skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'll often see guys carrying 44 magnums in grizzly country, but the evidence seems to suggest that common 9mm rounds are effective enough. Even the lowly 22 rimfire is represented in the data with success against black bears (but not polar bears). I don't know anyone who would recommend 22 rimfire for deer let alone bears.

> Given this, I think it's reasonable to select the venerable 7.62x39. This is a common chambering for semi-automatic and even automatic rifles with high-capacity magazines, which would obviate the need to load each bullet individually. It also is easy to obtain armor-piercing rounds in this caliber if penetration is your concern. This is still a punishing round to fire a lot of, but with a modern recoil management system it's manageable.

So, the .308 is extremely common in the US and is somewhat similar to the 7.62x39. A .308 fires a typical round with, oh about 2500 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. Meanwhile a 44mag has maybe 1000 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. An Ak-47 is also 7.62x39 and has ~ 1500 ft-lbs of energy. That's a hell of a lot more grunt than a 44 magnum, any way you dice it.

At that point, skip the armor-piercing or FMJ and go hollow point. There's more than enough power in that round and the larger wound channel is probably a plus.
It reminded me of the same thing. I remember how back before Google dominated the market I used Metacrawler (which surprisingly still exists, but it's a completely different site now)
>We just witnessed both in less than a couple years.

If by "witnessed both" you mean "the tail end of the first period that had lasted for 3+ decades, and the beginning of the second which, who knows how long it will last", then yes.

But this kind of "both" is hardly reassuring for witnessing another round of good times anytime soon.
>Eh, how hard could that be?

Really hard.

>Other than that one little thing

Not a little thing at all, but it is being taken care of by competent architects, who have succeeded at making very competitive high performing micro-architectures in the past.

We know about Ventana Veyron, TBA before end of year, and Tenstorrent's Ascalon, TBA 2024, led by Wei-han Lien, previously lead architect of Apple M1.

Ascalon is 8-wide, but also has smaller siblings at lesser decoder width, to cover a range of uses. According to a recent presentation by Jim Keller, it is expected to be competitive with projected Zen5 (also TBA 2024) performance but using considerably less power.

There's also strong teams at Rivos, MIPS and SiFive working on very high performance cores, but we know less about these efforts.
A lot of the “so what?” comments are missing the point. For years, putting in the effort to get into top CS universities and then putting in the effort to graduate with good marks and an internship or two was understood as the path to a high paying CS career. Many of these students have put in incredible effort to get to this point with the expectation that they’ll have a good chance of landing a FAANG job from which to launch their career.

Now that they’ve arrived at graduation, the opportunities available to their older peers for the past decade are suddenly unavailable. Many of those students have spent the last 4-8 years of their lives focused on this goal, only to see the nature of the game change completely right before the finish line.

Those of us who have been around for a while know that this is only temporary and that a great CS education still opens doors to many good companies. However, it’s a shock to the system to be focused on a goal (and a specific paycheck) for years and then to discover it’s not available to you right at the end. Try to have some empathy for this turn of events.

I mentor in a program for college students and grads. A disproportionate number of our rather talented students are struggling to get any interviews at all, despite our resume reviews and coaching. They’ve gone from hoping to get a FAANG job to hoping they can get any interviews at all. It’s tough out there.
Not just PDFs with tables. It works on any semi-structured document with key-value pairs like invoices, purchase orders, receipts, tickets, forms, error messages, logs, etc.

The "Information Extraction from semistructured and unstructured documents" task is seeing a huge leap, just 3 years ago it was very tedious to train a model to solve a single use case. Now they all work.

But if you do make the effort to train a specialised model for a single document type, the narrow model surpasses GPT3.5 and 4.
No, the IRS doesn't pay anyone interest. You will owe them interest if you underpay, however.
> It was in fact Kepler who was much closer to a correct model, but he wasn’t a polemical of a writer so he didn’t have as much influence and legend as Galileo.

By the end of the 1600s most people were using Kepler, not necessarily because they thought it actually matched reality (there was no way to verify one way or the other), but rather because the math was easier: no more epicycles!

Copernicus/Galileo still needed them:

> The Copernican model replaced Ptolemy's equant circles with more epicycles. 1,500 years of Ptolemy's model help create a more accurate estimate of the planets motions for Copernicus.[24] This is the main reason that Copernicus' system had even more epicycles than Ptolemy's. The more epicycles proved to have more accurate measurements of how the planets were truly positioned, "although not enough to get excited about".[25]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_heliocentrism#Coper...
What is that you do not agree with in Absurdism?
None. I’m just pointing out the decision making isn’t surprising from a corporate perspective.
The trick is getting started pursuing a hobby because you feel some mission, and practicing every day despite losing the motivation.

Then, when the motivation returns, you'll have the skill to express what you really want to say.
Try going through poe.com. I got access right away.
Twilio Suppending Account for Fraud
Just created a Twilio account for the first time and upgraded it right away paying $20 when they sent me an email that they've suspended my account. In the email they explained I needed to send some information about my intended use case. I've replied explaining I would like to use it for phone number verification and account creation. It's been 3 hours and no response. I might be a little impatient but this seems a little ridiculous in the first place. I haven't even started to read the API docs and just within 10 minutes of creating an account I get suspended?? Has anybody had this happen to them before and know what to do? Is there another service that you've had good luck with? Would it be easier if I just built this service in-house (SMS and phone number validation)? I am a technical founder.
Facism. It isn't the same thing as corruption; it is the close friend that coaxes corruption out of the closet.
Lobbying is not election finance.

Lobbying is telling elected officials what you want the law to be. It costs money because employees get salaries, websites cost money to build, reports cost money to write and publish, TV ads cost money to make and run, etc.

None of that goes to the elected official or their election campaign. It’s paid to staff, consultants, and vendors.
I'm sorry; you don't get to say "developers are like this," and then backtrack and say "I didn't use the word "all", so obviously I'm only talking about the bad ones!" That's just one step above "Hey man, why are you so upset about being called bigoted slurs? I'm only joking!"

I also think you might need to look up what a Mary Sue actually is[0]. Hint: It's not "someone who reacts poorly to criticism," nor even "someone who wants unrealistic things for themselves." (It also has an extremely loaded and sexist history.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
No. That just isn't true. Only 8% of students end up with jobs 10 years after. There's an IEE Report on this specific issue. It's much worse for minorities where job placement is nearly guaranteed to not occur. It's across almost all universities.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stem-education-in-the-us-is-more-o...
A quick search of morals vs ethics:

First result claims morals are your sense of right and wrong, ethics are the good and evil agreed upon by your community. [1]

Second and third results claim “morals” and “ethics” are used interchangeably. The second says even philosophers of ethicists consider them interchangeable. Both of them then add that if a distinction is to be drawn, they agree with the first. [2][3]

The fourth result says the opposite, that ethics is an “individual assessment” while morality is an “intersubjective community” evaluation.

I don’t think the terms are as cleanly separated as your comment suggests. I also firmly disagree with this other claim that the “mere concept of ethics is utterly foreign and unknown” to software as an industry.

1: https://www.verywellmind.com/morality-vs-ethics-what-s-the-d...

2: https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-betwee...

3: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_Morals

4: https://theconversation.com/amp/you-say-morals-i-say-ethics-...
It looks great, but also like it might need to mature a bit before it's usable for less advanced users like myself. Do you have an RSS feed or newsletter I can subscribe to so I'm reminded some time from now to check it out again?
As described in the Devil manual, you can make the semicolon the active key instead of the comma--you don't even have to leave the home row to trigger commands.
> Stallman made some remarks defending Marvin Minsky (very poorly) from victims' allegations that he abused young girls on Epstein's island.

He basically said that the victims were harmed, that they were forced to have sex, but that probably Epstein also forced them to make sure it's not known, otherwise who would agree to such a relationship, that would be basically rape? Taking into account how easy is to accuse people and that Minsky had died 3 years earlier, Stallman just said what he thought of the situation and witch-hunting. Not to mention that the victim just said that Epstein asked her to have sex with Minsky but there is no mention that it actually happened - at least his wife denies this happened.

But this was misrepresented in the media and even in headlines of major papers so I don't think the harm can be ever repaired.
WebGPU Survey Results
I suspect the issue is that it said "western Midwestern" which is meaningless. Had the prompt just said Midwestern, it may have found it to be true.
> Before the radio a piano was a household staple

Uh, maybe for wealthier households. Definitely not the case for people who grew up a bit poorer than average. Piano upkeep is not a trivial expense!
This person tells the truth. If you’re procrastinating a task so hard that it has entered the realm of the ridiculous, then perhaps you’re not cut out for it. Give up and find something that’s more fun.

Unless you’re living in the third world, you won’t die for lack of perseverance at some dull task. You might lose your job or fail at school, but you won’t starve. That’s an embarrassingly rich situation to be in. Take advantage of it, is my suggestion.
Also https://poe.com/Claude-instant-100k
“Only” and “massively” are in conflict here. The massive effect of an unexpected event is how we got to this exceptional situation.
Giving reasons has fallen out of vogue, we're in the era of post-rationality.
I laughed a bit at "doughball - ball of dough".
Even people who get the jobs suffer from them. I've met a lot of journalists and I live in fantasy land compared to them. In exchange for a small amount of meaning, they take on a lot of extra suffering.
> cost more in health care
My only health care needs in the past 30 years have been a couple of dental cleanings per year.

The answer here, I feel, is to slowly phase recipients to medicare to offset some
of the costs.

Even better if medicare were for all; or outright remove the private sector and the employer from paying for our health insurance.
Yeah totally what worked best for me was leaving my phone in my trucks glovebox most the day, not having the phone even nearby seemed to make a big difference for me. I wasn't a huge phone user but even so the urge to just check if I had a notification or something was there even though I rarely had any. Now I try to compartmentalize my time better and at least for me it made a huge difference.
Sorry, i forgot the "/s"

I know it is hard, which is why i am skeptical. XYZ is "working on" fast cores is years to decades away from "Server with XYZ cores now available to buy from vendor ABC"
Clang has had it as an extension for a long time
That exists, IPFS
> It is also almost verbatim what I was taught in an Ohio school in the 90s.

"History changes every day." — Frank Herbert

I bet you were also taught in science class that Pluto was a planet. :)
Crikey - Law is even more fraught with risk on there being a positive outcome (Weirdly, there's an excess of Lawyers and Accountants in most jurisdictions, and a hang of a lot of graduates end up on minimum wage, if they get to practice at all)

The thing about CS, and ENG in general, is that it's less about who you know and more about what you know, which is a real leveller.

Right now, though, there's a pull back from the FAANGs and other big tech, which IMO is a measure of the cost of/appetite for risk at the moment (read: interest rates) as well as a well publicised miss or two (Twitter, Facebook's Metaverse).

Is it all over for Big Tech? Really hard to say, dot com bubble didn't end it. Outsourcing never eventuated (despite what recruiters are saying about remote workers having to reduce their salary expectations, because of the competition from overseas, the truth is that companies that take their ENG over seas end up paying twice as much to clean it back up when they eventually have to bring it back in house)
I been really fascinated watching people who have never been through the full cycle before coming to terms with the reality that there are cycles to these things.

I have a great amount of sympathy for them, really. It has to be a huge shock. But on the other hand, did everyone think that the world had stopped working in the way it always has?
True most of the time, but interestingly enough, this is not the case in China (even pre-COVID). The Tsinghua University gate had serious guards - you absolutely could not proceed onto campus without the proper authorization.
Apparently the tear tugging emotional appeal of this nurse is so inconsequential it wasn’t deemed worthy including in the article text, but indeed they found a nurse issuing it. She felt this, she felt that. I don’t think a hospital is the right place of work if you can’t stand the risks of being close to sick people and I doubt there would be any amount of money that would have ameliorated the risk. But hey, you can and should always try for more! Shame the executives are more effective at that and I do agree that a management course is not for everyone, case in point.
What's up with catastrophizing an obvious joke?

See, if you'd intellectually engage in good faith, you'd understand the point that one of few (if not the only) reliable ways to tell apart AI from humans in the future would be human shortcomings.

A misguided offense extrapolated into pseudo-intellectual tone policing is a beautiful example of that, so you pass.
I don't know if rms knew Cody Wilson personally and respected him or not, but he doesn't make that claim in his text: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_Septe...
VR chat is also huge right now
It's worth it to pay $60 for a Reaper license after using the trial version. The amount you get for what you pay is astounding.
Docs, and write short articles that link to them from the blog.
Unleash the Power of Voice: Why You Should Attend the Outlier Podcast Festival
Yes I would love to be empathetic, but I also can't also help feel some amount of bitter sweetness because I've seen some HORRIFIC behavior resulting from the way the major has been gamed and milked as students from top universities saturated the game with min-maxing (moreso at Berkeley than Stanford just because of population and economics involved). Yes I know this existed before and this is nothing new, and arguably as a microcosm it accurately reflects the industry experience itself.

But gosh darn it, this is computer science we're talking about, in college no less! Where hath the passion gone?! I apologize for the soapbox.
I find a few things about Cedar exciting. The formal verification and automated reasoning stuff sound great!

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much of a story here to solve authz-aware searching/listing for object/row level access. Since Cedar/AVP doesn't come with an entity store, it seems I'd have to send my entire database(s) on each call so that the policies have the right data to evaluate. If that's true, then it seems like this would be only be useful on small data sets.

I'm struggling to come up with use cases for "fine-grained permissions and authorization" (what AVP bills itself as) that don't involve some sort of listing or searching of things.
This is actually really impressive. Extrapolate this 12 months...
Eh, good timing. I just migrated my config to evil.

I gave the Emacs keybinds a year long chance, got a split keyboard with Emacs-friendly custom keymap (Alt under my left thumb, Ctrl under my right thumb) and life was pretty good, but I can now say that vim editing is hands down better than any Emacs incantation.

That said, vim+Emacs together are even better than each in isolation. Nothing beats modal editing, with access to C-a, C-e, and other Emacs movement keys to be used in INSERT mode. The default evil config should promote this hybrid approach, rather than trying to turn Emacs into vim.

Devil mode looks interesting, but still not as good as a true modal experience.
Same, but it worked for me. Odd that it's quite so unpredictable, bit concerning in terms of use.
Interesting. I thought most places would normally only take juniors or seniors for interns anyways.

"'Yeah,' she said tentatively, in the voice of somebody who had never considered pursuing a career as unglamorous – as unsparkly! – as security."

Hahaha I'm our team's security champion (so the worst of both worlds). This made me laugh.
Alright, I tried it in the terminal and the numbers confirmed my earlier math. .5->.25->.125 mean as N->infinity. I chained the python uniform function like the above code in the originally linked post does and averaged the results.

The snark to me and the other commenters is a bit unnecessary in either case. I'm not really sure where you're getting a natural log or an iterated product of random variables in this instance.

Could you perhaps show where you're transforming uniform(uniform(uniform(uniform(0, 1)))) into the math you're showing above? I'm trying to follow along here but am having difficulty connecting your line of reasoning to the problem at hand.
I like the new spirit of bipartisanship, where each side would rather blow up the economy than negotiate or compromise.

They've even spent months talking about how bad it will be, but it it will actually be that bad, why won't they budge?
Right. I was assuming most people would choose the lower of whatever the IRS said or their calculations showed. And that's fine, presumably that would be taken into account on the government side in order to get enough money.
Now do Linear A.
The whole of "Nice White Parents" was laser focused on the narrow obsessions of the French expat enclave in Cobble Hill[1] and their awkward interactions with the residents of the Gowanus Houses during a short period when the aforementioned French parents were pushing for a French immersion program in the neighborhood school. But the whole thing is presented as though it represents national problems and trends. It was ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_Hill,_Brooklyn

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gowanus+Houses/@40.6837838...
Do you honestly think industrial capital owners are working more than landlords? Landlords hire people to do maintenance, industrial capital owners hire people to assemble or fabricate or whatnot
Twilio is popular with legal and illegal uses. Sms and phone sending requires a lot of trust at etablished cpmpanies since it requires explicit contracts between each company for routing calls.
The FBI got caught doing something kind of similar in a pretty hilarious way (the full story is nuts) using a device called a "stingray" - https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/surreal-stingra...

Although in this case, they were disguising themselves as a cell tower and intercepting traffic that way.
Fear Setting: Existential Risks
Every other time I switch back to chatGPT tab it requires re-login. That’s a bad UX.

Also, there is no way to search the history. The sidebar only shows titles, not contents. I have to click each one to see what’s inside. I can’t scroll much because it loads more only when I click. I ended up exporting the conversations and converting JSON to txt.

Another issue: editing a long past message makes it scroll up and hide the cursor if the message is longer than one screen. I have to type in another editor and then copy&paste the whole text. The typing experience is poor.
Who gets to define “evil”? What’s one man’s trash… I’m all for creating a cause but we can do better than “good” vs “evil”.
Relative to what you can buy from other more reputable brands for a similar price point, it's actually not great. Nib usually needs work due to poor QC, they creak, and they're just generally a lacking experience. I'm also not endorsing spending a grand on a mass-produced pen, but there's a sensible middle ground of not buying junk nor overpaying for something that doesn't enhance your writing experience. Equally, price isn't a reliable indicator of quality.
I don't know that ChatGPT would be very successful at it, but I could imagine a multimodal LLM being extremely useful. There are tens of thousands of untranslated tablets.
Here is a nice interepretation on Darth Vader -> Anakin Skywalker transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtdJuNn1oA
Sometimes (not sure if this what happened here) an organization that works well oversells growth to its investors, and the only way to reach growth is to juice metrics in the most mechanical way possible, destroying what made the organization add value in the first place.
We should shun bilionaire bill because of the irreparable damage he's done to computing...
no. you still need to bring your own api key for that.
If we’re talking about people with the “odd” habit of working away from home, they represent the great majority of humanity.

One has to be several layers deep in the bubble to think otherwise.
Well that's nice to know. Thanks for taking time to respond. The interest of repairability is there parts list? Will replacement parts be available to the end user?
Drink... your... Ovaltine?
>I will work for fair wages; honorably guarding my reputation and my colleagues in our work practices, while respecting the intellectual contributions of others.

What does this mean? What's an example of an unfair wage?
> Would it be easier if I just built this service in-house (SMS and phone number validation)?

If you have to ask, probably not.

Ultimately when you’re dealing with large companies like this, you’re constantly being watched by algorithms to see if you’re doing anything remotely spammy. They suspend first, ask questions later. This is not a Twilio-specific policy; you’ll see it with payment processors, social media services, and more. If Twilio doesn’t act fast to prevent potential spammers, the FCC would get really stern with them, so they have to play it safe, even at the risk of annoying their paying customers.

Three hours is also not that much time when it comes to this sort of thing; some platforms take a few days, since humans need to look over what you submit.
When someday arrives, I'm going to be really friggin' busy