skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s the reality. The batteries are standardized- inside. They’re all variations on the standard cell and I’ve yet to see a “cheap knockoff” battery that performs like the “professional brands”.
I think this is a great interview question if you want to know how well someone can write an algorithm.

However, software engineering is so much more than writing code to solve a well specified problem.

- oftentimes, the problem is not well specified. The engineer needs to find out what the problem specification really is.

- In a lot of cases, a solution already exists publicly. The engineer needs to find documentation or code that solves the lecified problem or a similar problem. Usually somebody has already thought about optimization of this type of problem and has documented it.

- Often, a feature needs to be added to an existing codebase. Often a similar feature already exists in the codebase and the new feature can be implemented in a similar way. The engineer needs to find the similar feature and has to figure out how to generalize or adapt it into the new feature.

- A lot of times technical debt needs decreasing. This involves understanding feature implementations or models/paradigms in an existing codebase, understand how they are inefficient or needlessly complex. Creativity is the trait mostly needed in this case to address it.

- often new APIs need to be made, needing modeling and documentation. Also often existing APIs or newly imported libraries need to bevused to tackle problems.

- Above points address the purely technical skills. Non-technical skills are just as important. Communication, teamwork, prioritization, time and stress management, customer relations,...

Tldr - this great interview question targets just one aspect of the job.
Nowhere on the planet is "perfectly safe" so no one is saying about that SF. Positive sentiment is probably in the middle ground you're asking for, whereas negative sentiment literally uses "dystopian hellhole".
As someone who used Emacs 10yrs before ditching it.. I just really don't think it's very good at doing much.

I mean sure it can sorta half ass a lot of different things but besides org-mode and magit, it's a pretty mediocre and clunky piece of software (clunky, incredibly slow, ugly, etc)
Well that lets people have the best of both worlds. Few serious tradesmen who use a tool all day are going to use a battery with an adapter. Ergonomy is a big factor, tools get updated regularly anyway, and it's not a big deal to buy into one or more systems. But if someone for whatever reason has a hodge-podge of tools, they can get an adapter.
Some is, some is not.
So.. not a bum off the street.
go is pretty fast

in fact, i have a standing bet with some of my rustacean friends that they can't show me a typical HTTP service in rust, which has performance numbers (rps, latency, throughput) that i can't meet or beat in go

of course lots of caveats there, what does normal-ish mean, well probably most of the work is gonna be i/o bound, it should run on normal server-class hardware, et cetera et cetera

but nothing yet
Great question! How do tech executives compare to the SF general population this year, in murders per 100k?
"Quoting" the automated translation of the article, pardon its flaws:

> This India GPT Bangalore based CoRover has informed that they are working on bhartgpt for India, they will be able to use it in 12 languages of India and 120 foreign languages . It will work on large language model which you will be able to use in more languages.

Certainly it is pleasing that they are not just doing Hindi, but some of these languages must be represented online by a very small corpus of text indeed. I wonder how effectively an LLM can be trained on such a small training set for any given language?
Well said.

> "until" they get regulated / legislated into being more consumer friendly, because I doubt they will do it on their own.

In the US though, very unlikely that they will be regulated.
I wonder what their personnel vetting processes are like. That would be my first worry.
>its kinda the idea behind states.

The idea behind states is that the country is made up of a union of independent states with a federal government which serves to mediate between the states and make sure they do not overstep on things like basics rights and deal with the international issues. Technically this is absolutely in the power of a state, practically speaking they might as well try and ban air from ND from crossing their boarder.

But Montana is perfectly aware that they can not actually ban TikTok or any other app on their own.
Lessons learned from making a SaaS* completely serverless
> Given that a monad is an interface for sequential computation

And what the hell is an interface for sequential computation? I think I understand what these Maybe types are and what they accomplish but "interface for sequential computation" sounds a lot like those buzzwords people mix together that could mean anything.
Nope. I've played around a lot with generating code for MATLAB, Python, and signal processing. It gets things wrong 90% of the time, but gets you maybe 30-50% to a solution. I'm no doomer about AI because writing good software that makes sense and works is still a human task for a long while.

Gluing multiple systems together for a full project - whether it be web, CI/CD /devops style problems, or large systems engineering problems will surely almost never be replaced by AI. The larger the scale the more amount of places to be wrong, the more BS to debug if you get AI to generate it because it will have a million issues and nobody will know where to start looking.
Can you add abstract extraction or something for papers from the arXiv?

What I personally need is not really highlighting and all that, but more like advanced bookmarking with search on top to let me retrieve stuff by topic (more or less). If we could just bookmark them, have the abstract extracted and made searchable through semantic search, that would be cool
Perhaps you should ask it to draw you a sheep.
This all looks familiar. I probably installed Lindows at some point to test it.
> In my undergraduate wisdom, I deemed emacs to be "stupid" and went on with my life using vi.

That’s what we do when we’re younger. Judge things on the wrong basis. Or come up with weird theories on how people who prefer different things do so because they’re deficient in some way—

> Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist.

wait what…

> And my conclusion was that emacs was for them, because hitting the control/alt key isn't as much of a penalty when you're a hunt-and-peck typist.

You see that the there are Alt and Control keys on both sides of the (American[1]) keyboard. Right? Touch typing is no harder with Control and Alt than it is with Shift.

> And my conclusion was that emacs was for them, because hitting the control/alt key isn't as much of a penalty when you're a hunt-and-peck typist.

One Year of Experience Ten Times Over: The Comment.

[1] The keyboard (ish) that these silly programs were kind of made for. The “European” keyboard has AltGr on the right side.
everything is shredded within a proper scif so he probably reprinted or snuck out as is
I don't think the fact that Vim and Emacs were created a long time ago makes them inferior.

They keep developing and they are up to date with many/all programming-features. There are bunch of extensions that VScode just doesn't have despite it's huge extension store.

Also the main thing for me about these editors and especially Emacs is that you can program it. Not just configure it but actually program and do anything with it. You can hook into any piece of the code and change it. You can read the source code of any "extension" and patch it on the fly. I don't think I'm aware of any other editors that allow that.

It's huge power.
SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
when capitalism sublimates everything into commodity form, it's important to be reminded of the water we fish swim in.

Fun or Play can be considered useless if not being commoditized or sold, but of course they are essential. Byung-Chul Han has some nice books about this.
Sure it is. Just tax it or something.
I'm curious about what happens after. Humanity has been wiped out and the AI is left alone along with the remains of the natural ecosystem, what does it want to do next?
I use Goland at work - which is intellij. Switching between project environments is about 2 seconds. Cold start is about 5 seconds.
> GNU readline

Interesting... I always assumed that emacs was around for a while before anybody generalized a "readline" library, but I guess it makes sense that readline would have come first.
I wonder what kind of financial motive german manufacturers of cordless battery powered tools like Festool, Bosch, Metabo, Stihl, Einhell etc could have against a standardized battery format for cordless devices...

Oh, and you know that like just like with Apple their first cry will be "but safety!" when/if they are forced to standardize/open up.
There have been open and de-facto open mounts though: the Pentax K-mount was such pre-autofocus, and micro 43, Sony's E-mount (albeit with many strings attached), and the L-mount all have varying degrees of openness about them.

At the end of the day, though, camera owners don't prioritise that enough in their purchasing decisions to change the market. People were happy to lock into highly proprietary mounts when Minolta developed autofocus (and migrated to the A-mount) and then Canon followed with their EF.
> So now you are talking about things besides get back?

> And an article from the times? I don’t know what article you are talking about, it’s not the subject of this thread.

It's linked directly above my first comment on this thread and was in part what I was responding to. It's not unreasonable to expect you to have read the parent comment to a comment you're responding to, even if you didn't read the article. That's on you for responding without the proper context, though.

> The hypothetical you insert isn’t whether someone else was annoyed or not, but the pretext of why she was there in the first place. It’s one thing if you want to disagree. But if you are going to continuously have this discussion with me in such a dishonest fashion, I’m not going to engage. She wasn't there because she, on her own decided to be there. She was there because John asked her. You refuse to acknowledge this and repeatedly try and contextualize it as a decision she made against anyone else,

You might make a decision based on certain factors to participate in something. In this case, John Lennon asks Yoko Ono to come to the studio with him. She lacks context to make a decision off of anything else but what John says, so she agrees to go. I'm not saying that's wrong or that she is at fault for that. I am saying that it's a conscious decision on her part to remain there, of which she can be held responsible for her part in that.

> And once again you completely misrepresent everything I said, I’m not at all surprised someone is annoyed by her. How could I be? The world is full of people that, quite willingly and openly, express their disdain and annoyance with Yoko. How could it be a surprise to me?? You’ve really got to be kidding me with these kinds of arguments.

Yeah, this is what you said, in case you forgot:

> Have you been in a band? You wouldn't be annoyed at Yoko, you'd be annoyed at John for bringing her into practice like that and insisting that she belongs...

> I would not sit there seething at her, nor would I blame her. Are you saying there is something wrong with that response?

No, I don't think there's anything wrong with that response. That's your prerogative.

> Yet you are insisting I should be seething and angry at her

I never said anyone should be seething or angry at her. Those are your words. I specifically said I would be annoyed with both John and Yoko, for different reasons.

> while also insisting you are emotionally well balanced to make these kind of judgments?

I never insisted that I was emotionally well balanced; you're once again putting words into my mouth. I almost don't even have to be here for this conversation because you seem to have made up a person, that isn't me, in your head to have an argument with.

> Clearly you aren’t. You are angry, resentful, and spiteful. Clearly.

I'm impressed how much you can extrapolate from the words you put in other people's mouths... maybe work on your reading comprehension and emotional regulation before engaging with people online. It doesn't seem like you're mentally prepared for it.
Japan’s population drops by half a million in 2022
There's a who's hiring post on the first business day of each month, outside of that, job posts are not allowed on HN
My buddy whos livelihood depends on his Amazon stock vesting has been extremely anti-GPT.

Wonder if it was due to Amazon being slow to release something.
Yes! With spork/netrepl and Conjure in Neovim

https://janet-lang.org/api/spork/netrepl.html

https://github.com/Olical/conjure
Pretty sure the UK has never done exit controls. I remember being surprised at being asked for my passport at the border post the first time I flew out of Schengen since officials don’t check your passport flying out of the UK.
That's been commercially available for over five years now.[1] Robots doing that are already widely deployed. If you take the tour of the SF recycling center, you can see some of them.[2]

This works at scale. Here's a 90 ton per hour recycling facility.[3]

This is the difference between feel-good recycling and industrial scale recycling.

[1] https://www.max-ai.com/

[2] https://www.max-ai.com/video-max-ai-autonomous-qc/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FpsH_ETT7c
“A big deal” – Dolly is a free, open-source, ChatGPT-style AI model
That's because the 4chan/pol/ crowd are actively pushing into Twitter; for all practical purposes it's the biggest chan raid of all time, except that it's largely at the invitation of Twitter's owner. Once again linking this excellent paper on the dynamics of intergroup aggression in virtual spaces: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697
Completely unaware of this social network. What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve? Proof of origin? A conversational paper trail?

The latter would be interesting for areas where conversations should be on the record, however in cases that people want their conversations off the record they’d just use a side channel. The UK govt communicates using WhatsApp for Christ’s sake.

So it’d need to be something where both parties fundamentally benefit from the ability to verify that a post, or a conversation, took place. Where would that even apply?
I deleted 12 years of Facebook posts after downloading a backup one by one. This was before they had multiple deletes. It took me a few weeks so I did it when I was bored. What's funny is that you can't actually delete everything, because something from the past will show up again. Just one or two things. I assume when databases located around the world sync up there's a few things that didn't get deleted.
The effect is similar to 'FTP', your control channel is only sending a couple of bytes but the resulting data transfers can be massive.
In theory it shouldn't be a problem. Under the current system resource distribution is based on production or perceived production. No job, no food.
"The internet never forgets."
Errrr, I assume your app can pass said authentication? If so, then it's meaningless; that's again a secret not under your control.
“You are a helpful assistant” seems like it is always included in these sort of prompts. I wonder if it really helps…
Yep. If you see Emacs as a text editor with lots of features, then it's doing lots of things. But, if you see Emacs as a platform that comes bundled with some apps by default, then its "one thing" is to be a text-oriented app platform.

The whole "do one thing" slogan is kind of vacuous anyway; e.g., what if my "one thing" is "implement all WWW standards to be able to use any web page"? Is that still "one thing"? If not, then wouldn't implementing only "one" part of WWW be useless?
It waits for the next prompt, obviously.
We’ll I think the point is that if I’ve inherited a home as part of a loved one’s estate or was gifted a home by virtue of generational wealth then I am naturally too mature to vote based on emotions. QED
- Responsible slaughtering requires stunning the animal before killing it.

- In many countries/biotopes, livestock farming is the only type of farming you can do, because the earth is too poor to have something else than pastures. As such, stopping it may be a net-negative in terms of food production.

- Stop thinking that the only way to breed animals is through factory farms. Not everyone is american.

- Meat, and animal products (milk, eggs...) are a much better protein source than any plant-based alternative. Be it natural, or the chemical/GMO trash that is served by new foodtech startups.

Again, just like you find giant pickups only in the US, many countries outside the US eat meat and breed animals responsibly. You should ask for ethical alternatives, rather than a complete abstinence.
It's probably a patent minefield, too.
That's the wrong question. The right question is what did he lose because of that. And the answer is likely 'nothing'. So it's a free gain with zero downside, makes good sense to me.
Just set a User Agent that fools them into thinking you're using Edge:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/112.0.100.0
Product person here, I’ve been using and loving Tail scale for about a year now and I don’t understand when I have to pay and why and I really don’t understand why any of it is OSS. Where’s the revenue and where’s the moat?
I don't know about Singapore or Papua New Guinea. We could get philosophical about Alaska, but the geo/demo-graphic situations are completely different from Ireland.

This is an island smaller than Ohio with five million people on it - people with a shared history going back many hundreds of years and seeming to not want to be separated.

Brexit threw a wrench in the idea of a seamless border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK. You either have a customs border between the islands of Ireland and GB, or you have a customs border between the Republic and the North. I don't see how it feasibly goes any other way, and neither of those make all parties happy.
> you not customize vim

No, and I have a specific reason - I ssh into remote boxes a lot, and I want the editor to work more or less the same wherever and whenever I use it. I guess I could customize vi to be a multi-purpose IDE but... that's what I have IntelliJ for.
Yeah, a life of hedonism is not providing value to society.

Even the epicurean subreddit agreed when this was brought up.
Y'know... nobody ever cares that trans kids suffer from lack of treatment as hard as cis kids from being given it(a way less common situation than the reverse), nobody cares that kids are abused left and right in much more common ways, nobody cares that most people transitioning are adults. What people care about is fuel to put validity of trans people and their agency to question.

It's not so much that discordant views get silenced, it's that everyone is aware that in the current climate, almost anything can - and WILL - be used to fuel discrimination. Such a study being approved alone would be taken as proof that "even the left finally admits transgenderism is hurting children" by a LOT of people. Even the way you titled the hypothetical study is de facto begging the question.

I mean yeah, these things should be studied. But it's not as though we have no science. E.g. detransition- we know it's uncommon, and mostly due to external circumstances, not regret.
In light of this, is proposing to study specifically whether kids are getting pressured into transition(instead of "factors leading to transition"), in disregard of the fact that we already know most benefit from and don't regret it, "bad faith"? Yeah. Kinda.

The science very much so supports the rationale and safety of transition, but everyone and their dog has that one anecdote, that one outlier news story that convincingly prove how dangerous giving people agency over their gender is, that one "but what about the kids!" concern.
Came here to say the same. Love seeing waste industry stuff at HN :)

Prairie Robotics (and similar) is another interesting take on the problem at the industrial scale. They are recognizing contamination as the waste is collected so the generators (houses/businesses) can be notified and educated.
Machines are superior, so we should all die.
Then I say it is up to other organizations and countries to make their own nation-centric AI's, and not OpenAI's job to make theirs less American centric (if that's even possible).

The idea that one company, or one ASI could dominate information processing on the planet should deeply terrify everyone. Global maxima, and local maxima do differ, and can differ significantly.
Are we reading the same Hacker News? I see people advocating for extreme punitive measures and expanding the carceral state all the time on here.
It's a reasonable question: in short, Notion is note and notebook centric – everything falls into one of these 2 categories.

Our structuring is that there are objects and wrappers, but we aren't so prescriptive on what these things have to be exactly... but an object could be a note.

So we're more of a filesystem that supports notes, rather than a notebook that can host rich media.
>Your identity isn’t a username and doesn’t depend on a domain name or service provide

Like a tripcode?

>Instead, your username is a meaningless cryptographic hash that consists of random-looking numbers and letters.

Ah
Want to increase productivity and reduce your cost base? Make everyone come back into the office. You'll attrit a huge number of people naturally, and your people will be more productive when they're working together in the office. Then, reward hard work and good outcomes.
if GPT-4 will update based on recent web training data, the fact that people are bringing much more attention to the "draw a unicorn" task magnifies the chance someone will have posted a perfect version of an svg unicorn, leading the model to leverage that rather than the aim of this experiment which I imagine is GPT-4's capacity to extrapolate.

EDIT: Also it makes no sense to constantly retry it every day on the gpt-4-0314 model, since OpenAI specified that that is a snapshot model that will not be updated.
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I am very familiar with Citizens and while I am pleased to see reform of it, I don't see how the changes made end up with correctly priced risk. The continued existence of Citizens is proof that the risk is not priced correctly or private insurers would be willing to sell policies.

But the mispriced risk is only part of the problem. Even if the risk were correctly priced, I do not believe that many properties being sold today will be standing in 30 years without significant extra investment. It is not just the private properties. Roads and other infrastructure are built in Florida with no apparent long term plan.