skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had some generally good experiences with LEDs as well. The only places that I've had somewhat higher failure rates for LEDs were places where I wanted a lot of light but the existing fixture had the bulbs trapped deep inside an enclosed fixture. I ended up buying a different brand than I normally do since it seemed the bulbs I had been going with just couldn't survive that hotbox, but since trying another brand the bulbs have lasted a couple of years so far.

Otherwise, for probably at least 40 or so bulbs swapped for LEDs over the years, I've experienced maybe 4 or 5 failures. The vast majority of my bulbs have been Feit and GE. I never buy smart bulbs. My best experiences have usually been to just buy LED fixtures though, I replaced a lot of my flush mount ceiling fixtures and ceiling fans for ones with integrated LEDs and have not had a single failure so far after a few years, knock on wood.

I had some problems with my old dimmer switches, but upgrading dimmers to newer ones which advertised good LED dimming and ensuring I had bulbs which stated dimming compatibility it eliminated my noise and flicker issues. There's a recent standard out there, NEMA SSL 7A, which seeks to ensure good compatibility. I set my dimmers to this SSL 7A mode and I've had no problems since.

https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/asset/documen...
This is the major reason I don't really buy into things like JITs solving all performance problems (as long as you carefully write only and exactly the subset of the language they work well with) or NumPy not being affected by Python being slow. There's more code like this in the world than I think people realize.

Having to write in a subset of a language in order for it to perform decently is a big deal. Having no feedback given to the programmer when you deviate from the fast path makes it even harder to learn what the fast path is. The result is not that you get the ease of Python and the speed of C without having to understand much; the result is that you have to be a fairly deep expert in Python and understand the C bindings intimately and learn how to avoid doing what is the natural thing in Python, the Python covered in all the tutorials, or you end up writing your code to run at native Python speeds without even realizing it.

It's a feasible amount of knowledge to have, it's not like it's completely insane, but it's still rather a lot.

My career just brushed this world and I'm glad I bounced off of it. It would drive me insane to walk through this landmine field every day, and then worse, have to try to guide others through it all the while they are pointing at all the "common practices" that are also written by people utterly oblivious to all this.
https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/annua...

Sadly, with San Fran anywhere from 4.5x, or more than where I live (Quebec), and with LED products lastly barely longer than incandescent bulbs, it is typically a loss.

Maybe a 5 year warranty on LED bulbs should be a law, to ensure better quality control and build. The competitors can compete around that requirement.
Is it that bad to ask workers to come back 5 days a week in the office?
When did the simple request of asking people to come to the office everyday and on-time became an insult ?
As a CTO, I feel very frustrated to have to justify my reasoning to my team, while I see in-office interaction as being such a compelling experience, and a big advantage when working on common projects.

Note: in these conditions, the occasional day of working from home would still be accepted.
99% of white LEDs on the market arhave anything but full, smooth spectrums. Most of my lighting is from waveform lighting but you have to pay the premium for full spectrum, plus you have to shell out for expensive dimmers if you don't want flickering.
I recently tackled this with my side projects and created an open source contingency plan (https://www.candid.dev/open-source/). Basically, if a product goes without an update for six months, it will be released under the MPL-2.0. I am still working on finding some kind of foundation that can keep the code in escrow, for now it is just written online and in the LLC operating agreement.
You can, but as GP comment said, "Good indoor lighting is now something only people with plenty of disposable income can afford." When you're poor, are you going to cough up $18 for a single bulb, or get a 16-pack for $24 at Home Depot? $288 vs $24.
btw, in italian "informazione corretta" means literally "correct information"

my god!
Yes: https://scratch.mit.edu/download/
This is irrelevant, full stop. We care about humans, AI is a tool and your bias comment is either ignorant or dishonest.
I assume that it would lead to higher quality labels - > higher quality output.

Analogy to the "Garbage in, garbage out" rule.
As a long term Yudkowsky-fan, I confirm that this tallies roughly with my recollections of his serious work. I don't know how much of a hand he had in 'Logical Induction'.

It's definitely his style and his research program, but I think that (wonderful) idea was Scott Garrabrant's own.
Something something rate of change
Some variant of BSD probably...
The big problem for me is, as a consumer, how do I know that brand X is producing quality bulbs that'll last a long time? I'm very happy to pay more for that. How does one sift through marketing to get to actual quality?

And then how do I know that they stick with the high quality approach? What happens when a brand decides to rest on the laurels of their brand name and start slipping in lower quality parts?
Funny how NOBODY seems to care that all of their training data, including sharegpt is copyrighted by end users. Not openai or google
Well, don't you already name component file after it? Maybe I still misunderstand...
AI are not people and the idea that you can be biased against them is hardly a foregone conclusion. Like maybe one day when we have AGI, but ChatGPT ain't that.
This! In 2001, I spent six months working at a major VC and my task was "figure out the XML market". It was wild! XML will solve all our integration problems! Then I went to Scriptics and Scriptics veered into doing an XML product attaching Tcl to XPath to do little bits of processing. We got bought out in part because of that product.
That and you need LED compatible dimmer switches. Old dimmers do not play well with dimmable LEDs.
>> I harvest the LEDs out of dead bulbs to use in hobby projects.

This is a great idea and I would love it if you would post a Youtube how-to video. It might encourage a bunch of hobbyists to do something useful with those dead bulbs.

I've had a number of LED's fail after only a year or two, in fact more quickly than the average incandescent bulb. Seems like it defeats the whole purpose of "upgrading" and in fact may be more of a downgrade.
A lot of the manual stuff lets you control temp too.

Espresso was largely solved without any computers a long time ago.
* without taking it offline
This doesn’t belong here?
I would say it depends

Git is very popular, there is ton of resources online on how to use it and learn it,
and a lot of UI tools if you dont want to learn the cli at all

I would say if an API is as popular as Git, a wrapper would be a very hard sell

But if the API is considered old, legacy, or not very popular, then maybe a wrapper make sense, but then this would still be a niche case, if the API the is not used much, the wrapper would be used even less
To think that the previous incarnation DSSSL actually used Scheme and then this replaced it...
Building on that, how long did the AI take to draft the 77 news articles? Now ask a human to draft 77 articles in that same amount of time and see how many errors there are...
The incompetence is at the very top, choosing not to maintain something that they were apparently making $400m/year from paid subscribers for
Arvo Pärt: The Unexpected Profile of a Musical Revolutionary
Doesn't this also apply to people on HN?
I don't know. For a while, Sublime hit a slump, where 2 was no longer actively maintained, but 3 an unfinished beta that also didn't seem to receive much public updates, but that's been resolved years ago, and from all public indicators, Sublime is a healthy, steady business these days, with regular releases for both Text and Merge and new employees getting hired.
Video Tap – Transform your videos into blog posts and more
Which platforms are you referring to?
Thank you for settling a question for me - I was looking at julia's aot compilation abilities last week and the situation seemed like kind of a hassle.
Perhaps Twitter will be the golden example of how to run a business like SpaceX and Tesla became after many years of derision?
I wonder if these are tech (engineers) or "Tech adjacent" positions.

This year's layoffs mostly affected the later.
AI is not a human being or a student in school. It’s a software tool, stop comparing the two.
This is Microsoft trying to drive usage for Edge by adding a Google widget into Windows.

None of those clickable features in the Taskbar open your default browser, they all open Edge.
I use only Sublime for my work. But to claim that VSCode didn't overshadow it is incorrect.

Everyone uses VSCode, and while I hate it because of the bloat, slow startup, and slow plugins, given a blind test I don't think I would be able to tell which one is faster in typing...
A misspelling of "SSI", Spectral Similarity Index, another color accuracy metric.

Basically the industry figured out how to win at the CRI game without actually creating the same underlying spectral distribution of light. So they same up with another metric to try to optimize called SSI (also TLCI, etc.) SSI is mostly relevant in the digital cinema space, where the observer is a digital camera, not a human eye, as they can't be tricked the same way because they have different underlying RGB spectral sensitivities.
> especially if they can type faster than VSCode can render to screen, which is basically everyone.

Maybe I'm blind, but I can't see any typing latency in any editor.
TikTok's leadership answers to the CCP. It is a tool for propaganda and psychological warfare against the United States. We're going to ban TikTok for the same reason China banned Facebook, IG, Google, human rights organizations' websites, etc.: as a countermeasure against psychological warfare.

It's true that banning TikTok will also benefit US social media companies. This is similar to how we restrict the manufacture of advanced weaponry to US manufacturers. Yes, this kind of policy creates an advantage for domestic producers. And yes, it also serves important national security interests. Both can be true at the same time.
A frequent refrain from parents of kids diagnosed with ADHD: "My kid doesn't have problems with attention! He can play a video game for 10 hours straight! I have to tell him to go to the bathroom!"

It's actually misnamed and many professionals are trying to shift the name to "Executive Function Disorder".

The dysregulation swings both ways: can't focus on uninteresting things, but hyperfocus on interesting things.

You might want to do some more research, because the resulting anxiety that you also mentioned is almost always co-morbid with ADHD.

--a fellow diagnosed-as-an-adult ADHD guy who didn't know that was my problem until I was in my mid 30s.

P.S. another common sign: "Johnny is a delight to have in class, but he's not working to his potential." or "Johnny gets all of his work done quickly and it's stellar work, but then he is a frequent distraction to those around him." or "Class clown who is not working to potential."
For anyone else curious, the most recent update on their site seems to be from May 21, 2021, so almost two years ago -- but unless I missed it, this does not seem to be mentioned by the article.

The author seems to simply be saying that VSCode is more popular because it's open source, and therefore Sublime should go open source. Not sure I quite follow.
How much do you know about Russia?

A high profile political-ish person cannot live there without interference from government. You are naive on the subject or deliberately lying if you do not believe that is true. Information on this is easily accessible to you. Especially after Ukraine, when there's so many stories of prominent Russians being labelled "foreign agents" by their government for merely having opinions.

It is not an exaggeration to say it's like Nazi Germany there now. Even well before, they were doing political assassinations at home and abroad and false flags in Chechnya. Snowden and Greenwald both are clearly on the wrong side of that issue. It was clear even in 2013 if you were paying attention that Putin's Russia was less free than the United States. So it's a very, very strange thing to do to move there after being concerned about civil liberties.
That shouldn't be hard. Are Google's results copyrightable?
incandescent bulbs used to cost like $0.60 each
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35374007

https://www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2023/03/24/the-co...

"The world watched in shock as Credit Suisse, one of the most established global banking and financial services institutions, collapsed and was eventually acquired by UBS. A significant factor in Credit Suisse's downfall was its rigid stance on forcing staff to return to the office…"
If you are a drug user, a parent, someone who works with kids, or maybe just want to be a hero someday: you can and should keep a box of Narcan in your house. You can even receive it for free at some pharmacies (just ask), or by filling out this form: https://redcap.uthscsa.edu/REDCap/surveys/?s=8NDKCYKXJW . Also there is a link at the bottom of that page for a site full of resources so you can learn how to administer it, recognize signs of overdose, etc. I know this isn't the solution to the overall problem, but it is one way to make a difference.
That task could have probably been done by a mechanical or analogue computer. Not sure I'd call that control system a full-fledged computer.
Good point, although this is also included in your link:

> This leaves about $90 billion in securities and other SVB assets in the hands of the FDIC, and an estimated cost of the failure to the Deposit Insurance Fund of about $20 billion.

So the real number is 50 + 90 = 140.
If it has state and replication, all that seperates it from us, is time and chance.
What is doing logos?
Twitter has remained functional largely because all the former employees did their jobs effectively. I've seen what happens when companies lay a tech department to waste and it looks like this. This is a one-way cost reduction program that will forever reduce the quality of workers available to the company.

The way this pans out is that in the short term, nothing much happens except deadlines start to get pushed out. As time goes on everything becomes more and more dysfunctional. All progress grinds to a halt; simply treading water created by ongoing churn and operational needs ends up becoming impossible. Next the business tries to get more and more out of the remaining staff until they get fed up with it and leave. Shortly before the wheels really come off, legal and compliance issues will suddenly start ballooning. That's where we are now. Nobody wants to work on these kind of projects -- they do nothing for your career and nobody will celebrate your work -- but they are not optional. Elon seems to have decided simply not to comply with laws he dislikes in regulatory environments where he thinks he can get away with it. This can work for a while, but companies with no internal governance and that regularly flout laws can don't tend to last for too long without making painful changes. Let's see how it turns out. Given the reported state of the company it sounds like he has about a year to figure it out.
> I made the claim, the burden is on you if you wish to refute it.

Haha no, that's not how burden of proof works...
Building things and maintaining it as a trade secret can be protected as a trade secret.

Trade secrets don't need to be copyrightable (e.g. list of customer numbers is a trade secret but not copyrightable).

https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/difference-copyright-pate...

> Trade secret protection protects secrets from unauthorized disclosure and use by others. A trade secret is information that has an economic benefit due to its secret nature, has value to others who cannot legitimately obtain it, and is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy. The protections afforded by trade secret law are very different from others forms of IP.
We’ve all learned that is not the case, unfortunately.
I mentioned this in a reply to a comment below but I think it is worth repeating at top level: there is a great app called Pytch which is a bridge between Scratch and Python (and runs in a web browser).

I always recommend it to anyone teaching young kids to program.

You can find it here: https://www.pytch.org/app/
FWIW, "like this" is taking off-the-shelf, already food safe, parts and tweaking the software that controls them. Maybe this isn't 100% DIY or open source if you're buying a boiler from a coffee supply shop, but doing so removes the question about it being food safe.
Aren't most of you 1337 h4x0r making 300K USD as developers in start ups?

99 USD should be in your couch cushions, Tesla cupholder, or the bottom of your messenger bag.
Congrats to him! Just playing devil's advocate: what we see here is correlation, not necessarily causation. In other words, we don't know how many visitors who visited the domain with the typo would have realized quickly and then used Google and convert either way.
Imaginary programming: implementation-free TypeScript for GPT-powered web dev
imaginary.dev is a project I built to allow web developers to use GPT to easily add AI features to their existing web user interfaces. All a developer does is declares a function prototype in TypeScript with a good comment saying what the function should do, and then they can call the function from other TypeScript and JavaScript code, even though they've never implemented the function in question. It looks something like:

/*
* This function takes in a blog post text and returns at least 5 good titles for the blog post.

* The titles should be snappy and interesting and entice people to click on the blog post.

*

* @param blogPostText - string with the blog post text

* @returns an array of at least 5 good, enticing titles for the blog post.

*

* @imaginary

*/ declare function titleForBlogPost(blogPostText: string): Promise<Array<string>>;

Under the covers, we've written a TypeScript and Babel plugin that replaces these "imaginary function" declarations with runtime calls to GPT asking GPT what the theoretical function would return for a particular set of inputs. So it's not using GPT to write code (like CoPilot or Ghostwriter); it's using GPT to act as the runtime. This gives you freedom to implement things that you could never do in traditional programming: classification, extraction of structured information out of human language, translation, spell checking, creative generation, etc.

Here's a screencast where I show off adding intelligent features to a simple blog post web app: https://www.loom.com/share/b367f4863fe843998270121131ae04d9

Let me know what you think. Is this useful? Is this something you think you'd enjoy using? Is this a good direction to take web development? Happy to hear any and all feedback!
Exactly.. this submission is just Ars Technica doing a copy-paste of the original source and wrapping it in ads.

Ars has fallen a long, long way since they were bought by Conde Nast. Almost every article they put out is this garbage these days. Most of their original content is them sending someone to auto manufacturers junkets to drive cars and then regurgitate the manufacturer's marketing material.
>"AI" itself isn't a danger, but how people choose to use AI certainly can be dangerous or helpful

And people/governments will use it for evil as well as good. The article says "AI disinfo can't spread itself!" as if that is comfort. "Coal plant emissions don't spread themselves, the wind does it!" as if we can control the wind. The solution isn't to stop wind, it is to stop pollution.

Unfortunately, I don't think society/leading AI researchers/governments will put the kabash on AI development, and the "wind" here, social networks, is an unleashed beast. I don't want to sound too dreary, but I think the best society can do now is to start building webs of trust between citizens, and between citizens and institutions.

Cryptographic signing needs to hit mainstream, so things that are shared by individuals/organizations can be authenticated over the network to prove a lack of tampering.

90s had the Internet. 00s had search, Wikipedia and Youtube. 10s had social media. 20s will have AI.
Just because functional languages have immutable data locally doesn't make them any more suitable for handling data across "100 remote clients simultaneously". You need a bunch of stuff on top to make it work. Even reacting to state changes on a remote client is a problem in itself, you you can't wave it away with "but immutability".

> but I'm still not totally clear on how conditionals work in Verse

To be honest, there's nothing clear about Verse at all. It promises to be everything for everybody, but is extremely light on details.
I was obsessed with scratch as a child. It was my way in to computer programming, and I've taught in schools using it. It's an incredible tool and I'll hype it up any chance I get! It really is a miracle!
Capitalism is a form of economic organization, Communism is a belief system which has opinions about how an economy should be organized. CCP is still a communist party while allowing for a mixed economic system. They are in the process of reigning in the westernization that leaked through. The key is that Communism requires a monopoly on politics. If people are given the choice, they prefer democracy and the right to choose their leaders.

Stephen Kotkin is very good at explaining these things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10wiKL-wyOE
We climbers are lucky to have people like John who are both deeply interested in climbing history as well as experienced in pushing the leading edge themselves.
Bank App, NFC bank card payments?

Tap and pay or paywave are the best thing to happen in mobile IMO. I don't even carry a wallet anymore. I had having to carry a phone and wallet. Now it's back down to only have to carry one thing. Perfect
Home Depot has an exclusively agreement with em
The faux-recessed LED fixtures are a really interesting case because they're either going to be the most reliable LED in your house, or one of the least! This is because heat is the LED diode killer (as well as the power supplies driving the diodes)

Can lights have historically been an issue for insulation of houses, as they provide a channel for the warm ceiling air to enter the plenum space between floors or the attic. Thats bad for insulation, but actually amazing for a retrofitted LED light, because it's the only fixture that will provide airflow to cool it!

On the other hand, faux-recessed LEDs can also be installed directly on top of the ceiling drywall, without any penetration. Thats the worst case scenario for heat build up, as heat rises and it's completely trapped by the dish of the light and the ceiling.
And about 8000 science fiction novels. And the fact that an idea is obvious to a child does not mean that it is not true!
Which is a baseless hyperbole. We get it, blog spam is annoying. That doesn’t change the fact that humans generate a ton of data just interacting with one another online.
> It's worth noticing that even the preload directive is non-standard, even though it's used as part of this entire "preload infrastructure" all across the web.

This isn't exactly accurate. The HSTS RFC explicitly contemplates the preload list: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797#section-12.3
Not OP, but CodeWars is a platform I heard about that fits the description