skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a strong tendency for devs to underestimate how long it takes to develop software. My hypothesis is because devs tend to focus on the core functionality and are really estimating how long it would take to do that. But in most projects, that's only about 20% of the work required.

I'm also reminded of the old saying that "nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it."
> This. If there is a government contract involved, even if you are not working directly on it, you will have to pee in a cup.

This is not correct. When I held a clearance (which I don't anymore and won't again) the Department of Defense never made me take a drug test. I did, however, work for a publicly-traded government contractor that made me take one both times that they hired me as a matter of course. I worked for three other such defense contractors that were happy to have me without such a test.

I thought it was just a mild inconvenience until I developed a sinus infection and started taking pseudoephedrine and diphenhydramine two days before I was scheduled to take the test. Because these OTC drugs can cause false positives for methamphetamine and marijuana respectively (depending upon whether the test is reagent-based or GCMS) I had to quit taking them and suffer through two days of an upper respiratory infection to pass the test and placate some HR drone in Alabama.

I'm sure that there's a policy or exemption process for this situation but the same company also almost pushed my start date because their background verification service couldn't verify my past employment _at the same company_, i.e. their onboarding team was grossly incompetent. I decided not to chance it as I didn't want to go weeks without a paycheck while they sorted out a false positive. Needless to say I don't waste my time dealing with this class of employers any longer.
Just have a sales tax and an inheritance tax and forget collecting taxes from millions of people every year.
you could make the case that we're already in the authoritarian future, where Google, Meta, and Apple decide what is acceptable information
The vibe to me is targeting people who pivoted from crypto to AI.
Who does high amounts of refined fructose syrup work for?

Do any of the diets you described advocate high doses of refined fructose?
A random video of assembly and demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmx-nwetRwI
Cool! Nutrition now has its own GUT!
You seem to be supporting the fact that this is a valid concern. Every piece of data can (and eventually will likely) be used against you at some point. The more data you give up, the more ammo you're handing over to the people today and tomorrow who want to exploit you. DNA contains a ton of data, and it's very different from the data in your utility bills or your GPS history. Keeping your DNA out of the dossiers data brokers keep on you would be a smart move even taking into account how much other data they already have.
Why a "menace"?
Lessons Learned Bootstrapping to 100 Employees and Exit
Yeah, but they're betting nobody else did.
You never met a salesman who believes in the product they're hired to sell?

A lot of life's bullshit is people convinced of their own bullshit.

I know I'm likely to be very wrong here... and they may easily remedy that, I hope they do because I really like the idea's they've presented.
I'm on a project where OAuth 2.0 will be implemented. Please send help.
> I am using an iPhone and it's just dreadful to use the internet on this thing due to the ridiculous amount of ads.

I'm not seeing any as I read this on iPhone. If you want a similar experience there are many good solutions, but my "quiet web" extensions are 1Blocker, Hush, Rekt, and Vinegar.
My read of it is that's exactly what they were saying. The software replaced "ass" with "*", which made it even worse because now it read like the software was correcting the n-word (and in turn suggesting the person was using the n word).
There could be a standard protocol describing how to authenticate and talk to a server, and get notified. It's not that different from chat protocols.

And operating systems could allow user to select their preferred server, although I wouldn't expect Apple to allow something advanced and anti-vendor-locking like that.
in europe you can choose to put it on the balance sheet or treat it like an expense. it goes under intangible assets. i think goodwill is just for some kind of intangible quality of the business like reputation.

source code or patents are actual hard assets regardless of whatever rules were made up. it is typical for bankers or acountants to dismiss the assets engineers create. imagine engineers did the same and reason that bonds are worthless because it is just paper or that your client base is worth nothing?

if you do not put IP on your balance sheet and keep expensing it eventually you end up with negative net worth which makes your business look very unattractive and unhealthy. been there done that. if you incurr expenses and in return create an asset it should be on the balance sheet. i cannot imagine diamond mining operations not putting the diamonds on the balance sheet….
I think UBI and flat tax are fundamentally incompatible. Reasonable levels of UBI require high taxes, and doing so with entirely flat taxes will be quite punitive on the middle class. I think the vast majority of the population think there is a lot of merit to graduated tax rates as well, charging 50% tax on all of someone's income above $10,000,000 isn't as punitive to any sort of living standard as charging 50% tax on someone's first $30k of income.

If we want a UBI of $24,000/year ($2,000/month) for an adult population of 250 million we are talking 6 trillion dollars in additional government spending. Assume for a minute we can cut 2 trillion in spending so we are talking about a spending increase of 4 trillion. This would mean roughly doubling current government revenues. If you wanted to do so with a flat tax, you'd see rates near the top rate now on all income.

Are people ready for a world where you get $24,000/year from the government and pay something like a 40% tax on all your income? Compared to the current tax code you probably break even at roughly $75,000/year and for incomes above that you'd pay more in tax.
I think the suggestion is that to the uninformed, "n*er" or "n***er would appear to be a censored n-word.
If you couldn't download MP3s, what good would Winamp be? :P
You are just repeating my first post, though? I have seen plenty of pets that do both. I've had both at the same time. Kind of obnoxious when you have one animal that you have to feed separate from others, otherwise it doesn't get any food. Super convenient when that is your only animal, as you can just make sure the bucket is there with food.

The question is literally if we can find a difference between the two animals we are talking about. And that difference may be something that is addressable not at the animal level, but at the food supply level. Maybe not, of course. But a perfectly fine question to consider.
Pot, meet kettle
One extra reason why I think countries such as Germany, who’s industry relies on highly polluting ice cars, is in for a shock. This decade is likely to see significant readjustment in terms of european economic “powerhouses”. Chinese and Asian quality is also on the rise overall, while German quality is on the fall. We shall what lies ahead but will be interesting to watch.
Okay, I actually got local co-pilot set up. You will need these 4 things.

1) CodeLlama 13B or another FIM model https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-13b-hf. You want "Fill in Middle" models because you're looking at context on both sides of your cursor.

2) HuggingFace llm-ls https://github.com/huggingface/llm-ls A large language mode Language Server (is this making sense yet)

3) HuggingFace inference framework. https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference At least when I tested you couldn't use something like llama.cpp or exllama with the llm-ls, so you need to break out the heavy duty badboy HuggingFace inference server. Just config and run. Now config and run llm-ls.

4) Okay, I mean you need an editor. I just tried nvim, and this was a few weeks ago, so there may be better support. My expereicen was that is was full honest to god copilot. The CodeLlama models are known to be quite good for its size. The FIM part is great. Boilerplace works so much easier with the surrounding context. I'd like to see more models released that can work this way.
Related: Not a seaweed, but sea fennel (also samphire and official name crithnum maritimum) is a plant that grows on rocks by the sea and is edible (actually nutritious and quite tasty as salad).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crithmum
Just for posterity, this is totally my favorite movie. I don't even know how many times I've watched it staring in high school, and, somehow, I still think it's funny.

Way back in like 2008 or so I went through the interview process of a new job. The last step was a panel interview with the people who would report to me. Their last question was, "what is your favorite movie." When I told them "The Holy Grail" it absolutely sealed the deal for them. It turned out to be a great team and a great fit, too.
This might be changing in a recent SCOTUS case [0]. The Court may indeed rule that agencies must defer to Congress (although usually they state that such cases aren't meant to be changing precedent as a whole and just rule in the particulars of one case).

[0] https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/supreme...
> Title II regulation isn't just about net neutrality, Rosenworcel said, arguing that the reclassification will give the FCC more authority to protect national security on broadband networks. "When we stripped state-affiliated companies from China of their authority to operate in the United States, that action did not extend to broadband services, thanks to the retreat from Title II. This is a national security loophole that needs to be addressed," she said.

I know I'm far too cynical these days, but this smells like the beginning of the Great American Firewall.
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't think of that.
Just tried it and it works at least with the llama-cpp-python server, but I suppose some other servers and very likely hosted services (SNI, certificate subjects, ...) would have problems with that.
Good. It's bigger now than it ever should have been, and it'll reap what it has sown for it. It should have been a technology on the down-low, it should have been a technology that purposely purported not to attract attention, it should have been a technology that volatility shouldn't have been its primary feature.

Cryptocurrency would have been good, as a technology, if its infrastructure didn't purposely embrace grifters and skepticism.
No, you’re thinking of glyphs, not grapheme clusters.
The US needs to fund the Strategic Transformer Reserve! DOE estimated the cost would be $500m in 2017, but it would be a bargain at 4x the price.

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/strategic-transformer-...
you are being dishonest in your arguments. the point is the technology was around for decades before the said creation date. their argument is the tech for crypto has been around for 14 years so if it didnt take off by now, it never well. you are trying to get around my argument by nit picking over details 'what is the web and what isn't', which is a dishonest approach do discussion.

Technology is usually around for a very long time before adoption.
> Obviously they did not have iodized salt, like us, to provide the required iodine.

Some places still (mostly) don’t. A notable exception (I’m sure there are others but not as well reported) is Israel where iodized salt isn’t a regulatory requirement and not very popular, with (predictable) widespread deficiencies:

https://ijhpr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13584-020-...

https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/2017-03-27/ty-art...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170327083438.h...
We send humans to live in orbit where there wouldn’t normally be conditions fit for life thanks to our technology. I don’t think habitability precludes life from being there, especially if it emerged elsewhere and this is more of an outpost or research station akin to the ISS or antarctic stations of our own. Perhaps there are interesting things there in uninhabited systems, or they make a ripe environment for certain experiments or work that is unfit to perform so close to a habitable system.
I love all sorts of green things and gave up on meat a while ago but seaweed with a taste of bacon sounds amazing.
I have a large and ever growing list of sites that I've told Safari to use Reader mode on automatically. The internet is much more bearable for it.
I just went from x230 to X1 Carbon (Gen 7) and even though it's a 14" laptop, it's so much thinner and lighter than the x230 it feels smaller over all. Battery life is better than the 9-cell x230 as well, which is nice.
Python3 is really not a great example to copy elsewhere though. By the time Python3 came about it was already clear that UTF-8 encoding is all one ever needs to represent UNICODE strings, and all the other encodings are either historical accidents (like UCS-2 and UTF-16), or only needed at runtime in very specific situations (like UTF-32, but even this is debatable when working with grapheme clusters instead of codepoints).

And with that basic idea that strings are just a different view on a bytestream (e.g. every string is a valid bytestream, but not every bytestream is a valid string) most of the painful python2-to-python3 transition could have been avoided. I really don't know what they've been thinking when the 'obviously right' solution ("UTF-8 everywhere") was right there in plain sight since around the mid-90's.
As I understand it, that island (Taiwan) hasn't ever been part of (CCP) China?
I'm not sure if this is factored into your unemployment numbers, but in the USA its very common for all adults to need to work in order to make ends meet.

Whereas in a stronger economy with employment laws protecting employees it'd be much more possible for a family to live comfortably off a single income, making for a lot more "unemployed" adults.
I wish they'd go back to the way they did the original Threadrippers. These absurd prices kinda make them pointless for a large number of people when combined with how AMD has bungled the socket support with Threadripper and how expensive the motherboards are. The lower prices and overlap with the top range of regular Ryzens made threadripper very appealing for applications where you want lots of IO and RAM, but not necessarily a more capable CPU.
It's missing a sudo.
What if it’s less his choice and more about convincing investors that it makes sense?
Some of the most important things unions negotiate for aren't about pay and benefits. They negotiate things like working conditions, handle disputes, and the like.

Those things are usually much more important than pay and benefits, and when union negotiations stall, it's more usually about that sort of thing than about money.

I hate to bring up the old example, but it's used because it nicely illustrates the value of unions for everybody -- not just the union members. Things like having a 40 hour workweek and weekends only happened because of unions.
This was a problem well before the "Food Pyramid": Food Calories and the Standard Calorie Model were invented by the "scientists" at the Sanitarium at Battle Creek (aka "Wellville") who were also "coincidentally" the founders of Kellogg's and the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) based on some weird religious beliefs that grains were God's true foods. Food Calories were invented to sell more cereals, crackers, and cookies.
In the current world, deep learning with homogeneous computation graphs, tuned with backprop, has won the Hardware Lottery [1]. This is unfortunate for research outside of that area, but just looking at the momentum of development it seems like a sure bet to keep investing in GPU-based training and inference for the next decade. There's just too much lock-in already to this paradigm.

If a new algorithm appears from with a novel approach (analog compute, heterogeneous computation graphs from genetic algorithms, quantum, much more...), there will be a whole generation of R&D + tool + framework building, which gives the major players enough time to adapt.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
As long as it's not too concentrated (like diluted ~1:10), then for the plants it is an energy drink.
Not especially, I worked in an IT support lab and most of the guys set their own schedules.
Oof I'm not a fan of their method of disabling telemetry either: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/issues/567
I would be very surprised if Ryzen goes for 32 cores, 24 is more probable. If they do go for that many cores, it will likely be "Zen 5C" cores, which may or may not be competitive with Threadripper being full Zen 4 cores.

Regardless, it's the memory channels and extra PCIE lanes that makes Threadripper shine, oh, and now HEDT gets Registered ECC which is fantastic.
Sure: https://the-guild.dev/graphql/codegen/plugins/typescript/typ...
This is great and very user-friendly. As a quick & dirty alternative for people using the command line, you can easily send files by using netcat.

To quickly copy file from one machine to another.

# on target machine
$ nc -l PORT > file

# on source machine
$ cat file | nc HOST PORT

To quickly copy an entire folder:

# on target machine
$ nc -l PORT | tar xf -

# on source machine
$ tar cf - FOLDER | nc HOST PORT
The force is based on how fast you drag the cue ball
I’m on iPhone using Safari, with AdGuard and no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

Maybe something like this, for you?
That isn’t true anymore as of 2018 when the Trump administration made changes to the tax law. As a homeowner with a mortgage I used to itemize every year but now the standard deduction benefits me more.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/heres-how-the-trump-tax-plan-co...
Eric 'Winkle" Brown – His Best and Worst Aircraft [video]
Yeah see my edit, it seems clear to me that the bʰleh₃- is the origin, and Latin never got the dʰelh₁- derivation.
There are add blocking extensions for safari available in the App Store that perform in line with uBlock origin
999,999,360KB ought to be enough for anybody
Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models
Did any of the bad effects of not having net neutrality actually occur when it was gone?

Did ISPs throttle competition?

I haven’t seen any reports of this happening. I haven’t seen any studies showing this happening systematically.

I’m woefully uninformed, so I really would like to hear more about this. What has been happening these past few years?
The last chart I saw for the US showed numbers of STEM graduates increasing for immigrants, but decreasing for native/permres; and non-STEM unemployment was about double that for STEM.

Is the over-production of non-STEM graduates decreasing?

Is non-STEM unemployment going down?

[Here I assume STEM is productive, or increasing productivity, and non-STEM is the pool for BS jobs and the elites - feel free to disagree]
>Certainly the awesome political power they wield hasn't helped to increase salaries (compare them to any other credentialed profession requiring a college degree), or prevent charter schools from eating away at public school funding, or to restore some of the pension benefits that were taken away in the eighties.

I cant speak for the nation at large, but this doesnt track with my experience in california.

Public school funding has massively increased. It has gone from somewhere around 9K/student in 2012 to $24k/student in 2023. With an average class size of 29, that is $700k per class per year.[1] They are rightly scared of charter schools and private school vouchers.

California teaching is a decent profession on average, but compensation is extremely seniority based, with senior teachers payed 2X new hires, while doing essentially the same job (~$50k vs $100k) .[2] this is an internal struggle that most US unions have. Based on US union law, there is one union while in Europe employees can shop between multiple. As a result, US unions suffer from a tyranny of the majority which will sacrifice minority member interests for that of the majority.

I have a friend in a public utility union where the union fought against WFH for IT workers, simply because the field workers were jealous.

https://edsource.org/2023/california-leaders-should-focus-on...

https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp
> They had marked up the car by how much government was going to give rebate on and there was no savings for a taxpayer

This is the thing that always gets me. After having seen too many examples of this I soured on these incentivized deductions. The benefit always seems to go to the middle man.
It appears that it's already in there. The trick is that you have to install an extension in some apps to make it work. For instance, there's a TensorRT accelerator extension for Stable Diffusion WebUI that takes advantage of it. I'm installing it right now, though the docs leave a bit to be desired.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Stable-Diffusion-WebUI-TensorRT
No One Should Die Waiting for an Organ Transplant
Ok, but inflation is not cost-of-living and the CPI doesn't measure either of those directly.

Its often convenient for government to conflate the two; cost-of-living is a very flexible concept and so there are lots of way to get an answer you like, but they are distinct concepts.

Surely you can understand why a changing basket of goods makes for deceptive year-to-year comparisons.
Damn, I guess my plans to make my Web 3.0 Blockchain NFT Big Data Hybrid Cloud factory are out of date.
OK, this is the best explanation I've seen yet of the purchase, but still... nobody signed up for Twitter for this purpose, they just wanted to tweet. This plan will kick off all the users who don't want to do the new verification things. In that sense it's totally disrespectful of what Twitter actually provided.
> It’s not just weird, it’s an intentionally dishonest evaluation to build hype around their language.

Not too dissimilar to Swift, which was launched as being faster than C/C++.
DoD Biomanufacturing Strategy 2023 [pdf]
is charitable interpretation dying out on HN as well?

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Maybe lesson for next time: have some "sleeper cells" in the company that are not part of the union who can slow down development, create bugs, and waste time, accidentally check in AWS creds, etc.
This is important to me. It should matter to everyone, especially in the independent music/arts where value so easily gets leeched out by people with resources.
They can, I think that's the point of the "avoiding in-person meetings" warning.

Say you have an office in South Korea. A South Korean developer starts working for you as a remote employee, and their IP looks like it's connecting from South Korea. You say "cool, awesome, but you need to come to our office in Seoul once every two months for our regular all-hands meeting," and they keep skipping out on it, claiming family emergencies or whatever. That's the warning.

That was my understanding.
That Bark has so little bite left in a fast deglobalizing world.
Best drum solo ever

I play it at high volume at least weekly (when the wife is out)
On a Lack of Ambition or "Why We Don't Try to Do Nice Things"
Some other comments mentioned lower frequency of EPYC, but I'll add another point, the motherboards on EPYC are built for a datacenter environment where you run very loud fans and shove a crap ton of air through the system. Threadripper has larger heatsinks on VRM and chipsets and whatnot on the motherboard so that you can use quieter fans, like on Ryzen.