skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late to the party, but my big one of late.. Job Titles.

- Job titles in tech are out of control. Searching for a job requires me to use like 3-7 searches because everyone is making up titles as they go, and its just insane. We call ourselves engineers, and its time we take another page from the book of engineering, for job titles. Engineer titles are very pointed, and thus job function limited by their title. Example: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer [I], this would be a generalist cloud role, at the jr/entry level, eventual knowledge of all clouds and their things as you reach [III] status (or [V], depending on company size). Their only function is infrastructure for cloud services. Today, such a title would also require devops knowledge, CI/CD, various services for monitoring, logging, kubernetes, etc. These should obviously be jobs for multiple people but we just keep letting things get stacked on to a single title. Ive even seen ridiculous titles that are very obviously 3 jobs in one, especially when you look at the responsibilities/qualifications of it. Really need to get a grasp on this. likely nothing will get fixed without entire unionization of people in tech, unfortunately.

- React, Next, etc, are steaming piles of code. I was going to build a react frontend for a project that was size constrained. The out of the box build, adding only react and some bare minimum packages resulted in well over 4mb of js, AND I DIDNT EVEN HAVE A WORKING ANYTHING YET. Utterly disgusting. Add to that that it seems that any dev who does front/backend work worships their framework of choice to the point of using it in places it has absolutely no reason to be. Ive seen these developers trying to write shell scripts in js/ts, using react. The amount things ive seen written in js that had no right to be, is way to high.
2015 MBP i7, 16GB ram still going

The display is so good
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec
You don't need AI, just a government willing to abuse the most vulnerable. Check out the Australian "robodebt" fiasco [1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
Sadly in practice the USB-C port still is one of the weakest parts of the phone. When it becomes too loose / mushy / unreliable, and cleaning it does not help, and replacing it is not economical, then that's it for the phone.
8 GB RAM is the baseline for modern macOS. It really doesn’t like being forced to do with less, even if the 4 gb macbooks are not that old (4 gb airs were sold until 2016).

People keep nagging apple to up the baseline RAM from 8 to 12 or 16 on the new machines, but given how the 4 to 8 jump played out it would probably quickly make that vast sea of soldered 8 gb machines incapable of running newer macOS versions well.
For my macbook pro 13" late 2011 I've pick manjaro with gnome and with OpenCore Legacy Patcher I managed to squeeze macos 13.5 on in.

While manjaro makes the machine relatively useful for the current day - for really simple tasks that is, the 13.5 misses much especially with low amount of ram. But worse thing is that this device comes with Intel HD Graphics 3000 and some stuff just simply won't load like Maps because this GPU isn't supported by Metal API.

In the past I tried Lubuntu on eMac G4 with 800mhz PPC - it was a rather painful experience. So I replaced it with 10.4 and with help of Macintosh Garden slapped additionally os 9.2.2 for for some dualboot retro fun
I agree that the "forcing valid json output" is super cool.

But it's unrelated to the problem of LLM hallucinations. A hallucination that's been validated as correct json is still a hallucination.

And if your problem space is simple enough that you can validate the output of an LLM well enough to prove it's free of hallucinations, then your problem space doesn't need an LLM to solve it.
> time is asymmetric BY definition. if time weren't asymmetric I would have to call it space instead.

I don't follow you here. If time were not asymmetric it wouldn't suddenly just be space. What are you actually claiming here?
You are one of the rare people that never broke a phone, probably.... or you just started using a cellphone... or you dont really use it or armored case, or something similar
Redesigning mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses
While this might just be a bit of bad PR now, it will eventually be a nothing burger. Remember the original debut of Apple's Siri for which Apple also put out a promotional demo with greatly exaggerated functionality? People even sued Apple and they lost.

As much as I hate it, this is absolutely fine by our society's standards. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2014/02/14/apple_prevails_in...
Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards
I don't see why that's "creepy", just because it seems weird to you and too hard to contemplate. In a future world where people stop aging at adulthood, this would be normal: everyone would seem to be 25 or 30, and there could be huge age-gaps in relationships. Why is that wrong?

In practice, however, age itself would probably become valuable on the dating market. Since people would look young indefinitely (until some tragic accident), youth probably wouldn't be valued any more, but quite the opposite: older people would have valuable and interesting life experience, and probably better finances too thanks to compound interest. So your grandmother's high school teacher might not be that interested in your son because he's too young and inexperienced.

Another thing that would likely happen is that relationships would no longer be assumed to be life-long. We already have accepted divorce pretty well these days, but in the ageless future, it'll probably be normal for marriage-type relationships to have pre-agreed time limits.
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

All About Love: New Visions
I had to replace the USB module on my FP3 because it couldn't charge my battery anymore. At first I tried to replace the battery but that didn't work, and I was afraid that the issue would be from the motherboard, but no I just needed to change that module. Great experience!
> a legal agreement allowing 1 party to publish substantial falsehoods without recourse

Wouldn't that include most employee termination agreements, where the (newly ex-) employee has to keep their mouth shut regardless of what their employer does or did?
An image codec comparison that doesn't include JPEG XL.
I think it'd be cooler if the motors turned slower, slow enough to see, and had more lines on the disk to get the same sound pitch. Optical encoders for motor position sensing often have 1000 lines, so they could spin around 1 rev/second. Add a spiral pattern in the center to make rotation obvious.
Obviously everyone here lives in Germany so it worth to make a point out of it.
> and the money impact

I imagine if this is something that lots of people want, it will result in more alternatives, but also raised prices. So it might not save money, but it might well result in less waste.
I bought a used OnePlus 3 on ebay and because I already had another OP3 I noticed right away that the screen was different. Especially in a dark room it was obious that somebody had replaced the original OLED screen with a cheaper IPS one.

I did end up getting a partial refund for about the price of a replacement OLED screen.
they take a complex problem, AND a complex solution, and make it beautifully simple so /it just works/, in a way no other system has. The documentation is superb and frequently just makes sense when you do it.
Pretty much all of Amsterdam is pre-WW2 or older. Only the parts outside the A10 ringroad tend to be post war and more car friendly.

There were indeed plans to bulldoze large parts of the old city and build highways and high rises, but after many protests almost no plans were executed.
FTA, the process is: blast mouth with oral antibiotics then swab the stuff on.

It'll be interesting to see if it works.
Given the fact that we share a planet: Wouldn't it be desirable to convince people to make buying choices that ensure our collective survival in the long term?

If you agree with that thought: Wouldn't one way to do this be to pool a small part of our collective money together and give it to people who are then swayed (or enabled) to use it for a more sustainable infrastructure?

IMO this is a no-brainer and given the collective costs of the weather extremes accompanying the ongoing climate catastrophe it might be even financially viable.
A population able to build a massive pizza oven if they wanted to, is rather different than most homes actually having one.
You're starting with the same raw material as an increasingly vast number of other opportunists, and when you find a low-hanging place to add value it's most likely that someone else has gotten there first.

For one thing.

And then there's the really challenging side . . .
> did not have historical populations in mind when deciding on settlement and army sizes.

European populations were not
at all static. There were many massive population declines more or less going back to the beginning of agriculture as far as we can tell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_decline

Climate change, the plague (usually one accompanied the other) and to a much lesser extent warfare occasionally reduced populations on a regional scale by more than 70%. Often leaving large areas very sparsely inhabited or even abandoned.

As dar as we know the last major plague in Middle Earth occurred almost 1400 years before the events described in the LOTR yet the populations never seemingly recovered in much of it.

In contrast in Europe recovery took about 300-400 years. However we must take into account that the plague remained endemic and kept reoccurring regularly during those periods, which put a massive downwards pressure on population growth.

From what we can tell human populations can grow at an extremely fast pace by premodern standards if resources are ample and climatic conditions are good.

For instance according to some estimates the populations of medieval England and some other countries in Northern Europe might have almost tripled between the 1100s and the 1300s.

In a completely empty place like Eriador that must have happened at an even faster rate (e.g. the British colonies in New England).

After the collapse of the Northern kingdoms Bree supposedly thrived for centuries without any major calamities. That doesn’t make any sense though, assuming a couple of thousand people lived there initially with all the ample land a population of ~2000 would have increased to over 100k at a somewhat conservative growth rate of ~2% (and it’s unlikely that its initial population could’ve ever been that low considering all the refugees etc.). Something similar applies to the Shire as well.

So overall I don’t think we can really apply real world demographics to middle earth. There certainly must have been some force/factor not directly described by Tolkien that kept growth rates very low.
The analysis neglects that the Misty Mountains were raised by Melkor to prevent the westward march of the Eldar.
There's a discrete risc-v cpu too!
https://www.hackster.io/news/filip-szkandera-s-pineapple-one...
I dont get it too, my browser was loading for good 15 seconds and made 141 requests fetching almost 9 MB of resources to show me exactly same content as provided in OpenGraph tags and a freaking redirect to a Bloomberg link. Feels like a slap in the face to open such phishing link at any time, just a useless redirect with nine million bytes of overhead.
I don’t believe religious institutions deserve to be non profit.
More like cheaters in, cheaters out.
The Rational Male - Rollo Tomassi.

I know it likely going to be a hated example, but nonetheless I strongly suggest to read it if you are confused or unsure about certain aspects of relationships.
This is such a pointless feature. I have several daily driver Linux systems. They run for months at a time, sometimes years. The only time I see a kernel panic is if the hardware is bad or I did something wrong (misconfiguration).

Years ago I had a dual boot system with bad RAM and on Windows it would regularly blue screen, on Linux it was fine. Took a long time to figure out what the actual problem was because Linux is just so rock solid.

And no, I don't use any systemd based distros on my daily drivers.
Yes. “Purchase” of any “intellectual property” is essentially a marketing trick that we have come to accept. (Note that when you purchase my physical property, it is now your property. If you purchase my “intellectual property”, it’s almost certainly still my property, you just have some license to it. Which license precisely? Well, read this 50-page EULA.) The closest you can get is a DRM-free copy that you can back up yourself.

In this case, though, I assume that your original World of Goo would still work if you had kept it on your phone (and maybe prevented it from being updated automatically?). It’s “just” that it is no longer available for re-download.
I mean there have always been a market for 48V components. The problem is that the market is much smaller so as a customer, you’re paying a lot more and it’s hard to justify raising the price of your car because you decided to go 48V.
The post is from May. The tweet is from November. I'm not sure why you'd expect the post to mention the tweet, because (a) the tweet was 6 months in the future, relative to the time of the post, and (b) the tweet doesn't appear very relevant to the topic of the post.

Peter Singer is more of an EA popularizer than an EA leader. The post you linked is the only post he has made in the past ~9 years: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/peter_singer The tweet you linked is related to his Journal of Controversial Ideas, not EA.

It's certainly not the case that Singer should be taken as representative of the average EA, you'd have to look at surveys for that: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/FxFwhFG227F6FgnKk However EA tends to be friendly to contrarian thought experiments (not usually taking it to Peter Singer levels). And EAs usually prefer to focus on getting facts right over condemning each other in an inflammatory way.
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> Am I right to understand that you ended up hiring elsewhere as a result?

We ended up pausing hiring and I left that business a few months back.

> So your advice would be to live in Singapore, but build a dev team somewhere else in Southeast Asia?

Generally speaking, yes, with the caveat that how much funding you have and your visa may stack the deck in the other direction.

> Any specific events you'd recommend?

I don’t have any specific recurring events in mind, things mostly happen ad hoc, but just start talking to people and see what one-off events are happening. There’s normally things happening at the Google offices, the incubators normally run events, etc.
It's so polarising because it creates poorly defined ideologues that don't exist in reality. It's a giant straw man. And what is left is held together with bits of sticky tape and string. It's just bad.

In Rand's world, Musk (on a bad day) would be your god, your boss and your parent figure. I can see how it'd go down well with the rabid "I am the centre of the universe and all shall yield" types that seem to fall out of the American academic system into servitude friendly startups that are promoted on here like they are a good thing.

Like I said, toilet paper. Put it next to Mein Kampf and Ready Player Two. Both are as morally and literarily offensive in the same way.
They are both arguably dangers. They are very different types of risks.
Post Office Scandal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
thanks for your response. would this be an open source fine-tuned?
Yeah, it seems more like a fun mental exercise that went slightly out of hand than an attempt at a serious scientific analysis (which is perfectly fine and the latter wouldn’t really be possible anyway given the context).

However I have to agree on this point. While Antioch might make sense for Minas Tirith. Albeit to quite a limited extent since it was a sea port and a major trade center being one of the last stops on the silk road.. While Minas Tirith was primarily a fortress which was probably not self sustainable on its own without food, wealth and population transfers from the other provinces in Gondor (so more like Constantinople just with massively less trade and built on the side of a mountain).

Edoras seems like a completely different type of settlement in almost every conceivable way and should probably be compared to Eastern or Central European towns.
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Unfortunately, I do not have an Internet connection…
Hmm, sounds novel at first. But when I looked at the description of the synthesizer and their videos, I noticed that these are not free-running motors that would do their own thing. Instead, these are brushless DC motors tightly controlled with a feedback loop (that's why they can spin up and down so quickly without noticeable over- and undershoot, which you would hear similar to when you bend a string too much when plucking it).

OK, motors could have spindle play and other imperfections that could make the optical disk tumble a bit and introduce phase effects. Or, as
WalterBright wrote, there could be resonances between the motors.
Yet, all this tight feedback makes them control the acceleration and deceleration tightly. There is nothing analogue to how these motors are driven. Not an old motor spinning up at its own pace, it's all pre-determined by the motor controller. The motors precisely follows the pre-determined speed curves, from what I hear, similar to how a digital oscillator will. Plus, the envelope is digital anyway.

One of my first thoughts was: Cool, so I can touch the oscillators and skew the pitch! No, I can't. First, there's a cover. ;) But I guess the motor controller controls the pitch so tightly that the effect would not be musically interesting. Compared to when you put your finger on a vinyl deck, for example, which has much larger mass and often a much slower motor control, leading to these slow glides.

Apart from the fancy looks, I really wonder which interesting new soundscapes this instrument can make available. To me, this looks like a "normal" oscillator with ADSR control, just re-labelled as acceleration and brake parameters.
Right, but they can't really interpret this model, even if it does a good job at prediction. Two references, in case they ever read this :)

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09720502.2010.10... [1051 citations]

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888898/ [1032 citations]
I described a population of individuals each able to build a pizza oven, with those that want one having one.

There's not much challenge to a 320 degree Celsius oven (or 600 F in some parts of the world, apparently).
"Lying isn't marketing. It's just lying." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38541436#38541565

Pretending to do the right thing whilst actively doing the exact opposite might make Disney look better to anyone not paying attention but it's not marketing, it's just lying.
Exactly! Beyond a certain number of tiles, I'm constantly having to backtrack in order to fix some overlap. And they happen all over the place, in difficult to predict circumstances.

There's this to help create non-overlapping tilings, but understanding it is completely beyond me (or the amount of time I have to invest, I tell myself...)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/aperi...
This has got to be satire! That is too funny.
> The iMac still run Lion ...

Pity about the lack of security updates in the intervening years.
Taking the car to do grocery shopping does not even exist in Amsterdam. We have bikes and healthy minds and bodies.
Many top 10 searches are paywalled and a waste of time clicking on, this seems like exactly the sort of thing people want from a search engine?
I think it is your moral duty to write this fanfic.
Anna Mani: The forgotten legacy of India's 'weather woman'
Theres 2 types of VR. Home VR, and Commercialized VR.

Home VR wont last long and is definitely more fad than anything. Commercialized VR is actually a pretty big niche for things you might not have even thought of. A company i worked for made VR into a "movie experience", but beyond just playing a VR game. Floor rumblers fans, physical to VR mappings, scent sprayers; truly a wild experience.

Beyond that entertainment value though, are possibilities like military and emergency aid training. For example you could have a large warehouse with tracker cams all over, and setup various physical objects to match the VR world, then use that VR world to run training exercises on a "live" battlefield. While its obviously far from the real thing, its a good way to train without pulling out all the tools.

And lets face it, we all want a giant virtual room to do anything we want, a .. holodeck...
I dropped mine in a river in central asia.

I went in and got it out.
I had another thought as well: This might be a good way to finaly break something. People have become complacent with politicians formulating mediocre climate goals and then not even meeting those. Yet another boring event of them celebration their own inactions in a more diplomatic way wouldn't have helped either.

The UAE finally having to show face in such a way might shake up more people than it did harm.

Sure, in an ideal world we had rational political leaders that would always put the survival of the human race first. But we are in a world where people are so allergic to collective solutions, they would rather end the planet before giving up any power or freedoms to find a good collective solution. Right now, most political leaders are fighting to get the highest place on the sinking ship, either for themselves indivdiually or for their nations. And because many nations are uninterested in finding a truly powerful binding international agreement, this has become about who will be the king of the rotting trash heap instead.
> a friends-only photo journal for moments big and small.
The problem is really that the SoCs aren't maintained for long, and the complexity of the SoC concept makes maintaining it yourself as the device manufacturer at best impractical, maybe even impossible if the SoC manufacturer won't release necessary source code to you.

They want it this way because then they can sell more SoCs because users end up upgrading more often, and device manufacturers (besides Fairphone) don't complain because their interests are aligned.

On the Apple side you see devices getting support for much longer as Apple designs and maintains it's SoCs in-house, and at least to a degree value device longevity because that keeps second-hand prices relatively high, and that aligns somewhat with Apples interests.

Not quite 10 years, but we've seen feature updates for just under 7 years with the iPhone 6s (released 2015), and it's still receiving security updates and bug fixes.
Cycling infrastructure is much cheaper than car infrastructure. Way less material needed (narrower paths, less foundation) and much lower maintenance costs.

Initial investment per cyclist might seem high, but you need to build it before they come. And they come. Just look at Amsterdam (became a cycling city in the 70s) or Paris (started investing heavily in cycling infra a little less than 10 years ago).
4 million from 3 countries? That’s laughable in the context of trying to influence EU.
It actually comes up in LOTR, The Gorgoroth Plateau isn't representative of all of Mordor, the fertile lands (because of the volcanic soil) around lake Nurnen in southern Mordor is mentioned as the source of Mordor's food.
The only effective "fix" is by using Denuvo. Are you hoping that World of Goo2 has Denuvo?