skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
game developers work so much harder than enterprise developers, and enterprise developers look down on game developers as is they are sub-human or something. it's completely inverted to reality.

I'm not saying that you are doing this, I am saying that this is done.

watch some GDC developer videos on YouTube. these people work HARD for performance.
What a tosser Brunel was. Essentially he says: "Trust me, there are many idiots, but lucky you, there is me".

Reminds me of Elon Musk. Just because you are a genius does not mean others are idiots, or that your opinion is worth more. Elon proves this every day with his idiotic pronouncements and hie genius results

Reminds me of the old saying: A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Meaning committees are idiotic. But a camel goes further, carrying more, on less food and less water. Yes.
To your last point: try UFS! I use it for cross-platform flash drives. Better than FAT32, anyway.
Painting a picture of the demographic for urbanites.

In terms of fishing, lots of folks haul their own boats. Renting at a marina is expensive, and they have space to store their watercraft at home.
That reminds me of Connecticut: there’s a little cool stuff in it, but the big thing people love to tell you is how close it is to other, better places like New York, Boston, and Vermont.
> unix doesn't expose devices in the file tree

I mean, they are exposed as files (e.g. /dev/sda) within the file tree, but they aren’t exposed by a file path.
If you have to ask, the code isn't clear enough. If it's clear and you can't read it, then by god don't paste it into your repo.
There are consumer motherboards which do expose this setting, so I would expect it to also be available here.

There are very few workloads where you will have less per-core performance on a 7950X3D than, say, an EPYC CPU. Even those relatively lower clocks are pretty high by server standards.
Of course, the other possibility is that they were aware of it, but it was somewhere in a long list of things that they would have liked to fix, but did not have time for.
Holobiont
Still, what's the diff? The religious types have always claimed to be able to interact with their deities.

(Seems to me the only difference is which party does the hallucinating.)
Interesting. But I suspect it would take quite some time to get something like that in production. Nonetheless, we should keep do research, it could be the next generation of fusion reactors.
This is interesting. I’d rather use the approach of Ground news: analyze everything published about a topic and let the reader decide.
I appreciate all the research you did, but you're missing several key aspects of how faculty are compensated that changes your analysis.

First, faculty salaries as reported are typically 9-month. There's an extra 3 months of earning potential for professors, where they are effectively free agents. They can spend that doing research, or any number of other activities. Or nothing

Second, professors own their work product. If you are a salaried employee at a corporation, everything you do on company time is owned by the corporation. If you try to sell your work product or take it to another job, you will likely be fired and/or sued. This is not true for faculty; we own our lectures and all the content we produce for our courses. We can take it and use it other jobs, sell it as a book, make it available for free, or anything.

Third, we own our own time off the job. I'm free to run a consultancy even though I'm employed full time as an academic. I can make as much as I want through that, and people are willing to pay what I want because of my degree and my affiliation with the institution I work at. I doubt Google will let you trade on being a Google engineer while working at Google. Indeed, most FAANGs have a clause in their contracts stating that they basically own all ideas you think of, whether on or off the clock. If you're willing to take their salary for that kind of trade, then you might think it's worth it. For academics, they think perhaps they will have a good idea one day and turn it into a startup or patent it, and many do.

Fourth, I have control over a lot of other people's money. So while I'm not paid a lot, I get to use millions of dollars in funding and equipment. If I move to another university, I can take my money and my project with me. I have hundreds of thousands of dollars of sensors and equipment in my office that I've bought over the years that I personally didn't have to spend a dime on, but which is pretty much entirely mine to use.

All this is to say that a straight comparison of salaries isn't going to get you the full story. For instance, is there any amount of money you can pay such that you can take 3 months off every summer, and still have a position in the fall? How much would you pay your company to own an idea you had on company time? Do you have an office with a door? Do you have an assistant? Do you own what you work on?
It's an interesting read. Some nice figures too (I like Figure 3's ontology of sparse matrices). I haven't given much thought to the problems of optimizing operations over non dense arrays. They do a good job of clearly explaining the problem and approaches.
There's North American RVs, and there's Japanese-import vans, but this one looks to me like a an RV and a Japanese van had a baby.
yes, 12 months ago jina was an open source semantic search tool, than a whole bunch of things, now a prompt optimizer and bunch of ai tools
Ask HN: Consulting services for evaluating startup offers?
Hi,

I posted just before, that I received a startup offer that I may accept over my current startup. I'm wondering if there are experienced consultants who would be able to walk me through comparing the startups -- not comparing the offers themselves, but getting a third-party look at the prospects of the startups. I'm open to suggestions.

Thank you.
Why would AGI need to have its own motives? AGI = artificial, general intelligence. Meaning intelligence that is generally applicable to all domains. AGI doesn’t mean building an artificial human with all human quirks.
It seems to me that their view of bias is limited to a per-article approach. This could make it succeptible to broader narrative bias across stories - if, for example, the news sources are selectively only reporting on muggings when perpetrated by one race/nationality/immigration status/gender over another then it'll still give a false impression of attacks by those people, as it'll be completely blind to the lesser-reported cases.
I mean, if I want something that can run on as many platforms as possible without a prior installation, I stick as closely as I can to posix sh. If I want something more flexible that can run consistently, but may require an installation beforehand, I use python. I don’t really see what niche PowerShell would fill for me.
>>It doesn't matter if it trains on data by humans if it still doesn't have the moral compass of a human.

True, and I'm not sure that even the moral compass of humans is entirely trustworthy. The quick version is what happened to Tay in the hands of random humans, and the larger context is the fact that the authoritarianism and racism are still very active threats in the arc of history. In 10,000 years of civilization, they still haven't been eliminated. Not sure how even training on human works would eliminate it...
> And the way you think lending should work is indistinguishable from the way it already works.

With one crucial difference: right now the main criterion is whether the bank will get reimbursed or not. Whether it will make money off of the credit. And credits are so important to our lives right now that I don’t believe such an important decision should be left to that kind of invisible hand.

I mean, it’s as important, perhaps more important, than the state’s budget. This suggests, if not a democratic oversight, at the very least a clear set of democratically chosen rules over what kind of loans should be given.
The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup's Rebirth
> In e.g. Russian or German, you can read the word from the way it is written and maybe miss the accent.

OK, but... the position of the word stress in Russian radically alters the pronunciation of all the vowels in the word. Missing the stress means mangling the whole word. That's not something to just dismiss.
https://archive.ph/3pZ1J
Classical Mongolian is actually not a straightforward 1-to-1 conversion, and it's not clear if Khalkha Mongolian and Classical Mongolian should be treated as the same language in Google (Classical Mongolian is a common writing language not just for Khalkha Mongolian used in Mongolia, but also for Buryat and, but in Cyrillic those two languages are written differently).

E.g. the first line of a poem from linguamongolia.com, "saiqan časutu čağan ağulan-dur" (see http://www.linguamongolia.com/reso1.html , White Mountains document for original script) would be written "сайхан цаст цагаан уулд" (saihan cast cağan uuld) in Khalkha Mongolian orthography, if I'm not mistaken.

But then, sometimes Google Translate is happily combining two languages. E.g. it can translate from Crimean Tatar, but it will detect it as Tatar, even though it's a different language...
That doesn't make sense. Everywhere is the edge of the observable universe to someone.
I’ve always wondered why anyone bothers asking ChatGPT these kinds of questions. Where is the utility?
The copy is fine, because it's not intended for consumption by robots who cannot derive context. Anyone unwilling to read the entire front page, which contains specifics as to the type and scale of wildfires targeted, is unlikely to either find much success as a contestant or otherwise have a meaningful impact on either the xPrize or wildfires.
I think this is a straw man. I don't think any politician would ever suggest such a thing at face value unless couched in some other argument. For example, after 9/11 a politician would have said, "I respect your need for privacy, but we live in extraordinary times, and we need to temporarily lift the restrictions on our agencies to effectively combat an imminent threat."

The real argument being made isn't that we should give all our secrets to the government, but that we should trust that the government will comply with our 4th Amendment protections and avoid gathering this data without a valid warrant issued by an impartial judge. If you're reading this, I'm guessing that like me, you don't believe a word of that. But that's the argument that's being made, and that's what needs to be debunked loudly and publicly.
> Not really if we look at 3rd party games.

I find this extremely unlikely. The packaging tools by default will compress files when building a package. Decompression is transparent and done by the hardware; the game doesn't have to implement anything or link any libraries. You would have to explicitly select "no compression" during packaging. Warzone definitely uses it - I worked on Cold War, Vanguard, and MW2 specifically on streaming and decompression across our supported consoles.
I'd rather a known and well-established bias than the algorithmic illusion of no bias. If I know the bias of my news provider, I can read them critically fairly easily. If I have to guess at the bias, that's much more difficult.

I think a more useful approach would be to aggregate stories from different sources together and summarize the agreed and contested information and viewpoints. That would be a useful tool for evaluating news and identifying propaganda narratives.
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But then you have to work at Apple. One the one hand, that's the dream of many people. On the other hand, I had some experience with people who went for that $300k, and Apple chewed them up and spit them out. They were working on a "secret project" which we all know was the driverless car. Such a shit show according to those people, so I'm glad I turned down the job. I hear the project is in zombie mode these days but who knows.

If you can put up with living inside of a police state like Apple, then maybe that's for you, but academia is such a completely different environment from that (very open and all about collaboration), it's hard to put a $$ amount on what it would take for me to put up with that abuse.
This might possibly provide some benefits for adjunct faculty (at the expense of tenure lottery winners):

Demolishing the tenure class system may reduce the social stigma of being an adjunct vs. tenured faculty member.

A noted elsewhere, a mythical possibility of future tenure may become slightly less usable for luring faculty into accepting lower pay.

And since everyone is now an adjunct, adjunct salaries (which are usually terrible) may have to rise overall. Although it will probably still be much lower than traditional faculty salaries, as UT may attract more adjunct applicants.

Adjunct hiring might change from a per-term model (which is terrible) to a yearly model or even longer.

The result could possibly (hopefully?) be higher social status, higher pay, and better job security - for the lucky few adjuncts who manage to get faculty jobs at UT.
It's not hard to discern bias within some article. Having more appropriate headlines is a good step, though.

But I think the bigger issue is more about the coverage of stories. Outlets are certainly going to cater their audience. Example: maybe from sources you see more stories on white-on-black shootings, and in another source you see more black-on-white shootings. So which one is more "newsworthy"? That's where a lot of bias comes into play.

> Step 1: For each category, we begin by scraping the latest headlines from publicly available news sites.

That said, I'd like to know the categories and what sites are scraped, because there may be bias in the selection of such.
During the Industrial Revolution, the six-day workweek became the standard in many factories and workplaces. Workers often worked long hours in harsh conditions, with little time off. It wasn't until the labor movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s that workers began to demand better working conditions and shorter workweeks.

In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established a maximum workweek of 44 hours, with overtime pay required for hours worked over 40 in a week. This law also established a minimum wage and child labor regulations. However, it wasn't until the 1940s and 1950s that the five-day workweek became the norm in many industries.

A transition to a four day work week would take time. Minimum wage will eventually will get adjusted for the workers in the service sector to have similar lifestyle.

shouldn't this be a widely accepted measure of human progress, like growing nutrition or literacy or something? As our technology advances, we'll inevitably be able to create and distribute more resources with less work. I'd think it would be fairly obvious and even celebrated that this should lead to less work with the same or increased standard of living.
Don't like Lanier, massive self publicist but he's doing gods work here, having a voice, being heard and speaking truths.

So dislike of the individual aside, like what I'm reading this time.
Perhaps a space elevator if we put in the effort
As a "designer + developer" it's surprisingly hard to land roles where you'd be the most impactful. Hiring managers struggle to comprehend to diversity of what I can do (https://zchry.org/), and I really don't want to simplify it more than I already have.

Agencies love me, but they're usually not technical enough to know any different. Early stage startups seem reluctant, and large corporations don't even give me the time of day. Very confusing position.
>(the most important thing, since raw assets often load faster from an SSD as long as you have available storage.)

>You can argue every single file should be compressed at rest on persistent storage after install, but that's a losing argument. People really hate longer load times, so compression at rest is only appropriate if it improves them.

Is this really true? I feel like you'd need an absolutely blisteringly fast SSD to match something like an modern, optimized lz decompressor's speed.
I think this may actually be good for adjuncts, since the imaginary tenure possibility you describe can no longer trick them into accepting lower pay.

Adjunct salaries might have to rise, would make UT more attractive to adjuncts.
Ask HN: How do I prevent my users from uploading copyrighted material?
I'm building a Gumroad-like platform for creators to sell their ebooks, and I've heard horror stories about how entire platforms get torpedoed because 1 bad actor user uploaded illegal/copyrighted material, so Stripe pulls the plug on them and fined them to the heavens.

I've been thinking about how to combat this, and I've come up with 2 solutions:

1. Let users bring their own API keys (meaning I use Stripe Connect and use the "direct charge" model), so I don't get held liable to refunds, chargebacks, etc. My own Stripe is literally for subscription fees, that's it.

2. I haven't looked into it, but maybe there's an API out there, or even some AI bot, that I can use to screen uploaded material to see if they're illegal or copyrighted?

Is there any other solution that I'm missing?
I think e.g. Facebook as a product is singular: "Facebook is a social network".

But Facebook as a company is plural: "Facebook are certain that metaverse is going to be big". This is because a company cannot think and be certain, so the full form is actually "Folks at Facebook are certain that metaverse is going to be big", and it makes perfect grammatical sense.
Have you never?

If not, time to start.
Because not all wildfires are forest fires, and even when they are they can occur in wildlands which are not subject to logging. Some people see "wildfire" and think about the impact on people near the fire as well as downwind communities. Other people see the term and immediately leap to economic considerations.
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…
A 30-day supply of Dexcom G6 sensors is 300-450 in the US without insurance, and you also need a transmitter that lasts 90 days, which is about 150. Best I've used is Costco, about $320, but I saw a cheaper price though Amazon, under $200.
Him running Meta to the ground may be his greatest contribution to the world.
Nothing.

MastOdon, OTOH, is a thing.
> Step 2: Using sentence embedding, we identify any headlines that are related and choose these headlines as the subject of the article. The idea here is that if a story has multiple related headlines across different sources, it is more likely to be of greater importance than a story with none or only one related headline. This helps us determine which story to focus on and write an article about.

Step 2 seems like a process to directly bias the inputs based on the popularity of each outlet. Or rather two processes, one hidden, because the outlets aren't selecting themselves. Why wouldn't this just be a wire service and press release detector?
The Mini Cooper is bigger than you'd think -- same wheelbase and height as a Corolla, although the cargo area and hood are shorter. But the wheelbase of the Smart car (no longer sold in the US, by the way) is 2/3 that of the Mini.
Comments on “The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer” [pdf]
How many times do you decompress the textures, and how many times do you download them?
Can Chrome just hurry up and add those so we can be done with Electron?
Back in the day, and I mean like mid-late 90's, you could actually install the Linux kernel, files etc., straight onto a Windows FAT partition and boot into it.

Not exactly what was being asked for, but a weird old fact I'd forgotten about.
Especially for new software in a different language than you already know or haven't used years, in a realm other than your current area of expertise. It's pretty useful to be able to directly ask it how do to, eg basic string manipulation in $new_language, but even more convenient is to ask it to do the transformation for you. "Given a string of the format X, write a $language snippet that outputs X'." It'll do more advanced things than that, but that's one area I found it to be useful and time-saving in an unfamiliar language because it saves me from looking up that boilerplate before getting to the part where I throw a regexp at the problem.
See that's centrist thinking.

People in coffee shops in the city will suffer, but coffee shops near the parks and beaches, along trails, in suburbs; those will add shifts. The work force will move out to the place the people move to.

The 4 day workers don't just drop off the planet. They go to the mall, they get together with their friends. They purchase bikes, take up hobbies, go to the gym, learn a new skill.

It doesn't help the office cleaner. But I mean offices are evil places.
Typical contracts are 3-5 years, which is more job security than you'll find at most any job, which are at-will in America (meaning you can be fired at any time for any reason). With the layoffs in the tech sector now in the 100's of thousands, it's nice to know I have a guaranteed position for the next 2 years.
Have you considered using T-Mobile's WebDigits ( https://webdigits.t-mobile.com ), AT&T NumberSync for computer or whatever Verizon and other carriers have to offer for handling SMS on a computer perchance?

You could also use multiple phone numbers to send SMS to avoid SMS ratelimiting. FYI most carriers consider Person to Person messaging to be below 1 message per minute and run between 40% inbound to 60% inbound messages.

One thing to watch out for is some carriers like Cellcom if I recall sell unlimited texting plans that actually have a 20,000 message cap then $0.01 per message thereafter. A cousin of mine hit this about a decade ago as she was part of many MMS groups.
There is information in the published article that was obtained via hacking, so the suit may well go forth.

The reporter may have violated Wired's rules, but the article is still up...
"how do you ensure trust in the providence of the information being stored? - with no direct link to physical proof of an individual typing that message or URL or uploading / downloading that picture at that time, or even necessarily that the individuals device was used to perform the action, what value is there in the data?"

The argument above could really only be used if a case came to court and evidence providence needed to be questioned.

This argument is a poor one in the face of politics or lawyers because the ambiguity is such that it becomes a case of "who do you believe is telling the truth" because a jury is a group of humans, and our nature appears to be to err on the side of guilt over innocence. Hence accusation=at least guilty of "something". It therefore works in favour of the power status quo.

I have some baggage relating to this.
Correction - I do get your point
All of these arguments seem to think that the brain isn't also generating a statistical ordering of semantic words and actions. Obviously the brain has a way more complex network of subsystems with various specialties than the artificial models we have today and is able to generalize language, math, and positional reasoning and mix it with the older parts of the brain for reward and training mechanisms and it can do it in real time, but it kind of seems like modern models are showing so much flexibility at different tasks and so much generality it's feeling like they have something in common with the building blocks of the brain that might get us there.