skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The deception is the problem and secretly buying a “real conflict” diamond for a woman who doesn’t want to be involved with it would be just as bad.
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I know my partner well enough, so I'm not worried about communication with her, but what's hard about communication is that some people take things literally, some people try to read into questions what isn't there, and some people ask ambiguous questions.

I've gotten feedback from some people that my communication is too terse and from other people that it is too longwinded. I can adapt to people I communicate regularly with (like my partner, people on my team, etc.), but it is not possible to do anything with that feedback in terms of first time communication or communication with infrequent collaborators.
In my experience if you give a time estimate, people make that the new metric to optimize to. So they spend 4 hours creating something that looks like 20 mins.

Most articles like this focus on what is lost for employees at the whim of a careless manager, but I think they often miss a point: the team researching X random thing means they may learn other knowledge and their overall understanding of things goes up which - though inefficient - may have value later.

Moreover, work is broadly inefficient because human coordination is inefficient. People bring their own stories and narratives and goals. Hence the reason the 20min ask is now the 4 hours to make it look like 20 mins. Treating it like something that can be optimized misses the point of it.
Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses
A resource which I found very helpful for this sort of thing is:

https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/
It’s a plane that is also road-legal. It may not match the scifi images evoked by the word “flying car” but it is a practical approach. This has been tried before and the previous attempts were not successful.
The point isn't "idealism" - the point is promoting viewpoints that they have no intention of following themselves. RTFA.
The same guys who put patent-free video in everyone's browser have been "monopolistic"? Anyone can run a site like YouTube, Google isn't stopping them, and some people do. It's hard to compete with YT because they have built an enormous product at vast expense. To call it monopolistic you basically have to describe any kind of cross-subsidization as monopolistic.
Python CLI tool for running text through OpenAI Text to speech
Math should be patentable, too. The idea that math is "discovered" instead of "invented" is bullshit.

That, or get rid of patents altogether.
I've seen a few designers doing this and with the help of the new AI models available the rise of productivity will make this business model more common for services, I think.

I'm developing something similar to sell my service as a software engineer. Something like Service-as-a-software, the opposite of software-as-a-service.
Covered a month ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762092

Why black out some text? Is that actual story text blacked out?
I imagine part of it is that it's far easier to lose your job disagreeing with your superiors in the private sector ("Not a culture fit", "Not a team player"). It's better to just go along with stuff sometimes because most of the time systemic failure takes years to manifest.
That would be a very effective way of ensuring that I don't use LLMs for anything ever.
I appreciate your thoughts here. I think one reason for the crypto criticism is the frequent use of "laser eyes" by members of the community. This story just fits too well not to bring it up.
Tell HN: ChatGPT with GTP-4 has been unusably slow since the latest update
Has anyone else noticed this?
The main reason why you don't see it everywhere is due to psychology: customers perceive a long, single-file line (one queue) as taking longer, even when, mathematically speaking, it will on average be quicker due to multiple workers servicing the queue.
Netflix streams many formats including AV1 and VP9. See the Netflix tech blog.

- AV1 on Android: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-and...

- AV1 encoder work: https://netflixtechblog.com/svt-av1-an-open-source-av1-encod...

- AV1 to TVs: https://netflixtechblog.com/bringing-av1-streaming-to-netfli...

- VP9 in 2016: https://netflixtechblog.com/more-efficient-mobile-encodes-fo...
I know so-called "senior frontend engineers" whose speciality is React, and who can't handle React. So all others...

This thing (and others like Vue, let me be clear) adds many layers of complexity over the web platform (client-side routing, data fetching, state management, rendering, etc.) and many third-party JS libs that you have to constantly update. You just can't say that it's standard/base web development.
What I dislike about BLAKE3 is that they added explicit logic to ensure that identical chunks stored at different offsets result in different Merkle tree nodes (a.k.a. the ‘chunk counter’).

Though this feature is well intended, it makes this hash function hard to use for a storage system where you try to do aggressive data deduplication.

Furthermore, on platforms that provide native instructions for SHA hashing, BLAKE3 isn’t necessarily faster, and certainly more power hungry.
>Note quite, when most people buy land the seller doesn’t receive the full amount you pay realtors get their cut of the transaction. Same deal with used cars etc.

In my country house selling generally uses an agency model, I (optionally) employ someone to market my house.

I get the full value, and then pay them a fee.

A second hand car seller sells the car, they make money by adding value. If I choose to buy a car I can go direct to a seller but they may not have want I want, may not be available at convenient times, and I'll have less come back if things go wrong.

>Saying someone created it therefore it’s all the same is a meaningless statement. People create different things, saying someone created something doesn’t imply what that thing is.

You're implying who created that thing is more important than what the thing is.

So can we agree that it's the thing that's important, not who made it.
This is really helpful thanks.

Do you actively monitor how much customers owe you or even cap the size of their bill before they need to pay you?

This would be in case they have a significant amount of usage in a period.
The problem is that the bags are still too cheap. If you sell them for disposable prices, people will treat them as disposable items.
The original series were just so good. I've re-watched them a couple of times over the last ten years after remembering how good they were when I watched them as a kid. The idea of connecting multiple advances and developments to show how we arrived at modern tech is so inspiring and surprising that so much was both random and inevitable.

However, as much as James Burke was so good as a host in the original (his dry wit makes me laugh throughout), I think they should go with someone a bit younger and my vote would be Hannah Fry (she hosted The Secret Genius Of Modern Life which was similar, though more more limited in scope).

Seeing one of the pictures in the article, it looks like James Burke will attempt to redo the "rocket shot" which has been acclaimed as the greatest shot in television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ
What's funny to me is I have been doing Rails for 15 years, even wrote books on it, and I just thought Tobi was a guy who made a lot of popular Rails stuff. Didn't realize he was the founder and worth 5.5 billion dollars lol
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> I've had managers give stupid orders

I'd suggest that "good faith" means turning those stupid orders into sane orders. In a case like this, help your manager -- educate them.

If your relationship is tenuous, I get this can be hard. Show your good faith and explain to your manager in clear detail why something is stupid. Manage up, as they say.
Yes. And it would be great if it would adapt to the current state of the code base. So managers can see the effect of technical debt immediately in the time estimates.
Until it starts coming installed by default on Linux and other mojor OS's, it won't be mainstream.
Great I’ll check them out!
No, it doesn’t. The ban against software patents is to prevent things like “X, but using software” from being patented. A good example is Sonos’ patent on controlling the volume of multiple speakers from an app. That’s just a dumb patent. Video encoding is very complex and non-obvious. Personally, I see the argument for patent protection.
You would need a constitutional ammendment.

The Contracts Clause: The Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 10, Clause 1)

> No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title ...

You could still take it back with eminent domain probably, but would have to compensate I think at current value, not at bad negotiated value from some time ago.
Madison Avenue created a cultural Hobson choice ritual that equated the size and value of a particular precious stone with the dominant partner's love and economic suitability for marriage. The pressures on Western individuals to follow this script varies, but is still significant.

Another interesting approach is to reframe it as a Hobson choice with opportunity cost: Would you prefer a modest ring that's exciting for all of a week and is easy to lose, or a lifetime of memories of 3 weeks on a languid, secluded tropical island with surreal, warm white sand and ocean-to-plate candlelight dinners?
Currently they have not broken any laws while detecting ad blockers, besides what some guy declared. And historically, laws in this area have not been favorable to consumers.

As far as data protection laws go, those could always be stricter and are a much better area of focus.
An interesting concept but I still feel like the Opener Aero Fly is the closest we're going to get to a feasible flight/drive transportation system:

https://evtol.news/opener-blackfly-v3

The failure modes are reduced in this design, which is why I feel its more feasible as a mass-production design.
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Isn't Netflix an American company? How would Volvo feel if a Kansas court told them to do something?

Tell them to fuck off and try to enforce the ruling. Go on with life. Way too many power tripping judges these days.
Computation is everywhere. Read about CRISPR and tape based Turing machines.
Intel made software feature exclusive only for 14 gen. Core processors [video]
It should work just fine under 12th and 13th gen of Intel CPUs.
That's hilarious. Thanks for the help :)
I’ve done some research on this in the past. The reason that is so slow is because the eslint plugin runs prettier, does a diff between the result of prettier and the real file and then converts each diff entry into a eslint issues. Most of the pain comes from this remarshaling cost
Me and my fiance read this some years back. I ended up getting her a massionite ring and she absolutely wows everyone with it. And it was less than a grand. Even people wealthier than me get impressed because the diamond industry is indeed a cartel with vastly over-priced costs.

In any case. She's extremely happy. I'm happy. My wallet is happy. It's honestly the best decision.
I guess the bicycle parts company was founded before internet...
Fakes in the sense of much lower quality tobacco, often mixed with cheaper materials to bulk them and in lower amounts. So people get a product at black market price that is not the expected one.

Tax stamp trafficking is used to cover for those fakes as it make them look real, and it is also used to avoid getting arrested for selling contraband.
You can’t fix or change people who live to work or think the work is full of meaning at the cost of quality of life. Deeply ingrained belief system like religions (and we know what kind of mental autoimmune response occurs when those are challenged). You can only institute guardrails against them.
Right, and they show it above "time" where the "e" can't "give the space" so you can understand if it actually bothers you (probably not unless you stop and stare):

const timing_end_m_ = () => {
let timing_end = new Date();
let time_spent = timing_end - timing_start; // in ms
algorithm = program = software

The computer science definition is all the same.
Well yes. If a company is in the US and they didn't want to abide by GDPR, then their service can simply not be available to EU users.

Many US sites do that when they locate your IP in the EU. You basically get a "sorry, this is not for you" banner and you're SOL trying to get to the content
Less fuel to burn I would say. Here there were a LOT of pallets, nice and dry.
Could you expand more? I have a bit of a hard time seeing how one can patent algorithms but not software. I kinda see it, but I would appreciate a broader explanation, if you could share more? Also, you can patent the global systems and its algorithms, but you can't patent the software that is in-between? (a quick google doesn't raise much)
I think this is a good argument but also an example why it should probably be technical people defining the product and requirements rather than this made up role we've created of product owners.
One of the primary reasons that remote work improves productivity is that it allows employees to tailor their environment to their needs, rather than be forced into a hostile office space that requires kafkaesque bureaucratic bullshit to make even minor changes.

I once had a former employer force me to take an espresso machine home that I had brought to work because it created a situation where a different shift was coming to our teams area to use it when we weren’t there and they were concerned by the liability. Very non-specific concerns, I might add. So rather than ensure teams had access to real coffee they banned employees having their own coffee equipment so we can all commiserate together over the bottom dollar filth in the break room.

This is the type of basic shit most companies can’t get right, much less the far more complicated challenges involved in creating positive team dynamics.

I have no faith that any sufficiently large company can make an inviting office environment, and this is a major reason why I am a staunch remote work advocate.
There was a translation that caused Tolkien to write a guide to translating the Lord of the Rings - it’s worth reading to get a feel for what he wanted.

Of course Tolkien was a linguist so he could understand translation difficulties even in languages he didn’t speak. He went so far as to add fictional translation difficulties to his own story.
So, not the imperial pint of semen?
There is a lot of potential, but the OpenAI-provided ones are pretty rough. I asked the math tutor some questions about the relationship between sine and cosine. The answers were decent (no different than base GPT4) but when I asked to see a visualization it tried using DALLE instead of a more thoughtfully constructed matplotlib plot.

I think they have a way to go.
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The problem is that the pedagogy, as in, the best most effective way to teach people things, should improve massively in 70 years. Whether it actually does, that is another question.
I have found that for the needs of typesetting, citations, and other typically more "advanced" needs Markdown is not quite enough.

I recently contributed several chapters to a book. Years ago I wrote a book in MS Word. But this time around we used AsciiDoc. RestructuredText is another option.

I used MS Code's AsciiDoc support, and it worked generally great.
Yeah, one of the big chains here implemented that a few years ago and it's quite nice. You get all the benefits of human cashiers while eliminating the multiple queue issue. A lot of people still prefer the old way, maybe because the line does seem a lot longer (though it moves a lot faster as well).
I see that the libraries are written in Rust, would this work in a nodejs app as a wasm or as native plugin?
Smart idea doing the hash choice per-commit. Just make sure that somebody putting in an obscure hash doesn't mess up everybody's usage of the repo if they don't have a library to evaluate that hash installed.
Related 99% Invisible episode: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/99-vernacular-volume-...
What about the stiffer plastic reusable bags? My cotton tote bags I do basically plan on using for the rest of my life, but I don't typically use them for groceries.
Because there’s always additional context that the junior and higher ups need that they aren’t aware of, the most obvious being time/capacity.

I used to manage an engineer who was responsible for a critical part of our system and he would frequently get hounded by higher ups who went around me and it ate up all of his time to the point where my manager thought this engineer was just unproductive. I wasn’t able to stop those requests entirely but I was able to establish a paper trail and show my boss that this engineer was actually being overworked.
Yeah, once every 6-12 months and then you say "neat" and put it in your special coins cup.
My dad ended up buying the famous pirate Ace version of the Fellowship of the Ring - and it had absolutely no indication it was the first part of a combined trilogy so he thought it has a VERY abrupt weird ending until he later learned there were other volumes.
That's the End of Activision Blizzard's $120M Overwatch League
Thanks - I wish this trend of burying every detail behind an abstract low information headline would end.
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That's neat. Still a dud.
For what Google is primarily used for, search engine and so forth, do they need an extremely advanced Ai? As we've seen with other big tech companies, using giant expensive models for "simple tasks" isn't worth it financially. How advanced of a LLM does Google really need to improve search?
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What does schizophrenia have to do with it? You might be getting confused by the use of term "hallucination" in the LLM space it doesnt mean what it is conventionally used to mean.

Also look at a defention for AGI from before LLMs and they do a good job fitting the bill. Theyre not quite going to replace all humans everywhere forever, but that was never part of the definition. They match early definitions, especially multimodal models, theres no denying they match what people envisioned agi to be. You can ask fronteir models in plain language to do a task and it can break down the task, formulate a plan of attack, research if need be, sythesise knowledge and apply the solution. If that is all "just word prediction" then so are we.

Just because we understand how it is built doesnt make it any less impressive. More importantly, we simply dont understand LLMs yet. How theyre built, we know, yes, why they work so stupidly well, we do not know.

Importantly, we cant just change definitions to move goal posts because we feel uncomfortable.

Agi defenition

https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/a...
Doesn't Tailwind have a build step?
Every cult uses something different to pull in true believers.
The cashiers at the supermarket are paid a wage they agreed on when they were hired. There's nothing more fair than supply and demand.
This is why the common trope of "The grid can't function without the inertia from big heavy generators!!" detracting the rise of renewables is invalid. Synthetic grid strength has been available for a century.

Today the research focuses on "Grid forming inverters". Taking the same principle as powering a home in island mode and stretching it to the entire grid allowing non-synchronous generators to provide the system strength.
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Reminds me of this issue people had (or still have?) with Wacom styluses:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/e96t1a/pen_has_a_wei...

"Agreed. I just bought one too and I'm sitting here practicing and I'm smelling a cat piss odor. Thought a cat had pissed on my clothes or something and then I smelled the pen."

"Yesterday, I was sure my cat pissed somewhere in my daughter's room. I literally spent hours trying to find the source of the stench, checked the whole feckin room and then I realised my hand stinks. The very last thing I checked was the bloody Wacom tablet pen that she got from us in the morning."

"Thank you! I thought I was going crazy! I was making everyone in my house smell the pen and they were like “yoooo that’s stinky.” I ended up returning it because the smell was making me gag. So weird."
dang, this is wonderful.

I wonder if HN would consider a feature where an article would automatically link previous submissions of same topic.

Seems like a great way to get insight of how novel a topic is.
So, I have often worked remotely, think it's fine, and makes sense in some cases. But, honestly, this is a professional-class issue, and every article about it seems written from a viewpoint that has forgotten about most of the population. The waitress and cook never had the option of working remotely, nor did the factory worker, the construction worker, the taxicab driver, the truck driver, etc. etc. Most of the population never had the option of remote work. The professional class bemoaning that they are being "forced" back to the office (translation: they won't pay you to work at home) is beyond a 1st World problem; it's a 1st World professional class problem. Even surgeons and nurses and dentists have to be "at work" in order to work, for the most part. The longer we bemoan being forced to go to work in order to get paid, the more the rest of the population becomes convinced that the professional class is entitled and a bit spoiled.
Ask HN: Does "trust" eliminate the need for code reviews?
There is a thread on LinkedIn purporting that it is a good practice to not review first, but to merge first, for the sake of high velocity.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pete-heard-lr_git-activity-7129496167645618176-Viyp

I am curious if anyone else has any thoughts regarding this matter.
eBay is sketchy when it comes to this. I want to have someone verify it is what they say it is.
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According to Cohen the Barbarian
> If you have to choose one technology it's better to use one where you can do everything. Not one where you can do 95% really fast, but 5% not at all.

> I personally always use "complex" frameworks like Angular or React because sooner or later feature requests come in, where those frameworks pay off. On average it saves time for me to always use those frameworks.

I wonder whether they ever pay off. First, I don't believe the frameworks you mention really, as you suggest, enable the last 5% of functionality that would otherwise be impossible. No, those frameworks are written in the same language they work in, which means that strictly speaking they do not enable any new functionality.

Second, whatever ease / speed of development you use must be weighed against the additional cost borne by the project's users. The time you save (that you might otherwise spend learning to achieve the same result without the framework) could be less than the time spent collectively by users waiting for the framework to load.