skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They haven't memorized the entire internet let alone the entire world, a few new avenues:

1. Use recorded movies and TV, buy the rights to transcribe (or get access to the scripts) and pair that with still frames from the video

2. Do the same for YouTube videos, harder to get the rights since you're dealing with Google and all the individual creators but bigger catalogue by far

3. If they haven't already, use the contents of Library Genesis or Google Books or just set up your own scanning project

4. Scoop up any scientific papers that they haven't ingested yet

5. Transcribe podcasts, there are millions of them now and many that publish daily content

6. Pay people to wear recording devices, this one's a bit far fetched but I'm sure it's doable with the right incentives and by choosing regions where laws allow for this

7. Non-English sources, basically applicable to everything above and maybe to the sources they've already used if they had excluded them before.
> Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail!

Yes. i think its a good software product! Maybe one of the best there ever was - I'm not surprised Sam Altman jumped the YC ship for this one, or that MS is particularly interested it. It gets ignored in all the other bru-haha but I'm excited to see what the really talented software teams of the world will be able to accomplish with an AI coding assisstent - and I don't mean just in the world of AI.

The activation energy for new software lowered by about 30% overnight, which is outrageously cool, and of course disquieting.
Gentle reminder: you can donate to the EFF to help them fight bills like this!
Because of resigned effective of a future date. Any termination of employment before then is either a with-cause firing or a layoff where severance is required.

Seems like an interesting idea. Give as much notice as possible and then see if they bench you until then.
Repressing my desire to eat every bit of food in front of me helps me on the scale.

Repressing desires to stay on the couch and going for a run instead gives me freedom to experience the world without being out of breath or stopping halfway on the hike.

Repressing desires to keep all of my money for myself leads me to be more charitable, which is better for others.

So yeah, self-control is a great thing to cultivate because the presence of a desire does not mean that the desire is good. And even if it's not bad, then it's something that can hinder a greater good.
For some companies, when you give notice, you are flagged as a security risk. e.g., high chance you will take/steal IP. They will lock down your account, investigate your recent activities, and escort you out the door.
I'm just going to hope this is comedy.
My goal is to ensure that the company is in a position to carry on with as little disruption as possible.

I've always given at least the (US standard) two weeks, and usually three, but much longer than that can be counterproductive because one can become entrenched in current projects instead of wrapping things up and transitioning them to others.

Even when I've been at the same company for many years and have been involved in a lot of projects, this never took more than two weeks because throughout my tenure I do my best to document things, cross-train my co-workers, and ensure that others could take over for me if needed. That last two weeks is usually just a matter of making sure that all my documentation is up-to-date and that people remember what I've taught them.
Is eneloop not still very much a thing? Maybe not the brand, but the technology. The vast, vast majority of consumer devices using standardized battery sizes are AA or AAA, and that means NiMH. To go lithium means 18650, and I don't really see much of that happening outside flashlights and other niche products.
The costs are minimal to handle rejected submissions. Most of the work is done by reviewers.

And no it doesn’t cost that much.. that’s the rate with a fat 50% margin, corresponding to the massive profits Elsevier rakes in. It’s just a tax on the system
This sums it up pretty well!

“Death as Entertainment at the Paris Morgue”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-vi...
This is why we're building OpenReview. We provide the algorithms and UI to match papers with qualified reviewers for peer review, host the discussion forums, and archive the data after the conference/journal is over. Many of the top ML conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR have already switched to OpenReview.
We are likely in the incremental phase of battery innovation.

You've got to balance so many factors to commercially release a battery: safety, durability, reliability, weight, energy density, cost. You can build cheap batteries, they just have some terrible characteristics.
Yes, they do. And your point? That they are "a community that will pick up Chrome dveelopment in a flash"? That's not how it works.

Browser development is prohibitively expensive. Even Microsoft, a trillion-dollar company, gave up on developing their browser. What makes you think that some magical community will just pick up the development of Chrome?
Then apply it equally and lock up anyone that has ever tweeted "vote early, vote often" or "Party X votes Tuesday, Party Y votes Wednesday" (when the election is on Tuesday). Of course, with all these politically motivated prosecutions it only goes one way.
> You gave two examples that aren't actually issues.

Man, i've had config files break because i saved them in UTF-8 instead of ANSI. I hope to god you never have to experience the horror... You also have a nice day.
Agreed. It's pretty myopic to think that foreign censorship laws only impact tech companies.
You said it costs to peer review them. But they aren't reviewing them. If that's worth $6,000, the reviewers deserve $60,000/
3 month notice, lol wtf.
Probably the digital world will reclaim all the digital jobs via AI models. What will be left is manual jobs. So we should encourage the next generation to be plumbers , carpenters, construction workers, chefs , explorers just like human were 500 years . Robotics is still a hard nut to crack.
Or MSYS2. Other tricky variants is using Windows commands (which typically use '/' as option marker), e.g.

$ tasklist /V
ERROR: argument/option invalid - "C:/msys64/V"

or the time I wanted to use xmlstarlet and any xpath expression was interpreted as Windows path :(

At least for MSYS2 the environment variable MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXC can be used to prevent conversion.
https://www.msys2.org/docs/filesystem-paths/#process-argumen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_Mubarak
Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Netflix’s DVD Business
Nicely done. I wonder if it can hold a term based BBS server and if so how many users it can serve. But I guess we need to figure out storage first. Is SD card good for pico?
Or adding a middle name of “A” because some databases can’t handle that a person might not have a middle name or middle initial.
I pay for POAPs on Ethereum using Eth. There's no expectation of profit by owning one since anyone who actively participates in the event can get one, but they're fun collectibles.

Because of POAPs, I use Eth as a currency all the time.
> I know they're hoping that people will give up after a point out of weariness

This is just yet another attempt at Lawful Interception[0], only this time, on steroids. They will continue to try and erode privacy, and therefore, erode democracy. But we do have tools to combat this at our disposal. My only worry is the outright banning of such tools, then we're royally fucked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
Anecdotal and mostly useless comment warning: I took a Lyft for the first time in years in the Bay a few months ago to the airport. Unprompted, the Lyft driver did nothing but complain about Lyft’s pay. He waxed nostalgic over the golden years of Lyft and talked about how they trick drivers into loaning vehicles from them at high rates. Then on my return trip, another Lyft driver did the exact same thing. I can’t imagine having a bunch of drivers complaining about their pay and being sold a bill of goods is a win for your company.
My senator Duckworth is going to respond back with a from letter stating "OMG THE CHILDREN". (Just like she did for the first Earn act concern I sent).

Might as well add her name on there too.
A Gradual Gradual Type System for Elixir [pdf]
I didn’t see anything in your post describing either feelings or homeostasis. That’s its core thesis
>This is a little under 2x the density of [the best] current batteries.

[brackets mine]

But the best batteries contain unacceptably high levels of cobalt. Practical EV batteries are made with nickel or iron, maybe vanadium someday, and have lower density than pure LiCoO2.

>CATL is already producing a ton of batteries, lending them some credibility.

A couple of years ago CATL claimed that they had figured out how to make durable sodium-ion batteries with a ferricyanide cathode, to be released in 2023. The press cheered about the end of lithium dependence.

Yesterday, not long before this announcement, it was revealed that CATL's "sodium-ion" battery contains lithium:

https://cnevpost.com/2023/04/20/catl-byd-sodium-ion-batterie...

"CATL and BYD's sodium-ion batteries to be put into mass production will both be a mix of sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries, according to local media."

[sad trombone noises]
I wish Macromedia had been able to get Flash to work without a plug-in. Flash was missing on Unix outside of Mac OS X and only i386 Linux.
This tech can more or less improve productivity in every sector of the economy, and that includes energy/climate change.

Personally, I've used it with success with R&D and due dil of projects related to climate change. LLMs (and progress in general) can help tremendously with switching to a sustainable economy.
As an academic editor for a society journal this is ridiculous. Most of this process is automated and takes a grand total of 15 mins of time. Also, Nature charging $10k for open access while PLOS charges more like $2k should tell you what’s going on here
I gave 2 years notice at a software job I'd been at for 10 years. It was great! I said I was going to go do something new when I turned 30. The boss appreciated it and we had a lot of time to adjust the direction of the company in the meantime.

This was at a very small, tight-knit place though. I'd never do this at a big company.
It's possible they disabled the switch in getty that enables the uppercase detection, it's -U....
Client side scanning came out of the discussion around this bill the last time it was proposed. That it isn’t in this bill doesn’t mean it isn’t in politicians’ heads, and if this gets passed there is then significant precedent for extending it, as a small extension doesn’t seem as big as a full-scale government invasion of citizens’ privacy (i.e. this bill).
Yes,install the RDMS into their computer just like any other development tool.

Yes, learn to use multiple schemas and instances, just like using multiple deployments into Apache, Tomcat, IIS,...

Or even better, join the hype, and use containers with volumes configured for each feature branch.
Facebook has been a bad actor in this realm before: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/
No article, headline, or comment about batteries should omit the proven lifecycle.

Unless, of course, the battery manufacturer has a very long warranty and the resources to back it up.

Otherwise: noise :)
Couple comments on a submission 9d ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540418

This is definitely the new baseline. I expect in 5 years we'll have these all over the place eagerly be awaiting the next thing.

Nordic has done such an astounding job making Zephyr IoT good & useful for their chips. Lovely to see such a new era, where chipmakers are more interested in selling good useful platforms than in gatekeeping & making folks pay through the nose for vendorized hard to support software stacks.
2 weeks in the US is commonly a customary thing as opposed to anything contractual.
GTK4 is much more performant on macOS in general.
I feel like it'd be easier to write some software to do this rather than by hand in Photoshop.

I somewhat wonder if there were actually at least 2 shades of blue in the background of the original given how much visible noise it contains.
I generally agree, but one problem is that many of Apple's rules are enforced primarily or exclusively through policy, not actual technical permissions. This is especially true for all the high-level ones around tracking.

Obviously, things like phone book access can be solved for sideloaded apps just as well as for App Store ones – just like Android has been doing for many years.
And this time they’ll probably get it passed. Seeing as what they have already done in Europe and California and Utah and…

There is something We the People can do, as an industry, it is described at the bottom of this link. First it describes the massive extent of the problem, then links to the solution:

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...

If you are thinking “why should I bother clicking on that random link?” It starts out by linking to all the stuff the US government has already done, including defeating the EFF’s challenges recently in court — that’s defeating the same guys who published this new piece.
Finally, an actual battery breakthrough! Most "new battery" media has been mostly fluff for decades.
Fun story.

My first computer too. Got it from my uncle without any manuals, we spend a whole afternoon writing down a code of a game from a magazine letter by letter. We thought we will just press the "Start" functional key on the right side. To our surprise, sadly, absolutely nothing happened! After few more hours, my dad came home and it took him few guesses to finally type "RUN" in the console...
I kind of hope they hold out against alternative browsers. Safari on iOS is the last thing stopping a total takeover by Blink.
Learning meaningful data representations for biomedical research
AND they knew the dossier contained bad info by their own admission but published it anyway.
> Import a plain js file without any node tooling and see what you get for free.

I get F5 to refresh the page when source code changes. All the other tooling remains the same: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/

I mean, Chrome even has an animations debugger
As I've said before, complaining about privacy will only take you so far because the issues are too abstract for many people. While right-wing attacks on abortion and contraception may seem irrelevant to tech issues, they also attack the legal basis for privacy, which is not explicitly written into the US constitution. It'd be wise to focus a little less on individual bills and a little more on the broader strategic picture.

That should include a privacy-friendly counter-proposal for dealing with the trade in CSAM, which is a real problem no matter how much the tech community tries to wish it away by saying 'it's already illegal'. It's disingenuous to look at one issue and say 'scope creep, this will threaten our freedoms' while looking at another issue and saying 'we already passed a law, therefore the problem doesn't exist'.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-brains-quantum.html
So far, with technologies, it's been that new tech is both cheaper and better than the previous one.

To not look far - gpt3.5 turbo.
This is fantastic advice. One thing I worry about as someone who has switched lanes in their career is not building that network. I found my current job through cold approaches. I SHOULD find my next job through my personal network, but I don't event want to be in the same city so who knows
Customer service conflict resolution [video]
Video I recorded for the team, might be useful for someone.
In this area, if there's not a public demo and the results aren't verifiable, then it's not worth paying attention to.
That was exactly my thinking actually..... I own an equestrian property as a hobby, I need a big diesel truck (1 ton) to haul horses, hay, tractor, etc... Sometimes for very long distances (>1000kms) for shows, etc... There are no viable options today, or in the near (10-15 years) future that offer viable alternatives in the form of an EV... at least not from traditional HD truck vendors.....
She's mentally incompetent at this stage and should step down. Its obvious she's just a puppet.
Obviously they wouldn't remove themselves. If anything, they'd offer Facebook Plus via sideloading, which gives you amazing deals and new features in exchange for granting a few, totally harmless extra permissions.
The article is so idealistic that I'd call it delusional.

Rule 1: Know exactly what your employer's policies and past practices are. Ditto local culture. There is ~zero chance that you actually are Mr./Ms. Special, who your employer will happily treat differently.

(Exception: If you have to leave for an extremely sympathetic and/or involuntary reason - fatal cancer diagnosis, drafted into army, etc. - that may actually get special treatment. Even then, such treatment is far more likely at smaller firms, if management cares about maintaining a "good guy" reputation.)

Rule 2: If you have some latitude, be considerate with your timing. Giving notice right before the big crunch or busy season will endear you to no one.

Rule 3: Never assume that your employer is going to be nice about it. Ditto for them being rational about it, unless currently-in-place management has a long and distinguished history of that.
AI Will Make the Internet Beautiful
Many (large majority I’m sure) of LLM applications that are cropping up are just thin wrappers on openai’s models and not terribly useful, but if you’re a developer I recommend using copilot. I was skeptical of the coding value until I started getting almost magical autocomplete. Even though I validate, it definitely speeds up development, not 10x as some folks are saying but maybe more like 2x.

It’s a good example of where specialized/task specific data prep and application/pipeline development with a good UX actually does add value. My pov as someone currently developing an applied ml product and having worked on ml for the last decade or so, is to think of these new LLMs as very good general purpose natural language processors for some use cases or natural language generators for others. That means your product needs to be one that can handle errors well (hallucinations as well as misclassifications or bad surface form formulations) and still be useful for customers. Many times this takes thinking through a novel approach to the UX, not just plugging in another chatbot interface. To me, it’s like the chatbot craze from a few years ago where there are definitely use cases where this works but many that simply don’t even if the model was near perfect.
The only solution is to flit around.

Even editorially independent media is invariably heavily biased one way or another.

Given the way people consume news you can be bias through the use of a subtly misleading but otherwise accurate headline, or a boring headline, or just not have it as a leader or bulletin.

There is so much News these days that you could report on everything absolutely fairly and still have a strong bias just because of what you decide is worth showing people more often.
They have a PlanetScale logo on the last slide. Is this just to say "Thanks for your work on Vitess!" or are they using the PlanetScale service for some of this?
I've always wondered why they did the casting rather than a union like:

float my_rsqrt( float number )
{
float x2;
union {
float y;
long i;
} u;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
u.y = number;
u.i = 0x5f3759df - ( u.i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
u.y = u.y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * u.y * u.y ) ); // 1st iteration

return u.y;
}

Were unions not supported by the compilers back then?
And Apple's JIT engine has been as prone to security vulnerabilities as any other, diminishing any theoretical benefits to the point they don't matter. Apple clearly doesn't want competing JIT engines because Safari can't compete with Chrome in many ways.

I get the idea behind unifying the browsing experience, but blocking V8 and SpiderMonkey isn't doing the end user any favours. In fact, because Safari is tied to the OS and isn't part of a separate app like on Android, if you find a vulnerability in your browser you have to report it to Apple and wait for an iOS security release cycle. On all other platforms you just push out the patch and your users are secured in a day or two.
You mean the precursor to the RESTRICT/S686 act? [That's still going on.. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686 ]
A Game Idea
It would be nice to recreate Alice In Borderland game as an MMO where the games are created by the community and have weekend tournaments.
That's a good point. The main thing is I wish there was a way for me to view open tickets I have besides searching through my email.
New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
Harbour Air successfully tested electric plane based on De Havilland Beaver. This is still a super short distance but I think the longest route Harbour air has is Vancouver <-> Seattle and it's a 55 minute flight.
Fascinating. Hope the US audits this "Shadow Moses" island...
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"But did you try with GPT4?" is becoming a bit of a refrain for me when talking about this with people. I can get GPT-4 to produce working code from agile user stories surrounded by a well-crafted prompt.
You make a good point that, blockchain or not, ultimately the problem is not technological in nature. Bitcoin facilitates drugs and hitmen as much as ability to mail someone a letter with bank account details attached (account with money). As usual, the solution is to make the activity not worth the risk by posing as either party.
Modern American "patriotism" begins with nationalism, and gets darker and weirder from there.

As an exercise, imagine someone who self-identifies as a patriot. Ask them what makes them a patriot. (If you're not American, you might not get what I am getting at, but probably Canadians get it)
Vitess was used for all of Youtube, they moved to Spanner couple of years ago, Vitess is proven and scalable tech.
> Can't expect to cut 30% of a struggling company's workforce and expect growth to keep happening.

It's quite possible actually if those 30% were not the ones contributing anything to said growth.

I'm not saying this is or is not the case at Lyft.
I think "solve" is too strong a word.

Many ORMs can hide the problem.
I agree about the different ways to interpret what popular/unpopular means. But, "app development" is not really a niche. And having almost 50% market share of cross platform frameworks in that market, and growing, is also no small piece either.
That's why how much power an EV has is closely related to the size of the battery. 400kW from a 75kWh battery is a little over 5C.
It doesn't fully work on my phone, which really makes me wonder how easy it would be to use digital devices as a Mongolian, who only speaks Mongolian, and no other language.
AI Frontiers: Models and Systems with Ece Kamar from Microsoft Research
Meta are dominant in their sector across the globe. Of course they follow American standards, but their dominance insures the rest of the world goes by American standards.

Indeed there's no laws in the US that protect violent images whole covering the body, but that is the cultural standard which has been exported around the world.

I get that you're making a point that, why give control abroad to governments when I'm the US companies self censor?

First, what goes into the hands of companies versus the state also various culturally, and the US does have content laws other than the one you highlighted.