skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retired USN Surface Warfare Officer here.

The differentiation between rudder and engine is crucial. The Conning Officer, who gives orders to the helm at the direction of the Officer of the Deck, will call rudder orders as "left standard rudder" or "right full rudder".

Engine orders will be given in terms of "all engines ahead 1/3", "back 1/3" or "port engine ahead 1/3, starboard engine back 1/3" (to put a clockwise twist on when maneuvering). Frequently when on a great circle voyage, one may have the port shaft making turns for, e.g. 13kts, and the starboard shaft just trailing in the water, for fuel efficiency.

The crucial point here is that these order terms are like strong data types in code. We do not mix them. In a stressful situation, e.g. the Straits of Malacca, the last thing anyone needs is entropy from a terminology mix-up. Lives are literally at stake.

Bonus point: the port/starboard nomenclature is also applies to spatial locations off of the centerline. Compartments go, level, frame (bow to stern numbering), centerline position. e.g.

6 4 2 0 1 3 5

Thus, as a young lad at the end of the Cold War, working on Aegis in CG-57, my computer room was O1-138-0-C.

The centerline numbering is in accordance with PESO: Port: Even, Starboard: Odd.

To this day, I set up my cel phone headset IAW PESO, based upon the day of the month. Go, Navy.
Get outta here with your witchcraft!
The only way to really plan for it, if you're running a small business with lower margins, is to raise prices, grow users or cut salary expenses. None of those are easy, even if you can see the tax bill coming.
I was just thinking this morning what a watershed moment it was when food got these. Bravo FCC, this is awesome news and a huge step forward in the junk food world of internet access.
What I mean is they keep bluffing up until the literal commencement of the trial. The legal process, once underway, should not be treated as an extension of the political poker table.
Came here to say this. The level of general ignorance of how accounting and tax works on this thread (not you, others) is astounding.

Of course, if anyone had owned real estate, they'd understand things like depreciation, and the fact that you can spend money without it being an 'expense', or that no, just because you 'made $1,000,000 and spent $1,000,000' doing something like building a house, or a piece of code, you could of course show an accounting profit. You created something of value--that's the point. There's something of value left over. Maybe there won't be in five years, but you can't expense the entire thing immediately.

I actually think this treatment (capitalization of software R&D) is more "correct" from a theoretical accounting perspective. Clearly, software companies are creating something that has residual value with all those developer salaries. As for the politics, I'm not sure. I do know that RE has the same problem (accounting profit can run far ahead of cashflow), but has so much crazy advantaged tax treatment (arguably "loopholes")--1031 exchanges, bonus depreciation--and that's on top of stuff like 179 expensing (not specific to RE I know, but still), that maybe software just needs to work more like RE, where the baseline is "many things capitalized", but all sorts of crazy loopholes driven by the whims of short-term politics.

It certainly makes the accountants rich...

FWIW, my wife's architecture practice is dealing with this 174 amortization (on their salaries, some of which were classified as R&D) and it's killing them, too.
A rural school teacher became a top Covid sleuth
materialism refers to the belief that matter comes first, and that consciousness and experience came after millions of years of matter developing into life and life evolving and so on.

I'm not denying this is a reasonable possibility, or that you're wrong or crazy to take that assumption. What I'm saying is that that's what it is, an assumption. Too many times materalists forget this.

The discussion of whether we "go" "somewhere" when we die is complicated, in part perhaps because you're assuming that anyone that questions whether there's total annihilation of experience after death, you assume those people believe some preconceived notion such as heaven, ghosts, etc. And probably operating on assumptions about what we mean by "we". For example, our bodies don't disappear when we die, the matter that composed them is still part of the world, it just spreads and loses the recognizable pattern of "John" or whatever. I see no logical reason why the same can't be true for the mental faculties. Why would information simply disappear into nothingness?

Wine has an effect on the mind because there is an obvious interaction between matter and experience. If you are driving a car and I throw dark paint at the windshield, that will affect the operation of the car even if I don't affect you directly. The fact that your driving is affected does not mean that you are the car.

As for the brain as the center of consciousness, that would be akin to believing earth to be the center of gravity, without understanding that gravity can act in less obvious, more subtle ways across the universe. But we have no way of measuring consciousness objectively, and we possibly will never have, and this is why I think it's important to highlight how many of the things people take for granted about what we are and our place in the universe, are assumptions and beliefs, not facts.
> How so?

A theory created after an experiment is just fudging. A new theory allows you to come up with new experiments to test it. Or to come up with new theoretical extensions. Or to build a research agenda.

> So do you think that Special Relativity would be as well-known and popular today if people hadn't proven it right in countless experiments and found applications in many other areas?

There is no empirical evidence that supports SR over LET. There can’t be any, mathematically.
Plenty of lakes don't have "Lake" in the name.
https://wapo.st/3oqAkS7

> In an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post, Meta’s head of human resources, Lori Goler, wrote Tuesday evening that the company will begin notifying employees on its technical teams whose jobs are being cut.

> Divisions that will face cuts include teams working on Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and the virtual-reality division Reality Labs among others, according to Goler. She advised some employees to not go into the office if it wasn’t critical for their role, according to the memo.

> ...

> The company is expected to lay off what probably will be thousands of highly skilled employees — such as engineers and other technical staffers — who help build the company’s products, according to people familiar with the matter. The cuts are a rare moment of vulnerability for engineers at Meta who have long enjoyed job security, high salaries, autonomy and freedom to work on their desired projects, amid stiff competition for talent in Silicon Valley.
It’s practically teleportation.
Ha! And I remember when Perl was the default "glue language".

It's been a long time since I've seen Perl, I bet it's still kicking around somewhere but I doubt they teach it in undergrad anymore.
It’s not an anti pattern. It’s the enterprise sales pattern.
Friendly reminder that archive.org (amongst other places) has basically every older version of Windows ISOs you can download and try out in a VM to see what the experience was like in the "good old days".
Already is a python package named Astral: https://sffjunkie.github.io/astral/
You can check if is is archived https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/18/b...
I feel bad for the people and there are a lot of them that have crap internet still to this day.
“High output management”
I think having some top talent moving to non Silicon Valley companies is a good thing. Computer science and engineering is a driver for our economy and I like the idea of making companies and our infrastructure as strong and as robust as we can.

As much as I appreciate different cultures in different countries around the world and I wish all people peace and a comfortable life spurred by global trade, I would like to see all countries have more robustness and resilience in the face of occasional supply chain problems, world level political strife, etc.
Yes, this is the SWE round.

> Divisions that will face cuts include teams working on Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and the virtual reality division Reality Labs among others
that puny thing? I only feel safe in one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overburden_Conveyor_Bridge_F60
I have a windows 10 laptop I haven't upgraded to 11. Every once in a while I turn it on and its not at my desktop but at a "lets upgrade to windows 11!" screen and it requires several "no, lets not" buttons before you can tell it not go away but "go away for now". Quite irritating.
> Vollebregt said Dreamstar’s service would be “more like a private jet company than a big airline,” focused on the specialized niche of “upscale, overnight, hotel train service.”

> One-way tickets would cost about $300, $600 and $1,000, depending on the tier of room, which Vollebregt said is higher than typical airfare, but below other North American sleeper trains.

I'm going to say this niche fits exactly 5 people in the state of California.
But the issue also exists in dense areas of Chicago where things aren't far, they are just laid out in a way that doesn't really allow for the same environment as traditional European cities
The difference is that folks had an incentive to make their pages easily indexable: drive page views.

With becoming training data the incentive to the creators is a little less clear
Explore Washington DC through the eyes of a spy
>>some geniuses
A super majority of both the house and senate with 3/4 of all state legislatures in accordance with the intention of the original founders that people update things as the times change?
the UI is quite limited, check out the outputs https://play.vercel.ai/r/I25tmJs when needs a scroll bar.
It doesn't really matter if some of the data is generated by LLMs. It's possible for LLMs to improve themselves by training on their own output, there is no strict requirement for "fresh" content. If it's mixed with human content and gets human feedback through voting that's great training data.
Great! Nice. Very neat possibilities here.

I'd be very very interested to hear follow up, on how Firefly does actors. I feel like there's so many potential ways to target wasm, but the high concurrency spirit of Beam has such unique flavor. I'd love to read in & hear that spirit is well preserved.
The Age of the Crisis of Work
I think it doesn't matter that much anymore.

Express was really cool and different from what was out there at the time (at least in terms of simplicity and JS support).

But nowadays there's not a lot of difference between them. Sure, some are more ergonomic than others in certain areas but the patterns are almost the same in all of them.
A blurb with no content to that is actually just a reference to their podcast episode. I didn’t see a link to the podcast show so I check my podcast app. No result matching the name. Return to the article - blocked by view limit without account.

Why must things be this way?
I am doing research on a product I want to buy, and it's just showing buy-now ads. It used to do that right before the regular searches, but now it's buy-now ads, all the way down.
Indeed. This site is nauseating.
This could maybe work if it was sf-Seattle. LA is too close
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619589
Every other browser will be forced to catch up or lose market share.
By design... The AK is mostly stamped material which makes mass production cheap, fast and easy. While the slop makes it less accurate, it is far more reliable, especially when dirty and poorly maintained. Compare that to an ultra precise AR-15, if you get a little dirt in it, it begins to malfunction.
The history of rules about women's clothing worldwide
Sad that due to politicking we couldn't get Gigi Sohn in, so we get Eric J. Troutman instead: https://tcpaworld.com/2023/04/01/its-official-u-s-president-...

More on Gigi Sohn: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599075/gigi-sohn-fcc-ne... and https://www.theverge.com/23437518/biden-fcc-gigi-sohn-fox-ne...
A lot of engineers working hard up in the PNW offices as well.
I have also started using it pretty recently, and haven't had too much issue finding folks talking about any issues I've run into (and either found fixes for my issue, or at least workarounds while folks are currently working on fixes).

However, it still by default uses Express under the hood, though you can change that to Fastify or whatever else you like.
Those are some incredible results!

You can do more than ask it to describe the picture.

For example: "Write a short fictional story about what the sleeping man in this picture is dreaming about."

https://www.gally.net/sleepers/2004-5winter/07.html

LLaVA: "In the image, a bearded man wearing a jacket is laying down on a sidewalk, seemingly taking a nap. As he dreams, he finds himself transported to a tropical island where he is surrounded by lush greenery and the sound of waves crashing on the shore. He can feel the warm sunshine on his face and the soft breeze rustling through the palm trees. In this dream, the man is completely relaxed and carefree, enjoying the serene atmosphere and the beauty of the island."
Is that per-seat or per-room? They don't really say.
Yes, I noticed this just now.
I saw a recommendation about this DigitalproHackz, from a comment section and he offers any hacking services. He’s the greatest I’ve seen so far, you can get in touch with him through digitalprohackz @ gmail com assistance, he’s very good.
Depends on whose theory you're talking about. I never understood why budget cuts were the Republican rallying cry, because they're almost entirely meaningless when you mint your own reserve currency. If I could impart one thing and one thing only to every American, it would be that the federal budget does not work like a household budget, and the federal deficit is not a credit card. All of these appeals to overspending are just trying to gin up a very specific flavor of fear.
This is so timely for me, I've been wondering how I can visualize load balancing algorithms for the last few weeks.

When trying to explain why round robin is bad, I often try to describe a situation where a backend cluster with a wide variance in performance can cause a cluster of clients using round-robin load balancing to start developing a sort of harmonic resonance where all the clients slowly synchronize on which servers they are hitting. However, it's hard to explain in words and a visual simulation would help me explain.

Do you think it would be easy for me to hack the source and add multiple clients to the simulation?
Thank you for saving me a click, though (:
Do you have an example of this? Is authorization a part of vercel?
For a lot of executives and business travelers, the alternative is flying in the night before and getting a hotel room.

A night train is a much, much better option.
I thought we already had an "everything app": the web browser.
How often is the database updated? For instance on stock price data can it be considered realtime (or 15 min lag) for daily market tracking? Not familiar with that SEC api.
When this settles down, I'm pretty sure search is going to show worst results when it comes to specific questions, and will instead show more generalized results. That's going to be hell for anyone still writing a blog.
The first paragraph, although an interesting theory, is odd and almost self contradictory. If you don't expect anything to come out of interaction, why not just type your responses into an offline journal for yourself and keep it at that? I do this often for my future self and highly recommend it. But if I interact with others I try to be honest with my intentions.

I can't say I disagree with the rest of your comment but i barely see the relevance to the topic of Nietzsche and how you seemed misguided in confusing his vision of the future with our current technological advances.
No, this is completely wrong.

It's not "just an expense". Think about an architect designing a house. The tax treatment depends on how the person spending the money "uses" the labor. It might be an ordinary operating expense (fully deductible), but could also be inventory, or a depreciated "capital asset" (closely related to the idea of "capital gains" taxes) whose value is spread over a long period of time, generally related to the asset's usable life.

There is a large body of work around the correct treatment of this stuff, which sits at the core of accounting in the same way data structures sit at the core of CS. It's not the most straightforward thing to explain. The tax code contains a ton of exceptions, but in general, a thing that is long-lived, expensive, not routinely bought or sold, and provide some kind of long-lived economic benefit (e.g. shelter, the ability to produce something, or facilitate some kind of industrial process), is a capital asset. (Sounds a lot like software, doesn't it?) Inventory is something routinely bought and sold, generally for profit. A server is inventory for Dell. For a typical software startup, it's a capital asset.

The whole point of accounting is trying to accurately measure economic activity. It's more complicated than it looks. If you agree to a five-year contract and get paid upfront, not all that money is "earned" (hence taxable) in the first year. If you're in debt and the debt is forgiven, no money changes hands, but that's very much beneficial (and taxable) to you. And if you own a long-lived asset, you don't just get to say, oh, I spent all this money upfront, that's an expense I can use to reduce my taxes. Not how it works.

Just trying to shed some light on this. It is indeed rather complex.
True. But some voting machines generate a print of the vote that was tabulated, and some generate a printout from a separate code path. The problem is that you don't know which it is.
Only leaf groups, with very tenuous connections.
Nice example!

LLaVA's language model appears to be weaker than GPT-4's.

And we've already seen the featured GPT-4 demo where it explains a visual gag with a modified phone charging cable. So GPT 4 might get this.

On the other hand, this test is almost certainly in GPT 4's training set. And I've seen GPT 4 correctly answer questions that appear on only a half dozen pages on the entire web. And since the Obama scale test is from 2012, there's a decent chance GPT 4 might just remember the answer.
Night train is very popular around the world, and it's a hit with tourists because they can save extra day on hotel expense and travelling time. It's a kind of travelling hack.

Japan Sunrise Night Train is extremely popular and tourist need to book them several weeks in advance to get a ticket [1]. You can use Japan Rail Pass card for the nobi-nobi economy seats but need to pay extra for the private compartments.

[1] Night Trains:

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2356.html
I explored this question a bit:

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/no-code-clean-performance
In engineering, it's much closer to 2 than 100.
For stage directions there's also "House Left" and "House Right", which are from the perspective of the audience.
It passed it. was already tested -https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1635697741925064704
The sequence of the Great Filter:

1. The right star system (including organics and potentially habitable planets)
2. Reproductive molecules (e.g. RNA)
3. Simple (prokaryotic) single-cell life
4. Complex (eukaryotic) single-cell life
5. Sexual reproduction
6. Multi-cell life
7. Tool-using animals with intelligence
8. A civilization advancing toward the potential for a colonization explosion (where we are now)
9. Colonization explosion

We have made it through 7 of the 9 steps and are currently in number 8. I would call that the end stages of the Great Filter.
1.5T and 3T are very common, and 4-7T are definitely used in a number of hospitals. UMN has a 10.5T magnet they've shoved humans into. Their stent is rated to 3T for a variety of reasons including:

1. That's all they've tested (as you alluded to).

2. It might actually fail at higher fields.

3. Stents act as antennas and can focus RF into unwanted places like cooking the middle of the brain, and it's a lot more likely that the stent is rated for exactly 3T than up to 3T since the relevant frequencies are proportional to field strength, and the associated wavelengths can coincide more or less with the length of the stent (kind of like how the Tacoma Narrows bridge could have experienced a lot more wind, but that particular set of factors was problematic). It _might_ be certified for 0-3T, but that takes additional research to actually do.

4. Any number of other reasons. High fields have a variety of counter-intuitive properties.
I still don't know what time it is. "Nice" UI.
I see what you're saying. However, I'd argue that the zero-shot learning capabilities of the latest GPTs, if continually improved upon, could potentially offer a path towards a generalist "scientist" agent, one that could perform its own research and take over R&D for humanity (aka, the singularity). But yes, I absolutely agree that the current gen capabilities of GPTs are nowhere close to this hypothetical situation.

Of course, the models from Alphabet don't really fit this bill either. I do wonder how many "protein folding" style problems there are out there, for these narrow superintelligent AIs to solve.
That's already what the law is.
> So many people don't get that experience.

This is very true. The misuse of the "premature optimization" mantra and the thought that valuable programmer time should never be spent on performance have done a disservice to a generation or two of developers. To the point that so many developers don't even believe performance has any significance and the cloud just magically makes it fast.

Spending a week optimizing some function to shave off a few seconds may be totally worth it, just depends how often it runs. If it is a code path being used by millions of people, it can quickly become very valuable.

Cost is another factor. Sure you might be able to effortlessly spin up dozens or hundreds more instances on demand to handle the load because the code is so slow one instance can barely handle a few dozen requests per second, but you're paying for that. Make an instance capable of handling a few thousand rps and suddenly you've save very real money.

And battery life on all portable devices also benefits from more efficient CPU usage.
Though no Count Chocula.
The problem everyone had with the overnight LA-SF bus was that the drive wasn't long enough for a proper night's sleep, if you could sleep at all bounced around in your bunk. Granted a train allows for better accommodation, but doesn't solve the underlying problem.
Could you be the human judge please?

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/no-code-clean-performance
So, 2 will get better and no country has figured out now to solve 1 yet. Not even handing out money works.
64M? Looks more like 6.4x
Do you mean the most restrictive interpretation of the law you can imagine? Because you can't actually know what the letter of the law means in specific cases before a judge rules something.

You can of course try living your life like that, but you'll likely find that it becomes effectively impossible to do anything.
i really don’t understand how it came to this anyway. the industry is so stubborn. what is not clear here? you should not spy on your site visitors for marketing purposes.

when you join a poll you do so with consent, when a market/social/political research entity invites you to a focus group (for example) you get at least a coffee and snack if not real money.

websites just get this for granted? it’s like stealing. it will never stop until the industry gets some understanding of these concepts.