skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's operating very similar to a bank

We might be talking at cross purposes; I'm not sure! How is it like a bank?
If you're going to run it in a VM, why ARM?
"So...... what conversation topics do you start with?"
> How does this critical thinking methodology fit in with the strong leftward tilt? I don't know of any successful Marxist societies (forcible or voluntary), so why do critical thinkers think they can get Marxism to work?

Frankly this way of talking about humanities as a whole does betray lack of critical thinking on itself. For start, back in real world and in real actual universities, critical thinking does not mean Marxism.

> When the facts don't fit Marxist theory, the researcher gets cancelled.

If you mean this as a statement about actual universities, this is a lie. I mean, so much that it seems more like talking point from TV designed to make people agree with actual legislature banning actual books.
Do LLMs Need Sensory Grounding for Meaning and Understanding?
If the founder sees this: please don't neuter your system like open ai did, thanks!
the media apparatus regularly turns these into feel-good stories as well. its irresolvable imo
In part that's probably true. I've also been working from home most of the time since well before the pandemic and it both takes longer and has a higher "activation energy" to do something in the evening when I'm not already out and about. That said, the driving time has also increased 15 to 30 minutes over time.

So it is a combination.
What is harder, starting with nothing and building the equivalent of 2020 Chromium from scratch, or taking Chromium from 2020 and extending it with the new features to get it up to date with today's Chromium?

The former is 100x harder than the latter, and the prior statement that new CSS/JS features are a burden to keep up with is patently absurd. Because it's a tiny amount of work relative to the total work required to make a browser. (But still hard in the absolute sense, because browser engines are among the most complicated software projects.)
Bullshit Matters™
> Youtube creators, for example, hold a similar view

I think the fact that they are called "Youtube creators" and not "Video creators" highlights how weak the argument is.
And if they are old. How well have they been maintained? How much of that margin is left there? Or will cyclical loads cause any potential further damage? How often they are monitored for cracks or possible indicators of rusting for example?
Nice! I hadn't seen that one.
That is nice historical revisionism, considering Canonical was all in on upstart.
I bet if windows had supported DDC/CI for the past decade monitors would work with it reliably. (Well, as reliably as any hardware peripheral)
Maybe not in the USA but you would in the Netherlands and I bet elsewhere as well.

For example, monthly tax for a gasoline car that weighs between 1051 and 1150 kilograms is EUR 125, for cars weighing between 2151 and 2250 you would pay EUR 378.
Writing CRUD controllers in Rails may seem easy, but as your application grows, you'll find it increasingly difficult to maintain and update your code. In this article, you'll learn why extracting business logic from your controllers and creating focused, testable business actions is a necessary change.
Very curious how governments will approach taxing these as gas tax revenues shrink. I know in some places your registration is higher but after talking with a coworker who pays more to register his EV, he admits it's negligible compared to the amount he'd pay in gas taxes with an ICE---just not an "invisible" tax like gas is. Doesn't seem as clean (ha) as Fed gas taxes, state, etc. Federal level car registration sounds a bit nightmarish, though I guess a registry is probably already being managed given the EV tax credits. Anyway, just thoughts.
Most of each represent a return to the PD and Shareware days, only rebraded to modern times.
> Tesla Motors is a car company figure-headed by Elon Musk. It is famous for being the only company with a commercially available car floating in space. It makes electric cars, which made the news for catching fire.[133][134] As it turns out, though, while Teslas caught fire, they did so at a much lower rate than the cars relying on controlled explosions of flammable material.

>Despite being a rock star of scientific progress and innovation, a busy professional with a million things to do and a good understanding of the essential importance of good communication, Elon still finds time to tweet stupid shit every now and then. He apparently loves Tweeting so much, he bought 9.2% of Twitter, making him the single largest shareholder of the company.

Is that worth defending? I donno, it's not even up to date. I'm no Musk fan at all, but I think it's a pretty good example of what kind of intellectual position the authors are acting from. Maybe we have different standards for where we get our information, but I just can't read stuff like that and pretend the authors are people operating with even on iota of good faith.

Perhaps the comparison to ED is a bit harsh. In my opinion, ED is 4chan-based satire for immature and ideologically minded teenagers. RW is a series of stale reddit dunks for immature and ideologically driven teenagers.
thanks :)

I'm convinced that a combo supabase + quickwit can be quite powerful.

It's possible to make Quickwit support simple SQL queries like "SELECT xxx FROM yyy GROUP BY something" quite fast.
If you are eager to explore a POC with quickwit, let's have a quick chat, here is my email francois [at] quickwit [dot] io.
Lots of talk about "forced diversity" that ignores the diverse pool of talented people that the FSF has pushed away because they don't think "GNU+Linux" is a hill worth dying on or whatever.
It just an optics by Google to show they have a horse in the race after MSFT made them dance.
I've taught at community colleges; many of the issues mentioned in the article are long-standing. So what's driving the change now?

The simplest answer is the most likely: the strong economy, including among relatively low wage, low skill workers.
I read that as "Apple recommends PHP."
I think that’s missing one big piece. What people really want cheap education that ends with a degree that is as well regarded as an Ivy or good state college degree. Community colleges, for better or worse, are seen as inferior education. So they are not equivalent to simply a cheaper option of more expensive schools.
I develop Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) for controlling monitors on Mac and stumbled upon this gem for Linux which I wanted to share with you.

I regularly get asked to recommend something similar to Lunar for Linux and Windows and while there's TwinkleTray for Windows, I didn't have a good recommendation for Linux. Glad this finally exists!

A lot of people also use MonitorControl for Mac and might be curious what's the difference between it and Lunar. I have a comparison table here for those people: https://lunar.fyi/lunar-vs-monitorcontrol
Laughs in enterprise pricing... 14 dollars a user a month? Try 250.

Last time I talked with dbt on their enterprise plan for the Okta integration level they pitched us 3000 user/year with the clear acknowledgement that they just raised their prices 100% on their other tier and were about to do major price increases to their enterprise tier.
Were those ever intended to "match" based on an average person? I always figured that max-occupancy was for cramming 20 kids into an elevator and they will never get to the weight limit and max-weight was more for moving heavy items and maybe a lot of very obese people.
Syntax directed editors often limited what you type to valid syntax and automatically provided appropriate indentation. There is less freedom while editing as a result.
Mine doesn't even have a start button. It starts whenever the door is closed and there is at least one second left on the timer.
Fair. I meant JS here as in "fully DOM compatible, as-used-in-your-browser JS". JS engines themselves aren't that hard to make (I think there's about 9 or 10 actively maintained ones?), but to make one that's usable in situations that aren't things like node or as a sub-language in a different project... that's far more difficult.
This should come as a surprise to no one.

What I wonder is why the US government does not see the economic loss caused by limiting immigration. Our labor shortage could be quickly improved by embracing the skilled workers who would like to come here, then we’d be capturing the gains from a robust and growing high-skill labor force. Instead we seem unwilling or unable to modernize our immigration policy, and are basically encouraging companies to move work abroad. I know, “politics.”
The paintball wars can be brutal.

In all seriousness, the comments in this thread make me wonder if the show "Community" wasn't as much commentary as it was comedy.
IBM just announced it will ROT25 its name just in time for its AI pivot.
YouTube quietly removed all 5K content late last year
Anything between 4K and 8K is disabled -- which has affected many using cameras such as newer GoPros and many 360 cameras. 5K footage (2880p) is reduced to 4k (2160p) max.
On that subject I enjoyed https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/yoko-ono-beatl... .
This is all for FreeBSD, the only thing it has in common with OpenBSD is the shared lineage, which diverged some 30 years ago. You can for all intents and purposes treat them as completely different operating systems (like FreeBSD and Linux).
That’s the endless «build vs buy” argument. And countless businesses are buying.
It's my impression that Musk was more interested in using Twitter to further his own interests (ego, SpaceX, Tesla, political ambitions), control the national conversation (see politics), and be useful to leaders around the world (Saudis/China/Russian/GOP)

We poke fun about him meeting his debt obligations but the people who put up the money will gladly put up more, or gleefully watch the platform crumble so they can go back to doing shady shit with more secrecy.

Or is my "tin foil hat" too tight?
The issue is network effects, though, right?

If community colleges could attract the best teachers (etc.), and provide the kind of education as stated, then perhaps they would be what people want.

The problem is the incentives of workers, academics, students, the state, etc. are not aligned.

Most students probably do want the best practical education to get them into the workforce effectively -- but those who can provide that education have no incentive to.

The best industry professionals are in industry, the best academics are researchers.
Also given that the Maverick has a hybrid option that seems to work pretty well, it's definitely a very competitive option.
Just as real engineers find it extremely offensive when code writers refer to themselves as "software engineers".
U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men.
Firefox is not wildly successful. I think you misunderstood the comment.
It wasn't worthless when he sold it, it's only worthless now because Musk saddled it with $13Bn of debt that he to service and tanked revenue. Twitter was definitely ~$20Bn company minimum when the deal actually closed.
"Tigers are thriving in certain landscapes of the country and disproportionately adding to the increasing tiger count, while other former tiger landscapes have lost all or most of their tigers" - https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/raza-kazmi...
BMW Series 3: 1520 kg

Tesla Model 3: 1684 kg

That's a 10% weight penalty of EV over ICE for 2 popular comparable mid-sized sedan models

Source: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-2018-sedan-vs...

BMW X3: 1875 kg

Tesla Model Y: 1909 kg

That's ~2% for comparable mid-sized SUV models.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-x3-2021-suv-vs-...

LGTM
https://archive.is/nPLDu

> "Content generated by such services shouldn’t contain elements that could subvert state power, incite secession or disrupt social order, the rules state."
US hardware store employee builds life-changing contraption to help boy walk
While this is obviously a joke, light curves interpretation is quite challenging at times, indeed.
That is the correct answer here.
In the U.S. the reason is the Republican party. If we pay an amount to register a vehicle based on weight due to the increased damage it does to the roads then it will be portrayed as a radical environmentalist plot to get rid of SUVs and trucks. Republicans as love the idea of pay-as-you-use government services except when it comes to infrastructure. For example, it’s OK for a $25 traffic fine to include $100 in court costs but don’t under any circumstance expect one to pay more for gasoline to pay for road maintenance.
The Nokia 3310 of motor vehicles.
"Orthogonal social issues?" So are we just going to pretend that unauditable, proprietary facial recognition software isn't being actively weaponized against minorities?

Like, cops using secret rules to determine guilt would be considered dystopian basically anywhere.
Anime in Europe was already mainstream in the 80's and 90's with Dragon Ball (late 80's/early-mid 90's), Captain Tsubasa, Candy Candy, Mazinger Z, Heidi. On video games, well, everyone played Tetris at least once.
Yeah, I suspect the reason DDC (and EDID) are so bad is that they're not critical for the monitor to perform its basic function, so there's no "evolutionary pressure" to improve it.
I'm surprised modern cars don't have automatic tyre inflators/deflators.

That way, when going slow on the mud, you can go all the way down to 5 PSI for great traction. And on the highway you can go up to 40 PSI so you don't overheat the tyres or destroy the rims when you hit a stone.

It could auto inflate or deflate depending on speed, terrain, and tyre temperature. And obviously a manual override for those who want ultimate control.
What is a prayer if not a prompt injection attack?
Texas sinkhole continues to expand
Quite a few of these are above the legal limit you are allowed to drive on a regular license in Europe.
>if they didn’t know the answer, they would send me to somebody else

That sounds like the ideal response, doesn't it?

We talk about kids not being prepared for the real-world, and this seems like a good example. The first student graduated high-school with a 4.0 GPA, but can't figure out what classes he should take? Some of us went to college pre-email; there was no way to communicate but going office to office to resolve issues..

If I had to guess, the low college completion rate and "employers [being] “lukewarm” about the quality of community college students who do manage to graduate" both stem from grade inflation.
Another nuance lost is, that there are many millions for which the sickness is a gift.

What becomes a conspiracy theory of the government following for one, becomes a thriller book for another, that switch to differentiate between hallucination and reality that artists have and patients dont have. My brother was quite the creative powerhouse, before the sickness took him.
To add on to what foobarbecue said, this I believe is because the earth is spinning, so just like the Earth is not a sphere (it's an oblate spheroid), the atmosphere is also "dragged" toward the equator than the poles. Sea level pressures at the equators are higher than sea level pressure at the poles because of this.
Physical systems have finite information storage capacity. Our infinities are descriptions of recursive processes (either iteration or subdivision). The quantization we've observed in the universe is a strike against infinities of subdivision, and it's literally impossible to observe a macro-infinity, so from a scientific perspective physical infinity is unsupported and seems unlikely.

Space might appear "infinite" if you set up a word problem where you fire two photons off in opposite directions and track the distance between them over time, but without an observer the only place information exists is in those photons, and space is meaningless. Infinities of time are likewise artificial constructs of measurement, there is only the current moment.
My friends and family are more likely to already have Facebook or Discord, and are unlikely to successfully navigate Mastodon onboarding even if it made sense for that use case.

I hate Facebook but Discord is already fulfilling the role of a common space.
I don't get your point. Nash outcome was very very good. He stayed out of hospitals and didn't take his medicine, after his initial stints with hospitalisation.

>The intelligence can do nothing once the hardware goes, except weave more elaborate conspiracies and paranoid fantasys

Why do you write this when I post evidence of the opposite? Do at least have some kind of backing to your statement.
From personal experience, intelligence helps with self-awareness and finding strategies for dealing with mental illness. It does not help control it.

Once psychosis take hold, it’s in the driver’s seat. I can be fully aware I’m trying to hurt someone and know that it’s wrong and be unable to stop myself from acting on my delusions.

It feels like I’m outside my body, watching it do things I have no control over.
I'm working on a hobby project to add AI text generation to Morrowind NPCs in OpenMW[0]. But I'm mainly making it for myself to see if I can. It's all open source, but not really in a state that's useful outside of my specific project.

I can't be the only person working on something like this, though. So it's safe to say adding it to an MMO is being worked on by somebody somewhere, likely right now. That's probably the correct way to do it anyway, since running (e.g.) LLaMA locally on an end-user computer is not something that most people can do, and MMOs come with an expected subscription cost that can be used to fund the server-side text generation.

[0]: https://www.danieltperry.me/project/2023-something-else/
Find me one place where coal is cheaper than 27 cents per ton.
This is what proper human communication is all about. Expressing yourself in writing in a way that does not leave room for misinterpretation is a skill yes, but that skill is called "writing".

I feel like people who can't express themselves clearly in text, think that prompt engineering is some kind of new skill they need to learn. But in essence every prompt engineering class is (or will be) a language/writing class.
Seems like all of this is just "heuristics are not hard-and-fast bulletproof rules?"
Nice to see CRDTs mentioned in the capacity of decentralisation, they are almost always solely thought of in the synchronous real-time collaboration sense.

This current trend of synchronous real-time collaboration tools is brilliant, but only half the story when it comes to collaborative work (also mentioned in the OP). Asynchronous collaboration is how most of us spend our time working, and always will. CRDTs are also brilliant for that type of application, you can "fork" a document/structure and later merge them together (mostly) unaided. There is a massive need for improvements to the workflows that these can be applied to.
The tax should be based on the weight divided by the tyre contact area. All hail my new 12-wheel, flat-tyred HumVee.
RonDB is a KV store with SQL capabilities (the MySQL storage engine NDB is maintained by Oracle as part of MySQL NDB Cluster). Hopsworks is on top of this adding a new REST API (REST + gRPC) service that is already in the github tree and will ready for production usage in a few months.
You underestimate the amount of urban men who have been marketed into believing that owning giant truck they don't need will make them more manly.
I would have agreed before reading this:

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...

There is more depth and rigor to Prompt Engineering than what the AI snake oil merchants on twitter would have you believe.
Ask HN: First job experience. Are all startups like that?
22M here. Decided work for a local startup, and in spite of my title being "software engineer" it's far from what I was expecting it to be:

1. The company is an AI company, and any needs for labeling are my tasks. This means that I may work for 2 months straight doing close to no coding. I mentioned this to my manager, and he told me that it's part of a software engineer's tasks.

2. There's barely any web development. My interview process had me think that this is a company that hires me for my web dev skills, but after a year I only had web development tasks for 4.5 months, and that's pushing it. The rest of the time I'll be creating Python scripts that have a low lifespan, meaning I have no performance or tradeoffs to consider.

3. My lead brought up the fact that I'm using the tag "junior" on my own, because they never assigned it to me. I told him that what I'm currently lacking is technical expertise and as long as I'm lacking in that regard I'll keep referring to myself as junior. I also told him that, outside of technical expertise, I lack a lot of experience (shipping products, building real projects, considering various approaches, be a part of a team of developers - I work solo atm). I also challenged the notion that "tags don't matter" by telling him that just because I don't have the junior tag (for the sake of the argument) doesn't mean that I can produce software that is as good as his. He didn't responded.

Last but not least, he told me that he sees me as more than a code monkey, and that in big corporations (companies that I'd be building software products) I'd feel drained after a year of working there. A bold claim, because I responded with the fact that that's exactly how I feel right now working for a startup. It feels like I'm either at the same skill level as I was before my first job or worse.

I understand that HN is biased towards startups, so I wanted to ask: Am I being unreasonable for expecting that the startup life would be full of technical challenges, or am I holding an unrealistic romantic notion of what a software engineer does working for a startup?
GPT4 has built and deployed an entire SaaS for me in a week. I already have users.

The edits required were minimal --- maybe one screw-up for every 100 lines of code --- and I learned a lot of better ways to do things.
Looks great! Supabase is amazing product. Why not Bigtable though?
I don't this it's the same thing, at least for me.

In the GP's scenario, I wouldn't be building either piece of software.
Maybe? Seems like a good incentive to keep your vehicle well-maintained, fueled, and to drive carefully. You could use the funds to pay for services and infrastructure designed to mitigate traffic delays.

Obviously not every breakdown is going to be a result of something under the driver's control, but it's probably more under their control than it is under the control of all the other people the breakdown is inconveniencing.
Well, it couldn't make the DMV any worse.
Could you filter out the string with an LLM looking for nefarious intent, or outside of scope? and deny the request if it doesn't pass?

I guess we're back to the mouse and cat issue then tho
FSFE is more effective in this case with it’s public code effort.
What hits me about it is how similar the sense of rhythm is to that of liturgical chant. Things happen at the "right" time, it's not arbitrary, but it's not a priori precise either. Phrases can be as long as they "need to" be and other parts of the music change to accommodate them. It's not fixed to any sort of rhythmical grid and would be extremely difficult to annotate accurately & usefully, but it still has an order in time. Hard to describe but I recognize the feel of it from chant.

On the surface it sounds like jazz but jazz has a very different feel to it rhythmically. Phrases expand and contract but through the mechanism of swing. The speed and swing might change but you can always feel the underlying pulse.
Yeah, if we limit the comparison to Tesla, they work pretty hard to mitigate the weight difference, and ICE vehicles have also gotten larger and heavier. EVs are just the next little bit of mass.