skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gpt4 still makes dumb mistakes every few sentences, hallucinates stuff when it runs into cryptic words it's not familiar with, and sometimes omits important passages

This, but in all domains where you are an expert - it becomes apparent that GPT-4 makes stupid mistakes. It makes mistakes frequently. Can't seriously see it replacing humans soon, it is far from having four 9's of reliability.

Probably needs 99.99% accuracy to work alone unsupervised by humans, because at each decision step it incurs the error rate again and again, so error rate is growing exponentially in sequence length. Coupled with the "forward only" thinking pattern of LLMs that doesn't allow backtracking and planning this error rate kills autonomy.

Recently, GPT-4-Vision was found to have poor OCR accuracy. Smart but stupid, same story.
How does that have anything to do with the OP and their company? A bad behavior in the industry doesn't justify taking the revenge on one small company. If anything, it creates a negative feedback loop.

> Please don't do this. I spend time going through the resume, the various links in it, and then responding to everyone who applied. But this time, with so much AI-generated verbiage I simply don't want to.

Congratulations, now there's one more company "that uses automated emails for rejection". And rightly so, if you ask me.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with OP or their employer.
No sample can guarantee it “isn’t happening, though”, let alone a n = 1 one, and the judge was mentioning a hypothetical medical test.
It’s easy to miss, the 990 is a maze! I just happened to get lucky – my work had me doing a project on 990 data recently.
A big part of my job as a tech lead is to keep people unblocked and transfer knowledge. If I’m ignoring my DMs during the day, what exactly am I doing?

My individual coding output pales in comparison to what I can accomplish by making other people more productive, keeping everyone rowing in the same direction. I feel bad if I take more than 1/2 an hour to respond to a question, at very least directing that person to someone else who knows the answer (or help find it).

I don’t think this problem has anything to do with remote/in office work.
I wonder how much X/Twitter turning to noise has affected this.

Even if traffic directly from Twitter wasn't necessarily a big portion of incoming traffic, I feel like Twitter was a place that many people were using to hear about links, which would then get reshared around. People are exposed to a lot less variety now, with many folks dispersed elsewhere and the noise being so high on twitter/x. Our masses of friends are no longer there to help surface the more interesting bits.
Reasoning I think keeps developing with your brain to your mid-20s.
From what I saw of the mindset I don’t think it works that way there.

In London “oyster” contactless cards replaced cash/paper tickets for buses and the tube. It was then incremented to contactless bank payment cards as soon as the banks added such cards. This seemed largely to be an internal systems upgrade leveraging existing infrastructure.

Japanese suica/pasmo contactless payment cards are more like oyster and need topping up. Their bank payment cards are incompatible with international contactless systems. International contactless cards don’t work locally on many payment terminals.

Many retailers that support both local and international cards literally have mutiple contactless terminals. Some manage to take a contactless payment but then print a bit of paper for you to sign (total WTF moment!!).

But this post was originally about trees. And what I was getting at was the culture reveres preserving and optimising paths after those paths stop making sense or become obsolete. Some of that is very cool to see but I’m not sure if it’s going to be sustainable given their decline.
Just because the individual pixels have a Xhz frequency, doesn't mean that the whole screen has to - depending on how you do updates.

I could, for example, update a different quarter of the screen at (4 * X)hz, which would introduce a bit of temporal blurring, but would normalise reasonably fast.

With something like a cursor movement, they're often blurry anyway and it's not really an issue.
With text entry you can drop your latency, but changes would fade in (in quarters like everything else).

You wouldn't have to go with 2 * 2 updates, the larger the blocks the more quickly the fade in would start, but also the blurrier the screen would appear.

Of course, the smaller the pixel size you're working with, the larger the block size you could reasonably use before things start looking too bad.
I think if you're engaged with what you do, you will learn and develop more than if not.

OTOH there seems to be a developmental window for some specific skills, e.g. phoneme acquisition 6-12 months; (human) language acquisition < 7 years.
Why use Google at all, instead of something like DuckDuckGo?
Can you list a country that landed men on the moon who didn't have to hire German scientists to achieve that?
I hope you are being sarcastic right?
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You can change the work environment. The ability to influence goes both ways.
I’m not so sure the problem you have with this is inherently with the use of AI, but rather using the same content for all applications, without tailoring it to your company and role — and it also happens that it was AI-generated.

That is, if they used AI but made sure it addressed the specifics of how their qualifications suit the specific role, you’d be fine with it.

Ironically, recruiters have been doing this for years: sending the same email to hundreds/thousands of prospects, not even addressing the individual qualifications of the prospect, and why they specifically would be a good fit.

I’m not saying you specifically are doing this. But we’re talking about the general practice of using the same cover letter in an application, so I’m arguing that this is no worse than sending the same email to many prospects.
> Try expressing yourself

Okay. The reason I find that heading painful to read is it seems to miss the entire point of the quote. The line is said in the context of a world where everyone already is defining themselves by their jobs, possessions, etc. it’s not descriptive, it’s prescriptive. So it can’t really even be wrong.

My memory of the book is it’s fairly philosophical, getting at modernity and the human condition. It’s quite traditionally masculine and violent and I get that that turns a lot of people off. Love it or hate it, quotes of it probably don’t belong in a LinkedIn-style “here’s some advice kids” article.

Moreover, it’s just too easy — low hanging fruit, e.g.

Tyler Durden said “once you you lose everything you’re free to do anything” but that’s not right because many activities are expensive and you’ll need money.

Yuck.
Exactly. Sometimes my feeling is that some manufacturers just think RS-232 is the name of the connector.
> I download shows/tv to my Mac, drag and drop to Apple TV app, they show up on the main TV over wifi. No casting etc. They just look and play as if they are streaming from Apple TV.

I presume these are shows that you’ve downloaded/bought from Apple? If yes, then I’m guessing it’s just synced from your purchases and is downloading and playing from there.

Or does Apple somehow allow shows/movies from other sources to be downloaded and played on the TV App (like a VLC equivalent)? I doubt Apple would enable something like this.
So she can adapt and change her preferences.
This is an interesting thread as a lot of the comments mention services as opposed to software straight out. That said i bought the lifetime membership of jetbrains IDE. I think it was worth the money personally.

Services based i would have to say Spotify. It's been a game changer for me over the years with an unhealthy habit of hoarding music.
That is not my experience at all. My Intel laptop bought new in 2023 took 40 minutes to compile LLVM, would get extremely hot and loud, and the screen would hang multiple times during the process. This laptop’s fan would even spin when watching YouTube. My current M1 chip takes only 20 minutes without fan or freezing screens. I’ve looked it up and the M1 chip requires only half the clock cycles to get data from memory and I suspect that does play a role in the dramatic difference in performance and energy efficiency.
My nit pick over Jira's UX - they recently changed how board is implemented, breaking ctrl+f
tbf the dynamic range here is pretty big.

there are usually old/unmaintained houses on the edge of nowhere to buy for less than a years rent of a flat in downtown.
I just wish so many libraries didn't get compliance with SemVer by never releasing a 1.0.0
Especially the first line IMO; the rest actually seems mostly passable, but that first line immediately flagged as GPT-generated to me.
Clarifying link [1] for people like myself who are clearly behind on their architectural nomenclature studies.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-and-dart
Can't fraud the original fraudsters.
There's nothing conspiratorial about the post, why not read the article? The math error is described in line 2, the actual error about two screens down, highlighted in red.
My theory is the number of people in a city willing to commit bike theft is finite, and more bikes in public isn't going to draw out very many more thieves out of the woodwork since bikes are already easy to quickly find to steal in public. That means if the world changes and you get everyone biking, rate of bike theft drops down low enough where its something most people don't think of, like how grand theft auto is an extremely rare occurrence despite there being plenty of expensive cars parked on the street.
I still don't understand what you mean. 0.5 multiplied by the reference runtime is faster.

Do you mean it increases the runtime by 50%-200%?
Headphone wires have caused me issue son packed subways before, with peoples accessories getting caught in them. Wireless is without a doubt more convenient.
Thank you for the follow-up! Much appreciated!
I was saying a dictionary trained on the top packages but not the size of them. I believe you can specify the size of the dictionary right? So you want to figure out when you have diminishing returns for average users. I figure an effective shared dictionary is anywhere from a few 100kb to a few MB. Where between those is optimal I don’t know.

I am definitely not saying download 100MB to save a few MB per user. That is just dumb.

I find NPM in the last year or so is faster to resolve that yarn. Although I think bun is even faster and may have better global caching.
Looks nice, the “tree” visualization gives the UI a pretty unique look.

Why did you decide to work on this specific idea? I don’t quite see what problem this is meant to solve and for whom, which makes it a little hard to understand the app.

I hope that doesn’t come across as discouraging an interesting experiment.

The demo video focuses on how the UI works, but it might be more helpful if it showed a situation someone is in where they have a use for this. Basically, “real” people doing real recordings, not just the same person talking for a few seconds to show that the app is recording.
Well they're wrong and so is their language of choice. Any language that pollutes the global namespace when you import a lib did it wrong. For all of JS's faults, they nearly got this one right.

Also, even in JS this is still a problem when you really do want all packages to share the same version of the lib, regardless if you're able to import multiple. Sometimes you just don't want multiple instances.

Npm and yarn offer a solution for that too, by forcing a certain version resolution but that then you're on your own if it isn't compatible.
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Put something in the job description. Like "cover letters should be no more than one paragraph". This will also filter out people who don't bother to read the description fully.
What's being decided here is not so much the meaning of 'and' as whether (in this particular instance) to respect the (unintended) letter or to respect the spirit of the law.

There are contexts where, somewhat puzzlingly, or(/and) is the more natural word to use, but where it's possible to argue that using and(/or) would have been more literally correct. For example:

> How do you make a higher order function in Python? You have two choices: you can use nested scopes _or_ you can use callable objects.

Here 'or' is the most natural word to use, but one could argue the more literally correct word to use would have been 'and'.
My takeaway (impression) from the DJB post is that the evaluation by the NISTPQC seems not to provide algorithms with a firm level of security. That the evaluation is not clear cut, and not provide a good, conservative lower bound for the security provided by the algorithms selected.
The "1 day" rotational period is to give a natural-seeming day-night cycle, using natural sunlight from the star that the whole structure orbits.

It would be oriented so that the sun appears to rise just to the side of the ring - When it's overhead the arc of the ring would appear to be near the sun, but not eclipsing it. This is nearer to vertical than the sun over much of Earth much of the time.
Minor typo.
"How can NIST justify throwing NIST-509 away?"
should be
"How can NIST justify throwing NTRU-509 away?"
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I would rather a stranger search my house than my digital accounts and files, honestly.
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I suspect it has more to do with the imprisoning of people for drug offences, non-violent crime, and the background of:

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

I also suspect the judiciary is not happy with 'mandatory minimums' which ties their hands, and make them pawns in this larger mass incarceration project
Won't this next BTC "halving" basically wipe out any profit margin that still exists for mining BTC? Anyway, 19 million of the total 21 million BTC have been mined already
I would say that is a pretty good time to re-evaluate a lot of things: 20s behind you, slightly matured, more time alone, able to do healthier introspection. At least it was, in my own timeline! I didn't begin climbing out of my mess until 30 :)
Thanks for this! I've been going crazy for months that Twitter threads and replies are totally broken if you are logged out (which I always am since deleting my account in December). And now Nitter has led me to LibRedirect[1] which not only automatically redirects Twitter links but also lots of other common links like TikTok.

[1] https://libredirect.github.io/
You can, but it has negative effects. Just like we can create landfills, we can choose to destroy a part of the ocean.
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And further on this tangent, if you forget something then remember it again, where did it go in the mean time? Did it just cease to exist then reappear in a near perfect recreation? Imagine a hunk of some exotic metal behaving like that, people would make a lifetime studying it.
Are you saying that it's common for store owners to be set on fire by shoplifters, or is your example inappropriate for being an outlier and not representative of what most shoplifting is like?
> If a merchant wanted to, it would be trivial for them to give you a 3% discount for paying with debit.

I don't believe that a merchant is allowed to do this? Probably very dependent on your deal with credit card processors but my understanding is that the default contract between a merchant and a credit card processor stipulates that you are not allowed to offer discounts to not use credit cards differently.

Of course if you are Target-sized, you get special treatment. My understanding is stuff like Redcard is basically just Target "giving back" their cut of processing fees...
> It’s been the most difficult start to any job I’ve ever had [etc.]

Right but, dropping a slice of anecdata cake, I've had that experience multiple times before I ever did any remote working (and not just in contracts, in perm jobs too.) If the culture is rotten, it matters not whether you're onsite or offsite.
It's more than that: Meta is also in hot water because of handling of user data, behavior advertising, and using data from its seemingly separate apps across Facebook for tracking and advertising.

Threads runs afoul of many provisions in Digital Markets Act and possibly GDPR, too.
In Illinois shall means shall only if there is a punishment attached.

So, if a law says "A peace officer shall not shoot innocent unarmed minorities" but fails to specify any punishment for non-compliance then it is merely "directory" and nothing will come of any violation of that law.

For instance all the laws regarding how jails should be run (e.g. prisoners shall be fed) are all directory, not mandatory because there is no punishment for failure.

https://www.isba.org/committees/governmentlawyers/newsletter...
It's of course cool to see these places. But do remember that Hancocks "theories" are, if we are being nice today, utter nonsensical pseudoscience.

If you want some real archeology I recommend Milo from the miniminuteman YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@miniminuteman773
Also, be aware that most people don't have a dream or a thing they love. The message about having a dream and "doing what you love" is so prevalent in the US culture, that the large number of people whom it does not pertain think that there's something wrong with them, and start essentially force themselves to have a passion (which is, obviously, not how it works).
> They are just trying to avoid the platform turning into the polarising mess that Twitter is right now.

What if that is the actual state of the country and Twitter is just reflecting it?
How has Nike mined this commercial and marketing gold yet!?
Check his username.
AMD was who I meant by they. Sibling comment clarifies that it’s only on Pro.
The USB hub market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.60% during the forecast period from 2023 to 2032. This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing use of USB devices, the growing demand for USB ports on devices, and the increasing popularity of USB hubs in the gaming industry.
The simple fix is to scale the maximum work week based on available work, partially socializing the efficient gain from AI to society which provided much of the training data.

How much can be up for debate, but giving it all to corporates is going to be a replay of the run up to WW2
It performs terribly and gets in the way of doing productive work. The part it does well is enabling obstructive micromanagers and giving them pretty-looking charts to help create a false impression that development is predictable.
No, most businesses in DC accept cards, and I'd imagine the majority of those also accept mobile too.
https://simplify.jobs/

This is the site I mentioned. They provide an addon for auto filling workday applications
The Future of RPC Endpoints, how common will they be
OP mentioned a reasonable argument for the lack of supply.

A country ought to first serve its citizens before citizens of another country. Analogous to you’d first take care of your own kids before aiding others.

Yes Ukraine is in a war and one should help, but you should help yourself first so you can help others.
It's easy but just mind numbing
Not purchased, but installed pihole-vpn combo so we got rid of most ads on all our devices.
Another nice thing is pixel og+syncthing combo - unlimited original quality uploads to google photos
Office 365 family so that we got 1Tb each in cloud
It's rarely luck alone, off course, someone has to have the guts to play, to risk losing something, and often must put in the work too. But out of everyone who does, luck can often make the winners.

That said, in his case, there's a few repeat accomplishments. More than once he thought of a product, built it, and seem to have gotten traction with consumers.

This is different from say Jeff Bezos, and how he famously said he doesn't think he could make it again, because he was kind of at the right time, right place. And he wouldn't know what in the current time and place would be the next Amazon.

But in OPs case, he seem to be able to replicate these small-ish but still successful products. So at the very least he's got a knack for good ideas, identifying products that don't have a good offering, and building them quickly to a point that people will pay for them. That takes some talent, and hard work to accomplish.
I don't think this is a isolated case for Japan but rather an unintended downside of being a pioneering adopter of an innovative technology wave.

For instance, Credit Cards are ubiquitous in the US. In India (and am guessing China too) credit cards were and even nor limited to a higher income niche while mobile payments via QR codes (UPI, Wechat) became more prevalent. And I think from an experience and convenience stand point they are better than Credit Cards.

Similarly in legacy banking, a large part of the tech infrastructure am guessing still runs on mainframes as banks were early adopters. Applications are still being written in COBOL.

Large Organizations / Governments benefit from tech adoption but are also slower and more difficult to migrate a new technology when it appears.
Only the first book is truly brilliant.
Nope. Scrum and Agile are great. Jira is in many ways the antithesis of them: it favours processes and tools over individuals and interactions, it elevates comprehensive documentation over working software, and it encourages following a plan over responding to change.
The water in the reservoir closest to me is at about 300 feet elevation and a couple miles from the ocean. Doesn't seem too bad.
Over the counter… with an ID. It’s not on shelves precisely because it is so similar to meth
Time to update the app and reclassify notifications, thus loose all your settings on a weekly basis.
Run a pipe out a few miles to where the ocean drops to a few hundred meters and the currents are strong and job done. This is not a technical challenge in any way, just a minor cost overhead. Pumps and pipes; that's all you need.

This is not the reason the US doesn't desalinate. It is actually actively making things worse in the places where it can still extract water from aquifers. Removing the water allows salt water to penetrate those thus destroying the local ecosystems. It's also speeding up the desertification of other areas.

Desalinating ocean water (done right of course) is part of the solution, not the problem.

Solutions like discussed in the article are more interesting for smaller/rural setups. Interesting but desalinating at industrial scale is a solved problem already. Can it be done cheaper. Probably and that would be nice. But it can be done economically right now. The largest challenges here are bureaucratic, not technical.
For some reason the idea got new
Still remember https://lando.dev/ ?
Thank you. Now that's a readable summary!
I've let Google track my location history for over 10 years now. On top of being incredibly useful (and fun) to remember where I was and when, I always imagined it would come in handy as an alibi if I was ever accused of a crime.
What is the suggestion then? Either we increase supply of houses to meet increased demand from higher population, or you decrease demand by evicting illegal immigrants or killing some people.

Can’t beat demand and supply dynamics with fairy dust.
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