skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incentives are a hell of a drug.

My last job was at a company where the CEO had the vision and the personality to lead the company through a necessary transformation (it was in a long-tail business).

The individual contributors were smart, experienced, and good people.

But between the top and the bottom there was a complete disconnect, as people were driven by incentives that rewarded individuals and teams for things that did not serve the company as a whole.

Not an unusual scenario in any large organization, but it was beyond frustrating.
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Managers feel obligated to support the 'future' to show investors they're cutting edge so they express some innovation in the "pipeline". I'm sure you'd see the same stats for any trending tech development we've had in the past. Whether it was "big data", machine learning, and now AI (still ML but flashier label). Typically, however, it's mostly theater. The actual investments don't reflect the expressed "priorities". Outside of tech, there's really not too many AI specific job postings (despite how integral it supposedly is). At this point most managers don't have enough experience with AI to know if it has strategic value, but they don't want to risk seeming out of touch.
Does anyone know the social mechanisms behind the scenes that allow them to negotiate such effective deals?

Spotify is deeply in bed with the traditional labels/music industry and that industry seems to be able to "move" stuff easily from what I've seen. I always have a hard time visualizing all the components at play here though.
It's no secret. OpenAI isn't the only player in the field. The whole world has seen the power of Generative Pre-Trained Transformers and many organizations and even governments are going to develop and fine-tune their own custom LLMs. Of course it demands huge amount of training data and computing power but that's no secret.
That's fine, I switched to Firefox ages ago.

Might be worth making a list of other alternative browsers that are not based on Chromium... if there are any.

Almost donated to mozilla.org too but they kept pushing the recurring donation so I ran away.
Perlin noise (with octaves) can generate quite natural looking terrain height maps. But it doesn't simulate natural processes such as wind and water erosion and plate techtonics. For example, plate techtonics tends to create mountains ranges in lines (such as the Himalayas and the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge) rather than completely randomly. So I guess that is going to limit just how natural it can look, especially over the scales that these natural processes operate.
If they jump ship to Microsoft, they will just get the salary in the form of RSUs. That's not a problem. There are many engineers who make more than $1M at Microsoft. The salary bands are not really strict, or they just get "staff" in their title.
Seems like real code :) https://imgur.com/a/OTNsf5X (spotted from the video - looks like .cpp, Visual Studio Code as IDE)
I dunno about that. GPT 3.5 is extremely good. I would wager that most apps that use RAG to pass context in and get JSON (or some other thing) out that you can pass to some other part of your product don't need GPT 4 or anything else equally as powerful.
As someone who's been there, and now leads an active lifestyle, I'd say it's best to avoid looking at things as black and white. The ability to build habits is a skill you can learn, just as you can learn to ride a bike, program a computer, or cook a meal. It comes more or less naturally for different people, but if you can a fixed mindset instead of a growth mindset, it won't come at all.

One lever I used was self hatred. Instead of babying myself, I decided I was pathetic and worthless if I couldn't even manage to exert myself for 10 minutes every day. Maybe not a psychologically healthy viewpoint in the long term, but it creates the leverage I needed to get out of that dark place.
Joke's on them, I'm from the dialup era and don't even notice.
How Web Standards Work
I applied a few months ago. Last week I received an email:

“We’re pleased to let you know that we’re expanding access to the Claude API.

As the next step in considering your application, we’ll need some further information from you. Please fill out our onboarding form.”

The form seems to be the same form I filled in months before. I’ve not heard back in the 7 days since.
I once received such a letter, in which Knuth explained how my bug report was in fact mistaken. I wrote back to him (on the same printout paper) to thank him for his reply, and included a check for $2.56. He cashed it!
It isn't.

Compared to the original Orca model and method which spawned many of the current SotA OSS models, Orca 2 models seem to perform underwhelming, below outdated 13b models and below Mistral 7b base models (e.g. [1]; didn't test myself yet, ymmv).

[1] https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1727004543668625618?t=R_vV...
Smart self-hosted image resizing with imgproxy
The same article was posted here yesterday.

And it is pure mumbo-jumbo; I haven't talked to anyone and I could have told you "Microsoft has a legal team that will be looking into this", which is all the article actually says.
Sure, and those of us who have more robust preparation and expoure generally do a better job of it.
I didn't argue it was illegal/unconstitutional. But voicing that it's certainly not an essential part of a functional democracy
+1 to what one of the commenters is saying. You can skip all of this and just use `tsx`. I currently sponsor that project. That's how impactful it was on all of my development.

I will say that it's kind of sad that Node.js has devolved into this.
My friend, straw men are rarely the sign of a literate mind, but you took it to a bold new level here. WW1 was in 1914. The Nazi party did not exist, and Hitler was a 24 year old low ranking dispatch runner of no note, volunteering in the Bavarian army.
No longer a planet!
You know how people have a weight their body likes to sit at? As you eat less, some processes will slow down to maintain that caloric intake level; as you eat more, they'll kick up. I'm basically claiming I'm like that. I'm only doing what's necessary to get my paycheck. Obviously I don't pick the laziest, lowest-income job that I can find. I wouldn't be able to quickly save for retirement that way.

But yes, I pick my jobs almost exclusively to support my not-working hours.
I found setting a really low Google Fit step goal and just trying to meet that daily goal 6/7 days a week was really helpful in just getting a basic foothold. And that basic foothold is kind of necessary when you're doing something you don't immediately want to do.

After that, I came up with fun ways to meet that goal, like specific paths I might take or things I might do. It feels much less like work if there's some sort of reward along the way, like a coffee or something.
So, in order to use Blazor safely, I need to develop and test everything twice. That's a death knell within itself. You just made my argument for me.
> If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine.

It's not actually about any difficulty in establishing a stable routine. It'd be very easy for almost anyone to maintain a routine of eating snacks and watching Youtube for 20 minutes per day.

The root issue is we've become conditioned to avoid discomfort. Collectively our mental fortitude relatively weak in this area. Engaging in an activity which requires enduring discomfort will be strongly avoided even if the benefits are clear. We need to figure out how to strengthen our mindset.

Exercise is medicine! And requires exertion and discomfort.
Duty of care towards employees and investors, decision made too hasty, conflicts of interest, insufficient balance between the various interests and responsibilities.

Note that even if the grounds of the lawsuit are narrow if you prevail the damages can be immense. So the professor is talking about the likelihood of success, not about what will happen if the plaintiffs prevail. The plaintiff with the strongest motive (Microsoft) is now actively contributing to the damage so I doubt it is them that are going to sue.
FCC Chairwoman proposes ban on cable and satellite early termination fees
Research and development doesn't include arbitrary statistics. Let's not confuse irresponsible marketing with innovation.
The author is an experienced federal litagator and former AUSA. He writes frequently on first ammendment topics, which are of great interest and import to the USA'ian Hacker News community.

If you don't like his opinions, let's hear your arguments.
Is the demand for replayability hurting indie games?
Referencing the site, I would categorize Blazor under both:

- Unknown unknowns (since it hasn't been out for as long and battle-tested by as many people)

- Shiny new tech (one could argue that C# is old, but that's a small part of the experience of a new and shiny API)
It’s truly unbelievable. Give a strike to a streamer playing sons of the forest because of rendered dead bodies but happily play and ad over and over with actual dead bodies in it on a children’s show.

I’m not for the government getting in the middle of online content but what in the hell are YouTube thinking with this?
Yes, that's my reading as well. They want to avoid making things even worse than they already are.
"how a machine can do that" > "nobody answered" is a really key takeaway here.

Do teachers understand coding enough to answer basic questions like that? I'm curious about whether they do.
He'll pay $4.3bn in fines and likely be sentenced to probation or short home confinement instead of prison...in exchange for not being a US fugitive.

He'll step down from Binance and live the rest of his life with billions. Sounds like a good deal :)
The US has something called OPT, which is essentially the same thing - you can work for any employer or for no employer, anywhere in the US. OPT lasts for a year, which is longer than the shortest time you could be authorized for under Canada’s program (8 months) but shorter than the longest time (three years).
You need to find a better hobby. Going to meetings, filling out time cards, watching HR training videos, attending post-mortems with scrum masters who have no idea what a "point" is in agile, and having to wake up earlier than I want for work are absolutely not things I enjoy.

Obviously I'd still code, it'd just be random fun stuff, whenever I feel like contributing, until some other hobby demands my attention. Within the structure of employment, even fun work tasks can become tiresome.
I might be a sucker but I bought YouTube Premium about a year ago and it's definitely been worth it for me. I love watching those 10-20min length YouTube videos instead of watching TV shows, so skipping the ads is really clutch and has saved me probably 24+ hours of my life lol.
Tulu-2-Dpo-70B
- Apple One (because i use all the services, including the custom domains)

- Netflix (combined with Apple TV Plus and Youtube it's basically our TV time)

- ProtonVPN (I always like to have a VPN just in case, i got a good deal last year on Black Friday)

- X (It's still my mostly used Social Network for the good and for the Bad. So far it's in part worth it the price i pay for the service).

- Ivory (I used Mastodon constantly for around 6 months and Ivory subscription was totally worth.)

- Amazon Prime (We use it to buy lots of stuff during the year, so far its worth it for the amount of services Amazon provides. Could be a better value as it once was)

I think about subscribing to Youtube Premium and eventually when it's worth it ChatGPT Plus.
I'm not going to try and talk you out of your position, it's clearly an informed and considered one and I don't think you're wrong, but the answer to your question "why do people keep comparing these languages, and is it stealth marketing for Go?" is "no, it's not stealth marketing, other people just think about these things slightly differently and it makes more sense from that perspective."

Just to reiterate, I'm saying your views aren't the consensus, but I genuinely don't mean that as a criticism and do think you have a point.
Probably depends on the sawcon
There is such a thing as Directors and Officers insurance, which I assume was provided to every member of the board. Maybe someone with more legal expertise can advise here, but from what I know, it does not protect you against certain things. Being sued by another member of the board might be one of those.
Show HN: Asyncapi-Codegen: a code generator in Go, for Go
And a blog post about the tool I'm working on: https://blog.louisfradin.com/posts/asyncapi-codegen-presenta...

Enjoy!
Relatedly, I checked and OpenAI deleted all references to their ChatML spec from their GitHub repo.

This is what it said in an earlier commit: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/2942bf4bb635b1e...
There still isn’t a direct rail connection to Boston Logan, or LGA, or a whole host of other American airports, so expecting better results for GA airfields is a bit silly.

This aircraft isn’t very big. These types of regional puddle jumpers are only useful when connecting to major long haul aircraft, which is only really possible at large airports.
Premium deduction gives you a 20-30% discount depending on your residence canton and income. It’s still not free by any means.
If you could please elaborate, for the free curious spirits of HN.

Crypto has brought good in underdeveloped countries like Venezuela and Argentina. Venezuelans use USDT to purchase real, physical goods. Sometimes groceries.
Yes, it is a very thin article. You could have written this on Friday evening without any sources to back it up and nothing of value would be lost.
> it will never get better

Don't lose hope, other countries manage to be a lot better. It's possible if you only try.
Nobody has demonstrated that AI can be self-motivated or operate without extreme human supervision, much less start a cult that kills us all. I don't even think it has the context length to understand it's own ambitions.

It's a bit like fearing magic spells in a world where nobody has demonstrated that magic exists. Sure it's a reasonable fear, but... the overwhelming majority of evidence suggests we don't live in that world.

> It seems if you even hint you have some doubts and say well, maybe 1% chance Eliezer is right you are told NO, it's not even 1%. It's 0%!

World religions have been founded on less.
MSFT doesn't have a fiduciary duty or a duty of care like a director does. They are shareholders.
If I could put my body on auto pilot in the way that I want to I’d be golden. Do I sit in front of my computer for hours at a time rewriting code I don’t need to rewrite? Sure. Do I knit and listen to the same podcast until I’m falling asleep? Yep. Can I autopilot myself into walking once a day? Nahhhh.

I do get out to walk occasionally, and I absolutely love it, and nothing about that makes it “easy” to turn into a habit. I’m working on it, but it’s a slow process. The thing with executive dysfunction is that the desire and will are often there, they just aren’t making the call.
I am guessing the clouds are noise projected on a spherical surface, rotating separately from the planet. It would probably be quite complex to add coriolis force, and also slow things down.
The idea that Knuth doesn't use email is basically just a practical joke that got out of hand. He actually received 31,997 and sent 19,910 emails between 1999 and 2019, and that's only including the emails from his work account at Stanford.

Sure, he uses email much less than you would expect from someone of has stature, but he still uses email about as much as the average person.
It's like you didn't read my comment. Of course I'm free to spend my time doing that, but significant memory safety or thread safety hazards can't just be waved away because "you can vet your dependencies". For smaller projects, perhaps, but it's not feasible in general. This can be a source of actual exploits that cost millions of dollars or leak personal information. Footguns don't just become not a problem because they don't affect you. Whether setenv's lack of thread safety matters in practice and whether backwards compatibility hinders a fix are both factors to consider, but your reasoning is just absurd. I guess everyone who doesn't rigorously vet their C/C++ dependencies up to and including libc is just a bad programmer.
Wow, I followed that exact same path! First GameMaker, then I moved on to Roblox later, and now programming is part of my job!

I think I might still have some of the old .exe files for the games I made back in the day...
> strength/resistance training: to build and keep muscles; one benefit of which is better stability at age and metabolic regulation.

Also hugely important for delaying bone density degradation, which starts declining after age 30, which is part of why the strength training should be reasonably heavy.
Github full (public) scrape is available to anyone. GPT-4 was trained before Microsoft deal so I don't think it is because of Github access. And GPT-4 is significantly better in everything compared to second best model for that field, not just coding.
If you'd like to analyze their approaches to call the study 'dubious', I won't argue with you (it is; they are not strong ones). But making that assertion solely on the position that your personal observations of your own children disagree puts you in the same category as my wife's friend that rejects vaccines because her mom took one and still got covid. That's not how individual observations interact with science.
> How bad is the AI? A recent lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota alleges that the AI in question was reversed by human review roughly 90 percent of the time:

Isn't that about the same for non-AI interactions with US health insurance carriers? Their job is to make money and they do that by denying claims whenever they can. It's truly an awful experience.
My standard is consistent. Apple and Google control their respective OSes. They are not general purpose OSes and there's nothing wrong with locking down the software users can run. Having a store and charging a commission is also fine, however it makes sense that all developers should be on equal footing with respect to the store and their app size(in terms of download) i.e. no sweetheart deals.

I do think there's a strong argument to be made about forcing Apple and Google to facilitate the ability to install a different OS if the user wishes.
> The reality is these fees are for access to an audience.

This is called a monopoly rent and is the sort of thing antitrust law is intended to prevent, when it's working properly.

> Google spends a lot of money developing Android and creating a storefront that huge numbers of people see every day.

Google gives Android away for free. They choose to do that, and if they didn't then it would lose to a competitor that did, because operating systems are a classic example of somewhere that free software works in the absence of anti-competitive behavior. If Google didn't develop Android then Samsung and Amazon and Canonical and Mozilla would do it, and parts of it would be more like Debian, which would be better.

> Casting that as "payment processing fees" is like complaining it's outrageous for a farmer's market to charge $200/day for a 10x10 booth because 100sf of parking lot can be had for $10/day somewhere else: you have to willfully misunderstand the business for the argument to make any sense.

Does the farmer's market also take actions to interfere with you being able to build your own storefront?
Microsoft's share price is almost exactly the same today as it was before any of the drama happened, while the S&P 500 is up half a percent.
When you talk about something waking up, you're already into science fiction and not talking about anything which exists, or is remotely similar to anything which exists, or is currently being worked on, or attempted in any way.
I don't think they were talking to you specifically. They're probably just talking from their perspective, and don't have the knowledge of where you're at.

If you feel invalidated, those are your feelings coming from inside you, not something they planted in you. Perhaps it's a sign that you have things you need to work on.
Is Zoekt actually in use at Google and if so how does it related to Kythe? I know the Zoekt instance for Bazel exists, but the Kythe index also exists (https://cs.opensource.google/bazel/bazel)
AI is changing the world –I've just eaten the underwhelming pasta that proves it
Sony was a major investor in Spotify, reportedly worth $1.5B at IPO[1]. I'm not sure how much stock they've held since then.

[1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sonys-stake-in-spotif...
Not being able to focus on 'boring' tasks is bad.

When I had an addiction to social media, I could not enjoy 'slow' things. I also felt anxiety and depression. After detoxing I am again able to enjoy the 'slow' things, like taking time to learn and resisting instant gratification hits.

Watching a movie sometimes requires 'getting into it' before you can really appreciate it.

Most of our jobs are repetitive tasks. Even something like being a race car driver is repetitive and 'boring'. In order to be fast you have to practice the same track layout hundreds of times to find the optimal racing line and braking points. Without boring there is no glory.
A lot of original Xbox games had that feature. It was super unique at the time

They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it

Playing Halo 3's campaign to Queen was a great experience back in 2007
Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part.
those are the same thing in this context. obviously it’s not that spotify is the only company capable of figuring it out. what’s left? sony blessing spotify.
For a purposeful human being, that is also a miserable life.

Pretty much like you cannot eat your favorite food anymore and have to settle with "the next best" (philanthropy, maybe?)
I feel this as well (which isn't to say it's true I suppose) about most content, but yes; especially modern movies. It seems like it's nearly all formulaic drivel made to satisfy some algorithm. Of course, it's also possible that's just me getting older - I can imagine some old man making a similar complaint. But I can't help but think there really is something going on.

I recently watched Willem Dafoe in "Inside" and while it's not really a cinematic experience that could be called pleasant, I was actually satisfied at the end of it because it actually felt creative.
There is the third option, though - don't consume the content if the terms by which it's offered aren't acceptable.

You're getting it at someone else's expense. If you're doing that and not giving the expected value[1] in return (ad view, premium sub), then GP is right. That's virtually the definition of freeloading.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong to do so - but I think it is wrong to pretend it's something else.

[1] expected value because those are the terms under which the content is made available.
SR71 used a pre-GPS navigation system via stars even in daylight

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sr-71-blackbird-astro-na...

Mounted behind the SR-71 RSO’s cockpit, this unit (that was affectionately dubbed “R2-D2” after the Star Wars movie came out in 1977), computed navigational fixes using stars sighted through the lens in the top of the unit. These fixes were used to update the inertial navigation system and provided course guidance with an accuracy of at least 90 meters (300 feet). Some current aircraft and missile systems use improved versions as a backup to GPS.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37651171
As someone who adores Paper Mario, I'm actually really enjoying the simplicity of all actions being timed A presses. I've found that combats have a snappiness and flow to them due to it, and there's enough variety in the changing timing of different weapons that it stays fresh.
Do you not bother testing your JavaScript?