skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think we learned over the past few years that things either kill you or you'll be fine.

You should change that to you learned because we learned that even things that don't kill us could permanently harm us.

Just ask all the people who've developed long-lasting permanent injuries from COVID. Long COVID is a thing.
Not your wallet, not your money.
Yeah that is the thing, there is no pure Computer Science without coding, unless one goes to applied maths (at least in Portugal).
They could probably sell the domain for a couple of million just as an exit bonus.
I graduated 20+ years ago from a top EE/CS program. I took a database course but we literally spent one week on SQL. The other 14 weeks were understanding more fundamentals (including relational algebra) of DBMS’, and the projects were all based on building and extending a B+ tree.

There was some depth but it wasn’t geared towards praxis. It was much more geared towards “base knowledge”, and the curriculum looks much the same today. SICP is still popular.

I happened to take a networking class where we learned sockets, but most people didn’t.

The core upper division CS classes were: OS, algorithms, compilers. Then people may take DB, graphics, networking, more algorithms, UX, “software engineering”, or maybe some HW classes.

Another thing to consider is where you’re recruiting from. Berkeley/Stanford/MIT will be somewhat similar but San Jose St or other state school will be much more focused on teaching python, SQL, C++, etc.
whether or not I trust my coworkers has no bearing on whether or not they continue to be my coworkers. My boss is accountable for them, I'm not. He's paid the big bucks to separate the sheep from the goats.
“Natural” is marketing. It doesn’t mean things are not bad to regularly eat.

Cyanide is a natural molecule, and rattle snake venom is made of natural molecules.
Slight tangent but preferably i would like an AI that can go against the status quo, the elite classes, the mainstream discourses and ignore the circus.

I think one of that most interesting things that can come of bots like GPT-X is that it can make new connections, unravel "stuff", do extremely intricate deductive reasoning.

Be the data driven arbiter of the the truth for everyone, not just the tiny established classes or cultural hegemonies.

The ideological and cultural noise increasingly smokescreen any realpolitical, material or resource-oriented analysis of actual economic power structures in the world in the last years, AI could be a godsend (or the opposite unfortunately).

I remember reading a sci-fi years ago about the stuff an AI concluded when asked philosophical questions that were so bizarre and frightening that people shut it down, and i'm sure we're in the same territory with political and scientific analysis.

It's either dangerous to the orders of the world, or not that interesting and borg like on a philosophical level.
That's an average VAT rate for Europe.
Aren't you wary that the bike doesn't offer almost any protection at all when an accident happens? Something that causes minor or no damage when inside a car can easily cause serious injury on even death when on a bike.
You don't learn to drive by reading a book.
Good luck getting browser support so it’s actually usable
There is no way except property seizure and capital reallocation at a large scale. This wont happen, so we're effectively doomed to suffer the slow violence of the inaction of our owners who themselves will never live to feel the harm they're aiding and abetting.
If it costs an extra $20k to set up a new farm then we let food prices rise slightly to cover the costs. Why does the government have to step in?
thank you, this means a lot!
Too bad, I grew up using Zippyshare to share my bootleg remixes to fans or school files to friends. Awesome website of his era, just like Megaupload or Megavideo. RIP.
Yeah, exactly this.

Spend some time doing initial technical screen interviews. You'll quickly realize most people with years of industry experience have barely any clue what they're doing.

Think about the average quality of engineer you've seen make it to a panel interview. Then realize the majority of applicants don't make it to a manager screen, and the majority of those screened don't make it to the panel. And a large percentage (varies by company) won't make it through the interview panel. If you're only thinking about people who are hired, you're even more distant.

None of this is to insult people. This skill set is hard. It's just that if you work with competent engineers and spend your days in technical communities, you're in a bubble that tricks you into thinking most people in the industry are way more capable than they actually are.
> which puts a bit of a floor on the level of perceptual and cognitive function available

Absolutely. I cannot believe people are actually equivocating on this. A drunk driver is hundreds of times more dangerous than a drunk cyclist, it's a categorical difference.
I think AI's hype machine is definitely going to negatively affect its future. If people are made to believe it's able to automate everything and it gets just one crucial thing wrong, the loss of credibility at a time when it's supposedly a finished product will be considerable. If it gets something wrong and it's made clear it's still under development the reaction will be less negative. Currently the hype puts the current state of AI somewhere between Rosey the robot and Skynet. I don't think the realization of how far we are from either will do much to promote adoption.
Large parts of Europe have VAT around 20%.
> Your right to freedom of speech is between you and the government.

This is a commonly parroted error. The First Amendment to the US Constitution which protects freedom of expression is mostly between the gov't and you...

...but the CONCEPT of freedom of speech is an ethical concept that goes well beyond the roll of government. It is about ensuring the rights of minority speech and controversial opinions.

Speech that makes you uncomfortable can be some of the most valuable speech people need to hear.

I often find it telling when you ask someone who favors social media censorship if they would prefer themselves be shielded from uncomfortable speech, or if they specifically want everyone to be shielded.

Without fail, they want censorship for everyone else - not themselves.
You are making this whole thing incredibly personal. I'm not even talking about myself! I'm taking about interpersonal societal behaviors.

You are making all kinds of accusations about my own personal behavior. That's not what I'm talking about, either! Just because I don't go to church doesn't mean I'm "antisocial". I have friends, I interact in groups, and I'm literally writing an HN comment right now. My entire point is that none of that is the "third place".

> groups have always self sorted.

That is precisely when they move from the "third place" to the "second place": when they become explicit "groups".

> This isn't a discussion, once again. This is you inventing a problem.

One again, this is you refusing to just have a conversation. You are so intent on criticizing me, so that you can win some vain competition, that you have completely missed what I am talking about in the first place. If you can't find it in your worldview, it must not exist, or it must be a mistake. Why must there be judgement? Why must there be a winner? Not every idea fits into a narrative of competition.
Can you go into a bit more details? What are the next step after property seizure, and where is the capital deployed?
Sadly this rings somewhat true, I'm trying to make the maths work on moving from my house in the horrible Irish countryside (horrible if you don't like profound isolation and car-dependency, that is) and move to Utrecht or Houten, or Freiburg, and it is challenging, to say the least.
If you read the caveats section of the crate, you will find that it is quite limited in its capabilities. I firmly believe that panic-free guarantees need to be built into the compiler with a special flag.
This seems like a pretty vapid article banking on the fact that you can claim any typical office trouble went away and is now 'back'.
>it's a remarkable statistic

If you consider levying a $20-30/day tax to every driver,[1] plus another $12/day if your car is too old,[2] plus $200-600/year to park on public roads,[3] causing people to stop driving as remarkable, then sure.

Edit: why the downvotes?

[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10279911/Sadiq-Khan...
[2]https://www.carthrottle.com/post/youll-now-be-charged-extra-...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Excise_Duty
Software that doesn't run in the browser actually still exists. A format doesn't have to take over the world and all use cases to be good.
There's a great video by CGP Grey about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc, and a follow up about how they elect their government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c&t=3s
Primitive? I don't mean that in a negative way, I like it better than most websites.
$100/year might be nothing for a business, but not a hobbyist.

They had to dual license the iOS version of VLC to get it on the App Store:

> VLC for iOS is bi-licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2 as well as the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later. You can modify or redistribute its sources under the conditions of these licenses. Note that additional terms apply for trademarks owned by the VideoLAN association.
I spent a few years of my career in formal verification. As a result of that, I suspect that the desiderata of “technical alignment” research is most likely undecidable, and the existing RLHF and prompt engineering approaches are probably the best we can do.

A neural network is a large, nonlinear function. In many applications, such as those that release their source code and allow fine tuning, it is adaptive. Internally the weights evolve according to solutions of differential equations. All of these things smell of undecidability when trying to prove safety/alignment properties of them:

- The theory of differential equations (which governs the evolution of the weights during training and retraining) is undecidable
- Nonlinear functions have decidable cases as long as we stick to polynomials, but even then the decision algorithms are doubly exponential—-much higher complexity than anything in NP-complete, so practically undecidable for very large functions
- The neural network is a very large function

In summary, they are large, nonlinear, and adaptive, these three characteristics make the problem smell intractable and likely undecidable to me.
>>- you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

Please don't take that attitude ...

I have a work colleague who basically had an ankle tendon sliced by just such a person.

The very likely outcome now is that they will never walk or run normally ever again.
Well that’s society working as designed I think.
Why would you really trust your food with your coworkers?

What you eat should be well protected.
Remember back in the 1970s; if you ever saw anything on the news about China, it would feature rank upon rank of cyclists pouring through Peking's great thoroughfares, with nary a motor vehicle in sight. We all laughed at how backward they were.

Now we'd view a similar scene from any major city in the world as signs of a great environmental advance.

Funny how times change, isn't it?
I read about how Bill Gates made a significant contribution to the pancake sorting problem in 1979 (iirc). Apparently, his results were bleeding edge for something like 30 years until someone managed to get a result that was slightly better (~1%). A result that was accomplished with a lot of computer assistance.

So, also exceptional in terms of wetware.
A bring my lunch in three brown bags labeled "A", "B" and "Control".
Its not just the age. Unless you have been studying/working with those topics within the last 6 mos or have accumulated a working habit in the area over many years, your working knowledge of any one topic is going to be quite superficial. Most need a space to re-introduce themselves to the topic to perform the relevant context switching required. The human mind forgets alot, but fortunately it is easier to re-learn as needed.
I think the key there is "all the time" - when we lived in the middle of a European city we used car-share, and the car seat was a bit annoying but since we were using it maybe once or twice a month tops it just wasn't that big a deal. Though we were using the seatbelt mount, and not ISOfix.
> it was already past their "safe" target when formed

no, look how bad it is .. the target was close and ahead of them when it founded. Now from media sources and casual inspection, a person cannot even tell that the atmospheric concentration was less than 350 at that time. Awful.
I wonder if it makes sense to produce some sort of neo-COBAL that produces a bridge between flow and declarative syntax that better aligns with expressing intent that maps from human input. That is harder to do with lower-level languages, but if we are optimizing for gluing together components it seems like it is very common for systems to build their own "DSLs" to solve a task. Is there a more generalizable DSL (which would no longer be domain-specific, I suppose) but still maintains the properties of such a system without generalizing to any kind of programming task?
For something in the "mobile app" territory this seems great. I have one application that is a photo viewer that does a lot of math in an event handler to figure dimensions out to make everything fit perfectly on the screen across a wide range of devices (from PC w/ 4K screen to a bottom barrel Android phone.) It fills in sizes and positions into CSS variables.

It works pretty well, but CCSS looks like it could do all or most of that that system does declaratively.
I would not want to work in a place where I could not trust my coworkers to that degree. If they were my direct reports I’d fire them, and if I had no say over the situation I’d leave. That kind of behavior is a huge red flag, especially if tolerated.
Why are they dedicating work for this? Is there something wrong with rustc?
Do you also find it hard to believe that casino can say your chance of winning roulette is 1/37 (and you're gonna lose money), despite the fact every roll is random? Both are just law of large numbers.
>I see you self-identify as a "honkler", which is an explicitly neo-nazi

As a Russian who is lost in modern english langauge: does this "honkler" thing has anything to do with https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk? Also a golang fediverse project.
Evidence-Based Management: The Case of HR
I don't think anyone can claim with a straight face that farm/ranch living is not significantly closer to nature or not significantly more natural than living in a big city.

Is it hunter/gather subsistence living in a quasit hut or out of a cave no, but I think that would be realistically too far a leap for people in the tech community.
> the fact that a culture has used a substance for a long time does not somehow preclude the notion that it could have toxic effects

It doesn’t preclude it, but it absolutely suggests that a reasonable default assumption is that it is safe when used the same way.

Note that I’m not talking about some obscure, minor use. Hoja Santa, for instance, is used very widely across southern and central Mexico for wrapping food (infusing it with safrole), in soups, beverages, etc. It’s a beloved, signature flavor.
For us laymen, what is fundamentally lacking from svg to handle common PDF use cases ? (Including some multipage svg maybe) ?
There is a pretty solid argument for age-restrictions in any instance - if it could be reliably yet anonymously enforced.
dang has said so repeatedly, and I remember users talking about appealing to get their flagging permissions back.
Previous article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34871710
Simple draconian solution: evening fridge sweep, everything left in there goes right in the trash. Spray down with a mild disinfectant too, helps prevent transmission of flu, Covid, etc. Happily the pandemic makes this easier to justify. Appoint a health & safety officer, pass out memos, problem solved.

Also I thought we got rid of handshaking, can't we do Japanese-style bows or something instead that doesn't involve hand-to-hand transfer of viral and bacterial particles?
I had my mind blown about Dutch-style cargo ebikes, bakfietsen. The cool thing is that you can use the bikes to haul cargo, or put three kids in the front in special harnesses when you need to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA
Ask HN: What projects did you build to get better as a programmer?
What projects to start building after learning fundamentals of programming to get out of the tutorial and MOOC rabbit hole? It's more like taking the training wheels off at some point while learning to ride a bicycle.

I know the suggestion is to build what I like. But what if I don't have any problem at hand because I don't know the space much. What projects can I start with? Things that can operate as standalone projects and can be used.

I find most university courses are also limiting in this aspect. They only ask to implement part of the project (only a few functionalities). Maybe I haven't looked into many. I am not saying university courses or books are useless. They have their place. They can be very useful to fill in the gaps of our knowledge. But they are not all in all. We have to build tangible concrete things and get things done. They may be small projects. Atleast that's what makes a great designer or in general engineer. They make things in their garage or workspace even if they are tiny projects.

What type of projects (guided or not) can I build so that I can get an idea of the space and they start getting ideas of my own to build. Along the way I have to read up stuff e.g: unknown datastructures or algorithms to fill in my knowledge bucket.

And also I have doubts regarding how far can I go with that rudimentary knowledge of programming? When do I start learning more about other things like systems, algorithms, databases, etc?
Correction: it's illegal to bike when very drunk. In the moderately drunk range, German law is surprisingly reasonable in acknowledging that drunk driving would have been much worse.
Here's my Data Engineering and Data Science list:

Data Stack show (https://datastackshow.com/)
Data Engineering podcast (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/)
Data Skeptic (https://dataskeptic.com/)
The Data Scientist Show (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedatascientistshow/videos)

I also like Business wars but that's not "tech" exactly.
Tinker V: Single-board RISC-V computer
Yes. It's been done a lot. I was at an Oshkosh EAA Fly-In in the late 80s as an ultralight club was trying to take off to travel back home. But the headwinds were crazy that day. We watched these guys take off repeatedly without moving forward and then slowly drift back before giving up and landing behind where they took off. It was pretty amusing.

If the wind is strong enough, the wings are just sails; you can catch it like a kite, and up you go.

Headwind is a significant consideration of pretty much every take-off and landing. For instance, battle-ready aircraft carriers constantly maintain a position with their catapults launching into the wind.
You are not allowed to be driving anything while drunk in Sweden.
Also funnily, (Greater) London is not even a proper city. It's a town and a county consisting of City of London, City of Westminster and all the other boroughs.
Crashed? In one piece, just next to the runway at a military base? Looks like a minor mishap.
It also has the best cycling infrastructure in Greater London.

One of the big problems London has is that each borough decides how much to invest in cycling infrastructure, and a commute is only as good as its worst section. My commute from northern Camden to the City is a pleasure, a commute from west London through Kensington will be more of a pain.

IMO TfL should force the creation of good grade-separate cycle lanes in all of the major streets in London, just like they force standardised bus stops. Currently one single borough is screwing over a quarter of the city.
The article GP linked shows a picture of one. It's when you jump, before taking a shot in basketball.
Google finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chipsets
I also recommend the OSDev Wiki. It also includes information you’d need to write your own bootloader, if that’s what you want to do.
The author assumes that asking GPT to “take longer and reconsider” is something that an LLM actually does.

As in, temporally.

The author claims that “even after taking longer to reconsider” an answer, ChatGPT was still wrong.

The author appears to misunderstand how LLMs work.
"When the tide goes out we all learn who was swimming naked"
Nope, they are not allowed on the underground network unless they are folding bikes.
The main issue with bikes in big cities is the blatant bike-theft problem and the near-impunity that thieves seem to enjoy.
The IPCC are the people who wrote the source report in the first place! If you don't trust their analysis of climate change, I'm not sure what we're doing here - do you have some other source you think is more reliable?
For the most part I agree, but will qualify that the caveats you listed apply to the out of the box version of ChatGPT. I expect these limitations will be overcome by using it as programming substrate and connecting it to other models and APIs.

I am impressed by what we’ve seen from ChatGPT so far, but am especially excited to see what industry does with LLMs as new type of building block.
I'm thinking about converting to being Amish to escape computers in the current life. The last thing I want is to spend the afterlife messing with computers. I've had my fill of mismatched libraries, opaque error messages, arcane compiler output, bizarre Maven problems, grotesque Gradle garbage, complex C++ complaints, mundane Make malfeasance, befuddling Macintoshes, loopy Linux, and Windows in general.

Hard pass from me.
Blockers are easy to install on iPhone. Why would it be less?
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> My eyes are a fairly reliable map, but they're still not the territory.

This seems.....paradoxical...ironic?

> That we are only able to perceive reality by proxy doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, though....

True, but potentially misleading/misinformative.

> ...it just means that...

Are you sure? Are you referring to the territory here, or the map?

>...we have to get used to using maps, while remembering that they can be flawed.

We've been using maps since the dawn of man, and a lot of people have substantial, abstract knowledge that this is what we're doing....and yet, look at the mess all around us, and the conversations we have about that mess (though: during these conversations, are the participants discussing the map, or the territory: a) in fact? b) in perception?).
Ask HN: How can I promote my GitHub project?
Does Facebook have any significant VR revenue outside of headsets? What is their total ecosystem revenue? They didn't break that out in their last filing, so I can't tell.
A whole page of code for an isEven() component, the essence of which is x%2==0, smells like major accidental complexity.
Has anyone actually met anyone who has visited the metaverse? Admittedly, I don’t live in SV (or CA), but I do know a lot of developers, tech people, nerds, etc. and none of them have visited the metaverse. I keep assuming it doesn’t actually exist yet. It’s like a story of this far off land that people have heard of, but nobody has actually visited.
No, but folding bikes are pretty common in London. Those can be taken on trains at any time whereas normal hikes are technically only allowed on off-peak trains.
The factory of the future will be a man and a dog...