skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is stupid enough to fall for the lackluster logic of Neo-Nazis then I see that as a problem with our public education, not with the moderation policy of a website. Sure, enforcing "correct" speech at all times could potentially lead to more harmony in society, but I would much, much rather invest in empowering people to think critically for themselves. Many are already able to resist the persuasiveness of propaganda, ads, conspiracy theories, and extremist groups that are all around us today. Teach this skill of resistance instead of trying to baby-proof society.
ah thanks! I hadn't considered the core count difference.
No one uses autocad anymore. It's as relevant to the modern CAD world as MS Basic is to us. Even the architects have moved on to stuff like Revit.
And how much money did they burn with that? I doubt it was more than a quarter's worth of last year's VR spend.
I never use the "fullscreen" mode either, and don't understand the point of it. But you don't ever have a window that spans the full vertical space of the screen?

You can hide the menu bar and have it only appear on mouseover, thus not wasting space. Except on non-notch Macs you can place windows where the menu bar used to be, and on notched Macs you can't
Test a tool's domain fit: work backward from psuedo-code
To see if your tool is the wrong tool for the job, one technique is to mock up a solution language and/or API that fits your domain well. Ignore existing tools and standards for the experiment.

If the difference between your draft language/API and your current tool ends up too large, you are probably using the wrong tool/language for the job: it's not fitting your domain tightly enough.

Similarly, ratio of domain coding to non-domain-coding (tool fiddling) is a good indicator of tool fit. You shouldn't be wasting too much time micromanaging tool minutia and quirks. (There are exceptions, such as when machine performance trumps dev labor costs.)

More on this from the C2 Wiki archive:
https://wiki.c2.com/?WorkBackwardFromPseudoCode
Don't forget you can add an AlarmDecoder to a DSC (or Honeywell Vista) system!

https://www.alarmdecoder.com/

It basically sits on the keypad bus of the system and emulates a normal keypad, so you can integrate it into whatever applications you want like HomeKit, or as my colleagues did, a fully homespun bespoke home automation suite in .NET.
"it's less useful as a "this person will excel" test and more useful as a "this person won't fail miserably" test."

This is also an unproven statement with dubious validity.

I come from the trading world where the leetcode equivalent is a brain teaser. After much deliberation, the only thing we could think of for why a brain teaser was useful was that it often proved someone wanted the job so badly that they memorized all the brain teasers. And that type of dedication and drive is what we really wanted.

To me, I don't understand why someone who develops with advanced IDEs, using complex tools and libraries, is in the least bit judged by putting them in front of what is essentially a text editor, and asking them to solve a problem that's of no relevance to their job, using no tools that they're comfortable with
AR clearly has more use cases than VR, but AR will also remain a niche technology. It just has more applicable niches.
Citing one crazy person using a platform doesn’t make your argument coherent. How many shooters have live streamed on facebook?
Larry Wall did it fine with Perl.
If somebody required WiFi in an area of the home where it wasn't already, why not just use a repeater/mesh node? If someone wants their smart appliance online, a few extra dollars on top of a likely three-to-four digit purchase appliance is nothing.
My favorite WaPo article about guns was the one a few years ago where they talked about the dangers of assault weapons that shoot high powered silenceable sniper rounds like the Ruger 10/22. If a .22 is considered high power I'd love to know what they classify as low/medium.
It's pretty often that people tell a programmer what they want in not-that-much natural language and then the programmer makes it happen. You do have to verify the programmer's work and often provide some corrections that may have been the result of unrecognized ambiguity, but it still ends up being vastly less natural language sent to the programmer than the amount of precise language the programmer ultimately specifies.
I think that's exactly what the article is implying.

Which is a signal to hiring managers to not treat #OpenToWork as a negative signal under current conditions.
Hotswap mechanical or nothing for me. I hate low travel keys (and flat keycaps).

I actually just bought this last week for the work machine..

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-pro-qmk-via-wi...

Not as good as the board on my personal PC, but that is a highly tweaked out, kit built, full metal gasket mount board that I have mumble hundreds of dollars in to...
> With a detector 182.5 times greater in volume (which is only 6 times the radius), you only need a day’s worth of data

Oh, okay, so you just want to scale this up ~200 times, and build multiple of them (deep underground, because the water is shielding for the ambient radiation from the rock, which it has a couple km of shielding it from external radiation):

“The heart of the SNO+ detector is a 12m diameter acrylic sphere filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator that is surrounded by 7000 tonnes of ultrapure water which serves as shielding from external ambient radioactivity. This volume is monitored by nearly 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) that are very sensitive light detectors.” [0]

> You can also build a network of multiple detectors

Well, yes, you can’t triangulate with only one detector, you have to do that at a minimum. That’s not an “also you can” option, its a minimum requirement because you need multiple simultaneous (or close enough) signals from the same source to triangulate.

[0] https://snoplus.phy.queensu.ca/about.html
Same here, generally 10-40% better performance, depending on workload, at 15%+ lower costs, on AWS.

We have seen performance improvements in PHP, Java, and various CPU-bound tasks such as video transcoding.

This goes for either EC2 m7g vs m6i and also for Fargate x64 (from my experience, perfomance seems comparable to m5 instances) vs ARM (Graviton2).
So why ever get a larger screen?

Maybe you feel that way, but it's not a commonly shared belief. There is a marginal value to having additional screen space, and its silly to block use of it via software gates.
I think there's probably some middle ground between "throw all homeless people in jail" and "tolerate homeless people doing meth next to an elementary school."
Your fallacy is implying that the harms are equal. The nocebo effect from a vaccine is not more harmful than the benefits it gives to the person and to the society.
Sorry, but aljazeera is on the level of RT. That you think otherwise just shows that you are more willing to ignore a biais when it is in your favor.

It has always been known in the arabic world that AJ is a complete puppet of the Qatari royal family (and even staffed by members of the royal family) and it can't be a coincidence that AJ's coverage is almost always a mirror image of qatari foreign policy talking points/positions. It is the equivalent of Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya, just with more international presence.
What kind of programming will be done on the job by these candidates? Probably nothing like this puzzle.

This kind of 'let's watch people struggle with my favourite LC puzzle, which I think I know inside-out' just seems very inconsistent, not very predictive, and just quite flaky to me.

On the job, my very first response to any kind of problem that looks algorithmic is to google the hell out of it, even if I think I know the answer already. In future, it will be to get gpt to write it.

I think the actual challenges in real-world software are not algorithmic, but architectural and beyond, and then only after thoroughly understanding the problem in the first place.
A client of mine has just issued me an M2 MBP as a bonus, and wow. Night and day difference to my previous i9 MBP.

The battery on this is incredible - not to mention my limbs no longer get burnt.
It's hard to say what "6x better" even means, but there are tasks that GPT-3.5 consistently fails hard at that GPT-4 is much better at (and has improved over time).

I think the next big leap will be the context size. Going from 4k to 32k tokens means that the model can see a lot more when generating the answer. For code especially this makes a big difference in the ability to reason about it.

As to the limits, it's hard to predict because what we're seeing is more of a series of sudden leaps. But let me put it this way - so far we've seen noticeable improvements on every iteration of the new LLMs. So given this, why should the default assumption be that the limit past which nothing new will emerge, whatever it is, is close to the present size of the publicly available models?
I use mine 10+ hours a day as the primary tool in the work I do and enjoy it a lot. It's a bargain to me. Everything works and the OS stays out of my way so can completely focus on the primary apps I use. I remember the early years of work with a computer, dealing with drivers and networking and huge CRT displays and other drama. It's very rare that I notice or think about the notch, and I never use the camera.
I think I understand the point you're trying to make, but this is the sort of discussion board where many people are literalists. Women literally are baby machines: from the perspective of biology, and as a critical asset in the development of the human race (especially during times of high child mortality).

People get upset when you point this out, but they don't get upset because it's the truth, they get upset because of what they think the consequences of people knowing that truth will be. There are many things which can't be debated in public because it causes people (not just women) to get extremely emotional and retreat to lizard-brain defenses. My hope is that on HN, we can learn to control those responses.
Glad to see some others around here call out dang for being a tone policer, and a bad one at that.

He constantly butts in where he doesn't belong, to claim that good discussion is "flame wars". HN truly is overly moderated and would benefit from less heavy handed moderation.
It's a niche hobby for sure, but I think a slightly better metric to look at is the number of 3D printers sold. This seems to be about 2 million units per year.
If your first paragraph was actually in the question then I would agree, but in the actual question, the reason there are exactly 100 people in line is that the question says there are 100 people in line. Phrasing certain parameters in your question as though they are absolutes and then expecting the person answering the question to change those parameters is like the worst kind of trick question. It's like when a toddler asks you if a ninja or a pirate would win in a fight, then says the pirate would win because he secretly has super strength. It's cute when a toddler does it because they innocently don't understand why their question wouldn't logically convey that hidden parameter to the listener, but inexcusable for a professor.
And then all you have to do is define "everyone who disagrees with me is a nazi" and you've got not only full-blown censorship but also the moral high-ground!

I know, I know for the sake of appearances we don't define everyone who disagrees with us as a nazi, that would be too obvious (although we still do alot).

We describe the broad spectrum of perfectly main-stream, otherwise unremarkable views (but that disagree with us) as "nazi supporters", dog-whistlers etc.

Too easy.
Microsoft: invests 10 billion in company. Also Microsoft: here's the tools you need to DIY one of the premium features the company we just invested 10 billion in for free.

Not that reproducing GPT-4 is going to be easy with this, but it'll definitely get rid of some major hurdles. I read a report about the difficulties HuggingFace had with producing their Bloom model, and a lot of it was the sort of straight forward systems engineering that goes into tooling like this.

Is the Bloom model considered a failure by the community? If you read the introduction it was supposed to include improvements over GPT3, but it performs much worse, I guess because of lower quality training data? I wonder what sort of company would have high enough quality data that they could use this project to fine tune a public model to the point where it would be better in some scenario than plain old GPT4 would be. Especially when you can just inject extra info in to the GPT4 prompt, like phind does for example. What even is the use of fine tuning given GPT 4 exists?
Surprisingly cheap. I may buy one for my shelf.

Winamp was excellent software. Spotify and Apple Music are inferior in every way except for on-demand streaming and algorithmic recommendations.
better if you could go back and time and have said it early on with the early crypto enthusiasts
The difference in quality of candidates was the whole point of the post (title is misleading).
Example of why someone would want to control it remotely: not infrequently, people pay less for energy used between x and y hours that are allocated to them specifically as a customer, or, also not uncommonly, people pay less for energy post-midnight prior to dawn when demand is lower, ergo, they can save a significant amount of money by doing their laundry at 3am.

The above doesn't apply to me specifically, but I would like notifications when my washing is done and thus when I can put another load in. This can be done with energy metering or sensors that attach to washing machines or tumble dryers, but not done it yet myself, but would very much like to.
But our industry is very fad-driven, and it's common that when one big company starts pouring money into a thing, others do as well. It's usually FOMO rather than some sort of well-considered thing.
Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech
Honestly I don’t think content generation is a limiting factor for a compelling meta verse. IMO the constraints are more to do with fidelity and the quality of the experience.

There are currently so many weaknesses and limitations with the medium of VR that it’s just not particularly appealing for folks to spend a lot of time using it, and I think that’s why you don’t have great content gen.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait and also please stop using HN for ideological battle (regardless of which ideology you're battling for or against)?

You've unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly, and they're not what the site is for and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>Does anyone actually care?

>This news has come up on HN like four times already.

It would seem so, yes.
This is one of the funniest things I've seen yet from the RTO movement.

It's a cubicle, but smaller! And someone could steal 1/4 of it at any time! Brilliant.

To make it doubly funny, I'd actually love a few of these panels for my home office — they look great for just mounting on the walls to quiet things down a bit. I just bought a bunch of those hexagonal acoustic panels that are marketed to Twitch streamers for the same purpose, but this thing that Meta made looks even better.

They should just brand it as a "Metaverse Pod" and sell it directly. Maybe they could probably even book the revenue under their Metaverse unit.
I believe you can buy envelopes of cash on the darknet - though then you’re probably at high risk of receiving counterfeits or running into a sting.
When asking GPT 4 to draw something in TikZ, it replies "As an AI language model, I'm unable to directly create or render images, including TikZ diagrams.", so I would say it is not better lol.
Bill limiting incentives for crypto miners passes Texas Senate, moves to House
My 33 year old Kenmore washing machine works well and is easily repaired (proof: i have done so, twice).

It would be nice to get one of these newer contraptions, but I really have no desire to join the planned obsolescence treadmill.
Literally everything it says is fabricated

In what sense do you use the word "fabricated"? In the sense that it invented a falsehood with an intent to deceive, or in that it says things based upon prior exposure?
Make the number you multiply by essentially the concatenation of a long series of random digits, and I can just about guarantee most humans will get different things on both sides, because they'll make one or more mistakes doing the math. That is, of course, assuming the humans don't have suitable traditional computer tools capable of handling such a scenario.
Our development roadmap [1] is based on the needs of the users and the software we are focusing on building compatibility with.

Interestingly, transactions are not commonly used and therefore it is not high on our priority list, it may take months until we get to it. Nevertheless, if enough users would request it, we would reconsider. The same goes for any other item on the roadmap, please check it out.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/FerretDB/projects/2
Study reveals cancer’s ‘infinite’ ability to evolve
On the old ones, my fan used to run constantly at full power.

Now, my external platter drives make more noise than the laptop.
Looks like they mentioned your DB in a (probably SEO-bait) blog post here:

https://blog.ferretdb.io/5-database-alternatives-mongodb-202...
All a digital signature can prove is possession of a secret, it can't prove that some process was followed in generating an image.

It's impractical to have authenticity enforced by millions of consumer devices. If any random manufacturer in a third-world country can generate millions of valid signing keys to be embedded in millions of cheap phones or cameras, then there are many employees there that can also leak a bunch of valid keys if the price is right, and these keys can sign anything in a way that's indistinguishable from all these cheap cameras. And if you revoke the signatures of any "untrustworthy" manufacturers (really, any manufacturer can be and will be compromised, especially if some governments want to manufacture propaganda), then people won't stop using the phones/cameras just because their signatures aren't considered kosher, you'll still have millions of people uploading genuine, valid images from these cameras, so either people will have to trust invalid signatures or refuse lots of benign content, and I'll bet most people will choose the former one.

And of course a camera doesn't know if it's taking a picture of reality or another picture - it would take a relatively simple optical setup to allow any camera to record (and sign) an image off of another screen, so if some authenticity-verification system was actually working and popular, any reasonable criminals would do it and have signed recordings of their deepfakes from a real major brand camera.
FWIW, the submitter of a post can edit the title even after the “fixer” runs.
The references in the comments suggest ChatGPT as providing this effect. But that is (or should be) unlikely, the "training" or moderation (tweaking?) should actually solve this problem. It should be relatively easy to separate it's own generation from sources.
BUT where it will happen is when multiple instances of these language models compete with each other. ChatGPT quoting Bing or Bard output probably can't be reliably countered with internal training of ChatGTP, and the same goes for Bing & Bard and all the other myriad manifestations of these data mining techniques.
(Unless they merge them togther?)
Yeah.

Modern videos are so wide that a little extra vertical space barely enlarges the video if at all.

Games usually can't use the space since the notch covers their UI.

For me it's just free space for the menubar.
Because he's in a position to know.
Those things mostly don't have built in wifi which is annoying, because then you need a separate chip for the wifi. Atmel is the exception, arduino even makes a dev board with it, but it is $35 vs $8 for a esp32 devboard.
But used as intended (not via a KYC exchange) it is pseudonymous, right?
Interesting! I am very interested in this stuff. If you ever want to chat I've spent way too long toying with different versions.

In my experience editing Markdown tables by hand isn't fun.

I just go with CSVs or PSVs or Space Separated values.

Here's how I do it in Scroll (my markdown alternative):

https://try.scroll.pub/#scroll%0A%20table%20%7C%0A%20%20Item...
How do you get the physical envelopes of cash without detection?
Those look like big numbers (and interestingly they seem to have not budged upward since prior to 2019). But one must understand that the book business, especially the textbook business deals with a lot of worthless books that you have to find a way to get rid of. So anyone in the business donates or trashes/recycles a ton of books. Especially when you have book donation boxes all over the country.

As for the cash, they have been around for about 20 years now and have revenues around $65 million a year. So $25m in lifetime donations is not as much as it seems. Also, they don't say they donated that much cash, they said they have "raised" it. Which usually means through programs like asking customers to donate in addition to their order.

But I just remembered that they were sold to Better World Libraries in 2019, who is a non-profit associated with the internet archive. (It seems that I made a similar comment on HN back then but I have little recollection of it.) So maybe all of their profits go to a good cause now, I can't really find many details on the acquisition. But they were originally VC and PE funded. So I wonder if the business has dwindled like many book/textbook resale companies have over the last few decades. I can't imagine that a non-profit would pay any kind of premium for a for-profit business.
Just so you know Notch, I keep seeing your comments being killed, but I'm not killing or flagging them.
Welfare Workers
> People get upset when you point this out, but they don't get upset because it's the truth, they get upset because of what they think the consequences of people knowing that truth will be.

Or they get upset because they aren't Nihilists and believe in some form of personal meaning besides perpetuating the species?
they didn’t listen then and they don’t listen now. waste of effort.
This is unrelated to API use.
To add on to this, why can't the browser just lie to the website but retain my local settings as is
We reflect, we change, we grow. We have so many other senses that contribute to our "humaness". If you listen to and enjoy music tell me how those feelings are just "predictive text responses".

Communication is one part of being human. A big part for sure, but only one of many.
NYT gets so much mileage out of “researchers say” and “experts say” yet they never cite anyone
This is absolutely great! Thank you Sir!
Likewise for Mio (which underlies Tokio) for Rust. The odds of that happening look better, but still seems far away.
Not judging, but you represent such a small fraction of the market that companies simply don’t deem it worth it when looking at the cost of supporting LAN-only. Just imagine the support tickets they’ll get.