skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3K for HTML course is nonsense. Let me rephrase. 3K for an HTML course when you have never done anything with HTML is nonsense. 3K could be a steal depending on where you are at. Your sister hasn't done anything yet so just taking a 3K HTML course is almost the same as burning 3K cash.

The issue with most people wanting to get into "IT" is that they think that taking a course or even a bootcamp will help them get a six figure job. It can happen for some but the reality is that you need to start on your own on the side, learn the basics, do a project and go from there.

If she truly wants to get into IT, my first question would be "What are you willing to sacrifice and do about it" ? We can point to many free resources to get a start including freecodecamp or even w3schools but she has to be willing to put the work in first.

If she truly is tenacious and has a great WHY for getting into IT, then tell her to go to https://freecodecamp.org and get started on her own for free and learn to do a project. If she likes it enough, ask for more help and it all gets easy every day from there on.

Just wanted to give it straight to you and I hope it helps.
Omg yes!! I HATE this current design trend. It makes it EXTREMELY difficult to learn anything useful without, god forbid, talking to a sales rep, which is the absolute LAST thing I want to do in discovery. I automatically write off companies like this right out of the gate and move on. I assume that when I do talk to their sales people, they will paint a misleadingly rosy picture that doesn't match the reality of what we get after the contract is signed.
The solution is to call it what it is - mental illness - and treat it as such.

Being a grammar nazi is one thing, but editing quotes to match a language that stopped evolving in the 1970s definitely oversteps the bound between quirky and actively harmful.

I'd even argue, in the vein of a sibling comment, that willing to label the activist superminorities that run things as mentally ill is very important. They're usually obsessive/perfectionist and workaholics, yet we're supposed to commend them and follow in their lead.
Some jurisdictions do this

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201...

There are various markup language experiments

https://docs.openlaw.io/

https://legalschema.org/docs/

https://law.mit.edu/pub/draftingx2rl/release/2
I would love to know if this guy shares any DNA with the Wikipedia admin who created tens of thousands of breast-related pages:

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/boobs-tits-wikipedia-tit...
Ask HN: Advice for a Recovering CEO bombing code interviews?
I sold my software company in 2021 at a healthy multiple after 10 years of leadership. Now I have a burning desire to be a SWE IC but I am getting destroyed on these live coding interviews. 15 years ago I was super confident and performed really well - now I am below the top 90th percentile, otherwise I’d be hired by now. I am a solid engineer, but my nerves are horrendous when I am being watched. Any advice for reintegrating back into the industry?
The way large organizations are structured, there's rarely any particular person making a hugely consequential decision all by themselves. It's split into much smaller decisions that are made all across the org, each of which is small enough that arguments like "it's my job to do this" and "I'm just following the rules" consistently win because the decision by itself is not important enough from an ethical perspective. It's only when you look at the system in aggregate that it becomes evident.

(I should also note that this applies to all organizations - e.g. governments are as much affected by it as private companies.)
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I'm curious if there are any good tools/techniques for capturing workflow data, specifically suited to help train an LLM? Use case is accurate question answering around processes/best practices inside an organization.
Again though, you're arguing that the company offering 'forever' and not delivering it should become the customer's problem.

If the company doesn't want to 'come up against reality' they shouldn't make offers they can't deliver.

All I'm saying here is that the customer should come first, even if the company finds it hard or costly to do what they said they will. That isn't controversial.
* https://www.dnshelper.com
It's scoped based on API key.

Keen to hear why you are hesitant to sign up?
They work wonderfully in extremely dense places like London and Tokyo, but they're awful absolutely everywhere else. Definitely nothing in America that compares to foreign trains yet, it would take us 50 years to come close to catching up.
This is NOT a service. It is EXTORTION! I I have a XM radio in my car and I pay a monthly fee that is a service as I am buying content. But to pay monthly fees to continue the operation or enhance the operation an OWNED product is extortion. It is unethical and should be illegal.
> This thread's article was written by a high-IQ intelligent author.

Does he also have a Mensa membership?
The Measured Boot mode of Intel Boot Guard is about removing the need for an Intel/OEM private key and e-fuse to verify the initial code.

For OS-specific measured boot of coreboot open-source firmware with a reproducible build, there would be a 1:1 mapping between the measured firmware hash and the coreboot source code revision used to generate the firmware.

Separately, the issue of firmware blobs (Intel FSP, AMD AGESA) would remain, although AMD OpenSIL is promising to reduce those binary blobs by 2026.
neat tool. thank you
I’m confused. The part of their comment you quote isn’t making a case for the current regulations being just right. It’s not even saying that, let alone trying to make a case for it.
I was entranced by this project from the very first episode 5 years ago! I followed along for maybe a year or so, and haven’t caught any updates since.

Happy to see the project (and channel) is still going strong. Such an incredible endeavor!
I’ve wanted to write about this for years. Someday I’ll do it justice.

Let me edit this comment with one particular example. One moment…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104

That thread is one of the most vivid examples of the difference of then vs now. But looking back on it, the delta isn’t as large as one might think. I was going to write “Imagine Dan giving an answer like that to the community unprompted,” and then realized that he has, many times now. He’s done a tremendous job preserving the spirit that pg imbued into HN.

The thread is nostalgic for other reasons too. Aaron Swartz gave a candid answer that stuck with me, and turned out to be really prescient for my life.
I want to see one where it says

> equal contribution, three of the authors are the real authors, the other seven names were generated by an AI
Mostly around $5000. Seen a $1000 and a $2000. I wonder how long prices will stay up there.

I wonder what mind of hardware is packed in here. Bigger battery, bigger microphone, how miniatiruzes are the chips, how much DSP processing is there... Interesting times.
Internal accelerators don't tend to work that well anyway, but you also need a different corporate structure than Facebook has. You need something where there's a lot more of distinct internal businesses, then it's easier to manage more of those. More like Yahoo or Google where there's clear groups. You also need to figure out how to let these internal startups use at least some of the corporate resources, but make their product public without mentioning the brand.

Having a big brand on a new 'startup' makes a lot of expectations and meeting those expectations reduces the flexibility of being a startup. There needs to be three clear paths for these things: shut it down, subsume it into the brand, spin it off as independent. But only one of those has clear value for the parent.
If cars drive by themselves by 2030, then would US still need 300M vehicles ?
I own an EV now for 4 years. My commute is only 20min x 2 per day. I only charge one night per week. Not all EV charge every single night, and in full.
It would be nice to charge at work during the day, even at lower rate/speed when sun shines and wind blows. Maybe by making it easier for companies to offer charging at their parking lot would help ?
> Yep, the grossness is obvious. When we go out for drinks with friends, we don't all drink out of the same cup do we?

I often do :) There's this place that gives huge beers (like almost a litre) and the queue for the bar is huge so usually when someone still has some we share it while another stands in line.

> But as soon as the first team using the the VR goggles took them off and handed it to those next in line, everyone realized they preferred controllers instead.

Don't forget people touch their face all the time after touching much dirtier things than VR goggles. I think this is more a familiarity thing.
So don't play the game. Personally I want kernel level anticheats because they make it much harder to cheat in the game. I want to know that my opponents are not cheaters. That's something I don't have in CS:GO, a game ripe with cheaters, or TF2, a game ripe with bots. (Valve's usermode anticheat is absolutely useless)
I'm sorry but that's just too hard to believe. Even if it was a perfect reasoning/coding engine the fact that it's context is so limited guarantees it will get stuff wrong.

I'm a fan of copilot - but no way in hell is it a 10x tool. It's probably 1.2x - which is a huge gain for such a cheap tool.
Human-based experimentation without proper research and understanding is unethical. We've seen what happens when that's done multiple times throughout history. That's why we have these guidelines in place. It's unethical, and what he would want to do without the law in place is unethical.
> but the end result does read better

What tiny fraction of one percent of the edits would you estimate you have actually read?
This is a irony I've noticed too. Some engineers tell me their managers are in a state of panic about how to "best make use of AI" (translated: how to ride the current hype wave to get nice PR points). The correct answer of course is "we already use AI and have been doing so since the 80s".

Considering it is ridiculously impractical to use ChatGPT in many areas where 1980s AI techniques are in use (think metaheuristics, chess, etc.), I suspect this is rather common.
The audio also reminded me of the Fallout games.
Bitcoin is a great storage of value for now. Mastercard is also very useful for transactions. The US military burns more fossil fuels than any entity on earth, and that's how your USD is protected.
Do we anyone here who feels qualified to comment on how much more it would take to run the process backwards and de-render a stream of general footage scenes to a compact, nearly lossless format for transmission or storage?
Browser-based Stable Diffusion using WebGPU
I describe GPT as really good at bridging contexts. As you point out, it does a great job pointing you in the right direction on pretty much any topic. I was using it with my 7 yo daughter and asked it to explain calculus in a way a 7 yo could understand and it did a pretty good job.
The combination of "libertarian" and "socialist" is "anarchist", at least if you use the word in its original meaning.
1. The California calculation includes state and federal income and employee share of federal payroll taxes; the UK site appears to include only income tax [see EDIT] (the UK has more complicated payroll tax rates, but each of the employee and employer share can be close to as much as the combined US rate of 14.85% below the Social Security cap) [1].

2. The UK has much higher consumption taxes than the US (including California) with a 20% VAT and gas taxes close to $3/gallon, compared to (in California) a maximum of 10.25% sales tax and $0.725/gallon state+federal excise tax on gas.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-rates-letters

[EDIT: Actually, the UK calculation does include “National Insurance”, which is the payroll tax equivalent, but it is after the "total tax due" that the parent used for the comparison. With the employee share National Insurance payment included, the UK total is 30%, higher than the CA amount even before considering the impacts of higher consumption taxes and the higher employers-share National Insurance.]
Ironically, we know precious little about gravity. We couldn't even properly scale our classic understanding of gravity to orbital mechanics without significantly upgrading our models. And discoveries in particle physics expand our understanding of the phenomenon in completely wild ways.
This is how color workflows work in film and tv. I imagine the issue is his television (despite him blaming the stream and his follow-up Netflix anecdote). Netflix has delivery specs that specifically outline these issues and require you to go through a workflow that prevents them (though people make mistakes and QC misses things).
2023 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting [YouTube]
Hey giraffe lady, have you ever owned a pair of giraffe patterned heels?
I think graphics technology has already "arrived" for the most part. There's tons of stuff that surpasses what Crytek did that blew away the industry 16 years ago, but a lot of that wasn't just technology, it's that they had world-class artists.

If you go back to that game today, there's a lot you can nitpick, but I think the biggest problem that remains today is that it's still extremely labor intensive to make assets.

At Planimeter, I worry more about asset creation turnaround time than anything else. I worry about it more than the tech we write, I worry about it more than fiction writing, or audio engineering. Just nothing else compares.

It's the most expensive part of any game development pipeline, and yet industry-wide accessible photogrammetry is half-backed, and it also doesn't help hobbyists who do 2.5D or 2D work.

So yeah, this neural engine stuff is superphenominal, for people who care about PBR workflows and photorealistic pipelines. This is obviously the most computationally complex work that can be addressed today, anyway, which I appreciate.

But the people who can actually access and harness that tech is just so absolutely tiny. I guess I just care a lot about this one particular sector of the industry where you have these world-class bedroom professionals who become studio professionals and Unreal and Nvidia are probably the only orgs in the world who cater to them, but for some reason I have to put in a lot of effort to articulate why what we have today, despite being so much more powerful than what we've had 20 years ago is less accessible and less functional and less empowering than what we had then.

I think it's primarily the labor factor in artwork, but also accessible engine tech today is actually worse than what we were using then, simply because no one really uses the id Tech family of engines anymore besides the most modern incarnations of them, and even to this day no class of engine compares to old versions of id Tech. Not even Unreal, by a long shot, despite having industry leading rendering capabilities. Everything else about that engine is half-baked or unusable.
"deduction markers", no?
The Quest 2 uses speakers inside the strap mounting arm. They don't touch your ears at all (in fact this makes for not such amazing audio but anyway...).

Though the Quest 1 did things in the same way and had much better audio. The Quest 2 was just really made down to a price point. Too much so. The Quest 1 was much better in terms of value for money - despite being 100$ more it fixed all the shortcomings of the Quest 2 (except the obvious improvements there like screen resolution and CPU).
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No; that's what media outlets now call "journalists." Discerning citizens (especially those of us with legitimate journalism degrees and experience) don't.
I guess it depends on how you'd define "senior" in this context, someone who knows lots of techstack or someone who has an idea. Of course that doesn't directly map to people's skills because most people develop skills in various dimensions at once.
Its definitely on the high end of attacks and a bit unlikely, but i dont think its exclusively nation states. Well within the reach of thieves who want to steal your bank info or something.
> I've never really had trouble with scales in any key on any instrument I've played.

The fact that you dont have a problem, doesnt mean that others wont have a problem. The article even states that the piano students cant play piano. Just like tons of managers cant manage, or tons of programmers cannot code.

Seriously why do people even make this logical fallacy that "everyone is as smart / decent / talented as me"? I would add thinking too, in certain countries cheating is blantant, in some encouraged.
10 years ago? As in 2013? Did you mean 40 years ago? Almost every car? On a scale of 1 to 10 billion, how high are you right now?
You have the option to get On-Demand Capacity Reservations now which are separate from RIs. Capacity reservations don't require 1- or 3-year commitments like RIs do. This can be used if you want to get your savings through Regional RIs or Savings Plans instead.
>Not every city is laid out according to sound urban planning principles, or they have been remodeled and reshaped to accommodate and prioritize car traffic. Many American cities, for example, are organized around the assumption that people will be driving, to the detriment of other modes of transportation.

In addition, plenty of climates in the US don't allow for walking, no matter how the city is laid out. You aren't walking anywhere remotely distant in Las Vegas or Phoenix or other parts of the Southwest in the summer, when temperatures routinely soar over 110 degrees (with blazing sun), unless you want someone to find your shriveled husk of a corpse on the side of the road. Similarly, you aren't walking anywhere in huge portions of the North/central/northeastern parts of the US in the winter, when temperatures plummet below zero and blizzards and ice storms occur frequently. Even in areas where the weather and the city layout is amenable to walking, there are tens of millions of elderly, disabled and/or morbidly obese Americans that lack the capacity to walk any significant distance at all.
What are you talking about? The whole point is that you can buy a spare 10-20 gallons of gas and take it with you. And the technology (a metal can) existed long before cars.
> I'm not sure what you are trying to argue but people routinely buy used computers on market place. Rasperry pies with locked keys are essentially paper weights once the owner doesn't want to use them anymore.

Why can't the owner who wants to sell their locked Pi give the buyer the key?
They must be doing the equivalent of a grep.

It seems safe, but I'd rather do that locally.
With these I wonder if the sites are there for investors while real customers are acquired through the sales teams.
> I still don't comprehend why Dorsey didn't just try to make the largest ActivityPub server on the web.

Because that would just restart at square one? It's like we've learned nothing about centralization since the web1 era.
This reminds me of one of those software protection libraries. I think it was by Syncrosoft, the company that used to protect software like Cubase before it got acquired by the manufacturer of Cubase, Steinberg.

Basically you'd write your algorithms in C++ but instead of using the built-in types like int or float you'd use custom types that had all of their operators overloaded. Your code would look pretty similar to what you'd have before (modulo the type definitions) but when compiled your algorithm would turn into an incredibly inscrutable state machine where some parts of the state machine would come from some kind of protection dongle. Pretty effective.
Reddit says something funny about this test, I’m not sure what, though.

Old Reddit is of course so much better. I guess “new” Reddit is shitty either due to the requirements of monetization, or maybe second-system syndrome.

I think the Craigslist test is good, but it is interesting to note that the first, thrown together interface could possibly provide a “false positive,” in the sense that the first implementation could have the advantages of not expecting to be monetized yet, and not having been infected too much by current design fads.
Gas cans (a.k.a. cans) existed before cars were invented. The point is that additional range was a trivial pre-existing technology.
I like the approach of having a dedicated PC and phone that is permitted to be riddled with remote-management and malware and used only for those purposes, and my own devices completely separate.
“ I’ll start with improved safety. Keep in mind that America’s current fleet of nuclear plants has been operating safely for decades—in fact, in terms of lives lost, nuclear power is by far the safest way to produce energy.”

Exactly, everyone has panic attacks when you mention any accident at a nuclear plant. When the majority of these plants are extremely safe.
Various localities upload their statutes to a git repository hosted as a GitHub project; but I'm not aware of any using Pull Request (PR) workflows to propose or debate legislative bills (or to enter or link to case law precedent for review).

The US Library of Congress operates the THOMAS system for legislative bills. How could THOMAS be improved; in order to support evidence-based policy; in order to improve democracy in democratic republics like the US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS

How do state systems for legislative bills document workflows and beyond compare to THOMAS, the US federal Congress system? Why do we need 50+1 independent [open source?] software applications; could states work together on such essential systems?

IIRC, LOC invested in improving THOMAS with: markup language to typographically-readable HTML support?

It may be helpful to send an email to your state with the regex regular expression pattern necessary to make online statute section and subsection references a href links instead of non-clickable string. TIL the section sign ("§") is older than the hyperlink; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign

Parliamentary informatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics

FWIU, diffing documents is a solved problem.

How could pull request workflows be improved in order to support legislative and post-legislative workflows (like controlling for whether a funded plan actually has the proscribed impact)?

High School and College Policy debate (CX; Cross Examination debate) enjoy equal rights to 'fiat'. IRL, we must control for whether the plan and funding have the predicted impact.

E.g. GitHub and GitLab have various features that could support legislative workflows: code owners, multiple approvals required to merge, emoji reactions on Issues and Pull Requests and comments therein such that you don't have to say why you voted a particular way, GPG-signatures required for commit and merge, 2FA.

FWIU, the Aragorn / district0x projects have some of the first DLT-based (Blockchain) systems for democracy; all of the rest of us trust one party to share root access and multi-site backup responsibilities and have insufficient DDOS protections.
Thank you for the non-video link. When I'm on HN it's because I'm expressly in a reading mode. I do enjoy videos but not when I'm browsing here.
You see wind instruments outside of orchestras all the time though. The main reason for the domination of guitar and piano is economic: you can play more notes at once and therefore have played richer sound with fewer players. You can split the gig money across less people. It really has nothing to do with the number of wind players that can transpose.
Clone Mike Pall
Software's pretty cool.