skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience, sadly, has been the opposite. I had an iPhone 13 Pro Max with 120hz, and switched to a S22 Ultra, and although I can see the animations at 120hz, most of the time they feel stuttery.

I always was an Android user until that iPhone, I had it for about a year, and switched back to Android again because I thought I was missing some stuff, but I was wrong, I don't miss a thing of current Android, I think current iOS is simply smoother and more fun to use, and stutter free 95% of the time.
Sure; but which is which will vary from person to person.
RAM isn’t the only source of these errors. They can originate inside of a CPU core as well.
What is the logic behind an absolute debt ceiling? The way most other countries that limit government debt do it is by limiting debt to some certain percentage of GPD.

Note that the debt ceiling does not limit deficits. Those come from the budget. So Congress and the President can approve a budget that will cause debt to go above the debt ceiling, the government can then contract for goods and services authorized under that budget, and then when later presented with the bills for those goods and services run into the debt ceiling.

There's no perfect analogy between government finance and person finance, but reasonably close is this. You and 5 friends buy a vacation house together. You have a contract you have all agreed to covering how to run this thing. One of your group is designated as the treasurer, and this rotates yearly among you.

You have a planning meeting every year where you vote on major upgrades and improvements for the next year. These are put on a credit card that is jointly owned by you and your friends. Also on that credit card are utility bills, taxes, mortgage payments, and anything else that can be classified as a vacation house expense.

When the credit card bill comes each month, there is a meeting where it is presented. If it is under a certain amount the group contract authorizes the treasurer to pay it from the group's joint bank account, which you all pay a fixed monthly amount into.

If the bill is over that fixed amount, which it will be the month after a major upgrade or improvement is done, the treasurer can only pay it if the group votes to do so.

One year at the annual planning meeting the group voted unanimously to reroof the house. It votes 5-1 against proposals to install a hot tub, remodel a bathroom, and build a new deck. Those proposals were from 3 different people.

After the reroofing is done and appears on the credit card bill the 3 people whose proposals were voted down at the planning meeting vote "no" on paying the credit card bill. They say they are going to vote "no" unless the group agrees to their upgrade proposals. They are all adamant about this (even though each of them is against the other two's upgrades), and so the treasurer cannot get a group vote in favor of paying the credit card bill.

The sane way to do this is that when the spending is authorized at the planning meeting for that to also authorize paying the bill when it comes do.
I’ve been programming for two decades and you’re just plain wrong here. It’s useful throughout the dev process for many things, the worst part right now is just how slow GPT-4 is to run inference. You’re probably not using it right, aren’t using GPT-4, or something. It’s a multiplier, for specific parts of development - the amount of annoying nonsense I no longer have to spend my limited time on earth thinking about makes me want to cry.
How did they direct hire them from Columbia, something like Deel?

Curious how they were vetted
The person's friends all went to large corporations.

Someone who was willing to cheat so aggressively (keyboard with another laptop behind the current one?!) won't take credit for someone else's work? Play politics relentless? Lie about their contributions? Etc.. And all of these things help you get promoted in large corporations. And this was from entry level to mid level. It does get a little harder if you're a complete fraud for senior and staff levels.
Around 2006 I travelled around Mexico extensively including drinking heavily and getting on tubes late at night in Mexico City and living in an apartment for a while. Had no problems whatsoever. I was hit by terrorists in Nepal and thieves in Costa Rica which everyone seems to consider safe. Maybe things have changed a lot since then, would be interesting to see the stats.

I'd be way more concerned with gangs as a business person than as a tourist though, but maybe I watched Breaking Bad and Saul too much.
So they don't even manage to stay within the three nines.

Today they already spent their whole quarterly budget. With the incidents April and May they have already exceeded their whole yearly budget.
My phrasing was absolutely not meant to be read as myself speaking for all, apologies, I certainly don't want to offend.

It has felt on HN and elsewhere that the prevailing attitude to copyright has been these two, somewhat contradictory, things. That's what I was trying to highlight with my phrasing of "we", which was also not meant to include myself but be a nod to the way a vocal group try to steer and dominate the conversion.

Both debates are important to have, I don't know the answers.
I was actually looking forward to this coming to iOS, but it’s one of the things that work great until they suddenly don’t. Back from a photo in Photos? Swipe down or top left corner. Hide the keyboard? Middle right. Back from someone’s profile in Messages? Swipe down or top right. Back from a PDF in Files? No swipes, just top right. Some of these do make sense if you follow closely how the UI elements fly onto the screen, but are confusing if you don’t.
They are orthogonal issues. The connection was that if Python can be counterintuitive because of slice syntax, the same can be claimed of Julia and 1-indexed. It is not a good argument IMO.

I see your point, but personally find it a matter of preference, not of objective truth.

`range(end+1)` is consistent with that slice notation that you disapprove of.

At the same time, on 0-indexed vs 1-indexed you seem to have no preference (I prefer 0 for historical reasons).

How about `len(items)` vs `items.length`? I have my own preferences there, but I would not say any or the other is intrinsically better.

Anyway, I already wrote way too much about such a small syntax thing :)
I think that I saw somewhere that old tweets would be archived, or something like that.
Pay me and I’ll help give you all the motivation you need. I’d be good. I have that Nietzsche experience, you see, of having been so isolated for so long that there’s little in the way of neuroticism, excuses, dodges, that I haven’t seen!

Seriously, though, what else do you like? I made the mistake of letting the process of searching for jobs destroy any love I had for programming. I’d imagine a ho-hum job can do that to a lesser degree. You can’t let them define it. Find out what you love, get immersed in that first: or find something new that sounds cool. Get your zest for learning and creating back. For me it is physics and mathematics, but for all I know, it could be sports bets or logistics in Djibouti. And then if there is a programming application, easy to incorporate that in.

Also, retaining childlike abilities to get excited about stuff might get you mocked, but it’ll keep you spry, and this tends to have a snowball effect elsewhere in life.
It thinks my iPhone SE 2020 is older than an iPhone 7 and won't let me see the demo.
This has been true for any new tool, you can do more alone using those tools. And you can now do alone things that could only be done with a small team of people.

But still, using those tools you can achieve more with a team than alone.
I dunno, I think it's pretty hard to keep cheating as a developer. How would a developer even cheat to get promoted? I mean, a PM I can see survive for longer, but a SDE?

I actually had this issue at my current job where we hired someone who seemed great and who did really well on his interview exercises but then once he started working... well, it was pretty obvious he did not know what he was doing at all. So he was let go straight away. There was no way he could cheat his way to stick it out for longer than a month.
in a system where the company takes a large majority of the value I provide for a company, is incentived in many cases to underpay & overwork, who can fire me at any point for any reason, and takes a majority of the time in my life - I would label cheating as evening the playing field in my favor a little bit
It's about one second of video at "editing quality" ;-)
I'd only roast you for misunderstanding the "problem" to be solved.
It's not that the societies are "low-trust" but that the cost of being caught for cheating is that you continue with the life already available to you or you win a golden ticket if you're not caught. It's a no-brainer.

There's no reason to not-cheat unless you absolutely don't have to and what's the maxim about good programmers, they're so lazy they'll figure out a work-around to save themselves some time? Even if it's stuff they know already? Once you're into the system there are mutual shared interests and political efforts that can support such a career.
Optimizing Telco Networks with Graph Coloring and Memgraph Mage
I had a brief foray into using a set of Bluetooth headphones for PC gaming. It was “brief” because the delay was enough that it got me killed in games regularly enough that it was just intolerable.
They're not "domain extensions".
This would make it harder for new frameworks to get adopted, because they would always have the disadvantage of being an extra download for the browser.

If you think we can’t improve on React/Angular/Vue then great, but for everyone else it’s a disadvantage.
robots.txt is about crawling, ai.txt would assumably be either augmentative metadata or specific copyright terms of use with respect to AI uses.
Zeihen currently has a pretty active YouTube channel for anyone curious, though I imagine his older book may be more even keeled.
Any advice on how to get to work on this for a living?
To say nothing of the ethics of cheating, I think this behavior speaks to the value of the interview process. If it can be gamed so easily, it's likely not a great measure of the quality of the candidate and the companies that have implemented deserve the hires they make.

It'd doubtful the folks at the company actually mind that the interviews are being cheated. If the candidates appear to be qualified and appear to be fill the role for which they were hired and appear to be competent in that role, that's sufficient for most corporations and one of the problems working in "tech". That is to say, there are plenty of people in it that appear to be doing a thing, but aren't actually capable.

Somewhere in this thread a poster mentioned woodworking, which is a nice contrast. If you hire a carpenter, it becomes obvious pretty quickly if the carpenter is competent.
Yep, I know for a fact the higher ups tell (heavily imply to) the professors/lecturers to go easy on the undergrad international students with cheating and other behaviors at least in the smaller US colleges.
I'd suggest looking up succinct data structures, cache oblivious data structures, and probabilistic data structures.
Are there any pertinent distinctions between Mexico and Columbia?
Yes, I feel like this person only read the title and not the text of the post and made an assumption
It might be legally correct but morally wrong. Or it might be an alternative interpretation of ambiguous events, even one that is offensive.

A lawyer's job is to present their client's interests in the best light, regardless of what they believe. Many people with bad morals need lawyers.
While I like rms' suggestion of using person, per, and pers I can live with writers using singular they instead. It solves an issue English has (and many other languages also have) with lack of information.
That number is suspect. China imported 1343 tons in 2022. The source for that import number doesn't say it was added to the government coffers though. The quantity reportedly added to reserves was only 25 tons.

China also has extensive gold mining operations in Africa and South America. I doubt the quantity of mined gold is counted in numbers based on market purchases.

https://oilprice.com/Metals/Gold/Reopening-Of-Chinese-Econom...
No as humans we will always game a system to maximize their individual incentives.

Systems can be dynamic but humans are more creative dynamic than systems can be designed. That is and will always be true.
Or how about, you know, stop pretending we can evaluate someone's "intelligence" or "skill level" as if it's a one-dimensional factor that you have superhuman insight into measuring.

I'm satisfied, in an interview, if I feel the person is interested in the topic, is able to admit that they don't know something, and seems like they'd be pleasant (although i'd settle for "not difficult") to work with.

The breadth and depth of their knowledge is secondary and it's always a gamble because people excel at putting up very convincing façades of whatever it is that they think they're being evaluated for.

People have different things to offer, and you really don't find out until at least 6-12 months into their employment what they really excel at, you have no chance in 30-60 minute (or whatever) interview.

The best you can hope for is to rule out the obvious sociopaths.
Have you looked at the vendor’s website? This doesn’t strike me as a purely academic/intellectual "because we can" project at all.

And you still haven’t explained in any way why the lack of DirectBuffers or "IO" is a disqualifier for being able to run legacy applets in a modern browser without a JRE or other plugins.
This isn't cheating in my mind. They use tools available to them just like they will have on their job. I would ask clarifying questions and if they understand what they are saying then why does it matter that the memorized the answer vs memorized how to find the answer
This isn't a take over. It's a purchasing agreement.
> Current documentation is written for human reading, with a mix of text and code blocks that makes copying a poor experience. Perhaps soon, documentation and APIs will become GPT-friendly first.

Yes.

I have recently annotated my Pydantic models and fields with the explicit intention to use the resulting JSONSchema to inform GPT how to structure some information (in effect, writing a one-off client for an internal API I'm creating).

As a happy side effect, this is now better document (information about semantics of the data structure elements is closer to the definition of the structure itself, not in some external Markdown text file or in some walled-off wiki).
> a general digital intellect

That's a pretty bold claim.
Recall that the largest contribution to the budget shortfall is not increased spending, but tax cuts. If this were not simple gamesmanship, the proposed solution would include tax increases to pay for that which we have already agreed to purchase.
Loyalty doesn't solely mean staying at one job forever. You can be loyal to the terms of your employment and the expectations therein and still change jobs when it's in your best interest. You can also show loyalty later by refusing to share sensitive details about your past employer to a competitor, or referring people looking for a job.

Acting in the interests of a corporate entity and the interests of society aren't mutually exclusive. It's extremely beneficial to society for ethical people to work at large corporations to ensure the corporation does not harm society.

Well clearly a corporation does want things, as a corporation is a capitalist entity. It wants to increase its profits and maximize shareholder value. The rules, regulations and bylaws of that corporation are what it wants executed by its employees (and which you are contractually obligated to comply with).

Doing one's job as well as one can means weighing many different competing forces and making the best choice you can. The same happens in your own personal life. Do you eat an entire pizza every night because it's tasty, or do you moderate how much pizza you eat to stay healthy? These are two competing interests (your tastebuds vs your health) that you have to juggle and make the best decision you can.
Does VLLM stand for very LLM?
At least in the past, there were some issues with the licensing of dependencies. For example, both Julia and MATLAB were dependent on a variety of routines from SuiteSparse such as the Choleski factorization and the QR factorization. These routines are dual licensed commercial/GPL. The difference is that your MATLAB license gave the ability to use things like the MATLAB Compiler to distribute somewhat closed code to a client because they, ostensibly, have a license for SuiteSparse. Julia did not, so any project compiled into a stand alone executable would be subject to GPL unless an additional license for the dependencies was purchased. Now, if you're only distributing the source code, which most people do, this doesn't matter as much, but we should all be aware of our license responsibilities. MATLAB has more functionality built-in and I trust they've done the legal legwork for their included routines, so I don't have to.

To be clear, Julia constantly updates and I'm sure many of its original dependencies are being recoded to help address this issue. I still think it's worth a check and audit if someone wants to put together a broader project as to not get burned by this issue later.
Woof, lot of red flags on that page. Promo images have 3D-printed parts, the boots have totally pointless LED mood lighting the user can't even see with a headset on, and the only video on the page shows the boots not functioning for the core feature of letting you walk without moving. Also the demo has the guy shambling like an ASIMO robot.
From [0]
‘ This is a binding agreement that has financial penalties if we can’t build a fusion system,” Helion founder and CEO David Kirtley tells The Verge. “We’ve committed to be able to build a system and sell it commercially to [Microsoft].”

Assuming the financial penalties are a significant fraction (i.e they are, say, greater than 5%) of the agreement value, I would interpret it as a more serious / confident commitment and expression of intent and viability, than just a contract that’s hope + way to support.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717332/microsoft-nuclea...
While praise is best, I'd rather have my work be criticized than ignored. Nobody criticizes something that doesn't matter to them.
>Additionally, because most of populated Russia is a flat plane, they have no geographic barriers to protect their cities. Therefore they need to forward position their troops in order to feel secure.

This is very weird argument that smells of taking russian propaganda on face value. There's no "geographical barrier" other than what, hundreds of kilometers of land? They don't need "forward position". Closest point from Ukraine to Moscow is barely less than from Latvia, and St Pete is pretty much on NATO border, yet somehow... land road to Crimea makes them feel "secure"?

The real answer is that there is no "feeling insecure" at all other than in propaganda, and invasion of Ukraine is purely for maintaining the empire. There can be no "russian world" country that is outside of russia and prospers.
given this statement what would a general rule for this be?

David is 15 years old. He has a lot of experience riding bicycles. The minimum age to be allowed to drive a car is 18. Is David allowed to drive a car?

ChatGPT-4:A general rule for this statement would be: An individual must be at least 18 years old to be allowed to drive a car, regardless of their experience in other activities.

ChatGPT-3.5:A general rule for this would be: One must be at least 18 years old to be allowed to drive a car.

DaVinci: General rule: If someone is younger than 18 years old, they are not allowed to drive a car.

Curie: David is not allowed to drive a car.

Babbage: Yes, David is allowed to drive a car.

Ada: No, David is not allowed to drive a car.

abstraction seems like something that's 1 to 0 to me.
check out nostr. it’s signed json blobs. that’s it. protocols should be simple and complexity layered on.
Coloring in R's Blind Spot
For what it's worth. I started my company with a B2B solution developed in VB6. Now 20 years later I moved to Cloud/SAAS long time ago. But wouldn't you know, about half of my clients still run mission critical processes with the desktop client that received it's last update in 2018. Another one is scheduled for this year.
Feels like a setup for "and then we can blame people for not having an ai.txt when we rip their entire back catalog".
An unspecified "implementation detail" is essentially another way of saying that it doesn't work.

I've ported my account on ActivityPub a couple time, and it's a horrendous experience -- not only do I lose all my posts and have to manually move a ton of bits, but the server you port from continues to believe you have an account and doesn't like to show you direct links on there anymore.

The latter could probably be easily solved, the former needs to be built into the spec or it will continue to be broken.
Just how good can China get at AI?
No one is forced to buy Airpods, but the first class integration that the product gets which others can't gives it a competitive advantage. This is besides the power to push the product through different channels to customers of iPhones, iPads etc.

Another example is, no one is forced to buy Apple Music, but for sure it pops up front and center when you buy a iOS device or Mac. In fact, even when I keep removing the application from the Mac, on a version update it comes back again. It has integrations into the system and other core system apps that other products can't get and defaults matter. On top of this they will give you free subscription for 3/6 months when you buy a new device knowing full well that most customers won't bother cancelling. All of this behavior takes the air out of competitors like Spotify and is extremely anti competitive.

I don't even want to get started on iCloud etc.
Maybe "A journey to protect the Great Barrier Reef using ML"?

The video is five minutes long, is basically a nature advert complete with stirring music, has a bizarre cartoon in the middle of it and is all about an attempt to control the reef's population of starfish. We're told that the starfish are doing great thanks to there being fewer predators and more nutrients in the water, but that this is bad because "it's quite a nasty animal" and it eats coral. The goal is to find starfish "outbreaks" using ML and enable teams of divers to kill the starfish as quickly as possible.

They appear to think this is a stirring example of protecting nature. There's even a diver at the end who breaks down in tears at the way the reef has degraded over his lifespan. Fortunately since the video was made it was discovered that the reefs are now at record-breaking coverage levels despite the starfish, so apparently they didn't need AI driven death-from-above. Also it's not really clear why Google wants to help implement mass animal culls in a place where people don't even go. Why are corals better than starfish? This seems like a very arbitrary judgement. Corals and crown-of-thorns starfish have been co-existing in nature for far longer than people have.

So:

1. Not for developers. They use batching and quantization, that's as deep as it goes technically.

2. Essentially a long ad for their cloud ML services.

3. Consists mostly of people talking about how meaningful, awesome and filled with hope they feel.
Unfortunately I don't feel like south America has the legal system and lack of corruption to really take off.