skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth mentioning https://justserve.org

Post a need or find one.
For some classic wisdom about writing tests see the classic "Art of Software Testing" by Glenford Myers. It's $149+++ on Amazon, but only $5 on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3671980.m...

This was originally published before TDD was a thing, but is highly applicable.
> you'll find many small countries with similar incomes, less cash use and more transparent pricing

How many tax regimes do they contain within themselves on account of local governments?

I’m not saying America can’t do it. I’m saying we don’t care to. This is literally a non-issue for most Americans. I understand the aesthetic preference. But it’s such a strange hill to die on.

> Transparent pricing is a fundamental necessity for the free market

Transparent pricing doesn’t mean pricing with no math.

Junk fees, on the other hand, are not transparent and not set by the state. (Though I haven’t yet seen the business lobby try to distract by shifting the debate to tax-inclusive pricing, which would be admittedly clever.)
> And how well did that work out for Haskell?

You know this post is speculative fiction, right? It's actually about what could kill Haskell, not what could kill Rust?
A family member works one of these jobs, so it’s probably my bias that this is reasonable. They love it and live off a military pension, getting to live in the wilderness (a national park near the Canadian border) and provide service to others who want to experience it.
Tweaking and twiddling with pricing structure... It's just what happens in a mature market.

Every year, you need new ideas to make business better. This is something that you can usually futz with, and maybe get a little bit of bang.

It's not necessarily about pricing template being better universally.
It's just that these are factors you can move around, "optimize."

Having multiple levers is just helpful.

This is also an orthodox negotiation model. It's always helpful to negotiate multiple items simultaneously. Salary, benefits separately, pension separately from that, days off, personal days etc.

It's very common that one is a hard no, but others are not.

I know it seems to make sense to transparently aggregate everything.. but... The phenomenon exists regardless.
salaried employees with health benefits and work rights are paid while building that site! so you can work for free! be sure to login with your cell phone.
Yeah, I agree that’s what the businesses are doing.

It’s the psychological trickery where I wonder: Is there really value there in the long term?
I don’t think we can call 4-5k IU’s of D3 a day ‘megadosing.’ megadosing is more like 50-100k at a time.
Sometimes, people do things for fun.
Sure, well was there a competitor you would have preferred to prevail? What was their business plan?

YouTube is free. If you don’t mind ads.
The target audience of volunteers for this type of position are people that are probably used to happily sleeping in tents and eating camp food for days/weeks at a time. I don't think they'd mind.
+1 to this. I feel like a lot of the time the "focus time" blocks in their calendar are just because they can't be bothered to deal with meetings or talking to others - basically they just want to do the parts of the job they like (code or whatever) and to fuck with the bits they don't like. "Sorry - can't do that planning/bug triage/training/mentoring/interview session - I am in my focus time"

When you get to the more accomplished/senior levels of impact, it is all about scaling your skills - i.e. using your skills and knowledge to accomplish more than just one person can do on their own by sharing knowledge, helping others etc, leading a team/teams in the right direction and so on.

Locking yourself away so noone can talk to you for hours/days at a time are the hallmarks of a selfish engineer (or at the least a very junior one who doesn't yet realise their place)
Personally, if I had to pay, I'd so much rather pay per view.

Subscriptions just tend to pile up and many of them sitting idle for long periods of time. I would love pay-per-view for streaming services as well, instead of having Netflix/Hulu/Disney+/Prime/etc subscriptions (as opposed to juggling between them, or choosing just one to stick with). Same with VPN that I use very sporadically, it feels stupid to pay a monthly fee for something I use maybe an hour per month on average.
Or add ads to it (most likely a mix of both: raise price and offer a version with ads that's at the former price, which is what Netflix did if you factor in their policy change on account sharing)
> Wow I didn't know that snowflake charges on query level.

It doesn't. You get charged "credits" for virtual data warehouse operation plus storage. A credit corresponds (approximately) to running a VM of a certain size for an hour. You can turn VDWs on and off more or less at will.

Not taking a position on whether that's good for users or not. Just pointing out how it works.
GPT4 isn’t just doing word prediction though. It has image input in GPT4V, and image output via Dalle. OpenAI are well on the way down the path of multimodality.

It would be fair enough to say that GPT3 doesn’t know what a dog is, it only knows about the word “dog”, but GPT4 has a conception of a dog that is both visual and literary, and as they add more modes the depth of understanding will increase.
Would you have read the article if HN had shown the original title: The Digital Finance Voyage: A Case for Public Sector Involvement
Keynote address, Singapore Fintech Festival ?
There's huge gap between "they need to get paid" and "viewers need to pay for viewing".

There is this thing called mécénat in French that translates to patronage or sponsorship. Which means that whoever has the money and wants to see the thing created, pays. And everybody can enjoy it.

And this doesn't need to be a single rich person. In modern times communitites can fund millions for projects they want to see created.

And YouTube doesn't create anything at the moment except wonderfully popular YouTube Rewind videos.
I understand this is an ironic retort, but the actual standard is even worse than "guilty until proven innocent", it is "arbitrary rule of whatever is convenient to Google's interests". This is the danger of relying on a centralized corporate entity to gatekeep a public resource like the public internet. It is extrajudicial. And it is a gigantic power for one entity to hold without any oversight.
> And in fact, if anything, it’d suggest the exact opposite of what the author implies by virtue of a really simple, obvious fact: an expert’s social circle is more likely to be well-informed on the domain of expertise than the social circle of a complete outsider.

Which makes it really important to determine the actual boundaries of that domain of expertise.
Would you have read the article if HN had shown the original title: The Digital Finance Voyage: A Case for Public Sector Involvement Keynote address, Singapore Fintech Festival?
Well the shop you're ordering from is crap. Many of the shops I order from calculate vat based on where you ship to. So what you see is what you pay. I think even if the advertise the wrong VAT you still pay what is on the sticker. How is that not better than having to always add some value yourself whose percentage differs based on where you are atm?
you'll probably be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to write a parser using a parser generator; unfortunately i don't know which one to recommend for js (i've used yacc, ocamlyacc, hammer, and a few i've written myself, but i don't recommend using the js one i wrote)

if you aren't pleasantly surprised, maybe try a different parser generator
Definitely wrong. Or you're completely surrounded by psychopaths.
Unicorn: Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
Interesting quote from him:

> realized I was living in Chrome anyway

For average users, this fine, but for software development, I'd find it too limiting.

I completely empathize with the hassle of maintaining a linux desktop. I use Windows for this reason. Servers are another story.
I haven't seen a USB-A port implementation that exceeds 10Gbps (3.2, was it?).

I just assumed there aren't enough lines/pins in a USB-A connector for it to work.

A quick search gives me https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-3-2-explained which supports that experience (USB-A is not listed under 20Gbps).
Yeah, I'm using uBO in both Chrome and Firefox and have yet to have them not work or get a "turn off your adblocker" nag or whatever
Sure, but the reverse is not true. I wouldn't call something "deeply human" if I'd expect intelligent space aliens to all be the same way.
The reincarnation of totaled Teslas–in Ukraine
every word came from my own keyboard. It takes an hour or more to write a post and I don't have the time to hunt down the artwork - I lose enough sleep over my tech job, figured adding some fun art stuff would only be worth it if it didn't add to my stress - I do apologize if some folks are offended by using AI generated art though - I've created art myself in the past and the whole idea bugs me on a deep level, so I'm a bit conflicted on that
I think you mis-parsed the disclaimer. It's just warning people that cloned voices come with a different set of rights to the software (because the person the voice is a clone of has rights to their voice).
As I understand it the source code is licensed MIT, the weights are licensed "weird proprietary license that doesn't explicitly grant you any rights and implicitly probably grants you some usage rights so long as you tell the listeners or have permission from the voice you cloned".

Which, if you think the weights are copyright-able in the first place, makes them practically unusable for anything commercial/that you might get sued over because relying on a vague implicit license is definitely not a good idea.
which I think is fine, consumers will have a transparent and readily available price figure with which they can make a choice
When a company says they offer unlimited pto, I ask what the median days off is. If they can’t produce or it’s less than 20 days, thats not good.

My last private industry employer gave 30 days of pto in addition to holidays and sick and disability. Since it was an accrued benefit, when I left I was paid out about 5 weeks.

Unlimited pto is not accrued and is not a benefit so it’s not nearly as good unless they have lots of usage.
Can someone explain how it's ethical to be working on multiple things like this at the same time (e.g. OpenAI, AI chips, that eye orb crypto thing), but the benefits of each not accruing to the other investors, only to that individual?

I've always had similar questions about folks like Musk and Dorsey. Is it simply lack of proper governance? Is it something written into their contacts? Is this just a Silicon Valley thing? I can only imagine that a lot of people would like to work on many side projects, but their employment agreements forbid it.
If you start pulling all the metrics we currently use in DataDog out of something like BQ/RedShift you're going to spend WAY more in terms of engineering hours and infrastructure than we're currently paying DataDog.

I keep hearing something about a company that switched their monitoring from DataDog to DataBricks and I can see that yes you probably could go build a monitoring solution on top of a datastore like that. But I certainly wouldn't want to.
Nice idea, is it possible to gray out only a specific URL or sub?
Does having different levels of tax between states, and between municipalities within those states, actually benefit the public?

I just don’t see how this is better than literally every other country in the world which sets sales tax at the federal level.

And please don’t hit me with ridiculous hypotheticals “if it’s set at the federal level, the government could just increase the tax to 7000 billion trillion percent to steal everyone’s money”.
How many of those assign you to sit next to a stranger for many hours unless you pay an additional fee?

Kids sitting alone on a plane is a very solvable problem. It used to be unheard of just a few years ago.
I expected this to be free, damn.
> those garbage US shenanigans where tipped employees can get paid a pittance

Unless you're in California and some other states where there is "tipped" minimum wage and you get both a full wage and the tips.

And even in other states I got the impression that most (or at least many) waiter and other tipped stuff prefer the current system to getting the minimum wage and barely any tips
Maybe consider a slightly higher dose. Also add magnesium and vitamin k to help the absorption.
guess it's a race to the bottom then
This is pretty much directly in violation of OpenAI's charter, not to mention how concerning it is to have a CEO putting so much effort into side hustles.

I'm not surprised the board had to act.
I agree, this is the sweet spot. It's a shame early access is full of worse games. It's funny because BG3 had a lot cut off from the early access for a while, which is what I would suggest, cut out all the incomplete things, feature flag what isn't working reasonably well, and enable it once its ready, much easier with Early Access.
Not necessarily.

In the most simplest scenario -- once a recurring meeting is fixed at 10:30 AM eastern STANDARD time, say, -- no schedule change is needed all-year-long if we dont tamper with the clock.

It is just that US worker -- due to their own convenience -- decides to show up in their office at 9AM for six months and 10am for other other six months of the year. Recurring meeting does not need to change at all.

The adjustment , if any, is all on US side. And for local season / climate reasons which has nothing to do with the remote team members, and so the remote team members elsewhere in the world dont need to change anything at all.

Just dont tamper with the clock and things will be much more simple.

>> If they did that, you'd still be stuck shifting your schedule when they change their working hours.

No -- we do not want to link our meetings to the changing office hours. We just want a fixed time on a clock fixed clock. Pick a time that works throughout the year for both teams. Like 10.30 AM EST in my example above.

Current the meetings are "fixed time" but on a moving clock -- in reality the meetings shift around but US folks move their clocks to "simulate" for themselves that they are always having their daily meeting "at 10AM" -- they achieve this illusion by inflicting pain on themselves as well as rest of the world. We would love if they can leave us out of this forced dance :)
A New Kind of Movie (2021)
Feels like your response could be abbreviated for clarity:

>Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts about it [...] In the end, I guess I don’t really care
"Is it anti western propaganda that you've swallowed uncritically?"

No, just common sense after looking at the pictures from NASA's archive. And also, looking at all the hard evidence presented by this guy convinced me that there is ZERO chance any human ever went to the Moon:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie-1/

As for the other "conspiracies", 9/11 being an inside job, and JFK being murdered for going after the FED and Isreali nuclear programme.

Any other questions?
Using your celebrity status as CEO of a non-profit to raise money for multiple related for-profits does seem like you may be more dedicated to personal financial motivations than that of the non-profit's mission and charter.

No indication this was the trigger event, but reasonable that the board took notice of all these things. Even viewing this in the best possible, most innocent light, it still looks bad and Sam should have known better.
These all are the symptoms but not the cause and cause IMHO are as under which is an industry wide culture (of waste, pride in that waste) and practice that is hailed and seen as the only rather best and recommended way to do things:

- Investor driven companies that are waiting a 10x return on their money in 10 years at max or less. Or else.

- Microservices - where every one instead of collaborating on a single monolithic app is needlessly invested in microservice systems that result in software components that are "loosely coupled", have no transactional guarantees, can't go more than one caller down in depth thus can't be stacked on top of each other.

- The DevOps movement: Developers are also operators. So now you need such controls and products (kinder garden if you will) where developers can provision infrastructure for the microservices at will that they came up with (along with a cool name, could be some star wars, star, galaxy or greek mythology - anything goes, a peasant shouldn't be able to decipher the reference if any is the point)

For the one above, you definitely can build certain types of tools without tons of venture capital or at least command line tools can go that way even if they have a web interface.

For second, highly disputed and controversial - the jury is out. But I think most (and please pay attention to most) companies and business domains can do without microservices.
> Vic 3 being another example

Isn't that the truth...I love Paradox games as a rule but you have to accept that they'll be slow.
I have the feeling that hard times are coming for the kumbaya type of ai researcher at BigCo who prefers to openly share all research, doesn’t care about commercialisation and wants to slow down the ai train behind curtains for safety considerations after the openai fiasco.
My work is 20 minutes away which consists of a 10 minute walk and a 7 minute tram. I also get free lunch at work and since I'm single, it's also the only place where I can talk to people in real life in the weekdays. Furthermore, my gym is also next to my office. So, in my case I will always prefer to work from office until I get married and start a family.
Use OAuth?
> the country

Protip: the internet is available outside the US.
Why would you expect it to be an entire house for one person? It's a volunteer position in a national park, not Jimmy Carters newest deal: homes for extremely introverted humans.
I share the sentiment. Still, this is «gantt chart thinking». I bike the kids around and myself to work and the store, so I can do two things at a time. Bonus, saves $€£ and time, since there’s traffic issues when driving to work. I realize this is not possible for everyone, but there’s a lot of people who could do the same, too.
I think it is due to clipping by the following multiplexed network stages that carry it. We know bare copper is good for a lot higher - not a phone pro.
As I recall, the USR Couriers could go 32kbit on bare wire / pseudo POTS lines.

There was some init string magic to make em ignore dial and ring and speak anyway; i forget its shape now. They'd talk to a sportster modem but those couldn't initiate, i think. and they didn't last through lightning storms like the couriers did.
I don't really see how list comprehensions aren't functional- it's just a different notation for dealing with maps, filters, and cartesian products. Python borrowed list comprehensions from Haskell in the first place.
I've seen this happen at $EMPLOYER and it actually went beyond the website. Any email you send that has the url/domain in the text (e.g. in the signature) gets flagged by gmail or any G workspace email server with a big red warning. So, all customers who use Google's email servers (directly or indirectly via G Workspace) will get the red warning banners on all emails sent from anyone in your organization. Now THAT gets annoying real quick.
It’s not only about personal preferences. Being able to work from city X for a company that has its HQ in city Y within the same country is a game changer. I don’t know who would refuse to such. Note that I’m talking about remote working within the same country.
Are other hashimotos tips? My son is dealing with that.
Only because this is living rent-free in my head - a good wheel analogy would be Type C is rubber wheels and Type A is wooden wheels. Compatible, but nobody uses wood anymore.
Wow. I’m very careful with clicking Cancel/Modify buttons for this reason. Never actually thought it would happen. Now I feel my paranoia has paid off.
Suggesting that we should be on a first name basis with the romantic partner of every famous person we know of simply because they are the romantic partner of a famous person is pretty naive. “Spouse of Y” works just fine generally to save space and effort for (locally) real people.
I want to know if it could be less but for "fees", and there should be a mandatory amount of transparency in all pricing. Opaque pricing is anti-customer.

I especially love it when business types tell me what I should be caring about with regards to my money.

We can take this even further and demand cost-plus pricing for all things (with a regulated and controlled definition of 'cost'). This idea that pricing should scale to the customers' means needs to die. Good business means leaving money on the table, sometimes lots of it.
Additionally, vobcopy (with those libraries you've mentioned) is a great CLI video dvd ripper to clone the top level directory tree to disk rather than immediately transcode. I've used it many times to save old family DVD video stuff. From disk I can transcode it into modern formats with tools like Handbrake or Avidemux, depending on the recipient's needs.
^ this. Thanks for putting this into words, I have always felt the same way and just haven't been able to be aware of it in a way that allowed it to come out verbally.
It's not the fact that the bugs were fixed. It would be really strange to revisit this article and find out that they weren't, right? It's the fact that the author has spent years working with the language and published several libraries on the way. His article contains other links to similar experiences other ppl had with the language. There is another informative JAX vs Julia article there (by Patrick Kidger) as well. It's just enough material for all kinds of doubt and this really sucks for the language. I simply cannot image a situation where Julia will be seriously considered in a commercial company after this, not in prod. And what's worse, anyone who will fancy the idea of investing into a new language will have a hard time justifying its worth. After all, when you read about several months of hunting for bugs, you definitely don't want to be that person.
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People can just not engage in conversations they don’t like. This forum has a branching structure, it is easy to hide a topic that you don’t like.

If someone was to be really odious and hateful, the presence of that sort of thing could be harmful, but this seems like a polite correction of a common problem. And it is an international forum, there are plenty of people who might get something from language-chat.
Bedtime procrastination is my kryptonite. Every other habit like working hard, exercising, eating right I do well at but can't fix this.

I've battled with it my whole life. Even as a toddler I would stay up late reading in secret. There is just something about the stillness when everyone else is asleep where I feel like my brain can finally wind down/process the day/kick back and relax.

Anyone else struggled so badly and fixed it? How?
I think that's referring to the pre-trained models, not the source code.
Are you sure the people complaining didn't prbook seats. I recommend you look at the fine print. Selecting seats does in no way guarantee you the seat that you have selected. I have seen cases where people who prebooked seats got split up, and didn't get a refund for the selection either.
Generative AI, by definition, produces statisticially average output.

Humans produce wildly different output, including lots of statistical outliers on both tails of the distribution.

From an economic point of view, all the value creation happens precisely at the tails, where generative AI can't function.
How are they going to continue past the first set of model releases?