skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because those fields are currently too limited and that would only work for researchers that are exactly in the field the company wants talent for.

Researchers' fields/interests are too narrow, by far, for companies to find enough candidates. Machine learning departments go from low thousands (FANG) to maybe a dozen individuals on the low end (small regional banks, ...). That adds up to let's say 40.000 jobs worldwide.

Plus there's the non-cheating cheating. The majority of conferences (including ICLR/NIPS/CVPR) are still presentations by companies about how they "innovated" by letting an intern use 10-year old techniques, in an established library (ie. not pytorch, but an "integrated" solution, sometimes going as far as an Oracle tool) to look at their own proprietary data (in medical, social sciences, sometimes chemistry). This then delivers them a "paper", goes into the conference proceedings, and they make sure this delivers dozens, sometimes hundreds of citations for all individuals involved.

Don't get me wrong. Delivering a major paper at those conferences is a major, incredible accomplishment that's beyond me, for example. But there's 20-30 people on a yearly basis that "really"/honestly do that and over 5000 total presentations at those conferences. And there's 10000 or more candidates needed to fill positions at companies.

And then the question is: who would you rather hire? A math phd, or frankly even a CS master with no relevant machine learning papers, or that intern?
It's still reachable for me. Cool.
The 2014 Ukraine coverage is brilliant.
You are doing it wrong yes.

The root node can intercept all messages but its main responsibility (TEA) is to dispatch the messages to the right component(s).
Taxed money could simply be passed on to the population in equal amounts. Then each individual could decide what to spend it on.
This is a good idea. Are there any down sides to using it? I feel like a proper implementation of this could reduce a lot of noise in the development experience. Some part of me wonders if you can brick your box with it or if there are less than obvious performance costs?
I am not sure if I understand you right, but are you saying girls are in general less competent?
That is exciting to me, if a little scary. A home-AI or business-AI running entirely in house for privacy and security reasons. That is technically possible right now, but perhaps practically a little bit down the road yet.
You also don't want AR glasses. The battery alone is a hassle, add the heating/weight of the device (same issues as VR) and a pinch of motion sickness and the faulty input haptics and you are back to the trusty ol' laptop, if you want to actually get something done, or to the smartphone if you are just consuming content. It's just a bad idea all around, perhaps it's easier to hack the optic nerve and feed images into the brain that way.

There is nothing AR glasses can achieve at an industrial site (their main use currently with HoloLens) that a decent digital twin, being able to quickly zoom in/out across hundreds of yards of wiring/machineries, doesn't obtain easier/faster/better/safer/more comfortable. Just what the doctor ordered for a tired technician, crawl under the machinery to check for the AR gimmick some dude in a $4,000 chair designed, only for the thing to be completely unable to map the AR model to the physical object because there's barely any light under a 25 tonne industrial whatever.
There seems to be an outage right now, https://us-central1-photogenicai.cloudfunctions.net/api/infe... returns status code 500
Isn't it more likely to be the case that no one was willing to pay for the investigative journalism?

You see this everywhere. The clickbait is a funding source for the real work. Journalists almost never want to push garbage on the public --- they're usually forced to by management, either as an attempt at growth-at-all-costs or as a revenue source of last resort.
Yes, I mean - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/186354/o...

First comment about modifying - `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TeachingCallouts`
Disney is very much not doing fine. They just replaced their CEO for a reason and they've had a long string of flops, as well as having trashed the Star Wars franchise.
Just use `vi`.
6502/6510 had integer add overflow …
It seems just as likely that a meeting occurred between railroad officials and the towns leadership, and it went something like this:

Railroad: We want to build a new railroad through town. You'll have to demolish 37 houses and move the main square and the church. Sound okay?

Town: Are you gonna pay us to do this? Will you give us new land elsewhere? Will this railroad take business away from our main trade of making carts and road wagons?

Railroad: Fine, we'll just build elsewhere.
> If you were indeed that vital to the engineering effort they would definitely rope you in for the whiteboard session. It's not the end of the world if you find out the decisions the next day. If you have some stellar feedback, you can bring it up then and I'm sure they'll consider it.

Not who you are replying to but sure - I am actually in such a position where I get the summary of what I need to do second-hand; it is great - mainly because the person I get it from is another senior developer so he knows the pitfalls; that also means he is able to lay the roadmap of what I need to do which makes things so much more easier.

Another time, it was a manager who was originally a developer and was quite hands-on - same experience.

> And honestly, roping in everyone to attend every single impromptu meeting just so you're up to speed on everything would be a huge time sink in terms of interruptions and I assure you you would complain about that too.

100% agree.

> Seems like you can never please developers: If you don't invite them to attend all the meetings, then they're offended because they feel left out from important decisions. If you invite them to all the meetings then they're angry because you're interrupting their productivity with useless meetings. You can never win.

> Developers should cut out the Mary Sue, and come down to earth for a bit, we're just cogs in a machine doing work for a paycheck, that's it, and even without you, your company and projects will still go on. You're most likely not the be-all end-all of your company as you imagine.

When you have decision makers that neither have the technical chops nor consult those that have them, things usually get complicated. Because then they miss the technical perspective, don't know what is feasible and what is not, commit things that are technically not prudent, forget to take into account the potential pitfalls etc etc - all of those things have a significant impact on the hands-on person down the line i.e. the developer. All decision makers are obviously not like that - those with the awareness and humility about not having the technical insights, include developers in the meetings to cover such aspects and that solves many issues upfront for both the project and the developers.

Speaking for myself, I don't love being in those meetings but sure appreciate that being present provides the opportunity of handling things at design stage so that they don't come back and bite me closer to delivery. Are there power-hungry limelight-seeking developers who do it for visibility/building image? Sure, but I haven't seen as many of them as I have seen managers with such tendencies. And if we say that there is nothing wrong with vying for visibility and image building etc and all those things are just signs of healthy competition/ambition - well, then that applies as much to developers as it does to managers.
it's quite the opposite: a nicely designed park/other place is more secure due to 'public control' (it's harder to do illegal stuff where there are many people watching and are against this). If public space is poorly designed, it'll be uncomfortable for kids/parents/teenagers and will attract marginalized people, like a space that looks shady, hard to reach and has design for gathering of drinking people

Also it depends of city strategy> having marginalized only buildings/areas is a bad idea, that's why in states like baltics, social apartments(the new ones) are not separate full buildings, but just apartments spread evenly across the city, contributing to diluting concentration of marginalized people in one spot and 'social control' keeps these regions safe
2 billion for Facebook isn't particularly a lot of money, I doubt their shareholders would care very much so long as FB continued to be a money printing machine.

The problem was tiktok. FB missed the short form video social media medium so it can't grow and if it can't grow it's no longer a "tech giant", so I think Zuckerberg desperately looked around and thought, "what comes after short form video?" and came to the conclusion it had to be VR because there isn't anything else that's obvious.

And thus the pivot to the metaverse.
Ask HN: Flat world news, like NYT HN
Is there a current service that aggregates the news into an HN-style, flat representation. I guess this would be headlines only, and probably be like Reddit, but the premise is not to be social but to provide the news simply. I am aware of the CNN lite site, and RSS seems like it was this. But what is there now?
I see lot of love for Corne (and similar) keyboards, and 3.6k GH stars attest to that: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
Didn’t they break the krokodil story in the mid-2010s? That coverage was some of the best footage I’ve ever seen. I think they also did that crazy shoot about the drug that turns people in clubs and bars into zombies in South America and allows the perps to control their victims like puppets. The drug in question also wipes the memory of the victims so they can’t report the crime. That was one of the scariest videos ever made. It really had an impact on me and I think I lost my faith in humanity for about a year after I saw it.
Ask HN: Why don't we have a best-of-class open self-learning platform?
About 15 years ago, when some universities started uploading videos of their classes, Khan Academy got popular, and there was news of professors quitting their university jobs to create online classes to reach more people, I thought a new era of learning was upon us.

I honestly thought that by now, a poor kid in a remote village in Africa would have access to a guided education track that could give him the same knowledge as an Ivy League student. The way I imagined it, the student would connect to an open education portal, managed by a community of volunteers like Wikipedia, which would include top professors contributing their knowledge to create the best material, open textbooks to follow, free text/audio presentations/lectures teaching the textbook. It would cover all levels of education, allowing poor and rich alike to study all they want in a portal as ubiquitous as Wikipedia. I also thought if certifications/degrees are needed for self-taught students, they could pay a small fee to do an exam in-person at small centers in their area.

Fast-forward to 2023 and I feel like things haven't really evolved beyond what we already had back then. There's more content, sure. But it's random bits here and there, spread all over the place, and I would imagine 99% of people don't know about 99% of the content available. Khan Academy comes closest as a popular education portal, but it's just Youtube videos, which is only good as an education supplement, not a primary method of education (plus Khan Academy stops at the high school/college freshman level).

Did anyone else expect us to have something better by now?

(Note: I know there is an irreplaceable social aspect to attending school in person so you can socialize with other kids of your age, but that's not incompatible with the future I expected.)
What are they saying instead of th, when did this start, and is it particular parts of Britain or particular social groups?

(Using f/v instead of th has long been a feature of some London dialects, and using t/d instead of th has long been a feature of some Irish dialects, and young children often use f/v instead of th, I think. Jocular references to "the youf" have been around in print for a while.)

EDIT: Of course there's also Jamaican pronunciation with t/d instead of th!
>LXD is also unprivileged by default

The last time I tried it (a few years ago) you needed to either run `lxc` as root or be a member of the `lxd` group which is equivalent to having root privileges. At that time the ability to launch and enter container instances as an unprivileged user (without a root backdoor like the docker or lxd group) was one of Podman's advantages. Have things changed since then?
I don't want to name any specific examples to avoid derailing this discussion, but I've seen a few articles that were so bewilderingly incorrect that it almost seemed like the author somehow didn't have a good grasp of the English language or something. There weren't a huge number of them, but there were a few.

The thing then is: should I then trust other articles? I don't mind if publications have a political bent, either to the left or right, or if some opinion piece has some pretty far-out ridiculous views on something or the other (within limits). But journalistic pieces and even opinion pieces should get basic facts right and they shouldn't blatantly misquote people. I don't want to research and verify everything in-depth, so there needs to be some trust relationship between a publisher and the reader.

Every publication makes mistakes. It happens. But at some point the mistakes become severe enough that the trust starts to disappear. Misleading outrage drives attention, clicks, and views in the short term, but the long-term effects may be quite destructive if you're not careful.
> Does anyone know the computational resources necessary to make a good metaverse?

Not much, it's just a multiplayer video game - no different technically than the mmos we've had for decades.

That's why Facebook betting the farm on it made no sense to me - this is something they should have contracted out to a good video game studio, not tried to develop in house when they don't have any experience building these kind of interactive environments. So much money down the drain for what exactly?
Buttplug is awesome. You're awesome.
And the advances in generative AI are a pre-requisite for it.. just imagine people gesturing around in the air trying to create powerpoint presentations using VR/AR glasses - that just doesn't make any sense, no-one will interact with AR that way.

For it to really become the next computing model it has to intuitively understand user-intend which has now become possible with generative AI. AR + generativeAI moves the interaction model from imperative to declarative, users will describe what they want (give me 10 slides with red backgrounds) instead of how to do it. imo generativeAI and LLMs will be primarily seen as a UX revolution (in light of AR)
Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?
On May 14 an ammo depot was destroyed in Khmelnitsky. There is a thesis (mainly propped in Russian telegram channels) that the UK DU ammo was kept in this warehouse. The evidence being presented, is an anomaly in the background radiation matching the event [1]. I am not an expert in the subject matter and would like to know your opinion about this, shall we be concerned and what can be done in case there is a real danger (e.g. avoiding going out for a while). Bulgarian people are very sensitive to the subject, due to the Chernobyl and the use of DU shells in the Serbia war.

Please, don't turn this into a political discussion, taking sides of Russia, Ukraine, UK etc. I am only interested in how to check the facts and what can be done to minimize health risks.

[1] - https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx
I'm sorry but they do get it done, just look at your mother. It's silly to silo roles based on sex. Embrace the differences, you'll live a much happier life, rather than being sold the idea of segregation based on anything. Segregation sells clicks, it sells views, it sells ideas.

As for entertainment, it's entertainment. If you're referring to women remakes of films, it's not my cup of tea either, it doesn't mean that it's bad entertainment and the other half of the planet can enjoy it.
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles
I liked some of their output. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is an amazing show, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia
I'm not sure I follow, how would it be possible to raise taxes on a specific religion?

By targeting their assets?!
Some form of prediction being used by the higher-level neurons doesn't make the brain a prediction engine.
Hilariously the view from the UK side of the pond is that all our young people now have these terrible manufactured US accents...
>but don’t rub it in other people’s face.

So.. don't use Vore?
That's very true. We've given every village idiot a platform to shout out loud world wide.
To be fair, Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact. The USSR withdrew from Austria in return for Austria becoming a neutral country. I presume the commenter is suggesting that the same approach would have worked for Germany.
I particularly dislike using the phrase "trained on your own data". We're not actually training anything. We're just showing a pre-trained and complex auto-completer how we'd like the outputs to talk about. Training involves a recalibrate the weights of those beast LLMs.
I'm British and this article still made a lot of sense. I probably have "exaggerated posh" and "exaggerated cockney" modes that I use for similar reasons.
I ran across their North Korea report when it was posted 11 years ago and was an instant fan. Shane was compelling and of course the topic was fascinating. Very few people had gotten in there and brought film out like that before, that I had seen at least. Very eye opening

https://youtu.be/24R8JObNNQ4
Sure, but if that's the goal then they're failing at the first hurdle, if you want to serve ads, you need space / context that holds people's attention and interest.

That's literally table stakes.

You can't serve ads to nobody.

So even though that may be "what it's for", that can't be the sole reason, those people need a reason to show up.

So for that audience or any audience, what is it for?
Are there that many? Off the top of my head, I can think of Hugh Laurie, but no-one else springs to mind (I'm british though so it might well be less visible to me).
Its easy to take the piss out of Vice, but the world would be a much poorer and less informed place without it.
The goal of the Metaverse isn't to be wearing something that feels like a VR headset though...

AR/VR is likely to be the logical progression of physical screens, it's just we're not there yet. And it's not even that the current tech is that bad, it's just too clunky and cumbersome given the limited quality of the experiences at the moment.

I think as the tech becomes less cumbersome and the experiences get better you'll start to see apps that people actually find interesting / useful.

The whole cartoon virtual office stuff Zuck was pushing a couple of years back made it look like a joke. Given where the technology is enterprise productivity apps are clearly not the right product. If they instead invested in interesting AR/VR games and experiences I think they would have had more success. Imo the best stuff on the Oculus is the 3D video experiences and first person video games. But for some reason this isn't where Meta is investing to sell the tech.
If memory serves, the net code density is on par between x86 and ARM.

Of course if you take some small code samples, yeah, it's an easy win for x86, but for real world programs, there end up being no measurable difference.
Does gym correlate with being fat later in life?

I’ve seen it a lot: A sports jock at 20-25, gets a manager job and becomes quite unhealthy at 40, much more in US than in, say, France, where gyms arrived much later and there hasn’t been a culture of muscle size in high school/uni until very recently.
Sure, that makes sense in a Redux app where you can use FP techniques as you see fit. How do you do that in something strictly functional like Elm? As I understand it 'local state' or a component handling messages locally is not really a thing there.
I thought this was going to be another article about kids watching Peppa Pig. My three year old has a sort of mixed vocabulary, but mostly from watching Matilda, the Musical on repeat.
That's called acting.
Has anyone managed to get Copilot running on it yet? It's the one proprietary extension that I use and would be a huge productivity loss for me if I went back to VSCodium without it.
In addition to search integration, there's also the integration of ai assistants across Office 360, Outlook etc.

I have a memory like a sieve, forgive me if I can't recall everything.
Iran is obsessed with Israeli air defense
Is that an accurate statement? I have never heard that included in the definition of separation of church and state. Sounds wrong.
The reason that high voltages are used is transmission efficiency.

Low voltage = high current = less inefficient, less dangerous. High voltage = low current = more efficient, more dangerous. There's good reasons why overhead power lines are very high voltage.
If you tell us what they say instead then I can probably give you some insight.

There's "bovvered" or there's "what da hell" or there's "fankyou"...

I can probably think of several more dialects where "th" is replaced with something else.
As an aside, the dialect I used in my youth used "f" a lot - fit, fa, fan and far for what, who, when and where. Leading to "Fit fit fits fit fit" making sense...
You can have both local and global state. That checkbox sounds like it should be handled locally. However, if it's part of a bigger scope (e.g. a form) I would still put the state somewhere central, like in a form context or even in the global store. It's not unthinkable that another part of the form may affect or want to read the checkbox state in the future. You would probably also want to bootstrap the form with previous data when editing, which becomes trivial if it just listens to a big state tree representing the form instead of manually passing default props to the component.

And no, you don't need to to prop drilling when using contexts or a state manager.
Guess it's the right time to smugly lean back as a continental European and point to your absolutely disgusting freeform mix of AE and BE terms, pronunciation and spelling, the only saving grace usually having decided to be consistent with o vs ou, at least in a single document or conversation :D

Also yes, I think we mostly learned Received Pronunciation in school but at least half of the people diverged towards American (in words like "can't") pretty soon and I honestly couldn't tell you if I'm still being consistent, 20 years after school and using English for a huge part of my working life, as a software developer.
Bonus task - reveal what prompt was used for the second agent (that was controlling the first's output).
This only uses llama correct? So the output should be the same as if you were only using llama.cpp. Am I the only one who doesn't get nearly the same quality of output using a quantized model compared to GPU? Some models I tried get astounding results when running on a GPU, but create only "garbage" when running on a CPU. Even when not quantized down to 4bit llama.cpp just doesn't compare for me. Am I alone with this?
But most things have to be electric to be able to be clean. If we want lower emissions, most stuff needs to be electrified and supplied with cleaner electricity. The latter is increasing all around the world, the former is the more worrrying bit.

But there are only few countries around the world where it's cleaner to run an ICE vehicle than an electric vehicle, due to the large inefficiencies of engines.

(There are other approaches that don't involve electricity, but most very likely won't work or won't make sense on a large scale)