skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at your comments. They read broadly as a total failure of imagination: the kind of thinking that would have looked at email and said "this is not better than a fax machine because I can fax 40 million people, but only email 5000."

If that's how you see the world, me going point by point is not going to change your fundamental "but only 5000 people have email accounts."

Here's 550 pages of the UK Law Commission (govt legal think tank) discussing how to integrate digital assets into UK law.

https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/digital-assets/

Why do you think this kind of labour is going into the digital asset space?

Crypto is a massively compelling proposition to working transactional lawyers at all levels of seniority but it's especially compelling to the most senior. They know their business. As do I.

Decades of experience doing real world transactions makes the utility of the blockchain obvious. To people without that experience, maybe the point is harder to see?

But the serious types get it. That's the lived experience in the field.
Chill, its an incredible accomplishment that for many people their personal experience of TB is watching Satine die in Moulin Rouge and nothing more.
How to build and deploy AI everywhere with a universal AI platform
> The newer standard-range pack from the 3 and Y

Just the Y. The standard range pack for the 3 is prismatic LFP. And I think the standard range Y may be haded that way. There was also a recent rumor that the newest 3LR is now LFP, but I don't know if that's been confirmed.
I approach charisma with a specific lens, that of acting.

Being a "star" has little to do with acting talent, in the sense that I define it as an actor and director. They often have little range, and even if they do, are most often called on to do their one thing over and over again. They often can't take direction -- which is ok, since what the audience wants is what they give naturally. It's not even always about beauty, especially for men. But audiences like to go watch them, somehow.

A few big stars are also great actors (as I define the term). But we get to know their acting skill because they can parlay their star-power into roles that show off their skills. A great many equally talented, attractive actors will never get so much as a hemorrhoid commercial.

I never get to work with "Big Stars", but even at my level I know that some actors can hold attention. I know some of the tactics that they use, and can sometimes teach it. But often, I can't put into words why one actor got the part and another didn't.

Which dives me nuts. I like helping actors improve. Much of the silly acting games involve un-learning their habits so that they can rebuild something from scratch. It's baked in at a very deep level, probably in their very earliest days of leaning how to speak and move.
> use nebulous and hard to track ESG goals

Well, that's where ESG is going by the wayside. But that's the nature of working as a block, there's so many constituents here our voices get watered down. But "as a block", our money is much larger together.

ESG has proven that it is possible to create these pools of money that tries to think about these issues. Moving forward, ESG investors (and ESG managers) need to be more clear on what those goals are and who to reward, and how to balance profits vs social good.
The Book Stops Here (2005)
It's about goddamn time.
There's no ban on removing AI content as far as I'm aware - admins just upped the evidence requirement for determining a post as AI-generated, seemingly in response to high false positive rates of hunches and current detectors:

> We recently performed a set of analyses on the current approach to AI-generated content moderation. The conclusions of these analyses strongly indicate to us that AI-generated content is not being properly identified across the network, and that the potential for false-positives is very high.

> In order to help mitigate the issue, we've asked moderators to apply a very strict standard of evidence to determining whether a post is AI-authored when deciding to suspend a user.

> We've reminded moderators that suspensions (and typically mod messages as well) are for real, verifiable malfeasance only, and should not be enacted on the basis of hunches, guesses, intuition, or unverified heuristics

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389582/what-is-the-...
Yes, building a cell phone is simply something a small group of people cannot do successfully. I used to develop software for Openmoko phones, the N900, and other early Linux phones. Those projects had several decedent projects, all of which failed. There are several show-stoppers: 1) chip vendors won't talk to you if you are proposing to build a few thousand phones. 2) These projects never produce several iterations of prototypes that are tested by a significant number of users, so if they ever do ship a phone, there are terrible hardware faults. Fun fact: end users are not good at adding additional surface-mount components to cure these problems. 3) Unless you are making an Android phone, or at least an Android-compatible phone, none of the major apps will be available, and your customer base will be limited to the small fraction of the population that cares about privacy. So you'll never see economies of scale. 4) It will take longer than expected to bring the phone to the market, so even if you manage to build something, the hardware will be several generations behind what consumers expect. 5) Power management is hard.
I'm not sure how well accounted the other apps are, there doesn't seem to be a specific category for other apps.

But for 'direct' access basically if I put new.reddit and old.reddit and 'mobile web' whatever that is, the total of all three categories is less than 10%.

I guess also that these stats will not be very accurate for desktop if people are using ublock, ghostery, etc.
Based on my experience with Sinar digital backs, which spit out a raw, bias, dark and flat frame all independently, I think most cameras include this calibration hardcoded into the raw, because otherwise it is extremely easy to see! I know Phase One backs have calibrations that compensate for this, column errors, and hot pixels in their IIQ raws by default.
It feels impossible to switch into that though.

People really pigeon hole you into whatever you already did.
This is right-wing anti-LGBTQ propaganda, heavy-handed and targeted at viewers with low critical thinking abilities.
So I take it you're a conceptual artist?
What Happens to Bitcoin and Ethereum If the US Defaults on Its Debt?
Not "Everyone" was getting sick. An extremely small portion of the population getting sick can have a large impact, since most people are not sick, most of the time.
I would've thought the problem is bots that are mass solving instead of human + ChatGPT.

If a bot mass solves you can identify it by posting frequency and quality over time.
Can you tell more? A solution depends a lot on your two's relationship, are they your superior? inferior? same station?

Can you give a brief example? That would help generalize. This question is a bit abstract.
> It definitely only works with certain Intel NICs.

Not really doubting you as that kind of stands to reason to me, but is there any proof of this? The whole thing seems opaque.
ok so now that the minor disagreement about dates has been resolved, how about the major disagreement over evidence her disease is not latent?
Will it have access to a wifi card? Only Intel?
Related:

Modern C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361469 - Sept 2020 (165 comments)

Modern C, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006995 - Sept 2019 (233 comments)

Modern C by Jens Gustedt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19733852 - April 2019 (2 comments)

Modern C [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13054705 - Nov 2016 (385 comments)

Modern C [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018247 - Feb 2015 (43 comments)
Yes, HN also shares those problems. The upside is I don't see many people proclaiming to add HN to their google searches to find the pulse or whatever it may be, on the contrary it seems many come here just to debate.

Which is the bigger problem, someone coming to a niche place to debate, or someone who believes adding reddit to their google searches is going to provide them with better insight? I'd say the latter: they aren't conscious of the BS being pushed onto them.

Also kind of funny your comment is an exact demonstration of what I mean, that self-reinforcing style of "comedy" coupled with a nonsensical assumption.
>In March, W.H.O. denied outright that Covid-19 was airborne, posting on social media, “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne,” and calling it “misinformation.” We and our colleagues, scientists and engineers who have studied airborne particles for our entire careers, met with W.H.O. in April 2020 to express our concern that airborne transmission was important in the spread of COVID-19. W.H.O. vehemently rejected our suggestion and painted us as trespassers who did not understand what was happening in hospitals.

https://time.com/6162065/covid-19-airborne-transmission-conf...
True, but like solipsism or nihilism, those ideas are just not that interesting.
Project maintainers frequently hold themselves back with amateur presentation, and that includes typos. It's hard to take some things seriously if they are failing at English, let alone their programming language of choice. It's sad because there's plenty of amazing open source out there, but the presentation is terribad.

IMO, the solution is simple: allow project maintainers to disable pointless metrics that would incentivize the GitHub equivocal to karma farming.

I also think the quality of comment on HN suffers for the fact that the karma score is visible metric to the end-user. Reddit particularly. The view count on tweets too.
Where is benzene in the Wired article?
What you're calling "mistakes" look to me like intentional design decisions made in order to optimize for specific kinds of problems.

C is not a high level language, nor should it be. If you're doing the sort of work that is better suited for a high level language, then using a different language is the right call.
PyCon US 2023 videos now on YouTube
And they can tell it's AI generated... how?
The problem is you cannot trust those who run the lottery, or the exams. People will cheat to get in, and they can be quite creative:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53316895
Simple, you could use a Paramotor.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6dkRoX-Z6_A
The 4-word tweet (from March 2020) is clearly an oversimplification for people who are only willing to read 4 words. They're talking about their (wrong) belief that airborne transmission was not a significant vector, at a population level.

If you read charitably and look at their longer, contemporaneous statements, they say things like airborne spread is possible in some limited situations but not believed to be a significant vector of spread at a population level. (Still wrong, but a lot more nuanced.)

March 2020 was the first month the disease was declared a pandemic; it was very early on. We had a broad call to recognize airborne spread by July. It's worth skimming something like https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments... .
China was a manufacturing powerhouse 25 years ago. Not quite as much as now, but even in the 1990s they were clearly a powerhouse. They have done more automation, but they have been a powerhouse since the 1990s.
I hear that.

Whenever some new tools or tech comes along that can help us solve real, tangible problems we deal with, the resistance to learning something new is palpable.

Adding to that, any cool new ideas I think we could offer as a business (either as a result of new tech, or even just new ideas using the old tech) is usually met with resistance by people who are seemingly committed to boring stagnancy at all costs.

That’s where I have to walk the line between putting up with boring at work and still have enough energy in me to work on the fun stuff on my own.
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> It prevents software updates with visible errors

Unfortunately, given the state of the Apple first-party software, I doubt this would ring too many alarm bells.

If anything, were I to start getting visible errors, I'd welcome the change from Apple's previous MO of simply silently failing.
Interestingly, it just occurred to me that VC is the exact opposite of this. Many VCs have called 176 of the last 8 unicorns. You can still make bank doing this though.
Yes. Contrary to popular belief, cells with 18650 and 21700 cylindrical form factors, despite being approximately the same size and shape as other 18650/21700 cells, are not particularly "general purpose" as you or I would think of AA or AAA batteries. Major customers would likely have their own variants and particular specifications on variable parameters associated with these cells. And battery pack makers cannot easily switch between cell types and manufacturers.

Source: I used to work for a major 18650/21700 cell manufacturer. I have torn down many battery packs and cells and know what's inside. And, it's well publicized that only Panasonic cells were in Model 3s for ages. If picking and choosing cells were so easy, and cells are really commodities, then why would Tesla bind themselves to a single cell manufacturer? Answer: They wouldn't. Cells are not generally interchangeable, not by a long shot.

That being said, I would not go so far to say the cells are "custom made". The packs, sure. But cells are close variants of the same technology and process, and many smaller and lower customers may just use the same cells from a single manufacturer.

You are incorrect about batteries not needing high tech and high cost manufacturing plants. In fact, the requirements around cleanliness and process control are very high, for yield, cost and safety reasons. Capital equipment costs and knowledge base requirements are high. I'm not sure how they compare to the requirements around leading edge microchips, but I would imagine that they would want to use similar approaches.

As far as shipping goes, cells are shipped around via air freight all the time. They are going to need to get shipped regardless at some point. And, to the contrary, given my experiences with ground freight in general, I would not want to send cells via ground services.
To me this looks a lot like ecto https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto

Is there a significant difference?
I saw a 30 second segment in something I'm sure was about F1 engines that had something on a dyno and they flipped (while running) from the engine map to an ai predicting the engine timing per-firing and you could hear the thing smooth right out.

So no I imagine there's actually quite a lot of wiggle room to be off. Less so if you want it to last a million miles. But 30k?
Firmware Is Broken Terminology
I'm with you, technically all heat is vibration of atoms so nothing is really solid state.
AI is going to whack the mediocre middle of office workers
Chinese high demand for EV responds to needs that do not exist in North America at the same scale.

The need to reduce noise from motors, the need to reduce emissions in much denser cities.

https://youtu.be/q4DtOhe2LfQ
No it doesn't, it holds a recipe for creating proteins under specific chemical and biological conditions. If you put human DNA in a chicken egg, it wouldn't hatch a human.
"There's absolutely no reason that you couldn't set up a traditional database to do that."

Everything is equivalent to a Turing machine.

The question is costs.

"clearly how technology is going to streamline the process of conveyancing. This is what's actually needed, not trading property like NFTs"

These statements say the same thing: a perfectly efficient conveyancing process is seamless, so the property can change hands like an NFT. An atomic swap with cash in one direction and the title etc. in the other.

At which point, we just use an NFT.

Have a nice day.
Facebook and other tech companies are a great example of what would have happened if AT&T had not been split up for monopolistic practices. AT&T would have become a middleman in all communications. Can you imagine having to pay AT&T and other internet providers a chunk of your on-line revenue? That is what Facebook, Apple, Twitter and others are doing.

The new monopolistic middlemen are taking a big percentage of the world economy just because they are providing the infrastructure needed to run business. They decide who can reach consumers and who cannot. It is not sustainable.
Physical and human capital is all still there. Who cares.

https://youtu.be/HuepiJcMKoQ
> Lots of big companies have very well-defined salary bands

It's true, but I'm not sure that it's good. That's going back to salary being weird. They are making themselves deliberately inflexible, locking themselves out of potentially good agreements (probably in response to public pressure). Perhaps big names can get away with it. Worth noting that the same "bands" probably don't apply to hiring consulting businesses. Ask yourself why, and how's that different from striking a deal with an individual.

> Companies already know how much they want to pay you

That's not true. They don't know how much they want to pay _you_. They know how much they want to pay an average abstract employee doing the job they vaguely envision in a satisfactory manner. Then when the actual _you_ come in, that abstract employee becomes a concrete advocate for themselves. They'll have to think about you specifically now, and it changes the whole calculus.
Kind of rich to say about OpenAI when Bard is still blocked in so many countries
IDK, even this method was not possible for years due to the issue with s3 sleep not working. While it's not an absolutely unmitigated win, I think it is still valuable to at least regain this option. I wish that hardware freedom was at a place where it was worth being frustrated with vendors for not making a finer distinction here, but in this case I'm just glad to see any progress on this front.
Loving this Oliver, especially the obfuscation features! Also ran into this recently for non-dev citizens: https://www.private-ai.com/private-chatgpt/
Generative AI Email Assistant
Well, the Twelfth Doctor, of course.
As always do your own research before you actually put any money into anything.

For most people, trying to do this research would be a waste of time and maybe do more harm than good. This is all very complex and esoteric, not comprehensible by a lay person, even if you can tell the truth from the marketing speak. I think telling someone to do their own research could make people more susceptible to scams.
It looks like an introductory C programming book.

I was hoping for it to be a "hello experienced C programmer, here's new stuff that's happened in the past 20 years" kind of thing which would be useful.

I think most people have a hard time keeping up with the progress of all the technologies they use unless they've got a pretty narrow focus.

For instance, I learned make in the 90s. I should probably go read up on what's happened in the past 25 years or so. Probably lots of cool stuff.

Edit: it looks like just reading the release notes is probably sufficient. There's indeed lots of interesting new things
I reject this, but the thought makes me smile.
Here is a very illustrative post/thread showing a comparison of the official Reddit app and one of several alternatives, in this case RiF. The contrast is striking. You be the judge.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BikiniBottomTwitter/comments/13xk3l...
Manager here. I've been on both side of the table.

From HM perspective showing salary is bad idea. I can pay whatever I want inside budget assigned and build a smaller team of seniors or larger swarm of juniors depending on many factors. But first and foremost I want to have people with certain culture and mindset.

If I put low range I might loose opportunity to talk to people above the range.

But if I show high salary I am overwhelmed with conartists and tricksters trying to find their way to high compensation by finding company with poor vetting process. No exceptions for 10 years. I have yet to see a case where it brought a talent into pipeline.

Thus unless obliged by the law I am not showing any ranges and determine expectations through conversation with candidates compose a team from them and see if I can sweet the deal by beating their expectations.

From candidate perspective I see no issue, if you have few years of experience already you know potential employer salary tier just by looking on what they are doing.

I would try to avoid providing salary expectations, but if forced to just make current+30% stake.

And if it in a right league it's no issue for going through interview process.

I learn a lot on interviews by turning tables and trying to deep dive on what they doing and challenges facing and frequently get above the market offers.
Nice! Definitely agree with the sentiment! Might be worth investigating

git log -p | gpt4

if management starts requiring something more organic-looking.
Oh, it's worse than that -- I've seen people pedantically argue that manual malloc and free count as "GC", which you can indeed make a historical argument for, but it's not what most people mean.
I've had constant back pain since my teens (and I'm 50) likely due to a damaged disk. I've already gone through this (I work in the medical field and can consult with doctors and medical researchers). I concluded that the risks of back surgery making a problem worse are high enough that I am going to live with the pain for the foreseeable future.
I have a script like this in my "Monthly Reports". I'm not a software dev or working on a single project, so it goes through the config's "recent.repo" list and prints each with the commits back to a month ago. More of a tool to remember what I've done.
How is this UB? foo() won't have any access to y so won't be able to modify it, so we can be more or less certain that y is still 42 when bar() is called? What is it that i'm missing?
One of the sneakiest EULAs I've seen: https://i.imgur.com/bWR8iw2.png

It's titled "What's New At Blockade Labs", a title which continues to display even when you scroll down and find the terms of service below the news... which is presumably why the button is labeled "Confirm"
True, I did add those words. Because "long term profit" is not a hard metric that can be defined, it's identical to "best interest of the company."
What are you thinking specifically? A board member who agrees to advocate for shareholder referendum results outside the annual meetings? Or just a larger board?
A pet peeve of mine, I don't use public hand sanitizer because all the cheap stuff (probably the same stuff this article talks about) seems maniacally intent on adding really long-lasting fragrance to it. When I say long lasting, I don't mean an hour, I mean you can still smell the added fragrance the NEXT DAY despite washing your hands multiple times since. That stuff's got to be toxic.

Something that has fragrance this long-lasting is not a sanitizer, it's an odorant or perfuming agent. Sanitizer is not supposed to be a product that makes you smell and leave fragrance residues on surfaces.

Basic alcohol sanitizer is fine. It evaporates and then that is it.
I think it was meant to be https://metabrainz.org/datasets, which is the same as the top level link.
This is why I've never stopped programming as a hobby. My professional work is to get me a paycheck. My hobby work is to get me happiness and fulfillment.
Physics guy here. Isn't the solution to simply duplicate the code and compare it before execution? Do it 3 times and use the majority. This could be the preamble to any quine. (I realize though that, like most physics people, I enjoy waltzing into a specialized domain that I know nothing about and reduce it to first principles. But hey, it's who I am.)
It's an ongoing joke about spam bots, SEO spam, etc, that the day they actually post helpful and useful content it's mission fucking accomplished. With "AI" we are one step closer.