skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1950s there was no metal, chiptunes, EDM and other stuff like that. We had all that by the 80s and 90s. But what can we make now that we could not have made 20-30 years ago? Seems like that we've reached "the end of history" in music. I haven't seen anything new appearing.

Computers can already generate every possible waveform that can be heard by human ears. There's nowhere else to go. Anything above 16kHz is useless and can't be heard anyway.
Fire trucks and ambulances both feature staff trained as EMT’s. The provisioning of the vehicles might be slightly different, but the medical training is the same. And I’m sure the provisioning could be adjusted based on the circumstances.

Staff being unavailable because they’re sick is quite literally “normal day to day operations” that every company must be able to account for, not “beyond the breaking point”.

But if you “don’t know what to say” beyond vague emotional appeals unsupported by the very sources you claim to cite, I’m glad we agree on that at least.
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Mental Liquidity is another way of thinking about "Psychological Flexibility," which is the subject of a huge amount of clinical research. There's an entire therapeutic framework called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which came out of this research.

Check out this article [0] for a description of ACT from a founder's perspective.

[0] https://every.to/no-small-plans/how-to-do-hard-things
> No one wants to work in such conditions and no one should.

Honestly, I would if the pay is good and it doesn’t alternate on a weekly basis. When I was working at Amazon we had weekly alternating shifts and they are the worst. It would’ve been better if the time interval between shifts would be longer, like 5 weeks, so for example you work 5 weeks night shift, 5 weeks early shift, 5 weeks late shift and then 5 weeks night shift again.
Right that's what I mean, it requires "fiddling" to resolve. I think these could both be solved with a larger context, where you could include a style guide.
You've put words together to provide a meaning that seems impossible. 'gripping' ... 'about grocery stores'. I think I need to get this -- if only for the possibility that your description might be accurate.
Another day, another article opening by shitting on everyone concerned with the dangers of AI without engaging with their arguments, only to dive into a largely unrelated topic. Is that the new way to get upvoted?
We have run internal tests to ingest 1.2 petabayte of data in 24 hours period. We are making further improvements in performance and we will publish details that will allow you to replicate it yourself.
They say to get a promotion you need to already be acting at the level of your new role.

How the heck did that one work?
> What is going on?

they want to sell shares of their company to investors that want to see the platform growing, and censorship works
Does anyone know how a tool like Figma or Miro handle conflict resolution or synchronization so efficiently in real-time? For example: the position of a simple colored box being manipulated by 2 or more people at the same time. Is this article even remotely relevant for such a use case?
It's a Dad Thing
A curated list of topological deep learning (TDL) resources and links
> In central jersey, it costs at least $20/person for a round trip ticket. If you go with your family or a group of friends filling a 5 seat car, the train costs $100 just to get into the city and then get hit with whatever additional costs you have for the next few subway rides. Gas, parking, and carpool bridge/tunnel toll prices don't add up to anywhere near that amount.

Drive to a PATH station in newark, hoboken, jersey city, etc. Take the PATH train to manhattan and save $75. Profit.
I had a complex depth-first recursive reducer that I wanted to change to iterative but was struggling to fully grock and implement myself. I tried Chat GPT 3.5 and it failed miserably. I sent the recursive code to a coworker who has Chat GPT-4 and not only did it create an iterative solution correctly on the first prompt, it pointed out that the original code had an off-by-one error that occurrs in only 1/128 of cases, and due to compounding rounding, manifests in real world situations even less often.

So GPT 3.5 is great for doing trivial things I already know how to do AND describe accurately, things I'd ask a junior engineer to tackle, but GPT 4 seems to be able to do things I struggle with. I'll probably subscribe now.
Nothing materially changed at Twitter despite all of Musk's antics, and the CEOs of Reddit and all other similar sites were taking notes.
> The same way we traded away the profession of painters for photography

People still paint? Even portrait, although I'll acknowledge it's far less popular than it was in the 1700s. A town full of reproduction artists in China seems a bigger threat to capitalistic western artists than an AI that will mostly provide generic output.
This is great that you got gpt-4 to explore the codebase using an agent approach. I tried this previously with gpt-3.5-turbo and have been meaning to revisit it since I got gpt-4 access.

I shared some notes on HN awhile back on a variety of experiments I did with gpt-3.5-turbo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441666
Loma Linda is in a desert valley situated between parched hills and the I-10 freeway, nestled under a blanket of perpetual smog.

This is a criminal abuse of zoomed-out maps and a negligently written article. A more accurate representation of LL’s “seaside” location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Loma+Linda,+CA/@34.0389499...

It might have more to do with the strict lifestyle choices than the sights and sounds of the sea an hour drive away.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/i-breathe-loma-linda-how-...
One man’s 8-bit quest to finish his teenage Commodore 64 RPG
Then don't use Youtube.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source for ideologically contentious subjects like Critical Theory.

Here another article on the subject of Critical Theory, this one viewing the subject from the other side of the ideological isle:

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/

Read both, follow references where desired and draw your own conclusions, this time from a wider perspective than the rather lopsided treatment this Wikipedia article gives the subject. Don't forget to read the comments on the New Discourses article (which are critical of what is written there) and the Talk and History pages on Wikipedia.
The Times is not a great source. It’s just tabloid style journalism targeted at a higher ‘reading age’. Can’t remember the exact figures but something like 16 compared to ‘The Sun’ which targets 10. A better source would be The Telegraph, if you like your opinion pieces right leaning. The Economist, The Financial Time and The Guardian are also good sources if we’re talking about British newspapers here.
Biggest footgun in python IMO are mutable default parameters. It amazes me that someone thought this was a good idea.
Possibly, but now you have only one circuit to harden against such attacks, and you can continue using commodity DRAM ICs and modules.
quick note that the videos on that site only sync if they load at the same time, not guaranteed on slower connections
>And I wonder if someone keeps track of what the proper traditional Java major version should be now. I'd guess its on 2.x or 3.x at best

What does that even mean?
It was night time. Titanic's radio transmitter could work on both 500kHz and 1MHz, pretty advanced stuff for the time, and the bands were far quieter.

It would have been hard *not* to hear it on both sides of the Atlantic, even with the primitive receivers of the day.
I don't understand this view point that is so common on HN. I can only assume that most engineers on here are quite junior.

Of course you grow as a manager. But you're right you're not growing as a technical expert - that's not the goal of managing. Managing becomes more about the business and less about the technical details.

It's a very different job and an important one if you know anything about running a larger company. The technical work you do as a IC is one part of many that drives the business forward.
I often use something similar. I call it spontaneous incremental tidying and decluttering. I remind myself that tidying is a process, not a goal. One iteration of the algorithm is very quick and I can do as many as I like.

I often tell myself that I'm going to use it to clear this small area, and before I know I've made massive progress. But if I don't, then I've still made a dent and I can resume anytime.
If you want a deep-dive into the bytecode, there's a great article at:

https://medium.com/@nataliiadziubenko/java-20-pattern-matchi...

The tl;dr = no new intrinsics (for now), it uses table-switches and invokedynamic
I don't think you need any byte code intrinsics for pattern matching. Special cases aside, there is no generic efficient way to describe them. Java byte code is badly designed anyway so it's up to the VM compiler to do the heavy lifting.
Eating 50000 years old frozen meat
> Sim City was too brainy, my 10 yr old self didn’t want to do homework about power/water resources.

Aw, I always thought those were the best parts (my 4 year old self fucking loved the SimEarth manual - the one that went into detail about things like prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes - and there was a giant SC2K strategy book that was The Best) and didn't like Spore because it wasn't Will Wright enough.

Which was probably the problem: It didn't know which audience it was going for. The Sims was great because you could go as deep as you wanted. Like in the Sims 2 I had about 200 unique genetic markers all arranged in a very complex inheritance system, but you didn't need to do that. Whereas with a lot of the Maxis games you did have to and that's what you've identified here that I never really thought about.

Did you ever play any of the 90s Maxis Kids games? I'd be curious what you thought of them - especially something like Sim Town.
> Some people still argue that security by obscurity works and hide everything. I doubt that.

It is certainly true for games. There are only very expensive cheats for eg R6S and Overwatch 2, and the encryption of those games is a headache.
I choose to believe there exists an old guard that use the site without points visible, either through frontend modification or mobile apps.
Ask HN: Any Startups looking for an software intern this Summer or Fall?
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I've worked at 3 startups. I've tried to build my own at www.nfcorange.com.

My tech stack includes: TypeScript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, SQL, Python.

My interests are:
- Crypto / Blockchain / Web3
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This is a fun idea. When do you expect to release?
am I the only one who remembers that his name was "Clippit"?
It wasn't "divisive" until it was revealed to exist, and the narrative was pushed. The division was sowed.

Before people knew of the extensive surveillance, there was no division - you were nuts for thinking that our government was capable of trampling on the law to do something like this in secret. It's only after the revelations that the waffling around whether it was legal and whether it was ethical started to arise.
And often paid in either bonuses or options. I haven't gone through the website much, does it distinguish pay vs. other compensation?
My "thing" is that what often gets passes off as diversity and inclusion is actually assimilation.

I like to use the "seat at the table" metaphor. It's been a rectangular table. As diversity and inclusion join, the table should become oval as it progresses towards round. As for a seat at the table? If there's diversity and inclusion some take a chair, some stand, other might sit on the floor. That is, everyone gets a place at the table, but seat isn't forced upon them.

On the other hand, with assimilation nothing really changes. The rectangular table just gets longer and longer, and adds more seats.

All in all, assimilation is the means to the ends of monoculture.
Readable (just) in Seamonkey although some of the text is overwriting other text. Fully readable in links on the command line. Well done.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the law or article, but wasn’t the author implying that the act of inference on an LLM model itself is a sort of “statistical experiment”:

> In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times.

And so the mean in this case is “perceived like a real human”?
No, you’re not taking into account our connectedness and the velocity of ideas as a result of our connectedness.
The Risks of Staying Put
Taxi and Uber drivers watching all their income for the night evaporate to the tolls
Good catch. There are two sets of numbers. Prevailing wage is data from BLS that sets a floor for H1B wages. Companies often pay much more.
Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the production company founded by Lucas, on October 30, 2012 for a reported $4.05 billion

https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-much-did-george-lucas-sell....

I'm assuming they expect a lot of money.

(I actually couldn't believe what that dead comment said, so I googled it).
My second job was working for a small WebObjects consultancy in 2008. They developed bespoke line-of-business applications for small companies. Having the complete stack - from the HTML templating through to the ORM - provided by one vendor and designed to work together made development faster than anything I've worked with since.

It's a shame the cost was too high for too long, and even when Apple made it free, they never open sourced it.
I think this is the style of writing TFA is complaining about.
They don't need to develop an alternative to 100LL. Oil companies make it in such small quantities it's a total pain in the arse to cope with.

If you adapt a car engine (like a VW Beetle or Subaru engine, both flat-fours and common lightweight GA power plants) then it just runs on ordinary 95 octane unleaded, the exact same stuff you put in your car.
I agree but in this case, guy who lost his credibility shilling crypto scams says what?
I don't think terseness is the issue. It's the fact that it lets you do anything, even if it's a terrible idea. `__subclasses__` is my favourite example of that.
With what? Electric trains? I'd love it if there were enough electric trains that I don't need a car, but trains will never go as many places as cars do so they won't 'disappear almost completely'. It will be sufficient if they are reduced by 75% and are electric. Part of this reduction will result from shrinking of the global population.
I’m not important enough to be a target of this attack in the first place!
Judging from the sheer amount of R&D that goes into each one of those I'd say that's pretty prolific.

Hell, that kind of output would even be pretty prolific for a whole team of engineers working on commercial projects for customers.
They made fun of the failed companies but don't think anyone made fun of the Internet as a whole.

Today, Amazon pretty much "took over" Pets.com's business.
I worked on the MUMPS Standard when I taught in the Medical Informatics Committee at UC San Francisco. When I first encountered the language, I was appalled. For example, in pre-standard MUMPS, lines with no trailing blanks and lines with one trailing blank had a different interpretation. For those interested, https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/hb/nbshandbook118.p.... At one of the standardization meetings, I embarrassed myself by called MUMPS a "viral disease" because of the pathology of the programming language as defined to an audience of people who saw it as a practical tool they used every day. The standard helped stabilize the language. I acquired an appreciation for the incredible skill application programmers can adapt a general purpose extensible language to do their bidding.
Here's a story from a couple who got their entire Google account banned forever because their bank had an issue processing a payment for Google Fi:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804

Here's another case where Google kept charging for a service they failed to deliver and refused to refund that stolen money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956090

Both cause harm to people's livelihoods, but they went on anyways. It's very different from the attitude they're showing towards Twitter.
Being glue, like building internal tools and processes, often has a lot of autonomy compared to working on a product
I've discovered new interests with time and I started worrying what others think about. This has lead to me being more creative.
Also a most random note here:

mutable
/ˈmjuːtəbl/
adjective
liable to change.

I like the emphasis that it’s liability haha
Because Lemmy is federated, it may be difficult for reddit users migrating to lemmy to find their subreddits.

Here's a guide to help reddit users find popular lemmy communities and subscribe to them across different instances

* https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-...
It doesn't matter. Apple had IP they didn't want to leak, and it got leaked. That alone was a security breach.
This is not unreasonable. It also sets expectations of a proper compensation, because inner discipline is not really in an abundant supply.
Something as simple as getting caught in rain and needing an emergency change of wet socks meant these convienence stores were lifesaving. Truly something worth emulating in other countries.
My interpretation of the rating system is that “depressing” is their reaction, regardless of whether what they’re commenting on is optimistic or pessimistic.
Brings an entirely different element of "fun" to every Tencent game.
Converting from manager to engineer at the same level requires a special test in at least one FAANG company. Doesn't that mean going from manager to IC is a promotion? And then obviously the other way around must be a demotion?
No, according to copyright if you remember something from your brain and perform it live you are very much in violation.

If you remember it and make something that is a distinct work, something that may be steals the idea without reproducing any of its elements, that's never been considered under copyright.

I think that's going to be the litmus test for these AI. If you can get them to produce out both that is this things from anything else, it's not going to be a copyright violation because it's not a copy of anything.
> I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls.

He's got a sweetheart deal.

https://api.imgur.com/#commercial takes us to https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing

There is no $166 plan. The least expensive $500/month plan is "only" 7.5M requests per month.

50M requests under the ultra plan (7.5M requests and then $0.001 for each one after) would cost $43k/month - and it would be more sensible to go to the "mega" plan then which is $10k/month for 150M API calls.
I was going to suggest that the benefits would be _de minimis_ and thus nonreportable, but having read through some of the IRS guidance, I no longer think that's the case, as the ability to keep was conditional on the employees testing it. If it was instead "please take up to two programs home, and we'd appreciate any bug reports if you use them", I think that would qualify as de minimis through.

In practice, I doubt the IRS would care even if they knw about it, and I suspect Microsoft's Finance/Compliance teams didn't even know about this as it seems like an Engineering Manager's own initiative.

(There may of course be a different exclusion that applies -- I'm not going to read through the Internal Revenue Code to check...)
One interesting concern this raises is what this is doing to the housing stock.

A well-known problem in cars is that people without much money tend to buy used cars, while those with more buy new. That means that new cars tend to be aimed at richer buyers, which can make them less good for people with less money. E.g., in my youth I knew people who drove giant rusted "land yacht" cars and spent too much on gas. Today you'll see a similar phenomenon with giant old SUVs.

In housing, I've seen plenty of apartments that had been carved of of the mansions of yesteryear. A friend who recently bought a house in Austin said that finding something small enough was a struggle. He saw a lot of relatively new construction that was 3k+ sq ft, when he and his family wanted well under 2k so as to minimize upkeep and leave more greenery. I have to wonder how much the relatively wealthy boomers are influencing what gets built, and how that will continue to be a problem long after they're gone.
> When he considered his targets for murder that is indeed a moral question for him.

But it's using his moral system, which was relative when it comes to murder.

It's not how you and I think about murder that matters.

> The point is that when you allow for individuals to come up with their own personal reasons for murdering a member of a certain group that you allow for an infinity of reasons and targets.

If you allow anyone to do so, then across all of them you'll see an infinity of reasons, yes.

But this isn't about allowing, and this is about a specific murderer. A specific murderer won't use an infinity of reasons.

> for me the relationship between someone who buys gasoline and someone who sells gasoline is mutual

Let's just assess harm here and not talk about murder or anything. I don't think Ted K had much reason to disagree with this statement. But you're missing a crucial factor. The consumer buys one lifetime supply of gas. The producer sells a million. If we split the blame equally for each transaction, then each consumer has .5 blame units and the producer has 500 thousand blame units.
I did it a few years ago, it was very easy to do, and integrated very fine with Home Assistant.

It's not too hard to do, you just have to have the component, and some solder.

The main issue I have is the noise, it is really noticeable (and the sound mode makes it less accurate: https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...)
This one wasn't the worst offender among them, which was largely about how LLMs are pushing us towards "Great Homogenization" and why that is a bad thing.
“Dystopian” is a little dramatic
Two models of AI oversight – and how things could go deeply wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opbF9Nz_Emg
And I like it more, so I am willing to pay more. The implicit notion that I’m getting the same thing for less just isn’t true.
The Case for Selective Slackerism
Without paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
Is the big bang theory science or history, by that logic?
If you consider sharing the browsing habits of all of your visitors with Cloudflare to be free, then yes.
So you don't see even the slightest trace of bad faith in comparing a (disputed) figure of 200,000 deaths over 20 years with a figure of 9,000 deaths over 18 months which is acknowledged as an underestimate by the very agency that cites it?

I mean, I have little choice but to believe you when you say you're not on the side of the Russian government here -- and you're certainly right in that #NotAllRussians are to blame. I agree I need to be a bit more careful with language like that. So why are you adopting their propaganda arguments, specifically by dredging up the Iraq war to make an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation somehow less unacceptable? What do you gain from doing that? What point do you imagine you are making?

The Iraq invasion was an atrocity, an outrage that, as I said, many of us protested at the time. It has nothing whatsoever to do with current events in Ukraine. You might as well cite the Trail of Tears or the Tuskegee Experiment. Why even bring it up?
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