skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that is a prime example of what about ism. I think one can hold the position that the EPA has been both abusive to every day American's when the abuse their authority to prevent home owners from building on their land because there is a beetle some where in the area (yes that is hyperbolic) while at the same time playing liability shield for large corporations that are harming these same home owners.

Yelling at the clouds saying "but what about the corporations" does nothing to refute my original statement
Show HN: Command palette-style Git client
> The court found that young people have a constitutional right to a healthful environment and that the state must consider potential climate damage when approving projects.
Maybe if you only allow for shallow clones/pulls. I am not sold on vanilla git handling monorepo well. If anybody in the company pushes a huge blob you mess up everyone else and so on. Git and some modifications perhaps yes though
Right, that could also end up the case that the IPv4 endpoints become NAT landlords charging extra for all the "4+" traffic that they have to see. We already see blocks of IPv4 addresses changing hand for lots of money, imagine if they could also monetize "downstream" traffic. Doesn't that give added economic incentive to never "fix" those bottlenecks? They could encourage more people to support "4+" directly on their devices or they could keep collecting easy rent from being NAT gateways. I have a hard time imagining that profit motives wouldn't make deployment of any "IPv4+" worse than IPv6 deployment.
Well... ATT bought TimeWarner who owned HBO & Cinemax and lost their shirts. They spun it off and it merged with Discovery who are the people who gave us Alaskan reality TV shows ad nauseum and gave us Kate Gosselin. All Warner Brothers Discovery wants to do is to layoff employees, cancel shows, and raise prices.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/13/warner-bros-discovery-me...

"Disney Plus" is a loser's bet. The only reason I care is I don't want Apple to waste billions and then raise the price of iPhones and iPads because of this monumental money pit.
That's a pretty good point, it is odd for Apple to not have provided even a simple WINE-like utility for emulating 32 bit apps, even without any effort put into optimization it would have still been useful for M1/M2 chips.
For sure, yes, it's from 2006! I didn't have that one to hand, but remember the O'Reilly "Java Threads" book from 1999 and >50% of that was still useful for bringing a younger colleague up to speed.
Welcome to to ruby-esque syntax, which nobody likes. It’s really what the beam needed /s.

Odd that a language that takes it’s syntax from a language about 50 years old is 10x more syntactically clean than elixir.
The landlord who complains that rents aren't enough to make the mortgage, for example.

In an area like Silicon Valley, someone who buys a small property new and tries to rent it most definitely will not make the mortgage from rent, especially a single family house.
> the additives used in the making of American bread

...but far from all US bread. You tend to find the more questionable additives in the cheapest store-bought breads. But it's also not hard to find higher-quality bread that omits them.
It's probably outdated. A modern version might be "every program expands until it becomes a platform with instant messaging capabilities and an app store..."
One of these my IDE can typecheck and apply code hightlighting, the other is just a blob of text.
Everybody knows elixir is ass, just use Erlang.
Passengers will choose alternative options if it isn’t convenient enough. So yes it is important to take personal experience into account.

Also theoretical throughput is different than the real one. A380’s CASM (cost per available seat mile) is awesome when it can be loaded in full, except that it isn’t usually the case. The program is doomed as the result.
Agreeing to move and then not following through seems like an fast track to go from constructive dismissal with severance/unempoyment to fired with cause.

the pro/cons also depend a lot like the timelines for dismissal.
Surprisingly the function calling mechanism doesn't appear to use this trick - apparently it's still possible to get the wrong JSON structure back from it occasionally.
The headline was exceeding the character limit so that’s why it was edited and shortened.
Since they announced adding malware in the toolchain (sorry, khem, telemetry) I somewhat lost interest in Go.

How do I know which version has spying turned on or whether this was abandoned?

edit:
I wonder if this was mandated by Chinese government, as certain Go tools that help circumvent censorship are written in Go and maybe government wants to know who compiles them.
Real open source is dead. These days only corporate or institutional-backed open source projects are allowed to propagate. Most of these projects have an agenda beyond merely facilitating collaboration between developers.
That discussion is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057672
Seems like new hires during the pandemic would have a clearer-cut case, at least.
Many companies in France did exactly this after COVID guidelines ended:

https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ckgch7tn6a09...

In fact, French labor law is quite archaic on remote work ("telework"), so it's odd that they you chose them, of all "progressive" countries, as your comparison point.

Additionally, those same engineers would, statistically, be earning ~33-50% (before tax) what they do now, if they were in France.

I always find it odd when people disfavorably compare STEM fields in NA to the EU; as they're the few fields the US/Canada are almost undoubtedly better to work in (there's exceptions, of course).
Getting the right people into the lawmaking body, who will make the change.

I'm assuming the hypothetical weird situation where public advocacy outside the lawmaking process is illegal, but the lawmakers in the lawmaking process can discuss and repeal that law. This isn't implausible in democracy, as it is common in democracies that lawmakers have immunity from prosecution based on objectionable speech in a parliament.

Or illegally via advocating (just because an action is illegal, it does not mean it can't happen) or motivating the lawmakers in various ways, eventually a revolution (which still can be democratic in a sense).

If lawmakers can't repeal that kind of law legally, the system is not a sovereign democracy, but, at best, restricted/controlled democracy, by someone else than demos, who is maintaining that superlaw.
No need to thank me. I didn't try it yet, but we chatted months ago I another HN post and so once in a while I check it out. Any plans to include gitlab as first class citizen?
The trade off is going to remain the same for parallel algorithms, once saturated performance will gradually decline as swapping threads harms performance. Go for example exposes the CPU Core/thread count because unbounded performs worse even despite its apparently cheap virtual threads. I have tested this a number of times in Java and Go and the situation is similar you want to be using near the CPU count dependent on the algorithm and IO. It will be the same in Java with virtual thread, the cost of the threads will be lower but the optimal number likely wont change much.
For some reason another copy of this was flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37121000) and I wanted to respond to a thread there
>> An entire hugely important potentially world changing field not having representation from a huge swath of the population certainly seems problematic.
>I assume lots of groups are underrepresented, depending on how you slice up humanity. Why is that a problem in and of itself? Ensuring training data is representative is a fundamental technique of data science that you can implement regardless of skin color.

A representative sample means that any way you "slice up humanity", if you slice your training data the same way the proportions of slices would stay the same. Anyone of any skin color can implement that but they must do so taking racial proportions of the general population into account.

>> And in terms of the second part; the problems with such widespread usage are many fold, with detrimental bias and lack of representation as one of the many folds.

>But what does that have to do with who is working on the AI systems?

This is the meatier question but in my opinion, it matters because folks who are underrepresented can often (read: not always) have a better eye for underrepresentation in data. Another way to think of it is the unknown unknowns framing and privilege can result in unknown unknowns around what representative data really looks like.
> But the real kicker is; how did you get your deposit? Scrimping and saving?

Pretty much -- more saving then scrimping. My parents and my partner's parents didn't help us, mainly because they couldn't. And we didn't expect them to. And, no, we didn't have other benevolent relatives or money magically appearing in our bank accounts. If only ... Also were also able to use some of our KiwiSavers (government retirement savings plan for those of you outside of NZ) to take advantage of the first home buyer's scheme.

Overall, though, for us it was a matter of living modestly, paying our bills, and remembering to pay ourselves. Not that we didn't/don't indulge from time to time -- pay a visit to our favourite local cafes and we take the occasional trip here and there.

I'm sure this all would have been a bit easier if I was making $150K or more annually (or even if my partner was making $20K or so more a year). But we're not unique or special or anything like that. I know several people in a situation like mine who are doing or have done the same thing.
I’m sorry but 90% of the time I encounter somebody who swears by an ORM I’ll figure out the reason they use it is because they didn’t know SQL to start with and didn’t commit to learning a new language.

The number of people who know SQL well and still choose an ORM seems to be very, very low in my experience.
Colosseum: Real time LLM serving energy comparison
Yes, I think so. I mean I downloaded it and I think it's working right but I don't have much experience with it. They use mumble for voice and that's FOSS too. Do you have it working?
If you signal you will not move, do you get fired on the spot? Attempting to separate the decision from the action feels like a mechanism to try to avoid constructive dismissal[0]

>In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is, in effect, a termination. For example, when an employer places extraordinary and unreasonable work demands on an employee to obtain their resignation, this can constitute a constructive dismissal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Some have no choice but to take it on the chin.
It’s not though, they even say it in their docs that sending a schema does not guarantee that the model will actually adhere to the scheme or even produce valid JSON
Location based Waldo group for YC Founders
I think they're all natural niches, because Rust's performance and ability to tightly control memory allocation are over-promoted and the strength of the type system as a means of ensuring correctness at compile time is underpromoted.

Especially web use is one of the biggest places you want to be able to rely on the compiler, aided by patterns like the newtype pattern and the typestate patterns, to catch as many potential DoS or security bugs as possible.

I use Rust as "Haskell, but without having to put up with writing Haskell". (Or, more commonly, I say that Rust is the sweet spot where you've taken pretty much everything functional programming has to offer before you start falling off a return-on-investment cliff.)
I wish this worked for me. Napping when I'm drowsy results in me being more drowsy. Drinking water when I'm thirsty at least mostly only means more trips to the bathroom.
Sorry meant AGPS. The service use by 911 to find you when you don't have line of sight to the GPS satellites.
I run a Discord server which wasn't partnered, is quite small, and somehow had a custom link (we also certainly weren't boosted).
> The intensity of employment displacement fear comes from an illusion that LLMs have agency.

I don't think so. My concerns have nothing to do with agency, anyway. Nor are my concerns limited to (or even primarily about) impact on software engineering specifically.

Even if LLMs perform worse, if using them will save companies money over employing people, then those people are gone.
Perhaps they optimize for maximum vendor lock-in, marketing persuasion, and recurring profits rather than user satisfaction, time, cost, or publicity?
I use ChatGPT very actively for programming among the other things and at no point feel threatened, rather empowered. No burnout either as I just work as usual. It just replaced Google Search and lots of typing.
The best time to unionize was 5 years ago. The second best time is today.
He's not short the index, he's long the puts. Different convexity profile.
Clearly not the abstract "harms" asserted in the case, where by one plaintiff has a medical aliment that was acerbated by COVID and because of that MT did not due enough for climate change.

Also the case was largely about individual "extreme weather" events that have no clear, direct link to MT pollution, and there is zero evidence to suggest that should MT suspend all their pollution today, right now, it would change anything for these young people.

The clear intention of the law was to preserve the land from direct, articulable harm such as chemical dumping, clear cut mining, deforestation, etc etc etc
retrowin32 seems like a very cool project. Conceptually it seems very close to touchHLE. Both are written in Rust!
What happens to employees who got kids? They have change school in 2 weeks too?
> It's like all the NDAs people sign when they join a company and they pinky promise not to use it at the next job where they land a big fat raise and promotion

Uh no. An NDA would cover proprietary intellectual property, not tools everyone else also uses. Unless you're now working for the previous employer's competitor, it's unlikely that proprietary tech would ever be used. Working for competitors and partners is usually also forbidden for some period of time after leaving.
> Reactive java should be avoided (IMO). It was a decent choice for old java, for virtual thread java you get little benefits from it.

This is interesting, we used RxJava quite a bit on Android until Kotlin Coroutines made things a bit easier in that the code read more linearly and worked nicely with built in language features like exceptions for error handling.

Just curious if you agree with this in Java, or had other reasons.
My claim was that something we didn't have for any substantial amount of our two million years of existence isn't "human nature", not that it was "bad" (weird moralising on your part). Electricity isn't "just human nature" either. We should decide whether we as a society want or accept a given thing based on its effects on all of us, not whether it's "human nature" (which is almost always an incorrect claim when it's made).
Toner cartridges last for years and years - but even still, a new starter cartridge isn't going to have way way less toner. It will have enough to change the economics. Some brother FAQ pages say like 66%. 1000 pages for starter, 1500 for regular, 2600 for high-capacity. I'd link but it wasn't clear which specific printer this was for vs. the one the OP mentioned, and I didn't spend enough time to look for a trend.

Toner is just a container with little balls of plastic.

Ink, sure, but this conversation was about laser.
I guess I was thinking that automation wasn't actually stated/implied at all (the recipient is merely assuming, because most business these days happens to be automated), not that anyone would lie. "They'll assume" and "they should misrepresent" are rather distinct concepts.
No plans for Gitlab at the moment, but maybe one day!
Acorn is one of my favorites.
There is (and always has been) a fairly effective way of detecting cheating. Have a conversation with a student. Ask them about some of their recent work. This can be in the form of something more formal like a viva, or it can be a casual chat.

These conversations should not be graded, just flag for problems (of which cheating is just one).

Combining this with verifying the student's ID is about as good as it gets. I think a mandatory 1-on-1 meeting with a member of staff at least once per term is essential, and serves many purposes.

EDIT: I think oftentimes it's known which students are cheating, but it's not easy to do anything about it.
As I mentioned, bazel is a bit messy to set up. I think it's still doable and it brings a lot to the table, but it requires an upfront investment in learning Skylark and/or fight with the various rules provided. Blaze (the internal version) is just great unless you want to do shady things that most likely you shouldn't do anyway.
> Black women playing the victim card

I guess I didn't see it as playing the victim card as much as it was a call out of how the lack of diversity in the specific field of AI can have profound effects on how we understand and assess performance of these models

> Looking for perfect racial distributions in all fields is beyond a fool's errand.

I agree with that in principle but I think it is equally foolish to never ask how the racial distribution of a specific field might affect major advances and technologies coming out of that field
Those numbers seem totally off to me.

I have a municipal utility company, so they don't have to worry about profit or anything like that. The lowest possible residential rate, for people who use a minimal amount of electricity at the cheapest times, is $0.2106/kWh. And that's before amortizing the daily "power access fee". Most people will be in the middle or top tier, where the marginal price can exceed $0.40/kWh.

For PG&E, it looks like electricity starts at $0.38/kWh after taxes and goes up to $0.48/kWh for heavy users[1]

For SoCal Edison, the cheapest tier is $0.36/kWh and goes up to $0.46/kWh for heavy users.

Unless there's some secret to getting cheap electricity, or the numbers in your link don't include state taxes/fees, it seems impossible to me that the average residential kilowatt-hour of electricity only costs $0.19.

Edit: FWIW, the BLS CPI calculations[3] say that rates in California metros range from $0.274-$0.475. They don't publish a CA average, but the "Pacific" regional average of $0.228/kWh is still above the $0.196/kWh figure, even after being brought down by states like Washington where electricity is ~75% cheaper than places like San Diego

[1]: https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

[2]: https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Standard-Residential-R...

[3]: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
fluctuations in the money supply are not necessarily a bad thing.
I'm not sure I agree. I sign up to a lot of services and then don't really pay them much attention until I see critical mass. Then I can pop right in and start using it without friction. My reddit user number is #1984, but I didn't bother with it until like 2012 or so. Millions of users checked Threads out and then said, "meh". But if the enthusiasts continue to use it, all those users might just jump back in.

So if Twitter keeps imploding, and Threads fans keep plugging away slowly gaining more converts, there could be a tipping point. Or the opposite could just as easily happen as well, and Threads becomes a ghost town. There have been a few cycles of users abandoning one platform en masse before, and I don't see any reason why it couldn't happen again.
Imagine having the economic performance of France vs. the United States

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
Show HN: Teleprompter App for iOS
I’d love some feedback! Voice scrolling, video receding and much more
> at a price/performance ratio that makes AWS look like pure extortion.

I think if you try to host in US to have lower latency to many customers, and with some less cheap and more reliable server grade network/hardware, it is likely cost will be higher than for hetzner.
Jakob Nielsen 4-ever <3
What's the best way to find out all of his past predictions, with the date he made them, and the result? I guess this is a question on all experts and talking heads, not just Kaku.

I generally agree that his prediction about ML/AI should be considered less-than-informed.
Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37121599
> The images are the actual data. Vectorizing/normalizing/transforming the representation of data by means of moving it into an image space is a completely valid approach in ML and can have many advantages.

I'm aware that this is a valid approach in general.

> not the least of which is being able to take advantage of models and research that have been done with image data.

Essentially all of the research, clinical and computer science, that we would be able to take advantage of is based off of digital ECG recordings and numerical data not digitized ECG images.

This is the first publication to my knowledge using an image based approach and their innovation is partially validating a deep learning model that is as accurate as explainable models and algorithms described as early as the mid 2000s and can already be clinically implemented.

> After all, this is the same thing that we do for human doctors reading an ECG. Or at least I've never heard one exclaim "This chart is useless, can I please have the CSV?"

So because a human is incapable of analyzing digital signals the best approach for ML is to artificially use the same limitation?

I would love to hear a reason for why it may be a better approach to analyze a noisier and less rich digitized image space representation an ECG rather than the raw digital signals.
There has to be more to this, since blind and deaf people exist and function in society. There may be direct correlations here, but there are definitely more factors involved.
record A(B b) {}
> As far as I can make out, in the US a group of employees wanting to act together in any union or union-adjacent form cannot do so until after the union has been formally voted on and agreed to.

There is nothing to stop you and your colleagues from simply declining to log in until the company's attitude improves. They can threaten to fire you, but they were already playing that card, and they can't sail a ship if they kick all the sailors out.
How often does the Nasdaq go up 40% and then stay up? I don't really know anything about the stock market, but do you really need to be a maverick to guess that it might go down again?
A ‘Digital Heist’ Recaptures the Rosetta Stone in Augmented Reality
I could not care less about what Google practices. They operate on enormous scale and have vastly different goals and values.
"Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries."

Also, take it up with Torvalds:

"And yes, at least under US copyright law, and at least if you see Linux as a "collective work" (which is arguably the most straightforward reading og copyright law, but perhaps not the only one) I am actually the sole owner of copyright in the *collective* work of the Linux kernel."

If you believe Linus, and I do, you can see how your argument is devoid of logic when Linus himself owns the collective work and put it on GitHub.