skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very loosely related, but I really dislike the excepted design pattern for that cases where functions names are something like AssertThatOnePlusOneIsReturnAlwaysTwoAndNeverFive. It looks ridiculous, smells like a hack, and I cannot think of any reason why giving a description of the test couldn't be handled by the testing framework in a more graceful way.
Yeah but those dinner rolls are really tasty.

But yes, it’s something I place no value on being able to go to whenever I want. I’d rather join a makerspace, and the people there are a lot more interesting.
It seems that that is appropriate. We ought to have some attachment, but also be able to rationalize and supersede emotions in order to qualify some things and then be able to say, this has little utility for me, it's time to move on. With an absence or suspension of emotion we could just become consumers who consume and dispose like a swarm of locusts.
One can argue that this argument is actually what the Soviet Union actually did always.
It worked, at least at first. They beat the US to orbit on the back of that despite the US technically having better people. Eventually the US got the game plan in order and got to the moon first but since then the exact argument that the article makes happened. The people in the classroom became the people with the best connections rather than the best abilities.
Yes, you can submit any local site with a paywall. For what is worth, it is part of the "community guidelines" for HN to not complain about paywalls (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ). Someone will probably post a pirated archive link shortly (edit: they already have).
If Harvard revolutionized its admissions tomorrow, elite debutants would find a different way to signal.
Yes. NTFS has no problem with non-latin letters and emojis in file names.
I, too, work for a fortune 500. They're actually in the top 100. No idea how many employees, though.

Every instance I've encountered with an engineer having root/admin permissions has been a shitshow.

I just now encountered an instance of engineers bypassing policy by modifying sudoers to give a lower priv'd generic/shared account passwordless sudo to shit like /usr/bin/make.

The other project I was on, I had to fight with engineers about why having a firewall on your appliance doesn't negate the need to address code execution exploits behind the firewall. These aren't security-savy individuals and they shouldn't ever be given administrative access to anything.

I'm glad you don't work for me, too; I can't stand leadership positions. I work in security and all I see are engineers fucking up daily, so I'm pretty jaded/biased at this point.
In (very) short: the resonance (notes interacting with one another), combined with the analog nature of varying velocity (how hard keys are pressed), combined with pedaling modifying both of the above.

The resulting combinatorial explosion means that the number of samples you need to capture, in order to have a high-fidelity reproduction of a physical piano, is enormous.

Putting aside the practicality of capturing all of this, you're still looking at tens to hundreds of gigabytes of raw samples per piano.

(Great question, by the way.)
I can't be the only one thinking that generally MS Team is offering probably worst experience in the messaging market.
What you actually do to protect sacred 1991 borders of Ukraine? Are you helping children, who lost parts of their body, for example?
> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
What law schools are admitting 18yos?

I don't know if it's intentional but you're conflating mutually exclusive lines of thought.

The argument that such decisions should be made at age 22 instead of age 18 doesn't support — in fact contradicts — your argument that trajectories toward SCOTUS should not be related to law school admissions (which do indeed happen at age 22 instead of age 18).
> If it's fair use, why should you have to do that?

You may not be legally required to do that, but it can be an excellent move that benefits you nonetheless.

Much like how Weird Al isn't legally required to get permission to make a parody of a popular song, but he does so anyway.

But in this case, I don't think you even need to invoke Fair Use. I think what he did simply isn't a copyright violation in the first place.

In reality, the legality of this was never the issue anyway. The issue was that doing this made the authors angry, and the dev didn't want that.
Yes, and assumed the driver was guilty. The two way road is that the middle-man has to assume innocence from BOTH parties until otherwise proven. Period.
2b2t got backdoored several times this way. Several people had access to WorldEdit, creative mode, admin commands, etc.

Beyond ancient anarchy servers, right now the Minecraft mod community has been dealing with several supply chain attacks, deserialization vulnerabilities, and so on.
I suspect the divide may end up similar to that between a start up and a large company. Yes, some problems are better solved by a single person. But others benefit from a division of thought even if there is some bureaucratic overhead.
Hint: the problem isn't just an Uber corp & Uber driver problem. The problem extends into the rest of the world.
I work for Google and do come into HN occasionally. See my profile and my comments here. I'd come more often if it were easier to know when there's something Google Search-related happening. There's no good "monitor HN for X terms" thing I've found. But I do try to check, and sometimes people ping me.

In addition, if you want an explanation of how Google works, we have an entire web site for that: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/
Spot on. The user asked for recipes using only water, bleach, and ammonia, it's funny but hardly news-worthy. https://twitter.com/PronouncedHare/status/168736440337978982...
> nor is it embarrassing

I worked on a sharepoint project once. Let's just say I'm not putting it on my resume these days.
Yeah, for sure, I'm often syncing multi gigabyte repositories while me and my wife are on video conferences. You really feel the extra bandwidth then.
“:”? Really? It’s not 2001 anymore.
Building circuits. I'm still at the stage of merely soldering things together over I2C/SPI/UART, but it's tons of fun. My current project is designing a keyboard from scratch - I plan to have a central 'hub' with an LCD connected to N auxiliary devices: two to start (a split keyboard). I plan to add a macropad and a rotary encoder later on.
Are the employees at Google working on Search aware of how bad search results have become in the past year or two? Literally almost everyone I know, inside and outside of tech, has noticed a significant downgrade in quality from Google search results. And a lot of it is due to artificially inflated SEO techniques.
Haven’t read the article because it is behind a paywall. Based on the title, I have a comment. I hope the battery tech catches up fast that we can have safe (one that is not vulnerable to runaway fire even at as low probability as LFP batteries of today are), and also hold about 50KwH of energy so as to serve as an effective buffer for most households.
it's been proven that all models learned by gradient descent are equivalent to kernel machines. interpolation isn't generalization. if theres a new input sufficiently different from the training data the behaviour is unknown
The title reads less confusingly with some well-placed hyphens:

“Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3-days-in-office rule”
Sure, but add to that a modern storage solution (ideally a 1541Ultimate 2+), a lag free scaler (like the RetroTink 2X), and a modern power supply. The U64 comes with all of that built in.
Not as the most exciting thing but some lifehack to reduce daily chore:

I bought electric shaver. I tried decade ago one but didn't enjoy. I always hated chore of shaving - you have to soften your skin, put some foam, make sure your razor is sharp (many time it isn't and you run out of new one), do many runs with razor on your skin, hit razor on the sink so it's not clogged, after shaving clean yourself and razor again and dry yourself and hopefully you don't have any cuts.

With electric razor:

- these days they are small and can be charged with usb-c

- don't require and water or foam (just dry shaving)

- all your face hairs are inside the shaver head and not floating everywhere around your sink

- shaver is magnetic and easy to remove and then just dump down your hairs to sink

- don't have any cuts and don't have to change shaving head (probably one a year or less)

- I bought cheap one (Enchen) with 3 heads for like 20$

If you procrastinate to shave yourself every (second) day give it a try.
So they will give it to you after only a period of time?

> In Oxford (as in Cambridge), the status of Master of Arts is a mark of seniority within the University which may be conferred 21 terms after matriculation.
That was basically my experience too, it was about 4 months from a GP referral to a psychiatrist evaluation then back to the GP to try out different medications.

So far we’ve only tried Atomoxetine and Wellbutrin, want to avoid stimulants if possible.
do you have a link to the "admissions content that came out in the affirmative action SCOTUS case"? That sounds very interesting. I found a report on the entire case but its near 300 pages long
My friend's grandfather ran a marine business, so had many engines and accessories in stock. After he died they left his shop untouched for a couple decades. At that point, they had grown a sentimental attachment to those things even though it was just "inventory"; not the grandfather's prized possensions or anything.

So yeah, they got lots of old engines lying around on display now. And a box of compasses and other crap.
> It also had a debug command that wasn't authenticated that let you print the contents of any motd file in a folder. Except it didn't escape strings properly, so you could `../...` to escape out of that directory and print any file.

That's hilarious and showcases how un-sandboxed those plugins are.
>>I totally agree that Harvard has (and should have) a right to do whatever they want with their institution and admit whoever they see fit.

I would agree to this under 3 conditions

1. The university can not accept any federally backed student loans, grants, etc

2. The university must self finance any financial aid given using their massive endowments

3. Those loans must be discharged in bankruptcy

I dont even care about their non-profit status as others do. I care they are getting billions in federally (tax payer) backed loan, with no accountability for the money, and no skin in the game at all
Counterpoint: am American and I read it exactly as intentioned the first time. It didn't even occur to me to read it in the context you did until you mentioned it.

I don't watch network news though.
working in links and lynx and etc.

Thank you very much.
Thanks! It feels like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
$ rpm -qi neovim
package neovim is not installed
$ dnf search neovim
No matches.

I don't have anything against it, but prefer being able to use the same tool across environments.
A lot of recent math discoveries seem to be geometrical: circle packing, infinitely tiling patterns, neighbor coloring theorem, ...

I don't seem to see as much discoveries in other areas like number theory, calculus, algebra etc...

Is this a bias of what gets covered on HN, or are this type of geometrical problems the currently most active field of mathematics?
Tiny box is for running it at fp16, most other comments here talk about running it with 4bit quantization
There are two parts to learning braille: learning to feel the patterns and learning how text is encoded.

For computers, there’s a third step: learning how your screen reader works.

The first is hard on its own, and may be effectively unachievable for elderly persons (the sensitivity of your fingers goes down with age)

The second and third you can exercise without hardware with some (¿most?) screen readers. For example, Apples voiceover has a braille panel (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/voiceover/vo15603/mac)

Enable that and cover the rest of the screen to force yourself to not cheat by looking at the screen, and you’ve a cheap testing setup.
Attention-based transformer architectures of the same type as GPT were first published in 2017.
I just had a quick look at the CMakeLists.txt file on github and I see
"find_package(RTMIDI "2.1.0" REQUIRED)" - maybe removing the REQUIRED would solve your issue?
> You don’t use usernames as primary keys for anything, do you?

HAHAHAHHHAAHAHA

Seen this so many times I literally laughed out loud.
This week I went to the office (not Amazon, another company in Europe) for 3 days in a row because we had new-joiners and I wanted to make it easier for them in the beginning. I live near the office, just a 15m walk away, and I would still not like to continue 3D/W. I know, people call it entitlement, but my problem is that the office is a hostile environment. Here is my experience, in an office that was at most 30% capacity, in a 3Y old building:

- The "kitchen" area is so tiny, if you want water you will queue, there are only 2 places on the whole floor where you can get it and they are tiny rooms where at max 5 ppl could enter, 3 comfortably.

- Queues at the bathroom, there are 2 stalls, for the whole floor, I couldn't find another one (I really hope there is one more, I just failed to find it, I did ask, nobody knew about another one). This got worse and worse as the week progressed. I've noticed a similar issue at my previous employer (5Y old building, part of why I left, health issues that are greatly improved by the access to a toilet)

- They implemented some eco-friendly lights, with movement sensors. This sounds great and I am for helping the environment, the problem is that in practice these lights turn on-off every few minutes, during the day, in summer, in a sunlight filled building. My eyes were so tired every EOD.

- In the same eco-friendly manner they made the AC not run during the night and morning. So, if you respected the work schedule and came to the office in the morning it was hotter than outside. It's summer, we had 30C in the morning, 47C in the afternoon. I needed to wait for 1-2h for the AC to kick in and recover after arriving in the office.

I am conflicted, I did see that the new-joiners liked the in-person meetings and all, and I do get it. It is easier for non-experienced people to talk to new colleagues online if they have some interactions before. But, time after time, as my employers change buildings I see always reductions in common areas/bathrooms/etc. I find it hilarious now that I have to research the building of potential employers and ask them if they plan to move out in the next 1-3Y (more and more jobs no longer offer remote work in my area).
Why are railroads 4'8 1/2" in the US?
That's an 80/20 or I guess 99/1 though.
The actual quality of most local colleges is poor and is basically just a loan servicer subsidization program. If you want to be the lead engineer of a Fortune 500....you went to the 1%...not the 99. I think your argument is super solid and highlights what I'm saying here..but also the Ivy League club is basically just a billionaire boys club to keep the others out.
Let's talk about an ideal webdev workflow without build scripts. We're so close
Just imagine, no more gulp, webpack, rollup, parcel, snowpack, vite... You just fire up your editor and everything is ready in a modern browser.

What does this look like?
What is missing for this to be a reality?
Parent of 3 (soon to be 4) year old here ...

Thanks for sharing. First off, I think it's normal to experience the feelings of regret when first having a child. Those first few months (maybe even years) can actually feel worse: less (sometimes no) sleep, less freedom (for other activities), less intimacy.

The list goes on and on.

But, as you recognized, focusing on the negatives can be self reinforcing.

At the same time, being a parent (for me) fills me up in ways I've never experienced before. A joy ... love ... that got lost in childhood.

And raising a child is not (again, for me) something I can/want to pull off on my own, with only my wife and I. It really does take a whole village and I'm no longer sold on the nuclear (American) family — just mom and dad – raising children.

Anyways, sending you lots of vibes from one parent to another.
Btw, did you know that ctrl/shift-arrow editors are also different? This also has something to do with my vim preference.

When you use it, either in a text field or in an editor, there’s a little uncertainty where ctrl-stops are and how the cursor behaves regarding EOL. Is symbol/char a ctrl boundary? Does it jump forwards at the same positions like backwards? If I move up to a shorter line, will it retain a column index and an EOL flag? If I <End>, does it have EOL flag at all? Which way do you select whole lines? Home shift-down? Home home shift-down? Ctrl-L? You want to select whole lines to not deal with extra indent on paste. Or does an editor fix that?

There are lots of editors that behave differently. Almost all of them.

What bug me in it, is that you now have to wait for ctrl-arrow to finish somewhere, but you don’t know where. So, combined with a high repeat rate (which you want unless you like watching a snail to run or paint to dry) it becomes a release-timely game. I definitely remember struggling with that when I still used windows-style editors.

It would be not an issue if I chose one and used it. But they die or get ancient wrt useful plugins so quickly. Norton, borland, ulti-something, notepad++, various IDEs, linux zoo, sublime, atom, vscode. There’s no end to it. One decade and it’s either “obsolete” or requires a high-end ssd to just start.
This story of decentralization has played out before. The hazard is that private grid infrastructure becomes affordable by the upper class, they stop soliciting politicians to maintain infrastructure. Once the middle class can afford it, then the votes evaporate, and the lower class is absolutely fucked. A half rotten water supply or electric grid becomes fully rotten every time there’s stress on the system.

Phasing out natural gas in new construction is going to cause this passion play in slow motion. Have you priced out induction stoves? Phew.
depending on your country they might not have been availible before
I guess you're criticizing Microsoft's NTFS, since it cannot use colons, either.

CON:? Really? It's not 1974 anymore.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Vast.ai is dirt cheap if you want 1-8 RTX 3090s
Because there are far more children who check all those boxes than there are slots at the Ivies?
You got my attention until the "right a lot bit". What happened to earn trust or being data driven?

Imho, they are gonna reap the results of what they sow foe years to come.
Today's data is measured using thermometers, and averaged across the globe. The reconstructed data are composed of many different proxies, across many different studies, which are averaged out. I'm not trying to deny climate change here, I'm just saying that the reconstructed data will not capture the kind of rapid changes we're seeing now, for some time, and anyone reconstructing the 21st century from a vantage point 2000 years in the future using tree rings etc won't see the short term rapid changes we see now. The actually reconstruction methods are fascinating, and many of them contain a lot greater variance than we see in this graphic, and many of them disagree with each other too so you have to smooth things out a bit and have a best guess. That's not a restriction we have now with modern thermometers.
I had a nintendo64 and had 6 games for it. Mario64, zelda64, majora's mask, kart64, goldeneye, and tetrisphere. If it were possible to wear out a n64 cart i would have worn out tetrisphere. Several generations later I still had the 64 hooked up with tetrisphere still stuffed into it. It wasn't until the xbox one that I finally packed it away and switched to emulation.
We've been diligently working to improve the results through things like our helpful content system, and that work is continuing. You can read about some of it in a recent post here (and it also describes the Perspectives feature that's live on mobile): https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-perspectiv...
BT addresses are not randomized because it would break all existing BT headphones and the pairing process.

Both Apple and Google, as far as I know, will randomize MAC for BLE on Android and iOS when possible. Ditto for Wifi MAC, but it’s usually only randomized on a per-AP basis.

But that doesn’t prevent tracking via BLE accessories (e.g. heart rate monitors, older smart watches, etc.) which may periodically broadcast with the same MAC address indefinitely.
The “Harvard exists to make society less meritocratic” idea is repeated a couple of times, and the article doesn’t seem to make any argument at all that it’s correct.

An alternative hypothesis, entirely consistent with the author’s arguments, is that Harvard exists to educate its students (and to do research and have fancy sports and pretty buildings and cultural events, etc), that it’s quite good at this but not necessarily substantially better than its lower class competition, and that its gating function developed over time and is unfortunate.
IMHO it is only appropriate to call someone "insane" after genuinely trying to understand their actions and motivations.
Pity that no one has packaged it for flatpak yet. I guess the AppImage will have to do.
They do work for shareholders but since shareholders aren't equally divided, i.e. one person or company may own a larger portion, and it's difficult to sue over this, executive can ignore the shareholders to an extent.

How would you prove a decision was wrong without hindseight? How would you prove an executive shouldn't make X amount of money?

Imagine I'm the CEO of Nike, I make $100 million a year. The company is doing amazing. Is that because of decisions I made, marketing, good product, word of mouth, things that happened before I was CEO. Prove that I shouldn't get that money.
Ask HN: Do you feel like you know or have met someone from the community?
I was just thinking how I've been on HN for several years. I comment and post fairly regularly and check the site multiple times a day. I feel very much part of the community, yet, strangely, don't feel like I actually know anyone here. Except, maybe Dang, and even then that relationship is only one way (I assume)

Nothing wrong with this by the way. I'm just curious how others feel they are part of the community
A Better Internet for Readers
Because the main users of private jets are policymakers. For example when the G20 COP26 summit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-...

>118 Private Jets Take Leaders To COP26 Climate Summit Burning Over 1,000 Tons Of CO2

> As the COP26 climate conference opened on Monday (1 November), 50 private jets landed at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, ferrying their passengers to one of the most critical environmental summits in history.
is 70B not commercially useful because of the model storage requirements, or total inference performance, or additional memory per session that's inferencing, or what?

is the output better such that it's desirable, or is this just a case of "too much performance hit for a marginal gain"?