skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me that a good standardized test score is one of the only things that someone with a lot of motivation and talent, but very few resources, can use to distinguish themselves.

That's the way poor immigrant Asian kids and rural whites did it a generation ago. Nowadays, CRT activists are trying to get "holistic" criterions to be used by admission committee. [0] You guessed it, they also argue that the SAT should be de-emphasized.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harberson-asian-...
sorry but you're going on a really off-topic rant.
Did the Astros consult you during their sign stealing scheme?
> The perspective of Canada is useful here. Canada is culturally dominated by the US, with a 10x larger population only an hour’s drive from the majority of the Canadian population. Canadians are generally supportive of some level of government protection for the fragile and tiny Canadian cultural industry (music, the press, TV, and film).

Like with anything "cultural", this depends on who you ask. I'm Canadian I don't support any form of government interference in speech and "cultural" matters. I don't feel "dominated" by USA culture, and I live in a border city where it is common for people to live on one side and work on the other, where people have family on either side of the border etc. where our traditional media broadcast (tv and radio) are a mix of local and American.

This is just my personal opinion, of course... but if our "cultural industries" are so fragile that they can't compete with other artists across the border, then that is their own fault and it indicates that haven't earned the right to my attention. I don't base my choice on what media to absorb on superficial criteria like the country of origin. Especially in the age of the Internet where my choices are literally global.

The real cultural difference here, in my opinion, is constitutional. Such media regulations would likely be considered a violation of the First Amendment in the USA. The idea that we have regulatory bodies setting rules around what kinds of information we can be exposed and under what circumstances to is a violation of everything that I believe in and I will never vote for any politician that favours this sort of government overreach.

So while you're not necessarily wrong in your generalization about the "perspective of Canada" (depending on which Canadians you speak of), as an individual Canadian I say "speak for yourself."
The Rockchip 3588-based Orange Pi 5, 5b and 5+ are readily available. The MSRP is a little higher than RPi4 but they have significantly more CPU/GPU power and I/O. The new 5+ looks to be a viable desktop replacement with m.2 NVME, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, dual HDMI 2.1 and USB 3.1.
That's the problem with humans as well, since we don't exactly memorise the spec, we just check & update basis errors & looking up references. But since this is an LLM we are talking about, it should be able to infer the same once given the spec of a language without needing a compiler or atleast being able to check with one via plugin or api call.
FWIW, Windows on Parallels is great on my M1 Air.
COT Prompt Automation!
Manually creating a Chain-Of-Thought (COT) #prompt for a problem statement requires efforts and it's time consuming. We can automate it by using BNF Grammer. I created this example. Try running it in ChatGPT Plus (with GPT-4)
Sorry, the irony of the headline and the paywall is pretty strong.
I don't think so. Revenue wise they are much larger than tech. Big tech is mostly advertising.
Agreed. But aside from that I could easily see someone using PostgreSQL on their server, and storing data client side in SQLite
Tangential but RealLifeLore did a video a while back[1] outlining how Las Vegas manages water intake from Lake Mead and the Colorado River by minimising waste and having extremely efficient water processing facilities which then feed water back.

Maybe there are lessons to be learned there rather than simply taking more.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1TkIdDbRA
> Seemingly only allowing affirmation of people claiming to be trans, rather than resorting to affirmation as a later thing.

According to everything I've seen and read, affirmation is very important in preventing suicides. I'm assuming you're talking about "affirming too early", or in other words "convincing" somebody of being trans, correct? If that's the case, wouldn't we expect a relatively high regret rate, compared to the real regret rate which is already way lower than almost any other medical intervention?

> Unrestricted abortion rights (Up to birth)

Can you show me where you get this? Sure, part of the Democrat party has this as a goal, but definitely not the whole party.

> no voter ID

Is the agenda "no voter ID", or is it "no disadvantaging minorities"? If it were the earlier, it should be very easy for republicans to say "we hear your fears, here is what we'll do to alleviate the problems" - but somehow they never call the democrat bluff, and they keep insisting on voter ID without ensuring equal access, right?
Why would OpenAI care?

Maybe Netflix can be less convenient so Blockbuster won't have
such a hard time competing.
For context, it's worth nothing that most of Arizona's water use is by farmers who have basically free and unlimited access to public water sources, and grow water-retaining crops that are then shipped to other states or even countries, like Saudi Arabia [1].

The same pattern repeats in other states, where the water laws were written with a presumption that farmers get to use as much as they want for anything they want.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-drought-stricken-ar...
Selling gimmicky overpriced stuff based on group identity really isn't anything new. "Patriot Mobile" is one of the most transparent examples - they're not building out their own network of cell towers, so "your money" [0] is still going to whatever big carrier(s) they buy service from. It's the red tribe equivalent of green washing.

The underlying open question remains how successful will media (social and otherwise) continue to be at keeping so many people's perspectives so focused on identity politics (both flavors).

[0] term from their radio ad.
Makes sense! Let me know if you ever need someone who knows (and loves!) Django.
[quote]Frore believes small is beautiful and hopes many more products will follow, selling the AirJet for tightly-packed devices in which passive heat management means lesser CPUs are deployed, or silicon is throttled back to avoid overheating.[/quote]

How about leaving the throttling on and making the device even cooler and quieter instead?
In 50 years Canada will either be annexed forcefully and pipelines built to transport water south. Or most likely, pro-business politicians will be bought and our water rights sold for pennies.
> "I just want to have one stack and master it."

There's nothing stopping you from doing this, and it's less expensive than ever before. You can master PalmOS, beej even collected everything about it into a single pdf document https://beej.us/books/palminomicon.pdf
> I wasn't able to find this information on Risingwave yet.

Yep, this information can only be found in the subpage of the documentation:
https://www.risingwave.dev/docs/current/risingwave-local/?cu... and https://www.risingwave.dev/docs/current/install-psql-without...

It'd better be shown in the GitHub README
One-time payment of $10 per GB. Hmm, seems a bit rich since current storage rates are $0.00099/GB/mo (Amazon Deep Archive). $10 would store a GB on Amazon for 841 years: 10/(0.00099*12) = 841.750

Considering that the average corporate lifespan of S&P500 corporations in 2020 was 21 years, this storage service seems ridiculous.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-...

Edit: I just had a look at their TOS. Short, and to the point, ie, "we can terminate service at any time".

Getting all your money upfront sounds like a great "non-profit" business idea to me. I tried looking up their IRS 990 form, but I couldn't find their official corporate name or EIN anywhere.

Here's a link to a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943620
It's called "123ignition", and it's exactly what you need :-)
There's a long bugzilla thread since 2017 exactly for this. It has a some activity over the years, but was never prioritized. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
This sounds like mods in any forum, except maybe HN. It's not a reddit problem.
This is the same thing Paul Ehrlich has been saying will happen in the next decade for 60 years. The average price of electricity per kWh has been trending down the whole time. Solar and wind are getting really cheap and lithium prices are dropping. In 20 years we might not even be worried about oil prices for most applications.
So, motivated by this article, I checked eBay, expecting to burn $20-30 to get one and found that these sell for around $100 (thank god, didn’t buy another device to add to my pile).

My question is: who buys these at that price and for what purpose? Collecting old devices? Using them? I don’t think buying these have the allure of retro computing, eg buying a Sinclair Spectrum.
Most water usage in western states goes towards agriculture. Only a small portion goes towards municipal uses. The real savings are cutting down on waste in ag, or rethinking certain crops.
Yeah but that symbiosis community stuff is for when you're still growing. Once you're big, it's time to pull up that ladder, put on the corporate mask, and start cranking that ad revenue at all costs. You've got a million rubes doomscrolling past your homogenous r/funny - i mean, r/all - slurry who don't know the difference between an ad and a real post. People who care about things like UX and quality posts are a minority who you are free to exploit for as long as you're useful, and then crush once you're done with them.

I seriously think this is just reddit finally thinking "yup - we've won - time to start acting with impunity for anything that cuts costs (like not maintaining a public API) or increases even the smallest bit of revenue (like managing to convert 1% of apollo users to first-party-app users while alienating (no pun intended) the rest).
fool's errand
Meta Requires Office Workers to Return to Desks Three Days a Week
What if it being optional increases death statistics massively? Should we really be ideologically driven instead of relying on data and measurable effects?
As long as you don't need food.
Farmers across Arizona are growing produce with a scant amount of water
https://archive.ph/gV4lD
To be fair it's really just an application of the same strange units. Once you've committed to acres for land and feet+inches for rainfall, acrefeet is the only option you've really got for volume of rainfall. We have to fix land (square kilometers) and rainfall (millimeters) before we can fix volume of rainfall (cubic meters).
Teens/young adults, or really anyone "new" to the web/internet, haven't learned yet the importance of information transmission speed, or which use patterns will make them lose more time than get them something worthwhile in return. They're also discovering a lot of "basic" stuff in all types of content, so are more tolerant of what more seasoned users would call repetitive crap. That includes ads, which they are more likely to perceive as novel and entertaining, even be happy to see some of them.
There is value in actually understanding what someone is doing in regards to protecting against buffer overflows, instead of relying on well established patterns.
"I feel like our country is extremely unprepared for what climate change is going to mean for everyone in a decade or two."

I mean, this water issue has almost nothing to do with climate change. Groundwater depletion is a huge concern on the great plains and other areas too. This is what happens when you have so many people and need to support their preferences (eg watering commodity crops instead of growing crops that thrive in dry areas, overpopulation in arid regions, etc).
I was using materialistic but didn't like that I couldn't edit replies so just switched to harmonic, and loving it.
You're describing the current status quo of the the e2e debate - allow e2e, but accept that the best exploits aren't going to be reported and patched, but reserved for intel agencies to use against high-value targets.
Or as Gilad Bracha summarized (in reference to Cook's article): "The notion of an interface is what truly characterizes objects - not classes, not inheritance, not mutable state."

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-prospect-of-executi...

(the "not mutable state" bit is what makes a function an object for me but that's an ancient debate: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...)
I don’t use multiple screens, and I no longer use multiple virtual desktops either, but I outlined my mental model of Stage Manager in a response to another comment if it helps. I do still use Rectangle occasionally.
I think understanding "what art is" comes from the experience of creating for the sake of creation, not so much from observing what has been made. It's different from knowing the history of art, which just gives you contextual perspective. That's valuable, but like with any history, there are narratives that survive and don't, there's context that gets lost. So a kind of orthodoxy arises around how you are supposed to view art according to the imperfect historical context that survived. It's not "a scam" but there's also no immaculate history; we get what the stewards of history choose to give us, within their ability to do so.
Managers began referring to her as “Olivia/ChatGPT” on Slack

This is horrifying.
What made you think that the person he replied to meant to ask about the GPT-4 model/API instead of ChatGPT-on-GPT-4? The latter is what a lot of people refer to when they say "GPT-4." People do not always communicate with infinite precision.
Why do we need thinner laptops? You can hardly work on any of the current models today, which their almost zero height keys. We need better keyboards and not thinner laptops.
Raw performance is generally one of the least important things in a website, at least for me.
Very low for a staff engineer in NYC, but 150K to work in the arts actually seems somewhat competitive to me. Wait until you hear how little most broadway actors/ensemble members make. 150K will take you pretty far if you want to live the bohemian artist life in NY, especially if you want to live in neighborhoods with other artists, e.g. Washington Heights.
The point is that because our unit of area, the acre, has a very difficult conversion from our units for length, and there are even extremely difficult conversions for different scales of length, we invest yet another unit.

Whereas in a more rational system, the unit for volume would be based on the unit for length in such a way that one could easily convert square-kilometer-inches into cubic meters without a calculator, for example.
I live in California, which has infrastructure built for 20m people and a current population of 40m and rising.

'Climate change' is not the issue, unrealistic population infrastructure capacity is. In California the ecology is that we have regular cycles of heavy rain every 5-7 years. The reservoir systems were originally built to store water for the dry years.

Forestry management took into account tree disease and the fact forest floors have self cleansed with fire for millennia.

Today we appear to have forgotten all this and are instead astonished and horrified if it rains/ doesn't rain and when there are fires during fire season.

Arizona is in a far more serious situation with inadequate infrastructure capacity to sustain massive population increases, but currently the mania for housing anyone who wants to live in the west outstrips common sense.

Obviously good ecological stewardship of our planet is a no brainer but it seems as though a lot of people just can't join up the historical dots on this and feel human migration to the more pleasant geographical and climate areas are a human right independent of 'tragedy of the commons' logic.
I did! It was glorious! I was a bored out of my mind DBA in Oregon and shot my shot at a logistics startup who was posting here on HN located in Hamburg and I got the job! This was 5 years ago.
The long-term play is probably to capture a large portion of the salary savings these companies get. But you need to get companies hooked and dependent upon your product first. Once lock-in is achieved, they will ratchet up prices as high as possible.
> “In every previous automation threat, the automation was about automating the hard, dirty, repetitive jobs,” said Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

What an odd statement. Knowledge work has been automated for as long as I can remember. Compilers, automated QA, data entry, etc. In many fields, more labor demand resulted from productivity gains (software); in others, demand didn't rise to compensate (bookkeeping).

The question is where is additional demand going from higher savings given productivity boosts. I don't see more demand for HVAC technicians. Maybe dog walkers.
I'm just wondering how the companies will make money if there is noone to buy their products. Wealthy class can't support the economy.
Excluding that reason a lot of people leave at 4 years to get a larger bump in salary than one could expect staying at a company
If you are someone “important”, You need to turn off iMessages as that is a huge risk factor as it’s a system app. There will always be zero click exploits and that should be all you need to know
Ask HN: Who Lives in the Las Vegas Area?
I'm likely moving to the Las Vegas area next year, and I'm wondering if anyone here has any opinions they'd like to shared.
My bias is negative, so I'm hoping to be swayed the other way, but I guess we'll see.

What do you do for fun?
Do you have a sense of community?
What do you do during the Summer to survive the heat and not get stuck inside for the entire season?
Are there enough trees/parks for a healthy life?
Anything else you want to mention?
> I can't imagine a situation where they go "sorry, we really think we need you, but our job listing only goes up to this number, oops"

Lots of big companies have very well-defined salary bands, and you can only negotiate up to the top of that band. There are other things you can negotiate for, hiring bonus, time off, WFH, equipment budget, etc, but you don't get higher salary unless you get a higher title too.

> I just can't imagine a sustainable world where salary is proactively offered, raised, etc

Flex your imagination muscles a little harder. Companies already know how much they want to pay you, but are hoping you'll accidentally lowball yourself by quoting them a lower number. That's what the negotiation is. The average working dev only has so much power in a situation like this.

The problem comes from the non-standardization of titles and salaries across the industry. Two "senior engineers" can have widely varying salaries and sets of responsibilities. So if a dev can't or won't take any job that pays under $125k, it might helpful find out that the maximum salary for the role is $95k before going through the application process and speaking to a recruiter.
Nah, it’ll be just a new, higher level of abstraction (and provided we even solve the hallucination problem, which is not a given). Engelbart’s and Parkinson’s laws at it once again.

In other words, the new work fill the same time, and we’ll just be doing 10x of it (if we can solve the current challenges with LLMs). The human mind is unsurprisingly adaptable to changing conditions and great at abstract thinking, which is what ironically distinguishes it from these machines.

We also tend to severely underestimate our own abilities and overestimate the importance of the tools.
I have been incredibly impressed by KDE in my recent uses of various Linux distros
Japan has a 99% conviction rate: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20810572

If prosecutors are sure that they have enough "evidence" or social bias (especially for people with criminal records) then they will relentlessly pursue a defendant like terminators.

It's not really a haven for justice.
It never ceases to amaze me how much people actually like using these godawful passive consumption / walled garden devices, to say nothing of all the apps over simply using a browser. I truly hate the direction all this is going (electron apps, mobile first/only, vertical videos, TikTok, social media, ...) and seemingly everyone else just can't get enough of it :(
Why would it need hardening or redundancy?

The original system hasn't got any.
Not sure I agree. Local journalism is a social good. How else will you find out what your city council is up to? It's not like that's reported on CNN or Fox.

And if there are no journalists asking questions, how will you know they've been selling permits to their cousin developer for cents on the dollar while jacking up your taxes?
Remotely driven rental cars in Milton Keynes
The topic of this thread is a bullshit rich person “college admissions ploy” so pretty sure my comment is dead center on point.
I think a lot of the jobs that go will be the ones that popped up recently. The low level white collar ones. Social media content writers for example. That tends to be a very well paid job compared with the skill necessary to do it and the benefits it provides. I imagine most of these jobs will just get replaced with something else that the AI can’t do and that only new grads will accept doing.

For your kids, I think you’re imagining more progress with AI than we’ll have in the next five years. I think the changes of the last 3 years will be much more impactful on new grads. I recently switched role and learning remotely is a lot more difficult for various reasons. I’m already well into my career so I imagine for new grads it will be incredibly difficult. I’d worry more about that than AI provided they’re going to college to study something “useful”.
I once worked with a guy named Michael who would get bent when you called him Mike. As you can imagine he could be tricky to work with and, on those occasions, I would call him Mike. I repeatedly misnamed him on purpose, it wouldn't have even made HR bat an eye.

So, your career at Dell didn't go as well as you'd hoped. Being a jerk isn't illegal, AFAIK, but at some point you run out of other people to blame for the consequences of your own beliefs and actions.

Still missing the part where the existence of Caitlyn Jenner and the relatively small number of others who were born with certain unfortunate but addressable hormonal issues is negatively affecting your life.

And it's utterly crazy to think that someone would adopt a transgender posture in "bad faith." That's the sort of change someone makes after trying everything else first, because of the obvious negative social consequences it brings. Yes, there are a few genuinely-warped people, but as another comment points out, those people are going to sneak into locker rooms and abuse children anyway.

You want to take the red pill, and see reality as it is? Try cross-correlating the local sex-offender registry with voter registration rolls. Observe who is actually doing the "grooming." Then, go back to the people who've been lying to you all along, and ask them why.
GPT is doing a single task - my brain as I type is thinking about the content, controlling the fingers, scanning the visual input for danger, processing the continuous signal for other senses, smell, touch, sound, and also wondering what's for dinner, moving stuff from short term to long term memory, and under going continual training as well as generating this text.
I live in a state with coast and mountains. I don't think grouping them together makes any kind of sense when searching the way the commenter suggests.
Alternatively put them on ebay for 0.99 and let people be happy with their findings.