skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really confused by this blog post. On one hand he claims he doesn't believe women might experience hostile workplaces or discrimination, but then he points out he sees plenty of women doing software engagement where the woman has more control over her working circumstances (founding a company, being an independent consultant).

Obviously, if regular employment is hostile to a woman who is interested in software, she would instead do software where she has more control over her employment terms. His outright dismissal just because he, a dude, notices other dudes encouraging women to apply to their company, does not address whether or not those dudes are good co-workers for women in the same way an incel may be desperate for women but that doesn't mean an incel is women-friendly!

Instead he concludes some bizarre logics: he tries to conclude some inherent quality to being a woman that explains this phenomenon vs being a man.
Because developers love writing documentation.
and here we are 3/4 of a century later, with Oceania (US,UK + IL) and Eurasia (FR + BE,DE,IT,NL,TR) always at war with Eastasia (CN,RU + KP [and soon IR?]) ... how are IN and PK aligned?
Imagine people saying 'Google is doing their best' whilst GCP goes down every week with startups like Anthropic and others getting investment from Google.

It is also like accepting the hilarious availability times of GitHub and then saying 'GitHub is doing their best' whilst they have an outage every week.

Lets just say that a service that claims to scale to more than 50 million or 100 million users going down each week is not acceptable or being an apologist for large companies unable to scale with the so-called best engineers working for them.
In my opinion, the next step is to figure out a good way to combine something like gnu octave with nice modern GUIs.

Old tools were inaccessible to use because there's nothing to look at with a text-based tool, and inaccessible for engineers to develop because programming was so arcane. Look at Berkeley spice written in C. It's a lot of old-school parsing and implementing matrix methods.

The new stuff that's more accessible to use is more accessible for a software engineer to develop, but it's arguably even less accessible to other engineers and scientists to add their contributions. This creates an issue where the tools remain as good-looking toys that never get any serious technical chops.

Splitting the implementation is the way to go, but neither side would be happy about the interface. There's also the issue of platform because good engineering tools only run locally.

I don't know what the answer is, but it's not Python. We already have python, and yet, there isn't an explosion of collaboration to make great tools for the physical sciences and engineering. It's too much of a compromise for both sides.
OpenAI may remain the leader in the space, but there plenty of alternatives already. Give it a another minute or two and the alternatives will be as good as the current GPT4.
Some ebikes have a 6km/hr setting, and they all have brakes. The problem here is the reckless use
Maybe HN should make a category. I'm feeling your fatigue too.
Ask HN: Roboform Password Manager
I love Roboform because it's very good at saving forms automatically, giving the saved login a good name such as "ycombinator - MyUsername", and knowing which login to fill if I have several logins saved.

However, it collects all your data and is a privacy nightmare.

Is anyone working on an alternative opensource solution?
Resistive Random-Access Memory
Ah, another thing to learn to ignore because everyone seems to think my attention is owned by them. These companies don't seem to realize that continuing to add these petty things will just make us learn to ignore them more and more. It's like notifications. My discord is always on no notifications and the @heres and stuff make my icon badge always say 9+ or whatever. So now I never see things people want to share because they've overused the alerts.

Facebook was the same. I turned off notifications completely because I couldn't disable specific ones I didn't need so they started emailing me so I blocked them as spam. Sorry FB, your loss. My life is better without your garbage product anyway.
> use that to discard all courses of action that come out as vulnerable?

If we're aiming an arbitrarily intelligent agent, what if it concludes it's goals are best achieved via actions that would be be blocked by such a system? How do you know it couldn't come up with a way to perform those actions without triggering that censoring mechanism via some obfuscation or subterfuge? How can you be confident you won't be outsmarted by a system whose conceit is to be smarter than you?
Chicago has bad optics and also, 2.5h from Chicago is rural Illinois. Their public trans is decent, especially if you're commuting in. You have Metra, CTA bus and rail. Sure, some are inefficient and there are transit dead zones but the spots that work are amazing. Cycling has improved a ton.

Also, education sucks everywhere. I wish I had more experience with charter schools. I demoed one a few years back and it was radically different than anything I've seen. Kids were moving, listening to music, reading. It was nuts and this was in the Austin area, a neighborhood I'd consider ghetto. I'd imagine I'd of thrived in that environment.

As for crime, again, it's an optics thing. There's been a surge of certain crimes and one offs but the only times I've been victimized in the city was because I was being a privileged idiot like being oblivious on the Green Line, getting off the Blue Line on Cicero and walking around or being confrontational.

Other than that, I've always flown under the radar and was never once victimized in Little Village.

As for over regulation, will all the changes I've seen in the city, it's hard to say what regulations you're talking about. If it's the Wrigleyville hotel you're thinking, good. Screw that. Soldier Field should have also not happened. Glad that the George Lucas museum never happened. I think all Chicagoans can agree on this.

As for expense, it's expensive everywhere. I know I can't get a good haircut outside of the city so at least when it comes to food and haircuts, I get my money's worth.

Parking we can blame on Delay for the next 100 years.
Only two unit tests?
Hahaha, somehow I convinced myself that the rationale for the segment register scheme was a long term plan to accommodate virtual memory and memory protection. The idea being that you would only have to validate constraints on access when a segment register was loaded, rather than every single memory access.
RIP, this man's creation helped me and my friends make many boring evening better. Also lead to arguments but that's okay, was part of the fun. He really left a huge legacy.
Violent crime isn't limited to murder. Wikipedia has very nice charts and lists for both violent crime rate and murder rate. The results are not clearly biased to any political camp but do trend by poverty and density.
Can confirm. My WWTBH comment from yesterday shows me a delete link, as well as a non-expiring edit link.
That's the issue. We don't know what would happen but if what you said were to happen, governments will ban AI since the current economic model (capitalism and taxation) will be render useless and society itself will demand it (AI ban).
Road placement can knock one or two players out in the first round or two, on random boards with unfortunate initial placement and four players. Probably the weakest thing about the game—sometimes you pick the best spots available at placement, but are effectively doomed from the start unless other players screw up really badly, and it's that extremely bad kind of losing-early where you're technically still playing but also can't do much. Like, if you want to make other people's experience as bad as yours, you can just give resources to someone to play kingmaker rather than futilely trying to build stuff, which is surely more entertaining than doing nothing, but is also not exactly a positive kind of entertainment.

Playing with three mostly fixes it, but then there are fewer people to trade with. Using a set, balanced board layout can help, but IMO gets kinda boring.
>because suburban and exurban commuter towns are bland

Yeah, while modern cities are full of life and color!
It's even worse after you manage to install it: in Windows 11 the remove the option to ungroup application windows on the taskbar. So if you want find that specific windows, you need to first hover with your mouse over the single app tab, wait until it shows the windows, and pick up the right one. People are getting mad about this.
The New MNT Pocket Reform
I'm far more worried about a sentient human using an AI to cause harm for their own ends. AI is nothing but a force multiplier, and as far as outcomes go, there's not much difference to my smoking corpse whether the decision to kill me came from a meat brain or a silicon brain.

In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." But AI can make violent revolution impossible as well, by tracking and surveilling and intervening. The fewer people are needed to maintain such a system, the easier the end of democracy will be. It's not going to happen today, or tomorrow, but that's what I'm betting my money on for "end of society as we know it" scenarios.
If Russia would play nice, maybe the countries around them wouldn't mind having win-win deals with them.

But somehow Russia thinks master-slave relationships are better.
Microsoft who owns CoPilot and OpenAI makes the most used Open Source IDE.

You think improving their produce for them while submitting yourself to the authority of their plugin market is a good idea?
I did some more convoluted experiments with invented words specifically to see if the results would be consistent with "just predicting words based on their associations" theory. You be the judge:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364779

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364905
Yeah, I think this level of planning has gotten lost in our recent fad of agileness.

Senior management thinks they know where they want to be in 3 years, but there is no cascading multi-quarter, let alone multi-year planning of the projects & steps to get there.

I've even been in orgs where someone senior is trying to make very very large org & tech changes, and really can't be bothered to put the big building block steps to get from here to there. As it turns out, they never get "there".

Somehow they know enough to bring in project managers for big concrete things like "retire a datacenter" and go all out with MS Project, GANTT, etc.

However when it comes to software changes like "split an on-prem Java monolith into a fleet of python micro services in the cloud" ... it's all iterative vibes the whole way.
Oh yeah, go try to install Chrome through edge on that new setup. Windows alerts like 3-4 times during the process that Edge IS Chromium and stuff trying to keep you using their browser. I am not about to start using a browser that has special backdoors to annoy me when I try to do things that it doesn't approve of...
Some suburbs are nice. Many are awful, like the ones in Austin, TX. Soulless.
As well, the Lifehacker article is largely based on this article from HBR, which is a much better depth read:

https://hbr.org/2023/03/how-to-tell-if-a-potential-employer-...

It also has specific interviewing questions cast in corp-speak, ready for interviews.
> (1) A mono needle would not have been able detect the vertical movement, resulting in a missing channel. (2) A stereo needle able to play such a record would not have been able to play a classic mono record, because the mono signal would have only been translated into a single channel

I think the way they do it with FM radio is: one channel is A+B and the other is A-B. The A+B channel is the "mono" channel for backward compatibility. (Then they add/subtract to get left/right: (A+B)-(A-B)=B; (A-B)+(A+B)=A.)

Pretty elegant solution, IMHO.
Deno SaaSKit: an open-source SaaS template
WIC, SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid were supposed to end poverty. Why didn't they? Why does creating new programs in addition to these solve the problem of poverty when these programs failed? How much money needs to go towards welfare before it will achieve its goal, as a proportion of GDP? How can that money be distributed efficiently, and can you find historical examples of societies solving poverty? What about societies that tried to solve it?
Did the iranian students who unshredded manually ca. 1980 also have wordplay-based team names?

cf https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/01/31/i...
IDK man, NYC survived decades where people got randomly shot on the street and there were crack dealers on every avenue.

It's also hard to paint a gloomy picture since there are probably 10s of millions of Americans who would move to NYC in a heartbeat if an exodus of families really happened and brought with it a corresponding drop in rents.
Whatever cryptobro, you're comparing investing into an actual product, or a service, with investing into a token in a database. Your arguments may be valid, honestly I can't tell because I'm not that educated, but I know the difference between a company that produces something, vs. one that produces nothing.
Focusing on bikes makes sense because even if you only get 10% of people out of cars, that can easily be 50% less traffic. Obviously a wide variety of approaches are needed, but bikes are often the fastest transit between two points, are cheap (both to own and to build infrastructure for), and are a form of exercise so have a public health benefit.
Catan, and the many other games made possible after it's success, have brought me a lot of happiness over the years. I'm thankful for the life and work of Mr. Teuber.
If he had just said the widely-known-outside-USA truth, that there is no "genocide" of Uighurs, lots of people would have gotten upset. He doesn't care one way or the other about our latest fundamentalist-Christian-inspired intended casus belli, so the less he says about it the better for his firm.
I wonder when South Asia will leapfrog the EU. It is insane to me still how orthogonal innovation is to European leaders.
> An "AGI" artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a slave, working tirelessly for free.

All of the machines we build are literally slaves. There may be an interesting moral question about this in the distant future if AGI ever actually happens.

However, it seems clear to me that nothing we have right now even begins to flirt with that question. For all practical purposes, to be a "slave" in the sense people think of it requires that the slave have consciousness.

Consciousness is a different thing than AGI, and that possibility is much more remote and in the future than even AGI.
Doesn't do as well for cargo carrying, modern heat islands from roads, or cities with rolling hills (US east coast, some west coast)
> a significant portion of any urban population simply cannot ride a bike

How so? People who are physically unable to are a vanishingly small number - maybe single-digit percentages.
It’s art in the sense that it’s content that we may interpret as art. The AI isn’t making art per se - the art is a product of the researchers and engineers, the artists providing the training data, and the person fiddling with the model to produce artistic content.

Our brains may very well also be some combination of linear algebra, graph algorithms, distributed systems optimizing for some output. We’re trained based on our DNA programming and environment too. Early human art was just shapes and stuff humans saw out in the world, and iterating on that over time by learning from each other. The difference is that finding the next token or identifying the bird in an image is only a means to an end for us, we aren’t getting copied into a million ephemeral instances in parallel with learning done in huge batches, we have more or less one linear stream of experiences from birth to death.

AI can be both like us and not like us, you can draw vague parallels between neurotransmitters and a reward function or sleep and batch training, and we can make it more or less like us over time. But we need to keep in mind how we’re different because those distinctions are important in determining how we use and treat AI - if we make it so it’s possible for us to mistreat it, we shouldn’t do that, but we also shouldn’t personify it beyond what it actually is.
> I would set aside 40 min every day to do Zen meditation

That sounds like an excellent practice (and it also requires discipline).
> the only times I've been victimized in the city was because I was being a privileged idiot like being oblivious on the Green Line, getting off the Blue Line on Cicero and walking around or being confrontational.

It's your fault for being victimized because... you let down your guard for a bit, and you walked around in a place?

edit: seriously if there's an area you can't walk around in safely, it's a problem with the area, not with you.
Yeah I’ve thought about how the desk gets cold - maybe putting foam under the legs to reduce cold transfers into the frame and table top might help.

Alternatively maybe there’s a way to mount a desk warmer under the desk instead of top.

There are some pretty dedicated foot warmers out there too. Depending on the climate zone one is in, all socks and shoes get cold eventually.
No list, but some details are here: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/vienna-top-of-soviet-n...
what's your fallacy called? i don't remember. but obviously the comment was about the circus enabling the rich kids' startups. if the circus was the rest of the us then it would be everyone's circus, not the aforementioned one. duh. now the real question is are you arguing in good faith or are you actually on, eg, the side of those rich kids? either way, fallacy is fallacy and you should be downvoted.
People have looked for such things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_clock describes the best one found.

But, unfortunately, all the ones we know of can be skewed by environmental factors. And it is likely that the exact same environmental factors which make someone live longer will also make them appear younger than they are. Which makes them particularly unreliable exactly for the oldest people on record.
David Kanter/realworldtech is such a gem. Really fun dive in.

I had no idea Intel's onchip FIVR regulators operated at 140MHz. That is epic. Having tiny little embedded capacitors on chip though, one can certainly understand why this incredible high speed could be necessary.

Article is from 2020. A lot of exciting future steps from here.
Congratulations Harrison, Ankush, and team.

I first heard about Langchain at the Scale hackathon when I think it was Colin who was like “half the people are using Langchain” and I was like whatchain?

Amazing trajectory!
And this is probably the fate of Windows in the long run: a desktop operating system for corporations.
It doesn't seem they are talking at the state level at all, but at the city level. Even cities in red states may actually be blue. For example, they laude Tampa, which has a totally blue city council.
The solution is that a string instruction can be interrupted in the middle of the instruction, unlike most instructions.

This is true even for later x86 processors that move entire cachelines at a time, and also leads to one sneaky technique for detection of VMs or being debugged/emulated:

https://repzret.org/p/rep-prefix-and-detecting-valgrind/

https://silviocesare.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/anti-debugging...
https://archive.is/qvZjg

Free link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/signature-bank-insiders-sold-10...
Ironically, it's for Uber (and Ola) - the services that made us move away from cash for taxi and auto in the first place - that I have to carry cash for since the drivers just won't come without cash payments. UPI is better, but they will have the have to fill petrol excuse.
I see a lot of color on this poop map of San Francisco: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/map...
Migrating from MongoDB to Postres: Part 1
Why do you believe Rust to be "Mozilla garbage"?
Note that you swapped out the word "cities" with "states". You can disagree with the premise of the article all you want, but the highest crime cities are mostly run by Democrats, mostly. When you choose where to live, you typically pick the city, or the neighborhood, not the state.

That being said, I have no plans to move to Alaska...
Odd, I thought repairs were supposed to be the business model? Get folks hooked on a cool ebike witha bunch of proprietary parts they can't fix themselves. Force them to pay you ongoing fees to tune up and repair the bikes. Bike-as-a-Service.

Hilarious to think that the decision to make their devices unrepairable is actually bankrupting them. But also very sad to think that many of those bikes are destined to become ewaste once the company folds and nobody can repair them.
R.I.P

One of the best games, I enjoy playing that l for hours with my kids.
I live on a suburban pipe-stem that connects to a trail system which itself connects to multiple lakes and the neigborhood pool. In the backyard I've got a zip line\trampoline for the kids and my dog can go wild. There hasn't been crime in my neighborhood for thirty years. During the fall I have campfires with my kids...Is that really dreadful? If people look they can find some paradise-like environments in the suburbs.
Jeez thank you, one of my least favorite things on the internet is long and unnecessary twitter threads - just post the damn link!
> I'm happy that chatgpt writes boilerplate code for me

I'm really concerned that Copilot and similar stuff will make boilerplate-heavy code even more popular than it is now.
You appear to be disagreeing with the numbers they cite from NREL.

https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_pv-plus-...

> The utility-scale PV-plus-battery technology represents a DC-coupled system (defined in the figure below), in which one-axis tracking PV and 4-hour lithium-ion battery storage share a single bidirectional inverter. The PV-plus-battery technology is represented as having a 130-MWDC PV array, a 50-MWAC battery (with 4-hour duration), and a shared 100-MWAC inverter. Therefore, the PV component has a DC-to-AC ratio (or inverter loading ratio [ILR]) of 1.3, which is the same as for utility-scale PV in the 2021 ATB. The assumed relative sizing is consistent with existing (but limited) data for online and proposed utility-scale PV-plus-battery systems—whose inverter characteristics (shared vs. separate) are not well known.

That very closely matches the ratio in the rollout they provide from the Berkley interconnection queue research. You don't just keep adding batteries, you add more renewable generation at the same time to maximize cost effectiveness.

This ratio is sometimes called "near firm" as it provides power when it is needed by the grid.
Worse doesn’t make bad good, but I can’t help but point out that the opiate problem is much more life/death than gambling.
It is hardly a seed round. Langchain is the most mature tool (not saying much) in this new LLM revolution. Like a market leader doing a seed round.
Who Broke NPM?: Malicious Packages Flood Leading to Denial of Service
It's unfortunate that prettymuch all shiny AI things have horrible documentation. I see a lot of misinformation in non-researcher AI circles and I feel like it stems from that sometimes.
The royal/collective we need to get the ball rolling, need to get more than just open source cpus underway. Thank you for pushing us forward, getting us rolling! Epicly hard work.
Google removes 5M file creation cap for Drive after backlash
I found this podcast interview with Dr. Georgia Ede convincing: https://www.peak-human.com/post/dr-georgia-ede-on-the-shocki...
'hackers have been trying to make superhuman intelligence forever and now a confluence of factors puts it in reach, and the discussions about it are jamming up my hacker news feed'