skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my career I have seen almost identical systems being built by a) 6 developers in a startup in 1 year b) 100+ developers in a big company with a much much larger budget in 2 years.

Almost the same specs, but the one in the startup had better scalability and fewer serious bugs...

So, spend 10-50x less and get higher quality?

Worst is I now consider case b) quite lean and efficient compared to what I see tech consultancies doing towards public sector, banks, etc...

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My point being: There definitely IS a room for "rockstars" (don't like that term, but interpret this as developers competent enough to carry a lot of weight on their own and work in a smaller company) to deliver a lot of value.

The problem with the model is the lack of predictability (what if the few developers you trust don't deliver), the bus factor if one of the few devs quits, etc

In a sense inefficiency is a goal, because otherwise you loose redundancy. It costs a lot to hire 100 to produce the output of 10, but much lower risk.
In the context here I think people take affirmative action to mean “official race-based consideration in the college admissions process”. While helping others out when they demonstrate need is action, it’s usually just called being a decent person and you don't have to limit it to artificial racial boundaries.
When I got my UK driving insurance, I was in my 30s. By that time, I had been driving for many years elsewhere. Even then, I remember the first year's rather eye-watering. IIRC, it was just under GBP 1000 - the price of a rickety used car in UK.

Soon, I discovered that Aviva had a plan for which you can signup: you download the app, and leave that active (data and location) while driving. The app monitors your driving pattern for aound 200 miles. Then it scores you out of 10. I felt smug that I scored 9.7 (IIRC). And, as promised, I got a rather neat discount on my insurance. IIRC, it came under GBP 300.

I just wanted to say that alternatives like the above exists.

Aviva continued to quote me lowest, until this year. I had to move away because, it happend to me, too, what happens to every loyal customer in the UK: deals popup elsewhere that are available only to new customers. So, exploring switching providers every now and then, is worthwhile.
They have been claimed for years; what is known is that they beat the hell out of every other way of judging students, especially subjective ones. When standardized testing was adopted in the first place it was rightly heralded as a tremendous win for diversity.
Study performed by dating app

but that's quite interesting:

>In 2016, eHarmony announced their questionnaire would now be optional for users.[16] By 2017, the questionnaire consisted of 150 questions, down from 450 questions.[17]

they had a lot of data.
Makes sense; but I think it is odd to include folks that aren't relevant in the increase, though. Really, it is just weird to see a number that the only way to see an increase of 78 calories is to swap over into a half of a drink.

Granted, you work with what you have. :D
Switched on a VPN in EU and it started loading. I can get back to what I was doing now ;).
Could you name a metric where rich people get less of a boost due to their wealth and status than standardized tests?

To properly compare standardized tests vs. an alternative you need the other half of the comparison.
Bond prices are quoted in 32nds (or 256ths) of a dollar. How am I storing that?
>> ultra super conservatively cautious.

> This has nothing to do with politics.

> This has everything to do with CYA, the issue is AI trained with copyrighted material is a huge gray area and they don’t want to be in the gray area. That’s rational and has zero to do with “conservative”.

The word "conservative" isn't a political word in all (or even I would have thought in most) contexts: it's normal meaning is similar to "chosen so as to be careful". For example, a "conservative estimate" isn't "an estimate that leans to the right of the political spectrum": it is an estimate which has been padded out in the direction you are more likely wrong.

When someone says they are being "ultra super conservatively cautious" they are merely being super extra extra doubly-cautious, as we are stacking similar adjectives (as one might could do with something else such as "carefully"). So, wanting to avoid being in a gray area is dead center to being "conservative" in one's curation or legal strategy.
> but racism and anti-racism have been there since the beginning and will probably dominate US politics until the last person who remembers the KKK is dead.

The KKK has nothing to do with it fundamentally. Matters of racism and similar (it doesn't just have to be about race, this is a problem of collectivism, of which racism is a subset) will dominate the politics of any highly diverse nation (diverse not necessarily pertaining only to race of course), and without exception.

See: what has been going on in Sweden the past decade (it has gotten worse as Sweden has gotten more diverse). Or see: the forever riots in France by the poor minorities there that have never integrated into French culture.
Presumably that would at least double the cost. Additionally, you have to find native Windows and MacOS developers, which are harder to find than web devs. Given that, it's not surprising that companies are moving toward web tech like Electron.
Perhaps if she was drilled on the risk of institutional failures. Even then, did she have the ability to comprehend them as the actual astronauts would have?
Status pages are updated by humans and the humans need to (1) realize there's a problem and (2) understand the magnitude of the problem and (3) put that on the status page.

It's not fake, it's just a human process. And automating this would be error prone just the same.
AI is going to kill us all! Unless I can make a ton of money from it, then it's going to save us all!
Now you know where to reinforce the airplanes before sending them back to war. Hint: the engine
There are good reasons for violating most rules. That's why we write laws; in order to make violating those rules more expensive, therefore not profitable.

It's not exculpating for a burglar to claim that a burglary was a really good choice for them at the time.

edit:

> There's legitimate reasons to favor sellers that use your own logistics. Hard to see that as anti-competitive.

These sentences bother me so much. The argument is about what is or is not legitimate, and you're not making an case, you're just giving a verdict. Why is it hard to see?
From Finland, but not Helsinki: 140.82.121.3
Why is it FUD? It's my own feeling. In this specific case I had just spent a week of my and my work's time and money learning Racket at an official Racket school only to find out at the end that they're creating a new "surface" syntax. The split of do I learn and participate with Rhombus or Racket is a concern. The idea that the core maintainers, or really the core maintainer (singular), is busy with Rhombus is a concern. The explanations given at the time for the Rhombus project were primarily dubious and unclear. The uncertainty and doubt were not created by me. It was enough to make me move on. Other languages like F# and Elixir suit my needs.

> The academic part of Racket gave rise to `syntax-parse`, a truly fabulous improvement over the standard Lisp/Scheme/whatever you used to work with way to write macros.

That's not the academic part I am referring to. My comment is about who the maintainers and users are and how their profession or studies affect how Racket is interacted with. (This is not a complaint or judgement. It's an observation.)

> The language has been "complete" for a long time.

There are a fair number of bugs in Racket's libraries, including core ones. They aren't discovered because academic users are not touching bits that more industrial-oriented users would find. In particular, I am thinking of the GUI toolkit, and in my experience, only one person is capable of fixing those.
Up in Africa (Morocco).
Has the Office team ever paid that much attention to what Windows was actually recommending?

All the releases that I can think of shunned the standard UI toolkits for their own homegrown UI. Presumably to show the Windows folks that the Office team is it's own little empire.
I don't have any hard data, but it feels more frequent just within the last year, not necessarily shortly after acquisition date (although yes, changes take time to propagate).
AI is already trained on Getty's image set... it's why people have to exclude watermarks from their prompts.
I am laughing so hard right now. My best friend mocked me for using git.lain.faith to host my code, saying it wasn't reliable. Well, well, well. In the last year GitLain hasn't gone down once.

I know he was still right in a way, who knows when git.lain.faith will just disappear. But still. I'm going to send some texts to bother him right now, hahaha.
Those are all just extra insurance against injuries that are well known, e.g. a broken leg. They are just extra payouts in case something happens
More discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523843
That won't tell you much without also accounting for how much growth the platform has also had.
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Wonder if using (Japanese) anime based AI assets would be workable instead, as the licensing situation there sounds a bit clearer?

aka "copyright doesn't apply":

https://cacm.acm.org/news/273479-japan-goes-all-in-copyright...
Really, people had to be told that people with white(r) skin, are similar..?

How stupid do these people think 'everyone else' is. This is the most absurd thing I've read all day.

Humans, who divide themselves along such lines as _what tv shows they like_, had to have the concept of _skin colour_ invented for them. Really think about how ridiculous this assertion is.
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> Are they? Google could manually remove the worst SEO sites from the index and like reduce the spam you get for dev queries with like 95%.

Do you think they don't have a huge team doing just that? Easier said than done.

> The only explaintions are that Google is too dysfunctional to do anything or they are doing it on purpose to increase revenue. Otherwise there is no way the SEO would suddenly become this bad.

This is not based in reality.
Aspartame is one of the must trustable things we eat. Very few foods have been studied as much as it has. Both quality and quantity of studies.

This is part of how the medical regulation leaders in every country are the most insanely cautious, neurotic people on earth. They all recommend not to eat steaks rare. Everything is a carcinogen. When they have such a low tolerance for danger, it just means everyone learns not to listen to their advice.
And you could program the damn thing yourself.
> Copilot saves a bit of time with simple 1-3 line suggestions where you would already know how to write it, or can immediately verify correctness.

Exactly. Copilot is really just a fancy autocomplete, and I have noticed I've started relying on it.

And I use ChatGPT for the same thing: debugging things I'm not super familiar with.
Even if it can't offer me a complete solution (and it mostly can't), it is a really good pointer most of the time.
> They want the developer to prove they only used material

No, they only want the developer to "affirmatively confirm" it. It doesn't say anything about Valve demanding some sort of proof.
Thank you for this article link, I found it much more informative than the parent article. The video at the bottom was well made.
Same from Finland, and same route. (Except my ISP instead of BT).
I suffer from migraines. Usually related to exposure to sun and sleep patterns, I found out that drinking diet coke during a day that I already experienced one of my other triggers, gives me a migraine almost immediately. Any other day it has no effect.
1) Many people of that race may be independently wealthy and do not need help. Grouping people by race is a bad measure of “need”

2) I haven’t heard realistic plans for actually helping people of a specific race. Helping poor people seems achievable, helping black people sounds presumptuous.

3) Race itself is a nebulous grouping with many edge cases.

4) You could easily find other ways to group people to locate “disadvantage”. Religion is an easy one, but affirmative action based of religion sounds quite discriminatory.

5) The focus on race is actually just racist. People’s difficulty of life is not measured by privilege but by actual experiences.
> Easy, the civil rights act is great.

okay, what constitutional basis does the civil rights act have to protect you from discrimination by a restaurant that should not apply to a university?
> it's specifically GenAI where authors can't prove or don't have rights to content.

Even more specifically, the author admitted to the images being "obviously AI generated" and Valve alleges that the images themselves in the game's initial submission contained copyrighted third-party content.
High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch ngeme ’
The winner pays the price that the 2nd highest bid.

This means all bidders in the auction have a reason to send an honest bid rather than trying to game the system.

The person "selling" in the auction also has an efficient outcome.
My gosh, again
Seems like an Oopsie! If they found it so quickly.
> ...how do you propose to make things right for all the suffering of the past?

Yes and: What is justice?

> You would need to examine history for winners and losers...

That'd be a good start.

Until something better comes along, I support the "truth & reconciliation" strategy. With a splash of sociology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

Another good step would be to enfranchise people. Like giving the all the people impacted by a new freeway some say in the planning process.
Still can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Interesting observation, but I'd be surprised if that was related to a regional network fault
> https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generator-art-text-...

US Copyright Office has stated unequivocally that AI works cannot be copyrighted, or otherwise protected legally.

The US patent office is studying the effects of AI on the patent system and asking citizens and businesses for comment.

If that’s not enough for you, I don’t know what would be.
Agreed, although I wrote him off much earlier than that. I can't decide if he's actually disconnected from reality or if he's just saying whatever he feels will make him more money.

The difference between the two is purely academic, though.
And that’s reasonable, because loss of a large datagram has larger impact. Thus jumbos in data centers, but not in the wild Internet where losses are more common.
You seem to be confusing copyright and trademark. Copyright isn't diminished by non-enforcement. A trademark risks being invalidated or genericized when not enforced.

Intellectual property is an encompassing term that seems to lead to this sort of confusion.
Does being able to say

I have a labrador.

instead of,

I have a dog.

give any value?

It depends what you are doing and who you are working with, I suppose.
Fun fact. My college radio station had the station ID WTBS (technology broadcasting system or something like that). When Ted Turner was spearheading one of the fairly early major cable TV stations, he bought the ID for what I imagine was a lot of money for a college radio station for the Turner Broadcasting System or something similar.
Thank you, and noted!
You're right, there are none. The link from the GP shows several.

> changing the type _while referring to the same data_ as weakness

Python performs arithmetic and comparison on ints mixed with floats. In other languages, you have to cast those first. It does array subscription on a string. You could even see an expression like 3 * "x" as a type change.

> I can't really think of a dynamic + weak language

It depends on what you call a type, I guess. Is [1, 2] a different type than ["a", "b"]? You can't tell in Python, because there is no type declaration. That makes comparison with polymorphism moot. You can think that the type of b in a + b must be "whatever a's plus operator accepts", but I wouldn't call one or two sanity checks before adding strong typing.
Why would Valve be on the hook for copyright? If a particular game developer happens to get sued (which happens regardless of AI), all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam.

Assuming this is even real, it may have more to do with preventing another 1989 video game crash resulting from the market being overwhelmed with crappy games.

Then again, most AAA games today are broken pieces of suck, so IDK.
> But for non-trivial content I haven’t seen an example that was compelling.

ChatGPT helped me write my websocket code, I'd never used websockets before and it saved me hours (of not more) of time learning a new API.

I had a concurrency bug in some code, I threw it at GPT4 and asked it what the problem was, a few seconds later it split out a solution.

I had some complex state management code: "Hi this code has an off by 1 error in it, can you find it?"

"My page demonstrates this visual problem, here is the CSS file for the page, what is wrong?"

The color picker component used on my above linked site was 80% written by ChatGPT4.

AI is a huge productivity booster.

Heck I use it to steel man opposing views of my blog posts to try and make sure I have sound arguments.
Were the last Outlook versions actually native? Say starting around Office 2016. They always felt very... off. Extremely laggy. Weird scrollbar behavior.

I don't usually use windows, but my employer uses Office 365, so I've been using Outlook web for several years now. It felt much snappier and more pleasant to use than the native client. I understand there are some features missing, but since I'm a very basic user (the most advanced thing I use is combining messages into conversations), it never bothered me.

The new Outlook UI looks extremely similar to the web one, and the app feels snappier on my machine. The thing I dislike the most is the empty space at the top of the window, but I guess that's just the current fashion.
> Well, it makes the project unprofessional.

Next time I hire a professional, I'll be sure to call them unprofessional when they hand me a bill. A real professional doesn't expect to be paid!
you just mentioned 4. that's not 2, that's 4. And you forgot chromeOS.
While that would very much be the the rational decision to make it goes against one of the core principles of much of the discourse in the US, which is that poor people are poor because of some character flaw or being financially irresponsible if you would have just tried hard enough you would not be poor, so why should the state help you.

Rutger Bregman talks about this quite a bit in his book.
Point taken. I have a Python program that is an elemental version of awk, and I use that for the odd task. I can modify it if needed and I have the entire Python library to help me. Is the text Unicode? HTML? These little details matter.

I'm not complaining that someone banged out awk (speaking figuratively) on a Friday afternoon to do something and not have to stay after work. Excellent! My complaint is that the failure to address technical debt has negatively affected the productivity of millions, if not tens of millions, of people, often working under pressure, for DECADES.
I'd rather live in a society that made it an imperative to have more students from more ethnicities be eligible for the best universities every year.

That requires addressing inequality earlier, and more thoroughly, and across more axes, than an approach that is, in the final analysis, about setting quotas based on ethnicity.

Affirmative action can do everything it was designed to do while having essentially zero impact on inequality in society at large - it's always seemed like a cop out to me.
I resonate with this.
> Almost nothing wants a stream these days, lots and lots of applications reinvent datagrams on top of it.

What do you mean?
That reserve() method only reserves memory for the hash table inside the container. It does help with performance to an extent, but the memory for the items stored in that map is still allocated one by one, as new entries are inserted into the map.

I think the main reason why reserve() helped substantially weren’t saved malloc() calls, it were saved re-hashes. Each time the hash table grows, it needs to re-insert all items currently stored on the map into the new, larger table of these buckets.
The FTC shifted under Khan from a posture of "don't bring a case if it's not bulletproof" to one of "be willing to litigate even on things we might lose" to be less of a pushover. See discussion and quotes here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/technology/meta-vr-antitr...

I think this is probably wise even if they don't win much:

1) it'll set the boundaries of how courts interpret the current laws, which will inform if there are unpopular holes that could become part of political platforms going forward

2) it'll add that much uncertainty and "cost of doing business" legal expense to companies playing fast and loose in other novel ways because they've known they're unlikely to get challenged
If that interstate was never routed through that neighborhood, would members of your family be financially better off today? A fully paid off house unlocks a lot of financial freedom for the current occupants and potentially generational wealth for future family members.
Very good points. Meanwhile I have clients asking me why they can't have a status page to which I reply: you can, but ultimately to be completely fail proof it will be a human updating it slowly. To which they reply: but GitHub or X does it...

Very infuriating, that.
I don't hire plumbers or electricians that need to commute 2 hours each way.
Not really, things fail in unexpected ways. Automated anomaly detection is notoriously error prone, leading to a lot of false positive and false negatives, in the trivial case of monitoring a single timeseries. For a system the size of GitHub, you need to monitor a whole host of things and if it's quasi impossible to do one timeseries well, there's basically no hope of doing automated many timeseries anomaly detection with a signal-to-noise ratio that's better than "humans looking at the thing and realizing it's not going well".

There's stuff like this that can't be automated well. The automated result is far worse than the human-based alternative.
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misleading title, hn should ban reddit links
Wait, where's the hyphen in Crockford Base32? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#Crockford's_Base32

My favorite base-32 encoding is z-base-32, which I find just gentler on the eyes: https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod...

The biggest problems with base58 are 1) it works for integers, less so for arbitrary binary data like crypto keys 2) case-sensitivity ISnOtNIcEtOLoOKaT (in my opinion).
I also work in ad tech (lead the algo team in job ads).

Second price auctions online are great, but they're not strategyproof. You still need a bidding strategy.

For thin/small/sparse markets they simply don't work. You need a first price auction.

Google definitely game their own 2nd price auction, but this is just one reason amon many they're not strategyproof.
I don't know why anyone listens to this guy anymore. He's a very talented grifter.