skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Luckily, my professor was right though, despite exposure to a lot of negative behaviors I don't like, don't respect, and don't endorse, I did excel and I continue to excel above my peers, especially those who cheated.

Disagree from my experience.

When I was a TA in grad school, I had a PhD student who clearly had access to the instructor's solution manual. His answers were copied verbatim. If the solution's manual had an error, so did his answer. If the professor assigned a problem not from the book, he wouldn't answer it. I debated reporting him to the professor, but didn't want the drama and figured what your professor did: He'll do poorly on the exams (I was right), and poorly in the work place.

He got his PhD, got a fairly senior position, and quickly rose to be the director of a well known company's research division.

He probably was smart - he did get the PhD from a top ranked university. But I strongly suspect he gamed the system at his company just as he gamed the system there.

In grad school, I had a close friend. Clearly a very bright, skilled guy. Was kicked out of the PhD program when it was discovered he had been fabricating data (Nature was right about to publish his paper when he got discovered).

He went off to another top ranked university and got his PhD in the same area. I don't know how/why he had the balls to do it, as surely his former advisor would be in close proximity (conferences, etc) - and at least within my university his advisor was quite open about my friend's malfeasance.

He then got a research position at the top company in his field. Got promotions, and then quit and founded a startup that is doing well, and is known to some in this crowd here. If all goes to plan, he'll have his exit and be quite rich.

Now I don't know if he cheated in his second PhD or on the job, and I'm still in touch with him. But ... no - cheaters often continue to do well after graduating.
Forgot how to count that low.
I don’t know why I was so cynical here but it’s still kinda true. Sorry lol.
You would not have enjoyed the late 90s.
What's funny about it. Employees also get stock options.
> PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function as the foundation model for most of the new AI features the company is announcing today. PaLM 2 is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase and on Colab.

So it's not in Bard yet? What a launch.
Exactly this. I still use WordPerfect 4.2 (DOS) and DataEase 4.5 (DOS) on a reasonably frequent basis and am much more productive. Even went as far as knocking up a simple WP4-to-Markdown converter in Go to keep the process workable.

Incidentally I'm also into retro games (Spectrum, CPC, MAME, DOS) for pretty much the same reasons. In particular the memory/nostalgia is so strong because, as you put it, "the world was much smaller; the software and data you had ... was all that you had".

Those games took long enough to load and were expensive enough (for a kid) to acquire that when they finally launched I stuck with them and got value from them. Modern games are (tens of?) thousands of times larger yet they are lost in a sea of content.
Glad to hear it!! If they were able to complete the game, I recommend they try the daily puzzles. These are generally much harder and IMO this is where the depth of the puzzles really opens up. We are still working on the leaderboard bot so I think it's not currently tweeting fresh puzzles, but there is a backlog of about 20 right now
Which cycle of self pity?

I'm a sadistic fuck that's been made to have the caring range of a rock due to childhood abuse

I'm fine being that way, it's just not conductive to maintaining relationships. Been there, done the whole 'be yourself bollocks' - the results were shit. Pretending to care far more than I do, and constantly suppressing the sardonic and vindictive tendencies has been far more pleasant

'just tweak core aspects of your personality' is exactly the opposite of being yourself
As the creator was born in 1999, it's interesting to me because she's nostalgic for a period she did not fully experience. It's something I did, and it's neat yet strange to see it being done to a part of my past.
Jira sucks, but I have yet to see a tracking tool which sucks less.
Are you implying trying to increase societal trust would increase racism? You aren't making an obvious point. Trust and racism are inverses?
I feel like the take away from this is 1.) start with a .com domain and 2.) choose a company name that is cheap to buy for a domain.
unique ids and titles. If you're familiar with the field, you've certainly seen paper 24601 cited many times and probably read it yourself. If you are unfamiliar, you look at the title "Effects of harsh prison sentences on recidivism". Works well enough for industry standards, laws, product SKUs, engineering drawings, patents, etc. Hell even libraries work this way.

The only advantage of citing by author is if people are actually completely unfamiliar with the paper but are familiar with other works by the author and just guess that the work is related and of similar quality, but this is problematic both because it's incredibly unscientific to just accept something based on authority, and if your lead author is a grad student with few publications to their name you probably aren't familiar with them anyways.
> I've been playing with WebGPU native with both Dawn and WGPU and they both seem to work fine outside of the browser

1. WGPU only has an API inspired by WebGPU, it is not WebGPU itself.

2. WebGPU is an API, not a library. Just because you've been using libraries that implement WebGPU outside of the browser doesn't mean the browser can just link to WebGPU.

With that said, I think Chrome does use Dawn.
For most people I think work is just work. The kinds of people who were into computers in the early days were arguably different than average; it was a fringe thing once upon a time. Today, it's just work. People need jobs, large corporations offer jobs.

I've eschewed these companies myself, but... I'm not sure it has been so wise all the time. I could have worked at a FAANG at one point, and the offer was astronomical compared to what I typically earn. The weird part is, I don't like social media because I have kids and I don't like what it's doing to kids. Yet I have kids to take care of, and that money would have made a meaningful difference to their security. So what's the right call to make?

It reminds me of Cato the Younger. He was steadfast to his virtues and principles with unwavering integrity, but it appears to have lead his life to ruin. Was it worth it? Do compromises make sense here and there?

I don't blame people for wanting to work for these companies. It isn't for me, I think, but I totally get it. No one deserves mass layoffs and tanking equity because they don't have retro-hacker cred.
They were born in 1999, so it's more like what a new generation's impression of what the old web was like.
why would Helion architecture be better than a stellarator approach?
Skip button is coming!
Simpsons did it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBGary#WikiLeaks,_Bank_of_Amer...
Yep you can do that! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890537 in this thread for explicit instructions :)
Are you talking about Vector DB's?
Is that feeling of yours actually founded in reality?

You can have a look! https://hackermoods.com/

(I only did a quick search)
But (academic) science doesn't usually develop commercial products.

Science would develop the concept underlying helion, for instance, but then a startup should bring it to market.
This really isn't anything new - costs and lack of scale forcing out small farmers has been going on forever.
Thin clients aren't mentioned and I don't see how they are involved. Who writes such head lines?
https://archive.ph/1yvX5
Terms are useful so that people are discussing the same thing. Otherwise you get a lot of the heated debates where they're talking about different things but get frustrated by how the other party don't seem to get it.
That said in the livestream it is, starting today.
Depends on how much those years without that domain cost you.
Huh, a couple of years back, I got an email from [enormous tech company, not Google] saying that I was no longer under consideration for a role. This confused me at the time, as I had never applied to them (they did pester me on email and LinkedIn a bit, and continued to do so on LinkedIn even after this email) but I wonder in retrospect did someone realise "hey, this data might be a bit GDPR-y" when looking at scraped data and choose the wrong option when removing it...
Short stroking data doesn't writes within a page. It gives the FTL more time to shuffle data around in pages when garbage collecting and erasing pages. Erasing a page tends to take milliseconds of time vs microseconds of time for reads, tens to hundreds of microseconds for writes. NAND flash is typically written in smaller pages (512 bytes in older products vs 4KB-16KB ) but erased in larger pages (32KB+). It's only NOR flash that supports smaller byte granularity write sizes. NOR flash is not as dense as NAND, so it doesn't get used much beyond embedded applications.
They said bard would be on PaLM 2 starting today in the presentation.
How does Openlayer handle the privacy and security of the data that's uploaded to the platform, especially considering the sensitive nature of some ML datasets?
How complicated is the software update? This might warrant a more proactive approach, like having technicians go to the owners home and update there. Not sure who should pay for this though.
We know for a fact that it is IQ that is driving SES and not the other way around.
Okay, if we take any incentives in general, that means anything we do is incentivized. Me eating food is incentivized by me not starving to death. It's not a particularly enlightening argument, hence why I preemptively added "monetary," as we were already talking about economic incentives and UBI, but if you want to explain what other incentives you are talking about, please do so, I would want to hear.

In today's world with no UBI, it's no wonder people bemoan the lack of funding, since it's an issue of actually living to produce the OSS one wants to make. If we have something akin to UBI, where we don't force people to stall technological progress in order to satisfy having a job, then this issue would disappear.

And to be clear, I'm also not against corporate funding for OSS, so long as it does remain OSS at the end of the day. Linux has corporate funding yet maintains its OSS status.
While what you say is true, my experience at such jobs is they also tend to have the most dysfunctional people/teams, unfortunately. And career growth tends to be very stagnant, and working conditions are poor (the supply of labor exceeds the demand).

Switching to "dumb" jobs made my life a lot happier. While it's easier, the demand exceeds the supply. Easier career growth, and better colleagues (no egos, etc).
If the author continued their lineage beyond hip-hop, into electronic music (house, drum n' bass, downtempo), I think they would see that "favorite instrumentalist" has transformed into "favorite producer".
1. Well should have, but I think in that time nuclear waste was dumped into the ocean.

2. long term lease is common and not that expensive for agricultural land.

3. Well done in Fukushima, I think it is not that big of adifficulty. As it is low activity waste so old mines should do.

4. Renaturation is standard in for example open pit coal mines.
I would speculate that it has a lot to do with distribution.

I expect that it's trivial to get a copy of a new release, and logistically challenging (and relatively expensive) to get a copy of an old one.

The main value in showing older content is variety. The more films you acquire to show, the more cost (plus overhead cost) you endure.

The studios that own the copyright to older films are the same corporations that want you showing their new lazy high-budget Action Hero XVII shit instead. They are likely to make restrictive deals with large theater chains (the ones with enough budget for quality projectors and seating) to set a schedule that aligns with box-store release dates.
I really like the "slowness" of the old way of taking pictures. The results are better. Really I stopped because film is so anachronistic and expensive / inconvenient to deal with. I have a DSLR that's decent but it's still not the same.
I think we're safe, anyone being half serious would be using a good vpn hopefully, it's likely to be a lot of false positives I would guess!
The four key figures behind the success of JavaScript – Douglas Crockford
I wonder if this could be fallout from the ABK deal being blocked? If I understand correctly, they "owe" ABK $2.5-3B in the event that the deal doesn't close?
There's more to environmental destruction than just emissions. If we're net zero emissions with something like nuclear energy, and clean energy is ubiquitous and cheap, people are still going to want to do things with the energy and that will potentially dramatically increase consumption of finite resources in general. For example, clean-fueled fishing boats don't matter much if we still fish the oceans to extinction.
This kind of comment woups not have been here like 3 years ago.

It was an amazing journey to watch HN denisens adjust their opinions as they went from creme de la creme and 'anyone can create a unicorn tonorrow' to, you know, being basically like a plumber but for JSON.
You could run your finger across from my keyboard to yours, without a single break in the continuous physical connection between them. Connector clips included, of course. ;)
I select one 127/16 network for all my addresses - a vendor namespace. Each service can have worker processes, they get 127/24 networks.
Dramatic recounting of this:

https://youtu.be/uFw66YyHD6E
When someone asks what your biggest weakness is during an interview, and you don't answer honestly because the honest answer to these sorts of questions are socially unacceptable and isn't what the interviewer is looking for to begin with, is that cheating? Or is it taking into account the context of the question and answering the question the interviewer wanted answer? I could see how both answers are justified, and as such it would need to be clarified to know what is meant by your question.
I can verify that there is no built-in map data structure. Also its "classes" don't support constructor parameters nor inheritance. (Wrestling some debugging issues in a legacy codebase so these frustrations are much closer to hand than I would like.)
The point is that without pockethole jigs or CNC, certain "wood workers" couldn't build anything that actually held up.

Its not an aversion to the technique per se, its an aversion to the kind of person who uses them for everything.
Startups used to be a way to create your own solution to a non-trivial problem, and make money off selling it to people that will benefit from it and enjoy it. It was a highly rewarding experience for those who didn't want to play corporate politics (or at least, play it to a lesser extent).

But then it attracted too many people that would just emulate the KPI in order to get funded, and instead of letting it crash and rise from the ashes, we lowered the interest rates and bailed out a bunch of "too big to fail" banks in 2008, pretty much guaranteeing viability of shitty investments. Oh, and when people started calling it out in 2012 with Occupy Wall Street, they were redirected using the centuries-old divide-and-conquer techniques.

So now it's a shell of former self. Founders try to create something that looks like a great company. VCs pour money in, hoping to resell to the next fool. Founders are now more like figureheads than idea-driven people. Most big successes (Uber, AirBnb) could be attributed more to regulatory capture than a revolutional way of doing something.

Smart people understand it very well and it doesn't make you very optimistic. You can pretend well enough to convince an average layperson, but deep inside you know the game is fake, and it kinda builds up. Notably, game-changers that are appreciated by users (rather than speculative investors) now mostly come from China (e.g. TikTok), because the vibe there (with all the downsides) is now closer to the "good old SV" than the current SV.
She claimed to be celibate in her twenties due to her devotion to her company. Reality: She was living with a much older man who invested in the company.

I strongly suspect this is not how male founders typically operate.

I also still believe her gender was a barrier to her getting meaningful feedback, an opinion that generally draws hatred -- and never mind that it's the opinion of a woman wondering So, how does a woman founder make a successful company?

("Asking for a friend" -- by which I mean me, of course.)
IKR? A stagnating wage means you're actually taking a yearly pay cut, and inflation adjustments actually mean a stagnating wage.

It was less noticeable before the pandemic because only assets were growing faster than inflation while food and goods seemed to stagnate, but now everything is booming.

Consider that other professions have less bargaining power than SW devs.

I'm thinking about moving to Belgium where I hear salaries are automatically indexed by inflation.
Perhaps you misunderstood. They seem to have been talking about the hardware ("Don't let the low price and compact design mislead you") plus software.

https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/tek/4404-Flyer.pdf

Back in the day: "There are currently at least five vendors of Smalltalk implementations. Although the actual number of Smalltalk users is unknown, we believe it to be high. (It has been estimated that Digitalk Inc., alone, had sold over 100,000 Smalltalk/V licenses by 1993.)" NCITS J20 DRAFT of ANSI Smalltalk Standard
In reading about the Weimar Republic, I encountered an observation (I think it was by Hannah Arendt) that cynicism emerges from a society that no longer believes in itself. In trying to confirm the quote, I found perhaps a better quote to explain (found on Arend't wiki article):

>> ...leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness

This all sounds rather familiar and feels like more a cultural question than one of personal virtue.
CPP: C++ Pain Points
I don't think it's too big to fail at all.

Ask yourself this: "If youtube stopped existing tomorrow, what would I do?"

Chances are your first thought was something along the lines of "Hm, well I'd probably just...", as opposed to simple abject despair.

And I bet same goes for content creators. They'd find a way. And it might even be better.

In fact, the more prudent ones already have more than one basket for their eggs already, such that if and when youtube does "that thing", their patrons will know exactly where to find them next, with minimal friction.
Yes, the ones that are falling apart and collapsing as we speak. The question is, would we rather continue investing in maintaining and expanding roads which have bankrupted our cities, or would we rather build something different.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/2/28/odot-proposes-...
Consumer drives usually exclude wear out in their warranties making the number of years pretty much irrelevant. What is does show is that vendors are more confidence in their FTLs and hardware nowadays compared to the first high volume SSDs on the market more than a decade ago.
> Within 5 months, I single-handedly launched 5 iOS apps.

> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage.

Isn't it obvious that this doesn't work if _everyone_ does it?

Also, if the bar we use to measure how useful a tool is for society, is that it allows an individual to release 1 app per month, then we're doomed whether before AIs take over or not.
Most people lack the vision beyond 15 minutes. Of course Metaverse is a failure for them, just like how Internet was just a glorified fax machine for luddites. So, popular opinion is the worst indicator of anything. Happy to make a public bet that Metaverse will consume 25% of a person's day for at least 4 billion people by 2035

If transformer doesn't excite you (mostly due to anti-Google bias), Google has a dozen products that has over a 500 Million users. It takes an unprecedented amount of anti-corp brainwash to say Google isn't successful or innovative.
I find it fascinating that despite listening to a lot of music I don't recognise a single name in this list.
I love money flowing into these projects. More = better. Nothing is lost. WORST case scenario: some intelligent people will learn new stuff and get to know like minded people.

Who knows what they will come up next!
Let’s not let facts interfere with psyops
Let's Talk Zuckerberg and BJJ, and What That Says
Researchers switch from helium to hydrogen weather balloons
How much support is required ship internationally? Tiny Shopify stores can do it.

I don't feel like the parent comment was asking for first-class support, just access to the device.
Duplicate of front page post.
I was wondering on IOS what api you are using to interject app call.
I looked at this and followed the whole thing. So good and interesting. It basically implies that one of the keys to a trusting society is repeated interactions and low "mistakes", I.e. things that can be perceived as evil even though they're just honest mistakes.

This is why it's important for in politics and media for them to police their own behavior, because without it there are too many mistakes for a trusting society.

One thing that isn't shown though in the games sandbox mode is for the players to be able to change the rules and reward structures, which is more akin to our society. This would create a much more hard to predict dynamic.
Not even at the local branches ??
no, 2 hours of addition on my cellphone at 2 gigahertz, 4 cores, and conservatively 3 additions per core per cycle would be 170 trillion additions

nobody needs 170 trillion additions for their nightly invoices
I am slowly feeling like I should move on from HN. I used to find comments much more mature in the past and learned a lot. Lately I predict the general trend I'll see in the comments before even opening the page.
Odd, what was particularly boomerish about that comment?
When skirt lengths change and we observe no measurable change in human anatomy, that's fashion and to follow fashion is "hip".

When the computing platform changes and you have to start paying attention to L-level caches and counting your bytes (so you can do you big compute in memory), and use n cores, and then arrays are adopted, that is not fashion; so not "hip", rather modern.
yes. how do you plan to continue growing this page?
> "Google, similar to OpenAI, didn’t provide a lot of the technical details about how it trained this next-gen model, including parameter counts (PaLM 2 is a 540-billion parameter model, for what it’s worth). The only technical details Google provided here are that PaLM 2 was built on top of Google’s latest JAX and TPU v4 infrastructure."

I'm sad but not really surprised that these companies aren't publishing and bragging about all of the technical details of their model architecture, size, and training anymore.