skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gf used chatgpt for her cv and interview process, using it generate a presentation task they gave her (she is doing project management type stuff). They offered her the job the next day.
20 years ago Carly Fiorina at HP gave a speech saying light-computers were on the horizon. Guess we still aren’t there
You’re saying that compressed HTML, because it is text, wastes 15% (could be however much, the number doesn’t really matter) over some binary format that would express the same content?

What binary format would/could that be? I’m just not seeing how (if it expresses the same content) it could be smaller than compressed HTML.
According to local Dutch governments pretty much everything that touches a US server is a violation.

Especially Google is extremely GDPR unsafe. But also DigitalOcean is often not allowed.

But then Azure is an exception because of some legal mumbo jumbo microsoft convinced them off.
> specific copyright terms of use

There's no such thing. Without a license you can't enforce any restrictions.

AI training is basically just building a very complex Markov chain, that's obviously not copyright violation because the output product doesn't contain the input - only data about it. If your text has been copied then please point to it in these weights here.
My colleagues in Argentina (many of them are from elsewhere in latam and migrated to ARG) are from what I can tell equally skilled to my US-located peers. Maybe there's more noise to signal in the region, but the talent is there and available.
The recent work on relational, datalog-inspired egraphs in PLDI this year ("Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation") is actually interesting because it can solve cases like the y/x*x -> y identity example, by the power of an interval analysis on x (among other things.) Sort of like adding a postulate to a rewrite term and then proving it. But instead it's by adding relations between terms in the graph. See section 6.2 of the paper.

https://github.com/egraphs-good/egglog

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.04332.pdf
Faulty memory is a feature, not a bug
The cynicism for me at least is a result of reality actually getting markedly worse (at least in the USA) over the last 10 years.

However, none of that has anything to do with fusion tech, so I remain hopeful about that!
No, I can't as I don't live in supported country.

Nevertheless - does it go directly to Firefox or to Mozilla?
Rate limits and captchas instead ?
> then their insurer will raise their rates because their employees have a history of expensive health problems

This is illegal since 2011 due to the Affordable Care Act.

The only factors allowed to price insurance is age, location, and tobacco use.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums

Even the age factor is bounded by the highest risk age having to be only 3x the lowest risk age (i.e. a subsidy from young to old). The lack of ability to price based on pre existing health conditions is a subsidy from healthy to sick.

And for political reasons, we can afford to discriminate against tobacco use, but not sugar or alcohol or sat fats or lack of exercise.
My regular calendar with CalDav does the same?
I mean I won’t put MY money in to Helion. From whatever I’ve read it’s not that simple for Helion to get their reactor to work and even if they did it likely won’t produce meaningful net power. But let’s see.
Hah thanks. It was actually not too bad. The only really challenging part was
the few hours of aphasia which came up in the middle of the night.

Overall it was a nice 'shared adversity' kind of experience.
One consideration is that "new homes" have historically been something of a "luxury good" but somehow become so normalized in the last couple decades, that people argue "middle class salary" should be able to buy one.

Growing up, no one in my family lived in a new construction home, nor did any of my friends.

New construction needs to happen to increase aggregate supply to deal with incremental increases of demand. That supply though, may be more high end than median. Even this works fine because it means someone will buy a pricey new construction home rather than a cheap home and gut renovate it. The lack of new construction causes high income buyers to move further and further down market to buy-to-reno.
For something fairly simple like a cast, that can still end up more expensive than the clinic option though, depending on your insurance. ER co-pays and co-insurance can be pretty high. For example, a typical ACA/Obamacare "Silver" level plan in my area has 20-40% co-insurance on an ER visit (until the $5k-10k annual out-of-pocket max), which can easily be more than whatever you'd end up paying for the non-ER option to set a broken arm.
Modern CPUs use TAGE-like[1] and Perceptron-based branch predictors, achieving a 99.7% prediction accuracy. Zen 2 in particular uses TAGE[2].

I recall implementing one in software in a computer architectures class; it was pretty gnarly but the prediction accuracy (and therefore performance) compared to a simple two-bit saturating counter is immense.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1145/3226098
[2]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen_2#Br...
Construction costs for fission are largely bloated due to safety, activist and political concerns that span the realm of pragmatic and necessary to pure fantasy as well.

Aneutronic fusion would (hopefully) bypass a lot of that.
Yep, And I'm sure there are some instances that do exactly that. But in a distributed protocol you only get the benefit if both sides of a given interaction support the optimization. For something in the spec that is optional you can't rely on it and you aren't forced to implement it so it's not irrational to just ignore it. Which typically means you only get occasional marginal benefit.
I'm not aware of bugs with offset arrays in the standard library. It's happened before and it may happen again, but Base and the standard library are generally very good at avoiding that.

The main problem is non-standard library packages that were written back in early julia days before OffsetArrays existed (e.g. a big offendeder IIRC was StatsBase.jl), and so wasn't written with any awareness of how to deal with generic indexing.

OffsetArrays.jl are a neat trick, and sometimes they really are useful e.g. when mimicing some code that was written in a 0-based language, or just when you're working with array offsets a lot, but I wouldn't really recommend using them everywhere. Other non-array indexable types like Tuple don't have 0-based counterparts (as far as I'm aware), so you'll be jumping back and forth from 0-based and 1-based still, and it's just an extra layer of mental load.

Honestly though, it's often not very necessary to talk about array indices at all. The preferred pattern is just to use `for i in eachindex(A)`, `A[begin]`, `A[end]` etc.

> and IIRC also the language build depends on a fork of LLVM (https://github.com/JuliaLang/llvm-project)

Yes, we use a fork of LLVM, but not because we're really changing it's functionality, just because we have patches for bugs. The bugs are typically reported upstream and our patches are contributed, but the feedback loop is slow enough that it's easiest to just maintain our own patched fork. We do keep it updated though (this release brings us up to v14) and there shouldn't be any divergences from upsteam other than the bugfixes as far as I'm aware
It is very needlessly cynical. Helion has a number of very clever ideas, integrated in a way that has impressed me over the years. I would not dismiss them out of hand.
Fun fact: the term "Victorian" for that type of house (IIRC) was intended to disparage them, as they were considered tacky and cheap.
Do the usage limitation controls also apply to Safari and other mobile browsers?

I.e. if I add the Facebook app to clearspace, can I also add friction to using Facebook.com? This looks great by the way
Helion in 2014: We're about 3 years away from break-even energy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-15246
So basically integration + nice-click-click-interface?
Great point, but:

> it would be hard to resist scamming them

I don't think she even scammed them. She really believes she can do all the things. Her fraud was not a scam, it was just covering failures and fake it till you make it without discernment or introspection (doing it in a field where you really need to stop faking it sooner)
Companies usually make no effort to hide how they feel about their staff, so pay attention. And don’t look so surprised when it’s “I can get another one if needed”. Outside the head shed, where politics and money rules, it’s all fungible. And the head shed power trip is reasserting itself.

Take the compensation and be content or find someplace where you can be happy. Hopefully, it’s not a case of well-paid or happy, pick one.
OK, I can see the point of buying the food as a way to support a cinema you like. Specially now that cinemas are mostly struggling.

I feel somehow icky paying upwards or five or ten times the cost for something I don't really need. But that's just an internalized habit from growing up in a frugal household. I wish there was a more "honest" way for theaters to work.
What makes you think they’re underappreciated? I too have been spending a lot of time in this space recently and agree it’s one of the more fertile “maths meets reality” spaces :)
* Deep systems programming (this one is losing its "hard" luster a bit with Rust, which I'm okay with)

* Compilers/DSLs/language runtimes/static analysis

* Distributed systems (on my list of things to learn, know basically nothing)

* More generically: high-performance code, doesn't have to be fintech-fast, but designing and maintaining code that makes excellent use of hardware resources
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I feel like there's been a marked decrease in the quality of comments here over the past couple of months. Lots of snark and vitriol. Maybe it's just the layoffs and people are venting here for some reason?
The censors are one of the main reasons why China is so far behind on AI R&D.

No unfiltered training data, and severe penalties if the AI hallucinates something that is against the party line.
The people who worked for the company created something.

The people who work for the company collect rent on things they didn't make.
Exactly; when you click the padlock icon, the browser shows you the parsed representation of the x.509 certificate chain, not the ASN.1 bytes.
I wonder if this is really a benefit for learning something.

A teacher who tells you the right answers doesn't sound like a good teacher.

In hindsight I learned the most from my mistakes and the errors I'm to fix over longer period of time.
Sometimes these failures were of use in later projects.

I missing all this from GPT.
It doesn't really sound like learning more like cheating.
> I honestly think theaters are obsolete, I'd personally rather stay home and watch Netflix.

I frankly think this point isn't considered seriously enough.

When you go to a sports event you see the sports instead of a screen.

When you go to a play, you see the play instead of a screen.

When you go the cinema, you see a screen. A bigger screen with a great sound system etc etc, sure, but a screen nonetheless.

Does it make sense to move 200 people to a big room with a big screen when each one of them have a small room with a small screen?

If for some bizarre reason cinemas were invented just now, would they find any market at all? It does sound like a bit of an absurd proposition to me.
Because that involves storing a cookie, which you're not allowed to do except as necessary to operate the site without first gaining consent.

I use Plausible, which works by hashing IP addresses. Honestly, I disagree with the analysis as given: the claim is that we're assigning a unique ID to each user, but it's really not doing that -- the ID changes, and more than one user may have the same ID.

GDPR is a balancing act, between the rights of the people involved and the desires of data controllers to have useful data. In practice, Plausible presents (at least to my mind) a solution to my legitimate interests with a privacy impact that's suitably minimal for the level of interest I have in the statistics I collect. A cookie is arguably less privacy-preserving, as it has better specificity.
Serious question: are we sure we get a dopamine reward/thing when we do this? Has this been proven?

Not saying this "addiction" does not exist. I like some "drugs" and smoke and my phone is by far the worst and hardest to manage/quit.
For example, a DT fusion reactor based on ITER would be two orders of magnitude larger (in volume and mass) than a fission reactor of the same power output. It might "work" in some technical sense, but be completely economically impractical.
Fault divorce is more expensive and requires burden of proof.

Abuse isn't always reported, and abusers often manipulate or lie.
> Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no?

We've seen this with Walmarts. They get cities to compete for their stores. Amazon did it for HQ2. The problem is the winner's curse. The winning city will often bid so low they take a net loss.
Is engaging with good faith a mistake? It seems less perilous than mind-reading. I found the reply informative.
Is that true? Seems like this summer I’m driving my Tesla to watch a Starship launch and using my starlink for internet access along the way.

Meanwhile I’m using GitHub copilot to help me write code to uses some of openAIs products in my existing SaaS offering.

There is a constant stream of waymos driving past my house (with nobody in them) and I’m playing Skyrim in VR.

What technology are you talking about that didn’t pan out?
That's blatantly untrue. The primary criticism to Western medicine is that is has a high cost because doctors are afraid of being sued for malpractice and order lots of unnecessary and invasive tests to confirm any diagnosis before ordering a treatment. It's basically the exact opposite of what you say, which when taken to the extreme is also problematic.
They care more about “who made it happen”.
No it didn’t. The world is an amazing place. I am thankful to be alive.
In many places (where building is still happening) the cost of new vs old construction is surprisingly close; so why not get a brand new 2023 house instead of that older 2003 one?
There should be standardized, monitored tests for Eng jobs. No point in every company repeating essentially the same test with a lot of variance in how the test is conducted.
I think it depends a lot on the domain you are in. A example of some domains with lots of discrete opt problems: transport, scheduling, logistics. And then read stuff by Stephen Boyd :)
Because logging in is baked into use of the software. You can't just store a fully functional offline version of Java Minecraft, at least not without mocking all the server responses it needs (not a meaningful option for most people) or the cracked version that pulls out account features (piracy, an option for slightly more people.)
AFAIR they are trying to fix internals as well, but it takes time considering lots of crust acumulated over the years?
> Writing bash scripts to automate various parts my workflow

Would you share some of those? Bash is fraught with gotchas and intricacies and seldom have I read Bash code where I couldn’t immediately spot flaws. There’s often something which left unchecked may come back to bite you later.

I’m skeptical the LLM code would be any better, since it’s (presumably) trained on a corpus of subpar code. But I could be wrong.
Do you know how many people from Countries such as Canada Germany and the UK come to the US for treatment because they cant get it at home?

No, I do not. Do you? I ask because every person, to a woman and a man, who says something along these lines has yet to even try and provide a number ("well...it's a lot.").

I mean, I see folks on this very page mentioning some medical tourism to SE Asia. But I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen someone mention travel to the U. S. for medical treatment because the medical system in their shitty European socialist hellscape is lacking.
It's not surprising to me that people cheat or don't see cheating as bad. Cheaters literally do prosper. Like in college applications, you can absolutely write lies. Nobody's going to check if you were captain of the track team. Nobody's going to fact check your essay about how you came out as gay[1].

Even the people who don't cheat understand how to stretch and bend the truth. You take a minor event and turn it into a whole college essay. You take a side project and turn it into a supposed startup. Hackathons are competitions for who can lie the best and claim their flashy front end will change the world. There was a period where the same project won hackathon after hackathon. And sure, hackathons are not exactly a big deal. But if you're cheating at a hackathon, why not cheat at a job interview?

So much of what we teach in school these days is how to play the game, how to appear more impressive than you are, how to trick people into believing you're smarter than other people.

[1]: Both of these are first-hand experiences, i.e. I knew the people who did them
From Alibaba to Shein, Retail Is Now Made, Sold and Marketed by China
In the last two years hundreds of nearshoring companies have appeared in the region recruiting devs. I am based in Buenos Aires so I can say that the number is really large.
What do I have look in such companies to choose it as an employer? What advantage does Revelo offer over the rest?

PD: of course I saw Revelo ads.
The AirPods are capitalizing on lock-in. iPhones have always had Bluetooth, but almost nobody used BT headphones cause they suck. Then Apple released AirPods with first-party integrations to make it usable, and to make sure people would buy them, they also took out the jack.

I care what my options are in the end, a lot more than ideology or something, and Apple worsened my options compared to before. The end result is I don't listen to music from my phone anymore.
at a "top five" USA public University a couple of decades ago, it was indeed shocking to see calculated, methodical cheating on exams and study material.. for example a group would keep the significant test material from previous years with corrections, or coordinate homework assignments between a group and distribute the work load.. one person does one homework and gets five other homeworks for 'filter' classes handed to them..

I could easily say "ethnic Chinese" and be accurate, but what about the mid-IQ Frat guys from the "fly-over" states? all pale skins.. So I thought about it at the time and it seemed like sports teams, fraternities, strong social ties with a lot at stake.. those groups, not ethnicity, were a common theme.

In my own wanderings, since travelling internationally and gaining some maturity, I believe that calling out an ethnicity is indeed racist in a mild way. I agree with both "lots of students from India cheated" and "I am concerned about ethnic stereotype" .. both have some basis in reality.. We as animals are wired to see "us" and "other" .. so.. you have to choose to apply some sense and mercy, or not.
When I had it block the Twitter mobile app, it also blocked twitter.com - I assume the same thing will happen if you block Facebook. The founders have mentioned they're adding support for blocking specific websites soon.
the problem with web is there's really no dispute mechanism and you don't know if you can trust an unknown website. doesn't mean you can't make it work just more friction that costs money.
Cynism is not disencouraged in the HN guidelines, but the sneering at the community and meta complaint in your comment is. I don’t care for the tone in those comments buy they are expressing something real.

Helion can be a cool company with real tech, and this deal a marketing play, both possibly true.
Why exactly would anyone move physically when everyone is insisting remote work is as good and no one is collocated anymore?
I would not bet on my friends feeling present if they were in such a distraction prone environment though
Heh, I tried fairmail a couple of times and always came back to k9 as I found fairmail quite cluncky and odd to use :-)
Summary is incorrect. Volexity was investigated a hack that came through the SolarWinds exploit but did not chase it down and didn’t find the exploit. In the article’s wrap up, the CEO regrets not figuring it out when they first stumbled upon it
I couldn't agree more.

If IP addresses are considered PII, we can basically shut down the internet. They are necessary to protect against spammers and attacks. Also, as you have mentioned, an IP address can _not_ be linked to a natural person, as you can't tell who it belongs to without context. For an ISP for example an IP address is linked to a customer, everyone else can only guess who it belongs to. You won't be able to get the exact location or tell how many people are in the household with just the IP address.

I'm ready to get downvoted by the "we don't want any analytics" crowd on HN.
I know that Musharraf used to say Pakistan is fortress of Islam but saying you’re the only true Muslim country in the world is kind of a stretch no? Why? Blasphemy laws? Nukes?
Ask HN: Resources to Grow Breadth and Depth as a Software Engineer?
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Whether it's about specific programming languages, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, software architecture, or even soft skills related to engineering, I'd love to hear about the resources you've found most valuable in your own journey.

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Yes, if you're doing what the patient and the regulators want you to do, that ain't cheating.
I’m always sceptical of Drax, don’t they skip wood chips from USA to burn as biofuel?
moby dick is the story of a guy on a boat who tries to hunt a whale
I'm not being smug about CA's grid. It has rolling blackout on hot days. Its problem is it doesn't let anyone build power plants.
I am responding to "Without the network, you don't have much of a product." and believe that my comment correctly and directly disproves that assertion.
> Before that, fsck after a crash seemed a little too exciting.

It was more the opposite IME (90s-era linux): fsck after a crash was boring and time-consuming, and we grew increasingly impatient as capacities grew.

Prior to having a journaling filesystem and log replay @ reboot/mount, the filesystem was often plain conservatively implemented using methods like two-phase-commits and arguably kept more consistent due to the repeated exhaustive checking process at every dirty mount.

We went through a phase of putting a lot of trust into the hardware keeping things consistent/no-bitrot and more or less assuming everything was fine after a journal replay. Only relatively recently did we start getting checksums of metadata to detect such failures, that's still not a universal feature.

The lack of frequent fscks creates opportunity for hidden corruption from either bugs or hardware errors to go unnoticed until it's far too late to recover from... There's a reason filesystems tend to have a max mount count before a fsck is forced, even if not dirty.
I'd say the .google is the biggest flex i've seen in a while, so why not just use it
Their sixth reactor achieved 100M degree temps, ran for 16 months under vacuum, did thousands of fusion shots, and demonstrated D-He3 fusion.

Their seventh will start up in 2024, and is supposed to demonstrate net electricity from D-He3.

Their eighth is supposed to be the commercial reactor. If they don't achieve that, they will have to pay penalties to Microsoft.