skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they passed the PE Exam, they are good at testing. They may also be good at other things, but that is the measuring problem, in a nutshell. How do you build a measuring mechanism that measures what you care about, and not only what it is good at measuring?

The best example of this is a car's speedometer. It doesn't actually measure how fast the car is going. Mainly because that is a surprisingly hard thing to do. Instead, it measures something that is easy to measure and converts to what we care about. Specifically, how fast are the tires rotating?

Which is all to say, hard problem space. I have no doubt there are degenerate cases out there. My assertion is that is largely in the noise, at the moment. Happy (well, mayhap that isn't the correct word, but interested?) to be shown data that shows otherwise.
Could you elaborate on that story or give a link?
Volume 2: Programming Language Foundations

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/plf-current/index....

Volume 3: Verified Functional Algorithms

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/vfa-current/index....

Volume 4: QuickChick: Property-Based Testing in Coq

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/qc-current/index.h...

Volume 5: Verifiable C

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/vc-current/index.h...

Volume 6: Separation Logic Foundations

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/slf-current/index....
Connecting is a two-way verb, like “discuss”, “interact”, “shake hands”, etc.
I mean, it's not exactly a gaussian blur. It's more like an RBG shift, mixed with the kind of effect you get when you defocus your eyes ever so slightly.
In the paper (6.4 Limitations), there is an explanation for it:

..."Lastly, FeverPhone uses root-level access for reading a broad set of thermistors and a custom user-debug
Android kernel for accessing raw touchscreen capacitance data. These requirements limit FeverPhone to phones
with fine-grained sensor access. Temperature data from the battery thermistor is more readily accessible but
did not yield comparable performance relative to temperature data from other thermistors. Still, future work
could explore a more accessible version of FeverPhone with specific considerations paid to the battery thermistor.
Similarly, the TouchEventAPI is publicly accessible at the cost of coarse-grained information about touch location.
The use of this API in place of the raw capacitance data could be explored in future work."
The loops is also quite large right now. Put a lot in, get a lot out, put a little in, get a lot out. I suppose there is some work from OpenAI to have a well formed response in a certain number of tokens or something, I am not sure how the "document size" part of their chat completion works.
per-origin security
That's a big reason why the urban legend is so popular.
Cool project! I'm working in the same space (a ChatGPT plugin that can edit files within a shared VS Code workspace) and have built something similar to your "repo map" concept, except slightly lower-level: what you might call a "file map" generated by selectively collapsing AST nodes to fit within the available token budget. If ctags isn't cutting it for you, have a look at tree-sitter [1]. It can generate ASTs for most languages and has a nice API.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
From the shoes?
Even $5 flip flops work great for that
Anything except tit for tat loses in game theory, so it's just spiteful
I cannot help but notice that Perl used to be very popular in early web development, sys administration, and in a a row of scientific fields. And lots of people were enthusiastic about it (as witnessed by CPAN content). Then it was declared unsuitable for teaching (many ways to do everything), and the next gen who started with Python usually claim that Perl is bad, while among older generation who matured cooking Perl scripts you still can hear that Python is nothing more than a less flexible, less expressive Perl's bastard child. So yes, I think, education (and the first usable programming language learned in particular) influence popularity very much.
Same goes for politics. Grant money available on partisan issues is quite the motivator too. I was doing research on a researcher and publisher at rutgers: https://gunviolenceresearchcenter.rutgers.edu/mike-anestis-p... and was surprised to learn how much funding him and his team has received. Literally millions, much more than small market research firms.
That's exactly what chess programs do when they think on your time.
2nd on Darn Tough. I got them for hiking, but now they are the only sock I wear.
You seem pretty defensive... have you done some things that keep you up at night? I've been homeless and gone to bed hungry, and I know it's tough, but I never hurt others so I could eat better.

In my younger days I did spend a few uncomfortable weeks as a telemarketer (doing product surveys for market research) but even that bothered me, I can't imagine scamming the sick and elderly. You can have morals and dignity even in poverty. I'll concede that some countries provide more options for their people than others, but there are always other options.
I cannot prove it with ready evidence but I suspect there is a tendency during bad economic times for there to be more high-profile corruption cases because of a psycho-social need of frustrated people to vent their displeasure on perceived causal agents.

TL;DR: If you were a public person, watch your actions during bad times.
When this site says Wasmer's "cold start time" is 50ns, what is it measuring?

You can't even do a syscall in 50ns.

Cloudflare's 5ms includes time to read the application code from disk. (I'm the one who originally did this measurement.)
Four pages and six clicks doesn’t sound that bad to me, tbh.
being remote or not doesnt affect things like work visas and payroll/tax/benefits differences
It's like a "tube amplifier" that has a single pair of tubes at the output, with all the rest being done in ICs.
> The slice in Go is more or less equivalent to &[] in Rust or std::span in C++.

My understanding is, to use the Rust/C++ term, slices in Go are owned, but they are not in Rust or C++. That is, they're a pointer + length in the latter two, but a pointer, length, and capacity in Go.
A visit to RMS Titanic [video]
I've been buying split toe socks for years now, when they weren't so readily available. A tip to anyone else curious: you can find many different styles/colors in varying quality on Amazon, Temu, Aliexpress, etc. from no-name brands. In general the quality is quite good, at least on par with major brand socks and if you're less confident then just pay attention to the return policy. The main thing to look for is 100% cotton (or natural fiber of your choice).

Edit: I posted this primarily because they're a niche product which translates to niche-consumer prices sometimes. However you don't need to pay more than $2-3/pair to have pretty nice, durable socks of this kind.
You can get this to some extent with visual mode in (neo)vi(m).
I imagine having your maps rotated compared to most of the world (90% of humanity lives in the northern hemisphere) would probably be a pain to deal with.
It may be difficult for humans to improve on nature. It may be easier for AIs. Keep in mind that the space explored by evolution is necessarily quite restricted, and very damaging entities would have been selected out if at all possible. What you can imagine based on the evolved structures you've seen may be more limited than you realize.

In any case, my previous comments were intended jokingly, they weren't submissions to Methods in Molecular Biology.
I don't know about VR developers being angry. I'm a VR/AR skeptic too and I'm surprised at the seemingly overwhelming optimism about Vision Pro from commenters. I think maybe it's the result of a large number of people who either enjoy Apple products (I'm one) and a large number of people who want VR/AR to succeed.

I agree that there are use cases that when you think them a through a bit just aren't as practical as one thinks, such as the cooking scenario. Walking through scenarios in your head and thinking through the logistical issues with using such a device is a good way to ground yourself in some of the VR hype, in my opinion.
You’re right. Backwards unfriendly is maybe a better way to say it.

min and max are common variable names so depending on the version of go and the scope you should expect min and max to mean different things.

No reason these functions couldn’t have been part of the stdlib.
Safari was shown in the demos.
Never said that there is no suffering along the way. It is terrible and we've made mistakes, but there's only so much scope I can fit into a comment!
> But it turned out that academia doesn’t really do this anymore, it just sells itself as doing these things.

What do you mean by 'anymore'. Was there some golden age of bygone glory?
Ah don't stress so much, your feet brewing in your unwashed shoes probably breed more bacteria then the soles of your shoes pick from a walk.

And if not, a bit of exposure to germs is fine.

Most diseases are hand and air transmitted.

And in my anecdotal experience germ freaks are more suck then dirty people. But maybe I'm just biased.
It's ironic that Google accuses Microsoft of essentially being stable enough while basically shutting their own registrar services because they think it's not a "cloud" product.
I'm all for making a violent public example of people who do this. No one in government is incentivised to fix DMCA, and they'd ruin you if you tried.
What's with the "Big Milk" business? People have been drinking milk and eating cheese for thousands of years.

It's a normal part of the human diet.
Unemployment is easily made up for by a combination of "bad boy" personality traits and sufficiently wealthy parents.
De Beauvoir on the art of aging
Yeah, they would get pretty bad press if people were to find out it's being used by the Saudi family for interrogations before bone sawing.
Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment?
The effects of Covid on primary education were almost entirely self inflicted. We could have and should have kept the schools open for full-time in person learning as was done in some other countries such as Sweden.
> Literally any random sequence of events is a story.

No. There needs to be a narrative framework. Or, at the very least, an apparent chain of causality. That's how we make sense of the world.
Discourse's demographic is not small communities
This is all fascinating! Thank you for sharing! If I can keep bothering you with questions (or if you happen to be able to point me to a place to learn more about harpsichord tuning), I have more questions. But I also understand if you don't want to keep answering them! Despite being someone who doesn't know much about nor listen to much music, I've always had a soft spot for harpsichords.

Why do harpsichords need to be tuned so much more frequently? How long did they take to tune (and how does that compare to tuning a piano)? How was the pricing structured with such a regular need? Were most of the harpsichords you were tuning in academic institutions, arts institutions, private use, et cetera? And not a question but another thought, I'm surprised there were even a handful of people tuning them in your metro area!
Replace reading music with writing in assembly and you have the software equivalent. People can write software without a higher level language, but their software will be better if they did. The same is true for musicians and reading sheet music.
Titanic expedition leader: No recovery system setup for this depth [video][5m]
A Life in Games (2015)
AI Is a Lot of Work
I’ve found the Python Speed [1] site an excellent resource for the quirks of working with Python in containers for data science use cases.

[1] https://www.pythonspeed.com
> if a card is in the Done column, you can assume the
> code is in version control, deployed to production
> and checked to make sure it didn't explode on impact.

I guess you've never seen a team argue over "Definition of Done" for months.
How do your wives get along?
Really glad to see some of these new packages (sort, map, etc) making use of generics. Should reduce the need for a lot of helper functions.

Also really excited to see loop capture variables finally getting sorted out. It is a constant pain point with new devs, and I have no good answer when they ask "but WHY is it like this?"

More information about loop capture here for those interested https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/56010
Loved hearing about your day. Thank you. Clearly every day is different from the last.
Ethics (as a philosophical field) is about applying some level of rigor to the question "What ought I (and others) do and why?". "An ethical person" is a meaningless statement without an underlying framework of ethics, which obviously is a hotly debated topic, otherwise it wouldn't be an entire field of study.

What studying ethics offers the individual is the tools to analyze their moral beliefs and ensure they are at least internally consistent. That "and why?" is probably the most valuable takeaway from studying ethics. Rather than saying "that act was wrong", a student of ethics can explain, down to axiomatic beliefs, why that wrong. If a disagreement between two people boils down to axiomatic beliefs, then you're never going change each others minds. But a difference in interpretation can be argued with the potential for persuasion.

It also gives you a lot of practice justifying your own actions. Useful, but perhaps not exactly altruistic.
My favorite is millilightseconds<->miles, for calculating maximum distance to a server or minimum possible latency for a distance.
> When Son is all said and done he's going to leave nothing of value behind him.

You forgot the legacy of great PowerPoint slides! /s

[1] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/flying-unicorns-cou...

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/softbanks-insane-pre...
How do you determine the scope of your MVP?
Three months ago, together with my team of 3 partners, we started working on Followr.ai, a social media management system with AI. We set out to launch the MVP in two months. It has been three months already, and we still have several functionalities that we would have liked to launch in our MVP. However, on the other hand, I am very anxious to launch the product and have real users.

How do you determine the scope of your MVP before launching it? Is there a specific point where it goes beyond being an MVP and becomes something else?
What does that achieve compared to bouncing users to gitlab.com/about?
my side projects target folks that dont want anything to do with LLMs
Is Miller still a celebrated journalist? I had her down mentally as "noted fraud". Looking at Wikipedia, it looks like she's never done real news again, and has spent her time on what I think of as the "wingnut welfare circuit". And the reactions to her memoir suggest that she's never been welcomed back into the profession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#Memoir
I didn’t make a claim about C being “so bad”, because it really isn’t “so bad”.

My only claim is with respect to maintenance; namely that C in and of itself is not a language that enforces maintenance and good practices out of the box.

The chain of causality is the opposite. Good projects survive because of good practices, not because of C, and they’d have survived in any other language; just like all other software that has survived.

That’s the only claim that I am making. That, and that compiler enforced soundness makes software more enjoyable to build.
> I'd like to hear more about how you've found more honesty in the private sector.

vs

> Some argue it's due to market logic entering academia.

People's behaviour is shaped by incentives (amongst other things).

People in academia are rewarded for pumping out quirky studies that find interesting things, regardless of whether they reproduce. So that's what you get.

People in business mostly just want to make money selling some gadget (or providing some service). So they need methods that help reliably produce gadgets that are more cheaper or perform better. Because businesses want reliability, you get your reproducibility as a side effect.

(Of course, businesses also produce the occasional study where they use the study itself as marketing material. I expect those studies to be just as unreliable and full of wishful thinking as anything academia pumps out: the incentives aren't any better.)
My parents added a 50amp, 240v plug for me to charge when I visit for a whopping $250. That would surely break most Americans bank!
I'm commenting here to agree, and because what you say is so specifically similar to my outbursts a good number of my colleagues would mistakenly believe I am you from this comment, and they regularly accuse me of being the only one!

It would be incredibly hard to do a worse job of shepherding the Android platform than Google have managed to do. It's no surprise iOS is growing.
i'm likely going to be using stripe
Not a neural net story.

I only remember it hazily but it was just very funny in the moment; the lecturer was one of the most naturally funny people. It concerned as I recall it a combat flight (helicopter I think) simulator that had been unsuccessful and was being hastily tweaked as a demo for a civilian contract.

The story went that elements of the simulator were closely tied to ground attack scenarios, and that there was not time to remove all the code concerning enemy soldiers, so the models of the soldiers were replaced with models of kangaroos (same sort of height, walk on two legs).

On the day of the demo, there was some impromptu change to the script — they flew lower and too close to the ground or something — and the kangaroos fired at them with rocket propelled grenades.

I don’t believe the story is really true, but as a cautionary tale about reskinning demos it has always stuck with me.
Great example. And the Alemannisch dialect is "hoch hoch Deutsch," or extra-high German, being from way up in the German-speaking Swiss Alps.
I like the topic of this book, does anyone know equivalents for other languages?
I don't disagree but I'd offer an alternative reason for being: "disinformation" is the prism through which censorship becomes acceptable.

People, as a whole, are still against censorship in its raw form, silencing people, burning books, etc. However once a book or video or idea is labeled "disinformation" it becomes dangerous, which means (according to the people doing the labeling) that NOT removing/eliminating it would be irresponsible or harmful.
Your computers were tools for building... anything, and the manufacturers (especially Apple back then) actually educated, promoted and rewarded amazing things. This is a consumer device tightly coupled to the most restrictive ecosystem we've ever seen. Doesn't seem like a hackers' playground.
I suppose you are aware of this, but GNU units perfectly handles both of your examples.
> 3.5k device that's locked down into some iOS like Apple walled garden doesn't sound like backers playground to me.

Some playgrounds have no fences, but also no interesting objects to play with.

Other playgrounds have boundaries far out, and comes with a huge combinatorial explosion of possibility.
Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules
That's overly binary for my tastes. You talk as if there's no nuance to being ethical. Ethics is hard because people are complex and the ultimate effects of actions in the world are hard to predict. An ethics class can't make a sociopath normal, but it can alert normal people to the many important considerations, and the long history of people fucking it up via shallow, too-simple understanding.
The point is not the immediate visual feedback, but change "direction". Delete 3 words is dw3 vs 3Wd.

To some extent this is similar to common SQL criticism of order of SELECT x FROM y, where some people say that FROM y SELECT y would be more clear.
The notable thing missing from their platform is a sane way to privately manage models that you create, in fact when you look at the docs it is all cart-before-the-horse, as soon as you train a model they “nudge” you to upload it to a public repository, but details on how to do inference (simple things like truncating the tokens before doing inference in a pipeline) are not in the docs.

I am all for uploading a model to them but boy am I going to want to kick the tires using it for real first. It’s clear a paid product for them would involve quite a few feature you’ll need once you are using models to make decisions that aren’t there.
I have the same mouse and it works fine:

1. Hold the cmd key on your keyboard while spinning the scroll wheel to zoom in and out

2. Click and hold the scroll wheel and move the mouse around to pan
How does it compare to signing up?
So we're supposed to get excited about our future Brave New World?
The ability to drink cow’s milk evolved relatively recently, in the past 7,500 years or so. But that ability made you so much more likely to survive and reproduce that it quickly came to dominate Europe. Obviously we don’t know what traits will be adaptive moving forward, but in the past drinking milk was incredibly advantageous.
Your designers don't have former colleagues they can ask?

Anyway, I've recently been enjoying the Oxide and Friends podcast series, and they talk a lot about the (high level) issues they experience with hardware design, testing, manufacture, etc. Maybe a "what's on the bench?" episode is worth suggesting?
Yeah... I'll give you that. I don't really have good quality sleep and this would mostly be it.
Yeah, and then the sender writes back to complain about the 1 address that was real. If this person is a paralegal, complain to the law firm. If the law firm doesn't respond, complain to the bar.
Except that moral relativism ultimately boils down to a universal axiom of "One ought behave in a manner aligning with the moral framework of their setting", offering an inherent contradiction with the belief that there aren't axiomatic ethical rules.

All ethics assert a universal ethical framework. Moral relativism just offers a really complicated one.
>Probably because newspapers are notorious to be the worst of the worst when trying to cancel free deals that automatically turn into expensive memberships.

You won't get any argument about that from me. To butcher Mel Brooks: "...they stink on ice!"[0]

However, that's orthogonal to my point -- that going after a newspaper would likely be perceived as more political than going after a retailer, especially in the highly charged US political environment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0iAcQVIokg
It's a major construction project as well, an organ this size is designed/built together with the hall that houses it and can't be easily fitted into a different location.
It is onsite in Spain, where I believe the avg salary is about 10k below or so.

But yeah, it is low. In particular they seem to be looking for an ML researcher who is supposed to get even less.
I had a brief and horrific period of my life when I had to export assets for android at the weird android resolutions.

I really don't understand why there isn't a better designer>developer hand off experience. It seems like Figma is trying with the CSS stuff and the layouts, but I don't think it quite works
Ha, I used to live in a condo with all hardwood floors, and we only ever wore shoes in the entryway by the front door (to take them on and off).

When I'd mop the rest of the condo with those disposable Swiffer mop pads, the mop pads would only get a little dingy, but when I'd mop the one specific part of the entryway where we wore shoes, the mop pads would instantly turn dark grey, almost black.

No shoes in the house. Ever!!!
Try https://www.worldmapgenerator.com/en/
Thanks, I stand corrected. But to my point, they bought something and open sourced it, only to have it used against them.
The film is not a mystery, it is a satire using the framing of Plato's allegory of the cave. There's no twist, its purely comedy and commentary about his antagonists and their motivations.
The Extractive Circuit (2021)