skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fear that political powers (both parties) are already laying the groundwork to make the Ukraine war the next Iraq. If this actually comes to fruition I can't say I still see much benefit to living in the US.
Dang, the post this person is replying to is starting an ideological battle.
Exactly. It's the best proxy for grayscale detail.

One could have balanced RGB in a hexagonal grid. That's harder to build and slower to process.

He would have considered a hex grid, but our rectilinear cognitive bias was pretty entrenched. Before this work, he programmed an entire image processing system in the "ed" PDP editor, manipulating character arrays. That experience influenced both the Bayer filter and Bayer dithering. And it taught me to look for simple ways to do things.
Good article and topic.

What's missing though is so critical for our time: R&D.

Yes -- it's usually wise to act like investors don't exist. But are you going to look at the world and go "oh, what we REALLY need is another SaaS company!"

The most pressing problems today require hardware, software (incl. data science), and a research component.

How to fund it, if not with investors? (They don't fund R&D anyway.) Take a dual-use approach. Bootstrap with government R&D contracts -- and in parallel, commercialize it, so that you don't get stuck in gov too much of course. And/or license technology from federal labs or agencies. E.g. go to Lawrence Livermore National Lab, or Lawrence Berkeley, or Los Alamos, or the many agencies, NASA, NSF, DoE, DoD (which is colossal) and connect with tech transfer folks. They have advanced technology sitting on shelves, waiting for capable entrepreneurs to come and pick it up. Same for many academic institutions.

This is how we get true technology companies like Qualcomm, and many, many smaller but by no means less significant companies.

Make not just "what people want" but also what is technologically needed in this partly fallen world today.
I've been traveling for the last 10-11 years non-stop, with a carry on suitcase and backpack. The main benefit of having so much room are my 15 pairs of socks and underwear, allowing me to last a while without doing the laundry. I also carry olive oil and various cooking ingredients to use when I have a kitchen. This comes to weird dynamic of such minimalism:

It works when you rely on (read: can pay for) surrounding infrastructure (cafes, restaurants etc.) but quickly collapses otherwise. I'm rather surprised he bothers with the beach towel or sleeping bag, for example.

That said, I am looking to drop about 1/3 of my own things and might replace my socks with those merino wool ones.
Ask HN: Where to learn what you can do with ChatGPT?
I see dozens of threads on Twitter on how to do something with ChatGPT. The Code interpreter is now out and there are examples from creating videos to using it to analyze data in parquet format.

I'd like to learn to use ChatGPT in the right way. What would be the best resources? Not the lists "100 prompts to get you more productive", but something that tells what to do and why to do it that way.
I'll give her simple problems like "x + 5 = 0, what must `x` be to make this true?" (First had to teach her the number line and negative numbers) or "2*y = 6, what is y?" (Taught her multiplication as a copy-then-add operation, ie she knows that 2*3 means to make 3 copies of 2 and then add them all together. She hasn’t yet learned the times table)
> I'm doing CAD work/GPU work.

Then you have a good reason to go for a gaming laptop, because your GPU isn't one-ssh-away.

Gaming laptop also don't mean "high qualify", they just mean "high spec". Unless you really have need for higher spec (for example, you have, because of CAD work and needs GPU attached to a screen), it's better to allocate money to build quality, battery life, lower weight or even keyboard feeling.

That doesn't mean everyone else should do. Most of the software guys need "just enough" CPU power and close to zero GPU power on their laptop. When they need more compute their beefier desktop is 1-ssh away. (Or 1 aws ec2 run-instances away for even more power)

For now I'm equally pissed off because it seems like only Apple makes proper "just enough" laptops. And Apple isn't going to stop using aluminum any time soon so their laptop will be too heavy for me to consider.
One of the main reasons for us to use a terraform collaboration tool is to easily manage state files.

Would be awesome if they find a way to integrate state management.
I would imagine most people working for Web3 startups were doing it for the money, and are probably not too surprised that the gravy train hit the buffers eventually.
Ægraphs: Acyclic E-Graphs for Efficient Optimization in a Production Compiler [video]
Probably the best web design I've ever seen
There is somewhat fuzzy on where you even draw the line. Does someone moonlighting on their Wordpress side hustle count as a company? There are many of those which seem unlikely go bankrupt - the most frequent end state is the sole proprietor quits due to lack of work or interest.
How is it illegal in the US? For one, it seems that it does conform to HIPPA. As per lawsuits, if the doctor is using it, they can't claim the chat bot gave them incorrect information - they should know better.
I bawled my eyes out the first time I read it, and it's not any easier this time. I'm happy the success of Cloudflare has allowed him the best available care, even if all his money can't cure him within his own lifetime.

It's a horrifying disease.
Tell that to someone when their kid dies because some chatbot hallucinated the wrong diagnosis or treatment.
There you go: https://sndup.net/bjyc/

This is just a single generation pass though, and the voice is a bit unstable and is maybe not perfectly consistent with the direct speech, ideally you would tweak it a bit, maybe break it into chunks, isolate the direct speech and then cut it together, etc.

Still, it's pretty good I'd say, and as I mentioned previously, being able to give specific directions is around the corner, along with a "proper"/professional training of the voice model on a specific voice.
Yeah, this seems to be another person trading on the name of amazon for clicks without actual relevant experience. I’ve seen this with folks talking about the amazon writing culture and PR/FAQs who I know for a fact had no products or features themselves that came out of any such writing.
C doesn't really know about bytes. It has chars, but I believe there are some constraints on char, specifically, they have to be big enough to hold the ASCII charset. (I'm pulling real deep here, someone correct me if I'm wrong)
You get almost no money in salary, and you spend something way more valuable than money: time, during your most energetic and precious years of life typically. I think it’s really dangerous to put rose tinted glasses on the whole thing.

For anyone not upper class, if you spend 6 or so years chasing a startup and fail, and you’re a good software developer.. once you factor in savings and interest, your total opportunity cost is something like 2-4 million dollars. That’s making a good software dev salary for 6 years and saving some of it. That’s life changing for someone not already rich. And you’d still be learning a lot, plus working a much more relaxing job with time for side projects.
They’re ideas that communists support. Let’s start with the first one, do communists support shoplifting? That’s a yes or no question.
Double penalties. You are poor so you don't get good care and you also get to be a cobaye for a tech that can randomly (wrongly) guess your health problems.
Dividends are taxed twice: once as profit to the company issuing the dividend and once when the recipient receives it.
> The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine and Maryland.

> Light displays are expected to be visible overhead in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Helena, Montana, and low on the horizon in Salem, Oregon.; Boise, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Annapolis, Maryland; and Indianapolis, according to the institute.

> best viewing times are between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.
I'd also plug an open source radio released by Planet (similar to what's on their Dove satellites):

https://github.com/OpenLST/openlst
https://github.com/OpenLST/openlst-hw
https://github.com/rzimmerman/gr-openlst
It has nothing to do with me supporting those actions two centuries ago. I'm just describing history. Were the same tribes in charge of the same land for the past 10000 years, or did borders fluctuate depending on intertribal wars for resources?

Acting like the Iroquois and Algonquins (or substitute any other aboriginal tribes with adjacent borders, for that matter) didn't spend hundreds of years slaughtering each other for territory before they were both deposed by the European invaders is a little naive. So who, precisely, is supposed to get the "stolen" land back?

EDIT: just to be clear, I'm not advocating that first nation's are not due compensation or allowances for the loss of their lands, nor that slavery must be swept under a rug. On the contrary, we must look for the root causes of social unrest/upheaval and meet them head on. But you're not providing any practical courses of action that should be undertaken.
> Want to explain? I doubt bank loans were that much easier for startups in times of low interest

A higher risk free rate means risky investments like VC funds are less attractive.
What should I learn next? Mention anything
I'm feeling bored. My job involves linux, k8s, docker, sql etc. What should I learn next? I want to learn music but it's expensive to purchase good musical instruments. I don't like learning drawing, new foreign language etc. I like to learn programming. But I'm not sure what should I learn next.

Recommend anything. I don't know much about coding.

1) DSA

2) Competitive Programming

3) ccna

4) Operating System (College Course Relearn I mean)

5) Computer Graphics and Game Development

6) Do 55 DOM Projects course

7) CSS

8) ??

Please recommend me something to learn. It should freshen up my mind. It can take as much time it can. If you've ideas about cheap musical instruments (I hate ukulele though), do share. I can learn flute but since I follow courses, I need exactly same flute like that in course and it's expensive.
That should probably be the default unless there's a compelling reason not to since they have the best claim to historical and cultural importance.
Browsers, proxies and crawlers might remember 404 longer than any status code that has "temporary" in it. See also the various permanent and temporary redirect status codes.
The subsea cable firm helping America take on China
Very timely. I've been using some inherited Typescript on a project for a while and was looking for exactly this kind of concise laying out of the language that you can read in an hour or two.
The first and main takeaway is this: Companies which receive VC funding are not profitable. They would run out of money if they wouldn’t get the VC funding. So the news announcement that your company MagicalUnicorn received VC funding is actually not a message of success, it’s rather a confession of failure.

I remember when a small company I worked for was super excited to announce how much of a loan they got. I took that as a sign to clean up my resume.
I've been down to McMurdo for a research trip. A couple of things that outsiders find surprising is that most of the people there are support staff and only a small fraction (maybe 20% or so) are the scientists. The support staff are basically people from all walks of life... fireman, carpenters, cooks, mechanics, etc. Basically everyone you need to make a modern city run. However, because of the selection processes, those folks are almost all extremely talented and at the top of their specialties. The number of "swiss army knife" individuals I met with very broad skill sets was astounding. The challenges associated with living and working down there tend to draw quirky and motivated individuals like bugs to a light. And many return year after year. It's a wonderful community.
Not even a manager, his LI says solutions architect which is neither an engineer or manager so he would not have first hand experience doing it for actual software dev.
I've wondered what that is when seeing it during boarding! The video doesn't explain anything though... Is it some proximity sensor? How? It doesn't seem to require extremely accurate positioning.
The first time I saw how customizable a PE deal was, and how you could limit how much of a company you give away with how little of the PE you end up drawing by becoming profitable, I was surprised why it isn't more common in tech.
What tripped me up with real estate agents is how socially skillful they are. It's a survival skill, so as a cohort they're all anomalously good at building rapport and, from there, trust. If you don't know what you're doing, and what they're doing, and you rely on them as the domain experts, there's a pretty decent chance you're not going to be happy with the outcome. Their incentives aren't perfectly aligned with yours, and if you're not providing a structure to engagement, they are, and that structure will serve them.

But the flip side of this is that what feels like mercenary behavior is also useful for the actual job of making real estate transactions happen, so if you optimize for the most trustworthy, least self-interested real estate agents, you're also not going to get the best outcome (and you're going to bounce off of lots of non-altruistic real estate agents in the process). It's going to leave you with grim feelings about the entire business about real estate. Which: fair enough! There's lots not to like about it. But you, personally, as a consumer of real estate services, will feel better and have a better experience if you learn to understand and adapt to how real estate actually works.

And a lot of mercenary real estate agents are perfectly lovely people, just doing what it takes to do a job well.

As with real estate, so with investing, I suspect. Great example: every VC you meet is going to tell you they're interested in investing and that they want to move the process forward, and they'll keep giving you hoops to jump through as long as you let them without ever intending to invest. That's incredibly aggravating, until you know what's going on and learn to read the room.

I'm not good at any of this stuff and would get gutted like a fish trying to raise a round myself, but I've had the benefit of seeing it done well firsthand now, and talking to others who've done it well, and it makes a lot more sense to me now.
Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example
FWIW, healthcare has strong regulations around data. If your provider uses an approved chatbot (vs using public ChatGPT), there is more or less a guarantee that your data won't be sucked up by a corp.

I'd rather my doctor use a negotiated and approved model/tool than an unapproved one.
Please provide this reference in your readme / blog as it is the original source for your work... and provides the background for the tradeoff between the 2 approaches: 1) fine-tuning vs 2) Search-ask

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
Funny enough, even in my original question, it put pagination as a consideration. But it still didn’t include it.
There’s a push to privatize healthcare in Canada in the last few years. I worry the public system will crumble into an AI driven, grifter run trash heap and we’ll get the worst of everything where taxes stay high, because we have “free” healthcare, and real healthcare is private and only accessible to the rich.
Both your papers seem to support my position, that extrinsic motivation can be harmful.

The summary on Wikipedia suggests that there was some arguments about whether this effect was real or not but the consensus is currently that it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation_crowding_theory#Deb...

> Through the debate, consensus seems to have emerged that crowding out reliably occurs if the following conditions are met:[33][dubious – discuss]

> * Rewards are offered in the context of pre-existing intrinsic motivation (e.g. in a pro-social setting or for interesting tasks).[34]

> * Rewards are known in advance and expected.[35]

> * Rewards are tangible.[36]
A large majority of the people I work with have been working 20+ years. A lot of them make 200k-300k and have never written a line of code. They are doing great without it and my company stock value keeps increasing without coding in Finance.
Actually we didn't. The Saudis ewanted more us involvement vs iran during drone strikes on oil facilities origniating from either iraq or iran and yemen.
Or as a dark tale of a mother taking out her repressed resentment on an OCD son she does understand.
Learn to produce music. Get a copy of Reaper or your choice of DAW. Download MIDI files of your favorite older video games or classical music, etc. Get instrument plugins. Get a good set of headphones. Get a pair of monitors and a subwoofer if you can. Combine the MIDI files with instrument plugins and then learn to mix.
If you are inclined to share your VC experience, you might want to reach out to the founder of Dioxus. As a recent YC 23 “winner” and recent (ex)employee of CloudFlare, I’m sure the founder would love to get your personal take on VC funding. I also understand they’re working on a product that CloudFlare could possibly use…
You are right, I gave Microsoft the credit when it really is the spreadsheet concept.
Let's not do that (but still keep in mind, that it is true). An individuals understandable inability to deal with statistical truth in times of personal hardship should not stand in the way of the best medical care, statistically.
Survival. No /s intended.
Only path to voting our way out of this is with a populist like Trump or Kennedy. Neither wants us in that war.
Even very small "units" have dependencies in the sense of other objects or functions that they use. Or at least they should, if concerns are being separated. It's good to use fakes or mocks to make those dependencies not depend on state external to the test, but not to structure tests around what methods are called on which dependencies in what order.
Please refrain from ad hominem attacks and labeling everything "right wing fascist". It's a knee-jerk reaction without thought and an insult to all who have suffered under true fascism. I asked a question in my original reply. I did not discount climate change, but only asked if millions of people fleeing horrible situations, may also be a contributing cause given Malaria is not usually found in the US per the article of the OP. Not everything is a left-right, US culture war. There are more and more Haitian immigrants also crossing illegally from our Southern border. On the CDC map, Haiti is a hot area like a lot of places in Mexico, Cental and South America, Africa and SE Asia

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/impact.html

So you have read "thousands of articles" eh?
This is a very strange article. I'd understand if she shifted from e.g. finance or consulting in say NYC to something in Paris (or better say Marseilles) but... She got an online job from a French company and is staying in Vegas?

What WFH jobs are overly demanding or have poor vacation policies? I'm used to them being totally apathetic about most things (from personal experience and running into others). In another post I just mentioned that I've been traveling for 10+ years. Workwise, as long as I answer chat messages within a few hours and don't miss (too many) prescheduled calls, no one cares.
Because you fire everyone who knows how the systems work. And while Evernote sounds like a weekend project to everyone on HN, I'm certain that over the decade-plus of its existence that it has accreted a lot of technical debt and 'FIXME: we should rewrite this spaghetti' all over the codebase. You've now replaced anyone who knows how the product actually works with people who don't understand the product and aren't going to be incentivized to /care/ about the product at all. The codebase probably needs a rewrite, but the people who understood all the issues of the codebase are gone, so any future rewrite is just about guaranteed to fail.

So what you're left with is a skeleton staff who just keeps it running, it won't grow it won't get new features, it'll stagnate and the profits will come from cutting staff even more aggressively. It is definitely a zombie product now.

And any remaining users should already have jumped ship. The staff remaining won't know how it all works, they'll have cut staff down to the bone, and there's a high likelihood of everything getting hacked or just constant service interruptions.
For a moment was intrigued what contact would do on a buffer but I think you meant concat.
Oh.. that sounds more difficult...

Maybe find common ground outside the environment?

Friendship in one interest could help perception in another.

To your credit, it can take enormous strength to weather it.
Ukraine isn't even close to "winning" anything. Diplomacy has been fragrantly ignored by the west and ukraine. I dislike russia and yes Putin IS a thug, however there is no metric that indicates ukraine is winning or that a hot war with all of nato would do anything. Again I dislike russia, when I was visiting a friend in russia I was detained and harassed by their border authorities and found the people incredibly rude. That said, they are still entitled to sovereignty.

It's also painfully ironic, that in early 2022 we accused russia of "war crimes" for using cluster munitions and this week just signed over hundreds of cluster munitions to ukraine...

Crimea and Donbas should be forfeited in a diplomatic matter to settle further tensions. At the very least Zelensky should be replaced with someone who's willing to negotiate. It's sad, however continuing to "fight" will just erase any and all genetic lineage in ukraine. We've also already failed when it comes to "weakening russia" because the west already ran out of artillery ammunition.

I don't understand why the only path out of this to you is continued war. Knowing the history of Georgia what happened in Ukraine is not surprising. If anything, this is a failure of American and Western geopolitics.
Actual examples of actual realtime systems where the JVM is used would be a strong argument. Vague references to usage in military hardware isn't.

Neither Java nor Go are languages you'd pick for realtime systems that require sensible guarantees. And why on earth would you use whether they are suitable for RT systems as any sort of metric? It is like judging a spoon by how good it is at being a fork.

> Typical Java code ends up with more boilerplate than Go. Java gives
> tools to avoid boilerplate, but these are never used applicably in
> the enterprise environment which has a thirst for standardization.

So you miss generics, even though Go has generics, because it avoids boilerplate, but Java has more boilerplate than Go, so something something enterprise standardization or lack thereof?

Uhm...
The Hungry Caterpillar and the Ecosystem
And…if they didn’t have access to a doctor anyways? This sounds like a huge improvement over traditional non-medicine that would be used instead.
It’s a bigger problem with a bigger opportunity. We just need policies that impact 77 million people instead of policies that impact 3.8 billion people .
So you think one can do more work without burning out by getting paid more money, or being a shareholder vs just a worker?

I would think this would come more from the nature of the work than from the structure of ownership of the company.