skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it “reverse colonization?”. Will such a CEO have cultural sensitivity to employees, customers and other stakeholders?

I think of how Sundar Pichai felt compelled to replace Google Pay (success if not profitable because the banks wouldn’t give them a break) with service that was successful in India but failed in the first world, it’s like the “appropriate technology” discourse of E. F. Schumacher but the problem here is third world technology failing in the first instead of the other way around.

What message do young people in the US get about their prospects for social mobility?
In my experience, that happens regardless if the process of saying "we're down" is automatic or manual.

I'm not sure I follow your logic here. People will ask SREs "are we up yet?" more because the status page automatically show downtime rather than manual, or what are you saying?
Chinese, Russian, Japanese
ChatGPT has been useful to me for learning/looking-up a lot of things, although it sometimes drives me crazy. Often I'll want to use libraries which are rapidly developing, and the training data ending at 2021 kills the accuracy. A webcrawler + chatGPT would be incredibly useful. So far I've only found tools designed for the web admin (finetune on your support docs + make a chatbot for users) rather than something designed for the end user.
Cheating might be tolerated more in the US if the student is wealthy, which might be a US student or far more likely the scion of some family in a foreign country. It has not been tolerated anywhere I've attended though.
Colombia

don't worry I made that mistake and one engineer was trying to get my address to send me "the shirt"
I don’t really agree with your sentiment.

Robots.txt have served the simple purpose of directing bots like Google to the different parts of your website since the beginning of internet time.

They still serve the same purpose, they tell bots where to go, and most importantly, they tell bots how to find your site map.

Robots.txt is not there to prevent malicious crawlers from accessing pages as you have suggested.

The robots.txt file acts simply like a garden gate. The good and honest people will honor the gate, while the more malicious might ignore it and hop the fence or something.
I think you are quick to judge the talks by their title. They are all technical from what I can tell, and many cover topics that are of interest to PhD researchers. For example, the distributed large model paper covers several papers' worth of research done at Google and how to utilize their implementation in JAX.

ML debugging is just one topic among many. I wouldn't dismiss the entire lineup because Google didn't have any big announcements in that space for that year.
Don't a lot of companies invest/tie up with potentially upcoming companies/technologies?

Wasn't OpenAI one of those investments? That investment seems to have paid off.
However, the gold standard is no more.
Do you think there's a space between "you will never ever get to do anything at all with popular media until at least a hundred years after you're dead" and "anyone and any company can do anything they with everything I produce as long as it goes through an LLM"? Is it really so hard to think people may be against both of those extremes?

There's a phrase I like which describes what you're doing. It's "vaguely gesturing at imagined hypocrisy".
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Not only will the antennas have to be huge (or really inefficient like electrically small mag loops which throw away ~20dB of signal versus a resonant size antenna) but the legal limits on channel bandwidth and baud rate kick in.

You cannot legally do high rate networks on HF NVIS.
I have had success just pasting the relevant documentation for using the library into the chat and telling chatGPT to reference that.
It's all been going downhill since they had some big redesign a few years back and jazzed it up with a bunch of unecessary Javascript. It's changed even more since then. It's inching toward being an "app", which is going to put it in the same "I dread clicking a link to it" bucket as other "apps", pretty soon.

Current pet peeve: clicking the little search field doesn't put my cursor in that field, but instead pops a HUGE command-bar-type UI that covers everything. I hate, hate, hate "Surprise! Ta-da!" UI like that. And the more of that crap they add, the slower the site's gonna get, to load and to use.
the stockholm syndrome in tech / capitalist america is astounding. While it's true that some communist regimes have been responsible for the suffering and death of millions, it's important to recognize that this is a distortion of Marx's ideas, rather than a direct result of them. Additionally, many capitalist societies have also had their share of social injustices and economic inequalities. It's essential to separate the philosophy from its historical implementations and consider the context in which Marx's ideas were formed.

In the case of tech companies reporting record profits amidst massive layoffs, it's worth exploring whether certain aspects of Marxist theory could shed light on the systemic issues within our current economic system, rather than dismissing them outright based on past examples of "communism"
> Is it (a US default) at all possible given all we know?

An open question, nobody really knows. As I recall, the president has no option that isn't technically a constitutional violation. We might want to throw this to the SCOTUS and settle it.
I agree with almost everything in your post, but the way you posted this also makes me recognize a feeling I had for too long, maybe it’s time to take a break and get a few deep breaths?
DOE also covers domestic nuclear power generation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_...
One thing about config files, that can help especially, is if the program reads it up, parses it, and then writes it back out (or at least can).

I don't know how many times I've been tripped up because an option set in the main file I was looking at was unset in some included file somewhere else in the line.
The Metaverse Was a Ridiculous Idea. Where Did It Come From?
Why not just hire the employees are contractors instead?
Show HN: I built a site to learn mental math
Not only that but the reactor they're building now is their seventh. They kept their previous reactor under vacuum for 16 months, did thousands of fusion pulses, and achieved 100 million degree plasma temperatures.

https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/ending-trenta-operatio...
Albert Einstein handwritten manuscript auction
What I often find so interesting is that the projection and sound systems for a high-end home theatre are so much vastly cheaper than what they are describing, and deliver a surprisingly similar experience. You can buy the best 4k laser home theatre projector that Sony offers for around 20k USD. You don't need an optical block, and you can hook it up to an Apple TV or blu ray player and get high bitrate 4k signal. You can build a very respectable quality 9.2.1 surround system for less than 5k USD. The maintenance costs are negligible with this HT stuff. The trick is getting access to cinema releases, which is essentially impossible for a home user. I'm surprised none of the theatre chains have subdivided their spaces into smaller, more intimate rooms which seat around 8 people and use consumer level kit.

Obviously you can build a very nice home theatre for less than that (optoma makes great budget projectors).
AI chatbot to replace human order-takers at Wendy's drive-thru
Hesiod
It's pretty simple. There are few incentives for integrity and few disincentives for lack thereof. This shows up in all kind of contexts - from business leaders, to social media "influencers", to athletes, to politicians.

I'm not sure why anyone would expect "the average Joe" to maintain some semblance of integrity when very few successful individuals do the same. The overall message is pretty clear - if you want to succeed, you will need to cheat.
> FY 2023, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had $32.37 Billion distributed among its 1 sub-components.

https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/national-aeronautics-and-...

Pretty sure there is no space organization which comes close.
I grew up watching the beginning of this and have healthy (Conservative these days) opinions on sex, it's not an exposure problem it has and always will be a parenting problem, (I see this more now, going into it) - the stark fact is parents are less than useless now, nobody wants any responsibility.
> The Russians saw it coming, they were doing exercises and whatnot years in advance of the asset seizures.

You're trying to pretend that causality goes the wrong way around. The invasion of Ukraine caused the asset seizures.
I don't think that CDMX is considered a hotbed of cartel activity?
I read that book! (I've read all the running books...) Thank your college friend for me.
> The file is just a basic text file with some useful info about the website like what it is about, when was it published, the author, etc etc.

How does this differ from what would be useful in humans.txt?
There are cultivated areas of wilderness in North and South America. But the way it is cultivated is more like the modern “perennial food forest”, and not “scientific forestry” you see in Europe.
Fortran programmers abused the stack in astonishing ways. They used to calculate offsets on the stack to variables in the previous frame you already returned from. The details of stack layout were coded into important applications. Intel designers tried to do better, but the Fortran people pushed back, hard.
AMD been using perceptrons in their branch prediction logic since I think K6-2.

Some updates to it were big point of "what we did in Zen" presentations when first Ryzen and EPYC CPUs landed.
Also debt ceiling is not the budget. Lots of incorrect info in this thread.
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I think it’s a popular approach to see the hiring process as hazing, at least in some companies. I.e. to throw random hurdles, later check who’s doing best and hire them.

I saw companies state that openly. E.g. saying: we’re all competent programmers, none of us like leetcode and we don’t use that in our actual job, but we need a way to filter candidates and this seems the best practical solution.

Again, perhaps desperate people and/or hustlers make for a good workforce, especially in some companies.
My lab has one of these with paper monitoring the temperature of our cold room.
This one: "This is why Google built TPUs. This alone justifies the whole program by itself. This level of natural language understanding, once it is harnessed for applications and made efficient enough for wide use, is going to revolutionize literally everything Google does. Owning the chips that can do this is incredibly valuable and companies that are stuck purchasing or renting whatever Nvidia makes are going to be at a disadvantage."

The last thing I read about that was that nVidia hardware is better than TPUs now, those chips don't seem to be a particular competitive advantage (any more?) and all the AI startups seem to be using Azure anyway. Things change fast.
Hollywood is just about the last industry on earth people should be trying to save. I have no sympathy for the low turnout to high budget propaganda films.
Let me hit you with some anecdotes. I regularly disparage both Apple and Google in my comments, typically Apple for being user-hostile and lying in marketing and Google for being incompetent and user-hostile. My Apple comments get downvoted more than my Google comments (I'd guess due to fanaticism that I see with no other company), although the gap has been steadily closing.
IMO the hip new thing in algorithms and data structures is to Just Use Arrays For Everything
are you a geneticist? got an sources to back up that claim, that we are all inherently selfish? take a critical look at the society you were raised in.
I've been disliking Firefox since before it was cool (the last versions I really loved were somewhere in the 1.x series, and I used to set my theme on later versions to something in the 0.x range, though I forget exactly which one)
If they can't build a fusion system, aren't they sort of bust anyway?
Indeed I did! Good catch!
> But now I'm seeing that tenure can actually provide valuable protection for professors. Teaching in non-STEM subjects is ideological; it has to come from some viewpoint. And without tenure, it can reduce down to "teach your subject from the viewpoint the administrators want, or you're fired."

Though with tenure, it seems to reduce down to "teach your subject from the viewpoint the administrators want," but with the lag of about a generation. It just means conformity is enforced in hiring and by more difficult firing process.

It might actually be an improvement in some ways to get rid of tenure because it would make things worse is a way that would make them clear.

If you're in a Communist country being taught Communism by a Communist professor, if you have any understanding of the system at all, it's hard to deceive yourself into believing that Communist viewpoint is anything but propaganda from the powers-that-be. Tenure and other aspects of "academic freedom" can be undermined, but provide enough cover to allow students to deceive themselves into thinking they're being taught a truth that isn't politically-defined.
> Trustworthiness is one of the things employers are looking for.

And yet rarely reciprocated beyond what's explicitly required by law.

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Thanks - forgot about that site, should've checked there!
Don't forget to add a few billion dollars saved because of how easy it is to debug HTML. How easy to is for people to start. You press ctrl+u and see the source. There were not many platforms where you could just view the underlying instructions... when I grew up, some 8 bit machines had cartridges to hack but let's face it 6502 or Z80 assembly is nowhere near as friendly as HTML.
You've got it backwards. The key to cellular networks is that they pay money for height above terrain and thus line of sight for the cells' antennas. Otherwise it'd be infeasible. Trying to build a cellular network with the antennas at ground level is worse than a fools errand. Just look at the number of basestations required for deployal of mm-wave networks in urban cores.
It's a new era of McCarthyism we're dealing with... I thought that America had grown beyond this kind of bullying, but apparently the lessons have to be re-learned.

It's the brazen power-seeking by (and demanded submission to) the DEI crowd that scares me. They are willing to use the power to reshape culture and thought.

It's going to get worse before it gets better. We need a "have you no decency sir" moment.
Why not throw in studying history, with that list?
Agreed. That seems like the short high-level feel-good talk aimed at corporate folks, whereas the remaining 17 talks are technical and aimed at actual developers.
The standard process at tech companies for interviewing and assessing candidates is completely ludicrous. I like writing software but I've given up on the industry because of attitudes around hiring and advancement within companies. It just sucks dick everywhere I've worked.
The nature of the firing, with security and police escorts and such, made me wonder what kind of history preceded this incident. A search for "scott gerber onu" turned up this summary [1] of a lawsuit filed by Mr. Gerber against ONU in 2017.

The gist appears to be that a colleague put a hand on his shoulder to get his attention and Mr. Gerber interpreted this as an assault. The court disagreed with his interpretation, as did the US 6th Circuit upon appeal.

The nature of the firing makes a lot more sense if this is an individual with a history of reacting to common workplace interactions with legal action.

I have a feeling his overall claim of being fired solely because of his opinions about diversity is about as valid as his claims of being assaulted.

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-6th-circuit/1871365.htm...
Yep, the drive and bike times for my example are roughly the same at rush hour according to google. For someone interesting in biking as a commute, Boston/camberville is probably one of the best places to live+work. If you can deal with the winter anyways
Notice each time the U.S. defaulted it brought economic turmoil, something The Hill didn't point out. Also, the U.S. has never defaulted under the current global financial system. If they do then they can expect even greater pushback on continuing to use the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency and Americans can expect to see significantly higher inflation for the next several years.
From what I see on the website I don't think you can attend in person. Those online events are always a bit sad if you ask me.
> big tentpole movies that we all love

Like what? Hollywood has been going downhill for years now — there are a few good movies a year, but it's nothing compared to what it used to be like. Just endless bland corporate written-by-committee superhero movies, prequels, sequels, reboots... maybe it's just time for the format to die.
> Don't recruit me into some bullshit argument that rewrites history and entrenches Disney's ill-gotten monopoly.

You don't think it's them being allowed to buy Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm? Is creativity ruined because I can't make a Mickey Mouse cartoon or t-shirt? Does the world need Luke Skywalker coming from any individual studio?

People are free to make the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, etc. and there's nothing out there that stops them.

I've got no love for giant corporations but I see it a lot less about copyright than massive corporation gobbling up more corporations. There's no shortage of creativity out there if you look for it.
I had classmates from France which would be middling in the social trust spectrum -boy oh boy, did they cheat on homework and exams. Same for Koreans and Chinese, but Japanese didn't cheat (or at least I didn't notice).
Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'
I have several working cameras from the 40's and 50's and two fantastic Pentax cameras from the 60's and 70's respectively. The newer Pentax is a K1000 that I've had completely refurbished and it works like it just came out of the box.
I'm not positive it's a derivative work, and more importantly, I'm not positive that's even a concept in music copyright. And most importantly, I don't think any jury is going to convict on that.

That said:

Your example is a straw man. "No one disputes that the songs share a chord progression" -- no, that's not the argument. Look at that video: they share identical four opening bars.

The question is, did he start with LGIO and make mods to it? If so, it's a derivative work.

Consider "fan fiction." You take the same Star Trek NG characters and change some of the plot. It's still recognizably Star Trek NG. Yet people do get away with fan fiction these days, AFAIK.

So a judge trial would have ended differently; the judge would have ordered a small but significant payment. But going for a jury trial was a loser right from the start.
If they train GPT-4 to post wrong answers on the internet, and then learn from the responses, we'll have the singularity in a month.
23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty
Nobody claimed that americans never cheated, yet the blame of things getting worse is put on GP on those coming from “low trust” societies.

It’s a xenophobic lie, like if Americans don’t celebrate lying on positive euphemisms like “fake it till you make it” or “being a good salesman”
What if we create a new access.txt which all user agents will use to get access to the resources.

access.txt will return an individual access key for the user agent like a session, and the user agent can only crawl using the access key

This would mean that we could standardize session starts with rate limits. Regular user is unlikely to hit the user rate limits, but bots would get rocked by rate limiting.

Great. Now authorized crawlers, bing, google, etc, all use PKI so that they can sign the request to access.txt to get their access key. If the access.txt request is signed with a known crawler the rate limits can be loosened to levels that a crawler will enjoy

This will allow users / browsers to use normal access patterns without any issue, but crawlers will have to request elevated rate limits to perform their tasks. Crawlers and AI alike could be allowed or disallowed by the service owners, which is really what everyone wanted from robots.txt in the first place

One issue I see with this already is that it solidifies the existing search engines as the market leaders
Arguments are decided on logic, not votes.
ArenaNet did this for GuildWars when they encountered particularly inexplicable bugs:

[Mike O’Brien] wrote a module (“OsStress”) which would allocate a block of memory, perform calculations in that memory block, and then compare the results of the calculation to a table of known answers. He encoded this stress-test into the main game loop so that the computer would perform this verification step about 30-50 times per second.

On a properly functioning computer this stress test should never fail, but surprisingly we discovered that on about 1% of the computers being used to play Guild Wars it did fail! One percent might not sound like a big deal, but when one million gamers play the game on any given day that means 10,000 would have at least one crash bug. Our programming team could spend weeks researching the bugs for just one day at that rate!

https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway
You're mistaken and you're intuition is off. It lines up absolutely.

Debris is almost any configuration of atoms that are considered trash or unusable.

There's are much more ways you can configure atoms to form useless trash then you can to make cars. Case in point "you" can manufacture "debris" or "trash" by throwing something into a trash can. Simple.

When's the last time you manufactured a car? Never.
MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama
Usually people are only annoyed if they're not paid for their (excessive for an interview) time.

Two weeks worth of contractor rates for a finished feature as an interview? Sign me up!
> It won't help when a new version or an entirely new library is released.

That could be accounted for pretty easily, no?

> raised several security concerns.

I'd think that having the file included in Chrome or Firefox would alleviate those concerns though. If you can't trust your browser vendor to bundle the right version of a library
US Default Insurance Cost Eclipses Brazil, Mexico as X-Day Nears
I like how everyone has been using ChatGPT to code in Javascript, as I have done something as well.
AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High
Ask HN: Reliable Online Payment Processor?
Hi everyone! I'm looking to start an online business and I've noticed people on HN pointing out that Stripe and Paypal seem to randomly close accounts. Are there any good alternatives to these services?

Thanks in advance!
The skydiving demo from Google I/O 2012 is still the best.
Dell tells workers to wear pants at least 3 days a week
Thank you - that makes a lot of sense, I figured something was wrong from the tone of his comments on greenhouse gases, but couldn't put my finger on it.
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