying attention to the emails they're reading and responding to, or doing any actual work or thinking

If my experience in engineering is anything to go by, this worry existed since the dawn of middle management. AI just makes it give good responses instead.
Or Amazon could pay someone to review reported listings. This kind of DoS only works if the system fails to distinguish good listings from bad.
No one is employing people for shits and giggles(maybe the government). Every employee exists because their employer believes they will add value to the company.
+1 for transit. (I’m also predictably from Montréal haha)

The crowning feature of Transit is the GO trips that let you share you location while on a bus with others. For bus arrival accuracy there’s nothing better. It’s probably saved me a flight or two before, by just making sure I get the 747 bus to the airport.
It looks like my post has been flagged. Is there a reason? How do I get the flag removed?
> or you just met god and are traveling back in time to the moment you were just at, which is not an ideal moment to be in a car ( you might be going 20 miles an hour slowly over someone ).

No doubt. But how does that work in practice? Is someone seeing god likely to be getting behind the wheel, or are they just lying wasted on the couch somewhere? Can it also happen with a delay?

What I've noticed with alcohol (which is legal!) is that sometimes I'd drink, and everything would seem fine, then it would hit me like a ton of bricks 15 minutes later. 15 minutes is enough to figure "yeah, I'm fine, let me get in my car" and end up in traffic.

My point is that I'm wondering whether weed (which I don't smoke) is actually worse than alcohol (which I do sometimes drink). And since we already have plenty of people smoking weed, maybe legalizing it would help with education.

When I took my driver's license in France, there's a whole segment on driving intoxicated. They'd go into the effects of cannabis, which clearly don't seem great for driving, but that'd be about it, besides the generic "drugs are bad, mkay". Whereas alcohol, while also decried, had a bit more info, such as a rule-of-thumb of how long it takes to get out of the blood stream, interactions with food, etc. So, I know that I shouldn't drive while high, but since I've already smoked a joint right now, how long can I expect to wait before I'm legal again? Crickets.
Within the context of these tax changes, to whit: "we want to incentivise work, especially doctors", the marginal tax rate is the important one. The is important specifically because we have the case now where doctors are turning down work because their marginal rate for that extra work is 60%, and I don't blame them. Personally I have taken months off this year for that reason, although I am not a doctor. Marginal rates affect decisions at the margin, they matter.
Also

> Tesla Model Y cons:

Does not support Android Auto or Apple CarPlay.
Yeah I think it looks great too. I don't own a car, but back when I did, I had a Ford Fiesta that I loved. It wasn't unnecessarily large and could fit into smaller on-street parking spots that others simply couldn't. This EV looks great and similar.
> Isn't Credit Suisse the bank that laundered and legitimized all the money from the drug cartels?

No. I mean, some, sure, but “all”? Nah, Wachovia [0], HSBC [1], and, well, pick a major bank, really...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...
This calls for a Dilbert cartoon
This is why the grounding that office365 seems to be doing will be so important, it will not be 100% but having the response be grounded on actual artifacts (actual documentation, emails, data) will be huge, the fact that it gives you citations for the things it suggests, is huge.

Props to the MS team.
Tesla proved that people would accept such an interface, and it massively improves Tesla's profit margins. The trick of passing off something as 'premium' while in fact cutting costs is a really good trick. One that I imagine the other manufacturers wish they could emulate.

You do get used to the touchscreen (I'm on my second Model 3), but I do look forward to a reassertion of sanity. Touchscreen makes sense for some things, not so much for others. I also look forward to the return of IR rain sensors, LOL.
I would argue that shipping to a limited test group qualifies in terms of measuring velocity, which is what the OP said they were impressed with.

Launching to 10000 people vs 10000000 is a matter of scale (which is still important, but not the same thing as), not velocity.
There are many things I want to have done but which I don't want to do. I think the key to improving your say-do ratio is to figure out how to do the thing such that it's something you want to do, not something you want to have done. For me, many tasks can be converted into something enjoyable by adding earbuds and a podcast.
VW, BMW and Mercedes tend to avoid selling their lower end/“value” models in USA+Canada.

Sometimes they’ll sell lower-end/value models in Canada but not USA (e.g. VW city editions were sold in Canada, but not USA. BMW sold some smaller engine sizes into Canada, but not USA, but still not as small as available in Europe)
I vote with my labour by simply going elsewhere. Amazon requires interview candidates to show goverment ID to a webcam. I dont have a webcam and dont intend to be scrutinized in such an obtuse way. Happy to do an onsite, not happy to have to prove my citizenship to solve remote fizzbuzz.
Properly Displaying Ancient Interfaces
For people who use either of these apps, what advantages do they offer over google maps transit directions? I live in Chicago and only use google maps but I would love to use something else that is more accurate with bus timings.
I was actually trying to remember exactly how I did my Master's thesis in 1981. The output was printers with daisy wheels connected to a Honeywell mainframe. I'm pretty sure I must have been able to do superscripts directly. But I may have used Letraset for the Greek letters.
Tiny cars are just not very popular here. A few of the tuner guys or eco-friendly people like them but en-masse, they don't sell well at all
In other words 20% of jobs were distributed via the much less efficient and risky approach of job adds, formal applications, HR scanning CVs for buzzwords and credentials, lengthy interview vetting process, etc.

I agree with OP. It is empowering that you can achieve more when working with people you know well and trust.

You mention that this makes it harder for immigrants. Of course it does. Immigration is disruptive to once life. It only makes sense to migrate, if the prospects at the new place are much better, despite effectively loosing access to your existing network at home. Of course it will take time, to re-build such a network.
That’s a bit of a false dichotomy, realistically you need both.
There used to be arewefastyet.rs, to measure the speed of the compiler. But I didn't renew the domain. It's at https://arewefastyet.pages.dev now.
Is it any better or worse than delegating work to a junior team member and not bothering to review the work product?

I love the idea that I can rapidly produce a rough draft of a document from notes, something I’m already doing with ChatGPT, albeit not as elegantly as if the functionality were integrated into Docs/Word.
FWIIW, This seems rather similar to Github Copilot in VS Code. Been using it for a year, training data issues aside the product is absurdly good at times.
Also, up until 2011 Austria was richer (GDP per capita) than the US.
How has the Bing integration been deficient?
Let's see if it's the same type of velocity they have with Teams. Constant change that breaks things.
I should add that to my list of cancelled products:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/when-talent-is-not-enoug...

explains how this happens (Hello, McKinsey!)
Enter: Microsoft Bob
The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging from Large AI Models
This is the reason. Before Midjourney, www.eleuther.ai’s Discord had an image generation channel. There the benefits of generating socially were made obvious. People help each other, learn from each other, riff off each other. It accelerated technique evolution tremendously.

Midjourney is a small team. They are working on a web interface. But, won’t release it until it is significantly better than all the benefits they get from Discord. Meanwhile, they’ve been too busy making quality improvements and scaling the service to keep up with demand.
Can one bring a sexual harassments complaint against a machine? I see this thing being trained up on material within an HR department only to parrot back some horrible phrase it learned after reading hundreds of harassment complaint discussions.

I used to work surrounded by lawyers. Just like doctors drift into discussions of horrible diseases, lawyer drift into discussions of horrible legal situations. Letting Clippy "learn" from that material seems really dangerous. How do you kill/reset this thing once it has become poisoned?
To expand the quote:

>> Virtual threads don't seem like a worthwhile complexity tradeoff unless you're trying to run lots of threads in 32-bit address space

Bolting M:N threads onto JVM runtime in the hope it will enable people to program the JVM like Erlang (without the rest of the Erlang feature set that actually make it good) still seems to me a clear cut case of "not a worthwhile complexity tradeoff". The added JVM implementation complexity and maintainance burden would seem to be pretty heavy for something like this.
I've never done a take-home test before meeting with the hiring manager and actually got an interview after doing the test. I've never done a test after interviewing with the hiring manager and not gotten a job offer. Therefore my rule nowadays is that I only do take home tests after meeting with the hiring manager.

Oh and I should also add that I've never had a recruiter tell the truth about how long one of these should take. They always lie with some ridiculous number of hours that I know only a tiny percentage of the entire programming population could perform at.
So really, human input to get the ball rolling. AI takes it all the from there.

Wild.
I was trained in classical animation so I've drawn a lot of hands. It's difficult for me to understand how any AI can produce real hand images.

It's not the number of joints, it's not the articulation... it's the relationship of the hand to the skeleton, to the gesture, and to the objects with which the hand interacts.

It's great that midjourney can now draw raised hands doing nothing or anime girls holding their hands in a mannerist pose but that doesn't address the real issue. Hands are intentional and laden with tiny muscular efforts that we're primed to perceive.

When AI draws a tree we aren't expecting each branch to interact perfectly with a cradled object. It's all arbitrary.

I wouldn't be surprised if "AI hand touch-up" becomes a specialist skill for the next five years or so. I don't think the hand issue can be addressed until new models are devised that invest more semantic consideration into a scene.
Note that DisplayLink is awful and should not be encouraged. It works on Linux with proprietary drivers, but badly and not natively (at least on Ubuntu) and will eat your CPU. It has issues on Macs that DRMed media in the browser won't display (cos the OS sees it as a screen recorder), and it will probably eat your CPU.
Question: does one have to be more smart to learn and build stuff in rust than one has to be for something like C#?

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

Is it worth using rust for anything that isn't currently written in C? i.e. operating systems and compilers?
> Sometimes Copilot will be right, other times usefully wrong — but it will always put you further ahead.

If there's one tangentially related development I'm actually interested to see how it fleshes out in broader work discussions, it's the marketing of failure modes as a feature.
this is a lot of what is being done right now in the defi ecosystem. i know hn likes to shit on crypto, but defi itself is pretty innovative in this regard. the concept of 'programmable money' isn't that far off.
> The solution to all drug problems is legalizing it. Yes, including crystal meth and heroin

There have been a few cases in the past were heroin use was allowed, or at least not actively prosecuted. They were absolute disasters.
E.g. Zurich, 1986-1922: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8044118/
https://github.com/MaikKlein/unreal-rust

Unlikely to ever be as supported as what Epic themselves maintain though. Same for Godot. If you want to use something that will for sure support Rust, you better use a Rust project for the games.
Before I started refusing these, I did one that was an integration with the companies sdk.

The sdk was broken!

So I produced a minimum viable repro, wrote up a bug report and even included an analysis of where the bug was.

The company had the gall to still ask me to do a take home using the patched sdk!

If your take home test is broken, stupid or not trivial to setup, it's not the applicant who is at fault.
That is true but most of the top Rust crates are still pre-1.0.0. That is not normal for a language that came out in 2015. The async-await story has been in stable since 2019 so they can't use that as an excuse.
No it won't, we'll get more useless texts because it's easier to write them, we'll get more communication errors because people will only read the summaries instead the real texts.
Better idea: Use GPT-4 to create an AI Dilbert generator that lacks a nutcase cartoonist.