skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that more than a superficial label if western democracies behave like big hypocrites?

- Starting dubious wars against foreign nations? We've had Afghanistan and Iraq.

- Spying on and criminalizing citizens? We're having Five Eyes and possibly much more than we don't know about.

- Treating whistleblowers against our standards of human rights? We're having Manning, Snowden and Assange. And probably many more we haven't heard about.

I'm not repeating some whataboutisms trying to relativize, e.g., the horrible attack of Russia against Ukraine or the Chinese Social Scoring system. I'm just asking about the meaning of "democracy" in the Western world is, if our gov'ts are sh*tting on our values any time they need.
The Case for Phone-Free Schools
Does anyone besides FAAM-sized entities care what Google thinks or does?

There is a very real reason disruption matters. Can Google be disrupted? Absolutely. However, will they? I believe so. But not by playing by the same rules.
> Turns out, he didn't warm up his tires enough (race tires need to be warm)

Brakes too.
> My recommendation would be to tax negative externalities and redistribute all of it as a UBI to the people of the country. Simple and effective

Wouldn't you want to resolve the externalities with those funds instead of spending it, likely increasing consumer consumption and making the problem worse?

> If we made it more costly for these companies

Why wouldn't the costs flow to consumers? Firms recently seem to be able to set prices at what the market will bear.
That's not what's implied. Only thing that was said was that the average lifespan was 31. Could be any curve under that number, but it's bad however you cut it.
Sounds like the plot of the x-files.
Coca Cola is to plastic what oil is to Exxon, and what food is to Monsanto.
The CEO of coca cola and his team of scientist in 1978 are responsible for this.
Extremely intelligent but extremely unconscious.
Matt, list most people, would be a better writer if he did a little more Strunk & White and wasn't always trying to create concepts for a philosophy seminar. "Epistemic nihilism"? Just call it willful ignorance.
> There is nothing here that can’t be addressed in a remote setting, you just need different methodologies (tight feedback loops for juniors, public channels for team comms, etc).

The debate between remote and in-office communication reminds me about the debates around generative vs human made art. Is text messaging "real communication", is a generated painting "real art"?
Not to mention the implication he also wouldn't bother reading actual cases and rulings before citing them.
Supreme Court rules against Alabama in high-stakes Voting Rights Act case
This is a great idea and an example of thinking outside the box to actually achieve a goal, rather than cargo-culting the corporate conventional wisdom that collaboration has to be in the office or can't be constrained to a small amount of actual work time, mixed with activities.
The regular Tesla cars, the internet used to be super super hyped about, while in the real world people I would talk to (in Austin Texas) were often pretty skeptical and unsure.

With the cybertruck it seems to be the reverse, the internet hates it, but many people in my neighborhood at least (Suburbia Austin) have pre orders. I think success will come down to price and range. If it is affordable and can road trip with 4 mountain bikes, I'd be in.
Effortlessly Support Next Gen Image Formats or a Picture Is Worth a Better Image
Eurozone in recession as rising prices hit spending
They just finally passed a ban on camping in the streets. I think given proper enforcement we may finally see some of this start to get better
This is not an unreasonable mental model. You can ask ChatGPT to give you a program, ask it "is this correct?" and it'll find and fix bugs. To a layperson it looks like it is capable of double checking its work and finding an error. Why would it be any different here?

(the answer of course that the LLM doesn't actually search the internet and/or doesn't have access to a law database it can query)
It's also not in the EU. Who cares?
Dating too: https://researchblog.duke.edu/2014/02/11/advice-in-the-love-...

“In fact, for a 5’ 9” man to be equally attractive to a 5’ 10” man, he would have to make $40,000 more in salary per year.”
Those containers have a shape and style and the place names allow me to visualise what they look like.
Yeah, I hate that. It's usually easy to spot, so I click "allow" on the JS notification and then block the real one when it pops up.
It’s not really a rigid body anymore, this got silently changed 18 months ago. It’s just slightly thicker than normal body panels.
What's the penalty for asking your friend to make something up instead of writing it yourself? This should be equivalent.
It's a well known issue, but it might never be solved due to backwards compatibility. They were made non-Copy to avoid a nasty footgun, and way before IntoIterator existed.
Wing Commander – A Retrospective Analysis
This is impossible to know because our advancements in this field are basically at the PHD of the PHD level. Every advancement is an unknown timeline with unknown impact.
in many cases it's the opposite: the more we've learned, the more we recognize that the body is able to tolerate small doses of many things in a way where the effects at larger doses don't scale down (IE, the linear no-threshold model is probably wrong in many cases, beyond radiation)
That's weird, I pretty much exclusively use glass food storage and it's never chipped. And I just got some random ones off Amazon, not like they're some super high quality or anything
If the company was giving pensions and compensating people like loyalty mattered then we could have that conversation but there is no loyalty toward employees from companies. I see loyalty to any company as shortsighted from the employee's point of view.
Hiring family is questionable.

Hiring former work associates ("work friends") is more solid. Because that relationship is based in a relevant environment.
What truck is designed to be nice to a pedestrian that is hit by it?
Blumenthal also introduced the EARN IT act. Government influence over how people use computers and the Internet seems to be an interest for them.
> The authors of the study are all from the chemistry department at the University of Kansas. Is this really the sort of paper they should be authoring?

What are you saying here?
So what’s your point again? Is the Apple Vision making things better or worse?
"I simply had no idea that ChatGPT was capable of fabricating entire case citations or judicial opinions, especially in a manner that appeared authentic"

This is the main criticism of the service, how did a lawyer miss this talking point?
Honestly, at least when it comes to code in widely used languages, GPT-4 is very good at catching mistakes in generated output after one makes a simple request for a second check. In most cases, there isn't even a need to explain what the specific issue, concern or error in the provided code is.

This does make sense as, beyond what has been typed, there is no memory implemented in most of these models, so revisions are currently the only game in town to get more accurate results.

What surprised me most concerning this entire situation is that the model did insist on being correct. Normally ChatGPT has been set up to be a bit cautious and more likely to admit to having made a mistake, to the point where if you ask in a direct manner like this lawyer has done, the model may claim to have been incorrect, even when the output was actually correct, in my experience. Bings implementation, of the same underlying model, meanwhile can be so forceful in trying to convince users that the output is correct, even when provided with online resources that show the oposite, that it would not be unreasonable to feel gaslit by that LLM.

The rest of this situation was not very surprising and I have do admit, I am happy that this was caught right away. Lawyers actions have a massive impact on countless people every day, if this had not become such a public scandal right away, perhaps a lot of defendants would have suffered under improper representation due to reliance on imperfect models.
TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf]
Gastric acid is basically hydrochloric acid, and rather less concentrated than the standard laboratory bench HCl, which stands peaceably for years in glass flasks. I would be wary of assuming that chemical attack will quickly blunt glass shards.
> That feels like a _huge_ assumption.

Huh, seems like a very reasonable inference to me.
Google, Facebook (Meta), and Amazon all had a minimum six month re-apply period when I last interviewed with them.
I think the biggest material impact for any curb on plastics would largely be felt in medicine. Disposability is huge in preventing infection. Also, many medical implants rely on the combination of elasticity and strength found in plastics.
Frankly it serves Google's interests to degrade users' perceptions of extensions as a whole. In the future there will be less of a fight when they disable extensions entirely to protect their ad business.
There are two main paths to promotion and salary increase:
- Becoming a super expert in one domain, or an expert in many. Rare, irreplaceable skillset that is recognized and valuable for the business. Yes, this is vague, but there are tons of different career paths where it's possible. Pick the one where you feel you can learn the fastest and are strongest at. (Often correlates with things you like!) Note: This involves some healthy self-promotion, advertising your work, blogs, conferences. Even if you're the best in the world but no one knows it - nobody will care.

- Focus on organizing other people's work, leadership, empathy, cross team communication. This is the way to get promoted into managerial and director positions at healthy companies. Obviously, a junior should not try dictate others what to do (lol, but I've seen some hyper ambitious ones like this - it didn't end well), but first very quickly becoming proactive and gathering requirements by yourself, working with many people and on many projects. Trying to expand the scope of work broad, instead of deep.

Choice of either depends on your skills and personality. The latter can eventually pay more (statistically - there are more highly paid directors than world class experts), but can be also more risky (if more senior people think you want to manage them, they might get upset).
What are the limitations you encounter with cxx and auto-cxx?
I think so or I wouldn't have said so. You obviously disagree which is why you're obtusely indicating that.

Guess we'll see.
>Did we ever use binary for anything practical? No of course not, that’s what the compiler is for.

How to tell people you have never implemented anything performance sensitive in your life without spelling it out bluntly in a nutshell. The code of any popular image processing/decoder/encoder/compression/cryptographic libraries is littered with the use of bit operators because they operate at the fundamental building block level of computing, they are the most efficient and the "sufficiently smart compiler" that supposedly always produces the best interpretation is a lie. You merely need to skim through any implementation of jpeg, of h264 or anything that actually matters in this world to see the practical application of working on bits in the real world.

But sure, understanding computer architecture is meaningless. Trust the compiler. Thank gods I can still see stutters scrolling a web page on a 16 core CPU with 64gb of ram. I don't know how I could live my life if people actually knew how to make proper programs!
I'm confident if we replaced congress with Math.random(), the PRNG would do a better job.
I used to subscribe to my local paper - weekly print edition for this purpose. But they stop doing print due to low circulation. I've removed news apps from my phone so I'm not constantly trying to "keep up".

My local library provide free subscriptions to weekly magazines, but also don't want to remember to open up the tablet. And paying for them aren't cheap!
Hybrid, even 1 day a week, is still a huge blow to any WFH people who want to WFH for the benefit of living wherever they want. With hybrid, you still need to live within an hour of your office, and living anything more than 1.5 hours out is untenable for most people (which usually puts you living in the middle of nowhere anyways, which isn't the WFH goal), not to mention how most cities' suburbs continue to have 10% YoY housing cost increases.
A modern, worse version of lead in gasoline.
The linked Figma resources in the OP still aren’t available on https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/
Adding serialization with serde is a matter of adding `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]`. I guess that's magical in a way, but does that matter?
Nobody else knows what your country of origin status symbol words are supposed to mean, so using them to communicate has one clear motive and it isn't clarity
This is one of those boring books that will never be a NY bestseller, while containing some timeless gems of wisdom worth multiple NY-bestseller shallow books each: https://www.amazon.ca/Managing-Design-Factory-Donald-Reinert...

For example — how you build a feedback loop and why it's more important than writing elaborate guides, docs and business processes.

Or how you give a simple yet meaningful metrics to your tests and learning process.
I have had Lock&Lock ones, of almost exactly the same design, for about 10 years and they're only recently starting become significantly chipped, but I had an IKEA one get a small chip within months. Maybe it's how I stack then without lids (physically don't have cupboard space to store with lids on).
Semgrep’s VS Code Extension: Powerful SAST as Fast as Linting
Quit playing games. My point is clear. He lost so posting all of this copium isn't going to change it. What's your point? That if we only knew the facts we'd see the light?

This is a technology board.
Perhaps not perfect, but it's at least a massive improvement over all-plastic containers.
I personally prefer Nix greatly it's just JSON with functions basically. I just find Guile expressions totally unreadable with the brackets everywhere.
My only real problem with RTO is that many of these companies want to shove us in bull-pen style offices. I won't return to that. Give me a damn cubicle.
Related: "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (12 days ago, 174 points, 138 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352

Original court documents: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca...

Some highlights from the latest added documents:

- #48 (Exhibit D) - Copy of original ChatGPT prompts and responses with the hallucinated "bogus" cases: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

- #48 (Exhibit E - Part 1) - Includes a copy of the NYT article about the court case! https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

As a non-expert, the legal argument against sanctions for the lawyers appear to boil down to that no malice was involved (ignoring the point about whether a reasonable lawyer would have made the mistakes), and that the "professional embarrassment" from news coverage is sanction enough. (Detail is in #45 - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57... )

We will see what happens after the court appearance scheduled for today at 12:00 EDT.
I agree with this as well. I spent 7 years at my first job, and would have been much better off moving at least once. After that I tended to average closer to 3 - 4 years at jobs.

I would recommend having at least one stop where you spend more than a year or two, just to show that you can get past the initial ramp up period. This avoids having a red flag on your resume, but that may be old fashioned thinking.

The original stipulation is someone with the skills to get into a FAANG, so I'll focus less on that. I'm also going to ignore quality of life considerations.

Cynical ideas, with a slant towards making the most money:
- Don't be afraid to move, or take advantage of working remotely.

- Get a job that pays Silicon Valley money / RSUs but then move somewhere cheap.

- Pay more attention to potential stock benefits, that's where the bigger money can be.

- When the market is running better again, jump to a company that should go public soon. This way you get the most shares with the least personal risk. If you get good a guessing who the "hot" company will be, you can do really well.

- Companies aren't allowed to say when they're going public, or their stock may disappoint. Switch and try again if you've guessed wrong.

- Don't stick around past your initial stock grant (generally 4 years).

- Keep an ear out for the hot new tech / VC focus, and learn enough of those skills to get hired.

- Get good at interviewing.

Note: this is what's worked in the past, future conditions may be different.
"Vicuna is a fine-tuned version of LLaMA that matches GPT-4 performance."

Oh is that right?
However I don't see the people going on the streets for those points you mentioned here, but only for the increased age of retirement. What safety will they have that, if the pension age stays as such (and they defeated Macron yay), the nepotism and corruption and all that will not continue? Going on the street is a great weapon and I admire it, but in this particular case I think it's going after the wrong end of the problem (which you seem to recognize as well).
I was logging into the heroku website.

To test the CLI I ran `heroku logout`, then `heroku login`. It brought up a browser window with "Application error.", so looks like it's indeed down.

EDIT 1: Funny timing because fly.io is also down (for me, anyway) [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36243345

EDIT 2: I tried heroku login again, and this time get "Invalid Request".
It will be interesting to see the new price. It was something like $40,000 when it was first announced. Other EV trucks are nearly twice that. I can’t imagine Tesla being able to keep it that low.

I know the design is polarizing but it gives the Tesla truck something unique to position it against what Ford has and what Chevy will soon have.
>In retrospect it seems obvious that every consumer desktop OS should include a built in browser.

It's amazing the insight 30 years of hindsight can provide. At the time of MS releasing IE, the internet was this thing unlike anything Gen Z can compare to what the internet is now. It was one step up from being something used only in CompSci labs at universities accessed via dial-up modems that were measured in bauds then kbps. Now we have Gbps, >50% of internet traffic is streaming videos (i'm probably shorting that %), everyone has a connected device in their pocket, and pretty much all commerce is done via the web. It did that in less than the 30 years since IE. What can you accurately predict will have the same "in retrospect" analysis applied to it in a similar manner?

* I'm rounding up to 30 years, since we're closer than not to it.
> What do you gain from learning Nix, asside from Nix?

Nix is a small and approachable lazy pure-functional language. You can learn a fair bit of functional programming by reading nixpkgs, which is frequently recommended even if you never use it in the real world.

> by learning Guile you learn a lisp which some people find quite enlightening.

By learning nix you learn a FP language which some people find quite enlightening.

Personally I can't find any software which I would want to contribute to or extend which uses guile (except GDB which can also be extended with python), so the "you ain't gonna need it" argument holds for guix too.

It's just such an odd argument for a relatively minor difference between the two ecosystems.
Fraudulent court filings?
> the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off.

People who just want to slack off will do that regardless of whether or not they're working in the office.
Ask HN: Tool for Validating Filesystem Structure
My backend application is split into an SQL database and a filesystem with user data.

Each folder in the root application directory belongs to a user (identified by id), and subsequent subfolders identify a project. There are certain requirements for the name of each user folder and each project folder, and inside each project folder some other files and folders must necessarily exist, and extra ones should never.

I'm wondering if a tool or type of filesystem exists that lets me enforce structure, much like an SQL database would enforce relationships and datatypes in a given column. I could have written a script to do such validations, but it seems like a frequent enough problem that a general-purpose tool should exist, and it would be easier to maintain a bunch of rule files over a complex script.

Validations would include:
- in this depth of filesystem, only folders can exist (no files), and should match this regex
- files named "projectCover.png" under a project folder should not exceed a certain file size
- each project folder should have a folder named "uploads", and for each file inside it, a "thumbnails/<file>.png" should also exist.

Another validation isn't as trivial: database rows have file paths which should point to images in the filesystem, and I would wish to validate that these indeed exist. Storing binaries in the filesystem would remove these possible data inconsistencies, but has practical issues.
I mean, passing around leeches and bleeding everybody, while performing occult rituals would also be a sign they’re taking the problems seriously. That is separate entirely from whether it’s irrational self sabotage or not
Yeah but notice air is likely the least effective means. They also used a very loud vacuum pump so the active air sampling will be more noticible than most. You just have to run away from noises man (joke)

I question their use of the y chromosome as unfair (joke)
Yeah, that was my first image, had a cackle, and quickly realized his daughter is either an older teen or young adult. But it was funny for a moment!
Just a note to say that I bought the Air Gradient pre-soldered indoor monitor kit. It was simple to put together and I appreciate the lack of a required cloud server connection. I'm glad to the the outdoor monitor kit is now available - just in time for fire season!
I think he should be disbarred. He either deliberately ignored to check the validity of references using real sources or he is an imbecile who took AI answers for granted and imbeciles should not be allowed to practice law.
You forgot to mention it has no wireless, less space than a Nomad
Exactly, I'm fairly sure based on my rudimentary understanding of European regulations that the Cyber Truck as designed wouldn't pass. (Sharp corners = very bad for pedestrians)

My assumption is that they aimed to have the automation/AI to the point that it avoided collisions and pedestrians, and aimed to sidestep the regulations. I don't think that has a chance in hell of happening though.

Don't get me wrong, the child in my loves the design, it's awesome. However the adult in me knows it's stupid, ridiculously oversized and dangerous.
Note that it appears the lesson was not learned...

This lawyer at first cited these (fake) cases, and then when asked to provide copies of the cases then faked the copies too, also using ChatGPT.

In my view, that is being caught (asked to provide copies, which is unusual in the legal world, and presumably only done because the judge had failed to find them), and then doing the crime again (using chatgpt to fake these cases)
Especially with social media, the anger would spread throughout society like wildfire.
Where did I say hybrid was not a compromise? If you're more than 5 years old you should be able to read my comment and interpret it correctly.
rip on it all you want, these will sell out and you will see them everywhere