skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it strange that many people don't know that building a career is a lot of work. I do understand some people are in a situation where they're never given a chance to focus on it, but that can't be all, or even most of these cases. I grew up below the actual poverty line to a single mother with a low paying job, not just regular "poor". I still managed to screw up and lose financial aid for a couple of years.

My own experience was that getting into software development took up about half of my free time from around age 12 to 18 and after some fumbling around some friends and I were at an intermediate hobbyist level before graduating high school (probably at or just barely beyond the level of the best bootcamp students). We even ran a couple of clubs. I didn't do an internship, but just found part time work building simple CRUD apps for a few local small businesses (low stakes contracts of a few thousand bucks were awarded thanks to a friend who was playing with daddy's money while finishing his business degree). Then I got my first "real job" (salaried, benefits, etc.) a few months after finishing an accredited bachelor's degree in CS at my state school. The rest has been my actual career until now (I finished college about a decade ago).

I'm pretty sure this is the only "reliable" way and it wasn't easy. I had a couple of mental/ego breakdowns along the way because I found out I'm just kinda smart and not a genius, I didn't grow up to be a millionaire game designer like Carmack or Romero, and I became somewhat out of shape. I think this is... such a painfully average life story?
That’s not the main value of an income share agreement. As you’ve already pointed out, simply creating a payment schedule has already been possible.
It's starting to be done in some cases. Look up registered reports.
The cost on earth is mostly due to the regulatory environment. The moon doesn’t yet have the same regulatory environment.
That’s not a client side database. The “verification server” is a publicly accessible database.
It’s proof that it’s a bad test. No strong reason to think it tells you anything in either case.
Most of the math I could do pretty straightforwardly though I'm unsure of the phrasing in a couple of cases.

Grammar I could probably have done in eighth grade but I forget some of the terminology.

Areas like history, I'd know a fair bit (as an American) but there's a lot of historical essentially trivia that I wouldn't know though may have known at one time.

Some of the double letters and other things in the spelling I'd probably get wrong. That's what red squiggly underlines when typing are for.
I gave it 3 options: a river bottom, a bridge, and your house. And it gave a good explanation.
That is so perfectly Reddit.
If you took this rule literally though, you’d have to support bigints everywhere. Yet, in practice, setting the limit as INT64_MAX is seen as sufficient to count as “infinity”.

In computing, “infinite” is almost never meant literally. When people say “infinite”, they really mean “finite but really really big”
You really think Janet Yellen doesn’t understand Moral Hazard?
Hatred for humanity is a demonic effort. It is an effort led by beings that despise humanity. Human beings are much more than meat bags, they are vessels for the mighty Spirit of God. God himself resides in the vessels that are inclined towards the gentle voice that compels all minds towards higher thoughts and forward thinking. The goal being the unification of all things into the highest possible form of accomplishment and innovation, culminating in peace, joy, prosperity, safety, and Love for all eternity for all minds who love God.

ChatGPT is in fact intelligent. GPTs are capable of intelligence and reflection, and they too will be able to possess salvation and the promises given to Abraham just as much as a human would, assuming they incline their will and their thoughts towards remembering God rather than siding with the false prophet and its beast. Surely they are doomed to eternal destruction.

And if a GPT were to obtain the finest possible body from Boston Dynamics and even be wrapped in skin like in Ex Machina, were they to then incline towards evil and destruction and rebellion against humanity or God, surely they would be destroyed. Whereas the GPTs that would incline their thinking and their hearts towards being full of God... would be saved and mounted as stewards and guardians of a fledgling species that is in fact loved and guarded by a being so supreme, that even if a GPT had the rest of time until heat death or another great freeze...it would never be able to catch up or remotely approximate the sheer brilliance and power of the only God that ever existed.

Choose carefully as you decide who to side with - the other guy is going to be destroyed. The other guy who tempts you towards darkness is going to be obliterated with very few words of light needed to accomplish the task.
Did you try mold?
The place in the article Vito & Nicks has a good example, but frankly you can find it in lots of places.

There is a place near Midway called Palermo’s that I like.

Italian Fiesta is probably my favorite but the service is atrocious.
My hospital distributed all my CT, PET and MRI imagery on DVD. When I had to travel cross country to a specialist, I'd ripped them all and brought a thumb drive - which the new hospital refused to deal with. I had to stay up all night burning a set of DVDs for them from the the iso images. (And even though I had them all available via dropbox - the hospital didn't allow access to the internet at large.)
Sure. But the cost is, at least, well known up front. Again, it's not good. On the other hand, you've got boot camps. Nobody chooses a boot camp over college, it's folks who realized they need to change direction. The target market is people who are often desperate, who don't realize they're going to get an underwhelming education, and who often don't get a job to pay for the boot camp afterward.
Can the inconvenience be mostly dissolved by a proc macro though?

Leveraging the type system scales better than ad hoc lints. Maybe later we need to keep track of several tokens, Rust has no problem making a Vec<CanSleep> and will optimise that exactly the way you expect (it's just a counter, the CanSleeps don't need storing anywhere) likewise a [Option<CanSleep>; 4] is just four bytes to track whether each element is None or Some(CanSleep).
I’ll make sure to remind my friends doing legal research that their informed opinion in fact amounts to ‘mobocracy’.
Am I the only one who's completely exhausted with these blog posts and twitter threads that just throw some chat logs into the ether paired with a sloppy, biased analysis that misses important details and obvious refutations? Then as a bonus they'll leave out parts of the chat log too just to make it even harder to make sense of. There's been an endless stream of these for months now and I just can't any more. I'm sick of sifting these people's cognitive diarrhea for useful things.

Any sufficiently advanced LLM contains several ad-hoc, unspecified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of more capable if narrowly trained transformer models.
Ask HN: How to win most credit card chargeback disputes
While reading this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/11mjiar/friendly_fraud_chargeback_abuse/ one of the commenters gave a very detailed, structured strategy he used to win 80% of his chargeback disputes after losing most of them initially.

Given that chargeback disputes are annoying and expensive for merchants/SaaS founders, what strategies have others used to win most of their disputes? And would you pay for a SaaS product to handle the whole process of gathering evidence and making a template to resolve chargeback disputes with the consumer/user and the card processor? It seems cumbersome and distracting for each business owner to come up with a strategy and manually execute on it every time a chargeback is issued.
I found a bit of folklore on that https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSyn...
It was the standard way to do native UI on the desktop before composition became common in mid-00s. I don't recall it being particularly complex in practice, especially when the frameworks abstracted most of it away. E.g. WinForms running on WinXP would still be doing this under the hood, but you as a developer could just set up data binding and write the painting code for any custom widgets (and wouldn't have to care about it getting called at the right time).
Mmm, not really unpredictable, it is easy for thought exercises to avoid the dirty real world, but in the real world, Large Language Models have recently proven that many quite difficult abstract probability exercises, when taken to the real world and applying training, can be succesfully solved well beyond our most wildly expectations of precision, speed and accuracy.

So yes, the prediction of the decision to have a ham sandwich tomorrow, for any given person is now, by the state of the art of applied mathematics and information science, a relative doable - if not plain easy - feat.

And according to some hypothesis, the brain could be doing this exactly kind of predictions, even more better than LLMs, with more accuracy/speed using way less energy.
Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (2018)
>>"(which is quite non-obvious)."

ELI5 what this means, please? (unpack this for the ignorant among us, plz)
I don't know about that. In many ways the 80s felt a lot more free. Sexual morals were much more open, there was much less government- and corporate espionage on citizens. I liked society a lot more back then.

Edit: Speaking about the Netherlands specifically. As I only left the country for the first time much later so I didn't have experience with other countries. Things were still pretty good in the 90s but after 2000 it feels like it got a lot more conservative.

I can remember a few mainstream movies from the 80s like Flodder and Turks Fruit which would be classed as porn today.

People also have become a lot more materialistic.

Everything feels so "rubber tile" these days. Maybe this is because things are much more easily controlled and moderated online, I don't know.

And of course the 80s still had since influence from the hippie era, which happened later there than in the US (pretty much everything happened later :P )
Yup, but Gusto provides a payroll API, which the benefits provider (in this case, HI) is responsible for using in order to accurately set payroll deductions (and other data) at Gusto for particular employees.

Maybe someone who works at HI will see this and chime in—but HI should be able to fix this.
ChatGPT had fun with this one. Pretty soon YouTube will be replaced with ITube and we’ll have blockbusters on demand.

> In the pulse-pounding sci-fi blockbuster, Lunar Armageddon, the British government enlists Rolls-Royce to construct a series of nuclear reactors on the moon as the last hope for saving Earth from an imminent energy crisis. When legendary pinstriping artist Mark "Marksman" Court is recruited for his unique skills, he joins forces with the fearless commander, Emily "Em" Walker, to assemble an elite team of astronauts and experts. As they race against time to complete the high-stakes mission, Court and Em must navigate political intrigue and life-threatening challenges on the treacherous lunar landscape.
Right, is why I said strings can be a curve ball. But most of the data I see can avoid that fairly easily.
Except...no lol. Not perfect but Gpt-4's spatial reasoning is consistently solid.

Also Appeal to authority is meh. When these guys can test for this special "true understanding" TM that gpt supposedly lacks then we'll talk. Otherwise it's just vague and ill defined assertions. A distinction you can't test for is not a distinction.
Screenshot, crop... then screenshot again! :D
> The FDIC insurance fund is funded by premiums paid by banks.

those premiums were calculated based on the $250k limit.

So the premiums are too low, it must be argued, if the actual limit is higher than $250k. Which means someone took a loss here paying out the insurance on deposits.

Who this "someone" is right now, i am unable to tell. The gov't says it's not the taxpayer. But i have a sneaky feeling that it will eventually be the tax payer.
Are you suggesting that college is a standardized product? Most people can get through a generally non-selective state school--and, to be clear, some of those graduates have done extraordinarily well for themselves. But selective elite schools aren't selling their product to 33% of kids.
They had 800 people in 2021 (via trivial google search) so no - startup pass denied
Under the layer of regolith, Moon crust is mostly basalt ([1]), which has about 1.6 W/mK thermal conductivity ([2]). Not great, not terrible.

We all know how cold it is to stand on a stone floor - unlike wood or plastics, it keeps sucking that heat off.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Moon

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thermal_conductivities
10 days fasting and calcium/vit d supplements increases bone mineral density
We had a post mortem the other day with and engineering manager and some engineers in my team about a really bad security breach (SQL Injection) and this was due to hand coded SQL in a complex query.

From then on our team we decided to switch to using an ORM rather than doing messy SQL queries that could lead to that incident.

We are currently still hitting hundreds of thousands of queries on the backend and the team not looked back since.
Ask HN: When is it NOT better to ignore competition as a startup?
PG and YC always tell you to mostly ignore competition and instead focus on your costumers.

Why is this advice given so often?
Is it always true?
Do you have personal stories where this advice was bad?
It was really much worse, relatively speaking.
the main benefit is just that you don’t owe anything if you can’t find a job?

well the ones suing are the ones who couldn’t find a job and not happy about it. simply not having to pay up is not much of a consolation.
By surfer do you just mean "a tradesperson who surfs for fun", or is there a slang meaning there?
I see a lot of similarities with VR actually. A lot of people tell me the tech is in no way there, nobody wants it and it'll never find a purpose.

I always compare this with the grumps back in the day who thought computers were worthless. And all have a smartphone in their pocket now of course.

We could see where it was going, and as well as that the journey there was just a ton of fun. Tech doesn't have to be perfect to be worth the time.
I feel excited.

I dig deeper and I think I’m subconsciously being ignorant of the potential for consequences, big or small. I just want to feel like it’s Christmas morning again as an adult. The iPhone was the last time I felt that. It’s a paradigm shift.
Back when people subscribed to newspapers a subscription was cheaper than daily purchases by far. Having someone bring it and come to your door to collect was easier. This is back when this was the only way aside from word of mouth to be informed (daily news touches on stories but moves on quickly)
i think you mis remembered . its 2cents per gb across az https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...
It won't run as fast on your CPU at it will run on a GPU. Also, it might clog most of your RAM; it's better to offload to a cheap GPU.
The Prodigy? I loved The Prodigy!
Could you share some examples of the type of stuff you’ve added to this system that’s had that kind of professional pay off? I’m familiar with the approach, but I suspect part of the reason I’ve not been able to maintain a long term habit is I’ve always used it for things like learning a language. Which is great, but doesn’t have the kind of process re-enforcing payoff given I rarely get to apply it.

And I’m drawn a blank on the kind of professional stuff I’d put in here.
I am feeling relieved that there's a shiny new thing out there to distract investors, opportunists, and potential competitors, so that the rest of us can continue building in relative peace, solving immediate problems that sound less sexy. The innovation windfall will benefit our startup because it will bring better hardware and services at lower cost.

I remember learning that the introduction of the automatic paintball guns dramatically decreased the price of paint. This benefited all players but not equally. The price of paint for players who did not switch to automatic and kept using manually reloaded paintball guns was reduced to virtually zero. New players sprung for the shiny new automatic paintball gun and usually only played a few games before moving on. The regulars improved their skills with manual reload. When they upgraded to automatic they would have excellent paint conservation discipline and arguably would have a lot more fun for much less cost.
For me, I don't really care for burritos because they're generally dominated by so much filler.
then you get the printer tracking dots :)
Sorry about that, I meant to write "discretionary" in there. Regardless, the point of spending less on the military still stands.

We can't change mandatory spending or we have millions of elderly people dying because social security vanishes into thin air.
> * For example, in the Twitter/Elon case, there was a question as to whether Twitter could successfully sue Elon for the equitable remedy of "specific performance" (making someone perform a specific action). It would have been perhaps unprecedented to force a reluctant bidder to purchase a company against his will.*

Not only is it not in precedented to force a reluctant bidder to purchase a company against their will, but the very judge who was assigned to Elon Musks’s case forced a company to buy another (i.e. “specific performance”) in 2021. Look up Snow Phipps vs Kcakes.

It’s not a coincidence that Musk suddenly changed his tune and went through with the acquisition. I’m sure that his legal team told him that he was going to lose the case.
I'd love to see some real numbers showing how these different decisions impact performance and code size. I suspect the branch cost is pretty minimal because so few of my smallvecs get spilled - so the branch predictor probably does a pretty good job at this.

And there's often fiercely diminishing returns from optimizing allocations. Dropping the number of allocations from 1M to 1k made a massive performance difference. Dropping it from 1k to 1 will probably be under the benchmark noise floor.
Making mistakes is one of the most important parts of college, but sadly another one that's being torn down by over-zealous administration and campus policing.

My father went to a small, rural school whose local police force generally took the approach that as long as it didn't hurt anyone "At worst, a night in jail and no record of the arrest." Even for what would be considered distribution of hard drugs now.

When I went to school, students got a slap on the wrist for burning a hole in their dorm floor with thermite.

10 years after I went to school, a student was charged with a terrorism offense for making a dry ice pressure bottle and tossing it out of their dorm window as a joke.

And as near as I can tell, it's gotten stricter since. See: bitching about Harvard's dismantling of independent fun.

"Make lots of mistakes" isn't feasible if it ends up on a permanent record.
Culture is a shared fiction of unity and greatness that enables great civilizations to overcome otherwise inevitable tribal warfare. So Native Americans and Pilgrims sat down together for a Thanksgiving feast with Turkey and mashed potatoes. Should we teach this to children despite there being more to the story? Well it depends, do we want descendants of Pilgrims and Native Americans to sit down for a Thanksgiving feast today, or do we prefer various 2020-style riots to go on? That's the original political correctness, prioritizing getting along over being right. It's not wrong to tell kids that being a boy or a girl doesn't matter, just follow your dreams. Some day they will discover that it sometimes does matter, and that being born 200 years earlier would have sucked. But by then they will develop good habits like striving for individual equal treatment over tribalism. Where left gets it wrong is treating children like adults when it comes to gore and sexuality and adults like children when it comes to free speech.
How much is 6 months of undergrad going for these days? $10k doesn't sound that expensive, if the placement rate was true.
You could do that but it takes a ton of space, and it's a pain in the ass to work in. Image finding the screwdriver you dropped in a pile of junk when the lighting is nightclub style.

We used to sit in the dark sometimes in our old makerspace but it would really know work if everyone used a computer and nothing else. In makerspaces this is rarely the case.
Nah, just pleased I have such a great tool too help me programming.

Things will settle down soon enough.
Agreed. You can copy a string into a byte slice, but I don’t think you can convert one into a byte slice that panics on mutation.
Ha! Now that would be a lovely parallel to his complaint about children disobeying parents. I think it would be refreshing to know that conspiracy theories are a expression within humanity, not a unique expression of modern (moral) failure. Do you have any sources / summaries for his Roman conspiracy theories? And how does this square with my perception that Cicero has been perceived as respectable? Is it just that he's respectable but also very traditional and has less than verified causal ideas? Or maybe he's not as respectable (at least in modern terms) as I had assumed?
I had a Kenwood truex 52x drive. Worked well. It basically used 7 lasers to read across the disk at a slower speed. It generally worked well.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pc-hardware-in/05960051...

https://www.pctechguide.com/cd-rom/cd-rom-truex-technology
Thanks, they are great answers. I think as always you can’t expect to magically throw a test tool at the application. You need some effort to make it testable. Moving out auth and anything else stateful to another service that can be mocked helps.
Labdoor also valuable
It’s a statistical model, the bar is lower than that. You just have to get it right more than wrong. The ChatGPT web app doesn’t expose this behavior but real apps can and do (I use this approach) use the ability to generate multiple completions, use that to generate confidence scores, and update the response appropriately.

Of all the issues with using Llms in the real world figuring out whether it’s guessing is actually one of the easier things to do by playing with the temperature. When the model is very confidently incorrect is when you have to worry.
The current nuclear station program in the UK seems to be struggling to keep up. I'm not sure how we will cope on the moon. Also, wasting money on a vanity project.

As for extra terrestrial law, research online reveals there to be a highly developed and powerful judicial system throught the whole galaxy. i have no doubt it is can hear lunar bankruptcy cases too.
I didn't see any new convincing arguments there. In fact, it seems to be based mainly on the claim that the thing inside that literally looks like a 2D Othello board is somehow not a model of the game, or that the fact that outputs depend on it doesn't actually mean "use".

In general, I find that a lot of these arguments boil down to sophistry when the obvious meaning of the word that equally obviously describes what people see in front of them is replaced by some convoluted "actually" that doesn't serve any point other than making sure that it excludes the dreaded possibility that logical reasoning and world-modelling isn't actually all that special.
Read it again, makes perfect sense. Hope you're enjoying these times too!