skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are copyright holders being robbed by professors that answer their students' questions?

Don't teachers do the same?

- Trained their minds on existing books

- Tutor the next generation of students

- Give classes on book contents

- Answer questions about those books

The book publishing industry didn't go out of business because there are teachers answering questions. To the contrary, it benefited book sales, because most people aren't good self-learners.

What's wrong with having a machine do the same?
> What do you think of people that couldn’t get into Princeton or Duke and don’t have these opportunities? Are we just inferior?

You don't have an alumni network. That is the issue. There's no major skill difference between a Mich undergrad or a MSU undergrad that couldn't be rectified in a year of training, but no employer wants to deal with that.

It's difficult to break into the following without an elite private school or public flagship as your Bachelors degree:

HFT, Consulting, Politics, Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Entrepreneurship

It's unfair, but it is what it is. These are industries that employ at most 3,000-10,000 people globally.

> I worked at Amazon as my first job out of college - I don’t think you count that as a “well paying tech job” though

It is a well paying entry tech job, but take a look at your class of fellow NCGs - most will have attended CS/EE/EECS/ECE at Cal, UCLA, Mich, Illinois, GATech, UW, etc which are extremely difficult and expensive to get into. If you can get into CS at that kind of school, you are equally capable to get into top private schools like USC or CMC or Chicago as well (like a couple of my EECS@Cal hs friends who chose that over UChicago or USC).

Tech (and Accounting) is also unique in that it is a massive equalizer. They are both white collar industries with MASSIVE margins, extremely high skill barriers of entry, and not as school prestige oriented.

> What should people like me do if we are going to be considered inferior for the rest of our lives?

Work in tech, cognizant that your starting TC is higher than that of a Senator or Chief of Staff, and recognize that your only options are to either play the game (prestige whoring/marrying up a la Toms Wambsagan) or make your own game (upskill in knowledge industries like Tech or Accounting, build your own thing).

The world is a dog eat dog place. Live with it. Those of us who's parents immigrated from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa had our families instill this reality in us. It's high time for Americans and Western Europeans to recognize that too.
wtf? The recruiters in your area sound horrid.

A lot of the recruiters in London and VERY on top of technology and know more than I do about current trends, languages and frameworks and exactly where to find people to fill every niche need their client companies have. To the point where they can follow the logic of "Client needs F# developers, F# is a functional programming language. I should look at former employees of companies X,Y, and Z because they use Clojure and OCaml, so those guys might have the necessary background - but I really need to sell it to them because they might be scared away by Microsoft and .NET".
> Almost all jobs (perhaps excepting FAANG meat grinder) are filled through personal connections.

I’ve hired roughly 10 people and all of them came in through recruiters. I don’t think my company ever considers direct applications, even though that’s an option on LinkedIn. They just never pass HR to actually arrive at the interview stage.
The quote is and always has been silly/wrong.

Without a time machine you can't repeat the same thing. It's different every time.
All those sources are wrong.
I’m really interested in this project as another way to computationally express and use law. For more color on the project, here is a demo and discussion “Idea Flow” session I did with the project leads: https://law.mit.edu/pub/ideaflow8
Why are you talking about losing weight?
They're taking all that government money but still making huge job cuts. So presumably production is going down?

Therefore more steel will be imported, shipped across the world using fossil fuels.
It’s not time but distance that matters with EVs. If you’re in a parking lot for half an hour and you go three miles, your car will basically only go down three miles of range (electronics and climate take very little power and you’ll get some regen).

If you’re going sixty miles each way, no matter how you commute (aside from maybe a bus), it’s going to be a disaster from a fuel and environment perspective regardless of drivetrain.
BoofCV is incredibly cool, thanks for sharing! It's unfortunate I didn't know about it before today, I would've definitely invested time to learn and hopefully contribute back (there's still a chance, but at this point it seems to cover everything I've ever heard of, and more).

I just spent 30 minutes clicking through and inspecting every example.
> Are you a time traveler from the 90s?

What was the obesity rate in 1993 vs. 2023?
> While my sympathy goes out to this person, I think this entire long, rambling, post could be condensed to a paragraph, or even a sentence: "It was a mistake for me to use Indeed.com."

I think there's more than one paragraph worth of value here, but I agree I had to skim through to make finding it tolerable. I specifically liked the sections talking directly about how Indeed operates, what their incentives are, and how companies and business interact with the website.
It can, but again, that's not what the quote says. Suppose you eat a candy bar and get hungry 30m later. Suppose you do it again. If you're surprised that you got hungry, that's what the quote defines as insanity.

If you eat the same thing, you expect the same results. Whether you get the same results or not is a result of the complex chemical processes in your body. That's not what the quote argues about either.
I used to feed newsgroups and email to BBS systems using UUCP. You could easily expect a 3 day turnaround when posting something, and seeing the initial responses.

I distinctly remember thinking that this was really efficient. At the very least, it made lists a lot more entertaining to read than they would be today.
> it must be coming from a lack of knowledge about policing in the U.S. for the last two decades

I think you're saying "doesn't agree with me." There's no lack of knowledge -- there's only a lack of indoctrination.

American cops are American cops. Crime spiked up until 1990 or so, then it was brought under control, and lately it's been spiking again. I think some people like you consider that a reasonable price to pay for whatever goals you're trying to achieve.
Depends on the fantasy world. Mana or MP for example is internal.

In Chinese Wuxia mythology there's a concept of Chi. In Naruto (which isn't Wuxia but borrows a lot) it appears as chakra.

In D&D it's the weave which is this higher power.

But this digresses from the point. I think Magic is a bad analogy. When I looked into ML I was surprised to find how trivial it is.

Pretty much all of intelligence can be simplified to this single endeavor of curve fitting. LLMs, GANs, deep learning... all of it are just different ways to find a best fit curve.

What I found is that this knowledge (which is trivial to obtain) reduced the magic. Intelligence to me was no longer magical. Understanding intelligence made it less magical and more mundane.

A better analogy would be those stories about characters walking into this epic void of lovecraftian incomprehensibility expecting only madness and more questions to arise from their journey that spans eons... only to walk back in 15 minutes with the realization that the answer is just 42.
Maybe they want more than 3 years' worth of money?
I stopped playing on my old laptop when the fan got louder than the ambient sounds. I hope that’s been fixed. Must have been if it’s on Switch.
FYI, this is a dirty secret, but the correct way to use Indeed is not to apply for the job per se; it's to get in touch with the people doing the hiring.

Basically, submit your "application" for a job, get a call back from the recruiter, who will then promptly say "yeah forget about that job, I've got 20 other interesting jobs that might fit you better".

... I'm pretty sure in most cases the initial job doesn't even exist.
Thank you for putting the time in the title.
Thought this was realated to the Catalan western romance language. Naming could confuse some Spanish and French users.
This is the point. You can’t draw a straight line into the future and say, “the impact of x will be y.”

1) Humans are terrible predictors of the future.

2) Linear progression isn’t really a thing in multi step, complex technology progressions

The impact of the steam engine was nuclear weapons. Direct line. Predictable?

Spot on analysis.
Funny, as trying different programming languages rewire your brain deeply, so does trying different human languages. Different vocabulary and grammars will shed lights on different patterns in interesting ways.
> Consumers: because "as-a-Service" can have cheaper sticker price (often free), people have hard time seeing long-term costs, and social immune system hasn't caught up with this particular type of abusive business practices.

That seems a bit elitist to me. "Ah, if only the consumers knew what you know?" Maybe you're right but I find it more likely that they simply like the deal being offered.
That is a common context for consideration of nutrition.
They sell them to recruiters
Lead Toxicity from Ayurvedic Medicines
If your culture is broken import some new bits. We ain’t a Melting Pot for nothing.
Recruiters are a big part of it, but honestly the hard part is getting in. Once you’ve done it once people assume you can do it again.
The big issue on that comes down to minority vs majority rights. If the majority puts in a board that destroys the value of the company because the majority also owns another company that wants to buy it at a bargain price, it destroys the investment of the minority. Some people suspect that could be happening with Disney.
If you wouldn't, you probably shouldn't walk down the aisle with anybody. It means you only love them as long as they comform to your political (and probably other) ideas.
The word "battery" has already drifted a lot more over the last ~500 years than the word "literally"!
> about 200 applications.

> jobs and got 350 applications

Been on both sides of recruiting meat grinder and initially had empathy for this "we have hundreds of applicants and most are irrelevant". Once you have experienced human specialist on the other end, have some bloody respect. If you insist on finding inconsistencies, gaps, and incompetence in the CV, all you'll get will be hardcore fraudsters.
It's an interesting idea that you might be able to make some money off. Getting anyone to spend any money on your product is difficult - I would not consider the idea validated, but you know at least a few people have that need. Now you need to figure out if more people have that need and if you can profitably reach them.

Check out indiehackers.com for more info on running these micro businesses. In my personal opinion though, I think this business might be tough to make decent money on. I think there isn't much defensible, and if you get too successful, you will get a hundred competitors over night. But there are many examples to the contrary like the guy who has been running the store locator saas: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/storemapper

Either way, best of luck!
Also Tata are going to invest another 700 million. That’s 1.2 billion pounds for only 3000 jobs.

So where’s the money going?

Presumably it will be used to subsidise costs to boost profits, pay landowners and owners of capital (eg trucks) rent, corporate bonuses etc.

But the headline just says the deal will save jobs and that that the government is doing it for the people.

Perhaps there is an upside for the public here, but when the government invests our money, they should lay out a clear business plan and communicate it responsibly to the public, instead of rhetoric and numbers that most people cannot comprehend
Carbon isn’t the only pressing environmental damage though. For example, Madagascar is an island full of poor “uneducated farmers”, and it is precisely their farming that has been deforesting the island through slash-and-burn agriculture, a practice that has accelerated over the centuries due to the high birthrates.
No I already did contact sales via the form, I meant via maybe email, I even emailed to everyone I can think of working at Stripe, we have been none stop contacting Stripe for last 7 hours, asking update every 15-20 mins

In terms of contacting sales, should I specifically explain this issue or contact to get account manager?
The only thing I need is to get our account re-enabled and get back to doing actual business
And the sort of jobs that have a referred candidate they want to hire aren't putting up a free listing on Indeed to get 60 people send often quite good and sometimes massively overqualified CVs at the click of a button, they're putting their job ads where nobody looks and demanding they answer questions or write a cover letter explaining the appeal of $genericcompany...
aside from sources mentioned by others (arxiv-sanity-lite, newsletter):
1. deep learning monitor: https://deeplearn.org
2. Following folks on Twitter and then Twitter recommendation algo will take care of the rest
(On the hiring side)

Every year or so I cave and enlist a third-party recruiter.

And every year or so I am reminded why I don't normally do that.

The average quality of candidate recommendations is abysmal.

So I return to LinkedIn + personal networks.
It's not worth arguing. The irony of all of this is that free labor is welcomed in the open source world, but if a carrot is offered it's somehow evil and consenting adults need to be protected from themselves.
And the heavy hardware requirements.
It’s one thing to share with LinkedIn a job change, it’s another for someone else to scrape that info and post it to a different website without their consent.

Like if someone scraped images of their friends from Facebook and posted it to a different site with some commentary
2000 applications is quite rare. A posting is "hot" on indeed above the 50+ applicant mark from what I have seen.

If you have under 150 resumes there is no reason why a human can't skip+prioritize a few times and read in detail the top 50 or so.

A liberal 4 minutes per resume is 15/hr,120/8h. You can't spend or have someone spend one day reading resumés? In my earlier example of 50 resumes, that's less than half a day, a morning reading resumes to decide who you will follow up over a call in the afternoon.

Corporate laziness is such an epidemic. Honestly, why shouldn't ML replace this part of your job then? Let ML do the interview and hiring too. This middle ground where lazy keyword oriented algorithms and heavily biased humans (goof luck if your last name is washington!) is the worst of both worlds for everyone but the managers and HR people cruising their way lazily to retirement.
That "Climate Change Service" graphic is indeed disturbing. Regardless, the temperature anomaly in the Arctic is in fact currently at or below average (in other words, plus or minus 0°).
Correction: Deductible $250, out of pocket maximum $1500
Your link only refers to religious sensibilities, and I specifically mentioned secular sensibilities as well, precisely to preempt this sort of retort. For example, France is marked green in your link, but it very much does exactly what I said in my original comment: prosecutes and punishes people for their literal speech. Here's an example high-profile case from last year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996

Can you name a single country in the world which has similarly liberal free speech norms to US? Something close to the Brandenburg v Ohio standard? I'll wait.
Seeing as they're actually eating the frogs in question, it sounds like it's not just for fun and sport.
Like mine do. And most messages I receive. I find it weird that some started seeing punctuation as some weird imposition.
> generally speaking

And I stand by that. Leave aside who is right, because we don’t know. We do know that Qualcomm sent them ~$270m last fiscal year and ARM is pushing them away. The case is over “tens of millions” in Qualcomm’s telling, so it’s not even that much money ARM is seeking, and it is risky. They have a huge mess with the ARM China joint venture that is not done unfolding IMO, and they have chosen that same moment to sue their second biggest customer, who is about to bring ARM chips to Windows PCs in a real way. ARM “winning” this case looks like losing to me.

In any event, I think they settle before it gets to trial next year, because the potential for embarrassment in discovery for both parties is too great, the sum in question is too small, and both companies should want to see those ARM Windows PCs.
Shipping uses basically no energy. The ocean is, functionally, dead level. When the cargo gets to its destination it has gained no potential energy. This is why ocean freight is by far the least carbon-intensive way of moving material. You should not be concerned about whether anything was shipped from overseas, in the global scheme of energy inefficiency.
Why would I explain same thing again ?
This is the kind of thing that is ripe for Typst (https://typst.app/home). There is a CLI interface as well as a web app.

I’ve recently been working on a book using Typst after hacking LaTeX for many years. Through some examples and the docs I’ve already been able to accomplish much more customization on my own, rather than cargo-culting 20-year old snippets and packages, and the results are readable and maintainable. I don’t know if Typst will completely supersede LaTeX, but this point I think it is capable of doing so and I will be upset if it doesn’t.
A large chunk of the UK infrastructure isn't owned by the UK nowadays...
Oh come on. OCR is a thing. I mean this is HN, are you normalizing acceptance of crappy software?
Any good resume submission system should be capable of OCR.

But what is this guy? Sounds like he's a designer, a communications specialist, team leader, and project manager. Just all over the place. I'm not sure what I'd hire them for.

Edit: why disagree?
> Updating a large C++ program to newest version of Visual C++, for example, can be a mess.

That's an MSVC problem. MSVC ignored the C++ specification for decades. Now it does follow the spec. So a lot of non-standard code broke.

The transition was pretty ugly, as I'm pretty sure you've figured out. The permissive mode never gave warnings for non-standard code, so you couldn't just fix warnings as they came up. You had to do a fix the world update, which are a dickpain in large codebases. The transition was relatively fast; VS2017 introduced the standard compliant parser, and C++20 requires it.

Honestly MSVC is such a mess. I have a hunch that before this decade is out, Microsoft will just replace it with Clang a la Internet Explorer/Edge/Chromium. That's why the switch to the standard compliant parser was so rushed; they're trying to force everyone to write standard compliant code so that Clang can compile it.
Cereals can be healthy, but Cheerios are a refined form which is obviously sub-optimal. If you want a carbohydrate rich breakfast, a fiber-rich alternative like steel cut oats provides superior benefits.
The linked paper makes no reference to CoreML or Apple in general. It seems to be CPU-accelerated on all platforms, iPhone included.

Do you have another source that goes into Apple's implementation?
The rule for the fee, for Unity Pro is: "Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs." Just the number of install plays 0 role, if the game didnt generate more than 1 million year, last year.
Surprisingly, I don't have issues with having way too many tabs open. Right now I have 6 normal tabs open, 4 always-open tabs for email, spreadsheet, calendar and Discord, and one extra Discord tab open in another profile because DID. So 11 in total.

It's because I close old tabs all the time, but I constantly need to open more because otherwise I get extremely extremely bored.
+1 for using a recruiter. I used to think that it was for scrubs. Then after trying one, so many interviews and doors opened, and then after I got a couple offers, they even negotiated a higher salary for me ( playing one offer against the other .. something that is necessary but I suck at)
At least in the US, it's not the drafters' intent that matters, but the intent of the legislators who voted on it. (Legislators actually have lawmaking power. Drafters are usually unelected staff or even lobbyists.)

When a statute is ambiguous, courts do sometimes look at the congressional record (eg floor debates) to determine intent.
That's the product line.
>I would hardly call that heavy lifting. Validation of an idea or process is substantially easier than creating one (although I don’t claim that validation is easy, just easier).

Creating an idea takes practically no effort. I can do it right now: let's fix global warming by lassoing passing ice comets and dropping them in the ocean. What takes effort is filtering the useless ideas from the useful ones. If a past culture had some practice that just tells you they came up with something and determined that it was useful for their purposes. We still need to know if it'll be useful for our purposes. There's not reason to think the purposes are the same, and if they're entirely unrelated the idea in question is not likely to be more useful than my astronomical rodeo.

>Sure, but few other cultures have demonstrated such a propensity for environmental destruction so far.

So, for example, the Chinese don't have some of the most polluted cities in the world, right? They're not Europeans, so their propensity to destroy the environment (including their own living spaces) is lesser.

>designs will also be constrained by their lack of means, forcing them to innovate within a much narrower envelope that doesn’t allow them to simply bulldoze their local environment.

So if you agree with that, then it follows that anyone who has access to bulldozers will use them to solve at least some of their problems, right? Regardless of whether they're European or not, right? Then I don't understand what you're arguing and why you're singling out Europe.

>So to more succinctly summarise my argument. Indigenous designs have the wonderful advantage of survivorship bias

That's only because they had been doing the same things for hundreds if not thousands of years, and at small scale without powered tools. There was practically no chance they could have screwed the environment to bad they would have died out; I can't think of a single historical example like that, other than possibly Easter Island. If your argument is "returning to a pre-industrial lifestyle will be good for the environment" then I agree with you, but I don't think that's in the cards. I imagine people are looking for solutions that fit into our existing society, not to tear everything down and start over.
"You can't spend or have someone spend one day reading resumés?"

Managers are even lazier than devs.
Somehow I can’t resign myself to this brave new world of web apps with low level hardware access. I do not want web apps doing GPGPU work on my machine. If the browser engine implements high level functionality that way, fine, but I don’t want arbitrary websites using low level hardware directly.

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, the never stopped to consider whether they should.