skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're invisible, your text editor is doing something very wrong. They cause a fixed amount of blank space that otherwise would not be present. That is very visible.
Probably. I bet maintaining it is someone's personal hell.
Sorry, I don't understand your argument. Could you clarify what you mean by "everything"? Is there another clustering algorithm you're thinking of?
> First and foremost, you ensure that in any component CSS file, ALL selectors begin with a class that mirrors the filename.

But then you're adding a convention that isn't as easy to follow. Maybe you follow it, but what about new people. What about people who make a typo? Are you going to make a VS code plugin that points out if someone mistypes the file-based class in the CSS file?

What if the file is renamed, or moved? Do you then have to go update every selector in the CSS file?

This all seems so much more brittle to me than just using tailwind, and the VS code plugin show you the possible class names you can select from when you start to type something, as well as rules for each of those class names. It also catches (and highlights) contradictory rules, when applied to the same element. You can't do that from the CSS (there's no telling what the declaration will be used for, from the css in isolation), and unless you make your own editor integration, this won't happen when editing markup either.
There is no evidence that migrants commit more crime than native people, violent or not.

You say you are worried that your grandchildren will have no place to live among their "own kind". Being human not enough?

Frankly you sound like a racist.
"Please fill out the STATE" is the bane for anyone who orders from the States, along with ZIP codes. Thankfully 90210 works most of the time.
Incompetent but Nice only seems to work when all managers and team members know it and they are given tasks they can’t mess up. It does affect morale though, as working with a jerk would too.
I think searching for a general common solution is precisely why we are getting nowhere. It may be there are some "unpopular" opinions that turn out to be factors. Many small pieces make a large one, and important hints often come in unexpected places.
Seems like there's a wrapper app like this that marks the peak of each generation of chat apps. Meebo used to be the sh*t.
Still online, that’s a shame. The full-week event was an amazing experience when I went in 2013 & 14.
Revealing that associating anything AI with money inflates the bubble. This translates to "we need to hire a $335k employee to figure out how to use our product."
It’s a bit fiendish to nudge an unsuspecting victim towards Satantango like that :P
I had a similar experience with my domain, hegz.me, which I had purchased from Namecheap. I allowed it to expire and did not pay the redemption fees, thinking I could buy it again at a later time. However, to my surprise, after the redemption period had ended, it was listed for a price of $2,888. Can you explain why this is the case?
That's absolutely incorrect. TikTok has plenty of US personnel and is doing something called "Project Texas" to try to assuage US regulator concern. This is about China controlling a channel that millions of Americans use to get their news
From direct experience in my professional career I know for a certified fact this article is just flat out wrong. Amazon Go is precisely what it says it is. I don’t know what causes the long delays now but that wasn’t always the case. I suspect the fact Amazon go doesn’t make any money and is launched means it basically hollowed out and is on autopilot with two SDE2’s on call 24/7 keeping it alive on life support. Amazon services are always well staffed up to the moment they’re launched, because at Amazon you only get promoted on launching something - not making it better.
I am legitimately confused here.

If my comment hadn’t started with “LMAO” and had the current spelling of “Elon”, would it still have had the replies locked?

My criticism of six months being too short to achieve AI safety was in fact substantive. As was my quote on the LLM work that he is presently funding. That leaves only tone being the issue.

My comment is locked. Other posters can not have any dialogue with me in relation to the salient points I made. The links to further reading are buried below your admonishment, so they’re less likely to trigger any discussion.

I’m not really motivated to post again because it’s not clear if my post was not “substantive”, what qualifies as “flame bait” (for example, is directly quoting his words about “wokeness” flame bait even when they are directly about the topic at hand?), or if the issue here is “My account” as you put it.

So which is it? Flame bait, empty posting, or you just don’t like the way I post in general? You’ve provided all three as reasons for not allowing further discussion of my post.
As a classic VB and C# developer, that was their mistake. VB.NET has no reason to exist. If it was much more backwards compatible with VB Classic it would have had a reason to exist -- it would have allowed VB projects (of which there were millions) to migrate over to .NET smoothly.
Are you referring to a $250,000 HP MJF printer, or is there something else?
I suspect 50 hours is an extreme. Last time it took me 2 hours to get my receipt.
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
Suppressing the fever is more like significantly undervolting your CPU because the heat output of your gaming computer makes your room uncomfortably warm. Sure your room isn't too hot anymore, but the CPU needed that power to do useful work, and it's possible it won't be able to keep up with what you need anymore.
Well written... sounds like a Dall-E prompt :-)
> Did you miss this part?

Well, I addressed:

(1) What was weird within the history of money-involved bail, and

(2) What was weird outside that context, and

(3) Why the federal system was not #1, and

(4) What context the federal system was weird in.

So…no?

Did you miss…my entire post?
VisiCalc got rid of most accounting jobs only to be replaced by accounting jobs that required VisiCalc skills. So it's doubtful in the long run anyone is going to get rid of jobs.
Well that is pretty high, but it costs $10 to get a beer at my ski area in the US.
Kids today can have two or even three jobs and still not earn enough to pay the rent on a place of their own.
I was speaking mostly based on intuitions, but here are two quick sources I found which illustrate it:

a) Reddit is overwhelmingly male:

- Distribution of Reddit users by gender: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-...

b) Reddit is not that big of a platform in the teenage demographic:

- Distribution of Reddit app users by age group: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1125159/reddit-us-app-us...

- Popularity of Reddit in teenagers as compared to other social media platforms: https://www.statista.com/statistics/250172/social-network-us...
2 things.

1. We do seem to forget that even though ChatGPT is a great technical achievement its achieved by companies and humans. These companies and humans had agendas.

2. Open Source only got us so far. With these new AI models and trying to withhold competitive advantages will we see a new era of closed source tech which will like its predecessors only spew discomfort amongst its users and bridge the gap even further.

AI is dangerous because its already being looked at as an entity of which is human like.

Its perception amongst us is that its equally human on a basic intelligent level as most of us. And that I believe is scary because it puts us closer to it given it acts as a human.

Not a fan
Can you explain how TikTok (a Chinese “psyop”) is more harmful to the average citizen than Facebook or Instagram (a corporate American “psyop?”)

Can you explain how TikTok is more harmful to the average citizen than the constant mass shootings that happen in the U.S.?

Touch grass, indeed.
Humane by who's standards? Should the government be mandating how to raise children? Maybe the government would think compelling church attendance is a humane policy to protect children. Or we could let parents decide how to raise their kids.

Never mind that the policy here is actually not about protecting children at all, since its banning an app entirely where the vast majority of users are adults.
Big tech companies cut AI ethics staff, raising safety concerns
> Surprising then that we don't ban Hondas and Toyotas, even though they're far superior to American cars (but at least they're made by Asians who are _allies_ I guess).

Both Honda and Toyota build a lot factories in the US, creating a lot of jobs for US Citizens that actually show up to vote. All while American brands move to Mexico, Canada etc.

TikTok might as well be the same as "BigTech" but with the bonus of being Chinese—that is something politicians can work with. I think the root of the problem, though, is we (humans) are easy to manipulate, but I dont even know how we can even begin to tackle that.
I figured someone would take issue with that, I guess my problem is they don't do a great job of attribution.
Times have changed. Never had an issue with MK3, compared to Ender impressions.
I think the term "jerk" is underspecified in these types of conversations. The "competent jerks" in the minds of the "pro competent jerk" people are not the same that the "anti competent jerk" people are thinking of. I suspect these groups would agree in many cases on whether to keep someone who is competent but excessively blunt (without malice), and whether to fire someone who is competent but tears down their coworkers with political games. Both of those people might fall under the heading of "jerk", making it too broad a category to base sweeping predetermined choices on.
Human cells help researchers understand squid camouflage
In one case I tried using it to help me find the right functions in `oauthlib` that can validate a two-legged OAuth 1.0 signed message. It couldn't really get it and made up information about how OAuth works, but it did get me on the right track so I'm thankful in that regard.

I've also been using it while writing Common Lisp, and I'm not sure if it's just because it's a more obscure language, but it commonly produces nonsensical code, recommends functions that don't exist or work differently than it thinks they do, or produces non-idiomatic weird stuff.

It also falls apart when writing z80 assembly, again just generating nonsense. It really is a cool tool though, and I use it to get me steered in the correct direction. I've seen other people mention that it can identify unknown unknowns, and I concur it's an amazing tool for that. We'll see if with more specialized training on programming-related datasets if it can get better, I wouldn't write off the possibility. It won't be stealing your job in its current state, though.
My cheap ender 3 v2 with a glass bed makes perfectly smooth first layers.
More plaintext summary at Ars for those looking for the Cliff Notes version: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-goog...

This pertains both to the lawsuit from Epic Games as well as from the Department of Justice.
I took a look at the paper and it too shows that the effects are just delimited continuations with named, algebraic-typed prompts. It even goes into the difference between shift0 and shift, but not by that name. (It claims that Koka and others are using shift, which isn't quite what I remember but okay.)

I guess it's a good marketing move because "multi-prompt delimited continuations" is scary. It also makes the types sane; I once worked out that expressions with delimited continuations of the reset-shift0 variety are typed by binary trees of ambient types, with a subtyping relation s.t. leaf nodes can be expanded.
Netflix 4K seems to be about 7GB per hour. A camera aimed at a store should be able to get away with much less, since the image is mostly static. But let’s say 7GB per hour.

If all the processing were in the cloud and the data were going in the other direction, AWS might charge 5c / GB, so 35 cents / hour. Peanuts.

But AWS owns the infrastructure, and they don’t charge for ingress anyway. A 1Gbps link might cost $2k per month (wild guess, but not far enough off to matter). That covers 64 streams. This cost is minimal.

Of course, AWS could also stick enough of their processing at the edge to essentially eliminate the bandwidth cost entirely.
Elon Musk on taking Tesla private (2018)
My favourite theory is that stuff inside black holes is more universes like ours, which is also inside the black hole.
Or just rent it to The Boys.
I've always liked working with competent jerks, by which I mean "more competent than me". I assume their jerk-ness isn't that they blame me for their mistakes - but no CJ has ever done that to me (only incompetent jerks).

I have very limited experience of running organisations. But I think that if your organisation is small, then it can't afford incompetent people, even if they're nice. That means that I think that to run a small organisation, you have to be a jerk, otherwise you're incompetent.

I failed to sack a probationary employee before the probabtion period ended; I thought he would come up to scratch. Also, I had no taste for sacking people. I was wrong, and I cost the company money. I was nice, and I should have been a jerk. Ergo, I'm not competent to run a small organisation.

[Edit] Incompetent people, however nice, are a permanent drag on everything. If they can't be taught, then they have to be removed. You can't make your other staff carry them forever.
Congrats. Do you have the repo for PrankGPT?
We used to find seashell fossils in Iowa where I went to college just out on the ground surface. Mind blowing stuff for sure.
> Your loss!

This reminds me of an attitude I see in some of these hobby communities. The idea that someone who is happy with a different product is somehow wrong or losing. People are highly invested and identified with their choices. Why not just be ok with choices other people make, even if we disagree with them?
> embrace the fact that things change and will always change.

Living in a European city for a few years got me thinking about what the sources of changes are. Everything, and I mean everything requires maintenance, or it will crumble into dust. That maintenance is like a running cost. For (what we consider today to be) high-value jewels of the past, we pay this cost, because we like having these amazing things--like cathedrals and churches and minarets and bridges and monuments and works of art. This maintenance is literally fighting the forces of entropy. Fall behind, and it will crumble and disappear. When it crumbles or is old or broken, or even destroyed--e.g. after WWII--will you rebuild what was there, as it was, or do something new because it strikes your fancy?

In Europe, they draw the line very differently than in North America. Much of the old is maintained, rebuilt, preserved. Because it is considered wealth in itself. Because people fight these forces of entropy, honor their past, and heck, maybe even like things? As an American, I see we do not do this. We seem to hate things. We hate buildings and bridges and doorknobs and pipes[1]; partly because most stuff is built like cheap crap--no matter the era--so of course it falls down and needs to be rebuilt. And it is, the cheapest way possible, usually. Today it seems to be being rebuilt all in a particular way. I dunno, I just think America's total disregard for the past is infecting the rest of the world.

[1] Not above-ground power lines, poles, and endless ugly nests of wires, though. Obviously. Those friggin power lines are going to be the absolute last thing that anybody tears down.
Please quantify access and freedoms.
what is being censored? arent there a million other platforms where you can post video content?
I agree, but it's not a viable strategy because Congress doesn't have jurisdiction over what China does and does not allow in their country. So you would then have no trade, but in what categories? Does it include software for vehicles, a major market for Detroit automakers? Does it include software like Oracle? It's just not that clean to have tit for tat reciprocity
Electronic Arts is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of workforce
But flexbox is much newer than vertical-align.
> Sadly, it has nothing to do with "talking about how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm", because if it did, they would be trying to ban Facebook, Instagram, and other social media services that have the exact same effect as TikTok on children.

This overlooks the "possibility" that those platforms have an "agreement" of sorts with the US Government. The Twitter Files have gone into some of that, but be careful: it is possible for things to exist that each individual/civilian may not have knowledge of, even though most people seem to be strongly under the impression that this is impossible, perhaps because it could be considered (or, has been marketed as) [only] a conspiracy theory.

> This is really meant to be a punch in the fight against China. US government does not want any possibility of US citizens' data being in the hands of China and their questions to Chew made that clear. The narrative of child safety, for example the story about the kid who commit suicide because of their "for you" page, is being used as a kind of legal "pretext" so they can ban TikTok.

It is plausible that there are certain ideas that they would not like the minds of the American Public exposed to, certain conversations they would prefer they do not have, etc. There is a surprising amount of detail to reality, but we miss out on most of it (and often do not realize it), for a variety of reasons.

The thinking on these sorts of matters one reads in this thread is rather eye opening....I suspect a lot of the styles of logic that are perfectly acceptable in threads on this topic would be very unwelcome when writing software.
> all inexorably drawn towards the realm of Plato's Forms

I almost retched reading that. All the examples in the article are of the most bland, disposable junk imaginable. I think the common interpretation of Plato's ideals is one of an aspirational, idealized world, beyond our grasp. Seeing such perfection realized in mass produced crap is baffling to me.
Ask HN: What should a stuck dev do?
Hi HN,

I am struggling with finding work and having thoughts about whether or not I should keep going or start thinking about switching careers. Any advice/perspective is appreciated.

I am a 40+ year old self-taught software developer. I've been doing front-end/full stack development for most of my 10+ year career. I was also struggling heavily with undiagnosed ADHD and the emotional dysregulation that comes with it for most of my life. I finally discovered it 3+ years ago after around 5 years in therapy and have put in an incredible amount of work since then to learn how to manage it all effectively.

Through this process, I've also come to find a real joy in my work. Now I just need a good job to get my life back on track.

I have been interviewing since December or so and have realized that I do not approach this work in my head the same as engineers that have gone through typical school and career trajectories. Most of my roles have been through recommendations which short-circuited the typical tech interviews or was I hired by non-technical people who only cared about the output, so I have been fortunate in that regard. However, that fortune has become a burden and made it incredibly hard to navigate tech interviews where I am mostly graded on my ability to interview and how homogeneous I am.

In my off time I have been learning new languages, doing coding exercises and working on personal projects to try to display proficiency, but it doesn't seem to matter. I submit applications and receive only form rejection letters, people reach out about work and after a conversation I never hear from them again. When I do get the interview, the questions seem unnatural and designed to garner a specific response rather than have a real conversation.

To top it off, I get exactly zero feedback and have no idea if I'm going through a process with a successful ending or just banging my head against the wall. I'm willing to do take-home coding tests or even a short contract-to-hire period to prove myself, but I'm not even being asked. I think most devs may not be ok with that, and maybe that's partly why, but it's a perfect opportunity for me to overcome concerns during the interview.

Am I on the right track and just experiencing what most people go through? Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Any thoughts or ideas on how to overcome this?

If you got this far, thank you.
Replaced all 25 MKS3+ machines with 15 Bambu P1Ps and 5 Bambu X1C's about 2 months ago. Sold the last Mks3+ yesterday.

They Print 3 Times faster than the MKS3+ with same or better quality in some prints. 24/7 printing almost with zero issues in my print farm.
BVery easy to send jobs to it from the Bambu slicer based on the Prusa slicer which is open source and enhanced to make complicated print jobs spread across multiple virtual print beds a beautiful thing!

At this point i see ZERO reason to consider a MK4. Bambu hit this out of the ball park and into the neighbouring city as far as I am concerned.
A tech company can be on unstable ground morally (well I guess all are on principle), or more modernly, in terms of mindshare. Financials are not always the root of all that matters.
I've found the "competent but nice" crowd is actually usually:

1. Too mentally ill to do ANY job. ( 99.9% of the time it is just untreated anxiety or ADHD they have avoided treatment for )

2. Not doing any work and deflecting when people start to smell their stink.

Either way: this "nice but incompetent" person stresses out, nay, TORTURES the rest of the team trying to wipe their ass and keep them afloat.

"They're nice but..." No they aren't nice. They are emotional vampires sucking the blood from the rest of the team. Put them on a PIP, and if they don't improve fire them.

I've seen enough ruined dreams and burned out engineers to no longer feel pity for the "nice but..." people. I cannot be atlas carrying the burden of everyone else's problems. And it is unfair for someone to ask that of me.
There is also a feedback cycle - people open up about it more, reach a larger audience who sees this modeled/discussed, making it more likely for them to A) be aware in their own life and B) mirror and amplify.

Bad metaphor - if we think of ideas spreading between people like neurons, we have increased the interconnectedness (social reach) and decreased the activation energy (removed stigma/provided language/triggered introspection).
Speaking at least with my background:

Foreign adversaries have learned exactly how to weaponize our free and open internet against our own people. Regardless of the fact that our kids are most vulnerable, China's seemingly made a point of outsourcing their most polarizing algorithmic decisions to the rest of the world but not to their own population, which is essentially a tacit admission of their awareness of the dangers of social media to their own people.

At this point, I'd venture that politicians in the US are trying to grasp at whatever they can to mitigate the risk while still maintaining their election chances. Easier to "blame China" and get re-elected than it is to dump on their own constituents for not monitoring their kids' social media habits.

And frankly, I'm okay with that. Even if a parent does their best, there'll be second-hand influences through all the kids raised irresponsibly through their parents, and nothing can be done about that aside from homeschooling or going off-grid, which is unsustainable for nearly everyone.

I'm fine with a combination of the bill introduced + bills like the one passed in Utah placing curfews on kids since parents have proven to be so bad at parenting their own kids as to present the nation with an emergent aggregate risk to national security.
US court sanctions Google for deleting evidence in antitrust cases