skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat story. Agreed that animals are already communicating without some kind of newfangled AI. But also most meat consumption isn’t roadkill and doesn’t involve reasonable conditions for the animals while they’re alive. I see it as a big spectrum with factory farming on one side and {insert better conditions farm} on the other, and it seems worthwhile to move things to the right side of the spectrum.
I have a similar 'rule of crowds' - for any group over three, their collective intelligence drops by 1/3rd for every person added.
Not that I disagree, but can you say more about Xi?
Maybe a generation thing, I remember reading Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book and learning a lot about cycle eaters in the CPU.
It was two months ago. The tech industry definitely was not hiring like crazy. But I started laying the ground work for leaving Amazon the day I got hired. It was AWS ProServe - the consulting division.

Companies are always hiring. They were hiring in 2000 (I looked for a job then. But I accepted a counter offer). It was hiring in 2008. I found a job in two months and it was hiring two months ago.

Focus on creating an “unfair advantage”.

1. I got on to a high profile open source project and stayed on it until it became a more official “AWS Solution”. In still high on the list of contributors for both code and the documentation. This actually led directly to my current job. The company I was hired for uses the solution.

2. I found out the process to open source my own work and get it published to the AWS Samples GitHub repo. I went through the open source process for every piece of code I wrote after removing the proprietary customer specific parts. I had an open source portfolio that I could say was being used by real customers. I’ve used two of those projects at my current job (legally - MIT licensed by AWS)

I still have one of the two only public solutions to automate deploying one complicated AWS service. I volunteered to design the solution for the service team when they had the APIs it for it in beta and I worked with the guy that created Terraform support for it.

3. I responded to every recruiter over the last three years and kept in touch with former managers and coworkers. This led to an offer of a full time job that I didn’t accept and a side contract I did accept.

4. I constantly kept my resume up to date and I used the leveling guidelines to word it. I also have a career document.

5. I used the extra money I was making to pay off debt, save and “decontent” my life so if necessary, I could go back to enterprise CRUD compensation without having to hold out for BigTech level compensation. I actually turned down a chance at a job that would have paid more than I was making. I didn’t want the stress.

A former coworker is a director of a well known (non tech) company and he was willing to create a position for me overseeing the entire AWS architecture and their transition effort. I really didn’t need to stress.

I’m building out a much smaller “center of excellence” now and it’s rough enough.

6. I kept my LLC active all three years just in case I needed it to ramp up a solo consulting business. I used it for the side contract I mentioned that I started the day I was left (in addition to the full time job I got two weeks later)
Mostly correct. Radio, satellite, and internet all pay different kinds of royalties at different levels (or used to, last I checked). I believe radio only pays the songwriters/publishers, whereas [streamer] might’ve also paid the performers.

This is also different than how individual companies - say Spotify - pay for content via direct deals.

I’m also confused because Pandora is ad-supported and generated ~1B per year, but the numbers here are low. But that may be captured in some other metric.
> This is flatly untrue - and begs the question, have you ever actually used a library? Or a librarian?

Yes, I've been to a library. When I go, the librarians tend to look up what's available on... the internet. So, prior to the widespread use of the internet, their ability to look up information was severely limited.

You're wondering if I've ever been to a library. I'm wondering if you understand what a monumental shift the internet was.
Try this on: "A non-trivial number of Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and hobbyists have ..."

Took some philosophy courses for fun in college. I developed a reading skill there that lets me forgive certain statements by improving them instead of dismissing them. My brain now automatically translates over-generalizations and even outright falsehoods into rationally-nearby true statements. As the argument unfolds, those ideas are reconfigured until the entire piece can be evaluated as logically coherent.

The upshot is that any time I read a crappy article, I'm left with a new batch of true and false premises or claims about topics I'm interested in. And thus my mental world expands.
CPUs are PPUs too
V1.1.5 of Hetzner-k3s (my Kubernetes installer for Hetzner Cloud) is out
The new release introduces more customisation options for cluster/service CIDRs, cluster DNS, updated manifests for CSI/CCM/autoscaler, and a couple of improvement for creating large clusters. Check it out at https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

If you are already familiar with this tool, I'd love to know how it's worked for you so far. :)
Fair question so I upvoted.

Your life experience may well be very different than mine.

My first memorable taste of freedom in a public space as a child was in a library; my parent left me in the kid section and I was so happy about that, exploring the space and the books.

I have not stopped feeling joy and wonder upon entering a library. So much potential! So much to explore! Public libraries allow me and my family to access so many more books than we can reasonably pay for, paid for collectively with tax money, which benefits so many people: job training, access to educational and entertainment media, access to a public restroom, access to a librarian who can help answer questions, and a generally calm and quiet space to simply exist.
If that's the typical performance on fizzbuzz, I can't even imagine what the performance would be like on more advanced questions.
Study explores ways to make PVC windows warmer and add recyclable components
Most people just aren’t philosophical about their dining habits or their pets. Both are mostly cultural things. In an alternate reality, pigs would’ve been bred to be pets and dogs would’ve been bred to be livestock. Or maybe both would’ve been pets or both would’ve been livestock. Either way, it took thousands of years for us to get to the point where we are where dogs are pets and pigs are livestock, and you can’t easily undo that on a global scale by saying “pigs are smart and sentient so we shouldn’t eat them.” I wish we could, but that’s just not how cultural change happens.
The rules were changed that you are a rule-breaker now.
> By default, materialized views in PostgreSQL are not automatically refreshed. If the underlying data changes, the materialized view remains stale until it's refreshed.
If anyone is interested in new projects for N64 hardware, Kaze Emanuar has an amazing series about optimizing Super Mario 64 to run incredibly complex romhacks on original hardware.

Interestingly, SM64 is usually throttled by memory speed. This means that using 'inline' is detrimental to performance, since making the program larger can cause another read from memory.

Here's an overview video, he has many more specific videos about specific topics:

https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE?si=6yNnsTxOr7M5v4ub
I don't think it's as simple as that.

I agree that one should not take something like this lightly. Far, far too many "refactorings" really just boil down to hasty rage-coding at some predecessor who had differing stylistic opinions, or keeners who've never heard of Chesterton's Fence getting frustrated with some annoying design element they don't understand.

But also, sometimes the code really is tangled and difficult to maintain, such that it's difficult to make any modifications without introducing regression defects.

Concrete example: I recently did a refactoring of a piece of code my team maintained that was so extensive that, by the final iteration, it was arguably a rewrite. The old code was sprawling and complex, could basically only be comprehended by the staff engineers, and tended to be ground zero for defects. The new code is much smaller and simpler, and easier to modify, and every single member of the team is comfortable reading it.

- but -

I only did this after months of careful observation, quietly building a case for the change and a plan for how to do it. This process included interviewing everyone I thought might know anything about this module, including folks who had moved on to different teams, to make sure I understood as much as possible of what was there and why it was built that way. I discussed my plans with them and sought (and, ultimately always got) their blessing. And then I spent more time bolstering the test coverage, including hunting for edge and corner cases that the existing test suite had missed, when necessary, adding additional tests that did not depend on this module's implementation details so that they would not be broken by the refactor. And then, when I finally did do the actual refactor, I didn't do it all at once. I broke the work into many small, carefully controlled iterations.
Hoppy Beer Could Be Climate Change's Next Victim
Sorry, but, what? The party not wanting to pay for content and the party wanting to proceed with assassinations are one in the same. And the latter translates into pressure against the former. So I'm not sure how you think there are two things here that can be taxonomized into independent issues that don't touch each other.

Edit in response to the reply: presumably it's the Chinese market that is not interested in paying for content that criticizes them. But if you want to make this about Apple, then I just reiterate that the parties in this case are entangled in ways that can't be coherently taxonomized into independent subjects that are understood as being completely unrelated to each other. If a company bringing shows to market in a country, and the countries willingness to assassinate critics, are subjects you view as unrelated, then, to use your term, our models of the world are probably too different to productively communicate.
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Was it immediately after the procedure, or later on? It has been several years in my case.
I'm okay if "every" just means "most"; for example Spolsky's old "what every developers needs to know about Unicode" (which is the origin of this, AFAIK) is fine because most (but not all) developers will need to deal with text sooner or later.

But in this case it doesn't even mean that: all of this applies to a substantial minority of programmers, but definitely a minority.
I was a vegetarian for over 20 years, then I got a highly intelligent dog, who spent years trying hard to convince me to eat (more) meat!
I would respect the wishes of any animal that can say "Please don't eat me"
For years, Gao Kao has been the only route for tens of thousands Chinese people in poverty to change their fate. It’s interesting if we can run an metaverse simulation one day to see whether the system in US will produce better or more fair results for poor people
What It's Like to Grow Up in an Israeli Settlement – Op-Docs [video]
Several years passed and nothing changed. Only one eye was operated, the other one is fine.
Bigger the organization bigger the tendency towards corruption. Think of it in economical terms as a bigger payoff potential. It's cheaper, more effective and safer to buy a few key bureaacrats in Brussels than do the same for each country. The cherry on top is that other countries outside EU will use EU as a justification to adopt similar legislation.
Can fellow readers make a short pitch regarding why someone who is not familiar with Oberon would be interested in it today (other than historical curiosity)?
You are conflating and confusing several different things, including what operating systems even had a terminal paradigm. Windows NT started out with a "console" paradigm, like OS/2 before it, not a "terminal" one. And command processors like CMD are not what provide the "console" parts of those systems.
The only generous interpretation I can see is that Aronofsky uses extremely innovative techniques yet has long publicly voiced that he prefers to use analog film.
For instance some of his signature style is short shots taken with cameras mounted on actors in dark conditions which vastly easier to realize with digital yet he has repeatedly chosen to use film.
Whilst it is perfectly consistent that what would change his mind is an extremely powerful digital camera; it is also possible that the resulting PR spin causes some frustration to a generation of professionals who have been working in digital for 20 years and not been given shiny 18K cameras to play with.
>Isn’t sales a numbers game for the most part?

At some level. But numbers aren't created equal and sales reps aren't usually supposed to be calling numbers out of a telephone book. Depending on the type of sales rep, they're hopefully reaching out to people who have been qualified to some degree. The email I got from a sales rep at my own company on Friday afternoon asking for a call about my requirements? That wasn't a well-qualified lead for whatever reason. (Not their fault; I'm sure they're just working from a list.)
The problem with this specific instance is that the images generated mix and match characteristics that are unique to those ethnic groups. So the models are reducing real ethnic differences to simple stereotypes. In other words, the models are wrong, and wrong in ways that eliminate diversity.
Where are notes stored? Who can access them? Are they encrypted on disk?
Twizy's doors don't have glass windows, so you will get wet in it. Also, it doesn't have heating (or cooling), so in terms of thermal and rain comfort, it's closer to riding a motorcycle than driving a car.
Yes they are just that, but you should not say it out loud, otherwise the people that like to say that those projects are "economically viable" may get upset.
Have you ever tried to explain key distribution/management to a normal person?

You should try it sometime.
If anything my appetite for shark fin becomes righteous considering the amount of lives I save.
It's like Mark Twain said: philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich.
Slightly entertaining riff on the Logo concept, not sure there is much to discuss here? "If you liked this, you might also like":

Logo in Javascript! https://github.com/bztsrc/jslogo

A Lispy Logo! https://github.com/fmgilham/lisp-logo

Everyone's favorite! Haskell! https://github.com/Kanna19/Logo-with-Haskell

So, I guess there still is an opening for WASM-via-Rust? Seems like a guaranteed shoe-in for the HN frontpage, that one...

[And, oh, apparently we need yet another re-submission of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065 -- that one has more comments, so feel free to redirect your adoration there]
Genrating Trees and Other Interesting Shapes with L-Systems
Sorry for the naïve question, but why would I need this when most apps are distributed on Google Play? Are a lot of FOSS developers publishing on F-Droid instead of Google Play because of disagreements about Google's TOS?
I would probably take an ax to AI and go back to eating my burger. This reminds me of the ending of the fly. "kill meeeee"
HN has hugged it too hard. archive mirror link: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ultrafp64.com
> what is immoral about that?

Nothing, like all the other under terrible conditions mass produced meat that makes up 99.99% of the rest of the consumed meat.. ehrm no wait what? Who asked about that anyway? A bit off-topic ;)
You're citing a decline in gas stations that happened during a period where EVs' share of new vehicle sales went from being nonexistent to, at the very tail end, low single digits. So, obviously other factors were driving that trend, and unless you want to claim that gas sales were trending toward zero even in the absence of any alternative, I think we have to assume that the gas sales industry was continuing to meet consumer demand in spite of said decline. If anything, that tells me it will be more robust to EV encroachment, rather than being at some kind of tipping point where it's poised to collapse overnight despite the fact that the vast majority of vehicles on the road today run on gasoline.

The analogy with smartphones is also not a very convincing one, because a smartphone is a fundamentally different (vastly more capable) product than a flip phone. A current-gen electric car is just a car, with some advantages and some disadvantages that will each matter more or less to you depending on your circumstances.

I don't really have any reason to doubt mainstream EV market share predictions, which IIUC have them at about 50% new vehicle sales share nationwide in 2030, and I expect that will make it harder to buy gas, probably much harder in certain locations with above-mean adoption. But projections like that need to be (and I presume are) based on more than what you're offering here.
I'll tell you after this juicy steak is devoured.
This makes some amount of sense: generative AI is _very_ expensive.

But generative is only one class of AI workload; predictive/inference is probably what the tensor is used for most. I would not be shocked to find out that the "find object in this photo" part of magic eraser worked on device but the "figure out what to put in picture after object removed" bit is done server side.
And there's now a Modula-2 front-end for GCC:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gm2/
Why should we lower the bar on AI models to your superficial understanding of Indian culture?
How much CO2 does plastic production release compared to other materials?
That’s kinda mean
Then it is even less so when it is a route a screenwriter or author placed as the only possible route that could ever be taken for all time.
Picking an example from the remaining 5% does not contradict the parent's point.
US mortgage rates have hit a two decade high of 8%
Hilariously.

Now, rather than using humiliation as part of your handbook, please do not just cherry-pick a counter-example. It’s always mockery that you people are using, not reasoning, not rationality, not taking interest in your enemy’s argument, not taking empathy to understand why would someone ever be doubtful/hateful about the EU, no, just otherise “it”, consider it as an enemy, to take down at all costs, put it on the other side of the fence on a stake, and laugh at him.

And then you take a high air when people get harassed into submission.
> I've definitely seen devs assume too much needs to be done

Absolutely this, and managers and pseudo-managers like product owners, business analysts and full-time scrum masters do too. I see a lot of weird requirements, often technical in nature, that nobody actually asked for, it was just a long string of people who just assumed. Like an infinitely scalable microservice architecture with a full SPA just to let a dozen internal users download some data as an Excel spreadsheet.
Hey buddy are you food, have you got food? Rinse repeat.

Or, ahhhh go away. Run for the hills.

Or, what's with the lack of fur, what a freak.
How do you take these statements from the article?

[1] More recent literature demonstrates the political effects of Keju. In 1905, the Qing dynasty abolished Keju, dashing the aspirations of millions and sparking regional rebellions that eventually toppled China’s last imperial regime in 1911.

[2] A 2020 study shows that, for every doubling of successful Keju candidates per 10,000 of the population in the Ming-Qing period, there was a 6.9 per cent increase in years of schooling in 2010. [comparison shows a logarithm relation between Keju success and current schooling between regions.]

Wrt to [2]: there were only 260 regions, that period ranged over more than 500 years, and the correlation is not particularly good. It seems extremely improbable that all other factors have been excluded (it's just linear relations for a handful of numbers they could find). The logarithmic nature is counter-intuitive: since the exam was very, very selective, you would expect the reverse: a small increase in candidates passing requires many more students below that level, and thus a super-linear increase in schooling.

[1] sounds very far-fetched. The linked article is paywalled, but the jump from reducing fairly small hopes of fortune to revolution is too big to accept from statistics that sound similar to those in [2].

The author seems to use it as support for his argument, but in my view, it just turns it into a house of cards. I stopped reading after the second article. Do these things bother you?
Of course passively reading ChatGPT transcripts isn’t going to help you master math.

But equally problematic is the said roadblocks that - prior to ChatGPT - simply led many learners to stop learning. We finally have a mechanism to adjust difficulty level to the mastery level of the learner. This is fantastic.
It’s fairly simple to set up a basic helm chart around existent yaml specs, then progressive parameterization of that yields a nice managble object.
I actually chose "upper-middle class" rather than "ultra-wealthy" because if we take the ultra-wealthy to be the top 1% or 0.1% or smaller, there just aren't enough actual "ultra-wealthy" people to balance any significant budget by taxing them. Whereas the top 10% or 20% are numerous enough that you can collect serious revenue from them, consistently, and there are fewer ways to dodge that kind of tax.

Which, looping around, is precisely why the ultra-wealthy want to prevent anyone getting the idea of taxing the upper-middle class: that's what they mostly disguise themselves as for tax purposes.
"And can't afford it"

I do appreciate their efforts, but I bet that they decide who can and can't afford it, probably based on rigid criteria that inflexibly denies at least some folks in the middle who really can't afford it.

Edit: It is possible I am wrong, the Harvard website linked above at least gives the impression they work with folks in varied circumstances. My experience helping folks with aid programs has perhaps coloured my perspective on Harvards unfairly. I have no experience dealing with them. If you want to attend Harvard, by all means, please apply and give them a chance! It is worth the rhe shot.
Wikipedia isn't a primary source, and it needs to be verifiable.

So by definition it's not exposing any information you can't find in other public sources.

Whether it's notable and something that should be included is another matter.

In any case, I'm saying that if you look at the articles for Madonna, Bono, Jenna Jameson, Marilyn Manson etc. you'll find their real name displayed prominently.

We can't form our own opinion in this case, as the GP is deliberately keeping the specific article in question hidden.

But in general this seems like a thing two editors could reasonably disagree about.
Lobbying and fund-scamming are disproportionately done by major ISPs. Small, local ISPs are far, far less likely to have the resources to - 1) pull it off and 2) insulate themselves from the consequences.

The original parent comment was referencing a local ISP.
A development tool to make the development routine faster
EasyDev makes your development tasks more manageable by keeping everything in one place, preventing the need to hop between browser tabs.

It offers you:
- Base64 Encoding / Decoding
- JSON Beautify / Minify options
- Remove new lines from the text
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And more features are coming, to make your development phase easier and faster!

EasyDev has a very simple and intuitive UI without overwhelming you. And yes, it supports the dark mode
And cab drivers must still understand automobile manufacturing?
mirror: https://archive.ph/7KXgz
I can still hear “He was a drifter…” in my head.