skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it happens (especially with smaller/cheaper properies) but haven't had this problem with hotels/B&Bs over many hundreds of nights over the past decade.
UV light for entertainment? What's the point?
Pro tip: definitely go through a tutorial when you first try to use inkscape, at least if you are like me with no previous vector drawing experience
Addons are coming for firefox mobile. If you can't wait, you can install any addon you want with firefox nightly.
Block lattice tech has been around for seven years. All your points would be answered by looking into it - it's not a secret.

Eg, Nano uses it. It's been working, efficient, safe, fast (<1 second) and completely fee-less, for seven years now. The entire network could run on a single windmill.

It's tending toward decentralization because there's no mining, no staking, and there was a genuinely fair distribution.

Fee-less transactions come with bad actors spamming the network with microscopic transactions, like a DDOS. So, Nano uses a 'bucket' system to keep things moving.

Tbh, this is exactly what I mean - all of this ought to be well known. People in general have a massive blind spot on what money actually is, and a weird reluctance to discuss what it could be. We're talking about all the crypto that doesn't work, so much so that people don't even know there's good and working crypto right now. We're talking about the scammers, instead of the people doing cool things without seeking glory for it.
It’s annoying when someone force pushes to a branch that you just reviewed, but you can no longer see the history so you have to scan through the whole PR you already reviewed looking for the change. Please just commit the fix, let me see it, then squash it.
GP didn't say they buy a new car every 10 years.
The assumption behind why you'd use the program is that you have access to a proprietary dataset of sufficient size to build a large model around (say, for example, call center transcripts). This almost certainly means OpenAI doesn't have access to train their other models off that data, and it almost certainly means your customers can't take the same data and go straight to OpenAI.

I'm assuming that the target customer of this is people whose moat is proprietary data. If their moat is a unique approach to building a model, then it would indeed be dangerous to engage OpenAI. But then I'd think OpenAI would be hesistent to engage as well.
I'm reading a book about electricity markets. Modeling electricity prices using a mean-reverting model with "jumps", exotic derivatives, etc. Pretty exciting stuff. Though you need a million dollars in liquid net worth to trade with any ISO so it's a bit out of my league. Really interesting author too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Mack

Am working on some large scale authorship attribution stuff on the side and have an Arty A7 that I want to make do something besides flash purple LEDs but I have some health bullshit that's killing my motivation. But I'm working on it.
Probably a silly question but I’ve always avoided looking at the source code for anything which I think might later want to implement myself. If I avoid others’ IP I can claim I wrote mine in a clean-room and license my code on my own terms.

The reason is that I believe if there’s even a whiff of me having seen someone else’s code then I can’t make any claim to the copyright and, in fact, they will claim it instead.

So then imagine if I put up a pull request to synapse with a feature or bug fix but — crucially — I do so without signing a CLA. Do orgs like Matrix employ PR reviewers who work in dirty rooms (opposite of clean room) to review these, shielding their core devs from the accusation that they are reading others code without a CLA to transfer the copyright?

An attack from a kind of Doctorow-esque scifi story: you publicly fix your competitors bugs for them without assigning copyright, tainting their dev pools’ ability to claim their own code was a clean room implementation.
It really is quite nice at this point.

Is there some way to export pure base SVG, without any of that stuff in the "inkscape" namespace that carries around page size and such?
Ah so one makes UV light just an innocuous, annoying purple and the other makes it like the inside of a tanning bed.
This whole smart contract stuff looks very interesting.

Do you have resources for someone that only know the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains ?
Just go through lists of recommended fiction and pick something that sounds interesting.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/wiki/books
> So, say, if I need to consult a physician I’m incompetent because I should be an expert at managing my health.

I’m talking about leadership here, not living your own life. Obviously you aren’t going to have the same expertise as your doctor. That’s why you shouldn’t be running a medical practice.

In reality, much of the health care system is managed by incompetent bean counting administrators rather than actual experts, and that’s a huge problem.

The other side of the equation is that, at least in my experience, the best doctors are the ones who encourage and enable me to become an expert in my own health. If a doctor isn’t able to explain things to my satisfaction, I’m reluctant to trust their judgment.

> I can’t just resign from having my house repaired because I’m “incompetent”.

Nor do you want to be the guy who takes his car in for an oil change and gets billed an extra $100 for “replacing the headlight fluid.” When it comes to house stuff, the professionals are going to be better equipped and able to do the work faster than you are, but the basic principles behind how your house works shouldn’t be total mysteries to you, and if you pretend that you never have to bother learning about that stuff, you’re going to get taken for a ride.

What I stated at the outset is that the best managers “develop expertise in everything they have to manage”. You’re obviously not going to start off with all that expertise, but that doesn’t mean there’s a substitute for developing it. The idea that you can come into a field you know nothing about with zero expertise and be an effective leader by “measuring outcomes” is a fantasy. If we want to measure outcomes, let’s measure the outcomes of that philosophy. How many manufacturing or tech companies that used to be run by engineers continued to be successful after they were taken over by non-technical MBA’s? How many astronauts have died because NASA management lacked the expertise to understand and appropriately respond to the objections of the engineers who reported to them? Are American universities more cost-effective now that they’re run by administrators than they were when they were still run by academics? Is medicine better when treatment decisions are made by physicians or by HMO bureaucrats and government regulators?
Switching from one API to another generally requires refactoring. I’ve not had much problems moving between LLMs (openai to Anthropic)
> - Corbyn rejected the internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance[4].

> [4] Politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics.

Sorry, is your citation for this point the Guardian's entire politics section? Four years ago that would have been pretty accurate, admittedly, but today, this is an absolutely non-serious thing to post.

In any case, it wasn't just Corbyn who opposed incorporating the IHRA definition into disciplinary rules, it was, amongst others, the guy who wrote it:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antise...
How does racism play into your situation? Small towns and Ukrainians have one thing in common: they are both white. I would think their race wouldn't be the deciding factor.
Trees are renewable. The mass of a tree comes from the carbon it extracts from the air. [1]

It's not a zero-sum, though. Why does my cilantro need to come in a plastic bag? At the farmer's market, it doesn't come packaged at all.

[1] And, fire is basically reversing the process - releasing the sunlight that created the plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
The "average guy" shouldn't be doing technical stage production.

You hire trained professionals for this kind of thing. There are literally entire companies who specialize in putting together these kinds of events safely, every single day.

A professional stage lighting designer or theatrical electrician would absolutely know that this is a risk.
> how involved the Stanford Law School professor parents of SBF were and still are.

My favorite SBF Dad anecdote is how his father was being paid $200k a year as a consultant for FTX but he wanted to be making $1million a year, so he CC'd SBF's mom when bringing it up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-1-mil...

> In the emails, per the lawsuit, Bankman told the company's US head of administration he was getting only $16,667 a month from the company when he was "supposed to be getting $1M/yr, starting in December," which "would be a bit more than $80,000 a month, gross."

> He then apparently took his complaints to his son, who cofounded the company and was its CEO, writing in an email: "Gee, Sam I don't know what to say here. This is the first [I] have heard of the 200K a year salary! Putting Barbara on this."

> FTX's lawyers then wrote: "In other words, Bankman lobbied his son to massively increase his own salary."

> "Bankman's influence paid off, not only for him but for Fried too," the lawyers continued.

> "Within two weeks, Bankman-Fried gifted Bankman and Fried together $10 million in funds originating from Alameda Ltd.

> "Within three months, Bankman-Fried caused the couple to be deeded a $16.4 million property in The Bahamas paid for with funds ultimately provided by FTX Trading. Bankman and Fried enjoyed the benefits of more than $90,000 in expenses, paid for by FTX Trading, for their Bahamas residence."

Give me a raise or I'll tell Mommy!
... unless you programmed in BASIC, where the line numbers enforced the sequence even if the cards were out of order.

My first programming class used a machine that duplicated the physical layout of the IBM keypunch, but had a 1-line vacuum fluorescent display, and stored the "cards" on an 8 inch floppy. It was edit-able! You handed your floppy to the person in the little room, and got back your printout later on.
We have that in Europe, it's called SEPA.
People in general just have no idea how much version control is able to do. For one example try running "git help log" and just tap page-down a few (dozen) times to get an idea what's in there.

For another example, you know how people hate aligning code vertically so much that linters don't allow it nowadays, the primary reason being that if you have to change the spacing then the diffs will identify far too many lines as having changed? Both git and svn have options to ignore whitespace changes:

git diff -w
svn diff -x -w
If you were wearing appropriate eye protection, this would not have been possible.
No, NFTs technically have nothing to do with images, or files at all. The way it works is that you write a random string and save it on a blockchain, which becomes the NFT. From there, you can use a lookup table to map the NFT to a URL that links to an image that's stored on the owner's server. NFTs are truly the worst of all grifts.
> they don't provide embedings, but storage and query engines for embeddings, so still very relevant

But you don't need any of the chain of: extract data, calculate embeddings, store data indexed by embeddings, detect need to retrieve data by embeddings and stuff it into LLM context along with your prompt if you use OpenAI's Assistants API, which, in addition to letting you store your own prompts and manage associated threads, also lets you upload data for it to extract, store, and use for RAG on the level of either a defined Assistant or a particular conversation (Thread.)
Didn’t we all do that :-)
You only get 80 characters for the title so I had to rewrite it to fit.
It doesn't have to be wild parties but even groups of friends looking for a weekend get-away where they maybe cook a meal or two and hang-out don't necessarily find long-term stay hotels ideal.
When will the cryptocurrency promoters understand that society doesn't want decentralization? People don't want scammers going around taking people's money without recourse, causing a burden on everyone else. They have explicitly entrusted governments to claw back ill-gotten gains. It is just a matter of time until regulations on on-ramps and off-ramps hits cryptocurrencies to the point where they have all the same regulatory costs as centralized ledgers with the additional computational cost of decentralized ledgers.
I don't know why you're taking this to such a personal level, but the images are clearly parody, so in no way illegal.
Amen.

Anecdotally, I have mostly stopped using AirBnB because I find hotels to be better now for most situations.

AirBnB hosts who fit the original archetype, people who are renting out their own homes for some extra money, tend to be great. But the ones who use it as a source of real estate revenue tend to be awful.
TIL "Audubon" is some guy's name. In retrospect pretty obvious, but as a kid I always thought it was some word with a very technical bird-related meaning.
To clarify, you mean treat sqrt(5) as a symbolic constant, and then expand out repeated multiplications of "a + sqrt(5)*b" to arrive at an expression with addition and multplications involving powers of a, b, and sqrt(5)?
I've always had a few issues with Airbnb -- never knowing if the place I've booked actually exists, the hard-to-navigate app and broken login system, and that one time the "host" kidnapped my wife and Airbnb support told her on the phone that if the police broke the door down she'd have to pay for it. (They did; she didn't. We used the eventual compensation credit to book an Airbnb in NYC which turned out to have not only a repossession bill on the front door, but also a condemned building notice.)

But. I did a work trip last month and stayed in apartments with my colleague. Half of the hotels (even airport hotels!) on booking.com wanted damage deposits up to $500, often in cash. So we exclusively used Airbnb and it was... perfect. The places were exactly as described, no bizarre demands, and the access/lockbox instructions and wifi codes were all in-app. The hosts were clearly all pros, and it showed.
For me it works in Chrome but in Firefox I get endless captchas.
> Then consider how many totalitarian states today are using IBM computers to track their population

Nah, the CIA, NSA only uses IBM mainframes to administrative tasks like payroll.

For all the tracking and spying their own population stuff they use linux like the rest of us.
Green lasers. Not the first time ive seen this sort of thing. Green lasers are made by running an IR laser through a crystal that doubles thier frequency, shifting IR into what we see as green light. But go cheap on the crystal and a green laser pumps out invisible IR possibly in a slightly different direction than the visible beam. Your eyes dont even blink because they dont see the IR. You dont notice the damage and simply think it a headache.

See an eye doctor asap and tell them you were exposed to a high power green lasers. They cannot fix things, but better you learn about any new blind spots before you drive a truck.
People fall for fake news when they get their news from very few or only one source.

The more and varied sources for news that are used, the less likelihood of people falling for fake news.

If you look at US-based news sources only, you will receive only US-biased news. If you look at Chinese-based news sources only, you will receive only Chinese-biased news. The same thing applies for news sources from Europe, Africa, Middle-East, Russia and India.

By sourcing news from world-wide sources, you will get a much broader set of news stories. Many of those stories will cancel out most biases, leaving a kernel of information that is more unbiased than not.

However, most people refuse to look for views that might differ from their own.
In my university, one Saturday per year they would allow us to take whatever we wanted from the abandoned bikes junkyard. I can't remember having more fun. Just bring a box of tools and some new chains and cables and build bikes the whole day.
You aren’t being made a servant when you’re asked to clean after yourself. If you want a hotel then go to one.
I cancelled my GPT4 subscription because I found Claude more useful for code and Qwen for Chinese language tasks.

It might be better on average but I don’t think it’s better for every task.

All the others are only going to get better too.
Where? I have never encountered this over several hundred of hotel stays?
I think people may be overstating this. OpenAI has obvious brand and distribution advantages for their end-user facing products, but they aren't guaranteed to hit the bullseye and be the market leader in every category. ChatGPT plugins, for example, have never really taken off. Startups like Perplexity and Phind are doing just fine in the "search the web with AI" space that plugins were supposedly going to dominate.

I'd say that trying to build a business plugging gaps in OpenAI's infrastructure offerings (fine-tuning, RAG, etc.) is quite perilous, since this is really their core competency. But they've still had just one big user-facing hit so far: ChatGPT.

Wrapping OpenAI for a specific use case then building better workflows and UI for that use case than ChatGPT seems like it's still a pretty reasonable strategy. OpenAI isn't going to build the ideal workflow/UI for every use case.
As a kid (~6 years old), I once tried to look at the sun for as long as possible, competing against myself. Luckily, I didn't do any noticeable damage, but I feel like someone should have told me about UV radiation and the damage it can cause to the retina.
The job market is shit right now, and it's nearing the holidays on top of that.

You need to assume that it will take hundreds of applications. It's partly a numbers game.

Maybe try mock interviews if you can afford it? Like with interviewing.io.
The needed safeguards are almost certainly very much app specific, since if you are working with private data at all, its going to be intended to influence the output and behavior in some ways but not in others, and those ways are themselves app dependent;
I been blinded. all my eyes gone. this just lasered please help me.
I frequently join a meeting 30m+ in advance just so I won't invariable be late when I get hyper-focused on something.
yeah. the SWE stats sound pretty normal for now. I have heard from friends that product is even worse.

I do wonder a bit whether OP is a little too wishy washy around position in interviews (e.g. coming off as not being sure whether he/she wants to be an engineer vs. product manager). the post even comes off that way a little
I can think of ways to approximate FQ on an input-queued switch while maintaining performance, but it doesn't really help because the total number of queues being a function of the traffic still opens you up to resource exhaustion attacks.
Grow lights use UV-A, UV-B.

UV-C is used to sterilize stuff since it damages DNA/RNA. It's toxic to plants too.
Other than coding, do we have a good application of LLMs?
>This is still true, and it's mandated by the ISO C standard ...

Wow, good to know.

>but it does say this in K&R

Then that must be where I had read it.
Oh so it's a GCC-specific thing... that explains it. In any case, congratulations on the lisp! It's beautiful code. I wish my current codebase was that beautiful. I mean, it's a lot of us contributing to it so the beauty is a kind of "meeting of the minds" situation... but still :)

PS: My current project implements a lisp... rendered as JSON. Some other angle on beauty...
In contrary, you should stay with C++ to stay in shape. C is too simple (comparatively) to keep your mind sharp. You want what, a pleasant programming experience, like a sissy, or constant hard ass-pounding and mind games that make a real man?
Theoretically 402 would be best, although I suppose 403 is closer to reality.
People making those jokes can’t see how disgusting that behavior is. It is like they were blinded by the bright lights of cynicism. When I look into these people’s souls it is like staring into a vast black abyss.
Based on the many dozens of hotels and Airbnbs I’ve stayed in, this is a much bigger problem for Airbnb.
> only useful for that branch/PR/review process (fixing tests, whitespace, etc).

I have had bugfix cases where, digging through the repo history, both of those examples accidentally introduced the bug (the first because the person who made the original change didn't completely understand a business rule so it changed both the code and the test, the second because of a typo in python that only affected a small subset of the data). Keeping the commit separate let me see very quickly what happened and what the intent actually was.
Learning to play a musical instrument

I've started with the Vangoa EWI-100, which is an affordable, silent, and good enough MIDI EWI (electronic wind instrument) device. I have also been learning some of the technical details of MIDI. I sometimes use it alone, and sometimes with a Cocos Reaper with free VSTs. I have only been doing this for 4 days, but I am already enjoying it a lot.

If I continue to play it, most probably I will upgrade to a better EWI.
You missed many countries aren't huge unlike the US
App Defaults
In bright snow your pupils are super small as the brightness is constant. At a night show your pupils are dilated in let in maximum light intermittent if exposure in these circumstances could be quite different in terms of short/long term damage
In an ideal world, no, there shouldn't. But `unsafe` is not just a performance hack; people do find things that they legitimately need to do that Rust can't statically verify. Probably the most trivial example is interacting with code that is not itself written in Rust.

This does imply that some of the stronger claims about Rust's level of static safety guarantees that float around on the Internet can't really be true unless substantially everything you might want to do has a version that's been completely written in Rust. Whether you feel that means that achieving the desired level of safety implies you've still got to rely on some dynamic analysis tools just to be sure probably depends on how much safety you really want, and how much faith you're willing to place in the skills of the authors of the libraries you use.

And even then, if we really want to go least common denominator, if you're running your program on Windows or a Unix or basically any other OS that isn't Redox, then you've got unsafe code executing every time Rust's own standard library needs to make a syscall to achieve something.

Which I don't say by way of criticizing rust Rust. It's got to live in the same crappy world we all have to live in, and it's arguably doing a better job of de-crappifying it than any other systems programming language. I'm just trying to illustrate how an unqualified statement along the lines of "there shouldn't be any unsafe code in the entire program" is kind of a self-strawman, precisely because Rust has to live in said crappy world, and I think that it might be unsafe to lose sight of that fact.
It's same everywhere. Fear of the unknown, coping with own failure via blaming someone weaker, different language and of course at least in EU a lot of hatred due to desinformations.

Of course more descriptive word would be just xenophobia combined with copium addiction.
I agree with him. It was huge news when the licensing model was announced. Many people had expected it to be freely available. The day it was announced was the day that Web growth truly began. The rats didnt just jump from the ship, they created new ships. I feel bad for Bob Alberti in particular.