skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some institutional barrier to training new hires? It seems like the inevitable result if you need an increasingly niche skill. The situation doesn't seem like it'll get better on its own.
And vice versa, for some.
Their point was, if you’re a small account you get
terrible support. Saying huge accounts great support isn’t relevant for the overwhelming majority of AWS customers.
Why label this 'rightward'? Plenty of left-leaning governments throughout history have used censorship.
EnglishScript – embed natural language in your JavaScript code
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries
Anais Nin
Jevon's Paradox has some interesting implications for the "ChatGPT will make software developers obsolete" crowd. I think it will do the opposite. LLMs will make generating code more efficient, thus we're likely to have more code to maintain and an overall increase in software work. Every technology aimed at improving developer efficiency has resulted in ever-increasing software work (perfectly in line with the predictions of Jevon's paradox) and there is no evidence that LLMs will be any different.
"It might be in the self-interest of each developer to simply turn to the AI for a quick answer, but unless we all continue contributing knowledge back to a shared, public platform, we risk a world in which knowledge is centralized inside the black box of AI models that require users to pay in order to access their services."

A shared, public platform you say? The type of platform that AI will scan and train on? Therefore by contributing to such platform, you actively participate in AI centralization, no?
Putting caps or even somewhat more complex networks in parralel to switches or around switches is a solution when you cannot change the rest of the system.

Correct solution for this issue is debouncing logic (be it in HW or SW). But if for your application an SPDT switch costs same as SPST switch, driving an RS flipflop from that works better (less latency) and component-wise is cheaper than deboucing in HW (same amount of logic, less passives).
RC autonomous racing car capable of ~25km/h
Mob Programming: Pros/Cons of Full Team Collaboration on a Single Screen
TRLD version:
Mob programming is a great technique; in all the opportunities I have applied it, it has been very helpful. It can be expensive and you will need to have a strong and mature team to make it work. It works quite well in a remote environment, provided the team is willing to work with it. If you have not yet tried it, get your full team on a call, pick the hardest problem you have to solve, and start coding it and taking decisions just-in-time, and share your experience later; the results will speak for themselves. My only concern is how demanding it can be; if you try to do it for too many hours a day, too many days in a row, be careful not to burn yourself out in the process.
https://twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1646670920214536193

Sam explicitly said that there won't be GPT-5 in the near future, which is pretty clear evidence unless he's blatantly lying in public speaking.
It does.

The standard playbook for rolling up criminal conspiracies is to arrest a low level member, offer him a reduced sentence in return for testimony, arrest the next guy higher up based on that testimony, etc. (The only way to prevent that would be a fully trustless "cell" structure where none of conspirators know each other, which has never been done in real life.)

You will notice none of this requires communications intercepts. This is because the feds are simply lying when they say encryption prevents law enforcement operations.
Why can't they use the library? Ours are very nice.
I don't think the economies allow for it. The German Sparkasse started as a savings bank and at its core was/is a 'dumb bank' in your words. But at some point customers demand financing etc. and would like to get all their basic needs from one bank instead of having multiple. So these banks adapted.
dude someone lied their way into being president of the united states all while people fact checked him basically immediately after each lie. lying doesnt make a difference.
The person featured in the article has posted a lot of great videos on YouTube (one of them is embedded in the article). He’s very honest about the challenges, and it doesn’t look easy.
No, you are. Are you adding criteria to your previous facile entry that "it is obvious that human cells are human life duh"? Are you saying that a fetus is the beginning of a human life when it is physiologically whole and complete? When does that happen, do you know? It's certainly not at conception. What if it doesn't happen - is a missing eye relevant to whether there's a human life?
Yes, it would be interesting, because you'd expect materials to cost roughly the same wherever you are in the country (modulo shipping costs), and cost of labor to account for much of the city to city difference.

A former landlord of mine, whose house I was renting in Palo Alto at the time (2021), shared that they were planning to kick off a major renovation that would total around 800K$ all-in.

That's an absolutely stunning figure to renovate a 3bdrm home, considering I've also heard anecdotes from outside California, of completely stripping down a similar-sized home to the studs, redoing all plumbing / electricity / walls / flooring / high-end-everything in the kitchen... for under 250K$.

So, where's the extra half-million dollars going? The delta in renovation costs alone between these anecdotes represents 10 years of the average California constructor worker's salary [per the BLS](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472061.htm).
This whole conversation about training set size is bizarre. No one ever asks what’s in the training set. Why would a trillion tokens of mundane gossip improve a LLMs ability to do anything valuable at all?

If a scrape of the general internet, scientific papers and books isn’t enough, a trillion trillion trillion text messages to mom aren’t going to change matters.
authoritarian is probably the right word, rather than left/right.
The basic chain of events is:

Teachers wanted to have books like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cd5VUhMrF4 available in classrooms (this is on the MO 'banned books' list). Parents (obviously) objected to this, but the teachers/librarians dug their heels in.

Due to a loss of trust, parents started demanding oversight into everything that the schools/libraries were making available, and that's how you end up with absolutely crazy things like banning photos of the statue of David.
> failover as STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head)

What functional consensus protocol doesn't mandate attempted murder? When a node becomes incoherent it can't be relied upon to notice that it has done so and bow out gracefully. Like cancer, there is always a change that 'cell death' will fail and leave you in a pathological state.
I have repeatedly argued against this notion of „just predicting the next word“. No. It‘s completing a conversation. It‘s true that it is doing this word by word, but it‘s kind of like saying a CNN is just predicting a label. Sure, but how? It‘s not doing it directly. It‘s doing it by recovering a lot of structure and in the end boiling that down to a label. Likewise a network trained to predict the next word may very well have worked out the whole sentence (implicitly, not as a text) in order to generate the next word.
It seems that "suspecting it might have a good reason later" or "you're using the same service as other people it has a good reason to spy on" are sufficient reasons now.
solar panels are only partially efficient. if the solar -> electric conversion efficiency is 21%, then 79% of the incoming solar radiation is converted to heat.
Can confirm. I used to use it for hiring high quality engineers.
You're right, I think "illiberal" lurch is a better description.
None of these busts involved breaking encryption. They all involved trusting a third party which later became known to be untrustworthy.
Depends on how much abstraction you have, I have seen big companies where deploying code is basically like using Heroku. As an engineer responsible for a couple of services you don't need to know or care if this code is running on bare metal, Mesos, K8s and you care even less about the data center.

I come from this old world of managing switches and servers and today we definitely need a lot less people to run code in production. I used to work at a company with ~2000 machines in physical data centers before containerization, this required a huge infra team - I'm sure that today I could support the same workloads with half the team.
> Plenty of downsides too of course.

Managing the rental (or ownership) comes to mind first. The rest of the logistics surrounding "stock the kitchen with coffee and healthy snacks" comes next. The "have more control over how it was arranged" part also comes with "need to make a bunch of decisions you didn't have to before".

(Essentially just playing devil's advocate; not trying to argue for or against the idea. I'm sure many people would prefer such a set up and many others would not.)
>A battery charge doesn't "go stale"

Yes it does- cells slowly self-discharge when not in use and have their range affected by temperature swings to the degree that, for certain cars (mainly the Leaf), the weather will dictate if you're going to make it to work and back or not.

>an EV is still cheaper and easier and more convenient

I can't buy an EV for $10,000 that has more than 60 miles of maximum range and recharges in less than 10 minutes, so every one of those points is wrong. Oh yeah, and I don't have to spend an hour per week waiting for it to charge it because it holds what is, at current burn rates, a month's worth of fuel (I can't take advantage of home charging unless I want to move and thus burn several hundred more a month on rent- and several hundred dollars can buy a lot of gas).

The electricity itself might be cheap but everything else isn't.

>generally increasing the risk of expensive maintenance

Cars that run on gas are extremely reliable even past 100,000 miles, and have been for the past 20 years now (even the American-made ones). I give worse odds to the electric power packs that by their nature are cumulatively damaged when refueled; exhibit A being the Leaf, of course.
Let’s not put on the rose colored spectacles. Many rave promoters were canny business operators who rode the wave of PLUR to fame and fortune. (Richie Hawtin, Paul Oakenfold, etc.)

Like the 60s festival promoters before them, they may have sold peace and love, but they were really in it for themselves.

There was also a lot of drug abuse and sexual assault, and the criminal activity that comes along with the drug trade. Not everyone had a good time.
It's not thorny at all, it's the bare minimum required in order for you to have any shred of legitimacy when you argue against fascist states enforcing their own moral rules via pública education.
Is it possible to reliably do this in reverse?

A friend of mine built an app using aggregations - they are hard to work with and understand imho, I'd rather convert them to simpler Python operations. Fetch some rows, join them to some rows from another table, etc.
Those are numbers for smartphone sales, not the software on them. Hardware sales can be negative, sometimes even intended. Just look at console vendors for that.
> I want privacy hostile companies like Facebook to have to comply with the app store rules and respect system settings relating to privacy.

Just as a general reminder, I heavily recommend that you not install Facebook on your phone even if you have an iPhone. There are good things Apple is doing with enforcing privacy controls, the controls aren't useless, but there are still loopholes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/a-yea...

To provide a counter silver-lining to the concerns here, I'm hoping that if iOS gets sideloading that maybe apps like NewPipe could start becoming more commonly available for iOS users.

Right now, iOS is sort of stuck in this middle ground where Apple does legitimately do some excellent work reducing the privileges of apps, but also... you still have to use those apps if you want access to the services. It would be good to see more unofficial clients for some of these services like NewPipe or Twire get better support like they have on Android. I'm not knocking Apple here, they're trying to hit a middle ground between accessibility and privacy, but I don't want people thinking that the iOS version of Facebook isn't still tracking them. It's (hopefully) tracking less than it would on Android, but it's still tracking.
Authoritarian is also probably the rightward.
We write to WAL and then register the transaction in the transaction sequence registry.
If a concurrent transaction registered between the start and the end of the transaction, we update the current uncommitted transaction data with concurrent transactions and re-try registering it in the sequencer again.
To scale to multi-master we will move the transaction sequence registry to a service with a consensus algorithm.
Hey, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it switch mid-stream.
> model complexity necessary for spam filtering went down as the size of the data set went up

My naive conclusion in that this means there are still massive gains to be had, since, for example, something like ChatGPT is just text, and the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" seems incredibly accurate, from my perspective. There's an incredible amount of non-text data out there still. Especially technical data.

Is there any merit to this belief?
Ten years ago I would have agreed.

Today? I'm not sure you're right about which is the greater threat.

Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a known threat to Democracy today. Right now.

I'm not sure what the real answer should be. If "the market" manages to get the propaganda farms' misinformation under control, then great. If they don't, the only answer I can see is for government to step in.

As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Dying to protect absolute freedom of speech when bad actors are abusing it to destroy the country is not wise.
> Basically the risk would be someone like TikTok dropping out of the store, but I find that unlikely.

Maybe it's the other way around. I don't know the current legislative status of the attempts to ban TikTok, but the most realistic mechanism for doing so would involve banning it from app stores. By enabling sideloading, Apple would be enabling TikTok to circumvent such a ban.
The service is your money being safer than under the mattress. They also make home loans.
And the sweat you put in can now be monetised even more efficiently. Think about it, once ai replaced us and we’ll all be unemployed, we’ll have nothing better to do than sit and post on SO to make these dudes rich.
Cool trick! I don't know enough Python to have thought of this myself.
Can someone explain me why this is downvoted ? In my understanding his proposition about NSA is quite close to a popular one and hn seems to allow discussion of hypothesis - if they are more probable than imaginary ?

Is it the word propaganda that patriots dislike ? Not sure if some soviet connotation is involved in US but for me it’s just a synonym of “public lobbying” of “ideology gov marketing”.

I know those subjects can become polemic and I don’t want to throwing oil on the fire, but an “out of debate” clarification would be nice and helpful.
This isn't unique to that region.

Construction costs in London are significantly higher than in the north of England.

I'd be surprised if this isn't common worldwide. Tradesmen are generally in high demand in these areas, it's not like McDonalds where you can just pay minimum wage + $5 and hope for the best.

And as the other poster says, bulk materials are, well, bulky. Timber is comparatively expensive in the UK because we don't have vast forests like the US.
No - any toxic materials in a solar panel are bound up in the silicon and unable to leech out. Rain is generally good, as it cleans dust off and increases efficiency. Pollution is not a concern at all with solar.
I mean, you can get literally all of those with financing. And you're not paying money on gas at all, which is the whole point.

Sure there are down payments you have to plan for, but I'm not really sure what your point is. Yes, if you can't afford a new car you can't afford a new car.

But the whole point of financing things is to come out ahead in the long run.
If I understand it correctly, there would be zero change for the user.

Right now, a server has a single host key. This is generated once and will remain static for the server's entire lifetime. The client has the public part of that in their authorized_keys. When a session is created, the server uses the private part to sign some stuff, and the client validates it using the already-known public key. In other words, we have the host key K, client stores K_public in known_hosts. On session creation, server does `session_signature = K_private.sign(data)` and sends (data, session_signature) to client. Client does `K_public.validate(session_signature, data)` and continues if it all matches.

This usually works just fine, but you can only have a single key for a server - which is a bit of an issue if that "server" is actually an entire cluster consisting of thousands of machines. Every singly machine needs to have a copy of the single private key. as delegating this to a secure enclave is unfeasible if you get hundreds of thousands of connections per second. Not to mention that key rotation is a bit of a nightmare.

With this proposal, we add a parent key, let's call it L. L_private is stored in some kind of very secure hardware enclave. Every hour/day/whatever, the server generates a new host key K, and asks the enclave to sign the new public key. The server now has K_private, and `host_signature = L_private.sign(K_public)` as generated by the enclave. The client stores L_public in their known_hosts. On session creation, server does `session_signature = K_private.sign(data)` and sends (data, session_signature, K_public, host_signature) to the client. The client finally does `L_public.validate(host_signature, K_public) && K_public.validate(session_signature, data)`.

All of this happens on the server side, and the only thing needed is a relatively minor protocol upgrade. The interesting part is that a very similar mechanism already exists for the client's key, making it way easier to manage hundreds of keys across thousands of servers without going crazy by having to update authorized_keys among the entire server fleet multiple times per week.
A while back I looked at how I would score on their "points based" immigration calculator thing.

It wasn't good at all.

I suspect they will have to have a strong rethink of their immigration policies in the next 10-20 years.
SEC charges Bittrex with operating unregistered securities exchange
It's pretty hard to avoid putting individuals into any buckets whatsoever. How do I discover community on Nostr? I connected to a few relays but nothing seems to be themed or organized around interests. On Akkoma I can make friends with people on my local server and sibling servers in our Bubble so it's very easy. Focusing on an independent identity at the expense of any kind of association is not particularly appealing to me. I'm not surprised it has tended to attract individualists in the crypto and libertarian crowds with those design priorities.
Because checked luggage requires baggage handlers.
> Valve’s immense resources would be better spent on making Source Engine work for more game genres; itself support Vulkan better

Source Engine Vulkan support uses DXVK, and the main driver for DXVK development is Proton. So in a roundabout way, they are supporting Vulkan better.

> or even default to Vulkan on Windows

Is said Vulkan on Windows default better?

Most pretty naive direct DirectX-to-Vulkan conversions (running DXVK under Windows) have sightly worse performance that just using DirectX directly, and the proprietary Radeon Windows and Nvidia Windows drivers hide a lot of implementation-specific optimizations and workarounds for common game and application bugs.
Even with a Japanese wife, Japanese fluency, fondness for rural Japan, a career in remote work, and a flair for home renovation, I still have no interest in buying one of these houses. It’s a huge job to fix up most of these homes.
Ask HN: Is There Anything Like Noisebridge/Counter Culture Labs in Europe?
I'm looking for hacker communities where people hack science and tech together for non-commercial reasons, driven by curiosity and desire to know how stuff works. In Bay Area there's Noisebridge and Counter Culture Labs among others.

What about Europe? Are there places similar in spirit here?
Show HN: Quorbo – a quick and quirky quest for the quote
Hey HN,

Today I'm launching Quorbo (www.quorbo.com): a simple letter-revealing game (think Wheel of Fortune with some twists) where you get 6 turns to guess the day's quote!

It's my first post-parenthood side project and first web game. Being a working dad has caused me (for the first time, believe it or not) to focus on simplicity. Up until about a year ago, endless free time secretly plagued me... because I love _building_, and more free time meant: more room to add complexity.

Not anymore! Quorbo is the first of my initial batch of three simple word games, and I can't wait to make more.

Let me know what you think! (improvements, bugs / quirky behavior / stumbling blocks, any and all feedback welcome!)

Enjoy!
Shipping costs are a massive deal in construction so you’re stuck with local materials and local workers. Which recursively means your also stuck with fairly local factory workers making those materials etc.

That said, the upper end of materials get crazy expensive anywhere. From basic linoleum floors in bathrooms, the next rung is tile and underfloor heating systems, and above that people are importing hand crafted marble from Italy etc. So each bathroom could have a 100$ toilet or a 15,000$ one etc.
> There are potential privacy issues that could be troubling if not managed well

Under Supreme Court precedent, United States v. Antoine Jones (2012) [0], attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle is a search, and requires a warrant. A fancy delivery system doesn’t seem to change the Constitutional parameters.

[0] https://www.gps.gov/news/2012/01/supremecourt/#:~:text=10%2D....
In NZ we generally don't have ANY deductions (nor a tax on capital gains) - this makes filing tax easy - if you have one employer chances are they got your tax exactly right - most people don't even need to file - and certainly none of that fluffing around telling your employer how many 'deductions' you want them to fudge your PAYE with. As an employer it's equally simple, I do my payroll with a simple line in a spreadsheet.
Important to note that, unlike in many other countries, housing in Japan is a depreciating asset, like a car. Their value goes to zero over time. This is somewhat contrary to what many of us are accustomed to, where houses are appreciating (or at least stable) assets which maintain or grow in value.
This sort of thing is a big part of why flying is simply hell.

> When I've turned the ipad around or covered the ipad's camera with a napkin, a worker has come by and forced me to face the ipad's camera back at me, even if I'm not buying anything.

Time to start carrying a bit of electrical tape to put over the cameras.
Depends where.

Japan? Enough red tape to mummify yourself.
this comment got me to switch from google, thanks
Why is the government well suited to declare what it and isn't misinformation though?

Shouldn't we farm that out to a third party?
silicon valley tv show once again too accurate for comfort with its tres comas tequila.
sad 2020 Roadster noises
As should be. Even shitty opinions have a right to be expressed - I don't have to agree with them.