skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience with live coding interviews, the companies and teams seem oblivious to the gaps created by using live coding interviews as one of the key signals.

To me this is the key to the whole problem. For many companies live coding interviews are a cargo cult approach to interviewing. Since the people that do them don't understand how to evaluate others they become a checkbox exercise that only evaluates if the candidate would tackle the problem the same way the interviewer thinks they would tackle the problem.
Not bad, but this is very high level. In Payments, the devil is in the details. Things like tokenization, security authorization, fraud detection, various kinds of payments rails, recurring payments, cross border payments, etc often matter.
ActivityPub involves a HUGE number of HTTP requests. Every time you create a post your server has to deliver that post via HTTP to every other instance that has at least one of your followers - this can quickly grow to hundreds of deliveries if you have a few thousand followers.

Mastodon uses a Sidekiq queue and Ruby threads to handle these deliveries.

I have a strong hunch that switching to delivery through a more efficient mechanism - async IO, or a lower level language - could have a big impact there.

My web browser doesn't blink at loading 100 resources to render a web page, so delivering a few hundred HTTP requests shouldn't be impossibly hard to scale, even when you take retries into account.
I've heard the Netherlands one mentioned, but I don't get at all how that nor the anti-steering provision here would actually function. Were the dating apps IOS-only? Were the alt-payments embedded in the mobile app?

In this case, anti-steering stops Apple from preventing mobile apps from mentioning the mere _existence_ of other platforms. This doesn't have to be an embedded "pay with Epic" link, it could be a text blurb that says "Save 30% by buying on epic.com", might not even be a link. How could Apple possibly demand a fee in that scenario?

The only possible way to handle this would be to renegotiate terms to split payments by-platform for players regardless of where they make the purchase. But why would Epic ever negotiate terms like that when a court just threw out the anti-steering provisions universally?
This article is thinly-veiled activism disguised as factual claims, and it is a bit sad how far Cory has gone in this direction. Notice, if you will, that there is no evidence provided that any of his claims about pricing are true at all, and in this very thread people are saying that in their experience they are not.

Amazon still has mostly lower prices than other retailers. Uber is still cheaper than cabs. Whether those prices are sustainable or not is a different issue, but simply claiming that they are actually _higher_ without providing any evidence other than "I saw a $55 Uber fare once" is not responsible writing.

I want to believe Cory is just devoted to the cause of protecting people from unchecked Big Tech power (which is a legitimate cause I do not oppose) and he is letting his confirmation bias get the best of him.
CGNAT needs to die as well.
Because that hardware is $300-$500 and not portable. Most controllers are wired-in because they snap to the phone, like the Razer Kishi.
Probable using Airpods or other earbuds.

Since the processing isn't happening on the phone, it doesn't use much more battery than watching video.

Mobile is the predominant form of playing games these days. The goal is to allow the existing mobile players to access other types of games that won't run well natively on a phone. It's not aiming to convert existing hardcore gamers.
Not exactly true, they could be prohibited from launching in Boca Chica and would have to move all operations to the Cape.

The Artemis program could also be cancelled by politicians and budgets
For sure. I don't want to "subscribe for offers and new products" even if I like the company because I already get too much clutter and I expect that I will ignore/delete 9/10 of their emails.
Authorization is usually not handled by a GraphQL framework. You typically have a business layer between your GraphQL API and your database. (And probably some basic JWT authentication layer in front of your API. Notice the difference between authorization & authentication.)
After seeing ChatGPT and others hallucinate and make mistakes I was wondering if self-driving AI is inherently susceptible to similar behavior. Like hallucinating objects on the road and ignoring signs etc. If we can not fully understand these types of behavior for LLMs at a fundamental level, is the self-driving AI any different.

Of course, it may be that the LLM architecture makes them susceptible for this, but not self-driving AI. But the question still remains, do we understand enough about it to trust human lives to the AI?
Are you unfamiliar with Kendi? I thought he was something close to "required reading" for anyone aligned with woke thinking.
From

https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/

> Federation Issues
>
> Since every ActivityPub server implementation has a slightly different interpretation of the protocol, some servers don't quite federate properly with GoToSocial yet ...

How's the specification/validation effort for ActivityPub progressing?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Haven't you also just described Economics? (I frequently describe economics as soothsayers for the rich, telling them what they want to hear, but dressed up in technicallese and mathematics to make it appear as hard science, when it is far from it)
You watching succession? HBO consistently has great acting.
Thirty thousand people die on US roads every year because of the actions of people who received driving instruction and passed a driving test.
When I was growing up in Lake Tahoe in the 1980s, I would leave the house in the morning to return at dusk, and I often went on a hike up Ward Creek from my house to the backside of Alpine Meadows.

Quaking Aspens were my Spirit Tree and I loved being around them.

I didnt know at the time that the groves of Aspen were acually all the same tree.

But they had a profound effect on me as I hiked and built stuff from them.

I used to chop them down and build tee-pees with pine bows as walls... I was like 13 or so. If you got caught in any of my booby-traps, I am sorry...
FB - Groups. It's a great way to connect with your local communities and find people with common interests

IG - Stories. It's a great way to stay up to date with friends

LI - Posts and Messages. LI's limited messaging feature is actually great for sending/receiving opportunities without too much spam.
It would mean we reached peak capability as a civilization, and then we would be forced to rely on an artifact that can pull from that subset of knowledge to help patch together machines that broke down until we lost all the hardware to run the AI itself.
The tool is very amazing! We can record in live customer environment and the autofix part is really cool it suggested me the exact fix.
Prompt engineering now (as I understand it) is you're refining and refining the prompt itself. Perhaps what we might see is you give it a prompt then just keep adjusting the response dynamically, and then it can remember the entire concept as a saved prompt.
The real effect of cancel culture is the chilling effect it has even on relatively anonymous conversation.

Humans are social beings and the spectre that someone could be outcast for sounding like they are from the wrong clan is an innate phobia.
I wouldn't mind clarification.
It is petulant - but it is also politically savvy. This is exactly the kind of rhetoric the UK government tries very hard to dispel.
In 2008, Blizzard was owned by Vivendi Universal, which is a giant conglomerate that owns a seemingly random assortment of media properties.

Vivendi has gone through so many mergers, acquisitions and divestitures over the years that I find it hard to imagine them having a sentimental attachment to a particular business unit.

Blizzard has pretty much always just been one part of a larger organization. It was sold in the 90s.
We are saying the same thing from two different perspectives.

Yes, a small indie band would not have the same following as Radiohead at first. They need to build up a series of highly valued releases over time. Which is really all distilled into the "be Radiohead" line.

Or to make it less vague, your pricing and billing strategy may need to change over time. When/if you develop a history of delivering highly valued products and releases you will have the opportunity to explore alternate pricing models.

However, I still think you can distill much of this down to "create something that people really want". If you can do that the pricing part gets a lot easier.
Is this just hyperbole or you actually believe this literally? I have never met an American University administrator or education economist, but from what I have read in pop science I don't think my point is lost on them. Economists, at least the ones I regularly read from, spend a lot of time fighting this kind of thing.
There have been numerous attempts at GPU friendly memory systems for CPUs. Iris Pro had an off chip, but inside package help. I forget if it was cache, ram, or edram. The current apple solution looks like the best I've seen (100,200,400, or 800GB/sec).

Frustratingly the PS5 and XboxX both had pretty nice memory systems for CPU+IGPU, but during the entire GPU shortage AMD never brought it to market for PCs/ laptops. Although there is hope. The AMD Strix Halo, due in 2nd half 2024 does claim to have a 256 bit wide memory bus.

Sure a fancy hybrid that uses a few fast stacks of HBM and some slower dimm slots is possible, but it's far from sure if such a design would hit the size, power, performance, and cost constraints of the market. Clearly the Apple 400GB/sec apple solution fits in a thin/light laptop with pretty good battery life.
You just pointed out that the two driving assists are apples and oranges ... yet it was you who compared Waymo's driverless car total mileage vs Tesla's FSD.
10 years is more than enough to attract a player base and establish themselves as a place where games need to be launched.

I'm not sure what you mean by there being a hold up. I assumed the deal was dependent on the ABK deal going through, which the CMA just blocked and they've all but guaranteed that GeForce Now won't get Call of Duty.
How long do these prices last? Seems like the super-high price would reduce their top of funnel, since people like me (who end up on the site infrequently) would never consider it at the listed price.
Can you clarify on “seeking knowledge”? Is this something you were supposed to stop along with overthinking, or things you were supposed to learn that would help- if the latter, what were those bits of knowledge?

And elaborate, specifically, on “a few other things”?
Absolutely. Just trying to tame such devils using open source and community as the tools
that the commenter is associated with the project.
It feels Europe is becoming increasingly poor and unsafe, and the situation in the UK has worsened quite a bit since the start of Brexit.

Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).

Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was... the US [0].

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
Glad things get addressed for you. In some places I've worked, they don't. They carry on like my post above.

I did have a 6 month contract with a fairly tight team back in 2019, and it was definitely overall a positive experience. Mix of experience levels, and they were growing perhaps a bit too fast, but there was enough balance and communication. Most people were on site, which did, I think, help out some. I know "remote only 100%" is everyone's favorite 'go to' mode (mine too) but there's some extra discipline and rigor the whole org needs to have to function smoothly to get the best out of a mostly or fully remote workforce.
Happy 10th anniversary and Kali's story so far
Maybe Microsoft should make a better console if they want a higher place in the console market, rather than just buy their way into ancillary markets.
It appears that the official Mastodon app has crowned 'mastodon.social' as the default on the official Mastodon app. [0] So it has been admitted that asking the user to 'choose a server' was a disastrous thing to do for adoption which confuses the user from the start.

Hence this 'default' it also means the centralization of mastodon.social will accelerate, federation never mattered in the first place and risking the same problem that happened with pawoo.net, mstdn.jp and and mastodon.cloud all acquired under one company. [0] So the bigger you get, the bigger you are as a takeover target.

If the instance is too small, will risk getting DDoSed very easily and won't be able to handle an influx of new users and would have to close signups. If it is too big, it risks not being able to scale and needs to re-centralize with Cloudflare and the instance will receive lots of take over attempts from those with deep pockets.

Eventually, the owners will cave in. Just like they did with a 'default' instance.

Do not tell me that you will reject someone willing to take over an instance with lots of users for hundreds of millions of dollars.

[0] https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110233282251253677

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquir...
> Companies make claims about the future for many reasons

Here is Tesla lying about the FSD capabilities of the cars they were putting on the road in 2016: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

Show me a similar lie from another car company about their production vehicles.
Yeah, ruby is a weird one. They have excellent documentation of the API, but all the language documentation is wildly out of date. The main web site links to an old version of "Programming Ruby" which covers 1.6. Has nothing changed about the language in 20 years?
If you've spent 5 digits amount of money on something, it's easier to say "Oh this thing does X, I like it!" and dismiss all the faults as "little things" rather than say "Oh this thing sucks, I've been duped, I'm a fool!".

Not sure why I'm saying this, I'd tell GP to check his bias, but he'll probably conclude, "Nah, I'm clever enough to be objective about this!"... we all think we're clever enough, and try to protect that idea in our heads.
> Look, I get that Musk isn’t popular here. But please, give me some hope for humanity and at least pretend to care about facts and evidence.

The onus is on Tesla to provide honest and accurate data, and they have shown time and time again that they are not capable of doing so.
The Lumigraph (1996) [pdf]
TLDR:

1. You have a volume

2. This volume has a lightfield, so
Intensity(x,y,z,theta,phi) has five DoF. (imagine yourself in an FPS game, for every [x,y,z] position you can fly to, you have a "skydome" view [theta,phi] that you can pan around with your mouse)

3. Light along the same lines are indistinguishable in which depth they originated from (you can "slide" the light)

4. Therefore you can "flatten" one dimension from 5DoF to 4DoF, producing an "apparent emission shell" of the object. This shell is the Lumigraph.
If the market demanded one audience...

1. Why was HN founded, and;

2. Why did Reddit create the subreddit?

Unnecessary hint: Both questions have the same answer.
What are you talking about? The deal hasn't closed yet AND was only announced a year ago.
I do sub to free trials, if I have the time/energy to immediately cancel afterward. I never leave it until later for the above reasons.
It did feel like a big, stupid failure, but you’re right. Thanks for the words.
The connection is bidirectional, yes.

Mental health issues have been associated with changes in appetite. It’s a simpler relation, though, and is more a function of hormones and nervous system activity than microbiome.
There's already quite a lot of switch emulation on the Steamdeck.
You're speaking of a time when the Internet itself wasn't really thriving - it was barely a curiosity that didn't exist in the lives of the vast majority of people in the world in any way at all.

With all of their downsides, it's only huge social networks that actually brought the vast majority of people to the internet at all.
There is no data and that is intentional. This is lazy activism, meant to prey on people's feelings and biases rather than actually propose concrete improvements.
It's something George Carlin has touched on as well. Paraphrasing a bit: We're not really trying to save the planet. The planet has been here for billions of years, it'll be here for billions of years after we're all dead and gone. The planet will be fine. The people? The people are fucked. That's what we're trying to save. We're trying to keep the planet hospitable to us.
What should this data actually be and how would one get it? You can't really do a fair experiment with random assignment where some companies use Amazon and some don't and we see how their prices change over time. Because of the "Most Favored Nation" issue, you can't meaningfully compare prices of products between Amazon and other platforms. Monopolies and anti-competitive practices remove meaningful choices, which naturally blocks or hinders anyone from studying the outcomes of those removed choices.
MongoDB C and C++ Driver Survey
except that nobody wants to host its own server, just a minority of minority of geeks
Show HN: A bespoke macOS UI for ChatGPT
Hey! Alexis and Tobi here. We built a native macOS client for ChatGPT API that is free to use (macOS Ventura).

https://www.jamgpt.app/

We built and fine-tuned it to scratch our own specific text-processing itches, so we just wanted to share this with the community.

If you work with a lot of text or code like we do, check it out.

Its core features include:

- Instantly talk to ChatGPT from anywhere on your Mac by pressing a keyboard shortcut.
- Avoid typing out repetitive prompts by saving prompts and accessing them quickly.
- Just download and start typing as you would with ChatGPT. No need to learn anything new.
- Comes with both dark and light mode options

Batteries included: For the first 100 prompts, you can use our API key to try it out right away. After that, you can add your own OpenAI API key. The app is completely free to use and will remain so.

We may add additional pro features in the future, but we have no commercial intentions at the moment. Whatever you see now will remain free.

This is our first version, so things aren't perfect yet, and some features might be missing.

Give it a spin and let’s talk! We’d love to hear your feedback.

Cheers! Tobi & Alexis
If you are homeless or your current housing is unstable or unsafe what do you do? Not everyone has a safe place to keep physical objects. Homeless individuals already have communication issues because they usually don't have a reliable long term phone or phone number.
Amazon starts layoffs impacting HR and cloud unit
Thank you for demonstrating my point. This is exactly why they want a safety margin on their safety margin.
If the opposite were true, that low margins attract competition, then the margins would increase towards 100%. How do you tell if these companies are going towards 100% or 0%? Wouldn’t we need to see a change over time? How do you account for businesses which are acquired during that time which affect their margins?
You attach your phone to the controller and the sound comes through your bluetooth headphones that you no doubt already own. It's basically like using a Switch or a Steamdeck. With fast 4G or 5G network performance is perfectly fine for game streaming. Given that Nintendo have sold roughly 400 million portable consoles so far, it seems many people don't particularly mind "squinting" at a small screen when playing games.

As compared to just using a low end laptop?

Modern phones have better screens and faster CPUs/GPUs than many low end laptops.
This is off to a great start. I've been studying German through various methods for around 3 years now. Mostly as a mental exercise but also because I love German television.

For me, reading has been one of most productive ways to learn.
You're applying 20th century law and logic to 21st century technology.

FWIW I do believe training a model is fundamentally different from training a human.

The obvious analog is facial recognition, deemed privacy violating by laws and courts in multiple jurisdictions, vs a human doing the same thing manually.
Ah thanks! Was wondering if the site was down. Didn't know that DNS did that!
> Most of the author's complaints are about the cost and complexity of running an instance.

Correction: Most of the author's complaints are about the cost and complexity of running a large instance. I know people running their own instances, with less than 10 users, yet they are happily tooting with people in other instances. They aren't missing out on something that I, on one of the largest instances, have.
This is awesome! I've been casually learning German for 200+ days now, so this will make a great addition to my practice. Are the short stories generated by LLMs too?
I might be wrong, but I think you can't see anything from anybody you're not following (e.g. if anybody spams your timeline, just unfollow).
The new Gears of War was quite good, I thought. Nowhere near as bad as the new Halos.
> [...] told me to stop overthinking, seeking knowledge and a few other [...]

That's something people are always telling you, might as well have been chance that things improved and you've linked it with life events, as humans do- we're a storytelling species, we always seek to explain things in our lives through the prism of our decisions and thoughts.
But those are all hurdles you must jump even if the skill required to do so is low. My dog groomer can fiddle with writing Excel formulas and then decide that tomorrow she wants to apply for an entry level software role, write a convincing resume and bullshit the right mix of interviewers well enough and literally nothing would stop her from making it through the application process or beginning an entry level job and turning that into a career if she was successful in the role. There is no standard or required process or governing body or common association or union or group to say who has what it takes to be a dev.

Tech can also have tons of regulatory requirements for the product or business but almost none exist for the employees themselves in the majority of jobs. You can hire a whole team of convicted felons that have never written a line of code into your software department, hand out the associate software engineer title to them and still pass most compliance, regulatory and audit requirements. It would probably be a dumb decision but nothing will stop me from calling them software developers and paying them as such and these roles are common (even if they don't pay entry level FAANG wages, they certainly pay living wages).

That doesn't make writing software easy, and doing nothing to set yourself up for success is going to lead to failure, stalling and washing out most of the time, but it's effectively a walk-on playing field of meritocracy in most cases.
Relevant twitter discussion (before Elno ruined it)
https://twitter.com/LauraSeesPlants/status/13105563532498984...
The biggest cloud gaming services up until ~1-2 years ago were Geforce Now and Google Stadia (RIP). Xcloud gaming or whatever they call it today was extremely poor (latency and UX issues) and in limited beta, with a very limited library.

Nowadays Stadia is dead, Xcloud is kind of usable under the condition you use a controller (which makes it a non-started for pretty much any non first-person game) and pay for Game Pass. Geforce Now is still going strong, has much better and stable quality and is the gold standard.