skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the company is transparent enough, sometimes that makes it up if they don’t provide enough documentation for whatever process they may have. Most often than not, the following is enough for me to get up and running in any company without too much help and knowing exactly how other people like to work:

- public slack channels. If I can sneak into any team’s channel, I can get enough information about how people communicate (async vs sync, emojis or not, tagging individuals?, how much they use @here?, grammar mistakes? gifs? Do they poke their peers about unreviewed PRs via Slack? And a long etc. You practically can mimic (and learn) their best performer just by knowing how to search on Slack

- public Jira boards. With this I can know how tickets are described. One liners vs very well detailed issues, screenshots?, how long does it take in average to move a ticket from Backlog, to In progress, to Done, etc.

- public (within the company) repositories. So can I dig around and see their commit formats, merge or rebase?, do bugfixes go along with tests?, code quality, etc.

- public calendars. So i know more or less what people setup meetings for. I can check also how long they usually last, how often they happen, how many there are per week, whether or not meetings have descriptions/goals

Hell, if you even let me dig around C-level email inboxes, I can be more than just an individual contributor. One of the worst companies I worked for had almost everything private: private slack channels for teams, private repositories, private calendars… I felt like I couldn’t get to know the company culture for real.
would you still stand by your point if the quote came from (extreme case) Adolf Hitler?

if the answer is no... there you go.
It looks like the haters found my comment, and really, really want to make it clear that they hate Elm. To each their own.
There’s only one competitive GPU company in town. Ids actually supremely easy to enforce it for any of 3 governments in the world. US, TW, CN
Really? I would completely disagree.

Reading his manifesto at 14 after seeing endless newspaper descriptions of it as incoherent, rambling, crazy, etc. was an eye-opening moment for me:

I found the manifesto to be lucid and well-argued.

In a moment of shock I realized you can't trust the newspapers, at all -- a judgement I hold even more strongly today, with a few decades more of experience.

I'd encourage anyone who hasn't to read it themselves and form their own opinion!
Yudkovsky
Flip it 180 degrees ? Cases are designed to blow the air into the back, not to have back facing the user...
If he grows a company just to the right size and sells it, then he could build all the products he wants.
The way I see it, it's clear that human-level intelligence can be achieved with hardware that's toaster-sized and consumes 100 watts, as demonstrated by our brains. Obviously there is some minimum requirements and limitations, but they aren't huge, there are no physical or info-theoretical limits that superhuman intelligence must require a megawatt-sized compute cluster and all the data on the internet (which obviously no human could ever see).

The only reason why currently it takes far, far more computing power is that we have no idea how to build effective intelligence, and we're taking lots of brute force shortcuts because we don't really understand how the emergent capabilities emerge as we just throw a bunch of matrix multiplication at huge data and hope for the best. Now if some artificial agent becomes powerful enough to understand how it works and is capable of improving that (and that's a BIG "if", I'm not saying that it's certain or even likely, but I am asserting that it's possible) then we have to assume that it might be capable of doing superhuman intelligence with a quite modest compute budget - e.g. something that can be rented on the cloud with a million dollars (for example, by getting a donation from a "benefactor" or getting some crypto through a single ransomware extortion case), which is certainly below the level which would draw attention. Perhaps it's unlikely, but it is plausible, and that is dangerous enough to be a risk worth considering even if it's unlikely.
> Turns out leftists love self criticism for self improvements.

they really don't, and this is one of the reasons why there is so much fracturing in the left, usually.
It does, but if you'll elaborate on your incorrect understanding I'd be happy to educate you: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08040/cp_prim5_...

> most forms of transportation finance—fuel taxes, sales taxes, and tolls—are regressive forms of taxation in that they burden the poor more than they do the rich.
This is just Usenet. Everyone used to use it and it still exists.
> It's really easy to argue against a thing that nobody actually believes.

Are you sure nobody believes critical theory?
> If you have some questions I'll be glad to answer.

What is the main difference between ECL and GCL?
Why isn't it fair? NVidia GPUs are notoriously terrible at OpenCL.
so not only is it a shitty boilerplate generator, now it also introduces deliberate random changes (i.e. bugs)
Yea exactly!

https://b.siobud.com might not be always available. So best to host yourself for anything important :)

Excited for you to use it. Send any ideas my way for improvement.
This is a point that I'm kind of fuzzy on: is there a specific requirement to not change the algorithm too much based on type/comparison? Like if the user calls it on a 1-byte type with default comparison, the best way to do this in a vacuum is a counting sort. Smaller generated code and everything. Both C/C++ and Rust developers seem unwilling to do this, but not having asked I don't know why exactly.

On the other hand Julia just switched to radix sort much of the time in their latest version, so other languages can have different approaches.
> thanks to the stability of the eyes

Took me a few seconds to work out that this was a typo, not some strange persistence-of-vision related effect!
If you copy those exact words, that's copyrighted and under a CC license.

If you follow the instructions, you're completely fine since how you do that is up to you.

This is covered under the idea–expression dichotomy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea–expression_distinction ).

It is the expression of an idea - not the idea itself - that is copyrightable.

I can paint a picture of a red house on a wooded hillside with a snow capped mountain in the background. My painting is copyrighted. You can paint the same thing based on the the same description. I can't copyright the idea of the red house on a wooded hillside with a snow capped mountain in the background (I can copyright the text, but that text likely lacks sufficient originality).

Likewise, I can't copyright the idea of how to fix a problem. I can copyright some particular code that fixes that problem. I can copyright the text that describes how to fix the problem - but I can't copyright the idea. Creative Commons, GPL, and the rest of the FOSS licenses all deal with copyrights - not ideas.

If you do want to protect an idea, that is in the domain of a patent. "This particular arrangement of latches and levers solves the problem of how to open the back of a truck with minimal force" - that idea of the arrangement of latches and levers is patentable.
> I personally think there is no programming problem where types aren't useful.

I'd have to disagree with that just on first principles: no absolutes. (Note that that's an absolute.) :)

Anyway, I'm not trying to argue that types are not useful, they are. What I'm saying is that Python's loose approach to typing is useful "in the small" so to speak, but as projects grow larger you want "harder" types, checked by machine. Same thing with DB schema: No-SQL only makes sense in the small domains where the schema can be ignored or treated as an afterthought. Above a certain size and you grow a schema again and might as well do it right.
Considering my ability to turn a block of beautiful code into spaghetti, the answer is yes-- I always leave in the original attribution /s
If that is true, then dump them! When a billionaire is too busy to pay bills, then he should be shut off. Of course there will always be some suck-up willing to front services to a rich person, but usually the provider will get screwed on the deal.

Google needs to learn to be proactive instead of quietly reactive on everything. They have no voice in the world, despite the immense power they have. Perhaps that is a strategy.
> Tesla FSD navigating the complex city streets of LA for 60 minutes with zero human intervention.

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-a...
Writing only one thing down would raise my fear of missing something out that needs to be done.

I like to have some kind of backlog of tasks to do, and clean that up regularly and start fresh with a daily list of tasks to do.
I don't have any data or sources on this; if my memory is correct the participants were actually anonymous and the only reason we know Ted Kaczynski participated is because of his brother, so we don't even know who the other people were. However, I expect if another one had also become a terrorist, we would have heard about it. There were just a handful of participants (1 or 2 dozen or thereabouts), so it's not really enough for a "proper study" anyway.

Also: many people (myself included) were extensively and viciously bullied in their childhood and/or teen years. Many suffer profoundly negative effects from this, sometimes for decades or even their entire lives, but most are not terrorists. And even if it did turn out that the incidence of terrorists was higher: that still doesn't absolve them or their own responsibility in committing violent acts against random people (i.e. terrorism).
My 120W 7800X3D only managed to heat that monster to 70C. I should probably bump the thermal profile to spin to max only around 80C...
Wild. Do you know why is that code here?
I suppose you have a better idea for financing the investments, instead of congestion tax?
I do ant more too. I’m going to call it any more now.
I run a couple of dev instances on LightSail and a couple on EC2 - what exactly is the difference one should be observing there? (except intended by design)
On the other hand, a parking space is a bare concrete slab, or even a lift holding several cars over a bare concrete slab; and an office building is ... not.
I watched the first three Mad Max films last night, in one sitting...while there is certainly an argument for absolute performance over time, it's becoming a lot more difficult to justify the power consumption of the current Intel (and, to a lesser degree, AMD) offerings, especially for sustained personal productivity and burst compilation tasks.

We cannot speak of performance without the per-watt quotient. Battery life is a real concern, and current Wintel laptops just don't compete.

Energy concerns are real (as depicted in the George Miller-directed films mentioned above), and it may be the case that the premium paid for Apple Silicon-based devices is actually a bargain.
Why Books Are My Metaverse: The Startup Behind the Sol Reader
You mean "you and your onboarding buddy figure out the solution and update the document". It might just be me but I think it's a bit crazy to expect someone with less than 8 hours experience in the role to figure out issues that other team members either haven't noticed or chose to ignore.
I was happy with Azure but just got a bill with “other” charges for $1k on what is a basic VM used solely as a db replica.
>Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've never had an expense report that took me less than 2 hours to complete.

For a big international trip, it can definitely take a while. But I also have a lot of monthly cell phone bill, went into town for a customer visit, etc. that really don't take very long. (They're still more of a hassle than I'd like but they have to be done and they're pretty quick.)

ADDED: I do get the unification aspect, but I personally like the separation between this has to happen on or by this date, needs to get done within some reasonable time horizon, and maybe/someday projects.
It usually isn't the best way to introduce it, but if you value clear communication it makes sense to say that it is a fork of Elm if someone wonders whether or not it is one. Otherwise you're venturing into territory where the meaning of words is arbitrary and only your favorite words to describe something are valid.
Logseq is my note telling app, very much aligned with my style (short notes, bullet style).

The thing it is really missing are plain pages, in MD, without bullets
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I heard when Bullseye came out that I should wait a bit as the initial bugs were found. I'm wondering if that was true then or now.
Teslas may not I see you, but we do LispSporks22. You matter! ;)

I wonder how many deaths and crashes it will take for regulators to decide to start creating test frameworks that car manufactures must implement and pass.

It seems rather than creating such frameworks from the start as soon as it looks like it could be a problem, regulators wait until some particularly bad highly publicised event happens to bring such things in.
> Mercedes can’t indemnify you. Local police and prosecutors make those decisions

Are you thinking of immunity? Indemnity is regularly contracted between private parties. (Also, police can’t give you immunity in America.)
A simpler argument: the Vision Pro OLEDs are approximately the same resolution as a 4K display but field of view is much higher. Hence the angular resolution must be lower.
Different meaning of the word "magic". I didn't mean that life isn't wonderful and beautiful. I meant it's not a phenomenon separate from rest of physics.

I meant that it's still a physical process, following the same rules as inanimate matter does -- and than in fact, there is no fundamental distinction between "living" and "dead" matter - living things are literally machines made of tiny machines made of nanomachines made of atoms. This means it's something we can study, and eventually master.

The context of the discussion is AI, and specifically a poster upthread saying, "Some science fiction posits a level of genetic engineering that is so advanced it's more like regular engineering." To which I say, d'uh, it's not science fiction, we're actually almost there; it's an obvious direction of future advancement, and the one an AI is just as likely to take as we are.

Whether or not you see magic, as in wonder, in a butterfly - whether you can find joy in the mundane - is another topic entirely (though not less important).
Sure, IaaS is commodified so the next opportunity for differentiation & value add is in services.

For GCP specifically, the Anthis/Omni stuff seems like a way to sell those services even if the infrastructure isn't actually in GCP.
CapyPDF: Low level library for generating PDF files
I wonder if something like "The Well" would work these days? Start a Reddit/Digg kind of place to share on specific topics, but charge a few dollars a month to belong. No ads, no tracking, just a place to share stuff with ohers.
Can we use our own GPT4 api access ?
So this means now they're no longer free I suppose :(
You will be surprised to know that lot of real wealthy people drive normal cars. People who buy flashy cars in America, majority of them finance/lease it and probably couldn't afford it to buy in cash which is what u need to be able to do if ur buying a car.
I never said they were a great measure. Another tool in the toolkit. Or it was anyway.
That's an issue, but I don't think that's the main issue. There's plenty of ways around that if the will is there. Worst case scenario you could just create an old-school mailing list. Everyone has the infrastructure for that already in place, and plenty of close communities were built around them ~30 years ago.

However, there's two big things standing in the way:

1. The vast majority of the population - I'd say at least 99.99%, probably more - is only interested in jumping on the next big thing. People who liked and enjoyed being part of mailing list communities, handcraft html webrings, AIM, self-hosted forums, MUDs, etc. would probably be happy to go back to those if they were suddenly popular again. But when they went out of popularity in favor of current social media trends, everyone jumped ship. Everyone's following the crowd.

2. Online communities tend to not place any limits on output, so a few hyperonline individuals dominate the conversation (and in cases where moderation occurs, have methods to control the community). Hyperonline individuals don't tend to be the best socialized ones (people with healthy lives aren't spending all day on the internet).
Seriously, even when doing nothing whatsoever (and cores themselves idling at 1.3W) the package is taking 20W.
I should clarify, I meant that ipn_stable and ipn_unstable were separate projects, albeit with some cross-over ideas.

I can't rule out that someone else had that idea for limiting the use of sorting-networks, all I can say is that I came up with that myself. At the same time a lot of the good ideas in ipnsort are ideas from other people, and I try my best to accredit them. As I commented before, my goal is not peak perf for integers at any cost. Here is a commit https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/commit/d908fe... that improves perf by 7% across sizes for the random pattern. But that comes with a non negligible binary size and compile time impact even for integers. And while I use heuristics to only use sorting-networks where sensible, they can guess wrong. This is a generic sort implementation with the goal of being a good all-round implementation fit for a standard library and those various uses.
How to Run a New Reddit
Wind farms: Strong tropospheric ducting on the Dutch weather radar at the moment
I am writing now as earnestly and charitably as possible: could you tell me how what I wrote is a personal attack?

I want to engage on HN in a productive way and I do not mean to personally attack anyone.

I think the reason you were able to link to so many instances of me personally attacking someone is because I genuinely do not understand what you consider a personal attack. I thought I was arguing against ideas and statements, not attacking anyone individually.

I'd consider personal attacks to be ad hominem, which is exactly the opposite of what I am trying to do in my comment — I am trying to point out what is and what isn't a logically valid and argument.

Would you please help me understand? I'd like to learn and be able to engage in a manner that is accepted.
The range of opinions definitely varies more than before but in my experience not by that much out of choice.

IMO the primary reason (and the only one among my circles) that Indians move back to India is immigration issues. Both for them individually and for family. The lack of being able to ever get citizenship prevents people from bringing family which then adds the additional layer of reasons to move back.

What I will say I see less of is Indians giving up and moving to "backup" countries. They're giving up and going back to India more often. (Not saying people should treat countries that way but a lot of people do).

Obviously all anecdotes but just my 2c.
I’ve mentioned before and there was a thread yesterday about a modern Usenet which I think falls into this line of thinking. In the early 90s there was an egalitarian messaging system that wasn’t actively and continuously abused. I would love to be able to be in a world like that, however, that world can’t exist again (at least not in the way it did).

As the saying goes, the only constant is change.
Maybe they’re waiting to finish the big roll out of NFT on YouTube!
> ... uses GPT4

when will people learn not to send their entire IP to Microsoft?
I don’t get what’s unhealthy about anything on that page. Elm’s trade offs are in plain sight. If you don’t want them, then you have plenty of warning.

Frankly Elm has more of a problem with negative fanboying: people who have decided it’s not for them yet have to constantly show up to neener neener every time Elm appears on HN instead of just moving on.

It’s very weird to me as someone who uses Elm daily. We get it. You don’t like it and everyone needs to know it.

That it’s some sort of cult is just HN drama begging fantasy.
One of my good friend’s dad was brutally murdered by Kaczynski when she was a young teenager.

A small bomb in a package that used razor blazes, nails, and other bits of metal to nearly tear his head off while his young family was in the house with him.

And it turns out the victim was the “wrong” man, as he didn’t even work on the project Kaczynski wanted to bring “retribution” for.

Kaczynski May have said some interesting things, but he physically tore apart the lives of many, leaving a wake of destruction during his crusade.

Actions speak louder than words. Even eloquent ones.
What kind of sharding strategy would be a good one for a reddit-like site?

Would you shard based on post-id?

Would you duplicate/denormalize the user comments and store them along-side users also, to make the "show all comments for a particular user" operation easier?
This defeats GP's idea (and the idea from the article) of only having one task at a time in the DOING section.
It's shows the system does not have a semantic understanding of what is happening.
That is why he stops so far away from the gate, it does not know it is a gate.

This is another one, definitely one of my favorite examples ( at correct time) - https://youtu.be/2u6AgLuwVqI?t=86
This actually seems great. They’re taking the hard path here admitting the devices are compromised, that the state can’t be trusted, and that the machine needs to be tossed. Then they’re offering to replace the vulnerable devices.

I’m used to companies taking the “deny, deny, deny” route and these articles are then written by their community saying the response is insufficient.
I know that GPON is shared; but as you say it's rarely the 'weak link'. Regardless, even if it was, it's much more likely that the downstream would be saturated on the gpon level vs the upstream - consumer ISPs are much more downstream heavy than upstream heavy, so I have no idea what the parent post means when he says that its hard to saturated gigabit uplink on consumer connections. It's the opposite if anything.
I love reading the mental gymnastics the anti-Elon folks in here are doing to actually believe Mercedes has beat Tesla in autonomous driving.
Now why would the EU mandate details that make for a less safe driving? You are implying they are either malicious or stunningly incompetent.
It's really fun with map software. When in a foreign country, the UI shouldn't switch to the language of that country, without your permission. But it does need to show you place names in the local language.
"Any and all"? It's not a particularly surprising attitude to find here, but I think it's a hard one to justify. Does ubiquitous surveillance technology not bother you at all, no matter how it's likely to be used? Are new methods of killing people always good? How about mind control? Not that we have it, but "any and all" would cover it. Is "doomerism" the only alternative you can think of to infinite optimism? That's a textbook example of the excluded middle.

I hope you just phrased that poorly, because if that attitude were widely and sincerely held it would be scary indeed. I say that, BTW, as someone who's generally optimistic about the possibilities inherent in new technology, and has even created a bit here and there. The uses and effects of technology must always be considered, not just naively assumed to be beneficial. Un-nuanced optimism is just as simplistic and "meritless" as its mirror image.