skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can respond to the first part: my job has a hard 40 hours per week but also flex time. They're not mutually exclusive.

I can tell my colleagues that I'll be out for the rest of the day and make up the lost hours tomorrow. Conversely, I can work with them into the wee hours and work proportionally less time the rest of the week (it just has to add up to 40 on Friday).

It's my first job, though, and I have no intuition about how common this arrangement is (or how alternatives even work; if there's no hourly cap mandated, how do you know how long to work???). :p
By the time the current AI mainframe runs on your device, there will be new, better models that still require the mainframe.

I think AI fundamentally favors centralization. Except for narrow tasks and domains, there's no such thing as "enough" intelligence. For general purpose AI, you'll always want the best and most intelligent model available, which means cloud rather than local.
One solution is to come up with a new benchmark yourself.

Manually benchmarking it by coming up with 20 questions and feeding it to a pair of models and blindly choosing the best result can give you a pretty good figure.

And that can probably be done in under 20 mins of human time.
There was a time where the “high-class” attitude was that anything worth buying would be passed on to future generations [1]. We may get back to that, involuntarily.

[1] https://www.economist.com/britain/2006/08/10/but-did-they-bu...
How does it victimize people?

Sellers are offering a generic product without barriers to entry like trademark, patents. Somebody else notices and contracts the same manufacturer to produce it or finds someone else who will (or makes it themselves). The new entrant sells it for cheaper.

All I see is basic economics. Business cannot stay afloat if their marginal cost exceeds marginal revenue. This is the best outcome for consumers.
I’ve been planning and building this for years. But regular life always takes priority. This could change if there was a viable business model for an operating system that didn’t rely on hardware sales (the Apple model) or on advertising (the Android and increasingly Windows model). One day when I’m independently wealthy maybe.
What's the killer app of the iPhone 15?

They are releasing something like 50 new games, though they aren't making them exclusive, which follows what consoles seem to do now too.

The killer app for me has been being able to hop on to a VR game with my friends and somewhat feel like we're in the same room. It's too hard to get together frequently, and even setting up a VR 'date' is hard, but it's something.
You can just ask it about the error, and it will suggest fixes. I don't know why it has to be 100% the first time. Humans almost never are.
Who knows?

But this is reference to exceptional (low entropy) properties. If you multiply highly informational properties, they stop being informative. And move more towards white noise.
I share your awe. I feel like a kid in a candy store with all these incredible AI breakthroughs coming out these days! There's a place for cynicism and pessimism, but the kid in me who loves technology for its own sake is just absolutely on cloud 9.
Are people accepting pull requests without actually reviewing the code being contributed??

That seems like the larger problem...
I am referring to this paper from 2006.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-1816....

I do not know what '50s hoax you are talking about.
Quite the ratio here. Definitely agree with the masses that 1) almost no one does number entry 2) many touch typers are plenty fast enough on the number row 3) it does take up space really, especially in laptop or directly next to a mouse. I touch type 24 digit numbers at work from the num row, it's fine really.
Plus, some parts of plants do "want" to be eaten - namely fruits, as a strategy to spread seeds.
Definitely. A bug and a feature for sure. Superhot lets you slow everything to matrix/bullet time which is super cool, but Pistol Whip is like LETS SEE HOW YOU FARE IN REAL TIME. :)
>Program like the cowboys of old west

That's a very cool title for an article.
> You're saying the market is a zero sum proposition.

No, I don't need to assume that. Although of course short-term, production is a zero sum proposition.

> I do admit the shortcomings of the free market.

Maybe, but you don't admit it in this case (to provide access to university education), otherwise you wouldn't try to blame the government.

What should have government done, if it wanted to allow people get more education, and avoid the market failure?
They are moving so fast. This week alone they’ve added web browsing and image as input. Must be a crazy place to work at the moment.
It also fixes display handling, which is nice. VRR working out-of-the-box should be the standard, same goes for HDR and other advanced features. I wish x11 had them, but It's Dead, Jim.

> Wayland breaks games

> Games are developed for X11.

Most games are not developed for Linux at all. When you compare performance between Wayland and x11 on like hardware, the performance difference is nigh-nonexistent (even with XWayland). https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2304-wayland-xorg-gam...
Draw floor plans like in Figma
PopOS rules for me, I enable tiling manager and I am golden...
Gauss, you mean the guy who lived 1500 years later? Yeah, he definitely set a higher bar. But a “first-rate” restaurant does not mean “the best ever of all time.” Theon and Hypatia were probably some of the best mathematicians of their century. That is enough to be both “first rate” and “formidable” — and I’d be surprised if Gauss would talk smack about them.
I looked through the code and found some parenscript, or at least something that reminded me of parenscript alot.

Just bringing up some history. I don't know the age profile of the developers or readers anymore.

Just trying to look smart.
I am not sure I want to travel on the bus with a scared man trained in multiple martial arts. All the stats say that criminality is pretty low, I am safe on the bus, but fearful scared trained dide sounds like someone who will make it less safe for all of us.
Read up on “raspberry pi fast boot” and you’ll learn a lot about the tricks that can be used for fast booting, and also why they aren’t the default.
> If veldskool left a trail of child corpses, it would’ve been covered in the newspapers

agreed. i didnt read the book but the interviews i saw walter talk about musk he would say wild things like this and act as though they were true when they struck me as very unlikely or exaggerated claims
Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.
What? Amazon is offering lower prices to consumers, which is why they're winning business.

If other competitors could get their costs as low or lower than Amazon's, then they could enjoy those margins themselves.
This is nonsensical. When you use a function, how do you know what it will do? You guess from its name?

> auditing it is awful.

If a function specifies a requirement, you look at the callers and see if that requirement is met. If it's easy to verify in code, you can assert. Is there an easier way to audit correctness?
I don't understand how this pertains to my comment. Nobody's arguing whether listeners will, as a matter of preference, avoid Google/Apple/Spotify podcast clients. Nobody makes a claim about how many people know of RSS.

It's up to the podcast producers to decide for/against distributor-exclusivity, determining whether OC has to use YouTube Music.

> The vast majority of folks don't know that they have a choice, let alone that they should find/choose an app.

That's... fine. What matters is whether they do have a choice if they go looking for one — again, that's up to podcasters, not up to Google.
Ask HN: How do companies decide who is a senior developer?
I have 18 years of professional experience with developing software. I have been employed with six companies through these years and had a three year stint working on my own company. I recently applied for a job, where they offered me a developer position, although they had an opening for a senior developer position. What exactly are most companies looking for a senior position? Is it mostly the way you sell yourself? Because even with my years of experience I have never put a label on myself as a "senior". I always thought that this is implied.
Southpaw keyboards (with lefthand numpads) also exist, but they're even more rare.
Thats why I said actual hours worked, which implies physical activity that contributes to a product.

Engineers can sit 2 weeks on their asses blocked by stuff and still get paid, all because of the eventual value add when they start coding.
Wow, thanks very much for this explanation - I really appreciated it giving me full context before reading the email exchange.

It's hard for me to imagine better evidence that Google needs to be broken up than this. Honestly, I think it should basically be forbidden for Ads folks to even talk to the Chrome team. This looks like textbook abuse of monopoly power when you use your dominant position in one area (web browsing) to juice your position in another area (ads).

Also, I think it shows the foolishness of any company thinking that "Don't be evil" is a position that can last over time as you grow. I know it's easy to look at Jerry as "the bad guy" in this situation, but he is simply reacting to his incentives ("if we don't make these changes, we miss our sales number, and if we miss our sales numbers, we don't get our bonus"). All big companies eventually revert to their incentive structure once they become big enough. This line of thinking also goes to show why Google has traveled down the enshittification path so strongly over the past 5-10 years. Easy for to me imagine how each little search result change resulted in more revenue and not a significant number of people leaving, until you are left with the situation we have now where the entire first page of any remotely commercial search is just ads, going directly against Google's entire original thesis for their existence in the first place. My guess is the relatively recent change of text from "Ad" to "Sponsored" is because fewer people realize that sponsored means ad.
Loads of lies in this article.
Correctly lists US presidents in chronological order (which is an important test to me).

However for "List Led Zeppelin albums in chronological order"...

Here is a list of Led Zeppelin albums in chronological order:
1. Led Zeppelin (1968)
2. Led Zeppelin II (1969)
3. Led Zeppelin III (1970)
4. Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
5. Houses of the Holy (1973)
6. Physical Graffiti (1975)
7. Presence (1976)
8. In Through the Out Door (1979)
9. Cymbals and Wine (1980)

It's missing "The Song Remains the Same", weird but important.

GPT-4 is also missing it:
1. Led Zeppelin (1969)
2. Led Zeppelin II (1969)
3. Led Zeppelin III (1970)
4. Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
5. Houses of the Holy (1973)
6. Physical Graffiti (1975)
7. Presence (1976)
8. In Through the Out Door (1979)
9. Coda (1982)

"The Song Remains the Same" is a live album of the "concert film". Both GPT-4 and Mistral don't seem to treat it as also an album.

When asked as a follow-up, GPT-4 says:

""The Song Remains the Same" is a live album and soundtrack by Led Zeppelin, released in 1976. The list you asked for was comprised of their studio albums only." (note that I didn't specifically say studio albums only)

Mistral says something else:

"The Song Remains the Same was released as a single in 1976, not as an album. As a result, it is not included in the list of Led Zeppelin albums in chronological order."

Same behavior, different explanation.

Interesting to see alignment is this hard, even in basic stuff.
These days, at least if you can afford designer, they use rare earth magnets and the frames are exactly the same shape.

Since most glasses only grind the back side of the lens, they fit pretty closely together.

Which is also why you wouldn't be able to reverse the position of the lenses without changing how they're ground (also thick lenses hidden behind the frame conceal just how bad your eyes are, which some people get self conscious about.

Point was, if you wear a pair of glasses that people require you to take off regularly, you still need to be able to see, and that means carrying two pair of glasses. Transitions lenses exist in large part because people can't be arsed to carry around two pair of glasses.
As someone who loves VR, I'm not sure at $500 who this headset is for.

If you want something cheap but decent, a Quest 2 is a better deal at $300. It'll give you a cordless, hassle-free, console-like experience as a standalone device if that's what you want, or, if you instead want to play graphically intense VR games, you can connect it to a gaming PC and use SteamVR (AirLink, Virtual Desktop, or a USB-C cable.)

If you want something high end with a really solid game library so far, the PSVR2 is much better than this at $550 (though requires a PS5.)

The Quest 2 had a promising start with several great games coming to it, but then Meta seemingly stopped funding new games and VR ports, and unfortunately SteamVR hasn't had a ton release recently either.

Sony, on the other hand, had an incredible starting library for the PSVR2 and plenty more AA and AAA games are releasing soon. Discoverability is also much better on PSVR2 — my friend with the headset has shown me many great games that actually are on the Quest and SteamVR, but I had never seen them before as there are so many more games on Steam and the Quest store (unfortunately most of which aren't good.) Not sure if Sony curates their store better or if it's just that not much shovelware has been made on it yet. In either case, great games exist on all 3 of those platforms, but they're easiest to discover on PSVR2.

As others have mentioned, Meta's resources would be better spent bringing games to their existing headset versus creating new ones. I do think that having a more powerful headset would allow more impressive experiences (as is the case with PSVR2), but people aren't going to keep buying their devices if only a handful of impressive games release on them.

Nintendo regularly releases underpowered hardware compared to the competition, but they make such great first-party games that they end up selling incredibly well despite their lackluster hardware. The Quest 2 sold very well, and I imagine that games like Resident Evil 4 VR probably convinced many people to buy it (I know at least one person who got it for that game.) The Quest Pro did not sell well, so I'm not sure why they think better hardware but with the same library will convince people to buy new headsets.

EDIT: I guess I should have done a bit more searching, as does seem like there are some potentially popular games coming out for the Quest still, such as Assassin's Creed Nexus VR and Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable. Strange I haven't gotten any ads for it on YouTube, I saw tons of ads for Resident Evil 4 VR for the Quest 2 (as well as some of the Star Wars VR games.)
> Do the engineers that made this hand edit this file? Or did they have other source that they used and this is the build product?

Do any open source product provide all the tools used to make software? I haven't seen the linux kernel included in any other open source product and that'd quite frankly be insane. As well as including vim/emacs, gcc, gdb, X11, etc.

But I do agree that training data is more important than those things. But you need to be clear about that because people aren't understanding what you're getting at. Don't get mad, refine your communication.

> Windows was free for a year. Did that make it open source?

Windows didn't attach an Apache-2.0 license to it. This license makes this version of the code perpetually open source. They can change the license later, but it will not back apply to previous versions. Sorry, but this is just a terrible comparison. Free isn't what makes a thing "open source." Which let's be clear, is a fuzzy definition too.
At least because of "The Rockstar Programming Language", "Rockstar Programmer" and "Rockstar Developer" isn't a thing everywhere anymore.
Is the Wyze ecosystem any good? I love their cameras and see they have a ton of cheap products like bulbs and what not.
> In fact there is no evolutionary argument to be made.

Agreed, in a short and pithy way I was trying to make this point. I’ve been taught to be weary of the “beautiful savage” argument too, so I don’t think pointing out to tribes that only eat meat or only eat vegetables is useful. As cool as the Hadza are their hunting and eating practices don’t really give me much additional guidance and I tune out when my influencers of choice start waxing poetical about their amazing life changing visit.
This link keeps getting brought up from time to time, so it's worth noting that it's been outdated for around two years at this point, if not more.
Not going to lie, you’re not missing out on much. The Atlantic for some reason has pushed 3-4 of these stories recently but all of them are very opinionated and not focusing on any specific cause, just kind of generalization that isn’t all that useful.
Pretty happy with my existing workflow. It started out with a photo organization script a couple of years ago that I ran manually and has now developed into a fully automatic system.

1. syncthing uploads photos from my phone to my NAS (receive only)

2. scheduled systemd service (hourly) on my NAS reads newly received photos, renames them by date, moves it to my photos catalog

3. photoprism starts a scan of the photo library (triggered by systemd when 2. finishes)

4. weekly systemd service syncs the library to backblaze
worse if you can't cook meat, it's also much more energy consuming and troublesome to digest it in many ways

it's also slow to digest, so fruit sugar sources can be a good complement, but are less healthy

but then most "fruit sugar sources" also had much less sugar in them before humans messed with them and more of other nutrients

and there are stuff like shrooms, roots various plants etc.

but also however we look at it, meat was a fundamental component, I mean without supplements or being able to take advantage of a huge variety of plants from all around the world being vegetarians is very likely to lead to some form of malnutrition. But also we have misgrown a lot of plants to be much way less nutrious and have access to a wide variety and access to supplements so it doesn't matter anymore. Additionally even way back you probably could survive on a mostly vegetarian diet without malnutrition, just _mostly_ instead of _purely_ no meat.

On the other hand in today's society people consume often way to much meat and often unhealthy meat, too while at the same time not consuming a lot of the plants, roots and mushrooms people likely did eat before civilization started.

I guess like so often the answer is balance.

But also too-little-nutrious food, both from plants and meat, seems to be becoming increasingly a problem.
I don't think Alone is particularly representative of a hunter-gatherer back in the day. For starters, they're alone rather than existing in a group of people who have had to feed themselves their entire life foraging and hunting. Even if the people are our modern experts in survival, it's hard to replace daily lived knowledge gathered from generations of people. And they're dropped in an unfamiliar (and often particularly harsh?) area. The season I saw had people stranded in the Alaskan wilderness right for the start of winter. Or the frost? One of the notable things about hunter-gatherers is that they were migratory, no? They probably would opt out of trying to survive the winter like that.
I tried the previous ones. Those were chunky, cheap looking plastic like a kids toy, inconvenient, and expensive. There's no display, they're basically just worse than earbuds.
Crashed my machine. I didn't know they could set web workers to realtime priority.

Had to reboot.

Lame.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of Insomnia. Here’s missing context that a blog post about this could have included, to save everyone paging through yet another GitHub issue FP.

Insomnia 8.0.0-rc1 was released today: https://insomnia.rest/changelog

The business that ships this codebase is migrating all instances from cloud-optional to cloud-required:

> The challenge is that we cannot continue to offer a great product with all these capabilities while working on an abstraction layer that supports two different storage backends for all data in Insomnia, adds too much complexity to the whole product.

Existing non-cloud users who wish to continue operating without the cloud will need to downgrade to 2023.5.8 to continue accessing their data:

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5....

HN user ‘RamblingCTO’ (see below) is the author of the GitHub issue.
Could someone with access tell me what GPT-4V has to say of this image?

http://karpathy.github.io/assets/obamafunny.jpg

Andrej Karpathy used it in 2012 as an example of an image he thought would be extremely hard for a model to interpret. I'm wondering how this holds 11 years later...
Yeah advertising is a failure mode of what I said.

But if Firefox ever decided to make a lot of money by selling good browsers at a high price to paying users, well I think the result would be quite interesting.
I haven’t kept up with VR/AR at all but is anyone offering the ability to attend concerts and shows via VR?

I’m thinking like some kind of high quality 360 audio/video capture rig sat in a good seat at gigs across the country and I can buy a cheap ticket to attend via VR. It’s obviously never going to beat attending in real life but my use case is more about getting to attend gigs I can’t get to in real life.
I don't want humans to be obsolete, tell me what you think the required steps are for "human obsolescence" so I can stop them.
> and penalizing sellers offering lower prices off-Amazon

Why shouldn't they be allowed to do this? If you want to sell on their market, you promise not to undercut them.

Amazon exists as a discovery tool for consumers. They don't want third party sellers to get free advertising. That isn't anticompetitive.
Translating to normal person: You shouldn't hire people that aren't at least a bit desperate and ready to be abused as they'll do things like expect fair compensation for doing overtime and won't let you sell them a bridge about how great things will be in 5 to 10 years to break their back with unpaid labour now.

The constant name dropping, the stated preference for people that have debt or are trying to get out of retail jobs, the use of the phrase rockstars all make this sound like it was written by a narcissist.

I'm almost certain the bit about people bringing their parents to an interview is a naked lie or something that happened exactly once.
> I'm sorry, but what do you expect? Literally all code is "a bunch of numbers" when you get down to it. Realistically we're just talking about if the code/data is 1) able to be read through common tools and common formats and 2) can we edit, explore, and investigate it. The answer to both these questions is yes. Any parametric mathematical model is defined by its weights as well as its computational graph. They certainly provide both of these.

I expect that if you call a release "open source", it's, you know, source. That their engineers used to build the release. What Mistral's engineers edit and collate as their day job.

> The "recipe" is missing, yes, but this is very different from what you're saying.

The "recipe" is what we generally call source.

> So if there's miscommunication then let's communicate better instead of getting upset at one another.

Who's getting upset here? I'm simply calling for not diluting a term. A free, permissive, binary release is great. It's just not open source.

> Because 14G of a bunch of algorithmically constructed numbers and a few text tiles is definitely all you need to use, edit, and/or modify the work.

Just like my Windows install ISO from when they were giving windows licenses away from free.