skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate these articles. While yes, this is true, it's also true that _many_ people have severe, untreated illness that they're just "toughing it out." My friend with BPD ruined his life because he's "stronger than the disorder, I don't need to take my meds"

Spent millions foolishly, genius engineer - horrible story. Easily fixed.
Tbh this derailment is why we shouldn’t put a whole lot of focus on the “As a black man…” of someone’s post and focus on the content.

There's a subreddit that even makes fun of the "As an X, I dislike Thing Y that I'm supposed to like, now upvote me fellow Thing Y haters!" device.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AsABlackMan/
Not that I don't believe that's entirely possible, but do you have a link to something demonstrating this behavior? A _very_ cursory google search didn't come up with anything immediately.

Like this article might just be for show but its the first thing that came up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/contribut...
I'd think "best" might be a tablet (an Amazon Fire'd be your cheapest option), with "just" the one app installed and signed-in

Set the device font to "large" (or whatever it's called thereon), and set the screen timeout to the longest it can be (but autoshutoff is still a Good Idea™)

Maybe enable parental controls on the device to only allow that app and/or not allow the app to be swapped-away from?
Scientists discover never-before-seen brain wave after reading octopuses' minds
Automotive screens sizes are small because they must exceed vibration and temperature tolerances of other devices, which drives up cost. Unlike an iPad, in-car screens need to work from ~0F to ~130F every day, because the back-up camera MUST work.

When Tesla introduced giant screens, then ran into problems with panels not being "automotive grade."

See:
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19905299
I didn't find anything particularly egregious from an employer perspective. The automation is not any different or lazy than say setting SQL queries. Many say a lot worse about customers in slack etc. I do think less of this person for calling his wife his bitch. Kinda gross. But I am not interested in imposing my civil or moral standard on anyone. I just know I wouldn't enjoy interacting with them. Ethics are a different question because social contracts necessarily require some overlap in ethical frameworks each party is operating under, and I didn't find anything unethical. I guess I could be wrong?
The new crop-dusting drones
To their credit, the gpu drivers have continued getting much much better, much faster.

Intel has long understood the value of drivers, has been one of the primary contributors & drivers of really good open source (albeit with some frustrating areas of sore neglect, like GMA500/Poulso) (But also rip the incredible http://01.org those folks were amazing at finding high value open source work to do!). Im glad to see making an already quite reasonable priced value GPU a lot better.

But yeah the timing is after the GPU craze. And Intel has been tweaking the same way-too-big big core for too too long & is uncompetitive. And they've been hurting to get a 7nm process (Intel 4) going. A lot of change is necessary.
Sounds good to me, ship it.
The whole "elevator pitch" idea is that you could put these vertical farms inside the major cities.

But that's not really needed unless the city is on the moon, and even then, you have lots of space if you just build a bit of transportation.
It's curb that we're using.
This is like a cop saying they're trying to be fair in mediating between the dozen people mobbing me and unjustifiably downvoting all my posts, and me for simply saying well-founded, well-cited things that disagree with the liberal ethos of this place.

Why so much self-delusion? Just let it be, ban if it makes you happy, you know just as well as I do that this place is crawling with fascists.

If possible, though, I'd like for you to point out where I attacked anyone. My MO is always the same: keep cool, cite quotes that upset people because they tarnish the images of their idols. You keep saying I'm breaking the rules and attacking people, and I don't see where?
so you are magin critical information of people include eu...
(dev here) Indeed, glad to hear that it's worked well for you! Running custom services in the VM and on macOS also play a big role because it allows us to build them from scratch with efficiency in mind, rather than using off-the-shelf components. Larger time investment upfront, but definitely worth it in hindsight.

I don't expect OrbStack to stay a one-man project in the long term :)
Are there some more reasonable open-source alternatives?
> USA opens about 500,000 new software development positions per year.

Article doesn't say that. Its says that's global:

> Despite the pandemic, the number of software developers grew by 500,000 globally in 2020

Additionally earlier in the article, it shares numbers which supports a much smaller number:

> ...make this the most accessible 6-figure job in USA. At 1,400,000+ members and 22% projected growth, it is the biggest and among fastest growing high-paying jobs

The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies that there will be 411k new software jobs between now and 2031, not per year:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Given the number of 50k grads per year, 400k employees for 411k jobs isn't a massive shortage. (Not to mention that many jobs opening aren't for grads, but for senior developers)
Yes Anki. I've also written my own code to convert markdown and yaml files into anki cards. So amazing.
if it were that simple i would just say yes, write the letter myself, and ask the hiring manager to sign it.
Personally I think Intel lost the plot around the time they killed Atom. Atom launched as a garbage product, then they spent a decade refining it into an incredible combination of price, performance, and power consumption. Then they killed it and replaced it with processors that offered barely 10% better performance per watt at five times the MSRP and they wonder why the Intel tablet market is dead. It's dead because they strangled it in the crib by pretending Pentium Gold Y-series was an adequate successor to Cherry Trail.
Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple's AI Efforts
Even if true, it doesn't necessarily follow that there's a shortage of workers in a sector because the number of new grads is way under the number of job postings per year. Even if we assume only comp-sci grads are suitable for 100% of those positions (which is definitely not true) it still doesn't necessarily mean that there's an under-supply. We'd need a lot more info to figure that out.
not open access: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...
> Look at how hard it is to get hired as experienced engineers right now

I think that’s just what happens when you flood the market with 200,000 qualified people in a short amount of time (and those people have extremely narrow definitions for what counts as a good enough job). The overall trend, measured in decades, remains that there just aren’t enough software engineers.

Yes even including all the software engineers that didn’t study comp sci. Even outside USA it’s rough. When I was in college the average completion time for a comp sci degree was 7 to 8 years because people kept getting jobs and forgot to graduate. All our professors complained about the sky-high 3rd/4th year dropout rates.
Sparks of AGI? – Analyzing GPT-4 and the Latest GPT/LLM Models [sentdex]
I was really hoping someone would reproduce the tests and validate the claims from Microsoft's "Sparks of AGI" paper [1]. This video just does that (and more).

Let me provide one imporant quote from the video (from 18:50):

"I personally reproduced every single example from Microsoft, and while all the capabilities of GPT-4 were not necessarily over exaggerated, but the difference between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 does feel a bit over-inflated [...] one of my quibbles with the Microsoft paper: they give the impression that GPT-4 is an even bigger step for AI than I think is realistically true."

Kudos!

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
Giuseppe Ferlini
Sure, what I meant was that if you perform a trick and call it magic is hype, if additionally your trick fails and you call it successful magic it is hype+false reporting.

While - before or later - it may well become an issue, it seems that right now the "cloning" is not good enough.

OT, but not much, a kind of fraud that has become rather common lately at least here in Italy is someone calling the victim (possibly someone old) on the phone telling them that their son or daughter was involved in an accident or was arrested and some money (cash) is needed immediately to solve the issue, most of the time someone impersonates the son or daughter and - while crying - confirms to the father or mother the situation.

Most of the time the victim (put under stress by the news) falls for it.

Surely these generated voices will trick more people in a similar situation, but I don't think that (yet) we are there.
I posted in one of those threads, but I'm a parent that had to meet the school principal because my 4th grader "broke the school tablets to install games on them" when the actual "issue" was that he'd figured out that no WiFi == dino time!
"The thought emporium"

Dudes nuts. Engineered/Infected himself with a virus that changed his intestines to make them produce lactose for a few months. Is working up to build a bunch of neurons trained to perform a task.
Can't edit my comment now, but I just looked at the earnings report and they're actually up $200m on what they forecasted, so that'll be why the stock is up.
(dev here) Haha, don't want to name anyone specifically but it's true :)
https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/tree/7ef85f46716bb39f1e19... last commit before "we got a takedown" was in README
There's also a weird thing of like adjacent class envy more than large gaps.
Kind of a Narcissism of small differences thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...)

At the extreme-
Few people are personally envious of Jeff Bezos having a nicer house/car/boat/vacation.
But the way some people in my small middle class hometown react to someone who lives in the same town/hood, kids going to same school driving a $40k car when they drive a $25k car is kind of comically deranged.
The article says 500k globally, not in the US.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the number is more like 400k over the next 8 years.
The field of industrial robotics has seen significant growth in recent years, with the top 10 companies in the world leading the way in innovation and technological advancements. Industrial robotics refers to the use of robots in manufacturing and other industrial applications and has transformed the way we produce and process goods.

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We will delve into the history and background of each of these top 10 companies, exploring their unique strengths and areas of specialization. We will also examine the different types of robots they produce and the applications for which they are designed. This blog post will provide an in-depth look at the latest technological advancements in industrial robotics, and the ways in which these companies are transforming the manufacturing industry.

Whether you are an industry professional, an investor, or simply interested in the latest advancements in technology, this curated blog post is a must-read. From the yellow-colored Fanuc robots to the white and blue Motoman robots by Yaskawa, this post covers everything you need to know about the top 10 industrial robotics companies in the world in 2023.

What are industrial robotics companies, and how do they work?
there are so many lessons that we need to understand and leverage in our modern tooling, languages, and systems that Smalltalk and Lisp got right decades ago.
> There are an order of magnitude too few Americans

Go to /r/cscareerquestions. Every single post is about a recent comp sci graduate who's applied to _hundreds_ of jobs in the past year without a single offer. There aren't too _few_ qualified Americans looking for work.
I too was confused. I believe the parent is referring to the air conditioner module in the bottom right of image #5 on the blue container. It looks to be facing away from the launch pad and protected from debris by the container though, so I'm not sure how that would support the claim of durability.
Transcript: Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany, 1998
If that's the first time you touch the last bits of your private arena, you can trigger the OOM killer.
> Richter makes use of feature gates and compiler plugins, which means you'll need a nightly build of rustc.

That's what i love at rust. You always get a compiler error if you don't use the "right" version.
I like improvements, but I like speed and light demands for RAM or computation even more.
Maybe instead of saying what people should and shouldn't be doing, you should ask yourself why they're using it anyway despite the obvious downsides.

Lightning fees are less than $0.01 - much better than the alternative of $20 for cashing a check. And the volatility is a small price to pay for financial control, for someone who (with good reason) doesn't trust banks or the government that's failing them.

Actually the easiest way the government could kill crypto would be to get rid of the corruption and help those "undesirables" with their problems, instead of making them fend for themselves. I'm not holding my breath, but in a way I hope that happens.
Yeah I lived in Columbus and other parts of Ohio for 15 years or so and it strikes me as bizarre to try to bring industry back. Rubber, steel, automotive, etc. industries were absolutely massive in the 50's, 60's, 70's. But the corporate raiders of the 80s destroyed and sold off all the factories to replace them with cheaper offshore labor. The cost of living in Ohio only continued to go up and most cities in the state are filled with suburbs full of homes now approaching $500k or more. It's just not sustainable or sane to think some new class of factory workers can jump in and live there while being competitive on labor prices.
(dev here) OrbStack runs Linux, so no — you'll need a Windows VM for that.
what does AI add to a note taking app?
Why is a conditional move not vulnerable to Branch Prediction Failure
Not GP but I wonder if maybe they're referring to The Thought Emporium[0]?

[0]https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium
Arguing that the impact of free roaming chickens is higher than a battery farm tells me you haven't seen one or the other. Roaming chicken have a positive impact in the environment by spreading their manure over the land (where does this negative impact for anything that moves and eats comes from?) whereas chicken batteries stink for miles and produce a huge amount of sludge that contains heavy metals that is hard to process.
I didn't know about this project. Thanks to the takedown notice I'll immediatelly clone it and start using it.

Thank you OpenAI for playing a role in me finding an alternative!
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Also the Innocent Railway tunnel in Edinburgh - not that long but with an interesting history (a railway tunnel that predates steam):

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2021/02/innocent-railw...
i love your example, i wonder if this kind of game can be implemented in future training scenarios

we as humans understand ambiguity so much easier because we learn to speak and interact before we write, and writing ambiguity is way less obvious if you've never experienced it
Typically HN seems to down weight any discussions on visas or immigration to keep it off the front page, but for what it's worth it's important to point out that this lottery system was designed by USCIS and recently changed post 2016 in a way that aids staffing companies and IT consultants.

Previously you have to file a full petition with a serious job offer which costs thousands of dollars but now you just pay some entry fee and you're in. Obviously this was ripe to be gamed by shady staffing companies taking money from applicants for filing a petition and THEN finding a job later based on whichever staffing agency gets picked. It's not even illegal for multiple companies to submit a petition for the same person.

USCIS can fix this by just selecting the lottery based on passport numbers and making sure the full paperwork is filed before the lottery like a few years ago, but of course they'll just lazily blame others for taking advantage of something that is so easily gamed.

The real losers here are the students who studied in the US, worked hard to find a job and only submit a single petition through their employers. It's now way less likely they will get picked in the lottery.

My opinion - USCIS can't legally reduce H1B visas so they intentionally wreck the lottery system to invite bogus applications, who they can later reject, or they simply won't file a full petition, and they don't have to issue all the 85K H1B visas Congress has allowed.
According to various articles, coal is causing more than 20 000 to per year in Europe.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Report-Fi...
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600...

Some sources say as much as 200 000 deaths per year:
https://www.lemondedelenergie.com/electricite-allemagne-char...

If that's true, that means that coal killed about 4 million Europeans since 2003.
> The under-banked don't have bank accounts because they don't have money.

I spent 4 years in Vietnam before getting locked out due to covid. The last two were on a motorcycle traveling all over the country.

Women in the north have money. They store that wealth in gold. In order to keep it secure, they keep it in their teeth. [0]

These same women also have smart phones and really good and inexpensive 4g (probably 5g now) networking, because the government provides the telcom as a function of the military. Coverage is almost 100%, even in the most remote areas.

Those are the underbanked. They need security and they need a way to capitalize on their holdings (think collateralized Kiva loans). Crypto, today, provides that. I know it is true, because I'm doing it myself.

It is 2023, let's bring people out of the dark ages.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=vietnam+woman+gold+teeth
I remember times when shutting down a US-based factory and outsourcing the production to China looked like a damn smart move, because it's cheaper.
It's interesting to compare the revenue model of Curl to SQLite.

Both are permissively licensed.

Both are embedded in billions of offerings.

Both launched around the same time.

SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not.
Debian 12 is planned for 2023-06-10
Ah this came to my mind as well. Although I didn’t consider it a serious thought. But then if one day we find out that this was the purpose (for a similar service), I won’t be surprised.
Notwithstanding that this story has a 2% chance of being real, why, exactly?

1. Employee works late. Now usually this is a bad thing for everyone involved, but I assume that someone who is trigger-happy with firing would think that long hours is a good thing.

2. Given that it's a staging DB, nothing a "stop doing this" can't fix. And a talking to with the client about the problems that Kumar is causing.

3. See (1).

4. Optimizes their time away from their work.
I built https://playtune.app to have rhythm game with unlimited musics because it uses YouTube as the music playback provider. I play it often with my daughter.

I consider removing the restart feature (or maybe just for her) because she kept restarting whenever she missed just a single note
Extremely obvious & predictable clickbait - a little surprising coming from The Atlantic tbh.
Yeah that was their well known dev model for many decades.

However they seem to have missed a number of tick cycles as of late, so their efficiency gap to ARM got worse and worse.
> "Our access to publish service alerts was suspended last week and again this week,”

This is the real headline. It seems like Twitter is actually starting to fail to maintain proper functioning of legitimate accounts. It's actually crazy that this could happen, because Twitter had a massive advantage of being a primary access point for government information about transit; you essentially had the most captive audience in that situation, even if they published updates on their own website it wouldn't have a consistent interface for users (the way every Twitter account looks the same)
To add the other side. Every single one of my friends are excited for lab grown meat. The potential for a cleaner and more ethical meat plus the potential for new and better/different tasting meat is a plus for everyone in my circle.
You should just show them wise.com where they can open a US dollar account. Wise today provides that too. The idea that you need a distributed ledger for this is straight up false and this is just trying to dredge up problems to solve for a technology that has not found any meaningful use case despite 15 years of flailing.
They are feasible, lookup Joel Salatin for an example.
Yeah. It's a sad disease. Psychosis combined with emotional disregulation is not fun. Fighting against it doesn't work very well because the other person isn't seeing what you're seeing.

From my own experience, I explain psychosis as someone trying to tell me a cloudless sky is pink. I've known the sky is blue my entire life. Everyone knows the sky is blue. Who is this bizarre person who thinks otherwise?

On top of that, humans tend to double down when challenged. Fighting it just doesn't work. Their memory is gone, so any progress you've made is undone very quickly. If you don't understand what is happening, you're going to lose your mind too.
It's been taken down, how can you clone it? Anyway if anybody has links to a mirror that'd be great. Still wondering why people don't self-host.
> Clojure REPL-based dev is better for me personally

me too! Morse is complementary to your normal REPL-based workflow. it is designed to not get in the way of that.
Eh. Just so you know depending on the cost of the place and the situation of your guests then this can be really stressful for them.

I've been in a lot of situations in the past where I've been making okay money but had friend/coworkers who were making very good money. They pick expensive place. It's unclear if this is work or social. I cant really afford to buy a $75 dollar steak, an appetizer, and a bottle of wine but I take the backseat and follow their lead. Bill is expensive. They cover it but the entire dinner I was worried that I might be on the hook for half of a $250-$500 dinner bill.

I've been in that same situation and someone said clearly, "Hey this is on me, get whatever you'd like" and I feel comfortable and can actually enjoy it. If they are my friend I take them at their word that they are comfortable paying for it.