skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically a bigger telescope has more throughput, right? It can expose the same spot for less time, then move onto the next observation.
Even all of that is on the wrong track. There is nothing that I can see anywhere about controlling an ATV with the homekit accessory protocol.
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Nah. The secret is that interviewing skills are almost orthogonal to real life skills. It doesn't hurt to have the know-how, the chops to do the leetcode problems but it's questionable if you will ever be able to use them in the real life (unless you do really specialized work - and at that point you will need to know way more).

So 1) don't feel bad. it's just like a muscle you don't normally exercise. Start exercising it and you will get better. 2) accept that this is part of our shifty industry - it is what it is. It's pretty dumb but you will have to go through this hazing ritual every time you get a new job.
Ok yeah let's avoid that bullshit then. The problem is there's enough leeway between the words that I could honestly say everything LLMs generate are representative of what most humans define as "genuine creativity" and I bet you that I can show you human art and computer art side by side and you'd be incapable of knowing which one is genuinely creative.

I hate pedantic vocabulary just as much as you and this is not the direction I want to take it. But that test I outlined above literally points out that there is no difference. What the LLMs output fits our definition of genuine creativity because you can't tell the difference.

In fact the word itself is the ludicrous thing here. You just made it up to differentiate AI art and human art, but in reality there is no differentiator it's one category with zero recognizable difference... the only actual difference is "what" created it.
> I am a Christian, so I'd like to briefly correct the ..

With no disrespect toward yourself, just a wry acknowledgement of a plain truth - the essential issue with <Some Text> as the external guidebook is that despite it being "conceited for anyone to believe they are the one" this is more or less the sharding issue of the many many many differing interpretations of (choose your own) <Some Book>.

I've travelled the world a lot in the past six deacades and lost count of how many clearly distinct groups of Christians I've encountered.

The Christian on Christian wars over differing takes on the same material have torn kingdoms asunder.
I dont know, it's pretty giant and would be difficult to display inside
Yeah, I'd say "if you use merge you're doing it wrong". Rebase + squash everything is the only way to go unless you're merging a giant feature branch in... and even then, try to avoid that.
i wonder if an apple air tag hidden in car would do same thing?
Scientist: Quantum physics can prove there's an afterlife (2013)
re3 is a very dubious legal case. They decompiled the game with debug symbols and then did a (aiui) non-clean room reimplementation of the code, based on the decompilation.

It is protected legal activity to decompile a binary and study the source.

It is protected legal activity to study some source code, describe it, and have someone who never saw the source reimplement the code described.

It is straightforwardly illegal to decompile source code, recompile it, and the distribute the recompiled binary.

re3 is somewhere between the latter two, and (again aiui from looking into it 2 years ago) they didn't have a clean room step.

It's probably a good thing no one will litigate it. It seems highly likely to be illegal and reasonably do. It would be a bad thing to spend money on.
Seems like he should just ask the seller to send a new batch, and this time be more careful to sharpie over the marks, seeing as its their screwup.
How to Lose at Generative AI by Sangeet Paul Choudary
startups will be particularly well-positioned to win in one of the following 3 scenarios:

Incumbent saas players do not have legacy workflow dominance in that vertical

An AI-native workflow solves the most critical creative use case (collapsing the cost of creation and gaining right to workflow away from incumbents)

AI acts as a co-pilot empowering the user to coordinate across multiple existing Saas workflows. This is a particularly interesting category and could help create the next big super-app, especially in B2B.

However, the majority of AI startups today fall outside these 3 opportunity areas.
The vendor lock-in I've seen isn't on the collection side, it's on the display and interpretation side, specifically the dashboard. Vendors offering tools to really slice and dice the collected telemetry and display it in visualization that wouldn't make Edward Tufte pull his hair out can make choosing vendor lock-in a serious option.
Building and granting access to a generative model is far more damaging to the market prospects of the infringed works, which is also a factor. Like…the whole goal is for it to be able to replace what humans do, which is about as market-damaging as I can imagine. I’m not a lawyer, though.
> Nobody is going to give these machines access to the nuclear launch codes

No, but they will empower the machines to help detect nuclear launches and the first time one of them issues a false positive we may be screwed.

Yes there will always be human oversight. No, there won't always be enough time to verify what the machine says before making a counter-launch decision.
Thank you. This is the main focus of our startup. So we will make this tool better and better. You can find more documentations and demos on our github.
Recall that their hand held communicators actually worked (the screen).
> I know so many poorly educated homeschoolers whose lives have been destroyed with no hope of recovery by the complete lack of skills their hyper religious parents imparted them with, in jail, broke, unable to hack it in college and too lacking in common sense to make it in the trades or professional work, with living standards insanely far below their parents.

As long as we're trading samples from a single observer's recollections: mine are different. I never homeschooled myself, but I had several friends in high school who had homeschooled until then who were well-educated, were in advanced science and math etc. They've been fine since then, too. Not all parents are good teachers, but many do quite fine.
Openmw is a clean room implementation. Bethesda could throw a legal fit regardless but it would be indefensible for them to do so.
What's in My Big Data?
I've been watching the Japanese anime 'Sousou no Frieren' lately, and at the same time, I've been reviewing the source code for Coraza. It suddenly struck me – isn't the magical world's barrier just like a web application firewall?

Then I decide to read some research on Cloud base WAF and write a simple blog for it.

https://www.supasaf.com/blog/general/firewall_kekkai
I will repeat this a million times on HN until I die - GDP PER CAPITA AND GDP PPP PER CAPITA IN ISOLATION ARE NOT RELEVANT METRICS TO USE FOR HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT.

They are productivity metrics (as in how much shit can country X produce versus country Y). Per Capita literally means total population, so GDP Per Capita is (Total Production in USD) / (Total Population).

Yet we all know there is no society in the world where every man, woman, and child earns the same exact amount of money.

Use a mix of Gini coefficient, median income, health indicators, education indicators, etc to track development.
I was home-schooled and thought it was amazing. I then studied education and worked as a public middle school teacher. I definitely will co-op or home-school my kids unless they want to go to school.
Yes, this is absolutely key. Only one of the USB ports per machine supports this functionality.
Totally agree.
As someone who hates how commoditization already permeated everything in the West we're sadly in for many years ahead of cheap regurgitated knockoffs in practically every human output domain imaginable, pictures, music, literature.
All the while being told that what we were doing in these domains is 'just' this and 'only' that.
At the same time it is fascinating from a scientific perspective, when it lands in the same boat as you're sailing it becomes quite unsettling.
Perhaps we're going through something similar with computing today. More likely that we're in a brief summer than at the foot of perpetual growth.
I sold a townhouse in DC using a company that listed in the MLS for a flat fee (I think it was about $200). I held my own open house and got my target price from a buyer I met there. He did have an agent but I told them I wasn’t paying any commission. The agent thought I didn’t know what I was doing and tried to sneak a commission onto the sales contract. Typical real estate agent behavior. (I had sold and bought a few houses before, using agents, so I was familiar with the process, and aware that the agents added no value.)
>it mainly boiled down to me turning 30 this year, having an existential crisis questioning wtf I’m doing with my life

I cannot count the number of times I had various age-related crises. I’m in my 40s now and I’m starting to be a bit better about it. It’s not until you get a few decades into adulthood that you realize how young 20, 25, 30, 35 are. And I’m sure there are some folks in their 50s or 60s who will tell me that I don’t appreciate how young 40 is…
The statistic for companies that successfully emerge from Chapter 11 is pretty low. It's less than 10%.[1]

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4472388-what-is-chapter-11-...
I assume you mean this part:

> We will clobber any previously installed version of this package, even if it breaks whatever else is installed. It's the user's job to make sure that is all sorted out ahead of time.

But this is a `make install` recipe, and I think this is generally expected behavior when running that command. Typically, this would be run in a chroot when building a package.
I've talked to a lot of people coming out of coding bootcamps and I've also talked to or know quite a few who left the industry. I think the main issue is that you get tossed right into the grind after the camp, doing your sprints, being basically a high stress factory worker producing code as ordered. You never get to experience the joy of creation, experimentation, and you never get hired for less conveyor belt jobs due to the lack of interesting passion projects and things to talk about.
Construction is expensive because in large part we became a society of NIMBYs, especially when compared to other countries with high labor cost. At the same time, we're also wasting money on unnecessary infrastructure.

Labor costs are manageable by itself. But the sheer ineptitude, obstructionism, excessive goldplating, and changing your mind every five minutes is going to balloon project costs, especially when they're not routine affair.

At the same time, we're adding parking lots and expanding and adding additional roads. They're not really needed and contributed to excessive pollution, urban decay, and maintenance issues.
"They didn't act like they could do it all, overnight."

This is what companies have come to expect with DevSecOps.
Spot on, dopamine isn't addictive. It is the mechanism by which addictive behaviors are reinforced and ingrained into neural pathways. To say dopamine is addictive is akin to saying alcoholics are actually addicted to the processes of fermentation and distillation. Dopamine itself isn't pleasurable like many people believe. Robert Sapolsky states, "dopamine is not about pleasure, it's about the anticipation of pleasure; it's about the pursuit of happiness rather than happiness itself." [1]

GABA is an interesting candidate, but we must also consider the effects of endorphins, norepinephrine, oxytocin, endocannabinoids, and perhaps other amines as well. With sufficient release of certain neurotransmitters, there is likely a cascade effect where others are released in turn. It seems like any powerfully rewarding and pleasurable activity is going to cue the release of some or all of these neurotransmitters/hormones (the line between them can be blurry; under certain circumstances, neurotransmitters get dumped out of synapses and into the bloodstream to become hormonally active in the body).

Perhaps there is even some coding between different mixes of the above chemical messengers and the distinct subjective types of pleasure, such as deep satisfaction, social harmony, social ecstasy, family bonding, sexual release, elation over a personal victory, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrywDP9Ii0
Not having a detailed product spec is a much, much bigger problem when you can't change the product to fit your needs on a whim. Beyond that, there's a few layers between "software developer" and "regular people" that complicate your prediction.

While most developers don't hold interface designers in particularly high regard, honestly ask average people what they think of most developer-made interfaces and you'll find out the skill is a lot trickier than it seems. Most developers only think they know what developers do, but they're like many corporate workers see everyone from the head network architect to the community college desktop support intern as "computer people who can fix your email." Most think interface designers primarily work on aesthetics, but most probably aren't even invited to meetings about branding/visual aesthetic/etc...) Going further, many of those designers are savvy enough to write some basic code and likely bodge something into place, especially if they're using some kind of purpose-built interface that can handle things like data model consistency between builds.

It's a very unpopular opinion around here, but I think designers using the next generation of no-code tools will eat front-end and simple app developers' lunches and I think it will happen really soon. I'll bet teams at Wix, Webflow and other no-code authoring tools are working like mad to develop these tools right now, and I'll bet that's a hair's breadth from automatically generating electron apps from whatever users make there. If your specialty is code, and there are people with whole other useful skillsets that could passably approximate that capability with a few occasional hours from a contractor, the developer isn't going to be the one that still has a job.

While the demand for developers is still large, it's not infinite, and I look askance at assumptions that there won't be a really painful 'adjustment' for a lot of working professionals.
I click on “request phone support” and my cell phone rings within seconds of clicking that button.

I’m like, expecting to be able to take a decent piss before anyone gets back to me, and they call me and fully handle my problem before my bladder even gets uncomfortable: Now THAT is fast!

I once asked them why they were being so agreeable with such a bizarre return issue (I had gotten a book of children’s Christian devotionals instead of some male GFCI electrical plugs), and they told me that my issue history was “clean and green”, in that it was not excessive, and every issue had been legitimate and not linked to anything untoward from my end.
Oh, I personally know one.

He murdered an assistant professor because she had second thoughts about divorcing her husband when she was going to get a fat divorce check and it ruined his (the murderer's) dreams of training to become a pro golfer. He shot her, threw her body in a hole at a wildlife management area (they found her body after the police interviewed his father and discovered he had a life-long fascination with said hole), drove her car back to her apartment, and then took her credit card and ordered thousands of dollars worth of golf gear before driving to his parents' house 7 hours away.

This was a Catholic altar boy growing up. But Catholicism doesn't like mortal sins too much, so low and behold, his redemption streak began by becoming magically "born again" so that it would be rude for people to ask him questions about his obvious guilt. He's now a luthier and prayer leader at Angola State Penn in Louisiana... and as I've known the guy since I was in diapers, I know that he is categorically full of shit from the interviews I've seen.

I am friends with his sisters and didn't even realize he had a daughter who must have been a toddler at the time that he murdered that woman until I saw her in some of her LSU graduation photos. Didn't look like her aunts, and then I realized the child was the spitting image of her daddy. Sad that he robbed her of a dad over some childish bullshit.
The Rise of AI Compliance Officer
> Permissive western societies are outsourcing the job of perpetuating the population

Why does the job of perpetuating the population need to be done at all? At what levels? Why those levels? Does it matter where that population lives or their quality of life? Why or why not?
Sorry, it's actually https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr

I thought sk=h_chr was unimportant so I trimmed it off the URL before sharing. Turns out it's necessary.
Good catch!

I left Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin out due to the fact that they are governed differently than provinces, as they are under direct administration of the State Council and they are almost 100% urban. This makes them a bad comparison with Thailand as a whole. At a micro level, it might be interesting to compare BKK versus Beijing/Shanghai/Tianjin but Thailand allows free movement and domiciling, so it's not a great comparison.

> the question is if the poor parts have any low hanging fruit left to mimic the success of the earlier-developed and now high HDI areas, or have those fruit withered by now

It's a tough question and depends province to province. The provinces around Manchuria are probably all tapped out, but there might be some opportunity left in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guangxi, but local and mid-level governance in China (like other middle income countries) sucks.

I have written a lot about this in a previous life, but I'd rather not write a whole Econometrics white paper on HN
You need to read your catechism.

Catholicism absolutely has sins that are unforgivable.
This is one nice property of Apache Iceberg (a data lake format, built on top of Parquet). The schemas in the data are evolvable, and require both a name and a field ID to identify the field. The names are changeable, but the ID's are immutable, so you can remove a field, and add a new field by the same name, having a different type.
Well, that's an emotionally satisfying theory for some I'm sure, but one that requires evidence unless you're more invested in the ideology than the reality.
>Have someone take a picture of you, even incidentally in the background in public, and post it to Facebook? They're tracking you

I would agree this is a big deal if it's true but I haven't seen evidence of it being true.

The rest of your arguments ignore the human choice aspect. Facebook didn't come pre-installed on my phone, I don't think it came pre-installed on anyone's.

At the end of the day using Facebook is a choice. Nobody has to have Facebook. I get by fine without it, without instagram, WhatsApp any of it. These are things people willigly choose to use and give their info to.

I think your arguments have weight only if their users are unaware of Facebook selling data to advertisers. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that in 2023. I mean it's not just a choice it's an informed choice.
Is oxygen flammable? I’m pretty well-educated and that question gave me pause. I know oxygen is involved in the combustion process, so I think the answer is yes, oxygen is flammable. That feels like a trick question though.
Same. Changing my DNS server sometimes fixes it. 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 are now doing this for archive. I really, really hate this.
That's not exactly true. Using tracking pixels and third-party scripts and cookies, it's simple to track you as a unique entity. No logon necessary.

A step further- associating this entity with your identity is trivial with access to additional information. For example, a tagged photo or contact info uploaded by the friend or family member who uses the same networks or devices you do.

Maybe you have yourself sufficiently shielded and have excellent OPSEC. Can you reasonably expect the same from everyone else? Does not having the expertise to be as savvy as you justify being exploited?
They won’t die, just use their new skills to get it working with llama on lower cost hardware on prem.
I don't want to get into a descriptivist vs prescriptivist debate, but it's worth noting that if "everybody" is doing something wrong, then maybe it is the specification that is wrong.
> Thailand has a PPP of 3x China.

Where are you getting this? I'm no economist, but based on a simple search and data from wikipedia [1], your number seems wildly incorrect.

> However, the Chinese GDP number is widely known to be inflated

And BIS (Bank of International settlements) notes [2] "There are studies that contradict these results and find that the official data is roughly correct and may even understate the "true" economic growth (e.g. Holz, 2006a, 2006b; Clark et al., 2017a, 2017b; Perkins and Rawski, 2008)."

GDP is just one number that is inaccurate everywhere, it's more of a 'pulse'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
[2] https://www.bis.org/publ/work925.htm
Nice, one of the things I'm doing in my "spare" time is building a framebuffer that is driven by quad-spi on a ULX3S board. The plan is to have it act as a terminal with both a character mode, a vector mode (ala Tek4016), and a pixel mode using sixel graphics. Given that it is planned to be attached to a computer system as it's "visual output device" I really hadn't given too much thought to making it a standalone terminal but that would be an interesting application for it.
Your bias is showing in your omission of the main point (which is clearly stated in the post): they’re insisting she opens the door. The desire is for them to leave the food and then go away, so she can open the door to get the food. This is not the same thing as leaving it out in the cold, which implies they did not notify her it was there (so it sat outside for a long time).

This is not difficult to reason out, unless your initial inclination is to try to discredit the claim, which is exactly the type of treatment often raised on that sub).
That's what Regus does and they've been around for a long time.
The problem was that they pivoted from offering on-demand offices to long-term contracts with companies seeking serviced offices with easier exit clauses. That made it difficult for the occasional, not everyday user to secure conference rooms, offices, helicopter in, etc.
I doubt it’s a language or cultural problem.

The CCP just aren’t very nice people.

US politicians are taking advantage of the situation to score populist points at home - but their caution towards China isn’t totally unwarranted.
> AI acts as a co-pilot empowering the user to coordinate across multiple existing Saas workflows. This is a particularly interesting category and could help create the next big super-app, especially in B2B.

The 3rd opportunity will be very challenging to win given the size of the opportunity but roughly agreed that it's an opportunity
Until someone can prove that a deity exists, I don't have any need to go looking for one. Their absence in a world that cries out to them every day speaks volumes about their existence.
I played countless hours of Settlers 2 with two mice on split-screen with my friend on Windows 95.
I’ve had success a few times with flat fee agents. $1000 to sell plus the buying agents 2.5-3%. Their argument was compelling, it’s not as much work to sell a house in the Internet age.
I use Regus, they're awesome.
stop using MS products, then?
Just a reminder GPT-4 is almost 1.5 years old at this point (from before they started internal safety testing), and even the one we have is diminished from the first, uncensored version.
It was the top of my comment history, so I saw it, so I replied. The implication of clean hands was gross enough to merit pointing it out.