skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, I don't buy either.

Nothing of value is lost. Nowadays games are manufactured dopamine-gamifying cashgrabs and movies are propaganda outlets for whatever care-free non-STEM academics have brewed up as "current thing".

2000s was the golden era of gaming. Just compare remakes of RE2 and RE3 with the original PS1 ones. Or the new Wolfenstein series with Castle Wolfenstein.
Yep, I have it too
AWS / GCP / Azure don't make a lot of sense if you're looking for cheap compute and don't need the rest of the cloud.

Take a look at dedicated servers at Hetzner. They're very cheap, have enough bandwidth to transfer the things you calculate into and out of there (at no extra cost, unlike the three big cloud providers), and come with some serious CPU power if you pick the right model.

You can even email their support staff to get you a couple of machines in the same rack so you get fast network between them.

And contracts are month to month so at the end of the project you can easily cancel.

Edit: but do note that these are consumer type machines, no dual power supply, no ECC etc. That's why the cost is low. Threat them like a bit more durable version of spot instances but definitely not datacenter level stuff.
They already have enterprise licenses at 20$/month I generously quoted above (personal is 10$/month), and I think they might have a tough sell when you consider privacy/IP concerns.

I think they are just trying to establish themselves in the market and how the market will play out will be seen over the coming years.
Cheap, vapid stereotypes all the way down.

CoD games from the past decade or so are particularly egregious examples, among many others. You could market them as Hollywood action thrillers and most people wouldn't notice a difference.
I was referring to Ruby/Python when I said 100x wasteful languages.
Even in countries where sex-work is legal you can find similar dynamics. Unfortunately it's not that easy.
How that does change anything?

There are already sites that require salary disclosure on submitting an offer: nofluffjobs.com. It doesn't change anything. Companies are posting inflated salary ranges there, higher than normal, higher than anyone will ever get after the real interview, just to make their offer more interesting to look at.

If there's a gap between what men and women get (and I really doubt this gap exists), then this doesn't change absolutely anything; a position will have a salary RANGE bound to it, and the employer will be freely able to give lower salary to women than to men anyway.
To me, GNOME is what makes Linux a desktop OS as pleasing to use, if not more, than macOS. The apps are neat and focused, do one thing and do it well, and everything “just works”.
Thanks for the reminder. Manticoresearch is an alternative I haven't tried yet. I tried the hip alternatives (Melisearch, Typesense) in autumn 2022 and both were severely lacking for CRM workloads compared with ES.
I believe they used it as a source for the podcast.
That's just a few .editorconfig lines away from begin consistent for the whole team.
Same here, but I'm curious what you think causes this mediocrity?

I'm assuming the AAA game studios and Holywood know what they're doing, and money is definitely an objective. But why do they not succeed in telling an interesting story? Is it the focus on production quality? Is that the result of compromise between too many middle managers? Or simply: too much money, no one cares?
You ever read the access modifier rules of C++ ?

Can you explain that to a newbie in 2 sentences ?
Does this add up for someone using NextDNS/Pi-Hole?
One of the advantage I got for coming back near my hometown is that:

- I know a farmers shed where I can store my stuff for free and build furniture even when the weather is shitty,

- I know the sawmill where I can find cheap but good quality wood/planks

- I have access to my father's festools, paint, sewing and over lock machine, as well as his expertise,

- I have access to metal drill/mills (sorry if a specific term exist) if I need a specific shape for basically free.

I know those advantages are fromy social class too, 90% of the people I've met in college won't have access to that, it's coming from the blue collar 'red and black' culture of sharing the mean of production and popular education where your most important professional skill is how to pass/share knowledge.

But still, I have great furniture.
I don't need to be a world-class chef to tell you there's a fly in my soup and the soup is crap regardless.
I believe it's considered deplatforming when it happens in response to political opinions, and with the expectation that it is in relation to communication media. Banking and other critical services would be extreme cases of deplatforming.

While on the other hand discrimination implies characteristics that a person can't (reasonably be expected to) change, in this case a profession.
> Perhaps this is the endgame of resume-driven development: cargo culted complexity and everyone using the same tech for similar-ish problems and then wondering why it’s so hard to stand out from both a product and an employee perspective.

Spot on. Tech is a fashion industry and most people just follow trends. I still sometimes wonder if people are playing the elaborate long-term resume-optimisation game, or if they don't value simplicity highly enough to optimise for it, because the downsides are externalised.
There is a new experimental hook, useEffectEvent, whose only discernable functionality based on the documentation and information available is to quiet the linter. I'm not sure that's all it does since I haven't dug into the React source code, but that's what many are speculating.
This critique falls on the line of scapegoating NFTs because there are many examples of physical goods that have varied use, valuation and trade properties. To name two, I can't make derivatives of a Funko Pop collection, and I can buy counterfeit watches.

On the end of the artist, real art and NFT art are sold for the same reason: someone wants to buy an idea. The tangibility of the art isn't a clear point for utility, because valuable art comes with complex considerations for its preservation and delivery, and in some cases stays vaulted and traded with certificates, which provides a definite negative utility - nobody sees it, yet you have a whole institution around trading it.

Arguments against NFT trade ultimately come from positioning the trade network beneath the state and its regulated mechanisms for speculation, when its existence clearly expresses the opposite: the state exists at the network's convenience. Every prison economy knows this dynamic - horses are traded, abuses are not total.
Everybody keeps saying this, I just don't get it.

There's whole domains where AI doing it is just infeasible. For all the other domains, who tells the AI what to do? Who knows how to be specific enough and precise enough to get the right output?

Until you have full-on AGI that can talk to stakeholders, gather requirements, build an incremental mental model of what the requirements are, and all that jazz, programmers will have the same job as they do today: tell the computer what to do. It's just that we'll be using a different language to do it in.
I recently got back into CS (CS:GO) after over a decade long "hiatus". I've been enjoying it, but I really do miss some of the community servers and banter.

I know there's a community server browser, but if I search for UK servers, there's only a couple and they are all empty. What happened? I used to join 64 player university servers and the chat was half the fun. Now it's all Russian language and it feels so lonely.

I think it all got lost in the auto-queue/matchmaking stuff, and it's a shame
It's not mentioned in TFA, but Unreal Engine is also used by the BBC to create real time virtual studios for its various football punditry programmes [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-XVHqUUOY
Block votes? The way I was imagining it, certain countries would have a weight. Russia and China wouldn't weigh as heavily.
Ask HN: Tools to learn music theory?
I started to learn the piano 1.5 year ago, as an adult who never studied music before.

It is a slow, peaceful journey and there is no silver bullet: practicing is the key for improvement.

I have a weekly class for music theory, which I enjoy a lot. What I seem to be a slow learner at is reading notes fast (treble and bass clef), and remembering the theory and logic behind the tones.

I don't practice much music theory outside the class. I consider building paper flashcards because music paper is quite specific.

What is your experience?
What process or tool would you recommend to learn music theory?

PS: sorry if some words feel weird, music vocabulary is so different between French and English
> they're reviewing a product that was provided to them, for example. Anyone outside of Germany probably wouldn't see that as a sponsorship

Depends. For example in Norway, a few years ago Norwegian tax authorities said that “influencers” need to declare items they received as income.

From the official website of Norwegian tax authorities:

> Må jeg skatte og av hva?

> […]

> Gratis eller rabatterte produkter/gaver med økonomisk verdi, som for eksempel sminke, hår- og hudpleieprodukter, bøker, klær, reiser, spill, teknologisk utstyr, barneutstyr m.m. Dette skal inntektsføres til omsetningsverdi (eventuelt omsetningsverdi fratrukket det beløp du har betalt for varen).

https://www.skatteetaten.no/bedrift-og-organisasjon/rapporte....

Translated to English with Google Translate:

> Do I have to pay tax and from what?

> […]

> Free or discounted products/gifts with financial value, such as make-up, hair and skin care products, books, clothes, travel, games, technological equipment, children's equipment, etc. This must be recognized as income at the turnover value (if any, the turnover value minus the amount you have paid for the item).

And likewise we have guidelines about marketing done by influencers

> Veiledningen er i hovedsak ment for annonsører som benytter påvirkere i markedsføringen sin. Den retter seg også mot påvirkere som får betaling eller andre fordeler for å omtale eller legge ut noe om produkter, tjenester eller næringsdrivende på sine profiler i sosiale medier.

https://www.forbrukertilsynet.no/lov-og-rett/veiledninger-og...

Translated with Google Translate:

> The guide is mainly intended for advertisers who use influencers in their marketing. It also targets influencers who receive payment or other benefits to mention or post something about products, services or businesses on their social media profiles.
FWIW the UK also has fairly strict laws about this (possibly stricter than Germany). Tom Scott once did a good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w

German streamers also ran into a separate issue with German broadcasting regulations when they tried to run a 24/7 streaming format. Turns out you need a broadcasting license for continuous scheduled programming like that.
The SVB's shareholders have indeed been zeroed. The shareholders of other banks will benefit from the undercollateralized lending program though, in proportion to the amount of bad interest rate risk they took.

I don't think these are necessarily bad decisions--it's reasonable to make an example of the worst offender, and then help the rest survive to prevent systemic contagion. It's absolutely not "the system worked" though, except to the extent that the system is regulators making stuff up on the fly.
Deploying a fixed number of servers to a fixed number of hosts has been battle tested for the past 40+ years. It does work.
So then how do the sex workers use their wages?
I can't point at data, but there's plenty of articles and reports, including this from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-ar...
Learning laws of physics by RL with units constraints
German monks create first powdered beer
Not really. Although there is a state (the source code) and a action being performed (suggest improvement then suggest edits) there is no reward so it doesn't really optimize itself.

But in some test runs it added code to evaluate how long time it took to run the full flow and started adding heuristics for choosing best edits, so I guess you could say it started doing reinforcement learning in some cases.
Unelected bureaucrats who think they are above the citizens, too much reach, too much influence, insistence in regulating every industry and every activity. This can only end in a can a cashless mass-surveillance social credit system dystopia even worse than China. Give it a few years.
Dart mission reveals asteroid Dimorphos contains no water
> support instant wire transfers

that's not the wire transfer i am referring to - it's the one where you'd use a SWIFT code to designate the bank.
Analyzing NetHack data, part 1: What kills the players (2018)
Dear god what an indictement of your school system this comment is.

>All they want is for all workers to earn the same wage because equality and other BS like this

No, what they want is for all workers _of the same job_ to earn a fair wage, at the very least. Not a single time has a union prevented people from having a higher wage than their colleagues.

>stifle the company from firing people when they're not needed anymore and so on.

Are a human being with a life, feelings and a family or a fucking object to be tossed away when you're drained dry ? Once again, unions don't prevent companies from firing people. They ask that it be done properly and respectfully. In most of the world, you get indemnities for being fired.

>As an employee you need to be able to earn as much as possible and climb the ladder as high as possible

So you can reach the glass ceiling because you're just yet another drone to your higher ups, that will do everything in their power to keep you as just that, a salaried man while they reap the fruits of _your_ labor ?

>And yes, be the next tech mogul that can build great things.

You won't be. You won't be because you're not part of them already. You won't get into YC because you're not a part of the cool kids club. You won't be because they make damn sure of it. And sure, you can make a bit of money. But you'll still be a prole to them, and to the world. But now you get to spit on those poorer than you, and think you're in any way superior to them while they laugh.

>Equality is a socialist fairytale

"Hard work gets rewarded" is the poisonous thought put into place by men who haven't worked a day in their lives. Your trash collector works harder than you ever will, and it's not unions holding him back.
I am glad Linux desktop didn't fail for others. Maybe they enjoy fixing broken stuff, configuring things repeatedly and tinkering with it. And maybe they don't miss software that doesn't run on Linux.

I am busy and I want to use software, not tinker with the OS. The OS should just work. And since software I use both professionally and personally doesn't run on Linux, it wouldn't bee good for me even if the experience was smooth.

On the server side I use Linux a lot. Most stuff I develop runs on Linux.
I think it's very simple: In a bid to satisfy everyone, they end up satisfying noone.

If you try to create a product for everyone, you will end up with a product so bland and void of character that noone will want it. A good product has its fair shares of fans and detractors, a bad product either has only fans or detractors.
So a bank is in distress, it has collateral, but the FED - THE lender of last resort - chooses to fkem basically.

"The Fed needed a test trade to be run before the actual transfer could occur. That took time and the Fed didn’t extend its own daily deadline of 4 p.m. PT for collateral transfers to help SVB. Time ran out on the bankers and SVB couldn’t get the money that day."

Though, maybe they should never been in that situation to begin with.
> If their goal was to maximize profit,

If we should have learned something from several hundred years of capitalism by now, is that their goal is to maximise profit. If you think it's something different, that means your model is wrong and you should probably re-evaluate it.

Here's what's more likely going on: big companies have found a great, publicly acceptable, excuse to keep models private and stifle competition. Not long ago most of the talk was about how AI would destroy many jobs, and something like UBI or paying taxes on AI production would be necessary to support everyone. Now the conversation has conveniently shifted to how AI will kill all humans, therefore companies must keep a tight grip on models and try to prevent anyone else to make any progress. OpenAI has taken this opportunity and is pivoting fast, but they can't do it too fast, because people are rightfully pointing out how that's a 180 turn from everything they promised they would do, so now they have to tread carefully. They're still publishing paid models, they just won't be open any more.

The alignment people are just tools for these big companies. They will happily use them for marketing when it's convenient, then ignore them when it isn't. Just like MS did with that AI ethics team.
The problem is not compute power the problem is weight and data synchronization. Each iteration or epoch builds on the previous, you either need to run the full model on each node with part of the data and you synchronize every epoch or you run part of the model but then you need to synchronize weights after each iteration. In proof of work mining you don't need to synchronize between each iteration, that's why in mining rigs the GPUs are connected to the CPU with only a few pcie lanes (2x instead of 16x or something) and they are unsuitable for machine learning.

The clusters that big orgs are using to parallelize training use extremely expensive infiniband interconnections with tens of gigabytes per second and low latency (400 Gbps in the latest oai cluster) for that reason. Unfortunately not something you can democratize anytime soon.
Very cool, did you try to add prompts such as try to add reasoning features; add creative features allowing you to reason about the meaning of life. Maybe it will come up with 42. :)

Very cool little project
For those who missed the Matrix tech demo from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
Whats your top smart contract development tool?
As a solidity or a Web3 developer what is your favourite smart contract tool? Is it HardHat, or Remix or Foundry or something else?
Different perspectives, perhaps. I'm sure it is a basic life skill if cars are necessary. For me and people around me, they aren't, and so it isn't. Any places without taxis have their replacements, or - much more likely - aren't suited for car travel at all. Swimming and cooking are skills of far greater necessity. It's strange to me to see driving compared to them.

Woodworking and the wiring of houses are also basic life skills, I imagine. I'll try to learn them when I get there. But so far, I've never wanted for the need to drive a car.
You're right, sorry. I probably misread my screen.
I must have missed a few versions. The last version of GNOME I remember using is 3 point something
It depends on your situation.

If you have two full time working parents then two kids is already a lot. Especially if you have your first kid in your thirties.

If you have two parents working part time, maybe in jobs with flexible hours, and grandparents who can help out, and day care / schooling is affordable in your area, and you start having kids in your twenties, then having more kids can work.
BMW had a rotary control button in every car. Now the idiots have removed it from at least two models (X1 and Active Tourer). My bet is that they will put it back eventually, but the person who made this decision should be shot.
Cryptocurrencies are data protected by a private key.

Securities are legally binding agreements protected by the legal system.
The HustleGPT Challenge: Curated List of HustleGPT Endeavors
What about the most important Q: Can you use chatGPT output to train another model?
I don't expect that anyone will see this now, but the eLife Board of Directors has issued a statement in support of the quest to upend science publishing: https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/9d38cb80/elife-s-new-...
All of the components support rendering arbitrary HTML, which is exactly the problem.
Well that may be true, but they get to work on stuff that is legitimately cool.

I know a guy that worked on StarTrek for years as a VR architect and general 3D modelling type of work. He worked longer hours than your average Torontonian, but nothing absolutely crazy. I've worked longer weeks.

He loved his job.

I'm not saying it is this way for everyone, but part of life is deciding if you want to work hard, have impact on things that matter, work on cool stuff, earn a lot of money, etc.

There are places where it truly gets exploitative, but in my humble opinion that's usually places where the people involved have almost no options other than to move to another town or country. I'm not against industries or companies where the up front expectation is hard work. Some people want that, at least some of the time.
Or check out how iOS and Android use permissions.
= neural radiance field for those who were wondering [0]

[0] https://datagen.tech/guides/synthetic-data/neural-radiance-f...
I would say Orion: https://browser.kagi.com
Not a very helpful comment from my side in terms of proposing a solution for this, but: I bet people complaining against cancel culture will not complain about this.
No I think it’s fairly safe to assume this setup wouldn’t be problematic. And maybe if it was a setup that was much less constrained (eg not behind a rate limited third party API) people _would_ operate with more caution.

I’ve been having fun hypothesizing arguments for and against the plausibility of a “singularity” event. Still can’t make up my mind.

Just to be clear, not a dig at the OP insinuating recklessness or w/e.
[sarcasm] I am looking forward to the days when we ditch memorable release versions and just use the git commit hash to identify a release. [/sarcasm]
LLMs may well obviate the need for further JS frameworks - at least ChatGPT seems to be just a capable of generating pure JS vs framework-based JS from what I've seen so far. At any rate the sorts of things it's good (and not good) at doing don't seem to vary with the choice of framework. Having said that, as long as there's an expectation the generated code still needs maintenance by human devs, there may be a reluctance to step back from frameworks.
How many years until a small team of less than 10 people can produce a full feature film with generative tooling?. I'm pretty exited about the potential of powerful storytelling being in the hand over everyone without needing massive amounts of capital, especially if it shatters the entertainment semi-monopolies.
Computers should help us keep track of things.
Linus Tech Tips channel hacked
we libertarians actually exist, you know. aren't just a legend.
Did they announce that they shutdown because of pink elephants? No they announced they are shutting down with "...SpankPay being discriminated against due to the nature of our business...". It makes sense to report it as such when that's what they said
Any thoughts on using this (or software like it) to beef up the security of old MacOS versions? I have an old MacBook Pro that can’t run the latest macOS anymore. I would rather not toss the machine but I’m skittish to use it without security updates.

But I might be willing to use it if I could secure it “enough” by monitoring what it does on the Internet, and by not putting sensitive data on it - for example I wouldn’t log it in to my iCloud and would only use it for some non-sensitive tasks (I use TaskWarrior as a task tracker. This works fine on an old Thinkpad but that thing has a miserable screen.)
Been using one for 10 years. Same pen. Love it. I need to find me a syringe though.
No escape hatch is required since nothing is escaped...