skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is no longer a tech heavy company. The only “interesting” things coming out of there are high level executives assigning engineers on random projects against their will, return to office orders, sarcastic offers to relocate workers into company owned hotels so they can “sleep longer” in the morning, and many other mediocre “achievements” of mba type “leaders”.

Just by looking at their core hook, search, you notice a clear reduction in quality. Their core products, ads, are also rife with dubious practices - even more so than in the past. I doubt these are due to technical issues but rather a result of poor product management. Lesson is that no technical company should be led by non technical people. They all turn to shit when that happens.
> There is a difference between the body-self of yesterday’s cells and a self made of software.

There doesn't seem to be a strong reason to presume this. What is your basis for stating this?

> But that these won’t be copies, they’ll be a new thing. Hence “uploading” is an incorrect model.

Sure, that's a relevant, but pedantic point. Does it matter? Presume star-trek transporters were real, effectively they could be said to be duplicating and murdering every-time someone is beamed up. But the subjective experience is still one of continuity. It seams likely that would be the case for an "uploaded duplicate" they would "feel" like the original, in mind (barring sensory differences). Whether the "upload" process itself is destructive is another matter.
>> when someone disputes these descriptions, he is branded as extremist/conspiracy theorist/right wing/labels that many find abhorrent

Not always true. The goal of facts is to create trust and order. So when disputing "facts", it will initially cause chaos and disorder. Additionally, challenging a "fact" should come with reasoning (usually through the scientific method), and not an unresearched response. For example, flat-earthers deny a fact, yet offer no research. In such a case, a derogatory label is provided.

https://physicsworld.com/a/fighting-flat-earth-theory/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Suspect this line:

uint32_t y = ((UINT64_C(0x640a0100) * digits.as_int)>>32)&0xff;

This makes assumptions about how a 64-bit int is laid out in memory. Not near a big endian system right now (I know, right?) but I'm pretty sure this is the problem.
I grew up around guys building custom cars and started working with my father building custom cars at Barris Kustom when I was 14 years old. I was cutting up brand new cars with an oxy/acetylene torch and mig welding custom sheet metal on them before I was 15 years old.

I think it's fair to say that most of the kids my age back then were no where near being ready to do the work I was doing at that age. I said "no" to adults I worked with when I was still a teen who told me to do something stupid too many times to recall them all.

When I was 16 years old I saw a guy set himself on fire when he started welding inside a van that another guy was spreading flammable glue on the floor to level it out with strips plywood. I could smell that glue 50 ft from that van. That guy went to school to learn how to weld and he had some kind of official certificate that certified he was qualified to do it.

George Barris set me on fire trying to start a truck he was buying by pouring gas in the carburetor from a pop can. It backfired and caught the can of gas of fire and he threw it and it hit me in the chest and caught my shirt on fire. I had to "stop, drop, and roll" to put it out. I didn't get burned at all because I knew what to do.

Tony Nancy almost cut his thumb off trying to show me how to do something I refused to do on a custom car he was building and that was after I explained to him why we didn't need to it.

All that said, it was up to the owner of that business to make sure that 16 year old kid was properly trained to do that work and I won't cut him any slack at all. It may not rise to "murder" but it's as close as one can get and absolutely negligent.
There are legitimate views both ways. It's called an opinion.

Besides, bashing languages rarely lead to constructive conversations. That's exactly why guidelines and moderators discourage it.
Broadly, nihilism rejects purpose and meaning. I don't see how one can justify we "move on with living better lives" within such a worldview (i.e. why act that way when nothing matters?).
Use a Tech Radar to coordinate new technology adoption on your team
And how is that related to businesses that cannot afford to pay their staff enough to keep them?

We're not discussing minimum wage here. If we were I'd point out that minimum wage should at a minimum be the amount where letting the store remain vacant is equally preferable. However to ensure alignment I consider it better to put it higher to the point where people earning minimum wage aren't a burden on society (I mean a store with as much value to society as a vacant one doesn't really deserve to exist, you're just shifting the problem there, don't ever let industry do that for you).
What Would Happen to Earth If a Rogue Star Came Too Close?
As beautiful as it is. You don't need to host anything.

Image capabilities are still possible as all you'll need to do is encode media in to base32 and then spew that to brother channel, #hn-images or something.

IRC is perfect for long blinding data dumps.

If the user opts in to imagery, let the client connect to that channel. Sure you'll loose out on the image if you were not available but irc is like that anyway.

Having your client throw [image:~hackernews_logo] to indicate that you've posted an image is no less spam than someone announcing that they've changed their nick to "doublerabbit|Zzz".
Loophole.

You can't sue unless you can prove damages and you can't prove damages if everything is classified.

That's why parallel construction is such an important tool for law enforcement.
I've always tipped the customary amount but using the logic "it screws over the worker so it's wrong" feels like a bad litmus test for whether trying to change a societal custom is actually right or wrong. By this logic there would be no right way to try to end things like the custom of folks pumping your gas by pumping it yourself instead (funnily enough, still several states this is actually illegal) because it would screw over the gas pump employee. That doesn't mean it's right to not tip at a food joint in the US, it just means there's more to something being right or wrong than whether a worker is the main one affected.

To me, I don't think there is any way to change the custom beyond regulation. The incentives just feel too misaligned. The crowd of customers leans towards going to the place with the lower list prices, intentional or not. The restaurants will never collectively decide on their own accord to go against that flow themselves. The servers are never going to collectively force the restaurants to make that decision. Each option requires "everyone just decide to forever on operate this new way which forces no-tipping alignment all together" and that's just never going to realistically happen. Customers aren't going to form a long lasting collective which convinces the servers to press the business nor are they going to form a long lasting collective to boycott businesses directly. Businesses aren't going to care about anything but never optionally baking in higher prices on the menu since it's giving customers away to competition. What each group actually wants as a majority is irrelevant for something as minor as this. The only way it happens is if the majority are for it being regulated as such, which can happen with representatives deciding how the collective of restaurants need to behave.

tl;dr: I tip because not tipping isn't going to result in change, not because the only way to enact change is to make sure a worker is in no way ever affected during the change.
Destination-Passing Style
Yes, they go around that because they are considered a “three-party scheme”

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48519/why-are-a...

High fees are what Apple uses to offer such “great benefits” with their existing card. If they want to expand to Europe, the only cards enabling that would be Amex, or Diners (which is even less accepted I think).
So the work is too important to work 12 hour shifts on it, yet your solution is throwing “cheap” grad students at it?
>Unless Apple discontinues the card completely, they will choose a new bank

That's the problem. All other banks turned Apple away because Apple was demanding some significant concessions. Goldman agreed to them because at the same time they were trying to break into the consumer business.

Apple will have to cave.
So that it could be quickly and easily unplugged
Does anyone have any idea of when/if there will be a simple way to get commercial access in one step? Like an API or something? Or if they want to charge for it, then maybe a web check out?

It's interesting that they finally decided to try to make something commercially restricted.

Do they have a watermark or anything that they can use to track down people who use without a license?

Also, is there anything like an open source (commercial allowed) effort at reproducing this?
I imagine someone who has this skill has a shot at being L4 or L5 at Google. levels.fyi estimates a year salary of an L5 engineer at Google to be 362,248. If we naively divide that by 50 (weeks in a year) * 40 (hours of work a week), we'd get $181.12 an hour. Googlers also get health insurance, free food, other perks that may push the effective hourly compensation even closer to $200. Googlers also get equipment to do the coding, whereas this competition does not provide a workstation, so another possible line item to consider.

It's not a perfect comparison/analogy, so I'd rather not get nitpicked, as the overall thrust of my argument is that $200/hr is not outlandish imho.
You're correct, take a look at my other comment for a breakdown.
this sure seems like a symptom of a much larger organizational failure that could mistake "it's not plugged in" for "it's broken"
I agree. Adults need to he able to force other adults to see the consequences of their choices.
When I was a child, I voraciously reread all of my favorite books over and over, and I loved the book jackets because – well, they were an extra few words from my favorite books to enjoy!
Oh, the actual screensaver was fine, I just couldn't configure it
Probably not the first time he's taken credit for someone else's idea. This quote from him in the subreddit is pretty funny.
"Lots of discussion and outroar lately about Chrome and YouTube forcing ads on users via blocking ad-blockers. It led me to thinking about how I could address the problem with my existing skills."
His 'particular set of skills' of taking ideas from HN and passing them off as his own.
If we're talking inflection points, my vote would be for the industrial revolution.
nice work !
There’s at least 50 different online banks that are paying more than 4.15%. Check out depositaccounts.com. Off the top of my head, Ally, Capital One, Vio Bank, MyBankingDirect, SoFi, and a bunch of others. If you’re getting less than 5% it’s time to open a new account.
Are the electronics in these rovers really so bespoke that they don't have multiple copies of each electronic component warehoused on-site?

I'd expect that the rover body itself would be bespoke this late in the process, although a parallel test vehicle would be useful, do they have that?).

But in case someone fried the rover's electronics I'd think tearing it apart and replacing them while maintaining the chassis should be doable in 2 weeks, but what do I know?
Just for the irony, here is a book jacket for the write of the article, who is saying it is best to never read one :-)

https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr97...
I like this - “Let your scars serve you; they are an invaluable learning experience and investment in your capability and resilience.”

I have had couple of scars of mine. I feel like sometimes you become risk-averse and When you are launching new things you will face the fear of failure.
After making a good cover, picking your eight key search words and writing a good catchy summary is probably the hardest part of the authoring process. I have had about ten goes now for my book but none have managed to generate more than a couple of clicks. It is a lot harder than it first seems and the search algorithms for new authors are not your friend.
How nice it would be to have a community run OS again.
The time value money math seems pretty light here. The win condition is that you have a single person using up a table.
maybe it was measuring the current rather than the voltage as he thought, which would require putting it in series with the circuit
It is the English term. It collapses the definite article into one word: "the Port" -> "o Porto".

Nothing modern uses this name anymore, though. I always see "Porto", even in American English.

But, it's a recent enough fix that you can still find signs of it. For example, you can book a flight to "Porto (OPO)". Just like you can book a flight to "Beijing (PEK)".
What's the theory behind a thermal flask being somehow better than a heated plate? Convection in the liquid? Venting of volatile compounds?
In the early 20th century, 14 was the age of consent in Germany, but when he worked in Switzerland the age of consent was 16. Likewise, when he fled to Ireland, it was 16.

https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/24.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform_in_the_U...

From what I can tell, rape in Germany in the 1920s involved physically coerced sex. And only when done out of wedlock (ew!). No idea what this case was.

> We really should distinguish between pre and post puberty when discussing these things.

That is arbitrary, too. There's a lot more marriage and sex than that. I remember patients at our county care facility with developmental problems needing to prove that they were emotionally able to have "real relationships" (including sex), for example. Who's to say that a post-pubescent 18 year old is able?
Instruction here for how to use it on iPhone / iPad / Mac today: https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp/status/1729633231526404400 (note that you need to convert 8-bit version yourself if you want to use it on < 8GiB devices).
This clickbait title is misleading.
I haven't found SDXL to be inherently much slower than 1.5, besides the obvious 4x slowdown from having twice the linear resolution.
From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/trinity-history.h...:

Divine threesomes abound in the religious writings and art of ancient Europe, Egypt, the near east, and Asia. These include various threesomes of male deities, of female deities, of Father-Mother-Son groups, or of one body with three heads, or three faces on one head (Griffiths 1996). However, similarity alone doesn’t prove Christian copying or even indirect influence, and many of these examples are, because of their time and place, unlikely to have influenced the development of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

A direct influence on second century Christian theology is the Jewish philosopher and theologian Philo of Alexandria (a.k.a. Philo Judaeus) (ca. 20 BCE–ca. 50 CE), the product of Alexandrian Middle Platonism (with elements of Stoicism and Pythagoreanism). Inspired by the Timaeus of Plato, Philo read the Jewish Bible as teaching that God created the cosmos by his Word (logos), the first-born son of God. Alternately, or via further emanation from this Word, God creates by means of his creative power and his royal power, conceived of both as his powers, and yet as agents distinct from him, giving him, as it were, metaphysical distance from the material world (Philo Works; Dillon 1996, 139–83; Morgan 1853, 63–148; Norton 1859, 332–74; Wolfson 1973, 60–97).

Another influence may have been the Neopythagorean Middle Platonist Numenius (fl. 150), who posited a triad of gods, calling them, alternately, “Father, creator and creature; fore-father, offspring and descendant; and Father, maker and made” (Guthrie 1917, 125), or on one ancient report, Grandfather, Father, and Son (Dillon 1996, 367). Moderatus taught a similar triad somewhat earlier (Stead 1985, 583).
Show HN: CSS hooks lets you write type-safe inline styles
I'm reminded of a quote from John LeCarré's _The Spy Who Came In From The Cold_:

Thus we do disagreeable things, but we are defensive. That, I think, is still fair. We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night. Is that too romantic? Of course, we occasionally do very wicked things"; he grinned like a schoolboy. "And in weighing up the moralities, we rather go in for dishonest comparisons; after all, you can't compare the ideals of one side with the methods of the other, can you, now?

We should examine the methods used by all sides in the conflicts, as one topic, and their ideals as another topic.
Sounds like they’re doing the same thing OpenAI is doing. Claiming to favor open models but the reality is they’re pumping growth by reducing costs and this lowering prices. They want a massive chunk of this new market, all of it if they can get it. Their perceived valuation then becomes a matter of how many eyeballs they have looking at segments of their website to advertise to, or how many data points they can collect on their users to sell to advertisers. It’s unlikely they can capture the whole market and still make a chunky enough profit to satisfy investors if they also intend to keep prices high enough without needing to resort to enshitification.
Egyptians men “standing tall” with the Palestinians probably feel proud for refusing to provide a temporal shelter for at least women and children.
This situation literally wouldn’t be possible if just 1 side out of 3 wouldn’t behave like an asshole.
I loved this compilation of his funniest moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLA64sh4WE
I think food costs like many other costs remain near historic lows, but a euro stolen is a euro earned in every subsequent month for the coalition to prevent housing supply.
I'm reminded of the phrase - if your intern deleted the production database you don't have a bad intern; you have a bad process.

Whether this was a process problem or a human one we don't really get to judge since we do expect more from a FTE.

I'll just say putting myself into his shoes made me tear up as I read the dread and pangs of pain upon realizing what happened - then to have life again after the failure of the ray of hope. That weight, I've never had a project that so many people depended on.

All heroes in my book.
Thoughts on the Functional Source License
> "I do not see the utility in blaming the high performing team members for not doing more to prevent the poor performer from making a mess"

The non-technical manager isn't able to do more to prevent it. Nor is the busy technical manager. The poor performer either isn't able or willing. There's no Superman coming to rescue you. You are the person on the planet who cares the most about the poor performer's effect on your life, and you know the quote about "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results". The utility of "blame" is questionable, but the choice is only do you consider yourself a victim of the poor performer with nothing you can do and have the same situation happen again and again, or do you recognise that you are in a position to act and prevent it? (If you want, you can then blame your choice not to act, when the situation predictably recurs, I guess).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AUY-v1nsE - "We are going to have to act, if we want to live in a different world"
The efficient market hypothesis has been dogma for about half a century, but there's a lot of academic research showing that value and various other factors outperform anyway. There are all sorts of structural and psychological reasons they might persist; e.g. a short-term bias among fund managers, who tend to lose investors if they underperform a few quarters.

The research does say that value doesn't work quite as well as it did decades ago.
I'm as much a fan of needless hacking as anyone else, but when the end result is a bitter, burnt cup of coffee you just have to draw the line and get a better machine.
TIL:

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Are there more of these, what is this magic!
Considering it a success and walking away is probably the healthiest thing to do. But does the license even matter when they didn't comply with it?
I agree in many cases (particularly when it comes to asking it mathematical questions that require real understanding, for example), but for translation I think it’s genuinely hugely impressive.

I’ve tried translating between Japanese and English for years using various tools and nothing else comes close. It may fail to understand almost everything else about the ‘real’ world, but it gets language and clearly has learnt very good mappings between languages. The mappings are also impressively stable under all sorts of meaning-preserving transformations and accurately preserve the tone / level of politeness / etc.

Contrary to what many seem to believe, I don’t believe it can write that well. It’s perfectly grammatical and hard to stump, but it’s very bland and even after a lot of prompting to do better it still writes in a stilted ChatGPTish kind of way. (Caveat: I’m not sure how much of this is down to limitations of the architecture/data or just the amount of so-called ‘lobotomising’ OpenAI has done to it after initial training.)

…but if you start with good source material and ask it to manipulate it, it’s amazing. For individual sentences with not much context, it’s already far better than any human.

No particular surprise — it’s a language model after all.
Ohhhh I hate things that you “just have to not screw up.” A fiddly manual process with so many possible ways to screw something up is almost guaranteed to see a catastrophic failure.

If this really manual fiddly process was really the only way they could test the motors, I’d say that’s a big failure on the design engineer’s part.
> Israel on the other hand is funded by the US government, especially its military.

Israel spent $23.4b on it's military vs $3.3b from the US. And the Israeli economy is $522B making the US "funding of Israel" 0.6% of their economy.

That's hardly "funded by the US government". And on top of that the US is "funding" Israel in return for technology, so it's more a purchase by the US than anything else.
> Grad student labour is cheap

Sir, this is NASA not Kerbal space program ;)
Lawyer finds ChatGPT waffles and is easy to persuade because it holds no strict views on anything, thinks this is a confirmation that (his) persuasion skills are magical.
Now that Synapse (and Conduit!) support registration tokens, it’s a lot easier to let people you know register on your server, without opening it up to the world.
In the EU it’s no longer even possible to buy a machine that stays on and keeps the coffee warm for longer than about an hour due to new regulations designed to cut power usage & emissions.

I have mixed feelings about that - but ultimately I guess it’s good for the planet.
There are plenty of value ETFs. They even have indexes.
The rumor was GS was trying to sell the contract to AMEX. There was no indication that AMEX was biting.
Most of these smaller companies that get bought out and eviscerated start out as mildly profitable stable founder run small companies. If they had kept going like that everyone would basically have the best of both worlds.
It's pretty easy to find 5% right now, especially with money market sweep accounts that invest in US treasuries.
Pretty sure that's an optical illusion. All reports indicate the bed is 2m long, which means something is up.
Am I misreading it that they don’t include the specifics of the offending ads?