skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

Wow. After a family member of mine being injured by a cyclist crashing into them, reading something like this is quite infuriating.

If you drink, don't drive, even if it's a bicycle.
That's probably excluding parking. I would expect the day rate for that to be quite steep.
Anecdotally, my employer in telco consulting is hiring dedicated coders - first time I've seen that in this industry. We may finally be seeing a diffusion of programmers into the wider economy after the high tech companies spent some time monopolizing them.
Tragically, they're wasting their time. Experience has shown that such IPCC preaching is like telling the world to stop using Facebook and Google because tech giants spy on users and sell their data.

Everyone knows that and most don't like it but their addiction is too great to make the necessary lifestyle changes to quit.
BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones
I live in Newcastle and the VAST majority of dangerous road usage I see comes from drivers. Just yesterday I watched a driver pull out of a junction straight into a cyclist because he wanted to rush out instead of checking.

When cyclists kill or maim 5 people per day, I’ll be the first calling for regulation. Until that day comes, the focus needs to be on the most dangerous mode of transport: private cars.
If you can’t compete with the market rates, then maybe you underpaid your developers?

If your business can’t “buy” the supplies needed for your products - in this case development labor - and sell them at a cost where you can have a sustainable business, then you don’t have a good business model.
As with all of these articles that follow this same script, the author conflates "the metaverse" and all of the monetary investment being made in Reality Labs with just Horizon Worlds. Makes it hard to take anything said in this article seriously.

As others have already commented, most of that money has gone towards longer-term bets on hardware and other investments. A small percentage of that $36 billion mentioned by the author was directed towards Horizon Worlds.
Sure buddy. Keep telling yourself that.
How many e-bikes would need to be stolen to reach average car price tho?

You could have one stolen every year and still end up cheaper than owning a car.

Hell, just price of petrol+insurance for a year is more expensive
Pushover: Simple Notifications
Tech will always be the star of the investment show. No other industry can or will be able to deliver so cheap and fast.
Can you quote something from the report that you feel was overly emotional?
Those affected will be notified Mid-April.

So the question on a lot of employees minds is: Do we try to relocate in time for the May 1st RTO and risk getting fired - or do we wait to see if we're part of the layoffs and then try to relocate with the remaining 2 weeks we have left.
Schools inner city are (typically) terrible.
Agreed. I'd push "work your network" a few steps further and advise people to shamelessly leverage your network.

If you’ve found a job that interests you or even simply a company that appeals to you, get on LinkedIn and see if you have any connections at all at the company. Regardless of how strong or tenuous the connection, reach out to them and ask them if they have any insight into the position. Even if they know nothing about the role, ask them if they can introduce you to someone that does. The worst that will happen is they will simply ignore you so you’re no worse off than if you hadn’t reached out in the first place.
This will carry on for 2-4 years, until there's another wave of hiring spree. Then, people will get picky again and a new cycle will begin.
Also note that this is Cyclists > cars+PHV, not that Bike > cars+PHV+taxi+Van+Bus+Lorries

During one of the lockdowns in 2020 when almost all the hotels were closed I was staying near Blackfriars and traveling to the West End on my brompton. It was great, there was barely any traffic on the roads - very few buses, taxis, vans or lorries. It was only about 2 miles, but it was the most relaxed commute I've had in years.

Tried it again recently, not a nice thing at all, mainly because of the buses.
It should do but I am worried it won't. Just look on social media when a cyclist posts something about dangerous driving and they are hit by a combination of:

* Indifference from the Police most of the time
* Extreme vitriol from motorists who seem to literally believe that all harm is caused by cyclists
* Illogical city planning where cyclists are constantly being moved from safe spaces directly into busy traffic.

We have a sick motor-centric society in the UK and along with the rest of climate problems that are ignored/underplayed, I don't know how long until we can say that we are a cycle-friendly country.
And who will follow the number of excess lives that were enabled by the deployment of cheap (and yes, dirty) fossil fuel energy among the global poor? These decisions aren't made in a vacuum. We must weigh the costs and the benefits.
Not neccessarily, it depends on the environment. In some places even bikes in the sub 160€ range are at danger of being stolen.
Communication is basically prompt engineering.

You can say whatever you like and live with the results, or try to phrase your communication in a way that elicits the kind of response you want from the other party.

We’ve engineered it away with computers where we learn a programming language or the rules of an operating system and the acceptable input is translated into a deterministic result.

But natural language is much more creative and open ended.
I greatly minimise the risks in several ways:

- Planning routes that avoid particularly risky roads or junctions and take advantage of separated bike lanes where possible. This is trivial in a city as there's hundreds of possible routes between two places.

- A cargo bike itself is a much larger and more visible presence on the road than a regular bike. That combined with the visible children on board usually means motorists do a better job of staying clear than they do when I'm on a regular bike.

- Staying well clear of HGVs in ALL circumstances. Once you start cycling in a way where you treat any HGV as imminent death on wheels, you notice how many potentially dangerous situations you avoid.

More generally, I find cycling in London feels quite safe. This is because drivers in London are mostly used to cyclists and generally act appropriately around them. Also traffic speeds are generally 20mph or less.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/30/future-factory/
> if you want to check a pin server side without trivial access to the PIN from the server you can do it à la signal using secure enclaves https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

You could do that, but you should definitely also design this in a way that does not fail catastrophically if the server-side enclave fails, which at least Intel's version seems to have a habit of doing every couple of months or years.

A nice way would be to use a modern PAKE that can recover a client-side secret securely after a successful authentcation, such as OPAQUE: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/163.pdf

Conceptually, you do a PAKE, and upon successful authentication deliver server-side stored entropy to the client (either through the PAKE, if it supports the feature natively such as OPAQUE, or explicitly over an encrypted channel secured under the PAKE-derived session key), which then combines it with client-side stored entropy to decrypt the database. That way, the server can rate-limit the client's PIN entry attempts, but does not have access to the vault itself even if it learns/brute forces the PIN.

Facebook uses a combination of this and the HSM/enclave approach for encrypted WhatsApp backups (although without the client-side stored secret, since the use case is recovering from a lost device, not protecting data on a compromised device): https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/10/security/whatsapp-e2ee...
> "Upvote THIS if you think Trump should be arrested!"

Oh boy, wouldn't that be a paradise? A 21st century version of ostracism: if enough people upvote something on social media, they can get you arrested.
14977 is a disaster, do NOT use it. See: https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html

IETF's RFC works, but it has its own problems. In particular, most people use regexes constantly, and that RFC is unnecessarily incompatible with widely-used regex format.

I suggest looking at the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) as a plausible starting point: a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-notation
I have. They gave me a link to decentral land or something. I clicked briefly, looked like Sims, went away. They claimed to spend time in it.
> lol way to miss the point. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device to emphasize a point.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/738/025/db0...

Your "hyperbole" was solidly within the fat part of the bell curve of "what people of your bent say unironically". You don't get to say you were just pretending when it's called out for being absurd.

Also, poe's law is very relevant here.

>ower loom: ushered in capitalist mode of production, alienating us from our labor. Electrical generator: it's cool I guess. Steam engine: start of the fetishization of the engineering aesthetic. Awful. Only redeeming quality is that it gave us steam punk fiction 200 years later. Telegraph: instant communication is way overrated.

Once again, it's not whimsical hyperbole when there's no shortage of people saying more or less exactly the same thing unironically.
> I got "The connection has timed out" which could be your problem. If your hosting is unreliable that's the kiss of death.

Interesting...I haven't had that issue before. I'm using Deno Deploy for hosting, which is nascent, so it's possibly less reliable than I realize.

Thanks for the SEO advice, makes sense. I'll keep in mind the incremental page rollouts for next time.

I'm curious do you know if low SEO (no external links, etc) impacts Google's willingness to index it? Or does it only impact it's ranking in search results?
Physicalism, or more accurately that we're both made of matter and that the structure of brains gives rise to intelligent behavior in such a way as to be analogous to computers. Note that I did not say that computers or neural networks are like the brain's neurons, merely that matter gives rise to computational abilities when organized in particular ways. This is the physicalist approach in philosophy, that there is nothing beyond the physical. If this weren't true, then we wouldn't be able to identify parts of the brain that do certain things, and that damage to the brain in those areas wouldn't affect the ability to do said things.

Of course, if you are a mind-body dualist or support idealism, you will think that humans are somehow different than other arrangements of matter that give rise to computation.
Sure. What would the study of human behavior or algorithms that aren’t computable with computers be called? Surely not “computer science”…
Umm… Housing? Energy?
Has meet actually had any significant downtime?
> Meanwhile my employer is celebrating the latest salary comp data showing that industry-wide compensation has declined sharply.

Any pointers?
Outsourcing is less amusing when you realize that the whole cloud industry is a kind of offsourcing.
>> As such it "exhibits human-level performance" on some benchmarks, the company said.

LLMs have "exhibit[ed] human-level" and even "superhuman" performance on benchmarks, but that doesn't tell us anything about the abilities of those systems because the benchmarks are broken, and we don't even have good metrics.

What Will it Take to Fix Benchmarking in Natural Language Understanding?

https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.385/
Was hoping to see a summary, is there one?

Another case is with nat at internet boundary. As far as I can tell, Cisco/palo firewall only track local_ip:port so one public ip only gives you 64k connections top.
Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) might be an option depending on how your project aligns with the guidelines.
If kitchen is unhygienic, is not that a violations of some safety norm? Is not company asking you to work at unsafe environment?

Restaurant or cafeteria with the same hygiene level would get closed and fined promptly. Who is cleaning it is irrelevant.
This is why cities are better for the environment. I don't think rural car usage has nearly as much negative impact as driving in a big city though, so this shouldn't be a strong policy focus. Awesome that the kids can ride to school!
> What I'm contending against is not cycling as a mode of transport, but the assumption that with greater adoption of cycling comes greater safety.

The Netherlands has a massive cycling uptake and has some of the safest roads in Europe. What you say simply doesn’t hold water. Cyclists are simply not killing in the numbers that car drivers are.
Vrchat has a stable and vibrant underground clubbing/ rave scene that's a lot of cyberpunk fun. If that counts as metaverse
I don't know, but this:

> The next natural equilibrium probably includes a decimated world population.

Is obvious speculation and likely hyperbole.
> at the Swiss resort of Interlaken

I hope they all walked up there after taking their sail boats across the ocean.
Hunting by exhaustion. Pick one animal and follow it, night & day, until it finally gives up. Kill it 'n eat it.
Is that true? And assuming it is, the model was still wrong as an assumption of business as usual is part of that model. But I don't see how any of that could have prevented a glacier from melting by 2023 or the world from being "doomed" by 2018.
make a phone bezel 23% thiner. making the dynamic island 15% wider. and call it the most advanced iPhone ever sold in stores

and add another $15B of revenue growth
The point he is making is the disconnect between models and reality.

Also when are people held accountable for their models being wrong and the output that comes from that.

Climate models has a terrible track record and have failed to materialize over and over again.

We have environmental crises all over the place which we should be focused on. The two are not the same thing and climate activism seems to not care about that at all, ie the issue of EVs and their super non green batteries or the near slave labor in terrible conditions resource extraction.

There is a good reason to be skeptical of the regulations derived from these models when they are wrong all the time.
Ice scares me. Rain and snow are not a problem.

But I usually bike in areas with shared infrastructure with cars. I wonder if I would be less worried about ice if slipping and falling wouldn’t mean I will potentially get driven over by a car.
Sure, but it's much easier to be on the defensive here rather than the offensive. And it implies your site is popular enough to warrant anyone reverse engineering it anyway.

Since the adblocker strats are necessarily public, you could even have a system to automatically monitor them and apply a set of composable tweaks which breaks the current public release.
If Horizon worlds is not the entire meta verse, can you name any other metaverses?

Can a regular person?

And don't say things like RecRoom, because those exist independent of the billions Facebook spent on meta
There are some really good ones out there that can place into decent positions. The problem is it takes time/connections to find them.
> It's like if Wall Street could tell the President of the US to take a hike

An alternative take:

If it turns out, by some legislative fluke, that a particular square mile of the US is not bound by all of its laws, it won't be long until Wall St companies start moving their headquarters!
I think Amazon's time is coming to an end. AWS is the last bastion. The rest has started to rot.
I'm talking about problem domain and approach.

"Language" is a subdomain of "written text", which is a subdomain of "all possible text permutations". LLMs model "written text".

Approach is either explicit or implicit. Constructed or inferred.

You may be familiar with parsing: that's the explicit approach. Parsers are made out of predetermined grammar patterns. They categorize text into a model (AST) that was predetermined by the grammar rules. This approach is essentially a function from "all possible permutations of text" to "a known language model". It also maps "written language" to "predictable machine instructions".

Parsing works for "context-free" (code) grammars, because the patterns of grammar are already known. Parsing fails at "context-dependent" (natural language) grammars because the patterns of grammar are ambiguous.

LLMs take the implicit approach: they start completely blind, and model every pattern they can find in the text. An LLM has no category for "language grammar pattern". It does not constrain itself to the domain of "language". This approach maps "the behavior of someone writing text" to "patterns".

The difference in problem domain introduces ambiguity: LLMs can't categorize truth from lie.

The difference in approach removes intentional behavior: LLMs don't translate text into predictable machine behavior. LLMs model the patterns of behavior from the training corpus text, then model some more from a prompt, then show the resulting pattern.

What an LLM does should not be expected to ever match what a parser does: they are completely different approaches working in completely different domains.
It's weird dissonance, here in rural village I cycled a lot to school during reasonable weather (from like age of 8, around ~10km), and outside of that school bus. Of course not really a option in unsafe spaces or younger kids.
The issue in a nutshell is that folks use the language of objective reality, science, and nature, as a political cuddle and then deny doing it. When that can stop we can actually sit down and have an adult conversation.
Half of road deaths worldwide are pedestrians. The number killed by cyclists is so small it is under the significant digits of the total.

Cyclists violating traffic rules is frequently cited in anti-cycling astroturf, of which you can find current examples and a deep archive at StreetsBlog.

This "Overall it constantly shocks me how little responsibility cyclists take for their own safety." just screams "I'm a dickhead driver likely to hurt someone and I want a defense."
Not sure where you are based, but in the US I know a lot of schools shoot for the ABET accrediting guidelines[0]. They directly call out the areas you're asking about:

Exposure to computer architecture and organization, information management, networking and communication, operating systems, and parallel and distributed computing.

But they only require "exposure" to these concepts whereas algorithms, theory, programming languages, etc are required to be "substantial." Which matches with your perceptions:

It seems most are exposed to them partially through project work but without the base knowledge.

[0] https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cr...
Strange. The things you were "missing" were covered in my CS program.

I learned very little on the job. It was mostly things outside the job.
AWS has a ton of non-engineering staff. Ad-tech is also sales, marketing, and IMDb. Twitch has a ton on marketing and creator management roles.

Its not clear which roles will be eliminated, but I've worked in a few of those groups and I can assure you there is plenty of fat to be trimmed outside of engineering.
If only the horse could learn JavaScript
(opinions my own) - I actually do work for $FAANG and can confirm this statement. Mountains of tech debt, 20+ year old tech running most of the stack, most tooling written in dynamic interpreted languages, and above all else every single engineer is expected to be part of on-call rotations, even if your role is not related to infrastructure or operations whatsoever. Even if you don't touch the service(s) your team maintains because you're in a FEE role.

The SDE role at $FAANG I work at is essentially glorified tech support, which makes the leetcode interviewing process so much more ridiculous than it would be by default if you were actually writing code and solving meaningful problems most of the time.
It's well known in the ISP industry that being an entry to mid level sysadmin/network eng at a hosting provider that has large numbers of very-low-dollar-amount per month customers is a new circle of personal hell. Working endless tickets from people who pay $20 a month for some VPS. The only way to get out of it is to become senior enough to not care anymore or work for a hosting operator that specializes in only higher dollar value colo/dedicated server customers.
The anti package.json sentiment seems too puritanical. Sure there are downsides to it but I've rarely had a negative experience with it
> It’s firmware time. Your machine has a motherboard, there is a chip on it which has had BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) flashed on it.

I wonder if it's worth it to call out the "processor microcode" firmware? Any cool startup things happen at that low level as well?
Cloud computing can cost 3-5x self-managing with the open source versions of the standardized cloud tools that are sold to us.

One big difference working against the cloud is the same thing that worked in it's favour 15 years ago. We don't always remember why we just adopted the cloud. Linux networking at times had scaling issues, and virtualization and linux was not where it is now.

It's astounding how much more a $5 VPS can do. Imagine the medium end. Self-managed hosting tools have come so far to handle production quality, it doesn't even feel fair that it is not more well known. Whether it's Proxmox, or others, it is pretty close to most things out there. Making a tool cloud compatible, but cloud agnostic is one way to avoid a lot of technical debt (assuming it's not created another way).

It doesn't have to be for everyone, but demand is probably slowing in part because of this. In a recession cost efficiency is everything.
I watched a car drive straight into someone yesterday. The police refused to come out.

I don’t see how that squares with your statement at all.
There is no bubble, only a lack of desire to seek out knowledge about other lifestyles. The problems with car culture were not surfaced until the rise and dominance of the internet.
What the fuck do you even mean with "nothing happens", when the climate has been changing noticeably for the past decade already?
The amount of sysadmin/SRE toil in some parts of the stack (all the distributed computing coordination layers) is super-linear in the growth of the system, but the nuanced version of the claim is that they can make up for it in the other parts of the stack (hardware cost and better global availability). A lot of people who have never seen these systems from the inside would be surprised at (1) how much engineering work is put into just getting things like "Postgres but it scales" and "Kubernetes but it works on our proprietary VM manager" to work and (2) how many internal incidents these cloud providers have that are quietly managed before they rise to the level where a customer would notice or care.
Yes!

Whether there are 250k open positions at suitably-high levels is less clear, but there are more than twice that many open positions.

Of course, people used to making $300k+ might balk at positions offering half that or even less, but they're out there.
If you’re good, you’re already looking. If you’re not good or you don’t think you’re good, you’re waiting. Severance, unemployment, etc. Broadly speaking of course, exceptions as always.
I’ve done this before.

“How would you prompt an LLM to do…”

“Take the following prompt and ask clarifying questions…”

“Rephrase this prompt to be clear, concise and achievable…”

I’ve had mixed results. But sometimes it is illuminating to see it clarify things I may have omitted.
It's useful for documenting and testing large sets of APIs in a team-based environment, especially those that use a variety of authentication options.