skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it’s not spontaneous what they are doing, it requires planning and coordination in direct contrast to spontaneity with coworkers

There isn’t anything wrong with planning and coordinating, it is simply not spontaneous and has no similarity in energy expenditure and availability
Oooh it’s a high value, I thought it was a seed and that this was demonstrating a flaw in the algorithm.
I like Ableton, but the better way to get started making music is with your voice, singing with songs that you like. Sing the melody, and also the bass and harmony parts. If you have a phone you can use the voice memo app to do two-part stuff. If you want to move up to an instrument, my favorite is the melodica, a breath-operated keyboard that is very cheap (~ $20), sounds great, and teaches the notes of a piano, and requires no electrical power to operate. In fact for some things I think the melodica is better than a piano, since in some ways it's closer to an organ with the ability to maintain and vary the sound over time.
Previously discussed 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 (417 comments)
Good for hr employment prospects then
Just build a product that is even slightly reliant upon customer service. They won't know how to compete.
Marcan had some posts earlier this year about this from the work on linux for macbooks (and hints at it in the comments) - yes, it is useful to drive them that hard but can only be done for a short time, so the driver has to model that and cut back before it reaches damaging levels.
The way LCOE is calculated, it does not provide any indication of how stable the source it. Solar doesn't work at night, it has significant seasonal swings in output. Wind has similar ups and downs.

Stability of output is a very important (and valuable) characteristic of a power source, and it is completely ignored in the LCOE calculation.

One major thing going for nuclear is that is has a stable and consistent output. It's great that solar and wind beat all options on a $$ when you ignore time effects. But if stability is important (and many argue it is), then solar and wind rely on masses of storage, overprovisioning, and extensive upgrades to the transmission network, then let's bring those into the discussion and do a fair comparison.
> That's a very weak case when they could just send me a letter telling me how much they took and why, which would accomplish the same thing but better and without saddling me with a bunch of unnecessary labor and/or expense.

Furthermore, the amount of money that people pay is not very strongly correlated with the time or effort (or frustration) involved in filing the taxes.

In fact, there's often (though not always) a correlation in the other direction: most of the "optional" complexity in the tax code comes from the various tax deductions that people are able to file for, making it more effort and frustration not to overpay - this is essentially the opposite of what GP is saying would be the "steelman" argument.
Never underestimate how much companies gouge a captive audience.
Just whipped this up in Linqpad real quick to see how quickly random(random(...)) tends to converge to 0.

Fun lil script.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/519790546601115649/...

EDIT: Realized I cut off the full script. First two lines are:

var ran = new Random();
var counts = new Dictionary<int,int>();
The Chrome extension of ChatHub requested extensive permissions related to poe.com services
Show runners and writers giving a shit that someone on Reddit guessed their clever twist is the entire problem here. If zero people out of thousands or more actively speculating online thought of the thing you did, that's probably because it doesn't make sense. Adjusting to avoid anything that's been guessed almost necessarily means veering into bad writing.
The problem with this article is that it allows the word 'writing' to cover so much ground it means practically nothing; butter spread over too much toast. It's like talking about the "market for painters" and never clarifying if you mean the Home Depot kind of the Van Gogh kind (or for that matter, the guy operating the enamel sprayer at the Le Cruset factory.)

When 'writing' is understood in a more limited context, this article is fine. Clickbait writing is a terrible career, precisely because of the economics the author describes. Yet this says nothing about, say, doing longform journalism --- well, that's at terrible career as well, most likely, but probably for very different reasons than the ones this article plumbs: not because "writing doesn't scale" (the author bemoans not being able to produce more than five or six articles an hour!) but because _creating truth and beauty has always been a renumeratively thankless task._

While there are eras (the heyday of rock n roll for music; the heyday of Condé-Nast-style longform journalism) and people (Leonard Cohen; Ta-Nehisi Coates) that prove there are exceptions to the rule, it remains a truism that unregulated markets, in general, are bad at nurturing minds. This is why universities and musical conservatories were created in the first place. Get thee to a faculty!

It does not surprise me that the author wound up in fintech -- that sounds like a great fit, actually, for someone who explicitly experiences 'writing' (or what the author experiences as writing) as analogous to iron mining. No shade thrown either: that's a valuable mindset! But it's not the one that produces (sparkle emoji) Writing (sparkle emoji).
Consulting is always a way to go? Having a track record of success over a long period of time makes it easier for businesses to hire you. To be fair, around the 45 ish age, I would expect most folks to have evolved to a senior+ where it should be more about architecting systems and figuring out how to solve business problems then just executing on code.

I saw plenty of those folks 50+ at FANG-ish companies whilst working in the Bay but ofc that's just an anecdote.
More info for some of them that I gave incomplete info for above, after googling:

https://www.amazon.in/Sql-Professionals-Swapna-Kishore/dp/00...

https://www.amazon.in/Object-Primer-Agile-Model-Driven-Devel...

https://www.amazon.in/Unix-Shell-Programming-Stephen-Kochan/...

https://www.amazon.in/Designing-Object-Oriented-Software-Reb...

https://www.amazon.in/Object-Oriented-Analysis-Applications-...
Interestingly, a couple do show up in Urbandictionary [0][1], but the rest only show up in my post. Shockingly, Google has already indexed it.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flambitious

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grumplestilt...
Ask HN: How are LLM app developers passing the token cost to end users?
Curious on what pricing/business models people are using.
I'm curious how close to reality it is with it's answers. I may poke around some. I suspect it will reflect the general internet's level of comprehension on the topics.
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing!

Literally a no-fluff cheatsheet for drum patterns presented in the simplest to digest form possible, and without losing any important parts. Programming drum patterns has always been daunting to me, as it seemed like everyone just "knew" their patterns and how to play around them. Even though I knew that it wasn't the case, it was still difficult to approach. But with this boilerplate, it's like a massive blocker is just gone for me. And by going through even just a a portion of the patterns, I can easily see how one can acquire a sense for them and is able to come up with their own takes.
I mean, they're the "people people", and a good chunk of the job seems to be advertising the company itself to potential candidates. That alone attracts pretty much the opposite of what software development does. Plus, based on my (limited) experience, HR is one of the few roles where you're expected to drink more of the company kool-aid than most employees, and you must be visibly excited about it, whether you actually like it or not.
True enough. I wonder how many poems (or whatever) per hour Hallmark expects of its human workers to be close to production-ready pending editorial review?

Is 10 reasonable, with maybe 1 or 2 truly viable after further review? That would be roughly 5 mid-range laptops of my type churning them out for 8 hours a day. Maybe 2 if they're run 24/7. Forget about min/maxing price & efficiency & scaling, that's something an IT major-- not even Comp-Sci focused-- could setup right now fresh out of their graduation ceremony with a fairly small mixture of curiosity, ambition, and google (well, now, maybe Bing) searching.

There are countless boutique & small business marketing firms catering to local businesses that could have their "IT Person" spend a few days duct taping something together that could spit out enough material to winnow wheat from chaff to produce something better-- in the same period of time-- than human or AI could produce alone.

I have a focus in a comp-ling background (truly ancient by today's standards especially) enough that I see the best min/max of resources as being equivalent to-- in the the translation world-- as "computer-aided human translation" as a best practice. Much better than an average human alone, and far cheaper than the best possible that can be provided by a small dozens of humans.
> Second, why do I need to give my employer my SSN and several forms of ID?

This is almost certainly an immigration thing, not a tax thing. From I-9 is required to be completed by all employers. See: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9...
Active links from above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902890

https://figment.substack.com/p/e43612dc-a4f3-4b89-880a-821ad...
Show HN: Pagy, a website builder that works like Notion
Hi, today I launched Pagy, a website builder that works like Notion. It’s currently limited to one-page websites but I’m planning to add support for multiple pages soon.

I’ve been working on this for over a year and half on the side, and recently quit my job to go full-time on it.

The front-end is built on React and Next.js, running on Vercel, and I’m using Slate.js for the editor. The back-end is a Ruby on Rails API, running on Render.

Would love to hear your thoughts and happy to answer any questions.
As a former Florida mall rat, malls hated this and tried to end it. Sunset Place Mall had a policy for several years that any group larger than 4 that wasn't actively shopping had to leave. They even had cringey signs written in text-speak and emoticons, before emojis in text were common. I still remember " U grp 4+? $$ :) or go :("
That's not a problem with the approach, that's a problem with the specific naming.

An original request without an ID still has some kind of business relationship, even if only because it really did exist at one point in the past. So there's _some_ proper name out there, even if it's something like InternalRequest or InformalRequest or ObsoleteRequest or BeforeTheMergerRequest.
WFH is completely independent from the idea of moving to a suburb to afford a bigger house.

You're literally just making up an imaginary scenario of people moving just because they can WFH and then acting like that's "compensation" built into WFH.
A Painless Guide to CRC Error Detection Algorithms
Ivy Mike was also a much larger experimental apparatus. In addition to liquid deuterium cooling, it's possible the designers used other mechanisms to relax tolerances such as.

1. Using a much larger fission yield then necessary

2. Using a much larger/denser elispes than necessary to avoid manufacturing errors becoming problematic.

3. Using a much more massive reflector than necessary.

The goal of the Ivy Mike test was to validate the concept of the design - not necessarily to validate that it could be made into a practical bomb. I'm not sure if its ever been revealed wether the filler for the shell has any significance towards the final device.
Discussions of software and ethics are often painful, because the mere concept of ethics is so utterly foreign and unknown to software as an industry.

Ethics is not about right versus wrong. That is morality. So for this conversation it does not matter if a given software is evil, a given client is evil, or if anybody cares that any of these are evil. Evil is irrelevant and highly subjective.

Ethics is about conformance to rules that govern practice and behavior. In industries that observe ethics the violations of such rules don't just mean you get fired. It means you can never do that job for anybody ever again. The goal is to ensure that people practicing in a given field of work prioritize the quality of work above that of profit or employer demands.
Add the constraint that the word shouldn't be a portmanteau.
Double-screen ‘free’ TV will show you ads, even when not in use
Absolutely not. We have been led to the post-truth society trough and we have drunk thoroughly.
Or regulated areas like medical device design/firmware. You may end up in court and needing to defend yourself if you go along with business leaders who think ethics are just a blockade to profits.
The argument to random() in this case is the upper bound, so `random()` and `random(random())` are different.

See: https://processing.org/reference/random_.html
In the US, a protest is organized, but not violent and doesn’t disturb the peace.
I think the appeal in this NeRF tech in in the ability to use both real capture information, like traditional filmmaking, AND the ability to reframe, refocus, recompose images, like in 3d scenes.
..and you'll use 10% more electricity and 10% more water and 10% more fire/rescue calls and so on. You'll need 10% more buses. Your airport will be 10% busier. You will have 10% more people eating at restaurants...

And installing a water main in a rural area is a lot cheaper than installing one in downtown NYC... and your water main needs to be bigger now too.
The title here doesn't reflect the site's; I don't see anything about Spotify, iTunes, or YouTube there.
The reason it's counterintuitive is because the randomly chosen distance variable is 1 minus the nested randoms. Each random call becomes the upper bound of future random calls, so the more times you nest it, the closer to zero you're likely to be. Subtracting that from one puts you close to the unit circle.
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35909203 ("YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail", >550 comments)

Last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691 ("A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says", 541 comments)
I've seen it as "flunkie" (singular) as well, though it may not be standard.
you have never signed anything when starting a job?
Bob Lucas: Economist, Mentor, and Friend
Over 500 Pubs in England Share the Same Name – Here’s Why
You paint a figure from point A to point B. Then It just starts from point B to paint the same figure you painted (same speed and all). At same time it removes from A side what is repainting at B side.

If you manage to paint a figure that starts and ends at the same point, then it stays in place and seems to be a static draw.

If you just draw a straight line, it just starts "to move" forward.
Was really looking forward it :-/

The wording of the cancellation is just ... wierd. Just as if they have to say something, but don't really want to say anything at the same time. Such a wishy-washy bs.
could someone fill me in on what situation they are referring to?
It's really depressing that no Risc-V hardware currently in production has completely open-source firmware.

In this respect Risc-V is much, much more closed than Arm64, where we have the totally-blobless RK3399.

Ultimately Risc-V is about vendor-freedom at all costs, even at the cost of owner-freedom.
I assume it's a joke, but if not, consider that OS permissions mean little when the attack surface includes the AI talking authorized user or an admin into doing what the AI wants.
It might be nice if the IRS provided a summary of what you paid + your effective tax rate in a prominent place on the first page of your tax return. Maybe they could include last year's info for comparison.

If we ever reach a point where the IRS just tells you what they think you owe, they could include the same summary to placate the Norquist types (who undoubtedly will then start complaining about something else).
If my understanding of history is reliable, there are times when being in such a state can help your odds of survival, like if your country is occupied by an insane murdering tyrant. Your body wants to keep you alive much more than it wants to keep you happy.
Anyone have a background summary? Last I heard he kept a mattress in his office and asked people to lay on it, and he had a stupid neutral pronoun idea he was very insistent on using. Has something stranger come up?
My favorite example of it wasn't AI is that software to detect GPT flagged the US Constitution as almost certainly being AI.

https://stealthoptional.com/news/us-constitution-flagged-as-...

As long as that kind of egregious mistake is possible, we should look at such tools with suspicion.
So the definition is a meaningless sound.

When one plays EAs The Sims games it's tempting to try to hear meaning in the sounds constantly emitted by the virtual folks but it's just xzoubadoo.
They weren't designed for it.

I'm in the UK and there's reporting systems for- employers, pension schemes, savings accounts, charities and student loans- all to avoid most people having to fill in a tax return. Something like deducting sales tax would never be passed as a law because it wouldn't be accessible to most people.

As an analogy, we can say that laundry will never be automated because the washing machine can't separate whites from colours, doesn't apply stain remover, doesn't remove the delicates when it transfers to the dryer, etc. All technically correct, but people stopped caring. People have a financial and emotional attachment to their tax loopholes though.
Typically the older you get, and the more knowledgable you become, you step into different positions that tend to pay more (PM, Leadership). The more experienced individuals are just more beneficial in those roles, rather than strictly coding.
I'm inclined to disagree. I believe the progress in music software has opened up new avenues and genres, it hasn't stifled existing ones. Instrument players are going to keep playing their instruments, just that now it's easier than ever for them to make their own professional sounding recordings and songs. On the flipside you have more and more people getting into music without requiring any formal musical background.

I also think the older we get, the more we think most music sounds the same because music inherently changes over time, and will be different to what we grew up on, but we also become more distanced from the subcultures and communities pioneering modern music trends. A young person today probably thinks all rock music from the 50s-90s sounds the same
Will there be a limit on who can use it based on income discrimination? If so, it's a waste of time.
Maybe you could say that if it acted like redis pub/sub and nothing was stored.
Ames is not a gutted Midwestern town, though. College towns centered on large research universities benefit from a similar dynamic as the DMV.
>There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.

And there's a Gloucester[0] (pronounced 'Gloster' or, more likely in MA 'Glostah') there as well. And there's one[1] in Virgnia too, (Wikipedia says it's pronounced 'Gloster', but I don't know the VA accent well enough to know if that's locally correct).

There are other similar place names around the US, mostly on the eastern seaboard, for obvious reasons, as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia
Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet
>But these are edge cases that are almost always irrelevant.

Which is why authoritarians choose 'them' groups that are small and mostly powerless to demonize and exterminite first.
This is the answer. I think the author is confused, as most platforms do have the seed as the lone parameter to their Random function.
I'll happily buy this skill off you - it's still better than attempting to willpower myself into doing anything and failing.
I'm an adjunct professor (I still work full-time in the engineering field, but teach part-time) and I can tell you that ~75% of the professors don't want to teach as much as they want to do research. Most of them are only in academia to do research, but they are required to teach a certain number of classes.

At least at our University, it is mostly a thinktank. We publish research and attend symposiums for research and are mostly motivated by the research. The teaching is a byproduct.

This is probably not the case at community colleges and smaller colleges that are mostly pumping out degrees. But large universities are mostly motivated by research and getting published. That is largely what motivates high quality professors to work there.
Well written, fun post!

It reminded me of this classic:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

(There's also a TED talk, linked in the article)
Same, at first at least.
As someone who was verbally abused and publicly insulted by RMS, I'm okay with this.
I'd build a structure/robot that I'd attach to my keyboard, and it would press the keys.

I started to write how it would be possible to control for that, but it got too Orwellian/horrible and I stopped.
Speaking as someone whose age starts with a 5, I don't expect/agree older people should earn more based on being older. If they earn more by bringing more value to the company, that's welcome and fair on both sides, but if you're 53 and you don't bring more value in than someone who is 35, you shouldn't expect to take more home either.
There are, thankfully, more companies in the world than FAANG.
Since `random(x)` returns a random number in [0,x), it will always output a number that is less than `x` (the initial value of x is 1 in this case). Therefore, the outcome where repeated applications of `random(...)` to its own result has little shrinking effect is vanishingly small. It's the result of these repeated applications that is being subtracted from the length of the unit vector that is used to position each pixel. So the pixels naturally accumulate around that unit length. No broken crypto here.

It's sort of like asking, "What would happen if I multiply a bunch of numbers together that are guaranteed to be less than 1 (and even much less than 1 much of the time)?"