skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I might grab a few of the more better posts.
Laid off recently? A guide to navigating layoffs as a tech worker
the average person doesn't know the distinction between chatgpt and gpt4. it's all the same thing to them. keep that in mind anytime you're talking with a non-tech person about this.
Just about any original scientific text or undertaking begins with a literature review.
UMC: Taiwan’s Other Semiconductor Giant
This entire fiasco is stupid.

Treasury bonds/bills are just “future dollars”, while physical cash and electronic deposits are just “today dollars”. The idea that a sovereign government can somehow default on obligations denominated in the currency it creates and controls is absurd. It can no more default on treasury bills than it can default on dollars, or accounts at Fed - either can be created at will, physically via printing press/mint OR electronically via crediting an account at the fed.

The “debt outstanding” is just the number of dollars the government has created. But the way we calculate this number doesn’t include ”today dollars” the government has printed, only “future dollars”, so it seems quite meaningless to fixate on it.

And it is not per se irresponsible for this number to be high. It only becomes irresponsible if there are negative effects on the broader economy, primarily via inflation but also other effects like crowding out private investment and reducing growth.

Right now we are in an overly inflationary environment right now, and the government should be printing fewer dollars (“austerity”) via lower spending, higher taxes. It would be reasonable to insist on changes to spending/taxation policy.

It is irresponsible to take money (today or future-dated) and imply the government may no longer honor it as money. You are destroying the public’s faith in money, and losing the ability to buy goods and services with it. This is why many countries can’t get others to accept their money as payment, and have to issue bonds in a currency they DON’T control. This is not a good situation to be in.

People take the intuition that it is irresponsible for a household to have too much debt because it might not be able to repay it, and apply that to the government which can create those dollars. It is not the same.

It is like saying Starbucks can default on “Starbucks points” that it owes to people. So long as Starbucks exists, it can hand out however many Starbucks Points it likes, because it decides what a Starbucks point is and maintains the records of who has how many points. There might be Starbucks Points inflation if they hand out too many, but it is always possible for them to meet Starbucks Point obligations.
But the long term success for cheating is actually much lower, those who actually learned things will do better in the long term even if they have a lower probability of short term success

Many humans seem to be incredibly short sighted
It could be solved with a political concession, but it could also be solved by developing your OS in public so you're accountable for any "accidental" security mistakes.
My favorite thing was a culdesac of McMansions that had a gravel entrance road.

You could almost hear the arguments of "who will pay for it?" echoing the halls like a ghost.
On the other hand, I love the new search. Old search was unusable as it wouldn't return results I knew existed. New search works like a charm for exploring a codebase without cloning locally.
I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice.

"Handling personal data
Personal data may not be processed, including its storage and transmission, without a legal basis (Article 6). These legal bases are not applicable to cookies.

Consent: The user has given clear consent for a specific purpose with an affirmative action.
Contractual obligation: ‘Contract’ in this case may include terms of service.
Legal obligation
Vital interests: Saving one’s life.
Public task
Legitimate interests"

This was in the article, having security logs probably counts as a legitimate interest. Also ISPs giving away your information without your consent and reason is violating the GDPR.

Reminder: I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice.
Nusk seems isolated and paranoid. Why does he engage with obviously mentally ill individuals and their paranoid fantasies when a normal person would tell them to get help?
Complex user interfaces in applications like MS Word and Photoshop are the result of many users only using a non-overlapping 10% of the program's features.

Many UI redesigns focus on the features that the majority use and less common features get deprioritized or cut. This could lead to product erosion over time and eventually to a product that no one wants to use.

It is difficult to find a good solution to this problem. Engineering involves making trade-offs with limited resources. The author of the article is clearly frustrated by the deprioritization of the feature they use. I believe they are overstating the severity of the problem when they claim the new search is "bad" because it doesn't fit their narrow use case.

However, Photoshop and MS Word remain huge successes despite their crushing complexity. Some part of that success is likely due to ensuring that existing use cases, even those that affect a small percentage of their users, are catered for in new versions of their products.
I find it odd this article doesn't provide any examples of low and high trust societies.
You'll probably get a 'but your equity grew at 30%' from management as a justification. Which is BS, but it's a fig leaf.
This comparison only works if you routinely walk through crowds (groups? congregations? clowders?) of bears. Preferably polar bears.
You might be interested in Flix which has first-class Datalog program values:

https://flix.dev/

https://doc.flix.dev/fixpoints.html

(I am one of the developers of Flix)
Not likely:

I disagree with Hubka’s rejection of the McMansion as a topic of vernacular study, but I agree that it is not quite vernacular, either. However, I think there are some things about the McMansion that can only be understood through a more vernacular framework, such as their ubiquity and the means by which they are built. McMansions are not usually designed by architects but by builders, most of them massive corporations like Toll Brothers, Pulte Homes, and Ryan Homes that traffic exclusively in master-planned tract communities. Like most vernacular architecture, the McMansion might best be considered a typology—an architectural configuration that adapts over time but remains generally stable.
we really need better governance for our global communications networks besides whatever maximizes profits for majority stakeholders of a few tech companies.
Dive into some of the specific challenges of data-centric machine learning, and how your team can address them by employing active learning in ML methods.
Yeah, that reminds me reverse-engineering a form involving a Sansetsukon and a "spear".
People get kicked upstairs to sinecures all the time
It's true, this will certainly not be a high speed network as 2.7 kHz is the max allowed bandwidth (compared 500 kHz for LoRa). But it should be fast enough for transmitting text messages.

Antenna size is problematic, but NVIS does not require the antenna to be high up in the air. Also the polarisation must not be vertical, so throwing a simple wire dipole on the ground, might actually do the job. But we will see, it's an experiment.
It’s not that difficult. You can mine it from the surface of the moon, or produce it via Tritium decay.
Since this is an article in The Register, the obvious double entendre is the implied reference to underpants, as opposed to trousers.

So obviously, folks could still wear pants under their kilt, but what to wear on non Kilt days?
I'm not OP, but I'm guessing he could be referring to something like this talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrVi9LHP8Bk

I'm honestly not sure otherwise.
Is there a schedule for the talks? I'd like to catch a few, but I didn't see anything on the site.
Kinda what people are asking for, I mean people are really attracted to "describe a task" as opposed to "create a training set".
I must say I vehemently agree, never have I been more stressed and fat than when doing a 2h+ commute. It's detrimental to productivity and health!
>>"Reference-based pricing applies that to all providers, including out-of-network providers."

RBP is a multiple of standard Medicare rates, say 140%, often is substantially less than a negotiated rate from a Carrier, hence balance billing and not so happy provider. Basically a take it or leave it option for the provider, many of which simply take it and move on. Not claiming right or wrong, just stating facts.

RBP uses the Medicare "network".
My family member works for this team. Could you share what makes you a Pixel fan? Some like customizability, open platform . Some avoid Apple lock in. What draws you to Pixel?
I imagine we're somewhere near peak density though, or maybe even past it. Wireless will slowly remove your fingers from laying on that physical web.
There is no legal agreement to follow robots.txt, but it appears to have came up a few times (from the first search result for "court cases involving robots.txt"):

https://www.robotstxt.org/faq/legal.html

If an "ai.txt" were to exist, I hope it's a signal for opt-in rather than opt-out. Whereas "robots.txt" being an explicit signal for opt-out might be useful because people who build public websites generally want their websites to be discovered, it seemed unlikely that training unknown AI would be a use case that content creators had in mind, considering that most existing content predates current AI systems.
Here's a novel idea: if you don't want to live in a "McMansion", don't buy one.

Shopping for houses isn't like shopping on Amazon. You can't just pick what you want and have it ready on a lot of your choice in two days. If the only housing stock available/being built is houses you don't want to live in, whether they're too big, too poorly built, too ugly, not oriented on the lot right, not exactly where you want it, you're going to have to buy one anyway.
With search engines and other crawlers, there wasn't easy ways to monetize "copyright theft" at scale. Google, which had the biggest share of eyeballs, was much more equitable in sharing revenue to content producers (who wanted to monetize). And Google was probably more just in taking action against copyright theft.

Individual high value IP was always much less accessible (not available as a webpage on the internet). Gen AI/LLMs with the internet scale data is too powerful and maybe easier to monetize.
Use the most recent foundation models provided by OpenAI, Meta and Hugging Face to analyze and enrich a series of videos. Labelbox Catalog is used as the data platform to store all the metadata, search across metadata and embedding space, as well as perform zero shot classification.
This is something I'll happily pay for. Love to see the freemium model. Can't wait for the Android version
You have to request the access for the GPT-4 API.
Great work! I think apps like this will be seen as pioneers in the age of getting back our attention.
From somebody else very interested in the topic, with a pending HN application for a startup app in the same space
Ok, then "be the change you wish to see in the world" but needlessly complex.
Remember that a 4000 sq ft house without a basement (common in the South) has around the same interior square footage as a 2000 sq ft house with a basement (common in the North). The Southerner's house looks a lot larger from the street, but it's actually around the same size inside as the "modest" house and is therefore not a "mansion".

Most of the "McMansion" photos I've seen criticized on architecture blogs are either middle-class houses from areas where basements are uncommon or cherry-picked examples of unusually bad design (many of which are actually custom builds!).
Referral too at this point is gamed too much. People think of referrals more as a favour that gives them brownie points than anything else.
Not entirely related, but recently I began re-reading Practical File System Design with the Be File System by Dominic Giampaolo. Not exactly an up-to-date text, but a good guide to the tradeoffs involved in designing a file system.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20170213221835/http://www.nobius...
This is INCREDIBLY cool. And yes - the breathe screen definitely does get old, but fortunately the friction continues to do its job.

Would you be interested in collabing?
> my feet bend inwards

Sounds like pes planus aka flat foot. Yes, run of the mill Adidas would do nothing, you need a shoe with a good side support and custom insoles.
> the massive foyer staircase and inexplicable loft/bridge to overlook your leather couches with USB ports in them, sitting across from a tv mounted 3 feet too high to ever have a comfortable viewing angle

I'm rolling, LOL. Nailed it.

My main problem with living in houses built post-McMansion-influence (so, a great deal of what's been built for the last 25 years or so) is how terrible the layouts are. You'll have 3,500 sqft but it feels about as usable and spacious when you're actually living in it as a well-laid-out 2,200.
> And you spend 2-3 hours every day on the very same f'ing route?

Wait till you hear about people going to the gym 3-4 days a week.

Repetitive activity has serious benefits in terms of outcome / mental load
In my experience newcomers and junior engineers don't get better by writing more bad code. They learn mostly by 3 methods. 1) finding flaws in their code the hard way (slow) 2) getting careful feedback from more experienced people (has to be done well) and 3) reading better code for a problem they already understand.

I'm not sure GPT helps with any of those yet, as it seems to be more likely to spit out incorrect-to-sortof-okayish so far.
How will you drive 6k res at higher refresh rates?
Bear market, come back in a year
I got one of my personal domains back for $100 after years of various different squatters asking between $2k and $10k for it. "Literally no one else will ever buy this particular domain from you, take the win" finally worked.
Only 24050 years to go.
Nice morale booster after the layoffs from the world's 2nd largest company in terms of market cap. Are any other big tech companies doing this?
Buckethead is my favorite instrumentalist. He's not a Jazz musician though.
Yes, there are invisible buffers, but the discrepancy doesn't come from this. Drive makers count the space in 1000 -multiple units (i.e. 1GB = 1000*1000*1000 bytes) whereas in computing units are usually count on 1024 -multiple (i.e. 1GiB = 1024*1024*1024 bytes)

So 1TB = 1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes/1024/1024/1024 = 931GiB (or 0.9TiB)
Ultimately, this wouldn't be the worst thing. We actually hope that a lot more attention will be paid this issue by the big players (from a personal and mission standpoint). That being said, we don’t actually think the best party to have helping you moderate your engagement with devices is the the one selling you the device.

They may implement some of the same features but will always have to do some internal calculus on providing a smooth user experience and mitigating over-engagement. Our main goal is to equip people to reclaim control over their relationship with their devices - we think this is * probably * best solved by a startup
Hyundai and Kia thefts keep rising despite security fix
The infamous Dropbox thread is a good example of old HN culture - shitting on a billion dollar business idea because the tech problem is “so easy to solve I could build it over a weekend”.

In this thread people are arguing that the problem is too hard.

It does lately feel to me like a culture shift.
The fact that lawyers are needed and even some lawyers get GDPR wrong is a testament at the failure of GDPR.

I'm all for privacy but the EU really harmed SMEs that cannot afford expensive legal help.
Explore the different types of PDF layers and various methods for creating PDF text layers, such as using PDF creation software, OCR software, or Python scripts with libraries like reportlab or PyPDF2.
There's about 6 times as many hospitals in the US as in Canada, including some of the best research hospitals in the world, so naturally those with means would seek specialized treatment in many cases. But it's just one little piece of the puzzle. What about the many Americans who travel overseas for healthcare?

https://www.insider.com/medical-tourism-americans-save-money...

https://www.healthcare-management-degree.net/faq/why-do-amer...
Err, the USSR liberated Latvia in 1940 following the terms of the German-Soviet treaty that facilitated the start of ww ii. Given that it took 50 years to become un-liberated its an open question whose rule would have been less severe (outside of particular ethnic or religious groups).
> I read these comments not as a defense of cheating, but as resignation that "This is just how the world is."

I'm also sympathetic with the cheaters. Everyone knows that these leetcode interviews are pretty dumb. Most people probably pass by memorizing everything and forgetting the stuff right afterwards. It's testing willingness to grind rather than ad hoc problem solving capabilities. If someone is capable of doing the job and just figuring out a way to get through the gatekeeping, I don't care. I know many people that cheated on exams at some point but are pretty legit otherwise.

> Look at this "personality type" as you call it: People who bullshit their way through life, self-promote, swindle, grift, fake it til they make it, hustle, exploit people's good intentions, take credit for the work of others, and so on.

There are a lot of psychological and societal mechanism that tend to punish this behavior. I'd rather be financially well enough off but honest rather than a super rich asshole.

> I'm one of those naive suckers who thinks hard work in the trenches should be rewarded. At work I often sit there doing the dirty gritty work that needs to get done, while peers write bullshit presentations and get face-time with the execs, and schmooze their way to promotion after promotion, and it sucks.

For myself, I decided that the best way is to be competent and do the hard work, but also to set boundaries, to ensure that my work is visible, to communicate ideas and feedback with execs and to fight against the fakers. You won't get anything if you don't ask for it. Taking down obvious fakes can take a while if the execs are too gullible, but it's worth doing.

If your execs are idiot assholes rather than competent people with some integrity, you should probably look for a job elsewhere.
If the logic works in this direction, it works in the other direction too - are you saying we should shut down renewable energy so that the price of energy goes up and consumption of it goes down accordingly?
The American lifestyle you describe is going to end and probably sooner rather than later.
> Inflation which is a new concept for myself in my mid-40s is playing a large part.

As an old fart, I often forget that there are people who haven't experienced this before. It must be quite a shock.
So just your rental urgent care doc?
People have dreams of being their own boss but aren't cut out for the feast or famine. In the richest country in the world, business is competitive.
> Keep the low-ball offers going, maybe increasing by very small increments.

Or maybe decreasing by very small amounts to show them the direction the negotiations are going to go if they keep it up.
VPN Demand Surges Around the World
I’ve been using onesec[1] for a year now it’s been working great for me. Additionally works great on the browser I use.

Onesec uses the shortcut/automation on iOS to intercept app open and not the screen time api you mentioned. So it does take a little time for the initial setup, that’s the only friction I remember from a long time.

Just putting it out there.

I do like the additional social feature here. Would give it a try.

1. https://one-sec.app/
"The world doesn’t suck, it’s much better than it used to be"

Better then when and by what meassure?

It is quite subjective I think.

One satirical person offered this quote:

We optimized for the minimum of individual luck, to get the maximum of people.

I am not fully behind this quote, it is satirical, but I think there is too much truth behind it. Ecologically things look bad. Geopolitical the same.

But yes, the sun is still shining and spring is nice and we do are progressing to new technological heights every day. It is just how this awesome tech is used overwhelmingly, that is a bummer.
Pixel Fold is nearly here
Show HN: AST-grep, a grep/eslint/codemod hybrid tool, powered by tree-sitter.
It is heavily inspired by semgrep, but intends to be an
AST-base searcher/linter/rewriter.

https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep
I assume they'll create a newer faster display protocol, or start doubling/tripling up again.
Optimistically targeting end of this year, drop your email here and you'll be the first to know when we're live :)

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And yet another use for it:

GPT4: In the context provided, 'BI' likely stands for 'Business Intelligence'.
Actually C++ only requires TriviallyComparable for std::atomic. The issue with 2CAS is that intel until very recently only provided cmpxchg16b[1] but no 128 atomic load and stores: SSE 128 bit memory operations were not guaranteed to be atomic (and in fact were observed not to be on some AMDs).

So a 128 bit std::atomic on intel was not only suboptimal as the compiler had to use 2cas for load and stores as well, but actually wrong as an atomic load from readonly memory would fault. So at some point the ABI was changed to use the spinlock pool. Not sure if it has changed since.

If you do it "by hand", when you only need a 2cas, a 128 bit load that is not atomic is fine as any tearing will be detected by the CAS and 'fixed', but it is hard for the compiler to optimize generic code.

[1] which actually does full 128bit compare and swap, you are probably confusing it with the Itanium variant.
She has a pretty comprehensive wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew
I am not particularly fond of this kind of moral flexibility. It's lying and the person found ways to justify themselves. This isn't the kind of person I can trust to be honest with me, they don't seem reliable either. Thanks, but no thanks.
People doing embedded testing use Jenkins still. Not that I would, but some people do.
Because the world has gotten markedly more shit for the vast majority of people, and YC is directly one of the reasons. Most of us have seen our disposable income drop, seen bullshit companies making connected dog feeders get funded dozens of millions by money-centralizing VCs, and overall have seen the world get more and more unfair, unbalanced and unjust. Major climate disruption is underway, wars are hitting all over the globe and governments are all getting more and more undemocratic.

Needless to say, the world doesn't exactly lend itself to positivity about yet another fucking startup promising you fusion powered dog feeders.
My biggest critique of copyright is that is unnecessarily collapses financial reward & creative control. It also pegs both as starting at creation - which is not a particularly meaningful point for either problem.

IMO I would rather a structure that:

- Guarantees creators (and their descendants) some number of years of financial benefit / veto (30 seems fine!) - i.e. pay me what I want or you can't use this creative work.

- Separately grant creators the ability to veto "official" projects that use their creative output in their lifetimes.

IMO, it seems like there's a productive "middle ground" between total control and anything goes. After the 30 year benefit expired, you couldn't sue for damages - just costs & to stop use.