skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company might be doing some funny math with the value of the benefits: $50,000. That could include things you might never use, like IVF assistance.
This is the role of benchmark suites and top 500 lists.
No need for dramatic responses. If you JUST want money you can go make more in the trades.

For the work we do as software engineers we are beyond well compensated.
Yeah. It goes both ways. Interview processes may often be terrible. But it's also the case that, in a world where you don't even need to put a stamp on an envelope, a lot of people looking for a job/any job (or hoping to get a story written about their client, etc.) will just blast out email/applications to any valid or even invalid endpoint.

ADDED: And, to be fair, if you don't have connections or past history that really jumps off the page, it is a numbers game to a large degree.
“We are acting too slow”. This is the key question. What is the optimal response? Too fast and we collapse the systems we will need to adapt. Too slow and we will not be able to adapt. The predictions that make you anxious are very uncertain or very far in the future. Being precautions you feel compelled to act ‘quickly.’ But in the history of climate responses rash policies have made problems worse. Take biofuel subsidies causing food shortages in the 3rd world. Or sulphate emissions reductions causing warming over the last 5 years! When we reflexively act without a consistent model with validated assumptions then we do ourselves a disservice. I know of multimillion dollar projects that spent years of work to suit the new sulphate emission limits, and now we find out that may have helped cause record sea surface temperatures.

I want action on climate change but I don’t want the solution to cause more damage than the problem itself.

Few misc responses:
We may be beyond the carrying capacity of the earth in some ways, but most of these (eg soil health, fishing sustainability) is dominated by non-global warming anthro effects, so for those issues we should focus on those more direct causes.
Take your claim that 90% of sharks are gone: closest evidence I can find is “90% of the world's open-ocean sharks died off in mystery extinction event 19 million years ago.” Recent shark population decrease is mainly because of demand for shark fin soup, with some effect due to CO2, but surely a tiny effect compared to commercial fishing.
Ice melting faster: of course this is true, a warming world causes ice to melt. But the critical point is what are the effects of this and when? If Greenland is going to melt over 10,000 years then adaptation should be relatively easy. Melting in 50 years would be a different story. Will it be a local ecosystem collapse or just a redistribution as species adapt and fill new niches?

Most of your claims are worst case scenarios from models with a lot of uncertainty and lack of predictive power. Circulation stopping? Droughts? These are likely to be worse with a warmer world, but how much more likely/worse? Some models predict an increase in farmland as the poles thaw. Some areas experience more rainfall due to increased evaporation.

Consider the most reflexive climate action group: extinction rebellion. Their current goal is to stop UK oil and gas development. What would be the likely result of this? Historically when a multinational oil and gas corporation can’t develop in their preferred location they… develop in another location. The other locations are likely to be deep sea or 3rd world countries with less regulation. Both options result in worse environmental outcomes including worse emissions. This is why the ‘revolution’ options aren’t wise: there are basically no known paths to revolution which don’t involve mass conflict and the alternative, reform, is still possible.

One point that did confuse me: why is global trade threatened?
Rab and Ryan from Consolevania kept referring to how good it was, and at first I thought it was an in-joke because it doesn't sound like a classic. But it's genuinely quite a well-respected and critically acclaimed game, even if it didn't become commercially successful.
"You could try Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS, Zorin OS, or Ubuntu Budgie."

Long story short, desktop Linux is still focused at hobbyists. Messing around with different Linux distros and doing complete re-installs is what these Linux fans do for fun. They don't want to avoid the details of all the moving parts and pieces, they want to wallow in them.

To most people in the "real world", the computer is a tool, not their best friend. They just want to get some work done. Fiddling with different distros and resolving update conflicts is counter-productive to them.

There remains a huge gulf between these two world views that has yet to be successfully bridged.
Reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly valid form of argumentation. If you don't like the conclusion, that's the point.
Note that benefits are valued at at least $50k/year in this number.
That's the Assimilation Model. Both Multiregional and Out of Africa were wrong (or more accurately, incomplete), but Multiregional was probably a fair bit more wrong.
I find it interesting on what totalitarian regimes choose to put their foot down on. At some point I think the topic almost doesn't matter and it serves as as just a battle of wills where the authorities are please that they can impose whatever, and it also serves to separate their people from the rest of the world and create their own little "culture war" barrier.

When it comes to Archeology I always find it a bit confusing too. I doubt some randos from thousands of years ago would identify much with modern nation states, ethnic groups or etc, and yet that's often how arguments about such things go..
Let's be honest, they're probably doing more important work. But keep in mind this is including all costs of benefits, etc. If you're making less than that as a senior dev in the US you might just need to change job not career
If I'm not mistaken, at Buser Brasil, Brazilian Flix Bus,
the destination search is powered by PyPy
https://www.buser.com.br/
But not illegal, no?

I actually kind of respect Neumann. Not in a moral/ethical way, of course, but in a defend-yourself-at-all-times way.

He never would have gotten that payout if he hadn't legally fortified his position like he did, and then successfully maintained it through SoftBank's initial due diligence.

"Heads, I win. Tails, I win." type stuff.
This is a problem, but it's not a problem with Stripe, it's a problem with banks in general. Banks use heuristics that are "good enough" to detect fraud and money laundering, and if they do then they'll block you just as surely as Stripe will.

Stripe's processes may very well need improvement, but private fraud teams making important calls is how finance is run everywhere.
I still remember the first time I played a couple of Psygnosis games on an Amiga 500: Blood Money, and Shadow of the Beast. Those two blew me away. The sound and the graphics were absolutely stunning for late 80's.

I have a MIST, Vampire board, and still play around with UAE from time-to-time... but there's nothing like seeing the "real" hardware for the first time when you were a teenager. Even with all the hardware I've had over the past 30 years, everything else has felt so incremental.
So what? The tradeoff is that you make much less money with your mindset in exchange for impressing people on an internet forum.
There is plenty of wrong or misleading information here:

- What is the cross supposed to mean for PNG compression of photographic images? PNG can compress photographic images just fine and for some applications (where you want lossless) it used to be a good choice.

- PNG has animation support, even if everyone except Firefox tried to

- While WEBP and AVIF support lossless compression and animation, those features are not available in all browser versions that support static lossy webp/avif images.
NES didn't get traction in the UK? That's surprising I would have though with its dominance in North America that would have swept up the UK as well. Maybe not a targeted market?
Of course they never were suggested to eat cake in reality. 1) The actual French quote was to brioche, a type of bread and mistranslated as cake because brioche wasn't common in English-speaking countries 2) Was never an actual suggestion -- the French philosopher Rousseau was making a sarcastic remark suggesting that if the people didn't have bread, they should eat brioche (a fancier kind of bread) instead. But for some reason in pop culture this was falsely transformed into an actual suggestion by Marie Antoinette
Kudos for the work! Stupid comment (not really on the main topic of the blogpost, but might be useful anyway for future "toy example" models): in the initial SimpleBrokenModel class [EDIT: and also in SimpleModel), there is actually quite a bit of wasted computation (something like > 66% of all the model computations!). You are applying, in sequence, the following layers:

- embedding 65 -> 128

- linear 128 -> 128

- ReLU

- linear 128 -> 65

But since there's no non-linearity at all between the first two layers, and they both are linear... the second one is totally useless. This model is effectively a "classical" single hidden layer MLP. And in terms of FLOPS, it's wasting 128128=16k operations out of a total of 128128+65*128=24k operations.
UPS is capitalized in the BBC story title (and everywhere else), it should be capitalized in the HN title, methinks.
No thanks.

1) Not enough details.

2) If it's down, I'm fiddling my fingers.

3) Not everything needs to be online.

4) You going to use my code to train the AI? If not, how do I know you're not. If so, umm, just NO.

5) ETC...
Just pay them a million a year each, why should they be anything short of rich?

Even if the company could afford to pay the drivers $170k/yr without increasing shipping costs, they're still going to increase shipping costs. So this just gets passed on to the consumer rather than the company, much like tipping. And at a time when discretionary spending is down tremendous, this just means more people will get laid off. I will eat my hat if there are no mass layoffs in the next year.
Any solution to provide live traffic overlay on OSM?, that Google does via crowdsourcing (I think).
Or participate in collective bargaining!
The managers at Microsoft are probably too young to remember the original.
Does your sense of your senior dev pay include considering your benefits? Back when I was an underpaid junior dev, I once had my employer go and attempt to convince the software devs that we were making money than we thought via a statement outlining benefits. It more than doubled my salary... but most of it would come with any software job that wasn't self-employment/contract work.
It's nice that the standard library finally caught up to logrus.
If your treat assessment involves this, you're probably best not using a $5 a month VPN.
Show HN: AI tool to summarize, group and sort customer feedback
Hi HN!

This is a side project that I built when building another app. Initially it was a Python script that splits the input, runs it through GPT and prints out the result. Then I manually organized the lines into something that I could read.

Later on, I figured that it might be useful to build a UI around it -- allowing drag&drop and especially seeing the original quotes in the context.

The input is still rudimentary. It's just a big text box but hopefully it's already useful? I think it can be extended to add integrations such as Zapier -- e.g. whenever a user email comes in, process it and send it to this dashboard.

So what do you think? Do you find it useful? Is there anything that you'd like to add? I'd really appreciate your input!
just glad that the 2019 IPO didn't materialize, otherwise the innocent retail shareholders would have paid for all the nuisance
Worked in an investment bank, although not in a client facing role, and it's not quite as simple as it seems - if your client reaches out with a question via text or WhatsApp, technically you should redirect them to use your bank's secure messaging app of choice.

The problem is no one has ever heard of Symphony, doesn't want to install it so they can ask a simple question, and the user experience is meh at best. If you do the right thing, clients would likely perceive you as difficult to work with and perhaps go elsewhere. To done extent, the inevitable fines might be seen as a necessary cost of doing business. So a pretty severe crackdown was necessary to ensure everyone is properly incentivized to inflict this pain upon clients.
The "custom port" option in the config creator just sets the endpoint port to use for Wireguard. It has nothing to do with port forwarding.
> What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way?

Credited for creating the most painful interview process.
If you want a lighter-weight package featuring a plaintext REPL, a large library of functions, function definition, arbitrary precision, and more (minus solver capability), give Speedcrunch a try:

https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/
I'll agree that Unity had more and better tutorials, especially for beginners. But I found myself using the reference documentation more than tutorials and I liked the engine and blueprints docs in Unreal better, but maybe that's just me.
Shades of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle....
They are but it takes 2 to 3 years to develop a chip like this. Someone already posted a link to the Google chip. Microsoft got a lot of CPU designers from Qualcomm's team after Qualcomm got rid of them a few years ago. Now Microsoft has laid off their custom ARM core team so anything they do will be a licensed ARM core.
I believe most recruiting processes are worse than chance so skip the weights.

Roll a dice, pick someone, fact check the resume for scammers, done.
What is the proper (optimal) way to discount nonsensical answers in this space?

Also: why is there so much variety and inconsistency/disagreement?
Great news if you are lucky enough to drive for UPS. I would be envious if I was a driver for another firm. The average salary for a delivery driver in the US is around $50K. But maybe this will pull up wages for the rest of the industry.
That was my point. OP made it seem like China is an outlier because its 100% pro-science or something, when they have their superstitions and conspiracies just like the population of any other big country.
What makes you think that I don't understand whether AI is generative or not? What I said was that for artists who are complaining about their copyright being abused, it does not matter. 10 years ago they were not complaining, because AIs looking like ChatGPT (to users who see it as a black box) did not exist (or were not remotely as powerful).

And I understand that. It is not their job to learn how the black box works. What they see is that "machine learning models" (which they probably call "AI" now), which are complete black boxes to them (and that's justified: engineers who train them also don't know exactly what they do, but rather test their model on some dataset and judge it from there). And those black boxes are being trained from their copyrighted work and have the potential to generate a ton of money which they will never see.

You can go and say "you guys should learn how the technology works instead of complaining", but let's be honest: probably you are not an expert in AI yourself, and anyway why would the artists have to care? It is a totally legit question that they have: "Why can engineers take my copyrighted work, run it through an algorithm that does stuff no algorithm has done in history at a scale never seen before, make money out of it, and not even consider that maybe they are abusing my IP?".

Before dismissing the artists, you should try to understand their point of view.
The middle ground is upholding the principle of net neutrality, with the large transit providers maintaining freedom of information exchange rather than doling out extrajudicial punishments for speech they may deem undesirable.
Seems to me that the EV car market is going produce very few winners. Possibly killing off the old guard completely.

Tesla is a given. The Chinese manufacturers (like MG) seem to be quite successful. The old European and US car makers are however failing quite badly. What they produce is hot garbage at a huge loss per car.
Drivers were already making great money. The other package handlers like at the sorting facilities get left out though.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Can you talk about the business aspect? Like I assume up to now you're having trouble getting additional funding? What worked and didn't work? What's the current direction?
Lmao, scams and crap products have always been a thing since we crawled out of the oceans. As always, the problem isn't technology but humanity itself.
This is great work :) thanks for sharing it with us. Unexpected Linkin Park bit at the end was nice, but now I'm wondering if Linkin Park is now considered 'oldies'
No, because monolithic kernels are unequivocally superior to microkernels /s
Didn’t the Atari ST own the DAW space at that time?
You are correct. That mirror is from ftp.kermitproject.org, which doesn't have all of the things that Columbia's website has.

I have since added additional mirrors which have everything you're looking for.
> It could be that you were consistently in the top 10% of your class at school or university.

I guess it’s valuable to be a mildly smart kid in a really bad school.
Very cool. Liverpool is undefined though, I guess nobody thought of visiting :(

>Flint, United States

>Drink up, problem solved.

I laughed
Nice dodge, but just an example. Other examples would be the US president at the time suggesting using bleach.
What is the point then? Justifying telemetry? Because the value for the user is at least very close to zero, but the privacy implications are not.
Next roadblock for electric cars: Early adopter era is over
TL;DR at the end of the 80's East Germany had paradoxically a more capable semiconductor industry than West Germany (not in terms of innovation, it trailed the state of the art by 5..10 years, but definitely in terms of scale), this was mainly because the Eastern Bloc was cut off from western microelectronics because of the COCOM embargo and had to bootstrap their own microelectronics industry, while Western Europe could just buy their chips on the world market from the cheapest bidder.

Those centers of technology with their attached universities were mainly located in Dresden (Robotron) and Jena (Carl Zeiss) and some smaller locations sprinkled over the southern half of East Germany.

This 'micro-electronics tradition' carried over into the 90's after the reunification and continues until the present time.
Sounds like she puts more carbon into the atmosphere than the people she is scolding.
My wife is a teacher in NC. We are on her insurance with the state health plan for a whole family. We pay $700/mo for our portion on the 80/20 plan.

I would say they likely do pay $30k+ per employee and 50k isnt a big stretch when you count every benefit as you stated.

https://www.shpnc.org/documents/open-enrollment-documents/sh...
Good point - my personal experience has been that you get to respect more if you're architect or hands-on tech manager.

If you tend to become more people engg. manager - you'll be compared to program or project manager after few years
If you want consumers that spend more money on your products, you need consumers with more money. To some degree, an inefficient healthcare system stands in the way of every other industry's profits. A suitably ambitious middle manager at a large company could probably make a dent. A CEO of such a company might actually capture some of that inefficiency.
Google does not provide the full book, does it? Exactly like they could provide a few seconds of a song, but not the song in its entirety.
It's also the anti-tiger rock.

Tigers exist, and can kill you, so you'd better hold this rock at all times.
Does it actually learn them for other people asking similar questions?

Or is it a clean slate for each new session?

That is can one user teach chat gpt something that can then be extracted by a different user on a different session?
Yes this website needs a huge full screen video of models in business attire making calculations on a white board. When scrolling down I don't wish to find out what it does but would like some quotes from people saying how it changed their lives. Some transitions would be nice, the ones that make my fans spin, it gets cold here in the winter. Without it this website is barely usable.
There's a middle ground alternative where the LLM can read the source, give you a high level description (aka documentation), plus cite the relevant parts of the code. Fingers crossed.
Microsoft had something really special with Visual Basic back in the 1990s, nothing has come close to it ever since, including Visual Basic.NET.

React-like frameworks seem to be a good basis for no-code and it seems that no-code could tame the complexity of coding for such a framework.

Such a system also needs a matching back end (otherwise it is just a 50%-code framework.)

A few years back I was exploring the possibility of “low-code” frameworks that include a semantic modeling component. That is, the system comes with prebuilt data models for common business cases so that “developers” don’t kneecap themselves by picking a bad data model.

Fred Brooks wrote this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

where he says that there are several (say five) stages in software development and a technical innovation that reduces the effort of one of those to zero still leaves the other 4/5. The way around that is through that, which is that a revolutionary no-code product needs to address all the work that goes into the product. If you just pick a certain subset of the problem to solve you are a bridesmaid and not a bride.

Look me up my profile and I’ll show you some of my slides from that period.
Indeed, many of the new subsidies are to promote various kinds and scales of rewilding.
Good point of view. From an ATM point of view, there is no need to rush other than verifying the user authenticity and available funds. Any double/triple/quadruple requests to withdraw funds within a short amount of time can be delayed since they would likely indicate malicious actors.

For stock exchanges you are absolutely correct. I remember many years ago paying so much extra for the fastest internet access and sub-second delay access to our local stock exchange. Even so it was still slower (lag) when compared to those with offices placed very close to the stock exchange building/infrastruture at that time.
That assumes their family only bred with each other, which I very much hope isn't the case!
The complexity of writing an efficient Node.js Docker image
These are really niche issues and most people aren't even aware, let alone care about this. The only real solution to this is some kind of legislation that makes it difficult to carry on with business as usual. I wonder how this data collection squares with GDPR?
> Tesla is a given.

It most certainly is not.
Are you saying these passports can’t be used for travel? If they weren’t, then why would anyone bother going to get one?