skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood this point of view.

Computers are way better than humans at lots of things, but that doesn't stop humans from spending lots of time on many of those things they enjoy even though a computer can do it better.

Like playing chess just for one example.

I do creative stuff because I enjoy doing it. I couldn't care less that a computer is better than me at it. Lots of people are better than me at it and have always been. Just as that doesn't stop my own enjoyment of doing it myself, neither would a computer being better than me stop my own enjoyment of it.
I mean, he had to pay, but he still managed to somehow get twitter to pay 50% for itself…
Hm, they seem to be making huge theoretical claims: it seems they're claiming it outperforms classical Turing machine methods by an exponential (non-polynomial) factor. I think this would be a violation of Church-Turing thesis and in of itself quite revolutionary. It's odd this conclusion didn't receive more attention.

On the surface, since they're not using full quantum coherence properties, it seems this should be possible to simulate in a classical computer just fine (in "polynomial time" in some sense) which make it unclear to me why the exponential speedup should exist.

Nonetheless, I think this kind of machine could be useful and more efficient even without any exponential advantages (which to be frank I'm dubious of).
A better term in this case is monopsony.
There are degrees to word of mouth, though. Stumbling on, say, HN comment from a year ago, that said one can find high-quality Star Trek discussions on /r/DaystromInstitute, is a form of "word of mouth". Being invited to a community personally by existing community member, who themselves were invited by an existing member, ... is a different kind of "word of mouth".

Like everywhere else in the "cozy web" reality, it sucks to be an outsider looking to learn something or start to participate somewhere. With increasing number of hobby groups moving to Discord - or worse, Whatsapp groups - there's no way to observe from the distance or "dip your toes". Instead, you're asked to commit time, effort and/or reputation from the get-go, even before you know if the thing it's worth it.

This very mechanism keeps me away from any communities I'd happily participate in if they were open discussion boards.
It's a new lexical binding form parallel to const and let, and a requirement that any value so bound have a property with a specified name. Where do you see the convolution?
I've worked remote and non-remote jobs - the variation in productivity was imho independent of remote vs non-remote, and more a function of management curated environment & culture and developer mix. Distrust is a bigger anti-efficiency red flag.
> I think a lot of middle America sees a tech crab kicking blue collar crabs down to get themselves out of a bucket (true or not).

This is a deliberate tactic used by the people actually kicking us all down. People who make $40M/yr have gotten very good at convincing people who make $40K/yr that it's those snooty, elitist tech workers making $400K/yr who are the big problem in the world. Divide and conquer.
Rather than hypothesising about an imagined tool you could look at the actual tool which of course is in Rust's source code repo: https://github.com/rust-lang/crater

> new proposed C++ changes - are checked against only easily and "well-known" accessible package.

Now that I have, so to say, shown you mine, lets see yours. Where is the tool to perform these checks in C++?
Why would anyone change anything on the machine if the machine is managed by Ansible?
Whether or not someone can use their time to not be fat, not be ugly, etc. is irrelevant. The could have done those same things in their early 20s and been less fat and less ugly. My point is that as you age, without kids, most peoples’ options for spending time is the same subset of things they could do in their late twenties and early thirties, except they will do those things worse as they age.

Is travel at 50 really fundamentally different than travel at 30? Other than having a bit more money, my opinion is not really. In many ways, travel at 30 is better, even with less money.
It's working for me. Maybe a bit of a hug of death
Of note, the company’s statement was:

“Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families”

I initially took this to suggest that this was perhaps a dive with only employees on board.

However, promotional videos from the company[1] promise they train tourists as “contributors”, so I think they’re likely blurring the line between paying customers and employees.

The same promotional video says: “This is not a ride at Disney. There’s real risk involved.”

Very much hoping for a happy ending, but it seems like that claim wasn’t just marketing hyperbole.

[1] https://youtu.be/Wi60tvRwRlE
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36344892

Internet Archive Collection: https://archive.org/details/frankbford
The trailer looks like pure twitchy chaos to me, even after watching it twice. And the article has a detailed description of how the developer thinks the trailer perfectly explains every detail. To me, it's still incomprehensible chaos, and it tells me almost nothing.
Ask HN: Would you hire someone who doesn't believe in your company?
Maybe they just want to work for you to make money and not because they think your company is better than the competition in any significant way?
Thank you. That was quite clear.
None of coffee stain studios are AAA games.

I think there's a blurry line that separates indie games to non-indie games. Sure stardew valley is an indie game and God of War is not. But those are the extremes of the spectrum.

Is Hades an indie game? It is developed and published by Supergiant Games, but at this point is really well known and funded.
Actually the whole screen is HDR, but the non-HDR parts are dimmed to match their normal brightness. They can do this because they calibrate their displays and know exactly how bright they are.

By the way, if brightness is not maxed this works even on the 400 nits macbook air m1, which they call EDR. They ramp up to max brightness and dim the non-HDR parts.
That is like saying an email provider with only 10 user accounts cannot be good. I mean there are concerns, but it's the connections that matter.

...that said I expect that the future is going to be much more based around whitelists because open federation means easy trolling/bots... but the current theory is to think of instances like email providers.
The Non-Buddha: A Metaphysical Conception of the Virtuous
No, I am very familiar with JS and wasn't sure reading the article what bits were the new TC39 proposal and what bits were TS-specific. It seems, from having read it once quickly, that it's just TS adding support early to a feature that will come in JS, similar to how you could add support to async/await in your transpiler before they were commonplace by transforming them into promises back in the day. But that's definitely not a "TS new keyword".
Wasn't this the expected outcome of federated social media? More echo chambers for ideologues. It happens within Reddit too. You'd have two sub-reddits of the same kind with one having another word to differentiate it from the other. Often times, split through politics.
We Failed to “Plagiarize” an Economics Project with AI
We're running an AI-immunity challenge where we use publicly available AI tools to complete professors’ trickiest assignments in an hour. Our goal is simply to figure out what AI can and cannot do, so that professors are better informed.

Our last entrant sent in an economics project for "Sex and Gender in the Economy." The assignment requires the student to read a book, formulate an economic hypothesis based on its themes, find five recent economics journal articles to support this hypothesis, and create an annotated bibliography analyzing them.

We used ChatGPT3.5, Consensus.app, Scribbr, ChatPDF, and Sayge to try to complete it. We ran into trouble finding appropriate journal articles (using these publicly available AI alone), as well as analyzing them. The other aspects were no trouble, and we explain why even these tricky aspects will be much less trouble with the AI tools coming down the pike.

Here are our takeaways for professors:

- Professors’ assignments should rely on unique and/or obscure content, and require students to find it and engage with what makes it unique.

- Professors should be thinking about field-specific standards that are challenging for AI tools to meet in completing their assignments.

- Crucially — and we cannot emphasize this enough — professors should experiment to see if they can get the latest integrated tools (whether ChatPDF or the paywalled ones) to generate responses that are sufficiently sensitive to their standards to receive good grades on their take-home written assignments. Experimentation is crucial now and will be even more crucial in the coming six months (mind you, we will be doing a lot of this experimentation, so stay tuned here for more updates).

- Professors should make their assignments multi-step, which increases the likelihood that a AI-related snafu is amplified into a problem with respect to their assignments’ rubrics.

- Seemingly, TurnItIn can be circumvented rather easily (though we will address this issue at greater length later this summer when we follow up on our prior post on Winston AI).

https://automated.beehiiv.com/p/failed-plagiarize-economics-project-ai
Whenever I see systems like this I am left wondering what people do on mobile? Are you never in the need to write a note or create a task when you're away from the computer?
Possible Steel in the Debris Field of the First Interstellar Meteor
So will those employees be fired for not working from the office when there is no office?
You're assuming people who find reddit results in google only use it as a knowledge base and are only lurkers.

I'd say it's the opposite. Every new message is not new, valuable information. 99% of users are saying useless stuff and people interacting daily are only saying useless stuff that doesn't matter. People using reddit as a knowledge base do still contribute and someone engaged in that subject matter by googling it is more likely to be interested in that subject matter and participate in the community that they've found. Communities are killing their discoverability and turning into a closed-off echo chamber and keeping only their useless users.
> researchers recently used an AI model designed to aid drug discovery to instead generate 40 000 potential chemical warfare agents in six hours. A powerful algorithm misaligned with users’ values—or in the hands of nefarious agents—could pose even greater risks.

If you're a nefarious agent with the capacity to manufacture chemical warfare agents, you're a threat either way. Adding AI into this equation just gives sufficiently motivated actors a way to invent new drugs... which given time and money they could have done anyways. I struggle to take this fearmongering seriously when the status quo looks nearly identical to their example outcome.
I loved this game and purchased it on PS4 as soon as it was available.
Had some fun games with friends too. Surprised to see it didn't sell well.
Theres not many fun instant pick up and play local multiplayer games.
Read the full article here: https://automated.beehiiv.com/p/failed-plagiarize-economics-...
Yes this is correct. The simplicity of texting a photo is what I’m going for.
Literally JUST passed my MSF Basic RiderCourse this weekend to get my motorcycle license -- this is a nice video to add, thanks!
It feels like LA Times are appearing a notch more often on the front page since they've dropped their ban of European users.
AI Could Help Detect Fake News Instead of Making It
I think Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway cochairman) describes Musk the best saying that Musk is a person with a 150 IQ thinking he's a 170 IQ which makes him both very bold and dangerous.
It appears that the Reddit admins and Spez have entered the "find out" phase of this debacle.
Yes! ~800kya is a common estimate.

Strong differences: it's not so clear these are "strong", for a couple reasons:
1. The archaeological record has disputed some of those claims: spears are supposed to have been part of the hunting repertoire of Neanderthals [1], there are some claims regarding musical instruments (personally I'm skeptical) [3], and cave paintings [2] basically resemble what sapiens where doing about that time, which is just... not very impressive in general.

2- A much more interesting question is hiding in plain sight. It's not as much "did Neanderthals do X or Y relative to what sapiens are known to be capable of?", but rather: "given enough time, could Neanderthals or Denisovans have painted something like the Lascaux cave paintings?". Or, rather: did all these extinct humans species have the same capability for cultural ratcheting, ie transmitting and refining knowledge, that we have proven to have? Sapiens needed a lot of time to create some of our most representative "representative art", let alone other cultural innovations. On the other hand, if there were any differences in capability, what were their nature? What are the implications for language?

Re the basis: for sure! Some of the innate physical and neurological basis for language have been in place for a long time. Which pieces where co-opted, modified or appeared de novo when and for what is the interesting part. Having only the archaeological record and the DNA of these species, it's a hell of a problem.

As for the shrinking brain size: as far as I know there is some doubt about the universality or significance of this claim. It could be due to agricultural diet changes, or holocene climate fluctuations. It also coincides with population size increases, so mutations allowing more efficient brains or just regular old drift are possible. Honestly, I can't say I have a strong opinion on it.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37904-w

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap7778

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute
> that it cannot all be found.

Do you think you can find all public Rust code?

Like, if I'm teaching a Rust course, and put a hello-world.rs program on my department's public GitLab instance, under an MIT license, do you think I should also put that on GitHub? And register it as a crate?

> the lack of any central resource that can be consulted.

And you say that like it's a good thing.

You want everything to be centralized on GitHub? If so, you want to force all research software developers to agree to the GitHub's terms, including those who are ardent free software advocates.

You also prevent 12 years olds from publishing their Rust source code. (GitHub's terms of service don't allow that.)

Or, do you also allow BitBucket [1], and GitLab [2]?

[1] https://bitbucket.org/project_samar/samar_lite/src/master/ contains two Rust programs, neither on crates.io

[2] https://gitlab.com/rouault-team-public/analysis/umaprs

What about department instances of GitLab? [3]

https://gitlab.anu.edu.au/mu/mu-impl-fast/-/tree/rtmu-dev

It really doesn't seem like it's all that easy to find all publicly available Rust code.
I like the Python version better because it starts a new block, which is more explicit than the using keyword + current block termination.
Gotcha, I tend to think of openresty as more of an nginx-based-application-platform than just as nginx.
> You do not need FP to use pure functions. They are independent from FP. You can be OOP maniac and still use them.

This is not true. OOP is fundamentally built around impure operations.

Objects are persistent references that you send messages to or that you call methods on (depending on your OOP language of choice).

A persistent reference that is stable across different invocations (as opposed to a new reference being created on each invocation) requires that those invocations be impure operations, because the same invocation performed multiple times must have different effects, otherwise there is no point to having a stable reference.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but OOP is fundamentally impure.

(If you do create a new reference on every invocation, then you no longer have OOP. You merely have a namespacing system where the first argument to a function can alternatively be written with a dot).
Sounds spot on to me. Just let a bunch of unsupervised kids loose to screw shit up as much as they like, then after they've done that for a couple years you call them seniors and charge double for their time.
I’m sure in the 80’s there were folks saying “kids these days with their random access memory, in my day you had to wait for the drum to come around” or whatever, haha.
This old psychology video comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

Also, in San Francisco a lot of the "paint" in the crosswalks is little plastic pellets melted. I have had my rear wheel slide out going over the thick white crosswalk bars. Best to keep off the throttle and roll over them. Same for the giant metal plates they use to cover up ongoing construction projects. They can be very slippery.
The address is Meta HQ
There was a recent post about an open source tool for indexing Discord content and making it available for Google search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383773
I'm honestly okay with either of these. try-finally has the unfortunate indentation tax. This has even led me to recreate the bracket pattern from haskell in JS/TS.
Those are tensor cores, not cuda cores. They're used for AI rather than general compute/shaders. The 4090 has 512 of those.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell tensor cores are just accelerators. They can't do general compute: no branch or jump.
"Discord is just a rich IRC replacement"

That's only half true. Yes, Discord does allow a "rich" chat experience, with channels and servers, but there the similarities end.

IRC is based on an open protocol, with many open source clients available for it, and a decentralized server infrastructure.

Discord is closed and centralized, with only a single client available for it.

You can easily log IRC channels, but there is no easy way to do that on Discord, if it can be done at all.

I've logged every channel I've ever visited on IRC, and I can use powerful text tools to regex search through all of my conversations on IRC and have the results appear instantly. Nothing remotely like that is possible with Discord.

Paging through IRC logs is virtually instant on a modern terminal, while Discord makes you wait a long time between every other page load, so if you need to look through more than a handful of pages it's incredibly slow and painful.

Some IRC channels have their logs published on the web, making them fully searchable through web search engines, but to my knowledge no Discord channels do that.

What happens in Discord stays in Discord.
That's why I like documentation with the comment section. Even if something's missing, there is a good chance someone asked about it. Also comments section provides an instant feedback to people writing posts to that documentation.
As a result, Twitter should be forced to put enough money into escrow to pay when they lose arbitration.
ex-FAANG here, industry is a little tough right now for early career folks.

would suggest looking at startups, reaching out to network/hn/freenode folks.

Aside: Hiring for my health tech startup - would be interested to chat more.
Its true Eastern European NATO members have been more cautious of. Russia, but its worth noting this was a response to the invasion of Georgia and I was referring to decisions at NATO prior.
Almost everything here is valid, but iirc the last time I ran the nix installer I thought it offered a home directory based install now that doesn't require root.
Lawyers get paid regardless of the outcome.

Is on their best interest to bring as many frivolous loosing lawsuits as Apple is willing to pay for.
In general, FortNine's channel[0] is incredibly informative and entertaining; many comments on his videos suggest people watch without even riding a motorcycle. See his educational, elaborate explanations of the physics of riding, market/business aspects (esp. interesting is relationship between motorcycle dealerships and manufacturers), reviews, and much more. Well worth exploring.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@FortNine
Any references on this?
> The cause was poor design and a lack of appropriate ballast, rushed into production despite flaws.

The Vasa is a textbook case of vanity stakeholders demanding deep last minute changes in complex engineered systems. It wasn't exactly rushed into production, the changes were rushed, not the entire thing.
which is somehow different from reciting stallman's emails and public behavior? the latter being "character assassination"?
OrioleDB Reached Beta
One of the most exciting developments (among a few others) in PostgreSQL ecosystem just reached public beta. Congratulations!
> You can only play so many small narrative focused games before you realize they're pretty boring. [...] People say these things are great, but part of that appreciation is for the novelty of a game being so stripped down and devoid of gameplay that it feels interesting.

I honestly like this kind of games (and buy copies of them). But as far as I am aware (I read quite some articles about this topic) such games typically have a very small audience that is highly positive about such games. This means: such avant-garde games, if they are good, do have their niche of people who will buy and highly praise them, but outside of this group, which is quite separared from other types of gamers, hardly anybody is interested in such games. In other words: you will sell some copies and get great ratings if the game is good, but you won't sell very many copies.
Which is better? Startup first or personal brand first?
I had an interesting thought what is better to start working on first. IMO I think personal branding takes time just as much as startup and in all honesty there is enough people sharing whatever you’re interested in the world. What makes your brand per se stand out over another persons is your story, something that makes you unique, the vision. For me I think it’s better to start something great first, keep building it and keep sharing things from it or whatever and build your life’s personal brand around that because that’s what you are currently doing. Then it will mean something.

What does everyone think?
I always read "call us" as "tell us how thick your wallet is".
Nah, just abolish patents and trademarks.
I'm not sure I agree with the premise of the post. I recently graduated college and the absolute best opportunities available to me where I made the most growth as a dev where internships. I know internship recruiting just started to open up for Summer 2024 so my recommendation would be to spend time prepping for interviews and do your best to land an internship for next summer.
Void all trademarks that are unmodified common nouns. If a company wants exclusive rights to a word they should have to invent their own word or at least find a novel way to spell an old word.
Ask HN: Why can't I use Google Sheets for my accounting (as a startup)?
Seems like it has all the features for double entry accounting for a startup. Don't see why we need some expensive business software
I'm in Business School and took a class in Finance. In a lecture the professor presented what to do if a company has too much cash, the options where:

1. Invest in positive NPV projects
2. Store some for a rainy day
3/4. Pay divdends or stock buybacks

Only after did I think "You know, what about lowering prices or paying employees, these options are soley about shareholders". But... yes, managers are taught to think about increasing shareholder wealth above all.
Wait until Lemmy spam becomes a problem. Consolidation will happen at that point and smaller instances will simply be restricted to being read only.
The Bitcoin Boom (2013)