skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aaaargh! Prefixing identifiers with "the" or "my", especially combined with a type name (eg. "int myFirstInt = 3;") is a giant neon warning sign indicating that whoever named them is (a) fresh out of a beginners' course no matter how much calendar time has passed, and (b) they never properly grasped what an identifier is actually for.

(I know these are examples and not what you personally would actually name them, but ugh what a visceral reaction. :P )
This article is from 2010, and it says that as of 2010, progress on speech recognition flatlined since 2001

Is this still the case?

How does 2001 software compares to 2023 software? Or 2010 to 2023 for that matter
caniuse says it only works on macOS
For a rough guide of the sounds, the pronunciation key in Wikipedia does a good enough job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese
Ah this is about as douchey as I thought it would be. Congratulations, you wrote a yet another shitty tech article (YASTA).

I think my favorite part is right at the very beginning where you relegate anyone who isn’t a self important douche to banality. I’m talking specifically about the section where you send someone who doesn’t conform to the question “what could your company not have done without you” packing.

I would say “probably nothing,” because frankly if I wasn’t in that position, someone else probably would have been and they probably would have been able to do anything I could have done, because I don’t think I’m god’s gift to software development. It’s a job. I do it at a level commensurate with my pay. I’m not a singular snowflake.

And judging by the demeanor this article was written in, OP is a dime a dozen.
There are a lot of better and more specific answers about canceling and how useful meetings are.

I can give you an insight into one way to measure that. (Like every time you measure things with a normative proxy, this gets far more controversial than you’d like or expect very fast.)

Measure the speaking time for everyone.

How is that controversial?

Well, you can ask what the goal of the meeting is, but if the point is “discussion” and the boss talked 94% of the time, we are in “this meeting could have been an email” territory. Because the boss is very much a listener, as he likes to remind people, that isn’t a great look. Or rather, whoever suggested to measure who is speaking isn’t a great fit for the team.
Every time I see this argument about LLMs I can't help but think of Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.
Symbian, Windows Phone did just fine with C++, and also .NET.

The power of AOT compiled languages instead of plain interpreter.

Apparently the original Android as it was bought by Google, was planned to use JavaScript, then they pivoted into Java, and it took decades until they got any kind of good AOT/JIT story (starting with Android 5).
When to use drgn instead of eBPF tools like bpftrace, and vice versa
Residency slots are limited by federal government funding, not the AMA.
> Some shows may be cheaper to acquire if there’s promotion in the interface

Something I would gladly pay to live without.
Heya! I see I posted this about a day after you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35858371

Let's see if we can share any learnings :)
Why ask a question that will spawn a comment thread about language superiority without testing or acknowledge what the author provided?

Setup stress testing and worked flawlessly. Impressive work author.
You’re forgetting the most important function of a job interview: making the interviewer feel smart and important.
By way of context, Semiconductor manufacturing capacity worldwide from 2013 to 2021, by region

U.S. Sing. Taiw. Eur. Japan China All Others
2013 56.70 16.10 0.00 13.90 2.60 3.70 7.00 in %
2014 49.50 14.70 4.60 12.10 9.00 3.80 6.40 in %
2015 51.80 18.10 4.40 8.80 8.70 2.70 5.40 in %
2016 47.50 21.30 5.30 10.30 9.00 1.40 5.30 in %
2017 42.80 20.80 10.30 10.10 8.40 2.60 4.90 in %
2018 45.50 17.10 10.40 10.40 8.50 2.80 5.20 in %
2019 44.50 17.50 10.00 9.10 8.80 5.10 5.00 in %
2020 43.50 18.70 9.60 9.50 8.70 5.40 4.80 in %
2021 43.20 18.30 9.70 9.60 8.80 5.50 4.90 in %

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1339336/semiconductor-ma...
Years ago I used a program with that approach for a space sim. Basically it would only recognize voice commands that you define beforehand, which made it very reliable at recognizing the right one because it just had to find the closest match within a limited set of options, and would then simulate associated key inputs.

Meanwhile when I tried Android's voice-based text input it was a catastrophe as my accent completely threw it off. Felt like it was exclusively trained on English native speakers. Not to mention the difficulty such systems have when you mix languages, as it tends to happen.
All they said in writing was "unfortunately I do not meet performance standards".

For the first two weeks they were happy to let me just learn angular and the app. They gave me a CSS ticket to fix one page last week, and I actually fixed all the pages! But I did it using Firefox and a text editor (vs code) so they are having none of that!

> get yourself a lawyer

Very seriously considering this.
So what better than motion-detector lights? It'll highlight any motion!
It said to be trained on 75 Billion tokens with 8 A100 in 7 days.

However, in the paper they say that for each of the 5 epochs, they sample 512 tokens from each paper randomly.

This would come down to an effective training size of 12 billion tokens.
The time gaps between jobs?
100% with this. I love the show but this reeks of tech broism to an extent it almost feels satirical.
Related: https://github.com/mame/favicon-quine
75B tokens is not really enough data to make an intelligent model. Llama was trained on over 1 trillion tokens.

And yes, training on top of LLaMA could introduce a lot of unexpected behavior, but that's just where the State-of-the-Art is today
This may no longer be true. I recall a story last year where you no longer require a FB account to access Oculus as they de-coupled them now. I have the original Quest but have not logged in a long while so can’t confirm if that’s the case.
Which is the completely obvious conclusion if you think about it from the company’s and not the candidate’s perspective.
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Lil Nas X reports in Variety that Reznor/Ross might be getting up to 50% of the royalties (he wasn't sure exactly).

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/old-town-road-recorded-f...

There's also a comment on Reddit that sounds pretty believable (Reznor: 37.5, Ross: 12.5, Lil Nas X: 21.25, YoungKio: 21.25, Billy Ray Cyrus: 3.75%, Jozzy: 3.75%). https://www.reddit.com/r/musicindustry/comments/bu3gd1/comme...
Windows Phone and Symbian could.
Sale here.

From https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/

> Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. [...] It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more
Some deep wisdom here that we've never heard before. Thank you for your contribution.
Well I was replying to a comment that said “i feel like if you put gpt4 up against the median man on the street it would be better at literally everything” so yes you’re right but that’s my point. GPT4 is better than some people at some things but it’s not better than most people at “literally everything”.
My favourite awful example is Rhaphanidosis [1] -- the act of shoving a radish up a man's anus as a punishment, typically for adultery.

That sentence alone tells you an awful lot about the society it came from.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphanidosis
At 14mhz you don't need coaxial. /s
RHEL 9 will be supported for ~10 years, but RHEL is scheduled to come out in ~3 years. Fedora will probably still support it and I would bet some of the RHEL rebuilds will too.
I think this ignores what actually makes a pop song popular and a hit. It isn't the chord progression or melody, at least primarily. It is the marketing.

Plus, I assume that major studios have already been using stastical-based software for decades to help craft songs to fit the current vogue. There's a reason why many songwriters and producers write songs for Kpop and state those songs could never be released in the U.S.
They have a Matter-enabled thermostat. If that can integrate into Home Assistant without an internet connection (which should be the case), you are absolutely not “the product” for buying one. You’re just buying the best locally-controlled thermostat you can.
That's just not correct on both sides. Code reviews happen sometimes in some environments - it's not a given. On the other side, doctors do run their questions by other doctors if they're not sure about the results. (Again, not enforced) Similar for pathology tests results, but with the added layer of the tests themselves being reviewed too.

You'd have to join the social network groups for doctors to see that, but there's a lot of double checking happening both with local peers and wider groups. For the more interesting cases anyway... you're not getting a second review if you come in with runny nose and test positive for RSV. (Edit: and even in more complex cases you may not get it for a lot of reasons)
In India the healthcare system is far more efficient. Most of the specialists, one can just walk in the clinic and see same day. For diagnostic tests, you can book any tests (without doctor prescription) online and a qualified person comes home to collect your blood etc sample and sends it off to the lab and you get the report in your email within 24-48 hours. The cost of all of this is quarter or less of what it costs in the USA.
Modders would keep it alive, I'm sure. That's already one of the major reasons why people don't want to migrate away from Java edition.

In fact if Minecraft stopped updating Java edition that would make things a lot easier for modders. No more game updates breaking your mods.
That is amazing work. You've really plumbed the depths of what's possible with font technology, kudos.
Try that same prompt with unusual wording and numbers:

* Replace 18 by 37

* Replace car with ice cream van

* Replace the first drive with
steer

I hypothesize that a truly reasoning model would see through such alterations whereas a "just" continuously better model would show somewhat degraded performance.
I don’t think that’s the only reason they decided to use RLHF. I think the raw model without RLHF would just fail differently, rather than not failing.
OP is an idiot. Nobody cares if you’re job hopping.
Well, Fuchsia team that drives the OS on Nest devices were hit heavily by the layoffs[0], so I guess those lazy coasters won't be able to fix your problems anymore.

[0]: https://9to5google.com/2023/01/21/fuchsia-area-120-google-la...
This is a hilarious example of how you don't get it. People in your position think because they have experienced a mild version of something or experienced something once they now know exactly how any other minority experiences the world.

This doesn't make you a bad person btw, just means you are not aware of how small your social context is.
There have been times when I have strategically done my CV in yyyy or yyyy-mm dates to make such gaps less obvious.

But if pressed you can honestly say that you have no idea what the problem was, you performed your requests, and you were given no warning. In any case that was beyond your control and didn't turn into a real job.
How is that different than saying “Siri, remind me to do X in one hour”
Jolly Roger telephone company is another fun choice. At ~$20 /yr seems not terrible for a bit of fun.

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/

I also will give out the number to local strip clubs for sales people which seems to be confusing to them.
It's possible I am wrong on the specifics there. I was going off memory of a video that covered this topic.
Nintendo Switch sales plunge 22% and the gaming giant expects further declines
So they are in danger!!
WTF? I thought NVIDIA had adopted an open-source core? Is this seriously something outsiders can't fix?
I guess because it's nothing more than a transparent window that is reading out information about other windows and changing its own position. So pretty basic WinAPI calls.
But.....you yourself called it "most appealing chord progression possible". If it's appealing, why is it surprising that it's POPular?

And I don't really see what is there to be bored with - it's just music. You put a POP playlist on Spotify or whatever and it's enjoyable music that you can have on for 8 hours while you work. If you want stuff that deviates from it, there's plenty to choose from - but I don't understand why anyone is surprised that this isn't what most people listen to.
>. I am not convinced that democracy is a universally good form of government when there is little cultural acceptance and adaptation to it

That's the lies the ruling class in those countries are trying to make you beleive. If it was cultural, they would not need such a tight grip on society to make sure the dictatorship continues, in reality, the power struggle is the same everywhere.
Critique or honest question?

For the former, because the developer wanted to use Javascript.
As it happens, that feature is used in the FTP protocol (RFC 959) to abort the current file transfer (or to immediately print a status message), since some old implementations would have to stop listening on the control connection while a transfer was in progress and could only be woken up with an interrupt. At least vsftpd supports it, I haven't looked at any other implementations. The main difficulty is that the libc API for reading urgent data is somewhat painful, and most higher-level TCP libraries haven't bothered with it for obvious reasons.

Of course, basic ftp:// clients (the only kind that are really used today) would probably rather just close the control connection, which has the same effect.
I said this before, but here it goes. People always wished for the *one stack that would work the same 99% of the time for all available platforms. Now that it's here, they hate it.

Yes, Electron is bad, but there are alternatives in progress. Layouting with HTML and CSS is here to stay. It's like git, the best of all the worst tools to get the job done.
No, "Chinese Traditional" refers to the character set used to write each character[1], but the actual text is still written according with the vocabulary and grammar of Standard Written Chinese, which is based on spoken Mandarin.

As an example, this is the sentence "Please give me his book" written in Standard Written Chinese using "Chinese Traditional" characters: 請你給我他的書。

If you use "Chinese Simplified" characters[2] instead, it would still be the same words, but some of the characters have simpler forms: 请你给我他的书。

However, both of those renderings still follow Mandarin vocabulary and grammar. Even though Cantonese speakers generally read and write Standard Written Chinese (in either Traditional or Simplified characters), if they were to actually convey that sentence in spoken Cantonese, it would actually be quite different. Written Cantonese[3] is generally only used in informal contexts, but a rendering of the sentence in Cantonese would instead be: 唔該你畀佢本書我。 (Traditional) 唔该你畀佢本书我。 (Simplified)

The written Cantonese version uses vocabulary and grammatical constructions that are not part of Standard Written Chinese, and Google Translate is currently not able to translate to written Cantonese. I've found that over time though, Google Translate has been getting better at translating from written Cantonese to English (however, for the example I just gave, it appears it still completely botches the translation; it currently thinks it translates to "You shouldn't have let her book me").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
> The Ancient Greeks resolutely did not believe that the purpose of life was to be happy

I bet Ancient Greeks didn't constitute a hivemind and had different opinions on the matter.
It's standard to say 12h and expect this to read as 43200?

Sounds like a lousy standard if the correct way to use it is to say "I want to delay by 12 hour seconds". What is even "12 hour seconds"?
For some reason, networking seems to be a dirty word in tech. I went through the same rigorous tech screening as anyone else would for a recent job, despite knowing from previous work experience a colleague that I would be working with in the new position.

I understand wanting to be able to cross your Ts and dot your Is, but why not save everyone a boatload of time and just go off a recommendation? I ended up getting the job of course but it wasn’t without jumping through hoop after useless hoop. It’s like they don’t even trust the people they hire.
"most people don't manage their keys and use semi-trusted intermediaries of their choice" sound like a central example of federation.

"Everybody is their own server" is decentralization
Okay, but are you a diffusion model/generative AI researcher?

As a researcher in this field, I found the article fairly understandable and accessible. I suspect that was the target audience.

The domain of diffusion models have a lot of terminology and concepts that are not explained here, so maybe that's why it's harder to understand?
I remember years ago when Google I/O and Apple’s equivalent felt like the Super Bowl. Now I don’t even know when they are or really care. I miss those days.
Apple co-founder says AI may make scams harder to spot
> has the WP code base been revised much?

It has undergone many changes over the years, as evidenced by https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/the-history-of-wordpress/ and also taking advantage of PHP and MySQL improvements along the way.
Why use anything?
Said it last week but I’ll say again - they lost me when they made Google domains accounts unable to use the system. Massively unfriendly move.
Because randomly casting dust on a table sometimes says intelligent things, therefore there is a continuous function between dust and ChatGPT?

While “dust” might be flippant, their approach does seem to suggest that even hierarchical Markov models would be able to demonstrate abilities on their continuous metrics.
My Nest camera is pretty hilariously bad as well. It literally just watches my mailbox and the path to it, and 90% of the time, my mailman is able to sneak past it without setting off the motion detection. They're literally in frame and just walking for 10-20s but that's not enough to register as motion even on the highest sensitivity.

The Ring with a similar vantage point detects it every time.
Perfectly aligned paragraphs on the left and the right. Other packages produce ragged line ends and/or ridiculous spacing between words (Word’s justify)
Having few unique syllables doesn't mean tones are required, since syllables can be combined. Most Mandarin words are disyllabic or longer, and 400×400 = 160k is enough combinations for a quite large vocabulary.

Unique characters being required to distinguish homophones in modern written Mandarin is mostly a circular effect due to the characters already being available, so people use them in ways that would be ambiguous when read aloud (as intentional puns or simply to be more concise.)

If there had been no preexisting writing system and written Mandarin was a simple transcription of spoken Mandarin, introducing characters would be about as helpful as indicating the Indo-European roots of words in English writing, which is to say that some people might get a feeling of epiphany after realizing the connection between seemingly disparate words, but it would hardly be practical for everyday use.
Tell HN: Robert Walters Incompetence and Disrespect for Companies and Candidates
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When my wife arrived for the interview, she was surprised to find out that the interviewers had someone else’s resume in front of them. Not only did this waste everyone’s time (my wife, a company’s HR representative, and two interviewers in leadership positions who were involved in the process), but it also wasted thousands of dollars in recruitment fees.

This is unacceptable behavior from a recruitment agency that claims to be professional and dedicated to helping candidates find the right job. My wife took time off from work and spent money on transportation to attend this interview, only to be treated with such disrespect.

I urge anyone who is considering using Robert Walters’ services to think twice before doing so. Their incompetence and lack of respect for candidates are not worth the risk.
That's what the article is about.

That's what this thread is about when the original poster says "you're doing services wrong".

So, no, I'm not the first person to mention them. You just need to read the context of the discussion.
NeXTSTEP, Solaris and Irix are my all time favourites in UNIX world, as they all tried to be something more than plain old UNIX + X Windows/CDE, there was a kind of soul to the whole experience.

Hence why I don't get those that try to replay the experience of using plain phosphor termimals + CLI, then why bother. I was there when they were new and don't miss the experience.
So sorry to hear both your parents had glioblastoma. We are struggling with this in our family now. Given how rare GBM is, did anyone try to identify possible causal factors in your parents’ case?
Not the original commenter, but if the model was publicly released and open, I definitely wouldn't have a problem with that.
This seems like an interesting presentation that I just skimmed through. But I really like the idea I get from the title, as a counter-statement against the general trend of presenting things as easy, and "learn x in five simple steps". Some things are hard, and maybe you can learn something useful in five minutes, true mastery takes time.
Fun! Combine it with ios notifications for web apps and rename the title of this post to “<60 lines”.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
You don't have to create a script, running a command under flock is still a one-liner in crontab.
Bigotry turns into a feedback loop that finishes in violence often encoded in political systems and then you get violence + state. E.g Nazis started with "remove Jews from Germany" then shockingly when a lot of Jewish people don't want to leave their homes then it escalates as the bigotry whipped up at first runs into the reality of how to make it real. By the time they seized the full state machinery then it was too late.
Yea it’s gotten to the point where it’s a sub-domain of expertise in Python being on top of the various performance extensions/runtimes/hacks.

Intuitively, numba and cython still feel like the most interesting/relevant.

I recall talk a few years ago about the possibility of writing packages in “numba”. IE, targeting the subset of Python and numpy that numba supports.

Occasionally I check in with numba’s releases and they seem to be slowly but surely supporting more of Python such that surely it will start to make sense to talk about the “numba” language. Has anyone got a tighter grip on whether this than I?
I still don't follow. In your example, how would you differentiate between that choice of his being lucky vs. prescient? Or was the intent to just provide a single datapoint of him appearing to make a correct choice?
> There are some tricky ones: the 'c' in cat is pronounced more like an aspirated 'ts'.

I would be perfectly happy if a non-native speaker pronounces "c" and "z" like the English "ch" and soft "g".
Something about the simplicity of the UI is so refreshing. Thanks for sharing.