skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would make each bus cost tens of millions of dollars.

Actually seamless welding and assembly, for large objects like busses, is only used by very high end manufacturing like rockets.
I thought the same but llama.cpp is literally two downloads in the same folder and then you double click an .exe
Why would you want to repeatedly 'interact' with that any more?
Here is the Tech Crunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/twitter-inc-is-now-x-corp/.

SSDD as far as I can tell.
how are you actually this naive? Classic HN attitude of thinking every single job that isnt engineering does nothing.

You understand theres tons of underlying systems like payroll, insurance, legal issues, severance packages, government filings that happen when you either hire or fire someone?
And the Discord server where (some of) it happened: https://discord.gg/PmmShtF7WS. #dbs channel.

Disclosure: I run the server.
> more and more devs have been out-earning surgeons and white-shoe lawyers

That's not abnormal.

There's only so many surgeries a man can perform, and so many cases a lawyer can argue. But software scales differently. Good luck performing surgery on three different continents at the same time.
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Engineering curiosity and fun
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> women didn’t generally have the vote for more than a century of that time,

Yes, I consider that a significant weakness.

You keep differentiating between the primaries and general, but to quote you above "Yes, well, getting the right votes are part of campaign performance." In the US, part of being a strong candidate means not only winning the Electoral College, but also winning a major party primary prior to that. That is the system.

And yes, I do not have future sight, so I cannot tell you for sure that Trump will be the nominee, but I see no evidence that he's particularly weak in this primary, indictment or no. He's polling well in the lead and I think is up to 10 Senate endorsements and 50-odd house endorsements for whatever those are worth.
This angers me as well. At the same time, this sort of thing is so very common. It's hard, and unhealthy, to be in a perpetual state of outrage.

This sort of thing is exactly why I won't be replacing my smartphone when it dies. The only way to avoid being abused by tech companies is to avoid using their products as much as possible. This is where I'm at.

I don't see any other solution in the near term. Tech has been weaponized against us.
I think it uncontroversial that this experience is so rare that it doesn't justify forbidding sideloading on Android, Windows, and MacOS. Then it also doesn't justify it for iOS.
These sorts of "bifurcations" are maddening.
Yes. I did this type of interview for a previous job, and don't want to do it again. I'm a software developer, not a salesman.

Requiring salesmanship to enter a company may well correlate with requiring salesmanship to advance and be recognized at the company. (I don't regret that job, because the rank-and-file were great, but I don't want the same structure of overlords.)

This time around, I am fortunate to have effectively lifelong runway, so I'm now trying to handle an interview as if I were discussing a problem with a co-worker. If that filters me out, that's probably best for me, too.
Some did.
I'm sorry. We know physics very well. There's no "unimaginable technologies" that are going to be developed that gets us around the fact that we're not going to travel much faster than 20% of the speed of light - and that doesn't change the fact that the average star you see with your own eyes is 60-100 lightyears away and will by dying at roughly the same time as our sun.

The most important point to realize about science fiction is that it is fiction.
Brilliant, thanks!

(For future readers: The product name was Blaze Web Performance Pack, offered by Datalytics Inc, Dayton, Ohio. They used the domain speeditup.com in some ads.)
I’m not sure if you’re serious or not, but… https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/devastating-melt...
He didn't tell anyone.
Gigawatt steerable carefully de-focused energy beam. That's a doomsday machine.
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Have you been to commercial meat operations? I am not talking about millions of non human lives held in captivity, raped and slaughtered..but the condition of the labour in meat processing and meat packing industry.

It’s not a cowboy who brings your steak to the table, but probably some undocumented immigrant paid slave wages and living in a shed.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/life-inside-am...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/exploitation-a...

https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/special-reports/dairy...

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/smithfields-hog-f...

https://stonepierpress.org/goodfoodnews/wastelands-book-revi...
I remember my friend basically paid for all his PC upgrades by investing in CD writer and just ripping stuff for people for equivalent of $5 a pop.

If we didn't pirate we wouldn't "buy more games", maybe once a year, coz we were poor. Once steam become a thing and once I started earning wages and just bought stuff, it was easier and it come with updates. Piracy is mostly a service problem. And it also enables gamepass-like usage, download, play for 2 hours ,if you don't like it just delete it. I guess Steam refunds cover that angle well now.

Sure, from time to time someone will go "fuck you Squeenix, I won't pay $70 for port 2 years after the release", but overall people who massively pirate usually can't afford most of what they pirate in the first place.
You know, it's been a long time, but even growing up in Orlando Florida, I felt like a lot of my history was about "why" more than anything else. Maybe it's just because I had multiple history classes in a row taught by retired lawyers, but I actually felt like I got a fairly interesting perspective of history.
> reference frame which doesn't have such a direct correspondence to Earth's

If we choose Earth as a fixed reference point (which astronomers definitely do for cosmic events, I've read too many articles where they do that to think that they don't), it still seems to me that my statement is correct; at the very least, it's the way I've seen every astronomer who's ever discussed it express this, and I've never seen any subject matter experts take such an issue with this framing.

If you wanted, you could scale this problem down a lot, to someone on the ground vs. on the ISS. You could even scale it down to a fiber optic cable unspooling between two cars driving at different speeds. At some point, we're still picking a reference frame to count the seconds in.

> This is different because here we are talking about half a round-trip

We don't have to just talk about round trips though. Voyager can also send us transmissions unprompted, and I still doubt anyone would think it's more correct to say that it begins transmissions in the instant we receive them, rather than 10 hours prior (especially because Voyager timestamps it's transmissions with Earth time, or at least what it thinks is Earth time).
Nice. It looks like it will be useful... although best practices are likely going to continue to evolve. The biggest question in my mind is whether we can come up, at some point in the future, with a kind of universal self-supervised learning objective that works well in practice for any task.
I also clicked through but immediately abandoned wondering:

What’s the state of container based ML deployments?

Can I take a container orchestration if these services and just put them on a vps w a GPU and run this?

Is there secret or just special sauce in ML infra?
Nonsense. Try telling the lion it is being cruel to the Antelope, or the wolf it is being cruel to the deer. All life (minus plants and Cyanobacteria) get their energy from eating other living things. That’s just the way it works.
[OP] I wrote the article because putting the time and financial burden of operating large distributed networks on individuals is not maintainable. The fact that the parent company has no plans to change that except to make it more expensive and complicated for individuals (switching to Kubernetes) is why I think it will fail to reach its intended goals.

The example I gave was email. Lots of things integrate with email at a protocol level but Gmail won because 1) it had better features 2) lots of things integrated with it directly

Would you build an IMAP/SMTP/POP3 product today? ActivityPub support will end up being a checkbox or buried setting.
IIRC for the most part option-f would bring me to the file menu. I could down-arrow to scroll through it or hit the right arrow to move to the next menu. In that way I could navigate pretty well.
no, they are not "terrible", they're not complex proteins - excepting eggs. you have to mix two sources of simple protein to equal complex. good, bad; whatever your characterization of them may be, that's the foundation.

you again seem to be conflating your ability to measure something with the method itself being good. I think it's impossible for us to say your vegetarian diet is healthy when you say it makes you weaker, yet you point to being predictably weaker as a sign of knowing what you're doing? I'm not following.
The situation is likely far less scary. The article seems to intentionally overblow the accusations without going into any depth in order to push the advertisement for their phone.

Talking about /e/os /their competitor/ in the beginning to make them seem less-competent:

>Surprisingly, the deGoogled phone's first connection is to google.com.

>This makes us wonder. /e/OS did replace Google’s connectivity check, but did they somehow miss out to replace the Google Play Store URL?

/e/os has microG so I'd guess it's on by default and this is "google device registration" that is necessary for safetynet.

Then in the main part they talk about AGPS. Instead of showing the unencrypted traffic that supposedly contains the private information, they just quote qualcomms privacy policy. They make a big deal about the phone requesting agps data even when the location is turned off (unlike theirs amazing one that only requests the agps data when you turn the location on.) My phone also requests agps data only when I turn the location on and it sucks because If I don't have internet access, without fresh agps data the phone can take a really long time to get GPS fix (Especially in bad conditions like snowy forest where I wanted o check if I was still on the right trail but couldn't get fix at all.). It's an oversight on /e/os side not to proxy the agps requests but it can be done. Many service providers do it which seems worse and if you want, you can easily tell android to use a different server, just follow this reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cldrym/how_to_dego...

I'd love to see more competition in mobile cpu space but fearmongering about qualcomm being evil without any substance is not the right thing to do. What is far more worrying is that both qualcomm and exinos chipsets have terrible track record when it comes to vulnerabilities.
I’ve worked to prevent piracy of a SaaS software for a niche industry.

When we put the first anti piracy solution in place during the winter of 2020 they tripled the number of subscribers within a week.

Some might argue this was due to Covid lockdowns but this was months after most businesses had already been locked down and the timing directly coincided with the implementation. Support was inundated with requests to disable the new feature that had prevented piracy.

Subscriptions have kept growing nicely.

On the other hand, I got started in software development as a kid by learning about how to use hex editors to implement hacks in games. The warez scene was big in those days.

Not sure what the right answer is to addressing piracy. I’m sure it helps kids and those in developing countries get into the industry but if people don’t pay for something it’ll no longer be offered.
Also my go-to. Very useful for travel, projects etc. Recursive lists fit my brain well & the search is good enough!
This is the funniest refutation of the Chinese Room argument that I’ve seen. Note that at the end, it’s still the case that none of these people can recognize a cat.
The best way to reduce piracy of copyrighted works is to cut the copyright period by 75% relative to current standards. To be fair to individual living authors who hold their own copyrights, this would mean copyrights persisted 18 years past the author's death, or for 24 years after date of publication for for-hire contract jobs.

This is comparable to the lifetime of technical patents, and so would allow for a reasonable period to collect revenue from the work that can be used to finance new works and so on.

Otherwise, you just have consolidated interests squatting on material and collecting rents for no justifiable reason. It's entirely ridiculous, for example, that a 1957 film like the Seventh Seal isn't yet in the public domain.

This kind of reasonable change to copyright law would go a long ways towards justifying legal crackdowns on piracy of more recent works, I think.
Amazingly, this latest take on this shopworn topic, which says nothing we haven’t all heard over and over, actually anticipates my response, “what are the alternatives?” and then fails to make much of an argument for any of them. Next.
When you want much better, state of the art quality.

Compare it yourself.
Yep. This is, in part, why not only won't I ever own a Tesla, but I won't be owning cars that are too new.
You lost me at .exe
You can recognize the productivity junkie by the amount of tools they tell you they’ve tried
gmail's what I ended up doing. The email still presents as coming from my domain, replies go back to it, and I could switch out for another relay any time, so it's good enough.
That's true, but in practice you sometimes encounter such strings and it's nice if you can use the regular string functions with them, instead of having to special-code something.
Any use of energy in space is going to have pretty big cooling problems unless it's a fundamentally "hot" process that radiates away heat easily. Because any usage of energy in space all becomes heat.
Doesn't this imply it's not a high quality channel?
I’m willing to do my part once private jets get banned
This is completely valid and I wish that were me.

I'm a "maker." Although I try to bring a level of "craftsmanship" to my code, and I care a great deal about code quality, refactoring and solving problems at the code level - and I definitely enjoy the process - it is still a means to an end. It is the configuration of raw materials that contribute to the final form of something useful and tangible.

The most tragic part is realizing that it is very unlikely that I will ever care about what it is that I am producing in tech. I was self employed for 15 years and that was extremely rewarding because the business and the product was my vision, my creation etc. Now that I am back in the job market I find that what was a career for 20 years has become "just" a job. I am making something, and that matters, but I'm not making something I would personally use as an end-user. And that is not a slight against the things I am making. They are useful to someone. Just not to me. I have spent the last few years thinking about what it would look like to make something I myself use and that's when I realized that, relatively speaking, I hardly use any tech as an end-user in my personal life at all.
I've considered doing this for cross-platform iOS/Android, but the problem there is that by sharing a functional core between platforms you're forfeiting a number of optimizations on iOS (and potentially Android, but everybody brings their own everything there anyway so it's kind of moot).

Point in case, for cross platform networking you're probably pulling in something based on cURL, which is quite functional but as far as I'm aware lacks the optimizations and perks of the iOS networking stack gets you like batching network calls and firing them when the cell antenna is already active to save power, as well as things like transparently multiplexing available connections (e.g. cell and wifi) among other things.

Of course these tradeoffs might make sense sometimes, but I think it's important to recognize that a cross-platform core isn't pure upside.
If you should be interested, 3Blue1Brown has a video primer on complex numbers that includes describing multiplications by i as rotations on the plane, showing why a plane is useful for its representation. I always enjoy videos from that channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcpBw5Hbwo
That's so far from being decisively proven that I genuinely forgot it was one of the theories.
> Why would any kind of camera photo signing algorithm fare better?

You probably wouldn't even have to bother. If you want to fake history, just launder your images: setup rig where an SLR camera can telecine the images off a high resolution screen. With some optics you could probably also adjust the other camera parameters (like focus, f-stop) to make it more convincing.
That's only a paraphrasing to the extent that it means higher cost, which means lower demand, which means lower supply. It's not the point that was made, and the 'harm saving' would be greater than proportional to the consequent reduction in supply (ceteris paribus).
Taskade is easier to use and faster. Notion looks great but I always felt it needs some cognitive load to even get started.
> Often it's less what you know, or could do; and more about "can you do the test?"

It really depends on how you create the test and how you review it. You can prepare one where the actual solution is 10 lines of code and anything else is exactly for showing what the candidate knows / could do.

I used something like "read data from CSV, write it to sqlite, treat it like a mature production app, feel free to use placeholders (usage doc goes here), go nuts". Then the test was really about knowing about error recovery, encoding issues, documentation, error reporting, monitoring, ci pipelines, etc. Many badly organised tests don't make the whole concept of a take home test bad.
And Github is owned by MS too but MS did not invented it and Github remains an okay service. ChatGPT was not invented by MS and it could be that it remains a good service. Money matters aside.
Quantum physics is a description of reality, not reality itself.
Andy Pavlo is incredible. I studied EE and have learned about databases through his lectures.
Is this the first time you've heard the term serverless? It means your code is plug & play, you don't have to manage the infra (I.e. a server) yourself.
In 50 years people are going to look back at us with such dismay.
Ok, you're probably right about the difference between forgiveness and writing off, and I'll accept that.

On that last sentence though, how is that not "coming out of nowhere"? They're not the original company owed, they had nothing to do with lending for the original debt, the only reason they're even there is because they very specifically "specialized in collection from defaulting borrowers" - that is a grift as far as I'm concerned. Such debt collectors don't always follow the law in getting what they claim as "their" money (although to be clear I am not making a generalized claim to all such collectors). Morally speaking, the original debtor does not owe anyone but the original lender, or any company that acquires that lender, as far as I'm concerned.

Debts should not be able to be transferred between lenders except for the cases of outright acquisition. Nobody should be able to buy up these debts in this fashion. This world needs less middlemen, not more.
I ended up setting up a gmail account just for this domain and routing outgoing mail through it. If you set it up right it still has your self hosted email in the From: field and replies go back to it, so it's pretty much transparent. Not optimal but easiest solution. I can send to hotmail just fine now and gmail doesn't go to spam anymore.
I've thought about that before.

Would it be technically possible for a company to buy all of its shares back so that there are no owners? The company would be self-owned.
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Answer: Old one way heating infrastructure where the steam gets generated, distributed, used, and then the condensed hot(warm) water gets dumped into the sewer.

This can also just dump steam directly into the sewer. Get a real steam guy to repair and optimize your steam heating system!
Normal interviews are mostly a scripted performance where people largely regurgitate answers to predictable questions.

So the issue isn’t that it’s a stand up performance it’s that you need to split your attention between the performance and solving some trivial problem. Becoming really good at programming requires being able to focus on an actually difficult problem not work through a simplified example while entertaining an audience.

There might be a correlation between solving trivial problems quickly and being able to figure out a heisenbug from some multithreaded monstrosity, but it’s not strong enough for minor differences in performance to be meaningful.
I used to buy a lot of Ikea stuff (to save time) and recently I've just started making my own from basic plywood etc because the quality has totally gone to shit. I used to buy the pine stuff, there's very little of that any more.

It's designed in such a way now that if you use it slightly outside of parameters it's fucked. Like, pick up a chest of drawers the wrong way and the particleboard snaps in a way that is impossible to fix properly without replacing the entire beam.

Try and screw something to the side of a Kallax or whatever, it's honeycomb cardboard so screws just fall through. Yeah you can do it with a bit of effort, but I mean, meh.

I don't think that square items of furniture like that should be disposable. You should be able to just cut it up and use the scrap wood for other projects. Even if you don't want to, leave it outside your flat or house on a dry day, someone will.
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If the technology to distribute/consume the content were more restrictive, would content producers at every level have a global reach?

Piracy is an acceptable loss enabled by the tech that allows global distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkage_(accounting)
"serverless" is a throwback to 2013 a decade ago when it was a novelty to not know where your servers were or what they were made of, some people never move on. but in this case, this is a company advertising their serverless architecture for that specific crowd.

this is distinct from "client side" where no servers are involved, aside from maybe something that serves a static web page.
When a company liquidates, bondholders are paid out before stockholders. This is to prevent moral hazard from companies going deep into debt and running off with the cash by liquidating the company.
I agree.

That's very close to what I was trying to say - (almost?) all addictions are merely symptoms of deeper issues, just a way of running away from problems. The only way to cure an addiction is to solve those deeper issues.
I ran into some videos on this channel (Dr Geoff Lindsey) a few weeks ago, and they are really good IMO. If you glance at the video thumbnails they appear like low-quality clickbait, but the content inside is solid linguistics and very informative.

Examples:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt66Je3o0Qg (‘"Schwa is never stressed" – FALSE’)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaXYas58_kc (Weak forms)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCsiF80TX0 (Iambic pentameter with the Pink Panther)
A little off topic, but you should check out bikeindex.org