skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My rough mental model is each ref is like a .zip of your source code. Branches point to these. When you commit you create a new ref, it points to it’s parent and the branch now points to it.
You don't need a table for a simple sine oscillator. You just compute sin(a) and cos(a) on note-on, and that's it. You don't store the output in a table, you just apply that 2x2 matrix every time.

Tables can definitely have their place, depending on your synthesis method. If you want something like pitch bend, going for a sine table may very well be the fastest (it depends a bit on how much cache you want to burn).
So the same reason basically as for the blue LEDs on every new device since 2010? Something that used to be prohibitively expensive before, and so now communicates high value (until people get tired of it eventually).
Yeah, I remember the time when I had to pretend I was interested in what the company was doing.

It's been almost 10 years that my default answer for the question "why do you want to work here" has been along the lines of "I don't know if I want yet. A recruiter from your company reached out, so I'm evaluating you guys during the interview too".

If the market changes back to favor employers I can go back at faking interest.

Them bills, they keep coming.
To be fair, most of the times I see this, it's not WordPress' fault, but rather one of their bzillion plugins.
> […] and often has sub-freezing temperatures.

So does Finland. See "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Also "Why Winter Cities Need to Reconsider Car Dependence":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkI3eglT1M

If things can be taken car of so cars can operate in winter there's no reason why they can't be for bicycles (as someone who lives in Toronto, Canada).
I see why it’s more confortable to see it your way. But somehow it seems to prove the point of the OP: individualism. Even if one sees the US as two different countries cohabitating, this data forces to consider the US as a whole, and maybe it’s healthy as a country.
Looks like victim blaming.

> I am astounded that people put anything more important than cat photos on Google, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Unix, general cloud provider, mobile phone, HDD, PC, etc. etc.

Also, sorry, but I have to say: there nothing wrong with caring about cat photos.
Of course they don’t. They’re relaying first-person anectdotes. Why would specifically that be sourced with statistics?
Commodore Amiga – The Settlers / Serf City: Life Is Feudal (1993)
100+ Times faster string search in Pandas with regular expressions
This package includes a pure Python function that enables you to represent a set of keywords (strings) as an efficient regular expression. With this regular expression, you can perform various operations, such as replacing and extracting keywords. The name of the package comes from the internal trie used to build the regular expression (trie to regex)
Design by committee (did you see how many organizational logos are on there?) plus "but make it look more cyber" plus literally done by an office worker who has no formal design training.
Not saying that the approach taken via G Drive is smart, but to your question: For a full backup of your application just storing package.json/package-lock.json is not enough. In case of things going south this might leave you in an unrecoverable state - imagine a package is removed for whatever reason from npm or npm becomes unreachable.

Now in your risk assessment the question of course is how likely it is that you lose the copy alone your dev system, CI system and productive version at the same time that npm loses it, but the first three happening isn't as unlikely as it seems: You work on a major refactoring and while deploying you run into a major problem and want to roll back, then artifacts from the old version might be gone. Of course there are ways to prevent that. But that's the risk assessment and prevention you have to make. A full backup including node_modules is one way of dealing with that.
So if you damage your iris you're fucked ?
The old school scenes were sometimes more incorrect, but less wrong than modern dark scenes.

Thing is, the eye adapts to dim light very well. So an old school scene "night" scene may actually better represent what it feels like being there.

While a modern "night" scene might look what a dim area looks like the first 10 seconds before your eyes adapt: dim, gray-ish.

Curve-ball:

what's your take on the dynamic range in over-exposing film vs under-exposing digital?
They link to an LTT video, but guess what? The video links back to another website: ameliorated.info. The source code linked by the website is also hosted on there.
For me it seems like someone is trying to revive an old project without approval from the owner. I'm not sure if you should trust it right now without more information
Is this page created by a buzzword-generator for April fools?

Btw: Have W11 fixed so that's it's possible to "ungroup" items in the task bar yet? I reverted back to W10 after a few weeks because it was absolutely unusable having all my open editor windows grouped to a single thing in the taskbar, making it hard to quickly switch to the correct one.
The huge advantage of having the phone running the infotainment is that you already pay for the phone's data connection. If the car does it you need to pay an additional subscription to get that data connection.
Are the plans for a comparison feature? This was invaluable when trying to figure out what changed in various versions of the same camera family.
There is a segment of the new Dune movie where I feel this happens. I believe it is Paul and Jessica's crossing and their encounter with the worm. The contrast feels so washed out and it distracts me because my eyes start straining for the light... but it seems 100% intentional. It's pre-dawn and the world feels grayscale. I'm complaining about it, but maybe I would miss it if they didn't do that.
> they were deliberately applying for this job because it interested them

If they sent the CV, they did deliberate apply for the job.

I always hated writing cover letters, always felt like the employer wanted me to do some groveling before I earned the right to be graced with an interview.

Good thing now I have ChatGPT for the rescue.
This feels like a facebook type of outrage engagement bait comment.
I find the title of this article ironic, in light of all the concerns about misinformation should generative AI be mainstreamed.
Came here to say this, but you said it much better.
Are you sure those people were using their own personal dropbox folders?

Yes, one single account.

while it's syncing and then start editing the same things on a different computer

IIRC this was one of the issues. Not necessarily because of shutting down, but just when using multiple computers one after the other and Dropbox not having synced in between. Not that niche depending on line of work, think lab-like setups where one thing gets deployed to multiple machines and deployment then gets tested. In one company the 'oh but you have to wait for dropbox to sync before doing that' and 'how?' responded by 'urm, yeah, check the timestamp on all files in that directory' was a rather common thing, often leading to stupid issues. Put git in the picture there and things won't get any better.
What a terrible website. And what in the world is a playbook?
Oh I’m sure you could find a (1) high-income workers and higher (wink wink) and (2) the unwashed, hinterland masses comparison between countries if you wanted. But then one asks what kind of point you would be proving with that.
If you don’t mind TV I think Black Mirror has some warning signs (watch anything after the 1st episode which is very late 20th centuryish).

Simulated consciousness suffering inside digital machines designed to serve other peoples psychosis seems a popular trope throughout the series.
In Germany, the car tax includes the type of car and is adapted based on the accident rate for this type. Basically, you know ahead of time that you will pay more if you buy a car type that is often driven by reckless drivers.
Since there’s going to be the usual comments by the usual people that don’t actually click the links, this is the only thing you need to see.

> Claire told La Libre that Pierre began to ask Eliza things such as if she would save the planet if he killed himself.

So, Eliza didn’t wholly justify Pierre killing himself in a way that’s consistent with the agency and sentience she actually had. There’s an extra layer of delusion at play.

Pierre was sick, and not in the “evolutionarily, something is wrong with anyone that doesn’t want to stay alive as long as possible” way. An AI chat bot’s effect on someone with this sort of predisposition should definitely be considered, just like it’s dishonest to ignore how marijuana use can be a catalyst for people with a predisposition to psychosis. However this context should be kept in mind.
For a change forgot the day it was.
Show HN: AI – The most complete AI Newsletter
I've been obsessed with everything that's happening in AI. Almost every day something new is released that outdoes what was revolutionary only a few days ago.
I've been sending updates to my friends and collleagues for the past few months and as that list grew, I figured I would put my bi-weekly updates in an email newsletter.
I write about the news and new apps that got launched, as well as what it means for the AI space, tech, or the future, in general.
The manga Barefoot Gen covers the experience of the locals, based loosely on the author's first hand experience, and was an interesting/enjoyable read for me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen
I can code golf that script

#!/bin/true

Bam.
> If you do anything with photography, you probably know that Amazon, being Amazon, is shutting down DPReview.com, which housed some of the most complete data and knowledge related to digital cameras online.

Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ...
You are right about the problem, but they did also sell it as a backup product.
You can always exclude quora or any other website by writing "Search Word" - quora
Because when you try to manage dependencies with Gradle on Android you realize that it could be worse. Much, much, worse.

These are the languages and package managers I have experience with:

- JavaScript and npm

- Python and pip/conda

- Kotlin and Gradle

- Scala and mill

- Common Lisp and quicklisp

- Racket and raco

- Raku and zef

- Lua and luarocks

- Elixir and mix

- Haxe and haxelib

- Rust and cargo

- Nim and nimble

- OCaml and opam

- Smalltalk and Monti/Meta-cello; also Visual Works parcel manager

- and a few others

Out of all these, cargo, opam, mix, and zef are the only ones that are mostly working as intended. They're still a pain, but they're predictable and honest about their limitations. Everything else is just bad, to the point where it's a waste of time to think about which is the biggest and which are a bit less of a clusterfuck. For some of these I had to resort to building a chroot env with a copy of my system inside to convince them to compile and link against correct libraries. If that's not a clusterfuck, I don't know what is...

Unless you were lucky to see something better than "mainstream state of the art" solutions, you won't realize how bad it actually is. At that point you start inventing yarns or poetries, adding layers on top of layers to paper over simplistic, hardcoded assumptions made by original authors 20-30 years ago, and go into denial when someone tells you that's not going to fix anything.
> there is also no reason to beleive they do exist.

Proof of reason to believe they do exist.

Furthermore, the office of the president, the FBI, the Government making a request to limit the free speech of a citizen is entirely different from Joe Blow in the street making a request.
Ask HN: What's the name of this concept related to surveillance
I am looking for the name of a concept that explains how an individual who knows they are being monitored and controlled behaves differently on the internet. I believe the word "cold" is part of the concept's name and I discovered it through a well-designed web page that featured an infographic of an iceberg.
Works well in the age of llms, conveniently.
Answer the phone every time. But do not listen or do anything. Leave them hanging - they will soon take you off the lists.
Also, current SSD's achieve 7.5 GB/s+ read speed, opposed to older SSD from 2013 with 500 MB/s, so performance will drastically differ depending on your system specs in case of pulling weights from disk to RAM on demand.
Also, there is $ vmmap <pid> where we can see various statistics about process memory and used swap, that are not available in top or htop.
> We're not offering you a job. We offer you the opportunity to work together with a smart bunch of people on a very hard problem.

This is the reddest flag of all on any interview process for me. I discard all companies with this attitude.

Working for a company is not a privilege, it is merely an employment.
> Nobody expected the United States to specifically target tens of thousands of innocent civilians instead of military targets in a single sweep.

The bald facts are the USofA had already performed overnight raids on 72 cities in Japan and completely levelled them.

The Tokyo firebombing saw tens of thousands of civilian deaths, a similar number to the deaths in Hiroshima.

In Japan at the time bombing raids were expected to strike anywhere and everywhere built up urban | industrial areas existed.
That's definitely what this is. Not a twitter employee but probably all internal projects have a ci.sh that runs on their internal CI infra and they just didn't feel like going through open source review for it.
> the built in onscreen keyboard takes up about half the screen

Well I've written thousands of lines of code in an 8x154 Termux terminal with Unexpected Keyboard. I got used to it.
Wow, I haven't seen that since https://jwz.org used to redirect HN referrers to a certain old school NSFW internet meme. Plus, I don't think even he still pulls that kind of redirect BS these days.
I guess Safari doesn't populate referrer then, because this was no issue for me.
There's still freedom of speech in countries with stricter gun laws.
Also in my country prostitution and abortions are legal. So stricter gun laws don't always lead to other restrictions.
they won't do anything because people WILL believe it and it just doesn't worth it.
> Gas taxes..

Questionable:

"Why Gas Taxes Aren't Paying the Bills Anymore"

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-15/gas-ta...

"Gas Taxes Don't Cover the Costs of Our Roads"

* https://www.onthecommons.org/gas-taxes-dont-cover-costs-our-...

"Ten Years of Highway Trust Fund Bankruptcy: Why Did It Happen, and What Have We Learned?"

* https://www.enotrans.org/article/ten-years-of-highway-trust-...

Further, expanding roads for car-centric use just makes things worse:

> It is a paradox in that improvements in the road network will not reduce traffic congestion. Improvements in the road network can make congestion worse if the improvements make public transport more inconvenient or if they shift investment, causing disinvestment in the public transport system.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox

There is decades of empirical evidence that building more roads/highways does not improve congestion (but makes it worse):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
He's kind of right though.
The US even changed its targets just weeks before the bombing. Originally the second bomb was meant for Kyoto instead of Nagasaki:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182

This enormous cultural destruction was averted because the US Secretary of War had taken his honeymoon in Kyoto decades earlier. Presumably he had no such emotional connection to the innocents killed in Nagasaki.
Not sure what's expensive about it. Real cost is hardly more than one of a taxicab. Throw in the competition and see prices plummet to $50 a ride tops. $20 a mile? That's more than a large cabin class private jet charter costs.
Everyone seems to assume that all the “tricks” behind training ChatGPT are known. The only clues are in papers from ClosedAI like the InstructGPT paper. So we assume there is Supervised Fine Tuning, then Reward Modeling and finally RLHF.

But there are most likely other tricks that ClosedAI has not published. These probably took years of R&D to come up with, others trying to replicate ChatGPT would need to come up with these tricks on their own.

Also curiously the app was released in late 2022 while the knowledge cutoff is 2021 — I was curious why that might be, and one hypothesis I had was that it may have been because they wanted to keep the training data fixed while they iterated on numerous methods, hyperparameter tuning etc. All of these are unfortunately a defensive moat that ClosedAI has.
I don't think we've seen the final state of it though. v1.9 really gives people the proper tools for solving latency problems. Before, invalidations hurt a little, but it was also kind of a wash because LLVM code didn't precompile, so you could spend time setting up a Snoopprecompile and fix some invalidations and end up LLVM bound saving 1 second out of 20. But with package images it's almost always better to fix precompilation. The only thing hampering time much now is the `using` time went up, but as mentioned in the Reddit post there's a lot of ideas for what to do there. The other thing is package extensions, which cut down the amount of code to load. There's tons of PRs floating around the ecosystem turning things into extensions, and thus cutting down the overall code that is actually ran and loaded.

This means that in a few months, people will start to see some major tangible benefits from following the compilation improvement practices laid out here and https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/. I think then you'll have a lot more people start to take all of these new tools seriously and it will be standard to incorporate them into packages. Right now they are still kind of niche things for packages with known TTFX problems, but I think come v1.9 you'll see every major package use all of these methods.

> Different packages are affected differently

I think this is one of the pieces that's effected by this. I don't think "Julia has become optimised for running Plots.jl" is quite correct. Julia's compilation and runtime is much more optimized for well-inferred code, which Plots.jl is not. However, the compiler developers have been using Plots.jl as a test case for all of these new tools, and therefore its SnoopPrecompile and invalidations have gotten some dramatic improvements because those required ecosystem changes I mentioned are being done by the compiler team for this specific package. Plots.jl had things like precompilation snooping way back before there was even a package for it, the earliest I know of was around v1.0. Meanwhile, DataFrames.jl only setup its precompilation snooping 7 months ago (https://github.com/JuliaData/DataFrames.jl/pull/3182), which I would presume was just in time for the v1.8 mark on your plot and is one of the big reasons for having a sudden drop (which continues into v1.9 because of package images).

What I mean to say then is that, I think all packages will get the improvements we've seen from Plots.jl, but package authors will need to update their packages in order for that to happen. Some packages have already done this, many have not.
If you're going to go that far, you should add "USA" to it as well. This is a very USA centric forum though, so it's perfectly fine leaving it as it is.

A better question is why is a CDC news article on train derailment on hacker news. What part of this article is related to technology or computers? It's just regular news.
But an arbitrary cutoff point is arbitrarily denying the right to those who do have those faculties–maybe the average 15 year old lacks them (although where is the evidence to support that claim?), but even if that's true, certainly some 15 year olds are more intelligent/well-informed/mature than average, and likely some of those 15 year olds have greater "faculties to rule" than many people far older than them do. If, as you claim, democracy really means "all the people rule", then an arbitrary rule that no 15 year old can vote is incompatible with democracy, hence democracy nowhere actually exists at present.
> a hoax last month about the algorithm being tweaked to make everyone view Elon’s tweets

Didn't this just reveal that they're A/B testing on Musk's tweet performance? At the very least they're avoiding regressions, and I guess any incidental improvements to it won't be reversed, so isn't it fundamentally the same? Unless we're taking the word "everyone" literally, I guess.
Here is source for what you are saying:

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaf...

This says that the Nagasaki leaflets may not have made it to Nagasaki until after the bomb was dropped. The leaflets that may have been dropped before the Hiroshima bomb (“LeMay leaflets”) did not reference the atomic bomb. You also have to be aware that the US had been carpet bombing Tokyo for years by this point. People were used to bombs, just not to the atomic bomb.

We grew up with the idea of atomic bombs but for people in 1945, seeing the destruction that it caused for the first time in human history must have been truly shocking.
I wouldn't bet on ego-stroking as the main driver: my impression is that much of this stuff is marketing strategy, to drive internet discussion. Remember "Lost"? That strategy might have a stronger effect on the on the next installment than on the current one, but that won't stop them.

I explicitly write "internet" because that's what can be measured. And those studios probably have a metric for that and writers go full Campbell's Law on it. I write Campbell's, not Goodhart's, because I suspect that it still works just fine, economically.

(I think I know which kind of movies you mean and I don't feel drawn to those at all. Perhaps in part because of all the "clever change" drama that I read about and that I know would be completely lost to me, so maybe it's not that far from Goodhart's after all?)
Wait so you just merge right into prod? That sounds scary. The thing I work on runs like tens of thousands of tests on large PRs. It's reassuring but sometimes annoyingly slow.
> Trying to code using the touch screen keyboard will drive you insane.

I dunno about that. That's exactly how I've been programming for months now: an 8x154 Termux terminal with Unexpected Keyboard. I'm kind of hoping those touch sensitive pads will let me type without placing my thumbs over the screen.
Were these interviews via triplebyte in the last year or two or before that? I've heard that the platform isn't what it used to be.
I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off.

I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!