skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also points out how the tech industry, and perhaps other private sectors, has completely abdicated its responsibility in the proper training of its new workers. Which it used to do decades ago, but now has outsourced it to universities.
JPMorgan advising First Republic on alternatives, including a capital raise
Automatic codebase documentation using GPT-4
This is cable news poisoning. In reality, reduction in policing (or "defunding") has no support in either party --- for a poignant example, look at Brandon Johnson's runoff race against Paul Vallas for Chicago mayor, where he's frantically distancing himself from 2020 rhetoric. There are activists pursuing defunding, and even abolition, and to a first approximation none of them live in enclaves or gated communities with private security; defund activists universally live in dense urban areas.
There may have been only one metaverse in Snow Crash, but there's absolutely nothing that requires there to be only one metaverse. Hell, practically the whole point of virtual reality is to remove the limits and scarcity of the physical world, and thus limiting yourself to a single metaverse is antithetical to the very concept.

At its most basic, a metaverse is just a persistent virtual space shared among multiple users. We have lots of those, and have had them for years, and unsurprisingly they're pretty much all video games.
"We're hoping that everyone pulls together" is just a polite way of
saying "My way or the highway". At-will employment works the same everywhere.
Maybe their business model can continue to be based on a guarantee of at least medium-level quality with higher convenience? We can make running homebrewed models as turnkey as running any native app but how many people still prefer just hitting a button on the remote from their couch to pick something from netflix, instead of getting the same thing for free with a torrent client or even in some cases just searching for it on youtube?
I don't see it mentioned, but this is topical because curl turned 25 today:
https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/10465
Why in the world would anyone interview with you if your company offers less than top tech for equal or harder interviews?

People who need job will apply. Its not like some one is forced to apply when otherwise they could get million dollar a year job to develop deep machine learning AI at Google.
I've been using Python since 1.5.2. I find converting a Python 2 codebase to Python 3 fairly challenging because it cannot be done mechanically. You have to carefully consider each string and whether it is bytes or a string.

But for new Python 3 code, I do not find it painful at all. The reason for the transition (to distinct byte/string types) was that it was too easy to confuse the two in Python 2.

Is your critique that you don't feel that the distinct types are needed, or that it's too difficult to convert from bytes to string and vice-versa?

I'm not sure how it can be much easier: b"".decode("utf8") and "".encode("utf8") are quite clear to me.

Is it just that decode/encode are hard to remember? You could use str(b"", "utf8") and bytes("", "utf8"). Careful with str(b"", "utf8") though because if you leave out the encoding you'll get back a string, but probably not the string you want.
Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
Anyone else noticing this while editing an email? It seems just crazy.
> Balaji has made more than a Million $$$ through this bet

So has he sold his bitcoins? Otherwise he's made nothing but paper profits that can evaporate at any time.
Yes, I’m curious how they’re handling sandboxing for this effectively untrusted code.
They used was several times, past tense, indicating they potentially do have a degree now; if not, their prose sounded snobbish to me either way, hence my comment.
Mate there is no other group campaigning harder to relax building requirements in London than the elites. There are so many rich people complaining they can't add another conservatory or floor or dig up a basement in their Victorian mansion in London. If you made it easier to build you'd basically hand a giant fat present to the hands of the elite. The idea that the elites keep the status quo by making bureocracy complex in London is almost naive.
You've latched on to a part of my comment that was orthogonal to the point I was making.
I see, the last time I looked into this was shortly after apple closed the last known jailbreak options and before they allowed jits in some circumstances.

The lack of a speed difference I assume is down to the fact that delta supports some pretty weak consoles which you could emulate in a browser. Dolphin's jit vs interpreter vs cached interpreter in for example Wind Waker is a 10-40x speed improvement on my phone.
Invent List
I built this website.

http://inventlist.com — Hand-curated AI projects to explore and learn from.

Let's dive in and discover the possibilities of this exciting field together!

Which AI product are you using nowadays and find interesting?
I've got anecdotal reports from middle school & junior high teachers that the literacy level of incoming classes been trending strongly downward for about seven or eight years. No sign of stopping so far. Hopefully it's just our city, but I doubt it.
> I am hiring for engineers and it is still difficult to find quality candidates.

Do you have more info about the job. I keep seeing this, i did some interesting and hard work and it doesn't match what im coming across.

like remote ok? how much are you paying? whats the tech and problems being worked on?
I much prefer that model over services that suddenly disappear.
That’s a narrative about yourself that you tell yourself, and it might be true about you, but it’s not true about everybody. If pirating didn’t exist then some % of pirates WOULD buy more stuff. Unfortunately we don’t have great ways of differentiating people who can’t or won’t from those who would. But many people who would pay also love free stuff, so you can’t conclude takers of free stuff would not pay. And in aggregate this opting for free reduces creator compensation; hence the charges of theft.
Huawei has replaced thousands of U.S.-banned parts in its products
I wonder, when somebody will make STOL plane with good per mile economy.

- Now exists excellent Piper and Maule, but they have comparable small range (for modern 1-motor typical more than 1000kilometers range), because high drag coefficient (non-retractable gear, textile skin).

I think, it is possible to make small STOL with big range, or for example, electric STOL.
Mostly I want to move to Dublin now.
Weird take if you ask me. The 2D versions of those games seem to be what you want, but with 3D visuals I guess. Some kind of 3D monitor seems more fitting than "VR".

VR is all about the immersion, and that means doing physical actions that approximate real world actions. That's the whole point, and that's why the vast majority of VR games (and the popular ones of course) incorporate that physicality.
> prioritizing what matters most to customers and the long-term health of our businesses.

Yeah right lol They meant billionaire shareholders
Any routed machine will require maintenance, but I believe they have 2 or 3 part time techs based on what I have seen in my few visits. I don't recall experiencing any blatantly broken machines, but there were a number with weak flippers and worn/unwaxed playfields. Maybe <5 machines unplugged each visit?
> That said, it seems the core of the issue was that SVB wasn't properly hedged against interest rate hikes.

Not being sarcastic or implying anything: who could have predicted interest rate hikes at the time SVB was being pushed to generate yield/return on their assets (like 2020-2021 if I understand correctly)? In hindsight, what should they have done? Who/what forces drove them to park lots of $ into MBS yielding 1.5% or whatever? What should they have done instead once Fed start hiking interest rates, sell at a smaller loss then? Maybe they didn't believe the Fed?
> "Fundamentally, LLMs are super-powerful text predictors. Given a prompt, they use machine learning to try and come up with the most likely set of characters that follow the prompt."

I've heard this tossed around and in the old days it used to be true.

BUT in the process of learning to predict text, just like with CNNs that learned to predict image types, it seems GPT learned some very interesting functions that bring it very close to "cognition".

I would not be at all surprised if we found those neurons in GPT, the same as I saw on fast.ai the building blocks of neurons that predicted images back in the day.
I worked at NCSA while I was in college, and in theory I understood how special that was but in practice I'm still absorbing what that meant. Having a place on campus doing software R&D is better in some ways than an internship, because it can be titrated over a longer period of time. Most colleges don't seem to have something like that. I know I've heard of such things at MIT, Berkeley, University of Illinois, Stanford, maybe RPI and Johns Hopkins, but not a peep from most others. I don't know if that's a PR failure or an educational one.

I had a couple coworkers who were in the same classes as me and as part of trying to improve my time management I'd ask them how long the homework took and would get ridiculous answers like 'an hour' (2+ week assignments usually take tens of hours). I couldn't tell if they were smarter than I thought, braggarts, or liars, but after I switched from a support role to a coding role, in the space of a semester I was doing my homework in 2-3 hours. Often those homework problems are just a bit harder than an interview question, but without practice you're improvising the whole thing and that's a lot of effort.

Before we started talking about 10,000 hours, I already had a rule of thumb that your competency as a developer tends to ratchet up at 100 hours, and rather substantially around 1000 hours. An internship will definitely hit 100 hours, but 1000 is still easily achievable in a year. 10k hours might as well be an imaginary number. That's longer than they've been in school and so feels like an unreachable finish line. Demotivating for sure. 1k just means "work hard for a bit".
Let me paint you a picture:

- During the dotcom crash (2000s) people had the same sentiments

- During the "offshoring"/"nearshoring" (mid-late 2010s) craze people had the same sentiments

- During the "no-code" craze (late 2010s) people had the same sentiments

Now with LLMs, people are going through it again. Through each transformative time in tech, very little has been "replaced" and if anything, the appreciation for well crafted/architected software has only increased in value.
I typically Create a Subsidiary and play directly through them so I don't have to worry about all the micro management.
I think it's the right solution, though I get that it confuses people.
Given that the compiler only erases static type annotations, it should not touch the imports.

> entire language is incompatible with a JS interpreter

If this proposal will ever be accepted, TS will be (in large parts) valid JS:
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
I wonder if he counts node_modules files and lines too or not. You should count only lines you write yourself (actually tou shouldn't count lines at all as it's a useless metric). Or else we should count machine code instructions.
Everyone should also have a solid grasp of calculus, freshman physics and Maxwell's equations, comparative history, various forms of government, multiple models of ethics and the reasoning used to reach them, media and manipulation literacy, logistics management, and preferably a second or third language.

In short, everyone should have a classical four-year liberal arts education.

Now, excuse me while I ignore what I should do, and focus on what puts food on the table. And, unfortunately, CMPT-101 programming skills aren't going to be it - ChatGPT can do that work better and cheaper than a 'basic level' human can, just like it can produce a five-paragraph essay better than a grade school child can.

If you're going to learn programming, you're going to need to learn it to the point where you're better at it than a dumb LLM. And that bar is significantly higher than 'basic knowledge' or even 'working knowledge'.

Nobody cares about my rusty Grade 8 French skills, or my crappy hand-stitching skills in a world when Google Translate and sewing machines exist.
I think you need to intelligently create and build a parallel institution, with goals, tools, and organization culture better aligned to the needs of building up communities while keeping order in a modern society.

Start with a small scope at the start, fulfilling a small need in a niche part of government. You want to avoid starting a large organization or growing fast, as that would require to lift pieces and personel from existing law enforcement. Then you demonstrate value and a better track record as you build the good-will and cultural cache to slowly expand and push out traditional law enforcement from more and more areas of concern. This should be fairly tractable, as most law enforcement forces these days have a vast array of duties.

You will need a deft political hand to avoid getting on the bad side of existing "law and order" political power centers. You need to present yourself as someone who cares about safety and wants to free up cops to focus on "serious crime". This will help you control the narrative and undermine the eventual "not tough on crime" arguments.
Unpopular take but maybe FB were onto something when trying to enforce you using your FB account and real identity...
They decided not to hedge on purpose, take the risk, hoping to earn the extra profits. Slate money did a good episode on this last week. SVB has high touch relationships with their clients, and they need money to pay for all that client service. This was a bet that went bad (in a very foreseeable way).
https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/Prompts_Conve...
What does "consider" mean to you? I personally have spent an unhealthy amount of time consuming speculative media about UFOs. As I said, I would love nothing more than for it to be true that Aliens are visiting us. I also think that, if we really are seeing UAPs in the sky as described by the government, then we should be investigating them and destigmatizing reports about them from pilots and other government employees. But we should also be weary of the resultant cobra effect [0] such destigmatization can produce. Ultimately, I think there will never be any real resolution to this until an alien mothership hovers over some major city for multiple days. And even then, there would be people who refuse to believe it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina...
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The important metric is fatalities per distance traveled, not absolute numbers. In the Netherlands, bicycles have 11 fatalities per billion kilometers traveled. Cars have 1.6.
There are literally thousands of chat clients based off their API. So are they also chatGPT or the model they specifically trained and aligned for chat?
You'd think the radiation symbol would be universally understood by even the least educated metal thieves.

Apparently you'd be wrong.
What you learn on the job is largely up to you. You can choose to focus narrowly on your job and learn nothing more. Or you can stick your fingers in more pies to learn much more.
Turns out that cache invalidation and naming things are still the hardest problems in computer engineering.
don't worry, generative models are coming after music and videogames too. hope you really like gardening...
My point is that people react to incentives. At the moment the incentives are stacked up to keep people unmarried, childless and miserable. We have control over the incentives, so lets choose incentives designed to make people happy.
This is hilariously wrong, but people like to believe it.
Be better at your job, and more knowledgeable in your opinions.

You literally got destroyed and that’s your comeback?
You would guess all you could need in the future is a code base, and a video of the website working in action
The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises
Really? I'm in a similar situation outside of Vancouver and my house price doubled since I bought it. The salary we pay for the position that I used to purchase it went up maybe 10% in the meantime, while the financing costs went up by 100%.

You don't really need a graph to understand that change...

Good on you for fucking with the NIMBYs though, they're the reason house prices went up by an insane amount.
And have you seen tuition and housing costs?

When I was in school mostly the poor kids and lower middle class had jobs, but I wonder if that's still the case.
wait!...
For better or worse the quality of public schools depends far more on crime rates and income levels of the surrounding community than on school funding levels. There's very little that schools can do to to help pupils who are growing up in a difficult environment. By all means let's fund schools appropriately, but that's only going to make a marginal difference in outcomes.
The Nintendo Switch console already uses an ARM SoC by Nvidia. But I'm not sure whether this has meaningfully increased the probability of porting games to MacOS. The Switch uses Vulkan, but Apple uses Metal, a proprietary graphics API. Whether ports make sense probably depends on how strongly the Mac market share increases compared to Windows.
The Wii did it easily. Racing simulators and flight simulators do it all the time. Gamepad controls exist because they have been iteratively refined to be the best way to play a game sitting on a couch.

Existing VR controls are great now that the Quest Pro controllers can self-track. The problems have been that you either had to setup lighthouses around your room to track you or have your hands always be in sight of the headset cameras. However, the QPro controllers can track independently like the headset itself by using SLAM and the difference is huge.

I don't see why you would think that the controls are difficult to solve. The problem isn't the controls -- the problem is that people don't realize how tiring it is to actually physically do the things you do in a video game, even on a very basic level. This makes VR great for getting physical activity -- but it makes for a very bad 'lazy day gaming' or 'after work gaming' recreation.

It sounds awesome to think about being in VR and being in the FPS until you realize that people who fight wars as infantry for real have to be in amazing shape.
Both you and the parent commenter are correct; A saddle that matches your personal anatomy will make a tremendous difference for all riding conditions, and the amount of times you vary your position on the bike will alleviate discomfort by allowing blood to flow naturally as your weight shifts. More intense riding conditions necessitate moving around on the saddle more often.

Additionally, if you simply ride your bike more often your groin and siting bones will feel more comfortable by acclimating to the pressure and movement. It's helpful to wear appropriate clothing in the areas that contact the saddle as well, such as a chamois liner, to reduce friction and add an appropriate amount of cushion.
Exactly that - they specify things that you need for an OS on a desktop/server system but complete overkill for embedded applications. I think the goal was to have one version of "RISC-V Linux" without vendor-specific extensions, but the chip vendors are used to their extensions, and there are good reasons to allow them to have some more customization (to allow design tradeoffs).

Also, in the ARM ecosystem, some of the things that the RISC-V spec specifies (like MMU details) are vendor-specific, leading to a minor headache for OS writers, but give chip manufacturers more freedom. Renesas may have assumed they had the same freedom.
This reminds me again of the whole mess with `paths` and the TS team refusing to do the bare minimum to make TS->JS compilation work with that feature instead of needing to rely on outside tooling.
If you actually read the entire article you'd see his explanation for why it's the case. He has a lot of animated interactive experiences that are used for teaching concepts and he also includes other non-blog related projects in the repo.

Pretty embarrassing man.
Example:
https://twitter.com/bradocapital/status/1635644287630159872
An agreement to take a pay cut is effectively an agreement to commit to an ongoing investment of 10% of your current salary in the company for an unspecified amount of time for no return and the sacrifice of the capital amount.

A good benchmark would be to ask yourself what the return would be if you invested 10% of your salary in unit trusts over the same time period.

This is not a good deal and I would be hesitant to entrust my career to a management team who feel it is okay to ask this of their employees.

There are a number of ways this could have been structured, including:

1. An agreement to pay back the 10% plus interest @ prime within a specified time-frame.

2. Issuing of a comparable amount of shares in the company in exchange for the 10%. Dividend-bearing if a private company, trade-able on the JSE if public.
> Start yourself, learn and experiment. It's not so hard. But I warn you, it's addictive ;)

It's a complex and a time-consuming activity. My ex was vegan and buying groceries was not easy.
It’s based on the previous year’s income I believe like most US assistance programs.

Generally if you want gov assistance in the US, you pretty much need to be poor for a full calendar year, plus about 4 months.
That's the R in VR: reality.

The focus in VR games right now is creating realistic interactions. Ideally, your controllers should be only for interacting with meta content, like menus and other things "outside" of the game, or for controlling virtual hands.

Pushing a button to trigger a visible sequence of actions from your character breaks the immersion. It creates a separation between you and your character in a scenario where you're supposed to be the character.

Ultimately it is a stylistic choice. There's definitely room for both types of game in this space, but combining realistic and arcade style interactions in the same game tends to not work that well.

A big part of VR is manipulating psychology to fool you into feeling more immersed. It works pretty well until it doesn't, then users can become very uncomfortable.

I think the main problem here is semantics. We use the term VR to describe wholly-immersive games as well as traditional flat games with a 3D head mounted display, and everything in between. OP seems to just want a HMD experience tied to a traditional game. The industry really needs to come up with new terms to disambiguate these ideas.
"augmenting, not replacing" has been my go-to line for people who are anxious. There is no real meaningful discussion taking place about replacing people, it's just about augmenting people.
We can't, indeed, but if the past is any prediction -- it will have a few good iterations, better features each time, smaller models, but it will quiet down after a few iterations.

Unless Open Ai found some completely novel way of training GPT to enable the exponential growth in training data required up until now.
Wow, that's a really interesting observation and describes me perfectly. I wouldn't consider myself a "real" entrepreneur, but I've always had a side hustle and I own some rental properties.

I took me until the age of 34 and having kids of my own to realize that my childhood wasn't that great, and that a parent's role should extend beyond just feeding their kids. My upbringing made my hyper-independent, so the desire to make myself completely financially independent basically consumed by 20s. It took me a long time to realize this drive, while useful in my career, came from a very unhealthy place.