skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK: The employee described himself as 'medically retired' and has been on 75% pay since 2008 under the terms of an IBM health plan. The arrangement will finish when the employee reaches 65. I'm sort of wondering if his pension contributions are based on 75% or 100% of pay scale. This kind of arrangement is not by any means normal in UK, and I wonder if the plan is still available to new employees.

Most companies and public sector employers have a sickness policy that pays full wages for some months then declines steadily until employment is terminated, around a year in the case of my former employer.
We need an xlsx and docx TLD.
> I think the reason why the "pro Obj C" lobby strikes such a nerve is that their personal preference is holding back the whole team.

You appear to be complaining about some anecdotal experience of yours. Exactly how many different teams have you been on where this happened?

It should be noted that the article author has been a lone developer since 2016 and hasn't belonged to or "held back" any teams during that time.

In any case, rewriting existing, working code is usually a bad idea regardless of the language, so if that's what you were aiming for on your team, it wouldn't be surprising to meet resistance on that.

> Objective C actively makes it harder to do such best practices

Completely untrue.
The disclaimer is there on the beta firmware pages on archive.org from a year ago, meaning that it was a general policy for beta firmware that had been in place for some time rather than something added specifically for this particular beta.
> One can only hope that Turkey does not become a religious dictatorship.

I guess you meant "does not become a religious dictatorship again"
I really want to know about the outcome of reading HTDP with some programming experience, like you, versus taking it as a first course.
So if it's a domain, you should fully qualify it: https://foo.zip.

Over time, this can become a convention. Part of the price you pay in using a .zip domain will be that software doesn't auto-linkify it unless you prefix it with http(s)://.
> The community has proven to be sustainable, with ample social proof of further adoption and conditions amenable to generational succession

It depends on how you measure sustainable. What would happen to Elixir without its BDFL? Has Elixir achieved escape velocity and will continue? Rust was pushed out of the Mozilla nest and managed to live on. I don't see a similar capacity for Elixir handling such existential risk. Are there succession plans? Is there mentoring among members of the core?

I also think that it's necessary to point out that just because OTP facilitates resilience doesn't mean that the system you'll build with it will exhibit that behavior. You have to design your system to use OTP effectively. Easier said than done. I've seen Elixir systems reach a critical failure state following maximum restarts of its internal processes. However, at least Elixir has the potential of being hardened. It's just not going to act as expected without a lot of up front wisdom applied.
https://archive.is/ap3on

archive.today either has it and/or will allow you to immediately request it
Relative to Putin-Russia and CCP-China? The US maintains moral high ground.
Oh please, you are mixing things up. Leather jackets mafia types have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Source: i was there.
> it’s also looking at what other options are there and comparing them

I think I'm still better off starting with clChatGPT, I can always follow up with "list 5 alternative solutions".
This is pretty much Plato’s cave. But yeah, it seems to be absolutely true.
If we blow ourselves up, will all of the junk we left in orbit around the earth eventually form rings of garbage?
Well, maybe definition of dictatorship is wider than we think. There is a one-man regime in Turkey currently and he can just do whatever he pleases thanks to the regime he created. Turkish public opinion calls it a dictatorship.
First evidence of hominids goes back almost six millions years [1] and first tools over three millions years ago [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
I've found it here

https://citaty.net/citaty/283440-jan-werich-nemysli-kdyz-mys...
That's utter nonsense. You can't consent to stuff that is against the law, esp. when the "power balance" when signing the contract is extremely lopsided. Such contract clauses are routinely ruled invalid and unenforceable.
While that's true, it is possible that an an elected government transforms the country into a dictatorship, e.g. by undermining the other branches of government, seeking control over the judiciary, press; changing the constitution to give themselves additional powers, etc.

That's happening in a lot of countries and from what I know (not in Turkey), it's also something that Erdogan did.
> That's just a claim and you're not even saying why you make it, what makes you think so, etc.

Mechanical - it is an algorithm, not a living being.

Pattern recognition - a branch of machine learning that focuses on the detection and identification of regularities and patterns in data. It involves classifying or categorizing input data into identifiable classes based on extracted features. The patterns recognized could be in various forms, such as visual patterns, speech patterns, or patterns in text data.

Approximates our understanding - meaning the model is not exactly the same as human understanding

When I say 'mechanical pattern recognition that approximates our understanding,' what I mean is that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 learn patterns from the vast amounts of text data they're trained on. These patterns correspond to various aspects of language and meaning.

For example, the models learn that the word 'cat' often appears in contexts related to animals, pets, and felines, and they learn that it's often associated with words like 'meow' or 'fur'. In this sense, the model 'understands' the concept of a cat to the extent that it can accurately predict and generate text about cats based on the patterns it has learned.

This isn't the same as human understanding, of course. Humans understand cats as living creatures with certain behaviors and physical characteristics, and we have personal experiences and emotions associated with cats. A language model doesn't have any of this - its 'understanding' is purely statistical and based on text patterns.

The evidence for these claims comes from the performance of these models on various tasks. They can generate coherent, contextually appropriate text, and they can answer questions, translate languages, and perform other language-related tasks with a high degree of accuracy. All of this suggests that they have learned meaningful patterns from their training data.
> How do we get rid of it?

Put down your phone.
It’s not a modifier key, it’s a separate key you type before, like an escape character. I use the Caps Lock key for it.

For very common sequences that you always want to have mapped you can use a tool like AHK so that you don’t have to press Compose before.

The beauty of Compose though is that it works everywhere, and that it gives you access to a much larger character set in a very mnemonic way. For example, “ga” can map to “α” (“greek a”), “gb” to “β”, and so on. “2-” can map to “–“ (en dash), “3-“ to “—“ (em dash), “3.” to “…”, “c,” to “ç”, “i,” to “į”, “e,“ to “ę”, and so on. There are a lot of patterns that apply to a whole range of characters, it’s a bit like how commands combine in Vim.
Similarly, I read the one about dog parks, and if you approach it with the good faith notion that it wasn't just fabricated whole cloth, it reads like an okay-ish Master's level paper being submitted to an okay-ish journal. And features a decent sample size, which is a rare thing in the veterinary literature.
I understand their caution. They can't test on all the millions of combinations of PC hardware out there, and some of them are inevitably going to have their boot records toasted by this update, bricking the machines.

This is a lose/lose situation for Microsoft.
They are at a minimum destroying value of the ink, as the ink already put into the printer is useless now. At least the running combination is permanently disabled as long as you do not buy something from HP. With printer prices often as low as the ink prices that is a big deal.

At least they should be required to compensate the users.
My phone regularly picks up QZSS here in southern California for what it's worth. At least at certain times of the day with a good western view of the sky.
> yeah, you can "noclip" through walls, but you're not going to get the ESL championship.

I don't understand what you mean by this. LLMs are literally being wired into military applications right now. They're being wired into workflows where if something falls over and goes terribly wrong, people actually die.

If somebody hacks a Twitch bot, who cares? The problem is people are building stuff that's a lot more powerful than Twitch bots.
I'm just waiting for clownpenis.fart or horsedick.mpeg, anything else is irrelevant.
The discover bank doesn't even accept an email at indian tld like hello@example.in The reason given by support was that .in email will work only in India & discover operates only in USA. I tried to reason that people move from India to USA all the time & keep the same email accounts.
Just being able to hold CEOs and directors vicariously liable for employee actions like this would be a good start.
Which is why Steve/Gamers Nexus often has to buy hardware to review on their own dollar. They're not the least bit shy about being critical when it's called for, which has landed them on the blacklists of some hardware manufacturers.
I agree about making an informed choice.

I disagree with:

> Because by choosing RoR you are making an assertion up front: our startup will never scale beyond X users (because you're never going to get buy-in for a rewrite).

How can this be true when we know that Shopify, Gitlab, Github and all others are using RoR.

Here is a more concrete scale[1]:

> We served 75.98 Million requests per minute to our commerce platform at peak. That’s 1.27 Million requests per second!

Is that a bit enough limit for you?

Here is more:

> We achieved 99.999+% uptime while averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/shopifyeng/status/1597983926126977024

[2] https://twitter.com/shopifyeng/status/1597983918900510720
Yes and:

Authentic HP ink cartridges now have an expiration date. Even when new in package, sealed, and totally fine.

A friend asked me to fix their printer. Error code was nonsensical. Eventually determined an automatic firmware update invalidated their cartridges. Only clue came from other complaints on reddit. HP had no useful info or troubleshooting advice.

Convinced friend to buy a Brother laser printer.

HP is now evil. Got the Jack Welch treatment. I blame Fiorina, Hurd, Whitman, the board, and all the other stooges, for turning a former tech gem into a punch line.
I can't imagine the kind of administrative nightmare it would be to try and be allowed by the local thugs in power to do something so ambitious in 21st century Italy.
When I read comments like this, I am reminded of how deeply ingrained nationalism is for Americans. Where even if one admits something is a problem, it's simply a temporary problem not worth paying any mind, hey look, China is doing something!

Hopefully soon more Americans realize how similar your country and China are, the differences are minor, not major.
Agree with all you said, except for the ORM part.

Ecto is good but I think the Django ORM does it better. The ORM in Django[0] is dead simple and easy to understand. The only caveat being that Django doesn't have changesets, which I do like.

It also integrates nicely with the Django Admin. You setup your models, and you can very easily generate an admin interface to CRUD on those models.

One annoyance I have with Ecto is that migration files are handwritten. There's a generator tool, but it only gives you a skeleton migration that you then have to manually fill in. This gives you 2 sources of truth, which is error prone. Automating this process like in Django solves this issue.

Ash[1] (which uses Ecto under the hood) does solve most of these issues, although at the moment the documentation can be hard to navigate.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/db/queries/

[1] https://ash-hq.org/
As compared to a nation that killed thousands of student protesters, ran over their bodies with tanks until they turned to mush, flushed it down the drain and then banned anyone from mentioning it for 30 years I'll take the good old US thank you very much.
To add to the OP's post:

1. Organizations must value continuous improvement. We want to avoid two extremal behaviors that sours individuals. First, the lethargic in-bred sterility of: hey, it worked before you got here, and it's fine now. Play-it-off is not wisdom. On the other extreme is frustration gone wrong. Sure, you can see a problem AND be right about it. But whining and constant criticism sours. Everybody's problem is there are 10,000 things that could be worked on, and resources only for 1000. You better make sure you're customer driven so you pick the right 1000.

2. Duplication is better for the medium term ... if you stay with the problem for a while, you are better able to distill the big picture into a more coherent new abstraction. Here you can cite a problem, cite a solution, and stick to your guns. You are better positioned to impact change without being a whiner. Now, problems are working for you, not against.
How about this - a company that makes printers, but has open sourced their design for cartridges so that other people can make and sell cartridges for those printers? Does something like this exist? Or did HP try their best and bury such companies?
2x TC seems high. For one direct example I know of, benefits package (including all the insurances with all premiums paid by the employer) costs around $25k/yr. I feel like at $150k salary, it’s probably like $200k total cost? Payroll tax employers are responsible for seems around 7-8%. $30k benefits, $12k extra payroll tax leaves $8k for equipment and other expenses. That would be about $1M/yr for 5 employees.

Curious to learn more though.
Intelligence does not exist in a void. If you distill it to the core, intelligence is about manipulating the environment in order to gain an advantage. You want to gain an advantage to maximize your chances of survival and reproduction.

To me: we cannot talk about intelligent without talking about the environment. Also being intelligent in an environment is worthless unless there is competition. Reproduction/replication is also key IMHO. No matter how intelligent you are entropy is going to take over eventually. Reproduction is life's way of cheating entropy.

Consciousness may be just an emergent property of really complex organisms. Everything may be intelligent and conscious to a certain degree.
I use a Brother multi-function (MFC-L2710DW).

> And their drivers aren't user hostile?

They offer a closed-source Linux and you need to download an installer from them (an i386 binary, which also works on i686 and x86_64); so, not great. The driver is mostly-reliable, although every once in a while it does kind of give out on you and printing fails, possibly until a restart. I suppose on Windows it's better.

> really good printers that are inexpensive and live a long life?

I bought mine about 4.5 years ago; hardware seems fine so far.

> happy life

yeah, so... not so much when it comes to toners. Either the toner capacity is really low, or the MFP becomes disenchanted with toners quickly. I get "Toner Low" extremely quickly - even with only a few hundred pages printed. Granted, I don't print much these days, but still. And I've already experienced a case in which I put in a new toner and was already told it was low.

Other than that no complaints.
And with chrome leading it (IIRC) and other browsers following, end users don't even see http or https:// prefixes in their browser bar anymore. Further adding to confusion.

I don't see a reason for adding these new TLDs other than a cash grab.
I've been in development for 24 years and now I have issues with some very strange UIs. Where do I click to post?

Old UIs are consistent. Buttons are buttons, labels are labels, and so on.

New UIs are inconsistent. In the facebook interface, the post button is not a button, it's a label. It may have changed since I last used it. It also occurs in native programs.

In older UIs, button size makes sense. Today every app recreates the buttons, with absurd sizes.

Contrast. Designers love low contrast in the new UIs. Here in HN it is sometimes very difficult to read the text.

As a developer, I participated in several meetings about new UIs. "Beauty" is the keyword. The beauty seems to be in the rounded corners and the use of labels instead of buttons. Yes, I created a bunch of shitty UIs.

But most importantly, dark patterns don't exist in old UIs. Dark patterns are the worst thing about the new UIs.
your lips to god’s ears.
> Is that the most widespread vector for attack? Probably not.

Yeah one big issue I had with the article was the assertion that telling people to open a file like VacationPhotos.zip isn't something humans do. Is it common? Probably not, but there are a LOT of humans. Even 1% of them doing something makes for a huge attack surface. The vacation photos example is also probably not a very good one. How many README.md files are there out there telling someone to look in assets.zip for the webserver assets, or docs.zip for documentation? Someone seeing this is a link would likely reasonably assume it's a link to the file in the repository, and I'm sure someone more creative than me could get up to all sorts of interesting shenanigans with that (incorrect) assumption.
Newspapers don’t modify what I see in the next 60 seconds based on my response to the previous paragraph.
Ask HN: React Native for a Startup in 2023?
Building a startup with some pre-seed money. Enough to hire a few devs. We need a mobile app. Build also have decent scope on the backend. Seems like alot to maintain android, ios, and web. Whats the consensus on using React Native as a way to reduce code surface area and move quicker? I know it has issues, but are they manageable?

Also, the app is just a business application, not a flashy consumer one. Lots of form pages, document uploads, picture capturing, etc. We do need both from the start, with a heavy number of users on Android.
I would never put a camera in my kids' rooms. We've learned to prioritize our security on measured (not bullhorned) risk factors.
Yes. munchler, see:

Empty your cup.

https://wiki.c2.com/?EmptyYourCup
And you have to search for them online or order from various strange places because no major stores where people actually go buy "computer stuff" carry them. Coincidence? I think not.

Worse, even the lot more expensive "office" printers (both laser and inkjets) have been sabotaged by such "driver update for your own good" shenanigans in the past. This isn't limited only to the cheapest disposable inkjet junkers.
> LLMs are literally being wired into military applications right now. They're being wired into workflows where if something falls over and goes terribly wrong, people actually die.

Do you have any proof to back this claim?
I haven't heard of the idea of the "hard problem of consciousness" before, but after reading this Wikipedia article, it sounds like nonsense. Like, take this passage:

> For example, it is logically possible for a perfect replica of [David] Chalmers to have no experience at all, or for it to have a different set of experiences (such as an inverted visible spectrum, so that the blue-yellow red-green axes of its visual field are flipped).

A perfect replica? So you somehow make an exact copy of a person and his environment, down the last gluon, and play time forward, and you'd think that the two people might have different experiences?

No way. In every other situation, if you set up a system in the exact same way, you'll get the same outcome. (Yes, randomness can come into play, but the distribution of outcomes will be the same.)

I agree with this:

> The philosopher Thomas Metzinger likens the hard problem of consciousness to vitalism, a formerly widespread view in biology which was not so much solved as abandoned. Brian Jonathan Garrett has also argued that the hard problem suffers from flaws analogous to those of vitalism.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
Semi-bricking is like saying someone is semi-pregnant.
This is a surprisingly naive thing to say in the era of a CEO having a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder-value over the short-term / their tenure (whichever is shorter)
> You agreed to it, it doesn’t matter how one sided it was.

The libertarian philosophy in a nutshell. It doesn't matter if society turns into a corporate fiefdom, as long as contracts and property rights are upheld.
More like a year in the life of the cosmos.
That's a very simplified model for our brain. According to some mathematicians and physicists, there are quantum effects going on in our body and in particular in our brain that invalidate this model. In the end, we still don't know for sure if intelligence is comuputable or not, we only have plausible sounding arguments for both sides.
Does it, really? I’m pretty sure if you’d ask some people, there are going to be some that’d answer „no“ too.

Besides, you’re shifting the goalposts as you go, altering your arguments as it suits your view. The parent comment just disproved your entire point how LLMs cannot combine different fields - and now you just pick a different angle altogether. Maybe take a step back and reconsider your opinions?
Show HN: Manage your everyday tasks, lightweight
I'd think their leadership is aware. Likely they are just picking their battles to be in strategic areas where they'll capture the most revenue to resource-investment. AMD has a lot of catching up to do and they cannot compete on all fronts at once.
Thank you, I did not read the article and assumed (based on other comments which are pretty clearly assuming the same) that the title was accurate.
The first TLD / file extension collision is older than that.
On second read, that was a bit much sarcasm. Apologies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 presumably.
Aye, and for the rest of folks such as you, me, and the original commentator, it's important to clarify things.
Was a principal about 15 years ago when the "whole language" approach to learning reading and writing was a fad. Had a Grade 1 teacher who emphatically refused to even try it, she was sticking with teaching phonics come hell or high water.

Most of the younger teachers fell for the fad with limited results. The 'old school' teacher consistently produced a class of kids who were reading proficiently by the end of the year, while other classes struggled with that success rate.
Based on some of the other comments, I think the game gives ChatGPT a prompt immediately before we send in our prompt. So when you refer to "the word", it assumes you're referring to the thing just mentioned in the previous prompt
As an early SNES game looks quite weak compared RPGs later in the SNES life cycle, which often had amazing pixel art, e.g. Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana). They really should have made a second SNES Zelda.
> Outlaw the practice of trying to influence people by marketing?

If and when that is an option, yes definitely. What are we waiting for? And how is this even up for discussion?
If you can run a successful business by selling $100 objects that cost $20 each to make and result in an average of $90 of fines per sale, and make it up by mistreating your workers, I applaud you.
Dense urban environments are overrated. They became popular with industrial revolution, when large numbers of workers needed to work at factories every day. With rise of WFH and online shopping, dense urban environments no longer make sense.