skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best experiences with pair programming have been with people that I trust a great deal, enough to know that we'll definitely still be cool after arguing code. I don't think it'd be of any use at all unless we were both comfortable enough with each other to be intellectually honest, and able to both criticize our opinions and agree with them when appropriate.

Some people are afraid of conflict and would rather agree when they really don't, some other people are just looking to "win" or always poke holes at everything but their own takes, both types aren't very useful in the end.

In my experience, when you find that sweet spot with someone who complements you, pairing up is just the best, definitely more than the sum of our parts.
Lol you speak English that means England owns Canada. I know you are acting smart and speaking like a jerk but research reality and you will realize the sun still does not set for the British empire which is the Romans. They own America also.

Get your self educated and respect the greats.
Cryptocurrency's popularity in the U.S. tied to conservative moral foundations
it's impossible to know where and how an assumption will be built upon common intuition in existing science.

What if the estimate for an LD50 for a new drug going into a trial were an order of magnitude out due to one of the underlying inputs being an order of magnitude out. The worst case scenario is that things could die off that wrong number. If nor humans, at least a lot of rats...
We need more laws that don't change fundamentally in 151 years, because they are fundamental.
Back in the Air: WWII Hawker Tempest
Is it a game engine or more focused on just rendering graphics?
Riches of America can be traced back to some Europeans getting lot of land by killing all the natives and then getting slaves as cheap labour.
It's not yours to decide what other people do. It's insane that you are trying to make an argument against forcing someones will on one another by offering a solution that is basically forcing your will on others.
Many Canadians became wealthy via the housing market. Effectively drawing wealth from the mortgaged future potential income of Canada's young first time home buyers.

Or, just running STRs in the big cities.
I don't think it's responsible to replace http/1.1 with either of these protocols. They both seem like complex beasts with poorly understood corner cases and little consideration for the abuse potential.
Do you have any guess how long it will take to break even? Presumably you charged some amount to spend a few days automating it and hopefully it frees her up to do something more valuable for the company.

Sometimes the reason things aren't automated is because there isn't anything more valuable for that person to do so automation doesn't have a positive return on investment.
Variable diameter pigs exist. For blood vessels you would want a nano-pig with an “iris” kind of mechanism which moves to match the vessel diameter.

https://www.pigtek.com/products/dualmulti-diameter-pig/
I made a tiny little script and used it analyze your profile with chatgpt it says the same. :>
Depends on context. The difference between 10^34 and 10^35 is the difference between a baby and a full-grown adult in planck sizes. For a more relevant example, a terrabyte is an unit we regularly work with that is ~10^18 bytes and an order of magnitude difference is still quite impactful (this is fewer orders of magnitude than your example, to be fair, but more than the original correction).
They are so far away now that you need a massive amount of radio power and a properly large dish to communicate with a SNR good enough for the onboard system to receive your transmission.

Right now I think the only dish in the world setup with the correct equipment to signal the Voyagers that is large enough is the Deep Space Network dish in Canberra, Australia.
Adjacent bands overlap all the time.
Dark Emu was caught misrepresenting these primary sources. Pascoe is a conman.
Just have more nanobots guarding the brain blood vessels and breaking up any big bits?
Maybe, but I'm not sure everyone has the inclination to become a programmer.

And the whole thread was about how computers should work for everyone, including this lady whose job could be automated.

Which begs the question: do most people actually want general purpose computing? Or does the average human prefer "apps"?
Yeah it can be done, but it's not completely unproblematic.
> If the result shows an infant, or a person in a business attire in front of a glass building, or a construction worker, or someone competing in a bike race, how would we know they're "Mexican"?

If you asked an AI image generator for "a Mexican" and got back someone standing while wearing a biking suit (but with no bike in sight, mind you), do you need to know that the person in the image is Mexican? Do you need to verify by doing a visual check for stereotypical features?

Or would it be good enough for you to just believe that the AI gave you "a Mexican" and hence accept the image as a valid answer to your prompt?
In game dev updating the engine is not an easy task. You could easily end up supporting multiple games on slightly different versions and need them all installed side by side. Unreal and Unity expect side by side installs as well. As for the exact implementation, I can't really speak to that.
They’re a really small company and lean heavily on their sibling company 8bitdo for some bits. Getting the FPGAs is the problem generally, and the same reason why it’s hard to find a mister. They usually similar chips too.

The size of the company also explains the support issues.
Tried seeing how small of a program I could fill the screen with. Came up with this, but feels like there has to be a more elegant solution ^^;

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GCP also has a hosted vector db
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/vector-search/overvi...
Have you tried Landrace gardening? Maybe you just need to adapt the seeds to your local conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox

& that isn't the point of the lawsuit, I think the point was more that Google misrepresented to her that she'd get paid more than she did after some period of employment and she also believes that there is a gender aspect to that. It isn't reasonable to tell a company that your interpretation of their policies is more correct than theirs.

IMO someone is born yesterday if they buy the "we're not going to agree to that wage now but we will in a while" line from a corporation, but whatever.
As a counterpoint: https://xkcd.com/795/
This is a major pain point with dealing with Stripe. If you want to write a record in your local db (to record a cancellation), then call the stripe api to say cancel a subscription, if the api call fails, you can rollback your db changes by failing the transaction.

If the api call succeeds, but your transaction fails to write to the db and rollsback, then what?

You then have to rely on the Stripe webhooks to "sync" your local db state with what stripe has, oh but don't forget stripe webhooks don't have any guaranteed order in which they are delivered, so just ignore all of the event data, you have to fetch the current state of the stripe object your event is associated with and make sure the handling of these events are idempotent.

It's not wise to rely solely on Stripe being the source of truth, but there is no way to really implement 2 phase commit with external services like this. Maybe you fire off an event into a pubsub or queue to handle the actual writing to your db, but what if the webhook gets to your service first?

Shit is hard.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238376 - Feb 2021 (218 comments)
Related:

22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36690206 - July 2023 (3 comments)

22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043719 - Jan 2022 (335 comments)
Who said anything about her becoming a programmer?

An interior decorator, or a gardener, or a nurse aide, or a yoga instructor, or a nail technician: they all add more to human welfare than this task.

If she wants to become an architect, or a water system engineer, more power to her!
I can't say I've ever considered the ratio of gut bacteria to human cells in my life. I find it difficult to imagine this consideration is itself very prevalent outside of people who are particularly neurotic about gut bacteria.
O-oh, thank you! :)
I don't like the idea of people being scared of RSS. Why drop something like this? If someone has really good ideas i'd like the option to get notified in a simple feed.
why is this even the headliner complaint?

Post-launch embargoes to deceive consumers about actual performance is a MUCH bigger deal.
I'd caution against holding a transaction for the duration of an API call to a foreign system. API calls can take a very long time, especially if you are retrying on timeouts. Long lived transactions are dangerous, because it prevents you from releasing locks, which interferes with concurrent transactions and with vacuuming. I've seen it bring down production before.

Consider for example the following scenario; you are experiencing higher than normal load, leading you to send a lot of requests to this other system. Their scaling is flawed, and your traffic actually brings them down. This leads to timeouts and long transaction times. Now you are holding lots of locks for a very long time, and you database is under a heavy load - you're now in danger of overloading your database and going down.

I'd suggest commiting a record representing your intention to integrate with this other system, executing your API call, and then updating your state (assuming the call is successful). (For the example above, circuit breakers would also be an important mitigation.)
How will states pay for roads when gas taxes evaporate?
In this scenario, she had plenty of other high-value work to perform if she never had to do this again.

Which is the other side of the coin of the ubiquity of this problem -- modern businesses are so optimized on the people side that roles are collapsed down to 1-2 people, and therefore those people inevitably catch "oh, and also do this" could-be-automated work.
I think the latter, since you can only reduce the pressure to the vapour pressure of the fluid. You get more bang for your buck pushing than pulling.

Also the pressure can generally be raised above the design pressure for short periods, pipes are generally hydro tested at 125 - 150% of the design pressure.
yeah I always found it a little counter intuitive how eating bacteria would be good for my gut insofar as most the GI tract is meant to be major gauntlet for bacteria.

But I get dodgy IBS-like issues eating spicy food but consuming fermented foods in proximity really helps settle the stomach. ie Kimchi affects me less than other spicy dishes while eating natto after having a lot of spice can really help. Ditto for yoghurt but I'm lactose intolerent and so many lactose-free yoghurts are full of crap
Home Depot's $300 Skeleton Filled a Market Need
You see this in manufacturing as well. You’d think robots would be everywhere but often, like way more than you’d imagine, it’s cheaper to hire a human to do it.
How do you think living in balance with the environment looks? It's essentially food equilibrium, as everywhere else in nature. Dry year = death.

Also they were eel traps, not farms or factories, were only available to a miniscule fraction of the tribes and they still were in equilibrium with eel supply.

Agricultural Revolution is not called revolution for nothing, that's basically when human population started growing after millennia of stability caused by equilibrium with food supply (aka hunger).
TL;DR: In a set amount of time, there will be an affordable mini-itx board with a powerful RISC-V processor.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the Climax Mine from the late 1800s?
What does “liberally” mean here? Because without even looking at the code, I bet less than 5% of the code in quiche is unsafe. It’s probably about 2% or something. And remember, unsafe rust is still borrow checked and often run through Miri as well - which is crazy strict. Miri rejects a lot of correct programs.

There is no comparison with C, where trivial programs exhibit UB and memory unsafety all the time, and the standard library is covered in foot guns.

I really dislike the puritan wing of the rust community who see the unsafe keyword as some sort of blight to be excised. Unsafe is a necessary and important part of the language. It is needed for lots of reasons - like how you can’t make high performance container types in purely safe rust. Or to interact with code written in other languages.

Unsafe is not a devils mark. It’s a good and useful tool. Get over it.
Boffins bust previous FRB record with 8B year old detection
Many generative tasks like inversion/dreambooth/finetuning aren't inference.
What other governments have you interacted with recently?

My experience after living here for 5 years is that the Canadian and BC government deliver an incredible level of service compared to other jurisdictions I’ve lived in.
Ah, that's a good point too! :) And glad to know that my pronunciation EN-JINX has a more plausible and informative alternative.
Just going to toss in my own anecdotes but not so much productive but surprisingly inefficient. My current employer is currently contracted for the federal government and it's painful to do anything.

Just an example, I put in a request to order a $40 network module to replace a failed one. On our side it's already painful enough, I had to get approvals from 3 different managers that have to align all of the budgeting before bringing it forward to the federal government's representative for approval. The rep in tern has to bring it to his bosses for approval as well.

Typically this takes 12 weeks but this was put in as a critical priority because this was impacting about a hundred people. Probably costing the federal government (cause they're footing the bill) about $12,500 a week in lost productivity because our teams can't do their job properly. Thus their director got to it in a blazing fast 4 weeks.

$40 part. $50,000 in lost productivity because they couldn't get a $40 approval for done faster then 4 weeks.

The other anecdote I've had is with the Canadian Firearms Center in Miramichi. For those that are unaware, Canadians are required to be licensed under a federal program to own a firearm privately. Miramichi handles much of the paperwork for firearms registration. This was a while ago but last time I saw, they were still manually entering in data from paperwork but also from electronic submission as well. Stuff that could be readily automated and something I demo'd in an afternoon.

As it turns out, the inefficiency is intentional because there's a very real fear among the line staff of job reductions if they get too productive per person. And there's not many jobs in Miramichi that pay as well as the federal government (or at least that was the case when I was visiting there probably 20 years ago). So unfortunately there is justification to be as inefficient as possible. But it's always left me wondering how much how much further this attitude extends to other government departments.
Which latest high quality AI models? MacBooks have unified memory which means they are well suited for running many of them. (As long as it's the 16GB+ models.)
Personally I can't. Amazon comes across to me as having a toxic work environment. I'm super wary of them bringing those habits over. Yeah. I stay clear of ex Amazon folks, especially those with long tenure there
Sounds like the succinct answer here is "at gunpoint".
Has this been tried before?
Startup CTO’s Cheatsheet.
For one thing you can use the H100 to heat a room - it uses more than 10x the power of an M2 Ultra.
Apple spends over $20 billion a year on R&D.
>ell... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who've never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..

In all fairness, isn't that a legitimate reason? If you could make a very comfy life and retire early I think many would be entrepreneurs would take the easy way out. Of course, some want the big cash out or strongly believe in their mission, but many people are there for the money.

Of course, I can't verify if wages in Canada are indeed "too well. Seems like an outdated statement if the economy up there is anything close to the US's. Legitimate reason with incorrect data is simply a misguided take.
These excerpts read like the ultimatums of a deeply insecure partner. The bizarre demands and their the defensive pretexts...like, you ok Twitch? You shouldn't control what someone does with others. You definitely shouldn't stalk them to see what they're doing without you. That's abusive behavior, Twitch. Placating jealousy doesn't preserve relationships, it destroys them. If you don't want to drive people away, work on yourself, Twitch. I recommend seeing someone. This isn't healthy.
It's because that's the storage writes and repair parts availability lifespan.
I regret the way I phrased it. it's snarky and not in the spirit of curiosity, but I do think it's worth discussing that the author thinks that most programmers know how a CPU works
In fairness, it's a great example. Moving money between accounts requires updating the state of at least two records. Moreover, nearly everyone working with databases has one or at least understands how a bank account should work. And as far as relevant examples go, I can't think of anything else where the correctness of the operation is quite as critical.
Jansen's Linkage
Agreed! The article would be stronger if it didn't conflate environmental pollution issues (covered by subsequent EPA approvals) and conveniently leave out corporate taxes.

If author thinks royalties should be imposed, make that point! But don't handwave at 'all the bad stuff THEY do' as justification.

> Then, as now, corporations could pull unlimited quantities of minerals from their claims without paying a cent of royalties to the minerals’ actual owner — the American public. This amounts to a subsidy of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, mostly to multinational corporations.
RAG for Medical Research
It's not out of the goodness of their hearts - it's law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_reclamation
on one hand, Keju serves as a social mobility mechanism. One the other hand, it's hides an overall bigger problem: monarchism with too much centralized power.
> It's generalized because that's what you asked for. If it was the other way around and a prompt for "Nigerian person" would return an image of a person from one specific group then these people would complain that "not every Nigerian is Igbo. The other groups are being marginalized by AI."

Is there a problem with returning a member of a subgroup? As long as the AI model tends to invoke a different subgroup of "Nigerian" every time someone prompts with just "a Nigerian", then people can simply generate multiple images and pick whichever one fits their purposes.

If you want a "generic" Nigerian person, then the AI model could also support a "generic Nigerian" prompt. But just "Nigerian" could default to showing an arbitrary leaf of the "Nigerian ethnic groups" tree. This is analogous to having to prompt for "Igbo Nigerian" in order to get "Igbo Nigerian".
"Exploration" is just walking around and taking samples. The article says at the point they want to actually open a mine they have to get environmental approval.
WA state law is really quite employer and landlord friendly.
Macros are generally locked down in enterprise network environments due to the risk of acting as a malware vector.
If you go looking in LAION it's often complete garbage. I think people underestimate how bad it is, and aesthetic finetuning does somehow fix it but not by writing better captions.

(How does it work? Beats me.)
The way fertility rates are going, not for much longer.
For anyone interested in the "critical" aspect mentioned by h0l0cube, please consider also reading "Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate" by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe.

Peter Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist (>50 years); Keryn Walshe is an archaeologist (>35 years). Peter Sutton in particular has spent large amounts of time living with indigenous people in the far north. Their book describes many deficiencies in Dark Emu, and also gives a huge amount of interesting information about how aboriginal people lived, and the way they curated the land and the food resources available to them.

https://www.amazon.com/Farmers-Hunter-gatherers-Dark-Emu-Deb...
It is the Climax mine. No it's not from the 1800s, and it's still in operation. It has absolutely demolished that section of the mountain range.
I'm interested too. What protocol are you working on, if you don't mind sharing?
> We are content to own a house and go to Mexico.

But isn't housing ridiculously expensive in the parts of Canada where jobs are concentrated (which I'm pretty sure are around Toronto and Vancouver)? Pardon me if wrong, I'm American ;)

For the record, I want those things too, it's just that housing in California is ridiculously unaffordable
Victoria is also the most expensive city in Canada, which - reading the accounts of low pay in this thread, make it seem out of reach for most Canadians.
IIRC, Excel uses floating point for calculations, so they're not wrong.
It's still basically a join. If it's on a computer, it can be converted to text files, and then it can be JOINed, one way or another.
> Critically, still running visually on her machine, and with internal resources for lifecycle support if the process changes.

That's such an elegant and perfect solution. She keeps track of what's happening, it all runs through her GUI so worse* case scenario she does it herself again, and she can get help if/when she needs it.

* actual worse case would be the script going berserk, but as she's not the one who wrote it, she should be shielded from the blame if that ever happens
It's okay to be racist and sexist as long as it's in the "right" direction. This is standard-issue morality in California and it applies to absolutely everything including hiring and the courts.
Unless you want a yacht or find every other option so miserable/impossible, why would you be an entrepreneur?

It’s a lot of work and there’s plenty of money to be made as a corporate drone.
I had a bad experience with the project's authors pricing (not openfaas), lost respect for Alex after that.
This assumes that the same barriers are being put up in front of all candidates, no?

Which the lawsuit we are talking about explicitly alleges is not the case.
It's a tradeoff, taanstaafl etc.
“But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence. Cox didn’t even show up in costume until the fourth episode.”

Why they ever thought that was a good idea….
The article would be stronger if it stuck to one issue. Is the problem the clean-up, the fact that there's little environmental oversight when exploring, or the fact that the there should be royalties? They've conflated so many issues and didn't give any specifics. How does exploring negatively affect the environment? What does reclamation look like today rather than the 1800s?
There's a ton of of dev boards out there, but I would say to be sure to get something with hardware buttons and LEDs, as it really helps with some of the Hello World level of things, and many of the cheapest options won't have those.

I started messing with FPGAs with the DE0-Nano, but eventually got so frustrated with the tiny buttons that I upgraded to a DE0-CV, which I really enjoyed my time with. It has some 7 segment LEDs, physical switches, and buttons, and it also has a VGA port, PS/2 port, and Micro SD card slot, so you can build a pretty snazzy little PC if you want to.