skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, it fails in some very simple cases, but does really well in others. I believe it does the best if your letters are tightly grouped, and can even recognize cursive pretty well, but space the letters out and it fails pretty easily ;)
We disagree on the predictive power of twin studies.

Also please cite actual studies rather than Wikipedia. You’ll capture more nuance.

We conclude that there is now strong evidence that virtually all individual psychological differences, when reliably measured, are moderately to substantially heritable

For example, citation 6 implies nearly every personality trait is inherited, which seems aggressive to me.

Citation 7 is a book about how the genetic links get stronger with age, which seems also odd to take at face value.

Citation 4 is a study of 3k white (they excluded non-white people intentionally) British people born in the 1920's titled "Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic," but their results could be restated as 'distant members of the same family clan (in a society famous for inter-generational class structure) score similarly on aptitude tests, but we can't explain it with our data.'

Anyway, as great a source as Wikipedia can be, I wouldn't take its summaries at face value, the three above examples lead me to believe (like in a lot of social sciences) there's still a lot of work to be done to actually get to answers.

But, again, circling back to the problem here - even if 'smart' people lead to 'smart' children, society as it stands is awful at actually identifying and rewarding smart people (i.e. jobs aren't doled out via IQ tests).
I guess I'm lucky too. The only problem I ever have with teams, as the previous poster said, is that sometimes my status shows incorrectly. We are also M365 company so maybe it's about that level of support. I've not used Slack so I can't compare that, but it seems like Zoom is kind of a different product to me, for meetings only.

My biggest issue now is remembering and finding a past conversation... was it a chat? Was it in a Team channel somewhere? Was it an email?
Reminds me of the situation with intercity rail in New York state. It was faster to take a train between Buffalo and NYC in 1890 than it is today.

In 2009, NY started working on a high-speed rail study, which finally completed last month after 14 years. Now, the completed version of the study recommends a 25-year project that will increase train speed from 80MPH to...wait for it...90MPH.

Insanity.
I actually like Gnome for it's no-nonsense names. "Web", "Email", "Calendar" etc. Often the "under the hood name" is different, e.g. Image Viewer is "internally" called "Eye of Gnome or eog" or "Videos" is internally called Totem. This is for Core, though.

Circle has - indeed- many apps with funky names. But quite often easy to find using terms you expect "edit markdown -> Apostrophe"
In other countries all of those are legal.

Also there's a very obvious difference between the 1st one and the 2nd one.

Try telling a random woman, that you matched on Tinder or whatever, that you'll pay for sex. You'd get called a disgusting pervert and blocked. Can you figure out why?
> I'm not familiar with this situation, but I'm assuming that whoever is doing this isn't there to "clean" your windshield, and that the entire "transaction" is imbued with the implicit threat of violence

not in the US - millions of people keep loaded guns in their vehicles
Maybe leave a USB extender always connected that extends to above the table, then plug the USB stick there?
Always a classic short story on the topic:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
I keep seeing scripts to block a particular word or phrase, like another for "Kardashian," rather than just any old word. I get that it's more of an editorial act than an attempt at an optimal architecture. But it's like writing an auction site that just sells Pez dispensers.
> If every college/university and big city library needs to own a copy so that their members can get access to it, that's not such a big problem, you can still sell maybe 1,000 copies. But if everyone can share a single copy, that is a big problem.

And if they can do that, it probably means that copy will never be written, or priced at $20,000 or something.
I ran 1000+ VMs on a self developed orchestration mechanism for many years and it was trivial. This isn't a hard problem to solve, though many of the solutions will end up looking similar to some of the decisions made for K8S. E.g. pre-K8S we ran with an overlay network like K8S, and service discovery, like K8S, and an ingress based on Nginx like many K8S installs. There's certainly a reason why K8S looks the way it does, but K8S also has to be generic where you can often reasonably make other choices when you know your specific workload.
“Back office “ in this case means employees who are not billing clients and therefore do not bring any money to the firm. In consulting you have to be billable at a rate a certain percentage above your cost based on your level in the firm. High level people have to bill a lot more than they cost to maintain their target margin. If you’re not billing then you only cost money. There’s no other revenue source in consulting than billing time to a client.
The stock price reflects the expected sum of all future profits, not the general opinion of the company based on today’s news
They did a mall in Helsinki with Penrose tiles, I really like it.

http://www.neverendingbooks.org/penrose-tiles-in-helsinki
> "if your English isn't perfect, maybe work on that before posting here"

That isn't what I said, is it? I welcome their posts. But if English isn't their first language, maybe they should trust the English-language abilities of the journalist who wrote the headline, rather than thinking they know better or trying to editorialize.

> it can be argued the title of the article on reuters is misleading or inaccurate, because the cuts are not complete

That's not necessarily true. News headlines have a number of grammatical idiosyncracies, of which the use of present-tense to refer to past (or future) actions is one. [1] They're kind of a grammatical minefield, which is all the more reason to trust the original headline author instead of editorializing.

1. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general...
It came from the direction of the Pleiades, so it probably traveled 400 light years.

https://theconversation.com/how-i-discovered-the-origins-of-...
It’s not 1:1, understanding how the hypers scale with the model is also important. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466
It could be perfectly correct (if rather quaint) meaning Accenture (personified) would like or wishes to cut jobs. As in Accenture would that these people were no longer employed, or would rather fire than keep them.
You open http://localhost:631 in your browser and follow the cups gui?
Codex was a product that they actually charged for, and people were paying money for. They deprecated it with a 3 day notice. Should we not hold for-profit companies to a higher standard, especially for a paid product?
For prototyping Chat-GPT (4.0) is a big deal. I had it write PoCs of pretty complex systems combining different state-of-the art technologies, and it mastered all of it brilliantly. What amazes me most is how simple and elegant its solutions are. When you ask something (e.g. build a horizontally scalable data store with a Raft-based consensus mechanism in Rust) it produces code that does just that and nothing else. Lots of programmers, myself included, would struggle with this and include at least some extraneous complexity, but Chat-GPT goes right for what was asked and seems to find the most succint way to achieve it.

I haven't felt so excited about programming in a long time, because I can now build PoCs that would take me days or weeks to do in an hour or even less. That's a real game changer, and it helps me overcome this internal friction of "I know this is possible to build but it will take me a long time to figure out an actual approach".
>Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works.

This is a seriously underrated comment. While having sometimes dismal reputations, IT MSPs and (SWE, DevOps) staffing firms often having legitimate rockstars. Some of the best, most efficient engineers I have worked with were employed by these types of companies. This involves delivering solutions on time to the customer while retaining soft skills, often while being the enemy of the incumbent engineers.
Yep.

That's kind of the whole point of hiring TVCs, though my impression was Accenture was always aimed more at non-Tech F1000s.

I think the FAANG companies used Adecco and smaller local staff augmentation companies to their TVCs.
Most likely they mean "class war over social stability".

Financial stability cannot be achieved if you have high inflation.
> (I don't have a clear idea of what they even do. IT consulting firm?)

you dont even want to know, just be sure that if they get invited in to join a project, leave! At least from my experience on their IT side, was it Andersen before a rebrand? Drop in 3 developers, then sell a 'manager' to oversee them, then recommend a few more devs, and add another layer of management, and so on. I saw 3 projects suffer this type of infection, and they all suffered for it.
Thanks for the feedback! I tested the app out on my android tablet, and my S pen worked fine on my tablet. I'm not sure about Windows though ...
While I agree that is true for our current phase of capitalism, when capitalism was first conceptualized it was as an escape from rent seeking! The free market was supposed to be free from rent seeking, like the monopolies and place men of King George's day.

To me it's one of the most fascinating examples of how the wiles of human nature change concepts over time.
Actors already can license their digital likeness for royalties. They would have to set this up in the same way.
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/10/bruce-willis-sells-likenes...
> There is absolutely no empirical standard to evaluate the performance of AI systems. How is this anything else but a gut feeling?

Why do you think this?

There are loads of tests of their performance. Common one right now is to give LLMs the same exams we put humans through, leading to e.g. the graph on page 6: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf

Are they the best tests? Probably not! But they are definitely empirical.
> it’s a bastion of a mandarin-speaking democracy, or in software terms a hard fork of an alternate reality of what China could have been. It has cultivated its own culture, and retained elements of Chinese culture cancelled during the cultural revolution.

Precisely, I couldn't say it better.
Yes working on a Arm M7 at 480MHz I get 1 to 3 samples latency on most things I'm doing (mostly synthesis). And that's on a single core even.
If it's that large a problem, they should have no difficulty at all showing that the Emergency Library did them major financial harm. Right?
Bangkok is an anomaly, these numbers are Thailand wide. I was surprised China passed Thailand in the last decade (given those numbers are country wide as well, Shanghai is going to be much higher than .76). Last time I looked 10 years ago, China was lower than Thailand, things change quickly.

The original premise that Thailand is cheaper than India is definitely wrong, we both can probably agree on that.
This StackOverflow question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59903001/how-to-access-c... suggests that it was possible to read the clipboard in the background in Android versions before Q(10). Although it doesn't explicitly say how, maybe the example code given is how you'd do it.
I guess, but its actually not simple to do that, in my experience. There’s another paper on that: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466

Why isn’t chinchilla running google AI chat or whatever then?
They did. There have been a bunch of articles on HN back in early 2022 about TVC layoffs.

That was also when the whole "let's unionize google contractors" thing started happening.
Depends on what you pick.

ML, Lisp, and Logic derived languages are all relatively easy.

Hence why on my degree their were forbidden for compiler assignments, even though we had a strong ML and Prolog set of lectures in programming languages I and II, LP II.

We were supposed to earn the compiler design assignment, from the professor´s point of view.

Although the year I took it, it was about the time Java was being introduced, so doing it with Java, SableCC while not as easy wasn't that harder, specially following alongside the Tiger book.
New York Times ends daily collection of Covid data
Wormhole Experiment Called into Question
Ask HN: Real-time backend bot handling?
Morning HN.

I'm looking to programmatically identify bots to serve 403s rather than content. For this project, an 80% reduction would be considered successful. Search bots will still retain access to content.

HTTP headers and real-time analytics will be combined to accomplish the task. I can measure the time between hits while considering the visitor's browser, operating system, and language specifications. I'm uncertain if there are legitimate use cases for atypical user agents?

How would you approach the task with backend technology (without JS, cookies, or external tools)?
Did they make it work though? Function yes, profittably, not yet.
I've explicitly mentioned that these analysts used only black people as the "criminals" in their example video. Interesting that it flew right past them.
I think he is absolutely correct that successful LLM products will have a moat. Unlike with previous novel technologies it seems like incumbents actually have the upper hand. Hard to imagine a startup competing with the new Microsoft 365 copilot.

Microsoft will be able to build a better integrated assistant for their walled garden than any third party. It is also hard to imagine millions of businesses dropping Office for some completely new solution. Unless its REALLY novel & incredible of course
Isn't this also the premise of the Office Space scheme?
If you can stay in the free tier you likely don't need a load-balancer either.
And that's still a choice.
Don't see any specific allegations, just a lot of rap song quotations and random opinions, all emotionally charged. That smells bad, just as that decade long Tether FUD that went nowhere. Anyway, just gonna buy the stock for a quick buck)
> A major difference is that we created the machine and the code and, at least as low as the level of digital logic design, we understand and control its behavior.

The moment the software gets to interact with the world, whether via robotics or handling a mouse button event or some other type of sensor, we no longer fully understand or control its behavior.

Pure computation (the dream of functional programming) is fully understandable and entirely predictable. When you add interaction, you add both randomness but also time - when something happens can lead to different outcomes - and this can rapidly cause predictability to spiral away from us.
> This is just more of what humans have been doing over millennia: taking power then telling everyone else it was too dangerous for them to wield.

Case in point (the grand performance is still underway): the banning of TikTok, for "stealing user data".
Did I walk into a high school debate club without realizing it? Ad hominem? Let me be completely clear I don't respect you or your position here.

I'm not engaging in an abstract philosophical exercise with the goal of furthering humanity's understanding of morality or whatever it is you think we're doing.

I'm pointing out that spending time and energy trying to formulate perfectly nuanced universalizable mozaics of morality and slotting your positions into them is foolish.

An alternative is just having good judgement, and acting on it. Is that perfect? Can it be generalized to all cases? No! And it doesn't matter because sex workers should be able to get paid without dying and fascism is bad. You don't need that shit today take it to your debate club maybe they'll like it.
> It might change the world really drastically.

Or it might not.

I want to believe, like the meme says.
It allows you to generate a test suite inside the IDE. And then interactively guide it to generate more or adjust tests.

Links:
VS Code:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codium.c...
JetBrains:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21206-codiumai--meaning...
STS⸻SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink are pieces of the puzzle for reaching and mining Psyche where there is gold. (#0 is the form before the name)
Yes. If you follow the linked thread:

- https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1638222624084951040

- https://twitter.com/ProgramMax/status/1638217206180741121
love it: CuLitho vs Cthulhu ! :-)
>With no end in sight

Who said there's no end in sight? Are you saying layoffs will continue indefinitely until there are zero software developers in the world?

>how many more laid off devs can the industry really support?

How many millions of developers are there (according to the 2020 Developer Survey by Stack Overflow, there were over 60 million developers worldwide)? What fraction of this is 170k, and how many will be rehired just as part of normal hiring?
Out of curiosity, how do you know that it’s correct?
I suppose it depends on how the site is implemented. One mitigating control that can make moderation easier is to have role based access controls. Forums referred to this as "ranks". When a person is new and has only posted {x} posts and received only {n} upvotes assuming one implements votes then if their post contains binary content it can be flagged for moderator approval meaning only they and the moderators can see their post until a moderator clicks a button on their post. The forum software phpBB has this ability for example. After the person gains some time+votes then they could be automagically up-ranked to not require moderator approval of their binary content. People will game this system by "warming up" an account and then posting illegal content. That is why moderators are still required.

Beyond this concept you are totally right in that moderators are required to keep the site alive. Small sites must research which VPS providers, server providers, CDN providers and DNS registrars are the most tolerant of user-content-driven sites. In my opinion it is best to create a business account with each and have a unique contract that stipulates what actions both sides are obligated to rather than being subject to the boiler-plate acceptable use policies.
A "time delay safe" function in the app could accomplish the same thing. I'd certainly want to take 30 minutes to think about it (or login and unlock large transfers 30 minutes ahead of time) if I was going to spend more than a couple hundred dollars.

Right now, muggers can't take $1000 out of my wallet because I don't have $1000 in my wallet. They cannot force me to use an ATM to empty my bank account because my ATM daily limits are set to $500/day.

But, in theory, they could empty it if I was on Cashapp.

Cashapp, like so many tech startups rushing to replace incumbent taxi and hotel and other services with phone apps, has missed Chesterton's fence on this state of affairs in its hurry to become the key part of "providing everyone with access to important financial services so they can fully participate in the economy."
I think that most other people would as well. Unfortunately, there are enough people willing to take advantage of that good will that you are a fool if you are not somewhat suspicious.
I'm guessing by the rhetorical nature of the response, the details of "fine" aren't clear.
http://localhost:631/
On the same line of "did no one ever bother to actually use it ?", you get a brand new computer or laptop, you want something to run over night so you go to settings and you set "sleep after" to "never", and it still goes down. You think you go crazy, you check every single option, and nope, everything is properly set.

Then you go into the details of your power plan, through the old control panel they plan to remove, and you see that the hibernation settings is set to 120 minutes, and is not exposed in any way in the settings menu.

What is even the point of allowing me to disable sleep ? I know sleep and hibernate are two different things on a technical and power usage level, but the end user really doesn't care, what he means is "don't turn the computer off".

There are so many things in that same vein that have gone wrong after windows 7, and by the way the windows 11 start menu and right click contextual menu are as bad as people describe them, thank god third party tools easily exists to remove them.

Microsoft lost the phone battle so now they want my laptop to behave like a phone, this is ridiculous.
> You get the LLM to draft some code for you that’s 80% complete/correct. You tweak the last 20% by hand. How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive.

Really makes me think that the author has no idea how professional software developers work.
At least 30% of the time is spent in meetings, add another 20% spent on thinking and gathering information about the feature/bug, and maybe 20% validating that the thing implemented works as intended. That leaves only 30% of the time spent on actual coding, give or take. And sure, say that a LLM saves you 80% of the time for coding, then the real productivity increase is.... punches button on calculator... 28%. Even assuming, generously, that 50% of the time is spent on coding, the productivity increase is 67%. Considerable, but not nearly a doomsday change.
Improving Resiliency and Reliability for Let’s Encrypt with ARI
What I'm talking about has nothing to do with the emergency library, it's true even under controlled digital lending (which is what the suit is about).
> Do your examples support zero downtime deployment and zero downtime rollback?

Those examples are for running your app, not deploying it.

Zero downtime is also a loaded term.

MRSK isn't zero downtime in a way that's commonly described as zero downtime. MRSK uses Traefik's built in functionality to queue requests so if your back-end is down it won't respond with a 502. Instead the user will see a busy mouse cursor until your back-end is up.

A user will be able to automatically "resume" their request after your app reloaded which is nice, it saves them from having to see a 502 and manually reload the browser but if you have a Rails app that takes 27 seconds to boot up then the user will be waiting for 27 seconds with no feedback. You could make a case the UX there is worse than a user explicitly seeing a custom 502 page that mentions to reload in a bit.

That's much different than a true zero downtime rolling update that something like Kubernetes will give you, or if you rolled your own solution to do it without Kubernetes. I don't know if MRSK will handle that, given the direction it's going it's quite possible DHH will implement that behavior in which case that would be very useful.

Rollback is also tricky once you start introducing database migrations. I personally always roll forward.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264965
It says “what a coincidence”, and perhaps “how did they not notice?!” in a sort of mocking way.

In particular the “because” reads as applying to why this is amusing, not why they named it so.

Yes, it fell flat.