skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll bet they are an employee, though. I know that my friends were actual W2 wage slaves.

There's no law that says they are entitled to benefits. I think that 1099s can apply to "always-there" employees (like Uber drivers).

I've heard stories about these contractor shops.

When they are stumping for the position, they bring in a few IIT/MIT/Oxford folks, then, once the ink is dry, they send over the low-achievers, and I suspect the law states that the company can't request specific folks, or that would make them "possible employees." They need to deal with whomever the contract shop sends over.
Not for boots. For some stuff the more expensive version still lasts longer or is otherwise better. But usually a) it doesn’t matter or b) you need more than money to find the “best” version of something, you need connections or you need to know how to search the web and filter bias. Boots, household appliances, etc. aren’t the issue.

Being poor is still very much expensive. You can’t afford good insurance, you spend more money on repairing old things than buying new ones, you can’t afford education and credentials necessarily to get a good job, you can’t unwind to prevent burnout, you can’t take risks or spend time on side projects, you can’t quit terrible jobs because otherwise you’ll become homeless, constant depression about how life is unfair and anxiety about late payments impacts health and performance (which impacts university grades or job salary), extra things you must do like wait in like at the food panty and work extra jobs also impact health and performance, and more. It really is significantly easier to make money when you have money.

You need to read first-hand accounts of poor people from social media like https://reddit.com/r/povertyfinance and https://reddit.com/r/homeless to really understand (and yes, people lie and exaggerate on social media, and I see many instances of missing context and over-exaggeration on these subs, but the basic logic behind “being poor makes life much harder” very much checks out, and everything I mentioned above is 100% accurate. There are even former SWEs among the poor and even though they can avoid some of the pitfalls, they are nonetheless struggling the same)
Parent was being facetious.
I knew I shouldn't have included the line "often those people move back in retirement for the healthcare" in my comment because it would derail any conversation about the point I was trying to make.

While some of the issues that Canada faces are definitely self inflicted as you describe, the ultimate source of all of Canada's problems are that it is an American vassal state. This relationship results in Canada subsidizing the development of many talented individuals who then make the totally rational self-interested decision to move to the United States where there is significantly more economic opportunity for them. Not only is this a massive drain on Canada's resources and it prevents Canada seeing a return on the investment that it makes in people who are often their brightest and best.
The point is: There is no risk.

That's the same as taking homeopathics, "just in case". In the end the only thing that does (apart from possible placebo effect) is signal to everyone that you don't have any understanding of the basics of natural sciences (or in this matter the basics of trademark law).
This is exactly how I look at it. The “censorship” and “arbitrary banning” isn’t the key problem. The key problem is that some of these entities are so powerful that being censored by them, or arbitrarily banned by them, can have serious long term consequences on almost anyone.

Frankly, the antitrust regulators and legislators have been asleep at the wheel for decades and have allowed an unimaginable level of consolidation in multiple sectors of the market. We should never have gotten to this point, but now that we’re here I feel like we need to follow the Big Bell example.
No there isn’t. We have taxes for this
In the pdf article, the submitted title was in fact the subtitle. I can see an argument for choosing the subtitle like that when an article has the form

Pithy phrase: subtitle that actually tells you something
It comes from lawyers hired by the top, who tell the top what to say (or else risk liability).
A decade long fight about Net Neutrality in the public, and the ISPs just went and did what they were always going to do anyway in the background. No surprise. No news. No fanfare. Just, “Here’s your broken internet where every websites loads at a different speed. Get Unlimited* access with a 35GB limit before more limits kick in. Some websites are unusable. Enjoy. *Some limits apply. See T&C for details.”
This is definitely incorrect (has no customer support). Maybe they can choose to fuck you over sometimes, but I have definitely used their customer support as recently as december 2022 (first to call from my destination for some onsite help, then later after the trip to get money back). I wouldn't say they were seamless (that would be if there was no problem at all), but definitely good enough.
You could just say "Ramen", "Ramen for me", "I want ramen", or maybe even "Me, ramen". But I get your point - it's more common in English to use a longer sentence. The same thing is pointed out about Japanese too - "watashi wa ramen" for "As for me, ramen" - it has the same topic-comment structure as Korean.
Relevant short story: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I have spent far fewer nights but it has happened to me twice. Once in New York City and once in Portugal. Both times the hotels between the lines admitted that it was their fault and compensated me with better rooms in other hotels just a short walk away.
I may want to add that as a person who had a lot of exposure to Korean (but is not native). Directly translating for instance “나는 라면” with the example context you mentioned, feels like „in my case, Ramen“. The 는/은 is describing the 나 in a way that is contrasting whatever was said in the current context. It is certainly used for saying something that is different from the other. „Well in MY case, it is …“, but it may work for other cases too, I am not totally sure.
> Manipulative money men are the bane of tech.

Closely followed by engineers who happily implement this kind of shit (unless you included them already)
What's interesting today to people with money is not necessarily the same as what future historians and researchers will be interested in.
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Nobody in the rocket industry has had anywhere near that level of money invested in them, so they haven't gotten the results. SpaceX outspends them 100:1 or more on R&D. Everyone else in the industry has to make a profit on their services, too.

If you want to see companies with comparable levels of spending to Musk companies, you have to look outside rockets.

By the way, I'm not knocking the man: getting that much money to spend on rockets is an incredible achievement. Someone who did something comparable literally won a Nobel prize (the administrator responsible for making sure LIGO got enough money). Actually spending it on rocket technology once you have it isn't hard.

Edit: Hard projects in the space sector would be things like landing and operating a massive rover or a human colony on mars (or the moon for that matter), or building very new instruments like the JWST - doing things that are fundamentally new.

Starlink with cubesats would have been pretty revolutionary (instead of car-sized, 1-ton monsters), and absolutely crushed the economics. The current version of starlink is basically LeoSat (one of a fee companies Musk probably heard about before starting the Starlink project) with enough initial capital to not go broke.

If they can get starship launches up and running with the economics they promise, that would be hard.

The first vertically-landing rocket did it in the 1960's. Commercializing from that point was just a matter of investment. SpaceX has contributed meaningfully to rocket engine technology, but I doubt Musk knew anything about that.
Bless your heart.

Doubtless you think Alvin Bragg other than a tawdry political hack, too.
TLDR exercise and such don’t actually boost cognitive ability, and the full title ends with “it’s whether your parents have money”
See also http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp.... What impresses me most is how integrated the whole system is, e.g.:

> TempleOS has its own programming language, HolyC. The whole operating system is written in it, except for x64 assembly in the lower-level parts. Perhaps unexpectedly, the same language is also used for the shell. … There is no built-in calculator application, because the shell itself is one. Just enter 5+7 on the command line and you'll get the answer. You can even go further than this and use the shell as a REPL to build entire programs in.

> TempleOS's unified hypertext really shines when presented in the shell. From the command-line, you can call Uf("Foo") to disassemble a function, and each symbol printed will be hyperlinked in the shell window. Click on it to go to the source. objdump can't do that.

> The most notable feature of TempleOS is its ubiquitous hypertext system, DolDoc. This is the foundation for the both the shell and the text editor. Unlike Unix which represents everything via plain-text, everything in Temple is stored in DolDoc format … You can store images (and even 3D meshes) directly into documents. You can put macros in there: hyperlink commands that run when you click on them. So if you want to build a menu or launcher, you just make a new text document and put links in it.

And so on.
You got it reversed
Nearly passed based on title alone, was very glad I clicked in. Just the first paragraph alone sets up this excellent & useful neologism, Alien Artefacts:

> The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts1, a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The software works really well for what it was designed to do, but it is highly resistant to change.

We have some very wild search code that I think of that qualifies. I also recently added tests & typescript then slowly expanded some really neat code that takes Immutable.js, maps the entities, then caches the result in WeakMap to be re-resolvable latter- sounds simple but there was enough extra stuff also going on & happening that it took some putting heads together to decypher the true inner-workings. Both very distinct features which hadn't had the typical accrual of cruft, mostly untouched since inception, off in their own area. Alien Artefacts feels like a great term.

(BTW what spelling is this? Same word as artifact or no?)
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The Death of the Mathematics I Knew
A bundling approach works great for web apps (e.g. an online image editor) but for serving images you have to be willing to not only lose any of the size and speed benefits but to completely demolish your website's performance all in hopes one day enough sites agree to do the same.
You can usually get a solid 2-4 years at a place, thats pretty secure ... then jump to a new place
That last bit will hopefully be AI automated soon.
> * ChatGPT's "inability to separate data from code" means every input, even training input, is an eval().

This is very true in GPT3, less true in GPT3.5, and even less true in GPT4.

OpenAI is moving to separate system prompts from user prompts. The system prompt is processed first attempts to isolate the user prompt from the system prompt. It's fallible, but getting better.

> * LLM's have to be assumed to be entirely jailbroken and untrusted at all times. You can't run one behind your firewall.

This only makes sense if you also won't put humans behind your firewall.

LLMs can only do things they are empowered to do, much like humans. The fact that there are scammers who send fake invoices to businesses or call with fake wire transfer instructions does NOT mean that we disallow humans from paying invoices or transferring money. We just put systems (training and technical) in place to validate human actions. Same with LLMs.

> * The fate of millions of businesses, possibly humanity, rests on an organization that thinks they can secure an eval() statement with a blocklist.

Counterpoint: the fate of humanity is also being influenced buy people who see the real similarities but don't understand the real differences between LLM inputs and eval().
None of these storage technologies are currently being used at scale. Not a single country is relying on batteries or hydrogen to solve the problem I mentioned above.
There is some element of truth to this, undoubtably. But I would add that there are some qualities like facial symmetry and probably facial harmony moreover that I think are universal.
I wonder about that, does anyone have insights of what the reason is behind that?
The general argument (IANAL) is that it's Fair Use, in the same vein as Google Images or Internet Archive scraping and storing text/images. Especially since the outputs of generated images are not 1:1 to their source inputs, so it could be argued that it's a unique derivative work. The current lawsuits against Stability AI are testing that, although I am skeptical they'll succeed (one of the lawsuits argues that Stable Diffusion is just "lossy compression" which is factually and technically wrong).

There is an irony, however, that many of the AI art haters tend to draw fanart of IP they don't own. And if Fair Use protections are weakened, their livelihood would be hurt far more than those of AI artists.

The Copilot case/lawsuit IMO is stronger because the associated code output is a) provably verbatim and b) often has explicit licensing and therefore intent on its usage.
If anyone wants to try Dreambooth online, I made a free website for this: https://trainengine.ai
You don't need socks with them. I have a smaller size for no socks and one size larger for wearing with socks. I wear the larger size with socks when it is colder or wetter. I have multiple pairs and haven't needed to wash them yet. The seal skinz socks need to get washed frequently if they frequently get wet and sweaty.
They did do an EIS. Then they modified it from a 27 engine Falcon Heavy to a 33 engine Starship. The FAA ruled, with input from many other government agencies, that this only partially invalidated the original EIS.
I think I see where you’re coming from, but how I interpreted it, it’s just really hard to make these decisions, and from a managers perspective its not that black and white:

- almost any change will have have people arguing for and against it

- if ‘company values’ is a trump card to prevent a change, it will be used by the people against the change

- as a manager, to still make decisions in such an environment, you’ll find yourself needing to weigh the upsides and downsides even if there are strong company values (it just puts a higher weight on certain concerns)

- as parent said, short term impact supported with numbers is easier to weigh and defend than (possible but unknown) long term detrimental impact.

Thus, I think parent is right. Even in corporates with strong company values, it’s easier to prioritize the short term proven impact over long term unproven impact. And therefore, at scale, such decisions will be made.
Exactly. So how will AI powered Google Search be relevant?
> …shut up and be the whore like the contract you signed says you are.

Setting aside your concerns about how poor, helpless politicians are being bullied by all-powerful artists, the fact is that licenses often have carve-outs for conventions and other campaign events. Artists can also prevent use by arguing that it infringes on their Right of Publicity or the Lanham Act.
This is more or less what GObject is, which the author mentions in passing. It's an OO system for C, but it does require quite a lot of boilerplate, and you need to manually initialize vtables when creating new subclasses. You also need to manually chain up to the superclass in virtual methods, in many places where it's easy to forget. It's a decent system, all things considered, but it's just a reminder that C's type system is very weak and implementing advanced features all but requires abuse of the preprocessor to avoid unreadable code.
Ha. I don’t think it’s even true. I mean it wouldn’t surprise me if some sushi restaurant somewhere had such things, but restaurant supply companies don’t sell extra cold freezers. Seafood wholesalers might have such things but I’d wager the vast majority of sushi restaurants are using regular freezers.
You get 2-4x the energy density with aluminum over lithium. But the tech needs a decade and lithium will keep getting better.
Yeah, I hear a lot of "We're waiting for our final paperwork," "We just have a few passengers from a connecting flight," etc. It doesn't usually seem like a lot of "Will you slowpokes just get into your damned seats so we can take off."
English, Berlins a terrible place to learn German! Huge proportion of the central 'ring' population is non-native and only have mediocre or non-existent German.
Do you analyze the dynamic loader segments (to determine code-like addresses) or just do some hard-coded approximations per platform? Pretty cute idea and I agree it will often work.
A less common spelling of “artifact”, yes.
Similar story in Japanese, which is also high-context and encodes less information explicitly. Listeners have to do more interpretation using context than in English, since sentences out of context can mean more things.
This is more likely to be the hotel's fault than Booking's. You'd likely have the same issue with any third party aggregator. Many hotels (much like airlines) regularly overbook as a business decision, and third parties don't really have any visibility into this kind of thing. It's less likely (but not impossible) for this to happen to you if you book direct, and it's helpful to inform the hotel if you're going to be arriving late.

Plenty of reasons to dislike Booking, but this particular one is more of a systematic issue.
Couldn't ISPs just sniff the SNI hostname to differentiate fast.com vs actual Netflix video streaming?
This is the automatic resolution of some instance satisfying a typeclass constraint, and is not related to the termination of functions. This does not call a function. If you compare it to the relational definition I give at the end of the semantics section, the typechecker does not similarly infer satisfying constructers for the relation. Proof tactics can also diverge, but that's different.
Instead of this, they should bill agricultural and industrial water at residential rates.

Why should industry get a discount?
Then you increase UBI.

If the problem is a society does not have enough means to produce the basics like food/housing/energy, then that is a different discussion. But I am under the impression most developed countries can and do make enough of these things to keep their populations sheltered and fed.
The article gets something wrong about C.

"U0 is essentially void but with zero size. In regular C, void is actually considered a Unit Type and thus when computing sizeof(void) in GCC, you will find that it resolves to 1."

In C, void has no size; the expression sizeof (void) is invalid. There are no values of type void.

gcc, as an extension, permits pointer arithmetic on pointers to void. An unfortunate side effect of this extension is that it treats sizeof (void) as 1. If you compile with "-pedantic-errors", it will reject that expression.
I think it depends. Certainly as a banking PM what I earnt as a contractor (outside ir35) is more than I earn as a permanent employee, even with a bonus.
I am working on a project that needs to put latex in a browser. We are currently trying out different libraries, but so far Katex does seem the fastest.
What percentage of the population do you believe is both rich and hires accountants to hide all of their income? What percentage of people serviced by PG&E do you think fall into that category? From my perspective you're referring to a number of people that I could count on one hand. Do you think it's some significant portion of the population?
I have a personal experience where booking.com’s nudging caused me to reconsider my trip. I was trying to find something suitable to stay in Paris. Maybe it was the exaggeration of booking.com or maybe there was some truth, but at some point I shut down and made a 180 on my plans. I had realised that I don’t want to go somewhere where I have to compete against this avalanche of other visitors who were or were not snapping my accommodation options away. I am now visiting friends in another European city.
Genuinely curious, if that's the case, why do you keep using it then? Is it simply that too many customers come through it and you have no choice?
TBH it would be much easier with more streamlined tooling, especially if doing it locally with lora/lycoris.

Its kinda like using ffmpeg for vapoursynth for video editing instead of a video editing GUI.

That being said the training parameter/data tuning is definitely an art, as is the prompting.
Typeclass resolution is implemented as a layer of automation that is above the type-checking kernel, so much like with nonterminating tactics, if it doesn't halt you mostly just end up with confusing automation that doesn't help you prove something, but you shouldn't be able to prove false. Mostly it's a usability nightmare for typeclasses, and in the case of this post also a way for hilarity to ensue.
That’s a more specific number than I’ve seen before, are you extrapolating off of the “low seven figures” mentioned in the press releases or was a more specific number released?
You need to file an FCC complaint about this, Xfinity has an executive response team for all FCC complaints. Document every time you called them and your equipment details.
Also I don’t think sushi restaurants typically have any special freezers for this. You can reach the required level in a regular commercial freezer. -4F for one week. Any commercial freezer gets that cold, and that step is taken by the wholesalers anyway for any sushi that requires it.
OP lives in a fantasy world where every culture should be bulldozed to make way for endless middle class cul-de-sacs and McMansions. It's perfectly normal in most of the world for children to be involved in family businesses or even working to help support the family, rather than living in some entitled bubble where they're the center of everything.
Hmm... Seems potentially spurious to me. They use personal website pictures, and have people rate them.

They note in the paper that they could be confounded by picture quality, e.g. successful and ambitious people bother to get good photos done / optimize that aspect.

Then they a) say well we don't think that picture quality will have much effect, cite cite and then they say b) it does have a small effect, but we control for it by controlling for picture size, dress code, and whether a person is smiling.

What a reductionist control, and b) contradicts a). There are lots of things like posture, style and conformance to fashions as to what successful economics academics look like that they do not control for
I have GPT4 + the browsing feature + other plugins and it is positively world changing.

Once you have everything set up and configured it is effectively an API that does arbitrary work for you.
> This is very true in GPT3, less true in GPT3.5, and even less true in GPT4.

Can you point to evidence that this improvement is the result of something other than a blocklist, because we know blocklists aren't defensible.
Only if you exclude the countless hours an illustrator has spent developing their craft.
Actually you do own a car that you are paying a loan for. A lien holder is not an owner.

And sure, I definitely support policing the incorrect actions of systems as the basic crimes that they fundamentally are. But that isn't really how things work in the real world (at least in the US), where institutional criminals generally escape being charged.