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Even if they're non-technical I value a technical approach to problem solving.

I've always liked the idea that if they didn't have a technical cofounder they might still be able to hack together an MVP using tools like Bubble, Zapier, Airbase, Sheets, etc.
"1) why you want that"

Universal broadcast does not work (beneficially for society) in an industry built to monetize reach.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but voices are not equal in utility or worth.

"2) who decides which voices do matter?"

This is always the problem, isn't it? I don't have an answer for you.
There are foldable phones!
Isn’t that one of the main points of quantum physics?

Do you think quantum mechanics says that light is made up of electrons?

That would be like saying sound and water are the exact same thing because water going through a hose makes sound.

Light does apply pressure.

On the other hand, no it doesn't. If you shine light into a tube, it doesn't fill up with light until the tube blows apart. This is what is being talked about in this thread, so try to understand that context.

Also photon exists?

Are you asking if photons exist? Electromagnetic radiation is magnitude of frequencies over time. There are no individual packets of light just like there are no individual packets of sounds. Photons are a useful idea in simulations because you need to sample specific paths.
I mean, that kind of task is more than easy to do today. You could probably just create a VS Code extension that you type "convert all identifiers in this file that match this pattern from lowercase to camel case" and pipe that to the GPT API to instantly do it (without even needing to give it the first 3 examples).
Upending a decades-long theory of reverse osmosis water desalination
> Surely the AI doomers are overstating the risk of doom - surely no-one working in safety critical systems would do things any other way? "Has there ever been a case of harm form AI misalignment?" - this is the real thrust of that question. What sort of idiot would wire an unintended consequence generator directly to anything that might harm or hurt?

You don't have to look far to find people doing exactly that. AutoGPT, ChaosGPT (!), a lot of random people copying its output into a Python prompt.

"It's not safety-critical", you might say, but that's only because the AI isn't smart enough yet. A human-level AI could easily do a lot of damage this way, and I don't think we'll learn our lesson until it's already happened. Here's hoping it happens before we get superhuman AI!
I completely agree. I do not understand why some people are downvoting you. Everyone on this site (assuming at least 95% are developers) should conceptually understand that AI to office jobs is nothing like tractors to farmers. Before AGI it's an arms race between what skill can humans acquire that AI can't yet simulate. After AGI there is no contest.

It's crazy to me how I have memories of AI discussions from years back where this crucial difference was well known and acknowledged. But right now it feels like half the people are turning a blind eye to it on purpose.
Hikvision internal review found Xinjiang contracts targeted Uyghurs
What's wrong with PulseAudio? It's not great for pro use-cases with an unfortunately high latency (not that Windows's audio server is better in this regard), but it kinda has always just worked for me.
The vast majority of companies don't do leetcode interviews. A small number of large tech companies, and some startups trying to emulate those large tech companies, do those ridiculous interviews. Rather than start from a list that would include tens of thousands of potential employers, focus on the companies you want to work for, then find out about their interview process.

If you actually want a list you should at least mention your country or geographic area of interest, and maybe something about the kinds of jobs you are looking for. No company does leetcode interviews for every job opening.
The reasoning is very good, you cannot deny it.

>Users were assumed to be responsible agents, and protection against malware or legal usage was their responsibilty.

This is naive as hell.

Such approach doesnt scale.

There are billions non tech people.

Just because theres loud minority: hundred loudy nerds on HN and other tech news sites screaming about lack of customisability

Then it doesnt mean that it was bad decision, nor that it was actually impactful. Theres way more people outside tech.
No mention of the apparent power of a received signal at the far end, as far as I can see. That's the number SETI falls apart on. Could we, having seen a flash of a similarly powered transmission from one of these planets, have a hope of identifying it as a signal? Or is it buried deep in the noise? We just assume that aliens have much better radio receivers than we do?

> Proximity is also an important property when selecting SETI targets due to the diminishing power of radio transmissions with the square of the distance to the target.

They're including the acknowledgement, which few do; but they don't seem to address the implications.
They are going to try to stop that train. They have a pending application for a trademark on the term GPT and I suspect they wouldn't have applied for trademark protection if they didn't intend to stop others from using it.
"Fuel" is free, inefficiency is less of a concern.

Keeping them clean is maintenance. All forms of generation have maintenance requirements.

What is the cost of extra panels to overcome transimission losses? How does that compare to buying fuel at a more local plant?

How much does keeping solar panels clean cost? How does that compare to keeping a gas turbine running?
IIRC VSI never got the VAX stuff in the deal with HP. I don't think HP will ever bother to bring back the hobbyist program just for VAX, unfortunately.

There are easy ways around this lack of official licenses. Ways that I can't/won't go in to here.
But this is a totally inflexible 10 year lease with no value provided. It would literally be better to have a mortgage on the property for 10 years, because then at least we'd get part of our money back at the end. There would be almost no other difference, we'd still be calling the plumber and the shop fitter ourselves.
That's called sharding; this can be achieved with any load balancer worth its salt.
As a follow-up, there's absolutely too many people in India and China because for whatever reason they keep having massive amounts of kids despite poverty and limited space and then they try to immigrate to other countries...

But in America where population controls a little more responsible we have plenty of space for our population.
I think I am confused. Isn’t invading another country and annexing their territory an expansionist policy? Are you saying that is not happening or that the Russian military is operating without Kremlin approval?
Taking this to its logical conclusion, I commissioned a Landkreuzer P1000 for my family. It's the only way to be sure you have enough lebensraum on the road.

(I considered the M1A1 Abrams, but just didn't feel safe in the thing.)

I think women and girls especially should drive main battle tanks, given their psychological fragility and propensity to trauma. If you are such a person, and it makes you feel safer, you should absolutely secure oil fields in the Caucasus.
I'm not sure how effective it is at present - just gave it a very quick test on searching for info on roman coins - but the concept is great. This is something that I've often wished existed.

If I'm searching for roman coins I certainly don't want to find commercial sites selling them (I know what those are), or even the well-known online national collections or auction archives... I'd like to be able to find the specialist sites built by collectors (and maybe academics) that are non-commercial and way more interesting.

In the early days of the internet some specialist content/pages were organized into "web rings" each linking to each other, but nowadays we're mostly relying on search to discover new pages, and it seems a lot of the hobbyist content is way harder to find, assuming it's even out there.
Thing is, they actually are building things people might want to use, they just don't focus enough on it. Stadia for example, was way ahead of Microsoft in image quality, fluidity, etc. After a year or two of trying to push it to customers they killed it for no reason whatsoever.

I even recall watching some comments of sad people who would need another gaming streaming service because they used Stadia for their gaming needs. It was a ridiculous decision that nobody understood why. They also screwed up game devs who were porting their games to Stadia, which will for sure have repercusions in future services.
I am a big fan of physical buttons -- in phones, in-car entertainment systems, and other gadgets that we operate with our hands/fingers. And am generally disdainful of sacrifies made to physical controls in favour of virtual ones. I also hope to see a few more physical buttons for vital functions (like mute or camera shut off on phones and laptops)

Having said that --

But one benefit of the on-screen virtual keyboards that is hard to beat is ... flexibility of changing keyboard layouts / sizes, AND multiple languages. I have enjoyed typing in my native tongues with friends and family and nothing so-far beats the experience of inputting text directly using a native keyboard that is accessible with a single swipe on the spacebar (I use a Android, Samsung).
I'm not close to 84, and I'd kill for a feature phone (dumbphone?) that do 4g and have a qwerty physical keyboard.
For what it’s worth, this is not nearly as large a thing as residential real estate circa 2008. Even under some pretty harsh assumptions about default and recovery rates in office and retail real estate, the losses are surprisingly modest. Biggest holders are the regional commercial banks and life insurance companies.

This is the best deep dive I know of

https://markets.jpmorgan.com/research/email/tjge61kj/xJP09l1...
The rule of thumb I heard was:

An hour = day

Day = week

Week = month

Month = year…
I am firmly in GP's camp, but I think this difference has more to do with introverted vs extroverted personality types than weird vs. not weird perspectives. Some people find it hard to express themselves in group environment because group environments tend to be highly competitive for 'air time', at which introverts are at a great disadvantage.
Electromagnetic radiation is magnitude of frequencies over time. There are no individual packets of light just like there are no individual packets of sounds. Photons are a useful idea in simulations because you need to sample specific paths.
Ask HN: What is your GitHub Copilot (code LLM assistant) workflow?
Are you using a code LLM assistant? How do you use it? How have you changed your coding/software development routine to effectively utilize and integrate this tool into your day-to-day?

This post from today by Martin Fowler is pretty cool:
An example of LLM prompting for programming

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35612494

- https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-chatgpt-xu-hao.html
this does seem like a scam, maybe they should take it down before someone actually downloads and tries to run the thing
The Platformatic Founders: Q&A with CEO Luca Maraschi
I grew up in an American suburb and now live in Boston. I like that the city is more walkable, but still not very walkable. Transport is a hassle. The city streets are also often unclean, and there are some folk on the streets who most people would rather not associate with, e.g., homeless, vulgar, etc.

What is it about cities outside of America that make them better? Do you any any examples? Do you have any suggestions what we could do in America to emulate that?
The sources are cited and your comment is against HN policy. If you care to engage with someone more educated than yourself on a topic, I'm happy to debate on fair terms.
I've learned that Engineers approximate and use π = 3.

So now we've gotten our time estimate down from 4x to 3x. Talk about efficiency!
The middleman in this case is completely necessary. Commercial real estate investors raise and take on the equity financing. Banks or other debt investors provide the more senior debt capital and take on much less risk (generally…)
> IOW perpetual crunch is bad, mmkay?

This is more or less the crux of it. If you work on a service/product with many users (or no users at all) then there may be pressure to do something right now. A crunch every now and then is a necessary evil - a long-term crunch will just burn people out. Anecdotally I notice that my productivity falls after 6 months of crunch and fizzles out after 10-12 months. Companies can vaguely sustain this effort only by recruiting aggressively.
All non-political critiques which I have seen (here and elsewhere) always seem to turn out to be based on misunderstandings or exaggerations of what he actually has said or written (sometimes wildly so). Or, as it sometimes turns out, people hate him not for anything he has said, but because of how other people has misunderstood and misinterpreted him.

From what I have seen, every time he has been criticized sincerely, and he has become aware of it, he has engaged his critics in open debate, and they have come to amicable results, with him sometimes altering his views.
School may help as your child gets older. We've lost touch with a lot of people we knew that way--they moved or their kids left the school. But we knew a lot of people that way.
Hofstader's Law, is that it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Bluntly, many of the better employers are going to balk at your work history. 5 jobs in 7 years is kind of a red flag. Employers (both good and bad) prefer someone who will stay for several years; the better employers get to be choosy enough to get that. A recruiter can't do much to fix that.

As for your actual question: There are better recruiters and worse recruiters. Don't avoid them all, just learn which ones are worth dealing with.

I recently (January/February) did a job search. I reached out to some recruiters I trusted from previous experience. I also went looking on Indeed and Monster. (Those were better ten years ago than they are now.) I posted my resume on Indeed, which got me spammed by recruiters that threw everything remotely technical at me, even though most of them were things that I explicitly was not looking for. I forget where the actual job came from - from a recruiter I reached out to, or from Indeed.

It's a numbers game. You need to look at maybe 30 openings, maybe more. To find those 30, it can help to have someone shoving openings at you - someone like a recruiter. But of those 30, you need to weed out most of them quickly (say 20 out of the 30). They're a bad fit, or they're bottom-of-the-barrel businesses just looking for a body who can kind of do the work. You need to develop a sense for which ones to rule out.

The number of places that you should seriously pursue you can probably count on one hand. But you may need help finding them, and it may take time. Don't be so desperate to get out of your current place that you just take the best offer you get this week - you'll wind up somewhere else lousy. Take the time to find a good place.
...for people playing Russian Roulette, the temptation to take pulling the trigger and surviving as evidence that it is safe to pull the trigger again appears irresistible.
The aspirational American city is Charleston, its gentle density, lush, verdant. Not he apartment blocks of NYC.

That's the picture that needs painting. One of town life. Not necessarily apartment life.
Conquer and pillage?
CEO's/managers of big company game developers may have missed that memo
They also have somewhat notoriously long been considered not AI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-AlekseyKorshuk-7B-GPT...

Try this model, which uses excludes some of the "ethics" filtering.

Also, IDK what you mean by a "small" GPU, but I am getting ~3.5 tokens/sec on a laptop 2060, and I think I can squeeze more out of it. And there are methods for splitting up the load in small VRAM pools.
Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky
I know of a startup that is incubated at an accelerator, and the only reason they had to be at the workplace was because they may lose seats if not occupied.
We (U.S) don't tax human labor. You can invest countless hours of your own effort into creating and/or improving property (including intangible property) and never pay a cent in tax.

Instead, we tax income.
So essentially the value of capital increases? Sounds fair.
I've heard the same, to which I have two replies:

(1) It might be expensive to add a lot of extra plumbing, but is it really more expensive than the revenue your building isn't generating as office space? (I imagine this will vary a lot from one building and owner to the next).

(2) It's possible to have housing with shared bathrooms and kitchens. HN commenters sometimes ask "Yeah, but who wants to live in a place with a shared bathroom?" The answer: someone whose current housing is even worse, or nonexistent. Sleeping in a clean, safe bedroom with a door that locks but having to go down the hall to pee is a big improvement over sleeping on the street.
This is called sharding, but the question is more about the assignment algorithm(s) supported by the sharding algorithms, which are not always flexible enough to support the gp's suggestion.
Mmmh not convinced, around me people take those drugs because their therapist advise them to do so. They don’t buy stuff at the drugstore because it’s legal, neither does the therapist prescribe you a pill “because it’s legal !”
Sorry, but according to NASA satellite data, you are sorely mistaken: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
Except to large commercial landlords, who...actually, there is no downside.
Office rentals are also a service. They provide a stable office environment that you can do business in at a fixed rate.
> Companies just don't have offices?

That seems to be what the market is choosing, yes.

But coworking spaces are another possibility.
> exposed civilians exercising their democratic right to protest and assembly

Where is destroying private property, throwing bricks, and setting things on fire in that sentence? Let’s call a spade a spade.

Edit:

And just so I’m not misinterpreted, I am completely against excessive force by police. Both sides are wrong and the author of this piece conveniently leaves that out.
I see "operators"--as in people responsible for keeping k8s infra healthy--are still not using "operators"--as in the k8s code--as much as they should. It's a powerful abstraction to extend a control loop into worker nodes. One customer we work with standardized around "operator or nothing"--i.e. never deploy anything in a cluster that is not an operator. Their infrastructure remains minimalistic, yet super functional and debuggable.
The "random" button sent me on an hour long rabbit hole and I learned about (among other things) the gopher protocol. A+, would lose that time again.
"The camera is so bad I’d be better off just writing out a description of what I’m looking at rather than taking a picture of it." ...

total deal-breaker. otherwise I was getting excited about this device! :-(
> So far, I've had a 100% success rate.

With blind spots that big, how would you really know?
I'm aware that the big open office floorplans shared with 3 other companies is probably the only office environment that most HN'ers have worked in, but it's far from the norm. Most mature companies prefer to have actual private offices for their knowledge workers.
Risk.

Someone has got to take the risk of owning the property. Don't take it as some kind of moral imperative, I don't mean it that way. It's not inherently good or bad.

But simply put if a thing has value, people need to decide how to structure access to it. You can't get around having some entity that has the thing on its balance sheet, and that entity decides how to finance the maintenance of the thing. Do you pay in cash? Do you get a mortgage? Do you rent it to mom and pop, or some large corporation? What do you allow in the contracts?

These kinds of decisions have an effect on what the thing will be worth, and in the end there's a risk taker who gets rewarded or punished for doing it well or doing it badly.

You can roll the risk into some larger conglomerate that does other things like building the stuff in the first place, or a financial entity that has some financing advantage, or some entirely other thing that might make sense. But in the end, the risk is there somewhere in some entity and needs to be dealt with.
If this is true, why is it illegal to build anything but low density suburbia in most places?
Anti-boycott laws, but surely only between nation states? Being forced to purchase something would seem little dictatorial.

Boycott could also include purchasing an EV - thereby the consumer is boycotting the oil industry. Meaning there does not necessarily need to be transparency of the supply chain to make a consumption vote.
What did you search? Try just 'roman coins'

#1: http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html

#2-4: were not very good

#5: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc1.html

#6: https://www.cngcoins.com/Greek+and+Roman+Coins.aspx

#7: https://www.crystalinks.com/romecoins.html

If you search for specifically the 'as' it may be eaten as a stop word :-/
To me, this is a great illustration of why chat is a terrible interface for a coding tool. I've gone down this path as well, learning that you need to have a detailed prompt that establishes a lot of context, and iteratively improve it to generate better code. And yup, generating a task list and working from that is definitely a key strategy for getting GPT to do anything bigger than a few paragraphs.

But compare that to Copilot: Copilot doesn't help much when you're starting from scratch, and there's nothing for it to work with. But once you have a bit of structure, it starts to make recommendations. Rather than generating large chunks of code, the recommendations are small, chunks of a few lines or maybe even one line at a time. And it's sooooo good at picking up on patterns. As soon as you start something with built-in symmetries, it'll quickly generate all the permutations. It's sort of prompting by pointing.

This is so. much. better. than writing prompt for the chat interface. I'm really excited to see where these kinds of tools lead.
Kirk: Scotty, fix the warp drive

Scotty: That will take me 2 months captain.

(8 months later)

Scotty: We've put the warp drive in a Docker container captain

Krik: Is it fixed?

Scotty: No, that will be 10 months
sure, but the tone sounds if OP has not moved on. Why be so angry after all these years?
> Don't follow the concrete practices in the best-selling book*

Argument by sales number. Good start.

> vetted by industry leaders for years

Self-appointed industry leaders, sure. They could by no means be wrong, right?

> instead follow this set of 5 high level goals that I've generally described and grouped together into a catchy acronym

Sounds like Uncle Bob's SOLID. If that's the case then I agree with you.
while you do all that needed tinkering I'll be just working/playing games thank you very much.

Jokes aside, Windows is just as viable as an daily driver like MacOS or Linux.
But to state it is the most efficient & easy-to-use, that's stretching it a little bit.
I was noticing if you use the same seed with some of the image generating transformers, that one image of some waves and the next of some clouds or something, will have the peeks and troughs of the waves and the cloud pattern in equivalent places. It made me think is there a way of hiding data in generated images by using specific seeds that leave symbols that can be recovered with the right transformation.