skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just say that I've been told by women that they found certain aspects of the sequels really distasteful to the point that they couldn't appreciate them as a whole.
Where do people look for/find technical writers these days?

Companies seem more eager to hire for developer advocates than technical writers these days
I would argue that cars today are perhaps less reliable than those made 12.5 years ago.

The proliferation of "lifetime" non-serviceable CVTs and digitally controlled everything will probably result in a lot more premature deaths of vehicles.
Isn't laravel based on symphony components?
While I can understand using org-mode, why on earth would anyone use Texinfo in 2023? It's so thoroughly obsolete, and completely eclipsed by HTML. The "TeX" part is also thoroughly limited in its capabilities. It's always been a somewhat odd format, being both more structured than troff/nroff, but at the same time being vastly more limited in features, and is something of a subset of both TeX and HTML while excelling at neither. It's table and figure support is not at all great, and its graphics capabilities are very limited. If you absolutely have to live within Emacs, then maybe "because it's there" is sufficient justification, but I doubt this applies to most people.
> many of the really successful countries (Russia, Hungary, Romania, Iran) aren't very rich

While the US could use (homebuilt) computers to solve engineering issues, the Russians had to resort to manual calculations. The eastern block always lagged behind in terms of computing.

> Does that happen?

All the time.

Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones bennefiting from a brain drain of americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an "AI Superpower" and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreing talent. I recall someone pitching the "Silicon Roundabout" and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.

It's interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were.

The top destination for top tier UK scientists and researchers is the US. [0]

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
If it is just about accusations, maybe the professor should be failed for using some automated tool for grading here (Who knows if he used ChatGPT or similar)
The average new car price is $48k now: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43611570/average-new-car-...

Where are people going to find a $30k or less new car? Lol they don't exist.

Nothing that can drive reliably is under $10k used too.

Be as smug as you want but at the end of the day if minimum wage earners can't get affordable transportation then none of the treats you depend on and demand every day, like your coffee barista or your overpriced sandwiches, or your dog walker, etc. will be available.
Sure. In fact, the similarities between Chinese bluster over Taiwan and Russian bluster-until-it-wasn't over Ukraine worry me a lot.

All I'm saying is, this (verbal) response by China isn't much in the way of news.
Go bears
On the countryside EVs are no viable solution and totally impractical. People stick therefore to their ICEs and wait for a sane solution.

Prices rose and people cant afford.

My two explanations.
These features that will be built into the operating system are things that otherwise would have cost someone hundreds to thousands of dollars before... if they even existed at all.

I love that Apple chooses to invest in these areas of accessibility that are extremely difficult to make sustainable businesses out of without charging users exorbitant sums.
Largely due to multiple expansion.

So you’re betting on the 30 PE expanding to 40, and so on. AAPL had a PE of around 10 a few times in the 2010s, so 300% of the return since then has been multiple expansion, rather than earnings growth.

Returns from multiple expansion are obviously limited the higher the multiple gets.

3% return/year is the implied return if the multiple and earnings stay the same in perpetuity. The multiple can also just as easily go down, keep in mind. Historically, elevated valuation multiples regress to the mean, even if it takes years to do so
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
That's really cool to see, thanks for showing it to us.

Feedback-wise...I think I vote for page loads and URLs over animated scroll-downs if that's ever up for a vote. :-)

It's always nice to have new perspectives on the news for sure. Way to go!
We aren’t talking about WFH vs working in the office. We are talking about the argument made that companies should reimburse employees for any time spent commuting.
Personally, I don't trust corporations.

How do you eat?
Google has the absolute worst ARM silicon money can buy (Tensor G2), go look at the benchmarks it's comical they would charge $1800 for a phone with it.
Interesting to think about the "bus factor" of this segment of the semiconductor industry.
What are you using it for, out of curiosity?

I am not at all saying this is you, to be clear, but one problem I have had in the past looking for Erlang jobs is that occasionally you find people who view it as some kind of magic sauce, or "I'm curious to see what it's like".

In the former case, they think just writing their code in Erlang is going to give it magic scaling powers. This is probably less common these days, but I recall a while back when Erlang first got a bit of hype, there were people who weren't thinking very clearly about it.

In the latter case, sometimes it's not the best tool for the job but someone wanted to learn the intriguing new thing.

Edit: and of course there are great use cases for it. See my other comment elsewhere on a system where it was a great fit. I'm always curious to see where others are using it successfully.
How does that relate? Your config parser can disregard commments.
The chicken nugget and McChicken batter are different from when I worked at McDonald's as a kid. Naturally it was better back then...
There is no way to know for sure that a Byzantine system is actually operating in a way that replicated copies of your data are actually safely written. Both due to the exact same issue of the drives themselves, and also that Byzantine system software is liable to have a variety of bugs and invalid states that will keep it operating as normal, even though the nodes are actually in a fault mode. (the problem is twofold: 1) the node and/or system not refusing writes when in a fault state, 2) the system not actually knowing that it's in a fault state) Even if you do all kinds of Jepsen simulation and mathematical proofs of the software (including the operating system!), you still can't trust the drives.

I think the only way to solve the problem is new storage firmware and hardware that is open and guarantees a write is done. I'm sure some companies may claim such functionality but we need an open source architecture and code to be sure.

In the meantime I think synchronous writes to multiple nodes is the safest option. Avoids complexity and bugs in fancy software, and the hardware is what it is.
This needs regulation before we end up creating another net negative piece of tech that we seem to have done in the past decade quite often.
Imgur has had degraded performance for the last four days
What does the Nissan Maxima retail for right now? Regional price differences means my looking up that information is meaningless, but I'm seeing more than $30k.
Absolutely. If having hard boundaries work for you, that's totally what you should do.
Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35949771
As I interpret the sentence: the author expects the model to not be competitive with GPT[-4].
That doesn't sound lazy. That sounds like not wanting to replace perfectly good equipment.
I started learning Live after applying for a job interview at Ableton. At that point I had only known what Live was but I never touched it and never had an interest in music making. I downloaded the trial version and after just a couple of hours familiarizing myself with it, I was addicted. I never got the job, but I still open up Live when I'm bored to tinker around.

Here's what stands out to me:

- Session view is great for experimenting with different arrangements and samples using the same processing chain without having to scroll through a huge timeline of different ideas. You can then go to arrangement view to work on your final arrangement.

- Almost everything that you create is reusable. You can string together an instrument and/or a bunch of effects, group them together, map each their controls to a unified (and smaller) set of controls, and now you have a new instrument that you can drag and drop later on. You can then chain and group those together as well.

- Max4Live is to plugins as Flash was to games. There are a ton of weird and experimental M4L devices out there available for free or for a very small price.

There are some negatives though:

- As others have mentioned, it is pricey, $750 as of today if you want the complete version with all their instruments and effects.

- Bouncing (re-recording) to a new track or to a file is a bit convoluted. Furthermore, bounced samples are encrypted in Ableton's proprietary format which means you can't use samples that YOU created in other plugins easily. There are a few workarounds that I found but it's just a frustrating experience. This also applies to any sample packs that come with Live or from Ableton's shop, you can't use them outside of Live's inbuilt devices or M4L devices. Again, there are workarounds but it's frustrating and there's probably something in the fine print against it.

- No facilities for batch exporting sample slices. Say you want to use Live to process some sound effects and export them to individual files, well you can't do that easily in Live. There's a paid M4L device out there that helps with this but I just use Reaper to do this now.
Dystopian is when leaders exert a frightening level of control and surveillance over ordinary people and it becomes normalized to the extent that you're told that you should shrug it off because "somebody else out there has it worse".
Do you think Apple will stop using TSMC sometime in the future? Berkshire does own 1/20th of Apple, and I wonder if sentiment from one of their largest investors that TSMC is not a safe investment might sway them working with other chip manufacturers instead. Or maybe even furthering Apple's vertical integration by having them make the chips too (we're talking far, far future here, obviously they can't set up chip manufacturing within even a decade)
I've never heard of anyone having to surrender their hardware, I assume it's a non issue for the vast majority of people.
That would be my observation too. Including far less serviceable. Even replacing a broken backlight bulb needs a service station these days.
Can you elaborate on which problems you think Erlang is really good for, and which ones it's less good for?
Indeed. Reading these replies I can see that the real issue is one of adverbs.
I've posted before about my 35 year old Suburban that's still on the road, still my daily driver. But after so many years of use, it is time to turn it into a part time fun-mobile instead of the grocery getter. It needs a lot of work.

These days I could afford a $500/mo car payment for a few years, but I didn't do that. I am buying a used car for $2500, and it's a 2005. It also needs a little work, but they all do at that age. I just don't see the utility in buying new cars.

That being said, every used car was once somebody's new car.
Reminds me of SBF calling for crypto regulations while running FTX. Being seen as friendly to regulations is great for optics compared to being belligerently anti-regulation. You can appear responsible and benevolent, and get more opportunity to weaken regulation by controlling more of the narrative. And hey, if you get end up getting some regulatory capture making competition harder, that's a great benefit too.

OpenAI != FTX, just meaning to say calling for regulation isn't an indication of good intentions, despite sounding like it.
...which as a consequence would make it costly and difficult for new AI startups to enter the market.

Everyone here on HN can see that.

Shame on Sam for doing this.
You can't necessarily estimate this given only the average.
And horsepower

https://archive.ph/DNTsx/62972222ee75d8e11096ec4ae083d37d85b...
I'm sure the professor is falling back on some sort of honor code chicanery where you are required to report cheating of fellow classmates if you are aware of cheating.
That experience likely isn’t transferable to Siri, that has deeper problems. People, me included, are reporting their problems with Siri, e.g. setting it to transcribing what they and Siri says as text on the screen, and then are able to show that given input as “Please add milk to the shopping list” results in Siri responding “I do not understand what speaker you refer to.”, in writing.

Likely problems like these could be overcome, but preparing better input would probably not address the root cause of the problems with Siri.
Right, I’m surprised to see so few engaging at the level of the actual logic the proponents have.

Many people on HN seem to disagree with the premise: they believe that AI is not dangerous now and also won’t be in the future. Or, still believe that AGI is a lifetime or more away.
Very interesting! So what I’m wondering is this: Can you train a small model on this “child dataset“. And then, once it speaks fluently in this simple language, add new layers on top of it, and, freezing the rest of the model, train those on a corpus of more complex material.
Because even industrial pollution at a modern scale is small potatoes compared to the possible consequences of honest-to-god intentional geoengineering. The risks here are in a completely different league.

We recently found out that the Amazon rain forest depends on winds that carry nutrients from the Bodele depression [1]. The Amazon rainforest is nutrient limited by the phosphorus it gets from the other side of the planet. Obviously the depression is way above sea level and isn’t at risk from artificial flooding in the northern sahara, but that should illustrate the scale of the consequences we’re dealing with: if we fuck up even a little bit, it could mean ecosystem collapse in the Mediterranean or beyond.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/7279/bodele-depress...
Been saying this for a while. There are very simple and effective ways to teach your class that can't be cheated with AI. These professors are simply lazy and uncreative.
srslack above was making technical claims why LLMs can't be "generalized and adaptable intelligence". To make such statements, it surely helps if you are a technical expert at building LLMs.
I did take note everyday at 8pm, now around 12pm since I work later. It makes my day much clearer and knowing exactly what to do the next day is important and much more productive.
I often do 2 most important things:
1. Review my day, what did I do well, what not so well and how to improve.
2. What to do next days, important tasks which will make me close to my goals.
Apple has always had a multi supplier strategy. They also used Samsung at 1 point (and still do). It's whatever works at Apple so no difference. They'd eagerly switch as needed.
It’s not entirely surprising; and at the consumer level we can expect to experience compensatory responses from manufacturers and their entire ecosystem in the form of more subscription models for vehicle functionality, higher parts prices, service up-selling, and all forms of rent-seeking.
When you are coding a dynamic library, and providing consistent ABI between versions is a thing, you could appreciate this.

Perhaps you may also appreciate PImpl/D_PTR etc.
I bet OpenAI is using MS connections and money for lobbying, so it's basically MS again.
I have worked on a conservation project that was trialing out some pesticides for use on stinknet.

Some points people are missing is that

1. the Sonoran desert is not a barren ecosystem. It is the most biodiverse desert in the world it does not need to have its soil “fixed” it is doing fine.

2. the actual problem with this plant is how fast it grows. Almost all ecosystems are subject to wildfire at some point and it matters how frequently these wildfires hit. The Sonoran desert is not build for frequent and intense fires and with stinknet growing and dying and building up lots of flammable material the fires are happening much more frequently and are much hotter. This is killing native animals and cactuses that are not adapted to these frequent fires.

The desert is not dead.
Big target vs small target. Makes sense to me
The threads show that ChatGPT claims to have written anything if you ask it to. So it really doesn't matter what the student submits, ChatGPT will claim it?
How many miles on that Suburban?

Was it kept in a garage?

What climate did it live in?
Absolutely. Will never come true for EVs even after inflation adapted
I started at this perspective, but nobody could agree on the definition of the A, or the I; and also the G. So it wasn't a really rigorous technical term to begin with.

Now that it's been corraled by sci-fi and marketers, we are free to come up with new metaphors for algorithms that reliably replace human effort. Metaphors which don't smuggle in all our ignorance about intelligence and personhood. I ended up feeling pretty happy about that.
Google has a consumer loyalty problem with their Pixel phones
New AI advancements drive Meta’s ads system performance and efficiency
Anytime you see something unnecessarily and deliberately non-specific in a headline it's always some alarmist bullshit. "Famous actor is arrested for drunk driving" and they had one role in TV twenty years ago. "This everyday snack leads to kidney stones" and it's fish-butthole-flavored chips that were produced in Japan for six weeks in 1998.
> Is it possible that occasionally punishing an honest mistake or absence of forethought may be the price we have to pay to prevent poisoning by diffusion of sociopathy?

It's not even about punishing. If you cause a car or home accident because of a mistake, your insurance rates will go up, and if the damage exceeds your coverage, you'll pay out of pocket. There's nothing punitive about it, you're just responsible because of fault.

That shouldn't feel wrong. It should evoke pity, but not a feeling of wrongness.

For the heirs of the stockholders of these polluting companies we need a special tax to clean up the "accidents" of those companies. These taxes could be limited to the maximum value of the company, or better yet the proportion of the total wealth of the heirs that the company stock represented at the time they sold or dissolved the company. That's still limiting liability, but in the original sense of the term (clawback of sold and wipeout of retained shares).

For the heirs of anyone who made a purposeful decision to pollute despite knowing the harms, then the limited liability should be pierced to allow taxation of the fraction of the total wealth of the heirs that derive from the polluter.
The Java infestation is real.
Part of me thinking that "cash for clunkers" in 2009 got rid of over 600,000 cars/light trucks. If it wasn't for that, the average age would be even higher?
We absolutely love this book. Thank you for your work on this! My wife has been a user of open-source projects for a long time, but this book was the first time that she made me sit down and teach her about pull requests, because she wanted to contribute back to this one.

We love the idea of managing and distributing a book through source control like this. Brilliant execution, and fantastic content!
Good luck getting Putin or Kim Jong Un to obtain that license.
What do you think is going to happen if farmers start selling their land for building residences and offices? where do you think your food is going to come from? Corporate farms? do you seriously think corporate farms are going to be carrying more for the environment than farming families?
That webpage> With blockchain-enabled mobility, all providers and consumers can equally participate in a transportation system, setting the terms, conditions and pricing they choose.

I'll wait and see before concluding that that's happening...
>or buy something sub $5k.

And spend shitton on regular repairs :)

Cars are very efficient when it comes to keeping the poor - poor.
That's simply untrue. Here are several recently published articles which use ilk in a neutral or positive context:

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services...

https://writingillini.com/2023/05/16/illinois-basketball-ill...

https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-742911
> sourced from demonic inspiration.

Actually writing demonic technical debt on purpose in one sitting would be quite an accomplishment too.
Not that I support AI regulations, but reading a book is a higher barrier to entry than asking a chat assistant to do immoral things.
These things are the bane of my existence with my Mom's iphone. She is blind but is not able to use all the swiping/tapping features of Voiceover due to a tremor. She mostly uses the phone with Siri only and that works well enough until a popup decides to appear.
This is dumb as fuck.

The said "teacher" should know that ChatGPT will give lots of false positives.
It's still done. JavaFX does dirty region tracking for example, e.g. here

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/modules/javafx.gr...

and that's a toolkit that's still relatively modern (it was ahead of its time). For example the UI thread is separated from the rendering thread, so one core can be computing the layout/processing events/doing animations for one frame whilst another core renders another frame to a GL/D3D command stream.
Show HN: I Built a Google Fonts Explorer
I love finding new fonts and wanted a tool that could quickly view fonts available from Google and save my favorites!

I'd love any feedback on this.
>there is no space in the city to build more

That's what all NIMBYs parrot. Berlin population only grew by ~250k people ... since 1990, and back then Berlin was basically depopulated. It's also one of the least dense capitals in Europe today, Berlin is not Amsterdam to not have any space.

Saying "there's no more space" doesn't pass the smell test. There's more than enough space but there's too much real estate speculation going on to jack up the prices because certain interest groups need to make money from it.

>most people do not want to move until the area is sufficiently developed, and there are local jobs too

Once that area is sufficiently developed it's too late to move because you'll already be priced out. If you want to live somewhere you need to move thee before it becomes "cool" and "hip".
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A basic resume to help you present your skills and work experience in a very structured, concise way and prevent you from being screened out during that initial round.
BY ASKING CHATGTP IF IT'S CHATGTP GENERATED -_-

wtf. even the dedicated detectors don't work well.
Indestructible cars contain destructible people. I don't want to be my car's shock absorber.
The beauty of the US dollar is it's always worth a US dollar... It's strength is a measure of much foreigners trust the US economy and it's political and judicial system. What drives the demand for the dollar is the will of people to invest money in American securities and on the American capital market. I don't see it ending anytime soon.

Chinese investors invest on the Chinese market in Yuans. Rich Chinese investors invest on the US market with US dollars.
I would say water is a solvent rather than a toxin. The water we consume is just not pure water and has lots of minerals in it already diluting the solvency (?is this a real word) of the water. Truly pure water will strip the minerals right out of your hair: https://www.businessinsider.com/super-kamiokande-neutrino-de...