skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also worth noting that if you're concerned about Epic Changing the Deal and doing a rugpull like Unity, they've said you can simply not accept the changes and continue operating under your existing terms you agreed to:

"If we make changes to this Agreement, you are not required to accept the amended Agreement, and this Agreement will continue to govern your use of any Licensed Technology you already have access to."

You potentially lose access to epic services of various sorts, but it's a far cry from the Unity situation.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal (Section 7)
Honestly, if this is a serious concern and you're already willing to go to all the other trouble, you may as well do your most sensitive Internet browsing from your car, connecting only to public WiFi in parking lots, in cities you don't actually live in, and never stay connected for more than a few hours at at time. Or take a hint from history's most secure criminals and don't do any of this yourself at all. Use paid underlings who fear you more than they fear prison and are willing to do time rather than rat you out.
It's hard to take that seriously for a few reasons:

- the gatekeepers of the craft are random and inconsistent and the competency standards are suspect

- the people on the other side of your employment relationship won't do the same

- leaving for self respect may not look good into getting you your next position. It may even harm your chances if you quit too soon

- For the US, losing healthcare benefits for the love of the craft seems just like shooting yourself in the foot for no good reason

We should strive to be better, but criticism about not living up to the craft often involves just a difference of opinion or preferences
It's weirdly flown under the radar but GPT style models as translators are a lot better than state of the art Machine Translators (Deepl, NLLB, Google etc).

Like above, you can already see the difference with close language pairs where Google etc are already very good.

For pairs like English and Japanese etc, google et al will happily devolve into half gibberish so the difference is even more stark.

I did a number of examples a couple months back with English/Chinese before 4 was released. Even then you can see it's a lot better and 4 is as usual a lot better than 3.5.

https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translati...
AFAICT, here's what actually happens if your credit card is declined. I'd love to have someone who works on that type of software correct me:

They send you an email saying, "please update your payment information." Because this happens every day. Hey, sometimes the restaurant tells you your credit card was declined, when it's perfectly good.

That email is followed by another, saying your account is suspended. At that point, they might give you an option to cancel, OR they might forward you to the same impenetrable UI that led you to do this in the first place.

In any case, you'll most likely be cancelled with no further repercussions. Yes, bad things could happen, but they don't. YMMV.
CIO's or similar. We've been talking to a number of directors at consulting firms who say they are getting calls daily from CIO's who share with them the enormous pressure that they are under, receiving calls from the C-suite and even board of directors asking "what are we doing about generative AI?"
Everyone has their own rules on this stuff. On 16/8 I couldn’t get enough calories
America’s Battle with Shoplifting Is Getting Dangerous for Workers
> He doesn’t seem to understand the profile and iq of the average Twitter user and the type that drives “virality.”

There was still an enormous (and arguably self-sustaining) population of "readers".
Isn’t that a gripe about the individual applications?

Applications which are part of GNOME itself probably try to remain small and integrate well into GNOME e.g. Nautilus and Evolution. Applications which aren’t part of GNOME like Gimp or Geeqie rely only Gtk.

It just hurts if you want use a integrated GNOME-Application with a sole window-manager. That makes sense and we shouldn’t blame the developers for modularity and re-using.
by, not to.
Google Translate and Google Search have a preference for acronyms.

I translate a lot of subtitles using GT, and every time a characters asks "Who?" GT gives me the version for "World Health Organization?" If a character is named "Mia", GT gives the hilarious "Missing in action", etc.

Still, the combo between WhisperX, Google Translate and Subtitle Edit are the Holy Grail I dream of just a year ago.
Wouldn't this be a true positive?
Well, at least you can detect it is an anycast address, and mark it as such.
It's a very good point that I think some commenters here should take to heart. No matter how enlightened we think we are, we're all part of the masses and behave this way at one point or another.
My last house had a HOA and blacks were definitely not a minority in my neighborhood. Definitely middle to upper middle class neighborhood.
+1. Software companies should accept that there is a ceiling to their revenue, and this ceiling won't need that many engineers to maintain the software. But many actors are benefied by believing in infinite growth. It is a collective illusion.
Every corner of our economy is dependent on debt. Even the wealthy have debt. Almost anyone who starts a business takes on debt.
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That is until round 2 of Epic vs Apple. Where Apple officially kicks the Unreal Runtime off it's store this time. [1]

Amazes me the short memory of the dev community. So many studios and publishers could not take the risk of Unreal being kicked off and had to switch to Unity.

Unity is still cheaper for vast majority of cases too.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/17/apple-terminate-epic-de...
I think we may mean the same thing, but zero trust has a connotation of negative rights, versus always prove is a way of framing things in a more positive assertion. At least that's worked for me at the last couple of places i've been.

Should every client application have to authenticate and authorize? Probably not every but the overwhelming majority probably and those that don't should have a good justification as to not. The challenge after that is "how long is this good for?".
A clever “perpetual motion” device [video]
Field report- the problem is subtle. I wrote code to do this for mine, rather than use CSVs, because the statement is a regulated document, which CSVs are not, and it has balances for validation, which CSVs also lack.

I wound up with a pipeline of pdftotext -> configurable regexes to capture the transactions within their respective sections (banks list credits and debits separately without indicating the sign in the amount field) -> BNF parser to turn transaction lines into data, then checks start balance + transactions = end balance.

PITB but works well.

Over the winter will be standing up a local model to see whether a sophisticated prompt can reliably accomplish the same.

Not going to base any workflow on my transaction data on hosted models.
This looks cool, could Tau also be deployed on a local test server with GPUs?
Bodyguards are almost always a status symbol more than safety. If you are concerned for your safety, and you have money, move away from the dangerous zip codes.
"Just do storage"... It's one of the hardest problems in the entire energy grid and on of the real sticking points of renewable energy, it's quite hard to store appreciable amounts of energy.

Pumped hydro is one of the better options but it has the ecological impact of just building new hydro power but less great economic impacts because the water level is less stable for people to live beside.
Or move to Godot/C#.
> As a scientist, I've seen lots of people who are overconfident in both themselves and overconfident in science.

I feel that I've never had the first problem, but have definitely had the second.

On one hand, there is the natural limitation of Science itself in terms of the type of questions (that are amenable to the scientific method) it can answer. On the other hand, it is still the best way of generating knowledge that we have.

My overconfidence was that scientists, as individuals and as a community, would always do the right thing, driven by, and honestly following, the scientific method. But in the past few years I've had to revisit this assumption several times and be reminded to always retain some healthy skepticism.

Most recent example is this climate scientist who just published in Nature, and then went ahead afterwards and penned an op-ed [0] saying he actually misrepresented the actual factors in order to get published.

[0] https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-pu...
On writing (or not)
> manipulating cultural norms.

The following strategy employed by producer fits the bill.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-08-09-netflix-algorithm-facebo...

'Norsemen' producer gamed Netflix's algorithm with Facebook ads
He was pretty sure Minnesota residents would dig the Viking comedy.
It's about time they did something useful!
Whether it's a science or social science or research domain or discipline, how is that relevant to this discussion? It doesn't change GPs point.
Users will pay for those 10 years one way or another
Ironically, I think the power user can be another marginal user: the user who pays *top dollar* (in their mind) for your product so they expect it to support marginal, niche features for eternity. Somewhere in between the user who doesn't want to think while using your application and the user who wants a basically programmable application is, I think, the ideal.
> these ridiculous justifications for despicable acts

Arguably western culture had just as many ridiculous justifications for despicable acts. Their culture is different, but don't be fooled into thinking that it is inferior.
Nvidia strikes deals with Reliance, Tata in deepening India AI bet
Nvidia has been selling ARM chips for years (the Nintendo Switch’s SoC, for example), and they’re currently in the process of massively growing their ARM business with the new Nvidia “Grace Superchips”. Not to mention the expected sales boom of the new Switch 2 SoC that should happen within about a year.
Yes, it’s mad how accustomed we all are to sugar. I think I was getting around 20-30% of my calories from sugar, and regularly would have chocolate at work as a pick me up when I started flagging.

I thought the energy was fueling my brain but in hindsight it was more akin to nicotine withdrawal than nutrition.
Hmm... virality isn't dying, the idea of measuring it from a single, centralized authority like Twitter is.
If it didn't use the dark pattern, I would agree with you. Ask the user to generate input, then ask them to register, then inform them they can't use the service. Flagged.
Has been for what seems like forever.
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Well, there was this one energy trading company called Enron, and the power outages in California engineered to boost their profits. I'd say that some amount of weariness is justified in this case.
On Monterey you can go to System Preferences -> Battery -> Battery -> Optimised battery charging and disable it.
I think RISC-V eats ARM's lunch at the low end across the board over the next 5 years. Financially that is okay in the near term for ARM as the major profits are all in the high end designs.

But all that will be left in a few years is the high end areas and where there is a lot of lock in to the ISA.

It isn't yet clear when RISC-V will be ready to compete at the highest end of things, but that is where Jim Keller comes in.

RISC-V is a classic market disruptor for ARM, just as ARM was a disruptor to Intel.
Whonix + Qubes is a treasure
Seriously. Folks in tech like to complain about MBAs, but it's a toss up in my book for "most egregiously overconfident".

Doctors get a good shout as well.
You could check the idea by throwing sugar into the septic tank.
researchgate has it:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362183387_Knowledge...

You can click on "Read Full Text"

Also here:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038
> We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user. We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime is also installed.

It would be one thing if Unity were hosting the game on their infra, but I still have to pay Unity a fee if I host the download on my own website?
It only takes one 'whale' studio using unity to say 'you know what, we're going to give half of what we used to pay for unity to godot' to really speed development of key features. OSS is nothing if not persistent.
That's silly. Do you also have the same feeling about carpenters, electricians and plumbers? If they fix something poorly you hire a different one next time.
You only need to look up.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for mentioning this, but FORTH and Lisp are also options. FORTH is exceedingly simple to implement in assembly and has the benefit that it's easily modifiable, informally verifiable (it's easy to look at the code and convince yourself no one has inserted malware), has essentially zero dependencies and is generally space and CPU efficient on small platforms (I implemented 95% of the dpANS FORTH standard on an 8086 in about 8k of opcodes.)

On the downside, the FORTH community seems to be shrinking and many people find postfix notation a bit of a brain-twister. While it's "kind of" portable, it's probably not as portable MicroPython. Both FORTH and Lisp "allow" you to build programming constructs other languages provide out of the box. This is a blessing and a curse. If you ever wanted to change the way a for(){} loop worked, it's not uncommon in these languages. If you just want for(){} loops to work out of the box, you may be annoyed by having to check whether the person who wrote the for(){} keyword in your language is doing what you want. (Forth has the LOOP keyword and lisps like fe or micro-lisp have various flavours of if you use to build your own control structures with macros.) I also imagine you may have to write your own drivers for anything more complex than a UART.

I've recently gone back to some of this as I'm working again with old controllers whose dev tools have atrophied. I spent quite a bit of time in the 80s building commercial products with FORTH and Lisp, so I've already climbed up the learning curve. I'm not trying to convince you YOU MUST use FORTH or Lisp, but they're interesting language / environments from a simpler time. ( "This is the tool chain of the Jedi Developer; not as clumsy or random as C++, but an elegant environment for a more civilized age." )

Which is to say... there's still some benefit in learning a little bit about these old systems in that understanding what their constraints and objectives were might help you create evaluation criteria for modern systems.
What up with the gaming community? I get the the players being carried away or be from a special demographics but aren't the game professionals aware that they are doing business? Underpaid developers, death treats after some pricing changes. Wow.
>the main problem is software support

Hopefully this announcement will put some pressure on Apple to do the same.
Images/videos were definitely boosted/prioritized, but external links also used to go viral pre-Elon, even a bit after he took over. Remember how mad he got about Substack?

Now all external links are effectively blackholed from the algo feed. It's a massive change.
Non-free software gets worse, not better, over time.
"when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" applied to money.
software is not a commodity
Article reported it wrong, then?
But the original article and the post we're all replying to isn't arguing for using it for "discovering and learning to intuit the API" - they are arguing for using it for the bulk of coding tasks.
I might be wrong, but looks like this could help with speculative decoding which can already vastly improves the inference speed?
> This seems strange as a major corporation should be able to provide security to protect against death threats. And it should be the exact same security it provides normally for any large employee gathering.

"A large employee gathering" for a lot of companies happens every day in the office. How much security presence does the average office have, in your experience? In mine, the answer is not that much. I've never seen enough that I'd think the same level would be enough for death threats outside of things like defense contractors or military. Everywhere else it would be pretty easy to walk in, shoot the front desk people, take their badge, go anywhere in the building.
The Youtube app (on android at least) now lets you use more of the normal controls (particularly seeking and adding to playlists) on shorts as of a few months ago. I thought the lack of those controls was intentionally permanent but I was relieved to find out it wasn't.
This is a far better explanation than the usual opaque "it's concurrent but not parallel" that I'd argue isn't even correct (cause two C calls on separate threads are running in parallel if they don't hold the GIL). Or "it's multithreading but not multiprocessing" which misses the point.
It actually is, in the ecosystem of engines having C# as the main language.

Now that the trust is broken, this will also have a big impact on using C# for game development.
I think a working model of a technology union would have to work closely to professional sports unions or acting unions that support wide disparities in pay. I think historical tech opposition to unions is people not wanting the idea of a standardized wage and extremely high job security (which acts as a downward force on wages). Many people look for something like the Netflix model where you're expected to move on if you're not producing lots of value, but you get compensated more for it. The thing about having 10x engineers being possible is that everyone thinks they are above 1x and deserve above average pay.
> Perhaps a version of opt-in ads or trustworthy places where you can get real recommendations are the way to go.

Also unfortunate on the B2B side, sites like G2 and Capterra (basically yelp with B2B) have both turned into pay to play.

Then again, I’m not even sure what a realistic business model would be for a unbiased review site. (Maybe the answer is it shouldn’t have a business model at all)
Not sure if you're missing a word in your first sentence. "Only eating 3 meals a day" surely isn't fasting, no?
The shit I get when I bring a small piece of cardboard into the DC here. The strict rules are there for a reason.
Yesterday I finished a DIY rooftop installation. I went DIY partly because I shared your concern, and mostly because I thought it would be fun. I have thoughts.

My quick take is that there is enough competition to ensure reasonable prices for solar equipment (panels, racking, electronics, etc.). However, a lot of manual labor goes into a rooftop installation that's comparable to other trades like plumbing, electric, roofing, construction, etc., which means that if your local cost of living is high, then the labor cost will be high as well. Until we have robot labor, I accept that other people need to put food on their tables as well, so I don't think that a lot of overhead in a solar project's cost beyond the materials is necessarily evidence of exploitation.

This means that you can online-shop and build a cheap system (I'm sure under $2 per watt is easy). But it needs to be shipped to you, lifted onto the roof, mounted, and finally wired to your grid. All that is pure labor. I did everything except the high-voltage wiring and the conduit runs, and I bet a competent version of me could have done everything I did in three 10-hour days (it actually took me twice that). Where I live, California Bay Area, you can't get any tradesperson out of bed for less than $100/hour, so that's at least $3,000 in labor. The electrician, permitting, and re-patching the roof around the new mounts added another $4,500 -- again, mostly labor and/or bureaucracy.

That makes about $7,500 to install maybe $10,000 of equipment. I avoided about $3,000 in labor costs by spending at least 60 hours of my own amateur time, including mistakes, worrying, second-guessing myself, and other activities that a professional wouldn't have done.

I learned a lot. I understand the difference between microinverters and regular ones; I know more about split-phase residential electricity in the US; I appreciate how a system design trades off cost and efficiency for issues like "clipping" when an inverter can't handle the full output of a PV panel; and I know way more than I ever wanted to know about the foam, insulation, tar, gravel, and wood that make up my roof.

In retrospect, I'm glad I did the project because of the knowledge gained, and because I now have even more respect for the skills and effort that are needed to put solar on a home's roof. But would I do it again? Probably not; I'd rather have paid the extra few grand to have someone do it for me while I stayed cocooned in my office, writing code.

TL;DR: profit is being made in residential solar, but I believe most of it goes to honest labor.
Take a look at the page source. Unfortunately they stopped updating their Twitter (X) in 2013.
https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Yeah keep scrolling down until you see that comment from a teacher who thinks it’s a distraction.

In general Just because you had a clear purpose for and interest in computers doesn’t mean it’s gonna be the same for other kids
That is the insight I’m surprised the author didn’t zero in on.
> Plenty of companies do unlimited PTO or bar PTO roll-over

That's a good idea. In this hypothetical app, if a couple stays together for a couple of years they should forfeit the right to get their money back even if they later break up. This reduces the amount of cash the company has to keep, at the cost of merely promising years-long relationships instead of marriages.

> Incentivizing speedy marriages, as opposed to good matches, is unambiguously bad for individuals and society at large.

How is that unambiguous? It seems to me like an empirical question. Are people taking too many risks with their relationships, or too little? The answer is different for each person, or even for the same person at different stages of their life. Very ambiguous stuff.
There are subreddits with karma requirements (for good reasons, sometimes, like preventing brigrading or trolls.)
I've had a number of these Dells over the years, and most have been great. This one developed a problem with the wifi system that I think must be in the HW.
You’re not balancing a grid or running your house with just solar panels, and solar+batteries is prohibitively expensive?
I'd forgotten about that. I could search for the answer but I think it's more fun to talk about it: how did that work? Wouldn't that make all browsers ignore the includes?
Yeah, sure mate.
Which open source version of an MMORPG was that? If you don't mind me asking.
The video game industry is overflowing with toxic levels of immaturity and entitlement spanning consumer and producer sides. This is just another manifestation of that.

Show me an instance of SWATTING that didn't involve "gamers", I'd love to be proven wrong here.
Python, C++
Generative AI will account for half of game development in 5 to 10 years
Yes, and that might help the reaction. Also heating the tank to the optimum temperature (for the particular bacteria) helps, optimum pH, etc. helps. But the point is to provide the "help" with electricity directly.
I think lossless roundtripping with a textual representation is essential if node-based tools want to escape the local minima they all seem to get trapped in.

Either that or the ability to use 3rd party editors so competion and innovation can happen in the same way it has for textual code editors.
Sometimes there is no known way to unlock a Pixel bootloader: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/