skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in a small team with increadibly good programmers. ChatGPT as of right now is not good enough to replace asking one of them for help when I am stuck. But it is good enough to replace stack overflow.

Look forward.

A year ago I would have so agreed with what you say. But look where we are already. And think about what will come. My god. We're in for a ride here. Saying that chatbots sucked last time we tried that is missing that a revolution is taking place. It's like saying solar will never work because a single solar panel cost a fortune back in the 70:s.

My take on this is that not only are chatbot coming back big. We're getting the droids from Star Wars within a decade or so.
Maybe you can get achieve it by asking it to just give you the name correspondances in a table and do the renaming yourself.

That’d be hardly useful in a full file with colliding names but on a single function that may be useful.
> But if you lift a finger and earn a passing grade

Unfortunately, it takes more than lifting a finger to earn a passing grade. These companies are competitive and do fire low performers pretty easily, whether they are new employees or been there for a decade. The word goes that Google is more lenient on that regard though, I'd be curious to see some numbers.
I heard he was Veridian Dynamics' greatest CEO
There's no way it works like that. Imagine:

1. Bob legitimately lives in Europe, and buys an iPhone in Europe.

2. Bob travels to a business conference in the United States.

3. Apple releases an iOS update while Bob is at his business conference. Bob installs the update.

4. Bob retains the US version of iOS even after he returns home, until the next iOS update is released, which could take months.
Great analogy for LLMs, I think you understood my point perfectly.
Yep, I said feedback is most likely fine. I said it. I also believe in feedback for a better world (when I said you aren't entitled to anything, that was sloppy phrasing for 'the blog author owes you nothing').

But the way you give feedback matters, and you are not entitled to be a jerk when giving feedback. Now, I don't believe OP wanted to be a jerk. I think vanishingly few people actually want to be mean. But I think the world is better off if people take their recipients' feelings in account, because it's nicer.

Another perspective: if giving feedback is indeed your intent, surely you care about the recipient and how your message is received (otherwise you would not bother). Your feedback will likely be more effective if well received, so you definitely want it to be well received. So you definitely want to avoid hurting people's feeling as much as possible (of course, sometimes useful feedback will inevitably hurt, but anything beyond this is harmful to your goal).

Whether your recipient agrees is an orthogonal concept indeed. I'm totally fine with respectful feedback given to me with which I disagree. It's okay to be wrong. (:-D)
Fair, guess I missed the part where you said "of iOS apps". Then again, very few apps are iOS/Android exclusive, so most of the time you can just sideload the Android version of the app.
Wonder if it's legitimate syndication or they just decided to YOLO copypaste the article.

On the upside though, it's not paywalled!
Onedrive is one of the most cancerous products Microsoft has created in crescent years. I don’t want drive yet it is difficult to uninstall and somehow integrates with office, including outlook web.

It’s a clear moneygrab trying to shift user behaviour into cloud storage, I assume because it’s difficult or rare for users to switch storage providers.

I wish the Microsoft quality team reigned in all the dark patterns the marketing and retention team were forcing onto people, and I truly wish this whole thing backfires and costs them revenue in the long run.
Well, the part about it being the same display as the Switch etc.
The Air Force planned to order more than 100 B-2s when the program was started but Congress cut the order down to fewer than two dozen. So the cost per plane ballooned because the development costs had to be amortized of a smaller number of airframes.
Too right. Almost all of the software I need for work runs only Windows.
I think the third option is more plausible; neither executive decree nor individual managers' particular penchant drives these trends, but rather widespread cultural trends that individual managers act on subconsciously.

We're likely talking about favoring H-1B visas; predominantly Indian, and predominantly male, with a median age of 34.[0] Do individual hiring managers have individual, personal biases? Yes, but what do you call a collective group who all exhibit the same bias? We can speculate about their personal reasons, but keep in mind that H-1B workers are inordinate victims of wage theft! [1]

> Thousands of skilled migrants employed by HCL Technologies—an India-based IT staffing firm that places H-1B workers at top corporations like Disney, FedEx, and Google—appear to have been underpaid by at least $95 million

So perhaps it is simple economics: precarious immigrant workers are easier to steal from.

0. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/H1B_...

1. https://www.epi.org/press/new-epi-report-reveals-wage-theft-...
Technically speaking, those 2tb flash drives are fraudulent, but not counterfeit. (which generally refers to misrepresentation in brand origin)

Also, the word "knowingly" requires the person taking action to have the knowledge in their head. Someone else knowing it isn't enough to qualify.

Amazon's listings are not curated. Amazon knows nothing about fraudulent listings until later brought to their attention. These fake flash drives exist for short period of time until they are brought to Amazon's attention, at which point, they are taken down.
Yeah, that's definitely a phenomenon that can be harmful, as you describe. Still, this seems to be going from one extreme to the other. I guess "everything in moderation" is good advice here too.
> I didn’t realise there was a fourth species

Hang on, which are you calling the fourth?

A popular pub-trivia question is how many types of (living) monotremes are there - two (echidna and platypus).

However if the question is how many (living) monotreme species - then (well, up until now) the answer was four - the platypus, plus three species of echidna (Western, Sir David's, and Eastern).
Something isn't hateful just because you don't like it or don't agree with it. (It's also not a bandwagon just because other people agree with it, but that's neither here nor there at this point.)
> Yes, the birth rate is decreasing, but the survival rate of young children has also never been better.

Not in the US. The infant mortality rate is increasing.
https://apnews.com/article/infant-deaths-us-cdc-mortality-c8...
Well, it could be tied to your credit card, or something else you had when you made the reservation.
> I can't see what the difference is outside the FE decoding.

In a sufficiently small CPU, the instruction decoder becomes a very significant proportion of the whole thing.

As an example of this consider the SeRV bit-serial RV32I core, which on a Xilinx FPGA uses 125 LUTs (most simple RISC-V cores use 1000-2000).

QeRV was just introduced, with a 4-bit wide data path and ALU instead of 1-bit wide. It increases speed by 3x while increasing the LUT count by 15%.

Clearly, instruction fetch / decode / control was totally dominating the data path. And still is on QeRV.

A couple of obvious RISC-V instruction decoding advantages over any of Arm's ISAs:

- src and dst registers are always encoded in the same bits in RISC-V but not in Arm. e.g. in A32 all data processing instructions have Rd in bits 15:12, except MUL & MULA put Rd in bits 19:16, and STR and other store instructions (which don't have an Rd) use bits 15:12 for the src register whose contents are to be stored. This seems trivial, but it adds significant extra muxes and wiring on a small design.

- It's the same in T16 (and the 16-bit opcodes in T32) which usually has Rd in bits 2:0, except the store instructions use those bits for a src register, and SP-relative load/store and "load address" (add a constant to SP or PC) have the Rd (again a src for store) in bits 10:8. So this hits Arm's smallest Cortex-M0 core.

- RISC-V uses slightly funky encodings for constants/offsets of varying sizes (including LUI and AUIPC, which encode bits 31:12, and conditional and unconditional branches, which do not encode bit 0) which minimises the number of places in the instruction that bits in the final 32 bit constant come from. This adds a couple of lines of code to assemblers and disassemblers, and makes it harder for humans trying to encode or decode binary instructions (mostly branch offsets), but considerably simplifies the muxes and wiring in the instruction decoder.

T16 also simply has a lot of instruction formats (19) and instructions (close to 90?) compared to RV32I's 4 formats (6 counting the different offset encoding for branch instructions, but src/dst/opcode etc are in the same places) and 37 instructions.

RISC-V's "C" extension (16 bit opcodes) adds nine more instruction formats, but that's optional and on a very small CPU core in an application with not much program code you can choose to not implement it.
Isn't the foreign national's status kind of captured at the discretion of the employer?

It sounds like a larger power asymmetry and as an employer, you want that as large as possible.

I mean it also increases stress on both ends, which affects executive function so the parties become handicapped by the relationship, but that's apparently less valuable than the large power differentials to many.

I wonder if there's quantitative studies of firms performances with respect to this. If the theory is right, it's long term one of the more disadvantageous strategies. (Using Apple as N=1 doesn't cut it as a study here)
I don't know the fastest method but you might search around on StackExchange [1] and test some of their answers as I see some examples of people converting dirty date inputs that would surely be faster than using a heavy LLM, especially if broken up into batches and distributed to multiple machines by core/thread counts.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63371125/python-how-to-c...
> (...) for their premium pricing (...)

That's a creative euphemism for price gouging.
If you go to the Japan Centre in London you can find various flavours of Japanese Kitkats.
PSA for those using windows at home: someone else has already done all the work removing spyware / unnecessary junk / mandatory login, etc.

https://github.com/topics/windows-11-debloat

I think I used this guide
https://christitus.com/windows-11-perfect-install/
These 'Jobs' are already filled. Someone on an H1B, who's working at the job, in some cases for years, asks for the company to get them their green card. The company now has to advertise that job, and take applicants on the job.

Theoretically if they find a qualified candidate they have to fire the worker who asked for PERM, and hire the candidate. Since PERM applications are seen as a perk for good employees, and having to fire the employee who asked for PERM if the process finds someone, companies hide the job applications, and find any reason to reject any applicant.

The whole process is ridiculous.
I know that the ID situation in the US is complicated, but if you qualify for a passport, don't you automatically qualify for non-driving ID in your state as well?
Less effort needed than that - charge $1 for a reservation. Just enough to be a valid purchase.

Ask them to check out with the same credit card at the end of their meal.

Blacklist any card used for a reservation consistently not matched. Cancel all their RSVPs.

We don't care about the odd reservation where someone books and someone else pays - that's rare and individual people don't book that many reservations. Worst case they call support and you set a note to not apply the rule to them.

This means scalpers now need to rotate cards. That sucks and is going to hit other limitations.
Ransomware attack on China's biggest bank disrupts US Treasury market
Polls have shown that people want more children than they're having. People can't afford the children they wish they could have.
In the general sense yes, but I wonder if there will be unexpected things that we’ll need to take into account with this new generation of tools.

Part of me thinks that this is another revolution in graphics the same way Photoshop was where you can work 10x faster. But another one ponders about what happens when we’re dealing with intelligence.
> Instead of creating virtual environments using venv, you can use a more sophisticated tool like Poetry which enables you to manage you environments in a much better manner.

It seems pretty emblematic of the shitshow that is Python environment management that the top-rated comment is recommending something I've never heard of. I know pyenv and pyvenv (not the same thing!) and virtualenv and venv (not the same thing!) and pipenv, but apparently those are all now out of date and I should be moving to this sixth new tool. I'm sure this time it will be fixed for good.
All the FAANG and similar corps have been doing this for decades at this point. Our government works for them. This judgement is a joke designed to save face.
It's a source of knowledge because you can extract an idea that works and in hindsight is expected to work. Consensus doesn't happen because consensus is easily dominated by social factors, science suffers from this too, though it has only one case of encouragement of a lack of consensus.
That's thinking of it like some kind of optimal number though, which really isn't the case anyway.

There is no fixed sized pie. How many big tech companies were founded or run by immigrants or their children?
Relevant timestamp: 14:46-17:45
Chrome doesn't, and can't, install itself as the default in one step. Setting it as the default is a separate explicit action that the user has had to agree to. But Apple insists on asking separately to "make sure".
Amazon has more than a third of all online retail and is close to surpassing Walmart as the largest retailer in the world, online or physical.

Best Buy is not in the same league.

Also, Apple appears to be the only company in the world that can get this deal from Amazon. Apple's competitors can't get it. So this seems to be an artificial restriction on competition.
One in a million FTL and time travel?

No, there's not another tree. We just happen to be rather efficient in dissipating free energy.
If you have to "debloat", you've already lost.
If it's a result of individual country legislation, who the heck knows how it might one day work - there is potential for the case that no one universal technical solution can meet the legal requirements of all States.
Have you considered the possibility that there are other food crops that can be grown, and using much less water?
How would a single-use card help?

In my experience, restaurants taking deposits will actually charge the deposit to the card at the time you are making the reservation and credit it towards the final check amount if you do show up.
> The telephone.

Like a thing you talk into? Why would anyone in 2023 use one?
They control the listings, they receive and hold the merchandise, they ship it, they deliver it, they take payment, they handle customer complaints, ...

What's the point where we are going to say "it's not good enough to point at the 3rd party with the autogenerated name" and "computers at large"?
There's a lot of stuff that can't reach 60fps but has headroom over 30fps, that's where the 40 comes from. It's a completely arbitrary point, just happens to be halfway between 1/60 and 1/30 s, and (external benefit for stuff like PS5 Spider-Man 2) it divides evenly into 120Hz displays without needing variable refresh.
It is a politically fraught issue because there is a long-running independence movement,[1] which the parent comment may have been obliquely referring to.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Papua_Movement
> You can't have it.

There is https://massgrave.dev
GitHub repo has ~54k stars
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Microsoft seemingly does not really care I guess, otherwise they would've taken it down (GitHub is owned by Microsoft)
Why should someone making 700k be any different than an 80k employee?

Nurses make way less than 700k and should probably be the absolute top of the list.
I use popos as well but I haven't had sound for weeks
Speaking of condensed font, anyone has a recommendation for a good (paid or free) Serif condensed font?

I'm using "Bell MT" to replace Times in browser (and also using it for variable-pitch font in emacs Org mode), it is good but I wish it had a taller/condensed version.

Also, one of the best condensed mono font is "The Sans Mono Condensed" which first popularized by early Oreilly books (it has since switched to other mono fonts). The downside is that it only has a western character set but I liked it a lot
> The majority of Western countries are consuming at a level, were it applied globally, would exhaust the planet.

This is an argument against overpopulation, not for lowering living standards.
> They mean devices that you aren't intelligent enough to understand.

They don't even define what they mean by "device", nor do they try to explain why regulatory bodies would allow something nobody understands into the financial system.

> The fact that you don't even understand the description isn't a great booster to your counter argument.

The fact that they provide no description for anyone to understand isn't a great booster for their argument, nor for your attempt to support it.
I have a new 17 inch xps and I haven't had sound work for almost a month now.
Surprising meta-analysis and forecasting survey on gender and hiring decisions
Because they'e just looking at the metrics in isolation and the people who are responsible for it couldn't care less about long term viability.
On one level, it's evil lock-in. On another, it's all-products compatibility with very tight integration.

I don't like being locked into Apple, but I can't argue with the extraordinary convenience of doing it their way. New iPhone or iPad? Just set it next to your old one and it will pull everything over. New Mac? You can clone from a backup of a different Mac. I started with an iPad, got a Mac a few years later, and finally got an iPhone after Google released the amazing (loved the fingerprint reader on the back for unlocking) but disastrous (the battery would decide to go to hell one day, no warning, and you were losing 30+% of power per hour) Nexus 6P.
I don't know how people can be productive using Windows as their main work OS, and how they can retain their mental health.

If you need to install it, one thing that helps a little bit is to use offline accounts only. Never give Windows an email address because then it will force OneDrive down your throat, and your user folders will be a weird mix of online and not online folders that is a total mess to understand.
You could require the customer to present the same card before being seated, but I agree that that's making things pretty inconvenient for legitimate customers.
This article is mostly talking about porcelain command and not enough plumbing.
Dunno about Windows, but sadly, a lot of "professional" software also has this BS in abundance. Even when it's expensive.

Anything with a modicum of respect for end-users is niche today.
> The new online Apple Store brought in $12 million of revenue in its first 30 days, for an average of $730,000 per day. That's three-quarters of where Dell's daily revenue had reached after its first six months.

Uhh...

12,000,000 / 30 = 400,000

If I wanted to be charitable, I could guess that they might have gotten their numbers mixed up talking about net and gross revenue, but... This feels like a pretty big oversight.
Honestly that sounds less distracting than bull-pens. Put on some noise cancelling headphones and yell "Close cell 5!"
> (which she tried to hide with several all-too-transparent euphemisms

"market maker" ?
In this technique the letters do not leave their grid box. A wide letter next to a narrow letter will at most push hard up against the edge of its box (usually there has to be white space there so that, e.g. mm doesn’t become one glyph)
I get what he means, but I have a hard time thinking of three words that give me more chills than “go for TLI”!
I like the chart and examples. Thanks! I'm going to read over theme here in a bit.
Working with python environments made me sorry for all the times I may have complained about the Node.js way of doing things.
for restaurant reservations
The only reference point i have is that the millennium was very roughly around 1000000000. And that's only because of an agonising C/Prince pun in NTK [1]:

"Tonight I'm gonna party like it's (time_t) 1E9"

[1] http://www.ntk.net/2001/02/23/
https://fortune.com/2023/09/05/amazon-andy-jassy-return-to-o... ("Amazon’s Andy Jassy shouldn’t make return-to-office decisions in an echo chamber of CEOs driven by feelings")

CEOs collectively saying "you must return to office because we say so" driven by feelings, status, etc with media doing the PR lifting.
Yes, 36% (I believe it's actually 37.6%) of e-commerce is a large portion. It is 587% larger than the second place competitor.
> ARM currently outperforms RISC-V massively

Only if you compare CPUs with vastly different microarchitectures e.g. a 4-wide OoO Arm and a single issue in-order RISC-V, or an Arm running SIMD code to a RISC-V CPU without SIMD/Vector.

Arm has more advanced microarchitectures and Neon deployed in the field right at this moment, certainly, but RISC-V vendors have cores up to Cortex-X3 (SiFive) or even Zen/M1 level designed, simulated, and announced and those will all be in chips you can buy in 3-4 years.

Comparing similar to similar e.g. SiFive U74 vs Arm A55 (on code not using Neon) you'll find very similar performance, and in my experience the U74 usually winning.
I think the whole earth could look a lot like the Sahara or Gobi desert in a few generations. If the biology of our fertile soils change too much, and nature can't evolve fast enough to adapt to the changes, we could lose a lot of what we rely on.

I think its more likely that a few large famines will wipe out most humans before a total biological collapse, which will end the carbon emission problem.
Are you sure it was a chat bot? I believe Apple customer service chat wasn't run by bots last time I needed it.
Woah calm down man.

It was not an insult at all, I was being literal. Ideas without action do only occupy a few brain cells (and nothing else) and brain cells are tiny. It's a Arnold Glasow quote thats common in the startup ecosystem as a joke and critique about inaction.

You’re the one that incorrectly interpreted it as an insult (even if you dont know it's a quote, if you read it properly it's a comment on the ideas and not a comment on brain size or anything else), then you wrote a knee jerk response, complaining I insulted you when I didn’t, and then summarising a bunch of vague generalisations - and then finishing with an angry ending to a post you started with "Calm down man" actual lol.

If you cannot interpret simple responses correctly (or worse - interpret them as insults) it makes me question your critical faculties and invalidate your other conclusions on more complex topics.
In quite a few countries (most notably and possibly surprisingly including the US), government identity is not that easy to come by and/or controversial in some way.

In places/contexts that do have functioning identity ecosystems, that does indeed solve the issue, yes. For example,this is why airline ticket scalpers are not a thing in the US: TSA will validate every passenger's ID matching their boarding pass before being allowed into the airport.
As a consultant this rang far too true
I don't understand... I'm not arguing any position in particular here. :)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225898